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THE ALTO HERALD
!*. L- WEIMAR, EDITOR AND OWNER
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE !1.50 PER YEAR
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VOLUME XXXII
THE ALTO HERALD, ALTO, TtXAS, JULY 21, 1932
NO. 12.
* Upshaw For President
Wm. D. Upshaw former Represen
tative Prom Georgia, a stalwart dry,
is the presidential nominee of the
Prohibition Party.
THIS COUNTY LEADS
]N REPAYING LOANS
According to W. B. Orr, fie)d
supervisor for the Jacksonville dis-
t;ic of the Reconstruction Finance
C r-r ration, Cherokee county leads
the State in the amount of farm loans
repaid to the Government. This coun-
ty is $65 ahead rf the second county,
Orr said.
About 20 per cent of the $20,000
in toans in the county have been
paid, it is said. Approximated a
thh i) o<* the farmers have either paid
in full or made payments on their
debts to the corporation, and the
field supervisor i; we!) pleased with
the response from this section.
It is almost certain that toans will
be made again next year, and a good
irecord on the part of farmers in pay-
ing this year wilt resuit in greater
ease in securing future toans.—Jack-
sonviHe Progress.
WAS IT A BALL GAME?
Basebatt fans of Alto are stilt
wondering what came over Sunday to
{represent Crockett in the way of a
baseball team. When they first took
the field, they put up a snappy prac-
tice, and the basebatt populace settled
back and decided they were going to
lenjoy a real bait game, but oh, the
.disappointment!
There is no description that woutd
ifit the affair, as it coutdn't be called
a baseball game, because if there waa
p player An the Crockett team that
caught a batt, or even stopped one, it
was when the writer wasn't looking.
It was a pitiful exhibition of the na-
tional sport that they presented.
On the other side of the picture,
the Atto team played reat basebatl,
and Kcrmit Roach, the port side
hurler for the tocats let the Crockett
team down with onty four hits, two of
which came jn the tast Inning whet,
the trowd begged him to let up and
let Crockett hit 'em. He obliged the
.fans by "lobbing over two and they
were hit and two runs were made on
ithe strength of these bingles. The
score, oh, yes! It was 17 to 3 in
favor of Alto, and could have been
more only the boys got tired running
Ahe bases.
Kennard m scheduled for Sunday,
And tet us hope that they are better
than the boys from their county seatt
Mr. and Mrs. Garrett Holcomb were
called to Jasper Wednesday on ac-
count of the illness of their daughter,
JMrn. iBoward Cole.
Enjoy
A good, tveit prepared
Chicken Dinner
With aH the trimmings
here Next Snnday.
Drinh and Dessert ImrfutM
WE APPRENATE YOUR PATMMAEE
GREEN LANTERN
"If You Are Pteased, Telt Others,
If Not, Telt Us."
Red Cross Giving
Flour to Needy
in This County
Another old time and valuable
citizen answered the final summons oJ
death Monday when Joseph Buynon
Singtetary answered the call of his
Master and passed to the great be-
yond at the ripe old age of 85 years.
In the death of' Uncle Buynon. as
ho was affectionately called by alt
that knew him, and that meant practi-
cal^ every citizen of south Cherokee
}county, we are going to miss a fa-
[mitiar figure that has trod the roads
[and by-paths of Cherokee county for
!years and years in the past. He knew
! Cherokee county when it was heavy
' with forests, and highways as of to-
*<iay were unknown and peopte were
Division headquarters of the Amer-
ican Red Cross at Fort Worth, haa
sent a car load of ftour to Rusk, and
it is being distributed to needy
famities in Cherokee county.
The county has been divided up in
pound sacks and 161 twenty-fout
pound sacks, depending upon the size
family that makes apptication.
J. A. Shattuck, Cashier of the Con.
tinentat Bank at Atto, has been made
Chairman of this precinct to dis-
tribute the ftour, which is being
stored in the Jack Dial Store
The flour has been divided up sa neighbors and lived and loved
it can be distributed as fottows in the L;ach other in the good old fashioned
various communities in this precinct: ^.^y. Up through the years he toiteC
'and raised a family that he has lived
to see honor his name, and his works
,;wMl continue to manifest themselves
tin this sectton for' years to come. To
,!him and his kind, can this generation
be thankfut for the peaceful and
&appy community we have today.
He was known in Alto where of
)ate years he came frequently to sit
and discuss present day issues and
enditions, and in spite of his ad-
anced age, his mind was alert ant:
was always an interesting tatker
&tnl able to discuss affairs of today
nmte intettigently than many who are
years younger than he was.
A beautiful but simpte funeral ser-
(vin! was hetd for this kindly char-
mt r at the Shltoh church, where he
;h: t worshipped for many years and
towing and wetl earned tributes were
aid him by Rev. A. B. Chapman,
pastar of the church there. The re-
Atto, 677 sacks.
Gtange Hatl, 293 packs.
Central High, 204 sacks.
Welts, 442 ?3cks.
Forest, 171 sacks.
Barsota, 104 sacks.
Jones' Chapel 183 sacks.
Cotd Spring-, 180 sacks.
Redtawn, CI sacks.
Primrose, C3 sacks.
Flour wilt be given only to persons
who sign for it, giving the number m
their <?amitiej, and bringing a letter
signed by three reputable persons
stating they are worthy. Families of
less than four' members witt be gtven
p. 24 pound sack, while those of more
than four wit! be taken care of in
accordance with the number of mem-
bers. No persons driving an automo-
bile witl be given any of the fbur, i'.
'is said.
Members of the county committes
which secured the flour include E. r,. ;^mins were laid to rest among de-
W. H. Washington, O. K. Et!is, C. H.
C. H. Fitts, J. A. Shattuck, A. E. Gar-
ner, J. B. Mitler and C. K. DeBusk.
-—t?*-
Erwin, W. H. Washington, O. K. Ellis,, tghiloh cemetery Tuesday afternoon
by Kox & Alten, funeral directors, and
ti'".is who knew hint best left his last
l,jyst&^place^n a sad mood, but happy
}fn' fl«- Oiought' (haf .''&!Mither wet!
'rounded out life had been lived, ana
had met deaHi fearlessly, going home
to rest where no death exists and only
{happiness will be found.
WHO MAY VOfE
Cotton Crop
Estimated at
13,250.000
By W. D. ESPY
Suppty—The totat carryover of
American cotton'in att positions
throughout the world on August 1st,
1932 witl be around 13,250,000 bales.
This is of course a record carryover
fot) all time, and has been brought! Commissioner precincts in order to
abcut by the huge crop of 16,595,000^ properly distribute the ftour, and the
bates produced the current season.) Atto precinct witl get 161 forty-nine
and the sub-normal consumption 0!
cotton that has generatty prevailed
for the past two years in most of the
important consuming countries.
The carryover of approximately
thirteen and one quarter mittion bates
ptus the size of the new crop wii:
make the suppty for the coming sea-
son, and the new crop of course can
onty be estimated at the present time.
The Government, in its report ot
July 8th, has estimated the cotton
acreage at 37,290,000 acres, which Is
a decrease of approximately nine anc
one-hali' per cent as compared to last
year, and on the present condition of
se growing crop would indicate a
production of around 12,900,000
bates.
However, the writer leans to the
opinion that the crop may turn out
smatter on account of insect damage,
which he expects to take ptace later
in many sections of the belt, because
of the mild winter, recent showers and
rains, and a record emergence of
weevit reported over a wide area.
The severe reduction of fertilizers,
amounting td 58 per cent during th-„
last two years should also hetp to
sharply curtait the crop in the central
belt and south Atlantic states.
< Demand—Consumption of cotton is
rtow at present, being very tow in the
United States, good in China and
Japan, improving slightty in England,
and holding steady at a very moderate
rate in France, Germany, Itaty and
other countries on the continent.
Cotton wearing apparel is becoming
increasingly more stylish and perhaps
more popular than ever, but the mass-
es of people throughout the world are
handicapped by a lack of purchasing
power and cannot fully respond to
the attractive bargains offered t!tem
today in cotton goods.
The world's consumption of Amer-
ica cotton for the present cotton year
ending July 31st, 1932, witl be in the
neighborhood of 12,500,000 bales, ac-
cording to the figures on consump.
tion iSor the first nine months of this
period.
Political—President Hoover signed
on July 5th., Congressional resolution
giving 500,000 bales ef cotton owned
by the Farm Board to the Red Cross
to be used inj clothing the unemploy-
ed and needy, and this is constructive
and it helps to decrease the large sur-
plus of cotton.
Our government at present is com-
mitted to a policy of high tariff pro-
tection, and in the opinion of the
writer should pass a high tax or tariff
on Indian jute and burlap, thereby
protecting the south as welt aa other
sections, from cheap foreign products
and as a result increasing by about
one half miltion bates yearly the con-
sumption of cotton in our own coun-
try
If readers agree with the writer,
they should urge their congressmen
and senators to work for a prohibitory-
tax or tariff on Indian jute and bur-
lap.
