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The Jacksboro Gazette
VOLUME XLII.
JACKSBORO, TEXAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1921
NUMBER 12.
EX-RANGERS OF TEXAS TAX REDUCTIONS OF
HOLD ANNUAL CONVEN- $600,000,000, APPROXIMATE
TION AT WEATHERFORD LY, IS ANNOUNCED
COMMISSIONER OF INSUR- BRYSON HOLDS SUNDAY
ANCE AND BANKING SAYS SCHOOL RALLY. NEWS OF
KEEP MONEY IN BANK GENERAL INTEREST
NEFF TO CALL ANOTHER
EXTRA SESSION OWING TO
ACTION OF THE HOUSE
COMMISSIONERS’ COURT
RATE OF TAXES FOR 1921
PRECINCT SCHOOL TAXES
Weatherford, Texas, Aug. 11.— Following the conference be- Austin, Aug. 14.—“If every dai- Bryson, Aug. 16.—A number of Austin, Aug. 16.—Governor Neff At the regular August term of
More than fifty former Texas Ram tween President Harding, Secreta- ly paper in Texas would adopt the Jacksboro people came over last said iate tonight that he would not Commissioners’ Court on Monday,
gers, who saw service from 1850 to ry of the Treasury Mellon and Re- slogan of “keep your money in the Friday evening and joined with call another special session tonight August 8th, the office of constable
1880 in the Indian wars, and in the publican leaders of the House, it is bank. ’ and thereby keep it in cir- the Bryson people in a Sunday but would “possibly do so tomor- precinct No. 1 was deelard vacant
elimination of early-day bandits, announced that reductions of ap- dilation, the country would soon school rally. We are sorry that row.” and L. T. Richardson was appoint-
are attending the second annual proximately $600,000,000 in taxes feel the effects of it, said Ed Hall, -more of the Bryson people didn’t jn discussing the action of the ed to fill unexpired term,
convention here of the Ex-Texas and $520,000,000 in Government state commissioner of insurance participate, but for some reason house in rejecting the report and It was ordered by the court that
Rangers’ Association. The conven- expenditures have been agreed up-(and banking, today in an inter- a large number of the people fail- jjie inability of the senate to agree the rate of taxes to be levied and
tion opened today to continue on. , view in which he highly commend- ed to hear of their coming. We on the educational bill the govern- collected for the year 1921 be as
through tomorrow, the veterans Among the specific reductions articles on the subject, “Put your trust next time that everyone shall or sajd that he doubted if they follows:
being the guests of Weatherford of taxes the following have been money in th bank. know of it, and share in the pleas- would be able to agree in another For general county purposes a
and the Chamber of Commerce. agreed upon: | The commissioner continued: ure. thirty days. It was obvious that tax °f and at the rate of 25c.
Membership in the association Repeal of the excess profits tax.; “When once the people get their Rev.CoyWallace, assisted by Mr. |ie was nat pieased with the situa- For special road and bridge
has doubled since last year, Secre- retroactive to last Jan. 1, $450,- minds centered on thrift and econ- Teddlie, a singer, will begin a tion, but understood the necessity funding warrant fund 10c.
tary Henry Sackett reported. Ma- 000,000. omy, and away from deflation and meeting for the Christian Church of recalling them to provide for For road and bridge fund, gen-
jor W. M. Green of Comanche, I Repeal of one-half the transpor- destruction, conditions will lm- Saturday, Aug. 20. Everyone is the educational institutions. «ral and special 20c.
president of the association, in his tation tax, effective next Jan. 1, prove; in other words, when the invited to attend. The house late tonight refused For jury purposes 5c.
presidential address declared one $130,000,000. people get right, the country is all Miss Letha Jones is spending a to adopt the free conferenc report For public building and perma-
of the chief purposes of the organ-1 Repeal of the higher income sur- right. few days in Dallas this week. on the educational appropriation nent improvement 5c.
ization should be to bring to the taxes, retroactive to last Jan. 1,' “The banks are the institutions Mrs. Ben L. McCloud was called and thirty minutes later Occupation tax to be one-half of
public a better knowledge of Tex- $90,000,000. around which the whole commer- to Arkansas a few days ago on ac- Speaker Thomas announced that rate levied and collected by the
as history and especially of the! Repeal of the luxury and soda cial and industrial worlds revolve, count of the illness fo her father. the bour for adjournment sine state.
