Honey Grove Signal-Citizen (Honey Grove, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, October 9, 1931 Page: 2 of 10
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HONEY GROVE SIGNAL-CITIZEN, October 9, 1931
W. C. ROUNTREE, M= D.
Pellagra a Specialty
Dr. Rountree will be at the
Dorsey Hotel in Paris,
Tuesday, October 13, 1931
Detailed Population Statistics
for Texas Now Available.
Statistics for the 1930 popula-
tion of Texas classified as urban
and rural, and by sex, color, age,
marital condition, illiteracy, etc.,
have been issued by the Bureau
of the Census in a bulletin en-
titled “Composition and Charac-
teristics of the Population.”
The urban population of Texas
in 1930 was 2,389,348, represent-
ing an increase of 876,659, or
58.0 per cent since 1920. The
urban population formed 41.0
per cent of the total population
(5,824,715), as compared with
32.4 per cent in 1920. Urban
population, as defined by the
Census Bureau, is in general
that residing in cities and other
incorporated places having 2500
inhabitants or more, the re-
mainder being classified as rural.
The rural population of Texas
in 1930 was 3,435,367, compris-
ing 2,342,553 persons living on
farms in rural territory, and 1,-
092,814 not living on farms, rep-
resenting as a whole an increase
of 284,828, or 9.0 per cent, as
compared with the rural popula-
tion in 1920 (3,150,539). The
rural - farm population, taken
alone, increased 76,819, or 3.4
per cent between 1920 and 1930,
while the rural-nonfarm popula-
tion increased 208,009, or 23.5
per cent.
Of the entire population of
Texas, 73.5 per cent are white,
71.9 per cent being native white
and 1.7 per cent foreign-born
white. Of the native white pop-
ulation, more than three-fourths
are of native parentage. Per-
sons born in Germany formed
26.3 per cent of the 98,396 per-
sons comprising the foreign-
born white population of Texas.
Of the foreign-born white popu-
lation, 71.9 per cent have been
naturalized.
The population of Texas as a
THE COTTON TRUCKS
WILL CONTINUE.
whole increased 1,161,487, or
24.9 per cent, between 1920 and
1930. The number of children
under 1 year of age showed an The major portion of the cot-
increase of 14,206, or 13.2 peri ton crop in this section of the
cent, while the entire group of
children under 5 years of age in-
creased 77,261, or 14.5 per cent.
The proportion of the popula-
tion 7 to 13 years of age attend-
ing school increased from 83.7
per cent inT920 to 88.7 per cent
in 1930, and of those 14 and 15
years of age, the proportion in-
creased from 79.1 per cent in
1920 to 84.6 per cent in 1930.
The percentage of illiteracy in
the population 10 years of age
and over increased from 8.3
to 6.8.
Of the 2,207,118 gainful work-
ers in the state, 1,784,100 were
males, representing 60.2 per cent
of the male poulation, and 423,-
018 were females, representing
14.8 per cent of the female popu-
lation. Including both farm
owners and farm laborers, agri-
culture employed 842,001 per-
sons, 42.9 per cent of the latter
being unpaid family workers;
while the various manufacturing
and mechanical industries em-
ployed 343,779 persons, the larg-
est number being in the building
industries, in chemical and allied
industries, and in iron and steel
industries. There were 52,023
persons engaged in the extrac-
tion of minerals; 191,615 in
transportation; 305,880 in trade,
including banking and insur-
ance; 47,327 in public service
(not elsewhere classified); 130,-
120 in professional service, and
226,026 in domestic and personal
service.
Auto . tops built and repaired
at Clark’s Harness Shop.
Church of Christ.
Corner West Market and Third Street
Bible school Sunday at 9:45 a. m.
Prayer meeting Sunday night at 7.
All invited.
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LIQUID OR TABLETS
Relieves a Headache or Neuralgia in
30 minutes, checks a Cold the first
day, and checks Malaria in three days
666 Salve for Baby’s Cold.
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What Will
You Feed
Them This
WINTER
This is the question that you should consider now.
