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THE BASTROP ADVERTISER
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SEVKNTY SIXTH YEAR
BASTROP, BASTROP COUNTY, T.IUKSDAY, JANUARY 2, 1930
NUMBKR 32
Census to Be Taken in April of This Year
LETTER FROM FORMER
RESIDENT OF OUR CITY
The Advertiser is in receipt of tho
j following letter from Mr. John M.
j Gillenjpie, a former resident of our
city, but now of Marlin.
Marl in, 1'i'xa-,
December, 2a, 1929.
lounty Ginning
Report Shows
Half Crop Ginned
Tho Department of Commerce,
hrough the Bureau of the Census
innounces the preliminary report of'
I .otton ginned by counties, in Tuxaa. ;
for the cropn of 1929 and 1928. Ihe .
I . . . , ... month. 1 being born and partly rear-
I total for Ine state was made public . , n
I , i ed in Baatrop County, and naturally
Friday, December 20.
(Quantities are in running baloa,
counting round as half bales. I,inters
lire not included.;
| 1929 1928
The State 3,658.796
Bastrop 11,646
Bastrop Advertiser,
Bastrop, Texan
Dear Friends:
1 visited your
City during last
having a desire to look the old town
over once more.
Passing through the Couri House
Lawn 1 found a petrified log which
has been erected thure as a monument
,54L ,oQl I Upon the log 1 found an inscription,
27,390 "Capt. J. H. Gillispie." This inscrip-
' 0 tion reminds me of the fact that I
has i nor crrnwN ran ' hT in "f*.b""
OVER BY M7TOMOBII E r n™*7'1'' loa(linK shot Kun that on<"e
belonged to Captain J. H. Gillespie.
The gun mentioned above has these
J. S. Holmes was knocked down . . .. , .
• words engraved on the rib between
*u l ran over by a Ford Coupe at
Kosenburg, as he v s on his way
home from Beaumont last week.
the barrels, presented to Capt. Gil-
lespie by his friend Morgan Turner
in IHfiH.
This great old gun is in the best of
as
He had stopped and got out of his
^ <ir, and walked back just :i few feet preservation and will shoot just
1% .o ask about the roads, when stiuck hard as anybodys gun.
|l>y the car He was painfully, but
I ^ot seriously hurt.
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WHEN I HE1 BROKE l I' I IMF
John .U. Gillespie.
l.YM HIM; REPORT FOR 1920
THIS IS THE YEAR WHEN IHE
CENSUS MAN MAKES
HIS ROUNDS
(JucNtions He Will Ask. and Why
By Caleb J ihnson
Uncle Sam will begin to count his
nephews and nieces on the first of
April, 1930, and this year he is going
to find out a lot mora abml thetn
tlian has been known before
Some time during the month of
April an enumerator of the Usii'td
States Census Bureau will call at
every dwelling in the nation and usk
the head of tho family twenty-four
questions. Sumo of them might btV
considered impertinent if asked by a,
stranger, or even by a neighbor, but
the Census enumerators are under
oath not to disclose any iacwi learned
by them except in their official re-
ports. And those reports are not
open anywhere to public inspection.
Like the figures in your income-tar
nturn, they are official secrets which
prying gossips have no access to.
Uncle Sam is concerned, for census
purposes, only with totals and aver-
ages and not at all with individuals.
But a clear picture of the people of
the United States as a whole can be
obtained only by getting the fats
about each individual inhabitant, to
start with.
For exanipie, one of the things im-
portant to know, besides the nuinbc"
of persons in the United States, is
the average age of our people. It i,-.
have a bearing on the lumber industry
and the production of all other build-
ing supplies, as well an on the market
for all sorts of house hold equipment
and furnishings.
An ither new census que tion ia
whether you own a radio set. Nothing
NO MORNING SERVICES
AT METHODIST CHL'RCII
The. Rev. Walter Dibrull, local pas-
tor of Methodist church informed us
this week that owing to illness in his
immediate family that there would
be no morning services at the Metho-
coulil better illustrate the spetd with church next Sunday.
which new inventions take hold, once on Sunday evening the Rev. J. Fis-
her Simpson, Conference Superinten-
dent of Sunday Schools will fill the
pulpit. All members are urged to
hear Rev. Simpson.
H. I). CLUBS TO HOLD
REGULAR MEETINGS
they strike the public fancy. Ten
years ago when the census of 1920
was taki n, there wasn't a radio set
in the world except experimental
ones; there was no such thing as
broadcasting; nobody but a few ex-
perts knew the difference between a
heterodyne and a screen-grid, if any.
Now look at the blamed thing! There Mrs. Girtha Vest County Home
are so many receiving sets that Uncle Demonstration Agent, advised us this
Sam is going to count them, to fintl week that beginning with January G,
out how many of his family he can all clubs will hold their regular ache-
talk to at once. duled meetings, on the reguar meeting
For the first time, the census taker dates.
will ask how old you were at your Women s Clubs will feature
first marriage. The information will Horticulture during the month of
be more important ten years from •'anuur>, with Mr. G. C. King, Coun-
now than it is now, because the se- ly Agent, as leader, with the fullow-
cond set of answers to it, in 1940, will in* *ro*rttm ,bein« carried out:
disclose whether the average age of
Excavation Work
Progresses on
Baptist Church
Much progress is being made on
the excavation for the basement of
the New Baptist Church, which will
be erected on the site recently donated
by Mr. Hartford Jenkins, in the new
Jenkins attition. It is thought that
the actual work on the basement will
be started within the next week, pro-,
viding the weather permits, and erec-
tion of the one-story structure will
be started at once.
OUT OF THE OLD INTO THE NEW
iial 1.
b|y a
X
According to the records compiled
m the Department of Records sum
Research <if the Tuskegcc Institute,
then wi re 10 person- lynched i:i
1929. I In* > 1 les* than the numtii r
11 for 1928, •> l> - than the number 10
for 1927, 9 li s. than the number 19
lor 192(1 and 7 less than the number
17 for 1925. Six of the persons
lynched were taken from the hands
ol the law, ."> from jail nr.d 1 frrm of
filers of the law outside of jail.;.
There were 27 install -os in which
officer.- i f tin lav. prevented lynch-
ing . .! of e were in Northern
state and 21 in Southern tales.
21 of the cases the pi is i.or- were re-
moved or th" guard augmented cr
other precaution tal-en. In •'! other
instances, armed force was ii ed to
repel the would be lynchers 12 white
men, 20 Negro men and 2 Negro wo-
ti -n were thus saved from death .At
the hands of mobs.
Of the 10 per-on 1\Hi "d, 7 were
Wgroe. and •'! were whites. The of
fenci-s charged re rape, 3; writ-
ing insulting note , 2; murder, t
wounding man in altercation, 1;
wounding officers of the law, 2;
charge not reported, I.
The -tales in which lynching occur-
red and the number in each state are
as follows: Floida, 4; Ketueky, 1;
Mississippi, 1; Tennessee, 1; Texas,
-o-
lt was old Romulus of mythologi-
ai fame, th« babe who was adopted
woil, wtio is alleged • nave in
uted our calendar. Ot course Juliu
id Auguslu-, iwo ot the i a< at hoy.- ,
ij-fcu will remember, an supposed !•>
have jugglei•4yit and messed il up a
bit to suit their whims and vanities,
raishig tin- original ante of ten
month to twelve by sticking in .I wh-
in honor of Julius and August in hon-
or of Augustus.
However, our point is that who
♦ ver it was took Time, which wa • ju. 1
running wild in big units like ages
and eons, and by inventing a calendar
broke it up into years, did the hum-in
iace one of the bt st turns which has
ever been done among all the doing
to which it has been subjected.
Just tiiiuk of wanili ri! i. around all
your life in thw middle ol an eon .vitn
no place to star' and i: place ;o
slop! The same t .u eon that your
pa and youi gram, pa m l ail your
unci -Uirs, as long .< y;>u i,ad ever
heard of them, had I. n l«>:.i m; and
then your descendant I'm genera
tiolis ,ust being doomed t.i inou of
the same, Ii sur.- would b; mono
tonous. So let us In- dul> thankful to
tlies'.' old boys and all theii friends
who had a finger in the calcndai pin
arid who rigged up a year with a be-
ginning and a close a place where
we can leave things behind that we
want to forget and a place where we
ran turn over a new leaf and start
with a clean slate. Without a new-
year how would we know when to
make resolutions? and seriously,
this resolution business is all right
true, some get broken pretty quickly
but quite a lot of the worth while re-
solutions of worth while people stick
and go on making people In-ttt
lite happier.
civilization mount, in ti p
hi the i Id 11 in" of eon., t hi tip
too higa and s-> ii ' apart that in
man livi d to «limb t - a higher me.
