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i> AST HOP COY STY. TEXAS, TIU'KSDAV. JULY 22. 1920
NT,fB3P. 51
|lUs Ilarrop R:ceivon
■hireo B ichelor of ^oieaod.
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f Djnton. Texas, I" P l'-l
V** Johanna H it*:* jt ■.' BasUop
mvi ecelve the dogr"i of 3iche-
\Mov of Science at the clone ot the
summer session of the College
i©fIr.Juatrial Arts, De^tou, Tua-
ftSJ Auk hi. it which tiuu fifty
other young women of Texas
will receive degrees diplo n i-
and certificates. Thirty oC tli •
tiftv young women wi'l recei o
degrees and the remaiuioitwen-
ty will n-cnivfi diploma and ce
ti.icates Miss Harrop will t-u i
Home Keonomies in the Iv'.trn..
High School next year.
an res of the
i ho .Colorado
Tho couside
auJ mnohi lory
gravel aud -.a i I
once A spu t>
i,o the Ka y.
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& wheel 'li t!'
j u n Hi. lo t v hut 'is mil out!
Hl(l 1 Oi' I ' 1 hod " I I' p.* id
A h'l i i t hut i"t let t ol bun is a
lieu,I iikI one hand Yet this
roviog merchant nrjiile:* aud
keeps l ight on selling his wares.
ITxperinienters Hope
Sulphur Fumes Will
Destroy Boll Weevil.
rriairt Slio^i' Encmragin# Rosulls—Sulphur Not Ex-
pensive and will Burn Several Uonra—Test* Made
in Badly Infected County With Great Reduc-
tion in Ravages of Weevil.
j least six hours, art I thij \;n be .a-
creased by greater quan'it.d A
'sulphur. Tlie principle involved
' ,s retarding the admission >; a
1 -so as to give slow burning which
i the farmers say ii nectary. M. E. ITaye, Iforticuk: ml
Extension {service A ^
meatmen r ot' wat?!?-
MELONS FOK STSM
END ROI
and found only three squares pune-
How many of the rest of us other officials in the matter of us-
K" ueA,>' •>' 41 J show the same optimism as that j ing the sulphur fumes as an agen-
Miss Hi* top 1 ii' Lj.jppiy' Are we not no well off Icy for the protection of cotton
p."sen i Hast top in th* that we should he thankful that' from the ravages e: the boll weevil
rep
of Industrial Arts, whi n is
now the largest college for wo-
men in the United States with
the exception of Smith aud Wei*
iesley and which has enrobe I
this yea*1 1 H- girls in the regu -
lar session and 6'>l> in tli 5 sum-
mer s 'ssion, or a total of -.12^
Te c is girls. The class with
wflich NUss H irrop will gr id r.
wi i be composed ot tifty ot the
finest i 'Is )f Texas and
this number added to th nuui
ber of uradute*
the regular session, ! 11 ne I, in
2rtd graduates that 0 1 A Iris
sent f- u tli this year to serve a
leaders 111 the horn's and the
communities of Texas lu the
summer s(>ssion at the College of
Industrial Arts more tha 1 20(>
r >gular college courses «fo offer-
el in addition to instruction for
Tea hers State <>rt,itlcat.es bv
the faculty of seventy nve uj-mii-
bers-
Bastmp Masons Elect
* Officers for the Year,
we have ieg.s aud arms to work j which is a menacing this year's
w 1 th r" i cotton crop throughout the greater
A customer inked the paraly ! part of Texas
ti'i how husiii^ss went, with him- i The experiments in this connec.
A ■ t'a, To ; T.iiy 17.~ltepre*
sentatives of the Freepnrt Sul|)hur
company of Frceport, Texas, have
been in the city for the past two
days in-conference with the Si ate
department of Agriculture aud j very eniliuti>ati : regapling tins
schema, aud we ourselves believe
that it will go a greut wjy t > r,-
lieve the county of pe^ts."
SUliPHOR HE1NO OHDKRKK.
This letter also contains ait or
der for a carload of crude sulphur
with instruction to "rush" and
Mo?t of the farmers w . are
burning -u'pnur in the p!a>' s we
| have v te I are puttiag about on"
tire to tlif acre, and express them
selven as pleased with there-ult-.
However, the experiments hav
that mo
Iteen 1 t
-iieh recent d t
- cm he out ;ine i,
tured. Thi^, however, beitu fter ~l t
the men had not use i sulphur for i'ijoo^k inkksi>;i si'ur.
five days previous to this vi«it Mr. Wade, 111 speaking of the
"The fsriucr-in this vicinty are muveuient, said: We selected Has
trop c.nuiity because t'11 ? county
ha I 111 uv infestati ui lust year than
any county in the Stat*, and he
cause of the general interest mani-
fested thi.- year. Personally, this
is very pleasing because of the fact
I was reared in and around Mas-!
M. College of Te< n,
The stem onJ ro, i oue of th *
most serious troubles that tint
shippers has t<) coutead with
This dise «* 1:1 '/ * iiltod
by stem end t.realm 1 it, thus ac
:ording to the work of tho rjtii-
ted Status Deiurtineut of Agri -
culture, Tiie importance of this
disease should bo of 4pe<:ia< in
terest to the growers grow irs
associations and shippers.
Bluestone H'opp«r Sulphate) 1
ounces; Rye tlour 4 1-i ouucoh,
distilled water, 3 pints, Pistacliio
green coloring one half fluid
Tins was 1,he answer "Business
is good I am malting a little
tion are being watched with a great
leal of interest and are under
keep a tracer behind it,
Almost simultaneously with this lQent there.
order came others from Smithville , many farmer
trop county, hence have more tl,a„ "uucc' a'UUi :l
ortiinary interest in the -Jevel,,.- Tl",s ' 0,:lterial
make about one quart of panto,
in that
suffieient amount to treat: on <
"hiti baiut; uiuers irom oniitriviiiP, * * 41 o'irlfvul nf ilon
iud some men ar« losiugj careful observation of boih State , Qiddinga aud other points for car- c°unty who say that the) are get-
money
money in business
;l 11
I am get - | and National Departments of Ag-
riculture, In fact, a* result of the
DIRKTTION.S PGR P «.K! AlU:.'<i THIS
P.VSTK
• •, , i I se copper or euatuei vest*elM
different forms. It was crease ir fruitage anJ ui oh.oms |
load lots of sulphur. In each in- tlu^ K,,G ' results from tho
stance came requests for co-optra 'nines. Muni? attrihu'*
sul
tli i
ptiur
i ti -
nave |
'2 pints boiling water, (-j),
. i ting Uoug all ' i«
Thero'a optimism for you! visit of these gentlemen repnnent- Ujon 0f
, A cripple, who cannot; walk j ing the Im^report Sulphur company, j t|ien decided t0 make careful oi) to the hot sunny dayj 't.at
1 says he is getting along iU right 11 E. McDonald, entom >!ogist for j s8rvatiolJ8 of the U9e of 3ulp.mr io recently p availed. We tied a few
'lose ,| J Yet some of us com plain A fetr the State Den irt-eent of Agricul— j conii,afctinjr the boll weevil r-'iat were ukeptical, but admitted ' ' ""
°S ^ of us think we should he making tore, has begun tests himself, and Tht> first part of this we*k ilo- that if a rah.y season should be-
1 ' more money, just because John an ample supply of crude sulphur ) nier j-)^ Wade, another ret res -*nta s?'" that they were going t, try
lioclterfeller in doing it been provided him for that pur- Uve of the COmpany, and mvself, dulPlllir-
Let's complain no more Keep j pose. These tests will be nude in j b observations in K-ntmti We do not know for
iic he1,4rnl arouufl Travw county. IZ 1. Z " ".u «• «.^«i« H,. PfC-' «>« th,
the ci ipple in mind
is getting along all right, aud ii |
he can keep up his spirits, there J
is no excuse foi any of the rest
of uh making i howl, even if we
lose t few dollars ouce in vwhile
Di !•
powdered alum
in I pint water aud thou add I
L.2 ounces rye Hon and mix to
form * smooth paste (:j) Whon
a fact that' ^'ie bluestone «toorouglily di
IIDSII N I u s r \ r KM K N I .
Valva Caii Still
Is Aii Essential
The officers o? the (Tumble
Lodge; No I'M, A. F .<• A M
were it.stalled as follows
Hartford Jenkins, worshipful
"i in 1st,er; John 0. Turner, sei ior
virden: J W. Kennedy, junior
warden, J. T. Ilasler, senior
deacon; 11 J. Davis, junior dea
con. W A. Mtd'ord treasurer; K
F P'irey. secretary; Chester
Krli li d and E. D H iralson, st*
w i Is L O. Menu n .Ion Tyler
Smitnville Letter
^ Jul? 12t0.
Fi , tive thousand perple ire
Expected here the last week in
tli is month, when the Lu<> range
Association (Colored) opens here,
its Primai]f Function iiuw is to Kueo
Aii in br K«B|)ing Oirt Out,
Valve leaks are an indication
of a rather common, but never
the lose erroneous impression
among some .uitnuiobile tire us-
ers that the valve t ap is an i/n -
esHontial "thing, at:* ording to
Robertson Motor Co, Firestone
ropresioitative at Itastrop, Te>:a>
" When the cap is not 'i <ed
says Mr. Robertson "dirt is al-
most sure to work down into the
valve. Little harm is done while
t,lie tire remain* inflated Hut
the intl'.'d notion of no v ai r serves,
to drive what, dirt lias ( illected
about the opening into t be vital
pints of the valve An lir tight
connection then becomes well—
nigh impossible
; lorever the c.ap is valuable
,is a se ond line of (ielence against
being extemively u ed, and where
In speaking of the Genesis of the ! the United Stat i department of
agriculture is making careful ob-
servations of the progress being
made an 1 is also making three
tests on as many farms
We have gone to the lie!d- w.'
have talked to farmers of every
class who have been aid are -ising
sulphur. We have talked to busi
ness men who are careful y wit h-
iug the experiments, anj are giv
ing them most careful and th mglit
fill stu ly ourselves. Kxperim nts
thus far are not conclusive, he-
cause of the fact that they have
not been carried far enough, aud
ye',
n.so of sulphur to combat the rav-
ages oj the boll weevil pests. L, S.
Bushnell, chief eliemist of th(> Free-
port Sulphui c imparly sai I
Our company is not promoting
his movement, but we are co >per
I) ating williout stint. We had not
given the in itter consideration un-
til the business ine:i and farmers
themsevcH began to order sulphur
ii crude form and to appeal to us
tor any possible a-,siatance
In the latter part of June our
•«>tnpany began receiving orders for
crudo sulpliin , <)ne )f t.he first
.vis I'roin the lirm ot Ili4er Broth-
ers of li'ts lop, and the letter from
that first gave the folio wing infor-
mal i on
[I has come to iui knowledge
th it. su'pliur in cr i i • form is being
used with consul"rabie success in
Anderson county around Pales
tine Texas Mr Kausome, vice-1
tho district covers eightc.ountios ; i hicaliilown in
'valve. If well
T < Cummings of New York,
•hilli ps
lie inside of tlx*
Screwed on it
pi, odenl of the I rst National!
hank of Bastrop, and Mr Krhard, asking foi
i promiiiont oi'r' harit. both of
whom nre idimtdied with the farm-
tig interests w >nt from here to
Palestine, and ind t ha1 one uijii
in particular had been using this
method for about M years with-
out, telling anv one t bout it, it
leenis. lie had been buying sul
v ry a here we find 111 element
of succes- that compels us to de
cide te continue our co-oper.itioii
infaet, there is ample evidence
obtained so far to give us the hope
that sulphur fumes, properly ap-
plied vull minimize the destrur
tive work of the cotton boll weevil
Mil HOD FOR I
Many letters have come t > us
the best and simplest
manner of burning the sulphur
We have fi md all kind- of i ictli
ods being used, such as rotten
wood, old straw and rags, cotton
seed hulls, cotton linters etc An\
of t he.se met hods seem s to begiviag
i:ood resi.lt- But we are inclined
' to the i le.. that the simplest metli
damage from the weevil Hence
we are wa,ching the test wall keen,
jest interest. I atu justitisd in
saying, however, that- -a ; v/. frt«|.
ing encouraged by the olne- i
tions that we have rna 1 ■ so C tr
We do know that it rhe burning
of sulphur even minimi/ the d im-
age done by the weevil pest mat
it will be a great boom to the cot-
ton farmers of Texas, anl all oth-
er sections of the South where cot
ton is raised, and this is specially
true when the cheapness nf sulphur
and its application ar • taken into
; consideration.
M All K KT Ql'OTA I fON i .
