The Cumby Rustler. (Cumby, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, September 18, 1914 Page: 4 of 8
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The Cumby Rustler
GEORGE M- MORTON- EDITOR & PROPRIETOR
Entered at the Post Office, Cumby, Texas, as Second Class Mail Matter ■
SAVE YOUR CLOTHES.
Wash Day Becomes A Pleasure.
Some twenty years ago Mrs.
Editor talked to our readers
about the best and easiest way
to do the family washing. It
did so little good that she never
attempted it again. A very few
tried her method and were
pleased, but the great majority
only smiled one of those smiles
that makes you want to grab a
club. Those who have tried
and followed her method have
saved their clothes and their la-
bor.
Now the high cost of living
is attracting so much attention
she has been persuaded to again
make known her discovery. She
has been the more easily per- j .....—j-
suaded on account of the sue- w i 1 i m____
cess and the pleasure obtained j UCplOFclDlC lFfl^Cuy
by a.yemng lady neighbor. She
tried this manner of washing
for the last week or two and
thinks it the greatest blessing
yet. ■ • -- . •>•,*•}-
It is not worth while for.[Richard Bills stabbed Cieve Gas-
ladies! past fifty to read this ©way in the region of the heart,
for they are so _sot/ in their f killing' him almost instantly. He
warn ed no apostle of progress ^ ^ cut on the hand
out of cold water as at first.
Colored clothes that cannot
be boiled should be soaked in
cold water before washing in
hot suds and most of the work
will be saved.
Mrs. Editor wants this print-
ed once mote for the benefit of
the younger women, in the coun-
try especially, who spend one
day in the week bending over
the washboard wearing out the
family clothing more in one day
than the use of them does in six
days, besides making washday a
day of drudgery when it should
only be at most a couple of hours
of ordinary work,
“If at first you don’t succeed”
it is because you have not done
as above directed, so try again.
A Sure Way
to Raise Corn
Occurs at Como
(Saturday evening a deplorable
tragedy .was,, enacted, at Como.
can convince one of them that
dirty clothes should not be rub-
bed and. scrubbed and beaten a
few hours longer until they are
nearly worn to strings. The
clothes had no business getting, , , , ,u v- . ,
dirty, and they must be punish- < Pitched up to the speaking point
and arm.
It is saidJ that bad blood had
existed between the two ipen for
some time, but peace had been
when they met.
The farms of the two men join
ed, and it is said the immediate
cause of the killing was the cat-
tle of Gasoway breaking in and
eating up Bills’ corn.
Bills was given a hearing be-
fore Justice Threat of Pickton
in the county court room Sunday
and the bond of Bills was placed
at $750, which he readily gave. —
Echo.
ed. But the younger women
will learn and save both the
work and the wear and tear of
the clothes.
But here is what she Says,
and you had better heed it this
time, for it may be another
twenty years before we print it
again:
Fill your wash kettle' or boil-
er two thirds full of water, put
in half bar or more of s6ap,
enough to make a good suds, or
a like amount of lye soap, bring
to a brisk boil. You have al-
ready put your clothes in a tub
of cold water some time before,
the night before would be all the
better, now wring them out and
drop them into the boiling wa-
ter piece $t a time. Now have
you got that? The clothes in
Cold water and then dropped in-
to the. boiling water? Very well,
but some of you will say that will
not do, the clothes must not be George Caple plead gui]ty in
put m cold water. Well they! j . . .
must. Now let the kettle of, district court today to transport-
clothes boil for a short time—j mg liquor and received one year
Near 6 o’clock Saturday even-
ing County Judge Junell united
in marriage Mr. J. F. Pinion and
Miss Myrtle Tenneson. The
voung couple live in the Emblem
community and are highly es-
teemed by all.—Echo.
five or ten minutes—before you
take them up to wrinse them.
Put them in a tub of water and
wrinse and blue as usual. If
you have soaped the wristband
in the penitentiary.—Echo/
We are not saying a word, but
when a friend does favor us
, , . - . ,. . with a wheel these dull days a
and worst places on clothing be- smjie js seen to spread over our
fore putting them into kettle you
will have no rubbing to do after
they are taken up—no use for
the washboard at all. Some
spots may need a little rubbing
but so little as nob to be any la-
bor.
Put more water and soap in
the kettle for the next boiling
and be sure the water boils be-
fore the next batch of clothes
go in. These are to be wrung' co^ton ?
countenance and chase away the
cares of the day. A dollar now
is doubly appreciated. We know
lots of you have one you can
spare, but many have not. Not
a word, but, and if, well, a dol-
lar shoved this way lets us know
that you have not forgotten us.
