The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 22, 1931 Page: 3 of 8
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THE BASTROP ADVERTISER, BASTROP, TEXAS THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 19ai
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SIX PLIES
HEAVY DUTY
30x4.50
REDUCED TO
$8.25
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M1DE NEWS NOTES Ul PERSONALS
McDADE, January y.—Sitting on the urand jury in session at Bas-
WE HAVE ALL SIZES.
RECEIVED. LIBERAL AL-
FRESH SHIPMENT JUST
LOWANCE FOR YOUR OLD
TIRES
ELZNER CORNER
TIRE AND RADIO DEPT.
'ANYBODY'S WAR'
AN UPROARIOUS FILM
"SAD FISH" AND HAPPY DOGS
FIGURE IN "ANYBODY'S
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Folks who learned the inside Htory
of the Early Bird and the "Who
Cares About That" Worm when they
saw and heard Moran an<i Mack in
the blackfacc comedians' first picture
"Why Bring That Up?" will now
learn the inside story of the Sad
Fiah.
For the intimate facts about these
dolorous vertebrates will be gener-
ously dispensed by the tired-voiced
comics in one of their amusing ar-
guments during a sequence of "Any-
ttody's War", their newest release
which coineB to tlie Dixie Theatre for
two days beginning on Sunday next.
"Time and tide waits for no man.
declares Willie Crow (Moran.)
"Whuh whuh-who cares about the
tide" queries Amos Crow (Mack).
"It means a lot to a fish."
"Well, why not let the fish worry
about it then?"
"That's just the trouble—a nsn
ran't worry."
"Most all fish 1 ever met looked
worried."
"In what way."
"Well for instance, did you ever
look a fish square in the eye?"
"No."
"A blue eyed fish?"
"I never did."
"Oh, they are so sad."
"I don't see anything sad about n
fish. Do they ever cry?"
"Incessantly."
That's how idiosyncrasies of the
genus Pisces become glorified in
screenland.
Hut fish are not the only "critters
to get n break in this picture. 'Any-
body's War" is also a celluloid pre"
agent for "ilawsrs." There are 7!>
canines of as many and more breeds
in se-ernl of the sentiences. Thev
are the captured charges of Mack,
who. ns the dusky dog catcher of
Buford, Tennessee, is too kind-heart
down to write, old age like, matur-
ally and living back seventy and
seven years ago in the old town
of Bastrup, thudfting of old times
away buck there, of the old town u£
it was then, und of the sweet mem-
ories of those dear old days, the
thoughts of which are as precious to
me, even now, in my old age, than
Uney were then. Looking backward
win tell the few siill living about
tnu old town in the early f 0's, to-
wn: ihe lirst .saw mill ever oper-
ated in the county was under tno
management of Col. J. C. Iliggins,
and proved to be a great financial
success. Next, and tixed indelibly
on memories tablets, comes the oiu
towns first tannery on Alum Creek,
moving later on to Bastrop with old
1-auier Rice heading tiio enterprise;
then followed the lirst pottery in
the county ami highly probably the
firbt in Texas, under the supervision
oi Matthew Duncan. Now comes
a lew of the county officers as 1
remember them, the first sheriff be-
ing Tom Gill, followed by Preston
Contay; tin lirst county surveyor
wu* Thomas Mayo; the first marshal!
of the old town was Uncle "bob"
Jones, known in those days for his
loud and long prayers. In my next
week's letter, will tell about the
first hotel, the first livery stable,
and the names of the first stage
drivers from Bastrop to Austin.
Owing to the continued rains this
week, news has been at a stand still,
in fact nothing worth telling.
Was sorry to hear of the passing
of my old friend and former neighbor
Uncle Joe Brannon. Truly, a big-
ger souled man never lived than he.
I loved him, God bless his memory.
We learn that the tomato seed are
germinating favorablv and will soon
be ready for the cold frames. Won<'<
if our Elgin friends have planted
yet; the chances are that they have
forgotten all about it. If so, let
this be a kindly reminder.
With from three to four inches
of rain falling during the week, the
roads leading into town are almost
impassable. Knowing the difficul-
ties facing our worthy county com-
missioner at this time, the writer
extends his heartfelt sympathy in
being unexpectedly stranded between
"hiH Satanic Majesty" and the
trop this week, in the person of our
young fellow townsman, Mr. Paine
Williams. A better selection couldn't
have been made.
The McDade Pottery recieved and
order for a car of furnaces this
week. Another plume in the the
old town's cap.
Mr. W. H. Joiner purchased from
the Miles Clark estate on Mine Creek
in Lee County, 26 head of cattle
Tuesday, rebranding them, adding
anothei| patch to grandma's petti
coat, meaning figuratively speaking,
old Sister McDade, the third oldest
town in the county, olded than Elgin.
The first thing a farmer savs to
his team when plowing in stumps,
is "gctup" and the next word is
"whoa". Ben Franklin's philosophy
seeded out.
Mr. J. H. Jones spent the week in
McDade assessing ta\es Very glad
to have had you with us, Mr. Jones.
We will miss you.
Mrs. \\. B. Wattvrson returned
from a visit to her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. J. Sapp, at Bastrop, Sunday.
M r^. Watterson going after her.
Mrs. Kay Horn of Bastrop, was the
guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Hack-
worth during the week.
Mrs. Etta C'lopton and Miss Susie
Taylor of Elgin, were the guests of
McDade Monday, calling on Mrs. R
L. Williams.
Mr. Warren Westbrook of Houston
arrived Sunday for a week's visit
with his mother, Mrs. J. W. West-
brook.
Glad to have greeted on our
streets Sunday, our old friends, Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Sieger, and estim-
able family, of Austin visiting in the
home of Mr. iumI Mrs. Clarence
Burke.
Mr. ami Mrs. Gus Sowell are visit
ing in Houston this week. Gus, I'm
uneasy about you, afraid you will
get lost.
Our young friends Dennis Atkin-
son and Lester Moore of Austin,
spent Sunday here visiting their
"pals" and "sweeties". Oh, how I
wish—won't say it.
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Hackworth had
for their week-end guest's, Mr. and
Mrs. Clark Condra of the capitol
city.
Ye Editor and "l>etter half" hat!
for our Sundav afternoon guests
Professor and Mrs. W. II. Korges of
Elgin. Come again, the more we
er.ioy being with "you-uns", the
STRANGE WAGERS
PROVE LOYALTY
TO ALMA MATER
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"greenish" blue sea.
Just as it so happened, McDade more we love you.
had the honor in being represented
I bat over-powering mania known
as "college spirit" takes many
strange twists not listed in any col-
legiate curriculum. Spirited under-
gifuiuates (subject themselves
varying degrees of torture for their
dear old Alma Mater in the hope that
she will be victorious.
Some get broken noses and dis-
located knee caps on ,the football
gridiron fighting for their college
prestige. Others don rooters' caps
and yell themselves hoarse in the
rooting section in order to spur their
gallant warriors to greater efforts.
Still others bet their allowances of
hard earned money. a medium which
is usually slim on any campus.
Those who haven't the money
bet figure out many strange wagers
that place comic election bets far
in the background for their origi-
nality.
One of these unusual wagers, as
a in ins of displaying college spirit,
is disclosed in Warner Bros. Vita-
phone college picture '"Maybe It's
L«'v« ," which is coming to the Dixie
Theatre next Tuesday and Wednes-
day. A rah-rah lad bets another
student at the rival college that lie
will not shave until his Alma Mater
emerges victorious from a big game
encounter.
As his school is always on the
short end of the score board, his
beard grows so long that his cam-
pus triends dub him "Whiskers." But
ho faithfully wears his beard until
the big game, which gives his college
chums endless opportunities for
comic gags.
Joan Bennett and James Hall have
the romantic leads in "Maybe It's
Love," while Joe E. Brown and Laura
Lev play comedy characterizations am
a "has-been"' football stair and a
daintv co-ed. They are responsible
for the big laughs of this comedv
picture. Incidentllv, this is the
first screen production in which a
genuine "all-American" team has
played.
