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Newspaper
Hearne Democrat
Location
Hearne, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1923
Page
2
The Hearne Democrat Weekly issues advertising rates and publication information. It notes a one year subscription of 1.50 and six months pricing, with display ads at 25 cents per inch and local readers 10 cents per line per insertion. Entry is May 2, 1911, Hearne Texas.
The Hearne editorial notes celebrate Mr. L. B. Mathews Jr for bringing oversized white Bermuda onions to the editorial parsonage on May 19. It praises local soil and climate as key to independence for farmers and highlights his Mathews farm near the Pump Station with onions, watermelons, and cantaloupes in bloom.
The article argues the state faces an eight million dollar appropriation plus thirty million to run government totaling near forty million over two years. It criticizes a special session to raise funds and notes legislators split by interest groups such as merchants wholesalers oil men capitalists insurers manufacturers and lumbermen who resist paying the bill.
The piece argues that Austin’s legislature is overrun by a strong lobby, swelling with mass meetings and petitions. It notes half seek varied appropriations, while the other half push to shield private wealth from taxation. It warns that without an income tax, a single family would pay vast state taxes yet still extract wealth from the land.
A Hearne observer notes ongoing horse fatalities linked to malnutrition within the local transfer and wood hauling trades. The piece cites emaciated teams pulling wagons and passengers, calling for concern though lamenting inaction. The writer counts up to seven deaths this year, with several teams in town and rural areas showing extreme endurance and skeletal condition.
In a Camden South Carolina community during a May 17 commencement a schoolhouse fire killed seventy three. Many families lost members with only eleven identified among sixty two victims buried in Bulah Methodist Church yard. Three thousand attended a sunset burial service near the ruins.
The Hearne Methodist church gathered nearly all members at the tabernacle on Friday evening for an old time social. A sing along opened the event followed by speeches from Rev. I. T. Andrews and the board of stewards. L Wooley received a pink rose for the oldest member, while 13 month old Mary Lee Mooney, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Mooney, was honored as the youngest participant. Sandwiches and soda pop were served and the group voted to hold another social within sixty days.
A Friday afternoon farewell for Mrs. W G Hervey at the Collier plantation home honored her departure with guests including Mrs. John Mosely and Mrs. Hosea Collier. The event featured memory contests, toasts, gifts, and a refreshment course amid pansies and sweet peas, with 28 ladies in attendance and out-of-town guests from Houston and Terrell.
Members of the Baptist W M U were entertained Monday afternoon from four to six o'clock in the plantation home of Mr and Mrs Judd Collier. The scene was prettily adorned and the gathering focused on fellowship and refreshments.
Fragmentary ad describes Hall’s Catarrh Medicine as a two part remedy with an ointment for catarrhal inflammation and a tonic acting on mucous surfaces. It lists sellers in Toledo and Cheney & Co, with broken punctuation and snippet phrases.
A Wednesday evening outing at the Rohde ranch house drew forty or more members of the 1928 graduating class and friends. They arrived after a late afternoon drive, enjoyed walks in the woods and wildflowers, and shared a picnic supper of barbecued meats, pickles, bread, salad, cakes and sweets followed by games.
Invitations to the graduating exercises of The Miss Hockaday School in Dallas have arrived, enclosing Miss Alice Elizabeth Allen of this city. The exercises are set for the evening of May 25. Hearne Motor Co. offers a complete line of quality tires and accessories.
Mr and Mrs D R Adkisson and their son Marsene have come back to Houston following a ten day visit in the home of Mr and Mrs T P Griffin.
Mrs M Walker of Bryan and her guest Mrs Barron of Pittsburg Pa visited in the home of Mr and Mrs J W Sanders on Wednesday.
On moving away, a nice milk cow with her young heifer calf is for sale. Apply at once to L Arrington at Lock and Dam.
Mr W D Blackstone travels to Oklahoma City because of the critical illness of his foster mother Mrs T F Blackstone. Mrs J Felton Lane visits from San Antonio to stay with Mr and Mrs John Delesciner and plan a trip to Mission. H B Lyon Terrell and family hosted guests for the commencement sermon with their nephew Emil Lyon among the graduates.
Frank A Woods of Franklin, a leading Robertson County attorney, was in Hearne Sunday afternoon enroute to Sherman for Kidd Keys College graduation exercises. His daughter Jacque Woods is a member of this year's graduating class.
County notes from agricultural agent R B Ewing describe a June 16 basket picnic at the courthouse grounds with cows chickens and corn judging prizes. The Farm Bureau met, cotton returns near, calves vaccinated for blackleg, chinch bugs injuring corn, and oats patch findings. A May 28 cement demo in Franklin and seed peanut inquiries are noted along with vocational ag expansion and Pennant Lab Oil advertising.
An old household tonic claims to restore energy and vitality by purifying and enriching the blood. It asserts visible effects such as rosy cheeks and improved appetite, and promotes quinine as a purifier while fighting malaria germs and grip through its strengthening, invigorating action.
Misses Maurine Daniels Antoinette Roehl and Esther Fielder and B T Robbins were out of town teachers leaving for home this week.
Father OReilly of Austin stayed with Mr. and Mrs. P. L. Brady while in the city for commencement exercises.
Rev and Mrs I T Andrews welcomed Miss Eula Leveridge of Cisco as a guest. Leveridge, a teacher at Holding Institute of Laredo, was a classmate of Mrs Andrews at Scarritt Bible Training School.
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