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DR. DAVIS OF HOWARD
PAYNE PREACHES BAC-
CALAUREATE SERMON
Baccalaureate services were held
Sunday morning at 11:000 o’clock at
the First Baptist Church for the
graduates of Camp Marlamont, the
summer camp school of the San Mar-
cos Baptist Academy. The sermon
was delivered by Dr. M. E. Davis,
head of the Bible Department of How-
ard Payne College of Brownwood.
The auditorium of the church was
comfortably filled on this occasion.
The processional was given by Miss
Helen Willerson. This was followed
by a hymn from the choir accompani-
ed by the organist, Mrs. W. B. McGee.
Miss Margaret Matthews then gave
a beautiful violin solo.
Dr. Davis’ subject was “I am a
Rose of Sharon.” He pictured very
beautifully this old story of the Rose
of Sharon, holding his listeners spell
bound with his power of phraseology.
Although speaking in simple diction,
Mr. Davis, has a marvelous manner
of commanding the attention of his
audience, and it seemed that he was
at his best Sunday morning.
In his sermon, he linked the com-
mon rose, which in the beginning had
only five petals and was known to
have only five colors, to the student
in school, who in entering upon an
education is endowed with certain
principles and fundamentals. The
rose today has been developed into
many thousands of colors and a sing-
le rose, which has been cultivated and
cared for now may have many petals;
thus may the student develop his
Christian education from the simple
teachings with which he is started
out in life.
The recessional was given by Miss
Willerson.
BOXES SOLD FOR STORAGE
HOLD 89800 IN BONDS
Ola, Arkansas, August 12.—Cheetel
Law, who lives near Kingston, took
a chance Saturday. He purchased for
$50 three boxes sold for storage
charges by the Pacific Express Com-
pany at Plainview.
. Today Law has $9800 worth of
bonds, stocks and notes which are con-
vertible. He also has scores of val-
uable trinkets, rings, bracelets, some
diamonds, amethysts, turquoise,
cameos and minerals of varying value.
Two of the boxes had been left at
the express office 15 years ago by
Charles Baker, a mining engineer.
Baker left instructions with the agent
to have the boxes shipped when he
gave directions. He never was heard
from again. Little was known of him
except that his wife and child were
dead.
The other box purchased by Law
contained an old English writing desk
inlaid with silver, silver-plated plates,
old Irish linen doilies and two-point
lace handkerchiefs.
The boxes were sold after being
advertised along with other things
which had accumulated in the express
office.
FAMILY REUNION HELD IN
HANCOCK PARK SATURDAY
Saturday, August 10, forty-seven
members of the family of J. H. Moore
of San Antonio, who is spending a
time here in the homo of his son, W.
E. Moore, gathered from various
points in Texas, to spend the day
with him in Hancock Park in Lam-
pasas. This was the first time in
28 years that Mr. Moore had had all
of his 9 children together at the same
time and a great time was passed on
this happy occasion.
Mr. Moore, who has passed his
74th birthday, is a native Texan. He
was born in Fayette County and is
well and favorably known in Blanco
and Comal Counties, where he was
a prosperous ranchman for many
years. Mrs. Moore passed away 17
years ago, and since that time he has
spent his time among his children,
having sold his ranches and retired
from active responsibilities.
The children present Saturday with
their husbands and wives were: Mr.
and Mrs. W. L. Tunnell of Tahoka;
Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Hodges of Fred-
erickburg; Mr. and Mrs. John Johan-
san of Bluff ton; Mr. and Mrs. L .H.
Moore of Lubbock; Mr. and Mrs.
Ben Moore of O’Donnell; Mr. and
Mrs. C. N. Moore of Lone Grove;
Mrs. Dan Patterson of Fort Stock-
ton; Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Speed, Lam-
pasas; and Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Moore
Lampasas. There were present 27
grand children and two great-grand-
children.
