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BRIEF TFXAS NEWS
FROM OVER
THE STATE
MEXICO BUYS FLOUR.
The largest single cargo of flour
ever sent from the port of Beaumont
to Mexico, one million pounds, was re-
cently shipped. The wheat from which
it was made was all Texas grown.
SOUTHWEST TEXAS PLANS A BIG
EXHIBIT.
Joseph F. Green, manager of the Taft
ranch and farm properties, near Taft,
lexas, is making definite plans to ar-
lange a big exhibit of Southwest Texas
— at the Texas State Fair of
INTERURBAN LINE OPENF
The Terrell-Dallas InterurbVrail_
way the fifth interurban line “T
out of Dallas, was opened about*8 mid"
die of January. Various cele^10?8 in
honor of the occasion were a^ nu~
merous points along the lir , J
. The next move will be LIf
mg from Terrell by v of Canton>
county seat of Van to Ty_
ler, county seat of Sm" county*
COTTON MILL?" DEMAND.
Fort Worth wanyC0.tton mills>
wants cotton milhvanous West Texas
points, including „£bock. and Spur,
LEGISLATIVE NEWS BY RADIO.
The people of Texas are being given
an opportunity to get early reports of
legislative proceedings by radio. Each
afternoon a summary of the day’s pro-
ceedmgs is made under the direction of
E. B. Barrett of Fannin county and
broadcasted from the radio station at
the State university.
GIRL STUDENT BAGS DEER. I RffARIANS PLANNING TRIP.
■>. , J?r: student of the Southern Metho- A' least 350 Texas Rotarians are
aist University of Dallas shot and killed planning to attend the International Ro-
a nine-point buck deer, near the Holmes taf invention at St. Louis next sum-
ranch, thirty miles south of Kerrville, according to John V. Singleton of
during the Christmas holidays. This yaxahachie, governor of the thirteenth
o. l\/r: TL? nfo r>xr sJici-i-w nru ^ ,
Fort Worth wan'80.tton mills> Waco
wants cotton milhvanous West Texas
mbbock and Spur,
want cotton n? What is more, the
West Texas cF® ar.e taking measures
to build cottain tbe near future.
It is claime/that some. New England
textile mari;acturers will either move
to Texas establish branches in the
state. Tdy wiii be welcomed, but if
they dol0t come the mills will be es-
tablishc without their aid.
0 iiunuays. mis Buvciuur ui me rnirteenti
young modern ' Diana is Miss Kaleene Ifotary district. They will meet in Dal-
futwiler, who w one qf the leaders inj las and go from there on June 16 in two
trains which will be„ known as the
Texas Rotary Special.” The conven-
tion will open June 18 and continue to
June 23.
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athletics at the University.
WOULD ELECT PUBLIC WEIGHER.
It has been proposed by some mem-
bers of the Legislature to make tAe of-
fice of public weigher elective, just as
are other county officers. More strin-
gent measures are proposed by Market-
ing Commissioner Baughman, but he
does not include the elective feature in
the changes he suggests.
FOREIGN WARS VETERANS.
P. H. Kveton of Dallas has resigned
ap commander of -the Veterans of For-
eign Wars in Tf&gs, and John L. King
of Fort Worth been elected to suc-
ceed him. Mr. Kveton is planning to re-
move to California. The veterans have a
live organization in Texas and their
meetings always are interesting affairs.
WHERE PHONES ARE POPULAR.
The busy and enterprising city of
Clarendon, county seat of Donley, in the
Texas Panhandle, is said to have the
greatest number of telephones per cap-
ita of any city in the country. A recent
count showed one to every three inhab-
itants.
WATCH YOUR STEP!
So many Texas citizens are now being
run over and killed by automobiles that
it is worth any person’s life to stop, look
and listen before crossing a street or a
public road. E. S. Kirby, 81 years old,
of Huntsville, was killed in Austin, Jan.
3, when he stepped in front of a moving
automobile. He was a Mason and a Con-
federate veteran.
CHANNEL TO BE DEEPENED.
The channels connecting Beaumont
and Orange with the Gulf of Mexico are
to be deepened, and preliminary work
has been begun to obtain the necessary
right of way and dumping grounds
along the Nueces and Sabine rivers.
The channels are to be dredged to a
depth of 30 feet, making possible the
passage of vessels of considerable draft.
BOY, 11 YEARS OLD, PREACHER.
