The Rockdale Reporter and Messenger (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 22, 1922 Page: 1 of 8
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the Rockdale reporter
AN'IJ MESSEN(
Established 1873
"Th* Best Newspaper Milam County K>er Had
Korkdal# K»!Mrl«r Established IMS
ROCKDALE. MILAM COUNTY. TEXAS. THURSDAY, JUNE 22. 1922
FLOOD WATER CONTROL
SUBJECT OF DISCUSSION
AT JOINT C. OF C. MEET
BOLL WEEVIL CONTROL
VERY IMPORTANT THIS
YEAR, SAYS HAWORTH
♦ BRYAN ADVERTISING ♦
♦ COMMITTEE S A VINO ♦
♦ MONEY FROM FAKIRS ♦
♦ TEXAS SPENDS *1M OS ♦
♦ >< Il( Mil > \(, VINS1 SOU ♦
♦ TO *»u HY CALIFORNIA ♦
Secretary S. E. Eberstadt, ♦
♦ acting for the Bryan Oham- ♦
+ ber of Commerce Advertising ♦
^ committee, turned down two ♦
+ scholarship schemes Saturday ♦
♦ morning after investigation +
♦ showing the proposition was a ♦
♦ fake. Another man was solicit- ♦
+ ing funds for some charitable ♦
+ organization and had no ere- ♦
♦ dentials was refused an en- ♦
♦ dorsement to operate on the ♦
+ people of Bryan. Another sol- ♦
+ icitor who wanted a large sum +
+ of money to get up a highway ♦
+ booklet and another who desir- ♦
+ ed to get up menu cards at the +
♦ expense of the business inter- ♦
+ ests of Bryan when there +
♦ were no merits in the proposi- ♦
+ tion were turned down. The +
+ action of the committee saved +
+ the over-taxed business men +
+ about $1,000 and also protected +
+ the good name of the town +
♦ All these schemes were prac- +
+ tically worthless and without +
+ warrant and are only a detri- +
♦ ment to legitimate advertising +
+ and to legitimate business.— - +
+ Bryan Daily Eagle. +
♦ Austin, Texas, June 16.— ♦
♦ Texas spends $18 per capita ♦
♦ on grade and high school ♦
♦ pupils, while California ex- ♦
♦ pends from $rm to $tHJ annual* ♦
♦ ly, l)r. 11. T. Musselman of ♦
♦ Dallas, commissioned by Gov- ♦
♦ ernor Neff to study California ♦
♦ schools, reported to Governor ♦
♦ Neff here Friday night. He ♦
♦ declined to make public his tax ♦
♦ recommendations, saying that ♦
♦ taxation suggestions should be ♦
♦ left to Governor Neff. ♦
♦ Dr. Musselman, publisher of ♦
♦ the Texas School Journal, re- ♦
♦ ported that during the three ♦
♦ months in California he travel- ♦
♦ ed more than 3,500 miles and ♦
♦ visited every college in the ♦
♦ state and many high schools. ♦
♦ Texus’ higher institutions of ♦
♦ learning, he reported, compare ♦
♦ favorably with those of Cal- ♦
♦ ifornia. ♦
COUNTY M IDE MEETING TO UK
HEI.D IN CAMERON TOMOR*
ROW NIGHT
GENERAL FARM AGENT FOR K. A.
A A. P. RAILW AY STRONGLY
ADVISES FARMERS
these plans calls for co-operative
marketing of stock through the auc- j
tion sale which means the concentra-
tion of livestock offered for sale at a
market point designated where buy-
ers may come and purchase in quan-
tity or less as desired. By this means J
better prices can be obtained.
Milk production is important. The >
Association will encourage milk pro-
duction by urging the adoption of
purebred herds of dairy cattle on the
farms of the county. All possible as-
sistance will be rendered by the As-
sociation to its members in securing
information about dairying and dairy
cattle and about poultry and live
stock generally.
The Secretary will begin in a short
time to canvas the stockmen and
farmers the county to obtain sta-
tistics showing the number and char-
acter of all livestock and poultry own-
ed by the stockmen. In this way
closer co-operation will be had
among the members and information
of inestimable value will be preserved
in the files of the secretary.
Members of the Association are
asked to communicate all items of
interest about their stock, poultry or
farm, to the secretary to be published
in the weekly bulletin which is mail-
ed out to the members of the Asso-
ciation. This bulletin is published at
present without cost or charge to save
the secretary time in communicating
the doings of the Association to each
member by letter. If the members of
the Association will co-operate with
the secretary and the President and
Board of Directors along these lines
a live wire association can be main-
tained—one that will render some
service to its members.
Getting back to the next regular
meeting of the Association which will
be held in Cameron on the first Mon-
day in July it is especially urged that
a large attendance be had as a pro-
gram will be arranged for the mem-
bers with speaking and interesting
discussion about the affairs of the
Association and plans for the work to
be done in the county. It is expected
the A. & M. College will supply at
least one man for the meeting in Cam-
eron and this with others, including
members of the Association serving on
the program, a great meeting will be
had.
In the meantime it is important that
membership canvass be made in ail
localities to secure a large member-
ship for the Association that county
wide activities may result from the
organization of this Association.
J. B. WHITE, Secretary.
7Livestock and
*d 7, meet in Cameron on
ion v,“.. for the first regular
* ?‘ U Association following
of Rock'
»“®,f "L, th« membership
*! - the various districts
^ repo* a successful
and ranchmen
L. who will become members
“Location to promote the in-
7o livestock industry of the
Membership fee has been placed
year and is easily w"*‘"
Z all The object of the As-
it, ijurely one which will en-
„ the raisins of purebred live-
nniiltrv on the farms of Ml
The foik wing appeal has been sent
out from the Cnmeron Commercial;
Club, which The Reporter is pleased
to give space;
President Robert Me Lane has an-
nounced that the regular meeting of
the Cameron Commercial Club for
Friday, June 23rd, will be devoted to a
program for Brazos River Reclama-
tion Association. This Association was
recently organized at Bryan by cit-
izens of the counties covered by water
shed of the Brazos river and its tribu-
taries for the purpose of promoting
a movement for control of floods such
as wrought such devastation as those
oecuring m May of this year. It is
proposed to inaugurate a scheme of
flood control whereby in addition to
special levee work the floods waters
of 'the Brazos and its tributaries will
be impounded and held in a system
of reservoirs in which the water will
be stored and gradually discharged
therefrom Without overflow.
The Federal reclamation service has
demonstrated the feasibility of this
plan and our own state reclamation
and water engineering board have
made inquiry into the Texas river
floods for the purpose of controlling
our river floods.
Little river is the largest tributary
of the Brazos and its system drains
a territory of seven thousand square
miles embracing the counties of Mi-
lam, Williamson, Bell, Lampasas,
Coryell, Hamilton, Eastland and
Comanche. It is estimated that loss
es from the flo-d3 of Septemoer
1021 and May 1°22, in this area womd
be sufficient to pay for a
which would prevent a
such calamities.
O. C, Haworth, Farm Agent for the
S. A. & A. P. Railway, was in Rock-
dale Tuesday on one of his regular
trips in the interest of the farm in-
tervals of the counties contiguous to
his line. Mr. Haworth is advis-
ing the farmers to fight the boll w«**
vil, make the best of their cotton crop
this year, und reap the benefits of
what he conceives to be a cqtmng short
crop. Mr. Haworth has issued the fol-
lowing address to farmers:
Do you know that the nupply of
cotton in this country is the lowest
that it has been for a long time and
that indications point to the greatest
demand that we have hud for several
years also that there is a probability
of a short crop this year? You know
what that means so I want to put the
following question right square up to
farmer in this community:
| farmers ami stockmen m .he
tv bankers, business men, and
l who desire to see livestock on
arms and ranches of the county
become members of the Asso-
,n by mailing name to J. B-
e secretary and treasurer, Cam-
Texas, enclosing $1 for (lues*
ipt with membership card will be
4 nut immediately on receipt of
j every
What arc you doing to protect your
! cotton against weevil. Are you waiting
J for the Lord to do everything for you
or are you doing everything you can
, to help Him produce your crop? I was
BRYAN ALTO ACCIDENT
FATAL TO MRS. HOITKS
talking with some farmers a few days
ago, whose cotton was badly infested
but when 1 asked them what they were
doing to fight the weevil they said,
"Nothing, we can’t do anything, what
is the use of trying, besides we want
the weevil, if it wasn't for the weevil
there would be so much cotton we
couldn’t get any thing for it." Now
friends haven’t you invested your
money in the seed you plant, your
labor in preparing the land, planting
the seed and cultivating the crop?
Don’t you think that it is worth while
to make an effort to save what you
have invested? Suppose there is an
overproduction and cotton is cheap,
wouldn’t it be better to save what you
have, hold it over, plant something
else next year, than to lose what you
have and then try to make a new
crop? Have you any assurance that
you will make a crop next yeMr?
