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MOND/
THE AUSTIN STATESMAN
’ LAKE AUS’
AUSTIN MINISTERS
The Austin Statesman
TRI1
TO HELP C. E. S BRING
STATE CONVENTION
Letters From the People NEW YORK
A TRIBUTE TO LEE J. ROUNTREE.
Totals
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PUBLIC RECORDS
Not An Argument for State Equalization
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TEXAS
FIFTY-THIRD DI.. RICT COURT.
SHERMA
CRIMINAL DISTRICT*COURT.
REALTY DEEDS RECORDED.
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MEXIA,
Vp.
THE BAKER.
News of Elgin
1
Totals
2
3
AUTOMOBILES REGISTERED.
U. S. NAVY RECRUITING
J. R. Williams, Tax Collector.
OFFICE IS OPENED
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Traffic
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.7034
.7245
.3261
528-880.
528-882.
528-890.
528-891.
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WINNIE -WE'LL
LEAVE ITTOYOU,
WATCH FOR.
Tb-MORRoWS
LOVR/ETTER.,
528-898.
Cleveland;
528-901.
Frank K. McGehee, Ford; 528-903
8. J. Sock, Ford; 528-904.
Waco:
Waller, 8h . . .
Gillespie, cf ..
Falk. If ......
Shires, 1b ....
Lewis, R8 ....
Schroyer, c ...
Boyd, 2 b.....
Boggess, rf ,.
Thomas, p «..
Mexia:
Geppert, as
Royster, 1b
Hieedy, 2b ..
Butler, 3b ,
Bechtol, if .
Bryan. cf ..
Howell, rf .
Whitney, c .
Tiner, p ...
By carrier, in
Sunday:
One month .....
Six months . ...
One year ......
Score by in
Austin ......
Sherman ....
Summary:
double play, F
Iver; left on b
out, Sewell 5,
McCarty; tim
Sherman:
Lewis, 3b ....
Meanor, 2b ..
Frierson, cf .
Pyle, if .....
McIver, 1b ...
Bupp, ss.....
O'Keefe, if . ..
Schleffer, c ..
Sewell, p ....
r PAGE FOUR
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KIWANIANS NET $1060
FROM SHOW LAST WEEK
The stockholders of the Elgin Farm-
ers Union Warehouse Company of El-
gin, Texas, have Increased their capi-
tal stock from >5000 to >10,000.
But the prohibition of tobacco in this country will not affect many of
the present brands of cigars and cigarettes.
LARRY MILLS,
Austin, Texas.
Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice at Austin, Texas, under the
Act of Congress of March 8, 1879.
Aarin Woue
Theres flour all Over his hands and
arms.
But wat does he care* if'its even on
his face? ,
Because theres a time and a place for
everything,
And thats the time for that, and the
place.
He makes bred and pies and cinnamn
buns,
Irregardless of the weather,
But wat I look down the collar window
for
is the smell of them all put together.
The baker bakes down a cellar
With a wite cap to keep the flour off
his hair.
And the smell that comes up throo the
window
Reminds me of flowers rich and rare
Nowadays when an author succeeds in having a book suppressed, he
is able to buy a country estate and his publisher retires for life.
PUBLISIIED DAILY, AFTERNOON AND NIGHT. AND SUNDAY MORNING BY
CAPITAL PRINTING COMPANY
Office of Publication: Seventh and Brazos Streets.
It must be fun to be a baker
And werk in that bewtifill smell,
But its wat be gets payed for doing
So he proberly dont Injoy it so well.
Man suffering from nervous trouble was advised by his physician to
go to some place where ho could hear no conversation whatever. He is
now spending his time in a telephone booth.
"Drink buttermilk and eat cottage cheese and live forever,” said Metch-
nikoff, the famous Russian scientist.
"Chew your food well and live long,” said Horace Fletcher.
“Think good health thoughts,” says Coue.
Now, taking all that for granted, how long would a man live who did
vitalic breathing, stood correctly, ate no meat, lived on buttermilk and
cottage cheese, chewed his food well and thought good health thoughts?
He might live to be 600 years old, but it is probable that some microbe
would get him along in the sixties or seventies.
4.
DAYBYDAY
By O. O. MoINTYRE.
Men who should use their eyes?
Surely they know every city fluff
Haa her own particular tough.
Ready to blackmail, shoot or bluff.
When will the saps get wise?
