The Rocksprings Record and Edwards County Leader (Rocksprings, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, August 16, 1929 Page: 1 of 8
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ROCKSPRINGS, TEXAS, FRIDAY, AUGUST, 16th 1929
High
ie Is Surveyed
Central Power 8z Light Com
finished its survey for a
Rocksprings Had
Only 8 In Camp
On our visit to Camp Fawcett on
the Nueces last Sunday were were sur-
from Rocksprings to the I prised to learn that Rocksprings had
t Station on the line of! the smallest delegation of Scouts in
and Sutton counties, and en-
are now in the Nueces Can-
working on a right-of-way from
city to Uvalde.
Announcement Jus been made that
actual construction will start on
66,000 volt transmission line with
days, and it is said by officials
Central Power & Light Com-
tbat this line, when completed,
join together a loop line some-
over 2000 miles, and will be
ngest loop transmission electric
jlme in the United States.
the completion of this line,
is expected in the next three
months, then the Central Po-
. Light .Company will do away
verai local- plants over this see-
the state, and draw its power
from the 66,000 volt circuit.
at Crystal City, Camp
ocksprings will be done
and we understand that
plant will take the
the present power plant at
and possibly a Urge ice
be put in operation at Camp
ice will be manufactured
scale, and shipped to im-
Officials of Wool Cooperatives Will
Meet With Federal Farm Board in
Chicago Early In October.
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under actual release
will tie in wi,th the
at Sonora,
Power & L ght
e at Uval-
this company a 66,-
line through the foliow-
it will get its energy
Antonio, Del R o, the
n«d on pog, two)
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attendance of any town in this area.
We had hoped that Rocksprings
would head the list at this camp, if
for no other reason, than that the peo-
ple of Edwards county were respon-
sible for this permanent campsite,
which was procured through the Ed-
wards County Chamber of Com-
merce, with V.* A. Brown as chairman
of the committee having the matter in
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This is a training for the youth
that we should all enter into with
that spirit that becomes us in finish-
ing our boys and girls in matters that
will remain with them and form a
composite part in their future educa-
tion, and cause them to better appre-
ciate the worthy things that come to
them through a training of this kind.
This Boy and Girl Scout movement
is one of the greatest blessing that
come into the boys’ and girls’ lives,
and we feel that Scouting is having a
great influence in the forming of bet-
ter citizens of this nation, who are
being broadened in their general con-
ception of life through its influence,*
and feel that the parents of children
living only a short distance from the
camp are making a mistake in. not
sending them there for . this ten-day
period of recreational instructive
work.
Old Residents
Visit Edwards
Washington. August 12.—Officials
of all wool cooperative marketing as-
sociations will meet with the Federal
Farm Board in Chicago early in Oct-
ober to form a National cooperative
sales agency and an advisory council
for the commodity.
This plan was announced by the
board after several conferences with
officials of the National Wool Market-
ing Council and other wool marketing
associations which had asked the
board for the immediate selection of a
commodity advisory council and for
financial aid from the farm relief re-
volving fund.
The decision of the board to with-
hold funds for the time being from
the wool marketing association was in
keeping with its policy to bring about
as targe an amalgamation of the mar-
keting concerns of each major com-
modity as possible. A statement by
the board declared that “it is appar-
ent that one of the major problems
confronting the wool associations is a
need for the coordination of their
selling efforts.”
The board’s conferences with the
wool officials developed that of this
year’s. 300,000,000-pound clip of wool,
approximately 20,000,000 pounds will
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the age of children
Our school is
at this time that
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are beconxmjpgO
feels that it is neces-
t interests -of. all, to
that will conform with
of the state. ‘
may enter kindtr-
will be six years old
January X, 1930. They
first gfade if they will
or before January 1st,
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A Visitor Here
Mr. and Mrs. O. F. Lindsey of Gal-
veston, were visitors to Rocksprings
an<f Edwards county the first of last
week, and while here enjoyed the
cenes of yesteryear, when Mr. Lind-
sey ranched in this section of the
the Wbitfcenhurg and Davis |4G5
t we-^fHavBean ranch
'JSL L905, and later on "he sold his inter-
s county and entered
the U. S. Immigration Service and
Department of Labor at Del Rio,
where he Served until October, 1922,
when he was transferred to Galveston.
Mr. Lindsey is now, Inspector In
Chargfc oJ the local immigration of-
fice at Galveston, and was in Ed-
wards county on his annual vacation,
shaking hands with his many friends
and enjoying the beauties of nature
atfff climatic conditions here that can-
not be excelled anywhere.
