The Crosbyton Review. (Crosbyton, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, April 22, 1932 Page: 1 of 4
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Upbuilding o| Cro sbyton anil Its Trade Territory"
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OBERTS HEADS BIGBALLOT
TO WIS ELECTION BY 4 VOTES
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Roberts Gets 203 Votes^ to jHAMES. NOMINATED 4
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COTTON-JtSSN' 1933
Members of District are to
Vote In Near Future
Director
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109 For Huddleston; Big-
gest Poll In City's Histo-.
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?3S. L. Roberts will retain his place
99 mayor of Crosbyton, he being re-
elected to that position by a margin
of • four votes in the second
city election held in the past three
weeks to determine the mayoralty of
this city. Roberts received, 203 votes
to 199 for Chester Huddleston, his
opponent.
Roberts was declared winner in
the first election held Tuesday, April
5, following the first count which
gave him a lead of 171 to 168 for
Mr. Huddleston. Five ballots thrown
out in the first count, they being
cias&es as mutilated, were questioned
and in the final count were included.
Pour of these votes were for Hud-
dleston, the other for Roberts, caus-
ing the election to end in a tie, with
172 votes for each.
An unprecedented poll was estab-
lished for the city in the election,
with 405 votes being cast, three of
which were classed as mutilated.
This was the largest municipal vote
ever recorded here, being 61 over
the former record established two
weeks ago. The increasd vote was
attributed principally to overs ' who
-W. H. Hames, of Crosbyton, was
nominated as a director of the Lub-
bock district of the Texas Cotton Co-
operative Association last Saturday
u former director of the organiza-
tion. Earl R. Davis, Acuff, present
directs of this district, was also
nominated by the 34 delegates pie-
sent from three counties comprising
the district.
The names of these two men will
be sent to the Texas Cotton Cooper-
ative Association at Dallas, from
which place ballots will, be sent out
to each member in the district on
which he will vote for one of these
men for director. It is urged that
all members of the association vote.
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YTON, CROSBY COUNTY, TEXAS,
Elected in
CALICHE BASE ON HIGHWAY
24 THROUGH CITY COMPLETED
Topping of Highway To Be
Started Within Thirty
Days; Rock Crushing Ma
chine Here Soon
Laying of the caliche base for
Highway 24 through Crosbyton has
. - been completed, L. C. Ingram, resi-
at a district meeting of that organ-j <ient engineer repoits. Topping of
ization at Lubbock. Mr. Hames was ^ highway is expected to be start-
COUNTY CANDIDATES
TO HOLD MEETING
A call has gone out through Judge
Edgar Hutchins for the candidates of
the county to meet at the Court
House in Crosbyton Saturday at 2:30
p. m. for the purpose of arranging
speaking dates for the county cam-
paign.
ed in about 30 days.
The limestone rock found hercj in
the canyon will be used in the em-
Ktruction of-the, top, Mr. Ingram said
The contractors will bring their
crushing machine here where it will
I Mi located at the limestone bed. An
abundance of the limestone is to
be found here, he said.
Just how long the contractors will
be.in finishing the job after the top-
ping begins depends on how long it
will take to crush the rock, Mr. In-
: gram said, and in the meantime th«
turns aae,t0 k® made before the j contractors will go to Gaines county
annual meeting of the directors
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Perry Roberts and C. B .Wright of
Crosbyton also aCwnded the district
meeting last Saturday as delegates'
i-j * • ., 7 . "7 from the county association,
did not require a poll tax receipt to j ' "
vote.
No further controversy is expect-
ed, a«5 both mayoralty* candidates a-
jjreed prior to the election to abide
by the results of the first count of
Tuesday's election.
Gardeners Are Warned to
Kill Worms in Garden;
Poison Will Kill Chickens
COUNTY SHOWS DE-
CREASE OF 94 IN
SCHOOL CENSUS
Only Six of 19 School Dis-
trict Show Increase 0-
ver Last Year
Complaints of cutworms are mora
numerous this spring, perhaps, than
was ever known and due to the num-
erous inquiries for poison to kill
them the followiijg'is giving; as com-
ing from thono who atw authority on
Business Men Help Boys
Go To A. & M. Meeting
The poultry judging team of the
high school vocational department,
composed of Earl Perser, H. M. Reed
Jr. and Herschel Stockton made
high score in a district contest at:
Plainview Monday, April 11.
Business men of the city chipped
in to assist the boys in attending the
state meeting held the first of this
weekt- at A—A M. FolloWingis a list
of those assisting:
Scohol board, $20.
J. C. Reed gave $2.50, Klmer Reed
$4.00
The following, gave $1.00:
o I W. E. Wren, J. I. Seiber, C. L.
ATTENDS LUBBOCK COi-NTY Dyer, W. P. Lamar tank gas, Jim
""" BAPTIST ASS'N MEETING ; McDuff, M-System per S. J. Carmi-
tro begin work on another project.
Travel will be turned on to the
vjoau during this interval. Traffic
thgr j^igineer said, was better than
rolling to settle a road.
Churches Combine
To Stage Play at
And. April 29
Setting of Play is District
School of Fifty Years A-
go; Adults In Roles of
Students Furnish Humor
In a quaint little corner of this
old country of ours- known as Blue-
beery -Corners some fifty years ago
a District School' was in progress.
The children came stragling in for
the first day of school, barefooted,
their faces freshly scrubbed, with
pant8 and dresses well patched, but
otherwise neat in appearance. The
girls were pr^ud of their pig tails
which hung b&ck over their shoul-
ders, but the boys were unable to re-
sist sticking those same pigtails in-
to the ink which was always handy.
The teacher heard classe.s from ' the
old Blueback Speller, and from Mc-
Guffey's reader.
This is the setting of the play en-
titled "The District School at Blue-
berry Geraers," to be presented next
i Friday night, April 29, by members
of the congregations of the Presby-
terian and Methodist churches.
Members of the congregations are
! chael, Matthews Drv Goods,' BrazTeT^ ** a« thf characters in the play,
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Rev. C. E. Dick, pastor of the First. Drug, Citizens National Bank, Yorks
Baptist church of Crosbyton, went to! Variety, Piggly Wiggly J. W. McDer
Smyre, west of Lubbock Tuesday to mett, Crosbyton Bakery, Lieske Che-
attend the Lubbock county Baptist
Associ&ion meeting. The executive
board of the Fiible chair at Tt®h Col-
lege, of which Rev. Mr. Dick is a
member, also met ;it this time for a
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vrolet, Kmma Hardware, O. W.
Young, Crosbyton Elevator, I. W.
Collier, Plains Mercantile, Carter
Drug. C. M. Huddleston, Claudia
Johnston B. F.. Hicks, Brown Motor
Cn \ llim-t I intilrn, T
the ground near sundown^..
The following ig the formula:
One pound of Paris Green or WHlte-
arsenic, mixed dry with 10 pounds
bran, two quarts of cheap molasses
and two galons of water.
It is said that either formula will | daughter home" with
kill chickens and care should be ta-
ken not to poison your flock of chicks
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Cr^qby county's scholastic popula-
tion is! 94 less this year than is was
a year ago, according to the returns
of the scholastic enumeratnon in
March. Th£re were only six of the
19 school districts in the county to
show a gain in scholastics while the
remainder all gave a slight loss.
Crosbyton lost 14 over the enum-
eration a year ago which was entire-
ly of the negro population, as the
white children enrollment was the
same as last year.
School .districts showing gains arc
Ralls,, Wake, - Self County Line, Big
Four, Pleasant Hill and Caprock. I r i_ __ • _ j tt_ i o -xi
.Total scholastic population of each j Blanco and Hank Smith
scholl district is given as follows:
Crosbyton 567, Lorenzo H68, Ralls
784, Robertson 186, Cone 114, New,
Home 75, Pansy 38, Mt. Blanco 75,
Fairview 75, Wake 100, Farmer 88,
Self County Line 99, Leatherwood
69, White River 9, Big Four 53, Can-
yon Valley 64, Webb 40,, Pleasant
Hill 59, and Caprock 68.
the subject. o ' I. Weatherby, Consumers Fuel Assn,
All who are planting spring gar- Mr. and Mrs. W K. Dazey of .-south | Marsh and Little, W. M. Curry, Jno.
dens are advised to protect them by of Ralls were in Crosbyton Tuesday. I A. DillarjJ, Guy's Market, E. A. Wat-
treating for cut worms. A poisoned; • o I son
bran mash is very effective when
scattered along the rows on top of
anil if you don't think its funny tc
see Dr. Flavius Green as the teach-
er trying to impart knowledge to
the members of his class composed
of the adult members of the churches
dressed as children just come out to
see this play. Mrs. Joe Parks is the
direction of the production. This
play, of course, is a comedy from be- i
ginning to end, and is to be given in j
the high school auditorium.
Admission to the play will be 25c
for adults and 10 cents' tor. children
Ten teachers in the Crosbyton j
lie school system haw been- j
ed to serve for another year,
of these haying been ejected
ings of the school board wi._.
past week.
I. D. McEachern, math;
garet Thompson, Spanish;
McKee, commercial and go
subjects; Anthony Hunt, his
coach and W. C. Taylor, *
agriculture,- were re-elected
night by the board to teach'
high school. Bruce Morse
elected an principal of high sg&K^.
last Thursday night.
_ Missesi Evelyn Smith and Modelle
Simpson and Mrs. Frank Smith were
reelected to teach., in the gratjKofrfrr
school. ' - i -- . > *'
Miss Mattie McDonald was
ected to the Pour Mile Lake 'Mritod
school and Mr. and Mrs. Lee Sistfth
Miss Odom and Miss Viola Snider
were re-elected to Smith Wsutf.
Supt. D. A. Edwards was iq
ed at a meeting of the board some
weeks ago.
Seven vacencies yet remain to be
filled, J. M. Mabe, secretary of the
board, reported. These will probably
' be filled at the regular meeting at
the board Tuesday night, April 2&
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DISTRICT CANDIDATES
TO SPEAK IN MEETING
HERE SAT., APRIL 30TH
Each of Five Candidate To
*Be Allowed 20 Minutes —
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A ;-^hedule of thirty-one speeking
dates of candidates for district at-
torney and for district judge of the
Mrs. P. C. Ni-wton who has been; These gave ,50 cents: Jno. Haney, j >--a^ district, was announced
with her daughter, Mrs. Ed Al'cn Jr.-fR M Du,in- George Crump and Ira
in Yuma, Arizona, for the? past three Renton
v/eeks, returned home Monday '
Tiirs. Newton said that Mrs. Ai'en is j" l^'y^ was a delegate
doing very nicely and
pounds since goinjf
Newton brought her little grand
being made to accept produce of any! the first of the week.
kind as entrance, eggs, chickens, but-J They will speak in Crosbyton at
ter, cream, wheat, or what have you. I 2:30 p. m, April 30, and, at Ralls ai;
If yOu arrive to late at the play to! :."50 p. m. May 7, at Lorenzo 2t80
at Mrs \ i I en is T- D- B yd was a delegate from «>««* arrive to late at tne play to./:.>o p. m. May 7, at Lorenzo
d had ff-iined 20 !the local Presbyterian church to the i sel1 ^ P«Juce1 beforehand «mply P; m. May 28, arid at Cone at 8 p. m
to Yum Paso Presbvtarv which is being P|^ent , at the door and you will be May 18.
, uttio * m.on,i ! held this week at Lubbock. Mr Boyd I al,owed the market .price. | those scheduled to speak are: W,
went up Tuesday accompanied by! P7^ee',s from lLhe ^ wili ,V Walker of Crosbyton, Homer L.
Rev. C. Bidwell, pastor. Amonu <imded. between the two church or- .'harr ,and Robert H. Bean of Lob-
j I ganizations an<l will be used to de-! hck, candi<lates for the judgeship;
who will speak 20 minutes each; arid
CROSBY COUNTY
BOASTS TWO STATE
PARKS NEAR HERE
Parks Are Among
Few on Plains
Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Matthews offers going up Wednesday were J" w™nses
Littlefield were here Monday visiting i Aynes anil N. Y. Bicknell. .
