The Bartlett Tribune and News (Bartlett, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 21, Ed. 1, Friday, February 7, 1936 Page: 7 of 8
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Business & Professions
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& COLD STORAGE
"SAVE WDTH ICE"
G. C. CORMANY Prop.
R. S. SUTTON.M. . D.
GENERAL PRACTICE
Office in August Schrieber
Residence. Special attention to
fitting glasses.
Phones: Office 54. Res. 109
Gus T. Leatherman
General Insurance
Bartlett Texas
Dr. O. J. KOEPKE
DENTIST
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JUDGE'S
BARBER SHOl?
FIRST CLASS BARBERING
TEXAS WOMEN TO
TAKE ACTIVE PART IN
TEXAS CENTENNIAL
RULER'S BARBER SHOP
Snappy
Barber Service
Farmers'
Cotton Seed Products
Company Inc.
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INSURANCE
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- INSURANCE AGENCY -
Dallas "Feb. G Texas women
will take an active part in the
Texas Centennial Exposition
which opens in Dallas June G.
Women's clubs federations aux-
iliaries and patriotic societies
will have many special days and
will present numerous programs
during tne course ol the Exposi-
tion according to Mrs. Char-Ins C.
Jones Dallas who is in charge
ot women's activities ior the
Southwcst's first World's Fair.
The' Texas Federation of Wo
men's Clubs under the presi
dency of Mrs Volney Taylor of
Brownsville has been asked to
sponsor several special days and
to present programs representa-
tive of the various organizations
which make up the federation.
Under the sponsorship of the
Texas Federation of Music Clubs
of which Mrs. I. D. Cole of Am-
arillo is president many musical
programs will be offered. These
will consist of recitals by Texas
artists concerts instrumental
and coval and entertainments
presented iby the seven districts
which make up the Texas fed-
eration. The natriotic societies are now
I active in collecting relics and
documnts of the early days of
Texas. They have also been ask-
ed to form hostess committees to
entertain distinguished guests
on the special day which will
bo devoted to those societies.
Mrs. Jones announces that
each club group will present pro-
grams identified with their club's
activity. Thus the Parent Teach-
ers Associations will be asked to
emphasize the educational pro
gress of the state in their pro-
grams the church groups will
develop the religious themes of
Texas history and other groups
will associate themselves with
their special work.
Through the Texas Music As-
sociation a tri-state musical fes-
tival will be held and from time
to time orchestras bands and
choral .groups from the schools
of the state will be presented in
concerts on the Exposition grou
concerts on the Exposition
grounds. In addition to activi
ties centering on the Exposition
the women's clubs of the state
will take part in the many other-
Centennial celebrations to be
held in various communities
throughout Texas.
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There's a month of steady eold
is a Blizzard
your present Gas Bill!
Gas service statements being received now include die season's worst
blizzard. In addition to this period of unusually severe weather there
was not a single day from the middle of December to the middle of
January when heat was not required. This is one reason statements
covering this period are higher.
Another reason is the Christmas Holiday season. During this season
extra gasTwas required for entertaining extra cooking and for the
comfort of house guests.
During this continued spell of steady cold weather your gas com-
pany has been alert to its responsibility of having sufficient gas at all
times for every need. From the many hundreds of wells in the many
fields where the supply originates on along thousands of miles of
pipe-line system are employes with Jears of experience in giving
service and seeing that the gas supply to every home is adequate at
all times.
So when you receive your statement this month consider what you
receive for the amount you pay for househeating cooking and hot
water service. Compare the healthful comfort convenience service and
leisure hours you have bought with the price of anything else you pur-
chase. You'll find that your gas service is the least expensive of any-
thing you buy and the greatest value. ;
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When the temperature
dropi to 65 degree or
lower beat u needed (or
comfort. During the put
30-day 'period eicb'diy'i
mean temperature wai well
below 65 degrcei wltb
tome days lar below freez-
ing temperature. Please
consider thit wbeo compar-
ing your present gas bill
rith previous onei.
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The problem of erosion is not
new. This menace to our nation-
al agricultural welfare has been
and is a never ceasing destruc-
tive agency moving on its way
year after year with only an oc
casional opposition (until re
cently at least) by some ambi
tious farmer who is determined
to save his soil. The stark truth
is that we have carelessly and
indifferently permitted erosion
of the lotion's best farm lands
to proceed with accelerated acti
vity because of haphazard meas
ures of land husbandry.
Man's activities in subduing
the forest regions of eastern
America the prairies of the
West and finally the plains val-
leys and inter-mountain regions
beyond have proceeded along
lines of reckless utilization. So
vast were our original resources
of land that no one was concern-
ed with matters pertaining to
any plan of conservation.
