The Lampasas Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. [43], No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, January 16, 1931 Page: 1 of 8
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3rd Year
Lampasas, Texas. Friday, January 16, 1931
Number 13
AR BRINGS STEPPING
CAGE TEAM TO LAMPASAS
BADGERS LOSE ONE
AND WIN ONE
Tie Star school basketball team
e to Lampasas Friday night, and
r.—defeating the Badgers by a one
d score of 54 to 27. Of course we
' say the Badgers are not nearly
j standard this early in the sea-
but this should not reflect from
ability of Coach Williams Star-
They are good, plenty good, in
, one of the best teams we have
r seen in action on the local court.
'he two Teague brothers, A. and J.
£je of Star are exceedingly good,
were all over the court and ap-
tly had the faculty of being at
che right place at the right time.
iere wasn’t a Badger that could
me anywhere near guarding either
them, though Leo Healer did make
wonderful attempt at covering A.
ague. Those Teague brothers scored
. of Star’s 54 points. The other
ayers on the visiting team Friday j tonight
ight cannot be overlooked, they were
11 good. Other men playing were
lenry, Williams, 0. Teague, Hamilton
nd Harper. This Star aggregation
liow that they have had good coach-
ing and that they are obedient to
their coach’s instructions. We under-
stand that Star will be back here
again, in about three weeks, and we
are sure that the Badgers will then
give a much better account of them-
selves.
Codch Whitten is having a hard
time taking men that have been play-
ing and thinking football for over
three months and converting them on
such short notice into efficient basket-
ball men. Though the team as a whole
and the men individually showed much
better form Friday night than they
did Wednesday when they won from
Topsy. Just give them about two more
weeks of practice and then vratch
their smoke. The competition they
were against and everything consider-
ed the Badgers did not make a poor
showing Friday night, though they
were overwhelmingly defeated. Oft-
times it takes a defeat of that kind
to bring a team to the fore.
I Coach Whitten used two full teams
in the Star game in an effort to stem
the tide, but as we know it proved to
no avail. The visitors were right and
they had “it” from start to finish. Bad-
gers playing Friday were: D. Yazell,
Brown, Ray Fuller, Piper, Roy Ful-
ler, Healer, Hammett, Hallmark, R.
Yazell and Standard.
The next scheduled game will be
layed on Tuesday night against the
Ex-Badgers, and a feud fight this
will be. Both teams playing the Whit-
ten system of basketball. And by the
way, don’t get it into your head that
the Ex-Badgers are “has beens,” they
have a team and a good one. Then on
Friday night following Lake Victor
icomes in for a contest with Lampasas.
The Lampasas Badgers in a double
header basketball game on the local
court Tuesday night lost the first
game to the Ex-Badgers by a score
of 30 to 14 and won the second con-
test from Lometa 30 to 9.
The Ex-Badgers proved much too
strong this early in the season for
the Badgers. The old-timers have all
had several years experience as
against the present high school teams
two or three weeks training. The
Badgers had no trouble in handling
Lometa as the score testifies.
An excellent crowd of spectators
were on hand for the games and were
enthusiastic over the type of play.
Come down and see these basketball
games, if you are not a fan you’ll soon
be after seeing one or twp games.
The next scheduled game for the
Badgers will be against Lake Victor
RED CROSS MAKES APPEAL
FOR DROUTH RELIEF
W. G. Gamel, local chairman of the
Lampasas County Chapter of the
American Red Cross is in receipt of
an appeal from the National Red Cross
headquarters for funds to meet the
emergency situation in parts of 21
states in the drouth stricken area.
Ten million dollars are needed to pre-
vent untold suffering and actual star-
vation of thousands of families.
The message states that President
Hoover in a proclamation urges im-
mediate and generous response to this
humanitarian need. The success of this
effort will be regarded as a test of
Red Cross by the President and the
entire nation.
The quota for Lampasas County has
U. OF T. GEOLOGY
STUDENTS VIEW LOCAL
COLLECTION OF CURIOS
SIX CARS OF LIVE STOCK
SHIPPED THE PAST WEEK
Six cars of livestock were shipped
via the Santa Fe from this point the
past week. Shipments were made as
follows:
1 car of sheep by Ed Young.
1 car of cattle by Cotton & O’Neal.
1 car of cattle by R. L. Alexander.
1 car of cattle by Arthur Bostick.
2 cars of stock calves by Jack White.
All cars went to Fort Worth mar-
kets with the exception of the two
cars of stock calves by Mr. White to
Crystal City.
