The Cuero Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 267, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 12, 1931 Page: 3 of 6
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THE CUERO RECORD, CUERO, TEXAS
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1931
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J Texas & Texans ♦
. By WILL H. MAYES +
w Austin. Texas ♦
♦ "'All Texans for all Texas’* ♦
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Road
Appropriation
will receive $6,779,221 in
^xioad appropriations for
lip funds will not be :ivail-
■yJuile until 1933 but the apportion-
ment has been announced early in
that, mad construction plans
Sfe advanced The conditions
as heretofore—the
” 'moi must be spent on highways
'is Ihderal roads and
, by the State, it is
to say that, as heretofore
will use to advantage the full
*0f the appropriation, which
' by about $1,500,000 than
by working themselves into a high popular favor. Expenses of govern-
ment have increased out of all pro-
portion to benefits received.
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-aside for any other state
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• Football Menacing Education?
Wdreased Interest In football
causiS many educators to wonder
whetter Xt* sport is aiding or
hindering education. With nearly
every school' having a large per-
■f its able-bodied male
constant daily practice,
two match games every
J the fall term, some at
distances from the local
with large numbers of
f the teams around
to attend games,
tea hardly be all
be desired. Students who
their school team
pitch of Wild excitement at the
game rallies before and after a
game is played or who absent them- ; -
selves from games to do other school ■ she Gets The Cotton Cake
work are .often upbraided for lack ! Mrs s H Gwyn, of Midland, is
of “school spirit.” ' pictured wearing a dress, and hat
Taxpayers who foot the school j and carrying a purse, all of which
bills are heard complaining that j cost her but three cents, that
their hard-earned money for edu- j amount being spent for thread. The
cat;on is net getting desired re- j outfit was made from feed sacks,
suits. Educators by putting their j and, according to the newspaper
ears to the ground can even now j report and picture, is pretty enough
hear a rumble that threatens to be- ! to wear to church, picnics, parties
come louder than the grandstand and club meetings. This thrifty
would let Washington know their
desires in regard to matters affect-
ing them their interests would
soon get consideration.
Making Flock Pay
A Gray county poultry owner
found that his flock was not paying
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sound advice often determines-j Even now there is strong protest
whether there will be d loss or , against building highways for the
profit in a business. ] purpose to which they are so large-
-- ly put.
Truck Killings j _
Data furnished Governor Sterlingj
show that cotton trucks on the!
Mrs. Sevier’s Gift
on the j 'through the generosity of Mrs.,
highways have taken the lives of j Clara Driscoll Sevier, who has given |
cheering at the ball games. These
complaints need only organization
to become dangerous to the educa-
tional system. t
Fewer Governments
The proposal to reduce the num-
ber of Texas counties to fifty will
hardly meet the approval of the
people. There is no reason, though,
why such counties as may desire to
consolidate in the interest of eco-
nomy should not be given that
privilege. In many cases such con-
solidations might prove highly ad-
vantageous. The Dallas News sug-
gests that Dallas and Tarrant
counties might profit by having one
government with the county site at
Arlington. Many counties have cen-
trally heated county sites with fine
courthouses In well established
towns and would strongly oppose
efforts at consolidation with any
other county or counties. The move-
ment to combine county and city
governments under one manage-
ment and ptus save the expense of
dual government covering the same
territory appears to be growing in
farm woman also has enough
home-canned food in her pantry to
last the family nearly two years.
There is something wrong, though,
about having those feed sacks on a
farm where such a thrifty woman
lives. The feed for the farm should
have been raised on the farm and
not brought to the place in sacks.
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Town and Farm Meet
Three hundred persons, mostly
farmers, recently met at Floresville
to discuss farm problems and es-
pecially to protest against increas-
ed freight rates on farm products.
The meeting was started off by
serving the crowd 300 dozen hot ta-
males—home grown, home-made
products—hot coffee and Wilson
county, brown beans cooked camp
fashion, which heated the crowd
up sufficiently to tackle the business
in hand. A few days later Senator
Tom Connally accepted an invita-
tion to speak at Floresville and hear
the views of Wilson,county people
as to increasing freight rates. Such
get-together meetings, do much
good. If farmers in every county
any profit. He has 325 hens, so he 135 Texans in 30 days. How many $65,000 to supplement a State ap-
consulted the county poultry dem- ! were injured and maimea was not ProPriation of 5150 000■ a valuable
onstrator, who advised a mash, made public.- The governor says
made at home, of 40 per cent that these huge. heavily loaded
ground wheat, 30 per cent ground trucks are wearing out the expen-
barley, 10 per cent ground oats and sive roads rapidly and are cost-
20 per cent meat scrap. The cost, ing huge sums for repairs to roads
including grinding, was $1.15 a hun- and bridges. In Travi§ county, cot
dred pounds, and the mash was fed
with equal parts of whole wheat.
