The Deport Times (Deport, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 47, Ed. 1 Friday, January 1, 1932 Page: 1 of 6
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VOLUME xxni
DEPORT, LAMAR COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1932
Senator DeBerry • t
Cotton Acreage
Endorses Tax Bill
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State Senator Tom DeBerry
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AROUSED OVER LAW
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arrangements for
the
been prepared.
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Business houses will remain
Pattonville
Baptist
the
taxes if paid by Jan. 31, 1932.
GINNINGS 1931 SEASON
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First National Bank
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Deport State Bank
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BROKEN BOW BANK WILL
DISCONTINUE BUSINESS
rCDEPRL RESERVE
SYSTEM
POSTOFFICE AND BANKS
WILL OBSERVE HOLIDAY
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Would Relieve Delinquent Tax
Payers of Severe Interest
and Penalties
Six are Injured
as Cars Collide
Transient Automobiles Wrecked
Wednesday Afternoon Near
Wright Store
Aged Lady Dies
South of Deport
Funeral Services are Conducted
Wednesday with Burial at
Mt. Pleasant
Wiring on a car belonging to
i Othor Pearson become shorted
covered.
s wire
Teach Your Boy
to Save this Year
CUTHAND MAN MAKES
BOND AFTER KILLING
sown on good land.
It was decided at the meeting
Tuesday afternoon to discon-
the
Red
that will place agriculture in
this area on a safer basis.
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City Drug Store
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Forward . . . Unafraid!
1931
It is the one best thing you can teach
your boy during the new year—to save.
Saving is the basis upon which he can
start with assurance, a career of success.
The entire facilities of this bank are yours
,.to use in showing him why it pays to save.
Bring him in and talk it over.
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Jhw Al W. Anderson, Prof.
NUMBER 47
up-
law. at
We are Working and Planning
for You During 1932
Never before have we been more anxious to im-
prove our business and to give a greater measure of
service than we are right now. This desire has been in-
spired by the loyalty of our patrons during the past year.
v Count on us for a brand of service and values
that will meet your every expectation during 1932 and
you will not be disappointed.
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May the New Year be one of Peace, Happiness
and Prosperity.
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Fumes from Auto
Affect Physician
tion.
The boys awarded the trips, group
PRIZES HELD UP FOR
AGRICULTURE STUDENTS
Ligaments and
.. J arm
The car driven tinue the afternoon meetings
Lamar County Agent Will Give
Talk on What to Plant to
Replace Cotton
Mud Chokes Muffler When Car
Sticks on Road South
of Deport
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ESTABLISHED 1901
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Two Automobile Cotton Acreage
Accidents on 49 Discussed Friday
One Dead. Another Seriously In-
jured as Result Christmas
Eve Mishaps
by the Bureau
72,717 tfnned prtorV dT'13, viHe, Mrs. Mary Pointer and
1931 as compared with 43,293 Miss Alice_WoIt of Paris, his
ginned to the same date in father, D. D. Holt of Paris.
1930. Red River county had
ginned 42,426 bales prior to Dorothy, small daughter of(
Dec. 13, this year as compared Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Read has
with 28,879 in 1930. |been ill with tonsilitis.
were used in building highways
many farmers without definite that are now part of the State
arrangements for the year’s system. Had this bill become
crop and little farm land has1 a law, farms, ranches, homes
been prepared. Due partly to and other real property would
bad weather and partly to un-| have been relieved of the pay-
settled conditions, only a small ment of between six and seven
per cent of the farmers have millions of dollars of tax per
begun preparations for 1932. !year.”
[terson at Reno.
IS GONE . . . let’s forget it! The books are closed.
1 We’ve paid dearly for our fun of yesteryears, and al-
though the paying was not easy, the account is balanced.
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be j terest and penalties, thereby
Mr helping the property owner and
car- a* same time encouraging
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John Bryd, who is about six-
ty years of age, came to Clarks-
ville Friday and made bond in
the sum of $2000 pending grand
jury investigation of an alter-
cation near Cuthand at 3 o’clock
Wednesday afternoon, in which
MUCH WORK UNFINISHED
AS THE NEW YEAR BEGINS
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Cotton pickers i. e in the
fields when Weather permits and next general election:
grass is still green in sheltered my pleasure to be a joint au-|
had only a short way to go be-
fore reaching the pavement,
and thought he would obtain
relief when he got out of the
car.
