Burleson County Ledger and News-Chronicle (Caldwell, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, June 9, 1916 Page: 4 of 8
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CLAIMS FOR YOUR CASH.
Burleson Count]] Ledger
W. W. RANKIN, Editor and Publisher
T. C. HOUSTON, Assistant Manager.
Entered at the Post Office at Caldwell, Texas,
second-class mail matter
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ADVERTISING RATES:
One insertion 20c per inch
Looal readers 10 cents per line each insertion.
All advertising run until ordered out.
Subscription Per Year $1.50
Three months 50c, Sil months 75c.
(Invariably in advance)
A FEW QUESTIONS.
People who never miud tbeir own
business are very much such a
class of animals as the cross, surly,
whiffet dogs that are always bark-
ing, biting and nabbing somebody.
We wonder if they will appreciate
a lccture? We will ask them a few
questions just to find out. Don't
you think the world and the people
in it will live and prosper without
the tremendous anxiety y<>u cany
on your shoulders by keeping an
eye on everything and everybody
in the whole neighborhood and
work besides? Can't Mrs. A. make
a sweetcake without out lying
awake at night for faar there is
going to be a wedding and you will
not be invited? Can't Jennie have
a new gown but what you must im-
mediately see it, know the price,
and for what special occasion it
was purchased or die of curiosity?
Can't Neighbor B. or his wife go by
but you'll bet they 're going to see
somebody and have slighted you?
A WORD TO GRADUATES.
A practical committeeman, in
presenting diplomas last June, to a
graduating class spoke as follows:
"Girls, in presenting you these di-
plomas, if, by their significance you
are led to allow your mother to do
all the work, bake all the bread,
sweep all the floors because you
can read Latin or demonstrate a
theorem in geometry, then has
your school been a most unfortun-
ate course, and in all the teachings
you have ever received at my hands,
Itru8ttl>ere has been no lessen that
has weaned you from the dish pan.
Boys, if from this graduation you go
out into the world too nice to cany
wood and swill the hogs if need be,
then has our school failed in its pur-
pose and sown the wrong seed.''
A self-acting s<<fa just large enough
for two, has been invented. If piop-
erly wound up, it will begin to ring
a warning bell just before ten o'-
clock. At one minute past ten, it
splits apart, and while one half car-
ries the daughter up btairs, the
other half kicks the young man
out the door. They will come high,
nevertheless parties in this city
feel that one of these sofas will be
a household necessity iu the near
Just at this time the mail order
houses are active in flooding the
country with big, handsomely got-
ten up catalogues, quoting attrac-
tive prices on siapl* anieles and
making all sorts of big soundings
claims for youi cash. They do not
offer to exchange their goods for
the farmers' eggs, poultry, butter
or other produce. They don't trust
a penny's worth, but make you pay
cash before you get the goods and
the freight besides. If any thing is
wrong with the goods or they do
not suit you, they will not exchange
them. They pay no taxes into your
city or county treasury, with which
our schools are maintained, roads,
bridges and side walks built. They
do not contrbute to our churches,
charitable institutions, nor to our
poor.
A DUTY TO PERFORM.
The man who makes money in a
community has a duty*to perform
to that community. It may be that
he has made his money by his su-
perior busines ability, and that he
would have done as well anywhere.
That does not alter the case. If his
gifts are great his responsibility is
equally a? great. N o man whs
placed on earth for the sole purpose
of making money, and the man
who has this as his ideal had better
never have been born. It is not an
act of charity, but the performance
of a simple duty for the man who
has made money to pass a little of
it on for the benefit of the commun-
ity, even though he never expects
to see a dollar of his contribution
back.
Do hog-s pay? asks one of our edi-
torial brethren whose work is to
solve agricultuial and such prob-
lems. Not to any great extent, dear
brother. They attend church for
months but when asked to help sup-
port the preacher, don't pay. That
is, hogs don't. They take a paper
and read¡it until at least three new
paits of spectacles are worn out,
yet don't] pay. The production ot
work is quite often profitable to
those engaged therein, but hogs
don't pay.
Let the business men of a town
be public'spirited, liberal, ready to
enter into any scheme that gives
fair promise of being for the inter-
est of the town, and that town will
be well up with the progressive
spirit of the age. But if the business
men are careless and indifferent,
willing to take only what comen
and not[ready to reach out after
more customers, then the lown lay
in all its Ínteres'8, and outsiders
will size it up and keen clear of it.
Never find fault because a news-
paper fails to give ev ry scrap of
news so long as you take no pains
¡the editor information.
Storve & Hitchcock
Blacldegoids in vials of 10 at 91.50 per Vial.
Injector 91.00 each.
Stock Dip 28c and up.
Fly Knocker 38c, 60c and 91.28
Sprayers 80c
PICKING OUT GOOD BOARDS
Takes time and costs money. There
will be no need of choosing if you
buy your lumber here. AU our
boards, beams, etc., are carefully
selected and fully seasonen. They
work up quicker and with the least
possible waste. They are worth
much more than ordinary lumber,
but we don't charge any more for
them. Think it over.
Reeves-Woodson Lbr. Co.
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deciding upon where to buy. It
will be money in your pocket, as
we can guarantee you lower fig-
ures, in it better quality >f ma-
terial, than you chu possibly tfot
elsewhere. Wo handle noth'nff
but the best, and wo are content
t<> "live and l« t live." Our stock
of lumber is Al in every way.
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Rankin, W. W. Burleson County Ledger and News-Chronicle (Caldwell, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, June 9, 1916, newspaper, June 9, 1916; Caldwell, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth168974/m1/4/: accessed May 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Harrie P. Woodson Memorial Library.