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1 WIRE ELASHES
INTERNATIONAL NEWSSERVICE.
IE CUERO DAILY RECOR
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CUERO STAR and CUERO NEWS
We have no right to Succeed Unless We can Render Real Service to our Community.CUERO, DeVVITT COUNTY. TEXAS, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 9. 1924
VOL. 61, NO. 136Mayor Hamilton-has vexing
OUR COLUMN
to
Takes Definite Form With
FILMING STARTS DEC.
15
re-
the University Club, which is spon- Lienhatd; attendant, Mrs. Callie Hen- from Washington received by 1
r. Nave
mornings
FOR WALKS
a minute, or 48 sec-
RESULTS ARE EXPECTED
meeting
SERVICES HELD SATURDAY
that
statement
on Girl
the
as possible.”
Up $50,000,000 Rum Ring
To Pass
the Mayor repeats,
to find any reafeon-
the coast territory, with a j
of the S. P. absorbing the T<
ican Line sometime in the fi
following a
18-year-old
ed were as follows: Adviser,
Mary Muenter; Banker, Mrs.
we come
through
COURT
FOR
football game in Georfetown,
tober 17.
coun-
some
own-
side-
COMMITTEE TO
REVIVE MOVE
PROBLEM TO SOLVE-WHY DO
THEY SPEED, HE ASKS, WHY?FIRE DEPARTMENT GETS
CALL SUNDAY MO
The Baptist Young Ladies Auxili-
ary will have a tea and bazaar at the
home of Miss Annie. Lee Green Satur-By International News ServkMff
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dpc. 9A-1
of intimidation in the Texas (M
election today were told todajr
witnesses in the Senate probe YJ
tse election of Senator Earle B.i 1
field, contested by George E. BA;
day. John Seibert of Danville sail
was not permitted to vote becaSB
had voted the America^ ticket
years before. Hb also said 175 o
had been denied the right to v<3ta
the same ground. He named I
Bowers as being responsible. He i
the election judges were picked J
the klan and armed klansmen pM
ed the polls. ’’3More Than 35 Consented
Take Part in Movie Ro-
mance Here.Beautiful Floral Offerings Of
Friends Mark Tribute to
Pioneer.
Why do they speed
That's the question Mayor LeRoy
Hamilton is asking. And he's spent
many a weary minute with pad and
pencil trying to figure out the reason,
but so far he has failed. Having
clawed wildly at his hair, and amass
ed a disheartening tumble of figures,
and yet failed to solve the problem.
S. P. ASKS I. C. C.
PERMIT TO
ABSORB SAP
sidewalk committee
to interest property-
through with
arrangement.
CLUB MEETING
WITH SUCCESS
. PICKING CAST
(Confined -or pageSerifeaticrtiarCiiai
In MayfieldMeeting to Consider Next
Step May Be Called This
Week.Selection of a cast for the home
talent moving picture to be filmed in
Cuero next week is progressing with-
out a hitch, more than 20 girls and
nearly 15 boys having already con-
sented to appear in the picture, ac-
cording to announcement made today
by Mrs. T. O. Buichel, president of
in Cuero Satua
all papers and
prelimint-ries
preparatory to.
“There -is only way to be happy,
■and that is to make someone else so.”
***
Until we can comprehend the
full meaning of the above we will
never know true happiness. We
may at times momentarily exper-
ience superficial /pleasures but
happiness in the true sense can-
not eome to us, until by some act
of ours, perhaps some little sacri-
fice on our part, we contribute to
the happiness of others. With the
Yuletide close at hand may we not
resolve to be made happy through
contributing to the happiness of
all
in contact
Christmas
Woodmen Circle Honor Memory
Of Departed Member;
Elected Officers.
original
Ramlyn
the movie repre-
Drape Charter
Paying Tribute
' To Mrs. Pridgen
T* tf t
MERGER UP TO I. C.
front to assure the UM
don of congress of the
thorization riven
harbors'bill, which was repotted
by the house committee in April
The bill adopts the flS.OtOXMM
tercoastal Canal from the Mtsgiei
River to Corpus Christi and
contains an item of 188000 for a 0
nel 12 feet deep and 80 feet VM
Buffalo Bayou.
, Congressman Clay Sttae BB
Texas, today. prepared to art® I
committee amendment ■+. bill fd
fng for the deepening af QalYd
channel ta 35 feet and tAenaalhjj
width.
Mansfield to
Seek Action on
WaterwayHeyer; and manager for three years,!
Mrs. Mjary Schotts.neke; assistant Attendant,
WASHINGTON, Dec.
sentative Joseph J. MansfleU
ranking democrat of the hou
and harbors bill, today T'.j
with other members of the
tee in t
at thia,
nibus '
the Presbyterian
their bazaar on
make a fel-
at
hand and it may be in place to
ask have you laid in your winters
supply of fuel and had your
flues cleaned out well? If you
have neglected these two import-
ant features, one for comfort and
the other for safety, you’ve got
another think coming and we sug-
gest that you move up to it right
away.
The cool
low feel like winter is close
I35 Million Gold Causes Mutiny.
ALLICAN, Spain, Dec. 9.—With most of the crew in irons as
mutineers, the British steamer, Gibal Gidahui, arrived today
with a cargo of 35 million pesos in gold. ; The crew, attempted
to revolt, seize the gold and bum the ship.
re sidents of DeWitt coun-
Fijneral. services for 1 Mrs.
Pridgen, who died early Friday morn-
ing after a long* Illness, were held
Saturday afternoon from the home of
• J- R- Wright‘of Thomasrtlfi, a brother-
• others/—Let’s try to make
with whom
happy, all
week.
GEORGETOWN, Tex, Dec. 9.E-
Date for hearing defense motion for
a new trail has been sei by Judge
James R. Hamilton for next Friday,
December 12, in the case of Alvin
Townsley, convicted of murder and
given a life sentence after a trial here
a
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LAT
BY
Wear a smile and keep wearing
it if you would be a welcome visit-!
or i at all times and with the smile
extend a happy greeting to friends
as you meet them and your friends
will be glad to see you.
soring the undertaking.
The success the club is having In
selecting a cast w|as reported today
in a letter to T. Y. Nave and A.
Boeger of San Antonio, representa-
tives of the N. B. Production Com-
pany of that city wiho are to film the,
local romance.
Filming of the picture will
about December 15, according
present plans, or's
depending on the program of
representatives of
ture company. It is
it the picture Dece:Finding No Solution, He Decides It’s the
Hoose=Gow For Persistent
Speeders.lMANY ATTEND
FUNERAL OF
MRS. PRIDGEN
SETS DECEMBER 12
HEARING MOTION
IN TOWNSLEY CASE* * *
.Cotton picking is about at an
end, pecan gathering is practical-
ly jover and with the new year
work will be rather slack for the
laboring man, unless the brains of
the community provide employ-
ment. In spending or putting out
mpney in improvements in a town
a $hree fold end is accomplished,
you help the laborers, you help the
pud you reflect credit upon
, yourself, to say nothing of benefit-
ing the families of the laborers so
employed. Those at the head of
municipal affairs should calculate
'always on doing things with pub-
lic funds that will build up and
help the community, while dispens-
ing it. Streets, roads, ditches and
sidewalks could be given attention
and put in condition
Sewer and water pipe could
laid, public work of
every character should be pushed
so that the greater benfiets could
be had at the time most needed.
today. Policemen, brokers, banker?, mu-
I others are said to be included in the rum in-
attorney General Stone said he.would leave
to the state courts.
It isn't going •
I a- I
Drapery was hung'on the charter of
Ivy Gr<|>ve Lodge No, 890, Woodmen
Circle, at the annual meeting and
election of officers held at the K. P.
Hall last night honoring the memory
of the late Mrs. J. E. Pridgen, a char-
ter member of the organization, who
died in a hospital here Friday.
Mrs. Roberta Sherrod was
A Ford car stolen from Pleas Talk
of Yorktown during the Ycrrktown
Fall Fair has been recovered in Hous-
ton, and Arthur Stollels, young man
of this city, is being held there on
auto theft charge, according to a
statement issued by Sheriff Gus Lenz
this afternoon.-The local sheriff’s
department was notified of the cars
recovery and the arrest of Stollels to-
day.
The car was a 1924 model Ford
touring and was a brand new when
taken from its parking place near the
Torktown Fair grounds in October
of this year.
Mr. Lens said either he or Deputy
J, M. Moser woujd go to Houston
Wednesday to bring the prisoner to
Cpero.
I '--,
PRESBYTERIAN BAZAAR.
The Ladies of
ohurch will have
Thursday, Dec. 11, in the parlors of
the church. Fancy and useful articles
and good things to eat, will be on
sale. Doors open at 3 o’clock in the
afternoon. — Public invited. (Adv LiThe Yoakum Fire Department
swered a call to the hoase octm
by Sherman Jackson (col.) on
edge of town on the Middle Hochl
road, Sunday morning about II
The fire had been put oat when:
department arrived.
The fire was caused by the c
stove being, too dose to the wall
setting fire to the wall paper.
Damage amounted 99
aurance.—Yoakum .Herajd. t
of the
company
followed
contract
of the
18 Dead in Harbor Explosion.
LOS ANGELES, Calf., Dec. 9.—Navy officials announced to-
day that they believed at least 18 lives were lost in the harbor
blast here yesterday. A check of the fleet this morning show-
ed that many men were missing* , ...
* 50 CENTS A MONTH
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Another step toward the acquiaiL
of the San Antonio and Aransas Pi
Railroad lines by the Southern 1
cific was taken Tuesday when the
The movement to Interest property
owners of Guero in the building of
sidewalks about their property to en-
hance the value of their holdings and
at the same time help to beautify the
city will resolve itself into more defin- I
ite form when the
committee is called
time this week.
Authority for the
the committee will be called together
this week comes from R. J. Waldeck,
chairman.’The date for the committee
meeting has not been set but the
members will likely be called to meet
either Wednesday or Thursday, Mr.
Waldeck indicated.
The purpose of this meeting of the
committee ;s to discuss further a po -
sible compromise with the city
cil with a view to arriving at
definite plan whereby property
ers can be induced to lay the
walks.
The sidewalk committee originally;
drew up the schAie which was laid
before the city council, providing that
the city should furnish . sand and
gravel to persons'wishing to build,
j sidewalks and to secure shipments of
) cement which would be sold to prop ’
erty owners at actual cost.
This plan was rejected in part by j1
the council, the solons agreeing to.'
furnish the sand and gravel at actual,
cost and to secure shipments of ce- 1
ment to be sold for cost, with cash v;eek before
on delivery property owners to pnj master said.
I for all hauling and labor.
The counter.jjfopQsal.of the coun-
cil was understood to be final and
members of the
are endeavoring
owners in going
project on that
A full report of the situation will
bflt brought out at the committee
meeting and plans for future action
will be mapped out. A report will also
be made to the chamber of commerce
at its regular meeting next Tuesday
night, Mr. Waldeck said.over the Sap lines, the S. P. havfni
asked business men and civic cteki
of Cuero for an endorsement pftlM
move. A committee has been appoint
ed from among the big shippers el
the city to look into the proposal ajri
to make recommendations as to tM
stand this city should take in tlN
matter. A Mt
* / r
It is understood that application 1mm
already been made by the S. P. Um>
to the Texas Railroad Commission fa
authority to take over the Sap. THl
rumor was afloat
to the effect that
other necessary
been disposed of
merger of the two lines, the con*
of the I. C. C. and the Texas Coma
sion being all that is necessary
complete the consolidation.
The absorption of the. Sap linen
■ | the S. P. will mean a great saving
• overhead for the consolidated Mi
WEATHER
Tonight and Wednesday some-
what unsettled, probably rain. Colder
tonight. Moderate to fresh north to
northeasterly winds. ‘
7 a. m. Tuesday, 50 degrees.Cuero Youth
Held on Auto
Theft Charge
GRACE CHURCH SERVICES.
A special service will be held Wed-
nesday evening, Dec. 10th, at 7:30
o’clock. The following clergymen
will be present:
.Rev. Kenneth L. Houlder, Gonzales. f°r killing Charles W. Fields,at
Rev. R. C. Talbot, Seguin.
Rev. F. Alan Parsons, Goliad.' Rev. M. A. McKeogh, Pori Lavaca. . -----------------
-..Bpv. 8. Arthur Huston, San Antonio STEINMAN TEST GETS
Mr. Walter A. Sprlngall, San An- SHOWING OF QAS AND OIL
tonfo. 1 ! ------'
Mr. D. B. Hoskins Jr.. Gonzales. ‘ Some little excitement was caused
This service will be in the Interest 1° town this morning when a report
of the Church’s Whole Program and wa8 circulated that oil had -been
each and every parishoner is urged towtruck by the Steinman Test No. 1-
attend, (Advt.) After interviewing one of the pr< -
Vestry, Grace Episcopal Church. tot?rs it was found t>at a shoving
‘of gas and oil haj been found at the
1 depth of 1035 feet.
The bit is now in zome very en-
couraging formation ind the pre
yen uxx IU
Temperature raoter3 R was foufid that a showing
j come of the well.
The smell of gas wf>s noticeable and
the slush pit hsd some oil on it.
Many Yoakumites motored out to
the scene of the welL—Yookum Her
aid. • I
“There have been but few arr4*> | th
for speeding in Cuuro,” the mayor
-aid. ‘ Heretofore we have let then,
off with a warning the first time and
on!}- arrested them if they persisted
in breaking the speed laws. We are
'not going to cease this practice of
giving a fellow a chance, but we are
going to step speeding.
to be always before everybody
been warned at least' once.” .
Pcstoffice Feels
Christmas Rush
Friends from Cuero, Thomaston,
and other ndarby towns and commun-
ities gathered Saturday at Thomaston!
to pay their last tribute to the mem-
ory of R|r|s. J. E. Pridgen, wife of Dr.
, , , J. E. Pridgen of Thomaston, one of and will give the S. P. an oni
0 hap refused to take ' the earlv
♦ U ' J X 11. 1 III
the mayor submits his data and offerg
the hand painted can opener to any-
one who can solve the riddle.
Now, here's what Mayor Haniltcn
has figured out. It is just .8 of a
mile from Reuss Boulevard down Es
planade street to the railroad, or just
.Sofa mile from the outskirts of th«
town to the center;
Traveling at a rate of 20 miles an
hour, the speed limit fixed by law
in the limits of a city, it would take
an automobile 2.4 minutes to nego-
tiate the distance. Traveling at 30
miles an hour, the speed that sen is
you cap tn hand to ‘[tell it to the
Judge," the distance could be cover-
ed in 1.6 minutes, representing a sav-
ing of .8 of a minute. From the lim-
[its of the town to! th<| heart of th?
business section at a rate of 10 miles
an hour over the speed limit far a
saving of .8 of
onds.
Why do they
Having failed
able and valid excuse for ‘‘stepping
on her,’ to the extent of exceeding; the
speed limits. Mayor Hamilton has de-
cided that speeders should take part
of the risk in the gamble, and by as--
■ igning City Marshal Emil Markcjws-
ky, who has recently been supplied
with ia motorcycle to combat Ith
speed inclinations of motorists in
Cuero, to the job he hojpes to jaes
some of the speeders--in city c:Lrt.
elected guardian of the organization p. made formal application to tt
for another year.- Other officers elect- Interstate Commerce CommiMto®*!
Mrs. authority to acquire ^control of d
Katie Sap lines, according to flfapwfrjh*
Mrs. Record this afternoon. .*! . • tJF
Mjrtle Harjnes, chaplain, Mrs. Amy jt has been generally 1ttiowt> in C*
Bneswetter; inner sentinel, Mr^ r0 and in this sectiol tor some tlm
Rosa Henneke; outer sentinel, George ! that the S. I>J contemplated takin
Heyer: and manager fnr thrpp vpark J
Reserved seats for **Tbe Gold Bug
1 Mie at L. L. Bnttofy. 'K z-(adY^day, 3 p. m. Everybody Invited (Adv.)
‘‘We are making>€oy, his paramour, insanity was not mentioned,
le the rush as ef-■' I -I ; I Illi r ’
1--UJI" '- '
Youthful Incendiary Captured.
FORT WORTH, Tex., Dec. 9.—Blood hounds
trail for four miles led to the arrest today of an
Arlington youth suspected of being the incendiary who this
morning fired the Watson school and the Presbyterian church
there, destroying both. The young man declined to make any
comment on his arrest. Officials are convinced he is the incen-
diary. Loss from the fire is estimated at $12,000.
Christmas, the pogt-
Every effort is being
to induce people t„ man their ’ McCoy Not to Plead Insanity,
.packages early but the big rush p- ■ ix-krrrcf i-r - »««**** vjr*
' ways comes at the eleventh hour. ; LUs AaGELES, Calif., J)ec. 9.—Kid McCoy will not plead
‘ No matter how‘much re preath!“nsanity. This was made known today when in questioning
mail early to them, they won t all du jurors to try the former pugilist for the murdet of Theresa Mc-
it." Mr. ott said. “We are making;Coy, his paramour, insanity was not mentioned. -.v—
preparations to handle tqe rush as ff-j | | • J J ; H 1 r ' ■ ’ -T
ficiently
general sidewalk
together some-
or built.
be j
any and---— Negrro Held for
The first real rush of the Chr>tn|as I I ' r ik . I
season was felt by the Cuero SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Dec. 9.—Although one black is held
office Monday, ccording to Post: iasj r, as a suspe*ct, police continued their search here and in sur-
w. j. ott. Business through the k- rounding towns today for the negro who brutally assaulted Miss
eel office was brisk Monday and ihe | EUen Corrigan, 18, while she was enroute to early mass earlv
rush continued through! Tuesday. I \ unil u i- > TFT J
The real rush ci me season. ’ raw. 15 *stelda> • . A tlash ll«h‘ and button found near the scene of
ever, is not expected qntil the 14-st. the attack, in a park, are the strongest clues in the hands of the
police.
begin I
to!
ooner if possible,'
the
the motion picr
planned to exhib-
it the picture December 22 and 23.
The University club took over and
agreed to sponsor the filming of the
.'historical romance here last Satur-
day afternoon at a
club and the production
representatives. This action
the collapse of the
between Manager
Queen Theatre and
sentatives when it became apparent
that a cast could ikot be assembled
under the existing agreement.
Out of the large' number of . boys
. and girls approached by members of
. .1° club not on:
,pa:t in making the undertaking a
success. One man has consented tc
take one of tha leading roles and one
<***1 has agreed to take one of the
feminine roles. It is believed
the entire cast will be assmbled
within the next few days,
r
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 9.—The department of justice
has neither the facilities nor the money with which to launch
an investigation into the Hoboken 50 million dollar rum ring,
it was announced f
nicipal officials and
dictments which Ai
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The Cuero Daily Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 136, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 9, 1924, newspaper, December 9, 1924; Cuero, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1215178/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Cuero Public Library.