Yes, you have various kinds of feeds on the farm, but in
times like these you should consider what kind of feed will
give your dairy cows the greatest milk production, and
your beef cattle the greatest weight. Our State and
National Agricultural Schools and Bureaus tell us that
cotton seed meal and hulls are the best feed for all times.
Why not feed meal and hulls and at the same time help
dispose of by-products of cotton, and thereby help the
cotton farmer out of his plight?
USE YOUR LOW PRICE COTTON SEED FOR FEED BY
EXCHANGING SEED FOR HULLS AND MEAL—
A LIBERAL EXCHANGE OFFER
Honey Grove Cotton Oil
Company
Manufacturers of Cotton Seed Meal, Hulls, Cake and Oil
state will be moved to the port
cities by trucks, unless Texas
railroads bestir themselves and
cut cotton freight rates to a
point where the railroads can
compete. That is apparent from
a federal court decision at Hous-
ton Wednesday, in which every
feature of House Bill No. 336,
covering the operation of trucks
was upheld save the feature that
attempted to restrict the number
of bales of uncompressed cotton
that might be hauled in one
truck. The court held that pro-
vision of the bill discriminatory
against uncompressed cotton and
therefore invalid. An interlocu-
tory injunction was granted to
restrain the state from enforc-
ing that section of the bill.
Activities of the cotton trucks
will be somewhat circumscribed
on January 1, when the clause of
the bill limiting the maximum
permitted weight per truck to
7,000 pounds goes into effect.
The three-judge Federal court
held that feature of the bill con-
stitutional, saying:
“That this act, insofar as it
regulates, or seeks to regulate,
the size of vehicles and loads,
the speed thereof, and makes
provision for the safety of the
public and the protection of the
highways, exemptions and other
provisions complained of, is well
within the power of the Legisla-
ture, we need not stop to discuss.
Since most of the Texas cotton
crop will be moved to the ports
before January 1, when the fea-
ture of the law then becoming
effective would limit the number
of bales, under the weight limit,
to fourteen bales, whether comr
pressed or uncompressed, the
railroads are going to have little
chance to handle any consider-
able part of the Texas crop un-
less they meet or beat the truck
freight rates.
There still is another very im-
portant measure dealing with
trucks on which the court has
not handed down a decision. This
bill, known as House Bill No. 335,
attempts to limit the private
contract carrier, placing him un-
der the rules governing common
carriers. In the event of this
bill being held invalid, the Rail-
road Commission would be pow-
erless to regulate rates, s^iqe the
contract carriers would haul cot-
ton for any price they desired.
That would force all the large
cotton firms to engage in ^ the
practice of either maintaining
their own trucks or contracting
truck service. In either event,
the railroads would be left out in
the cold.—Greenville Herald.
Go to Clark’s Harness Shop
for your team harness and
collars. The prices are right
and the quality is absolutely
guaranteed.
Farmers Transport Company
Organizes.
S. W. Yeury of Howe was
named president and general
manager of the Farmers Trans-
portation Co-operative Associa-
tion at a meeting herd' this week.
The association already has one
truck in operation in transport-
ing cotton to shipside ware-
houses at Houston and it is
hoped to have a number by next
week.
Other officers named follow:
J. E. Francis of Howe, vice nresr
ident; W. E. Wilson of Bells,
secretary and treasurer; G. G.
Strickland of Van Alstyne, Roy
Morrison of Howe, Loy Helvey
of Sherman, E. R.. Brodhead of
Sherman, H. H. Wilson of Bells,
W. T. Brown of Bells, W. H.
Skinner of Honey Grove, W. J.
Durham of Sherman, and the of-
ficers, directors.—The Sherman
Democrat.
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Things I Never Knew Till Now—
That $50 a week Broadway-
ites and New York failures have
the most power in Hollywood,
and made people like Wodehouse
unhappy.
