The El Campo Citizen (El Campo, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, September 24, 1926 Page: 1 of 10
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El Campo, Texas, Friday Morning, September 24, 1926
No. 26
ON MAIN STREET
The Car Is Waiting
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FROM ACCIDENT
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JOSEPH ALFRED WHEELESS
• Nels Nelson, manager of Nel-
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months ago and went to Hous- E. N Peterson, address by Rev.
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Collins passed away
Mrs. Hattie Jones of Goose
1544.00 ed about 1:00 a. m. Saturday, home of her
son, Will Jones,
shipped to Franklin,
He was carried at once to the last few days.
was
Wharton County farms—
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condition and his father left
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his bedside.
Mrs. C. A. Ward was a week
He never rgained conscious- end visitor in Houston.
$24051.25 j
Mrs. Hassie Heard Wallace, ;
ness.
A
t
“SOME TRIP”
eral secretary of the Texas
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$971.08
Mr. Huppertz preceded his
miles to the gallon.
meeting in
Cotton Report
9662.61
637.19 ,
apparently on the
U. D. C. Program
High School
Stephen H. Darden Chapter North Side Grade
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NEGRO HIT BY CAR
2385.61
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purposes.
PALACE PROGRAM
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El Campo Texas, Sept. 7th, 1926
son.
To Install Gas
MACH-ZGARBA
pies,
Rev. F. L. Baechle of New
Catholic Rectory last week.
day.
of date.
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Born March 13, 1909.
Died September 18,
Texas,
made.
talk with a “song fest” which
: put everyone in a good humor.;
$ 2600.00
4513.00
16938.25
( A rally of the Christian En-
deavors of the Presbyterian
Church was held Monday ev-
Bob Whiteside made a bus- at the Palace Theatre soon"
iness trip to Houston Wednes- Watch for the announcement.
$1139.37
402.70
elected Superintendent of the
Franklin public school which
position he had since held.
$1092.50
201.95
731.85
58.40
- 48.12
_ 71.74
_ 61.35
_$112.16
_ 259.25
$213.85
23.18
8.15
5.00
40.06
COTTON DAMAGED
! IN WAREHOUSE FIRE
The play “Mary Magdalene’
by Maeterlinck, will be givei
$6648.61
14.00
3000 00 -
Out to the big
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Natatorium Monday and
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General Supplies____
.Science Lab. Supplies _
Music Supplies______
Commercial Supplies .
Freight, Drayage- etc.
Refunds
Bonds _
General Control:
School Board _________
Superintendent's Office
Miscellaneous________
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their bereave- was in Louise Thursday:
sul
thy of all in
ment.
4
J FRED WHELESS DIES INTERESTING NEWS
1 FROM ACCIDENT FROM LOUISE
A. J. ISAACSON.
Secretary of the Board
Misses Mary Johnson, Vivian 2
Johnson and Cora Cook left
Sunday for Huntsville to at-
tend the State Teachers’ Col- 23
lege:
Louise friends of Mrs. Nel-
Auxiliary Agencies.
Library _______
< Health Activity
R. E. Early, vocal solo by Mrs.
the night shift riding an ele- W. W. Appling, and speeches
insurance
1,Mi
RECEIPTS
Local Maintenance (incl. bal. $9.93)
State and County (incl. bal. $7.00)__
Tuition__________________________
Instructional:
Supervision____
. Principal______
Teachers’ Salary
ening at the Christian church,) Maintenance:
with Mr. E. F. Huppertz, gen-!
wiches was served on the lawn Debt Service:
Interest
Interest and Sinking Fund (incl. bal $265.77)____ 10840.52
DISBURSEMENTS
$1328.67 at once for Houston. x : Stockton. Louise Appling and
He died at 1:18 P. M. Sat- Katie Taylor have gone to San
urday, two hours after his grief Marcos to attend* the State .
stricken father had reached Teachers’ College at that place.
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Wheel- 27 term.
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r
__that the speed cops along the El Campo.
$41120.43 way were apparently on the Mr. and Mrs. Irving Stock- ;
DISTRIBUTION BY-ADMINISTRATION UNITS look-out for Chryslers, and he ton and Mrs. Chas. Cook mo- J
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Miss Rosie Mach and Charl-
es Zgarba were married at the I
e-*a
2-
2-M-
The Louise High School op-
ened Monday with indications
1926. of a happy and successful 1926
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srge
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Could be found and
$11536.31 was so well pleasede with the tored to Houston the past week
8406.80 performance of the carthat he end.
2 and ninety four bales had been
weighed Wednesday morning
The price has been going
Operation:
Wages________
, Janitors Supplies
Fuel__________
Telephone_____
. Water ________
Electricity
Miscellaneous __
EvERYBo0y
cross beam which knocked ers.
$21295.24 him down into the basement
■ Enroute saw the big
.* * *
Pitching Machine) excavating son Bros, farms, had 35 bales
of cotton badly damaged by
fire early Wednesday morn-
where interment
Jie leaves a wife
children.
PAd
2
$ 6.61
630.58
The origin of the fire is un-,
known.
Sewerage Work
! Is Progressing
The Hus+on Gas Company, ______
Miss Betty Brown left for
San Antonio Saturday to en- o3
roll at Draughon’s Business
College.
Miss Fern Payne has gone 2
and two
Roll call, War time exper-
iences of the E. W. Ducket
Paper, Woman’s part in Re-,
cosntruction days, Mrs. saac-
vator on the new building go- by Prof. Wynn and President
ing up on the corner of Austin of the school board, C. J. Gless
.and Texas streets, which is The faculty is as follows: Guy
, twenty-five stories high. N. Wynn, superintendent; Miss
._ol
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77472 /
at Sanatorium, Texas, Septem-
ber 16th. The remains were
was operated upon and found Jacksonville, visited her sons,
to have a crushed skull. His Carol and Vernon the past
parents were notified of his'week end.
For the new sewer—and
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the high school. He was then Instructional Service:
from bad to worse, 15 cents U. D. C. will meet Monday, the South Side Grade --
being the prevailing price, for 27th, at 3 p. m. with Mrs. Commercial ____.
middling at that time. > Stallworth. The following is General_________i___
Hands remain scarce for all the program : I Colored school ____
I flivvered
length and spectators were Catholic churc
looking at the boy at the time ing.Rammems
w- sir n ’’ - A
11’ ■' iaviisiit - $
M. Aubaugh, of ' —
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Interested in putting
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Over a big community
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Fair in El Campo
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So these producers
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• Could strut their stuff
Mr. J. F. Kubela and Mr.
$2265.91 and Mrs. W. R. Barron of
was consistently better than 20 tended the
Misses Sara Jones, Ruth
Creek ha bwGu a gusst in th*
I also saw a gang of
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3 Men bringing the big
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Gas line into town.
St. Joseph’s hospital where he 1 Mrs. J.
1,y
8
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Mr. and Mrs. Collins for-
merly lived in this city, where)
they made many friends.)
iWhile living here, Mr. Collins!
was employed as bookkeeper
by the Hefner-Fricke Co. Af-
ter leaving this city, the fam-
ily removed to Wharton where
Mr. Collins was principal of
ton where he was working on
St passed lots of cotton
♦ . ♦ *
L And Rice coming in
•To market—and I thought
. . .
Of the fine, agricultural
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Products, live stock, poultry,
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And the fine things produced
♦ • ♦
And manufactured on
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. 9 ------- and have contracted with the'
The Ladies Aid of the Christ- Cotton Oil Mill to supply it
00 hurt
The trip was made in a year night.
old Chrysler “70”, and the car Little Misses Wilola and La,
made an average touring speed vrgne Bruns spent several days.’!
of 50 miles per hour. Mr. Bar- of th past week with their
ron, who did th driving, said grandmother, Mrs. C. Bruns in J
$ 83.37
23.73
1221.57
* *
Houston have returned from lie B Weems of Brazoria, who
an auto trip which took them substituted as Superintendent
from Houston to New Orleans, in the Louise High School sev-
371.41 up the Mississippi Valley thru eral weeks last spring will be |
Tenn., Kentucky, Illinois, and interested to learn that she has
to Muscoda, Wisconsin. They recently sailed from New York 4
were gone a little over two on a College cruise around the
1542.07 weeks and covered a distance world.
of better than 4,000 miles. Raymond Hillyer left Sun- J
They crossed five statees in day for Austin where he will
971.08 one day, and were not in a attend the State University,
garage once, except for a loose Will Thomas, L. L. Raybon,
fan belt. The gasoline mileage Jr., and Kenneth Thomas at- 9
♦ ♦ ♦
free.
k,dezte
5205.41 has purchased a-Chrysler “70’
1325 09 roadster.
