The Deport Times (Deport, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, September 25, 1931 Page: 1 of 8
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DEPORT, LAMAR COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1931
NUMBER 33
proposal
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Oil Shows in Mud
The indictments include trans*
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cotton
This committee went to
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The Value of
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Tax Rate 74 Cents
is Set for 1931-32
I Acreage Bill Restricts Crop
30 Per Cent Cultivated Land
Committe Calls on
Engineer Pierrie
Figures say, if your annual earning is $1500.00,
you represent a 6 per cent yield on $25,000.00.
Your plans, your hopes, your aims, are your
life. Fortunately a practical plan has been de-
veloped whereby you may complete your good
intentions beyond the span of your life..
An AEtna “Family Income Policy” will “Carry
On” in your absence.
In order that school children
may help in gathering crops,
General Purpose Levy. But 3e
Under Maximum, Highest
Since 1925
WILL SHIP CAR FOOD AND
FEED TO ORPHANS HOME
ARRANGE SCHOOL HOURS
TO ALLOW PUPILS WORK
cles in the open which will hold
water.
Fish
MOSQUITO CONTROL WORK
SUGGESTED FOR DEPORT
M. V. ANDERSON, Agent
OFFICE DEPORT STATE BANK
A Mr. Haddix of Ardmore,
Okla., was slightly injured Sat-
urday night when, he wrecked
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Work Also Started Rebuilding
of Highway 49 Through
Titus County
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murder, theft over value of $50 .and night,
land other felonies.
Approximately 100 charges 2^,
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Suggests Route Through Deport
that Will Eliminate All
Sharp Curves
Prize winning products from •
the best exhibits at the Lamar
FARMER GETS WISH
AS CROP DESTROYED other
FAST COTTON PICKER
HANGS UP A RECORD
local OKLAHOMA MAN HURT
IN AUTO ACCIDENT
men are held at Clarksville, the j
. One i
was arrested only a few hours
after the robbery, another at
Texarkana Thursday and the
’ near DeKalb, Friday.
Charges have been filed against
them. Sheriff Smiley said Fri-
day that none of the loot,
amounting to $1,500 had been
recovered.
ty.
Cotton growers had sold cot- miaston,
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James Hearn, son of Mr. and
Sam Hearn of Deport,
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Reports that action of De-
port citizens was being held re-
bill prohibiting the growing of
cotton next year. Louisiana
and South Carolina had passed
bills asking for a <
for one year.
City Drug Store
JKw Al W. Anderaoa, Prop.
price.
The chief enforcement wea
pon would be the injunction.
Lamar county entering the com-
. Exhib-
its of poultry, although not
I many in number this year,
i -tun were exC€^en^ and a most cred-
tai-tnm1 Stable showing was made as
was also in the live stock and
agriculture divisions.
Outstanding among the ex-
hibits this year were those pre-
pared by the 4-H Clubs under
the direction of the county
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LAMAR GRAND JURY
RETURNS 65 BILLS
Asphalt topping placed on
Highway 49 from Trent lake
bridge to Bogata is a fine piece
of work that has just been during the last few years.
1 Exhibits this year were said
to be unusually good with
twelve communities throughout
p
I petition with exhibits.
on rebuilding this highway,
thru Titus county, and it is1
probable that the miledong
dump thru Sulphur L
from Trent lake -bridge to Sul- **
phur bridge will be given a
coating of asphalt. The dump -
has been built long enough to
have settled properly and now
has a heavy topping of gravel. . . ,, , ,
Ten carloads of red gravel T.n.L?!?^khe home dem0!’-
from Hughes Springs, unloaded
here some time ago, has been
used in patching bad places in
rnos‘ but the general fund rate was
27g. It had to be raised to 32c
to care for the deficiency and
the current appropriations.
Not since 1925 has the State-
tax rate equaled the 74c of this-
year.- It was 77c or the con-
stitutional maximum^ in that
year, but it is lower than the
75c rate adopted in 1919, 1922,
1923 and 1924.
Using the latest State tax-
Enginee? how much he can pick.
. v. Seed were quoted Pierrie at Paris again Wednes- Ladd believes the figure will
|at $8.00 per ton.. September day. not be far from 800’pounds.
1930 cotton was selling. This committee went to see —-----------
ed a cotton acreage reduction tional because it deprived
bill late Monday designed to ef- of property without due p
feet a 50 per cent curtailment of law. Some legislators
in the state’s cotton plantings against it as t
in 1932 and 1933. ciple, claiming it was an un-
Eaeh farmer would be pro- warranted interference with in-
hibited from planting to cotton dividual liberties. . . - . *,«.<□
next year more than 30 per| Those defending its constitu- n? . .vy work -,^ecesaary ^iwhen the automatic
cerit of the land he cultivated tionality urged it was a meas e im,nate ipos^lto breeding. ma(je its calculation
in all crops this year. The ure to conserve the soil ex places- \?ter filled cans the rate, following
gguie [_____* 1 » > 1 — !_•_:___ . .. _ u“* UA onp Of rnp most nruvalanf x . . •
apply in 1933 with the addition- ( tution gave the legislature
wish to
get in t
with the Rev.
