The Lampasas Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 43, Ed. 1 Friday, August 16, 1929 Page: 5 of 8
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— AT THE —
LEROY THEATRE
“Where Lampasas Is Entertained"
(The Home of Vitaphone Pictures)
MONDAY and TUESDAY
August 19-20
MATINEE MONDAY
Starting at 2:00 p. m.
Alice White
—IN—
“BROADWAY BABIES”
What a Show! What a Show!
It’s a $5.50 Musical Comedy Plus
a Dramatic Story that is a Sensa-
tion in itself.
Vitaphone brings you a Melodrama,
MELODY that sets your feet a step-
ping, DRAMA that sets your heart a
thumping. 200 gorgeous dancing-
girls. Chorus of 200 voices. Three
new song hits that are the rage of j
the age. Thrilling gang war. Be- j
hind the scenes thrills, Talking, Sing-
ing, Dancing.
ITCH POWDER IN AIR COOLING
SYSTEM IN MOVIE ROUTS FANS
Tyler, Texas, August 9.—For the
second time within two months, a
Tyler theatre was the victim of the
prank of some person who placed itch
powder in the building and it was
circulated through the audience by the
cooling system.
A crowded house of patrons went
scurrying to the streets for air and
water, with both grown ups and
children suffering no little incon-,
venience.
The first occasion was about six
weeks ago, following which the Dent
theatres of Dallas, owners of the
show, offered a reward of $1,000 for
the apprehension of the guilty per-
son or information leading to his ar-
rest, and the reward still holds good.
Also Added Attractions
IjffP*
Vaudeville Acts
VITA*1
NEWS REEL, FABLES AND
SONG-FILM
Admission 10c and 50c
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY
August 21-22
■9
-A Uni
national
Picture
/***% CGRIMNE-
Griffith
SMUMYS CHILDREN
A FIRST NATIONAL VITAPHONE
TALKING PICTURE
also
Vitaphone Vaudeville, News
Reel and Song-Film
Admission 10c and 40c
COTTON CROP ESTIMATED
AT 15,543,000 BALES THIS YEAR
Washington, August 8.—A cotton
crop of 15,543,000 bales of 500 pounds
gross weight is indicated for this
year on the condition of the crop on
August 1, which was 69.6 per cent
of a normal, the department of agri-
culture announces.
Cotton of this year’s crop ginned
prior to August 1 totaled 86,970 run-
ning bales, counting round as half
bales, the census bureau announced.
To that date last year 88,761 bales
had been ginned and in 1927 ginnings
totaled 162,283 bales.
Last year’s crop was 14,478,000
bales of 500 pounds gross weight,
while the August 1 condition was
67.9 per cent and the August 1 10-
year average condition is 67.3. The
indicated crop is estimated on the
basis of the acreage in cultivation
July 1, which was 46,695,000 acres,
less the 10-year average abandon-
ment.
THIRTEEN KILLED BY TRAIN
Dallas, Texas, August 11.—Thir-
teen persons, comprising members of
two farm families near Mesquite, 20
miles east of here, who had spent the
day visiting Marsalis zoo at Dallas,
were killed early tonight when their
truck was struck by the Sunshine
Special, crack Texas & Pacific train,
at a grade crossing leading to the
Forney-Terrell highway.
The truck was demolished. Eye-
witnesses said it stalled on the track
and was struck broadside. Bodies of
the truck’s occupants were found for
several hundred yards down so that
identification was difficult at the
Forney morgue.
The dead:
Mrs. Iva Badgett, 46.
Vera and Eva Badgett, twins, 23.
Emma Badgett, 19.
Texas Badgett, 16.
Birdie Badgett, 7 .
Mary Jo Badgett, 2.
Jessie Badgett, 6.
E. L. Henry, 55.
Mrs. E. L. Henry, 50.
Willie Henry ,5.
Beulah Henry, 16.
——- Henry, 8.
Only two members of the families
were known to have survived. One
was Sherwood Badgett, about 55, fa-
ther and husband of the crash vic-
tims. He was said to have witnessed
the accident, which occurred about
150 yards from the Badgett farm
home.
Mary Lee Henry, 7, was in a Dallas
hospital. She received fractures of
both legs but was expected to live.
The name of the fourth Henry killed
a girl of 8, was not ascertained.
So mangled were the bodies that it
was several hours before the death
list was completed. A lengthy search
was made for E. L. Henry under the
impression he was not a member of
the party before his body was iden-
tified by a friend.
The elder Badgett apparently was
too dazed by the tragedy that wiped
out his family to give a description
of the collision. After a brief visit
to the morgue crowded with towns-
people, he walked out alone and down
the darkened street. He was said to
have been drawing a bucket of water
when he heard the crash and saw
the truck hurled into the air and
converted into splinters.
With the exception of Jessie Bad-
gett, who died in a hospital at Mes-
quite, all of the victims were said to
have been killed outright.
An inquest will be held at Mesquite
at 10 a. m. tomorrow by Justice Mc-
Cullough. Bodies of the eight Bad-
getts killed were taken to Mesquite
tonight. The Henry dead were not
moved from the Forney morgue.
One version of the accident said
the truck, laden with members of the
two families returning from a happy
day at the Dallas park, stalled on a
small wooden bridge a few yards from
the railroad right of way, then sud-
denly passed on to the track in the
path of the locomotive.
