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BRENHAM, TEXAS, MONDAY, FEB. 3, 1930.
HIS COMMANDING POSITION
By QUINN HALL
As Chief Supreme Justice
re
DESPITE WEATHER
of
VALRY TROOP
4-
Numerous valuable articles, donated
“The power to tax is the power
.vasinCT’’’ i . >:»***«
HORSES SUNDAY
by.
NEW CARS REGISTERED
4
MARKET
Claim Cancer Cure Discovery
about within the next week.
CArr-Te-«-
irtant
♦
“ill
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Coffey (right) and Dr John D. Humder (left), «
Many friends will be glad to learn
that E. C .Wehmeyer is rapidly ini
on
or
of
in
True, the coats of fur-bearing and
hairy animals do vary in thickness
from year to year;, and the activities
of
is
of
Of. course there
will be some residents of rural com-
munities who will be unable to get to
Brenham on account of the impaaaabk
condition of some of the roads, but
many others will be able to come, and
of course the town people will attead
in large numbers. This short eourse
will be wonderfully entertaining aad
instructive, with splendid lectures aad
m.usia-Breach -WMioar-—
sum-
vs ere
lead-
were
La
■It is said that-colored people near
the "here-the car was stuck, saw it there
.Saturday night, but paid no attention
> rto.it, and the thieves were probably far
! on their way before the car was found.
It was presented by Bob-
Cincinnati, son of the jus-
understood it was offered
ill health. Justice Taft
given away at each session, in order
to stimulate interest in attendance.
Admissions will be free, and there will
be nothing to buy or sell. All who
attend will have chances to'win some
of the following gifts: .
(United Frees Report)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1—Repre- th4 farmer representative, Harry
--Jinx—TtnCvr—of-*—Waco; ‘ popular’
sports writer, is the guest of his
brother-in-law and pfl, Lonnie Wiese.
Seeing Jinx made us think of the ap--
pended item that had
ih the Hodston the
-other day!
Hughes Is Named FARMERS’ SHORT
To Succeed Taff COURSE BE HELD
that
Waco
WEATHER
EAST T^XAS—Cloudy, occasional
rains in east portion. Colder in ex-
treme northwest tonight. Tuesday,
partly cloudy, colder on extreme east
coast
BISHOP QUIN HERE
Bishop and Mrs. Clinton S. Quin of
Houston were guests of Mrs. E. R.
Hacker at the Hotel St. Anthony Sat-
urday night and Sunday. They mo-
tored to Bellville Sunday morning, and
Bishop Quin conducted services at St.
Mary’s Episcopal church there, then
returned to’Brenham, where he and
his wife were entertained at dinner by
Mrs. Hacker, who also -had a number
of other friends as dinner guests to
meet the bisbop. Sunday afternoon
Mrs. Hacker took the bishop and his
wife to Hempstead in her car, and he
i grew heavier hair, beavers stored
I more food branches close ’to their
house; prairie dog mounds were high-
er; squirrels and chipmunks were busy
all day carrying acorns. Yet the win-
ter that followed was comparatively
.mild—certainly milder than average.
The explanation, of this apparent-,
paradox seemed to ^lie in the -type of
summer we had been having that year.
There was no prolonged discomfort |
for any of our animals from heat, in-
sect pests or poor food. When au-
tumn arrived our hoofed animals were
-■«.> .otfs than usual, the beavers
more enterprising and the" squirrels
and chipmunks so full of pep they
simply had to keep busy. The latter
were especially favored because the
acorns were bigger and fatter 'than
usual. So naturally all gave signs of
preparing for a hard winter—which
'didn’t come!
(United Prna* Report)
WASHINTON, Feb. 3.—Prea-
ident Hoover today appointed
Char lea Evans Hughes to be chief
justice of the United States su-
preme court, aucceding William
Howard Taft, who had submitted
hia resignation from the supreme
court bench a few hours earlier to-
day.