Hay. corn.
cotton pickers -xftrr a week’s than -usu..l and* the Lamar
(hard work, gathering to buy county exhibit is expected to
clothing, groceries and other be one of the best ever sent to
|necessities for the week follow- the larger fair from this codn-
. , - „ , , , Engineer Pierrie assured the ing. tv. Countv Agent A. L. Ed-
been received at the local yard, committee that the curves at | Cotton growers had sold cot- mission. H. B. Thompson of
Chicota and Albis Ball of Min-
All were taking ter are making up the exhibit.
advantage of the extremely low
. . 5 to be found in I™.'.
Gin and 791 at the rarmers’ tween Pattonville and Paris, and stores, to supply their needs.
Gin. At this time last year to-; that as soon as he could attend <5tnrPe’ wprp rrnwHed thp pntiro
tai ginnings amounted to 3638 to some matters over in Collin day.
bales. Cotton was much earlier,county, he w’ould be in Deport
last year but gin receipts are to confer with citizens about1
rapidly gaining and but for the the proposed new route thru
scarcity of pickers, would be town. ' *
much nearer last year’s totals. - He stated the Highway De-
partment would maintain thq
present route,'but that no real
permanent surfacing would be
applied until the kinks and
sharp curves were eliminated
along the entire distance, and
right of way secured.
Stanley Heddrick, 19-year-
old Oklahoma youth, who is
working for Carl Ladd, picked
613 pounds of cotton Wednes-
| day, did the weighing for a
I two bale a day crew and haul- i
ed the two bales of cotton from able yaluation of $4,181,554,412
the Ladd farm, two miles west with ‘the new tax rate of 74c,
of Deport, to the girTin a truck, the taxpayers will be called oil
Heddrick weighs 13§ pounds, to pay an aggregate of $30,-
i When the weather gets a lit- 943,502. , "Of that amount 20
tie cooler. Mr. Ladd proposes per. cent, or $6,188,710 will go
the . deplorable t° have Heddrick pick all day to County Tax’Assessors'1 and
him supplied with1 Collectors, leaving net for gov-
empty sacks and weigh and ernmental support $24,754,792.
ocal citizens to empty his cotton just to see1 -------1-----
Mr. LAMAR COUNTY EXHIBIT
FOR TEXAS STATE FAIR
jaw now of soft wat- Approximately iuu cnarges , xms vuiniiuuee went see ------------
encountered at 2600 felony were investigated by ^roni 10 to 10.5 cents and buy- the engineer five months ago, SATURDAY GOOD DAY
attempt was made~to^h« ^rand jury and more than ers were paying $23 per ton when the report was circulated I FOR DEPORT STORES Distinct'Fair are being collect-
hhis water' with 2600 1*50 witnesses were called be- . .. that the highway would be r°-, ----— e(| .ror Damar county ex-
Saturday was one of the best hibit at the Texas State Fair.
business days in months for Agricultural products shown
x Deport merchants, farmers and this year were generally better
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Cotton prices have advanced i
; nearly $4.00 a bale since Mon-
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stration agent.
Several Deport people were
i winners in the livestock ex-
UKK7VI ill pauviiui^ uau piavuo m , .. .. n u’li • •
Highway 49 between Deport Pony Cogbill receiving (because Texas did not pass a
ana Pattonville, and several
cars unloaded at Pattonville are
being used in that vicinity.
This gravel rapidly grinds to
a powder under the wheels of
heavy oil and cotton trucks,
and paints the vicinity a muddy
red. It is only a matter of
Last week Homer Smith, Fan-
nin County farmer, made a re-
. mark to the effect that he wish-
ed something would happen to
his cotton crop to save him the
trouble of picking it as it was
not worth' the picking. Friday .Mrs.
night a hail storm completely, who has been in Dallas since county
destroyed the crop leaving only May, is again a student at
the stalks. I Southern Methodist University.
------ culvert just west of Needmore.
People living near where a The car collided with the con-
county road tractor was sta- crete banister and turned over* .
tioned in the Chappell Hill com- into the ditch. Haddix was cur
munity recently surprised a about the face and badly bruis-
thief with a 5-gallon can whb ed and shaken up when he was
was draining the tractor. He thrown against the steering-
escaped to his car which he had wheel. xe was brought to De-
left in a clump of trees nearby, port by a truck driver and was
but the people got close enough later carried to Paris for fur--
to ascertain his identity. ther attention.
