The Lampasas Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, July 9, 1926 Page: 2 of 8
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Use Lampasas Leader
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LAMPASAS BAR ENDORSES
JUDGE F. L. HAWKINS
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We, the undersigned members of
the Lampasas Bar, havirTg confidence
in the ability of Judge F. L. Hawkins,
and appreciating his services as a
member of the Court of Criminal
Appeals for the past five years, take
pleasure in endorsing his candidacy
! to the people of Texas for re-election
j to that office.
ROY L. WALKER
J. C. ABNEY
W. H. BROWNING
H. F. LEWIS
JEROME J. BYRNE
T. S. ALEXANDER
| (Pol. Adv.) J. TOM HIGGINS.
MARTIN L. GAFFNEY
Doctor of
SCIENTIFIC MASSAGE
CRYSTAL SPRINGS
•MMPASAS - -......TEXAS
DR. C. H. FAIRES
DENTAL SURGEON
Attention Given Plate and
Bridge Work.
BLOCK ANESTHESIA
$i&3e ever Mackey & Ransom's Drug
Store, Lampasas, Texas.
Mrs. Omar Brown and little son,
Kenneth, and Miss Mildred Seay,
left Tuesday morning for Coleman
i where they will visit relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Harris returned
home Wednesday morning from
Brownwood where they have been
visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
J. W, Mattock.
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Our Mr. C. Boone Taliaferro ||
has been a licensed undertaker
for more than twenty years. All 1*1
service is satisfactory and cour- *t*
£eous.
Day phones, S. W. 86, Rural »*♦
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<ft GREAT POULTRY REMEDY .
Given fowls in drinking water O
or mixed in feed thoroughly »
rids them of all blood-sucking
all mites, fleas and blue bugs, destroys A
ill intestinal worms and
Miss Grace Geddes returned home
Tuesday from Galveston where she
has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Jack
Weir. She was accompanied by her
little nephews, Jack, Jr., and Elkin
Weir, who will visit with their grand-
mother Mrs. T. G. Geddes.
SPEAKING APPOINTMENTS OF
CONGRESSMAN BLANTON
Congressman Thos. L. Blanton will
speak at the following places on the
dates mentioned in behalf of his can-
didacy for re-election to Congress:
Briggs, Monday, July 12, 11 a. m.
Lampasas, Monday night, July 12,
at 8:30 o’clock.
Lometa, Tuesday, July 13, 11 a. m.
De Leon, Tuesday night, July 13,
at 8:30 o’clock.
Comanche, Wednesday, July 14, at
11 a. m.
Coleman, Wednesday night, July
14, at 8:30 o’clock.
Silver Valley Picnic, Thursday,
July 15, 11 a. m.
Brownwood, Thursday night, July 15,
at 8:30 o’clock.
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cohol or poison. Can be given to all agesi
of chicks, old fowls and turkeys, Any kind
of weather with good results. j
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rill last 100 fowls more than 120 days.’ T
W. H. Hawkins and son, Jack, of
Bonham and Miss Fay and Hudson
Hawkins of Fort Worth are here
visiting in the home of Dr. and Mrs.
J. G. Townsen.
The manufacturers are anxious for
poultry raisers to try it 60 days at theiri
risk on the following conditions: After A
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>tf) MACKEY’S DRUG STORE
J. A. Kirkpatrick, auditor for Wm.
Cameron Lumber Co., with headquar-
ters in Waco, was here Wednesday
on business.
MACKEY’S
Lampasas, Texas
VOTE FOR
NOTICE TO ODD FELLOWS
On Tuesday night, July 13th, there
j will be an ice cream supper and elec-
| tion of officers and collecting of dues,
i If you would like to take part in one
I or all of these things be on hand at
| the hall at 8:30 p. m.
J. C. Wimberly, Sec’y.
Thomas S. Christopher
Candidate for
Attorney General
(Political Advertisement)
PIER BRADLEY DEAD
Pier Bradley of Bend died Friday
night after being in ill health for
some time. Mr. Bradley had typhoid
fever for eight weeks and about a
week ago was stricken with paralysis
which resulted in death. He was stay-
ing here in town in oi’der to be near
a doctor and all was done for him
that could be. His sister, Miss Beu-
lah Bradley, stayed here and waited
on him. He was only 34 years of
age and has made his home in this
county all his life, near Bend. He
was a member of the Masonic Lodge
at Bend and a member of the Metho-
his father, Doak Bradley, and several
sisters and brothers, besides a large
sisters ad brothers, besides a large
circle of friends. Funeral services
were held Saturday afteroon at 2:30
o’clock at the Lampasas Furniture
Undertaking Parlors and interment
made in Oak Hill cemetery. Rev. W.
I E. Fisher, pastor of the Methodist
j church here, conducted the services,
and then the Masonic lodge took
charge.
The Leader joins the many friends
j in extending their sympathy to the
family in their hour of sorrow.
400 LULING WORKERS DRAW
BONUS OF $500 TO $20,000 EACH
GIRL DISARMS BANDIT
Fort Worth, Texas, July 6.—Miss
Wteie Harris, held up by a robber as
sfte drove her car into the garage
Sack of her home Monday night,
,'Araggled with him and took away his
,*5sa and flashlight, but lost her
,^orse containing $58, she reported to
,sdSce.
After he had seized her purse Miss
Saorris wrested his pistol from him
*struck him over the head with
*a,„ but he fled without dropping the
jgwKse. She gave a description of the
msan to the police.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Baker and two
ftMSdern returned home Tuesday even-
fifom Galveston and other towns
;tfisog the coast where they spent the
dpneet week.
DEER DESTROYS OATS
San Saba, Texas, July 2.—Arthur
Maas, residing on Wallace Creek, 8
miles west of San Saba, reports that
deer have invaded his fields and
trampled down and destroyed fifteen
acres of oats and have now turned
their attention to his maize and other
small grain.
Mrs. G. A. McGregor received word
that H. D. Ratliff died in Abilene at
4 o’clock Friday morning. His home
is in Fort Worth and he travels from
there. He was stricken with apo-
plexy in Abilene several days ago.
The remains will be sent to Ft. Worth
and interment will be made Saturday
morning at 10 o’clock from his home.
He is sui’vived by three sons and one
daughter, two sons and the daughter
being with him at the time of his
death. Mrs. Ratliff is in a very seri-
ous condition here at the home of Mrs.
G. A. McGregor, in East Lampasas.
Luling, Texas, July 1.—Employes
of the United North and South Oil
Company shared in a $1,250,000 bonus
melon Thursday, the slices having
been handed out by Edgar B. Davis,
president of the company. Individual
checks ranged in size from $500 to
$20,000. At least one roughneck cash-
ed a voucher for $8,200. Four hun-
dred and sixty-five participated. In
addition five executives in New York
City received checks for $200,000
each, it was reported.
Luling did not go to sleep Thursday
night. The first oil boom that came
to Luling when Davis brought in Rios
No. 1 in August, 1922, and opened
up the field, paled into insignificance
with the excitement the bonus dis-
tribution precipitated. The entire town
shared in the “spending spree” which
got under way shortly after the
money was paid out. Automobile
salesmen from distant places were
here to demonstrate their cars, and
sales were brisk. Luling dealers had
more calls for automobiles than they
could deliver. It was said that every
known make automobile was repre-
sented.
New Employes Share.
All employes of the company who
had been in its employ less than one
year received a bonus of 25 per cent
of the entire amount paid to them in
the past; those who had been there
over one year and under two, received
fifty per cent of the total of their pay
checks; men who were two years and
under three years with the company,
received 75 per cent of wages drawn
in the past, and those who had been
there more than three years received
a dollar for every dollar paid them
over that period.
In some instances, men who were
poor Wednesday were “well fixed”
Thursday. Families that had never
known comfort and had lived in
cramped quarters were wealthy and
negotiating for comfortable homes.
Homes Also Bought.
A large number of homes changed
hands and lumber yards were order-
ing emergency stocks to take care
of the home building that is to start
immediately. Families that previous-
ly had lost all hope of owning homes
were seeking services of architects
Thursday night. Furniture dealers
were hastening to market to enlarge
their stocks.
Davis came to Luling to wildcat for
oil, from Brockton, Mass., where he
had become wealthy in the shoe busi-
ness and as vice president of the U.
S. Rubber Company. When he sold
his interest in the rubber company
he distributed a million in bonuses
to faithful employes.
Struck Oil When Broke.
It is said of him that when his dis-
covery well came in at Luling, Davis
had spent his last dollar—he was
broke. He sold out his company Ahc
other day to the Magnolia Petroleum
Company for $12,100,000. The value
of his physical property, such as elec-
trical equipment and rigs was esti-
mated at $1,500,000, the difference be-
tween this amount and the figure he
sold out for representing producing
oil wells.
