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Hostile Valley
By Ben Ames Williams
(Copyright—WNU Service)
SYNOPSIS
At a gathering- of cronies in the
village of Liberty, Maine, Jim Sala-
dine listens to the histoi-y of the
neighboring Hostile Valley—its past
ti'agedies, its superb fishing sti-eams,
and, above all, the mysterious, entic-
ing “Huldy,” wife of Will Ferrin.
Interested, he drives to the Valley
for a day’s fishing, though admit-
ting to himself his chief desii’e is
to see the glamorous Huldy Ferrin.
“Old iei w.d her nine-
teen-year-old granddaughter Jenny,
live in the Valley. S ;ce childhood
Jenny has deeply loved young Will
Ferrin, older than she, and who re-
gards her as still a .child. Will leaves
to take employment in nearby Aug-
usta. His father’s death brings Will
back to the Valley, but he returns to
Augusta, still unconscious of Jenny’s
womanhood, and love. Neighbors of
the Pierces are Bait and Amy Carey,
brother and sister. Bart, unmarried
and something of a ne’ei--do-well, is
attracted by Jenny. The girl repulses
him definitely. Learning that Will is
coming home, Jenny, exulting, sets
his long-empty house “to rights,” and
has dinner ready for him. He comes
—bringing his wife, Huldy. The girl’s
world collapses. Huldy becomes the
subject of unfavorable gossip in the
Valley.
CHAPTER III—Continued
—6—
Leaving the house, she had set out
at random toward the deep shade of
the woods. She came to the brook be-
low Will’s farm, and stayed there by
the stream a while, leaning against a
tree, her hands behind her, her eyes
shadowed, deep in long thoughts of
him; and presently she crossed the
sti-eam whei’e boulders gave a foot-
ing. Above her, a rocky precipice rose
fifty or sixty feet abruptly from the
head of the grout pile that sloped
down to the brook; but to one side
there was a path she knew, where
by a steep scramble she might come
to the gentler slopes above. And it
occurred to her that, going cautious-
ly, she might have some far glimpse
of Will, busy in his fields. The thought
drew her irresistibly; she began to
slimb.
She meant not to speak to Will or
show herself to him; yet to see him,
oven from far off, would be happi-
ness.
The trail was steep and she was
varm and panting. At the top of the
rise, the path swung to the right,
where broken ledges served like a
light of stairs, to debouch at last
lpon a smooth ledge like an epaulet
>n this shoulder of the hill. Below
xe ledge there was a straight fall
>r sixty feet or more; and the ledge
>oked out across the lower trees,
oross the sweep of valley. Jenny
new the spot of old, and loved it,
o.
But when she came there today,
uldy was before her. Jenny saw
ir in a confused impression of naked
3sh golden from the sun. Huldy lay
; length on a mossy bank at the
;ad of the ledge, where low junipers
srved as a screen on the side toward
ie house; and she must have heai'd
rnny’s panting approach, for as the
rl appeared she half-covered her-
lf with a garment caught up quick-
. Yet did not rise, but still lay
iere, looking at Jenny with that
nile the girl found so disquieting.
Jenny for a moment could not
teak; she stared at Huldy, and star-
1 all around, and Huldy said in
nused dex’ision:
“There’s nobody here only me!”
“Somebody might come along,”
mny protested, her cheek crimson
ith shame for the other woman,
fou hadn’t ought to lay there, like
at. They’ll see you!”
Huldy’s dark eyes widened. “What
they did?” she countered, smiling.
And Jenny found no answer that
mid be uttered calmly. Then Huldy
>oke again. “I guess yo’re looking
.r Will,” she said mockingly. “He’s
the upper field.”
Deep color stained Jenny’s cheek
id brow, and drained away and left
sr white and still. She shook her
jad. “No,” she said, huskily. “No!”
“You’ve trailed around after him a-
enty,” Huldy insisted, in complacent
:orn. “If you wanted him, why didn’t
5u get him, Jenny?”
Jenny had no weapons adequate for
us encounter; she could not hope—
' wish—to meet the other wqman on
/en terms. Yet there lay in her that
ng devotion to Will which was like
rock of strength upon which she
xuld lean; and she found suddenly
lat she knew many things she had
ot guessed before.
“I’d not want what you want from
man,” she said steadily. “Nor bait
im the way you do.”
