Willacy County News (Raymondville, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 28, 1924 Page: 7 of 12
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The Methodist Episcopal temple, in the heart of Chicago’s loop, is the
tallest church building in the world. The auditorium of the church is on the
main floor and seats about 1,500 persons. The remainder of the building is
occupied by business offices.
Port of Flyers in Greenland
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Jlyers planned to stop on their flight
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'Ip HERE is rnpch comfort to many
'*■ of us in the parable of the Prodi-
gal Son. The ending of the story
seems so happy and so satisfying. But
this is all because we do not read the
tale carefully; we do not grasp all
that is implied. We see the boy in
the elegant garments whicli the father
has brought out. we smell the savory
■odors of the feast in preparation, and
we catch the sound of music and of
ihincing, and are deceived into sUppos-
ng that the son’s unwholesome past
/has been wiped' out and that life for
him in the future is to be as if the
past had never been.
r$One can turn his face in a new di-
rection—that’s what conversion means.
—one can get a new start, but there
vi is always one’s past to be reckoned
with.
^Underneath the embroidered silken
i^nnents which thfc returned prodigal
was wearing was his shattered body,
torn by want and disease and dissipa-
tion. In his mind was still the tar-
nished memory of an unspeakable
pasty > He was a pamper, too, for his
■Inheritance had been wasted in riotous-
living. When the ill-tempered elder
brother complained at the wasteful ex
penditure which was being made in
celebration of the prodigal’s return
the father answered.
“Son, all that I have is thine.”
The prodigal had started out with
an inheritance, but he had wasted it.
.He was starting again, but with noth-
ing but a second chance.
In one of her stories Margaret Pres
•cott Montague has the drunkard say
to Just Jimmie, “Little pal, don’t you
get drunk. You wouldn’t find any
thing so nice again, not ever again.”
It is good to come back1*home; It’s
manly to start over again, and the re-
ward is quite worth while, but a
wasted inheritance, moral or intelTee-
titeil, is not atoned for in a day. The
handicap of a wasted or an unim-
proved past can be overcome in time,
if one goes at it with courage and
persistence, but hot at once. And
there are many prodigals even today
—very, very many who come back—
who will never “find anything so nice
■again, not ever again.”
C©. 1924, Western Newspaper • Union.)
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our Conversation######^
| “A LA CARTE” %
j| The diner in the better class *
iiotel and restaurant is con- #
Jt fronted by two alternatives. He ||
4* may take a dinner at a fixed 4
|° charge in which his menu is
<# limited to a choice of two or #
J|| three articles of each class. He $
# may also get an “a la carte” #
service by which he consults en- ^
Jj tirely his appetite or his pock-
!f, etb'ook. The phrase is French. #
# meaning, “according to the %
j. card,” which lists both foods #
# and prices. ^
Prosperity on the Farm.
Prosperity on the farm is a mixture
of peas, peanuts, potatoes and pigs.
A safe farming program always in-
cludes these. If you want to “go
broke” forget to provide feed and food
for the livestock and family, in crops
a year or two, and start on an all cot-
ton program. You will soon call for
help, or at least that is the experience
of all who have tried that route so far.
A farmer is the only business man in
existence that can “go broke” every
-year and still stay on the job.
r Warren County, Illinois, banks
ffered a total of $200 in prizes
beef cattle club-in that county.
Fig Growers Organize.
Six hundred and twenty local fig
growers of Brazoria County met at
Angleton, Texas, June 20th for. the
purpose of taking steps toward organ-
izing a county association for looking
after the interest of the fig growers.
Marketing specialists from the A- and
M. College discussed the marketing
problems while representatives of the
Texas Farm Bureau Association ex-
Br. Walter Splawn Friday assumed
his duties as president of the Uni-
versity of Texas. * * •
The first sack of rice, of this year's
crop, was grown and threshed by
John Otis of Wadsworth, and brought
to Texas City Friday.
A train shed is to be built over the
tracks of the main line of the Inter-
national-Great Northern and the
tj road bonds of road district No. 1, ■
bearing 5% per cent and maturing J
serially, has been approved by-
bonds, $7000.
Plans for the construction of a stock
judging pavilion at the Texas Tech-
nological College at Lubbock, to
tract will be awarded shortly.
solidated independent school district
bonds.
Warning that the outbreak of an-
serjflps and tnat every precaution inusi
ntif>pn was isunpfl this week by
on G. Cloud, State veterinarian
of the livestock sanitary commission
of Texas.
Texas cotton planters used 109,000
tons of fertilizer this year, according
to information gathered by the United
States department of agriculture, at
an average cost of $3.08 per acre, or
$35.20 per ton. The entire cotton belt
used about 2,000,000 tons.
State prison farms this year have
apparently made their heaviest crop
within recent years, according to a
preliminary report made to Governor
Neff by Mrs. J. E. King, chairman of
the state prison advisory council. The
cotton yield will exceed a bale per
acre on much of the prison farm lands
she reported.
Another tropical fruit was added to
the list of valley products this week
when olives began ripening in the
olive orchard on the Stiles plantation
northeast of Brownsville. The olive
trees will he 10 years old this fall.
Last spring the trees bloomed pro-
fusely and the fruit set fairly heavy.
The yield this year will be good for
the first year crop, according to ex-
perts.
Work was started Monday on the
largest piece of levee work and the
inital step towards Valleywide flood
control when the large four and one-
half yard Monighan drag line dredg-
ing machine commenced throwing
earth for an extensive levee to be con-
structed around the city of Weslaco
about 40 miles above Brownsville. The
levee will be approximately five miles
in length and will have a mean height
of 12 feet. Preliminary work amoun-
ing to $10,000 has already been com-
pleted.
Kaolin found in Texas compares fa-
vorably with English china clays now
used, in the manufacture of china, it
was stated at the department of com-
merce following the report of a test
made with Texas deposits by the de-
partment’s bureau of standards. The
results indicate that the Texas pro-
duct can be used satisfactorily for
whiteware bodies, but due to the rel:
ative coarseness of its grains and its
high refractoriness, it would require
more preliminary grinding than would
the English clays.
The entomologist section of the
State department of agriculture is as-
sisting the State cf Arizona1 in combat-
ing the boll weevil in the Santa Cata-
lina mountain regions where a form
of wild cotton is grown. This wild
cotton is found growing at an altitude
from C000 to 8000 feet. A study of the
plant life has led to the discovery of
a plant weevil on this cotton which
is very similar to the boll weevil found
on cotton in Texas. Study of this wee*
vil shows it to be of the same species
as the boil weevil.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Raymondvilie,
/. DUTTON
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Raymondvilie,
Texas.
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James P. Cogdell
County Attoray
(Three years General Attorny
for Loan Company.)
Practice in All Courts
Land Titles a Specialty
Raymondvilie, Texas.
LAND TITLES
UNSAFE
Do you realize the Risk you are taking by not keet-inff
your deeds and other valuable papers in our safety i>$~
posit Boxes.
We have some not in use at reasonable prices per year.
Raymondvilie State Rank
Guaranty Fund Bank
“Old Reliable”
Examined
Insurance of all Kinds
IRA J. DUTTON
Raymondvilie, Texas.
L. CORBIN
WE ARE HERE FOR SERVICE
GAS—OILS—GREASE
ACCI- 3SORIES TIRES AND TUBES FROM 30x3 UP
Come in and Let Us Serve Yon
Cars Stored
S. E. MILLS GARAGE.
County Surveyor
SURVEY m3 is mgrWS-SRING-
Raymondville, Texas.
CASKETS
A new line of Caskets,
at all prices.
Raymondvilie, Texas.
J. R. Wilkinson P, H. G. M. D.
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Improved and Un-Improved
FARMS
In the famos Lyford, Seb&sti^
Turner tract seetion of thr
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Office at Owl Drug Store
Raymondvilie, Texas.
RAYMONDVILLE
LODGE 1204
Ri© Grande Valley
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CARLSON -JOHNSON -LANL CO*
533—METROPOLITAN BANK BLDG. MINNEAPOLIS,
A. F.,i A. M.
A loop extension of the San Benito
and Rio Grande Valley railway, for
which application was made to the
interstate commerce commission re-
cently, will make possible the open-
ing of thousands of acres of rich
plained the workings of their organi- j valley lands for cultivation if the
imittop I construction is done. Applications
were filed with the commission for
REGULAR MEETINGS
2nd & 4th Tuesday at 7:45 P. M.
All Masons Cordially Invited
zation. An organization committee
was appointed to draw up plans of
organization for the county which will
also iclude a plan for each community
organization where figs are grown.
The fig growers of the Alvin com-
munity also met on June 28th and
a committee was appointed to confer
with the county agent and secure his
assistance in forming the community
organization, ialso to investigate local
conditions and determine about the
permission to build the extension
from Santa Maria up the river to
Monte Cristo north of Mission and
by the Gulf Coast Lines from there
to Lyford. The railway now runs
Erom San Benito south and west
from there to Santa Maria.
Highway construction aid of approx-
imately $175,000 previously promised
Insure your property with W. H.
Hackett, agent.— Raymondvilie, Tex
as.— (Adv).
NOt1C £
It is a felony punishable by impris-
a met it in the penitentiary to wanton-
*r.o willfully cut, injure, cv destroy
any fences or part thereof (not being
the property of the party destroying
cutting or injuring the same). It is
also an offence to hunt upon the en-
to Texas counties, was made available closed land of another without the con
advisability of joining the Texas Farm during the next few months by ac-1 sent of the owners. All these laws, >
believe, have been approved —J 4-v-
future I shall prosecute any such vio-
lation to the full extent of the Law.
It is an offense punishable by fine
or imprisonment, or both, to break
pull down or injure and leave open
any gate leading into the enclosure of
another, without consent,
construction. ‘ ROBERT J. KLEBERG.
i MANAGER KING fc* f
Bureau Fig Association. 'They were
also instructed to study this associa-
tion more in detail and discover the
attitude of other growers toward the
association. There were thirty mem-
bers present who expressed a desire
to join the community organization,
and expressed a belief that they would
be interested in the-cooperative mark
j eting association after they had studied
the program more in detail.
tion of the highway commission which
just closed its judicial hearing. Eratb
and Webb counties already promised
$72,000 and $80,000, respectively, will
get this aid Jan. 15, 1925, it was an-
nounced. Fayette County was. allowed
$8,900 for completion of a bridge
across the Colorado River, and Walk-
er County will receive $25,000 in the j
near future for road
Cotton Pickers
SACKS
Make your own and save money
Good heavy Duck for 30 cts. per
yd. Five yds. makes one 200 ib
Sack.
[ Cotton scales.]
$2.50
Mead’s Store
Santa Margarita. 5 miles East of RaymiRiIviHe
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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/m1/7/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Reber Memorial Library.