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WEATHER FORECAST.
COLDER THURSDAY.
A CLASSIFIED
■AD IN THIS PAPER WILL
GET RESULTS.
1,000 FAMILIES READ IT.
CohtlUt
Alert to the Interests of Cotulla and La Salle County.
AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE
FIRE, THEFT, PROPERTY DAM-
AGE PUBLIC LIABILITY.
MANLY AGENCY.
VOL. 30. NO. 1.
THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1028.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
L
SELECTS NEW
SUPERINTENDENT.
ROLLINS NOT APPLICANT FOR
NEXT YEAR—GOES TO WES-
LEY COLLEGE AS ATHLE-
TIC DIRECTOR.
THOMAS EXTOLLS
MISSOUMSENATOR
Editor Cotulla Record:
With thanks to your kind offer to
publish my views on the 1928 Presi-
dential race is accepted. As good
Democrats we are anxious to see our
Party restored to power and >f am
wrong in what is herein contained I
trust others will publish their views
and correct me. It is written “In
the multitude of counsel there is
wisdom,’- and chat “When vice pre-
vails and' impious men bear sway’’
“The private station is the post of
honor.”
Where such conditions do prevail
it is the fault usually of many of our
best men and women who either do
not take sufficient interest i.i poli-
tics or divide their strength by
quarelling over issues already de-
finitely settled.
Admitting that I am a poor politi-
cian, nevertheless I predicted six
months past that Hon. Herbert Hoov-
er would be the Republican nominee,
and that the great Democratic Party
would choose as our standard bearer
that brave and really red blooded
American citizen, that respecter of
his official oath, that princely gentle-
man, ripe scholar, sagacious and sea-
soned Statesman, gifted orator and
were given him from many sources. famous lawyer, the Hon. James A.
He has about 20 years experience. Reed( United States Senator of Mis-
Prof. W. T. Donaho has been elect-
ed by the School Board to head Co-
tulla schools for the 1928-9 term.
This information was officially given
the Record yesterday.
Supt. J. W. Rollins, who has been
with Cotulla schools for two years,
first as vocational teacher and this
year as Superintendent, w'as not an
applicant, because of his acceptance
of a position rs Athletic Director of
Wesley Collet at Greenville where
he was elected over fifty other appli-
cants. Had he been an applicant he
would have been re-elected unan-
imously, according to a statement
made the Record by a member of the
Board.
Prof. Donaho is now Superintend-
ent of the Jourdanton school, and
was selected after a thorough in-
vestigation by the School Board.
The very highest recommendations
Slatten Makes
Clean Sweep
in Frio County,
cun cits cost
CONTRACT OPTION
C. S. Slatten, young district
attorney of the 81st Judicial
district is making a record
that will eventually put him up
in the class with that veteran
prosecutor of the Rio Grande,
Hon. John A. Vails.
In the district court of Frio
county, which closed last week,
ten felony cases were tried and
ten men were convicted and
sentenced to the penitentiary.
That was one hundred per cent.
Last year Slatten tried a
total of seventy cases over the
district. Out of the seventy
he failed to convict only three.
Wilson county, the home of
Judge Murray, stands with Frio
in giving him one hundred per
cent convictions.
IF UTILITIES. HM IS AGREED UPON
RATE MADE FOR USERS OF
WATER OUTSIDE CITY
LIMITS.
Beginning March 1st the cost of
operating City utilities, will be cut
approximately $100 per month. This
cut was decided upon Monday at a
meeting of the City Council, when it
was determined that all work in con-
nection with the city could be hand-
led with two regularly employed
men since the work of putting in
extra pipe lines, installing meters
and regulating same has been finish-
ed. Occaionally, when extra work
is to be met additional labor is au-
thorized.
At this meeting an order was also
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MEETING OF WATER BOARD
WITH TRINITY FARM CON-
STRUCTION COMPANY HEADS
HELD TUESDAY.
