The Mullin Enterprise. (Mullin, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 3, 1933 Page: 3 of 4
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THE MULLIN ENTERPRISE
NEIGHBORING NEWS
Items From Local Papers of
Towns Mentioned
HAMILTON
Tuesday night 48 Hamilton
business men went to Lamkin for
the second of a series of good
will trips.
Sheriff Mack Morgan has been
making trip^over the county,
posting notipR* 'of 'the special
election to tfe held here August
28.
By authority of the railroad
commission, the motor car ope-
rated between Comanche, Ste-
phenville and Hamilton will be
discontinued Sunday, August 6.
Logan Drank of Jonesboro,
who is a member of the C. C. C.
camp at Hamilton, suffered an
attack of appendicitis Wednes-
day evening of this week and
was operated on.
Funeral services were held
Friday, July 21, at McGirk for
Gaither Ball, who died July 20
at his home in that community.
Mr. Ball has been in ill health
for the past three or four years,
but has not been bedfast but a
few months.
The picking of wild flowers
will be illegal in Texas after
September 1. So will the picking,
pulling up, tearing up, digging
up, cutting, breaking, injuring
or destroying of any tree, shrub,
vine, flower or moss growing on
public or inclosed property. —
News.
SAN SABA
Leasing of 10,000 acres of land
north and west of Algerita is the
latest development in the oil ac-
tivity in San Saba county.
Plans for a $10,000 improve-
ment of the city water works,
the rebuilding of the Fair Park
under city ownership and the
construction of an auditorium-
gvnasium for the public schools
are under way to provide for the
rehabilitation program in San
Saba to carry out the national
plan of President Roosevelt.
The city of San Saba needs
$20,045.30 every year to pay on
the principal and interest of its
bonded indebtedness, according
to R. W. Burleson, councilman.
About $6,000 is needed for cur-
rent running expenses, includ-
ing light, salaries and upkeep.
Mrs. W. M. Johnson, 50 years
of age, formerly Miss Pearl
Blanche Biggs, died at her home
in Goldthwaite Monday night
at 7 o’clock and was buried in
the Goldthwaite cemetery at 4
o’clock Tuesday afternoon.
Just before noon Friday the
siren began to ring and the fire
boys got into action with Worth
Nance in the driver’s seat and
the fire truck was out of the city
hall and on its way to the fire
before anyone could see what
was happening. The call was
from a small house near the Mill
Pond, where some people were
camping.—Star.
LAMPASAS
Gordon Mackey of Temple was
a business visitor in Lampasas
-Wednesday.
The fire department was call-
ed Tuesday afternoon to the
home of Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Har-
on Fourth street. A trash
fire caught the grass and weeds
in the vacant lot back of the
home,but it was soon under con-
trol without damage to the
property.
Sheriff A. R. Harvey and his
deputies put in a very busy
morning Saturday. They raided
ten beer joints and confiscated
16 gallons and 250 bottles of beer
and a great deal of bootlegging
equipment, such as crocks and
bottle cappetrs. Of the ten places
raided, three were operated by
colored men and the other seven
by white men or women.
The first bale of 1933 cotton
for Lampasas county was ginned
Wednesday morning by Gillen’s
gin. The cotton was raised by
Leonard Proctor on Mrs. Jessie
Northington’s farm. The bale
weighedapproxiiu^tely 510 lbs.
and was purchased by Albert
Bullion for Senterfitt Grocery
company for 10 1-4 cents per
pound.
M large crowd of fight fans
braved the discomforts of the
heavy dust clouds Wednesday
night and attended the boxing
matches at Camp Miriam. Most
everyone states that the road to
the camp was undoubtedly the
dustiest they had ever traveled.
The reforestation boys put on
seven matches between them-
selves, some of which were very
interesting and others that were
only mediocre. —Leader.
BROWNWOOD
The comissary, which has been
operated in Brownwood for some
time by the County Welfare
board, will be discontinued when
the present supply of merchan-
dise on hand is exhausted.
Inability to secure milk from
Brown county dairymen in suf-
ficient quantities to ship it by
truck to Comanche has caused
temporary abandonment of the
plan to supply surplus milk from
this county to the cheese plant
recently opened in Comanche.
Petitions for a local option
election in Brown county were
not presented the commissioners
court at the regular meeting
Monday, but will be pre-
sented in time for the commis-
sioners court to call the election
August 26, backers of the local
option vote said this week* %
Congressman Wright Patman
of Texarkana, ex-service man,
Legionaire, bonus advocate,
fiery orator and the man cred-
ited with causing the resigna-
tion under fire of Secretary of
the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon,
will be the principal speaker at
the American Legion Division
convention in Brownwood Octo-
ber 27 and 28, it was announc-
ed this week by O. H. Turner,
adjutant of the local post, and
division commander. — Banner-
Bulletin.
LOMETA
Miss Maudie Belle Kirby of
Goldthwaite was a week end vis-
itor in the T. F. Scott home.
Mr. and Mrs. Roland Windell
entertained friends with a porch
party of forty-two and bridge
Tuesday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Westerman
and Christine Renfro of Gold-
thwaite v/ere visitors in the John
Shelton home Sunday.
Edith and Virginia Earl Kirby
returned from Brownwood last
Saturday, where they have been
visiting in the home of their
uncle, E. M. Davis, and family
for the past week.
