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The Llano News.
VOLUME XLV
THE LLANO NEWS, LLANO, TEXAS THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1933.
NUMBER 2G
, LANO DEFEATS FREDERICKS- | CANNING WORK MAY COME UN- PROGRAM OF COMMENCEMENT DISTRICT COURT CONVENED IN NEW LAWYER OPENS OFFICE
BURG BY DECISIVE SCORE 8-0 DER NEXT RELIEF ACTIVITIES EXERCISES ON FRIDAY, MAY 26 LLANO LAST MONDAY MORNING HERE FOR GENERAL PRACTICE
Club . .
W
L
PC.
ful ft r irk 8 h u r £
..........5
1
833
LLANO ,
4
1
800
Lrady
3
S
600
Mason
..... 3
4
428
Ban Saba
............1
8
250
Junction.........
.............1
6
167
Results on
May 14
In a« much as the Legislature has
submitted to the people the twenty
Plate may secure more Federal re-
lief money for the months of May and
June. Although It will come In quite
late for the present month, this will
not change the allotment for our
county.
M. M. Moss, chairman of the Cen-
tral Committee, received a letter from
headquarters the first of the week,
stating that the next allotment could
he used for the employment of labor
in canning work, also for the pur
chase of canning equipment and the
LLANO 8, Fredericksburg 9,
Mason 3, Brady 1.
Junction-Sun Saba—Rain.
Schedule for May 14
LLANO at Junction.
Fredericksburg at Brady.
San Saba at Mason.
The Llano Cowboys advanced to
vithln half a game of the top of the
Hill Country Baseball League last . , , , n
, . . , . , . . i ans, the committee to take care of the Broken Sword —Robert Alt In
Sunday when they defeated the Fred ...
i ,i--------- —*- -- - — Khsaell.
V’ocai Solo: “Love's Torment”
(Caruso)—Cecil Peterson.
Class President's Farewell Address
—Edwin Dalrymple .
Piano: “Country Gardens” (Grain-
ger)—Melba McKay
Valedictory Address—Edith Dal*
lymple.
Saxophone: “The World is Waiting
for the Sunrise" (Seitz)—Shelton Me-
Lenlnan.
Class Address—Rev. J. V/. Camp-
bell.
aoce needed in supervising the work
or at least getting it started off
| The committee feels that at least
i ten thousand No. two cans conhl be
l tilled with vegetables, fruits and per
. , . . . _ ____ . u . oilier expense, such as a place to car
erieksburg Giants by a score of 8 to
- „ . a , , ,.liy on the work, stoves, tables etc.
«. Previous to Sunday’s game the , J
. , . . . . . _ Mr. Moss called his committee to
league leaders had not been defeated
. .. . „ 'gether Tuesday morning and It was
this season, and the dope favored , j .
decided to carry on such work in thin
The commencement exercises of Judge Lamar Thaxton convened Carlos C. Ashley, a young lawyer
the Llano High School will be held the spring term of district court here 0f San Saba has rented an office in
at the auditorium on Friday evening, Monday morning at ten o'clock. the Stribling building next door to
May 26 at eight o'clock, at which time The first thing was to deliver Ills the Moore State Bank and has mov-
tlie following program will be pre- charge t0 the grand Jury, where the ed jn, ready t0 conduct a general law
sented: new Judge pointed out the various practice.
Invocation—Rev. J. N. McKay. duties and responsibilities which al- Mr. Ashley is a San Saba county
Chorus: “Greeting to Spring” ways fall upon those who have been boy> wa8 reared at Cherokee and for
(Strauss)—Class. selected to look into the law viola- several years has made his home In
Salutatory Address—Ruth Nunnelee turns of the country. He pointed out gan Saba, first teaching in the high
Plano: "Deux Polonaises” (Chop- the different offenses which are pre- Bch0ol of that city and during the
in)—Lonle Loleat Ratliff , vailing over the land and gave the past three years, has been engaged in
“The Hercules of the Age"—Ther- j jurymen the law concerning such the practice of law, associated with
bert Wesley Stewart. |violations. Mitch Johnson.
Plano: "Marche Militaire" (E!gel-| After the charge the jury was ex-| Mr. Ashley is a young man, well
mann)—Mary Ruth Backeus. Edith | cused and instructed to proceed with known to many people in our county.
