The Rockdale Reporter and Messenger (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 26, 1924 Page: 4 of 10
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THE ROCKDALE REPORTER* Thursday, June 26, 1924_
THE ROCKDALE REPORTER low" * *"
; AND MfeSSBNGBR
JOHN ESTEN COOKE
Editor and Propr.otor '
WILL E. JAMES
Associate Editor
Entered as second-el*** matter J'uly
TW9t.acOajEWtoffw* at
I *1 - ■/-, Texas.'under the Act of Mar. S,_t8f9.
...PttbUahed every Thursday,^
editor* had their first
glimpse .of what is conceded to be
Texas* most beautiful site for a nat-
ural park. This canyon is a great
gash in the face of Mother Earth, in
places hundreds of feet deep, with rug-
ged rocks. dashing spring water, and
•beautiful trees. Amarillo and Can:
| yon jointly ^ere hosts hereNat a big
I barbecue -dinner served in a., spot
known as the “Devil's Kitchen.” This
Ideation is on the ranch property of
■■QiLmal Hpnry Harding, who donated
have been Me.sired; in fact, so many
they were and so varied that thp bus-
iness of the convention was at timet
hampered. ' , --
Qn the return trip The Reporter
editor and daughter stopped over one
day- in our old pome town of Claren-
don,' In this town we labored for ten
years, and some of the best friynds
We ever expect to have •till live there
—^tnd were glaij to see us. The one-
day-vi8if-waF_«nT“'foo~^^
scarcely had tme to more than brief-
and we" —,... . „ . . .
he will lie elected by a big majority,
crnor,of Texas within the next five
years* He is Neither a politician nor
a demagogue, but is a gobd, clean
Democrat, possessed of upusu'd. bus-
iness ability and a degree of real
statesmanship.
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE
In Milam or adjoining counties: ^
Om* Year *1.50
Six Months 75c; Four Months 50c.
To alF other ____ _______ ____
One Year 02 00
young registered tlereioru beeves fui
the barbecue .and helpjed ire serving
same and in greeting the visitors. Af-
ter the dinner a business session of
other counties: ___
____ Year.........................—•
Six Months $1.00; Three Months 50c.
Clarendon and its surrounding ter-
ritory. Ttfcse improvements, are
noteworthy, and typical of the growth
the ccmvention Wjua calledTo offdor-mT *nd expatl^Ioft QL.tllgt_ Kt‘eai country
after during these 15 years last past. Clar-
SvYouitgstodrn, Ohio, has moved its
public library to the public square. It
was h mova-of oq)y ^ four,blnclnr but the
theory If that the neare^ the hooka
the. more people .will use them; be-
sides, the “per-c.irculation; tost ol ve
erating the library soars and its so-
From the article below it would appe;
Zeke Marvin, Grand Dragon of the Ku jj
Klan was instrumental in'defeating Mrs. Van i
Watts as a delegate to the National Conventio
It might be pertinent to ask local Klansi
and Klan candidates if they stand with Ze
■chairman
eial usefulness goes down.
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advertising rates
Per inch. 30c; no ad taken for less
than $140.
Local readers, 10c per line, or 15c
if >*et in heavy blackface type.
-Notice—One cent per word will
charged by The Reporter for all reso-
lutions of respect and similar matter
by lodges, societies and organisations
of whatsoever, kind. Also for notices
of Entertainments, suppers, etc., where
an admission fee is charged the public.
~®1 Thte Repbrter 'ecRtor had the honor-ef
matters attended to, ..... __
the delegates were taken in endon was a nice little county seat
town with a struggling .college and an
incomplete school system then. Now
it is a beautiful little city, with its
business district paved and greatly,ex-
panded, its college known over the
state as the best junior college in
Texas, its school system * complete,
with two- handsome—modern high
routine
which the delegates were
cars over to Canyon City where they
were. -guests * of the College at
a plate lunch served \on the Campu»
just before dark, after which stu-
dents of the College put on a splen-
did program in the auditorium. The
be ["trip back* to ^marillo was made in
the night, and likewise in the rain, a
good shower coning lip to wet some,
and greatly refreshen all. * ' \
‘ "Friday morning’s session of the
convention transacted much business.
