Willacy County News (Raymondville, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 28, 1924 Page: 12 of 12
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Ferris Watson
Registered Breeder of
WATSON PEDIGREED COTTON SEED
State Inspected and Certified
CAMPBELL
WESLACO, TEXAS
We have just completed installing a
5-80-Saw-Lumas Air Blast Gin- and
are ready to gin your cotton as soon as
you get it picked.
This gin is what is called a slow
speed gin but turns out a much better
sample than most gins.
Let's gin your first Bale and prove it.
Warehouse
North ol the Bonded
Texas,
Raymondville
ANNOUNCEMENT
The American Cafe has been taken over by a new
management and will hereafter be operated under
the name off
Eat With Us When In Brownsville.
Allis Brothers & Nick Buleris
Opposite Travelers Hotel. Brownsville, Texas
Lyford News
I -
Mrs. Floyd Paston was shopping in
Harlingen Wednesday.
Mr. W. E. Sandel has returned
from a short visit in Austin, Texas.
Mr. Bill Sondle left Wednesday
night on a business trip to Dallas.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hensen were in
Brownsville Thursday on business.
Dr. Beck and Mr. Weininzu left
Monday for Houston on business.
Miss Louise Comp has been visit-
ing down in the Valley.
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Dodd were in
town Sunday visiting.
Mr. J. C. Walba of Weslaco was a
business visitor in town Saturday.
Rev. and Mrs. Leslie Boone were
visitors in Lyford Saturday.
Mr. J. W. Gilday of Bay City, Tex-
as, is here on business.
Mr. and Mrs. Swafford were shop-
ping in Harlingen last Saturday.
Mr. F. M. Jansen was in town Mon-
day on business from Raymondville.
Fred Bernard of Mercedes was a
visitor in Lyford Saturday.
Mr. E. W. Archer was a business
visitor in Raymondville Tuesday.
Mr. C. H. Swayze spent Wednesday
in Lyford.
Mr. E. R. Moriley spent Friday in
Brownsville on business.
Mrs. Stelfox left Thursday morning
for her home in Austin after a short
visit with her son here.
The cotton season this year has
been even greater than last year and
the bales are still coming in.
Mrs. F. M. Paston expects to leave
Friday evening for a months visit to
her mother in North Texas.
Mr. B. H. Wagner from Weslaco,
was among the business men who vi-
sited here Friday.
Mr. A. H. Jellsett of Memphis,
Tenn., was a business visitor here
Monday.
Mrs. O. W. Jones drove down to
Harlingen Wednesday in his old car
returning in a new Ford Sedan.
Mr. Joe Grant was among the
traveling men on business here from
San Antonio Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Swayze spent
Sunday in Lyford, guest of their
daughter Mrs. Will Phillips.
Mrs. Breese is spending the week
in the country with Mr. and Mrs.
Johnson.
Mr. and Mrs. Kriss Cloninger and
Kriss Jr., were shopping in Raymond-
ville Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Boldridge, Mr. and
Mrs. Finley and family were out at
° I the Turner Tract Sunday.
FOR SALE—40 acres part cleared. ___
Shack, 3 miles south east of Ray- j Mr> and Mrg< Q w Jones and fami-
mondville. $2000.—Box 58 Lyford, jy were visitors out at Deyo & Ray's
Texas.—(Adv). last Sunday.
Messrs J. B. Heard and E. W. Pet-
ers of Joneshow, Ark., were in town
on business last Wednesday.
Misses Lucile, Prescilla and Mrs.
Daisy Stevenson were visitors . in
Raymondville Monday evening.
Misses Hazel Archer, Alma Dick-
enson, and MesSsers. Clarence Archer
and Oren Harris attended the A. & M.
dance given in Mercedes on Monday
night.
Mr. Bob. Johnson and two nephews
from Yazoo City, Mississippi were
visitors in Lyford Monday, having
come up from Brownsville where they
had been visiting.
William Hughes returned from Cal-
ifornia last week where he has been
attending school, during the Summer.
Alfred Peterson arrived Tuesday
for an extended visit with his parents
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Peterson.
Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Jones and Mrs.
Postom and Mrs. Phillips were visit-
ors in Raymondville Monday.
Mr. T. C. Richardson was in Ly-
ford a few days last week on busi-
ness.
Mr. 0. W. Jones has purchased a
new Ford sedan from R. L. Hollings-
worth of Harlingen.
Mr. John F. Weinzierl spent the
week-end in Houston and Galveston,
returning Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Kenedy spent
the week-end in Corpus Christi as
guests of Mr. and Mrs. T. H. McCamp
bell.
Jersey dairy-herd of 40 excellent
cows for sale will sell one or all
cheap. Cash or good note. Three
miles south of Lyford on King Dairy
Farm.—MRS. E. A. KING.—(Adv).
Miss Alma Dickson, who will teach
in the Lyford schools the coming
term, arrived in Lyford Monday
morning.
Miss Elizabeth Archer will leave
Sunday morning fpr San Antonio
where she will attend school.
Mrs. Maude Wells and Mrs. Ima
Keene left Tuesday morning for
Braham Texas where they will make
an extended visit.
Mr. and Mrs. Swafford arrived
Friday. They come highly recomend
ed as teachers and both have position
in schools here for the term. They
have rooms wth Mr. and Mrs. Kriss
Cloninger.
A number of Lyford people enjoyed
looking at the plannet Mars thru the
telescope beloging to the surveyers.
On that night Mars was supposed to
be nearer the earth1 than it wll be at
any time in the next few centuries.
A party of young people composed
of Misses Lucile and Prescilla Steven-
son, Hazel Archer, and Lady Grace
Snow, Messers Crawford Quinn, John
h. Weinzierl, Clarence Archer, Albert
and Marion Hughes motored to the
Midway Beach where they enjoyed i
a swim, on Wednesday.
MUCH PROPERTY IS HELD BY
BAPTISTS
Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Farris and
family and Vesta Bagley left on Wed-
nesday morning for Lampasas, from
where Miss Vesta will go on to Colo-
rado to visit her sister, Mrs. Irene
Landreth.
Lucile, Prescella and Vincent Stev-
enson spent the week-end at Boca
Chica with their brother Mr. T. W.
Stevenson and family, returning
Monday morning.
Robert Snow and Vincent Steven-
son accompanied by Miss Mallie and
Freda Archer and their mother Mrs.
W. T. Archer of Amarillo, Texas,
motored to Brownsville Friday of last
week visiting historic places in balto
Brownsville and Matamoros.
Mr. Henry Crocket left Friday even
ing for his home in Oklahoma after
spending the summer with his friend
Mr. Oroon Anderson.
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Swafford,
who will teach East of Lyford, the
coming term arrived in Lyford, last
week.
Misses Lucile and Prescilla Steven-
son spent the week-end in Browns-
ville as guests of Mr. and Mrs. T. W.
Stevenson. .
Miss Lucile Stevenson returned to
Eagle Pass Tuesday morning after
spending her vacation with her moth-
Mrs. Daisy Stevenson.
in
Having sold Hardware Lumber
Business to Thomas W. Blake
Co. I want to thank my friends
and customers of the entire
community for their generous
patronage, and hope you will
give my successors the same
liberal support.
Miss Hazel Archer and Oren Harris
motored to Mercedes Beach Sunday
to join a party of people from the
Hughes Ranch, who spent the day
there.
Miss Vesta Bagley is spending the
week in Donna witl^ her sister, after
a short visit here with her mother
Mrs. Bagley and Mr. and Mrs. J. R.
Palmer.
Miss Lucile Stevenson employed by
the government as inspectress at
Eagle Pass purchased a Chevrolett
Roadster of her brothers and will
return to Eagle Pass over-land thru
San Antonio leaving spent her vaca-
tion in the Valley.
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Mr. Luther Hughes is. now a full
fledged lawyer and has hung up his
shingle in the humming city Weslaco.
Mr. Luther is a fine young man
which high ideas and we believe
he will be a great success in his
choosen profession, there is still room
at the top for young men of high
mindedness and strong characters.
Mr. Andy Miller has a date bear-
ing palms with nine branches of
ripening fruit, the dates were poleniz-
ed by the bees and are very large and
delicious. The tree is about 15 years
old. Besides his citrus orchard that
has a prilific abundance of
sweet flavored fruit he has succeeded
in growing grapes enough for home
use from one vine. His hopby is
fancy “chicks” his best flock are of
white rocks, sent from Indiana, but
he also has some fine brown legorns.
INDIANA WOMAN
SEEKS LOST SON
Baptist property in Texas is valu-
ed at $34,675,297, including sixteen
schools and colleges, six hospitals,
one orphanage, 2,150 church houses
and 550 homes for pastors, Dr. F. S.
Groner, General Secretary of the Ex-
ecutive Board of the Baptist General
Convention of Texas Reports. Tex-
as schools and colleges are valued at
$9,466,742, including endowmeent, the
hospitals at $5,919,460 ahd Buckner
Orphans Home at $1,000,000. Church
houses and homes for pastors in the
State have an aggregate value of
$18,289,095.
No other Southern State has a
greater valuation of Baptist proper-
ty than does Texas. There are more
white Baptists in Texas than in any
other Southern State, the number be-
ing 471,140, this membership being
served by 2,809 ordained ministers
serving 3,636 Churches.