That helps a lot.
Have you bought your bale of
TO TALKERS
When you talk, talk right—economize—save time.
TIME MEANS MONEY.
Some men will work and pinch and save and walk
miles from one year’s end to another in the accumu-
lation of money.
They will economize in everything, in every way—
EXCEPT IN TIME.
They will spend a day’s time in doing an errand
that could be done in 5 minutes over a TELEPHONE.
In the one matter of time saved the telephone pays
the highest interest of nearly any investment.
24 Hour Service, In-
cluding Sunday.
CUMBY ELECTRIC LIGHT
and Telephone Co.
Naples, Texas. Aug. 24, 1914.
The land for corn should be
well supplied with humas, for no
crop will thrive without bacter
al life, and the bacteria does not
exist in soil that is void of humus
see that the soil is well supplied
with humus.
All hard foundation lands for
corn should be broken ten inches
(subsoiling is better) in Novem-
ber and sown to wheat, rye or
barley in order to keep the land
from washing and to force the
water down into the 10 inch res-
ervoir that has been made, also
for pasture during the dry sea-
sons through the winter: This
green crop should be turned un-
der four weeks before planting
time, just before planting time
the ground should be well har-
rowed with section harrow. The
deep sandy land and new ground
should be broke just deep
enough to cover up the trash for
humas,and sown to cover crop
just as the above hard founda-
tion lands.
After the land has been har
rowed about ten days, the tows
should be laid off 4 feet wide
with a shovel plow Very deep,
then flat beds made in order to
drain good with harrow and the
land is ready to plant.
The very best type of home
raised, bred up seed should be
used, and seed should be tested
before planting and should have
98 per cent vitality.
The corn should be planted 3
feet apart in the drill and when
24 inches high a hill of peas
should be planted in the drill be-
tween the corn hills, leaving the
middles so that you can cultivate
as late as necessary.
The corn should be plowed
when very small a little deep
with small plow, after this the
corn should be cultivated once
every 8 days shallow with im
plements that will mulch the soil
this cultivation should continue
until the tassel is just begin
ning to show, then the row may
be laid by, but not the middle,
these should be gone through ev
ery eight days very shallow with
one furrow mulching the soil
pretty well across the middle;
this should be kept up until the
pollen is exhausted and the silks
can feed no more, then the corn
is made.
The above plan gives the corn
4 by 3 feet one stalk to the hill,
and with the dent com two ears
can be secured to the stalk, and
with the prolific corn three ears
per stalk can be secured.
You will see that the above
plan to raise corn has some
work attached to it, and so it has
but good corn can’t be made with
out work, and the right kind at
that, besides anything that is
worth doing at all is worth doing
well, and there is nothing so bad
ly needed in Texas as god corn,
and the buying of it from other
countries is the thing that is
bankrupting Texas, by causing
us to get less for our cotton; by
raising more corn and other sup-
ply crops, and less cotton we
would get more for the cotton,
and besides we would not owe all
we do get for our cotton for corn
and other supply crops, neither
would we have to turn the world
upside down to gat a market for
our cotton, for it would always
sell for a fair price, and when we
have plenty of corn it is easy to
have meat and other things for
use for our familier and stock
on the farm.
How many farmers of Texas
will try the abqye plan for corn
next year? y
Yours for a Bumper Corn Crop
next year,
JNO. O. ALLEN,
The people are sitting steady
and holding tight to the cotton
already ginned. Bales are be-
ing stored in barns and sheds
and the picking goes on. Busi-
ness is dull as a result but a
better day is coming for us all.
Hold tight while you have the
upper hand. The “Buy-a-Bale”
move is gradually forcing the
price to ten cents.
The army worm is cutting the!
cotton badly and spreading rap- j
idly. No attempt is being made j
to poison the varmints, which is !
said to be so easily done. Men |
sit still and let them eat up the j
leaves and damage the crop be-;
cause forsooth a horse or a cow j
might jump into the field. It
is no use to talk poison.
Say, Mr. Man, we try our level
best to get you the Rustler ev-
ery Friday or Saturday morning
If ycu live in our trading terri-
tory we seldom fail to get you.
Now in return we want you to
read the paper before you come
to town. Read the ads especial-
ly. Every merchant that in-
serts an ad wants you to read it
before you come to town on Sat-
urday. It will many times save
you money to do so. If there
are any bargains to be had, you
will "find them advertised and
should know about them be-
fore you come to town. It may
be too late next week. Read it
all.
PUBLIC SCHOOL OPENS SEP
TEMPER 28.
