The Alto Herald (Alto, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 20, 1930 Page: 1 of 8
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The alto
f. L. WEIMAR. EDITOR AND OWNER
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $1.60 THE YEAR.
VOLUME XXVIX
THE ALTO HERALD, ALTO, TEXAS, MARCH 20, 1930.
No. 47.
E. W. Cole Gets i Baptist Have Alto To Have Valley Tomato Crop
Government Job Services Sunday i Talking Pictures Will Move in May
Cattle Dipping Law Better Farming;
Effective April 1 Meeting Well Attended
The following item is taken
from the San Augustine Tri-
bune:
Mr. E. W. Cole has been ap-
pointed Acting Postmaster for
San Augustine, vice Mrs. Cy-
nthia Martin, resigned. This
announcement was given out
by Mrs. Martin last week.
Mr. Cole arrived from Alto
Sunday and entered upon his
duties Monday and thoroughly
familiarizing himself with the
stock, clerical work, etc. of the
office.
Mr. Cole stated that it is his
intention to render the patrons
of this office just as good ser-
vice as possible and he asks
the co-operation of the public
to that end.
He expects to move to this
city in the near future and a
most hearty welcome is ex-
tended him and family to the
city.
R. E. FINLEY FOR COMMIS-
SIONER PRECINCT NO. 1.
Rev. Smith of Fort Worth,
will fill the pulpit at the Bap-
| tist Church in Alto next Sunday
morning at 11 a. m., and again
in the evening at 7 :.'.0 p. m.
Rev. Smith was i. '•e and
pleached for us on March 9,
and all who heard aitn en-
i joyed his sermons very much.
The Baptist people of the
Alto church are >, specially
urged to come to church Sun-
day and give this man of God
a good hearing. As you know,
this church is without a pastor
at this time, and we might see
fit to call Bro. Smith as a
permanent pastor. Be loyal to
your church and come out at
both services.
, Sunday School at 9:45 a.m.,
and B. Y. P. U. at 6:30. Young
folks of the whole community
have a cordial invitation to
come to these young folks
meetings and take part. Be on
time.
Berryman & Watters make) - According to the Kansas Considerable opposition is About seventy-five farmers
the announcement this week, City Packer, a newspaper de- being manifested by the people ar(j business men of Alto and
that they have leased the Ma- \toted to the vegetable King- of Cherokee county to the neighboring communities at-
jestic Theatre for a period of <fom of the United States, the "dipping law" that goes into tended the "Better Farming"
one year to Mr. Joe Distefono tomato crop of the Rio Grande effect in this county on April program held in the high
of Lufkin former owner of the Valley will begin to move a- 1. | school auditorium on last Fri-
Texan Theatre at Lufkin. 1
Mr. Distefono was here the
first of this week, and stated
that plans would immediately
'alley will begin to move a- 1.
jbqut May 1 i The Herald editor hasno day nightunder" the' dk^ction
1 inisis not good news tojthe cattle, jacks, jennies or other of the Farm Labor Union and
go forward to make the Ma-j
jestic one of the best little
theatres in East Texas, and
that he contemplated spending!■
fmato growers of the East animals to dip, therefore, we Vocational Agriculture De-
Exas country. Ordinarily, the have no axe to grind, but we' partment. There were four dis-
ulley crop of tomatoes is out have lived in East Texas long tinguished visitors on the pro-
the way and foegotten by enough to know that this law jjram. Mr. H. L. Watkins, who
lay lj but this year they were is one of the worst ever placed i3 wjth the Russell's, Cotton
t by snow and freezing upon the statue books of the Breeding Farms
between five and six thousand ifeather in January thac State of Texas.
INMPROVEMENTS
>
The Herald is this week
authorized to place the name
of R. E. Finley as a candidate
for the office of Commissioner
from Precinct No. 1
There is no necessity for us
to try and acquaint the people
of precinct No. 1. .with. Mr.
Fenley, as he has lived among
them all his life, and has been
one of the main upbuilders of
Cherokee county. He i3 a
sterling citizen, fully aware of
the precincts needs, and is
well qualified to fill the of-
fice he is asking for,. —
CREAM STATION OPEN.
My cream'station will be op-
«n again Saturday at Birdsong
■Grocery, and I can pay 31c for
your cream. No commision de-
ducted.
Mrs. A1 Smith.
Patronize Our Advertisers.
Minter's Hot Shop and
Eakery is being renovated this
week in order to make room
for their expanding business.
The baking department is
being moved to the rear of the
present location, and this space
will be used to place tables for
customers. Mr. and Mrs. Min-
tcr are enjoying a fine trade
with their little cafe and
bakery, and very much deserve
it, as they are both hard work-
ers and active boosters for the
home town.
"The Viking" is tr
magniflcient adventure in
films, showing the first man to
reach America before Colum-
bus, the boldest mariner of ail
times, scenes of colorful feuds
and daring raids, the love of a
Norse Princess and a slave, a
thousand wonders to thrill you
I in "THE VIKING" at the Ma-
1 iestic Theatre Thursday and
Friday March 20th and 21st.
