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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-01-03
There Was Just One
Error in This Story

Yes. the Iilmelhochs had n
New Years day baby. just az
tho papers said Wednesday.
II was n nice, bouncing baby,
Just ns the papers said. II be.
longs AZ 320s Franklin ave.
Just as the papers sold. The
only thing about II Is that the
proud papa was Dave Hlmei.
hoch, instead Of his brother,
Joseph. Joseph told us 40
Thursday. mo reason I
should buy cigars for Dave"
he said.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-01-03
MAKING IT EASY

''of course. dear. It's only n
rough idea OF mine. but do you
think II rs possible that there's
such thing as printers error
In that cookery manual OF yours?'
London Opinion.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-01-03
Warm Sports Scarfs
of BlMshed Wool md Anqora

U DTHoHtU VUUE UItU HWyUTU
FASHIONS love of the Scarf is only equaed
L by the woman of fashions love of wearing
it la stock, and the gay Wool Scarf of Winter
is particularly smart right now.
In soft gray and tan colornEs. hnrmonlze with
gay plaided coats and with varLcolored stripes
plaids $3.50 to sl2.5O
First FLOOR
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-01-03
Versatile
Small Rugs
WOOL HAND-H00KED RUGS AND
w HAND-BRAIDED RUGS, both typical
of Colonial times.

HAND-DNNIDLD NUUo, UUIH IypICa
IF Colonial times.
FRENCH OVAL WILTON RUGS In gay coIorlnEs
bordorcd with blaet-to brighten duh rooms
NAVAJO RUGS AND INDIA DRUGGETs FOR sun.
ana porch
COTTON OVAL RUGS, machine.sewu lie fiat on the
floor.
CHENILLE RUGS in cotton and wool-softtextured
and OF pleasing appearance.
COTTON RAG RUGS AND COTTON MACHINE
HOOKED RUGS in many lovely colornEs.
INDIA FELT RUGS OF soft white goat hair cmbroid.
cred In coors.
WILTON AND ADMINISTER RUGS In coIorines TO
harmonic with room decorations.
Third Flo
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-01-03
Birds Starpe and Die
First Floor

by the thousands when Jack Frost locks up the
ground A little food made accessible to the birds
during tho cold spell win tide them till Spring
when they will do wonderful service in our fields
and gardens keeping insect pests under control.
A CRACKED CORN WINTER RATION has
been prepared which is cracked fine enough for
tho smallest birds. II WIN not sprout on lawns
4 ten-pound sack i 45c. In our Housewares
Section. Downstairs Store
FEED THE BIRDS
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-01-03
Bills

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fvc Adolph ].
Illinois, who
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.n,oSlcaslng."
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introduced a
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-01-03
Women's "Under-HoSe"
For Cold Weather

THESE warm Under-hose, to be worn with
L sheer silk stockings, are seamless and in
various shades of flesh-color, so as to be prac-
ticaly invisible
soft and very fine, in silkand.woo, ,l.75 pair;
in allwool. $500 pair
First Floor
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-01-03
GOOdW OOLen Blankets

THESE are the days when it is well to be
prepared for sudden changes in tempera-
ture-and these are the Blankets that will
provide quick comfort on cold nights
PLAID WOOL BLANKETS warm yet light weight
block patterns OF pink, blue, and tan. slzo
s6xsO inches, $1,000 pair.
PLAID WOOL BLANKETS size 66xSO inches more
closely and slightly finer quality than above
si1.00 pair.
FINE WOOL BLANKETS, woven from carefully SO.
lcced yarns in soft gray, pink. blue and tan, size
inches $3.50 and $500 pair size 72xs4 inches.
$3.50.
First Floor
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-02
MAY GET BUSES
San Angelo Men Plan to Organize
Motor Bus Company.

San Angelo. Tex, March with.
out street cars for number of years,
San Angelo soon may have their mod
ern competitor, the motor passenger
bus. operating on 1J-minute schedule
principally over paved streets that
lead from the business district in four
directions to hard-surfaced county
highways. Frank Van Court and Hol-
loway Smith have conferred with the
city commissioners regarding a fran
chise and are organizing a company.
with the expectations of inaugurating
service within 60 to 80 days.
They plan TO charge a one-way fare
Of 10 cents to adults and cents 20
children under II, and to all students,
with the privilege of transfer. The
bus line will be operated as public
utility. the city protecting the cars
against Independent jitney drivers car
rying passengers over the same routes
as the busses. at the same or a lower
fare. The city's revenue, it is plan
red, would be IA of 1 per cent Of the
gross receipts the first year, 1 per
cent the second year and . per ceat
thereafter. City Attorney A. w.
LOveland has written to cities hav-
ing motor passenger bus lines for
copies of their franchises before draft.
ing a franchise for the local CON-
pany,
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-02
PRIZE FOR BEST BOOTH
Rio Grande Delta Exposition Held at
Brownsville.

Brownsville, Tex, March 1.-THE
Los Fresnos community won the prize
for having the best community booth
at the Rio Grande Delta Exposition,
held this week in Brownsville. Los
.rresnos scored SAT out of q possible
1000 points, establishing a new record
for community displays in the valley.
The agricultural exhibits Mt the ex-
position are attracting much attention
from northern visitors. In the Los
Fresnos display eighteen varieties OF
staple crops, q varieties of truck
crops, and 81 varieties of canned
goods and preserves were checked, O
record no other section of Texas can
duplicate.
The community exhibits were
judged by w. i. Lanham, marketing
specialist of the extension service, and
DR.. f. 4. Buchel, head Of the depart.
ment of agricultural administration #
the A. & NJ. College. both of whom
pronounced the exhibits the best they
have ever JUDGED
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-02
HAVE SOME LUCK
Carnival People Forced to Leave PEI
Monkey in Payment For Board.

Cuero, Tex, March i.-Bucking
the brand of weather which prevailed
here last week proved very disastrous
to a small carnival company, which
had to resort to various and sundry
methods of settling board and hauling
bills and continuing its journey to q
neighboring town.
Henry Burt. manager Of the City
Hotel, found himself in possession of
an unpaid board bill and two pet
monkeys Monday morning, and he has
been offering the monkeys on the
open market to any one interested
enough to pay off the board bill.
Three bright colored blankets, that
featured the stand of the wheel Of
fortune, fell to J. J. Fischer for some
hauling.
The Central Hotel received some
securities that may or may not be
worth the board bill. The manager
of the carnival before leaving set
forth the claim that he carried the
"cleanest" bunch of people that ever
Travelled with carnival, as every one
of them was "clean broke"
The city and county tax collectors
were the only ones that came out
whole as they demanded cash in adj
vance and got the money before the
show and the bad weather started
in.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-02
INCREASE IN COTTON
ACREAGE IN VALLEY
10 PER CENT IN 1924
Planting Gets Into Fall
Suing With Plant Up
in Many Places.

Brownsville, Tex, Mar. THE cot.
ton acreage increase in the valley this
year will not exceed 10 per cent. ac-
cording to s. c. Tucker, owner of the
Brownsville cottonseed oil mill and
gin. who has made careful survey
OF the three valley counties. Every
available acre of land will be planted
to cotton" Mr.. Tucker stated, "but
this was also true of last year, and
the bulk of the acreage increase will
be in the dry farming sections of Will
lacy and Hidalgo counties. where
large areas have been cleared"
Owing to the fact that large acre
ages of citrus and late vegetables have
been planted in the irrigated areas
this spring, the cotton acreage will
not be greatly increased. he states.
Last year the valley had 100000 acres
planted to cotton, and he estimates
the 1924 acreage between 1I5,000 and
10000.
There is every indication, however,
that the valley yield will be much
greater than last year, as the soil is in
| better shape, planting is under way
three weeks earlier, and the cotton
growers are better prepared to COM
bat insects. Growers state that if the
planting had been as early last year
as it is this season, the yield would
have been increased one-third, as the
leaf worm would have done practical
~ no damage.
Cotton planting got into full swing
last week. and in many fields the
plant is already through the ground
and the rows plainly discernible.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-02
SCHOOLS GET AID
$3.50 TO Be Given Tom Green County
Institution by State.

San Angelo, Tex, Mar. Twenty.
six rural schools in Tom Green county
have been granted state aid totaline
S12SO, following inspections by H. F.
Aoore, state school inspector, who was
accompanied by 7. w. Parker, Tom
Green county superintendent Of edu-
cation. The amounts range from 500
to $3.50 and will enable all the schools
to have at least six months terms.
Mr.. Moore found the rural schools
well organized and doing satisfactory
work under enthusiastic teachers. The
consolidation of districts in sections
where the schools are scattered, long,
err terms and better equipment, with
an ultimate raising of the qualifica.
tons of the teachers, are the objec.
tives of state aid. Schools operating
more than eight months out Of the
year and those with 400 students en-
rolled or with 500 scholastics in the
district are not eligible for state aid.
After this year no school may RE-
ceive state aid unless the district levies
a 75 cents maintenance tax. Most Of
the Tom Green county schools have
already met this requirement and the
others will do so by next term. says
County Superintendent Parker,
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-02

Mexican Tells Sheriff
Another Man Adopted
Spouse and S Children

Brownsville, Texas Mar. 4. -
Pablo Jimenes, who resides at Rio
Hondo, has reported to Sheriff
Robertson that he has lost his en-
tire family, consisting of his wife
and five children, all of whom he
alleges were adopted" by another
man whom he thinks resides in the
vicinity of Corpus Christi.
According to the story told by
Pablo, when he arrived from his
days work one night last week,
instead of being greeted by family
he found the house deserted, and
he alleges that inquiry ELECTED the
information that his wife had de-
cided to make her home with an.
other man, taking all the children,
the youngest of whom is eleven
months of age, with her.
Sheriff Robertson has made in
quiries through the office Of the
Nueces county sheriff, but has been
unable to locate Pablo's missing
family.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-02
ORIENT PUTS ON A
DIRECT LIVESTOCK
TRAIN TO KANSAS
New Schedule Pats Cattle
in Wichita in Seventy
fwo Hours.

San Angelo, March 1.-Seyenty.
two hours from Alpine, Texas, to
Wichita, Kans., is the schedule of the
weekly through livestock train which
the Orient railroad has just inaugu.
rated. The train is expected to serve
a triple purpose, bring West Texas
livestock raisers in quick touch espe.
elally with the stOcker cattle market
at Wichita and the slaughter market
at Kansas City, and to distribute
over a longer period the livestocl;
movement from West Texas handled
by the Orient line.
The train leave Alpine at 70 80
every Friday morning, arrives here at
3 80 in the afternoon and departs
an hour later. 1t will be due in Al.
tus. Okla, at 1 80 Saturday morning
and livestock will be unloaded there
for feed, water and rest. Reloading,
the train will leave Altus at s "a
Sunday morning and will arrive at the
Wichita stock yards at o'clock
Kansas City is but fourteen hours dis.
tant, which will place shippers OF
slaughter cattle in quick connection
WIN tne packers tnore.
Loading livestock promptly and hav-
ing it ready to be picked up when
the through train comes along will
be essential to the service. Wichita
LIVESTOCK commission men and other
operators were partly instrumental in
securing the new train, and John Z.
Healy, Wichita commission dealer, is
now in this territory, acquainting
shippers with the advantages of the
new service and with the steady mar
ket for stocker cattle at Wichita, espe-
cially from January 1 through April.
Besides increasing the Orient's bust
ness, the new train is expected to
greatly relieve the annual stock rush
when, between April 1 and May Is,
the road is called upon to move be-
tween 1000 and 1900 cars. carrying
mostly stock that has been sold to
feeders in Kansas and Oklahoma.
Orders for this spring movement al
ready are being received, with indi-
cations that 1000 cars will be shipped,
says w. II. Hargrove, general freight
and passenger agent for the Orient
here.
With excellent range conditions
promised by timely late winter rains,
on top of a good season already in
the ground. the pasturage in West
Texas will be ample for cattle not in
tended for fattening in the Middle
West for slaughter.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-02
MODERN COTTON 81
| GIN TO BE BUILT
AT SAN BENIT0
Plant Will Haue Capacity Of
100 Bales Every
"a Hours.

San Benito, Tex., Mar. i.-Befors
the ginning season of 1924 arrives this
city will have another cotton gin un.
less the plans Of its promoters 70
wrong. Fred II. Handley and J, Il.
Nosler, who have been residents of
this city for the last five years, have
purchased a plot of ground near the
resaca bridge. 1t is the purpose Of
these men to begin work in a short
time on modern cotton gin and have
it ready for the 1924 cotton crop in
the vicinity Of this city. The new
gin is to be known as the "Air Blast
System, and will probably be the first
OF its kind in the Rio Grande Delta,
1t will be operated by an electrically
driver motor and, according to the
promoters, will have a daily capacity
when running at full time of 100 bales
every "a hours.
The men behind this new enterprise
are both well known here, Mr.. Hand.
ley being one of the largest land own.
ers in the city.
Mr.. Nosler, since coming 10 San
Benito, has taken an active part In
the life of the city and was for some
time manager of the Farmers Hard.
ware store here, but later devoted
most OF his time to cotton growing.
In the erection OF plant such az
they propose to build, is evidence Of
the faith they have in the future Of
the valley, and the years of success.
full business behind them is an as
surance that the new plant will have
the best OF management and be Z sue
cess from the stuart.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-02
TO INSPECT TREES
Federal Citrus Staff Will Make Tour
of Valley.

Harlingen. Tex, March 4. - The
Rio Grande Valley will receive an in
spection tour by the federal citrus
staff. according to e. w. Halstead.
chief of the federal inspection board of
the valley, and ]. NJ. Delcurte, of the
State Department Of Agriculture.
The staff of inspectors will be dis
tributed throughout the valley 20 that
their work will be carried on more
Systematically and thorough. The in
spectors have just completed a two
month stay in Mississippi, where the
pink boil worm was studied.
Although the citrus trees in the val
ley are-free from any injurious dis
ease at present, the inspection will be
carried on as a precautionary meas
urc to aid the farmers in raising their
trees more scientifically. There have
been several cases of canker in the
valley and this disease, which is so
dreaded by all citrus growers, will be
given thorough investigation by the
inspectors.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-02
WILL HONOR CODY
Texas Asked to Observe Buffalo Bills
Birthday.

Austin, Tex, March f.-Governor
Pat NJ. Neff was requested to CO.
operate in making an annual observ-
ance of the birthday anniversary Of
the late. Col. William Cody, famous
American scout frontiersman and SOL
der known the world over as "Buf-
falo Bill" The request came from
Gov. William B. Ross Of Wyoming,
who advised that his state is "today
celebrating the birth of Colonel Cody"
Governor Neff, who returned late
Tuesday night from Denver, Colo, will
no doubt give cooperation to the move
mcnt to make the anniversary of Buff
falo Bill an annual affair not only in
Wyoming and Texas, but in various
other states. Governor Neff deliv-
cred several speeches on law enforce
ment while in Denver.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-02
INTEREST IN GOOD
ROADS MEETING AT
WESTHOFF GROWING
Big Rally and Barbecue to
Be Held Prior to
Election.

Cueru, Tex, Mar. with the
houble-header road bond elections in
Dewitt and Gonzales counties just two
weeks distant much activity is
planned BY the steering committees, in
order to complete the Glacier to Gulf
highway all the way from San An
tonic to Cuero.
Plans are completed for a rally and
barbecue for the two counties at West
hoff, to which every voter'of the dis
trict will reveice q written invitation.
Because of the fact that the industrial
center of Cuero is in the district with
a good deal of assessed value and few
votes. a barbecue and rally has been
planned for negro voters of that sec
ton.
The meeting was to have been held
last Wednesday but on account Of the
bad weather was postponed until Tues
day, March f.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-02
TO BEAUTIFY YOAKUM
Rotary Club Launches Campaign to
Improve Grounds.

foainum, Tex, March THE Ro-
tary Club OF YCakum has started a
campaign every man, woman and
child in the city may join. that is to
make the city more beautiful and at
tractive.
The building Of more sidewalks.
cures. improved streets. the planting
Of ornamental, nut-bearing and other
shade trees, the bedecking of the
lawns with roses and crepe myrtle
and other Towering shrubs are some
Of the things planned.
According to reports the people Of
the city are boosting the subject, and
with the interest now shown con.
tinued il will be only a short time
when visitors to Yoakum will view
one Of the beauty spots of the South.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-02
Caught With Liauor.

Laredo, Tex, March AT a point
about twelve miles north of Laredo
State Rangers Dan Coleman, John
Saddler, Tom Brady, w. +. Burford
and Deputy Sheriff William wright
stopped car driven by Jose Garcia
and Jacobo Pueblo. The car contained
a quantity of liquor. The men were
heavily armed but offered no resist
ance to the officers. While examining
the Ford car which contained Garcia
and Pueblo, another Ford came along
at a high rate of speed going north,
ward. The stop sign was stretched
across the road but the car wen
through while one of the occupants
fired at Ranger John Saddler. whom
he Kissed. The car succeeded in max.
ing getaway.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-02
VICTORIA MAN DIES
r. b. Bledsoe Expires After . Short
Illness.

Victoria, Tex March l.-R. B.
(Bob) Bledsoe, 30, tobacco merchant,
died here Sunday after an illness OF
about ten days.
Robert Bledsoe was a native Of
Tennessee and had lived in Victoria
since 1902 when he worked for the
Southern Pacific railway as a brake
man until 1905. He had the misfor-
tune to lose his left'arm in a railway
accident Mt Rosenberg. He then en-
gagged in the confectionery and tobac-
co business.
He is survived by two sisters and
two brothers, Mrs. Thomas A. Tune
of Gillette, Ark; Mrs. Ezra Tune of
ClaredOn, Ark; NJ. f. Bledsoe of Fort
Worth; d. c. Bledsoe of Wichita
Falls, and A. NJ. Bledsoe of Orange.
The funeral was held Monday aft
ernoon under the auspices Of the Odd
Fellows, with DIR. John Black Hudson,
pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church, officiating.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-02
ROAD PROMOTERS PLAN TO
( MAKE RIO GRANDE VALLEY
MECCA OF WINTER TOURISTS
Two Direct Routes From San Antonio to Be Com
pleted by Fall-Third Route Extending Up Rio
Crande to Laredo and On to San Antonio to
Be Constructed Soon-Lower Delta Will
Have 125 Miles of Hard Surfaced
Highway by End of Summer.

was impossible for an automobile to
cross the sand strips of Brooks county
When Hidalgo county's program is
completed hard-surfaced highway
IS feet in width, will extend from the
Cameron county line near Mercedes to
the Starr county line near Sam For
dyce, running through Mercedes, Yves
laco, Donna, San Juan, Pharr, Nc
Allen, Mission and Sam Fordyce. At
San Juan the Edinburg-F alfurrias
highway, only present outlet of the
valley. connects with the TRANSFORM
ty highway. Hidalgo county's expen-
ditures for improved highways will
total S2,000,O00, supplemented by
S746,S00 in state and federal aid. In
Cameron county, where the Highway
No. II project has been completed, the
county has expended $1,000, 900, of
which amount S599,000 has been fed
eral and state aid. The county still
has approximately S125,0O0 in its
road fund with which TO start con-
struction on the highway north from
Harlingen.
Have Mutual Understanding.
One feature of the highway con-
struction throughout the valley has
been the permanency of the work. In
Cameron county all construction is of
two-course, steel reinforced concrete.
Is feet in width, with the exception
of few miles Of 15-foot roadway.
built when the project was first start
ed.
In Hidalgo county rock asphalt top
ping is being used throughout and
this is being placed on concrete base
where the traffic is heaviest. but in
other sections rolled gravel with cal
iche binder has been used, this type
having proved excellent under the
most trying conditions.
San Antonio. the center of one of
the most complete highway systems in
the South. has evinced much interest
in the progress CT the valleys high
way program, and the business inter-
ests realize that when the valley high
way system is connected with that of
Bexar county, South Texas will offer
q wonderful attraction to winter tour
lists. Thousands of the tourists COM
ing into San Antonio have been pre-
vented from making the valley trip
because Of road conditions. but when
the tourist "crop" ripens this season.
the valley and San Antonio will be
bound together with highways Of con-
crete. asphalt and gravel. offering the
touring public an opportunity to view
the beauties OF the most wonderful
portions OF the South.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-02
IMPROVE TOURIST PAR
Weslaco Residents Plan to Build
Shelter on Grounds.

San Berito, Tex, March THE
tourist park at Weslaco has been i'm
proved wonderfully in the last few
days. The Chamber of Commerce
Tuesday evening made arrangements
to have it leveled and sodded and
the Civic Club called for an ail-day
meeting on Friday when the men and
woman met there with shrubs. vines
and palms and proceeded to make the
tourist park a place a beauty.
Arrangements have been made for
the Civic Club to have a shelter buil.,
15x30 feet, for the protection from
both sun and rain. Also a shelter fer
automobiles has been suggested and
will probably be built. Weslaco is
one of the coming towns Of the val