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THE MERIDIAN TRIBUNE
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1936
The Meridian Tribune
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New State Welfare Plan Studied.
A bill creating a State Board of
Public Welfare which would
absorb the Old Age Assistance
Commission, the Texas Relief Com-
mission and the Division of Child
Welfare of the Board of Control,
will be studied by the Texas Plan-
ning Board in Austin on Friday,
Sept. 18. The bill and the recom-
mendations of the Board then will
be forwarded to Gov. James V. All-
red.
The bill, drafted by the Planning
Board’s government and social as-
pects committee, provides for a
board of nine members, appointed
by the Governor, to administer old
age assistance, aid to dependent
children, assistance to the needy
blind; general home or family re-
lief; supervise all child welfare ser-
vices; cooperate with the Federal
Social Security Board, and fix the
fees to be paid to ophthalmologists
and eye specialists for the examin-
ation of applicants for assistance
as needy blind persons.
To faciliate the work of the Wel-
fare Board, the bill provides for
the creation in counties, or in dis-
tricts, which may include two or
more counties, local units of ad-
ministration to serve as agents of
the State Board. These county or
district boards in turn would be
served by local advisory units.
The county or district boards
would be named from list's of rep-
resentative citizens furnished to
the State Board by the commis-
sioners courts.
The State Board of Public Wel-
fare also would have the power to
supervise and license all private
institutions, boarding homes and
agencies providing assistance, care
or other direct services to depend-
ent, neglected or delinquent chil-
dren, the aged, blind, feeble mind-
ed and otherwise dependent per-
sons.
The Texas Hall of State, a $1,-
250,000 structure recently open-
ed at the Texas Centennial Expo-
sition was designated as “the West-
minster Abbey of the New World”
by former Gov. Pat M. Neff. It
houses relics valued at many mil-
lions of dollars.
. More than 17,000 Texans died
unnecessarily during 1934, accord-
ing to a report just issued by the
Texas Planning Board’s public
health committee. In each in-
stance death was caused by a
preventable disease. The report
also points out that Texas spends
10.73 cents per capita to protect
domestic animals from disease but
spends only 3.68 cents per capita
for disease control among human
beings.
Texas school children have had
a break. They are to be escorted
in groups for a visit to the Texas
Centennial Exposition—and will
receive full credits on their studies.'
"The Centennial is educational,”
explains Governor Allred.
School started off like a well-oil-
ed machine. Have to hand it to
Judge York and the faculty.
When Rainmaker Mac did get
through with his vacation and get
to work he did a good job. Over
six inches of rain and it has been
a honey. Sure enough looks like
it is not over yet.
Grand jury and district court
starts next week and will be a big
court, lots of criminal cases to
take care of and of course some of
the petty officers will have them
run a bunch of rabbit cases also.
There will be several interesting
trials in District Court this term.
The monthly report on produce
this month was disastrous. To the
produce trade, eggs, cheese, cream,
butter, dressed poultry and tur-
keys, also fryers, eggs, stocks are
very heavy and some above the 5-
year average. This report, with
the losses the trade has taken in
the past several years, has taken
all the speculation demand out of
market and only buying immediate
needs.
The turkey crop for the United
States is large. Texas has a 20
per cent increase over last year,
but quality is spotted. They are
either of good quality or very
poor, no mediums at all. By that
we mean one flock of turkeys are
well-feathered, of good size and
doing fine. The next flack is
stunted,, not uniform in size, pinny
and lots of culls.
What makes a very bad situa-
tion for dresser there will be 40
per cent less dressing plants in
Texas this year. None of us want
too many Texas turkeys on Nov-
ember market. Thanksgiving
comes early this year, the 26th,
which makes Nov. 12 and 13 last
days to dress in Texas for Nov-
ember market. So Mr. Turkey
raiser, it will be necessary for you
to market your good No. 1 turkeys
you want to sell for November
orderly, and keep the rest for
Xmas deal. The dressing plants
cannot possibly handle the Texas
crop in 36 hours like the past cou-
ple of years. We will do all we
can to cash your turkeys for you
and buy only what we can dress
and handle each day. In other
words the turkey situation this
year will be like ginning cotton.
