The Deport Times (Deport, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, May 15, 1931 Page: 1 of 8
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VOLUME XXIII
DEPORT, LAMAR COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1931
NUMBER 14
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Deport Pioneer
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L. H. Colyer, geologist of Ho-
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The Maurich Oil Co. Deason
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eluding a thre*' base blow by
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PATTONVILLE LADY IS
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DR. FLEMING SPEAKS
reliable service.
SUSPENDED SENTENCES
home of Mrs. Dee Thompson.
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E. L. Lawler Dies
at Stanton Home
Farmers Inspect
Grant Pasture
Contract Signed
For Mosley Test
season.
A play is to be given by this
. Plans
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BUY PRESSURE CANNER
Casing will be set in the
Guest No. 1 well being drilled
west of Deport by Doyle & Jon-
dreau, J. H. Doyle stated Thurs-
SAM J. READ TAKES
OVER SINCLAIR AGENCY
was a home run by Wisdom,
the catcher, while his team
EOERAL RESERVE
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PUREBRED HOGS ARE
RECEIVED AT BOGATA
Mra. J. R. Westbrook Sr., Dies
at Home of Daughter After
Long Illness
Deason Oil Company to Drill
Well to 3500 Feet North
of Deport
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. Your Opportunity to Test Cara
- Nome Face Powder at no expense
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For* a limited time the Rexall
K store will sell you a liberal size
box of Cara Nome Face Pow’der \
for 25 cents. Use the powder;
return the empty box and re-
\ ceive a credit of 25 cents on the
purchase of any Cara Nome pro-:
duct, retailed for $1.00 or over.
Try It at Our Expense
“PAID BY CHECK”
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E. L. Lawler, who tormerly
lived, at Milton, died Monday at
his home at Stanton where he
had been ill for more than a
week. He made his home at
Milton before moving to West
Texas several years ago, and
Sixteen purebred hogs, part
a carload shipped into Red
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Satisfactory Report on Sands
Guest Well; Casing to be Set
ESTABLISHED 1902
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Four Tame, Five Wild Clovers
Furnish Summer-Winter
Grazing
FULBRIGHT SCHOOL
CLOSED LAST WEEK
SMITH PRESIDENT OF
TEXAS COTTON CO-OP
Deport State Bank will re-
ceive $9,144 and the Fulbright day morning, following a satis-
Stalte Bank $1,536 in a judg-
ment handed down in the Nine-
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RE-OPEN MINIATURE
GOLF COURSE HERE
__ hazards con- men in the Bogata and John-
structeiUand drained to permit town
playing, in a short time after The
rains.
pasture, said Mr.. Hutson. When' LOCAL MEN GET WELL
IN THE JOINER FIELD
the banking commissioner since
the fund became insolvent, and
the law responsible for it was
repealed.
Thru liquidations, the guar-
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Miss Alleene Loven has been
elected to the staff of the Bo-
school where she will
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Local Bank Gets
Dies at Kountze $9,144 from State
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Suit Favors Members Operating
Under Law Supposed to
Insure Depositors
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factory showing found in sam-
ples of sand taken from the
well and sent to Dallas for ex-
amination by a paleontologist.
The oil showing was encounter-
ed Monday at a depth of 2,700
feet and core tests were taken
Tuesday. Operations have been
suspended since that time while
test examinations were being
made. Excitement was high
, Tuesday when core tests re-
anty fund had increased to sev=. ported to show three feet of oil
sand were taken, and many out
of town people were here.
Mrs. J. R. Westbrook Sr.
died Tuesday at the home of
her daughter, Mrs. R. A. Tate,
at Kountze, after an illness of
three month* with cancer. She ty-eighth District court at Aus-
underwent an operation two
months ago at a sanitarium at
Orange but failed to improve,
The Joiner-Harris test being
drilled on the Howison farm
eight miles southeast'of Deport
and a mile north of Bogata is
reported down 1750 feet with
operations suspended following
the pulling in of the top sec-
tion of the steel derrick Tues-
day night.
Martin Harris, in charge of
operations at the Bogata well
was in Deport Wednesday pre-
paring to move his family here
and stated that he would com-
plete the Droppieman & Bundy
test at Halesboro and" would
drill the proposed test on the
Legate farm at Cross Roads,
where a derrick was ^erected
last year.
field in Rusk county by Maurice
and John H. Mooreand Richard
Lee Tayloe and associates,*
came in Friday with a product-
ion of 8,000 barrels a day. The
three men named above own
all -but about $4,000 worth of
the stock. They haye six acres
in this field and expect to spud
in a second well within the next
’thirty days. Mr. Moore is re-
ceiving the congratulations of
i upon the
good luck of his company.
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The following disposition of
cases has been made in the
Sixth District court at Paris:
Roy Harrison, cattle theft,
four years suspended sentence.
Herschel Talley, turkey theft,
one year Suspended sentence.
Hastings Burkett, turkey
theft, one year suspended sen-
tence.
