The Tulia Herald (Tulia, Tex), Vol. 26, No. 19, Ed. 1, Thursday, May 9, 1935 Page: 21
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I Thursday May 91935
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A llttlq snow nnil rain foil hi
this community Saturday morning
We only hope more will follow
Last Thursday nlfilit week Kress
Gleo Club1 iimiet llio direction of
Miss Evolyn Taylor presented a
splendid program at the Methodist
Church Everyone enjoyed tlio
evening
Miss Eva Taylor who has been
111 since last Saturday returned to
her work In Plalnview Wednesday
morning
Thursday evening the community
met nt the church for a short
program given by the primary
room After the program was over
everyone gathered at the school
building for a party Oames were
played The winners of the prize
in the suit case race were Clen
Carter and Muriel Taylor The
runner up team was Mr Martin
and HillDurham Refreshments of
cocoa coffee doughnuts and cookies
were served
Mrs Alton Hlackerby and oliil
dren spent Sunday with her mother
Mrs nramlet
Mr and Mrs Jim Durham and
family spent Sunday with Mr nail
Mrs Adolph Llndomnn
Mr and Mrs Sam Newman of
Cousins were callers in the Linile
man home Sunday afternoon
Mr and Mrs J W Carter entertained
the young folks of tho
community Saturday night with a
party Everyone reported a splendid
time
Mr and Mrs 1 W Carter and
family visited Mr and Mrs Loyd
Thompson Sunday
School News
The boys have been enjoying
base ball on the days they are
able to see how to get to the
diamond Friday they played Alex
under the score being 12 to 2h in
their favor
Everyone is working hard to
ready for final tests programs
etc School will close May 17th
We are very srory to have Neo
ma Fae Payne out of school She
lias the measles
Miss Leota Frizzell and Ruby
Lee Dickinson of tho Lone Star
community visited school Friday
The seventh grade honors have
been decided and first place goes
to Peggy Savage second place to
Jessie Savage
Tlie program for class will be
published soon Their program will
PLEASE
RETURN
OUR WIRE
POULTRY COOPS
If you have one on hand
Potiltrv Prices will be lower
in a few more daws Now is
the best time to sell We need
Cream Earn Poultry this
week at a fair price
Siimkt County fliiyfr
C L Berry Produce
Valley View Items
day lrother Hlulr will preach
Wo had a good singing but only
a small crowd Hut more than
UHUal A few from tills community
attended the singing at Way
side Sunday
J W Klker and Mr and Mrs
1 I McCombs visited relatives
near Childress mid Memphis during
the week end
Mrs W W Parker ami Mutt
Dorris Mrs M E Tedford and
Miss Nannie Tedrord visited Mrs
CI P llozcnian Sunday Mrs lioze
man has been on the sick list
We hope she will be well soon
Mr and Mis Hester Knight and
son Donald Wayne hpent Sunday
I ntlie W H Doughty home
Mr and Mrs i W Tucker and
children spent Sunday In the home
of Mr and Mrs Nelvin Hird
Mr and Mrs It A Wileman
and family were callers for a
short time Sunday afternoon in
the W B Doughty home
Paul Max Tucker visited Dan
Tucker Sunday
Kathryn McKinney spent Wednesday
night with the Misses
Lowe
Jnanlta Lowe spent Sunday nlgnt
with Marjorie Edwards
Mr and Mrs G II Reeves and
family spent Sunday In the home
of Mr and Mrs II Reeves
Barbara Lowe spent Monday
night with Marjorie Edwards
School News
The primary room will give it
program Wednesday night May 15
The play entitled Happy Valley
will be given by the hign
get I school room Friday night May
17
J The characters are as follows
j Polly Camp The girl who made
j a mistake iiarbara Lowe
I Pete The East Side boy Jess
Edwards
Jim Camp The crooked one
Jack McClanahan
Charlie Hurt The boy who was
sorry Jack Edwards
Rose Steel The girl who was
saved Ruth Foster
Harry Steel The country hoy
John Poff
Malinda Steel The suspicious
oneKathryn McKinney
Sara Who couldnt be driven
Marjorie Edwards
o
Mlauche Yurka these days wears
her redgold hair combed straight
hack from the ears while the top
hair is brought forward in a puff
ovu her forehead and looking very
Elizabethan Startling but smart
Very smart
For the tall woman there is
liotuiiiK mori flattering than a cape
while the shorter woman is apt to
think that a cupe will make her
look eiilely i Ju squat Put since
they are very popular at this season
of the year if you happen
