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BY JOHN E. DAVIS
MESQUITE, TEXAS, FRIDAY, MARCH 21. 1930
i A REPUTATION
FOR QUALITY ji
:' In Dru^s, as in everything else, :
11 there are distinctions in quality. :
|| Knowing the importance of good :
i| drugs, we carry only the finest :
;; quality. It makes a difference, i
i; Our prescription work is always :
■ accurate and reliable. Let us :
| ; I serve you on prescriptions and all |
• I drug needs.
Full Line Magazines
PORTER & LYTAL
DRUGGISTS
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News Items From
Here And There
Members of a Ladies' Clu'i
at Amarillo have gone on
record of being opposed t<>
planting vegetables in front
yards.
George Robinson, 9. an or_
■ phan child living at the Key
fi| nolds Presbyterian Orphan_
S age just north «»f Wallas was
Anto^H drowned in a small lake near
y m the orphanage Friday-
Mr. and Mrs- John Transue
■ of To wan da. Pa., had a dis.
1 agreement twenty years ag< ,
■ and were divorced- A few days
B ago they patched up th' ir dif.
1 ftrences and were remarried
Candidates for Governor of
Texas might Tiave held a con.
ference in Austin last Friday,
for among those present were
James Young of Kaufman;
Farle P«- May field and James
F. Ferguson of Austin. Barry
Miller. Thus B. Love and W,
Gregory Hatcher, of Dallas;
T N. Mauritz of Ganado; all
avowed candidates, and Gov-
ernor Dan Moody and Lynch
Davidson, Houston, prospec-
tive or possible candidates
The Census Bureau a t
I Washington has announced
Ithat 405,204 hales of lint and
160.923 of linters were consum .
led during February, compared
Ivvith 577.235 and' 62.393 in
I January and 594.720 and 68._
1280 in February last year.
First totals of the poll's be.
King conducted by the Literary
■ Digest, which circulates prin-
Bcipally in the cities and towns,
§shows the largest number of
the people favor the repeal of
said prohibition; the next
largest group in favor of modi.
fication and, the smallest
group in favor of enforcement.
New York, New- Jersey and
Illinois lead in a number of
"wet votes."
The last of the old gang
made immortal by Samuel
Clemens is dead- Frasttis Finn
95. died at Seattle, Washing-
ton. Monday. He was with
Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain ami
lluck Finn when they fished
and played together in Haimi-
I :■]. Mo The old man, who lost
a leg in the battle of Chick -
manga, di'<J of pneumonia. O:
late he spent many happy
hours recalling memories of
his youth when he and his
brother Ben, known as Huck-
leberry took part in pranks
j with Clemens and Tom Saw-
I yer. Muck died a few year.,
ago in Fugene, Ore
FAMILIAR TOUCH
Outside the storm raged.
The thunder foiled and the
ligntning flashed almost con-
^ tinur usly Presently a bolt
struck Mr. Jones and knocked
■ him out of bed. He rose,
j yawsed, rubbed his eyes and
mumbled: "AH right, dear, I'll
| get up."
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USED CARS
AT LOW PRICES
FORD COUPES
$25.00 and up
FORD TOURINGS
$35.00 and up
FORD SEDANS
$100.00 and up
FORD TRUCKS
$69.30 to $175.00
Visit our used car lot. You will
find many bargains. A small
down payment, balance on
easy terms. We carry our
own notes.
Mesquite Motor Co.
"On The Square1'
MESQUITE, TEXAS
PHONE 28
Prizewinners Named
In Poster Contest
(By Nancy Richey Ranson)
With 105 posters from 19
Dallas county schools entered
in the poster contest conduct-
ed by the Red Cross nutrition
service and: the Dallas Tim«s
I lei aid* Publishing Company,
judges were hard put to it
Thursday to decide on the
prize winners.
'They are all goodi" was the
unanimous opinion of the
three: Miss Lois l> pshaw,
advertising and poster author
ity : Jess M- H or ben. member
of Dallas county school board;
Miss Frances McCorkle, art
supervisor in Dallas school^.
Miss McCorkle, who has serv.
ed as judge in previous con-
tests of this sort, noticed a
marked improvement of the
1930 posters over those of
other years. Judges remarked
that the poster work would
compart favorably with any
art exhibit of anv school, city
or county, in excellence, orig-
inality, force and careful hand
work.
Schools which will receive
checks from the Times Herald
for their posters are a« fol-
lows :
First prizes of $10 each:
I.ancaster school. Miss Alber-
ta Hoover and Miss Margaret
Davis, teachers: Garland, Mrs. |
Jackson teacher: -U n i o nj
Bower. Miss Fannie Noell
teacher: Valley View, Mrs.
Ray JC- Baker, teacher. Second
prizes of $7 50 each will go to
Addison school, Mrs. C. V.
Goodman and Miss Peari
Huggins. teachers: Pleasant
Mound. Mrs. Maude Sewell.
teacher. New Hope, Miss
Winnie Ellis, teacher and
Union Bower. Miss Minnit
Thorp, teacher- Third prizes of
$2-50 each will be awarded to
Coppell school, Mrs. T. M.
Moore and Mrs. W- P. Slaugh-
ter. teachers: De Soto, Mrs.
H. L. Lackey, teacher: New
Hope. L- H- Fore, teacher,
Handley, Miss Grace Davis,
teacher.
Subjects chosen by the
young artists varied from
"Going up the Milk.made
Path" (of milk bottles) to
"Fven a Cat Washes behind
its Fars." graphically illus
trated. Fresh vegetables, frti't
fresh air and sunshine, period-
ical visits to the dentist, cor
rect posture, stepping on t<>
health through proper nutri
tion. the health team of egg.
soap, milk and, toothbrush—all
were brought out with original
ity and vivid coloring in strik.
ing posters. The number of
schools competing this year
doubled the number of last;
and while schools submitted
six posters in the 1^29 contest,
youngsters concentrated o n
only three from a class this
vear. > >■'
Whether the posters were
made by individual children
or by pupils in classes or
groups, the prizes of $10. $7-50
and $2-50 will go, n®t to in
dividual* but to the schools,
and will be used for pjtrchas
ing some health esuipment for
the use of all pupils in the
schools.
The donors of the prizes
have stipulated that winners
must use prize money toward
the purchase of a Pair of
scales if the school does not
already own such a piece of
health equipment: other the
school may buy any health
device desired! or needed, sue1!
as sanitary drinking fountain,
physiology charts, o r any
other item necessary for
health.
Youngsters i n school*
throughout Datlas county
worked constantly and' assidu-
ously to win this contest, ac.
cording to Miss Ruth Prewitt,
Red Cross nutritionist, who
conducted the contest. Teach-
ers reported to Miss Prewitt
that many pupils had spent
play periods and hours at
home of evenings trying t'»
bring their powers to perfec-
tion.
Moody Criticizes News Notes From D. C. Whiteley Asks
The State Capitol For Reelection
"C" AS IN SEIZE
Teacher—Now, Pcrcy, what
is the third letter off the Al
phabet ?"
Percy: I dunno
Teacher: Yes, you do. What
is it that you do with your
ey«a?
Percy: Mother says I squint
Pathfinder.
Miller's Actions
Austin. Texas. March 17—
It appears that Governor
Moody and lieutenant Gover-
nor Barry Miller have reached
the parting of the ways, for
the Governor has issued ■»
statement severely criticizing
the action of the Lieutenant
Governor in appointing as
conferees on the prison biil
four members who opposed
the bill passedi by the Senate
and only one who represented
the majorityi view. While there
is no rule to compell the pre
siding officer to do so. the cus-
tom has been for the majorit"
of the conferees from each
branch of the Legislature to
reflect tlic will as shown by
the votes of the body they
represent.
Tn his statement the Gover
nor said:
"In appointing the free con-
ference committee on the pris-
on bill, the Lieutenant Gover-
nor betrayed the majority vote
in the Senate on this bill and
he probably.ended the hope
of substantial prison reform
for the present.
"It is the established pre-
cedent of both branches of the
Legislature for the presiding
officer, in appointing free con-
ference committees, to name a
majority of the committee
from among „those who have
voted with the majority on the
bill to be considered by the
free conference committee, and
to give the minority on the
measure fair representation
But Friday the Lieutenant
Governor, in appointing fre<?
conference committees on the
prison bill and on the sulphur
tax hill, departed from his
custom- He appointed a free
conference committee on the
prison bill with a inajoritiy of
four out of five of its members
named from among those who
have been voting with the
minority in the Senate on this
legislation.
"I have not a word to say
against any > individual ap-
pointed bv the Lieutenant
Governor. I attribute to each
of them absolute sincerety in
their convictions and they are
certainly entitled to their con-
victions, but the majority of
the Senate favoring prison
reform was entitled to a ma-
jority representation on the
free conference committee and
this was not given by thj
Lieutenant Governor in his
appointments-
The efforts that have been
put forth for substantial pris-
on reform in this State and
the expense that has been in-
curred in an effort to solve the
vexing prison problem were
probably dashed against the
ground) by this biased action
on the part of the Lieutenant
Governor. The majority of the
Senate favoring prison reform
has made concession after
concession, but the minoritv
was given superior voting
strength on the free confer-
ence committee-
"And a conference commit-
tee on the sulphur tax was ap-
pointed with all except possi-
bly one member favoring only
a 50c tax.
"Nothing can be expected
now except a bill providint*
either for the construction of
a prison plant of one of the
penitentiary farms or the ap
propriation of money to patch
up existing properties- Neither
will reach the cause of Josses,
amounting to millions of dot
lars. whicjj the people of Texas
have sustained in the attempt-
ed operation of the present
prison system. While the pres-
ent Properties at Huntsville
are used as a prison system
there are some needed repairs
that should be made, but to
go beyond this it1 undertaking
to patch up the prison plant at
Huntsville and make a mod-
ern institution out of it would
only be sending good monty
after bad.
The attempt to build a mot'-1
em penitentiary plant on one
of the lower farms, subject to
the overflows of Oyster Creek
ami the Brazos River, would
be a reckless expenditure of
funds which had been advised
•gainst by a vast majority of
the people who have investi
gated
"I have known all the time
that the Lieutenant Governor
was not friendly t° the prison
reform I havfi advocated and
which was indorsed by a ma
jority of the Prison Centrali-
(By John E Davis)
Austin. Texas, March 17-- j
The legislature has passed,
the bill to authorize the pay-|
ment to District Judges in the,
four larger counties of the
State. Dallas. Tarrant. Bexar.)
and Harris^. an additional,
$1,000 out of the County
Treasurer for serving as mem-
bers of the Juvenile Board-
They already receive out of
the Countv Treasurer $1,500
for such service, and this in-
crease of $1,000 will give them
$2,500 more than the District
Judges in other parts of the
State receive-
I opposed the passage c?
this bill for several reason",
and took the floor to make a
sneech against it*, but out of
the total of twenty members
in the House from the four
large counties named, eighteen
of them voted for the passage
of the bill, the two negative
votes being cast by Mr. Hoi
der and myself.
I do not think that anyone
familiar with the situatim
will contend tfiat the District
Judges in Dallas County do or
could earn $2,500 or even $L-
500 a year as members of the
Juvenile Board, so this is bnt
a pretext to give the judges in
these counties $2.5CX) mors
than the other District Judge;
in the State. We are continu-
ally confronted with the state-
ment that the District Judges
of Dallas Countv are so badly
behind with their dockets that
additional District courts ar?
needed to relieve the situation,
and at the time this bill wa«
passed it was understood, that
the pending bill to create an-
other District Court for Dal-
las countv would be passed be-
cause all the bills of that
character succeeded in getting
through the Legislature Th*
eight District Judges, each
drawing a regular salary of
$5,000 per ve;.t from the State
and $2,500 from the general
fund of the countv means that
the expenses to the people of
Dallas Countv for this pitrpos
will total $20,000 per year,
whirh sum of course is paid
into the Treasury bv the tax-
payers of the county-
It seems to me that this is a
mighty poor time to create
n®w offices or increase official
salaries, when the people are
already over-burdened with
taxation and times are admit-
tedly hard, but it seems that
the measures wh'"h have easy
sailings through the Legisla-
ture are those which seek to
either add to the expenses o*
the government or levy ad-
ditional taxes on the people-
The advalorem taxes at the
constitutional limit will not
provide enough money to sat-
isfy the taxeaters. so the sub-
terfuge of levying special tax-
es is resorted to, but as I hav
said before, no matter how a
tax law may be worded the
consumer will pay the tax.
YOUTHFUL WISDOM
"Can we play store in here,
mamma?"
"Yes. but you must be very,
very quiet."
"We will, mamma. We'll
pretend we don't advertise."-—
(Exchange-
zation Commission, appointed
under the act of the Forty-
First Legislature, and voted
for by a majority of the Sena-
tor. but I did not expect him
to deal it what appears to be
a mortal blow by the use of
his power as a presiding officer
in the apointment of Free
Conference Committee."
To The Voters of Dallas
County :-
1 hereby announce my can-
didacy for re election to the
office of County Clerk of Dal-
las County. This office is self
supporting and during tht?
time I have held the position
I have turned back to the Gen-
eral Fund of the County ap-
proximately $50,000.00 in ex
cess fees.
If elected I promise to. give
the same personal service as I
have in the past conduct the
office in as economic t' a man-
ner as possible and at the same
time keep enough help to give
quick and efficient -ervicc.
I have a well orgumed
smooth running organization
composed of well qualified ex
perienced clerks who are
ready and willing at all times
to extend every courtesy . >
the public-
Having been connected with
this office for the Past 28
years I feel that my long ex
perience qualifies me in ever\
way to carry on in an efficient
and business like manner.
I will appreciate your sup
port
D. C. WHITELEY.
Coflon Co-operatives
Borrow $50,000,000
Washington. D C„ March
17—$50,000,000 has been loan,
ed to date to cotton co.oper-
atives and $48,000,000 to wheat
co.operatives bv the Federal
Farm Board* Funds advanced
to co.operatives handling oth
er farm products leave a bal
ance of only $24,000,000 of the
$150,000,000 appropriated b y
Congress last spring- out of
the $500,000,000 revolving fund
authorized; by the agricultural
marketing act.
An additional $100,000,000
for the board to continue its
work next year was approved
by the Senate in the first de
ficiencv appropriation bill
which is now in conference
The House will approve the
item when it votes on the con-
ference report on the bill, ac-
cording to committee mem
bers.
When his appropriation is I
R. B. Allen, Sr.
To Be New Judge
Austin, Texas. March 20--
Governor Moody has let it be
known that if " he sig"s th<--
bill creating a new District
Court for Dallas, Rob't. B.
(Bob) Allen, well known Dal,
las lawyer, former County
Attorney and a former mem-
ber of the legislature from
Dallas County, will be ap-
pointed Judgy of the Court, to
serve until the next election
or for the remainder of the
year.
The Governor, in his state,
ment, soid that he had not
signed the bill creating the
new court, but that if he did
he was committed to the ap-
pointment of Mr. Allen-
Judge John A- Rawlins of
the Dallas County Court at
Law No. 2, sought the appoint
ment, and the name of Judge
Farl E. Hurt was also men.
tioned in that connection.
Five Widows Of
Ex-Presidents Now
Washington, D C..
1°—The recent derth
iam Howard Tnft
fifth name to the
March
of Wil.
adds a
nation'h
VOL. XLIV. No- 35
L. J. Berry Reelected
At San Marcos
L. J. Berry, formerly o,'
Mesquite. has been reeleted
by the board of trustees at
San Marcos to serve as super-
intendent of the San Marcos
public school system for his
ninth consecutive term.
Mr- Berry; as is well known,
was reared in the Edwards
community south t'ast of Mes-
quite. and attended anil grad-
uated from the Mesquite ilij,h
School.
His first work as a teacher
was as superintendent of th*
Mesquite schools. He went
from here to Piano at an in-
creased salary and from the^o
to the more important posi-
tion of superintendent at San
Marcos, which position he ha;
held ever since
list of widows of former presi-
dents-
Mrs. Taft. now 68, is still
remembered, as the hostess at
the silver wedding anniversary
celebration at the White
House in 1^11. when she an-i
Mr. Taft citertained 5000
persons at a garden party. Her
four years there, from 1*W to
1913. were replete with many
brilliant events, as the Tafts
were famous as entertainers.
In the romantic age of the
late 80's Frances Folsom, 22.
and Pres. Cleveland. 49. wer-
married at the White House
The president's girl wife
proved equal to tlje occasion
during the four years >he
reignedi as first lady, from
1803 to 1897. Her daughter,
now Mrs. Randolph West, was
the first White House babv.
Four years after her hus-
band's death in 1909 Mrs.
Cleveland married Prof
Thomas J. Preston, of Wells
college in New York state.
She is now 66.
M rs. W°odrow Wilson canu;
to the White House in 1915 as
the war president's second
wife During the trying years
that followed, she was hi;
close companion. She went to
Europe with him tc* attend the
peace conference at the close
of the war.
Since Mr. \\ ilson's death in
1924. she has continued to
maintain her famous S street
home in Washington, occa-
sionally going to Geneva la
watch operations of the
League of Nations. She re
turned recently from a trip to
the orient She is now 57.
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt.
Sr., retired to Oyster Bay. X
Y.v after the death of her hus-
Clerk's Suit For
Pay Is Postponed
The suit filed against Coun.
,?jf Auditor Chas. E- Gross
and his bondsmen to compel
him to approve the payment
out of the general fund of the
salaries of four of the deputy
District Clerks who serve as
clerks of as many District
Courts, passed to April 11, th"s
action being taken on motion
of Tom J. dark, who repre-
sents t o Count) Commis
sioners.
The suit was filed in Judge
Work's Court hut he disquali-
fied himself on account of the
fact 'hat one o! the depulie
interested. L B. N'ewsom oi
Mesquite. is clerk of his court.
Judge Joel R Bond of Kattf.
man will hear the case for
him.
The suit grew out of an
order passed by the Commis.
sioners' Court authorizing the
payment of the salaries of the
four clerks out of the general
fund of the county instead of
°ut °f the fees of the District
Clerks office as heretofore.
Mr Gross has refused to
approve the payment of the
clerks out of the general fund,
claiming th^t they are not
special deputies in the mean-
ing of the law.
No matter how the matter
terminated, the four clerks
will receive their salaries. The
only question is whether or
not they will be paid by the
District Clerk out of the fVes
of his office or by the county.
made, one-half of the total;' 'n 1919- At 68, she lives
sum authorized for farm relief l'u!ct-Y- travels much, avoids
AUTOMOBILE
TORNADO
FIRE
BONDS
BURGLAR
ACCIDENT
will have been placed in the
hands of the Federal Farm
Board.
The board reported to the
House Appropriations Com j
m it tee that it has commit-
ments for loans amounting to
$132,000,000 and applications
for loans pending amount.
ing to approximately $33.,000
000, Only $6,000,000 of tee-
total loaned by the board to
date has been repaid, it was
stated. The $100,000,000 addi-,
tional which Congress is asked •
to appropriate is to take care!
of loan applications antici. <
pated during the next si\
months- However, the board
made it plain it expected addi !
tional funds from Congre - < 2
next session
The House Appr»>portio«i«
Committee was advised that,
cotton co.operatives were now!
organized in all. cotton.pro.j
dticing States and that effort-'
were being made to have them
join the American Cotton
Grower's Co.operative Asso-
ciation, which is the central
agency for cotton-
It was explained that when
a co-operative obtained a loan
the money goes to that parti
cttlar co.operative. The belief
was expressed by the board
that a stabilization f corpor.
ation would eventually l>e
organized for all major agri -
cultural commodities.
publicity.
The fifth widow is Mrs. Ben.
jatnin Harrison, now 71. She
married Mr. Harrison after he
After staying out late six
nights in succession a man
tells himself that his fatigue
i< ilue to overwork at the i f-
fice.
retired from the presidenc>.
Nevertheless, she had he'
share of White House life, as
she was a niece of the first
Mrs. Harrison.
Mrs. Roosevelt is the only
one of the widows who re
ceives the government pension
of $5,000 a vear, Mrs Wilson
declined it: Mrs. Cleveland-
Vecond marriage ended her
pension: Mrs. Harrison wa\
not entitled to one. and Mr<.
Taft's pension has not yet
been considered.
\
HAWK
■BhANDH
WORK CLOTHES
Mens Overalls
Boys Overalls .
Boys Unionalls
THEY WEAR
LONGER.
. . $1.49
$1.05-11.25
. $1.00
Gross Dry Goods Co.
L. E. Gross, Mgr. Phone 54
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