Mrs. Henry Robbins passed
through on her way home from
Taylor and with her was James
Edgar, her son, who had been in
school for the tummer term,
making a straight A card. He
completed his summer work
while there.
Wednesday the first bale of
the 1933 cotton crop in Lampasas
county was ginned in Lampasas,
the report coming by wire. This
is the earliest that any record
holds, for the county. The bale
COMANCHE
The Ex-Rangers Association is
to meet in Comanche August 8,
9, and 10.
Comanche city schools will
open Thursday, September 7, ac-
cording to an announcement by
Supt. W. G. Barrett.
' The commissioners court vot-
ed to meet the last Monday in
each month to approve bills and
to attend such other matters as
may come before them.
The state railway commission
Thursday granted the Cotton
Belt railway permission to dis-
continue the motor car service
between Comanche and Ste-
phenville via Hamilton.
A crowd estimated at over a
thousand was at Van Dyke
Thursday morning and others
-Vv/ere still arriving at one o’clock
to make the biggest gathering
at the Comanche County Old
Settlers Re-union within several
years.
Ninety-four descendants and
other relatives of F. M. (Uncle
Frank) Williford and a number
of visitors gathered at the Stur-
kie bridge, near Hasse, Monday
and Tuesday for them annual
reunion and picnic. There was
an increase of 23 over the gath-
ering last year.
Oliver Walker, whose sentence
of ten years for robbery of the
State Bank of Proctor more than
a year ago, was recently affirmed
by the court of criminal appeals,
was brought to Comanche Fri-
day by his bondsmen and deliv-
ered to the sheriff.
A Hoover vacuum cleaner was
“borrowed” from the residence
of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Sanders “for
an hour” Tuesday by a traveling
mechanic and up to Thursday at
noon neither Mr. or Mrs. San-
ders had seen any thing of the
accommodating mechanic nor
their cleaner.
Probably the most cash ever
to be distributed among the
farmers of Comanche county
during mid-summer will be re-
ceived within a short time when
$136,845 will be paid 1727 farm-
ers by the federal government
for destroying 19,851 acres of
cotton under the cotton reduc-
tion program.—Chief.
weighed 1410 and ginned 517. It
sold for 10 1-4 cents .in Lampas-
as. The owner of the bale, L.
Proctor, who lives lives 2 1-2
miles east of Lampasas. — Re-
porter.
Your Eye is Like A Camera
m
'TiHE camera is patterned after
the human eye. Both have a
lens and a sensitive receiving
area, a film in the case of the
camera and the retina in the
case of the eye. Both have a
diaphragm to “atop down” the
amount of light which enters, lor
the iris of the eye can expand
and contract like a diaphragm,
making larger or smaller the lit-
tle hole which in a camera 1;
called the aperture and in the
eye, the pupil and both have i
dark chamber behind the lens
An image of anything is made
up of rays of light of varyin;
sorts reflected by the object
When the camera is pointed at i
man, for example, the reflected
light rays from the man pas
through the lens oi the camerc-
If- this lens were plain glass, th-
rays would need a film the sis-
of the man in order to take hi;
picture. But when they pas;
through the curved surfaces o:;
the lens, they are bent or “re-
fracted,” in such a way that f
small image of the man is made
up side down, on the film. Th--:
image Is up side down Pecans?
the lens bends the light rays sc
that they cross before they resc”
the film.
1 With the camera, if the image
of the person whose picture we
are taking la not clear and sharp
(that is, if it is out of focus), we
can move the lens nearer or far-
ther away from the film until it
is just right. This cannot be done
in the human eye, for the lens is
at a fixed distance from the
retina.
But the lens of the eye is far
more wonderful, for it can ad-
just the focus by changing its
own thickness. It can become
thick to focus on objects near at
band, or thin to focus on distant
objects, and it does so thousands
of times a day. The time required
cor the human lens to adjust its
ecus is on the average two-
entlis of a second
One other great difference be-
cveen the eye and the camera is
.hat the film of the camera can
:ake but one picture, while the
"etina oi the eye can receive
rundreds oi thousands of pic-
tures an hour and pass them on
;o the brain and be ready for
more But the ,retina as well as
the lens of the eye must be rested
oy sleep and if they are imper-
fect they must not be expected
to strain themselves long with-
out the aid of correction lenses
to ease their work. This perhaps
Is the fundamental difference
between the eye and the camera,
for the eye is a living mechanism
and demands periodic care and
protection. *
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CO - OPERATION
IS A GOOD DEAL LIKE
The Weather
A lot of people are always talking about it but mighty
little is ever done about it. Here is something
you can do.
Your Home Town Paper Is Always
Working to Serve the Best Interests
of Mullin.
You can help your town by co-operating with youf
newspaper.
Readers-
Tell us the news while it is new. The editof and
regular correspondents are always IcokinJ for
items of interest and information.
Business Men- I
Advertise what you have to sell. Let the people
know you are still in business and that you wan t
their trade. Keep your name and business be-
fore the public.
Everybody-
Read the ads in the Enterprise and buy from th
advertisers. Your trade will help build a bigger
and better Mullin.
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DO YOUR PART!
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Patterson, R. H. The Mullin Enterprise. (Mullin, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 3, 1933, newspaper, August 3, 1933; Mullin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1115915/m1/3/?rotate=90: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Jennie Trent Dew Library.