The Canton Herald (Canton, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, December 9, 1921 Page: 2 of 8
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER S 1921
THE CANTON HERALD
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Page Two
HOLDING COTTON
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The Texas Farm Bureau Cot-
(Uy Joe Sappington)
verification in the recent discov-
1
prices
to the
posed of without going
/
Reduced To—
r
■
Believing
it.
owned by the farmer
the
for the lot.
1921.
6,
same as
with a few exceptions,
which is that as to losses.
A
■■■■I
MAY OPEN NEW FIELD
a
4
A
p
237
from bales
and that
You
Save
Patronize your
Old Home Town
Paper Agent.
He Can
GUARANTEE
Proper Datings
daily ONLY
(No Sunday)
Regular price
is $8.00, Bargain
Days price is
$5.60
You save $2.40
CIRCULATION
80,092
(P. O. Dept. Figures)
13,190 over second
Texas Paper
52,275 over next
Fort Worth paper
Subscriptions
on
Bargain Days
accepted
at
this office
State Correspondents.
The Home of Your Favorites
JIGGS_MUTT and JEFF
ANDY GUMPS and Others
$3.25
This Year on
Recommended by a Tennessee
Grocer for Trouble* Re-
sulting from Torpid
Liver.
76.7
ton Association has not sold, as
yet, any staph cotton, but has
received, classed and stored 100,-
000 bales to be disposed of later.
According to association officials
A
TEXAS-OWNED
Independent
Growing
Newspaper
Regular Price $10,001
1
agevus, but present
did not warrant the sale
Not Only a Complete News, Newspaper, but an
Entertaining Newspaper. Maintains Eight Leased
Wires; Eight Pages Comics Sundays; Eight Page
Colored Magazine. The Texas Newspaper with a
Direct Leased Market Wire with New York City.
Many Staff Correspondents, Many
ery of oil in Mexia.
which has transformed it from
A Full Page Daily of the Funniest Comics on Earth.
That is Covering Much Ground. It is a Broad State-
ment. Make Us Prove It. Compare with Others.
You be the Judge.
ciaopaig department of the
Farm Bureau in Dallas and se-
THE RATE IS LESS THAN LAST YEAR
Star-Telegram
LARGEST CIRCULATION IN TEXAS
1 • ’
na
cess profits tax, av a-
prescribed in the 1918 act, will
remain in full force and effect
tor the year 1921, having been
repealed effective Jan. 1, 1922.
—.—.
I | Rankin & McAlpine, public ac-
I countants of Dallas, have an-
market, the buyers graded the
long staple bales as middling and
the other bale as low middling,
and without saying anyth 8
- of the staple
Corporation Exemption. -
The specific exemption of $2,-
000 allowed to corporations may quently
| One Year
Daily and Sunday
By Mail Only. I ou Save $3.25
WELL NEAR MINEOLA
NEW REVENUE ACT | TEXAS FARMBUREAU
COMPLICATED ALSO . E---------
5 $1.50 per head, four ticsculars free. Al Druggists,
Re-fitting, St 20. —Meeueen 5, F.J. Cheney & Co, Toledo, Ohio.
000; new law $2,000. ,
Dependents, each $400.
Surtax.—The surtax on indi- --
vidual incomes for the year 1921 about the length
will remain unchanged. Changes offered 1512 cents „ .
in this law as to this tax be- This member of the association
comes effective after Dec. 31, claims that he
Red River county.
One measured 1 5-8 inches and
the other 1 1-4 inches. Both were
and classed as strict good middling,
of ordinary'
be taken by those whose net in-
come is $25,000 or less. No ex-regular practice,
emption may be taken by those South Texas visited
whose incomes is in excess of classing denartme
:sews - assas
(4 per cent on the first $4,000 staple from T
of citizens) on individual income C
a
—
(From Kaufman Herald.)
Col. B. M. Hatfield of Mexia
- ----- . ................... came up Wednesday to spend
expected to ceeding year, any excess to be Thanksgiving Day with his fam-
‘ la net income ily and returned to Mexia Sat-
l urday. While here he made the
Capital Gain.—The change following statement to the Her-
it." . I
Many other men and women through-
vut the country have found Black-
Dranght just as Mr Parsons describes
-dable In regulating the liver to
ts normal functions, and in dec using
UM bowels ot impurities.
Blade-Draught liver medl- __
", to the original and only genuine. Horse-shoeing
A-1 no imitations or substitutes, shoes. P.- -fittin
“Ahays ash tor Thedtord's, E® Shop.
BargainDays!
