Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 30, 1930 Page: 2 of 4
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KNOW TEXAS
HELPING TO
BUILD TEXAS
The Southwestern Bell will spend
$19,000,000 in extensions, improve-
ments and general betterments in 1930,
a considerable increase over what it
spent in 1929.
The only graphite mine in the South-
west is in Texas, near Burnet. It sup-
vUes a considerable part of the graph-
ite produced in the United States,
Texas trappers had their part in
the fur coat, made exclusively from
Southern furs, that recently was pre-
sented to Mrs. Hoover. Many of the
225 pelts used came from the Orange-
Cameron game preserve near Orange.
Cub Thought He'd Failed On
Assignment, But Found 'Twas
Scoop on an Edison Invention
The greatest distance between east-
ern and western points in Texas is
825 miles; from the extreme southern
point to the northwest corner is 740
miles. The altitude range of Texas is
from nothing (sea level) to 9,500 feet.
"Improved varieties sold ... for 40
to 50 cents a pound . . . native pecans
going for around 10c," says a pecan
story in the Dallas News. Quite an
object lesson on the value of budding,
top-cutting and care in pecan orchards,
isn't it?
The most densely populated county
cf Texas is Dallas with 343 persons
to the square mile (1928 census esti-
mate). The most thinly populated is
Loving with one person io every four
square miles.
Negroes in 1890 represented 20.4
oer cent of Texas' population. In 1920
they were 15.9 per cent, the rate of
increase from 1910 being only 7.6 per
ocnt against 27.2 in the decade from
1890 to 1900.
Work has been ordered started on
the 68-mile Rock Island extension from
Dalhart to Morse, an outlay of $1,-
500,000. A two-mile spur track to
serve the Cedar Park Quarry has been
started by Texas Quarries, Inc., which
now has an Austin payrool of $4,000
a week.
TEXAS LEADS IN
SPEAKING CONTEST
The National Electric Light Asso-
ciation is fostering an employes' speak-
irsg contest, in the purpose of educat-
those employes important details
C the industry and also of developing
1 ilent. Texas with 276 entrants leads
\e Southwestern Geographic Division,
comprising Texas, Oklahoma, Arkan-
, as, Mississippi and Louisiana.
Winner of the State contest will at-
r nd the division contest at Hot Springs
' 'i May, and winner of the division con-
st will go to San Francisco in June,
inner of the national contest gets a
dp to Europe as a prize.
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TV> are specialists in dupli-
:in£ broken lenses—just
• ng us the pieces!
Expert, reasonable work.
A full line of modern
asses that are more com-
fortable and serviceable than
■the old-fashioned kind.
rNO. D. BOWDEN
CRESCENT DRUG STORE
PHONES 18 & 59
Mrs. E. S. Caffey of Seagraves
found that skim milk was worth 19c a
gallon when she "sold" it to herself
by feeding it to poultry. Forty-five
hens averaged 13.3 eggs a day when
fed two gallons of skim milk daily
with other rations and dropped to 3.1
eggs a day when milk was left out.
How a cub reporter on an Ohio pa-
per thought he had fallen down on his
first assignment, how he discovered to
his surprise that he had scooped the
world on an important Edison inven-
tion and how the incident had an inter-
esting aftermath is told by M. E. Hen-
nessy in his "Round About" column in
a recent issue of the Boston Globe as
follows:
On a sea trip from Seattle to San
Francisco, Mayme Ober Peak, the
Globe's accomplished Hollywood rep-
resentative, ran across Elmer Dover,
who began his Washington career as
Mark Hanna's private secretary, latter
was secretary of the Republican na-
tional committee and for a short time
was assistant secretary of the treas-
ury under Harding, but resigned ow-
ing to Mr. Mellon's refusal to weed out
the Democrats from the pay roll, it is
said. Having done newspaper work in
Washington, Miss Peak and Mr. Dover
naturally drifted into conversation
about public men and affairs. It was
Edison week and Dover related an in-
teresting experience with the inventor
before Edison became so famous.
"When I was cub reporter on an
Akron (Ohio) paper," said Dover, "I
was sent to interview Edison. He had
come to Akron looking for rubber sub-
The Floresville Chronicle-Journal
tells the story of F. F. Kolenda's di-
versification success in 1929. He har-
vested $833 worth of onions from ten
acres, planted cotton between the onion
rows that yielded $370 worth of lint
cotton. He sold 294 turkeys for $963,
besides selling 127 cases of eggs and
a considerable amount of butter from
his cows.
Texas industrial development con-
tinues. The Texas Sugar Refining Co
plant at Texas City has reopened. .
. Paris Candy Co. will build and oper-
ate a peaaut factory if it can get 1,-
6oo acres planted to peanuts in its
section. . . . Beaumont's port facili-
ties gave it the recent addition of a
$260,000 paper factory which ambi-
tiously plans "to manufacture enough
paper products to supply the state."
. . . Alamo Iron works and Aransas
Compress Co. will spend $500,000 at
Corpus Christi on improvements and
enlargements. . . . Grapefruit juice
plant near Donna is nearing comple-
tion, helping to solve the problem of
off-sized fruits.
"Pea King" is the title conferred
«pon J. B. Berry of Henderson Coun-
ty, not only because he has made
success in growing and marketing the
black-eyed pea, but because he evoled
a process whereby, though removing
the germinative quality, he rendered
it weevil-proof. Thereby the pea—a
real delicacy among those who have
eaten them—became a commercial pos-
sibility, capable of being shipped long
distances and stored for long periods
without damage from weevils. Hun-
dreds of East Texas farmers are add-
ing materially to their incomes by
growing the crop. Farmers about Gil-
mer, who last year planted 1,156 acres
to peas, will plant 2,000 acres this
year.
stitute for his wax cylinder, and had
just perfected the rubber disc now in
use on the phonograph.
"I was but seventeen years old and
very much fussed. So much so that
I was unable to ask questions I had
prepared. We sat down and talked 16
minutes.
"Thinking I had fallen down on the
interview, I returned to the office and
wrote up just what Edison had said,
though I hadn't taken a note.
"When I handed it in to the editor
he had a fit, rushing the story through
with big headlines. It contained the
first announcement by Edison of the
first talking machine, which could also
whistle and sing!
"Edison was so much pleased with
the interview and the way I had han-
dled it that he wrote me a letter con-
taining an order on any Edison dealer
for one of the machines.
"Two years later I found this order
tucked away in some papers and sent
it to Edison personally. Promptly, a
machine was delivered to my address.
, "Years passed. A short time ago I
; received a letter at my Tacoma(Wash.)
address stating that a record of this
machine—one of two in existence, had
been found in the office, and Edison
| would appreciate it if I would let him
The Political Announcements for
office which appear in this column
are made subject to the action of the
White Man's Union Primary:
For County Judge:—
R. F. ANDERSON
W. E. McNABB
i For Tax Assessor:—
OSCAR BARBER
For Tax Collector:—
R. A. KLESKA
For Sheriff:—
JOE MANGUM
T. J. EWING
For County School Superintendent:—
MRS. CLAIRE F. POLLARD
For County Clerk:—
MRS. RUBY HAWKINS
For District Clerk:—
A. IX HENSLEY
FEATHER & SON
-REAL ESTATE
FIRE, TORNADO,
AUTO AND LIFE
INSURANCE
B—O—N—D—S
—NOTARY PUBLIC—
J. L. PYBUS
PLANING MILL
Manufacture all kinds of wood
Wood yard in connection with
Plant
Glass carried in stock.
PHONE 27. PALACIOS
For County Treasurer:—
C. LANGHAM
W. A. MATTHEWS
have it—if available, for museum pur-
poses.
"I wrote my mother, who forthwith
I regretted that only the week before
the barn had been cleaned out and the
old machine burned."—Publisher's
Auxiliary.
Theodore A. Stramblad
MASTER ELECTRICIAN
Estimates Cheerfully Furnished On
LIGHT, HEAT & POWER WIRING
—WRITE OR CALL ON ME, IN—
RUTHVEJN BUILDING
H. C. BOYD
Licensed Optometrist
EYES TESTED FREE
If In need of glosses, I Guarantee
to please.
Office in New Building next to P. O.
DR. T. F. DRISKILL
DENTIST
Member American Academy of
Applied Dental Science
Pyorrhea, Oral Prophylaxis and
Dentistry
OFFICE HOURS: ? « A M.
1:30 to 6 P. M
PHONE NUMBER 96
Southwest Rooms, Ruthven Building
PALACIOS, TEXAS
DR. A. B. CAIRNES
DENTIST
OFFICE:—UPSTAIRS IN
SMITH BUILDING
DENTAL X-RAY
PHONE 51
Graduate of University of Buffalo, N.Y
Pest-Graduate Northwestern Univer-
sity of Chicago. Illinois.
Look
Around—
Glance around you today—pick out the
prosperous young men you know. Are
they living up their pay envelopes ? Do
you find them "broke" at the end of the
week ? Do they borrow from friends to
spend for pleasure? Do they play the
slot machines, gamble on the side? Are
they usually termed "sports ?" "Sports"
are not prosperous, they are "four-
flushers" and your prosperous, steady,
reliable young man travels in another
class. Prosperity, with many men, dates
from their first bank deposit. Make
YOUR start today by opening an ac-
count at this bank, #ven though it be
for a small amount.
PALACIOS STATE BANK
& TRUST COMPANY
CENTRAL POWER AND.
COMPANY
BILL FOR
DATE OF BILL
NET BILL PAYABLE ON OH BEFORE
i CENTRAL POWER AND LIGHT COMPANY
PAYMENT COUPON
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FOR
THE,
CONVENIENCE
OF OUR PATRONS
NQiTE THE
DISCOUNT DATE
There will be a change, too, in the
discount date, and, in order that you
may .not miss your discount, we ask
you to note carefuily the discount
date which appears in the upper
tight hand corner of the new bill.
We are employing a new and simplified form of
biii in order that we may give you your monthly
statement for all services rendered, and any mer-
chandise you may have purchased, on one form
—as illustrated above.
Our regular bill for January service will reach
you about February 1st., as usual, and may not
cover the exact period of one month, as the meter
Teading change for the new form of billing has
already started.
Yo ur first bill on th e new form may reach you
shortly after February 1st. Thereafter your bill
will come about the same time each month.
If everything connected with the new bill, the
new manner of billing, and the change in meter
reading date, is not entirely clear to you, please
stop in and ask for any desired information.
CENTRAL POWER
AND
LIGHT COMPANY
Courteous Service Always
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