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THE BASTKOP ADVERTISER. BASTROP. TEXAS THURSDAY. OCTOBER H'. O
THE BASTROP ADVERTISER
Mr. and Mrs. U. E. Slandifer—Managing Editor*
H. A. Schavfer—Circulation Manag er and Field Representative
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Entered us second class mail at the Post Ofrict at Bastrop. under act
of March 1S70.
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of all Entertainments to which admission is charged, arc charged for at the
rate of one cent a word.
Church Announcements, Club Activities, Lodge Notices and all items of
public iaterest are earnestly solicited. All copy must be in by Wednesday
neon to insure publication, but this does not mean for you to wait until that
tine to hand incopy—don't see ho-.v I.AT!\ you can turn it in. but HOW
EARLY.
Texas and Texcans
-ALL TEX AN 8 FOR ALL TEXAS'
By Will fi. Mayes
School Attendance Increased
The largely increased attendance
in the schools of Texas is gratify-
ing to those who like to think the
State is going forward along educa-
tion and cultural lifl.s, but must be
most disheartening to the croakers
whose main line of talk is "hard-
times." The attendance in all kinds
of .school* from kindergartens to
university, ftjom private, ^public
and church schools, is larger than
ever before. This indicates that the
people are either better able to send
their children to school or else are
more interested in having them edu-
cated—perhaps both. There is every
reason to believe that thf.- prosperity
or adversity of the people as a whole
is largely mental. The worst pes-
simists an.- the folks who are most
in need of education. It i a pi try
they can't be sent to school awhile.
about the cotton is the low price. The
only way to overcome that- is to de-
crease the yield. There is sonne
sentiment in Texas for another called
session of the legislature to pass a
law that will brine about reduction
of acreage. It* is doubtless whether
farmers would favor such legislation
or whether such a law could 1 . en-
forced. Past efforts to induce cot-
ton planters to reduce crops have
been futile. If heavy loss.s year af-
ter year do not prove effective heavy
fin* for over-planting would hardly
do it.
as well be "-aid.
temple <>et* Refinery
More than a half million dollar
is to be -pent at Temple in the build-
ing of ait oil refinery by the I exa-
l'acific Coal and Oil Company, tW
work tu be started immediately. Tem-
ple has always had a way of going
after things that brings results. It
is not a "magic" city, but is the re-
sults of its go-getting citij.nry,
which is nearly always to be found
at work as a unit for enterprises for
the advantage of Temple and its sur-
rounding territory. ^ ^
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Plum Crowing Increased
l.ai*.do having become famous for
growing Bermuda onions, is going
in strong for citrus fruit and plums
especially plums. Thousands of
tree: are to be planted during the
winter and spring. There U no good
reason why plums should not be
grown with profit iri many parts of
Texas, except that the trees are not
planted and cultivated extensively
.-Dough to attract buyers. The Lare-
doans, after much bitter experience
with independent marketing, have
learned th. lesson of co-operation.
Remove Millboards.
billboards may be ever so urtistic
from an advertising standpoint but
tli > obstruct the views of the coun-
tr> f rem the highways and ahouhi
not l-e pei nutted to mar the lai.U-
scapc. A large part of the pleasure
of driving is in seeing the seel#, ry"
and it is exasperating to have th
best views hidden behind advertise-
ments.
Scenic Highway
A borderway along the Rio Grande
from Brownsville to El 1'aso has been
a dream of many Texans since about
1014. The dit.am is gradually be-
coming u realization. Long stretch-
es of the road have been built along
the route, but there are still many
gaps that must b. filled to make it
attractive to tourists. Work has
been started on the Maverick county
link, ii stretch of ."4 miles. Im-
provement is under way in Dimmitt
and Webb counties. Most of tlVe
joule is now fairly good for all th<
weather travel through Cameron,
Hidalgo, Starr and Zapata counties.
t .kuiinig Factory Survey
A survey is being made to ascer-
tain if a canning factory at San
Saba can be made profitable. While
there may not be enough vej* tables
and fruits going to waste to justify
building a factory there, then would
unquestionably be a large increas
in production if growers could be as-
sured of the ready markets at fair
pi ii t t hat a canning plant would in-
sure. « ^ >.
NOTICE!