Bennie Blackbum, attempt to
burglary, two years sentence.
Alfa Lewis, burglary, two
years suspended sentence.
Herman Hodges, chicken
theft, 180 days in jail in three ulty has been re-elected.—De-
cases. troit News-Herald. .
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era! million dollars since the
law was repealed, and the banks
were suing for their propor-
tionate part, paid in by them
while the law was operative.
The fund will be disbursed
within thirty days.
They also have a claim upon
other money held by the guar-
anty fund, which it is believed
they will receive, bringing the
Deport State Bank’s participa-
tion fa $10,944 and the Ful-
bright State ‘ Bank to $1,836.
Both these banks failed in De-
cember, 1926.
T. T. Jeffus, vice-president of
the Deport bank, spent last
week in Austin in connection
with this case.
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District Honors
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Defeating Ladonia 9 to 2
Tuesday in a game played at
Paris, the Deport High School
baseball team became cham-
pions of the sixth district of
the Interscholastic Baseball
was well known in this section;
brought to
means peace of mind
I knew I had paid that bill, and here’s the proof—
my canceled check.”
Mistakes occur in the best of families, but a can- I
celed check clinches any argument over bills. A check-
ing account also shows to the penny how much your
living costs.
First National Bank
DEPORT, TEXAS
The body was 1
Milton Tuesday and
City Drug Store
IfL Jftuv Al W. Anderson, Prop.
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and four children by a former
marriage: Clyde Lawler who
lives near Bogata, Manly Law-
ler of Milton, J. W. Lawler of
Petty and Mrs. J. R. Ausmus
of Stanton.
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Mrs. P. A. Maddox, president
of the Byrdtown women’s home
demonstration club, called a
meeting of the club at her
home Friday afternoon. There
were 14 members present at
this session. The club appoint-
ed Mrs. Maddox and Mrs.
George May to buy a pressure
canner for the club women to
several grandchildren and great Use in their canning work this
grandchildren, with a host of
friends, to which she had en-
deared herself during her long club in the near future.
and useful life, mourn her. pass- fOr it were discussed at the
ing. Floral offerings were many meeting Friday.
The next meeting of the
Byrdtown club is to be Friday,
at which time Miss Lida Coop-
OLDEST LAMAR MOTHER er will give a canning demon-
istration. The hostess for thfs
Kirkpatrick J regular meeting-is to be Mrs.
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I WILL TEACH ECONOMICS
IN BOGATA HIGH SCHOOL
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mary. Miss Loven is a gradu-
ate of Deport High School and
M. H. Grant and wife of received her college education
Qherry, visited Monday in the in Paris Junior College and E.
7 . T. S. T. C. at Commerce. v
The school at Fulbright
closes this week with a pro-
gram by the primary grades
tonight* and a play by the ad-
vanced pupils Friday night. G.
W. Moore, superintendent, ;.tpd
his corps of teachers have giv-
en the Fulbright community a
good school and the entire fac-
* ■ I Harley Campbell, on the
funeral' mound for Deport, allowed La-
services held at the Primitive doni^ four hits, one of which
” church Wednesday. * — *
Burial was at the Mt. Pleasant
cemetery, a mile west of De- mates were collecting nine, in-
port. eluding a thre^ base blow by
¥e. is ^ryi/ed by his wife1 Lawler and a two bagger by
Oliver. Batteries were: De-
port—Campbell and C. Guest;
Ladonia—Kerbow and Wisdom.
Deport reached the district
finals by defeating Annona in
a three game series. They lost
the first game to Annona, 14
to 17, won the next 9 to 2, and
received the third on a forfeit.
Sam J. Read, who has oper-
ated the Sinclair filling station
at the north end of Main street
for several months, became dis-
tributor of Sinclair products for! (ient
this territory in a deal by: Banfc
which he replaces F. B. John-j
son. B. E- Land is now oper-
ating the North Main filling i Co-operative Association at a
station of which Kenneth Read' meeting of the newly elected
is in charge. Mr. Read has be-1 board of directors at Dallas
come thoroughly acquainted. Tuesday. Mr. Smith had serv-
with the oil business while in' etf as a member of the advisory
charge of the filling station and board from this district before
offers Sinclair users courteous being named a director. He
was made president at the first
meeting of the board. He is
also Key Banker for the Lamar
PARIS DISTRICT-COURT county Agricultural Committee
of the Texas Bankers Associa-
tion.
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Golf fans and all sports lov-
ers will welcome the announce-,of
ment in this issue of the re-op- River county under the spon-
ening of the Village Green, sorship of a Fort Worth pack-
miniature golf course in north ing company and financed by a
Deport. The course has been Fort Worth bank, were dis-
thoroughly , worked over, new tributed to farmers and stock-
greeng^ jind new hazards con- men in the Bogata and John-
cpmmunities Tuesday.
_ car, ordered, by County
Agent C. M. Knight, included
, i seventy-three gilts and three
i boars.
