The Grand Saline Sun (Grand Saline, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. [22], Ed. 1 Thursday, April 15, 1937 Page: 1 of 6
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DOCKET CLEARED
'OF MM CASES
Driving While intoxicated
Cooes Lead List in Trials
This Week.
With methodical precision the ma-
chinery of the district court, now in
session in Canton, ground out the
criminal caseB set for trial this week,
with the preponderant number of
charges being for driving while in-
toxicated.
The heaviest penalty of the the
week on intoxicated driving charge
went to Ludie Bowman, who drew two
years. He was also charged with a
repitition of offenses.
Other driving while intoxicated
Cases heard were the following:
' O. L. Chaney, $50.00 fine.
Bert Pannell, 30 days in, jail.
Jack Creed, 45 days in jail and
$50 fine.
Howard Craft, 30 days in jail and
$60 fine.
O. R: Reeve, not guilty.
Pelix Denton, two years suspended
sentence.
Clyde Homsley, bond forfeited.
Other cases tried included that of
Harvey Wilson Kennard, who was
given two years in the pen. Kennard
was tried for forging a check which
was passed on M. T. Sides of Canton.
He was brought from the peniten-
tiary, where he was serving a rob-
bery by assault charge.
Scott Gets Six Years
Geo. A. Scott, who was charged on
four cases of forgery, was given two
years in each case, but two of the
sentences were allowed to rug con-
currently. Scott had received a three
year sentence in another county, and
he was taken to Robinson county to
, face another forgery charge.
Rawleigh Sides was given a five-
year suspended sentence for burg-
lary. Sides was an eighteen-year-
old youth who took three pistols and
a watch from the Richards Furniture
store in Canton. A companion case
will be tried on Thursday of next
week.
Forfeits Bond
Clarence Shivep who was charged
With the theft of meat from the
smokehouse belonging to Mr. James
of Grand Saline, did not appear for
trial and his bond was forfeited.
Most oJ the cases on Monday and
Tuesday were on pleas of guilty but
on Wednesday two cases were tried in
which the defendants plead not guilty.
Chester Chas Welshusen, who was
charged with robbery by assault on
Granville Williams of Canton, was
given a sentence of 25 years in the
geniflentiajy. Welshusen’s robbery
was committed on the highway East
of Grand Saline on January 24. The
convicted man had already served a
term in the penitentiary, and he was
faced with trials at Dongview and
Henderoon for highway robbery, and
in Hutchinson County for auto theft!'
Welshusen was originally arrested-
by Deputy Sheriffs Moore and Han-
nah of Denton county. At that time,
the watch belonging to Granville
Williams was found in his possession.
The defendant attempted to establish
an alibi that he was in Ft. Worth at
the time of the alleged offense, and
•tile Shedff of Hutchinson County and
a state highway officer were used as
witnesses in this effort.
Former Canton Justice Sentenced
Fred W. Covert, Justice of the
Peace in Canton in 1920 was given a
sentence of one year in the pen on
an artault to murder charge. Ike Neal,
Wills Point constable^ was the man on
whom the assault was alleged to have
boon made. Covert did nqt take the
• jtand in his behalf but his attorneys,
, Ijr the. line of cross questioning at-
tempted to establish that Covert's
was accidentally discharged. An
ood cafe was the scene of the
ice on June zo, 1936.
Junior Garden Club
at Work on Project
The members) of the Grand Saline
Junior Garden Club have been active-
ly engaged in carrying out their pro-
ject of building a park on Highway
15, near the business district. The
Junior club has the sponsorship of
the Grand Saline Garden Club, which
has Mrs. Ross Smith and Mrs. Levi
McPhail in supervision of the work
of the Juniors. Miss Hasel McPhail
is president of the Junior Garden
Club.
During the past few days the Club
has set out 115 rose bushes, of which
75 or more were of the Texas Cen-
tennial variety. Fifty hedge plants,
blooming shnfbs, and other plants
have been planted, and a flagstone
walk is to be installed.
SENIi PLAY TO BE
STAGED NEXT WEEK
The seniors of the Grand Saline
High School are sponsoring the pro-
duction of a three act play entitled
“Sis Perkins” to be held at the local
gymnasium auditorium on April 22.
It is an annual custom for the sen-
iors to promote this bit of amusement
for the benefit of their class and they
have chosen a verv suitable drama for
students in high school with the entire
action of the play taking place in the
Chandler residence in New York City
for 4he scenes, the tiipe of the play
being the present.
For the cast, seniors with the most
outstanding ability to act were
chosen, and incidentally, most of them
were in the junior play last year.
With the experience of one play be-
hind them the actors of this play
show promises of giving the* best ex-
hibition of acting that the high
school has seen in, recent years.
The cast is Included as follows:
Mrs. Elizabeth Chandler, Dorothy
Woolsey; Marcia Chandler, Sibyl
Flower; Baldwin Chandler, John H.
Simms; Carter, Cecil Thomas; Lydia
La Salle, La Verne Rqpker; Count Gas-
ton de ' Long, J. M. Palmer; Jay
Schuyler, Marlin Clower; Sue (Sis)
Perkins, Ruth Ritchie; Elvira Snif-
fkins, Lucille Strickland Violet Astor.
Daphine Cams. The setting for act
I is an afternoon in May and for act
II is the evening of the same day.
The third act is inclusive of the fol-
lowing day.
F. F. A. BOY!! ME
AT THE AREA ME
The Future Farmers of the Grand
Saline high school mada a wry good
showing at the Area meet held in
Commerce on Saturday, April 3, for
the purpose of giving training for
the State contest to be held at A A
M College, College Station, on April
19. The field Crops team placed
second in their event, being represent-
ed by James Harwell, Marlin Casey,
and Eugene Tipps, with Doyle Gandy
and George Worthington as alterna-
tes. Marlin Casey proved his ability
by tying for high-point man at the
contest. •
The teams representing the various
nrojects will embark on a trip to the
State Meet which is being sponsored
by the Department of Agriculture of
A & M next Saturday and will stay
over until the following Tuesday.
Main Street Baptist
Church to Hold Revival
WHITE—WOODALL
Manuel White, son of Mr. and Mrs.
-Manuel White, and Miss Frances
Woodall, were united in marriage at
Quitman on April 7. The bride is a
former resident of Grand Saline who
has recently moved to Grand Prairie.
Both attended the Grand Saline High
School.
. The newly married couple, left Wed-
nesday for San Francisco, where the
groom is stationed. He has been in
the U. S Army for the past two years,
and expects to be transferred to the
Hawaiin Islands within the next three
months. 1
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frond Saline Garden
Club Meets April
Grand Sniine Garden Club will
April 28 at 2:80 P. M. at the
of Mrs. T. B. Rat, with Mas-
l-Hardy, Burnett and Fowler as
fallowing program will ha
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The Van Zandt County Bankers As-
sociation will hold their regular meet-
ing Thursday night in Canton. The
group, which has W. L. Steed for
President, meets each third Monday.
Emmett White of Wills Point is
Secretary of the Association.
Urges Early Signing
of Farm Work Sheets
Rains County Official
Charged As Drunk
Constable Johnson and City Mar-
shall Vick took the driver of a car
and his companion in charge on Wed-
nesday afternoon of last week and
thfe driver was charged with driving
while intoxicated, while his compan-
ion, a county official in Rains Coun-
ty, was charged with public drunken-
OPERATE PURE OIL STATION
A. C. Jackson of Boynton, Okla-
homa and U. L. Nations of Grand Sa-
line are now operating the Pure Oil
Station in Grand Saline. Mr. Jackson,
who is a brother of B. Y. Jackson of
Van, has been in the oil refining busi-
ness in Oklahoma for several years.
U. B. Nations is a fbrmer employee
of Clint Bass who recently operated
the station.
