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THE CCERO, RECORD, CUERO, TEXAS
tHE CUERO RECORD
Established In 1894
Published Each Afternoon, Except Saturday, and Sunday Morning by
THE CUERO PUBLISHING CO.. Inc.
filtered In the post office at Cuero, Texas, as second class matter
under Act of Congress. March 3. 1897.
MRS. J. C. HOWERTON
JACK HOWERTON___
HARRY O. PUTMAN___
PETE HOWERTON___
TODD TILTON _________
__________________ President
---------------- Publisher
_______Editor
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1937
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37 YEARS AGO * WMSWHAT AT A GCfftCE
The following interesting items
were clipped from an issue of The !
Record of the year 1900:
W ASH I N G TON- W O.k L D,
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
SEPTEMBER 19. 1900.* ' WASHINGTON, D. C.—Pres-
R. A. Turner and his two briglu I Roosevelt s expected tour of
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Official Organ of the City or Cuero and DeWitt County.
TELEPHONE NO. L
H.O. L. C. BUYS CUERO
BUILDING & LOAN STOCK
; Approval by the Home Owners Loan Corporation of the
management and operation of the Cuero Federal Savings and
Loan Association was evidenced Friday in tfie form of a $35,-
000.00 check for stock received by the secretary. Rees Shan-
non. The H. O. L. C. is investing its funds in stocks of the
Cuero building loan exactly on the same basis as a private
investor. Its money will earn only the dividends the Cuero As-
sociation Is able to pay.
The H. O. L. C. investment will prove a boon to building in
Cuero over the next few months. The Cuero Federal Savings i J^n,™ RewSa arrived
and Loan is financing a large majority of the home building
now underway in this city and was running rather short on
available money to lend. At their last meeting on Tuesday di-
rector of the organization approved more than $14,000.00 in
construction loans.
The Cuero Federal Savings and Loan Association offers
citizens of this territory with surplus funds excellent invest-
ment. Shareholders funds are protected up to the amount of
$J>,000.00 as in the banking institutions of the city. The
money is also active and helping to build Cuero when in-
vested in building loan stock and earns a fair dividend. The
Association also has a budget payment plan whereby citi-
zens may acquire stock through small jgonthly payments.
CENTER PARKING
STILL A LIVE ISSUE
, If you think center parking on Esplanade is a dead is-
sue Min Cuero you have not talked with merchants whose
stores front on that wide thoroughfare recently. The ques-
tion of center parking is still a sore subject with many Es-
planade street store keepers who feel that the city council in
.forbidding parking in the center of the street has discrim-
inated against them and that the move has also resulted in
driving business away from Cuero. They can point out a half
dozen fanners, they will tell you, who have ceased to make
Cuer<^ their trading point since the center parking regula-
tions were imposed. They point out the fact that center
parking is allowed in Yoakum, Lockhart and dozens of oth-
er cities on streets much narrower than Esplanade and con-
tend that the State Highway Department did not require
that center parking be abolished in Cuero but left the de-
cision up to the city council.
There are two sides to the center parking question.
Business at Esplanade street stores unquestionably has been
hu,rt to some extent by the council’s regulations. On the
other hand the wide street presents an attractive appear-
ance, a wide through artery for tourists and there have
been fewer car wrecks since parking was abolished. If, how-
ever, Cuero is losing farmer trade to other towns because of
maintaining a wide and unobstructed street it may be too
great a pfice for the city to pay.
THE THINGS
WHICH UNITE
Among the more than two hundred religious bodies
throughout the United States, with their independent eccles-
iastical organizations and more or less divergent programs,
there are many important differences; but the great under-
lying principles which unite these religions—faith in God
and the brotherhood of man—are more important than the
things which divide.
The chief issue today is not between our various forms
of religion, but between religion and no religion, or indiffer-
ence to religion. There is no question about the ultimat?
triumph of the eternal verities which underlie religion; but
this triumph will come only by presenting a united front or
by coordination of the religious forces in meeting the pres-
ent threatening influences of irreligion, materialism and in-
difference. ^
The Committee believes that the major problems of
our nation and civilization are neither political nor eco-
nomic—they are moral and spiritual. The basic evils which
underlie all of these problems are sin, selfishness and greed
in the individual human heart. With this a basic principle,
the National Committee for Religion and Welfare Recovery
has formulated a program for meeting irreligion and indif-
ference through cooperative effort to bring the minds and
hearts of men back to the worship of God and support of di-
vinely appointed religious institutions. *
The initial fall dates of the National Committee’s ex-
tensive program are October second and October third, to
be observed as Loyalty Days.
The Committee has issued an earnest invitation where-
in “Every citizen is cordially invited and every member Is
confidently expected in a house of worship” on Loyalty Days,
with every member either present or accounted for.
The Committee believes that the world needs today, as
seldom in history, the steadying and strengthening influ-
ences of the sanctuary. Mankind has forgotten God and
needs to return to a realization of His presence. For in this
way we %an attaig ideal of brotherhood and social justice
among men.
sons. Masters Joe and Ernest, came
in from Cameron today, where
they have been to visit Mr. Turn-
er’s father. He reports crops
splendid in that section, but no
better than where he lives in tli.
western part of this county. He
called on The Record to renew for
j his father's paper.
* * *
Leslie Allert, who has been visit-
ing home folks for the past few
days, left today for Houston, where
he will remain unt-il the railroads
are again running in to Galveston,
when he will return to the Island
City.
¥ ¥ ^
Both Geo. Thomas and Charley
Schwab, who have recently visited
the western part of our county
about Nopal. Davy. Little Chicago
and the like, are sanguine on the
subject of the country; they say it-
is the best they ever saw and the
farmers are sure of three-fourths
of a bale to the acre, while many
will make a bale. Grass is fine,
cattle are in splendid condition and
the people are in good spirits..
George says “it’s God's country and
does a fellow good just to visit it.”
* ¥ *
Miss Mary Rehm of Uvalde, a
subscriber
in Cuero
Saturday on a visit to relatives.
She expects to be here several
weeks.
* * *
A marriage license was issued to-
day by County' Clerk Baker to E.
L. Johnson and Miss Cora E. Me.
Caskill. The Record wishes the
young couple long life an dhappL
ness.
Market quotations furnished dally
by Lillie Falir, 212 Gonzales Street.
Phone 130.
the west, according to what we cor-
respondents are accustomed to de-
scribe as “well informed persons”,
is not so much to “make medicine”
against senators and representa-
tives who opposed his policies at
the last session of congress as to
enlighten himself.
He desires, it seems, to talk with
the actual “home folk”.
If he finds that these "home folk”
are behind his program presumably
he will tell his congressional oppo-
nents to “go hang” at their next
session. If he finds that the anti-
New Deal legislators really have
the support of the “home folk” he
will have to modify his program ac-
cordingly.
• • •r
DIFFICULT TO DETERMINE
It is difficult for one in the pres-
ident’s position to arrive at a de-
pendable conclusion from an inves-
tigation of this sort.
. Crowds at every whistling post
are sure to yowl for him simply be-
cause he IS president. It will sound
like enthusiasm in his favor, but
basically it may not mean much.
The cheers will need to be discount-
ed more or less anyway.
Of course F. D., as a master polir
ticiart, realizes all this.
Still, there is some delicate calcu-
lating for him to do.
How far will the ovations he
surely will encounter be the genuine
article? How far will they be per-
functory?
Mass “yes men” are as unreliable
as the individual “yes man”.
WILSON’S EXPERIENCE
President Wilson, when he ap-
pealed to the country in behalf of
the League of Nations, was received
everywhere with acclaim.
Yet he lost the next congression-
al election.
Cheering for the president at
railroad stations doesn’t necessa-
rily imply that Vie seeming una^
ninrity for his policies is more than
skin deep.
• • •
A TEST ?
The president’s forthcoming
western tour will be something of
a test.
If it is a tremendous presidential
triumph, it will be a poke in the
face for southern conservatism. If
it fizzles, relatively, it will be a |
southern triumph.
When I say “triumph” and “fiz-
zles”, I am speaking of the f^te of
politicians—not of the welfare of |
ordinary folk. »
few fat bulls to $5.00.
Hogs. 700 head. The market
continued active with price levels
steady with Wednesday. A top of
$11.00 was paid readily by packers
and shippers for good to choice 180
to 250-pound butchers. Packing
sows held steady at $8.25 to $8.75
for the bulk of offerings with odd
head to $9.00.
No sheep or goats were on offer
early Thursday. Short truck lots
of shorn Angora goats late Wed-
nesday cashed -at $2.00 to $2.25.
You're Telling Ale!
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Soviet Government
Blames Italy For
Attacks At Sea
LONDON. Eng.. Sept. 18.—(INS.)
$ | —The Soviet government has noti-
i fied France it is in possession of
.documentary evidence” that Italy
is responsible lor piracy in the
Mediterranean, I. N. S. learned ex-
clusively today.