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; JUNIOR BASEBALL NINE
WINS OVER FULBRIGHT
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Mrs. Mary L. ' r
95, who lives on Pattonville Rl,.*^- Hignight.
- received the designation of the
oldest Lamar county mother
and will receive a Mother’s day
gift from the Arthur Caddel
Co., at Paris, who conducted
the contest. Names of fifteen CICVV, _
/ other mothers, whose ages gate school where she wiii
range from 64 to 84 years were teach home economics and pri-
also reported.
Wild varieties.
All of these clovers are sown
ll. Xiakijr Ian xvx nuiici pan- , Tv.u.mi ikvuvxio vuuv.
ture, except Sweet Clover, Ko- • Pete Storey secured most of
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which are sown about the mid- this test.
die of February, for summer I -------------
asked how to sow these clovers,
Mr. Hutson replied just scat-
ter the seed over the bermuda
care of~the coming up unless J No. / bemg drilled.in the Joiner
we have another winter like we
had in 1929-30.
Mr. Grant has about 80
acres in pasture, some of it be-
ing bottom land and he keeps
sixty head of stock grazing on
it every month in the year. One
of the men remarked that Mr.
Grant could sit in the shade
except the time he spends look-
ing after his livestock and they
would grow him more money I .
than a man could make grow- Deport^ friends
ing cotton. ' ‘1 L
A contract was closed Mon-
day at Tyler with the Deason
Oil Company of that city far
the drilling of a test well for
oil in the Mosley community,
three miles 'northeast of De-
port, according to John H.
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well 3500 feet deep unless oil
in paying quantities is found
at a more shallow depth. The
contract is contingent upon the
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Sweet Clover and Korean Les- of land in the vicinity, most of
pedezer comprise the tame which is in the hands of land
clovers and Buffalo, Button or loan and insurance companies.
Carolina, Yellow Hop and Jap- L. H. Colyer, geologist of Ho-
a^e®e Lespedezer make up the bart, Ok., made the surveys for
this location, and the contract
provides the well shall be com-
in the early fall for winter pas- pleted within six months time.
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and Japanese Lespedezer, the leases from land owners fa^
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tin Tuesday, in which over a
hundred Texas banks were su-
ing the guaranty fund for. a
and had been in a critical con- • division of the money held by
dttion since.
Mrs. Westbrook was born
December 81, 1857, on a farm
on the old Deport-Paris road,
and spent her entire life in .this
t section. Before her marriage
58 years ago she was Miss Alice |
T. .Wright, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. William B. Wright. She
was one of the few remaining
pioneers of Deport, and was
known and loved by residents
far miles around. 4
She was married September
19, 18V7, to J. R. Westbrook,
who with six children, John
and Bob of Deport, Sam of
Clarksville, Mrs. W. I. Lawler
of Deport, s. S. A. Tidwell
of Talco ai_< Mrs. R. A. Tate
of Kountze, survive. Two sis-
<ters, Mrs. Calvin Marshall and
Mrs. J. M. Campbell also sur-
vive.
Funeral services were held
, Thursday afternoon at the De-
port Baptist Church, of which
- ? she had been a member far
yoars, by Rev. R. L. Ely, pas-
' tor of the Deport Methodist
Church, in the absence of her
pastor, Rev. Wm. Avery Rog-
ers. Pall bearers were her
grandsons, Adrian, Frank, Ken-
neth, Vertion, Robert, .Clyde
Westbrook and Doris Shelton
and John Haskel Tate. In-
terment was at the Highland
cemetery.
Many
FRIENDLINESS
We try to make our depositors feel that we are their
real friends. We want them to know that consultation ,
with our officers is welcomed ... on business or finan-
cial affairs* in which seasoned advice may help. This
personal contact is Jbut one of the many advantages of
having your account here.
( Deport State Bank
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James A. Smith, vice-presi-
of the First National
of Paris, • was elected
I president of the Texas Cotton
Dr. Fleming of Mt. Vernon,
who spent a year traveling in
Europe and Asia, spoke Sunday! Fulbright junior boys lost to
night at the Methodist church the Deport junior baseball
on his visit to the Holy Land, team 8 to 12 in a game played
No services were held at the Saturday at Fulbright. Nim
Baptist and Presbyterian chur- Hammond Jr. was the Deport
ches and a good number were pitcher, with Sulsar catching,
present to hear Dr. Fleming’s The Fulbright battery was:
interesting address. i Smallwood and Maddox.
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Thirty-one interested farm-
ers inspected the pasture of P.
C.. Grant last Saturday from 2
to 4 o’clock. The group was
led by A. L. Edmiaston, county
agent and B. B. Hutson, voca-
tional agriculture teacher of .
the Deport High School. Five Moore,
tame clovers and four wild clo-
vers growing on a bermuda
grass sod with a few other
grasses, were studied. Black
Medic, Bur Clover, White Dutch, securing of several more blocks
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tame which is in the hands of land
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