Zavala County Sentinel (Crystal City, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, August 19, 1927 Page: 1 of 8
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avala (Eountp Sentinel
VOL. 16
THE WINTER GARDEN JOURNAL
CRYSTAL CITY. ZAVALA COUNTY. TEXAS, AUGUST 19. 1927
No. t>
DISCUSSION WARNS UP
AT C. OF C. MEETING
Members of the Chamber of Com-
merce got into a heated argument at
the luncheon Wednesday. Several
motions met defeat. The argil miont
came up over a proposition for the lo-
cation for a warehouse for Collins
.Company of San Antonio,
who
contem-
plate opening a wholesale
grocery
house here.
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It has been more or
less
under-
ih 1
stood, it seems, by the
citizens of
Crystal City and the railroad
officials
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that no warehouses would be
allowed
to build north of Dimmit
Avenue un
til all the available space south of
euid avenue was taken. There was
plenty of space for the location of Col-
lins Company below l)immit-Avenue
on the west side <>f tin; railroad but
no space on tlie east side.Kepresenta-
tives of Collins Company, it was said,
had expressed a preference for a lo-
cation on the east side of railroad and
if allowed to build north of Dimmit
Avenue would put up a substantial
fire proof building. Some thought
thut if the Company would build a
creditable building they should be
permitted to locate north of Dimmit
Avenue while others thought that no
buildings should Ik1 allowed north of
said avenue until absolutely necessa-
ry. A motion was made to that ef-
fect but failed to carry. A motion
was then made to raise the restric-
tions and permit warehouses to lie lo-
cated anywhere along the railroad as
long as they complied with the fire or-
dinances. This motion lost. Mr. Pul-
liam then rose to say; "Well Gentle-
men, I favored the motion to not per-
mit, for the present, any building
north of Dimmit Avenue. You de-
feated me. I still believe you have
made a mistake, hut I am with the
majority. 1 now want the next best
thing.” lie then made a motion that
no warehouses t>o permitted north of
Uvalde Street until all space south of
said street on both sides of the rail-
road is taken. This motion carried. I
CRYSTAL CITY SCHOOL
WILL HAVE $27,500
At a meeting held on the 10th the
State Beard of Education decided on
$15 as the state i>er capita school ap-
portionment for next year.
The scholastic census for Crystal
City was 1501, which, at $15 per cap-
ita, would lie $22,515. We ave a 50-
cent local maintainance tax, which, on
the present valuation, will produce ap-
proximately $5,000. This makes a to-
tal of approximately $27,500.
We understand that the budget for
operating the school next session has
lx*en set by the school hoard at $21,000.
If agriculture Is added again next
year, which it seems most people want,
will add $1200 to the budget, making
a total of $22,200. So It looks as tho
there will he plenty of money and to
spare.
More is Itelng done for the Mexican
population this year than ever liefore.
Mr. L. C. Tolliert began the erection
this week of a 24x40 foot building in
Little Mexico to lx; used for school
purixises, and a 20x30 foot school
building to lx* located at River Spur.
This will give three school buildings
for the Mexican children and there
will be four teachers.
Pro8]x;e!s are bright for one of the
best school years in tho history of the.
school. Prof. Fly was here first of
the week and he is enthusiastic over
the outlook. School will open on Wed-
nesday, Sept. 7th, following a two-
days teachers' institute at Batesville.
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CITY I.MRP0VEMENT8
GOING RIGHT ALONG
The work of laying the sewer pi[x'
I is not going as rapidly as the con-
tractor had lio[iod for, being delayed
| by some minor breaks in machinery
j I arts. But the pi[>os for the water
i works enlargement and improvement
I have been placed on the streets where
needed and the well rig has l»cen
! placed for the new well. Actual dril-
OFFICERS MAKE BIG
RAID HERE MONDAY
Early Monday morning Sheriff W.
E. Riggs, Federal Prohibition Agents
L. C. Hall and J. E. Wood, and Cus-
toms insjxH-tors Nat B. Malone, Jack
LOCAL SHIPMENTS TEN
CARS DAILY AVERAGE
Secretary W. A. Butler of the Crys-
tal City Chamlx*r of Commerce has
compiled a list of the car lot slip incuts’
in and out of Crystal City for thej
Wedd and Amado Rodriquez raided! year, from June 15, 11*2(1 to June 15,;
the places of John W. Lowe, John 11927, whch shows the total number of
Davis Lowe and Pogue Lowe which enrloads shipped out to lx- 30K2, or aaj
netted them large quantities of booze, average of more than 10 carloads peri
booze making outfits, stolen property day for each day in the year From
and three men. this number you will note that 3115
It Is reix>rted that Jehu W. Lowe I carloads are actual farm products,
was urrested with 09 pints of lieer, 9 This does not aeeount for all the |
cans of nuilt, 1 bottle capper, 1 hose produce, however, for a very large!
for filling bottles, 1 12-gallon crock of amount goes out by local freight and
beer, 1 12-gallon empty crock, 1 cop- express, besides a great amount by
per coil, 1 gasoline cooker, 1 gasoline motor truck. At times during Hie
tank with copper pita1, 13 1 -gallon j busy season the express shipments will j
jugs, 1 5-gallon jug, 115 pint beer hot- equal a carload |x‘r day.
ties, 3 quart whiskey bottles, 140 pint Mr. Butler also compiled the data
whiskey bottles, 2 5-gallon cans with for the entire Winter Garden District
which you may find elsewhere in this
Issue. From these lists you will note
from the slii{-incuts in tho large num-
ber of ears of building material, farm
machinery, etc. You will note also
the great variety of products shipp'd
from the district. This is interest-
ing and important data.
Shipments Out
Spinach 213s
Onions ........................................ 52s
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lipg will get under way this week. It
is encouraging to see this work going
on.
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Chamber of Commerce meeting, there TALKS ABOUT SNAKE
After all the discussion, the like of
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which no member had ever seen at a I
was a fine spirit.
Scott Pegues made a report of the
meeting of the Winter Garden Cham-
ber of Commerce at La Pryor.
President Bruce Ilolsombnek named
BITES AT ROTARY
tops, 2 50-gallon barrels. Sheriff
Riggs reports that on the following
day he found 9-1 whiskey bottles and
•1 more 5-gallon jugs.
John 1>. Lowe was arrested with a
quantity of home brew beer and ar
tides designed for the manufacture
of liquor, it is said.
Pogue Lowe was arrested and
charged with theft. Of the stolen
property found there was a 3-disc
plow, 1 single row planter, 4 sets | Onion Plants ......................
harness, cultivator, gun, household j Mixed Vegetables ..........
effects and various other items. Many hvppers ........................
of these items have been identified. Beets ...................................
John W. Lowe and John 1>. Lowe Turnips ...............
were taken to Eagle Pass where a j Carrots ....................................
hearing will be heard before the U. Lettuce ....................................
8. Commissioner who will determine | Cabbage ................................
the amount of bond, after which they Mustard .....................
will await the action of the Federal; Green Corn .....................
grand jury. | Cattle .....................-
Pogue Lowe has been placed In jail Wood .................... ...........
at Batesville. His bond has been jc.e ...........................................
fixed at $2500 to njjait tlie action of
the grand jury on charge of theft. j Grand Total
This is one of several raids insti- Shipments In
gated by Sheriff Riggs, lie is slow jq,,ur
about giving out information and so' Sami and Gravel .............
the public knows very little of what j cattle ..................................
he is doing. Sometime ago he umU(-onts .....................................
his deputy Clarence Barnes raided a potatoes
place on the north edge of town, ar-j Lumber and Shingles ........
rested two men and got a lot of booze Crates and Baskets .......
and paraphernalia. These men are
under Ixnul awaiting the action of the
Federal grand jury. Since then Sher-
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Dr. Kay Urban had the program at
the Rotary Club Monday. lie made!1" 11,1,1 dt,‘>uty him‘ “udc. wlh'
a very interesting talk on snake bites.
the chairmen of the various commit- ,\ rattlesnake bite is net so dangerous
tees as follows: I if proper first aid methods are used.
Agriculture and farm labor,W. T. lie called the names of serums that
Gardner.
Entertainment, D. V. Moore.
Highway, R. A. Taylor.
Civic, J. II. Hardy.
Membership, K. W. Alger.
can be secured at the local drug
stores, and used a lot of medical terms
which only a doctor can use. But
his talk was really worth something
er raids, arrested several Mexicans,
captured a still and booze, of which
the public knows very little if any-
thing.
A few months ago when there was
considerable clamor for a deputy (;aSi Lull, mid Fuel Oils
sheriff for Crystal City, Sheriff Riggs! ,sug;ij* and Syrup .......
told us he was working at the job and g<.wer pi[K. ................
Implements ............
Posts.............
Autos
Brick
Canned Go-ds ........
Cement .......................
Wire Nails and Pip' ....
Machinery and Tractors
Lime ...................................
and the Sentinel Is going to try to get h“d “*« e«USi; I**rtllwrs
Finance, J. J. Wninright and W. YV. the doctor to give us an article on lu*’ 11 lo1 lroul)le- "'11 lu UJIllod Roofing
was a little time. He says he knows Ice
a few other things and asks that the Emigrant
Walker.
City business, Robert Nash.
County Business, G. C. Jackson.
Publicity, J. G. Juvenal.
Railroad, F. W. Pulliam.
Several other matters were to come
the subject. The first thing to be
done after a snake bite is to slash the
wound good so it will bleed freely
then put something ou to draw the
poison out. A suction pump is better.
A great deal of time has been given to
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up, hut time Would not permit. All perfecting serums to counteract the
directors are urged to lie present next
Wednesday.
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REJOICING OVER
\ RESULTS OF ELECTION
In a letter from Mr. Price, secreta-
ry of Retail Merchants Association of
Uvalde, he says:
"Suppose that you have learned
that we only had 115 votes aguiiiHt
and 415 for our bonds. We are re-
joicing over the result that means
our city and yours will lx; much clos-
er together. It is the best tiling thut
could possibly have happened to Uval-
de, Uvalde County, and all the sur-
rounding territory, and also all South
Texas, and in a way, a good part of
the United Slates is benefitted. Our
court says they will do their best to
push it along.”
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IMPROVEMENTS AT DEPOT
not played on account of rain. We
Work was begun latter part of last understand a double header Is to be
poison and the percentage of mortal-
ity from snake bites is not so great
now.
The secretary, reports that Carrizo
Springs had not agreed to meet the
local club in the hall game and the
Crystal City Club is claiming the
championship by default.
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CRYSTAL CITY M)SES 2nd
GAME TO CATARINA
The second game of the Crystal
City-Catarlna baseball championship
series was played at Catarina Suuday
afternoon and Catarina again won.
Crystal City was In the lend until the
last half of the 9tli inning. With two
men out and two on bases a Catarina
player knocked a home run and so
won the game. We claim that was
hard luck for the Crystal City team.
The third game of the scries sched-
uled to be played here yesterday was
week on a 20x70 foot shed just north
of the depot. This shed was to lie
used In the handling of express ship-
ments of vegetables and planta. Work
going a%ng rapidly, but the City
work ^topjx'd until
d and the
ordinance
played at Eagle Pass Sunday.
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L. II. Upchurch and two sons have
returned from a two weeks business
trip to Chicago.
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Mr,*, and Mrs. Reuben Evans of
Uvalde w?re Sunday guests of his
citizens back him up.
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LOWE AND SON ARE
ALLOWED BOND HERE
The U. S. Commissioner, J. D.
Plumb, held a hearing yesterday af-
ternoon in the case of J. D. Lowe,
charged with violating the Federal
prohibition law. and allowed bail j ,'^Vaclng of thirty miles of State
the sum of $500. | Hiphwny No. 55 ni Zavala County.
A hearing was held for J. W. Lowe | ^ COUI|tv w,„ squired ,o pay
on a similar charge this morning, and L of (h(i 0X1H>uae._ 8nn Anto-
his bond fixed at $l,00d.
Both cases are returnable to the
Federal court which meets in Del
Grand Total ....................
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ZAVALA HIGHWAY
ALLOTMENT GRANTED
AUSTIN, Tex., Aug. 17—The State
Highway Commission has confirmed
an allotment of $240,000 for grading
Itio in October
The defendants falling to furnish
bond when allowed, were still held in
Jail here when this report was pre-
pared.
Deputy U. S. Marshal Walker came
over from Del Rio and attended both
hearings. Mr. Walker said this hear-
ing would make thirty-four cuses put
under bond for the Federal court
from this city since last term of court.
For the benefit of readers who may
not lie familiar with the conditions, the
explanation is timely thnt the major-
ity of them were brought here from
other towns and counties in the dis-
trict, Uvalde couqty furnishing the
largest share, with Zamla county next
In line.—Wednesday’s Eagle Pass
News Guide.
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Mrs. J. C. Palmer of San Antonio
la the guest of her daughter, lira 8.
imily.
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nlo Express.