Lewis of Fort Worth,
daughter*, are spending sev-
here, being the house guests
Lewis’ daughter, Mrs. Frank
was .a teacher in the
wove around her at
hip coming from the
pupils of our school that
never erase. , |
. Lewis is agreeably surprised at
atui permanent growth of
and tells us that she
thm is jno place just
wards ccmnty, and has a con-
to return to our city to
Edwards
Ranchman Here
last Tuesday Rocksprings citi-
again greeting one of Ed-
f% former ranchmen, when
a visit from Ed H. Hern,
Aftgslo, who, accompani-
Her, Mrs. Powell, also
and sister and brother
t o. w. Hall of
be handled by members of the Na-
tional Wool Marketing Council; 7,-
000,000 pounds by cooperatives who
are not members of the council; 35,-
000,000 pounds by farmer-owned ware-
house companies of Texas, California
and New Mexico, and 5,000,000
pounds by local cooperative pools in
western states.
The board said that this total of
nearly 70,000,000 pounds or 25 per
cent of the nation’s entire wool clip,
represents “actual or potential wool”
which might be handled by a National
cooperative marketing corporation.
The selection of an advisory coun-
cil for wool is considered possible
by the board because of the superior
“65 and 75 Cents”
Says Bob Davis
Bob Davis, goatman of Rio Frio,
thinks that mohair should bring 65
and 75 cents a pound this fall. ______________
I’m going to cut my production j loans to parties wishing to build li
Home Bu2<
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J. H. Boyce, who repr
& Hardy, home builders of
tonio announces that he is
down one-third and all the rest should
do the same," he says, declaring that
the tariff restrictions aren’t sufficient
to keep out inferior articles that com-
pete with mohair and result in the
manufacture of a product inferior to
mohair. Davis has 2,000 goat now but
is to cut down to IjDOO.
“I have been running goats strictly
but lam going to make them a side-
line and make farming ray principal
occupation. I will have some chickens
hogs and cattle. There is more money
in hogs at $12 than there is in goats.
“What should happen to the goat
industry is to get rid of ail the mut-
tons. Why some of these mutton men
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organization methods which have been hold their muttons until there is just
developed among the wool coopera-
tives. The commodity advisory coun-
cils are authorized under the Farm
Relief act and their function is in-
tended to be that of generally super-
vising the production* and marketing
of the crops for which they are ap-
pointed.
By agreeing to the formation of a
large National marketing corporation
for wool, the board would bring its
cooperative marketing program to the
third crop.
Commissioners’ Court In Regular
Session Last Monday, August 12th
Senate Forces
Slash Tariff
The commisioners’ court met in re-
gular session Monday, August 11, with
all commissioners present.
Order was passed changing the
boundary lines of voting precincts
Nos. 1 and 2, by taking a strip from
2 and adding the same to 1.
Order was passed, allowing salar-
ies of county officials for the past
quarter, as follows: County Judge,
Clerk,
er of Finance Ledger, $25.
Order wti passed, approving * two
separate reports of Justice of the Peace
A. P. Allison, for money collected.
Returns of Special Election held
July 27, were duly approved.
The commissioners passed an order
allowing Hon. Coke R. Stevenson $100
as lattorney’s fees in the case of Ash- . , ..
,, n wool to compensate for the higher raw
burn Bros, vs Edwards county. Case ____,
continued, and will be tried at the
special session of the District Court,
October 7th, 1929.
Washington.—Further slashes in
the duties proposed in the house tar-
iff bill have been approved by the
Senate Finance Committee, republi-
cans. One would restore the levy on
raw^wooii M Mkm gnmting-rate oi
31 cents a pound. The bill increased'
this to 34 cents.
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The revisers virtually completed
work on rates proposed in the bill on
manufactured wool of all kinds, but
if any changes were voted upon, they
were not announced. The measure as
it passed the House provided higher
duties all along the line of processed
a little fuzz on them. There are some
10 and 12 year old muttons in the
country. They ought to ship these old
muttons to old Mexico.
“I have been in the goat business
since 1892 and I see now more clearly
than ever that the goatmen must or-
ganize if they are to get anywhere. If
we don’t the buyers will continue to
skin us.
“As far as the Frio canyon is con-
cerned where most of the goatmen
are small operators, the goatmen can
borrow money to operate on without
giving a mortgage and there is noth-
ing in their way to prevent their be-
coming members of cooperative con-
cerns.”