OVER TWO MILLION DOLLARS
ON DEPOSIT IN COUNTY
According to the total of all bank
statements in Bastrop County during
the month of January, there is
$2,233,385.00 on deposit in Bastrop
County.
Booth Dry Goods Co.
"THE POPULAR PRICE STORE"
WORK CLOTHING
Blue Bucket Overalls, both in high back
and suspender back
Jumper to match
Uoy s Rip Not Overals
Sizes H to 16 ......
Hoy's Overalls ... .......
LADIES' SHOES
Patent, Straps and l ies
M en s Work Shoes
$1.19
$1.19
.98
.75
$1.95
$.159; 2.25; 2.48
3
We Oive Profit Sharing C on pons.
PHONE 89 BASTROP, TEXAS
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1H) YOU PLAN to beautify your
home grounds thi* winter? " Write
for catalogue.—RAMSEY'S AUS-
TIN NURSERY. Austin. Texas.
WHAT DOES VOl R BlTCHER
SAY?
I
When Food
Sours
One day last winter I was riding
with the gentleman who runs a livery
ntable and provides food and lodging
ior my horse. It was some weeks
after the stock mirket unpleasant-
ness.
"How is business?" 1 asked him.
He answered tiiai he had never
known it to be worse. "Only a few
o) ojr horses are saddle horses," he-
said. "The others are owned by the
butchers and bakers and candlestick
makers who supply the fashionable
people 011 l'ark and Fifth Avenues.
And do you know that those little
merchants can't collect enough even
to pay my oats bills? It is terrible."
A little later I was repeating the
conversation to a friend who makes
!iis home in a fashionable suburb. He
I WONDER
they were anything like those we
study-today? Probably *iot! IWe
really should be glad that we have
the opportunity of going to school
now and some of us just go because
everyone else does.
Weather Forecast
Washington, January 22, 11131:—
Low barometer storm wave, expect-
ed to cross continent in southern
transcontinental storm path during
week centering on 20, will be of the
severe intensity of force type but
will be expected to cause above nor-
mal temperatures during passage of
storm center. Our near neighbor,
Mars, reaches its nearest position to
the earth January 25 and will be in
opposition to sun and earth on the
27th; these position mean very lit-
tle to the average, man and most
so-called sefcirttis*s worn Id not ac-
knowledge an influence upon the
earths' atmosphere bp this change
in relative movements of Mars and
the earth, but when two magnets ure
used in the laboratory it is found
that to reverse the relative move-
ments of those magnets reverses
the direction of flow of force between
those magnets; nature does not have
one set of laws for laboratory exper-
iments and another for interplane-
tory force. All planetary influences
are expected to have less power dur-
ing the years following 1930; for
lures and precipitation. While no
disastrous cropweather conditions
are expected in North America dur-
ing IIMI season, average yields are
expected to be considerably below
uormal over a large part of the
continent due to open periods during
Winter, shortage of subsoil moisture
during Spring planting and a hot,
dry period during late Summer. Af
ter July 1, practically all precipita-
tion will occur during severe storms
periods; periods of soaking rains,
the kind that make everything grow
wili be few and far between.
ERRATA: In last weekly bulle-
tin 1 stated that high land*, should
be catered to during 1931 season;
this was an error and should have
read low lands, as latter part of sea-
son is expected to average dry over
a large part of continent.
Forecasts of cropweather features
expected during February will ap-
pear in next weekly bulletin. Moon
phases during the near future will
occur as follows, given to nearest
hour of Greunwich Civil Time; to
change Greenwich Civil time to your
local standard time, count one hour
earlier for each fifteen degrees of
longitude you are located west from
Greenwich: First Quarter January
27 at 0 hours; Full Moon February
3 at 0 hours; Last Quarter 9 at 16
hours; New Moon 17 at 18 hour*;
several years we will have less des- FirKt Quarter 25 at 17 hours; Pull
tructive storms, less and weaker Mnon March 4 at 11 hours. For those
earthquakes, less and smaller sun- who (lo thoir piftn,inp according to
spots but cropweather will not aver- moon positions, Pull moon is called
age better, as cropweather Ss almost ii>r|lt of ihv moon nn(i Npw Moon u
entirely dependent upon tempera- ran,,(I thfl ()nrk of t},„ moo
I've often wondered just what
kind of schools our grand parents J
and great grand parents attended, j
Haven't you? Can't you just ima-j
gine their teacher (1 suppose most of]
them were men in those days) wear- j
ing small glasses and seeming to
use them to hide behind when they
were looking at you. And can't
you see them •<making "Bill" or| |j
"Johnny" stand in a corner or wear-
ing a "dunce cap" for something
such as looking at his best girl! And
don't you think some of those boys
and girls got tired of going to school
when there were no football games
or track meets to interest them. But
I'll bet they had their good times
! I
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has ample means but, compared with! same. Some of them pro-
some of the multi-millionaires whose i bably better than our own. Por don't
estates are in the same community, y°u suPP°Sf? Johnny would take his
he is comparatively poor.
He told me that he nad been pro-
testing mildly to the butcher about
the steady incr"ase in his meat bills.
"I do not understand," he had said
girl riding even though he didn't
have a car but would have to slip
out with the family horse and bug-
vrs-
1 wonder just what subjects they
"We always pay promptly on the1 s*udied in school? Do you suppose
first of the month. We do not eat
%
mt talks who thiak they
ksm only u add condition
eoM be oomrted in five or tai
itea. Aa effective aatiadd like
M Hi oi Magneaia was leatores
to aonaaL
Phillips doee away with all t£iA eoor-
aeae sn>. gaa right after meals. It pro-
msIi Mm dulrm so apt to occur two
what a
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altar aatiag. What a plsasant
cUm to take! And how good it is
th* system I Unlike a faarning dose
which is bat temporary rslisf
Phillips Milk of Msgnsaia nwi
aaay times its voIojdb is acid.
Nut time a hearty meal, or too risk
u;i
. ILUPS
f. Milk •
of Magplesls
extravagantly, and yet our meat
seems to cost us more all the time."
The butcher confessed that the
bills were high. He shrugged his
shoulders helplessly. "What am I to
do? You and the other people of
moderate means are the only ones
who puy your bills. The rich men or
my lists keep me waiting for six
months or even a year. Everybody'
meat Costa* more in consequenco."
I suppose the percentage of four-
flushers in the Park Avenue district
and in the New York suburbs is very
' igh There must be thousands of
families struggling to "keep up w;t
he Joneses." But all over the coun-
try the same thing occurs to a gren4
er or less degree. It is due not
merely to the act that people are
living beyond their means. Much of
it is nothing more or less than down
right thoughtlessness.
I used to be n trrent believer i"
reforms. 1 enrolled in Causes nnd
supported high grade Candidates,
nnd was generally loud and vigorous.
In my old age, 1 have come to feel
that most of our troubles would be
washed awav if we would only be
hist reasonablv courteous and de-
cent to one another.
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Rring us vour Tfatchine W'"
|ni>«K«lor Mtfutiiv 10
—BASTROP CHICK HATCHERY
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Bring That Cold
To Us
We Have
Remedies
ed to kill them. Thus he hides their,
in his home and feeds them well. I*-
i-eturn they help in providing some
of the most glorious comedy th<
«creen has seen in many a moorr
pitcher.
that will put a stop to a cold
or cough, and relieve yoa of
that miserable "No Count"
feeling.
C Erhard & Sod
PfcOM U
'four Druggist"
Night After Night
Through The Darkness
He Guides No. 254
The thundering locomotive . . .the engineer ... the hundreds of hu-
man lives ... all depend for their safety on the man who stands by the
roadside and signals "clear track ahead."
That same invaluable co-opera tion and that same steadfastness typify
the commercial service of the First National Bank,
the First National Rank means Prestige . . . Security.
Like the Flagman, the First
National Bank stands ever
ready to guide Bastrop's busi-
ness institutions through dark
or stormy times . . . and clear
the track for Prosperity.
An alliance with
Commercial
Accounts
of any size
welcome
i'
First National
Bank
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Standifer, R. E. & Standifer, Amy S. The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 22, 1931, newspaper, January 22, 1931; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth206725/m1/3/: accessed June 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bastrop Public Library.