The Lampasas Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, January 22, 1932 Page: 3 of 8
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SPECIAL
FOR SATURDAY
GOLD SEAL RUGS FOR
$5.95
Other good, guaranteed
FELT BASE RUGS
FOR
$4.95
CRUELTY CHARGES PLACED
AGAINST BRITISH OFFICIALS
Lampasas Furniture Go.
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
“The Best Place to Trade After All”
D. T. BRIGGS W. G. GAMEL
JACKSON HOLE ELK
COME IN FOR FEED
ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo., Jan. 17.—
More than 3,000 elk recently made
their annual migration frhm the high
mountains to the Jackson Hqle Coun-
ty where the state government gives
them their dole in the form of hay
and cottonseed cake during the Win-
ter months.
“The mighty elk is the most help-
less of all wild game in the procur-
ing of Winter forage,” Fred Lovejoy,
pioneer Westerner, explains. “Civili-
zation ,drove thefcn into the upper
hills. Before the coming of the white
man, the elk had his own way and
spent the hard Winters down in the
basins where feed was plentiful and
easy to get. But times have changed
all that.”
WOMAN WHO LEFT HOME BUT
FOUR TIMES DURING 67-YEAR
YIGIL FOR LOST LOVER DIES
ANNOUNCES FOR
G. O.
P. GOVERNOR
HOUSTON, Jan. 18.—John F.
Grant, lumberman, Monday announ-
ced that he will be a candidate for
the Republican nomination of Gov-
ernor. He states that if elected, he
will give to the people a business ad-
ministration, a closer scrutiny of the
tax problems and an “entire change
in the deplorable system which is now
bankrupting the State.” He said he
favored'; (abolishing the useless bu-
reaus and surplus officeholders.
Nearly 40 years ago Grant came to
Texas and started business in a small
way. He now operates lumber yards
in a number of Texas cities.
SON BORN TO HOBBYS;
COUNCIL CONGRATULATES
HOUSTON, Texas, Jan. 19.—A son
was born Tuesday to former Gov. and
Mrs. W. P. Bobby. Mrs. Hobby was
Miss Oveta Culp, parliamentarian of
the Texas Legislature, before her
marriage.
Mr. Hobby is now president of the
Houston Printing Company, publish-
ers of the Houston Post-Dispatch.
The Houston City Council passed
resolutions congratulating the former
Governor on the arrival of a son.
SUSPECT HELD IN EXTORTION
HICO, Jan. 20.—Officers frustrated
an extortion scheme by arresting a
man in connection with an attempt
to obtain $400 from H. F. Sellers,
Hico banker.
Two threatening letters were re-
ceived by Sellers, ordering him to take
the money to a lonely spot on the
Duffau-Clairette road, six miles from
Hico.
After conferring with officers, the
banker made a dummy package and
left it at the designated spot while
officers watched. Thirty minutes later
a man was arrested. The suspect was
held in jail at Sephenville.
Officers believed others were in-
volved and were seeking to identify
them.
TEXAN LEADS MOVE
FOR COWBOYS UNION
DENVER, Colo., Jan. 19.—M. D.
Fanning of Fort Worth, who holds a
stopwatch on the boys riding buck-
le ing bronchos at the National Western
Stock Show here, yesterday c-alled the
broncho riders together to organize a
“cowboys union.”
The veteran Texas cowman said the
purpose of the union was to raise the
standards of the “profession” and pro-
vide funds for those injured in giv-
ing exhibitions.
BINGHAMPTON, N. Y., Jan. 20.—
Fanny Read is dead and the book of
a rare, melancholy love is ended.
The drums of war rolled their stac-
cato call in 1862. Fanny Read was
19 years old then. The 101st New
York infantry, gay, bustling and
eager, was encamped near her home
in Hancock. Gray beards shook their
heads. Youth laughed and loQked for
a lark.
One young officer of the 101st New
York infantry captured the heart of
pretty Fanny Read. They pledged
their troth.
Then came the day to break camp.
On to the wars! It was a time for
lovers to say farewell. But there was
no goodby between Fanny Read and
her soldier sweetheart. Her father
forbade it. “Ridiculous,” he said.
“You are too young to think of love.”
“Soon,” he consoled her, “you will
forget.”
She did not forget. The years pas-
sed. She remained constantly in the
house. Perhaps the soldier would re-
turn. Perhaps-.
But war laughs at love and leers
at loyalty. When the men finally
were mustered out, the war over, Fan-
ny Read’s gay young officer was not
there. Perhaps he, too, had been
lonely.
Fanny Read, who had been “too
young to love,” renewed her vows of
seclusion. Never would she leave her
home.
She kept faith with her loneliness
for 67 years. Only four times in that
period did she leave home. Each time
it was for the funeral of a relative.
Her parents died. Only a servant
remained.
Two years ago they brought her
here to the state hospital. There she
died.
Wednesday, or perhaps the day af-
ter, there will be another funeral—
and Fanny Read’s self-imposed debt
to love will have been paid.
BOMBAY, India, Jan. 20.—Charges
of cruelty and oppression against the
British authorities along the Indian
frontier were made Wednesday by the
Rev. H. V. H. Elwin, young English
missionary who has been deported
from the Northwest frontier province
after a five-day visit.
He was ai’rested, searched and de-
ported, he said, after he sought an in-
terview with the Deputy Provincial
Commissioner.
“I have no desire to make sensa-
tional charges against my own peo-
ple,” he said, “but I shall tell the
stark truth.”
The frontier authorities, he said,
have made wholesale arrests, fre-
quently using guns, in their campaign
against “Red Shirts,” who call them-
selves “servants of God” and are sup-
porters of the Mahatma Gandhi prin-
ciples. They are led by Abdul Guffar
Khan, called the frontier Gandhi.
“The situation there now is quiet
on the surface,” said Dr. Elwin, “but
underneath indignation is seething.
The country is bristling with soldiers,
the life of the people has been made
unbearable and anything may hap-
pen.”
COTTON ACREAGE LAW
TEST STARTS TODAY
Mrs. Madden Read and two sons of
Ozona are guests here in the home
of Mrs. R. A. Martin. Mrs. Read is
known to her many Lampasas friend?
as Miss Gladys Ellis.
WILLIAMSON SLAYING
CONVICTION APPEALED
AUBTIN, Jan. 15.—Ray Click, con-
victed in Williamson County of the
slaying of Charlie Walker and given
a five-year penitentiary term, ap-
pealed to the Court of Criminal Ap-
peals today from the jury verdict.
Walker was shot to death on a
Llano street. The case was sent to
Williamson County on a change of
venue.
FRANKLIN, Texas, Jan. 19.—An
injunction suit testing the new Texas
cotton acreage curtailment law has
been set for hearing at Franklin Wed-
nesday.
The suit was filed by County At-
torney T. L. Tyson against Fred L.
Smith, farmer, alleging Smith was
making arrangements to plant more
cotton this season than the statute
permitted.
In the injunction suit it was alleg-
ed that Smith had indicated his in-
tention of violating the law by break-
ing and plowing his land and had made
arrangements with the Calvert State
Bank at Galvert to finance his farm-
ing operations in 1932 by executing a
crop lien, showing he expected to
plant 900 acres in cotton.
The case will be tried before Judge
W. C. Davis in the Eighty-Ffth Dis-
trict Court.
REFERENDUM BILL
OVER DRY LAW DUE
IN HOUSE FEB.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.—T h e
■House Judiciary Committee Tuesday
decided to consider February 16 the
referendum proposal of the organized
House members opposed to prohibi-
tion.
The measure has the support of the
Republican antiprohibitionist group
led by Representative Beck of Penn-
sylvania and that of the Democratic
wet group led by Representative Lin-
thicum of Maryland.
It calls for a constitutional amend-
ment which, if ratified by the peo-
ple through conventions called for the
purpose, would give the States con-
trol over liquor.
The Federal Government would reg-
ulate liquor in interstate commerce.
Shipments from wet States into those
having prohibition would be prohibi-
ted.
GANDHI’S CURE FOR COLDS
$115,000 MORTGAGE ON
FAMOUS HOME OF LEE
FAMILY IS PAID
RICHMOND, Va., Jan. 19.—The
$115,000 mortgage on Stratford, an-
cestral home of the famous Lee fam-
ily of Virginia, has been paid off
through a loan from an unnamed in-
terested person.
The loan was made to the Robert
E. Lee Memorial Foundation, without
interest or time limit, for the speci-
fic purpose of liquidating the mort-
gage.
The United Daughters of the Con-
federacy have pledged $50,000, leav-
ing a balance of $65,000 to be raised
by the various states under the Robert
E. Lee Memorial Foundation.
It was three years ago that the
purchase of Stratford was made—the
total price for the old mansion being
fixed at $240,000. The deed conveying
the property to the foundation was
signed on July 19, .1929, in the room
in which Richard Henry Lee and Rob-
ert E. Lee were born. The estate
contains 1100 acres and fronts on the
Potomac River for about two miles.
It is about 90 miles below Mount Ver-
non.
Stratford Hall is the only home in
America in which two signers of the
Declaration of Independence were
born.
They were Francis Lightfoot Lee
and Richard Henry Lee.
Mahatma Gandhi gives his cure for
colds as follows:
“Take a pinch of bi-carbonate of
soda and a spoonful of common salt,
and mix with lemon juice and water.”