Mr. Davis is a former member of
the registry society of goatmen.—-San
Angelo Times.
in Rocksprings, and'
own lots, for a small cash
tion, and the balance can be
by the month at the rate of
month on each $1,000 borrowed.
We have needed something like ^
this in Rockspringk for years, on ac-
count of the shortage m
property, and a company
money to build homes/
rower owns his lob will
to own their homes- at
they are paying rent.
Mr. Boyce announces
made loans for the
a modern home itt the
tion to Joe Ragsdale,
dence will contain four
bath, and J. A. Clark
home through his firm I
five rooms and bath,
out. This home will also be
Lockley addition.
City Installs
New
Big Bond Issue
Short
wool rate.
Very Fine Fruit
Is Raised Here
Max Strackbein, living just outside
the city limits, on Highway 55, rais-
es some of the finest apples and pea-
ches that 'one can find in the state,
and this year his fruit crop was a lit-
tle above the average in productiven-
ess and the apples and peaches were
of exceptional flavor.
Orchards are becoming more num-
Public School some six erous in this county, and we predict
before many years have passed that’
the ranchmen of this section, with but
;'ew exceptions, will have ample fruit
to not only meet their needs each
year, but will have much that will
rind its way to market.
Peaches in this section taste like
“peaches," and the same can 'be said
of apricots, pears and apples, while
no section can boast of finer grapes
than those raised in Edwards coun-
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10 SEATTLE BANKS FORM
MERGER OP $119,025,542
had been attending a
at New Braunfels, and
resist the magnet that drew
to the Hill Country, and
pleasant hours among
and acquaintances at this
Hern ranched in Edwards
and
in-
Seattle.—Formal announcement of
the merger of 10 Seattle banks, creat-
ng the largest bank in the Pacific
Northwest, and having total resources
of $119,025,542, was made here Satur-
day,
The merger was completed when the
boards of the three major institutions
involved approved the organization
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The new bank will be known as the
First Seattle Dexter Horton National
Bank. W. H. Parsons, president of
the Dexter Horton bank, was an-
nounced as chairman of the board of
the merged institutions. Other officers
are J. D, Hodge, J. A. Swalwell, vice
president; J. W. Spangler, chairman
the executive committee, and H. C.
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Governor Moody
Whittles Expenses
Austin, Aug. 10.— Whittling $3,-
016,401 from the major appropriation
bills left with him by the third session
of the 41st legislature, Governor Dan
Moody reduced the aggregate total
to $44,776,935, including $5,000,000 for
rural aid.
The appropriations for the two years
beginning September 1, are slightly
k>wcr than the amount voted to sup-
port the govenment for the two years
drawing to a close.
The education bill received the sharp-
est cut. $1,505,337. Eliminations from
the other measures included:
Departmental, $468,083; eleemosy-
nary, $593,940; claims and accounts,
$304,301, and judiciary, $144,740.
Governor Moody estimated the ad
valorem tax levy could not be set
lower than 30 cents by the state auto-
matic tax board. The rate for
the last year was 22 cents.
Governor Moody said is was pro-
bable the rate could be reduced the
second year of the biennium, since the
bulk of the expenditures would be
mpde the first year.
The governor found most of hi*
whittlings in new buildings which the
legislature voted to schools and col-
lege. He did not overlook any depart-
ment of state.
RANCH WOMAN ORDERS ICE
SENT BY AIRPLANE
Old Hoss Sale
Nets Big Return
Ola, Ark., August 12.—Cheetel Law,
who lives near Kingston, took a
chance Saturday. He purchased for
$50' three boxes sold for storage
charges by the Pacific Express Com-
pany at Plainview.
Today Law has $9,800 worth of
bonds, stocks and notes which are con-
vertible. He also has scores of valu-
able trinkets, rings, bracelets, some
diamonds, amethysts, turquoise, ca-
meos and minerals of varying value.
Two of the boxes had been left at
the express office 15 years ago by
Charles Baker, a mining engineer.
Baker left instructions with the agent
to have the boxes shipped when he
gave instructions. He never was heard
from again. Little was known of him
except that his wife and child were
dead.
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State of Health
Excellent Here
Dr. J. E. Rogers, assisted by S. S.
