Sweetwater Daily Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 262, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 4, 1930 Page: 1 of 6
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Stoerftoaler Bailn lejtorfer
UNITED PRESS FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE
SWEETWATER, TEXAS, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 1, lMO.
VOLUME X
HEAVY RAIN COVERS WIDE AREA
m
New Ruling May Tax City Schools
i
TO TEST CASE
Public School Districts
Would He Required to
Help Pay Supt.
PROTFSTS DECISION
Sweetwater Would He Pul
lu Position to Pay
S1.000 Annually
Public school districts of Sweet-
water and Roseon will be required
in tin' future to pay a prou#rtion-
ale share of I lie salary of the coun-
ty superintendent under a ruling
handed nown tuts morning by
State Superintendent S. M. N.
Marrs, affecting school systems in
i vory county in Texas.
The ruling, made in a test case
of the city of Austin, holds that
city schools, regardless of the
fact that they arc not under
Senate Veteran
Geo. C.
| ARE AT LIBERTY Vice
jSix of Them Escape From) ,
New York Institution; j llPiilrC
Go to N. Y. City
TWO ARE KILLERS
Butte
Gov.
Cast SHected
With another session of Congress
coon to open, James I). Preston, . ______
the | above, is preparing to begin his over-powered live attendants
county superintendent’s control,
must aid in carving oil tlie work of
his office. This can best be done,
he said, by bearing a proportion-
ale share of the salary.
Sweetwater alone will pay halt
of the superintendent's salary un-
lor this condition, Miss Helen Do-
ris, assistant superinteiideul, said
Ibis morning. The salary in Nolan
county is $2,000 and would mean
that die ruling will cost the Sweet
water district. $1,000 yearly.
Prior to this lime Sweetwater
nra1 itoscoe have licit paid any of
the salary.
To Protest Decision
The decision will be protested
and placed before tho state hoard
ol education which moots Dec. 20.
according to United Press dis-
patches to tile Reporter. If tho
Officers Unable to Slop
Them ill 7! ,lu Drive
Down iliulson Shore I
| ____ I
i BEACON, N. Y., Dec. 4. (U.R)
I Six insane patients, including two
killers and two pyronianinos, broke
j for freedom from tli" state hos-
Ipital for the criminal insane today
and escaped to New York City a ft -
j< r a wild drive of sixty miles down
ithe Hudson river shore.
The patients were delivered by
three confederates, headed by Wil-
liam Nelson, an escaped patient.
The three broke into the hospital,
and
with the six others in a big
2 a til year us superintendent of the* i fie(|
s'.enate press gallery, lie prob- !(..u.
ably know more editors and cor-j ‘ .\ppar, utlv they reached New
respondents than any other man Yl)rk ,,, .l))mit lw„ ll0,„.s Tll(J
on the floor longer jtlelivi,..y w.„ lime„ bctw(ien 4 nnrt
1:20 a. in. by l)r. Raymond F. C.
j Kiel), superintendent of the hos-
pital. Late in the morning, the
j wife of one of the escaped men
telephoned to say that between
. ,n lYfiAntiUI! :''11 :,U|1 11 :l n>. her husband hai|
ft f! ( f ; S if ftn/lM Pt" il( home in New
p^y !] liyA ^i'-'ork and demanded refuge. Sin
and lias been
than any senator.
STERLING IY
“Uonihiirdi, Ltd.” Is to Ho
Offered on Evening of
Dec. 12
A revised list of characters for
the next offering of the Sweet -
walt-r Lit I li- Theater. “Lomhurdi,
Ltd., was aiiniinecd today by Lewis
L Russell, director.
The cast will include James
Shepherd, Jerry Sartatn, Leonard
Weaver, Ellis Douthit, Lindley
Neal, Anna Heth Gray, Evelyn I.oh-
r.ian, Mrs. Margaret Storm, Mrs.
is Selected as
of Philippines
Texan Dies in
Arms o! Wile
BANKS ROBBED
Two ‘'bunk" robberies in
Sweetwater resulted in the loss * I
: of approximately $5 this week. *
The “banks," it may be ex- * j
plained, were toy affairs in tile
office of Will H. eSott, county
superintendent, where he and
Miss Helen Davis, his assistant
deposited their small change.
Yesterday it was discovered
the bottoms of both hanks
had been prized open and tile
cash was missing.
Miirvncal, With Four In-
die-, Reports Heaviest
Fall in This Vicinity
AIDS GBA1N CROP
i FERGUSON
Is former Dean of Univer-
sity of Texas Law
School
POLLED BIG VOTE
Leaving Texas, He Served
As Attorney General
of Porto Rico
HOLIDAY PLAN
GETS $0
Ranges Also Helped; (add-
er Weather Predicted
f or Tonight
Shotgun Wound Proves Fat-
al; He Crawled Into House
From the Yard
WASHINGTON,
Dec. 4. (U.R)
of Texas was
SMITITVILLE, Dec. 4.<U.PJ—George
Kirkpatrick, 3S, is dead here from
a shotgun wound received last well lighted during the Christmas
nigld after he had gone outside his
home. Crawling back into the house
lie died in the arms of his wife.
Kirkpatrick recently hud mar-
ried tile divorced wife of John Kos-
ansky, a member of the
i ommlsioners court.
Rainfall, averaging from a good
shower at Carlsbad to four inches
at Maryneal, fell over more than
50 Central and West Texas coun-
ties early Thursday morning giv-
ling additional seasoning to tho
Ismail grain crop, moisture tor pas-
ture Ians and fresh stock water
for the range, a check made by
Further evidence that Sweetwa- The Sweetwater Reporter revealed
tor's downtown district is to be|a* noon today.
Rainfall here amounted to 1.48
Other Firms Agree to Have
Golored Lights in Front
of Establishment
indies, according to M. C. Man roe,
in the interest voluntfnr weather observer. Tho
holidays is shown
taken Wednesday afternoon amL low temperature for Wednesday
Friday morning when 15 addition-: night and Thursday morning was
al establishments agreed to string degrees while the temperature
county | colored lights across the street ••• grees
front, of their building. j dieted.
Those who have been added to | Lake
degrees
noon ti day
Colder
registered 52
weather was
Trammell had received
mell, Helen Davis, LaNello Snell, [(lay to be vice governor
Inez Crenshaw, and Air. Russell, j I’hilippine islands.
Tlie play is to lie presented
the city auditorium Dec. 12.
‘ jbarieMl the door.
Rehearing is Mu! Grunt-
ed, Governor Fleet in
Be Asked to Hi Ip
Billy Myres, Lillian Gray, Fannie [George C. Ilutle of Texas was |iaL,lK haH a personal difficulty'sew | 1 "ose wilu ‘'u-.e iieen auueu i" i-aac nammeii nan receivea
Levy. Aiene Penn, Glendell Tram-1nominated by President Hoover to-; A|[. K||(, Mrs_ the list include Tic Leader Store, ........ "ix feet of additional water
'..... ........ ' " ' " '....... ' ..................... tlle unsky liad separated about eight Sweetwater Department Store, No- at 11 0'’l°('k this morning, and it
months m i i was estimated that there would be
ntnsago. t lan County New.-. Whitten's. Texas about an eight-foot rise in the wa-
|Bauk & Trust Co., D. A. Clark, \ 4el. 2evel
Sunbeam Grocery No. 2 Joe H.j Lake Swetwater, this city's new
Boothe, The Smoke Hon: \ Davis j w0ter reservoir had received
| Drug Company, Cowen's Shoe aboat Sft feet of water at 2 o'clock
Store. ('. E. Stone Co., Bowen's ,tMs) afternoon. The level had gone
Drug Store, Helpy Selfy and Clar-|nbout ten feet on the rip.rap of the
ence Saunders. I new dam.
Through arrangements with the Lake Trammell, nine miles
-~— , T“xas Electric Service Company. soulhwMt 01- Sweetwater, had re-
Nolan (anility*- Grop Tilth "irin.- and III arc to In fui ceived ,<pp -.\imately '.(-11 feet Of
Ye-u- iii |>i, AI i<m I 2 00(1 a. a! . . *' a-er and la -led only about 4 1-2
‘ . r"“ of ■I :,M r"1' “ ,;"r°0' wet ot being full Th*1s * the larg-
Balcs Below I 'JZ'J '
OF RED OIOSS
I.Oil
TEXARKANA, Dec. 4. (U.R)
Dave Goodwill, Bowie county slay-
HiistaiiiH Superinten- (»r under death sentence, should be
court test will he
BLIP OHS
FROM GROUN
Goer, ('.utility Cliair-
ni 'ii, Says More lnlcn -1
Must He Shown Here
Rut r e, former dean of the law
school of tht‘ ('Diversity of Texas,
ran for governor of Texas on tho
Iteiniblican ticket in 1024, opposing
Miriam A. Ferguson, Democrat. He
was defeated, but polled more
votes than any other previous Re-
publican candidate in the state.
Shortly after the election, Hutto
was mimed by President (’oolidge
as attorney genera! of Porto Rico.
He served there several years and
then was appointed assistant so-
licitor general of the Halted
States.
SMALL DECLINE
stringer of colored lights.
state hoard
(lent Marrs,
made-
Salaries are based on the num-
ber of scholaslicH enrolled, Mis/
Davis explained, and since Sweet
water lias half of the school chil-
dren of the county, it would pay
hull' of the salary.
“This money does not come out
of taxes, however,” she declared.
"The superintendent’s salary is
paid oni of ilic slate apportion-jeouri last week ruled Hut <
mont of $17.5(1 for each child 01 ■ win had not liail a fair trial
schulastic ago. For instance, tliis|cuuse of influence ot a mob about [the Goodyear
year In Nolan county when the I the court but that because a I into the air,
given a new trial even though a
change of venue was not asked at
his trial ni New Boston last March
on charges of killing Lloyd Elliott,
said II. II. Taylor, one of Good-
will's attorneys, here today.
Ono i- Killed and
Seriously Injured at
Goodyear
Nolan county’s 1030 cotton crop
I 4 a Ant r»!5 irr ! will he a Don' 2000 bales less 1 Dali
Sweetwaier must ratty 10 tin ] h Lj P iH ft L JK;) ,i( w.„
. of the lied cross if the conn I [l H E IUH ’ K I Thar-dav monsisv In cbeckiii'. .-ot
ty's coal of 150 members is real: it l UIU Iwwl III- ,„m rrfs f01. t|1(, |,sl pr-
ized tins year. __ ... ....... fM»'years
This is the warning sounded, 111111. Ill IftM ADVi E.-jes j. Martin, Marvneat, spe,-
Thnis.h.y moi.iing by Lon J. Geer., fir Sir IjV |U V U|f ! b,l i.eonl bn Mk c.-iimis hr,
|count\ chairman. He said that j liLI.L lil JltHUHIU an,tlmt only
\nolher •• '"S membi _—.— ballof the 1930 crop had b . n
growing daily, it is not f in111 Girls and Six Box- ginned pi
..i j11r Mini lluil. Hu' /.j * ft] with .'hi! 1»:;i• to the s;iiim
riant I*!t iV«' should bp concluded 111 i L<Olll|M)H‘ Aim-1 < I in (,li^s (j. |;1 . V( il.
at N< wnian HijLill i III 1M23, there had bene ginned
up to N’ov. 14, 17.5S5 bales of the
11925 crop.
MURDER TRIAL
OPENS SLOWLY!
Most ot Morning Spent iti
Arguing Age of ^ outh
In Eastland Case
lake has
years, it
I GADSDEN, Ala . Dec. 4. 0J.R)—i Mrs- Ben n0|)erts and Mrs. M. L. _____
ho (.oodjuar blimp, Detender , x<‘;il have iieen canvassing the I Six boys and eight girls are
Tavior is preparing to ask t he -utonninm-'oTYmt II C“i'ate^es^ l,uslm‘ss ,llslHl'1 H,is week- thong" scheduled to graduate at: mid-term
■ [attempting to land it hem late yes-;thejr itl sai(1 (o be r.n. ,
court oi criminal appeals for a re- terday. pulled one man to htsIs;i)jS|lt,.|t,l v
hearing of Goodwin'.: appeal. The (lentil and seriously injured an-; -______
\ (1- lot her.
be-; Isaac VV, Phillips, workman at
plant, was jerked
court but mat because a I into the air, lost his hold on a
Jim Qulzeiilxck. member of the |
landing crew, was also pulled into
the air and dropped 25 feet, when I
he collided with a pole. His in-
juries are serious. I
$17.50 is paid tlie school where t i-hange of venue hud not then been j hand line, and plunged 1
child is enrolled will receive $1G.tin , asked that tho eouri now is pow- his death,
of it. Tho other 00 cents will go .erles to act. Taylrfr "ns a week In
to paying the superintendent's sal-[which to ask the rein nrfng. If Hie
ary and maintaining the office, rehearing is not granted, Taylor
Aids Rural Schools | will ask Ross Sierliiig. governor-
"The city schools gel 4his $17.50 ;elect, to intercece.
just the same as the rural schools j
do. But they get to keep all of
theirs. Tile new ruling will not
hurt Sweet water or Itoscoe, but
will he of great aid to llje rural
schools in saving them $1,000 or
more.
“For that sum. a teacher can bo
employed for an entire year. That
menus something to these small
schools."
Miss Davis also pointed out that
the city schools get to vole for su-j
Pci'iateorient, hut that is aa far as
their responsibility goes.
li. II. McLain, superintendent of I
the Sweetwater school system. | ^
sees iii the ruling no attempt on 1 ff
the part of Mr. Marrs Lo pat over'
Ills “county unit" plan which met
a partial defeat two years ago
when voted on as an amendment.
"At that time," Mr. McLain slut-
feet to
SWEETWATER IS HOST TODAY TO'
METHODIST FRi OVER DISTRIOI
RaMors, District SlPivarils and Lay Leader-, in Animal
(.nnlYiviicr iii Highland Heights tl.'ihndisl
Uluii'ch; Dr. Glark Is In Gharge
ASTOUS, district .stewards and district lay loaders of tin1 Metliodits
church ol the Sweetwater section, are in the final session of the
regular annu.il meting at the Highland Heights Methodist church this
afternoon.
The group convened at tho church shortly before 11 o’clock this
hour, Dr. <). P, Clark, presiding elder of the
THREE DIE I
AUTO MISHAPS
Motorcycle Officer is One
()f Trio Killed In
Houston Accidents
tin January, 1931, according to a]
[list of the seniors of Newman high;
[school, announced Thursday morn-
ling by K. F. Neinast, principal of j
j I lie school.
Tile baccalaureate sermon is to
lie delivered on Sunday night, Jan. I
125, while commencement exercises!
hire to tie held on Monday night, it
lias been announced. Definite ar-[
rangements, however, have not |
been completed for either of the
i exercises.
| The annual pay chapel of this
i group is to lie held tomorrow
'Continued on page 5>
THL WEATHER
4 0 S •
! morning and al licit
F.wnclwiitnr district, delivered a
ven interesting and instructive
devotional talk.
At the rln. e of this servil e, I lie
women of the church served dinner
to tho delegates and visitors in the
dining room located in the liHenienl.
At l/to o’clock this afternoon,
Dr. E. E. White, Abilene, presiding
elder of that district, hero repre-
senting llie commission of bene-
volence, was delivering a talk. On
Wednesday, Dr. Clark delivered a
III!, to tile ’..Kiel's of I lie Aliilciie
district.
