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The alto
erald
F. L. WEIMAR. EDITOR AND OWNER
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $1.50 THE YEAB.
VOLUME XXVIX
THE Al/TO HERALD, ALTO, TEXAS, JANUARY 16, 1930.
No. 38.
TFNTH ANNIVERSARY OF MAGIC ACT AT HIGH Z. J. AMERSON WRITES
NATIONAL PROHIBITION SCHOOL JANUARY 25. INTERESTING LETTER.
The prohibition law against
liquor has been passed ten
years. The same year that this
law became effective the ac-
tion of Congress was ratified
by the state legislature of Tex-
as, making it become operative
in the State of Texas.
Under this law, the citizen
who manufactures, sells or
transports intoxicating liquor
does so in violation of the Con-
stitution of the United States of
America, and therefore be-
comes a traitor to the flag that
protects him.
It has been only a matter of i
a few weeks ago that Hon.
Morris Sheppard, United States
Senator of Texas, interpreted
this law to also include the
person who bought liquor was
as guilty as the man who made
it, and this would therefore
place him in the same cate-
gory as the common boot-
legger.
Texas, Kentucky, Jan. 8, 1930.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Poore,
Alto, Texas.
Dear Friends:
Here we are in our new
home all set up to house keep
ATTEMPT TO ROB
BANK AT WELLS
1 MADE FOUR TIMES CITIZENS WANT FAIR
STATE AVERAGE HELD AT RUSK
I
An unsuccessful attempt was
made last night to burglarize
the First State Bank at Wells.
Tfcf burglars got approximate-
ly $100 in pennies.
Forty*six Cherokee county
4-H club boys made four times J
the State average in cotton pro-
duction this year with yields
averaging 400 pounds of lint
Entrance was gained by tun-1 per acre, and one of them, Wal-1
ing again. We stopped in Ten-| nelling through the brick wall, lace Hall, with a yield of 1,203
nessee for a few days visit with1 into the vault. The money safe I pounds of lint on one acre, is
relatives and when we got to was turned over on its side and .claimed to be the champion boy
Springfield our H. H. goods anlattempt was made to cut in-1 cotton grower in East Texas,
were there. We had them to it with acetylene welding Last year he produced 1,025
hauled out Monday and were; toshes. It was said that the pounds of lint cotton on an
keeping house just eight dayst sale was still hot Monday acre.
from the time they left our
house in Alto, 950 miles away.
We found the weather much
milder than we expected. It
was frozen up when we got
here, but soon thawed out and
has been real warm for this
country ever since. It is rain-
ing here now and has been for
The appeal of magic and twentv_four hours. The radio
HSStfSKMSES ;°ld (.rthi.
anu umvcxaai. xu " section by tomorrow nite.
to any nation or people and it is * .
as powerfully exerted upon Our house is a nice five room
as it is upon chil- cottage with a large attic for
The law has been flagrantly ^en^ho derive pleasure' from storage purposes,
-ilated in every part of the . . are plastered and
The rooms
violated in every part
United States, and until the - uaijed by the glamor of the ea ana tne
citizenship demands it s vig- cjrcU8 For thig
reason it is ex-' painted. W1
to all alike
a magic show that can only be
plastered and newly paper-
ed and the woodwork newly
[e have two grates
orous enforcement to all alike "that Birch Master of aild three Places for stoves,
and get officials who are not m ^ . m be hogt to capacity, There will be no trouble in
sympathy with the wet element audjences of Alto people, when 'keeping the house warm
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the prohibition law will never
become wholly operative.
Washington, Jan. 11.—The
Eighteenth, or Prohibition
amendment, was submitted to
the states by congress Dec. 18,
1917. The secretary of state
proclaimed it in effect as of
Jan. 16, 1920—the official
birthday of federal prohibi-
tion. The Volstead act became
effective the same date.
The amendment reads:
1.—After one
he presents
ray of illusions
School A'uditQrium Saturday
night, January 25, 1930. I
The Birch show is one of the
finest and most magnificient
his mystifying ar- ™oms are nice size, not too
n+ thp Hich large, not too small. We like
them very much. The yard is
well sodded in blue srrass,
green and pretty. We will not
be troubled with mud being
now on tour and it is undoubt- tracked into the house. Our
edly the most complete ever fade trees are locust. You no
presented here. Although he doubt know how profusely they
is only 28 years of age, so great bloom in the spring and how
has been his experience and so sweet they smell. A store is on
ably demonstrated has been his one side of us and the doctor
taionf that Thurs- llves Just across the street in
metering when it was discover- These boys used an average
edi | of 406 pounds of commercial
•The attempt was made some fertilizer per acre, according to
time after 10 o'clock Sunday | W. L. Knapp, county agent,
night, for employees of the who states that the formulas
bank were said to have been most commonly used were 4
working at that time. The (Nit.), 8 (Phos.)^ 4 (Pot.)
yeggmen were probably inter- Wallace Hall applied 500
rupted in the act by passersby, pounds of 2-10-2 fertilizer and
for 'the safe showed that they side dressed with 200 pounds
had made considerable head- of nitrate of soda.
way toward burning a hole in In corn growing demonstra-
it. | tions 22 club boys averaged
It is thought they came in a 42.4 bushels per acre and used
truck for freshly made tracks an average of 294 pounds of
wefe found at the rear of the fertilizer per acre. Both cotton
building. Officers from Alto and corn club boys showed that
and Rusk made an investiga- it pays to break early and deep,
tion Monday morning but no use good seed, and fertilize
arrests have been made up to heavily.—Farm and Ranch.
Wednesday afternoon. . —
JONES—McGAUGHEY
POLITICAL ANNOUNCE- •
MENTS THIS WEEK Mr. Jewel Jones
i Reba McGaughey
C. L. (Dixie) Arnwine, Tax their many
Assessor.
The bad weather Monday
night prevented a large at-
tendance at Rusk for the pur-
pose of discussing a Fair for
Cherokee county next fall, but
we are informed that the citi-
zens of the county seat came
out in force and stated very
emphatically that they wanted
the Fair to be held afKusk.
As this was one of the main
features of the meeting to be
discussed, as much good was
accomplished as if the whole
county citizenship had been
present.
If interest in this matter can
be kept up throughout the sum-
mer, the Herald feels sure that
Cherokee county will stage a
Fair that will eclipse anything
to be held in East Texas.
MR. JESSE HILL
BURIED AT SHILOH
, : ... ratification of .
>■ manufacture, sale, or tranapdr-
ment reads: ■ 0 ' «onai talent that Thurs- lives just across the street in
,eyear from the > rld _ greatest man feont of us. The post office is
this article the , pugKclv stated nght at us. We have a garage,
£ the logical one to
tation of intoxicating liquors ^ the world's reigning
within, the importation there- .. ^ magic, when he retires
4-V,n ovnAnfofmn I " ® 7 . i i_ _ _
from the stage as he has an-
doing in
of into, or the exportation
thereof from the United Statesj
and all territory subject to the
jurisdiction thereof for bev-
erage purposes is hereby pro-
hibited.
2.—The congress and the
several states shall have con-
current power to enforce this
article by appropriate legisla-
tion.
3.—This article shall be in-
operative unless it shall have
been ratified as an amendment
to the constitution by the legis-
latures of the several states, as
provided in the constitution,
within seven years from the
date of the submission hereof
to the states by the congress.
MOSES—DUNCAN
nounced he intends
about two years.
Included in the Birch reper-
toire are such magnificient
illusions as the vanishing pony,
in which a beautiful Shetland
is caused to disappear into thin
air, the coffin escape, the beau-
tiful silk production act, the
canary and the light bulb and
demonstrations of spirit slate-
writing and portrait painting.
The advance sale of tickets
has already begun. Admission
prices have been fixed remark-
ably low for an attraction of
such high calibre and present
an opportunity which has rare-
ly been duplicated to see a
master of his craft. Tickets are
on sale by students of school
where they can be obtained un-
Mr. Ernest Moses and Miss! til an hour prior to each per-
Inez Duncan were happily j formance, after which they
married Thursday night, Jan- will be sold at the door until
uary 9th, at the home of the the curtain rises upon the per-
bride's uncle, John Smith, Rev. formance.
Condrey officiating. The current tour is Birch s
Their many friends join us 11th annual one and he has in
in wishing them much happi- that length of time gathered to-
ness and prosperity.
Patronize our advertisers.
gether a most impressive pro-
gram of mystifying illusions
and manifestations of magic.
The palace Cafe
A IT'S A PLEASURE TO
PLEASURE
SERVE YOU
Extends a cordial invitation to
Mr. and Mr*. Joe Sam Jones
To lunch next Sunday, Jan. 19 between the
hours of 11:30 and 1:30 p.
m.
J. D. Sartain Filling Station
AJAX TIRES
Best Tires and Lowest Prices.
REPAIR WORK AND
ACCESSORIES.
Gulf Gas. No-Nox Motor Fuel
'Fix Tires While You Wait."
259 Phones 260
three stall barn with loft foi^
hay, a smoke house, chicke
house and a fine garden an
apple orchard with peachef,
pears, plums and grapes.
We had two nice servicep
Sunday although the ground
was frozen and a big whits
frost lay all around Sunday
morning. They have two largo
coal stoves in the church and
the house was as warm as was
necessary to have it. We had
about 250 present Sunday
morning. Had a good Sunday
School and a good B. Y. P. U.
at nite. The church has a rule
of paying the preacher every
Monday morning. So Monday
morning here came the treas
urer with a check for me. I had
not thought of such a thing, did
not know that they did that
way. But it suits me all right,
But these people do not know
what hard times are. They
have nice homes, make fine
crops and lay up money every
year. Tobacco is averaging 26c
per pound and they make from
800 to 1500 pounds per acre
They raise lambs and pigs for
sale. Some have a lot of lambs
running around on rye fields
now. These lambs will weigh
100 pounds or more by June
and will bring the top of the
market, $17, no doubt. I see a
number of ewes with two lambs
That means that the ewe will
make her owner $32 besides
the wool. No wonder these
farmers know nothing about
hard times.
We appreciated you taking
us to Jacksonville and when
you get here next summer we
will do our best to show you a
good time. I Will have my new
| Whippet then and we can see
the blue grass sights. I must
close. Write us soon.
Fraternally yours,
Z. J. Amerson.
Clay Bingham, County Clerk.
Miss Bernice Williams,
County Treasurer.
J. J. (Cap) Bolton, County
Ji dge.
T. E. Singletary, County
Commissioner.
The above list constitutes the
j .js' names that wUkba £°m>.d
to ihe' political announcement
columns of the Herald since
last week.
There isn't a one of them
that needs any introduction to
the people of south Cherokee
county, as all of them are now
holding the office to which
they ask re-election, and every-
one of them have proved to be
efficient servants of the peoplej
in this county, and because of j
the fact that their services have
been entirely satisfactory, they
are not likely to have opposi-
tion, if so, this paper has not
heard of it.
When the people have a
good County Judge, County
Clerk, County Treasurer, Tax
Assessor and good Commis-
sioners, it's a dangerous thing
to make a change, and this col-
lection of officers named here
have their various departments
of the county government in
such good shape that there is
never a ripple of discontent nor
trouble.
Between now and the July
primaries, all of them will .ask
you for your support, and it
might be well to consider the'
fact that they are experienced
in their work and any change
you might make would be a
bad one. j
and Miss
surprised
friends Thursday
evening, January 9th, by driv-
ing to the Parsonage home of
Rev. Condrey and had the
words said that joined them
together in the holy bonds of
matrimony.
They have a host of friends,
wishing for them much happi-
ness.
The remains of Mr. Jesse
Hill, age 74, who died at his
residence in West Alto last
Thursday morning, were in-
terred at the Shiloh cemetery;
Friday afternoon.
The funeral services were
conducted by Rev. S. E. Harry,
family pastor, interment being
under the direction of R. R.
Stribling.
J. D. CARR GOES TO MACKS
MALE HELP WANTED
Farmer or farmer's son
wanted to represent us in
Cherokee County. No invest-
ment. No experience—just
your time. Big earnings. Free
outfit.
Beard Paint Co., Dept. 3,
Kansajs City, Mo.
Patronize our advertisers.
His breadth of experience as a
magician and his own attrac-l
tive personality make him one
of the most capable and pleas-'j
ing entertainers the magic
world has ever produced. !■
Tickets for the local engage-
ment are priced at 35 cents for
adults and 25 cents for chil-
dren.
THE PLACE TO EAT
MINTER'S
Lunch Room
Home Style Cooking
FRESH BREAD BAKED DAILY
"We Feed the People"
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M
J.D. Carr will assume charge
j of the mechanical department
of Mack's Service Station be-
ginning next Monday. Mr.
Carr is a first class mechanic,
and has many friends in and
around Alto who will wish him
i success in his new position.
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Tourings
Roadsters
Sedans
Trucks
Every
Car
Guarante'd
as Rep-
resented
Fords, Chevrolets
Pontiacs and Buicks
Short crop conditions have placed many in position where
they do not feel able to buy a new car this year.
If you are in that position, we extend to you an invitation
to look in our used car department. We have all makes of
cars that we have taken in on new Chryslers. All of them
have been gone over and put up in fij-st class shape, many
of them newly painted, but ALL of them put in first class
shape mechanically.
These cars are priced so you can Buy them, and we will
make liberal tefms to responsible people.
COME !N AND LET US SHOW YOU OUR USED CARS
THAT ARE REAL BARGAINS
J. H. Pearman Garage
Chrysler Sales and Service.
Phone 236 ALTO, TEXAS
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Weimar, F. L. The Alto Herald (Alto, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 16, 1930, newspaper, January 16, 1930; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth214533/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Stella Hill Memorial Library.