2NESRUR&MOMENTE
THE SAME OLD STORY
She was an angler after men.
He was another fish.
Making love with a fountain pen,
Giving her fifty thousand yen.
Getting himself involved, and then—*
MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS.
ILLyWHIKER
Ax Frances TREGO MONTGOMERY
mecmmshcanineneezaasenisdcsauvacedsausuddscazunasa
Wen its hot ho weeks in his under-
shert.
His shape is wide but small,
And wen ho squerts the icing on.
Its the most ixciting site of all.
He was the gangster's dish.
When will they can that city stuft,.
PAPER DELIVERY.
Subscribers in the city who do not receive their paper by 7 o'elock.in.the
afternoon on week days and by 8 o’clock on Sunday morning will
on the management by calling the Circulation Department, phone 6159, ana re
porting any irregularity. _______________ _________
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county or city; yet, in both cases, it is inevitable that some localities
must reap advantages as seats of administration of State’s aid. There
is no other policy than one of absolute retirement of the State, not
only from the field of education, but from the whole field of govern-
ment, which would insure that every county would get back exactly
as much as it contributed in taxes. To reach this suggested goal of
the equalizers, it would be necessary to leave to the several counties,
not only education, in all its branches and at all its stages, but, also,
legislation and administration. We could not afford to designate any
city as the State capital, for any city so chosen would reap special
benefits from the location therein of administrative departments and
governmental agencies to whose support the whole Stale would
contribute.
On the other hand, there is in the comparison of the more
strictly agricultural counties with each other evidence that it is quite
possible for counties with higher valuations to receive aid in excess
of what they pay in taxes. With an assessment of $3.58 per acre,
Dawson County received in excess of what it paid $16,131, while
Gaines, with the lower assessment of $3.07, paid in excess $42,777.
Collingsworth, with a valuation of $6.11 per acre, received in excess
$33,863, while Potter, with the much lower valuation of $4.96, paid
in excess $121,360. ’ p
Travis County paid less in excess of what it received than any
of the counties having important cities. This amounted to $138,420..
62, which is less than half of Wichita’s excess. The acreage valuation
was also lower than* that of any other big-city county except El Paso.
The land is assessed at $10.34 per acre in this county, which is es-
timated at 34.4 per cent of the supposed true value, while the assess
ment in Bexar is said to be 45 per cent and the average high valua-
tion to be 60 per cent. The average low valuation is put at 15 per
, cent. Thus Travis County occupies a middle ground and should
favor the preservation of the present system of assessment by coun-
ties, instead of the proposed central board method, which must in-
evitably result in grading up valuations to keep pace with those in
the wealthier counties.
Sleep with the valiant, the true, and
the brave,
Rest from your labor and toil.
While roses grow and bloom o'er your
grave,
Undisturbed by the world’s ceaseless
moil.
Washington Heights addition, to the
city of Austin, Texas; consideration,
>3200.
Fred C. Malone, County Clerk,
J. C. Johnson and wife to Emma
Seery, lota 1 and 2, block 5, in divi-
ion E, in the city of Austin, Texas;
consideration, >5000.
Sstate of ‘Emily Lewis to David C.
Gracy, north 50 feet of lot 4, block 1,
the H. B. Seider's subdivision, to the
city of Austin, Texas; consideration.
>2 25.
Aaut}€ QoChn ait 7€cdy
YutMef'andzaceaudee
divine tatc. Sveuzhe uido.
eake 76 »e eFoau "Kem
Judge Jas. R. Hamilton.
Filed:
Mrs. Tennie Dewitt vs. Claude De-
witt, divorce.
Lucy M. Tew vs. R. B. Tew, di-
vorce.
Special to The
SHERMAN,
got the edge
pitching duel
and Sherman
in the second
The score:
Austin:
Rankin, ss . . .
Clements, 3b .
Whitworth, rf
Ross Johnson,
Henderson, c .
Crow, 1b ....
Chaney. 2b ..
Jamar, cf ....
McCarty, p ..
which the association may base rec- j
ommendations to the various church •
congregations was another feature .of
the meeting.
The association voted that one of
the monthly meetings in each quarter
When a suburban resident goes home from the city with a cylindrical
parcel protruding from his coat pocket, it is a sign that he will have
many neighbors dropping in to call in the evening.
Lake Austirn
Whitlock, if ,
Lewis, if ....
Fruth, 2b-c .
The comparative statement, made, public by Chairman Pollard
of the Senate tax investigating committee, showing differences in
twenty counties of land values, taxes paid to the State and sums re-
ceived from the State, is not an argument for the equalization of
property valuations by a central board. None of the estimates given
really bears out the contention of tax-equalization advocates, that
excessive amounts received from the State, in special aid, are pro-
portioned to low valuations, or that high valuations necessarily would
correct existing discrepancies between amounts paid and amounts
received.
Special to The
MEXIA, Tex
contested gan
Sunda yafterr
alcana Gumbo
The score:
Corsicana:
Clopp, ef.....
Malmquist, 2b
Sengotta, if ..
Grubb, 3b ...
Speegle, 1b ..
Sain, as .....
Craig, rf.....
♦Lacey ......
Siemer, c ....
Arguijo, p ...
»na.
The S. C. Beckwith Special Agency, sole i representatives for.foreisn adxer
tising. Eastern office. World Building, New York City. Wastern “u
Tribune Building, Chicago, St. Louis ofice, Post-Dispatch Building Detroit
office. Ford Building, Kansas City otrice, Bryant Bullding: Atlanta oltlce.
Atlanta Trust Building.
* TELEPHONES
Business Manager . .6160i Display Advertising
Auditing Department,' Circulation 1 Editorial Rooms ..
and Classified Ads..............6160(Society Editor.....
Ho was a greenhorn millionaire.
Sho was a city vamp.
She was a maid beyond compare.
Pleasing of style and passing fair.
He was a boob of vintage rare--
Just an amateur scamp.
NOTICE TO.THE PUBLIC.
Any erroneous reflection upon the character, standing or reputat paper
__—
MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
The Assoctated Press is exclusively entitled to the use tor publication o
al news dispatches eredited to it or not otherwise credited in this l ape
and also the local news published herein. All rights of publication °
dispatches herein are also reserved. c3»
H. D. Holcomb, Maxwell; 528-892.
Mrs. N. A. King, Buick; 528-893.
Mrs. Leora N, Giles, Studebaker;
528-894.
Willes Gebert, Overland; 528-895.
B. F. Leatherwood, Ford; 528-896.
the city, daily and
MARRIAGE LICENSES ISSUED.
Fred C. Malone, County Clerk.
J. F. Reeves and Pear Sutton.
E. S. Hinton and Jewel Brown.
John Hdnry Collins and Virginia
Evans.
Peter Voudouris and Xenie Leganti.
Torn Beauchamp and Etta Emm a
Harder.
Johnson Marvels and Delilah Ether-
idge. ‘ •
ahange tRat • a erect
you, Yut e»uatkeeyz*oz
%uekyguaneiet *
aiice EAawyow.
ReMhat/rne:. . ..
r evey u, °
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aud* 28600 „ 22 aZu
tndet aree.
bvenMor eXdeenlo,e
Qaing inyout unfathonac
•yea tae.g a. n ‘
Following an illness of eleven days
little Cecil Vernon, son of Mr. and Mrs.
R. O. Gutherir, died at their home
Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock. The
body was Interred in the Knobs’ Ceme- ‘
tery Saturday morning.
The Kelly F
up to expectat
noon and as
found it easy t
of the game w
run with two
and McCullou
men. MeCullc
his offerings
score:
. Kelly Field;
Baker, 2b . ..
Robinson, cf
Vielock, ss .
Jones, 1b ....
Smith, c ....
Angert, if . ..
Smyer, 3b ...
Dupree, rf ...
Cowgill, p ...
Snowden, p ..
The physical director of the New York police force says: "Vitalio
breathing will carry you along without aches or pains to a ripe old age.
Public director of physical culture in schools at Cleveland says: “Stand
correctly and your health will take care of itself and you will live long”
shall hereafter be a luncheon meeting cnineEat no meat and live to be 0,10 hundred." 831(1 Mr. Wu- the eminent
at which the ministers will gather
Special to The
WACO, Tex
sided game h
Indians defeat
6 to 1. Thom
dians, perform
The score:
Marlin:
White, 3b . .. .
Lenoir, if . . . .
Untz, as .....
Lowrance, lb
Pipkin, rf . .. .
Chatham, cf .
Alexander;, c <
Kennedy, p ..
Gressett, P ...
C Falk, rf ..
Walker, 2b ..
Schwarzer, c
McCullough, i
Zimatore, p ..
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%ow- aǤ elHce Nw"
You faa c«e, cakyula. a««
mtdk.22&
Ju dte 4- zafenckantte
Ead »e 7Kieu, a jevee€
Otadee e ne andAey.
B %ewrfitice ate .
Jw- cancoc Mhpw« Auc& a-.
ovenoReE»n, a€- Cotuzmedy
&re M »eEe wp«d. efear
oxy day. ore «« ove ge-
e 8re"eu 4bennd.daei
wi ae»y feaian«Aele
" - L Aevez..•&ve
A. Falk.
Hines, 3b
Mulcahy,
Webb, cf
Exide Battery Service
Ford; 528-897.
H. J. Bartosh. Chalmers;
E. Paxton Daviss Jr.,
of the State receive aid by counties; hence, the inevitable differences 1
between what is paid to the State and what is received from the State
by counties.
Local conditions are here the determining factor, both as they
are responsible for the number of children in rural districts who
must receive special assistance and as they fix the value of property
which depends on the ease with which property can be put to use
and made to increase. Primarily, the differences complained of are
those of agriculture and industry, which cannot be adjusted by any
administrative board charged with equalizing tax burdens, but must
be balanced through economic progress.
The high paying counties are almost invariably those in which
are situated important urban centers, while the low paying counties
have only small cities and their people are principally engaged in
agricultural pursuits. The Senate investigating committee made its
comparison on a fairer basis than usual, but it seems to have over-
looked this very fact. It took adjoining counties or those in which
conditions appeared to be similar. But this similarity seems to have
. been confined to farm lands, with little attention being paid to the
tremendous influence on the valuation of these lands of the proximity
of urban centers. Dallas was compared with Kaufman, Tarrant with
Parker, Harris with Montgomery, Bexar with Wilson and Wichita
with Montague. No consideration, apparently, was given to the con-
centration of wealthin such cities as Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston,
San Antonio and Wichita Falls and its inevitable effect upon tax
values in their neighborhood.,
In spite of this, the differences shown between valuations in 1
the highly assessed counties, which pay in excess of what they re-
ceive, indicate that there is no necessary connection between tax-
ation and special aid. Dallas County leads all those which pay in
excess of what they receive. It pays an excess of $1,519,458. for a
three-year period, on land assessed at $26.71 per acre. Harris pays :
in excess $1,119,242, on land assessed at $31.98 per acre. Bexar pays
in excess $1,109,953, on land assessed at $22.66 per acre. Tarrant
pays in excess $820,353, on land assessed at $35.58 per acre. Wichita
pays in excess only $296,029, on land assessed at $84.12 per acre.
There is a great difference here between Dallas County’s excess
payment of over a millian and a half on a little less than $27 per
acre valuation, and Wichita County’s excess payment of between a
quarter and a third of a million dollars on a valuation of slightly
more than $84 per acre. This contrast of payments to valuations
is even morq striking if we consider El Paso County in comparison
with Wichita. The former has only a valuation of $12.24 per acre
and yet pays excess taxes of $435,459. That is to say,- it has one-
seventh the valuation of Wichita and pays a little over one-seventh
more.
NEW YORK, May 7.—A page from
the dairy of a modern Samuel Pepys:
Up and took knavish delight in bark-
ing at my dog, all very foolish, and
then to cast dice with G. Buck and R.
Lardner for breakfast and won, sithen
I would liefer have lost, and helpen
myself to more wheat cakes.
Home and did my stint with fair
ease and so to talk for three hours
with John Siddall, the editor, about
everything, from who murdered El-
well to our mutual dislike for parsnips.
In the late afternoon with my wife,
poor wretch, to walk through the town,
I realize the jealousy there is in this
poor world.
Came a letter from Phil Simms, the
pamphleteer, chiding me for my neg-
lect of him. But Lord! he moves
about like a flea, the post showing he
is now in Germany. To the Winter
Club to dine and dance and George
Creel there, also Mistress Blanche
Bates, Arthur William Brown, Fanny
Marianoff, Dr. San and many others.
So to bed. .
One of New York’s widely press I
agented stage beauties is 23 years old.
The pr^u^er tells me she has false
teeth—WBBer and lower. That is why
a few weeks ago she was out of the
cast for two nights. She was having
new plates made because the old ones
bothered her when she Bang.