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Miss Vera Ioe, a Sunday School j
worker, is In Crystal City this week
conducting a class in Sunday School j
work at the Baptist church. She is|
sent out by the State Sunday School
Board and has been conducting these
classes at a number of places in this
section.
Edward Rosslngton Is Improving
from a spicll of fever.
BUYS INTEREST IN
BIG WEILS BANK
The Garner and Holsomhaek Inter-
ests of Crystal City and l iable have
bought the cot rolling stock in the
First State Bank of Big Wi lls. Bruce
IIi Isombavk. cashier of tlu- local bank,
was In ltlg Wi lls Mi inlay to close tho
deal, lie will have i barge of tho
bank. Lilt will also bine charge of the
Zavalla County- Rank The tuiv pur-
ehasers arc to lake immediate p>s-
session.
The Big Wells bank Ini' lecii a pay-
ing institution for the past several
years, ami undoubtedly it will do a
go. d deal belter under Mr llolsom-
baek's management. Conditions at
Rig Wells are very similar to beat
conditions, with which Mr ll< Isom-
back is familiar, lie i- a progic-sive
young fellow and. while conservative,
lie realizes that if a farmer is to lx-
successful lie must have financial
backing. A bank under the right kind
of management is , tie of the greatest
factors in the development of any
country. The Garner and Holsom-
interests will be in a posilion to !*• of
real sen ice.
This move also demons* rates that
these ix'oplc have faith in the future
of the Winter Garden Di-triit They
are putting their motn y into the de-
vchq incut of the district.
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CAR LOAD SWEET
POTATOES PER URE
Mr. T. C. Bookout was in the Sen-
tinel office a few days ago and in talk-
ing about sweet punters says he has
12 acres and estimating the yield by
what he has already harvested will
pr dime about a carload p’r acre. Mr.
Bookout says he raises a variety of
things to eat and rarely comes to
tuwn without something to sell
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GOOD RAINS YESTERDAY
This section was tisiuxl by good
rains yesterday morning. The pus ip-
itution in Crystal City was p'rhajs
half an inch but much of the sur-
rounding country got lvavy rains. It
will bo worth a great deal to this
sect idl.
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Misses Mildred and \iiiau IWm
and Mrs. Howard liidelsjutelier left
Wednesday to spunl a few days in
San Ynlonio. Mrs. Chits. Carr is tak-
ing Miss Vivian's place in the Ivook-
ktxq ing department at IVgues Mere,
(’o. and Mrs. Little of Uvalde is work-
ing in Miss Mildreds place at May-
hew Lumber Co.
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Dr. Curry of San Antonio is just
completing a beautiful m dent resi-
dence on bis 350 acre farm at New
California. He expats to move his
family here within the next few days
to make their prmanent home.
Mr. and Mrs. S. A Bruner returned
Tuesday from a flip through east Tex-
as. They visited relatives at Camer-
on and Huntsville. They report that
crop conditions in that section are
not very flattering.
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Mr and Mrs C. D. Conley and chil-
dren of Breckenriilgo, Texas, came in
Wednesday for a few days visit with
Mr. Conley's brother, W. J. Conley
and wife.
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Miss Minna King of Atlanta. Ga.,
is here for several weeks visit with
Mrs. T YV Shetie. Mr and Mr*.
Sheue mat her In Uvalde Tuesday.
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Mr and Mrs. Geo. W. I-ove and fam-
ily of IV1 Rio were here last Thurs-
day vsiting Mrs. J. E. I’egiies and
children.
E. B. Taylor made a business trip to
La Pryor Tuesday.
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Mr. nud Mrs. C. C. Cowan spent tho
first pnrt of the week In San Antonio.
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Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Jones and chil-
dren are visiting relatives at Sablnal.
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Mr. WL R. Parsons and daughter,La-
niee, were In Uvalde Tuesday.
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Miss Rurafleld of Dilley la visiting
her sister, Mrs. Norman Gates.
Mrs. S. B Crump of Uvalde was
here first of the week visiting her
daughter, Mrs. Vinton Ttner. and
looking after her farming Interests.
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Sheriff and Mra. W. B. Riggs,
children of Batesville visited
here first of the week.
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Popular.
•'YVhut Td like." said Unde
••Is one o' dew Jobs where It 'pears
tike a man don’ have much to do ’csff
git hth picture took."- Washington
Star.
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Hardy, J. H. Zavala County Sentinel (Crystal City, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, August 19, 1927, newspaper, August 19, 1927; Crystal City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1115589/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .