The Cuero Daily Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 10, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 13, 1926 Page: 1 of 6
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60 CENTS A MONTH
CUERO, DeWITT COUNTY, TEX., WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 13, 1926
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t)eWitt eounty fanners are be-
ing urged to order their supplies of
feedstuffs as soon as posible in ord-
er to take advantage of the- half
freight rate which, will apply only
until February 10. This extension j
was granted several days ag$ by i
the Texas Railroad Commission j
over th4 protest of the carriers, ■.
the extension in the low rates be-;
inf? made to February 10 after
J#-
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, previous extension from ^ Decent-
h her 31 fo January 9.
feg-The half rate on feedstuffs will
save DeWitt county farmers t
thousands of dollars in freight I
charges if all of them take ad- |
tSI vantage of'the eut and order their 1
ipplies immediately, it is point *
ed out. It is estimated that this ’
saving on grain will'amount to-ntj
least 30 eents on the bushel.
, Although the carriers have an-
nounced that they will contest the
right of rite railroad commission
Uf grant this extension, no action
bus yet been taken and so long as
the commission’s order is not set
aside the cut rates are in effect. In
order, therefore, tt> get the benefit'
of th» nrfuijp few* »re
urg«S to aJttk- *■- sow
as possible.****
Information and ltHatanee m;
gettusg **rfr*mta0i *f the log
rates can be ipenred at any of the
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MINSTREL SHOW
IS PLANNED BY
LEGION FEB. 16
Attorneys Preoare To
Move For Rehearin? in!
Archer Co. Bond Case
By International News Service.
AUSTIN. Jan. IS.—C. D. Jessup,
general counsel for the Burt Bond
Company, and W. P. Dumas of Dallas.
-—j— \ former assistant attorney general in
Four or Five Big Acts Includ- charge of bonds, will confer with At-
Affair Ever Staged With * j torney General Dan Moody today
Local Talent. j with reference to joining in a motion
for a rehearing of the Archer county
,i bond case in which the United States
Four or Five Big~Avt5 Includ-! rec“U>L,,e“
- « *1X1 * . . . , j district bond issues in Texa3 invalid
ed m Plans; Latest Jokes, j Jessup quoted as saylng ,hat
■ main principle involved in the mat-
PRACTICE BEGINS SOON
Songs, Etc.
The third annual minstrel show ter.seems to be whether or njt the [
staged by Dinter Post No. 3, Amer'-i bond issue 'vas based cm a special j
j assessment rate or on ad valorem 1
VOL. 64, NO.
GREEN
[JOINED
IN GAS CASE
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Seagraves Secures Injunction
From Supreme Court to *•* a
Stop Sale Gas.
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SETS ASIDE COURT ORDER
—
Judge Green’s Order That Gas ,
Frc
can Legion, will be presented at the
Dreamland theatre here on Tuesday
evening, February 16, it was decided
Tuesday night at the regular meeting j
of the Legion membership, and prac-
tice Vill begin soon.
• Post Commander John H. Bernirts-!
is in general charge of the show this
j year and he told members of the Post j
I that present plans call for an elabo- j
; rate undertaking for this year’s show.
There will he four or five acts in the
minstrel,. Commander - Berning said.; __
will he chuck full ot enter-' Mayor Des!gnata. Saturday
.50,183 For Sale of Tag. to Sup-
jokes, ami other features, On the! por, Record Search.
Berning declared, this will
rom Refugio Field Be
Sold Held up..
A restraining order directed :
against Judge John M. Green at Om"-\ \
24th district court, et aln
the.Supreme Court that the ass-! the Texas Supreme Court
essment was on the ad valorem rate 1 jaj hearing’late Tuesday afternoon,!
and not on a special tax rate as the motion of O. R. Seagraves for leai
j court assumed, it was declare!. to file Certiorari proceedings.
rate. Attorneys will endeavor to;
issued by yj
it a spny-
C. S N. TAG DAY
IS PROCLAIMED
and each
tainment, the latest
Judge^
a well
nvoftrjsd
market .