Surrounding the float on which the
king rode were the knights in glisten-
ing silver armor, carrying the long
spears, each riding a prancing horse
with silver breastplate and knee caps. 6
"Oh, itwas a glorious procession,” P
Stubby tld the chums when he got I
back to them. “And floats as hand- I
some as the one the king rode on I
kept going by in a continuous line I t
for a long time, for over an hour. fl
There were floats representing spring, 1 (9
summer, autumn, winter, and on
Totals .....
•Batted for
Summary:
bases on ball
struck out, li
stolen base,
Corsicana 11.
Corsicana 1, J
In a moment of profligacy I ordered
a few shirts from one of the signless
haberdasheries on Fifth Avenue. The
clerk suggested they be monogrammed .
and I acquiesced, .leaving the selection,
to his judgment. When the bill came
the monogramming was just half the
price of the shirts. It is getting so
one can not even trust a haberdasher's
clerk. And he was such a pretty chap,
too. Pink collar and everything.
GRAND JURY VENIRE FOR 1 weeks preliminary training and then
i assigned to se: service.
JUNE TERM MADE KNOWN tryi, "nervmoton telatavo, .ta M;
and all questions that interested
parties contemplating enlistment de-
Totals .....
Score by 1
Kelly Field ..
Lake Austin
Summary:
home run, A.
Fruth. A. Fa
Robinson; stri
7, by Zimator
Snowden 1; b
gill 6. offMeCt
at plate, Asht
sire answered can become informed
by calling at the recruiting office
and interviewing Mr. Van Driel. who
has been in the service for twelve
years and is eager to explain in de-
tail the advantages of serving Uncle
Sam in his navy, to • all interestel
citizens.
On the contrary, there is an unmistakable indication contained
in the estimates that aid given by the State has no connection what-
ever with taxes levied for the support of government. The two are
entirely separate and distinct, the one being a special and partial
grant of assistance to a section of the population to compensate it
for some disability or discrimination, while the other is an obligation
of the whole people to pay for the general benefits of a common pro-
tection. The people pay their taxes by counties and the rural schools
Judge George Calhoun.
Court convenes for May term; call
of docket set for Tuesc vy, May 8.
for social as well as business pur-
poses.
On next Monday afternoon the Min-
isterial Association will conduct a
picnic for its members and their
families, it was decided. A baseball
game between two picked teams of
the ministers will be a feature of the
outing.
Rev. H. C. Garrison presided over
the meeting with Rev. I. L. Flynn in
the secretary's chair.
Score by in
Marlin .......
Waco .......
Summary :
Lewis, Gresse
Lowrance, Wi
lesple 2, Bogg
lin 3, Waco
nedy; struck
Thomas 8; ba
double play, r
of game, 1:4(
The names of the sixteea men com-
posing the grand jury panel for the
June term of the criminal district
court were made public Monday by
the district clerk's office. The venire-
men are:
Robert W. Wailing, Sam S. Sparks,
B. W. Giles, W. Dunk Miller. J. Mur-
ray Ramsey, 11. B. Lee, L. C. Banks,
R. F. Jones, John W. Mabry and Wal-
ter Bremond Jr., of Austin; T. F.
Blackwell, of Manchaca; W. I). Bow-
man, M. W. Hubbe, Henry Munson,
E. M. Acklin, of Manor; J. K. Black-
lock, of Round Rock.
The grand jury for the June term
will be chosen from this venire when
the criminal district court convenes
on Munday, June 4.
the Grand Opera House in honor of
King Rex, which none are allowed
to attend without a special invita-
tion. No one .knows who sends out
these invitations, as it is done very
secretely and mysteriously. Then
there is another grand ball given by
the Knights of Pythias that air may
attend who can afford to buy the ex-
pensive invitation. In reality it is quite
as nice as the King Rex ball, and if
the truth was known, a great many
guests go from one ball to the other.”
(Tomorrow you’ll hear more of what
Stubby saw in New Orleans.)
Willie Lee King of Coleman and Al-
bert Jackson of Gonzales, negroes,
were arrested Saturday at Lometa by
Deputy Sheriff John Sewall of Bastrop
county on a charge of robbing the W.
M. Clower Jewelry store. A large
amount of the stolen jewelry was re-
covered.
The negroes under arrest, who were
placed in the Bastrop county jail Sat-
urday night, arc suspected of the rob-
bery of a jewelry store at Lampasas,
where many valuable diamonds were
taken.
