The Rocksprings Record and Edwards County Leader (Rocksprings, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, October 5, 1934 Page: 3 of 4
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1! nell who is staying with the tree army
(near Ft. Davis and was hpme for a
and Mrs. Camp Brown spent j fcw day8 v{sit. Songs games and mus-
the week-end with Mr and Mrs. An- jc were feature, Qf amusement lor
drew Bode at their home in the Vine-^ the evening. Quit; a number of out
community. 0f town guests attended and all co-
in Del Rio
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Buck Bishop was in Del Klo on
; f business Monday.
Fred York was in Del Rio Monday.
Mr, and Mrs. W. A.' Varga were
Rockaprings visitors Monday.
S. T. Wright and Green Wright
were here Monday frbm their home
in Del Rio.
Government sheep /buying started
in this community Tuesday evening
with the usual crews of skinners in
evidence.
Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Cash and
children left Monday for their new
home in Quemada Valley, having dis-
posed of their telephone business here
to Paul Varga “and wife, who are now
operating the switchboard.
Mr. and Mrs. John Rosenow were
in Del Rio several days last week at-
tending court.
Carta Valley school board met Tues-
day evening, with chairman T. B. Gob-
ble presiding. Only routine business
was transacted.
Victor Lee and George Baker spent
the week-end here with their parents,
returning to school in Del Rio Sunday
afternoon.
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A 21-year-old University of Min-
nesota co-ed, who will not receive her
degree in the engineering school until
next June, was disclosed Sunday-
night as the designer of the plan ac-
cepted for the new $2,075,000 bridge
to be constructed across the Missouri
river at Omaha, Neb. The bridge will
be 6,200 feet long.
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Let’s get together, select a High-
way No. 55 committee, join the High-
way No. 55 Association, pay our dues
in'the West Texas Chamber of Com-
merce and again get down to real busi-
ness in promoting good roads and ot-
her improvements for this section.
Information from Washington says
that all shegp pelts, to be accepted,
must be thoroughly cured, by salting
and drying for at least 30 days. It is
recommended to county administrators
that all green hides be rejected.
To September 24 approximately
100,000 head of sheep have been pur-
chased in Texas in the government
drought relief program as it relates to
cattle and sheep buying. George W.
Barnes, assistant state drought relief
director in charge of cattle and sheep
purchases, said.
According to State Treasurer Char-
ley Lockhart. Texas is still in the red
Over seven million dollars.
Attorney General James V. Allred
approved the bond record in Del Rio’s
$78,000 PWA loan and grant for re-
building the San Felipe water system,
he assured City Attorney Phil B.
Foster in a letter received Thursday.
—Chaps made and repaired—Sessum
Couey.
Julian Rogers spent the first of the
week in San Antonio visiting friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Babb and
children were San Antonio visitors
Friday of last week.
Ed Young and J. D. Phillips were
business visitors in Uvalde Monday.
* John Pfrenicr and Mr. Coleman,
feed salesmen from Quamada, Texas,
were in town the first of the week.
Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Moody spent
several days of this week in Marfa
on business.
Those who went to Laguna Satur-
day to the rodeo are: Ed Young
Kenneth Guthrie, Snap Bean and Mr.
and Mrs. Gordon Young.
—I am now equipped to do all kinds
of saddle repair work—Sessum Couey.
Mrs. O. L. McNealy and daughter,
Miss Mary Beth, were week-end visi-
tors with Mrs. J. W. Hutt.
joyed the occasion immensely.
Miss J da Shackleford Paynee, aud
Geneva Eads of Uvalde spent the
week-end with Dr. and Mr$. J. WA
Eads of Camp Wood.
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Webb of
.Sabinal were guests of their grandmo-
ther, Mrs. Martha hjelson last week.
Miss Bessie Belle Billings and Mo-
del! Wooldridge of Rocksprings spent
the week-end with Miss Martha Tay-
lor.
Mr, and Mrs. Gus Haynes and dau-
ghters visited their daughter, Mr. and
Mrs. Russell Hoover of Brackettville
Saturday. They report fine rains fell
in that section of the country Satur-
day and Sunday.
Mrs. Ida Beck of Sabinal is visiting
Mrs. J. F. Beck and other relatives in
the Canyon this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Chant and child-
ren of Rocksprings were guests of his
brother, George Chant Saturday.
Camp Wo6d basketball teams play-
ed , Barksdale Friday winning both
games. m
Mrs. O. C. Pope and son Burney,
end Mrs. Vina Wood of Pulliam vis-
ited friends and relatives in Barks-
dale Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. John Sweeten and lit-
tle grandson, Bobby Feynn of Rock-
springs visited relatives in Camp Wood
and Barksdale last Thursday.
Ed Custer of Camp Wood was a
business visitor in Rocksprings Tues-
day.
Ed Coleman of Uvalde visited old
friends in Barksdale Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Wallace of Pul-
liam were Sabinal visitors Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Blalock of Pul-
liam were visiting friends in Rock-
springs Tuesday.
Mr. and Mr;. A. W. Pullen had as
their guests last week Mr. and Mrs.
Lyman Canip of San Antonio. Monte
West of Harwood, Mr. and Mrs. Al-
an Thames, Mr. and Mrs. Vance Holt
and Mrs. Louis Underwood of San An-
gelo. The guests motored to the river
near the Fields ranch Sunday and en-
joyed a picnic Vlinner. Mrs. M. J.
Johns who has been visiting relatives
in Sonora joined the party there and
will spend two weeks with Mr. and
Mrs. Pullen before returning to her
home in Bisbee, Ariz.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Screntz and mo-
ther, Mrs. Screntz and Mrs. H. M.
Hayhert of Eden were guests at the
John C. Clark ranch Sunday.
J. T. Lanman was the Rocksprings
business visitor Wednesday morning.
Clifton Anderson and Prof. H. I.
North of Camp Wood attended the
football game between Kerrville and
Rocksprings in Rocksprings Saturday.
Miss Isabelle Craig of Pulliam vis-
ited friends in Barksdale Tuesday.
Mrs. Stanley Craig of Pulliam is
the guest of her sister Mrs. Louie
Craig of Barksdale this week.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. I’ope and son
Lewis who have been visiting rela-
tives in El Paso and New Mexico the
past two weeks returned home Mon-
day.
Mrs. Russell Hoover of Brackett-
ville is spending the week with her
parents Mr. and Mrs. Gus Haynes.
Mrs. J. M. Blackman and daughter,
Mary, Mr. and Mrs. Luther Brown of
Dry Creek were Barksdale visitors
Saturday.
Pecan gathering is well under way
though most of the big orchards are
not opened enough to harvest yet.
Joe Brown, who has been suffering
with a septic throat is some better.
Miss Myrtle Stevens spent the
week-end in San Antonio. i
Lon Smart, Walter Thurman and
Ellis and child-
in San An-
?*r
tonio Tuesday.
Allen Howerton left Wednesday for
Barksdale, where he will visit his par-
ents for a few days. -S’l ■,
The Texas board of education has
adopted for sixth grade readers this
year a new book by Capt. James B.
Gillett, ranger, pioneer West Texan,
and city marshal in El Paso during the
boom days of the “eighties.”
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Another 30 days and the ,century’s
biggest entertainment venture and the
$20,000,000 World’s Fair becomes just
a job for the second-hand man.
Light rains which fell in Laredo
and surrounding territory Sunday
caused happiness for Bermuda onion
growers. Fall and winter vegetables
planted last week were also benefited
by the rain.
Determined to continue its fight on
the Colorado River Authority, bill un-
less it is “suitably amended’’ the* West
Texas Chamber of Commerce has call-
ed a conference on the bill to meet at
San Angelo at 10:30 a. ni. Oct. 9.
Claiming she bps not slept or par-
taken of any food or water for seven
years, Mrs. Martha Nasch, 44, of St.
Paul, Minn., offered to prove her
provide for feat to anyone or undergo
any tests.
Something like 115,000,000 hogs, cat-
tle, sheep and calves are sluughted in
this country every year to supply less
than 130,000,000 people with meat.
court jury has convicted Dr. John
Neely, Dr. L. A. Bayer and C. L. Jea*
kins ail of Terrell on a charge of con-
spiracy to violate the Harrison anti-
narcitic act. Judge William H. Atwell
immediately started another trial and
said he was not ready to announce
when he would sentence them.
American business which is sup-
posed to be the chief subject of the
NR A and the whole problem of re-
covery, has been given one represen-
tative on the all-important Industrial
Emergency Committee, which is to
eonsist of six members. Not one of
the other five members ever had any
experience as the head of a business
or industry, or the responsibility for
management or financing of enterpris-
es.
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Bill Garrett is
in Uvaide.
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tlatives
Node Fred was a business Visitor in
Kerville Wednesday.
Shoes, Notions and Ladies ready-
to-wear at A. W. Owens.
Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Clark made a
business trip to Welfare, Texas, Wed-
nesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Harve Foley, Miss
Eldora and Lee Barrows spent Sunday
in Junction.
Mrs. D. A. Smith and Mr. j
Floyd Bcnskin spent Sunday
river fishing.
West Virignia’s NKA state enforce-
ment law was held unconstitutional
by Circuit Judge Beno F. Howard,
in an opinion declaring the state has
no valid right to exercise its police
powers to enforce industrial codes.
The dollar gained strength and
stocks and commodities went down
as markets sought to appraise the im-
plications of President Roosevelt's
Sunday address to the nation.
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Jim Sillman of Mar Vesta, Califor-
nia, who is a nephew of J. C. Linn
spent several days of last week visit-
ing relatives here. This being his first
visit in this part of the country for
about eighteen years.
Last year the people of the United
States paid two billion dollars more
for taxes than they did for food, three
times as much for taxes as they paid
for clothes.
Influenced largely by a slump in
Winnipeg prices and weakness in fore-
ign markets, wheat closed a cent low-
er Wednesday, dropping below the
A good many spoiled pelts have
been burned over the country in the
government sheep buying program.
These pelts are burned after the pro-
per certification by county committee-
men.
At the close of business September
22, there had been bought in the Unit-
ed States 188 nannies by the govern-
ment. these purchases having been
made in Nevada.
dollar-a-bushe! mark for the
time in more than two months.
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The biggest collection of goats in
——--- j the state today is owned by W. L.
George* Pepper of Junction has sold ‘ Moody Sr., of .Galveston, who has
700 tailed lambs at $1.50 for 500 and jab nit 20.000 head on his Silver Creek
200 out at $1 to Sam Hoerster of!ra,lch n<ar Brackettville.
Mason.
DR. EARL CHANDLER
DENTIST
Uvalde —::— Rocksprings
In Rocksprings Office Every
THURSDAY—9 a. m. to 4 p. m.
It is reported that the government
will not start its goat-buying program
until the sheep program is well finish-
ed and it is moving along rapidly now.
Jack Turner, president American
Angora Goat Breeder's Association, of
Junction, was a business visitor here
the first of the week.
Mr. and Mrs. Lemmie Fields were
in town Tuesday shopping and at-
attending to business matters.
Commissioners court will be in
sion Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Toin
Mrs. Jack Harris were
tors Thursday.
Ralston and
Del Rio visi-
Ollie Spiva and Miss Millie Deason
spent the week-end in Uvalde as the
guests of Mrs. R. V. Raney.
"Miss Johnnie Johnson and Miss
Lillian Knowles of Roosevelt spent
the week-end visiting Miss Johnson's
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Johnson.
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Garrett spent
a portion of this week in Dallas on
business.
Ted Barrows was a Junction visitor
Monday night.
Sessum Couey made a business trip
to Johnson City Tuesday.
A. M. Overstreet, Perry Mayes.
Brown Epperson and Claude Gilmer
spent a portion of this week fishing
on the Rio Grande.
You Have The
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World By The Tail”
If You Ride On
National Tires
MILLER & CLARK
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Winter is Just Around the Comer
The first “Cold Snap” will remind you of those
“Winter Togs” you put away last spring, includ-
ing your sweater and overcoat.
Why not get those clothes out of the closet
and be prepared for the first cold spell, by hav-
ing them cleaned at the
City Tailors
-ALL WORK GURANTEED-
Miss Maxine Jobes, who had her ton-
sils removed by Dr. A. D. Welch last
week, is doing nicely, and will return
to her home near Segovia the latter
part of this week. She is now at the
home of her brother, Don Jobes.
Miss Audrey Glynn of Carta Valley
and Del Rio Thursday night was aw-
arded the Princess-Strand Theatres’
bank night pot of $125.
Burial rites were held Saturday at
Henderson Branch Cemetery for Jim
W. Dickey, 69, farmer, who died at
his home near Ingram. Ha had lived
in Karr county SI yaart.
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Cmiral Sow mi U*hc Company', fro«t Ottehn
lamp Cuopals*. Boy by
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■mass gust.
Cool Weather Is Coining
Prepare For It Now
First See That Your Chimney and
Stove Flues are Fire-safe
THEN COME TO US FOR WOOD COOK
STOVES, WOOD BURNING HEATERS
AND OIL ROOM HEATERS
STOVE PIPE, ELBOWS, STOVE BOARDS,
STOVE POLISH, ETC.
We have on hand one used Wood
Range in Excellent Condition priced
to move at $25.00
Alamo Lumber Co.
Rodoprings
Your Patronage Solicited!!
Cold drinks, Candy, Gasoline
Fresh groceries and
Ranch Supplies
Carta Valley Mercantile Co.
CARTA VALLEY ' TEXAS
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Pencils, good soft lead, each .............................. 5c
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Loan Company
Livestock Loans
Advances Made on Wool and
Mohair and Consignments
Warehouses:
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