CITY TO CREATE
EMPLOYMENT BUREAU
The City Council met Wednesday
morning and at the suggestion of Roy
L. Walker, made plans for the forma(-
tion of an employment bureau where-
by the unemployed of our city may
be taken care of. The citizens of Lam-
pasas are asked to cooperate with the
bureau in this manner. If you have
a job of work for even an hour, a
day or more, call the city office and
leave your name, the nature of the
work and other information you may
give and they will give the work to
some one who is unemployed.
On the other hand, the unemployed
of the city are asked to list their
names at the city office and state the
kind of work they can do and where
they can be located when needed.
In this manner, the city can sys-
The sheriff’s department reports
that they have taken charge of a 1930
Model A Ford Coupe that was left
parked all day and night on the street
been set at $100. The local chairman Gie rear 0f the building formerly
states that no campaigning or can- 0CCUpied by the Highway Garage. The
vass will be made but those who de- 1 car jias no ijcense plates and no trace tematically assist those out oj. woi
sire to contribute to this cause may 0£ the owner has been found up to anc* can more a^ly see to it that oui
leave same with him at the Lampasas this time. It is the opinion of officers 1 unemployed are cared for. A num-
Furniture Company or leave donation ; that the car was stolen out of the city j ^er °f citizens are creating jobs to
at the Peoples National Bank. j and an effovt is being made to find ! relieve this situation, such as repair
the owner by means of the serial num-
V. EARL EARP SPEAKS
TO LEGION MEN HERE
THURSDAY NIGHT
WOLF CLUB MEEIS JANUARY 24 her of the automobile.
Prof. E. H. Sellards, Assistant Di-
rector Bureau of Economic Geology
of the University of Texas together
with some) fifteen students of that de-
partment and two or three other pro-
fessors from the University, were
here from Austin Friday morning to
view the collection of fossils, min-
erals, curios, etc., which C. Boone
Talijaferro has collected from this
county and adjacent counties.
The party spent the greater portion
of the morning examining and study-
ing these rare specimens of minerals,
pre-historic animal tracks, fossils and
curios and found the Indian curios es-
pecially interesting. Mr. Taliaferro
and his son, Warren, have a collec-
tion of such work that is considered
to be one of the finest in the state.
They have had prominent professors
and individuals interested in such find-
ings to visit their displays and to pay
them highest praise for their collec-
tion.
Other than collections from Lam-
pasas County and surrounding coun-
ties, the Taliaferros have a number
of curios and valued historical articles
and papers among their collection.
Many of these have been placed on
display at the county fair the past
several .years and they have drawn
the attention of every one who has
entered the exhibit hall. Mr. Taliaferro
has a room at his home that he has
given over to the displaying of his
collections and he now has the great-
er portion of them arranged in wall
cases, so as to be easily and intelli-
gently viewed.
The Lampasas Wolf Club will meet FjreMEN GIVEN BANQUET
in the courthouse at Lampasas on Sat-
urday, January 24, at 2 o’clock. All
the members are urged to attend this
meeting. The club is in a good con-
The ladies of the Lampasas Fire
Auxiliary entertained Tuesday even-
dition financially but the members are ! ing tbe sb0w room of the Shelburn
not attending the meetings as they i & Long Garage in honor of the active
should and if they are not interested ; flremen_ The colors of blue and white,
enough to at least attend the meet- j wbjcb are the firemen’s colors, were
ings the club will not last long. We I carried out jn the decorations. Pot
need the members at the meetings so | piants 0f cyclamen and geraniums
we can get an idea as to their opinion j were ajs0 used jn the decorations,
on matters pertaining to the welfare | The menu consisted of baked tur-
of the club. The club has done a gieat ]^ey with dressing and all that goes
good in this county and with the prop- bo make a real turkey banquet, and
er interest of the members we can go pie and coffee> a talk was made by
ahead with this work. Remember the chief Frank Baker on “Women’s Part
EX-BADGERS DEFEAT LAKE
VICTOR 33 TO 29
Following the Lampasas-Star game
Friday evening the Ex-Badgers met
and conquered the Lake Victor team.
And a game, more evenly matched
could not be imagined, first one team
and then the other were leading in
points throughout the affray and ’twas
only during the last few minutes of
play that the Exs forged ahead and
remained in the lead till the final
whistle.
A very large crowd of spectators
enjoyed every moment of that game
and if a few more games of that va-
riety are played here it will be neces-
sary to get a larger house to hold the
crowd.
Ex-Badgers playing Friday night
were: Jesse Webb, Norman Cowan,
Brown Cornett, Sutherland, Glen War-
' ner and when Cowan was forced from
the game on personal fouls, Shelby
Hawkins played the remaining few
minutes.
