The El Campo Citizen (El Campo, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, June 2, 1922 Page: 1 of 8
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Come
Sell
to Town to Visit, Buy,
or Trade, Next Mon-
day, June Fifth.
Businesi House* Close for Pro-
gram Given at O. D. H. S.
Cemetery
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DECORATION DAY
OBSERVED HERE
JU AUCTION SALES
r DAY JUNE FIFTH
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OUR WEEKLY
FINANCIAL REVIEW
Prepared for The Citizen by
The First National Bank,
St. Louis, Mo.
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TTY TO HAVE
AN AUDITORIUM
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South Side School building to
Be Moved to McKinley
IBri Park
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BUYS SHOP
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NOTICE
CHRISTIAN CHURCH
Miss Eva Putnam has
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G. H. Farmer, pastor.
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ICE CREAM SOCIAL
VERY SUCCESSFUL
H. W. Wells of Jackson Co.
Is Candidate for Represen-
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sold the tools in the shop and
that it will be discontinued.
SCHOOL BUILDINGS
SOLD LAST WEEK
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Im. M. Dupree.
consideration of $4,250.00.
We understand that he has
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WALKS 85 MILES
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IS CANDIDATE FOR
REPRESENTATIVE
LEISSNER TO HEAD
LONGHORNS IN 1923
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i Next Monday, June 5th is
j Public Auction and Sales Day.
is offering you one
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glove stock gained about 50
per cent. Increases were also
registered in harness, saddlery
and upholstery leather, but
exports of low-priced fancy
leather declined to some ex-
tent
Exports of side upper lea-
ther, including finished splits
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P. B. Bundick, marshal.
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introduce and is controlled by pleted a High School course
no faction, but is running
strictly sa a business man in
Agriculture and live stock rais-
ing. He promises that, if
elected, to give strict atten-
tion to and vote for all meas-
ures calculated to redown to
the welfare of the state.
He has the endorsement of
the leading citizens of Jack-
son county and this being the
year that Jackson county
should furbish the man, Whar-
ton County should fall in line ln
and give him their hearty sup-
port
either February or January,
and about $500,000 more than
those for December, 1921. The
considerable increase for
March as compared with Feb-
ruary, reflected a gain in ship-
ments of nearly all important
classes of leather, and practi-
cally every description of up-
per stock showed an increase.
Exports of bax andainion sole
increased 37 per cent, and
hemlock sole 14 per cent. Ship-
Dr. and Mrs. H V. Reeves
left .Monday by auto for Alice
where they will spent the
week visiting relative?.
1112.fehare
Prof. E. M. Wiginton Announc-
es His Candidacy for
Superintendent
The people of the city will
Snot be taxed for its purchase
or maintenance, as the com-
mittee in charge propose to
make it self sustaining from
the revenue derived therefrom.
>e moved to the west side
eKinley pafrk, a suitable
ation put under it, a
erected and such other
ivements made as may
ae necessary as the work
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The Citizen carries the name
this ereek of Prof. E. M. Wig-
inton of Louise, as a candidate
for Superintendent of Public
Instruction for Wharton Coun-
ty, subject, of course, to the
decision of the White Mans
Union Primary in July.
Prof. Wiginton is a Whar-
ton County maa, having been
raised and educated in this
county. Most of his life has
been spent upon the farm at
Hahn, where he completed the
course taught, and then com-
at El Campo.
Realizing the importance of
further training to prepare
himself for the teachers’ pro-
fession, he has spent his sum-
mer months for several years
at San Marcos Normal.
Ha has been Superintendent
of the Louise school for several
years, and has given complete
satisfaction in every particu-
lar. He is well informed upon
e condition of the schools
the county and is competent
to fill, with credit to himself
and satisfaction to the public,
the duties of the office to
which he aspires.
' Sealed bids will be received
by F W. Clarke, Secretary of
School District No. 32, Pierce,
Texas, on or before Monday,
Uune 5th, 1922, not later than
12:0p noon, for the erection,
and completion of a one-story
school building consisting of'
two class-rooms and auditor-
plans and specifications r.
be obtained by applying ,;ittend these various services.
McLelkmd & Fink, archi-l x G- H- Farmer, pastor.
311 Woolworth Bldg., I “---------—
F«r many years the city oft
El Campo has been in need of
an auditorium of sufficient di-
mensions to seat an audience
| of 1000 people.
in no building suitable for the value of the exports for
>Uc speaking, lyceum cours-
er shows of any kind.
Fhe desirability of a build-
J conveniently located for
j purpose has been conceded
all.
Afew years ago a fund was
aside for this purpose by
guarantors of our first
lutauqua, it being the sur-
s remaining after all ex-
ise was paid. Other pledg-
were received for the pur-
ie and a committee appoint- ments of sheep pnd lamb glove
to solicit additional funds
I have an auditorium erect-)tionary, but other varieties of
Mr. and Mr.-i. J. S. Morris
returned this werk fr<>m a
v’ it with relatives
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Export leather trade in
March showed quite a gain,
with a total value amounting
to $4,331,372, which was more
There has than $1,000,000 greater than
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The Longhorn nine for 1923
will be headed by “Rube”
Leissner of Davy, who was
elected captain by the mem-
bers of this years baseball
team of the University- of Tex-
as in a recent meeting. The
letter men of the baseball
hIIi
ito a
building and the ex-
HBkOf moving and remodel-
JP^with the funds set aside
■ ior that purpose several years
ago.