Stewart, has made an exhaustive sur-
vey of the sanitary conditions of our
city, and reports that every pool of
water, leaky water mains and pipes
have been looked into carefully, and
that the city is practically free from
! conditions that attract the breeding of
mosquitoes
Dr. Rogers tells us that general heal-
the conditions are better in Rock-
springs now, than at any time in the
history of the city. Not a case of
contageous disease has appeared here
this year, and we are free from any
At Tuesday’s mass meeting in Lea-
bond issue to the voters of- Real coun-
ty, it was decided to send a commit-
tee of representative citizens from this
county to Austin to confer with the
state highway commission on mat-
ters relating to highway designation,
and maintenance, at an early date.
It is planned to ask for an election
soon in behalf a $228,000 road bond
issue.
The proposed bond issue assures a
first-class highway from Rio Frio,
thru Leakey, intersecting the Kerr-
ville-Rocksprings highway, and from
Camp Wood to Leakey. The sum of
$4,000 per mile to be expended on the
Frio canyon road, and $6,000 per mile
on Camp W’ood-Leakey road. To
which will be supplemented state aid,
if designation be secured.
Considerable enthusiasm $ being
manifested in behalf of the proposi-
tion.
Comp Wood representatives at the
meeting were: J. W. XJildart, C. R.
Priddy, A. W. Hunter, R. T. Walker
and Ralph Stewart,—Camp Wood
Crony.
Jy Rohr & Family
Move to Uvalde
Jy Rohr, on his return from a visit
to Missouri points, was denied the
privilege of enjoying the excellent cli-
matic conditions of Rocksprings, and
more especially the wonderfully cool
nights, but immediately moved with
his family to Uvalde, where he has
accepted a position with the Ray Mo-
tor Co., Chevrolet dealers at that
point.
Mr. Rohr recently sold his interests
in the Divide Chevrolet Co., Inc. of
this city 4o R. C. Henderson.
We are indeed sorry to lose Mr.
Rohr and his most excellent family
•as residents of Rocksprings, yet we
rejoice with his many friends to kftow
that he has secured a more lucrative
position in Uvalde, and we most
heartily recommend he and his fami-
ly to the good people of our neigh-
bor city.
The city is it
pipe in their big
mediately replace
a larger one, which
larger cylinder, in,
ter supply may be
We are informed
000 gallons of
by the consumers
day, and the
ed as the cons
getting heavier ea
The city aut
plimented in
service here, and
improvements not only
but in the mains over
no town can
boast of a
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Several
west are still
of wool, while
same under
warehouses, and
cases the price
ty was far below
pool and Brad for
fleet, if the tariff
the matter.
Only last week
Wool Commission
holdings of
8-months wool to
Sons of Phi
that 27 1-4 cents
ceived for this
Child
Dalhart, Tex., August 12.—The
west is airir.inded. Mrs. Ted Hough-
ton, wife of the foreman of a large
ranch in the Texas Panhandle, com- typhoid or other dangerous fevers, and
plained Sunday because she needed
ice to prepare a dessert for dinner.
Jinimv Shelton, one of the owners
of the ranch, stepped to a telephone
and called an Amarillo aviator. In
lees than an hour a plane landed at
he ranch with Mrs. Houghton’s Ice.
tells that during his years of practice
here, there was never a time when the
conditions over the county were in
better shape as- regards sanitation,
which is in a great measure respon-
sible for the excellent health chart
that Edwards county enjoys today.
Let’s get down to “brass tacks”
wool and mohair growers: Every item
of news coming out of Washington
at this' time touching the stabilizing
of marketing conditions, hinges itself
to the necessity of cooperation of
warehouse interests, as hat been print-
ed repeatedly in the Record for J
past few months. * This’ sort of th
will have to ,come, or else we
not look for' any rafief
national government. “Facts ic facts.”
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The two-year old
Mrs. Buck Thurman,
on Bullhead, was
U« Monday, and
called, and he immed:
dog’s head to the
at 'Austin, and
from there T
information that
eloped the fact that
drophobia.
Mr. and Mrs.
the home of
Mrs. W. A.
ing late, and
tely left for
will be treated for i
Joseph
We call at
spread in this
cord, which
of tha me
Joseph & Bus well *
This sak will continue
of twelve days,
31st, and you will find
in this announcement
you to take advantage of a
when the stocks are
plate in evoey da
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Hutt, J. W. The Rocksprings Record and Edwards County Leader (Rocksprings, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, August 16, 1929, newspaper, August 16, 1929; Rocksprings, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1096989/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1&rotate=90: accessed June 29, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .