The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, April 10, 1931 Page: 4 of 6
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Charles W Camp
I FRYING V
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(A STORY OF THE "EIGHTIES")
WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE
Twn Kastmati, in the dumps over the way he had been treated at
the Half Moon ahenp ranch, t koa a mite too much of (he Roe Hive
wioon'a "honey" at Fort Griffin. Jack Connor, another Flying V
cowboy, inviwtijrate* tihe sheep ranch and approves of it, from Caro-
line Burton to Major, her real bailger-killing dog. l*ater Major fig
urns conspicuously in tihe badger figfhts at Fourth of July b&rbecu* ai
the Flying V. Meantime Isom Overholt, find* that a fine play can
bf made on the new double Half Moon brand. Ovn'ivolt discharge*
both Jack and Tom, because they will not aid in his schemes. Jack
gets Tom out of a scrape prompted by Bill liay, a gambling saloon
man, # nd both leave the community shortly afterward. '.Bear" Web-
ber Mid Ben Farwell take Jack nnd Tom's places at the Flying V,
while Cotnamihe Pete stays on as before. Webber is the greatest sodium Kpr'" n-"11
cowboy <t ry-tcller that ever hit th Flvia.* V bui mimr in "Re a| fmm <«u<h nthn : I
the tool Overholt needs.
We like to
folk* feel like they are helping to <lo a r< ally big thing.
work with people likr you and your brother."
Miranda claimed the privilege of getting the dinner that day, for
"Or Miw," for the first time in many year*; and it whs a real dinner.
After dinner, Hob helpi-d with the dishes and then went back to Jlm-
mie an dtbe she«p. Hr had already lost all bin prejudice against the
Burton*; he was losing his prejudice against the sheep. A* for Mi-
randa; her attitude toward Mrs. Stanton was of the timber that the
Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Constitutional Amendment*
utterly failed to amond. Had iihe not been made a free woman even
before those amendments had been bom?
During the afternoon, Caroline and GenevJe took another Ion*
stroll, leaving Mr. Hurton and Mr. Gray together. After the men had
talked together for some tune, Mr. Hurton asked the young man a
question.
"You have been out here for some time now. Mr. Gray," he said,
"What do you think of the future of this land?"
"I think it in making good salt but somewhat slowly perhaps. The
conditions remind me of one of our early, yet most interesting experi-
ment* in chemistry. The poison chlorine, with its liteml meanfng,
green, is found in these millions of acres of verdant (trass, so jealou ;-
ly guarded by the cattleman, that he is often ready to poison trespass
ers upon his domain. The cattlemen and the sheepmen keep the
chlorine astir; then comes in the farmer, the despised "nester," with
his plow, to stir up the sodium. And his sodium-stirring is rather
literal, at Uwt. The alkali-laden land is cheap in acre price, but, a*, instituted by President Hoover,"
the fannei attempts to apply his old methods, taught him out yonder, j said Mr. Stephenson, "lis ndoptlon
across the Mississippi; hie pay in experience is dear. Hut he work ,, by the Intersiiite Commerce Com-
he struggles, he fights, and eventually lie wins. The chlorine anil th"' fission would tend to stabillM
BUS COMPETITION
HITS RAMOACS
Banker* Association Presi-
dent for Evan Treatment
for Rail and Motor Trans-
port—Favor* Mergers
NKW YORK—Fair treatment for
the rsllrosds In respect to high-
way motor competition w* called
for by Rome C. Stephenson. Presi-
dent American Hankers Associa-
tion, In a recent address here, He
also strongly endorsed "sound eco-
nomic railway consolidation" unit
praised President Hoover for his
InitialIve In this respect.
"I am very stromUy of the opin-
ion thai one of the measures which
would help materially to put hack
business where It our,lit to he ts j
the Knslern four system plan of '
railroad consolidation as announced
recently following negotiations
DR. YOUNGBLI
Specialist
Eye, Ear, Nose
and Throat
BRECKENRIDGE, TEXAS
learn from e«ch other
and of the country's poss
r4 -td'aer—'Htt■ iiii'klllinr ami I he liinii-i
both lenrn more of the climate, of the land, !
iin*—tTnuspint:ilHill liuiliuiry, n..!TT-~
int•• operation and exert a favor-
The old open range will very soon
Alvin Gray and his stater Genevie, are anxious for the community | utterly disappear. Our land will become a vast checker hoard, with
to have a reoognired center. On th. first day of August, at a com l jls m|Uares described by wire fences. The stockman will begin to
munity meeting and basket dinner, the community center is christen j Hnr| t|„. farmer w ill begin to raise stock. The crops will he bet
ed "Pecan." Meantime Harboe'x "nigger Bob" discovers that Mrs. j ter crops and the stock will be better stock. Diversification will
tttwiton is his wife's (Miranda's! old mistress and the next day she j bring the Innd to Its fullness. Th >wboy will w.y| the farmer'"
ha_'i the privilege of cooking an old time dinner for the Burtons and
the Grays.
CHAPTER IX
BURNT!
"I reckon you all think I'm a plumb heathen, to be totin' a gun
around on Sunday," apologised the ranchor'a daughter, as she ami
Misa Gray waded together. "I heard you both making kind enough
excuses for me, but I don't usually carry a gun about on Sunday at
all. Today Jake bayed a rattler and I went back for the gun to kill
it, then I brought it on with me. It has only been shot that one
time. We don't believe in Sunday huntin'."
"I esn not sure that you shouldn't carry your gun with you, at any
time you are outside of your home yard," said Genevie. "Alvin and
1 have learned a great deal more of your position, since I first talked
with you. Your trouble, it is true, comes of the inevitable quarrel
between the cattlemen and the sheepmen, but we have already learn-
ed that your father is so honest and straightforward that few of th--
cattlemen will take sides against him, unless it comes through agita-
tion by your very few roal enemies. Selfish people have always been
persecutors when persecution seemed to further their owji personal
interests. But this i« a great country, Caroline; it is such a big, big
field to work in, for people who love humanity. Why there are so
tony big things to do that we should forget all the little unpleasant
nil
ope
slile Influence on hiisinews.
"It ts a fsci well known to busi-
ness leaders thnt our railroads are
now facing a crisis. Nut only do
they need protective laws to meet
compellllve situations arising from
Increased use nf our highways and
waterways by other curriers, hut
they need 11 nitic.iLion such as the
proposed four syslei plan."
Mr Stephenson declared that the
lhem wo are even more neglectful
of the public', best Interests.
daughter and the fanner's son will take to wife the rancher's daugh
ter. And the new generation, Mr. Hurton, will become the new salt
of the earth It will build homes and schools and factories and cities.
1 want to live to see it, for this land will Imi a goodly land, then, tol lNl<l- present and future progress
live in." ! of the United States Is Ins'psr-
... , ., . .. *hly bound up In railway welfare.
I believe your simile is true, said Mr. Hurton. "I certainly hope ,M n„K,„r,)n|( jnM consideration for
it will be true in the end and that that end is not too long in coming.
We will have to learn to give and take a great deal before those bet-
ter days can come; but I agree with you as to the land's future."
September came and went its way. October was halfway gone.
Mrs. Stanton was sick for a week and Mr. Barber generously lent the
Burton'# Hob and Miranda for the time. After Grandma whs up and
the colored couple hud returned to the J-bar-B, Caroline went out
again one morning to look at her calves. She found the six of them
easily, but, to her astonishment, she also found the seventh, a strange
calf with her brand on it and hardly beginning to heal. She studied
the brand for several minutes, intently. Suddenly the significance of
the whole matter penetrated her mind. There were the unmistakable
signs of the old Flying V beneath the fresh brand. A Flying V calf
had been branded, by some enemy of the Half Moon owner, for he
sole purpose of getting the Hurton's into trouble.
Mr. Hurton was in Albany. It was a bed time to have her grand-
mother worried about the episode. Caroline uttered the one word,
WE APPRECIATE YOUR TRADE
WE STRIVE TO PLEASE
ling* we potmibly can forget, and all work together to help the land "',urnt'" a'OU(l Hnd started back toward the house. She walked slow-
m become what it ought to be." her eyes scorning to seek the ground, for she was in trouble. The
"That is the way I want to feel about it," replied Caroline. "That ™U"le °f ,tht' wrbim' had brou*M wilh h('r lilmost d™KKin<f
is tfce. way Daddy and Grandma both feel about it, too. I reckon
I the ground.
we'll juflt work on and let the folks with the poisoned tongues do the . "G°°? ^cnin'. Miss." A man's voice within less than ten feet of
talking, for awhile, anyway. There's lots more to live for, when
Irwin Transfer & Storage Co.
Short and Long Distance Hauling
— Agents for —
Fort Worth Warehouse & Storage Co.
FIRL, IRWIN, Manager
Day Phone 453 Night Phone 277
Say Folks!
My Company sure does need busi-
ness these days. In order to pay
over-heac! expenses and hold my
job, I have sure got to hustle.
Don't expect anybody to buy any-
thing unless they have just got lo
have it.
But, if you do HAVE TO HAVE
IT come around and give us a
SHOT at IT.
We have a large stock of Oil Well
Supplies, Workable HARDWARE,
and we sure do want to sell IT.
You will find OUR PRICES LOW,
and in accord with the times.
We will appreciate a chance to fig-
ure with you.
her made her look up.
"Why—why, good evenin'," she faltered.
"My name's Farwell, Ben Farwell," the man announced. "We've
missed some Flyin' V cattle; have you seen any around here t'ne last
few days?"
"Was one of 'em a bald-faced brindled heifer calf, with one black-
foot?"
"Yen'm."
Well, I'll show that one to you." She led the way to where she
had seen the .strange calf. "There it is."
"Why, how in the world did it git inter this pasture? Say, Miss,
that shorely can't be it; that calf has the double half moon on it, fresh
branded. Lemme see. I believe that is a Flyin' V calf, fur it looks
jest like one of our missin' ones and it looks, too, like the flyin' v
had been covered with the double half moon. Can you explain that?"
"I think 1 can, now; but it puzzled me when I first saw it a few
minutes before I met you."
"Then you mean-—."
"Yes, I mean that it is plain enough to me that you folks branded |
that calf yourselves and then put it
down to spy on us to si
A Ou**tion ol Public Interttt
"We are confronted with tha
question as to how much more th*
public economic Interest will stand
an Invasion of the welfare of lbs
rsllrosds by forces and difficulties
not of their own creating and not
within the scope ofthelrown unaid-
ed powers to combat." ssld Mr.
Stephenson. "I refer especially lo
new competitions thai are under
mining tic '.i 'id-earned position of
Hiir railroads, not only with the aid
of natural economic forces but sileo
through the Hid of government poli-
cies which give competitors undue
a haulages over the railroads.
"It koch without saying thut the
railroads have no right, nor claim
any, so far ns I have been able to
discern, to complain at legitimate
competition In the field of transpor-
tation, lor the public Is entitled to
the host possible transportation at
the lowest practical cost. Rut
equally does It .no without saying
that this cannot he fairly brought
shout by using, or hy falling to use,
the taxing powers of government
to enable competitive methods of
transportation to do things they
could not otherwise do :is unaided
private enterprises, particularly
when this Impairs vested rights held
by great masses of our people in
nlerpriseti now sei 'in:; the public
well."
Mr. Stephen.-jii said it was not
is purpose In ai"1,lie against U"ii
i .-i pet 111v« transportation us the I
highway passenger motorbus nnd
motor truck as such when con-
fided under proper conditions and
BURROWS GROCERY
ALBANY, TEXAS
DR. I B. BUCHANAN
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
OFFICE McLEMORE HOTEL BLDG.
OFFICE PHONE 74 RESIDENCE PHONE ST
X-Ray and Physiotherapy Equipment
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white with anger. .lake was with her ami hi
something wrong. he luiir stood on the hack
muzzle was wrinkled in an igly snarl.
"You must think we are a set of danged fool.-
danger of that do«- hit in' ?"
"Not if you behave yourself."
"And if I don't behave myse'f ."
"Then I'll set him on you."
"Mien I'll shoot the damn cur right now."
Farwell was drawing his revolver.
"Drop it! As the girl said the wor
clipped the top of the man's hat. He d
ped one of his legs.
" I in n loose Jake!" tin do^ obeyed.
Mr. Farwell," she .said in a strained voice.
folks and my dog and my cattle alone, I'll
... . , , i in keeping with public welfare nnd
m t.hi«s pasture, and that you came ,)onpfit declared, however,
il you could trap us. fne girl's face whs! there is need I'or serio; consider-
City Tailors—De Luxe Cleaners]
The best place to get your Clothes Cleaned]
Pressed and Altered
We Call For and Deliver—Phone 250
See Our Line of
FALL AND WINTER SAMPLES;
savs that there w«h , a lion whether surh competition is
of his neck and his heh'.'-i dov^'op^il under conditions
that are unfair to the railroads.
Say. is there any
Would 1 nvc%;.-*i!Ie Has I ri!lic
| Railroad rights of way, he de-
: dared, represent tremendous cap-
'■•allot from her carbim
0 - pislol as Jake grin
'1 d
want 'o kill you,
"If you'll let me and my
drop this. Now go! Tell
calf out of tin pastil"- this evening,
c
IIWS
Mr. Overholt that l':l turn t.hi
and he can send a man for it.'
larwdl lelt, without further invitation; moreover.
in getting his horse and galloping 10 the Flying V i..nch. Overholt
was gone, so there was nothing to do but wait. However, the cha-
grinned Farwell planned to have vengeance in full measure.'
The girl went on to the house.
"What did you shoot at?" asked her grandmother, as she entered
the kitchen. "I heard just one shot."
"At a snake," the girl answered, but her strained voice caused her
grandmother to look quickly in her direction. Caroline's face was
still white.
"It must have been a bin' one to frighten you so. What kind was
it. Oallie?"
"It was the biggest copperhead I ever shot at, and then 1 let it get
away, said the girl. She iyei already dropped Farwell's revolver in
her trunk.
Dinner was almost ready, .so the girl waited until that was over and
the din'nes done before she did anything more relative to the trouble
11 hand. She knew that her father would not h in before night,
however, so she was planning her course.
"tirandma," she said, when the last dish was laid
lul Investments, on which the rail- U
i roads have also heavy current IS
! costs to meet. They nay every day In!
. a million dollars in t.i>;es and mos! ijj
of this Is en th'ir ri'.h.s of way," |S
he said. ' A! 1 the -oiei'd daily "
over iwo million ■! a.. il 1
i for the prop r ; of |1
way." Ilea i I >r- T
bu-"s have not had to pay lor tlie.r ■ ,
' rights of way Iany sense that the IK
i railroads paid iheirs.
"They have .iply taken pus.-, s- j
sion of pub!I. Ighways built hy <
he lost no time | public funds. h state and na- j
tlnual." he continued, ' and llicy j
have extensively made those liimi- j
ways vastly less comfortable, less |
safe and less serviceable for priv-
ate motorists anil others who are
contributing chiefly to their crea-
tion and maintenance."
Mi. Stephenson declared that all
these matters should be thoroughly
Inquired Into hy coinp:' :nt public
bodies, both stile nnd national,
with a view of determining the
tjduitie< and basic public economic
interests Involved, "particularly in
respect to th"lr effects upon the
nation's railroads.
"I venture to say," ho added,
"that such inquiries would show
whether it is to the public interest
to let things remain as they ar*.
whether the situation calls for a
Thomas L. Blanton Matthew* Rlanton Thamos L. Rlanton Jt. j
Bkton, Blanton & Blanton
Attorneys-at-Law
ALBANY and ABILENE
OFFICE OVER FIRST NATIONAL BANK
Pkoa* 27S
Tbe FIRST NATIONAL BANK
Albany, Texas
Rob
Albanv Store
answered the old ady unsuspectingly.
't I* * very pretty day for a young girl lik
in thi house all the .nfternoo
! i.isn tin day in the open ni;
Uidled I ight foot and 'ode t
ili> watching her ns far a- shi
ev. that she was out of sight
i" crock anil rode, as .-'night
you to be
I am feeling quite we!';
it will do you good."
ward the creek, her grand
could see her. As soon a
f th. hou c, ,.:<e turned Jv
the country trails would
a
hen sh.
had aire
rode
Th
for Iiaird. Sne was pr hably two miles from the house,
took from the front of h. • dress a closely folded letter. She
ly rend 1 a dozen tunes, hut now she read it agsun a:', she
man who wrote the letter had ceased to call her "Ca.ro-
(Continued on page 7)
"e<|!l.nes n
1 jn.it ! caso or whether It would iialLtof .-
nch drastic action as the exclusion I
nf this trallic I'r. in our p'.i'd c .i
crul highways, and th • rceiiln-
•r.eut that, e" .'. lis the rail v :;
it provide ns a part of its o ,-i
private capital inv.- -1m> :t its own
ri rhts nf w tv and for lis o>vn main-
tenance of way out of operat'ng in-
come."
47 year* successful banking.
Wore seeking new business
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