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The Llano News.
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LLANO, LLANO COUNTY. TEXAS. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 24, 1929.
NUMBER 6
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county Aden's Report fon
THE hiONTH OP SEPTEMBER
LLANO MAN MARRIES
LARGE MAJORITY REGISTERED
AGAINST SCHOOL LAND SALE
On Tuesday. October 22, Mr. O. K.
Complete returns with the excop- j Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. S. S.
County Agent, H. C. Robinson, re- complete returns w«n me excop-: smith, son ot Mr. ana Mrs. s. S. i tomorrow irriuayi aigm is me
ports that the following covers uctivl- tion of the Lone Grove box. which has ! Smith was united in marriage to Miss time for the beneftt bridge and forty-
ties of his work as county agent in not reported, the result of Saturday’s Elizabeth Painter of Waxahuehlc. I two party at the Granite City hotel,
the county during September: 'election on the sale of school lunds The groom was one of Llano’s most ! and the ladies in charge are making
popular young men. He left here1 preparations to entertain a layge.-
several years ago for Waxaliachle to ! crowd. ■
REMEMBER THE BRIDGE AND j REMEMBER NEXT MONDAY, NO-, LLANO COUNTY WOLF CLUB
“42” PARTY TOMORROW NIGHT jvEMBER 4, WILL BE TRAOES DAY j ORGANIZED LAST SATURDAY,
Tomorrow (Friday) night is the Another
Twenty-two days have been spent j was 572 against and 104 for the sale.
The vote over the county was un-
in the Held and three in the office dur
lag the month. Forty-eight office con-
sultations have been held, thirty tele-
phone calls answered nineteen let-
ter? written and fifty-four farm or
ranch visits made to thirty-nine dif-
ferent places in working with those
who desired assistance with some
phase of their work. Fifteen demon-
strations have been conducted during
the month and seven meetings held,
attended by twenty-eight persons.
Travel In the county by automobile
totaled nine hundred and forty-two
miles during September.
Work with poultry including both
chickens und turkeys consumed a
targe part of the agents time. Dem-
onstrations on the administration of
Vermidine to turkeys for the control
of tapeworm infestation were held at
the places of Ray Adams, Chas. Gren-
welge. Henry Harwell, Nolan Fleming
and Walter Finlay. From the amount
of this medicine sold it is conserva-
tively estimated that 6,000 turkeys
have been so treated this summer
and fall. 41 turkeys have been treat-
ed this month with an experimental
capsule reported last month put out
by Parke Davis & Company in the
flocks of Logun Templeton. J. M.
Kaufman Jess Johnson. H. D. Nixon,
John Ratliff. Von Simpson, Marion
Sessom and L. C. Harlow. Tills work
4 *«•- ci i c i CUV vwwmc; • o ?* a.wuai HID in
usually light, as hardly one half of accept a position with a drug firm,
i.nllnn ,t«nnfl,4h uro , ooominloil fftF A. . 1 1 , U.. K.. I _ LI _
l»‘* (al1 tra,1‘‘!' dav «»! Some sixty men Including delegates
scheduled for Llano on next Monday, from San Saba, Burnet and Masoa
November fourth, and the committee, counties met In the Court House her«
the voting strength was accounted for
In the returns. The vote by boxes
over the county was as follows:
Precinct F A
Llano ............... 52 221
Castell .................... 17 10
Bluffton 9 4
Tow Valley . 1 10
Lone Grove (No return?i.
Duncan 0 13
Sandy ML ---------- 1 3
Click . ................ 0 13
Lehmberg 7 10
Field Creek ........... 0 37
Valley Spring ... 0 71
Oxford .................. --•• 0 10
Prairie Mt........................... 1 12
Baby Head 9 24
Long Mt........................0 12
New Hope 1 21
Gainesville ................ 0 21
Six Mile ................. 1 26
Klngsland 2 37
Total 105 573
AMERICAN LEGION WILL HAVE
TAG SALE FIRST OF NOVEMBER
Beginlnirig on Friday tnornittg, Nov.
first and continuing through Armis-
tice Day. November eleventh, the
local post of the American Legion will
sessnui iiuu u. v,. *—•----- ----- hold a benefit tag sale. The tags will
reported last month, brings the total nQt be oftered f0r saie at any speci-
to 695 turkeys in the flocks of the fle(J price (nit will be sold for any
above named, and Raymond 3 read- j aal0ullt wj,ich the purchaser wishes
well Richard Rubb, A. D. Hamilton | t0 pav rplle tags wnt be sold by ten
and Geo. Hickman ranging in a*e i high school girls, whose names will
from four weeks to five months and j appear in next week’s issue of this
in weight from one to ten pounds, paper There is a prize offered for
that have been treated witii this med-j^ gi..j making the largest number
later going in the drug business him-
self with Tom Boyd, and those famil-
iar with business conditions in that
city, state that these young men have
one of the best drug stores there.