You will have to take your turn, so
if you wait till the last hour to sell
don’t get angry at your produce
dealer if he can’t handle your
turkeys, as a certain amount of
tonnage is all that can go through
their plants in 24 hours.
Turkeys picking will be higher
this year and we will need lots of
pickers. Would really like three
eight-hour shifts or two 10-hour
shifts of pickers. Please tell
everyone when the turkeys start
moving we will need pickers and
can make some real Xmas money
this year. The more pickers we
get the more turkeys we can buy.
Now Mr. Turkey raiser, please
remember this: We hope the mar-
ket is high. We can make more
money off of high turkeys than we
can cheap turkeys. We will buy
all we can handle on the market.
It’s not going to be a question of
buying turkeys, it’s going to be a
question of dressing and handling.
We know we can buy more than
we can handle, so it’s a labor prop-
osition. The more labor we get
the more we can buy, so help us
get labor. We have all the skilled
labor we need, but need all the
pickers we can get and are willing
to pay good wages for their work,
so if you want a lot of money kept
at home please help us. We will
need it. i
Felix, believe it or not, had me
drive the first stake. Will some
one please furnish me with a small
amount of orange paint so can
paint it. Sure enough, sand ar-
riving, architect busy and it’s go-
ing to be a honey, but will take
some time to build as it is larger
and more complicated than the
boy friend said it was going to be.
Fall is here. In fact, ham and
eggs for breakfast taste good
again. Boy, oh boy, hasn’t this
been one summer.
Have you ever seen labor as
scarce and everyone busy and
working like they are now.
Business is sure good; in fact,
all of Meridian merchants and bus-
iness houses overworked, and hav-
ing a hard time keeping their
stacks up. There must be a rea-
son. If you see it in their ads it’s
so. Just look, over these mer-
chant’s names and see the reason:
Patteson, Burchfields, Chas.
Gandy, City Market & Grocery,
Farmers State Bank, Grimes &
Sheppard, E. N. Smith, Word’s
Barber Shop, Wansley’s, Davis
Barber Shop, Roquemore’s Big
Department Store, F. • R. Odle,
Jack’s Cafe, Turner Drug, then
add the filling stations, public uti-
lities, shops, and garages and 0 boy,
that’s the reason and believe it or
not 70 per cent of the gang are
young men and is competition
keen, it’s really tough. Then our
dentists, doctor and lawyers and
courthouse gang, and you have it,
and by the way, looks like Bosque
county is going to get a hospital
or sanitarium and it right air Me-
ridian and we sure need it and
want it bad.
Try your stores on eggs these
days. Local demand greater and
higher than foreign market.
We all thank you for the busi-
ness you have given us and we all
appreciate it and want your tur-
keys and produce business from
here on out. But please believe
us when we tell you we don’t know
what the turkey deal will be this
year and from our standpoint as a
dresser we are afraid of it; in. fact,
we dread it. Maybe we are all
just overworked and tired as you
all have sure poured it on us this
summer..
Saturday night is our last day
this season to be open all night.
Will close at 7 p.m. and will not be
open Sunday afternoon. Please
make you arrangements to let us
have Sunday afternoon and nights
off, but. if you have to have us,
call night phone 74 and we will be
glad to service you in an emer-
gency.
Trade where the blue trucks
call.
FARM BOYS TO SHARE
IN $8,000 XMAS GIFT
LOANS TO FARMERS:
Farm boys will share in an $8,-
000 Christmas stocking when the
greatest junior livestock show ever
attempted is staged at thet Texas
Centennial Exposition Nov. 7-14.
The premium sum is the largest
ever offered at a junior, show of
this kind.
The show, open to Texas 4-H
club boys and Future Farmers,
brings the exposition livestock act-
ivities to a close, the longest pro-
gram of its kind ever attempted
NOT MUCI
for a Short Haul
YOU wouldn’t charge much for a
short haul. Neither do we charge
you much for a short loan.
