The Weimar Mercury from Weimar, Texas • Page 2

WEIMAR MERCtTRT, FRIDAY. June 3. MM. He Weimar Mercury r. Ta-oss tSe sail sail raatier.

citizen geti and in English. DE Ot AlBi a tJeseeat wfio sot a ss 1 it is therefore; believed that there will aertoteB objection to preaching Iffost Frearft in English. 1 1 SnsJish eonthme to lf Kastefi. that in each nal all at flu- 1 Temple. -May M.

MilfcrilllllllllllZIII .73. fott-gfttaK serriws ahooM Bethany. 08, died yesterday. SI FrWaT Me 3, IK1. OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

Houston Banker Endorses Farm Bureau Move Authority on Farm Problems Gives Hearty Endorsement to Great daught il- fir id rimln vere logger American party me fhe be disbani in County. the good citizenship of ibe News Special. Waelder Men Foregather in WaeMer last evening when the Mi-B's Bibte dais of the Baptist Chorea gave a reception to the MraV BOrie Classes of, the Methodist Church iSenominatii ras set with tables and scats, an His refreshments were servei marked the meeting froi the begianing. B. IP.

Walker presided toastmai ter. Hooston McCrorey delivered of welc Out EngBA langsasf he meets in hosttOB and in Tfce circulars creates mutis Ike eonaty ami C. P. Hmss kaj E. A.

Lsttean responded to by Prof, A. V. -Mc- Numerous and pithy were responses to the Coasts, most worthy of mention being by S. M. Hnil, I.

L. Hyatt, J. E. Engic and Otis Other sliert speeches were by "several present. of tlie LataersH i The wonderful growth oMhe Sunday re-1 Schools in Waelder during the past fe- jaeettag fer the purpose of AS IseM today ireS that per eest Aiaeri- afrtfee Geoaaii spoke itts ment Cooaty, am! i aign- we of German A- elosiveiy of nths' forth mut-h favorable' conunent.

and the spirit of hearty cooperation was strongly manifested. Rev. J. E. Stack, to.the principal address of the evening, the needed reforms in the town, and a res- oiatiott was endorsed pledging support of tfee citizenship to the officers Great interest vi-as siiotm in the proposed movements looking to the betterment of school facilities, church and Simday School work, and general mor- that ope of ries of etings field periodically and are resulting in much good.

It is believed there is no town the size of WauldiT that has a larger percentage of Bttemfing Sunday School, and it IMS ailded much to the moral of the TOMATOES MOVE FREELY- Ja tte Jofcwte San Benito, Texas. May County, estab- promote asHi har-1 i MNS seam? Use blessings of liberty, se- SIM! establish 100 1 tee cent Americanism to for mir-; Hitres asil tor ponfrftr. we boM (feat a te til" ef en-ry dtteea of thi- A IwH and malBMin tltf rtii.nl gtatm. of ais state MR pnweii fn nl tlierrariHi fgmtl to country's and dfft'B Sfmfiist all esemie? or domestic, spepk Us lal for tomato shipments ft foil set Monday when appvox- ately. crates were sent out mi this station, representing an iu- me of about local grow- 3QQ cars have moved this season tl will be marketed, hfn Twsdav train pullef out of Ilariingtoo it carried 11 ears Inuiul with Valley tniclt.

crop San Benito in 'fa millloj to the lenities this crop, beans, pota Might good prices. I NEGRO SENTENCED AT VICTORIA. ipiiiA 1 (- itf. that I Victoria, Tesis, May Kltch bo tiEeas 1 tlied in the District Coun oailonEsTlty aitd pfl; and tlie connt forces all other i yestersiay asif sentenced to' the pent for 10 years. KitciM-n The aSsttUl Aug.

Vogt, foreman of the road gang ike eoMtj- Into fee working: on the road, bat it is ul Donated to Orphans. Crystal City, May rvstal Citv Baptist Sund oled Snndav to send the lmns" Home one ton of -on i. Friends Will Swap Wins in Indiana. Anderson, May Mnnn-y'Kiiil Gordon Huffman, via school frleiKlH nnd fellow laborei-s in il its all right with Mrs. Miiucey Sunda I Mr: punu Honi rhiidren Sleep on Porch While Mother Hangs Self.

i-nosha. May her wo children out ot the house, Mrs. Dominicka Baubons, 30, uanged herself bedpost last night. The eilldr f-JJin Husband Got "Tired" After Years Married Life. Oklahoma City, May Mrs.

Matilda Foss, 84 years old, was granted vorce here today from John Foss, 5 years old. In Mrs. Foss' petition she lleged they rrred in 1805 -and Burned When Moonshine Is Fired By Enthusiast. Bowling tirern. K.V..

May Burning moonshine whiskey, which heriime Ignited us offici-m were pouring it Into the gutter here today, caused irain- fnl injuries to six bystanders 'includ- iad lived together 30 years. Her pic Divorce Cases Docketed. Cncro, Slav There ore 76 ivorce suits on the civil docket of the hstrict court for DcWitt County, and the civil docket as a whole is fairlv crowded for the opening of the court cases to be taken up at this term will be the Ellis and Latson murder caao-. irougbt here on chnnge venue from Sisters Die Same Day. Khlgsvillc, May Mrs.

ld.it Cross died in the hospital here Tlntis day morning and the body was bui-usi Friday morning. She left no relntives. Her s'ister, Mrs. A. J.

Elv. was verj sick nl the time of the death of Mrs. Cross, and she too. died the same afternoon. Mrs.

Ely's wUs-sont (o Anders for burial. She is survived by her husband and infant. Baby Drowns In Gallon of Water. Chandlen-ille, 111., May Herman Clausing, the 18-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs.

Herman Clausing, drowned Ir. a gallon of water He had toppled into a five-gallon lard n. which held barely enough water to cov- part-of hik head, but enough to stifle his 'outcries. A verdict of accidental death jury today. eturned by a "Write Me," Written.

On Texas Egg, Brings Response From Cuba. Colemau. May A. Law- of Stiver Valley, in filling a ate of eggs, put his address on one egg and said, "write me." Xn twelve days he received; from Cuba, ying thisjjgg was bought by AlbeVt C. Kelley.

anti. he would like to correspond with some oue in the United States. Returns From Funeral FMs Husband Dead. St. Louis, May Mrs.

Maude Wylic retnriied to Her home here last night from, Springfield, 111., after attending the funcMl of i. W. (iilnmion. her father, and Miss Mildrnl Hudson, a niece, she dfscovcred tlie Iwdy of her husband. T.

E. Wylle, lying on the floor. A physician said Wy- Ite apparently bad been dead for 24 hours, probably from heart disease. Lands Safely After' 150 Foot Parachute Drop. El Bcno, May- Huf discovery that Hnffimiu love uncey and'Muncey loved Mr and vice versa on both sii visit to Judge Kit finger.

Th was bow the "swap" cnnW (l. Judge Kittlnger susges vorce bills. divorce bills, charging abando ave been filed. A double wo seriously injured. -The li.iunr fired by a curious bystander who twisted slieet of paper into a taper, ignited it and throw it into the flowing liquid.

Instantly the gutter became a sheet of flame. When it reached the receptacle coutaiu- Itig Hie whiskey something resembling an explosion occurred, scattering tie fiery liquid over the crowd. York Financier Kept Cow In His Fifth Avenue Home. New York. Mav Somewhere in Hie pnlntinl Fifth Avenue mansion own- during his life by Henry Clfly ck.

fin ilch cow. This fuct the len dwelt whe testimony before Surrogate James A. Foloy relative to whether Frlck a resident of New i'ork or Pennsylvania at the time of his death nus made public. A decision has not been reached. What part of the mansion, which also held the unparalleled private nrt collection of Frick, was used us the cow's quarter, was not brought out in tlie testimony, hut it learnnl Ihut the animal 'was kept there to make sure fresh milk foi: the household.

Invisible Force to 'Propel Ship In Target Practice. May A war vessel Tlie attack on tho Iowa June 28 will M. Lemon, civilian of Oklahoma'City, plcte skulctoii of fl.vlng a fonr of the NC flj'ing boat and twelve 3 L's, will employ fqu Martin bomliers, all land planes. Oregon Sheep Border Finds Huge Mastodon. May The Ithtuski rlay broke the world record for, low nine feet long and 12 inches in iliame has been discovered in Butchc: Inifc cnnyiin.

four miles east of here. 11 thn bones not yet been un- but it is believed to be altitude parachute -when he propped from 150 feet designed and pat- by himself. The world record Field. who witnessed the drop, said they would attempt to have il made official. Africans Styles.

of tlieir patriot- I'aiKrals in fenPral jtt rein- I hi the ix-iiitcntisry oft a M'ven-yeaj sent for of a Kfgrnfly the fif Irring in a barber shop. GK.WCATE fiOES ON TABLE. tliia ami B. Msrv Smith nd Mrs. C.

O. Smith of a tnemher of this year's men will soon wearing Hfc latest English and American fashions, for scv- London studying dress-making For some tirno girls who wished-'to he Tn the mode have had to wait for makers hardly produced creations to the dis the ground which tion pnivcd to he the prehistoric mammoth. Ttvo-Hraded Calf Born. Bei-vlllo, Texns, May 30. A two heads wns exhibited tot feemc enterprising young woof color docidid to take the trip I giPKerfllly fsfsoken fey c-f tlfc omatry of ifn ttelr ami joyjity that an fens rtaaM Ite Esiftisfe IsHS-iisgr-.

Btmeirw, ew part in day and-hciiring jis.vciio- T. Opfrs Sunday morning, was ta- foi apTCn.FW*Ii-Siliidoy night, iiuilj is'Lafi to mhts flic piny and coai- Man Made Insane by proper. He is getting a-1 Firing of Large Guns hospital. Saved Frem Sentence. I flinton, May he was close to big guns In the nrmy, nes Hamilton Irvins of Chicago, from coaviction for murder.

A Jnry yestentay found thet he had killed PnaiPl Vmmg at Clinton 'on No' nt to of tjtSw-as Wediwaaay that tb'TiS is a MMs SB, 1B20, but that he was Insane at the time. coatiotied firing of 100 Irrin's inmii- a.lv. It was tostifle.I at tfie trial. Hit One liend was that of'a bull and the other of a heifer. Mr.

Wood will have the ml mounlMl. Hull. I Through His Onu Brain Kills His Baby. Slr.nx City, Iowa, May same bullet which Calvin J. Murphy sent through his brains also killed his daughter, which hc'was holding in his when he committed suicide nt his home hire last night.

The bullet passc'l through Murphy's head and hit the child. The tally died a short time in a hospital. Someone paid for this copy of Th yea? m-ment of tin- plan without it will appear satlKfactory to others, ld hi- of little value. st. The South is devoted to agricul- e.

The financial institutio ed lai The pr lv the agricultural industr duct of onr farms when harvested, es pecially cotton, is, In effect, given i change for goods, wares and mer actured in the North and Bunt. Under the conditions formerly ex isting, the cotton raiser has never bee banke struggle to keep from losing, on account of fluctuating prices. In fact they have not kept from losing. All of us have known many of them to go broke because cotton' would be one price when it was being planted and another when being marketed. If we got along poorly nnder former conditions, what may wo expect under pre.sent conditions? Freight rates to and from Eastern umrkets are about GO per cent above the pre-war period.

