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MESQUITE, TEXAS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1929
VOL. XLIV No. *
Something You
Should Know
Drugs either kill or cure. They are either pure
or impure. They are either fresh or stale. There is no
yf w»v about it. You go to a drug store with your
prescript on. You can't fill it yourself. You take what
the druggist gives you. It is easy to see the import-
ance of trading at the most careful drug store. There
outfit to be no hesitation about coming here, for
we've a long record for doing things right, and using
the best and purest of everything.
There's no sparkle like the sparkle of our soda
water. It sparkles as it bubbles out of the fountain,
it sparkles in the glass, it sparkles all the way down
jour throat, and seems to put new life into you.
School Supplies Here
PORTER & GROSS
Druggists
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[News Items From
Here And There
John King-ling is determined
i remain the circus king. He
recently purchased five
big circuses He already own-
Iddthe biggest of all of them.
Mayor Tate of Dallas, re-
laying to a suggestion of a
ITerrell friend that he run for
pernor, savs that since he
in not please the 300,000 peo-
ill of Dallas, he is sure that
Bit could not satisfy the 5,000.-
[flOO people of Texas.
The State Highway Com-
Imission will let contracts this
eek f"r the building of a total
jd 175 miles of paved high
Iwtjrs in different sections of
l?be State, at an estimated cost
i S2.520.000.
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A total of 38,138 pupils en-
(rolled in the Dallas city
khools on the opening day.
[Monday
D. B Sartin. Hoover Demo-
rat of W ichita Falls, has de-
dined appointments as Assist-
ant Attorney General of the
ll'nited States, preferring, he
Jsaid, to stay in Texas and run
■for Congress next year
plicaions from twenty five or
thirty more first year students
than it can accommodate.
John Coolidge, eon of the
former President of the United
States, is to be married on
September 23. to Miss Flor-
ence Trumbull, daughter cf
the Governor of Connecticut,
at Plainvillc, Conn.
Teacher—"When did Milton
write Paradise Dost?"
Pupil—"When his wife re-
turned from vacation."—Ex,
SPEAKING OF FIGURES
"Why do, I see vou walking
so much lately, Ered?"
"I'm reducing*-"
"Reducing! You're not fat
What are vou reducing."
"F.xpenses *—Boston Trans
cript.
MUCH EASIER
Dallas will vote in Decern-
Vr on the proposition of
|fli»njring to the city manager
wn of Government-
|« »
Editors in Northeast Texas
|i* large number^, will be in
ITerrell this Friday, to attend
Ithe meeting of the Northeast
ITexas Press Association
Baylor Medical College at
I''alias reports that it ha.» ap-
Doctor— "Use dumb-bells
every day and get sime color
in your cheeks "
Flapper Fannie—"But, doc-
tor, its much easier to use
color on my cheeks and get
dumbbells."—Exchange.
FIVE MISTAKES IN LIFE
1 The delusion that individ-
ual advancement is made bv
crushing others down.
2 The tendency to worry
about tilings that cannot be
changed or corrected.
3. Insisting that a thing is
impossible because we our-
selves canntt accomplish it.
4. Attempting to compcl
others to believe and live a*
we do-
5. Neglect in developing and
refining the mind by not
acquiring the habit of fine
literature.
NEW FORD CARS
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See Them in our Show Room
READY FOR DELIVERY
Remember The Prices
FULLY EQUIPPED AND
Delivered in Mesquite
Koadster
Phaeton
Tudor Sedan
Coupe
Fordor Sedan
3 Window Fordor Sedan
$562.00
572,00
645.00
. 670.00
745.00
770.00
Bring your old Car to us
Mesquite Motor Co.
