The Llano News. (Llano, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 31, 1929 Page: 2 of 8
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THE LLANO NEWS, LLANO, TEX.'5, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, :'2f
News From the Granite Section of the Southwest
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This Page is Devoted to the Granite Industry of Llancv^The Superior Stone of America
growing.
YOU CAN MAKE MONEY ON
CASSADAY
GREY GRANITE
The peer of any grey granite in
America
Specialize on this lively, fine grained
granite for your best work.
Ask us for any information in regard
to same
Produced Solely By
Cassaday Grey Granite Co., Inc.
(Quarriers only.)
LLANO, TEXAS
MEMBER LLANO CHAMBER OR COMMERCE
LLANO QUARRIERS ASSOCIATION
PANGEIOEN 3-16 inch Sand
Bluet Nozzles, each 09
P. D. Q 1 Gallon $7.00
P. D. Q. V2 Gallon $4.00
*>. D. Q. 1 Quart *2.£0
T. 0. B. LLANO
MAIL ORDERS
Filled Promptly
G. A. HALL
P. 0. Box 148, Phone 241)
Llano, Texas
TEXAS AND TEXANS
are nearly a million Texas farmers
I Produce Pfante jwbo might learn some profitable Jes-
I A few years ago most of the pro- sons from those Smith county boys,
jduce raised by the farmers of Texas! Highway Crops Duties
| was sold to their local merchants,! Motorcycles of the State Highway
who made the buying of farm pro-! patrolmen, of whom there will be
ducts a side line to merchandising as .fifty, will carry first aid emergency
a method of collecting debts. There j kits to be available for automabile
were few "produce merchants” who accidents on State highways. The
followed buying farm products, other corps of patrolmen will probably be
than a few staple c/js, as a business, ready about the first of the year to
Now, almost every town has several start on their duties of making the
firms engaged in competitive buying highways of Texas safer for travel,
and selling of farm produce and these 1A school of instruction for the men
firms are having to enlarge their |wfl) be held before they begin their
plants to handle their growing busi-^ork.
. ness. Kenedy is one of the small cities (jranjte Demand
where a plant is being enlarged to ; >j>be pink granite company operat-
handle the turkey and poultry busi- lDg at Marble Falls is reported to
ness that is expected this fall. When bave $250,000 in unfilled orders, with
completed, it will be one the larg- orders un(j inquiries coming in every
est produce houses in that section of d&y q>wo shifts keep the plant run-
the state. ning day and night. New machinery
Band to Tour Europe can't be installed fast enough to keep
The Simmons University Cowboy up wjth the orders, immense sheds
Band of Abilene, has arranged to are being added to the plant and
make a tour next summer covering more will be built soon, Industries
a great part of Europe. Nearly 300 nkes this are helping much to make
Texans will accompany this band, “times good” in Texas,
the purpose being both to see Europe j Uano P|ant Enlarges
and to advertise Texas. This Marble Falls is not the only town
he a great educational trip foTWse ,D ,he grunite settion of Texas. Bur-
who go and for the counties visited. Det am, Llan0 are in triendly rivalry
The good that will be accomplished wjtjj tbe co]orad0 river town. Just re-
will depend largely on the personnel cenl|y a granite quarry company at
of the party, which should be, and Llano completed the constn tion of
doubtless will be composed of Texans a 8teej aluj concrete working-shed,
who will reflect credit on the State, -0x3gb feet jn sj^e. This company
In Texas the tour will result in much elnploys about 100 workmen and is
favorable publicity for Simmons Uni- (,Qe ()f tbusjest concerns in Texas,
versity. Carrizo Springe Builds
American Legion Band Carrizo Springs is building an $80,-
O. I,. Bodenliamer, whose home at buo school building and has let
present is at Eldorado, Arkansas, but a contract for street paving for a large
who is a Texas young man has been part Gf tbe iown. About 1,500,000
honoipd by being elected national strawberry plants have been set out
commander of the American Legion. lbjg tuu |n the surrounding section.
