The Ledger & Times, August 1, 1930
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Murray State's Digital Commons The Ledger & Times Newspapers 8-1-1930 The Ledger & Times, August 1, 1930 The Ledger & Times Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.murraystate.edu/tlt Recommended Citation The Ledger & Times, "The Ledger & Times, August 1, 1930" (1930). The Ledger & Times. 91. https://digitalcommons.murraystate.edu/tlt/91 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Newspapers at Murray State's Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Ledger & Times by an authorized administrator of Murray State's Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. f 'X X I EJLVZS, wao ™ appreciated aad $1.00 * >~ ndmiueDt*! rulflt i * Oram. Lowest Ai lured that the ardl ry ma Stewart (Vnntlea. • uf lite delinKd a Rate per 1,000 Reader* $1.50 of any Kentucky* E SBOtfO * mZ_ oeklj N-n»l»B«>r- $2.00 *i*i»r thaa alwra CountyV First "Kentuckys Most Progressive Weekly X ipitol VOI.IIMK HI MI KKAY. umcm, nunA* Moamo tuuim i, i««o Kl'MKKK TWKSTY-THIlMf » C. Walm X ray County waa ea- 22 out of a portion Boiling Farmers LEGI0NAIRES All-time Heat Records Smashed Here; 2,000 ATTEND ounty, it included 100 4-H CLUB t»nt Marshall Coun- Dig Baked Spuds »unty waa given the WILL GATHER DAIRY PICNIC way. being named MEMBERS TO Jerseyvllle, III., July 25— City Is Second Hottest in Nation with 110 Richard Calloway; WILL Heat stories about frying eggs ly ploneeft of Ken- on sun-blistered sidewalks All-Time Heat Records Murray Second Hottest AT KIRKSEY 0 lived at RooneB- ATTEND CAMP paled into mere Insignificance AT MAYFIElD Farmer Says Chicks Dt companion of tonight when Jerseyvllle Coun- Z/ • Are Broken Here Place in Nation Hatched By Sun Rays ROGERS Local Organizations o f ty farmers announced they Preparations Go Forward Last Sunday. Wide Territory la Represent- seat of Uie new Beverly Hills. - Well all I know have been digging baked po- During July. ed in the Annual Graves and Calloway to tatoes fforn the ground. for Annual State Conven- tthllshed at Wades, Is Just'what I read tn the papers. Horse Cave. Ky.. July 27.-- tion, August 25-27 Murray wcas the second hottest Gathering present Marshall and what 1 know when 1 am there Entertain The potatoes, in some eases, "Some competition for Hades. Now comes Mr. J. H. Turner place in America last Sunday with County line, o^t know It. Now dont let them were reported to have been Inc. ", was tfle comment of H. B with a heat story to compete a maximum temperature of 110 Dexter; a thrlvl^B you li haxent been hot there fully cooked by the sun and "Shorty" Arnold, official govern- with the ones about .popcorn JUDGING CONTEST WON INSTRUCTORS NAMED LEGION AUXILIARY TO degrees by .official government on the Murray ana California the past few weeks. ready for serving with excep- ment weather recorder for Murray, popping on the stalk and baked BY H.M. LECKY, COUNTY MEET AT SAME TIME thermometer. A search of weath- ay. D. T. Davis in Brother It* been roasting, and we BP* BOYS AND GIRLS tion of salt and butter. in giving the Ledger £ Times the potatoes being dug out of the er record back to 1880 failed to Story of Mayfield" Jiavent not Ihe usual Alsbl, "Ifs qiaxlmum temperatures for July, ground. Id Wadesboro -was the humidity." We haven! even from the first to 28th inclusive disclose a higher reading of - the Speakers and Farm Agents Encampment Will Be At Beautiful American Legion Since July 2t. Mr. Turper of It being the first got any ,if that. Course Its beea All-time heat records are broken, mercury. , Stress Importance of Memorial Building Will declares, eleven* baby -'Chicks te capitol of the ceol in the nlirbtB. (That i» fajify Lynn Grove From August it is indicated beyond the shadow, Conway, Arkansas, took fiiw r have been hatched'on his farm Dairy Industry Purchase County", cool. I 1 sm not going to btloo 11 to 15 Be Used of a doubt. honors t?) in the nation Sundg> without • aid from a hatching sboro that the first blK a liar jusl for the ayes of the PER CAPITA Mr. Arnold has been keeping with 113 degrees while, Earling hen. The sun's rays have the Jackson Pur- Slate. It* Just been tmrTthata all. Mayfield, Ky., July 30.—Prep- the local weather recerdB for the ton. Ky.. tied Murray,for second By W. I>. < 'ox » Over 100 4-H clpb imagers caused the hatching of the eggs, ged. and it was a arations for the annual State con- past six years and only one time The street temperature here The annual Jersey Picnic, spon- Say- you know wptCl we got out from the Purchase counties are e\- which, were scattered about his 'are In early days. HELPS vention of the Kentucky Depart- previously, four years ago. did ranged from 8 to 10 degre^ sored by the Jersey Cattle -Clubs here besides the^Heat . Wel„c„l jyitso „a lieeted uarnnd the clilb camp, at barn Tor *nerfr Cave City, ac- onTTar tad near to." ment American Legion, to be held the maximum reach 104 degrees. higher than the government in of Calloway and' Graves counties, Fish they calf "It I Lvnn Grove. The camp will be cording to Mr. Turner. * was held Wednesday at the farm pa terns, and for Hchools W. 75'per I*itp4l here August 25, 26 and 27, are This was only momentary, lasting strument, .readings of 118 and 120 Grunion, (Not held Auust 11th to 15th. County To of If. E. Radford near Kirksey. move Into the new From going forward side by side with about thirty minutes before bein being made on'tbe square- Grundy) G ru n- Agent C. O. Dickey sent out Invita tilves tVianty Ky. Though the cro^d was not overnight it be- the preparations for the American dispelled by a thunder cloud. Murray fell back in the "also 1 o n. At a cer- tions to calf club members this « .W»0 M<we. 8 Legion Auxiliary's State gathering ran" class .Monday with a mere quite a large as a year ago. it is ing little village of ; tain time of the week July 5 to 13. inclusive, was the to be held at the same time, it waa 108 while Bowling Green. Ky.. estimated that more than 2,000 at- sitants. day and year G. J. McKenney .assistant state Despite a Blight decret.se in the champion nine days with an announced by Robert Humphrey, took national honors with an of- tended. irshall county was why It washes club leader will be director of the Bch<)df census, Calloway county average maximum of 103.4 de- LONG DROUGHT general convention chairman, fol- ficial 113. Paducah. Ky.. was Calloway and Graves counties it of a portion of »right "up on the camp. Miss Sadla Wllgus. "home get $1,860.60 more from the grees. Saturday, the was lowing a conference here of local tied with Earilngton for second were best represented with a r; and the MarihaTp^ I bank or beach agent of CaRoway eeunty and C. •IS l«P school purposes hi* year the then record with 109 while and state officials of the two or wkh HIT large delegation rroin Marshalt waa located at Bed- Irather. You can O. Dickey, county agent of Callow than last as a result of the per the lowest day of the entire period IS EXPLAINED ganizatlons. The two conventions The last rain in Murray was on county and quite a number from lloway capitpfwaa "tell where I did way county will be managers, of capita raise of 60c per pupil. State was 100. Three day St recorded will be one of the largest gather- June 16. an inch and a third of the lower counties of the Pur- resent sit^-of Mur- all my early the camp. They will be aspfsted Superintendent W. C. Bell lecently 100, one registered 103 .three at- Vicious tinie of Dry Weather ings to be held in the State this rain fall being recored on June chase. Tennessee waa also well nearjthe center of I wimniing. Its by the County and Hoijie/Agents announced the raise in the per tained 105, and the 11th boiled up Blamed foi'' l,a«'k 'lerv-Oie lands had year and will be attended by dele- to 105. 15 and 16. There.has not been represented, irffluding the mana- • just a tew Inches of the other counties. aI- capita quota from $8.15 to $8.75 of I tain. Mdnl of. and the According to Supt. M. O. Wra gates from all parts of the State. .1 drop of recordable moisture ger of the McKenzie Milk Pro- • long and pretty Instructors on the camp will be, The 109 degree mark held the d office closed Its ther, Calloway county would have The women will have a part in th£ tince that date and as this Is writ- ducts Co.. with dairy farmers from small even in a girls handicraft. Miss Josephine title until Sunday pushed the Washington. July 28.—Ken- public, the once materially benefitted from .the activities of the Legion convention ten there is no rain in sight and Henry. Carroll and Obion coun- story. Well people go to the Frasar, of the University of Ken mercury up one more notch to tucky's record-breaking droughts raise if a number of pupils now at- and many special events are being none promised by the weather ties.