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Newspaper
Jefferson Jimplecute
Location
Jefferson, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1913
Page
1
Peter Radford argues farming wages are low and co operation prevents hardship. He urges treating farming as a business, selling at cost plus, seeking full market benefits, reducing loan uncertainty, and engaging cities to expand markets. He notes the need to coordinate supply and demand and to build a growing farm business. Australia has vast untouched forests.
The Jefferson Cotton Oil & Fertilizer Co awarded all contracts for building and machinery. Marshall Brick Company gets brick, Clark & Boice Lumber Co. the lumber, J. D. Pridgen & Co. handles construction, Buckeye Iron & Brass Works supplies machinery. Mill to be built on Block 54 near the J N W railroad. main mill 190 by 34 feet, with concrete floors and reinforced walls.
The 1912 13 term closed with a successful graduation ceremony at Jefferson High School. Rev J W Caldwell delivered the commencement sermon at Presbyterian church and the exercises at the school auditorium featured class colors blue and gold, with Carrie Mae Murray praised for her class prophecy. Hon W L Grogan gave the annual address on success and character. The note mentions a diverse mix of items including social statistics from Indiana and various local notices about catalogues, beauty secrets, and sales.
The Jefferson plant plans Texas largest railroad scale on J. and N. W. track with 100 ton capacity and 50 ft platform. A 200 horsepower boiler plant with Corliss engine will drive heavy machinery and a two feet wide main belt. The mill office will host wagon scales, 8 by 22 ft, on Block 54. A five stand gun outfit, feed mill, peanut shredder, fertilizer works, and maize feed plant are promised by next December. A September startup for cotton seed processing precedes a large stockholders barbecue in Jefferson with further plans to follow.
The Building Committee of the Jefferson Cotton Oil and Fertilizer Company closed a contract with Walter Connally Company of Tyler for a Murray all steel four stand gun outfit. The system will be installed and ready for the first bale ginned this season. Also notes on school achievements and a San Antonio fruit shipment headline this brief.
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