Market—For the next ninety days
the price of cotton wilt be mostly in-
fluenced by the weather and constant
showers witt be considered unfavor-
abte, as leading to insect damage
and atready weevils arc reported to
bo doing much damage from points
in Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia,
South and North Carolina.
The- recent improvement in the
market is based on such weevil
reports and the fear of additional
damage from insects in the near fu-
ture, as/ present tow prices will pre-
vent to a large extent the use of
poison.
On account of the recent advance
of approximately one cent per pound
over the tow price made in June, it
would be natural to expect some re-
action should the weather continue World Champion Jack Sharkey
dry, but if showers and rains come Bosto". "nowthc possessor of the ^
again soon the writer expects a steady championship bett, presented
market with an upward tendency. ^ " "P^'at dinner in N. Y. tast week.
He took it home—the first return of
the emblem to Boston—since the day
it was handed over to Corbett by John
L. Suttivan.
85 Year Old
Shiloh Citizen
Died Monday
Mused retatives and old friends in the
Any person who has become 21
years of age subsequent to January
1st, 1931, and prior to the Primary
Election, July 23rd, 1932, or who be-
came 60 years of age prior to January
1st, 1931 may vote in said election
without having previously paid a pot!
tax, provided said, voter possesses aH
the other qualifications for voting. It
is not necessary for such a voter to
'have an exemption certificate to vote
in any of the precincts of Cherokee
County.
FIVE BILLION
NOTICE TO SCHOOL PATRONS
Transfer of school children from
the ages of 6 to 21 must be made by
August 1 of this year. Transfers
must be made each year. We had sev
eral who did not transfer last yea*
because they had transferred the pre
ivious year. We have transfer forms
in the office and cannot accept trans-
fers after August 1. The ages re-
ferred to abqve, means on the first
day of September, but the transfer
!must be in my office not later than
August 1.
E. S. Erwin,
County Superintendent.
DROP your watch and DROP
into see Wa! DROP, Rusk.
Texas.
Champion—His Beit
Speakers for Ferguson have been
poing over the state making the at-
iegation that the State Highway Com-
mission was in the "red." It started
out at one hundred thousand doltars.
Last) Friday night at Jacksonvilte, a
Ferguson speaker had raised it to five
billions of dollars. That's bigger than
the international war debt, and more
money than the State Highway Com-
mission has ever heard of. Anyhow,
the United States treasury is still
coining money, and we may get that
much made yet, probabty not before
the election Saturday, but if given
time, they'll make it.
Mrs. Vera Durham, manager of the
Alto CheBnut store entered the san-
itarium at Lufkin Monday and under-
went an operation in that institution
yesterday morning. Miss Clara Dur-
ham, her daughter, atso went to the
sanitarium at the same time and waa
operated on for tonsilitis. These good
people have had their share of mis-
fortune in sickness, and their friends
)in Alto, of whom there are many, are
hoping that they both wilt withstand
the ordeal and be able to come home
again soon.
Paired With Dempsey
Double Endorsement
I State Warrants
Being Called in
By Lockhart
Norman Thomas, presidential nom-
-ineq of the Socialist party, is in fact
p two-time candidate. The League of
Independent Politicat Action, in con-
vention at Cleveland,—atso named
him their candidate as "infinitely pre-
amble to those of other parties."
THOMAS OUT OF STATE SENATE
RACE, SAYS MANAGER.
The news item appearing in a
Houston paper Monday stating that
Edgar Thomason had re-entered the
race for State Senator is an error,
according to Mr. Thomason's cam-
paign manager at Nacogdoches, who
says he did not give out such state-'
ment, and knew nothing about it.}
Mr. Thomason could not be reached j
for a statement.
According to the Nacogdoches Sen-
tine], the daily paper at Nacogdoches,'
Mr. Thuntason Is positlvety out of the
t ace for State Senator, and the item j
appearing in the paper was ptaced
there by over-zeatous friends of Mr.
Thomason in Nacogdoches without
his authority.
Voters should be guided accord-
ingly and scratch the name of Mr.
Thomason for State Senator, as ne
withdrew after the Cherokee county
ballots were printed. ....