Roy Lee Hines and Miss Viva May
Bickle were united in marriage Mon-
day morning at the court house in
Lampasas by Justice M. W. Howard.
Mr. and Mrs. Hines will make their
home in Austin.
Mrs. C. L. Barkley returned Satur-
day to her home at Evant after spend-
ing the past several days here with
her son, Floyd Barkley and visiting
friends in this city. ^
* KNOW TEXAS *
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In the 1920 census Texas had 805,-
903 citizens of foreign white stock,
which includes foreign-born and those
of foreign-born parentage. Of these
nearly half—360,519—were foreign-
born.
In foreign-born, Mexico led with
249,652. Germany was second with
31,062 and pzecho-Slovakia third with
12,819, although counting England,
Wales, Scotland and Ireland the En-
glish-Scotch-Irish were really in third
place with 14,124.
Italy was fourth with 8,024, Eng-
land fifth with 7,685, Russia sixth
with 7,057, Austria seventh with 6,441
and Poland eighth with 5,047.
Texas’ population per square mile
is 20.6 on the basis of the 1928 es-
timated total, the lowest of any of
the Southern States and lower than
all but .twelve of the States of the
Union. The highest density is in
Rhode Island with 573.5 to the square
mile, and the lowest is in Nevada with
0.7 persons to each mile of area.
Densest population in Texas is in
Dallas County with 360.9 persons to
the mile and the most scattered is in
Loving County with 0.1 of a person,
the population (1928 estimate) being
82 in an area of 753 equare miles.
FIVE EASTERN STATES
AND CANADIAN PROVINCE,
SHAKEN BY TEMBLOR
PLACE TO HANG RUNNER FOUND
Miami, Florida, August 13.—Hor-
ace Alderman, Miami rum runner, con-
victed of killing three government
men on the high seas, will be hanged
Albany,- N. Y., August 12. —
Throughout parts of five Eastern
States and one Canadian province, be-
lated sleepers rolled from tilted beds,
while earlier risers leaped from the
breakfast table and rushed in alarm
to the streets as the earth’s crust
vibrated in a series of quakes of vary-
ing intensity and duration today.
When the last tremor died away it
was found that while the shocks were
felt from Connecticut to Ohio and
from Pennsylvania to the Province of
Ontario, the resultant damage was
slight. Residents of a score of cities
resumed their daily tasks and left to
the scientists the work of determin-
ing the extent, intensity and location
of the quakes.
Observers in various laboratories
scanned their seismographs and an-
nounced that the tremors had moved
in a north-and-south direction
through the Central and Western part
of New York and that the center of
the disturbance probably was located
somewhere near Bellefonte, Pa.
The greatest damage was reported
from Attica, where one industrial
plant was forced to suspend opera-
tions because of damage to its ma-
chinery, throwing 300 men out of
work. One wall of the Attica Meth-
odist Episcopal Church was cracked
and the roof damaged by falling chim-
neys. A huge chimney on an indus-
trial plant at Warsaw also collapsed.
The earliest manifestations of the
temblor was at Binghamton, where
MORE THAN HALF OF
CAMPAIGN FUND FOR
BAYLOR U. RAISED
Fort Worth, August 12.—More than
half of the $2,000,000 to erecc new
buildings and provide other improve-
ments at Baylor University at Waco
has been subscribed, it was announced
by Dr. S .P. Brooks, president of the
Waco institution, who spoke . here
twice Sunday.
“Citizens of Dallas and Baptists
and other friends of the university in
various parts of the state have sub-
scribed more than $1,000,000,” Dr.
Brooks said. “The people of Waco
have agreed to raise $1,000,090 and
already have subscribed and contri-
buted large part of a separate fund
of $400,000 for the erection of Waco
Hall, a chapel building. This bund-
ing is under construction. A woman’s
dormitory to be paid for out of the
general fund also is under construc-
tion.
“The campaign is not of the sen-
sational type but is going along
steadily. The results are encourag-
ing and gratifying.”