Mr. Matthew's son, W. O. Matthews I ° i
and family in the Bi* Four commun- j L>'man ,Wren of Sn>'(,er was J1"6) MARCH COLDER
> ity.
j Tuesday visiting Ed Wren. Mr. Wrer.
is at* Ralls preparinjr to • move the
Will Man- of RaUs was transact-] Ful,f>' from that .place to Dunn
injj; business in Crosbyton Monday. : 'n ^curry county.
THAN FEBRUARY
Mr. Wx-en stated! According to the records of the lo-
ithat it would require about three , cai weather recording station Ma^ch
Uncle Bob Shelton who has been|weeks t0 mak^ the move- for the pfl'st ten y<kars bas~b4n- a
HAIL AND RAIN
FALLS IN COUNTY
Southwest Part of County
Is Hardest Hit
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A heavy hail visited the southwest
p;*rt of the county Tuesday eveiMrg
which brjke window lights of hor:e-
in that section, according to rcpcTtjs
coming from around League 4.
An inch of lain also fell during
the time. In the Owens community
and this side of Owens abouc "naif
an inch of rain fell, it was said.
(jrosbyton received only a ;;rna;l
shower.
V. R. Johnston, candidate for the
r^-,j*ffice of shfiifi of the county, was in
yj j CrVtsV* ton Tuesday meeting th; vo-
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- : - Mips Naomi Lawson was the week
. cad. guest of Miss Orion Brown of
Ip^bbbclc.
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Most people do not know of any
state parks being located oil • the
South Plains, said the Sunday's Morn
ing Avalanche, but quoting D. E.
Colp. chairman- of the stat^ park
board, says: "Crosby county has
two,' one of approximately 41 acres,
east ol Crosbyton in Blanco canyon,
aloi'f; the White river, and .be other
about 22 acres north of town, on
v.-hat is known as the. Unci- Hank
Smith ranch in Blanco canyon."
'"Uncle Hank Smith place is where
the first permanent home was huslt
on the caprock," Mr. Colp said.
' The state park boaifl hopej to
jfet the next legislature to authoriw
the improvement of the major parks
Mr. Colp said. "Me believe that the
t"ix money from gasoline sales will
be more than enough to take care of
the additional cost; that is, that the
Texag people alone, but driving thru
these parks and .also too and from
them to their homes, will spend
enough money for gasoline taxes 1o
pay for the cost of roads in the
parks."
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Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Lamb and R. J.
Heard were Cofte visitors Sunday.
Mr. Heard enjoyed &n all day service
and dinner on the ground, with the
Methodist church there.
| away from Crosbyton for a year has j
I returned to make this his home.
Mr. ai'd Mrs. Olen Littlefield and
Mr. and Mrs. Roy McDaniel spent
the week-end at Christoval as guests
of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Littlefield.
ft Boys Win Second v
at District Track Meeting
Two Crosbyton boys were winners
of second places at tire District In
„ terscholastl
, ; shot put with >
seven inches. ®
last Fri
isfSa
trying for first
Jack Mayes won second place in
the 440 y& i dash. Both boys Will
go-toAustln, accompanied by their
coach, Anthony Hunt, next week to
compete in the state meeting.
. Several Other Crosbyton b ys <
Iffed in Friday's round but were
ri in the semi-final bouts
vmmng.
Mrs. W. H. Davis returned home
Monday from Shrevesport where she
spent the winter. Little Martha
Swann, two and one half year old
grand daughter of Mrs. Davis ac-
, companied her for an extended- vi. -
They enjoyed some fishing while in j Martha is the. baby daughter of
that country. ; -yir antj jjrs Malcon Swann, who
0 ^ I have visited in Crosbyton several
Jim Starrett left Saturday for Mm | times
eral Wells for medical treatment. ; .
Mrs. W. H. Miller of Vernon was
a week-end guest of her sister, Mrs.
J. A. Parks and Mr. Parks.
Mr. and Mrs. W. W Copper
Jack returned home Friday following
a weeks vacation spent at Sterling
City.