ISui \ lien till)' w ; . hi , e i ,'p into
yew i. tin ascent wa en; i ' and the
grade being reduced, civilization
speeded up. until today a yeai nieas-
uri . in in hum n progr-- < than did
untold ages in that dim past.
"The years are pas ing swiftly by,"
a let us be thankful that we live
• ii an ii1-*" of yems, up which we may
climb tep by tep. Of course there ! v 11r
are '.i ps of years which men deso nd
i a'her than mount wa ted years,
years of folly hut the wise man
avi ids thesi cellar stairs, but lie can
. e< b\ the i xaniple of others to whuti
di ppoi.itnient and unhuppinc* < they
1- d in (hi life, while as to the futuro 1 Officers were called bu. n.ul not lo-
, ' !•• had ample warning. cated the gun's possessor,
■ liin'i with the years and thank Jieiligbrodt went back t > work,
ulu:. and the Caisar family .hat after putting the recovered overcoat
have no eons to tackle away. Austin American.
marriage is getting older or younger.
Our grand-parents married in their
teens, as a rule; today 25 is nearer
the average age, in all probability.
Will the young folks of the next ten
years continue to postpone marriage
or will they revert to the youthful
marriages of their ancestors.
You will be asked whether you have
attended school or college since last
higher or lower than it was when the i pteinbei. Ihe figures for educa-
, tion have been climbing steadily e\-i
a^. I since the first census was taken.
last census was taken, ten years
and how much? This average
has been increasing steadily. Hut if
the ccn-us of 1930 should show a <lc-
cline in the average age, it would be
a danger signal, a warning to spcc<i
up public health measures, a call to
investigate the ci. .se and apply all
of the resources of sanitary scieiic •
i toward improving and guarding the
1 general health.
So don't tiiitik it is impcrtincrict
when the ceil ua-iaki r asks your age!
Uncle Sain wants te know, not your
ige nut the averagi
Be-1
limbing,
Roll Call, Display of rug made by
each member.
Horticulture.
Grafting and spraying.
Home Garden, by Grover King,
((ioiil) A I'lant two new veg.
tables.
1J I'lant two fruit trees
and .'hruba.
Beautify Yard by planting native
flowers and shrubs.
o
IHINK— IT WON'T HURT
YOU ANN !
With the ringing of bells, and the
outburst of fireworks, Bastrop wel-
comed in the New Year, Nineteen
Hundred and Thirty.
As a whole, 1929, has been a very
successful year for our city and coun-
ty. Although, many of the crops
were lost by the floial Miring th*
month of May, and only a half cotton
crop was made, the merchants enjoy-
ed a very good business throughout
the year.
l'rospects are great for 1930. The
farmers have an exrelleni season in
tlv- ground, and many have started
plowing, and are very enthused over
the prospects for the coming year. W<*
wish for them much success.
and
nut
Wl I f
DODOES MULLET TO
RECOVER COAT
Ludolph lleiligbrodt, young former
Bastrop man, dodged a bullet Sat-
urday night to recover his stolen
overcoat and came out of the en-
counter with the coat hack in his
possession.
An unidentified Mexican fired n
shot at Jleiligb.*' dt as the youth
chased him, after taking away from
the niiin a'i o\-erc >:•.I hi identified a
one that had been stolen from his
i :tr three weeks ago.
The bullet \m nt wild, failing to
ii> 'iie anyone.
iIi ilighrodt, employ
I iv Company, J0|
if
J. C
Sixth
. 11 i
i ii •
an i i *
t' • i
d
to s- e a
iwn, Im itu
aught ho!
man to
1 a label
in tak"
ler it.
to the t
at th.i
Wl I'll i*,
of the >
light. u!
looki i lik«
a ' it Mean,
•o it an I led
l-'Ve he e*
in the coat, then milder
off the i ni-i 'eft and
TI n 'he Alex .in ran,
tin
a over hi
fugitiv
whirl-
Meili'.'brodt
arm, afti r him.
I ar« unci and fired a sh it nl the
pursuer. Hedigiir nit "dui i.e.l" he
aid later. '1 he bullet missed him.
persons on the "jdewalk •'attered in
a hurl y. Tlv Mexican di:.ap ieured
In ' individual age but tin
of all of the people.
Another question the enumerator*
will ask is "Who is the head of ilu,
family?" That doesn't mean what it
soutn. like. I'ncle Sam isn't inter-
ested a> to whether the wife weais
the breecfies or not, but does want I
to know how many men are depend-
i nt upon the earnings of their chit-
i ureii, how many women are self sup-
porting. The head of the family,
t'oin the census point of view, is t!.
"in- who earns the money.
\\ hcther you live on a farm or liv
! in town, whether you are whit: , black
red oi yellow, male or female, mai rieii
, ' i unmarried, able to read and write, |
where you wi re born and win-re your
parents were born, when you came t'> (
America if you are an immigrant, j
what your native language wa ■ and!
whether you can speak Knglish are |
are questions the reasons for v. iiich
; ie clear er m.gh. Cn the totals co u-
pih-d from these answers depends
among other things, the number of
person from youi native country
who can be admitted to the United |
States in the next ten years.
( 1 'ci \ bo- >\ h > , i n t \ • 11 w .ii
be asked to give hi. trade or occulta-!
tion and the particular ind;ntr\ in
which In- or she works, or i' working
v In own account or i- in en ploy- '
ei, to say so. But a qu< ri hi ii ther.
liie- t hi : y«ir ill lie: "Aie j iu em- j
ployed now? That i.-. i- of tie lirst
April. There will be lor the fit -t
me an accurate re.-ord t f uuein|ilov-
iiient, figur s in wl icn iieretofore
have be n largely estimate'
Xnother new que-ti>n \Sil, ')r
> hether you own your home. h. a
:• i ie.l \ a\ the oropoi ii in of h um -
'.vilei h.1- been estimnt || iii tin- p.ist
l• et nobod> ha ever had exact ,ig
i lie figures have been decided
i arm ; on the important subject of
* .ir national prosperity And if you
do not own your home, the census
man will a I, you how much rent you
pay. That is another useful index of
Ihe size of the national bankroll. Tak-
ing the two together, the Government
\'il! be able to tell us whether honi"
wnership i-- • n the inert ase, whether
ei is a demand fei m re i.iuiv-ulu-
yond question they ar>- still
but how fast?
And as a final question every one
of Uncle Sam's nephews will be ask-
ed whether he has erved as a soldier,
sailor or marine in any war in which
his <oi;ntry was involved. We will
know for the first time just, how
many veterans of each war are still
living. \n«' that will help to estimate
future demand:, on tax payers for
pensions,
j The < ensus is the oldest of all our
, Federal bureaus, as old as Congress
end the Presidental office and tin
1 honias Edison once said, "The
American people will go to any ex-
treme to avoid tin nece sity of think-
ing."
Notwith.stamling the fact think!
Tin i the time of times to think.
Ths week a year passed into "wfiat
used to be." _
and ii will never return. Many, Many ! Home Demonstration Ag.-nt, with a
thing, wer. accomplished in the last beautiful wrist watch for Christmas,
12 months, hut that's ancient his- 1 ;is il token of appreciation for the
lory. 'There are a lot of other things splendid work that she has done dur-
y u could have done that's ancient ! '"K Uu' liasL >"11' with clubs.
tOI N h M l MS PRESENT MRS,
VEST WITH WRIST WATCH
'The members of the Woman'a
Clubs of Bastrop County, kliown :u
the County Council of Women's Clubs
It's through; it's gone, I presented Mrs. Girtha Vest, County
histor> too. !t isn't what you did oi*
I didn't do in ';j;i it's what you are
.udn-iary, for it was set up in the Con-i g'dng to do in 1930 that counts now.
stitution it-elf, which requires that And what u, yo; i: ng <t
the inhabitants be counted every ten same as in 19_ h yo.i «i , > u ar>
'The original purpose was t>jg"ing to go against every law of
\ ears.
find out how many lived in each state
in order to opporti in member-; of
Congress among the state . That Is
-til one of the purposes though Con-
giess itself has been dilatory in re.
app rtioning i: membership in pro-
portion to population .
The first Census, taken in 1790,!
.-ju Aid fewer than four million inhah-
itai s in the new nation; 3,929,21 I,
law
progress. If you don't, change, you ,
will be through not all at onc«, t'
be sure, but you can't go forward
standing still, and if yen don't do
better in l93o you'll be where you
were in 'U'j, and that's standing still
! or going backward.
Ibis leads like a . erition. It isn t
meant that way. It*, just my pecu-
liar We;, ,f ing Up to thi.-, —
If, oi 29 «- ... s. ... i .' 1 *1 ! ack
Mr . Vest ha been very faithful
to her clubs over the entire county,
and she has won the friendship of
each member of her club.
She was very elated over reci iving
the present, and expressed her ;incere
thanks to the donors.
