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THE BASTROP ADVERTISER
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KNTH-EIGHTH YEAR
BASTROP, BASTROP COUNTY, THURSDAY, MARCH lit, 1931
NUMBER 1
L I
JASTROP COUNTY CLUBS TO PRESENT
feCEANT AT CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION
H ATI ON HOLDS INTEREST* Cooperation. Mrs. B. D. Ordain is
'■ MEEIlNlf HERE SATUR* chairman of this committee ami re-
ATE il D. *! !U OUEOT — **
EAKER county are to work with her
in the
in this
la
I undertaking.
One new club, Watterson Commun-
ity was cordially welcomed as a mem-
ber ot the County Federation. In-
teresting club reports were received
from the following clubs: Bastrop
P. T. A.; Bastrop Reading Circle,;
Cedar Creek Community; County
Council of Women; Elgin New Cen-
tury Club; Elgin P. I'. A.; Upton
( oinmunity; Smithville 1*. T. A.;
I Smithville Women's Club; Wayside
and Watterson Com-
l. s. DEPARTMENT OF AGRI-
CULTURE RADIO PJIOGKAM.
MARCH .HQ, APRIL 4
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95
ty
on—
The Bastrop County Federation of
{bs ha«i a splendid meeting in the
ipacious and attractive Public Lib-
xry room in the handsome new City
iall hie re last Saturday afteilnuon.
Jon* GO or more members and
iriend were present. Mrs. R. M.
Hpt', president, presided, and a
tumb* i ol° interesting items of busi-
IIHl v •■*••• disposed id'.
Ste] >s were taken to get commit. Community;
;ees at work on u pageant depicting munity.
Baatr< ] C unty anil its growth at It was agreed that the Annual All-
che C -ntennial Celebration planned day Meeting of the Federation would
to take place in June, by the lias- convene at Bastrop on the second
troplAdvertiser. The pageant is to Saturday in May, each club bringing
to presented by the clubs of the its own basket lunch for its members
county, including all rural 4-H clubs, and guests. Mrs. Handle is expecting
with Mrs. Girtha Vest as director, each club in the county to contribute
and mil be on the order of the "Tex-(some entertaining number on the
U, the Magnificent" pageant present- day's program at that time.
•d Ifst Summer at A. & M. College. ———
However, the history of .Bastrop Miss Morton Speaks to Clubs
Couajty wi" ke presented, rather than Saturday's program was given by
the Iistory of Texas. the Department of the American
Sich club in the county is re- Home, and Miss Mildred Horton, the
quefliti'1 to' name its own representa- State Home Demonstration Agent
Sve on this committee without delay, from A. & M. College was the guest
10 thai immediate steps can be taken speaker, at which time she spoke on
to get the program and details under Home-making. Her talk was of an
w y. The general committee will inspirational nature, and proved to be
■oon be called together Hy the County very interesting to her
Federation presdient, and it is hoped present
•11 clubs and citizenship of the entire i haying
County will lend their assistance in
presenting this very interesting pag-
eant.
Five
to the
The first of a series of National
Farm and Home Hour talks to be
ielivered in late March and early
April, dealing with the probable pre-
valence and the control of most in-
jurious species of plant and animal
insects in 1U31, will be heard during
the Department of Agriculture per-
iods of the National Farm and Home
Hour in the week beginning Monday
March 30.
Dr. W. II. Larrimer, in charge of
investigations of cereal and forage
crop insects, will open the series on
Monday, March .'50. The second talk
will be delivered on Thursday, April
'J, by Dr. B. A. Porter, of the division
of deciduous-fruit insect, Bureau of
Entomology.
The department period of the Na-
ional Farm and Home Hour on Tucs-
<uy March 31, will be devoted to the
second March meeting of the Pro-
gressive Garden Club, with W. R.
lleattie, horticulturist, presiding.
The National 4-H Club program of
Saturday, April 4, will include, be-
tides the fifth Music Achievement
Test broadcast by the United States
Marine Band, talks by 4-H Club
members and leaders of Indiana and
New Hampshire.
to her listeners. All
felt greatly benefited by
come in contact with her
striking personality and the ideas
she presented.
Announcements were made of the
dollars was voted to be sent coming Child Welfare program to be
Fifth District Scholarship and I presented at Smithville Women's
Loan Fund, $1.00 was ordered sent
to the fund being gotten up through-
out the state to have the name of
Mrs. Percy V. Pennybacker placed
on the Founders Roll at State teder-
tion Headquarters soon to be erected
at Austin and money was set aside
for Scholarships t«> tShort < our*'
•at A. A M. College this summer with
,quite a number of persons joining as
individual members a' this meeting
j>0 that their $1.00 membership fee
}could be applied to said fund.
_ , J A « > nut tee t(. nominate officers
for th'1 coming bi-etimum was ap-
point' wi h Mrs.. W. H. farter of
. Elgin as cl airman of same, and a
jeonir «a- appointed to secure
if po- il'h a -ite fot a ro.intj paik^
las ou' med ''J Mi- Sam .1. smith
Austi
late
Chairman ot
of
Rural
Club under the leadership of Mrs.
J. I). Jones, Fifth District Chairman
of Child Welfare, and of the coming
Art Exhibit sent out by the Texas
Fine Arts association to be held at
Bastrop soon under the sponsorship
of the Bastrop Beading Circle. All
dub members are cordially invited
to attend both of these meetings.
Additional guests present at the
meeting were Mrs. Girtha Vest,
County Home Demonstration Agent,
I who introduced the Centennial Png-
leant to the club for their coopera-
tion; W. S. Millington, County Agent
and Fred G. Haynie, County Superin-
tendent of schools, both of whom, up-
on being presented by the chair.
I gave a few brief and pointed re
marks on their attitude and interest
in the homes of Hastrop County.
SANITATION FOR CHICKS
Sanitation is essential in the .suc-
cessful brooding |of (chicks. Brood
coops, brooders and brooder houses
get dirty and if thev are not disin-
fected the chicks are more likely to
become infected with such diseases
as coccidiosis and bacillarv white dia-
rhea. This disease, commonly known
as b. w. d., is communicable, and is
transmitted through the egg. 'One
of the best ways to eradicate it is
to remove all infected breeders. Thor-
ough disinfection of brooding equip
ment and yards aids in preventing
transmission of the disease from in
fected to noninfected chicks. A thret
per cent saponified rresol solution
is an effective disinfectant.
out the litter in the brooder house
frequently (at least once a week for
the first three >r four weeks), dis-
infect the floors, and s ipp'y clean
itter daily. Do nut al'ow the chicks
to run with a .nit !>ir !s or on any
foil unless it has been thoroughly
cultivated or treated for the destruc-
tion of parasite and disease organ-
isms. Supply gre >n range, do not
overcrowd the chicks, and avoid us-
TOWNSEND SHERIFF
FOR SIXTEEN YEARS
TEXAS RU E, HIGH IN FOOD
CONTENT, MAKES TASTY DISH !
AUSTIN, Texas, March 18.— Fre-
jquent dishes of rice on the dining
table were recommended by J. E.
I McDonald, commissioner of agricul-
ture ,to those Texans and Southern-
ers who believe in patronizing home
{industries.
| Although not generally < known,
'Texas ranks from second to fourth;
Woody Townsend has been Sheriff
of Bastrop County for the past six-
teen years, a record that Bastrop
is proud of, and one that has brought
Bastrop's sheriff into State-wide re- jarnong the United States in the pro-
cognition. The following clipping duction of the cereal, the variation
from the Sheriff's Association of being due to a yearly variation in the
Texas Magazine explains Itself:
ONE OF THE FAITHFUL
In the old days whenever we
thought of Bastrop county we
thought of that grand old hero, Hon.
Joseph 1). Sayers. Today, in think-
ing of that coOnty, we at once think
of Woody Townsend, one of thojpeople are unfamiliar with tin
best peace officers that Texas has jities of rice. Unless there is a
ewr had. 'age of wheat or potatoes,
Sheriff Townsend was born and narily is neglected.
reared in Bastrop. For the past six- j o
teen years he has served as sheriff i |>K|/KS OFFERED TO t-H
of the county without opposition, lit
everybody
total crop. Louisiana, Arkansas and
C alifornia are the other principal rice
slates.
"Those Americans who seldom eat
rice, except as an occasional dessert
or breakfast cereal," he said, "may
be surprised to know that rice is one
of the most extensively grown and
jwidely used ot' the world's foodstuffs |
America depends largely upon wheat
I as its great cereal staple, and its
qual-
short
rice ordi
l«o
I*
\:
SPEECH STUDENTS
TO B£ IN RECITAL
Th< Speech Arts Studio will pre-
sent the pupils ot Minnie Blundell
in rental Tuesday evening, March
24, t the Bastrop High School at
g p. m., in the following program:
In the Morniif, i>> P. L.
