The Post-Signal (Pilot Point, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, February 10, 1911 Page: 3 of 8
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Makes Home Baking Easy.
Gives nicer, better food than baker's.
There is no baking powder like it
for hot biscuit, hot breads and cake.
Made from Pure Grape Cream of Tartar.
THE POST-SIGNAL.
O. J. MOFFITT & SON, Pubs.
Published every Friday in the Post-
Signal building southwest corner of
square.
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tHIS PAPER REPRESENTED FOR FOREIGN
ADVERTISING BY THE
Congress this year cash prizes
ranging from $1,000 tJ $100, for
the best yields from two acres of
corn and two acres of cotton.
This is easy money, and every
boy and tfirl in the state should
at once write to the Congress at
Dallas for particulars and entry
blanks. It costs nothing to try.
GENERAL OFFICES
NEW YORK AND CHICAGO
BRANCHES IN ALLTHE PRINCIPAL CITIES
In offering $10,000 in gold
prizes to the farmers of Texas
for the best yields of corn .ind
cotton secured this year, the
Texas Industrial Congress has
inaugurated a campaign for
better cultural methods that has
never before been equaled in
any state in the Union.
The factory is the farmer's
market house and he must trav-
el until he reaches it and pay-the
freight all the way. Building
factories in Texas to manufac-
ture the raw material we pro-
duce will save the freight and
increase the value of farm pro-
ducts.
A bill has been introduced in
the legislature providing for the
reclamation of a vast number of
acres of land now covered by a
heavy growth of cactus in
Southwest Texas, which, if clear-
ed of this undesirable plant,
could be converted into good1
farming and grazing land. Ex-
periments recently made with
this cactus have proved that the
juice therefrom can be convert-
ed into denatured alcohol at an
expense of only 15 cents per
gallon, while the market price of
this article is from eighty-five
cents to one dollar per gallon.
The pulp from the caotus is val-
uable for making paper and is
more desirable for this purpose
than wood pulp which is ordin-
arily used.
Fourteen boys and girls will
receive from the Texas Industrial
ALL MY PIMPLES GONE
Governors In a Bunch.
Oklahoma is to have the hon-
or of opening the National Feed-
ers and Breeders' Show at Fort
Worth, March 13 next, by its
chief executive. Governor
Cruce, who is one of the gover-
nors invited, writes to Secretary
Rhome that he will be on hand
for the duty assigned him. In
addition, it is expected that the
platform on which he speaks'
will be occupied by Governor
Colquitt of Texas, Governor
Donaghey of Arkansas, Gover-
nor Sanders of Louisiana and
Governor Mills of New Mexico,
all of whom have been invited to
be present as the special guests
of the show.
Slrl Telia How a Blotchy Skin Was
Cleansed By a Simple Wash.
"1 was ashamed of my face," writes
Miss Minnie Pickard of Altamahaw,
N. C. "It was all full of pimples and
Bears, but after using D. D. D. Pre-
icription I can say that now there la
no sign of (hat Eczema, and that was
three years aso."
I). D. D. has become so famous as
a cure ind 'instant relief In Eczema
and all other serious skin diseases,
that its value Is sometimes overlooked
In clearly up rash, pimples, black-
heads, and all other minor forms of
Bkin Impurities.
The fact Is, that while D. D. D. ^ls
bo penetrating lhat It strikes to the
very root of Eczema or any other seri-
ous trouble, the soothing Oil of Winter-
green, Thymol and other Ingredients
are so carefully compounded there Is
no wash for the skin made that can
compare with lliis great household
remedy for every kind of akin trouble.
D. .D. D. is pleasant to use, perfectly
harmless to the most delicate skin,
and absolutely reliable. A 25-cont
bottle will give you positive proof of
(he wonderful effectiveness of this
ireat remedy.
WHITESIDE & McDONALD,
Pilot Point, Texas.
As reported from Dallas, head-
quarters of the Texas Industrial
Congress, no one from Denton
county has entered the contest
for the prizes, aggregating $10,-
000, for best yields of cotton and
corn for 1911, Denton county
must not go unrepresented in
this contest, and undoubtedly
will not, as there are many good
farmers in thy county, and some
of them around Pilot Point, who
are capable of caarying off some
of the prizes.
A kaolin factory has recently
been established in Southwest
Texas and thousands of tons of
this material are now being
converted into chinaware, por-
celain, etc. It is claimed that I
there is more of this clay in Tex-
as than there is in Scotland, and
manufacturers are beginning to
wake up to the fact that the
manufacture of this article in
Texas here it is to be found in
vast quantities, is a paying in-
vestment.
What the Others Are
Saying.
The warm, spring-like weath-
er we have been having makes a
fellow want to get out and watch
his wife dig in the garden—
Sherman Sentinel.
The reaeon that an editor's
views are criticised more than
any other's, is because they are
put down in black and white that
all may read, and can not be
amended to suit everybody that
is met. Some people's views
change to suit the hearers.—
Savoy Star.
Now it's boys' pig clubs.
Wherefore in Texas the move-
ment from farm to city is slowing
up a bit. The youngsters are
kept so busy, and the returns on
their labor are so profitable, that
paved streets and the pace of
pleasure do not appear so attrac-
tive after all. A good corn
grower can become a guod hog
raiser. Corn and hogs—that's
the combination. Let Texas
prosper.—Fort Worth Star-Tele-
gram.
We venture to make the sug-
gestion that if the women folks
just will insist upon wearing
those outlandish brjad-brimmed,
high-crowned hats to meeting,
would it not be a good idea to
revive the good old time custom
of having the ladies sit on one
side of the house and the men on
tho other? We believe the plan
would work wonders.—Memphis
Herald.