Weigher Arthur Campbell re- built if Deport people would ob-
ports 1665 bales received at the" tain a route thru the town that
Deport cotton platform, com- wopld eliminate a number of
x x/v’ov i > a nt iz fa 11 Vi Pai"ed with .16.>8 bales to tne sharp curxes* 1 he committee
KKUisistxKY corresponding date last year, had in mind at the time a route
Of the 1665 bale total, 939 have that would
Sheriff Ross. Smiley of Red been weighed since last Thurs-1 sharp curves.
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•Ithe statement that he believes
Nearly 1000 Bales Received at
Local Platform During
Past Week
With charges of prohibition
violations and burglaries pre-
dominating, 65 indictments Fri-
l day afternoon were returned by
- - * vit ii 'the Lamar county grand jury
rrOIM (jrlieSL Well which had been in session since
- (Monday morning.
Mild qfrnno-lv imnrpanafpd ^ne indictments inciuoe trans- j neany <?<i.vo a uaie since iviou- port citizens was Deing Held re- cooler.
* with nil bpo-any rising in the P°rtinS liquor, driving automo- day’s low of about 5.6^, the top sponsible for the . deplorable to have I
test well drilled bv Dovfe & biIe wbile drunk, burglary, at- Thursday morning being 6.35, condition of Highway 49 be-(and keep
Tnndrpaii nn thp (it farm a tempt to burglary, chicken (with buyers anxious for the tween here and Paris, caused a empty sa
•^Vp west ofX^ and was'theft’ for^ery’ P°s‘^ Picking is under full committee of local citizens to'empty hfc
first noticed last Friday morn- fpr ?ale’ .h°S theft* assault..to sway and gins are running day call upon Division Engineer (how mucl
ing. Work at the well was sus-
pended about a ■ month ago,
when a heavy flow of soft wat-'
ter was <
feet. An attempt was „,
dhut off this water with 2600 J50 witnesses were called be-
feet of six-inch casing. This. that body,
casing was set inside of 180 j ------ -------------
K ,'npk QQ1 CHAPC.V TIIRFF WITH
percentage basis ’ wou d Plaining that of the moat Prevalent
SwIth&TSSl UtKvhPattbt.heJtX,!l.“n?i,I breeding places and it is sug-
----- . - gested that housewives punch
,u°(?.serv.in.®’ holes in the cans before throw-
ing them in the garbage cans.
Potential breeding places for
mosquitoes are hydrant cut-off
admitted "that"" its"^effect^ on boxes* clogged gutters, water
price would be determined large- dumps’ unuRued water drains,
ly by whether other southern i °*btr „r^ep?a;
states enacted laws reducing or
prohibiting cotton plantings.
They would not predict an im- , «x u.x.vc, ex-
mediate substantial increase in breeding places for mosquitoes i stitutionaf* maximum of 35c for
unless top water minnows are schools and 7c f6r
pensions and
•- E aC<j in *be Mosquitoes 32c for general purposes, which
----- ------ — xxijuiiviiuii. breed in water, and running 3C jega than the legal limit.
The district and county attor.-. ( 0Tu n°^ makp ’p hnpos-, During the last two years the-
.« i.cxvx oiiviiiey general would 1 , j- N-
cotton holiday be permitted to enjoin a man No.rmal breeding time of
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Constitutionality of the meas- lotment of cotton. There would
v- a penalty of from $25
Those opposed to i to $100 an acre.,
An operation for an abscess-
ed appendix
| i Wednesday on Ted Westbrook, port, is reported to have re-
ll snn of Mr. and Mrs. Tom West* ceived
ii j brook, by local physicians.
The Texas legislature enact- the bill said it was unconstitu-
I a man
process multiply in sufficient num- *- —
a jnatter ™ a -TVaU^^s
Other than the cutting of of
Shari—Cara Nome—Duska,
delicate, flower - fragrant
face powders that have a
priceless talent for staying
d on. Why don’t you try
‘J them? There’s a tint for
every type of beauty. Sold
only at Rexall Stores.
A carload of feed and food
will be shipped from Lamar
to Buckner Orphans
Home on October 15, according
to the Rev. Avery Rogers, to
assist in feeding the children
and the stock at the home, and
this community .is being asked
to do its bit in this work. In vx«FO,
this immediate vicinity the col- the Deport gchool began Mon.
lection of feed and foodstuff 1st , n
in churxe of Clay Guest, and daV opening class periods at 7
those having something they,3* m- an“ dismissing at 12:30
*/„• 7 “> All classes are held but*
h Mr. Guest or'recess and noon periods are dis-
pensed with. There is an un-'
hegari, usually large cotton crop in this
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desired J ened late so that little was'
The car will be shipped from gathered before t>e opening of’
Paris on October 15. Buckner school, September 14. Thero
Orphans Home is caring for has also bedn. a marked scare-’
children of all denominations or ity of pickers, and with bad
no denomination, *nd those who weather near at hand, it was
desire a part in this good work decided to arrange school hours
should communicate with either to allow children to help with
of the above-named gentlemen, picking.