wars which freed west Texas from water taxes, $50,000,000. and every dollar withdrawn from Little George Chambers fell die of tbe speeial session has ar- A poll tax of 25c to be collected
the Indians. Membership is
fined to men who served
gers prior to 1881.
con-
a horse Saturday evening, rivedj the speaker now declares from every citizen in the county
as Ran- extent of $720,000,000, and as an every dollar withheld from depos- breaking both bones in the lower the bouge adjourned.” The vote between the ages of 21 and 60.
. offset to this cut the income tax on it in some good bank, goes that far part of the left arm, one bone on rejection of the report was
This will reduce revenue to the the banks to be hidden away, or from
oop,'
t the income tax on it in some good bank, goes that far part of the left arm, one bone on rejection of the report was 66 School tax as follows: Reagan
corporations will be increased and is instrumental to that extent piercing the skin. At the latest to 58. Valley, 20c; Lou, 20e; Gibtown,
probably 2y2 per cent, retroactive in retarding growth and develop- report he was resting some better, The rejection by the house was 50c; Westbrook, 25c; North Creek,
to last Jan. 1, which will yield ment and makes it just that much but the last few days he had suf- a surprise to the majority of the fiOc; Mtirray, 20c; Oakland, 40c:
$125,000,000. harder for all the people to reap fered greatly. house members as well as the sen- Beans Prairie, 25c; Joplin, 50e;
I All of the new taxes suggested the results of their labor. Mrs. O. P. McKinney of Freder- ate gince the departmental ap- Bolling Valley, 10c; Crooked
The E. L. Douglass Oil Co. has by Secretary Mellon, including a ‘‘Just as soon as the boys ^ and ick, Okla., is visiting relatives pr(>priation bill passes earlier in Creek, 50c; Cundiff, 50c; Sebree,
E. L. Douglass Oil Company Will
Operate Garage.
‘Just as soon as the boys and ick, Okla., is
taken over the garage just across license on 'automobiles, a stamp girls begin to capitalize their labor here. the" day by a good majority, the 50c; Indian Springs, 20c; Keechi,
the street from their place of bus- tax on bank checks and an in- and earn money for themselves. Sam Smith and Luther Hester outward and expressed opinion of ^5c; Stradley,25e; Burton Springs,
mess and will continue to operate crease of 1 cent on letter postage, they should get in touch with some have returned from Denton where tbe legislators was that the house 10c: Antelope, 50c; Wesley Chap-
a garage in the building former- will be abandoned. good bank and start a bank ae- they have been attending the sum- wo[],<l accept the free conference el, 50c; Gertrude, 20e; Roberts
ly occupied by Fitzgerald & Roth.
BURBANK CORN EVOLU-
TION EXHIBIT SHOWN AT
CHICAGO PAGEANT
The reduction in expenditures c0,u„nk
will include $50,000,000 in the War
Department, $100,000,000 in the
Navy Department, $100,000,000 in
the Shipping Board, $25,000,000 in
the Department of Agriculture,
$25,000,000 miscellaneous and $50
Chicago, Aug. 13.—Magicians of 000.000 in the estimated payments
the soil—men whb have added bill- °f $545,000,000 to the railroads. It
ions to the value of America’s ag- is proposed also to refund $170,-
ricultural output-have their hand- 000,000 estimated as neeessarv to
iwork on display at the Chicago retire war savings securities and
Board of Trade exhibit of the Pag- Pittman Act certificates,
cant of Progress exposition, which1 Let us say right now, without
will continue here Until Aug. 14. equivocation, that we will take our
It is the foundation of all mer normal,
self independence; it establishes Several Bryson people attended
confidence and credit, without f-he funeral of Mr. Carr Hunt at
which no man or woman can hope Jermyn, Sunday afternoon.
to do the greatest work in life. -« — »-
“Right here let me refer to an News From Pump Station,
item I read in one of our great Mr. and Mrs. Turpin of Graford
dailies, I think it is 'so concrete visited Mrs. I. L. Grabble Monday,
report on the educational bill.
