Mercedes Tribune (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. [7], No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, August 6, 1920 Page: 14 of 18
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■Lee McManus, Jarrett Ho-
■sella Kramer, J. C. Boyd,
Issler.—Miss Marie Morrow,
Tumlinson began teaching m the
North Side school to take the place
made vacant by the resignation o
Miss Bessie Marsh. .
Be sure and attend the play given
by the high school pupils one week
from Saturday night.
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THE WAR WORK THAT OCR
SCHOOLS HAVE PERFORMED
The
llivia Villareal,
lavazos, Clota
I. Layne, teach-
iarla McLean,
ond Herring,
Mae Connor.—
teacher,
list Chapa, Pe-
,ane, Llewellyn
..—Miss Cleve
ie Wetegrove,
|ne Schmolka,
Ramgey,
1 Mercer, c
„,r.nk, Irma j
?e^5ii, Doyle >
Theodore
Sian, teacher.
me— Gladys Harris,
.. RTfeidt, Hubert Tlmon,
lapa, Dora Emmons.
Development at Soldiers’ Camp.
Much development activity is m
evidence at the cantonments of the
Sixteenth cavalry at Mercedes. Con
tracts have just been awa^Rd for
the construction of three additional
large’ buildings and five more Will be
constructed within a short time. Ne-
gotiations are also pending for the
lease of additional land.
Three water tanks are m the
course of construction having a ca-
pacity .of 15,000 gallons each. They
are built of wood with concrete
foundations. A new pump has been
ordered which will have a capacity
of 470 gallons per minute.
Arrangements are also being made
8/s'tem. The outlet w
Ari°.\-a Colorado with
septic\ . v
a complete sanitary sewerage
The outlet will be at the
a concrete
■>nk.
Cl.v,= ,
I North Side School.
■fifth Grade—Aurora Trevino, Ra-
ida Pizano, Grace De Leon, Paula
[evino Saenz.
'hird Grade — Fidencia Trevino,
jina Diaz, Gpnoveva Herrera, Ma-
|izano, Guadalupe Rodriguez,
end Grade—Filomena Artiago,
j Trevino Saenz, Juan Serra,
Ice Cornejo, Leonor Saenz.-
E. I. Emmons teacher.
|t Grade—Elisa Gonzales, Lucia
i Daniel Saenz, Gorgonia Char-
3susa Rodriguez.—Edith Riley,
ihe tacL5iDes for fire protection at
the camp %e very compiete. There
are 26 fire\ lu and 350o feet of
standard fireVv,.^
Besides ^fce we eig££t chem-
takesi ■bi-ace'
every after-
ical engines
Fire drill
noon.
At the present time there are
about 1000 officers and enlisted men
at the Mercedes camp and recruits
are arriving almost daily. .
First Grade—Abel Zarala,
[no Trevino, Refugio Lopez,
fajara Trevino, Manuel de los
-Bessie Marsh, teacher.
Mercedes Boy Reaches France.
\ card just received by B. H.
Brooks, Sr., states that his son, Wil-
fred Brooks, with 3300 other motor
truck mechanics, had safely arrived
at the base motor truck shops in
France.
High School.
Iman—Mary Villareal, F. Car-
lith Craighead, Roy Ramsey,
Rchmitter.
trnore—Florence Settles, Wil-
Japanese scientists have so devel-
oped wireless telegraphy that a pas-
senger on shipboard can talk to his
friends on shore. The advantages of
travel by sea are becoming fewer all
the time.
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adford, Ruth Bazar, Harvey
l orena Morrow, Edna
^Swaney, Malcolm Riess,
_ian.
“— Luella Bales, Serena
5n, Ava McLennan, Roy Tur-
JTesar Bazar.
MISS KATE KNOWLES,
i Principal:
MISS NANNIE MER BUCK,
Superintendent.
Fresh car of western box apples
just unloaded. All kinds. Price $1.65
to $2.00.—Unit Office. « 50-lt
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Statement of Donna Branch, A. R. C.
Receipts.
