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VALLEY WOMAN
| WINS HONORS
Mrs. Leland Bush of Mission
Places In Short Course
Home Contest
COLLEGE STATION, Aug. 1 —
Miss May Eddy, Crockett. Houston
county, and Mrs. Charles Duncan of
Tyler, Smith county, were an
nounced first place winners In class
I and class II, respectively, of the
state-wide improved living room
eonfc&t at a general meeting of con
testants and others during the
farmer?’ short course at the A. &
M. college of Texas Wednesday
morning.
Mrs. Leland Bushey of Mission.
Hidalgo oounty. was one of the win
ners In class IL receiving fourth
place.
Before a large crowd, woman aft
er woman of the more than 100
contestants present recited her ex
perience in the contest, conducted
by home demonstration agents of
the extension service under super
vision of Mrs. Bemice Claytor.
home improvement specialist, in
cooperation with the Semi-Weekly
Farm News of Dallas. Prizes were
presented by DeWitt McMurray of
Dallas.
Winners and prises in class I, in
which total cost of improvement
did Ktot exceed $60. were announced
as follows: Miss May Eddy. Crock
ett, route 2, Houston county, first
prise, $50; Mrs. 8idney Johnson.
Vineyard. Jack county, second. $30.
Mrs. Ed Schraeder. Wolf forth coun
ty. third. $20; Mr*. T. A Moseley.
Enloe, Delta county, fourth.
Winners and prizes in class IT.
to which cost of improvements ex
ceeded $50. were announced as fol
lows: Mrs. Charles Duncan. Tyler,
route 10. Smith county, first prize.
$50; Mrs. Ezra P. Phillips. Red Oak.
Ellis county, second. $30: Miss Rena
Harrlss. Brown wood, route 5. Brown
county, third. $20; Mrs. Leland
Bushey. Mission. Hidalgo county,
fourth.
A total of 1096 farm women In 86
counties entered the contest for the
year Just closed, the winners an
nounced being selected by an elim
ination process from county and
district winners. -*-s explained by
Mrs. Claytor. the purpose of the
contest conducted for two years by
the extension sendee is to estab
lish demonstrations of how much
can be done with a small expendi
ture of time and money in making
the living room a comfortable and
cheerful center of the home.
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Suits filed in the District Courts:
No. 8664. Lincoln Adams vs. Grace
Ferguson Adams, divorce.
No. 8665. Glenn C. Farris vs. R. B.
Went*, debt and attachment.
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28TH DISTRICT COURT
Hon. A. W. Cunningham. Judge
No orders.
10SRD DISTRICT COURT ,
Hon. A. M. Kent, Judgr
No. 8594. Agatha Copenhavcr
Mattke vs. Fred Mattke, divorce
granted as prated for.
No. 8611, Sarah Davis Sumner1?
vs. J. L. Sumners, divorce granted
a* prayed for.
No. 7219, In re estate Dave De
Korte. final report approved and
assignee discharged.
No. 8504. F. W. Howard vs Jan?
McDonald et al. Judgment for de
fendant.
COUNTY COURT
Hon. Oscar Dancy. Judge
Suits filed: No. 1743. In re guard
ianship of Newell Woods et al,
minor.
COUNTY COURT AT LAW
Hon. John Kleiber. Judge
In vacation.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
None.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
(Furnished by Valley Abstract Co.i
Cameron County
F. A. Herrera et ux to R. C. Tits
urorth et ux. lot 43. blk 1. Harlin
gen Land and Inv. Co. addn., Har
lingen. $10 etc.
Mike Guillen et ux to W C. Eads,
lots 5 and 6. blk. 10. townsite Lo.<
Indios. $10 etc.
W. C. Eads to Alberto Aguilar,
lots 5 and 6, blk. 10, townsite Lo?
Indios. $200
Port Isabel Ins. Agency et al bv
constable to C. R. Tuggle and
Keith Tuggle, lot 10-A. blk 46. city
of Port Isabel, plat 7-23. $10 etc.
D. H. Sage et ux to V. C. Spie?.
town lot 12. blk. 18. La Fera
townsite. $10 etc.
Lena T. Grant et al to M. D.
Homung. a small tract of land out
of survey 22, $10 etc.
Lena T. Grant et al to D. A. Tem
pleton et al. a small tract out uf
survey 22. $10 etc.
Lena T. Grant et al to E R. Tem
pleton. lots 7 and 8. blk. 2. town of
* Combes. $10 etc.
T. H. Thomas to Carl B Stowe,
lot 11. blk. 2, H. M. Barton addn.
Uarliugcn. $1 ete.
T. H. Thomas to Car! B Stowe,
lot 10, blk. 2. H. M. Barton addn..
Harlingen. $700.
H. C. Harding. Tr. to Cuates Dev
Co.. N. 10 acres of S. 20 acres lot
2. blk. 6. Bowie subd., Esp. Santo
grant. $10 etc.
B. L. Wade to Joe Wade, lot o
blk. 161. El Jardln subd.. share 27.
E. S. grant. $3600.
A. F. Parker to J. C. Byrne, north
10 acres blk 129. Minn-Tex. Land
& Trrig. Co. subd.. La Feria grant.
$2925.
Jose Salinas et ux to Jesus
Venegas, lot 19. blk. 32. Rio Hondo
Park townaite. $250.
J. 8teinheifer to Valley Dev. Inc.
blk. 23. Re-subd. Bixby subd. Cao
Isallo diet.. 11.18 acres. $670.80.
Valley Dev. Inc. to Ralph E.
Kirkpatrick, all blk. 23. re-subd
Bixby subd.. Capisallo dist.. $10,000.
Osco Morris to Emelio Martinez,
lots 6 and 7, blk. 7, West Harlingen
8450.
Emilio Martinez et ux to Mrs.
Mary Moodie Baize, lots 6 and 7,
blk. 7. West Hgn., $10 etc.
Stanford Owens et ux to C. C.
Cox, east half of north half lot
If. Mansur tract, share 19. Esp
Ban to grant. $1 etc.
Emert N. Low et ux to Gonzaio
Ysasl. north 4 acres of south 1-2
felk- 116, San Benito Irrig. Land
Co.'s subd.. San Pedro de C. grant.,
plat 2-6 an 34. $10 etc.
C. H. Wittenbach *t ux to J. J.
Victor, blk. 16, 12.27 acres survey
43, Bell subd. $10 etc.
W. A. McKinney to Maggie J. Mc
Kinney, lots 1, 2. 3. 4. blk. 2; lot 7.
blk. 4. Anglin addn., Harlingen. $19
etc.
W A. McKinney to Maggie J.
McKinney, a triangular piece of
land out of N. W. corner survey 42.
$10 etc.
Cuates Dev. Co. to Martin J
Secund et ux. north 10 acres lot
11. blk. 2. plat 4. Citrus Garden?,
share 43 of share 19. Esp. Santo
grant, plat 8-27, $2400 and other
consideration.
Roy L. Murphy et ux to P. H.
Gardner et al. all of lot **E." con
taining 2430 acres. James Dickin
son subd 1. plat 4-32, $10 etc.
Hidalgo County
J. C. Engelman. Jr., to Frank J.
Klooz. N. 10 acres lot 14. blk. 86
Mo.-Tex., $5750.
Mestenas W’ater Co. to J. C En
gelman. Jr., N. 10 acres lot 14, blk
86. Mo.-Tex.. $800.
W. H. Moore et ux to J. G. Madi
son. SE 722 acres lot 31. Bixby subd
$2500.
C. B Morrow. Jr., to P. C. Al
len. lots 15. 16 and 17. blk. 11, Wes
laco. $10 etc.
F. M Thomason to Perrv C. Al
len et al. lots 16. 16 and 17* blk. 11.
Weslaco. $10 etc.
Progreso Dev. Co. to I. J. Bes
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tenlehner, S. 5.62 acres lot 107,
Llano grande, subd., $6030.75.
John H. Shary to Fred Appleby.
W. 5 acres N. 15 acres E. 20.29 acres
east of canal lot 32-2, West addn.
to Sharyland, $1625.
E. W. and Rose Heidlage to J. L.
Love, N. 1-2 of N. 1-2 blk. 148,
Kelly Pharr subd., $1'50.
Progreso Dev. Co. to Frank A.
Bowman et ux. S. 4.96 acres lot 43.
Llano Grande subd., $5208.
W. A. McKinney to M. J. Mc
Kinney. lots 11 and 12. blk. 10, Col
lege Heights addn. to McAllen, $10
etc.
W. A. McKinney to Maggie J.
McKinney, 15.98 acres in NE cor
ner farm tract 577, West tract. $13
etc.
W A. McKinney to Maggie J
McKinney, lot 6. blk. 4. Orange
Grove addn. to Weslaco, $10 etc.
BEASEL CANDIDATE
FOR TURF HONORS
NEW YORK, Aug 1.—t/P)—The
Beasel. winner of two out of three
starts, looms as a candidate for Juv
enile filly honors.
The imported daughter of Sun
spot has a dazzling burst of speed
from the barrier, a most Important
requisite in abbreviated dashes for
youngsters.
She cost her owner. Gifford A. 1
Cohran. $7,200 as a yearling and
has won almost three-quarters of!
her purchase price already.
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New Currency Reminds Chinese
Of Paper Money Used in Orient
Long Before Dawn of Christianity
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By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.—It's a
I cold day. even in mid-summer
I when a Chinese takes note of any
convenience of modem civilization
without claiming that the Middle
Kingdom was well acquainted with
it when the Ming dynasty was still
in short pants.
An attache of the Nanking lega
I tion in Washington happened along,
in the bank lobby, as I was exam
ining my first sample of Uncle
Sam's latest currency—the new
small-sized kind, only two-thirds
the area of the old bills.
• \Ve had paper money in my
country,” he remarked, "long be
fore the dawn of the Christian
era."
• • •
Piqued. I inquired at the federal
reserve board's headquarters In the
treasury bunding whether paper
currency really was so ancient.
The board s statistical division
frankly was uncertain just when it
did originate, but ventured the
guess that it couldn’t have ante
dated the printing press, at any
rate.
Promptly we called up my orien
tal friend to suggest this poser to
him.
"Huh!” he jeered back. “I thought
everybody knew that the Chinese
already were good printers cen
turies before Guttenberg was bom."
• • •
The federal reserve folk do agree
that bills of exchange circulated
throughout the Roman empire in
B. C. days.
The Venetian merchants handled
lots of ahem In the middle ages
Marco Polo, who preceded Gut
tenburg by a couple of generations,
mentions carrying what would oe
called travelers' checks now—
though the federal reserve people
doubt if he was able to cash them
at banks as distant from Venice
as the financial centers cf Far
Cathay.
The federal reserve's experts sur
mise that something like really
modem paper issues must have fol
lowed pretty speedily after the
printing press' appearance in Eur
ope; they cannot imagine the kings
of those days as being slow to see
the system's advantages to them, as
a means of supplementing their
gold and silver hoards whenever
they began to run short.
• • •
Moreover the government's treas
ury authorities say, paper could be
made a reasonably satisfactory cir
culating medium even without bul
lion reserves to back it up.
In fact, economics like Prof. Ir
ving Fisher insists that it would oe
better than gold.
Professor Fisher's plan—which
Henry Ford heartily Indorses, by
the way—Is to make paper money
redeemable In stored-up commodi-i
ties.
The federal reserve and treasury
/ WE WAD PAPEG. MONEjl
\N My COUNffeY LON<q ]
people do not miss this idea as al
together visionary. They prefer a
gold basis, but they admit that the
other scheme might work pretty
well.
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What orthodox financiers like
about gold, they explain, is that t
has an intrinsic value—in the art*
and. for instance, filling teeth—
which does not fluctuate so rapid
ly or so far as values of any sort
of national wealth, such as crops,
real estate or warehousesful o'
weight on the scales.
Hence, it has stability, as a
manufactured goods.
The financial folk refuse serlousl
to consider the theory that science
may. one day. knock the value out
of the precious metals.
0 0 0
However, scientists speak of it a>
passible.
Indeed, the French savant, Jolll
vet-Castelot, is asking now for a
test of a process by which he de
clares he has produced synthetic
gold, exactly the same as natures
Similar claims have been made
before.
None ever has been satisfactorily
verified, but science declares that
it can be done—the right Jolt on
the rich atom is recognized as lia
ble to turn the trick any time.
• • •
The financiers themselves confess
that cheap gold would be no goou
as money—and synthetic gold
would imply other synthetic metals
Then what?
Treasury echo answers:
The fixing of an index value on
commodities generally.
A wheat index, for example
would hardly do; wheat prices vary
too widely with good and bad years
Just so with other single commod
ities, but some hundreds of them
could be jumbled together—wheat
beefsteak, dairy products, gents
furnishings, town lots, railroad
stocks, automobiles—and an index
value placed on the whole smear
Paper would be issued on that
basis.
• * •
Treasury officials will scarcely
discuss such a hypothesis—they ar.;
so afraid they will be overheard
and laughed at—or shut up in a
padded cell.
But it would work—they admit
that.
FOREIGNERS FORSAKE
COURT FOR GOLFING
PARIS. Aug. —European
tennis stars revert to the mashie.
niblick and driver when wielding a
racquet becomes too strenuous for
their aging arms.
Andre Gobert. once supreme in
French tennis reached the semi
finals in the French amateur golf
championships at Chantilly re
cently.
Jean Washer of Belgium, the
sturdy southpaw, finalist against
Tilden and Johnston at Saint Cloud,
whose forehand drive streaked like
lightning across the courts, now
hits the pill just as hard from the
tee. But he also hits them to all
points on the compass.
He succumbed in the third round.
CAPS WINNING LUCK
WITH HITTING TEST
HELENA. Ark.. Aug. 1.—(>P)—Nor
bet Luken, 18-year-old Helena. Ark.,
pitching sensation, won his fifth
consecutive victory in the American
Legion Junior league here by turn
ing in a no-hit. no-run game.
In the five games played, he al
lowed but seven hits. His team is
expected to make a strong bid foi
national honors in the Americar
Legion eliminations that will end
with the Junior world's series.
ENGRAVING OFFICE
OPENS IN VALLEY
(Special to The Herald)
MERCEDES. Aug. 1.—A quicker
and more complete engraving ser
vice comes to the Lower Rio Grande
Valley with the opening of an of
fice in this city by the Service En
graving Company of San Antonio,
one of the leading engraving houses
of the South. The Valley office will
be under the charge of M. H. Will
son and is loacted in the Hidalgo
Bank building. Mr. Willson recently
arrived here from San Antonio.
According to J. C. Brockhausen.
president of the Service Engrav
ing company, the opening of a Val
ley office was made necessary in or
der to efficiently handle the rapidly
increasing demands of the Valley
for art and engraving work. The
San Antonio firm has been active
in the preparation of engravings
And art layouts for land company
and chamber of commerce literature
and has been doing an extensive
business in the preparation of cuts
for Valley newspapers.
‘SHAG/ LATE DANCE,
IS FOR ENERGETIC
VIRGINIA BEACH. Va . Aug 1
(**>—Sun backed bathing suits and
oeach pajamas is the costume, the
sands are the dance floor, and the
fastest time known to the terpsi
chorean art. the tempo for “the
shag,” is the latest test for the en
ergy of summer colonists.
While clasisfied as a dance, the
"shag” essentially requires energy
rather than grace. It apparently is
the embodiment of all the move
ments of the Highland fling and the
late Charleston. Unlike the Charles
ton. the feet of the dancers are not
lifted.
RENO IS RIVALED
BY LAKE RETREAT
CALNEVA. Lake Tahoe. Aug. 1.—
A divorce law permitting appli
cants to receive a decree after a
90 days’ residence has bencfitted
more than Reno, the mecca of the
mismated.
On the borderline of California
and Nevada. Calneva is experiencing
a boom as its summer divorce colony
swells into the hundreds. The re
sort is only 30 miles from the court
house of Reno and as long as the
temporary residents stay on the Ne
vada side of the line they may idle
their summer days away on the
shores of Lake Tahoe.
Through the center of dining hal
and ball room there is a red cement
line Indicating the state line.
Poincare Operated
On, Is Improving
PARIS . Aug. 1 .—(/P)—P aymond
Poincare underwent successfully to
day a preliminary operation for the
treatr-'nt of a pelvic affection,
which forced his retirement as pre
mier last week m. . *
A bulletin Issued at 9 a. m.
“M. Raymond Pol re has UK
operated upon this morning ud»
the best possible conditions by x>r
Marion. There were present at the
operation Professor Oosset and Dr.
Boidln.
‘•Everything passed off in the
simplest manner.”
The former premie: left the op
erating room vithin a half our of
entering at « a. m.. and soon rec*v
ered consciousness. He tid felt
no pain and his doctors said there
was no fever and they were confi
dent everything would go well.
The oremler s r 'errtion was for
an effecti n of the prostate gland,
of a nature common to old men. He
will be 69 August 29
He probably will remairt abed two
or three days 'nd then be taken
home to await the ma;.. operation.
GI ST HOLDS HIM UP
CHICAGO—James W Kernan in
vited R. W. Davie.s horwe to have a
drink Davies held him up In the
house and took 13.500.
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We are able to give to your problems an ex
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