The Mexia Weekly Herald (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, March 15, 1940 Page: 2 of 8
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Adam I!. John i>n, d'uictoi' <>f
I In Si.a,' 1> i . 11mi-1it iif Public
Welfare, who has the responsi-
bility lor the selection of boys
for the Civilian Conservation
Corns, has been advised that ap-
proximately 4,000 boys will be
needed in April to bring existing
it camps to full strength, it was
announce.d here Monday;
"BoyB who wish to be selected
for the CCCmuat be of good char-
acter, at least 17 years old and
not more than 23 years si*
months, and not have already
served more than 18 months since
July 1987," explained Johnson,
[ "for we desire only the best boys
f as members."
' Applications should be made to
I ! the various County Welfare Of-
£ fices as quickly as possible so
when final county quotas are an-
nour ced those eligible may be
• sent to enrolling points. At pre-
sent there are over 16,000 Tex-
ans in CCC camps, 10,000 in Tex-
as and (1,000 in Arizona, Color-
ado, New York, and Wyoming—
R over $300,000.00 per month be-
ing returned to the families of
thest; boys.
|j "Members of the CCC cannot
be automatically transferred to
the Army," commented Johnson,
"as they are considered in all
respects civilian employees of the
Government. Were they at home,
at work on the farm, or in
stores or banks, they would be no
j sifcr from army service than they
are as members of the Corps.
Mr. Roosevelt lias plainly and
clearly staled he wll not allow
the militarV. • don of the CCC and
; has gone so IV r r.s to place the
I ramp conwvndevrf on a civilian
basis.
"Texas boys will find the CCC
experience one. of the most bene-
ficial of their lives, where the
best care, food and attention is
theirs, while they are able to as-
sist their families with the al-
lotments," added Johnson.
Band Plays
At Marlin
Mexia Black Cat band played
a concert Friday afternoon in the
new Marlin auditorium before
an assembled gathering of the en
tire school system of the central
Texas town.
> Seventy-five members of the
band made the trip in private
cars, arriving in Marlin at 11
o'clock.
Arrangements played were "On
Parade"; Niobe"; "Festival"; "Az-
i\loa", arranged by Elaine Blair;
"Westward Ho!", "Stormy Wea-
ther," and "Pavanne."
Jnrvis Robei'son played a bass
solo, and thj cornet trio presented
"The Three Trumpeters."
Following the concert, the Mar-
lin band served sandwiches and
drinks in the band hall.
Dr. Davidson
Back at league
TEAGUE, Tex.' March 12. (Spl.)
—Dr. J. D. Davidson, prominent
physician and surgeon of Teague.
was brought back to hi^ home in
Taague. Sunday, afternoon. Dr.
Davidson had spent two weeks in
the Methodist Hospital in Dallas,
where he underwent examinations
and an exploratory operation
■which disclosed he was suffering
from a brain tumor.
While no hope for recovery was
given the Teague doctor, he is at
present doing as well as could be
expected. His entire family has
been at his bedside since he be-
came desperately ill.
Stroud Rites
at Groesbeck
GROESBECK, T*xa*, March 9,
(Spl)—Funeral services were held
here Saturday morning at San-
ders Funeral Home for Mrs.
Annie Stroud, conducted by Rev.
Peter DeYoung, Baptist pastor as-
sisted by Rev. J. N. Browning,
Methodist Pastor, with interment
in Faulkenberry cemetery. Mrs.
Stroud died Friday.
Mrs. Stroud was born at Old
Springfield in Limestone county,
on March 27, 1871, and would
have been 60 years of age on the
27th of this month. She was the
widow of the late Tandy Stroud,
a big land owner, who died in
1008. Her maiden name was
House, being a sister of the late
Joe House, newspaper publisher.
She is survived by a son, Bil-
ly Stroud and a daughter, Mrs.
Frances Pierce, and two grand-
children; - brother, J. B. House
of Dallas, and a sister, Mrs. J.
D. Rankin of Groesbeck. Mrs. L.
L. Brown and Miss Grace Mc-
Cummon, a teacher in the Groes-
beck school, are her neices.
Pall bearers were: A. R. Hen-
derson, Louis Jackson, Alford
Wolverton, Max Scharff, Sidney
Strother, W. A. Browder, R. L.
Mills, Jr., of Houston and Tandy
Kennedy.
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Mrs. Fred Henderson and Mrs.