O. K. has a host of friends in Llano
whom he made through his pleasing
personality and who will extend to
him the best, of wishes.
While the bride is a Waxahachie
voting lady, and is not well known In
Llano, yet she is among the charming
and accomplished young ladies of her
city, and Mr. Smith is to be congrat-
ulated on winning the heart of this
fair young woman.
They will make their home in Wax-
aliarhie.
They arrived In Llano yesterday
and will be here for a few days visit-
ing in the home of his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Smith, and with
other relatives and friends.
LLANO YOUNG PEOPLE HURT
IN CAR WRECK LAST WEEK
While enroute to Fort Worth last
Friday night, Melvin MUliger, Brown
Kendrick and Mis? Mary Lee Chesnut
had a narrow escape, when their car
met with a head-on collision with
another car driven without tights
near Comanche.
The accident occurred on a steep
encline. wheu the Llano cur was
throwing its lights above the ap-
Music will he furnished by the
Llano Municipal band, all ok which
the ladies fully appreciate, ag well us
Mr. Smith's generous donation in let-
ting them have the use of the hotel
absolutely free.
Remember every dollar derived is
to go into the fund for the erection of
the memorial in Llano to the memory
of the Llano county boys who lost
their lives in the World War.
Members of the Shakespeure Club
have v, orked hard and faithfully se-
curing funds for this memorial, and
now with a little more money to pay
for the granite base, and the memor-
ial will be erected on the court house
square, there to stand for untold
years as a mark of appreciation from
Llano county people to those boys
who gave their lives thut our land
might ever remain free.
Do your full part, enjoy the party
and assist thi? most worthy enterprise
LLANO COUNTY CLUB BOY AT-
TENDS BOYS’ ENCAMPMENT
Walter Kaasell of Castell has re
turned from Dallas where he attended
the Boys' (flub Encampment at the
Texas State Fair, us the official Llano
County representative.
This encampment is an annual one
sponsored by the State Fulr manage-
ment in which they entertain some
four hundred Texas Club boys who
have completed some outstanding
proaching auto, and as it was run- work in their respective counties. As
nias without lights, could not be seen guests of the Fair, these boys are pro-
until It was too late. vlded with lodging and meals at a
committee,
composed of H. C. Buttery. J. P. Mon-
eyhon and P. L. Barker is now hard
at work on the various details.
By that time practically all of the
street work will be completed in this
town, when all streets should be op-
en to the traffic.
The committee will have important
announcements next week in this pa-
per and It will do well for all parties
to read this page ad. because it will
carry, inch nz prices for the eco-
nomical i , er, as well as other feat-
ures that will be quite appealing to
the people.
Llano merchants are going to en-
deavor to make this the best event
thut has been staged here so fag this
year, therefore tile committee will
have something out of the ordinary to
offer the trade in the next issue of
this paper.
Keep yourself posted on the com-
ing trades day on the first Monday
in November, the fourth day of the
month.
icine for the control of tapeworms.
All of the above men report that they , turniug
are well pleased a3 shown by the im-
proved condition of their turkeys
treated, and fourteen turkeys known
to have been infested with these
worms that were afterward killed and
examined proved to be entirely free
of them. This work is to be continu-
ed with more capsules being made
for use here, and each test will he
carefully checked to determine Its ef-
fectiveness in flock treatment.
of sates and also oue for the girl
in the greatest amount of
money. Any girl above tlie seventh
grade is wanted to enter the contest.
Those desiring to enter can see E.
E. Martin, the adjutant for the local
post, where they can secure a quota
of tickets. E. E. MARTIN,
Post Adjutant.
All three of the occupants of the
Llano car were hurt to some extent,
but fortunately, nothing serious was
sustained by any of them. The car
was badly demolished.
Parties driving the blind car, quit
it immediately after the wreck and
took to the woods,, consequently were
not identified by the Llano people.
FINDS THAT SUMMER FEEDING
OF HIS TURKEYS PAYS BIG
large dormitory built for this purpose
and extended many privileges.
During their stay at the camp, the
boys inspect and study the different
livestock and crop exhibits and es-
pecially the Club exhibits shown by
different members from over the
State.
