Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, March 13, 1936 Page: 4 of 12
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th* danger* of fire, add th* wart of the
city fir* 4«^rtiiwi>U sr-d the fir* t®-
Mno*.* companies hat Btt4t the Billwi1
a*f*r. However, the inatiart of aelf-prea-
er*ation *till *»«*** petiple to ruafc la
punk. to eaeape flam**. ioatead of walk-
ins calmly to witi, In |fcl» fir*, u m
Mty other*, paate eiad* th* crowd black
and jam th* exits, with the usual tragic
reault.
<n*»Tjf the frrwt eoneide rations of Ur*
preventiofi engineers it to *** that there
type Conditions, however, do not alway»
permit of th* ideal,'sad m many ca***
disorderly and panicky crowding renulU
in disaster. F*rha pa th* fir* drill* being
held In th* aehooia aa part of fir* pre-
vention education for children will pro-
duce a new generation of adult* who will
lw more orderly, in emergen/ i«-»
Th*. ‘’Bafeguardirjg" aerie* of book*
arid pamphlet* pijbllahed by th* National
Beard of ”
though official representative* of both
th* L'oh*d &Ute* and Mexico bar* pat }
tn# real of approval on their pLana. Com-
plrted and iacotcpleted park area* form a
Joy.cal part of th* exhibit. The appor*
tunity to *how by model, map* and lit-
erature what Texaa baa to offer la aa- j
excelled. — ■
It i> a «*fe gueaa that th* parka bid-
ing will intereet every bo*. Texan* will
beym, U. figure vacation itineraries for
Tex>* point*. For nearly every State rea-
idant there iw. af vplendid opportunity for
a week end at sorne parked area.—Dallas
Newt.
W heft I* A Drunken Driver
uaed In schools in all part* of the coun-
try, and In the** book* special empbaa-
la la placed on *afe escape from burn-
ins structure* Fire prevention educat-
ion 1* required by law In Ik state* and,
~hr addition—*4-<—>"iiije<t i* now being
r|KL'NKKN driving. menace to lif«i and
1/ mastaterial leniency in
euch ease* has caused Mayor LaCuardia
to ham*'a commit#joe of tn«4ical and
l*-/al expert* to deviae method* to deter-
mine the desre* of intoxication that is
dangerous under the law.
J* aeemx worth notins that no railroad
or other transportation company would
or could permit a man to drive a locom-
otive, trolley, aubway train or bu# If
known to have been drinking. Drunken
taught in pra* »> ally every state
Union.
May thin work bring wi*dom in govern-
ing the action* of thoa* who are now
being taught to walk not run—toward
the exit in cane of fire.
driven automobile* are aa threatening en-
gine* of death.
But while the *ky might be the limit
on a man’* right to contain all the liquor
he want* in bar or parlor, public right
of another *ort c»m«-* in when he came*
isn he can manage into the
driver'* seat of an automobile.
Opinions of Others
With traffic death toll what it la, It
seem* grotesque to quibble about where
the hair^breath line should be drawn
to determine when a reckless driver is or
in not intoxicated.
The benefit of the doubt henceforth,
we believe, should be given to the child-
ren and grownup* who might be added
by hi* reckle*xne*» to the awesome daily
ll*t of killed and injured.—World Tel-
egram.
Them At Hum*;
flUGCKMTJON by CJty Marshal Walter*
*3 that people who own chicken* «hould
keep th* fowl* on the premise* of the
owner i* reasonable and timely.
No garden, whether planted with veg-
etable* or flowers, la Improved by the
•< retching of chicken*.
individual liberty, I* a preclou* her-
itage but It should not and doe* hot ex-
tend to allowing damage to the property
of other*. Therefore, while all people are
at liberty ta raise chicken* -and more
people should raise chicken* they are
not at liberty to permit the fowl* to get
their living from property of a neighbor
unlcN* the neighbor consent* to it.
