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Watch Date Slip The Sun stops on expiration. Renew promptly if you want paper. KERRVILLE MOUNTAIN SUN Harvester of Happenings in the Heart o' the Hills TEN PAGES THIS WEEK VOLUME 51 $3.00 Per Year KERRVILLE, KERR COUNTY, TEXAH, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14. 11)35 .1 Cents Per Copy NUMBER 11 Legionnaires to Convene in City This Week End 250 Visitors Expected to Attend 21st District Convention Everything is in readiness for the 21st District convention of the American Legion to be held in Kerrville Saturday and Sunday. Approximately 250 delegates and visitors, including officials of the Texas Department, are expected to be here for the two-day meeting.

Convention headquarters will be at the Blue Bonnet Hotel, where a dance and other entertainment features will be held Saturday evening. Business sessions will be held at the Kerr County courthouse, with Oryille Turner of Brownwood, district executive com- presiding. Speakers on the program will include Attorney General William McCraw; Adjutant General Carl Nesbitt, former State Commander; Wynne Good of Austin, State Service Officer; Fred Young of Austin, State Adjutant, and George Hughes of Corsicana, former State Adjutant. Large delegations are expected from San Angelo, Coleman, Brownwood, Brady, Del Rio, Uvalde and Fredericksburg, and smaller groups from other towns in the district includes 27 West Texas counties. The delegates will register at the Blue Bonnet Saturday morning and in the afternoon the convention guests will make a visit to the Veterans' Hospital and the Mrs.

D. C. C. Taylor Is Claimed by Death; Burial at Yorktown Funeral services for Mrs. D.

C. C. Taylor, 48, a resident of the city for the past 21 years, who passed away late Saturday following an extended illness, were held here Sunday afternoon. Rev. Paul S.

Van Dyke, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, conducted the services at the family home, 1021 Main Street, after which the remains were taken by the Peterson Funeral Home to Yorktown for burial. Active pallbearers at the services here were Will Auld, A. B. Burton, Dan Auld, Hal Peterson, Marcus Auld and Emil Saenger. Last rites at Yorktown Monday were conducted by Rev.

C. I. Kelley of the Presbyterian Church. Burial was in the family plot beside her mother, who had preceded her in death the week before. Active pallbearers were: John Milam Taylor, Denton and Douglas Busby, nephews, and Clarence Smith, John Busby, J.

A. Smith, John Kerlick, R. J. Von Roeder and Dr. H.

C. Eckhardt, all of Yorktown. A native of Yorktown, Mrs. Taylor moved with her family to Kerrville in 1914 for the benefit of her health. She was active in church and civic societies when her health New Guadalupe Bridge to Cost State $100,285 Highway Board Awards Kerr Contract to Austin Firm Fourth Governor In Six Months The State Highway Commission Monday awarded the contract for construction of a high water bridge across the Guadalupe River on Highway 81 at the city limits of Kerrville.

On a bid of $100,285, the Jensen Construction Company, of Austin was awarded the contract. It is expected that the construction firm will immediately begin moving in equipment. Successful bidders on contracts of this kind usually are granted from a month to six weeks to sign the necessary documents and move in materials before the highway department issues work orders, according to E. F. Maddox, resident engineer.

About six months will be required to complete the contract. The concrete and steel bridge will extend from the foot of Sidney Baker Street, in the center of the business district, to a point across the river. The structure will be American Legion Center at Legion. Child Health would permit. While she had been 357 ee i length, including three An officer's breakfast will be served Sunday morning at the Blue Bonnet Hotel, followed by meetings of the American Legion Auxiliary and the convention resolutions committee.

A union church service will be held Sunday morning at 11 o'clock at the First Methodist Church. After luncheon Sunday, the business session of the convention will open at 1:30 p.m. Mayor Richard Holdsworth will deliver the address of welcome and the response will he made by M. J. Benefield of Brady, past State Commander.

Members of the program committee are G. W. Alsbrooks, W. W. Barnes and C.

E. Holt. At a State conference of post commanders and adjutants held in Waco last week end, George L. Epple, commander of Garrett-Baker Post No. 13, lacked only six of receiving the silver cup trophy offered to the post reporting the highest percentage in increased membership above the assigned quota.