Probably the youngest licensed
preacher in the United States, is J. N.
Tidwell, 11 years old, of Miles, Texas,
son of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Tidwell. He
was licensed to preach Dec. 31, 1922.
Young Tidwell is a biblical student, hav-
ing read the Old Bible and the New
Testament through several times.
FIRST WOMAN MEMBER TEXAS
LEGISLATURE.
Mrs. Edith Wilmans of Dallas, mem-
ber of the Texas Legislature, delivered
the first speech Jan. 9th, on the floor
of the House of Representatives at Aus-
tin, that yet has been delivered by a
woman member. Her debut marks a new
epoch in Texas political history. She
spoke in good voice and her speech at-
tracted many spectators.
EXPORT TRADE OF TEXAS.
Few persons think of Texas as a large
exporting state, yet it is second in its
exports only to New York, according to
J. M. Petrill, foreign trade secretary of
the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce.
New York is, of course, the export cen-
ter, being credited with 38.17 per cent
of the nation’s exports. Texas has 14.59
per cent, and Louisiana, in third place,
has 14.59 per cent.
CONVENTIONS FOR HOUSTON.
Several important conventions are to
be held in Houston this year and plans
for them are being made by the Houston
Chamber of Commerce. Among those
definitely fixed for the Bayou City are •
The Grand Army of the Republic, Grand
Lodge, Knights of Pythias, Texas Man-
aging Editors’ Association, the Texas
Circulation Managers’ Association, and
the Texas Associated Advertising Clubs.
These are just a few, however, of the
many conventions to be held in Houston
f v ‘ ir.
Worth and Dallas, also, have al-
'ooked many conventions for
helping rural children.
The school board of the City of El
Paso has a kindly feeling for rural chil-
^8?u ®sPecially those on the outskirts
ot their city, where the population is
scattered and the educational facilities
very meager. So El Paso has extended
an lhvitation to all rural children to at-
tend high school or grade schools in the
city for just the same per capita cost as
the operation of their own rural schools.
AN OLD-TIME DANCE AT MERID-
IAN.
Meridian, county seat of Bosque coun-
ty , while up-to-date in many things,
harked back to the early days Jan. 13,
when its young and old folks partici-
pated m an old-time dance. The pro-
gramme consisted of the minuet, Vir-
ginia reel and quadrille. Mothers and
grandmothers danced side by side with
daughters and granddaughters. The
dance was promoted by Captain John W.
otandefer, an old pioneer, of Bosque
county.
LEGISLATIVE GAVEL MAKER.
Beginning with the Twenty-eighth
Legislature, when Pat M. Neff was
speaker of the House, John C. Adrain of
Van Zandt county has made and pre-
sented a gavel to each president of the
Senate and speaker of the House elect-
ed at the beginning of the session. He
is known as the “Gavel Maker of the
Texas Legislature.” The gavels are
made of various Texas woods, eight or
nine different woods in each gavel, and
are very ornamental.
FEDERAL AID FOR ROADS.
More highways were constructed in
Texas last year than in any other state
of the union, a total of 933 miles, with
many miles yet in process of building.
Texas received the largest amount of
Federal aid for road building of any
state, nearly $6^000,000, and earned
nearly two and one-half million more.
More than ten thousand miles of Fed-
eral Aid highways were constructed in
the United States, during the year 1922,
and more than as much more without
aid from the federal government.
WORKS UNDER DIFFICULTIES.
Tom DeBerry of Bogota, Red River
county, a member of the Thirty-eighth
Texas legislature, works under difficul-
ties, but he manages to succeed just the
same. He met with an accident several
years ago that deprived him of the sight
of one eye, impaired the vision of the
other and seriously affected his hearing.
He would not be discouraged, however,
and has succeeded remarkably well in
spite of his affliction. “You can’t keep
a good man down,” he says, and he is
proving it.
WHEN ARMY OFFICERS PLAY.
Army circles along the border are
looking forward expectantly to the horse
show and polo tournament that is to be
held at Fort Ringgold, February 21 to
23, inclusive. Although this is not en-
tirely an army affair, most of the polo
players are army officers and there is
much interest in the competitive
matches between teams from several ad-
jacent posts. Teams will be entered this
year from Fort Worth, Fort McIntosh
and Fort Ringgold, and it is possible
that a team will enter from Fort Sam
Houston.
INDUSTRIAL TRAFFIC LEAGUE.
