Val Verde County Herald (Del Rio, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, June 13, 1913 Page: 1 of 8
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VOL. XXVI
DEL RIO. VAL VERDE COUNTY. TEXAS. FRIDAY. JUNE 13. 1913
NO. II
Condensed Statement of the Financial Condition of
1 LANGTRY WANTS ROAD SOMEGOOD PICTURES
IKE DEL K!D DANK AND TRUST COMPANY ! ID DEL KID, TEXAS FOR IKE MOVIES
Del Rio, Texas
As called for by the Commissioner of Banking,
at the close of business, June 4, 1913:
RESOURCES
Loans and Discounts
Furniture and Fixtures
Interest in Guaranty Fund
Guaranty Fund Assessment
Available Cash .................
Total ................................
LIABILITIES
Capital Stock ...........
Surplus ......... .........
Undivided Profits
Deposits .................
Total ...............
(net)
$197,684.95
4,463.69
887.89
205.00
102.335.28
$305,576.8i
$ 75.000.00
2,000.00
9,729.12
218,847.69
$305,576.81
Presents Big Petition to Com-
missioners’ Court For
Crossing on Pecos.
Joe Graham was down from
Langtry this week and present-
ed a petition from the citizens of
that community, asking to have
a road built across the Pecos
river, so that there will l>e a di-
j rect route from that town to Del
; Rio.
j While here Joe also got up a
petition to the same effect,
Scenes Taken In anti Around
Del Rio For The Ani-
mated Weekly.
The moving picture people had
a representative in Del Rio last
week and part of this and they
got some good stuff, which will
no doubt go into the regular
weekly film.
A picture of the fifty bov scouts
from Bren ham, was made in
their camps on Devil’s River.
The (bovs also put on a life sav-
made a good
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I DEL RIO HARDWARE CO. I
! i
DEALERS IN
l Hardware, Farming Implements |
i Stoves and Blacksmith Supplies I
i i
c'l i I I ^ L' U A kf F W WAGONS and BUGGIES J
O 1 U UUDn 1\ MX HARNESS and REPAIR +
HARNESS and REPAIR
AUTOMOBILE TOPS RECOVERED
+ WORK.
+ X
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The above statement is correct,
C. P.
CASSIUS WINNER
IN TUESDAY'S RAGE
Carries Off Purse of Two
Thousand Dollars by
Neat Distance.
, ,, P°
among the business men ot thisjing drill which
♦ I place. | picture.
SCALES, Cashier. t j ^ ‘8 on'v m’^es ,rom Del Sorpe fishing scenes were made
..............! Rio to Langtry straight through, !and J0nr.e „()0 j dragd will be re-
1 but the way Langtry people have. presented. Of course Tom
The Menard horse, Cassius,
the property of Johnson Walker,
was the winner of the $2000
race run on the Del Rio tracks
last Monday afternoon.
It was one of the biggest races
pulled off in this section for
many years, and it brought a
number of lovers of this sport
from distant towns.
The gray mare is a mighty
good animal, but was outdis-
tanced in this race. She is the
property of parties from Lock-
hart.
It just rained enough Satur-
Mrs. Sallie Scales.
Mrs. Sallie Scales, age 55
years, the wife of J. \V. Scales,
of this city, died Tuesday night
at 11:30 o’clock at the residence
in the Post Addition. Funeral
services will he conducted Wed-
nesday evening at 6 o’clock from
the residence by Rev. B. E. Wal-
lace, pastor of the First Presby-
terin church. The remains will
be shipped over the 7 o’clock
to travel to come here now, Hans had. to catch the fish.
makes it about three times that |
distance.
We would like to see the road
put in because we believe that it
would he a help to the interests
of Val Verde county, and that
Langtry is entitled to it. In ad- j
dition to this, such a road would j
open the way to the cattle rais-
ing country west of here and
each year there is a greater
amount of business done between
| A picture was made of the
(bathing in the San Felipe, of the
j hull fight at Las Vacas, and Del
Rio Street scenes.
