The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, January 16, 1920 Page: 2 of 8
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ed. That five months have been con-
sumed in drilling the well to its pres-
ent depth seems long, but in view of
circumstances, the development has
been quite rapid. Drilling was delayed
once by a shortage of gas, and once by
ba«i roads, which made it iiiuiltfpfjf
for material to be brought to the rig.
The fact that a few shares of Royal
Stephens stock, with a par value of
$10.00, have recently changed hands
on the Fort Worth Stock Exchange
for $27.60 a share has created consid-
erable comment. The astonishing fact
is that very little stock has been placec
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■ Deep snow and extreme cold weath,
<?r, followed by a .long period of drouth
has forced Wyoming sheep men to
ship over 200,000 head of sheep into
the San Angelo section for winter
pastuqpge.
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The county superintendents of 1,-
400 public schoolhouses of Erath Coun-
ty, are endeavoring to have planted
at every one of the school houses a
small pecan grove.
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The Old Year is gone and the New Year
is here. . '
How about your banking connections for
the year 1920?
In order to be successful,; you need the
assistance of a good bank.
It will be to your interest to line up; with
our strong bank, which is able and willing to
take care of you.
Come in and let us talk it over.
FARMERS GUARANTY STATE BANK
Clifton, Texas
J. M. JENSON, Cashier
FARMERS BANK.”
on the market and the stockholders
show no disposition to accept the mar-
ginal profit on their investment The
stockholders’ confidence has thus been
silently affirmed
The Best Music Is None Too
Good For Your Children
Collin County is 40,000 bales short
of the same ginning date last year.
The crop is about one-third of the
normal crop for the county.
This may be par-
tially attributed to the fact that the
Royal Stephens property is not limit-
ed to the one location, and the fruits
of the investment do not depend solely
oiv the, outcome of the one well.
Your kiddie* should have music. Thcv should have geed music.
How can you be *ure that they have good music, the test music?
One way i, to be sure that vour phonograph is
Long staple cotton has been grown
near Vernon and was grown from seed
planted last June and produced three-
fourths of a bale to the acre.
The Company’s property consists of
a 40-acrt tract .of land in Cotton Plant
in the townsite of Necessity. Here it
is noteworthy that persons who did
not invest early when property was
cheap are paying enormous prices for
acreage a’ftd production. Any of the
smaller companies, even without pro-
duction on their Cotton Plant holdings
could sell out now for a far greater
figure than their capitalization.
In the beginning the Royal Stephens
Oil Company organizers had prepared
for an extensive stock-selling cam-
paign. But before their operations
started, wells were brought in close
to their property, assurihg success to
their project. The result was that the
stock placed on the market was “gob-
bled up” by the first person given »
chance to buy.
Rice growing will be attempted on
a large scale within 25 miles of San
Antonio this year.
THE
The Phonograph with a Soul
Local buyers think that San Angelo
will ship 40 cars of pecans this year.
The previous high record was 30 cars
shipped in 1917.
ers of Collin County, were recently
paid $6,000 for a young boar, “Council
Hill Buster,” by R. A. Welch & Son
of Red Oak, Okla. This is the highest
price ever paid for a single hog in
North Texas. * •
County has paid to the farmers $60,-
000 for turkeys this fall.
The Boys’ Pig Club of McCulloch
County paid as high as $125 each for
registered pigs. -
The State Orphans’ Home, located
in Corsicana, has planted 1,000 pecan
trees on the driveways and campus of
that institution.
The Bell County turkey crop is es-
timated to be worth $80,000 to the
farmers. An average of 23 cents per
pound was paid by local buyers.
An epidemic of tick fever has brok-
en out among the cattle of DeWitt
County. A large number of cows have
flied within the last few weeks of the
disease.
McLennan County/hog raisers have
received two ears of fine thorough?
bred hogs from Nebraska for breeds
jpg purposes. .,**»** i
The subscribers con-
i sist largely of the residents of three
I towns, namely, Clifton, Texas, Mur-
| freesboro, Tenn., arid Leesburg, Va.
| It is only natural that a few persOri?
1 b.kve purchased stock iri this Company
for speculative purposes only, but the
vast majority of the subscribers in-
vested their money for the actual re-
turns in oil and are holding to their
stock tenaciously.
