The Deport Times (Deport, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, December 19, 1930 Page: 1 of 10
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DEPORT, LAMAR COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1930
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For Security
Later Years
Chrismas Will Be
Observed Quietly
Take Blood Tests
Malaria Research
Johntown to Get
Test Well for Oil
Stores to be Closed Christmas
Day; Many Gatherings and
Parties Expected
Will Ask for Funds to Eradicate
Expensive Disease in East
Texas
Christmas Cards
Cigarettes
Cigars
Safety Razors
Shaving Creams
Shaving Brushes
Kodaks
W. E. HOLLOWAY NAMED
DETROIT POSTMASTER
FATHER AND SON UNITED
IN JAIL AFTER 19 YEARS
HAULING GRAVEL ON
JIM HOGG HIGHWAY
REED STORE AT GIVENS
IS DESTROYED BY FIRE
SCOUT BENEFIT SHOW
DRAWS LARGE CROWD
NEW BOSTON MERGER
FORMS STRONG BANK
LYNN BRATCHER OPENS
CANDY-FRUIT STORE
LAMAR CO. GINNINGS
TOTAL 50,346 BALES
IMPROVING RED RIVER
COUNTY FARM LANDS
LAMAR COUNTY GRAND
JURY MAKES 31 BILLS
SIX CENT COTTON AND
SIXTEEN DOLLAR LAND
M C M B E R
FEDERAL RESERVE
Y S TE M
WEBSTER IS GIVEN A
SUSPENDED SENTENCE
Cuthand bridge and another
ng from Clarksville to a
; five miles out.
Crescent Drug Store
E. O. THOMPSON, Prop.
PRESCRIPTIONS A SPECIALTY
First National Bank
DEPORT, TEXAS
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and wholesome, sweet as honey, capable of delighting
most exacting candy lover.
ARTSTYLE CHOCOLATES
ART-FULL ASSORTMENT
City Drug Store
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Fire of undetermined origin
early Tuesday morning destroy-
ed the Louis Reed general mer-
chandise store at Givens. Dam-
age was estimated at between
$4,000 and $5,000 and loss was
partially covered by insurance.
The building loss was estimat-
ed at about $2,000, with furni-
ture and stock accounting for
the rest.
Burglars recently obtained a
quantity of merchandise from
the store. Two men were sen-
tenced to penitentiary terms for
the crime.
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We invite you to look over our line for your Christmas
presents. Many useful, suitable and lovely gifts—
Stationery
Perfume
Toilet Water
Bath Salts
Talcum Powder
Face Powder
Pen and Pencil Sets
Value Farm Crops
Less Than in 1929
A Decline of More Than One-
Fourth Noted as Acreage
Increases
NO MORE $2.50 GOLD
PIECES FOR CHRISTMAS
W. Schultze being named to
succeed Mrs. Leora Stevenson.
These nominations were made
Monday at which time appoint-
ments were made by President
Hoover for Texas offices.
WORK ON SCOUT CABIN
TO BEGIN SATURDAY
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Attendance was good- at the
Boy Scout fund benefit show,
“The Isle of Treasures,” pre-
sented Friday night at the high
school auditorium by the Adelia
Jane Daugherty school of danc-
ing of Paris. Approximately
$30 was realized from the pre-
sentation.
From the fencing match by
John Lawrence and Roy Jones,
which opened the program, to
the climax, an adagio dance
featuring Martha Minton, Nor-
ma Lee Campbell, Roy Jones
and John Lawrence, the show
was well staged and splendid
entertainment. Especially good
were:, . Acrobatic dances by
Betty Cross and Doris Bhael, a
toe ballet by Edith Goode, Bet-
ty Jean Glaze and Mary E. Van
Glahn, a song and dance by
Mary Jane Guthrie and Edwin
Donaldson, a tap acrobatic by
Betty Jean Glaze and Edith
Goode, solo dances by Roy
Jones and Edith Goode, and the
adagio dance which ended the
show. Two songs by Dorothy
Nell Sebastian brought tremen-
dous applause.
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Lynn Bratcher has opened a
fruit and candy store in the
building on Main Street former-
ly occupied by Rufus Bevill.
His advertisement in this issue
solicits your patronage - on
Christmas fruit and candy and
fireworks.
Start a savings account now. Even a dol-
lar a week for the period of your younger
years will mean security from want when
you are old. We can’t stress too strongly
the habit of saving-its benefits are count-
less. Saving towards old age is not only
foresight, it’s common sense.
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ernments to appropriate $50,000
each for each of the next two
years, to be used in public
health work over Texas. At
present the board is hampered
through lack of funds and per-
sonnel and Texas is the only
state in the union not in the
federal birth and death regis-
tration area, because there have
been no funds to classify and
index the vital statistics.
Immediate action to eliminate
malaria in this section has been
urged by the East Texas Cham-
ber of Commerce, it being es-
timated that this disease is
costing East Texas between $1,-
500,000 and $2,000,000 per year
in loss of time, cost of treat-
ment and reduction of working
efficiency.
Several thousand acres of
farm lands in Red River county
belonging to land banks, insur-
ance and mortgage companies
are being improved. Johnson
grass has taken many of these
farms and they have become
run down in other ways in re-
cent years. At considerable
cost the owners of these farms
are killing the grass, rebuilding
fences, terraces and renovating
and rebuilding houses, barns
and sheds. Thousands of dol-
lars are being spent every
month in improving farm lands
within a radius of twelve miles
ment to a number of men.—
Clarksville Times.
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The Lamar county grand
jury adjourned Thursday after
a four day session. Thirty-one
indictments were returned. This
body will reconvene on Jan. 5.
With only 37 prisoners in the
county jail, including federal
prisoners, some of whom are
serving jail sentences, there is
the smallest number in several
months.
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Mrs. Herbert Smith who lives
near Cunningham, underwent a
major operation at the Deport
Sanitarium Thursday.
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Christmas is to be observed
quietly in Deport this year.
While the churches are plan-
ning Christmas programs there
will be no union service or
large celebration. Practically
all the stores will be closed
Christmas day so that employes asked the federal and state gov-
may attend family gatherings
and enjoy a day of recreation.
Deport young people who are
attending college or teaching in
out of town schools will begin
arriving to spend the holidays
with home folks the last of the
week, and others who are em-
ployed in various cities will
come later. The homecoming of
these young people will be the
occasion for many family gath-
erings and other entertainment.
The Deport school will close
Friday for a week of holidays,
work to be resumed Monday,
December 29. Each of the
grade school rooms will have
Christmas trees and programs
in their own rooms and the
seventh grade and high school
will have a program and tree
in the auditorium. These pro-
grams are to be held in the af-
ternoon, after which students
will be dismissed.
Santa Claus will visit the
children this year on Christmas
Eve. Local stores have been
taking his orders for toys, and
everything will be in readiness
for his coming the night before
Christmas.
Every member was present
at the Scout meeting Thursday
night, and we had two visitors,
Frank Edward Moore and How-
ard Nobles.
Games were played and Scout-
master Barham gave a few min-
utes to tenderfoot tests given
to James Grant and Sanders
Wimberly. Plans for building
the Scout cabin were discussed,
and if weather permits, work
on the cabin will be started Sat-
urday. A ’possum hunt and
wiener roast are planned for
Friday night.
Then there’s only one thing to do: Clip
their wings, so they can’t get away. Other-
wise, you will be, ten years or twenty
years from now, just where you are today,
financially.
Lamar county gins had turn-
ed out a total of 42,968 bales
prior to December 1, from the
crop of 1930 as compared with
50,346 ginned prior to Decem-
ber 1, 1929. These figures are
furnished by Marcus Gough,
government cotton statistician
for Lamar county.
In Red River county 28,727
bales had been ginned prior to
December 1, 1930, as compared
with 33,236 ginned prior to the
same date in 1929, according to
statistics compiled by the Bu-
reau of the Census.
. dy of Shreveport, has been in
Deport this week seeing after
operations on this test.
Arrangements are being made
for the moving in of a rotary
rig on the test half a mile west
of Deport to take the place of
cable tools, which have drilled
the hole 700 feet, and opera-
tions are to begin soon upon the
test to be drilled at Cross
Roads, west of Deport.
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Times, for seme reason, do not
contain a copy of the paper pub-
______ . H lished this week twenty years
hauling from Bogata to the ago, and because of this we are
unable to present that feature
in this issue. Watch for it
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Washington, Dec. 17.—The
Department of Agriculture Wed-
nesday placed the value of the
Nation’s 1930 crop at $6,274,-
824,000, a decline of $2,400,-
000,000, or more than a fourth
under the 1929 valuation of
$8,675,420,000.
“This decline in the value of
the crops produced was caused
chiefly by the widespread de-
cline in prices,” the department
reported, “but was accentuated
by the decrease in production
that resulted from the drouth.”
While the 1930 production
was roughly 95 per cent as
large as a year ago, the portion
being sold Dec. 1 was moving
at prices averaging only 76 per
cent of prices a year ago.
Allowing for losses from
crop failure, the area of field
crops harvested this season was
estimated at 366,507,000 acres,
an increase of half of 1 per
cent over that of last season.
Yields averaged 5.4 per cent be-
low the rather low yields of
1929 and below those of any
recent year except 1921.
Nobody ever got ahead who spent all his
earnings as fast as he could. That kind
of man is the man who will be living off
his children, or charity from some other
so'urce, when his earning days are over.
Deport State Bank
DEPORT, TEXAS
Uncle Bob Hutchison brought
to The Times office a bill for
four bales of cotton, grown in
1890, for which he received
6.65 per pound. He says he
has heard so much complaint
of 10 cent cotton this fall that
when he ran across this old bill
he thought he would show some
of the younger generation some
cotton prices that were really
low.
The cotton was grown by J.
E. Stillwell on Mr Hutchison’s
land, and brought from $32 to
$34 a bale. Mr. Hutchison says
he paid for his home place with
such prices, land being worth
from $15 to $20 per acre for
Blood tests of Red River
county school children were
made last week as a part of a
scientific research of malarial
conditions in East Texas, being
made by rtiedical authorities.
The state board of health has
Walter E. Holloway, for 15
years station agent at Detroit,
and later cashier of a Detroit
bank, has been appointed post-
master at that place, succeed-
ing Miss Berta Freeman who
served as postmistress for
eight years.
A new postmistress was also
rived Wednesday, and drilling appointed at Talco, Mrs. Stella
Newton, Iowa.—J. ’ W. Ford
19 years ago was divorced from
his wife. Mrs. Ford was grant-
ed the possession of her baby
boy, Arnold. ’ •
Ford was arrested here on a
charge of selling mortgaged
property. When he was lodged
in the Newton jail he found his
cellmate was a young man be-
ing held for entering a school
building.
Upon inquiry he discovered
the youth was his son, Arnold.
Oper~>I* was the first time he had
seen his son since the boy’s
mother had taken him with her
in 1911.
Jesse Webster was given a
two year suspended sentence in
the 6th district court at Paris
the first of the week, on a
charge of forgery. The offense
occurred in July, when Webster
is alleged to have passed sever-
al checks to the amount of $600
drawn on the account of his
grandmother, who lives near
Minter. The checks were drawn ‘
on the First National Bank of
Deport, but the money was re-
covered by the bank.
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►wNo other gift possesses the
same degree of sentiment-
al value as a package of /
delicious chocolates. Mo-
there, wives and sweet-
hearts look forward to re-
' ceiving candy enjoyment
en all gift occasions. Art-
style Chocolates, sold only at Rexall Stores,
Work was begun Saturday on
the surfacing of a stretch of
the Jim Hogg Highway between
Clarksville and Bogata, 125
teams hauling gravel in the
project Work is going on from
both ends of the road, one crew
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Consolidation of the New
Boston National Bank and First
National Bank at New Boston
was announced Thursday, the
new institution opening for bus-
iness Friday morning.
The new bank has a capital
of $30,000 and a surplus of!
$30,000, officers declaring that
the merger of the two institu-»
tions will make the new bank
one of the strongest in this sec-
tion of East Texas.
The directors of the merged
institutions compose the board
of directors.
was resumed there Thursday
morning. The boiler that had
been giving trouble has been re-
paired, and this test is down
1260 feet. It will be drilled to
the Woodbine sand. K. O. Bun-
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Denver Firm Contracts to Drill
to Depth of 3,200 Feet in
’Search of Oil
Everitt A Allen who leased
several thousand acres of land
for an oil test to be drilled in
the vicinity of Johntown, turn-
ed those leases Wednesday to
8. A. Ross, Inc. of Denver, Colo.,
who will drill 3200 feet unless
oil in paying quantities is found
at a .more shallow depth. <
ations are to begin at once, ac-
cording to J. H. Everitt.
The last truck load of steel
for the derrick to be erected on
the Edna Howison farm, a mile
north of Bogata, passed thru
Deport Wednesday afternoon,
and derfick builders are expect-
ed in Friday to start construct-
ion. This is a 96 foot derrick
of the big Seminole type. The
well will be drilled by W. J.
Peters and R. E. Eckles of Ok-
lahoma City.
Fuel oil for the Droppieman
A Bundy test at Halesboro ar-
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Washington. — Secretary Mel-
lon reminds people why they
can’t get new $2.50 gold pieces
to give for Christmas.
Congress discontinued that
coinage last April, because the
pieces were in demand almost
exclusively for use at Christ-
mas, generally were returned to
the treasury or A disappeared
from circulation and served no
business need but caused much
difficulty in the making.
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