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Tiery, however.
AUSTIN JUDGE
Lawson’s arrest followed
Mrs
CULBER
Officers made a search of the
QUICK RESPONSE
54.2 per cent in wholesale trade and
i apartment.
In Texas, the largest per cent of
WILD FLUR
COTTON
Governm
Starts Mai
119 to 130 poinl
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Sept. 25 fol
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GOVERNOR NEFF
OFFERS STATE
ASSISTANCE
ity concerning certain
details, it was stated.
Tiery, Governor N o’
aid in the investigatio.
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Woman Faces Charge Of
Assault To Murder
Following the boost in cotton
values there was an increase of
The only public comment that
has been made upon it has been
rred state
0i the af-
declined.
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Mrs Lawson at first stab
the officers that she did not 1
how her husband was injur
Physicians at the hospif
not believe Lawson's wounm
prove fatal. A
But Prosecutor Says He
Doesn’t Not'd It; Four
er 10, it is announced by Ernst
5 Ernst; expert accountants
The firm was employed by the
ew administration shortly after
tray
telling
close.
Subsequently
January quotati
150 to 195 poll
to 19.55 at 11
January was d
and March at 1
TEXAS LEADS IN
TRADE REVIVAL
_ An audit of the city's financial
•Worde will be completed by Octo-
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of keeping track of the municipal
finances is no small task. It has
taken a force ranging from three
to eight men over four months to
make the audit.
Quarrelon Wages
Causes Shooting
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due to
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Expert Accountants Near
End of Task Which
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The bonds was
42 PER C
By vinitea rre
WASHING!
condition of 1
Sept. 15 was I
mal, the depar
estimated todi
This compal
49.3 per cent (
and 59.1 per
last year.
A condition
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PORT WORTH, TEX., MONDAY,
By United Prean
NEW YORK. J
market preceded!
government crop
from Washington
Just before the
report, December
A. J. Willlams, charged with
aault to murder, appeared be-
re Justice of the Peace McCain
onday and made $ 750 bond.
MAMana2 is charged with shoot-
“rank, Thompson Sunday
225*1the Brown Harwood es-
south of Fort
bath room at the Law;
Wiliamede- of ‘a
reatened to
Because of the substantial ad- the statement by her husband, Hal
vance in the price of cotton. ( Lawson, at the Harris sanitarium
liquidation of credrt has been j late Sunday that he had been se-
made posaible, especially as the ' verely cut with a knitt as he was
price has carried practically all , entering his rooms.
Contracts above 20 cents a pound. ;
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1548 permits for August last year
tor -bulldings valued at $2,950,-
694.
RMTAL GAIN SECOND
Retail business in Texas shows
a 23.3 per cent increase, the sec-
ond beat gam nthe United States.
Production of crude oil thruout
Texas contnus to show a de-
cline. There has also been a de-
mart in the number of wells com-
pitted.
The board reports livestock on ,at,rin, ,n. e
Texas Carme and ranches was ad-betteringsthe 8
versely artected by drouth and bz.15points.."
beat.
If". m wo Boa rt
' Encouraging
announcement by the Federal Re-
ser> e-bd today. Cain’s-ct Monday morning and
Compared with other sections was released to await action of
of the country the Reserve-bd in- the grand jury
dicates Texas is coming back more fixed at $2500.
rapidly than other sections. !
NEws
Teec,
- FA Ay
• The Weather
----e Fort worth and
H.p Eleinity: Tonight
der, made bond in Justice Me-
1 place and failed to find blood
stains on the porch. Blood was
found in the bedroom, living roosf
“Lade-e-s and Gentlem’n: We Have With Us Today
Mrs Mamie Lawson, charged
with assault with intent to mur-
gain of any federal reserve dis- I
trict in the Nation. Texas whole-
sale hardware merchants with a
gain of 11.4 per cent in busi- j
ness also lad the Nation.
Thirty-six pine mills thruout
Texas reported an improvement in
demand during August. Altho
. these orders were but 88 per cent
Mhot the normal business, it was still
pnq increase of 22 per cent of the
1 "insAu^TT far July.
P in nine Texas cities in August
1 2814 building permits were issued
‛ for structures costing a total of
$6,401,268 ' as compared with
By United Presn
CHICAGO, .Oct. 3.—Samuel
Buffington, 14-year-old high
school boy. won high honors
in the Boy Scouts for ability to
tie complicated knots with a
rope.
Samuel was found hanging
by a rope in a closet dead.
The knots in the rope were thd
difficult kind he had won pf
es for tying.
Police today said th
lieved he lost his lifeA
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Washimstemn Durenu,
The Pert Worth Prenn
B¥ LEO R. SACK
WASHINGTON, Oct. —Busi-
nesa has turned the corm r in Tex-
SB and ia on the upgr de. Sub-
Annual strides were mad* in Tex-
as in September according to an
theastate executive he
thought local authorities could
handle the matter. d
Deputy Sheriff M. Bund
to the effect that it is merely a
business step, so the present ad
ministration might get exact in-
formation as to its own affairs
it goes back to the beginning of I
the Davis administration.
Altho it takes in only four years
the audit has been a big job Few
people realize the magnitude of
the city s business. With an an-
nual income now in excess of $2,-
900,000 and expenditures often
exceeding the revenue, the task |
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WACO, Oct. 3. — Altho a
committee of one hundred citi-
tens has offered a resolution to
I the county authorities holding the
I Ku Klux Klan blameless as far
as the gun figlt in the streets of
j Lorena Saturday night is concern-
ed, Judge R. I. Monroe has an-
nounce*) that the Melennan coun-
ty grand jury will be recalled to
investigate the affair.
The three men who were most
seriously wounded in the clash
were reported improved today and
their chances for recovery are
good.
Sheriff Bob Buchanan who led-
the attempt to stop the Klan pa-
rade and who was the first to tall
with a bullet in his shoulder, was
not allowed to talk at the hos-
pital here.
NEFF OFFERS AID
In a telephone conversation to-
day with County Attorney F. 11.
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JAKE WIFE FOR , Scout Takes
KNIFING MATE m,h
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SkRIOVSLY INJURED
H? I uited l’renn
WACO. Oct. 3.—-Four of
were conrned to hospitals
today. One of these was
Sheriff Bob Buchanan. The
others seriously injured
are
Louis Crow, proprietor of
a Waco laundry.
Policeman Ed Howard,
Waco
Carl West of Lorena
The other injured were
only slightly wounded.
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ITRIKE ENDS
4 took oftice The audit started
June 1 and has been under way
since that time. It embraces all
A Um ity departments and when
complete will afford a complete
purvey of the municipal finances
I The exact reason for the audit
has never been definitely stated,
What if anything, it is expected |
to unearth has not been told
However, at the time it was decid-
ed on there was much talk about
the City Hall as to the need for
it. There was considerable obscur-
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Siler, Leon M. The Fort Worth Press (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. [1], No. 1, Ed. 1 Monday, October 3, 1921, newspaper, October 3, 1921; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1552231/m1/1/: accessed June 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fort Worth Public Library.