WRECKER
SERVICE
"ON THE SQUARE"
Mesquite, Texas
PHONE
28
HOW SCHEMERS
FLEECED PUBLIC
Oil Tricks Stopped by
New Policy of inte-
rior Department
Washington.-'-"Wliat." asks the
Oepurtitiftii of Interior iu a rv.-*mt
press memorandum, "In behind (lie
84,000 permits, involving millions of
acres of land, Issued to Individual
and coRipntifes iff prospect for oil
and gas oa tlie public domain since
the general leasing law was passed
by ( ongivss nine years ago? Why
have these permits ripened Into
only 96 leases? Why have 15,000
permittees, whose rights have al-
ready been canceled for noncompli-
ance with the law. allowed their
claims to lapse? And how will the
new federal oil conservation policy
curb the speculation In the poten-
tial oil land* of the country?
"These." the bulletin continues,
"are some of the questions that
have caused tlie Department of the
Interior to Issue a statement, de-
scribing the speculation In the pub-
lic domain and the methods by
which promoters have been able to
tnrn the lure of Oil to their own
proflt and to the disadvantage of
the public in exploiting the nat-
ional resources.
"Muti) letters are on file at the
department which re vou I the meth-
ods by which individual* have been
lm|M»sed upon In the matter of
these oil lands.
" 'I subscribed for 25 acres of oil
lands, wrote tin enlisted man In the
army, 'to be lllcd on at $2 per acre.
I have already paid $10 and will
pay *10 more this pay day. The
land Is supposed to be Cnlted
States government land.'
"Another correspondent who had
begun to become suspicious of an
oil development scheme wrote:
"'What steps would I take to
get my money back? My wife and
f have paid In $120 and we cannot
loae It. As the association claimed
the government had granted It the
permit to develop. I cannot see
Why the government Is not liable
to be obliged to refund the money.
As It has been some time since the
Atlng, possibly the association has j
begun operations, and If so all Is
well. However, I can set no com-
munication from them.'
Explains Permit.
"An oil and gas application is
the holder's claim to the right to
prospe ! '-'.'•OO oci^i of public
land This 1« filed In the local land
office with a description of the land.
A permit Is his right to prospect
which (cows ont of the applica-
tion. The law requires that drill-
ing be done progressively within
time limits. Upon discovery of oil,
the permittee Is entitled to a lease,
paying the government a royalty on
All oil produced.
"It Is admitted that many per
Bite have been acquired by legiti-
mate developer* and the govern-
ment hus received millions of dol-
lars In royalty from their efforts.
No censure Is attached to them.
But npon the passage of the gen
era I leasing act, thousands of ap-
plications for prospecting permits
were filed for land In so-called
•wildcat' territory, which, by the
way, Is land that has no visible evi-
dence of containlnu oil and gas.
"These applications were filed In
many Isstamvs without geological
•xatulnritlon and by Individuals
without Hnanelal means of comply-
ing with the drilling requirements
of the law. They had no special
reason to believe that oil was pres-
ent. Actual development, obvious-
ly, was not their purpose. Appar-
ently, the hope was to obtain per-
mits and hold them until some one
had tested land for oil and gas In
the vicinity, which would enable
them to sell out at a large proflt or
secure a royalty on any oil that
might be produced on their own
•r«a by others.
"When these permits were can-
celed for lack of development work,
the lunds would be filed upon again.
tJpon the failure of the second per-
mittee to do the necessary prospect-
ing work to hold the land, a third
crop of applications might be (lied,
thus holdlug the land Indefinitely
without development.
"In the early days, when permits
were canceled, the land became sub-
ject to another filing by the first
qualified applicant at the district
land office. The practice was criti-
cised because cer(aln people might
obtain advance information as (o
when the permit wss to be canceled
and thus have an advantage over
others. Later, the general land
office allowed all Interested parties
to file on a canceled area, awarding
the land to the Individual whose
■nmber was first drawn.
"To take advantage of this situa-
tion Interested persons or com-
panies obtained the applications of
hundreds of people whom they
could control. It was like buying
■ multitude of chances In a lot-
tery. The greater the number of
controlled applicants at the time of
drawing the better would be the
ctwnces of an Individual or com-
pear getting the land. In one
drawing there were 7,000 applica-
tions filed for a single tract of land
—another evidence of pore specula-
tion on behslf of the applicants.
