The Mullin Enterprise. (Mullin, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 14, 1932 Page: 4 of 4
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ASSESSOR’S QUESTIONS
Following are some of the
questions ^he law requires tax
■assessors ask farmers:
1. Number of tenant fami-
lies on farnt'
2. Acres in favm land—or
xanch, including woods and
"waste.
3. Acres in cultivation in
.1931.
4. All other land.
. 5. Corn harvested for all
purposes in 1931.
6. Wheat harvested last
.year, 1931, acres and bushels.
7. Wheat for harvest this
year, 1932.
8. Oats harvested for all
purposes, 1931.
9. Grain sovghums harvest-
ed for all purposes, 1931, in-
cluding liegari, milo maize, dor-
so, ;etc,
10. Cane and sweet sorghums
harvested for all purposes,
1931.
11. All hay harvested, 1931,
exclude grain sorghums, cane
sand sweet sorghum.
12. Cotton harvested last
year, 1931*, acres and bales.
13. Irish potatoes and sweet
potatoes, acres and tenth of
acres, 1931.
GL4. Othcv vegetables and
truck crops for sale, 1931.
15. All other field crops,
acres.
16, All fruit trees of bearing
age on the farm, 1931.
T7. Pecan trees of bearing
age on the favm, 1931.
18. Cows and heifers of milk-
ing age kept on the farm.
20. Turkeys of all ages on
farm.
.21. Number o f animals
slaughtered on favm during
1931, cattle, sheep and swine.
22. Number of steam pres-
sure canners on farm.
-,23. Was this farm operated
mostly with teams or with trac-
tors in 1931?
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PROHIBITION OUT
OF POLITICS
Prohibition used to be “dam-
nable” in the bright lixfieon of
John J. Raskob’s Democratic
youth, but, as questionaires
come and go,that gentleman has
melloived to where it is now
“a social question and should
lie taken out of politics and out
of the hands of politicians.”
.However, he is still of a mind
that the place for a social ques-
tion to be raised is th‘e Nation-
al Democratic convention, arid
that the way to take it out of
the hands of the politicians is
to thresh it out in the Demo-
cratic National Committee be-
forehand.
Mr. Raskob says that he has
aimed throughout at full,frank
«57id fearless discussion of pro-
hibition, and he admits that he
has obtained plenty of that, as
indeed he has.IIe does not want
the party to be wet and ha, does
not want it to be dry, but full,
frank and fearless discussion
of whether it is going to be wet
or going to be dry is regarded
by him as an achievement in
leadership. And it is, of a sort.
So much of his pronounce-
ment is provocative, but there
is assuasive appeal in Mr. Ras-
Ikob’s statement that he has
given over any intention of hav-
ug the national committee make
a recommendation to the con-
tention or issue an authorita-
tive outline of the party’s posi-
tion at this time. For that mat-
ter, he denies utterly that such
was ever his intention. With
that misunderstanding out of
the way, the battle can pro-
ceed perhaps with less person-
al rancor. But it is to be feared
that there will continue to be a
•'full, frank and fearless” re-
sort to verbal violence, much
in the unhappy manner hither-
tto encountered by the disting-
uished motor magnate in his
political role.—Dallas News.
TEXAS HOMESTEAD LAW
Molded back in times when
Texas was a domain of forest
and unconquered wilderness,
language of the homestead law
is quaint in some sections—but
through the years decisions of
the courts on the law have in-
jected modern and sometimes
paradoxical meanings into the
original verbiage.
Homesteaders stand a chance
of getting another bouquet
thrown their way at the gener-
al election this year ,when the
voters will decide whether
homesteads of the assessed val-
uation up to $3,000 are to be
exempt from state taxation.
Since the assessed valuation is
derived from 50 per 'Cent of the
true value of property this will
except homesteads from state
levies up to $6,000. The ques-
tion will be decided in a con-
stitutional amendment.
The original law provides
that a homestead shall include,
among other things, two horses,
a wagon, one carriage or bug-
gy, After this was written, how-
ever, a lawsuit came up and the
resulting decision was that a
“mule is a horse.”
Since carriages have been
supplanted practically entirely
by automobiles this question
soon came up and in the case of
R. C. Parker, vs. C. L. Sweet
from Tarrant county the courts
held that “in a broad sense,,
then, an automobile is undoubt-
edly a carriage. . . . An automo-
bile 'is essentially a carriage,
used for identically the same
purposes as the horse-drawn
carriages of our fathers’ days,
the principal difference be-
tween the two being the motor
power employed. From this
standpoint of utility no distinc-
tion can be made between the
two.” Referring to the Allison
vs. Brookshire ease in which a
mule was held to be a horse, the
court said: “If a mule is a
horse, undoubtedly an automo-
bile is a carriage.”
The homestead law provides
a family with certain articles
that can not be attached or
sold forcibly. Included in the
list are all household and kitch-
en furniture, any cemetery lots
held for sepulture, any imple-
ments of husbandry, all tools,
apparatus and books belonging
to any trade or profession, the
family library, all family por-
traits and pictures, five milch
cows and calves, twro yoke of
work oxen, necessary yokes and
chains, two horses and one wag-
on, one carriage or buggy, one
gun, twenty hogs, twenty head
of sheep, all saddles, bridles
and necessary harness for use
of the family, all provisions
and forage on hand for home
consumption, all current wages
for personal services.
Homesteads in town include
a lot or lots worth not more
than $5,000 at the time of des-
ignation as homestead, and not
in town include 200 acres of
land.
An unmarried man is entitl-
ed,to different exemptions than
the family, His list includes
cemetery lots held for sepulture
all wearing apparel, tools and
apparatus of a profession, one
horse, saddle and bridle and
current wages for personal ser-
vices. A single man’s automo-
bile is not exempt unless it is
used in his trade.
The 200 acres in a homestead
does not have to be in one par-
cel, but may be scattered. The
same is true of lots in town,but
the value of $5,000 is the dead-
line for the town property.
In town a person may have
a residence homestead and a
business homestead, both ex-
empt if the land was bought for
not more than $5,000 and can
not be sold forcibly. Land worth
$500 might hold a building
costing $1,000,000, but it would
be exempt from execution if it
could be claimed as a home-
stead. In this connection the
courts have held that such
LEAVE FOR LEVELLAND
Rev. and Mrs. J. H. Hallford
have gone to Levelland, where
he has accepted full time work
as pastor of the Baptist church
in that city. They will be great-
ly missed in this section and
their places will be hard to fill,
yet it is with pride that we
send this worthy young couple
to their new location and home.
We feel sure they will adapt
themselves to the new environ-
ments and will press forward
to success in their high calling
and he a blessing to Levelland.
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NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS
MEETING
A meeting of the stockhold-
ers of the First State Bank of
Mullin, Texas, is hereby called
to meet on the 15th day of Feb-
ruary, for the purpose of voting
upon the proposition to close
the business of the above nam-
ed bank and to surrender its
corporate franchise, in con-
formity with the provisions of
Article 539-540, R, C. & of
Texas.
W. IT. G. CHAMBERS,
A. IT- DANIEL,
L. L. WILSON,
a. j. McDonald,
j. IT. RANDOLPH.
Directors.
EVENING SCHOOLS
FOR FARMERS
Six thousand two hundred
adult farmers in 225 commun-
ities in Texas are night school
students, which speaks well for
the progress being made in the
new vocational educational
program for the state. There
are night schools in the cities
attended by men and women,
who are anxious to fit them-
selves to meet competition with
others in their lines, who prob-
ably had earlier advantages,
but night schools for farmers
are something new. It is en-
couraging to know that such
a large number of farmers, the
most of whom have tilled the
soil the greater part of their
lives, have accepted the oppor-
tunity to study their problems
in order that they may fit
themselves to meet changing
conditions in their industry.
As we understand the pro-
gram of these schools, which
are in charge of vocational
teachers, who are often assist-
ed by the county agent, it is
not cut and dried, but is very
largely shaped by the farmers
themselves. Farmer students
bring to the class problems of
their own. These problems are
generally found to be of com-
munity interest. They are dis-
cussed and most always some
farmer in the school has an an-
swer to it. The discussion, of
course, is directed by the teach-
er and at the end of the session
these forward-looking farmer
students are prepared to go
home to stop up some leak in
their business, or to adopt new
measures to improve their earn-
ing capacity.
Changing economic condi-
tions in agriculture plus the
many discoveries of new crops
and new methods of production
are placing the old-time farmer
who follows the practices of his
father and grandfather at a
disadvantage. It does not pay
to be a Chinaman in agricul-
ture.—Farm and Ranch.
things as electric fans in of-
fices are part of the land and
can not be attached under the
homestead law.
Attorneys say a good many
people abuse privileges of the
homestead law by hiding be-
hind its language, but it is re-
garded as one of the most ef-
fective of its kind in the CQUH’
try.—Dallas News,
PRAIRIE NEWS
Everyone at school is miss-
ing the smiling faces of Juarez
and Marie Fisher, who have
gone to their father in Cali-
fornia.
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Mrs. J. E. Smith spent Sat-
urday with Mrs, Will Jenkins.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Gibbard
and family are Wfelcomed in
our community. They have
moved to ■’their new home,,
known as the Joe Etheridge
place.
Miss Opal Etheridge visited.
Miss Dayalva Jenkins Saturday
evening.
Miss Fay Smith visited Mrs.-
Claud Shipp in the Pompey
community Wednesday of last
week.
Miss Florence Stark spent
the week end with her parents,
near Goldthwaite.
The infant daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Judge Scoggins is rap-
idly improving from her siege
of whooping cough.
Miss Agnes Johnson spent
Friday and Saturday with her
sister, Mrs. J. K. Nesmith, who
is on the sick list.
Mrs. W. D. Haile and chil-
dren spent Sunday visiting in
the home of her brother, Henry
Gibbard.
Mrs. Frazier Henry visited
Mrs. J. L. TIallford one day last
week.
Miss Vercie Smith spent
Thursday night with Miss Day-
alva Jenkins.
Miss Myrtle Lee Pyburn
spent Thursday night with Miss
Opal Etheridge.
Miss Ella Haile spent Wed-
nesday night with Msis Doris
Carlisle.
Messrs. Edgar and Kyle
Smith spent the week end'with
their uncle, Charlie Smith;.
Miss Myrtle Lee Pyburn
spent Sunday with Miss Claudia-
Shipp.
Miss Lena Mae Smith visited'
IVjlrs. Minnie Black Sunday-
evening.
Mr. and Mrs. G: W". Adhms-
and son, Nephus, visited M'r.
and Mrs. Will’ Jenkins and.
family Sunday.
Mr. and' Mrs. J. K. Nesmith
and family of Woodland
Heights spent the week end
with her mother, Mrs. W.. C.
Johnson,,
Mrs. Fannie Medford and son,
Casbv, visited Mrs. Ora Ratliff
Sunday.
A. J. Smith visited Bud Car-
lisle recently.
Herman Simpson spent Sun-
day night with Mr. and Mrs.
W. A. Black.
Chester Priee spent Sunday
night, with Gordie Pyburn.
Miss Mazie Carlisle spent the
week end with homefolks.
W. M. Pyburn spent one day
last week with W. C. Johnson.
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NOTICE
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ANNOUNCE MAjS NTS i
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The Enterprise is authorized j
to make the following an- j
nouneements, subject to the j
Democratic Primary Election in I
July:
For County Judge,
ROY SIMPSON.
For County Clerk,
L. Br PORTER
For District Clerk,
JOHN S. CHESSER
For County Treasurer,
MISS LOIS FULLER
For Tax Assessor,
W. L. BURKS.
For Commissioner Pro. No. 3,,
I. McCUEEY
Stop Using Soda
Bad For Stomach
Much soda disturbs digestion.
For sour stomach and gas;. Ad-
lerlka is far better: One dose will
rid. you of bowel poisons which
cause gas and bad sleep..
See
DAVE the BARBER
latest in
HAIR CUTS and
SMOOTH SHAVES
CITY
RAftBER SHOP
D. B. EATON, Prop.
C. C. BAKER, JR.
Dental Surgery
Office over Trent Bank
Open every Tuesday and
Saturday and as much time on
other days as patronage
requires
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We Represent the Old Line Com-
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Insurance Agent
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Crisp Curtains for the Sleeping Room
UOME furnishings with a distinct
period feeling, bugffears to the
housewife, who never is quite sure
whether they “go” well with the
rest of a room, are not so embar-
rassing as one might think, as is
delightfully illustrated in this sleep-
ing room which combines the
French Provencal and eiarly Ameri-
can spirit- '
, The permandy curtains, a most
important adjunct to any room,
furnish the note to which the re-
mainder of the apartment is tuned.
They are ecru marquisette in a bel-
marque finish which is a chemical
treatment of the yarn that gives it
the necessary crispness and perma-
nently seals the fiber In the yarn
so that it is not necessary in laun-
dering to use starch. ? Vat colors,
fast to light and water, are used In
dyeing, and the curtains cany
out the light cream color of the
Provencal wall paper which has a
small pattern of blue and orange
dots. No drapes are used but such
a window might well have over-
drapes as welL •
The furniture Is of French de-
sign in maple and the lamp-wick
bedspread is covered with a Ken-
tucky coverlet. Braided Colonial
rugs, pewter and an old-fashiont4jt
clock add to the quaint charm of
the place.
So, here is a room furnished very
simply but with a beauty all its
own, a personality, in fact, in
which naive furniture from the
south of France, American contem-
porary, Colonial accessories and^j^
touch of color from the Kentucky- *•
mountains all go to hel)k® Mixing
one’s periods doesn't matter; on
contrary, sometime# help*.
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Patterson, R. H. The Mullin Enterprise. (Mullin, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 14, 1932, newspaper, January 14, 1932; Mullin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1115791/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Jennie Trent Dew Library.