When he sold out to the Magnolia
people Davis retained all deep oil
rights on his leases and is now boring
two wells. One has reached a depth
of 6,300 feet, with three shifts a day
employed.
Recently Davis bought 1,200 acres
extending from the city limits of
Luling to the San Marcos river, pay-
ing $200 an acre for 20 acres and
$150 an acre for the remainder, on
which he will establish a model agri-
cultural farm with canning factory,
pecan trees and dairy. He will dedi-
cate it to the farming community as
a place to experiment and work out
their problems, with efficiency experts
in charge* * He has set aside a fund
of $500,000 for the farm.
$500,000 for Children.
He has put $500,000 in trust for
needy and destitute children of the
Luling section. He has given the
city a 40-acre park on the San Marcos
river and is building concrete bath
houses and a large dance pavilion
there. On the south side of town he
has bought property for a park for
negroes and is improving it.
Davis is a bachelor.
* Anderson Park News *
*_# * * #
Visitors past few days:
Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Richardson,
with T. P. U. Co., Dallas.
D. S. Bennett, Celina.
W. E. McCoy, Marble Falls.
B. A. Condra and family, Jarrell
Mrs. W. R. Baker and daughters,
Jarrell
J. E. Condra and family, Bartlett.
Mrs. H. F. Overby and daughters,
Bartlett.
Mrs. Tyne Sonntag, Bartlett.
Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Mackey, Hous-
ton.
Carl Fry, Burnet.
Ed Mallett and family, Austin.
Miss Anna Teague, Faulkville, Ala.
Mrs. J. C. Ramsey, Lampasas.
Mrs. M. Little, Laredo, camping in
Sun Shine Inn.
Mrs. Walter Browning and child-
ren, Macon, Ga.
. Mrs. W. J. Herring and two daugh-
ters, Mrs. O. R. Page and Miss Billie
Herring, of Lometa, spent the day
Saturday with her daughter, Mrs. Joe
McLean.
Mrs. W. B. Nichols arrived Friday
from Richmond, Texas, where she has
been visiting in the home of her son,
Dr. Clarence Nichols, and will spend
a short time here with Mr. and Mrs.
R. S. Nichols.
Everywhere--
CHEVROLET
Holley - Langford Motor Co.
Lampasas’ Leading Automobile and Accessory House
KEROSENE BEST SANKE BITE
CURE, PHYSICIAN SAYS
(Houston Chronicle)
Plain old kerosene is better than
permanganate of potash as a cure for
rattlesnake bite, Dr. J. C. Ellis, in
the Kress building, told a Chronicle
reporter Tuesday. General Jacob Wol-
ters stated Monday that the use of a
hypodermic needle and permanganate
of potash was recommended by army
physicians.
“Simply immerse the affected part
in kerosene and keep it there for two
or three hours,” Dr. Ellis said. “This
is not a scientific cure and is not rec-
ognized by the profession. But I
know from experience that it is ab-
solutely a sure cure if administered
promptly.”
Dr. Ellis advised tourists and camp-
ers to always have a quantity of ker-
osene on hand for emergency. He
said that he had seen many persons
saved from death by this treatment.
West Texas cattlemen have al-
ways used kerosene and salt to save
stock bitten by rattlers. But the salt
is not necessary, Dr. Ellis.said.
There is danger of an ugly scar
where permanganate of potash is
used, and no danger of a scar where
kerosene is used, Dr. Ellis added.
Gasoline, unless it was of a very
poor grade, would not be as sure a
cure as the use of kerosene, Dr. Ellis
said. Kerosene is of a very high al-
kaline content while the higher grade
of gasoline, the lower content.
Mrs. W. B. Toone, accompanied by
her son, Jack, left Saturday morning
in the car for Marlin where Mrs.
Toone will reamin for some time in
the interest of her health and Jack
will go on to Dallas where he will
spend several days.
Rev. Father J. J. Coffey returned
home Friday morning from Chicago,
where he attended the Eucharistic
Congress.
BURNET PARK OPENS
Burnet, Texas, July 1.—The form-
al opening of the City Tourist Park
was observed here Tuesday by the
closing Of stores in the afternoon,
for the program staged at the park.
Music, races and ball games featured
the amusement program. Dinner was
served on the grounds with a large
attendance from all over the county
and from adjoining counties. Burnet
is scheduled to be the hub of the
highways of this section and im-
provements of all kinds are already
evident.