Austin, July 21.—State Treasurer
Chartie Lockhart today issued a call
for $1,200,000 outstanding ni general
Warrants, and said he would pay all
Igeneral revenue warrants up to and
including 151,064, regardless c
whether they had been discounted,
and further said he would purchase at
futt value from that number up to and
including 153.951. if not discounted.
Such warrants must be .supported
by affidavits flowing they have not
been discounted.
, Lockhart announced he wmld pay
Confederate pension warrants up ts
and inctuding the October.
issue, regardtess of whether they had
been discounted.
He said he would purchase from
the highway toan fund Confederate
warrants up to and inctuding June ot
this year's warrants, if property en-
dorsed, with a supporting affidavit
showing they had not been discounted.
FORMER ALTO CITIZEN
DIED AT GRAPELAND
Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Harrison were
called to Grapeland Sunday on ac-
count of the death of the tatter's
father, Mr. S. G. Germany, who died
m that tittle city Sunday night. He
was 62 years of age. Interment was
jn the Evergreen cemetery near
Grapetand.
Mr. Germany resided here for about
one year, some four years ago, and
was night watchman for the city most
of the time white he resided here. He
had a son, John L. Germany, to
graduate from the school here in
1928.
Alto friends of Mr. and Mrs. Har-
rison extend deepest sympathy to
them in their misfortune through
jdeath.
TO THE VOTERS
TO THE PEOPLE OF CHEROKEE
COUNTY
I am working by the day, and it
has been impossible for me to get out
and see alt the peopte of this precinct!
and ask for their support for my race
as Cotton Weigher of this precinct, j
so I am taking this means of asking,
that you remember me when you vote
Saturday.
For your information, I witl state
that I have worked in the cotton yard
in Atto for other weighers, and have
had four years ryperience in the
cotton weighing business. I know the
job thoroughty and am competent. I
was born and raised here and my life
'is an open book to you att. If you
elect me cotton weigher, everyone
who has business with the cotton
'weigher will get a square deal, both
furmer and buyer alike. I woutd tike
to have the office, need it, and witl
certainty appreciate your vote.
W. J. (Witl) Crosby.
E. C. Houston is atmost as happy
,as if he was already elected District
Cterk of Cherokee county, the joy
being occasioned by the arrival at his
jhome of a big grandson, being the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Owen Brooks of
Littte Rock, Ark. Mrs. Brooks was
formerly Miss Audie Houston. The
youngster tipped the scales at 10
pounds. In spite of the intensive
heat, both the baby and mother are
doing nicely at the home of Grandpa
hnd Grandma Houston.
I wish t thank you fbr the support
and encouragement given me in my
race for State Senator.
On Juty 8th, Mr. Thomason an-
nounced that he had withdrawn frdm
the race for State Senator from this
district. On July 19th, a news item
with a Nacogdoches date line appear-
ed in the daily papers stating that Mr.
Thomason had re-entered the race. I
have been unabte to verify the news
item as Mr.- Thomason's whereabouts
5s unknown to me, and I have com-
municated with his campaign man-
ager who stated that he knew nothing
about Mr. Thomason going! back into
the race, however; I am just as
anxious for the votes of the good
peopte of Cherokee county and t
assure you I witl appreciate your vote
in the election Saturday and promise
that I wilt serve the people of the dis-
trict honestly, faithfully and ef-
ficiently.
John Redditt.
Candidate for State Senator,
3rd. District of Texas.
MONTE WARNER TALKS
ON "BONUS AND BEER-
Monte Warner, broke owner of an
oil field, war aviator and former sec-
retary to a Congressman-at-Large,
[who returned to college to prepare
for Congress, will speak over XEF,
735 K. at 8:30 p. m. on Thursday and
Friday on "Bonus and Beer."
Lina Bnsquette, Riverside, Cali*.,
vaudeville star, is reported as a pos
sible companion of former-cham-
pion Jack Dempsey in a trip to the
attar soon. '
CyHnders Re bored
We have a cytinder re-boring machine that grinds to 1000th of
an inch. This is the time of the year to have your cylinders re-
bored, valves ground and your motor fixed up for the hot summer
months ahead.
Let us figure with you on this job for your car. Our prices are re-
markably low, and the work will give you a motor just as good as
new. We will gtadly give you an estimate FREE. Ask us about it.
Brooks & Pearman Garage
Phone 236 A!to, Texas
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Weimar, F. L. The Alto Herald (Alto, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 21, 1932, newspaper, July 21, 1932; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth214640/m1/1/: accessed May 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Stella Hill Memorial Library.