Huldy’s eyes narrowed in dry an-
*er. “Nor you wouldn’t get him,
ither,” she retorted. v
“But if I did, I’d know how to keep
im,” Jenny countered. “And that’s
ne thing you’ll never know!”
And she turned on her heel, so
wiftly that she left Huldy in a sort
f frenzy of rage. Jenny, dropping
own the trail to the brook again,
eard the other’s harsh, strangling
bjurgations hideous in the sunned
beauty of the afternoon; till the
sweet brook song filled her eai-s,
drowning ugly sounds.
And from that day Jenny under-
stood Huldy, completely; and without
word from Marm Piei*ce, or from
Amy, or from any other at all. Yet,
she went no more to the brook, or
up the scrambling trail. Between her
and Will there was a bander raised
which she could never seek to pass
or set aside; and she accepted this
fact, and found a way to cloak hex-
grief and sorrow.
Only her heart brooded over Will in
an agony of longing to protect him
from the hurt she knew must some
day come.
After that day in June when he
and Huldy x-eturned to the little house
in the Valley, Jenny did not see Will
till Octobei'. Fall that year came
early, with a swift frost stroke that
brushed color all across the hills till
they were clad in gold and crimson
glory. Then followed days of sun and
breathless airs. Ordinarily, by the
third week in October, the alders and
the birch saplings are stripped; the
oaks and beeches are losing their
topmost leaves. But this year the
first deep frost was followed by no
rain nor wind to tear the bright leaves
from their tenuous hold, till in the
last week of October frost gripped
the land again. It settled heavy in
the Valley; and when the sun rose,
the leaves were locked in an icy clasp,
held in place by the very frost that
was their destruction. Then as the
sun climbed higher and the day wann-
ed, the frost melted, and at first by
ones and twos and then by dozens
and by scores, the leaves came down,
falling silently, like a bright rain of
color through the woods.
Jenny, at mid-morning, left the
house and went past the barn toward
the young second growth of birch and
1 -cecli at the meadow-side, to watch
this silent falling rain of bright
leaves; and she was there, sitting- on
the stone wall, warm in the sun, when
she saw a movement in the deeper
shadows of the black growth, some
two hundred yards away. Saw a man,
winning!
Her heart swelled with the quick
perception that this was Will. He
came at speed, his hands clenched and
pounding at his sides, his head for-
ward as though reaching out to fill
his lungs with air; and she thought
he came to seek her, and thus think-
ing she rose to her feet and stood
waiting in a tender readiness to re-
ceive and comfort him.
But he emerged from the spruce
wood, and without pause swung to
the left and disappeared again.
She understood, after a moment,
that he had gone toward the steam
inill down the Valley; and he was in
such a haste of passion that even
from this distance she seemed to feel
the fury in the man.
It could not be fear that drove
him! Will would not thus run in
fear. It must be anger, then; and
swift conjecture lashed her with bit-
ing strokes, while she went slowly,
like one dazed, across the open to
the house, and into the kitchen there.
Marm Pierce, at her coming, look-
ed up, and saw her countenance.
“What’s the matter, Jen?” she ask-
ed sharply. “What’s wrong with
you ?”
“Will,” the girl whispered.
“What about Will?”
“He came running along the path,
and went down toward the steam
mill,” Jenny said. “Running, like he
was awful mad.”
Silence for a long xhoment, and
Marm Pierce nodded in slow compre-
hension. “Well, it was bound to come,”
she said, half to herself. “He’s found
out, somehow, about Seth Hum-
phreys.”
“But Granny,” Jenny cried. “I . . .”
Mairm Pierce shook her head.
“Nought to do, child,” she said gent-
ly. “Nought but set and wait. Will’s
found out he’s made a bad trade;
but he’s the only one can get him
out of it.”
And she came to the girl, and put
her arm around Jenny’s shoulder.
“Rest you, Jen,” she said. “It’s the
hard part a woman has, to stay quiet
while her man’s in danger; but there’s
no other way!”
CHAPTER IV
It would' be a long time before
Jenny knew the full tale of that day’s
events. The latter part of the drama
she witnessed, and had in it a part;
but the beginning was hidden from
her for the time.
If during these months since he
brought Huldy home, his wife had be-
come a by-word in the Valley and in
the wide region roundabout, Will—as
is apt to be the case—was the last to
know this. Yet he was not wholly in
ignorance. He might not admit even
to himself doubt or misgiving, for
there was in this man a fine loyalty;
nevertheless he was not witless, nor
wholly blind, nor could any man lov-
ing Huldy as intensely as he did be
unconscious of those withdrawals and
evasions and scornful mockeries which
she offered him behind the screen of
her arrogantly yielding smile.