Jan. 10—Cash on hand.......$124.53
Jan. 16—Three annual mem-
bers .......... 3.00
Jan. 25—Heywood benefit ----118.55
School Notes,
jfonday morning, January 28, the
ling exercises were conducted by
Pharr and Rev. Sessions, pre-
ig elder of this district for the
aodist church.
Iss Nell Neighbors represents our
nl in the work being done by
•entatives from each school in
ung the questionnaires recently
j£-clraft- age.
|r canning
_^school Mon-
"W. LS^Riilier arid Miss
pth addressed the farm-
Monday evening in the
I the food and feed cam-
Jan. 14—Postage
Jan. 19—Materials
Jan. 25—Heywood expenses
Jan. 25—Materials .......
Jan. 31—Membership dues
chapter
Balance on hand
$ 2.00
19.60
14.95
2.13
2.00
205.40
$246.08
'evening, Feb. 16th, the
^ pupils will give the play,
^ge Postoffice,” in the study
money will be applied on
fund. Miss Carolyn Rich
^rk in charge,
achers have been forced
|tbrough illness. Misses
l, Riley and Mrs. Em-
Mr. Wm. Lingenbrink and Editor
L. T. Hoyt have started in the poul-
try-- -farm-er. -with- - A.h-r- e-e-
hens and a rooster, and the latter
with ten hens and a rooster. These
are the first “Liberty” flocks of
poultry to be established here since
the idea was suggested. Mr. Lingen-
brink pins his faith to the white leg-
horn variety and the editor has
placed thirty plunks on the Rhode
Island Red family. This move is
purely a philanthropic one on the
part of these well known citizens,
who regard the present price of
eggs ($19.50 per ease) as entirely
too high, and expect to reduce ihe
figures when the “Liberties” begin
to > lay. . . .,
Of papfer and handed it m. R was
counted up and nearly half of th
nunits did not know how much they
could give but there was almost
enough to get two bonds one for the
hip-h- school and one for the grades.
\fter it was all collected the teach-
made it up sc that there: was
enough for two each, consisting
^Beshjes1* what the school bought,
the Boy Scouts, sold thirty bonds,
which amounted to about $350
Later on Miss Buck got the girls
interested in knitting and most all of
the girls learned how ^ “
I am sure some of them are kmu s
fm- the Red Cross now.
Miss Pritchet and Mr. Miller, coun-
tv agents of the state department of
fgrtculture, were here in December.
Miss Pritchet gave the girls au m
teresting talk regarding the, canning
and poultry clubs. About ten. &V*
joined each club an? w® P
will have success with botn. Mi -
v>ritchet has made several other vis-
ion .....—second visit we elect-
ed our officers, presiua*^ •-/Mive Win-
ter1 vice-president, Dora Emmouo,
secretary, Mary Villareal and Miss
Pritchet talked more about the vork.
Monday she came again and we had
another meeting. All .of the girls m
the canning club 'have their col
frames made and their tomato .plants
are coming up. That afternoon we
went and looked at two of the girls
plants. Some of the girls have de-
cided to raise calves instead of chick-
ens. None of the girls have any
hens setting so far but hope to get
the kind of eggs they want real
soon. Mr. Miller gave the boys two
or three talks on corn and pig clubs.
The boys had several interesting
talks on Y. M. C. A. work
Christmas the school sold forty-
five dollars worth of Christmas
seals. The high school sold eleven
dollars worth of those. The school
children sold sixty dollars worth of
tickets to the Heywood Red Cross
drive. Several of the pupils helped
in the Red Cross Christmas drive
which proved successful here as well
as all over th,e United States. • There
are fifty-six members in school be-
sides the teachers.
We had several talks on economy
of saving our money, pencils, paper,
etc. Miss Buck and the other teach-
ers, besides several outsiders, have
given us talks on war subjects. The
literature on the thrift and war sav-
ings stamps has been handed out
and some of the pupils have invest-
ed. At one time we all had to write
a paper on how we could do “our
bit.” Some of these were long and
some were short.
This is about all we have done so
far but we hope to do a great deal
more before school closes.