August 17 at the Fort Lauderdale
coast guard base, instead of atop the j residents reported feeling the shocks
Broward county court house, Feder-
al Judge Halsted L. Ritter ruled Mon-
day in handing down an amended sen-
tence.
Judge Ritter had designated the
Broward county jail at Fort Lauder-
dale as the place of execution in the
death sentence passed upon the 50-
year-old slayer. He termed Monday’s
order an amendment to the previous
sentence, passed June 20, and ex-
plained that it had been found “nec-
essary and desirable” to make the
change.
R. A. Hendrick, Alderman’s attor-
ney, contended that the judge’s order
constituted a resentenee of the convict
and served to strengthen the appeal he
is taking to the United State circuit
court at New Orleans.
between 1 and 3 a. m. The majority
of the reports from other sections,
however, fixed the time approximate-
ly at 7:30 a. m.
PRISON COMMISSION
STARTS LONG TOUR
HAPPY CONNECTICUT
With a stroke of a pen the Connec-
ticut Supreme Court has invalidated
1,439 laws of the State. The Con-
necticut Constitution requires Gover-
nors to sign legislative acts within
three days of their passage. The
Governor haven’t been careful about
this, and the court has held 1,493
laws invalid on this account.
The current opinion that much of
our trouble comes from an over-pro-
duction of laws leads to the conclus- I
ion that Connecticut, thus relieved of j _
1,493 of it cumbering statutes, is a } Nashville, Tenn., August 10.—Ser-
lucky Commonwealth. By this stroke j Alvin York, the unschooled
Houston, Texas, August 10.—Eleven
members of the Texas prison cen-
tralization commission left Houston
tonight for New Orleans on the first
leg of their tour of inspection of pen-
itentiaries in the south, east and mid-
dle west.
The commission was headed by W.
A. Paddock of Houston, chairman,
and Representative A. H. King of
Throckmorton, vice chairman. The
commissioners were accompanied by
Bob Baker of Fort Worth, executive
secretary; Dr. F. E. Giesecke of A.
and M. College, technical adviser, and
three newspaper men.
The party will stop over in New
Orleans tomorrow. Monday the com-
missioners will make their first of-
ficial inspection at the Alabama state
penitentiary at Montgomery. They
expect to view the Florida state pen-
itentiary at Rarford, Wednesday.
SERGEANT YORK A
COLLEGE PRESIDENT
of fortune Connecticut is left with
not more than half a million laws in
its statute books.
But it’s the old story of not know-
ing when you’re well off. Connecti-
cut is to have a special session of
the Legislature to put the lost laws
back. Either Connecticut is foolish
or the laws aren’t.—Canton News.
pete McKenzie to
TERRELL ASYLUM
San Antonio, August 10.—In cus-
tody of State Rangers T. R. Aldrich
and William McCoy, John M. (Pete)
McKenzie, convicted slayer of De-
tective Chief Sam Street, left San
Antonio at 2 o’clock this afternoon
for the state insane asylum at Ter-
rell.
The removal order was signed by
R. B. Walthall, chairman of the state
board of control, and follows reports
from Austin earlier in the week that
an escape had been planned by Mc-
Kenzie.
The removal was conducted sec-
retly, only Detective Captian Aubrey
Hopkins accompanying the prisoner
and rangers from the San Antonio
state hospital t© the station.
McKenzie was adjudged insane by
a jury in Ninety-fourth district
court on June 29.
TEMPLE SPECIAL TO
SAN SABA FAIR THROUGH
LAMPASAS TUESDAY
A special train of Temple people
enroute to the San Saba County Fair
at San Saba, passed through Lam-
pasas about 9 o’clock Tuesday morn-
ing. Aboard the train was the Tem-
ple American Legion Drum and Bugle
Corps, who got off the special here
and exercised their drums and bugles
abit at the station.
