The Texas Mesquiter. (Mesquite, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, October 10, 1930 Page: 2 of 4
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THE TEXAS MESQUITEk FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 19.k)
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SPECIAL BATES
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State Fair of Texas
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MESQUITE to DALLAS
ROUND
TRIP
October 11-26 Inclusive
DALLAS STREETS WILL BE CROWD.
ED DURING THE FAIR. L E A V F.
YOUR CAR AT HOME. YOU WILL
FIND THE INTERURBAN SAFE R
AND MORE CONVENIENT.
Dallas-Terrell Interurban Railway
Economical Transportation
The Texas Mesquiter
John E. Davis, Editor and Prop.
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
AT MESQUITE. TEXAS
RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION
One year $1.00
Six months -50
Thhree months .25
Entered at the postoffice at Mes-
quite, Texas, as mail matter of
the second class.
Friday, October 10. 1930.
Mayor William Hale Thomp
son of Chicago has never been
very active against gangster*
and hijackers in that city, but
he will probably take more
interest hereaifter since h's
wife was held up and robbed
of $18,000 worth of jewels
Monday night.
oo —
R. S. Sterling, Democratic
nominee for Governor, will be
out Of the State most of the
time between now and the
date of the general election.
This will doubtless be disap-
pointing to Col. W. lv. Talbolt,
the Republican nominee f« »r
that office, we would like for
Mr- Sterling to pay some at-
tention to him.
oo
W. R. Poage of Waco, evi-
dently does not believe that "a
bird in the hand is worth twJ
in the bush."Mr. Poage has re -
signed the nomination for
Representative to become a
candidate for the unexpired
term off State Senator Edgar
Witt, nominee for Lieuten-
ant Governor, who has re-
scued bis seat in the Senate,
oo
We have always been a
little skeptical about the wis-
dom of compulsory cotton
acreage reduction, but haw
about reached the conclusion
that it is about the only real
remedy. The United States
will produce between t'< 'urtcui
and fifteen million this
year, selling at around Id
cents a pound. If the acreage
had been reduced to the' extent
that not more than seven or
eight million bales had been
grown, we verily believe the
price would have been mors
than 20 cents.
HE D*DN'T WIN
"So you met your pet enemv
today? I'll bet you argued
with him until you, were black
in the face "
"No, just around the eyes."
—Pathfinder.
TO THE LETTER
"Listen," said the black-
smith to Pat, who just got the
job helping the smith, "I'm go.
>'trg to bring this horseshoe
from the ,irt' a"d lay it on the
anvil; when I nod my head,
hit it hard with this hammer."
Pat obeyed instructions and
the blacksmith never nodded
h's head again.—Tit-Bits.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to express our sin-
cere gratitude and apprecia-
tion to our niadiv friends for
their sympathy and acts of
kindues.s during the illness of
our daughter-
Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Paschall
MESQUITER WANT ADS
For Rent—Furnished rooms
Mrs. J. C. Rugel-
For Sale—Cord wood. Guy
Berry, phone 952t'2.V
For Sale, cheap—Ez-way
<il stove and Hoosier kitchen
abinet. Edd Smith. Phone 119.
We have received some good
used furniture, including one-
hundred - pound refrigeratot,
kitclien safe, center table, iron
be !, springs; and mattress, din-
ing table and chairs, etc. This
furniture is in extra good
condition and is priced to sell
(prick Come in and let us show
> ■ «ii some real bargains.
The Radio Shop
A Fine Roper Gas Range
Installed In Your
Kitchen
Only $3.00 Down Payment
15 Months in which to pay
balance
A Fine Radiant Heater Free
with Every Range
This Offer Good Dur-
ing October Only.
Community Nat. Gas Co.
These Ranges and Heater.* now on display in Texas
Mesquiter Building next door to Interurbam Station.
Mcsquite, Texas
Would Increase
Legislative Costs
(By John E. Davis)
It may be that if the pro-
posed constitutional amend-
ments relating to the terms
of the Legislature and increas-
ing the pay of the members is
adopted better results would
be obtained, bu,t the argument
advanced that the cost of the
Legislature would be less is
not well taken. Under the
present system the regular
session of 60 days, with the
members working for $5.00 a
day, is devoted to the intro
duction and consideration of
pet measures, and the appro-
priation bills are left over and
passed in the first called ses-
sion of 30 days If the regular
session is extended to 120 days
tilery is no assurance that the
appropriation bills will be
passed during that session.