Cumby public school will open
for business on the morning of
September 28th, a week from
next Monday. (let the children
ready and let them get the bene-
fit of the entire term. The
school will continue for eight
months or longer. Think of
that, will you? Meet at the
school house on the morning of
the opening and give the teach-
ers and pupils a big send off.
It will make them feel like we
had an interest in their welfare.
Frees Scholarship In
The School
Of Your Choice
The Tyler Commercial College
of Tyler, Texas, is positively the
only business college in the state
which teaches a thorough course
of practical, modern bookkeep-
ing and business training. Oth
er schools teach theoretical book
keeping; some of them call it
actual business, but it is not.
The commercial room of the Ty-
ler Commercial College is a com-
munity of business houses of
various kinds, Banks, Wholesale
Commission, Real Estate, Re-
tail, Insurance, etc. Each stu-
dent is engaged in real, active
business, learning to do by doing
Every entry made by the stu-
dent during his entire course is
originated by an actual sale or
purchase; it may be grain, it
may be groceries, dry goods,
real estate, or stock in a corpor-
ation, but the transaction is real
iv performed and every paper
required in the transaction,
whether check, note, draft, re-
ceipt, mortgage, deed or what
not. is filled out by the student;
contracts of partnership are
drawn up and agreed upon be-
tween the parties forming the
partnership; articles of incorpor
ation are drawn up. Thru these
nractical methods the students
learn business as well as book-
keeping ; they learn how to meet
one another face to face and
transact business in a business
wav, instead of copying theoret-
ical transactions , from a text
book, as is done in every other
commercial school in the state.
It takes more teaching force and
better teachers to teach our sys-
tems and methods; our teachers
are not only teachers of Book-
keeping, but they must be well
informed on business customs.
When a student learns to do a
thing by actually doing it, he
learns it thoroughly, and with
our practical, face to face busi-
ness methods we are able to
give the student a thorough
course of both bookkeeping and
business thaining in less time
than he could possibly get the
theory, or so-called practical
bookkeeping alone in other
schools.
We will give a free scholar-
ship in the school of your choice
to anyone finding another school
in this state teaching bookkeep-1
ing and business thru practical!
business transactions as we do. j
Similar practical methods are j
used in teaching shorthand, j
Typewriting. Telegraphy and j
business administration and fi- j
nance. We believe in learning >
to do in the school room that
which you must lo when going
into the business world, and it
is this policy that has made the
Tyler Commercial College of Ty-
ler. Texas, the largest school of!
its kind in America.
Write t or large catalogue ex-I
plaining our original methods of j
teaching, and securing positions.
Subscribe for the
1.00 per year.
Rustler !
Methodist Quarterly
Conferenc Sat. & Sun.
Our fourth quarterly confer-
ence will convene in business ses
sion Saturday morning at ten
o’clock. As this is to be a very
important conference we urge
every member to be present. A
general resume of the year’s
work, together with the election
of officers for another conference
year, will be part of the business
of the day.
Let the Trustees, the Woman’s
Missionary Societies, the Sunday
School Superintendents, the
League Presidents, and the
Stewards, be ready with their re-
spective reports.
Bro. Hicks will come to us
Friday afternoon and preach at
Rea’s chapel that night and hold
the conference at ten o’clock Sat
urday morning at Cumby.
J. Leonard Rea,
Pastor,
Come out Saturday night and
hearClyclone Davis.
FOUND—Ducking for cotton
sack. Call and pay 25c for this
ad and we can tell.you where to
find it.
Cotton is selling in Cumby 'as
high as 8.60. Most of the mer-
chants give ten cents straight
when it is all on collections.
Mr/ Brewer is up again and
able to be down town, and he is
glad and so are his many
friends.
Bill Gordon, Jr., of San Marcos
is here for an indefinite visit
with relatives and friends of his
younger days.
Arlie Smith has sold his inter-
est in the dray business to his
partners, Hewitt Odom and Om-
er Rhodes, and will proceed to
enjoy life and visit his kin folks.
The article headed, “Save
Your Clothes,” is worth the sub-
scription price to this paper for
ten years. Read it and then cut
it out and keep it. Use it and
save your back and your clothes.
Prof. McLeod was here this
week and made agreement writh
the board for the school to begin
Monday, September 28, and then
went to Sherman with our school
boys to be present at the open-
ing of Austin College, his alma
mater.
Buy a bale. Holland Bros,
have bought a bale and have it
on display. Buy a bale at ten
cents and hold it, that’s the doc-
trine now, and it is taking all
over the south.
