Mercedes Tribune (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. [7], No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, August 6, 1920 Page: 10 of 18
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PROCLAMATION BY^
Sunday, February 10, Set Aside as
Seed Sowing Day.
There is one season of the year,
and only one, more important than
the harvest season and that is the
seed-sowing time, but one is abso-
lutely dependent upon the other, and
it is impossible to have one without
the other. A complete and plentiful
sowing time is sure to bring forth a
glorious harvest, just as a bounteous
harvest can result from none save a
fully, abundant sowing time.
It is the best planter, as we learn
in our first school days, who can
produce two blades of gras*# where
only one was produced before, which,
of course, refers alike U) all food-
producing grains. We. in America
today, having an exalted, even a holy
purpose, in trying t.o “produce two
instead of one blade,” and, this pui-
pose is to sow grain to help feed
the world, who begs and waits for
our industrial assistance.
One grain of seed sowed and cul-
tivated will provide a meal for a
hungry soldier, one row of grain
sowed and cultivated will feed a
company, one acre of grain will feed
a regiment, and so on. Let us look
about us and sow this food for our
soldiers until we see every vacant
space, be it our ten feet door yards,
our small front lawns, our landed
estates, or our thousands of acres,
all smiling with a promising har-
vest.
Our state, which could under pro-
per cultivation, supply one-fourth of
the grain of the entire United States,
can fped a good portion, therefore,
lil'O'ur great American army, and the
Variety of food grains which are
ours, wheat, corn, rice, oats, barley
are the very best food for the very
best men. The oldest, most heart-
searching lesson _in our holy book
are lessons of sowing and reaping,
plantin'- and gathering, watering and
increasing, so let us learn this
greatest lesson and apply its magic
truth.
Since we “reap as we sow, and
most of us will agree that we do,
let us determine, right now, that no
harvest has ever been gathered that
can, in any way, compare with what
will be ours our next harvest sea-
son.
I, threfore, urge every man and
every woman in our state to observe
February 10th, which is the second
Sunday in the month as “Seed-Sow-
ing Sunday.” I designate a holy day
because it is a holy cause, and upon
this day I respectfully request every
minister in this state, Catholic, non-
Catholic and Jewish to deliver in his
'►ulpit upon this day, or as near this
as possible, a sermon which will
ie minds and hearts of his
to the practical impor-
----ssity, even their
id help feed
ly instructor
J and public
aniversty, to
fdents in un-
"importance of
□.courage them
as possible. I
______ and every father
□t food-producing grain, to
livery available space in their
\
premises now unused or not necessa-
rily used, and to encourage their
children to cultivate it. Let every
farmer and every planter, who now
cultivates only a portion of his land,
cultivate all of it, for Texas this year
does not want a fair crop or an av-
erage crop, but a phenomenal crop,
the largest ever planted or gathered
in this country.. With the consecra-
tion and conservation of our full
energies this can be done and the
blessing which will follow is beyond
estimate. I believe our noble Texas
will enter into this exalted expres-
sion of pure patriotism, remembering
that if we do the planting God will
give the increase.
In witness wherefore I hereunto
set my hand and cause the seal of the
great State of Texas to be affixed.
Done in the City ,of Austin the
2nd day of February, in the year of
our Lord, 1918.
(Signed) W. P. HOBBY,
Governor of Texas.
George Howard,
Secretary of State.
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SPECIMENS OF THE
v PINK BOLL WORM
In order that the farmers may
guard their crops against the rav-
ages of the pink boll worm and be
able to. recognize this pest when it
appears, Mr. W. B. Lanhan, chief
plant industry division of the exten-
sion service, Agricultural and Me-
chanical College of Texas, has se-
cured from the federal horticultuial
board, a few specimens of the pink
boll worm and specimens of bolls at-
tacked by this insect, also specimens
of the scavenger often mistaken for
the pink boll worm. He has had
these carefully mounted and mailed
a complete set together with a circu-
lar treating of the pink boll worm
by Prof. Billsing, entomologist, Agri-
cultural and Mechanical College,, to
the county demonstration agents in
the free zone, also the larger cities
of Texas, and will send the same to
every county demonstration agent in
the cotton sections as soon as suf-
ficient number have been mounted.
Too much care cannot be exer-
cised in the prevention and eradica-
tion of the pink boll worm, and it
would be advisable for every cotton
farmer to make a study of these
specimens so that if the pest should
make its appearance in their section,
proper methods could be adopted for
its destruction and the prevention of
spread.
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Bell Connty Winnings.
Temple, Tex., Feb. 4.—Bell county
cotton ginnings up to and including
Jan. 15 amounted to 24,1.44 bales, ac-
cording to reports made by J. W.
Thomas of Rodgers, special United
States census agent for Bell county.
For the same period of last year
67,181 bales were ginned, this year
showing a decrease of 43,037 bales.
The 1917 crop was the smallest made
in Bell county for many years.
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Low-priced foods can be made to
taste just as good as the higher-
priced ones when cooked long, and
savory vegetables and other flavor-
ing materials added.
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If you can get them, purchase
well-matured pullets rather than
hens.
CITATION BY PUBLICATION.
To the Sheriff or any Constable of
Hidalgo County, Greeting:
You are commanded to summon
Earnest G. Trumpf, Rossana Trumpf,
Robert J. Smith, S. H. Walkup,
Charles R. Groth, Hausman Brewing
Company, a partnership composed of
.......... Hausman and ..........
by making publication of this citation
once each week for four successive
weeks previous to the return day
hereof in some newspaper published
in your county, if there be a news-
paper published therein, but if not
then in any newspaper published in
the 79th judicial district; to appear
at the next regular term of the dis-
trict court of Hidalgo county, to be
held at the court house thereof in
Edinburg, on the fourth Monday in
February, 1918, the same being the
25th day of February, 1918, then and
there to answer a petition filed in
said court on the 13th day of Decem-
ber, A. D. 1916, and first amended
original petition, January 25, 1916,
in a suit numbered on the
docket of said court Number 1547,
wherein J. B. Hooks and A. G.
Hodges are plaintiffs, and Ernest G.
8rumpf, Rossana Trumpf, H. j M.
Peoples, J. A. Smith, Roberta J.
Smith, S. H. Walkup, First Mortgage
Loan Co., Charles R. Groth and the
Hausman Brewing Co., are defend-
ants and said petition alleging:
Plaintiffs are informed and believe
that H. M. Peoples transferred said
Note No. 6 for the sum of $933.34,
payable four years after date, to de-
fendant, S. H. Walkup, or Robert J.
Smith, one of whom is now the
holder thereof, and that they trans-
ferred Note No 4 to their co-de-
fendant, First Mortgage Loan Co., af-
ter its maturity, but if plaintiffs are
mistaken in this, by reason of the
endorsement on said notes, which is
as follows:
“Kountze, Tex., Oct. 17 th, 1913.
For a valuable consideration we
hereby transfer and assign the with-
in notes to H. M. Peoples of Donna,
Texas. The foregoing transfer is
made upon the following expressed
conditions: That should said payor
fail or refuse from any cause to pay
said notes as therein provided and
the said Hooks and Hodges be rein-
vested with the title thereto, by suit
or otherwise, or from any cause re-
take or become reinvested with the
title or possession thereof then the
lien herein described shall revert to
and become the property of the said
Hooks and Hodges*, their heirs or as-
signs, and all the interest of H. M.
Peoples, or the legal owner and
holder of this note shall cease and
become inoperative and void and the
holder thereof shall have no further
claim against said property by rea-
son of this note.
(Signed) J. R. HOOKS,
A. G. HODGES.”
Robert J. Smith or S. H. Walkup
acquired said notes with full knowl-
edge of plaintiffs’ defense against
H. M. Peoples or J. A. Smith, as
against said notes, and subject to all
of the defenses and equities which
plaintiffs have against the same.
That defendant, First Mortgage Loan
Co., Robert J. Smith or S. H. Walk-
up, are claiming and asserting some
right or equity in and to said land,
but plaintiffs allege that by reason
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of the failure of E. G. Trumpf to pay
all of said notes, according to the
terms and conditions of the transfer
of said notes to H. M. Peoples and
J. A. Smith, by reason of the insti-
tution of this suit to foreclose the
vendor’s lien upon said land, that the
lien originally retained in said deed
to secure the payment of said notes
so held by First Mortgage Loan Co.,
Robert J. Smith or S. H. Walkup, is
void and of no further force or ef-
fect, and neither of them can claim
or assert any claim to said property
by reason thereof.
Plaintiffs. are informed that E. G.
Trumpf and his wife, Rossana
Trumpf, executed a certain deed of
trust in favor of defendant, Charles
R. Groth for the use and benefit
of the defendant, Hausman Brewing
Co. upon said land and premises;
that by reason of said deed of trust
said Charles R. Groth and Haus-
man Brewing Co., are asserting and
claiming a lien, right and equity in
and to said land, but plaintiff^
charge that if said defendant,
Charles R. Groth and Hausman
Brewing Co. have any lien or claim
on said land, which plaintiffs do not
admit, but dens', that said lien, claim,
right or equity, accrued and created
subsequent to the lien claimed by
these plaintiffs and is inferior to
plaintiffs’ lien and equity against
said land claimed herein.