FIRST NATIONAL MADE
U. S. DEPOSITARY
Will Handle a Portion of Un-
cle Sam’s Big Bulk
of Money.
Orient by the Charles A. Robi-1 these sections. Such a road
son Undertaking company to
Calhoun, La., the former home
of the deceased, for interment. —
San Angelo Standard.
Mrs. Scales was the mother of
Connie Scales, cashier of the Del
Rio Bank & Trust Co. Wc ex-
tend condolence to the bereaved.
Had Funny Experience.
Lem Crawford, of Menard,
came down to the races in a car.
would also put us on the San An-
tonio-El Paso and Pacific coast
Automobile road which is re-
ceiving favorable consideration
all along the line.
We are an advocate of good
roads and trust that this one will
be granted by the Val Verde
County Commissioners’ court.
From Brackett News.
Brackett has the best hearted
Thumm Bros, will present all
these films in The Texas some-
time in the near future. The
better part of the stuff will he
accepted by the weekly and go
into all the theatres of the
country.
It began raining on him 60 miles land most liberal people of any
day afternoon to have the tracks north of Del Rio and rained so town on the globe, when it comes
in fine shape for Monday.
— .....—- ——
A Mistake.
The Houston Post calls The, , „ . , , ,
'Democratic Del RU.'s lMted..a" n"'ht he foun'1 11
Herald
Bull Moose Weekly,” and among
other things says:
‘‘The Val Verde County Her-
ald concludes that the demo-
cratic party is a unit only on the
proposition of pie. As we un-
derstand it. The Herald shares
with the Texas Republic the
opinion that Teddy Roosevelt
should again throw his feet un-
der the dining table at the White
House.” .
The Post has understood it
just a little wrong; we have no
recollection of being very en- i certainly hold him a prisoner,
thusiastic about the Third Term-
er. but then at the same time
“us and Teddy” are very much
alike on some things. We never
touch a drop unless a doctor pre-
scribes it, hut we are both doc-
tors.
hard that he stopped and made | to lend a helping hand to the
himself at home in the car. He j distressed and needy. When
felt that it would be useless to at- j help is needed they simply go
tempt to come on. The rain i ahead, put their hands in their
pockets and help substantially,
no metter whether it be one of
our own, or a stranger, or what
his or her nationality. I would
sing the praises of the people
of Brackett every week, column
after column, if I could find
very disagreeable cramped up in
so small a place all night. The
next morning, when daylight
arrived he found that the front
wheels of the car were in dry
dirt; the rain had extended
from there to Chicago, but not j words adequate enough to ex-
a drop had fallen south of where ! press my feelings, because they
he stopped. Had he only have
known this he could have come
right on through.
If Lem should ever fall in a
two foot pit after night it would
Replying to a suggestion by
The Express that inasmuch as
walking was good Davis of the
Anvil-Herald, Callan of the Del
Rio Herald and Boehmer of the
Eagle Pass Guide might have
come to the Texas Press Asso-
ciation meeting, Davis of the
Anvil-Herald observes: “Walk-
ing has never been good to Cal-
lan and Davis since they landed
in Texas—the land where dis-
tances are too magnificent—and
as for Boehmer, we’ve a suspic-
ion that since Colquitt put the
kibosh on his pure ballot bill he
has sore toes.” Maybe Joe has
cold feet instead of sore toes.—
San Antonio Express
Methodist Church Notice.
Sunday school at 9:45 A. M.
VV. F. Jourdan, Supt. The pas-
tor will preach at 11:00 A. M.
deserve it. No matter of what
creed or nationality they may he
one touch of nature makes them
ail kin.
Mrs. James Jeffries came in
from the ranch Sunday evening
and left Monday for Del Rio
where she will visit relatives and
friends.
Cow Creek Cullin^s.
It is told on one of our hand-
some cowboys that whenever he
hears a soft voice call “Sancho”
that he comes tumbling down
those hillsides like a three-legged
goat.
