The Ladonia News (Ladonia, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 34, Ed. 1 Friday, August 23, 1929 Page: 3 of 8
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LA DON IA NEWS AUGUST 23, IMS.
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CHEER THE PATHWAY
TO KEEP FROM CROWING OLD
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POT YOUR MONEY
Where it will do Good
Carrying large sums of money around
in your pocket will benefit no one, and
you stand in danger of losing it, mis-
placing it, or being robbed.
When you receive any money, de-
posit it immediately in an account at
this bank where it will be safe and
where it will improve your financial
status by improving your credit and en-
larging your buying power.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
Ladonia, Texas
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Hr. Wiliam*, owner and publisher It has been frequently said in large
if The Trinity Time*, published some type by those who write automobile
37 years ago a small colume of peoms advertising, the automobile keeps
that waa written by John R. Thacker, people from growing old. It does,
then only 20 years of age. Mr. Wil- Here arc thirteen auto driving rules
liams still has a much prized copy that will do much and are daily doing
of this little volume. We were pri- much to keep people from growing
vileged to read it the other evening, old:
Many worthy thoughts, cheerful Drive as fast as you can on wet !
smiles, beautiful word pictures, were pavements. There is always tome-
found. Mr. Thacker remarkably por- thing that will stop you if you lose
trayed the pathos and comedy of life, control, often a truck, a plate glass
Rut the outstanding gem of the en- window, or a bridge. ,
tire volume was this beautiful New drivers should learn to drive
thought: “t'lieer the pathway of the fast in heavy traffic. It gives them
living, not the gravestones of the the experience every motorist needs,
dead.” Always speed. It makes you look
In that sentence is a complete ser- like a veteran driver,
mon. How many of us really do Never yield the road to the car
that? By living this thought daily behind. The driver may be a hoot- 1
we can make this a beautiful place in legger being pursued,
which to live. The faults we see in Never stop, look or listen at rail- !
our neighbors are but too often a re- road crossings. It takes valuable [
flection from our own heart and time, and makes people thing you 1
mind. Anyone can see the ugly, the timid.
commonplace, the sordid. The most In wet weather always drive in
ignorant can see the fault in the most trolly trucks. It’s smoother going,
highly cultured. But only the man Always race with a locomotive to
who keeps the knowledge ever be- a crossing. The engineer will love
fore him that he is made in His you for it. and you get a real thrill
image can close his eyes to the ugly out of it.
and open them only to the beautiful. Always pass the car uhead on a
“Cheer the pathway of the living, not turn or a curve. Don’t blow your
Statement of Condition of the Farmers &
Merchants State Bank, of Ladonia,
I exas, at the close of business
June 29th, 1 929
I Loans & Discounts ....................................
! Overdrafts .....................................................
Banking House ............................................
Furniture and Fixtures
Available Cask .
In Vault and with Banks ........................
Commercial Paper, Bankers Acceptance
United States Government Bonds
Total Available Cash .................... .........
133,77:.Hi
None
a.ftou.uo
1,500.00
$36,284.43
21,168.76
0,830.00
Total
Capital Stock
Surplus k Profits .
Individual Deposits
Total
$67,303 21
$106,081.06
$2.'>,(too.00
2,870.3b
78,210.70
$106,081 06
The Above Statement is Correct.
A. L. Bartley, Cashier.
the gravestones
Trinity Times
of the dead.”— ihorn, it might bother someone.
I Demand half the road—the middle
- .half. It’s more artistic. Sometimes
you can turn all the way round that
way.
The first bale of cotton of this sea- I When ca,,in* f°r ioraeone- a,w**B
son was brought to Trenton Monday >°"r h°rn ratber tha" thc door-
FANNIN FIRST BALES
morning by Lloyd Barry, living on
G. M. Hill’s farm west of town. It
(was sold in the seed for 8 cents per
! pound to the G. W. A C. W. Hill gin.
A permium of a little more than $20
was donate by the business men to
the grower of the cotton.—Trenton
Tribune.
bell. Few homes have guns.
Always.pass cars on hills when pos-
sible. It shows your car has the po-
wer, and if you should meet another
car at the top let them get over.
Always drive ns though you were
alone in America. It shows inde-
pendence and courage.
i his bank is Depository for United States
Postal Savings Funds. It is a good
Place for your Deposits.
