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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 27, 1915)
1 “ 7he Grave A TEXAS COTTON MILL. Always alert to the opportunity, Texas has the honor of having the first complete cotton industry in the United States, i. e., a mill at which the raw cotton is taken from the farmers’ wagons and turned ouc in finisheu sheets. 'i here are plenty of mills and bleacn enes from Maine to Georgia that make white goods alter we ship them Texas cotton, but there is only one mill in the world where they grow the cotton at one end of the plant, take it in, gin it, put it through the different pro cesses of making, bleach it at the other- end and ship the finished product— sheets and pillow cases—direct from factory to dealer. That mill, a Texas institution pure and simple, is in Post City, Garza County, in our own South Plains, and the goods bear the “Postex” and “Garza” brands. So much for a proud Texas fact, but. how about the idea back of it? That is an interesting story, particularly for Texans who believe in their own State and its wonderful future. It is a story to stimulate home pride and make a man think he ought always to sleep between Postex and Garza sheets and on Postex and Garza pillow cases. C. W. Post, the late food manufac turer, spent years of his early life in Wes; Texas and the Panhandle. He knew the country like a plainsman, loved it, and in his earlier and poorer days dreamt of the greater Texas of today. The wealth that came in later years never made him forget the great rich land of his early love and he staked out a claim of a quarter of a million acres, paid for it with the gold the North had furnished him and there on the edge of the old Llano Estacado, the land of Spanish and Indian ro mance, built a shaded city of brick and iron and timber and cement to surround a cotton industry that should be a pride to the State of Texas. Ample capital was furnished and to day the Postex mills grow cotton where it never grew before, wheels hum and busy hundreds of happy, well paid people card and spin and weave the finest of long staple cotton into sheets and pillow cases that excel every similar product in the State, and are approached in quality and worth by only one or two. The finished product of the Postex Mills is sold under two brands, Postex, the finest of its kind, and Garza, a medium priced number of real excel lence, and another thing that appeals to a Texas merchant is this m ; HT “freight prepaid” policy. A retailer can order as few as six pieces of sheet ing or six dozen sheets and have them shipped direct from the mill, and laid down at his door, freight prepaid. Tlrs means a lot, for 10 per cent of their value is a fair estimate of railroad tolls tucked away in the price of any East ern made line of similar goods. The Fort Worth Record recently of all Our fnioe-S. spoke editorially of the Postex Mills as follows: “Garza County does not offer the only opportunity in Texas. There are a hundred other counties where the same thing can be repeated—yes, two hundred. And if there were two hun dred other cotton mills in Texas they would still take but a fraction of the staple the State produces annually, and they would put fifty thousand more people at work and keep some millions of money in Texas that now go away.” It is well and good to indulge in such philosophy, but let us practice it. Let Texans show their interest by deed as well as by word. Here on the South Plains of our empire is a tre mendous opportunity to build endur- ingly, but to do it we must practice what we preach. Let us call for and insist on Postex or Garza sheets and pillow cases, for not only will we get superlative values, but by making one project successful, we open the door for many another and help to build at home. The present war is teaching us a lot —teaching us the very idea of self- support and containment. As the Na tion at large becomes commercially independent by making its own velvets instead of depending upon Belgium, its own dye stuffs and chemicals in stead of depending upon Germany, and so on ad infinitum, so Texas should build her own industries strong and true, and teach each capitalist that puts a factory within her borders that he can count on Texas’ preference for a Texas product. It is only self-interest after all, for each dollar spent for a Postex product comes back in a Texas payroll for Texas labor, or to Texas farmers for Texas cotton at a time they sorely need it. Let us take care of our own. Watch my announcements in the “Bat.” Charlie Nitch. We do Kodak Finishing and Developing every day. Come in to see us before you have your next work done Carter’s Studio Bryan, Texas LODGE AND SOCIETY EMBLEMS WEDDING FLOWERS FUNERAL DESIGNS CUT FLOWERS PLANTS Phone Direct SCOTT FLORAL CO., Navasota, Texas FOR SALE. Stove wood, $5 per cord, delivered. Good, cut kindling, $5 per cord, de livered. Phone T. M. Reddell, Feed ing and Breeding Station, 87-3 rings. TO TAKE CIVIL SERVICE EXAMS. The following C. E. Seniors expect to leave for Waco on February 2 to take the civil service examination for junior civil engineers on the following day: S. C. McCarty, E. O. Francisco, M. A. Moss, E. F. Hurdle, B. H. Faber. The following are going to Houston: W. S. Gillespie, F. W. Cawthon, S. K. Mason, J. E. Bell. Among the “bughunters,” C. E. P. VVisrodt, J. M. Kincheloe and A. E. Burges will take the civil service ex amination for scientific assistant in the United States Department of Agri culture, which is to be held on April 14. The first two will go to Houston and the last probably to Waco. Cadet—Prof. Bittle, why did you come way down here in Texas? Prof. Bittle—Well, it was this way. At the Northern university which I attended there were several Texas men. They told me so many lies about Texas that I decided to come and see it for myself. See those new samples at Charlie’s Tailor Shop. How dear to our hearts Is the timely subscription, When the generous subscriber Presents it to view. But—the man who WON’T pay, We refrain from description, For, perhaps, gentle reader, That man may be you. —Exchange. If the goods we sell could talk we would not have to advertise! Brandon & Lawrence “EVERYTHING TO EAT” AT i; HARDY NEWTON’S STORE !; Bryan, Texas ' ;! ;! Let us supply your materials for Club Feeds. j; !| GROCERIES — Staple and Fancy ;j Phone us your wants. We handle nothing i; ;j but the best. Always on hand—an up-to- date line of Toilet Articles and Stationery. <: || W. G. BOYETT jj i; The Campus Grocer ji J. M. 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