It hits been demonstrated beyond
question that weevil infestation can
be controlled. Many different methnls
have given good results but under this
existing circumstances I am going lt»
mention two. I am mentioning them
because they are the easiest anti
cheapest and everyone can use them
if they will.
1st. Constant cultivation, specially
if the weather is dry and hot. In cul-
tivating some wevils and punctured
squares are knocked off, this number
can be increased by fastening some-
thing to the cultivator that will drag
or whip the stalk.
2nd. Boll weevil catchers of va-
rious types have been used with ex-
cellent results. These catchers coat
but very little and do not require extra
labor as th^y are attached to the cul-
tivator and used while cultivating.
Last week in a demonstration at
Nordheim four rows across a small
field were selected. Four men examin-
ed these rows carefully without find-
ing a single weevil or punctured
square but when the Catcher was run
over the rows 14 weevils and two
punctured squares were found in the
pan.
I don't care what method you use
but I do feel that it is well worth
while for every farmer to do every-
thing that he can to fight this pest.
It is true that the past two or three
FOURTH JULY CELEBRATION
IS SPONSORED BY LEGION
An “All Milam County Fourth of
July Celebration,’’ under the auspices
of the several American Legion Posts
of the county, and with the co-opera-
tion of the several Chambers of Com-
merce of the county, is being planned
and promoted bv the Rockdale Post,
American Legion.
The plans contemplate the holding
of a general county-wide basket pic-
nic and get-together meeting. Rock-
dale’s beautiful Fair Park will be the
scene of the gathering, and all county
candidates are invited and will be
given opportunity to make their an-
nouncements. Speakers of state-wide
reputation have also been invited, and
it is certain that one or more will ac-
cept the invitation.
In the afternoon at 4:00 o’clock
there will be a baseball game between
the American Legion teams of Cam-
eron and Rockdale, while other amuse-
ment and refreshment features will
no doubt be provided.
The American Legion post at Cam-
eron is coming over in a body and will
bring a large crowd from the county
seat. On the same evening the Cam-
eron Post will give a big dance at
Cameron, where the day’s festivities
will be brought to an enjoyable close.
may function in as large sense as
ible by getting a representative
bership from all sections of the
ty. The Association is not one
|i belongs to any particular
jty but is county wide in its scope
mbraces every phase of the live-
[ industry in the county,
jrticular stress is laid upon the
Stance of chicken raising in the
by. Poultry in recent years has
Ine one of the chief sources of
iue from all well balanced and
lated farms. In Milam county at
enters of trade in all sections
lands of dollars are paid out each
for chickens and eggs. The object
b Association will be to encourage
deeding of purebred chickens on
brm****stock built up by the best
png methods in America both as
were of eggs and for shipment to
beat markets of the country,
lam county is noted for its fine
No greater or more profitable
p can be made on the farm than
lise purebred hogs. The Milam
by Livestock and Poultry Asso-
p is committed to the policy of
[raging better and more hogs on
krnis and ranches of the county,
[keys marketed in the fall of the
jin Milam county has converted
system !
recurrence of
The plans are prac-
ticable and it only requires the earn-
est and hearty co-operation of the
people of these counties to solve the
problem. The flood damage is not |
confined to the direct losses on lands
overflowed but indirectly the whole
population is the sufferer. It is prob-
able that a special session of the Leg-
islature will be convened in August
and the Association wishes to have
the necessary legislation ready for
consideration at that time or if a spec-
ial session should not be held then for
the regular session next January.
President McLane has invited the
following representatives of the move-
ment to make short addresses at the
meeting of the Commercial Club on
the 23rd of June for the purpose of'
educating and informing the people of |
Milam county on this important sub-
ject:
A. I). Jackson, Secretary Brazos
River Reclamation Association.
C. E. Ellsworth, U. S. Geological
Survey.
B. Bunnemeyer, U. S. Weather
Bureau Service.
A. H. Dunlap, of the State Board of;
Water Engineers.
Arthur Stiles, State Reclamation
Engineer.
Hon. Luther A. Johnson. Corsicana.
Texas.
Hon. Lee J. Rountree, member of
the Legislature, Bryan, Texas.
This is in no respect a local Cam-
iron movement, but is meant to be a
gathering of citizens from all over!
Milam county who are interested in I
he flood situation. Little river,!
Gabriel, Brushy, Alligator, Elm and j
Pond creeks are all deeply concerned, j
A general invitation is extended to
everybody and a special invitation has j
been extended to Chambers of Com-
merce of Rockdale, Thorndale and Mi- I
lano to hold a joint meeting with Cam- ;
eron Commercial Club. The meet-1
ing is intended to be first, an educa- j
tional gathering to hear experts on ,
flood control; and second, to effect a
business organization for the purpose
of helping along this great movement.
names may ^ --------- _ , --.-
ry, Mr. Wyatt, at the C of C. o w j ()J} MEVS ASSOCIATION
in city hall building. The MEETS CAMERON TONIGHT
ship fee is 50c per month. _
If you are interested in Rockdale,j yhe regUiarjy monthly membership
no matter how slight the interest, you Im.„ting of tl7 Milam County Oil
are cordially invited to identify >°ur \jon’g Association will be held in Cam-
self with the city’s civic body, am ..r,,n this (Thursday) night, at eight
Mr. White asks that, if he fails to see _d ^ Th<i meetjnfr wilI bf. held on
you, please do not hesitate to sei him ^ courthouse lawn. There will be
and hand in your membership fee. peaking by prominent oi] and busi- J
” 77 777- tu*. tnn ! ness men, with music by the Cameron j
YOU can’t w„h yourself to the top Ban(J Rl.frCThmcnb wi„ be
of the ladder of success, jou - a served. All interested in the develop- :
climb there. The more time you spend Milam county oil fields
wishing, the less time you will b»«, cordi„|y ,nrited.
for climbing.
HOOD’S TEXAS BRIGADE
REUNION PLANS UNDER
WAY AT BRYAN, NEXT WEEK
HON. CULLEN F. THOMAS
TO SPEAK HERE JUNE 30
BOYS BAND IS HEARD IN
FIRST OPEN AIR CONCERT
fowls. All of the great meat
its of the world pay good prices
ikeys and with their meat value
I for local as well as outside
Oiption direct markets have been
red in aii sections of the coun-
I that the farmer with a small
“f time and practically no ex-
can have a herd of fat turkeys
[for the market in the fall and
F helP to lessen the burden of
m and pave the way for real
P°n the farm.
Me very beginning all mem-
P the Association as well as the
C JUbllc must Ret the spirit of
P on. Milam, county has need
P organization. While the county
L7ond cott°n countv of the
The first public concert of the sea-
son by the Rockdale Boys Band, under
the leadership of Dr. C. E. Wisecup,
was given on Fountain Square last
Friday evening at eight o’clock. There
were twenty-one instruments on duty,
and a splendid program was rendered.
The boys show up well, and their work
indicates the zeal and ability of their
instructor.
The concert was heard by several
hundred people. Automobiles were
parked in several solid layers on all
four sides of the square, and the au-
dience was generous with its applause.
We are requested to say that these
open air croncerts will be given about
every two weeks. Another request is
that parties in automobiles, desiring
to leave the concert, will please do so
during an intermission, as to move a
car while a piece is being played dis-
turbs both musicians and listeners.
Dr. Wisecup desires to enlist as a
member of the band a big husky boy
who intends to make Rockdale his
home and who will take up the big
“bb” bass horn. Instrument and in-
struction furnished free. Anyone in-
terested will please see Dr. Wisecup
at his office over Rockdale State
Bank.
Watch for date of next concert and
give the band your encouragement and
support.
MEMBERSHIP IS SOLICITED
IN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
! years have been very dlNCOUraging blit
laying down on the job will not help
uk any. Let um follow the example of
j the old hen when the worms are
scarce, SCRATCH A LITTLE HARD-
I ER.
Yours for a better cotton crop,
O. C. HAWORTH,
Farm Agent, S. A. & A. P. Ry.
SCHOOL TRANSFERS MUST
BB FILED BEFORE AUGUST I
On behalf of the Rockdale School
Board The Reporter is requested to
announce that all applications for
transfers from one district to anoth-
er must be made in regular form on
the proper blanks supplied for the
purpose, and these applications, to be
HON. It. L. HENRY TO SPEAK
AT CAMERON SATURDAY, 24
The Reporter is requested to an-
nounce that Hon. R. L. Henry, of Wa-
co, candidate for United States Sena-
tor, will speak at Cameron on Satur-
A California girl advertises she
wishes to marry a man who eats with
his knife, and an Arkansas reader
writes asking what’s the joke. “Don’t
all men eat that way?’’ he asks.—
California Exchange.
Reporter ads get .he grapes,
There never yet was a winner who
didn’t know how to take a wallop!
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Cooke, John Esten. The Rockdale Reporter and Messenger (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 22, 1922, newspaper, June 22, 1922; Rockdale, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth742135/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lucy Hill Patterson Memorial Library.