The Shamrock Texan (Shamrock, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 24, 1927 Page: 4 of 10
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THE SHAMROCK TEXAN
Published Every Thursday By
BONES & BONES
ALBERT COOPER, Editor
stared as Second Class Msil Mstter at the Postoffice at Shamrock. Texas.
Under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Subscription Rates: One Year, $2.00; Six Months $100
ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION
BOOSTERS HERE
WILL DRESS UP
White Uniform With Green Sash and
White and Green Fez Will Be
Worn to Wichita Falls
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GRAFT ADVERTISING
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When* in the name of common sense are Shamrock business
men going to learn to distinguish between legitimate and “gyp1
advertising? Self-styled advertising specialists are descending
on the town like so many buzzards after a dead cow, and they
are raking in the dough.
Last week a fellow collected $200 for putting up three signs
in two restaurants. Under the heading “Reliable Business Firms”
he listed every establishment in town that saw fit to kick in $5.
There were 40 ads sold and the only reading matter was the
“Reliable Business Firms” at the top. It would certainly take
more than idle curiosity to make a person absorb -the contents of
the sigivboard.
The “Ten Nights in a Bar Room” program was another
worthless advertising scheme that was put over, The reading
matter consisted of a cast of characters, none of whom.were
know to Shamrock theatre-goers. A program printed in Greek
would have been just as enlightening. And yet Shamrock mer-
chants took ads on the program. Enough to pay the printing
costs and leave a nice commission for the outside promoters.
Still another “gyp” proposition is a late edition of “Hotel Rules
and Regulations” that is dotted with ads. Selling the ads was
like giving away hot buttered biscuits to half-starved tramps.
It, is such propositions as these that work a hardship on
legitimate advertising mediums, such as newspapers, motion
picture slides, outdoor billboards, and direct mail advertising.
How many national advertisers have you seen spending money
on group signboards, stock company programs, and the like?
In most towns the merchants are wise to these trick schemes.
The minute a promoter hits town and starts on his rounds he is
referred to a chamber of commerce committee. The merits and
demerits of his proposition are aired out. If the proposition is
legitimate the committee, O. K’s. it. If not Mr. Promoter leaves
town promptly. Such a system saves the merchant hours of
valuable time; and more important, it saves him hundreds of
dollars that maybe some day he can use.
The Shamrock chamber of commerce is supposed to employ
is system. Small wonder it never has worked satisfactorily,
archants will not run the risk of antagonizing these polite-ap-
pearing promoters by referring them to the chamber of commerce
office. The "ad” only costs a few dollars so they are game to try
it once.
And that is the way more than a thousand of Shamrock dol-
lars have left town in a few months time. Several more thousand
will follow unless business men come to their senses.
Shamrock’s delegation to the West
Texas chamber of commerce conven-
tion at Wichita Falls will be smartly
attired, according to tentative plans
of Guy Hill, secretary-manager of the
local organization. The costume will
be like that worn last year except
for the headgear. A green faz with
a white tassel and the name “Sham-
rock” across the front in white has
been proposed for the local delegates.
The costume is of whjte with green
sashes around the waist and over
the shoulders. The fez would cost
75 cents each.
This year’s convention of the West
Texas chamber of commerce will be
held May 16 and 17, and Shamrock
plans to send a large delegation.
One and possibly two special Roei:
Island cars will be reserved for the
Shamrock band.
EM TO BUILD
PIPELINE TO K. G.
FORTY MILLION DOLLARS TO
BE SPENT IN CARRYING
OUT TWO PROJECTS
SUNDAY SCHOOL PROGRAM
AT SHAMROCK MARCH
BETTER SERVICE PROMISED
Steps will be taken at once to bring local telephone service up
to standard, J. B. Patterson of Amarillo, district manager,
promised on the occasion of an inspection trip to Shamrock last
week. A complete new switchboard has been ordered and will be
in operation by June. Other equipment will be installed and
more space has been arranged for. All this the district manager
___promised. _
Shamrock hopes these promises are in good faith. Small
wonder the town is impatient and the least bit dubious when the
Southwestern Bell Telephone company says it is going to do
something. There have been promises of changes before. In
each, case there was a noticeable change—for the worse.
There is no excuse for a corporation of the size and reputa-
tion’ of Southwestern Bell acting like this. Service is what peo-
ple pay for in the phone business and they expect it. The day
of junking out-of-date equipment on so-called country towns is
past. Subscribers there pay as much as those in cities and they
expect the same satisfactory kind of service.
When the Southwestern Bell makes good its promises qnd
installs standard equipment here Shamrock will be satisfied and
not before then.
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On March 31 at 7:45 p. m. the
Shamrock Methodist church, Sham-
rock Circuit, Mobeetie, Wheeler and
McLean are to have a joint Sunday
School Program at the Methodist
church in Shamrock. All preachers,
teachers, officers and Sunday School
workers of these places are urged
to be present. The program is as
follows:
1. Devotional.
■12. Why should all preachers,
teachers and officers of the Sunday
school be readers of the Texas Chris-
tian Advocate? How shall we get
them to subscribe?—U. S. Sherrill,
ten minutes.
3. The Importance of Monthly
Workers Council Meeting and how
to make them a success.—B. W.
Watkins, ten minutes.
4. Elementary Work and Child-
rens Week.—Mrs. W. E,. Lyon.
5. The “Why” and “How” of the
Fourth Sunday Missionary Program
and Offering. -A. L. Moore.