But now the nation has recog
nized through the establishment
of the Soil Conservation Service
the absolute necessity of a con
tinuing ibattle against this pro
cess of land wastage if wo are
to avoid the omnious eventual-
ity of becoming the world's out
standing country of subsoil
farming with all the accruing
and attendant evils of poverty
undernourishment and declining
social and economic values.
Thousands of farmers within
the area of Region 4 of the Soil
Conservation Service in the
states of Texas Louisiana and
Arkansas cultivating slopes of
the vitally important surface
layers have but the slimest op-
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tory living whether prices are
up or down. There are many
far too many farmers eking a
bare existence from depleted
soils. They are housed in mis-
erable dwellings and live pitiful-
ly inadequate lives. Their system
of cultivating little plots of
ground scattered between gul
lies and fields devastted by sheet
washing can sustain but a bare
living.
Land impoverishment by wind
and; water erosion is a farm prob-
lem that far outstrips any of
the economic worries about
GUS HEISCH 55 OF
GRANGER IS BURIED
Granger Jan. 31 Funeral
services for Gus Heisch 55 were
conducted Thursday afternoon
at the home of Mrs. Bessie
Barnes by Rev. George W. Lair
assisted: by Rev. J. M. Wynne.
Interment was in the Granger
cemetery.
Mr. Heisch died here Wednes-
day afternoon following a breif
illness. He had lived here all his
life. He (was the son of the late
Andrew Heisch a pioneer settler
who came to Granger in the early
days.
WATCH YOUR KIDNEYS
Do functional Kidney or Blad-
der disorders Impurities or excess
acid causo 'Backache Getting' up
Nights Dizziness or Disturbed
Sleep? Bo sura your Kidneys
properly cleanso Qa blood flush
out excess acid and waste mat-
ter. Use Turner's Juno Tablets
live days and If not satisfied Dan-
lols Drug Storo or othor druggists
will rofund your BOc or $1.00
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which so much has been heard
recently. The United State is
enormously wealthy with re-
spect to extent of land but there
is none too much good! farm
land. Most of the best Boil is in
cultivation and has been for
some tim. Fart of this land was
only moderately productive the
day it was plundered of its vir-
gin forest or broken out of the
native sward of prairie and
plains grasses.
Lands which were thoroughly
protected through thousands of
years by unbroken mantles of
vegetation and had weathered to
fine mellow loams rich in vege-
table matter and the elements of
fertility have been successively
exposed! to tne aash ot torrential
rains and' the sweep of havoc-
playing winds.
The result of this man-induced
devastation of the land has
been so stupendous as to reduce
and destroy the productivity of
vast acreages.
According to figures compiled
by the Soil Conservation Service
following the national reconnais-
sance erosion survey in 1934 un
controlled erosion has Drought
about the essential destruction1
of an area of formerly cultivated
land exceeding the combined ex
tent of the states of Illinois.
Massachusettes and. Connecticut
or the equivalent of 218000
farms of 160 acres each. In ad-
dition accelerated washing of
sloping fields has stripped from
one-fourth to three-fourths of
the productive topsoil from at
additional 200000000 acres.
At least three billion tons of
solid materials are washed! from
the feilds and pastures of Amer-
ica every year. To load and haul
away this incomprehensible
bulk of farm soil would require
a train of freight cars long1
enough to encircle the earth 37
times at the equator. More than
400000000 tons of solid matter
are dumped intothe Gulf of Mex-
ico every year by the Mississippi
Kiver along with many more mil-
lions of tons of dissolved sub
stances. These materialsr'.et
I from the farms of'"th'e"Mis1S
sippi basin.
Soil losses from the Brazos
River watershed alone reach the51
appalling figure of 104250000'-
tons annually. This loss refers
to soil removed from its point of '
origin. Not all of it goes directly
into the streams but is temper-
arily lodged on lower slopes and
part is deposited over productive
bottom lands and in depressions
en route to the streams. Thus
the loss of soil from the culti
vated land of the Brazos water
shed based on 6748324r
amounts to approximately 12.4
tons per acre each year.
The cost of erosion to the-
farmers and ranchers of the
United States is conservatively
estimated to be ?400000000 an-
nually to say nothing of the
stupendous damage to highways .
railways and the silting of re-
servoirs streams and harbors.-
This appalling wastage is not.
merely continuing it is speeding?
up with the removal of the ab-
sorptive topsoil. Over this ero-
sion exposed material which us-
ually consists of impervious clay.
rain water flows in volume of
floods. Rich bottom lands are re-
duced in productivity or lmined!
outright by overwash. of poor
subsoil material and gravel
swept from the hill3.
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Fox, W. W. The Bartlett Tribune and News (Bartlett, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 21, Ed. 1, Friday, February 7, 1936, newspaper, February 7, 1936; Bartlett, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth76413/m1/7/?q=big+bear+creek%2C+tarrant+county: accessed July 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bartlett Activities Center and the Historical Society of Bartlett.