The DeLeon Free Press. (De Leon, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, October 29, 1926 Page: 3 of 8
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Rattler Mistaken
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A ction on School
Money Is Held Up
Ginner's A rm Is
Torn by Gin Saws
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Babu Hurt as Thrown
Through Windshield
Work on Stadium at
U. of T. Progresses
BRADY— More turkeys and less
cotton was advocated by a number of
Railroads Reduce Rate
Womens Club Meeting
of Mines and T. Chambless, oil work-
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fire at Sdur Lake field Monday.
Paralyzed in Fall
From A Pecan Tree
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NEGRO WOUNDS TEXAN
AND ATTACKS HIS WIFE
HOUSTON —A negro is held in the
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for the opening of a new addition to
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TEXAS TOWN SELLS JAIL
GROOM— Because no miscreants
were ever lodged in it, ^he city jail
here was recently sold to a local cit-
izen. Until a new structure is build,
law violators will have to be “staked
out.”
BOERNE—Thomas Elmc Noah,
jears old, was
Saturday when an
gasoline drum rolled from a kitchen
table in his home and fractured his
skull. His condition is critical.
A AUSTIN—Only two more sections
of the upoy decking of the north
wing of the University of Texas Mem
orial stadium remain to have the con-
crete poured. Work on the sdat
standards in the new section has been
started and the brick and tile work
on the rear wall is well underway.
FORT WORTH—Every railroad in
Texas has agreed to fare and a half
round trip rates for delegates to the
State Federation of Women’s Clubs
convention opening in Dallas on Nov-
ember 8. Delegates will be required to
bear identification certificate from
Mrs.C. A. Lilly, state transportation
chairman, before they start. She is
mailing out several hundred identifi-
cation certificates.
SAN SABA—San Saba valley farm-
ers are preparing land and planting a
large acreage of small grain for the
coming season. Fine rains have put
Che ground in fine condition and many
cotton fields are going into small
grain as fast as the cotton crop can
be gotten out of the way and the land
plowed.
Police Assigned to Stop Prepare to Try Norris
Petting in Cemeteries Murder Case Nov, 1
AUSTIN—Nearly half of the stu-
dents of the University of Texas earn
all or part of their expenses while at-
tending school. Of the 4,710 students
enrolled in the university this fall.
2,310 are earning all or part of their
• xpenses of whom 1,928 are men and
382 are women students. More than
979 men students and 205 women stu-
dents are entirely self-supporting.
When Owner Fails
Thief Starts Car
cii^ion
A New Suit, Mister, an’
NHSHTij LOOKIN' AN’ 6HCAWVA3T
b^ANO DINNER. TtMolBoW
Brady Postcards Give
Texas Turkeys Boost
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seriously injured last
empty 50 gallon
Material For Lake
Bridge Now Arriving
CISCO— Material for construction
of the bridge across Williamson Dam
is now arriving in Cisco, machinery
for the construction is already being
placed and the ground and timbers
for use in constructing concere cul-
verts on the right of way of Highway
graph wires will be run into the court1 23 which will cross the lake over the
dam a^e nowing hauled into place.
Contract for building the bridge and
culverts was let by the state highway
department, the bridge to cost approx
imataiy $56,000. Five months will be
required for the work and it is esti-
mated that the bridge will be ready
for use by next summer.
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AUSTIN— Governor Ferguson is
withholding action on the .<3,500.000
.supplemental appropriation to the
available school fund as passed at the
recent call session of the Thirty ninth
legislature, pending a survey of the
general revenue fund. Action is being
delayed pending reports from the
state treasurer and the comptroller
on the outstanding warrants again?*
■the fund. (Later—the governor sign-
the measure)
and Egg Association convention held
in Fort Worth, Oct. 13. The meeting
was told 4|iat Thanksgiving turkeys
would be plentiful and of good quality
this year.
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CARLSBAD, N. M.—Construction
work on four business houses in one
block started here recently to be com-
pleted in December,
FORT WORTH— A court drama
mildly recalling the hectic scenes of
the historic Tennessee evolution trial
is exnected by Fort Worth when the
fundinentalist pastor of the largest
church, the I^irst Baptirit, goes to trial
for murder on November first. Tele-
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Phoenix Hosiery at $1.00 per pair
In this price range you will find all of the newest
fall shades, Alaskan, French Nude, Parchment,
Grain, Nude, Peach and other wanted colors
ONE DOLLAR
30 dozen silk hose to be sold at a very low-price. You
will find that this hose has a good long silk boot and
wonderful wearing qualities. In fact this hose looks
and wears like a much higher priced hose.
We are showing in this line practically the|^%lV
same shades, at per pair ......................
SEMINOLE—Following out a sug-
gestion made by officials of the West
Texas Chamber of Commerce, Gaines
county roads are to be marked at all
intersections and other points. The
movement will be undertaken thru the
co-operation of the Seminole chamber
of commerce and the commissioner’s
court in belief that such markings
will .prove of inestimable value to
both tourists and the general public.
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CHILDRESS — Plans are being
completed for the establishment of
a big industrial plant here that will
involve the expenditure of $2,000,000.
The factory will consume 5,000,000 cu.
feet of gas daily and will furnish em-
ployment to between 400 and 500 men
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EASTLAND— Walter Seale, Jr., 2-
year old son of Mr. and Mrs. W. S.
Seale of Eastland is in a critical con-
ditiorj^as a result of injuries sustain-
ed when he was thrown thru the wind
shiled of an automobile being driven
by his mother when the car collided
with a truck on the streets Mrs. Seale
was also injured but not seriously.
SWEETWATER— The olden days
when wandering bards were privileg-
ed personages lived agajn in Sweetr
water when a negro charged with
vagrancy was haled before officials.
The darky played such appealing and
plaintive music on a French harp that
the charges against him wvre dismis-
sed.
Farmers Substituting
Grain for Cotton
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BARID— Baird, one of the oldest,
towns in the state, now claiming 10,
000 population has recently let con-
tracts for the installation of a modern
sanitary sewer system arid a first-
class water system. (
room and some 300 visiting newspa-
permen will be on hand to report
whatever is done with Rev. Dr. J.
Frank Norris, ace of southern funda-
mentalists who killed D. E. Chipps in
his church office on July 17th, follow-
ing a quarrel, which the victim is al-
lege d to have started.
Worry will make, people thin, ex-
cept when they worry about being
fat.
♦ MINERAL WELLS —A bottle of
mineral water from Mineral freUs
will be broken over the bow of the
; new steamship “West Texas” at the
ceremonies on the ship’s arrival in
, Houston on November sixth. The ves-
sel will be launched in Philadelphia,
October 26 and make its maiden voy-
age to Houston. A large delegation
from West Texas plan to attend the
Houston ceremonies.
SAN SABA— Officials of the West
Texas chamber of commerce have
been invited to attend the celebration
of San Saba’s Annual Pecan Day.
“Pecan Coronation, King of the Nuts”
was recently chosen as the name of
the observation which will take place
November 8. The opening address
will be made by governor-elect Dan
Moody. ■„
FORT WORTH — Two aged men,
inmates of the Tarrent County Home
engaged .in a fight last Saturday and
which ended in one of them being
stabbed several times in the back and
breast and in the other being charged
with- assault to murder. W. Forquey
70 years ol<l, is in the City-County
Hospital but not fatally wounded. Dav
id Buchannan 69 years old, his room-
mates is ^eing held in the Tajjrriht
county, jail.
WASHINGTON—A special commis
sion to give attention to and if nec-
cessary to extend federal aid to the
farmers in the South suffering from
the big cotton slump, was appointed
iiere by President Coolidge and in-
cludes Eugene Meyer Jr., managing
director of the war finance corpora-
tion; Andrew K. Mellon, secretary of
agriculture and Herbert Hoover, sec-
retary of commerce.
