The La Coste Ledger (La Coste, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, January 27, 1939 Page: 2 of 4
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THE LACOSTE LEDGER, LACOSTE, TEXAS
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COUNTY AGENTS REPORT
SHOWS MUCH ACTIVITY
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27 acres oil Wisdom road; all in cultivation, 2-room
hous, 350 plum trees and three acres in vineyard. This is
, an exceptional buy at $75.00 per acre, Ask to see this fine
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the purpose of examining sheep
and goats. Stomach worms, head
grubs and hemorrhagic septicimia
were found in the flocks and treat-
Sudan, Milo and Hegari Seed
—the kind that made Medina
Valley Famous.
membership dues, elected the di-
rectors and completed organization
under the title of “Medina Electric
Cooperative, Inc.” The county has
been mapped by R.E.A. engineer*.
Final approval is needed before
construction of lines will be start-
ed.
vaccinated by the ranchmen.’,,
Miscellaneous-Assisted in judg-
ing at the following meetings:
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pan have warned the United States
not to attempt to fortify Guam and
Wake islands under penalty of
having the American fleet smash-
>^^to the Attention ,<}f: the
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bandit was picked Up in the. .vici-
nity, He gave his name as-Willie
bee Voss from Louisiana
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Efton Wells to drive them south
from Brownwood. The car was
abandoned . soon after thecouple:
had been forced from it and the
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President Roosevelt has ‘ asked
congress to liberalize, the social
security program. He would have
the federal old age insurance pay-
ments to begin in 1940 instead of
1942 and, that the payments be
dug, 45,000 feet of
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Bargain—16 acres of irrigated land within half mile of
Lytle. All in cultivation. Improvements consist of small
shack. Specially priced at $85.00 per acre. One fourth down.
,27 acres with’19 irrigated and 8 in pasture, good 4-room
house, large barn, brooder house, good well of water and gas
and lights available, small fruit orchard. Will sell with
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Newspaper advertising
that covers a wide and pros-
FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1939
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Community Fair, LaCoste—Sep-
tember 25, 1938; F.F.A. District
Judging Contest, Hondo, Texas
February 26, 1938; During the
year seven meetings for training
local. leaders and committeemen,
thiasg, three for 4-H Clubs, and
eigtE. result demonstration meet-
ingsiwere conducted by the County
Agricultural Agent. e
Agronomy (White Corn ‘Im-
provement)—Meetings were ar-
ranged in LaCoste and D’Hanis for
producers interested in production
of hard white corn and its improve-
ment. Mr. John F. Chandler,' Fed-
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Lytle, Mts. Joe Park has not
fully recovered from the automo-
> • bile accident of a few weeks ago
when she was so seriously injured.
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The following is included in the
annual report of County Agent
Merritt for the year 1938:'
Farm Engineering—Lines were
run and terraces completed on 280
farms, covering 9566 cultivated
acres, at an average cost of 414
per acre. Results obtained by
Experiment Stations indicate that
the value of terraced land ranges
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mong births and a decrease of 5 in
deaths for 1938. The figures -for
1937 are 370 births and 162 deaths.
Of the 369 births recorded for
1938, 196 were girls and 173 were
boys. Of the total number, 246
Were Mexicans, there being no in-
crease or decrease over the pre-
ceding year as 246 Mexicans were
also born in 1937. In the. 1938 to-
tal, howeverthere' were 118 Ameri-
Little Boy Blue ,
Poultry Feeds is our Specialty
--It pays big dividends in in-
creased egg production.
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MANGOLD
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variety of result demonstration*, conservation contest
namely: pantry, poultry, wardrobe to be made at the end of the yea
and closet, bedroom,2 frame gar-
den, trench silo, tank and bed tut*
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. He further urged that the old age expectedly confided:
“I came to be went with—but
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Land Bargains in
All Parts of Valley
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We are in position to offer you some rare bargains in imprved
and unimproved farm lands and at terms that will let you own a
farm home at a small outlay of cash. Suppose you call at this of-
. fice and let us tell you about these rare bargains. It will mean a \
’ saving of money to you. Read our offer:
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Disillusioned
" Every year college deans pop
the routine question, to their un-
dergraduates: “Why ' did you
come to college?” Traditionally
the answers match the question
in triteness. But last year the
Jefr, why is it you never hear .
of darkies committing suicide?” i
"Wel, I reckon it’s dis’ way,
Mister: A white "man gets his-
self into a passel of trouble an’
he sits down and thinks about it
until his trouble seems so big he /
shoot* hisself, A nigger man
getsrinto trouble an’ he sits
down an’ thinks an’ he thinks an’ ' ’
after a while he falls asleep."
C. C. Nethery, who has been
visiting at his old home in Verno,
Texas for some weeks is at Lytle
this week making arrangements to
move back to Vernon. • ■
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T. J. Gilliam was re-elected
president of the Pearsall Chamber
of Commerce at its annual meet-
ing on Thursday night of last
week. W. W. Few and Alfred
Malone were named as vice-presi-
dents. N. H. Hunt was re-elected
Medins Electric Cooperative,
Inc.—With the R.E.A. cooperating,
a project to secure electric power
for about five hundred Medina
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Newspapers representing
secretary. The chamber will spon-
sor a county-wide soil and water
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can budding demonstrations were
held, attended by fifty men and
boys who were taught the art of
budding. Eighteen hundred buds
of proven varieties were ordered
and delivered tO producers. An
estimated. 5000 buds were cut
from previously budded trees and
used to bud other native trees.
TWodemonstrations were held for
the benefit of the Vocational
classes of the D’Hanis and Hondo
High Schools.
Soil and Range Conservation
Programs—Eight hundred Seventy
three Applications for Payment,,
covering 125,348 acres of farm land
and ’ two hundred sixteen applica-
tions covering 379,644 acres of
range land have been transmitted
to the State .Office for payment.
Under the ’ Range Frogram, 190
tanks were completed, 16 wells
830 acres prickly pear and 1100
acres of mesquite were eradicated.
4-H Club—Five, club members
fed ten baby calves over a period
of two hundred twenty-four days.
The net weight gained was 5060
pounds and net profit on the ten
calves was 3297.00.
Whole Farm Demonstration*—
Two whole fari demonstrations
were begun in 1938, and plans for-
mulated for improving the farms
and living conditions over a period
of several years. Those taking
part in this demonstration are Mr.
and Mrs. Robert H. Riff, Hondo
and Mr. and Mrs. Henry E. Flory
of Rio Medina. Plans are being
made to include two more farms
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Master Farmer—The farm and
home of Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Stin-
son, Rio Medina Community wes
selected by the Medina County
Agricultural Council and Home
Demonstration Council to beren-
tered in the contest for the State
“Master Farmer Award." Tho
they were not awarded first place,
they received praise for their ef-
forts in improving their farm.
Wild Life and Game Manage-
ment—Plans were made in cooper-
ation with the Medina County
Council forfour wild game man-
agement areas Covering approxi-
mately 45000 acres, and including
one hundred twenty five farms.
Sheep and Goats—Sixteen sheep
arid goat ranches were Visited for
eral Grain; Inspector was guest
set of terraces con- speaker. He. encouraged produc-
10,000 acres cedar, Hon of the pure hard'White variety
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ty as recorded* at the County
Clerk's office in Rondo show that
births far exceeded deaths in the
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Buy Brick Building /
■ A. J. Gidley and Dr. R. B. Touch-
stone last week bought the two-
story brick building adjoining the
Frank . Gray mercantile business
in Lytle from Chude McCauley of
Dallas. They have torn down- the
old iron warehouse at the rear and
will remodel the structure to make
it tenable, turning it around to
face the. new highway in the pro-
cess. Acquisition of the property
was 'essential to further improve
the appearance of the Lytle State
Bank property, which has .been
completely renpdeled.
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Tom Hartley, district attorney
at Donn*, Texas has launched a
drive to stop public gambling in
Hidalgo county. He confiscated
an automobile and $129 in cash to
break up a raffle by the Dona .
Townsend Club last Saturday. The
officer returned the automobile to
the dealer who sold it on promise
that it would not be released for
raffle purposes and eventually ex- ,
poets to return the $129 in cash
and the $250 down payment on
the car. The automobile was to
have been awarded to the holder
of a lucky ticket at a dance last
Saturday night. The raffle was
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Che Kaoste ledger
Established August 1, 1915
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
Ledger Building, LaCoste, Texas
JOHN C. BfEDIGER, Owner
C. A. TUNNELL, Editor
Entered as second-class mail
matter at the postoffice in IA-
Coste, Texas, under the act of
Congress of March 1879, ,
unterraced land. Using the lowest
estimated figures—terracing a f
9566 acres of Medina County farm
land has added an increased value"
of 357,396.00 to the farms.
Three thousand four, hundred
forty acres of range land was ter-
r*ced at an average cost of 244
per acre. Lines were run on 106
farms covering ,1980 acres for
contour practices.
One hundred six, trench silos
were completed on 100 farms; total
tonnage capacity 108,610 / at an
average cost per ton of silage—90
cents, a ,
Poultry—Ten. poultry ' culling
demonstrations Were held in dif-
ferent communities, and fourteen
breeding pens selected for 1939,
consisting of 2240 hens and pullets.
Eleven thousand, six hundred eigh-
teen chickens were treated for
disease*. Six brooder houses and
fourteen modern poultry houses
were built to specifications of blue
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Ten survivors from the crew and
passenger list of the ill-fated Im-
perial Airways Cavalier, after 10
hours in the water, sang songs to
guide searchers through the utter
darkness to rescue them. The
jant plane with 13 abroad drop-
ped into the Atlantic midway be-
tween New York and Bermuda
last Saturday. Three persons were
lost, Bome ’of them slipping off
the four life preservers that held
the group above water until help
finally arrived. The commander
I of tn# ship was held up unconsciou I
hucgiwmp.ema‘u.
by al! corn producers in the county
and suggested that the producers
should organize, trade mark the
corn and sell through local deal-
ers.
i One Variety Cotton—The Acala
Cotton produced in the county in
1938 brought a premium of 33.50
per bale overall other varieties
raised and sold in the county, and
it is expected that all producers
will plant Acala in 1939.
A farm tour was planned ini eq-,
operation with the Home Demon-
stration Agent, which covered a
perous area. Let us take a
special message from you
into the farm homes of the ne
! forty-five babies between the ages -
of only a few minutes and two .
years dying during the year. The
next greatest death rate of 40 was
found among the aged rangingin
yeara from 70 to 92. Thirty-four
were between the ages of 50 and
70 and the remaining number was
widely distributed between the age
of 2. years and 50 years.
There were 139 marriage licen-
ses issued during 1938 as compared
to 131 in 1937.—Hondo Anvil Her-
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larger than the law now provides.
BIRTHS IN MEDINA 20200 uzg cat ^2
DOUBLE NUMBER DEATHS plan be extended to many workers'
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She is slow in regaining, her for-
mer strength, according to Mr.
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Cans, a decrease of 2 ever 1937 $
and 5 Negroes, an increase of one
over the preceding year. There
were only three sets of twins born
during the past year, including a
pair of a boy and a girl, two girl*
and two boys, exactly the same as
recorded for 1987. 2300 ■ d*
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One tract 16 acres of irrigated, well located land. Price
$85 per acre.
11 acres fronting on main highway, close to good town,
cleared but no improvements. Price $80 an acre.
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were found in tne ziocks ana treat- county, during 19 38, with 369
ed. Approximately 5000 head were births to 151 deaths reported. As
-cine+aa he +he -anehmen - compared with the preceding year,
thera was a decrease of one a-
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SUBSCRIPTION RATE
)'. S In Texas , $1,00 a; year
Other States 1.50 a year from $6.00 to $7.50
per acre over
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Any erroneous reflection upon
• t.. the, character, ‘standing or repu-.
4 1 tation of any person, firm or oor-
poration, which may appear in the
columns of this newspaper will
‘‘ be gladly corrected* upon being
WW pubuther.otheatentiommt."he
0/ ' ua ABOUT March ist, the selec-
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20 acres dark loam irrigated farm, the biggest bargain ? 1
yet. Close to good town. Price $65.00 an acre if sold at once.
25 acres dry land, good 4-room house, other improve-
ments. Price $85.00 an acre.
36 acres irrigated, small house, off Jarrat road. Price
$85.00 an acre.. Its well worth the price.
, . are making a special offer this week of a 4,400 acre
ranch, 20 miles north from Brownwood near the end of
Brownwood Lake, which may be had at the extremely low,
price of $12.50 per acre on reasonable terms. Sixty per centj-
of this land is tillable and is considered a good grass proposi-
tion with mesquite, liveoak and postoak timber. Inquire of us.
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Horticulture-Pecans—Four pe-
W. inatiorw of studentsfor Naval Av-
E-/. , ’ Hation Cadet training ind,-in view*
Be,, of the fact that applications must
r .1 ha dice mined and approved prior
f ,‘3 the, meetings of the board, im-
Eumf w 14 medate application is essential.
Eun- Elsewhere in this issue is printed
k;2a2( a news story announcing dates of
4 , ,2. meetings Of , the board i Texas
cities. Special inducements are
: offered to those, who may meet
. the five qualifications, which re-
quire young men between the ag-
ee of 20 aM 28, unmarried, of
sound physical, conditibn and with
-ri ■ / perfect yvision: The; fifth require-
5,, 1 mentis a college education' al-
".2j 3 though candidates who do rnot
j quite graduate m*y be ilpcepted.
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?. > One bandit and kidnapper was'
caught at Brownwood, Texas Mon-
day, following the hold-up of a
drug store on Sunday night when
pea eight persons, were forced to lie on
in the floor while the robbers took
E 330 from, the cash register. Later
. the bandits forced Mr. and Mrs.
; mules, wagon, harness and plows. See us today.
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Tunnell, C. A. The La Coste Ledger (La Coste, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, January 27, 1939, newspaper, January 27, 1939; La Coste, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1584697/m1/2/: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Castroville Public Library.