12261.27 -------
A negro boy about 12 yerhs to Houston to take a business
old, .was struck by : n automo- course at Draughon’s Business
bile here Saturday afternoon. College
His right leg was broken in Miss Betty Mae Martin left
two places and he also had a Thursday to attend Baylor Bel-
number of cuts and bruises ton College at Belton.
about the face and head. The -------
Masonic lodge
Ganado Friday
c. , m., - , Fred was up to the 4th story-Ethel Chipman, principal; Mis-
Statement or Receipts and Disbursements of the when he sat down upon theses Alma Moore, Lorena Hill-
W. E. Collins Dead ! El Campo Ind. School Dist for the Year 1925-26 handle of a wheel barrow and yer, Mesdames W. H. Bruns
was struck on the head by a and Elsie V. Post, grade teacH-
,,Oct. 1, Fox: Special chick6ens, etc. there. Admir-
“The Shamrock Han- ation coffee will be served Orleans was a visitor at the
W. E.
The remains were shipped after an extnded visit with,
to El Campo where the funer- Louise relatives has returned
al services were conducted by to her home in Cliff, New Mex-
Rev. L. R. Byrd at the Baptist ico.
church and interment made Mrs. Jessie Carlson is spend-.
$290 24 at the O. D. H. S. cemetery ing several days in San Anton-
Sunday afternoon. io.
The family has the sympa- Mrs. Tom Slone of Pierce,
car that struck him was not
traveling fast as the driver
stopped the car e within its
ess received a message that es consisted of “America” by 3
their son Fred was seriously the . school, a reading by :8
—: at Houston Friday night. Miss Lorena Hillyer, vocal duet 15
He left his home here two by Mesdames Bud Thomas and .52
And what a fine show
* • *
They would make if
♦ * •
We had a County Fair
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And I talked to a fellow
• * •
Who said that El Campo
Had a Commercial Club
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| But he didn’t know
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p Where it was hid;
* * * .
d And I wondered if it
$41120.43
Respectfully submitted,
aS
Young Man Knocked From An Furnished The Citizen by Our
j Elevator While Working on Correspondent At That
Building in Houston Place ‘2
Mr. Huppertz is a splendid
speaker and his message was
The gins have had a good full of inspiration to everyone,
1 week. All of them have been especially to Christian Endeav-
‘ busy most of time. ors, and many helpful sugges-
i . Mr. Cousins reported that tions were given.
5 five thousand, three hundred ---------------
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ggsnds2d,Greg, . • f
er system is said to be pro-
gressing nicely. It is thought
that with a continuation of
good weather the work can
soon be completed.
’ ft.
9 +"
•\ek
Kcn,edma
And show the world
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What they raise.
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I thank you,
♦ ♦ ♦
—Jack Kerry.
1946.06 of the building. This happ
Repairs______
’Replacements
Christian Endeavor Union as
speaker of the evening. A Capital Outlay:'
delegation of young folks from Buildings' etc.:
Rock Island, Wharton and Equipment
Pierce represented their re-'
spective societies. ’Fixed Charges:
At 6:30 a good fellowship
lunch of punch, cake and sand-
ing.
The cotton damaged was
stored.in a sheet iron building
owned by Rev. J. Harbes. I+
had been in the building but a
short time and was fully cov-
ered by insurance. The build-
ing was badly wrecked, with no
j insurance. .
Thursday and Friday, Sept. Chapter Talks, Some famous
23 and 24, Fox. Tom Mix inrides of the girls of the Sixties.’
“Yankee Senor.” Paper, Womans, Part in re-i
L Saturday, Sept 25, Univer- building of the South. Mrs.
Hft: Reginald Denny in “Where Clampitt. has a force of hands laying a The contractors are busy
-------------- pipe line from their main just and the work on the new dis-
BAKE SALE I , south of town into the city,posal plant and complete sew-
Thirty Five Bales of Cotton
Blonging to Nelson Bros.
Damaged In Blaze
HdudpHNK
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A - 4 123
a i p
24 e 1
Was II”
g,. Monday and Tuesday, Sept.
27 and 28, First National, Col-:
een Moore in “Ella Cinders.",
Wednesday and Thursday, ian Church will hold a bake'with fuelgas. Others in the
Sept 29 and 80, United Artists: sale Saturday, September 25th business section will possibly
William S. Hart in “Tumble- at Barnes’ Grocery Store. Get also be supplied.
weed.” your bread, rolls, cakes,
He I was , a conscientious
Christian gentleman, honored
and respected by all Mrs.
‘Collins has the sympathy of
her, many friends here.
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. Christian Endeavor Rally
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Ballew, W. L. The El Campo Citizen (El Campo, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, September 24, 1926, newspaper, September 24, 1926; El Campo, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1577608/m1/1/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Wharton County Library.