One of the richest and finest of
■brown paints is manufactured from
-mummies. Tfke paint is made by
grinding the bones of the mummies
with the bitumen with which they
were embalmed . ■
AMARILLO AXJL) THE TEXAS
PRESS
The Reporter editor had the pleas-
ure of spending three days in Amar-
illo, “the 'queen city of the plains,’’
' laft "week. ’The- pleasure was--made.
more acute , by the- presence of_sc\'-.
presiding over this session,, being call-
ed to the chair by President Sfm Bra?
well of Clarendon, who was slightly
indisposed. At the noon hgur another
banquet wasrserved
jirillo, the Amarillo Board of- Civic
Development being the hosts. At this
■dinner jthe—principal speakers, 'verer
W. H. Fuqua of Amarillo, and Fedr
eral ,Iudge Wilson of Dallas.- Hf>n.
lee Satterwhite. newspaper man and
•member of the Legislature, presided
as toastmaster.—r--,-■ » ———*
/Following the dinner''the delegates
kept their: seats.and held their after-
business session
Hx
eral hundred other Te*a* newspaper j dining ‘room. -At this
neonle." the occasion being the 45th *** as the place for holding the.
in
session
the hotel
Tyler
school buildings, and scores of beau-
tiful homes, reflecting., not only pros-
perity but culture and refinement in
the extreme degree.. Here again the
.cattle pastures., have friven way tp the
“man with the hoe;” Cotton > gins
abound where they were once unknown
and good roads..have replaced the old
cow trails. ' — ■—.....
_ annual vacation 4s- over, arid
the editor i^ back on the job; Sepev-
ing -that we have been bettered and
broadened by meeting and mixing with
>ur fraters,of the Fpurth/Estate, many
of whom we have grown to love, as
brothers. We feel that we are capa-
,bjc cf better . effort as a......result of.
-lhc.se tnitraal conventions, aridw##;
would- not trade our membership in
the Texas .Press Association-fee a new
p.reBs.' -——— ■ , • ' ■/ ^—
STQP THAT ITCHING-
-* Use Blue Star Remedy for Eczema,
Itch, Tetter or Cracked Hands^ Ring
Worms, Chapped Face, Poisoji
Sunburns, Old Sores or Sores on Chil-
dren. It relieves all forms of sore feet.
For sale'bf Baldridge Bros. w , -tf
Union*
x ' THE PROHIBITION ROW ;
In another column of tbday’s paper is carried, a statement I
Mrs. Claude De Van Watts of her intention to start a We*
campaign of education on the meaning of the Waco convk
Mrs. De Vail Watts and many of her friends are indignant o»
the refusal of the Waco convention to send her to New York:
delegate. As president of the W.C.T.U. of Texas her friends
lieved she-was entitled to go as a delegate at large. They
ignant over the refusal of the, convention to &
of. the Anti-Salo^l
annual convention of the Texas ri*ess
Association.
More than luflf the delegates to the
convention beached Amarillo on a spe-„
"xial train of Pullman cars operated by
the Fort Worth &-Denver City Rail-
way-Company. It was a “train de
luxe,” operated only as such men as
W. F. Sterley, the big hearted gener-
al passenger agent of that road; knows
how*. Mr. Sterley overlooked no op-
portunity to make the trip an enjoy-
able one for the press people, who are
under obligations to'him for his hand-
some contribution, to the success >.'f
the-convention. ,.
The train left Fort Worth at 9:00
Tuesday. June 17, art-ivisg at
Amarillo at about 9:00 p. m. The ed-
itors an<T their families we:
of the Fort Jgarth-Ghamber of Com-
■emventioni ■ "The ■ tuition-. ww
ABSOLUTELY!
unanimous and there was no other
town competing for the honor, altho
several cities put in a bid for the 1926
meeting. A. H. Luker, of the Grape-
land Messenger, was elected Presi-
dent, and* W. A. Smith, of the San
Saba News, Vice President. Sani P.
Harben, of the/Richardson Echo, was
re-elected secretary. The^ retiring
president, Sami M. Braswell, of the
Clarendon News, was presented with
chest of silver by the Association.
Following- adjournment tfye dele-
gate* again found ears in waiting and , a
were given a drive over the city, and j er-
thence to-the—trains, most of them
•nation; to combat - the autocracy of
The Repurler- editor fuund Amarillo
The Sheriff of Dallas, has declared
war on indecent dancing, bootlegging!
and roadside parties. The Sheriff
can’t, stop any of these evils.- There
is only one power on earth that can
stop them. ' That power is parental
controh^..When Pa and Ma take suf-
ficient interest in their children to
find out v^here, how and why they
spend their evenings; the evils, in-
veighed ay^flihst by the Dallas Sheriff
will be stobped; But the well-meaning
Sheriff of (Dallas will have to get af-
nd Pa.first—Abilene Report-
“Straws- show which way the wind
blows^* and straw-^votes ' sometimes
a special breakfast, at the
new Texas. Hotel prior to the- depart-
ure of the train. Abbtit 200 people^
'partook of this excellent^ meal.
The train arrived at Wichita palls
-gt—fche- noon hour^-and .ham., pa&sejq-
show the trend of public opinion.
overgrown western town the last the Texas *Wess Association special
time-we. saw it some fifteen years ■ *rain from iFort Worth
tgo, They now -rlaim 22.000- popula- last -'week a 'straw vote
tion, ahd have every modern conven-
ience, including natufal -gas. They
probably have more miles of paved
streets and highways than any other
as taken on
also on the
gers were guests of that city at a lun-
cheon spread in. the main dining room
of the .new Kemp Hotel. At Vernon
the Chamber~~dr ~Cbmm~ercg~1iafl rep-
cHy of the same"slze ln the”staleand*
f be, once “cattle town” is new support-
ed by all manner of industries,
the race for. Governor,
race , for Lieutenant Governdr. In the
Govenior’s race Lynch. Dayidson poll-
ed 76 votes out of a* possible 129. Rot-.
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resentativee to meet the train with
several freezers of ice cream, and at
Quanah ten eases of “cold bottles”
'Wen? placed Aboard.-- The traift-raach.
ed Childress at 5:30 p. m. and hem
a stop of an hotir and a half was
for supper. The people of
ertson w
Davidson regeived 13, Collins 7, Bar-
>n- j ton 3, Pope 2, and Mrs. Ferguson 1.
In the, race for Lieutenant- Governor
rrrd flouring miPr:—Thfr-great-.-eattle • j
pastures have been^tumed into fields | received 123 votes and Barry Miller of
of waiving grain or cotton rows" a mile - Dallas 6. It seems to be fairly clear
long. Agriculture has supplanted cat- ithat Lynch ftavidsnn will receive the
A—GIFT of
VALUE
--Genuine Gilette with two
blades for ...........
98c
Bpbbed hair girls are
buying them to replace
the barber.
98c while this lot lasts—
BALDRIDGE BROS.
DRUGGISTS.
Harper Kirby of Austin, * former1 president
League of Texas.
, Mrs. De Van Watts, in her stater^ent, does some broad insir
ing, bujrwe might as well come out int<3 the open with some of 1
reasons why she was notesent to New York. She made a sr
before the democratic women advocating a state Jaw prohibit!
Lhe sale of whiskey by drug stores.
MARVIN, GRAND DRAGON OF THE KU KLUX KLAN, ON
OF THE POWERS OF THE CONTENTIONrANP A DIRK
WHOM FEDERAL RECORDS SHOW TO BE ONE OF THE Bid
GES^ SELLERS OF WHISKEY THROUGH HIS DRUG STOwj
*NY DRUGGIST IN DALLAS.. -*“—~—“
OF~A!
A COMMITTEE OF SEVEN, OF WHOM THREE WERE C1
CLOPSES, ONE A TITAN AND ONE THE MOTHER OF A1
TAN. WAS N AMED TO SELECT THE DELEGATES AT LABJ
- ^TO THE NEW YORK CONVENTION, AND THE NAME (
WAS SUBMITTED TO THAT (
MRS. PE VAN W ATTS
MITTEE. '• /-' . - 9
But word of Mrs. De Van Watts’ speech had already gone for!
.and the committee pointed -their thumbs down when her name w
Mentioned. The convention as a whole did not have an oppbrtu
ity to vote on it. * -
But what the convention did to R. Harper Kirby is an illusti
tion of what it probably would have -done to Mrs. De Van Wat
Kirby was recommended as a* district delegate b£ a majority fn
his district, but the convention ag a whole, acting as it hada|
fectly legal right to do, overrode the will of a majority in the d
trict and kicked Kirby out, claiming that he had not been a]
Adoo man. (Political Advertisema
supper. “The
Childress met the train with'automa-
bilee and after a ride over the city
the press people were taken to the
railroad Y. M. <7- A- where a plate
1 lunch was served followed by an un-
limited quantity of Eskimo Pi^S. Two
hours later when the train reached'
Clarendon four pretty . girls boarded
it, with big baskets of brick ice cream.
These young ladies stayed with .the
train for thirty miles, feeding the dele-
gates cm ice crea maHd' vijB.'yi in Jaiu-Lu
their heart’#’content.
. Arriving at Amarillo' about 9:30
the editors’and their' families
were ’ soon -registered -in rpon\s pre-
gas fields bring, in additional revenue.
The brand of hospitality Offered the
editorial party could not have J>e =n
nearby of! and support of n majority of.TajcaK Wwi^.
1 paper men for Governor, while Ed-
wards will: get practically every mews.
paper mSn’s vote in Texas for Lieut-
mj>re- cordial ror sincere. The enter- enant Governor. The Reporter editor
tairiment features were all that could rjs strong for Edwards, •* We believe
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Hotel,, which'gives -about the best ser-
vice for the most reasonable price
tlje editors have encountered in kev-
atfijl yefirs. __
\ (Thp conve'htioH opened Wednesday
in the municifaT auditorium
sea’ts more than' 3000 , people
,
ft building of which the
iy proud. Principally rout'
ution business was transacted
that iday.' That evening t-he editorial j-:
were guests of the. Southwest-"
ern Bell Telephone Company at a
vbanquet at the Amarillo Hotel. Dur-
ing the afteimoon the ladies of the
party were entertained t>y Amarillo ‘
ladies at one of the Country Clubs,
of Which the, city has several. __
Jh^jonvention
noon to find literally
hundreds of automobiles in waiting to
transport tV delegates to the famous
Palpdtiro Canyon and thence to Can-
yon City where a" visit was paid the
Northwest Texas TaatWs. College,
otherwise known as the “Canyon City
.Normal.? It is sixteen miles from Am-
arillo out to the Paloduro Canyon, and
SUGAR-LARD
FLOUR—POULTRY
Tjie 'sugar. maTket has advanced about ninety points
ffom the low. point of the season, and at present the .
market is firrri. For the remainder Of June we will sell
11 pounds for 90 cents. ; . , - . .
Lard has also made a decided advance. We are still -
'• selling 50 pound cans of PURE LARD for 8G-95-. This
___.-..js;,'cheaper than we or our competitors can jbuy. it
■ wholesAle..Qn the present market. V . ‘.
-—The wheat market is stronger, and the wholesale pfic^
and Lily Flour has not yet been changed by us.
Bring us your POULTRY"and EGGS. Our Poultry De-
partment is last developing "into our best department.
We ar§ operating it ip a way that it-is rendering profit-
:ahle service-to our customers. We pay. the top oFthe
market at all times. ' "
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were -engaged in making necessary repairs on our "“high
linp,” we are grateful to the people of Rockdale. v 1_
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These repairs? were made, necessary by accidents that
•were unavoidable.. It was hecssakv to shut off the current
while the work was being don^. We tried to SO'ipanage_the'
repairs as to give as little inconvenience as possible to our
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patrons, yet ..we recognize the fact that many were badly
inconvenienced at times. To these we express regret, and to
all we extend our hearty thanks for their patience ^^ ahff for-
beajrarice. v. k ;■. ; ... " ■
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Our lines are now restored and-we hope that It will be
rnany years before another ^imilac disturbance of our s6r-
vice is made necessary. > * *
If you have not already stocked up on our JUNE SPE-
CIALS 4t will pay you. to dp so. Read the list over.
None of the items mentioned will be lower than we now^-
sell-r-Some ^tems will be withdrawn entirely , and new
items, will be substituted for next month. ,
obR s'fortE WILL on July ft h.
PLEASE SHOP WITH US IN ADVANCE. WE AP-
PRECIATE YOUR PATRONAGE AT ALL TIMES -
SCARBROUGH & HICKS CO.
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Sincerely
Texas Fower & Light C
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Cooke, John Esten. The Rockdale Reporter and Messenger (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 26, 1924, newspaper, June 26, 1924; Rockdale, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth693759/m1/4/?q=wichita+falls: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lucy Hill Patterson Memorial Library.