Mercedes News-Tribune (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 34, Ed. 1 Friday, August 27, 1937 Page: 2 of 6
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MERCEDES NEWS-TRIBUNE
. Friday, August 27, 1937
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Phone 350
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Preaching, 11 A. M.
Prayer meeting Wednesday even-
ing, 8 P.M.
Street or R.F. D.
Town_______
ines at - 48 compared with 69
oranges a little higher than
year, 76 as compared with 72.
and
last
Only the District of Columbia and
New Jersey have stautes forbidding
corporal punishment in schools.
Tests at Colgate university prove
brain activity is better when the
feet are placed higher than the
head. This gives the .brain more
blood.
In 1907, three-fourths of the al-
falfa acreage in Nevada was de-
stroyed by a plague of burrowing
mice.
Church School classes under the
direction of Deaconess Bickford are
held during the service.
Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Cole and Mrs.
Harvey Russell, Jr. have returned
from El Paso where they have spent
the summer.
W. J. H. Goetz of Orange, Cali-
fornia and former resident of Mer-
ceCes, was here this week looking
after .his orchard property.
not too fat, especially at breeding
age. The grain mixture which is be-
ing used for the regular milking
herd if a good one is satisfactory
to use for the calves and heifers.
In order to be.in a position to
properly care for the feed of the
young herd, it is essential to provide
about three separate' pastures and
shelter for them. One barn and small
pasture for the milk fed calves, an-
other pasture with shelter for the
heifers between weaning age and
breeding age and another for the
heavy springing heifers. If a barn is
provided where the animals can be
fed individually the above arrange-
ment is not necessary but such a
barn would likely 'be more expensive
than separate sheds and pastures. If
the young herd is not separated on
the basis of their age and size the
larger, more thrifty animals will get
more than their share of the feed
and starve the younger and smaller
ones.
Breeding .age should be determin-
ed by the growth and development
of the individual. If a heifer grows
normally she should be bred at about
15 to 17 months of age speaking of
Jerseys. If they are small for their
age, the initial breeding should be
delayed until they attain more size.
Never let the bull run with the
young herd and breed heifers to
calves at a very young age because
this practically ruins many prospec-
tive good milk cows.
A single kerosene burner circulates the refrig-
erant, which produces food-preserving cold and
freezes ice cubes and desserts. There is no friction,
no noise, no moving, wearing parts. Owners report
that this ideal farm refrigerator not only makes
their work easier and their lives
happier, but also saves enough to
Washington Avenue and Third Street
Pastor: The Rev. Paul G. Brust
. Sunday school at 9:30 a. m.
English service at 10:45 a. m.
German services every 2nd and
4th Sundays at 9:30 a. m.
Sunday masses: 7 and 9 a. m.
Services every Sunday evening at
7:30 o’clock. . .
• PROTECT food perfectly the year round
• SAVE steps and kitchen work
• HAVE the joys of modern city refrigeration
Florida Grapefruit
Movement To Start
Soon; Crop Shorter
Weslaco
Mercedes
The .“South Seas”, depitied in a
current film production in reality is
a one-acre lagoon built on a- Holly-’
wood movie lot.
• HAVE plenty of ice cubes
• ENJOY delicious frozen desserts
• SERVE tempting new salads
Was dynamic power
life’s gift to him? Could
he still win if acidosis or
Edcouch
Donna
First Presbyterian
Missouri Avenue mid Fourth Street
Pastor: The Rev. Fred Clark.
H. T. Stotler, Sunday School
Superintendent; Mrs. H. T. Stotler,
pianist; Mrs. Randolph R. Sanders,
president of Women’s Auxiliary.
Sunday School at 9:45 a. m.
Preaching service at 11:00 a. m.
Evening services at 8 p. m.
District Leaders To Conduct
Four Classes In Local
Church Tuesday, Aug. 31.
At Mercedes
Churches
B. T. S. Meetings, Geo. P. Carnes,
General Director, 6:30 p. m.
Wednesday evening, prayer ser-
vice at 7:30 p. m.
Public Worship, 7:30 p. m.
Gentlemen: Please send me, without obli-
gation, complete information about Serve!
Electrolux, the Kerosene Refrigerator.
. Frogs don’t mind the sting of a
bee and will wait beside a hive for
their prey. Should they manage to
get inside the hive, however, the bees
quickly embalm the invader in wax.
Virginia Avenue and Fourth Street
J. Troy Hickman, Pastor.
Sundays, 9:45 a. m., Church School
Classes for Young People.
Sundays, 10:30 a. m., morning wor-
ship, including anthem and sermon.
Sundays, 6:30 p. m., evening meet-
ing for young people.
Tuesdays, 3 p. m., meetings of the
Missionary Society as announced.
Poultry Raising In
United States Returns
$1,000,000,000 Annually
Church of Christ
Ohio avenue and Sixth street.
Sunday school at 10; preaching
service at 11; prayer meeting Wed-
nesday evening at 7:45.
Good Prices Expected
For Oil, Gas Rights To
93 Tracts Of T. U. Land
Our LADY OF MERCY CHURCH
Vermont avenue and Third- street.
. Oblate Fathers.
Pastor: Rev. Joseph Rose, 0. M. I.
Baptist Leaders
Of Valley To Hold
Conference Hce
SACRED HEART CATHOLIC
Missouri avenue and sixth street
(American)—Phone 200
Pastor: the Rev. J. M. Lyons, O.
M. I.
Sunday mass at 10:00 a. m.
Second Sunday of each month,
mass at 7:30 a. m. .
Holy Days of Obligation, mass at
6:30 a. m.
Week day mass Tuesday and Fri-
day at 6:30 a. m.
Seventh Day Adventists
Meets at First Christian Church Building
In 300 Block on Sixth Street
Elder: Ben Oldemeyer.
Sabbath School, 9:45 A.M.
Feeding And Care Of Young Calves
Important To Dairy Development
Monrovia, the capital of Liberia,
is named after President James
Monroe of the United States.
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The cost of living rose 13 per cent
in Canada during 1936. It is esti-
mated that the U. S. rise for the
same period was only 5 per cent.
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A total of more than $250,000,000
has been spent on the Rock of Gi-
braltar, British fortress at the tip
of Spain, yet the rock produces
nothing.
Texas School Children
To Visit Exposition
Starting September 9
OWN IT ON
EASY PUR- . pay for itself. Write for literature.
RUNS ON KEROSENE-FOR FEW CENTS A DAY
(COAL OIL)
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Venice has 175 canals connecting
with the Grand Canal.
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In some states a man can’t mar-
ry either his mother-in-law or his
sister-in-law.
First Christian
Texas Ave. and Sixth Street
10:00 a. m. Sunday School.
11:00 a. m. Church Service.
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past ten years.
HAS NO MACHINERY TO WEAR
CARD OF THAUKS
We wish to express our appre-
ciation for the many beautiful flo-
ral offerings and other tokens of
sympathy received at the time of
the death of our father and brother
A. C. Newton, Sr.
Miss Francis Newton,
Miss Joe Ella Newton,
T. E. Newton,
A. C. Newton, Jr.,
Trudo Newton,
William Newton,
Mrs. Harry L. Morse.
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Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Lewis .re-
turned Thursday night from a three
weeks vacation trip. In Dallas Mr.
and Mrs. Lewis were guests in the
home of Mrs. Lewis’ mother, Mrs.
W. H. Rawlins. Mrs. Rawlins and
son Wiley Rawlins, Jr. accompanied
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis on the remaind-
er of their trip to St. Louis, Chica-
go, Detroit, Windsor, Canada; Cleve-
land where they attended the Great
Lakes Exposition; Ohio, Kentucky,
Tennessee and Arkansas.
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READ IT!
Mrs. W. R. Hoover and sons Da-
vid and Hal returned Wednesday
night from a two weeks vacation
spent in Galveston, Houston, San
Antonio and Cameron. In Cameron
they visited in the home of Mrs.
Hoover’s parents, Mt. and Mrs. J.
F. Plasters. Mrs. Frank Plasters, Jr.
and son Burgess of Buffalo, Texas
returned to Mercedes with Mrs.
