Belton Journal (Newspaper) - January 25, 1934, Belton, Texas THE BELTON JOURNAL THE HOME PAPER AND BELL COUNTY DEMOCRAT THE COUNTY PAPER COSTING ELTON f H rr By ALBERT Chamber Commerce should work toward ge ting new industries here instead putting too much stress on beautifu parks and a man said to m the other and yet was th only answer that I He right in that we should encourag new but wrong in that w should neglect parks better streets beautifu We should encourage new busi but at the same time we shoul make Belton as attractive as pos I we might becom too interested in one and neglect th two should go hand j Some the objectives for the year for the Chamber of might be listed as follows First of cutting down the ob ligations owed By the organization 3 hy strict economy and a member drive to raise additional reve Staging bigger and better Fourth of July trades day events and Christmas r Continuing regular summer bane at all Being whatever groups possible Belton for con f Talking every way pos A better Cotton and an increased patronage of whatever other markets we might at thus making the work of the organ ization more representative of mem f to whatever matter needs attention and no shirk job to f in all conducive to good 1 ship in lines of Hitachi PERFORM father tan ormt ie annual meeting of Belton organiza is to the latter the of should be in a big V lr JANUARY 1934 FUNERAL SERVICES HELD MONDAY FOR JOHN TOWNSEND Nation Plans Birthday Gift for An Endowment for Warm Springs Foundation RESIDENT OF ELM SPRINGS COMMUNITY DIES AT HIS HOME SATURDAY Funeral services for John Town resident of the Elm Springs were held Monday after noon at the Salado cemetery at with Dingier in Townsend died at his home Sat He survived by his one Sam and one Will Eight grandchild ren and four great grandchildren also Active pallbearers were Gene and Wayne Bridges and Leslie pallbearers were Clarence Tom Doug Clip Monroe Waller Stan Preston Woodfin Street and Warren CITIZENS ATTEND SCOUT MEETING Soil Erosion Service To Locate Texas Project on Watershed of Elm Creek It has been by the Soil Erosion service of the Interior de to locate the Blackland Soil Erosion project of Texas on the watershed of Elm comprising portions Falls and Milam This area em braces about acres and is typically representative of seven and onehalf million acres of the world famed Texas Black Each of the 11 regional erosion control projects scattered through out the thus far selected and has its differing individ ual The Texas area is no exception It is located in the cotton growing section of black limey famed to the ends of the world for their fertility and high producing ca Year after these vir More than people in America are partly or wholly About half of this number are victims of Infantile Most of them could be greatly benefited if facilities i by President 5 BELTON LEADERS GO TO WACO FOR BANQUET AND SESSION Fifteen Belton citizens who are in in Boy Scout work attend d the Heart O Texas council bus ness session and banquet at the Hil on Tuesday afternoon The program consisted of a num ier of addresses by prominent scout among whom were feroney and dean of Bay or More than 200 representatives of scouting attended from Hamilton and Meroney was reelected presi ent of the Heart Texas ne item of interest to Belton citi was the naming of the new Boy coui camp is located near ere on the Lampasas The name Springs Those attended the rom Roy and Will Perrell and illiam Fred lem Countess Cecil Al ert and and and Hoy Un FLOYD JONES IS ED THIS MORNING CRUSHED UNDER AUTOMOBILE IN ACCIDENT ON TEMPLE BELTON PIKE AT and COLGATE and MOUTH CHAIN AND RED CHAIN FLOURS 3 PACKAGES and 1 CHOCOLATE PUDDING FREE Dont mafte me how I diet so long as we trade at Austins Cash and Carry Grocery ESTABLISHED 1873 16c ADMIRATION BRIGHT EARLY 79c and 27c 63c and 19c Dairy CAN Small Can FREE EACH Ic JUICE CAMPBELLS CAN 7c OTHER VARIETIES CAN 8c ROUND OId Maple and 1 package Gold Pancake both for 1pound Package A birthday ball in every community in the United States In honor of President Roosevelt on his 52nd anniversary on January 30 Is planned by a committee of national leaders headed by Colonel Henry The proceeds are to go to an endowment for the nationwide work of the Warm Springs Foundation for Infantile the of which was the only outside Interest Detained by Roosevelt when he entered the White Upper a group of child patients at Warm child patients at Warm Springs one of the many child victims of Infantile paralysis who are regaining the use of their limbs at Warm Among nearly 100 leaders on the national are General Per Cardinal William Owen Witt Floyd employee Johnson Motor of and injured this oclock when his car overturned at a point about a mile north of way at a sharp bend in the He was extricated from the demolished car by Sheriff George County Clerk Will L Cole other came upon the scene a few seconds after the and rushed to a Temple where physicians stated lie fering from back and chest with a thread of chance r for many years resid ent of where he was engaged in the garage Temple a ago and ac gm prairie soils have produced yields of 1 has been largely ani V much sloping land has lost all a j large part of the productive surface soil Gullying has progressed in J some sections to menacing r but sheet the ual thinning down the topsoil by every heavy has the great er This region presents an exception ally difficult problem because cotton root seriously affects the growing of a wide variety i of le There are farms in the proposed Each farmer will urgently invited to benefits of the intensive trol program by applying measures to in with worked be carried out Ja staff who has widert ing work1 and erosion and the States and Peru has been Nand of this some cultivated v cipal win tte volume of SPECIAL MEETING OF CH AMBER CF COMMERCE HELD MCCARTHY ASKS THAT MEN ASSIST FARMERS WITH CONTRACTS Plans for assisting in the cotton reduction program by Feb ruary 1st were made at a specia meeting of the Belton chamber o commerce held at the city hall las Monday County Agent George McCar thy addresses the stressing the fact that business men should b interested in the success of the cam and requested that the busi ness men present work with the farmers of Bell county to prepare contracts and encourage the Roy Potts made a report of th work done by his committee in furth ering the move to establish a cotton in According to Mr Potts much progress ha been made in the speaking in behalf of the North Belton asked the cooperation of the chara ber of commerce in entertaining ap 200 visitors who are to attend the district meeting here during the month of Only Five Business Days Remain Now For Paying School Taxes Only five more business days re main in which taxes for the Belton Independent school district may be paid without tax stated For those who cannot pay all their school taxes in by paying threefourths on or before January they will have until the last day in March to pay the last By taking advantage of this split pay ment the schools will receive much additional which is badly needed at this and the er is given two additional months in which to complete his payments without any additional penalty or this week have been Ray averaging about each This amount will have to rise to per day next week to equal the rec ord set last During October and November payments were above the but there was a decided slump in CLASSES SELECT YEARS AGRICULTURE CLASSE START TO WORK ON MANY PROJECTS Members of the vocational ture classes of Belton high scho have completed selecting practic work to be carried on by them in connection with the studies that the make in The project offers the boy a chanc to earn money for and the same time put into practice thos things studied in the agr culture It boy chance actually to handle and man on a small those enter prises that he as a farmer will handl in later A summary of the size and th name of the enterprises selected members of the first and third year vocational agriculture classes fol lows Cotton 60 corn 72 acres pig production 10 turkeys fo market 31 production 14 grain sorghums 5 brood ing baby chicks gardens 4 acres lens for egg production 91 hens and hogs for market Aside from the projects each boy selects minor job to increase his These jobs are selected from the standpoint of learn ing the jobs that will help him in everyday life on the the ef of his Such job are included here as culling iens for egg sewing washing and oiling making rope grafting and whitewashing fruit anc many other jobs that are importan on the Members of the third year class are Hudson Gerald Allamon Woodrow Bowden Lester Ross Fur Elmer Charles Hair Pony Elmore Raulie Rawlett George Hulen Henry Was and Earl Taggart Members of the first year are Billy Lewis Don Id Roy Melton Dug Wallace Milton Fer Jettie Judson Mar in Bob Herman Ed William Alfred Alfred and Nelson PRESBYTERIAN YOUNG PEOPLE PLAN PICNIC FOR SATURDAY Young people of the First Presby church will go on a picnic next They will the Presbyterian hurch at m and go by truck the Naismith BAKE ADDRESSES CLUB MEMBERS AT LUNCHEON MONDAY IDEALS ADVANCED BY ROTARY ARE CLUBS BEST SPEAKER STATES Stressing the fact that the ideals which are advanced by Rotary are the best friends of the Baker was the principal speaker at the regular weekly luncheon of the Rotary club Monday at In his talk Baker brought out the problems which are arising today because ideals are shifting and crum and emphasized the fact that Our ideals are remembering and up holding the ideals which permeate the temporal principal of ton high was Waggoner gave two hu and Albert Nib ling made a talk on the possibility of securing a state park on the Lam pasas river near It was announced by Ballard that the ser vice of which Henry Wagner is would have charge of the program next Ballard also announced that plans for ladies night would be made at Robert attended as the guest of Mayor Frank Hamner of charter member of the was the guest of his Roy and Jim Powell and Murphy of were visiting Ro National Guard Troop Gets Pay Checks Company 143rd Belton Guard received pay checks or the quarter ending January 1st at the regular weekly meeting held at the armory Tuesday The checks have been giv n out earlier but were delayed be ause of an error made in signing Sixtyeight men were paid First and second platoons of the are staging a contest for ie besb in drilling and at the losing platoon to give barbecue for the winning Garden inspected the men t the opening of the contest and ill conduct when he contest closes to determine the egree of improvement made by each son Motor this in order to early morning distribution fe3 paper in moved this and was con two He way to Temple the accident According to Sheriff was evidently at a high rate of as over turned three timek He wag beneath the and great difficulty men were able to lift the free The rescuers minutes believed him deader faint gasp gave them hope He was taken to a Temp pital in an unconscious co will ployed and t steep sl ever satisfactory catt be qfi and it was stated by one of the phy over long distance telephone this morning that the of his injuries had not been fully deter but it was feared he had je spine and chest injuries of a very serious There some hope for his it was The car Jones was driving be longed to County Agent George and was a new Sudan a and a Blacklan is app whole which lie checking on a t Special Offerings PREMIUM SODA CRACKERS COFFEE PEACHES LIMA BEANS Fresh Lima TOMATO JUICE BEECH NUT 1 CAN 8c TOMATO CATSUP LARGE SIZE Ifc EACH Ic CERTIFIED Half or Whole Hams WINESAP APPLES WILSONS CONSOMME 1 CAN 5e JAMES 6 SONS As Near as Your Telephone and 114