bo short nick a modified cape o
a jacket with cape sleeves They
are must jttractive
be Friday night May 17 Tho
speaker for the evening lias not
been socured
Tho primary will present their
program Tuesday night May 14
They will present the operetta
Goose Land The high school
will present Antics of Andy
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Salem Items
We appreciated the snow that
fell hist Saturday and are hoping
t i get more moisture before the
weather clears
Wo are supposing some of the
Salem people attended the singing
convention nt Wayside fast Sunday
as our Sunday School attendance
was small
Everyone enjoyed the snow that Mn iml MvH n K Iunii > kln
fell during the week end but wui Vu11 1ilI11ig I the C A Smart
would have enjoyed It much bcttei j Umw Sunday afternoon
If there had been more Al1 M > arris Mrs
There was only a small crowd ro1 Ellls llll < l daughter and Mr
at Sunday School Sunday Lets ll1 Mls Taltou boring spent Sun
everyone try to come next Sun lay ln tllu j Is home
Mesdames L A and Frank Cox
II Harris W A Doan and 1
V Davis attended a social given
by Mrs M C Wheeler of Lake
view last Thursday
Mr and Mrs W 1 Lumpklns
and children were dinner guests
t Mr timl Mrs Travis Payne last
Sunday
Mrs iindoii Fussel of Sonora is
hlsiting her sister Mrs Frank
Cox this week
I was asked to announce last
wck that the Methodist revival
would begin here next Sunday
night but there has been a chango
made and It has been postponed
until later
Horace Cox was a visitor of the
Harris boys at Lakeview last
lien Frank Lumpklns spent
day night with Jack Frost at HappyMr and Mrs
and laughter
Canyon Sunday
Misses Clarice
Alia McGehee
last week
Little Patricia
ing medical aid
Wo are hoping
were visiting in
Lumpklns and
exchanged visits
Cox was receiv
in Tulia Sunday
for a speedy ro
covery
How many of you Swisher Conn
ty people read the news from each
community each week I read them
and have found by doing so that
one community lias improved very
much in the past S months Kach
weeks news reports the cooperI
ntion and visiting thai is done
even the school has improved so I
much judging by the reports Now
how many of you can guess what
community this is Please do not
think 1 am referring to my own
community for I am sorry to ad
mil that we are torn up since our
last school 1 wish we could get
light again and perhaps we will
soon
One of our county officials stated
in a public address recently
that a school teacher who teaches
our children knows more about
hem than we parents do understands
them bettor Do you believe
it I surely do not agree
with him for I feel like I know
my children better than anyone
else
Mr and Mrs C M Jackson and
son were visiting the past week
in a daughters homo Mrs Real
Locke at Graham
Mesdames A D and John Cowling
left Thursday for their home
at Red Rluff after a two weeks
lay in the C A Smart home
o
Redingotes always flattering to
mature figures are among tho
most popular styles
Those with printed
THE TULIA HERALD
WHAT THE PEOPLE ARE READING
Several years
writer Herbert
tribute to The
which has been
as to become a
Mrs T L Brown
Among the current bo > t selhus
in fiction mentioned in Christian
Herald Tulla Library lias eight
out of the eighteen named Yes
they are very popular So Rod
The Rise by Stark Young Mary
Peters by Mary E Chase Little
Orvle by Month Tarkington Good
Rye Mr Chips by James Hilton
Mary Popplns by P L Travers
Lamb in His Mosom by Caroline
Miller Now In November by
Josephine Johnson Green Light
by Lloyd C Douglas Here follows
a brief review of lastnamed book
j Minis progress through life Is not
> steadily onward hut for all of us
there conies a day when the light
turns green and the road ahead is
j clear This is the Inspiring theme
of Green Light
1 The characters are vital living
i people searching lor a way to
happiness through the congested
truffle of life Dr Newell Paige a
young surgeon who has ruined a
brilliant career to shoulder an
others blame responsibility of a
mothers death placed perhaps on
an Innocent party another cliaraei
week onies before the reader who
O W Hancock
Kij I believes that love Is a gift and
hate is a disease these and many
others play their part In the lira
malic sweep or Green Light
towaid its happy ending
To the thousands of men and
women who have found comfort
In the reading of Lloyd C Douglass
hooks we recommend tills
story of richness and inspiration of
piescntday America
May Li is Mothers Day an
annual event which is observed h >
Americans not because of Presiden
tIn 1 proclamation legislative enactment
nor church dictum Rather
il is because sentiment decrees
that the second Sunday in May
of each year shall be the day upon
which we honor our Mothers
ago a wellknown
Kaufman paid a
Prarie Mother
reprinted so often
newspaper classic
It follows
THE PRAIRIE MOTHER
She came to rock the cradle of
a new empire Adventure calls to
men hut duty summons women
And so when the time came for
new stars to be placed on the
flag she set forth from Maine and
Ohio and Killarneys loveliness and
her Swedish village and her childhood
home to mother the wilder
uess
Only God and she knows the
fullness of her giving to th
Keep a Good Laxative
always in your home
Among tho necessities of homo la
a good reliable laxative Dont bo
without onol Do your best to prevent
cooiUp Uoa Dont ntgleot tt wh n
you leel n of tU < Jl nree bI lymptonu
comtm on Wt h wed Ttardfordl
Dl ckDr ugb tor 1 r r nd h t found
It a rtrjr uwful mwllelnt that Tirjr Umllx
ought to h T tn their bom writes Ur
Perry Uleki of Belton T x I Uk BUok
Draught for btltouroeii oomtlp
ffir milne I
101 spi lug other UI wh BOO1 Ul Mr or punratlT
shortsleeved Is nMded I h t tw j found Black
dresses and longsleeved coats I Dr uiii iui ioo4 wiutu
monotone are especially attractive I B LACKD RAUG HT
Northwest
She lived in
hayroorcd huts
neighbor uften
away
sod houses and
witli the newest
a day s trudge
She did nut oven know tlm
luxury of floor nr fireplace Her
meal was ground In a hand mill
and her baking range was a makeshift
oven in the yard
She helped in the fields at the
plowing and the sowing anil she
helped to scythe the crop and hind
the sheaves
Shu watered stock and spun
and knitted and tailored She made
a garden and preserved the winter
food milked her cows and cared
for her children The sleepyeyed
sun found her already at her
tasks and the niidiioon beard her
j croon the baby to rest
Her beauty sleep began at ten
and ended at lour Year In and year
out she never had an orange a
box of sweets or a girt of re
ineinberance
I She fought drouth anil hearth
hind savages and savage loneliness
her Sunday Rests were calico ami
llnsey woolsey She grew old at
the rate of twentyfour mouths u
year at the grubbing hoe and the
washtuh and the churn
Hut she asked no pity for
broken arches her aching buck
poor gnarled hands Or for
FOR
RE
her
her
the
wistful memories of a fairer youth
ill sweeter lands
She gave America the great
Northwest and was too proud to
quibble at the cost of stalwart sons
to whom she willed it
And the comtort of
soil can ing
And throiiih n old
are found
a dear hand s
ldl billable
an tin mo 1er
IS lilA IlilChl
BULOVA
WATCHES
AND DIAMOND
RINGS
EWELRY
The annual audit for the fiscal year ending March 31 193 > has been completed
and is available for inspection at the City Office This report ihows in detail
complete schedules of operations of all funds ai audited by Cornell and Company
Certified Public Accountants in Ainarillo Texas
The comparative balance sheets as shown below reflect accurately the financial
position of the city for the recent fiscal year and for the preceding year as well
It will be noted that cash balances in the General and Operating Fund1 has increased
better than 700000 for the period after providing for payment of all
bills for the current operating expenses of the city and for the city owned utilitiesAlthough cash balances in intere l and finking finds has declined about
750000 during the same period it will be noted that the total bonded and
warrant debt of the city has decreased by 950000 During the year llie position
of the city debt has been improved due to the fact that on March 31 1931
the city was behind in principal and interest payments to the total of ° 15750
At March 31 1935 the unpaid amount of principal and interest was only
501875 indicating that during tliis period the city was able to provide about
400000 more for debt service than actually matured during the fiscal year
The capitul surplus for the year increased about 800000 after depreciation of
1092522 had been charged off Uie books