Major Bodenliamer was born in Mills Tbe town is in the heart of the "Win-
county and educated in the public ter Garden’’ district and is steadily
of Brownwood, at Howard building into one of the important
Candidates Plentiful
Already the woods and fields are
I thick with candidates for office, al-
though the election is more then a
year off, and already the candidates gchooIs
are learning that the voters are de- Payne college, and at Baylor Uni- irrigation centers of Texas,
manding to know the things for versity. Before going to Arkansas, he
wbkb they stand. Platitudinous pro- t}llIgb, In Texas schools, one position
mises are not going to satisfy Texans ,,eing with the State Teachers Col-
SPECIFY
PREMIER BLUE
“The South’s Finest Grey Granite”
For Everlasting Memorials
The Best Granite For
P0USHING, AXING, R0CKFACE
1
Few Granites Equal It, None Surpass
It For Sandblast Carving
WHAT TEXAS MAKES, MAKES TEXAS
PREMIER GRANITE QUARRIES, INO.
QUARRIERS ONLY
LLANO, - TEXAS
next year—they are going to insist ]ege at San Marcos. He is 39 and is
McAllen—City to vote on bond issue
for purchasing and improving site for
airport.
Brownfield—George pool yields six-
good producers with the completion of
Davis No. 5.
Spearman— Forty room tire-ressis-
tant hotel to be erected here at ap-
proximate cost of $125,000.
Hosenb'irg — Local streets being
graveled.
That Paris Creamery
The chances are that the $150,000
creamery and poultry plant be;ng con-
, ...... structed at Paris is going to reduce
M,r,DnT Z . ,hT unmarried. His mother lives in Brown- cm) colton growing very
wh.ch candidates w1.1 do. Pnnoples wood, which he still .Mis home and noUceably. Everywhere a plant of that
are going to outweigh, Personal,,,es where he will deliver an Armistice kjm, bu|U> farnjers 80on begfD t0
unless all the early signs are wrong. Day address. Nov. 11. This is the the)r crops Rnd use tht land
The hand waving orator with a hog- „econd tlme The American Legion feed crops for cows, chickens and
;'a :rc VO ^ Wil1 nnd h ”8e,f unf1'« ha* elected a Texan as its national The „laek laml sbcticns of Tex.
to sway the masses with oratorical commander \lvin Owsley of Denton ..... ,
fommanuer, ^ as, once so tamed tor cotton proouc-
hypm-tism. The people will want de - an(1 Dallas, having served in that posi- flre ,,js, becoming equally as welI
finite promises, and especially from tion wHh much credit. jknmvn as dairy centers.
!those entrusted with making the laws Rio Grande valley Resources , Gas Comeg H( h
,acd spending the tax monies. There vn.in.winir a snrvev of the resources 8
I. ,, .. , ... roliowtng a suivey or me resources ]t mlIgt cost a great dea! to get
is a general feeling that the admims- n„ssji,ilities of the Rio Grande .
i . . . _ anu possiminits oi mi on , gas into Waco and surrounding towns,
tration of government in Texas, from valley, the Interior Department says ; company operating there has
the highest State offices down to the that wi,h irrigation and proper cult!-' n 8eIljnK wa8 at y() centB a 1>000
lowest precinct offices, is costing en- vation, lhe rich valley would give a ' f^, under iitigation on the
rely too much, and a harder eftort comfortable living to 2,000,000 people.) Qf (he lhat has iasted tor
.ban ever before will be made to se- There a,.e 560,095 acres on this "^fourteen months.
cure men in office who will heip to
curb official greed
ment.
Shcrt Cotton Crops
ort cotton crop in mi
of the Slate is causing people
of the river that have been convert-
the company now
, offers to make a net rate of 67 1-2
and mismanage- ed “,n(0 continuous market gardens (cepts (-ag „t the we)ls in Texag ig
interspersed with orange and grape- (se)]jng at from 6 to 10 cents and
, growing orchards. There are Hj the differences is said to chargeable
The short cot on crop in many parts separate irrigation enterprises now (o pip(^ an(] operating expeDses.
| operating, having a total valuation of j Sheep and Goats
practice^ the uirnost economy, and about $20,000,000. This is a very small j Tha( gectJon of Xexag kDOWn a8
wln.e .ms will he hard on them for pa), cf )be area Gf good lands in Tex-
the time it will eventually be a bless- as
ing. Diversification has been more | Smith County Farm Boys
preached than practiced in Texas un-j At tlle Snli,h county fairi 35
ti] very recefltJy. Thp tyrmers hfiV61 ,># ♦ lfnuntv ptifpred 3 contest for
nr tne county entered a contest ior Jn rvjl(ie county, there was an in-
best vielj^ of corn in the c°un-, creage iast year of 36 ,ier cent in ibe
the "Hill Country,” with Kerrville
j as about the center, reports a large
j increase in the number of sheep and
^'fl-vs j goats over the previous tax rendition
learned at last that it does not pay tbe befd viel>e of corn in the
to do cotton farming to the exclusion ^---*—* ---->—,— ----- I
FOR QUICK SHIPMENT, F. O. B. LLANO.
PEERLESS EXTRA STEEL
4 Points Z2 inch stock, /2 inch s^ank, each 27c
9 Points Z2 inch stock, Zl inch shank, each 27c
4 Points,^ inch stock, Zl inch shank, each 33c
9 Points Vs inch stock Z2 inch shank, each 33c
4 Points Yg inch stock Y% inch shank, each 33c
9 Points Ys inch stock Y% inch shank, each 33c
4 Points Z% inch stock, 11-16 inch shank,
each -------------------------------- 45c.
9 Points % inch stock, 11-16 inch shank,
each -------------------------------------------------- 45c.
4 Points Jr. Surfacer, I *4 inch shank,
each---------------------------------------... $L60
4 Points Large Surfacer I Zl inch shank
each---------------------------------------------$2.25
MAILORDERS APPRECIATED
G. A. HALL
BOX 148, LLANO, TEXAS
ECONOMY
TWMS ■
ty. The highest production whs .'1 i nun her of sheen The coflt increflse
of other Interests. The farmer with 1.4 bushels an acre on an uDland tarn I ! 'neeP* IDe ^ Jncrease
a small herd of dairy eattie. a few I ^ Zr I “ of .11^ ^ ^ "
sheep or goats, some hogs and ehick-1 ^ bushels aga ns the average view ”^ T ““ T"" S°&t»
|er,. .ho grows his own fruits and ; J ™^
jvepetables ht s no cause to complain j jd bushels. The average cost of pro- j __„_
ot bard times. He is prospering and dllct(on was about 39c on the winning
•• ^peiiai.y when he grows a variety C|-op. with corn selling at $1.25 a
of cn>ps, even though he may at times bllHhei it fs easy to see that cornihens ,, oft 4linlv to
fail \o make a profit from c-ottoD growjng was highly profitable. There 6-2tc rORE
FOR SALE—Narragansett turkeys.
Big bone and healthy. Toms, $6.00;
rOREST SMOTHERS
At Your Service—
UNIVERSAL GRANITE COMPANY
GRAY, BOWNDS, & TEMPLETON, Props.
GIVE US A TRIAL!
PLACE YOUR ORDERS WITH
Smith Bros. Granite Works
WHOLESALE GRANITE MANUFACTURERS
LLANO, TEXAS
"WHERE YOU GET THE BEST SERVICE ON TEXAS GRANITE"
MEMBER LLANO CHAMBMI OF COl
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The Llano News. (Llano, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 31, 1929, newspaper, October 31, 1929; Llano, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth766320/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Llano County Public Library.