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Newspaper
Hearne Democrat
Location
Hearne, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1925
Page
6
The State Fire Commission after an inspection lowered Houston’s key rate from 28c to 23c. The action reflects compliance progress and affects fire safety charges in the city.
A recent city ordinance in Port Arthur makes cracking peanuts in theaters or movie shows a fineable offense. The measure targets noisy snacks and aims to curb disturbances during performances.
Merchants in Weatherford report two men posing as state officials collecting for tobacco licenses. The deceit led to financial losses as the impostors claimed authority and demanded payment. Police urge caution and fresh detours from similar scams affecting local businesses.
Mexia voters on August 11 approved a $125,000 waterworks bond, $70,000 for paved streets and improvements, and $25,000 for Hughes Park development.
Fort Worth will receive a 2 percent credit on the fire insurance key rate following a standing offer of reward for arrest and conviction of a person accused of arson amid ongoing law enforcement efforts.
About 15 000 students graduated from Texas high schools this year, announced by Ethel Burch, bulletin supervisor in the University of Texas registrar office. The report credits the Texas education system and notes the count reflects statewide commencements across districts.
A. F. Butterfield, 40, advertising manager for the Houston Press, was electrocuted in Houston while making a ground connection for an aerial to a radio set. The aerial crossed a high tension wire.
Derrell Black aged 19 was released on a $1000 bond at Albank near Breckenridge after the death of his 16 year old brother Andrew from a broken blood vessel during a wrestling match.
Orders totaling two million dollars for textbooks were dispatched on July 21. Deliveries will go to local depositories before the next fall opening. Requisitions limit each school to three sets of supplementary readers though four are under adoption.
A whisky still was discovered in an old log cabin near Birdville Tarrant County hailed as the historic home of Cynthia Ann Parker and birthplace of Quanah Parker. Three Mexican men were arrested for operating the still and violating liquor laws.
The Fort Worth Cotton Mills seeks a state charter with capital stock of $1,000,000. Incorporators are W. B. Fitzhugh John R. Griffin of Fort Worth and G. L. Moody of Dallas. The new company would take over the Fort Worth Textile Mills property if plans are completed.
J B Mobley was elected secretary and treasurer of the Lubbock County Pioneers Association at an initial meeting of thirty three pioneers who have lived in the county twenty four years or more. They planned annual conventions.
D A Gregg, chief clerk in the Department of State, announces the complete set of the new revised statutes will cost six dollars to the public and be delivered in September. The set comprises three volumes, one criminal and two civil statutes, with each volume priced at two dollars if sold separately.
The Texas Fisheries Association after its San Antonio annual convention on August 4 adopted a resolution to launch an advertising campaign promoting sea food. President DeGraffenreid named a committee to organize the campaign and push information stressing fish and oyster propagation to the public.
Texas manufacturers claim bonds and feintured products contribute over one billion dollars in yearly output. G M San Antonio, official of the Manufacturers' Association, notes significant Texas production and growth potential despite limited details in the report.
Figures from the State Department of Education show 31,112 white teachers in Texas with total salaries of 28,509,898 dollars and an average of 902.19 dollars each. Of these, 6,374 are men and 24,788 are women. There are 4,347 Negro teachers with an average salary of 568 dollars.
George B. Terrell, Texas State Commissioner of Agriculture, urged in a WFAA radio address that timber conservation should have begun forty years ago with vast virgin forests, and called for lining all public highways with shade trees, preferably pecans, and planting trees along barren streams on both sides.
Texas led all states with 744 miles of Federal aid highways built in the fiscal year ending June 30. Total cost reached 13,778,972 with 4,867,315 in Federal aid. nationwide 9,445 miles were completed at 190,485,399. Illinois built 431 miles for 13,045,775 receiving 6,360,529, and South Dakota 458 miles for 8,416,836 with 1,745,242 in aid.
Texas Commissioner of Agriculture George B. Terrell issues regulations governing cotton production and marketing, field sanitation, and seed disinfection in quarantined districts. The rules cover El Paso Hudspeth Ward Reeves Pecos Presidio and Brewster counties and aim to prevent pink bollworm infestation from outside quarantined regions.
The fourth annual meeting of the Texas Conservation Association will be held in Wichita Falls on September 25 and 26, announced by Homer D Wade secretary. J A Kemp president urges all Texas localities with conservation projects to be represented at the meeting with Waco Fort Worth Brownwood San Saba Breckenridge Mineral Wells among others having plans.
The Littlefield Texas school board has ordered twenty-one uniform truck bodies to transport 500 plus district children to and from public schools. The system covers the rural districts and ensures equal access during the nine month term.
H. S. Adair who runs the pecan experiment station at Brownwood says Texas pecan crop is cut by at least 40 percent due to the pecan case borer. In many places trees bore no crop this year because of an exceedingly dry winter and much of the decline is traceable to this cause.
The University of Texas oil royalties held in escrow exceed 750000 dollars and stand at 779077 dollars after Big Lake Company remitted 119399 for July production. Texan Company royalties, once paid, will push the total held in escrow to about one million dollars.
Dunk Campbell of Houston battled for life after a large alligator seized his right leg in Cypress Creek 25 miles from Houston. He waded into five feet of water with fishermen when the reptile struck, mangling both legs and feet before rescuers arrived. Houston men later dynamited the creek section and Campbell and his party killed the animal.
S B Cowell chairman of the State Board of Control said nearly every bed in the State hospitals is occupied except a few in the negro men's ward at the Austin State Hospital. Jails have been cleared of mentally ill inmates and the aim is to keep them clear. There are 7 222 patients in these hospitals.
S V Tudyka, 60, a native of Poland and lone resident of a squalid Del Rio shack, died leaving a $4000 cash estate from tailoring earnings. Bank deposits identified. no known relatives. Attorneys expect after funeral expenses the estate will escheat to Texas with no debts.
Lufkin will serve as the headquarters for the State Forestry Department. The agency's work centers on forest preservation, constant patrols and inspections, fighting timber diseases insect pests and fires, promoting reforestation, and cooperating with landowners on reforestation plans.
The State Highway Commission announced grants totaling 618500 for Galveston, Houston and Ellis counties. Funds will not be available before Jan 1, 1928. Chairman Frank Lanham said the counties must proceed with projects using county funds and the commission will cover half of total costs.
Mexia Texas mills announce 25 more worker houses and a night shift after a board meeting. The first six months show success with ready market for the ducking product. Built by local finance at nearly $500,000, the complex includes several buildings and 25 employee cottages, bringing total staff to about 200.
Charley L. Ware aged 65 died August 12 at his Fort Worth home 1201 Pennsylvania Ave. He was among the state’s youngest Rangers and brother to Dick Ware the peace officer who killed outlaw Sam Bass. Before joining the Denver railroad he and Dick served in Company 3 Frontier Battalion. Pistol belongings of Sam Bass and Dick Ware were among his possessions. He had been in poor health for years and bedbound for four months.
The State Board of Water Engineers estimates the Devil's River could yield 80 000 horsepower if fully utilized. The river’s average annual flow is 440 000 acre feet, about 1 200 cubic feet per second, with a 750 foot drop over 80 miles from Beaver Lake to the Rio Grande, making it ideal for power development.
The Labor Bank and Trust Company will be the Souths first labor bank, located in Houston with Charles Murphy as president and A B Jones as vice president and cashier. It carries a paid up capital of 100000 dollars and a 10000 dollar surplus, operating as a guaranty fund institution. Seventeen labor banks exist nationwide, the nearest in St Louis, and Houston’s will be controlled by organized labor owning 85 percent of the stock.
The Texas State Comptroller Sam Houston Terrell warns merchants not to pay occupation taxes to unauthorized individuals. He says all such tax collections must go through the local county tax collector and notes recent North Texas cases of fraudulent collection.
For the five months ending May, Texas railroads reported net operating income of 9,940,329 dollars, up 2,791,572 or 39.05 percent from 1924. Operating income reached 14,888,147 dollars, up 3,542,738 or 81.24 percent. Operating expenses rose to 70,852,846 dollars, up 2,038,470 or 2.96 percent, while operating revenue totaled 89,250,253 dollars, up 5,964,803 or 7.16 percent, yielding an expense ratio of 79.39 compared with 82.62 last year.
Raymond L. Ditmars of the New York Zoological Park traveled to Brazil with a quart of powdered rattlesnake venom from 2,500 snakes supplied by the zoo and W A Snake King of Brownsville Texas. The venom is injected into horses in increasing doses for eight months to raise antibodies, from which serum is drawn for production.
The State Highway Commission designated an approximate 200 mile highway from Friona in Palmer county north to Midland, extending toward Del Rio on the Rio Grande. The route passes through five counties and portions of others. Maintenance funding from the state will begin January 1927.
The State of Texas filed suit against the Texas and Pacific Railway Company on August 10 to stop tearing up or dismantling the Midland and Northwestern Railway property. The Interstate Commerce Commission had dismissed T and P’s petition to junk the line, leaving Texas and T and P in dispute over operating the Midland to Seminole line in Gaines County a distance of sixty five miles.
Textbooks and adjunct expenses from Sept 1 1925 to Sept 1 1926 will cost the State 2 389 500 according to a Marrs State Board of Education estimate. Textbooks ordered total 1 900 000 with interest 26 000, other costs 103 900, and a 25 percent emergency addition brings the total to 2 449 500 before balancing to 2 389 500 requested.
Governor Miriam A. Ferguson offered three rewards in two killing cases and one criminal assault case. A 1250 dollar reward for L W Peace in Smith county over the Clayton Herdson slaying on Oct 7 1922 was renewed. A 250 dollar reward for J Fred Connar’s killer tied to Castro county murder and robbery on July 16 1925. Castro county and Tulsa have added 1000 and 250 respectively for Connar’s slayer. An 800 dollar reward was offered for conviction of Two Gunner Pete Alexander, wanted in Navarro county for a criminal assault on a young girl on Aug 7.
The Enrico Cerracchio monument of Gen. Sam Houston arrived in Houston on July 25 weighing 14,000 pounds. Sculptor Cerracchio was in Galveston when the statue was loaded for shipment to Houston where it will be placed in Hermann Park.
The Texas State Manufacturers Association will present an industrial exhibit at the Dallas Fair from October 10 to 26 led by executive VP G. M. Knebel. The display will show Texas manufacturing totaling about one billion dollars annually and also feature the state's mining and power industries. The manufacturers' building at the fair grounds will house the exhibit.
An Attorney General opinion by First Assistant Wright Morrow states that outside life insurers that left Texas may return to loan money without paying premium taxes during their absence if they owed no taxes when exiting and if lending is not restricted by their domicile charter. Twenty-two large companies left in 1907 under the Robertson compulsory investment law. only four have since returned, with Travelers and John Hancock showing renewed interest.
No public land sale occurred on September 1 in Texas as in years past. A new law requires appraisement, forfeiture, and a right of repurchase at the commissioner's set price. Forfeitures will occur in September but sales are deferred to May 1, 1926.
The Texas Congress of Mothers and Parent-Teacher Associations aims to extend its work after summer sessions by presenting to teacher institutes starting in September. Speakers are arranged for intercounty institutes where 700 to 800 teachers will gather from several counties. The program seeks to train teachers and leaders in PTA ideals and organization across the state.
Citizens plead for protection from pollution in their neighborhood urging action. Government experts say pollution can be ended and the people concur, calling for reporting to the State Game Fish and Oyster Commissioner in Austin and cooperating with authorities to speed the solution.
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