The comparative earnings schedule of the Light and Water Department sJiow
an increase of revenue over last year of 140673 and a decrease in expense of
177804 In these figures depreciation as shown above has already been chargedThe General Fund shows a decline of revenue of 389674 and a decline in expense
of 72652 for the same period This decline in revenue U directly attributable
to decline in your tax valuations and lower rates
Cash General and Operating
Cash Sinking Funds
Receivables
Delinquent Taxes
Fixed Assets Less Depreciation
Merchandise Inventory
TOTAL ASSETS
Assets
March 31
1935
10363W
312491
1188980
1370244
27563960
202713
March 31
1934
307106
1081218
986744
898841
28389365
178352
31671728 31841629
REVENUE
Light Service
Water Service
Sewer Service
Miscellaneous
Totals
II Is a tender
lCarlh
Ing
One
attend
Tulia Swisher County Texas
word It is the an
swer
To overy helpless childs
desperate needs
It Is a holy word a white
smail
fulfil
incut
With something or Christ wUhln
Its selfless heeds
The simplicities of life are In Its
keeping
The old sweet fragrance of milk
and bread
The scept of clean sheets through
a dreamless alccplhg
The rustics of soft garments by abedThere Is ono word my sister and
my brother
That lod has written underneath
His own
One word Ills Interiuedlarv
Mother
Who shares the tnsks He could not
do alone
Grace Noll Cinwill
o
Vigo Park News
We are very thankful
change in the weather
about a hair inch of
some report more north
of Vlgo some less west
ror the
We had
moisture
and east
of us
It will benefit he grass and
some fields or wheat I
The attendance was cut short
at the churches also at the singing
at Wayside
1 am requested to announce Hint
the revival will begin here at the
Methodist Church the first Sunday
in June Pro 11 II Allen from
exas will do the preach
She mothered men of the largest crowds to
Grace Noll Crowell has written any play here was present
a beautiful poem on this subject last Monday to see the pageant
the title of which is j Texas tinder Dirforont Flags
1 MOTHER I We are glad to report but lakle
i It is a beautiful word it and its Rogers who was seriously Injured
meaning l st Wednesday when his motor
It holds the reeling or warm arms cycle collided with a car in the
in its sound terrible dust storm is doing as
well as possible His leg was brok1
en just above the knee and Is all
present In the hospital at Tulia I
EXPENSE
Light Plant
Light Distribution Syntcm
Water Work System
Sewer System
Total
GE
Phone 111
Liabilities And Surplus
Bonds Outstanding
Warrants Outstanding
Honds Past Due
Warrants Past Due
Unpaid Interest
Meier Deposits
Reserve for Federal Tax
Due Taxpayer on Tax Refund
TOTAL LIABILITIES
CAPITAL SURPLUS
TOTAL LIABILITIES and SURPLUS
The play The Path Across Tho
Hills was given as tho closing
exercises at the San Jacinto School
Wednesday night
Mr and Mrs Earl Malono on
ter taltied the young people In their
homo Friday night wih a party
honoring Miss Foy Hcnthliigton
who loft for her homo in Plalnvicw
Saturday Ilro Foster came up to
he with thorn at their party
Tulia
suits
Herald Want Ads got re
YOU CAN SEE
DIFFERENCE
Mere is Al odorless denn
ing tliat brings your personal
clothe back to you
cleaned ami pressed as
you like to have thorn
ready for business and social
wear in the front ranks
Just telephone and leave
the rest In us
CITY TAILORS
< iortheutl Prop
FOODS
Wo handle high quality standard
brands of foods and carry an extensive
stock Look over our shelves before
buying elsewhere Our prices are in
keeping with quality
rocery
We Deliver
Financial Statement of the City of Tulia
Light And Water Department
General Department
Current Taxes 173700i
Delinquent Taxes 516740
Other Revenue 18101
Totals 2271937
EXPENSES
General Department S 631131
Street Department 361672
Sanitary Department 19131
Fire Department 77501
Interest Expense 1389750
Totals 21797 91
2101322
546119
1 tl7l
2661611
777579
388272
37944
155188
1118160
2507113
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Engleman & Engleman. The Tulia Herald (Tulia, Tex), Vol. 26, No. 19, Ed. 1, Thursday, May 9, 1935, newspaper, May 9, 1935; Tulia, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth45807/m1/3/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Swisher County Library.