The Texas Mesquiter. (Mesquite, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, June 26, 1931 Page: 1 of 4

                                
2()c Sexas iltesqutfcr
iy JOHN E. DAVIS
MESQUITE, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JUNE 2t, 1931
ASK THE MAN WITH
A WOODEN LEG
What he thinks about substi-
tutions.
We never offer our customers substi-
tutions, for the best is none too good
for them. You can depend, not only
on the purity of the drugs, but on the
quality of whatever you buy from us.
Even when it comes to such things as
a 5c cigar we sell the best we can find
for that price, rather than the kind
that offers more profit to us but lees
to our smoker friends.  
PORTER & LYTAL
DRUGGISTS
lews Items From
Here And There
Farmers at Wortham, Free-
ine County, are using young
licks very .^effectively, in
eir fight against grasshop-
rs.
The Methodist Hospital in
lllas, rep<>rts a 10 per cent
Auction in current indebted-
ss and a profit of $1,000 a
ith for the first fivet months
1931.
|Mrs. George C Young, wife
the paMnrnter at Da 11m
mother of Maury Hughes,
rmer District Attorney of
Mlas County, died Tuesday
^rning.
ieorge D. Fairtrace, former
engineer of Dallas, lately
manager at Wichita Falls,
been named as city man-
tr for Fort Worth at a sal-
of $12,000 a year.
Presbyterian Church
■Sun iay school at 9:45. Ke jp
up the good attendance.
Church service at 11 o'clock,
but no evening service because
of the Baptist Revival.
The Ladies' Junior Auxil-
iary meets Thursday evening,
June 25, with Mrs. C. A.
Tosch at 3:00 o'clock
The Young People's confer-
ence at Waxah^chie, will be
July 14th, through 22nd.
Keep this in mind' and talk to
Mrs. Dickey if you would like
to attend.
It is estimated that there
are 5,187,000 sheep and 2,824,-
000 goats in' Texas at this
time. 67 per cent of the«n are
in 30 counties in West Central
Texas.
liss Inez Anderson, 25, fell
id in a Kansas City church
Jnday morning, while sing-
The last words of the
tig uttered by Miss Ander-
were: "And now I live in
Ira "
las. A. Lindbergh. Jr., eel-
rated his first birthday
[ondav. Charles Jr. has two
^e sons to be famous. One is
lit his father made the first
po flight across the Atlantic
1 an airplane and the other i?
»t his mother is a daughter
Dwight W. Morrow, erst-
iule of 'the House erf Morgan
Id now United States Sena-
from New Jersey.
Up to Tuesday, 100 cars of
Bermuda oniom« had been
shipped from Flarmersville.
Prices ranged from 75c to
$1.10 per crate. The average
yield is about 125 crates to
the acre.
148 persons, including three
women, two Mexicans and a
negro are taking the examina-
tion before the Board of Med-
ical Examiners at Austin, with
a view to practicing medicine
in Texas.
Zane Grey, noted author, is
charged by the Federal Gov-
ernment with owing the Unit-
ed States $103,923.82 in in-
come taxes Grey denies that
he owes the Government any-
thing. claiming that according
to the terms of an agreement
with his wife, he divides
equally with her his income
from royaltieg on his books.
Special Prices
on
RadiaSatleries
between now and
JULY 1
We sell the bestfoi less,
but this is a special offer.
Don't miss the use of your
radio because your batter-
ies are down, when you
can buy new ones so cheap.
RADIO SHOP
Mfesquiter Building
The First 48 Years
Best, Says Cullom
"The first 48 years are the
best" aocording to John H.
Cullom, an old Mesquite boy,
who, with his wife and daught-
er, Mrs. R S. Kimbrough, was
out from Dallas last Saturday
celebrating the 48th anniver-
sary of the double wedding of
Mr. and Mrs. Cullom, and Dr.
jW.. C. "Cullom and Mrs. Luella
Cullom.
It was on Thursday, June
20, 1883. that this double-bar-
reled wedding took place, at
the home of the two sisters,
Misses Luella and Dora Sew-
ell. near Seagoville. Dr Cul-
lom was the uncle of John H.,
and Rev. W. Wilson, the
aged pastor of the Seagoville
Baptist church, performed the
double ceremony. The brides
were daughters of Mr. and
Mrs. Jesse A. Sewell, pioneer
residents Dallas County,
long since have gone to their
reward. Mr. Cullom also
passed away seven years ago,
his death occurring on April
16, 1924.
