The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1911-10-13
TO HELP FARMERS
Owing to Rush in Crop Gathering
Judge Smith Continues
County Court.

were no litigants, Jurors or wit
nesses ON hand and it was soon
learned that these had all been
notified that on account of the
rush now on in the crops in the
county the court matters would
he shaped to accommodate the in
dhlstrial welfare of the country. 4
= The lawyers sat around with
nothing to do today The Coun-
ty Clerk picked mp bunch of Bro.
Hunt Exhorters and passed them
around. Two lawyers went into
primary Sunday school room
and studied the map of the East
to try to locate Tripoli and am
other disciple Of Blackstone said
he had read numerous ideas about
the location of the garden of Ed
en- and he wanted to find it with
his own eyes. Just then Sheriff
Boles announced the Court duly
and constitutionally open and the
| lawyers left off all public research
and came back TO the precincts OF
/ Jurisprudence.
Judge Smith stated that he had
received letters and telephone
messages from men in every sec
tion Of the county saying chat the
whole year IS labor is at stake
That their cotton is open and
must be- gathered now or lost and
begging that they mey be permit
ted to stay at home and work. ac-
cordingly the Court addressing
! the attorneys made the following
announcement:
Gentlemen of the Bar:
This Court after due consider
alton and upon his own motion is
going to continue every case on
this docket until the January
term, 1912 and in so doing ] do so
without prejudice to any one. All
cases now on file will stand on the
docket. Just as though they had
been filed for the regular Janu-
AIRY term
Mr. Sheriff. vJu may notify the
regular drawn jury for this term
that they need not come, but stay
at home and attend to their crops.
Gentlemen Of the Bar you get
busy and notify each and every
witness at once that they are not
needed. and not to come. ! will
hear all default cases ON the dock
et and all pleas of guilty that may
be wanted TO be made, but any
case calling for a jury or witness
es is now continued. on my own
motion.
Gentlemen. ! do this after due
consideration and think that ] ann
warranted in SO doing. This IS
the first crop that the farmers
have made in four years and they
are needed in their crops, their
time at home is worth more to
them now than at any other time
of the year. Lei them stay at
home and gather their crops. Take
twelve men ont of their crops for
Jury service and the number Of
witnesses that would have to come
here and stay away from day TO
day would work a great hardship
ON them. You may not agree with
mo i'm This matter but ] believe II
is right.
The Court therefore makes and
enters this. the following order:
ION this the 10th day of Octo-
her. 1911 i'm open Court the Court
makes and enters this the follow
ing order: II is ordered by the
Court that each and every case ON
the Criminal. Civil and Probate
Docket of the County Court of
ScuITy County, Texas, be and the
same is hereby continued TO the
January term. a. ID. 1912, with
out prejudice to any one. The
cases not contested and pleas of
guilty will be heard al this, the dc
tober term of Court. II is further
ordered by this court that the
Jury be and is hereby discharged
for the term. ~
FRITZ r. SMITH,
County Judge, Scurry County,
Texas.
The Court then proceeded to
hear such matters as default eases
as might be presented and all con
ested matters were passed over
D the next regular term of the
0unty Court