Picnic Near Gertrude.
Announcement was made this
week that there would he a basket
picnic near the Mason and Camer-
Prairie, 50e; Union Point, 50e:
Cooper, 50c; Post Oak, 50e; Finis.
50c; Green Elm, 35c; Union Ridge,
50c; Winn Hill, 50c; Center Point,
50c: Dameron, 30c; Oak Glen, 30c ;
Mountain Home, 25c; Rocky Point,
10c; Carroll Creek, 25c; Long
that it is
.....- - «, vimwtu i»ii3. a. jj. uiaui/A* n ^ , . Hollow, 50e; Plaster, 50c: Salt
worth repeating. The returning to their home Tuesday. at Gertrude, Friday, Au- (>reeb 35e ; Antioch, 50c; Vine-
yard, 50c; Friendship, 25e; New-
the owners were casting around ing spent a week with the former’s ,, ‘ ... ,
for his successor. It was the nat- - -- -- ------> ^™ Cameron families who
ural thing to consider the next
Monuments wereireeentlyl erect- - ’ 50e .’ [iock Creek; BOe;’ Peach
“rcfbltt rtTSSrran‘d S- = «-e. 20c ;f
head of a department in one of the Mrs. I. L. Grabble and daughter,
large commercial institutions in Maxine, have returned to their
New York had been promoted and home at Henslev Station after hav-
killed k°s ^reek’ ; Pleasant Hill, 50c;
. _ m Graford. --------by the W« in the early day.»of ^ 0ak, 16*; Keyser.S
The Luther Burbank corn evo- fiats off to the Republican majority man t0 as he had been with Sam Hallmark and John Har- tlie • fprp .• pWTlt„ . Sycamore, 50c; Stephens, 20c;
lution exhibit is being shown the if they put that program through them for quite a while. There was aUghty of Jacksboro spent Sunday .fTJ Mr w r KnSh who took Avis’ ** °°*
public for the first time. The evo- in all its details. another man further down the line evening at Ilenslev Station with
lution covers a period of eighteen It probably is not an ideal pro- both men efficient but the first Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Klaus.
years. In 1903 Mr. Bnrbank plant- gram, but there is no such thing as Juan always hard up. regard- Miss Jewell Hallmark has re- f
ed the seed of a wild grass, Teosin- an ideal tax program. Our own 'pss °J tbe 'act that he had been turned home from a visit with her The mail order house never has
te, the only plant which botanists criticism of it would be chiefly on drawing a. handsome salary. The Mrs. J. H. Klaus of Hensley • ~ a bargain—not for you, anyway,
have ever considered an ancestor the score of reducing the available ‘ac^ fi*8 extravagant living had Station. City Garage Changes Hands. If there are bargains occasionally,
.of the present varieties of Indian revenue of the Department of Ag- become known to his employers. J. W. Phulps of Graham visited thousands of employes of the mail
corn or maize. Year after year riculture bv $25,000,000. But if Also, had the thrift and economy Mi*, and Mrs. J. H. Klaus Fndav. Messrs, ritzgerald & R-oth have order, concerns get them, tbev or
he developed the plaat until at the that is necessary in order to put nf iho n'an "** — rrr"““- tbp ...... ” 5
partin routing the murderers, will
tell of the battle, for the benefit of
Trade at Home.
_ _ _ _ _____ _ of the man further down become
end of the eighteenth year he had the whole program over we proha- known. Each man was called into
produced perfect ears of corn. He blv can find means ofjteeping the conference and questioned and in
accomplished in eighteen years by work of the department up to a * . conference each man was ask-
seientrfie plant breeding what it high standard on a smaller appro- pd bp bad a fi&nk account. The
had taken nature, aided in Ainer- priation. . man had none; the second
ica by the crude cultural methods It is gratifying to note that the man produced his bank book,show-
of the Indians, untold centuries to idea of letting things drift in the in^ vcgular, systematic deposits,
attain. matter of the exeess profits tax and he was drawing a much small- Wells.
Every coarse grain and seed and higher surtaxes has been aban- er ,sa^ary- Ffip directors decided Tom Franklin,
grown in America is displayed at donod, and that th repeal of both *fe was fidler man for the Afr.
