Willacy County News (Raymondville, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 19, 1923 Page: 2 of 16
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DONT FORGET THE NEAR EAST
RELIEF
650 BALES GINNED UP TO PRESS j
i TIME
Farmers of Raymondville will be j
requested to give one bale of cotton
to the starving1, Armenians, the pro-
ceeds to be distributed through the
Near East Relief. This request is in
line with the appeal, made by Dr.
Tucker, who spoke here in behalf of
the Near East, several month© ago,
Arrangements will be made to have
a large box near the gin and leach
farmer will be asked to contribute a
few pounds. W. E. McCharen has
offered to gin the bale gratis.
MANY HOMESEEKERS ARRIVE
IN VALLEY
Approximately 600 homeseekers
have arrived in the Valley within
the past week, and over 150 cars
from Harlingen, La Feria, Mercedes,
Weslaco, Donna and Raymondville
are in use showing them sights of the
Valley.
MULE TEAM, SMUGGLED OVER
RIO THREE YEARS AGO,
SOLD BY CUSTOMS
The extreme hot weather of the
pa&t week is opening cotton as never
before. Every farmer in the county
and on the Turner Tract are busy
picking and the scramble for pick-
ers was never more intense.
About 200 negroes have been im-
ported at Raymondville to help gath-
er the immense crop and every avail-
able man is busy picking or hauling
cotton.
The W. E. McCharen gin has gin-
ned 400 bales, the Lyford 150 and
about 100 bales have been hauled to
Harlingen and other Lower Valley
towns.
The lowest. price paid is 24 cents
per pound and the highest is 26 1-^
cents. For the benefit of Northern
readers, we will state that the average
bale weights are 525 pounds and
fields are producing from 1-2 to
one bale to the acre.
... purchased Ford 'inline
A new car load of Fords came in
this week and are being delivered
as soon as assembled.
Harold Jones of the Overland agen-
cy is busy taking orders for the Ov-
erland and the Willys Knight, and
the Stevenson Motor Co. at Lyford,
has sold a number of Chevrolets and
Dodges, and on'a_ Chevrolet truck to
Manuel Trevino.
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Dewey Bush, declared by officers to
be the “dean of Cameron county boot-
leggers, and Myrick Vere, in company
with him, were arrested by Customs
Officer- Roy Brown and Immigration
Officer R. L. Longoria near San Be-
nito last week with about fifteen
quarts, of liquor in their possession.
Officers have been after Bush for
months, but have never been able to
catch him with the “goods” on. He
has been arrested several times, but
has always escaped with a fine va-
. — . grancy, or some minor offense. The
Judge D. E. Decker, who arrived , tVk,0 were committed to the county jail
here a few weeks ago to make his charged with violation of the federal
home, has opened up an Abstract prohibition laws.—Brownsville1 Herald
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attorney opens abstract
OFFICE
the acres is being^picked
ker ranch, east of Lyford. T. F.
.Parker, owner of the ranch, who
came here from the irrigated section/
has about 200 acres planted this
year- and expect to pick an average
of three-quarters of a bale to the
j acre.
Mr. Parker, with the view to sub-
I stantiate the claim that the non-irri-
gated section is as productive, y ar
RHONE IN NEW LOCATION
Office in the Trust Company Buildr
ing. ,,
Thisi business will be known as the
Guaranty Title Company. Judge j w Rhone, owner and manager of
Decker came here from Galveston, Feed Store, bearing his name, this
but is an old resident of Quanah j W0;:k moved into a new brick building
where he was a member of the bar 25 j jn Harlingen, aerdss from the City
yearn He has served in both branch- j Hall. Mr. Rhone has been in the
es of the Legislature and has been Valley only a few years but has made
A riot was nearly precipitated
among the fourteen Syrian aliens
whom local immigration officers
transferred to Houston this week to
\.c taken to New York for deportation
The officers had supplied each of
the aliens with a big roast beef sand-
, ,. r v/ich before the triin left Brownsville,
gated seetton is as productive, y ar Th had lou*en Syrians in the par-
! ill and year out, as the irrigated sec- ^ Mohammedans
; tion, has furnished us with; the tol-
j lowing figures: 1920, one bale; 1921,
j one and a quarter; 1922 one-third,
| and 1923, approximately three-quart-
ers to the acre.
ARREST alleged haRltngin
BOOTLEGGERS
NEW LAW FIRM ORGANIZED^
both, County and District Attorney,
j During the world war, he served with
the rank of a Major.
Judge Decker has purchased a piece
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Rabel, Hornaday and Gr.e'.nwubd, j jari(j an(j wall erect a home in the
a new law firm composed of A. J.
Rabel, E. P. Hornaday and F. G.
A Los Fresnos farmer who pur;
chased a team of mules three years
ago from a Mexican, last Friday, pur-
chased them from the United States
government for $87.50. -
The mules were siezed by Customs
Officers Spears and Campbell upon
the grounds that they had been smug
gled across the Rio Grande. They
bore a Mexican ranch brand, and it
is evident that the Mexican smuggled
them across the river, and the farmer
'not being aware of the fact that they
were smuggled animals, paid the Mex-
ican a good price for them. He re-
ceived no bill of sale from the Mexi-
can, or certificate that the duty had
been paid.
Customs officers are under orders
to sieze smuggled animals or goods,
regardless of how long they have been
In this country, and purchasers should
ascertain that animals purchased have
not been smuggled.