There are 150 members of the
House, 31 members of the sen-
ate aid the Lieutenant Gov-
ernor, a total of 182, drawing
pay at the rate of $5.00 a day
each, which makes the pay roll
of the members $910 a day or
$27,300 for 30 days. Thus the
salaries of the members for
the 60 day regular session
amount to $54,600. If the pay
is raised to $10 a day and the
session lengthened to 120 day?,
the salaries of the member?
wil] amount to $1,820 a day or
$54,600 for 30 days, which is
the same that the pay roll of
the members now amounts to
in the ^0 day regular session.
Multiply that by 3 to cover a
regular session of 120 days and
y»u have a total member pay
roll of $163,800. Thus it will
be seen that the pay roll of the
members at $10 a day for a 120
day session would be $109,200
more than it is now for the 60
day regular session-
The salaries of the officers
and employees amount to
about the same as the mem-
bers. The chances are that '!
the people raised the pay of
the members they would in
turn increase the pay of the of-
ficers and employees, but if
their salaries were left as thev
are they would draw, say $27,-
300 for the extra 30 days added
to the regular session. That
sum added to the extra $109,-
200 that the members would
draw gives a total salary in-
crease of $136,500. Contingent
expenses for the added 30 day
would probably bring the ex-
tra cost up to $150,000. The
only saving would be in the re-
duced mileage allowance con-
tained in the proposed amend-
ments The mileage now
amounts to about $22,000 for a
session. It is proposed to cut
this half into, which wouid ef-
fect a saving of approximately
SI 1.000.
One of the biggest curses of
the Legislature is chronic ab-
senteeism. and it should be un-
derstood that members draw
straight pay, whether present
or not. I can name members
who have drawn $100 or more
in mileage and $150 in salarv
for a 30 day session, and who
were n°t >" Austin more than
3 days out of the 30. Pretty
good pay—$8333 a day But if
their mileage was cut to $50
and their salary increased to
$300 for the 30 days and the
were present only 3 days the
would be ahead just $116.66
| per day for the time actually
served.
Under the present system
bills can be introduced, acted
on by the committees and tak-
en up for consideration during
the first month or any time
during the session, subject to
■ the rules, but the proposed
| amendments divides the ses-
1 sion into three periods—on ?
for the introduction of bills on-
ly, another fr>r action by the
committees and thc third for
consideration of measures by
the two bodies of the Legisla-
ture. This system would
doubtless make some of the
members feel still more free to
spend a good part of their
time at home, and thus absen-
teeism be encouraged.
A member from Dal!.
County now draws $8240 in
mileage and $300 in salary for
the regular session of the
Legislature, making a total of
$382.40. If thc amendment is
adopted he will receive $41.20
in mileage and $900 in salary,
or $9*1.20. The adoption of the
amendments would certainly
be nice for the members. But
would it benefit the people ?
Every Kiss Does Irving Youth Is
Face $2.00 Damage Drowned In Slough
According to beauty parlor
experts in London, England,
the high cost of kiss'ng
causing less of it to be don-:
than heretofore.
The experts have figured
that every time a woman with
a perfectly made up face is
kissed, the kisser knocks $2.00
off her face value.
Too bad-
Philadelphia Wins
The World's Series
By winning Wednesday's
game, 7 to 1, the Philadelphia
Athletics of the American
league, retained the baseball
championship.
The Athletics took the first
two games, which were played
in Philadelphia. The St. Louis
Cardinals, National League
entry, on the next two games,
'n St. Louis Philadelphia won
the fifth game, also played in
St Louis and the sixth and
final game in Philadelphia
Wednesday. This gave the
Athletics four games, making
it unnecessary to play the
seventh game-
Gives Up Place
To Seek Another
W. R Poage of Waco, has
resigned the Democratic nom-
ination for Representative in
the Legislature and will be a
candidate for State Senator to
fill the unexpired term of Ed-
gar E. Witt, nominee for Lieu-
tenant Governor, who re-
signed his office of State Sen
ator so that his successor
could be named in the elec-
tion next month. There are
two other candidates, N. B
Williams ai" Waco and Lew's
Seay of Groesbeck.
Both Mr. Poage and Mr.
Williams are former mem-
bers of the House Mr. Poage
was a candidate for the Sen-
ate against Mr. Witt when the
latter was first elected to the
Senate.
John King, 21 years old. son
of Mr. and Mrs. W- M. King
of Irving, was drowned about
7:30 o'clock Tuesday night,
when a horse he was ruling
fell on him in thc water of
a slough near his home.
King, with a younger broth,
er, was attempting to round
up cattle endangered by the
backwater^ of Trinity River-
The horse he was riding slip-
pet! on thc bank and fell on
him «n the water. He was
perhaps stunned by the horse
horse falling on him, which of
course made him unable to
swim out.
SPOILED HIS FUN
Office Bov: "Please, sir, can
I attend my grandmother's
funeral on Friday?"
Employer: "Certainly. That
is the day I've just fixed for
the firm's annua] staff picnic "
—Exchange.
14,486,000 Bales
Cotton Estimate
The Department of Agricul-
ture at Washington Wed-
nesday issued an estimate
placing the 1930 cotton crop
yield at 14.486,000 bales, which
is 146,000 bales larger than the
estimate of a month ago.
According to the forecast,
since Sept. 1, cotton prospects
have declined 46,000 bales in
Texas, 25,000 in Mississippi
and 17,000 in Tennessee- These
losses are compensated, how-
ever, by increases in other
States where the crop is turn,
ing out better than was indi-
cated a month ago.
Georgia's cotton crop this
year increased by 80,000 bales
in September. North Carolina
showed an increase of 51,000
bales, Alabama 42.000, Arkan-
sas 20,000 and I .ouisiana 16,000
over the forecast) a month ago.
Picking and ginning of the
1930 crop are unusually ad.
vanced in Texas and Okla.
homa- In Alabama and Missis-
sippi. however, the amount
ginned to Oct. 1 is less than
usual The ginnings in other
sections are about average for
that date,
Production of cotton In-
states in 1930 was estimated
follows:
State— B
Alabama 1.400.000
Arizona 165,000
Arkansas %0,000
California 224.000
Florida 44,00
Georgia 1.580.000
Louisiana 665,000
Mississippi 1.660,000
Missouri 150,000
New Mexico 100.000
North Carolina 870,000
Oklahoma 925,000
South Carolina 1,010,000
Tennessee 420,000
Texas 4,275,000
All Others 4,000
$11,408,175 Cash
In State Treasury
Austin, Texas, Oct 7—There
was a cash balance of $11,408.-
175 in the State Treasury on
cOt. 1. with outstanding war-
rants totalling $2,678,241.
State Treasurer W. Gregory
Hatcher announced Monday
The general revenue fund
had a cash balance of $846,103,
with warrants of $1,345,380
The cash balance to the
credit of the available school
fund was $897,012, with war-
rants of $227,843.
The permanent school fund
had a cash balance of $235,985.
Outstanding warrants were
estimated at $2,088.
The Confederate pension
fund was in the red $300,175,
with outstanding warrants of
$275,231.
The highway funds cash bal-
ance was $5,117,342, with war-
rants of $699,824.
The balance to the credit of
the highway gas tax fund was
$3,335,322, with $96,749 out-
standing warrants.
The special game fund had
a balance of $300,599 with
warrants of $18,844.
Cash balances in other funds
were: State textbook, $119.-
086. outstanding warrants $3...
835; University of Texas build-
ing. $69,838; State Board of
Barber's Examiners. $128,199,
outstanding warrants $2,704:
permanent University of Tex-
as fund, $214,086
A NEW TYPE OF CHOIR
PRACTICE
Find 12 Human
Skeletons In Pit
Considerable interest has
been manifested, not only here
but throughout the state by
the discovery of twelve human
skeletons in a gravel pit on
the old Dee Parr place, about
six miles northeast of Mcs-
quite last week by a large
group of men, mostly citizens
of this community, working at
a recently discovered gravel
pit. The men were working for
the county and under the di-
rection of Delbert Motley.
The bones crumbling with
agie were about three feet un-
der the ground. There was
about two feet of earth above
the gravel, so the bones were
about a foot under the top of
the gravel,
The bones were unearthed
by road scrapers, to which
mules were attached and nat-
urally were, pretty badly torn
up by the scrapers and the
feet of the numerous mules.
The skeletons were believed to
be that of adults, children and
infants-
The position in which the
skeletons were found clearly
indicated that it was not an
old cemetery had been dug up.
How long the skeletons had
been there and how they got
there are of course unknown.
Various theories have been ad-
vanced, such as a battle be-
tween two opposing forces or
an Indian massacre.
J. D- Johnson and J. 1)
Stokes, Dallas undertakers,
came out Friday and accom-
panied J. F. McCullough to
the gravel pit. The Dallas vis-
itors took with them some of
the bones, to be sent to thc
State University at Austin and
Baylor University at Waco,
and Mr- McCullough sent
some of them to the Texas
Archelogical and Paleoan-
thropical Society at Abilene.
While a girl was discussing
the weather with her beau as
they were seated under the
trees on a summer night she
heard the melodies of a distant
choir. Without explanation
she exclaimed, "the music is
beautiful isn't it." The young
man thinking that she hnj
reference to the singing of
"katy.did" in the trees re.
plied, "it sure is, and fust to
think they make that noise
by rubbing their knees to.
gether."—Exchange.
/ j etting out
nJ my heaters
too early?..
• $
. c&tai
si
l(ou wouldn't think so
if you'd had a party
spoiled as I did last fall!"
