Mexia Evening News (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 190, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 9, 1919 Page: 1 of 4
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YOUR BUSINESS APPRECIATED TIDWEl.E'S BARBER SHOP
MEXIA EVENING NEWS
MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
VLO. XXI. NO. 190.
MEXIA. TEXAS TUESDAY, SEPT. 9, 1919
50c Per Month In Advance
TEXAS TAX-
ABLE VALUES
Associated Press Report
Austin, Texas, Sept. 9—Texas
taxable values for 1919 are esti-
mated at $3,101,000,000 from
the tax rolls, which are nearly
completed. This is an increase
of approximately $83,000,000
over the preceding year.
While this increase is not as
great as was expected by econo-
mic observers, they advance two
reasons for the shortcoming.
First, the three-year drough
which extended over a large por-
tion of Texas caused many cattle
to be either shipped out of the
state or slaughtered. Homes
and farms laso depreciated under
its influence, and business estab-
lishments went down in value.
The second cause is perhaps
the greatest. During 1918, the
period of accumulation of pro-
perty rendered in 1919, Texas
was pouring millions of dollars
into Liberty bonds instead of. in-
vesting it in taxable property.
The tremendous oil develop-
ment was subsequent to January
1, and these rolls are based upon
property owned at thate time.
Tax experts estimate that East-
land county alone will swell the
next tax roll approximately $90,-
000,000. However, the oil boom
came to sevei'al counties early
enough to double their property
•rendered this year.
Dallas and Harris counties are
the richest, according to the esti-
mate. It gives Dallas $163,202,-
400, an increase over the pre-
ceednig year of $16,000,000.Har-
ris is credited with $143,248,522,
an increase of $2,000,000.
TREASURE
MOUNTAIN
V
GAS, GAS!
Now 'course we don't know,
but Mr. Johnson intimated that
he had made ample preparations
to keep warm this winter by
buying wod by the cord and coal
by the ton and he has suggest-
ed that all those who are cold
by nature should certainly stock
up on fuel for this winters com-
fort. We judge from this that
gas for heating purposes is a
•thing of the past for Mexia artd
if we use it with care it is pos-
sible that there will be enough
for cooking.
I —
Opera House
TONIGHT
Madcap Heiress
running away from
titled suitors—
Handsome nobleman fleeing
ambitious mamas—
"In Search
of Arcady"
BILLIE
RHODES
Captivating Screen Comed-
ienne in a picturization of
Nina Wilcox Putnam's
popular story.
ALSO
Christie
Comedy
Associated Press Report.
Austin, Texas, Sept. 9—The
pathetic story of the victory of
silence over the lowly prospector
is related once more in the his-
tory of Pilot Knob, or Treasure
Mountain, near Austin.
This knob which rises abrupt-
ly from the surrounding level
country, has attracted the at-
tention om many: and dreams of
treasure beneath its ■> surface
have caused the sinking of three
thirty foot shafts into its sides,
while numerous shallow excava-
tions have been made.
These shafts struck a stratum
of rock through which it was im-
possible to penetrate by ordinary
means, and they were abandoned
The irony is that tests con-
ducted i nthe labarotories of the
University of Texas showed this
rock stratum to be nephelite bas-
alt, or trap rock, one of the hard-
est formations of nature. It
withstands a crushing pressure
of up to 52,000 pounds per inch:
ordinary granite breaks down at
18,000 pounds. As a surfacing
material for roads which bear
heavy trafic, it is unequaled.
This deposit, which is one-half
mile wide and 700 feet thick, is
only six miles from a trunk line
railroad, and with the increased
road building activitiy in Texas
it is expected to be very valuable.
SHOT IN
BACK BY
BANDITS
OKLAHOMA
SOCIETY
Associated Press Report.
Oklahoma City, Okla., Sept. 9
—The signature of Jefferson
Davis attached to an official
letter written during the period
of his presidency of a recent ad-
dition to the collections of the
Oklahoma Historical Society.
The document, formerly the
property of William Penn Adair,
a conferderate colonel of the
Cherokees, is in answer to a com-
plaint made by the delegates of
six tribes fighting for the con-
federacy in Oklahoma territory,
that the government was not
keeping its promise to sent them
protection and supplies.
Jefferson's reply to this com-
plaint is under date of February
22, 1863, and is countersigned by
his adjutant, Washington Curtic
Lee, brother of General Robert
E. Lee.
CARD OF THANKS
Associated Press Report.
Washington, Sept 8.—Her-
bert S. McGill, an American citi-
zen, was killed by Mexicans at
Coapa, in the State of Chiapas,
August 30, according to advices
received to day by the state de-
partment.
Representations have been
made to the Mexican govern-
ment and instructions issued
form an immediate and careful
inquiry into the facts of McGill's
death.
McGill, riding horseback, was
attacked from ambush. He was
shot from his horse, beaten to
death, and hos body thrown in
the Coapa river.
McGill was the son of James
K. McGill, of 321 Lockwood ave.
Chicago.
COL MOORE TO
BE AT A. & M.
Associated Press Report.
College Station, Tex., Sept.8—
Colonel Moore of the signal corps
staff Washington, has been in-
vited to inspect the signal corps
plant at the Texas Agricultural
and Mechanical College this year
The invitation was extended by
F. C. Bolton, professor of elec-
trical engineering.
DR. KARL REN-
NER ARRIVED
IN VIENNA
We wish to adopt this method
in extending our heartfelt and
sincere thanks to all the dear
friends who showered us with
offers of assistance and words
of comfort and sympathy in our
recent great bereavement in the
loss of our loved one.
The incense from the beauti-
ful flowers placed upon the lit-
tle mound cannot penetrate her
windowless palace in the grave,
but will ascdnd into heaven and
convey to her the many tender
words of sympathy, love and
friendship spoken by our friends,
and Gerda will know that al-
though she has gone from
among you, in memory she still
lives and is mourned by those
who knew and loved her as a
child, a girl, and a mother, and
that her dear and precious little
children,,Lurlie and Andrea, are
among friends, who will love
and protect them.
We can never forget the ten-
der interest shown by our
friends in the hour of sorrow
and trouble. May God's richest
blessings be your portion in life,
and may you never be brought
face to face with such a terrible
calamity that has just visited
our home, is our prayer.
Gratefully and Sorrowfully,
' Mr. and Mrs. N. P. Houx,
Family and Relatives.
SUMMER WORK
Associated Press Report.
Paris, Sept. 9.—Dr. Karl Ren-
ner the Austrian Chancellor,
head of the Austrian Peace Del-
egation, who is to sign the Peace
Treaty tomorrow arrived in Vi-
enna today.
ReadWENEWS
" Associated Press Report.
College Station, Texas, Sept.9
—Sixty-one junior and sopho-
more students in the civil engin-
eering department at the Texas
Agricultural and Mechanical col-
lege are now in the field for 3
weeks summer practice.
A' preliminary and location
survey for six miles of railroad,
running from the college to the
Brazos river, is being made by
the juniors. Conditions under
which the course is being con-
ducted are identical with those
met by commercial engineers.
A large corps of professors
and instructors, each of whom
has had commercial engineering
experience, has been assigned to
th course. A. C. Love, professor
of highway engineering, is in
charge.
NEW WEIGHERS FIRST BAP-
MEXIA BOY
REGULATIONS
RULES WHICH WILL GOV-
ERN ALL PUBLIC WEIGH-
ING AGREED ON AT
AUSTIN MEETING.
♦ WHAT THE WEATH-
* ER MAN SAYS •
He said that tonight and Wed-
nesday would be partly cloudy.
Associated Press Report.
Austin, Texas, Sept. 9.—Com-
mittees representing the public
weighers, cotton buyers and ex-
porters at a conference here
Wednesday with F. C. Weinert,
Commissioner of Warehouses
and Markets and superintendent
of weights and measures, decid-
ed that it should be the duty of
the public weigher to suggest
the amount of excess moisture
contained in any bale of cotton
weighed by him. This recom-
mendation was approved by
Commissioner Weinert and in-
structions to that effect will be
given all public weighers.
It was further agreed that
each certificate of weight issued
by a public weigher must state
the number of the receipt, which
should be a consecutive number;
give t hedate, name of the party
for whom wighed, the number,
kind or quantity of produce
weighed; the gross, tare and net
weight of same; the vesel, rail-
road car, wagon or other means
by which same was received.
No other certificate except the
one prescribed by the depart-
ment can be used.
After the public weigher has
stated in the weight certificae
the correct and accurate weight
of the commodity that is weigh-
ed, as shown by the scales, he is
further directed to state, under
the proper heading, the condi-
tion of same, whether the cot-
ton or other commodity received
for weighing at the time it was
weighed was green, wet, normal-
ly dry or damaged, and shall
state under the head of "re-
marks" his unofficial opinion
of the amount in pounds such
commodity should be docked by
reason of excess moisture at the
time of weighing.
Other Regulations.
Other rules governing public
weighers adopted at the confer-
ence are as follows:
All scales or weighing devices
used by public weighers must
be of standard type, must be in
godd condition and kept so at all
times. Cheap,or inferior scales
or weighing devices can not be
kept in good condition for any
length of time.
Unequal arm balances, or so-
called cotton scales, must not be
used after pivots become "dull"
or worn so they will not readily
break on one pound.
Grease or oil must never be
used on the pivot of unequal arm
balances or platform scales. It
sferves no purpose except to per-
mit the accumulation of sand
and dirt on the pivots and bear-
ings, which will result in incor-
rect weighing and hastens the
wear of the pivots.
All scales or weighing devices J
must be kept under shelter so as
not to be exposed to rain or in-
tense heat of the sun. All plat-
form scales must be kept free
from dirt and trash at all times.
The pit underneath the platform
or scales must be cleaned out at
regular intervals and kept clean.
All public weighers must use
the receipt prescribed by the
Commissioner of Markets and
Warehouses, under Sec. 8 of the
public weighers' law, and must
affix on each certificate issued
by him the seal prescribed in
Sec. 9 of the law.
Where public weighers main-
T1ST CHURCH SEES WILSON
Program For Prayer Meeting
Wednesday Night. Subject
"Preaching the Gospel
In Other Lands."
1. Song.
2. Reading of Psalms 67—By
Dr. Duke Pittman.
3. Prayer by a Layman.
4. Scripture Quotations—
Psalms 2:8, 2 Chron. 8:33—W.
A. Buckner. Matt. 28:18-20,
Mark 16:16, Acts 1:8.—W. B.
Wright.
5. Location of our Missions
in other Lands, and some inter-
esting Facts about Them.—Mrs.
J. M. Tidwell.
6. Medical Missions— Why
Important, Giving the names of
Some of our Medical Mission-
aries.—Mrs. Sanford Smith.
7. Schools On Mission Fields
—Why Important—Miss Lillie
Savage.
Everybody cordially invited
to these services. Come and
bring your friends. It will do
you good.
PRESIDENT
WILSON
SPEAKS
Mr. Jack Womack, Jr. while on
ris way to Culver Military Inst,
was forced to wait over a few
hours in St. Louis to make con-
nections, as his train was late.
While there it was his pleasure
to see our President. Perhaps
some of the rest of us will have a
like opportunity when he comes
on his Southern trip, Although
it has been rumored that the
Lone Star State will not have
that honor.
COTTON MARKET
Associated Press Report.
St. Paul, Sept 9.—President
Wilson arrived here today ex-
pecting a great deal of business
to transact including an address
at the Mineapolis Armory. This
afternoon he will address the
auditorium and will leave for
Bismark late tonight.
Associated Press Report.
New York.
Opening steady Oct 28.83-80
Opening steady Dec 29.00-28.98
Close steady Oct 28.60 trading
Close.barely steady Dec 28.86-90
Spots quiet. Mid. 2910.
Sales—none.
New Orleans.
Opening steady Oct 28.65-54
Opening steady. Dec 28.66-56"
Close steady Oct 28.60-63
Close steady Dec 28.55-60
Spots quiet. Mid 29 cents.
Sales 49.
To arrive 65.
Galveston.
Spots quiet. Mid 29.50.
Sales none.
Houston.
Spots Quiet. Mid. 29.50.
Sales 15. To arrive 20.'
tain a cotton yard and charge
storage for cotton left with them
they should issue a yard receipt
in addition to the prescribed
weighers' certificate. The State
certificate of weight should fol-
low the article weighed, and
should not be surrendered "when
article is removed from the place
of weighing.
Must Use Level Beam.
All weighing must be done on
a level beam and not on a "ris-
ing" or "falling" beam. Your
scale is a balance, and unless it
balances perfectly the result will
be incorrect.
When any bale of cotton is
weighed by any public weigher
in this State that has been
branded by the ginner with the
word "fire" on same, in accord-
ance with the ginners' rules,
such bale must not be stored or
piled with other cotton, but must
be kept in a place removed from
the other bales of cotton forvat
least forty-eight hours after be-i
ing weighed.
No public weigher must per-
mit anyone to molest or mutilate
any bale of cotton while tempo-
rarily in his possession. This is
one of the conditions of the pub-
lic weigher's bond.
These rules become effective
at once. "
The committees attending the
conference consisted of W. J.
Neale and R. C. Dickerson of
Waco, E. D. Guthrie of Dallas,
E. H. Perry and D. C. Reed of
Austin for the cotton buyers and
exporters, and Bob Etichson,
Waco; F. W. Storey, Lockhart;
J. M. Clevenger. Franklin; E.
E. K. Marrat and J. E. Labuzan,
Galveston, and Abe Gross, Waco,
the latter general counsel for the
Texas Public Weighers' Associa-
tion.
GREAT COT-
JON LOSS
Washington, Sept. 9.—Cotton
raisers losing thirty million dol-
lars annually on the average
from weather damages to bales
of cotton left in the open. The
farmers are urged to store all
cotton and stop waste.
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Mexia Evening News (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 190, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 9, 1919, newspaper, September 9, 1919; Mexia, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299197/m1/1/: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Gibbs Memorial Library.