Farmers Vote on Bankhead Act Friday December 14
The Agricultural Adjustment Administration sets Friday December 14 as the referendum date across cotton states. Voters decide whether to continue the Bankhead Act for 1935-36. Eligibility includes owners tenants sharecroppers and those with right to grow cotton or with signed reduction contracts. The vote follows guidance from Henry A. Wallace urging careful judgment on the act’s necessity. A two-thirds favorable vote and presidential proclamation would extend the act into 1936. W. T. Sartain of Hempstead was a business visitor in Brookshire Wednesday.
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Bankhead
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
H. H. Williamson
Extension Service
United States
Henry A. Wallace
Secretary of Agriculture
Texas Farmers Back Cotton Control Plan At Convention
Farmers attending the Texas Agricultural Association's annual Farmers Week at the Jefferson Hotel endorsed the federal farm program and a controlled cotton plan as steps to ease the current economic crisis. Awards honored outstanding Texas farm leaders and farm women, with 4-H and Future Farmer winners named.
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Dallas News
Farmers of
Texas
Jefferson Hotel
Texas Agricultural Association
J. B. Montgomery
Tynan
Bee County
Josie Englin
Stowell
Chambers County
Sam Hoerater Jr
Mason
Lillian Heinrich
Wharton
William Qude
Beeville
AAA
R. W. Blackburn
California Farm Bureau Federation
American Farm Bureau Federation
California
G. J. Mercherly
Bloomington
H. A. Lucas
Brownwood
Minnie Fisher Cunningham
Extension Service of
Texas A. & M. College
Methodist W M S Meeting at Mrs Mills Home
The Methodist W M S met at Mrs. W D Mills home on Tuesday afternoon with ten or eleven members present. New president Mrs E D Legler chaired the session.
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Methodist
W. D. Mills
E. D. Legler
Social Hour After Meeting Welcomes Mrs BE Henry
After hearings, a pleasant social hour followed with a delectable salad and sweet refreshment. One visitor attended, Mrs BE Henry.
Phoning in Russia a comic dispatch from The Pathfinder
A humorous snippet imagines a broken Russian phone exchange as a caller asks for a distant name and gets a scrambled reply. The gag hinges on phonetic gibberish and miscommunication to evoke turn of the century foreign telephony humor.
When Ignorance Was Bliss from The Pathfinder
A verse recalling Methuselah eating without concern for calories or nutrition. The speaker contrasts ancient appetite with modern worries over fat, vitamins, or desserts, noting Methuselah’s long life of over nine hundred years.
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Methuselah
Completion of Oiler at Brookshire Delayed
Sealy News reports the No 1 J. W. Avery oil well in the John McFarland survey is delayed due to muddy roads and flooded lowlands. The discovery well yields 170 barrels daily with 60 percent 23.6 gravity crude. 2500 barrels produced by December 2. Magnolia Pipe Line Co transports the oil to refineries via Katy railroad, 100 feet away.
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Sealy News
Seaport Oil Corporation
J. W. Avery
John McFarland
Discovery Weil
Discovery Oiler
Magnolia Pipe Line Co
Katy
Teachers attend Galveston convention visit kin in San Antonio
Miss Doris Avery and Mrs. R H Witte attended the State Teachers Convention in Galveston then traveled to San Antonio and Devine to visit relatives. They returned Sunday by overland route bringing back a new Chevrolet sedan for Mr. and Mrs. J W Avery.
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Doris Avery
R. H. Witte
Galveston
San Antonio
Devine
J. W. Avery
Marion Wright Funeral Held in Fort Bend County
Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon for Marion Wright 88 of Juliff who died Monday from gunshot wounds suffered Sunday in a fight at a Fort Bend beer parlor. Burial followed in Monaville cemetery under A H Muske funeral directors. Wright survived by parents three sisters and two brothers. Roy Martino 82 of Houston is jailed in Richmond awaiting Fort Bend grand jury action.
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Marion Wright
Juliff
Fort Bend County
Monaville Cemetery
A. H. Muske
M. A. Wright, Sr
J. J. Braband
Georgia Wright
Mattie Gregory
Houston
C. C. Wright
Waller
W. R. Wright
Roy Martino
Wright
Richmond
Man Wanted for Rawleigh Route in Memphis TN Territory
Man sought to cover a Rawleigh route serving about 800 families. Immediate need noted for position in Rawleigh, Dept XK-504, SA Memphis Tennessee. Recruiter directs applicants to engage Memphis location for induction and route assignment.
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Rawleigh
Dept
Memphis
Tenn
Strayed Horses Offer Reward in Brookshire Telegraph
Strayed One iron gray gray horse mule and a sorrel mare mule branded M over I on left shoulder. Reward for recovery. W R Mc Cauley Brookshire. Btp.
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W. R. McCauley
Brookshire
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W. T. Sartain of
Hempstead
Marietta
John Hupp
J. W. Yerian
Washington County Infirmary
L. A. Hall
Russia
Dvisostki Vchsmartroiszski
Pathfinder
Wallace Wilcox
Bevier
IGA
Serope Berian
Iris Rossler
Farmers State Bank
Brookshire, Texas
W.F. Donald
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