The Junction Eagle (Junction, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, October 10, 1924 Page: 1 of 8
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‘How Much?”—is not the only important queetkm.
“What Kind?” !■ another just as important.
BUTT & GARRETT, Incorporated
Buy Your Stoves From Us!
JUNCTION HARDWARE COMPANY
THE JUNCTION EAGLE
Volume XLI.
Junction, Kimble County, Texas, Friday, October 10, 1921.
Number 25.
JUNCTION POSTER
BOARDS INSPECTED.
W. H. Reaney, traveling in-
spector for the Poster Advertis-
ing Co., of New York City, a
company which places a major-
ity of he Poster Advertising of
t he United States, was here the
first of the week checking up
the local plant, which is com-
posed of four double panel
boards located along the main
street of the town.
After carefully examining the
individual boards, Mr. Reaney
stated that these were the most
perfect in construction that he
had seen in this part of the
Slate, and were as good as any
in his territory, comprising the
States of Texas, New Mexico
and Colorado. The local boards
are put together with bolts in-
stead of nails, which makes the
boards stronger and less liable
to damage from windstorms.
Only one other plant in this en-
tire territory is built this way.
This method of construction is
more expensive, but is cheaper
in the long run.
The advertising panels were
found to be in perfect condi-
tion and the owners of the plant
were complimented on the man-
ner in which they were handling
the advertising sent them.
While the plant is less than
a year old, it has been filled
with advertising practically all
this year. Besides the foreign
< r national advertisers, Phillip
Joseph and the Junction Tailor
Shop have been using some of
the panels to advertise their
merchandise; Mr. Joseph having
used some seven or eight
months’ showing._
MAY CHANGE NAMES
OF TEXAS ASYLUMS.
Austin, Oct. 5.—Steps may be
taken to change names ot the
several asylums in the State.
The superintendent of these in-
stitutions are objecting to con-
tinued use of the words “insane
asylum.” This fact was dis-
,Uwd here when the superin-
tendents of these institutions
appeared before the board ot
(ontrol with their biennial bud-
gets.
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asylums as designation of the
wards for mental defectives is
based primarily on the reaction
it causes on the minds of the
public. The change, if made,
wi uld designate these institu-
tions as State hospitals.
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STATE AND COUNTY
TAX RATE IS $1.57.
Tax Assessor Joe Bissett gave
us the following facts about tax-
es, lands, etc., taken from his
official records:
County tax rate, 82c, State
tax rate 75c. In School District
No. 1, the special tax rate is 50c
and the bond tax 25c, totaling
75c for school purposes. Dis-
trict road bond 12c, making a
total for property tax payer of
Junction $2.44. The rate in oth-
er parts of the county will, of
course, vary with the amount
t.f local school tax levied.
For this year the following
renditions were made:
Lands rendered— (residents)
562,517; (non-residents) 209,-
106; unrendered, 24,123; total
assessed land values is $2,084,-
322. Cattle, total number, 23,-
034, value $280,758; sheep, total
number, 131,795, value $527,-
180; goats, total number, 138,-
794, value $277,588; horses and
mules, total number, 2,948, val-
ue $68,802; Jacks 7, value $220;
hogs 874, value $2,308.
The total assessed valuaton
of the county is $4,210,357.
The average land value ren-
dered per acre is $2.87. The
amount of taxes collected for
the county is $34,522, and the
total for the State is $31,597.
CASE SETTLED IN
ROCKSPRINGS COURT.
The case of Edwards County
vs. Real County, in which.Ed-
vards was suing Real concern-
ing the Rocksprings bond issue,
was compromised in the Ed-
wards County term of District
Court last week. The case was
compromised by Edwards Coun-
ty accepting the money that had
been collected by Real for that
purpose and dismissing the case
from the courts.
The Real County Commission-
ers and J. W. liaynes were in
attendance at court there the
latter part of last week.—
Leakey Leader.
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\Y. A. Bannowsky who was
n town Monday stated that the
mins of Sunday extended only
a short distance north of his
ranch on Bear Creek.
FOOT AND MOUTH DIS-
EASE IN SOUTH TEXAS.
Houston, Oct. 5.—Thirteen
hundred range cattle in four
herds on pastures adjoining the
premises where 1,900 were
slaughtered Friday, will be kill-
ed in the second major opera-
tion of the federal government
to check a spread of the foot
and mouth disease in South
Texas An announcement at
the office of Dr. Marion Imes,
federal director of disease erad-
ication, said that the four herds
were known as contact herds
and that it was deemed necessa-
ry to destroy them in order to
create a space between the in-
fected premises and the free
territory.
“YVe feel confident,” the an-
nouncement recited, “that these
cattle will soon break down with
the disease. They have inter-
mingled with the infected cattle
killed, principally through gaps
they made in poorly constructed
fences. In some instances they
have come in connection with
them through a common water
supply.”
A ditch for burying the 1,300
cattle marked for destruction
was dug Saturday. Present
plans contemplate shoot i n g
them Sunday.
Even if it is found necessary
to kill the entire number, it was
pointed out., the operation would
not compare with the slaughter
in the California epidemic when
125,000 cattle, hogs, sheep and
goats were destroyed before the
disease was chocked. Moreover,
it was added, in California there
were four principal points of
infection—in or near Oakland,
Merced, Sonora and Los Angel-
os—whereas in South Texas the
authorities are dealing as yet
with but one.
i» —
M. B. Stockton and son were
business visitors in Junction
Tuesday. Mr. Stockton lives in
the extreme northwest corner
ot the county and does not get
down this way very often. Con-
ditions out his way are very
satisfactory, he says, as the re-
cent rams have brought out a
fine lot of grass and weeds and j di
livestock are doing well.
COMPLETE STAGE EQUIP-
MENT FOR AUDITORIUM.
The local school hoard, com-
posed of Oren C. Reid, W. P.
Riley and G. R. Ragland, met
Monday night with a saleslady
from an Oklahoma City Sign
concern and purchased equip-
ment for the stage in the local
school auditorium.
The equipment consists of the
following: One full size front
curtain for front, a woodland
scene curtain for rear of stage
and an extra curtain to be used
in front of the rear curtain to
produce a parlor scene, two pairs
of wings, a pair of tormentors
or borders for entire front of
stage, wing and ground drapery
and all ropes, pulleys, etc., for
properly handling the stage
equipment.
The total cost will run about
$700.00, and the trustees hope
to make up this money by sell-
ing advertising space on the
large front curtain.
With this equipment the
stage will take on an entirely
different appearance and will be
ready for any kind <>f plays <>r
other programs that may be
rendered in the auditorium.
LABORS OF P. BLOWHARI)
AND T. TIGHTWAD.
High taxes and hard times
are the chief stock in trade of
the peanut politician. As far
back as we can remember, Peter
Blowhard and Tickycus Tight-
wad have been loading the folks
up with gruesome tales of high
taxes and hard times. As far
back as w’o can remember, a lot
of people who refuse to allow
their brain cells to function,
get their systems so full of the
rot which these two gents ped-
dle out to them, that the habit
of beefing and bellyaching be-
cause they are forced to per-
form a sacred, patriotic duty,
becomes second nature with
them.
Like young birds, their
mouths are always open to take
in whatever Ticky and Peter put
into them, and they swallow it
as a young bird swallows a
worm—believing it is alright,
and never doubting but that
1 icky and Peter are feeding
them the worms of wisdom and
the juicy bugs of knowledge. In
this way Ticky and Peter man-
age to keep these poor tish
sore at the world, and when the
time comes to “kick in” the tax
money, the best money they
ever paid out, they look on the
tax collector as a highjacker.
Mrs. J. F7. Davis, a resident of j Uld Peter and Ticky tell them
this county for more than 35*a',out “them good old times,
years, died Monday afternoon at j vvay back yander” when taxes
the home of her daughter, Mrs. j were ,(>w, good times and the
Frank Bissett, in Junction. She i poow hung at a great altitude;
has been ill for some time and 1‘Jut Peter and Ticky never tell
during the last few days was j them that in “them good old
moved here from her home east j times, were the days of bad
of town. 1 roa(ls* ()X carts, log houses; one-
Deceased was born in Palo rauU‘s’ scooter plows, bro-
pinto County in 1850 and spent i «an Jea» britches, hick-
most of her early life in Bur-1 orv shirts, yarn gallues, tallow
nett County. In 1879, she mar- candles, sugarless year, dirt
lied J. K. Davis, who with her i b°or school shacks, darned ig-
daughter, Mrs. Frank Bissett, | ,u>rance and siq>erst it ion, for all
and seven sons, Kan, Black, Don which we had to work like
nis, Ambres, Loss, Ed, and b-ll thirteen months in the year
Hays, survive her. Ed lives at In “them good old times," no
Eldorado and Ambres at Moun- one ever talked over a telephone
tain Home. The other children “listened in” a radio, rode in a
live near Junction. jitney, heard a phonograph,
Funeral services were condue- a man’s “innard" with the
ted by Rev. R. E. Parker, Tues-! M*d by an electric light,
afternoon and interment ‘ *,M)k more than one bath a year,
MRS. DAVIS DIES AT
HOME OF DAUGHTER.
made at the local cemetery.
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Perry, H. Grady. The Junction Eagle (Junction, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, October 10, 1924, newspaper, October 10, 1924; Junction, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth890760/m1/1/?rotate=270: accessed June 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .