The Lampasas Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, August 16, 1912 Page: 2 of 8
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Raise More Hogs.
In a speech before the swine
breeders’ section of the Farmers’
Congress John J. Ferguson, a
packing company representative,
drew a parallel between the in-
crease in the number of consum-
ers and the decrease in produc-
tion of meat food supply, which
may afford some insight into the
high cost of living.
Mr. Ferguson says the live
stock business has reached the
stage where high prices for live
stock on foot result in such en-
hanced prices for beef, mutton j of your city.
City Building Notes.
(Commercial Secretaries Association)
Business combinations are
sometimes considered violations
of the Sherman Anti-Trust Law.
This does not apply though when i
Good Horses—Poor Children.
Dr: Kern of Illinois told the
teachers of Texas who gathered
at the State University in July to
study for a week the problems of
rural education about a neigh-
the union is for the up-building j borhood in his section of the
of a community. Let everybody j country that became interested
in procuring a better grade of
horses. After much consultation,
all the farmers of a district club-
bed together and bought for $3,-
500 a splendid pedigreed animal
to improve the local strain. Next,
they feared to entrust such a
boost.
The knock of opportunity is
sometimes unheard because of
the turmoil and strife within. Let
peace prevail.
To rest is to go rusty. Lift a
hand toward the future prosperity
and pork that the American peo-
ple must look the situation
squarely in the face and under-
stand that unless the production
of cattle, sheep and hogs be in-
creased to satisfy the demands of
increasing population prices of
meat foodstuffs must inevitably
further advance.
The statement is made that the
State of Texas, admirably equip-
ped as to natural conditions for
the production of hogs in suffici-
ent numbers to supply the home
market, imports each year sever-
al million dollars’ worth of ham,
bacon and lard from the North.
It is contended that nowhere else
in the world can hogs be more
cheaply raised than in Texas, and
nowhere else does the hog-raising
industry offer to farmers surer
and more profitable returns. Mr.
Ferguson says the stock yards at
Fort Worth receive during the
year but a fraction of the num-
ber of hogs needed by the local
packing houses, yet prices re-
cently touched $8.40 per hundred
for hogs, which wouid afford a
pretty fair margin of profit to
farmers who send their hogs to
market. He further says that
Texas markets prefer Texas
home-grown ham and bacon to
any other, but the supply does
not equal the demand because
Texas farmers do not raise enough
hogs, although the Texas experi-
ment station has fully demon-
strated the possibilities of eco-
nomical pork production by the
use of Texas home-grown feeds.
It is probably possible to induce
Texas farmers to plant more hogs
by everlastingly agitating the
matter, as was done in the in-
terest of diversified farming be-
fore Texas began to crowd the
markets of the world with her
varied products, her onions, po-
tatoes, cabbage, melons and other
things that have fflled the pockets
of Texas farmers with money at
all seasons of the year. If so, we
should keep pegging away at the
hog-raising industry until we be-
gin shipping hog meat out of, in-
stead of into, the State.—San
Aatonio Express.
Hookworm Treatment for Pellagra Cases
Barbourville, Ky., Aug. 10—
■“Treatment applied to hookworm
ipatients benefits persons afflicted
'with pellagra, according to an
announcement made by the State
Board of Health and scientists
from the Rockefeller Foundation
.fund who are conducting experi-
ments here. The hookworm ep-
idemic which has affected 20,000
.people in this State is believed
‘to be under control, and physi-
t$ia*is are of the opinion that they
have finally made an inroad upon
pellagra that will eventually halt
the disease.
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flying Men fall
victims to stomach, liver and kidney
troubles just like other people, with
like results in loss of appetite, back-
ache, nervousness, headache, and tired,
listless, run-down feeling. But there’s
no need to feel like that as T. D. Pee-
bles, Henry, Tenn., proved. “Six bot-
tles of Electric Bitters,” he writes,
“did more to give me new strength
and good appetite than all other stom-
ache’remedies I used.” So they help
everybody. Its folly to suffer when
this great remedy will help you from
the first dose. Try it. Only 50 cents
at all druggists.
It is a good policy to play fair
with capital.
It takes push to start a propo-
sition but it usually takes capital
to finish it.
Hospitality will create lasting
impression on the stranger and
as a result the city will receive a
lot of free advertising.
Investors generally buy land
in a growing community or at
least in a locality that shows
promise of advancement.
Some young men give as their
reason for not returning to the
farm that the city is so far away,
you can reduce the distance by
improving the public highway.
Lots of towns are side tracked
by capital because of the indif-
ference of the citizens.
Who does not like to invest in
a clean city?
A friendly spirit to co-operate
in a fair way with all public of-
ficials, utility companies, traffic
men and others, pays big divi-
dends in a city’s successful
growth.
Small profits and big business
are better for a town’s prosperity
than high prices and a “nothing
doing” look about the streets.
Friendly, polite and obliging
citizens are a big drawing card
to strangers and intending in-
vestors.
Definition of Before and Aft^-.
For twelve months before/the
were married she never loam
downtown without seeing' him
Two Men Hanged from One Scaffold.
Sherman, Texas, August 9.—
There was a double hanging here
today, the men executed being
Wood Maxey and Sellars Vines,
negroes, both convicted of mur-
der. One of the most terrible
electrical displays of the/summer
swept over Sherman last night.
During this storm both Maxey
and Vines got on their knees I force, for fear she
praying for a storm which would
wreck the jail and kill them.
Maxey asked to be awakened
every hour during the night.
valuable investment to ignorant J This was done and the negro got
It Will Please You.
Ground from special wheat,
prepared by the best machinery,
carefully cared for from the field
to the consumer, and made for
the best trade, White Crest Flour
gives satisfaction to every user.
People in Lampasas who have
used it pronounce it the best ev-
er brought here. Try it, and you
will want no other. Sold only
by Higdon -Senterfitt Co. dwtf
Want Local Option Election.
Waco, Tex., Aug., 8.—At a
meeting bf the McLennan coun-
ty Anti-Saloon League this after-
noon it was decided to petition
the Commissioners Court to order
a local option election in this
county. The date has not been
fixed, but will be decided upon
later. It is understood the elec-
tion will be asked for at an early
date.
There was some opposition to
asking for an election at this
time, but the vote stood 125 to 16,
an overwhelming majority in
favor of the election.
Dr. J. A. Barton, president of
the league, is to manage the.cam-
paign for the pros in securing
the order for an election and also
in the fight for local option if the
election is ordered.
Indian Killed on Track.
Near Rochelle, 111., an Indian went to
sleep on a railroad track and was
killed by the fast express. He paid
for his carelessness with his life. Often
it’s that way when people neglect
coughs and colds. Don’t risk your life
when prompt use of Dr. King’s New
Discovery will cure them and so pre-
vent a dangerous throat or lung trou-
ble. “It completely cured me, in a
short time, of a terrible cough that
followed a severe attack of Grip,”
writes J. R. Watts, Floydada,Tex.,“and
I regained 15 pounds in weight that I
had lost.” Quick, safe, reliable and
guaranteed. 50c and $1.00. Trial bot-
tle free at all druggists.
hands, and a groom was employ-
ed at a salary of seventy-five
dollars a month to have the horse
in his sole charge. It then be-
coming time to elect the teacher
for the district school, it was
thought best to vote a monthly
salary of thirty-five dollars. And
they got what they paid for—a
$35 grade of teaching. Also they
paid willingly for the thing they
wanted—a first-class grade of
horse.
Building his argument up far-
ther, that people do what seems
to them really important, pay the
price for what seems to them
really worth while—Mr. Kern
showed in another of his talks a
photograph taken in his own
home county of a country road
intersected by a lane. At the
junction stood two milk cans
waiting for the wagon that pass-
ed each morning, Saturdays and
Sundays included, along the pike
collecting the milk of a large sec-
tion of country, and carrying it
to the local creamery—a consoli-
dated community enterprise, fit-
ted with the best and most ap-
proved equipment. A half an
hour later the same photographer
snapped a group of children com-
ing out of the same lane and
walking down the same road, not,
however, to a consolidated com-
munity school house furnished
with the latest and best equip-
ment. They were on their way
to a little, forlorn one-room
house, where one teacher tried to
do the work of several. The peo-
ple of the neighborhood had de-
cided that they couldn’t afford
the expense of sending their
children the greater distance to a
consolidated school. But it paid
to send the milk.
out of his cot and prayed each
time. Vines went to bed at mid-
ngiht, sleeping soundly until
morning.
Both negroes appeared calm
this morning. Makey wrote a
statement declaring that laws
made by white men are such that
a negro can not get justice.
The execution was carried out
at 2 o’clock, Maxey being select-
ed to go first.
Maxey killed Ernest Johnson,
a young white man, here over a
year ago. Johnson had put
Maxey out of a restaurant for
misbehavior.
Vines killed a constable, Moun-
ger, here last September, shoot-
ing him as the officer approached
a box car door to arrest tlie ne-
gro.
Corn Meal and feed.
The old rock mill just below the
Fourth street bridge is in fine
condition and I grind for the
public, either corn meal or feed.
I also keep meal for sale. Bring
me your corn and get the best
meal you have had in years.
I Grind for one-eighth of your grain.
w41 J. R. McComb.
The fact that hogs are selling
in the Fort Worth market at $9"a
hundred pounds and the demand
so great that it is necessary to
import hogs from other States is
considered by the Temple Tele-
gram a valuable hint to Texas
farmers. This is the truth. Any
Texas farmer can produce, with
but little expense, several hogs
which will average 300 pounds,
and these will bring, at the price
named, about $27 each. It will
not take many such hogs to give
the farmer a good income from
this source and if he will take ad-
vantage of the opportunity he
will be independent of the price
of cotton, because he will have
•v N.
enough money from the sale of
his hogs to furnish living ex-
penses for his family, so he can
hold his cotton for better prices
if he wishes to do so. A few
acres planted in corn will fatten
several hogs and there is as much
money in hogs and a great deal
less labor in raising them than in
raising cotton.—San Antonio Ex-
press.
