The El Campo Citizen (El Campo, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, August 14, 1936 Page: 1 of 8
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40 of the 48 states.
the ' department forcast
yield of 12,481,090 bales.
FAIR ASSOCIATION
WILL OFFER BIDS
ON 4-H BABY BEEF
total depth of ”696 feet.
The immediate area
which,
located
surveys
Methodist tiam billeted at the Fair grounds
Vacation during their stay in Wharton: and
the
baby
sale
PURE OIL READY
TO ABANDON ITS
SHULT NUMBER 1
the Sam
showed
Directers of the Wharton Coun-
tyFair Association have definite-
on
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Encampment Draws
Numerous Visitors
GALA REUNION OF
OLD TIMERS’ SET
FOR SEPTEMBER 7
many fields, insent damage at this
time-is said to be < omaaratively
light. '
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cooling breezes, according to the
weather men.
Northerly winds were prevalent*
here.
with a number oT new homes un-
denconstructio and repatrs, and.
enlargments betnz made to Ather
s2k1
ba ready ter occupancz late in
Geprember
Mrs. Join
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wwonid cause a big increase in the
wrice of rice and other grains, but
under the prespnt conditions rice
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NOTABLES VISIT
FRONTIER SHOW
H. E. Otell Hurt
In Battery Blast
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101-DEGREE MARK
IS REACHED HERE
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tody. Huston aMornen ,
mpending vacancy /
soqrt dt civil appeala ati
-on ts atttacting intereet 1
The only state race hold
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Bible School Will
Open on August 17
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WEATHER AIDS
CROP OUTLOOK
The lecture .course will ind'ul- humber of the exhibitors will be
such subjects as" “The Need ot een indeed. Th- work that is
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■a mwar in Europe. Hie prie ""
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comppared te actual prodwetion pt
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datrit ruitping . WP to
produced last year, was forecast
in the August report of the Uuited
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at Mr and Mre. F
nearing completion.
bids on
winning
MMirre grehdyk
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school is open to any child of eii
gilde age. as it is interdehominu-
tional.. A cordial Invitation Is ex-
tended to all to attend
The school will be conducted in
the elassrooms of the Methodist
Church.
IMMBM wointed this webk
bt runoff primary electton
RICE MAY YIELD
------BARRELS
Shult well
remulte ofrekcesaive, raintau and
disastrous evrfows. - .
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REVIAL SONTINUES AT '
ASMM1LY OF GOD CHURCH
kummahdakaabauu
the entire United
State Governments.-. "The Mon 1 ay Fair time wilt no doubt de-
Wharton County swelter-
ed for several days last
week and this under the in-
tense heat wave which shat-
tered all records in Texas
cities farther inland.
Unofficial thermometer
readings in El Campo rang-
ed over 100 degrees in well
shaded spots, but this sec-
tion escaped with far less
harm than the regions of
Central and Northwest Tex-
as.
The parched interior cities
dents ’ have motored to Palacis
during the past few days to visit
friends and relatives attending
the Thirty-sixth Division encamp-
ment, Texas national guard.
Among the notables visiting the
.encampment from over the state
were' Senator Tom Connally of
Martin and Repreeentative J X
Mansfield of Columbus'.
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joiqing the E B. Noyas home. r -
Work on a aww two-story home
was begun this week by Mr.lanu
Beginning Monday. August 17 made to have the members of the
the Presbyterian and
churches will sponsor a
the Withers Field near El Campo, the Salem community of Victoria
R v Neatherage has a wide
tary Policy of the Federal Gov
ernment," "The Effect of Protect
ive Tariffs on Agriculture" and
"Defects of Present Tax Systems
three place
in the northwest districts mois-
ture conditions have ibeen favor-
able and prospects are good ex-
cept in the drouth stricken coun-
ties adjacent to Oklahoma Sub-
soil moisture is short however,
in these districts and additional
rains will be needed.
DTHEIR DOGS PARA
rd .1---ea__________
1 ‘ yanmfe- ~ 1 .
ossrimarzapdpeta o Australia
has been shut in after its recent county, face charges of cattle theft
completion as a heavy gasser from e- t- e--" ---—ie -
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< inle of friend, in El Campo, who
regrnt his leaving but wish -him
kreat ayeteas in his new field of
ndeavor
• prepared to spend the day and see
The acreage planted to cotton continue for two weeks—Monday it
this year in Texas'was estimated through ‘Friday.. It will openrat ve
at 12,280.000 acres. Assuming an । g: 30 sharp and close promptly, at--t
abandonment equal to the 10-year 1e3e am. 11
average of 3.0 percent, the area A trained faculty from .both 1
harvested will be 11,912,000 acres churches will conduet the sE66ol —"
ty-wide eontest to sthnAocal A-
- tatestis ani i ka ad 1 uo
H. E. Otell and H. H. Buckner,
one of his employees- at the Shult
Implement Company, narrowly es-
caped serious injury early Thurs-
day morning when a large glass
unit in a storage battery exploded.
Mr. Otell received minor cuts
and acid burns. Mr. Buckner was
burned slightly by the acid.
Both men stripped off their acid-
stained clothing and applied rem-
edies to neutralise the effects of
8 it is reported there is a shprtagethe mixture.
8 of fall grain and foodstuff in the The . explosion i„
United States, and there is also a have been caused by
8 prospect of European War, which
marieK. juniors and
will be maintained
ages are from four
5555 feet. The well made about
20 barrels of oil per day on test,
along with s' major quantity of
gas. The company probably will
use gas from this well to drill
have heretofore registered, we
wish to say that you are eligible
for membership if you have re-
sided in this vicinity for at least
25 years. -
places of buiness. Glass from
the exploding jar was hurled
63 At .not leap than $5 through the windows of the Shult
“ "" » " Implemer, Company building into
the-»t»0, u .,
actual competition should prove
I interesting to -all of the
kmen of the county. Some
i -emries are expected to be
TEXAS CO WELL SHUT IN
The Texas Company’s’ Pierce
B-2. drilled asan. extension of
WIVES SPARE HIM
Neither of his two wives’would
appear against him, so Peter Cat-
anese of Detroit was freed of a
bigamy charge by Judge Christo-
pher Stein. Catanese married his
first wife in ‘ 1930, and in 1933
took Wife No. 2. He said he mar-
ried a second time because his
first wife wrote him from Mexico
City that she was getting a“Mex-
lean divorce. d
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Jamaica is building a structure
in Kingston to'house ifs Tourist'
Trade Development Board and‘, the ।
Jamaica Automobile Association
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n Co
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eise tarme.th
• phguigebe.3a
ekr ric~lamrimf
Two brothers, H O. Daniel, 39,
and Emeat Daniels, 26,lving in
PORT WORTH. Aug. 13.—Men
who are nationally famous in
many fields are making a beaten
path to the Fort Worth Frontier
Centepnial. Most- dstinguished of ,
an'the 'visitors was Vice President
Tolit N Garner Others who have
vtesed 'Billy Rose’s marvelous
erou$ ’of shows . include., three
yozhout
tea
in the ninth crop reportinng
district of Texas, embracing
Wharton county, the indicated
production ts 54 percent of normal
Bible School. This school is to
RESiDENCtBUILDING HITS STRIDE
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to Be held at the Wharton County
, I
I Fair. Secrelary-Manager Harry C.
i (Copenhaver- asserted that ton
board took this action in order
to assure Wharton County 4-H
flub boys that -their stock will
4 bring a good price when it is of-
and one farmer lost five hogs.
Saturday, Sunday and Monday
were “scorchers.” A small show-
er Tuesday morning cooled the
air a little, and a breeze Wednes-
/day made the heat more bear-
able.
/ The high temperatures along the
I Texas coast were explained by
/ weather forecasters as resulting
, indirectly from the tropical dis-
1 turbance which passed across the
. gulf to pass inland some 150 miles
/ below Brownsville, on the’ Mexican
coast.
