The Deport Times (Deport, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, February 26, 1932 Page: 1 of 6
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DEPORT, LAMAR COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1932
VOLUME XXIV
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Deport last year.
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If the weather permits Mr.
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PATTONVILLE SCHOOL
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70,000 BUSHELS FINE
Mary Ladelle McDowra; third:
RE-ORGANIZE COMMUNITY
CLUB AT SHADY GROVE
Patrons of the Shady Grove
BARGAINS OFFERED FOR
BRINGS PRODUCE FROM
A Bank Account
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In Any Kind of Times
This Bank is For You
Use Native Shrubs
To Beautify Home
Control Insects in
Fight for Fruit
Rally for Garner
At San Antonio
Such policies and a friendly, mature view-
point keep the First National Bank stead-
ily progressive . . a good bank for you in
any kind of times.
The Effort of Digging Up and
Transplanting Them is the
Only Expense
A series of services conduct-
ed by Rev. J. P. Neal of Clarks-
Farmers Evening School Giyen
Address on the Enemies
of Fruit Trees
Report of Federal Department
Survey Shows Figures
of Interest
HARGUESS LOSES FINGER
WHEN CUT WITH AXE
DIRECTORS SET DATES OF
COUNTY LEAGUE EVENTS
Grif Monk who operates a
cotton truck out of Deport to
Houston, does not return emp-
TIMES AND SEMI-WEEKLY
BOTH FOR 85c DOLLAR DAY
JOPES WINS SUIT IN
JUSTICE COURT HERE
RED RIVER CO. PLANS
5-YEAR FARM PROGRAM
OLD TIMER IS NOT
UNEASY ABOUT OUR
PRESENT WEATHER
WASHINGTON HONORED
BY DEPORT MASONS
NINETY-FIVE GALLONS
WHISKEY CAPTURED
SERIES OF SERVICES AT
BOGATA BAPTIST CHURCH Saturday when the car he was by Bob Westbrook, taking a
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DERRICK COMPLETED
ON THE MARTIN FARM
FOR LOCAL OIL TEST
Head off the next depression by preparing
for it.
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What a grand and glorious feeling it is to
know you HAVE MONEY IN THE BANK.
It just “peps you up” . . gives you con-
fidence in yourself . . makes the future
and its opportunity look brighter!
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Deport State
v DEPORT, TEXAS
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driving ran into a bridge about dozen packages of cigarettes
a mile east of Royse City, R. and several cans of tobacco. No
C. Lane, general manager of money had been left in the
the company, in the car with cash register and nothing else
Ryan, was not injured. jwas taken.
. Hous-
s elected pres-
Earl Floyd, vice
; Mrs. Grace Malone,
; Mrs. Alva Slone on
committee for the
Mrs. Drew- Craig and
Henry Essary for the
|community. Wednesday night
was decided On for the meeting
night. ______________
BOB WESTBROOK CAFE
ENTERED BY BURGLARS
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Prying the lock off the front
for the Paris Grocery Company door Tuesday night,
Puretest Aspirin is true aspirin—when it is produced
and when you buy it.
by residents from all sections
'of Texas, many cowboys com-
ing from the Rio Grande sec-
tion, which embraces practical-
ly the enltire Garner district.
McNamara, superintendent, but
run-off probably was greater.
No crop insects are active at
this time.
Controling insects and dis-
eases of fruit trees will still be
the subject to be discussed at
evening school
hl, Smw me nice
| week was rained out?
" / ever
' peaches
every grower will have to learn
buckeye, sumac,
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RAINFALL SETS RECORD
WINTER PRECIPITATION
First National Bank
in yard beautification work at
such a low cost. In the eastern
If you have no bank account, better start
one here and add to it regularly. You’ll
be happier for it.
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tive plants that are worth
transplanting at this time of
the year are red bud, dog wood,
coral berry,
retama, winter berry, red haw,
youpon, cherry laurel and wild!
myrtle.”
In any kind of times, there is no change
in the fundamentals that govern the oper-
ations of the First National Bank. Its
policies are formed not on conditions of the
moment, but on sound, conservative bank-
ing principles.
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Greenville,—Government cot-
breeding station reports, perfection of tl.ansportation.
These stores have a special ad-
vantage in the fact that they
are able to render a “personal”
service to the customer which
would not be available in trad-
ing “away from home.”
One item in the census proves
NUMBER 3
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Small Town Trade
Is Not Declining
Alvie Harguess of the Lone
Oak community practically sev-
ered the index finger of his left
.. hand Wednesday while cutting
wood. He was brought to the
Deport Sanitarium where it
was necessary to amputate the
finger.
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Jfity Drug Store
P Al W. Anderson* Prop.
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ig, entailing a loss of the small cities and rural dis-
thousands of dollars. The tricts.—Fort Worth Star Tele-
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The Clarksville Junior Cham-
ber of Commerce has indorsed
and will assist in carrying out
a five year agricultural and
health program in Red River
county, according to plans out-
lined by County Agent C. M.
Knight and Sanitarian Tom
Tipping. The program will be
started next month and will be
conducted through twelve dem-
onstrators, located at key points
in the county, where regular
demonstrations can be held.
That’s iwhy it relieves pain more
quickly. And safely! That is
why it does not depress the
heart or upset the stomach.
Take Puretest Aspirin any time
you need relief. It is sold at
Rexall Drug Stores.
Saturday is Dollar Day in
Deport. Judging from some of
the prices quoted in The Times
this week, your dollar will buy ,
a dollar and a half’s worth Of
merchandise of a year ago.
Don’t fail to read the ads—
they save you money.
At a meeting of directors of
Lamar county Interscholastic
League held at Paris Monday,
dates were set for the Inter-
scholastic contests.
The volleyball tournament
will be held at the coliseum- Sat-
urday, March 5, beginning at 9
o’clock; playground ball con-
tests decided the following Sat-
urday, March 12; tennis tourna-
ment Friday, March 18; junior
high school and ward school
field and track meet Saturday,
March 19.
The county literary Inter-
scholastic League contests will
be held Friday, March 25, with
the senior field and track meet
the following day, March 26.
As a special inducement to
new subscribers or old ones
either, for Dollar Day, Satur-
DOLLAR DAY SATURDAY day, The Times will be sent to
any address in Red River or
Lamar counties, along iwith the
Dallas Semi-Weekly Farm
News, both newspapers for sev-
en months for only 85 cents.
That is less than a penny per
paper and a real bargain.
Funeral Services for Infant
Funeral and burial services
% for Doris Burns, 6 weeks old
Infant daughter of Mr. and i ty. Fjrom Houston he drives
Mrs. H. A. B urns of Paris, who I to the Rio Grande valley where
died Friday morning were held I he fills up with fresh garden
fihat afternoon at Shady Grove, sass which is moving now, and
Surviving are the parents, a sells it to grocers in this sec-
tion upon his return home.
This weather reminds me of
1902-3 said Tom Petty, as he
and the editor walked to town
in the rain Monday. He has
been farming here for forty
years, and is not getting figity
I about farm work. We have
national house of represents- ' been farming too much in the
winter time, said Mr. Petty, and
millions of dollars worth of
rich, freshly plowed soil has
been washed to the Gulf.
It rained nearly all of 1902,
and into 1903, said Mr. Petty,
and farmers did not get into
their fields until March 25.
Stalks were cut, land bedded,
killing young vegetation, mak-
ing it easy to work the crop.
It did not rain again until May
12, when cotton came up and
we made a good crop, particu-
larly of corn.
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Mass Meeting of Citizens from
All Parts of Texas Held
on Monday
San Antonio.—Texas offered
John N. Garner, speaker of the
national house of represents-
fives, Monday as a Democratic
tonic for ills of the country.
In a vast mass meeting of
citizens from all corners of
Texas the real statesman from
Uvalde was put forward as the
hope of the party. His nomin-
ation for president at the Chi-1
cago National convention was
asked as a “leader who knows
the road to prosperity.”
