The Lavaca County Tribune (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 7, 1932 Page: 1 of 8
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people need not go to the De Witt County
ise to rebel, they have enough at home.
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iking reference to lower taxes and mentioning the
unty with the tax rate of 37 cents, unintentionally we
I)e Witt County tax rate as 35, instead of 52 cents,
isn’t necessary to make this error in order to cause
“to more readily reliel against the county ndmjnistra-
fcfe is certainly enough material at home to rebel,
tn tiie New Era-Herald says that we “deliberately tried
the Bohemian people” — then this champion of publicity
fy matters is judging others by itself.
New Era-Herald is not excited about our own conditions
Dt about the 36 thousand dollars spent for gas and oil in
lars.
Dr about the 8 thousand dollars of gas tax uncollected.
Seventy Two ! GYPSIES ROB * AUTO ACCIDENT
Crop Production FILLING STATION ■ IN-LA GRANGE
lyoans Made at YOAKUM! COST YOUNG LIFE
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S P O R T S
;—Eli Rubin —
"Seventy two loans have been
made by the local committee"
totaling approximately $12,000.
All farmers are urged to use
Govermental aid if they deem it
necessary. Loans on 1932 crops
will not, b<* made after April
30th. The local committee ad-
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vises that after the applications
are completed in correct form,
it is just av matter of a few |
days until the money comes in
return direct to the farmer.
The local committee, person-
nel is as follows: Messrs. Ferd
after the noon hour a car load-!
gd with gypsies drove up
Jank’s filling station which is
located on the Cuero road and
two women got out of the car
to buy some, cigarettes, one of
Brahmas Heat Moulton, 19-2.
Yesterday afternoon shortly! 'f A""'
to tribune.) — Young Ignatz
Baca lost his lite in an automo-, The local Brahmas, taking ad
bile accidei}*^ which occured vantage of the bad pitching by
early morning today (Wed.V’His| foiir Mdulton twirlers, and sor-
half-brother Frank Mika suffer-1 ry baseMll by th«^ rest of the
ed serious injury, outcome* oi j team, swamped them by a lop-
. which is doubtful.* Another , sided score of 19-2. The locals
the women got m conversation young man was injured less j jumped into a big lead in the
seriously. Both of the injured 1 first inning by scoring- six runt .
are in local hospital, ute youths
were coming-home from a dance
and in the street crossing at La
with Mrs. Jank while the other
one bought cigarettes and at
the same time got the yoflng
man in such a stage that he
did not realize what was go-
ing on until they left and found
It about the 18 thousand dollars squandered for machinery ,IU n <*'1f V , that the cash register.had been
smmt. iw **
oil a few hits .and plenty of or
rors. It looked like that was
all the scoring the Brahmas L
Grange_they met two cars. For Were to jbfcthfr.rest of the game
some reason,' probably due to j as~ DarifeK, wfro relieved th«
great speed they were traveling i visitors* first pitcher, set the
j hausen of Shiner, Theo. Jaeggli '•”~”f* -**-—• tneir car ran into the lightpbst locals down in prder the jwsxl
iof.'Moulton and 1. E. Valenta of | .was/ °.ace Impact"smashed the car, young four innings’* run. 1»*—
Sweet Home. . le [°an< . °ut 1 ial they "m‘i Baca was killer! on the spot and sixth,, howfr$*r, BraK-=
All farmers are again urged,*1®-4 101‘ . _ .. '-“^i other two victims taken to thecas started hittifig ith&>corerf
to see this committee for any ,em “ far as aUe ■ 1 e | hospital. The dead youth was1 four nuns, added four more in
the Lavaca i information regarding the Go.i , ^ ove,‘ttM>k andja son of Ant. Baca, well known the seventh, and finished Up
--—~Tvernmertt Crop Prod. LoansT^^^^^^^^ of this vicinity. Lwfth five runs, in the eighth.
draw ip t-W .WHO**. I"" f*T *2™ ' -*. I The local battery made Mv-
|Mn,. Jank told Mr. Strunk that [)A]RY ASSOCIATION |«1 of the fj[teen hits accumu-
they got, for him to turn them BEING ORGANIZED \ **
, ’ , , - getting four and. Mertz three,
loose. They returned the sum —- ~ , I ... . ,, . ... , • . ,
of money which was about,-^ There were some 10 men pre-1 Ho ',s ills0. p,t a <f *
and thev left immediately forwent at the dairy meeting Mon-i K«me, allowmg tie ' lsitois ju
Houston..-?- Y/uUim Times.' [‘^ night (28.) at Shiner. a long home run
R. K. IvuHh^w dairy specialist
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I Not about the fortune which went for new machinery.
* Nor about the county funds exhausted.
Not about the county in debts more than it ev.gr-was.
The New Era-Herald says not a word about these things.
It talks about the I)e Witt County tax rate.
is~nut. concerned about tin* tax burden of
Canity people.
-$u It worries alhut commissioners court, so we would not and to
cause people "J.b more readily rebel against the county ad- immediately,
if net-essary, "in
....... rder tu relieve the committee
** That is tin* chief concern of thatT>mit champion of county of tlie last minute rush
publicity.'
* • few .]a\- ago \w* wrote the De Witt (*«*unl> iudge to let us
ha\c the total amount of-machinery repairs for the i’inaneRil ’
year 1931.in that County. Hgre is his answer:
“The 1931, cost of parts and repairs for road machinery
including automobile* was $1,790.58.” s.
Lavaca County spent $11,159:81 for road machinery
repairs in the same year 1931.
a.-,£ 1 In four years 18 thousand dollars we spent.
-T |)e Witt ( oiint> -SI,790.53
. Lavaca ("minty--$11,159.81
There tis no doubt, people of Lavaca County that more j
truth is to lie learned than we-already know about tin* reasons ; ter done without pay.
■‘why in four years the ta^ rate had to climb from 11 to 53 cents.
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FEDERAL SUPPORT
OF DE WITT NEEDY
The Cuero chapter of the Am
erican lied Cross is to distn- Wupljfl
iiute a carload of flour milled Peanut Meeting
from wheat donated by the Fed, ._
eral gevernment to the needy
in the s*H;*<nd 'imi-
by Darilek,
ing. , * ' *
SdfTnv Sommers featured the
game by making a pretty catch
of a line drive that was label-
families of De Witt -County.
This is to be done through the
work of. Mrs. Fr, Kunetka, sec’y
of the A. & M. College spoke
stressing the production of bet-
ter feed, the proper utilization ^
... . . . , ,, of home grown feed, right prb-
uesn .i> tssih portioning: of feed rations; fur-|e<* extra bases.
nishing enough water, warmed
in cold-'weather, because 8.5'/.(
He vsuggest-
was ed that list of feed stuffs lie |
filled the- t,u limit ted to Co. Agents .1. M
land, Siegmund, Sokol, Timm
and M. I. jBoZka attended an
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Southwest Texas league
Organized
AUA COUNTY IX
IERS ORGANIZE
A. Turk ,
< andidate For
Gouty Assessor
inners of I-aivaca Coun-
in a it*gular session at (
# a iixr
nty.Comt House Thus ^ Turk needs no introductwn
of the lied-Cross County Chap- j,nter.eM ,ng farmers. 0f mifk is water. Mawjger Pai,i Koethel. and
" Vsetm. Attendance was ed that list of feed stuffs \* 0scar' Shaw attended
application it tfas planned to^'-od and almost filled tl-ie submitted to C<). Agent, J. second hasebal, meeting at
support th?" ilestitute families school room. Number ol good 1 aiks ol Hallettsville, who victorja Monday—night (pid.^flp-
for 90 days, and in .fact,.the. speeches were made and an in- he ghuHo arrange same into jM»rte<r that the LoagW W
Ued-M Cross ‘ in the-County Is teresTing discussion followed* mtion toi piopei lesults. bout completely organized, wRb*
feeding and otherwise providing each. Farmers have so far Testing Association, is following teams, Victoria
for 89 such families, but 275 promised to plant 80 acres of! °i*granized ox'er the county i |»ose|Juds, Ilillje v (ElCampo),
♦ /x ivn/n.iivo A*n klio inmt'ni'omonl ...
names of needy lamilies were peanuts .and they discussed
The c««mty tax assessor E. [ pTeser|ted to tiie secretary andpAlvin>. a trasher for the vidin-
it is feared that the carload of
tu encourage the improvement (;onzaIes Port Lavaca, Halletts
.1 of dairy, stock of Lavaca by’ - - -- - -
for
>ming the last |
March.
finding concrete' reasons ___
lity of V’set in; each peanut plant I ()ut the ^profitable ani-
\ille, and probably Cuero. Cuero
wa.i not represented at the
meeting, but assurance was giv-
c -.....a i! ± jrs s ■?-, ■£!- - r wr •
organized, to be alfihateo , clothing, bedding and shoes are . cian\ tows m me u. ». no. neam a president and see-
the state organization. Of- ’ " ' ' * xpt t. on Pi"lM* i constantly collected and distri- ,<>m ‘ *" ' arlUM ° ' 11 than a year ago and lrft moie re^ary vvei-e eldrtcdv both from
ty ownership in this county.! buted ;md now again the fiOUr vi,le at 2t- il delivered than two years ago and at pre Victoria. ThelSfes and regu-
ile is always on the job, when; ig t() re?ieVe the distress of,at Hallettsville. They already sent milk is the most profit- j ]ations as drawn up by the rul-
He is quiet, I these victims of the one sided have a community fordson able of taim pioducts, but! eg commjttee of k which. Paul
ffotrs for tJie unit were elect-
ed: Henry F. Ehlers..of Shiner
ident and director, H. Sch-
of Kinkier vice president,
Elster of Mculton sec y-
^Varibus proposed bills that
■pill be introduced in the next
ifflntiirp wehe discussed and
upon. Resolutions con-
ug these bills were drawn
in which the participants
vf*vor (1.) a lien law to cover
^-gin charges, (2.) a state law to
late the price of ginning,
that state prohibit the
erection of any gin in a place
here none is needed, (4.) div-
ion of Texas into three dis-
ts_Southern, Central, and
ern_ for fixation of in-
ice rales on gin plants, nc-
ing to number of gin fires
each of the districts, (5.) do
he should be.
conscientious, and always ol>-1 prosperity,
liging when, asked for infor-
mation. The people- - kftpt
him in the office of tax asses-
sor for several terms, and no
doubt will keep him there for
another term. Mr. Turk de-
sires to thank you for your sup-
port and vote in the past, and
hopes to meet with the same
attitude in the next election.
East Saturday fanners of Hal
lettsyille vicinity had sold to the
local merchants a carload of
eggs, worthVver $700. That’s
the best way to worry alxiut
cheap cotton, depression and
other causes to self pity.
tractor and now the peanut Proper handling of dairy work ip t.hairm*n, was ac-
trasher would make a valuablei *s urgent to cany on.
addition. Great stress in the j
icepted by the league. Each
! team is to have sixteen players
Song and Music , . ... TJ -
Rare Treat -discussion was laid on raising opienaiCl I rOgreSS whose names have to be filed
all the food and feedstuffs at Being Made with the secretary six days
tor;stXeviit°"'LrXm,v sj,iendif piot.r“"is 5**ji£r«*sr 2*1
rendered a' wonderful I beraiwd made at home, t°{ muntcipalX’slel^plant^n^jooI! “ ”*>“
Sunday morning the Seguin
Lutheran College Choir under
th^ Tleadership of Prof. H. E.
Gibson
program at the Hallettsville \ fight “hard times”. It was
High School Auditorium. The evident that the meeting was
large audience was pleasantly! very l^neficial to the communi-
impressed by the rare treat of .1 ty from the discussions and
music and songs rendered so the intended actions of the par-
grandly and pei-fectly. Two; ticipants. ’
members of the choir, Everett j _* -
Renger, son of Dr. Paul Uengerl .
Highway Committee
Went To ‘Austin
let
L
At a ]it,can contest held by
the Stat-e Dep’t. of" Agricultimv^e
UT R. Carmichael of V^laer he
avo^a law that would pro- won fj,.st prize on his pecan of
n we ginning charges ac- commercial shelling class,
to the price of cotton, j jt vvas raised on his native tree
not favor bills similai i - mjjes from Al’aelder apd gra-
ded 95.5, which was 10 points
above the next highest qniong
1,300 samples.
B. No. 73.
T^opy ot the resolutions are to
sent to*Hon. *L Olsen, to
/ the secretary ol the Texas Cot-
ton Ginners Association, and to
Gfoners Cotton Joucnal of Dal-
las. The meeting adjourned at
£ M*
A-.
,Mr. Paul II. Fprtsch was in
Yoakvpn, Wednesday.
Mr. W. Hr Heye is on the sick
list.
and Edmund Heye, presently of
San Antonio, are well known
here and we are proud of theii ■ • —
rformances. The prograrn At the meeting of the Rotary
helped in appreciation of, sacred Club Messrs. Simpson, lleye,
songs and music. - and Reichman sjiolje plainly ol
__ (he results of their ^meeting
Monday at Austin’ With the
State Highway Commission
I wliere the Novth-Sduth Federal
j Highway. 77 was discussed. At
Lrirkis • j the hipch the H.H.S. Glee Club
mem-
portion of the system on the
F’ast Side being so far com-
pleted that water can be turned
into part of the mains when!
meter connections are made.i
Before turning the water into
the service pipes, however, the
mains ^vill be thoroughly flush-
ed in order that the water sup-
ply will be frekh and sparkling,
jt has been stated. —Yoakum
Times.
Cuero decides definitely to join.
The season will start Sunday.
April 17.
Meat Stole
Smokeh
Sheriff* Houchins is closing
on someone who burglarized the
smokehouse of Kittis Bennett
(cpl.) j)f Vienna * and tobk a
quantity />f meat. ~
Gebhardt Product
Demonstration
Mrs. Reinhardt will be in our
store Thursday and
April 7th aml Wb to detuunsira i ,nU>hain(>(t ’ ttle present
te to you the Gebhardt Products
Will serve delicious eats free.
Come out and see her eook’em j
at H. G. TIMM.
tiers wifh
songs.
some harmonious
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Malec, Walter. The Lavaca County Tribune (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 7, 1932, newspaper, April 7, 1932; Hallettsville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1037360/m1/1/: accessed June 13, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Friench Simpson Memorial Library.