This may seem like a small matter, but
when one consider* that many people
•pend money for plants and seeds it is
not fair that thefr expenditures should
be wasted because of the destruction
caused by chickens. The fowls can be
easily penned and good citizen* will *ee
to It that they are got causing damage
Vi their neighbors by neglect of this,
Home people arc bing damaged by live-
stock running loose, especially near the
corporate lines. Cow* roped out to eat
the gras* on roadsides or in pastures that
are not securely fenced sometimes break
their rone and trample and eat shrubbery
In privade yards. The city has laws to
provide impounding cattle and other live-
stock found running at large, hut usually
th* damage is done before the suffering
property owner can notify the officer,
Blnce Paris is trying to make the city
beautiful with flowers and ehrubs there
• could lie extra effort by ownera of any
*■> V.kens and livestock to prevent depred-
ation#,—‘Paris News.
"A monetary lapse on the part of the
quarterback can easily cost a touchdown
and throw the entire machine out of
gear."— A monetary lapse on the part
of the alumni I* what the machine dread*
most,—Raleigh News and Observer.
A businessman is of the opinion that
a girl who i* in love is a nuisance in an
office. We understand that since hi* typ-
ist got engaged, the X on the office type-
writer ha* been practically worn away.
—Humoriat.
U. O. P, i* looking for a campaign
manager. Well, they could go Farley and
fare worse—Dallas News.
The Nazam of Hyderabad ordered
10,000 sheep slaughtered for a luncheon
he was throwing It seems a lot of lamb
for one chicken salad.—Detroit New*.
Buying daughter a swell trousseau is
not much of a compliment. It suggests
that the groom won’t be able to buy her
any clothes for the next three years/—
Detroit Free Press.
The Dionne quints’ Dr. Dafoe is about
to publish a "Guidebook for Mothers."
Our guess is that fed* mothers wi*h to be
guided along the Dionne path.—Dallas
News. “V
I think that I shall never see a bill-
board ns lovely ns a tree. Perhaps unless
the billboards fall, I’ll never see a tree
ut all,—iNcwton Journal.
Selling Texas to Texans
*1VIE parka bulldihg promised to the
I Central Centennial Exposition
should prove a valuable contribution to
visitor* >n working out their travel time.
An adequate presentation of the State
and Notional perk system will enable
Cantentfial visitors to plan extended
routes and atu ouraga plana for- future
Texas visit# Not the least valuable .fac-
tor will be bound In the exhibit's service
of selling Texaa to Texans.
The truth of court*, I* that all too few
T«xan« know th* Interest to be found
In their own State In natural scenic
beauty and in th* preservation of historic
centers. Th* State park system Is com-
paratively new. The proposed Big Bend
national or rather international rater-
A Philadelphia magistrate lectures
pokor-playlng wives and mothers, letting
'em have It straight before a full house.—
Han Antonia Evening News.
A Teague boy never get* much com-
fort out of his first cigar, but he gets
n lot of experience.—Teague Chronicle.
We don’t know what is in atpre for the
next generation, but whatever It is It
surely will carry, a tax.—Pittsburgh Ga*-.
ette.
Russian women are learning that work
in their homes or business, even sports
activity. Is not enough to make a com-
plete life. They seek to unit* these things
In their own feminine personality by
feeling and looking their best.—Me. Alga
Karpovska, wife of th* premier of th*
Soviet Unlon.^
rieruv*. Every dbrt i
aadt to ut* the tew.
pbea&le wider Real
The CawtmiaJ rimers wiD be
i* all part* of the State. City «f.
fteaal* cae help im thie taaitatloa
pr'/graat by har*g a pore mitk
aad water supply axel by applying
all bwv* aettel* of
the epread of
Dnri®g this week special eam-
pa-ra* will be htld fcc prevent firm,
arU U. promote bea3th amoog the
Mexkaaa. aad annong the Negroes.
All should join together and make
cat the feahhiert i
Text* the htahhiert aad
beautiful and the Geaneet .State in
the Uaipa.
NOBODY’S
BUSINESS
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Austin.—Catertaiaiag diatin-
go.io*'.' xMtm. Jnd«>-^x gwff-
ner* aad other dignitanea, and
helping to inaugurate the long ser-
ies of Centennial year events in
eouth Texas, kept Gov. Allred and
many of hi* offki* *
of the capital. At
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Texas’
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delivered
the Brnsos, site
capital, tee gover
what many auditors---
the best speech of his public career.
It denoted a careful study aad an
IN TEXAS TOWNS
•bond nnroe -to- finance coactractioti
of • ryrr natium at the Crow Cut
«W/1, stated the Browr,wood Ban-
ner.
Final approval of plan* for Gor-
man’* new school building project
has been made by all WPA auth-
orities, according to an, announce
merit made by the Gorman Pro-
gress. The work proposed will em-
ploy a large number of men for
aoveral it. sihs aad will nsean the
grV** said.
Bur ihV-Th/et
what tss?
"Children have more need of good
rnodete than of severe critics
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Ik—Columbus completes hie
Are* voyase. resshls*
Spain, tens.
14—Act at Congreee eras tee
i he Warn Point Military
Academy. I M2
17—First slide* flight is the
•d lutes. gOO fasti
Unite
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1 a-Cong reas grants Am paw
•tons to Revolutionary
War veterans, 1*14 ease
Citizen* of the* Cross Cot school
dwtret are stewing cuni iderabie
:r terest in sn election called by the
•cterrl teard on a preposed IlSOS
Forty-Two and Twenty Year* Ago
In STEPHENVILLE and ERATH COUNTY
*-
42 TEARS AGO
(File* of Empire March *, IM>4j
J. D. Byron was up from Seldon
Wednesday with some specimens ef
on he found in a well near hi*
home. Whether the ore wa» val-
uable or not, we do not know.
24 YEARS AGO
rebuilding of the old school build-
ing into • modem structure which
will have a large auditorium and
rjrmnsLtium with plenty of class-
room for th* high school. AH is now
awaiting the school board s an-
nouncement that R I* ready for
J. M. Robertson has moved back
to Dulfau. He said that his busin-
ess matters there demanded hi* at-
tention, but be expects to be a
c.taee of Stephenville again by
August.
Deer and wild turkeys are being
•hipped into Leon County for the
purpose of restocking the county
to its former preeminence as a
game country', stated the Leon
County News of Centerville last
week. A shipment of thirty-six wild
deer, many of which were not over
six months old, arrived in the
county, by truck from south Texas
recently and were put in a large en-
closure built for that purpose near
Normangee, where after becoming
acclimated they were allowed to go
free in the woods around the Nav-
asota River bottoms.
Stephearille is to have a new
Methodist church building. The
Eli M intoe of Shermsn, son
of J arret t Minton formerly of
Stepheaville, is in the city visit-
ing nt the home of Mr. mad Mrs.
H. B. Kevser.
started, and steps will be taken
U- swell the fund as rapidly as
possible. The congregation needs
a new building, and it is safe to
say they will in the course of
tint, hare a building folly up-
to-the-town.
Apricot trees are in bloom. The
peach trees are beginning to leaf,
glass is putting out rspidly, and
there is every indication that
spring is near at hand.
The Methodist Sunday school
on last Sunday elected Miss Ger-
trude Straughan secretary' and Mr.
Ben Bassel, assistant.
Meridian’s sidewalk building
project is well under way, notice-
able progress having been made on
Morgan street, one of the city’s
principal thoroughfares, it was an-
nounced last week by the Meridian
Tribune. Around five miles of
walks are to be built in the city
try a crew of WPA workmen di-
rected by Sim Baxter, part of the
funds for the project having been
furnished by the Public Works Ad-
ministration, thie Tribune said.
A tacky party at the residence
of M niton Hyatt Wednesday nite
was quite a pleasant affair
among the young people.
A letter from Geo. W. Hail, Hico
says that section had a fine rain
and some wind Sunday night.
Mr. and Mrs. Jonothan Lewis of
near Acrea, were callers at the
Empire office last Friday.
San Angelo’s Fifth Annual Fat
Stock Show and Rodeo opened Sat-
urday for a five day program with
thousands of West Texas visitors
present for the opening parade,
stated the San Angelo Standard-
Times. A crowd estimated at about
0,00ft person* applauded the per-
formances of the nation’s top rodeo
performers, trick and fancy riders
and trick ropers. The show starts
at 2 o’clock each afternoon.
Ur. M. Day has decided to re-
turn to Ktephenville, and will ar-
rive about the 18th. His many
friends here will be glad to learn
of his decision as he is a good
physician and an excellent gen-
tleman. He lived here last year
and made a very favorable im-
pression, indeed.
Thursday, March 2, manager
W. K. Gordon was very much
elated over the tews that a new
gaa well had been brought in for
the Thurber company, and he
made arrangemetta at once to go
out and see it. Our information is
to the effect that the well k in
Palo Pinto county, near or in the
Rock Creek coal fields, and is
therefore a new gas field. It may
mean much to Thurber.
West Texas mohair reached a
new milestone in the upward flight
last Thursday when 780,000 lbs.,
around 16 per cent of the Spring
crop, was sold at 65 and 66 cents,
reported the Rock Springs Record.
Rumors that mohair buyers were
seeking options on local mohair at
the 66 and 60 cent figure could not
The Empire received an invitat-
ion to the commencement exercises
of Louisville Medical College, in
Louisville, Ky., on March 6, 1894.
We notice on the program that W.
Eugene Settle of this county holds
the exalted position of president of
class—an honor he and his
friends will feel justly proud of.-
be confirmed, the paper said, but
served to give promise to ranch-
men of the best spring since the
20’*.
On Monday last week John W.
Gray and Company sold one wagon,
six cotton and corn planters and
three cultivators besides several
turning plows and double shoveis
and numerous smaller articles.
H. B. Keyser of Alexander, was
recently poisioned by mistletoe
berries, and is dangerously ilL
Dr, Stewart the dentkt, left on
Wednesday for Santa Anna on bus-
iness and will return Monday.
Sam Biggers, aged about 66
year*, living four miles north of
Ktephenville, died Wednesday very
suddenly. He had had consumption
for some time, but the immediate
cause of his death was supposed
to he heart trouble. .
The ladies of the Christian
and Episcopal churches will give
•n entertainment at the
opera
bouse tonight, proceeds to go
ss. The
to their respective churches,
program will consist of two
plays, one entitled “The Loan of
a Lover," the other, "I* The
Editor In?" There will also be
music and recitations.
Farmers are progressing nice-
ly with their work; lands mostly
broken in the fall and winter oata
art about all sown; wheat badly
damaged, some being killed en-
tirely. Other crops will be plant-
ed at aa early a date aa possible.
best of spirits
shoot the coming season—Bktp-
People are In tha hast
shoot the com
psr Gap newt
E. B. Arnold, editor of the
Duffau Progress, who was here
Monday, stated that a concrete
bridge on the line of the Dallas-
Duffau auto highway, wae being
constructed over the Braxos near
-Glen Rose.
Tuesday night wax cold enough
to cause the formation of thin ice.
Ed and John Thompson of Rt.
four, both have children suffering
from pneumonia.
W. J. Moore of San Saba, who
purchased 85 head of goats from
L. W. Riddle of School Hill, also
visited the Aubrey Gist ranch on
Richardson Creek and purchased
n very handsome billy less than
a year old, paying $250 for the
buck.
At the Garaham street Church of
Christ Sunday there were fourteen
new members added to the church.
Rev. O. E. Phillips feels good over
this.
John F. Jordan, whose home is
in the smokeless town of Thurber,
was here Monday to see his dau-
ghter who attended Tarleton col-
lege. Miss Pearl Patton, a chum
of Miss Ina Lee, accompanied Mr.
Jordan here from Thurber.
Victor school la soon to vote
on bonding to raise $1,000 to re-
model the building and convert It
into a modern affair.
John Doyle and Luther Mobley
will begin loadini
their household
■■M ile their
goods here next Monday on a car
Sound for the south plains where
Mr. Doyle owns four sections of
land In Terry and Hockley counties.
Mr. Mobley will farm there thie
year—if it rains.
Mrs. Cheater Lee and children
left Wednesday for Fort Worth
to Join Mr. Lee, who has bscs
employed there since selling hie
market her*. The baby has loot
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delayed her departure.
tory, and was -devoid
political reference, altho rt was fall
of currently important implicat-
ions Then, at Huntsville, the gov-
ernor shared honors with Gov.
Hill McAlister of Tennessee, in de-
dicating the famous Sam Houston
"Steamboat Bouse." He then next
moved to Dallas to deliver aa in-
spiritional historical address to the
high school students and then on
to San Antonio for the Alamo cel-
ebration. Meanwhile, at Gonzales,
cradle of Texas history, high postal
officials from Washington watched
an initial record-breaking sale of
the official Centennial stamp issue,
which augured well for the Texas
birthday year celebrations throu-
ghout the state.
Hot Oil Racket
The ingenuity of oil operators
who are determined to ignore the
(Files of Tribune/ March 10, 1916)
Mrs. Robert Slaughter and baby
are visiting relatives at Gordon.
Tom Primrose of Route four was
here Monday, and reported the
Hooka hay road in good condition
except in places where it was being
graveled, or where culverts are
being built.
McKewn Johnstone has been con-
fined to his bed with la grippe for
thirty days. He is now able to be
about.
Injured by a spider kite, Bill
Wilson became so' ill he was con-
fined to his bed thirty days and
was so sick he lost much flesh.
He was able to return to business
last week.
rally knows no bounds, according
to officials of tbe Texas railroad
commission and the attorney gen-
eral’s office, who are charged with
enforcement of these laws and reg-
ulations.
Injunctions have been obtained
from district courts here against
refinery plants in Gladewater by
the attorney general to halt what
they assert is one of the newest
variations of the hot oil racket.
The scheme consists in releasing
into the beds of streams large
quantities of illegally produced oil,
which floats down the streams, and
is trapped further down. Courts
have held that reclaiming plants
are entitled to trap so-called “fug-
itive” or “waste” oil in streams.
thC ]
vestigators and the Attorney Gen-
eral assert that often the oil is
deliberately released, in quantities
far beyond any reasonable assump-
tion that it is “waste” oil, and that
the persons who recover it are in
collusion with those who release
the oil. Penalty suits against those
accused of such collusion have been
filed in connection with the in-
junctions.
Lyman Lenox was stricken with
pneumonia at his home at Huc-
kabay on February 29, and died at
2:15 a. m. on Tuesday March 7.
Arrangements were made in Ste-
phenville for a Masonic burial.
Ed Whitacre, well known citizen
of Lingleville and Stephenville is
due to arrive here from the coast
country Saturday. It is said he is
so ill he is not expected to recover.
Sentiment Teat
This summer’s elections may
furnish the first test of public sen-
timent toward the unicamal, or one
house legislature plan, first foster-
ed in the Texas legislature by Sen-
ator Nelson of Tahoka, as an in-
creasing number of candidates for
both houses have included the plan
in their platforms, and will discuss
it during their campaigns. The plan
mustered more than 60 votes in
the House during the special ses-
sion last year, but was given scant
hearing by the Senate. Lobbyists
in Austin are greatly concerned
over its reception by the people,
because the plan offers promise of
making the work of the lobbyists
extremely difficult, since it elim-
inates entirely the “conference
committee,” in whose name many a
jolt is handed the taxpayer. Sen-
ator Nelson has been vigorously
advocating the plan all .over the
State, speaking to women’s clubs
and other civic groups. The one-
house legislature has been adopted
by the people of Nebraska, and will
go into effect there next year. Tex-
as politicians are watching with
keen interest to see how it works
out there.
Evolution Of Pie Supper
Streamlined techniqe in political
campaigning is evident this year,
as well as in automobile designs.
The ancient Fourth of July bar-
becue, and its more modest coun-
terpart, the pie supper the Ladies’
Aid Society are familiar political
institutions in Texas. But this year,
the community pie supper has evol-
uted into a regional dinner that
brings so many people from so
many towns together at one Bitting
that the Ladies Aid wouldn’t even
recognize it. It has changed its
name into the “testimonial ban-
quet,” and Col. E. O. Thompson,
chairman of the Railroad Commis-
sion, and up for re-election this
year, is one of its greatest benef-
iciaries. Recently, friends of the
Colonel staged a tremendous tes-
timonial dinner for him in Houston
—in a hotel owned by Jesse Jones.
Right there Col. Thompson’s home
town friends got an idea. So the
Colonel’s own Herring Hotel in
Amarillo last Monday night was
the scene of another great testim-
onial dinner for the Colonel, at-
tended by friends from throughout
Texas, in Amarillo to attend the
Southwestern Cattlemen’s Assoc-
iation annual convention. One hun-
dred and twenty members of the
Executive Committee of the Cat-
tlemen’s Association shared guest
honors with Thompson. The Colon-
el reported both politics and the
hotel businesa distinctly looking
up.
Popcorn la “right” .if its volume
increases 20 times after popping.
American railroads comprise
nearly a third of th* railway mil-
eage of th* world.
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