The cost of manufacture is such that added to the freight rates, we of the South will continue to have to pay more than 100 nor cent above pre-war prices for articles manufactured In tile North ami Bast. This condition is due to 11 factor not under the control of cither the southern people or the manufacturer. During the war, labor costs in tlie North and East increased.from to 300 per cent. Tin- people of the manufacturing dis- tiicta are just as anxious for the price of hilior to stay up as we are for the otto stay of th Under these conditions we South will simply have to get more for onr cotton or we will all go broke. Under the plan you are putting lie able to do just what the copper copper was up ubovc 30 cents during the Of recent months there was little price for copper, and it went down to 13 cents.

Thereupon the producers pooled their copper and issued against it millions of dollars of per cent short time notes which were sold to the. public. thereby raising money which enabled them to finance their copper and industries until there would be a market The cotto.l fanner was not in position to do this, 1 the market broke and continued to bringing great us. whether farmer, banker or inereh- rketing twelve.months in tlie year will always throw upon the market-lit harvest time a surplus of unless and until plan of marketing that cotton is worked out to fit the couditioif of consumption. Never, until the cotton producer hus an interest in the cotton that is unsold at planting time, will we be able to elicit his interest in limiting production.

Whenever, at planting tcrest in cotton unsold, the price of which is at or below the cost of production, he wiiyearh the business wisdom of planting other crops, and not adding to the surplus of unsold cotton. 6th. Just as the Federal Land Banks have- been beneficial to the banks and credit and to all classes furnishing credit to farmers, so will cooperative cotton marketing be beneficial lu all banks and other institutions furnishing credit to produce crops. very truly, (Signed) S. A.

Liudsey. WHIPPED BY KLAN BECAUSE HE HIS WIFE Shrcveport, May Morgan, SO, was- taken into the county by a party of masked men last night and feathered. He was return- bile near Courthouse Square. He went to a hospital to have his feathery garb removed. Several lashes also were adniluisterd to Morgan.

At the hospital It was said his condition was not serious. Morgan nns arrested several times recently for alleged wife beat- lug, but was la each instance for of evidence. cures Dengue adv. 2tf 29 Ten for 10 cents. Handy size.

Dealers carry both. 10 for lOc; 20 for 20c. It's toasted. Mrs. Frels' Death Brings On Law Suit $42,600 Damages Asked For Death at Crossing.

Onero. Texas. May damage suits, totaling $42.000 have been filed in the Ioc41 district cr.nrt against the Galveston, Harrishurg San Antonio Railway Company as a result of a collision with an automobile at crossing oast of here several weeks ago. in which Mrs. D.

B. Frels. was killed and her husband was painfully injured. The first of the suits asks for $37.000 claimed by D. B.

Frels and ills children for the'death of the wife and WK) claimed as due B. Frels for personal Injuries tS 4ilmself and damage to the automobile. The woman killed was returning home with her husband and a son from a visit in Karncs County when tire automobile was struck at the crossing east of town by an eastbound passenger train. The young man iu the cur at the time was uninjured. DIED IN ASYLUM.

A message addressed to the city marshal was received yesterday after- Sprlngerr stating that Manuel Snlina had died in the asylum. It will be remembered thn this was the Mexican that assaulted Chief of Polio; Schrirn- scher one day last week and was tried in Cucro last Friday anil adjudged insane, and taken to the asylum Satur- Times. "LEANS" DEFEAT "FATS." Columbus, Texas, May a game here between the "Fats" and "Leans." the thin athletes won 20 to S. The game netted $18 to help equip the regular Columbus team. Batteries "Fats," Yonens, Hester, Bryan, Woolen and Waldvogel; "Leans," stafford, Miller and Umpire, Revival meeting to begin i Methodist Church Sunday, Ji it th LEMON All ot the Orange, Lemon and in this patented bottle or are dispensed at fountains.

In Om "crinkly" bottle or at fountains Bottled by WEIMAR BOTTMNG COMPANY.