The National Industrial Traffic
League will meet in Dallas April 18 and
19 for its annual session. This will be
the first convention of the League held
west of the Mississippi and indicates
K!a ^renc^ manufacture is towarc
the West. Industrial leaders will come
to Texas for the meeting' from every
part of the United States, and it will be
an opportunity for some of them, here-
tofore unacquainted with conditions
here, to get a little first-hand informa-
tion about the splendid advantages of-
fered in Texas for manufacturing.
PROHIBITION AGENTS ACTIVE.
Federal prohibition agents, during the
last seven months, have been very ac-
tive in the 15th enforcement district,
which includes West Texas, New Mex-
ico and Arizona. They have seized, it
is said, about 1,500 gallons of liquor
from 319- persons; they have destroyed
14 stills, and they have confiscated 34
automobiles valued at $19,525. The
value of the li(luor seized is placed at
$38,000, and much of it is said to have
been intended for shipment to eastern
states for the holiday trade.
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.
The usual biennial fight in the Texas
legislature over calling a convention to
write a new constitution for the State
of Texas has begun. The advocates
of a new constitution are not satisfied
with the wisdom displayed by the
brainy men who wrote the present con-
stitution and they want the people of
the state to give them an opportunity
to show how much better they can do.
The matter of a million dollars or more,
expenses of the convention and present^
mg the new constitution to the people
for approval, does not weigh much in
the balance against their wish to show
what they can do.
BORDER AIR PATROL.
The Mexican Government has been
maintaining an air patrol on its side of
the border near Juarez. It has not been
very effective, however, to prevent
smuggling, so it is proposed to enlarge it
and extend the scope of its activities
over a larger stretch of the Rio Grande
valley. It is hoped to prevent all smug-
gling, but especially the smuggling of
narcotics and liquor from Mexico into
the United States, for when taken away
without knowledge of the government
the export tax is lost. The United
States might join forces with Mexico
and maintain an air patrol on the north
side of the Rio Grande, for Uncle Sam is
just as anxious to keep narcotics and
liquor out of the country as Mexico is
anxious to collect the export tax. The
two governments, working together,
might stop the smuggling.
TRAVELERS GO LIGHT.
Commercial men are carrying smaller
sample cases, women are traveling with
fewer trunks and the public generally
finds it has less need of heavy baggage
than formerly, say Texas baggage men.
There is no effort to explain why this
so; it is just in line with what the world
is finding out, that distances are not so
great as they once were, that the mar-
kets everywhere are well provided with
what may^ be needed for emergencies,
and^ that is is not necessary to carry
one’s whole wardrobe when leaving
home for short trips.
SCHOOLS IN OPEN AIR.
Because hundreds of, children in El
Paso come from homes in which there
are invalids, many of them suffering
with tuberculosis, the school board of
that city is planning to conduct some of
the schools in the open air. “These
children should be in the open air all
the time they are studying and recit-
ing,” said the city health officer.
Classes in the open air and sunshine are
necessary to the health of pupils com-
ing from homes in which some of the
family are sick, especially if the suf-
ferers are tuberculars. The plan for a
number of open air classes the year
around has been endorsed by school phy-
sicians and nurses.
WHO USES THE®HIGHWAYS?
A summary of motor vehicle regis-
trations shows that more than one-half
million motor vehicles are using the
highways of Texas this year, although
a large number have not yet obtained
their licenses for 1923. In 1922 the reg-
istered motor vehicles numbered 526,-
238, an increase of 55,663 over the num-
ber registered in 1921, and the registra-
tions this year are expected to run close
to 600,000. Dallas county leads all oth-
ers in the number of registrations, hav-
ing last year 39,847, with Harris county
in second place, Bexar county, third,
and Tarrant county fourth.
TURKISH GIRLS AT TEXAS COL-
LEGE.
Among the students at Baylor Col-
lege, Belton, is Miss Leila Khayat, na-
tive of Constantinople, who came to
Texas about two months ago to study,
having been awarded a scholarship. She
was employed at the American consu-
late in Constantinople before coming to
America, and so added the English lan-
guage to her repertoire, which now also
includes Turkish, Greek, French, Ital-
ian and German. She speaks, reads and
writes all of them fluently, Recently
she spent a day in Austin observing the
Legislature at work and was invited to
address the Senate.
MILLIONS OF BONDS.