Dalrymple. j their work. Those who are serving He received his education a' T C. U ,
Class Declamation: “Warriors of j on the grand jury at this term of Dis- taught school for some time and then
trict Court are: J. A. Frazier, fore- went to Oumberlaln University, where
man; E. L. Stewart, M. H. McDer-‘ b . received his law degree, and for
mott, A. R. Haynes, J. J. Backeus, the past three years has been engag
P.en Sageblel, Sam Tate, T. G. Smith. e,i |n his profession in his home
Robert Redfordf Roy Willoughby, A. town. He expects to make Llano his
COMMITTEE MAKING SURVEY
FOR SUITABLE PROJECT HERE'
them last Sunday, hut Llano sur-
prised themselves by scoring their
fiist shutout victory over Frederlcks-
Lurg. As Mason defeated Brady, Sun-
day's results threw the first five clubs, „
.. „ ,, the people as it might, be neeCed
more closely together; thereby mak 1 . ,
, ... ,, „ „ 1 D. D. Steel*, county agent wav call
lug the first half race a wide open af- , ,,
, ed Into the meeting and w an well un
■ ■i jj*
‘ , . I reused with the idea, stating that he
After a perfect throw from Shelby i'
- . . . .. . . ,, ! would be glad to render any assist
to Reed had retired the visitors in ^ “_________ .......
the first Inning, the locals got busy
(own, and over the county wherever
'Hie people might want it.
I The goods •:> canned will be held
I by the committee, then distributed to
At a meeting of the directors oft
the Llano Chamber of Commerce at
D. D. Steele’s office Tuesday after-
noon, D. R. Koyser and Chas. MilH-
f.cr, who attended the West Texaa
Chamber of Commerce convention at
Big Springs last, week, made their re-
port, wherein wa* mentioned the fact*
that Llano should get busy, work out
plans for some self-liquidating pro-
ject and secure this county's share
of the Federal construction money
which is to be spent over the Unite*!
States as an employment program.
President Barker appointed a com-
mittee consisting of Grad^' Faubion,
1). R. Keyser, Chas. Milliger and W.
W. Watkins to work out some plan
and submit it to the Chamber of Com-
merce directors.
This matter of finding a suitable
hind cf self-liquidating proposition m
lather a difficult task, and especially
N. Larremore and Leslie Bedford. 'permanent home and will move his'one which will meet the approval df
This body went to work Monday t'^mily here as soon as his father’s
morning and are still spending most , house, which is row occupied by O.
end sewed up the game very quickly.
Ueed doubled down the right field
l ne and took third when Red Brown
dropped a Texa* leaguer over short.
. „ . . ' hap* some nisas during the summer
Chink Taylor scored Reed and sen*., ' _ (1
Brown to third when he singled to
right field. On a double steal Brown ,
scored by making a good slide, while
Taylor took second. Huldie Matner
singled to left and took second when
Klett threw to the plate and held
, , ... .. arrives, be iu p isttiou t> put the peo
■Chink on third. After Shelby struck
out Paul McLeod brought Taylor in
with the third run of the Inning and
Mather went to third. Berry singled ."r°*ratn *■ the ^ that women, w
■on the Aral ball pitched scoring Math-
er and McI*eod. Dale McLeod struck
out and Van Hus* was thrown out at
first to end the inniug. Mather open
cd the third Inning with a single over
, .. , , _. nay In this marine
-sreond. He was safe at second when 7
Lott dropped a toss from Peter on
rf their time in the grand jury room i j Gresham and family has been v i-
The first week’s petit jury was ex- eated.
cused until the third week, and Judge j Llano will he glad to welcome this
’’’baxton stated Tuesday morning that y0ung attorney and his family to our
in all probability this jury would not town and sincerely hope that he meets
he used as he did not believe the court v, ith every success which he expect-
would extend into the third week, realize when changing his lo-
Piano: ‘ Grande Polka de Concert” i however he reserves the right to call cation.
(Wallace)—Fay Belie Atchison. jthem at that time should conditions) -o---
both the local citizenship and the
Federal authorities who will pass up-
on the application.
Messrs Keyser and Milliger favor
additional buildings for our school
plant, but feel that this is hardly a.
feasible proposition, in as much as it
would come under the Head of taxa-
tion when tlie time came for making
the payments upon the loan, and the
'Government lias plainly said that the
nd this would g0 a lonx way toward
feeding the needy during the winter
months.
I The Central Committee expects to
1 make ail necessary arrangements infl
(lien when the May and June money
iTiven, be
ue to work.
Another pUusable feature af th e
bo
heretofore have been deprived of
work uuiler the relief activities, can
find employment and there are many
in the county who n * *d work and will
only be too glad to earn a dollar a
Presentation of Diplomas—Presi-
dent Charles Milliger.
Chorus’ “Awake! Arise!” (Haw-
thorne)—Class.
Benediction—Rev. J. J. Ray.