Mr. and Mrs. Ford spent Tues- purchased the City Garage from their friends. Trade at home,
da*’ on y fishing trip. the Breech-Spivey Motor Compa-
Rchert Cadv lias returned to liy. and have moved their entire
Bowie ofter having spent several equipment and stock from the
davo with Ids brother F. F. Cady Douglass building on Belknap
of Henslev Station.
Mr. and Mrs. F. F. Morris and
itrlron spent Monday in Mineral
and
Elbert Morris,
Mrs. Sewell and little
the exhibit in its various period of of these taxes is to be retroactive P af
evolution. Wheat, eorn, oats, bar- so as to include the current vear. ^or 1 ',e P8®* .vear tfie whole
ley- rye and hay that took high The mere announcement of this in- c'°u.ntry has been facing the most
honors last year at the Interna- tention will have a healthy effect senous condition with which it ev-
tional Grain and Hay Show here upon business. Tt is the kind of nas. fieen confronted. The best
also are shown. announcement that has been need- dnailciers w*e have been bending
Present scientific grain testing, ed from Washington, and that ^|pir efforts to meet it, and I think
grading and marketing are shown, should have been made authoritat- ?r.p dually regaining our
as well as the development of Chi- ively months ago. equilibrium and self control. The
eago from a “ w*agon-load” grain Tt is also gratifying that the now lPC*era' veserve system and the
market to one that now handles eoeriments in taxation are to be guaranty fund system have saved
400,000,000 bushels of cash grain ebnndoned. This is especially tnie sdlialton in Texas. Conditions
in the ease of the proposed tax of eould have been mu<?fi worse than
_ 2 cents on bank cheeks. Warren P.
Andrews, president of the Texas
daughter spent
in Jacksboro.
Tuesday evening
Your own home town merchant
frequently has bargains and tells
you about them through the home
paper. The mail order house that
receives your order doesn’t know
you from Adam and does not care.
The home town merchant knows
you as a neighbor and he cares. Ho
cares enough for you and your
trade that he goes to the trouble
and expense of telling you about
Austin, Texas, Aug, 13.—R. M. fii3 goods and his bargains. He
Hubbard, chairman of the State cares enough to carefully show
Highway Commission, in a state- you his goods. He gives you a
ment given out here said that in- choice among many; if you don’t
vestigation of the records of the like one article he shows you an-
street.
STATE HIGHWAY WORK
PROGRESSING FAST, OVER
2,000 MILES UNDER WAY
each year.
they are.
SOUTH S COTTON CROP
VALUED AT ONE BILLION
ACCORDING TO HESTER
- State Highway Department dis- other until you are pleased.
New Orleans, Aug. 15.—The closes some startling facts rela- Trade at home and you get ser-
South produced a cotton crop dur- tive to the amount of work that is vice, choice quality, and as good
ing the year ending with July, being done under the supervision prices. Trade at home and your
which seed and all. was worth of this department on the desig- money helps your town—which is
more than $1,000,000,000. accord- nated system of State highways. only another word for saying that
ing to the annual statement issu- “During the first seven months you help better your own job.—
State Highway Exchange.
MICKIE SAYS—
*tU' ViMAtS OF Ooa VAO&T
i<soee£$<SFOL wzt
\V4 *fUV<5 WkPfctt e\rt3X V-SOt —
| THEN NttEfttVoE BECtUX XUES
£&£ BEST, AWiO tVAES
A&E TW GESf BECOL ADEN
a,0VE«AtSE\
t th* x +>> + *+ • +• e ed tfip cotton trade by H. G. of this vear the owuc
kES N~0rlpans
Texas Congressmen that this tax and kn°ckers hut we must stand
would be pernicious in its effect lwand fie c°untpd, keep every pos-
upon bank deposits, for it would
sible dollar in circulation and put
penalize the salaried man and our mone>r in some good bank. T
wage worker who use the' banks. mean by ?ood bank- a hank man- w cuu. XJ
I An illustration of what it would a5ed and controlled by good, high tbe e]eVentb month. During July, ed by law to supr
(mean can be had by taking the f a‘!|s usincss men—not gamblers fwe]ftb month, there was a re- volving Federal aid
1-----* - -— * * * and speculators. We know who ----- m
“Tt was a year of tremendous that is now under construction, of
depreciation in values,” said Hes- $4,432,678, or an average of $627,-
ter, “the average value per bale 526 per month. Of this amount an
falling from $174.15 during Au- average of $170,462 per month was
gust of 1920, the first month of the State aid and $457,063 was Feder-
cotton year, to $56.91 during June, al aid. This department is requir-
supervise work in-
as well as all
OWN YOUR OWN FARM
BRINGING OKLAHOMA TO
THE FRONT RAPIDLY
case of a man who has been accus- "j*u wc Know wno COVery to $59.04. The total value State aid work.”