W. S. Lyles of Petty, who
nerformed formerly resided north of De-
port, Is reported to have re- v»**i
jeived a broken arm Saturday I
.in an automobile accident. I - - --
•ut into this car should (p. m.
ir. Rogers.
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al provision that no 1932 cotton right to enact laws
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ed to the clause of the bill
quiring crop rotation.
Supporters of the
running :s 3C jesg ^ban ]ega] limit.
Jieys and attorney general would ( Rib^b ^or the mosquito to breed. firg£ |w0 jfems were the samer
quitoes is one week.
cotton pickers • fl-ftvr
eliminate all the
LU C11JVII1 n man
! from planting more than his al-
ure likely will be attacked "in ( also be
the courts.
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Advances $4 Bale
Cotton this Week
With Deport people busy in
the fields and with other work
mosquito control work has been
in a measure neglected and the
rains, which have been rather
plentiful have helped the pest
were
th~ i gested that housewives punch
land could be planted to cotton natural resources. They point- •
re-
feet of 15-inch casing, 381 feet CHARGE THREE WITH
of 12-inch casing and 620 feet
. of 10-inch casing, and this flow
of mud and oil is coming up
between the smaller and larger River county
casings in the hole.
The flow comes by__ heads, there is sufficient evidence to
muchg st?onagernltrVtimesanthan nection with* the"daylight rob' Deporl gins are 2050 ba,es’ diVr objectionable features
the usual flow It is believed Ik # aG lay , tided as follows: 687 at the route from Deport 1
tne usual now. it is oeneveo, bery of the Avery bank last npnnrt Gin. r172 Home thorp bpino- i o-rpat minv h<
a strong gas pressure is res- . rpwo of fbe suspected i a-por_, x a; _ornt *nere oeing a great many De- priCes
ponsible, forcing the oil-satur-^ P
ated muck over the top of the atber at Texarkana, Ark.
casing.
Gin.
in 1933. After 1933 there
would be no percentage limit
but no land could be planted to
cotton in successive years.
Such was the answer of Tex-
as, the largest cotton produc-
ing state in the nation, to the
demand from the south for cot-
ton acreage restriction by law.
Many southern farmers and
legislators were disappointed
first place in the shorthorn
beef cattle division; J. B. Tid-
well and J. B. Ballard, Duroc
(Jersey hogs and Homer Hobbs,
Poland Chinas.
Exhibits by rural schools in-
cluded an excellent showing by
Clardy and Biardstown schools
• time until there will be no pav- *n tb’s part of tbe C0ljnty.
ed surface between Bogata and
Paris, with the heavy traffic
this road is now bearing, un-
less it is rebuilt and a binder
placed thereon.
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Total ginnings at the three Deport were only a few of the, ton and cotton pickers’ had
sport gins are 2050 bales, div,- objectionable features of the ev f0 spend. All were t
ed as follows: 687 at the route from Deport to Paris, advantage of the extremel
to be founc^ in
At this time last year to-1 that as soon as he could attend stores were crowded the entire
bales. Cotton was much earlier.county, he would be in Deport!
SURPRISE THIEF AS
HE DRAINS TRACTOR a new Ford coupe at a concrete
pensed with.
any « vvi lip e v
canned foods of all kinds and section and most of it has op-
money donations are
Taxpayers of Texas will pay ,
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compared with the 69c in each
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high weeds and grass there ls|This was decided Wednesday
! tax board
its calculations and set
the rate, following a wait of
sixty days and becoming con-
vinced that the Legislature
would not pass by two-thirds
vote a bill to fix the rate at
69c, so as to make it effective
immediately Without the two-
thirds vote the legislation would
not have become effective until
ninety days after adjournment,
or about Jan. 1, long after the
(taxpaying season started.
j The new rate of 74c'is com-
afford pOsed of three units, the con-
unless top water minnows
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HicrFiWRV ToDoin^ ^amar county fair
nignwciy i upping brought to close
Fine Piece Work1 ---
| Saturday night brought to a
close the Lamar District Fair,
said to be from many stand-
points the best in its history.
Early in the year it was decid-
ed to have a free fair for the
first time.
This feature was responsible
for an attendance in excess of
completed. Its northwest ter-
minal is at the head of Main
Street in Bogata, and does away
with the dust nuisance along
Main Street in Bogata.
Work has also been started
rebuilding
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