Remember the Badger vs. Ex-Bad-
'ger game Jon next Tuesday night,
there should be a thrill a minute.
MRS. ANNIE LAUDERDALE
IS CALLED BY DEATH
AT NARUNA
ON TUESDAY EVENING
date, Saturday, January 24.
A. O. Harrell, President.
in any Kind of Work,” and F. F. Mc-
work around their homes, the cleaning
off of vacant property, painting and
other small jobs that will give some
man the means of earning enough to
keep his family from actual want. No
matter how small the job, if you need
some one, call the city office and you
will be sent some one at once.
The city has also .decided to start
a general clean up of the town, clean-
ing the streets, alleys, etc., and will
use a good many men in this work.
This is a splendid step and will at
the same time give us a cleaner,
healthier place in which to live.
V. Earl Earp, District Committee-
man of the State Organization of the
American Legion, spoke to the legion
men of Lampasas Post No. 277 Thurs-
day evening, Jan. 8, at the courthouse.
There were some forty members of
the Legion present a number of mem-
bers of the Lometa Legion in at-
tendance.
Mr. Earp is an interesting talker
and brought his buddies a straight-
ford message on subjects of concern
to the organization. He stressed the
importance of a full membership and
planned a membership drive for this
post. Lampasas Post 277 should have
60 members for its quota and now has
only 44.
WATSON—WOLF
CITY COUNCIL GRANTS
FRANCHISE FOR GAS
At a meeting of the City Council
Friday afternoon, a franchise was
FIDELIS SUNDAY SCHOOL
CLASS HAS MEE1ING . ^eir work with them. These talks
Duffey also made a talk on the im- j granted to F. O. Stevenson, of Fort
portance of the Fire Auxiliary and j f0r gas, either artificial or
expressed the firemen’s appreciation j natural for Lampasas. In the contract,
were enjoyed very much.
The Fidelis Class of the Baptist j
Sunday School met Monday evening ! Ag HUSBAND JOHN MAY
in their regular monthly business and
social session at the home of the
teacher, Miss Annie Browning.
Mr. Stevenson, was allowed 45 days
to test a well which has already been
drilled near the city and to dig an-
David E. Watson and Miss Beulahs
Wolf of this city were united in
marriage Sunday morning at 9 o’clock
at the home of the bride’s brother,
Mr. and Mrs. Pelham Wolf on South
Walnut street. Rev. W. M. Lane, pas-
tor of the Methodist Church read the
impressive ceremony in the presence
of immediate relatives of the couple.
Preceding the pledging of the mar-
riage vows, the bride’s little nephew,
La Velle Wolf, sang the first verse
of “I Love You Truly,” with Mrs.
Pelham Wolf at the piano. Her broth-
ers, Pelham and Fred Wolf, then gave
the second verse in duet of the same
song.
To the strains of “The First Heart
Throbs,” played by Mrs. Wolf, the
bridal party entered the living room,
the groom’s sister, Miss Nelda Wat-
son attending the bride and Edward
Jarrell serving as best man to Mr.
Watson.
The bride was becomingly gowned
in a model of blue silk crepe which
she changed to a traveling frock of
brown crepe, worn with brown Spring
i coat and accessories of brown.
BAND JOHN MAY other well and an additional 15 days | Immediately following. J*e
MAKE A GOOD BOARDER; _ given (or hira t make a cash | "j; £ £ ~
bond of $1,000. In other words a 60 , ,
Aon ; ’ „ . . , a they will spend several days.
^-s a days optional, franchise was granted |
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 14.
The meeting was opened by a pray- ’ husband John Karpos might make a j to ttis^aiiy'
er led by Miss Frances Largent and gQod boarder, Mrs. Karpos told the
business of interest to the members „„ur(. on the Floyt] Asher place and is j entTme'she Z
The Karposes were married in 1910 !thought to have a goocl showing of j f“ T £ 1 National
was discussed. Officers for the ensuing
year were elected as follows:
President—Miss Edna Wright.
1st Vice President—Miss Daphne
Jones.
Mrs. Watson is a daughter of the
tms party. . , 1 late, Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Wolf and
The well spoken of above is locat- : , •
1 1 was reared to young womanhood in
and have seven children. Her husband
got drunk often and abused the chil-
dren, -she testified.
It looked like a good case until
2nd Vice President—Miss Frances ; Judge gamuel H Silbert learned that
President—Miss Loene
EX-BADGERS DEFEAT
LAKE VICTOR AGAIN
Lake Victor and the Ex-Badgers
played basketball aqain Monday night
on the local court, the Exs winning
■ 33 to 31. Speaking of close contests,
those two teams have them, never
more than six or t l%ht points differ
ence in the final j Scopes and during
the game first one^teatn and then the
other is in the lead. ‘That all goes to
make a thrilling fray.
Mrs. Annie Lauderdale, age 73
years, died Tuesday morning, January
13, at 4:45 o’clock at her home in
the Naruna section. Mrs. Lauderdale
had been in failing health since Sep-
tember and had spent the greater
portion of that time confined to her
bed.
Funeral services were held at the
Naruna Baptist Church Tuesday af-
ternoon at 4 o’clock and burial follow-
ed in the cemetery at that place be-
side her husband who was laid to
rest thei’e July 18, 1919. These last
sad rites were conducted by Rev. A.
N. Smith, Baptist minister of Unity.
Mrs. Lauderdale was born Oct. 21,
1857 in the state of Tennessee. She
was married to W. C. Lauderdale on
Feb. 4, 1880, her maiden name be-
ing Miss Annie Hoover. Mrs. Lauder-
dale came to Texas some sixty years
ago and she with her husband came
to make their home in the Naruna
section In the year 1892 from Hoover
Valley. She was a member of the
Baptist Church and was a good Chris-
tian woman, well liked by all who
knew her.
The deceased is survived by one
son, J. M. Lauderdale of Mexia and
one daughter, Mrs. W. H. Dodson of
Naruna. She also leaves four broth
ers and one sister who are: C. R,
Hoover, D. H. Hoover and Miss Bertha
Hoover of Fredonia, L. M. Hoover of
Eldorado and N. D. Hoover of Bal-
linger.
A host of friends extend deepest
sympathy to the relatives in the loss
of their loved one.
Largent.
3rd Vice
Mace.
Secretary and Treasurer—Miss Vin-
nie Wade Cook.
Reporter—Miss Hazel Waggoner.
The hostess served refreshments p|ace
buffet style consisting of sandwiches, j -n a
tea, salted nuts, cakes and mints to
those present.
BROTHER OF LAMPASAS
MAN DIES IN HOLLAND, TEX.
Lampasas Weekly Leader 1 year $1.50
CHURCH’ NOTICE
In North Lampasas the Church of
Christ meets each Lordj’s Day for
worship at 10:30. Come and be with us
S. L. Cantwell.
Newt C. Harmon, brother of Ed Har-
mon of Lampasas, died Friday night
at his home in Holland, Texas, after
an illness of influenza which develop-
ed into pneumonia. Funeral services
were held in that city Saturday af-
ternoon.
Mr. Harmon was a former resident
of the Harmon section but he with
his family had been residing in Hol-
land for a good many years.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Harmon and son,
Nolan and Mrs. Frank Harmon of
this city left Saturday morning for
Holland to attend the funeral. Friends
of the family here extend sympathy
to them in this hour of their bereave-
ment.
John had been living in the same house
all along.
The judge wanted to know how
come.
“Well,” said Mrs. Karpos, “he didn’t
have any money and there was no
he could go. So I let him stay
i in a little room at the back of the
' house. He didn’t bother us any.
“But if I give you a divorce, what
will you do with him?”
“It’s like this, sir,” she answered,
beamng benevolently. “As long as we
are married he’ll want to run things
and be bossy and beat me up. If we
get divorced I think I’ll take him as
a boarder. He ought to be all right
that way.”
The divorce was granted.
gas. However, Mr. Stevenson is of , g which ition she will continue
the opinion that the company he rep-1 ^ ghe .g a yery sweet and
resents will be able to supply Lf™-I charming young lady and is loved by
pasas with gas whether it is develop- ^ ^ know ^
ed from this source or not. In event ^ Wats who rec resigned
the tests are unsatisfactory it is pos- ^ ,n the First National
s,ble that a butane plant will be m, £ .g d in improving „ farm
stalled to furnish the city artificial ^ ^ ......______ oovv
gas.
:The 60i-day option ;:on the fran-
chise began Saturday, Jan. 10.
Y. W. A. HOLD SOCIAL
MEETING FRIDAY EVE.
SECOND VICTIM OF
DANCE SHOOTING DIES
LUBBOCK, Jan. 13.—Robert Aver-
ett, 23, today became the second fatal-
ity of a shooting affray which occur-
red here Sunday and which to date
had claimed two lives with three oth-
ers suffering from n^inor wounds. Av-
erett died after an emergency opera-
tion had failed. Horace L. Smith, 38,
died yesterday and will be buried
here today.