tomed to deposit his salary of $25 *iey arp y "!.| *ak(> tbe lroufilc Gf |be commercial crop of 11.377,- “The average per cent of aid
a week in a bank, and cheeking it! 01I1VP- 1^a p a 1 e- 316 hales was $1,076,380,170. Dur- the work now under construction
out to meet his obligations. If such L T want to see tbp banku»ar fi”s-
a man were to average eight 1Jiesa Put on tbe Hierfi^^t possibD
j checks a week he would be dis-inlane’ tbereby famishing funds
counting his salary at a rate equiv-1 for lpPiflmate enternrises and wor-
jalent to about 33 per cent per an- tby in<livi<l»als at the lowest possi-
num if he paid a tax of 2 cents on fiJp rate of interest and creating a
j every check, or 16 cents a week on maximum volume of business, in-
l$25. The unfairness of such a tax stead of a minimum. The man
Washington, Aug. 14.—That the
“own your own farm” agitation
in Oklahoma has borne fruit since
1910 was shown in the statement
on farm tenancy in the nation giv-
on en out by the census bureau.
There are now 191,987 farms in
ing the preceding year the com- is approximately 35 per cent. Oklahoma, onlv 1,795 more than in
mereial erop, while totaling only Therefore the amount of work that 1910 when it had 190,192. The
12,443.180 bales, vas valued at $2,- has been completed under the di- small gain is accounted for by the
516.544,520.” reel supervision of the State High- fact that many holders of 160-acre
Tn commenting on the fall m way Department during the last tracts sold out to neighbors and
value, Hester says that m the face seven months is $12,550,508. farms were merged,
of such tremendous depreciation “The estimates paid during the The healthy °feature of the re-
in such a brief period, a most re- month of June hrolce all previous port is the increase in the number
evident and that it would tend who produces should he propor]v markable fact looms out that finan- records of the department. The Gf owner-operators of farms and
( nve the «mnll dep'ysitor from fi„„_:_J __ ,_____ y_ \ J Pial institutions of the South have total amount paid out by the State the decrease in tenant operators.
| the hanks there can he little drwM.1*"*"™^ h* ^'wThZ !,rtd "p T*!i* “ P»rt* Higl.waay CommiMion during that At tii'erime of the taking of
j e minortance of the small depos-J,,s1 rpvva,d f°r lus labor. Without ]y accounted for by the futures month was $930,679. CPnt census there were 93 217
jitor in modem banking, and of the, production, we can not hope to get contract hedge system. ~ ‘
growing practice of “paying by anywhere.”
cheek” can not be exaggerated.— | _
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
The average price of middling;
spot cotton in the South during the
season was placed at 16.08 cents a
News pound against 38.2! cents during which
The State Highway (’ommis- farms operated by owners as com-
tiow has under active eon- pared with 86,055 ten years before.
-ion
*truction approximately 2,500 On the other hand the number of
miles of highways, the total cost of farms operated by tenants drop-
amounts to more than $30.- ped from 104.137 in 1910 to 97.385
2£>e
According to the Dallas __________ _ _________
fifteen applicants for appointment the preceding year. For the entire 300,000. These figures are~indeed in 1920 Although there are still
, • , - . . , as postmaster in Dallas are prepar- year the average value of cotton surprising to people who are not 4.000 more tenant farmers than
and a half inches of rain in one day,mg blanks to be sent to Washing, per bale was $82.67 against $174.58 in very close touch with this move- owner farmed the progres” baek
*on' dm ing the preceding yenr. ment. to owner-operation is encouraging.
The Amarillo country got three
%
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