Willacy County News (Raymondville, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 6, 1924 Page: 4 of 14
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THE WILLACY GOU-NTY NEWS, RAYMONDVILLE, TEXAS.
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WILLACY COUNTY NEWS
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT RAYMONDVILLE (COUNTY
SEAT) WILLACY COUNTY, TEXAS_ "
CHARLES R. JOHNSON, Editor and Publisher
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TYLER COMMERCIAL COLLEGE,
Tyler, Texas.
Course interested in................
hereby order a stock law eledKots in
the above described territory, to be
held on the 20th, day March, A. D.
1924, at the Sombrerito School house
and I hereby appoint C. C. Becraft
and John O. Reber as manager ol
PRICE *2.0© PER YEAR M ADVANCE
fi^SPtED AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER JANUARY 27, 1922 AT
rriSfSSsT OFFICE AT RAYMONDVILLE, TEXAS UNDER THE ACT
OF MARCH 3, 1879.
It is now 'open season for the leap,
year huntresses, but remember the' and the failure to get billions from
, Germany, there is fear ot trouble
bag limit is only one dear. j ^here. ’ In Germany there is always
, ___J ^trouble. In Russia, Trotzky moves
Being hard boiled is a way some , . ,
“ about m a heavily armored car proof
modern people have of keeping) from ^ against maohine gun bullets. In
being roasted; j Britain, the labor party is in control
_ _—— and trouble is expected among those
" A contemporary says that politic- who know more about inheriting
Ians care nothing for opportunity, wealth than producing) it. Thus the
because anything that knocks bat r»™ds of discontent go on in Europe.
• once would not get them anywhere
With the franc dropping in France
“<Go slow in this
Now, syimphaty is good and brother
hood is a great thing, but Europe
shows no signs of wanting eigthes
A headline says, w tluvv 111 UiiiK\jfrom us. What they want is,more of
Mexican Business". Whether we go our money and possible more of our
fast or slow, it seems we will be al- ; men later. Every day that passes
ways at it anyway, so what’s the use j seems to suggest now, that we go
■.slow and becareful in dealing with
.of hurrying? ___ I Europe. >
Name •
Address
A Nut.
A friend inquired of me yesterday,
“What I would like to know, what has
become of the old fashioned woman
who turned the plates upside douwn
when she prepared the table for din-
ner?” And I answered by saying, the
information is she disappeared about
the time gopd, tight-fitting screens
and the flyswatters came into general
use.
YOUNG MAN’S OPPORTUNITY
According to Arthur Brisbane,
monkeys do not think, they do not
talk either. They merely make a noise
when they have anything akin to a
thought. Mr. Bryan inlay accept
this as further evidence that they are
.not related to him.
It is difficult to tell whether the
majority of people are shocked or
disgusted over the sensational^
charges of the Tea Po^JjoHig^affair.
either Ex-Secretary
Fall or Senator Caraway were “check
ing out”. We ought to see just whose
time it is.
Now if turns out that the choice of
Mr. Bryan for President is an evol \ ___
utionist. The wonder is why Wil-1 There are from 12 to 14 mil
liam did not look into that before his j lion bales of cotton raised annually,
announcement. Mighty hard to mix | Every bale has to be classed from one
to four times, seldom by the same
politics and ie lgion. man twice. Until the last five years,
there has been no training schools
in this line, consequently the supply
of men for this work is limited.
Thousands of warehouses are being
erected in this country and every
warehouse requires two or thiee men
to handle the cotton. The Commis-
sioner of the Market and Warehouse
Department has appointed a Board
of Examiners to examine applicants
for license as Public Cotton Classers.
Mr. L. E.^Dqwfj^ Chairman gjL/jsbe
Sta"te“'Bd3'kd of Examiners, is a good
note of our Cotton Department. To
those passing a license is issued to
engage in the business of Public Cot-
ton Classing and to charge for his
services. These ,examina!tions are
open to both men and women. Prac-
tically every town and village where
cotton is sold will employ one or more
licensed Cotton Classers.
Aaron Sjapljro, organizer for the
National Marketing Association, says
that between 10 per cent and 16 per
cent of the entire cotton crop is lost
to farmers on account of incorrect
grading. It is the purpose of the
Associaton to have competent Cotton
Classers to grade cotton for all farm-
ers belonging to this Association.
This statement from one who is in
a position to know, shows two things;
first, that the man who raises cotton
should be able to class it, to be able
to protect himself from loss, and,
second, that there is a wide and grow-
ing fieldof employment for competent
cotton men.
Cotton is the leading product of the
South and will continue to be. Every
youn,g| man of the South should know
the classification and handling of
cotton. More money is lost each year
by the farmers on the marketing of
! this product than all other crops com-
bined. The man raising it often
knows nothing about marketing it and
is therefore wholly at the mercy of
the . man buying. The facts are, we
’ost thousands of dollars each year
for the lack of. trained men.
The young man or woman trained
in the Cotton Classing Department
of Tyler Commercial College, Tyler,
Texas, is in a much better position
to take one of these many positions
that are opening up, or to protect his
owr\ interest as a grower, then one
who has had no training, or a train-
ing by guess. In four weeks’ time
wc can prepare you to save this year
I was driving home from town when
the following happened. The end
was near. She was dying slowly, but
surely dying of starvation. I had
nothing to feed her; I was helpless.
She made a last desperate attempt
to keep igioing, but it was too late all
her power was gone. And thus she
died game to the last second. So I
got out and hiked two miles through
the pouring rain to get some gasoline
for the dead “flivver.”
The man of whatever profession
who fails to be interested in crop con
ditions in the South and the welfare
of the farmier, makes a mistake.
There has long been too much indif-
ference among professional men
about agricultural life. We can no
longer afford to ignore things that
are fundamental, if we would make
progress.
A little worn woman with a baby
in her arms and three others stand-
ing by watched a train move away
from a Valley station last week car
rying the husband and father to the
penitentiary for a crime committed
laigely through ignorance. Possible
mtost all crime is due to ignorance in
one sense, but much of it is due to
ignorance for which all citizens are
in a measure responsible. Something
is wrong with our system and prac-
tice which sends men to prison for-
ignorance which is forced on them.
St was hardly to be expected that
the Edward Bok Peace contest would
go through without some kind invest-
igation or some charges of conspira-
cy ie control public opinion. The world
is good at these-things now, and well
that it is on the alert. Nobody
thought much about this though until
the result was announced. Whether
- it is or is not an effort to control
public opinion, the situation is laugh-
able, for the very idea of such a
stupendous undertaking to pull the
wool over the eyes of the public. The
aright or the wrong with the League
■of Nations will ultimately 'take care
of itself. The only trouble with it
It is estimated that there are
enough undeveloped oil lands to keep
the world in gasoline for another five
hundred years. I guess there are
also enough unpromoted oil stocks to
keep the world in hot water for a
hundred years or so added to the five
hundred.
A man, convalescing in a city
hospital, relates noyf^ie wrot£~4b. the
local >aaper. describing his ex
lences. In speaking of his cheerful
surroundings, he said: “There are six
fine windows in my room.” The lino,
type operator left the “n” out of
windows and the man’s wife made a
flying trip to the city to see how her
husband was getting along.
STOCK LAW ELECTION NOTICE
THE STATE OF TEXAS
COUNTY OF WILLACY
TO WHOM THIS MAY CONCERN:
There being a stock law petition
presented to the commissioners court
of Willacy County at the February
term, 1924, asking for an election to
be ordered in the herein after describ-
ed subdivisions or territory of Willacy
County for the purpose of sunfitting
to the qualified voters of said territo-
ry, the question of whether or not
Horses, Mules, Jacks, Jenets and
Cattle fe prohibited from running at
large in said territory;
After due consideration by the
court, of this question, on motion and
second duly carried, the commission-
ers court ordered the election to be
held on March the 29th, 1924., in the
following described territory or sub-
division of Willey County; as fol
lows;
Beginning at the N.E. corner of th«
Raymond Town and Improvement
Co. tract; thence east along the south
boUn’&V 0^ the Hidalgio road to the
N. E. ddftier of share No. 6^ of the
San Juan de Carricitog grant; thence
south along the Ofis't line of share
No-. 61. To the S. E, corner of the
said share No. 61.; thence west along
the south line of shares No. 01. the
Humber tract and share No. 64, and
the Beise tract, to the N. W. corner
of share No. 45; thence south along
the west line of share No. 45 to the
south east corner of share No. 39;
thence west along the south line of
share No. 39 and 37 and 36, to the
.now is that it represents a conception , -------, ....
of international democracy that the!J'han do“b e tbe cost of your [south east corner of the Raymond-
~~ ~ ’ " ' ; Hallam subdlvisios; thence north
world has not yet groyn up to.
RAYMONDVILLE
LODGE 1204
A. F. & A. n.
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REGULAR MEETINGS
2nd & 4th Tuesday »t 7.4S P. M.
All Masons Cordially Invited
learning, or be ready to pass the
State Cotton Classers Examination
to be held in our Cotton Department
about August 1st, which will enable
you, if you pass the Cotton Classers
Examination to be eligible for a good
I position for the Fall Cotton Crops.
Special rates are now on until the
' examination.
We have equipped our department
: that the most efficient teaching
j possible may be done. Our teachers
j understand clashing-, Shaplin/g and
' SG^ng fretess a, practical standpoint,
and are es^erfs §r the tcafeang of
stwjfehts. The fcbad W ftfe depart-
along the east line of the Raymond-
Haljan subdivision t0 the N. E. corn-
er of the said Raymond-Hallan sub-
division; thence west along the north
line of the said Raymond-Hallam
subdivision to the south east corner
of the Raymond Town and Improve-
ment Co. tract thence; north along
the east line of the Raymond Town
and Improvement Co. tract to the
place of beginning.
Now therefore i, W. E. McCharen
County Judge of Willacy County,
Texas, in compliance with the above
order of ifce co*fm#sSioners court, do
said election.
All quaREied voters who are free
holders and who reside in the above
described territory are entitled to
vote in said election.
Ballots must read, for the stock
law or against the stock law. •
Pools open at 8:00 o'clock a. m. and
close at 7:00 o’clock p. m.
W. E. McCharen, County Judge of
Willacy County, Texas.
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Johnson, Charles R. Willacy County News (Raymondville, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 6, 1924, newspaper, March 6, 1924; Raymondville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth874141/m1/4/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Reber Memorial Library.