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CROSBYTON, CROSBY COUffTY- TEXAS, FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 1,1983
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1NSPCIAL ELECTION SATURDY
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Cities Cause State To <*o
Wet By Large Majority ;
-Practically All S Plains
Counties Reported Dry"
Only 806 votes were cast in the
special election held Saturday in Cros
by county out of a possible 1500 qual-
ified voters. In the local option elec-
tion there were 264 votes cast; for lo-
cal option and 541 against, wfiile for
ratification of the 18th amendment
333 votes wemmolkd for ratification
and 464 againfE .,
All the amendments to the state
constitution carried in the county.
?.375~vdtes were csst for- home rule
while 258'voted against the amend-
ment. For the bond issue 421 fav-
ored it, while 333 opposed it.
It the vote for 3.2 beer, 297 favor-
ed, having, beer In the county^ and 487
voted against it. Crosbyton voted
83 for beer and 76 against. Ralls
voted 97 for beer and 103 against.
Lorenzo voted 33 for beer and 65 a-
gainst > yf
~ Crosbyton voted 81 for ratification
and 82 against Lorepzo voted 79 for
latificatios and 27 against, while
Rall$ vote stood .89 for ratification,
and 114 against.
In" the local option election Ralls
voted 81 for local option and 120
against. Grosbytons vote was 81
for local option and 79 against, and
Lorenzo 30 for local option and 80 a-
gainst,
Tffo repeal of the Eighteenth A-
mendment carried in the state as a
_whole by more than 100,000 votas.
All of the four amendmests to the
State Constitution carried by a large
•majority. In aiN of the larger cties
the vote for repeal and for legaliza-
tion of beer was overwhelming.
Governor Miriam A. Ferguson is-
sued a statement at Austin hailing
the repeal victory as a sign that Tex-
as was "at last returning to sanity
and will be rid of the political hy-_-
pocracy that has been a painful inci-
dent to prohibition."
The united forces for prohibition
declared in an official statement:
"The God of righteousness still lives:
The renewed warfare against the
liquor traffic has just begun. Texas
still has the state constitutional pro-
RAIN IN AUGUST IS
GREATEST SINCE >
1920 RECORD SHOWS
7.69 Rainfall Is Second Big-
gest Fall Since Station
Established
Only one year sine© 1886 when , the
local weather recording statodn v was
established in Crosby county has the
August rainfall exceeded that of the
August just passed.
In the August just passed there
wag recorded 7.67 inches of rain. In
I Huddleston
Low Bidder On
Two Road Jobs
Local Firm Gets Jobs In
Dawson and Fisher <
Counties
i
C. M. Huddleston Crosbyton -con-
tractor, was the low bidder on two
projects Monday when the state high-
way commission awarded some $1,-
345,345.78 ■of emergency construc-
tion in 15 counties.' Formal awards
will be made when the bids have be^n
approved by the Federal government.
One of the projects awarded to C.
M. Huddleston was in Dawson Coun-
2 tZSttSS?' IZTMl .dran, 8= UNDERS TO B& At-
8.37 inches. Generally, August has
£" very generous amount of rain Ths
first three months of the year asd
the last t*>, November and Decem-
ber have less rainfall. January and
February received less rainfall than
other months in the year and< are
very close together on the average
amount of rainfall yearly.
Some rain fell here every night
last week and much of the past two
weeks has been cool and cloudy.
CHAMBER OF COM-
MERCE TO GO TO
WAKE MONDAY NITE
A good crowd greeted the Crosby-
ton Chamber of ommerce good will
•entertainers when the organization
carried its program to Fairview.
The usual program of music, sing-
ing etc., was carried out. The house
was full d«fepfte th£ fact that the*
weather was threatening and lower-
ing clouds gave-evidence of rain.
The program Was-'givefr last night
.-t Webb. - re-
structures from Lamesa to the Lynn
county line on highway 9, $18,694.
The other Huddleston contract re-
ceived was in Fisher county, a bridge
across the Double Mountain fork of
the Brazos river, four and one half
miles north of Rotah on highway 70,
$45,084. '"f " .
The Lubbock county ja-b of 6.8 mile
of caliche base and triple bituminous
surface from IdaloU to the Crosby
County line on highway 24, was iet
to Coke & Braden Marshall at
$57,603.
Fifteen of the jobs were awarded
as part of the federal government's
emergency unemployment relief pro-
gram ami will be paid ior through
federal funds. Two of the projects, in
Calhoun and Culbertson counties will
be carried out with state funds. The
contracts specified that skilled labor
must be paid a minmium of 45 cants
an hour and common labor not less
than 35 cents an hour.
Contractors will be required,to use
[ local labor aftd materials and must
^use hand labor in preference \o ma-
chinery where praticable.
Trades
Day Will Hold
Here Monday 4
Usual Program To Be Fol-
lowed; Prizes Will Be
Awarded
^ The regular monthly trades day
will be observed here Monday, Sep-
tember 4, according to announcements
made by the trades day committee
this wdKk.
There willbe many prizes given
away as has been the custom in the
past. Everybody is invited to come
and participate in the days events,
o
LO
se
wed
Shoo
TO ENTER
OOL THIS YEAR
Must Be Six Before Janua*
ry 1st To Be Eligible
Under Ruling
HUMAN TOUCHES MAKE THE
JOHNSON TELLS RETAILERS
ROLE, SAYS MAE CLAKKE THOUGHT OF BOYCOTT
Heroine of "Fast Werkers" Reveals^
Her Technique in Changing
Personality v
Every screen character should de-
velop individuality with a manner-
Ism that will be noticed aftd remem-
bered.
This is ihe formula for making
definite impression on an
WASHINGTON. — "There is no
thought of boycott here," Adminis-
trator Hugh S. Johnson • said in an
address at the opening session of
hearings on the retail merchant's
code, and with special emphasis,
j "We have provided machinery here
h j in Washington to take care of people
audience who find the grade to steep for them
The school board wishes to advise
parents that children who were not
six years old on Sept. 1, 1933, but
■who will have reached that age on 25 per cent minimum has been
CITIES MAY GET LAR- fABOUT 100 NEW PUP
GER APPORTIONMENT
FOR LOCAL STREETS
Other States Gives Munici-
palities Larger Share
Than Texas Board
or before January-1, 1934, may send
■them to school this yean? by paying
$2.00 per month tuition fees. Chil-
dren who will be six years old alter
January 1, 1934 cannot enter school
this year. \
Children who become qualified to
attend this year under this rising
must be entered the first week of
school, or they ciroot be entered
any time during the year, the school
board advises.
The state office of the public work*
administration hits bee$ set up- in
the Fair Building at Fort Worh, ac-
cording to a letter from Harry W.
Draper, of the League of Texas Mun-
icipalities, to J. W. McDermett, secre-
tary to the city of Crosbyton.
He states that there is a possibil-
ity of getting better than the regu-
lar 25 per cent allotment for aid to
municipal streets in towns and cit-
ies. The. letter says in part:
"In several states, highway depart-
ments have allotted more than 25
per cent minimum aid to municipal
streets as required in regulations is-
sued by the Bureau of Public roads.
[The following shows how far the
ex-
C. OF C. PROGRAM IS
WELL ATTENDED AT
FAIRVIEW MONDAY
hibition of Kquor above 3.2 per cent followed by Mae, Clarke, now por- But when we find a man< chiseling be
and will have for two years, and of
ficials who have taken the oath to
enforce the Constitution antf~by-laws
ijre should still have no liquor."
Plains Counties Dry —-
Fourteen South Plains counties sig-
nified by" their vote that they want
to still remain in the arid area.
traying thte feminine lead in "Fast I hind the Blue Eagle we. are going to
Workers" John Gilbert's starring ve- step in and take t'nat: Eagle in such
hicle for -the Metro-Goidwyn-Mever
studios that wiil be shown today and
Saturday at the Queen Theatre
Miss Clarke scored her first out
The Crosbyton Chamber of Com-
merce will stage .their community
program at Wake Monday night, Sep
tember 4, announcements were made
here yesterday by Edgar Hutchins,
secretary of the organization^
ceeded in at least six states:, Minne-
sota 32 per cent, Indiana 48 per cent;
Waslungton 31 per cent; Ohio 34 per
cent; Michigan 35 per cent; Conneti-
cut 28 per cent, making an average
of more than 34 per cent in each
of these states. - -
"It is to be Jioped that the, Texas
Highway Commission will be as fair
to our dities jaSuL-towns in alloting
funds to11 Streets'"within corporate li-
mits. Too, a railing has been made
from Washington to at least one
state league of municipalities that
plans and specifications for city and
village streets to be constructed un-
der Federal program need not be
prepared by the "state .highway com-
mission, provided a competent en-
gineer is in the citys employ; in such
case the city engineers plans will
of course be checked by the state
highway department.
