The Blessing News. (Blessing, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, June 20, 1913 Page: 1 of 4
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Blessing, Matagorda County, Texas, Friday, June 20, 1913.
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To The City Men Of Texas
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By Pater Radford. PraaMaat Karmera Union
Ft. Worth, Texas, June 18.—
In this article I want to record
some of the difficulties that con-
front a Texas farmer in a busi-
ness way and to point out a few
substantial reasons why so many
farmers have not the price of a
home. I shall not undertake to
defend the Texas farmer as a
business man—he needs nb de-
fense. He,produces 85 per cent
of the wealth; pays^seven million
dollars of taxes per annum and
manages property valued at
$2,853,000,000. According to
authoritative estimates, the
farmers of Texas earn from pro-
duction four per cent per annum
net on their investment anch I
4 consider these figures approxi-
mately corrsot The Federal Ag-
ricultural Department has just
announced that the farmers of
this State are paying an average
of ten per cent per annum, or to
quote exact figures, 9.97. The
agricultural indebtedness o f
Texas approximates $285,000,000.
The difference between the
amount of interest paid and the
amount earned on this indebted-
ness per annum is $13,600,000
and as a logical result something
OYer two thousand farmers lose
their homes. We are rapidly
passing from home-owners to
tenants, from tenants to laborers
and the laborers drift into the
cltlu.
TAKES SIXTY YEARS TO BUILD
A HOME
The farm laborers of Texas re-
ceive six dollars per week with-
_ out board and a feW cents over
four dollars per week with board.
Their net earning power at best
hardly exceeds $150.00 per an-
num provided they are constant-
ly employed, which is not always
the case. The first step of a
farm laborer in his journey
toward a home is tenant fanning,
although many who undertake
the task omit this experience in
their upward climb, preferring
to remain farm laborers until
they have accumulated sufficient
funds tp make the first payment
on a home. The average value
of farm equipment on a Texas
farm is $1,050, including house-
hold goods. -• It yrill take the
farm laborer seven years to b«-\
come a tenant farmer. The
gross earnings of a Texas faim
are $1,254 per annum and one-
third must go for rental, leaving
him with $800 gross as his pro-
portion. From this sum must be
deducted the cost of living, feed-
ing the teams, and the running
expenses of the farm, Including
a hired hand, when one is em-
ployed. The frugal fanner will
raise most of his feed stuff but
the value must be deducted as
total production is included in
the gross. A careful estimate
places the cost of running a farm
at $600.00, leaving the tenant
farmer $200.00 net per annum.
These figures are a HtttoJvgh as
Ip practical experience many
tenant farmers go back to labor-
ing as more remunerative than
tenant farming. The average
\ value ofa Texas farm at Hated
by the census enumerator* if
$5,811. In seven years time the
tenant farmer haa accumulated
ft,400 and can make his first
int on a home. He no
pays rent and it now
.00 per annum net,
any wages for
which can
and prin-
* will require
for hia home
•eythe
the
No
ciety, or to provide himself and
family with the comforts and
conveniences of modern life.
^Add these financial burdens and
compute the time and the farmer
is sixty years of age before he
owns a home. * '
THE NEED OF CHEAP MONEY
The remedy lies in cheap
money and in securing beller
prices for pur products. The
average farm loan in the United
States bears 7.75 per cent per
annum. In the North Atlantic
tier of states it is 5.96, in Texas
9.97. Certainly our securities
are as good as the average, then
why do we not get the same rate
of interest? The equalizing of
this item alone will reduce the
interest paid by the Texas farm-
ers on their present indebtedness
approximately $5,000,000 per an-
num, which can be applied to
resting tired mothers, comfort-
ing aged fathers and educating!
our children.
GOVERNMENTAL AID REQUIRED
The chasm between the amount
earned and interest paid on1
mortgaged farm property in
Texas must be bridged over by
over by decreasing the rate of
interest and increasing the price
of our products. Marketing is
equally as complex a problem as
rural credits and neither has
received the attention of the gov-
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Prosperity For One Is
Prosperity For All
BY HOLLAND
IF you are a farmer the value of yeur farm depends on the
•value of the adjoining farm, and the value of both depends
on the value of property in the nearest village or town.