To dreumvent this a $10 filing fee
was required of each applicant at
drawings In re««nt yeara, which
Materially reduced the number.
Ifforts to tafeevird the Public.
"That the genera! leasing law has
been used by many wis, ropaloua
person* snd associations for their
own special benefit and to the detri-
ment of IMW Induced to enter Into
their schemes has long been appar-
ent to the Department of (he In-
terior, and every means possible
has been (nken to ssfetcuard the
public. Some of the scbMMi vio-
late the general laws against franri
rather than the public land laws.
flThey mav Involve an Improper use
stf the malls snd s« need to be pros
Birthday Picnic
For Two At Zoo
Celebrating the birthdays of
Mrs- I. N. Range and her
br«>ther-i,n-law. N. A. Range,
who were born in different
years but on the same day of
the same month, a picnic was
held at the Dallas Zoo Sunday
at which a fine meal was
served, picnic style.
Those present were Mr. and
Mrs. I. N Range. Mr. and
Mrs N. A. Range, Mr. and
Mrs. Hicks H. Jobson. Mr.
and Mrs- O. C Hanby, Mr.
an^ Mrs. Rex Range, Mr and
Mrs. E. B. Range and children,
Mr- and Mrs. B. H. Dickson
and daughter, Fredna, all of
Mesquite: Mr. and Mrs. J. O.
Mouser and son, Odell and
Mr- and Mrs. Tillie Mouser,
all of Grand Prairie.
The day was bright and
just cool enough to be delight-
ful. and the picnic was a happy
event for those present, es-
pecially for the honorees.
Are you getting ready
the Mesquite Fair?
for
ecuted by the Post Office depart-
ment. They are carefully watched
by the authorities who enforce the
various state and federal laws wltt)
which they come Into conflict.
"A correspondent who la a rain
Ing engineer and geologist wrote
the department as follows:
"'I found that every available
acre of public lund which was with-
in ten miles had been tied up with
permits overlapping one another so
that In places they were two or
three deep and over lands that had
been taken as grazing homesteads
or the mineral rights withheld. The
parties who had obtained the per
mlts were boomers, men without
any knowledge or experience In oil
structures or lands, withou( any
money or backing or standing to
obtain any and whose sole object
was to ge( one to try It ont for a
little cash and agreement to get a
share of the royalties. They would
hold the permits as long as they
could anil then come bafck for re-
newal without even so much as dig
glng a five-foot hole on them."
"In one Instance an attorney pre
pared applications in blank or had
them signed by people scattered
through several stotes and forward-
ed to him. He held tbem until
such time as be could discover from
the district land office records lands
which were subject to filing aud
then Inserted (he flescrlpdon of the
land In the appllcallon. If the ap
plication had been executed some
time In advance the dale would be
changed ao as to conform more
nearly to the time of the tiling of
the application. Usually these ap-
plications were accompanied by a
power of attorney given to him by
the applicant. In each Instance the
attorney would retain for himself
a certain royalty lnteres( and the
holder of the application would
have little to say as to the opera-
tions under the application or per-
mit. Thus one man might control
thousands of acres embruced In the
applications and permits. The pur-
pose of the law. that of giving In-
dividual cltlwna a chance to ac-
quire valuable land, was thus Inter-
fered with.
"Interest" In Associations.
"Another group of persons adver-
tised extensively that government
oil land might be had at a nominal
cost, that every citizen had a right
to claim his share, that the pro-
moters would show the way to
great profits through these rights.
They cited outstanding successes of
others on government land. They
proposed to organise associations,
which they Induced hundreds of
people throughout the United States
to Join. Interests In these associa-
tions were sold for $2 an acre, not
more than 100 acre* going to any
one person. They advertised (hat
the Interest holders would have
nothing to do except to draw the
royalties when oil was discovered,
the backers of the association at
tending to all the details looking
toward compllonce with the terms
of the permit.
