The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 8, 1920 Page: 1 of 8
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.NUMBER 49
TRADES DAY EDITION
The growing deaire of the merchants and cithsena .a general of Bastrop to cultivate the co-operation spirit that should exist between the town and country communities, and that it is im-
perative from an economic and business standpoint
The niercliauts have aet apart Thursday and Friday, July 13th anJ 16th, as a "TRADE DAY," and through the medium ot the "Advertiser," eitoad an iuviUtiou to tho citizens of the aur-
rounding communities to visit Bastrop on these days-
World conditions have changed, and it has become very necessary for the farmer and the merchant fo work together "hand in-h&nd," to the end of co-operative marketing for our mutual
benefit. When we consider the conditions surrounding the .selling of farm products, we cannot fail to be convinced, that the collective marketing of farm products is a necessity, and as such, must
surely become general.
It is the desiri of the merchants of Bastiop to In ing about or to devise plans whereby they can secure direct buyers for everything produced on the farms, thereby securing for thejfarmers, full
market value for his products and incidentally making of Bastrop your trading center. This spirit of co-operation and personal interest will bring about an era of prosperity. It will be to your in-
terest to come to Bastrop next Thursday and l<\ iday. Our progre sive and wide-awake merchants are making plans for your coming. Each merchant whose advertisement appears in this issuj
wi.l have special offerings, make their places of business your headquarters; everything will b3 done to mike thatwo "TftADKS' DAYS" profitable for coming.
Better Marketing Con-
ditions Necessary
For The farmers
The merchant or middleman
comes closer home to our daily j
life than an announcement that:
a merchant has a lot of goods ';
which he can offer at an unusually ■
low price.
When you get a lot of people to,
reading about a store and what
it is doing and offering the same |
people will soon b • seen visiting j
who considers the conditions j that store. The desire
surrounding the selling of farm keen to avoid high prices, that
products are becoming convinced any suggestion of economics at-
that the collective marketing of tracts a crowd.
these products is a necessity. ^ store that, advertises bai*
Let Next Thursday and
Friday be Your
Market Days
The purpose of "TRADES
.a sOf^AY" is for both buying and
selling, a mutual affair between
the farming communities and
the business men of Bastrop
In order that these two days
The products of the individual : g-dns impresses them is a store jmay prbvo successful; it is very
far: , is not largo enough in * tie re there is life and motion ! necessary that the farmers bring
.juanitv to justify the L<>st maik- an,i things doing. So the adver- seme products to Bastrop for
eting ability, to' command the| jjtajd «tore t« the weU filled ■ tort,[sale or trade.
facilitate an early sale or
before and never expect to r con-
i'<f,e you again • They have little
idea what you want, and they
are less likely to be able to piease
you. I
Your home store merchant or Eoitou Adveryiseu
Sulphur, Weevil,
Red Ants,
clerk sold you a similar articU
last year and probably for sev-
eral yearii, Haalonce knows the
kind of thing'you are looking for,
and he helps you to select it.
The result of making this kind
In the days gone by I had a
farmer friend living near Bastrop,
He sleeps the long sleep, peace
to his ashes. He was in Bastrop
one day when a man was exhibi-f
ting a simple contrivance
one entire night for each week
during the growing season, by
so doing, you would get the liv- •
ing weevil of to-day and you
would get the next generation
before they were old enouh to do
any damaged. I atr an enthus-
itic iu tho belief that sulphuc
will do the work, but L would
1 oouncil caution.
Respectfully,
, ujniiiw tho well tilled store is the!
bo,t prices or to ootam the best! ^
heapest trans; ort"ti n fac
Restricting Ciedits,
In the oi I easy going d iys,
when business men 5ftd to have
to in ike ill Mnds of inducements
to not trade, tho hab'!t grew up
stoi" tl it. iiO", a big •■•isinos.s
anu "
i ;ti.!s. Co-operative marUeting
Is therefore the only solution.
The average farmer is naturally
just as good a Salem ir as the
average manufacturer, banker
or the head of any other i ity
bu-:; ■ -s organ izitioii
Th" manufacturer ami whole-
sale empio.V oxpc't > i esmen to ;;,nong mae.y manufacturers and
y 'I their large production. II wholesale dealers, of allowing
the businc--* of a manufacturer long cr«"iit to retail t, ide, Tiio
i . not large enough for this, be j tendency in in born business is
iiiu-.l pool hi product with otli2rjt(, r«*stfi• • t these credits, and [
To
trade, The Advertiser will be
pleased to assiitin everyway
P .xsibie, find suggest to those
| planning to bring something,
to id vise this office by letter or
phone, ami we will list your pro-
duct with tho business men. |
thereby, s iving you tune to use j
for ethe:' purpose
of purchase is always economi- killinK re,J aunts" 113 noted it(.