Texas municipal and county bonds ag-
gregating $62,073,681, were registered
in the office of the state comptroller
during the fiscal year ending August
31, 1922. This amount was much larger
than in, previous years, indicating a
busy building program in all parts of
Texas. In the year 1921 the total
amount of bonds registered was $34,-
767,270. Of the bonds registered last
year, about $21,000,000 were for road
construction, $15,000,000 for schools,
$11,500,000 for water works, $4,500,000
for street improvements, $3,000,000 for
sewers, $1,000,000 for municipal im-
provements.
POISON MENACES THE BEES.
So much poison is being used in the
fight being waged by farmers against
the boll weevil and pink boll worm and
other insect pests that the honey-pro-
ducing interests of the state are being
affected. The increasing use of poison
is said to be a menace to the bees and
many bee-keepers are selling their bee
colonies lest the bees be killed by the
poison. The choicest honey of the state
is produced, however, in a region where
comparatively little cotton is being rais-
ed, and in those sections the little honey
maker will continue working away bus-
ily as ever, storing the sugar of the
blossoms against the time of need when
blossoms have gone into winter quar-
ters.
MOTORS REPLACING STEAM.
Motor power is said to be replacing
steam on some of the small branch rail-
roads in Texas and members of the rail-
road commission family have suggested
that it may come into more general use,
even on some of the larger kailroads in
the state before a great while. On the
10(kmile line extending between Paris
and Mount Pleasant, motor power is said
to have largely taken the place of steam
with resulting pleasure to those using
the road and gratifying profits to the
owners. The cost of motor operation is
said to average about 14 cents a mile
against a cost of $2 or more per mile
when steam is used.
BILL
FOR REFUNDING
FUND BONDS.
SCHOOL
PRIVILEGED COMMUNICATIONS.
Representative Rountree of Bryan
has introduced a bill in the legislature
providing that “all communications and
information received by a newspaper
man in the course of his employment or
business as such, shall be privileged,
and such newspaperman shall hot be
required in this state to testify or dis-
close the same, or divulge the source
thereof in any court of proceeding,
whether judicial, legislative, inquisito-
rial, civil, criminal or otherwise; provid-
ed that such newspaper man may testi-
fy, disclose or divulge the same in the
event he waives such privilege.” A sim-
ilar measure was introduced at the last
session by Representative Rountree, but
failed of passage.
BETTER VISION WEEK.
The modern lighting systems should
conserve the eyesight, for there is less
strain on the eyes than during the pe-
riod of tallow candles or even the kero-
sene lamps, but along with the improved
lights has come a demand that the peo-
ple be taught how to use them proper-
ly, and so “Better Vision Week” is be-
ing observed in many communities and
people are taught how to use the light
It should not be too bright or too dim, it
should be in the proper position for use,
in one position for reading, in another
to light a table about which a number
of persons are seated. Discussion and
instructon in the use of lights and the
vision will improve the general eye-
sight.
Refunding of the State bonds held
by the permanent school fund at 4 per
cent, is provided for in a bill being pre-
pared by Representative Patman for
early introduction in the Texas House
of Representatives.
The school fund holds state bonds of
the par value of $2,772,000, more than
$2,000,000 of which is bearing only 3 per
cent interest. It is expected that the
refunding bonds at 4 per cent can be sold
to private investors at par on account
of the high credit of the state and the
large amount involved. Of the bonds
to be refunded, parts of issues aggre-
gating $107,500 bear 5 per cent and part
of another issue aggregating $229,000
bears 4 per cent. The purpose of the
bill is to take these bonds out of the
school fund and replace them with cash.
PRINTING SCHOOL TEXT-BOOKS.
When Texas adopted the compulsory
school attendance law, and later when
the constitutional limit for the school
tax levy was increased, it was forecast
that the time would come when Texas
would find it necessary to print the
text-books used in Texas schools, just
as is now being done in many states. The
movement that has been started for the
state to have its own printing plant, not
only to print school text-books, but to
care for much other printing of the
state, does not come as a surprise. Pub-
lishers of school text-books have spent
large sums in Texas to obtain and hold
contracts and it is argued that if they
find it so profitable that they can main-
tain a lobby and spend other money, it is
time that the state was getting the ad-
vantage of some of this profit, besides
which it would be doing its own manu-
facturing at home. A constitutional
amendment first would be necessary and
it may be placed before the people this
year for approval or rejection.
FAVORABLE REPORT ON PURL
WATERWORKS BILL.
The House committee on Town and
City Corporations adopted a favorable
report om the Purl bill, allowing Texas
cities of 25,000 or more to condemn prop-
erty for waterworks purposes outside
their limits.,. y
. This is a companion bill to the Davis
bill, which passed the Senate Jan. 23d.
The Senate bill was amended to apply
to towns of 10,000 or more.
CONVICT LABOR EXPENSIVE.
Convict labor has been found so ex-
pensive in El Paso county that it has
been abandoned after a six months trial.
The expense of guarding the prisoners
and feeding them is said to be more than
would be required to pay free labor and
the latter give better service, it is
claimed, than the prisoners. This has
been the experience in many other coun-
ties, although some of them continue the
practice of using the prisoners on road-
work in order to keep them employed,
arguing that they are in better health
and maintain a better morale when kept
at work than when kept idle in jail.
GAMBLERS SOMETIMES LOSE.
Gamblers sometimes lose, according
to a resident of El Paso, who, being sued
for debt, testified to having sustained
heavy losses .through a gambling hall in
Juarez, Mexico, in which he had a large
sa^ had lost upwards
of $33,000 in less than one month. A
high tax is charged for the concession,
people who formerly played heavily ap-
pear to have got out of the habit and
others have learned how to beat the
house. People don’t; play like they used
to, said one gambling bouse owner.
STUDYING BIRD LIFE.
Two naturalists from the American
Museum of Natural History in New
York city have been spending some time
m the Rm Grande valley studying bird
life. Many tropical birds are to be
found there, even some aquatic varieties,
and a regular sanctuary is said to exist
m the Laguna Madre, an island about
40 miles from Point Isabel, along the
gulf coast, where many varieties of wa-
ter fowl have their nesting places. The
naturalists expect to obtain much inter-
esting data regarding bird life.
CONSTITUTION CHANGES FAVOR-
ABLY REPORTED.
Three proposed changes in the Consti-
tution were given favorable report on
the Senate Committee on Constitutional
Amendments Jan. 23d. They are:
By Mr. Davis: Authorizing the Leg-
islature to provide for printing and pub-
lication of school books for public
schools.
By Mr. Burkett': Defining usury and
reducing legal rate of interest from 10
to 8 per cent by contract and to 6 per
cent in absence of contract.
By Mr. Burkett: Abolishing the of-
fice of County Treasurer.
IN LIEU OF BONUS.
As a token of recognition of services
by Texans in the world war and in lieu
of a bonus, Representative A. C. Dunn
has introduced in the House of Repre-
sentatives a bill to exempt all Texas "for-
mer service men from payment of fees
and tuitions of schools regulated by
state laws, making board and clothing
expenses all they would have to meet.
This would not only prove valuable as-
sistance to many former soldiers wTho
are working their way through college,
but it would encourage many who have
discontinued their school courses for
lack of funds to go on with them. It
would also exempt them from payment
of fees for correspondence courses, and
provides further that in schools which
can take only a limited number of stu-
dents preference in admission shall be
shown to former service men and
women.
BILL TO SELL UNIVERSITY LANDS
FAVORABLY REPORTED.
The Baldwin bill, authorizing the
gradual sale of the University lands,
which comprise, approximately, 2,100,-
000 acres, was favorably reported Jan.
23d by the Committee on Public Lands
and Buildings.
Two committee amendments which
have been added to the original bill
places discretion in the Commissioner of
the General Land Office as to the quan-
tities of the lands to be offered from
time to time, and also the power to
withdraw them from sale if conditions
are unfavorable.
The other amendment seeks to con-
serve the potash resources of Texas by
providing that the Board of Regents of
the. University, as soon as the bill be-
comes effective, determine what por-
tions of the lands have potash deposits
or are likely to have such deposits. Lands
thus indicated to hold potash deposits,
the amendment provides, shall be with-
drawn from the' market.
Representative Baldwin, who offered
the bill, says it is the purpose both to
provide funds by the sale of the land
and also to open tracts to settlement.
It is also intended as a revenue measure
for counties holding such tracts, as upon
sale and improvement the lands with
their improvements will become a source
of local tax revenue.
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Lowry, J. H. Honey Grove Signal (Honey Grove, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, February 2, 1923, newspaper, February 2, 1923; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth621262/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Honey Grove Preservation League.