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JOHN E. DAVIS
MESQUITE, TEXAS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1930
VOL. XLI. No. 11.
'"""'""iltO P. Coniribuiors News Items From
! SCHOOL SUPPLES i 6et lax Refunds Here And There
Our stock of school supplies in-
cludes everything needed in
school work.
We sell Shaffer's Fountain Pens, ;
Pencils and Skrip Ink.
Also a nice assortment of Fancy j
Stationery.
PORTER & LYTAL
DRUGGISTS
rimminnntMi vvm —"ttMMinttnni
RALLY DAY
First Presbyterian Churcli
Be at Sunday School on
[time next Sunday morning
|\\'e want everyone.
Church services at 11 and
■7:15.
Study class Wednesday
|night 7 ;30
Senior C. E. Sunday at 4.
METHODIST CHURCH
Robert F. Curl. Pastor
Sunday school at 9:45- Sam
|T. Vanston, Superintendent.
Sunday is Rally and Promo-
tion Day in! the Sunday school.
|\Ve want to see all teachers
[and pupils present. Let's mal-.
[it a big day-
Morning worship at 11. The
Jpastor will speak on "W,e Are
[All Able."
Board of Stewards will mee t
[at .3 p. m. Let every steward
|be present
Senior Epworth League
J meets at 6:30. We had 18
[present last Sunday evening in
I spite of the bad weather.
There were 11 young men and
7 young ladies. The program
was fine. Wg will have a fif-
teen minute study in the Han i
hook next Sunday night- Let
| us have a full attendance.
Evening Service at 7:30.
; Preaching by the pastor. Sub-
ject: "How to Meet Tempta-
tion".
Woman's Missionary Soci-
ety meets in business session
at the church Monday after-
noon at 2:30:
Prayermceting Wednesday
at 7:30- We have only two
more prayermeetings before.
Conference. Let us have a good
turn-out and good services fc
these two nights.
"If God be for us, who ca.i
be against us?" Victory is ours
when we cla.im it in the Lord's
name.
PORTUGAL MISSIONARY
Rev. A. W. Luper, returned
missionary from Portugal, will
preach at the Baptist church
Sunday morning-
You will miss a real treat if
you do not hear him.
Sunday begins our Siaiday
School year and I am sure
there is room for improvement.
We should begin now to
work on our attendance. Reg-
ularity in attendance, being on
time and a well studied lesson
mean j much in Sunday school
work.
Parents, come and bring the
children, then all of you can
stay for the preaching service
Every child should hear
Bro. Luper Sunday, so begin
to make your plans to be with
us Sunday.
L. B- Jenkins.
By an agreement small
things grow; by discord great
things go to pieces.—Ex-
AT THE CONCERT
that they
are
"What is
playing?"
"I don't know, but it must
be something very, very fine,
for it isn't pretty.—Exchange
OR SO IT SEEMS
"What's a parking place
daddy?"
"It's a place where there is
just room for the car which
backs into it a second before
vou start driving in "—Ex.
WELL, MAYBE?
Jeweler—Your watch is
magnetized. Have you been
riding on an electric train or
been near a dynamo or any-
thing attractive?
Bert: Well—er—I've been
er—calling a good deal on a
very attractive young lady —
Exchange-
SHOP SERVICE
LET US REPAIR YOUR
CAR. WE CAN SAVE
YOU TIME AND MON-
EY. . .
Several Good Used Cars
$15.00 to $90.00
Mesquite Motor Co.
"On The Square'
MESQUITE.
f TEXAS
Congressman John NT. Gar
tier of Texas, Democratic lead-
er in the Mouse at Washing-
ton. has issued a statement in
which he calls attention to the
fact that corporations repre-
sented by thirty individual con-
tributors of $5,000 and $10,000
each to the Republican cam
paign fund have been paid ov-
er $100,000,000 in tax refunds
in the last four years.
"That there is a close bond
of sympathy between the cor-
porations that have been
granted tax refunds and the
Republican national organiza-
tion is indicated in the recent-
ly published list of contribu-
tors to the Republican cam.
paign fund." Mr. Garner said.
"It may be a mere coinci-
dence," he added, "but I at-
tach considerable significance
to the fact that each of the
seventeen individual contribu-
tors of $10,000 has been a ben-
eficiary of the extremely lib-
eral, policy of the United States
Treasury with respect to the
tax refunds, credits and abate-
ments."
