The Cass County Sun (Linden, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 21, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 20, 1924 Page: 2 of 8
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BRIEFS BY CABLE,
WIRE.JVIRELESS
Great Events That Are Chang-
ing the World's Destiny Told
in Paragraphs
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO ALL
Short Chronicle of Past Occurrences
Throughout the Union and Our
Colonics—Nav a From Europe
That Will interest.
DOMESTIC
Kesponsiblillty for spread of tha
foot and mouth dlseasa among cattle
In California was placed by Seci1*-
tary Wallace on thoughtless persons
who travel from infested farma ,to
noninfested areas.
Secretary Weeks asked Congress to
enact legislation authorizing honor-
able discharge certificates for minors
Applications for bank charters
came before the State Banking Board
*rom Lorraine. Drlscoll. Alvln, Cas.
troville and Corpus Chrlsti. Action
who enlisted for World War service on *ke applications is expected soon,
and were later discharged when it • •
was found they had misrepresented
their ages.
Major Gen. Walter H. Gordon, re-
tired, who commanded the Sixth Di-
vision overseas for a time during
the World War. died suddenly here
Land Commissioner Robinson has
opened bids on 375,000 acres ol
school lands. An isolated tract of
a few acreB in Kaufman County
brought the top price at $30 per
fccre Because* of droughth, arid con-
Aged 104 years, Mrs. Mary Jeffers
of Medford, Ore., has the distinction
tof being the oldest tourist to pass
through San Francisco. She wis en
route to visit her son in Cleveland.
Pola Negri, Polish motion picture
actress, has filed application for Am
erlcan citizenship in Los Angeles.
She guve her age as 27, her name,
Apolonia, Countess Dombsa, and her
birthplace as Litno, Poland. If she
meets naturalization requirements,
the actress would be entitled to citl
cenship in 1927.
From Hanford, Cal., comes word
that the ranchers of that vicinity
(have raised a fund and employed
Hatfield, "the rainmaker," to exercise
tils ingenuity in coaxing the needed
fshowers out of the skies. Rainmak-
ing has been a subject of experiment
from earliest times and many and
various have been the methods em-
ployed.
Henry Grady, of Ponca City, Okla.,
now knows who has been stealing
firewood from his yard while he
worked at night as restaurant dish-
washer. After several raids. Grady
decided to load several sticks with
shotgun cartridges. The ofher nignt
there was a mysterious explosion in
the stove of a neighbor nearby. Now
Grady is satisfied his wood Is safe
A writ of habeas corpus restored
E Nodine, 14 months old, to her
mother, after the baby had baen
'held in a hospital on orders of the
iphvsician for a $215 bill, contracted
during treatment for pneumonia.
fThe mother, earning $20 a week, was
■unable to pay the bill at once and
Ihe physician refused to permit the
n-hlld to leave before settlement was
imade.
Dusting off the Liberty bell may
cost the city of Philadelphia $3,240
[because Margaret Marter, an employe
(in Independence Hall, where the
(relic is kef>t, fell while cleaning it.
The State workmen's compensation
iboard awarded her $10.20 a week
wh'.le she is disabled. The maximum
period over which the compensation
can be paid is 300 weeks which
would make $3,240.
The pet hen of a flock owned by
Mrs. J. E. Bittinan of Kansas City,
laid an egg embossed with a heart.
Interpreting the unusual marking to
Indicate she should permit her daugh-
ter to get married. Mrs. Bittman,
who had been an invalid for years,
arose from her bed, baked cakes and
cookies and Indulged in other house-
hold feats. "Go get married now if
you wish." she told her daughter,
"for I am strong again and no
longer need help with the house
work The 'sign of the heart' has
pointed the way."
recently. He was born in MissiBsip- 4mon8 80me 0f the land was not bid
pi in 1863 and was graduated from up0n,
the United States Military Academy • • ♦
in 1886. •
woJ„„ ~ n n T*rnii-__ Grand Commandery, Knights Temp.
Llii. lar of Texas, headquarters at Hous-
army ordnance, told the Senate Af- . "V . _ , ..
rlculture Committee at its Muscle no ^
Shoals hearing that the feaaibllity of jj" °' r i
producing nitrogenous fertilizers by ' 'r>niin« huh w a r ii
.. * Alderman, Dallas, and W. G. Bell,
fixation of atmosphereic nitrogen for ^ustjn and otherB The corporatlon
possesses property valued at $300,000.
use in this country "1b still open to
doubt."
A resolution providing that the
Senate "advice and consent" to the
adherence of the United States to
the permanent court for internatlon-
ii'stic* has been Introduced by
Senator Swanson (Dem.) Virginia, a
member of the Senate Foreign Rela-
tions Committee.
A resolution proposing a child la-
bor amendment to the Constitution
has been passed by the House.
ery effort to modify the measure,
which now goes to the Senate, failed.
It would empower Congress to limit,
regulate or prohibit the labor of
children under eighteen years of age.
March business conditions showed
indications of a slackening in com-
mercial development in. ait naslo
lines except building construction
and production of steel ingots, the
Federal Reserve Board said in an
industrial summary The depression,
in the view of officials here, is not
serious.
Complete removal of the foot and
mouth disease quarantine in Califor-
nia from Marin, Sonoma, Santa Clara,
.mil San Mateo Counties, and from
Complying with a legislative reso-
lution, Gov. Neff proclaimed May 1
is Bird and Wild Flower Day, call-
ing upon parents and teachers to aid
'n its proper observance. The value
!>f our wild bird? and the beauties
5f our wild flowers are described
jloquently by the Governor In asking
for their protection.
number plates for automobiles for
1925 and as many more as are nec-
sssary in additional orders as they
are needed. This fact was communi-
cated to the State Board of Control
by the State Highway Department
when it supplied specifications for
the plates which are soon to be
ordered,
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The Governor of Tennessee asked
the Governor of Texas to give Ten-
nessee a portrait of Sam Houston,
first president of the Republic of
Texas. Houston was a native of
Tennessee. The request will be
placed before the ne\t Legislature,
all except a small area in Napa j according to Secretary of F'ate Sta-
nnd Solano Counties, in which ter-
ritory the disease first broke out,
has been announced by Dr. John R.
Mohler, chief of the Bureau of Ani-
mal Industry.
Packers and wholesalers get 75c
out of every dollar paid by consum-
ers of meat to retail dealers; 19c
pies.
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S. M. N. Marrs, State Superintend-
ent of Public Instruction, ruled that
pupils attending school in an inde-
pendent district, but whose residence
Is outside the district, are entitled
'.o free tuition only for the length
pays the dealers expenses and 5c , of tJle time the gtate and county
represents the dealer's profit, the
WASHINGTON
Farmers or other mutual hall, cy-
clone, casualty, life or fire insurance
companies, mutual ditch or irrigation
companies, mutual or co-operative
telephone companies and like organ-
izations would be exempt from cor-
poration taxes in the Federal revenue
laws, under terms of a bill intro-
duced by Representative Black of
Texas. This exemption would apply
only where the principal source of
income is collected from members
for the sole purpose of meeting loss-
es and paying expenses. The bill
would relieve such companies of all
prior assessments for tax on Income,
war profits or excess profits.
The American Federation of Labor
through Its permanent committee on
education sent appeals to all local
trade unions in the United States to
urgrt the creation of local permanent
committees on education for the pur-
pose of bringing about closer associa-
tion with .social work everywhere.
Objects set forth are that the wage
earners be adequately represented on
municipal school boards and there bq
labor representation on boards of di-
rectors of universities and other In-
stitutions of higher learning that
"are part of the public school sys-
tems of our country."
school tax operates the school tne.v
ittend, that for the period beyond
that they must pay tuition.
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Comanche County has paid the
State of Texas the last of Its $33,000
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FOREIGN
Department of Agriculture announced
In making public a survey of 143
retail meat stores in Chicago, Cleve
land and New York from March,
1922, to February, 1924.
Collection, care and counting ol
the ballots cast in the MayfieVl-Ped- I drouth relief loan. The original ag
dy race in Texas in 1922 has cost | f r?ates loan of $400,000. to drouth-
$37,096, Senator Warren. Republican, ! stricken counties has been reduced
chairman of Senate appropriations < $'0,000. However, some of the
committee, told the Senate. It was ! 'ountles have not returned one dollar
believed here that witness fees, rail j the State. The last Legislature
road fare for witnesses, attorneys' iuthorized the Attorney General to
fees and miscellaneous expenses will Proceed to collect amounts due and
run the cost of the contest up to are expected to pay up shortly,
approximately $75,000. * *
A H. Dunlap, member of the State
| Board of Water Engineers, has re-
| 'timed from an inspection of the
Blanco River canyon in Hays County
i And reports that a magnificent site
for a dam and reservoir was found,
with the result that it will be sur-
veyed and mapped under the con-
servation and reclamation program.
Some 30.000 acres of rich valley
lands between Kyle and San Marcos
will be placed under water besides
power possibilities.
• •
There are 315 girls at the Scottish
Rite dormitory of the Univesrtly of
Texas, and more than 200 of that
number are trying to gain weight.
The average quantity of milk con-
sumed by an average family of five
persons is one and a half quars, ac-
cording to Miss : Ima Streit, dieti-
tian at the dormitory. The average
quantity of milk consumed in one
day by the girls who are trying to
gain weight Is two to two and a half
quarts each day.
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A suvey of what the Texas public
rchools are doing in the way of san-
itation and medical treatment for
the pupils has been started here by
the arrival of D. E. A. Peterson of
Western Reserve University, Cleve-
land. Ohio, who will spend two or
three weeks in the state making
such inspection. Dr. Pearson Is part
of the State educational survey force
as organized by Dr. George A.
Works of Cornell University, direc-
tor of the Texas survey.
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Dr. C. E. Durham, State registrar of
vital statistics and director of the
Bureau of Veneral Diseases, State
Health Department, has gone to Ar-
kansas and Mississippi to study the
inethodis of birth and death regis-
tration in those States, both of which
are in the registration area which
requires 90 per cent registration of
blrthB and deaths. Efforts arc being
made to have Texas included in the
registration area within the next
fe<v month*
Natives in the heart or Africa will
be able soon to perform their an-
cient ceremonial dances to the strains
of jazz through a radio loud-speakng
speaker and will be given instruction
in modern agriculture methods in
the same way under plans of Iirittish
officials in Kenya colony.
The net expenditure for elemen-
tary education for each child in aver
age attendance in England and Wales
was 11 pounds, 14 shillings, 5 pence
in 1921-22, and 5 shillings, 8 pence
less in 1922 23. The total cost of
educating a child during Lie normal
period of school life, 1. e., from
5 to 14 years of age, is, therefore,
about 100 pounds.
The French aviator, Luiene Coupet,
broke the world's altitude record for
an air plane carrying a weight of
1.000 kilograms, (2,200 pounds), at
tafning a height of 5 800 meters (19
024 feet). The former record of 4,
990 meters (16.367.20 feet), was es
tablished by Jean Casale, June 1,
1923. Coupet's plane was driven by
a 600-horsepower motor.
A great crowd bade farewell to
the FiJIpino Independence mission
which departed for the United States
on the steamship President Jackson
The mission is composed of Manuel
Quezon, president of the Philippine
Senate, and Sergio Osmena, Senator
the president and vice president re-
spectively. of the newly formed con
solidated Nationalist party, and Rep
resentatlve Carlo M. Reoto of the
Democrata party.
Baron Moncheur has been instrust
ed by the Belgian Government to
open conversations in London with
Christian Bakovsky, head of the Rus-
sian Soviet delegation to the Anglo-
Russian conference, with a view to
ascertaining the possibilities of re-
suming formal negotiations with the
Soviet Government regarding tbe
settlement of debts and other finan-
cial questions.
fexas News
Houston schools will close the
year's work May 30, according to an-
nouncement Saturday. More than
30,000 children are enrolled.
More than 36,000,000,000 cubic feet
of natural gas were consumed In Tex-
as duslng 1923, aocordlng to figures
just made public by the Texas railroad
commission.
The pecan trees in Brazoria county
are all in full blossom and, well.laden
with young pecanB. Indications are
that the entire country will yield a
■plendid crop this fall if no misfortune
overtakes It.
The attorney general has approved
the following Grimes county road dis-
trict bonds, all serials, 6^s; District
No. 6, $80,000; No. 1, $175,000, and No.
8, $200,000.
The Texas Music Teachers' Associa-
tion will hold a two-day convention in
Galveston, beginning May 22.
The acreage of all crops with the
exception of the truck crops will be
increased this season in Montgomery
county.
All cropB In an area seven miles long
and five wide, centering at Bradshaw,
Taylor County, were destroyed Friday
night by a hailstorm which lasted
thirty minutes.
More than 30 school districts in
Shelby county have raised the local
tax rate above the 60-cent limit with-
in recent months. The cause of the
increase is the universal desire for a
longer school term.
According to reports from the port
commission at Houston, the Houston
ship channel, with the exception of
three miles, will all have a minimum
depth of 30 feet und a minimum width
of 150 feet by July 1.
By a vote of three *.o one, El Paso
voters ratlfiied a bond issue of $1,039,-
000, of which $500,000 is .or schools.
The municipul items are for park
improvements, paving, sewers, firo
stations and river levees.
Direct trolley connection between
Galveston and Texas City was pro-
posed and indorsed Friday at the semi-
monthly meeting of the Galveston
chamber of commerce. The proposal
was placed iri the hands of a commit-
tee for investigation.
Thirteen persons were killed and
twenty-two Injured in grade crossing
accidents in Texas in February, ac-
cording to a statement just issued by
the Texas railroad commission. Elev-
en of those killed were in automobiles
and two were pedestrians. All of he
injured were in automobiles.
Telephone companies must pay the
state gross receipts tax on con. mis-
sions obtained for collecting tolls from
other companies, according to a ruling
just made by the attorney general's
department. The tax also applies to
miscellaneous revenues derived from
installation charges and sale of ma-
terials, the ruling said.
Felix T. Mel burn of Weir recently
offered a prize of 100 baby chicks for
the best essay on "The Care of Poul-
try to Insure Greater Ecg Product.jn." |
The essay submitted by Miss Eva !
Itascoe, a member of the Van Zaudt
County Home Demonstration club,
won the prize. Miss Itascoe is ma', ing
a specialty of poultry raising and gar-
dening.
Corporations subject to a gross re-
ceipts tax that have not p . id the tax
for the quarter ending March 31, are
now being assessed a penalty of 10
per cent of the amount of the tax, it
was stated In the tax division of the
comptroller's department at Austin
this week. There are quite a number
of such corporationn that are delin-
quent. This penalty does not include
a heavy fine that may be imposed for
failure to make quarterly reports to
the comptroller's department.
Practically all grading work on Hi-
dalgo county's permanent highway has
been completed. Concrete work, is
also proceeding rapidly. More than
600 miles of concrete base has "been
laid, four miles of this boing east of
Mercedes, where connection is made
with the Cameron county concrete
highway. About four miles of con-
crete has been put down between Val
Verde and Donna, aud approximately,
2% miles between McCaU's and Pharr.
About a mile of the concrcte base
has been laid east from Mission.
Captain L. Bernlcot, special repre-
sentative of the Paris office of the
French line, announced this week at
Houston that regular sailings of two
large passenger steamers and.eight
smaller combination passenger-freight
steamers will be started from Houston
on August 11. Regular monthly sail-
ings on the lJth of each month will
be maintained by the two large steam-
ers, regular bi-monthly sailings of the
smaller boats will be maintained, and
additional sailings will be ordered
whenever a cargo warrants it, the an-
nouncement stated.
MOTHER!
Child's Best Laxative is
"California Fig Syrup"
Tongue Shows if
Bilious. Constipated
Hurry Mother! Even a fretful, peevish
child loves the pleusunt tuste of "Cali-
fornia Fig Syrup" and It never fulls to
open the bowels. A teaspoonful today
may prevent a sick child tomorrow.
Ask your druggist for genuine "Cali-
fornia Fig Syrup" which has directions
for babies and children of all ages
printed on bottle. Mother 1 You must
say "California" or you may get aa
Imitation fig syrup.
Jit flamed EyesK
—relief quick.!
Soothe away pain and In-
flimmatioo. Trent eyes irri-
tated by duat, wind, eye*
strain, etc.. with—
BULL'S GOLDEN EYE SALVE
Hard Knocks
Girl—"Did you ever try your hand
at skating?" Guy—"I'll.say I did—
and several other parts of me, too."
The charm of a bathroom 's Its spot-
lessness. By the use of Red Ooss Ball
Blue all cloths and iowels re'aln their
whiteness until worn out,—Advertise-
ment.
Let kings and the triumph of king?
yield before songs.
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St .Joseph's
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Soda Fouutains Store Fixtures
Iluy Direct From Manufacturer
Southern Fountain and Fixture Mfg. Co.
Dallas, Taxas
His Girl's a Dumbdora
"Does your sweet muminu know un.v-
thlng about automobiles?"
"I should say not. She asked me
last night If I cooled the engine bj
striping the gears."
To hate whom we have Injured Is
a propensity of the human mind.
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Banger, J. E. A. & Erwin, W. L. The Cass County Sun (Linden, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 21, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 20, 1924, newspaper, May 20, 1924; Linden, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth341500/m1/2/: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Atlanta Public Library.