Fresh air revived him some,
but he was a very sick man for
several days.
Step out of the shadow of financial de-
pendence into the sunshine of independ-
ence. The step is not long, the way is not
difficult—a savings account with a portion V
of your earnings added regularly will soon
place you in a position where you can be < r
financially independent.
them in clearing title to their
property. I further believe that
| more money will come to the
> State and different subdivisions
thereof through this law than
It is
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On the threshold of 1932 stands the question—where do
we go from here? We must keep moving. Shall we
step into reverse, and thus into oblivion? Or shall we
forge ahead, confident that the new year will light the
up-grade highway to the rewards of the courageous, to
whom common sense has whispered, “The right road is
forward ... be unafraid!”
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Two accidents on Highway
49 Thursday claimed one life
and another person
serious injuries.
Ruby McDowell, 8 year old gion hall last Monday afternoon.
Six persons were injured late Mrs. Martha Jane Anderson,
Wednesday afternoon when two aged 84 years, died Tuesday at
transient automobiles met in a the home of her son, J. H. An-
FORMER PATTONVILLE
RESIDENT PASSES AWAY
Luther H. Holt, 42, former]
, the county agent,
will discuss the program that
has been outlined for the black
land sections of the county#.
I which is 30 per cent cotton, 30
I per cent grain and 30 per cent
B. B. Hutson, teacher of vo- legumes. The landlord and ten-
cational agriculture in the De- ant lease will also be explained.
— - - - ■ ah landlords and tenants are
especially urged to come to this
meeting.
Bounces that the directors c_ ,
the McCurtain County Bank i closed. Rural carriers win also
have decided to liquidate and | enjoy a holiday, there being no
asks all depositors to come and i rural delivery that day. Boy
get their money in full'. The I Scouts of Deport plan a celebra-
announcement stales that no
more .
Inability to make more than
operating expenses during the
All were injur- death being with the Mt. Pleas- P°rt Hi?h School, in coopera-1
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steads^of ^$3,000 assessable value Grayson, (was believed to have services
be voted by the people at the }ds condition was thought to be the ivistor
next general election: It was serious> j
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places as the third week of thor with Senator Hardin of port where they received medi-
winter nears it close. It has this resolution in the last reg- Coi flttPntion the spriouslv in-
been years ^ince the holiday ular session of the Legislature. jured man 1.
season found green vegetation' “I regret very much that the to the Lamar county hospital.,
in this section. Cotton picking [ Governor did not sign the1 Occupants of the car fro:
is usually finished in this — ' ’ ' * ' ’ ' ~.
tion by the middle of Novem-lfaken 1c of the present gasoline frig' ...
ber but due to continued bad, tax and applied same to the re- chandise said to have been in
weather there are still many tirement of outstanding county (their
fields of unpicked cotton. ( and district road bonds which
The first of the year finds
Don’t Live in a
Ginning receipts for Lamar j?’ ,one daughter, Jewel Holt,
and Red River counties prior Paris; one b—
to Dec. 13 have been disclosed, Pans^ four sisters, Mrs.
by the Bureau of CZ...,—. ,, „ - „ ,, -— ----- — —
Lamar county shows a total of Mrs. Martha Pomroy of Patton- damage was done by fire.
compared with 43,293 Miss Alice_ Holt of Paris, his
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possession.
Both cars were
demolished.
Mud so deep that it choked,
up the exhaust of an automo-! ^aks publication of the follow-
bile, coupled with a flat tire statement:
that let the car lower on the! was deeply gratified that
ground, came near costing the ^he State Supreme Court de-
life of a t.—- ___ —— ’ ~ —-*-
week. Dr. A. G. Elder had been est and penalty remission bill
south of town to make a call, °n delinquent taxes paid prior
and w^s returning to Deport, > Jan. 31, 1932. This bill was
accompanied by J. R. Short, introduced in the house by Mr.
j Barron of Sherman and ex sen-
nothing I at°r Weinart of Sequin and in
—jj.. the Senate by myself and Sen-
ator Hardin.
