The Aspermont Star (Aspermont, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 31, 1917 Page: 2 of 10
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Thee^s days is advice, you will probably have a bunch of this handed yoii
wherever you go; you probably know how to run your business, apd your
chief concern is where can you get the necessary supplies you want.
We desire to call your attention to our Grocery Department; We are well
stocked with most anything you want to eat, Everything in our Grocery
line is well known brauds of Standard and Extra Standard Quality.
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Hardware, Implements and Wagonis
If you are in need of anything in this line. Special attention will be given your orders.
Our Policy of Live and Let Live is Strictly Adheared to.
YOURS TRULY.
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Aspermont,
Texas.
"The Progressive Merchant"
Aspermont,
Texas.
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The Asoermont Sar
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. Entered at Aspermont, Texas.
Poitoffice as second class matter
>%' ander Aet of Congress. March
I. 1879.
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With all of the young bloods
awav in war, won't the old bald
heads have a glorious time?
ion of war. The Saloons
closed from 1 to 6 a. m
are
A. Duwwtr Bilttnr A P bH«h«r
Hill A. Dunwlf A*M>. Kditor
Many plots are being discove-
red. but few of them are treason
able. They are mostly ground
plots.
Arm. farm, or skiddoo
Kirbm ail reports Hung I a) ry is
Wiftr>am«i.
take a
A newt* item says small invest-
ors will be able to buy war
bonds. Nope! Have to buy
spuds and beans.
The Boy Scouts appear to be
mobilizing as aids to the com-
missary department. May they
multiply into millions!
Prospects of an army of a mil-
i lion men has taught the Mexican
Secretary Redfieid says "there
is no ground for alarm" about
the fo^d question. There will be.
thour1'. if the ground is not
worl
If all of the "farmers" were
to go to the arms this summer
there would be many an office
for rent. But not yours, of
course.
When the war is over we will
be in the market for a 100-mile-
an-hour aeroplane- We wane it
to chase down delinquent sub-
scribers.
impair of wriatlwts. girlie, j to prononnce "American"' other-! «« " «•
r act may save a soldier'sSwlse than -gringo." !ta'k about 'select,ve conscnP
ition." It has completely demor.
Marriage license clerks are of
many
scrap at
Soon, we fear
tobuva eermjr
the hoi?s of
theloodspeculator?
f ries is
h
mrvt?d, omit the
says an expert. WE
the opinion that
young
; home to a fight abroad.
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No we're not warr/ing so
And cfflaf ret# jast keeps
1
onmtllinitarbund
in a «ea of pid-
much about the price of sugar.
W« always take ours straight,
anyway
safe to annex a;
bride, brother -provided | Our perfectly good America®
are & or over: I hog is op in arms. He resents
*■«"' '■'".mi1-1, i l&fing meijtione<i in the same
time are (ob>
you
class with food speculators.
si
in war
t ie to go. for heav
,, ^,....
about
| alized our Sons of Kest. A num-
ber of them have actually gone
; to work, and others are seriously
considering a life of toii—until
the war is over. Thus one by
one our cherished institutions
are being smashed.
--UU.!
Down Wttli tlie Food Hog
We prate loudly of our patriot-
ism and our duty to the flag; we
call hysterically upon the farmer
to speed up production of food
crops; we even seize our spade
and hoe and attack the back
yard in our efforts to add to the
sum total production. All of
which is good—very good.
PENNED.
Any sane man konws that a
large per cent'of the really ex-
tortionate prices of today are
NOT the result of an alarming
scarcity. They are the result of
an insatiate greed for gain that
takes no account of the ^dictates
of common humanity.
And this greed is not confined
to the wicked trusts. They are
, ♦
bad enough, we all know, and
there is no excuse to be made
for them. But man.v men in
more humUf positions are equal-
ly avartcious.
Merchants who buy on rising
market and hoard their purchas-
es until the price suits them be-
fore turning loose; the farmer
who holds his corn for $2. while
his neighbors clamor in vain to
buy it at the market price—both
are equally guilty.
We have heretofore asserted
that high price*.are an epidemic.
They get started on the upward
slant, and every fellow who has
a surplus at once locks his doors
and hold's for a killing.
And right no w they are making
a killing—the* are killing t! eir
country.
The man who has a commodity
for sale, but refuses to sell at
market prices, is a menace to his
country in this emergency and
should be severely dealt with.
If the law can not reach him,
there is yet public opinion, by
which he should be pilloried.
tat The Government ict
The foodstuffs of the conntry
are in the hands of a horde of
J unprincipled scoundrels who are
j sucking the nation dry in their,
efforts to gat rich quick from
speculative profits.
They will continue to suck and
bleed as long a* there is a pound
or a dollar left unless the gov-
ernment is quick to act.
With the young manhood of
the nation marching out to war
and death, it is a crime against
the state for these dastardly
leeches to be allowed longer to
prey upon the helpless public.
The government should act
without an hour's delay. It
should jail every one of them,
and if the jails will not hold
them t here are plenty of lamp
posts and limbs that will.
We aro a peace loving man,
but pleading and cajoling will
not control the savagery of a
wild beast.
We crush thfe ^rpent beneath
our heel, but weSutqw'these
heartless and soulless btffc fi-
bers to thrive in our midst'
The food speculator must go.
Let the government act.
Mear
and I
docto
carefi
the I
caulio
pure I
else w
First-C
f
[Cheerfulness
Me cheerflness; it is tl
? y°u can grow; get tl
I looking on the brigl
jhi'igs if you look o
side you are apt to se
• You never heard c
ping"spooks" in day
^ are only seen in th
he night, in the dark
!s the .symbol of life
1 the symbol of death
Or man either coulc
: light. Put a plant
Pm and it will soon
|ay. On the other
j close to a window
eager it streches
light, evidently
darkness. Why
|man, the noblest
i, delight to revel
1 always look at
I Won't do it; turn
pe bright side
lefitof the light,
rfulneaa ant
idly with con-
|nkfqines8, for
without these
FOR SALE-A good two i
house and two residence
located in north Aspermoi
sold at once can be had at
gain. For
M« " '
bird and wood
M"n your juic*
how good ft
s imi
m
Important feat- We always have a full line of
Collar,
1
get from the
"® and merry
|kena get in
«p your
■ink of the
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Dunwody, Will A. The Aspermont Star (Aspermont, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 31, 1917, newspaper, May 31, 1917; Aspermont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth126083/m1/2/: accessed May 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Stonewall County Library.