The Rustler said last week
that Mrs. Hodge who was buried
here was the wife of JJncle Billy
Hodge. We meant to sav Un-
cle Jim Hodge. The further
description in the article made
it clear as to who was meant
but we dislike very much to get
names mixed.
One on the Voice.
Lecturer—Ladies and gentlemen, we
shall consider this evening the funda-
mental principles of architecture. The
Etruscans— A Wandering Voice—
How d’ye build a dog house? Lec-
turer (solicitously)—Are you going to
move?—Judge.
No Risk.
“I wonder if the Babbleys run any
risk of ostracism If they go to that
fashionable resort?”
“Oh. uo: they’ve all been vaccinated.”
—Baltimore American.
Indescribable.
“Love is an emotion which may be
felt but cannot be adequately de-
scribed.” observed the sage.
“So is seasickness,” replied the fool.—
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Chronic Grouch.
“Have you got dyspepsia?”
“No.”
"Then what’s the use of acting all
♦he time like you had?” — Louisville
Courier-Journal.
OUR OPENING DISPAY
of Authentic Millinery
Fashions for Fall and
Winter is taking place
every day, and the
honor of your presence
is requested.
Every correct mode for
the season will be found
represented, including a
complete showing of the
celebrated
“Gold Medal”
HATS
Mrs. Mollie Smith,
At Residence on East Main St
How Do You Laugh?
Refinement can be indicated as
strongly by the manner in which a per-
son laughs as by the tone of the speak-
ing voice.
If some people could hear the tone
they nse while laughing they would
doom themselves to perpetual sadness.
A real “hearty laugh is like a tonic
to the system. It not only does the
person good who enjoys It, but It doe«
every one good who hears it.
Of such a langh there Is no criticism.
But there are people who do not enjoy
laughing, bnt who laugh In a forced
and artificial manner, and generally at
the most Impossible moment.
An affected laugh by either a man
or a woman Is a counterfeit of the true
feelings. There is no necessity to
laugh loudly, the heartiest laugh ts
the softest In tone.
Remember, when langbter is natural
it Is Irresistible and beautiful, and
when It Is forced It falls like rasping
brass upon refined ears.—Philadelphia
Telegraph.
Brazil’s Name.
Long before the Portuguese colonized
the coast of Brazil adventurous Bristol
merchants had equipped expeditions in
a vain search tor the supposed island
of Brasylle. Who gave Brazil Qer pres-
ent name is unknown to fame—the ear-
ly Portuguese called it Terra da V’era
Cruz— but whoever baptized the coon-
try took the name from the East In-
dies For many years before the discov-
ery of Brazil merchants had broiigdt
from the east tor the use ot dyers a
wood which yielded a beautiful red
color—brasili or brasilly The West
Indies nave trees ot the same sort, but
Brazil contains them in more abun-
dance than any other country. So that
Brazil wood Is not called so after the
country. J'he country is named so t>e-
oiuse of its red dye trees.—London
Chronicle.
Travels ot Roots.
Roots travel amazing distances 1
search of their requirements. A tin
her merchant, excavating for a sew*
in England, found an elm root one an
a quarter Inches in diameter and sixt.'
three feet long, running through a be
of sawdust from the tree to the nea
est water.
The aggregate length of root throw
out by some plants is almost incred
ble. A cucumber will, within its short
life of about half a year, throw out
from ten to fifteen miles of roots.
Clover roots will go straight down to
a depth of six to nine feet In search
of moisture, and coltsfoot, one of the
most powerful and persistent of weeds,
sends lts suckers down to an even
greater depth.—London Stray Stories.
Lost the Point.
The Teacher—Now, children, listen
to this Thomas Campbell, the fa-
mous poet, once walked six miles to a
printing office to have a comma in
one of tiis poems changed to a semi-
colon Why did he take all that trou-
ble? Bright Boy—’Cause he didn’t have
no telly phone.—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Publicity.
“It’s a bad thing to talk about your
neighbors.”
“That’s right.” replied the man who
Is rill business. “Publicity is worth
something these days. 1 shouldn’t
think of talking about anybody except
at advertising rates.” — Washington
Star.
Another Recipe.
Aspiring Novelist—Ah, sir, I am high-
ly flattered. I’m sure, to hear that you
take my book to bed with you and read
It there! Acquaintance—Yes. 1 have
been troubled with Insomnia for a
long time, and I find one of your pages
much better than any medicine.
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Morton, George M. The Cumby Rustler. (Cumby, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, September 18, 1914, newspaper, September 18, 1914; Cumby, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth770323/m1/4/: accessed June 29, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.