Rain or shine, the Farmers Short
: Course will be held at the Brenham
High school auditorium Thursday and
; Friday, Feb. 6 and 7, as scheduled, it
i being impossible to postpone the
, course because of the fact that the
i lecturers from the International Har-
j vester Company have dates many
months ahead, and the dates originally
scheduled for Brenham are the only
ones they can give thia town. It
hoped by the local committee in
(United Press Report)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3—Chief
Justice William Howard Taft of the
United States supreme court today
submitted his resignation to President
Hoover, but it has not been acted up-
on as yet.
ert Taft
tice. It
because
Former President Taft
Submits His Resignation
County Tax Collector R. V. Hoff-
an registered 33 new automobiles in.
inuary, 1930, compared with 90 new
its in January, 1929. The total reg-
ieration for 1930 Saturday evening :
is 3,600 automobiles and 345 trucks. ;
Six new automobiles w-ere registered
e past week, as follows:
Dick Kilgore, Brenham, Ford se-
ll..:
Fggs, 35c.
Fryers, 25c.
• Rakers. 15c.
Hens, 16c and 18c.
Turkeys, 15c.
Country lard, 12c.
Rutter, 20c to 40c.
Butter fat. second grade, 26c.
Butter fat, first grade, 31c.
COTION
Good middling, 16.25.
Strict middling, 16.00.
Middling, 15.75.
Strict low middling, 14,75.
Low» middling, 13.75.
Cotton seed, $30.00.
Cotton seed hulls, $14.00.
Cotton seed meal. $2.50.
arrived from New York for a visit to
her brother, Sam Rubenstein, and
other relatives. She is well known to
many of the older residents of Bren-
ham as the beautiful Adelaide Prince,
one of the great emotional actresses
of hv generation, and years agO she-
appeared here each season at the old
Grand Opera House, where many fa-
mous stars performed in years gone
She has many friends here who
will be glad to Welcome her on her
first visit in many years. In recent
years she has appeared occasionally in
-movies...................... -.....-—.’
Arthur Kaechele, Brenham, Chevro-
i coach.
E. D. Dickey, Brenham, Essex
•ch.
0. E. Reid, Somerville, Ford coupe.
Dr. S. E. Stafford, Brenham, Buick
ope.
Sam D. W. Low, Brenham, Buick
dan.
-streer at Hie Slinon Theatre wliiTe'he"
and his wife were enjoying tly show
Saturday night. When they came out
wt-ahtmr■‘WCHficif JTmeT
sedan was missing. Sheriff Reest- and
other officers were immediately
moned and numerous phone rails
made to points on various roads
ing out of Brenham, while trips
made to Giddings, Romeville,
Grange, and other points. The search
continued Saturday night and part
Suhday morning without success.
Mrs. Weimann enlisted the aid
the colored girl who works for her
the effort to find the missing car, and
the girl spread the news among tin-
colored people, through some of whom
a white man reported that he had seen
a car stuck i/ the mud in a lane about
a block and a half from Clarence
Scott’s store in CaniptcKvn. Thus the
car was located and recovered about
11 o’clock Sunday morning, though
Mr. Weimann d:d not know it had
been found until 4 o’clock Sunday aft-
ernoon. when he’ returned - from a
of pthcra-vw-gfohering winter- food . Mrs. Adelaide Pripcc Clarke,
or m preparation of their cold-weather widow of the late Creston Clarke, has
domiciles may also vary. But both
the protective coats and the defensive
toil seem to be influenced far more
by. .the season through which the ani-
mal is passing than by anything that
is to come.
I have gQjq^.so far as to keep, res--
In one autumn I reqirll, there
Though the mud is hurting business
■ and causing a lot of trouble and in-
• convenience to thousands of [ieople in
i this section, it did at least one person '
, a good turn Saturday night, a stolen j
automobile being recovered because it !
got stuck in |he mud near Camptown I
and was abandoned by the thieves,
who, of course, feared discovery and
capture after they could not get away
with the car. - a
The stolen car is the property of W. I
A. Weimann, who left it parked on the
McCloskey Asks Be Ousted
And Wurzbach Given Seat
was appointed in 1921. lets expected
Hoover will act on the resignation
today or tomorrow.
Taft went to Asheville, N. C., re-
cently to recuperate from a breakdown
because of overwork and grief at the
death of a brother, Charles Taft, and
refused to talk to newspaper men.
Doctors said they did not recommend
his resignation. ' V
Elizabeth Potnerene Is not yet fl
yean old. but she holds the high
degree of Doctor of Philosophy in
Biochemistry from Western Re-
serve University, Cleveland, 0.
Elizabeth is believed^ ba th*
youngest girt ever to be awarded
this scholarship distinction. 8he to
About “Mash” Notes
A few days ago we charged
the picture ' of Jinx Tucker,
sports scribe, was removed from the
•op of his column because the "Waco
Ladies' Society for the Promotion of
Tfejuty Culture asked the management
[ to bar th epicture from the Waco pa-
) per. jlinx answers that the picture
! pas removed because the mails were
; becoming congested with mash notes
raddressed to him. The old boy thinks
a' mash note is a letter from some
reader threatening to “mash” his nose.
BRENHAM BANNER-PRESS
ann reports a decrease of just thir- search,
en in the number of city poll taxes |
lid. The total was 1,288 for the yqar |
29, compared with h,301 for- * t—
■evious year. - I
indirectly. » 1 phatically it has nothing to do with
7*--or no shadow,
insists Dr. RaymohJ) Ditniars, curator
for many years at the New York Zoo.
But the superstition will not down,
Dr. Ditmars admits despairingly in an
article in the March issue of McCall’s,
in which he writes of the queer ways
of animals and of the queerest ways
of man’s beliefs about them. He says:
~ One widespread tradition is that if i
the woodchuck or groundhog sees his i ords,
shadow on February 2 he retires for were distinct indications of unusual
another six weeks of winter, indicating I preparation for winter. Hoofed stock
a belated spring for the countryside.
, The groundhog is the husky eastern
relative of the prairie dog. In the fall
ht eats until he is bursting fat. Then
he descends into his burrow, rolls up
in a ball and falls into a deep sleep.
If he is dug out in the winter time
he may be rolled around like a ball
and cannot be-awakened unless warm-
ed up.
By the. same token, if a warm sun
conies along in late winter he may
actually rouse out and wander around
a bit. The same fickle sunshine may
cause a few frogs tp float up fK._.
or lure
penditure of public funds. ’ At small , e. C. WEHMEYER IMPROVING!
cost the people of Europe prevent
holes from developing in their roads.
At great expense, the people of the proving after being ill with typhus.
United States usually repair their j fcver for several weeks. He is now
roads only after great holes have all frec of fever and expects to be up and
but made their roads impassable.
Enough food values are destroyed
each day in t.._-------------. .
garbage can, to feed a good size na-
tion.
Each year a cubic mile of valuably
silt—the equivalent of three inches
from the top of 1,300,000 acres of
land—is washed down as waste by the
Mississippi river floods.
Much of the money we pay in taxes
is’wasted, in that it passes into un-
profitable channels. Waste is largely
preventable. Every country in the
world except the United States sleems
to have fount, that out
the United States, via the I „ - --
DoctQr of Philosophy, _
ButXoo’Young to Vote
STOCK MARKET
'I REMAINS STEADY.
Some of the leading stocks are low-
er, but others arc unchanged from
S; turday’s close, and the market re-
mains fairly steady. Closing prices on
some of .the leading stocks fpljpw:
Poll tax payments in Washington
Lnty for the year 1929 show a de-
Lse of 301 from the previous year,
borts Tax Collector •> R. V. Hoff-
bnn There were 5,553 polls paid for
L past year, compared with 5,854 for
» year 1928.
[•Though nearly all the voting pre-
Lcts of the county showed a decrease
j poll tax payments. » 8<,otl increase
L shown in the three Brenham
Les Total poll tax payments in
L county for the two past years fol-
Jack Drutnm^ 100 chicks.
Texas Power and Light Company,
one 500-pound ice book.
Blue Belt Creameries, one gallon
BB Ice Cream awarded each afternoon
total, four gal-
Eight fine, young cavalry horses ar-
ed in Brenham Sunday.-/or the local
fairy troop? of which Capt. -XF.’ C.
irbritz is commander. These ani-
ls will replace ^&me old horses that
outgrown their usefulness and
re condemned at the last camp,
en cavalry horses get too old to
of service they are taken out and j
ot, and replacements made witli-
lung horses.
The local troop is still short five
>rses, and five more horses will be
nt here about March 1 to make up
e troop’s quota- Af 32. There are
st 27 horses now on han<Fat the cav-
ry stables at Firemen’s Park.
ary insanity from liquor , and suspend-
ed sentence.
Judge Brady's sanity is the big is-
sue of the-charge which resulted from
the slaying of Lehlia Highsmith.
ADELAIDE PRINCE HERE
1553 POUS PAID STOLEN CAR GETS
’IN COUNTY, WHICH STUCK IN MUD AND
IS A BIG DECREASE SOON RECOVERED
BENEVOLENT SOC.
IS GRATEFUL FOR
MANY DONATIONS
In response to a recent appeal
through the Banner-Press numerous
articles of clothing and shoes were
sent to Mrs. O. H. Fischer, president
of the Benevolent Society, for distri-
bution among poor people who are
badly in need of warm winter gar-
ments. In addition to the used gar-
ments and shoes sent by various char-
itably-inclined citizens, several mer-
chants sent generous donations of new
clothing Snd shoes from their stores.
Mrs. . Fischer wishes to thank all
who sent garments and shoes for dis-
tribution by the Benevolent Society,
especially the merchants who never
fail to help when an appeal is made
by the society. She says the donors
have no idea of the pressing needs
that will be relieved by the«e timely
donations of articles that will help
make poor and needy people more
Brenham Banner Publishing Com-
pany, six Weekly Banner subscriptions. ’
F. W. Schuerenberg, Inc., Lifetinu
Waterless Automatic Pressure Cooker.
American Maid Bakery, 50-cent
cake. '
J. V. Stepchinski Market, $1.00 in
merchandise. •
Farmers’ Supply Company, $10
credit on $40 sale.
A
Maytag Washing Machine Com-
pany. If sale of Maytag Washing
Machine is made within three months
either $17.50 aluminum churn or $30
sausage grinder.
Abe Klein’s, Inc., $2.50 in merchan-
dise each session ;total, $15.
H. F. Hohlt Company, $1 in mer-
chandise each session; total, $6.
Fink Bros, one sack flour. ‘
Winkelmann’s, Inc., $1 in merchan-
dise each session; total, $6.
Ed Pflughaupt, $1 in merchandise
each session; total, $6. •
Wm. Seidel Estate, $1 in merdmn-
dise each session; total, $6.
Jack Green, one sack Buttermilk
Starter; value $4.75.
G. Hermann Furniture Company,
four aluminum buckets.
Paul Wittner, $1 in merchandise.
Humpty-Dumpty, one sack flour.
Farmers and Merchants Lumber
Company, $5 in merchandise.
Hoile Hardware Company, one
pocket knife. , J
First National Bank, $5 cash.
Washington County State Bank, $5
cash, divided in five awards.
Krug Book Store, $1 picture.
Hafer Refrigeration and Electric
Company, Ray-o-vac Flashlight
Theo. Folz, $1 merchandise each
session. Total, $&
H. F. Wehmeyer, two sacks Sen-
tinel flour.
Ions.
Farmers National Bank, $5 divided
in five awards.
Chas. Saeger’s Market 50 cents at
each session; total, $3.00.
More than ten per cent of the in-', February 2nd-is not even February debate their faith in wild animals a’s
conies of the people of the -United 2nd to the groundhog; and certainly it weather prophets.
Statesois paid out in taxes of one kind isn’t Groundhog Day, and most em- ’
or another, directly or i
In the past seven years the railroads a late spring, shad,
of the United States have-paid in toeuh ’: ’ — -
state and federal taxes some $14,000.-
000 more than- they paid out in divi-
dends.
The average man pays federal in-
come taxes, personal and property
taxes to his home town, county and
state, license taxes for business, for
automobiles, for ^un4n%^«i^.iJhsiM0g»
poll taxes, school and road taxes, spe-
cial assessments, gasoline taxes, in-
heritance taxes. These are some of
the direct taxes he pays.
Indirectly, he pays customs duties
on all imported merchandise he pur-
chases and the equivalent of customs'
duties on all the tariff-protected do-
mestic ‘merchandise he buys.
Corporation income taxes aje passed
on, to purchasers in the-form of higher
prices. Some eleven billion dollars
each year are directly paid out in taxes
by the people of the United States,
whose annual incomes total just a lit-
tle less than ninety billions of dollars.
Most of these eleven billions paid in
direct- taxes -goes just as -vent goes.!
Mighty little of it finds its way into j mud and feebly croak or hire the
constructive channels for Hie develop- I blacksnake from its hibernating crev-
ment of neiV earning power by the I ice. But the groundhog would not
people who pay it. ” stir unless he felt it; and he certainly
The next great and burning issue to ' returns the moment the winter chill
engage the attention of the American ' penetrates his thinning coat of nt.
people should and probably will be j I have been among old woodsmen
tax revision all along the line, and I who would consicler it sa'crilegibtts to
TAXA TI0N Groundhog Is NotA_ Weather
Trophet TmiSaentist Insists
DEFENSE STUDIES
MOORE’S CHARGES
IM DP ADV TPIAI char8C of these community meetings
111 DIwAlAl llVlnla for farm folks and town foUm, that the
----- I auditorium will be crowded for eadh
AUSTINU",FfbPr73Driensc attor- ^8ion’ and WCather wiU not
neys are studying a tentative draft of cep many away.
Judge Moore’s charge today in the
murder trial of Judge John Brady. It
was submitted to defense counsel at
9 o’clock this morning, and it will be j
2 o’clock this ajternoon or - later be-
fore . the charge as finally drafted is
read to the jury and arguments be-
gin.
The charge touched five points;
Washington /.............'■■■■■
raball ....... •”
192S
..... 275
162
1929
232
120
|ewelTeii /. .
Kappel Hill
'onder Hill ...............
419
..... 93
320
85
Sty Hall
...... 652
692
purt House ..................
477
498
mon Theatre
..... 609
674
213
190
osenbauni
... 188
188
'Sedeville ...................
132
129
tarton
842
792
dependence .....
164
126
frn. Penn
104
83
rairie Hill
245
225
Wesley
153
137
reenvine ..................
265
260
iy Hill .
242
218
ong Point .. .v..............
..... 249
253
tdar Hill
.......yo
122,
indy Hill ................
...... 149
133
1,1 1 "
Total
.5,854
5,553
City Polls Decrease
City Tax Collector
George
Hoff-
... I
| .Armour A ..
6J4
General Electric. ...................
72
' Radio Corporation .......... ~
37%
iBcaxa, Roebuck Co..............
98%
Montgomery Ward & Co......
46 J4
Roister Radio .........................
3%
American P & L .................
88%
American T & T ....................
227%
Columbia Gas
«5%
. B. &O. RR .........'.... .......
117
X Y. Central
181
Southern Pacific ......................
122
Anaconda Copper ..............
76%
Keimicot Copper ...................
. 59)4
Calumet &'sijejla Coppet
31%
.Atlantic Refinihg ...............
38%
Pure Oil
23J4
Phillips Petroleum ...................
34
Standard Oil, N. Y...............
33
Standard Oil, N J..............
...... f>6%
Sinclair Oil .............................
25
Shell Union-...........................
22%
Houston Oil ...tCx..................
59%
Texas Corporation ___________
.......... 54%
Chrysler Motors ..................
38%
General Motors .............
43%
Studebaker Corporation .....
45
Bethlehem Steel .............
.. , ...,100%
U. S. Steel • . '
Cities Service ........ ...........
........W% |
Humble Oil & Refining......
82%
Ford, of England
11% I
Arkansas Gas ....,................
11 I
Butler Bros..................
11% 1
Barnsdall A ....... ......
23% '
Standard Oil of Ind
53.
.. •
9
Trans Continental Oil
9
Northern Pacific
85%
Packard. Motors ..................
-...... 17
Texas Pacific C. & O...... ..
™.. 10%
Warner Bros......?...............
.......... 56%
Total sales 3,792,800.
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