Plaintiffs pray that defendants be
duly cited, or given due notice, ac-
cording to law, to appear and ansv/er
this petition; that at the final hear-
ing plaintiffs has judgment for
their debt, interest, attorneys’ fees
and cost of suit; that the vendor’s
lien securing plaintiffs debt be estab-
lished and foreclosed against each
•and all of the defendants herein, ac-
cording to law. That said note held
by First Mortgage Loan Co., Robert
J. Smith or S. H. Walkup, and the
lien retained to secure same, and
the lien existing on said land in
favor of Charles R. 'Groth, trustee,
and said Hausman Brewing Co. by
virtue of said deed of trust he can-
celled and held for naught, and that
the cloud upon said land which may
exist by reason thereof, be cancelled
and removed, by decree of this court.
In plaintiffs first Amended Origi-
nal Petition, J. B. Hooks and A. G.
Hodges, plaintiffs, complaining of E.
G. Trumpf, Rossana Trumpf, H. M.
Peoples, J. A. Smith, Robert J. Smith,
S. H. Walkup, First Mortgage Loan
Co. of Jacksonville, Texas, Charles
R. Groth and the Hausman Brewing
Company, defendants, and for cause
of action states, that prior to the
11th day of August, 1913, plaintiffs
owned 280 acres of land, same being
a part of the Llano Grande grant in
Hidalgo county, Texas, described as
follows:
“Beginning on the east line of a
certain tract of land purchased from
Zeferino Dominguez and from Ynde-
lecio Dominguez, by deed dated June
29th, 1892, at a point 3119.6 varas
north from its southeast corner, said
comer being the northwest corner of
a certain 273.56 acre tract of land
thereafter conveyed by said Hooks
and Hodges to I. Shoudy and F. L.
Melville, thence north along said
Dominguez east line 3304 varas to
corner in said east line; thence east
495 varas to corner; thence south
3304 varas to the northwest corner
of said tract of land conveyed by
Hooks and Hodges to Shoudy and
Melville; thence west along Shoudy
and Melville north line 495 varas
t.o place of beginning, excluding
therefrom a certain tract of land
containing 9.74 acres, embraced in
the drainage ditch of Hidalgo County
Drainage District Number One. /
That the defendants, H. M. Pe6-
ples and J. A. Smith, were >and
agents, and contracted to sell'' said
tract of land for plaintiffs,/ for the
sum of $30.00 per acre, atid agreed
that all over said sum, the said de-
fendants were to retain as their com-
mission, that they did sell said tract
of land to E. G. Trumpf, and re-
quested that the purchase price
should recite $45.00 per acre, or
$12,600.00; $4200.00 of which was re-
cited in said deed as having been
paid as cash, and the balance as evi-
denced by six vendor’s lien promis-
sory • notes, to-wit:
Note No. 1, for $1866.66, due
August 11th, 1915.
Note No. 2, for $933.33, due August
11th, 1915.
Note No. 3, for $1866.66, due
August 11th, 1916.
Note No. 4, for $933.33, due August
11th, 1916.
Note No. 5, for $1866.68, due
August 11th, 1917.
Note No. 6, for $933.34, due August
11th, 1917.
Said notes bear interest at six per
cent, payable annually, from date,
and further provide for ten per cent
attorney’s fees on principal and in-
terst if placed in the hands of an at-
torney, for collection, payable at
Kountze, Texas, secured by vendor’s
lieri retained in said deed upon said
lanch, Said notes Nos. 2, 4 and 6
were \transferred and assigned by
plaintiffs^ to the defendant, H. M.
Peoples, br J. A. Smith, either or
both, with the expressed terms and
conditions that unless said notes
were paid by the maker, they should
be void, and transferers should have
no equity in said land by reason
thereof, and that plaintiffs should in
no manner, be liable thereon, that
the security of plaintiffs’ notes
should in no manner be impaired by
reason thereof. In addition to said
notes so assigned, plaintiffs paid the
defendants, H. M. Peoples )and J. A.
Smith, $1400.00 in cash, all hf which
was the amount over and \ above
$30.00, the price they, agreed tb sell
said land for. That defendants
E. G. Trumpf paid Note No.s 1
for $1,866.66; that plaintifs are'
the owners and holders of notes Nos.
3 and 5, which notes are now due
and unpaid, and though often re-
quested, E. G. Trumpf has failed and
refused and still refuses to pay the
ny part thereof, and pi
chaser in possession within thirty
days after day of sale; that said
order of sale have the force of a
writ of possession.
Plaintiffs pray fqr such other and
further relief, in law and equity,
that they may be entitled to.
Herein fail not, but have you be-
fore said court on said first day of
the next term thereof, this writ with
your return thereon, showing how
you have executed the same.
Witness my hand and official seal,
at my office in Edinburg, Texas, this
the 25th day of January, A. D. 1918.
V. A. ALBERS,
Clerk, District Court, Hidalgo Coun-
ty, Texas.
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Hoyt, L. T. Mercedes Tribune (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. [7], No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, August 6, 1920, newspaper, August 6, 1920; Mercedes, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1018221/m1/10/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dr. Hector P. Garcia Memorial Library.