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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1914
Page
2
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All resolutions of respect obituaries and cards of thanks published in this paper will be charged 3 cents per line. Church and lodge notices or entertainments with revenue will be 3 cents per line. Notices of religious fraternal or public meetings for public benefit are published free of charge.
Whitewright banks have joined the Currency Association and could issue about $100,000 in emergency currency to support farmers who may need to hold cotton for fair prices. Plans to finance the cotton crop without harming farmers or regular business are not yet final, but bankers and local business leaders pledge to maintain Whitewright as a top cotton market and provide the best accommodations for farmers.
The contractors in charge of Whitewright's new public school building are praised for rapid, thorough construction. Despite initial doubts, the session will begin on time with pupils housed in the modern, comfortable facility. The efficiency of teachers and the new equipment promises a profitable term.
The text argues Villa and his allies must be eliminated from Mexican politics before peace and a decent government can return. It notes Caranza as provisional president and stresses the need to remove them to restore order. The piece also mentions heavy rains benefiting future crops and a derailed interurban train delaying Dallas News subscribers, with Whitewright receiving the Limited at 6:38 am.
Capt. Tom Wright a pioneer citizen of Denison died in the city on Tuesday. He was made deputy city marshal of Denison when the city was organized in 1873.
Epworth League program on August 30 at 7 15 p m covers Joshua Soule father of a constitution with a focus on ancestry youth influence licensing preaching travel and authorship of the Methodist constitution. Leader R L Hayter opens with devotional, discussion on a future special league program and a free will mission offering at close.
Dispatch from August 26 reports Mrs J F Lilley of Whitewright Texas fell near Delmar Garden suffering a broken left arm. She rode a street car to Maryland Hotel where a physician set the bone as she laughed and joked. Bruises were also noted. Her condition today is described as entirely satisfactory.
Texas candidate for Commissioner of Agriculture appeals to farmers with a plan to spend one hundred thousand dollars annually on production distribution and cooperative business. He highlights co operation, rural credit, warehouse legislation, and science driven farming to boost yields and stabilize markets while stressing merit based hires and nonpartisan administration.
Texas forests yield four and a half million feet of timber daily with annual lumber value at 53 million dollars. Raw timber value is 32 million and factory-added value 21 million. Texas ranks seventh in production and its lumber mills employ more workers than any other industry, with 800 mills and 45.552 million invested.
Texas has 5238 irrigated farms totaling 451000 acres with 1480 miles of main ditches and 1225 miles of laterals. Building costs are 13500000 with yield about 45 percent higher than dryland. Water mainly comes from streams. rice dominates irrigated crops with 287000 acres, Jefferson County leading in flooded land at 176000 acres.
Texas hosts 228 cotton seed oil mills producing 30 million dollars in annual output and 19 rice mills turning out 8.142 million dollars. The state ranks second in rice manufacturing and has 372 million pounds milled yearly. It also hosts 12 malt liquor establishments valued at 7.027 million and breweries outputting 6.464 million. Jefferson, Texas, hosted the first U S ice factory. Dallas leads as the world’s largest saddle manufacturing center with 253 central electric plants statewide and 2 500 car cold storage capacity.
Texas boasted 550 miles of interurban lines with 215 new miles built in 1913. Most principal cities connected, 40 electric railway companies operated, and 36 Texas cities had electric street railways. The Dallas-Waco-Corsicana line stretched 158 miles, the longest in the Southwest.
The report lists 6,238,000 cattle in Texas valued at 185,648,000 dollars. Of these, 5,173,000 are beef cattle worth 137,084,000 dollars while 1,065,000 are dairy cows valued at 48,664,000 dollars.
From 1910 to 1914 the Texas steer value rose by 11.20 dollars. Fifteen percent of U S beef cattle reside in Texas, with more than twice as many cattle as any other state. Texas ranks fifth in milk cows and leads in milk, cream and butter quality.
The Texas milch cow was valued at 45.60 by Uncle Sam on January 1 1914, up from 29.50 five years earlier. Texas has 17 500 cowboys on cattle ranches and 14 packing houses. Fort Worth market receives more calves than any other world market. The largest cattle feeding plant is near Stamford in Jones county. Texas leads the nation as the top meat producing state with 2 000 000 head slaughtered annually and 140 000 000 dollars in livestock products produced each year.
Texas boasts 150000 miles of public highways with a half mile per square mile of area. The road system exceeds Delaware in coverage and would circle the globe five times. Local bonds funded 7276000 for road work, and daily road construction spending reached 40000 dollars. Freight costs 43 cents per ton per mile. The state hosts an active Good Roads Association and features a long reinforced concrete product in Dallas.
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