The "evidence” is in t-hc form of
photo-cupies of orders allegedly is-
of
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
WRITTEN FOR CENT&AlcEkfiSS
By Shepard Barclay
“The Authority on Authorities"
HIDING a GOOD FIT ■ 2-Diamonds, West 2-Spades, North
AGAINST opponents who are ' 3-Hearts, which East doubled, and
bidding their suit lengths aggres- 1 South 4-Diamonds, which West
sively, solid support for your part- j doubled.
ner’s minor gives you a great sense ‘ With the opponent* bidding
of security. You can then cut in actively and his partner only able
with the only unbid major, if you to bid diamonds, North felt iure
have a bit of length in it, with the that 4-Spades was certain to be
positive assurance that if you do made by the opponents, so en*
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By WILLIAM RITT
Central Press Writer
A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD Illinois
boy is now a fullfiedged preach-
er. Bet his first sermon was on j sued by the Italian ministry
the evils of playing hooky from ’ Marine to submarine commanders
school.
The announcement that school
enrollment is rapidly decreasing
is hard to believe in view, of the
■< to sink on sight any Soviet steam-
' ers bound for Spain.
not find your partner with a satis-
factory fit there, he can bid his
minor again. Since you had not
shown the foe that you fit the
minor, you may thus lure a dou-
ble at a less than game contract,
especially if they get into a dou-
bling mood by being able on the
round before to double your major
bid,
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BLACK CAT JINX AGAIN
ITHACA, N. Y.—(INS.)—A black
fact that every September therb cat crossed the highway in front of
seem to be twice as many foot- i Anthony Gorgoni, 18-ysar-old en-
ball teams as the year before. ’ ro|ee al the coc Camp at Cornell
i University. Now he is spending five
clays in jail, and nursing lacera.
Football coaches might make
ideal congressmen. They have
at least one outstanding qualifi-
cation. They know how to take
a lot of razzing.
* * •
If that undeclared war be-
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deavored to inveigle them Into
doubling hearts, in the hope that
they would also double diamond*,
rather than try for their own
game.
North was rewarded for hi* en-
deavor, for he not only kept the
other side from a game, but hi*
side made its own contract, dou-
bled.
• • •
Tomorrow’s Problem
48
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lions of the left elbow and face.
Gorgoni told the sheriff that'
[ when he applied the brakes on aj
• truck to avoid hitting the cat, the j
jtruck overturned in a ditch. He
tween Japan and China gets any |was arrested for driving without
worse it will be in danger of
losing its amateur standing.
* • *
China’s great wall, built to
keep out the enemy, was a good
idea but recent news dispatches
reveal it has one fault. It should
have been built 50 miles taller.
* * •
That college professor who is
attempting to breed a gentler
bee had better be careful. The
bee may prove so peaceful it
would refuse t* rob a flower of
pollen.
• • •
Just think—in another month
we’ll be longing for the good, old
summertime, again.
I a license.
4 A J 2
4 None
4 J 10 9 8 7 4 '
4 A J 10 2
(Deale.*: North. Neither side
vulnerable.)
After two passes, South started
the bidding on this deal with
1-Dlamond, West overcaUfir with
1-Spade, East bid 2-Cluba. South
4 A 9 4
4 J 8
4 A J 9 5
48 7 64
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4'
475 2 ,
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4 Q 10 3
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4 6 4 2
49 3 2
(Dealer: West. North-South vuV>
nerable.)
What is the correct bidding on
the North-South card* of
deal?
J READ THIS FIRST:
Tim Kennedy has been writing a
j suicide note to himself in his wife's
! handwriting. He had graduated into
a would-be homicide from the school of
armchair murderers. Tim, who had
built up a lucrative dental practice in a
small town near LonUon, had done so
with great premeditation and planning
years before.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY:
Kennecott Copper
Montgomery Ward
SATURDAY’ S CLOSE
N. Y. COTTON FUTURES
Open High Low Close Pure Oil
Oct. 8 85 8.87 8.83 8 86-87 Sccony Vacuum
Dec....... 8.75 8.76 8.72 8.74-75
Jan...... 8.81 8.81 8.76 8.76
N. O. COTTON FUTURES
Open High Low Close
Oct. 8.83 8.84 881
Dec....... 8.83 8.85 8.80
Standard Oil. N. J.
Texas Co. ......
United Aircraft . .
U. S. Steel..........
Vanadium . ...........
8.83-84 • Wes(inghqusc........
8.34-85 Santa Fe Ry_
49 1-3! No. 2 Eggs per dozen .......
49 7-8 I No. 1 Cream ........
16 1-8 ' No. 2 Cream
18 1-8i -
59 3-4 | COTTON SEED
50 i Quotation furnished by
22 7-8 J Cotton Oil & Mfg. Co........
90 1-8
Cuero
$19.00
Jan.
8.88 8;89 8.88 8.89
SPOT COTTON .
New York ...............
New Orleans.............
Houston.... .............
Galveston................ .....
CUERO...................................
9.96
3.85 !
Pennsylvania Rv............ 30 1-
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CIJKItO MARKETS
TOULTRY AND PRODUCE
Courtesy of Cudahy Packing Co.
I.FADING STOCKS
SATURDAY 3 CLOSE
American Can ........ ........
Anaconda Copper..........
American Tel. & Tel........ 1
Bethlehem Steel
Dupont .........................
Chrysler Motors
Ford of England
General Electric
General Foods
General Motors
8.53 Hens, 4 1-2 lbs and up .......... 16c
8.58 Hens, 4 lbs. to 4 1-2 lbs............ 15c
8-75 Hens, under 4 lbs.................... 12c
Springs, under 2 lbs. 20c
Springs, over 2 lbs.........18c
Bakers, per lb. 15c
95 Staggs, per lb.......... 12c
43 Cocks, per lb................................... 8c
159 Turkeys, No. 1, per lb.................. 9c
79 Turkeys, No. 2, lb.............. 6c
148 1-4 Turkeys, old Toms, per lb......... 6c
94 3-3 Geese, per lb. .................................... 5c
6 3-8 Ducks, per lb. ................................ 5c
45 3-4 Guineas, each .............................15c
34 3-4 Eggs, White Legohm, doz 20c
49 3-4 Eggs. No. 1. per dozien 18c
CHAPTER 4
TIM’S professional efficiency
eventually got around, and m par-
ticular he acquired a reputation as
a painless dentist. For Dentist
Jameson had a vein of Scottish
stoicism that rendered him impa-
tient with people “making a fuss
over nothing”: besides, he was
against drugs. And Taylor and
Evans, both excellent workmen,
were inclined to be a little over-
division Thursday at San Antonie j rapid and therefore ungentle* in
1.000 ! their treatment: they generally had
loads I fuil waitinS rooms and were work-
SAN ANTONIO LIVESTOCK
(Fed.-State Market, News Service)
Estimated receipts in the cattle
consisted of 600 cattle and
calves, including three rail
t ing against time. Yet, so strong is
of calves Good qualities offer.: habit that, at a time when his
ings were scarce on early rounds, work was being increasingly
Trading wqs fairly active on most j praised, he gained little ground
classes except bulls. Stockers1 from his competitors,
were scarce. Matured steers were j Perhaps Kennedy’s personality
in light supply. Price levels
around steady with Wednesday.
Medium to good grade calves
cashed at $6.00 to $7.00; plain
kinds sold down to $5.00 with culls
to $4.50, few "rannies” below. Year-
lings scarce at mostly $6.50 and
down. Butcher cows sold mostly
at $4.50 to S5.50. odd head to $6.00
Cutter and low cutter cows sold
down to $3.00. very few below. Bulls
cashed mostly at $4.75 and down,
FIRST DOWN, TWO MONTHS TO GO!
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was too unassertive. Shrewdly
aware that this was the case, he
laid himself out to acquire a good
professional manner. He trained
himself to chat easily with those
patients who liked it, and though
he at first found it difficult to com-
bine close work with light conver-
sation, he came to manage it very
well. He gained skill in adapting
his manner to individual charac-
teristics: lie learned how to reas-
sure nervous patients, and how to
make a parade of silent efficiency
with businesslike ones. He also
took to going to church, and here
j he scored, for Jameson was a
I Presbyterian, Taylor and Evans in-
! differentists and sabbath-breakers,
j Kennedy’s first big capture was the
j new rector, and quite a number of
church people followed the lead.
5 The summer of 1914 found his
condition and status perceptibly
advanced, but he was still a long
way from occupying the domi-
nating position he afterwards
reached. The real turning point
j in his fortunes was the Great war.
i By 1916 two of his rivals had been
j wiped out—Taylor blown to bits
i on the Somme, and Evans, at-
’. tached to a medical unit at
1 Amiens, receiving In an air raid
injuries amounting to total dis-
ablement.
Kennedy did not rush Into khaki.
His lung trouble, though by now
practically cured, served as an ex-
cuse. But In the black year of
1915 the pressure of public opinion
became very strong and he applied
for and obtained a commission In
the ordnance corps. He was by no
means deficient in personal cour-
age, but the offer of his services
was dictated purely by self-
interest. He foresaw that in the
years following the cohflict a high
premium would be placed on a
war record, and that a man of
military age who could not boast
of one would be handicapped pro-
fessionally. Also, he was aware
that the holding of a commission
w’ould raise his social status—
hitherto negligible—in a way noth-
ing else evel* could. He looked well
in his uniform—prematurely mid-
dle-aged, but quiet and distin-
guished in his slight, rather trim
fashion.
He spent all his leaves in West
l Shilston, forswearing the delights
of wartime London for the sake of
impressing himself on the mind of
the town in the character of an
officer and a gentleman. On these
leaves he found himself welcomed
and even courted In circles with
which he had had no contact be-
fore. He accepted this new posi-
tion as his right, but modestly and
without presumption.
In the spring of 1919. Imme-
Tim was quietly married to Esther AshwelL
owner In a small way, niece of Dr.
Arkwright, the most considerable
medical man in the district, and a
very attractive girl In her own
right, was about as marriageable
a proposition as any mother could
hope for; and the marriage could
hardly have passed without some
scandal and social discomfort a
few years before. But Kennedy
wras by now thoroughly estab-
lished. He encouraged people to
call him Captain Kennedy, but
quietly dropped the title at the
psychological moment, just before
the retention of temporary military
hofiorifles became ridiculous. He
took an active part in the organ-
ization of the local British Legion;
he followed up, with unassuming
pertinacity, every contact capable
of strengthening his position.
His social advance was paralleled
by an equally rapid move forward
in his professional standing. Tay-
lor was dead, Evans finished.
Jameson dead. The latter, over-
whelmed with work In the later
war years, had taken a man called
Fiddian as partner, and the two
had carried on until just after the
armistice, when Jameson had died
of peritonitis. Fiddian continued
with moderate success, and in 1919
a very young man named Harris
started out in the poorer part of
the town; he was believed to be
struggling.
But the most striking effect of
these hazards and changes was
that Tim Kennedy was suddenly
promoted from junior to senior
dentist ih the town. Fiddian and
Harris Were newcomers, almost
foreigners, but Kennedy was of the
prewar vintage. To his always
good reputation he could now add
the background of an assured so-
cial position; he became beyond
challenge THE dentist of West
Shilston, and he was able to in-
crease substantially his formerly
very modest fees without risk of
losing business.
He kept his rooms In High
street, but ceased to reside on the
premises; he had not spent a single
fin
a corporal in Kennedy’s
who had saved Ins officer’s life by
tions, new curtains, new wood-
work completely exorcised tlM
dingy flavor of the old regime.
The staircase, too, was put la bet-
ter shape, a smart plate of white
metal replaced the former brass,
and patients were encouraged to
ring the outside belL This was
now answered by Adams, formerly
company,
r** life by
pulling him Into the cover' of a
shell hole at a critical moment In
a retreat. (The fact that thi*
was the only occasion when Ken-
nedy had been under fire was not
made public.) >• ’
Shortly after their marriage,
Tim and Esther moved out of
town. About a mile and a half
from West Shilston, near the bot-
tom of a hollow In the Merton
Forest, lay a Queen Anne house,
known as The Wilderness. It had
been unoccupied for several years,
was In a bad state of repair, and
suspect of dampness. But it was
of charming appearance, com-
modious In a haphazard way,
had a delightful garden of about
15 acres—lawns, kitchen garden,
orchard, and a wild overgrown pqrt
by a stream around the hollow,
from which the place derived Its
name. It was the property of
Kennedy’s father-in-law, under en- /
tail, and on his daughter’s mar-
riage, he modernized and put It In
order, supplied a new roof and a
great deal of concrete to help
with the draining, and placed it at
the pair’s disposal.
He also made Either a personal
allowance of £500 a year, which he
continued to pay till his death in
1926. A wild spring afternoon on
Newmarket Heath gave him a
chill which carried him off in a
week. After his house and stables
had been sold and his outstanding
debts settled his personal estate
was found to be less than £4,000_
a tenth of the figure expected. Re
had beeh a widower for five years,
and the money was equally divided
between Esther and her brothel
Neddy. But by mutual agreement
Esther made over her share of the
night there after joining the army.
diately after demobilization, he The waiting room and living room I money to Neddy as a gift, in cwv
was quietly married to Esther were knocked into one, and made sideration of being left in undts-
Ashwell. ja very handsome apartment. The turbed occupation of The Wilder
Esther, the daughter of a gen- surgery was re-equipped and re- ness. ,
tic man of leisSre and race horse 1 furnished throughout; new decora-j (To Be Continued) *
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