A preacher had an awful time
one Saturday worrying about
the soles on his shoes and some
of the folks thought that he
ought to worry more about the
souls on Sunday.
We hear that some folks are
wondering where Cow Creek is
at. It is out in the pretty hills
north of Del Rio. right in the
midst of the prickly pear and
sotol and is a veritable flower
garden decorated in many colors.
Everybody had a most enjoy-
able time at the dance at Mr.
John Martin’s last Monday
night.
Jess Mayfield has moved his
family from the Martin ranch
down near Carta Valley.
Since our last report Mr."Ely
Brown and bride, of Del Rio,
have located in our midst.
Harry Jourdan, of Del Rio, is
visiting the Kelly ranch and
having an enjoyable time in the
hills hunting for a dear.
Henry Lazarene, of Del Rio,
Texas has a goodly number of
Merry Widows, something like came out Tuesday, and is now
and 8:15 p. m. Subject for jU5,995 of all ages, and 64,140, at Camp Prunes, doing his very
morning service “Our Women.” | Jolly Widowers. A pessimist j best.
The evening service will be held j has said: “eat, drink and he1 Pick Brown left for Del Rio
on the parsonage lawn and will | merry for tomorrow ye may be Thursday. He is apt to be gone
be only 45 minutes from start to
finish, Mrs. J. W. Childs will
sing at the morning service, and
Mr. and Mrs. Childs will sing
at the evening service. You are
cordially invited to worship with
us.
Jas. W. Ali.britten,
Pastor.
Miss Reynolds left Monday for
marred.”
B. F. Isgrig returned Monday
from a visit to Dei Rio.
Miss Carrie Gerola, of Del Rio,
is here on a visit to Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Rose Jr.
Miss Della Rose returned from Au8tjn Ca|lailf of the Del Rio
Del Rio Sundav, where she had Hera!d( wh0f by the waVt Rot
cold feet when the time came
to walk from Del Rio to the
several days and we will tell you
more about it later.
Ben Lazarine is visiting his
sister, Mrs. Brown.
Loco Bill.
Square Yourself.
| Several of our friends have in-
jsisted the past few months that
| we move our office hack so as
! not to be'on the sidewalk. We
hesitated, because being right in
all other things, we thought
surely we were right in this.
And so we were. The survey
made by the city engineer dis-
closes the fact that we are in
i line exactly and that our neigh-
: hors must square with us.
Of course we are not going to
swell up much about this, but at
i the same time we "will say that
j it would he a great saving to
| people to always notice how we
were on anything before belting
I their money.
Street Pick-Ups.
| It is interesting to saunter
down the street, chat a bit with
! everv man you meet, and get a
i kind of snap-shot sketch of what
all are thinking ab.ut.
We tried it the ether day and
will give briefly the results: The
first man we met had a currency
reform, which he had worked
out in detail and he had just
written the president about it.
Then we struck a fellow who
i believer! that baseball shouldJ|be
abolished and poker legalized as
I the national game. He said that
. everybody played it anyhow and
j that it was certainly an enter-
; taining pastime.
Another “crank” insisted that
[ it was our duty as a newspaper
man to wage war against the
j Balkan blouse. He daubed it as
a fashionable outlaw, that ought
| tO be hanged by it.a neck in a
(dark pantry ahd kept there for a
1 thousand years.
“I was just wondering” de-
clared one wrinkle-browed think-
er. “if tha world was really ,8treets
| burning up from within, or if it j Thui, the w„
were true that it la gradually ; beautifu|, attractive, aani-
coohngoff. and that we willI all:Ury and really worlb whjle „
treeze to death in a hundred j Sldtab|e
billion years from now, as a cer-| bomeg
|tain scienti9t declares‘ ” | Let everyone take an interest
We dug up another who was and let all work together for real
very angry because the papers i c|aB8v results. It should be a
had not advocated making Dr. j community effort a united com*
Mary Walker s birthday a state j rnunity, all working to the same
holiday.
There were many others.
