The Wellington Leader from Wellington, Texas • Page 1

-L 0 A -P A TURK -C IJJ A I 0 -A TI (J 'Tor Twenty-Eight Years A Builder In Collingsworth County" Texas' Greatest Weekly Newspaper VOLUME XXIX Wellington, Collingsworth County, Texas. Thursday, March 10, 1933 Moisture Greater To Date Than For Last Three Years One Inch Rain Tuesday Brings Year's Total To Three And One-half An even inch of rain fell here Tuesday, adding optimism to already bright prospects for the farm, and again adding to the business prospects. This brings the total moisture for the county this year to slightly more than three and a half inches, and is many times greater than the fall for the same period during the last three years. Beginning Tuesday morning, rain fell slowly, then began in earnest around 1:30 in the afternoon. The hardest fall cam? between four and six in the evening.

For a few minutes during the afternoon small hailstones fell in Wellington. The rainfall was recorded in tho government rnin gauge at the J. M. Strong, home. A comparison with tho moisture received to date in and 10117, as recorded in tho files of The Wellington Loader, shows that, only a fractional part of this amount was received during the first two nnd a half months of any of those years.

Last year, the first moisture, in the form of rain and fell from January 7 to 50, on February 4, more moisture was received in the form of light rain, nxiat and fog. During IMG, light fell on January 7 and IS. and again on tho The exact amount of moistai-e received from these vcrc not recorded. A prolonged cold accompanied snow. On February 20, another light snow flurry came, bringing "slight moisture." In 1D35, a year which brought better crops than either the one preceding or following, a long drouth was broken on February 12 one-half inch of rain.

No other moisture a recorded through the middle of March. NUMBER 34 Baby Beeves And Lambs Hold Scene Saturday Ordinance Aims For Lower Gas Community. Farm Meetings Under Way This ffeek Poured above nre the anvmnb nhotrn Saturday in the second annual Rnby Beef and Lnmh show. were members of tl r.lhilffton Clnh and the and Samnorwood Chapters of the Future Fflrmers of America. Pictured above on the If ft from.

to twttwt, -ire the. icool lamb entni'a in tin? lamb dieixion; second, the winning pen of fii- Inrnhs, owned A. W. Atk-ixxon of Quail thown the center of the ffroup. Third from the top fete Dwell of with winning mutton lamb Lower pi tare the mutton of -which wrre Dowcll.

On the left, top, the winner of the beef division ouyer tf Uelhnyton. tenter, nil entries in the beef tfiinnion. The lower picture shows the group they march, aimnid the rnnt to be. judyed. At the re me winner of the second prize, with owner Hall of County Farm Leaders To' Discuss Agricultural Program For 1938 Educational meetings to explain to farmers information thus far received concerning the 1938 Farm Program will be held during this week and Monday in the various communities over the county.

In charge of the meetings will be W. K. Cottingame, agent; H. M. Haswell, assistant, and members of the County Committee, Clyde Emmert, Will Bennett and Gi'bbs Glenn.

This group attended a meeting in Amarillo Monday of agents and county committeemen, in which an explanation of the program was brought by state officials. Educational meetings were held at Swearingen and Ring Tuesday night, and at Quail Wednesday night. Meetings scheduled for the remainder of the week are as follows Thursday: 10:00 a. Cottonwood and Fresno; 1:00 p. Bean Hill; 3:00 p.

Hackberry, Cross Roads and Shinnery; 7:30 p. Samnorwood, Li Hie and Midway. Friday: 10:00 a. Enterprise and Buck Creek; 1:00 p. Rolla anil Scale; 3:00 p.

Lone Mound: 4:00 p. Houselog; 7:30 p. Dodson and Kelley; and 8:00 p. Dozier. Monday: 10:00 a.

Ella; 1:00 China Grove; 4:00 p. Elm Vallev. Lynn Appointed Henord, Atkinson, Dowell Take Awards i i' Wild Life Head Ring Farmers Are Organized W. H. Lynn appointed; chairman of Coll ings worth County for national Wild Life Restoration SVwk, to be observed March 20 to '2fi.

The appointment i was made by 0. Walton, presi-i dent of Texas A. and M. College, While complete plans for tho of this week, which an attempt will be made to impress on the public the JK-IHJ of conserving wild lifts Mr. Lynn has already announced the sale of wild life stamps here.