Market quotatiom at. tin-, t, me
are around *10 per ton ar, the
1'reeport mines, and tins means
that it ran be delivered to th •
farm >rs in small quantities t hrough
local cotton oil mi.i9, cot ton gun,
merchants, bank-or even laruiern'
clubs at I 1 2 cent per pound
paste, stirring the mixture Mioi
oughly. Brlug this mixture t .•
a boiling pcnt^iud cook fo: aboir
five minues fWhen the past-e im
made in large qiiantit-ien it. may
be neens-ary to change this tiiu *
for cooking ) Aftei !<lie paste is
illuwed to cool it (ua.y then ! >
added, i D. The paste should lie
stored in air tight containers
(J'asi jars or tin cans iu«d with
paratin may be used foi thlspui
DO te t 'ucoatod metal contain-
•ii s must not be used
This is applied to the fresh cut
j-stem by means of a brush )n >
I lie I Nt.a
experince of the farmern who ire I as wel I as
U i'iff sulphur show that oue pound
■f suiphur will burn for in,;ld,s uul
that D cents per acs'- i., i largo
amount for the sulphur to cost, per
boy can easily treat melons fo
two or three loaders,
icre fo I') or l o mgths, ibe lengt'i
of time they are burning it, and
think it necessary to burn it
Our company is of courr, > very
much eoncerned in the tests that
ire being made by the federal mi I
lepartment >f ngri?ultui ,
bv the tanner, them
nelvers, and we will continue lo
| tend the fullest co operntion (•,
j the en I that conclusive results uia ,
be obtained Houston Pout,
hai siiceoede I Mr. I S.
as manager of the K ity dining1
station here. Mr Phillip** will
go bnc'< to St. l-ouis his loi nier
home
The First Baptist Ohurch here
*|ias act epted a loan of 0(1
from the Home Mission Mturii of
Atlanta, 111. This offer provides
that the Church raise f iaOOOO
which the / will do at one1 and
begin work on tinishnig the r
church.
A deal has just been (dosed
here between w, A Moore and
Associates of Oalveston Kiid Dr.
Williams of San Marcos lor hfty
I will its(M wit list *iinl i pressure
ol
liOO pon mlh
ptiur in qiian11ties trout druggists
in Palestine, and 1 t-t year gather-
ed nine bales if cotton ot acres
iu a wooded section. In fact,
these gentlemen visited this cotton
..patch in person, while here, and
| report t hat, Ins patch is full of old
stumps and dead trees, a veritable
, litirhoi* for the oil weevil They
it Looked Liht a Battletimu in i also report thai a neitrhbor >f this
liuropeM Said Mr, C, Ounster. j,MH" ha(1 100
I cultivation and
"All in ah the uiotorist will do
well to remember that the cap
plays n real part ni the eflicien
cy tjf tin valve
ods is to burn the sulphur by it-
self And there is not the (light,
est trouble in doing tins This is
so simple that any one can use it,
and is as follows: Get a common
tin can from the back yard or alley
or dump, and iilniut a third of the
way from the bottom cut a hole
about one-half an inch large. On
'' W 's .11%\ill.* Ill :i
I V.nus.i I vnnia lown
Inil'
oi t .in ,11'
the opposite side make two hole-
acres nt cotlon m with an Ill-penny nail and on the
was able to raise t >p lid make a three' quarter inch
lOmlv one morn only otlB bile ol cotton without
ing I "vi11 io iti ■ stable io hire i riff i the aid of sulphur. Besides this
and #it*. shown a pile ot dead rats' {ict,' our representatives report
killed with Hat-Snup then.ghl t.efoi*.. that or.ginntor of this scheme,
h is Ins land planted in cotton again
an 1 a parly of three or four pr-
ions searched his held thoroughly.
Ijoolte'l hlte a tinlt,|eli««hl in Ktirofie,
'I'ln-is' i.ix.es 'fie, I'll,'., SI.IKI S"'d -ind
liv W. J. Mliey Drn/>
/fiiliranti'.vl
RiHl.
hole, put in >ay, one fourth of a
pound of sulphur, or fill t lie can
level of the holes made in the
• It s. Apply niai>ch and close I he
li I down. Our experiments' show
that the cru le sulphur fired in this
manner will continue to burn fw.i <*t
To the Voters
OF BASTROP COUNTY
While 1 have no opposition for the honored office of lie pre
sentative of Bastrop i unty, I «'ish to take tl11~ method of
assuring you that [ will appre* > iti> your support and vote in
tlie*coiiiing election, Saturday, July 21, just us much as if I
had the strongest of opposition, and while I have t ied to cover
the entire County in my effort to meet as many of you is pos-
sible, yet 1 f all; > that there are many I have not had the
pleasure of meeting md it i a to tlios.' especially I id dress this
letter tli it you may feel and know I appreciate your vote aud
support, and that ! mav have tho pleasure of meeting you later
Give nit' your support through your vote that 1 may feel I
hive your conti lence, and i will strive not to betray it.
RKS PliCTFULLY,
J. D. Wadley
Candidat : for liepresentatave for Bastrop County, lU)t' I t u ncl i
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ROBERTSON MOTOR CO.
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Pearcy, J. H. The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 22, 1920, newspaper, July 22, 1920; Bastrop, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth206334/m1/1/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bastrop Public Library.