200,000 HUNTING LICENSE TO
BE SOLD DURING NEXT YEAR
Austin, Texas, August 9.—Resident
and non-resident hunting licenses
were sent by Will J. Tucker, state
game, fish and oyster commissioner,
to more than 1,000 persons authorized
to distribute the permits beginning
September 1. Tucker said that ap-
proximately 200,000 would be dis-
posed of during the period from Sep-
tember 1 to August 31, 1930.
Under the Texas law, persons are
required to obtain a license only
while hunting out of the county of
their residence. This fee is $2.
Licenses for out-of-state hunters will
cost $25.
TEXAS DRY SHOOTING
IS HELD ACCIDENTAL
Washington, August 9.—Prohibition
Commissioner Doran said Thursday
an official report on the fatal shoot-
ing of Tom Chandler, farmer, by
Captain Charles Stevens, federal pro-
hibition enforcement agent, at Poteet,
Texas, indicated the shooting was ac-
cidental.
The report, said Stevens’ statement
that Chandler was shot during a raid
) on his farm when the agent slipped
( and fell, was substantiated by other
witnesses. Doran said the account
' would be accepted as accurate.
REAL THRIFT INSURES FUTURE
(By S. W. Straus)
Thrift insures against failure and
possible dependency in old age.
Those who practice thrift faith-
fully may be sure that they will not
entirely fail. They may not gain
world renown or immense wealth;
they may not become possessors of
great power, but they may be certain
that they will occupy respected places
in the affairs of men.
Advantages of thrift are too little
appreciated. One great tragedy of
life is the dependency of old age, the
possibility of which often causes
heartbreaking worry and needless ap-
prehension.
On the other hand, there is con-
stant happiness and much content-
ment of mind to those who practice
thrift as a practical insurance against
old age dependency.
There is a whole world of differ-
ence, between the outlook of those who
are making no provision for the fu-
ture years and those who are slowly,
steadily building up their personal
resources. The difference is so great
that one wonders how it is possible
for any sensible person to drift along
to certain failure when a compara-
tively small effort and sacrifice will
place them on the roadway leading
to absolute independence.
The practices of thrift carry cer-
tain personal inconveniences. They
mean the giving up of certain pleas-
ures and comforts. But how much
better it is to give up a few of
these things during the years, when
we are strong and in good health
than to face poverty and distress
when our old years are upon us.
Thrift is an investment in happiness
that pays limitless returns.
Present pastimes last for a day
and are forgotten. The joys of thrift
abide with us as long as we live,
bringing ever and ever more sub-
stantial joy.
DEPORTATION COSTS
(Atlanta Constitution)
Exportation of 12,908 aliens during
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929,
cost the United States government
$926,049.97, or an average of $71.37
Of the 12,908 alines sent away from
this country, 5600 went to Europe,
2800 to Canada, 3300 to Mexico and
the remainder to Asia, Africa and va-
rious other parts of the world. In-
cluded in the total are 1900 aliens who
departed of their own accord, if not
free will, or “reshipped one way for-
eign,” as the immigration authorities
express it. It is to be doubted that
the United States gained more genu-
ine benefit from any other money it
spent during the fiscal year in ques-
tion and it could have expanded its
activities along such lines to advant-
age. Many of the aliens listed above
were deported for more or less tech-
nical reasons and bootleggers, gun-
men, gangsters and others left un-
disturbed. As a matter of fact, the
immigration officials need more lati-
tude than they now have in the mat-
ter of deportation in general. It is
necessary to bar certain persons and
let others remain contrary to com-
mon sense.
PROHIBITION
“Prohibition in the United States
began with local option in the town-
ships and villages. It spread into the
larger county unit, then to the state
and finally to the nation. But the
metropolitan areas were the last to
be touched with the prohibition senti-.
ment,” explains Dr. Ernest H. Cher- >
rington, general secretary of the |
World League Against Alcoholism.
Upon leaving college Dr. Cherring-
ton began his business and profes-
sional life as owner and editor of a
village newspaper. He has kept in
close connection and touch with the
publishing business all his life. He
is the son of a Methodist pastor,
whose charges and circuits for the
greater part were in the villages and
smaller towns of Southern Ohio, and
he is, therefore, well acquainted with
the life and sentiment of the smaller
communities.
“The village newspaper always, and
almost without exception,” his state-
ment says, “has always been for pro-
hibition and against the beverage aK
cohol traffic. The attitude of the
editors of these papers has not chang-
ed unless it be for stronger advocacy
of prohobition, since the eighteenth
amendment went into effect.
“Newspaper directories disclose the
number of weekly newspapers in the
United States to be 12,228, a gain
over 1928. Despite the increasing ex-
pense of getting out weekly papers,
and the extension of daily newspaper
service to the most remote of rural
sections, the number and circulation
of weekly papers are growing.
“As a rule the editor and publisher
of a small town weekly are the same
man, a man known personally to prac-
tically all of his subscribers and ad-
vertisers, a man identified with the
local lodges, church, village govern-
ment and town-boosting organizations,
a man of much influence in his com-
munity.
“The foes of prohibition have never
been able to make much of a dent in
the solid front of the weekly press in
its attitude in favor of prohibition
and law enforcement, and that is one
of the reasons prohibition will stand.”
Lampasas Weekly Leader 1 year $1.50
Mr. and Mrs. N. E. Scudder and
two children of San Saba, were in
Lampasas Sunday, visiting with Mr.
and Mrs. P. E. Scudder.
Mrs. Tad Parsons, of the Stokes
Bros. Department Store, is taking
her vacation this week.
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The Lampasas Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 43, Ed. 1 Friday, August 16, 1929, newspaper, August 16, 1929; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth891850/m1/5/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lampasas Public Library.