The wedding was celebrated
by an old fashioned marriage
feast, attended by all the kin
(folks and manv of the neigh-
bors of the contracting par-
ties. John H. Cullom had not
reached his majority, and so
he humorously says that he
has never been "a free man".
He was a farmer boy, living
with his parents at Lawson.
and Dr. Cullom was also "roil-
ing pills" for the same com-
munity. John had learned to
set type in the Mesquiter of-
fice the previous winter, so af-
ter gathering his crop of corn
and cotton in the fall, he and
his bride moved to Mesquite
Jan. ,1 1884, to enter the news-
paper business. Judge Tom
Nash, of Duck Creek (now
Garland) had leased th; Mes-
quiter, and being a stranger to
the printing game, he employ-
ed John to get out the paper.
Mr Nash, being a member of
the Legislature, had to be in
Austin much of the time, so
the principal editorial and me-
chanical work of the paper fell
on Mr. Cullom. His wif«: soon
learned to set type, and gave
valuable assistance in the of-
fice. Later in the same year
fl884) Dr. and Mrs. Cultom
also removed to Mesquite,
which is still the home of Mrs.
Cullom.
Wages were quite low in
those early days, and the
young farmer-newspaper man
received the sum off $30 a
month, or $360 for a year's
work. Yet he found this
meager salary sufficient t>
support himself and wife, and
to make payments on a modest
little home, which consisted of
two rooms as first, and a third
room added1 later. The young
couple were happy and con-
tented, and were- active' in
church, social and community
service
Judge Nash only kept the
paper one year, so the owner,
Hon. R. S. Kimbrough, em-
ployed' John to run the paper
the next yea.r 'but did the edit-
orial writing himself. In 1886,
he leased the Mesquiter to J.
M. Knox, who employed Cul-
lom to do the mechanical
work. In the summer, how-
ever there was a hot congres-
sional campaign between Con*
gressman Olin Wellborn and
Hon. Rarnett Gibbs. Knox was
an ardent supporter of Well-
born. while Cullom champion-
ed the candidacy of Gibbs.
The upshot of the matter was
that the political feeling grew
so warm that Knox fired his
printer/ and Cullom m?vrd to
Dallas, where he worked sev-
eral months on i the Sbut^ern
Mercury, and in the spring of
1887, at the urgent solicitation
of Judge Nash, he went to
Duck Creek (now Garland)
and established the News, go-
ing through a rcd-l.ot town
fight between Duck Creei? and
Embree, rival towns with only
an imaginary lini between
them. After years of warm
rivalry between the twin new
railroad towns, Duel: Creek
won out, the fight was settled
by adopting the. name of Gar-
land, "and they li^ed happy
ever afterward."
Mr. Cullom buiL the Gar-
land New* up to be one of the
best weekly papers of Texas
Selling the paper in 1904, he
removed to Dallas, got into the
political game, s-rved eight
years as City paymaster of
Dallas, six years as District
Capitol Two Small
For The Jobholders
The State Capitol at Austiu
is the largest State Capitol in
the United States and was
rated as the seventh largest
building in the world a fen-
years ago, but in these days of
mammouth industrial devel-
opment it may be that some
industrial buildirtgs: construct-
ed in recent years have pujh-
ed the Tncas Capitol further
down the line in comparative
size.
But the various agencies of
government in) Texas have
multiplied so in recent years
that the Capitol is just about
half big enough to house th-;
activities of the State govern-
ment.
About half the committee
rooms, of the legislative
chambers are now occupied by
boards and departments and
isles iro the building have bfcen
Ifenced off to take care of oth-
ers.
A few years ago there was
erected a large office building
on land owned by the State at
the southeast corner of the
Capitol grounds. This build-
ing houses the General and
Office, Department of Agri-
culture, Fire Insurance Com-
mission, Fish, Game and
Oyster Department ?.nd part
of the State Highway Depart-
ment. At present the Highwav
Department is renting an en-
tire floor of a large downtown
office building.
The situation is to be re-
lieved by the addition of two
buildings. About Sept 1, the
State will take over the old
Travis County court house,
located on State land, to the
left at the south and main es-
trance to the Capitol grounds,
together with the jail and the
sheriff's residence at the rear
of the court house.
The land on which the court
house, jail and sheriff's home
is located was leased to-Travis
County for1 a period of I one
hundred years, rent free, but
by a recent act of the Legis-
lature, Travis County'Surrend-
ers the lease and turns over
the buildings thereon to
State. The writer's recollec-
tion is that the State pays the
county $50,000 for the build-
ings.