The mules were sold at auction, the
farmer bidding them in.
near future.
a great success of his business, thru
courteous treatment and honest deal-
ings, and has many friends and cus-
tomers in this county, who wishes him
continuous prosperity.
Greenwood, came into existance in
Harlingen this week. This firm will
do a general coutrt room practice-,
trial court work, examination of titles
and abstracts, and a general commer-
cial practice.
Mr. A. J. Rabel has been a success-
ful lawyer in the Valley for about
seven years. He was county Attorn-
ey of Willacy county when it was
first organized. He is now the city
attorney of Harlingen. He will ex-
amine titles and do general deed and
abstract work.
Mr. E. P. Hornaday, a degree man
of the Texas State University, has
been in the Valley only a few weeks.
He will handle the court room and
trial work of the firm.
Mr. P. G. Greenwood is also a Uni-
versity gradua/te. He will assist in
the title and- abstract work, but will
also do court room work.
This firm is in position to do an
TURNER TRACT FARMER
GOOD CROP
STOP DIPPING OF CATTLE
HASH". —-o—
The county commissioners’ court
of Demmitt county at its last reg-
C. O. Sundling, one of the many u,iar meeting resolved that no more
successful farmers on the Turner . money would be appropriated or paid
Tract, raised 35 bushels of corn to : out for the purpose of .tick eradica-
the acre this year, harvested fifty tion. It is said that the cost of
tons of kaffir and has eighty acres j eradication of tick has nearly bank-
of cotton that will easily make one- j rupt the county,
half a bale to the acre. Mr. Sundling j
has farmed here for several years and |
has made oood crops practically ev- j
WEATHER REPORT
has made good crops practically ev-
ery year. j July
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NEW BEAUTY SHOP NOW OPEN j July
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San Benito’s new Beauty Shop for j July
in the building next to Mrs. M. K.
Lockridge Millinery Store.
The shop is in charge of Mrs.
Leonora Williamson, a lady with years
of experience in hair and beauty
The equipment is thor-
ims xrrm is m pusiuun w uu on, treatments. The equipment is -----
extensive law practice, as it will prac- oughly new and up-to-date and pre-
tice criminal law as well as civil law. ©ent a very attractive appearance.
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No rainfall and fine cotton weath-
er, with a grand Gulf breeze.
Speeial Turkey Dinner .at the
Arcade Cafe Sunday. Cotne in and
bring/'your family and friends.—Ad-
vertisement.
An old Mexican woman, about 60
years of age, and a young girl, were*
among the prisoners lodged in the
Canieron county jail Tuesday. They
were brought in from Harlingen by
the Sheriff’s under force, having been
found in possession of several quarts
of Jose Cuervo. Between $300 and
$400 were found in a trunk in the
house of the old woman, and the
girl in the case was apprehended in
the act of leaving an adjoining room
with a gallon of mescal wraped in
a bundle of clothes. A Mexican in
custody of the undersheriff, who was
being taken to jail, and on whose
person a quart of tequila had been
found, informed the officer of the
piece, and purchased a quart of liquor
to prove to the officer that it was
being sold there. The Mexican is in
the Cameron county jail, charged
with bootlegging, carrying concealed
weapons, selling meat to farmers with
out a license, and several other
charges among which figures a sor-
did story of illegal cohibitation with
a widow who had turned over to
the man the earnings of herself and
son. The Mexican is married and has
three children.
ty, ten of whom were Mohammedans
and the others Christians. One of
the Christian Syrians, whose hunger
was greater than his honesty inform-
ed one of his Mohammedan country-
men that the sandwiches were not
beef, but that the flesh of a “filthy
hog” had been utilized in their pre-
paration. The Mohammedans ex-
pressed disgust and immediately gave
their sandwiches to the four Christi-
ans.
After the four had disposed of the
! fourteen sandwiches one of them cas-
ually remarked that they -had been
mistaken in believing that they were
poi'k sandwiches and then the argu-
ment commenced. For sqveral min-
utes the special car resounded with
Syrian adjectives and explectives, and
the immigration officers were forced
to intereven to" prevent another Near
East insurrection.
The Mohammedans were vociferous
in their demands that their Christian
compariots receive some form of pun-
ishment, and the latter were equally
vociferous in stating that their class-
ification of the sandwiches had mere-
ly been a mistake in judgment.
In order to prevent a holy war, the
Mohammedans were :|iven another
supply of beef sandwiches, and tran-
quility was restored, though they nev-
er ceased to regard their Christian
compatriots with deep, dark suspicion.
—Brownsville Herald.
B. E. Thomas has completed the
sleeping porch for Judge and Mrs.
S. E. Mills. The porch is constructed
above the dinning room in the isouth
■east corner of the garage.
The Turner Tract Cotton Gin, will
be completed and in first class run-
ning order, according to Mr. J. P.
Johnson, who is constructing the gin
by next Tuesday or Wednesday.
Mi’. Johns states that Turner Tract
has the largest acreage and best
yield 'ever known to have been raised.
Farmers Attention
A SHIPMENT OF COTTON SCALES WILL ARI’.f\ I’J!'K!LA i MOIINING.. .NO. A. 1 COTTON ACK.' : ^
Raymordville Lamber Company. ...... " - - :: RaYm°ndV'"e
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Johnson, Charles R. Willacy County News (Raymondville, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 19, 1923, newspaper, July 19, 1923; Raymondville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth874855/m1/2/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Reber Memorial Library.