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EXPECTED TO RE-
GISTER MONDAY
On Thursday night, Sept. 7th, they S. H. FARRIS INJURED
are scheduled to go to Kalgary where
the program will be put on.
a way that the whole woMa will know
K. That is only our simple and just
duty to those high_jnind«L; citizens
who are earnestly tryisg to pull this
ROBOT PAYMASTER
BLAMED FOR DELAY
iN COTTON PAYMENT
County
Cochran
. Crosby .
Castro ...
.Dawson
Gains
Garza
Jiale .......
Hockley
Lamb
Lubbock
Motley ..
owisber
Terry
.standing hit in "Big Timp," foi'o>ed .great country out of the depression,
[by roles in "Tne Front Page," "Wd-|We are building.up our case against
For Against terloo Bridge," "Public Enemy" and .cheaters, and when we move against
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216
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297
239
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152 245
249 353
701 Frankenstein." HeT rcent appear-
487jance in "Parole- Girl" has been ac-
487 claimed as we of the st^ong^st char-
acter performances of the year.
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261 REV. C. E. DICK TO PREACH
933i
467 _
Rev. C. E. Dick, pastor of
Local option elections were not held
in Dickens, Floyd, Lynn and Yoakum
counties. However, all these counties
voted against the -legalization of beer
in the stats. ;
BIRDS PLENTIFUL
OVER AREA GAME
WARDENS REPORT
and Quail All Reported
adn Quail A11 Reported
Abundant
AT FLOYBADA SUNDAY
Local sportsmen will be, glad to
^cnow that there will be a plentiful
. supply of game in this section, ac-
cording , to the reports of the game
1 wardens over the section.
There are a greater number of
prairie chickens than usual sighted
in Andrews, Gains and Yoakum coun-
ties this season. Official opening of
the prairie chicken season is Septem-
ber 1, and extends four day, through
~ f)t. 4. Bag limit is 10 prairie chic-
per season.
Dove, too, will be plentiful through
out this section, it is said. The sea-
son .open September 1 ana continues,
through October. The bag limit v is
11 a day and not more than 45 in
any one week.
Quail season is to folh^at on tne
heels of the dove season, extending
from December 1 through half, of
January. This bird is also said to
he in abundance this year ,
DR. PETTEY C'OMING THURSDAY
the
First Baptist church, will fill the
pulpit at the Baptist church at Floy-
dada Sunday, both morning and at
night.
There will be a musical program
here at the 11 oclock hour, with the
Floydada quartet in charge. At the
evening service the Floydada B. Y.
P. U. will Irave charge of the pro-
gram.
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.. Strange Okra
A strange kind of an okra was
"brought to the Review office last
week by Dock Grubough It was 12
inches long and 8 inches around it,
it grows on a vine and had a crooked
neck You just peel the outer layer
off and fry the inside, Mr. Grubough
started, and it makes a very fine dash
It was grown in hig_garden jn Cros-
byton and i® a rare speciman.
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MOVING TO McADOO
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Mr. and Mrs. John R. Alexander
Jr., and sons, John Stanley and
Dick^ and J. R. Alexander Sr., are
moving this wetek to McAdoo to make
their home. Mr. Alexander has tbq,
Consumers Fuel Association in the
McAdoo territory. The family have
bought a nice home there and Buck
Walters has been re-papering and
painting for them.
Mr. and Mrs. Rex Westerfield will
occupy the Alexander home herei
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Dr. C. A. BtCKLEY WILL _>
PREACH HERE SUNDAY NIGHT
Dr. C. A. Bickley, presiding elder
of the ,Lubbock district, will preach
at the Methodist church Sunday nite
at 8:30 o'clock, Rev. Edward p. Cran-
dall, pastor, announced Wednesday
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A two eerit hike oil crtam was
mean their economic
Mechanical Devise Refuses
To Put Checks Out on •
Scheduled Time
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30— Blame
for the delay in the issuance of
checks to the farmers who have plow-
ed under some of their cotton was
placed today by the farm administra-
State and individual relief funds
nearing^the vanishing point, " this
country, with all of its vast resources
cannot sit; still and allow drift and
despair to rule. No nation, not even
our own, can continue to support al-
most 40,000,000 people in destitution"'
He explained the attitude of NRA
as to prices. "Such seasoned cam-
paigners as you retailers know what
price structure should be in such a
critical time while; we are restoring
normal employment. You Should re-
sist advancing prices of manufactur-
ers, and we will back you up within
our limits. That is our plain duty
to the public. Furthermore, it is the
law ,and we are here to enforce it."
