The Texas Mesquiter. (Mesquite, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 46, Ed. 1 Friday, June 12, 1925 Page: 1 of 4
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MESQUITE, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 1925.
VOL. XLIII. No. 46.
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hot weather, our Cold Creams will i
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preventing freckles and the like,
iny toilet article you may want can :
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[lease.
VISIT OUR FOUNTAIN
CULLOM & PORTER
ae 44. Mesquite, Texas I
SOME LIVING
[lived on vegetables foi
ears.
Eson—That's njt'V ig,
an. I've lived on earth
yenty-two years.—Tit-
NOT HIS IDEA
Miriam — What? Working
eight hours a day! Darling!
Why, I wouldn't think of it.
Mirabelle—Neither did I.
It was the boss' idea.—London
Tit-Bits.
Lighter Cotton
Crop Predicted
You Don't Build
A home often, so build
well with Quarles Quality
Lumber and other build-
ing material. We are al-
ways glad to talk lumber
with you.
JOHN E. QUARLES
COMPANY
Quality lumber"
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ire, but I think it's a
Southwestern
IT PLACE
jrou any work here,
ere is none here."
au give me a job?"
fail.
MONTY'S MISHAP
A teacher received iflrom the
mother of one of her pupils
the following excuse for his
absence:
"Dere mum, please egg-
scuse Monty he didn't have
but oik pair of trousers and
I kep 'im home to wash thum
and Mrs. Broyles goat com
and et them orf of the line and
that awt to bee egsscuse inuff
goodness nose. With rscpeck
Mrs. B—" -Tit-Bits.
tock Out
Shoe Sale
IAY AND SATURDAY, JUNE 12th
AND 13th ONLY
Florsheims . $7.85 and $8.85
Selz Supreme . . . 7.95
8.50 Royal Blue 6.85
7.50 Royal Blue 5.85
6.00 Selz Six
4.85
This is an opportunity that you can
' botUM to miss, and they will be
soldi for cash only as the above prices
are extremely low.
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NUNN & HICKS
'S FINEST CLOTHERS AND FURNISHERS
UITE. TEXAS
(By Oliver C. McQuagt; in
Dallas Times Herald)
Texas raises 5,000,000 bales
of cotton the past season. Will
it repeat this year?
To be exact, the final gin
nings were 4,952,000 bales. So
said the census bureau in its
final ginning report issued
Tuesday of the past week.
Tbf: census bureau, as
generally known, is one of the
divisions of Secretary Hoov-
er's department of commerce
and thus the Texas "outturn
has the official stamp which is
recognized as the internaticxn-
al authority.
If one were to include lint-
trs and city crop, the Texas
crop which has just been gin
ned would run over the five-
million mark. And this marl,
is the biggest cotton crop ev-
er raised.in Texas or any oth-
er state.
In raising the largest crop in
her history, Texas also put in
the largest number of acres in
her history. The census bureau
put the "planted"' acreage at
17,706^000 acres. But a little
over a half million acres were
abandoned for one reason or
another, leaving a "picked"
acreage of 17,175,000.
Taking the latter acreage,
multiplying it by 138 pounds
yield per acre, and dividing the
result by 478 pounds, we get
the yield of 4,852,000 bales of
500 pounds each gross. The 22
pounds is deducted for the
weight of bagging and ties.
But the yield of 138 pounds
per acre looks very disap-
pointing when ii is remem-
bered that the average for the
cotton states was 157 pounds.
If Texas had not have had a
fall sensationally free ifrom
wet anj cold, the per acre
yield would have been lowter.
While the government has
not yet given any intimation
of the cotton acreage this year
and will not until July 2. it is
reasonable certainty that
Texas will have at least 18.-
000,000 acres in the ground
this year.
An increase of only three
per cent added to last year'?
planted figure would run it
above eighteen millions. No
private report yet issued, so
far as the writer has s.een, has
put the increase in Texas at
less than three per cent. And
there have been some fifteen
to twenty private reports is-
sued. The private reports are
organizations long establish-
ed and their composite epin-
ion is very Highly respected by
the cotton trade, whether a
cotton merchant, spinmr or
distributor of cotton goods.
Last year Texas was ex-
tremely fortunate in the mat-
ter of subsoil moisture. Par-
ticularly in the arras where
the increased acreage was
heaviest. This year something
■ ifl the opposite has taken
nlace. Up until May the winter
rainfall in the state was con-
siderably b e 1 o vv normal
Roughly, it was about one-
third of normal and about one-
quarter of last year.
Heavy May rains gave tem-
porary relief generally over
the state. In North. East.
Northeast, West and North-
west Texas precipitation was
heavy enough, to bring the
crcjp along to the present
writing without any need of
more rain. The fact that rains
let up was a benevolence of
nature, for it enabled the farm
ers to I Wish planting and la
ter clean their fields. So the
crop in these sections is now
clean and not suffering for
rain.
But during May the rains
were far from sufficient in
South Central, South and
Southwest Texas. The daily
official weather map showed
the wetting persistently
dodged bringing enough rain
in a stretch from Waco across
to, the Gulf of Mexico and
down to the Rio Grande val
ley. Roughly, this stretch
raised around two million
bait's last year.
The crop in South Texas
can only be called poor. Some
term it "the poorest ever
known." Shippers and -export
ers are leary of August com-
mitments. depending on get-
ting the cotton out of South
Texas. Especially so when it
comes to . staple of twenty
eight twenty-nine millimeters
or twenty "eight-thirty milli-
meters, which are the jjjtples
mostl) desired at present
from new crop inquiries.
State Loses In
Textbook Suit
Forney Chautauqua
Begins This Friday
Austin, Texas, June 10— Forney, Texas, June 10,
Textbook companies holding Addresses on vital topics, at-
tractive musical and dramatic
contracts under letting of last
December won a decisive vic-
tory Monday when the Sup-
reme' Court in a special ses-
sion awarded the mandamus
as prayed for to eight firms,
which will compel State
Superintendent Marrs to do
all the things necessary to
carry out the contracts, which
are held valid. These cases
were submitted at a special
session and now are decided
in a similar sitting. The At-
torney General has fifteen
days within which to file a
motion for rehearing. The
court adjourns for the term on
fune 27 and the motion will
be disposed of before adjourn-
ment, that having been the
purpose of an eariy decision.
Probably $750,000 in con-
tracts were sustained, ranging
from on to six years. The
opinion refers to its opinion of
two years ago for discussion
as to how the books needed
shall be ascertained, being
through requisitions to the
State Superintendent.
It is held outright that the
action t>f the State Board of
Education on Jan. 2. 1925, is
final and binding upon Marrs;
that its action in approving
and ratifying the December
contracts can not be undone
by a subsequent board of
education, as attempted in the
resolutions of repudiation
adopted at April and May
meetings. If the. board had
discretion in the matter it had
exercised that discretion by
approving the contracts and
that it can not again exercise
that discretion and undo them.
Justice Pierson wrote that
the board of education has no
power or authority to annul
or reject a legal contract and
that the rights under the con-
tracts had attached and con-
tractual obligations became
fixed and can not be recalled,
lie holds that the contracts
aie valid and that there is no
authority for the State board
to set them aside.
events arc part of the pro-
gram of the Radcliff chautau-
qua that plays in Forney on
June 12, 13 and 15. Two per-
formances will be given each
day, one at 3 o'clock in the af-
ternoon and one at 8 o'clock
in the evening.
The programs are well bal-
anced, giving a lecture and an
entertainment number a t
each afternoon and night. The
Forney chautauqua commit-
tee chose the program be-
cause of its lasting benefits
and as a means of providing
the people of this section with
a clean educational and re-
dreatinoal event worthy of
their acceptance and support.
The local committee is ex-
tending cordial invitations to
persons in the nearby com-
munities and towns to join
with the Forney people in en-
joying and receiving the
benefits of the programs. Sea- i
(on tickets arc selling at a ' quarter. During the past sev-
ninimum cost which will en-jera' years there has been a
ible the holder to attend all! gradual decrease' in the nuiu-
lerformanfces at the small | her of pensioners. A few years
Pension Increase Mesquite Folks Do Misleading Items
In February, 1926 Not Marry At Home In Two Newspapers
Austin, Texas, Feb. 8—Cou-i The marriage of another
federate pensioners will notj Mesquite girl to an out of
commence to get the benefit
of the increased
tax until
next February, it was stated
in the comptroller's depart-
ment. At the last general
election the people adoptied
a constitutional amendment
increasing the pension tax
from 5 to 7 cents on the $100
property valuation, and the
thirty-ninth legislature pass-
ed a law last January putting
this increase into effect. .This
law becomes effective June
18, and the increased tax will
be collected this year, but the
money will not be available
until the quarter beginning
February 1, 1926. it was
stated.
There are approximately
13,000 Confederate pensioners
on the rolls and these arc-
now receiving $37 a quarter,
but next year under the 2
cents increase in taxes, these
veterans of the Civil war will
receive about $50 each, per
town young man is a fresh
reminder of the fact that the
tendency among the young
people of Mesquite is to
marry someone not a resident
of the community.
Among the Mesquite men
and young men Vho have
married within the recollec-
tion of the writer and all of
whom married out of town
girls, we easily recall the fol-
lowing :
Jas. G. Nunn, F. C. Hicks,
K. B. and H. L. Culloni, Char-
ley Parker, August and Albert
Toseh. A. O. All<;n, V. H.
Stewart, Raymond Palmer,
Dan, Joe and John Rugel, R.
C„ \V. Ii. and W. M. Love.
Sam Vanston, Ewell and Dan
Gross, Bedford Galloway,
George Miller, Hugh Hanbv,
Somebody on the Daily
Times Herald goit their wires
badly crossed this week, as
Monday's issue of that pap r
carried an item under a Sea-
goville date line of June 8,
1925, telling of the accident
near that place that resulted
ill the death of Deputy Sheriff
J. C. Wright of Mesquite, and
was made to appear that the
accident occurred last Sunday
when as a matter of fact it
occurred on Sunday, August
30, 1924. Mr. Wright died a
few weeks after that.
IIow the item came* to be
published in Monday's paper
of this week, just as if the ac-
cident had occurred the day
before is not known. Perhaps
some reportey or editor found
the original copy and thought
it had just been received.
A short time ago the Ar-
lington Journal published a
Robert Humphreys, and W. L.
Wilkinson. [ lengthy apology, in which is
It is not so easy to set down | was stated that the item pub-
offhand the nanus of the ' lished the week before, an-
ost of nine cents each.
As most of the cotton in the
Rio Grande valley is on irri-
gated land, they have a good
prospect and already the if'irst
bale has been marketed from
Hidalgo county.
Cotton in Central Texas is
beginning to need rain badly,
as in some places the plant is
dying.
East Texas is in the best
shape of any section of Texas.
It is followed by Northwest
Texas. North and West Texas
proper will be needing rain in
two weeks.
These sectional summaries
indicate'-something of the crit-
ical conditions which may eas-
ily obtain in Texas later in
the season on account of tb.
lack of plenty of rain.
It does not mean, however,
that Texas cannot make an-
other record crop. Rather that
the chances are against it.Th
gamble is in the- weather and
the careful merchant usually
market this crisp remark.
"Lightning hardly ever
hits the same place twice. July
and August in Texas are or
dinarily hot and dry. We may
raise another five-million bale
crop, but I'd rather take the
risk that w: will not. Aug
u*t is almost synonymous in
the; minds of the Texas cotton
*rade with "a month of de
terioration." The condition
isually goes down instead of
up. I would not be surprised
at all if we have not already
seen that 70 per cent on May
25 is the high condition figure
of the season."