DORA EMMONS,
Best Quality Broom Corn Seed
Would you risk losing one hundred dollars or more on each acre of
broom corn by planting seed of doubtful quality, when it costs less to
secure a stand with good seed than with poor quality seed? .
The supply of strictly pure and high grade broom corn seed as very
much below the needs of the United States for this next year’s planting.
I started three months ago to secure a supply of dependable seed. After
a full investigation I am positive that
a lull mveSUgULXUXi j. am puoxuxvv. —
1 HI SVs“ yNeIr00M
It was grown in Missouri and is absolutely free from any cross
breeding with any other type of plant. e
I saw the brush on which this seed , grew. It is strictly high-class,
round fibre hurl brush and was sold at over
$400.00 PER TON
This seed is fully ripened, heavy and plump and P^ctly eieaned
and graded. It is first-class in every respect. _ Germination 9$%.
price is only 20 cents per pound. It only requires tnree PORU&3
per acre. Lower grade seed is more expensive, as germinatmi
it requires more seed per acre to secure a good stand
The Illinois seed crop was ruined on beptemPf^
cuornpelling the Illinois planters to look els<wjj|
were "Vfcirv glad to obtain what was lef^
they quicfcrkk decided this was
:he bes
It is fortunate tK?
price of good seed is now
very little offered at any pricer immm„ -
It is impossible for me to can on every planil ___
seed on sale with the following dealers, all of whom ii«*vo
from my seed, showing what the seed is:
R. M. Gregory, San Juan and Donna.
Rio Grande Grain & Milling Co., Mercedes and La Fena.
Tested Seed Co., San Benito and Harlingen.
Mr. Taylor in Roy Campbell’s office, Mission.
And I will handle the seed myself in other towns.
0. E. Burg, Broom Cora Buyer
References—Hidalgo County Bank* Mercedes; State Bank of Naum,
111., First State Bank of McAllen; R. G. Dunn & Co., Bradstreet’s and
Farmers’ State Bank, Dallas Illinois.
TIE RACE THAT WAS
NOT RUN
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THE SIXTEENTH CAVALRY BAND
Fine Program Given East Sunday
Niglit and an Exceptionally Strong
One Outlined for Next Sunday.
ftSTIMETHEATRE
DONNA, TEXAS
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[uesday, Thursday, Saturday
and Sunday Nights
The latest, best and most
popular screen productions
icsday Night, Feb. 12th
jirst Episode of the Great
litagraph Feature
Fighting Trail
le most marvelous, melodramatic
• adventure serial of the
great outdoors.
luent Episodes Each Tuesday Night.
An unusually fine program of mu-
sic was presented by Leader Recb
and the Sixteenth cavalry band at
the, city park last Sunday night, and
was appreciated to the fullest by the
large audience preserit
The march from Tannhauser
(Wagner) opened the program, fol-
lowed by a Verdi number “Un Ballo
en Maseera,” Sergeant Croney taking
the solo part. The best work of
other well known composers filled
in to the playing of the Star
Spangled Banner, which closed the
evening'.
Next Sunday evening, February 10.,
Mr. Rech will offer (if possible)
along with a most interesting pro-
gram, Safonek’s “Atlantis, the Lost
Continent.” The qualifying “if pos-
sible” is applied because of the
length of this piece, twelve minutes
.being required for its performance,
and if the wind blows strong it will
be impossible for the musicians to
handle it out in the open.
The inspiration of the composer
came perhaps of a reading of the
history of the land. It was a con-
tinent extending from Europe to Yu-
catan, and is believed to have been
peopled by a great race which con-
quered and civilized the world. Ac-
cording to the historians this land
sank beneath the waters of the sea
and the Azore islands are considered
to be the tops of the lofty mountains
of the lost, continent. Safronek’s is a
suite in four parts, the first being
a nocturne and morning hymn .of
praise; the second presents a court
function; third, “I love thee;
fourth, the destruction of Atlantis.
Following Atlantis, “In the Great
Beyond,” a religious meditation, will
be presented with Sergeant Handler
as cadenza soloist.
ission 10 and 20 Cents
THEATRE
J, Proprietors
Texi
Governor William Pettus Hobby
and a couple of Texas rangers spoil-
ed some mighty fine sport here Sun-
day when a horse race that was to
have been run at 2:30 o’clock p. m.
over on the north side of town was
.declared off by the governor, send-
ing his message through the afore-
said ranger pair.
Mr. J. Pierpont of Mercedes owns
a horse by the name of Red Starr,
14 years .old, known all the way
from Palo Pinto to Point Isabel,
as some runner; in fact, it is said
that Red Starr, in his yonuger days,
beat the best they bad up in the
State of Montana, and his friends
here believe he ' yet has sufficient
“pep” to beat anything in this part
of the country. They backed their
belief with real money.
Mr. Ralph Tucker of Brownsville
has some pretty fast horses, too, and
didn’t believe the Palo Pinto animal
could do all that was claimed for
him, and wanted to be shown.
A race was arranged between the
owneris of the tw.o horses, which was
to have been run last Sunday, after-
noon on the pretty stretch of land
bordering the north side Anacuitas,
and the distance was to have been
220 yards. The race was the topic
during the past week, and it is said
that probably as much as- $7000 had
been placed one way .or the other
on the result.
But the governor got wised up m
regard to the sport and telegraphed
to the rangers here not to permit the
running. About ten o’clock Sunday
morning Ranger Baker informed the.
owners of the horses that the gover-
---lw Annlo-rnrl fho off. a,HC
JACOB FOSSLER
CONTRACTOR and BUILDER
Estimates furnished free on application
Prices Reasonable Satisfaction Guaranteed
MERCEDES, TEXAS
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HEART TROUBLE ENDS
SULLIVAN’S CAREER
Ex-Champion Fighter Passes Away
Suddenly at His Country Home.
nor had declared the race off, and
it was, and is likely to remain so.
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TEST GERMINATION
OF THE SEED CORN
With the Band Men.
Sergeant Harry A. Cole, Troop C,
Sixteenth cavalry, formerly of Troop
C, Third cavalry, was appointed first
sergeant of headquarters troop. Ser-
geant Cole has 28 years of service
in the cavalry and has served in the
Philippines and Cuba. He was with
Band Leader Rech in the Eighth cav-
alry some 16 y^ars ago.
Sergeant Cole was with C troop,
Third cavalry, in this city before he
was sent to San Antonio to organize
the new Sixteenth cavalry regiment.
It is hoped that Sergeant Snyder
will soon be with the headquarters
troop. Sergeant Snyder is confined
with sickness at his home in Mer-
cedes.
Third Class Musician Yurcheck, in
the band was promoted to second-
class musician. Yurcheck plays
clarionet, saxophone and snare drum.
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Admiral von. Tirpitz declares that
England must’not he able to use Bel-
gium ‘for carrying out predatory
surprises.” How would h<
terize the German invasio
country|gi order to get a
Even where seed corn has been
carefully gathered and stored it
should be thoroughly tested in the
spring before planting. The best
way to do this, says the United States
department of agriculture, is to
make a seed-corn testing box and
test 100 ears separately.
Each kernel that is tested must be
perfect, and not injured at tbe tip
when it was removed from tbe ear.
Hand1 shelling will give much fewer
injured tips than machine shelling,
and should be used with all seed
corn. If three or more kernels out
of ten from any one ear fail to
grow it will be wise to test every
ear in the entire supply of seed. If
the 100 tested ears show no poor
ones, further testing of the supply
is unnecessary.
It must not be thought, says the
department, that good results from
the germination tests are a sure in-
dex of high production. Ears slight-
ly damaged by poor preservation, as
in damp storage places, may germi-
nate vf-ell but will produce lqss than
if they had got better care. Pre-
vention is better than cure; rind in
the case of poor storage, according
to seed-corn specialists, a cure is
impossible.
Corn that was selected wisely in
the field where it grew, that ma-
Abington, Mass., Feb. 2.—John L.
Sullivan, one of the most interesting
figures of prize ring renown, died
suddenly of heart disease at his
farm in West Abington today. As
was his wish, he died with his shoes
on. Although stricken with heart
trouble three weeks ago, he had
quickly improved and was in no
sense an invalid. He was about to
leave his house today to pay a visit
to Boston to see his old friend, Cap-
tain James P. Sullivan of the Boston
police department, when he received
his final knockout.
His friend and companion, George
M. Bush, rushed to his side as the
old fighter sank to the floor uncon-
scious and revived him with cold wa-
ter applications to the head. John,
responding quickly to this treatment
as in his palmy days in the prize
ring, struggled to his feet and re-
fused to take the decision of time.
He reluctantly consented to have a
rhysician called, hut after receiving
medical treatment announced that he
would take a bath and keep his ap-
pointment. Even as he expressed his
determination, he became uncon-
scious and died apparently without
further pain.
Sullivan was 59 years of age..
Potato Planting in Progress.
Irish potato planting is on in real
earnest 'and hundreds of acres are
being planted this week.
The seed brought in by Burns,
Crockett & Weil is pronounced the
finest which the Valley has ever
seen.
This firm is planting 400 acres in
Mercedes and 40 acres at Donna.
The ground is prepared in 32-inch
borders and irrigated before plant-
ing..
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The report that the Turks have
been able to float the Goeben sug-
gests that the unsinkable ship has
at last been found.
SALE OF REAL ESTATE.
Whereas, by virtue of authority
vested in me as substitute trustee,
with the powers named m three (3)
certain deeds of trust, recorded in
Vol. 11, on pages 293-98 inclusive,
of the deed of trust records of Hidal-
Edinburgh,
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served properly aPd ment •substitutdBBLfor
Pjoof storages will grow and
satisfactory
debtedness mentitoned in said deeds
of trust, evidenced by certain prom-
issory. notes payable to the .Ameri-
can Rio Grande Land IrrigaUcri Co.,
default having been made in the
payment of said notes, and said-
American Rio Grande Land & Irri-
gation Company being the holder and ;
owner of said notes, has requested
me to enforce said trust, and I have
notified the payor of said request.
Therefore I will offer for sale, be-
tween the legal hours thereof, on the;
fii’st Tuesday in March, A. D. 1918,
the same being the 5th day of said
month, at public auction, for cash, to
the highest bidder, at the court house
door in the town of Edinburg, Hidal-
go county, Texas, the following de-
scribed property, to-wit:
Certain tracts of land situated in
Hidalgo county, Texas, described as
lots and blocks, according to a sub--
division of the Llano Grande grant
made by the American Rio Grande
Land & Irrigation Company, known
as the Capisallo Land District, the
map of which is referred to, to-wit:
All of Lot Eleven (11) in Block
No. Forty-three (43) containing For-
ty (40) acres; also fractional parts
of Lots Nos. Thirteen (13) and Four-
teen (14) in Block No. Sixty-five
(65); and fractional parts of Lots
Three (3), Four (4), Five (5), Six
(6), Eleven (11) and Twelve (12) in
Block Sixty-six (66), bounded as fol-
lows: Beginning at the southeast
corner of said Lot Eleven (11),
thence with its east line and the
east line of said Lot Six (6), to the
'right-of-way of the East Main Canal;
thence northwesterly with the said
right-of-way of the East Main Ca-
nal, passing through Lots Three (3)
and Fourteen (14) and into Lot Thir-
teen (13) to a stake in the right-of-
way of the Main Canal i thence South
with the right-of-way of the Main
Canal, crossing the said railway
right-of-way to a point in Lot Twelve
(12); thence east to the east line
of Lot Eleven (11); thence south to
the south line of Lot Eleven (11);
thence east to the beginning. Con-
taining in all one hundred (100) feet
on both sides of the Arroyo Colora-
do running through said land, which
is excluded from this sale.
Said Lot Eleven (11) in Block
Forty-three (43) will he sold first;
then that part of said lots lying
north of the railroad; then that part
lying South of the railroad.
Said land is described bjr metes
anfl bounds in said deeds of trusi4
records, to which reference is rau
for all information concerning Sjj
1st, 1918.
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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/m1/14/: 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.