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CROSBYTON, CROSBY COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JANUARY, 31,1930
Vocational Agriculture Dept
Sponsoring Drive
Against Pests
POISON BAIT RECIPE
Now Is Best Time Of The
— Year To Poison' "~
-Most Birds
The beginning of an active cam-
paign against the destructive English
sparrow this week will probably be
heralded with 'great delight by hun?
tireds of housewives and lovers of
flowers and gardens as -they begin
to think and plan out their gardens
and lawns for the spring.
Announcement of the campaigV
was made Tuesday of this week By
W. E. Jones, vocational agriculture
teacher, and will be conducted under
the auspices of the Future Farmers
of Texas Club. Cooperation on'the
part of every citizen* in the city is
solicited in an attempt to rid the
whole community of the "pests before
the spring, planting Aof flowers
the spring, glanting j oi x lowers and
gardens tegm. ^Th^ solicitation of
several ladies of the city brought
about the planning of the campaign,
said Jones.
Present Is Good Time
The present is one of the best
times of the year to poison birds.
Comtiriual oJreezJing makes the ijeed
scarce and they are more likely to
eat any kind of poison that is placed
out for them. The worms and insects
are still in the ground and spring
grass has not yet began to show. A
concentrated attack by all the citi-
zenship of the town at the present
time would rid the whole community
of the pest for the entire growing
season. • -
"Birds have peculiar habits," said
Jones. "If a few of them are killed
around the place and they aie left in
the open for two or three days, the
sparrows will leave and will not re-
turn."
Jones states that if enough poison
-is placed in the town, what sparrows
are not killed will leave and will not
retorn t^ the neighborhood; The
damage done by sparrows need not
be stressed, he continued, for every-
one knows at least part of what these
little birds do. They have ruined
whole gardens, they have dug up and
killed costly flowers that were the
pride of the owner as wall as the
community.
The poison may be placed on the
roof of houses, nailed in a box to the
top of. high fences, in unused chick-
en runs, or at any other place where
poultry can not get to them.
Future Farmers Sponsor
Members of tjie F. F. T. club will
begin the campaign by placing boxes
of the poisoned grain over the towu
at different places to show the re-
sults that may be obtained from if.
The first few parties getting in
i. —V- ...Itl M«• T<\ ne> «f ill na T no
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MANY TO ATTEND
HISTORICAL MEET
l|arly Histonr Of West
Texas Will Be
Recounted
Many old timers of Crosbyton and
Crosby county are expecteu to attend
the sixth annual meeting of the West
Texas Historical Association • -which
convenes at Texas Technological Col-
lege April 5. according to advance
ihdicatTor\s ait<l TitBtenrents freHr~"B
few of the leaders of the West Texas
Old Settlers Association, with! head-
quarters in Crosbyton.
John McDermett, former sheriff of
the county and a man reared in this
section of the country, has already
signified his intention of attending
the convention. Bob Smith
the famous Hank Smith
Blanco fame, will also^hfc_amon
those presenTTrom this county. At
least fifty or more will probably at-
tend from Crosby.
Many stirring incidents that Jtap-
Over Two Thousand Acres
Are Terraced To ,
January 1
plan night schools
1 "I' '
Farmers' Problems Will Be
rsed"Alri/!
Meetings
"■XtonssethArweeKr
Weather conditions havi made it
impossible for W. E. Jones, vocation-
al agriculture teacher here, to carry
rogram and schedule of ter-
.itn son of! 011 .h^ Wam and schedule oi
ith of Mt racinK farmSSn the territory
am™,, rounding Crosbyton recently
ing _
pened during the early da>s will be
recounted by old timers at the meet-
ing, says a release story coining from
Lubbock. Judge R. C. Crane, of
Sweetwater, will give the history of
the organization of Fisher county.
Roy Holt, superintendent of schools
at Eldorado, will discuss the era of
fence-cutting wars. Prof. L. E.
Sheffy of the West Texas State
Teachers College at Canyon, an au-
thority on many matters of history
in West Texa.s, will read a paper tell-
ing part of this history.
Judge Sam Cockreli, of Abilene^
will deliver an address on the po-
litical campaign of 1892 in West
Texas. Dr. P. C. Coleman of Colo-
rado, who practiced medicine in the
early days when he had to cover a
territory of 150 miles radius, will tell
something of his experiences.
Col. Smyth To Speak
Col. Smythe, of Plainview, who
helped lay and organide Hale county,
and is called the father of Plainview,
is on the program. Col. Smythe first
came to the plains country with the
old Estacado Quakers, and many of
his stories of the early days of his
country appear in the files of the
Crosbyton Review twenty years ago.
Judge Kinder, also of Plainview.
will appear on the program. He was
district attorney of a territory ir.
1M8-I890_.that. stretched from Baylor
county to the New Mexico line and
for a similar distance north and
south.
Dr. C. Granberry. head of the Tech
history department, and Dr. W. C.
Holden, also of the history depart-
ment, and actively connected with the
as4#|i&tion, are expecting a record
attendance on account of the inter-
esting program. In addition to the
program already announced, several
other old timers will take part on the
program of the day.
be
McDUFF ELECTED AS
FARM BUREAU HEAD
can be of any benefit
to you, do not faii to call on me,
them.
—Following is one of the best poison
baits to be used for lulling the pests r
PoisonBaititeeh*
^-44-o*r itrychnine plus JL fcup hot
water, add S teaspoons starch (or
wheat flour) with a few drops of
cold water, And heat stirring con-
stantly till the mixture thickens.
Four this mixture over 2 quarts
wheat kernels and stir until every
kernel is coated. Lay out in tain
layers and .let dry, wnat is not used
can be placed in a jar and kept foi
any length of time. Small-kerneled
wheat sold as poultry food, is reason
ably dean, is desirable.
Three days previous to putting out
the poisoned wheat, unpoisoned grain
should be placed out so as to acquaint
the birds with the feed and to over-
come suspicion, then the following
day or two days the poisoned feed
should be put out and then removed
and again the unpoisoned grain is
put out for about two days and then
repeat the above method. All- dead
birds should be removed immediately
as this will scare away the other
birds. About 20 kernels per bird is
allowed for poisoning.
After a rain the poison
outside will lose ita | fltlWHCfctfand will
_ poison may., be placed in un-
used poultry tuns, on roofs of houses,
or placed in shallow boxes 'and fas-
tened to a high fence.
WILL MOVE TO OREGON
A
J. L. Stockton Will Leave S#en For
That State to Make Home
J. L. Stockton and wife and per-
haps his brother-in-law expect to
leave here sometime about the first
of February for Oregon wherts they
will make their home.
Mr. Stockton owns about 200 acres
of land there and lived there a num-
ber of years before coming to Cro3-
f>w. . It., rietfepds^jakJfeeweathgr,
Mr. Stockton, as to when we
11 get off. but want to leave In the
rty part of February.
WANT NAME FOR BUTTER
County
butter, A
selected
T
4
contest
close
Review will
Other Officials Elected At
Annual Meet In
Joe McDuff of Crosbyton was elec-
ted to serve as president of the
Crosby County Farm Bureau Cotton
.Association for the .year 1930 at the
annual meeting of the members of
that organization held recently at
Ralls.
Other officers elected were as fol-
lows: W. R, Richards, vice-president;
P. Z. Harris, secretary and treasur-
er: G. M. Mann, C. R. Smith, A. D.
Ellison, R. A. Dobbs directors; ladies
elected were Mrs. May Dunn, Mrs.
J. R. McDuff, Mrs. Bert Moore, Mr3.
H. T. Snider. J. R. McDuff acted
as temporary chairman over the
meeting
Lectures were made to the mem-
bers following the election of officers
on the workings" ofthe stafe and na-
tional associations by W. H. Hames
of Crosbyton, and Overstreet Of Lub-
bock, state directors.
TV? ' " frn • '
PRESBYTERIANS
TO HOLD REVIVAL
*astor to Participate
In Meeting
An Evangelistic campaign becins
at the Presbytsrian church next Sun-
day morning «t the 11 o'clock hour.
JRev Walter K. Johnson, D. D., of
Lubbock, will conduct the services,
assisted by the pastor of the local
churches. This is not a meeting
especially for the Presbyterian churef;
though the services will be held in
their church. It is for an awakening
among the christians of all churches,
too, 2 possible get the whole lay
workers to bring their ..friends that
are lost, and tltose that have growr.
cold, to the Master, for conversion,
a re-awakening to the glories of
This is one time that
sur-
Crosbyton recently al-
ns continue to pile
into his office each day from farm
ers asking for assistance, as soon as
conditions become favorable.
The expected number of farms will
likely not be terraced this year, h«
said, due to nearly a month of con
tinual bad weather. Something like
two thousand acres of land had been
terraced up to the first of January
or until the blowing up of the first
blizzard and snow which ended op-
erations for the period ar.d are still
holding them in. check.
"There is Only one thing that wo
can do under the circumstances," he
continued, "to place the greatest
number of acres under terrace, or at
least to contour them, we must have
the best kind of cooperation from
the farmer himself. That is, we can
show him how to do the work, and
he must take it upon himself to do
Night Schools Planned
For this reason Jones is planning
the opening of two night schools in
the near future; "as soon as it gets
warm enough to keep the old Ford's
radiator from freezing," for the pur-
pose of instructing farmeia who de-
sire to know the processes of ter-
racing.
These two school will be held at
Smith community and at the Big
Four school, according to Jones. The
classes will meet once each week and
study different farming problems,
the dates of the beginnings of the
schools to be announced at a future
date. Every farmer in thn territory
will be invited to attend these meet-
ings. Further demonstrations will
probably be held as soon as the
weather permits, Jones said.
Will Discuss Farmers' Problems
Besides the question of terracing,
which will probably be discussed first
the plan of the night schools is to
take up any problems that might be
facing the farmer, different opinions
will be discussed, and important in
formation will be given out. Among
the projects that will be taken up are
the questions of feeding, breeding,
rotation of crops, and otner things
of interest to the farmer.
"I will be glad to answer any j
questions and discuss any question
with the farmer if he cares to call
at my office at the school building or
if he sees me on the street, "
RURAL SCHOOLS OF
COUNTY ABE SAFE
Apportionment Received
Before Injunction
Granted
Crosby county rural schools need
not fear the crisis facing over two
hundred schools in Texas, following
a decision by a Houston judge that
the five million rural aid appropria-
tion was unconstitutional. B, F.
Hicks, county school superintendent,
Practically five thousand dollars.
Crosby county's apportionment of the
funds which were available for rural
schools this year, was guaranteed
Saturday with the receipt by the
Citizens National Bank of this city,
of an exchange on a bank in Hous-
ton, prior to the injunction which was
filed the same day.
Teachers Now—Have Funds
Apportionment of the funds were
immediately sent "out to each school
district in the county, thus avoiding
the calamity of having to close any
school in the county. Warrants oa
one-half million dollars of the five
million were issued by the depart-
ment at Austin before proceedings
to secure an injunction against it's
use had gone into effect, and Crosby
county's apportionment was included
among this already patd-qn the order
of the comptroller. -
Bankers of the. city stated the first
of the week that there was no way
in which an exchange on another
bank could be turned down, as it was
similar to a cashier's check to custo-
mers of a bank.
Special Session Is Likely
An associated press stovy running
in Tuesday's paper cited the possi-
bility of another called session of the
legislature to enact remedial legis-
lation for those rural schools depriv-
ed of necessary funds through the
injunction, as foreseen by S. M. N.
Marrs, state -superintendent.
Marrs pointed out that an appeal
from the injunction granted by a dis-
ti'Jpt court in San Antomo will be
filed Wednesday with the court of
civil appeals there. If that court
dissolves the injunction the necessary
legislation can be had in the last two
weeks of this session. If an appeal
to the supreme court has to be made,
another session will be necesary, he
said.
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V
II
Court Room Crowded In Sensational Last Day of „
Arguments of Attorneys Take Full Day With Jury
Retiring At Fifteen Minutes Till Four.
iieftains
drub westerners
Vaughmen Oust Class
Team In 16 To
6 Score
firftshvtfyrl f!hi aff Ainn completely
RALLS YOUTH DIES
OF ELECTROCUTION
Highly Charged Barb Wire
Causes the Death of
Curon Tanton
upset the dope bucket last Saturday
night to defeat the Lubbock high
school Westerners in a one-side**
score of 16 to 6, when they played
that team for the first time this year
at the Tech gymnasium.
The practice game which the
Westerners had easily expected to
win turned out to be one in which
they could not even score for three
full quarters of the game. An off-
night for the Lubbock crew has been
claimed by supporters of that team
as the very apparent reason for the
sound drubbing which they' received,
but neither was the homelings play-
ing as they did against the Snyder
and Anson crews two weeks ago.
Coach Del Morgan of the Western-
ers endeavored to break the losing
sti-eak of hfc team by playing eve^y
combination that he had at his com-
mand, but at no time of the game
was the threat anything to talk about
For the first three quarters of the
game they were able to muster one
counter, that from a free toss, and
even the fourth quarter showed little
difference until toward the very last
of the game.
Crosbyton defense showed up bet-
ter than any other section of either!
murder for the slaying of S.
Walker, 78, on the 28th day of
tober, 1929, was turned over to the
jury at fifteen minutes of four yes-
terday afternoon with final instruc-
tions firog} Judge Homer L. Pharr of
this the . 72nd Judicial district folios**
ing a full day of arguments of state
and defense attorneys,.
Was Uncle Sain Walker* killed
wiht malice or forethought; or did
Joe Hawkins, his son-in-lnw, shoot
in self-defense, was the jury's last
minute instructions upon which they
must decide the fate pf this man. ,Joe
Hawkins and his wife, with their six
children surrounding them,, sat un-
perturbed in the court room through-
out the day of heated discussions.
Jury in the trial was completed &
short time before noon Wednesday
and taking of testimany was started
immediately. J. S McCain, a near-
by neighbor to Walker, was the first
witness to take the stand. He told
of having gone out in a field to hunt
a boy named .Atyldhison to get him
to cut feed for him and found hint)
near a field owned by Walker. As>
he talked to him, Walker came up
and he left: with the aged man to
Hawkins' home in McCain's car. .
McCain testified when lie ttnti
walker arrived at the
his wife and son, and Floyd and
Eugene Brents were standir
yard watching a d
Walker
er got
in the
w 6 Mil'
out of the car and called
to Hawkins to stop the figb
in any otner section ot eitner ■ Words Exchanged
team. Coach Morgan's men were; "I noticed that the dogs were fight-
forced to shoot from the center of j ing and drove near bat stayed in the
the court to get in any shot at all. | carj" tMcCain stated. "Walker got
Each team played on the floor ap- I out of the car and went i p to the
parently lost its bearings while ap-j fight fetid told them to separate the
proaching within firing distance of dogs. I could not hear the reply be-
the basket and attempts to penetrate , cause the engine was runnins '
the zone defense of the Chiefs^prove Ijstopped the engine and-heard W
futile. say, 4I don't have to leave until !
Little Olin Karr, forward for the j want to;' Hawkins replied, 'You'll
Chieftains, was high point man for leave sooner than that.'
"Hawkins went to the house and
RALLS, Jan. 27.—His body con-
tacting with a highly charged barbed
wire fence, through a broken high-
line, Curon Tanton, 17-year-old
stepson of D. A. Senn, fanner re-
siding four and one-half miles north-
west of here, was instantly killed to- j B. Hilliard, f
day near his home.