6. The Importance of Training
Work and How to Put it Over; Who
Should Take It?—B. L. Nance.
7. What I Want the Sunday
School Workers in My District To
Do.—Dr. J. T. Griswold.
Adjournment.
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EI’WORTH LEAGUE PROGRAM
FOR SUNDAY IS ANNOUNCED
THREE GREAT MEN
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Fifteen hundred student* in American high schools responded
to a request to name the three who, in their opinion, were the
greatest in history. A generation or two ago the list would have
centainly included Napoleon, Alexander, Caesar or Hannibal—mili-
tary men.
But the studenta of today are apparently of a different mold.
They declared Jesus, Abraham Lincoln and Confucius to be the
world's greatest trio—Christ, who taught the brotherhood of
man; Lincoln, the liberator; and Confucius, the great law giver-
one a Seminite, the second a Nordic, and the third a Mongoloid.
Five thousand years and the most remote reaches of the world arc
Unkad by races and achievements.
If this is the result of our n odern educational system, If the
mind of the American youth has been so broadened that It can
place a gnat American and a great Chinese teacher on a pedestal
on aach side of an inspired Jew, education Is not failing of its
purpose,—Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
The subject for Sunday's meeting
of the Epworth League hag been
announced as “Some Aspects of True
Religion Embodied in the Epworth
League." Bible lesson is James 1:
18-27; John 13: 30-35. Catherine
Clement will be the leader.
The program follows: Song, i^>ve
the Foundation,” Miss Elliott; “How
to Ix>ve,” Ray Scrivener; “How to
Cultivate !»ve," Bernice Matthews;
“Self Control in Speech and Temper,"
Waunie Henderson; "Purposes of the
Epworth league," Melvin Howe.
The Empire Companies will start
work soon on two gigantic gas lines
from the Amarillo district, Herbert
R, Straight of Bartlesville, Okla.,
general manager, announced this
week. < One line will go to Denver
and the other to Kansas, and the two
proects will cost approximately $40,-
000,000.
The Kansas City line will start
several miles to the west of Pampa,
where the Empire Gas and Fuel
Company has quite a number of gas
wells shut in for future market.
Its line will follow the Santa Fe
tracks in a northeasterly direction,
It will furnish gas for Canadian, in
Hemphill County, of northeastern
Panhandle area, where agitation is
on for glass and other plants.
The Amarillo-Denver line will start
from a point duo north of Amarillo,
Potter County, and follow the Fort
Worth & Denver line. Plans are yet
being perfected, but it will serve
Channing, Dalhart, Texline, Des
Moines, Clayton, Branson, Trinidad,
Pueblo, Colorado Spring and Denver.
The latter city in January gave
the l’ublic Service Company, a sub
sidiary of the Doherty ihterests, a
20-year franchise to supply Denver
with gas.
Further details are awaited, but
officials of the Empire Companies say
the two lines will cost around $40,-
000,000 to complete.
Officials of the Columbian Carbon
Company and the Texas Company,
who had had the Jfppe Engineering
Company to survey a line from Ama-
rillo to Kansas City, hnve nothing to
say about the Empire's plans, which
apparently have checkmated their
aspirations also to serve Kansas City.
The Amarillo 1-681 estate board
does not favor piping the gas out
of the state and is fighting the pro-
posed project.
WOOTEN BROTHERS
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All Calls Answered Promptly—Courteous Treatment
Day Phone 12 Night Phone 240
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V/’OUR motor is designed to deliver e
X certain number of revolutions per min-
ute to give maximum power and response
under all conditions.
But as carbon forms, that "knock” occurs.
The motor revolutions drop and you lose
power on hills and pick-up in traffic.
Conoco Ethyl Gasoline knocks out that
"knock.” What’s more, the carbon (which
causes the "knock”! becomes a means of
power because carbon increases pressure—
and increased pressure means increased
power Conoco Ethyl Gasoline performs
perfectly under this increased pressure.
So fill the tank with this revolutionizing
fuel at the nearest sign of the Continental
Soldier — and get extra knockless miles in
spite of carbon \
CONTINENTAL OIL COMPANY
Producers. Refiners and Marketers
si high-grade potroloum products Is Atksmsss. \
Colorado. Idaho. Kaaaoa. Missouri. Moatsas,
Nebraska. Now Moaico. Oklahoma. Oregon South
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FOR SALE—Some good cows and
mules. Also some excellent town
lots in Tarbet addition. See W. E.!
Tarbet. 48-tfc.
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I’RAIRIE DOG POISON MAY
BE HAD AT C. OF C. OFI H El
Farmers who want to put out I
prairie dog poison- are asked to call
at the Shamrock chamber of com-
merce office in the City Hall where a
quantity has been left. The poison
sells for five cents a pound, whole-1
sale cost
County Agent Broun asks the co-1
operation of county farmers in try-
ing to exterminate the prairie doga. |
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PAMPA RESTAURANT MAN
WILL OPEN CAFE HERE|
Ben Mott of Pampa, is putting ini
a rafe in the Moore building former-
ly occupied by the Magnolia rooms.
Ho expects to be ready to open forj
business within a week or ten daya,
Mott has had several years experl-1
in the restaurant business.
Have you heard about the,wonder-
fully low prices on Furniture?
Lively Furniture Store. 47-2tc|
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Cooper, Albert. The Shamrock Texan (Shamrock, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 24, 1927, newspaper, March 24, 1927; Shamrock, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth525496/m1/4/: accessed May 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Shamrock Public Library.