The Flatonia Argus (Flatonia, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 15, 1922 Page: 1 of 8
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Devoted to the Interest#of the People of Flatonia and its adjacent Territory
VOLUME XLVI, NUMBER 33,
FLATONIA, TEXAS, JUNE 15, 1922.
$1.50 a year in advance.
tonia Independent School and Community
District:
_ A year ago, as some of you
In a further appeal for add- " ill remember, I visited Fla-
itional room m our school, you 1 tonia with some Government
will note the figures as given films entitled “Good-bye Boll
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Service and Adjusted Com- All back claims against the To The Tax Payers of Fla- To The Farmers of Flatonia vator that will drug or whip
the cotton stalk.
2nd. When properly done,
poisoning with calcium arar-
nate is very "effective. Calci-
um arsenate is a light and
very finely pulverized pow-
der that is sprayed downward
on the plant with such force
that the powder that strikes
the ground rebounds and set-
tles on every" part of the cot-
ton plant. Many different
kinds of machine are Used 4n
poisoning work, ranging from
hand guns covering one row
to large power sprayers cov-
ering several rows.
3rd. Boll weevil catchers
pensation Drive government are likewise to be I
J — entered-in the Legion census.
The jwjtional census of vet- If a man did not get his $60
erans of the World War re- bonus on discharge he is re-
cently authorized by'^he A- quested to make, it known,
merican Legion is Yli full If the government owes him
swing, ^nd every ex-service back pay, travel pay, if his by our superintendent from Weevil". Today the weevil
man and woman in Flatonia allotments or Liberty Bonds the term reports on file in his is with us again, and I should
and-Fayette County will bg have gone estray, if he has office: like very much to meet with
enumerated, according to an- never, received his Victory 1. Highest enrollment be- you, but1 as that is hardly
nouncement made>*by G. H. Medal, he is to enter his^ore the district was en- possible at this time I am tak-
Kristek, command of Jer-1 complaint on the Legion larged, 250; highest enroll-, ing advantage of the kind-
ome Miehal Post of the Le- ’questionnaire. * ment for the past year, 259. [nessjDd._c.oiift.egy of Mr. Hprr
That this increase is about I and will talk to you through
the normal annual increase is the columns of The Argus,
shown by the fact that in j Ho you know that the sup-
1916-17 the enrollment was .ply of cotton in this country
225. j’is the lowest right now that
gion. The local part t)f ‘the t Commander Kristek advis-
census will be carried on un-|es that from the blanks re-
der the direction of the Jer- turned by the individual ex-
ome Miehal-Post. [soldier, 41 per cent chose the
Every veteran is to answer paid-up life insurance, 13^ per
forty-eight questions as out-
lined on the census blank.
Commander Kristek has sent
one of these blanks to every man to understand . that
ex-service mau that he knows1 whether he is a .member of
cent selected farm and home
aid and 46 per cent cash.
was in the service and to ev-
ery member of the local post
but there are a large number
of ex-service men that he is
the American Legion or. not
makes absolutely, no differ-
ence n thiis case”,, said Com>
mander Kristek, “What we
unable to reach on account ai”e going after is a census of
of not having a record of the
men that were in the service.