“My purpose in introducing
this bill was to relieve those
who owed delinquent taxes
Aroused over the grave prob-
and lems which the cotton acreage
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| create in the near future, a
ni . • j , , | i lie uvvss awaiucu me ui iin, ui uui) of Red River COUnty
ii 1!ri survlv?<t y j1./5011’ one Future Farmer and one 4-tI; farmers gathered at the Clarks-
Club member m each of the (ville city hall Saturday after-
twenty-one counties participat- noon to hear the situation dis-
ing, will be entertained in the cussed. The meeting was call-
Highland country for two days ed by C. D. Lennox, who pre-
by members of the breeders as- sented a call for a mass meet-
sociation and will be taken for jng, to be held at the county
an inspection of scniv >'f the court house Thursday afternoon,
large ranchos and herds in that [December 31, to discuss in de-
section of the state. ' tail with a view -to joining
This tour has been planned ] other counties of the state in
for the purpose of stimulating i testing the constitutionality of
interest among farm boys in | the law.
East Texas and the black land) At this meeting it is also
r , ; tax
of and the local postoffice will be This bill also cancels all penal- church, conducted by the Rev.
a .*1* .J ««•«!! nnd i 4" zt c« 4* On zl ol 1VI/I 110Y1 I* T Dz\k,r -P DnHia —
was in the Highland cemetery
at Deport.
Surviving are the widow, Mrs.
EXCEED THOSE IN 1930 Clara Holt; three sons,, Travis,
— -----— 1 Odis and J. W. Holt, all of Par- iw,hile the car was narked in his
. > garage at home and was bum-
brother, Nick Holt jng Tuesday morning when dis-
___— ’ sisters, Mrs. covered. It was rolled out and Ben Byrd? about forty years of
of the Census. Maggie Rowlett of Kirkland, tfce wjre cut off before any i age, a son of John Byrdr was
[killed. -
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Duncan,' Okla., '
three men, all of whom were years ago. She was the widow
considerable cut and bruised, of a Confederate veteran, and
but not seriously hurt. The had been a Christian and a
other car. a Chevrolet coupe member of the Baptist church
from Kilgore and headed to- more than 40 years, her mem-
ward Paris, contained two men bership at the time of her
and a woman. / ’’ ’
ed but the driver, “Blossom
How Ito make more money
out of hogs, was the subject
suffered discussed at the evening school
I meeting at the American Le-
' daughter of Frank McDowell of A permanent pasture suppli-
the Marvin community was mented with corn and skim
. severely injured Thursday when milk Was decided by the group •
she was struck by an automo- to be absolute necessities in or-
bile while crossing the high- der to produce pork cheaply.
way in front of ’her home near It was suggested that three
Paris. She died Saturday at a winter clovers, three summer
Paris hospital and funeral ser- clovers and three grasses be in-
vices were held Sundy. The car eluded in the permanent pas-
stopped after the accident but ture. The clovers and grasses
the identity of the driver was in the order named above are:
not learned. [Bur, Black Medic, White, Kob_>
In another accident which oc- 'and Korean Lespedezer and
. curred near the Lawler place Sweet Clover, Bermuda, Dallis
1 west of Bogata, Sidney O’Don- an<* Rescue grass. This mix-
nell about 35, suffered a severe- ture wil1 furnish good grazing
ly cut arm and minor cuts and twelve months in the year if
bruises when his car overturn-
ed on a curve. 7 >
muscles in the injured
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head-on collision in front of the derson south of Deport, from by Mr. O’Donnell, who lived at an<l meet again Friday night,
John G. Wright store two miles infirmaties incident to old age. Oklahoma City, was badly dam- ,Jan- L
east of Deport on Highway 49. [ §he was born at Middleton, a^ed and burned after the ac-1 Mr. Hutson states that A. L.