;|cal- People will use a thing iKot on horse and rode home
much longer if it meets their de- 1,1 d'Je ti,ue he gathered his crop,
sires and tastes. The things that I he paidl,is debts a,ul ,ilIed his
cost high are tho misfits that !c<irn cr'') from cei'ai"
they get in stores where their
indivual desire is not intelligent-
ly assisted.
Moual —Trail e at your home
t )wn and be satisfied.
AN' I DO TOO.
for| A.B. McLAvr.
Bastrop, July 3rd, WiiO.
to garret.
Then he sat around in the shady
places trusting the Good Lor.I
Gate ot County Roads,
The most difficult prob -m ir
Home Store Service,
I lt"tailers cou I form
wholesaler about
s
manufacturers or go out ot bu.-«i leonr* closer to a • 1
ne-,<. Tho small farmer must Monthly croud* at ' ut
also pool Ins products tfith those ; ^I'ed too long by I i
of Ins neighbors mar ct tbe;n
co-operatively or suffer ;ssetr
o 1 financial returns fjt his lab-
ors-
Co operative marketing or the
collective selling of farm pro
ducts i* imperative, and must
surely come, a cha ige in the
present methods must bo made
i basix.
>■ consid
deale rs.
pay the
In buying from a store in l>is-
: op, a porsou gels tho personal
service of men of unusual abili-
ty. It talces brains to run a ie-
store. A lot of people arc
U> command the best prions, and
to t,ot suitable returns for your eventually have
products i world's work couk
wImmi ^ they ilways trying it and failing The
pleased. Now if the . Ion t pay merchant must be a good organi-
pronptly thev need not expect ..... , ,■ , ,
, . ,,, , . , /.H i nave a grasp of system and
deliveries Weekly payments ' • J
are common iu man* :iues. jam detin, must have some piac-
W ith th' shurtagi' of capita! | tU il' Pigment and general intel-
now existing it is impossible to licence.
allow groat sums to he tied up' VVhoM a man lns madegood on
in slow accounts To do the! these tests, he must have good
work, every dollar must be koptj sense and ability. He places all
busy, llic credit system win that at the command of t-hecom-
Wiiitnoy Montgomery.)
Snt ii'1 i I'venln', do/f-jfonc the hick!
Work on the farm stops, hoys all
li:iw struck.
Cun t k• |. 'crn ut it, no matter
what ! do,
All w .iii tii ij'o to town. —
An' I
Do
Too!
Com ni'fils (ilowin'Iftii as had can he, I
to send the change* of,•loud and |« ■■men; ,,ne3tiou,
wind and rain and aunshino, so "'w t j ^ 1 .v, ,.p n..
the liacK* roads, winch n )eds to
be iu good condition, if farm,
produce is to be carried econo-
mically. The cost o! a genera
reconstruction of rural roads
, woull be prohibitive. UjI intel-
ligent care will save iivny road-,
I that otherwise would b impas-
; sable
What each locality needs is t«.
have a competent man for the jo
and keep him there year after
year Many of th>i prob 'ms Le
wil have to study out ; r him-
self by his own experiments.
so
that he could again plant and
gather One day he discovered
Lb it his com was weevil infested,
then he very properly argued to
himself, that what would kill re1'
ants would kill weevil. An hour I
or two later, he was in town and
j had bought the necessary ma-
1 teri '..I (lumber, nails, sulphur' to
; put his theory into practice. Re-
turning homo, hammer and saw
| were soon bu«y His contrivance
i was soon finished then ho moved
out on the weevils, confident
Grass in the cotton patch up to
my knee,
Oats ni fii en It in', hui tho whole
lilitmo crew
Knocks o!T id go to town,
An' I
Do
Too!
Rack in tho old times 'twasn't
this-away,
Boy, worked on Saturday sami> as
unv day,
that their existanco was reduc
(July long experience will show
i od to hours, yes minutes and w^at should bo done iti each case.
1 seconds; he applied Ins medicine
Oh it worked line, soon the smell
of sulphur pervaded the atmos-
phere, goodbye Mr. Weevil,'
But oh horrors, tiro broke out
1 trom th* crib in a dozen piac >s.
cash. The people of Bastrop jer. The majority of successful
The business men of HaUrop ninch lew ir everyone would pay
, cash, the people of Bsr-
ur® interested 111 thi^ m at.i j)l)t money in their own
desif" to co o lie rate with the pockets, if they will cut out the
farmers in perfecting i plan to [credit, and pay cash down.
create a ready market for all ho - -
. r mlna I KlftMQ months of continuous ser-
produces at full mi'-k't value.
