The Gilmer Weekly Mirror (Gilmer, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 25, 1932 Page: 1 of 6
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Washington Bi-Centennial, Feb. 22,1732-1932
loth Houses of Congress
Join With President In
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the highway and garage, cause- shot and killed Glaston Thomas,
Car Theft Brought
the complete furnishings.
Their suspicious actions at a
Nashville, Ark., caused them to
her to good health again.’1
Both families
are of
Diet.
picked up on the way.
age to the Cafe and building.
They didn’t fight extradition
front of the younger Blalock's
As the father of the
—Friday night, Austin on Satur-
county for burial Tuesday,
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possibly from there to Harlin-
friend will be glad to learn that ton—a very interesting trip for
the band.
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Grand Jury To Answer For
Killing Glaston Thomas
in a commercial producer.
COUNTY COURT IN ,
Frees and Edwards
Move to This City
From E. Mountain
The $1500 bond required of
Mr. R. B. Blalock, 50, a promi-
nent farmer of the Glenwood
neighborhood, who on Monday
Mrs. J. M. Moon has return-
ed from Dallas where she has
been in a sanitarium for the
ed by the recent rains, but the
thieves managed to roll the car
through this and get it on the
Highway and get away with it.
Men Charged With
Grayson Ray, student at Sim
mons College, Abilene, writes
his father. Mr. Jeff D. Ray,
that he will go on an excursion
to South Texas this week, with
the Simmons Cowboy Band.
They will play at Belton on
Work Starting On
Wells Near Rash
ship of Gilmer will be a valued
asset. '
the officers, one. Of them talk-
ing about the cost of fighting
it when dore to the Arkansas
and Texas line.
Back to Gilmer
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Sheriff J. M. Seago and'Dep-
uty Clem Hill returned Thurs-
day evening from Nashville,
Ark., with the four men caught
World War left the armies in
about the same positions they
occupied when the Japanese of-
fensive began. ,
Tuesday's fighting was the
Wood-Nelson in
Austin Chalk;
Cored to 3,550
Portrait of Martha Washington by Gilbert
Stuart, direct from the original portrait
now in Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
gratitude to this man whom
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ed them, and- then they got in
the car and beat it. The sher-
iff notified officers , at Nash-
ville and they were arrested
and papers in the pockets of
the car showed that they had
never cleaned out the pockets,
and an Upshur County seal was
in it, and some of Mr. Hinson’s
letters. 1. •
. Jack Nickols admitted steal-
in the car and the others claim
lex have embraced the ideals
for which it stands. To Web-
ster’s expression of hope’-we
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on the sale of 169 acres of roy-
alty on W. W. Sanders’ land,
was commenced,.
We need not attempt at can-
onization of Geoyge Washing-
ton. We know he Was human,
subject to the discouragements
and perplexities that come / to
us all. We know that he had
moments of deepest anxiety.
of genius in his day found
their one sure center of agree-
ment. In his wisdom and auth-
ority they found the one sure
way to practical fulfillment of
forth the’ picture of the glor-
ies and the valor of Lexington
giving day they will commem-
orate his birth in every home
. every scheol, every church and
every community under our
This week two East Moun-
tain families moved from that
section of the county to make
their homes in Gilmer.
Mr. J. K. Edwards, and his
sister, Miss Marjorie, Edwards,
are now occupying their beauti
ful new brick home at the cor-
ner of Scott & Montgomery sts.
The yard is being graded, pre
paratory to establishing a lawn
and shrubbery will be added
ehortly to further adorn this
outstanding home.
The house is furnished new
throughout, the services of an
interior decorator being em-
ployed for that purpose.
We know he had sufferings,
and the sacrifices and anguish
may reasonably answer, yes—
•the sun in its course visits no
land more free, more happy,
more lovely than this, our own
country.’ Proudly we report to
our forefathers that the Re-
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we rever above all other Amer-
' icans. iContinuing till Thanks-
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feeet.. Elevation is 426 feet.
It if reported that farmers in
that section of the county are
getting pledges for a bonus of
110,000 to be given the drill-
district title, defeating
field to do it. This ye
have the same team bat
have lost just one ga:
the crack Emory five..
Flashing a lighti
brand of basketball, the
Buckeye cagers Saturday
defeated Texarkana 45
and won the right to m
ber, champions of Diet
which is to the north <
Gilmer started scoring
and as the score indicate
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R. B. Blalock’s
Bond Signed By
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car of Mr. J. R. Hinson that
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in the County Court Monday
morning the case of H. B. Mc-
Guire and Jimmy Fleetwood vs.
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rived in, Gilmer Tuesday to take
charge of their fine, modern
brick home on Montgomery
ed forward to is here. We
i ‘other deciples of Washington'
whom he foresaw are gathered
today. His prophecy is borne
out, his hope fulfilled. The flag
‘still floats from the top of the
By TUCKER A LASCHINGER
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public is more secure, more
constant, mre powerful, more
truly great than at any other
time in its history.
Today the American people
begin a period of..tribute and
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Mecca Cafe Fire •
Early Sunday
Fire believed to have started
from defective wiring on the
back partition of the' restaur-
ant proper, of the Mecca Cafe,
on Tyler street, at 3 o’clock
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ings adjacent, between which
there are no fire walls; were
slightly smoke damaged.
The water and, smoke dam-
age "will put thg~ Cafe out of
business for a few days.
The fire was discovered by
Mrs. McArthur, who was sleep
ing in the rear of the building
housing L her news stand, next
door to the Mecca. There is
only a • wooden, partition be-
tween the two business1, at the
back of the building, ami she
was awakened by the crackling
of the fire above her head.
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Derrick material has been
hauled out to the Willie Starr
farm in the C. H. Cooper sur-
vey, about 2.5 miles east of the
Portrait of General George Washington by
Gilbert tuart, photographed direct from
the original portrait now in the Boston Mu- /
seum of Fine Arts (Unfinished Athenaeum)
Gilmer Will Meet
Gober Friday Nite
in Bi-District Race
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Coach John W. Avery’s GB-
it up. They- se
when theyigot.
was signed by a number of
prominent business men of Gil
mer, and Sheriff Seago said
the signatures on it were good
n
his resentment of injustice and
misrepresentation. And yet we
know that he never lost faith
in our people.
Nor have I much patience
with those who undertake the
irrational humanizing of Wash-
ington. _ He had indeed fine
qualities of friendliners, of soc-
iableness, of humanness, of
simple hospitality; but we have
no need to lower our vision
from his unique qualities of
greateness, or seek to deprec-
Japs Admit Chinese Can
Not Be Dislodged After
clad, and summoned Felix Goss
and Cecil White, who had just
driven into town from Pitts-
burg. They summoned the fire
department and.then crashed
the front door and tarted to
fighting the flames themselves.
Without 4heir quick work, it is
believed the fire would have
spread and possibly endanger-
ed the entire Hock.
Trade in Gilmer
According to Judge Briggs,' was stolen from his garage last
“Mrs. Free has not been in Monday night. They are E. R:
good health, and looks forward Terry, Cecil stiliman, _ Jack
to the conveniences of our city’Nichols and Chas. Blake.
Both families are of the be arrested. Three of them
stock that pioneered the south- got out of the car and were
cm part of the county, and slipping around a store there,
their addition to the eitisen- , when the watchman approach-
who founded our Republic. We
hake need to remember the fib-
er/ of those men who brought
to successful conclusion, the
eight yeaa of revolution.
We have need again to bring
hich have already been
din these columns,
Mr. Ras Phillips
Had Car Stolen
Mr. Ras Phillips who resides
on the South Highway a few
miles from here, had his car
stolen Tuesday night,
it was a 1922 Model T Ford,
and no kind of inducement
would ever-make him trade it
in.
The driveway to his garage
had a bad mud hole, between
monstrate with Mr. Blalock,
urging him to give the boy a
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day, Bunday will be spent in
San Antonio and from there
they go to Laredo. Tuesday
they will be in Falfurrias and
whose banks he lived, and on
whose banks he rests, still
flowing on to the sea, so sure-
ly may they see, as we now
see, the flag of the Union
floating on top of the Capitol;
and then, as now, may the sun
vp/
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street, which they bought from
Judge M. B. Briggs, along with in possession of the Chevrolet
Capitol.’ It has come unscath-
ed through .foreign war and ana wic n anu „„
the threat of internal division. that came to’him. We know” of
its only change in the symbol j
of growth. The thirteen stars 1
that Washington saw, and the ,
twenty-four that Webster had j
looked upon, are now forty-
eight. The number of those ,
who pay loyalty to that flag ]
has multiplied tenfold. The re-
spect for it beyond our bond- (
ers, already great when Web- j
ster'spoke a hundred years ago
has increased-not only in pro-
portion to the power it sym-
bolizes, but even more by the
measure in which other peop-
, in the .horizon, so surely as
they shall behold the river on
are also toward the east of
the Rash, the Bain failure to
the west having led to the be-
lief that the oil trend would be
eastward. Among these are
the J. K. Wadley et al on Buie
&. Simpson tract in the L S.
Van Roeder survey or on the
Oliver 100-acre tract in the
Sophie Sanders survey. Both
are three or four miles north
of the Rash. Also, R. L. Mar-
tin et al on the McQueen tract
in the D. Meredith survey,
southwest of the producfer.
(By Aasocialed Proa)
Washington, D. C., Feb. 22-
Standing before the congress of
the United States, President
Hoover marked today the two
hundredth anniversary of the
birth of George Washington by
pronouncing him the chief con-
tributor to the nation's great-
-ness. _______
. “The true eulogy of Wash-
— ington,” he said, “is this
mighty nation.’’ ’ ,
The chief executive’s words
—delivered before a joint ses-
sion of the house—initiated
formally the bicentennial cele-
bration of the first president's
birth, which will extend over
the next nine months.
as a means to giving her the ______ . _
needed rest that will return town ten miles this side of
chance, to which Mr. Blalock
replied that he would give him
(the father), just one chanee,
to run, and it was said he ran.
This conversation was in
alarm and subdued the flames
before they spread to the ad-
joining buildings. The build.
Many Citizens toU undr consider.
him twice, once in the left
breast and once in the arm.
The remains of Glaston
Thomas were carried to Titus
ng more than a hundred years. S
To what they have sald, 1 at- 1
tempt to make no addition. •
Tne true eulogy of Washing- •
ton is this mighty nation. He ■
contributed more to its origins •
than any other man. The in- ■
fluence of his character and of ■
his accomplishments has con- l
tributed to the building of hu- I
man freedom and ordered liber- '
ty. not alone on this continent
but on all continents. The part
which he played in the creat-
C. L. Goodson, for commission finals-
Gober last year won the
ber, Fannin county team, a
Bonham Friday night at eigh
SESSION MONDAY o'clock.
The game is sure to be bard
fought and if Gilmer can win
this scrap, they are due to go
to Austin to play in
past two weeks. She had her _ . , ------____ _____ ___
finger amputated and her many gen and home by way of Hous- kept the
For His Appearance Before the ation.
mer Buckeye basketball teanis;
ing crew if the well is brought champions of District 7, Inter-
scholastic League will play Go-
cept the victory of Washing-
ton’s fortitude triumphant ab- . Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Free ar-
iate the unparalleled accomp-
lishments of he man who dom-
inated and gave birth to the
The Gilmer Volunteer Fire sut came 'back willingly with
Department responded to the
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Monday Lorn Jacksonville^ kla. on Glaston Thomas and shot
(See BASK
for more than $ 100,000.
He was released from custo-
dy and- returned to his home.
^'Hn-fact he was never in very
close custody, as he was given
a blank bond and told to go out
and make it for $1,500.% ’
Sunday morning caused several they wer hitch hikers that he
hundred dollars worth of dam —
she is greatly improved.
flag....... ,
It is not necessary for me
to attempt a euiOgy of Wash-
ington. That has been done by — — - _ -
masters of art Aid poetry dur- (See WASHINGTON, Page 4) She rushed to the street partly
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Mrs. .Norman McClelland and house,
son Jimmie, arrived in Gilmer
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in 108 course visit no land more
free, more happy, more lovely,
thanethimeouzapww.ssunttok. their dreams.
The occasion marked Mr.
Hoover’s first appearance be-
fora a joint session.
•Turning completely from
present day problems, the pres-
ident traced the course of the
- country’s growth over the past
two centuries and called for a
renewal of the inspiration of
Washington.
President Hoover's address
follows:
Just one hundred years ago
in this city Daniel Webster, in
commemoration of the birth of
George Washington, said,
“A hundred years hence oth-
er deciples of Washington will
celebrate his birth, with no less
of sincere admiration than we
now commemorate it. When
they shall meet as we now
meet, to do themselves and him
that honor so surely as they
shall see the blue summits of
his native mountains rise in
being of a great nation..
What we have need of today
in this celebration is to renew
in our people the inspiration
that comes from George Wash-
ington as a founder of human
liberty, as the father of a sys-
tem of government, as the
builder of a system of nation-
al life. ....... -
We have need to refresh to
the remembrance of the Amer-
ican people the great tests and
trials 'of character of the men
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ion of our , institutions has
brought daily harvest of happi-
ness to hundreds of millions of
humanity. The inspirations of
his genius have lifted the vis-
ion of succeeding generations.
The definitions of those pol-
icies n government which he
fathered have stood the test
of 150 years of strain and
stress........it
If we are to get refreshment
to our ideals from looking back
•ward to Washington, we should
strive to identify the. quality
in him' that made our revolut-
ion a success and our nation
great. Those were the’qualities
that marked Washington out
for immortality.
We find they were not spec-
tacular qualities. He never
charged with a victorious army
up the capital streets of a con-
quered enemy. Excepting only
at Yorktown and Trenton, he
won no striking victories. His
great military strength was in
the strategy of attrition, the
patient endurance of adversity,
steadfast purpose unbent in
defeat. *
The. American shrine most
associated with Washington is
Valley Forge, and Valley Forge
was not a place of victory—ex-
Bloody Four-Day Attack
ove the weakness and discour-
agement of lesser men. Wash-, ,
ington had courage with-
out excitement, determination
without passion......
In his integrity, all our men .
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He came to town immediate-
after the killing and sentfor
Sheriff Seago to go out to hi"
car. There he told him that
Glaston Thomas had ruined his
daughter and that she was ex-
pected to become a mother in a
month or two and that she was
only 14 years of age.
Sheriff Seago at once sug-
gested that he get a warrant
charging him with a statutory
offense, when he replied that
he had killed him, and had
come to surrender.
As to the particulars of the
happening, it "s learned that
Blalock met the young man in
the.roadand accused him of
ruining his daughter. Then
Thomas pleaded with him to go
to the home of his brother-in-
law, to prove his Innocence.
His brother-in-law was the son
of Mr. Blalock, having married
Thomas' sister, and Thomas’
father was there. 1,..
Mr. Travis Thomas, father of
the dead boy, started to re-
pulsed wave after wave of Ja-
panese bayonet charges near
Kiangwan.
The only success the Japan- A
ese have to show for their ef- ’
forts is the destruction by
their bombers of a Chinese air-
drome.
It is reported that Robert .... ,
Short, an American aviutor
with the Chinese armies, was
killed in an air fight.
(By Associated Frm)
Tokyo, Japan, Feb. 23.—The
Government decided tonight to 1
double the Shanghai forces.
They were informed that the
Chinese, after three days of
fighting were holding their
own. 14
Gen. Uyeda, Commander in
Chief at Shanghai, refused to
ask for enforcements, following
a traditional Samuri code_.but
naval and civil authorities ask-
ed for reinforcements, " .
Authorities said it was* re-
ported that parts of Gen. Chi-
ang Kai Shek's army, the best
in China, was reaching Shang-
hal, .and that was more alarm-
ing to the officials than the
stout resistance put up by the
19th army.
The final Japanese election
returns of the general election
showed the Seiyukai party,
which is more militaristic than \
the Minseito, won approximate- X
ly two thirds majority of the
.
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The Wood-Nelson test, about
a mile south of Pritchett, on
he H. S. Coslett tract, B. F.
' ward survey shut down Mon-
afternoon. While coring
found they were getting
from around the sur-
so they are recement-
ing which will mean a two-day
delay.
Austin chalk was topped at
3,479 feet, and has been cored
to the present depth of 3,550
feet. Pecan Gap was logged in
this test from 2,479 to 2,870
GILMER, UPSHUR COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, FEB. 25, 1932.
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I . Wednesday Eslick et al No.
1 1 Whitehurst test, was drilling
below 500 feet. This is . the
first of a number of wells to be
drilled in the vicinity of the
Cranfill-Reynolds No. 1 Rash
producer, and will likely show
whehter or not the latter is to
—sennect with the field to the
south.
It is located in the McKinley
& Williams survey, southeast
of the Rash, in this county but
not far from the Gregg county
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Shanghai, China, (Wednes-
day) Feb. 24.—It was admitted
today at the Japanese head-
quarters that their terrific 79
four-day onslaught had failed
to .dislodge the gallant defend-
ers of Kiangwan. It also ap-
peared that the Chinese would 8
be able to hokLo_ut indefinftely.____—
Following 96 hours of the
heaviest fighting since the,
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Tucker, George. The Gilmer Weekly Mirror (Gilmer, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 25, 1932, newspaper, February 25, 1932; Gilmer, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1441182/m1/1/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Upshur County Library.