He never even shaped doubt of her
in his thoughts; yet just as one walk-
ing alone through a deep wood may
be conscious of a movement behind
him, so Will was conscious of many
things that happened "just beyond his
sight or ken.
He was thus in some degree pre-
pared for what occurred this day. It
was not that he had known anything
before; but rather that with a sixth
sense he felt certain things, and was
brought into a frame of mind where
full comprehension and belief were
made easy, where it needed no more
than one tangible peg in order for him
to pick up and hang upon it the whole
web of his wife’s deceptions.
He had been all the long summer
vex-y busy about the farm. The fields
and meadows, untended for one sum-
mer season, had alx-eady begun to
surrender to the seduction of the for-
est all about, permitting the en-
croachments of small shoots and seed-
lings which must now be grubbed back
and cut away. Will had worked
steadily, and dusk each day found
him bone-tired, so that he might nod
at the supper table, and px-esently
thereafter go quickly and heavily to
bed, and sleep till dawn.
He loved Huldy; but after the first
rapture of possession passed, he lov-
ed also his farm of his father’s and
with an almost equal ax-dor, serving
it with the full measure of his
strength and enex-gy. At night he was
hungry only for sleep, and he rose
to work again at dawn.
But Huldy needed no more sleep
than a cat. Sometimes Will, drows-
ing in his chair after supper, waked
to find her watching him with a dis-
quieting eye; and more than once on
summer nights she had roused him,
shaking him by the shoulder, a hot
fury in her tones, demanding that he
px-ove himsg/f something more than
a doox-mouse of a man.
So when the time did come, he was
prepared for comprehension. There
had been many visitors at the farm
that summer. Will at first discovered
in these visits no rnoi-e than the nat-
ural curiosity of his neighbors to see
this bride of whom he was so proud.
Bart Carey came, and old Win Haven
not infrequently; and then Seth Hum-
phreys, whom Will—and Huldy—had
known in Augusta, brought his steam
mill to the Valley. Also others who
had known Huldy in Augusta came to
lodge at Bart’s and fish the brook
below, although they had never come
before.
Will, when he wooed Huldy, knew
her popularity; yet he was continu-
ally being reminded of it now. He
might return from the fields at dusk
to find some stranger sitting with
her in the kitchen, in an easy fam-
iliarity; and on his arrival, the stran-
ger and Huldy were apt to fall silent,
and the man presently to take him-
self away.
On this day when Jenny saw Will
run toward Seth Humphrey’s mill,
he had planned to go to Liberty to
get some lumber for a piece of re-
pair wox-k on the barn; some studding,
and a bundle of shingles. He set out
in the farm wagon, behind his slow
team. Huldy asked whether he would
be home in time for dinner. Will
thought not.
“Don’t have me on your mind. I’ll
pick up a bite when I get back,” he
said.
He took the steep ro^d up the hill;
and a little above the house he met
Seth Humphrey’s big truck, Seth at
the wheel, descending. Will lifted a
hand to the other man as they passed
by. Seth was hauling his sawed lumr
ber to North Fraternity; hut the
easier road back to the mill would
have bx-ought him to the Valley at
its foot, three ox- four miles lower
down'. Will was mildly surprised that
Seth should have come this way.
Yet the matter stayed not long in
his mind. He thought casually that
Seth might mean to stop at Bart
Carey’s. His horses plodded slowly
up the steep grade; he breathed then
twice, and so came to the ridge road
and turned south toward Libei‘ty.
He was fifteen or twenty minutes
from the house when the right rear
wheel of his wagon dropped off; and
Will, alighting to investigate, found
that he had lost the nut which held
the wheel in place. The incident
might have provoked a less compos-
ed man to irritation; but Will accept-
ed it calmly enough. He walked back
along the road, searching in the ditch
and by the roadside for the lost nut;
but the weeds were tall in the ditch,
and the nut escaped his search. It
was always possible that he might
have dropped it a considerable time
before the wheel, slowly x-evolving,
worked off the axle and let go. In the
end, as the quicker way, Will decided
to cut down through the woods to his
farm, where he could find a spare nut
among the miscellanfeous litter :of
hardware which accumulates in every
farmer’s shed; so he returned to the
wagon and led the horses off the road
to let casual traffic pass by, and tied
them there. Then he set out to walk
home.
It was not far, in a straight line
through the woods. Five minutes fast
walking brought him into his upper
field, with the house in plain sight
below. He paid it no particular heed
at first, coming on rapidly to do this
errand; but as he drew nearer, he
saw, stopped in the road in front of
the house, Seth Humphrey’s truck.
Seth passing by, must have alighted
fox- a word with Huldy. There was in
this nothing unusual, yet Will vague-
ly resented it. The inconvenience of
the lost nut had faintly frayed his
temper; the sight of Seth’s truck
stopped here—Seth must have been
with Huldy for a long half hour—
made Will’s cheek hot, his pulse fret-
ful. v He went on toward the house
more swiftly; and across the barn-
yard to the kitchen dooi\
The door was closed; and this was
in some degree surprising, for the
day was warm. Will opened the door
and stepped in.
Neither Huldy nor Seth was in the
kitchen; and when Will saw the kit-
chen empty, he stood rooted in his
tracks for an instant that may have
been longer. Then he called, harshly,
his wife’s name.’ There was no reply.
Beyond the kitchen lay the dining-
room. Will crossed to the dining room
door. The bedroom opened off the
dining room, in the front of the house,
toward the road. The bedroonf door
was closed; but Will heard movement
thex-e, and strode that way. His cheek
was white as stone.
Before he could come to the door,
however, it opened, and Huldy con-
fronted him. She stood, smiling inso-
lently, as though she were just awak-
ened from deep sleep.
He said hoarsely: “What you do-
ing?”
“I laid down a spell,” she told him.
“Where’s Seth gone to?” he de-
manded.
“Seth?” Her tone was amused, de-
risive.
“His truck’s in the road outside.”
There was a window in the bed-
room on the side toward the road;
she turned to look out of this win-
dow, but without moving. “I don’t
see it,” she retorted maddeningly.
Will bi-ushed past her, himself look-
ed out. The truck in fact was gone;
but the screen which belonged in the
window lay on the ground outside, and
it was broken as though a heavy foot
had stepped upon the light mesh.
Will turned back into the room. He
passed Huldy silently; but she caught
his arm.
“Where you going?”
“After him,” said Will, in thick
tones strange to his own ears.
“Why?” she challenged.
He shook loose, freed himself fi-om
her, moved toward the kitchen. She
said’ behind him ,in a rising, defens-
ive fury:
“You work all day and sleep all
night. What do you look for me to
do?”
He swung to face her, and there
was death in his eyes. “I’ll be back
to ’tend to you,” he said; and with
no further word burst through the kit-
chen and away.
She came, with one of her rare
quick movements, after him as far
as the kitchen door; she called mock-
ingly:
“Go on, then! But time yo’re done
with Seth, there’s a-plenty more!”
Will, if he heax-d, made no sign;
he went plunging through the barn
and down through the orchard. Hul-
dy stayed in the kitchen door, and
the sun struck her pleasantly, and
she smiled, standing there alone. If
she had any regret, it was only that
she would not be at hand to see Will
and Seth when they came together.
But Seth Humphreys, when he slip-
ped away from the house, was more
disturbed by the situation. He had
a lively respect for Will’s physical
powers; and he leaped into the truck
and let it coast silently down the hill.
Also, he stopped at Bai-t Carey’s farm
beyond the bridge, and there tried to
make his tone and his demeanor us-
ual, and stayed a while, talking of
the fishing, or of the weather. But
while he talked, he looked back along
the road, expecting to see Will ap-
proaching; he stayed here in order
to have Bart at his back if Will
should come.
(To be Continued)
PASTORS OF LLANO DIS-
TRICT HOLD MEETING
The pastors of the twelve Methodist
Churches in the Llano district held a
special meeting at the local Method-
ist Church at 9:30 o’clock Monday
morning and discussed plans for
their work during the coming year.
Dr. Charles Nixon of Llano, presiding-
elder of this district, had charge of
the meeting. Dr. Nixon held the first
quarterly conference at the church
Sunday night following the regular
service.
Dance Old Fire Hall Saturday
night. Music by June Cox. (dw)
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Garnel and
Misses Iva Lee Gibbs and Betty May
spent Sunday in Bertram with Mrs.
