The Goldthwaite Eagle (Goldthwaite, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 46, Ed. 1 Friday, February 13, 1931 Page: 1 of 8
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GOLDTHWAITE, MILLS OOUNTT, TEXAS. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1331.
NUMBER FORTY-SIX
.
PLANS FOR THE COUNTY FAIR
Be Held
F. Toland has
of the directors
era of the fair, to
the court house next
afternoon to make
ie 1931 Fair.
interested In the
e county should
kterest In the Fair and
It more success-
ion over before
be done If everybody
material and lm-
ln the plans
discussed and doubt -
of Improvements
bposed at this meeting.
I Toland, County Agent
|td others of the leading
taking an enthuslas-
ln the plans and
men undertake any
always put It Over
Commissioners Court In Monthly Meeting
«dd. a s-»» prospects steawly growing better
A Heavy Docket
Commissioners court has been
In session since Monday, with a
heavy docket and much busi-
ness has been transacted.
The matter of checking the
tax collections required a good
portion of the time of the court,
as the time of heaviest collec-
tions was between last meeting
and this session. Everything has
been checked up to the Jahuary
collections and the payment was
found to be decidedly encourag-
ing and a much larger per cent
of the taxes has been paid than
would have been expected.
-o-
AUTO LICENSE ISSUED
Business Conditions
Over the Top
The number of auto and truck
khlid^rs^d'othen lloens* i“u«d ** the tax collec-
tor of Mills county Is not far
short of the number Issued last
year, altho dbme have not v yet
Secured their highway license.
Up to Feb. 1, ifSt,
been Issued by the collector 1400
auto license and 96 for trucks,
whereas, there have been 1323
auto license and 118 for trucks
issued by the collector up to the
present time. Last year ?the
grand total for my tor vehicles
was 1496, as against 144L At this
time, which Is running pretty
dose. To be sure, there are mare
motor driven vehicles this year
than last year, but considering
the financial conditions and the
depresssing cry of “hard times”
It is decidedly creditable to the
county that the number of mo-
tor vehicle license Is so near that
of last year.
Old Mills county Is all right
and Is located In the best part
of the world. , „ , "
• ——— o- ‘
attend this meeting
ready to co-operate
formed.
—o-
LOVING cur
k to create more inter-
stice, Mr. L. E. Miller,
Df this city, has been
to offer a silver lov
[to the boys' and girls’
team that wins the
. The cups are very
i and are well worth the
effort which IFvtt be
to' spend in order to
These cups ate given
understanding that
; be won three consecu-
i by the same school, be
oe the property
There seems to be no doubt In
the minds of those who are ac-
quainted with the financial situ-
ation that the crest of “hard
times” has been reached and
passed. The drouth of last sum-
mer, the short yield of farm
crops and the low price of every
kind of product the farmer,
rancher and poultry grower had
to sell caused a very great de-
pression everywhere. Added to
this was the prospect of winter
weather causing heavy loss to
live stock and much suffering
among the people, followed by
the certainty of tax paying.
The mildness of the winter has
prevented a heavy loss In live
and the feed bills have
been very light, while some have
not had to fed at all. Livestock
has wintered better than for
years, even In times when heavy
feeding was resorted to In order
to carry the stock through until
spring. The law allowing an ex-
tension of time for the payment
of taxes without penalty, only
requiring the 10 per cent Interest
on the deferred payments, has
enabled many to pass over the
expected tax paying time with-
out sacrifice.
Small grain is looking fine and
nothing short of a calamity could
won the boys cup
ler of the girls cup
eted In about six
[am sure that not only
ae Gtoldthwalte school,
iterestod to sohool sc-
at the county,
thanking Mr. Miller
beautiful loving cups
spirit of Interest, that
manifested.
•*. D. STRINOl
SQUARE DEAL
i past several mo
has not strictly
' but to many
the date
SCHUBERT CLUB ENTERTAINS
• WITH VALENTINE PARTY
Mmea. Fred Martin and Lewis
Oartman entertained the Schu-
bert club and others Friday even
’tog at the Martin home^rn North
Parker street, with a very pretty
Valentine —v‘
The rooms
attractively
tlons to red and gold, the
tog table being covered with red
draped with gold ar-
rows, hearts and cupids.'Cande-
labra held tall red tapers.
The dub gave a very' interest-
ing program on Indian, dedl-
tlw eating one of their numbers, a
par- tong “Pale Moon” to Mr. Wal-
ter Falrman. He responded to a
with a beautiful
to the list
not believed
of friendship of the dub.
In forty-two high scores were
w Love Oatlln and C.
For this Miss Gatlin
TIGERS ELIMINATE EAGLES
; FROM CAGE RACE TO TOP
HONORS WITH MI7LUN
By Hollo Henry
The Tiger cage squad journey-
ed to Eagle town On February 5,
and defeated the Mayfield Eagles
in a royal cage till, 18 to 10. This
eliminated the Baglais and put
8tar on even terms nth Mullln,
.500 all.
The Goldthwalte quintet bat-
tled hard, but was unable to
check Jthe offense of the Tigers.
The combination of Gray and
Hoover started a daigerous of-
fense, but It was soon cooled by
the guarding of SMmm Harper,
weenie Hamilton and Jelly Tea-
gue.
Tigers Nose Out Maflln 33-32 to
Take County Honors
The Tiger-Mullln game, which
was played last Saturday night,
In Brownwood, ended -the Class A
cage tilt of Mills county, with
Star as undisputed winner of the
conference.
The Mullln quintet starring
such men as Guthrie, Lewis, Dri-
lls, Johnson and- Ratliff fought
for blood throughout the game
and displayed that sportsman-
ship so typical and obvious of the
Mullln buaketeers.
“Tootall” Guthrie Upped the
sphere anywhere and anytime
and* Ratliff Just couldn't mlse
the basket.
Drills, Lewis and Johnson were
from any
before the
OUR VILLAGE AS IT v,
LOOKS TO STRANGERS
BROWN COUNTY
FAMILY POISONED
Some time ago the Civic com-
mittee of the Art and Clvjc club
(Senior) furnished suggestions
dealing with community beauti-
fying and gardening projects.
There has been several requests
to have these suggestions repeat-
ed. They are given here with ad-
ditional topics, which have been
used with success by some clubs.
The keynote of such sugges-
tions might well be,, “Our Vil-
lage as it looks to Strangers.”
The thought could be developed
that strangers passing through
a town usually judge it by Its
general appearance of neatness.
In these days of automobile trav-
el, the small towns and rural
districts have become Important
parts of a great highway, linking
Seven members of the family
of H. A- (Lonnie) Jones of the
Indlna Creek communlty,Browh
county, were poisoned Monday
morning by eating biscuit In
which arsenic had been placed.
Jones and two of the children
died Tuesday, while Mrs. Jones
and three of the children are in
the hospital in Brownwood with
a fair chance for recovery. Offi-
cers have been investigating the
poisoning, but' So far have not
found conclusive evidence as toK date him as a teacher.
ATHENS SOCIAL
The beautiful home of Mr. and
Mrs. L. J. Gartman, on Parker
street, was thrown open to the
Athens class on Monday night,
Feb. 9, for their first party of
the year.
Going to the Oartman home
and with Group number one,
who never falls to “put It over,"
In charge, we all looked forward
to one of the best times ever,
and we were not a bit disappoint
ed.
Our president, Mrs. J. V. Cock-
rum, called the house to order
and gave a few very Interesting
facts about the class.
The first was that Mr Haynes
Harrison has not been absent
form Sunday school but three
times since the class was organ-
ized five years ago. We think
this is a fine record and we’re
sure Mr. Harrison will never
• A.
know just how much we appre-
the guilty party, notwithstand-
ing, It Is believed beyond a doubt
that the poisoning was inten-
tional. In reporting the condi-
tion of the family, the Brown-
wood Bulletin said Wednesday:
“Justice of the Peace E. T. Per-
clty with country and bringing j klnson said in speaking of a cor-
about a better understanding on' oners Inquest, said that no defi-
form
prevent a small grain crop, since! chalking up scores
there Is ample moisture to the
ground to carry .lt to maturity,
with possibly the necessity for
a rain when the grain is filling
out. The sheep and goats have a
fleece that will yield better than
average years, because of the
animals having wintered so well
and keeping to good flesh. The
prospect for a grain crop also
helps with the poultry and while
the poultry market la not as good
as many would wish, it will keep
a good deal of mofiey in circula-
tion all the time. The early ap-
pearance of pasturage and feed
will increase the milk flow and
the cheese factory and other
buyers of milk arid cream make a
cash market for products
of the dairy.
The fact Is, conditions are get-
ting better and will continue to
of the depression
An effort Is
II farmers
asked to si
W. P.
place and any I
final whistle.
The Teague-Henry combina-
tion, the Teague, Hamilton and
Harper trio and the red-headed
Tiger solo man, Bill Williams,
just would not give up, even
though they were bombarded do
every flank. They had that*
backs to the goal, they had for-
mer reputations to keep kindled,
they could not disappoint the
-coach and above all the school
was confident of theta winning
over Mullln, tor county honors.
So with all this treasure at stake,
the Tigers, as 8tonewaS Jackson,
gave them the bayenet and
came out victorious la the Anal
cage tut.
County Standings
P W L Pet.
Star *_____________4 3 1 .780
Mullln 4 3 2 BOO
Goldthwalte ______4 1 3 AM
All-Star County !
Autrey Teague, Tigers
Horace Gray, Eagles _.
Guthrie, Mullln ______Center
A. J. Teague, Tiger! —_Guard
R. Williams, Tigers------Guard
Mayfield ----------Coach
EPWORTH
for Sunday.
Ground.
af the
M of the
the part of both : as to the de-
sires and contributions of each.
The village that looks out at
the stranger from well kept
houses and yards; that greet the
mitering guest with a lovely lit-
tle park or flower plot; that
have fine old shade trees, does
not need to erect a sign asking
him to return. His own desire
will bring him back again, per-
haps to make a contribution to
some community betterment pro
ject, possibly to make his home
here.
There are many small clubs
all over the country that have
been Instruments In bringing
about community Improvements.
In one ease It was a flower1 plot
at the end of the bridge leading
into the town, to another It took
the form * of Improving condi-
tions around the depot and arous
tog Interest in maintaining a
bed of flowers about it.
By writing to General Federa-
tion Headquarters, 1734 N. State
N. W* Washington, D. C., and
Inclosing stamps, pamphlets on
gardens, highways, billboard re-
striction and other allied sub-
jects may be procured.
Bead, catalogues have a great
deal of Important information
In them. Your state agricultural
college will test samples of the
soil your vicinity and tell you
what It needs for growing the
plants you want. They will also
md you pamphlets.
A few of the projects our club
is interested In ard: Conducting
a seed and bulb exchange; co-
operating with the school to ee-
y contests for the pupUs on
“Beautifying Our Town;” plant
a rose garden, a clump of Red-
bud, a bluebonnet beside every
Texas doorstop. The flowering
Rwood for home grtwills am
Larkspur and Verbena.
“Help make Texas beautiful.'
Keep what we have and add
Often a
.,A HI.
nite time had been set and that
he did not know when the in-
quest would be held, as the offi-
cers were investigating the af-
fair In an effort to solve some
of the mystery which surrounds
the fatal breakfast.
“A member of the State Pure j
Food and Drug Department Is in |
Brownwood today to analyse the j
bread, baking powder and arse- |
nic, which were found at the
home. Officers report that there j
are no new developments on the,
case.”
DID YOU KNOW?
The second was that there has
never been a misunderstanding
of any kind In the class. As there
are over fifty members we think
this is a very commendable fact
and shows the beautiful spirit
that exists.
She also passed some pretty
compliments to our superintend-
ent. Mr. T. F. Toland, telling how
he is always on the job and
ready to help push forward any
thing that will build up the Sun-
day school.
Mrs. Frank Bowman, in her
own charming way. gave a sketch
of the life of Lincoln, which was
very instructive, as well as en-
taining.
Then score cards were passed
for forty-two. After fourteen
games we were passed a refresh-
ment plate of cherry pie topped
with whipped cream and serv-
ed with coffee.
The plate favors were tiny
_ i slips of paper, which told a
That Star defeated Mtrtlln 23-|“stunt” to * ^formed by each
one. This caused a lot of merri-
ment.
Mr. H. B. Bradley very aptly
imitated a lady running from a
mouse and others did equally as
well.
We left declaring that this was
the best one ever and we again
extend a hearty invitation for
you to join the Athens class.
REPORTER
22 last Saturday night in a fast.
game and will represent Mills
county In the district basket ball j
tournament at Brownwood to- j
day and tomorrow.
That both the above teams!
are a fine bunch of boys and'
their coaches are respecters oi j
fair play and good sportsman- ■
ship.
That L. E. Miller, the Jeweler,
has given a basket ball cup for
the county champions, both]
boys and girl*. That he deserves
much commendation for his in-
terest and donations for person-
ally buying these cups. That Star
is the possessor for one year of
the boys cup and that the girls
cup has not been awarded. That
HI-LEAGUE PROGRAM
Program for Sunday, Feb. 18.
Subject—The measure of the ska
ture of the fullness of Christ.
Leader—Wallace Johnson.
Song — Stepping In the Light.
Prayer;
Scripture—Eph. 4:1-15—Leader./
for the cups to become the per- Talk—Billie Weatherby.
manent property of a school Readiness to forgive •
they must be won three consecu- ‘ Huddleston,
live years by the same school. Poem — Ruth F. Mullan.
That all schools In the county Talk — Worth Johnson,
express their appreciation to Mr. Duet — Geraldine Hester
Miller for these pretty cups. j Azllee Berry.
That the girls cup Is on dls- j Talk—The Higher
play in Mr. Miller's window.
That the county meet, which is
to be held Friday and Saturday.
March 88 and 21. will show many
good track men from Mullln and
from Star. REPORTER
—,■■■■■. o-
A. Dickerson
Benediction.
DID YOU ENOW?
Did you know there are 7»
qptaen children In Bbofcner Or-
han Heme who have neither
Mtaer nor mother? And did you
and these
on love
There will be
persons Interested In the
contest In debate to
of the County Judge,
Fab. 14, at t:88 p. m. Each
having entries
lequssted to si
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Thompson, R. M. The Goldthwaite Eagle (Goldthwaite, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 46, Ed. 1 Friday, February 13, 1931, newspaper, February 13, 1931; Goldthwaite, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1073146/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Jennie Trent Dew Library.