Eccentricity often marks the genius.
The president of a big corporation in
New York is known for his business
sagacity. He drives a hard bargain
and has, a granite look. When he
walks on the street he carries an um-
brella, except when it rains, and then
he discards it and wears a cap.
A man who runs a chain of restaur-
ants is a devoted patron of the the-
aters. He is noted as a spender in the
flashy life of Broadway yet he never
sits anywhere but in the gallery when
he attends the play an he takes along
a sack of hard candy.
Then there is a dowager on Madi-
son Avenue who each afternoon calls
her limousine and sends her three
Pomeranians, bathed and beribboned,
out for a ride while she walks. She
has never entered a motor car.
WINNIE WINKLE, THE BREADWINNER: Winnie Receives a Letter
ELGIN, Texas, May 7.—Snake-kill- |
Ing parties are being organized in this ,
section to exterminate the numerous
snakes and other reptiles which have
been seen in great numbers here this
spring. Reports brought in by camp-
ers and hunters indicate that he
snakes are more numerous this year
than ever before.
Melvin Hewett, who spent the day
Saturday on Wilbarger Creek with
a party fishing, shot and killed ten
reptiles In a few hours.
Authority to use the name of the
Austin Ministerial Association in their
campaign to bring the state conven-
tion of Christian Endeavors to Aus-
tin was extended to the Austin C. E.
Union by the Pastors' Association at
its monthly meeting Monday. Appoint-
ment of a committee to investigate
charity work in Austin for the pur-
pose of supplying information on
Ministerial Association Votes
Also to Study Local Charity
Problems.
At 5 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, May
2, the great "clock in the tower of
time struck the final hour,” and the
heart of Lee J. Rountree was stilled
forever. Only a few minutes before
his voice had rung through the great
historic hall of the house of represent-
atives, as he spoke with deep emotion
in acknowledgement of a beautiful
bouquet of roses presented him by a
group of tottering, maimed and
grizzled heroes who in the sixties fol-
lowed Jackson, Johnston and Dee. He
had paid a glowing tribute to the
chivalrous sons of the Confederacy,
closing his speech with an expression
of the beautiful sentiment—"Love and
flowers for the living, honor and tears
for the dead.” Returning to his seat,
with the beautiful flowers on his desk
before him, he folded his arms across
his breast and while the glow of pleas-
ure was yet on his face, the angel
of death came down and marked his
brow with a loving touch as one who
should wear the victor's crown.
Dee Rountree’s had been a life of
('easeless toil and benificent labor and
it was fitting, appropriate and glori-
ous that at the high noontime, with
eyery . faculty of his mind alert and
active, impelled by.the loftiest con-
cepts of* citizenship, fighting with
every ounce of his energy for a legis-
lative program which would redound
to the prosperity, happiness and glory
of the people of Texas and surrounded
by that splendid body of men who
trusted, honored and loved him, that
he should cease to labor and lie down
to peaceful rest.
Dee Rountree labored tirelessly,
served unselfishly, and loved con-
stantly. He had no unworthy ambi-
tion. The poison dart of envy had
never marred or scarred his soul. He
was a servant of the people in the
highest and truest sense. Impressed
into their service, duty became his
watchword, and while walking in her
path, glory overtook him and threw
her shining robes around him un-
awares. His life was a blessing and
benediction; his death a glorious tri-
umph; his memory shall ever be a
sacred, enduring heritage.
Report of the show committee of
the Kiwanis Revue given last week
at the Hancock Opera House showed
the Kiwanis Club received $1060 net
profit from the four performances.
This money will go into the fund for
the boy scout hut that is to be built
by the club at Barton Springs.
A committee was appointed at Mon-
day’s luncheon to secure information
as to the type of hut, the cost of its
construction and other details in order
that the club may proceed with its
mission. This committee consists of
John F. Butler, chairman; Eldred Mc-
Kinnon, Frank Rundell, George U.
Lansdowne, and Scott Yeamans.
The Kiwanis Club endorsed the pro-
posal of the local musicians of bring-
ing the convention of the Women’s
Federation of Music Clubs next year
to Austin and also the convention of
the Texas Funeral Directors’ Associa-
tion. the latter convention to be held
next May.
J. O. Andrewartha was admitted as
a new .member of the club.