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f-
? cent convictions. J Passed fixin* the rate t0 be charged
| J. for water users outside the City lim-
«■«»■«» ■«■■«»» i ««.■«■■«« i . Rs At present there are about fif-
teen in number, whose places of resi-
soldiers. dence are in most instances just over
Experience teaches us that not so tbe corporate line. In view of the
many have the courage to uphold fact that these users escape taxes on
their conscientious convictions when the city bonds> which inside city users
to do so means isolation and loss of are subject to, a higher rate was fix-
friends, office and 'public applause. (,d> the D)mimum per month being
Senator Reed risked all these conse- $1 -(5 for 10;oo0 gallons, and all used
TOM CONNALLY
Congressman from W’aco
The Board of Directors of Water
Improvement District No. I of La
Salle county held a conference Tues-
day in San Antonio with heads of the
Trinity Farm Construction Company
and representatives of several large
land owners of the district, and at
this meeting an agreement was reach-
ed to make a contract with that or-
ganization, which has been figuring
on the project for some time.
The contract, however, amounts
to nothing more than an option, and
it being carried out depends on sat-
District is*actory arrangements or settlement
with all the holders in the reservoir
Representative R. R. Smith and Dis-
trict Attorney Slatten, both residents
of Jourdanon, in Cotulla this week
praised Prof. Donaho very highly
both as an instructor and as a citi-
zen, and said that the people of
Jourdanton would regret to see him
leave, but he 'would bring
with him the frien-.^.*‘ best
wishes of every man, ’woman and
child there. Prof. Donaho was in
Cotulla Tuesday with his family. He
said that he intended takbig some
special work during the summer and
would not move here till August.
Supt. Rollins has done a splendid
work for the Cotulla schools since he
has been here. Four credits have
been added to the school by the put-
ting in of a three year course in vo-
cational agriculture. There is reg-
ular class room and shop work in
this course and each boy has 270
hours a year outside of school on a
home project.
MARKETING ASSOCIATION FOR
EGGS AND POULTRY.
Last week there was a meeting
held in San Antonio to perfect on or-
ganization for the marketing of
poultry and eggs. Ten counties in
the San Antonio territory was rep-
resented. Mr. J. P. Jamison, who
lives in the Northern part of La
Salle represented this county.
Mr. N. H. Hunt, Secretary of the
Pearsall Chamber of Commerce
writes the Record that another meet-
ing will be held on March 6th, and
that it is desired that La Salle county
name a representative. If those in
this county who may be interested
will communicate; with the Record
and make their desires known we will
send in the name of the representa-
tive desired, so that the county will
be officially represented. Mr. Jami-
souri. I made this prediction be-
cause I considered them the strong-
est men of their respective parties
and therefore the logical nominees.
In the parlance of the day it ap-
pears now that Hoover has a
“cinch” as you can trust the Republi-
cans to be good politicians and name
their strongest man. Shall we use
as good judgment or do we prefer
to lose?
Hoover is going to be a hard man
to beat. He is of the highest typo
of American citizenship but no one
would contend that he is as well
qualified as Reed nor a better man.
Hoover has adopted the Coolidge
policies, one of which is unalterable
opposition to our Country entering
the League of Nations. The proof
that our people are overwhelmingly
and strongly against our member-
ship in such League seems conclu-
sive. The stupendous World War
was won under the Democratic Ad-
ministration of the great Woodrow
Willson. That fact ordinarily would
have kept the Democratic Party in
power for many years at least. Pres-
ident Willson in absolute good faith
was determined that we should enter
the League but the great majority of
our people preferred the advice of
Washington that we avoid entang-
ling European alliances, and em-
phasized this in 1920 by administer-
ing the most stinging defeat our
Party ever sustained, the popular
vote being around sixteen millions
Republicans against nine millions
Democratic and defeated us almost
as decisively in 1924 notwithstanding
the fact that Hon. W. G. McAdoo had
the further advantage of having al-
most the undivided support of the
great Labor Unions.
