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Newspaper
Wellington Leader
Location
Wellington, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1935
Page
9
Collingsworth County extends the Bankhead cotton certificate deadline to June 14 at the county agent office. About 300 producers have not yet applied, and certificates will not be issued without a signed application, delaying cotton ginning this fall until taxes are paid.
The State Allotment Board closed the date last week for applications but slow response means the agent's office will accept applications and issue allotments with regular applications. If not signed by Friday, producers may face delays in certificates and the ginning season. All cotton producers must apply to receive certificates, even those with existing contracts. The County Agent's office will also take in all old Bankhead Certificates from 1934 this week.
Warm weather and summer evenings have increased library interest over the past two months. County librarian Miss Katherine Beverie reports loans run about 7,500 books per month with 200 to 300 loans daily. This week the library announced many new books were added through special arrangements with the state library, including adult and juvenile fiction and non fiction.
A reader’s catalog of adult fiction titles appears, naming Bailey The Blue Window Biggers Black Camel Bradford Let the Band Play Dixie Brand Deadly Rides Again Buck The Good Fiarth Sons 7 Corwood The Alaskan De La Roche Lark Attending Evarts Fur Brigade Farnel Black Art Jenny's Treasure Fox Erskine Dale Fioneer Galeworthy One More River Greer Best Short Stories from the Southwest Gregory Riders Across the Border Grey Wild Horse Mesa Hilton Johnston To ma Lewis Para Lincoln Arist o Brewester Lincoln Latchkey Lovelace Early Candlelight MacHarg Indian Dram Montgomery Rainbow all é y Partwee Big G Peterkin Bright Skin Richmond The Indiffer (Continued on Page 8 Sec 1)
Residents report oil and gasoline bubbling from back yard wells in Long Beach California, creating makeshift wells and perils. The disturbance leads authorities to bar mining until homes meet fire safety standards after years of quake related damage.
Denton reports a proposed statue to honor men of nae and be in a public space. Details unclear due to fragmented OCR but suggests a community memorial project with local support and potential funding.
The Boy Scouts of Wellington will observe Father's Day on June 16 with services at the Methodist Church. Rev. T. M. Johnston will preach Sunday evening at 8 o clock. Parents are specially invited to attend. patrol leaders were not devoted.
Collingsworth Gassers topple Paducah 18 to 9 in a Red River Valley League encounter. Paducah led 4-0 after one inning, but the Gassers answered with seven in the first. A protest was filed alleging cut placers on Wellington players’ ball.
Paducah and the Gasers exchanged two runs in the early frames and four runs in both the fifth and sixth innings. Paducah finally broke the drought with three runs in the sixth, while the Gasers added a final tally. Continued on page 8.
Dr. J. F. Johnson and Davis Robinson while hunting Sunday killed a 45 inch rattlesnake on the Campbell Ranch southwest of here. The serpent measured unusually long with ten rattlers, making the outing notable for its length and features.
Former Dodsonville School alumni gathered at the Masonic Hall on Friday night June 7 for the first alumni banquet. Truett Holland opened with a welcome, followed by musical numbers and class reports. The 1936 graduating class was welcomed into the association as Blayne Branum spoke for his peers.
Durham report highlights pet canaries and food disputes as telltale traits in a study by Winifred Bent Johnson and Lewis M. Terman of Stanford University. The research, published in International Journal of Psychology, notes divorces and unhappy marriages show higher mental masculinity and neuroticism in men versus happily married groups.
Ruby Lee Roberts of the Houselog Home Demonstration Club refinished a bed using lye paste and oak stain, finished with two coats of varnish. Jewel Roberts adds cheer with two bowls of jewelry and a hanging sweet potato vine basket, while Indian blankets and sunflowers brighten the rooms.
Fifty Gray County 4-H club boys received State Certified milo kafir or sorgum seed this spring at no cost from a local civic group. They must enroll in 4-H, submit complete records to the county agent, and exhibit at the fall 4-H club show. Each boy plans to use the feed crop in an animal demonstration and to plant additional feed crops for poultry and other demonstrations.
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