W. L. Sewetl and son, Lariy.
were visitors to Dallas Trie-day.
Mr. and Mrs. frank Flamming
of Dallas spent Sunday in Mexia.
Miss Evelyne Hollingsworth,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. B.
Hollingsworth spent the week end
With her parents. Miss Hollings-
worth tcaches at Olmito, Tex-
Bluestem Grass
Value Shown on
Kerens Farm
CORSICANA, Texas, March 8,
(Spl)—The value of little blue-
stem grass both from an erosion
control standpoint and as s hay
crop is well demonstrated on the
Andrew Talley farm two and one-
half miles west of Kerens, Tex-
as, soil conservation leaders here
said today.
In March 1937, Mr. Talley
planted 100 pounds of little blue-
stem seed, commonly called prai-
rie grass and sage grass, on an
eight acre block of land that he
retired from cultivation. Before
planting, the land had been bro-
ken with a turning plow and the
rows lined off about 18 inches
apart. A planter with a corn
hole plate was used to plant the
seed and only Vi to Ij feet of dirt
covered them.
Mr. Talley emphasized ihe fact
that good land preparation be-
fore seeding is very essential in
order to get a stand of the young
grass seedlings. "Even though 1
had my land broken early and
thought it was clean, to my sor-
row I found that when the seed
began to come up the weeds came
too, and as a result only half of
I a stand survived out of the first
years seeding," Mr. Talley said.
"Determined to have meadow,
I sowed another 100 pounds on
the same area in March 1038.
This time the seed were broad-
cast over the ground and a sec-
tion harrow run over them to
•over the feed."
"Kach year since seeding I
have mowed the weeds early in
the spring so the meadow grass
would have a better chance to
grow, make seed and spread. La-
ter in the fall after the grass
made seed 1 cut the hay let it
fall to the ground and run a sec-
linn harrow over the ground to
spread the seed. Today I have a
tine meadow and expect to har-
vest a good crop of hay this
year."
Farmers throughout this sec-
tion of the county and other coun-
ties are realizing the value, of
this meadow grass us a means of
conserving soil and a valuable
crop for hay. A number of far-
meu have found that strips of lit-
tle bluestem grass may be used
satisfactorily in lieu of terraces,
where the land is not too steep
and badly eroded and where the
grass is adapted to the soil.
Besides, having established this
eight-acre meadow, Mr. T alley-
has adapted a complete soil and
water conservation program on
his farm with the aid of the tech-
nicians of thri S. C. S. at Corsi-
cana.
J. F. Robinson
Dies Friday
iMiuinnuu, wnu uieu ut-ii
4:30 p. m., were held Si
terr.oon at 2 p. in, from
Funeral services for John F.
Robinson, who died here Friday at
Saturday af-
•om the Corley
funeral home. Mr. Robinson was
82.
The Rev. Ike Sidebottom of Fort
Worth conducted the services. In-
terment was in the local comctery.
Mr. Robinson had been a resi-
dent of Mexia for over 40 years.
He came to Texas from Alabama.
Surviving are six ions, O. L.
Robinson, L. P. Robinson and J. Z.
Robinson, Mexia; R. S. Robinson,
Ben Arnold; J. W. Robinson, Dal-
las; and S. W. Robinson, Port Ar-
thur. a brother, Tom Robinson,
Mexia, and a «ister, Mrs. J. T.
Robinson, Minden, La.
The six sons and two grandsons,
Maurice and Frank Robinson, were
pallbearers.
J. D. Fosters
Father Dies
WEEKLY HERALD
FRIDAY, MAtCl! IS,
Doughboys to
Play in Mexia >
on April 18
W. M. Eubanks, Jr., chairman
oi the Bi-Stone Livestock Expo-
sition, said Satulday t> Park-
e Wilson and the Lightcrust
Doughboys, radio entertainers
from Fort Worth, would be in
Mexia Thursday, April 18, for
the parade which will open the
second annual livestock show
here.
The Doughbcys will play their
regular 12:30 noon program over
"the Texas Quality network from
Mexia, and will advertise the
livestock show on the program,
inviting .>eople of the State to
attend the show.
The musical organization will
head the parade through the down
town streets at 2 p. m., and will
play at the show grounds Thurs-
day afternoon and night.
The largest crowd of the show
was here last spirng when the
Doughboys presented a night
program.
Plans were underway Satur-
day to make the livestock show
parade the biggest in Mexia's his-
tory. Ray Bachus and J. T. Hut-
to arc heading the parade com-
mittee.
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Visit Our Big
9C SALE
Hundreds of money savin*? items are
now on sale . . . Sale will last through
March 16th.... We invite you to visit this
vSale.
j. I. Riddle & Co.
-Hardware Dept.-
Edwards Tells
of Stewardship
of Personality
In speaking on the subject of
"The Stewardship of Personality"
at the First Methodist church
services Sunday morning, the Rev.
R. C. Edwards said "in the use
of the term 'personality' we
have in mind all of the physical
and physic attributes of a hu-
man being. All of the qualities
of mind and body are sacred ill-
vestments bequeathed to the in-
dividual by a beneficent God.
"In an etymological study of
the term 'stewardship,'" he con-
tinued, "we find that its Eng-
lish form goes back to the An
hlo-Saxon word 'stigweard' which
is itself a derivative of two
words, 'stig' a cattle pen or sheep
fold. ,and 'wep.rd' a guard, or
shepherd. In the T.eiin it is syn-
onymous with 'procurator' or gov-
ernor, such a position as was
occupied by Pontius Pilate during
th" latter days of Jesus. In lie-
brow the word 'snr,' commonly
rendered 'prince* in our English
Bible, means a steward.
'The Hebrew poets of the Old
Testament period, who wrote
long before the dawn of the
Anglo-Saxon period, conceived of
stewardship in almost identical
terms. The shepherd's psalm is
itself a tribute to this exalted
idea. Jefcus of Nazareth whose
philosophy was saturated with the
teachings of the Old Testament
looked upon his own mission '1
terms of a great shepherd who
gives his life for his sheep.
"Then the stewardship of per-
se nality means that we are the
guardian of all the powers of
mind an1 body. He who fails to
govern and direct these, or fails
to be the captain of himself,
fails in this important steward-
ship, In response to the interro-
gation '.why such a line of reason-
ing?' the answer oomex back, it
is easy to substitute heat for
thought and noise for power in
the pulpit.
"John declared of himself, 'I
sm the voice of one crying in
the wilderness.' Of Jesus John, the
evangelist, says 'in the beginning
was the word.' These conceived
of stewardship in terms of echo-
ing back the will and purpose of
God the Father."
W. N. Foster, father of J. D.
Foster, Mexia high school prin-
cipal, died early Monday morning
at his home in China Springs,
McLennan county, it was learned
in Mexia. Mr. .and Mrs. Foster and
son, Joe Drahn, Jr., left for China
Springs Monday morning.
Funeral services were held at
2:30 o'clock Tuesday from the
family residence at China Springs.
Mr. Foster was a prominent
farmer and landowner in the Chi-
na Springs community. He was
around 70 years of age.
His wife and six sons survi.ve.
A number of Mexia faculty
members plan to attend funeral
| services, it was announced.
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Brother Trio,
2 Blind Farm
Successfully
SHAWNEE, Okla., (U.R)—One
pair of eyes serves the thfee
Smith brothers, successful farmers
who live near Shawnee, Okla.
Larry, 55, can see. He aids his
brothers, Plus, 50, and Claude, 57,
both of whom have been blind
since birth.
The blind men do routine farm
chores, even saw and chop wood.
They milk the cows, gather eggs,
wash' dishes, build fires, water
stock and sometimes, even cook
meals.
The three brothers make a good
living on their 70-acre farm.
They live in a five-room bunga-
low. They own glass-fronted chi-
cken houses and two large cattle
barns.
Besides the 70 acres they own,
Larry owns 40 acres more, and
all three rent another 80-acre
tract which they farm.
The Smiths came to this ter-
ritory July 4, 1805, before Okla-
homa was a state, and homestead-
ed on their land northwest of
Shawnee. They have lived there
ever since, without a mortgage or
delinquency in taxes against their
property.
Larry recalls that the brothers,
and their father, used to raise a
large cotton crop each year. Plus
and Claude would be directed at
the start of the cotton rows, and
they then would pick the field,
Ti en Larry and the father would
follow, gathering the bolls the
blind brothers had missed.
"You'd be surprised how clean
they picked their rows," said Lar-
ry.
DENTON, Tex., March 0, (U.R)
—The board of governors of the
Texas farm chemurgic conference
announced tonight that castor bean
and sweet potato programs
would be discussed at the spring
meeting at East Texas Texas col-
lege April 26-27.
Mrs, Carlton Chilcoat, Mrs. Rus-
sel Trantham, Mrs. Reuben McGee,
Mrs. CJement Pye, and Mrs. Vir-
gil Thomas spent Frida# u Waco.
Exports of Cotton
over 5,600,01)0
Bales This Season
Seasonal exports of American
cotton crossed the 5,000,000-bale
mark today for the first time
since April, 1937.
Shipments ibroad since the be-
ginning of the current cotton sea-
son, Aug. I, reached 5,023,363
bales, 2,2!)7,0.rj7 more than during
the same period last season.
The European war and its at-
tendant demand for increased cot-
toi products together with the
United States Government's ex-
port subsidy program which went
in to effect last July were princi-
pal factors behind the better for-
eign demand for American
growths.,
The subsidy program was sus-
pended Jan. 20 because of exhaus-
tion of funds, but the total of
cotton and cotton products con-
tracted for shipment abroad under
the proposal was 6,214,000 bales.
Shipments totaled only 3,622,742
bales during the whole of last
season.
Figures of tho New Orleans
Cotton Exchange showed that the
United States exported 738,666
bales during February, an in-
crease of 450,244 over the same
month last year.
Miss Wanda Stewart and Miss
Joline Stewart of Henderson
spent the week end in Mexia visit-
ing Miss Merle Marsh.
Aged Merchant
Dies at 83
A. M. Stevens, Mexia merchant
for the past 40 years, was claimed
by death Saturday afternoon at
1:35 p. m. at a local hospital. Mr.
Stevens was 83.
Funeral services were held
•Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock
from the family residence, 508
East Hopkins Street, with the Rev.
R. C. Edwards, pastor of the First
Methodist church, and the Rev. R.
0. Sory, presiding elder of the
Corsicana district, officiating. In-
terment was in the city ceme-
tery with Corley company in
charge of funeral arrangements.
Mr. Stevens had been in failing
health for the past several months
and had been seriously ill for the
past two weeks.
He was a charter member of the
1. O. O. F. No. 48, Mexia.
He had been a member of the
Masonic Lodge for the past 60
years, was a member of the Sign-
er and a Knight Templar.
Members of the Masonic Lvdgc
were in charge at the cemetery,
and the board of trustee! of the
First Methodist church were
honorary pallbearers. He had Seen
a member of the First Methodist
church's board of steward* and
trustees for many years.
Mr. Stevens was born Sept. 6,
1856 in Wartrace, Tenn. He moved
with his family when a young man
to North Carolina and later came
to Texas.
Survivors are three sons, Ernest
Stevens, Sacramento, Calif.; Hor-
ace B. Stevens, Abilene; and Keily
H. Stevens, Baton Rouge, La.;
Mrs. George Peyton, Mexia; Miss
Anne Stevens, Mexia; Mrs. Lamar
Campbell, Greggton, and Miss
Alice Stevens, Austin.
Mrs. Stevens* preceded her hus-
band in death in 1935.
Active pallbearers were Will
Peyton, G. Edward Carter, Leon-
ard Tidwell, Dr. E. H. Hinchliffe,
M. W. Anderson, John H. Sweatt,
Wyatt Hayter, W. H. Cook, Her-
bert Newberry, J. W. Mackey and
Joe Stubenrauch.
0'D Wants More
Dairy Plants
COLLEGE STATION, Tex.,
March S, (U.R)—Gov. W. Lee O'-
Daniel told the Texas Dairy Pro-
ducts Association Thursday t^at
he believed more dairy processing
plants would be established in
Texas as soon as producers could
supply them with sufficient quan-
tities of raw milk.
O'Daniel said that if the dairy
industry is developed to its ful-
lest extent in Texas "the state
could get along on that industry
alone even if it lost all its other
agriculture income."
Double Wedding
Ceremony Held
Here Saturday
A double wedding ceremony
was held Saturday evening at the
parsonage of the Calvary Bap-
tist church with the Rev, V. A.
Geeo officiating
Miss Clara Brown, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. B. R. Brown be-
came the bride of Mr, Clifford
W. Carroll, son of Mr, and Mrs,
H I, Carroll. Mr. and Mrs. Car-
roll will make their home at 300
South Sheman stieet.
Miss Annie Mae Beene, daugh-
ter of Mr. Charlie Beene of
Freestone, became the bride of
Mr. Jesse Monroe Richards, son
of Mr. J. R. Richards of Corsi-
cana. Mr. and Mrs. Richards will
also make their tnme in Mexia.
Mr. Richards and Mr Carroll
are both employes of the Mexia
Textile Mills,
Miss Louise Blunt, student of
Sam Houston State Teachers
t illege, Huntsvilfe, spent the week
end with her parents.
Miss Ida Mae Copeland spent
Sunday in Corsicana.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Archer of
Franklin spent the week end ih
Mexia.
Bring Your
Cleaning and
Pressing
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Wfi will appreciate your business very much
and will give you the best of work at the lowest
possible prices.
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PHONE 12
EAST MAIN STREET
Royal Visitor Crosses Equatpr
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| Penguin Brought
to U. S. Zoo hy
Mexia Couple
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Liddel, who
make their home • in Mexia, re-
turned from South America to
New York recently with an em-
pra penguin, "brought back from
tho South Pole.by Admiral Rich-
aid E. Byrd and said to be th«
only one in existent a, Mrs. Lid-
del said Monday.
The penguin will be placed in
the Washington zoo-
Mr. Liddcl remained in New
York City, and Mrs. Liddel re-
turned to Mexia last week after
she an her husband had visited in
Guayaquil, Ecuador.
Mrs. Lidel said the penguin
had an orang# broast, unlike th«
more common white-breasted ones,
and had fowl-like toes instead
of web feet.
Mr. Liddcl is connected with
the City National Bank and Trust
of Chicago, nnd went to Ecua-
dor to examine concessions for oil.
Looking chesty over his feat is the first Emperor penguin ever to
cross the Equator alive, pictured arriving in New York from Little
America. He'll live in the National Zoo, Washington.
South to Quit
Cotton Business,
Says Speaker
By SAM B. WERNER
B. B. Hulsey, of Terrell, a mem-
ber of the state-wide cotton club
and a director in the East Texas
Chamber of Commerce, was guest
speaker at the weekly Lions club
luncheon Tuesday.
Hulsey, who is operating a cot-
ton oil mill in Terrell, in a classi-
fication talk on that industry, pre-
dicted the south as going' out of
the cotton business, ultimately be-
ing in it only on a domestic plan
strictly.
"We are facing a serious situa-
tion in the cotton business, and in
my opinion the problem is far
from being solved,' he said.
Statistics were presented by the
speaker, who said the cotton oil
milling industry is identified and
tied in with the cotton business.
"This is a comparitively new in-
dustry," he said. Pointing to price
levels, he said that cotton seed
have more nearly maintained pri-
ces than any other farm product.
"The cotton seed crop is a fifty
million dollar industry," he said
in dividing the industry into four
parts, namely, oil, meal and cake
huiis and linters. These four pro-
ducts, he said, come out of the
cotton seed.
Bi-pioducts of cotton including
salad oils, rayons, and the various
Dupont products, were named. Out
of a ton of seerl, he pointed out
that there was only about 100
manufacture loss.
Although lamenting the possible
or ultimate fate of the cotton in-
dustry .in the south, the speaker
held high hopes for the livestock
industry in this section of the
country, stating that favorable
climate, sol, and pasturage to be
be found here means that a bright
future lies ahead for this indus-
try.
Hulsey was introduced by C. A.
Chambers, manager of the local
oil mill.
Chambers also presented the
Mexia High School Choral Club,
composed of twenty-five voices,
directed by Miss Ruth Seale, and
aeeompaned by Mss Elise Gibson.
Several numbers, including a sex-
tette were offered.
President G. E. (Jimmie) Blair
announced the meeting with Groes-
beck Lions club next Wednesday
at noon as taking tho place of the
Tuesday meeting in Mexia, and
L. D. Wright, Jr., student of
Baylor, spent the week end in
Mexia.
L. D. Holmes, Jr., student of
Texas A. and M., spent the week
end in Mexia.
Mr. Tom Eubanks of Groesbeck
spent Sunday in Mexia.
John. L. Bates, Jr., student of
Baylor, spent the week end in
Mexia.
^liss Virginia Hardin, and Mist
Ruth Seal spent the week end in
Dftllns visiting in the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Bishop Pitts.
Mis. Don Caldwell spent Sat-
urday in Waco.
Julian Brown, student in th*
University of Texas, spent, the
week end with friends in Mexia.
agreement was made for local
Lions to meet in front of Majestit
hotel at 11:30 o'clock on that dat#
and go in a body to the Groesbeck
meeting.
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