That if all the revues in town
omitted all of their comedy
sketches and comedians they
would still be funnier than
“Vanities.”
That you can be arrested for
eavesdropping.
That Nuevo Laredo, Texas, is
the bone-driest city in the entire
United States, but that it takes
only a minute to cross the
border.
That more tenants than ever
in New York couldn’t pay their
rent during July and the land-
lords can’t do anything about it.
That only a lawyer may re-
ceive stolen goods.
That Mr. Morris, who handled
our finances during the Revolu-
tion, died in a debtor’s prison.
That “certain” is spelled the
same way in Ffench.
That there are a lot of people
who cannot eat any sort of
starchy food, because it makes
them sneeze.
That it is against the law to
pawn a United States or a state
flag.
That after a man has been
tried for murder and acquitted,
he can confess it and nothing
can be done about it.
That there are sounds going
around all the time that you can
never hear!
That it is dangerous to blow
both nostrils at one time.
That you can call a man a
crook, but not a thief!
That New York county is the
only county in the state without
a county court.
That ordinary orange juice is
better than bicarbonate for your
heartburn, and that sunburn can
kill you.
That it has been estimated
that if a working girl in New
York gets $25 a week, it costs
her $23.50 for ordinary ex-
penses.
That a storekeeper must sell
you the article in his display
window, or go to the jailhouse.
That you cannot advertise a
“pool” parlor. You must say
“billiard parlor” and must not
cover up the window completely.
That a judge will forfeit a
thousand dollars to a prisoner
under certain circumstances.
That there is a car in
market guaranteed to do 50 in
first ,07 in second, 90 in third,
and 130 in fourth. It costs
$8000.
That you learn more in the
first year of your life than you
learn ever afterwards.
That Harper’s received about
25,000 manuscripts last year,
and used only 175. The Satur-
day Evening Post gets an aver-
age of 1000 daily.
That the first air-cooled train
is now on the Baltimore & Ohio
road; no cinders, smoke, etc.
That one of the wags observse
that an optimist is a fellow who
actually believes the radio pro-
grams will improve!
That before prohibition you
could sell a kid a drink if he was
16. But he had to be 18 before
you could sell him cigarettes.
How Moon Generates Two
Tides at Same Time.
While the moon is lifting a
tide in the ocean immediately
under it, it is also creating a like
tide at the opposite side of the
earth. The waters next to the
moon being mobile and also
nearer the moon than the solid
earth beneath, are more imme-
diately affected than the solid
earth, and so the moon tends to
pull the waters away from the
earth. But the simultaneous
tide at the earth’s opposite side
is due to the fact that there the
ocean depths are more remote
from the moon than the solid
earth, consequently the moon
tends to pull the solid earth
away from the distant waters,
and a tide is the result.
AT YOUR SERVICE
The Honey Grove Chamber of Commerce is your
organization and to receive value from it commensurate
with your monthly contributions, you should use it; you
should attend the meetings, and you should put something
into it in addition to the funds with which you help to sus-
tain it. One man, or even a half a dozen men, cannot make
a Chamber of Commerce a successful one. It takes the ef-
fort of every business man and every interested citizen to
make an organization capable of doing those things which
it has for its purpose. Give it your assistance by using it
at all times, and help it by giving it n’ew ideas.
Honey Grove Chamber of Commerce
Farmer Adopts Unusual Way
of Growing Lettuce.
Charles Weyland, who raised
more than $1000 worth of
grapes on four acres this year
on his farm near Waller, has a
unique method of making early
planting of lettuce.
“I wrap the lettuce seed in
damp cloth and put them into
an icebox,” Weyland said. “I do
this because lettuce seed require
low temperatures to germinate.
Practically all other seeds must
have warmth to germinate.
“When the plants are about
three inches long, I pinch off the
top leaves and transplant the
roots about one foot apart in
rows in the field. The rows are
about two feet apart. One hun-
dred pounds of nitrate of soda
to the acre stimulates the
growth of lettuce after the
plants begin to form heads.”
Mr. Weyland has grown lettuce
for commercial purposes for sev-
eral years.—Houston Chronicle.
One Grapefruit Brings as
Much as Bushel in Valley.
While in Dallas attending a
convention last week, Dr. J.
Fred Bure was charged as much
for one grapefruit in a Dallas
hotel as the grower gets for one
bushel in the valley where they
are grown. It would take one
sheep on foot in Kimble county
to pay the price for two lamb
chops in the same hotel. Dr.
Burt thinks the difference m
price in the articles served in
the the Dallas hotel and that re-
ceived by the grower in Kimble
county is too great.
Dr. Burt further observes
that twenty cents worth of Kim-
ble county pecans brings $1.60
when shelled and shipped back
to the stores in Junction for re-
sale.—Junction Eagle.
Elected Class Reporter.
Belton, Oct. 5.—Miss Billy
Morgan Goss of Honey Grove
has recently been elected as re-
porter of the Academy senior
class at Baylor Collge for
Women. Immediately after the
election plans were made for fur-
ther organization and the elec-
tion of officers for the Girls’
Athletic Assoication. This is
Miss Goss’ second year in Bay-
lor College.
WE WRITE
all kinds of
Insurance
including Hail on
growing crops.
Make loans on auto-
mobiles and do
Notary work.
J. E. THOMSON
Office in Barber [Shop
East Side Square
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
Dr. H. H. Donaldson
Physician and Surgeon
Office:
Second Floor Lamar State Bank
PARIS. TEXAS
G.M. Whitley,M.D.
Now Located in
Clayton Building
Southwest Comer Square
Ground Floor West End
Rear Clayton Drug Store
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GENERAL PRACTICE
Special attention to probate mat
ters, settlement of estates and
Commercial Practice.
“For Health”
— SEE —
Dr. S. H. Pruitt
CHIROPRACTOR
and MASSEUR
Located over Square Market
Office Residence
Phone 69 Phone 137
Mature Thought of
Everything
Young Isaac had not been away
from home long when he sent his
father this telegram: “Am broke
anddiave no friends. What shall
Ido?”
Abraham, his father, wires
back: “Friendship is a wonderful
thing, make some friends right
away.”
Nature thought of everything when
the human body was made. When the
body is about to become ill, nature
planned danger signals to warn us.,
Thus, if our children grind their teeth,
when they sleep, or lack appetite{ or
Buffer from abdominal pains, or itch
about the nose and fingers, we should
know that they may have contracted
worms. Then, u we are wise, we buy a.
bottle of White’s Cream Vermifuge and
eafely and surely expel the worms. Thus
we avoid the danger of very, serious
trouble. White’s Cream Vermifuge costs
only 35c a bottle, and can be bought from
The Pharmacy
LABOR PRICES REDUCED
Ford Labor Schedule Prices 25% to 35% Lower
In keeping with other conditions we announce a substantial
reduction in labor prices in our mechanical shop, this re-
duction amounting to 25 to 35 per cent, and we are sure our
patrons will appreciate this saving to them. In announcing
this reduction we wish to assure you that there will be no
reduction in character of work, as all work is guaranteed to
be up to the high standard set by the Ford Motor Co. Our
mechanics are Ford trained, and experienced in every line
of mechanical work.
Large Stock Genuine Ford Parts
Our stock of parts is always complete and you know you are
getting genuine parts when you have your mechanical work
done here. We solicit your lepairing, greasing, car wash-
ing or any work in our line.
FIRESTONE TIRES AND TUBES
AND ACCESSORIES
CARL T. JOHNSON
S AL E S
SOUTH SIXTH STREET
SERVICE
HONEY GROVE
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Lowry, J. H. & Moyer, H. B. Honey Grove Signal-Citizen (Honey Grove, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, October 9, 1931, newspaper, October 9, 1931; Honey Grove, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth648002/m1/2/?q=Lamar+University: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Honey Grove Preservation League.