Palo Pinto County Star (Palo Pinto, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 31, Ed. 1 Friday, January 29, 1937 Page: 2 of 5
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PAID PINTO COUNTY STAR
Palo Pinto County’* OMeat Paper
BktublUbed June 22. 1K76.
PI'BMSHEb EVERY PKIDAY
MARY WHATLEY DUNBAR,
EDITOR AND PUBLISHER
MEMtJET
TEXA5^pjA^ PRESS
ASSOCIATION
llntvrttl At th<? in PaJo Pinto, Texas,
as »ccoi»d-clfuw mail matter under act Of Coti*
K i vs a of March H, 187VL
Factor*.” Mica Watson visited the
Star office and collected much his-
torical data before compiling the
historical part of her work. One
page of the book contains county
cattle brands which were drawn
from the court house records. The
purpose of the book is to show
how geography can be taught in a
modern way.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
One Year (In Pn’o Pinto County)........$1.00
One Year (Out of County)...............$1.50
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC:
Any crroneoUK reflection upon the character or
Mandinu of any person or Firm appearing in
the columns of this paper, 'will be gladly and
promptly corrected upon calling the attention
of the management to the article in question.
ADVERTISING RATES:
Display Advertising, per inch. 25c. Resolutions
of Respect, notices of entertainments where nn
iidmisaion is charged, and all matter, of like
«harnctrr, will be considered advertising and
will be charged for at the rate of 5c per line.
All legal advertising charged at line rate.
Mrs. J. Pat Corrigan entertained
the Thursday “42" Club at her
home in Mineral Wells last Thurs-
day afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs Edwin C. Mays
moved this week from their ranch
home to the new garage apartment
built in the rear of their store.
Historical Building to Be
Razed
A contract has been signed with
Wichita Kalis operators for the
drilling of a well on the Holt ranch
in northern Palo Pinto County.
NOTICE FOR BIDS
The two story sandstone build-
ing, known as the MoDonald store,
is being razed this week, and a
modern brick and stucco Sinclair
Filling Station will be erected upon
the site. 1 his old building is a
landmark of Palo Pinto and many
old timers will regret to see it torn
down. It was erected in 1884 by
Chief Justice McLaren one of the
early pioneers of Palo Pinto. Mr.
McDonald later purchased it and
for many years operated a leading
dry goods store there.
Mrs. Beulah McDonald, who
owns the property stated that the
brick building at the rear of the
two story rock building, would also
be razed, as well as the brick gar-
age adjoining.
The sandstone in the large two
story building is in excellent con-
nition despite its use for the past
half century. The archways over
the doors are handcarved and very
artistic. One does not find work
of this kind in the present age
building.
T. O. Bray of Ranger was award
ed the contract for the building of
the station.
Miss Watson Y)oes Work
Of Merit
Miss Lucille Watson, of Santo, a
student at North Texas State Teach
ers College, has recently completed
a "Geography of Palo Pinto Coun-
ty, which is bound in book form
and divided into two main parts.
One part deals with the historical
geography of the county, and one
part with “The Relation of Natural
factors in the County to Human
Notice is Hereby Given for Bids for
County Depository for Palo Pinto Coun-
ty, Texas.
Any Banking Corporation, Associa-
tion or Individual Banker in Palo Pinto
County, Texas, desiring to bid shall de-
liver to the County Judge, J. Pat Cor-
rigan, on or before 10 o’clock A. M.,
February 8, 1937, a sealed proposition,
stating the rate of interest that said
Banking Corporation, Association or In-
dividual Banker offers to pay on funds
of the County for the term between the
date of each bid and the next regular
time for selection of a depository.
Accompanying said bid shall he a cer-
tified check for One Thousand Dollars,
as a guarantee of the good faith of the
bidder, and that if his hid should he ac-
cepted, he will enter into bond provided
by law, and upon failure to give bond
required by law, the amount of such
certified check shall go to the County as
liquidated damages.
All bids to be opened at 10 o’clock A.
M. on February 8th, 1937, the County
reserving the right to reject any and
all bids.
Within five days after selection of such
depository, such depository selected
shall execute a bond or bonds payable to
the County Judge, and his successors in
office, for the sum of $260,000.00 with
not less than five solvent sureties who
shall own unincumbered real estate in
this State, subject to the execution un-
der the laws of this State, of as great
value as the amount of the bond. Such
bonds may he made by Surety Compan-
ies, or Bonds of the United States, the
State of Texas and County, City or In-
dependent School Districts, to be de-
posited as directed by the Commission-
er’s Court, and conditioned for the faith-
ful performance of all duties and obliga-
tions devolving by law upon such de-
pository, and for the payment upon
presentation of all checks drawn upon
said depository by the County Treasurer,
and that said County Funds shall be
faithfully kept by said depository and
accounted for according to law.