One car, a Ford coupe from Miss., July 11, 1847 and came cident- Edmiaston, the county agent,
Duncan, Okla., was occupied by f0 this section about thirty-five 1
t.hrpp mpn all nf whom worn _ xi_< • j I
delinquent taxes sin.ee Sept. 30, i
1931 are due a refund of that' . . ,----- -------
amount from the tax collectors, Pattonville resident died Tues-;belt in the raising and feeding planned to discuss a Larm pro-
amounting to 10 per cent penal- day afternoon at a Paris sani-i'of more and better cattle. Ex- gram for Red River county, one
ty and 6 per cent interest, ac- tarium, where he had been a cellent work carried on under
cording to a recent decision of patient for two weeks. Funeral j the direction of the vocational
the Supreme court, which up- services were held Thursdav .agrirculture teachers and ceun-
‘ ity agents will vin the trirrps.
j Lamar and Red River counties
will be represented in this
group of 21 counties.
year’s ! system.
Due partly to
An advertisement in the Brok- _____
en Bow (Oklahoma) News an- open New Year’s day but banks' held the delinquent
Rural carriers will also ties and interest on delinquent J. Roby Ward of Paris. - Burial
■a « • v 11 1 • - • • J 1 O 1 1 DOO • 11 TT? 11 J k. .
asks all depositors to come andTura^ day‘
get their money in -full'. T' “ j . v ,
___ no>tion Thursday night to welcome
deposits will be received, m the New Year.
m j Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Johnson
two years has caused sev-1 spent Tuesday night in
eral banks to surrender their home of her mother, Mrs. Pat-
charters and quit business.
ant church from which funeral tion with the county agent, will
were ___- _ ____ ______
suffered, internal injuries,^ and nesday by Rev. Frank Danner, mend candidates for forty-two
—[the Mt. Pleasant cemetery.
I'hnxr nrmi rr n f +n ---- . — --- <— e ----- I
She was preceded in d<>ath ’
by her husband, Jonathan Hall
Ajiderson, to whom she was
'died in 1887.
bill which would have Kilgore were held for question-
■ in connection with mqr-
been years 'kince the holiday . ular session of the Legislature.. jured
flAnann -Fnurtrl nrrnnn xrzxnrni-n4-4<<T 4.1.^. 4- 4-1-. i zi
Occupants of the car from f_. . "...
Hall Anderson, wife and three
grandchildren: Mrs. Marshall
; White and Veda and Helen An-
nracticallv derson, and a host of nephews
!and nieces, including Mrs, E. T.
, Medsker of Deport and the
DELINQUENT TAX LAW Wntlr" °f ReV’ B’ F‘ AJ1<?n °f
PROVISIONS UPHELD iVllnler’
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Property owners who have,
paid interest and penalties on;
i i • i j • n x ha i
1931 are due a refund of that[
were conducted Wed- give out the rules and recom-
Inteftnent was in free trips for farm boys next RED RIVER FARMERS
summer to the Davis Moun-
tains. These trips are given by
the Texas and Pacific railroad,.
vw „ t'qe Dallas Times-Herald,
married at Paris* in 1876, who Highland Breeders Associa- law in Texas seems likely to
on the!
good physician last blared constitutional the inter-
souT>n oi town to make a caH, °n delinquent taxes paid prior
and was returning to Deport, > JaP- 31, 1932.
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They were traveling in a Model Barron of Sherman and
T Ford roadster, as i
else would get over the muddy (
roads. A flat tire developed,
but they had no jack.
Chains were wrapped around
the wheels, but the car became P A - x
stuck. Backing up to gather |
momentum, the exhaust
came clogged with mud.
Short got out to push, and
bon monoxide gas came out be-
tween the muffler and engine j
where threads had been strip-
ped. Curtains on the car were
up, and Dr. Elder was getting ,, , , ,, ,
the full effects of the fumes. I x^r?Uffx a method.
He realized it at the time, butjtovbe hoP.t? that eYe,rV P?rson
- - - - - who possibly can take advan-
tage of this law will do so that
their property might be cleared
and that the State and differ-
ent subdivisions thereof might
secure much needed funds.
“I know of nothing of more
interest to people now than tax
relief and for that reason I
sincerely hope the constitution-
al amendment exempting home-
I from State Advalorem tax, will
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