Farmers & merchants
State Bank
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THE OLD HOME TOWN
AMONG OUR EXCHANGES
’AINS
Went Away
"I was very much run-
down In health. I had a
dreadful ache across the
middle of my
back. I had a
dull, tired feel-
ing, and I dread-
ed the thought
of having to do
my household
tanks. I was
tired when I
got up in the
morning. I got
no rest from
my sleep, and I
waa sleepy all
day long.
ROADS FOR THE FUTURE
The first hale of 1929 cotton ar-
rived in Honey Grove Monday after-
A NEW LIGHT RATE FOR
LADONIA
A new commercial lighting rate,
noon about 4 o’clock, having been
- raised by Earl Bankston, who resides smiiiar in form to the residential
Matt Bradley of Tioga is advertis- south of Honey Grove. The bale was ratf. put into effect here a few months j There are eyes that are dimmed
ing in his Home Townpaper that he ginned by the Farmers Gin Company R),o, has been announced by Ray Kelly with tears
all over the and then brought to the sauare where ________ ,.e .i___ -r______ o........ •
I’m an old fashioned country town
And the cynical strangers sneer
At my shabby old buildings and barns
And my quaint, rustic atmosphere. amazin<r ilu.rca8e in motor
But I know there are hearts that
quicken,
has fed people from all over the and then brought to the square where district manager of the Texas Power j At the name of the Old Home Town
world, and every State in the Union it was later bought by Henry Skinner, & Light Comapny. This rate, like 1 with its memories of vanished
except, Vermont, and offers to give for the Farmers Gin Company, pay- the new residential rate, has « flat! years;
| a free chicken dinner to the first ing 20c per pound for it. ^ ’
&. Light Comapny. This rate, like
the new residential rate, has a flat ____
. , The bfl,e charge based on the maximum de- ! For their grandfathers shaded my
one registering from that State. If weighed 568 pounds, only 1640 man,! for electric service and a me- I streets
'Col. Rudolph has not already regis- pounds of seek cotton being required ter rate with st(>p8 of 7c a kilowatt! And their fathers were boys of
jtered from Vermont, we think we to make a bale of this weight. The hour and 5c a kilowatt hour, but! mine,
, have figured out a scheme whereby cotton waa classed as strict middling. wjth an additional step which brings And the memories of sweetheart
! he might get a free chicken dinner. To Mr. Rankston went the premia m tho cost of electric energy down to! linger
Frisco Journal. for the first bale of the season, thc ;Jc a kuowatt hour. The billing de-1 In my roses and columbine.
_A. J, Dunlap. !H‘nse of road building is preeminent
newspaper man " ....."
lishes his own verses in his own paper.
Colonel Rudolph is an alleged merchants and business men contribu- mand ja based on the average maxi- '
of Tioga who pub- a I,rem’um of $25.00. Honey mum use of electric service. The
minimum bill is the flat charge, but I
It is common for roads that were
built a comparatively few years a go
to become dangerous because of the
travel.
Narrow surfaces, overly steep hills
and unbanked turns consiitute a ser-
ious menace in these days of congest-
ed, high speed traffic.
Progressive communities are pro-
tecting their own futures by build-
ing wider roads to care for the still
greater traffic of tomorrow. It >-
said on good authority that all high-
ways of importance should be broad
enough to carry two lanes of traffic
in both directions.
Even in rural districts, where ex-
Grove Signal-Citizen.
While fishing in Elm Creek, near
, Sanger, Phil Saulsman removed his
Elmer Miller brought in the first
not less than $1.25. The new rate 1
becomes effective with the next bills '
HOW BIG IS AN ACRE?
shoes and placed his feet in the wa- ba*e °* ,b*s season s cotton Saturday. recejve,j by commercial lighting
"My husband
i of Cardui for
iter to cool them. Soon he felt some-
low cost oil und asphaltic surafees are
providing the farmer and rural dwel-
_ ler, with high grade highways, rea-
I once asked an old gardener how ^enable to build and maintain. In
much lnnd he had and he said with Giis modern age, civilization follows
got a bottle of I
me. It waa not long be-
fore I began to show a
decided improvement.
My strength began to re-
turn and I felt much more
like myself. The sleepy
spells gradually quit and
tne pains in my back and
aides disappeared.