Hoover and sons and are now guests
in the Hoover home.
“Dogprinting” has been devised
in Hollywood to protect against
theft .of valuable canine pets.
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First Church of Christ, Scientist,
of Mercedes, a branch, of The
Mother Church, The First Church of
Christ, Scientist, in Boston.
Sunday School 9:45 a. m.
Services: Sunday, 11:00 a. m.;
Church Services, Wednesday, 8:00
p. m.
Washington, D. C., has more tele-
phones per hundred of population
‘than any other city in the United
States. The ratio is 36 telephones
to every 100 persons, with San
Francisco ranking second with 25.5
per 100. -
Without an equal in the thorough way
local news is covered, the News-Tribune prides
itself as well on the advertising which appears
in its columns. Readers of this publication can
rely upon this advertising as being not only
informative but trustworthy, not only atten-
tion-getting but clean.
If you buy the News-Tribune on the news-
stands, be sure to have your dealer set one aside
for you. The best way to get all the local news
which you wish to know, of course, is to
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District Five Baptist Women’s
Missionary Union will hold the first
of a series of young people’s leaders
conferences in Mercedes First Bap-
tist Church next Tuesday, August
31, starting at 8:30 a. m. Confer-
ences will be directed by Mrs. James
Hicks of Woodsboro, district young
people’s leader.
Baptist young people’s leaders
from over the Valley will attend
the conference in Mercedes. Four
classes will be conducted on the
study of mission work in Palestine,
the subject to be taken up in Bap-
tist young people’s organizations
during the coming months. Classes
here will be in charge of Mrs. Hicks,
of Woodsboro, Mrs. Quinn of Bee-
ville, Mrs. Amerine of George West
and Mrs. G. E. Warren of Sinton.
Other conferences in the district
will be held in the Corpus Christi
Association at Freer, September 1;
Park Avenue Baptist Church, Cor-
pus Christi, September 2; in Blanco
Association, at Taft Baptist Church,
Taft, September 3.
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Mrs. T. M. Carter and Evelyn
and Alfred Ferguson spent last
week-end at Boca Chica.
other functional disorder
troubled him? No. Physi-
cal skill is the sum of in-
herent health plus the will
to live simply, train rig-
idly and, with physician’s
care, correct health hind-
The 1937-38 crop of Florida cit-
rus will start movement to market
within a few days according to re-
ports from Jacksonville, Florida.
The first fruit will come from the
extreme southern end of the penin-
sula, Dade, Lee and Manatee coun-
ties being the early producers of
fruit. But once the movement starts,
other sections come into the deal
shortly afterwards and the volume
of grapefruit going out early in
September has been at times more
than the markets were able to ab-
sorb with profit to growers and
shippers.
Generally speaking, the outlook
for the coming season is considered
favorable by most of the citrus in-
dustry. While there are no unusual
conditions in prospect to give rise to
hope that this will be a phenomenal
season, there is also nothing that
looks as though it would depress the
deal disastrously. It is generally be-
lieved demand for citrus fruit this
year will be favorable, judging from
improved conditions of the country,
increased consumer buying power.
The Florida crop last year was
the largest on record. This season’s
crop may not be quite as large as
last year, when 40,000,000 boxes
were produced, as the tangerine and
grapefruit crop is considerably be-
low that of last year. The late gov-
ernment crop report places the
grapefruit crop, at 52 per cent of
norma on August 1 as compared
with 71 per cent a year ago, tanger-
chasing a milk substitute because,
on the average, dairymen will have
Robert and Harold Miller left
Monday morning for Dallas where
they are Spending the week attend-
ing the Greater Texas and Pan
American Exposition. They were
joined at Corsicana by H. T. Tid-
more, Jr. who has been visiting rela-
tives in Malakoff.