"Death by electrocution," was the
Jones verdict returned following a coroner's
st held just before noon in the
office of Justice of the Peace R.
po:
the home team with five field goals
and one free pitch to his credit; mak-
ing a total of eleven points- He also
donated one p
when he pitched a free toss into the
wrong basket in the first of the
fourth quarter. Field goals by Hen-
son and Sides for the Westerners in
the closing minutes of play account-
ed for the points of that team.
The box score:
CROSBYTON (16) FG FT PTS
Curry, f
O. Karr, f
WaHderr followed. Hawkins entered
the house and got a gun then came
oint to the Westerners back to the porch. Walker was be-
neath the porch when Hawkins told -
someone to stand back. He raised
the gun and fired." t
According to McCain, Walker car-
ried a hoe on his right shoulder, hav-
ing placed it there when he got out
of the car, and held it there through-
out the argument until the firing. He
testified further that he wasn't
watching the hoe but Walker was
standing still and was not in a
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MAINS BURST AS
TEMPERATURE RISES
Three Breaks Reported To
Officials Tuesday
Morning
With rising temperatures and
thawing pipes during the.past few
days, employees of the city water
works are facing a new problem in
the trouble of broken mains in th«.
city. Three of these breaks were re-
►iJjiJad Monday night and Tuesday
morning of this week.
These mains, however, were only
three inch pipes, branching off from
the main lines from the water tower,
and thus affected only certain sed-
itions of the city. One break was
found in the main running north ta
the Texas Compress in the northeast
section of the city. Another
thawed and water «aa. b«febitBg up
nJEcTlfie street " just south of the
Garber Service Station on fifth
street.
More residents are still crying for
attention as each thawing spell
brings more leaks and breaks into
existence among the houses in the
city. M&n yreport that-they are; still
without water.
m.
Reed, assisted by- Dr. E, R. Haney.
No funeral arrangements have been
set.
A report given by the father and
TOTALS
LUBBOCK (6)
mother stated that Mrs. Senn noticed t Holmes, f
a grass fire, aproximately 100 yards
from the home, shortly after 8 o'clock
this morning and sent young Tanton
to investigate. When he did not" re-
turn in a period of time estimated
at from 20 to 30 minutes, Mr. Senn
went to the scene and found the lad
>iing across the barbed wire fence,
apparently lifeless.
At a point a mile and a half west
of the accident's scene it was dis-
covered that a Texas Utilities com-
pany highline, running between Ralls
and Floydada, had broken, contact-
ing with and "heavily charging the
fence leading to the point where thf
lad was killed; Utilities company
employes discovered, the break and
cut off the power sometime between
ftlie time the boy was eelctrocated
and when.^J>io--"irt>ewfwthe>' . Utah■ ■ ifa"
~ y did not
know, however, until later that there
had been a casualty as result of the
highline's break.
The grass fire was ignited when
the heavily charged fence-became so
hot that it broke, falling into
high grass.
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Andrews, g 0 0 0
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cDermet? g
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Green, f
Noah, f
N. McGeehee, f ~
Pressley, c —
Hardberger, g c ...
Price, g
M. McGeehee, g ...
Hinson. g ...
Frizzell, g
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TOTALS ...
Referee—Harvey.
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threatening position at the time of
the shooting. , ,,? <->
"I seen him shoot Walker" he de-
clared. "Walker wasn't doin;
thing and Hawkins raiaedJbj
Walker turned away a utt
any-
ancT
—j Hawkins fired. Walker staggeqed
and fell.
The second witness called
Dr.
l| W. C, Snow, of RallSj Who went to
0 the scene shortly after the shooting
0 He testified that bullets entered on
1 the left side of the chest, all the war
01 across, coming out on the other side
PERKINS TELLS OF
FEDERAL RESERVE
■Workings FisUeia}—R-esewe
Bank Explained to
Rotarians ^
and re-awakenir
His kingdom.
DYER GETS PROMOTION
Will Leave First ef Month for La-
mesa; with Cicero Smith C«.
