The Mullin Enterprise. (Mullin, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 3, 1933 Page: 4 of 4
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THE MULLIN ENTERPRISE
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' VISITS GOLDTHWAITE
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Hori. Thos: E. Blanton, repre-
sentative in congress from this >
district, was a visitor in this city
a short while Saturday, accom-
panied by hsi son, William.They
had been' to Burnet, where Mr.
Blantdn delivered- an address at
a barbecue- and w’ere en route to
their hoftie' in Abilene. Mr. Blan-
ton will continue as our repre-
sentative in congress until after.-'
the next election and the people
here Sincerely regret that the
change in the boundary of the
district will prevent him again
representing us, • as his home a
county will be attached to coun^
ties ‘further west and we will be
forced to select another con-
gressman', Mr. Blanton is one of
the most faithful and influen-
tial men in congress and his ser-
vices' have been worth millions
to the nation. The people will,
cdhtinue to elect him to congress
as long as he will accept the of-
fice, no matter in what district
he may be placed.
■' Mills county and. Mills county
people have his friendship and
We can always, depend upon his
help in every matter that inter-
ests us, as long as he is in con-
gress. . t ; '
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NEWS BRIEFS
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A citizeh of. Gonzales, who re-
•cently sent to President Frank-
lin D. Roosevelt, a set of hand-
-carved dominoes made from a lo-
cal wood known as bois d’arc, in
a fancy hand-carved box of box
elder tvobd, has received a letter
of thanks from the president.
TWO-WAY RULE
Walter McGee, confessed lead-
er of the gang that kidnaped
Miss Mary McElroy, daughter of
City7 Manager H. F. McElroy of
Kansas City, and collected $30.-
000' ransom, was assessed the
deathj penalty Saturday in a
Kansas City court. The kidnap-
ers were arrested recently in
Amarillo, Texas.
Diogenes, in his search for an
honest man, probably was look-
ing for a citizen of Childress.
The man whese only employ-
ment is that offered by the R.F.
C. committee at $1 a day, found
a purse containing $112.05. He
immediately turned it over to
authorities and the owner was
found in Dallas. The workman
found the purse under a tree,
where the Dallas man had stop-
ped by the highway for an out-
door lunch.
^Between 10,000 and 15,000 ap-
plication^ for loans in Texas
have already been received by
the Home Owner’s Loan corpora-
tion, the agency set up by the
federal government to refinance
home mortgages, according to
James Shaw, the director. This
includes applications received in
:'the Houston, San Antonio and
/Amarillo {branches. Inquiries are
•{being' received at the rate of 300
400 per day.
Farmers heavily indebted can,
under a special provision of the
farm mortgage act, obtain a new
stype of loan aimed to provide re-
lief they particularly need to
tide them over until more pros-
perous times. That act author-
ized the reconstruction corpora-
tion to make $200,000,000 avail-
able to the farm credit adminis-
tration for loans to farmers, on
either first or second mortgages,
of up to 75 per cent of the ap-
praised normal value of the
farmer's property, less prior
mortgages or liens on his prop-
erty.
The mystery of the missing
cornerstone picture has baffled
Presbyterians of Houston. Back
in 1894, an auspicious occasion
i was the laying of the corner-
stone for the First Presbyterian
church’s new home. The cere-
mony was elaborate and its
• crowning feature was when a
Houston pioneer, then 90 years
•old, came forward, while her
. That Illinois judge who decide-
ed that men have as much right
to sue for alimony as the wo-
men have, has started some-
thing that he perhaps had not
thought of doing. The marriage
market may . now pick up. Just
think how nice it will be for the
men when they, get tired of
working for wifey. They can
quit work and sue for alimony.
Wifey may not have anything
with which to pay allotted week-
ly .’sjam,-but that won’t make any
| difference. The ex-husband can
appeal to the judge and he will
1 order wifey to get it. The day
ji of emancipaiton for poor man is
here.—McKinney Examiner,
p .And if the wife does not come
up with her alimony, she may be
put in jail for contempt of court/
That is the way courts have’been
treating husbands in arrears. Of
course, the widow could not be
jailed for debt. There are'laws
against that. But she could be
sent to the hoosegow for not do-
ing what the court ordered. The
distinction between imprison-
ment for debt and imprisonment
for not paying alimony is so fine
that only an eagle-eyed judge
can see it. But let us hope, no
lady will be locked up for hold-
ing out on her ex-husband. A
lady in jail is a sad, sad sight—
worse than a boy with a dunce
cap on. But equal rights should
imply equal wrongs. If it is right
to lock a gentleman up for not
coming across with the alimony,
then it is not less right to re-
verse the situation. Alimony, by
the way, comes from alo, by
which the Romans meant ‘nour-
ish.’ It has the same root word
as aliment, which in its plae
means food. So, alimony is fo
money. Right here comes in the
question,how much is food mon-
ey? In a New York case the
a week, but on this amount he
cannot hope to grow fat. Is
there anywhere a sensitive wo-
man who would enjoy seeing her
discarded husband looking like
he was living on his Adam’s ap-
ple? A camel can live for weeks
on its hump, but it cannot en-
joy live as a samel should. And
many ex-husbands are a good
deal like camels. — State Press
in Dallas News.
SANTA FE ITEMS
i
THE PENALTY IS DEATH
The Kansas City jury, recom-
mending the death penalty for
the kidnaper it found guilty,
merits congratulation. There
will be some protests, for Mary
McElroy, the victim, was recov-
ered unhurt. The tender-heart-
ed will aver that a long sentence
would be sufficient punishment
for her abductor. But Walter H.
McGee was stunned when the
verdict was read, carrying with
it the mandatory death sentence.
The only way to scotch the
kidnaping snake is to execute
the kidnaper. There is no easy
money when every waking mo-
ment after the crime must be
passed in dread of the hang-
man’s noose or the death chair.
When every participant in a
kidnaping realizes that death is
the penalty he faces, there will
be fewer offenses of the sort.
There should be none for which
the supreme penalty is not ex-
acted by the law. The man who
knows that eventually he must
walk the grim “last mile’’ will
hesitate to take the first step.—
Dallas News.
photo was placed in ihe copper
box which went into the foun-
dation. The minister took her
autographed photo and read to
the crowd the inscription on the
reverse side. Then the photo was
placed in the box, the box clos-
ed and placed in the foundation.
Recently the church burned and
the building was razed. Mem-
bers of the church sought and
found the box. It was opened in
the presence of the pastor and
others, including a son of the
man who placed the picture in
the box and recalled the day.
The seal on the box was un-
broken, but the picture was
gone.
Mr. Brockenbrough, who lives
with, his daughter :9Jid her hus-
band, Bert Chesser,- and is some-
where around' the 80’s, says that
we' ought to have "smother civil
war to get a real taste of hard
times. He was 19' then, and saw
General Lee many times. In the
trenches he slept with his head
in the palm of his hand, sup-
potted upon his elbow because
the" mud and Water was too deep
to put your head down. Many
days he slept this way expecting
to be shot any minute.
Eats got down to weevily corn
meal. Things went from bad to
worse, and he fervently declared
that if he ever got out of that
place alive and could get three
meals a day and a place to spend
peaceful sleep he?d never com-
plain the rest of his life.
After the dreadful war his
father’s slaves were turned free,
but before they left he got one
of the men to help him hitch an
ox team. He had never hitched
oxen to a wagon in his life. With
this team he went to the timber
country which had not been
burned so that he could rebuild
his father’s home. The first day
out he came to a -lonely straw
stack that somehow had escap-
ed from being bufned by the
Federals. Mr. Brbckenbough did
not do a thing but tie that ox
team to a stump and pile up in
that hay and sleep. It was the
first sleep he’d had in months on
anything other than the hard
ground or trench mud.
Muskrats were eaten for meat
and they tasted good, after eat-
ing moldy cornmeal for months.
Mr. Brockenbough began to feel
kicky up again and soon he had
his father’s house ^rebuilt and
from that day on the world be-
gan to look brighter and it has
been thus ever since.
We all can remember some-
thing our grandparents have
told about the war. Mine, in par-
ticular, buried their side meat in
the ground when the Federals
came near. Another grandmoth-
er says their old square piano
was used for one whole day as
an operating table and many a
soldier’s leg was cut off on that
piano. Wars in the beginning are
thrilling and patriotism is grand,
but the aftermath is not quite
so pleasant.
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DUREN
(Intended for last week)
MELONS AND MILEAGE
Mr. and Mrs. Eb Oxley have
had a reunion at their home the
past week. AH of their children
were at home. They killed the
fat goat and' rejoiced with lots
of other good- eats. This is the
first time all had been together
in seven years.
Mr. and Mrs. Clint Henry left
Sunday morning for San Anton-
io, where they will spend a few
days visiting.
R. C. Duren sold a truckload
of fat cattle last week on the
Fort Worth market.
Mrs. A. E. Pyburn has been
rejoicing with two of the boys
and their families—H. L. and
H. C. Pyburn, who are at home.
They expect to leave soon to go
back to their work.
Quite a bunch of Duren folk
spent Sunday on the creek at
Mr. Sherfield’s pecan grove. The
guests were as follows: Mrs. A.
E. Pyburn, Mr. and Mrs. H. L.
Pyburn, Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Py-
burn, Mrs. A. R. Pyburn, Miss
Adeline Pyburn, Mr. and Mrs. C.
II. Teffertelter, Mr. and Mrs. Will
Butts, Mr. and Mrs. Alton Run-
nels, Mr. and Mrs. Claud Med-
ford, We served dinner and had
a real old fashioned feast.
Grandmother Jones is doing
fine. She is visiting relatives at
Dublin.
Mrs. Mollie Green is not doing
so very good at this writing. She
is at her yoiingest daughter's
home at Prairie.
Quite a number of Mills coun-
ty farmers are plowing up their
cotton this week, trying to make
better times,
Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Duren and
Mr. and Mrs. R, C. Duren and
Watermelons are reported' to
be getting thin-skinned. Not"
that they are troubled with any-
thing like an inferiority vcom-
plex; this- condition is rather a
result of an effort on the part of
every honest watermelon to give
consumers a little more for their
money. " • . /.
As a matter of fact watermel-
ons are said to be getting so
thin-shelled that the railroads
are forecasting recourse to over-
size egg crates to assure safety ,
in transportation. Watermelons
that enter the northeastern:
states from such distant points
as Georgia, Alabama and Texas
should not be too sensitive; they
have a long way to travel and
need a pretty tough casing to
guarantee against punctures.
Of course, it is very laudable
and enterprising for the water-
melon to break away from tradi-
tion and make its rind a neglig-
ible consideration to the con-
sumer. But twentieth century
conditions, the rushing of per-
ishable products from one part
of the world to the other, de-
mand modifications in the
structural specifications of even
watermelons. Their wearing
qualities have become an im-
portant consideration. The pop-
ular brand of watermelon of the
future—the best seller—may not
be the one that can display the
most lucious interior, but the
hard-shelled affair that can
make the most mileage without
blowouts. And furnish the most
material for watermelon pickle!
—Christian Science Monitor.
SCIENCE
chilren visited Ray, Catherine
and Warren Duren at Stephen-
ville Sunday. All went to the
creek and enjoyed dinner and
served watermelon, mushmelons
and had a good time.
Mr. and Mrs. Ervin Fisher
from the oil fields are at his
mother’s home—Mrs. Nora Fish-
er.
Mrs. Carrie Medford and Caliie
Pyburn were guests of Mrs. Dun-
lop. They visited Mrs. Mollie
Green in that home.
We are having some nice cool
weather this week to work with
the feedstuff. BLUE BONNET
The popular myth that sleep-
walkers will be damaged or even
killed by the sudden shock of
waking them while they are
walking is sufficiently disposed
of by a recent British incident
in which the sleepwalker victim
actually fell into the sea while
asleep, yet lived to tell the tale.
One night recently, while the
steam trawler Avonside was on
her way to the Scotch port of
Aberdeen, the mate in charge of
the deck saw what looked like a
man climbing over the vessel’s
stern out of the sea. Much
frightened, the mate called the
captain and announced that the
ship had been boarded by some
mysterious being out of the
deep. The more prosaic captain
got a flashlight, found indubit-
able wet footprints on the deck
and traced them to the forecas-
tle, where a water-soaked sailor
was found climbing into his
bunk. The sailor was a sleep-
walker. What had happened, he
explained, was that he evidently
had been sleepwalking on deck
and had fallen into the sea with-
out being noticed. The shock of
the cold water instantly waken-
ed him. Seeing a rope hanging
from the moving vessel, he grab-
bed it and climbed aboard; thus
affording an unusual adventure
story, a considerable shock to
the superstitious mate, and a
proof for psychologists that even
the most sudden waking of a
sleepwalker is not necessary fa-
tal.
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IN CAUSING ULCERS
Don’t let too much acid ruin
Adla Tablets and quickly over-
come acid conditions, heartburn,
sour stomach, indigestion. —
Daniel Drug Store.
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“The master’s whip scourging ’
the slave is not less heartless
than today’s:, evils of combined
wealth and capital with its over-
whelming-influence undermining
our free institutions.” — Okla-
homkr. 0hverpor William H. Mur-
w/v; __
“Old/Russia was always back-
ward and paid for it dearly. . . .
That is the law of capitalism—
to be;||, the backward and the
weak. ‘You’re right if strong; if
weak .you're wrong’—that is the
wolf law of capitalism. And that
is why 'we must make up ar-
rears/” — Soviet Leader Joseph
Stalin. .
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“When the crime problem is
solved, Al Capone will go back to
Italy. But X can’t talk./ .about
that.” — Maj. Gen. Smedley D.
Butler. * * * “General Butler
says I am a criminal. The only
charge that I know of .or any
law abiding authorities know of
is of my being charged with va-
grancy. ... I leave the American
people to judge as between Gen-
eral Butler and myself, and I am
satisfied;to abide by their ver-
dict.”—Al Capone.
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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/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Jennie Trent Dew Library.