Are Ever at War.
There are two things everlastingly
at war, joy and piles. But Bucklin’s
Arnica Salve will banish piles in any
form. It soon subdues the itching,
irritation, inflamation or swelling. It
gives comfort, invites joy. Greatest
healer of burns, boils, ulcers, cuts,
bruises, eczema, scalds, pimples, skin
eruptions. Only 25 cts at all druggists.
The recent rains—if, in fact,
they are at an end—have not
covered the whole'' State, nor
even the whole of the cotton belt.
But they have been sufficiently
general over the cotton belt to add
two or three hundred thousand
balesjto the crop. The speculative
markets registered this probable
result by marking prices down
sharply. But that fact does not
write these rains down as a mis-
fortune, or, at least, as a visita-
tion concerning which we should
be only indifferent. The cotton
crop east of the Mississippi is in
a bad way, according to all re-
ports, whether the reporter be a
bull or a bear. That imposes on
Texas the duty of producing an
unusually large crop, and even
he unusually large crop which
hese rains forecast, and which
the speculative markets have dis-
counted, will command a good
price, if only the farmers, will
market it rationally, that is not
try to sell it all in a day or a
week. The surplus from last
year’s crop will probably not be
so large as was thought a few
months ago, and although Texas
may produce very much more
than its normal crop, there is no
reason to think that the total
crop of the country will be much,
if any, above normal. These
rains have not^only added two or
If she walked one block he alVvay
managed to be waiting for her o
the corner, smiling like an o/yste
on the half shell. If she c: irrie
a package as weighty as a spoo
of thread, he took it from '
would
herself or break a mainsj
He wanted to call on her
night and would have dot
her father had been deac
just simply existed, and thS
all, when out of her presenj
was so considerate of herfe
he never went near her afte
ing a drink until he had^
oughly overhauled and deoc
ed his breath. Twelve months
after they married, and he saw
her down town, he darted in a
screen door to keep her from see-
ing him. He saw her pass by
with a big, heavy bundle but he
never went out and offered to
carry the load. Perhaps it was
because he was already loaded
himself. He usually made it
home for supper and then went
down town on important busi-
ness. This is what I call before
and after taking.—Sam Jones.
Grown from vigorous plants,
gathered by skilled labor, pre-
pared in the best manner, and
then hermetically sealed, so as to
reach the consumer with all its
original aroma, Denison’s Cof-
fees are taking the best trade
everywhere. Try it. You will
like it. Sold only by Higdon-
Senterfitt Co. dwtf
three hundred thousand bales to
the Texas crop, but they have
probably done that without less-
ening its value.—Dallas News.
The San Antonio Express says:
“With the introductioh of rural
high schools in Texas a great
change will come about in farm
life. When the farmer boys can
secure higher education without
leaving the faiyn, when they will
be taught how to make farm life
profitable and pleasant, they will
love the work and will not want
to get away from it as do those
boys who now are sent away to
schools and fall into the swift
ways of city life so they will
never again be satisfied on the
farm. Texas lawmakers are just
waking up to their duty in pro-
viding good schools for farm
boys. The Cuero Star has this
to say regarding education of
farmers: ‘The man on the farm
is entitled to just as good an edu-
cation as anyone and the day is
coming in Texas when he’ll have
it. It is a great mistake to think
that mental training is not re-
quired for the farm. The great
effort of the State through its ed-
ucational department and through
the Legislature has been to bring
better school facilities to the chil-
dren of the farmers, and it is go-
ing to tell on the affairs of this
State in a mighty few years.’ ”
Uncle Sam Washes His Money. 2m
Washington, D. C., Aug. 10.—
More than a half million dollars
of old paper money, washed and
ironed to the crispness of new in
tjie Federal Government’s cur-
rency laundry, will be placed in
circulation Monday. This lot will
represent Uncle Sam’s first job
as a laundryman. -
It is reported that the army
worm has damaged the cotton to
the value of $8,000,000 within the
past month in the states of Ala-
bama, South Carolina, Georgia
and other southern states.
Sallow complexion comes from bil-
ious impurities in the blood and,the
fault lies with the liver and bowels
they are torpid. The medicine that
gives results in such cases is Herbine.
It Is a line liver stimulant and. bowel
regulator. Price 50c. Sold by all
druggists.'' .¥ :
More than half an inch of rain
has fallen in this immediate sec-
tion since' Thursday night, and
prospects are good for more
showers. Appearances indicated
that the rains were much heavier
to the west than here.
Constipation is the starting point for
many serious diseases. To be healthy
keep the bowels active and regular.
Herbine will remove all accumulations
in the bowels and put the system in
prime condition. Price 50c. Sold by
all druggists.
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Vernor, J. E. The Lampasas Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, August 16, 1912, newspaper, August 16, 1912; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth892492/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lampasas Public Library.