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WEATHERFORO, TEXAS. TWR8DAY, MAY 27 ItEO J ' 4Bk
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JOINT SESSION HEARS
BOLL WORM LETTER
SEC. MEREDITH ASKS NON-COT-
TON ZONE AND PLOWING UP
AREAS 'PLANTEO.
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AiaocUted Press
Austin. Texas. May 27.—Both bran-
ches of the legislature met in joint
session today to hear a letter from
Secretary of Agriculture Meredith, on
the pink boll worm, after being ad-
journed two days. The letter was to
Governor Hobby, who submitted It to
the legislature. The boll worm com-
mittee held no morning session.
TEXAS DEMOCRATS GOVERNMENT MAY
SELECT DELEGATES
BUY MAMMOTH CAVE
DISCOVERED IN 1809 AND RANKS
WITH WONDER8 OF
THE WORLD.
ADMINISTRATIONS OF HOBBY AND
WILSON ENDORSED—DELE-
< GATES UNINSTRUCTED.'
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Dallas. Texas, May 28—Thlrty-siX t
delegates with one, vote eaclj. lnclud- oave, Kentucky’s contribution to
lng three women, and sixteen dele- j wonders of the world may soon
gates at large, one-fourth of the vote^e purchased and transformed into
including four women, were elected by (extensive National Park.
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Associated Press
Louisville. Ky.( May 26.—Mammoth
KANSAS WILL RAISE
GOOD WHEAT CROP.
Associated Press
Topkea, Kansas. May *' irim*
j wheat crop is staging a phenomenaT
.comeback according to reports of ag-
ricultural bureaus, both state and
federal. Revived by an abundance of
rains after the driest winter ever
recorded in the state’s great central
wheat belt, wheat is now declared
to be in excellent condition in nearly
all parts of the state. Based on con-
ditions on May 1, the Kansas agent
I of the U. S. Department of Agricnl-
♦ EARY DAY8 IN PAR- ♦
•4- KER COUNTY. ♦
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(By H. C. Gilliland)
(This Is the first of a series of
articles from the pen of Mr. Gilli-
land on early days in Parked, which
we are sure the friends of the Her-
ald will read with pleasure and pro-
lit.—Ed.)
In the early settlement of Parker j
•county, Texas', will state that our
lamily settled five miles north of
where Weatherford now stands on
September 3, 1854. The country
was covered with wild game and
many Indians, who were gentle and
sot at all savage, as they after-
ward became. There were five fam-
Stfing beans are selling at 12ic
per ppund and all the oferings are
finding ready sale.
REPUBLICANS SELECT WEATH-
ERFORD MAN AS DELEGATE.
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The Market.
The following prices were being
paid by ths produce houses in this
city Thursday for country produce:
Eggs —...................„....... 25c
Hens per pound ..............................22c
Friers per pound ____________^..............40c
Roosters per pound .................. 7c
Butter per pound 25c to ..............50c
, A limited supply of blackberries is
now coming to the market and the
growers are receiving around $1.50
per crate for pints and $3 for quarts.
A few peaches have been sold at
$2.50 per bushel. The indications
are that the market will open at
about $2.00 per bushel.
A few fresh potatoes are being of-
fered and the produce houses are
paying 12c per pound for all that
... - .. .. . D . Is being offered. It is stated that
illes in the radius of Parker county, ____ . . ... . ,,
. . . . . . . the crop is good this year and it
and - as before stated, we lived very . . ... , ..
, , ,. u . \ is »ot likely that the price will re
I hard. I was nine years old, but had ...
I- ,, _ .. ” , ’ . , " main a that figure,
tour elder brothers, that lived m the
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woods, making rails and cutting
bouse logs and preparing for more
comfort, as the northers were very
severe. After a hard winter’s work
my father took sick with pneumonia
and on the 14th day of February, i _
1855 he died. His was the first j, w. Pond returned Wednesday
white man e grave dug in. Parker from Sajj Antonio where he attended
county. This was sixty-five years die qtate republican convention. -He
ago last February; my father was says the convention was harmonious
a comparatively young man, being alter the black and tan delegation
only forty-three years old and was withdrew trout the lilly whites and
In the prime and vigor of young tho business of the convention was
manhood. My mother was thus left promptly completed. .Walter Hudson
in a strange country with" a of this city was selected as one of
house full of children. There were the delegates to the national conven-
no doctors in the country and we tion which meets at Chicago, June
were farced 1° d® without the aid 8th. His name was submitted to
of a -ifcfhlcian. When father died the district convention held at Gran-
* had coffin, or lumber to make bury and he received the endorse-
that article; and a man in our coun- rnent there and no trouble was ex-
try gave us a wagon bed out of perienced in his election at San
which the coffin was made. 1 Antonio.
We had twenty acres of wheat Mr, Pond says that crop condi-
®o*n I11 Dallas county which made tions between here and San Antonio
a good crop in 1855 and this was are not very favorable. Cotton is
all that saved us from starvation.1 in ^ad condition, in fact the people
Dper and other game was plentiful were seen planting in most all the
•ad the woods were full of bees: c'oWhtlte through which he passed,
and ,wlld honey It now seemB to Corn looks fair and in some places
ten that the Lord was kind to us, the grain te fairly good, but nothing
for all of these necessaries of life extra.
asase showered upon us. ’I -
In 1868 the Indians began their Rex Oil Co. Has Briqht Prosp«cts.
massacres and kept it up for sev-' Preston Martin and W. M. Boyles
epteen years, during which time have Just returned from Brecken-
your correspondent was a busy man, i ridge where they have been looking
chasing and fightig them. In 1875 afler interests of the Rex Oil com-
ihey ceased fighting the people of P*ny. The city commission at Breck-
Parker county and the citizens be- enridge recently passed an order
* gan going their way without guns prohibiting \the erection of storage
pistols. ' j tanks within the city limits but
•\:At some future day I will tell the this was walved in regard to this
readers of the Herald of many kill-; company.
Inga by the Indians and of our in-1 The Rex Oil company is an organ-
dividual warfare with them. I will, i*^" composed mostly of Parker
ten them of the murder of John;00®®1? ®e°Ple. aad most a11 the
'Brown, Mrs. Sherman, Jake Lopp, -9100*1 has been 80ld- wel1
Nathaniel S. Long, John Mullins, |is ®ow drim®e- and casln* has JU8t
James 8. Elliott, Samuel Elliott, M. ibeen set at 2100 feet The oU 8and
J. Baxter, Jesse Bowman and many ‘® lhls vicinity is usual,y Picked UP
others who were killed by Indians al 311^ feet- There are several good
to our country. wells near the holdings of this com-
Wlth kindest regards for the Her-,®®®* Martin No. 1 just west came
aid and my many frjends in Parker;1® *a8t week and is making
county.
Altus, Okla., May 24. 1920.
the Democratic convention here last; Reports fronl Washington are toi
nigh. The delegates were unin-!the eHect that the rule6 committee iture reccntly estimated the crop this
structed as to presidential preference. of the Hoaee of Representatives con- J,<‘ar wlU be 92’082'000 bushel8-
The convention endorsed President; template8 calllng up for paasage year K®®8®8 Produced approximately
A delegation of Texas sheriffs asked | Wilson's and Governor Hobby’s admin-1 a measure tjjj8 jn 150,000,000 bushels.
Governor Hobby to submit a proposed ■ istratlons. an ‘unimpaired League of! vjew .This is House Bill No 3110 Tbe present Prospect, in relation
increase in fees and prisoner allowance I Nations” and declared against light
and a 25 per cent increase for depu-
ties. The sheriffs say it is impossible
wines and beers.
In a speech delivered before the
to keep good men at the present pay. j convention, Dwight Lewelling of Dal-
Amendments to the minimum wage! las, announced that he had withdrawn
law are expected to be agreed upon.1 from the governor's race in favor of
at a conference of employers and ' Pat M. Neff of Waco.
Commission today. The plan general-
ly favored proposes to fix minimum
tpages by cities, according to popula-
tion. i-*» i-.*- i.*«, .
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“The immediate needs,1’ Secretary
Meredith's letter said, “are the declar-
ation of a non-cotton zone for the in-
fested areas of Texas and the plowing
up of the fields already planted in
such areas. If Texas should fall in
the present emergency to carry out
the program of extermination, adopt-
ing fn lieu thereof some half-way
course which would practically amount
to giving up the fight, leaving ample
room for the spread of the insect in
Texas to ohter states, the Department
of Agriculture, realizing its obligation
to other cotton growing states, feels
that it would be remiss in its duty if
it failed to do everything possible
within (he limit of 'is power and au-
thority to prevent the spread of the
pest from Texas."
were instructed to oppose any platform
or candidate favoring ’’violation or
nullification” of constitutional prohibi-
t,on’_____
The following delegates at large
were elected on the first ballot: Cone
Johnson of Tyler, Governor W. P. Hob-
by of Austin, Cullen F. Thomas of Dal-
las, M. M. Crane of Dallas, Marshall
introduced by Representative Robert
Y. Thomas of the Third Kentucky
District which would appropriate
$1,000,000 for the government to
purchase the great cavern and 32,-
U00 acres of virgin forest land lying
around it.
The movement to make a national
park of the famous cave has been aba®db®ed: leavl®S a P^sent acre*®
carried on by the Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks.
Other organizations including the
National Conservation Cogresa, The
Southern Commercial Congress, Nat-
ional Forestry Association and the
National Geographic Society have
joined in the movement with resolu-
Hicks of San Antonio, T. M. Campbell tiong urging the government to pre-
of Palestine, Thomas H. Bail of Hous-
ton, Clyde A. Sweeton of Greenville,
Hugh Nugent Fitzgerald of Fort
Worth, J. A. Kemp of Wichita Falls,
Barry Miller of Dallas, I. Wr. Stephens
of Fort Worth, Mrs. Minnie Fisher
serve the cave as a national park.
“Mammoth Cave” Mr. Lewis said,
“ranks as a world’s wonder equally
with Niagara Falls and Yellowstone
Park. Situated in Edmonson County.
to the national output is that Kansas
will produce 19.2 per cent of the
country's crop of winter wheat, as
compared with 30.6 rer cent last
year. The unfavorable winter season
took a heavy toll on the acieage of
9,193,000 planted last fall. The fed-
eral report says 16 per cent has been
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SENATE DISAPPROVES
MANDATE FOR ARMENIA
Associated I’res*
_ , . . „ , . |Ky, it is one of the most pictur-
Cunnlngham of Galveston, Miss Mar- „ - ... ___
>» E. NHI of Arthw. Mr.. V. E. H” JT. "
Spell or Wp.o and Jea.ln Daniel *m»i", *"™ul,*,* pr,",l,l”
or Georgetown. The tot.l rot. cat °' "“"‘T „ inn
i . - ... , „ proximately 32,000 acres,
was 1,247 out of a possible 1,409 Coun- , , . . ,. .
, This property is to be sold at
ties not reporting had voting strength 4t , .. . . ,
, . 6 B public auction in the near future, I
of 1(82 votes. j , , .. .
, , . . . , understand and manv timber men ave
The following were elected dele- . . . ..
• „ edeavoring to mrchase it. The ne-
gates from the Twelfth Congressional I , . , . „ ,.
a, 1 a . „ . ,,, . J tion in general and Kentucky in
district. O. L. Sweet, Fort Worh, and , . , .
particular wishes the government to
F. O. McKlnsey, Weatherford. Alter-
nates: Mrs. A. K. Harris, Fort Worth
Washington. May 27-President and John M' Moore ot Cleburne.
I?' Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Morris and
daughter, Miss Vann are spending a barrels,
few days in Wolfe City and Green-
ville.
2000
barrels wad Is uncompleted. Ward
No. 1 south Is another new well and
it is making 6000 barrels while the
Guarantee also south is making 1000
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ME. WEATHSRFOKD,
W'ilson’s proposal for an Armenian
mandate was disapproved today by the
senate foreign relations committee.
Only four Democrats opposed adverse
action. By a vote of eleven to four the
committee reported a resolution de-
claring congress had respectfully de-
clined to grant the executive power o
accept a mandate over Armenia.
, Republicans Have Split.
San Antonio, Texas. May 26.—Two
Republican state conventions were
held when a number of negro dele-
gates, accompanied by whites, with-
drew from the regular convention.
Both bodies elected uninstructed dele-
gates to the national convention.
HUGE SUMS BEING SPENT BY
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES
COMMISSION WILL INVESTI-
GATE CARRANZA’S DEATH
Associated Press 5. Associated Press
Washington, May 47.—‘A total of| Mexico‘City, May 26.—FofJtml tnves-
$113,900 has been raised for the cam-1 ttgation of the part taken in President
paign of Senator Harding, Republican, j Carranza’s death by Rodolfo Herfero
of Ohio, and $177,104 has been spent,
the committee tnventtgatlng p re-con-
vention campaign expenses of presi-
dential condidates Was told today by
Harry M. Daugherty, Harding’s man-
ager.
Dan Hanna, of Cleveland, agreed to
raise $500,000 to finance General Leon-
ard Woods’ campaign, the investigat-
ing committee was told by John T.
King of Connecticut who was first
manager of the Woods national organ-
ization.
FEXICAN REBELS NOW OPER-
ATING NEAR VERA CRUZ
Vera, Cruz, May 27.—The rebel for-
ces commanded by Felix Diaz operat-
ing along the coast of Vera Cruz,
have combined with other rebels and
the troops still loyal to the Carranza
government, according to advice re-
ceived here, which is without official
confirmation.
and members of the Carranza party
has Dehn -rettTBmTttrtiett Hy the 'foUi1
commissioners and Generals Obregon
and Gonzales have been named to ip-
vstlgate the tragedy. The commission-
ers' report alleges that the facts they
uncovered “prove that a conspiracy
was prepared in advance by Herrero,
who Inspired the confidence placed in
him by Carranza and ended in the
president’s betrayal.” Military officers
and civilians captured at Tlaxcalan-
tongo following the death of Carranza
will be held prisoners here until Adol-
office. It is undestood that he will
fo de la Huerta takes the president’s
decide upon the disposition to be made
of them, r
PRESIDENT’S VETO MESSAGE
GOES TO CONGRE88 TODAY
Washington, May 27—President
Wilson message vetoing the Republi-
can peace resolution will be sent to
congress today. White House officials
declined to say whether the President
would return the Versailles treaty with
his veto message.
SENATOR McGREGOR SPEAKS
HERE SATURDAY AFTERNOON
Senator IT T. McGregor will ad-
dress the voters of Weatherford and
Parker county Saturday afternoon
at 2 o’clock in the interest of his
oondidacy for goveror on the Ameri-
can party. J. B. Stuard, who re-
ceived the official notice of this
date asks that the voters come out
and hear Mr. McGregor discuss the
issue of the day.
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buy the cave and land in order to
6ave the atural wonder for future
generations to see.”
From the year of its discovery,
1809, by a hunter, explorations have
been made over 100 miles of Its in-
terior. The cave's first explora-
tions came in 1812 during the war
with the British when men went
into It to mine the soft soil for salt-
peter for use i making gun powder.
Mammoth cave is today the great-
est subterranean area known to ex-
ist. It has five different levels and
the temperature is at all times 54
degress. Eternal darkness and still-
ness reign supreme. Stalacities ,and
Stalagmites take on the form of
fluted columns, of festoons and of
draperies. There are great auditor-
iums With lofty ceilings—one where
the formations resemble a starlit
sky—domes hundreds of feet high,
the sides formed of tie rafter tier
of fluted columns, and a river, the
Echo navigable for half a mile, that
deriVes its name from the fact that
the slightest noise is intensified a
thousand times
of 7,728,000. In some counties,_
narily among the most heavy wh«U
producers, the abandonment exceeds
half the number of the acres planted-
The report stated that as a rule
farmers took little chance of having
to harvest a thin crop, because ot
the*scarcity and high price of labor
and threshing. A convention of farm-
ers recently set 70 cents an hour ad
a fair wage for harvest labor. . „
HOUSE WAS RECOMMENDED
TO BERLIN BY BERN8TORFP
Associated Press
Berlin, May 26.—E. M. House, at
Texas, was recommended to the Ger-
man foreign office by Von Bemstorff
of the German embassy in Washington
when the former made his Becond
trip to Europe early in 1916 as Pres-
ident Wilson's personal representative,
according to letters from Bemstorff to
Gottleib von Jaagow, then foreign see-
retary. These letters were published
here, together with other documents
presented before the committee inves-
tigating President Wilson's peace pro-
posal during the war.
