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Newspaper
Hearne Democrat
Location
Hearne, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1925
Page
6
The Terrell Chamber of Commerce will stage a series of trades days through the fall with each Wednesday set aside starting September 16. Local merchants and residents are invited to participate in the rotating market and sales events planned for the season.
The Texas Butter Poultry and Eye Association will hold its annual fall meeting in Fort Worth on October 21.
Henry Hanson, 26, of Galveston, died from venom after bites on both legs while casting for bait on the Bernard River near Freeport. The accident occurred while he worked along the riverbank and was reported by local authorities as a fatal exposure to venom.
W. B. Pearson of Waco, grand secretary of the Masonic Grand Lodge of Texas, says membership has risen by about 4,000 since last year. The total Masons in Texas now stand at 132,774.
San Antonio to host an artificial ice skating rink run by the San Antonio Ice Rink Company. The company has a paid-up capital of 75000 dollars. Incorporators are Joseph K. Tobin Thomas W. Carver and R F McCampbell.
J. C. Spence, 22, of Dallas, was killed instantly at the Garza dam site near Denton when a felled tree splintered. A timber about a foot wide and eight feet long struck him on the face and head, crushing his skull.
Fort Worth fires of mysterious origin will be investigated by specially detailed detectives. The city has posted a reward of 1600 dollars for the arrest and conviction of incendiaries. The repeated fires threaten the rate of Fort Worth’s prosperity and safety.
The Corpus Christi channel from Port Aransas to the new turning basin is expected to cost about 4.3 million dollars and be completed in May. Engineers estimate the channel will be around 25 feet deep and 200 feet wide at the bottom, and capable of handling large sea going vessels.
A large tree in East Texas near Marshall fetched $895 after a 12 foot cut measured fifty two inches in diameter and three other large cuts. The timber passed through a local crate factory and was divided into 140,820 staves making 6,900 bushel baskets.
Warrants were forwarded Sept. 15 to all school treasurers in Texas. The amount totals 2,690,000 dollars for 1,345,000 children in scholastic age. This is the first payment under the 14 per capita apportionment and the third dollar will go to schools in October.
Lieut. Commander Lewis E. Hancock who perished when the Shenandoah broke apart was buried in Arlington Cemetery. A message from his mother Mrs Lewis E Hancock of Austin to friends described him as among the Nation's greatest dead and announced the funeral resting place.
More than a million automobiles are expected to be registered in Texas in 1924. The State Highway Department reports 14,748 more registrations in the first six months of 1924 than in 1924 as a whole, when 887,445 vehicles were registered.
The Bureau of Roads shows 7,984 of 16,668 miles in the Texas State system surfaced, excluding county and local roads. Surfacing in 1924 totaled 862 miles, part of ongoing efforts by the Department of Agriculture to improve roads.
Attorney General Dan Moody rules the State Highway Commission may grant aid to Wichita County for a free State highway bridge across the Red River linking Burkburnett Texas with Randlett Oklahoma. The commission has allotted 168000 dollars in Federal aid toward a project costing about 350000 dollars, marking the first such free interstate bridge with Texas grant support.
Members of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of Dallas have taken up the task of raising funds to recondition and preserve the frigate Constitution known as Old Ironsides. The ship, built in 1797, holds a prominent place in early U.S. naval history. A prior movement in naval circles had proposed junking the vessel.
The State rate-making board in Austin established 4 percent as the minimum rate banks must charge to qualify as State depositories. The 4 percent rate, the same as current, will apply for one year while new designations are made in December.
Dr. W. T. Dunning of Gonzales was elected State commander of the Texas American Legion at the closing session in Fort Worth on September 4. He was the sole nominee. Houston’s Col. Clark C. Wrenn withdrew from the race before balloting. Amarillo was chosen as the 1926 meeting site.
Norborne E. Sutton grandnephew of George Washington and grandson of Baron Dudley of Rutland died at Fort Worth at his daughter Mrs J C Williams home 711 Bessie Street in his eighty fifth year. He was born at the Dolly Washington Mansion Bowling Green Virginia and served in the Civil War rising from private to captain.
The A. W. Warner farm a few miles below Waco shows irrigation success with 300 irrigated acres expected to yield at least one bale per acre, some areas two bales per acre. Irrigation cost about 38000 dollars, with cotton value estimated around 45000 dollars. Without irrigation, county agent E R Hudaly says the land would have produced about ten bales.
The United States helium plant at Fort Worth will continue to operate at full capacity despite the Shenandoah disaster. C. F. Cook, engineer with the Bureau of Mines, announced that sufficient non flammable gas remains to supply the remaining rigid dirigible. The Shenandoah’s planned Pacific voyage may still proceed.
Mexicans have filed with the General Claims Commission in Washington a large set of claims amounting to millions of dollars. The actions allege violations of property rights in Texas dating back to 1870 under treaties following the 1848 Mexican war. The claims seek damages for heirs of deceased property owners deprived of rights guaranteed by the Guadalupe Hidalgo treaty. The exact properties and locations in Texas are not disclosed.
Myr Baldridge owner and publisher of The Clifton Record Clifton Texas has run the paper for 23 years He was born in Collin County Texas and began in newspapers after finishing school He loves Clifton and would not live anywhere else the town sits on the Bosque River in Bosque County.
The comptroller warns Texas county tax collectors of a man posing as a Comptroller representative. He has been collecting occupational taxes from dealers, taking between 200 and 500 dollars daily.
The Society for the Scientific Development of the Natural Resources of Texas, based in Dallas and chartered recently, aims to advance scientific research and develop Texas natural and industrial resources. Its board includes Clarence E. Gilmore, chairman of the Texas Railroad Commission, and John H. Spellman, Buford Heafer, and Henry Garrett of Dallas.
George Van vance, a year-old native Texan born in San Antonio on February 28, 1850, died September 13 after a brief illness. For over fifty years he was linked with army undertakings, serving as a scout under General Guster and Captain Bullis, then wagon master in freighting across the West. He shunned modern transport, rarely rode in cars, and until his last days rode a horse. He planned a final horseback ride with friends the day he died, with his little pony saddled at his home.
Dallas chairman Frank V. Lanham of the State Highway Commission advocates a new direct elevated highway linking Dallas and Fort Worth to relieve congestion. He supports building two routes rather than widening the existing road, arguing the latter is costlier and less effective, with no detours needed during construction.
Texas oil production has surpassed a billion barrels since record keeping began in 1888. The Texas Railroad Commission division reports 1,081,415,000 barrels produced to date, tracing growth from 50 barrels annually in 1894 to major gains by 1900. In 1925 Archer County leads notices to drill with 981 filings, Wichita 709, and Callahan 692 over the past three months.
DeWitt County crops fight pest birds with a bounty program paying 25 cents per crow and hawk. Totals show 116 crows and 45 hawks killed, and a nearly $200 fund funds the bounties as farmers join the effort.
Plans to plant cottonwood shade trees every hundred feet along a twelve mile concrete stretch between Iowa Park and Wichita Falls were adopted by the Wichita Falls Chamber of Commerce executive committee and the Iowa Park advisory committee. The project includes irrigation and an estimated cost of about $6,000. The highway will be lined with trees as a State project.
William Bates of Houston secures the contract for three Nueces River dams eight miles north of Crystal City. Engineer G M Jowers of San Antonio directs the work. The project will irrigate about 14 000 acres with the main dam aided by three auxiliary dams. Expected cost under $16 per acre.
E P Wilmot of Houston president of the Guadalupe Water Power Company leads a plan to build five dams across the Guadalupe River near Seguin and establish hydro electric plants at a cost of 2 000 000. Preliminary work starts now with associates including Eastern capitalists. Water rights and land were acquired about thirteen years ago along the Guadalupe. The Seguin project links with Comal Power Company of New Braunfels which is building a plant to receive Guadalupe power and sell electricity in the region.
Forty nine thousand nine hundred ninety acre area in the northeast corner of Dallas County is set as a State preserve with five year hunting ban. Turner E Hubby state game commissioner says two deputy wardens will aid protection of quail and other game birds. Each of the 194 landowners signed pledges to prohibit hunting and to allow stocking and protection of birds.
Texas public education faces high first grade failure with about one third of 271000 entering first grade not advancing to second. Waste costs districts roughly 45 dollars per pupil yearly. Commissioner Tigert cites physical and mental defects and urges early parental action. Total daily attendance exceeds 950000 in public schools, with about 18000 in private and parochial schools.
State city and county officials and American Legion leaders joined Travis Post No. 76 in West Austin to dedicate a new home and clubhouse on a site overlooking the Colorado River. The facility, costing about 30000, is claimed to be the best equipped post building in Texas. Principal addresses were given by Alvin M. Owsley of Dallas and Dr T Dunning of Gonzales, with guests Adjt Gen Mark McGee Major John C Townes of Houston and Major Wayne Davis of San Antonio, all past State commanders.
Bids opened by Postmaster General New show two contenders for Chicago to Dallas and Fort Worth mail service. General Airways Systems Corp and National Air Transport Corp submitted offers on eight routes with varying revenue shares and fleet plans. General Airways, founded 1923 with $10 million capital, proposed four Texas routes and collective terms possibly dropping rates to 55 percent if all four awarded.
Texas and the Southwest display rapid modernization and growth in export strength. The region, once a wilderness, now rivals the East in business methods while relying on industrious work and thrift to secure a stable future for the poor and aspiring. The piece contrasts new development with old East structures and notes no current boom despite progress.
The piece paints Etah as the polar capital with vivid ice colors and cliff tones. It notes daily life marked by danger and perseverance while highlighting Eskimo happiness. The MacMillan expedition will share isolation but stay connected via wireless from XJN and messages from Chicago and New York.
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