Lipscomb Lime Light and Follett Times (Follett, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 31, 1929 Page: 4 of 8
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p|RE LIMIT ORDINANCE NO. 20
Be it ordained by the Council of
the City of Follettr Texas, as follows:
Section 1: Fire Limits: The fol-
following shall be and are hereby de-
clared to be the fire limits of the
City of Follett:
All of Block Six, the East-half of
Block Ten, East-half of Block
" Sixteen, East-half of Block
Twenty-three, the West half of
Block Twenty-four, West-half of
Block Seventeen. West-half of .
Block Eleven, and the West-half
of Block Seven, being located on
Main Street and between Ivan-
hoe Avenue and Pryor Avenue.
Section 2. Permit Required: No
wall, structure, building, or part
thereof, shall hereafter be built, en-
larged or altered, until a plan of
the proposed work together with a
.statexftent of the materials to be used
.s %all have been submitted to the
Mayor, who shall, if in accordance
with the provisions herein contained,
ksue a permit for the proposed con-
struction.
Structures hereafter erected with-
out permit or not in conformity with
this ordinance shall be removed.
•- No building shall be moved from
five location to another within the
i re limits until a permit has been
i iiiained therefor. Permit shall be
i. sued only in case the construction
L> in accordance with this ordinance
Section 3. Incombustible con
fuction Required Within Fire Lim-
lt£:
Every building hereafter erected.
tUered or enlarged within the firi
limits, shall be enclosed on all side^
with walls constructed wholly oi
n.one, well b^ned brick, or rein-
forced concrete, or hollow tile, and
shall have the roof, also the roof and
sides of all roof structures, covered
with incombustible material.
All eornices shall be of incombus-
tible material.
Note: The purpose of this sec-
tion is to prohibit the erection with-
in the fire limits of wooden, ironclad,
stucco and veneer type buildings.
Section 4. Frame Buildings: No
structure whose walls ajre wholly, or
in part, constructed of wood, shall,
hereafter, be built or moved into the
fire limits as herein designated or as
they may hereafter be established
except as follows: -
Ca) Temporary one-story frame
buildings for the use of builders.
(b) Small, out houses not exceed-
ing 100 square feet in area and 8
feet in height, not located within 30
feet of any other building nor within
5 feet of any lot line.
Any existing frame or iron-clad
building within the fire limits, which
may hereafter be damaged by fire,
deeay or otherwise to an amount
greater than one half its present val-
ue exclusive of the foundation shall
not be repaired or rebuilt, but shall
be removed.
Section 5. - Gas Connections: Gas
connections to stoves and similar
beating devices shall be made of
rigid metal pipes. For small portable
gas heating devices, flexible metal
or rubber tubing may be used when
there is no valve or other shut-off
on the device.
Section 6. Fees Required: The
fee for issuing said permit shall be
$5.00.
Section 7. Penalty For Violations:
Any person found guilty of violating
this ordinance shall be fined $100 foi
each offense-and each day thereafter
shall be aftc( will constitute a separ-
ate offense.
The foreging ordinance having been
passed by the Board of Aldermen of
the Town of Follett, Texas, on the
26th day of July, 1929, and submit-
ted to the Mayor, same is by the un-
dersigned Mayor of said Town ap-
proved this 26th day of July, 1929.
S. F. HANSON,
ATTEST: Mayor.
F. B. SUMPTER.
City Secretary.
MANY ISOLATED
SPOTS IN U. S.
Uninhabited Areas of Coun-
try About Which Little
Is Known.
India* Nomanclatur*
"(Sioux as n|i|>lle<1 to tt lurjie group
of Indian rribes h shortened form of
"adowusaloiix." which In turn Is a cor
ruprton of vN*dow**-1s lw," the luttue
given to These Indian* hy the fhlp
pewas If. signifies snake or adder,
and hy metaphor." enemy Pathfinder
Magaztr«f
Float Hol#ed by Hoop
After ' sleep" of from 15 to 20 iuln
otes • plant developed In Germany
produces new leaves. So aensltive !•
It, "says the Houston Post-Dispatch,
that tf the leaves ere touched, or a
snatch horsed near them, they Imme
dtetely wither and fill off In about
a quarter of an boor after the with
ered leaves bare dropped off, new one*
out
Lyntk Law
Tly irim "Iyi..hiiijj* l< said to have
been iferlv>d ti-«"n ihe nuine of <'lurries
l.yfH'h (1 7 .'<111 i"' 'i a jMiirlotlr Virgin
iau. who in • • • _!: i_.;i u> Wilt. Robert
Adam* aiMl-^l ii.- < 'a-Uow u.\ tindei
took to llirtiri \ iMJiri^hloeni oir
outlaws ami l >rn - < 1Mr111*e lite Revofu
tlon The*-** jinni bun-tit* ««re limited
to flogging Hint t..i)ii?ilnii«-iii I'he or
Ifln of the terio lr> v\tr\ei ■ •" 'l" lM
Washington —The disappearance of
an airplane in New Mexico, and the
four-day search before Its wrecked re-
mains were found, emphasize the fact
that in the heart of the United Stares
are uninhabited areas, some even un-
seen for long pertods by the eye of
man. A bulletin from the Washing-
ton, D, C. headquarters of the Nation-
al Geographic society deals with some
of these blank spots on the map of
the United States.
