The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 308, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 5, 1930 Page: 2 of 4
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{Both Had Good Reason
■ to Be Proud of “Jobs”
j Lady Townshend at one time headed
&he United Family league, a society
jwhlch aimed for better living condi-
tions for the working people and an.
Interesting story is told of one of their
social affairs.
At a dance at which she was one of
•$he patronesses, a workingman swag-
gered up to her and said:
■ "I don’t suppose you would dance
•with me, would you?"
• “I should like to very much,” the
snarchioness replied.
During the dance the man held her
at arms length, looking her over from
ks.ead to foot, and finally said:
! “You’re awfully proud of being a
.marchioness, ain’t you?”
Lady Townshend confessed herself
confused for a moment before she re-
plied : •
"What is your job?”
4Tm the best stenmfitter in this part
4>f England.”
"You’re proud of it, then, because
you are good at your own job.”
“Of course.”
i "Well, my job is being a marchion-
<ess and I’m proud of it because I try
to be as good a marchioness as I know
’Stow.”—Los Angeles Times.
FIREMEN CUT OFF
GAS UNDER BEANS
ON KITCHEN FIRE
This-laconic report of a fire at the
home of Mrs. O. B. Pruett, 6918 Ave.
O., Thursday afternoon was received
Friday by Fire Commissioner’ H. Andy
Delery from Batallion Chief W. I.
Peabody, Magnolia Park district:
“Cause of fire: Pot of beans left
on the stove with fire under same. No
one at home.
Damage done: None.
“Used nothing. Note left on kitchen
table stated:
“Gone to town. Find dinner in
oven.”
“We added this postcript:
“Turned off Gas. Find dinner in
back yard.”—Houston Chronicle.
AERIAL CROSSED ON POWER
LINE CAUSED DEATH
foods Long Considered
Indigenous to America
■ There has been much controversy
^concerning the foods originally found
jin the Americas. It is generally agreed
khat in North America were tobacco,
itnaize, a certain type of pear and a
ismail variety of tomato. In Central
America and the islands the early ex-
(Temple Telegram)
A.n account of the tragic death of
J. T. Douglas, 37, of Temple, and
Floy4 Jones, 28, of Gatesviille, whose
bodies were returned home from
Camas, Wash., a week ago for burial,
is contained in newspapers received
by the family from Washington.
They left Temple together several
years ago to go to Camas, Wash., to
accept positions and were killed when
they threw a radio aerial wire across
a high voltage power line. They were
assisting in putting up an aerial and
had one end of it fastened in a tree.
As they were splicing the wire and
iplorers also found tobacco and toma-
toes. In South America, pai ticularly j pUHiTig- it across the 2400 volt power
(Brazil, wild potatoes were found in insulation burned through
iabundnnco, so much so that in about . , ,, , n ,
.11840 it was necessary to import thou- «*«> received the full charge
■sands of these native plants to develop through their hands. Both were thrown
ign order to save the potato crop of the ; flat against the ground, unconscious,
rworld. Tt was originally thought that When H. A. Young reached the
bananas were first found in Central scene he found flames shooting two
jsmd South America and the islands, j fee^ high from the hands of the men.
tlmt later this theory was the subject , knoc]-eci the men loose
uof much debate, and it is generally
believed today that, while bananas
{were originally in that section of the
:world, they were also found in trop-
ical sections of the eastern hemisphere
j*t the same timc.-WasUiugton Star. c0LLIER SBIT DATE IS SET
i ;
Ancient Contracts
| Written in Assyrian after 2000 B.
|C., thousands of clay tablets, that lie
^wrapped in cotton in museums
throughout the world, show that the
'"dotted line” was freely used in Baby-
i&mfa and that in those ancient civ-
jfilizations every sale of land had to
jibe written to be legal. Before people
ifenew how to write all contracts were
from the wire. A third man, Bob
Smith, was injured when his foot be-
came entangled in the wire.
(Houston Post-Dispatch)
Trial of the R. B. Creager-Collier’s
Weekly $7,000,000 libel suits Wednes-
day was tentatively set for May 5
at Brownsville.
Oral arguments began here Wednes-
day before Federal Judge W. Lee
Estes on the fourth motion to quash
service in the suits. After the argu-
jineeessaril.v oral and, for protection in > vnents are conducted attorneys will
lease of dispute, witnesses were al-
jways present when a contract was
ianade. After writing was invented,
fite written contract supplemented the
word of witnesses, who were still con-
sidered very important legally; and
.their signatures always appear. The
.practice of having witnesses to legal
papers prepared today comes down
£com this period.—Boston Herald.
i
submit briefs and the judge will con-
sider these before definitely setting
the date for the trial.
The motion concerns service of D.
O. Ellis, as agent of the Crowell Pub-
lishing Company, which has been in-
cluded in the suit in an amended
petition filed by Mr. Creager’s attor-
neys.
It was Cqntended Wednesday by
Charles E. Kelley, attorney for Col-
; Charging It Up
i An Aberdeen merchant called his j ^er s» that the Crowell Publishing
t*on into his office the other day and : company is not doing business as a
Unbosomed himself as follows: |
“I haven’t been feeling quite so well
j€or a few days past, Weelum, and so
!£ have just made my will, leaving
{everything to you.”
* "Oh, father," said the son, “I don’t
Illke to discuss these affairs with you
iat all. I hope you live for many
{years yet, I’m sure.”
j “So do I, Weelum, so do I, but I
jjiist called to tell you that the law-
jyer’s fee for making out the will is
;30 shillings, an’ this sum will be kept
joff your next week’s pay.”
Shah’s Parting Gesture
j The shah of Persia, on a visit to
jltendon, was being driven through the
Streets in an open carriage, bowing
ko the throngs that lined along the
{sidewalks to greet him, when he no-
ticed a small boy who had climbed a
[lamp post thumbing his nose at him.
.He at once inquired into the meaning
•■of this gesture and a confused aid re-
plied that it was a signal of respect,
Isays Living Age. The shah remem-
bered this quaint custom, and, upon
‘ills departure, when the flower of Brit-
ish diplomacy gathered on the station
{platform to see him off, he enthusias-
tically thumbed his nose at the group.
Stars as a Time Standard
: The use of the sun as a standard
time measurements is going to the
^discard in favor of the use of fixed
{stars for the purpose. Observations
;,o£ stars, rather than the sun, have
'three advantages. There are eight
{fixed stars available. The nearness
,of the sun to the earth causes a dis-
tortion of position because of the at-
mosphere clinging about the world.
(Moreover, the sun is too large. Its
center cannot be fixed, whereas the
;stars are like pin points in the sky.
Caustic Tongue
David Belasco said in an interview
ton his seventieth birthday:
“EJoor Ellen Terry had a caustic
tongue. I know a thousand stories
about her. Here is one:
“ ‘Congratulate me, dearC an actress
said to her. ‘Young Lord Lacland pro-
posed to me yesterday afternoon, and
I accepted him.’
“ ‘And you congratulate me,’ said
•Miss Terry. ‘Young Lord Lacland
oposed to me yesterday morning ami
fat
refused him.’ ”
Texas concern and that all its affairs
are transacted as interstate business.
Creager’s attorneys maintained that
the company is doing business in
Texas, and, therefore, can be cited
for service.
The trial at Brownsville will be
held before Judge Estes because Fed-
eral Judge J. C. Hutcheson Jr., has
disqualified himself in the case.
We have new millinery arriving
each week. Lovely new straws in large
and small head sizes, priced $2.95 to
$6.50. The Hoper Dry Goods Com-
pany. (dwd)
PRISON REFORM UP IN THE AIR
After getting their second breath,
the senate put over the Beck loca-
tion bill, which is not only a prog-
ressive prison reform bill, but its
friends say that it is a model of its
kind. )
Then the house groped in the dark-
ness for a while and by the same old
stiff-necked majority enacted the
Graves hill, which has the support
of James E. Ferguson and most of
the political malcontents to be found
under the big dome or on the fringe
of the big dome.
It )is getting late in the legislative
day, and the gamblers are betting that
the policy known as “keeping the rat
holes open” is as firmly entrenched
as it was at the beginning of the
special session. Its backers are up in
the air and the opponents of “keep-
ing the rat holes open” policy are
on the air.
As for the prison system, it is a
relic of the ox cart period of civili-
zation which came in long before the
ox cart constitution of the vintage
of 1876. Isn’t it time for Texas to
crawl out of the rut?—Waco News-
Tribune.
KNOW TEXAS
During 1929 Texas mines produced
$28,000 in gold, 1,050,000 ounces of
silver, 1,000,000 pounds of lead and
400,000 pounds of copper.
The Lower Rio Grande Valley alone
4
Four people were in the living
room playing bridge.
When 10:30 came and the boy
from the drug store hadn’t arrived
with the ice cream, Mrs. Barnard
began to get nervous.
The Randalls, recent neighbors,
both murmured something polite
about “having to go”.
“Don’t rush off, please,” said
Mrs. Barnard. “I’ll call and see
what’s the matter.”
So she called Mr. Carter, the
druggist, and the boy came over
right away.
It was embarrassing though, to
have to go into details from the
telephone in the hall, when they
could overhear every word she
said.
10:30 and .the Boy
from the Drug Store
- - hadn ’t arrived
Telephones around the house
where you need them do help.
Had there been an “extension”
in the back hall, say, Mrs. Barnard
could have conversed in compara-
tive privacy.
v v v
Few know that the extra cost of
one or two’ * extensions’ ’
is somewhat less than
that of the single tele-
phone they now have.
By a wisely-placed “extension”
or two, and perhaps a rearrange-
ment of the equipment you already
have, an expert telephone man can
often double the convenience of the
telephones in your home.
Manager,
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.,
City.
I’d like to know how to get more value out
of my telephone service. Please send me free,
a copy of your booklet, ‘‘Modern Telephone
Service for the Home.”
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will support a population of 3,000,-
000 persons when all its resources
are fully developed, according to Wal-
ter E. Dickerson.
On Jan. 1, 1930, Texas had 974,000
milk cows, a gain of 19,000 over the
previous year. There are 21,919,000
dairy cows in the United States.