Tuesday was Temple Day at the
San Saba Fair.
J. D. W. Jones of Rising Star re-
turned Tuesday to his home after a
visit here in the home of his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Jno. M. Jones.
Tennessee mountaineer who gained
fame by capturing 132 Germans sing-
le handed and returned home to invest
his prestige in educating his people,
after an eight-year fight has been
recognized for his achievement by ap-
pointment to the presidency of Alvin
York Agricultural institute in Fen-
trees county. ,
Decision of the Tennessee state
board of education yesterday to make
him head of the institute ended the
bitter prolonged fight during which
his control has been contested in
factional political wrangles and leg-
islative maneuvers.
' Returning from France at the
close of the World war, bearing the
decorations of all the allied armies,
Sergeant York pledged his life and
his slender resources to emancipating
his home folk from illiteracy. Him-
self deprived of education advant-
ages, he realized the hazard of in-
adequate schools to the youth of east
Tennessee.
The strength of his earnestness in
his move for education was evidenced
by his turning down a $1,000,000
vaudeville contract in order to devote
his time to lecturing in a campaign
to raise funds for schools.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Pierce and two
sons, Torbett and Jean, and Mrs. O.
L. Wilson, of Brownwood, went to
Georgetown Sunday where they were
guests in the home of the ladies’
brother, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Torbett.
They were met there by their uncle,
Dr. and Mrs. Oscar Torbett of Mar-
lin.
Mrs. J. P. Word has as guests in
her home her brother and his wife,
Mr. and Mrs. John L. Evans of Los-
Angeles, California and her sister,
Mrs. Joe Adkins of Brady.
Mrs. Clyde Laurie of Dallas is a
guest here in the home of her sis-
ter, Mrs. M. M. Landrum.
Miss Annie Maud Whigham of
Wichita Falls is a guest here in the
home of her sister, Mrs. D. T. Briggs.
msmtL.
The New Ford is a
wonder on die hills!
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LAMPASAS AUTO CO.
LARGER CROWD AT FAIR 2ND
DAY; RACES MUCH BETTER
Dr. C. T. Harkey returned home
Sunday from a four months’ sojourn
in San Antonio, where he did post
graduate work in Chiropractic. A
part of that time he spent in the
Chiropractic clinic in that city and
he also went into Arkansas where he
passed the State Chiropractic Board.
Dr. Harkey says that he has spent
a most profitable summer and has
gained a store of practical knowledge
by his study. Mrs. Harkey and child-
ren are visiting relatives in El Paso
and New Mexico but will return to
Lampasas at the opening of the school
year. Dr. and Mrs. B. F. Camp, who Thursday, the second day of the
have been in charge of the Harkey Lampasas County Fair, continued to
Chiropractic Health Service during see jarge crowds of people in attend-
Dr. Harkey’s absence, are leaving for ance, possibly the largest in the
El Paso. • history of the nine years of the fair.
As usual the horse races beginning
in the afternoon at 1:30 o’clock, fea-
tured the program and drew an ex-
ceptionally large crowd of visitors,
Brownsville, August- 12.-Thomas every available seat beinS taken witb
B. Russell, 79, took his first ride on many lined UP at the fences to watch
a railway train Sunday, against his !tbe Porae° 1 un*
wishes, “just to please the folks.” The results of tbe races Tbursday
They wanted him to go to Kerrville afternoon were as follows:
for a vacation of two weeks. He! Free-for-all pace-L.uella Strath-
agreed to go, but declared he probab- j more’ 0WTied by W* S’ Robson and
to dldven
| place;
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YOU won’t find many lulls that you can’t take Hln high”
when you drive the new Ford. Watch, too, how it gets
away in traffic—its smooth speed and balance on the
open road. Combine these features with riding comfort
and you will know why so many people say "it’s a
great car.”