Farms near prosperous towns are always mere valuable than
those near dead or dying settlements. And this is true with-
out regard to the fertility of the soil.
. The farmer depends on the town just as the town depends
for prosperity on the farmer. Theii destinies are inter-
linked; their interests are common. What hurts one hurts
the other. Poor crops will affect the city ret-ident who dees
not even raise radishes, and depressed business affairs af-
fect the farmer who depends on soil, weather and muscle
for his living.
Money sent to the mail order houses helps to turn thriving
towns into dead hamlets. It thereby depreciates the value
. of farm land. It decreases the population of the towns that
most directly use the products of the farm. It lowers the
price for butter and eggs, for chickens and for fruits and
vegetables.
So, Mr. Farmer, if you deal with a mail order house in a
distant city you are taking a course that takes from the
value of your farm, that renders it less desirable as a place
of residence and less productive of profit. You can’t follow
a system that injures your neighbors without being com-
pelled to shoulder some of the*€xpense > ourself. Take the
safer course and spend your money where you make it.
j H. L. Brown went to Bay City
Monday morning.
Miss Kathrine Barnes went to
Bay City Saturday.
John Roach went to Bay City
Monday morning.
Col. J. E. Pierce went to
Houston Saturday.
R. G. Roach made a business
trip to Bay City Tuesday.
Will Knowles transacted busi-
ness in Bay City Monday.
Louis Wolfe of Bay City was
in Blessing the first pf the week.
C. D. Craig made a business
trip to Palacios Friday afternoon.
F. N. Dyer made a business
trip to Bay City Wednesday
morning.
Mr- and Mrs. R. P. Ansley at d
son Albert returned to Skidmore
last Friday.
Rehearing Of Stock Law
Decision Asked
Seeking to delay the enforce-
ment of the stock law passed in
the west half of Matagorda coun-
ty, the cattlemen have asked for
a rehearing of the decision rend-
ered by the Civil Court of Ap-
peals of Galveston.
The following letter from W.
Mr. and Mrs. A. E, Percival of
Blessing have purchased the
Lone Star Restaurant on North
side and are now in charge of
the business. Mr. and Mrs.
Percival are both experienced in
the business and will, no doubt,
succeed in making of the Lone
Star a most attractive place. As
Boon as possible the family will
move to Bay City from Blessing
and become identified with the
city and her interests. We direct
the attention of our readers to
the Lone Star ad on another
column of today’s issue.—Bay
City Tribune, N
Marion McClanahan and Miss
Anna Eliza Driskell, both of
Palacios, were united in marriage
•t the home of the bride’s parents
in that city, Sunday, June 15. Civil Court of Appeals of Galves-
Mr. and Mrs. McClanahan left ton for a rehearing. This peti-
Monday morning for Dallas, tion for rehearing will probably
proceeding from that which we
had formerly contemplated that
they would take but there is
practically no difference so far
as tfcne of accomplishing final
settlement is concerned.
Yours truly,
W. B. Gaumer.
From the above it will be seen
that the stockmen are merely
B. Gaumer, who Is chairman of a?ak‘n* onfofcemont of
.v,. i™!,;™ .f... ,h.| the law as Ionia, possible, that
they may continue a little longer
to pasture our grass. There is
iittliTdoubt but what the people
will win out in the end, it is only
a question of how much longer
the cattlemen can delay action.
the committee looking after the
interest of the people in the mat-
ter, written to Wm. Carpenter
of this city, gives the present
status of the stock law contro-
versy.
Midfield, Texas, June 14,1913.
Mr. Wm. Carpenter,
Blessing, Texas.
Deaf Sir:—I have just bepn look-
ing up the present status of our
litigation in the matter of our
Another Good Rain
Another good rain which was
general over this locality fell
Turaday The crop
where they will spend their
honeymoon. Mr. McClanahan is
a brother of Mrs. F. G. Berger,
of Blessing, and has a number
of friends here who join with us
in extending congratulations and
wishing them much happiness.
Homeseekera At Blessing
D. A./ Cypher, a real estate
agent of Austin, was in Blessing
Wednesday with R. L, Ferguson
and W. N. Clark of Buda, Texas,
and J. K. Callaway, an agent of
Cool9dge, Texas, with his nephew
J. W. Callaway, and S. H. Hunt-
er, of Mexis^ Texas. These
gentlemen wfere shown over the
Pierce lands at Blessing by Mr.
A. B, Pierce and Mr. Wm. Car-
penter, and Messrs. .Ferguson,
Clark and,Hunter each purchas-
ed farms near town and wilt lo-
cate here this fail. .
AH are successful cotton and
corn termers from the northern
part of the state and will be a
valuable addition to our progres-
sive farming community and
warmly welcomed to Blessing-
Prof. F. W. Barrows, instruct-
or of violin and bana instruments,
has made arrangement* to be in
Blessing one day, Friday of each
week. Prof* Barrows is director
of the Bay City Band and now
has charge of the music at the
pavilUon at Palacios Friday
nights. He is an instructor of
unusual ability and anyone wl
ing instruction on violin or band
find th.t the cattlemen, through P^cts couM ildly he tett.r
their attorneys have asked th* thaa they are at-prMent- Corn
their attorneys, have asked tna practica„y made and th# yield
is going , to be good in nearly
every instance. Cotton is grow-
irepassed^upon by theGafv^ | I"* “v?™>
v. .... , rv ed early have fields in bloom.
._ . ,, . .. . With favorable weather during
attorneys tell me that they doj4l_____;_j___M 4U_______ 4l_*
not consider that there is any
chance that the Galveston Court
will grant this re-hearing. If
they do not grant the re-hearing
then the cattlemen may take an
appeal to the Supreme Court.
This is a slightly different
l the remainder of the season, the
cotton production will greatly ex-
ceed last year’s crop. Rice is in
excellent condition, and the in-
dications are that the crop will
be as good, if not better than
last year.
Hadn’t you better
get one of those
9x12 Matting #9 *7X1
Rugs for , ^
before they are all gone
well to sss
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J. L. Jordan went to Bay City
Monday morning, returni n g
Monday noon.
Miss Dora Duffey want to
Houston Saturday to visit her
sister who is sick.
C. D. Roberts Jr. transacted
business in Francitas last Friday
between trains.
Miss Ruby Ansley returned
Tuesday from a visit with rela-
tives at Louise and El Campo.
I. H. Ansley visited Monday
with his family here and return-
ed to Markham Tuesday morn-
inti. ______
J. E. Long made a -business
trip to Bay City Wednesday
morning, returning Wednesday
noon.
Wm. Harris went to Bay City
Saturday afternoon, where he is
taking treatmsnt for rheuma-
tism from Dr. Scott.
Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Miller,
who formerly lived in Blessing,
visited the first of the week with
Mr. and Mrs. F. N. Dyer.
Mr. and Mrs. Murray Bright
of Danbury, Texas, are spending
the week with Mrs. Bright’s
mother, Mrs. Paul Jecklin.
Miss Ada Berger arrived Sat-
urday from Kansas, and will
spend tlib summer with her
brotheivF. G. Berger, and fam-
ily.
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Hprold Lucas returned last
Friday for the summer vacation
from Charleston, South Carolina,
where he has been attending the
Porter Military Acadamy.
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D. 1A(. Kessler, C. D. Craig
and Mr. Eaves, a traveling man,
of Houston, enjoyed a fishing
trip on Trespalacioa bay the first
of the week. They report a good
catch.
C. A. Lucas returned Friday
from a trip to Galveston and
Beaumont, having attended the
celebration at the former place
and transacted business at the
latter.
Sundry Banka..,..............I6*.61
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Ice Cream is Fine—
We have the FREEZERS
: LONGS’!
‘RIGHT PRICE STORES”
J. P. Cunningham of McGreg-
or, Texas, who owns the Mar-
shall farm was in Blessing sever-
al days last week. Mr. Cunning*
ham returnee! to McGregor Mon-
day morning.
Miss Sallie Pickle returned to
Bay City Thursday of last week,
after visiting several days with
her parents. Miss, Pickle re-
cently finished a course in tha
Bay City Business College.
L. D. Midgett and family ar-
rived here last week from Bloom-
ington, and moved into the Car-
penter place adjoining the town-
site on the south, which Mr.
Midgett has purchased. Mr.
Midgett will be principal of the
schools for tiie coming
TOTAL -
LIABILITIES:
Capital Stock paid in.....‘....10,000.00
Surplus Fund.....................
Undivided Profits, net ........1.0fc0.r3
Due to Banka
and Bankers, sub-
ject to check..................
Individual Deposits,
subject to check..............22,079.88
Time Certificates
of Deposit..................
Demand Certificates
of Deposit..................
Cashier’s Cheeks............
Bills payable and rediscounts
Other Liabilitios, as follows:
■i Certified Checks ..........
TOTAL - - -35.2S3.I2
' State of Texas, County of Matagor-
da. We, W. B. Gaumer as president,
and B. W. Trull as cashier of said bank,
each of us, do solemnly swear that the
above statement ie true to tho boat of
our knowledge and belief.
W. B. Gaumer, President.
B. W. Trull, Cashier.
Sworn and subscribed to before me
this ltthday of June, A. D. nineteen
hundred and thirteen.
Witness my hand, and notarial seal
on tho data last feresahL
r.
In and for
Correct - Ati
Mr. and Mrs. B. Hartzog
moved Saturday into the Flick-
wir house in south Blessing.
G. M. Magill of Bay City waa
in Blessing on business Wednes-
day and Thursday of this weak..
County Commissioner, J. W.
Bowers, attended a meeting of
the commissioners court in Bay
City Monday. •
R T. Phillips received two
carloads of cord wood this week,
which he is unloading on the
lota south of Hotel Blessing.
D, H. Garner bought 100 head
of cows from Bob Murry last
week and drove them to his pas-
ture on the Lucas tract south of
town.
June 23 to 28 will be bargain
week for readers of The Houeton
Chronicle. During this week
subscriptions to the daily and
Sunday Chronicle will be accept-
ed at bargain prices. Parties
interested can, by referring ta
any issue of the paper during
the week find special bargain
rates advertised therein. Tha
Chronicle will be mailed to any
address in the United States
from now on until January 1914,
for $1.98* however old subscrip-
tion* will be accepted only dur-
ing the bargain weak.
Evan the champion town kick-
er does not want to “kick tha
bucket”
One genuine sticker ia worth
a regimentof quitters. Sticking
is its own raward.. _
Official Statement of tbs Financial.
Condition of tho
jSUDflelb jhtatr Sank
at Midfield,State of Texas, st tho eloae
of buoineoo on the 4th day sf June. 1918
published in Tho Blcoshtg Howe, s
newspaper printed Slid published st
Bleosing, State of Texas, on the 20 h
dey of June, 1918.
RESOURCES: j
Loans end Diacounta,
peraonal or eollataral.......17,987.14
Loana, real eatete. . ..........2,807.85
Overdrafta...............,......94.02
Reel Eatate (banking houae)..
Other Real Eatate......... .2,429.80
Furniture and Fixtures... .... 1,429.34
Due from Ap-
proved Reaerve
Agenta, net... 8,461.40.........
aubject to check,
net.............. 49.22 8,510.62
Caah Items... .. 210.00
Currency..... 900.00
Specie...........897.21....... 2,007.21
Interest in Depoaitors-
Guaranty Fund..................169.29
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