■It's an all color picture.
dollars in improving the new
talking theatre for Alto.
The very latest projecting
machines with the talkin
equipment will be installe
Opera chairs will also
placed in the auditorium and
all fans removed and a co
plete air cooling system i
stalled. A pipe organ is also
to be one of the new addition!
to the theatre
Mr. Distefeno stated th $
the building was admirabl
built for talking pictures am
very little would have to be
added to it to make the accous-
tic clear, and that he expected]
to make this one of the clearest
talking theatres in this section
Mr. Distefeno is well know
in Lufkin, having been in tha'
city for the past sevente
years, and has just recently d
posed of the Texan Theatre ai
Lufkin. He is an experienc
picture show man, and his ta
ing over the Majestic will me;
that Alto will enjoy tal
pictures that will compar
orajilj with any towi> in
e cxpects to have the s
/ready and in operation by
April 15th at the very latest.
gave a very
interesting talk on the "Econ-
ught their plants in the field In the first place, you could 0mic Value of Long Staple Cot
d being something unusual, not rid this county of the tick ton to the Farmer "Mr. Wright
had to start all over again if you dipped cattle
.. every
lising plants, and instead of two days instead of every two
rving a February crop of torn- weeks. The so-called fever
>es,; they will have one in tick that the "high collars"
■ y-„ are so worked up about not
SThare is one way for the only lives upon the blood of
jjjirmers of East Texas to com- cattle but, will exist upon any-
it that crop successfully, and thing that has blood, and mak-
at is on the quality of the ing the farmers and stockmen
R®mato. The V«Hey crop of of this county stop their work
imatoes is far inferior to every two weeks and go
lose raised in East Texas, through with this
r authorty for that state- dipping cattle is not
tent is Marketing Agent Mc- pensive to the state and coun
who is with the Texas Fer-
tilizer Co. of Nacogdoches,
gave an interesting talk on
"Fertilizer and its uses," Mr.
Knapp, ourCountyDemonstra-
tion Agent gave an interesting
talk on "Terracing and Crop
Rotation," and Mr. H. F. Mor-
ris, Superintendent of the Ex-
periment Station of Nacogdo-
ches, discussed the varieties of
farce of cotton to plant in this section,
only ex-1 This program is the begin-
ning of a series of meetings
£nnale of the Cotton Belt rail- ty, but does untold damage io that will be held in the high
school under the direction of
the Vocational Agriculture de-
partment.;
The next meeting- will be
He stated to the writer the stock dipped.
! time that he stood on pro- Just so long as there are
row in St. Louis and saw hogs, dogs, rabbits, squirreis
Texas tomatoes sell when and anything else that has
l«r| was no market for any hair and blood, rum loose itt held Friday night, March* 21st,
tomato. Cherokee county, just so long and it is hoped an even larger
Valley crop,' as a gen- will the tick exist, and to pick audience will be present at
si *ule, is shipped regardless out any particular animal to this time.
site and quality, just any- souse in creosote is both
ling to get them on market, waste of time an£ money. STATE AND COUNTY
Bib practice has been applied in spite cf t}lti fact that it is TAX INCREASE
i hast Texas by some of the going to work a hardship*
careless growers in the the stoc
leg ' """ '
on
I
BUY ALTO
BREAD
FOR RENT
McAnally Filling Station for
rent. Well equipped. See Mrs.
J. W. McAnally.
tAi
BOOKING FERTILIZER
You do not have to book fertilizer with us. We keep it
in stock for your convenience.
We handle all grades of fertilizers but know that
Swift's Red Steer 8—4—4 is the best fertilizer made for
tomatoes and truck. This fertilizer contains five different
sources of nitrogen and no other fertilizer with the same
analysis compares with this.
S. H. DORSEY & SON
HThe palace Cafe
x its aa pleasure to
serve you
Extends a cordial invitation to
Mr. and Mrs. Clint Harrison
To lunch next Sunday, Mar. 23 between the
hours of 11:30 and 1:30 p. m.
J. D. Sartain Filling Station
AJAX TIRES
at Tire* and Lowest Price*.
REPAIR WORK AND
ACCESSORIES.
iGulf Gas. No-Nox Motor Fuel
"Fix Tires While You Wait."
259 ' > Phones 260
Prohibition
Here Next
Speaker
Sunday
Dr. Atticus Webb of Dallas,
State Superintendent of the
Anti Saloon League of Texas,
will speak at the Methodist
church of Alto, at 7:30 p. m.,
Sunday, March 23rd. His sub-
ject will be "The Unfinished
Task."
Dr. Webb is well kpown
throughout Texas as one of the
ablest speakers on the issues
and problems involved in main-
taining and enforcing our dry
laws. Everywhere the people
hear him gladly. He has been
in this work for nearly a quar-
ter of a century, and the dry
forces of Texas have come to
know him and to believe in his
leadership.