Assisting Mr. Lynn in this work is Austin O'Neil, game warden for this district. Local business men and civic leaders are expected to! take an active part in this icstora- week. Park And Wells Improved Improvements at the city water wells and the planting of trees in Ellison Park has been under way during: the past week and a half by Handley, city engineer. Improvements at the city wells are a continuation of the work which was begun last year.

Major improvement is tho rebuilding of the well house, making it smaller, raising the floor level, and laying a concrete floor. The land around the wells is being terraced to keep out flood water, a potential source of contamination, The pump house and reservoir are also being re-roofed. The trees which were set out at Ellison Park are of cottonwood and honey locust varieties, and were obtained along Salt Fork river. Approximately one hundred and sixty were set out, "If only half of these live, there will still be a good shade in a few (Continued on 19) Communities For Cotton Vote Set Seven communities have bwn chosenJ by the county agent's office as'balloting points for the referendum on cotton marketing quotas, set for March 12. This referendum has called by Secretary of Agrif-iilum- Henry A.

Wallace to determine whether the fanners are in favor of or opposed to cotton marketing quotas on the crop. Subject to the nfisult of tiiu referendum, marketing quota with respect to the marketing of the 11)38 crop has been established. All fanners who are eligible, that is, only those farmers who were engaged in production of cotton in are urged to vote. Referendum Election Communities anil the committeemen holding the elections as announced are: Dodson, Frank Ford, W. S.

White, and E. Stephens. Wellington, W. O. Wood, J.

C. Ford, and Charlie CaldwelL Swearingen, U. E. Kelly, Wal- (Continned on Paye IS) Heads Kiwanis Dr. John Harper is now president of the Wellington Kiwanis Club, following the resignation oj Joe Hani.

Dr. Harper formerly mas vice president. Baumgardner Is Member Of Tech Judging Teams LUBBOCK. John H. Baumgardner, son of Mr.

and Mrs. J. B. Baumgardner of Wellington, is a member of the meat judging and of the livestock judging teams of Texas Technological College which will compete at the Port Worth Fat Stock Show 16. This is the meat judging contest in collegiate circles in Texas.

Teams from Tech will also compete in dairy products and dairy animal judging contests. Van Farm Sale Is On Thursday Announcement was made this week of the public farm sale of implements and livestock owned by; W. L. Van for Thursday, March; 10. This sale will be held at Mr.

Van's place, located four miles south of Dosier, and known as the Norwood farm. Horses, cattle, hogs, implements, harness, feed, and a variety of miscellaneous articles are being offered. "As am leaving the farm, everything that I am offering sells at high dollar," Mr. Van said. "This sale wjll be held regard" (Coniinue4 on Paga it) City To Observe Week Clean-up Week, from April to' 10, will he sponsored in Welling-' ton again this year by the 1024 Study Club, Mrs.

C. K. High, presi-j (lent announced this week. As in the past, the City of Wellington will co-operate in the work. CommitU'owniwn who will have charge of the plans are Frank Eikenburg, chairman; Mrs.

i Morris Wells, Mrs. W. O. Richards and Mrs. Bill Lynn.

While plans of procedure have not been worked out as yet, defi- i nite announcement has been made of the awarding of blue ribbon prizes to the most improved yard in various divisions. These include church yard, school yard, residence, alley, and vacant lot. The flags will be posted in each of the winning yards. This week, from April 3 to 10, has been proclaimed in Austin as State Clean-up and Paint-up Week by Governor James V. Allred.

The Texas State Department of Health and the Fire Insurance Depart-1 (Continued on Paga IS) Winning Animals On Exhibition At Amarillo Fat Stock Show Pat Henard, Pete Dowell, and A. W. Atkinson walked away with honors at the second annual Calk ami Lamb Show hold here Satur- Henard won on his babv beef, while Dowel! and Atkinson won on lambs. Especially jrroomod for thn occasion, everyone of tho eleven calves and forty-six sheen showed careful feeding and tending during the months of preparation for the hhow. Winner of second place in the baby beef event was taken by Hall Wells.

Third place was taken by Horiard. Both boys are members of the Wellington 4-H Club. On individual wool lambs, Pete Dowell won first, Lewis Allred A. W. Atkinson third, and (Continued on Page IS) Organization of a unit of the Texas Agricultural Association was perfected at Ring Friday night, with C.