Call or telephone for demonstration
Roadster, #450 Phaeton, #460 Tudor Sedan, #525
Business Coupe, #525 Coupe, #550
Sport Coupe, with rumble seat, #550
Fordor Sedan, #625
(All prices f. o. b. Detroit, plus charge for freight and delivery. Bumpers
— . ______ and spare tire extra.)
VALLEY PIONEER TAKES HIS
FIRST RIDE ON TRAIN
POLLARD AND HATCHER
IN ROW OVER FUNDS
ly would be “rarin” to get back
Brownsville in less than a week.
Tom Russell came here in 1872, and
had never been out of the valley since
1881, when he went to San Antonio
because of the death of his father.
He made that trip by stage, and there
was nothing in the way of develop-
ment between Brownsville and San
Antonio but the King ranch.
His father came to Texas in 1832,
and was one of the commanders of
the Texas navy.
A group of relatives gathered az
the station here to see him leave and
wished him well as he climed aboard
the train for the first time.
by P. Humphries, won first sessment money.
Hal King, owned and driven
WASHING POWDER CAUSES
NEW BILL TO CHANGE COLOR
Washington, August 8.—Washing
powder and water have caused one
of the new $5 bills to change its
original green to a shade of gold,
but no concern is left by treasury of-
ficials as a result.
The bill was presented at a Beau-
mont, Texas, bank, and its alteration
in color caused officials to believe at
first that it was counterfeit. A treas-
ury representative visited Texas to
inspect the currency.
Henry Herrick Bond, assistant
secretary of the treasury, said today
the investigation indicated the money
had been sent to a laundry in a shirt
and had been washed thoroughly
within a solution used for cleaning
clothes.
“We don’t expect much of the mon-
ey to be subjected to that treatment,”
Bond said.
STRIKE OF 80,000 DRESS
MAKERS AUTHORIZED
New York, August. 8—A strike of
80,000 workers in the women’s dress
industry in nine cities in the United
States and Canada was authorized
today by the general executive board
of the International Ladies Garment
Workers Union.
The cities to be affected are New
York, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago,
Cleveland, Baltimore, Kansas City,
Toledo and Toronto. The branches
to be affected are the children’s dress
makers, custom dress makers, white
goods workers, embroiders and hem-
stitchers and tuckers.
Mr. and Mrs. Worth Harmon re-
turned Sunday to their home at Mon-
ahans after a visit here in the homes
of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. El-
bert Clements and Mr. and Mrs. Ed
Harmon.
Mr. and Mrs. Chester Alexander
and Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Hetherly left
Tuesday morning on a vacation trip
to the Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexi-
co.
by A. Mittendorf, second; Ruth Zo-
lock, owned and driven by O. A.
Newberg, third. 2:20 trot—Lady
Burns, owned and driven by C. R.
Webster, won first place; Show Boy
owned and driven by B. H. Ramsey,
won second; The Compass, owned by
W. S. Robson and driven by P. Hum-
phries, won third.
1 mile 60 yards running race—Win-
nie May, owned by Pennell and rid-
den by Avant," won first place; Wild
Fire, Jr., owned by M. Locklear and
ridden by Whitley, won second; Pen-
rod Connell, owned by V/. T. Lock-
lear and ridden by S. Beck, third.
Vz mile 60 jmrds running race—Seth
Fern, owned by W. S. McKee and
ridden by Cisco won first place; Lit-
tle Buck, owned and ridden by Lock-
lear, second; Four Flush, owned by
W. T. Locklear and ridden by Lane,
third.
Bridges won the relay race, which
was entered by several other riders.
The grandstand was also enter-
tained with rodeo thrills and novel-
ty acts.
Again the Fair Association made
cash awards with the following re-
sults: Gladys Simms, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. E. Simms, $50; E Babe
Smith, $30, and Arch Reagan, $20.
