Willacy County News (Raymondville, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 5, 1925 Page: 3 of 8
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WILLACY COUNTY NEWS, RAYMONDVYLLE, TEXAS
LIVRITE CLUB 'DISTRICT TITLE
LADIES NIGHT IS AT STAKE
Armistice Day Program Will Be Weslaco Champions Will Play Robs-
Principal Feature On Next Wed- i town at Latter Place Tomorrow
nesday Night at Tourist Hotel. j Afternoon For Title.
HIGHWAY MEETING
BE HELD AT EDNA
Dancy Calls G. C. Highway Associa-
tion , Meeting to Further Plans of
Houston to Brownsville.
A Great Man On
Obedience to the Law
Just now, v/hen the states and the
nation are. confronted by an extent
of law violation for which there is no.
precedent, and when every man who
respects the laws of his country, feels
a sense of alarm lest the very exist-
ence of law under a written constitu-
On account of the Woman’s Club Weslaco’s High School foot ball j Qscar Dancy, county Judge of
arranging a minstrel show for Friday team will journey to Robstown tomor (~«amer0I1 county, and incidentally ti-on is imperilled is a most opportune
night, the 13th, the announced pro- now morning (Friday) where they , presj(jent of .ftKe~TT6wer ftio 'Grande time to present an appeal for obe-
gram of the Livrite Club’s Ladies’ will engage the Robstown Highschool J yajjey. chamber of Commerce and dience to law, made nearly 90 years
night will be advanced to Wednesday team for the title of championship j head of the Gulf Coast Highway Asso ago, by an American statesman who .housewife (at least many of them) and possessed of 998.34 acres of land,
night, 7 o’clock, sharp, at the Tourist Interscholastic District No. 16. |ciation, is letting-no stone unturned has been in his grave for more than practically dispense with the kitchen. 0ff of the north end of partition share
’ 1 ’ — ! Canned vegetables and other prepared No. 9 of the San Juan de- Carricitos
Men’s articles of food from the ‘corner gro- Grant, in Cameron County, Texas,
COMPARISONS OF YESTERDAY city of Raymondville, on the 3rd,
WITH THOSE OF MODERN TIMES Monday after the 1st Monday in Nov.
-- 1925, being the 16 day of Nov, 1925,
“Modern America”, a subject re- then and there to answer a petition
plete with interest, was ably handled filed in said court on the 1st day of
by Mesdames Ben S. Duffield and E. October, 1925, in cause No. 109,
H. Jamison at the Woman’s Club wherein Mrs. Bessie F. Yates, joined
meeting on October .27th. by her husband. E. T. Yates, is plain-
The great contrast of housekeeping tiff, and the unknown heirs of the
between modern methods and those above named persons are defendants,
of yester year, when our. Colonial j as well as the unknown heirs of the
mothers held sway, is very>striking as unknown heirs of such persons, plain-
was convincingly brought out by tiff’s cause of action being as follows:
these two speakers. The modern Plaintiff says she was lawfully seized
Hotel dining room, instead of taking Weslaco won the local Valley -n hig efforts to secure a connected ,60 years.
place on Friday night. r championship title last Friday after- i hardsurfaced highway between Hous- | Speaking to the Young
This change also makes a change noon by defeating the fast aggrega- i £on an(j Brownsville along the route Lyceum in Springfield, 111., in
in the regular luncheon hour of the | tion from Edinburg by the score of 1 the Gulf Coast railroad
club. The noon day luncheon being 21 to 6. The game being played at
postponed until that evening at the , Mercedes in a cold, drizzling rain.
Tourist Hotel. This, however, does j The Robstown game will be called
not relieve any member from being1 promptly at 3 o’clock tomorrow
absent as the roll will be called and afternoon. It will doubtless be wit-
Notices have been received inRay-
mondville with the Glacier to Gulf
j Motorway Assn for a meeting to be
j held at the court house in Edna, Tex-
as, Saturday, November 7th, at 10 a,
absentees noted, who will be called nessed by several hundred fans from m
upon to give an account of their ab- this section as well as a goodly num- , T g me j for the purp0se of
ber from Robstown section. i ■ , , , , , . ‘
of the Wes- ! Promotin& a hard-surfaced road from
Houston to the Lower Rio Grande
sence.
The principal feature will be an
Armistice Day Program which will
be left in the hands of Roger F. Rob-
inson to work out, while Mrs. Lamar
Gill will be chairman of the ladies’
end of the entertainment.
The weight average
laco team is said to be around 160
pounds while the Robstown boys will I a e^‘
average around 155 pounds.
A good contest is assured as both
teams have had a wonderful record.
The club will have as their guests J Robstown boys have not been scored
on this occasion the entire faculty of , upon in the past two seasons.
the Raymondville schools. j -1---
I F. W. Lewer of Weslaco was in
town one day recently on business.
Mr. Lewer owns land east of town.
Merchants Suffer
Hallowe'en Pranks
All. county judges, commissioners
and chambers of coLumerce interested
in this proposition have been request-
ed by Judge Dancy to be represented
at this meeting.
1837, eery’ or delicatessen furnish her table
Abraham Lincoln said: : The public laundry or dry cleaning
“Let every American, every lover; establishment make life easy and
of liberty, every well-wisher of his j add to the ‘high cost of living’. Jazz
posterity, swear by the blood of the has taken the place of better music to
revolution never to violate in the least a considerable extent. “Getting by”
particular the law® ©f the' country, has entered too much into the feusi- Plaintiff pleads the
and never to tolerate their violation ness of living,
by others. As the patriots of ’76 did j Our good poet Longfellow sa/idr
to the support of the Declaration, of “Life is real! Life is earnest!
Furthermore,,
Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way;.
But to act, that each tomorrow
Find us farther than today.”
Chm.. Publicity Committee,
Lyford
Independence, so to the support of
the constitution and laws, let every
American pledge his life^, his property
and his sacred honor—let every man
remember that to violate the law is
to trample on the blood of his father,
and to tear the charter of Ms own and
his children’s liberty.
“Let reverence for the laws be
breathed by every American mother
to the lisping babe that prattles on
on the 11th day of September, 1925,
and defendants on said date unlaw-
fully ejected her from said land and
premises and withhold from her the
possession of same, to her damages
in the sum of one hundred dollars.
three , five and
ten year statute of limitation,, and
also under the partition had on the
28th day of May, 1889 in the District
Court of Cameron County, Texas,
i and plaintiff says the extent of the
' interest of said heirs is unknown to
j her. Plaintiff alleges that the claims
WARNING!!
On. account of losing so- many cattfe1
of defendants constitute a cloud on
her title which she is entitled to
have removed, and she prays that the
defendants be cited to appear and
answer by citation by publication for
eight weeks, in the manner and for
the time required by law, and that
o jspelling books and"ta ^manacsH^Tt i hmIters in tKe !>ast 1 take ' 011 final the d°ud the title
Misses Alma Dickinson, Olvia' be preached from pulpit, proclaimed meaM t0 not‘fy «e ««neral public to said land be removed.
Haylewood and Messrs. Harold Leh- in legislative halls and enforced in. j anF one f°und hunting or tres- You are further commanded to
man, Harry Ratliff of Weslaco were COttvts of justice and in short, let it! passing in my pastures, known as the serve this citation by publication the
visiting at the E, W. Archer home Vxannnna Gulf Coast and Harding-Gill tracts | ailTY10 in each week for 8 sueces-
Saturday.
The dining room was ueeurateu cu - - -------------------=- f u. i
carry out the Halloween spirit. The the rich and the poor, the brave and !
table was decorated with a center the gay of all sexes and tongues and
piece of yellow and orange
decorated to nationi and let the old and the young, prosecuted, to the fullest ex-1 s&?e weeks previous to the return day
Archie Clark. *
me ui tin atiitea ctuu iunu'ue»: hijlu
flowers,
colors and conditions, sacrifice un-
CITATION BY PUBLICATION
The State of Texas,.
Crowd of Merry Makers Play Havoc of business houses, while farm imple-
With Valuable Merchandise On Hal- merits, such as plows, discs, planters
lowe’en Night In This City. and other heavy machinery were car-
“An’ the gobblins ’ill git YOU, if ried to the roofs of buildings and
you don’t watch out”, is the closing placed conspiciously on edge of these
line of a familiar fairy story known buildings, where they remain as a
to old and young, but seems appli- silent reminder of the mischief car-
cable to this day and time, .although ried on last Saturday night. _
applied in modern terms means that' In dragging these heavy implements j^ee^oIwse^innOT3 was- seJved' by ' ceasingly upon, its altars.”
these particular gobblins are compos- over the paper roofs holes were torn MrS- Archer and Mrs. Breese to the It will be observed that Mr.. Lincoln
ed of a set of young men who have that will necessitate considerable re- following Misses Alma Dickinson, made no exception as to the laws
forgotten about the bed time stories p.a#s on these buildings. It will also Oliva Hazlewood, Priscilla Stevenson, which should be obeyed. He did not
of chivalry and are bent on having cost thes? merchants a pretty penny sa>’ those ** agrie with vnd
“a good time” at the expense of the to have these implements returned to Fred’ Bernar(fi
other fellow. j their proper places. _ | Mr. and mJs. W. 0. Mercer and
These gobblins evidently had it in 1 While none are denying others the family and Mr. and Mrs. Baker of
for a number of merchants in Ray- privilege of a good time, provided O'Keen, Okla.. are visiting in Lyford
mondville or were trying to have they do not destroy others’ property, this week. ^ ____^
some fun at the expense of these busi- yet these boys or young men are 1 Mrs. L. E. Gower, was* elected La^ Gutierrez-,. Pedro Hinojosa Valdez,
ness men for the following morning coming in for quite a bit of uncom- e^l^hich convenes im "connection of^L^stille"wfif LuiS Renand’ J’ N' Caicazos’ Fernan‘
revealed that the old town had been plimentary remarks for the damage with the Gulf Annual Conference, on Galveston this weke.. Ms;. Dreyer goes
turned “wrongside out”, Vehicles of they wrought last Saturday night. Dec. 4th. Mr. E. W. Archer was elect- 0n a business trip and will also visit
every description blocked the various And unless steps are taken by those ^ Reserve Lay Delegate:......his mother Mrs. A. Kelihr who resides whose names are unknown to> appear
thoroughfares, automobiles were responsible for this damage to make ' Cannon of San Benito visited, in Galveston. Mir. Wright is a travel!- at the next regular term- of the dist-
, a *, ’ . , "eie 1 ..f, , , , Mr. Oren Harris Sunday. mg salesman foe the Galveston Dry • ,
turned upside down m the streets and due reparations action will be started Mr_ Burt Gambill of Harlingen was. Goods Company , and goes- on a busiV " ^ I u
others put on the sidewalks in front to them to account. a business visitor in Lyford, Tuesdays ness trip;.
your county, hut if no newspaper is
published, in said county, then in the
nearest county wheiw ft- newspaper is
published,
Herein fail not, but have you be-
fore said court, on the first day of the
next terms hererf this writ, with your
return thereon, showing how you
To The' Sheriff or any constable
not those which are. contrary to your; Willacy County—Greeting.
opinion or wishes. If he were alive- You are hereby commanded to sum- fiave executed same,
today, he would make the same ap- 1 mon the ur*n0wn heirs of Jose Nar- witness Ben S. Duffield, Clerk of
peal.—Houston Ghronicfe. ; cisco Cavazas, Maria Ygnaeia Cava-
| zos, Maria Guadalupe.- Cavazos y
Hinojosa
of Willacy
do Levrier, Geronimo Guzman and
Maria Josef a Cavazos,, all deceased,
to be held' at the court. House, in the-
tire Civil District Court
County, Texas.
Given under my hand and seal of
3aid court in the city of Willacy,
this 1st dhy of October, 1925.
Issued this l:st„ day of October, 1925.
(/Seal) Ben: S, Duffield,
Clerk Civil DSst. Court, Willacy Co.,
Texas-. 40-8t
Second TVIontlnl'y
TRADES DAY SATURDAY
NOVEMBER 7th 192S
Will find our store ready to meet the requirements of our hundreds of customers. We hare stocked our
shelves with the latest in
Every Day Wanted Merchandise
From the needs of the working classes to; the demand of the prosperous housewife and business man.
Very Latest Ini Ladies And Misses Wearables
Our Buyer has just retuned from and extensive purchasing trip where she was enabled
to select at first hand the very latest designs, styles and colors in ladies’ misses’
and children’s coats, dresses, hats, sweeaters and other wearing ap-
parel. A visit to our store will: convince you of the necessity of fitting your wardrobe
out for the long winter months.
Don’t Forget That LaComa Merchandise Has No Equal
Your trade day tickets will be given on every
50 cents purchase in our store. You may be
the iucky holder. Tickets given away up to 12
o’clock (noon) Saturday, November 7th, entitle
you to participate in the drawing on that day.
Staple And Fancy Groceries
Of every kind and description can be bought at La Coma. Our
Grocery Department is replete with many special bargains for
Raymondville’s second Monthly Trades Day. Come and let us
show you.
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LA COMA MERCANTILE COMPANY
The Pioneer Merchants
RAYMONDVILLE, TEXAS
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Moritz, Isasdore. Willacy County News (Raymondville, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 5, 1925, newspaper, November 5, 1925; Raymondville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth874371/m1/3/: accessed July 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Reber Memorial Library.