For example, if you borrow
$1000 we charge you interest at
5% a year, as follows:
3 months..
6 months..
9 months..
12 months..
$12.50
.. 25.00
.. 37.50
.. 50.00
Farmers are borrowing from us
to grow crops, raise livestock, im-
prove their dairy herds, and for
general farm purposes. They pay
when the crop or livestock financed
is sold.
A phone call or post card will
bring you complete details.
WACO PRODUCTION
CREDIT ASSOCIATION
412 FRANKLIN, WACO, TEXAS
Local Representative
Edwin Spitzer, Meridian, Texas
Office: Avirett’s Insurance Agency
and running five and a half
months.
Beef and dairy cattle, horses
and mules, sheep, angora goats,
and swine.
The exposition will launch a
new departure in this show by
opening a class in the beef division
for Santa Gertrudis cattle, the
first time anything in a competi-
tive nature has been offered on
this breed. Santa Gertrudis were
originated by the King Ranch at
Kingsville and for the first time
since they were developed after
sixteen years of experiment, they
were shown at the exposition dur-
ing the non-competitive season.
A $50 cash award will be paid
the owner of the grand champion
Santa Gertrudis steer.
Total premiums on beef cattle,.
Hereford, Shorthorn, Aberdeen-
Angus and Santa Gertrudis will
amount to $2,711.
The dairy department, Jersey
and Holstein-Friesian, will pay
$828 in awards; draft and saddle
horses and mules, $543; sheep, in-
cluding Rambouillet breeding, fat
sheep of the fine wool and mutton
type and lambs, $1,336. The
grand champion wether will be
awarded $25 and $50 will be paid
on the champion carload of lambs.
The angora goat division, $200
premiums, will be divided into
three sections, B and C type and
champions.
The swine department, $2,662
premiums, will include Berkshire,
Duroc, Hampshire and Poland-
LOANS TO FARMERS.
China breeding stock and the same
breeds in the fat swine division
with $2’5 going to the owner of the
grand champion barrow. There
will also be a division for litters.
H.D. and 4-H
Clubs
Down Memory Lane
25
ARCS
Fall Gardens Needed.
The shortage of canned vegeta-
bles from the spring garden em-
phasizes the need of special efforts
to grow a fall garden.
Preparation of the soil: “Fall
gardening is a waste of time,” says
J. F. Rosborough, Extension Horti-
culturist, “unless the soil is thor-
oughly prepared.” A growth of
weeds and dried vegetables turned
under heat and dry out the soil
above and prevent thorough culti-
vation, so Mr. Rosborough recom-
mends that these be pulled up or
cut and taken out of the garden
and the soil pulverized before seed
are planted.
Have a Variety of Vegetables:
Too often the fall garden consists
of sowing turnips and collards;
these are good, but why not in-
elude a few other hardly vegeta-
bles? Carrots and beets are two
plants that withstand cool weath-
er. Swiss Chard is another vege-
table that grows well in cooler
weather. Early Alaska English
Peas mature in 40 to 50 days as
well as stringless green pod beans.
To have green onions for table
use through the winter Mr. Ros-
borough advises the putting out of
onion sets now. Icicle or China
Winter-Rose radishes, are good
varieties and the Shogoin turnip
is a lice resisting variety.
Treat Seed for Disease: Seri-
ous plant diseases are often car-
ried on the seed. Mr. Rosborough
recommends the soaking, of cab-
bage seed in hot water at 122 de-
grees for 25 minutes, Cauliflower,
broccoli, kale, and collards seed
for 15 minutes to destroy black
rot and leaf spot spores on them.
“To be able to remodel our
home to give us a nice, light, and
airy dining room also add another
bedroom makes me happy,” said
Mrs. T. J. Sockwell, co-operator in
the Mosheim Home Demonstration
Club Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Sock-
well have utilized part of a long,
ten-foot-wide screened-in porch
on the south side of the house by
glassing it in for the dining room,
using a flat cream paint to finish
the wood work, cream and blue
material for curtains and soft blue
for some of the furnishings, and
have a very attractive place in
which to serve the meals.