Heated air flowed from the
baked Texas interior toward the
disturbance, driving back the
thfud' in
.e--5—to.
f i, e bit hes in height
-1 "ok, to aneepta nlace EighteeR officers of the Mexican
It and singer in col arms attende I in a group, and
" c- •I "'I other-nations ■ represented include ,
lake up his new duties. New Zealand, Persia, Germany. '
nd the competition between a
Extensive remodeling and ent, erford. Which
rgement of dhe heme otar. and the demth,o
rs. Grady Pmiu *• near qomA tder Conned
— Who* 2
M be Leaveh-
Reorganization in County and done by the boys between now by boll weevil and worms. In
t. r. Th.
for the entire .country last year
was 10.638.000 bales.
Although substatantiany above
last year’s production, the indi-
cated yield for Texas and the na-
tion is considerably below the 1928
to 32 average.
In Texas the average for the
five year period was 4.580,000
bales k
The condition of the Texas crop
is. reported at 72 percent of nor-
155 pounds per acre, compared
with 133 pounds per acre in 1935.
and a five year (1928-1932) ave-
rage of 141 pounds. The fore-
cast • of yield and production is
based upon the condition of the
'fop on August ,1, and the final
outturn will depend upon .whether
the various influences affecting
the crop during the’ remainder of
the season are -more are less fav-
orable than usual.
---2--- 4wodistrietsretleets the adverse
IRUNOFE PRIMARY EXPECTED
Fsday 0 * 1
n0a -rhrouch Sauu dury
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Numerous Wharton County real- ’ needed, however, in the- horthe
counties of the blacklands.
The new science of geo-physi-
which has been instrumental in
the location of numerous prolific
oil fields along-the gulf coast dur-
ing the past twelve years, appar-
ently has registered another, fail-
ure in Wharton County.
The Pure Oil Company’s Sam
Shult No. 1. Blue Basin wildcat
on which the hopes of the oil fra-
ternity were pinned, is slated for
Brother* Charged
With Cattle Theft
Mr. and Mra. L O. Lundy are
construeting a bandsome newtwo-
story Dutch Qolonial home t* the
Applng-Landy addition It. will
as a potential center of rich pro-
duction. .Large-scale lease activ-
ity developed throughout the Blue
Basin. High prices were paid for
leases and royalties.
Although this district holds ma-
jor possibilities, recent develop-
ment. including failure to find pro-
duction in the Shult well. have
been extremely disappointing.
The year's wildcatting activities
to date in Western Wharton Coun-
ty have centered in the Blue Basin
area and in the Lakeview district-
to the north. At Lakeview a'gas
sand has been developed but no
commercial oil production lias
been secured as yet.
Inthe meantime, however, pro-
duction has ’ increased in the es-
tablished fields near Louise anc
at Picketts Ridge and Withers,
and small extensions of. these
fields have been defined. -
The “hottest spot" in the coun-
ty at this writing probably is .in
the Magnet area near Wharton.
CIVILIANS*
Mra Roy Redwine, to the Heighta,
Th* new Charles Owen homne, ,
The acreage in Wharton County
is a little less than last year, and
the yield apparently will be a lit-
tle below normal, according to
R. H. Hancock of the Elco Mins.
“Rice prospects have improved
t, somewhat within the past few
- days,” Mi*. Hancock stated
sir. E. B. Quinn pf Beaumont, state
I . tepresentative from the Beaumont
m- distriet, declared recently in a
,, totter to the Eagle Lake Head-
m light that rice should sell . this
■ season for $5 a barrel.
MAs, His letter stated:
K “The rice harvest has just be-
E6 gun in Texas and Louisiana and
Iff; it has been reported that the mar-
Bb ket will open up at about $3.50
Es per barrel, which is entirely too
E low under the present conditions.
N "Corn has jumped in the past
tew days to 11.20 per bushel and
Ng
"hipg
the old friends. You may- see
many that you have not seen for
years, and you’ll have a wonderful
time. •
“Remember September 7 — all
day” - - .
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has Mart- ment bulldtng is
> «*M* to Andrem 1
vert M- 4rdxemin mmemub
akdtaaLaakk
tracted persons from nearby
pat°opm‛an bee o
•i • 200..