"Cardui is a splendid
rtomers, which includes hotels, re- pride that he had one acre; and he th(' h'tfhwuy and a community with
He had 1,500 lbs., which ginned
£511—s £ r-......
one direction and it takes in the stars
tonic for women. I prov-
jr myself.”—-Mrs.
J. E. Shelley, Box 22,
B. F. JD. 1, Electra, Texas.
on the end of his toe. After receiv-
ing treatment, Saulsman’s toe was
proclaimed in good shape again.*—
Richardson Echo.
They say that the staler the bait
the keener they bite, but that is a
! fresh yarn and ought to go over big
at Richardson.
a premium of $15 00 was donated
by merchants.—Savoy Star.
fives, warehouses hospitals, shops and
stores.
Whitewright’s cotton season
off to an
Colliin
cyclone.
day afternoon by Floyd Sncdgras'.
The bale was raised on the T. E.
Just as well get used to airplanes. Sears farm, one mile southeast of
They are coming fast now. The towt1 The hale was ginned and
government school is now in progress bought by the Planters Gin Company,
'at Hensley Field. The new field and was {finned 'ree.
opened for business Wednesday morn- was classed as good r iddling and sola
ing.—Grand Prairie Texan. ***• ^0c a
Yes, the flyers are here. A short 482 Pou"ds and breught $156.2 4,
time ago an Indian girl, Miss Waa- counting the se^d „nd premium. The
hillau Lallny, thrilled the readers of Premium totaled $46.25. The first
in the other.” This man’s farm in- Eight years ago Melissa
.K..va kuv . 'h •h,“r ? f,°.rm °f h“ eluded not only the pot of gold at the county, was wrecked by a
vw w an early start when the first rKj*{ej from^5 ^ilow tt*h ^ ^ra’nbow’ but contained and last week a fire swept away four
bale of the year was brought in Fri- to ?c a ki)o®att hour. 'tbiT second T"™ rainb°W' buildings and left six businesses
step from 10c to 5c a kilowatt hour, 1 .. Thf, ***** acre vari"" ^otno^ The «>ropprty wi" b*
■ ., ... , . , „ , „ directly with the size of the man who tored.
and the third step from 6e to 3c a , ■ <
. . . manages it. The larger the man, the ------ _»
kilowatt hour. The new commercial
larger the acre. I do not know that ** Kaiser William is the richest
rate is optional.
“The new form of commercial anyoru' hns yet determined how large Gernmn in the world, why should he
The cotton rat(? r,.C()ffnjzt.s the trend to- an a,'r<? of Iand really is; but judging want to he emperor? He could get
ing and sola war(j a greater use of electricity in frorn tbe s'do °f a plant that a woman lots more kick out of snubbing other
pound. The bale jveighad modern stores and business houses,” fn'ows in a P°tful of soil, it must ex- poor, bedraggled sovereigns who hav«
Mr. Kelly declared, “and provides a
scale whereby a customer may make
n greater use of electricity with ilttle
ceed all calculations that have yet only a few millions to their credit.
been made. A man is not the best ----------
farmer until *>is acre grows larger LOST Pair of dark-rimmed double
I I .1 • , . •> Kivatri unr 111 DICLVULIkV Wltll llllll' ” ^ ia/pi ■ an HI Mill i\ i uinmii uimiin
the Oklahoma City Times by detail- T i ''T 1* •ncr<>as«? in cost. Only a few months c'f‘r-v y°nr* 'n produce or in serenity Jons glasses in old case. Fin.ler kind-
ago commercial lighting rates here or >n both.—Dr. Liberty H. Bailey. ly leave at Ladonia News office,
were reduced and the new rate makes----- -
ing her experience alone. She is a *ariier than the first bale last year
Wauhillau means —Whitewright Sun.
Dr. and Mrs. H. C. Shelhorse of
Pecan Gap were here Monday and and ond ’8 not 'n s*l?ht
left an order for some printing. j County Ccho.
They informed us that the M-' Som*-*ditor* a‘e modest in their
Cherokee, and
“Little Eagle.” | This cotton was grown in
The big 50-pound Georgia Sweets P°.!*nty’ .JU.st arroRH tht* ,in<‘ lrom of electricity for ci^mercial light-
are getting sweeter from day to day Whitewright, which is in Grayson ingi fani| and otl)er smaI) power U8es.
