The Lampasas Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, February 15, 1929 Page: 6 of 8

                                
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PLANTING TIME
Te m the Best Results Be Careful in I
Good Seed is one of our hobbies. For years we have made a specialty of Garden and Field Seed of the very best varieties and highest test of purity germkaton
from reliable Seed Houses and Farms. We are well prepared to take eare of your seed wants this season.
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Garden Seed, Flower Seed, Plants. Seeds m bulk
and packages.
Crystal Wax and Yellow Bermuda Onion t lants,
300 for 23c.
Genuine Maine Irish Cobbler and Triumph Seed
Irish Potatoes $1.30 per bushel, 40c per bucket.
Genuine McGee Tomato Seed.
Yam potato slips about March 1st. Tomato and
Pepper plants about March 1QtL
SEED CORN
We have a good selection of the best Seed Corn,
including Lampasas County grown also Mexican
June Com.
FIELD SEED
Red Top, Amber and Orange Cane Seed. Seeded
Ribbon Cane, Milo Maize, Kaffir, Feterita, Higari,
Dorso, Sudan, Big German Millet grown by
Lewis Rainwater, Lampasas County. All tagged
and tested.
FIELD PEAS
Whipporwill, Crowder’s, Clay’s, and White Cream
t Peas for planting to arrive.
COTTON SEED FOR PLANTING
We have the best varieties for this locality.
We have given a great deal of care to the selection of Seed this season. Backed by years of experience we are in position to take care of your Seed Wants.
We Want Your Produce, Grain, Poultry, Eggs, Butter & Cream
Come in to see us in our new store in center of block between Manuel Hardware Co. and Peoples National Bank. The most completely equipped Grocery Store in Central
Texas. Stocked with new, fresh goods at prices that will bring you back. Always glad to see you .... .
Andrew
right Grocery
We Give S & H Green Stamps
STATE ASKS FIRMS
FORFEIT CHARTERS
Austin, Tex., Feb. 11.—Quo war-
ranto proceedings to forfeit the char-
ters of four Texas mutual life insur-
ance companies have been instituted
by the attorney general’s department
in Fifty-third district court.
The attorney general alleges that
the companies' are failing to comply
with the state’s insurance laws, inas-
much as they are not confining their
activities to their counties as pre-
scribed under the mutual aid insur-
ance law, and that all four of them
were dormant for a period and their
franchise were non-use, referred to as
a reason for charter revocation.
The companies named in the actions
are National Mutual Life association,
successor to the National Mutual Ben-
efit association, Houston; Bankers
Guaranty Life company, successor to
Mutual Life Insurance association of
Texas, Dallas; Texas Mutual Life In-
surance association, successor to the
Home Mutual Life Insurance associa-
tion, Waco; and the Mutual Protec-
tive Association of Texas and six in-
dividuals, Fort Worth.
PREDICTS BIULDING
150 STORIES HIGH
Card of Thanks.
We wish to. express our heartfelt
thanks to all those who assisted in
any way during the illness and death
of our beloved husband and father,
C. H. Wykes. The floral offerings
were very beautiful and we shall
never forget our friends who extend-
ed their love and sympathy during
this sad hour.
Mrs. C. H. Wykes,
Mrs. E. Babe Smith,
L. L. Wykes,
Mrs. D. C. Chamberlain,
Mrs. J. O. Roark,
Mrs. Fred Juby,
E. O. Wykes,
Mrs. Will J. Moore,
(dwp)    Chas. H. Wykes, Jr.
Chicago, 111., Feb. 8.—Skyscrapers
100 and 150 stories high were pre-
dicted today by Dr. George A. Bole
of Ohio State University, speaking
before the annual convention of the
structural clay workers.
Use of a new brick will make the
real skyscraper possible, Dr. Bole said.
The new bricks are said to weigh
about one-sixth as much as bricks now
used, but are of greater strength and
have greater fire resisting qualities.
COUNTY BASKETBALL TOUR-
NAMENT PLAYED SATURDAY
AGED MAN BURNS TO DEATH
NEAR LOMETA ON SUNDAY
Mrs. Lena Sewell and son, accom-
panied by her father, T. J., Henry,
who have been visiting here in the
home of Mr. and Mrs. D. Sewell, re-
turned Monday morning to their
home at Winters.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Kirschvink and
children came in Sunday night to
spend a time in the home of his
father, John Kirschvink, and with
Mrs. Kirschvink’s mother, Mrs. Ed
.Witten.    ..    'I ■
Around and Around.
Few problems can compare with the
dispute now raging in Paris about
the international date line.
Many people heard of this for the
first time when Commander Byrd
crossed it. First he crossed it in an
easterly direction, and lost a day. He
then recrossed it westward and gained
one. That balanced matters, and for
s, moment everybody was satisfied.
“But,” some bright individual in-
quired, “suppose he hadn’t recrossed
it?”
“And again, suppose he had kept
on going east, round and round the
world, would he have gained a day
on each circumnavigation ? After
seven trips around the world would
he be a week ahead of us stay-at-
homes?
“If a man could fly around the world
in 24 hours, would he get back on
the same day he started ?
“If he could fly around the world
in twelve hours would he get back
the day before he left?”
The problem might be deepened.
When Commander Byrd gets to the
south pole he will be at the point
where all longitudes meet. At meri-
dian zero, you have Greenwich time.
At meridian 180, just on the other
side of the point called the pole, you
have the international date line.
Suppose you are with Commander
Byrd at that point and you walk
around that imaginary pole. Each
time you cross the 180th meridian you
gain or lose a day. If you keep
walking around at the rate of one
revolution a minute, do you gain or
lose 60 days every hour ? And if
two people walk around, in opposite
directions, will they not soon be living
in different centuries ?
The answer, it seems to us, is “prob-
ably not.” But one can acquire a
severe headache trying to figure out
why.—Harrisburg Telegraph.
The Lampasas county basketball
tournament played here last Sat-
urday came near being a failure as
only two of the rural school teams |
were present. The exceptionally cold
weather is thought to have been the
reason that several other teams were ,
not on the ground.
The Moline and Clayrock girls game :
was played first with Moline winning
by a good margin. Thus the county
girls championship goes to Moline.
The Moline and Clayrock boys play-
ed for the county rural championship,
with Moline winning 44 to 17. Fol-
lowing this game the Lampasas high
school team then played Clayrock,
defeating that team 64 to 3.
The Badgers then appeased them-
selves for the stinging defeat a few
weeks ago administered to them by
Moline, defeating this team 45 to 17.
BORGER POLICE CHIEF
IS ACCIDENTALLY KILLED
Borger, Tex., Feb. 10.—Joe Hut-
son, 39, chief of police and pioneer
peace officer of this town, was fatally
wounded today by a bullet accident-
ally discharged from the gun of
Tom Hughes, a fellow officer. The
bullet first struck Hughes in the
ankle, breaking both bones, and then
richoeheted from the cement floor,
ranging through Hudson’s thigh.
Hughes will recover.
Hughes was replacing his gun into
its scabbard but shoved it into the
loop of the scabbard instead and it
dropped just as Hudson entered the
room. The impact discharged it.
A. D. Malone, age 84 years, was
burned to death Sunday afternoon,
February 10th, at his home near
Lometa. He was making his home
with his son, J. E. Malone, and the
family had gone away from home in
the early part of the afternoon. Upon
returning they found their house
burned to the ground, and the elderly
man burned to death with it.
The remains were buried Sunday
evening at the O’Neal Cemetery near
their home on Simms Creek.
Mr. Malone is survived by the fol-
lowing childi'en: J. E. Malone, Lo-
meta; Mrs. W. H. Crawford of Mason;
Mrs. J. L. Beard and Mrs. R. F.
Tabor of Sinton, and T. A. Malone of
Oklahoma.
BEEYILLE MERCHANT
LOSES PAYING CASH
We are informed by Claude Strick-
land, district manager of the Texas
Power & Light Co., that the Lam-
pasas office of this concern is shortly
to lose the services of its chief clerk,
W. B. Wright. Mr. Wright is being
transferred to the Dallas office of
the T. P. & L. Co., and will be in
the assistant general manager’s office.
This is a promotion for Mr. Wright
of which we are glad to hear, though
Lampasas citizens are very sorry to
know that they are to lose Mr. and
Mrs. Wright. They came to Lam-
pasas on November 13, 1925, and since
that time Mr. Wright has continued
as chief clerk of this office. This
change will be made just as soon as
arrangements are completed for Mr.
Wright’s successor to relieve him.
Class Meeting.
The Victory Wesley Class held its
February business meeting Monday
afternoon with Mrs. Arthur Perry as
hostess. A large group of interested
members assembled promptly at 3:00
o’clock.
Plans were made for the sale of
flavoring extracts sponsored by the
class, the profits from same to be
added to our building fund. The treas-
urer, Mrs. Elbert Clements, reported
that we now have in the bank $693.00.
The resignation of . our present
class president was accepted with re-
grets and the vice president, Mrs.
Claude Strickland, is now president,
and Mrs. Arthur Perry was elected
vice president.