Texas Population
Estimated 5,097,574
Washington, D. C. June 8—
Nearly a million people, practi
cally one fifth of the popula-
tion of Texas, live within
commuting distance of the
five largest cities, according
to estimates by the depart-
ment of commerce.
Actually within the corpor-
ate limits o(P these cities, ac-
cording to the estimates are
813,796 people, dividing as fol-
Jovvs: San Antonio, 198,069,
Dallas, 193.450; Houston, 164,-
ago there were over 17,000
pensioners on the rolls.
Dallas Leads All
Cities In Texas
San Antonio, by reason of
having thirty-six square miles
of territory within the cor-
porate limits, ranked as the
iargest city in Texas when
census was taken five years
ago, but as a commercial cen-
ter that city does not rank as
high as third.
Dallas takes the lead it:
everything but population and
doubtless is the largest city
now. but San Antonio will
still have the right to claim
954; Fort Worth, 152,394 and 1 until the census is taken again
El Paso, 104.929. All of the j in 1930.
cities have populous suburbs. | In commercial importune .
The total population of j Dallas takes first place with
Texas at this time is estimated I Houston second and Fort
to be 5,097,574. The total state Worth, third.
population and the population
of the five biggest cities are
all that have been announced
today. Late in July estimates
of population of Texas cities
between 10,000 and 100,000
will be- announced.
The bureau estimates that
since the 1920 census was
taken Uncle Sam has gained
394.860 nephews and neices of
Texas, the 1920 census show-
ing a population of 4,702,714
compared with the present
estimate of 5,097.574.
Three Texas cities are not
satisfied with the 1925 es-
timates oi;' population made a
week ago according tc the
census bureau. These three are
Dallas, Houston and Fort
San Antonio, which is sailing | contrary
serenely tint in front in the
estimates, has mr.de no com
plaint and neither has F.I Paso
which has crossed the 100.000
threshold since t h e
census.
Houston especially is dis-
pleased with its figures. In
1924 no estimate of llouston's
population was made, because
it was said the city was grow-
ing so fast that estimates
were growing so fast that es-
timates were without value.
Postal receipts, which is a
pretty fair index of the busi-
ness done, for the month o'
May, were as follows:
Dallas $246,524. Houston
$137,246, Fort Worth $110,488
These figures were given out
by the postoffiee Department
a t Washington M on c! a v.
These cities were included
among the fifty largest post-
offices in the United States.
San Antonio does not appear
in the list of fifty.
It will be noted that the re-
ceipts of tb. Dallas office*
were nearly equal to tire com-
bined receipts of Houston and!
Fort Worth.
The summary < f the Post-
office Department shows that
to expectations, the
increased postage rates which
became effective on April 15.
has not increas d the revenu-*
of the Department, which are
1920j instead, d.dining at the rate,
of more than $12 000.000 a
year.
Receipts at fifty selected
postoffices for May totaled
$27,454,861. as compared with
$29,085,090 for Mrrch. These
offices, which turn in more
than half of the country's
total postal receiptreported
Mesquite girls wh.> have
married young men living
elsewhere, because in marry
ing they changed eheir name
and in most cases moved
away, but recall the following
Misses Valtai McGaughey,
\ltice Hart, Rhoda, Jane and
\licia Cullom, Fay Grubb,
Eva Robertson.
As a matter of fact, not so
many girls marry away from
home as do boys. If a girl
choscs not to encourage the
attentions of the home boys,
or perhaps is neglected by
them, she does not have the
opportunity to meet young
people from other towns that
i boy does. If be does not
happen to fancy any of the
home girls or they in turn
make it clear 'that they do not
fancy him, it.is easy enough
'or him to find one elsewhere.
Perhaps just as attractive and
is nice as any at home, if we
•re ti'i judge by the splendid
rides that Mesquite young
■nen have gone out and
'•routfht home with them.
As a result of this !tendencv
.n the part of the young peo-
ole here not to marry each
other, and the fact that the
young men go out and win
nouncing the marriage of two
well known young couples of
that community was without
foundation except that some-
one, evidently having an ex-
agerated sense of humor, re-
ported the alleged weddings
to the paper.