Dunbar .... Dorothy l>ee I erkms
Poems by James Whitcomb
Frances Williams
Nathan "Hale, by Francis Finch
•I MUG
Mil Lit
THIS
I: \ S F.S
\Y EEK
ISSl Kit
jitig ground that wa used for brood-
ling the previous year. Ground pre.
Iviously used for chicks can In made
'safe for chicks by scraping off the
Hop layer of soil and removing it to
1 :t sate and remote distance from the
hick's quarters.
-o—
has made good ami everybody is
willing that he should go on and
serve in that capacity the rest of his
days. That is a reputation all right,
but it is one that this man can live
up to. Some years ago the boys
decided on electing him president of
the Sheriff's Association of the state
and he pulled through an easy win-
ner and filled the position with dis-
tinction.
The name "Woody Townsend"
stands for efficiency, honesty and
courage in old Bastrop county. Men
over there are ready to swear by
their sheriff, and they have seen him
make the grade under every kind of
test. This explains the fact that he
ran the ninth time this year without
an opponent. We have some mighty
popular boys but only a few of them
can claim that sort of popularity.
Woody not only serves his own
county, but he serves society every-
Clean where, if called on. He has helped
to investigate and ferret out some
of the worst crimes that have been
committed in Texas. When he gets
in on the trail of a man the trail
gets warmer and warmer until an
arrest is made.
The Texas Sheriff's Association
has many outstanding men, and
Woody Townsend is one of them.
It a pleasure to meet him and it
is fine fortune to be listed as one
of his friends. We congratulate Bas-
trop and Bastrop county on the good
judgment of those people in keeping
him in office. Sheriff's Association
of Texas Magazine.
CI.UB
M EM BERS
Chicago 111., March IS.—The most
outstanding 4-H home economics
club girl in each state of the Union
will be eligible to receive a prize
educational trip to the Tenth Nation-
al Hoys and Girls 4-11 Club Congress
at Chicago next December, it is an-
nounced by the National Committee
jon Boys and Girls Club Work.
The 1031 winners of these awards
will be selected from 500,000 girls.
During the summer months they will
be busily engaged in baking, canning
sewing, meal planning and home funi
ishing projects under the supervision
of the extension services of the
United States Department of Agri-
culture and their State Agricultural
Colleges.
These trips to the National 4-H
Club congress are offered by Mont-
gomery Ward and Company and will |
I be awarded in recognition of out-j
standing achievements in home eeon I
omics projects and to encourage fur- j
ther 4-H Club activities. This is the!
eighth consecutive year such prizes |
have been offered.
Approximately one and a quarter
million dollars is annually awarded
in prizes to 4-H Clubs, the member-'
AGENT ISSUES
■FORMULA FOR
KILLING PESTS
Cut worms otten cut down cabbage
tomato, bean and other stemmy
plants over night, according to W.
S. Millington, County Agent. During
the duy they hide under trash or
burrow into the ground usually from
1-2 inch to l inch where they curl
up and rest until mght returns. They
may be effectively controlled by put-
ting 1-4 teaspoonful poison bran
mash at the base of each plant.
Poison Barn Mash (for cut worms
or grasshoppers)
20 pounds coarse wheat bran
I pound Paris Green or white ar-
senic.
I or 5 finely ground lemons and
juice (oranges may be substituted)
1-2 gallon any kind of molasses or
syrup
Water to make the mixture sligh.
ly moist but not wet.
For smaller quantities:
T> pounds wheat bran
1-4 pound Paris green or of white
arsenic
1 finely ground lemon or orange
I pint any kind molasses or syrup.
Water t*> make mixture slightly
moist.
Caution
'This is poisonous to horses, cat-
tle, qhickens, (turkeys, tyf anything
else that might chance to eat it.
for
ship of which is rapidly approaching!gallon
the million mark.
TO I.ATE TO CLASSIFY
The (following Marriage Licenses
were issued out of County Clerk,
Tignal Jones' office this week:
Leandro Delgado to Margarito
(Juitei rey.
Tito Rodrigriez to Mersed F**rm-
endez
Sam Houston to Mary Davis.
Daniel Perkins to Willie Lee
Washington.
Harrison Price to Katie Davis.
o
Fake—Schwager (says he .never
paid a doctor's bill in his life.
COPPER COMING BACK
I N S11 > I-: INFORMATION
curtains
in a net
J
i >K«
■icbct1
Jack Ash
Japanese Pianologues
Mury Ann Griesenbeck
Blue Roses, by larlan,
Sammy Edith Iliggins
Lochinvar, by Walter Scott,
Helen Main
Way "of Knowing I 'lung-, by
Bootl Tarkington Esther I'1
In Flander s Field. I• v Ba\ai I
Taylor Andrew Let
Resurrection, by Grace < row 'i
Mary Ann Birmingham
Immortality, Uob.'rt L. Taylor,
.. Julia
Play "Fairy Dust"
Mary Pearl Erhard,
Frank Denison, Mary
hards.
Play "All on a Summers Day
Anna Pearl Alexander, Shud-b
Bess Bryson, Le Verne Hryson
Rosalie Morris.
The public is cordially invited
attend thif program.
Bosch
Fake
Exci
healthy eh?
ptionally . ... .
No; exceptionally poor pay. Joil
In washing sheer window
, in a machine, incline them
lor niu lin bag.
To make hard sauce that is a
| tie different, use brown sugar,
grate into it a little orange rind
flavor.
Leather furniture coverings look
| better and last longer, if they are
| rubbed occasionally with castor oil.
i This restores to the leather the oil
that gradually dries
in well and wipe
out. Rub the
off any excess.
There are signs on the horizon of
improvement in the copper industry.
This is the natural result of stim-
ulated building and industrial acti-
vity.
I There is nothing of the luxury
lit- about copper it is vitally essential
and to progress in a thousand fields of
for' endeavor. The electric, gas. railroad i
{automobile a multitude of great j
I industries, in addition to home-build-!
ers, present a steady and growing
demand for copper.
' The ray of light now shining thru
the metal gloom should prove a glad
WAN* I ED Reliable man between
igt • of 25 and •">(> to supply old es-
tablished demand for Rawleigh Pro-
ducts in \ A- SE Bastrop County.
Otliei good localities available. Sure-
ty i oiitract required. Company fur.
nislies everything but car. ( < oil pro-
fits for hus'.l i . Wri'e the W. T.
Rawleigh Company, M'-mpnis, Tenn
or see me.— GEO. VOIGT, Bed
Texas. M-.r>H
Hock.
Culprit (pleasantly)—It's a
day, your Honor.
Judge— You're right and
amount of yours will be $10.
1
fine
tin
Sprays for Fruh Trees
The following is the schedule
spraying peach and plum trees:
When most of petals have fallen
from blossoms:
I 1-2 lbs arsenate of lead and ft
lbs. dry lime-sulfur to 50 gallons of
water or 1-2 oz. arsenate of lead and
2 oz. dry lime-sulfur to I gallon of
water.
14 Days after Above Spray:
I 1-2 lbs. arsenate of lead and ft
llis dry lime sulfur to 50 gallons of
water or 1-2 oz arsenate of lead and
2 oz. dry lime-sulfur to 1 gallon of
water.
:t weeks before fruit ripens:
<! lbs dry lime-sulfur to 50 gallons
water or 2 oz. dry lime-sulfur to 1
water.
The arsenate of lead is
the worms from getting into
peaches and plums. The plum
culio is the in." ct which causes
t rouble.
The lime sulfur is to prevent the
scab, brown rot and leaf spot. If
the lime sulfur i- applied too near the
time the fruit ripens the fruit may
be discolored.
Thoroughness in applying the first
spray is very essential.
o
Customer: Ah. Mr. Wopser, it's
the old story the woman always
pays.
Shopkeeper: Well, if you 'ad &
look thru my books you'd find that
some of 'em don't
prevent
the
cur-
t his
tiding to those states in which min-
ing of copper is a leading industry.
The Texas Legislature
\\ augh
•terson
Fiser
\\ augh
John
,esih pow ell,
Evelvn Kit
to
TRUCK AND BUS
TRAFFIC REGULATED
ACS'ilN, March I
regulating truck ami
on the highways \sas
orahly out of con.mitt.•.
a Vote of 2 > to 1. This
(Spl) a bill
bus operation
reported ta\-
last night by
hill, it pa'sett
will practically eliminate the cotton
trucks and others of equal size and
weight from the highwr.v.
Another bill was out compelling
the compressing of cotton at mtei
lor points before it can be transport.
ed.
FR\NK DENISON JR.. H>
PRESENTED IN RECTI \L
BE
The Speech Arts Studio will pr
sent Frank Denison Jr.. pupil <>f
Minnie Blundell, in an individual
program Monday evening, March J •
at the Bastrop High School. He will
be assisted by Mary Ann Grie-ynbeck
and with piano numbers by Freder-
ick Hoyt. pupil f Mrs. Tom Hiynie.
The Amateur Gardener Starts His Spring Exercise By Albert T Reid
Nov-Listen To me. Evert ye*r. about this time you
ARE A e> c> STRONG MAN AND YOU MUST HAVE a garden vhem- YOU
can WORIC OUT. then WHEN THE WEEDS GET b-eal HEALTHY" YOUlWlND
Gives out. Well®- I've exercised a hoe
so You Better think
/ *
POfcTHE LAST TtME,
TV/ICE. I'M
for Good .
OUT
m
rjl •
Observation From The C apitol
Our Representative
ID
AI SI IN", March 17 The gover-
nor sent his first message to leg-
i lature last week in which he asked
that no new district courts be creat-
ed and urging a redistricting of the
state. This 'is in th« interest of
ecoi.omj as it is estimated that each
new district court will cost the state
no b than ten thousand dollars per
yeai and he thinks by redisricting
that the courts can be so arranged
that no new ones will be needed.
He followed this message with
another urging legislation regulating
the public utilities. He urged the
creation of a commission which
would have the power to fix rates of
light, power, gas and other utility
corporations. A bill to this effect
is now pending before the committee.
'The governor also criticised the
railroad commission for non enforce-j
gas
the
egulation
•gislatuf
for this
railroad
to look
is the
and hit
best r r-
eom imm-
inent of the oil and
laws and has asked
to create a new commission
purpose, stating tnat the
commission had too much
after. His principal object
conservation of oil and gas
believes that this can be
eomplished under a special
■ion fot that purpose.
The $2'i0,()i)0,(>0(i road bond resolu-
tion is due to come up this week sti
is also the resolution to take state
a Ivalorum tax off of property. Hrtfh
measures will meet with considerable
opposition and it is hard to predict
u-t now how they will go.
The bus and truck bills are still
in the hands of a sub committee who
are trying to re-write them into one
good measure.
The bill providing for the licensing
of all auto drivers was reported fav-
orably by the committee. This bill
orovides that every driver of an au-
tomobile must stand an examination
mil secure a license, no licence will
be issued to a person under 14 years
of ige. It provides that a record
made on the license of every acci.
dent or arrest for violation of any
traffic laws and when a driver's re-
cord gets bad his license may be sus-
pended for a certain period of time
oi cami I'd. Severe penalties are
provided for any intoxicated person
driving an autoinobib. 1'bu fee for
license i« fixed at it) cents. In my
opinion this is the most needed piece
of legislature ,no\v pending .before
the legislature unless it be the re-
gulation id trucks and busses.
The days for floor action has ar.
rived and the members are well
pleased with the results of the open
session committee meetings as it has
dragged more of the work into the
light of publicty ami has also af-
forded them much more information
on the various subjects before them
than tne.v have ever been able to
secure under the old method ami we
all feel that, before we adjourn that
the forty-:.ecomi iegidature will be
abb- to rentier some woe and con-
> trurtive ( wii i the state.
The investigation . he school de-
partmei •« progressing slowly but
is expected to v v way this
V cek. Vii.y liue *'•! "!«i: interest is
oeiiig ,'iven the matter outside of
♦he commi..>'e and nothing of a sen-
• ati- rial nature i- expected to devel-
op.
Court relv.rm is being brought be-
'i' tin body in an iftnendment re.
vising, very materially, the higher
couv's. I i: of course must be pass*
<'! «e. by the people and if adopted
will be a progressive move that will
mean a whole lot to tht people of
Texas.
I wish to again expres«
to hear from any one pn
anything in which they
ested. My position on all
det
my
or i
are
i{Ut
he
desire
'on on
l liter-
's) ions
will be carefully determined hy the
views and lunar ! of my consti-
tuents whenever I run get an ••*-
pression from them
J O. SMITH.
House of Represntatives,
Austin. Texas.
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Standifer, R. E. & Standifer, Amy S. The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 19, 1931, newspaper, March 19, 1931; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth206732/m1/1/: accessed June 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bastrop Public Library.