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west and rarest” show
A proclamation designating Satur-
day of this week as Confederate Navy
Tag Day was issued Wednesday by
Mayor LeRoy Hamilton, and the peo-
ple of this community are urged in
the proclamation to tend their sup-
port to the .movement to reclaim from
sMivion the records of men who serv-j *be
Navy.
If V
will be held here next month
brings a revival of Scout activit-
ies for the New Year, Despite the
fact that the Spout organization
for the Guadalupe Valley Council
is still somewhat up in the air so
far as is known here, Cnero is go-
ing forward With her plans to
strengthen her local Scout organi-;
zation during the coming year.
One of the strongest Scout organi-
™ f - 4 + *
zations in the council area was
formed here during the past year
and the loeal troops should be ma-.
terially strengthened during the
present year.
Tbe Scoutmasters school is con-
ducted along the. lines of expert
tracing in these matters and the
coming training period should be
attended fy an greater num-
ber of loeal mem supporters of the
Seotit movement, than have been
in dttendanee at previous schools.
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Poll tax payments in Cuero are
shutting along about the average
the fa et that‘this is eler
ar. There may be no loeal
Frecords broken in poll tax pay-
tbe eoilectff* declares, but
l pretty good guess that there
will be a Tttsh on the collector’s
office at the end of the present
month. V >’
VJt are-not euJtruvMing to tempt
•fatoflfr any wise, bnt so far the
weaHtfr pm&iifr* who >fe-
■ j . for this
b^* **td, but
•b far we h%ye no hick to mhke
against the class of weather Cuero
il£mioen having no far this winter.
The goveifcinfent has tied a motion ia Dmt
Columbia
Su-
preme Court asking to Intervene in tM case of Jackson Barnett,
wealthy Creek Indian, who, it was charged, was “kidnapped and
vamped” into a marriage with a woman who last July filed suit to
establish her right to $200,000 in Liberty bonds.
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105 ENTOMBED
IN MINE BLAST
Hysterical Women Swarm En-
trance as Rescue Worker*
Labor Feverishly.
By International Nows Service.
WILBURTON, Okta., Jan. 13.—
Possibility that the 106 miners
who were entombed following a
blast in Mine No. 21, one of the
Degnan-McConneH .Coal Com-
pany's mines, might be rescued
alive began to vtens this after-
noon when rmeve .parties failed
to locate any of the entombed
men after entering the mine
shaft
LATE WIRE
FLASHES
By International
News service
T- CAMELS DRINK. TOO
United Preo*
McALESTER. OkU.. Jan. 13—Hy-
sterical women, wives, sweethearts
and relatives swarmed the entrance
to Mine No. 21 of the Degan-McCon-
nell Coal Company of Wilburton, near
here, at noon today while rescue i
parties from McALester worked fev-
erishly to savOithe lives qf 106 miners
who Were enteqsbed tg tee mips fol-
lowing sa «$|)o4ss tMs morning.
The explosion, mine ofBclals 4®*
clared^ oedUfmd ^b minutes after ten
force entered ted ddae * The blast
was probably caused by an accumula-
tion of dm hi the abaft.
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B. L. Head, commanding officer of the
Utk MMffj Oklahoma National
Guard, Was ordered .‘ by Governor
Trapp to grocned today to Wilburton, \
scene of tbe mine explosion which
resulted in bnrying 1$S men alive.
Sixty guardsmen are to be taken in
the scene of the disaster.
' BERLIN. Jan. 13.—President
Hindenburg of Germany today in-
vited Ex-Chaneellor Luther to
take up the task of forming a cab-
inet. Luther has announced his
acceptance of the job.
NOGAL£8, Ariz., Jan. 13—Two
thousand persons are dead as a
result of1 floods that swept the
8tate of Nayarlat, Mexico, accord-
ing to R. B. Tltcomb, president of
the Southern Pacific of Mexico,
who arrived here today from tbe
devastated area.- Probably more
than that number can be counted
victims when outlying districts
are checked, he declared.
ed in the Confederate
| proclamation follows:
“WHEREAS, there were in the!
Nary of the Confederate States ef
America about six thousand five bun- i
were losV after the suixggder gf 6^- ^l*aU
oral Lee Appomattox and tkR evpc-
uation of the Capitol of the Confed-
eracy; and
,lSWHERSAS. the survivors and de
pendants of the heroic dead tyave
received b^ Judge Green here Wed-f ,
nesday. The Supreme court set tee
hearing for January 20. This proceed-
ing is the outgrowth of a hearing
held before Judge Green here seveuffiT
days ago iu vacation in which
Green ordered that 6a» from a
in the Refugio county field ,inv
in litigation, be sold at the
price.
Explanation of the Supreme
action is contained in the f<
excerpt from press dispatches
Austin.
The temporary restraining o
rected that all defendants each
them be restrained from seUlag or
tering gas from a well
Seagraves-Moody
Tii^ i veirt* them from Mlfiaffi tbe
taking any action under the
ship or vacation orders of tbe
i lodge... •
All the record® gre
L betas* tee 8npremoa.
interests;
represented the plaintiE.
. Eskridge said the
Interests had the fa___
ply the city of. Hoimton wtfb
25 bents a thousand cubic feef
a large‘gae well, j
great difficulty in securing pensions owned a valuable lease in
and admission to the homes for Con- county, and on it a large |
"federate Veterans, due to the fact* that the interests were
that those valuable records were de*' ^roc^ng a pipeline as rapidly {
tj alble to the well add would be
el to take gae from it
Tex^ Jan
It for prohibition.
without a drink . for anv
of time unless he can't get
8TORK GAINS LEAD.
13. — Even j By United Press.
DALLAS. Tex., Jan. 13.--Birtbs
here in December nearly doubled the
deaths. Depths totalled 222. while
births added to 423.
AUSTIN, Tex., Jan. 13—The
court of Criminal Appeals this
morning affirmed the case of
Frank Collier, former mayor of
Wichita Falls, sentenced to three
years imprisonment for man-
slaughter In connection with the
killing:'*} his son-in-low, Elsie
Robinson. The gas# of Mrs. Col-
lier, who uwA convicted of mur-
der in oe«section with the same
kilting and sentenced to ten yours
in prison, has not been paeed up-
on.
8AM ANTONIO. Tex, Jan. 13—
H. H. Moors of N^v-
wore among the
en the National railway
train which wao held up by ban-
dits near Guadalajara, Mexico.
Saturday night, resulting in the
death of more than 50 persons,
arrived here Nte Tuesday after-
noon from Laredo. They were
both robbed of their baggbge,
money and valuables but were
otherwise unharmed.
WEATHER
t, fair. Continued cold,
neorty to coagf. Hoary frost
Thursday fair. Light to mod-
presented by the local Legion Post.
Tl*} first act of the minstrel will be
the 'taotdio. a minstrel circle scene,
t$Uckfkce. something new ia the
of opening minstrel scenes. it
Among the features of
will be all the latest song:
and jokes, including the la.
tation of the Charleston
Fust, Commander J. W. Ab-
bas been selected as inter-
pnd the end men will be Newt
8chorre, Shorty Nall.
1 and John Bern**.
- The Hawaiian entertainers a mu-
sical number featuring Hawaiian mu-
sic and son^s, a feature of last year’s
minstrel, which was well’ received,
has been enlarged and improved and
will be presented as tbe second ac.1.
of this year’s show, it was announced.1
The musicians composing this group
include Bert Thieme, Earl Adcock.
Bert Cook and “Red” Heisler.
A quartet composed of Carl Bohne.