The public is cordially invited to
attend this program and remember
i rise that will require a three weeks board ELECTS TEACHERS FOR projects must be worked out without
session. COMING YEAR IN SCHOOLS HERE taxes
A few civil cases are being given I
W. W. Watkins is working on a'
force play. Paul McLeod laid down ,i
perfect bunt to advance both Mather _ _
and Shelby up one base. Mather scor-j } F. RosboroughThorticulturist of
ed when Berry drove a fly to cen'er fh( A and M Extensi,m Service will
After two were out In the seventh. ^ ,n L,ano ,.ounty Frlday May 26,
Red Brown got his second hit of the tQ wtot County Aj;ent ln givln*
Fame, stole second, went to th.rd on demoaj|tratlon ln thl, making and
attention this week, however there At a meeting of the Llano School pioposition for certain improvement*
has been very little court work aside Board Tuesday night, the election of to hH made at the State Park, such
from what the grand jury is doing. j teacher8 for the Llano school for the ^ » small dam across the river, bath-
The criminal docket will be taken j coming year was practically coniplet 1,!g pool, grand stand in the park, and
those who go early will secure the up next week, and fortunately It Is ), di however it may be necessary to other features which would add to
best seats. The auditorium is always i exceedingly light at this time. All in- e^ect probably one more in the grade the popularity of th,8 place as a ree-
crowded for comrnencent exercises J dications point to a very light court school. Owing to a contemplated 11 eattonal center.
and there will be no exception to the work for this term, and it looks as change in the school laws, the board Grady Faubion would erect a city
lule this year. As published some few- | though the entire docket will be fin- f(>als that the grade school will be auditorium or community house on
weeks ago, there are thirty young isbed next week. taken care of with fewer teachers dur- !t,lP where the old opera hou3e
men and women in this class and | ■ -o———— jjig the coming year I row stands and a bathing pool just
seats will be reserved In the center FIREMEN HELD THEIR ANNUAL 1 Those who have been elected are: below
Isle for their parents and Other mem- MEETING AND ELECTED OFFICERS jj^j, School—F. C. Ouffin, Mrs. Edna! R is expected that the committee
bers of the families. | - j Porter Riley, Misses Louise Heinatz, v :[l together on their plans with-
---o- Members of the Llano Volunteer Rennie D. Speck, Ella Scott Powell, in the next ^ew days, when they will
FRANCIS PORCH SHOT TO DEATH ’ }, ire Department held their annual Haliie Orr. j report to the Chamber of Commerce
IN AUSTIN LAST FRIDAY NIGHT f meeting on Tuesday night, when the) Grade School—R. H. Simpson of ' ir ■> t >rs.
- i*-gular business coming before the Georgetown, principal; Mrs Bann ---
Francis Porch of this place and ' organization was given attention, at- Hunter, Mrs. Olga Hays; Misses P<iOPE than AN INCH OF RAIN
GARDEN SUB-IRRIGATION TO BE
DEMONSTRATED ON CONE RANCH gQn o( Luther poroh, also living in ter which the following officers were Ethel Dees, Mary May, Hazel May, I FELL OVER COUNTRY MONDAY,
First Assistant—Dan Hackworth.
xi wild pitch, and scored on manager
laying of tile for sub-irrigation of
Taylor's single through short Tay fcarden plot3 Thls work will be giv
lor stole second and scored easily as ( u ^ ,hB j c Cone ranch slx miIe,
Mather drove a long triple over
Klaerner ln center field.
The locals played errorless hall and
uiuth of Llano on the Fredericksburg
road.
A great deal of interest in sub-fr-
Llano was shot to death in Austin on elected for the coming year:
last Friday night by Dick Wimberly ; Chief—J. T. Eliason.
auother Llano citizen.
The killing occurred in an alley ia ;
the eight hundred block near the nell.
i<>ar of the Security Trust Company.)
Torch wa< shot three timea once in
the neck and twice in the body. He
lived only a few minutes after he was John C. Buttery, Jack Sweeney,
shot. ‘J- Deckert.
looked like a different team, com par rjgatiou of gurdea plots durlng hot
td to previous exhibitions The field ^ weather ha„ bf,en Bhown over
lng of Berry. Reed and Taylor featur- ^ 8ute The principal bene(U* of
this method iof irrigation are: 1
Van Hubs, making his first Mart In ^ Jabor requ!red ,a ,rr|gation. 2.
almost three weeks; pitched the first wat0f ,s needed. 3. Soil does
shut-out victory of his career, and was ^ cnjHt aft0r JrrlgaUon Most ev-
complete master over the giants at all t>ry farm Qr ranch shouId provide a
times. H. Klaerner, E. Klett and Bmall p,ot of th(8 k{lld which wlU
Fchnerr; big guns for Fredericksburg. furnlsh ar0en vegetables through the
failed to connect for a single safety. hof HUnnner month8.
Only four hits were charged against The cogt of the Hyetem ig nimiiuai
the big right hander; a single in the ^ th# concrete lath8 can eastly be
first Inning, one in the seventh, and ri>(le at home and connected with a
two more scratch singles after two v.hldmin or tank
were down In the last Inning. Only Tho§e !nteregted in this demonstra-
twlce was he in trouble. After a hit Uon and further inforniatlon con
batsman, a walk, and a wild pitch had ftrnlng thu improved and easy meth-
put runners on second and third in ^ of irrlgallon should attend this
the fifth inning, Van Huss struck out. tlemonstraUon. Bulletins on this
the next pair of batters, t0 retire the method can b(j gecured at the offlce
side. Again In the seventh. Van ;. th# county agcnt
everted disaster by causing the two
last batters to raise weak pop-ups ov- THE POULTRY WORKERS SHOW
'Wr.T.tv*-Ty-L.StSjA
base in the seventh by reason of two -
bit batsmen, and a single. Although Record* from over three hundred
he was wild at times, Van Huss was hens showed a total egg production of
nuhitable In the pinches, and struck more than five thousand or an aver-
out six men. Next Sunday the locals age per hen for the month of April
go to Junction for a return game of nineteen eggs, In every case the
Ossie Mae Lanier. Annie C. Ingram, j _
(Tara Moran, Tillie B. Moss i We are all feeling better, because
Mrs. Clara G. Durroh was re-elected , glorious rain visited this section of
Second Assistant—Malcolm O Don t,j teach the colored school. the country Monday, when more than
One new instructor, Miss Haliie fell In the town of Llano, qr
Sec. and Treas.—Edwin Scott. 'Orr, has been added to the higli t0 be ex^ct according to the report
Reporter—J. R. Decker, Jr. _ school faculty, which gives two Eng oI Mra Tarrence, local weather ob-
Reception Com.—Dan Hackworth, u*h teachers for the coming year. 'server, it amounted to 1.15 inches.
r- One new teacher. R. H Simpson, I jj began raining in Llano during
( W1N *n the grade school as prin- |-be nigbt, however most of the water
According to a statement made by Service and Equipment Com. S. cipal, otherwise all other teachers y,hich fell came during the morning
Wimberly to the police and published F>. Simpson, John t. Buttery, B were on the faculty during the past h^urs. It was a slow precipitation
in the Austin American Saturday Putman and Dan Hackworth. year. pud all went into the ground where
morning, Wimberly said that his wife The Llano Firemen have ttiaie a Supt. W. V. Hart feels that he has Die moisture was so badly needed,
had been with Porch tor several splendid record for themselves dur- a splendid corps of instructors for the I [n many part3 0f the county, espec-
cionths. leaving nine of the ten Wlm- ir.g the past year, and no property coming year. ially to the west the rain was much
bcrly chillirer. with hun while she within reach of the fire hjdrants has | o ........ > heavier and Mason reported several
took the baby with her. been materially damaged through •*-— GRADE SCHOOL GRADUATION TO j-.cliit; during the downpour of Sun-
Continuing Wimberly told the of- i.s the Company has been able t0 sue- be HELD WEDNESDAY EVENING day and Monday.
fleers that two of Ins children had i essfully cope with every situation. I -- | qj course Llano did not receive as
told him that they bad seen their Asa consequence of the work of this The graduation exercises for ttie rlucb ^ was desired, yet the addi-
mother with Porch saveiai times. That toganizatiou. Llanos key rate on r.:j Llano grade school will be held in (,Qna| moisture has put new life into
he left Llano about noon Friday for insurance is extra low for a town lie the auditorium at eight o clock on the <.yt>rything and both farmers and the
Austin. Upon h!s arrival In that city size of this one -evening of Wednesday, May 24. 1 ue j-anchmeu are feeling a great deab
he learned where Porch was living.) -o-• general public is Invited to attend be(;ter.
Friday night about nine o’clock Wlm- WILL GIVE MUSICAL RECITAL these exercises. Following is the j indications remain good for more
bcrly said ne went to the small lions** NEXT SATURDAY NIGHT, MA> -9 [jogram which will be presented at ,a;n alld jj may be forthcoming any
)u the alley and waited for Porch.
:that time:
day.
After a short time, Porch and Mrs., Mrs. Ella D. Opp will have her ;* Chorus; “Here's a Welcome ( _o__
Wimberly came into sight and walk- music pupils give a recital at the You”—Class. fntfrtained
ed toward the house. Upon their ur-|i.igli school aiWltorium on next Sat- Salutatory: “Laws of the Seventh tlrlul/%D
rival at the hoi*e Wimberly said he urday night, May 20 at eight o’clock, oiade Seniors and Tyrants”—Lucy
told Porch, “Well, Porch your time j Special efforts aje being exerted by Womack.
has come.” ;Mrs. Opp and her pupils in the ar- Statistics of the Seventh Grade—
It was then that Wimberly opened tangement of this program when each La Verna Ligon.
with the Cubs.
BOX SCORE:
6
Frederlrkshurg
AB
R
H
PO
A
E
Sehnerr rf.,
4
0
0
0
0
0
E, Klaerner, cf.,
3
0
0
1
0
0
E. Klett) If.,
4
0
0
3
0
0
lvOtt, SB.,
3
0
1
0
1
1
U. Klaerner, p.,
... 4
0
0
0
2
0
Peter, 2b.,
2
0
1
3
5
0
P Klacner, 1b.,
I
0
2
9
0
0
Schneider, 3b..
4
0
0
0
2
1
A Klaerner, c., ..
0
0
0
2
0
0
Enderlfn, c
3
0
0
6
0
0
Totals
30
0
4
21
10
2
demonstrators showed some profit
from their flocks.
In the production average, Louise
Ratliff. Robert Redford and Mrs. M.
SENIOR CLASS ON WEDNESDAY
The Seniors of the Llano High
School enjoyed a most delightful bar-
7ezZ Ua-Torch ' appearing thereon will render a Pi!,no Duet: “Electric Flash Gal heou* dinnPr at ,he home of Mr anrt
v,as taken tc. the Brackenrldge hos- number weii wuilh.* t.,c c sS- • ;. p - Margie ai-vs .file ■•>.!??- ^ •*,
r!tal, but was dead when the ambu- tion aud attention of all lovers of Key Oration—Ross Baumann. ?'* . , . ,
1 . „ ,____ The thirty members of the class,
lance arrived there. music. Response from the Sixth Grade _ _ _ .___,. , ____,_
Wlmberley gave himself up to the A cordial invitation Is extended to (.eorge Franklin.
officers and was placed in the Travis the public. | Valedictory: “A Time to
county jail. Sunday’s paper Stated -—o alt ’—Renotta Patterson.
that he was being held unUl he mad.* CARRIED TO AUSTIN YESTERDAY Presentation of Diplomas—Vice-
three thousand dollar bond.
The body of Porch was taken from
President D. R. Keyser.
Awarding of American I-egion Med
Mrs. John C. Buttery was taken to
the hospital to the Meeka-Llnden fun- \ustin immediately after the noon als—Howard Blodgett.
Chorus
oral home, then brought to Llano ear- hour yesterday by her husband and
ly Saturday morning and placed in Orville Buttery. Shortly after their
"Farewell"—Class,
o--
together with a few invited guests
G radii- ^eKan arriving at seven o'clock and
shortly thereafter a delirious oarbe-
cue dinner was served on the lawn
The feasting hour over, and the
guests assembled in the house, where
(ridge, forty-two and various other
games were enjoyed.
it was another of those delightful
Miles Buttery’s undertaking estab- arrival Mrs. Buttery was operated GOOD CROWDS ATTENDED MOTH- ^
lisbment and that afternoon (he fun- on for appendicitis. Reports coming ER’S DAY SERVICES LAST SUNDAY
era I was held at the Six Mile cenn:
lery.
home after the operation were that
she was doing as well as could be
the past few days.
The various churches of Llano held
(continued on page five.)
Special attention this month was
directed to lice infestation in the var-
ious flocks, and the records indicate
that the highest production is assoc-
latod directly with the flocks free of
lice and other parasites:
It was a very deplorable affair and expected, and In all probability will Mother s Day
one regretted by the families and rol-
ntvise of both parties.
Wimberly is a man forty-two years
of age and Porch was thirty two.
Both had lived here practically all of
their lives.
be aide to return to her home during
the coming week.
---o--
Judge Carl RungO of Mason has
l>*-en ln Llano this week In attenTT
mice at District Court.
ervices on last Sun- ^ • A. Ashley of San Sabii was in
day, when large congregations gather- Llano last Saturday on business and
ed at all the places of worship to pay meeting with old friends. He stated
t. sped and thibute to “Mother.” that certain portions of his county
Special musical numbers were giv- bad been receiving good rains up to
eii and the service made improssive that time and crops were looking ex-
nt all the places. tra wet! in those locatlities.
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