Bemstorff wrote: “The mission at
Colonel House appears to me desir-
able, especially as the Lnited Staten
is so poorly represented in Berlin.
Colot-e! House 1b whoMv neutral, very
discreet and deserving. Confidences
slim'd contribute m-ch to the bet-
terment of mutual relations.'’ i
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LEGISLATORS ATTENDING
STATE CONVENTION
AGREEMENT RRACHED ON
NAVAL APPROPRIATION
Washington. May 27 —Next year’s
naval budget was fixed at about $436,-
000,000 under a complete agreement
on the naval appropriation, reached by
the senate and house conferees. The
original house hill carried $425,000,000
and tbe senate bill $467,000,000. The
conference agreed upon $20,000,000
for naval aviation
Complete agreement on the army
reorganization bill was also reached
today by the house and senate con-
ferees.
Austin, Texas. May 25.—With the
exception of the work of the joint com
mittee Investigating the alleged pink [
boll worm infestation, which resumed
its hearing today, no business was
transacted by the legislature today as
a majority of the members have gone
to Dallas for the state Democratic
convenion.
COMMITTEE BEGINS INVESTI-
GATION PINK BO^L WORM
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Austin, Texas, May 24.—'WHtfe’iiaiiy
legislators are leaving today tor 08
state convention at Dallas tomorrow,
the pink boll worm investigating coaa-
mlttee begun tlielr probe of
ed Infestation of Southeast Texas with
a number of witnesses already arriv-
ed. Sixty witnesses have been sum-
moned. C. L. Msrlett, chairman of the
Federal Horldnlturai Board, arrived
today to testify. Bruce W. Bryant, as-
sistant attorney general has been as-
signed to aid the committee.
The house adjourned until Thursday
and the senate not having a quorum
recessed until tomorrow and will have
to recess from day to day until a quo-
rum has been obtained.
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tWo aTvTYricans held
CAPTIVE IN CHIHUAHUA
Washington, May 26.—Two Ameri-
cans. Hopier Carr and a Mr. McDon-
ald. have been taken prisoners at Jim-
Inez, in Chihuahua, according to a re-
port to the state department today.
No details were given.
Pictures of Soldiers Grows.
Dallas. Texas, May 25.—Through
the medium of motion pictures, rel-
atives and friends of soldiers burled
in France will be able, in a way, to
visit the graves of their dead on
Memorial day. J
Governor W. P. Hobby has arrang-
ed with the Graves Registration B*
reau at Washington for pictures of
American graves to be flashed on
the screen throughout Texas on that
day. The film will be supplied by
the American committee for devas-
tated France. Scenes in thirty-six
American military graves will be
shown.
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GALVESTON WHEAT CONGESTION
WILL SOON BE RELIEVED
Associated Tress
Galveston, Texas, May 22,—It was
announced today that wheat conges-
tion at this port probably will be re-
lieved by the middle of June. The
wheat export corporation and French
and Italian governments have assured
local Interests that more ships would
be sent for wheat soon. There gre
approximately 6,000,000 bushels of
wheat here. There are 2,700 loaded
cars on the tracks.
WEATHERFORD’S OLDEST BANK
The Citizens National Bank
(Established in 1868)
WANTS YOUR BUSINESS, BIG OR LITTLE
and promises you the personal service that will please you.
CAPITAL AND PROFITS NOW AMOUNT
TO OVER $200,000.00.
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