J. PAT CORRIGAN,
County Judge, Palo
Pinto County, Texas.
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Crescent Variety Store to
Have 9 Cent Sale
V -A
DENSON’S
CLOVER FARM STORE
Mineral Walla
Celebrating 55 Years of Clover
Farm Quality Brands
Clow Farm Coffee, Vacuum Packed, III . 29c
Sugar, Pare Gaits, Cloth Bags, 10 lbs
57c
Red Cap Coffee,
I 9 I
19c
Matches, 6 large bones
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15c
Floor, 6 ib. sack 32c 48 lb sack. $1.89
Wilson Chilli. 11b Cello Brick
19c
Ocllcloas Apples, doz.
15c
Teus Beapefrolt, 2 for
Mr. and Mr*. Rav Leftwich an-
nounce that their Annual 9 Cent
sale will open Saturday in the
Crescent Variety Store, 112 South
Oak, Mineral Wells. The sale will
last a week. The public is cor-
dially invited to attend. This sale
offer* an excellent opportunity to
stock up on the many useful items
carried by their store. Watch out
for the big four page circular.
Dean Davis Makes Popular
Statement
Dean J. Thomas Davis of John
Tarleton College, Stephenville,
doesn’t agree that campus Move
affairs" are bad for students.
"I don't want love affairs ban-
tshed from our campuses," Dean
Davis told Tarleton students in
assembly this week. "In fact, it
seems to me that, in most cases,
love for a man or a maid results
in finer action — in college as
well as out. Most noble deeds
done by man are prompted by
the love—or the expectancy of
love—of a woman, and 1 would
be the last person to deney that
stimulus to college youth."
Students loudly applauded the
Dean’s opinion.
MCLEOD LUMBER COMPANY!
. •»- BUILDING MATERIAL
PHONE 64 MINERAL WELLS PHONE 64 .
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WE HAVE WHAT YOU NEED IN HARDWARE
Da vidson - Cald-well Hardware Oo,
MINERAL WELLS, TEXAS
MAKE YOUR HOME ATTRACTIVE jgaffijSJ&g
0. L. WILHIRS0N LUMBER CO.
Phone 27 Mineral Wells, Texas.
Mr. and Mr9. W. T. Hand of
Weatherford visited Miss Lula
Tidwell Sunday.
Gib Abernathy was confined to
his home this week with a severe
case of Influenza.
OUR ANNUAL
9 CENT SALE
Starts Saturday Jan. 30
WILL LAST ONE WEEK
Specials In Every Department
Crescent Variety Store
112 S. Oak
Mineral Walla
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IN TRUCK LEGISLATION
Any change in existing Texas truck
laws which will increase the present
7,000-pound load limit will affect ad-
versely all communities in the state,
both rural and urban. This statement
is proved best by identifying the causes
and effects upon Texas communities.
tail sales will grow smaller and former
empoyees will migrate to the cities to
reinforce the ranks of the unemployed
These are:
1. Increasing truck loadt mean cor-
respondingly increasing the distance
which the truck can profitably carry its
load.
2. Increasing the distance of profit-
able truck haul means bringing the
small town wholesale houses end indus-
trial plants, such as wholesale grocers,
iff
bottling plants, feed mills, ait mills,
grain elevotors, cotton compresses and
retail lumber yards, into direct compe-
tition with similar establishments in
large cities.
3. Such competition will inevitably re-
sult in further drying up the small coun-
try towns by taking from them the
payrolls, taxes end locol purchases rep-
resented by their present establishments.
Property values, both residential and
commercial, will decline; volume of re-
and the bread lines.
4. Large cities, at first stimulated by
increased trade territories, bought at
the expense of the country towns, will
be ultimately affected adversely because
of the resulting unhealthy condition of
the rural communities forming these
trade territories.
5. Because of the consequent shrink-
age of the state's tax revenues from
country towns, taxes from the cities will
have to be increased correspondingly.
6. The lower truck load limit of Texas
now has the effect of acting as a bar-
rier ot Texas borders to the movement
of the larger truck loads corrying mer-
chandise from the metropolitan and pro-
ducing centers of other states. Any
increase in Texas truck load limits will
break down that borrier and permit the
free truck movement into the state of
many commodities which unquestionably
would be sold directly to the retailers,
thus destroying, in a large measure, the
business of wholesalers and Jobbers now
located in Texas cities.
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Conditions which effect adversely the well-being of Texes com-
munities also affect Texas railroads ’
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in identical manner and degree.
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Dunbar, Mary Whatley. Palo Pinto County Star (Palo Pinto, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 31, Ed. 1 Friday, January 29, 1937, newspaper, January 29, 1937; Palo Pinto, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1018502/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Boyce Ditto Public Library.