"Uncle Sam and his states have
taken fairly complete stock In the
East," says the bulletin. "Surveying
Instruments came over with the early
colonists hi id were put to immediate
use. £iitce rhose early days lines a#
si>ine sort have in en run over almost
e\ery square mile of territory east of
the Mississippi river.
"But although the eastern states
have been rather thoroughly surveyed
and are on the whole heavily popu-
lated-. they are not free from isolated
areas. In the forests of north central
Maine extensive regions, for inany^
months of the year, still know only
tlie lutnter and the trapper. In cer
tain sections of the high Appalachians
live families of Isolated mountaineers
; whose domain.*- are seldom visited by
. outsiders. ^
j "The only actual blank spots in the
! eastern United States, however, are
in the swamp regions of southern Flor-
ida. There are relatively large tracts
that have not been surveyed or
mapped.
Large Blank Spots.
"It is only after the Mississippi
river lias been crossed, going west
ward, that the extensive blank spots
appear. Portions of northeastern Mln
ncsota are virtual wildernesses; hut
the areas are not .great; and. as In the
remote sections of Maine, hunters and
trappers traverse the country. The
bad lands of southwestern South Da-
kotn form a sizable area, largely bar-
ren, in which only a handful of peo-
ple live: and similar areas are ft>und
in northern Nebraska, and eastern
Wyoming and Montana.
"All along the Rocky mountains
from Cunnda into New Mexico are
uninhabited and practically Inaccessi-
ble mountain fastnesses. In Texas
there are still unfamiliar areas In the
'Big Bend' region, close to the Mex-
ican border, where the Rio Grande
river makes a loop far to the south.
"In all this country, however, as is
noticeable hy reference to a large scale
map. no very large areas are free
from what the mapmaker calls 'culture
marks'; trails, roads, highways, rail-
ways, power lines, dams, canals,
flumes, factories, villages, towns, and
cities—the evidences that man has In-
vaded and taken for his own much of
the territory.
"The really remote regions, un-
touched by man, can be tested by this
matter of map making. In the east-
ern states maps show railways and
highways so close together that they
form a flne-meshed network over the
entire co-mtry. In the first tier of
states west of the Mississippi river
this network Is still closely spaced;
but farther to the west the lines be-
come fewer and the uqjlned spaces
greater. In the mountain and inter-
mountaln states are the largest areas
uncrossed by 'culture lines.'
"Again the story is told by the
maps showing the township surveys of
the United States general land office.
These square subdivisions have been
laid out In general over the surface
of all the states west of the Missis-
sippi except Texas. Texas has been
excepted because none of that state's
area was owned by the United States
before It entered the Union, and all
public lands were specifically retained
by the state.
Big Blank Areas.
"Only a few relatively small desert
and mountain spaces In New Mexico
have not been divided Into townships
by land office surveys. But farther
west large spaces appear on the map
free from these squares. One of the
largest of the blank gpots shows op
In southwestern Arizona north of the
diagonal line that marks the Mexlco-
AN/.ona boundary from the 111th me-
ridian westward to the Colorado river.
The international boundary commis-
sion has surveyed the actual boundary
and in adjoining strip two miles wide;
bin to the north lies s region nearly
2t > miles from east to west and from
to to "iO miles wide that has not been
mapped. >
" This is one of the most conspicuous
of the blank spots on the map of the
United States. Other relatively un-
known regions of considerable slse
(ashfe from Alaska, where there are
extensive urexplored tracts) lie In
northwestern Artsona, north of the
Grand Canyon1& southern. Nevada
Boy, 13, Builds Plane;
Won't Fly It Himself
Memphis, Texas—Construction of
an airplane by a thirteen-year-old boy
is said by Memphis residents to mark
the city as the home of one of the
"youngest plane builders In the court
I ry. <
Bobby Ragsdale, son of Mr. and
Mrs. It. li. Ragsdale. will have his
plane completed i^ a few weeks. He
is building it in the rear of a local
garage where he has worked every
day except Sunday since school closed
last May.
L. E. Clark, garage employee, has
aided young Ragsdale In doing the
welding and metal work and James
G. Hammond "helped to cover the
wings.
The engine develops 28 horse power.
It was bought in Forth Worth by
Bobby. -.
Bobby expects to get an experienced
pilot to try out the plane. "I am too
voung," he saya. The test flight will
be made eithTr In Amarillo or Wichita
Falls. "I want to learn to fly before
I try this machine," the youthful
builder added.
and eastern California, along the
boundary between the two states; tn
Utah and southwest of Great Salt
Lake, and in southeastern Utah. The
larter region was explored In 1924
bv an expedition of the National Geo
graphic society which found an area
(.r hundreds of sfluare miles consisting
of deeply eroded clay, shale and sand-
stone, with 'he sparsest of vegetation.
Throughout an extensive area the ex
plorers found not a single human In
habitant and very few animals and
birds.
"The United States has literally
thousands >i Isolated spots of small
extent In v l.ich an airplane might
crash and its wreckagfe remain un
found for weeks. But the isolation of
most of these places is relative. Many
are only a short distance from the
beaten paths It is significant that
Mount Taylrr, on which the receni
crash occurred. Is only ten miles from
a transcontinental railway and an im
proved highway, and is plainly visible
from both. It is in a region that has
been well mapped and Is -part of a
forest reserve that is frequently pa-
trolled. If a plane should crash In one
of the real blank spots of the United
States, Its fate might remain unknown
for months."
Famous Oregon Gold
Mine Is Rediscovered
Port Oxford, Ore.—Considerable ex-
citement has been caused bere by the
belief that the Lost China mine on the
Sixes river has been found. *
The story of Lost China runs back
75 years to the days when Captt Wll
ilamson Tlcbenor, early-day sea cap
tain, founded this little southern Ore-
gon town.
Captain Tlchenor did considerable
prospecting in the early days. He is
said to have taken out some $00,000
worth of gold from the mine.
Chinese laborers and Indians fig-
ured in the subsequent prospecting,
and obliterated the fissure, while
white men searched other gold fields
Then a Are swept over the country,
changing the aspect of the terrain,
and the Lost China became somewhat
of a legend.
A new discovery of the mine has
been reported by S. A. Laurence, lo-
cal attorney to F. B. Tlchenor, dep
uty United Stntes marshal during the
World war, and grandson of the old
aptaln. *
—
Prepare For Winter
An ounce of preparation now will prevent a pound of
trouble when winter comes.
After a summer's use ever car should have some simple^
inexpensive service to get it ready 'Ho stand the rigors of
cold weather driving.
Have the cooling system cool and tight. Look to the
Spark Plugs, Ignition and Battery. Put winter-grade oil
in the crankcase.
Drive in and let us look over your car.
Hub i ii M i>
Follett Motor Co.
S. A. rf,
Lincoln
Ford
Follett, Texas
ooper
Fordson
if
Kansas Expansion
and
Chancellor.
Farmers Grain & Supply Co.
Follett, Texas
Cat Lays Away Money;
Hoards for Rainy Day
San Francisco, Calif.—This Is a tale
of dark deeds and hidden treasure and
of a cat who believes there Is noth
ing like a bank account.
The cat Is Go-go, the property of
Mrs. Lillian Walker. He has a nice
home and plenty of good food, but he
knows that goods times don't last for
ever. And he certainly doesn't want
to become a common alley cat. So he
decided to be on the safe side.
Recently, while cleaning house.
Mrs. Walker happened to lift a rug
and .there the saw 50 cents. How ii
got there was a mystery until, severa
days later, when she dropped a coin
near Oo-go, who quickly took It In bin
mouth and carried It to ids secret
i lair.
Then he went down Into the garden
and brought his mistress a flower hy
way of peace making
Firat Paved Roads
Russia is said to be the first coun
try where wood blocks were used fot
; paving roads The Hist blocks oon
j slsted of short uniform lengths, round
in shape. a« cut from the tree trunks.
Winter is Just Around the Corner.
Is your battery in shape to meet it?
We water and test your battery Free.
All of our new Batteries are guaranteed for
one year.
13 plate Standard Exc., $ 8.50
13 plate Heavy Exc., 12.95
Heavy Duty B Batteries, 3 for.. $10.80
Standard B Batteries, 3 for 7.65
Radio Tubes tested Free.
Radio Battery charges 50c
Car Battery charges. $1.00
Electoric Repair Shop.
Generators, overhauled $2.00 >
Starters, 2.50
- Magnetoes, 5.00
Egnition Work Done. Every Job Guaran-
teed.
Follett Garage and Electric Shop
. Follett, Texas
Divisioaa of Russians
The true Russians are divided Into
three groups: The Oreat Russians, or
Muscovites: the Little Russians or
Malo Russians otherwise called
Ukrainians of Ruthenlans; the White
Russians. •
No Laziness in High Gear
You will like Phillips "66" gasoline because it will never
disappoint you. It is clean, quick starting, packed with
power. It is pure, high grade, gumfree gasoline. It conT
tains no chemicals, hence cannot harm motor parts.
Drive in and fill up the tank, with Phillips "66.'; Com-
plete line of Phillips Motor Oils,
REID & SON
Follett, Texas
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Skaggs, Ethel. Lipscomb Lime Light and Follett Times (Follett, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 31, 1929, newspaper, October 31, 1929; Follett, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth390108/m1/4/?q=%22Places+-+United+States+-+Texas+-+Lipscomb+County%22: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Higgins Public Library.