The Lavaca County Tribune (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 14, 1932 Page: 1 of 8
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CITY of HALLETTSVILLE
Center of growing
tomato industry.
Hallettsville,- Texas, Thursday, July 14th. 19.12.
NUMBER 28
firemen Rally in Ninth to Beat
Gonzales 2-1.
i Alter being- held to one hit
one run in eight innings,
Firemen lashed out three
County Meeting Of
Taxpayers Saturday
As a conclusion to their cam-
paign, the taxpayers will hold
a meeting here at the Court
House next Saturday afternoon
and every one of you who pos-
sibly can, should be present, if
you desire that something be
done about the taxes and the
Do
5000 Langhorn
Case Pamphlets
Given Out Austin
Boy and Horse Bitten Kopecky Suing
By Mad Dog
'lerk
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secutive hits for one winning
Iron in the'ninth inning, to con- management of the taxes.
£tnr the Gonzales nine 2-1, in not leave it up to only a few,
* well played game mi Uncle hut gome also and show your
..interest. Various motions and
the taxes
Dick’s Diamond.
Under the watchful eyes of‘demands regarding
ctor
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Curtis, St. Louis Cardinal, and their-management will be
ICKA
both starting pitchers,! considered next Saturday^ . If
ira for the locals, and Min j you have anj* question, any
kif£ for Gonzales strutted their doubt about certain things per-
»nd made a favorable im- tabling to County affairs, you
[Mi on the old ivory hunt- should come and ask your ques-
Valigura limited the Gon-itions. -That is your privilege,
nine to three hits and That is the purpose of all the
oUt thirteen batters, * meetings the Taxpayers held
Midkilf held our slug-1 thruout the County^ during the
hitless during the four inn
1. & 8.
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Dgs he was in the box. For-
hiyg~" who followed Midkilf in
he box also pitched good ball,
imitiny the locals to four hits.
Gonzales scored their lone run
Austin, July 11 — Five thou-
sand "Langhorn case” pamph-
lets readied the hands.of eag-
er readers in Austin Saturday.
A new supply was ordered by
Sterling campaign headquarters
including some in the Czech
language.
F. W. Chudej said he was
president and main owner of
the Ferguson Forum, and issued
a written statement that he
will file tfyfee complaints a-
gainst Adj.’ Gen. W. W. Ster-
ling and Gov. Sterling’s'- cam-,
paign leaders, for circulation of
the pamphlet.
All this followed within 24
hours after Adj. Gen. Sterling
disclosed that Chudej filed a
complaint at Fast Bernard a-
Leo Srubar, age six years,
was bitten in the face by a mad
dog, Friday. He is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Srubar who
reside at the placet-owned by
Mrs. Fannie Dufner. * A horse
owned by Henry Vick, of our
city, was also bitten bv the
same dog, whose owner is Paul
Etzler. The head of the dog
Pesek’s Farm Residence
Tribune’s Publishers Burnt Down Wed.
For Foreclosure ~~ —_
____,— -c_— Farm residence of Vilem Pe-
I^rst Thursday morning ourjsek> about three miles from the
sheriff Houahins brought Ma-I^ity on the Schulenburg hiway,
leq 'JKcos. a subpoena from the burned down at about 11 o’clock
Wednesday nite, while the fam-
ily was away at the dance. Ori-
gip qf the fire is unknown. The
InTftse and all contents were com
pletely destroyed. The loss is
only partly covered by insur-
ance.
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past several months. Whatever gainst Jogeph Kopecky for dis-
demands we agree on, will be | tributin^ copies of the pamph.
submitted to our representativ- j ^ jn 1;ohemian> among Bohe.
es or proper county office***. | mian voters. Chudej denied J.
as an expression of' the peo-lK Fei.gu^ knew he filed-the
pie’s sentiment and- rights. The: complaint. 'r
n the first inning, DuBose sin- j Taxpayers' League -organized Adj Gen Sfeerllng declared I
{led, stole second and scored on for protection of the taxpayers j Ule document had 1 \ . 1
tfidkiff’s single. interests and rights, will stay ljeen put QUt at hjg direction,! "TIh!
The locals tied Urn score ui.active even after election, ^ and that he assumed ” ” : 1 k ' an<1 1
the sixth, Valigura got on an to keep in contact, with our^^y for it
justice of peace court at East
Bernard to appear as slate wit-
nesses in a case where Joseph
Kopecky of Hallettsville is be-
ing prosecuted for supposed
“spreading of immoral litera-
was sent tu Austin and a tele-: ture/. You find particulars of
gram was sent back stating | this case against Kopecky in
that he had rabies. An order lor i anotiier co|umn 0f this issue. Work On Sacred Heart
vaccine for the horse was sent But we have promptiy notified!' Church ProfrrPwin<r
to Dallas, but it is feared it will j the justice ^eace at East L hUTCh ^OgreSSing
not arrive herein time, The boy | Hernard thgt we don-t know
is now und^ie care of l)r. i anything about the matter in
laul Lenger. J which Kopecky is charged, and
received the following answer:
RotarianS To Meet Malec Bros*., Hallettsville Tex.
Eagle Lake Club Gentlemen •
_ Replying to your letter of
The Tuesday 9 meeting wasjJl'ly *th wilUtateThaf I hereby
called to order by President H. release you from appearing as
G. Timm and a round table d'is-\ witnesses in the case of the
-cussion pertaining to club acti-; Stiite of lexas vs Joe Kopecky
vities for the year in which and am requesting the New Era
error, Boethel was hit by a pit- public affairs. So be here - A. C. Bull, local Sterling j raagfc~^h meet,n*
hed ball, Randow drew a pass Saturday at 2o’clock P. M. a‘| ^airman, followed this up with _____
members took active interest \ publishers to appear. 1 regret
They then agreed; the mistake and thank you.
Yours truly,
,.................T „____ ____ A. Urbanec.
lull lespon sec ret ary was instructed to ar-; Justice, of the Peace.
Eagle
Work on the Sacred Heart
Church is progressing to consid
erable extent. Much work If
being done on the interior and
the tower is being completed.
An asbestos roof was put on ia
place of jhe old one and all
the statues in the church have
been repainted. The artist,
who is J. G. Edmiston and who
is a resident of San Antonio,
has been assisted by his wife
and together they have given
ithe statues and artistic appear-
ance that will be a credit to the
■church. Their charge was $15
a statue and it was well worth'
| prec. 3:
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kiui.K
tSVILLE
10:53 A. M.
11:39 P. M.
11:30 A. M.
I 9:45 P. M.
11:05 P. M.
1 6:15 A. M.
rSVILLE.
|P. M,
JO fill the bases, .and Shaw scor- the Court House,
id Valigura with a pretty bunt .
jown the first base line. . An-.jMorley’s Residence
other squeeze play was tried, Damaged By Fire
vith Sobotik at bat, but a dou Ejre |,roke out Wednesday
* play resulted when the play- ^ ^ ten oV1()tk and dam,
urs instead i11 placing a L,e Jaged Mrs. William Morley’s re-
40 umpire and <is awa>s t ley sjdence jn southern part
m wrong. Sobotik bunted, ^ CHy
own the third base Mie* a-- |Uie Tribune's information, thel Wrs Saturday- morning, many
linking the ball was a lou , 1 oi| jaipp vvAa WMourning and | insisting .that they be given ex-
Ot attempt to run, neit tei iU exPloded, setting fire to the | Da copies to distribute. These
» man on third base, t ie uni- and jnterioi. ot- the requests came from every see-
M ruled the ball fan, an °*V|loUse 0Ur firemen were tion of Austin.
Im played it that way, ,rd; promptiy „n the spot and due A huge stack of the pamph-
N®e ^ first‘ to their quick action, only a few ! lets was exhausted by noon, and
Ifcia game had no beaiing on , {neces of furidture> some ci0thes Ithe «ma11 remaining supply was
stand",, being an .UJ(i walls were damaged.! dolad- out one or two ton vis-
kmition game. •• j __ I itor, as a hurry-up telegram or-
Victoria by beating \ oakum Cotton Farmers Will der asked a new shipment of
The East Bernard case, ori- it- The architect is F. B. Gaeu
ginall.v scheduled for trial last' slm and the construction work
Wednesday, was postponed to is being done by the McKenzie
i July 28th, according to late-1 Construction Companyr of San
Antonio. They hope'to com-
an invitation to Travis county .. , - u
voters toeome in and get the *,re Uestro> S Home
pamphlet for whose '■suppres- Sunday afternoon, July 3, the j report.
sion such strenuous action was j fawn home of Frank Gebauer, 'Hut last Friday we were not:- j pl^te their work by the 1st of
being taken. right by and east of the Hal- lied that we are being sued by September and rumors show
Many Get Copies lettsville-Sehulenburg highway, .Joseph Kopecky for foreclosure, that the parishioners hope tha
He got results beyond his burned down to the ground, charged by Kopecky that^ Malec same- Nothing will lie done
uuvnciii strongest guess. Scores of SParks fr0*m a defective flue Bros, ’■’failed, refused and neg.jto the old well -With the ex-
According to triple hurried to the hpadquar- were ^hgugftt to lie the cause of lected" |o pay interest on mort-1 cept.on ot a few repairs but
the fire. The dry, hot and gage note. This was news toi*rom the old stone that will be
windy atmosphere helped to de-i us. We liought Kopecky’s left a Grotto of the Blessed
I went into a tie with
• Firemen for the first hall'
f with seven victor-
efeats. The tie-
red at the end of
ledule. The se-
next Sunday,
frwill tackle the
in a double
Meet At Sjhjjter
In City Auditorium at'Shiner
farmers will meet next Wed-
nesday, July 20th, and discuss
co-operation among farmers. R.
J. “Bob” Murray, general man-
ager of the Texas Cotton Co-
Operative Ass’n., will speak.
Meeting is scheduled at 2:30
I’. M.
Carson, 2b
Minear, c
Totals
Summary
Valigura, 13; by Midkiff 1, by
Forshagen 1: bases on baHs,
off Valigura. 1, off Midkiff 1,
off Forshagen 1. Hit by pit-
cher, Boethel. Left on bases,
the campaign, document.
"The Langhorn case” carries
printed excerpts from the court
record of Fayette county, in
which William H. Langhorn Jr.
signed a confession that he shot
Valera Zapalac, a Bohemian girl
to death and after shooting her,
criminally assaulted her young j
sister, Minnie Zapalac.
Quotes From Records
It recites that Langhorn was
given the death penalty, and
that a few days before Mrs.
Terguson’s term of office ex-
stroy the dwelling in a few min-
utes, so only tiie furniture from
two rooms was saved, most of
the clothing and all the food
supplies went with the fire. In-
surance of $1,500 on the house
was kept up with the Hochheim j was not at ours, but the bank’s1
newspaper property at his own ^ •• '■ihi Mary will be built. It
terms, being always ready, and ')e situated directly behind
able, — and we are now — to Sacristy. By the time
pay not only the interest but church is completed the
everything he has coming. At l)eol,,e who attend it will have
the time of the last payment, it ev*y reason to be proud of it.
_ t * vear suhseription tn TTia
Prairie Mutual" Fire and Storm j suggestion that in oj^pr to a-' Eavaca Count \ Tribune__$1 50
Association. void transferring money from . ----------------- ■ ■ m
Come early and select you a
nice dress or hat for little
money at Friday and Saturday
specials at Meyerhoff’s.
personal to commercial account, | but completely. In spite of
120 dollars of interest be de- tbat, he continued to spread a-
ferred to be paid “any time."|mon£ the People a story that
And there the matter rested, j be sold us only, a par{ interest.
At the bank, of which Joseph and- in the Shiner Gazette Ko-
0
2‘J ’2 5 1
d | Gonzales 2, flallett'sville 6.
8b
6.8c
Results Last Sunday,
(lyeague Games »
Yoakum "I, Pt.‘ Lavaca 2.
Victoria 8. Yoakum 2.
l>ejigue Standing
Tqam
Hallettsville
Victoria
Yoakun.
PL Lavaca
Cuero
Gonzales *
29 1 3 1
Struck out, by-) piled, she commuted his sen-
tence to life imprisonment.
. It quotes a certified extract
from tire records of Washing-
ton county, where the youth’s
father conveyed to Frank De-
nison, “for the benefit of Jam-
es E. Ferguson .-and T. II. Mc-
Gregor,” several thousand acres
of land in Washington county.
The document is the same as
that distributed in the cam-
paign two years ago.
Adj. Gen. Sterling, who reach
ed Austin late Friday nite, an-
nodioced W newspapers That
Chudej—who was a member of
the state textbook commission
in Mrs. Ferguson’s administra-
GP W
Yoakum Gasoline
Thieves Arrested
Chief Victor Struhk and Con-
stable Pyle arrested two young
men, residing near Yoakum,
whom they caught in the act
of pilfering the car and syphon-
ing the gas from the tank of
the car, early Sunday morning.
July 3. The culprits took some
gasoline and a tire from the ca-
parked on Nelson street. They
were placed in jail and connec-
tion is being sought between
this case and the numerous oth-
er thefts of tires, gas, batter-
ies, and other articles disappear-
ing from parked cars
tion—-had' filed a complaint,
charging distribution of obscene
literature, against Mr. Kopecky.
who was publisher at Ilalletts-
ville of a Boheruian-languag.*
newspaper. Mr. Koneckv rfer
Kopecky is one of "the directors,
we always carried sufficient
funds to meet several times
more than the Kopecky’s item.
Since that arrangement a few
weeks ago, we were never no-
tified by Kopecky either direct
or thru his bank, regarding the
deferred 120 dollars. Kopec-
ky must have known that be
pecky and his wife published a
statemept to that effect, tho at
the Court House a recorded deed
proved beyond any doubt Malec
Bros, complete ownership. But
in interest, of good will, when
we started to publish the Tri-
bune, we gave Kopecky a job
The case id scheduled for
trial Oct. 1st, in the Fall ses-
plied Saturday that he had been
in Eas\ Bernard, but had noth-
ing to do with distributing the
document. r
could have had that 120 dollars j sion of the Dist. Court. Judge
of interest any time, that it i C. L. Stavinoha is represent-
was not necessary for him to *ng us.
sue in order to collect it, and if We appreciate that we made
in spite of that he sprung this enemies among thosff politicians
suit upon us, it is evidently for that wpre used to exploiting the
other reasons than to collect | County for their own benefit,
120 dollars of interest. - ' and did not like the idea that
To get 20 thousand dollars | we sided with the people n-
of property for 120 dollars of gainst them, and told the pco-
interestr would not he a bad j pie a fp\y facts about what was
idea. , [going on in the County Ro{
finances. A
• But we are well able to tal
A
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—ja
But this is not the first time
•iMsopli ‘Kopecky is claiming a--
gainst Malec Bros.
that was not his, and that was
not true. When Malec Bras,
bought Kopecky out, they
bought him out not in part,
caxe-of any. attack
er side. Sd please do not woc-
ry- _■_V,
For the truth and correct ideas
read Lavaca County Tribune.
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Malec, Walter. The Lavaca County Tribune (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 14, 1932, newspaper, July 14, 1932; Hallettsville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1037594/m1/1/?q=central+place+railroads: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Friench Simpson Memorial Library.