Willacy County News (Raymondville, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 12, 1925 Page: 1 of 8
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More Building Now Per Dollar—
WHY WAIT?
Thos. W. Blake Lumber Co.
Lyford—Sebastian
PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF THE RAYMONDVILLE, LYFORD AND SEBASTIAN TERRITORY
WILLACY COUNTY NEWS
More Building Now Per Dollar-
WHY WAIT?
Thos. W. Blake Lumber Co.
Lyford—Sebastian
VOLUME 8
RAYMONDVILLE, (COUNTY SEAT) WILLACY COUNTY, TEXAS THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1925.
No. 10.
Willacy County Leads U.S. In Onion Shipments
BARBECUE TO BE
AT HARLINGEN
Arroyo Country. Club. Site-
Scene of Jolly Picnicers On
March 22nd.
To. Be
Sunday
At a meeting of the board of gov-
ernors of the Arroyo Country Club,
held at Stuart Place last week, it was
decided to give a genuine, old time,
barbecue and picnic on the Arroyo
Country Club grounds at Harlingen
on Sunday, March 22nd, between two
and six p.m.
Each member of the organization
will be invited to participate in the
barbecue and be requested to bring
one prospective member as his guest.
The menu will consist of barbecued
beef, veal, and possibly cabrieto with
all their condiments.
Arrangements have been made for
Sid Murray’s band to furnish music
throughout the evening.
The barbecue picnic, according to
S. L. Gill, vice-president of the Arro-
yo Country Club, is to give the mem-
bers of this organization an oppor-
tunity to meet each other and learn
who are members of one of the Val-
ley’s most promising social organiza-
tions.
First Car Load 1925 Crop Billed From Raymond-
ville Tuesday Afternoon For St. Louis--
Holloway Reeeived $3.00 Crate
For ComnwcialsOn Track
LEGION PICTURE
IS COMING HERE
The Lost Battalion Will be Shown In
Local Theatre Benefit Of
Muse-Argonne Post
Hotel Is Making
Splendid Showing
The brick work on Raymondville’s
new hotel building is now completed
to the second story. Work of laying
brick has been delayed on account of
receipt of heavy timbers. As soon as
these arrive construction will be
pushed ahead.
It is hoped by Mr. Harris, the
owner, to have this building ready
for occupancy not later than May first
MUSGRAVE BUILDING
A MODERN DWELLING
Material is now being assembled
on the G. W. Musgrave home just
east of the City limits on East Hi-
dalgo Ave., for the construction of
ont of the prettiest dwellings in Ray-
mondville.
On Friday evening, March 20th,
the show going public will be given a
real treat when under the auspices of
Raymondville American Legion,
Muse-Argonne Post No. 390, they
will be given an opportunity to see
some actual motion pictures of the
World War and the American dough-
boys in action will be presented “The
Lost Battalion”.
This is a special feature film of
six reel's filled from beginning to end
with action depicting practically
every phase of thd World War.
The Lost Battalion will be shown
at the Delta De Oro Theatre on Fri-
day evening, March 20th to which a
general admission fee of 25 cents will
be charged.
A FREAK HEN.
J. S. Seegers, one of Raymond-
ville’s hustling farmers, residing
about a mile and a half south-east of
the city, was a visitor to this office
. the past week and exhibited a mon-
J ster hen egg laid by one of his
Rhode Island red hens. The egg mea-
; sured 8% inches around the long way
___ ! and 6% inches in circumference and
A DINNER PARTY weighed 4 ounces. This Mr. Seegars
One of the pleasing March festivi- j states, is only one of the eggs this
ties took place the early part of the hen has laid as she seems
The first carload of the
place in the United States lei
St. Louis, billed from G. C.|
himself to himself.
The onions are the first
point in the country and ar«
this section has ever produce^
It is the second time in
Willacy county that onions
Two years ago J. T. and R. Cfl
onions from their farm on th«
beaten their former record
loaded out Tuesday afternoof?
Thus it is that Willacy
other progressive Lower Rio*
distinction that but few conn*
The Messrs Holloway beg]
Friday morning when over onf
lion crop to be shipped from any
londville, Tuesday night for East
fll; commission merchant from
Marketed this season from any
fd by the buyers as the best that
ory of the onion industry of
been shipped out as early as this,
[oway shipped out a car load of
if March. This year they have
days as the first car load was
[billed out the same evening,
steps out into the limelight of
tie Valley counties and claims a
the country can claim.
rtheir thirty-acre onion harvest last
fhimdred men, women and children
JUVENILE CANTA
BE SHOWN HERE
Mesdames Key and Ballow Training
Forty Young Children For Interest-
ing Event.
THE CHATAUQUA
ATTRACTS MANY
Instructive and Interesting Three-
Day Program Given By Radcliffe
Chautauqua Here.
A rare treat is in store for the citi-
From every angle the Radcliffe
Chautauqua, showing in Raymond-
ville, Tuesday, Wednesday and today
(Thursday) is declared to be one of
the most successful events of it^
kind ever held in this city.
From the point of finance it is
stated that the guarantee of $500 has
been more than made up and that
possibly there would be a little sur-
plus on hand. However, this will not
be determined until after the last
performance tonight and a complete
check made.
As an educational feature the six
lectures given during the three days
will be of inestimable value to ths
several hundred people who had the
pleasure of listening to them; while
from the standpoint of entertainment
zens of Raymondville and surround- , wholesome, instructive and interest-
ing country in the near future when j jng programs were rendered that
under the direction of Mesdames Key , held the undivided attention of each
and Ballow about forty small chil- onlooker.
school will put on a
week when a number of friends ga-
thered at the home of Mrs. J. D. Hill
to celebrate with her another mile
stone in her life. The home was tasti-
ly decorated with shamrock and
green, carrying out to a nicety the
color schemes of Old St. Patrick.
Shamrocks were profusely in evi-
dence, indicating that the genial hos-
tess had a love for the Irish. The long
table, likewise befittingly adorned
presented an appetizing appearance
as well as a delightfully attractive
one. It was loaded down with innu-
merable delicious edibles. Long be-
fore the appointed hour (12:30) the
guests began ariving at this hospita-
ble home. Each guest being presented
with a tiny shamrock as a souvinir
of the occasion. Those enjoying the
occasion were Mesdames, R. A. Coul-
ter, Rand, Gilliland, C. F. Thompson,
Scott, Jones, Stockwell, McCasland,
Huff, Ayres, Glover, Musgrave, Cox,
Brenner and Grayson. The hostess
ably assisted by Mesdames McCharen
Morse, and the Misses Brennan and
Higman. All reporting having spent
a most delightful and refreshing
time and wishing their hostess many
happy returns of the day.
to have a
mania for laying extra large eggs
every other day. The egg is composed
of two yolks and shows signs where
it “had grown together”. Each of
this hen’s eggs have showed the
same characteristics for the past two
weeks, declares Mr. Seegers.
A BABY GIRL.
Mr. and Mrs. Alex Crow are re-
joicing over the arrival in this happy
household of a baby girl, who put in
her appearance last Friday afternoon
while Mr. and Mrs. Crow were visit-
ing in Taft, Texas.
Masonic Meeting
Next Tuesday Night
NUMBER SALES
ARE REPORTED
were put in the field adojining the city limits on the south pulling the
crop and getting them in shape for trimming and grading Monday
morning.
A number of buyers tvere on the ground Monday and Tuesday
bidding for the crop, or trying to secure the purchase of one or more
car loads. Up until Tuesday afternoon only one buyer has succeded
in closing a worthwhile deal to the satisfaction of the owners. The
lucky buyer G. C. Howell, a commission merchant of East St. Louis,
Mo.
Mr. Howell’s bid, it is reliably reported, being $3.00 a crate for
commercials and $1.50 a crate for boilers and doubles.
The yield this year is not as h av;v as it was last year but the price
promises to more than make up fo,r thewlisi-repency. Last year onions
yielded on an average of 200 to 250 crates per acre with the prevail-
ing prices, early in the shipping season around $1.75 to $2.00 which
dropped within a few days to below $1.00 per crate.
This year, J. T. Holloway states, the average yield will be about
150 crates to the acre. The opening price of $3.00 per crate for com-
mercials and $1.50 per crate for boilers and doubles is a much better
price than was received the preceeding year, with favorable pro-
spects for this market holding its own as new onions are scarce on
the market and are in big demand, according to reliable reports.
This is just the beginnig of the onion movement in Willacy conn- B. Y. P. U. PROGRAM, MARCH 15.
ty as it is safely estimated that there are betwnee 1200 and 1500 Subject, ‘B.Y.P.U. Plans and Pro-
acres planted tc this crop in this county that is about ready to go on grL?ader, Miss B. Higginson.
the market. \ Part I. Attaining The Standard of
district, where there are several Excellence, J. E. Powers,
this year, the crop will not be ready 1. Part H. Bluffed by the Bible Read-
this month. This will enable a num- standard Worth
get their erops-harvested and sold striving For?, Earl Huff,
to begin harvesting. i Part IV. Planning the Missionary
acres in onions just north of Ray- Program, Calvin Huff.
1st of harvesting that crop. He too
and children helping him get this
onions, like the Holloway crop, are
eld the owner a neat little income
dren attending
juvenile canta.
The cantata will be given as a spe-
cial benefit fund to aid the Parent-
Teacher’s Association to clear the
indebtedness on the Victrola and re-
cords purchased sometime ago for
the school.
Make your arrangements to attend
this interesting event and help out
the Parent-Teachers Association.