SIT DENTS RETURN TO SCHOOL
ie In xact. Wi passed the 2."i mil-
lion mark bet wen IHf.O and 1860; b> i l{:*«l'op; if you leaned back with any
isso we had almost exactly BO mil
lion, and forty years later, in 1920
we had doubled that figure with 105,-
71 2o persons living in Continental
United State-. The Census Bureau
expert have made increases since the
time, and give it as their belief thai
enumeration of 1930 will sho.v be-
tween 121 and 12l> million
I and n.eci • of Uncle Sam
nephew -
n
i III SPIRIT OF \l>\ FN I I RE
The Airplane exemplifies as no-
thing else can, the spirit of adventun
the will to forge onward into the un-
known that has ever marked the sue-
ce : ;ul pioiie. ring of the American
community.
'this month, ii theii me age to
the community, the busine . men have
ik' i as their central theme, the alr-
place headed toward the dawn, over
ie •wn -ea . on n voyage whose on«
;.:ni is the bettc ni nt of mankind in
gem ral.
'The success of the trip depends in
a large measure upon the united func-
t ii ng of every member of the organ
, ! ion spons -ri ig th - flbrht, • ven
'i to the least important worktna i
:*h'-lit the airdrome. So it is with a
community. F.ach member must dt>
his share toward making the com
mtinity a successful community.
■ ■ ■ ■ ■ If — ■■■'■ —
oi your lOO-vvorn-out alibis ami let
the othei fellow do the work; if you
sat in the car while tho other boys
changed the tire; if you let some fool
petty jealousy keep yoij out of the
Chamber of Commerce or Lion''
Club; if you turned sour because
everybody else couldn't see things a«
you did; if you acted up like a school
Kid, and wouldn't play at all, and
tried to qioil the fun of others just
because they wouldn't play your way
and let
I ii lohetl
others to do something to build B;u*-
liop; if you spent your time pussy- ,
looting, scandal niongi ring and rah-'
' punching; if you kept your haml-i
i-i join pockets, leaning backward, i
while oth< rs were putting their
hotilder to the wheel pushing !'■
w-ird if you did these thing , a,iu!
T.iii'w you were doing them, you were
a civic moor her and <h- ervi no coi
ill oat ion fi-'iii neighbor or stranger, :
Mr yl.e you didn't know you were
doing uch things that's why 1 say
think it will do you good.
Copyrighted, 1929, A. I>. Stone. Re
production prohibited in whole or n
part.
This "'V'.vvn Doctor" \rticle puh-
lished by The Bastrop Advertiser in
cooperation with the Lion's Clut>.
With the ending of the Christmas
holidays, all of the Bastrop young
people, who have been at their re-
: pcctive homes with their parents
will return to the various colleges
ivi :• tm vate to resume their work,
'he e young people returning fur
j tin- holidays has greatly enlightened
the homes of their parents, and has
made Bastrop a happy place during
the holidays.
COM .MERC! \ 1.
FAILURES
DECREASE
AUSTIN, 'Texas, Dec. 31 Com-
mercial failures in Texas during Nov-
ember were fewer than in October.,
whereas a seasonal gain between the
two months is the normal trend, but
i n the other hand, the failing com-
voti be toucher; if you p.ioh j pan es were nearly double those re-
« verj attempt on the part >f ported in November, U 2H, according
I to Bei vard Niclud , editor of the*
Texas Business Review, issued month-
ly by the IUip ;iu of Business Kiv
search at the University of Texas.
"Dining the month, 44 companies,
1 having liabilities of $.122,000, went
into bankruptcy," Mr. Nichols -aid.
"In November last year, there were
24 bankruptcies, with liabilities of
•$701,000, and in October this year, ;10
I failures with liabilith. involving
$ft30,000."
o —
my
Him "Men of
running loose."
Her "Of course not That i
the police department is for.''
type art not
what
Mother "Why were >nu whipped
at choel today, Sammy?"
Sammy "Teacher told us to writ ,
an « ssay on 'Result of Laziness,' and
; ll.v-owned dwellings, and those facts I sent up a blank sheet of paper."
SORRY
Visitor "What nice furniture!"
Little Ronald: "Yea, 1 think th
man vre bought it from is sorry now
he sold it he's always calling."
What is the difference between a
mother and a barber? The latter
has razors to shave and the former
ahavt to raise.
"What kind of a radio have you
got?"
The railroad type—whittle*
every station.
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