APP SMITH HURT WHEN HORSE
RAN AWAY WITH HIM TUESOAV
App Smith wus seriously hurt on Ills
ranch Tuesday morning, when a polo
poney ran away with him. in his ef-
fort to check the horse, he lost one
of the bridle reins, and in reuchlu
down for it, lost bis balance and fell
In a pile of rock, cutting a bad gash in
his bead and also in one of his legs.
He was brought to Dr. Gray’s office
immediately, where it was necessary
to take several stitches.
Lutest reports coming from his
home are to the effect that lie Is do-
ing nicely and will be able to be out
again in a short while
LLANO AND MASON FOOTBALL
TEAMS PLAYED A TIE FRIOAY
LLANO MAN TO MARRY SOON
J. D. McNeil of Brownwood was
Llano the first of the week, visiting
ctiveness in flock treatment. fn the home of his brother-in-law, H.
Diseases among turkeys have a so ,^ Buttery and family, and transact-
been bad in places and assistants | i,usj,iess. He reports conditions
ha? been rendered M. C. Behrns. Otto | generaUy good orer hls territory, but
Birk. Robert Wendel, Alvin Leifeste. g there are certain sections that
Henry Smith Mrs. Chas. Moore, I ramt , g W Ould hardly recognize this as
Smith and R. L. Adams in disease and (rom the standpoint of business
pest control. j .merchants are doing.
Chicken culling demonstrations j___________
have been held at the places of Miss , ^^ good cultural method? be was
Zella Moss. Floyd Nixon,, Aaron. Je to haryegt u0 bushels of corn ___________ _
Rothe. L. H. Baldwin and Herttt ” j from hi- land. The corn was plant-j summer feeding of turkeys pays big J -
Crenwelge. Over fifty per cent of a ^ df>ep paudy laad t!lat had been j hi developing the birds: eliminating! The woman’s Auxiliary will meet
total of 450 birds in these flocks nave broken,jn the winter aad bedded and j crooked breast and insuring fat birds Friday afternoon. Oct. 25. with Mr.-,
been culled out and the, flocks placed j rebedded in preparation for planting j for the Thanksgiving market. My ! Walter Todd at four o’clock for the
on a correct egg laying mash. * j 160 pounds' of 12-:M fertilizer was up- , turkeys always have as much mash fourth Friday social meeting.
Visits-were, njade*the poultry dem-,| each -acre' ns the Corn was plant- feed composed of yellow corn meal,
onsiratton flocks of H. D. Nixon.-, crop’ was ' harrowed while j white wheat shorts and cotton seed
Lawrence Leverett, Rudolph Sc,h°' ! smtill and cultivated shallow . three j meal a3 they will eat and a liberal al-
lemmer Richard Fishlieck and F^fyest ,j According to recdrds kept on ; lowance of yellow corn for grain |
The yellow-Jackets met ami tied th-
football team of Mason lust Friday at
ternoon ut Mason. 0-0. The yellow-
jackets, however did not play the
game they were capable of playing
The following announcement is talc- and the Mason school showed a bet-
en from the society columns of I he ter team than bad been presumed,
Baltimore News of recent dute: J Tli4se two factors account partially
"Announcement has been made of, for the scoreless tie.
the engagement of Miss Nellie Mitch-1 This next week will find the yellow-
Hugo Oestreich of the Castell com-
munity reports that by summer feed-
ing he has been able to get his flock llte engagement m .««» Home »>».->•-1 ...... ..... .......
of 13 turkeys to an average weight of ent popular Salisbury society girl, the ! Jackets hard ut work to patch up th“
17 pounds for the toms and 14 pounds j daughter of Mr. anil Mrs. Edward D. ! weak places so as to o- ‘-ady f'i,
for the hens at the middle of October. [ Mitchell, to Mr. Simon Edward Lev-1 Bertram here this Friday. The game
With another three or four weeks he- i erett, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Lev-| will be called ut 3:39. Oct. -o. and
fo;# marketing these birds should 1 erett of Llano, Texus. The wedding j promises to be a good game. Lome
be extra good bv that time. will take place In the fall.” , out and help the team win. You will
In speaking of raising turkeys. Mr. j --o- i enjoy every minute and surely it will
able to harvest 110 bushels of corn Oestreich said. “I have found that: B„e«Tesi»«i aiiyii urv i ** worth 35c and 25c.
last Saturday and participated ia the
organization of the Llano Wolf Club.
R. E. Gray of San Saba. Capt. D. G.
Sherrard of Burnet and Rosooe Rung*
of Mason, representatives of their
respective Wolf Clubs, told ot the
good work accomplished through thair
organizations and each pointed oufc
the wonderful opportunity Llano coun-
ty has ot cleaning out, the predatory
animals with their Clubs working on
every ride.
