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Newspaper
Llano News
Location
Llano, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1936
Page
2
Last Wednesday L J Joseph Mel vin Kincheloe and A Lackey visited Buchanan Dam as Burnet Chamber of Commerce representatives. Their aim was to secure a complete resident list to send complimentary Bulletin copies for a year and foster closer social ties between communities.
In San Saba County local events include Sheriff W H Doran's daughter Nelle Doran marrying Tom Ayl er Jr while his wife’s relation Miss Vada Leigh Owen wed in Dallas. Other items note horse purchases for Wilmore farm, treaty ground location search, water reservoir details, and a boating county court fine for a driver without license.
The Gillespie County water system is fully implemented since last Friday with about seventy five connections completed and more underway. Alfred Neffendorf collected water meter readings monthly between the 25th and the 1st, as the system reached a 360 000 gallon reservoir milestone.
Work will start on a six room rock veneer house for Mr and Mrs Roy Capps in the McCall and Anderson Addition west Mason. The dwelling will include bath hall porch service porch and breakfast nook.
English consul to Texas, Arthur Tkin, states immigration swelled the population to about 306,000 by 1841, including Americans and Britons, Mexicans, enslaved people, and numerous Native tribes. He cites the lack of a census and estimates from his Guide to Emigrants, noting Texas already exceeds population of several Northern states.
The article describes relations with tribes like Lipans and Tonkahuas and ongoing campaigns against Comanches. It notes two hundred miles of gulf coast safety for settlers, calls for 500 regular troops, and discusses the slave population in 1840 at 11,323, arguing about the transfer of slave labor and the moral implications without delving into broader social critique.
A $2300 butter shipment from an Oklahoma firm was seized in Chicago under the Food and Drug Act for containing too much water and fat below 80 percent. After reconditioning under court order and FDA supervision, 7829 pounds remained from 8384 seized, with a 6.62 percent loss and potential consumer cost of 1 to 2 cents per pound.
The Texan view favors white labor and humane slave discipline, noting a 15 to 1 white to Black ratio and stating anti piracy enforcement deters import of enslaved Africans. It claims Texans are largely American with British, French, and German minorities.
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