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CUERO DAILY
CUERO STAR and CUERO NEWS
Wt Have no Right to Succeed Unless We Can Render Service to Our Community
CUERO, DeWITT COUNTY, TEXAS, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 4, 1928
The failure of the man who does
lot save his money is due not only
1o the fact that he has no money with
vhich to take advantage of the oppor-
1 unities that come in the way of every
loan, but also and particularly to the
lact that such a man is not able or
1 It to avail himself of these opportun-
ities. The man who cannot and does
not. save money cannot and will not
o anything else worth while.—An-
drew Carnegie.
♦ ♦ ♦
With the completion of all the
najor projects on Main Street
and the construction of the band-
s;and and a new tilling station
j regressing, we are wondering
x hat announcement will now be
f irthcoming that will assure the
ontinuance of this great program
o : development that has meant so
a uch in improving the business
d strict of Cuero. We would not
lite to see . a return into
tie old rut of “letting well
enough alone*’ for there is much
•
much yet to be accomplished.
♦ ♦ ♦
Cuero s Main street is greatly
clanged but there is one minor im-
pi-ovement that would not fall
h< avily on any one concern yet
w raid bring about a tremendous
improvement in its appearance.
Tl us would be through the removal
of the old wooden awnings that
st 11 stand in front of some of the
re illy substantial business build-
in 5s and which as a hang-over
fr)m “ye olden days” should be
renoved and replaced with the
ntwer suspended awnings Which
ar * safer and much better to look
at, i^hen these are built it is to
be hoped that they will all be
’ pf! iced 'ttie fflino level giving a
1 nr iform roof line along the street;
wl ich would add somewhat to the
present heterogeneous architectur-
al mixture of the buildings.
♦ ♦ ♦
We *ve been wondering why it is
th{ t the new garbage cans fail to
fill their office; for glancing along
Mi in Street each day we see the
usual piles of trash nicely placed
irf the gutters beside the cans
which are evidently considered ob-
ject for ornament rather than for
utlity. Curiosity has almost tempt-
ed us to lift the tops of some of
ttuse to see if they are
serving their purpose to
WORK ON SCHOOL
BUILDING WILL
BE RUSHED HERE
Conference With Contractors
Assures Board That Build-
ing Will Be Finished.
Chicago Officer is
Killed by Bandits
CHICAGO. September 5.—(INS)—Of-
ficer Leonard Jagla, attached to the
Detective Bureau squad, was shot and
killed] this morning when the squad
interrupted three bandits in the act of
robbing a confectionery store. One
bandit was captured. The two fugi-
tives are known to the police and a.
dragnet has been spread for them.
LABOR IS SCARCE
Contractors Declare That Ev- j
ery Effort Will be Made
I To Rush Work.
TAFT ELEVEN
WORKING HARD
Eighteen Members of Suad Bo-
gin Practice at Camp on
Guadalupe.
Eighteen members of the Taft
football squad are working out daily
on the! Guadalupe near the Ed Dietze
dairy farm, and Coach Davis, of the
Taft high school, is well pleased with
Work will be pushed rapidly on j
the construction of the primary
school In order that the building will
t
be ready for classes when school
opens on September 17th. The
board of trustees of the Cuero public
schools were assured of this fact fol-
lowing a conference held Monday
evening with M. C. Kleuser. architect' their showing to date,
of Dallas who arrived in the after- With only four lettermen back,
noon to discuss with the board mem-- Coach 'Davis, has faced quite a prob*
bers matters pertaining to the con-, 1cm. bOt believes that with the mater-
struction work. j ial he jhas at hand, can whip a fair
Delay in the completion of the el- • team into shape,
ementary building by the contractors " el will have a light team, but a
has come about, it is said, because j tighting team, Davis declared Tues-
of the difficulty in retaining regular . da' morning.
laborers on the job. Many of these | Taft high school is one of the small-
have been attracted to other local es* schools in its district, and
work with the opening of the cotton with f<Jur or five exceptions, every
season. The contractors themselves • meml)tj Uie school male
hav« declared that every effort win | personnel’ is in attendance at the
be made to push forwad the work in
order that the lower grades will be
housed on the date set for school
opening. When this work is com-
pleted construction of the high
school will be rushed.
Paul -Breeden, secretary of the
school board, declared on Tuesday
that the school board, the contrac-
tors and the architects were co-oper-
ating in every way to hurry up the
building program without jeopardiz-
ing the work in any way.
Superintendent H. S. Melton am
nnunced Tuesday that the schools
would begin without further delay on
September 17th, as heretofore an-
nounced. Institute will be held on
Monday and Tuesday and regular
class work will start on Wednesday,
September 19th.
Baptist Minister May
Meet Smith in Debate
camp.
Two workouts are being given daily
by Coach Davis, as well as skull
practice and scrimmage periods.
Lawrence Dietze and John Herring,
members of the Cuero Gobbler eleven,
are working out with the Taft boys.
AUSTIN FLYER
KILLED IN FALL
Bennie Grange, Texas Uni-
versity Pilot, killed in
Crash.
Loved Ones of Air Victim
Mrs. Mazel M Merrill, widlow of "Merry.” Merrill, noted com-
mercial flier and friend of Colonel, Lindbergh, who died in crash
with Edward Ronne near Pond Eddy, Pa. In her arms is
Mazel, Jr., 9, who knows-almost as much about airplanes as did
his h°ro-father.
v (International Newsreel)
—RALEIGH, N. C., Sept. 4.—Dr.
John Roach Stratton, New York Bap-
tist minister, enroute to Atlanta
where he speaks tonight, revealed a
movement afoot to have him meet
Senator Robinson in a series of de-
bates in Arkansas. Oklahoma and
LIT SLADE OUT
ON $500 BOND
NORIK TEXAS
NEEDS PICKERS
ward the Gulf of Mexico
strike within the next
hours. It is increasing in
and may pass through
straight tonight.
DRILLING GOING
AT FULL STEAM
Much Progress Shown at Well
Located N/ear County
Line.
Thousands of Bales
Brought in During
< Weeks in DeWitt.
hovering around
the pest *. f»w d
Drilling at the* well on the County
Line is being carried on day and night
at the present time, and according to
all reports indications are
The Texas company is In charge of
the drilling, and have taken
sive leases in that section of
county, both on the DeWitt
side and the Victoria county
exten-
the
county-
side.
With oott
lie mark fo
trading has keen very quiet In Ci
and a number of farmers are
ed to be holding their cotton.
Favorable weather reports, and
dictions of a bumper crop in K
Texas wae given as the reason
the fall in tile price, which has I
a steady decline within
days.
Although a considers
amount off cctton
The machinery and boiler Used in
drilling the well are on the DeWitt
county side of the border, wh: le the
well itself is in Victoria county.
Oil activities have taken oh new
interest in this county during the
past few weeks and leasing of lpnd in
various sections of DeWitt ha$ been
noticed, ,
A great nuriiber of leases have
been filed with the county cierl, who
has been literally “snowed under”
with the work of filing these leases
during the past two weeks.
Men who have studied the oil situa-
tion in this county are quoted as
saying that prospects for the discov-
ery of oil at the County Line w^ll are
very good.
Cuero during
Ing has been
the past
slow, and in
Arrested by O* A. Lenz When Mexicans
Liquor is.Found in
Passing Through
Cuero Enroute to Fields
Nog# Wacn-Clehume. . ,
really I Texas.
any ex- 1 Rev. A. T. Peele, Clarksville, Va..
tenjt whatever. Will we ever have|Baptlst mini8ter’ in a statement re-
ean town!
♦ + *
:ors, nurses and women art
y lending their services in
moting better health for the
dren of Chero in the free I
clinic that is being conducted in |
the City Auditorium. Our people j
are beginning to realize that an j
“ounce of prevention is worth a \
poi nd of cure” and seeking out
caises before real trouble comes, j
A sound physical condition is the
bes: aid tc a chilli in his school
woi k.
I plying to Stratton’s attack on Smith.”
declared trat’ the minister slandered
Smith, and added that he would betand that he- seeing Grange’s accident
AUSTIN, Sept. 4 —Bennie Grange,
pilot at the University airport here,
was fatally injured, and two passen-
gers, Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Frost of
Austin, were slightly injured, when
the plane manned by Grange crashed
to the earth from about 100 feet
shortly after taking off late Sunday.
Grange died at 7 p. m. at a local
hospital. His body was badly crush- j
ed in the wreckage. It was necessary
to chop and hack a way through to
extricate him. —
Mrs. Frost was bruised and per-
haps injured internally, while her
husband was only shaken up.
The plane was trying to gain alti-
tude, when a sudden blast of air
caught it. Weby Ruff, airport man-
ager, said air conditions were poor,
re-
ay.
of
willing for a mach of the so-called
Tammany corruption with the record
of the Anti-Saloon Leagues.
BAPTIST NEGRO
MEETING HERE
“Lit” Slade, Cuero negro, was
leased under a $500.00 bond Mond
following his arrest on a charge
possessing intoxicating’ liquor.
Sheriff G. A. Lenz ami deput
raided Slade's home late Saturday
ternoon, confiscating two gallons
whiskey and about thirty-six bott
of beer.
This is the fifth arrest to be mdde
by Cuero officers in connection w
the drive against the fflictt traffic
thi3 city, within the past few wee
af-
of
les
ith
in i
is.
houses
Nearly twenty-five
been searched, liquor being found
five ot these places.
“DeWitt county is in fairly good j
shape at the present time.’’ She
Lenz declared Tuesday morning,
we believe that we have stopj^pd in
of the bootlegging that was
to have ben carried on here.
- iff
£ nd
1 }St
alleged
while aloft himself had to maneuver
several minutes before being able to
land safely.
National Colors
of Legion to Go
To South Pole
In spite of the fact that cotton
pickers in hundreds are each day
passing through Cuero aud other
South Texas towns on a great trek to
iesi central and northern cdtton fields re-
ports state that these hordes of pick-
ers are not sufficient to harvest the
crop in those sections. The pickers
are being placed in the fields ms fast
as they arrive but the supply will
continue short for another two weeks,
according to C. W. Woodman In
charge of the Farm Labor Bureau of
the Federal government.
There may be a slight let up in
Central Texas before the harvest
season gets well underway in north
Texas. By the time north Texas crop
has been picked, hands will be need-
ed in the northwestern and western
sections of the state.
Just now the majority of the pick-
ers are being-placed around Kerens.
Hebersoii, Waco, and as far north as
Miss Jessie McCrabJ>
to Represent Cuero
In Victoria Fair
cases was tns cotton sold.
Trade conditions
were reported to be
a number of
ing bumper sides.
Automobile
creased activity, which is
sign of good
North Texah’ bumper ctor
is said to be the largest
ed in that section in years,
by many as t^e main
decline in*the price.
Thousands bf Mexican cotum
ers are pouring into North
daily, and at the present
are needal.
Cotton throughout the count*
reported ^o bi about thrse fo
out,” the gr< star portioe o
crop being h« rvested within %i
iwo weeks. '/
have!
ih I
Miss Jessie McCrabb has been
selected by the Cuero Chamber of
Commerce to represent Cuero in
the Pageant that will be staged
on September 20th as a feature
of the Victoria District Pair. The_
Cuero girl, with other representa-
tives from the towns of the dis-
trict. will serve as
the queen and each
given the privilege
an escort. .
Rehearsals are now being held
for the pageant which will be
staged on the same elabor
scale that has won fame for
iCity of Raees and is expected to
draw record crowds.
>rate
■ the
Mount Zion Association
Meet Regularly in
Cuero.
Late Wire Rashes
By International News Service
!
Each Guest is Given
“SI,000,000” to Spend
at Legion “Blow Out”
CORAL GABLES, Fla.. Sept. .4.—
A i nlUionaire for a night was' the
a
happy experience of scores of Amer-
icai. Legionnaires and Auxiliary
mei ibers here recently. The whole-!
sale flow of riches gave the veterans
Bn answer to the question how do
millionaires act when they have a
*’bk w out” with pockets crammed
fell of shekles.
Eich' person paid $1.00 general ad-
misuion at the dor and were given in
exchange the round sum of $1,000,000
in fake money, neatly done up in bun-
dles, and good at any of the conces-
sions in the place. It cost the visi-
tors $20,000 a couple each time they
danaed and a glass of lemonade cost
eoui;h to build a house. The six,
witl the testimony when the affair
Closed, were each given a prize.
P -oceeds from the affair went to
heli pay for expenses of the state
Contention of the Legion.
Cuero has been selected as the
permanent meeting place, for the Mt.
Zion Baptist Association, which
meets each year in the early fall.
The offer was submitted by the Cue-
ro Chamber of Commerce to hold the
j association here and make this per-
I manent headquarters for the organ-
1 ization and the proposition was sub-
itted at the meeting which has just
| closed at Edna.
The event, which annually attracts
hundreds of the members of the col-
ored Baptist churches in this section
and a number of attractive offers had
bqen made to the executives of the
association by other towns of this |
immediate section where the meet-
ings had been held at various times.
At a recent meeting of the Cha-
ber of Commerce the matter was
discussed and the offer was submit-
ted to the association through B
Schiewtz. T
Suitable grounds where the en-
campment may be held each
FORT WORTH, Sept. 4.—(IMS)
—Senator Joe. T. Robinson, Ark-
ansas Democratic vice presiden-
tial nominee, received an ovation
when the stopped here briefly this
morning enroute to Cisco, where
he will deliver an address to-
night.
ALBANY, SeppL 4.—(IMS)— For-
mer Secretary of State, Mrs.
Florence Knapp, was sentenced
to 30 days in the Albany coun-
ty jail for stealing census money.
MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 4.—(INS)
—Former United States Senator
Mangus Johnson today announc-
ed that he would support Al
Smith for President.
Legion Post Buys
Town Flying Field
MONTROSE. Pa., Sept. 4.—*A big
“air day* is being planned here to
celebrate the recent purchase of a 43
acre tract of land for a flying field by
Gamder-Warner Post of
can Legion. The post
NEW YORK, Sept. 4.—A miniatii
set of the national colors of
American Legion has been provhjl
Commander Richard E. Byrd to
ry with him on his attempt to re^ch
the South Pole.
The colors w'ere presented just
re 1
he
ed
ar-1
je-
fore the sailing of the supply sl ip,
Commander Byrd received the lol-
lowing telegram from Edward E.
Spafford, national commander of the j
Legion:
"I am delivering to you by Cdm-
mander John Reth of The Ameri<an
Legion of Massachusetts a miniature
»et of The American Legion natio
colors which I respectfully requ ?st j
le.
that you take to the Anartlc p<
Upon your return I should like
to feel free to make such disposition
of the colors as you see fit| Pie
be assured that the best wishes
the entire American Legion go w
you on your expedition
exploration.”
Hoover to Invade
Smith Territory
i Cleburne.
Some picking is underway in and
around Fort Worth andDallas. Where
j a field is found ready for pickers.
I there is another one may just across
: the road will be open enough for
; hands to enter when the first field
has been harvested.
It is expected that harvesting will
i begin later than usual in the north-
! western and northern areas because
I of the late start of the crop
TO FIGHT CHANGE
AUSTIN. Sept. 4.—(W$)—A motion
for a change of venue in the will case
of W. J. McDonald, milliosaire phll-
anthepist who left a million and a
quarter dollars to the University of
Texas for an Astronomical Obser-
vatory. will be opposed by Universi-
ty authorities, it was learned today.
CUERO SURGEON
MARRIES IN TENN.
CROPS HELPED
BY HEAVY RAIN
Dr. Gillett Burns Weds
Fay Bell Wolf in
Memphis.
Miss
Central Texas Gets Hard
Rrain, Austin Gets a
Downpour.
The Ameri-
claims to
WASHINGTON. Si *1
Herbert Hoover, Republican Pro
j dential candidate. todsv decided
open his eastern campaign witli
speech in Newark. New Jersey
He will stress
September 17th.
Wt*
I problems In his address. Toward
year j have two hangars and a ' powerful j end of September he will inv4
will be sceured and it is probable beam light for night use. The name j Governor Smith’s native New
that they may be suitably improved of the town has been placed on the state, but the itinerary there is
tb meet the needs of the association.> roofs. | completed.
AUSTIN, Sept. 4.—Rain totaling
$se more than an inch over the week-end
of brought temperatures down to fall
th , levels and greatly benefited late
of scientific ? summer crops in Central Texas.
As in other portions of the state,
however, the fall was somewhat scat-
tered. A hard shower fell in Austin
Sunday afternoon in bright sunshine,
leaving localities to the west of here
untouched for the time tffeing.
Amarillo and Houston shared in
the best rains over the state up to
Sunday morning, getting .78 ans .98
inches respectively.
The Colorado river here has risen
1.4 feet dring the past 24 hpurs, in-
dicating good rains up the waterhead.
del In this section the ram will hinder
Ydrk cotton picking somewhat and per-
not 1 hapg promote insect activity unless
there is plenty of sunshine this week.
labor
I he
A telegram to his father, Dr. J. W.
Burns, from Dr. Gillett Burns, promi-
nent young surgeon of Ccero, today
announced his marriage in Memphis,
Tenu., to Miss Fay Bell Wolf, and
stated that they were leaving at pnee
for Arkansas and would spend their
honeymoon in the Ozark vmountains.
JDr. and Mrs. Burns are expected to I
arrive in Cuero some time before
September 20th.
The marriage, while not an entire
surprise to many of the gropm’s
close friends, will be exceedingly in*
! teresting to those who had not
known of the romance that develop-
ed while the bride was in Cuero last
spring organizing Chautauqua.. Those
who met Mrs. Burns then admired
her for her splendid executive Sbil-
ity and charming personality and will
delight to know that she is to return
to Cuero to make her home. She
will be a welcome addition' to Cue-
ro’s married set, and to the cultural
life of the town.
marriage. ’41
the eve of a
before the d:
to a comp!
with di
$75,000 worth
an in
day by
■agraphic d
woman have
California in
tain her whei
an
three weeks
tigation of
tors and attorneys
had gained coi itrol of
After investigttlon,
to appear at
office, but ha4 not
She had been
adena home.
Capatin No
sheriff’s office
Mrs. Knoll is
next 10 days
be placed befo
a request that
issued against
embezzling
Man Sent
M
AUSTIN. Sep . 4.—(MS)
was fied in the Court of
peals today by W. J.
ed in Limestond county on
murder and sei fenced .to
connection witl: the murder off
Willard, special Ranger. Wl
was killed in 4 1
19th.
liquor
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