Weekly Democrat Gazette, May 9, 1912
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Halting in front of T. P. Helms he sized us up and noted the
better part by having the publishers to send him the Democrat-Gazette for a
year. Mrs. Helm has a few hens of the light Brahma strain that furnish the home
with plenty of eggs and about sixty chicks some of which will soon be classed as
broilers and friers. This particular strain she considers among the best as
invariably the hens are hardy, good layers and excellent mothers.
F. S. Perry claims to be a Tennesseean, but his neighbors say
that he came direct from Arkansas to Texas and that he did visit the old
volunteer state some years ago to see the land of his fathers. It makes no
difference now, for he rolled something to us for the Weekly Democrat-Gazette.
F. D. Flannery is a son of the late W. B. Flannery who was a
subscriber to the Democrat-Gazette for many years, and acts wisely by having us
send him the favorite newspaper of his deceased father into his own home. We
value the friendship of the Flannerys.
When we approached Stiles Miller he held up his hands and told
us to ask for what we wanted, for he remembered an incident of 1901 when ,at the
muzzle of our gun carried at that time, he was forced to get on the band wagon
and read a mighty good paper, and now with a weapon with greater persuasion, he
anxiously got out the price while we "poked" a receipt to him for a
year's subscription to the Democrat-Gazette.
T. P. Huff was a stranger and while he lives on his own farm
and monarch of what he surveys, he noticed the blood in the eyes of your field
man, and with "fear and trembling" accepted our terms of surrender and
got anxious to close the deal. We closed it, and he's another reader of the
Democrat-Gazette.
J. P. Loftice, a successful farmer and stockman, and one who
farms because it pays, reduced his Duroc breed of hogs from over one hundred to
only a few gilts. Mules, horses, corn and alfalfa are all hobbies. A new
residence, large barn and orchard set with a variety of fruit trees are
evidences of good taste and sound judgment. It is needless to say that he will
read the Democrat-Gazette, for a man of his intelligence couldn't do otherwise.
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