' „ . I vice on original I'tsk tiro eiiulpment
C/Oine to Bastiop nex . iursi aj fllt. {jj^innce <,f 11,170 miles in-fore
and Friday and talk over the mat 11|1(> t|rst c|,
an^e was made is the c\-
t() (r() The i ~" i Or else went lisliin' or swimmiri'
be (lone forimunity* a^t, ^ues the Imt shoo!
i._ 1 , I • pow.
irive tho best service in
Now they all jfo to town, -
An' F
Do
Too!
ter
perience of a Cleveland, <) "ar ow-
ner. < >n April 4. IfllH hi> liowght a
small model touring i ar, specify ini;
f-'J Kisk tires. On July 'i, 19IH.
with odometor showing a niilea;;i' of
11.170, he was (orc?d to ''iv-tiro" on
one wheel. The other Mi.ee tirei
! stood up for i considerable greater
'distance. Th car weighing a ton and
Tie* advertised store gives the
la half, was nod over all kinl of
people news in which tli \v are ohioroa ls
int csted. The close" in itotn
Wh t's ia the eityV TJad rot the place!
Nothin' iiut a lot o' gals with paint
on the face,
•\n' mos(|iiito liar dresses you can
'most see through,
Why Advertised
Stores Succeed.
s.
of f i t comes to the p ■ « :t ■ af
furs, of the people, the mo por
sons a re ir terested in it There
v re few items in newspaper that
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Th'1 res iJts from u,ing FisI, tile
111 ^o pleasing to tlii i Gle*elander
merchants have ability enough
to make good in positions that
would command more money,
but they prefer their own inde-
pendent positions. When you
buy of them, therefore, you get
the personal attention of men of jl,ntto town>
intelligence and capacity, which ",!
, . . Do
is n great lie! in getting tho Tm>:
most for one's money.
The relat'on that grows up be-
tween the stores is town like
Bastrop and the oeople, is a very
intimate one. The merchants
and their clerks are able to make
a study of their individual needs,
Kami and Hunch.
If hot weather saps your energy
and you can't work well, it is a sign
that your system is full of bilious im-
purities. You will ha sick if you do
not do s .in'thing. Take Pcickly Ash
Hitter-, the rum? ly of men; it cleanse%
ilore are a few principles,
which will apply in i general,
way to the roads of Bastrop
county.
1st. Roads propera'ly dragged
will dry out weeks earlier th<*t
Tho weevil were gone an I so! roads not dragged, and it is all
was his crib and corn. Now important to know J.just when to
this county is very enthusiastic do the work. The old rule is bo
over sulphur as a means of get
ting rid of the boll weevil. It s
a matter of common knowledge.
drag immediately after every
rain storm. A better one is to
drag when it is moist enough so
that more than one chemical t|,at ^ will compact readily u!i-
laboratory and smelting concern
have been forced to tear down
th^ir expensive buildings as well
as thoir towering smoke stacks
for no other reason that that the
fumes from the smoke stack des-
troyed ovor.v green tiling it its
dor traffic.
2nd. Drainage must b-> kept
good, and water in the «utt^>',
'should at ad tiinos be l'J inches
I Oelnw tho crown of the road.
!lrd Road oiling undertaken
i iron!*-
who - genera tiroing*' of a
company, th,u he aow tatut* feat! ^hen you visit a big depart-
, vei \ ri" txjiongin.: to in . 11>iiiy• id> { meot store in some other place*
* K: * c oijuippwi J the salespeople never saw you
tastes, and desire of their pit- d"': vor and bowels, restores
tr. ngfh, vim
reach, grass, pian N trees all merely to lay dust, is usually a
fell under its d«>structive in- wast(> of money. But if dono
lluetices. I am not a Mrophet or with material heavy enough to
a know all, but 1 am firm in my j provide a bituminous co.it, it
belief that danger to the cotton greatly prolongs the life of
crops costs in tho fumes of the grav si and macadam.
sulphur I hoard of one man 4th. Many roads that seem
who calculates to burn sulphur completely gone, can be restored
iu a wash tub. if no is so reck- , , , , t ,
less, i am confident that he will l'* '"telhgent use of a id ma-
get rid of weevil and crop loo. It chine, (ti ass must n gf -v on
,is my judgement that the fumes '*>** ' v; der of th • • >a<i, which
of sulphur shou'd be toned down ||1UHt i> • kept ciean s. tha '*• ■
L" , 1 11 spn.is, v0l.v jjontly, that is, one part of ter ('ari 'low freely t tb ■ k .t.eia
•ot e at. . .. i.iti sulptiur smoke to .several huti-l^'10 SUP®Pvi#Or 1 C .i ge of.
drod parts of air. I believe that' country roads i 1 majte a
sulphur should be used in s ualljs,,U(' ' : every or > 11 i:o
qaantiues and tor a i oriod. say u,u' "! ^lls earo
1 'I'lCl -fl.-'i pel
non. Pruggist
Itemember the Trades Dav«!
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Pearcy, J. H. The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 8, 1920, newspaper, July 8, 1920; Bastrop, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth206332/m1/1/: accessed April 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bastrop Public Library.