the cow when only a few days old as
it will be easier to teach to drink
from a pail than if left with the
cow a week or longer. In hand feed-
ing calves there are several precau-
tions to consider: do not over feed,
three to four pounds fed twice daily
is sufficient; feed at regular inter-
vals; feed milk at the same tempera-
ture at which it is drawn from the
cow;, keep pails used in feeding milk
absolutely clean and sterile; prevent
calves from sucking each other after
milk feeding, because they will form
a habit of sucking which will be
lasting and hard to break and if
allowed to continue throughout calf-
hood and as heifers many will have
udders with blind quarters when
they become milk cows; provide
clean and dry shelter and isolate all
sick calves just as soon as their ail-
ment can be detected; at about three
weeks, of 'age the calves should be
fed grain and hay. Prairie hay is
preferable to alfalfa for young
calves. If possible provide pasturage
after the age of one month.
The best feed for calves under
six months of age is whole milk,
however it is expensive and skim-
milk can be used satisfactorily after
the calf gets a good start from
whole milk. Various experiments
which have been conducted on calf
feeding indicate .that whole milk
should be fed at least until the calf
is two weeks old and preferably un-
til it is two months of age. In the
South most dairymen use skimmilk
.when whole milk feeding is discon-
tinued and until there is a better
market developed for skimmilk I see . . .
no reason for selling it and pur- . Houston.—Poultry raising, which
• a 1 T 18 an important factor to the in-
The gun! They’re off!
And only one shall break
the tape, to win the
crowd’s acclaim.
better success raising calves on milk
than when a milk substitute is used.
The change from whole to skimmilk
feeding should be gradual, usually
a week is required for the complete
change, and as the calf increases in
age the amount of skimmilk feed
can be increased up to about 16
pounds daily at weaning time or
about 5 to 6 months of age.
After the calf is weaned the
amount of grain and hay to be fed
should be increased. It is advisable
to keep hay before the calves at all
times but the amount of grain to
be fed will depend upon the amount
and quality of pasturage and .will
vary from one to about five pounds
per calf daily. Some calves will re-
quire more grain than others to keep
in good growing condition and the
best index of whether or not a young
dairy animal is being fed enough is
the amount of flesh it carries. Keep
them in good flesh at all times, but.
First Baptist
Fifth street and Missouri avenue.
Pastor. The Rev. E. V. May.
Bible School. 9:45 a. m. W.
Sproles, Superintendent. - ,
Public Worship, 11:00 a. m.
Dallas. — Statewide movement of
school children to the Greater Texas
and Pan American Exposition has
won the endorsement of Dr. N. R.
Crozier, Dallas school superintend-
ent 'and outstanding Texas educa-
tor. The school movement .starts
September 9.
“Governor Allred is to be con-
gratulated on proclaiming holidays
for every Texas school so that stu-
dents may visit this great interna-
tional show,” Dr. Crozier said. •
“I appeal to the teachers of Tex-
as to interest themselves immediate-
ly in this movement. Beyond ques-
tion two days at the Exposition,
which visit can be made at a nomi-
nal cost, is of far greater value than
the same time in the class room.
The Cavalcade of the Americas, the
Texas Hall of State, the Museum of
Texas History, the Pan American
Building, all free, are alone well
worth the trip.
“Since the railroads have granted
the extra low rate of half a cent a
mile, and the Exposition manage-'
ment has made every arrangement
to entertain visitors at nominal
prices, I feel that every Texas school
child should be given this oppor-
tunity for education and amuse-
ment.”
Austin. — Unusually good prices
are expected for the oil and gas
rights to 93 tracts of land embrac-
ing 15,076 acres owned by The Uni-
versity of Texas and situated in
Crane, Ector and Andrews counties,
which will be offered for lease at
public auction October 22. The fact
that most of these tracts Are in or
adjacent to areas where lease and
drilling activities are receiving
much attention on the part of major
and independent operators is regard-
ed as placing the University lands in
an unusually favorable position at
' this time.
Another factor that promises to
stimulate the demand for leases of
oil and gas rights on land owned
by the University in Andrews Coun-
ty is' that marked success has re-
cently been had in opening up big
production in Gaines County, locat-
ed just to. the north of Andrews.
Only a few days ago the Continental
Oil Company completed a well in
Gaines County which had a report-
ed initial flow of nearly 1,400 bar-
rels daily.
The block which the University
owns in Andrews County is regard-
ed by petroleum geologists as un-
usually well situated as far as oil
possibilities are concerned. This land
lies on the southern edge of the
South Plains, an altitudinal and
comparatively level region covering
eastern New Mexico and a group
of about fourteen counties in Tex-
as. It is part of the.2,000,000' acres
of land endowment owned by the
University in West Texas, and up-
on which there are' already several
oilfields.
Not a great many years ago the
theory that oil and gas in commer-
cial quantities were to be found in
that area, which has an elevation,
ranging from 3,000 to 3,400 feet,
found little if any support of geolo-
gists. Outside of the .Hobbs and one
or two other fields in New Mexico
which are situated on the South
Plains, comparatively little explora-
tion for oil has been made in that
region. On the Texas side of the
South Plains oil and gas produc-
tion has been obtained in ’Andrews,
Gaines, Yoakum, Cochran and Daw-
■son counties. A number of the ma-
gjor companies during the past year
have purchased extensive leases in
all of the southern and western
group of counties of the plains ter-
I ritory.
I Attention was turned recently to
I Lynn County by the fact that one
' company has blocked 12,000 acres
upon which it will drill several
tests. Considerable wildcat drilling
is also being done at this time in
Terry County. With oil production
on all sides of the 294,000 acres of
University lands in Andrews Coun-
ty, the situation is regarded as very
favorable for production on that
acreage.
By 0. C. Copeland,
Dairy Husbandman, Texas Agri-
cultural Experiment Station
The new-born calf is very sensi-
tive to the treatment it receives.and
has but little resistance to certain
diseases. It is wise to provide the
cow at calving time with comfort-
able surroundings sheltered both
from cold and wet weather or the
hot sun. Soon after the young calf
is born the base of the naval cord
should be treated with iodine to pre-
vent infection. It is very important
to feed the young calf its mother’s
milk for the first two days because
this first milk, called “colostrum”
helps protect, the young calf against
digestive diseases and starts proper
function of the calf’s digestive or-
gans.
Calves can either be hand fed milk
from a pail or run with a nurse
cow since both methods of milk
feeding are satisfactory. If hand
fed the calf should be taken from
Christ Episcopal
Third Street between Indiana and
Vermont Avenues
Rector: The Rev. R. A. Martin.
Regula? Services and Sunday
School at 9 a. m.
9 a. m. Morning Prayer with
comes of Texas farmers, forms a
portion of the activities on more
than 5,000,000 farms throughout the
United States, bringing an annual
income in excess of $1,000,000,000.
Texas ranks third in the. United
States in the production of all poul-
try products and annually sells ap-
proximately 110,000,000 dozen eggs.
Statistics concerning poultry rais-
ing in Texas as well as other sec-
tions of the United States have
been collected by Mrs. Julia Codou,
chairman of the Poultry committee
of the Houston Chamber of Com-
merce, and Mrs. H. L. Roark, presi-
dent • of the Gulf Coast Poultry
Council. 0 - *
Mrs. Roark pointed out that nor-
mally the value of poultry and eggs
is greater than the value of all cat-
tle raised in this country.
“A survey recently showed that
the eggs produced in the United
States during one year brought
$300,000,000 more than did the na-
tion’s wheat crop. Their value was
seven times greater than the value'
of the tobacco crop and seven times
that of the sugar cane crop,” Mrs.
Roark said.
"There are more than 5,000,000
farms on which poultry is raised”,
she continued. “The estimated in-
come from this activity is placed in
excess of $1,000,000 a year. And in
the vast majority of instances poul-
try raising is a “sideline” on these
farms. Poultrykeeping has become
one of the most important indus-
tries in this country, both as an ex-
clusive business and as an inciden-
tal phase of a general farming pro-
gram.
“With poultry products, more
than any other kind of product, one
can determine months in advance
the approximate price to be realiz-
ed”, Mrs., Roark continued.
Texas ranks first in the United
States as a producer of turkeys and
third in production of poultry .pro-
ducts. Harris County ranks third in
the state. x
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