The error made- by the Ar-
lington Journal was excusable
for somebody just lied to the
editor, and nearly all the news
published in the newspapers
is based on information fur-
nished by someone not con-
netted with the paper, but
publishing the item about Mr.
Wright nearly a year after it
occurred was due to careless-
ness on the part of the Times
Herald staff of editors and
proofreaders.
brides faster than nice men
come along and marry our
girls, there is a surplus of
girlsj. here of marriageable age
from those just budding into
young womanhood to those
now in full bloom. There is
not yet an old maid in the
community—yet. but if some-
thing does not happen, there
will l>e some here after awhile
quite a lot of them, in fact.
MEN'S
Work Clothing
HAWK
brand
WORK CLOTHES
The' estimate of 164.954 made j a deer ase of more than $20,-
tliis year, Houston asserts, is 000 for each business day as
Ticket Salesman—Sorry, sir,
I have nothing left but two
single seats in different parts
of the house.
Man—Good. I'll • take 'em.
I" going to bring my wife.
HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE
Those who are in a run-down
condition will notice that Catarrh
bothers theni tnuch more than
when they are in good health.
This fact proves^ that white Catar-
rh. it a local disease, it is greatly
influenced by constitutional con-
ditions.
Hall'* Catarrh Medicine is a com
bitted Treatment both local and
internal, has been succesful in the
treatment of Catarrh for over
,forty yvars, Sold by all druggists.
F.J.
to small
The census bureau, however
maintains that its estimates
for all Texas cities cannot lit
far off. Statistical sharps for
the bureau today said that
San Antonio, Dallas, Houston
and possibly Fort Worth, will
come down the stretch closely
bunched when the 1930 census
is taken, with the supremacy
likely to be* determined by an-
nexations rt? suburban terri-
tory by each within the next
five years.
The above estimate* of the
population of Dallas is at wide
variance with estimates made
in Dallas, where it is placed at
250,000. Perhaps the Govern-
ment estimate is under and
local estimates over, so in that
event, 225.000 would In* a
good guess.
The Impertinent Cop
compared with March, when
tIf old rate-; were in effect.
Postal officials are await-
ing the Junr reports, which j..
are expected to show whether 11
the- business decrease is tern- 11
porary, A summary of the
effects of heavier postage
rates then will b- prepared for
presentation to the joint con-
gressional postal committee.'
which will open hearings here
July 20. looking to a f run'-
nent revision of rates to a
meet the $68,000,000 salary in-
crease voted employes bv the
last congress.
— —— !
As Uiwl This Acttia'ly
Happened
THEY WEAR
—LONGER
I I
; See that good, safe
brand Overall at $1.39 j i
|| Pin check Summer-
time Pants . . 1.50;
Pin Stripe Summer-
time Pants . . 1.35 j
Khaki Pants . . 1.95 jj
Khaki Pants . . 1.65 i
Traffic Cop—"Say. you!
Didn't you see me wave; at you.
Mirandy—'Veil, you fresh11 wanted, t
thing, and if Henry were here driving fast through tl
he'd paste you on" for it.—-Sun township.— Middlebury
ey & Co., Toledo, Ohio.J Dodger. Baboon.
Motor Cop (after hard
chase)—Why didn't you stop
when I shouted back there?
Driver (with only five
bucks but presence of f%it|d$$Hj!
thought you just said: "Goodjl
morning. Scnatpt." ,, '
Cop—WlH you see. Senator, i
warn you about j
gh the next
Blue
Our Prices On Harvest Hats
Are The Lowest, 25c, 50c
65c And 75c.
Hudson & Davis Co.
L. E. GROSS, Manager PHONI
; MESQUITE, TEXAS
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Davis, John E. The Texas Mesquiter. (Mesquite, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 46, Ed. 1 Friday, June 12, 1925, newspaper, June 12, 1925; Mesquite, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth400795/m1/1/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Mesquite Public Library.