Preceding the rally there was
a long parade participated in
EXPERIMENT STATIONS
SHOW MORE RAINFALL
Marguerite Humphrey, Pauline
McHam, Audy Mae Pomroy,
Horace Bussell: 5th: Valla
Members of the Deport Ma-
sonic Lodge observed the 200 _
anniversary of the birth of ville, were concluded at the Bo-
George Washington Monday gata Baptist Church Sunday
evening at the lodge room with night. Ten additions to the
Worshipful Master George Bell church were reported as a re-
presiding. Talks were made suit of the services which con-
upon the life of Washington as tinned for a week, and splendid
a patriot and a Mason by Dr. attendance despite very unfav-
Stephen H. Grant, W. B. Fuller orable weather conditions dur-
and Galen Igo. ing the entire period.
A jury case in the justice
court here Monday styled R. L.
Rhodes vs. Clarence Jopes re-
sulted in a verdict for the de-
fendant. It arose over the
renting of a farm near Cun-
ningham in which Jopes claim-
ed he rented the land from , ,, , m ,
Rhodes who lives in California. b&lf °f, Texas some of the na-
Odis Watson instituted the suit,
claiming that he as Rhodes’
agent, had rented the land.
Art/
Honor roll
for this month is as follows:
First grade: Edward Holmes,
Jim Taylor Threadgill, Boh
* i. u u Thomas Young; second: Ruth
shrubs planted by co-operating Green, Mary Elizabeth Merritt,
women and girls who kept re-.Mary Ladelle McDowra; third:
cords, 58 per cent came from
woods and fields at no cost ex- ^,e e j
cept the labor of transplant- Itli.
ing,’^ Miss Derryberry says.| "
“This is one reason why home
demonstration agents are able
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D. Knight; 6th: Mitchell Se-j
crest, Dovie Merritt, J. R. Pet-
tit, Rachael Wilson; 7th: Blew-
ett Cotton; 8th: Zealon Phillips,
Kathryn Wilson, Zettie Marie
Fendley; 10th; Warren Al-
bertson, Joe Oldham; 11th:
Elto Mary Weatherbee.
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of the weather bureau at Paris that not
were filed against thej*n 1891.
of the house and his1 Last week s rains 1
The whiskey was buried precipitation for the period up
seven different pits with to 17 inches. The previous re-
. It is the cord f°r winter rainfall had
RIO GRANDE VALLEY largest amount of liquor ever been 14.39 inches for December
ary, 1929.
landscape art, “farm people if jt does not rain later than
have discovered that there is Friday afternoon.
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twin zfeter, and one brother.
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investment of
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Wednes- r:‘ • - - - y
wagon , fe fighting a losing battle with
and completed the derrick. I census of distribution of retail
The test is to be drilled on1 trade shows, says the depart-
land blocked by R. E. Jondreau ment, the volume of business
and J. H. Doyle who made the outside the larger cities to be
test on the Guest farm near upwards of $1,500,000,000 an-
Deport last year. Machinery nually, or 30 per-cent of the
will be moved in and work be-
gun as soon as the roads are
in shape for travel.
DEPORT, TEXAS
CAR HITS BRIDGE AND
SALESMAN IS KILLED'
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Myer Ryan, 35, city salesman;
______________________________ ____ _______someone
of Paris, /was instantly killed entered the restaurant operated
The Department of Commerce
comes forth with figures to
deny the view often expressed
that the retailer in the small
city and in the rural districts
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to the location | the retailer in the cities.
—--------- I census of distribution of retail
Despite the continued rains
Lnau merely moving fsixt students Teceived attend-
few fences repaying, ancey certificate3 {or thc fourth
npminnimr nmiQOQ ,
eling yards or clearing rubbish
Weigher A. L. Campbell re-
Periods of rain lasting sever- crop weighed at the Deport cot-
I al days and coming almost
key in 190 half gallon fruit jars January and February have ex-, in.
were captured by Sheriff Bud POAdo/1 n11 D^wn
Walters in a raid on a 1------
near Arthur City last Friday. |
Charges 1
occupant of the house and his
wife.
in seven different
very little covering.
acquired by the present sheriff 1928 and January and I1 ebru-
in a raid. ary, 1929.
nation’s retail business.
This condition is not likely to
pass at any early date, says the
department. It has found that
the retail stores in the small
cities and in rural districts now
“ I generally stock the most mod-
'ern merchandise, which they
4. 4.; „ * !are enabled to do through the
ton breeding station reports f f
rainfall since Oct. 1 and up to p
Feb. 21 total 23.27 inches, or
10.97 inched above normal and
8.50 inches more than same
period last season. Moisture
has penetrated to depth of sev-i
eral feet. Probably no more
mowture sfored than last year h f that residents «f the
at this time, says Homer C.,ma||er cities and rural dia.
tricts still supply by far the
major part of their needs from
home stores, this item being .
the sales bjr ^general stores,”
which do not exist in the larg-
er cities. Stores in this class-
COTTON SEED BURNED i jfication account for nearly $2,- -—
------- 1000,000,000 in sales annually, or
A large warehouse at Anno-. nearly 4 per cent of the entire
na, said to have contained sev-'retail business of the United
enty or more thousand bushels States. .
of fine cotton seed belonging to There is a magnificent field
the Texas Cotton Co-operative' here for development by manu-
tiTshow so^much "imorovement Dean Phillips, Dixie Pettit, T. i Association and E. K. Russell, | facturers and wholesalers who
to snow so mucn improvement local seed breeder, was des- might specialize in service to
troyed by fire early Sunday this great market existing in
morning,
many 1
building, the property of
sell, was a complete loss.
11,261 BALES COTTON I
WEIGHED AT DEPORT
------- jratrons ui me oir.uiy vrruve
, Weigher A. L. Campbell re- 'sohool and teachers met at the
ports 11,261 bales of the 1931i^ool recently and re-orgamz-
platform wiith possibly 75it?n ^^^ney was
on hales yet to be brought1 ’oent: Mrs. Earl
Bad roads have made*, the I pvosulent;
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home months since the establishment slow, but Mr. Campbell thinks I Pr®^rarn
* ' ... , many bales remain nn
J Mrs.
al
Derrick builders for the Jon-
dreau-Doyle test to be drilled
on the Lee Martin land three
miles southwest of Deport,
completed their work Wednes-
day, according to residents of
that section. The material had
been on hand for some time
and lumber had been cut into
xu the proper lengths.
since the meeting last day the builders hired
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expects to
successfully,
and girls who beautified .community
, . _ ton 1
Ninety-five gallons of whis-1 every week during December, to 100 bales yet to be brought, • -
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ceeded all records for the three, winding up of last year’s crop secretary
many bales remain 'school;
and that less than 11.500 bales,
brought, will be weighed. There are -
> fexy bales still in the fields.
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Satisfaction of living in a
home set amidst trees and
shrubs and flowers, and against
a background of green lawn, I
far exceeded the small sum it j
cost to develop such surround- ni?ht
ings, say the 11,970 farm wo-1
men l_2 __________
farm yards in Texas last year. 8row
An average investment of f
$1.05 in cash made life pleas- now to control the San Jose
anter and in many cases added scale and the peach borer,
to the sale value of the farm, cording to B. B. Hutson. —
it •• is revealed in hundreds of! states thait controling these two
stories written by them and, insects will be discussed Friday
submitted in annual reports by! night.
home demonstration agents in I If the weather permits Mr.
99 counties to the Extension Edmiaston, the county agent,
Service of Texas A. & M. Col-iwiH be present at this meeting,
lege. I Everyone who lives in town and
“East or West or North or on the highway and everyone
South,” declares Miss Inez Der-ielse who can ride in horse back
ryberry, extension specialist in ar®, urged to come Friday night
Friday afternoon.
no need of living in ugly sur-j --------------
roundings as long as the woods; HONOR ROLL REPORT
and prairies are full of native
trees and shrubs to be had for
the transplanting. They have
also found that merely moving
back a f
gates, underpinning houses, lev- month^oT^schoof
eling yards or clearing rubbish
out of the yards makes a big
difference in the feeling toward
home.
“Of the 222,653 trees and
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