Following the races Lampasas and
San Saba played the second of a se-
ries of three games to be played dur-
ing the fair. It seemed to be San
Saba’s day to win as Lampasas won
the first of the games the day be-
fore, so the visitors rolled up a score
of five points in their favor with
the home team not scoring. Lampasas
came near scoring several times dur-
ing the game but just couldn’t get
across with one.
By noon Friday, all Lampasas
knew fop certain that Temple and
Bell County was going to be well rep-
resented at the Lampasas County
Fair, as a large delegation had al-
ready arrived and were surely letting
the folks know they were in town.
Their hat bands, badges, bells and
car stickers identified them as com-
ing from that neck of the woods and
that they were proud of it.
Preacher Brightwell’s Temple gang
of minglers are O. K. and Lampasas
is indebted to him for getting up this
motorcade of Fair Visitors. He has
been on the job at the fair for the
past two days and as usual is giving
Lampasas a great deal of publicity
in his paper, The Temple Telegram.
Among the early arrivals with the
Temple party are former Lampasas
residents, Gordon Mackey, O. B.
Townsen, Jack Townsen, Jim Bonner
and others.
Miss Dorothy Roberts is spending
a few days in Temple with her sister,
Miss Estelle.
Austin, Texas, August 8.—It was
tit for tat in the state banking board
war today. Attorney General Claude
Pollard addressed a communication to
State Treasurer V/. Gregory Hatcher
in reply to one received yesterday and
Hatcher answered almost before the
messenger who brought it had time
to get around the corner to the at-
torney general’s office.
The controversy was started over
Hatcher’s action in refusing to honor
some drafts on him by Banking Com-
missioner James Shaw. The drafts
were in favor of banks with an in-
terest in the guaranty fund over as-
Of about $900,000
ordered returned to banks assessed
for it, $304,439 was in Hatcher’s pos-
session, the balance having been re-
tained by the banking commissioner.
After he refused payment on the
draft; Hatcher addressed a letter to
Pollard and Shaw jointly. When
Shaw -remained silent, Pollard de-
clared that Hatcher’s action was “so
arbitrary” that he is “probably cre-
ating a liability against the sureties
on his official bond.”
Hatcher answered that he had lit-
tle faith in the attorney general’s
construction of the law.
“Every draft that is being present-
ed to you in favor of the banks is
in strict conformity to the action of
the state banking board, meets every
requirement of the law, and should
be by you promptly honored and paid
and it occurs to me that your conduct
in the matter is so arbitrary that you
are probably creating a liability
against the sureties on your official
bond in favor of those banks whose
drafts you refuse to pay when pre-
sented,” Pollard wrote.
Referring to parts of Hatcher’s let-
ter as “contemptous,” Pollard said
he had “too much respect for the dig-
nity and responsibility of the office
I hold, and my obligations to the pub-
lic interest to respond in kind.”
Hatcher in giving his reason for
not attending a meeting of the bank-
ing board on August 2, Hatcher re-
ferred to a personal difficulty he had
had with Shaw a few days previously.
Pollard had criticised Hatcher for
not being at the meeting.
“You will recall that I came out
of that office then in a hurry—‘just
like a cat out of a corner’—after
James Shaw started his rough stuff,
with you as the sole witness behind
closed doors and I invited him to
come on the outside to carry out his
threat, and that ought to be suffi-
cient reason why I did not attend the
meeting you referred to,” Hatcher
wrote.
“As to your opinion about my pay-
ing out money, you must know that
I regard it as worthless since you au-
thorized the passage of a resolution
on September 29, 1927, to pay to cer-
tain banks out of the guaranty fund,
the sum of $789,000 and the supreme
court afterwards held the reverse of
your opinion.”
A. R. Harvey returned home Sat-
urday night from Marlin where he
has spent the past several weeks in
interest of his health. Mr. Harvey
says he has improved considerably
and is feeling fine now.
Misses May and Pauline Kirsch-
vink accompanied by Miss Frances
Brazil of San Saba left Sunday after-
noon for a week’s visit in San An-
tonio.
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