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LEGION AND AUXILIARY IN
JOINT MEETING TONIGHT
the Tnr*g.C|ifAydir
of the American Legion
Beginning on April 18 and continu-
ing two weexs the Main Street Baptist
church will engage in a series of pro-
tracted meetings, the services of
which will be held each morning at
10 o’clock and at each evening at
7:30 o’clock. The members of the
church have hopes that this may be a
genuine holy spirit revival during
which time many unsaved and unen-
listed people may be reached.
Rev. Robert Fling, pastor of the
church, has constructed a very good
foundation in its organization, having
over-subscribed by four-hundred dol-
lars their three thousand, two-hund-
red dollars budget or the year and
having doubled the force of the Sun-
day school organization. Already
the church is feeling the benefit of
the movements has hopes that dluring
the revival meeting to lay a deeper j
foundation for church
spiritual evangelism.
Everyone, members of other church-
es, and the general public is cordially
invited to attend the services.
“Consolidated With The Salt Shaker”
Funeral Services for Mrs.
J. L. Nations Saturday
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To Durwood Reid of the Oakland
community and Sybil Fowler of Sil-
ver Lake goes the honor of being the
highest racking students of this
year’s Grand Saline graduation class.
Young Reid was chosen as valedic-
torian with an average of 94.49, and
Miss Fowler came in for saluatorian
honors with an average of 94.18.
T. B. Ray Opens New
Electrical A ppliance Shop
T. B. Ray, owner of the City Service
Station, is this week announcing the
opening of his new electrical ap-
pliances store in the new building
west of his service station. A por-
tion of his stock of refrigerators,
radios and other electrical appliances
has already arrived, and the complete
stock is expected within a few days.
Mr. Ray expects to handle a com-
plete stock of General Electric sup-
plies.
The new building which houses his
equipment business is 18 X 36. It gps
a brick front, and the building joiqs
his service station.
Amnesia Victim is
Located in Little Rock
Funeral services for Mrs. J. L.
Nations, 60, pioneer Van Zandt county
citizen, were held Saturday at Sand
Flat, with Rev. Boatman,' pastor of
the Methodist Protestant church at
Pruitt, in charge of the last rites.
Mrs. Nations passed away Friday.
Mrs. Nations was a resident of the
Wisdom Temple community for many
years, and she moved to the Pruitt
community a few montjis ago. She
was Miss Mamie Wells before her
marriage.
Mrs. Nations is survived by her
husband and the following children.
Nolin Nations, Mrs. J. P. Hampton,
Bernard Nations, Houston Nations,
Mrs. Jahue Hale, Mrs. Irvin Huddle
and Otha Nations.
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Every farmer in Van
is extended an invitation to
night (Thursday) in Cavte
C. E. Spencer, CCC Camp
from Lindale will address tha>
Mr. Spencer is supervisor far
camps at Lindale, Winnsboro, i
Pleasant.
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The meeting is being callad fortta#
purpose of explaining to the tmrwOm
the kind of work that is being dCNfeV
at these Civilian Conservation Carp*
Camps, in the hope of getting a camp
located on a watershed in Van
county.
The meeting is being called l»Jf
County Judge L. F. Sanders in co-
operation with County Agent V. OU
Teddlie. The assembly will take placg
at eight o’clock. ,
Van Zandt Bankers
to Meet in Canton
County Agent V. O. Teddlie, in a
letter sent out last week, is urging
the farmers who have not done so
to send in their 1937 work sheets.
Farmers may sign up with their local
committeeman or by calling at the
County Agent’s office.
A ten-day search for Cullen Mc-
Mahon ended on last Tuesday, when
it' was learned that he was in a Little
Rock, Ark. hospital suffering from
amnesia. Mr. McMahon had suffered
a total loss of memory, and it was
through an article in a Little Rock
paper that the attention of a former
Grand Saline citizen w
and she called at the hospital and
identified him.
Mr. McMahon disappeared on Sun-
growth ^ in I day ni£ht» April 4, without leaving
any trace of his movements. Local
officers had broadcast for information
as to his whereabouts, but it was not
until Tuesday or this week that he
was located. .
Mrs. Ruby Seaburn, daughter of
Jack Berry of Colfax, was the Little
(£ock citizen who made the identifi-
cation.
When Constable Johnson and City I
Marshall Vick arrived in Little Rock [
Tuesday night to return with Mr.
McMahon to Grand Saline, the latter
did not at first recognize either of the
men. Later his memory seemed to j
return to him and by the time the
trio had reached Grand Saline he was
apparently well on the way to regain-
ing his memory.
When he was taken to the hospital
in Little Rock he was not able to tell
the hospital attendant either his
name or address, n.or couid he recall
how he had gotton to Little Rock- He
has been without food for several
days.
Funeral Services for l
Virgil Smith Today
V. Hala and A. S. Mire, represen-
tatives of Benham, Inc., were in
Grand Saline Tuesday, where they
made a proposal to farmers in this"
trade area who would devote some
acreage to Blackeye, Brown Crowder
or Cream peas.
Mr. Mire stated that his com-
pany would guarantee to the farmer
*12.50 per hundredweight for peas of day) for Virgil Tillman Smith,
the kind specified, and that a thresher passed away Tuesday
would be placed here if as much
as muen as
500 acres could be pledged. Mr. Mire
stated that his company would fur-
nish bags and pick up the peas at the
thresher.
Mr. Mire stated that he would ap-
point a local agent to thresh the peas
attracted and to buy them. He als0 sa‘d that no
restrictions would be placed on the
Funeral services will be held aS
Corinth at three o’clock today (Thun— '
rr.:.!---Smith, whV
. afternoon tan
Muskog-ee at a government hospital.
Mr. Smith had gone to Muskogee Snn-
day for treatment.
Virgil Smith was the son of Mr.
and Mrs. W. Z. Smith, who settled tan
the Colfax community when the de-
ceased was a small boy. He later
moved to the Corinth community.
Funeral services will be conducted
wi» conduct a brief committal services
peas secured at Edgewood, Grand Sa-
line, Winnsboro and other nearby
towns would be taken there.
A number of farmers were taking
Mr. Mire’s plan under advisement
Wednesday.
Band Gives Farewell
at the grave.
Survivors are the following brotln-
ers and sisters: Mrs. Ella Clower,
Elmo; Mrs. Ina Clower, Grand Saline;
Mrs. Settie Crow, Yuma, Arizona,
nalter Smith and Hubert Smiths
Grand Saline.
Concert Wednesday Hayden Weaver Taking .
Exams for Appointment
NOTICE, FARMERS
We are again buying Equities in the
934-35 12c Government Loan Cotton.
See me in next few days Can handle
on Grand Saline warehouse records.
Willie Rogers. 21-2tpd
REUNITED WITH COUSIN
For 57 years, Starling Brown of
Murchison had iost trace of the resi-
dence of his cousin, Mrs. Martha
King. And then last week, when he
accidentally learned that she lived
in Grand Saline, he immedately came
here to pay her a visit on last Friday.
Mr. Brown and Mrs. King spent
several happy hours discussing the
early days.
The Grand Saline Band gave the en-
tire high school and wary school a
very enjoyable farewell concert last
Wednesday afternoon at the local
gym and all students acclaimed them
as the champions of the state.
T. S. Dixon gave an exhibition of
how he will perform in the Student’s
Directing Contest, and from the way
he acted, he has a very good chance
of putting this event in the bag. He
led the band in a number by the
name of “Panora.”
Under the direction of John Luce
the following numbers were among
those being played: the march “Amer-
icans We”; required overture, “Scarlet
Mask;” selection from “Martha;” and
the march, “Cheerio.” An unfamiliar
piece was also played by sight-read-
ing.
Hayden Weaver, son of Mr. an*
Mrs E. E. \\ eaver and a graduate of
the Grand Saline High School, ham
started the examinations necessary?
before bringing himself in line to rUrr
ceive an appointment to Annapolis. if
Hayden took his first examinations
in Tyler in December, and on thrsoi
he received a high rating. ExamSO
tions in other subjects will be takeufc
in Dallas on Wednesday of next week.
Only one appointment is mads,
from each Congressional District and!
Hayden is the second alternate on*
the list.
Band Members Go to Waco
The Band has been making last
minute preparations for the annual
trip to Waco where they have they
have high hopes of winning first
place at the State Band Contest und-
er. the masterful direction of John
Luce. The state contest will be held
on Thursday. Friday and Saturday
of this week.
There are several new faces among
the membership which were not thera
on the trip last year. Since that
time the players have increased from
twenty-one to a number of" over
thirty-five and the following includes
It* personnel;
CORNETS—Solo-Dale Swain and
Sam McLain. Firat-W. H. Cofer and
Hasel McPhail. Second-Robert Bell
and Dora Ms* Luce. Third-Kma Jean
Glover, Helen Phillips., and Mary Lee
Weaver. • *, , .v
Hill! Seeoad-
Frashier, Dorothy Lee, James Wayne
Hall, and Peggy Jean Ray.
SAXAPHONES — Howard Lucas.
Brady Swain, and Margaret Glover.
BASSES—Alvis Brawner fend Billie
Tidwell.
TROMBONES — Hudnal Houston
and Ruth Land.
PERCUSSION SECTION—Howard
Snow, Ferria Brawner, and Mary
Elisabeth York.
With the band sweetheart as Rae
Annette Egbert and color bearers as
Winifred King and Doris Perry, the
baqd will be led in parade by little
Mary Davidson, drum major. The
adults who will act as chaperons are
Mrs. Denman Hill, Mrs. Homer Glov-
•r, and Mrs. Lois Thompson. *
Much to the disappointment of the
bandmothqra, rooms at the Alamo
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the ptame of reaManoe has boon etaang-
RowtavaH Hotad. .
Analysis Shows City
Lake Water to be Hard
Opens Ready-to-Wear
Shop Here Saturday
A chemical analysis, which was
made Monday by R. L. Holmes, T & P
chemist, revealed that the water in
the City Lake is unusually hard and
becoming harder each year. The
analysis showed eleven grains of
hardness to the gallon.
An effort is to be made to discover
what is causing the dhange in the
hardness of the watA-, according to
Water Superintendent L. R. Simmons.
The amount of iron ore gravel on the
watershed is thought to have some
bearing on the conditior of the water.
Miss Nobia Shackleford has com-
pleted the installation of fixtures for
her ready-to-wear shop, whicl^ she
will open Saturday in the front of thm
Cheser studio building, two doors
north of the postoffice.
Miss Shackleford will call her stora
the Cinderella Shop.
REUNITED AFTER 55 YEARS
Fifty-five years ago a four-year-
old boy stopped at the home of his
uncle and aunt for a short visit. Then
the boy moved on with his parents and
settled in West Texas.. On Tuesday
that 69-year-old man made a special
trip to Grand Saline to visit with his
aunt, Mrs. Bettie Morris.
Tuesday was a happy day for both
the aunt and the nephew.
DISTRICT 8INGING
CONVENTION
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MISS WILD A WHITE RECENT
VISITOR IN GRAND SAUNK
Miss Wilds White, a graduate a#
last year’s Grand Saline Hifi
class, who is now taking
training course in Parklatod
Dallas, recently visited her
Mr. and Mrs. Geepga White, Mn. mm
Miss Wilda was a very
student here, and Airing her latft
in school she served as Dkqaa
for the band, and she was tUM
Club rwsetheart.
IN DALLAS SUNDAY -
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Proctor, Willard. The Grand Saline Sun (Grand Saline, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. [22], Ed. 1 Thursday, April 15, 1937, newspaper, April 15, 1937; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1017037/m1/1/: accessed July 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Van Zandt County Library.