Merchants will, confer a fe-
ex-service men; we have the
members of the American Le-
gion already listed at head-
roll 80. fThe department of
Education*7fixes 40 as the
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vor on Commander Kristek by i quarters?! 'Anybody can sign
advising him of any e.X-ser-1UP for the -Legion any tiqje
. vice men they may happen to he ward-s to, and Welcome,
learn of through conversation r^ut what we are after now
with custpmers. A large num-[*s the name add the*’nefids of
ber of our rural district- boys j every man or woman that
saw Service in army and navy served the United, States in
• during the World'War. This!the world war. It happens
service record wlif be invalu- t° he the Legion that is tak-
able to the Legion in present-! .the census because its all
2. One room the past year it has been for years, and
enrolled 72 pupils and the!that indication point to th.e
“I want every ex-service Icoming year will probably en- [greyest demand that we’ve
had for years, also that there
is not only a possibility., but
maximum number of pupils a probability, of a short crop
in any one room. [this year.*'- You know what
3. In three of the grade that means, short supply,
rooms everv seat was occu- short' crop and big demand,
pied and ne wseats added so I want to put the follow-
until there was not space for ing question right square up
another desk, Everv year has to each individual farmer in
shown an increased enroll- this community: what are you
ment over the past year, and doing to protect your cotton
of various types have been,
used for several years with
good results. They have the
advantage of being less ex-
pensive and of not requiring
extra labor, as they are at-
tached .to the cultivator” and*
used while cultivating...**
I am not recommending
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‘ing“its ' fight for its disabled. in the Legion’s line of^work. gain UP . t<* standard* next
and for all classes of veterans hut the- census i.s conducted
who have unsettled claims *ov f(,r- tHG benefit of all veterans- qitniot .fake the overflow from
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Government. In the past two I -o » -
years the national’service di-! D ... , ^
vision of I ho Legion has Been I Rud»'Ph Seeberger F/>r
instrumental in settling flaims ■ ,, au" t , raa8l^"er.
in favor of veteran, totaling „ Mr' •“ud^ S'eberner
more than $10,000,000. . | has authomed The Argus o
AII . . . announce him-as a candidate?
All members are to be .. .. ™ ^ ~
, , * • . - to.r the office of County Treas-
.soujrht out Whether members jurer 3ubject t0 tho actiOT of
of any soldiers orf-anizat.on ,h Rcpublican Convention in
or noC The matter of-their I j ,
membership in the Legion is
Mr. Seeberger was born
next year will probably be
no exception.
4. The enrollment in the
1st. -grade was smaller the
past year thah usual, which
enabled the teacher of tthat
grade to care for 12 children
that could not be seated in
the 2nd. and 3rd. grade, room.
year the'-teacher in charge
the other room
5. The teacher for the 6th.
and 7th. grades the past year
enrolled 49 pupils an dhas
seating capacity for 45. Usu-
ally a few were ab«o*.t, each
bout the teacher was able to
seat them all.
6. The 4th. ami 5th. grade
against tho weevil?
Do you belong to that class
of people whose motto is:
“The Lord 'will provide” or
do you belong to that class
who believe: “Heaven helps
those who h.elp -themselves”?
Have you been sitting down
waiting for the Lord to do
that you use rnv particular
method in this work., but i no
believe that every farmer
should do everything- he can
to control this^iest that is
costing the Sniff millions of
dollars'•every year. In San
Patricio County weevil con-
trol work * has been carried
on for a nurpber of years anil
the farmers have found that
it pays. This __yenr every
farnr#r who has any infesta-
tion is putting up an ener-
A fewdays ago T was latk-'fthnf"^ coTTditimw^^
i luilh fi farmer, whose cot- very discouraging lor t
ing With a farmer- whose cot
ton was badly infested . with
weevils arid asked him what
Lavaca Fayette Newa
Also I am coming among
you, dear correspondents.
. The crops are simply beau-
tiful: the rain was o. k.
The dance in ' Novohrad
School last Monday was juat
fine. Everybody enjoyed it.
Miss Willie Minnie Jalufka
of Engle spent last week with
her sister', Mrs. Henry Barta.
Mrs. Julius Poapisl and lit-
tle son, Julius, spent last Sun-
day with-Mx. and Mrs. F. J.
Sembera.
Mr. Jos. L. Hodanek of
Richmond visited his sister,
Mrs. A. V. Srkala, Sunday
before last.
Mr. Paul Geisbers of Moul-^
ton was in our city one day
last week.
Mr. F. R. Barta and family
spent Sunday before last at
the Chris Sembera home.
Mr. A. V. J. Srkala is in-
West at present. It is ru-
mored Jhat he likes that sec-
tion and may move there. v ‘
Last Sunday was dance in
Novohrad. Everybody* seems
to have enjoyed themselves.
Mrs. A. V. Srkala spent
two days of last week with
Mrs. R. M. Srkala in Moul-
ton. • v
Mr. F. W.- Nesrsta spent •
last Sunday - night with his
best.
Blue Eyed Violet.
everything or have you been. geticrJight,
doing everjfthing you can to1 Friends, now is the time
help HimHproiluce your 'tU'op? (-for us to' get busy. It is true
~.bee it
very discouraging for the past
two or three.years, but laying
down on the job is not going
he was doing to fight the to help us.
weevil. He said: “Nothing.
What is the‘use? We can’t
do anything, and besides we
I saw. a picture'a few days
ago that appealed to me; it
was an old hen industriously
teacher enrolled 56. There pe* for.- the weevil there
are 56 desks in the room-and would be so much cotton we
want tt.he weevil; if it were Scratching, and below was
this question: “When worms
are scarce does the old hen
could get nothing for it.”
NoW friends, if your house
fire wouldn't you
was
on
of no consequence. The fact, am, reared in Kayette County
that there is no other organ- and ifl welj an(, favorably
ization of sufficient scope to! known throughout the coun-
undertake and carry through ty He sen,ed with honor
»n“ -US °f veterana during the world war, spent
Wf‘ j,/. V(‘ry aPI)ar* *1l 12 months overseas with the by grades and the average j paring the ground and culti
need for such a census, 4he |.90th- Divisionf and aftcr thc K 1
Legion has taken it up. war returned to Fayette Co.
e recort ing of "haf|and afrafn engaged in busi-
c one eac veteran will make ness at Schulenburg.
no space for more.
7. A crowded room increas-
es the qfcr cent of colds, sore
throats and other mild con-1 make an effort to save it?
tagions, and lowers the av-1 Haven't you invested jroulf
erage attendance accordingly, money in the seed you htivfl
Below is given the enrollment planted and your labor pre-
attendance: jvnting the crop Isn’t it worth
Enrolled Av. Attend, while to try to save what you
quit scratching?”
Let us follow the old hen’s
example. O. C. HAWORTH,
Farm & marketing agent
S A & A P Ry.
Muldoon It*m»
Crop conditions here are
looking brighter for the farm-
er and it appears that con-
Fldy News Items
Several"""nicer" shdwers
rain- were received here last
week- which were very
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under the five alternatives I jf elected he will serve the 39
provic c or in the adjusted 1 tax payers .to the best of his 27
compensation bill will be a ability,
very important result of the
census. This question is to be
asked of every ex-soldier in
the community. The bill of-
fers the soldier his option of
any one of the five following
provisions for compensation:
(1) Adjusted pay for the
term of service put in; (2) a
He earnestly solicits your 131
support and influence. His 1 x'g
name appears in the, proper[210
first grade
second grade
third grade
fourth grade
fifth grade
sixth gradt-
seventh grade
total
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20 have invested? Suppose there;ditions will again in the near
26 IB an overproduction and cot-, future resemble those ol be-
19 ton is cheap, wouldn’t it be! fore the war. Several tarm-
17 cheaper to save what yoUiarH are 1 injx cotton, some
23 have, hold some ovor until j they have had on hand two
26'the .next year, cut your next yea™, and it is hardly nec-
13 year’s cotton acreage down essary to say that the money
144 i,an<l olant something else than- at this time will be of great
column of this paper announ-j pPr cent of attendance 68U_, to lose what you have this help to them,
ring him as a candidate. |per CPrd 0f attendance In the'vear and then try to maku UrO. Gibbons and Bro. Tra-
High School 93 1-8. (another crop .next year with ey concluded a very success-
Respectfully, I the same obstacles in the way. I*ul ten day meeting here last
Board of Trustees, j Wlmt assurance have you [Sunday with several additions
that vou can make a crop to the church, and as an add-
next year? . * i ed attraction eight members
World’s Greatest Train of L,o- It has been demonstrated | of the Smithvillc KKK paid
| beyond a question of doubt'the church a visit at IheHe-
Cistern News
„ .. OA . , 1 Mr. and Mrs. Norman Cole
paid-up 20-yoar insurance pol-iand littlo daughter. Lexia, of
icy; (3) expenses paid for A Ufiatfii,- Ariz. are visiting Mr.
