The Lynn County News (Tahoka, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 19, 1929 Page: 4 of 12
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LYNN COUNTY NEWS, TAHOKA. TEXAS. SEPT. IftTH. IMS.
RED CHAIN
Feeds Are
SUPERIOR Feeds
E I. HILL. Editor and Owner
at
11.50 I'EK YEAR IN Al'A \N< E
Advertising Ratis vn Application
f the I
t
maintained
with concrete
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ia 29
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Mail coupon for detail
Name
Post Office
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St. or R. F. I).
ONE BIG WEEK IN TAHOKA
ALL-AMERICAN SHOWS AND
LYNN COUNTY FAIR
Texas
SEPTEMBER 25th and 26th
Office with Sheriff and Tax Collector
Office Phone 157. Residence Phone 128
near
near
the Ohio
state are
of illness
I
Published Every Thursday at
Tahoka. Lynn County, Texas.
duties of
We are
not have
members, who
is supervising
a good job of
SURE7! MAKE MONEY
ALL SUMMER. ~ BECAUSE I
NEVER. STOP FEEDING-
RED CHAIN' ZQjQr mash.
I GET SO MANY EGGS-
EVERY 1 NEVER,
WORRY ABOUT THE PRICE OF
EGGS-OR FEED, EITHER,
a aud-
twelve
There
do but
Holmes'
Texas t<
n this
man who
oil
and
juror system
state a lot of
No need for you to sing those
’’Hot Weather Hines!" See your
RED CHAIN Dealer—NOW!
land office
office for
! the saloon when the justice precinct
and the county sought to banish it.
He f ught for the saloon when the
i state s tight to dethrone it.
The Lynn County News and Semi
Weekly Harm News. 1 year, $2.00.
XHLRE are hteralh thoiuandi
.s of poultry folk* here in the
Southwest who re/ufr to tote
mono in the tummer.
i X
They have found that
by feeding RED CH AIN
-Wtft/i the year ’round, they get so many rgg»
that they 're bound to nuke a profit.
M. G. W. Lemmon
f llrugglM. A *r< IIM ifKM.TFR •
“ IHAMONU llltASift I’lLLN. fee ft*
yeartk own*»Ee t, lite t.AlwftytR»ha!
SULDBV DRUGGISTS EVE RVMLRf
act of smoking cigarettes, will
hereafter he shown on billboards
the states of Kansas, Nebraska
Iowa. Which calls forth from
writer the enthusiastic exclama-
, “Hurray for Kansas, Nebraska,
Propaganda is insidious.
that he
another
crops into the ground
We don’t know
service to them
to do our bit to
the storm. At
Farm Loans 6 per cent Interest
DON BRADLEY, Owner and Manager
Pick ’em yourself,
also windfalls, at
Greenfield, two mi.
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC
Any erroneous reflection upon th<
reputation or standing of any indi
vidual, firm or corp- ration, that may
appear in the columns of the News
will be gladly corrected when called
t<> vur attention.
where er' oks
high carnival,
for any such
town? If oil
speech in Tern-
saloon. A lo-
in and the wets
plead their
The saloons had long been in
county but they
and corrupt that
BIG SPRING BUSINESS
COLLEGE
the office so profi-
positive
appointed
been, so universally
the sum- j
to hedge;
many of ■
f wheat
Don I tail to see the Famous
Spotlight, All Colored Min-
strel Show, Athletic Show,
And many others too num-
erous to mention.
Apples! Apples!
MOODY USES BEST .JUDGMENT
The Record joins hundreds of
thousands of Texans in commending
Gi wernor Moody for the very excel-1
lent judgment he used in appointing
J H. Walker, chief clerk of the land I
office, to succeed the late J. T. Rob- |
ison.
State,
have picked a better man,
doubt very much if he could have
pveked another man who could han*
die the
ciently.
could
who would have
accepted by the people of the State.
The appointment of Mr. Walker is
indeed a very commendable move and
the people of Texas, to a great ex-
tent. are under obligations to Gover-
nor Moody for having so zealbusly
guarded his appointive power in this
important case. The Govern r has
certainly advanced his standing with
a majority of the people of Texas
just by this one commendable official
act. -Colorado Record.
literally
Signs were
No More
Down in North Carolina the other
day the trial of 16 rioters accused of
killing a police chief came to
den halt when one of the
jurors went violently insane,
was nothing for the court to
declare a mistrial ami start £
again. An alternate
w uld have saved the
money in that case.
Texas might look
plan,
ended
among
aid.
MAKING A LIABILITY AN ASSET
An example of what a community
can do with just a little bit of mon-
ey and a lot of ingenuity and com-
mon sense is the new
athletic
that is being completed at Lockney.
The
auditorium,
park and swimming pool
Big Spring,
Night and Day School
Many trials in
suddenly
the jurors.—Big Spring Her-
thc public
benefit of
aden their
a day
rare educational oppor-
are being taken to the peo-
ple. Popular education is becoming
more popular and more th rough.
Even if a young man expects t > do
nothing but jerk soda or dig ditches
through life, he is foolish to neglect
the opportunities for an education
that are offered him on every hand
t day.
tern for the
wish t<> br
Truly this is
day in which
tun.tie
death.
become
matter
will wink at violation of the liquor
law’s should lie elected to any p si-
ti n of p.wer in this state next year.
We need to clean out the crooks ami
:ii .i.an who sympathizes with the
bootlegger any time anywhere is fit
to h Id public office.
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Nearly all the colleges now are
i ftering extension service courses of
< ne kind or another. In some of the
. ities.
The wet politicians who!
d minated the politics of
THE --------
TAHOKA WELCOME YOU TO THE
Ride the Honey Moon Ex-
press, Merry Mix-Up, Ferris
Wheel, Thriller
Round.
SMOKING WOMEN
I Not exactly the w men, but pic-
| tures of women and girls shown in
i the
not
in 1
and
the
ticn,
and Iowa.
A very large majority of the human
race follow the “suggestion” of
someone else. Eighty-five per cent
of the impressions received by the
mind ci me through the eye. Adver-
tisers know this, and they suggest
on billboards, in alluring (lictures,
what they want the people of lower
mentality to do—and the poor saps
go and do it.—De Leon Free Press.
into
this
because
city council issued warrants
for the purchase and improvement
of the tract of land formerly owned
by the old college of Lockney. They
got a bargain in seven and one-half
acres of land, and the old building
f r fifteen hundred dollars. At an
expenditure of approximately $25,-
000 they will have a fenced park of
seven and one-half acres, good audi-
torium and club room, baseball park
with grandstand and all and a 40x100
foot swimming pad
bath house.
One of the council
could spare the time
the work and is doing
it. No contract was let.
Here’s a splendid example of a city
turning a liability into a wonderful
community asset.—Plainview Hera'd
The Greenville Messenger, Moses
like, is trying to lead the people of
Texas out of the political wilderness
in which they are supposed to have I
wandered since the Fergusons were
superseded by Dan. The Messenger
wants all others to rid themselves of
preconceived n itions and prejudices
and doesn't seem to care whom they
center on so long as it is the Mes-
senger's choice.—Lynch Davidson
adults who
education,
f education — a
One of the surest things you can
learn from conversation with oppo-
nents of the eighteenth amendment
is that more liquor is drunk under
prohibition than under open saloons.
Y u have heard that argument
thousands of times in the last ten
years. Now France is one of the
During
farmers will
is year from
drouth that
and August
a crop that
the end of
farmers are
comm ssioner
Walker has been in the j
twenty-one years and I
knows rhe business of the office bet- I
tt r perhaps *than any other individual ■
in Texas But under our constitu-
te n and laws, his official ptomotion
means financial sacrifice. As chief
clerk in the land office he received
$3,30(1 per annum, but as land com-
missioner his salary is limited by the
Constitution t $2,500 per annum.
We still claim that our constitution
should be so amended as to permit
the legislature to fix decent salaries
for the g vern-ir and some other
It is true that I
short also on
many farms ..n account of
mer drouth, but in order 1
against the feed shortage
them will sow small patches
to pr vide winter pasturage,
thing will be all right in the end.
It is said that two big rattlesnakes
were killed recently near the Central
Ward sche 1 building in Tahoka. If
one of those snakes had bitten a
s hool child, all of us would have re-
gretted it beyond measure. We make
appr priations t, fight ticks that
prey on dogies and t.> kill wolves
that catch our sheep, but not a cent
to make war on the venomous rat-
tlers that take the lives of our
children. We still insist that Texas
sh uld take some steps to extermin-
ate the rattlesnake.
--o---
All of us are hoping that the drill-
ers will strike oil near Tahoka—a big
gusher,
light of Borger
other boom
congregate
why should
calamity to
is to be found in
should
enough
enough
Of all the citizens of this!
Governor Moody could not I
and we
how
but
help
any
| rate, here's hoping that they make
bumper crops next year.
wettest countries on earth.
a recent ten-day hot spell in the city
of Paris, the Parisians
“drank the city dry.
put up at bars announcing
BIG SPRING BUSINESS
COLLEGE
of
ago how to
capitalize on cows and chickens when
| the e tti,n crop fails
feed is going to be
thii ty-cent
throng that heard
he has looked the
evei since.
the poultrvnun only 22c. RED CHAIN feeders told
us their feed costs jseraged ords 14c—leasing them
a clear profit of 8c per DOZEN!
Whether I
o.‘ a
bandit band or a bootlegger, cr both,
seems to be unknown as this is writ-
ten hut it is certain that Holmes
was killed because of his activity in
prosecuting criminals. It is said that
‘ess element in that section
are i penly rejoicing at
it is high time for
mightily aroused
of lawlessness. No
Many Lynn County 1
receive scant returns thi
the c tton er p. The
helii on through .July
wrought havoc to many
was quite promising at
June. But Lynn county
not of the type that whine or give up
in
+ WHAT OTHERS
t THINK
Of course you are coming to the Fair
next Wednesday and Thursday. Just
make our store your headquarters while
here.
Beer." With breweries thr ughoutI
the country running overtime, they
4-ere not able to supply the demand. '
One paper calculated that 7,324,000
glasses of beer were consumed in
This sort <>f thing
may not prove much, but it does
prove that if we Americans drink
in prop rtion, the home-brewing in- '
dustry is one of the most marvel us- ■
ly efficient industries in the world.,
--Big Spring Herald.
But why should we? In the
and Wink and every
town,
hold
pe
our
Lyrfn County, we
it will be
Barry
and
turn
He made a master-1
He talked el quently of’
liberty” and “human!
tights", extolled the virtures of the
Fathers who had pposed prohibition
I
and ridiculed the divs. But when!
George W. McDaniel, pastor of the i
h irst Baptist Church in Temple, g t.
thr ugh with him he looked like a
politician t > that vast
the debate, and
same way t • us ,
Barry Miller fought for
Entered a* secand class matter
the post office a' Tahoka, Texas, un-
der act of March •’•th, 1870.
P?
ALTERNATE JURORS
Ohio justice was severely criticiz-
ed in the Remus case, but appar-
ently the Ohio judicial system baa
some commendable features after all.
During the trial of Dr. Snook one Paris in one day.
f the jurors became ill and went to
I a hospital, but the trial did not halt.
An alternate juror who liad been
sworn in along with the other 12
took his place and the trial priweed-
Millei was able, i
it was believed I
All Texas w ill applaud Governor I
Moody for appointing chief clerk .1 ;
H. Walker to succeed J. T Robison, | ,hc li,wU'
CHICHESTER S PILLS
J-adh el A«k y«ur for /A\
> •( 4 >ii • Ulamoad HrandZ/^X
Twenty-six years
Barry Miller make a
pie in behalf >f the
cal option fight was •
imported Barry Miller t
cause,
the saddle in Bell
had been s
there was
t" them,
had always
the county saw that something had j
to tie done,
suave, astute
that he could
1 of the Wets,
fill effort.
Lynn County Fair
September 25th and 26th
hope that
to help Tahoka but not
to ruin it.
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Quite a number of farmers in the I
northern and northeastern portion of
the county were hit hard by the hail
that beat their
two weeks ago.
we may Ire of
I we are willing
I them weather
I . .
It is hopeil that the identy of the
assassin who took the life f John
A. Holmes, district attorney at B -r-
He was j’er, on last Friday night may soon!
i for the saloon when the nation under- be established and that he may be|
took t> out law it. And he is for breught to a speedy trial.
the saloon yet He is one of its most the murderer was a member
astute proponents, and we are eter
nally against him for govern >r.
we h
strike
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Hill, E. I. The Lynn County News (Tahoka, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 19, 1929, newspaper, September 19, 1929; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1212259/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .