The Cass County Sun (Linden, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 16, 1939 Page: 1 of 8
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Oldest Business Institution in Cass County—Established 1876
VOLUME 64
LINDEN, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1939
NUMBER 11
SUGGESTION MADE TEXAS TURN
ITSATTENTIONTO CORN RAISING
Texas produced about 83,000,-
•000 million bushels of corn last
year; but already, with the season
Jess than half gone, the commercial
supply is coming from the Corn
Belt into many sections of the
state. The average yield for the
Mate on last year's erop was about
17% bushels per acre, which is
somewhat better than the previous
10 year average. Since many acres
produce 20 to 40 bushels, and some
acres produce even 50 to 75, there
must be many thousands of acre3
that produce 10 bushels or less.
These acres cannot be expected to
produce anything but very high
cost corn.
Since cotton production is limit-
ed and a live-at-home program is a
necessity, corn has become the
most important crop to the south-
ern farmer; but the crop can only
be profitable with good per acre
production. One of the most im-
portant factors in production is the
planting of good seed of a variety
suited to your section. Much corn
is still produced from '"just any old
seed" for which the farmer pays,
and pays with very low yields and
high production costs. In any test
of 12 to 15 selected variations cul-
the southwest in 1938 shows the
highest yield of one varieties at
65.6 bushels per acre againt the
lowest at 49.5; and the highest had
90 per cent of sound ears, while the
lowest had 65 per cent. Varieties
of seed may mean the difference
between profit and loss in produc-
tion. The Texas Experiment Sta-
tion recommends the following va-
rieties for the various sections of
the state: East Texas, Prolific,
Texas Golden Prolific, Surcropper,
Yellow Surcropper, Yellow Dent,
Reese Drouth Resister.
Central Texas:Surecropper, Yel-
low Surecropper Yellow Dent,
Reese Drouth Resister Mexican
June, Golden June.
South Texas: Thomas, Golden
Thomas, Surecropper, Yellow Sure-
cropper, Mexican June, Golden
June, Yellow Lent, Reese Drouth
Resister.
West Texas: Mexican June, Gol-
den June.
Humid Gulf Coast: Tuxpan,
Yellow Tuxpan, Prolific, Texas
Golden Prolific, Mexican June,
Golden June.
When suitable seed have been
obtained, select the best land avail-
able, give it good preparation and
Clarence Hall
Dropped Dead
Mr. Clarence Hall, 42, who has
been in failing health for several
months, died very suddenly Mon-
day morning at his home He is
survived by his wife: Three dau-
ghters, Mrs. Walter Nickelson,
Mary Edith, and Virginia Ruth,
Linden.
Three sons; Ray, Claude, of
Linden, and Ii. W. Hall, of Dallas
His parents Mr. and Mrs. Buck
Hall, one brother, Marvin,and two
sisters, Mrs. Ester Kirkpatrick.and
Mrs. Lucille Cannon of Maning,
La.
The funeral service was con-
ducted by llev. Jesse G. Cooke at
the Fir.-t Baptist Church Linden,
at 2;30 Tuesday afternoon.
Interment in the Linden cemetery
Our hearts go out in sympathy
to the bereaved family and friends.
A Good Man
Passes
tivated under identical conditions | an application of two to three hun-
there will be a variation of 30 to 50 dred pounds of G-8-4 or 4-12-4 fer-
per cent in yield between the high- tilizer and help get Texas out of
est and the lowest. One such test the teen age in average per acre
made by an experiment station of production.
Kildare Invited
To Wichita Kansas
Recently Supt. C. C. Alexander
of the Kildare High School receiv-
ed an invitation for the Kildare
High School Girls Basketball team
who has won national fame in the
the
Trustees
Election April 1
Time and qualification:
Article 2945 Sec. 1, of the School
Laws of Texas provids that on the
first Saturday in April of each year
there shall be an election, in each
last two years compete in the na- school district, for the purpose of
tional A. A. U. tournament in electing a trustee or trustees. The
Wichita Kansas. The outstanding above mentioned Article and sec-
Our town was deeply greived ov-
er the passing of our friend and
neighbor Mr. W. C. Newkirk, 09,
of Atlanaa in the Ellington Me-
morial Hospital Sunday morning
at 11:30, of pneumonia
He was a life long member
of the Atlanta Methodist Church
and lived his religion every day of
his life.
He had been connected with the
4-States Grocery Co. for 28 years.
His body lay in state at Allday
Funeral Home untill Monday after
noon. Funeral services conducted
by Rev. It. C. Goners, pastor.
Interment was in
cemetery
Pine Crest
record that the Kildare Girls has
compiled this season with thirty
two victories out of thirty five
games these victories being over the
best teams of Louisiana, Arkansas,
and Texas.
Cooch Alexander at the time of
writing had not decided about ac-
cepting the invitation.
Kildare 1939 foot ball scedule
Coach VVray of the Kildare Eagles
released the following schedule for
the Kildare High School football
team. A few dates are yet to be
filled.
Sept. 15th No game wanted
Sept. 22 Open
SeptJ 29 DeKalb at Kildare.
Oct. 6 Sarepta La. at Sarepta
Oct. 13 Oil City at Oil City,
(tenative)
Oct. 20 Winfield at Kildare
Oct. 27 Leesburg at Kildare.
Nov. 3 Jefferson at Jefferson
(tenative)
Nov. 10 Open
Nov. 17 James Bowie at Sims
Nov. 24 McLeod at Kildare.
This will be the second year for
the Kildare School to have a foot-
ball team. A fair team is in pros-
pect Coach Wray has twenty bo.\s
in spring training at the present
time.
If any class B High Schoo' teams
would be interesting in filling the
above open dates please write or
phone Ozie Wray or Supt. C. C.
Alexander Kildare High School.
C. C. Alexander
Births
Mr. and Mrs. \V. R Lee, of
Warren Springs a girl March 9.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl C. Howard,
Kildare, a boy March 10.
Mr. and Mrs. Haskell D. Willis
a girl, March 9.
City Election
Proclamation
tion prescribed the qualifications
pf a trustee which are as follows:
"No person shall be trustee who
can not read and write the English
language intelligible, and who has
not been a resident of such district
for six months prior to his election.
Providing no taxpayer in the dis-
trict to which he is elected and ot-
herwise a qualified voter in said
district".
Ballots:
" Any person desiring to have
his name placed on said official bal-
lot as a candidate for the office of
trustee of a common school district
or independent district as herein
provided, shall at least ten days
before election, file a written re-
quest with the County Judge of the
County in which said district is
located, requesting that his name
be placed on the offical ballot, and
no candidate shall have his name
printed on said ballot unless he has
complied with the provisions of
this section; provided that five or
more resident qualified voters in
the district may request that cer-
tain names be printed. The Coun-
ty Judge upon reecipt of said writ-; Morris the Baptist Pa-tor in charge
ten request shall have ballots print - °f the services, assisted b\ Lev
ed and placing on the ballots tho ! Swmdt^U the M«'tho<li- as or. a.-
of each candidate who hat:tpr which the little body was
with the torm< of this to rest in the family plot m
By authority vested in me as
Mayor of the City of Linden,
Texas, I hereby issue my procla-
mation ordering a general election
to be held in the said city of Lin-
den, for the purpose of electing a
mayor and two City Commissioners
and a City Marshall for a full term
of two years; said election to be on
Tuesday, April 4th., 1939, and J.
L. Lovelace is hereby appointed
Manager of said ^'election with
authority to select his assistant,
said election to be held in the Cass
County Court House, Linden,
Texas.
In witness whereof witness my
hand and official signature this the
6th., day of March, A. D. 1939.
(SEAL) C. R. Newland,
Mayor, City of Linden, Texas.
Infant Baby Dies
The five days old infant baby of
Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Jones of Jeffer-
son passed away in the Willis-
KnightenHospital in Shreveport La
Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock and
was brought back to it's home in
Jefferson Sunday night.
Funeral services were held at
home Monday morning with Rev.
r
laid
the
Linden cemetery.
M iss Nina Carlton, who is here
in connection with ""the Health
Unit, spent the weekend in DeKalb
and Paris. '
names
complied
act."
The trustee elections will be held
on April 1. 1939 since names must
be filed 10 days before election, it
will be necessary to have the can-
didates names filed with Hie Coun-
ty Judges not later than March 22 j _r , . , ,. ,. ,
Mr, Jack Porterhcld of iexar-
We are glad that DR. GREEN, kana paid the Sun office a pleasant
Vctinary is located in Linden, visit one day last week. Always
Davis Drug Store. A Friend glad to have him call.
Rev. Davis Kant and family were We arc sorry to learn of the se-
visitors in the home of Mrs. Fant's rious illness of Miss Mozelle (^Ion-
parents, Mr and Mrs. N. H. Moul- inger. She had a relapse of the
ton, over the week end. flu. We hope she will soon recover.
From The County
Agent Office
The question often arise as how
best to save our wild Game. Quite
often you hear outcries telling of
the rights of sportsmen and city
dwellers who do not own land.
Many approaches have been made.
Yet, so far as the writer knows,
there has been but one approach
that included the man who owns
the land. Your Own Texas A&M
Extension Service offers such a
plan that has received applause in
Cass County. The plan works with
out force, and safely protects the
game and the property at the same
time. The Farmer who owns the
land can hunt on his own land as
often as he wishes and may invite
who he pleases but the plan does
exclude those who wish to hunt on
the owners land without first ob-
taining permission. From a small
beginning in 1937 over 17,000,000
Texas acres are now protected
nore effectively than at any previ-
ous time in history. Yet there are
no cost attached, the farmer and
the County agent plan out a pro-
tected area jointly. The Farmer
may resign at any time, yet there
is no record of any farmer who was
in a protocted area in co-operation
with his county agent ever bring-
ing one single objection. To the
contrary in two short jrears 23
protected areas have been establish
in Cass county with the communi-
ty having full charge. This covers
over one fifth of all Cass County.
Any community can have this ser-
vice with out cost by seeing your
cousty agent.
The canning factory at Atlanta
is about receiving the acreage they
desire for a full capacity run in 1939
The following communites have
sent out committees to help work
out the details and there are doubt
less more communities now in the
process of working out plans for
participation: Anti, Red Hill, War-
ren Springs, Bear Creek, Hughes
Springs, Avinger. Cross Roads,
Bryans Mill, Lone Oak Dalton,
Flat Creek, Kildare, Huffines, Oak
Grove. These enterprising farmers
realize the tremendous advantage
the Citizens of Atlanta offered!
when they erected a canning plant.
A farmer should clear from $25 to
$75 an acre with perhaps $40 being
an average, according to Dr.
Young of the Texas Experiment
station. These farmers are wise in
hunting for a substitute cash crop
for cotton It is now time to plant
the tomato seed as every one should
plant about the first of March in
the compost hotbed and go to the
field by the 10th of April. Seed can
be had from the Canning factory
represenative.
Silage from sweet sorghum may
be planted on acres without it be-
ing classed as a "General" acre or
without a penalty being attached.
That is solid news for Cass Farm-
ers. Peanuts "hogged off" is anoth-
er crop than does not count as a
"general', crop. With these two
crops for feed for cows and hogs,
we should have plenty of milk
and pork for living,at home.
To our landowners who have
fish ponds, the following will be
of interest if they want to increase
the number of ponds of fish per
year that they may harvest from
that pond: The subject, of attack
is fish food. It is best- to provide
natural food rather than give arti-
ficial food. In th<' lish pond there
are very definite cycles of life going
on. Many forms of plant life grow
in ponds from the small algae to
Now the protozoa are devoured by
small crustacea called water fleas
and fish, especially the minnows
eat the water fleas, as well as some
of the algae organic matter.
Now what do the plants feed up- 1
on? Like all plants they manufac-
ture their own food with the aid of
sunlight, but they need certain
mineral elements too; Just as cot- ;
' j
ton will not grow on worn out land
that has no fertalizer, so these
aquatic plants will not flourish
without these minerals. The min- i
erals needs are the same that cot-
ton needs, Nitrogen, phosphorous
aod potassium. These are the ele-
ments in commercial fertalizer
Much experimental work has been
done in the south along these lines
and much should be done by the
landowner in Cass County. It is
recommended that about 400
pounndsof 0-12-6, or 500 pounds of
4-8-4 be used to an acre of water.
Put it in 100 pounds at the time
starting the first week in May and
repeating once a month for four or
five months. Those trying this are ! |
urged "to report your findings to
your county agent so he can report j
your experiment, so that othe own- Linden Jr. Boys
ers of ponds may learn tou. win Tournament
Have you learned to support ; By defeating McLeod 15-14 in
your farmers organization? Cass the finals, the Linden Jr. Basket-
County has a thriving organization hall team won the Huffines tourna-
with I' rank Thompson as President ment. The game was a very rough
and Arthur Thompson as Vice Pre- affair which saw three players put
sident. These men, with hundred of j out of the game. High point man
others, are organized affiliated with for Linden was Daniel, center. The
the Farm Bureau Federation. This defensive ga™e played i'y Echo!-,
Nelson and Newland was also very
fine. Linden got into the finals by
Mrs. Mary S. Harris
Dies at El Paso
Mrs. Mary S. Harris, age 88,
died at her home in El Paso early
Tuesday morning. Funeral ser-
vices were held there Wednesday
afternoon at 2:30.
Mrs. Harris had been a member
of the Methodist Church sinee
childhood and we have never
known a more devout christian,
ever faithful to her church and its
services, always extending a help-
ing hand to those in sorrow or dis-
tress, she was a good neighbor and
loving friend.
Surviving are four sons: Jodie,
; Reece, Bissell and Jack; and four
daughters: Misses Annie. Ruth,
Floride Harris and Mrs. Dr. Mon-
roe. Another daughter Mrs."Ma-
mie Burkhalter preceded her in
death a few years ago.
| Mrs. Harris lived in Linden for a
: number of years and her many
friends here join the Sun in extend-
ing sincere sympathy to the be-
reaved children.
is one of the oldest and most per-
manent farm organization in Amer-
ica, and is by far the largest. As
the farmer prospers, the whole of
Cass County prospers, The wealth
comes from the soil and when the
farmer fails to get a reasonable
share of the money, all service men
suffer, whether that service man be
a school teacher, doctor, Black-
smith, Merchant or telephone
company. Thinking men support
the organized farmer, whose great
problems are raising the amount
of mo ley the farmer may get so
defeating Kildare 23-5. This game
was a walk-away from the first.
After this fine impression made at
Huffines, the Linden Jr., Team ap-
pears to have a very good chance
in the county meet next Friday and
Saturday. The starting lineup is
Echols and Nelson, guards; New-
land and Wray, forwards, and
Daniel, center.
a part of her demonstration fo
| the year.
I As one of the first home food sup-
j ply demonstrators in Cass County,
Mrs. C. H. Autry of the Rockey
.. , , ' Point home demonstration Club
that he can spend it for the services ; ^ rcduced hef grocery bm from
that he classes as "higher Stand- : niore than three hundred dollars
ards of Living". It.is the problem I a year to seventy dollars. She is
of everv human living in the south able to do this by growing more
, ' . i , t .i things and trading the surplus
and you should see one of the , f * ,
, J „ , i home grown products for staple
above men and find out how you
might hely.
groceries.
Mrs. Autry plants some of eve-
ry kind of vegetable that will grow
in this locality, in order to serve
plenty of fresh vegetables to her
family and to give a variety in diet.
In her home orchard, she has
r ,, , , , seven varieties of peach trees (rip-
In order hat she may serve her cning frQm May £ Qctober) ^
family a wide variety of vegetables ( appie trees of four varieties (ripen-
4-H And Home
Demonstration Clubs
Mrs. A. O. McBride, of the Doug
lassville Home Demonstration
Club, has two hot beds for growing
Off early plants. One bed is five
by fifteen feet and the other is four
by twenty feet. In these beds she
has planted three varities of pep-
per, two varieties of tomatoes, two
varieties of celery, two cabbage,
brussell sprouts and koli raba. She
has added four new herbs to her
herb garden. In her home orchard
she has set out seven peach trees,
ripening from May to October, two
apple trees, two pear trees, two!
plum trees, five fig bushes, two
hundred a n d fifty strawberry
plants, ten thornless dewberry
vines and fifty grape cuttings. To
have health one must have tie
right kind of food which includes
I lenty of fresh fruit- and vegeta-
bles; knowing this, Mrs. McBride
is growing hers at home.
With the help of her father, Opal
Williams, orchard demonstrator of
the Alamance 1-11 Club, has plant-
ed sixteen peach trees of four dif-
ferent varieties, two plum trees,
ght scupernong vines and fifty
large floating lillies. These plants st rawberry plants, some of which
die and are fed upon by bacteria, will bear fruit this year. Opal also
which in turn form the food for plans to plant and care for the
single cell life called the protozoa, tomatoes in the family garden as
ing from June to November), sev-
en pear trees, nine grapevines of
three varieties, three hundred feet
of Dallas berries, three hundred
feet of Young berries, nine fig bush-
es, and one hundred strawberry
plants. To have more and better
fruit the orchard is kept pruned,
sprayed, fertilized, and worked.
Other than having fresh vegeta-
bles and fruits, Mrs. Autry cans
more than a thousand containers
of food for non-productive months.
She also has plenty of milk, butter,
beef, pork, chickens and eggs which
means that when the sum of what
| the average pers.on needs to eat
and what Mrs. Autry grows at
home, very few staple groceries are
needed.
McClaren-Aliday
Mr. Johnson Carol McClaren
and Miss Mary Francis Alldav
drove over to Denton and were
united in marriage Saturday night,
March the 1 Ith. Miss Beatrice
Taylor accompanied them from
here and they picked up other
friends enroute to witness the cere-
mony.
The Groom is a contractor, liv-
ing in Marshall. The bride is the
charming daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
A. M. Allday of our city, a gradu-
ate of tho Linden High School in
1937. Their many fi ends join the
Sun in extending congraulatlous
and best wishes.
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Banger, J. E. A. & Erwin, W. L. The Cass County Sun (Linden, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 16, 1939, newspaper, March 16, 1939; Linden, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth340756/m1/1/?q=%22~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Atlanta Public Library.