The result was that daily produc-
tion jumped at once from 100 to
164 egg?. Perhaps with proper cull-
ing the percentage of increase
would have been better. Even as it
was, the extra egg production paid
the entire feed bill of the flock and
a
plot of land adjoining the Alamo
has been acquired as part of the
Alamo Park extension. About 2
years ago Mrs. Sevier advanced
$60,000 with which to save the his-
toric building from passing out of
:: r-js sR’irf.'s”.
roads to shorten distance and j has glven ™ch *nd “““I }°
avoid the main highways and have the old st™; , a*d *n
nearly destroyed the expensive! dom« 50 has won and retamed
roads in a short while. Just how
long the public will let these de-
stroyers of life and property mo-
nopolize the roads depends only up- i
gratitude and love of every patri-
otic Texan.
about 15 cents a day more. A little on the tolerance cf the people.
Prosperity Pointers
All egg crate factory under con-
struction at Waco expects to em-
ploy 150 men ^nd manufacture
1,500 cars of crates annually.
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Completion of a stretch of road
from the Brazos river to Hemp-
stead provides a hard surface road
from Austin through to Galveston.
A peanut factory has been com-
pleted at Denison with floor ca-
pacity of 75,000 square feet. It util-
izes about eight cars of peanuts
daily and in the seven months of
the manufacturing season employ-
about 400 persons.
Methodists at Mineral Wells are
building a $50,000 church edifice.
Point Isabel has bought the mu-
nicipal waterworks system for $99.-
250 and will make needed exten-
sions.
Seventeen miles of highway has
just been completed out of Cisco
over a route heretofore almost im-
passable, largely increasing Cisco's
trade territory and providing a
scenic driveway.
A milling company at
has arranged to erect grain
and a feed mill at a cost of
The Magnolia refinery at Beau-
mont has adopted an eight hour,
five day plan and will reinstate
some 200 employees dropped earlier
in the year.
Thirty three irrigation plants in
the Lower Rio Grande Valley plan
to consolidate into from one to
three districts to save in duplicated
processes and materials, as well as
in overhead expenses. .
A cold storage plant is being i
structed at Georgetown to
the turkey and chicken
business of the territory, .«
Virtually every kind of papa*
wall covering known in the world's
markets is produced in the Uni tad
Kingdom.
A hay stacker and grain shook .
loader that can be operated
farm tractor has been
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CHAPTER XIII ~ • * i
is the name of an old
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He had heard
. __ Jk of that big
I place that had stooc
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fer to Ifonksiiver,
torn care
, ,----r, h would
•till more afraid for Frank
te off with a sud-
not in England at the
/ster, you wouldn't hear
weeki ago something ter-
*— tragic took place in that
, A man dogged from Russia
J, and struck down in cold
aen who wanted his i
_ : if the same menace that
m«a bis life is directed now
Prank?" she whispered
•ly. “Those jewels have
victim already. Now
1 you tell me—if he is to be
RUBIES i
what jewels?" cried Wynter.
e almost priceless stones,
them the historic Czarina
that were smuggled out of
md brought secretly to Eng
Iforinoy family jewels,
^were hidden away when the rev-
n broke out. My mother was a
Or—the last Murinov; her
and brothers had been shot
by the revolutionaries in the
ard of their own castle. It
Severn who planned to
the Czarina Rubies for me
Mccceded in smuggling them
if' Of Russia, sent them secretly by
^ trusted messenger to England—
Federoff, who was murdered
for those jewels at Monksilver.”
A little shudder shook her voice.
“And the men who murdered Fed-
croff got away with the jewels?”
asked Jim Wynter. ■
"No. They failed to find them af-i
ter their crime. We learned that in
the strangest way,” Katharine said.
“Somewhere in that old house in
Hschmond the Czarina Rubies arc
■till hidden, their hiding place known
family to the dead man—and one
other.
f?01! mean—to Frank ‘Severn ?”
bloke from Wynter.
t Sevcra in the hands of these un-
known men who had followed the
MurmoV'jewels from Soviet Russia
teTfg^ird—was this the clue to
tee myteary of his disappearance?
jiPht find out something at
.1 Jim Wyuter said sud-
'jnd I’m going there now—
r
there a chaace of finding out
at Monksilver? ,
"Bren
torture he refused to betray what he felt a sacred trust,"
said Katharine.
If the word “silver” on that torn I tempts were made again and again
playing card found at Beggar’s Court to force a confession from him un-
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had been part of the name “Monk-
silver,* then that seemingly mean-
ingless scrap of writing became sud-
denly significant
After what he had just heard from
Katharine, that queer story behind
the weeks old murder at Monksilver,
Wynter felt that hert might be the
first unexpected due to the mystery
of his vanished friend.
A cache of immemcly' valuable
jewels, that had beta smuggled out
of Russia and were now hidden
somewhere in that old house, their
hiding place known only to the man
who had found death there and
Frank Severn; what more likely
than that those responsible for Sev-
ern’s disappearance last night were
the men for whom FederofFs mur-
der had been a fruitless crime, and
this their second bid for the secret?
As the taxicab carried him from
Katharine’s flat to Richmond, Win-
ter’s mind marshaled again the ar-
ray of facts bearing on this mys-
tery that had come into his posses-
sion tonight ^
THE LAST WORD
The last Katharine had heard of
Frank Severn had been a letter he
had written from Vienna some five
weeks ago. Until then Katharine
herself had not known whether he
had succeeded or failed in that dan-
gerous mission that had taken him
to Russia. It had not been safe for
Severn to write till he was off Rus-
sian soil.
The date of that letter was six
days after the murder of Federoff,
the secret messenger whom Severn
had sent dh ahead with the Czarina
Rubies. Severn, when writing to
Katharine, had already learned from
an English newspaper of his mes-
senger's fate.
Of Federoff Katharine had spoken
with a deep gratitude and pity.
Bailiff of the great Murinov es-
tates, he had been a familiar figure
of her own childhood days in Rus-
sia. Federoff it was who, when the
storm of revolution had swept over
the remote Murinov Castle, had se-
cretly placed the jewels in safe hid-
ing.
Just in time. The destruction of
Castle Murinov had been followed
swiftly by Federoff’s arrest. It was
thought he might be in the secret of
ths vanished Czarina Rubies; ai-
der duress.
LOYALTY /
“Oh, I have no words for his
splendid loyalty!” Katharine had
cried. “Even under torture he re-
fused to betray what he felt a sa-
cred trust, even when there seemed
no prospect that the jewels he was
guarding could ever come back tor
apyone of the Murinov blood. And
that be should have died When at
last it seemed as if after all his
dreams were coming true! Poor
Paul!” she had added pitifully.
The task Severn had set himself
had been perilous enough from the
moment of his setting foot in a
country overrun with secret agents
and spies, with Federoff first to be
traced, and then the long journey
across hundreds of miles of Russia
to receive those jewels from their
strange 10-year-old hiding place.
MONEY TALKS
Long before he was through with
his task, Severn had sensed that sus-
picion was astir, that to attempt to
leave the country with the jewels in
his possession would be to court dis-
aster. But in Russia bribery can do
much. It was found possible for
Federoff, if not himself* to slip over
the frontier. Federoff was to make
his way to England with the jewels,
to wait at Monksilver, where an old
family servant was caretaker, until
Severn could join him there.
With his messenger safe out of
Russia, Severn had prepared to de-
part too. In the train near the fron-
tier an attack was made on him, his
luggage ransacked and himself se-
verely injured. For a day or two he
had even been delirious; had he,
while delirious, given those secret
enemy agents a clue by which to
pick up the trail of the treasure?
For evidently Federoff had been
followed to England. In Vienna,
when three weeks later he had been
able to resume his journey to Eng.
land. Severn had read the news of
Fedcroff’s murder.
Had read something, too, in the
newspaper report of the crime that,
though meaningless to other read-
ers, told Frank Severn, as Kathar-
ine knew from his letter, that those
untraced, unknown murderers had
still failed to find the Czarina Rubies,
is-
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Nov. 13th thru
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$1.25 Values......$1.00
$1.00 Values ........$ .80
$ .75 Values......$ .60
BELT SETS
Reg. $2.00 Values .. $1.60
COMBINATION SETS
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MEN’S NECKWEAR
$1.50 Ties for......$1.20
$1.00 Ties for .. .. $ .80
$ .75 Ties for .. .. $ .60
MEN’S SWEATERS
V-Neck Slip-Over
$2.75 Values......$2.34
Office Coat Sweater
$5.00 Values......$4.00
Mallory
Fine Felt
Hats
$7.00 Hate..........$5.95
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$5.00 Hate ,........,V $4.25
One Lot of Hats............$2.19
Pool’s Fine Silk and Cotton
Underwear
$1.00 Garments......69c ?
$ .50 Garments......43e
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KNIT UNION SUITS
$2.00 Values .. „ .. $1.19
Pool’s Fine Work Clothes
Pants, $2.00 Values $f.75
Shirts, $1.75 Values $1,60
Riding Breeches $3.75 value
for $3.49
Elk Brand Lace Boots
$8.00 Boots ..........$5.40
$6.00 Boots ’.. .. ..:. .. $4.80
Men’s Pajamas
$2.00 Values........$1.50
I Lot Pajamas *......$ .99
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