The Kingsville Record (Kingsville, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 29, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 10, 1926 Page: 9 of 16
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SECTION TWO
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NINETEENTH YEAR
BOY SCOUTS HAVE
CHARGE OF CITY
AFFAIRS SATURDAY
Law Violators Suffer at Hands of Spe-
cial Police Squad.—Many Fines Col-
lected in City Court.
KINGSVILLE TEXAS. MARCH 10. 1926
NUMBER 29
The police blotter at the City Hall
last Saturday had more entries made
in it in the one day than for any pre-
vious day in the history of the town,
proving that the town is growing in
law violations as otherwise. An exact
count was not made, but offfenses
were numerous, vagrancy, abusive
language, contempt of court, violation
of the dog tax law, etc. The truflle
law must have been violated several
hundred times, but the some ten or
twelve policemen detailed for traffic
duty on that day were wholly unable
to make all arrests and about seventy
per cent of the violators escaped. Fin-
es ranged from the minimum of 25c
up. Fortunately for the violators there
were no fees and churges added to the
lines. A constant stream of law break-
ers, accompanied by a youthful offi-
cer, poured into the City Hall all day
long.
Last Saturday the Boy Scouts of
Kingsville had city affairs in charge
and showed up the regular officers in
great, style.
Sheriff Moseley was about the first
culprit to he arrested, the charge
being violation of the traffic laws. He
paid his fine without a murmur but
was careful the rest of the day. The
traffic officers were not at all chival-
rous. arresting ladies just as they
would any one else; in fact there
seemed to be more ladies arrested
than men. The most spectacular raid
of the day was when a squad of spe-
cial officers arrested quite a number
of men who were lounging on the
benches in the park. These were
charged with vagrancy and fined 25c
each. Most of them paid their fines;
but one or two of them professed to
have a means of livelihood and de-
Appreciation
Whirl of March Winds
(Continued on second page)
Members of the City Commission
would take this method of publicly
expressing satisfaction at the outcome
of “government by proxy” hist Snt-
uday. After keeping close tab on the
several departments headed by Boy
Scouts duly “elected” to the positions,
it was found that conduct of these
Boy Scout officials was most praise-
worthy in every respect. Considering
tlie fact that each had to enter upon
his duties a total stranger, the ease,
assurance and graveness with which
duties were performed certainly
speaks well for training received in
their work of Scouting. Especially was
the mayor, city attorney, city clerk
and health department active all the
day, carrying out the routine business
and functioning in these departments
to the extent that many of their re-{
commendations will be carried out by i
the authorized Commission. The;
Commission membership as a whole i
is convinced that Saturday was a day
well spent under Boy Scout adminis- ■
tration, and one to lie appreciated by j
the big hearted public with an inter-
est in boys and their welfare. Some
criticism has been advanced, tiut as a
general rule, the adventure was most
acceptable to the public, especially
those parents with boys to raise.
Some forty dollars and ninety cents
was taken in by the police department
for minor traffic law violations. These
lines assessed by the city judge never
ran over one dollar and certainly had
a tendency to make all “watch their
gasoline step” in the future. The
money taken in was turned over to the
local Scout organization for work in
connection witli the movement.
City Commission.
Ill-Starred Patriot
Marcos Bozzaris, the Greek patriot,
did not live to witness the success of
Ills country’s fight against Turkey. He
was killed In u successful night at-
tack on a superior Turkish force nea^
CarprtUsi In 1828.
1904 QUALIFIED
VOTERS IN COUNTY
Deputy Collector McCullar reports
final tabulation of poll lax payments
in (he county us follows:
Precinct 1. Kingsville, 877; precinct
2, Kingsville, 577; precinct 3. santa
Gertrudis, 67; precinct 4, Ricardo, 129;
precinct 5, Riviera, 162; precinct 6,
Vattmann, 44; precinct 7, Laureles,
48. Total qualified voters for the en-
tire county, 1904.
FISTIC BOUT NEXT WEEK
The Fire Department has concluded
arrangements whereby they will give
a series of bouts in boxing and wrest-
ling to be staged weekly if possible.
The first of these bouts will be stag-
ed at the American Legion Hall next
Monday night March 15th, beginning
at 8 o’clock. The opening event will
be a boxing bout between a Kings-
SCHOOLS ELIGIBLE
TO MEMBERSHIP
IN LEAGUE
The following is a list of the schools
who have paid their membership fee
in the Interscholastic League. If your
school is not on the list and you have
paid your fee, write to F. S. Garner,
Riviera. A school must be a member
before it can take part in the county
meet.
Flato Ward, Kingsville.
East Ward, Kingsville.
Ricardo, Kingsville.
H. M. King High, Kingsville.
Baffin Bay, Riviera.
Riviera, Riviera.
Schol and Post Office
ville boy and a Corpus Christ.! boy.
Following this there will be a wrest-
ling match, match, which promises to
be the event of the evening. Receipts
go to the benefit of the Firemen.
] WELER MOTOR CO.
WILL OCCUPY NEW
QUARTERS SOON
Cconstantly Expanding Business and
Increased Demand for Chevrolet
Cars, Makes Moves Necessary.
The letting ol the contract by B. (>.
Kims, Jr., this week for the construc-
tion of a handsome garage and sales-
room, 100x90, on the corner of Sev-
enth and Yoakum, the building to be
the new home of the Weller Motor
Company, marks another forward step
in the progress of this community dur
ing the past 5 years, under the leader
ship and management of C ('. Weller.
The building is io In* of handsome
design, with drive in tilling station on
the corner, handsomely appointed
salesroom and offices, the furniture to
conform to the design of the building
When seen by the Recordmau first
of tin week Mr. Weller stated that
the rapidly expanding business of the
Weller Motor Company, made it tie
eessary to seek new quarters. “We
have been crowded for several
months," said Mr Weller, “and the
business during that time together
with prospects for the future warrant-
ed us making arrangements for other
quarters.
“When I canto to Kingsville some
five years ago and opened up a sales-
room for the Chevrolet, prospects
were not so flattering. But the policy
of the Chevrolet Motor Company in
the past years has been one of con-
stnat improvement in the cars and u
gradual price reduction, based on
quantity production, caused bv a stead
ily Increased demand for their product.
Manufacturing, us they do, the largest
number of gear shift cars in the world,
the Chevrolet Motor Company have
constantly added improvements until
today their product is recognized as
entirely dependable, witnessed by the
fact that hundreds of thousands of
them art; in daily use.”
Mr. Weller also stated that his com-
pany had secured a lease on a build-
CONSTRUCTION WORK
ON PAVING PROGRAM
BEGINS IN EARNEST
Big Ditching Machine Starts Work On
Excavating for Storm Sewers.—
Paving Machinery and Material Due
to Arrive This Week.
Construction work on Kingsville’s
first puvlug program started in earnest
Wednesday morning of the present
week when the big sewer ditcher be-
gan its work in the northeast portion
of the city, or rather at the creek
east of town into which the storm wa-
ters will empty. It is stated that this
machine will dig something like one
thousand feet of ditch daily. This
being true, only a few days remain be-
fore the work of ditching will be
well within the town proper. Several
carloads of sewer pipe have already
been unloaded and Imuled out to posi-
tion for putting down. It is stated that
sewer work will proceed the work of
paving by some week or ten days.
Contractor Briggs, having all con
Crete work In charge, was In I ho city
latter part of last week making ar-
rangements for Hide track from which
to unload building material. He stat-
ed that trackage enough to aceommo
date eight or ten cars at once was re
quirod, and (hut it. would be necessary
to secure this location somewhere
near a central location. Mr, Briggs
stated that, he expected to start the
work of paving by April first at the
limit, us it would take several days to
install concrete mixing machinery and
otherwise prepare for his work.
ing la Bishop and that they would
open up a branch sales room in that,
city about May first It, Is hoped to
have the new building in this city
ready about the first of June.
II is understod that the build ho-
llow occupied by the Weller Motor
Company has been leased and will be
occupied by T. G. Ferguson as a sales
room for the Dodge agency, when the
building is vacated.
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THE BLACKLANDERS
Program committee composed of practical farmers, in advocating diversification,
has described what we believe to be the WELL BALANCED FARM.
We repeat their creed with them, having full faith in its efficiency if appplied
“We believe that a well balanced farm should produce every pound of feed that is used in feeding the stock of the
farm and have a surplus to market through additional live stock from time to time.
“We believe that there should be a flock of real productive chickens in the yard lar^e enough to supply the wants of
the family, and from time to time sell considerable quantities of etftfs and poultry.
“We believe that every farmer should have a sufficient number of hogs to furnish his own meat and lard, and possi-
bly sell a surplus of this product to his town friends.
“We believe that every farmer should have a sufficient number of good milk cows to produce ample milk and butter
for his family, and possibly sell a surplus of butter fat, if he so desires.
“We believe that every farmer should have a garden—not too large—but large enough to take care of the require*
ments of his family.
“We believe that every farmer should raise a surplus of feed and market this surplus by feeding live stock on his
farm.
“We believe that the farmer should then plant sufficient acreage in cotton in a way that the cost of production of
this cotton will be reduced by his program of diversification.
First State Bank
Kingsville, Texas
Robt. J. Kleberg & Co., Bankers
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Kingsville, Texas
First National Bank
Bishop, Texas
First State Bank
Bishop, Texas
Farmers State Bank
Riviera, Texas
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