Miss Eula Brady of Slaton is the
week's guest of Mrs. Jim Starrett.
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MrsT Earl Miller is spending the
week in Ralls with her parents,. Mr.
and Mi's. W. M. Stewart. • ;
Mr, arid" Mrs. J. I. Seiber, Mr. and
Mrs. C. I. Seiber were among the
Tech visitors Friday.
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J Mr, and Mrs. C. L. Hefley, Elbert
and Roy Hefley and Mis June Zot-
terall visited in Abemathy Sunday.
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Mr. and Mrs. Dee Collier and Bil-
lie John Ellison and Mrs. Jeff Lim-
ley attended a Primative Baptist
service" *t ^Afton SundAy.
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Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Nickson visit
relatives in Lorenso Sunday.
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LADIES PLEASED WITH
DOUGHNUT SALE
The Womens Missionary Society of
! the First Methodist church were well
and | pleaded with their doughnut and bon
net sule Saturday at the Plains Mer-
cantile Store and wish, to thank the
public for their patronage. ' They
plan to serve again on each Trades
day either doughnuts and coffee; pie
cake and cream or something suita-
ble for the weather throughout jthe
year. .
Members are working on their
dollar project. Three have reported
their dollar earned and others are
asking for quilting, sewing order for
cakes, doughnuts or curitry produce.
Anyone wishing to assist the' ladi
in these projects call Mrs. W.
Romane, No. 81. Every member of
the church is invited to, join in this
dollar cstmpaigtr'and a dollar social
will be given soon.
The society is cooperating with the
Presbyterian ladies under the direc-
tion of Mrs. J. A. Parks in present^
ing a play on Friday, April 29 At
the high sdiool auditorium, the funds
to be divided between the two socie-
coider month than Februar>. Tak-
ing the lowest minimum temperature
tures for the two months there art-
six degrees difference in the two
months, March having the lowest
Lempefatiure.
( April is a month of fairly good
rains. Durir.g the past ten yeaf
period April has averaged 2 inches
of rain, the greatest amount in any
one during this period being in 1922
when-4.83 inches fell.
In 1928 only a trade of rain was
recorded and not enough to measure.
The smallest amount of precipita-
tion for April during this peoriod, ex
cept the year 1928, was that of 1919,
when .28 inches fell. Most of the)
April rains come from the 10th to
25th of the month.
Mr., and Mrs. W.I3.
Lubbock were Sunday
and Mrs. John Haney.
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ties. The society will apply the mo* w^s perfected last week
raised through thefr dlff> One has been liT^
ney being rakwd
erent projects to the church indebt-
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A letter here to frie:
'le says that she expects to
" first of next ^
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T. George and Miss Marie George
returiied: vhoriie "Sunday! from Mingus
where they were called last Wednes-
day to attend the funeral of ah un-
cle.
Miss Jewel Bolton spent tl>e Week
end holidays at her old home, at Trus
'Cott. She stopped over here Sumltv
aftmoon enroute to Lubbock.
Frank Brown, Dan Blair and Georgia
S. Berry, all of Lubbock, candidates
for district attorney, are scheduled to
-peak ' 15 minutes each.
These men feel that the matters
they have to present to the voters pt
this district are of a serious nature,
and that they cannot be sufficiently
presented at meetings in^which all
othher candidates are invited to par-
ticipate, and for that reason, while
candidates for other offices are cctr-
diully invited to attend, no "time will
be extended them in which to present
their claims. j! i
For the same reason the people of
the respective communities are ear- .
nestly requested not to arrange pie
suppers or other entertainments fpv I
these meetings. There are six of the , J
candidates, and each of them has "n i /
message to deliver, and in order that
each may be given sufficient time fa . %£?'
which to do so, it is necessary' that
these meetings start strictly at tw?' ?$$$$&$
scheduled time. ' Q
Every citizen of Crosby couftty
earnestly solicited to attend one
the speaking dates given above. -
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Little Francis Sigler of
spent several days last ;
guest of Dr. and Mrs. <
Parkliill. Dr. and Mrs.
companied her
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