Mr Garner saw another
"significant fact" in the ap-
pointment of Robert H. Lucas,
former Commissioner of Inter-
nal Revenue, as executive di-
rector of the Republican na-
tional committee.
"It was this bureau over
which Mr. Lucas presided," he
said, "that handled these re-
funds, credits and abatements,
which in recent years have av-
eraged more than $100,000,000
annually."
The Texan referred to his
efforts at the last session to
obtain an investigation of the
Treasury for "failure" to se-
cure a court decision in the
United States Corporation tax
refund case, and added:
"To what extent these con-
tributors to the Republican
campaign fund have been the
beneficiaries of this hesitancy
on the part of the Treasury to
secure court decisions on all
major claims could not be
ascertained without a thorough
investigation"
He said a "very incomplete"1
inquiry showed the following
to be some of the contributors
of $10,000 to the Republican
money chests and the amounts
of tax refunds made to cor-
porations with which they
were connected:
"Harry F. Guggenheim
New York.—Director Utah
Copper Companv. refunded
$102,911 in 1028: director
Braden Copper Mine Company
refunded $107/W in 1929.
"Jeremiah Milbank, New
York.—Director Chase Na-
tional Bank", refunded $41,239
in 1928: director Metropolitan
Life Insurance Company. $32,-
012 in 1^20 and $771.84? in
1930: son of Joseph Milbank,
whose estate was franted re-
fund of $46,344 in 1929.
"John N. Willys. Cleveland.
—President Willys - Overland
Company, which with its sub-
sidiaries, received refunds ag-
gregating $677,567 in 1930.
"George A. Martin. Heve
land-—President and director
Sherwin-Williams Company,
which received refund of $419,-
262 in 1920.
"H. M. Hanna. Cleveland —
Estate of father, Leonard C.
Hanna, refunded $55,202
1929: Leonard C. Hanna
granted refund of $27,993,
1927.
"Cyrus S. Eator. Cleveland
—Director Sherwin-Willi ims
Companv. which received re-
fund of $419,262 in 1929.
"W. R. Timkcn. New York
—Vice president and director
Timken Roller Bearing Com-
pany. refunded $34,108 in 1929:
director Timeken-Detroit Axje
Company, refunded $249,297 in
1929: granted personal refund
of $86,536 in 1927.
mO. P- and M. J. Van Swer-
ingen, Cleveland. — Prominent
railroad magnates. At least one
railroad with which they are
connected, the Erie, was re
funded $266,921 in 1929. and
$93,371 and $86,443 in 1930.
"H- M. Timket. Canton-
President Timken Roller Bear-
ing Company, which was
granted refund of $34,108 in
1929.
"John D. Rockefeller and
Tohn D. Rockefeller Jr.. New
York—Former granted per-
sonal refund of $157,227 in 1029
and $356,378 in 19?0 The
Standard Oil Company with
which the name of Rockefeller
Texas has a population of
nearly 6,000,000 people but
there are only 1,028,000 hogs
on Texas farms.
J- C. Kinnard, Jr., tax collec-
tor-elect of Delta County, is
said to ^e the youngest in the
State, as he is only 21 years
old.
The certified list of nominees
for tt»e Legislature shows that
seventy one of the members, of
the next House will be new.
This, however, is about the
usual turnover.
The Southern Cotton Trust
with a capital stock of $5,000,-
000 is Icing organized in Dal-
las for the purpose of buying
cotton and holding it for high-
er prices.
The Fairfield Recorder is
fifty years old and during that
half century has had but two
editors. Lee Kirgan, the pres.
ent editor, has been at the helm
for the past thirty six years
The rainfall over Texas Sun-
day came nearer covering all
sections of the State than any
that has fallen this year. Its
greatest benefit was to those
sections that do not depend al-
together on cotton for the
money crqp
Refusing reconciliation with
her husband, the King of Ru.
mania, who divorced her sever-
al years ago, Queen Helen will
surrender, custody of her son,
the heir to the throne, and
leave the country forever.
A few minutes after he had
shown J. W- Harrison, Jr., 13.
how to,operate a pistol, Motor-
cycle Policeman Angus Fi.
Currie of Dallas, was accident
ally shot and killed Sunday by
the youth with another pistol
wh'ch he mistook for the load-
ed one.
