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3rd Year
Lampasas, Texas, Friday, October 16,1931
Number 52
NG LADY SHOOTS
SELF WITH TARGET
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l'ss Avis Rainwater, daughter of
f and Mrs. Lewis Rainwater on
quite Creek, shot herself Monday
■ning while handling a 22 target
£r home. The bullet entered the
t near the heart and came out
meath the shoulder blade. She
jgiven medical attention and then
|i to a Temple hospital. Mr. and
Rainwater and son Lewis Jr.,
inpanied her to Temple. It was
thought by the attending physi-
'■that the wound would prove fatal.
#NTY VALUATION IS $6,090,360
Jounty Assessor John B. Davis has
apleted the tax rolls for Lampasas
anty and took them to Austin
esday. The total valuation for the
,»nty is $6,090,360, according to the
:x rolls. This is a decrease of $502,-
•55 from the rolls of last year.
CHURCH OF CHRIST MEETING
The meeting begins Friday night
A 7:30,- October 17, with Bro. A. C.
Nance of Lometa doing the preach-
ng and Bro. J. O. Page of Hillsboro
n charge of the song service. All
•rvices will be in the new church
Aiding corner of 1st and Walnut
treets, which has been nicely seated
nd lighted. There will be three ser-
ices Lord’s Day, Oct. 18, and many
isitors are expected. Bible study 10
m. and 7:30 p. m. and through the
blowing week. The church invites
erybcdy in Lampasas to attend
e^e services as we are anxious for
nr to know wrhat the Church of
irist teaches'. '-Come let us reason
gethgr. A welcome awaits you.
,, & Reporter.
TAX ROLLS NOW READY
The rolls are now ready and those
ishing to pay taxes may do so at
e sheriff’s office. The best time in
i3 \7orld to pay taxes or other obli-
ations is when you have the money,
dairy wait until the last minute rush
.ach year and then have to stand in
me: and wait on the collector to make
at . their receipts. Pay early and
void the last minute rush.
TEXAS PECAN CROP DUE
TO TRIPLE 1930
AUSTIN, Oct. 15'.—Texas is ex-
pected to produce nearly three times
as many pecans this year as last, Carl
H. Robinson, senior agricultural sta-
tistician with the United States de-
partment of agriculture, has esti-
mated.
The estimated production for this
year is 32,000,000 pounds compared
with 11,900,000 pounds produced last
year. The average production for the
past five years is 21,669,000 pounds.
Robinson said prospects are best in
COMMISSIONERS TO START
WORK ON SQUARE
At a meeting of the commissioners
court held this week, it was decided
to start work on the public square at
once and get it in shape to pave when
the base has settled. The anthrax
out-break in the county caused the
court to delay this work as they could
not tell what would be the expense
of the quarantine placed on the coun-
ty and they are now ready to start
to work.
Commissioners Bailey and Carlisle
will bring in a part of their road
the counties from Eastland and Erath ! crews and the square will be graded
south to Bexar and east to the gulf. j and leveled and then gravel will be
“For the most part trees along run- j placed on the square to form a base
ning streams are yielding heavy crops for the paving. There are many holes
while trees on upland are producing in the square at the present time and
poor yields due to lack of moisture,” it is thought best to place a coat of
he said. gravel on and let it get settled and
----- form a good base for the paving. The
' paving will probably be done next
spring when the warm weather starts
! and the base has
hold the paving.
SPIDER BITE LEADS
TO FARMER’S DEATH
GOVERNOR DEFIES
U. S. COURT ORDER
KILGORE, Oct. 14.—Governor Ross
S. Sterling held the East Texas oil
fields under control tonight with
troops, defying a federal court in-
junction restraining state officials
from interfering with operation of
certain wells.
He declared the principle of “state’s
rights is involved and the federal
court should not be permitted to throt-
tle the will of the people. This is
the state’s affair and federal courts
should let the state take care of it.”
“Judicial Matter”
Federal Judge Randolph Bryant at
Tyler, who granted the Brock-Lee Oil
company the temporary injunction'
permitting operation of five of its
wells, said the governor’s action was
“simply a judicial matter’” to be set-
tle October 29 before a three-judge
federal court at Beaumont.
. Brig. Gen. Jacob F. Wolters, com-
TEXARKANA, Oct. 14.—E'd Hens-
ley, 50, a farmer living in Sulphur
township thirty miles south of here
died Tuesday as the result of a spider
bite or the liberal use of whisky as
an antidote.
He wras hauling cotton to a gin
when a black spider bit him on the
foot. The foot was swollen greatly
by the time he returned home and
having some corn whisky on hand
he is said to have swallowed about a
pint shortly after noon Monday. A
few hours later he is said to have
drunk another pint. He then fell
settled so it will mandant in the oil fields since mar-
; tial law was invoked August 17 to
This work has been needed for halt waste in the field, moved swiftly
some time and will be welcomed by ' today to carry out the governor's or-
all of Lampasas. It will give our ders, closing four wells of the cam-
town a much better appearance and pany found in operation,
also help to keep down so much dust: The injunction granted yesterday
HOBOES SEEK WORK
BUT DO NOT WANT IT
DEL RIO, Tex., Oct. 14.—“They’re
looking for work and praying they
won’t find it!”
Such is the way Charley Lockhart,
special county deputy, has sized up
the floaters who drift into. Del Rio
on freight trains and via the hitch-
hiking route.
“Why, we . had 100 bums in the
yards Tuesday morning,” explained
Lockhart. “I saw a big negro drop-
ping off a freight. I went up to him.
“Where you going, big boy?” I asked
him.
“Suh, I’se just from Austin town—”
“From Austin, eh?” I barked at
him. “So you left Austin to come
down here to pick cotton. You’re a
great big liar, big boy—you left a
country where hey’ve got acres and
acres of cotton to be picked and you
come down here where they grow
goats, sheep and cattle—big boy, take
yourself out of town on the first rat-
GASOLINE STATIONS IN HOME
DISTRICTS ALLOWED BY COURT
AUSTIN, Teaxs, Oct. 14.—Dimuni-
tion of property values and a trans-
gression of the esthetic is no bar to
locating gasoline filing stations iri
residential neighborhoods, it was held
Wednesday by the Supreme Court in
affirming the District Court and re-.
versing the appellate court in the case
of the Continental Oil Company vs,
Wichita Falls. In so holding, the
court declared invalid a city ordin-
ance fixing the area of a residential
district and forbidding the location of
filling stations therein. The District
Court held the ordinance invalid to be
reversed by the Appellate Couxt and
finally sustained. The opinion was
by Justice Ryan of the Commission of
Appeals and opens the way for fill-
ing stations in any residential district,
“If there be no public or private
nuisance created in the use of prop-
erty,” wrote Judge Ryan, “no recov-
ery can be had for the dimunitiom in
tier out or into the cooler you’re go- | value of near-by property by reason,
inS-” j ..of the lawful use of such property,
“That negro left when the next i The harm or damage is that which;
train pulled out, too,” chuckled Lock- comes from the unlawful use of prop-
hart. “But that’s the way all of these 1 erty and not from it lawful use.
around the square.
LAMPASAS PLAYS POLO
WITH GEORGETOWN
at Tyler was directed at the state
railroad commission, the militia and
the attorney general.
Issues Order.
General Wolters issued a military
order today embodying the governor’s
commands, and declared that in clos-
ing the wells, he followed instructions
of the governor as commander-in-
The Lampasas polo team, composed
of W. C. Gillen, H. A. Belks, J. D.
O’Neal, W. W. Standard, Othel Smith
and O’Hair, left Thursday afternoon
into a deep sleep or stupor and died i for Georgetown where they will play j chief of state troops, not the orders
He leaves polo this afternoon. The Georgetown
team was here a few weeks ago and
this is a return game.
early Tuesday morning,
a family.
BULK OF VETERANS
USED BONUS LOAN
IN HELPFUL WAYS
k
GRANGE STAR LOCATED
IN THE NORTHEAST
E-: J. Noyes reports that for the
’St few nights he has noticed ^,star
tfie northeast- that has attracted
s attention. The star is rather large
t not as bright as some of the
'ger stars but moves about in the
7. It will move up and .down from
, | side to another from its location
e star can be plainly seen about 9
lock in the evening. .
A;esville defeats
k LAMPASAS BADGERS 34-0
gg? _
lihe Badgers were unable to stop
i; heavy and more experienced
ijesville team Saturday afternoon,
if has been the case the last few
, (ft.
jrs Gatesville has an extremely
s{vy team and were able to run and
j?s. their way over the light Badger
gregation. This was a non com-
mence game and was the main at-
action at the Coryell County Fair
hich closed Saturday. Quite a num-
er of students and fans accompanied
he team.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 14.—Sixty-
five per cent of the 2,000,000 World
War veterans who borrowed on their
adjusted service certificates used the
money for personal and family needs,
according to a study made by Gen.