Male citizens of the United States
between the ages of 18 and 35 years,
desiring to learn a trade, see the world
and obtain one of the finest physical,
mental and edu ational trainings
available are offered these oppor-
tunities by enlistment in the United
States navy. A recruiting office is
now open on the third floor of the
new postoffice building in charge of
J. F. Van Driel, chief carpenter’s
mate, U, S. N.
All applicants cligible under the
qualifications governing enlistment in
the navy, and accepted for service
My curiosity is aroused by a well-
dressed man who walks about the
streets placarded with a sign which
reads: “I always carry matches.” No
doubt it is some advertising dodge
but I can not get the hang of it. I
followed him for several blocks and
nobody asked him for a match.
(Copyright, 1923, by the McNaught
Syndicate, Inc.)
M. K. & T. Land Co. to the city of
Austin, lot 60 in Shadow Lawn, an •
addition to the city of Austin, being
60x142.03 feet for street purposes;
only; consideration >400.
D. B. Chambers and Harriet Mon-
nette et al. to E. S. Garner and Mabel
Garner, lot 7 and lot 8, block 12, of
Gypsy Grove addition, in outlots 75
and 76, in division D, in the city of
Austin, Texas; consideration, >3750.
Brydson Lumber & Construction Co.
to G. T. Tisdale, lot 17, in Harper’s
subdivision of Castleman property in
outlot 72, division D, city of Austin;
consideration, >700.
G. H. Brush and wife to Brian S.
Odem, lota 14, 15. block 5, in Washing-
ton Heights addition, to the city of
Austin, Texas; consideration, >3800.
F. II. Barnhouse et al. to G. II.
Brush, lots 14 and 15, block 6. in
Washington Heights addition to the
city of Austin, Texas; consideration, i
>3500. ’
Mrs. Dewey Thiele to F. H Bara-
house and wife, lots 14.and 15. block
5, in Washfgton Heights addition, to
. the city of Austin, Texas; considera-
I tion, >3500.
! K. J. Hofheinz to Mrs. Dewey
। Thiele, lots 14 and 15. block 5, in
SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Cash in Advance.
By mail, dally and Sunday, except
Monday, for Austin Rural Routes and
Suburban towns and routes: •
One month . ....................., h
Six month.......................io
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Sunday morning edition, by mall (in Texas), by the year..................>2.00
MUNDAY, IVIAI i, 1923
others the different industries, while
after every two or three floats came
a splendid band, headed by a big drum
major with a towering Bisbee on his i
head. But I could not begin to tell j
you half or quarter of what I saw. I
will have to tell about just one more
and that was the one on which the
Queen of the Carnival rode.
"You see she is chosen from the
prettiest girls In New Orleans. And it
is supposed to be a great honor to be
so chosen. Well, I tell you, they made
no mistake when they picked her out.
She was a beauty. And so were her
twelve maids of honor who surrounded
her throne. I should like to describe
their gowns to you, but not being a
woman, I can’t. All I can tell you is
that as the float passed us I saw
laughing eyes, sparkling teeth and a
shimmer of gold, pink and blue, spark-
ling jewels, white shoulders and arms
filled with flowers. I was so busy
trying to take it all in that I only
saw a jumble of .pretty girls standing
around a throne.”
"What do they do when they grow'
tired of parading the streets?” asked
Billy.
"Oh, yes, I forget to tell you. They
have a very select masque ball at
There is a fool and he makes his
prayer
And follows the same old text—
"To a rag, a bone and a hank of
hair.”
A poor Pian is in no danger there.
But it’s always "taps” for the mil-
lionaire—
And the city chortles—"Next!"
/weu .CANYOU BEAT MAT FOR NERVE-!
U.D.'A PERFECT STRANGER writing
ME A LOVE LETTER I TE COWARP!!
HE WOULDN T PARE TELL ME TO MX
FACE, WHAT HE WROTEMTN '
IN TH 15 LETTERN0)
Moreover, the fallacy of confusing taxation with local advant-
ages incident to State expenditures should strike the people of this
county with particular force. State aid for rural schools is extended
unon the same broad principle from which is derived the State’s duty
tdimaintain institutions of higher education. It is not purposed in
onk.case, more than in the other, to benefit particularly this or that
Bryant Davis, Studebaker;
Ed R. Harrell, Studebaker;
Harry Lind, Ford; 528-884.
Harkbarth & Werchan,
Truck; 628-885.
Alfred A. Wilke, Maxwell;
M. W. McDowell, Maxwell;
Seeg
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