Rudolph Evers, Herbert Marquis and str0ye{j- and
Herbert DornMuth. will be another j “WHEREAS, the families of the' *<> take gas from it Much 1>
musical feast for the audience. The j descendent8 of th0ae Saiiors have val- ***** I** thousand cubic feet. He
quartet singers will be blackface and j uab,e pap6rg> offlc,a, docun|eilU
will present a varied song program. lettergf wMch wiU t^ond doubt en-
able the properly authorized persons
to establish the records which avo j
needed; and > ‘The district court
“y HERE AS the Legislature t*e i edver without a
State of Texas, in regular sotMWLl f*1*-
adopted a joint xeoojution, eadorstpiC! P1™' Motfpt
and authorizing the work of tfc* jte- j to sell gaA for ah to:
vy Department, U. C. V, and re ‘ ** time at the market — _ ___
-questing the Municipal authorities pf j we*1- The order w^h carriai. out -Wt
tbe Cities of Texas to assist;tea de-
partment in financing their work by
granting tag days, and. calling upon
the patriotic organizations. of the
business state to assist, them in every way
possible; and . . .*-ov
"WHEREAS, the laudable work of
rescuing those records frdm oblfriou
ik now being carried on by the Navar
Department, United States Confeder-
ate Veterans, and os .teats recooda
are being compiled they are beiagJ
placed on gile along with the' r*a-
ords of the Confederate Soldiers Al-
ready on flit, in the Archives of jfeUt
Commonwealth; * rj, A ife
- NOW. THEREFORE, L, LeRef
Hamilton, Mayer ef tea Gity- of.iAieta,'
Texas, do hereby aam* sad ggpoHH*,
Saturday, January 18th, 1M£ *e
“Confederate Tag Day," -and ua£ie the!
people of this commpnfty to assist the] . , ". .
Nary Department, U. C. V., in tbls.j ’he fkhool *81
a pkrRN of tour a
! ■ The final scene will be the “knock-
out,” the post commander said, and
the exact plans on this act is ieing
kept more or less a secret. It will
Include the entire company, with sev-
eral ladies added and some mirth pro-
voking surprises are in store for the
audience. The general admission
price for the show was fixed at 50c.
Discussion of the minstrel occupied
most of the time of the meet, altho’
jdans were laid for a membership
ertnpaign to swell the. membership of
the post to 200. and other
{matters were discussed. ’
STATE LEGION
PROBES ARREST
By International News Service.
AU8TIN, Tex., Jan. 13—Any action
by. state officers of the American
Legion in regard to the alleged up-
warrsnted arrest of Otto and Will
Woiters, two Austin men, who arc
alleged to hove been seized here re-j
eerily by men representing them-
selves as officers and taken to Bas-
trop where the so-called “truth se-
administered
sorted that the differeao* of 88-
In tbe cost and sale of Um j
be used to amortize the coot of
pipeline ; .O
instructed
CUTtM.b
be riNi owC”
this is allowed to
estate or interest
The Tflxga Railrpgd
has inspected the Well and
1* In good cendition
gpod tor commeralol purpteoa. he e*-.
JlUlned.
- .
Seoutmastcrs training
H open In Cuero on
aunoukced here late
!®k u w. BdJiy, Scout
ter the Guadalupe VNNbr
who stopped NT bore a short
way to Voafenm.
ms
Department,
noble cause to raise tea accessary
were questioned coaceralng the trip-
le mister of the Engler family a«r
here last summer, wijl depend op the
report of aa Investigating committee
appointed by the local post, S. M.
Hankley, state adjutanL declared to-
day- .
Th* committee is composed of five
memkers of the local post, three of
them-lawyers who are examining le-
gal action possible to be taken with
a view to securing redress for the
alleged arrests. The Wolters^brotb
era am 8till in a local hospital suffer-
ing I*£m the effects of the “truth se-
rum."! it is understood. W. T. Wil-
attorney for the two brothers
aa extensive hivesttf«Uon
legal Phases of tee affair,
’}***gj|**ll» *
to the end that it may be crowd-
ed ^ith success. - - ■ i
“Given under my hand and seal,
this, the 13th day of Janaary, IMS,
and in the One Hundred and fif-
tieth year of American Indapepdeacc.
LeROY HAMILTON, Mayor.
LIVE AT HOME WffEK.
By United Press.
EL PASO, Tex., Jan. 13.—Mias Irma
Sealy. county home demonstrator, ad-
vocates a living at home week.
Farmers should grow* most of the
things they eat on Umlr farms, ape ex-
plained.
Every farm should prodnee
vegetables, poultry and mill
Scout leaders to malm
school several th£*s qp
held'last year. Letters
written to the loeal
tary Clubs, American
of Pythiaa, KnjgNta of
churchep and other
urging each to sea* a[__
at least eight men to attend
ing school.* All otlrafw
the work will also be
tend the classes.
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