The DeLeon Free Press. (De Leon, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, July 24, 1931 Page: 6 of 8
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Dr. B J. COX
CHIROPRACTOR^
—of Stephenville, Texas,
is now located in De Leon,
and has an office at Mrs.
Mary E. Dodson’s
dence. _______
Examinations Free
— I Block West Foust Lumber £o.
FLOCK OF CARRIER PIGEONS
RELEASED BY A HILLSBOROAN
FUTURE FARMERS MEET
AT CISCO JULY 20-22
TAX ON “FAGS”
DUE IN AUGUST
YOUTH ELECTROCUTED AS
HE TURNS ON LIGHT
SUSPENSION OF LAWYER
FROM PRACTICE RENEWED
WOULD PAY WARRANTS
WITH IDLE STATE CASH
MELON FORETELLS OF
HER SON’S RETURN
MELON GROWERS OF
SAN SABA oRGANIZF
const rue -
dam on the
When in need of printing of any
nature, call 64. Satisfaction and ser-
vice our motto.
band and a daughter,
Fox.
•If you are not well, why
not use Chiropractic for
health? You will be pleas-
ed with the results.
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Ranger today was 10 cents a head, at
least that was the amqunt that one
man offered to pay for the first oO
that were brought to him. His adver-
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GALVESTON, July
Florence Farrell, 25, was in a critical
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| BOY TAKEN FROM RIO GRANDE
MAY BE A (ORSK’ANAN
Forewarning of the return Monday
morning of her son, Milton Thrasher,
was given Mrs. Aubrey Thrasher, 1602
South Third street, Sunday evening,
when she cut a watermelon, and ' in
the heart of it found a perfect “M”
carved out. Feeling that the “M" which
she saw after her brother-in-law, E.
F. Brooks, had already cut the melon,
was a warning of some disaster, Mrs.
Thrasher searched the morning paper ,
for news of an accident to her son.
While she was reading the paper he
walked in after a two months’ absence
in south Texas with the national guard
unit. Mr. Brooks brought the water-
melon from Athens, where he had
been visiting his father, J. J. Brooks.
ditional highway projectsTbr the July
August meeting of the commission
that increased the estimate.! total of
the contracts to be awarded by ap-
proximately 5’ 100,000. The rtgw total
was estimated at $5,700.00 and
$6,000,000
condition in a hospital here today from
injuries received late yesterday when
she jumped from a second story win-
dow of a house where she was stay-
ing. At the hospital, where officers
questioned her, she refused to talk
except to say that she jumped.
car slid twenty-five feet before it
overturned. She was precipitated qut
of the right door, the machine then
. pinning her beneath it.
Occupants of the other car, Riley-
Marshall and Robert Williamson, es-
caped uninjured.
Mrs. Fox is survived by her hus-
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J. T. Edmondson
Tailor, Dry Cleaner and
Hatter.
Suits Cleaned-Pressed $1
Plain Dresses (c, p.) $1.00-
Hats Cleaned, blocked $1
Caps Cleaned .................25c
Ladies Light Coats $1.00
Ladies Hats ......... 50c up
Neckties ............................. 15c
CASH AND CARRY
—Call for and Deliver—
Slightly Higher
Phone No. 2
Pants Made to Order in
One Day______$7.50 up
SUITS $23.50 up, all wool.
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SWEETWATEft, July y«.—Can-
Shields 18-year-old Sweetwater high
school boyiwho received a broktn neck
while swimming, today was given a
slight chance for recovery by pl-ysi
cians.
The youth is paralysed from th)
neck down. He suffered a fracture
and dislocation of the vertebrae while
diving into |t creek near here Wednes
day morning. ,
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, be legal.
According to Mr. Donnell there is
$15,000,000 of idle money in the Treas-
ury to the credit of other funds which
could be used to tide over the- gen-
eral fund until it resumes a cash ba-
sis.
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—FOR YOUR HAIR
—FOR YOUR FACE
applied by
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Winston. Grisham
J. S. Freeman
- SAN ANGELO, July 17.—Traffic
across the San Saba river at Menan!
and the South Concho fiver jjt Chris- ,
tova) resumed today after rises from |
mid-week rains had endangered pas-
sage.
High water also stopped
tion of a viaduct and
North Concho.
Let us carry away your laun-
dry, troubles in—
Our Big Basket
Our modern steam process de-
stroys germs, removes grime
and dirt and sends home your
> wash clean and snowy white,
we call for and deliver.
4 DELEON STEAM LAUNDRY
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growing tomatoes and potatoes
I same bush was exploded when it
found that a species- of Johnson grass *
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DENISON, Texas, July 17.—Claude
Kelley, 16, was electrocuted at the
Southern Ice and Utility Company
plant Friday night when he came in
contract with a high voltage wire
while attempting to turn on an elec |
trie light. He was standing on a wet
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AUSTIN, Texas, July 18.—Repre-
sentative J. R. Donnell moved Friday
to have general fund warrants paid
in cash instead of being held up dur-
ing the deficiency in that fund: He
conferred with the Attorney General
as ,to the legality of using other and
dormant money in the Treasury- to
pay general fund warrants. A legis- | McKernemey and R. J. Powell, direc j between thirty and thirty-five thous-
lative act will be necessary and Mr. *
Donnell will ask the Governor to sub
ntit the subject if the Attorney Gen-
eral holds that such a course would !
TYLER, Texas, July 18.—Clifford ■
(Sheriff) Gregory, all-State fullback
and captain of the State champion
Tyler football team last season, now
can almost live up to his nickname.
Friday he was appointed jailer at the
Smith County jail.
had been discovered that -would grow I 4
• Irish-potatoes;
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TERRAPINS
. HILLSBORO, Jluly 18.—One hun-
dred and fifty carrierpigeons, own-
ed by B. Botmann of St. Louis, were
released from their pens by Agent
Harry Boots at the logpl office of the
Railway Express Co., at 5:45 o’clock
this morning. The birds, on being re-
leased, circled on the spot once, flew
over the courthouse several times and
then hit a direct flight toward St,
Louis.
Nine pens were necessary to bring
the birds to Hillsboro. Agent Boots
receives two shipments a year from
the St. Louis party and a number of
shipments from a San Antonio pigeon
raiser. According to Boots, scientific
reports he has received about pigeons
state that the birds are capable of at-
taining a speed of 175 miles an hhur
against the wind'ami 225 miles an
— hour with the wind.
FOR SALE:Large size icing
frigerator. Inside enamelled, oak
side, at $2(1.—Mrs. S. G. Parks.
FORT WORTH, July 18—Judg-
ment suspending Charles' T. Rowland
from the practice of law for six
months was renewed by District Judge
Frank P. Culver Jr., here today.
Rowland was .found guilty by a
jury last Saturday of malpractice,
fraudulent and dishonorable conduct
in practice of the law. He was tried
bn a charge that he aided in fraud-
ulently taking $12,. >00 from Mrs. Irene
Rolfe Johnson, part of a settlement
she received in litigation with W. T.
Waggoner.
MOODY, Texas, July 20.—Mrs. R.
L. F*ox, 52, wife of the editor of the
of oats will be better than 60 Moody Courier, was instantly killed
and he thinks j here late Sunday when the automobile
was driving met in collison with
borhbod of fiftee'rt thousand bushels i
of wheat. In addition to his grain
for commercial puposes. Some 'crops, Mr. Callaway has 225 acres of
unusually good and he I
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were used and about two weeks were
consumed in the harvesting due to the
fact that a lot of the wheat had to be
way -when it bedded down
following the rains.
Mr. Callaway will thresh, it is-.said
with grain crops,'
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AUSTIN, July 18.—State Treasur-
er Charley Lockhart issued a call to-
day for^xinpaid warrants lip tp and
including No. 109,787. The total of
warrants to be paid under this call ap-
proximates $300,000. Arrival of fif-st
payments of the quarterly occupation
tax made it possible to retire these
warrants, it was indicated. Outstand-
ing warrants wilt still total about
$1,000,000.
i Austin — State Treasurer fchas.
Ix>ckhart is getting “all set” to carry
out the new'state law placing a tax
of 3 cents a package on cig*rets,
which takes effect after midnight on
August 22.
He has requested the state board
of control to have 100,000,000 stamps
printed. The state treasury will be
custodian of these stamps and issue
them to dealers. Ixickhart says that
after he issue the stamps and ac-
counts for the proceeds, the duties'of
the treasuqr end. James Donnell of
Austin will have charge of the cigar-
et tax division.
Enforcement of the provision that
all cigareta sold after the law takes !
effect must be stamped will rest with
the state comptroller’s department,
i The tax is made payable by the first
seller inside the state, in this way the
attempt being made to put it on the
’ wholesaler. The retailer however, is
liable to a fine if he sells cigarets
that have net been stamped. ;
“It will not do them any good to
lay in a large advance supply,” Lock-
hart pointed out, “for they will have
to be stomped to be sold after the law
takes effect, no matter when the re-
tailer purchased them.”
’ The stamp will have merely the of-
ficial seal of Texas as its design with
the wording indicating tax payment (
as required by the statute.
When Eugene O'Donnel, who lives
on the Strawn highway, read in this
paper that Whitey Davis had grown
what was referred to as a “soup
bush,” he decided that he was not to
be outdone, so he Started digging in
his Irish potato patch.
The result was that he pulled up a
large stalk of Johnson grass with a
spud about the sipe of a hen egg on
the root.
At first glance it appeared that the
Johnson grass was bearing potatoes,
but upon closer examination it was
discovered that the grass root had
penetrated the potato and that when *
it was pulled the potato sthyed on the ’
root.
1 tursre— ' _ | and bushels of oats and in the neigh
The purpose of this organization is
for raising and marketing of water (
melon- f ‘ ..
; 50 or more growers ar* members of 1 cotton which is i
the organization, with more than 1.0O'! Has 100 acres of grain sorghums.—
acres signed up for shipment to j Comanche Chief
Northern and Eastern markets within j ---
the next week.
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County’s largest Individual Urement offering that amount was in
Crain Cmn classified ads of that day’s issue.
• J i The terrapin, strictly speaking, is
( a fresh-water turtle that is considers 1
indivi- quite a delicacy as a food. General-
ly speaking, and it is presumed that
the advertiser was speaking general- j
ly, the terrapin is a round-shelled dry
land turtle that is sometimes much in
demand for racing purposes. And that I
is what they are wanted for.
Turtle races.; haye been popular—
more or less—since?the .well known-
race with the hare. TCftWIMyfTJiey
race them against othey terrapins.
CISCO, July 12.—E. H. Varnell,
vocational expert oft the Cisco. Cham-
ber of Commerce, has received accept-
ances from practically all vocational
instructors of communities in the Oil
Belt to attend the Future Farmers
of Texas’ encampment to be held at
Lake Cisco July 20, 21 and 22. Re-
ports from these instructors justfy
the prediction that there will be 200
beys in attendance at the encamp-
ment
Acceptances have been received
from towns as remote as Spur and
Granger. The vocational students-
from aoch nearby towns’ include Abi-
lene, Blackwell, Ranger, Breckenridge,
Rising Star, Cross Plains, Throckmor-
ton and Albany. Another distant city
promising to be represented by 20
boys is Chillicothe, as a letter from
Instructor Couriey of that city as-
sures Varnell of his attendance/
This is the . third annual encamp-
ment of the F. F, of T. to be. held in
Cisco, and each encampment has seen
an increased attendance. These gath-
erings are intended as get-together
meetings, for the purpose of these fu-
ture farmers exchanging ideas, as well
M to enjoy the amusement features
provided for them.
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LAREDO, July 18.—'Rhe nude body
-of an American man, with a bullet
in the head, was fished from the
muddy waters of the Rio Grande south
of Zapata last night.
Officers were trying to link find-
ing of the body w^jth discovery-of an
abandoned automobile south of La-
redo three weeks ago. z |
An investigation was conducted to
determine whether the deceased was
Daniel Boone Davis of Corsicana,) MORE MILLIONS FOR
who had been missing since June. TEXAS ROADS
The theory that the man had been I
waylaid while driving on the Zapata 1
highway, robbed of his clothing and ' way department today announced ad
valuables and slain, was advanced
I by officers.
The body was badly decomposed
and was immediately buried near the •
spot where it was found.
Papers in the automobile bore the
name of Davis, an ex-service man.
AUSTIN, July 17.—‘■The deficiency
in the state's general fund last night
was $1,303,227, State Treasurer Char-
ley Lockhart said today, after issuing
a call for outstanding warrants up
to and including No. 108,070. There
was $191,118 in the treasury last
night and total outstanding warranto
amounted to $1,494,346.
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start out that way, at lease
if you telephone ahead
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Threshing commenced Saturday on
Comanches County’s largest i______
dual grain crop, when Oscar Calla-
! day started his thresher on his 850
■ acres of oats and wheat, near Mercer
Gap. i
! This is the best crop of grain 1
have, ever raised and it is the best
crop this valley ever raised; and I
> have been familiar with the eroj>s of
' this—farm and this— community for
forty yearr,” Mr. Callaway said, dis-,
cussing this year’s yield.
tMr, Callaway has four hundred acres EDITOR’S WIFE KILLED
f oats at his,home place and one hun- AS TWO Al TOS CRASH
uired acres near Energy, and has 4501
acres, of. wheat at his home place. Mr. ,
Callaway estimates that his whole
, crop
bushels to the acre,
his wheat will average thirty bushels 1 she
per acre. j another.
The first field thrashed gave 70.1 I Struck about the middle, Mrs. Fox’s
bushels per acre and this is not "the
best oats that Mr. ^Callaway
though all his oats are good.
In harvesting the 850 acres of grain,
SAN SABA, July 12—^The Rich- three machines pulled by tractors
land Springs Watermelva*' Growers’
Association has been organized a’
Richland Springs, with the followinc
officers: R. J-. Powell, vocational cut one
riculture teacher there, president;
Hardy A. Graham, secretary; Henry
Hart. C. B. Wooiri, Matt Adams, C. C ’ by those familiar
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Scott, R. L. The DeLeon Free Press. (De Leon, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, July 24, 1931, newspaper, July 24, 1931; De Leon, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1248008/m1/6/?q=peddler: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Comanche Public Library.