Claude News (Claude, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, January 12, 1934 Page: 8 of 12
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CO-EDS HELP SCHOLARSHIP FUND
The hundreds of teachers and others
Who patronized the cafeteria at the Uni-
versity of Texas during the Texas State
Teachers' Association November 30, De-
cember 1 and 2 did not know that a num-
ber of the young women who waited
upon them were co-eds, members of the
Austin Home Economics club. They
essayed the role of waitress to help their
scholarship fund. Their earnings were
donated to the fund.
DOES NOT MOVE OFTEN
In 1876 F. E. Clayton, now 79, drove
a herd of cattle from East Texas to a
point seven miles northwest of where
Talpa. Texas, now stands. He liked the
country and located a ranch, upon which
be has lived 57 years. Today he has
more than 500 acres of the land he once
grazed cattle over under cultivation.
Air. Clayton helped organize Runnels
county and was a member of the first
jury to serve in the county court.
CHRISTMAS CARD IS MYSTERY
Postmaster Clint McKellar at Mem-
phis, Tenn., received a Christmas card
Nov. 28 that was mailed from Wolfe
City, Texas, Dec. 22, 1905. He was at
a loss to understand why it should be
sent to his office as it was addressed
to "Miss Helen Woodswall, 1111 Wood
St., Colorado Springs, Colo." Postof-
fice markings indicated the card had
been received at Colorado Springs two
days after it had been mailed at Wolfe
City.
OLD SPINNING WHEEL
Dick Wiley, banker at Wellington, has
just received from his mother in Ten-
nessee a spinning wheel more than 100
years old, which was used bv his an-
cestors shortly after the Revolutionary
war. The wheel, approximately five
feet in diameter, has been handed down
from generation to generation in the
family for more tha 140 years. It was
made by hand from Tennessee hickory
and maple, and was used during the
Civil War to spin clothes for members
of the family.
TEXAS PECANS SENT TO
PALESTINE
San Saba pecans are to be grown in
Palestine. A consignment of the
choicest Risien variety were sent to the
Holy Land the latter part of November
by E. E. and E. Guy Risien, owners of
a nursery at San Saba. Request for the
nuts came from W. E. Whitehouse,
horticulturist of the United States De-
partment of Agriculture. The Risien
pecans are now grown successfully in
Australia, South America and England.
E. E. Risien, senior member of the
firm, is said to have more improved
varieties of pecans to his credit than any
other grower. He began pecan growing
at his orchards near San Saba almost
50 years ago.
STUDENTS FROM 28 STATES
ATTEND U. OF T.
Twenty-eight States and eight foreign
countries are represented on the roster
of the University of Texas: this year.
Last year there were students from 59
States. The decrease is attributed to
the increased fees for out-of-State stu-
dents. Last year there were 447 stu-
dents from other States, with only 183
for 1933. Two new States are repre-
sented this year, Tennessee with five
and Nevada with one. Wyoming is the
only State with ari increased enrollment,
this year it being four as against two in
1932. The foreign countries repre-
sented are Mexico, increased from 26 to
27; Puerto Rice with two; and one each
from Canada, China, Panama, Peru,
Philippine Islands and Cuba.
MINATURE SKELETON FOUND
A minature skeleton found several
weeks ago on the Joe Wilson ranch
northwest of Wellington by A. B. Smith,
county surveyor, is believed to be a
possible link between the Colorado cave
dwellers and the pre-historic inhabi-
tants of Texas. The skeleton was found
in the side of a bank which had been
moved by erosion. The teeth lead to
the belief that the skeleton was that of
a man about 60 and the body is judged to
have been about 36 inches in height.
The skeleton was buried facing the
GUN MADE FROM AUTO PARTS
Earl W. Pedigo of Dalhart has a 410-
gauge gun he made from auto and
truck parts. It shoots standard 410-
gauge shells and apparently performs
as efficiently as any regularly manu-
factured weapon. From a steering
column Mr. Pedigo made the barrel, the
bolt is a kingpin, the front sight is from
p magneto post, the firing pin is the
throttle guard. The trigger is part of
a frame and the trigger guard was made
from a body brace. An axle ball bear-
ing and parts of a .battery are other
portions that make up the gun.
SHOULD HAVE HEALTH
CERTIFICATE
The food inspectors of the State De-
partment of Health have investigated
the home-shelling of pecans for hire and
report that many homes where this
work is done are most unsanitary. All
pe'/sons engaged in shelling pecans
should have a health certificate, the
same as any other food handler, says
Mr. Korth, director of the bureau of
food and drugs. The purchaser should
demand that the pecans they buy shall
have been shelled by such a person and
handled in a sanitary manner, and under
supervision to lessen the chances for the
spread of tuberculosis, colds, dysentery,
typhoid and other diseases.
BOGUS MONEY CIRCULATED
Federal officials are working in con-
junction with Bonharp officers in an ef-
fort to locate the source of a flood of
bogus dimes in circulation in that sec-
tion. They think the spurious coins
were minted in a large city and sent
there for circulation. Not long ago a
$1 bill with a naught pasted beside the
1 was changed by a Bonham merchant
for $10.
A COUNTY AGENT SPEARS HIS
MIND
County Agent Jolly of Dallas county
believes the farmer should work less
and play more. At one of his recent
meetings with farmers he said:
"Once there was a time when pioneers
worked from daylight to dark clearing
land and cultivating their farms. They
usually made slaves of their children,
too, and many of them killed off sev-
eral wives with overwork.
•T see nothing glorious about such
pioneer. Greed drove them to continued
work without recreation. Some of us
can still remember when we got up at 4
a. m. and prided ourselves on being in
the field waiting for enough light to
work. Some farmers still do this.
"But it is drudgery of the worst kind.
Some farmers still think it is a disgrace
for a farmer to go fishing during the
week or make a week's trip to the sea-
shore during the summertime.
"We have to get away from this idea.
Overwork has had much to do with sur-
pluses in all kinds of farm products."
SEES QUICK MILITARY ACTION
Maj. Gen. Johnson Hagood, commander
of the Eighth Corps area at San An-
tonio, says an army of recruits could be
thrown into the field against an enemy
after a training period of only 10 days
under modern methods of warfare. He
contends a recruit can be sufficiently
trained in that 10-day period, adding:
"We know that almost every boy in
America is taught to march in ranks
and can do so quite well enough for all
practical purposes in time of war. His
schools and his athletics teach him the
fundamentals of discipline. He under-
stands military hygiene, a smattering of
electricity, radio and telephone. He is
an amateur mechanic. The ordinary
high school cadet is much better train-
ed as a soldier than the average of those
who fought in the wars of America
during its first 100 years of history.
Based upon this substantial foundation,
the average young American can learn
the remaining essentials of the military
profession within the first 10 days af-
ter his induction into the military serv-
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THREE GENERATIONS WORK IN
FLOWER GARDEN
Three generations are working in the
commercial flower garden of the Kaden
family at Gainesville. They are Her-
man Kaden, his three sons and several
of his grandsons. The elder Kaden also
is a merchant in Gainesville. Sunday,
November 25, he celebrated his fiftieth
anniversary as a business man in that
city. Mr. Kaden is a native of Ger-
many. where he was apprenticed to
Dresden and Lucerne floral shops for
several years. He came to America in
1881. settling in Gainesville in 1883.
For 10 years he devoted his 8-acre tract
to vegetables and flowers, and 40 years
ago engaged exclusively in the floral
business.
A KNOTTY BRIDGE QUESTION
The perplexing question—is one end
of a bridge worth more than the other
end?—was raised at El Paso when the
commissioners' court attempted to ad-
just taxes on a toll bridge, only two-
fifths of which rests on American soil.
On the theory that most of the bridge
is on foreign soil and thus outside thr
jurisdiction of the taxing officials, the
owner protested valuation on its entire
cost. It was pointed out that the tolls
were collected at the north end of the
bridge, so that most of the bridge's
value rested at that end. But the owner
objected, asking: "How much would
the north end be worth without the
•south end?" The point was seen by the
commissioners, who lowered their orig-
inal valuation.
WOULD COMPLETE HIGHWAYS
"Texas ranks thirty-ninth among the
States in proportion of improved high-
ways," W .0. Huggins, president of the
Texas Good Roads Association, declares,
"yet as a frontier State her future is
largely dependent upon them. In spite
of changing policies and many draw-
backs, the Highway Department has
made good progress. Texas has 11
trunk roads which total more than 6,000
miles in length, and in the last four
years 2,800 miles of them have been im-
proved, in addition to what had been
completed before. Today some 500 ad-
ditional miles are under contract, with
more being let almost every week.
"Half of Texas' $24,250,000 Federal
highway program is under way, with
$13,000,000 in projects approved, with
work for 16,500 men involved."
COTTON FARMERS LESS IN DEBT
Old debts and back taxes are listed
as the two chief ways in which the
$42,000,000 plow-up money was spent by
Texas farmers, although much of it
went into necessities. Business in many
towns is reported decidedly improved as
a result of these checks.
Many farmers report that the cotton
program has put them in the best
financial position since 1928 and 1929.
County agents cite cases where part
and sometimes all of the government
checks have been left as a net deposit
in the bank. Several bankers declare
that debts seven or eight years old have
been paid in full.
Payment of over-due land notes is re-
ported in many places, and there are
some instances of the remittances being
used as a down payment on land.
It is a fair summary of county agent
reports on the subject to state that
there is little evidence of foolish ex-
penditures, that the chief use of the
plow-up money has been in liquidating
debts, and that while there may not be
much money on most farms this
winter, the farmer's credit standing has
been greatly improved and his morale
lifted.
POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS
C. A. Jay, executive secretary of a
Dallas taxpayers' league says there are
8,466 political subdivisions in Texas
which have the right to pledge the tax-
payers' credit. The list includes 264
counties, 529 cities and towns, 1,137 in-
dependent school districts, 83 rural
high schools, 494 road districts, 16 wa-
ter control districts, 42 water improve-
ment districts, seven water supply dis-
tricts, 66 levee districts, 68 drainage
districts and other kinds of districts.
The debt of these subdivisions is equal
to one-fourth the value of the real
property of the State.
FAIR WARNING
Amos Bescom of Floresville believes
in adtertising, even to the point of
warning a chicken thief who had made
several visits to his hen house. Recent-
ly he inserted the following advertise-
ment in his home-town paper, the
Floresville Chronicle:
"Anybody found around my chicken
houses at night will be found there
next morning."
Evidently the thief read the adver-
tisement and took the hint, for Mr.
Bescom's chickens still roost unmolest-
ed.
INVENTS UNIQUE BUZZARD TRAP
L. E. Sumner, who liras eight miles
northwest of Hamilton, constructed a
unique trap in which he caught 79 lamb-
destroying buzzards. Dr. S. W. Bohls
of the State Health Laboratories, at
Austin, visited the ranch and secured
blood smears from the buzzards killed
and samples of the ticks and lice the
vultures carried in order to determine,
if possible, whether they carry any
germs that might produce sleeping sick-
ness, also known as 6-day fever or re-
lasping fever.
CONSCIENCE HURT HIM
Several years ago a >^>uth stole some
oil and gasoline from Bexar bounty.
Later he was converted and became an
evangelist. Recently the Bexar county
treasurer received a letter from the
divine in which he confessed the theft
and enclosed a $1 bill as part payment,
adding:
"I was a young boy then. If you feel
inclined to form a case against me, I am
willing to serve my time in jail and stop
my ministry. Enclosed find §1 as first
payment on my fine and the oil I stole.
It is all I can spare at present."
Bexar county officials have decided
not to prosecute.
TEXAS RAILROAD FINANCES
The first nine months of this year the
operating incomes of Texas railroads
dropped $5,178,051 from the amount ta-
ken in during the comparable period of
1932. according to a report of the Tex-
as Railroad Commission. For the period
the income was $80,480,906 from all
sources, as against $85,658,957 for the
first nine months of 1932.
The greatest percentage loss Mas in
revenue from passenger traffic, which
declined 23.59 per cent from the previ-
ous period. By decreasing operating
costs the railroads kept their net reve-
nue from operations on the credit side
of the ledger, with an increase of $744,-
071 in net revenue from operations.
The net operating income, including
rents added after payment of taxes on the
comparable periods showed an increase
of 83.50 per cent for 1933 over 1932.
with a total of $3,010,501 for the period
as compared with $1,640,632 a year ago.
OL1) STYLES RECALLED
Probably the oldest stock of mer-
chandise in the State was offered for
sale at San Saba when the J. M.
Carter estate store was re-opened
after having been closed for about 16
years. Mr. Carter, who died about a
year ago, had been in business for 45
years. It was his habit to buy bank-
rupt stocks. Some of the articles in
the Carter store harked back to styles
and fashions of a generation and more
ago. Among them were brass-toed
shoes for small children, red-topped
cowboy boots, bustles for women, cor-
sets with an 18-inch span, watch keys,
hoop skirts, coffee mills of the lap-
grinding model, buggy whips and cof-
fins.
TAXES BEING PAID
Apparently what appeared for a time
to be a strike on the part of many tax-
payers in practically all parts of the
State to pay their taxes has been brok-
en. This fact is evidenced by the al-
most unprecedented amounts of de-
linquent taxes that are now being paid
into the public coffers of the political
subdivisions. In some instances the
unusually heavy payments of past due
taxes are the result of organized cam-
paigns on the part of the collection au-
thorities to force all who are able to do
so to remit.
It is anticipated by persons who are
in close touch with the fiscal affairs of
the different counties of the State that
not only will there be collected a much
larger sum of~State and county delin-
quent taxes this year than in several
previous years, but the total amount of
current ad valorem taxes to be paid be-
tween now and February 1. 1934, prob-
ably will surpass that of any year since
the depression set in. It is indicated
that the sum which will be lost to the
State by reason of the homestead ex-
emption act will be much more than
made up by the increase in the total of
current collections.
One of the causes for this satisfactory
turn in the condition of the fiscal affairs
of the State and its political subdivis-
ions is that cotton farmers are in pos-
session of more cash than they have had
for several years. They are using at
least a part of the money that they have
derived from their plow-up cotton acre-
age and options to pay delinquent and
current taxes and to meet other press-
ing obligations.
The fiscal situation of the whole com-
mends itself to the holder of bonds and
warrants, especially of county and
school district bonds.
BOOST FOR COTTON
Mrs. Edgar T. Neal, who once owned
and published a newspaper in Texas,
home time ago advanced a plan to in-
crease the popularity of cotton. She
created designs to trade mark, desig-
nate and better advertise the fleecy
staple which have grown in favor since
she announced them in May, prior to
National Cotton Week. The writer
pays tribute to cotton in the following
language:
"The cotton plant, which grows so
luxuriantly and covers fields of such
broad expense throughout the South-
land and in normal times creutes the
greatest money crop in the United
States, is artistic to an indescribable
degree, and its beauties have yet to be
extensively exploited in textile prints
and weaves."
One practical demonstration of Mrs.
Neal's idea is a delicately woven scarf,
employing the green of the cotton
leaves, brown of the stalks and the
delicate pastel shades of the blossom
during its stages of growth and unfold-
nient, produced by Texas Technological
College at Lubbock. The design was
worked out by Miss Edna Mae Hough-
ton, head of the architectual designing
department of the college. Following
the design, Carl D. Brandt, head, and
M. E. Heard of the textile engineering
department, produced the scarf on the
weaving machines at the college plant.
Mrs. Neal has prepared drawings of
a complete cotton costume. The burr,
with open boll, and the brown stalk are
incorporated in the design of the dress,
with a corsage of an open cotton boll.
In addition to clothing, the cotton design
may be used to advantage in the manu-
facture of draperies, laces and all cot-
ton cloth. This idea was advanced bv
Mrs. Neal coincident with the wide
spread demand upon the part of citizens
of the cotton growing States for a
greater use of cotton and for the re-
turn to previous popularity of the cot-
ton gown.
Tarrant County Pioneering in the Seventies
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together at some large farm house and
have a dance. Sometimes we wouldn't
have but one fiddler, but the caller fill-
ed in the gap with his intonations and
witty sayings as we went through the
square dances. Men and women, wilh
their children bedded down in the back
of a creaking old farm wagon, would
come miles to attend one of these
dances. Those were the bright spots in
the lives of the early settlers. We were
happy and contented, too. Our amuse-
ments were not many, but were so thor-
oughly enjoyed they filled our minds for
many days thereafter.
Afraid of Stampeded Cattle
And did I ever get scared ? Was 1 afraid
to ride alone for fear of meeting up with
Indians or bandits or wild animals? No,
sir. Indians were mighty t few and
hsrmless in our section. I used to hqar
the menfolks talk of the doings of high-
waymen and bank robbers, but never
met one that I can recall. There were
lots of wild animals in those days, but
never heard of one attacking a settler.
One thing I was kinder afraid of—
a stampeded herd of cattle. Your
life depended upon the ability of your
horse outrunning the wild herd or your
opportunity to race to one side of the
herd and sit quietly in your saddle
until the crazed animals rushed by.
It was a trrifying sight. A herd
would take fright' at the smallest
thing, and away they'd go — heads
down, snorting and bellowing. Nothing
could stop them. They'd plow through
fences or small buildings just as though
they were not there; they'd run until
they became exhausted, and then quiet
down. In their wake they'd leave a
trail of dead cows and calves—weaker
ones that could not keep up with the
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leaders and would lag behind, only to be
knocked down and trampled to death
beneath the thundering hoofs that
followed the crazed leaders. Now and
then a rider would lose his life, his pony
either not being able to outrun the
herd, or the poor animal stepped into a
hole, stumbled and fell, throwing the
unlucky rider.' The next moment both
would be trampled to death by the
charging herd."
Asked how Keller received its name,
Mrs. Price said:
"The town was named for a man none
of us knew, who was killed by a train
south of Fort Worth. He was an of-
ficial of some kind who was in charge
of construction work. The town was
named for him by officials of the Mis-
souri Pacific railway."
Remembers Sam Bass and His Gang
Mr. Price is practically blind, his eye-
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sight failing some years ago. His con-
stant companion is his good wife, who
seldom leaves his side as he sits in the
dining room during inclement weather
or on front porch when days are fairer.
He is an inveterate pipe smoker. Al-
though small of stature, he was noted
in his younger days for exceptional
strength and agility.
"We have been living on this place
62 years," Mr. Price said. "I originally
took up 80 acres, but right-of-way for
the railroad and the highway have re-
duced my holdings to 69 acres.
"I remember well when Sam Bass and
his gang held up banks and robbed
trains. They used to camp a few miles
to the east of us, not far from Denton.
I never chanced to see Bass, or the
James boys—Frank and Jesse—who
visited near Denton several times. I
knew of the James boys before I came
to Texas, for they lived across the Mis-
souri river, 40 miles from my old Mis-
souri home. I have often heard my par-
ents tell of seeing the boys ride by the
house. They always spoke of the broth-
ers as being quite gentlemanly, from
general appearance anything but out-
aws or killers. They always rode the
best of horses, were mild-mannered in
company, spent money freely and al-
ways remembered generously the poor
or needy.
i carl re™™ber when there were
plenty of buffalo in Jack and Palo Pinto A
counties. There was an abundance of"
other wild game, too. I have seen this
section grow up from a wilderness: al-
ways played my part and was mighty
active until my eyes failed me. Now, I _
am just waiting for the last round-up, JP
contented in the knowledge that J help-
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one of the garden spots of Texas."
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