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Newspaper
Hearne Democrat
Location
Hearne, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1925
Page
1
Austin Texas The state shows a healthy cash balance of 3 939 412 69 in the treasury on April 1 per Comptroller Terrell summary. March receipts include 8 234 602 from county tax collectors 833 606 from gross receipts and 1 125 000 expected from crude oil production tax first quarter.
Delegates from 26 states returned home after the National Good Roads Association and Bankhead Highway Association joint convention in Houston. A campaign to boost federal road aid to 100 million dollars annually was urged, with governors and congressmen asked to back government control of roads. I Lee Trinkle reelected president of the Good Roads group. Bennehan Cameron reelected Bankhead president. Santa Monica elected as next meeting site.
Galveston Texas Friday announces that foreign government and organization exhibits for the World Advertising Club convention in Houston May 9 to 15 will be admitted to the United States without duty. Exhibits, mainly novelties and papers, will be under constructive warehouse regulations and customs supervision. The move follows a Treasury Department authorization and a request from World Advertising Club representative Robert Hutchinson.
Mrs Della Sorenson, 28, of St Paul Neb, confessed to killing seven people by poisoning over seven years. She was arrested Saturday on charges and signed a complete confession Sunday before County Attorney Lobrey expressing remorse and stating the act was voluntary.
Paris reports Joseph Callilaux has won a confidence vote in the chamber of deputies on the Painière cabinet’s financial policies. The body approved the government by 304 to 218 after hours of debate over Callilaux’s fitness for the finance post.
Washington officials from the Treasury War State Labor Justice and Agriculture departments outlined Friday a plan to tighten border and coast guard work. The program aims to supplement border treaties with Canada and Mexico and address smuggling liquor merchandise and aliens. A El Paso conference on May 14 will consider the Mexico treaty. Commissioner Husband of the immigration bureau was tasked with codifying suggestions.
Mrs Rebecca J Fisher was re elected president of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas at the close of the 33rd annual convention in Austin. New officers include first vice president Clara Drigs Col Sevier and second vice president Lillie Robertson, both of Austin. Additional top posts went to Dallas and Fort Worth members with officers named for secretary treasurer and historian. Houston and San Antonio were invited to host the 1926 convention.
General rains for the first time since last November drenched the Panhandle and plains of West Texas on Wednesday and Thursday. The system moved from New Mexico across the eastern slope of the Rockies reaching Wichita Falls, with rain totals from one half to two inches. Farm conditions improved as fields flooded in places and creeks ran high, signaling a possible planting season after a long drought.
Frank O Lowden former governor of Illinois warned at the American Newspaper Publishers Association dinner that a disastrous rise in living costs will follow unless farmers organize for cooperative marketing. He cited decaying agriculture rising farm bankruptcies and increasing farm abandonments nationwide.
Washington. The shipping board was upheld in the District of Columbia supreme court Monday in the sale to the Mollar interests of five vessels in the California Orient service presently operated out of San Francisco by the Pacific Mail Steamship Company.
Heavy rains hinder cane grinding near Havana Cuba delaying operations. The rain disrupted milling at approximately 60 miles inland, slowing production and affecting local mill crews and transport.
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