UNTIL DECEMBER 15th ■
with a meager and inaccurate estate today. This company has _ . company
— 'J®: aanassoan acre isisbusiness‘men.6m"
mL,1-», Black-Draught Highly like a million and a half things 25-acre tract for which it paid Work on Interurban Line,
ahedioms to do and think about in a week $100 an acre. . 1 . pec Grading on
land friends can hardly over- The center of this leasing ______‘r__In intoviphan line
'estimate how much he appre- activity is near. Chief, eight —
I dates any effort they makein miles southeast of Kaufman. Lhcon by next April,
furnishing him the I acts ° ------- Richard Meriwether, superin-
news items. । WELL NORTHOFW ILSrEptendent of construction said
gjusandacres north- 1 01 TEnE” Wednesday. The work has been
• East Nashville, Tenn.- The etn» east f Mabank have been leas- peenaratons are being made divided into sections and is Pro-
tency of Thedford’s Black-Draught, the ed Sand acontract made to drill trsrhwem“of the Dallas ceeding all along the line,
genuine, herb, liver medicine, 18 for oil on it. Ed Legg and Oscar producing Company on the
UPsavenk nughes farm nine miles north
tondrilJon-k-Merriorandashk tee.'said Theahole is rrontor the Fair Park en-
dn t n syndicating Svy gas pressure. Testing of tranee, where tnere .be
U“‘ *" h "“tt ” ” ough to Lacey c on tee-“elndagpectpamassews. to the state fair of Texas.
to every one. I won’t go to bed with- laige acieage in t < by local applications, as they cannot
00 ”tm he house. It wil do al it country to drill on.-Kemp «
claims to do. I can’t nay enough for Herald.
remains unchanged.
Individual Exemptions ______
Deductions.—For the purpose of The other bale was
the normal tax the exemptions staple and graded strict mia
allowed individual taxpayers dling. At this time the long
will be as follows: staple cotton was quoted at 8b
Exemption (single persons),’cents. These staples were take
old law $1,000; new law $1,000. into South Texas towns
Married or head of family in- buyers inspected it. p
come $5,000 or less), old law that the staples were
$2,000; new law $2,500. (....... *,gh: fme
Married or head of family (in- he was offering them on
come over $5,000), old law, $2,----- huvers vradel
-- ■
alysed the provisions of the new
, revenue bill and have concluded
E that although many changes Accorang vo associavivi vllavi
l have been made as compared about 17,000 bales of cotton not
■ | with the old law, “It does not classed as staple have been sold
E appear that tax matters have advantageously,
been simplified.” A statement prices („„ —
given out by them calls atten- of the better grades. The cotton
— tion to the fact that severa j in storage has been marked and
■ l provisions are effective lor the assembled in lots according to
! year 1921 while others donotigrade and staple, and when
1 become effective until January, prices reach a level satisfactory
1922. Attention is called to the i to the association, it can lie dis-
’ following features of the act: posed of without going to the
Excess profits Tax.—The ex- trouble of assembling to meet
at the rates demands of exporters. .
An advantage the association
brings to its members, according
to reports on file, is found in a
more accurate grading and class-
ing of cotton. Just as a test of
what is believed to occur fre-
y quently, although it is no
i- charged as being an example oi
regular practice, a member from
‘the cotton
Idle Because You Only
See One Rat.”
tonay-trsatment. ; "I did..pretty sqonTfoundmy
sancat Myrtle Springs. I goting unless each sack has a tag on
Singing wi be singing at 1 deratratsThe rest later. Theyit and it signed by the com- the Henderson county line.
Myrtle Springs next. Sunday the potatoes to eat missioner, of,.4g1iculture and 6 6 6
afternoon, Dec. 11, beginningat R8 ’ES '^"‘oTr RAT-SNAP.” If there are rats theteschiet thntendloate been
9 elock All lovers of gooa hearing may be destroyed forever, around your place follOW Ml. States -a- -e
muskre invited to attend Ntazun SS S^amSe Three sizos, sterilized.
B. W. PIRTLE. - "------
, i • w was a good pool under Kaufman
Arrangements have been county and that they were going
tuei ruir"aF"fmm"wa wmamsmmm
_____— zation is meant treating tht before and would never see
Mr Fred White Says, "Don't seed in such manner as tokilatlagain.
Mrrwnem -- . _ boll worm therein and not. * — .
' injure the seed. A 50-barrel well has been
Our advice to farmers is not brought in at Shady Grove at a
to buy any cotton seed for plant- depth of 1400 feet. Shady Grove
. ♦ ,----1.1----+om on is in Navarro county, just across
i NOW
fiscal year The Biggest Oil Poolin Texas
Under Kaufman County.
-------- - - net income.
STERILIZED COTTON two.
concluded bv next April, SEE^NOT AK’BOLEFWOTM II, said the sgsttamant here
* . ty T,.L, and the price of leases was com-
Austin, Dec. . S emsttha paratively nothing to what it
the pink boll worm, scattered is going to be, even before the
ne line. over the state 0 . as tx h oil pool is tapped. He said suc-
Rights of way have been ob- more than we know about n tcessful oil men, who had made
tain and the route for enter-j a very serious cotton pestand is millions of dollars in the game,
augu..........— tml the city of Dallas has been usually carried from pla i had become convinced that there
of Wills Point, John Dohl,trus- worked out. The cars will pass in placeinplanting seed. -
Svo oISITieuo issii2 hi" ।
owning small tracts are re-
That “truth is more wonder- putegiabesmillirnaresss ometne
ful than fiction" has found snow field are said to be' on the hold-
Tm, ings of these negroes. When I
’ inquired how came them to own
-------------- this land, was told that the soil
a common-place country town, was so poor that no white nian
into a veritable center of fren- Aared to own it.
zied activity, where millionaire Te extent of the Mexia oil
and pauper rub elbows on street field is yet to be determined. By.
and alley in an unending stream, some it is claimed to be ten miles’
I had heard a great deal about square, but it is the opinion of
this wonderful oil field and nad practical oil men that it is a nar-
drawn a mental picture of its row structure, probably six miles
varied activities, its surging long, with an average width of
crowds, its noise and bustle, and two or three miles. It is claimed
hustle and jam and thought no that already there are around
surprise would be in store for, eleven hundred derricks in the
me, should I decide to visit the field proper, which does not in-
field in person, which I did last clude the Wortham and Curry
Monday. Just here I want to say districts to the northward,
to all who have never been in an Where oil excitement is growing
oil town, while in the throes oi daily. Contrary to rumor, some
a boom, don’t . try to envisage of the wells drilled in what was j
what it looks like no matter how thought to be proven territory j
highly imaginative you may be, are not producers and especially
for personal contact will efface is this true of that section lying
that vision. Just as well try to to the eastward and adjacent to
visualize a great conflagration the town. And something elst
of a burning city in a; distant should be borne in mind by the
state. In your mind’s eye you unsophisticated when the glib-
may see the smoke and consum- tongued oil stock and lease
ing flames, but you can not salesmen breezes in and urges
hear the clangor of fire engines, to buy, and that is that the
the roar of flames, the anguishd big oil corporations control
cry of a fellow being or feel the practically all proven territory
heat of the conflagration. I knew which may prove productive,
before I went to Mexia that I and they are offering for sale
would see lots of people and no stock or leases.
much hustle and bustle, but it ( The oil business is strictly a
was altogether different from rich man’s game, with many
my preconceived ideas when I chances to lose and the little
became a part and parcel af that fellow with a few hundred dol-
vibrant throng of humanity. I lars had better stay out of the
stood upon one of the principal big game.
streets and watched that tide of. And now just a word con-
humanity go by that seemed to cerning what was once the
have no ending. There were tall peaceful little town of Mexia,
men and short men, fat men and with its schools and churches
lean men. young men and old and orderly Christian citizen-
men, middle aged and youth, ship, transformed as by magic
marching, ever marching, some into a conglomerated maelstrom
seeking employment, some seek- of seething humanity, where
ing charity, some sudden riches, vice and disorder is rampant, I
the flotsam and jetsam dom- and every incoming train adds I
inating the whole. Several times to its turbulent ranks. The old
that day I stood to one side and town of Mexia has been lost in
viewed that long line of men the shuffle, swamped, sub-
who awaited their turn at the merged, overwhelmed. It now
post office window. Priority was has its Juarez, a district people
strictly observed, and as fast as with gamblers, bootleggers,
one was served, he stepped to painted women, blear-eyed dope
one side and made room for the fiends, the riff naff and rabble
next in that long line of wait- brought together in common
ing expectant humanity. Some sympathy. The once well-kept
came out smiling, some laugh- streets are now a succession of I
ing, some frowning and nol a deep holes and ruts, and an end---
lew with disappointment plainly less line of trucks and autos that WILL DRILL WELL
and patinlull} stamped upon scatter dust and grime through- ( FAST OF KAUFMAN
their laces ai d thus it went the out the livelong day. And this is
livelong day, th -t lol line of Mexia the oil town, the magnet.
men that seemc d o never i hort the mecca to which the eyes of
en, awaiting the urn at the a continent are now turned.
Aid the Editor.
; is satisfied that
the Farm Bureau plan of hand-
Income— The calculation of ling cottonwill be worththot
net income is practically the ands of dollars to membe • ,
under the 1918 act cause of the more expert 840
chief of ing and classing of their cotton;
wnen » nat as - Farm bureau cottonis storer
Losses.—The new law pro- in warehouses and m compresse
vides that a net loss resulting in various parts of the ,
from the operation of any trade ( publicity Secretary MeKayt
or business regularly carried on ports much activity m cou
by the taxpayer (including loss- organizations; that it 1S l”e
es sustained from the sale or of the bureau to develop corn
other disposition of capital as- munity co-operation in the P
sets used in the conduct of such chase of seed, in organizing
trade or business) for any tax- purebred sire associat ° Sane
I able year beginning after Dec. lin local marketing. I
’ ygm Texas Dec 2—L. Mineola, Texas, Dec. 2.—The 31/1920, or in the case of a Farm & Ranch.
1 Milburn of th Homaokla Oil well of the Golden Oil Company, taxpayer having
wind..... ,.,............ pa ifsMSRsraas acgoraunwoamnossahaszstnachgszimnngemprapormonandingain
an‛nemngcoerenoon“hiftaiend o..
among the wilderness of der- tasks in a newspaper office is Chief, eight miles southeast oi reached a P is expected to’Sine vear any e
gnBer-diarsrcmmminesnaiy take rommousd that when pivjwu tm contact. " ^nd°Vthl|afS not ^^7...........
sew m «, •; or — Dec.
nil in the world. This prediction knows absolutely nothing about j, and begm a well at -Costef inereased1the optimism of the tir amount expended for meals thicker than in Mexia field,
operators. . and lodging while away from There are several oil producing
| Two other tests are being home on business, are !
_______ made, one by the Rainbow Oil tible. i —. —----
KAUFMAN COUNTY and Development Company, six । Returns Required W here depths—from 1,200 to 1,500
miles south. This well reached Gross Income $5,000.—All per- feet below the surface,
ygm, Dpc 3 —The Gulf the Austin chalk at 2,250 feet sons having a gross income of 2,000 to 2,500 feet and at 2,900
Kaul man, -enpeining Com- and is drilling under favorable over $5,000 (or husband and feet to 3,300 and 3,500 feet.
•in acrp for a circumstances. ’wife having an aggregate gross He made trips on foot from
" . The third test is two miles (income of over $5,000), must central Texas through Kaufman
deduc- sands in the county and that
I they will be found at varying
Where depths—from
from
is made plausible by the unusual him, but he has to get his inf or- Mound, eight miles
depth of oil sand encountered mation from other sources, same Kaufman.
and essu ” — o.rtestnrsome"itt"rekarato GULF PAYS SS PER ARCE
Many are the stories afloat marriages or other more oi less IM ------------
---' important happenings in the --
, e,nan, community. In almost every kaunan, be
RK SMAOH , case the editor has to dig up the production and L— -
particulars or to satisfy him. pany paid ,875' an' aevopis The third test is two mes income of over $5,000), mus central rexas tnrougn naunman
pnIAEGTIN sell and the readers inaccurate lease on 13 4 arres fthemM has west of town, where operations file return or returns regard- county tracing the oil indica-
mUlbtOllUllwith a meager and inaceurate estate today. This company.d have begun by a company ofless of net income of the indi- tions. His first trip was in 1892,
vidual, or a fiduciary having a the other two trips were made in
gross income of $5,000 or more 1904 and 1907. He was paid
must file a return regardless of $7,500 for the report he made on
----- । one of these trips, but did not
; say what he got for the other
over $5,000
wife having
and when it is entire- pass up
h la 4L. -erl+ TTnlAag _ . ... .
- place follow Mr. states that the seed nave neen will break a Cold, FeVer and
around ournPie Three sizom, sterilized. Grippe quicker than anything
racesst the system tus redcin then- 35c. 65c, $1.25. Sold and guaran/ R. E.1MCDONALD, ‛ we know, preventing pneu-
hammation and restoring normal condi- 51 ‛7 Hardware and Chief Entomologist, Texas Ag- wc • ‛ 6 ' •
temnhurec.and“NolenBros,, ricultural Department, 'monia. . ..
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Cox, Cranfill H. The Canton Herald (Canton, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, December 9, 1921, newspaper, December 9, 1921; Canton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1515163/m1/2/: accessed July 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Van Zandt County Library.