counife n -vocational training!^ Gabitzeeh—and famltyrt—comoMVes to Pass He,* I..... , __________
a oan or the purchase They came through in their The Southern Pacific Rail- that weevil infestation can be.ginning of the services and
o a arm or homd; (5) ap-|t.ar having made the trip in road company will run a! controlled, fto let us next con- handed Bro. Tracy a letter
plication of a man’s adjusted |six days*. “Prosperity Special*: consist- aider wavs of fighting this]containing fifty dollars. There
pay on the purchase of ®ov-[ , Miss Wunderlich, trained ing of fifty new forge locomo- post. Some time during the was no demonstration and cv-
einment improved land. * 'quvse, returned to her home tives through this city next late summer or early fall I erything went off nicely with
l^he adjutsed pay is t*o be;id Moulton Monday, having Saturday, scheduled to reach want to talk to you about the (the exception that a few got ^
here at- 8:10 a. m. • only method that will effect a bit Shaky, more or less, it '
fferal to the* crops and mdc
appreciated bv the farmers:
Quite a number from here
attended, the picnic at Colony
Friday and reported a pleas-
ant day and plenty of. fine
“eats”.
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Helm-
camp spent Sunday with Mra.
Harsch of Flatonia.
Mr. Otto Hekncamp attend-
ed churck at Elm Grove Sat-
urday night.
Jerome and Clarence Har-
bich of Flatonia were guests
at the Alfred Gosch home
Thursday night.
Mr. F. Weidel and Mr.' J.
A. Gosch made a business
trip to Colony and Flatonia
Saturday. >
1 am sorry to report Mrs.
Davis Holstien very ill at this
writing. •.
Miss Erma Gosch spent part
of last week with relatives
In your city.j
Mias Mildred Snell of San
Antonia is visiting her grand
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. R.
Allen. 1
Mrs. W. C. Chandler and •
children and Mrs. Alfred
Gosch and .Miss Gertrude
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were among. friends at Black
m
Jack Wednesday
week.--
of last
Mr. and Mrs. Fritz Helm-
camp of Grover spent Sun-
day at the Charlie Helmcamp
home*
Alfred Steinhauser Jr. vis-
ited relatives at Grover Sun-
set at the rate of $1.00 per .nursed Mrs. Tom Cockrill
day for home service and | through her illness.
$1.25 per day for service o-; Mrs. O. Davis and family
Verseas. The face value of of Simthville were visitors and is being run only in thc crop, so we will discuss brief-
the life insurance policy of- here Sunday. daylight hours in order that ly some other methods that
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only method that will ettect a on so»sy, «v., WeidsI
This wonderful train is en a permanent, cure, bjit it is being their first glimpse of Albena and Idella,
route New Orleans to Frisco too late to apply it to this the robed figures. Jiggs. '^ended the ice cream entf
tainment at Colony Saturday
night and report a jolly, good
time.
YOUNG PEOPLE
Young people’s Get-togeth-
fered is to he 3.015 times the Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Smith the people along the Toute have given excellent results.'
amount that would be re- spen$ Sunday in Waelder. may see it. . isf. Constant cultivation, es-
ceived bv the same man for| Miss Fay Gabitzsch*is here Each engine is 100 ft. long pecially during hot sunshiny er meeting, Saturday from 7
adjusted pay. His vocational spending a few djiys with her and Weighs 621,000 pounds weather. Cultivating will 'to 8 o’clock p. m., on the
training* aid or farm or home grandmother, Mrs. Michaelis. and the train will be about knock off some weevils and Baptist church lawn,
loan would be 140 per cent Mrs. T. A. Pogue of Wael- a mile, long^ These locomo* punctured squares; this num-
of what would be received dor spent Saturday with rel- tives cost the Southern Pa- ber 4can be increased .by fas
in cash. atives. Eve. cific a million dollars. , tening something to the culti-
Dr. and Mra. J. W. Outlaw
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Everyone ,come and .bring home in Sour Lake Monday
your best smile. j nftcr a visit at , fvL'XffiSi
Muff Sed'L < Thulemeyer home.
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Hurr, Henry. The Flatonia Argus (Flatonia, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 15, 1922, newspaper, June 15, 1922; Flatonia, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth989606/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Fayette Public Library, Museum and Archives.