That sounds sensible and the Ma-
hatma says, “This is the only medi-
cine I ever take and I urge every-
body to try it.”
PECK OF PET ROOSTER
CAUSES MAN’S DEATH
BIGHAM TRIAL IS
SET FOR FEBRUARY 2
AUSTIN, Jan. 18.—Trial of John
Bigham, sheriff of Bell County, on a
charge of extortion in the collection
of fees of office in criminal cases, was
set for February 2, by Distinct Judge
W. F. Robertson, today.
Bigham was to have gone on trial
today but the case was postponed be-
cause Bigham, forced to undergo an
operation recently, was unable to be
present.
Your Interest
Is Our Interest
We are here to make a market for your Produce
of all kinds. Our buying is not limited to a few
counties, but we dress in our large plant poultry
brought from more than 150 miles.
That being the case, we make a market for
what the farmer has to sell. We are their friends
and want to show them that from time to time.
Keep in mind that we want to buy what you
have to sell and will pay you every cent the mar-
ket will allow. We buy anything from a dozen
eggs up.
HELP US TO MAKE YOU A REAL MARKET
Producers Produce Co.
J. H. CLARK, Manager.
FORMER KLAN DRAGON
IS DENIED NEW TRIAL
SAN ANTONIO, Jan. 19.—A pet
rooster today was blamed for the
death of Paul Molberg, 27, in a local
hospital last night. Four weeks ago
the rooster pecked Molberg on the
lip. Blood poisoning resulted.
BOGUS BILL SUSPECTS
ARRESTED AT BRADY
BRADY, Jan. 19.—Two men and a
woman were arrested here Tuesday
afternoon in connection with passing
two counterfeit $10 bills. The arrests
were made by Sheriff Love Kimbrough
soon after receiving a tip from fed-
eral officers at San Antonio to be on
the lookout for suspects passing bo-
gus bills. Officers withheld names of
the suspects pending arrival of offi-
cers from Austin.
NOTICE
I am starting my hatchery Satur-
day, January 23, bring hatching eggs
on Saturdays and don’t forget we
will appreciate your custom hatch-
ing.—Lampasas Hatchery. Both
Phones, W. B. Sparkman, Mgr. (d-w)
Mrs. F. M. Ramsey of this city
received a message Saturday .announc-
ing the death of her brother, C. C.
Moore at Bogata, Red River Coun-
ty. Mr. Moore had visited here and
the Lampasas friends regret to learn
of his passing away.
Leader Want Ads Always Get Results.
INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 19.—The In-
diana Supreme Court today refused
to grant a new trial to D. C. Stephen-
son, former Ku Klux Klan grand dra-
gon, who has been in prison since
November, 1925, serving a life term
on a murder charge.
Stephenson was convicted Novem-
ber 14, 1925, at Noblesville, Ind., on
a charge of second degree murder.
He was accused of having caused the
death of Miss Maude Oberholtzer of
Indianapolis by withholding medical
attention after she had taken poison
in a hotel at Hammond, Indiana.
Stephenson was alleged to have ab-
ducted Miss Oberholtzer and to have
attacked her.
CHINESE BANDITS HOLD
AMERICAN OFFICER
PIEPING, Jan. 19.—United States
Consul Adams at Hankow reported
to the American legation here today
that the United States gunboat OahUL
is proceeding to a low point on the
Yangtze River, where bandits on Jan*
uary 16, looted an American-owned
freighter, seizing Capt. Charles Bak-
er, American, and six Chinese, all of
whom are being held.
He also reported that the Ameri-
can-owned steamer Chita was fired
upon, the Chinese quartermaster kill-
ed and a Chinese member of the crew
wounded.
Lampasas Weekly Leader 1 Year $1.50
Mrs. James Neely of Winters was
here Wednesday to attend the funeral
of her uncle, J. F. White.
Brevity is the soul of journalism,
but it doesn’t always work. When a
fellow has played the mischief and
gotten into trouble, he believes in
newspapers being brief to the nth de-
gree about what he has done, but
when he gets the swell-head over a
little something or other, he thinks
it should take an entire page to tell
about what he has done.—Honey
Grove Signal-Citizen.
Mrs. Emma Cauthen and Mrs. Ruth
Spann went to Temple Monday morn-
ing to be with Mrs. P.'H. Taylor, who
is reported to be in a serious condi-
tion. Mrs. Taylor has been in the
hospital for a week or two, on ac-
count of a broken leg.
I
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Key left Monday
morning for Paris, Texas, to visit
in the home of their daughter, Mr.
and Mrs. George Shelton.
Mrs. L. B. Henderson and daugh-
ter, Miss Claudia, have returned from
Houston where they visited in the
I home of relatives for several days.
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