Garrett-Baker Post was assigned a quota of 100 members for 1985 and enrolled a total of 1B6. This record was exceeded by only one other post in Texas. Ranger was awarded the trophy and Garrett-Baker Post received a meritorious citation from both the National and State commanders of the American Legion, -o-o- in failing health for several years, her condition became critical three months ago, since which time she had been confined to her room. Death came to the patient sufferer on her 48th birthday. Masses of flowers which banked the casket gave silent testimony of the love and esteem of a host of friends.

Survivors include her husband, D. C. C. Taylor of Kerrville; two daughters, Mrs. Arthur Saenger of Kerrville and Mrs.

Zach Jones of San Angelo; two grandchildren, Jean and David Jones of San Angelo; a brother, John Taylor of Charco, and seven sisters, Mrs. H. J. Skinner, Edinburg; Mrs. Glenn Walker, Gulf; Mrs.

W. C. Poetter, Mrs. W. H.

Reidel, Mrs. John Kerlick and Mrs. John Busby, all of Yorktown. -o-o- Federal Tax Deputy To Be Here March 1 Cowpunchers' Band Announces Program For Friday Concert Members of the Kerr County ow Punchers' Band have been busy this week, putting final touches on the concert they will play Friday night at 8 o'clock at Tivy Auditorium. They have been occupied, also, with securing part of their costumes with money from early ticket sales.

The bandmen will buy the rest of their picturesque uniforms with the proceeds of concerts to be given in neighboring towns. They will play at Fredericksburg, Boerne and Comfort. The complete uniforms will include orange-yellow shirts with black trimmings, purple neckerchiefs, tan trousers, grey ranch hats, chaps and boots. Director Victor Verhearst has announced the program for Friday night's concert to include the following pieces: "King Cowboy," March, with vocal chorus entitled, "Far Away Down South in "Heart of the Hills," waltz ballad to be sung by Mrs. Effie Broussard; "Serenade Rococco," "Southern Melodies," "Among the Lilies," a waltz; two overtures, "The Iron Count," and "Western World." One or two marches, including one by the late Phillip Sousa, in whose band Verhearst played several years, will complete the program.

-hearst composed "King Cow" "Far Away Down South In as," and "Heart of the Hills." latter number was written after Verhearst moved to Kerrville, and dedicated to the Hill Country. Another of his compositions, "The a sacred piece, will be used the program. ticket sales have indicated the concert will have good at- For the convenience of those required by law to file Federal income tax returns, a Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue will be in Kerrville at the courthouse on Friday, March 1, 1935, from 8 a. m. to 5 p.

m. to assist taxpayers in preparing their returns. No charge will be made for this service. Those required to file a Federal income tax return include. Single persons or those married and not living with husband or wife whose net income is $1,000 or over, or whose gross income is $5,000 or more; and married persons living with husband or wife and having a net income of $2,500 or over, or a gross income of $5,000 or over.

Income tax returns for the calendar year must be filed not later than March 15, 1935. Penalty of a fine of not more than $10,000, or mprisonment for not more than one year, or both, and in addition 25 per cent of the amount of the tax is imposed by the Statute for willful failure to make return on ime. o-o Corn-Hog Producers Urged to Sign Early County Agent W. W. Sheen Tuesday issued another request to corn and hog producers of Kerr County, asking that they come to his office immediately and sign the corn-hog contracts for 1935.

Agent Sheen expects about 100 producers to participate in the reduction program this year. He is anxious to have all of the contracts signed up by March 1. Tuesday afternoon, a total of 51 contracts had been signed. Last year corn-hog contracts were signed by 40 producers in the county. The majority of the new contracts are for reduction of corn acreage.

steel spans of 180 feet each and six concrete girder slabs, each 52 'eet long. The floor will be five feet above the record high water mark. Plans call for a bridge similar in type to the one across the Guadalupe River below Comfort. o-o Springall Receives Appointment Arthur Springall, who is a senior in the State School of Medicine in Galveston, has received an appointment to the Government Hospital in the Panama Canal Zone, beginning the last of May. This news will be received with pleasure by "Canary's" many friends in Kerrville.

