The Weekly Herald (Weatherford, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 22, 1923 Page: 8 of 12
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Easier Mrs
Easter Bunnies
Easter Cherries
EVERYTHING for EASTER
WALTER BROWDER’S CANDY
KITCHEN
East Side Square
PLOWING IS FAR IN
ADVANCE EAST YEAR
Houston, Texas, March 16.—Plowing
of the soil for spring planting, well
under way in February, In nearly all
sections of the state, was summarised
In reports from different counties,
made public today by the United
States Department of Agriculture. In
nearly every instance, plowing was at
that time over the fifty per cent mark
the report showed. Only a few of the
counties, however, reported the break-
ing of land completed. The state-
ments, all as of February, follow:
Gillespie county, 75 per cent com-
plete; Llano, Just started on cotton
land; Upshur, about fifteen days ear-
lier than usual; Jasper, 25 per cent
finished; TVs vis, seventy-five per cent
finished; Burnet, nearly all plowed;
Mitchell, average; Bandera, all ground
has boon prepared for spring corn and
cotton; Maverick, 75 per cent further
advance; DeWitt, ninety per cent com-
plete; Franklin, ten per cent of the
land plowed', ’-1
Grayson county, practically all fin-
tebed; Panola, about twenty five per
cent; Duval, nearly all plowing com-
pleted; Coleman, nearly finished; Den-
ton, ninety five per cent completed;
Bee, completed; Freestone, good deal
ef plowing; Harrison, more plowing
than usual for this time of year; Mc-
Lennan, completed; Hamilton, most of
the land plowed; Hays, completed;
HID, ninety per cent finished; Burle-
son, well advanced In most instances;
Bell, well advanced.
Bosque county, plowing ninety-five
per cent done; Coleman, most of the
fanners through with plowing; Stone-
wall, fifty per cent of the farmers be-
gun plowing; Mills, normal; McCul-
loch, farmers well up with plowing;
Delta, plowing was well advanced be-
fore wet weather set In; Collins, eighty
five per cent completed; Cooke, well
up; Tarrant, most of the land plowed
and in good condition; Rockwall, nine-
ty per cent of spring plowing done;
Austin, weil advanced and ready for
planting; Matagorda, well advanced.
Brasorla county, about two thirds
through; Willacy, all done and In fair
condition; Sau Patricio, ninety per
seat complete; Nueces, well up and the
tend la fine shape for planting.
El Paso, one hundred per cent com-
plete; Live Oak, ninety per cent com-
plete; Wharton, seventy five to eighty
per cent plowed; Archer, well advanc-
ed; HnmpklU, about fifty per emit has
been plowed; Red River, all land In
good state of cultivation; Jones, about
half finished; Young, fairly well ad-
vanced; Titus, twenty five per cent
completed; Oldham, very little plow-
ing has been done; Knox, nearly com-
pleted; Madison, forty per cent is
plowed; Jasper, very little plowed;
Chambers, eighty per cent done; Fish-
er, twenty per cent completed; Ander-
son, well underway; Wilson, ninety
live per cent finished; Caldwell, Just
starting to plow; Zavalla, twenty five
per cent completed; Clay, nearly
through; Washington, seventy five per
cent completed.
AMERICAN REPLY
PRESENTED ALLIES
By Associated Press
Paris, March 19.—Refusal by the
.United States to accept a redaction in
the bill for expenses of the American
army of occupation by the value of
German ships seised in American
ports, was presented today to the Al-
lied representatives’ conference by
Eliot Wadsworth, assistant secretary
of thetreasury. Reimbursement of the
9255,000,000 expense in twelve annual
lnstalllments out of possible German
reparation payments which the Alllee
proposed, was accepted In principle, it
was stated.
Wadsworth made It plain that the
American view was that the bill
should be paid, and it should not be
of concern to the United States whe-
ther It was met out of German pay-
ments or otherwlae.
Th eAllied representatives culled u
meeting for tomorrow to try and
evolve another proposition to be given
by Wadsworth Thursday.
BUPIIED SHELLS IN NORTH
FRANCE SOURCE OF DANGER
Paris, March 19.—Shells burled In
Northern France during the war con-
tinue to explode ocaslonally when
struck by peasants' plows, adding to
the war casualties four years after the
cessation of hostilities. The question
is often asked whehter an unexpjloded
shell ever becomes harmlesss. Some
experts say never, unless exposed to
the air, while others contend that live
shells become “duds” after many
years.
Thetheory of the latter group is
hardly borne out by an Incident which
recently occurred In a Paris hotel. A
projectile of the time of Napoleon III
had long been used by the hotel em-
ployes as a pestle and had several
times been fitted with new handles to
replace those pounded off. Recently it
was left in close proximity to the hotel
furnace, with the result that the ho-
tel engineer has gone into the class of
casualties of the war of 1870 and the
hotel Is undergoing important repairs.
GIRL MADE RICH BY OIL
WILL CONTINUE TO WORK
Breckenridge, Texas, March 20.—
Mias Elsie Hardin, 19, returned to her
dealt In the county elerk’a office here
after returning from Smaekover, Ark.,
where she has a 45-acre tract of land
now valued conservatively &t $1,000,-
000 as a result of the coming In of the
Burton gusher last week for 60,000
barrels on one line of ber land, and
the Vitex gusher ggauglng 40,000 bar-
rels daily on the other.
Five wells started drilling on her
land last week and she refused a num-
ber of fortunes for her holdings In the
last few days.
"1 like my work and will continue
;•» a stenographer,” she said, as sh»
raced her fingers aver the keyboard of
her typewriter. She receives 9125 a
r^nth as a stenographer.
Mrs. John Prince of De Leon and
Miss Vests Flemming of Stamford are
here visiting Mr. and Mrs. T. G. Har-
doyr“e :uid family for a few days.
Battle Creek. Mich., March It—Six
ty pounds of blueprints In the safe of
the chamber of commerce here tell the
story of the plan of the Federal gov-
ernment to start early construction of
a million and a half- dollar hospital
for former service men suffering from
nervous and mental diseases.
On the open spaces west of here,
where Camp Custer sprang Into a
great cantonment, the hcapital,
Its thirty build lugs, will spread over
500 seres It Is one of five for which
Congress appropriated $18,000,000. The
hospital building program is under the
direction of the Veteran’s Bureau.
Two miles east of the
hospital site Is located the
Legion Roosevelt hospital tor the care
of tubercular former service men, with
a capacity of 400 patient*' The Vet-
erans’ Bureau hospital will have flclll-
ties for the treatment of 500 patients.
The government hospital unit will be
built around what the blueprints call
the main building—a commodious 2-
story structure, winged, with general
wards on one side and wards for “dis-
turbed” patients on the other,
tors’ offices, rooms for various offi-
cers, dinning rooms, operating rooms,
electrotherapy, electro-cardlagraph, au-
topsy and dental rooms are In this
building, as well as quarters for spe-
ciallstlc treatment and minor surgery.
At the west end of the
group win be located the cottage for
tubercular patients, equipped with
sleeping porches and the most modern
methods of treating thta disease.
The recreation bnllding will contain
an auditorium to seat 400 persons, with
a stage and projection room
tlon pictures. Card and billiard rooms
will open off the main lobby.
There Is a group of building for
“continued treatment” cases, contain-
ing large day rooms on the first floor
with wards above. Three separate
buildings will provide accommodations
(or nurses, female attendants and male
attendants. There will be separate
structures for the vocational training
shops, garage and repair shops. «•
PLAN BETTER MACHINERY
TO COMBAT BOLL WEEVIL
Chicago, March
the boll weevil and help restore pros
perlty to southern farmers by speeding
up of their farming system, were out-
lined here today by the National Insti-
tute of Progreselve Farming.
The Institute believes, after an In
veetlgatlon of tbe evil that year caus-
es so much loss to cotton growers,
that the best means of combatting it
Is In the Introduction of farm machin
eiv to replacj wha» it terms the "one-
lvmle-and-a-colored-hand system.'' Co-
operation with agr'cultural col'egea
and experiment stations, county agents
and chambers of commerce as well as
agricultural high schools Is planned
In Introducing higher mechanical
standard*.
“Prof. Q. H. Alford, formerly with
the U. S. Department of Agriculture
and a prominent agriculturalist, has
summed up the boll weevil problem
by saying that while it can not be
eliminated, It Is possible to defeat It
with intensive cultivation.
“Early fall plowing buries the pests
before cool weather drives them off
the fields to seek hibernating quarters
for the winter,” he says. Cotton yields
per acre have been downward for the
last sixteen years, last year being the
lowest recorded. Larger farms and
plantations, manned with fewer and
more highly skilled laborers and im-
proved machinery, appears to be a
solution.
"Whll* the average Iowa farm is
equipped with $1,449 worth of machin-
ery and the average farm of the north
and west carries about $1,000 worth,
the cotton belt farm has but $215, and
depends largely upon one-horse tools
and hand labor.”
Monday
WITH ONE PAID TICKET
Coming Monday March 26
FOR ONE WEEK ONLY
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Harley Sadler’s
Big Tent Theatre
Formerly Brunks Comedians
Opening Play B
“the COUNTRY BOY” A
4 ACTS N
FEATURE VAUDEVILLE BETWEEN
EACH AND EVERY ACT
FEATURE ORCHESTRA!
Big Band Concert
Monday 4-p. m.
Tent Well Heated
Tent Located Two Blocks South Main Street
POSSE H0T0NT1
RENEGADE INDIANS
By Associated Frees
Salt Lake City, Utah, March 21.—A
posse of white settlers from San Juan
county, In Southwestern Utah, today
are reported hot on the trial of a band
of renegade Piute Indians who staged
an outbreak at Blandlng Monday. The
Indians causing the trouble, according
to a report to the United States mar-
shal, number upward of twelve. One
young buck, known as Joe Bishop's
boy, is reported to have been killed,
and two other Indiana wounded, in a
clash late yesterday between the posse
and the redskins. No casualties among
the whites Is reported.
40 SOLDIERS KILLED
WREN TRAINS COLLIDE
Berlin, March 17.—A report from
Frlemershelm, a Rhine town near
Dulsberg, says that forty soldiers were
killed and many injured when a
French troop train collided with a
French freight train. The impact was
so violeht that several coaches were
telescoped.
Two Germans were shot and killed
by French sentinels during the night,
one at Recklinghausen and the other
at Essen, says a Dusaeldorf’ report.
GOVERNOR DISPOSES
OF THIRTEEN BILLS
By Associated Free* ,
Austin, Texas, March 21.—Governor
Neff today disposed of thirteen more
bills which were passed by the regular
session of the legislature. He approv-
ed nine, which were filed with the sec-
retary of state. He filed four to be-
come effective without his signature.
The measures approved Include an
appropriation of $17,500 to the health
department for mosquito control
work; appropriation of $25,000 to meet
notes for the payment of mules pur-
chased for the prison system, and pro-
hibiting the keeping of dogs which an-
noy livestock.
By Associated Press
Washington, March 21.—Rain mak-
ing Is entirely-a futile undertaking, in
an offlclaroplnlon given by the United
States Weather Bureau today. Gov-
ernment meterologlsts do not know
any scheme for artificial production of ’
rain on a scale of practical magnitude,
nor otherwise affecting atmospheric
btehavtor, the statement said. It call-
ed attention to statements appearing
at Intervals In the press, “heralding
new ways of making rani, preventing
rain fog or forestalling the disastrous
effects of a storm.”
Pre-War Prices
ON PATENT MEDICINES NOWIN EFFECT.
AT THIS STORE. ✓
COLORITE—The Famous Strtfw Hat Dye. Don’t buy a
a new hat when COLORITE will make your old hat look new.
TOILET GOODS—Powders, Perfumes, Cold Creams, Etc
WHAT ARE YOU WAITING ON?
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PHONE 06— * —SOUTH SIDE SQUARE
NEW ORLEAN8 MAN GIVEN
AUTHORITY TO OPERATE ROAD
Washington, March 19.—William Ed-
inborn of the New Orleans & Louisi-
ana Railway Navigation Compnay of
Texas, was Jointly authorized by the
Interstate Commerce Commission to
take over and operate the Sherman,
Shreveport & Southen railroad today.
It runs 182 miles from McKinney,
Texas, to Waskom, on the Louisiana-
Texas line, and was formerly operated
by the Katy. Edinborn will convey
the line of the Louisiana Railway &
Navigation Company of Texas, the or-
der sgld, for the payment of $3,693,000
in bonds of the Louisiana Company.
Th ecompany proposes to operate Into
Shreveport over the line of the Vicks-
burg, Shreveport & Pacific.
N. H. Moore of Mineral Wells, dis-
trict manager of th« Southwestern
Bell Telephone Company, was here
; yesterday and today on a business
visit.
BANDITS ROB BANK AND
MAKE GETAWAY WITH $10,000
St. Louis, Mo., March 17.—Six ban-
dits held up the State Bank of Wells-
ton, Just west of the city limits, lined
up eight employes and three custom-
ei<agalust & wall, scooped up between
$10,000 and $15,000 from the cages,
and escaped In automobiles. The rob-
bery was executed In less than two
minutes, It was said.
Each bandit carried a pistol and
all but ono was masked.
Julius Kessler, president of the bank
said the money was covered by theft
insurance.
The bank Is located in a busy sec-
tion and hundreds of persons were said
to be In the immediate vicinity when
the robbery occurred. <
Burglars attempted to rob the bank
five weeks agi, but were frightened
away t>y a night watthaan. r*.
WOMAN NAMED 8ECRETARY
OF GOVERNOR PAT NEFF
Austin. Texas, March 17.—Mrs. Bapa
Stanford of Waco has the distinction
of being the first woman In Texas to
6erve as secretary to a Governor. She
wasappolnted by Governor Neff to fiU
the vacancy caused by the resignation
of R. B Walthall, appointed chief su-
pervisor of the oil and gas division of
the Railroad Commission, to succeed
J. W. Hassell, resigned over a month
ago. Both Mrs. Stanford and Mr. Wal-
thall today entered upon the discharge
of their new duties. *
Mrs. Stanford has served as first
assistant secretary to Governor Neff
since the beginning of his administra-
tion on Jan. 11. 1921.
840,000 ESTATE BABY IS
TO GO TO GRANDFATHER
Kansas City, Mo., March 18.—An ap-
plication for a writ of habeas corpus
by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Weeks of
Leavenworth, Kansas, to obtain pos-
session of a baby born here four
months ago was denied late today by
Judge E. E. Porterfield. Mr. and Mrs.
Week* had adopted the baby not long
after its birth.
Judge Porterfield approved the adop-
tion of the baby by Its grandfather,
Dr. B. F. Shope of Dry Run, Pa. The
child’s mother died a month after its
birth, leaving it an estate estimated
at $40,000.
t Miss Cornelia Hood, student of the
State University at Austin, is here for
a few days’ visit with her parents,
Lee Walker was a business vllttor
In Fort Worth, Tuesday.
BEST JOB PRINTING AT HERALD. I Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Hood.
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