Those attending Hie session are
the Iter . W (I. Hailey and W. M.
Whatley, Big Spring; liny and
George L. and
West Texas —
Unsettled,, cold-
:r extreme west
portion, tonight.
Friday partly
cloudy, s o m e-
what colder.
East Texas —
Mostly cloudy to- Ml.s (>t miickxv. It
...... Frl-
Cool
night and
lay; rain
.light, ami proit-i v
ably in exlrenir .l|Mr; n,,n iinrdy,
HOCSTON. Dee. 4. (U.R)—Auto-
mobile accidents took three lives
here last night.
Motorcycle Officer J. D. Landry,
T|31, died in a hospital from injuries
j received when his wheel crashed
| into a car driven by Fred Boland,
j J. li. Holman, 50, died after
walking into a speeding ambu-
lance. Tlie driver, who was an-
swering another call, sopped and
picked up the victim, and took him
to a hospital, hut he failed to ra-
cover.
The third victim was Melissa
Gonzal('4. 23-year-old Mexican la-
borer, who was fixing a tire when
run down by u truck on tlie Market
street road near here. The driver
of the death truck, N, D. Warren,
3t, was charged with driving while
intoxicated.
Car Overturns;
Three Cruised
II VICTIM
IS IDENTIFIED
Fort Worth Sheriff Uiritli-
firs Hotly W liicli Had
Bern Brought Here
Sheriff J. R. Wright, Fort
Worth, has identified the body of
a man fatally injured in an auto-
„ .. ,, . ..o i ii mobile accident near Big Spring
c uss are Horatio Ban well, Seidel , ... .. , ,
,, ,, ,, ,,, , c, ’ ... Mondav night with Oscar Lewal-
Cross, Don May, Clyde Scott, Alton ,,
... o , , j It'll. 52, niacKwell. as that o( .! A.
Simms and Walter Scales, and ... , .. , .... ,
... t, 11 .. .. Smith, wlio lived near W lnte-
Missps A vail Alston, Bobby Boggs. . . , ,
weight, Grayson county.
The identification was made aft-
,, , , ... or a slip allowing he had been
Ruth Kelly and Alvin Leila Walk-
er.
, est amount of water the
| had in more than three
was said.
Lake Santa Fe, north of Sweet.-
[water, rose more than two feet in
about an hour, to add to the San-
to Fe's water supply.
City Lake at Newman Park was
running over the spillway. This
lake has been full for several
weeks anil the overflow water was
going down stream.
The rainfall report received at
[noon today follows: Maryneal. 4
- [inches; Blackwell. 1.5; Dora. 1.5;
EASTLAND, Dec. 4. (U.R)—With [ Bronte, 1; Robert Lee. 1; Itoscoe,
the defense spending most of the 1.25: Lake Trammell. 2. Merkel,
morning contending that the de-ji; Trent, 2: Abilene, 1; Anson,
fendant was less than 17 years old. 1.5; Hamlin, .5; Stamford, 1; Has-
selection of a jury in the trial of,kell, 1; Aspermont. 2; McCaulIey,
Oscar Privett on charges of mur-jgood; Rotan, .05: Roby, good; Sny-
jilt-ring Melvin Dimson at ’ n • i,75; Iiermleigh. 1.5; Loraine,
proceeded slowly here tod 2; Colorado, 2; Westbrook, good;
| Only four jurors had hi ue-|nig Spring, good; Sterling City, 1;
I looted at noon and Judge (covet Fort Chadbourne, good: San An-
| L. Davenport ordered 30 additional geio, good; Wingate, good; Mav-
'talesmen summoned. The state is crick, good; Winters, good; Balltn-
| asking tlie Ueatli penalty. get', good, and Ciairmont, 1.
morning at Newman high school.
PUBLISHER IS
HELD IN DEATH
CJneral Over Texas
DALLAS, Dec.
[mostly light, fell
8. C. OJAS NOT
Mary L. Bennett, Lou Ella Clayton,
Mary Ruth Evans. Chestine Gibbs,
' ; or a slip showing
deputy sheriff in Tarrant county
had been found on his clothing.
According to information receiv-
ed here, lie had been employed as
In watchman on a bridge near Ar-
lington until a short time ago and
that he left there to come into
I West Texas.
I lie was killed outright in tlie
automobile accident while Mr. | “ j'"
- ^ Lewiillen died about two hours lnt-j
I'rrsitlenl Wimberly SavsVr in -i Big spring hospital. BoJi
Matter is in Hands of jȣ ' [; brou here lor i,l,'n'
| Funeral services for Mr. Lewal-
, _ , , !len wore held Wednesday after-
Direetors of the Sweetwater inoon fmm ,Ue pirat MoU,o,lis!
Board of City Development, at mackwolI, with the Rev.
mmn today, had not named a suc-;u.ly r.lsl01. <,rtii iut ins.
Interment was made in tho
Blackwell cemetery under the di-
Galvoton Man Ghartied In
Mexico Following: Acci-
dental Shooting
DEL RIO, Dec. 4. (U.R)—Captain
George W. Williams, publisher of
Neptune's Log at Galveston, today
was at liberty under $l,0nn bond
facing technical charges of negli-
gent homicide in connection with
the fatal shooting of R. V. Mark
ham, Scripps-Hovvard field man
from Columbus, Ohio, on a hunting
in Mexico Monday.
Special Committee
ressor lo Monte E. Owen, resign-
S wool water Legionnaires
ami Spanish War Nets
ln\itei! to Snyder
emit, portion Erl-
collier north west
ilny. Somewhat
Frlduy.
lying Weal her Texas and Okla-
homa Mostly cloudy with, ruins
except northwest; low celling and
visibility hud. Winds at flying lev-
els mosth fresh to strong souther-
ly up to 5,0110 foot except over
iiiii'thwost, where probably north
westerly, with moderate south-
westerly winds ol higher levels.
Sweetw . er veterans of two con-
flicts. tlie Spanish Amoi'icim unil
World Wars, have Iieen invited to
Iuko pari in u group meeting to he
. ,, . held Saturday at Snyder for the
purpose ol illseii mug legislation ol
interest lo ox-soldiers.
Tlie meeting Is to cover a
West Texas territory and
ex-
Mrs. Keeicr, Coahoma: I.. A
,0'1 Wi hi), Colorado; .1
Cochrane Lor-
Roscoe; O. D.
Mi Donald, Roby elrcnll; J. A. Bays,
.1. E. Stephens and J. It. Henson,!'’I11'1 1,1
Sweet water unit I. E. Biggs, Sykes- \i,ln'11"1' tnvHuHoim have been
j(,r tcnilcd to#vol(,rnns irorn Abileiio to
District . towards attending nro, i ludibock, iho-'e in charge of ar-
Okiahonta
Slightly
was learned from Dr. A. J. Wim-
City Family Is berly, president.
Injured in -Mis- I,r- Wlmherl>' saW
! rent toil of the Doran-Yates Gom-
he had no
... . statement to make regarding tlie
hap Near Sweetwater a secretary today.
Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Brown and A ‘ ' l'‘' comm,lttee
of Oklnlionm Chv.i'"' ,l"> 1""1 nniwjncemn"
Wednesdav inobnbt.v will
pany, undertakers.
T. A. Carlisle, Blackwell; T. W.
Ste.ueronil, Colorado; I*. E. llainll-
Ion, Itoscoe; J. W. lluitler, Swiiil-
wnter, Jim Foy, Sweetwater.
District lay leaders nllending in-
11ndi'il .tin- Marlin. Sweetwater and
J. Fred Cocke, Big Spring.
rmigemciits have aiiiiimnced.