He has spent a good many summers in Kerrville at Westminster Encampment and as a counselor at Camp Rio Vista The last two vacations from Medical School he has been at Secor Hospital as an office assistant to Dr. J. D. Jackson. Another of the Springall boys, Jack, is a teacher at Schreiner Institute.

-o-o- nee. -o-o- Friends will be glad to learn that Mrs. George W. Walther is able to be out again after a days' illness. Hunt 4-H Club Girls Display Ingenuity in Improving Bed Rooms Industry and ingenuity are being evidenced by the two bedroom demonstrators of the Hunt 4-H Club in carrying out their work in the im provement of their rooms.

Dorothy Browning, 13, is daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Browning and her problem is to finish her room in the new home of the Brownings between Ingram and Hunt. The room south Ranges Soaked By General Rain; Ranchers Happy Week's Precipitation in Kerr County Averages Three Inches Lieut. Gov.

Walter Welford who becomes North Dakota's fourth governor in six months, when climaxing North Dakota's bitter political battle, Thomas H. Moodie was disqualified as governor of the State by the unanimous decision of the Supreme Court. Moodie was disqualified on the contention that he had not been a citizen of the State for the five years required by the constitution. Court Appoints Judges for Kerr County Elections Officials for 1935 Named in Thirteen Voting Precincts Kerr County election officials who will serve until January 1, 1936, were named Tuesday by the Commissioners' Court, sitting in regular session: Presiding judges and their assistants in the county's 13 voting precincts were appointed, as follows: Precinct 1, courthouse, Kerrville C. Parsons, presiding judge; W.

C. Fawcett, Paul Kelly, B. B. Lowrance. Precinct 2, Center S.

Thomason, presiding judge; W. B. Leigh, Sid McElroy, F. C. Nelson.

Precinct 3, Cypress Saur, presiding judge; Ernst Lich. Precinct 4, J. Parks, presiding judge; M. D. Henderson.

Precinct 5, H. Crider, presiding judge; A. B. Hardin, Ralph Walsh, Vander Baldwin. Precinct 6, Rodgers, presiding judge; Lee Hardin, Ben Mosel, Pink Lee.

Precinct 7, Turtle Creek While the sun has had a week's vacation on account of leaden, dripping skies, the broad smiles of ranchmen have brightened the landscape as general rains fell throughout West Texas. The average rainfall for the week in Kerr and surrounding counties was about three inches, while heavier precipitation was reported in other areas. Beginning Wednesday night of last week when 1.15 inches fell in Kerrville, intermittent showers during the week brought the total up to 2.84 inches Wednesday morning, according to J. N. Ewing, observer for the U.

S. Weather Bureau. The temperature at no time during the rainy week dropped below 36 degrees. Continued warm weather will add materially to the welfare of the country, ranchmen said With the abundance of moisture in the ground at this season, weeds and grass are growing rapidly and, barring a severe freeze, will soon put an end to costly feed billfa which have been a perplexing problem to all West Texas ranchers since early in December. Added to these benefits is the prospect of a greater demand for livestock since the ranges have thoroughly soaked by the slow ains.

o-o H. Remschel 111 Funeral Services Held Wednesday for James M. Bruff, 67, Funeral services wore held Wed- lesday afternoon for James M. Bruff, 67, who died early Wednesday at his home, .316 Washington Street. The services were held from the Center Point Methodist Church with Rev.

M. Williamson, the pastor, and Rev. John N. McKay, pastor of the Kerrville Methodist Church, officiating. Burial was in Center Point Cemetery under direction of Peterson Funeral Home.

Active pallbearers were nephews of Mr. Bruff. Honorary pallbearers included the following: F. C. Nelson, W.

B. Leigh, Willie Burney, H. G. Edens, Sid C. Peterson, J.

R. Herndon, M. K. Hood and W. A.

Boyden. A native of Maryland, he had lived the greater portion of the past 60 years in Kerr County. On moving to Texas with his parents, he first resided near Boerne; but shortly afterward the family located at Center Point. He had been in the mercantile and hotel business at Center Point and for the past five years he and Mrs. Bruff have operated the Bruff Hotel in Kerrville.

He had been an active member of the Methodist Church for many years, and was a member of the Center Point Masonic Lodge and the Woodmen of the World. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Leah A. Bruff; a daughter, Mrs. M.

Kendall of San Antonio, and one sister, Mrs. Sallie Colemtyi of Houston. east exposure, with four cjeors an three large winqoys. Onfyaccoun of the smallness ofvthe ro6m anc the number of openings, one of the young lady's greatest problems wil be the careful choice of furnitur and pictures of the place. She has chosen as ner colp scheme ivory and green, and wil refinish a bed and dressing table make curtains, candlewick be (Continued on Pave) 0-0 Kiwanians to Hear Boy Scout Program A group of Boy Scouts, directed by Robert Sladek, assistant Scoutmaster of Troop 100, will present a program at Thursday's luncheon meeting of the Kerrville Kiwanis Club.

The program will include an investiture ceremony in which 10 members of Troop 100 will confer the tenderfoot degree upon 10 boys from Troop 125. A program of stunts also will be given by the Boy Scout guests. W. E. Day and Mrs.

F. B. Fan- will entertain with song numbers. presiding AJl ding judge; Arthur ward Schmidt, presiding judge; James Spicer, Jr. Precinct 8, Layne Biermann, presiding judge; Hubert Spenrath, Hubert Nurenberger Ernst Kott.

Precinct 9, Klein presiding judge; Clarence Leinweber. Precinct 10, Live Allen, Hyde. Precinct 11, C. Duderstadt, presiding judge Ferd Tatsch. Precinct 12, Tivy, W.

Speckels, presiding judge; Ern est Meeker, Bernard Kuhlmann, L. Schmerbeck. Precinct 13, Westland, Kerrvill J. Starkey, presiding judge; J. E.

Palmer, J. J. Stallings, A. L. Lewis.

COUNTY HAS CASH BALANCE OF COMMISSIONERS FIX PAY FOR OFFICIALS The Kerr County Commissioners' Court, meeting the first three days of this week, the busiest session in two years. County Treasurer Emil Gold's report covering receipts and disbursements for the quarter ending January 31, 1935, was examined and approved. The report showed the county had a cash balance of $25,594.19 in various funds with the county depository. An additional $8,993.01 in road bond sinking funds was reported on deposit with the State Board of County and Road District Indebtedness. Annual salaries of county officials for the biennium, 1935-36, were fixed as follows: John S.

Atkins, county judge and ex-officio superintendent of schools, John R. Leavell, county clerk, George M. Doyle, district clerk, $720; E. Gold, county treasurer, 2 per cent on receipts and disbursements not to exceed $1,600 per year; Walter Petsch, county attorney, $270; A. F.

Moore, sheriff and jail guard, Commissioners Brown and Furr of Precincts 1 and 4, $5 per diem, not to exceed $900 per annum; Commissioners D. D. Beard and Wm. Karger of Precincts No. 2 and 3, $5 per diem, not to exceed $600 per annum.

All of the salaries set are for a period of one year, but are payable monthly out of designated funds. Salaries of other county officials are set by statute, while some of Friends will learn with regret of he serious illness of H. Remschel, who suffered a stroke of paralysis Monday morning at his home, 936 Street. Mr. Remschel retired from active a few years ago but was apparently good health at the he was stricken, while seated in front of the fireplace conferring with his wife regarding plans for building some cottages.

Wednesday morning the attending physicians pronounced his condition slightly improved. -o-o- Kerrville May Get Huge Grant From PWA Funds Inventory of Proposed Projects Totals -O-0- State Political Leader Dies Here The body of McDonald Leech, 32, Corpus Christi attorney, who died at a local sanatorium Wednesday of last week, was shipped Saturday by Smith Funeral Home to Evanston, 111., for burial. Leech was prominent in State political circles, and at the time of his death was president of the Texas Young Democrats. -o-o- Tivy Future Farmers To Exhibit Lambs at Houston Stock Show The Future Farmers of America, an organization of boys who are members of vocational agriculture classes at Tivy High School, are making plans for their annual lamb show to be held early in March. The boys purchased lambs early last fall and have been feeding them during the winter, carefully keeping records on the cost of feed and charting the gains made in weight.