Frank T. Hines, veterans’ administra-
tor. Twenty per cent used the bonus
to answer for investment purpose, 8
per cent for automobiles and pur-
poses undetermined, and only 7 per
cent-utilized it in such a way as to
receive no practical benefits.
Thirty-two per cent of the veterans
MORAL INSTRUCTION
WILL REDUCE CRIME
PROFESSOR DECLARES
of the stqte railroad commission.
After the federal court injunction
was granted yesterday, Governor
Sterling hastily embodied the railroad
commission schedule in a military or-
der, lest the injunction interfere with
his determination to see production
in the field kept on an orderly basis.
(Dallas News) j -
H. Marvin Law, assistant professor MAN EMERGES FROM ONE-YEAR
of geology at Southern Methodist VOLUNTARY EXILE IN
University, Tuesday advocated moral FLORIDA WOODS
instruction in the public schools as
the most effective means of combat-
ing crime. Mr. Law, an applicant for i William T. Belvin, known as “Wild
a position as lecturer on morals in Bill,” a former preacher and boiler-
the Dallas public schools, addressed maker, emerged from the Florida
the Kiwanis Club in the Adolphus woods today after what he said was
a year’s voluntary exile to prove he
FORT MYERS, Fla., Oct. 14.—
Hotel.
Mr. Law declared that lessons
could live -without civilization’s de-
honor, truthfulness and self-reliance, vices.
obtaining loans were unemployed and ! obedience and reverence for authority
in need, according to General Hines.
£lie foregoing data |was furnished
Representative Wright Patman of the
Texarkana district by the veterans’
administrator at the latter’s request.
would materially reduce the Nation’s
crime.
BRICK SELECTED FOR CITY HALL
LINDBERGHS REQUEST
RESPITE FROM PRESS
SEATTLE, Oct. 15.—A message
Wednesday to '-the American Mail line
from Colonel; Charles A. Lindbergh
aboard the steamship President Jef-
ferson, en route to the United States
from Japan, requested that the Colonel
and Mrs. Lindbergh be excused from
photographs and interviews upon
their arrival at quarantine next Mon-
day.
The Lindberghs are returning to the
United States after {terminating a
flying tour of the Orient because of
the recent death of Senator Dwight
W. Morrow, Mrs. Lindbergh’s father.
CAN YOU BEAT IT?
There is on exhibition at The Peo-
ples National Bank a cluster of 17
pecans, which are of good size. This
buhch of pecans was brought in by
Sana Yates and was from a tree in
the city limits just above the dam.
If you can beat it, let us hear from
jElbert Clements returned Friday
fi-Sm A*rtesia, N. M., where he and
Mrs. Clements were called on account
of the .illness of their granddaughter,
1 the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Wortjr Harmon. The baby fell an^j
jkstimekCthe back of her head on a
ceraetf ’ floor and was partially para-
Jyzedfrom the fall. Her condition
is much better and it is thought that
l>e will soon be entirely recovered.
3. Clements remained in Artesia
for a few days.
‘J|djiss Helen Sale of San Antonio
•|d Miss Carrie Storey, a teacher in
pi San Antonio schools, were week
j»»il guests here in the home of Mr.
hd Mrs. E. Bable Smith Jr.
MAN INJURED ATTEMPT-
ING TO CATCH TRAIN
A man named Brown, whose home
is about Midland, was badly bruised
and painfully injured when he at-
tempted to catch a freight train Tues-
day afternoon, near the Santa Fe wa-
ter tank. He slipped and was about
To go under the wheels of the train
when some part of the car knocked
him away from the train. He suf-
fered considerable pain but it was not
thought that any bones were broken.
He was taken to the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Raymond Spring after the
accident.
On Oct. 14, last year, he disappear-
ed into the woods near here with the
intention of eking out an existence
without modern things, except his
false teeth and spectacles. He wore
a bathing suit at the time, but dof-
The brick to be used in the con- fed it as soon as he was out of sight,
struction of the city hall was selected j he said.
Wednesday afternoon by the mem-| He said he had subsided on fish,
bers of the city council. A rough, wild game and the eggs of wild birds,
surface brick will be used and several, and that everything he has eaten or
different shades will be used in the i worn was obtained from nature with
walls. These colors will give the his hands. He had kept his beard
building a very attractive appear- short by occasional singeing, but his
ance. hair hung to his shoulders.
Belvin has gone attired in a skirt
of palmetto leaves and grass. His
hut was a thatched affair of palmetto
leaves, he said.
The only time he was inconvenien-
ced, he said, was for a few weeks
last winter when several cold spells
kept him busy trying to keep warm.
He was somewhat inexperienced at
that time, he said, and had not yet
made the comfortable blankets of wo-
ven grass which he later used.
STOCK SHIPMENTS
Following shipments of sheep were
made over the Santa Fe from Lam-
pasas the past week:
McEver and Brown, 3 cars of sheep
to Fort Worth.
M. E. Joy, 2 cars of sheep to Kan-
sas City.
FAMILY STARTS TREK
TO NEW YORK CITY
WITH YOKE OF OXEN
SAN ANTONIO, Oct. 15.—After a
three-day stop-over in San Antonio,
fellows are—looking for work and
praying they won’t find it. Why, a
ranchman here has tried to hire some
of these boys to feed his sheep. It’s
easy work; nothing hard. Good pay
and all you can eat. Shucks; these
bums work 30 minutes or so then
%
“The fact that owners have invested!
hundreds of thousands of dollars hi
homes around the proposed filling,
station site, that the presence in the
neighborhood of structures such as
that contemplated renders their prop-
erty less desirable and even less val-
their feet get itchey and when you j uable for home purposes does not
look up, they’re gone. They wouldn’t j constitute the proposed structure a
work on a bet. Depression makes it nuisance so as to enjoin its construe-
too easy on them. People know work tion as an unlawful interference with
is scarce and are apt to feed them, j the rights of such homeowners. The
And, being fed, they absolutely re-
fuse to work.”
HIGH COURT DENIES
TWO SLAYERS’ PLEA IN
DEATH SENTENCE
same result might follow from the
construction of a number of cheap
and undesirable residence cottages in
the same neighborhood. The law can
not and does not undertake .to deny
the ordinary right of an owner to
- j use his property as he pleases on a
AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 14.—Victor' consideration thus purely esthetic,
Rodriguez and Nicandro Munoz, under : even though it does result in peeun-
death sentence for the murder of Bert iary loss.”
Ellison, United States customs inspec- j It was stated in the opinion that;
tor, in Hidalgo County, Aug. 9, 1930, the court was not passing on any
Wednesday lost their effort to have ' zoning questions.
the sentences declared void because 1---
the attorney representing them was RESPECT THE OTHER
not a licensed lawyer. The Court of j FELLOW’S RIGHTS.
Criminals Appeals, denying a writ of -
habeas corpus, held the judgment of j At the hunting season there are
the trial court sound and unless Gov. many notices published by land own-
Ross S. Sterling further reprieves
them or commutes the death senten-
ces, the Mexicans will be electrocuted
October 30.
LAW TO REGULATE
HIGAWAY CARRIERS
UPHELD BY COURT
YARBERRY JURY IS DISMISSED
Hutcheson Jr., who presided, and
probably will be received here from
New Orleans within a week or ten
days, Judge Kennerly said. Judge
Hutcheson, Judge Kennerly and Fed-
eral Judge Duval West of San An-
tonio comprised the court that passed
upon the constitutionality of the State
statute.
No statement of the court’s find-
ings, other than its general finding
SINTON, Oct. 14.—The jury hear-
ing the case of Newton Yarberry,
Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Myers, their son | charged with slaying Dorothy Dorcas
PARAFFINE HEALS TREE
IN GRASSHOPPER RAID
AMES, Iowa, Oct. 11.—Pomologists
suggest a coat of melted paraffin
where grasshoppers have stripped
young fruit trees of their leaves.
The wax should be heated just
enough to melt and be painted on
with a brush.
Effectiveness of paraffin in prevent-
ing drying out and dying was dem-
onstrated on trees deliberately strip-
ped of their foliage for the test.
Those coated lived; the others did not.
Tom, and E. W. Howell, have hitched
their yoke of oxen to their house
wagon and resumed the long trek to
New York City.