Last year the number of baptisms
in Texas reached 33,780 and the total
number of additions to Texas Baptist
churches numbered 51,000. Contri-
butions tb local purposes in the
churches of this State totaled
$3,908,889 and the amount given to
Christian Education, missions and
benevolences was $1,609,903, while
the total amount of the contributions
was $5,518,792.
The value of all the Southern
Baptist church property is $184,725,-
000 which is a little more than a
tithe of the estimated annual income
of Southern Baptists. Southern Bap-
tists are said to have an annual in-
come of $150,000,000,000 and a tithe
of this would be twice the five year
objective set for the denomination in
1919. The Baptist 75 Million Cam-
paign will be closed December 31, by
which time it is hoped that $21,000,-
000 can be raised in the South and
Texas Baptists- are expected to con-
tribute more than $2,000,000 of this.
Special speakers have been designat-
ed to tour the State in the interest of
the Fall pay up drive of the Cam-
paign and also to speak in the inter-
est of the Future Program of the
Southern Baptist Convention in which
the South expects to obtain $7,500,-
000 in 1925 for the general work of
the denomination.
DO
YOU WANT
BUILD?
No Job to large or to smalL
Good Work
and the Right Prices.
R. E. Gresham
General Contractor
Raymondville, Texas.
LEAVE YOUR WIFE SOME
MONEY TO GO ALONG
WITH YOUR MEMORY
IT’S MORE MANLIKE
INCOME insurance is desirable-
from every point of view. The
wild-cat investment sharks al-
ways look up the window and try
to sell her stock. Protect her
and your family by taking out
income insurance. We ’ ’ll explain
it in detail.
REAL ESTATE INSURANCE
H. L. OLER
Phone 247. Harlingen, Texas.
EASY RIDING
Mr. and Mrs. W- C. Archer and
family left Lyford Tuesday after
spending a few weeks here. They
returned to their home in Pampa,
Texas.
Word has been received in the city
of the disappearance of the only son
of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Van Buren of
Madison, Indiana Rt 2 who state that
the son left home on the 26th of May.
That he left home in his work clothes,
but it had been learned that he went
to town and bought a new suit, hat
and shoes. That he is about 5 feet
8 or 10 inches high, fair complexion
and weighs about 150 lbs. and 23
years of age. It was thought that it
might be possible that he had come
to the Valley. The broken hearted
parents are very desirous of any in-
formation as to his whereabouts and
would gladly welcome a message
from him or his return home.
NON-RESISENT L.ND
OWNERS
I am in a position to sell
your land, at reasonable
Price, to people who will
come here clear it and farm
it Undeveloped land is of
no value to the communitv
or the owner. If you land
is cleared I shall be pleased
to look after it for you, at a
reasonable commission.
Write or See
€. H. BOLES
Lyford, Texas
THE riding confort of Dodge
Brothers new Touring Car is in-
stantly apparent.
Long underslung springs, deep-
er seats and greater body length,
have resulted in an unusual de-
gree of riding ease.
GARZA & GOMEZ
MOTOR SALE Co.
Lyford,
Texas.
’nnnnucnui u n in
E. REDLUND.
LYFORD.
TEXAS
i FOR SALE
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| Farm machinery, Cattle,
f horses and Household Goods
I Account of our moving.
NR. and MRS. A. H.
Lyford, Texas
Cotton Seed
(For Planting)
FROM present indications there will be more of
WATSON PEDIGREED COTTON SEED planted in
the Valley, another year than all other varieties com-
bined.
But this is be expected sinee many of the farmers
from all over the Valley are coming to Weslaco every
day and looking over the fine fields of Watson Cotton
and rpaking an inspection of Ferris Watson’s Model Pe-
digreed Cotton Seed Plant.
Solether Bros., C. D. Carnahan, W. H. Moreland, F.
E. Chandler, A. C. Hughes, John Kallio, Schwartz
Bios.. G. W. Green way and many other prominent
farmers of Weslaco who are growing Watson Cotton are
making from one-half to a bale and quarter per acre
and will grow Watson Cotton exclusively in the future.
The above farmers have found the Watson Cotton to
have a big boil with a full one and one-eighth inch
staple and the heaviest producer that has ever been
grown in the Valley.
We have already sold several thousand bushels of seed
in the Valley for next year’s planting. Pleace your
order with your local dealer or write or come to see—
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Johnson, Charles R. Willacy County News (Raymondville, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 28, 1924, newspaper, August 28, 1924; Raymondville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth874822/m1/12/?rotate=270: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Reber Memorial Library.