Arthur "Happy" Dyer, bookkec
for the Cicero Smith Lumber C
pany of this city was notified this
week of his promotion by the com-
pany to a similar office of the com-
pany at Lamesa, Texas. He will
leave the first of the month to tat?
up Ws work in the new offices.
Dyer has been with the. lur
WILL YOU VOTE?
Today, the thirty-first day of
January, will decide how many
people in this county appreci-
ate their right as citizens to
cast their vote and help to de-
cide who will become officers
in the state and county for the
next two years. . . '.
Whoever shall read this ar-
ticle and has not paid their
poll tax as yet, should remem-
A talk on the Federal reserve bank
by E. M. Peririns was the
at the regular mm hour
luncheon of the Ri
at the Smith House. ,
Mr. Perkins went into details of
the workings of Jfhe federal
baittc and it's economic
regards business of the &
outlining the plans on
\ Talks on "Vocation," or "How, My
Vocation Would Treat It's Competi-
P. Walker
to*v" were made - b,
Dick Ragan and W. M. Curry.
With Miss Josephine McBride at
the piano, several songs were sung
by the club. '
. New Song Leaders. , .
"It seems that there are two Ro-
and that wounds were found on both
arms.
Defense Pretests
The defense protested the state's
stioning of the doctor if in his
lion bullets wtould have entered."
. arms if Walker had been stand-
ing in a threatening position.
Floyd1 Brentfr, 18-year-old son of a
tenant ■fartrler on ... Walker's farm,
added testimony to that of McCain
and explained that he and his hrt-
ther, Eugene, were passing Hawk-
ins' home with a load of feed, their
bulldog foHoiffing behind thein.
said that
SB
they
..e 'sicced' them together
minutes before Walker and
drove up,
Brents told of Walker coi
the yard with a "little old
his right shoulder, saying
to separate the dogs.
"Walker -said, *rull them
apart,' and Hawkins replied,
ain't hurting nothing.*
"'Yes they are too, see
blood.' i.
"'They're my dogs
m they want to. You
en home gran
" 'I don't ha«*"
" 'YobVIMK
Son
Bre
should get busy and do our part in
helping God to bring hi another
Penticostal time when soula shall be
added to the Kingdom of such as
shall be saved, through the Redeem-
er of the lost. . Everyone should
..ds meeting and al
3rif should be there to help Wi'
the music. It is not a Presbyteriatt]1^ There will be a farm sale at Ji
is yours, and everyone®
part in It. A hearty
and the promotion comes «, r
of the plan of the company to a
vance deserving officials. His pla
will be taken m the Crosbyton
by G v«r Cartwright, who h^s
*|Spthe company in this city for
PVron's place close to the Four
Lake school house, half way bet
is their duty a well as
right to pay their poll tax and
cast their vote during the comb-
ing elections. The other point
to remember is this: Whether
you vote or not. ydu must pay
m p .fc ■ fc . — sjkM- . ttA;
—youTxpmt HiTi-ior IV ^WIH—PC_...
assessed against you along with
your other taxes.
Also today is the last day
ome
«*« _
lumber
= to his home'
week on account of illness.
be held on
and will st
In ca
it will
folio*
n or snowon
on Thursday,
Marians that are not
Jreen, program
two' men, J.
lynes Hendricks to t
_nd lead this song}'™ which 1
id without hesitancy.
Following up the
kT you are called <
Jrosbyton Rotary club has i
respect, fm
that
LrT__^caWO;,|o ,tfte. stand, ,
.' .r"
gofffljfA and
Hi l&i
his leftj
you to
esc^peL 1..
■ii
W. F. Hawkins, of Lorenzo, was
here Monday attending to business
heWf he ca*ne to the Re-
view office and moved his subscrip-
tion tip a year. '
I fj K . J 4 f
house."
®gfj|r said ....tin
hands on the
..Waimji
, a heavy one, and
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ip> -ii,.*| " I
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Curry, W. M. The Crosbyton Review. (Crosbyton, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, January 31, 1930, newspaper, January 31, 1930; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth242842/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Crosby County Public Library.