Travis County is now build-
ing a new court house and jail
and about Sept. 1, wilt turn
over the land and old buildings
to the State, at which time
Work of remodeling the
court house is to be begun.
When completed the space
provicted will be used to take
care of some of the depart-
ments of the State Govern*
ment.
On the old jail site the High-
way Commission is to erect a
half million dollar (wilding,
the cost of which will be paid
out of receipts of the High-
way Department. Constric-
tion of this new building will
start some time after Sept. 1.
Son of Ex-Mesquite $710,830,000 Fire
Girl Was Drowned - Loss During May
On Thursrlay ofi last week,
Merle Morrison, 16 years old,
son of Mr and Mrs. Arthur
Morrison, 2713 W. 20th street,
FoTt Worth, was drowned
while fishing1 near the dam at
Lake Worth.
Hia friend, George Malbcrg.
though still on i crutches from
a broken leg, jumped in the
water and tried to save his
chum; but failed in <the brave
attempt.
• MerJe's- fishing line got
tangled amd he waded in- to 4ry
to. untangle it. .The water was
very swift at that point and
he. was, swept under by the
current-
Mrs^ Morrison will be re-
membered . by many of our
readers as Mie>s Grace- Shaw-
ver.r daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
George Shawver, who lived
here * for-many years on the
place now owned and oocupied
by Mr. and Mrs. Hicks Jotoson
just east of town.
Funeral services were con-,
ducted at the North Side
Christian Church in Fort
Worth, Friday afternoon by
the pastor of the> church and
intnerment took place at a
Fort Worth cemetery.
Important Race
In Cincinnati
The report of the State Fire
Insurance Commissioner
shows that fire losses in Tex-<
as in towns and cities, as re-
ported by the fire marshals,
shows that total losses.by fire
during the month of May
amounted to $710,830.00. This
covered 537 fires
In causes, electricity or
faulty electric wiring, led and
$66,275.00 in losses in forty
one fires being charged to thte
cause.
Rankine next in amaunt of
|o«s but low in number of
fires was incendiarism (set
afire on purpose) with losses
of $47,563.00 in seventeen
fires.
In two hundred and six in-
stances, fires involving losses
of $433,895, the origin of thi
fire was unknown.
Three hundred and thirteen
fires were recorded as pre
ventable.
Of the known causes, pic-
ture shows ranked lowest both
as to number of fires and loss-
es, as there caused only two
fires and the loss was onlv
$29.00.
GENIUS
Woman (to artist)—As 1
walked through the woods I
beheld a glorious sunset—flam
ing, gorgeous colors, brilliant
light effects, nature in all her
' magnificent array. And I
thought it was like looking
at one of your paintings!
Artist—Yes, madam, nature
is catching up.—Exchange
A campaign of far reaching
importance is under way in
Cincinnati, Ohio, where a
special election has been
called to elect a successor to
Congresisman Nicholas Long-
worth, Republican!, who was
'Speaker of. the House.
Thcoutcome of this race is
important for it may deter-
mine 'the political complexion
of the House: If other vacan-
cies are filled as expected and
a Democrat wins in Cincinnati,
the Republicans and Demo-
crats will have exactly the
same number of members in
the House—217 each—and the
balance of power will he held
 by the one Farmer-*Laboritc
the member. Should the Republi-
can candidate win the Republi
cans of course would have the
advantage.
It is possible of course that
the standing, after present va-
cancies are filled, will be al-
tered between now and the
time Congress meets again in
December, as other deaths are
likely to occur, and the out-
look favors the Democrats in
the filling- of such vacancies,
as the trend is undoubtedly
Democratic.
In Cincinnati the Republi-
cans have chosen John B. Hol-
lister, a lawyer and an active
worker against prohibition,
while his Democratic oppon-
ent is State Senator Lorbach,
who defeated the Republican
incumbent last fall. Lorbach is
also opposed to prohibition.
Filling the vacancy made
by the death of Speaker Ixing-
worth, applies of course oniy
to membership in Congress,
as the Speaker is elected by
the members of the House It
is uncertain now who will be
the Republican i choice for
Speaker, but if the Democrats
control the House John N.
Garner of Texas will be the
next Speaker.
Preacher Hanged
Himself He Says
Accompanied by two police
officers who had been investi-
gating the affair, B. P Brown,
supply pastor of the North
Dallas Baptist church, ap-
peared before members of the
church Friday night and con-
fessed' that the story he had
told about being kidnapped,
taken to his church and hang-
ed by four men after midnight
earlier in the week, was a
hoax. He said that he hangeJ
himself, but lost his nerve.
Brown's cries for help the
night he was hanged caused
him to be found by tfriends and
officers who were searching
for him. Half strangled he
was standing in a chair, with
the rope around his neck at-
tached to a ceiling fan. He
said that the chair was left
under him and he was finally
able to rest his feet on the
chair by reason of the new
rope stretching. t
Before his statement at the
church. Brown bad confessed
to the officers that he had
hanged himself. He also ad
mitted that he was the author
of threatening letters sent to
himself and Rev. Marler, pas-
tor of the church. After his
statement of confession Fri
diay night, Rev. Marler and
members of the church pres-
ent shook hands with Brown
and promised to forgive him
Locomotive Travels
143 Miles An Hour
County School
Population Less
The scholastic popujation of
Dallas County, not including'
the city olf Dallas, is almost
1,000 smaller than last year.
The number of chiktren be-*
tween the ages of 6 and 17 for
1931 is 13,169 aS' compared to
14,083 in 1930
There wre thirty seven com-
•mon school districts and nine-
teen independent school dis-
tricts in Dallas County, and
la total of 375 teachers are em-
ployed1.
Physical Test For
Dallas Teachers
'Slchool teachers in tht» city
»f Dallas will hereafter bfe re-
quired to stand physical exam-
ination according "'-to an-
nouncement by the board of
education
The examination the teach-
ers will be required to take is
similar tto examinations 're-
quired1 by -life insurance com-
panies of persons applying for
insurance.
All teachers in the city
schools will be required t<
submit to an examination
within thirty days after the
opening of the next term of
school on the second Monday
in September of this year.
Later the requirement may
be changed so as to provide
that teachers take the exam-
ination and present a health
certificate before the opening
of school.
Clerk, and is now serving his
third term as County Tax Col-
lector. He has lived an active,
useful and happy life, and is
said to have the largest per-
sonal acquaintance of any man
in Dallas County. He is arrive
in church, lodge and commun-
ity service, and gives liberally
of his time and finances to wel-
fare work..
Mr. and Mrs. Cullom have
five daughters and one son. all
married except one daughter.
The son, Charles Key Cullom,
has resided in St. Louis for
the past 20 years, being con-
nected with the Post Dispatch.
"Yes, the first 48 years are
the best," John still declares,
"T have adopted Mark Twai.i's
famous motto, 'One flag, on-
country, and one wife at a
time.' We early learned the
secret of 'How to be happv,
though married,' and I doubt
if Dallas County contains u
more happy or contented mar
ried couple, looking forward
to celebrating our golden wed-
ding two yearg hence."
C. E. Program
Topic: "My attitude toward
other races in this country."
Scripture: Gal. 3:26-29.
Leadeh Altha Thompson.
Leader's talk.
Sentence prayers.
The evil df lynching, Onita
Cole.
Can the same principals of
treatment be applied to - the
negroes in the north and
south? Gladys Gardner.
Song: "I Gave My Life for
Thee."
Debate: Resolved, That in
ter-marriage between raaat
should be permitted.
Affirmative. Yvonne Jobson.
Negative, Dorothy Hanby.
Mixpah.
The time of Christian En
deavor has been changed to
five o'clock and will continue
at that time throughout the
summer.
Berlin, Germany, June 24—
Franz {£ruckenburg's "Zeppe-
lin on Wheels" today held a
world's speed record on rails
of 143 miles an hour.
The silver-Gray locomotive
traveled 160 miles between
Hamburg an<t jypandau, a sub-
urb of Berlin, yesterday in
one hour and thirty-six min-
utes, reaching the highest
speed shortly after its depar-
itue and making an average
: peed of about 106 miles an
hour. The time was four min-
utes better than that of the
ivg-rar Lufthansa pas^eng-r
plane between tn? t v . j' i-its.
Herr Kruckenburg, his wife,
Willy Black, the pilot, and
three assistants made the trip,
pronounced smooth and i*n-
eventCul except for short
stretches of fog. The test was
held early in the morning and
the line was cleared of all
other traffic.
The inventor said his coach
was capable of even greater
velocity and that the trial was
made to demonstrate the
"flying railroad", capacity to
stick to a time table and carry
passengers on schedule.
The "Zeppelin on Wheels
is a streamline railroad coach
driven by a propeller and pow-
ered by a twelve-cylinder air-
plane engine. It seats fifty per-
sons and travels four miies on
a gallon of gasoline.
Poison Bran Bait
For Grasshoppers
County Agent A. B. Jolley
has sent us the following for-
mula for poison for grasshop-
pers:
LTse 4 pounds white arsenic
or Paris green.
100 pounds wheat bran.
2 gallons low grade catic
molasses.
2 dozen finely chopped
fruits (poor quality).
If fruits are not obtainable,
use instead 3 ounces Amvl
Acetate.
Thoroughly mix the poison
(white arsenic Or Paris green)
with the wheat bran while dry.
The mixing should be done in-
side some enclosure so the
wind won't blow the bran. Mix
and remix several times be-
fore adding the sweetened
water Add from 8 to 16 gal-
lons cm water to the 2 gallons
of molasses and to this mix
ture add thj; 3 ounces Amy!
Acetate. Drain the sweetene.1
mixture on to the poisoned
Ibran through a sprinkler or
an old tin bucket with small
nail holes punched in the bot-
tom. While <Jraining the
sweetened water on to the
poisoned bran bait, begi-.i
mixing with a hoe or shovel
Do not permit the bait to be-
come sloppy.
Sow poisoned bait in lumps
about the size of small mar-
bles. When the bait is dis-
tributed is small flakes i:
dries out too quick. The bait
should be distributed late in
"Pop, hey, Pbpl"
"Don't talk that way. Os.
wald, I'm in the grocery busi
ness. not a fountain clerk."-
Exchaugt,
VOL. XLI. No. 48
$1,250 On Two
Acres Strawberries
Troup, Texas, June 23—Jv.
P. Salmon, living over the lint-
ill Wpod .County, cleared a
profit of $1,250 from two acres
of strawberries this season.
Salmon sold 1,000 crates oi
the berries, realizing a profit
of $1.25 on each crate. His
strawberry crop was grow^i o.i
a southern slope which pre-
vented the vines from fruiting
too early in the year In that
way his berries escaped freez-
es that killed other strawber
ry patches in that community.
Judge Morrow Dies
At Kaufman Home
Judge Nestor Morrow. X1.
died at his home in Kaufma.i,
Friday night.
Judge Morrow was born in
Kaufman County and had
practiced law in Kaufman for
more than fifty years. He had
served Kaufman County as
District Attorney; County
Judge and in' the State Legis-
lature. He had been active in
business since his maturity
and was vice president of the
F. & M National Bank whe'i
he died. His wife died two
years ago on the eve of their
golden wedding anniversary.
He is survive*! by one daught
er, Mrs. A. M. Blythe of Kauf-
man, and two sons, Hugh
Morrow of Dallas and Hamlet
Morrow of Kaitfman. He was
an active meml>er of th«-
Methodist Episcopal Church
in Kaufman for more than
sixty years.
His funeral was at Kaufina<i
at 3:00 o'clock, Saturday.
Swell Funeral For
N. Y. Beer Runner
New York City, June 23--
With his mortal remains en-
cased in a German silver cask-
et, said to have cost $20,000
and preceded by thirty-five
carloads of floral offerings,
the body of Daniel lamascia
Bronx beer runner slain by po-
lice last Thursday morning,
was buried in St. Raymond's
Cemetery 'Monday. Iamascia
was a body guard of Arthur
(Dutch Schultz) Flegenheim-
er.
Following the huge caskei
came seventy-five coaches
filled with mourners and be-
hind the coaches came fifty
(private automobiles. Twelve
plain1 clothes men attended the
funeral, in the belief that some
of Iamascia's of the under
world might appear, but few
known racketeers were pres •
ent.
To permit the crowds to in-
spect the silver coffin, it was
carried around the block sur •
rounding his home on the
shoulders of six men before i»
was put in a hearse.
the afternoon or early in the
morning.
The white arsenic, Paris
green and Amyl Acetate may
be secured from wholesale
druggists, paint and see. I
stores.
As a general thing, when a
woman l>egins bragging about
being an old-timer, you can
b«| she is.—Ex.  „
SATURDAY
SPECIALS
$2.50
10c
One lot of ladies Slippers
$3.50 to $6.25 values .
One lot of Children's Sox
Ladies' $1.95 House Dresses $1.50
One lot Men's Oxfords $3.95
to $8 50 values, special $3.50
Children's Unionalls
Everfast Gingham cloth
79c
35c
L. E. Gross & Co.
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