The message at the church
this coming Sunday will aim to
clarify public thinking on the
problems involved in the en-
forcement of our dry laws,
answer some of the propagan-
da aimed against the laws, and
stir the good citizenry to a de-
mand that the laws be en-
forced. Wherever this message
has been delivered, it has mei
with great enthusiasm and
universal approval from those
in sympathy with our national
dry policy.
Dr. Webb never eijgages in
personal or partisan politics,
nor in abuse or villification, but
kindly and forcefully presents
his own views, and marshalls
the facts to sustain them in a
comprehensive way. His mes-
sages are always from the
viewpoint of the Christian
citizen.The Anti Saloon League
is fighting in behalf of our dry
laws from the standpoint of the
church, and not from the
standpoint of politics. Those
who hear him Sunday will not
regret it.
ers, we would Editor Herald r
to abide by the To answer a question that ia
me Jmrnt ■
•mato ileal ni bast ;.0ute out of the matter, and "How are collections for
'as, QUALITY must be the ;t should be gone after proper- 1929 compared to that of
dominating factor. v iy. Failing to dip wiir not set 1928?" I will say that for the
nhere is no denying the fact ,the law aside and that is the four months of collections for
indications point now to thing that should be done. 1929 show the amount of
conclusion that there is go- Stock men who are the hardest $260,275.59 against the a-
'(.to be lots of tomatoes 6n hit, should gather around mount of $237,224.45 for 1928.'
tl$ market at the same time, them sufficient stock owners! By a simple calculation you
it Texas competes with Mis- and see if an injunction cannot'will note that the gain for
ippi the early part of the be obtained through the courts 1929 is something over
slapping season, and just a- to stop the dipping. | $23,000. These amounts do not
D| it the time we
th
are closing In fairness to the County! "}c'ude amount. for the
deal here Tennessee comes fudge and the Commissioners S_tate neither does it include
on the market and with the Court of thig count it should the amount of Auto Registra-
Valley coming the first of May, ^ i-omomliPFPr! th f th™ HiH tions. The amounts above
they should be done by the 1st. not maiie the law. They get on'y apply to County Funds.
-W lt.M M . W. 1. < I . - .. M AM r.un I I *f 4- It .. A 19 / A , ] M
of June, which is generally the their instructions from the
East Texas shipping month. state Sanitary Livestock Com
Last year, we got our first
A. R. Odom.
tomatoes in Alto on the 25th of
mission, who
are working
„ „ , ,, „. „ under the law passed by the
'ia .Jl ni.£irSi t Cal mi?.3 f*rst called session of the Forty-
rolled on the 6th of June. This p;rgt legislature, and it is man-
year so far, seems to run about datory that they obey their su-
this average, and unless weath- ner;ori,
er breaks bad for the tomato
grower in Cherokee county,the
movement wilt be about the but
the same, as the plants are go
growers cannot begin to
think of the matter too early,
ing to the fields this week by If the weather man does noi
the thousands, and they went cut the crop somewhere, it Is
to the fields the same date last going to be the quality tomato
MJr. Joe Moore, who has
been employed at the State
Penitentiary at Huntsville for
the past several months, re
signed his position there Sat-
urday and has returned to
Alto.
year.
Another factor that must be
considered this year is the new
territory in East Texas. It will
not be near the acreage that
was first reported, not by fifty i
per .cent, but that fifty can hurt
if it beats Cherokee county to
market with good fruit. Just
v hat the increase will be in
c ther parts of the tomato belt
i mnot be said here, but Alto
1 as an increased acreage of
f sout seventy-five acres,which
Iso means that emphasis
a lould be placed on the good
t >mato.
There is no denying the fact
lat there have been farmers
this county who would
ship the vines," if they could
;t away with it, nothwith
anding that they ruin them-j
Ives as well as others in doing
and it is not too early now
begin to reason with them
id get them to leave out the
ulls" and bring only good
matoes to the sheds.
That same "shoe" should fit
ie shipper who accepts
ulls" and stock that is too
een. The farmer who wants
hold the quality up should
fcott any shipper he finds
taking anything but the best
matoes.
We realize that it is a little
rly to talk quality tomatoes
that will get the price.
BAPTIST WORKERS
AT LONE OAK
The Cherokee County Bap-
tist Workers Conference will
meet with the Lone Oak Bap-
tist Church at Lone Oak, Texas
Friday, March 21, 1930 at 10
a. m. A splendid program has
been arranged. Dinner will be
served by the Lone Oak church.
Come and lend your assistance
to this conference.
Geo. Thompson.
Now!
You Can
Get a
Genuine
(IB)
M*aa ■laiiTimo
Battery For Only
$7.50
J. II. PEARMAN OARAGE
PHONE 236
Alto, Texas
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Weimar, F. L. The Alto Herald (Alto, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 20, 1930, newspaper, March 20, 1930; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth214542/m1/1/: accessed March 29, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Stella Hill Memorial Library.