The city of Dallas will vote
next Friday. Oct. 10 on pro'-
posed amendments to the city
charter, the principal features
of which are the substitution
of the Council-Manager form
of government for the present
commission form.
♦ +
With the Democratic and
Republican candidates for Gov-
ernor of New York both in fa-
vor of the repeal of the pro-
hibition amendment, the drys
of that State w«ll support
Prof. Robert P. Carroll of
Syracuse University, a dry, for
Governor on an independent
ticket.
At Waco Monday, Deputy
County Clerk Tom Morris is
sued a marriage license to
Moran Morri^ and Miss Tele
Morris, and the ceremony
uniting them in marriage was
performed a few minutes later
by Justice of the Peace Aubrey
Morris, a son of the deputy
clerk, but not related to the
couple who were married.
in
Jr.
in
Plant Diseases
Costly to Cotton
The 1929 cotton crop of the
United States was reduced by
2,000,000 bales as a result of
plant diseases, jt was declared
at Washington, before the
inter-American Conference on
Agriculture, Forestry a n d
Animal Industry, United
States Department of Agricul-
ture.
The United States has twen-
ty-seven diseases which attack-
cotton and, in addition to
these, much of the loss in the
crop is due to the inferior seed,
impoverished soil and unfavor-
able weather conditions. The
most important disease of cot-
ton in the Souhwest, Mr. Neal
pointed out, and second only
to the cotton wilt, is the root
rot, a disease which attacks
also a large nttmber of other
plants- Government scientists
have been unable to develop a
satisfactory control of root
but through rotation with
grain crops and other methods
there has been some reduction
of the disease.
Anthacnose, which occurs in
many of the cotton states, is
disseminated largely through
infected seed and effective
control is accomplished, Mr.
Neal said, by seed selection or
the/ use of seed from areas free
from the infection.
The conference also heard
discussions on plant breeding
as applied to cotton by T. H-
Kearney of the Bureau
Plant Industry.
ot
Talbott Selected
In Butt's Place
Col. W- E. Talbott of Dal-
las, has been named by the
State Republican executive
committee as the candidate of
that party for Governor ii
place of Dr. George C. Butte
of Austin, who recently declin-
ed the nomination.
Col- J*a'hott announced that
he would make an aggressive
campaign, and if possible
"smoke out" Ross S. Sterling,
Democratic nominee for Gov-
ernor, who has said that he
would not pay any attention to
the Republican candidate or do
any campaigning between now
and the general election in
November.
New York G. 0. P. Wills Point Fair
J, Frank Smith of Dallas,
son of Rev. J Frank Smith,
deceased, prominent Presby-
terian minister of that city,
was kidnapped Sunday night
by bandits and robbed of $250
that he had taken to telegraph
his wife, who was in Chicago
to attend a wedding. After tak-
ing the money the bandits forc-
ed him to drive to Fort Worth,
in the outskirts of*which city
he was given his liberty
Father: Betty. I want yon
to come from the party at a
reasonable hour, and not with
the milkman,
Betty: But, father, how ab-
surd- He won't be there.—Ex.
Site Of Town To
Be At Lake Bottom
Bagnell, Mo., Oct. 1—The
town of Linn Creek, county
seat of Camden County, Mis-
souri, will soon be under sixty
feet of water, but there will be
no loss of life, nor will the
property owners suffer anv
loss. The town will be inun-
dated by the Lake of the Oz
arks, which will be formed
next spring when Bagnell dam
now under construction here,
starts holding back the water
of the Osage river.
The dam and the lake it will
form are part of a $30,000.00:)
water project undertaken by
the Union Electric Light and
Power company, a Mid we*;
utility-
But Linn Creek isn't the on-
ly property of value that the
lake will flood, for almost one
third of the area of Warsaw,
Mo., of 2,000 population, will
be under water when the lake
is formed. In addition. 1.4O0
farms, many miles of roads and
thousands of acres of timber
land will be on the lake bot-
tom.
With a third of the work
completed, the water power
project is expected to be fin-
ished in September. 1931.
Power will be furnished to St
Louis and surrounding area.
Initial capacity of the dam
will be 211-000 horsepower,
with additional facilities to in
crease the output to 278.000 la-
ter
Eight generators of 3^,500
horse-power each will be op-
erated. The dam is to be 140
feet above rock bottom. Water
above it will be 108 feet high-
er than the level below it
A concrete road, state high
way No. 45. will be atop th'
structure. The dam will be of
County Tax Values
Total $310,352,100
Taxable values of Dallas
County for 1930 total $310,352,-
100, according to the tax roils
which were completed late
Saturday by Tax Assessor R
A. (Bob) Vineyard and ap-
proved Monday by the County
Commissioners court.
This figure represents an in-
crease of $5,542,810 in the as
scssed valuation for 1929, the
total that year being $304,809.
290.
On the basis of this new val-
uation, Dallas countv property
owners will pay into the cof-
fers of the state and county for
the current year taxes totalling
$5,076,697.33, as compared with
$4,879,313.69 for last year.
This represents an increase of
$197,383.64.
In turning the tax rolls over
to the Commissioners court
for approval, Mr. Vineyard
pointed out that during the
twenty.four years he has been
connected w'th the tax assess-
sor's office the tax rolls hav?
always been turned over to the
tax collector on or before Oct
1.
Coffee May Be
Grown In Texas
Has Wet Platform
Nominating Clias. Jl. Tuttle,
anti, as their candidate for
Governor, the New York Re-
publicans adopted a platform
favoring the repeal of the pro-
hibition amendment to the
Federal constitution, and fav-
oring in its stead the sub-
mission of an amendment out-
lawing the open saloon, but
otherwise leaving it to thi
states to be wet or dry as tHey
choose.
Van Postoffice
In Third Class
Effective October 1. th?
postoffice at Van, Van Zandt
County, was advanced from a
fourth to a third class office
and one additional clerk al-
lowed, bringing the force up
to four, including Postmaster
J. P. Williams-
The postoffice at Van is le<s
than a year old, having been
established on N'ov. 19, 1929.
following the bringing in of an
oil well there, which has since
multiplied many times.
FOR WOMEN ONLY
Witch: What kind of dates
do you like best ?
Hazel: Man<lancttC9' ° *
course.—Ex.
THE FIRST KISS
Claire (after the first kiss)
Don't you think I'm awful?
Clarence (mediatively)—Oh
you're not so bad.—Er-
is generally linked!, securet
$339,498 in 1929: St»ndar<
OH Company of Indiana $5.
062,893 in 1297; Standard Oil
Company of Kentucky $2,
629,313.
Harlingen, Texas, Oct. 1—
Another highly remunerative
crop will be added to the grow
ing list in the Rio Grande val-
ley if an experiment which has
been faring successfully passes
through the last crucial test
next January and February, in
the opinion of L. L Warden
who is making th experiment
The product which is going
through a series of tests is
coffee. After two years 't has
continued to grow and if at
the end of the third year,
which comes next winter, it
is striving, coffee production
is dest'ned to be one of the
valley's major crops. Warde t
believes.
Warden for years was en-
gaged in coffee production in
Mexico. Two years ago he set
out a coffee plant on his land
near Pharr- Today that plai t
is declared by Warden to Ik-
even larger than plants of
similar age would be in Mexi.
co. In its second year the oik*
plant has produced nine pounds
of high quality, he said.
Climatic conditions h a v e
I been ideal Warden said. Some
of the highest quality coffee is
inside the
8,830 Bales Bring
State $553,669.00
Aust'u, Texas, Oct 1—A to-
tal of 8,830 bales of cotton was
[>roduced and sold by the Tex-
as prison system up to Sept.
23, according to a report issued
today by George B. Terrell,
state commissioner of agricul-
ture. The average prices re-
ceived wa$, l2'/iC per pound,
the entire production beiner
sold for $553,669.
Cotton grown on the prison
farms brought a premium of
$5-65 per bale over spot quo-
tations in Houston, the total
premium being $35,864.
Terrell estimated that the
total cotton crop would be ap-
proximately 12,000 bales as
compared with the 3,000-bale
crop made last; year. He stated
this was onc of the best crops
ever made on the prison farms
and that if the price had been
good it would more than pav
operating expenses.
AH, LIFE!
Faces Big Deficit
According to the Will-
Point Chronicle, the bret
State Fair, held at ^ 'lis Point
recently, has left a problem
up to the directors, and that
is how to settle expenses of
$2,700 with assets of $1,400.
In every other respect th-
fair there was a decided sue
cess, but unfavorable financial
conditions cut down the at-
tendance.
Loses Eyes In Two
Separate Accidents
Two successive accidents,
coming within a few months
of each other, have left J. J-
Minatra. farmer living in th ■
outskirts of Funis, totalh
blind.
Several months ago, Mr.
Minatra lost the sight of hi-i
left eye when a cow hooked
him, and last Friday he losi
the sight of the other eye
when a can of concentrated lye
was overturned and spilled in
his eye.
Mr- Minatra was doing
some repair work about his
place and when he reached on
top of a high shelf" for n
square, lieknocked over the ca«<
of lye, which was uncovered.
Jury In Elam Case
Reached No Verdict
\fter having deliberated
since Friday night and failing
to reach a verdict, the jury in
the Lawrence Elam ease,
charged with the murder of
Albert Griner, near Elam, in
1928, was discharged Sunday
afternoon by District Judge
Tom Ball.
The final vote of the jury
was four for conviction t>
eight for acquital. On the first
ballot the jury stood six to six-
At a previous trial, held in
1 'alias County, Elam was con-
victed and given a penalty of
twenty years, but the case was
reversed and when it «v."s
reached for trial iu Judge Pip
pen's Criminal District court
in Dallas last month, it was
transferred to Waxahachie oa
a change of venue.
Said one actor tu anothei
"Gustavus you have known me
these ten years I think. Well—
you—er—lend me a pound?"
The other responded. "Hora
tio, I regret I cannot lend vou
a pound "
"Indeed," and why not
"Because I have known voti
these ten years."—Ex
GETTING TEE'D UP
Little Willie answered the
bell on Sunday when the min-
ister called t<> see his father.
"Pa ain't home". Willie an
nounced. "He went over to tlv
golf club."
The minister's brow dark
ened and Willie hastened t >
explain:
"Oh, he ain't gonna play
golf. He just went over for a
few highballs and a little stud
poker.—Exchange.
Sure I love the dear silver that
shines in your hair.
And the brow that's furrow-
ed, and wrinkled with ear'*
f kis.. the dear fingers, so toil.
worn for me.
Oli. God bles^ and keep you
Mother Machree.
—Rida Tohnson Voting
HONEST CROOKS
that grown just
frost line, he pointed out. War.
solid concrete with a spiilwav'den made the forecast that b'
480 feet long and twelve flood- ten years coffee trees would
gates to regulate the flow dur-
ing high water.
The lake will cover 60.000
acres and will be 140 miles
long, with a varying width.
The village, county seat of
Camden county, consists of
about 100 buildings. Most of
the properties have bee-i
bought outright by the electric
company, and structures will
be destroyed or moved. The
courthouse has been the sub
ect of litigation, but little
other difficulty has been ex-
perienced.
At Warsaw fifty buildings
and two miles of railroad must
be moved. Two bridges are to
be built there to cross narrow
stretches of the lake
Throughput the area of the
lake 100 miles of roads, togeth-
er with several small bridges
are to be relocated and rebuilt,
outnumber orange trees here
Fully grown trees will pro
duce not less than 100 pounds
eacji. Warden said, and mane
will produce more than tint
The nunjber that can be plan' .
ed to an acre is about 70. ap.
jroximately the same as citrus
This would make coffee coni^
pare with grapefruit whjch is
the most profitable crop in the
valley.
It was fifty years ago- H
was on his knees "Accept me."
he pleaded, "or I shall die"
She refused him and he died-
last week—Ex.
It has gotten so that
vacation is about half antici
pation and the other half chang
ing tires.
A man wa> siring besid-
the l>ed of hi« business part
net, who was dying S.itd the
latter:
"I've got a coti cssiou to
make. Ten years ag» I robbed
the firm of $50,000—1 sold the
blue prints of your invention
tu the rival firm—1 stole the
letters that were used against
you in your divorce ias«!."
"Don't worry!" saTd his part-
ner "Don't worry—1 poisoned
you I"—Exchannge.
mm i .i.i. —H—Hi
TAKE IT OFF
Two modern little girls, on
their way home from Sundav
School, were solemnly discus-
sing the lesson. "Do you be-
lieve there «s a devil?" asked
one.
"No." said the other, promp-
ly. "It's like Santa Claus; it's
vour father."—Exchange-
Shoe Sale
One lot of Men's $5.00, $6.00 and
$7.50 Shoes—Sale Price $3*95
One lot Howard & Foster Dress
Shoes. $8.50, $9.50 Shoes. Sale
Price $5.95
A Real Saving in Shoes
L. E. Gross & Co.
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