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Newspaper
Wellington Leader
Location
Wellington, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1930
Page
2
A leading economist finds industrial ownership shifting to rural communities as small towns gain with electric power, better highways, and faster rail traffic. Lower rents, cheaper food, and city congestion relief attract workers, with over three billion dollars planned for 1930 public utilities and related construction boosting housing, plants, banks, theatres, churches, and schools.
A historical note praises medical progress in reducing infant mortality beginning with early modern times. It cites Queen Anne's large but short-lived family and argues modern medical education, defect treatment, public health units, and volunteers have greatly increased babies surviving to maturity, earning high praise for the profession's life-saving efforts.
A New Jersey preacher cites an inscription from ancient Assyria warning of lawlessness and end times. He argues historical records show similar conditions across eras, noting war and oppression recur yet humanity improves overall by mitigating suffering and advancing industry and mutual aid.
Boston's early public amusements show its fear of disruption as the 1757 Boston Gazette notes John Childs flew from steeples in England and planned to fly Dr. Cutler's church. The stunt, a rope slide about 700 feet, drew crowds away from work and led officials to prohibit further flying in town.
The Mississippi House voted a $500 appropriation to Moses Walter, a Black man pardoned after six years in prison for shooting at a white man's home. The white man later confessed to framing him. the piece argues for substantial damages and penalties for wrongful convictions, noting innocence regardless of race.
A Texas writer asserts Governor Moody would turn highway governance into political demagogy if the Highway Commissioners were elected. He cites Moody appointees obstructing road work, demands refunding state and federal highway funds to Gray and Carson Counties, and calls for impeachment to restore democratic government.
DECKS Didactics notes the Anerican Legion rebuilt graves of Confederate soldiers buried long ago. Memorial Day ceremonies will honor these soldiers alongside all others who served. Also mentions Wellington’s leading poppy sale and Texas political polling among newspapers, focusing on Clint Small and Dan Moody.
A New Jersey court issued an injunction restraining a jilted lover from taking his own life on the doorstep of his beloved. He would be in contempt of court if he acted. In other notes, Anatole France was celebrated as a leading French writer, though his brain weighed 1017 grams, below the average 1200 grams.
A scattered newspaper fragment notes a Chicago cigar theft framed as desperation for starving children, an aviator’s fatal bathroom asphyxiation, James Aflen finding jewelry in a hedge, a critic’s gag about pudding, and quips about wine women and Sir Oliver Lodge. The tone alternates between satire and newsy items.
The clipping references various oddities including a landlord named George L Merson Ginson who hiked taxes on tenants after buying cheaply, a lace maker Mrs Mary Woodner in Rushden, Thorax Martin in Belfast receiving a rescue medal, George Reid in Glasgow jailed for thirty days for heckling a minister, Mrs Elizabeth Conway of Cardiff restricting her daughter from marriage, and a London divorce case where letters were deemed unsuitable for copying by the stenographer.
Swearingen school closes Wednesday May 28 with 112 students finishing the year. Roy Childress completed the tenth grade, the highest taught there. Trustees are I H Cox, Joe Childrens and J C Johnson. Teachers include James Hodge, T B Armstrong, Estelle Holmes and Mrs Jessie Lee Hodge.
May in Texas brings heavy rainfall and hail damaging crops yet farmers expect replanting and abandonment of some fields while optimism remains that late-season plantings will mature before frost. Despite setbacks, state farm output in 1930 is projected to surpass previous years, with poultry clubs expanding and diversifying farms beyond cotton and corn. The piece highlights Jasper County farmers shifting to poultry, pigs, cows, and truck farming, plus strong profits from strawberries in Carrizo Springs and other Texas counties.
A farmer near there sold eight dollars worth of berries from a 20 by 60 foot plot this season. Demand remains strong for canned products and fresh fruit. Texas melons from Falfurrias are shipped widely, with about 4 000 earloads anticipated from the area. The Fort Worth and Denver railroad seeks a 118 mile Texas line from Childress to Pampa, while regulators weigh public receipts and growth. Also noted are Dragg ed tiger stories about Pierre Servin and a France Tour tale of a man found dead with a hoard of gold.
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