At the close of the business session
a social hour was enjoyed, the hostess
serving a delicious refreshment plate.
Mrs. W. E. Martin will be hostess
for the business meeting in March.
—Class Reporter.
Beeville, Tex., Feb. 10.—A Beeville
merchant, operating on the belief that
a dollar saved is a dollar made, paid
a salesman for an Iowa novelty com-
pany cash with order and was allowed
ten per cent discount for doing so.
However, the merchandise has not
been delivered, and a letter of in-
quiry addressed to the firm has come
back to the merchant with the nota-
tion that it could not be delivered at
the address given.
The salesman was selling scales—
the type which the merchants place
in front of their place of business on
which people weigh themselves. The
local merchant fell for it.
MAN AT 58 SENTENCED
TO 30 YEARS IN KILLING
At the national field trial clubs,
annual trials recently held at Union
Springs, Alabama, “Air Pilot” won
the national derby championship. This
is the same pointer dog that won
second in the American field $3,000
futurity last November, only failing
to be placed first by .a narrow mar-
gin, and a win in these two trials is
considered the greatest worth any
bird dog can win in the United States.
This dog has now been placed seven
times before he is two years old. W.
T. Munger‘raised this dog and hunted
him until he was a year old, and nat-
urally feels gratified. Mr. Munger
and a friend own the mother of this
dog.
Belton, Tex., Feb. 9.—H. G. Thomp-
son, 58, was sentenced to 30 years
today by a jury which convicted him
of the fatal shooting of Carlton Few-
ell, 19, at a skating rink here last
May.
Thompson said he shot the youth
after he had become convinced Fewell
intended to elope with his married
daughter. The daughter testified
Fewell had conducted himself proper-
ly in her presence and denied inten-
tion of eloping with him.
BANK ROBBERY WITH-
OUT PISTOLS OR THREATS
From the Temple Telegram we
learn that Lamar Acker Zivley, son
of Mr. and Mrs. G. D. Zivley of Tem-
ple, has been appointed a page in
the house of representatives of the
national congress, according to a let-
ter received yesterday from Con-
gressman and Senator-elect Tom Con-
nally. He and his mother will go
to Washington in April when he will
begin his duties. The 15-year-old lad
has been a page in the Texas legis-
lature house of representatives for
three terms. Lamar was born in
Lampasas and his friends here are
glad to hear this news.
TWO CARS PECANS ARE
SHIPPED BY E. R. SCOTT
E. R. Scott was loading out two
cars of pecans from his warehouse
Friday. The pecan crop in this im-
mediate section has been lighter than
usual this season, however Lampasas
has received its share of the crop mar-
keted. The pecan crop is quite an
item in this section and the Lampasas
market is always in line and attractive
to the pecan growers in this section.
Washington, Feb. 8.—Two men
walked into the Riggs National Bank
about closing time yesterday, turned
right around and walked out again,
and with them presumably went
$15,000 in Liberty bonds. Not a shot
was fired nor an outcry made, for
the simple reason that the guards,
the bank officials and the bank person-
nel did not know a robbery wsa going
on.
Miss Ange Boalo, bank stenograph-
er, was busy at her desk, when a tele-
phone call came to her asking if a
“Mr. Johnson” had been in the bank.
Two men had entered the bank
just a short time before and after
them a woman, the latter being ad-
mitted on her plea that she wished to
make a deposit in the savings depart-
ment.
Miss Boalo walked across the main
floor toward the teller’s cage, but she
intercepted the teller about 40 feet
from her desk, got the information
and returned to answer the telephone.
She found the bonds were gone, the
men were gone and also the women.
Police believe the later was a con-
federate of the men and that she
made the call through the woman’s
department to get Miss Boalo away
from her desk.
Daily Leader, & months $1.00.
Mr .and Mrs. Jack B. York arrived
in Lampasas Thursday afternoon, Feb.
7, and will in the future make this
place their home. Mr. York is con-
nected with the A. L. Higdon Co.,
Inc., and is at present supervising
the interior arranging of this new
store that is to open shortly. Mr.
York has for the past five years been
connected with the Roach-McLymont
Co., of Del Rio, of which W. M. Abbey
is the principal owner.
Mrs. Sallie A. Allen, accompanied
by her children, Fred Allen and Mr.
and Mrs. B. A. Allen of Colorado have
returned from Marlin where they en-
joyed a several weeks’ vacation.
Announcement has been received
here of the birth of a son to Mr.
and Mrs. A. T. Noyes, in Dallas, on
February* 6th, Thee young man is a
grandson of Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Noyes
of this city.