Two charges of murder were filed
against Alvis Graves, 26, Lubbock
carpenter, who is being held in the
Lubbock county jail.
Attorneys for Graves indicated a
preliminary hearing would be asked
this week.
The shooting climaxed a dance.
C. C. Donnell returned home Thurs-
day morning from Dallas where he
spent the first three days of this
week in attendance at the school con-
ducted by the International Farm-all
Tractor company. Mr. Donnell is with
the Fox & Mills Hardware company
of this city.
—Local Market Report—
Below are the prices paid by local
buyers for the various products on
Thursday of this week. These prices
.re subject to change each day.
Grain.
Oats ....................
.. 35c to 36c bushel
Ear Com...........
... 50c to 55c bushel
Shell Corn ........
............... 70c bushel
Barley................
... 45c to 55c bushel
Wheat................
... 60c to 70c bushel
Maize ................
$1.15-$1.30 hundred
Poultry.
Fryers ................
.... 12c to 16c pound
Hens ...................
... 12c to 14c pound
Roosters ............
.................. 7c pound
Turkeys No. 1 ...
.................20c pound
Eggs (candled)
................ 16c dozen
Eggs (infertile)
................ 16c dozen
Lampasas Weekly Leader 1 year $1.50
General.
Cream ................................ 19c pound
Beeswax ,,........................... 15c pound
Green Hides ........................ 2c pound
Cotton middling basis .......... 8%-9c
Cotton seed........................$20.00 ton
Pecans ..................,.............. 8c pound
The Young Woman’s Association of
the Baptist Church held a social meet-
ing . Friday evening at the home of
Mrs. Ed Allard, the occasion also do-
ing honor to one of their members,
Mrs. Nolan Bear, who was married
this week.
Dinner was served at 7:30 o’clock,
twelve places being laid at the dining
table. The dinner menu consisted of
baked chicken, dressing, gravy, peas,
creamed jpotatoes, cranberry (sauce,
candle salad, hot rolls and marsh-
mallow delight.
Following the delicious meal, Mrs.
Bear was complimented with a shower
of lovely gifts from her friends in
the association.
that he purchased some time ago
which is located about 15 miles from
Lampasas on the Georgetown road. He
is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Watson,
who live on a farm adjoining the one
purchased by their son. Mr. Watson
is a young man of splendid character-
istics and ability.
Upon their return from San Antonio,
Mr. and Mrs. Watson will make their
home in Lampasas. Hearty congrat-
ulations are extended the couple up-
on this happy occasion.
____— %
TWO BORGER MEN CHARGED
IN BANK HOLD-UP AT CANYON
BOY SCOUT ARCHERY CONTEST
The Boy Scouts of Lampasas have
discussed and have decided to enter
the proposed contest of the Heart of
Texas Council. J. E. Lawrence of
Waco and the Pecan Valley Council,
headquarters at Brownwood with Cliff
Pouncey as Scout Executive have is-
sued a challenge in the Archery
Contest.
After the Ai’chery Contest there
will be an Indian Cei-emonial and
flint and steel fire lighting contest.
Following this will be the Court of
Honor. Both will be awarded badges.
This contest will be held in Lampasas
on Feb. 7, 1931. The public is cordially
invited to attend these contests.
Friends here are in receipt of cards
announcing the arrival of a little
daughter in the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Paul E. Smithey at Clarendon on
January 4. The little girl has been
named Jo Ann.
CANYON, Jan. 12.—Charges of
robbery with firearms were filed Sun-
day against Art Farmer and Jack-
Burgess, both of Borger, in connec-
tion with the robbery of the First
National Bank of Canyon of more
than $13,000 early Saturday morning-
Two men kidnaped Levi Cole, as-
sistant cashier, and his wife, from
their home at 4:30 a. m, Saturday,
forced the couple to go to the bank
and wait almost five hours for the
time lock to spring at 9 a. m.
While waiting inside the bank, the
robbers took captive Sheriff John Fry
of Randall County, W. C. Black, cash-
ier, and James Cole and Miss Chris-
tine Upchurch, bank employes, all of
whom entered the building.
District Attorney Edward W-
Thompson, who filed the charges, said
the automobile in which the robbers
escaped belonged to Farmer, although
he said Farmer was not at the scene
of the robbery. He said a third man,
who he suspected of aiding Burgess,
was still at large.
Mrs. J. F. White and daughter,
Miss Cynthia, returned home Satur-
day from Temple where they have
spent the past several weeks. Mrs.
White has been undergoing treatment
in a hospital in that city.
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