NEW EQUIPMENT ADDED
TO NEWS JOB PLANT
During the week the News Job
Department has been materially be-
nefited by the addition of a new
12x18 Chandler & Price, New series
job press and a quantity of job and
advertising type, together with type
stands and cases, placing this office in
first class shape to turn out any
kind of commercial printing that may
be desired by the patronage of this
office.
Harding-Gill Company Report Real
Estate Activities In Mestenas
Tract Brisk.
From reports in the Larec
thousand acres of onions raisi
for harvesting before the entj
her of Willacy county growe\
before Laredo growers are r!
W. T. Holder, who has fi.I
mondville, is this week in thel
has a large force of men, wonj
crop ready for the market. T|
in excellent condition and w|
this yerS'.
A number of other grovl
harvest their crop within thej
It is roughly estimated I)
500 and 600 car loads of onioii
COMMUNITY ENTERTAINMj
PLEASES LARGE AUDIENC
The Radcliffe Chautauqua company
have a line of entertainment that is a
credit to any community and one
that will leave behind them an in-
fluence for good that will redound to
the betterment of the entire commu-
nity.
rare also amking arrangements to
ling week.
ihis county will ship out between
rithin the next thirty to forty days.
Reading, Levi Cole.
Part V. Use Home
Fields, Thelma Moore.
Part VI. Association
ma Pierson.
| Part VII. Missionary
| Jesse Langfon.
, Reading, Exie Baker.
and Foreign
Work. Thel-
Giving, Mr.
SEAL FURNITURE HOUSE
LOCATED IN NEW HOME
More than twenty-five hundred
acres of land have been sold in the
Harding-Gill Co’s 50,000-acre project
west of Raymondville during the
past three weeks.
This report of land sales, Mr. Gill
states, reflects not so much credit
upon the ability of his company in
number of i ProsPective investor realizes that the
is securing genuine bargains. “No
is
A specially called meeting of Ray-
mondville Lodge, No. 1204, A. F. &
A. M. will be held in Raymondville
°^,Ttd,rdlUighfTthi%mert!nS ! filing, but demonstrates that the
will be held with an object of getting j_____•____.....
acquainted with a large
Masons who have moved into Willaey
County during the pt. *’ "ew months
and who have not yet identified them-
selves with the local order.
It is going to be a good fellowship
gathering and some what in the na-
ture of “a love feast” with short,
snappy talks relating to the good of
the order and incidentally a light
refreshment will be served.
All Masons in Willacy county are
earnestly requested to be present at
this meeting and enjoy an evening of
wholesome Masonic followship.
Bro. Order of H. E. Tomme, W. M.
A Varied Program Of Local Ei
tainers Held Monday Night.
Card of Thanks.
We desire to take this means to ex-
press our sincere thanks to our
friends and neighbors who so gene-
rously aided us during the recent ill-
ness and death of our beloved son.
Especially do we wish to extend our
thanks to Dr. J. D. McCann for his
kindly help and comfort during our
sad trial.
Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Cheney and family
‘highpowered’ salesmanship is unne-
cessary declares Mr. Gill” to sell land
in the Mestenas tract at the excep-
tionally low prices for which the com-
pany is asking for this land. The in-
vestor can see at a glance that he is
securing ideal agricultural and hor-
ticultural lands at prices that cannot
be duplicated in the Valley.”
During the past three or four
weeks more than seventy-five forty-
acre tracts of land have been pur-
chased by men and women in the
Mestenas tract. The most of these
investors are contemplating making
permanent improvements to' their
properties during the coming sum-
mer months and get their land ready
for cultivation by early winter.
The Harding-Gill company has a
number of contractors busy clearing
the right of way for roads through
this extensive development project
grading roads and otherwise placing
this project in a presentable shape to
the many investors.
The large Chautauqua tent was
the scene of a very pleasing enter-
tainment Monday night when Miss
Brener, a member of the Radcliffe
Chautauqua Company, induced a
number of local people to stage a
“community entertainment.”
The program was replete with a
number of lively numbers, such as
cornet solo by W. W. Grayson, ac-
companied on the piano by Mrs. Gene
Mason Smith; interesting readings
by several school girls; piano solos,
A CHILD LABOR
BILL IS SIGNED
Harlingen Firm Has Modernly
Equipped Furniture Store.
The Seale Furniture Company of
Harlingen, who have been in business
in that hustling city for the past se-
Law Prohibits Employment of All
Children In Any Kind of Commercial
Line Under 15.
Governor Miram A. Ferguson, it is
announced, has signed the Young-
Dielman child labor bill, prohibiting
veral years, is now located in their ; the employment of all children in any
handsome new two story brick home
in Harlingen.
This firm has added a complete
line of furniture, draperies, carpets
and other items that go toward the
make-up of a modern furniture store.