Washington County will this year
produce 7,000 bales of cotton as com-
pared with nearly 33,000 bales last
year. ^ -
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Simmons and O’Mary sold a pair
of 3 year old mules raised in Grayson
County, for $825. The pair weighed
2,900 pounds. Pretty good eveidence
that Texas is as good a mule-raising
state as Missouri.
Dr. Tillman H. Bryant has purchased
a 210-adre farm near Blue Ridge, Col-
lin County, and on it will establish one
of the largest sheep ranches in north
Texas.
One of the most valuable herds of
Duroe-Jersey hogs in Texas, estimat-
ed to be worth $100,00, were vaccina-
ted near Childress against cholera by
Dr. L. R. Smith, chief inspector of the
Bureau of Hog Cholera.
Hilton Howard, a young negro
working for Miss Maydee Barron, just
north of Sherman, picked over 700
pounds of cotton from sunup to sun-
down, for which he received $22.00
for his day’s work. ilfe-
MR. LAIGHDON GIVES THE
HISTORY OF ROYAL STEPHENS
Parvin and Cunningham, hog rais
Hastings’ 1920
Seed Catalog Free
It's ready now. One hundred hand-
somely illustrated pages with brilliant
cover iri natural colors. It is both
beautiful and helpful, and all that is
necessary to get it is a postal card
request. You will find our 1920 cata-
logue a well worth while seed book.
Hastings’ Seeds are sold direct by
mail. You will never find them on
saie in the stores. We have some
five hundred thousand customers who
buy from us by mail. We please and
satisfy them, and we can please and
satisfy you in 1920.
Planting Hastings’ Seeds in your
garden or in your fields insures “good
luck” »o far as results can be deter-
mined by the seed planted. For 30
years Hastings’ Seeds have been the
standard of seod excellence and pur-
ity in the South. Only varieties
adapted to the South are listed. Qual-
ity of the best and prices often lees
than those you pay at home. Write
for free copy of this splendid cata-
logue now. H. G. HASTINGS CO,
Seedsmen, Atlanta, Ga.— (Advt.)
Fort Worth, Texas, Jan. 10, 1920.— ANTI-WILSON PROPAGANDA
The sp„Uigh, of the oil U on J&32KS
Stephens county, Texas, today. Legal j of autos and motor trucks that the
and circumstantial rules governing the! Government purchased at a high price
.... • —. , ,; during the war and left to rust and
oil business m iexaa have so directed i t France
the operations there as to concentrate | Yes, Editor Boynton, and you are
the attention of the oil fraternity on j aidince those magazines in their pro-
Stephens county. It is literally true! pagamia aimed at Wilson and his ad-
that more than half of the “forced . ministration. The main difference be-
drilling in the county has already j (Ween y0U and some of these maga-
been accomplished. This forced drill- zjnes js that they are socialistic and
ing has revealed muoh. But the main j hate the present administration and
fact is that oil has been discovered in; its chief because it and he are anti-
eve ly section of the county. ; socialistic; whereas you dislike the
The percentage of dry holes in this 1 cbjef and his administration because,
county is smaller than in any other; at lea8t partly, of the dislike held for
like area in Texas. The production in ; them by your utmost favorite, the
all sections has shown itself not only j whi]om Texan who is now trying to
uniform and lasting but abundantly j a political comeback. In short,
profitable. And every oil man in Texas K(ijtor Boynton> you are against any-
WE WANT TO BUY
Jack Middleton of Scurry county
near Snyder, made about as much out
of sorghum molasses as his neighbors
made out of cotton. He says he man-
ufactured 4,200 gallons and sold it for
$1.00 per gallon.
Kidney weakness, bladder troubles
and digestive disorders are all within
the curative power of Prickly Ash
Bitters. As a tonic for the kidneys
and urinary organs it has proven its
value. Price $1.25 per bottle. Carpen-
ter Bros., Special Agents.
Another record breaking price was
paid to M. Ghesshir of Fulbright, Red
River County, for two bales of long
staple cotton. The, price paid was
80 cents per pound.
During the recent howl about the
world coming to an end on the 17th of
December, a Kansas editor had the
following to say: “Please pay up your
subscription before the seventeenth as
the world will come to an end on tha^
date and we don’t want to go chasing
all over h----1 trying to collect the
small sum due us.”
The First National Bank of Temple
is preparing to invest the sum of
$8,000 in pedigreed hogs for the pig
club recently organized in that coun-
CUFTON PRODUCE COMPANY
Two five-year-old boys earned $1.38
and $1.42 respectively in one day’s cot-
ton picking in Taylor County. Many
school children in West Texas have
made as high as $10.00 a day picking
cotton in the fields.
Constipation is the starting point
for many diseases that end fatally.
Healthy regularity can be established
through the use of Prickly Ash Bitters.
It is a fine bowel tonic, is mildly stim-
ulating and strengthens the stomach,
liver and kidneys. Price $1225 per
bottle. Carpenter Bros, Special Ag-
ents.
BOSQUE VALLEY LAND CO.
Farms, Ranches and
City Property Bought,
Sold and Exchanged.
J. T. FORSON, Manager
Clifton, Texas
CARPENTER & CARPENTER
Physicians and Surgeons
Office in
Carpenter Bros. Drug Store
Clifton, Texas
J. W. Brock of Grapevine, Tarrant
County, is making $75.00 an acre from
his cane crop this year as a result of
manufacturing his cane into syrup.
He made an average of 60 gallons of
syrup from each acre of his crop and
had no trouble disposing of the product
at $1.25 per gallon.
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Houston Temple, a twelve-year-old
boy of Dallas County, bought a gilt
hog with money borrowed from a local
bank and when he paid the borrowed
money due the bank last weejj;, he re-
ported owning a sow and pigs worth
$375. He received $105 from the sale
of three pigs and $35 prize money.
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As a part of. the program to reduce
the cost of foods, W. Hartzell of the
some propaganda digging at tne ioun-
dations of the Democratic party, in-
defatigably undermining the legisla-
tion enacted during the Democratic
regime and belittling everything this
regime has succeeded in, even the vic-
tory won on the battlefields of Europe.
All those who are trying to make
capital, through print and picture and
morose oratory, out of the alleged
waste of war materials after the war
was fought and won are seeking to
throw the blame obliquely upon the
man in the White House—because they
hate him. They adroitly assume that
he should have fpllowed our transport
divisions and picked up all the used
automobile tires; that he should have
gathered up all the fragments and,
above all, that he should have kept the
motor trucks greased and garaged.
The fact that these matters were in
charge of the army commanders, and
that the army is a non-political or-
ganization, is not admitted by the
President's critics, whose object is to
charge him with extravagance. And
these critics will be very slow—even
Editor Boynton will not be in a hurry
—to print or repeat the assertions of
the army commanders that there was
no avoidable waste, and that the leav-
ings of the American army in France
were sold for the considerable sum of
$760,000,000. All of which suggests
Clifton, Texas, Jan. 16, 1920.
JAS. M. ROBERTSON
Dear Customer-to-be
Atty. and Counselor
Meridian, Texas,
We are writing you a short letter today the
purpose of which is to remind you that we still
Scant your business, and that we honestly believe
that we can make it to your interest as well as
our own, to trade with us.
DR. S. F. LARSEN
. Electrical Treatments
X-Ray Diagnosis, Eyes Exam
ined and Glasses Fitted
Office Hours: 9 to 12, 1 to 6
National Wool Growers’ Association
We do not claim to be the largest concern on
the globe, or to handle absolutely everything you
have ever needed or expect to need, but we do
claim to know the grocery business, at least better
than we know anything else, and that our buying
facilities areas good as the next fellows, and that
we have a competent sales force who are always
on the alert to devise ways afuTmeans of making
is conducting a campaign out of Dal-
las to teach the value of lamb meat.
Mr. Hartzell says that we spend mil-
lions of dollars each year for wool
from other countries and if lamb meat
were eaten more freely, our farmers
would raise more sheep and our wool
supply would be increased thereby.
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JIJiss Ruby Crow, a Bell county girl
and member of the Bell County Girls’
Canning Clubs, produced a ton of
8th AND FRANKLIN STREETS, WACO, TEXAS,
Next tiipe you are in need of groceries call us,
I or come in and give us a trial order. We do not
•♦believe you will regret it. •
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Thanking you in advance for any order you
may give us, or courtesy you may extend to us,
we are
'. ‘ Sincerely your,
v
THE HOME GROCERY COMPANY.
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Baldridge, Robert L. The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, January 16, 1920, newspaper, January 16, 1920; Clifton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth775257/m1/2/: accessed June 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Nellie Pederson Civic Library.