W. H. London, leader ia Predatory
Animal Control work of the United
States Department of Biological Sur-
vey, told of the work engaged in by
hls Department including the basis
upon which this club might work In
order to Hecure State and Federal
assistance from funds at his disposal.
He recommended placing at least four
Federal trappers in the county for oo«
year, and after that as many a? might
be needed. On this basis, he said
that he could provide $2,409 toward
salaries of the trappers as well as
furnish all equipment provided the
Commissioners Court would put noj
$1,800 and the landowners raise $3,000
He suggested that petitions be circu-
lated requesting the Commissioners
Court to muke this appropriation and
at the same time sign up the amouat
repaired from tile landowners at the
rate of one cent per acre tor land
controlled by them, and five cents per
head for sheep and gouts. After some
discussion und the adoption of a Cons-
titution and By-Laws for the organi-
zation, It was decided to follow Mr.
Landon's suggestions, uni petitions
were drawn up to that effect and are
now being circulated.
Officers of the Llano Wolf Club
elected at the meeting were: Damon
Smith. President: Walter Llgon. Vice-
President; Vic Moss, F. M. Cusaaday,
Joe Freeman and Edgar Moss. Direc-
tors and H. Robinson, Secretary.
FAMILY REUNION
ATTENDED FAMILY REUNION
PROGRAM
Subject—Our greatest asset.
Song—“More like the Master
I Mrs. O. P. Garrett hue returned
j from Dallas, where she attended a, uii, IlltrciliI, ..............
! family reunion of her brothers and |Lincoln. Arkansas, who has not been
Oa Wednesday of la it w >ek the
older children of Jim T. Maxwell
(now deceased) met with hfs younger
children at the home of their mother,
Mrs. Minnie Maxwell of Tow for a
family reunion.
After a dinner, worthy of the oc-
casion, all gathered In the front of th»
old home for pictures, then all went
to the cemetery ut Bluffton. where
| their father Is burled, also made their
| uncle, Ike Maxwell of Bluffton. %
short call. Before th- group separat-
ed to go to their different homes, the
oldest son. Ike Maxwell, now seventy,
led ’ti prayer, thanking God for spar-
ing their lives that they might all lie
together on this occasion.
The elder children who came for
this meeting were ike Maxwell of
________ , '! times. According to recdrds kept on J lowance of yellow corn for grain. | fone.
Smat'hers„and records oi their flocks j p 0(Ji;ct|((n C03tp expenaes amounted | find yellow corn superior to other J Business and roll call — Mrs. Tyson,
'secured for ther month of August.,^ $05.flu. Figuring the corn worth grain, due largely. I think, to Its vit- Devotional leader. Topic—<Tu
^Puriaijfhe summer months of June. donur per bushel, a uet profit of , amine content lacking in other corn J tpach to ssai;, t0 do)Ezra 7:10—Mrs.
July and August hens in these flocks j >g4_70 was made oa the two acres. 1 und grain sorghums.” Prim e
sisters. The house party was held In
Mrs- the home of C. A. Johnston, 2817
Gould St.
This is the first time since Christ
mas, IS94, that the family his been
(together. Since that meeting, the
_ __a*—, r l* (..iinjti.n nn
! here since the death of his father,
seventeen years ago. and Mr. ami
Mrs. Will Maxwell of Liberty Hill.
The younger children wh > came
Mr. and Mrs. Lyte Key and children
of Llano. Mr. and Mrs. Ell Key and
fajd an average of over 40 eggs.
There were 353 hens in the five flocks
which varied in size from 45 to 101
hens. They produced their owners a
net profit of 38 cents each during this
time.-and included in the cost of feed
per acre.
Terrace lines were run on a field
-------------- of 10 acres for Forrest Smathers.
charged against them was feed for Thu
over 40 head of young .*.uff. The j
Other corn ia the same field and on
the-same kind of land with identical
Last year Mr. Oestreich’? turkeys
! Hymn
were among the best in this country. corie.
cultivation yielded only 27 bushels j and at selling time there was not a
“Wonderful Boolt"-
I number two turkey in hi? flock.
out year? ago. a portion of which was
terraced last winter. Forrest * <ys
wa? the first such work this fall,
u.c. -------- .—1 but several more jobs are waiting
highest producing flock consisting °-jnntj| cropg are harvested. The above
T/i. ‘.'.riiV Lawrence^ Leverett a j y on n farm^consblerel badly worn
profit of $38.79 during the three ol|t yaarg ag0 a p0rtjOn of which was
months.
