The Mexia Weekly Herald (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, October 5, 1928 Page: 4 of 12
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day, October 5. 1928.
-i MEXIA WEKKLY HERALD
AFTER NUTS
,GER MORE
PLANTS
Jacksonville Group to
Be Directed from
Mexia Now
OTHERSADDED
Caldwell Active Vice
President Entire
Texas Holdings
Mistake Man for Squirrel,
Boys Shoot Him
KANSAS CITY, Oct. 1 (UP>-
To be mistaken for a squirrel while
picking nuts in a tree and shot b\
four boys was the experience o'
Fred Henn, 32, of Kansas Citv.
He is in a general hospital with
bullet wounds in his left arm and
shoulder and a bruised head when
he fell 26 feet from the tree.
Don S. Caldwell, connected since
It's organization, with the Com-
munity Power and Light comvany,
has been made vice-or-vldeni and
general manager of the Texaf
Utilities company, it it annonuced
$rom the officials and directors of
the Community Power and Light
company. The .action, wis taken
at a recent meeting of the board
of- directors an-J ' offi«'i*i at St
Louis, Mo.
The Texas Utilities company to
a subsidiary ot the Community
Power and 1 ight <so ppaiiy and
serves 70 towns and cities of Cep-
tral and West Texas. Last week,
Mr. Caldwell ulso was made gen-
eral manager the East Texas
group of proptrties of the Gtilf
Public Sen-ice compary a sub-
aldiary of the Ceneral £ iblic Util-
ities company, and §aiiiv>ell- took
Active cbrce of t.hr;e holding.- Oc-
tober 1, Monday.
' Mr. Caldw.'Il will continue., to
live in Merfia and will r:ak« this
rity his hearl'iuarters. Thegor.era]
offices of the rentral division of
the texa* tjt.lities company and
the Gulf Fublic; Service company
will be maintained ijn Unfaa by
MrHCaldwell.- ' * ' : -'•
The town? that will ih se-ved
In the East' Texas holdings ot .the
Gulf public Service company are
Jacksonville. and surrounding
fcovjis numbering Alto, Rusk
Troupe, Franks^on, Bnllard. Arp,
White' House, Overton and ' Mi.
Salman.'
Sees Possibility
of Same Plants
in This Section
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Advertising- Tour for
Mexia Made through
Highway No. 7
Possibilities of dairy develop-
ment in Limestone and f reestone
counties was forcefully Illustrated
by a visit through the new Mar-
shall milk dehydratinK plant, ac-
cording to W. t Land'ilm secre-
tary of the Mexia Chamber of
Cojumerce, who rituriw*a fron. an
advertising trip to Texaikana,
Sunday. Mr. I.andruin, with Mrs.
Landrum, spent several hours on a
tour of inspection tnrough the
Marshall plant built this year aoo
opened for operation June 1, at a
cost of approximately U 50,000.
The Marshall plant has been
built solely by Marshall capital, it
is announced, with a Cow /min-
cing Association, of Marshall bait-
ers, purchasing pure bred cows
for the farmers who furnish the
milk to the J>lant. Out of the pro-
ceeds of the milk, halt it's value,
is taken by the creamt-rj. and tha*
amount turned over to the bank-
ers to repay them for the tunds
advanced for the purchase < f the
herds. All animals are insured
against loss 0> the Association,
Mr. Landrum reported.
5,000 founds Daily
With an' initial «>.!<• "* K nnn
has grown in four months to
where it no« totals more than
13,000 pounds daily and is increas-
ing steadily. A total of 2'tO farm-
ers supply the milk to the dehy-
drating plant.
Products turned out by the plant
at Marshall include sweet cream
for which there is a demand that
cannot be met, buUcr, and- pow-
dered milk. The dehydrating plant
alone cost more than 440,000 to
install and get into operation.
At first the numOer of Cows
was 250, but that number, thro-
ugh the help of the Mjiht nil Cow
Financing Association has grown.
Out of the ha'f of the milk that
is left to the farmers after mak-
ing his ''cow-payment,1' there still
is enough profit to allow him a
percentage for his work, after
feeding the animal. The farmers
of the district who arj supplying
the cream"ry vith it'* raw ma-
terials, are enthusiastic over th'
plan, officials of. I he Marshall
pla"* have pointed out.
■ • Seven Lines
4 collection plan, whereby the
fearner at the UK end -it the seven
radiating lines of emiply from
Marshall,-picks up tha supply as
he drives toward, the city is now
In effect. The farmer is paid for
the hauling, direct from the cream-
ery. .. . ' " ; •>'.
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' "X fbrmor ooufcty farm agent of
Harrison county ha3 hfi^n employ-
ed by the creamery a i.l ;onden*
sery tor work among the farmers,
instructing thsm as to feeding, and
preparing their farms for raising
their own feed, cutting down ma-
terially the cost of pr' idiictWri per
cow and per pound of milk. This
special dairy agent has m're than
paid" fori his employment through
the .beneficiai resrrfta accomplish-
ed among, the former*, it was
said, p - *• '
A branch cohcentratmi? print for
millf for the Marshall plarl has
been established at Henderson
Here the milk from R i«k county
is chilled and shipped tc Mar-
hall.
Longview Working
Longview also is co,uing:W the
fore as a dairy center, ^aio the
shall Cow Finance Asiooittion, it
it) pointed out, and the irilk is
shipped to the dehydrating plant
at Marshall.