The building, which is a
Indianopolis Ind.—The trials
■ an unsuccessful candidate
r public office were set out
the expense account of Pat-
ik.Dugan, who “also rain”
r Republican precinct com-
itteeman in the Republican
imary, in his statement filed
ith the county clerk which
by Teddie Stovall, who is vis-
iting hi> father, G. F.
“I lost 1,349 hours of sleep
kinking about the election.
“I loet two front teeth and a
it of hair in a personal en-
iMinter with an opponent I
onated four crippled shoats
) a kosher butcher.
^*1 gave away f
Mpenders and one pair of
koestrings, paid $1.50 for ad-
$rtising, gave away 13 baby
Ittlers, kissed 126 babies, kin-
led 14 kitchen fires, put up 3
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|mds with 4,076 persons, told
|,101 liea.”
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DIST CHURCH
The old brick High School
building was sold to the Wright
Company of San Antonio last
Friday for 2,276.00.
These are the parties who
haye the contract for erecting
the new school buildings, and
they will doubtless use much
of th
struction.
The frame building on the
South Side was bought by the
City and it will be moved to
McKinley Park and arranged
for an auditorium.
The School Board is to be
commended for the disposition
they have made of the
buildings.
subject to the primary July 22.
Mr. Wells was born and
raised in Austin, and is a Uni-
’ey Park »nd converted these countries included 135 - a^has”6 family. Nta"
years ago he moved to Jackson
county and engaged in farm-
pine miles from Edna.
He has no pet measures to
fr'>ni
in cPiitpvl’
committee, for some un-
I known reason, did nothing, and
[ the proposed plan has been
quietly sleeping.
[ Our efficinet school board
and a few of our good citizens
; conceived the idea that as the
school board had for sale a
suitable building, it would be
fc m good idea for the City to
mrchase the'south side school
The ice cream festival giv-
en by the members of the C.
E. of the Christian church last
Friday night in the park was
a success in every particular.
In addition to a pleasAnt
pyening spent socially, they
Succeeded in replenishing their
treasury by the neat sum of
$35.00.
The Society is well pleased
with the results, and wish to
Express their thanks for the squad presented to Coach Bil-
liberal patronage and to the ly Disch at the meeting a gold
and appreciation of the
for the baseball wizard,
ring bears the figure “11”
presenting Coach Disch’s ele-
I will coach a class of eight venth consecutive Southwest-
or more for state examination ern championship. On the in-
ror teachers, beginning Mon- side of the ring are the words
I have had “To W. J. Disch from members
two Summer of the Southwestern Champions
.Each of the merchants whose
name appears on the page ad.
is offering you one or more ar-
ticles at much less than the us-
ual retail price. These men
mean what they say and it
will pay you to look up their
proposiiton and ask them to
make good.
If you have anything in person
■al property that you don’t need
it will afford you an excellent
. opportunity to get its value in
cash, or if you need anything
to Jielp you make'a crop or
need another piece of house-
hold furniture, come to the
Auction. The very piece that
you need may be on sale and
you can have it at your own
Iprice.
You should attend the sale
any way and meet your neigh-
bor and exchange ideas. It
will do you and him both good,
and you will have something
to occupy your mind during
the remainder of the week as
you follow old Bet or wield
the hoe down the cotton row.
Bible school 9:46 a. m I.
P. Baker, supt
Preaching service 11 a. m.
and 8 p. m. • .
Mooring subject, “Irrever-
ence,” and evening subject,
“Neglect.”
Christian Endeavor society,
7 p. m.
Prayer meeting, Wednesday
8 p. m.
s Choir rehearsal,
p. r\
You are cordially invited to
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All owners of a dog within
the city limits are required to
pay $1.00 dog tax.
See me at once and get your
license tag, as all dogs not
wearing tags within a reason-
M. L. Hansard has bought length ot time wiU be
the Lindstrom Machine shop, ”
lot, building, tools, etc., at a
lain of the Post, Revs. Farmer, |
Orrick ahd Dupree, each had
a part in the program. /
The firing squad gave the
salute over the grave of Wal-
ter Carlquist, who died across
the sea.
A new pedestrian stunt and
feat of endurance was put oW
record Ia«t week at the Uni-
versity of Texas when W. Ben-
nett Flanagan, student from
Palestine, took a “hundred dol-
lar hike” from Austin ot San
Antonio, making good on his
wager t owalk the distance of
some 85 miles in 48 hours. He
set out from Austin at 12:80
Monday night for the Alamo
city shortly after a purse of
$100 had been made up by his
fraternity brothers, of Sigma
Chi, following his assertion
that he could walk to San An-
tonio by Wednesday -night at
42:30. He arrived in San An-
tonio with two and a half hour8
to spare, and he-spent 12 hours
of the time in sleep at New
Braunfels, so that the actual
walking time was much lees
than 48 hours. No check was
placed on Flanagan except
that he was required to give
his word of honor that he
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Merchants for courtesies shown signet ring to show the love
men
The
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Mr, rti.'l ^-l ;. R. L. Garner
t”.. dfamily have returned to
I ! < aripo 1'r';m Corpus Chris- ium.
:i and an1 ip-w occupying one may
the < < ttag< s recently bought to 1 ,
bv Rev. Dobbs tects, 311 Woolworth Bldg.,I — .. gf
----- —Houston. Texas, or to the Sc- RErOP.: OF FIDELIS CLASS
cf Trustees, Pierce, |
Right is reserved ^o reject usual meeting Sunda:
any or r 11 bid.', and bids must wiht one new meui
Joe Burger of Wi. .Don, was be accompanied by a certified r.re doing splendid
in the city Saturday on bus- via ck equ .1 to 5 per cent of will welcome ell
incss, total nhiount. 1112 share it.
Mrs. Flora Burton left Thurs cretary
day for Colorado, where sho Texas.
will, spend the summer.
total ah’.ount.
|Kschool 9:45 a. m.
^^Kbjng 11 a. m. Sub-
|L Creation. Do you relieve
!g|ton? Has God com-
bd his work?
BtoForth
Tuesday, May 30th was a
pleasant day in etery parti-
cular for the Decoration day
program.
A cool wind blew from the
north during the day, which
enabled those interested, to
visit the graves of their loved.,
ones and ’ put them, in good
condition for the flowers
spread upon them later. * ■
The American Legion de-
coration program was set for ’
5:00 p. m. and several min-
utes before that time all avail-
able space for parking pur-
poses was filled by automo-
biles.
The American Legion baud,
about fifty strong, under the
direction of G. Martino, fur-
nished suitable music for the
occasion, and plenty of it
The excellent music furnish-
ed by this newly organized
body of musicians was worthy
of favorable comment.
The program wa8 in charge |fl
of Major C. P. Duson, Post
Commander of the Sam R.
Craig Post of 'this city. The
National Guard under the
command of Captain Noyes
assisting.
Rev. Chas. H. Dobbs, chap-
This issue of the Citizen car-
ries ^e announcement of Mr.
H. W Wells of Jackson coun-
ty as a candidate for repre-
sentative in the Legislature
wwr, inciuaing nn»nea SP»». from this the 22nd Disrtict,
made to the whole of Latin oo
America amounted to about
— 438,006 square feet. March
Elding and have it moved to shipments of other varieties to
city auditorium, paying 000 square feet of calf and
kid, 429,000 feet of sheep and
lamb, 457,000 feet of kid lea-
ther, 53,000 feet of horse and
colt upper stock, 171,000 feet
of patent side leather, 20,000
— - feet of patent calf leather, 54,-
frame structure 50 by 80 feet, 000 feet of patent kid leather,
and 11,000 ' feet of patent
horse and colt
The chief countries of des-
tination for leather exports
outside of Latin America were
Great Britian, Brazil, Cuba,
France, and Denmark.
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Jygansard and
■riay by auto for S.n Bible study are assured.
other points west. Chas. W. Orrick.
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Young men’s Bible
will meet at the Cozy Tlie..tr?
promptly at 9:45. Young rncu
not in Sunday School are cor-
dially invited. Splendid fel- F B. Noyes returned Sat-
lowship, good music, intensive urdsy a business rip to
New York* Atlaj.ti- City and
* other joints in the east.
The trial of D. Hillyard for
burglary was held at Wharton
j . k » x. j------The jury found him walked every step of the way.
daughter, Miss Letha, are vis- guilty in each case tried and a*
iting relatives in Houston. grand total of five
years was
--I given him to serve the state in
Dr and Mrs. D. P. Redwine the penitentiary,
have returned from California J
They were accompanied home nqticE TO CONTRACTORS
"ALSO RAN” SAYS HE
KISSED 126 BABIES,
ALL FO RNOTHING
I’ov- rsnn of L'»uis<- was
city Monday on bus-
We recommend a careful
consideration of his candida-
cy.
two pairs of day» June 12th,
• - experience in
Normals, one in Corpus Chris- of 1922.
ti and one in Palacios, and
have coached fifty or more
, teachers in Laredo, for 'state turned from Laredo, where J
Walked 275 miles, shook Examination during the past has been attending school dur-
two years. Anyone interested jng the past year,
in doing this work may call ;
me over the telephone and M L. Douglass transacted
find out about fhe work, and Wharton business Monday,
my terms.
Josephine Smith,
Telephone 62
Mrs W. E. Chandler and Tuesday.
iting relatives in Houston.
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Ballew, W. L. The El Campo Citizen (El Campo, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, June 2, 1922, newspaper, June 2, 1922; El Campo, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1290737/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Wharton County Library.