Gamel’s pax-ents, Mr. and Mrs. John
W. Davidson.
REP. ADKINS DISCUSSED
RECENTLY PASSED LAWS
Troy Pool and Elza Hodges at-
tended District Court in Burnet, Mon-
day.
Glenn Gamel was a business visitor
in Burnet, Monday morning.
In discussing the measui'es that
confronted the last two called sessions
of the Texas legislature, W. H. Ad-
kins, representative of the 93rd leg-
islative district, has given out the
following:
“The two called sessions of the 44th
legislature h a d, without question,
some of the most perplexing and far
reaching measures to confront it, that
has ever been befox-e that body for
enactment.
“The old age assistance bill that
received a four-to-one majority, not
only in this district, but throughout
the State was, in my opinion, the
problem cf most consequence. The bill
as it was finally passed, does not
meet with my approval in all respects.
The law as enacted is the bill as pre-
pared and agreed upon by the free
conference committees of the house
and senate. It provides that the State
shall begin the payment of pensions
not later than July 1, 1936. For that
reason, as well as other reasons of
minor import, I voted against the ac-
ceptance of the free conference re-
port. The report was, however, adopt-
ed by. a substantial vote, and in oi'-
der that the bill might receive a two-
thirds vote of the house and go into
immediate effect, I supported it on
final passage. The senate, however,
refused it the necessary two-thirds
vote, and due to that fact it will not
become a law until Feb. 14, 1936.
“The measure passed the house
about 11 a. m. Nov. 8, and believing
that the senate would give it a two-
thirds vote, Mr. - A. M. Aikin and I
immediately made appointment with
the governor with the idea in mind
of getting him to submit- the subject
of appropriating $5,000,000 fi’orn the
general revenue fund to the old age
assistance fund in order that pay-
ment of tlje pensions might begin not
later than Jan. 1, 1936. We had the
bill prepared and ready to introduce.
We interviewed the governor at 1:30
p. m. the same day the bill was pass-
ed, but the governor refused to sub-
mit the matter to the house, and we
were deprived cf the opportunity to
make immediate payment possible if
it was given the necessary vote in the
senate. I contended then and I con-
tend now, that those who are en-
tiled to the benefits of the law’s pro-
visions, should receive it as soon as
it is possible to perfect the neces-
sary set-up for its administration.
“In addition to the above objection,
the administrative cost will be far
too great. Instead of the creation of
another cumbersome red tape ma-
chine, at an enormous cost, the ad-
ministration should have been left to
one of the depai'tments of govern-
ment already in existence. The Con-
federate pension, while not of the
magnitude of the bill under discus-
sion, was handled in an efficient and
eccnoxxxical manner, and this law
could and should have been enacted
without the creation of another army
of money spenders.
“The qualifications for those en-
itkd to receive pensions under the
lav/ are as follows:
“(a) Has attained the age of sixty-
five (65) years.
“(b) Is a citizen of the United
States.
“(c) Has resided in the State of
Texas for five (5) years or ixiore with-
in the last xxixxe (9) years px-eceding
the date of application for assistance,
and has resided in the State of Tex-
as continuoxxsly for one year imnxe-
diately preceding the application. The
terixi “residence” and “resided” as us-
ed in this act shall denote actual
physical presexxce within this State
as distinguished froixi the word “do-
micile” and “x’esidence” as used in
their broader meaning.
“(d) Is xxot at the time of receiving
such aid an inmate of any public or
private home for the aged, or any
public home or axxy public or private
institution of a custodial, correction-
al, or curative character; provided,
however, that aid xxxay be granted to
persons temporarily confined in a pri-
vate institution for medical or sur-
gical cafes;
“(e) Has not made any voluntary
assignment or transfer of property
for the purpose of qualifying for
such aid;
“(f) Has an income, if a single
person, from any and all sources not
exceeding Three Hundred Sixty Dol-
lars ($360.00) per year, or if mar-
ried, a combined income froixx money
and all sources not exceeding Seven
Hundred Twenty Dollars ($720.00) per
year.
“(g) Does not own property real
personal, or mixed other than cash
or marketable sepurities, the fair
value of which taking into considera-
tion assessed valuations for State and
county purposes less all incumbran-
ces and liens, exceeds, if single, Five
thousand Dollars ($5,000), or if mar-
ried, does not own property real per-
sonal, or mixed other than cash or
marketable securities, the fair value
of which taking into consideration as-
sessed valuations for State and coun-
ty tax purposes less all incumbran-
ces and liens, exceeds Seven Thou-
sand Five Hundred Dollars ($7,-
LAMPASAS BUSINESS SECTION
LIGHTED FOR HOLIDAYS
Many of the Lampasas merchants
now have their colored lights burn-
ing each evening and this makes
quite an impression on those who have
Christmas shopping uppermost in
their minds at this time. Through
the cooperation of the business firms,
several strings of bright colored
lights have been placed across the
streets in the business section and
this looks good and helps to bring
out the holiday spirit of the stores.
Show windows are attractively ar-
ranged with gift suggestions and
they attract many of the people who
come down to town in the evenings
to see what is shown and suggested.
The weather has been ideal for the
past few days and Lampasas business
houses are selling Chi’istmas mer-
chandise evei’y day. Don’t wait un-
til all stocks have been picked over,
but make your selections early and
avoid disappointments. It won’t be
long now.
Mr. and Mrs. Newt West and
daughter, Miss Gladys, moved Mon-
day morning to the Mrs. Helen Alex-
ander house on West Second street.
John Peeler of Austin visited Sun-
day in the home of his mother, Mrs.
A. Peeler.
500.00);
“(h) Does not have or own cash
or marketable securities, the fair
value of which exceeds Five Hun-
dred Dollars ($500.00) if single, or if
married, does not have or own cash
or marketable securities, the fair
value o" which exceeds One Thou-
sand Dollars ($1,900.00);
“(i) Is not an habitual ci'iminal or
an habitual drunkard;
“(j) Who has no husband or wife,
as the case may be, able to furnish
him or her adequate suppoi't.
“I opposed the Driver’s license law
for two reasons: First, I had many
protests from citizens of my district,
and second, because I did not think
the law needed.
“We now have statutes covering
everything that is covered by the law
enacted, or pi’actically every phase
covered by the new statute, but they
are not enforced. I do not think we
need any additional laws, but we do
need the present statutes governing
the operation of motor vehicles en-
forced. With proper law enforcement,
our present laws are wholly adequate
to induce highway injuries and fatali-
ties to a minimum.
“The senate bill providing for a
Driver’s license that wTas sent the
house for passage was an oppressive
piece of legislation, evidently spon-
sored by the insurance companies. I
would not suppoi't a bill that would
work additional cost and untold in-
conveniences on the people of my
district. I suppoi'ted a substitute that
was offered in lieu of the senate bill
until its adoption, and then voted
against the substitute upon final pas-
sage.
“If the speed law, the headlight
law, the law requiring motor vehicles
to be operated upon the right-hand
side of the road, the drunk and driv-
ing law, and the various other laws
favoring the driving of automobiles
in Texas were enforced, we would
need no Driver’s license law. Will the
new law be enforced any better than
the old laws have been?
“The liquor law as passed, is sub-
ject to some ci’iticism, but in a gen-
eral way has my indorsement. A
strong effort was made to permit the
sale by drink or hard liquor in cafes
and hotels, but was finally defeated.
The obstinacy of the preponents of
the- sale by drink bill, prevented the
passage of the liquor bill in the eaidy
days of the first called session.
“The “officer’s fee bill” effects the
counties of my district but little. It
sets a minimum and a maximum sal-
ary in counties of less than twenty
thousand inhabitants, and provides
that in such counties the officers may
remain on a fee basis, leaving it op-
tional with the commissioners’ court
of each county.
“The natural resources of Texas
are escaping taxation. Of course they
pay into the State treasury a small
amount of revenue,' but are escaping
their just proportion of governmental
upkeep. It was proposed to tax crude
oil produced in Texas and eighty-five
percent of which is shipped beyond
the confines of the State, five cents a
barrel. This would have produced
about $16,000,900 in additional rev-
enue, or aboirt enough to pay the old
age assistance. A substantial increase
was proposed on sulphur. It was only
increased 15 cents per ton. Vai'ious
other levies were attempted but to
no avail.
“A reasonable increase in the tax
on natural resources of Texas will
pay the old age assistance, and en-
able the State to return to a cash
basis, and stay there.
“I have used more space, perhaps,
than I am entitled to, and can’t dis-
cuss each law at length, but I have
tried to reflect the sentiment of my
district in my legislative conduct, and
respectfully submit the above for your
consideration.”
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The Lampasas Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. [47], No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, December 13, 1935, newspaper, December 13, 1935; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth891117/m1/3/: accessed July 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lampasas Public Library.