"The filing of an oil and gas ap-
plication for permit for 2,500 acres
cost $32 In fees. The association
under this scheme would thus make
a proflt of $5,088 on each appllca
tlon filed. The evidence la tha»
these associations have done little
more than file the appllcailons.
Their purpose, evidently, hss not
been oil development. The Inves
tors In their assoclatlona have taken
long chances of getting any return
SB (Mr 1nves(ments. even where
the annotations have carried on de-
lelopmrnl work, for all such pll-
eotlons have been Bled on inda
within atrlctly wildcat territory.
"The exploitation of (he public
through those permits to prospect
wtll be auton»atl<nll> slopped by
the application of President
Hoover's oil conservation (tollc.v
Under thnt policy pcrm'tw m pros
poet are not to l«< jitviti it. X'nce
they are not to be grunted pro-
moters will not be able to profit
because of any alle«e<l prospects
of wealth ibat might lie in litem.
Cms element of speculation that Is
likely to be a part of Ihe develop-
meat of oil and mining areas will
hava been removed."
VMK
economy
twins
10c Purse Causes
Big Damage Suit
A few days ago a Dallas
lady went into a large 10c and
15c store in Dallas to purchase
a ten cent purse. She exhibited
one she had to show the sales
lady what kind she wanted,
and happened to lay the one
she exhibited down o:i the ta-
ble. A* *''e was ' leaving the'
store ve picke^ up her purse
but before she reached the
front entrance to the building
the store detective ordered
her to stop, thinking she had
stolen a purse from the store.
As a result of this incident:
the lady has file,) suit agaitisi
the owners of the store for
$10,000 damages. She claims
that when she was halted by
the detective a crowd quickly
gathered around her and that
she was greatly embarrassed
and humiliated-
Texas Weekly Mesquite Schools Couple Married
Accident Report Off To Good Start In Cotton Field
The Texas Council of Safety
Austin, furnishes the following
summary inf accidents, 1 their
character and result for the
week Aug. 24-31, 1929:
t JCattwn In j. Kid
\titomibile u 79 17
Railwav train 0 I
Falls 12 1
Burns «. 8 3
Drowning 0 3
Firearms 2 1
Explosives ... 2 1
Other Causes.40 1
Total ....
... 147 33
Students Assigned
To High Schools
\ Assignments of high schools
Which Dallas County students
will attend during the coming
school year have been an-
nounced by H. L. Goerner,
County Superintendent o f
Education.
Following are the assign-
ments lor the 1929-30 session:
sion:
All high school students of
the communities of Florence
Hill and Consolidated School
District surrounding that com-
munity will report the Grand
Prairie High School. One bus
will be provided for their
transportation
Students of the communities
of Estelle, Sowers and Cedar
Grove will attend the Irving
High School. One bus will be
provided for transportation.
Hackberrv, Coppell, Letot
Farmers Branch. Walnut Hill
and the west portion of Addi-
son will 1h» included in the
communities Whose residents
will attend the Carrolltwn
High School. Three busses
will be provided.
Students from Addison and
Rogers will attend the Rich-
ardson. High School with two
busses provided for transpor-
tation.
Students f rom Plealsant
Mound and Pleasant Grove
'will enroll at Forest High
School, Two busses will be
furnished.
For the Wilmer.Hutchins
Consolidated School District
two busses will provide trans-
portation for the students in-
cluded in the district. Scho« l
will be held at the Consoli-
dated High School-
Students of Wheatland. De-
Soto. tenth and eleventh
Krade students from Cedar
Hill and eleventh grade stu-
dents from Duncanville will
enroll at the Lancaster High
School. Three or four busses
will be furnished by the coun-
ty board.
Assignee! to the Garland
High School are the students
of the communities of Shiloah,
Handley. Centerville, Rein,
hardt. Rose Hill. Locu# Grove
Rowlett. Liberty Grove, Pleas
mnt Valley, Nunman and
Sasche. Five busses will fur.
nish trartsiawtartion.
y Students from New Hope,
Tripp-Long Creek, Scyene,
Raich Springs, and Lawgi.i
•will1 attend the Mesquite High
School. Three or four bmises
will he furnished-
The communities of Riley
Rleburg and the amrth end of
the Lawson district will he
assigned to the Seagoville
High School. Three busses
will Used for trawsporting
them.
The first county teachers'
Institute was held Saturday
morning at 9:30 at the Forest
ivw- «4Sifljll> School. ' Mr.
Goerner said. All teachers
were retptested to attend the
meeting, at whfch time they
were assigned the adwols n
Which they wwre' to teach dnr-
itlg the fall *eaa«nr.
Final plans for the opening
rtl the eriunty schools Monday.
Sept 16, were -arranged at
the institute. Mr. Goerner
•Old J .... . o f
— - .It"?™ *
Of the above, eleven were
injured and one killed in home
accidents and sixteen injured
and two killed in industrial
r«ccident9.
Jan- 1, 1929, to date. 7399
injured and 1753 killed in ac-
cidents of all kinds and for
the corresponding period, 1929
5,085 injured and 1.232 killed.
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Man Known Here
Died In Fire
In 1903. when the editor of
this paper first went to Aus-
tin as a committee clerk in the
House of Representatives, wj
met James S- Ainsworth. then
a member of the House from
Waco, and as both of us were
newspaper men, we became
very well acquainted. We have
seen him occasionally since
then but not ofteh.
During the latter part of
August, being without a job
came bo Dallas, hoping to g»*t
on one of the Dallas news-
papers as a reporter; 'While
waiting for things to develop,
he grit out and solicited some
advertisements for the Mes-
• luiter and juade several
trips to Mesquite, and figured
with Us also on doing some
soliciting for the Fair. Earlv
Tuesday evening we called at
his room on the third floor of
a Mission Hotel on S. Ervav
street, Dallas, to see him
Two nights later, a fire in
the upper stories of that
hotel building took Mr. Ains-
worth's like, all the other oc-
cupants escaping He was
burncf) only very slightly, but
inhaled smoke and flames.
The Mesquite schools open_
e,j un.der very auspicious cir-
cumstances Monday morning
An informal program, held
in the auditorium of the hig!i
school building, marked the
< >perti«i fc.
The exercises began with
ihe song, "America," sung by
he audiencf. ifie^ Which Rev.
R. F. Curl, , pastor of the
Methodist church, led in pray-
er
Supt. A. J. Cook presided
and introduced all the teach-
ers in turn, following which
talks were made by several
members of the boar^ of trus-
tees and the following citi-
zens: C- A. Tosch, A. W.
Lander, W. A Jobson and J.
M Bennett- AH the speakers
projnised their cooperation to
the schools.
The enrollment for the op-
ening day was 223 in the
grades an^ 154 in the high
school. The latter is especially
good, as it is within two of
what the total enrollment was
in the h'gh school last year.
Of course in both grades and
high sch"Ol will be larger than
•>n the fitst day.
A few days ago a couple at
Mount Enterprise went to
the home of a minister, who i>
also a farmer, to have him
perform the ceremony uniting
vhem in marriage.
When they arrived ait thr
preacher's house they found
that he was in the field, pick
ing cotton- The) went up t >
tlie field. pn>duced the licens.,
and the minister laid aiside hi>
cotton sack and made Miss
Ruby Honea .niul Claml Wiso
dom man and wife
AT PAULT
County Pioneers
In Reunion Friday
The Dallas County Pioneers
Association and Half Century
Club will hold their annual
meeting at Oak Lawn Park,
Dallas, this Friday. Sept. 20th,
according to announcement
by Epps G Knight, president
of the two organizations.
The exercises will begin at
10 a. m-. and the morning pro-
gram will include a welcome
address in behalf Qf the City,
musical numbers and address
to the Pioneers by Dr. George
W. Truett. followed by mem-
orial exercises.
A basket lunch will be
served on the grounds and the
afternoon will he given over
to reminiscent talks by pio-
neers, awarding of pr zes and
the election officers.
Mr- Knight emphasized that
these annual gatherings are
primarily for the pleasure of
the old people and their fam'
lies, and they aire all invited,
especially the old Confeder.
ates and members of the G. A.
R.
Murrell L Buckner is chair
man of the Finance Commit-
tee. Maix Munzesheimer will
have charge of preparing and
serving the barbecued meats
and these will be aided by the
officers and members of the
Executive Committee in pro-
viding for the pleasure, com.
fort and entertainment of the
Pioneers-
Officers of the Pioneers As-
sociation :
Epps G. Knight— President.
C. B Gillespie—Vice Pres
W. S McKamey—Secretary
Mrs W. L. I^imar—Aoiat-
ant Secretary.
S. E Mosa—Treasurer.
Henry H- Smith—Historian
Rev O. S. Thonww—Chap-
lain
To Mail Out Many
Tax Statements
County Tax Collector John
H. Cullom has a large force o;
clerks busy, working on tax
statements, about 90.000 of
which are to be mailed to
taxpayers throughout the
county by October 1.
The property owners need
not be surprised when they
find their statements call for
for a larger amount of taxes
on the same property tha i
last year, since both the State
and County rates are higher
this year
The county rate hats been
ncreased 6c on tht $100 valua-
tion and the State rate has
been raised 4c. Both will total
Si 56 on the $100 valuat:on,
the county getting 88c -.nd
the State drawing down 68c.
The total assess?-:! valuation
of Dallas County pro|«rty wil
be alxnrt $300,00) 000 com.
pared , with about $288,01)0.000
i<>r last year
, i i i mmm—LUC L
Ginnings Ahead
Of Last Season
The hot. dry weather that
prevailed during the entire
summer this year, whc'i
caused early maturity of cot-
ton produced an early i>t»on
ginning activity, according to
Claud W. Sears, special agenl
of the department of com-
merce, who reports that prior
:o Sept 1 a total of 8.73* balfs
had been ginned in the coun.
ty-
This was more than six
times the total number of
bales from the 1928 crop thai
had been ginned prior to Sept-
1. 1928. only 1.402 bales had
-been ginrted in the county.
"+
Houston Amateurs
Win State Title
The State amateur baseball
championship was won this
year by the Houston all Stars,
Which team defeated the Em
ployer's Casualty Cyclones of
Dallas.
The Houston team first won
the South Texas championship
and the Dallas team the title
for North Texas and m the
playoff, Houston won two
out of three games
The Houston team of the
Texas League won the pen-
nant art<f the Dixie champion-
ship last year, hut finished
far down the column this year
so Houston can he consoled
by the fact thai if their leagu-;
team failed, their amateurs
won.
"Yes." said Mrs. Nfewkind
"my husband is most awfully
careless; he's always losing
the buttons off his clothes."
"Perhaps, mv dear,' replied
Ml-s Oldstvle, gently, "it is
i
because they are not sewn on
CUVefullv enough "
"That's just it I He's most
awfully slipsh«%d with his
>>ewing."— Tit-Bits.
ri T
New Fall Hats
A
Stetson
without question thr
best hoi made
Oil latest assortment in-
clude* the most fashiouablr
lines in hats of distinction
for every shade of complex-
ion and every type of per-
: onality. These are the hats
that are setting the st\le<»
in New York, London and
all the fashionable places of
tlie world. No one can have
a better hat than you—if
voura is a Stetson.
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Davis, John E. The Texas Mesquiter. (Mesquite, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, September 20, 1929, newspaper, September 20, 1929; Mesquite, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth407296/m1/1/?q=ainsworth: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Mesquite Public Library.