The room formerly used as a
dining room has been made into
a bedroom. Repairing and refin-
ishing some of the woodwork and
furniture for it has made a cozy
bedroom which was needed by the
family. Mrs. Sockwell is also
completing two nice hooked rugs
made from old garments.—Nan J.
Mangold, C.H.D.A.
Steiner H.D. Club.
After the minutes of the last
meeting were read and approved,
kitchen and wardrobe demonstra-
tions for another year were dis-
cussed when the H.D. Club met
with Mrs. W. A. Jones, Wednesday
afternoon, Sept. 9.
Next year, Mrs. Jones will act
as kitchen demonstrator and Mrs.
W. K. Vinson will act as wardrobe
demonstrator.
‘Vegetables in the School
Lunch,” was demonstrated by Mrs.
Mangold. She made three kinds
of sandwiches which were served
to seven members and one visitor.
The next meeting, will be with
Mrs. W. K. Vinson, Oct. 14.—Re-
porter.
NOTICE.
New low rates over Central
Texas Bus Line, Meridian to Fort
Worth—$1.55.
Leave Grimes & Sheppard’s at
8:30 a.m.
Leaves Meridian 1:50 p.m. for
Cleburne, Ft. Worth.
Joe Hyde, Operator.
FOR LEASE—100 acres, about
65 in cultivation, 6% miles north-
east Meridian, good well water,
four room house. F. L. McCoy,
Rt. 1, Waco, Texas. adv-17p
If interested in Farms, Stock
Farms or Grass Lands of any kind
at Bargain on easy terms, get in
touch with E. A. Tweedy at 1013
Professional Building, Waco, or at
Valley Mills, Texas. ad-19-p
FOR RENT—For standing rent,
my place where Robt. Cole now
lives. S. C. Barnes, 1700 Ross
Ave., Waco.
adv-2 Op
Texas feldspar deposits are be-
ing investigated by eastern manu-
facturers who have requested in-
formation from the Texas Plan-
ning Board about the deposits.
The present supply of feldspar in
Ohio is reported to be nearly ex-
hausted. Feldspar is used in glaz-
ing pottery.
A nation-wide survey of the
wool scouring industry is being
made for the Texas Planning
Board by Hawley, Freese and
Nichols, industrial engineers of
Fort Worth. The survey will de-
termine the feasibility of establish-
ing wool scouring plants and wool-
en yarn mills in Texas. -
From The Tribune, Sept. 22, 1911.
Reports of the following coun-
ty officials were approved: P. S.
Hale, county judge; H. S. Dillard,
county attorney; H. W. Randal,
sheriff; Robt. Summers, district
clerk; D. J. Cutbirth, county clerk;
S. M. Thomas, tax assessor.
Gov. Jos. K. Vardeman of Miss-
issippi will lecture at the college
auditorium, Oct. 3.
Rex White left for Philadelphia,
Pa. where he will attend a medical
college.
Elmo Alexander left for George-
town where he will attend the Uni-
versity at that place.
Miss Radie Campbell, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Campbell,
and Will Johnson were united in
marriage at the home of the of-
ficating minister, Rev. R. R. Iley.
They left to make their home at
Jud, in western Texas.
Gentry Bros. All New Feature
Shows will exhibit in Meridian,
Oct. 6.
The “Home Green” gun club ex-
pects to have lots of sport target
shooting at the County Fair.
. This Week in Texas History.
Week of September 13.
1832—On September 14, the
first and second alcaldes of the
jurisdiction of Austin issued a call
to all Texans to elect a convention
from their districts to assemble at
San Felipe de Austin on October
1.
1835—On September 19, Austin
sent a call to arms to the colonists.
He said, “War is our only re-
source.”
1842-—Following the serious at-
tacks on San Antonio, the Gover-
nor and heads of departments tem-
porarily moved their offices from
Austin to Washington September
20.
1844—Members of the Mier ex-
pedition were released September
16 by Santa Anna. Seventeen
out of 159 were executed earlier
in the year.
1883—The inauguration of the
University of Texas took place
September 15 in the west wing of
the building on College Hill.
Ashbel Smith was president of the
board of regents.—Texas State
College for Women (CIA).
Special to Teachers, Students!
A weekly letter from home, The
Meridian Tribune, sent to your
school address, now until
next
June, nine months, $1.00. Reg-
ular price, $1.50 per year. Keep
posted on home town affairs while
away. Send or bring, your order
to The Tribune today.
Blindfolded, W. N. Kendall of
Lufkin recently played eight gam-
es of chess simultaneously at the
Texas Centennial Exposition. He
won four of the games, lost two
and drew two.
When the National Pigeon Show
was held at the Texas Centennial
Exposition recently it was found
that all acrobats are not confined
to humans. There were 1,500
pigeons, many of which were “tum-
blers”—skilled in back-flops and
Other acrobatic stunts.
• There is a treat
for you in the new
sports department
that is now a reg-
ular feature of this
paper...
Hugh
Bradley
Says:
in whatever sport you may
be interested, and how-
ever great your interest
may be in that sport, you
will enjoy Hugh Bradley’s
vivid and sparkling com-
ments. A distinguished
sports authority, Bradley
writes on this subject with
an insight commanding
respect from both athletes
and the general public.
Watch for this inter-
esting weekly feature
....you will get
from it a lot of enjoy-
ment as well as much
useful information.
Former Citizen Passes Away.
T. P. Thomas, formerly a citizen
of Meridian and well-known in this
section, died at the home of his
daughter in Millett, Texas, Aug.
20, 1936. ,
He was employed by the old
First National Bank here during
the time the late J. W. Rudasill
was its head.
Mr. Thomas had been a resident
of San Antonio the past 35 years,
and was 88 years old at the time
of his death. He was a native of
Wales, as was also his wife, Mrs.
Mary A. Hughes Thomas, who died
in 1919.
He is survived by three daugh-
ters and one son: Mrs. J. F. Scarff,
Waco; Mrs. Chas. Harr, Millett;
Mrs. L. K. Matejka, Brownsville,
and R. A. Thomas, Cresson. Six
grandchildren and seven great-
grandchildren also survive.
Funeral services were held at
the home in San Antonio, Aug. 21.
For the first time in all history,
the Confederate flag stood at half-
mast for a United States official.
The banners on the grounds of
the Texas Centennial Exposition
were lowered on the day of the
funeral of the late Secretary Geo-
rge H. Dern.
St. Olaf Lutheran Church,
Cranfills Gap.
Sunday, Sept. 20:
9:30 a.m.—Sunday school.
10:45 a.m.—Morning Worship
at the Gap.
8:00 p.m.—Luther League.
Monday, 8 p.m.—Male Chorus.
Wednesday, 8 p.m. — Mixed
Choir.
Saturday, 10 a.m.—Enrollment
of Youth for Catechetical instruc-
tion.
Walter J. Maakestad, Pastor.
Typewriter Ribbons, 50c at The Tribune.
BLUE BONNET
Beauty Shop
Meridian, Texas
THE FLACE WHERE YOUR
BEAUTY WORK
IS APPRECIATED.
Permanents, $1.50 to $5.00.
Manicures, 35c
Facial, 50c.
Sham Set and Dry, 50c.
Operator
MRS. MOZELLE HANNA
ST
Food Prices Are
Going UP
--but electricity is cheaper
than ever
FOOD prices have risen steadily from their
depression lows. Today it costs you one-third
more to fill your market basket than it did four
years ago. Clothing, shoes and other items in
the cost of living also have advanced in price.
In fact, probably the only thing you buy that
has not increased but actually decreased in cost
is electricity—which costs the average customer
of this company 20% less for the same amount
of use than it did four years ago. While other
prices have been going up, electricity has been
coming down. Your electric dollar is worth more
now than ever before in history.
A Citizen and ;
I a Taxpayer I j
FOMM UN/
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SERVICE
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Alert and Eager
| To Serve You
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