Texas Farm and Industrial News (Sugar Land, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, July 18, 1919 Page: 4 of 8
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TEXAS FARM AND INDUSTRIAL NEWS
TEXAS FARM AND INDUSTRIAL NEWS
CiaMiil «Kk THE WHLHTO.N, TEXAS. REPORTED
eldorado of the coast. Minerals—oil, serves and 40c worth of lalprr that
•sulphur, etc.—timber, farm products, might have been better employed. As
grazing, fish, fowl,' and sports, health
resort, pleasure resort, a busy port with
a limitless future, transportation by
water an] by raff and by motor truck,
factories, refineries, sundry Industrial
enterprises, all of large import as well
! loea! activities incident to life
i say, you don't have to do it.
' HEART THROBS -
A most pleasant surprise was given
Mrs. Mary Hardman. Wednesday, when
her son. Hen, eatne home from overseas.
He had written her to expect him
Published Every Friday at Sugar Land,
• Yexas. by . (
• SUGAR LAND PRINTING COMPANY a
A. D. JACKSON, Editor. n.
Entered as Second-Class Matter June
3, 1SM7, at the post office at Sugar Land, en
Texas, under the Act of March 3, Is"!'.
Subscription $1.00 Per Year In Advance. 1,1 a Prosl ...... , ..
Advertising Bates Given on Applica- traced in simple- st-vle and the reader S00I1,'r than lie thought,
tion. Four Weeks Constitute a Month so he walked in on his mother Wtplnes
When time is not specified ads will be :i-' 11 at 8 - :‘lro ll0'v *" become. ()av jnst as. ghp was sittiny down to en
run until ordered out. __wealthy at Pre-port. The beautiful , j0v a chicken dinner which Miss Lil
m . _ _ ~~ _ ' T, parks, the properly laid out streets, the j Han, daughter of Mrs. Hardman, had
lugarLand,Texas, Friday, Ju.y 18. 1919 si.hools anil churches ami ,,rovisioils taken.a “very sudden notion for,” but
^ ' ' [generally for social welfare are all 0(..:">'<> ^ really *<• S« £t hui
' s to in the morning, unknown to 1/er
copying a place in this splendid paper, ^her', and was requested to hav/a
There are 70 photographic illustrations j good dinner. All friends of Mr. Hird
iof the sundry developement at Free- j man extend him "a hearty welcome
'port and. vicinity. The news and his-
and
little city are all por- tho Llth of July, but lie received
style and the reader
- Ml* e ho',v to be com;
S20(
IN STATE TREASURY
WAITING TO BE CLAIMED
IH/WE YOU BOUGHT
1_ 1 YOUR r J
[THRIFT STAHP TOWN*
Lsave
1
home.-—Freeport News.
That is a true story and one that
brings a holy thrill to any lover of true
filial devotion. Angels hovered over
that magnificent home that day. God
sent an abundant harvest of gladness
as recompense for the months of ang-
uish and sacrifice that mother had
Austin. Tex.. July
in tin state tre:,s ;r
ing to he- claimed
l 'buries Kenouibr. w 1
tonio in T*'l”.
nonibr died without
torica! features are written in a strong
terse style and one can not fail in
- . - scanning the pages to mark the en-
do not. believe thaf the aqto truck thusiastim and public spiritedness of
can actually compete w ith the rail- thy editors and publishers, Messrs. M.
roads in the moving of freight between *’• Speed and Hvron P. Belisle. Their
points served by railroads and good up-to-date printing plant is in fact one____ _____
auto roads alike. It is true a vast of the best indications of The general j “**de for her country and for right,
deal of hauling is being done bv the high class required in that city. IIow her lll'ar hcart -vearned for her
trucks at an actual saving to the ship AH Texas is proud of Freeport and Hv again was understood in a way by
a]l w ho read that s]ieeial edition will her lov ing daughter whose yearning
be prouder still All Freeport ought to ™ to herself secondary. How pro-
freight or pas- be proud of Speed and Belisle. They foundly happy must sister have been
every in- are live wires. Yes and Speed and Be- hear her brother s \oice e\eu by
lisle ought to be proud of their job. It phone—and so near home too. How
is not given freely to newspaper men quick!’’ must her thoughts h,i\e grnsp-
the sweet privilege of lotting them- ' *'<1 the ^tring aiel inspired Ju-r to. plan
^fr-twwr wittiMft restraTnt^o boos^ a -TPa' fmTITris‘‘ f"r her. darting mother,
h li.-ver a-fVar of overdoing it. it 1Io'v >»nusnal for this type of girl to
would be hard to overdraw the story of mak<1 a determined demand for a chiek-
per; liut \X^ is not therefore necessarily
1 is replacing the
true that' the truck
railroad train in the
senger business. I -believe
stance of automobile use in such cases
has resulted from .mismanagement of
the railroads. That mismanagement
is costing the investors in the railroad*.•>*
very dearly and Ultimately the public w
stands the loss.
os levs' axvait
v tho parents of
• died in Sian An
ar as known Ko
relatives and for
that reason the estate left by him, has
been- escheated and vested in the state.