Sewn- Hereford calves have been
placed on feed during the month,
bringing the total to eleven calves be-
ing fed by David Stewart. Raymond j
Wlnkel. Floyd Tatsch. Herman Cassa-
dav Eugene Atchison, Worth Sp'nkr. *
Alvin Baumann. Roger Flint an 1 hail
Westerman. These calve? are f-om
tij, herd? of Ed St - 'art. Jim Kpper
-,.n Fred l.j.ig. D VV. Y. Fowler. J
• Sfribloig. Will Str iding. Art bit ■
Biii'r inn ami F. H We? terms ti \
hotv.f* wiix*Ml riitlon of conn, out4,
v hit bran, t.-'too -til ttu-ai an J
SPECIAL NOTICE TO EX-SER-
VICE MEN OF LLANO COUNTY
The past twelve months have al-
,-c'en our post I Frank Griggs.
No. 370. American Legion i £fe,“ 'aitOf
this must not be. It Is a patriotic i
Program leader—Mrs. Tyson.
Our greatest asset—Mrs. Porter.
The church’s part in child wellfare
—Mrs. Backeus.
Reach them, teach them—Mrs. W.
Y. Fowler.
Collection.
I , til IRtlllO, All. t~ J---
■ mother. Mr?, l. E. Johnston, died nn \ daughters of Bluffton, Mrs. B. F. Mor-
■^ra’I January 12. 1900 and th« youngest j gan and daUghter, Miss Minnie and
sister. Mrs. E. B. Morrison, on Nov. (sf>f| dou^., „f saa 3aba. Mrs. Hugh
3.1921. (Clark and childr-m of Graphite. Mr.
This gathering, like all of P? kind. I
was both joyful and sad. Every liv- !
ing member of the family was pres-
ent, also quite a numlier of tiieL*
children. Tho*e attending were: Mr?.
- —.......... * llliS LIUSi uwv - *---
that he considers the terraced portion • duty tkat We should keep our post j
worth at least $10.00 per acre more
than the rest of the field, and that
terrace- not only prevent washing
but conserve moisture and enable him
to haul out barnyard manure and
spread it on the field with the assur-
ance that it will be .here when he
plants his crop.
On field of s '
ed off in prepa,
an i pirating aifu!
alu.? p!ac-- no*
Nev -o"
Two lea ■ •
alive and to see that we again take I Miss (irate Brown died at the home
our place as one of the leading posts of her mother. Mrs. Anna Brown at
in the State. Everv ex-servtce man * an early hour this mornlnz Mis?
should realize his duty and be pres- Brown wa? in apparently good health
ent at Legion headquarters on Thurs and was at her desk in thP office •>
duv November 7. 1929. at 7:30 P «"■ [ the United Telephone Company -
to help perfect a reorganization of terday. No particular? have been re
nur post, and do his utmost to get ] reived more than that desth < <n >*
j I. E. Weaver. Dallas; Mrs. D. N.
Closing prayer—Mrs. W. Y. Fowler Briggs, Shreveport: N. D. lohr.ston.
«e —....... : j*;v"?1t uTVuV' Mw Os- X.
MISS GRACE BROWN DEAD j (\ A. Johnston. Dallas: B O. and,
-- a. H. Johnston. Jacksonville. The
next reunion is planned to be held
in Jacksonville in July. 1920.
FIRST FALL NORTHER HIT
LLANO COUNTRY TUE50AY
aire? was l»*v*?l- ' thos„ t*. present who do not read very suddenly Arrangement
for irrigating
’he Will ( um
i>ed by Allan
were helii In
line- A surprise
fur thoi - » ho ( otn-
F R Foreman. Pi
t j W.-.t kins VI
1? in store
funeral have not been mad*
i hi? time
I \ mote . it ended notice will
up
A bracing full wind beg- i blowing
Mondav night and continued throng'
i T ie?.lay with the thermometer dro’>
ping around forty befor- -.ght (alt.
whib Wb-dnesdav morning wj« . -
in' 1 enough fot fro*’
have been enio» < ttuusnaF.
.... r.., «ent her for >ip i »hl?
and Mrs Jack Maxwell sad Mrs. Lil-
ler Hershaw and daughters of thi*
place. The guests, other than the
family were Glen Chism of Bluffton
and Miss Edith Morgan of San Saba.
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MRS. J. A. MAYES OEAO
* F » If *> fie * . •
A message was received in Llano
thi? morning conveying the ^ad news
that Mr? J A. Mayes. Sr. had died at
the home of her daughter Mr? Jess*
Smith at Teague. The remains will
be -hipped to Liuno for interment.
More Information will be available
next week.
t
Miller ot
1 W. R.
i l.lsno
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