The Mullin Enterprise. (Mullin, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 27, 1932 Page: 1 of 4
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The Mullin Enterprise.
VOLUME 30, NUMBER 33.
MULLIN, .MILLS COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1932.
R. H. PATTERSON, Publish*
• PRESS MENTION OP *
• PEOPLE YOU KNOW *
See the Enterprise special
rate adveVtisement in this pap-
ier, One year for one dollar.
W. B. Black of Pompey made
Mullin a visit Monday.
Mrs. J. W. Ratliff visited her
son, Vann Ratliff, of Duren
Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Willis of
Comanche spent the week end
with.Mr. and Mrs. M. S. Savoy.
Miss Nell McFarland spent
the week end with friends in
Temple.
Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Guthrie and
Miss Arlene Herrington visited
in Star recently.
W. L. Wigley, J. N. Crockett
and Roy Crockett were guests
of Mr. and Mrs. John Guthrie
Sunday.
A. E. Hancock has leased his
farm to Nathaniel King and
Mr. Hancock and family ex-
pect to move to Mullin.
Mr. and Mrs. John Carlisle
and Mrs. Tom Mosier visited
Ms*, and Mrs. G. W. Absher the
first of the week.
A snappy line of ladies ready-
to-wear—$3.95, $4.95, $9.95. See
them at Mrs. J. W. Wooten’s—
Mullin Dry Goods Store.
Bradley Guthrie left this
week for StaS*, where he has
been employed as a member of
the school faculty for the year.
Lafayette Smith and wife and
Mrs. M. R. Wylie spent Sunday
visiting their sister, Mrs. Claud
Lee of San Angelo.
Mines. W. L. Clark and J. H.
Brown of Brownwood visited
their motheS*, Mrs. J. N. Crock-
ett, and Mrs. F. A.Leinneweber.
B. F. Romans and family
spent Sunday visiting his daugh
ter, Mrs. Thurman Hicks, of
Stephenville.
Mr. and Mrs. Ford Leinne-
weber and Mr. and Mrs. W. L.
Baker visited friends at Rick-
ev Sunday.
Mrs. Mary Campbell and Miss
Verna Lee Barker returned
home Monday from a visit to
relatives in San Saba.
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Tatum of
Comanche were guests of Dr.
and Mrs. J. L. HeiVington, Sun-
day.
Messrs, and Mines. R. II.
Young, W.W. Perkins and Fred
Perkins spent Sunday with Mr.
and Mrs. Chas. Hodges.
Mr. and Mrs. W. IT. Wasser-
man, Norma Lee and Anna Bell
Wasserman were Brownwood
visitors Saturday.
Mrs. J. M. Gandy, Mrs. Albert
Cox, Mrs. Will Cox and Miss
A'a da Shelton visited in Brown-
wood Friday.
Mrs. Mary Braddoek of
Zephyr has been visiting with
Mrs. E.J.King and other Friends .
of Mullin this week.
Uncle Avc Williams of the
Chesser Valley community was
transacting business in Mullin
Monday and meeting old time
friends again.
Leyerett Henry has returned
from Corsicana and other points
in East Texas, but found noth-
ing that looked as good to him
as Mills county
W. II. Wassevman and Clyde
Hodges accompanied Wiley
Hodges to Santa Anna recent -
and he will go through the clin-
ic there, as he has been in ill
health for quite awhile.
Maxwell Kirkpatrick came in
Saturday from Abilene. He ex-
pects to make his home here an-
other ye&V with his grandmoth-
er, Mrs. M. C. Kirkpatrick, and
look after her farming inter-
ests for her.
J. Waggoner has been Veal
sick during the week. His son,
Jerry Waggoner, and wife of
Hamilton Have been with him
for several days. We arc glad to
report the old gentleman is re-
covering and we hope will soon
be up again.
PROMINENT LADY
• SUCCUMBS IN
GOLDTHW AITE
Mrs. D. If. Trent died Mon-
day afternoon,after a few weeks
illness.
Miss Ellen Campbell and the
late D. H. Trent were married
about fifty years ago and re-
sided at Williams Ranch for a
number of years, later moving
to Goldthwaite.
Mrs. Trent was a consistent
Christian, a devoted mother and
good neighbor.