"■yOU HAVEN'T heard about my famous
* Alaskan' bridge party? I thought everyone
knew about it by now. It happened about this
time last fall. The weather seemed ideal. 1
worked like a Trojan and resolved nevet to
attempt such a large party again. Along about
ten o'clock that morning I thought it was
getting chilly but I was so busy that I didn't
notice it much. At two o'clock I began to
worry because it was decidedly cooler, and by
four it was so cold everyone was playing in
their wraps. I was simply frantic .... every
heater I had was stored away .... anyhow, it
was too late to get them out. You can't imagine
how embarrassed I was, because practically evety
friend 1 have was there. It cured me thougbl
.... the weather will never trick me again!"!
Now is the time to get out your gas heatenl
to avoid any uncomfortable periods and perhapl
embarrassing situations. Weather statistics sho*l
that during the fall in this section of thil
country we slwayt have unexpected cold snaptl
blow up with but a moment's notice. Drop ul
at your local gas company or gas appliancr
dealer and inspect the latest model heaters diet
have on display. There is a gas heater, espctiiU,
designed, for every room of your home- Yoq
will enjoy their new beauty and be glad n|
learn of their increased efficiency.
Lone St
Gas Company
GAS
.»• mki riM t m£
VHU 10 WWW*
HORSES THAT EXCEL
MEN
" That is a fine looking
horse." said Henry Ward
Beecher in his time as he stood
admiring a beautiful bav. "Is
he as good as he looks?"
Beecljer queried.
"Yes, he will work any place
I put him," the owner replied.
"I wish we were a member
qI iny church, said the famous
pulpiteer of Civil War days.—
Exchange
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH
Sunday school 9:45-
Chui ch worship 11:00.
Senior Endeavor 4:00.
Evening service 7:15.
Wednesday study class 7:30.
"Enter into His gates with
thanksgiving, and into His
courts wth prass."—Psa. 100:
4.
C. E. PROGRAM
Topic: Marks of a Good
Citizen
Scripture: Jas- 2:1-17.
Leader; Glen Hass.
Devotional service.
What marks of good citizen-
ship do we ifind in, Washing,
ton and Lincolns life? Hubert
Boles-
What can Christian E11.
deavor do to improve thc
character of our country
citizenship? Yvonne Jobson.
Give in own words the
marks of a good citizen,
kathryn Lander-
Song.
Playlet: "Every day citizen.
ship."
Mizpah-
Time: 4 o'clock. Place: Pres
byterian church.
A cordial invitation is ex-
tended to alj the young people
of the town and community.
EPWORTH LEAGUE
A good program has been
provided for Sunday alfternooii
but too late for publication
Visitors welcome to our pro-
grams.
Please don't forget that we
hav$ an_interesting study 011
the Handbook for Sunday
night- Come hear it.
Bring your offerings.
Reporter.
JUST A KIDDER
"Darling you are the most
beautiful woman in the world "
"But that "s wrat you told
Dolly Smith.''
"Or, that's all right. Dolly
knows what an awful liar I
am."—Exchange.
The Honest Dollar
It's good when one is bent
and old, with trembling limbs
and muscles sore to have some
little store of gold, to keep thc
gaunt wolf from the door. It'«
pleasant to sit up and count
the rubles, crowns and kindred
junk, and know in all that fair
amount there's not a single
tainted plunk- They all were
gained by honest trading in
the mart: you played the
game set forth by Hoyle, and
tried no crooked wile of art.
I do not envy much the genr
who in old age surveys!
wad and finds that nd
every cent was gained by 1
agem and fraud. When]
draws near to Jordan's
a wornout pilgrim, tired
gray, he wonders why he
to trim confiding suckers!
cry day. He knows that w|
he's going now he cannot f
mych hokum loose, lor w<|
will clothe the judges
when he puts up a ch<*p!
cuse. It must be greviousl
reflect, when drawing nesr|
Shadowland, h e was
happy when he wrecked soi
other fellow'3 peanut staj
He can not wear a happy s»
when thinking, as the
goes down, that by his systl
fraught with guile, he rtn
Smith and buncoed BWr
He's looking backward all'
time, as old men do, forev
more, and he remembers
crime that he pulled offl
days of yore. There is no c<f
fort anywhere for such a n
at Jordan's marge ; and
sort of sick despair he viel
the bundle that's so large-1
is a happy man, indeed, w_n<j
hoarded coin# are free W|
stain,; who gladly counts 1
chtckenfeed that givf8
shelter from the rain-
knows that every coin
paws was gained withoutl
sinful wile, and so he 'j
like Santa Clans, and wrarsj
large elastic smile- «"j
Mason.
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