It was stipulated that the commis-
sion will at once co-operate with
those engaged in the production, mar-
keting and use of cotton, investigate
the present market conditions of this
commodity and render such desirable
assistance as can be given by the gov-
ernment to the efforts already made
in the South through the financial in-
stitutions, co-operative organizations
and federal intermediate.credit banks.
THROCKMORTON —Throckmorton
county is being ruined by a drain of
its citizenry caused thru the possess,
ion of 66.000 acres of so-called school
land in its territory by outside coun-
ties, according to A. H. King, mem-
ber of the state legislature* The
movement for taxation of such school
lands sttill existing in the state is
backed by the West Texas Chamber
of Commerce and will reach a climax
in November when an amendment will
be presented to voters of Texas recoin
mending that these lands be made tax
able. Should the measure pass, a great
impediment to the progress of a num-
ber of W’est Texas counties will be
removed.
Half of Texas U
Students Earn Way
BURNET—Bill WaCtson, a farmer,
living w’est of Burnet, is in a precar-
ious condition as the result of a bite
of a small rattlesnake. Watson was
gathering peanuts when the snake
bit him. It was hiding in a vine. Wat-
son thought at the time it was a wasp
sting and paid little attention to it
until his arm bqgan to swell and up-
on investigation found a snake about
li inches long.
Flying Glass in Auto
Crash May Blind Child
Coleman Ranch Is
Cut Up Into Farms
Government Takes
Notice Existing
Cotton Situation
HAMILTON — Four police con-
stables have been placed in Hamilton
and Woodlawn cemeteries as a result
cf The report made by STL. l anders,
superiniendent of the Hamilton cem-
eteries board that the graveyards are
being used nightly by young men and
girls who hold “petting** and liquor
parties there and,, then depart, hurl-
ing empty beer bottles in all directions
mainly smashing them against tomb-
stones.
21 Kited by Auto
In One Week in Texas
AUSTIN— Twenty-one vvere killed
in automobile accidents in Texas dur-
ing the week of October 1 to October
7 the Texas Safety Council rci>orted
Sixty-six persons were injured in au-
to accidents. Fifty-six was the total
accident death rate. Railway train ac
cidents killed 11 and injured 12, it
was shown. Death toll of firearms:
was unusual in that 13 persons were
killed and only four injured. Other
accidental deaths and their causes are
Interurban car 1 injured, none killed;
street car, none injured, 1 killed; mo-
tor car 2 killed, none injured; falls,
1 killed, 5 injured; burns, 5 killed, 1
injured; firearms 13 killed, 4 injured.
Total injured numbered 121 from all
causes.
ELECTRA— Flying glass in a car
collision entered the eye of 6 year old
Vadine Allen, daughter of J. W. Allen , ---- ----------
of this city, and it is feared that .thePaf^t*s ^‘^Texas_P°ultry, Butter
sight is—-destroyed. Allen, who was
driving) became blinded by the lights
of an approaching car with which he
collided. The accident occurred late
Thursday evening during a crowd
traffic.
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ELECTRA— Alpha Lemon, 34, of
the Elliott community, northwest of
Electra, is in a critical condition in
Vernon sanitarium as the result of
an accident at the Elliott gin.“Lemon,
who is head ginner, caught his right
arm in the gin saws, tearing it apart
just above the elbow. It was found
necessary to amputate just below the
shoulder. He has a wife and three
children.
COLEMAN— The I^ughlin ranch,
nine miles out of Santa Anna, on the
Trickham highway owned by the Cam-
eron Lumber Company, consisting of
1,097 acres, has been surveyed into
s •ven farms and will be .put into.cul-
tivation. The land has been used for
pasture purposes for many years.
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SAN ANTONIO— A good job a-
waits an expert-auto thief who oper-
ated here. B. B. Ford and three of
his friends worked until midnight one
day last week to start Ford’s car.
They quit in disgust and went to look
for a tow. In their absence, witness-
es said, a uasserby tinkered a mo-
ment, with the motor and drove away.
One of Ford’s friends, a machine
shop owner, says he would offer the
thief a good job and no questions ask-
ed. “At least” he said “I would like
to know what was wrong with that
motor.” ,
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BEAUMONT—Fred Tuff of Hous- l.___________,____________
ton, former chief of the U/S. Bureau I county jail here charged with serious-’
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, are dead as the result of an oil j a1 tack'ng Mrs. Kinney according
lier story to the police.
COLEMAN— H. A. Halbert, 70,
well known throughout the state as
an enthusiast in pecan culture, fell
from a pecan tree Friday of last week
and is in a local hospital paralyzed
and in a very critical condition. He
has received much prominence thru
his writings on the pecan industry.
6.9 and 70, They Fight
One Cut, Other in Jail
HASKELIi— Apparently dead for
l.l hours and killed while in the per-
formance of duty, the body of Nig:it
Watchman J. K. Beauchamp, 30, was
found ip the rear floor of the Davis
Economy Store by Davis about ten
o’clock Sunday morning. Beauchamp
in his round had evidently surprised
burglars at work and had been shot
to death. Entrance had been gained
to the store by removing a heavy
screen wire from a rear window. It
is estimated that ?3000 worth of mer-
chandise Was takep by the thieves.
Two Men Die In
Sour Lake Oil Fire
Children suffering from intestinal
worms are cross, restless and un-
healthy. There are other symptoms,
however. If the child is pale, has
dark rings under the eyes bad breath
and takes no interest in play, it is al-
most a certainty that worms are eat-
ing away its vitality. The surest rem-
edy for worms is White’s Cream Ver-
mifuge. It is positive destruction to
the worms but harmless to the child.
Price 35c. Sold by Tomlin Drug Co.
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BRADY—Trotting turkeys, shown
on ‘the famous Brady postcard pic-
tures are telling the’ Philadelphians
and Sesqui-Centennial visitors that
Texas -deserves the crown for being
the nation's center in the production
of the American national bird. Ac-
cording to J. E. Whittaker, in charge
of the West Texas chamber of com-
merce exhibit at the big Philadelphia
exposition, publicity sent to the West
Texas chamber of commerce booth by
Brady and other counties of the Lone
Star state is going over big with ex-
position visitors from all parts of the
country.
500 Wells Drilled in
Brown County in Year
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Negro's Music Keeps
The Jail Bars Away
When Dry Prepare for
Water, is His Slogan
LUBBOCK«r-A boat, which he car-
ries with him at all times is J. L.
L. Dean’s insurance against floods
and high waiter. Dean, a civil engin-
eer for' an oil company, was much
hampered in his work by high water
and bought an eight foot skiff which
weighs but 40 pounds. , He keeps it
lashed to the side of his car. It will
carry three men.
SNAKE VENOM EXTRACTED
FLORESVILLE—Venom from 1500
rattlesnakes has been extracted here
on the place of H. C. Blanchard, to
be used in making serum.__
BROWNWOOD— Five hundred new
oil wells have been drilled in Brown
county since January 1 this year ac-,
cording to official report *These wells
are in Crons Cut field proper, Blake,
field, which is .adjunct to Cross Cut;
Childress field near Bangs Cler Creek
field near Brownwood anil the new
field known as the White area, near
the ol<l town of Trinity. The average
daily output of the county is about
13000 barrels. A little leas than 100,-
000 barrels per month and at present
prices this would be worth in one year
about $12,000,000. . ’
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Scott, R. L. The DeLeon Free Press. (De Leon, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, October 29, 1926, newspaper, October 29, 1926; De Leon, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1261780/m1/3/?q=waco+tornado: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Comanche Public Library.