Fann.n possible further savings in the use
from Gf electricitv for
Hopkins county-
Baptist revival, which was conducted say , ,„ pounos ’
nnstnr t.hi' Com- and we cannot how they could °J last wee k and
by Dr. Hickerson, pastor of the Com-
merce Baptist church, closed Sunday
morning with fine results. Fifty-
three members were added to the
Baptist church, 22 of whom were
baptized. Several others of the con-
Under this rate merchants can use
.. ~ . , ’ economically more light than under
- -_____ 1hc, fl,'9t ba,e ,,f cotton of th,s the old rate and business section can
estimates. We would say 110 pounds. ^a8”n,8 cro? , wa* recelved be madfi morp attractive at night
with well lighted store windows.
“Repeated experiments have prov-
fre ' T. pd l^at proper illumination is one of
The cotton . A ,
the best salesmen a store owner can
employ. Advertising in the news-
paper and proper lighting in tho
in hand. The adver-
be any sweeter.
“BABSON SAYS”
‘Credit is like the blood circula-
m rr„vr:, r?;!; .i..'U7n;7~™i»ror^propx‘;i««- .■s* r.h“d
bought by George Biggerstaff for T.
jA. Taylor, the price being 7 cents
per pound in the seed,
was raised by A. P. Berry on R. O.
Evan’s farm Southwest of town.
In addition to the price paid for
them affiliating with the Methodist J‘etard* the flow of "edit harms the , »48 W()s contributed bv local busi- ti8inK br,nPs customers into the store
church. |business body. Hence, when you owe ncu c0ncern8- The cottan jn. «nd plenty of light displays merchan-
The doctor has only been at Pecan ",°ney aI1 °f your clty 8uffe« ned hy the j A Craft Gin Company the best advantage
Gap about two years, going
from Lindalc in East Texas.
there
“Debts cause death both
and communities.
‘This new rate conforms to thc
policy of the Texas Power & Light
Company to keep its electric rates
The present editor is new to this
place, but he is not so new but that ( mediately so
he has noticed a number of delinquent ;you
subscriptions on our muiling galleys-
Now $1.50 is not much money for ft
newspaper, and we expect these sub-
scriptions to be adjusted soon. We
are going to keep right on trying
to give the readers their money's
worth in a good paper.
and weighed 460 pounds. There
If you reaMy"are doub^0B8 w’^ be other bales in this
pay Graphic. I *-
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that others can
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Pay your bills promptly and aid in
your city’s progress and development.
A howl has gone up because
editor appeared on the street in pa-
Kamas. And quite right. An editor the subicription list' JaTtureed over
It was with a broken heart that we
learned that The Youth’s Companion B
had suspended publication after more ■
than n hundred year existence. But
Why not be a boostar in place of
A sign in a plumbing shop readi. ...................... k„111L.u
“Csst Iron Sinks.” We always thought ^ W®nld "P°rt 8uch ihings ou*ht ,0 to The American Boy, and it may not
so. »•* to wpar thpTn- Notation-*- be ^ ba<J ^ a,(
Tho editor wasn’t Bob **
Oklahoma ministers are accused of Leonard Graphir.
Notation-
May of the
ITS NOT HOT
AT MOREHEAD S
FOUNTAIN
THE COOLEST PLACE IN TOWN
OUR DRINKS
ARE DIFFERENT
Come in and cool off while enjoying those re-
freshing drinks from our sanitary, Frigidiare
Fountain.
Plenty room for Cub Service -and we’re
ready to serve you.
Morehead Drug Store
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cashing in on the new marriage
statutes of Texas. Even if Texas did
I, We haven’t heard of a farmer who
’ . has eased up since the Farm Relief
a drunk man to bi„ wa(| pa„ed
But many of them
It is difficult for
a knocker. You will ljvr longer and 'ooze off with a slice of Oklahoma dod** hrid*e he sees cominr eaw,d down |onff before |t wa8
die happier. iflesert. 'toward him, so sometimes he lands ten
in a ditch.
“We Know How”
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Thacker, John R. The Ladonia News (Ladonia, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 34, Ed. 1 Friday, August 23, 1929, newspaper, August 23, 1929; Ladonia, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth981853/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bonham Public Library.