It would appear, therefore, that to
win we must nominate a man who
has proved that he is unalterably
jquences when, notwithstanding the
i attitude of President Willson and his
then controllini/ influence in the
Democratic Pa1
stand and did
Democrat to
League of N:j
been fully vi
jority of otrt-
v.as right, wf
ent voters—w
he took his firm
nore than any other
iep us out of the
Now Reed has
ifd, the vast ma-
agree that he
above that amount at the rate of
12 1-2 cents per thousand gallons.
Each user outside of the city limits
will be required to enter into a writ-
ten contract with the City, but the
City will agree to furnish water so
First Excursion
For Sutton Lands
'Vis of independ-
* -^yW^V^ontrol the re-
i suit in all —would be de-
lighted to ri el 1
their ballots
i Electors if Rf
The foregokr v^rrespectfully sub-
mitted for til ' .c1 consideration of
all Democrats ’'‘^j-^plly want to see
our Party restor a 5^ power.
Very yours,
COVEY C. THOMAS.
and Formidable Candidate for Nomi- , .
nation for United States Senator. ^>te and sale options on land secured
_____________________within the district, by the coloniza-
tion part of the organization.
Some time ago engineers of the
Morgan Engineering Co., of Memphis,
Tenn., made a detail investigation of
the Nueces project, representing the
The Francis C. McCarty organiza- financial interests of the Construc-
tion, who have the Sutton ranch fori1'0” tornpany, to determine if the
colonization, and who was to have ProJect was feasable and if it could
started running excursions early in bs constructed for what the engi-
December, but were delayed, brought neels °* ^be Irrigation Board and the
in their first lot this week. There Construction Company said it could,
were about 25 in number in a special This report is not ready yet in full,
car. The car was set out Monday bu^ R *s Itnown that it will be favor-
long only as the supply is such that n;gbt at Dilley, and a number of ab'e *n every detail, and when it is
,r nominee.
jt does not in anyway interfere with automobiles met the party there’ and niade, which will probably be three
the supply to users inside the city ! made a drive over that section, com- f°ur weeks from this date, an
limits, and the contract may be ter-*jng bere for noon ]unch and finishing agreement has been made to enter
; initiated at any time on short notice. tbe day s;gbt seeing over this terri- ’nto a signed contract with che
tory and over the land. The car Trinity Farm Construction Company
was moved down on the noon train.
It is stated that w'ithin a few weeks
the organization will be moving
homeseekers to this property in train-
load lots.
Democratic Devine Council
Sets Water Rate.
son will represent the next meeting 0pposed t0 our participation in the
from the Northern part of the county.
There should be another representa-
tive from the Cotulla district.
NASH AGENCY IS OPENED
HERE.
open
A Nash Sales Agency will
for business in Cotulla today.
The Cotulla Nash Sales and Service
Station is located on the corner of
Broadway and Main and will be op-
erated by R. E. Thompson and R. W.
Scruggs.
An addition to the building has
just been completed for a work room
and about $1500 worth of new shop
equipment is being installed so that
work on any kind of car can be done.
The mechanical end of the business
will be undeV the charge of Mr.
Scruggs, who has been with the Nash
people since 1917—giving Authorized
Jack Neal Service. The Nash car
is well known in Cotulla and needs
no introduction. Many of our most
prominent people have been and are
now owners of Nash cars.
A formal announcement of the open-
ing of the Nash Agency will be found
on page six of this issue.
Limited amount Spanish peanuts
for sale—J. A. West. Woodward, Tex.
League of Nations, who has no blot
nor stain upon his official record,
who, regardless of his private opin-
ion as to the wisdom of any partic-
ular law, will respect his oath of
office and enforce all laws to the best
of his ability, one who has had the
necessary experience as a statesman,
has superior ability, who can hold his
own with the most polished states-
man of any other Nation, one of
whom we would be proud, who has
the courage of his convictions when
not limited by law, who knows his
rights and duties and “knowing,
dare maintain them” and who is just-
ly regarded as one of the greatest
lawyers of the world; I respectfully
submit that Senator Reed fills all
these requirements better than any
other one man.
History teaches us that, accom-
panied by their comrades, properly
equipped, trained and led, ninety
nine men of every hundred will
charge the thundering cannon and
bear themselves as courageously as
did that English regiment of exclu-
sive and somewhat effeminate, curl-
ed and scented fops and dandies of
whom it is written “They fought
with the pride of disdainful gentle-
men and the fury of desperate
TO BEHELD HERE
The Devine Municipal water sys-
tem is now in operation. Some
I months ago the City of Devine voted
850,000 bonds for water works. A
well was drilled and a system in-
stalled. Last week the City Council
j fixed the water rate to be charged
users, which is as follows:
Minimum charge $2.00 per month
I for 5,000 gallons. All water used
I above 5,000 gallons, at 30 cents per
thousand.
CARLOAIJ OF
VNI) WHIPPETS ARRIVE.
to construct the dam and canal sys-
tem, providing that the Construction
Company is to have 90 days from
date of contract to begin work. This
time is required to complete fir.an-
_. cial arrangements, and negotiations
WILLYS-KNIGIITS with owners of land in the reservoir
site. If this cannot be done satis-
factorily, then the Construction Com-
pany is not bound to carry cut the
terms of the contract.
Apparently the progress of the
project depends on the satisfactory
arrangement for lands in the reser-
voir site at a reasonable price.
An interest payment on the first
issue of 875,000 preliminary bonds
Tt'w Wright Service Station re-
ceived a carload shipment of Whip-
pet Sedans and coaches this week,
the shipment including one Will.vs-
Knight, Standard Six. On account
of the great demand for these cars
all over the country, cars are hard to
get and this shipment has been ex-
J.
WOMAN’S WELFARE COMMITTEE
OF CENTRAL POWER & LIGHT
COMPANY,
FRANK NEAL, AGE 84
PASSES AWAY.
pected and delayed for some time, was due March 1st, today, amounting
I according to Leo Sladek, manager. to something over $16,000. The
The W’hippet is called the “Quality Trinity Farm Construction Company
Car at the
! the official
Lowest Price,” and holds
A. A. A. coast-to-coast
The Woman's Welfare Committee
of the Central Power & Light Com-
pany of the San Antonio district will
meet in Cotulla on the afternoon of
March 5th. The meeting will be
held at the Presbyterian Annex and county where he was
a suitable program has been arrang- fifty years ago moved
J. Frank Neal, age 84, died in San
Antonio Satuday night. The re-
mains were brought to Cotulla Sun- economy record with an average of
day and interment made in the Co-'*3.28 miles to a gallon of gasoline.
tulla cemetery at 4 o’clock that af- |In this issue of the Record ,s an ad-
ternoon vertising featuring the Whippet and
Deceased was a native of the state quoting prices, which show the great
of Kentucky, coming to Texas in his 1 reduction in price that has recently
early boyhood and settling in Wilson been made. Look up this ad\ertise-
married and m*nt on page three,
to La Salle _ _ _
agreed to take up this indebtedness.
CAR OF CHEVROLETS
UNLOADED.
ed. Business will be disposed of
first and then there will be a social
hour with refreshments. Miss Vir-
ginia Martin will sing and Miss
Fisher will read for the visitors.
Miss Lucile Burris, cashier in the
local office, who has charge of the
arrangements stated that a large
crowd was expected, as the towns in
the district included San Antonio,
Fredericksburg, Comfort, Bandera,
Jourdanton, Three Rivers, Charlotte,
Devine, Pearsall, Dilley and repres-
entatives are expected from all of
these places. The first meeting af-
ter this organization was perfected
was held in San Antonio, and there
Cotulla was voted the next meeting
place.
Miss Alice Schuetze is general
chairman for Texas of all C. P. & L.
Properties. Miss Gretchen Nagel of
county with his family.
For many years he had the mail
contract between Cotulla and Tilden
and operated it daily, rain or shine
and encountered many hardships and
experiences in this service.
Deceased is survived by his widow,
'four sons, Henry, J. D. and J. II.
of Cotulla, and J. W. of San Antonio,
two daughters, Mrs. W. T. Deopker
of San Antonio, Miss Marie of Co-
tulla, who is local manager for the
Southwestern Bell Telephone Com-
pany.
The funeral services was conduct-
ed at the grave by Rev. Harry W.
Hamilton, pastor of the Presbyterian
church.
AGED LADY DIES OF
INFLUENZA.
.Miss Anna Johnson, age 69. of St.
Louis, died at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Oscar Hiller last Wednesday
night, Feb. 22nd. Deceased had
been in Cotulla for about one month
\ isiting her niece. Mrs. Hiller, when
she contracted the flu. an epidemic
of which struck the town just a few
days previous to her death. Her
Hoff ChevTolet Company uni aied
a carload of Chevrolet cars "-gain
this week, making ,he second ship-
ment received this month. This
Company is living right up to the
quota established for them by the
district organization, and when a
shipment arrives ears do not stand
or. the floor long before .hey are
driven off.
NOTICE. ALL TEXAS-EXEv
On Friday, March 2nd, there will
be a gatherng of all Texas-Exes. at
a banquet. Meet us in the La
Salle Hotel at 8:15 to help boost Old
Varsity. Show your loyalty by
condition was thought to be satisfac- phoning No. 3 today for reservation.
R. R. Smith, better known as
“Railroad” among his friends, Rep-
resentative in the Legislature from
Fredericksburg is district chairman, (this district, and attorney of Jour-
Miss Burris extends an invitation to ^"ton, was in the city Monday and
all Cotulla ladies to attend, as much Tuesday. He ,s associated with
information can be had at this meet- C- C- Thomas in a number of
| ing that is valuable to the average ' cases, most of which were continued
housewife. For instance one of the by agreement of attorneys, because
things that will be done, will be an I of the fact that Judge Thomas felt
illustration as to how to properly Physically unable to go through the
housewife I strain of the trials. Speaking po-
tory, until Tuesday afternoon, when
it was evident that pneumonia was
setting in. Everything possible was
done to arrest it, but the malady
progressed rapidly in both lungs. Dr.
Homer T. Wilson, noted physician
of San Antonio was called into con-
sultation by iocal physicians, but
nothing could be done for her, and
she passed away early Wednesday
night.
Relatives in St. Louis had been
notified of her serious condition, and
were immediately notified _ of her
death. The body was taken to San
Gopd music and a fine time are
guaranteed—as well as £ good
“feed.”
Dean Fittenger of the University
of Texas will speak to the Texas-
Exes at this banquet.
PUBLICITY COMMITTEE.
TO MY FRIENDS.
Lest I appear ungrateful I want
you to know that words are inade-
quate to express my appreciation of
I your visits, flowers, telegrams, let-
Every
read meters,
should know this.
The meeting will be
p. m.
called at 2
Miss Ruth Elizabeth Ford spent
last week-end with her mother, Mrs.
G. B. Ford, at the La Salle Hotel.
Miss Ford is a popular student at
Our Lady of the Lake College in San
Antonio.
trials.
litically, Mr. Smith says he favors
the candidacy of Jim Reed for the
Presidential nomination and Tom
Connelly for United States Senator.
Antonio on the night train where it ^ers, solicitous inquiries as to my
was embalmed and sent to St. Louis. |condition and other kindly ministra-
EXPLAN ATION.
Because of advertisements that
game in at the last hour we’ were
forced to carry over several commu-
nications until next week.
her home, for burial. The body was
accompanied through to St. Louis by
Mr. and Mrs. Hiller.
Deceased was a sister of Satr
Johnson of San Antonio and the late
Ollie and Willis Johnson, all formerly
ranch owners of this county and also
a sister to the late Mrs. C. D. Lake,
mother of Mrs. B. Wildenthal, Jr.
tions and courtesies during my long
illness and incident suffering and
misfortune. You greatly cheered
me and thereby assisted in my recov-
ery for one realizes that his life is
not a failure if he has even a few
friends. I thank you most sincerely.
Gratefully yours.
COVEY C. THOMAS-
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