The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 64, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 20, 1915 Page: 4 of 4
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The Lampasas Daily Leader
J.E.~VERNOR J. H. ABNEI
PROPRIETORS.
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J.E Vernor EdltorandManager
Entered atthe poitoffice at Lampasas,March7
1904. as second class mail matter.
S DESCRIPTION RATES
PAYABLE IN ADVANCE
One week........................... 15c
One month........................... 40c
Three months...........................11.00
One year............. 4.00
J. C. Matthews W. H. Browning
Matthews & Browning
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Lampasas, Texas
Office over Peoples National Bank
Will Practice in All Courts
J. C. ABNEY
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
LAMPASAS, TEXAS
Office with W. B. Abney, west side pub-
lic square. Will Practice in all Courts
W. B. ABNEY
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Civil Praotioe Exclusively
Lampasas, - - Texas
Lone Star Barber Shop
TOWNSEN & LAMB, Proprietors^
North Side of the Square
Lampasas, Texas
Hot and Cold Baths at all hours, Skill-
ed Workmen, Sanitary treatment.
from McCreaville.
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McCreaville, May 19.—Plow-
ing corn over second time and
planting cotton is the order of
farm work. A good rain would
be appreciated just now to assist
grain in maturing.
Garden vegetables are just be
ginning to come in, and with a
good rain would soon be plenti-
ful.
L. W. McCrea has a nice lot of
bermuda onions, sweet and juicy.
He never fails to produce a good
supply for his own use and some
to sell.
Those who are not busy farm
ing have gone to the river fishing.
Mrs. Bettie McCrea and Mrs.
Leon Landers visited the family
of Mr. Rogers at Bend for a few
days this week.
Robert Seales and family, of
Williamson county, visited the
family of his father, Tom Seales,
and while here spent a pleasant
time fishing on the river.
Mrs. Jim Landers who has
been quite sick, is now able to be
up and will soon be all right
again.
Children’s day's was observed
on Sunday, and the children ac-
quited themselves with great
credit. Quite a good crowd was
present considering the threaten-
ing weather.
Oats will soon be ready to har-
vest and a busy time will be on
hand. Farmers are trying to
finish up the corn and cotton to
make ready for the harvesting of
grain.
Rattlesnakes are more numer-
ous this year than for many
years past. It seems to us it
would be better to pay a bounty
on killing rattlesnakes than the
rabbits.
H. A. Supple, of Lometa, vis-
ited his mother and relatives here
a few days this week.
H. A. McCrea made a business
trip to Lometa and .returned bet-
ter pleased with country life on
the ranch and farm.
Manufacturers Take Large Orders.
New York, May 18.—Senator
Nathaniel Curry, president of the
Canadian Car & Foundry Com-
pany, has made public some de-
tails concerning the distribution
by his firm of subcontracts en-
tailed in the manufacture of a
large order for shells. The order
amounted to $83,000,000, accord-
ing to statements that have not
been denied, and was placed by
the Russian Government.
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“There are about fifty compa-
nies in the United States,” said
Senator Curry, “and about ten
companies in Canada engaged in
the manufacture of different parts
of shrapnel and explosive shells.
These orders have been split up
among companies in the Eastern
and Middle Western States and
throughout Eastern Canada.”
This brief summary was not
all that Mr. Curry intended at
first to give out, it was learned.
A full list of the concerns, with
their allotments, was prepared,
but some of the manufacturers
objected to publicity, and at their
request the announcement was
changed.
Wall street heard more partic-
ulars also of the contract taken
by the American Locomotive
Company a few weeks ago for
shrapnel. The order it was said,
oalled for 5,000,000 shells at a
cost $13 each, making the total
$65,000,000. Of this half is to be
turned out by the locomotive
plants, and the rest by the New
York Air Brake and the West-
ing house Electric & Manufactur-
ing Company.
The Westinghouse Company is
understood to have exercised its
option to purchase the Stevens
Arms & Tool Company and the
Stevens-Duryea Automobile
Company. In these plants 1,000,-
000 rifles will be turned out, with
the possibility that a second con-
tract for like amount may be
placed soon. The total value of
these orders is put at some $55,-
000,000.
The purchase of these plants
leaves the Westinghouse Compa-
ny, with its established proper-
ties, free to continue the manu-
facture of electrical equipment.
The Stevens working organiza-
tion, which is skilled in the mak-
ing of arms, will handle the rifle
output.
Among Acid Ftimes
for-
Three Weeks'
A large manufacturer of cotton oil, fertilizer, etc., needed some
roofing. Up to that time no roofing had been found which would
stand the acid fumes given off in the manufacture. So his chemists
thought of the strongest test they could make.
In the laboratory a cabinet was used for all experiments where dan-
gerous acids we>re required; this cabinet being provided with a
flue to carry off the fumes.
Up in the neck of the flue, right where all the acid fumes concen-
trated, different brands of roofing were placed, Texaco among
the number. For three weeks they remained right in the destruc-
tive gases.
Texaco Roofing was untouched—-as good as before. The rest
were eaten away and partially destroyed.
Texaco Quality and Service are always ahead. All products mar-
keted under the Red-Star-Green-T emblem are reliable under
any conditions.
Remember the emblem—order from our agent.
For Texaco Service
The Texas Company
General Offices, Houston, Texas
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Daily Leader 3 months for $1.
The Value of Courtesy.
Several years ago the Southern
Pacific company offered a cash
prize to its employes for the be&t
essay on the value of politeness.
The successful essay was printed
and distributed among the em-
ployes of the road, who were ad-
vised to study it and put into
practice its teachings. The Penn-
sylvania Railroad Company now
proposes to establish a school of
good manners in which its em-
ployes who come into contact
with the public are to be taught
how properly to conduct them-
selves toward persons who are
patrons of the road.
These two great railroad com-
panies, two of the greatest in the
world, are interested in teaching
their employes to be polite to
their patrons not from sentimen-
tal motives, but it pays in dollars
and cents to be polite and cour-
teous.
Neither the officials of the
Southern Paoifio nor those of the
Pennsylvania are interested in
teaching their train and station
officials how to enter a drawing
room or how to back out of one,
nor do they care whether their
employes can wear white gloves
without their Jhands looking *like
Smithfield hams. They do not
care whether their employes look
like herd waiters or English lords
in a dress suit nor will they waste
any time teaching them which
fork to use and how to aat pie
with a knife without cutting
themselves.
It is courtesy they are encour-
aging, not merely the superficial
polish of good society. They
want, manners, not merely man-
ner. They are going to try to
teach their conductors, brake-
men, ticket sellers and everybody
else who comes in contact with
the public to be gentle men, so
that they may be entitled to be
called gentlemen.
It is not sentimental motives
that are actuating the railroad
officials. It is business. They
are after dividends, not uplifting
the morals of their employes.
They have found that politeness
under all circumstances gets the
business. They do not want ser-
vility. The courtesy that has its
springs in servility is not pleas-
ing, particularly to Americans.
A man can be the haughtiest
grand duke in Russia and still be
always courteous Nor is the
kind of oourtesy the railroad of-
ficials want in their employes
ever patronizing or condescend-
ing. What the Southern Pacific
and the Pennsylvania have found
to be a desirable quality in their
employes is the politeness that is
founded on patience. Their pub-
lic is always in a hurry and fre-
quently unreasonable. It usually
grows more unreasonable when it
finds that it cannot ask foolish
questions, making exacting de-
mands and secure exclusive at-
tention, for which it thinks it has
paid. Therefore, true courtesy
is founded on patience.
There are other public and
semi-public institutions besides
the railroads that might profit-
ably cultivate in^their employes
the quality of courtesy founded
on patience. Not because it is
right, nor because it is jiums iz-
ing to be courteous, but because
it pays in doilars and cents.—
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Residence For Sale
A splendidly built home on the hill; seven large
rooms and two rooms in basement, bath room and lava-
tory, with excellent fixtures, electric lights, line chan-
delier, telephone, large sleeping porch screened and cur-
tained; servants house, carriage house, barn, sheds,
garden, fine shade and ornamental trees; best neighbor-
hood in the city; half block of land; abstract title clear
of incumbrance. Can make an attractive price and good
terms on this desirable piece of property. See ipe at ■ •
The Leader office.
J. E. VERNOR
Job Printing at This Office
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Vernor, J. E. The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 64, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 20, 1915, newspaper, May 20, 1915; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth905868/m1/4/: accessed June 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lampasas Public Library.