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The Hereford Brand, Friday August 28, 1914
JAKI BROUGHT IH TBI VBW8.
'Mornin Jake, hcw's til the Sumattrfield folks?
Pm party veil I thank yoa, 'cept my crick;
My seek got stiff a settia up last eight
At ole man Goodbin's house, he's mighty sick;
We thoaght he'd die last night, he's awful low.
The neighbor* all come in and set all nifht;
He worried through and, somehow, was not dead
When I left there some time about daylight.
'Long in the night the ole man talhed a sight,
'Twas mostly good advioe to his young wife,
(Bell used to be a little wild, you know) ;
He tule her 'bout the pitfalls in this life.
Bell took it hard, (he shore did hug him some,
We all got icared feared she'd go in a trance,
Ma lowed : "she's foodlin the ole man too much,"
But dock Grice said : "Aw pjot—Oa with the dance."
The ole mao tole her he had made his will
By which his farms, and all his wealth she'd take,
He'd fixed it all, and now before he died,
He had, of her, one last request to make;
He said he'd always kept it to hisself,
But he was jealous of her and Guss Grimm,
And that he never would die satisfied,
Without she'd promise not to marry him.
She was so overcome she could'ent talk.
But gran-ma Arnel chafed her bans and breast,
Until she seemed to get her breath enough
To answer the ole dyin man's request;
She said (among her sobs) that she was glad
That she could pacify the ole man's whim,
That though Guss wanted her so awful bad,
She positively could not marry him;
She knowed they'd handled talk 'bout her and Guss,
Folks, not a thousand miles off, had things staged,
But she'd an old flame down near Silverton,
And him and her, already, was engaged ! (Allenhurst)
Irrigated Land Sells For One Hun-
dred Thirty Five Dollars.
In the Membres Valley in Southern
New Mexico, there is a shallow
water irrigation district that is mak-
ing fine headway in irrigation by
pumping. The center and main
town of the district is Demming, a
town of some 3,500 people. The
soil in the valley is known as fill-in,
being a wid: and deep valley filled
in by erosion from the hills and
mountains. In the original valley,
there was also a stream and this too
was covered up with its bed of sand
and coarse gravel. After ages, the
surface is being utilized by pumping
water from the "underflow" of this
ancicnt river, now tome 40 to 60
feet below the present surface of the
ground. The wells, pumped by
means of both oil power engines and
electricity, furnish up to as much as
1,600 gallons of water per minute.
The land is owned in most part by a
Chicago Syndicate, one member of
which is the great oil magnate In
the last excursion to that district,
some 40 prospectors were entertain-
ed by the company, many of whom
bought land, the price being $125.00
per acre. This price includes a
fully equipt well, and. as it is under-
stood, the land pl-weu, bu does not
include a house or other improve-
ments. Counting that the soil is as
good as the Hereford district ai.d
will raise as much stuff, the Here-
ford land is a bargain at that price
But no one is asking thit price for
even the best Hereford irrigated
land. It can be bought for much
less. If Demming can sell her lands
at $1.35.00 partly improved; if Plain-
view is selling her farms at S150.00
with a good set of improvements,
what's in the way of Hereford secur-
ing a lot of good, substantial farmers
for her shallow water land at fifty
dollars less? If a man wants the
best irrigable land and the best
pumping equipment in the world, let
him get on one of Hereford's 80-
acre tracts. Or if he feels equal to
the occasion, get on a 160-acre
ranch. He will have plenty to do
on the 80 acres and he'll keep a half
dozen men busy on a quarter. It's
time for Hereford to let the world
know what we have here. Why
will a train load of men pass by
Hereford and ride a thousand miles
further to look at a proposition and
to buy land at $135 00? The
answer.
Card of Thanks.
We wish to extend our heartfelt
thanks to the good people of Here
ford and community for their great
help and kind deeds to us in our
loss by fire.
J. B. Skidmore and family.
Visitor (consolingly, to Tommy,
who has upset a bottle of ink on the
tie* carpet)—Tut, my boy, there's
no use crying over spilt milk.
Tommy—Course not ; any duffer
knows that. All yru've got to do is
to call in the cat, and she'll lick it
up ; but this don't happen to be mi'k,
an' mother'!! do the licking.
SCHOOL OPENS
September 7th
nmN the same iia y. Geo. E. Burns, Druggist and Book-
Dealer, will begin to give away Coupons with each
purchase of S< hoo. Supplies. Each coupon represents a
five cent purchase.
To the Boy
Who obtain^ the most value
in Coupons, will be giver, a
Handsome Watch
To the Girl
Who obtains the most value
in Coupons, will be given a
Beautiful Manicure Set
THESE PRIZES ON DISPLAY IN OUR WINDOW
We have School SuppI es of every kind ; you can get every
'hi g you need when \ou call t buy your books. Coupons
go with each purchase of School Supplies
CASH FOR BOOKS — Remember to bring the CASH
for all School Books
Geo. E. Burns
DRUGGIST
SCHOOL BOOK PLACE
;Vlj the Price of Soger la High.
(Special to the Brand.)
New Torh.—Europe tad America
are now engaged la a battle royal
for sugar. That is the primary
cause o£ the high prices that now
prevail. Cut off by the outbreak of
the war from her supply of 1,500,000
tons of sugar ordinarily secured from'
| Germany and Austria-Hungary,.
; England turned to the oearest avail-
able sugar market, which happened
' to be New York. Backed by cash,
, assuming all the war risk involved
in shipment and ready to pay what-
ever prices might be necessary to
secure sugar, British buyers invaded
the American market. Within little
more than a week, they purchased
almost 100,000 tons of raw and re
fined sugar, bidding up the market
nearly 3 cents a pound in the process
of getting it. Their buying subsided
temporarily only when they found it
impossible to secure furtner prompt
transportation. At another war
measure for securing a supply of
sugar, orders were issued in all the
sugar-growing colonies of Great
Britain forbidding the sale of sugar
except for imperial use.
At the outbreak of the war the
visible supply of sugar available for
the American market was barely
sufficient to last until the new crop
! of American grown sugar should be-
j gin to become available in October.
1 The withdrawal of 100,000 tons from
this supply created a serious short-
age, and inquiries received in the
New York market indicating that
England would seek to obtain several
hundred thousand tons more of sugar,
and that other European countries
might endeavor to purchase sugar
here, threatened to make this short-
age much more serious. As a re-
sult, American purchasers in the
sugar market, seeking to protect
their own trade, entered into active
competition with the foreign buyers
in the scramble for sugar. To make
the situation more acute, consumers
in all parts of the country rushed to
lay in supplies far in excess of their
ordinary purchases, thus accentuat-
ing the scarcity.
The prize for which the buyers of
Great Britain and America are con-
tending is the Cuban sugar crop.
England and the United States each
import annually about 2,000,000
long tons of sugar. The Cuban crop
is about 2,500,000 tons, enough to
supply one of these two big custom-
ers, but entirely inadequate to meet 1
the needs of both. The prospect,
therefore, is tor a keen struggle on
the part of these two countries to
secure the bulk of the coming Cuban
crop in case the war continues for
any considerable length of time.
When the present blockade of
shipping is relieved, it is probable
that Great Britain, and possibly also
the United States, may obtain some
sugar trom tropical cane growing
countries other than Cuba. The
fact remains, however, that the
European nations producing annually
8,000,000 long tons of sugar, or 45
per cent of the entire world's sugar
supply, are now at war. A large
part of this crop will be sacrificed—
how much remains to be seen. At
any rate, approximately 2,000,000
tons ordinarily exported from these
countries is withdrawn frcm accus-
tomed trade channels, and this
means a world-wide scarcity of sugar
while the war continues and probably
for some time afterward.
The one great lesson for the
American people in the present situ-
ation is the necessity of encouraging
and developing the production from
American soil of all the sugar re-
quired by the American people so
that we may be independent of other
natians and our consumers may be
assured of a permanent adequate
supply of cheap sugar.
QUICK ACTION PLEASES ALL j
HEREFORD.
Everybody in Hereford who has
t i*d it for bowel and stomach trou-
ble, s more than pleased with the
QUICK action of simple buckthorn
bark, glycerine, etc., as mixed in
Adler-i-ka- JUST A SINGLE DOSE]
usually relieves sour stomach, gas on
the stomach and constipation
QUICKLY. Those who have been
using the more ordinary bowel and
stomach remedies say that Adler-i-
ka is a big surprise. Betts & Clark,
druggists. It
GERMAN RESERVISTS ON WAY TO JOIN THE COLORS
Tralnload of German reservists on the frontier on th -lr
many, who several time* ha been reported wounded
-*a> to the front Inset is the cr n prince of
FRENCH FORAGERS BRINGING IN STEERS
GERMAN
Summerfield News.
A good rain just at this time
would be welcome.
T. A. Osborne is spending a few
weeks in southern California.
The Women's Missionary Society
met at Mrs. Lawrence Johnson's
last Tuesday. The afternoon was
spent in sewing garments for the
family of John Skidmore, who lost
all their clothing by fire recently.
Dr. and Mrs. Dodson of Willow,
Okla., are spending a vacation cf
some two weeks on the plains. They
stopped over Sunday at Summerfield
to visit with relatives and friends.
Mrs. R. L. Gjodloe is visiting her
brother near Canadian.
Pete Skidmore came in from]Tulia
Saturday.
Mr. Ness and family visited G.
A. Cook's Sunday.
Mrs. Baker of Vega and Mrr.
Dixon of near that place took dinner
with Mrs. Lawrence Johnson last
Wednesday a week ago.
R. L. Goodloe went up to Chin-
ning last week.
B. C. Roberson and Harris are
busy baling wheat straw.
H. A. Odell had a collision with
an automabile last Sunday east of
Hereford. Mr. Odell's buggy was
jammed up pretty bad and^the horse
ran away, otherwise all ended better
than could have been expected.
The M. E. church expectito hold
a series of meetings beginning Fri-
day night of this week. Everybody !
cordially invited to attend.
Willis Orr came in Saturdayjnight
from Mobeetie, Texas, to run the
engine for Mr. Sawyer's thresher.
Mrs. John Skidmore returned to
Hereford Tuesday, having stopped
a few days in Summerfield after the
burning of their home last Saturday.
L. Johnson went down to the cen-
tral part of the county Tuesday and
biought back the county's road
grader preparatory for doi ig s-Jtr.e
work on 'he road west of Summer-
field.
Among the number who attended
the delegate meeting at Dimmitt
from Summerfield last Friday to ar-
range for the next county convention
we note Miss Ailie Dendy, G. A.
Cook and Lula Botsford.
FRANCE
German spies placed postern In m :.> FYenrh town*, the placards ostensi-
bly advertising a soup preparation but actually telling, by their color and
form, the conditions which an Invading army would encounter at each plac*.
French troops are here seen passing a bulillng on which Is one of these
poet era.
ARRESTING
Don't say drug store say Cornet
Drug Store. ltf
"OCBA2V8 OP WATER."
London police seising a German in front of Premier Asqutth's bouse
London
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Elliot, A. C. The Hereford Brand, Vol. 14, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, August 28, 1914, newspaper, August 28, 1914; Hereford, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth253767/m1/2/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Deaf Smith County Library.