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relegated te Uto
Plans 'for a big Labor Day meet
ing of Old Timers September 7
were made last Saturday by the
9ecutive committee of the Old
Timers’ Association.
The program - wih begin - at 10
a. m on September 7, which is
Labor Day, with the registration
of local and visiting old timers.
The committee issued the fol-
lowing statement concerning the
meeting: •
“For the benefit of many who
abandonment is a dry hole at a mal, and the- indicated yield at
"While the program has not
been worked out in all the details,
visitors may rest assured that
there will be something doing ev-
ery minute. One of the ’ features
of the program will be awarding
of cash and other prizes.
“There will be a prize for the
’Old Timer’ who has lived here
the longest (continuous residence).
A prize eachfora man andao-
man. Then there will also be two
prizes, one for the man and one
for the woman, who who is the
oldest Old Timer.’ Also a prize
each for the man and woman who
have come the longest distance
to attend this annual gathering,
and, of course, they must be 'Old
Timers.’
“Then there will be a first and
second prize for the winners in
an- old fiddlers1 contest, and the
comtewtants must- be ’Old Timers,’
also.
“A number of interesting speak-
ers are being arranged for, but
these talks will be limited, per-
haps, to five minutes, ana there
will be a space devoted to reading
of brief messages from old. timers
who could -not get here. Anyway,
watch for the complete program
shortly and write your friends and
remind them of the date, and urge
them to be here.
“At noon there will be an old-
fashioned basket dinner—you know
how they were it ’the old days’—
no one goes hungry. So come
in this southern area the crop
is showing the effects of ( xeessive
moisture, fields are very grassy,
plants have made, uusual vege-
tative growth, and weevils and
Worms are relatively numerous..
Except in this area Insect damage
will be below average.
In north central and northeast
Texass the plants were fruiting
rapidly on August 1 and a . good
crop is in prospect if conditions
continue favorable. Rains were
, Knitted States s- nat >i - - Sheppard •
.11 ari Conneity of Texas ahid Mini
' r '(■ iuuhi Erust Heming-
whs. nowust. ban n ■ Runyon,
- -—u-4s-I-e am ane w story
v in - ’ Wilnan Baxter.’ assistant
-.he motor maenate Walter P.
i k W ill. R gers. I , Gount
d lar R iotjare of Paris France;
and Roher Wardios tallest man
in H world, who is eight feet.
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odi* ; It to possibie toaraveiby CAM!
termine who will he given the
-and champion award this year,
Secretary- Manager Copenhaver
also stated that stock judging
tams from all over the distriet
(ill be here during Fair week to
euter into a stock judging con-
t at which should prove most in-
-resting Arrangements will be
e Representative Mansfield was a
diaite t Fhe, Citizen . office ‛en
Szpcomoaupy spoke' at ■ tbs
ecampmene pihF racora
and discipline the Thirty-
— 2 j. - “ 1 hain uero madwonzalesshe
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M1eL>ge9
the streets of the Japanese capital wearing gas masks fere i at auction at the Wharton
population for a gas attack when and if the next war County Fair. A bid of 25 cents
per pound will be offered by tke
------------ ------ Fair Assot iation for the grand
GARWOOD PLANS -monana b pndwoona
__0. will be offered for the second and
COMMUNITY FAIR ucurbogeume
APTAnm AG an The auction sale held on Friday
IM IIIKrK ))_9< f Fair Week hast been an attrac-
-- ,mi each year and the boys who
—----- nave exhibited calves at the Fair
Preparations are under way • have received a good price for
the Sixth Annual Short Cou heir stock. However, the Fair
States Department of Agriculture, and Community Fair to be held tasociation directors believe that
Garwood October 22.and 23 under the stock should net the boys
auspices of the Garwood schools , more than has been the -case in
164 Bales of Cotton
El Camp
3,850,000-bale Cotton Crop for
Texas Indicated in U. S. Report
A Texas cotton crop of 3,850,000
bales, compared to 2. 956,000 bales
———— , 4602
A hundred and sixty-four rb
bales of 1936 cotton had j
been ginned at El Campo’*
seven gins up to Wednesday
afternoon of this week,—an
auspicious beginning to tha -j
movement of the county’s
biggest crop.
All indications pointed to
a heavy movement ginward
i during the next few days,. |
since cotton is ripening fast :
under the intense heat now -
prevalent.
Farmers are taking a
more optimistic view of the
cotton situation, the hot sunshine
and high temperatures of the past
ten days having checked insect
ravages and caused a heavy out-
put of the new blooms. The con-
census of opinion among farmers
and townsmen interviewed by- The
Citizen is that with continued hot,
dry weather. Wharton county cot-
ton west of the river will average
a fair 'crop. Some fields are far
, better than others. The crop is
more spotted than is usually the
case.
’ Pickers were in lively demand
this week at prices ranging from
50 to 65 cents per hundred pounds.
Secretary M. L. Moody, Jr., of
the Chamber of Commerce insert-
ed an advertisement in Corpus
Christi newspapers asking for sev- . '
eral hundred pickers. - ‘ L
The annual migration of Mex-
ican pickers into this territory
lias begun but the demand ex-
eeds the supply
A camp -ground has been equip-
>ed in the western edge of town
to accommodate Mexican pickers.
The Chamber. of Commercee su- '
ervised this work.
Extensive poisoning has help-
| ed prevent destruction of cotton
- The- tabernaoler vu almost
packed last Sunday ntght to hear
the rEvangellst Hute Woods. Rev.
W. Mi Cuppe, the pator of the
Anaemhiy or God Church, Pelley,
TTexas willbe mpeaking here in 6
Campo U nighta, MM <*» are i-
vitinz you to tear Rev. upos
i"ndh eveni4 " mau •
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Tokyo.—Civilians and their dogs parade through
in a demonstration of the preparedness of the civilian
comes.
The most widely varied program the past: and it is further believ-
yet given by the schools is be- ed that the boys will work a trifle
ing arranged, according to Si harder to get their stock in the
perintendent E. G. Marshall, ia best possible shape if they are
cluding an interesting lectin- certain of a good premium on the
course and some splendid enter calves.
tainment features. . Reports are that the 4-H Club
The short course will offer cach xhibits of baby beef this year
prizes for livestock, field produets vill be far superior to any that
poultry, domestic arts and wood have ever been held in the past
•1". t‛s W D.fsathernze wl-n
i. id fa. 1a, uau * a* pa-f if’
of Texas suffered tempera-
tures as high as 118 degrees Mon-
day, while on Tuesday a high of
117 degrees was reported at Gra-
hab; 114 at Bastrop, and 113 at
Wichita Falls. Electra and Gaines-
ville.
The death toll from heat mount-
ed to more than a dozen in in-
land Texas cities.
No heat prostrations were re-
ported in Western Wharton coun-
ty. livestock suffered, however,
14, 1936.
Prospects are reported abovei Periods in handcraft and verea -
average in. all districts except intiimn will vary the sehedule, Tiee
the southern and southeast-rn general subject studied wilI Vv
parts of tbe state eonsimg
larecb <u distriets y. 9ar . 1 . < Rev. Deatherage Te
Departments for begitin tspri
irSt tlristan-Chufuin re
the Victoria jail ‘ •
The brothers are aHeged to have
gone into the pactures it night,
butchered the cattle Aad then
brought’the meht to' tw the next
day and Werad it fofjl to Vic-
tori"ideechahts! •i*- t
' The thetta have 'dcchrrd m Vic-
tori, taiaabd DeWittotaties,
according to the sheriff i depart-
mhem. Amsistihg the Ufchl authori- . K g
tiee in making the arreeta were a 65
Special inpector of the Tezas Cat- 7 v
'tie. kapserc Ashoditod' Md ofti- ; .
perbo Pew* ateTtAMta coun- ,
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HANGiNG mAmaEp %u
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I ! Rice harvest time was, just
around the corner this week, with
a crop of approximately 125,000
barrels in prospect from the 12,-
200 acres devoted to rice in Whar-
ton County.
Movement of rice to the mills
is expected to begin within a few
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