The dentist is the only one who
can tell a woman when to open and
shut her mouth and get away with it.
Miss Rachael Smith returned home
Friday afternoon from Austin and
San Antonio where she has been visit-
ing the past three weeks with Mr.
and Mrs. L. R. Smith in San Antonio
and with her sister, Miss Flora, in
Austin.
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Chdtteif
and Keep the
motor cool
ifiith..
Stokes Bros. & Co., have made
quite an improvement in the front
of their dry goods department by
moving their electric sign. By moving
this post they have a better front and
the show windows are more attrac-
tive.
filV©lBrc
Reg. U. S. Pet Off.
DRY AGENT SAYS U. S. DOES
NOT INTEND TO ENFORCE LAW
Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Faulk and
little son, Billie, of Brownsville are
visiting in the home of her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Abney. Mr. Faulk
is county attorney of Cameron county
and is on his way to Belton to look
after a case in court there, transfer-
red from Cameron county to Bell
county.
Arthur Dickens made a business
trip to Goldthwaite Saturday morn-
ing.
SMITH-JENKINS
Sunday morning at 9 o’clock, Rev.
C. A. Morton united in marriage
Willie B. Smith and Miss Edith Jen-
kins at the home of the bride’s father,
C. P. Jenkins. The groom is the son
of Willie Smith of Nix and both are
well known young people. Their many
friends wish for them much happi-
ness in their new home.
TUDGE CHAS. L. BRACHFIELD
S of Henderson, Rusk County,
J Texas, candidate for Attorney
General. Democratic primaries.
Four years County Judge; eight
years State Senator; six years Dis-
trict judge. Strongly endorsed and
recommended by ministers, church
officials, farmers, lawyers, county
officials, bankers, physicians, news-
papers, labor organizations, the
women and business men of Texas.
(Political advertisement)
Mrs. T. A. White is in receipt of
a letter from her sister, Miss Leah
Greer, now of New York, telling that
she will sail from that port Satur-
day, July 3, on the S. S. Rotterdam
for Paris, where she goes to enrich
her knowledge as an interior decora-
tor, and enjoy the inspiration this
great art center affords. Miss Greer
was formerly a resident of Lampasas.
Renew Your Health
by Purification
Any physician will tell you that
“Perfect Purification of the System
is Nature’s Foundation of Perfect
Health.” Why not rid yourself of
chronic ailments that are undermin-
ing your vitality? Purify your en-
tire system by taking a thorough
course of Calotabs,—once or twice a
Week for several weeks—and see how
Nature rewards you with health.
Calotabs are the greatest of all
system purifiers. Get a family pack-
age, containing full directions. Only
35 cts. At any drug store. (Adv.)
Washington, July 3.—Convinced
that “there isn’t any intention on the
part of the United States Government
to enforce the 18th amendment,” Ed-
gar R. Ray, prohibition administrator
for Western Pennsylvania, with head-
quarters at Pittsburg, Saturday ten-
dered his resignation to assistant sec-
retary Andrews in charge of prohi-
bition enforcement.
Ray made public this letter which
he said he had presented to General
Andrews:
After talking with you today I am
satisfied there isn’t any intention on
the part of the United States Gov-
ernment to enforce the 18th amend-
ment of its Constitution and I do not
care to be identified with the work
any longer, and you will please con-
sider this my resignation to take ef-
fect at your earliest convenience.”
The Pittsburgh administrator, who
was at the Treasury with Thomas J.
Cavanaugh, acting prohibition ad-
ministrator for New Jersey and East-
ern Pennsylvania, with headquarters
at Philadelphia, said that he antici-
pated his resignation would be accept-
ed Avhen General Andrews returns
from his forthcoming European trip.
Coincident with announcement of his
resignation letter, Ray issued this
statement:
“The 18th Amendment to the Con-
stitution of the United States was
never intended to cover a larger ter-
ritory than from Washington to Gary.
“It is in my opinion the biggest
swindle that was ever perpetrated in
this country.
“The stage is now being set for a
return to old conditions and I am not
going to be a party to it.”
While Cavanaugh was reticent, Ray
declared he thought his Eastern
Pennsylvania colleagues would soon
resign, due to lack of adequate pro-
hibition operatives. Both are filling
posts formerly held by Frederick C.
Baird, who testified at the Senate pro-
hibition hearings and who has figured
in testimony before the Senate cam-
paign funds committee.
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