Their stock is neat, clean, * and
strictly up-to-now and is conveniently
arranged where the prospective
ex-
E. B. Franck of San Antonio was
a visitor here Sunday.
or articles needed
The Seal Furn.ture Company
tends each reader of the News a cor-
dial welcome to visit their new home
in Harlingen and taste of the hospi-
tality of this modern business . con-
cern.
duets and daucing and playlett by j customer can easily see the article
several business men in which Rev.
Boone, C. H. Swayze and Geo. Loch-
rie took the leading roles in a come-
dy of errors. A doll show in which
a dumber of the ladies of the city
participated and a “style” show in
which the young people paraded be-
fore the judges to determine the
most comically and best dressed cus-
tumes.
The tent was filled to its capacity
with town and country folk who had
gathered immediately after the long
auto parade through the principal
streets of the city..
That each and every number on
the program was enjoyed to the limit
could only be attested by the hearty
enchores given them.
Methodist Church
Building Delayed
Contractor Deibner is again delay-
ed on his work of putting up the1
First Methodist Church. This delay
has been caused by the receipt os
steel that is declared not satisfactory
for this work.
This has been taken up through
the proper channels and it is hoped
will not cause too long a delay on
the rest of the building.
commercial work, except farm work
and messenger service in Texas.
The bill is said to be the result of
agitation for the proposed amend-
ment to the national constitution re-
gulating child labor which was re-
jected by the Texas Legislature. Soon
after it was rejected the House began
work on the Young bill.
It provides that children under
fifteen years of age may not work in
any occupation except on farms, and
in messenger service in towns of less
than 15,000 population. Children un-
der 17 are prohibited from working in
hazardous occupations and in thea-
tres.
Provisions for special permits to
be granted by the county judge are
made when the “support by a child is
necessary for the maintenance of a
desitute family.
Methodist Church
Sunday, March 15, 1925.
Rev. L. A. Boone, Pastor.
Sunday School, 10:00 A. M.
Preaching, Morning, 11:00 o’clock;
Evening, 7:30 o’clock.
“THE JOYS OF SALVATION.
“Restore unto me the joys of thy
salvation.”
It is a part of the Master’s plan and
will that when He comes we shall be
like Him. It is not a part of His plan
that we should purposely falter from
day to day. That we should be of
the world today and of His teachings
tomorrow. His commission to us was
that we should at all times strive to
be in the perfection of His teaching.
When the Psalmist cries out,
“Purge me with hyssop, and I shall
be clean; wash me, and I shall be
clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter
than snow.” He is striving to rein-
state himself with the divine favor
after a period of following after the
world. He has gone apart from the
ways of God and after following in
the paths of the world has come to
the realization of his folly and is
ready to turn to God again.
This transformation cannot be the
part of a miraculous 'moment; it is
more a process. True, the desire may
be of the instant itself, but the result
that follows must of necessity be the
matter of an entire changing. For, iri
the verses that follow we hear him
pleading for a new heart and spirit.
He desires to cast away the old and
restore himself throughout.
Though these passages may be
classed as songs, they are never the
less the prayer of a heart in distress
and agony. Remorse and heartache
have filled the physical frame and he
turns to God for relief and salvation.
The work-a-day week of our life
leaves us often tired and longing for
rest. Sleep and food will replenish
the body wear, but with the spiritual
that is not a part of this earth we
must turn to God for replenishment.
And so like the Singer of Songs we
turn again unto the God of our Crea-
tion, and ask to be, “Restored unto
Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Turner were
callers here Saturday from San An-
tonio.
Will trade a 160-acre tract in Carl-
ton county, Minn., and 160 acres in
Larimere County, Colo., both clear,
for land around Raymondville. What
have you ? Oliver Olson, Raymond-
ville, Texas, Route No. 1. 10-2-td
Mr.and Mrs. Meril Boler and
daughter Evelyn, left Monday morn-
ing for their home in Minnesota. Mrs.
Boler was formerly known as Miss
Clara Jones.
R. A. Cutler Sells
Bakery Business
Otto Backa of Temple, Texas, is
the new owner of the Raymondville
Bakery, established and owned by R.
A. Coulter for the past three or four
years.
Mr. Backa will take charge of this
establishment Monday morning and
will change the name from Raymond-
ville Bakery to the “City Bakery.”
The new owner is an experienced
baker, having been in this business
for many years and promises to give
the patrons of the city Bakery a first
class line of bakery products.
Mr. Backa left Tuesday afternoon
for Houston and other points to
make necessary purchases of ma-
chinery and other equipment to
bring this place up to standard.
Mr. Coulter, who has been actively
identified with Raymondville’s pro-
gress the past several years, states
that he will take a long deserved rest
before laying out his future plans.
He, however, states that it is not his
intention to leave Raymondville.
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