Some believed with Paster Rus-
Isell that “death is hell,” while
j some contended just as stoutly
that “being broke is hell;” some
The First National Bank of
Del Rio. Texas, has been desig-
nated as a United States deposi-
tary and wiil hereafter bank
funds of the government.
The First National Bank now
has the largest deposits in its
history, reaching up towards the
half million mark.
This is an evidence of the solid
prosperity of our city, as it was
only a very few years ago that
the combined banks of Del Rio
did not have the amount of de-
posits) now held by the First
Natiohal.
We are growing, prospering
and saving.
Progress.
No one can look over the city
of Del Rio, without seeing many
evidences of progress.
During the past six months,
thousands of dollars worth of
sidewalks have been built.
Can you see a difference? Have
you noticed those yards on Gar-
field, where the fences have b«on
torn away—those nice yards
with palms und roses and grassy
lawns?
They look mighty well and you
can make yours look just as good
if you will try.
The spirit is growing: the air
is full of civic pride. There will
soon be a friendly rivalry among
neighbors, each undertaking to
have the prettiest place, and of
streets being made the prettiest
are
places for building
;end.
Nice Shower.
While Val Verde County
has
come in for considerable share
were for Woodrow Wilson, somei°^,a'n and som : Par*8
for Carranza and some for Debs; counlvr are *n hne shape, Del Rio
has been slighted. We got a
been visiting.
District Attorney Cliff Belcher
Chicago, where she will study was ^ere frrtrl» Ue' RI° th® other Press Association meeting, has
under Elizabeth Harrison, at the ^av on professional business. He | reinstated himself in our good
j National College, the new Mon- !*• having his vacation now, Dis- graces by declaring that “from
The Expresseditor in the good Ite8Bori Method. Miss Harrison trict Coi,rt havin* adjourned for newspaper comments we have
old days, when he has just recently returned from ! the term. j long since come to the conclusion
nice shower last Saturday after-
noon, however, of about one-
half an inch, which will serve all
purposes in town, if the country
what they are
was young
and didTg.^ddealo"''walking i «***>'» “>« PTOtiMl work w.th ,tio" "f ,he *“"r: at the San Antonio pram meeting
.S ‘be Madame Momeraori heraalf. ' Wn1'* boy »« l*Ht w.ho *h.~* : was the Mexican .upper The Ex-
. ... , . ... i. :.. u After August 8th Miss Reynolds a l,l‘hhle against the American ury8g ^nve.” It would have
Itivttly dangerous to walk* now!wid vi,it 0,d until time Uonsul’s building in Piedraa been a cold day if that supper
and this i/the reason we were to return for »chool in Del Rio. j N eg ras and caused the war de^ had not been warm.-San An-
anu inis is mi reason wt wtr. partinent to return a troop of tonio Exnreaa
not in San Antonio at “La Cena When you want a neat bubber.cavalry to Eagle Pass on forced
Mexicana. ”
Rome, where she has been en-
that about the warmest thing
(Some were worrying about the
report that the Japanese had
yanked Catalina island and were
!dragging it over towards the
Yellow sea, while others were
1 rejoicing at the prospect of sail-1 f)e°Ple can 8ct
ing yachts being put on the free, j entitle'! to.
so that they wculd be brought1, ***
within reach of the predatory ; Wre would ship the Del Rio
poor. I Herald editor a hogshead of our
It is n great old world, isn’t it? j delicious strawberries, hut they
We eat the s ime kind of beans. !*>*e 80 large we are afraid he
would mistake them for pine-
beans, |
water I
stamp and pad phone No. 1.
march?”—Eagle Pass Guide.
Visiting yards at thia office.
drink the same kind of
and breathe the same uir, yet
we have thoughts, ideas, as
variable as the vegetation that
covers the face of the earth.
Rubber stamps. Phone No. 1
mistake them for
apples. We know he is the fel-
low who advocated sowing pine
trees broadcas: in West Texas
with a view of supplying the
world with pi i ripples. - Menard
Messenger.
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