Olltslnnillng feature of I ho oeen-
slon will lie the presence at tho
meeting of J. B. Durden, state com-
Itiunder of the Spanish American
Vclerans Assm iulloii. A haili|Uet
Is also hullig arranged.
son, II. M„ Jr.,
were slightly injured
afternoon when their ear overturn-
ed about four miles cast of Sweet
water when a tire blew out.
They were rushed to the Sweet-
j water clinic where it was found
large j their injuries consisted principally
,”"1 of bruises and slight lacerations.
Mr. Brown, however, suffered a
broken collar hone. Mrs. Brown
was badly bruised and very sore
while llie son suffered only a pain-
ful bend injury.
The family was on route to Cali-
fornia.
A canary bird, also a member of
the parly, escaped from tile crash
uninjured.
tm made within tile
next few days of a selection.
FIRE OFFICIALS HERE
Stat.; Executives Confer Here With
Chief Zack Taylor
Mr. Borns, a state fire marshal
and Mr. Mitchell, of the state fire
Insurance commission, wore hi
Fucet water Thursday for a confer-
ence with Chief Hack Taylor, of the
Sweet "’liter department, and city
Manager, S. II. Bothwell.
The two men were hero making a
check of tlie lire hazards and gelt
lug a report on fires in Sweetwater
during tlie Iasi year. They are to
return lure Inter this month.
6F1AK 8. K.
Smalt* ('.tiinniitlm Gives
Unanimous \ ole to
Hoover \ppoiulee
WASHINGTON, Dei 1 M
pointmeiit of William N Doak as
'Secretary of Labor was reported
[lavoralili toiloy l>> the senate coin-
liiittci on eduealton and labor. Ii
was announced the poll unanimous-
ly favored confirmation. .
Tlie poll was taken in the nli-
|sein e of Chairman Metcalf.
Dismiss Charges
V
In Cmiri Herr
4. (U.R)—Rain,
generally over
Texas today. Tlie panhandle anil
! upper coast hail no early precipi-
Itation. but the latter region xvas
due to get rain later in the day.
| Tin.: tail varied from negligible
'amounts at various points to 1.52
[inilies at Austin.
I Dr. J. L. Cline, government
weather forecaster here, said cold-
er weather would follow llie rains.
Records at the weather bureau
showed the following precipita-
tion: Abilene, ,0b; Palestine, .10;
'Ito! Rio. 28; El Paso, .08; Browns-
villi-. ,ul; Corpus Christ!, .us: and
[San Antonio, .20. Rain continued
jut most of the points.
Son Follows Father to Grave
YOAKI'M, Dec. 4. (U.R) — Floyd
Earl Clifton, 16. today was buried
in the cemetery where his father,
Ed Clifton, was burled last Satur-
day.
In ability of tlie si,ate to identify [
a small ipiantity of sausage as the
same fragment 1akrn from the!
Wade Meat Plant two weeks ago
resulted in the dismissal this
morning of a charge against W. K. j
Wade, proprietor of tho plant, for
alleged violation of pure food laws j
The sausage hud been shipped |
to Austin for laborulory icsts and i
on its return health authorities
were unable to say positively that j
it was the same meat that was
sent from here. Motion for the di '-t
missal was n 'n by County Attor-
ney George O, Haw,
Specific violation charged in the
complaint alleged that the sausage
was adulterated.
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Four Burn to Death
MONTV1LLK, N. .1.. Dee. 4. (U.R
— A mother and her three rlilhtren
were burned to death here today
when their bungalow was swept by
fire. The dead were Vanda Gul-
den, 25: Mmlelina Garden, 3; Fred
Uurden, Jr , 2, and Jean Gnrden, 1.
Every year these little remind-
er, about doing your Christmas
shopping early appear in this
paper. But ire you one of those
who st: 11 waits until the few days
before Christmas to do it?
Try shopping early this year and
nee how much more satisfactory It
it.
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Sweetwater Daily Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 262, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 4, 1930, newspaper, December 4, 1930; Sweetwater, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth559252/m1/1/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sweetwater/Nolan County City-County Library.