Back in - i sT’J., the money left by Ko
nombr, after Attorney General Alexan
der had rendered' an opinion, tha,t it
should, under the statute; be placed to
the credit of the escheated estate of |
Kenomhr. there being no heirs, was
sent to the controller's department in
the state eapitol.
Recently while a porter was cleaning
up the rubbish in the basement of the
controller -s department lie discovered
two bills, four “shin plasters”
of small denomination and some other
currency of small amount. The por-
ter turned the money over to Control-1
V - Terrell, who made an investigation, I
! • could not find any record on the j
> of the department. With the j
„,..v was the opinion of Attorney j
Sppt. 14,
SPECIAL
, :1
Men’s Palm Beach Pants
$3.00 Value For
$2.50
Imperial Mercantile Co.
SUGAR LAND, TUX AS
Alexander, dated
]■
When government management
sought to meet war demands with the
railroads which had been taken over,
an emergency policy was adopted to
discourage every ounce of
traffic in order to make that much
more facility for handling war tonnage
Fro
en dinner. Such girls usually take
_______ what comes and make sunshine at any
County Demonstration Agent Dr. sort of spregdjl but today we see her
Walter E. Fruit has an interesting eomj expressing a fancy for chicken in a
domestic miinieation in .this issue of the News, wax the mother can not deny. One
in which lie offers to survey free of can see her as she sings the morning
charge any farms in Fort Bend coun- through tidying up everything about
It looked to the uninitiated that rates *y 'tiding drainage. This seems to be the place and helping put on little
for local traffic were made arbitrarily an °{{>‘T which ev,rv farnier shou,d a” toUche* that onlv sufh girl* eaa g'Ve t°
cept promptly. It is folly to try to home and festal board. Mother can not
„ ..The money \T8s sent trq the treasury
i-.tli . i.rtim ut at Washington. The cur-
t was out of date and inquiry was
i! of the treasury department as to
v ".■ *t or not it was good.. Today
fieri was received from the treasury
: ri uartment two hundred new $1 bills
. a> 1 s]e in change, the latter, being the
or. -nt value of the “shin plasters.”
The other currency was held to coun-
ter* it by the treasury department.
Upon receipt of the money, Controller
ipi rrel] deposited it in the state treas-
i urv.
The opinion of Attorney General Al-
exander. which Controller Terr.ell also
t
<r
too high and of a prohibitive nature. promptly. .i » MM.y u. iry iu -..........................- -...............1 sent to the treasury department, is
At rate the result was achieved cultivate crops on land not r>roperly have failed to note her unusual happi- unique at this time. It is written in
„(d“rtLViw”v..< i«i»> 1™!: "”h '* T ^ ‘“I,;1"1 <""y ri*"ly-,v"1
the railroads to autos or the abandon - ‘ oKvTateT by preventing water from one having everything just right and aTTTor __
merit of traffic altogether in many in wishing unbidden onto another a- no apparent special reason which might f |500 m CAgH prizes FOR BEST
,, f« re. Anv acre in this seetioi ijcts usually inspire such interest. How TALE OF OVERSEAS EXPERIENCE
stances. In order to win the war the * u 1
* 11 offerri tn enough and more water than it can mother most have wished her son could ■
BoveTiimcn, rfhrt <• ^ „„ „„ lh», .p.en.lid ^*»*
these sources of income for the
for a time; but now there is no war to
win and the roads are shy a lot of busi- «°P r(’ws arP madt' ,evel
to care for. er P:at» of ground then th
ness they are prepared to care
They must have this business back and * 'r "> .y to
iunds where much “smaller drainage
water from the high ground. If the and her prayers wefe audible not onlyl^.®" ,nterestin(? st°r.' to tell pa-
th- high God but to any who may “listen in
rains wul f<n such holy scenes. Down to the tab-
fhild
amusing, or
in France.
tender—of
Perhaps it is
some
little
lower
they
-ji'icrre who crept in to eat with him at;
it with little being said, when!mess; or Marceline whom he^
white faced and terror-striken,
a large increase if costly trains are not
to run light and net a loss to the own-
ers and the public. In the meantime,
thev are hauling so little in comparison
with what they should haul and could
haul of the heavy available traffic,
that higher rates will be necessary on
that little if the railroads continue to
operate. When higher rates arc ef-
fective on that little it will become
less for the rates are in most cases all
that the traffic will bear and more
than can be sustained much longer.
True, the roads are hauling lots of
freight, at the exhorbitant rates pre- j
•••h> - will handle the surplus tl.-.a in
. where the water is quickly t< !.-
: trated onto low plats by straight
w-. Level row- and deep plowing n
,<• winter will reduce vour dr ‘isag*
tpense wonderfully.
“ r
YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO IT
—Joy '.f all Joys! In walks her boy,
a* i.f in direct answer to her prayers,
n.... v- Turn our heads and weep with
found,
in tho
cellar of a ruined house; or Henri,
whose father-was killed in the trenches
and whose mother was taken to Ger-
t* -■ v. . weep—not tears of sorrow, ninny by the enemy; or it may have
tUears i : gh$dhess and thankfulness, been Aimee who insisted upon being
-__adopted h’v the “ Americaine. ” At
tBAPTIST FACTS AND FIGURES any rate, there is always a story and
r -- a child.
By Rev. D. R. Pevoto For ; ucli stories as these, or simple
Th*- Sugar Land Baptist church is a ones; felling of the friendship between
member- -of the 1 nion Baptist Agsoc the French child niid the American sob
iation which is one of the 151 district ,]i«-r. 178 cash prizes are offered. Sol-
assoeiatious in Texas, and is the °ldv_.diers, sailors, marine, men and women
est iri the state, having been organized wlio were in France during the war, in
in 1.840. This association i- the mother a„y capacity, or their families, sweet-
The first school hearts or friends, are invited to eoin-
18he used about organized in the state was Baylor I ni- pote for these prizes. Literary ability
versity—a Baptist school at Indepen- js not required. Anybody who can
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Imperial Market
FRESH MEATS
ALL KINDS :: HAM AND BACON
IT IS OUR EARNEST ENDEAVOR TO SUPPLY THE
TRADE WITH THE BEST THAT CAN BE HAD IN OUR
LINE. YOU WELL FIND THE TRICES REASONABLE
FOB THE CLASS OF HIGH-GRADE MEATS WE OFFER.
Pure and Fresh Home Rendered Lard
COME AND SEE US
Imperial Market
SUGAR LAND, TEXAS
r
Mrs. L. Shepard has made this
week eleven quarts of fine jelly and
preserves from a few grapes picked
fresh -riffithe vines that fringe the lakes »i education in I exas.
and creeks hereabout.
$2 worth- of sugar and $ 1.00 worth of
vailing, but at decent rates, they could * *■** deuce, Washington ( ounty organized write a letter home can write well
haul enough to make a profit even at ; *'arH ai"1 sl"‘ Prol,abl.v worked pretty h| 1^45 and later moved to Waco. The enough for the purpose of this contest.
hard the day she did the preserving and founders of this school were the fath- Conditions of the contest can be se-
, , j jellving for she had her other work to «‘rH o{ our present public school system €ure,i by writing “The Fatherless
------- ,m - underlying principle Children of France
increased labor cost. But it looks as
if we are about to see billions of
lars worth of railroads lying pwurtical-
ly idle while qther billions are being
recklessly spent for automobiles
rubber and equipment generally to
take the place of the railroads even if
it c<in be done without fearful sacri-
fice
I predict, that erelong, the railroads
with sane management, public or pri-
vate, but sane in either event, will be
clamoring for patronage of every class
in Texas. The
pretty......... 7" ------------........... , Boom 634, 410 8.
prompting this move by these Baptist Michigan Ave., Chicago.” There is no
do; but withal she came out
well. “Shop” probably expended sev- ^ their firm belief in the expense attached to entering the con-
and|‘‘nLv dollars worth of energy, from his complete separation of church and tP9t which is open to anybody who
point of view, picking the grapes; but state; lienee, an educational system wants to compete. Mothers, sisters,
his wife is quite sure she could have fair to al1 ‘'''‘k'' must *,e supported by Bweeliearts and wives should turn over
government taxation, but religion must their letters from Bill or Tom or Jack
supported by government tax- which they have been so proudly treas-
Therefore religion could not be uri„K and hunt up references to the lit-
current prices for jelly and preserves, forced on free schools. tie French children. Just some one lit-
even when as good as she has made, can The Southern Baptist ( onvention, tie incident told simply may win a
be had nt any price, we begin to sec challenging program at its May meeting prize!