CROSBYTON PEOPLE
GO TO IDALOU TO
HEAR CHUR. DEBATE
More Than Five Thousand
People From All Over
Gountry Present
IN CAR ACCIDENT
NEAR HOLLIS, OKLA.
Crosbyton Boy In Car Is
Injured; Car Complete-
ly Demolished
!
S. H. Farris was seriously injured
Saturday in a car wreck near Hollis,
Oklahoma.
Unders Who Will Be Six
By January 1 To Be
Allowed to Attend
Something like a hundred new stu-
dents are expected to enroll Monday
morning when the Crosbyton Public
School system;opens its doors for
the 1933-84 session of SCI190I. This
will iaing- the
for the year around the 600 marie.
- The expected increase^ in enroll-
ment this year will be due to an in-
crease of 65 in-the^ scholastic census
of the school district, and the run-
ning of a school bus to Kalgary, cajF
able of carrying 40 students.
Qne other bus line is being con-
sidered-by- School authorities Which
will -make a run by Big Four,
pick up students at Four Mile Lake
who now attend the ward. school in
that community. This line is
practically assured VZ
Opening Exercises at 9 —,-
The public is invited to'$he open-
ing exercises which will be held at
9 oclock Monday morning at the
High School auditorium.
Speeches are to be made by Rev.
C. E. Dick, pastor of the First Bap-
tist church, and Judge Geo. S. Bosd.
^Enrollment will" start immediately
after the program j with the excep-
tion of high school seniors who aro
requested to be at the high school
building Saturday morning at 9:00
oclock to register.
_ Unders May Attend
School\officials have decided that
children who were not six years of
age before Sept. 1, but who will ba
six by January 1,1934, will be al-
lowed to enter school this year. Tui-
tion will be $2.00 per month, and
' such children must register the first
week of school if they wish to attend.
Two New Teachers
Two new teachers were to have
been elected last night to fill the va-
cancies caused by the resignation
this week of Miss Avis Graham, his-
tory teacher, and Miss Florence Pick-
ett, English. The board met last
night to fill the vacancies, but too
late to announce the new teachers
in this week's issue.
With the exception of the two new
teachers, the personnel of the faculty
and their positions will be as follows.
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Mr. Farris
were returning
them it will
death." ^
General Johnson stressed "the duty
of us here to protect those who co-
operate and make sacrifices by in- tion on a robot paymaster.
vesting in reemployment to lift buy-'
htft; 'Tw Uxkivh
ing thfc war was that of wholeheart-
ed cooperation toward great national
ends. In approaching.the fourth anni- -—v— - — , , . . . . _ .. . , -
versary of depression, with both the Nuance of the drafts a mechanical | was driving the car, and Bobbie In-
process, even to the signing, of the i Kram« were no* injured. The. injured
... T1 „ The appointments are tentative, ac-
is and his son Roy Fams co ^ ^ Edwards, and
ung to their home at Hoi-! ^ .
,. . . . . .. | may be subject to a few minor chan
lis after a business trip to this city. '
About a mile out of Hollis a driver, D A Edwanis superintendent of
of another car ran into tte Farr.s I ^ B^ce Morse, principal high
^ar, demolishing the car. John Ing-1^, ' ^ teacher ^ ^ Mrs.
ram, who had accompanied theJPar- Pipkillf hon|e economics; Fhffd
.^ariy this, week,, farm to Holhs to visit ^th his
said 7,000 checks were to be distri-^1pa3rcfift, suffered a ^c^clferiir'SffiBcfpSl
"buted Wednesday. But they reckoned; arm, necessitating nine stitches in mar school and teacher 'of
•without the device which make the 1 closing the wound. Roy Farns, who jjrg^ ^ ^ Raymond, seventh; Muss
Cleo Nicholson, fifth; Mrs. Ed
Matthews, high fourth; Mrs. Tai;
Lowrie, fourth; Mrs/Henry Hollis,
third, Mrs. Hubert Curry, high se-
cond; Miss Bertha Laeske, low second
nnd Mrs. Frank Smith, first.
Smith Ward—Lee Smith, principal,
Mrs. l.ee Smith and Miss , Wenevoi
Buck. Smith Ward will teach niife
grade? this year.
Four Miie Lake—Mrs. Russell Mc-
Curdy . J
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necessary signatures.
Robot Bajjks
The robot balked flatly early Wed-
nesday moniisg when it was given a
workout. Under compulsion, it turn-
ed out about 200 checks but it ap
parently had its own ideas about
what the farmers should receive for
cooperation in the crop reducing plan.
The officials hurriedly put me-
chanics to work on the recalcitrant
paymaster. It was tuped up hiost of
were rushed to a hospital in Hollis.
Itoy Farris and family are moving
back to Crosbyton for the opening of
school. They will reside in the city
until the first of the year when they
git possession of their farm west of
the city.
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MACK ELLISON AND FAMILY
MOVE TO MISSOURI
Thursday and yesterday and officials f"*™. and family left here
say it is now functioning on a max-!Mond^ ^ I^S8°U" whpre ^ ex"
say it is jiow functioning on
imum basis. That is around 1,500
checks an hour . -
There was no official estimate,
however, of the numbr of checks that
Have actually gone to the farmers.
Unofficially, it is placed at hundreds
but only three are actually known to
have been delivered.
pect to make their home,
Mr. Ellison sold his farm here of j
80 actes to M. W. McCarty. Mr. Mc-
Carty will move to his farm just a
short distance southeast of the city
and will continue with the Conoco
Service Station as manager.
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STANTON CASE SEPT. 11
.Mr. and Mrs E. M. Perkiris of Fort , _
Worth were here for a few days this Ed Stanton case had been ^et
Judge E. A. Watson returned Tues-
day from Tulia and stated that the
■iHiKii
week-end meeting their many friends
Thev went on to Roswell, N. M. and
. Those going from Crosbyton. to Ruidoso for a visit and on their re-
Idalou Thursday night to attend the turn home will again visit Crosbyton
religious debate reported that there for a few days.
•were 5,000 people in attendance the. o- —• ^
first night. ( O. B. Hejfner and family left here
The debate is between C. R. Nicih-1 Monday, gding to Ruidoso, N. M. for
ol. of Clifton, for the Church o^^ait outing. They wUl visit Canyon be-
Christ, find Dr. B. W Dodson, teach- fore returning home,
er in McMurry College, Abilene.
Tha debate will continue until
September 5. ,
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TO GIVE PIANO LESSONS
Miss Ernestine Buck will open a
class In piano lessons at the high named.
school building at the opening _ of
School, Monday, ^ept. 4.
Mr. and Mrs. Mack ElUott, of Tul-
ia, were visiting last week in the
home of Mrs. Harry Inman, Mrs. Ef-
fie Smith and Mrs. 0. B. Hefner
Mm Elliott is a. .Sister, .of, the threes ter to friends here stated that
■r
Misses Florence iShd VMet Ptekett
Pettey will be here
\
SING SONG TO
September 11. Judge Watson is re-
presenting Stanton who is charged
with killing the SwiBher oounty sher-
iff oh January 23rd. 108 veniremen
have been summoned.
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UNDERGOES OPERATION
' 11 r,,
Mrs. F. M. Dunn underwent an op-
eration last week at a -sanitarium in
Commerce. The family had - gone
there to visit relatives and to bring
hom£ their daughter, Miss Haael Dell
Dunn, who had been attending East
Texas State Teachers college. A let-
Dr. F. A. Green Attends
Meeting of Seth Ward
JExes Held At Lubbock
Dr. F. A -Gr'esen attended the se*-
cOnd ahhual reunipn last Friday nits
at the Hilton Hotkl, Lubbock, of the
former students of Seth Ward Col-
lege &t Plainview.
A program of reminisoenses
given during he evening.
were elected, and musical
presented. j ,'
Officers who had served the "last
"year were re-ejected. They are: the
Ipresident, Mrs. James H. Goodman;
vice-president, Mrs. C. E. Moreman;
Secretary, Mrs. H. C. Pearson of
renzo; treasurer, Nelson
Plainview; secretary to the
Mrs. A. N. Gamble.
Lamadh Forrest of
toastmaster. Mra. J. B.
Plainview was chairman
ments.
Dunn was doing nicely arid was to
return home soon.
D. A?' "
Tuesday
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