L. Harris elected! chairman. Other officers are Mrs. Iligdon, vice chairman: Mrs. J.

L. Harris, secretary-treasurer, and" C. L. White, reporter. W.

K. Cottingame mot with the group, which was organized at the regular session of the adult night: i school, and discussed "What is Wrong with Agriculture." Thin farm group will tho: first Tuesday night of each month i (Continued tin 12) Mayor LeDerer And Other Officials Plan Trip To Tennessee Valley An ordinance lowering the gas rates in Wellington, preparatory to securing a hearing hefore the Railroad Commission, was passed by the City Council Monday night. The ordinance as passed sets the domestic rate at 45c per thousand for the first twenty thousand feet, and 40c for all over that amount. The ordinance also sets a commercial rate ranging from 30c to 15c per thousand cubic feet. The ordinance specifies that if shall be in force from and after May 1, 1938.

At the Monday meeting- Judge R. H. Templeton was employed as full time city attorney to handle the gas case and attend to other legal matters. Judge Templeton, who as mayor of Wellington was instrumental in installing the first municipally owned water system and light system, said that he had received instructions from the Council to push the case to a quick hearing before the Railroad Commission. He also said he believed that the decision of the Supreme Court in the Laredo gas rate case and the new policy of the Commission in furnishing engineers to appraise the physical plants of distributing systems would enable Wellington to secure a satisfactory rate on gas.

Judge Templeton also said that Mayor F. C. LeDerer, Bura Handley and he would shortly make a trip to the Tennessee Valley to inspect a light plant there with the view of purchasing it and installing a municipal light system. "There is one plant there," he stated, near the place where I was born, that can be purchased for $18,000. We will inspect this machinery and another plant that has been priced at $15,000 for the machinery.

Mr. Handley," he said, "estimates that it would cost approximately $10,000 to bring one of these plants to Wellington and set it up with another $25,000 needed for poles and wire to furnish the power lines. However, since the franchise of" the Telephone Company has expired, the matter of securing lines may not be quite this expensive. While the gas case is our immediate concern, we also intend to work on the light system and on electric rates during the present year." Box Supper Is Scheduled For Quail Friday A box supper will be held in the auditorium of the Quail High School Friday evening, March 11, according to an announcement made here this week. Entertainment features are being scheduled to interest all attending, and a number of candidates will also be present to make local announcement of their race.

The box supper will begin at E. H. Nelson Sale Is On March 15 E. H. Nelson has announced that he will sell at a public farm sale on March 1.5, a variety of livestock and farming implements.

This sale will be held on Mr. Nelson's place, located' one mile east and one rnile north of the Shinnery School, and is known as the Bill Burgess farm. Horses, cattle, implements, harness, cottonseed, cane bundles, and household furniture will be sold at this time. "We cordially invite the public to attend this sale," said Mr. Nelson.

Jim Wallace will act as auctioneer, while A. T. Smith will serve as clerk. Coffee will be furnished free and lunch will be served on the ground. Poteet Child Badly Burned By MRS.

C. W. FRITTS Billie Louise Poteet, eleven-year- old (laughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Poteet of Nicholson was se- riously burned Sunday afternoon i when her dress caught fire from! a gas heater.

The child ran, and her clothing was burned from her body. Her entire back was affected, and the hair was burned from her head. A passing motorist rushed the child a Shamrock hospital where she is in a critical condition. It is thought she inhaled the flames. Raburn Buys Baby Beef After Club Show On Saturday The baby beef owned by Buford Graham, and shown in the Baby Beef and Lamb Show Saturday, has been purchased by Ollie Raburn for his market, he stated today.

The calf was fed out by Graham and his project in Future Farmers of America work, and has been on feed since last spring 1 He is a member of the Quail chapter. This calf was of the Hereford strain. Hell Drivers Here Sunday Thf Frank King Post of the American Legion Ivas made arrangements to bring to Wellington C'apt. Jerry Edwards and his congress of hell-driving, death dodging automobile drivers for a personal appearance Sunday at Stadium. Capt.

Edwards, the world's champion hell-driver, is the only person who ever rolled an automobile over seven complete times, also jumps a car eighty-seven feet through space. Seven additional drivers are included in his troupe of hell-drivers. Eighteen big acts are in listed in his afternoon's entertainment, (Continued on Page 12) Legion To Honor Veterans' Parents Parents of World War veterans will be honored at a meeting of the American Legion and ary Thursday evening, March 17, at 7:30. This will he a special Legion Birthday Program. Speaker for the occasion will be a from the state department.

Visitors from Childress, Memphis, Clarendon, and Hedley will be present. String orchestra and band mujric will be featured as an entertainment program. The entire membership of the Legion and Auxiliary is urged to bo present, Doughnuts and coffee wljl served..