that Mrs.-Jihepard got up around the
ten dollar mark for her spare time in
quite
gathered that manv grapes for a dob '
not be
lar. At any rate when we figure on j.
covering eighteen Southern states, from
thev can porMblv care for. I look lor
rates that will justify shipment of miblonc da-vi and ,llPr<‘ arrTj.lontr of able- onn.nn in five years.
lions to tons of products not now
shipable at* a profit. I look tor pas
senger rates which wiH make it cheaper
to ride on a train than on a Ford, |iro-
vlded rail service
jciil rfTey is to 1>f
of room for autos, but- not in parallel-
ing "xpensive railroads. There is room
bodied men who don’t earn that much
Maryland to New Mexico, adopted a ALARMED OVER BOLL WEEVIL
which contemplated raising $75,000,
This Mu in is to be
used for Foreign Missions, Home Mis Cueio Committee to Observe Effects
ANDREW M. WAUGH
WALTER F. WOODUL
yy
WAUGH & WOODUL
ATTORNEYS
OFFICES: 712 Scanlan Building, HOUSTON, TEXAS
SUGAR LAND, TEXAS
of Poison Campaign at San
Benito.
in a month, extra of their regular jobs. al"' Stat<' Missions, Christian Kdu-
’ 1 cation. Orphan Homes, Hospitals,*mnd
This ought to be a pretty good tip B1|pj)0rt f,jr old miniatl,r8. Texas Bap
....... to other housewives for there, are lots art. to raiNl, $l«f0«o,00|).00 of the
. , , tlll I of grapes1 and nothing to do but poke $75,000,000.00. This is more than twice
exists where the * 1 h 1 ’ , , ,. .. , something must lie done to stav the
. .... . .vour.lmsbands-lH the short-ribs till thev as. much as asked of any otliTr. -------- ,
made, I hvrr vt a , • ,u^ arp (wme of the reft801)8 why Texas
Cuero, Tex., July 10—Realizing that
ur -liiiwbaiids-in -the short-ribs till they as. much as asked
hike out after work hours and bring
them in. You don’t have to have great
factories to make jelly and preserves to
f. r more railroads and let us hope they
may toon be building. But they william- away,in great warehouses while
not be built till we have sense enough | drummers ride over the conn-
the one. already built. trv aad s,dl th‘'n> to "dxd*”*1'1™
_______ will in turn pay heavy railroad freight
The Freeport News issued a Special and store them again in great ware-
industrial Edition for “A Port of lu-j houses while yet other costly drummers
t” on June 5th and a copy has
to use
desk. The Issue contains
25 pages are paid
of Freeport
inter-
a pint
ih asked for Hindi a large amount:
Texas leads the South ill number
of churches—3,689, which is 1,100
more than Georgia, tho next highest.
In number of baptisms last year—
15,078, which is 000 more than Geor-
gia, the next highest. y
In number, received inU^She church-
es by letter—18,860, ^Urcli is ulmost
us many as received in Georgia and
North Carolina, the closest rivals.
The total received during the yeur
36,004. The total loss was 5802. This
gives a net gain of 31,102 ill twelve
him to send Ins de- n,„„ths.
town to her home That the people from everywhere
are coining to make their homes in
Lone Star State is proven by the
not only take
received into
but
peddle them out in five esse lots to
the retqil grocer who pays some more
costly freight and stores them till the
boTT weevil iTaiiiagen in this section, if
any cotton is to be made, County Agent
Paul G. Haines, S. I). Hefner mill A. F.
Dietz, as a committee from the Cuero
Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture,
left yesterday for San Benito, where
they will observe the effects of an ex-j
tensive poisoning campaign witli nr-i
senate of lead.
Should their observations convince!
them that the arsenate of lead is doing
the work effectively, a carload of this'
poison will lie nt once ordered for the
i Cuero section and sold to the formers
at actual cost. Boll weevils ure more
j numerous in this section than they
have been in the past fifteen years.
In a vanity box for women, Invented
by a New Yorker, the powder L carried
under a perforated plate so that only a
limited awount ie obtained when a pow-
der puff 1* preseed egainet.it,. „ .
Are Your Clothes Wrinkled?
We Press Them While You Wait
Our New Sample Book
AND
Steam Press
Will be in Next Week
We Want to Serve You
Imperial Tailor Shop
PARKER & LONG Props.
Two doors west of the Market
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Jackson, A. D. Texas Farm and Industrial News (Sugar Land, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, July 18, 1919, newspaper, July 18, 1919; Sugar Land, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth821805/m1/4/: accessed June 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .