The Dublin Progress and Telephone (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 34TH YEAR, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, April 29, 1921 Page: 1 of 8
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THE DUBLI
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Guaranteed Greater Circulation Than
Any Other Eratb County Newspaper
34TH YEAR NO 1
AND TELEPHONE
DUBLIN, ERATH COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 29TH, 1921
UR6E NUMBER OF NEW
FAMILIES BROUGHT HERE
BY OPENING OF SHOPS
The machinery is being received
for the new railroad shops here am}
the operation of them will be begun
at once. Several workmen arrived
this week to he employed In the shops,
and other* will be on the ground
aoon.
It Is said that this will mean the
coming of twenty-five to forty new
families to Dublin in the next week
or two, and probably more a tittle lat-
er on.
Secretary Ixrng of the, Chamber of
commerce is helping the new coiners
fO find suituble locations and has an-
nounced that he desires to hear from
all persons having houses or rooms
for rent at reasonable rHtes.
WINNERS OF COUNTY SCHOLASTIC HONORS Numerous Names to Petition
‘*' ijjm School Election
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sses T
$425
$375
5750
5525
5450
5375
5225
5190
5150
95c
38c
69c
DOLLAR
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pint FKLLDWB CELEBRATE
ANNIVERSARY HE ORDER
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The hundred and second annlver- j
sary of the founding of the order of.
Odd Fellows was celebrated by the |
Odd Fellows and Rebekah lodges of ;
Dublin Tuesday evening with ap- j
proprlate exercises. A program was
held at the lodge rooms with over
three hundred people, members of
the orders and their families, in at-
tendance. Several out of town guests
J&re present. Following the program
refreshments of ice cream, cake and
sandwiches were served. The pro-1
gram was opened with a song led by
.1. m. Smith, the invocation was of-1
fered by Rev. Otlbreath.
A very enjoyable part of the enter-
tainment was the readings given by
Ijttle Misses Louise and Margurite
lifcMurray. ArbCzIne Harrod and
'Madge Epperson. Especially inter-1
esting to the audlertcc was the re-.
citation of the twenty-third Psalm by I _cut reproduced by courtesy of the
Margurite McMurray. who Is only port Worth Star-Telegram,
about four years old I Top. left to right—Valton Sessums.
I The principal spevker of the even- pcwell, Ollis Walden. lames
ink was Rev. W. M. Scott, pastor of g^del.
the First Baptist church of Oustine. Sccond, ](«t to right—Mildred McGee,
who discussed the principles of Odd Walter Foust. Virginia ldnn.
Fellowship. District Deputy Grand-
J master Green way of Alexander was
"also presen! and made an address
Short talks were made by M. D. Gal-
lagher. W A. Hckey and IJ. S. Stew
[art. W. ’/.. Bolton. K. G„ presided.
Visitors were present from DeLeon,
ROGRESS
EIGHT PAGES
A petition is being circulated tb.s
DEPARTMENT AGENT URGE* Wl*ek' jml >K 'beln* numerously
UO-OPEHATIVE MARKETING! BiFne(l- asking the school board to
_______ order an election in the Dublin In-
Davis, representing the state j dependent School district on the
department of agriculture, filled sev- question of authorising the board to
era I speaking engagements and held levy n tax not exceeding one dollar
farmers' institutes in this comity this on the hundred dollars valuation, for
weeljt. being in Dublin to till his en- school purposes
gagentent here Wednesday afternoon The petition will be probably he
Discussing the problems of the farm- presented within the next two or
ers. Mr. Davis said: three days, and an election ordered
■'Commissioner George V. Terrell for such date as the board may do
Bays. 'Farming must pay or state and elde upon.
nation Will perish.' This la the only The move for an election was taken
j hope. ltut farming can never be „ mans meeting held at the Baptist.
! made to puy so long as the farmers are church last Monday night. The school
j compelled to sell at the buyer's price situation was there fully explained.
and it was clearly apparent that pro
placed in a pos- visions must be made for more funds
ition where they can put the price on than the present tax’ rate of 50 cents
their own commodities and get it. One wtR yield in order to nfalntain the
hundred and fifty men on the cotton s, hool for the usual length of term
exchange and three hundred men on j( was shown that it can not be
and buy at the sellers' price
•Farmers must be placed in
! hoped to have the tax renditions as
; high for school purposes next year
as they have been, and therefore, at
the present rate the revenue would
necessarily be less. It was also shown
that other resources which the board
draw upon at the beginning
present term will not exist
t the grain exchange arbitrarily fix the
, prices of cotton and wheat' and so
manipulate the producers and con-
sumers at will.
"The so-called market, price is the
gamblers' price, and the farmers can
) never secure economic justice until: |,aj to
: they, by mutual cooperation, establish J 0f the
i their own sales agencies and sell, as ; ,ilir|,ls the next term. It Was further
far as practicable, direct to the spin- shown that the school is being malti-
1 ngre or consumers independently of1 tuned at the lowest expense that
the exchanges. j the board finds it possible to oper
“Cotton ts the great money crop and that any reduction of
j of the small that enriches everybody avenues would necessarily mean a.
that handles it except the producers curtailment of the length of the term
if given right living conditions, to, „r tt serious impairment of the efB
which they are entitled, the- cotton i C|ency of the school,
producers of the south have never The election now to be held, if
produced Cotton at a profit j carried, will not definitely fix the
i ‘Cotton which constitutes only one- school tax rate for the next year, but
j fifth of the yalue of the crops of the J wjl| giVe the board the power to levy
__...iL .lu,a«a l.aAli nerkfl fit * . 1* mnt> lYoutti It TV.
south has always been produced
the expense of the other crops.
Florine Long and Virginia I a tin. girls j "Three-fourths of the cotton is pro-
dehalB; James Beadei and Cecil Fe-. duced by the small white farmer, his
wefl. boys debate; Mildred McGee wife and children doing a large part
senior girls* declamation: Waiter|of the work
Lower photo—Florine Long
As was cbrorticled in The Progress
at tile time of the events, students of
the Dublin high school won county
championship honors in the track
.... ..............meet held in Stephenvllle in the
Alexander. Cottonwood. Gustlne and latter part of -March. A recent Sun*
other places. day issue of the Fort Worth Star
Members of the Del-eon lodge ex- Telegram carried a prominent layout
tended an invitation to Dublin Odd ,,f ty,e pictures of these “winners, which
Fellows and Rebekahs to attend an jg here reproduced WT^he courtesy
anniversary celebration at Del-eon of that 1>aper. The reading accom-
Sunday. and It is understood that sev- paying the cuts in the Star-Tele-
eral here will accept the invitation. Kr„m was as follows
A meeting will be held at the lodge] ..The Dubl'n high school eetabllab
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(rooms Sunday morning, the Del-eon
[visitors stated, followed by a sermon
[at one of the churches. A dinner will
Ue served at the leading hotel, and
'after dinner a reel will be exhibited
[at the moving picture theater, show-
scenes of the Odd Fellows or
ns’ home at Corsicana
ed an enviable record In the Krath
county intcracholostic meet at Step-
benville. when out of the four public
mi. atticts YVEBB TO
SPEAK HERE IN MAY
fEXAS-IOYYA OIL SYNDICATE
Or. D. Y. Bagby. field man of the
Anti-Saloon League, was In the city
x»vti»Y TO KKErT DERRH KHi last week and arranged for a tpeet-.,
READY TO EHEI I «***« in„ (Q be he,d h„e Ma). 22. [*. At-
- . Clemons who returned last ticous Webb, superintendent of the
iarTrom imwa' states that the fin- Anti-Saloon League in Texas, will be
*.u« of the present drilling projects here on that date andI will apeak at
tta company had been completed Uho Rwptlst church at 11 a. m and at
tM compa y , ..— I the Methodist church at 8 p m
HICKEY PROVES A GOOD
BOOSTER FOR HIS TOWN
In the "Roundabout Town and the
| Hotel Lobbies" column sf the Dallas
following
[before he started for home, and that
Ithe preparations for the. drilling of
Itwo wells, both to be carried out at
Ithe same time will be started at once.
I Mr. Berry, * well known driller, of
[Cisco has been engaged a* head drib
ssr JS|sss
■well will be drilled east of the Stur-1 paragraph waa fou .
eweu wvi aniieo th J ‘'Dublin is growing solidly and add-
Ikle well, near Hasse. I ^ ^ the tlme lw th, WOrthy things
|0°A ^geologist from Oklnhoma. will thnt go to ra«ke “ J®?} *°yW“w ™
irrtve next week. Mr. Clemons said, la the message bron«ht y R gt n^
i Messrs Vo lx and Schleuter of Hickey, manager of the ^Cyston
Texas-lowa Syndicate, who will | Refining Company of that city, who
speaking contests Dublin carried off
three first* and one second and
brought home the all-round County
championship. The winners were
FARM HI’KEAN MEETING AT
STEPHENYYLLE SATURDAY
As previously announced, a meet-
ing will be held at Stepbenvilie to-
I morrow afternoon at 2 o'clock for
the organization of a county-wide
farm bureau.
During the week farm bureaus have
been organized at Lingievilie. Huck-
abay. Bluff Dale. Seldent. Alexander,
Morgan Mill and Clairette.
The teams representing the State
Farm Bureau Federation, who have
been in the county organising the
local bureaus have met with good suc-
cess and an enthusiastic interest has
been shown in the organisation, it
is said, in many parts of the county.
Mr. York of Runnels county spoke
to a crowd Of over a hundred farmer*
at thd Chamber or Commerce audi-
torium last Saturday afternoon on the
principals of the farm bureau, and
had a very close and interesting hear-
ing.
Foust, second place, senior boys' de-
clamation The work of the boys' de-
bating team was remarkable in that
champloping the negative side of the
open shop question they defeated the
I-ingleville team and won a nnan-
imous decision on the affirmative side
against gtephenvilie High the next
day The gtris' team defeated the
Izme Oak team on the |ffirinative
side.
"In athletics the Dublin school was
represented in tennis by M alter
Sessums and Ollis Walden, who won
county championship b>‘ defeating
Stephenvllle High The girls' bas-
ket ball team held the champion* to
a closer score than any other op-
ponents Ida Hazel At Lee for es-
say writing had no opposition from a
Class A school
Wherever the large land owner*
have made profits from cotton they
have done so through the privations
suffered by those who made the crops
for them.
"There are two million cotton pro-
ducers in the south who. acting indi-
vidually and separately, can never
know how to market cotton and can
never hope to attain to economic
equality with the big buyers who are
thoroughly organizes!, and are mem-
bers of the exchanges.
"Therefore the cotton producers
H\S FREIGHTER DISTANCE OF
FIVE TIMES AROUND WORLD
such rate as it may deem necessary,
in any amount not to exceed $1.00.
At 'Monday night's meeting the
seniiment generally seemed to favor
better schools for I>u!>!in rather than
permitting them to suffer.
Judge .1 F.. Hickman presided at
Monday night's meeting and among
those taking part in the dlscuaalon
were H. L Wight, B. M rtterhack. C.
0. Foust. C. C Baxter, W. I’ Hall
mark. Dr Frank Bryan. .1. U. Rucker.
Ben Wiseruan, W, T. Cox. Mrs. 3, M.
Smith. 1 S Daley TV. C 1-orfg. J. $*•
Hlgginliothanv Dr SeWsunte. l-ewA*
Moure and others. After general dls
cession and many suggestions the
Wtion for calling an election as has
been stated was made by C. C. Bax-
nnri was carried without a dls
"Therefore the cotton producer* ,t>1. nvl was
and the producers of other agrlcul- ] «^nqn* vote"
titral commodltie* must organize n* v committee was appointed to pre
other business concerns have done j pare and circulate the petitions for
for the following purposes: j thi- Section. (cons!sting of W. C. Long.
"1st, To standardize their products | t \\ Thncker. R. F. Pickard. Ben
so as to guarantee them as to qaan- j Wiseman. O C. Baxter, Mr* H. L
tity. qaulitf.. condjtlon .ami price. j Kight Mr*, lien Whitehead, B. L.
pipes and 1-ewis Moore. These were
, morning from Iowa at that time
i ™*a« the locations for the wells
■ ATEK1AI. DRIPPED FOR
PIPE LINE FROM fOMYN
. J. Wlu of Kaatland Is in the
r to look after the construction of
pipe line of the Virginia company
I Corayn to Dublin. Mnterlnl lor
Una la now being shipped from
.kenridge, Mr. Wit* state#, and
t be unloaded in Dublin this week
nut,
| Mr. Wits will make his hendquar
in Dublin while superintending
work. He and Mr* WYt* are
at the Rvan* hotel
was In Dallas yesterday. Dublin
has never had an oil boom. bu$ it la
cloee enough to the productive oil
fields to benefit by the production,
and is a refining center for the fields
having excellent railroads facilities,
desirable water supply and other
things necessary for an Industrial
dbnter.’ said Mr. Hickey ”
s.
ONE li
.. fifteenth HAW
for COHIWICIWNT serhon
Dt Wolfe announces
mnmeneement sermon for
high school will he preach-
, J. W. Cockrill. pastor of
Christian church, on May
class exercises will he held
, ,. naliMf of May $® Aanouoce-
»r the Place of the sermon or
TtSTtilTB0* ****** m,d*
v
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IHYMYN TO PRUDENT ROHE
TALENT PLAY SATURDAY
A home talent play will be presen-
ted at the school house at Corny n
Saturday night. April $0, for the ben
eflt of the Oomya Baptist church.
The play will be the comedy drama
"Brother Joelab, and promise* an
evening of very enjoyable entertain-
ment for <dl wbo attend
The ogat of character* follows;
Josiah Armstrong. Lee Spraultl;
Wellington Armstrong. Jesse Oliver;
Benjamin Armstrong. Will Thomp-
son; William Le Blanc. Autrey Mavis;
Henry Neweome. Rotor Dry; Hiram
Penalroke. Aram Caraway; Jamee.
Herbert Robbins • Mra.' Whlllagton
Armstrong. Joaale Lee Hatla; Jea»
. ^ __ mlmy. Holly DMohf; Gladys Arm-
boU> will priibablyl strong. Claudia Barn#*. KdUh L*
. I Bltfll' dUaele Slneailll!
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SHADY GROVE GIRLS’ CLUB
HAS INTERESTING MEETING
•Miss Mabel Spann, county home
economics demonstration agent, was
In the city for a little while yesterday
evening returning to Htephenvilte af-
ter attending a meeting of the Bhady
Grove Girls Demonstration Club,
which was held yesterday afternoon
in the home of Mr. and Mrs. T. E.
Hoghe*. in the Bhady Orove commun-
ity.
Every girl brought the eewtng she
had doae since last meeting, and dur-
ing the afternoon th# girls made but-
tonhole*. most of which were said to
be very good. Member* of this club
are working for the gold thlasble which
will be given to the gtrl la the county
who makes the best buttonholes.
After the sewing leason the glrla
went with Mias Bpann to the kltchea
to leva to cook egg* la MVeral dif-
ferent way*. Tks following girls
were present Baurlne Hughes.
Beatrice Whitfield Ollis McComey,
Vera Capelt. Jewell Preston. Juanita
Baird Nola Davla. Euta Mae.Olhreath.
[Alin*"Knox, Vera Stephen* and Ruby
! Stephens
1 Several ladle* visited th* club Af
ter the meeting ice cream and rake
Isa* nerrod.
A few da.vs a*f° J " l.zaalherwood
and some of hi* old friends read a
ilttle story about a man out at Bal-
linger, or in some other West Texas
towu who had traveled thousands of
titles in driving a street sprinkler.
That> put them to figuring, and they
found that Mr. Istatherwood ha* done
m>m« traveling himself in hi* time—
is in fact a much traveled man as
distances go. If the traveling he lias
done In freighting during the last sev-
enteen year* bad been devoted to go-
ing around the world, they figured, he
would at this time be nearly a third of
the way on hi* sixth Journey of cir-
cling this ball on which we live.
Mr. l/eatberwood has been freight-
ing for the last seventeen years, prin-
cipally between Dublin and Lingle-
vtlle. and the figure* that hia average
for the entire time, not counting Sun-
davs. has been not less than twenty-
five miles a day Thai would give
day* to th# year, which multiplied by
seventeen give* a total of 5.321 freight-
ing days to his credit during that per-
iod, Thus if making trip* around
the world of 35 000 mile* ea*h be
would have completed before now his
fifth trip and would be over 8.000 miles
away on hta sixth.
BECBETApt WANTB LIST OF
HOUSED DR ROOMS FOR RENT
All* who have furnished or unfur-
nished rooms or house* for rent at
reasonable rate* are requested to no-
tify Secretary Long at the chamber
of commerce. A large number of
new famine* coming into the town I*
going to make a demand for the place#
available at a reasonable rental and
the secretary desire* to do all he can
toward helping the new ettiaea* to
get suitable locations.
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WILL WORK CEMETERY AT
BUNT AN NEXT TRl’RSDAY
James Howell announces that there
wilt be a working of tbs cemetery at
Bun van tie*' Thuredny All those
interested In A* <m«n**«7 »«■*•*
quested to come and bring tool* to
■ work with.
"2nd. To promote efficiency in eei
notnicallv producing, handling and
selling
'"ird To limit production to legiti-
mate demand so us lo control pra-es
“4th. To tett profitably, directly, as
authorized to cal! upon others to a*
Hist them In their work, and have
appointed other* a* subcommittee*
Over 2P*i names had been signed to
•he petition* Thursday morning, the
far as practicable, to the consumers. {oommittec stated, and among the
through their own sates agencies, es-
tablished and controlled by them
"Every other business standardizes
its commodity and guarantees it. If
the farmers are to fix the price of
their commodities. It is Just a* Impor-
tant for them to organize for econ-
omic and efficient production a* It is
for them to organize to sell. No
organisation has the right to make
others pay for the inefficiency of Its
member*.
It is economic suicide for any or-
ganization to produce more of a com-
modity than It can sell at a profit.
"No business concern can succeed
when It permits outsiders to fix the
price of the commodity it sell*.
"By organizing and acting upon
these principle* farming can be made
to pay "
WORK PROGRESSING ON THE
KEYSTONE REFINERY PLANT
W. A. Hickey, manager of the Key- j
stone Refinery Company, returned
Baturda.v from a trip to Dallas. Fori
Worth and WJaco. where he bought
materials for the Keystone plant now
under construction here Shipments
of these msterial* will be arriving
soon.
The foundation* at the plant. Mr.
Hickey states. Including those for the
boilers, condensers, etc., are about
complete The briffit work on the
stills he* been started and thing* are
now reedy to begin the brick work
on the building Work on the water
re tor voir and pooling tower waa be-
gun this week Br. Hickey believes
that without any unforsseen mishap*
the plan! will be complete and ready
to begin running oil within ninety
day* „ „
.1. hL. Root, president of the Key-
stone company, was in the city last
week, and was pleased with
look for the enrly operation of tha
Dublin plant We *»d Mr ®WW7
better# that there le a noticeable la-
.{movement m the general .refingry
situation.
citizens that had been seen they had
found a splendid spirit for the sop
port of the schools.
fkyth COUNTY hiTATISTIUB
Birth* Boys Ip A. L Bailey, Ellis
Main and Hoy Gibson of Stephenvllle.
J. R. Trice of Lingievilie. Ed Morgan
and G. L. Sullivan of •'Gordon route
one. Jess Mulloy pf Lingievilie. Girl*
-to Robert Jackson of Bluff Dale
and itaniei Fernandez of Thurber
Manage license* —Roy H, Earner
and Bailie Pattlapn. Morgan Mill; C
P, Tay'lor and Willie Abies. Mlohiis
Fall*
Death*—David Hoover, Dublin, age
*6. April 12. cancer Mary Ann Nlcb-
ol*. Morgan M1lt. age BE April 13.
bronchial-pneumonia
CEMETERY WORKING
.All persons interested are reques-
ted to meet to work the old Dubltn
cemetery Wednesday. May 11 This
will he Tor finishing up the work be
gun at a recent working All are re-
quested to bring sharp axes, grub-
bing hoe*, shovels and other tool*
needed for the work Bring your
dinner* *nd come prepored 1** spend
the <*a>
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attraitiye new dign
The Frank* Drug Store ha* put up
s very beautiful and attractive elec-
tric sign this week, adding greatly to
the already modern and progressive
appearance of that establishment.
DUBLIN DEFEATS LlNGLEVILLE.
The Dublin base b*H team pl«?*d
the Lingievilie team on the litters
ground* yesterday afternoon. At
the close of the game tbe score stoori
« to 4 tn. Dublin * favor
Dublin play* »dua Hill tbi* morn-
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