Mercedes News-Tribune (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, July 5, 1935 Page: 4 of 8
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MERCEDES NEWS-TRIBUNE
FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1935.
-NOTICE-
This is Notice that B. J. Latham is not now
or responsible for the execution of contracts
he may make.
Other Papers
Announcing
Trades Days
Starting Saturday July 13
and Continuing for
12 Weeks
The Merchants Will Have Special
Bargains Each Saturday
FREE
FREE
DR. D. W. BAKES
EASY PAYMENTS
The Merchants of Mercedes Invite You
to Take Advantage of the Trades Day
Events. They Will be Worth Your While.
Remember Saturday July 13th
and 12 Consecutive Weeks
SHOP IN MERCEEDS
Guaranteed Up To
Mercedes
Phone 414
J. H. Davis, Owner
NO CARRYING
CHARGE, AND
NO INTEREST!
WE DON’T
TAX YOU
During the week the Merchants will give tickets
with purchases. Save these tickets as two valu-
able awards will be made each Saturday. The first
one at 4 p. m., the second at 8 p. m.
P. P. EWING PLUMBING AND
CONSTRUCTION CO.
Personals
Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Johnson have
apartments in the Ueker home. J. J.
Murray and family have moved into
the place formerly occupied by Mr.
Johnson.
Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Armstrong
have a baby girl which was born
Thursday.
J. H. Anderson is attending the
Bar Association in Fort Worth.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Crawford have
a baby girl which was born Thurs-
day morning.
Mr. and Mrs. Marcus Hines and
Mis Kathryn Benson left for Ken-
Miss Kathryn Benson left for Ken-
with relatives.
an Angel food cake was given by
Mrs. Wayne Harshman. Interesting
responses were given to roll call.
Later in the afternoon a delightful
plate luncheon was served to the
following club members and guests:
Mesdames Wayne Harshman, L. J.
Hartzell, L. R. Crockett, A. E. Darl-
ington, Fleet Lentz, H. Marlier,
George Morrison, S. T. Nichols, J. C.
Potts, 0. E. Ridenour, T. R. Riggs,
R. A. Roland, J. T. Wiggins, W. D.
Brisco, P. R. Belcher, Grant Morri-
son, T. Ribboul, Misses Letha Ride-
nour, Mildred Briscoe, and A. Good-
face.
Don’t Mar Fourth Of
July With Accidents
Urges Health Officer
is ranked as one of the foremost
students of political economy in the
South.
Dr. Hester has written profusely
on governmental subjects and has a
standing invitation with the broad-
ON LATEST TYPE
MASTER SERVICE
STARS
Outstanding Student
Of Political Emonocy
Now On A. & I. Staff
Mercedes
13 Years Ago
INSURANCE
Phone 164 or 412
Office in Elks’ Bldg.
. H. T. TIDMORE
MERCEDES
Birthday Celebration
Master Hoyt Hager celebrated his
seventh birthday Saturday after-
noon at his home by having a num-
ber of his friends to come for a
couple of hours frolic. Games were
played on the lawn and later re-
freshments were served, a large
birthday cake playing a prominent
part.
Those present were Carey and
Frances Hadden, Jacqueline John-
son, Geraldine Chandler, Roger
Terry, Price Fittz, Charles Van
Berg, Lorene, Josephine and John
Junkin.
Chiropractor—Nerve Specialist
Office in Central Office Building
MERCEDES, TEXAS
nor has at any time been in partnership with
me. I operate individually, and all accounts
owing me must be paid to me personally. I
am not liable for any debts contracted by him
123 and English 223; and third
period, social science 223a, (Ameri-
can history). High school division:
first period, Algebra II and English
III (grammar and composition); sec-
ond period; Spanish II and Ameri-
can history; third period, English
IV (grammar and composition) and
commercial arithmetic or civics.
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The original Siamese twins were
two brothers—Chang and Eng—who
lived to be 65 years old and died
within two and a half hours of each
other in 1874. They were born of a
Chinese father and a Siamese mother
in Siam.
Registration For
Scout Jamboree Is
Extended To July 15
Red Cross Elects
New Chairman
At a special meeting of the Mer-
cedes Chapter of the Red Cross held
Wednesday afternoon at 2 p. m. Don
A. Warner was elected chairman and
Ralph L. Buell, vice chairman.
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Opens For Business
Paul Emery, new entrant in the
produce game in Mercedes, has open-
ed for business in the old Palace
Hotel building opposite the Ameri-
can Company’s offices.
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Clubwoman Changes Bare
Yard Into Beautiful
Lawn In Year’s Time
their tongue and the Wendish have
3. The Yiddish have 109 and Esper-
anto the universal language, has 3.
Nearly every country under the sun
is represented by newspapers and
periodicals printed in native lang-
uage and yet they tell us that this
country is the melting pot for the
whole world where every race is
eventually fused into the Anglo-
Saxon. —Rio Grande Herald.
Pay No Tax
FOR THE PRIVILEGE OF MAKING
Just We Neighbors Club
The Just We Neighbors Club spent
an enjoyable afternoon Thursday at
the home of the president, Mrs.
Alden Wade, in South Palm Gardens.
A most satisfactory and instruc-
tive demonstration of the making of
On the distant Artic shores of
North America live a few scattered
tribes of Eskimos.
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Unemployment in Spain totals
over 700,000 and is increasing.
EIGHTEEN MONTHS
And No “Catches” in the Guarantee!
LIBERAL TRADE-IN DISCOUNT
transportation for those students
living outside of Edinburg.
The tentative schedule for the
second term is as follows: College
division: first period, physical educa-
Registration for the second semes-
ter of the Edinburg College summer
school will be held on Wednesday,
July 10. All college and high school
students who expect to attend the
second term of the school are urged
to attend to their registration on this
day. Regular class work for the
second term will begin Thursday,
July 11. The term will close August
16.
Two busses will operate during the
secon dterm of the school, one leav-
ing Mission and traveling east
through McAllen and Pharr, the
other one leaving Mercedes and
traveling west through Weslaco,
Donna, San Juan, and Pharr. These
two busses operated during the first
term and afforded very economical
EDCOUCH SHIPS FIRST
CARLOAD OF POPCORN
The first solid car of popcorn to
leave Edcouch and according to the
best of our information, the first car
of this commodity to be shipped
from the Valley, was scheduled to
move out over the Southern Pacific
early this morning (Friday).
The car is being shipped by Carl
Vandervort, Edcouch, who raised a
portion of the corn but bought the
greater share. The car will contain
40,000 pounds of corn and will be
routed to Odebold, Iowa, where the
Cracker-Jack company will turn the
corn into one of their famous con-
fections. Carl says he expects to
ship the second car from Edinburg.
—Santa Rosa Signal.
VALLEY COLLEGE
GOLFER IS DEFEATED
Washington, June 28.—In the
hardest fight of the day, Fred Haas
of Louisiana State was forced to the
37th hole here Thursday before
eliminating Bill Welch of Mercedes
in the National Intercollegiate Golf
Tournament.
The Valley golfer, playing with
the University of Texas team, ral-
ied briskly to overcome a three-hole
deficit through the 13th. From then
on it was a hammer and tongs affair,
ending even on the 36th.
The freckled Texas sophomore,
playing in his first national tourna-
ment, was an early sensation of the
national meet. The youngster, who
perfected his golf game on the Har-
lingen and Mercedes courses, devel-
oped into a first-flight golfer during
the last three years.
Mercedes First
Bale Is Ginned
The first bale of cotton raised on
the Mercedes tract was ginned Mon-
day morning by the Farmers Gin
Company, and was grown by Jo
Brown and Max Tavss northeast of
Mercedes. The bale weighed 450
pounds and graded strictly middling
with an inch and one-eighth staple.
It was bought by W. D. Chadick at
25 cents per pound, a premium over
the market of about 4 cents a pound.
The picking of this cotton was de-
layed several days by the flood.
Important Meeting
Of Valley C. Of C.
An important meeting of the Val-
ley Chamber of Commerce will be
held Friday July 7 at Harlingen. At
this meeting the matter of flood pro-
tection in the future will be taken
up and it is hoped that a large
representative gathering will attend
the meeting in order that the prop-
osition may be thoroughly consider-
ed.
RELIEF CANNERY AT
EDCOUCH IS WORKING
THREE 8-HOUR SHIFTS
The Edcouch relief cannery is now
operating three eight hour shifts of
ten workers due to the large amount
of ripe tomatoes brought into the
cannery during the past few days
for processing.
The cannery has made a record for
itself during the past week when it
turned out an average of 1459 cans
per day with Tuesday of this
week marking the biggest day in the
short life of the cannery when 2022
cans were processed. Last week
Thursday this record was equalled to
within one can when 2021 cans were
processed.
Tomatoes constitute the bulk of
the canning but a small quantity of
corn is still being handled.
Prospects that the cannery will
remain open for considerable time
were brightened when officials of
the relief board recently made a
ruling that the cannery could remain
open as long as there was sufficient
produce brought in to keep three
eight-hour shifts engaged during a
week.
The cannery is still under the
sponsorship of the Edcouch Cham-
ber of Commerce which collects a
cent per can from the grower to help
defray expenses which are not met
by the relief board.
—The Edcouch-Elsa Enterprise.
Kingsville—Dr. George Hester,
formerly head of the Department of
Government of Southwestern Uni-
versity, has been appointed Profes-
sor of Government in the Texas Col-,
lege of Arts and Industries of
Kingsville.
Dr. Hester was for a number of
years an outstanding member of the
Texas Legislature. He is now Eco-
nomic Advisor to the Federal Power
Commission in Washington, D. C. He
Progress from a bare yard to one
in which is showing an excellent
shrub and tree arrangement in a
years time has been made by Mrs.
Sam Tidwell a second year demon-
strator in the Southern Star Home
Demonstration Club who lives two
miles east and one mile north of
Weslaco, according to Mattie Wil-
roy county home demonstration a-
gent.
In the spring of 1934 Mrs. Tidwell
started her work by preparing the
soil and using most of the plants
grown from cuttings and native
plants and shrubs. Later the yard
was sodded and a rose garden set,
from roses that were scattered in
the yard. She now has a yard
planted by a plan which a screen
that hides the chicken yard as well
as makes needed shade for the poul-
try, a well sodded lawn in front and
back yard, a base planting around
the house, trees for shade and an
orderly rose garden. The trees us-
ed were retama, ebony, mesquite
and ash. During this time she has
set 224 shrubs’ and the athel hedge,
at a cost of 90 cents, a few of the
tender plants were killed in the
freeze and are being replaced. The
addition of a water system in the
home with pipes and' connection in
the yard so that the yard can be
conveniently watered has been the
latest improvement. She now plans
to plant a shade for the rose gar-
den and plants at the back of the
garden for a background and screen
as her next work.
tion 123; English 123; and Spanish
casting stations of the state to ad- 223. Second period; mathematics
dress the people on needs of public
economy and welfare.
The College Administration and
the Board of Directors feel most
fortunate in securing this addition
to the fast growing and splendid
faculty, already in service at this
institution.
Austin—It would be a glorious
Fourth of July' if no accidents oc-
curred to mar the joy of celebrating
our one hundred and fifty-ninth
anniversary of independence, de-
clared Dr. John W. Brown, State
Health Officer. It is most unfortun-
ate that a day of joy and celebration
leaves in its wake one of sadness
and sorrow in many homes.
It is not alone the wounds received
from explosives that increase our
death toll. Injuries from automobile
accidents, splinters, nails, and other
penetrating wounds in which dirt
may be carried into the skin,
heighten the hazard of tetanus, or
lockjaw as the disease is commonly
called.
Tetanus is fatal in a large propor-
tion of cases. Fortunately we have
tetanus antitoxin as a means of pre-
venting the disease. Antitoxin must
be administered promptly following
the accident. Treatment after the
disease develops is rarely success-
ful. Preventive measures include:
the avoidance of such wounds and
proper medical treatment.
A few don’ts for the 4th of July
celebration would not be amiss.
1. Don’t be careless in the hand-
ling of explosives.
2. Don’t look into firecrackers
which have failed to explode.
3. Don’t drive recklessly and at
excess speeds.
4. Don’t overdo in swimming,
especially in water of unknown
depth.
5. Last and most important: Don’t
fail to get prompt medical attention
if a wound is suffered.
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FHA PROGRAM-
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that work in the Mercedes program
may conform to the changes.
The Mercedes FHA committee is
composed of H. E. Hager, chairman,
and treasurer, Jake Fossler, H. L.
Scott, W. T. Scotten, and Stanley
McDonald.
Following the meeting with Mr.
Miles the committee will select a
man to make a survey of the Mer-
cedes community to determine the
needs for repair and modernization
of homes and business buildings and
to explain the Federal Housing pro-
gram under which loans may be
made for the financing of such build-
ing improvements.
1,073 FOREIGN LANGUAGE
PUBLICATIONS PRINTED
IN THE UNITED STATES
You may not know it, but there
are in this country 1073 publica-
tions printed in foreign languages,
139 dailies, 31 tri-weeklies, 35
semi-weeklies, 612 weeklies, 52
semi-monthlies, 188 monthlies, 12
quarterlies, 4 yearlies, 690 gener-
al, 123 fraternals, 130 religious,
10 agricultural, 24 trades, 32 edu-
cational, 12 women’s magazines, and
52 literary periodicals.
Of all of these the Germans lead
with 581 publications, the Italians
second with 390 publications and
the Czechs journals are third with
186. The Japanese have 57 publi-
cations in the United States, the
Hungarians 158 and the Swedes
have 126. There are 176 publi-
cations in the Spanish language.
Albanians are scarce in the U. S.
as witness that they have only 5
publications in this country, Syrians
23 and the Chinese have 30. The
Welshmen in America must content
themselves with only 3 journals in
Mercedes C. of C
Advertisers
McMurry Lumber Company, two
blocks east of Texas avenue on 2nd
street
Tolson Motor Company, “We
Know Our Fords.”
The Sanitary Meat Market. Now
under the sole ownership and man-
agement of J. J. (Jim) Busby.
The Hidalgo County Bank, Merce-
des, Texas. Oldest State Bank In
The Valley.
Cope’s Cleaners and Dyers—We
May Not Be The Cheapest But We
Are The Best.
Hidalgo Guarantee Abstract Com-
pany, Edinburg Texas. W. R. Mont-
gomery, Attorney-at-law, president
and manager.
Paul Emery, Produce Firm, op-
posite American Company office.
Mercedes Plumbing and Sheet
Metal Works.
Valley Abstract Company, Edin-
burg, Texas.
Drysdale—Hauls from all Valley
points to Corpus Christi and return.
Crawford and MacVean, Hidalgo
and Cameron County Distributors
for Hubmobile—Mercedes, Texas.
Mercedes Hotel—All Modern Con-
veniences.
Palace Barber Shop—We close
promptly at 10 p. m.
Borderland Hardware Company.
The First National Bank of Mer-
cedes, Texas—Now, as always, “The
Bank of Friendly Personal Service.”
Gause and Kirkpatrick, Attorneys-
At-Law.
Bennett and Anderson—Attorneys-
At-Law.
F. G. Moffett—Lawler.
Chas. B. Buck, M. D.—Physician
and Surgeon.
Dr. D. L. Heidrick—Physician and
Surgeon.
Dr. M. H. Chandler—Dentist.
Dr. C. M. Oliver—Dentist.
0. E. Van Berg—Engineer.
H. E. Bennett, C. E.—Irrigation
and Drainage Surveys and Maps.
J. R. Tobleman, auditor and public
accountant, Pharr, Texas.
H. T. Stotler & Co., Funeral Direc-
tors and Embalmers.
N. P. Barton—Insurance, Merce-
des, Texas.
Harrell Drug Company, Mercedes,
Texas.
The John B. Ragland Mercantile
Company, McAllen, Texas.
Hicks Rubber Co.
Dr. J. W. Chambers
DENTIST
Central Office Building
Phone 71 Mercedes, Texas
Mercedes Nels-Tribune
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