She has many old friends here
who we\*e neighbors to her in
the early pioneer days at Wil-
liams Ranch, who will regret to
hear of her passing away.
Mrs. Trent is survived by
three children: Mrs. Sam Sulli-
van, and D. A. Trent of Gold-
thwaite, and Howard Trent of
Los Angeles, Cal. Two grand-
daughters,- Mary Ellen and
Constance Trent, and a grind-
son. Interment was at the I.O.
0. F. cemetery in Goldthwaite
Wednesday afternoon.
APPRECIATE THE SEASONS
October has been a rich month
and very generous with pretty
and glorious days of sunshine.
Tuesday though brought- a
complete change. Clouds, rain
and a cool north wind to whis-
tle around the house and to
nip the fresh tomatoes and' other
vegetation.
A hint to the ivise is sufficient
to send the busy housewives
digging among moth balls for
last winter’s clothes.
The long summer season gave
the eyes a rest, for the old
clothes look better and feel so
much better than was' expected
on the warm sultry days they
were packed away last spring.
Thanks to the seasons in the
year.
THE REAL JOHN GARNER
When John Garner stepped to
the microphone. Friday night in
New York, he laid aside the
mannerisms of a cowpen Coo-
1 idge and rodeo gladhancler of
the common peepul which, fer
some reason, he has worn since
the nomination at Chicago, and
rose to the dignity of the na-
tional figure. This he is by
right of his experience, service
and innate ability. His dissec-
tion of the spoken record of
Herbert Hoover was- as merci-
less as Jim Reed’s, but it was
without the Jim Reed vieious-
ness. It was as telling as Roose-
velt’s celebrated Alice in Blun-
derland addvess, but he spoke
noi' out of a book, but out of his
own life in committee room and
Speaker’s chair. He himself has
been a part of the res gestae.
No man can read the Garner
speech, with its samples of Hoo-
verian deliverances laid side by
side, as cotton classers lay sam-
ples of staple side by side for
comparison and appraisal, with-
out being convinced that for at
least half the time during his
administration Presided Hoo-
ver has not known what it is all
about. The samples are so at va-
riance, one with another, that
he couldn’t have known. IFi be-
havior has been much iik?, that
or a stout-hearted man caught
m a shower of bricks from a
faking wall.
Whether Franklin Roosevelt
cr John Garner or any other
man living would have done
better /is open to debate, of
course, if anybody wishes to
argue. But it is quite absurd to
picture the president as cue pro-
foundly wise and valiantly
striding over Democratic op-
position to save the country.
That absurdity was never so
plain as in the plain talk of this
plain man who was right there
during the. entire period of ad-
ministrative perplexity and in-
decision. The speech gves us a
glimpse of the nightmore which
the campaign would have been
to Hoover had Garner headed
the ticket instead of Roosevelt.
It must be bad enough as it is—
Dallas News.
THRESHING and GRINDING
I will thresh all kinds of grain
Friday and Saturday, Oct. 28
and 29. Will also grind all kinds
of feed.—B. F. RENFRO, Mul-
lin, Texas.
TERRACING
What 12 years of terracing
farm lands has meant in dollars
and cents to Goldthwaite was
feautred in a short tour of local
business men to nearby farms
last Tuesday morning, when it
was revealed that $600,000 has
been added to farm income in
Mills county from increased rev-
enue due to terraces on more
than 50,000 acres protected in
that period. “This estimate,”
said Mr. W. P. Weaver, county
agent, “is just one half what
farmers themselves declare the
yearly increased yields to be. At
the present time, with depressed
farm values, terraces on 600 Mills
county farms are adding more
than $100,000 yearly to the net
farm revenue of the county.”
Mills county ranks among the
high 11 counties in Texas in per-
centage of tillable crop lands
terraced, T. B. Wood, district
agent in the A. & M. College Ex-
tension Service, told the group.
The other counties which have
terraced or contoured half or
more of their crop, lands are An-
gelina, Bowie, Garza., Haskell,
Madison, Montague, Nolan, Run-
nels, Schleicher and Smith, he
stated.
Pointing out that the U. S.
Bureau of Chemistry and Soils
has found that 21 times as much
plant food is lost, by erosion as
is used up by growing crops each
year in the United States, A. K.
(Dad) Short of the Federal Land
Bank in Houston said that dur-
ing the last five years Texas has
protected farm land at a more
rapid rate than any other state
or nation has ever done in a sim-
ilar length of time in history.
F. P. Bowman, secretary of the
local Star National Farm Loan
Association,stated that about one
half the members of his organi-
zation had terraced their lands,
and that only one man who has
v/orked with the county agent
has had difficulty in making his
annual payment this year.
Farms visited on the tour in-
cluded those of Luther- Soules
and Joe Richey near Gold-
thwaite, R. C. Petty of Lake
Merritt’and J. A. and J. F. "Wil-
li? ms of Mullin. Mr. Petty de-
clared that his terraces a r e
worth the full value of the land
because in 11 years they have
saved his farm. Fie has every-
thing except three acres under
terrace.
On the Joe Richey farm a con-
vincing contrast between ter-
raced and unterraced land was
observed by the touring party.
The upper part of a field under
terrace was in excellent condi-
tion, while the unterraced land
below was far gone from sheet
washing and gullies. Records of
yields on these plots since 1925
show the terraced land to have
been from two to three times
greater each y'ear in yield than
the unterraced land below.
Mr. Weaver recalled that for
the first four years he was coun-
ty agent in Mills county, he had
a struggle to convince farmers
that crooked rows pay. Only 69
farms were protected in that
time, but from that time- on the
demand for terracing has stead-
ily increased from year to year.
This has been especially true, he
said, since 1923, when terracing
schools were organized to train -
farmers*to run lines for them-
selves. In addition to getting
terraces built on 600 out of the
1484 farms in the county, Mr.
Weaver has returned to run more
lines on 237 of these same farms.
There are 50 men and bos's cap-
able of running terrace lines be-
cause of their training in ter-
racing schools in the county, he
stated, and there are 12 organ-
ized groups of farmers in the
county, who own farm levels co-
operatively.
Accompanying the group was
W. H. Darrow, editor of the Ex-
tension Service of Texas A. & M.
College, who was present to get
farm pictures and stories of ter-
racing for magazines. Among the
local citizens on the trip were
County Judge Roy Simpson,
Judge L. E. Patterson, R. E.
Clements, Foster Brim, E. T.
Fairman, Sam Caraway, W. P.
McCullough, Frank McDermott,
W. J. Weatherby, R. L. Steen, C.
D. Bledsoe and F. P. Bowman.
BOY HURT
Rector Schultz, young son of
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Schultz of
Prairie, was severely hurt at his
home Friday, "when he fell while
playing on a tractor. A physi-
cian ivas summoned from Mul-
lin and the lad was carried to
a Brownwood sanitarium for
examination and treatment. We
are pleased to report that he is
how doing nicely.
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TALKING TURKEY
The poultry men of the state
are talking turkey now and say
the King of Birds will opfen the
market NovembcV 1 at prob-
ably ten cents, some cheaper
than last year. A larger crop of
turkeys are estimated and then
all other meat is selling at a
lower prices this year than last.
A few of the northwestern
states are attempting to vaise
more turkeys this year. How-
ever, this section of the state
is ideal for urkey raising and
can easily compete with others,
for Nature has given this sec-
tion the climate in which a tur-
key thrives best. And the peo-
ple here are awake to the fact
and the fine tuykey crop is the
proof.
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WOMAN THREATENS
TO “HAUNT” CHINESE
AND SO SHE IS FREED
Playing* on Oriental supersti-
tions, Mrs. Muriel Pawley, 18-
.year old Englishwoman held by
Chinese, bandits in Manchuvia,
induced her captors to accept a
reduced ransom for her release,
according to news dispatches.
Negotiations for release of
Mrs. Pawley and Charles Cork-
ran, another British subject
held with her, took a new and
hopeful turn when Pei Pa-Tien,
leader of the kidnaping band,
backed down on his original
demands when Mrs. Pawley
warned him her spirit would re-
tuVn and haunt him if he put
her to death.
With a fluent command of the
Chinese language. Mrs. Pawley,
envisaged the horrors that
would be visited upon Pei Pa-
Tien if he killed her. Among
other things, she told him, she
would transform his forefath-
ers into turtles. For a China-
man, no punishment could be
greater.
“Our lives are worthless,”
she told him, “but our spirits
would be powerful.”
Mrs. Pawley and Corkran
were riding on the old New-
chwang race course, 100 miles
southwest of Mukden.
The eviginal ransom demand-
ed was $350,000, 100,000 rifles,
10,000 rounds of rifle'ammuni-
tion, 120 long-range pistols, two
heavy machine guns, 5 0 0 0
rounds of pistol ammunition,
100 gold rings, 30 gold wrist
watches and five bolts of black
satin.
MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Cheesecloth is being utilized
by Rochester, N. Y., florists in
an attempt to foster e a r ! y
blooming of chrysanthemums
The annual election of officers
was held Monday a-t the regu-
lar business meeting. The. fol-
lowing officers were elected:
Mrs. R. II. Patterson, president;.
Mvs. M. C. Kirkpatrick, first
vice president; Mrs..E. P.Smith,
second, vice president; Mrs.R.H.
Jones, recording secretary and
superintendent of social rela-
tions; Mrs. G. M. Flctchev, cor-
responding secretary and tocal
treasurer; Mrs. J. D. Ramsey,
superintendent of study; Mrs.
M. C. Kirkpatrick, conference
treasure. REPORTER
REMARKABLE REMARKS
“Sin may be looked upon in
two respects. It is first an at-
tribute and second a relation-
ship. Sin has to do with our na-
tures and sin has to do with our
relationships to God.”—Dr.R.F.
Gribble, professor in Austin
Presbyterian Theological semi-
nary.
“There isn’t a (boxing)
champion of any weight in the
country now who is really a
fighter. . . . Weight does not
count so much. It is the fighter
that the man is. And only work
will make a fighter.”—Jim Jef-
fries,former heavyweight cham-
pion.
PROGRAM
Subect: Our Obligation to Be
Intelligent.
Leader—(Carrie Kirkpatrick.
Song No. 120.
Scripture: Prov. 13:1-4.
Prayer—Leader.
Song No. 30.
The L nip In Our Hand—Annie
Lee Hancock.
An Example or Two — Lillian
Doris Fletcher.
Song—Miss Nelson.
He Who Runs May Read—M. E.
Williams.
A Number of Things—Coot Kit-
tle.
A New Intelligence Test—Hoyt
Williams.
Song—Selected.
League Benediction.
HEALTH NURSE HERE
Miss Beatrice Lott, state
nurse, was here Monday look-
ing after the health, of Mullin
school children. In the after-
noon 90 children were immun-
ized against diphtheria. Doctors
R. H. Jones and J. L. Herring-
ton administered the s wum.
Miss Lott has been in the
county for some time and ex-
pects to be in the county for
about a month, visiting the va-
rious schools, examining and re-
porting any physical defects she
may find in the children.
OAR ACCIDENT
Last Friday afternoon Miss
Opal Hamilton happened to .an
accident that came near being
very serious, when her car over-
turned in front of J. H. Ran-
dolph’s Lumber Co.
The young lady had started
to drive out of town, wiun she
met a wagon turning to the
right and another car coming
from the lumber office drove in
ahead of her. She steered her
car to the left to avoid hitting
this car. She either lost control
or the steering wheel locked on
her, which resulted in two blow-
outs and then the car turned on
its side and stopped. Those in
the car were the driver, Juan-
elle Burkett, Jake Burkett and
Loraine Hart, all school chil-
dren.
IT. S. 'CHAMBER HITS -
GOVT. IN BUSINESS
A sharp attack on govern-
ment competition in business is
contained in a report of a spe-
cial committee of the . United.
States chamber of commerce
made public recently by the
chamber’s board of directors.
“The government’s opera-
tions,” says the report, “can be
and are carried on without re-
gard to the elements of profit
or loss, which are unavoidable
factors'in private business. The
government, can and does, fur-
nish the funds which are em-
ployed largely from taxation,
without requiring or expecting
payment of interest, let alone
dividends, out of business. Pub-
lic property used by the govern-
ment in business, is free from
any burden of federal taxation
and is removed from taxation
by the state, county and town
in which it is situated. Allow-
ances for depreciation are usu-
ally disregarded.
“It is obvious, therefore.” the
committee goes on, “that in
any field of business in which
the government chooses to, en-
ter, private business will* be
proportionately eliminated —
not by reason of the relative
merits of the two forms, hut be-
cause of the unfair advantages
received by the former. In
principle, unless our people are
prepared in a given field, be it
broad or, narrow, to have the
government do all the business,
they should not permit the gov-
ernment to enter that field at
all, except in the case of na-
tional emergency and then for
the duration of the emergency.”