They left Premont, Texas, August
27, and expect to ride behind the oxen
down Broadway about July 1, 1932.
They make 15 or 16 miles a day.
All the travelers have gained in
weight since starting their trip and
Red Wing and Eagle, the oxen, have
gained 50 pounds and 30 pounds res-
pectively.
Mrs. C. E. Roark of Amarillo ar-
rived Thursday morning to accom-
pany her mother, Mrs. Ed Hocker, to
Temple where Mrs. Hocker will un-
dergo an operation in a hospital.
Clarence (Fats) Hetherly is home
from Denver, Colo., where he has
been a member of the baseball club
of that city during the season just
closed.
Symons, 18 year old choir girl, was
discharged here tonight after failing
to reach the verdict. The jury was
discharged at 7:43 o’clock.
The jury was reported as having
stood 11 to 1 for conviction. Delib-
erations of the case began at 12:50
p. m., yesterday..
Indications were that the case would
be tried at the next term of court in
February. Judge T. M. Cox who
heard the case said there was no
chance of the case coming up again
during the two weeks of the present
session.
A. P. Anderson, -who has been in a
hospital in Temple for tlhe past few
months, was reported Thursday morn-
ing to be in a serious condition and
his children and grandchildren are at
his bedside.
J. R. Holley of Brownwood was a
business visitor here Wednesday.
ers posting their property and the
same is also true when the pecan
crop begins to open. Why people
have to be made to respect the other*
fellow’s right is queer, but it is a
fact. Within a few years it will be
hard to find a place to go and spend
the day in the country, due to the
- I fact that hunters and campers have
HOUSTON, Texas, Oct. 14.—House no regard for the land Owners. Some
bill No. 335, by which the State seeks 1 people will go into a place and leave
to regulate the private contract car- j gates open and allow stock to get
rier upon the highways, has been held out and cause the landowner con-
constitutional b5r the three-Judge Fed- j siderable trouble in finding them anc!
eral Court before whom it was at- placing them back in the pastures,
tacked, Federal Judge T. M. Kenner- i People will also make a fire against
ly announced briefly from the bench j trees, cut down cedar posts for fire-
Wednesday. I wood and do other such things that
The written opinion of the court is j cause the landowners to close their
being prepared by Circuit Judge J. C. ; gates to all campers, and you can’t
blame them for this action.
Mrs. Lula Cockrell left Wednesday-
night for Fort Worth where she will
spend a time in the home of Mrs,
A. G. Walker and Mrs. Helen Murphy,
Willard Lane and Lewis Dowd went
to Temple Thursday and Mr. Dowd
will visit his wife who is in a hos-
upholding the law, was forthcoming.! of that ciiy. Mrs. Dowd is get-
The suit attacking the law was
brought by J. H. Stephenson, who op-
erates a fleet of trucks between towns
under,a private contract, and numer-
ous other truck operators similarly
engaged in business intervened in the
action.
ting along nicely.
—Local Market Report-
Below are the prices paid by local
j buyers for the various products on
The court s decision, upholding the j Thursday^ of this week. These prices
law, gave the State a batting average are subject to change each day.
of .500 since of three laws passed, Grain,
one, the cotton truck law, had been
held unconstitutional, and therefore
void, and part of House bill No. 336,
had likewise been successfully de-
feated.
Mrs. J. N. Howard and Mrs. Jim-
mie McKenzie, who is visiting here
from Childress, went to Temple,
Thursday morning, to be at the bed-
side of A. P. Anderson.
Miss Beatrice Casb'eer, who is at-
tending Southwestern University and
is also assistant teacher in piano in
the university, spent the past week
end in the home of her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. H. B. Casbeer.
Oats ...................
..... 15c to 17e bushel
Ear Corn ..........
.... 22c to 25c bushel
Shell Corn ........
................ 30c bushel
Barley ...............
... 20c to 25c bupheli
Wheat................
.... 30c to 35c bushel?
Maize ................
50c to 53c hundred:
Poultry.
Fryers ...............
..... 10c to 12c pound
Hens ...................
........8c to 10c pound
Roosters ............
................... 5c pound
Turkeys .............
.................. 10c pound
Eggs (candled)
..................15c dozen
General.
Cream ................................ 26c pound!
Green Hides ........................ 2c pound
Cotton middling basis .............. 514e
Cotton Seed ......,................. $8.00 tois
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