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MT. PLEASANT, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 12, 1929.
NUMBER 81
Senate Rejects
Agriculture Bill
TWO OLD FOLKS
Old grandad didn’t have all the ad-
vantages we have in these times, tie i
The Senate never spent any money buying silk I
compromise stockings and gaudy garters for girls; j
never a dollar did he spend to have |
his girl’s neck shaved at a barber.
Washington, June 11.
Tuesday rejected the
farm bill. The vote was 46 to 43.
The outcome of farm legislation now
is in doubt as a result. The House shop; he never blowed in his money
has flatly refused to take a vote ongoing to the movies; he spent his
the debenture plan. The Senate vote money for axle grease instead of
was a victory for those who contend gasoline, and he invested more in
the debenture plan should not be elim- piow points than he did in cold drinks;
inated until the House expresses itself, he didn’t have any bath tubs, and as
Some farm leaders have asserted he did his washing in the creek he
that Senate rejection of the confer- did not take a bath as often as his
ence bill would mean the end of farm grandson does; he never smoked a
legislation in the special sessions, cigarette in his life, and no woman
WE CAN T HELP
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If your appearance is not the
best, unless you send us your
clothes for treatment—then we
will guarantee an improve-
ment.
THRASHER
Phone 86
DIVERSITY IN FARMING
Order Santa Fe
Control Orient
The South is gradually getting
away from the one-crop idea, it ITnaiiy
having been realized that there must Washington, June 11.—The Inter-
be diversified agriculture if there is state Commerce Commission ■ uesuay
to be prosperity for the rural popu- authorized the Atchison, Topeka &
lation. There are some regions in Santa Fe and the Panhandle & Santa
the South, of course, which depend j Fe Railroads to acquire control by
mainly on industry, and there will be
some more of them in the years to
come, but the mainstay of the vast
bulk of the people of the South is
still agriculture and the prosperity of
lease of the Kansas City, Mexico &
Orient Railway Company of Texas.
It also authorized the Panhandle
& Santa Fe to operate under track-
age rights over thirteen miles of the
dional beats. They try to beat every- £0 a .]t,g. show and if he was living year-old child in an adjoining room,
body. Palestine, perhaps, has fewer now wouldn’t be necessary; he went Mrs. John Lawrence found the baby
than most towns. But she has them,
and they have to be reckoned with.
Most business concerns know them.
They have their records. But even at
that the man or woman bent on beat-
ing their way, succeed at times in get-
ing in their work.
to church pretty regularly and back- with a new' rattle,
ed up the teacher when he whipped j Mrs. Lawrence in a frenzy grasp-
the kids; grandma didn’t belong to' ed the new' toy in Her hands, hurled
the parent-teachers’ association, but J it against a wall and killed it with a
put up her owrn good lunches for her | chair,
children; there were just lots of things j The baby cried,
these old folks didn’t do and didn’t;
And what a life! What a reputation! bnow anything about, but they work-!
People who want to enjoy the best ed hard and founded a civilization!
things in life make their lives to con- that ought to be better than it is> j -
form to customs and habits that will taking into consideration their faith- j A truck loaded with watermelons
bring to them the best things. And fuiness and industry.—Marshall Morn-J was here Wednesday. The melons
effort to beat their way through life inj? NewS-
to get things and not pay for them _
—is no way to acquire the best in life. Over three hundred years ago a; —■ —
Any business man, if he was so crude submarine to be propelled by ■
disposed, could tell you a lot of things oars was constructed in England un-!f Mr' a"d Mrs’ Gu* Hoffmann Miss
about people in Palestine who are re- der the reign of james I. This proved j Laara Hot tmann W ebber Beall, Mr.
garded in business circles as “beats.” of nf) value other than a curiosity, j afd ^ ,.Lllien®tern> Mr- aad
So, don’t be a beat. Exercise that j Mrs. Willie Beall of Henderson, adn
advice that was given long years ago The Astern Star will install newiChaS- WriSht oi MemPhis> Ienn-’ are
by a Texas governor, Orin Roberts. 0ffjcers fur the coming year Thurs-jon Caddo Iake thls week f,shin2-
He quoted, “Pay as you go.” But day njgbt at 8 o’clock. Every mem-j---------------r_—r— ----------------
It was a rattlesnake.
WATERMELONS ON SALE
were grown in the Rio Grande Valley,
and brought, here for disposal.
Others have been more sanguine, but ever manicured his nails; in fact the Bq})JJ Ci'iCS OS
all agree that enactment will nowr be old man’s life was rather humdrum.! */■ ffrittlo_n
considerably delayed. j But he never divorced grandma; he' L\tlV name U perienced great financial betterment.
- never drank near beer; he never took Sliafi€-Killed j * ^outH is particularly adapted to
DON’T BE A BEAT lessons on the piano; he never played ' -- dairying, but dairyig is not the only
-- a saxophone; he paid his debts; never! Clarksdale, Miss., June 11.—At-! nctivity to which Southern farmers
Every community has its profes- siep^ jn pajamas; he hardly ever went tracted by the playful jabber of herj may profitably devote their attention.
' Food and feed must be produced on
the farm and in sufficient quantity
to provide all home needs, and there
must be some money crop besides
cotton.
In order to encourage diversifica-
tion, and to point the way in which
it may be successfully accomplished
a bill authorizing an appropriation ox
j $12,000,000 was introduced in the
United States senate yesterday. It
provides for the organization of one
rural community in each of 10 South-
ern states, including Texas, Arkan-
sas and Louisiana, with acreage
enough for 200 farms in which money
would be advanced to individual farm-
ers to enable them to get away from
the single crop plan.
When the last tick is driven out of
the South, when farm-dairies become
numerous, when there is a home or-
chard on every farm, and plenty of
eggs, milk, butter, cheese and meat
is produced for home * consumption,
and one or twrn other money crops
are grown along with cotton, the
South will have solved its agricultur-
al problem.—Texarkana Gazette.
most of the towns and cities de-Uine of the Kansas City, Mexico &
pends entirely upon successful farm-1 Orient in Jack County, Oklahoma.
ing operations. | -
Regions that have freed themselves.CAST FOR LEGION
from the one-crop system, like the I PLAY ANNOUNCED
dairy sections of Mississippi, have ex-
suppose, governor, you can t pay, was ber urged to be present.—Aileen Lil-j
the rejoinder. “Hell, then don’t go.”— jenstern, Worthy Matron.
Anderson County Herald. ________
The Weather
Mrs. C. G. Stephenson of Dallas is
visiting relatives here this week.
Mr. and Mrs.
Wichita Falls are
and friends here this week.
The weather for the past 24 hours
Dewey Copelin of according to readings made at 6:30:
visiting relatives j -
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Mrs. Rhea Cromwell and baby re-
turned Wednesday from a month’s
visit in St. Louis.
Play is comedy of College Life.
The following cast for the Ameri-
can Legion Play to be presented at
the West Ward School auditorium on
Thursday and Friday nights, June 20
and 21st, was announced today.
Judging from the first rehearsal, it
promises to be a good lineup, and will
afford the people of Mt. Pleasant an
unequalled opportunity to their cast of
all-star performers to “strut their
The cast for the play proper is as
The cast fo rthe play proper is as
follows:
Jerry (fake aunt)—Joe Black.
George (college hor)—Lewis Riddle
Dick (football star)—Lewis Mont-
gomery.
Molly (Dick’s girl)—Katherine Ford,
Betsy (George’s girl)—Katherine
Florey.
Ethelyn (Jerry’s girl)—Janey Flor-
ey.
Butter and Egg Man—T. R. Florey
Jr.
Collins (Dick’s dad)—C. A. Pickett
Prof. Gaddis—Sam Austin.
Dean Howard—Mrs. Sam Austin.
Dr. Seamore (college president) —
Bob Whitaker.
Mrs. Seamore (his wife)—Ruth
Ferguson.
Glee Club .President—Barney Rog-
ers.
SOME FINE FIGS
Chas. Wright of Memphis,
is visiting Mr. and Mrs.
mann this week. •
Tenn.
Miss Lillian Calvert
Springs spent Wednesday here as the
guest of Miss Maybelle Fielder.
Ms. W. M. Smith has some very
fine figs on some bushes in her yard.
Five of the figs she had on exhibit
Gus Hoff- Wednesday weighed a pound, which is
very unusual even for this country,
where Tigs grow to perfection.
of Sulphur ----
Each gi-oup of 50 persons In an
audience or congregation gives off
heat equivalent to that of an average
People of Great Britain
100.000 pianos last year.
bought size steam radiator.
Mrs. W. A. Phillips went to Dallas
Wednesday to visit relatives.
Walter W'elch returned Wednesday
to Electra, after Visiting relatives
here the past week.
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twice. 15c each.
SWINT BROTHER
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Cross, G. W. Mount Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 81, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 12, 1929, newspaper, June 12, 1929; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth785311/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Mount Pleasant Public Library.