In brief, the eommitte recom-
mends specifically that the fed-
eral government should not en-
gage in any form of business or
service except for purposes lim-
ited to those clearly necessary
in the proper administration of
governmental functions which
are pursuant to the provisions
of the constitution. Further,the
government should not manu-
facture for its own use any arti-
cles which private enterprise is
Mr. and Mrs. Homer Lock-
ridge of Comanche spent Sat-
urday with M^ Lockridge’s
mother here and Sunday with
Mrs. Lockridge’s parents, Mr.
and Mrs. C. R. Willis of Prairie.
We are happy to receive frdm
Jeff Johnson of Eldorado, Tex-
as, a letter of commendation
for the Enterprise. Mr. Johnson
was once a citizen of this sec-
tion and his friends here
are always glad to hear from
him.
Rev. J. D. Ramsey left Wed-
nesday to attend annual con-
ference of the West Texas Meth-
odist church. He has accom-
plished a splendid work here in
the church and all his friends
would be delighted to have
him and his splendid fam-
ily to abide here another year
if it meets the approval of the
elder and bishop.
Mrs. C. R. McClelland will be
here again Thursday, Friday
and Saturday, Oct. 27, 28, 29.
Permanents $1.75, 2 for $3.00 at
Geo. Fletcher’s residence.
Mrs. W. O. Kelcy is improv-
ing, after a protracted illness
of several weeks. Her niece,Miss
Williams of Stephenville, is vis-
iting in the home of Mr. and
Mrs. W. O. Kelcy and helping
to nurse her aunt to health
again.
E. P. Smith and L. T. Reed
have just completed a remodel-
ing job on the home of Pat
Henry in this city. Mr. and Mrs.
Henry are reported as expect-
ing to move to this home soon.
John Hart and family arriv-
ed during the week from Cal-
ifornia, where they have been
making their home for several
years. They have returned to
Mullin, where they will again
take up their residence and^
make their home.
O. R. Eaton of Rule came here
Saturday and spent the week
end. He \vk$ accompanied by
his sisters,Misses Merle and Vel-
ma, Mr. and Mrs. Barney Fiat on,
who Visited Mr. and Mrs. O. E.
Rice and D. B. Eaton and M.R.
Wylie, ovcV the week end. O.R.
Eaton is again the capable
teacher at Chesser Valley. He
taught there last year and gave
such splendid (satisfaction the
school board asked him to re-
main this year.
-Miss Katherine Kemp was ac-
companied tof Brooke Smith
Thursday by Mrs. W. S. Kemp,
Bobby Rutli ? Chancellor and
Glen Kittle. Miss Kathevine is
teaching at Brooke ’Smith this
year and will be very much
missed in her home town and
church and B. Y . P. U. work.
NO NAME SELECTED ’
FOR /LINDBERGH- BABY
Baby Rindtiergb, who cele-
brated Lis second birthday last
week, is still Baby.
The second son of Col. and
Mrs. Charles Ay LinclLergh,born
six months aftcy his little broth-
er was/kidnaped and r:ordered,
was two months old on Oct. 10,
but hjs parents have not decid-
ed" what to call?him.
Hhjis a healthy, happy child,
daily g ro win re more like the
first/ baby, a close friend of the
family said. ITe is n p.rfect in-
fnirt, except fev his nameless-
nass, and his family feels in no
hfiiTy to remedy that situation,
the friend explained.
“They call him Baby,” she
declared. “It seems to serve the
purpose. They can’t seem to de-
cide on his name.
“One thing they have decided
and that is the name should
come from the Lindbergh side
of the family. But there is very
little choice of masculine Chris-
tian names there.So many seem-
ed to be named Charles. There
aVe also Charleses in the Mor-
row family. But they will not
use the name Charles again.”
Dwight Morrow, the name
which was predicted for the
new baby, in honor of his late
grandfather, will not be the
choice either, it was said.
prepaid to manufacture or un-
dertake construction of any
kincD which private enterprise
carf.perfeVm for the government
except in the case of armament
fbr the army and navy as to
Vhieh there may be elements of
^secrecy.—New York Daily New*
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