Texas has 5,667.000 head of cattle,
1.028.000 hogs and 5,500,000 sheep on
farms. Cattle showed an increase of
271.000 and sheep 363,000, but hogs
decreased 'in number 172,000.
whose body was found in a shallow j titleholders until the supreme court V ¥
grave, has dispersed without offei’ing
a solution of the mystery.
Frdericksburg officers said the in-
vestigation would continue, in charge
of state rangers, and that the case
probably would be revived at the
August term of court.
MOODY FLAYS OIL SHUTDOWN
had closed the litigation that involved
location of the 100th meridian.
GERMANY GOES AHEAD
H- H- & & &
SNAP SHOTS
* *_* *
FALLS TO DEATH
Dallas, March 3.—Falling from the
fourth floor ledge of the Baylor hos-
pital here, Alfred Johnson, 17-year-
old high school student, was killed
instantly today.1 ,He struck on a con-
crete floor below his window, v
The youth had been a patient for
several weeks, suffering with a ner-
vous disorder, and apaprently was in
a delirum when he fell. Two nurses
and a doctor were standing at his
window, begging him to allow them
to help him from the ledge where he
had climbed. \
One of the nurses said that he
frightened her away from his bed
just before he1 clambered out on the
narrow’ ledge.
PROBE IN DEATH OF
GIRL DISCONTINUED
FREDERICKSBURG, March 4.—
A grand jury called here to consider
the available information concerning
the death of an unidentified 12-year-
old girl here in September, 1927,
Of course it is none of our busine
but who ever saw a dentist with a
XT .. , , , , a a. ficial teeth in his own mouth?
Handicapped by external dictation; > „ .. , , ,
, , . ., „ , 1 Personally we are a good hand
regaining but slowly many of her ,,, . , , , _ *? ,.
„ . .walking, but we do find some di
former markets; loaded with taxes, ...... .... ...
... . , . , . . ’ culty in. taking a hill on high,
the income from which is sent out i ~
„ ., , „ . ... , One reason why the old-timers w
.__ of the country, Germany steadily and! ,. .. . ,
AUSTIN, March 5._Govemor consistoltly is incl.easfag hel. world ^ <™versaUonal.sts was bee.'
Moody Tuesday repeated his letter trade. A memorandum 011 international. th“r rule 'vas for onIy one t0 talk
of last Saturday to Ray Lyman Wil- comnierce prepared in Geneva says!,”6' . „ , „ „
bur, secretary of the interior, in Germany’s forejgn trade has made' “ h“ ^ gottm “ “ ?**
which he said a decrease in the sup- greater a„d steadiel. advance during I ^ y°Uns couplesJ f t0„ fd)ace
ply of gasoline would probably con- recent years than that of other' ?totes t0 marry and stay at home
stitute an excuse on the part of pro- World Power i dlvorce-
ducers to raise the price for this com-j The same authority says Germany! 0ne Washington correspondent e
modity, forcing the public to pay more „ the onl large count the value /f the belief that Mr. Hooyer
than at present. I whose exports has not decreased dm- p J a t a eh
The governor sa.dshutt.ng down of ing any year since 1924. The tctal. When Percy Noodles asked the ca
the refiner.es even for ope day would {oTeigntrade of the country now is >bsts daughter why her father wo
result in an increase in the alleged so cent , than in 1926, and is »>*> whiskers she sa.d she supposed
was because he let them stay whe
they grew.—Dallas News.
surplus of the crude product.
AID IS PLEDGED
TO LAND OWNERS given) rise to considerable discussion
nearly one-tenth, that of the foreign
trade of the world.
This striking announcement has |
The Hooper Dry Goods Co., is n
; but the consensus of opinion appears j showing the new this spring styl
AUSTIN, Mai’ch 5.—The house and to be that prog’ress is not the result! in.“Virginia Hart” and “Cherry Bel
senate passed a concurrent resolution of temporary, accidental factors. Ger- j wash dresses. These dresses are so
assuring property owners in the strip many has had good crops, but her j exclusively by them jin this trra
of land hei’etofore in Oklahoma along large agricultural production is at- j territory. The dresses are guarante
the eastern boundary of the Texas tributed to skillful agriculture. j fast coJor and a new dress will
Panhandle, that the legislatm;© would j Relieved of many of the burdens , given should one fade. Priced
do everything it could to protect their that encumbered the old regime, es
rights to title there after the area j pecially military burdens; nerved by
becomes a part of Texas under a j realization of tremendous national
United States supreme court decree, j obligations, the German people has
The resolution, by Representative. become unified in a great determina-
Dewey Yqung of Wellington, declared j tion. Their characteristic industry,
that the legislature could not adopt j thrift and frugality are producing
a definite policy with reference to the]results.—Detroit News,
$1.95.
Mr. and Mrs. Abner Peeler
Cherokee, Mr. and Mrs. Grover P
er of Belton, and Bob Broyles
Cherokee were guests here this w
in the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Peeler. ■ .
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The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 308, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 5, 1930, newspaper, March 5, 1930; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth906194/m1/2/: accessed June 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lampasas Public Library.