Now is a good time to take a
glance over your backyards and
devise some plan to ostracize the
fruit cans and rubbish which
have accumulated since the last
installment was removed. You
can generally judge of the oc-
cupants of a hou se by the con-
dition in which the front and
back yards are kept. In a gener-
al sense we all pride ourselves
on being clean and tidy. Home
and its surroundings above all
places in the world should be
scrupulously guarded against
contaminating influence.—Mc-
Gregor Mirror.
Five million dollars of Texas
money is being spent in Califor-
nia and New England States
annually for canned goods
which are consumed in this
state, while thousands of bush-
els of peaches, tomatoes and
other fruit and vegetables [rot in
the Texas fields, This is a
strong argument for HOME can-
neries to utilize the fruit when
prices do not seem to justify
shipment. There is always a
demand for home canned fruit
and vegetables and the Texas
farmer who is looking for return
will do well to establish a can-
ning plant in connection with
his farm.
$10,000 in Gold.
Col.{Henry Exall,') president of
the Texas Industrial* Congress,
which recently madej public ail
offer of $10,000 in gold prizes to
the farmers of the slate fur the
best yields of 0 >rn and cotton, is
in receipt of a letter from Prof,
C. M. Evans, superintendent of
the agricultural extension de-
partment of the A. and M. col-
lege who says—
"I am receiving a large num-
ber of requests for special bulle-
tins on the cultivation of corn
and cotton from people inteiest-
ed in the contests which you
have announced. There cer-
tainly is a hearty interest being
manifested and I regard this as
being the greatest move that has
ever been put on foot in Texas.
Owing to this fact, we have de-
cided to issue through the ex-
tension department, for the spe-
cial benefit of these people, a
aeries of bulletins on the differ-
ent phases of the production of
corn and cotton. The first Will
deal entirely with the prepara-
tion of the land and the selection
of fertilizers, the second with the
selection and testing of seed and
the planting, etc."
Copies of these bulletins may
be had, free of cost, upon appli-
cation to the extension depart-
ment of the A. & M College at
College Station, and full partic-
lars of the big priza offer may
be secured by writing the Texas
Industrial Congress at Dallas.
A London authority states that
thirty six battleships of the
Dreadnaught type will be landed
by the great powers of the world
during the year 1911. This looks
as if the universal peace proposi-
tion were taking a vacation, or
else the peace advocates have
misunderstood Unk Andy Cer-
negie's intention and are using
his donated millions in building
battleships.—Sherman Sentinel.
Don't be discouraged; the
people will get their eyes open,
pretty soon, to this useless ex-
pense and put an end to this
battleship business .
EXPERT PITCHERS.
TO ALL
FROM
Standard
Manufacturers
who have decided
to spend their
advertising money
with you, by pack-
ing !. 0. U. NOTES
with all their pack-
ages.
(FACSIMILE SHOWN ABOVE)
"he Curious Way They Serve Grrjti
at Meals In Yucatan.
At school, if we remember arigln.
lays the author of "The America!;
iCgypt." the bread throwing was n.
offense punishable with the sixth boui,
of the Aenid to write out and the loss
of a half holiday as the minimum
penalty. In Yucatan It is all the
fashion in the highest circles.
No sooner hud we taken our places
at the table than an Indian maid
brought iu, holding them in her brown
hands, a towering pile of soft white
doughy tortillas, each about as big as
a large biscuit. These she placed al
the side of our hostess, who at once
"legaii to throw them to us all,
It was so adroitly done that before
you had recovered from the amaze-
ment with which the mere act filled
you. you found yourself admiring tho
exquisite dexterity of the gentle
thrower.
A tortilla wi>J*ZG(j circi|nK across the
under your very nose and land-
ed with delicate softness like a tired
dove at the side of your host's pin to!
Whiz, whir, here comes another! Why,
it's like boomerang throwing, for this
last, you'll declare, circled round yon
before it sank nestling under the edge
of the plate of steaming pork stew in
front of you. The air is thick with
these doughy missiles.
Nobody Is the least surprised except
us, and we become quite absorbed in
watching the friendly bombardment
Our host engages us. as the news-
papers say, in "animated conversa
♦ion." Inquires the purposes of our
tour, and our theories as to the origin
of the Mayan people.
It Is hard to give him our whole nt
tention, for wo feel that we are Ins inn
nil the fun. The tortillas are whizzing
over tho table now and round it just
like boomerangs, nnd then the host
ess' supply is exhausted. But here Is
a plump Indian maid with a fresh
supply, snowy white nnd softly fluffy,
such as would fill a London muffin
man's heart with envy. It Is all very
funny.
What This Means
TO YOU
Every time you purchase a
package gf Cocoa, Chocolate,
Coffee, and other Products,
you will find packed with it
an I. O. U. NOTE, which is
really a check signed by the
Manufacturer. With these
I. O. U. NOTES you can
purchase
0
Whatever You Desire
FROM
Your-Store- Keeper
(In Your Own Town)
Your Storekeeper will be
glad to get these I. O.U. Notes,
as he makes an Extra Profit
on every sale made in this
way.
TO
Debts are like automobiles;
we rush into them and crawl out
the best way we can.—Smart
Set.
Watch for the
I.O.U. ARROW
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The Post-Signal (Pilot Point, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, February 10, 1911, newspaper, February 10, 1911; Pilot Point, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth291154/m1/3/: accessed May 2, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Denton Public Library.