The Mexia Weekly Herald (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, February 17, 1928 Page: 2 of 4
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HERALD
EIE MEXIA WEEKLY
TflS MEXIA WEEKLY
HERALD
the
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postoffice at
Recond class mat'
of March 8. 187ft
A, Proprietor
J>. Editor
with
lahing Company
st., Mexia, Texas
..One Year $1.60
th« fact that J. P. Morgan ac-
cepted a call to do jury duty,
and that he offered no objec-
tions. Sure, he should not ob-
ject to such service, but many
men do offer all sorts of ex-
cuses when called for jury
duty. Morgan is a good citizen
and his example should be
emulated by others who are
called upon to serve the gov-
ernment.
LEADERSHIP IS GREAT-
EST NEED OF HUMAN
ENDEAVOR
(From Mexia Daily News)
Leadership is the greatest
need of mankind. That is evi-
dent in business, religion, so-
cial activities and all human
relations. The scarcity of
leaders is the handicap of all
good movements. There seems
to be no lack of leaders for bad
movements. And leadership is
ths most valuable factor in
•very business or movement.
Take for instance the county
agents. Farmers were anxious
to work together and stand-
ardize on cotton. All they
needed was a leader to get
them together and organize
them. The leadership will
mean thousands of dollars to
the farmers in better prices
for their crops.
Now there is a sentiment in
favor of promotion of dairying
in the Bi-Stone Empire. Var-
ious chambers of commerce
are working on the plans.
Here is another opportunity
for the county agents and it
is their plan to start at once
a big dairy campaign, which
should add 1000 milk cows to
the herds of the Bi-Stone Em-
pire. That will mean thous-
ands of dollars to the people.
Governments are the re-
sult of leadership. Churches
were founded because some in-
dividual was a leader and his
interpretations formed the
basis of a creed. Political par-
ties point to leaders who
founded them and they exist
because of some leadership.
The responsibility of leader-
ship is great and the field is
o k1.. Those who express their
individuality, their personal-
V <".nd become leaders have
•, . c opportunities. These op-
nities art- open in every
f human endeavor.
letter mailed m an Illinois
20 years ago and destin-
> a point 40 miles away
■ just been delivered. Do
,v still have the star route
/."tem in them parts?
At last the politicians are
finding some Texans who are
considered good presidential
timber. Dan Moody and Jesse
Jones are comnig in for some
favorable comment. And there
are others in Texas who would
grace the office of chief exec-
utive of the nation. Pat Neff,
Tom Connally, Alvin Owsley,
Morris Sheppard, Cone John-
son and others, to say nothing
of any number who think
they themselves could fill the
bill.
And now comes some ex
plorers of ancient graves in
the old world and claim that
they have just dug up a Sum
erian queen, who has bean
dead about 5000 years, and
that buried with the body
were various and sundry arti-
cles of great value. Let's see.
Five thousand years would
take us back before the big
flood some 500 years. These
explorers into the mysteries
of the past seem to be a little
wild with their figures, or else
they know little about the
world history.
has re-
week In Mexia on buain
turned to his home here.
Miss Elsie Ma$ Brown, teacher
of fourth grade, spent the week-
end in Waco.
There is much interest here 'n
the Gipsy Smith revival in Mexia,
c.nd disappointment at the fact
that the services are not broad-
casted.
MOODY WANTS
TO SEE PROBE
IN NEGRO CASE
Don't Want Man to
Die and Woman Go
Free in Murder
Our Anniversary
Thirty years ago today
"we" landed in Mexia, pros-
pecting for something to make
a living with. For a time we
could not have left had we
wanted to, and now we would
not leave if we could, so there
you are. We seem to be put
here for life, and considering
that Mexia and this section!
have some of the best people
on earth, and lots of them,|
we are satisfeid to remain.
AUSTIN, Feb. IB (UP).—Gov
crnor Moody this morning an-
nounced 30 day# reprieve for Pete
Banks, who was to have been
electrocuted after midnight. Cov-
er- v Moody said the reprie/e
was because he had not made up
his mind on the application for
commutation of the death sen-
tence.
"I do not feel sure," said the
governor, "that this negro should
bt. executed while the woman goes
radically free."
Mrs. Ella Jones, white, the wo-
man convicted in, the case, was
here last night to see the governor
but Moody did not talk to her.
She says that a statement made
by her and relied upon largo! y for
0,e conviction of both her and
Banks was made when she was
unstrung." They had been con-
victed of killing C. P. Jones, hus-
band of Mrs. Jones.
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BY CUT WORMS
Reppert, However,
Gives Formula to
Combat Pests
MONGER
"Our own observations indicate
that a general infestation by cut
worms is not to be expected this
season," advises R. 6. Reppert,
entomologist Extension Service, A.
and M. College. "The scarcity of
reports reaching us seems to bear
us cut in this belief, However, no
year passes but some small section
at least experiences considerable
damage from them, and we think
it wise to pass out information on
their control.
"Cut worms hatch in late fall
from oggs laid by the last brood
of moths. These little worms
feed upon grass and weeds that
are present at that time, continu-
ing their feeding on such vegeta-
tion as withstands the colder
weather during the winter. On
the occasion of freezing weather
tliey burrow into the ground be-
low the frost line to reappear
when the temperature moderates.
"Since- they must feed intermit-
tently during the winter, the most
practical measures of control con-
sist in breaking up the soil in late
fall or early winter, and following
this at intervals by harrowing or
disking to keep down all weed and
grass growth. This procedure
starves them before cultivated
crops appear in the spring. Fields
thus treated during the present
winter will experience a minimum
of damage this spring.
'■Where clean-up measures, suclj
as are suggssted, have been ne-
glected, not a great deal of relief
can be expected from their ap-
plication at this time. In this casj
relief from damage, if damage
occurs, will have to b« sought in
the use of poison bran mash. This
is practically 100 per cent effec-
tive, but must be used as soon hs
damage becomes evident. The
mash is made after the following
formula:
Paris green or white arsenic—1
lb.
Coarse wheat bran—20 lbs.
Lomons finely ground in a meat
chopper (juice included)—0
fruit. , -
Cane or sdrghura molasses—3
quarts.
Water sufficient to make a
moist mash that will not be
sloppy.
"The poison and bran are mixed
together thoroughly while dry. The
liquid materials, including about
two gallons of water, are thor-
oughly mixed and then added to
the bran mixture and the whole
mixed by hand so that every par.
tide of bran is moist. Additions
of water are made until a mash is
obtained as wet as possible and
btill so that it readily falls apart
when being distributed.
WANT TO SEND Will DISCUSS
DRY DELEGATES PROBLEMS FOR
Health Officer
Will Be Hired
The city commission will meet
at the offices, in the city hall
Tuesday night, it was announced
by J G. Mcintosh, city manager
It is probable that the chief topic
of discussion will be the selection
of a city health officer, it was
indicated by Mi-. Mcintosh.
FOR WEEKLY—Classified Ad...
FOR SALE—Eggs, from Airhart's
Famous Rhode Island Reds, at
15 eggs for ?1.50 or 100 for $8.00.
Remember, I paid $2.00 fpr lo
<-S£s to get my start. Will de-
liver eggs in Mexia every Satur-
day. Write me. II. L. Williams,
Mexia, Route 7. -7-lt
AmKHmcemeiats
TO CONVENTION
Bradley Heads List
of Signers; Meet
at 1:30 p. m.
GROESBECK, Feb. 16 (Sp.).--
A big Democratic rally for all op-
posed to the nomination of AI
Smith of New York as Democratic
candidate for president has been
called for Saturday at 1:30 o'clock
at the court house.
A petition signed by a number
of politicians and citizens, headed
by C. S. Bradley, has been cir-
culated here and will be circulated
throughout the county.
The purpose is to form plans to
send anti-Al Smith delegates to
the county convention, and to
send anti-Smith delegates to the
state convention. The plan is >:
line with a state-wide movement;
to send a delegation to the Hous-
ton convention which is opposed to
the New Yorker.
It is expected that the rally will
bo largely attended. All Demo-
crats opposed to Smith are invited
to attend, says the petition.
•s throats
l Rub Vicks on throat
, and chest. Relieves
\(lr §tw0 ways at once~"
UJj \{ absorbed, inhaled.
Va ipo Rub
COMING YEAR
Glover To Preside;
Haines to Meet
with Farmers
COOLIDGE, Feb. 16 (Sp.).—As
guests vf the Coolidge Chamber
of Commerce farmers of the trade
territory of this town will be in-
vited here Monday evening for a
luncheon in the basement of the
First Methodist Episcopal church,
according to an announcement by
J. E. Laney, secretary of the
chamber, today.
Mr. Laney says business men
and bankers will gather to eat
with the farmers at the luncheon,
when plate lunches will be served
to a large number. No "high
pressure" speakers will be heve
but 'just us farmers and business
men" to "talk over some prob-
lems." Paul G. Haines, Limestone
county farm agent, who is well
known to the farmers of this dis-
trict, will lead the farm discussion.
Better cotton seed, diversifica-
tion of crops, planting of feed
crops and such subjects will be
Pi'idny, FtufUS!'." '
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dUcuanld. Ths farmers v.ill join
in the round-table discuasluu.
J. J. Glover, president of ih«
Chamber of Commerce will pre-
side at the banquet. The annual
election of officers of the chamb.u
of commerce will be put off until
Tuesday, February 28, in tlij
afternoon.
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UNIVERSAL MILLS
Gaylordj. Stone, Put. Ft. Worth
GET MY PRICES
FIRST
^efch and
Jewelry Repairing
W. K. CHANDLER
108 S. Sherman St.
W&MIIDWFEEOSl
IK THE RED CHAIN BA83
For Sale by
Rogers Mercantile
Company
845 E. Commerce St.
Mexia, Texas
The BABY
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Champion Player Is from
Munger; Rain Benefits
Crops
HEAD THIS COTTON RAISERS!
Mexia, Texas, Jan. 23, li'28.
Joe Suttle
of Association at
Kosse
n, • i „j Mr. A. H. Therrel,
President. w
ico, Texas.
Dear Sir: I bought a
your Wacona Cotton 1:
year and am proud of m
RATES:
State Office3 $25.00
; District Offices $12.50
sack of j County Offices- $10.00
eed last j Precinct Oflices $ 7.50
invest-
Lindy, the pride of Ameri-
ca, is being urged to give up
flying before he meets with
some fatal accident. As yet he
has not even been in danger.
Luck, or something, seems to
be with him.
An exchange comments on
MUNGER, Feb. 15.—This com-
r.iunity is proud of the honor of
having a Munger boy on the Lime-
stone county championship bas-
ketball team in Burl Masters, who
left here to join the Coolidge high
scr.ool.
The Munger team missed the
player.
Munger defeated Hubburd 1-1 ;o
10 last Wednesday, after Hubbard
had defeated Coolidge.
There was a heavy rain Sunda
benefitting crops.
Mr. Moore, manager of the gin
has been very sick for several
cays, but is somewhat miproved
r ow.
T. E. Allen, who spent the past!
KOSSE, Feb 15 (Sp).—Organ-1
ization of a group to standardize j
cotton in the 3 000 acres of land i
near Kosse -his next year was!
effected by t'aui G. Haines, Lime- |
stone county farm ajjfrnt, at the |
meeting of cotton growers at j
Kosse last • ight. Officers were
Mected at the session which was j
r-ttended by more than 100 grow- j
ers.
Joe Suttle was elected president
of the association, Charles Peary |
vice-president, and Walter Free- j
mt<n, secretary.
Furthering the work of stand-
ardization of cotton in this county
Mr. Haines will proceed in the
rear future with his plans for or
I panizing as much of the county ir
growers' groups as po
went. I gathered mora seed cot-
Wacona
The fee foi* forma] an-
ion to the acre on my
patch than I did on my other j uouueement for office in this
varieties. Got a $7.50 Premium j column carries the candidate
a bale, and the blue ribbon, so! to July 1028 primary election.
this year Wacona is my entire
crop.
Yours truly,
T. E. SHEL1
Route 2, Mexia, Texas.
You can do the same thing t>y
roN.
All political announcements
I and advertising is CASH in
I ADVANCE,
writing or v
F. Therrell,
iiced Farms,
iring order to Abe
c-o Lunkhart Bred
Waco, Texas.
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GET YOUR GARDEN AND FLOWER
SEED AT OUR STORE
We carry I he well known line of D. M. Ferry.
Most any kind of Garden or Flower Seed can be had
at our Store.
V.W0LVERT0N CO.
Hardware
— .;aTfg4y<iwsBi^ y., «ir.r..-.
Let Us Hatch Your
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Mexia Motor
Car Co.
wamicttc
Ennis Smi
ington, Okla., youth, who was ar-
rested by IoctI officer? last week
on the suspicion of being implicat-
ed in the murder of two Addington
policemen two months ago
taken to Groesbeck this mornirg
by A. R. "lace, chicf of police
where papers will be prepared sc
Smiddy can be taken to Huntsville.
He has admitted, according tc
the. police department, that he If
an escaped convict from Hunts-
ville, where hp had been serving
a term for forgery. He is said tc
have escaped January 16, 1927.
The Mexia Weekly Herald
is authorized to make the fol-
lowing announcements, sub-
ject to action of the Demo-
cratic Primary, July 1928.
For District Clerk:
M. A. (Maid) AINSWORTH
For Countv Judge:
JOHNSON WAKEFIELD
For Sheriff:
A. B. (Boss) McKENZIE
For County Superintendent:
WARNER RASCO
MRS CORA FERGUSON
J. J. (Jim) BARFIELD
For Tax Assessor:
W. A. ROBBINS
If Your Generator Is Giving: You
Trouble, Bring It to Us—
CLYDE CLARK
A v/el! known Ignition and Battery Man
and an old Mexia Boy is with us. He will cur-
rcct your Ignition and Battery Troubles.
A-R-N-E-T-T'-S
Cor. Commerce and McKinney
EPIBIfBKKHBBBBHHBBBeHRHOBMaHMBBI
Cabbage Plants - Garden Seed
Onion Sets and
SOUTH DAKOTA CERTIFIED
SEED POTATOES
Get them at our store.
EPll
HITT&Hin
Belknap and Fannin Streets
MEXIA, TEXAS
Prescription He Wrote
in 1892 is the World's
Mos Popular Laxative
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We set our Mammoth Buckeye Incubator each
Monday. Bring your eggs early.
BABY CHICKS FOR SALE ON TUESDAYS.
Come oat and see them on display.
We will appreciate your business and give you our
best attention. Satisfied customers are our assets.
PITTS HATCHERY
Route 1 Box 7 Phone 9016F12
MEXIA. TEXAS
"The Hatchery Which Gives Service"
When TV. Caldwell started to
practice medicine, hack in 1875, Ihe
needs for a laxative were not as
ftrcnt an they are today. People
lived nonni.l, nuiet live?, ate plain,
wholesome food, and pot plenty of
fresh air and sunshine. But oven
thut early there wi re drastic phys-
ics and purges for the relief of con-
stipation which Dr. Caldwell did
not, believe were good for human
beings to put int/i their system. So
he wrote a prescription for a laxa-
tive to be ti-nd by Ins patients.
The prescription for constipation
that he used early in his practice,
and which he put in drug stores in
1892 under the name of Dr. Cald-
well's Syrup Pepsin, is a liquid
vegetable remedy, intended for
Women, children and elderly people,
and they need just such a mild, snfr,
gentle bowel stimulant as Syrup
Pep«in.
Under sueeessful management thi*
prescriptiort has proven its worth
and is now the largest selling liquid
laxative in the world. The fact that
millions of hottlcg are used a year
proves that it haa won the confidence
of people who needed it to get relief
from headaches, biliousness, flatu-
lentil, iivl?«"5t'on. loss of appetite
and sleep, U>d M' ath, dyspepsia,
co'ds and fevers.
Millions of families are now nover
■ without Dr. Caldwell'* Kvrup Pep-
I sin, and If yon will onee start using
I handy for cmorgeuciea,
at age s3
particularly pleasing
of it is bought
to
It is
know that the mo t
by mothers for themselves and the
children, though Syrup Pepsin k
just as valuable for elderly people.
All drug stores have the generous
bottles.
We would he glad to liave vott
prove at our cxpenso how much Dr.
Caldwell's Syrup Pepiin ran menn
to you and yours, .tuit write
"Syrup Pepsin," Montlcello. Illinois,
and we will send you prepaid a
I EEE SAMPLE BOTTLE,
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te ■J.ltMiV'1'1-!
-And We Will Buy Your
Potato Crop Back This Spring
Paying you the highest market prices for every potota raised from
STATE CERTIFIED North Dakotas
This will give you a money crop right at a time when money is the tightest and
when money is needed the worst. This is just another advantage in planting
STATE CERTIFIED, NortTi Dakota SEED POTATOES
Ask for, and accept nothing else but STATE CERTIFIED North Dakota Seed
Potatoes. For sale by all leading grocers.
MEXIA FRUIT & VEGETABLE CO.
General Distributors Only
i
LIDGE CA
API'Ej
Groesbeck
fes against f
| nen of Cooli
ilary 13, onf
I who were
in cor
iLool
J\o mother in this enlightened «r,e
a'ould give her baby something she
BESSi i];j not, know was nerfectly harm-
| less, especially when a few drops of
plain Castorio will right r. baby's
stomach and end Mniost any little ill.
| Fret fulness mid ''ever, too; it tfcein*
i no time until everything is serene.
That's the beauty of Castoria; its
j gentle influence seemf just what is
| needed. It docs all that castor oil
1 might accomplish, without shock to
| the j-y.-tein. Without the evil taste,
j It's delicious! Being purely vegetable,
| you can give, it as often as there's a
j sign of colic; constipation; diarrhea;
or nerd to aid sound, natural sleep.
Just one warning: it is genuine
,Jj ! Fletcher's Cafitoria that physicians
recommend. Other preparations may
be just as free from oil doubtful
drugs, but no child oi thia_ writer's
is going to test them! Besides, the
book on carc and feeding babies
that comes with Fletcher's C'ustotia
is worth its weight in gold.
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Children Cry for
t ge
mill
MEXIA
_ — TEXAS
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Houx, N. P. The Mexia Weekly Herald (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, February 17, 1928, newspaper, February 17, 1928; Mexia, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299291/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Gibbs Memorial Library.