THE ROSANKY YOUNG GIN AT HILL'S PRAIRIE,
THE GOODMAN GIN CO. AND THE ROUND BALE
GIN AT BASTROP
hereby give notice that they will NO I gin hereafter on
MONDAY AND TUESDAY
*-* but will gin on -
WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, FRIDAY AND SATUR
DAY UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
Corpus Christi Cotton Receipts
Cotton receipts at the Corpus
Christi port during the first thflee
months of the season far exceeded
those of the entire last season. The
only grievance that South Texas has
Uvalde Not Depressed
Uvalde correspondents are telling
the world there is no "depression"
there. The varied resources of that
section keeps times good all the
while. They include irrigated and
diversified farming, asphalt, trap
rock, pecans, honey, . cattle, sheep
igoata, wool, mohair, ceda™ timber
?tnd a lot of other things. If Uvalde
had a few small factories Uvaldeans
could just about live at home, an 1
there are hundreds of other Texas
towns of which the same thing could
McCulloch Roads
McCulloch is among the counties
that is not depending altogether on
Federal and State governments for
good roads, although it will welcome
such h.lp. A million dollar bond
issue is proposer for perman* nt con-
struction of Federal and State roads
and county laterals so routed as to
accomodate the greatest number of
people of the county. Brady is co-
operating heartily with the other
towns on the route for the complet-
ion of Highway No. 10 from Foit
Worth to Del Rio.
Helping the Old Man
Mi s Anne Davis, daughter of the
much loved Fletcher Davis of the
Hondo Anvil-Herald, having won her
jA B. degree with honors and having
inherited a talent for journalism, is
back at home to "help the tired old
man to 'carry on* with the work that
has become the biggest part of his
life publishing the paper" to quote
t!* words used in making the an-
nouncement. She will be the 'edi-
tor", Mrs. Roberta Davis will be
"assistant editor", and ''old man
Davis" is to be fooled into thinking
that he is "managing editor." He
is lucky to K mi coddled.
center of London.
Contrary to the general idea, ih
aw. rage height of building' hi I' n-
don is higher than in New York. The
many huge skyscruye'.s, rising from
.50 to 50 stories, in New York and
counter-bulan- .1 by the tens of lUoe-
sands of buildings only three ot lour
stories high. London lias only two
or thi* e buildings more than seven
atories high, out very I '\, under l'iv<
stories. The Lomooii Coi'iuy v' jncil
recently refused an application for!
permission to build a n. w hotel ten
stories tall, anil fixed nine stories
as the limit.
Where Cows are Cows
Of forty-one yearling cows in the
40 pound list in the entire United
States, acording to 4K state agricul-
tural college tvsts there are in Brown
county, Texas, there being one other
in this state. The record holder in
the State, K longing to Shelton
Brothers, Brownwood, tested
pounds of milk and 4ti..'t" pounds of
butter fat in .'10 days and at the time
was only one year and eight months
old. Texa< climate, (Texas-grown
' ed and the best strains of pure-bred
cattle are combination hard to beat.
Notice To Tax Payers
Notice is hereby given to the Tax Payers of
Bastrop County that I will be at the places
on the dates designated for the purpose of
collecting State and County Taxes due for the
year 1930
Jeddo, Monday, Oct. 6 1930
String Prairie, 9 to 12 a. m., Tuesday, Oct, 7, 11)3(1
Rosanky, 1 to 4 p. m , Tuesday, Oct. 7, 1930
Red Rock, Wednesday, Oct. 8, 1930
Kovar, Thursday, Oct. 9, 1930
Pin Oak, Friday, Oct. 10, 1930
Paige, Saturday, Oct. 11, 1930
McDade, Tuesday, Oct. 14,1930
Smithville, Wednesday. Oct. 15. 1930
Elgin. Thursday.and Friday. Oct. 16and 17.1930
Almost Free Fair
Coleman is taking a middle posi-
tion in Regard to admission charges
to its fair, making the charge only j
5 ecnts for children and 10 cents
for adults. Most of the community i
fairs and many of the county sit**
fairs charge no admission, the ex- '
penses Ixing borne by public sub- !
script ions and donations of prizes J
by merchants. Whether admission is
free or the usual price is charged,
Texas county fairs at drawing r" !
cord crowds this year i'id are ^iv- I
ing creditable shows.
FRANK PARKE
FOOD
Food fads and faddists coU the
American farrier millions of lolhu>
a year,acording to Henry Stude, pre
sident of tW American Bakers As-
sociation. Mr. Stude's organization
is trying to get people to go back to
the habit of eating bread not whole
wheat bread or Graham bread or any
kind of "health" bread, but just or-
dinary white bread. ,
There is a good deal in the sugges-
tion that many p. rsons have been
frightened away from bread by the
idea that it is fattening.
The craze for slenderness is not
confined to women; men have been
taught that fat' is dangerous. The
real danger is not eating enough nut-
ritive food to supply the netvssary '
bodily energy.
"Kat what's set before you," was ;
the rule for children, when I was a '
boy. It's still a. good rule. Most of
us can digest anything and the wider j
our range of diet the more healthy
we are 1 ik•11v to be.
to cover the whole United Stutf
completed.
■4
In 1U1C the Van Sweringen lit j .
ers of Cleveland wanted a i ight
way fur a trolly line to tlu-i. mi|
estate development, Shaker Heights
They would get it only bv buy tin
decik pit Nickel Plate railroad, win :
they did, mostly on credit. That
gave them a line from Buffal
Chicago and soon they were u, to
their ears in th>e railroad busme>..>
now, after 14 years they control a|.,,
the Erie, the Chesapeake and Ohii
the Hocking Valley, I'ere Marquette,
Wh cling and l^ake Krie, Chuagi
and Eastern Illinois and Missouri
Pacific.
Their 18,000 miles of road
largest railroad system in the t s
It is capitalized at $H0H,000,0ii ,
valued at over two billions.
That is going a long wij < i • <
years.
Texas is the second largest •„
ducer of rice in the United Stale.
Estimated production for
7,')80,000 bushels.
The University of Texas hat
ferred 14,506 degrees since i*.. ,
tablishment in IKH.'i.
III MORETTES
H. M. DeGiandon
Tax Collector. Bastrop Texas
Hays County Farm Agent
Hays county has been without a
farm demonstration agent for some
time, but has arranged to secure the
services of a trained expert to assist
the farmers with their problems.
Hays has been a 1 itt% • backward in
taking this progressive step, all the
adjoining counties having farm
agents and some of them employing
from two to four men and women in
agricultural extension and home
economics work.
Sodding Roadsides
Sodding some 2,000 miles of right
of way along State highways is be-
ing discussed by the State Highway
Department as a means of prevent-
ing .erosion and of beautifying the
roadways. Bermuda grass is being
considered for section of the State
where it thrives. Some civic or-
ganisations in the State are planting
trcs and flowering shrubs at the j
edges of roads to add to their * autv. j
Every community should take pride (
in making it< roadways more beauti- (
Al'TOf.IRO
Before the gas engine v as invent*'J
before anybody had v. l.<li<v<d tie
airplane possible Thomas A. Ed.ison
invented a fly i iiia> bine which was
to be lifted into tl: • ir I y a hori-
zontal windmi.l priijvll.'r, the power
derived from a e|i-v <| i>iiri-cotton
exolosiotr .
The other day Mr. Edison saw
James Hay and Jam"s Faulkner land
at Newark after • flight fron Phil-
adelphia in a machine they called an
"autogiro" which, exevpt for the en-
gine, was just like the early Edison
dream. It is entirely possible that
the autogiro which can ris. vertically
land 'on a dime' 'and fly as slow as
20 mile- or as fast as 115 miles an
hour will be the airplane of the fu-
ture.
LONDON
The municipality of London is still
the largest city in the world, with
7,849,000 population compared with
New York's HKiO Census figure of
6,OKI,927. But in the area known as
"circled New York" the territory in-
cluded in a radius of 19 miles from
the City Hall, which takes in part
of New Jerfc. y and of three New
York counties not included in the i
I
city proper, there is a (lopulation J
about 1,400,000 greater than in the (
so-calUd "London traffic aiea" which j
extends nearly thirty mi' - ftom the i
I
\\ H EAT
In every -tate bul (ieorgia tin
August price of corn was higher than
the pi ii e of wheat. Such a state
i>1 thi11v occurs only once in a long j
lime, wheal usually lv ing the highest ;
priced grain. Tin. year there is a
big wheat surplus and a short corn •
crop.
The U. S. Department of Agrieul
ture and the l,-ed ral Farm B >ard
arc advocating using the wheat ,-ur- (
plus to feed livestock. It is figured !
that the food value of wheat is so |
much high i than that of corn, that j
with corn at a dollar a bushel the i
farmer can afford to pay $1,12 1-2
for wheat for feeding.
Many farmers ave reported their
experi nee in feeding wheat in the
past, for cattle, hogs and poultry
with uniform satisfaction. Some day
that it fattens hogs faster than corn
does. It would he strange if wheat
should become the stock farmer's
mainstay as well as the backbone
of human diet.
"What's the sixth sense?"
"That must be the one that , j-
for looking into the fourth dirv<-;
Moth i I don't like to ■
you, Harold.
Little Harold: And I can't
that I like it, either, inumm.
RAILROADS
George Gould's ambition was to
own a railroad system which would
stretch from the Atlantic to the Pa-
cific. He died with his ambition un-
realized. E. H. Harriman, James J.
Hill and Commodore Vanderbilt fail-
ed in their similar efforts. The
Canadian Pacific and the Canadian
National systems run from coast to
coast in Canada but only this year
the first system under one control
WINTER ( OLDS
by Reniedie- M"im
C. Erhard & Son
Phone 3.1
"your Druggist '
Statistics prow that
and mortality are most prvv.iJ-
ent during winter month W •
cold weather nearing, prudcr.
says stock tip on effects
modi* and medicine-
Prepare
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Standifer, R. E. & Standifer, Amy S. The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 9, 1930, newspaper, October 9, 1930; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth206710/m1/4/: accessed May 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bastrop Public Library.