Chamber to Award 1000 For Cotton And Corn Contest
Mexia Chamber of Commerce launches a three county contest with a $1000 prize to improve staple cotton and corn. Limestone Freestone and Navarro counties form the district with $800 for cotton and $200 for corn across two classes. Contest rules and committees announced with entries taken in spring.
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Mexia
Navarro County
Richland Creek
Richland
Here Hill
Navarro
Limestone
Highlands
J. J. McElroy
Julius Nussbaum
J. J. Riddle
P. G. Haines
Jere Cason
Chamber
W. K. Boyd
John Phillips
Jim Prickett
Chamber of Commerce
Vrey
Limestone County
Ku Klux Klan Denied Church Use for Ceremony
After initial permission the First Baptist Church says the Ku Klux Klan cannot use the building for the ceremony. Owen F Watkins heads the Klan and has arranged a tent for the public rite. The Tent of the Carr Gray stock company will host the event starting at 7 pm with public admission.
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Ku Klux Klan
First Baptist Church
Owen F. Watkins
Klan
Mr. Watkins
Carr-Gray Stock Company
Mexia High’s Black Cat Magazine Captures State Second
The Black Cat magazine of Mexia High School won second place in the Texas High School Press Association state contest. Miss Ruby Kennedy, editor in chief, also won an individual prize for her short story. Mexia’s delegation included William Murphy and others with sponsor Mrs. Staton at Beltin.
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Black Cat
Mexia High School
News Publishing Company
Texas High School Press Association
Beltin
Ruby Kennedy
Mexia
William Murphy
Elizabeth Jones
Carolyn Patterson
Birdie Crider
Guy Stokes
Lenford Bennett
Edgar T. Staton
J. J. Taylor
Dallas
Edwards
Denton Record Chronicle
D. Q. Riddle
Baylor College
Six Million Foot Gas Well Near Wortham
Pure Oil completes a six million foot dry gas well on the Henry Seales lease near Wortham oil field and plans at least one more well. The well produced from shallow sands after a diamond core test. deep tests in Wortham indicated gas but were not fully tested. Dry gas sells at about 10 cents per thousand cubic feet to gas firms.
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Pure Oil Company
Henry Seales
I Wortham
Wortham
Harrengen Appointed Cooking Merit Badge Scout Examiner
Charles Harrengen of Groesbeck is named Boy Scout Examiner in cooking merit badge for the Groesbeck District by the Court of Honor announcement.
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Charles Harrengen
Groesbeck
Court of Honor
Government price fixing warned by President in farm talk
President Cook Tidge told dirt farmer delegates that Washington will not enact or support price fixing for farm relief. He warned any government involvement in buying or selling farm products would fix prices, destroy cooperatives, and erode farmer independence and judgment.
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George E. Durno
U. S
Chicago
Cook Tidge
Washington
American Farm Burergt Federation
Congress
Groesbeck Court Hosts Large December Term Docket
Groesbeck the county seat fills with a large crowd for the December term of the ith district court under Judge A M Blackmon. Key cases include a $30,000 damages suit against The News Publishing Co over a highway editorial and a county road equipment graft case against Commissioner J M Kennedy. Ed Nicholson faces a statutory charge in Judge Bell's court as attention focuses on appearance day and injunctions.
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Groesbeck
Ith District Court
A. M. Blackmon
News Publishing Company
Texas
JH. Parten
Parten and Herring Road Company
W. T. Shurch
Keys
Scott Reed
Old Mexico
Carl Cannon
Johnson Wakefield
Parten
Herring
Bell
Ed Nicholson
Mexia
N. T. Stubbs
F. H. Kirby
C. A. Nix
Coolidge Outlines Farm Aid Plan Focused on Tariffs and Coops
President Coolidge described an agricultural program centered on retaining protective tariffs, supporting cooperative marketing efforts, and expanding federal credit facilities. He argued popular demand would ultimately drive policy, with consumer interests prevailing over producer concerns.
Indictments of Fall and Doheny Stand on Appeal
Federal Court of Appeals ruled indictments against ex Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall and Edward Doheny Jr and Sr stand. Fall allegedly took 100000 dollars from Doheny senior while Doheny Jr faced charges of complicity. Defense expected to appeal to the Supreme Court.
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Internatonal News Service
Washington
Secretary of the Interior
Albert B. Fall
Edward Growing
Doheny
Edward Doheny
Ellis Hill Naval Oil Reserves
Stend
Federal Court of Appeals
Doheny, Sr
Carter
Supreme Court
Mrs. W. R. Faught Dies in Groesbeck
Mrs. W. R. Faught of Groesbeck died after a protracted illness at 5:15 Monday morning. She is the mother of Mrs. Gene Sinclair of Mexia and leaves many local friends. Interment is set for 10:30 Tuesday at Faulkberry cemetery with Rev. Armstrong officiating. In separate note, two 2-year sentences for auto theft and auto parts theft were handed down in Judge Bell's court.
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W. R. Faught
Groesbeck
Gene Sinclair
Mexia
Sinclair
Faulkberry
Armstrong
Groesbeck Methodist Church
Ting
Community Chest Drive Opens Tuesday With District Tasks
The campaign to raise 4500 for the Community Chest begins Tuesday with workers organized by district. Report at 9 am to Jesse McLendon, then sent out to canvass and cover streets quickly the first day. Salvation Army led by Capt Parker will receive 3950 to administer their work.
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Jesse McLendon
Salvation Army
JH. Parker
Community Chest
Salvation . Army
Confessed car thief pleads guilty in Hill County court
C A Nix admitted to stealing a car from Mexia and auto parts from Hill County witness O M Robbins. Judge Bell sentenced him to the minimum two years. Nix said he joined a Dallas based gang with accomplices named in his confession. State attorney Carl Cannon urged clemency citing prior offenses. Officers in several counties are pursuing the rest of the group. Nix listed cases in Dallas Longview Henderson Mexia Corsicana Hillsboro.
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Texas
Cannon
P. J. Bounds
Mexia
O. M. Robbins
Tits Community
E. H. Wilson
Hill County
Nix
Dallas
Mr. Bounds
Longview
Henderson
Corsiesna
Hillsboro
Lions Dinner Tuesday Evening Announces Ladies Night
The Lions club will host a dinner Tuesday night at the Liontarian Inn on December 8. It is designated Ladies Night with each Lion attending with his wife or sweetheart. A strong program by the committee includes J I Riddle of Edgar, Staton, J F 8, assisted by Bill Schmidt and Jary Jere Cason.
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Lions Club
Liontarian Inn
J/ I. Riddle
Edgar
Staton
J. F
Bill “Schmidt
Jary Jere Cason
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Baptist Church
Vay
Coolidge
Capitol
Black Cat Magazine
Harrengen Examiner
American Farm Bureau
Blackmon
Bell Court
Lyles
Kennedy
Ludwig Salvo von Hoogatraeten
Millicent Rogers
Cout
Europe
Ring
Riddle
Program At Inn
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