The Caldwell News and The Burleson County Ledger (Caldwell, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, October 24, 1930 Page: 4 of 14
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111 CALDWELL NSW8
THE CALDWELL NEWS
And The Burleson County Ledger
C E. CBOMARTIB. BüUr ul PaUUker
M second cl«u matter at the Caldwell, Texas Post Office, under
—I 9t Coafw, March 3, 18T9. _
Published weekly by the Caldwell News and Burleson County Ledger,
MMr Buck and .Main Streets, Caldwell, Texas.
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Burleson County Agriculture
Makes Forward Strides Past
Five Years, Statistics Show
Achievements All Summed Up
Reflect Outstanding Progress
To Date
a&sionally are used. Most every-1
vhere one travels today u the cuun-!
y, he may view this outstanding im-,
provei.ient.
The poultry business the past five
years na come to be recognized as
"me of the leading industries of the
.-ouniy. Sales- annually are quite
enormous. Coming in during the
pring and summer, the dull sea-
• on, along with cream sales, has done
much tr. strengthen the economic con-
dition of the county.
Ines? is the livestock industry.
T>.is branch of farming has made
• ronoanced progress during the past
ive y.arss, both in dairy herds and
•eef type cattle. There is more pure-
t red tattle in the county today than
was e.er known before. Those that
art* ni merited have been raised in
-tanda: d, until now the county prides
Itself >n having as high type herds
of live-lock as any county in this sec-
tion. The number of head maintained
i in the county has increased wonder-
fully in the past five years. Prac-
ucaiiy the same advancement has
been made in hogs. Better ¡.reeds
have constantly been imported dur-
ing the past five years and the bene-
fit has been great economically.
All down the line of agriculture
from the planting of seed and culti-
vation on up. there has been out- j
standing progress during the past
five years years. Before 1925, feed
. and food crops were rarely made a
¡ regulai part of the farm program,
business has increased wonderfully in ! Some planted feed and food crops
the five year period. Exact figures j regularly, but the general policy was
winter use than aver before. It is
fully believed that this year goes
down as being the banner year in
the county in that respect.
During the past five years the
schools have improved wonderfully
everywhere. Better buildings were
built. More teachers have been em-
ployed. With all this development,
the social standing of the people has
grown better. There has developed
more public spiritedne.-s among the
citizenship, there have been more
puolic functions, and with this, a
uetter contact between the people has
i een enjoyed, and a greater amount
>f ¿ritndly feeling for one another has
U'cn engendeied.
Brierly, there was a general
awakening of the people along agri-
cultural lines. More scientific
methods were injected into the minds
oí the people. Where soils were wash-
ing away annually, farms have been
terraced and considerable of the
erosion stopped. Fertilizers were u?ed
extensively thereby increasing pro-
duction per acre and enabling the
owners of farms to make a greater
amount of profit for their labor. The
need of diversifying crops was ad-
vanced successfully, and now. instead
of depending on one kind of a crop
each year (cotton), farmers peneral-
(Continued on page five)
Girl To Drive
Chevrolet By
Radio at Fair
A most unusual and very interest- J
ing exhibition has been arranged for J
visitors at the Burleson County Fair t
in Caldwell Saturday. Through the
cooperation of several local mer-
chants, Miffs Gloria Hall, popular
Los Angeles movie flyer, and the
only woman in the world who can
drive an automobile and fly an air-
planv at the ¿ame time, will give an
exhibition Saturday aiternoon nt 2:00 |
o'clock around the court house
•quare, when she will drive a
-tandard stock model automobile
through heavy traffic arouod the
square, controlling it entirely by
radio, from another enr in
which she will ride fifteen or i
twenty feet behind. The "Phantom j
Car" h< this driveriess. radio ;
controller! car is called starts, stops i
and steers t^elf. It blows it's horns
at pedestrians and turns corners just
like there was a driver at the wheel,
yet the machine carries neither1
driver or passenger.
Due to the fact that there is no
landing field near Caldwell for Misa
Hall to use, she will not be able to
bring her plane here for the exhibi-
tion, but will give the same exhibition
operating the mysterious, driverless,
passengerless automobile from a cat
following. Many thrills and much en-
tertainment is promised by Miss
Hall, since she is able to handle the
radio car at various speeds, and steer
the machine quicker and more
accurately than by hand because the
steering mechanism is operated by
means of an electric motor. Near
accidents and many other unusual
stunts will be in the program.
o
Salem's Church
Birch
Attention members and friends!
As on account of bad roads our Mis-
sion Festival was poorly attended,
we will have a special Mission ser-
vice Sunday morning, October 26th,
beginning at 10:30 o'clock.
All will have an opportunity to
bear about the Mission work of our
:iurch in Honduras. South America.
Come one and all!
A sj.icial Alisan,i. . tiering is kindly
requested.
Sunday Schol at 9:30 a. m.
REV. CARL A. STADLER
<•
Never before in a five year period.
between two government censuses, , . .
baa Burleson county made such rapid ductjon of poultry and pojltry pro-
rre not available at this time, but
it is a well known fact that the in-
crease in production has been
appreciable. During the five years,
many farmers have turned much of
the:r time and attention to the pro^
progress agriculturally as during the
past five years, since the inaugura-
tion of the county's Five Year Farm
Program launched in the fall of 1925.
Various records compiled year by
year and statistics in general show
it, and the Federal census figures for
1980, which have begun to be rev eal-
ed from Washington further bears
the statement out. To a large num-
ber of citizens, the county today
from an agricultural standpeint and
otherwise, outweighs that of five
years ago to a large degree. Many
rank changes have come all down
the line. Progress is visible every-
where. During the past five years,
there has been more constructive
building and improvements than in
the previous ten -ears. In the coun-
ty, scientific farming developed to a
greater degree than in the past 20
years. Educ. Hon was advanced, both
among the whites and blacks. Civicly,
things changed more than in any ten
year period. There is hardly a sec-
tion of the county today, that does
not reflect improvement in one form
or another.
Looking back to 1925, about this
■eason of the year and picturing the
condition of the county then and con-
ditions previous, we form an entirely
different opinion compared with that
af today, not-with-standing that we
are in the midst of a severe business
depression.
Looking back to 1025 and beyond,
are do not see a constructive farm
program. We do not see a local
ehaasber of commerce, no Lions club,
the practice of using commercial fer-
tiliser, no terracing to speak of, very
little dairy farming, no purebred
poultry on the farms, the production
of very little feed and food crops,
few gardens, truck crops,
etc. Pecan culture and hun-
of things now practiced ex-
ely were barely known. Im-
proved farm houses and surroundings
were few. Schools were of a lower
■tandard, and general civic and social
coadkions were poor. Between 1910
~ 1920 the county lost nearly 2,000
m population, whereas, dur-
ten years it enjoyed an
i of nearly 3,000. During the
five years the number of arms
taaed approximately 150. Farm
after farm has been terraced, the
aofle conserved and made more pro-
ductive. Carload after carload of
fertilizers since have been used an-
nually. Dairying since has been in-
creased from $1,000.00 sales annually
to approximately $22,000.00. The
farm poultry has been largely
changed from that of the mongrel or
common types to the purebred
varieties. Along with this change
came an enormous increase in poul-
try and egg production. Where cases
of eggs were formerly shipped, since
•ggs by the carloads have been ex-
ported. The volume of the poultry
ducts, in lieu of so much cotton
Where flocks of a few mixed hens
were maintained, today flocks from
100 to 500 and as many as 2.000 are
regularly maintained. F o r m e r ly
where trees and fences and the wide
open were used for roosting places,
and boxes and barrels were provided
for hen nests, now the most modern
types of houses with trap nests oc-
to plant cotton and buy feed and all
food. That idea about farming was
changed materially and today feed
and food crops are made a regular
part of the farm program. As a con-
sequence, farmers have profited and
the entire county has become sounder
economically. Since 1925, there have
been more gardens planted than ever
before. Truck crops have been in-
creased three-fold or more. More
orchards were planted than in the
twenty years previous. As a result
of the wardens, truck crops, fruit,
there has been more preserving and
canning and conserving of food dur-
ing trie springs and summers for
The Quality Bakery
The purity of the ingredients used,
plus the expert baking assures
you the
Best Quality Bakery Foods
Try our Cakes, Pies, Cookies, Buns,
Rolls and Bread once, and you'll
always trade here.
COME TO THE FAIR
CALDWELL BAKERY
Welcome!
FAIR VISITORS
MAKE OUR STORE VOIR HEADQUARTERS
Stock Reducing Sale
Now Going On
Bigger and Bigger
Many people of adjoining Counties have attended our Sale
One Lot of
Men's Heavy Ribbed Union
Suits, sizes 36 to 46—Special
69c
One Lot
Men's Dress Pants,
up to $10,00—Special
$2.49
Part Wool Blankets
66x80—Special Sale
12.69
*
Brown and Bleached
Sheeting:, 9-4
Special, yard—
19c
Men's HeAvy Moleskin
Pants, at—
$1.59
Boys* Knee Pant Suits
98c
Ladies' Dress Pumps,
ties and straps—Special
$2.39
Ladies1 Coats,
fur collars and cuffs, black
and tan—Special, from—
$5.95 to $21.95
Ladies' Silk Dresses,
all colors and sizes.
Special sale—
$3.49 to $9.49
Our prices are reduced during: this sale!
BUY NOW AT REAL SALE PRICES!
THE GRAND LEADER
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Mystifying and Spectacular!
dHftieáUc
SCREEN GRID RADIO
See the
"PHANTOM CHEVROLET" -
Driverless and Passengerless! D riven and controlled by Majestic
Radio from another automobile.
MUS GLORIA HALL
8deeted the MAJESTIC Radio in this unbelievable feat. MAJESTIC moot be the
Wherever better radio service is ne eded there you will always find MAJESTIC.
Caldwell, Saturday, October IS at IdO p. m.
Come in after the demonstration and let us show you this great
new MAJESTIC.
HARVEY-SCHILLER FURNITURE CO
Majestic Radios
Caldwell, Texas
<112.50
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Cromartie, C. E. The Caldwell News and The Burleson County Ledger (Caldwell, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, October 24, 1930, newspaper, October 24, 1930; Caldwell, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth174922/m1/4/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Harrie P. Woodson Memorial Library.