The lambs are being fed under the direction of C. F. Freeman, Tivy High vocational agriculture instructor, under a schedule mapped by the U. S. Department of Agriculture.

Kerrville merchants will provide prizes for winners in the local lamb show, and the winning animals will be exhibited at the annual Houston Fat Stock Show. Rudolph Radeleff, a member of the Tivy vocational agriculture class, is fattening a thoroughbred calf for the market. Boys who are feeding lambs are Adam Wilson III, Vernon Sandel, Gene Lock, Raymond Mickle, Spence Rogers, George Noll, Marcellus Kolodzey, Charles Henke and Herbert Brown. G. E.

Lehmann Buys Value Store Here In a deal closed last week end, G. E. Lehmann purchased the Kerrville store of the Value Stores, located in the Pampell building on Water Street. The new owner has taken over the business and has announced that he will open two other stores in Southwest Texas cities during the present year. He and his family reside at 1525 Jefferson Street, and expect to make Kerrville their permanent home.

Lehmann formerly was a member of the corporation operating variety stores under the firm name of Value Stores, in several Texas cities. The corporation was dissolved recently. P. E. Bailey over the parent store at Luing; S.

S. Harris, a former manager of the Kerrville store, purchased the stores at Kenedy and Sinton; R. R. Roberts, who also managed the Kerrville store for a time, formed a partnership and bought the store at Crystal City, while the No. 2 store at Luling is now owned by M.

O. Hogn. 0. D. Berry, who has managed the Kerrville store for the past several months, is in charge of the store at New Braunfels, which is the only unit still operated by the Value Stores, Inc.

This store is to be sold within a short time, Lehmann has announced. In the event that Congress passes the pending bill to appropriate four billion dollars to be allocated by the Public Works Administration, there is a possibility that the City of Kerrville will receive grants totaling $770,000. An inventory of proposed projects estimated to cost this sum was submitted Monday to the State PWA office in Fort Worth, according to City Manager A. P. Hancock.

Filing of the inventory on or before February 11 was the preliminary step in the Nation-wide program, which contemplates passage of the $4,000,000,000 PWA appropriation asked by President Roosevelt. It has been estimated that this huge would provide an average of one million dollars for public works projects in every county in the United States. Mayor Richard Holdsworth and County Administrator James B. Atlee attended a conference of county officials in San Antonio last Friday, when Public Works Administration representatives explained the plan to an assembly of officials from 22 Southwest Texas counties. It was explained at this conference that until the bill has been passed by Congress no details of how the funds are to be allocated will be available.

Filing of the inventory is merely for the purpose of giving PWA authorities an estimate of what the various counties will make application for when, and if, the four billion dollar emergency relief appropriation has been set aside in Washington. Hancock said that the city had no intention of making application for Government loans; but certainly would be in the market for about a million dollars' worth of the PWA money in case outright grants are to be made for public work projects. It has been intimated that such a procedure is being considered in Washington. The City of Kerrville's inventory of proposed projects forwarded to PWA headquarters listed the following: City hall and auditorium, addition to sanitary sewerage system, water works improvements, public school buildings, street paving and bridges, storm sewers and drainage system, $100,000. -o-o- -o-o- Kerrville Man New President of State Board of Education Ben F.

Tisinger of Garland and Kerrville Tuesday was elected chairman of the reorganized State Board of Education. He succeeds the late Nat M. Washer of San Antonio as head of the board. The new president was appointed by former Gov. Mir am A.

Ferguson a short time before she left office in January. He first was appointed a member of the State Board of Education by Gov. Dan Moody and later was reappointed by Gov. R. S.

Sterling. Tisinger, who still maintains a home at Garland, has been a resident of Kerrville for the past three years. He lives at 417 Earl Garrett Street. -o-o- Mrs. Emma Stieler Buried at Comfort U.

S. Army Officer Views Cadet Corps Muddy grounds and inclement weather Tuesday afternoon prevented the Schreiner Institute cadet corps from passing in review before Maj. L. R. Hathaway, Eighth Corps Area inspecting officer, but all cadets were visited individually in their dormitory -O-o- Retreat to Be Held Sunday Weather permitting, there will be formal retreat ceremonies at Schreiner Institute Sunday evening, according to Lieut.

W. O. Green, commandant. The retreat program will begin at 5:30 p. m.

-o-o- -o-o- McHoes to Make Parachute Jump L. L. McHoes, a Kerrville resident, will make a parachute jump at Louis Schreiner Airport Sunday, it was announced Wednesday Medina High Cagers Defeat Tivy Team, Win Invitation Meet Medina High School's basketball team, a high-scoring young combination coached by Lewis A. Parr, won the annual invitation tournament Saturday night in the Tivy High gymnasium. The Medina boys defeated Coach H.

H. Hill's scrappy Tivy team in the tourney finale, the score being 27 to 13. LeStourgeon and Swinney led the Medina team to victory in the title clash. Braden and Holbrook were by Dewey Tatro of the Tatro Fly- stars for Tivy ing Service. The 'chute leap will be 1 from the big Waco cabin plane op- romped over Comfort, 40 to 13.

erated by the Tatro Flying Serv- Tivy in the early rounds con- ice, which has been at the airport quered Hunt, 21 to Hi, and elim- To reach the final match, Medina made eliminated ('enter Point, 33-10, and (Contiuutd on Lust I'agt) here for the past several weeks. The cabin plane, piloted by Barney Root, well known aviator of LaCrosse, will carry passen- I gers from Schreiner Airport all day Sunday. CHIEF OF STATE HIGHWAY PATROL WARNS AGAINST ATTACHING NEW CAR TAGS NOW inated Harper, 27-12. Other results in the first round were: Harper 28, Boerne 14; Comfort 42, Bandero 11; Tivy 35, Ingram 10. Awards presented at the close of the tournament were as follows: Medina High, bronze trophy given by Tivy High School to the tham- Many Kerr County relatives and friends of the family were in Comfort Saturday to attend funeral rites for Mrs.

Emma Stieler, 78, a pioneer resident cf this section, who died suddenly last Friday at (Continued OB (Cuminued on Laat Attaching of new license plates for 1935 to motor vehicles has caused confusion throughout the State. While the new plates went on sale February 1, they are not to be used before midnight April 1. Tax Assessor Collector E. H. Nichols is anxious for Kerr County motor car owners to purchase their 1935 license as early as possible in order to avoid a rush in the final days before the April 1 deadline, but they must not be used before that date.

If motorists delay too long, it is feared that the collector's office will be unable to take care of all the late comers, and those who fail to secure the license will then be required to pay a penalty. Considerable time will be saved if car owners will have their 1934 license receipt in readiness when they go to the collector's office. This receipt absolutely necessary for issuance of the new license plates. Truck owners likewise must have their weight certificate when they apply. Tax Assessor Collector Nichols Monday was in receipt of the following letter concerning the use of the 1935 plates from L.

G. Phares, chief of the State Highway Patrol: "Within the last few days many inquiries have reached this office from tax collectors regarding the date that 1935 automobile license plates should be attached to motor vehicles. "House Bill 6 passed by the second called session of the 43rd Leg- (Cocliuued OB Latt ets given by Arcadia Theatre to runner-up team; Lewis A. Parr, suit cleaned and pressed by Sunshine Laundry for winning coach; H. H.

Hill, hair cut given by Blue Bonnet Barber Shop tu runner-up coach; Milton Blunt of Hunt, toilet articles given by Blue Bonnet Drug Co. to winner of free throw contest. A sweater offered by William-Heckler, to the most valuable player in the tournament will not be awarded until the coaches in the meet select the winner. Coach Hill and his Tivy High Antlers left early Thursday for a strenuous road trip into the Gulf Coast country. The Antler bas- keteers are slated for an afternoon clash with Robstown High.

Friday afternoon, the Tivy crew will battle Corpus Christ! High's Buccaneers and then jump to Taft for a night game. Another game with Taft High Saturday will close the ambitious program for the week..