Mr. Landrum report-)-! the exact
mileage of his trip fr >m Mexia
to Texarkanu, via fa igue. f air-
field, Palestine, Jacksonville Hen-
derson, Tatum, Marshall, .Jeffer-
son, Linden and Toxarkara as
238 miles. A sign ru*, .rting the
mileage was plated at tl:e entrance
of Highway No. 7 into Texarkana
All roads from Mexia to Texar-
kana were gooa. Lan-.'rum said.
The best strctehes, however, were
from Ross avenue in Mexia to the
Freestone county line, and from
Teague to the Trinity river, thro-
ugh Fairfield and Pale>>t'i.e.
On the return Mr. and Mrs
Landrum came back by wtj of
Marshall Longview, Tyler and
Jacksonville, then ba^lt tnrough
Palestine, Fairfield on to Mexia.
This route was 254 mil >s, Landrum
said his speedometer registered.
Road signs were plisea at reg-
ular intervals, and 2,000 road maps
and folders of information were
|put out at HoteiB, Filling Stations
and Tourist earnps along cli<* route
taken by Mr. ano Mrs. landrum.
Bryan Cotton
Warehouse and
2466 Bales Burn
Costly Fire Sunday
Afternoon; House
Was New
BRYAN, Oct. 1.—Bryan suffer-
ed a disastrous conflngrction Sun-
day afternoon ai one o'clock when
the Lawrence cotton warehouse
and 2,406 bales ol cotton was total-
ly destroyed. The warehouse was
built two years ago of corrugated
iron and was 250 feet in length
and 115 feet wide. The cost was
fourth of it's value. It v.as lull of
$10,000 and was insured for three-
cotton, as hitfh as .t could bo
stacked, and they were weighing
on the outside where there were
two or three hundred bales stored
in the open.
IJra\) Loss
The loss totals $225,ftOO. Owners
of the warehouse estimated that
80 per cent of the cotton wat^ be-
ing held by buyers and wa* cover-
ed by insurance. The other 20 per
cent wns owned by farmers and
the greater part of it wp.s insured.
The ice plant of the Western
Public Service company, just
across the alley from the ware-
house, was na\ed but was dam-
aged considerably.
The origin of the fire has not
been determined and the fames
were bursting through the toof of
the entire building before it was
discovered. James Darwin man-
ager of the warehouse, was in the
building at 10 o'clock, three hours
before the flames leaped out, and
there wns no sign of fire at that
time.
WINNIPEG, Man., Oct 1 tUP)
—Officers from Atlania w>re ex-
pected here to take Clinton S
Carnes, defaulting treasurer of
the Southern Baptist Mission
board to Atlanta to face charge?
of embezzlenu-nt of m.'in ttjan f
$1,000,000 in church f'-nds.
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NOW OPEN
Fifth Annual
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Philadelphia Indicts
Police for Grafting
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 1 (UP).
—Indictments were returned by
the grand jury Monday ugainst
three of 34 members of the police
force under arrest on .-barges they
took graft from a $10,000,000
bootleg ring. Action is expected
soon and in the case of the re-
mainder of the men alv iady charg-
ed and frutber arrests are ex-
pected.
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E. J. ORMSBY, Mexia, Texas.
Doll Up That Old
Car with a New Coat
q{ Paint!
A smart looking car is essential and
we are the people who can make the
old bus look like a million dollars.
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Come in and select the color you
want.
We paint any kind of an automobile
—matters not how large or small.
Moderate prices. Work Guaranteed. ,
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We make and repair tops of all kinds.
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Also carry wind shields and door glass
makes of cars.
McDonnell Top and Body Shop
•307 East Commerce St.
ran—s—b—g a ■
-MEXIA
TIDWELL'O
* Service Station^
Belknap and Commerce Sts.
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Mishaps
js When
..sked
ION, Oct. 1 (UP)-
>ping unhurt in his plane
,«r prev-io'is occasions, John
^de, night air mail flyer oper
ating bet-ween Atlanta and Rich
mond narrowly missed being shit
down by a farmer to whom he ap-
plied for aid.
Caught in a storm Kytle tried
vainly to find the Lexington, N
C-, landing field Sunday night and
finally was forced down near Rural
Hill,' N. C.
While seeking aid Kytle came
upon a farmer's house, knocked on
the door and informed the occu-
pant his plane had fallen and he
needed assistance A charge of-
buckshot fired from the door was
the answer1 from within.
MOTHER!
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"California Fig Syrup"
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factory
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Mexia, Texas
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CARRYING A FULL LINE OF
POPUL AR PRICE—
-Ready-to-W ear
-Millinery
-Ladies Shoes
-Ladies Hosiery ,
-Ladies Underwear
A store in which you can find good merchan-
dise priced very low.
At all times we will feature Dresses from
$3.95 to $29.50; Hats from. $1.95. to. $10.00;
Hosiery from 95c to $3.00; Coats from $6.95
to $39.50; Underwear from 95c to $3.95.
Come9 Visit Us Opening Day.
Look for the Sign!
Ivocated Across the Street from the
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Farmers State Bank
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The Mexia Weekly Herald (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, October 5, 1928, newspaper, October 5, 1928; Mexia, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299324/m1/4/?q=%22~1%22~1: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Gibbs Memorial Library.