The Fairfield Recorder (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 26, 1937 Page: 1 of 8
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FAIRFIELD, FREESTONE COUNTY, TEXAS AUGUST 26, 1937
NUMBER 49
P. D. BROWNE
m/jits. BIBB GRAVES, wife of Gov-
I'* ernor Graves of Alabama, be-
r.tme a Senator Friday, by appoint-
ment from her husband,
A \ X7 .. State Treasurer and “Body Guards” Estimates Only
Aged Native Citizen-12.100ft Votes
Passes Away
W Batson, aged 80 years, died
at Rusk, Tuesday, after a long per-
iod of declining health. He was car-
i ied to Rusk a few weeks ago where
it was thought he would respond
We small caliber folks don’t know to trt‘tttment and nursing.
The body was interred in the
Fairfield cemetery Wednesday after-
noon under direction of Burleson
Funeral Home, following services at
the old Watson family residence here
conducted by Rev. W. R. Miller,
assisted by E. Homer Tirey and R.
B. Moon. Pall bearers were: H. B.
AT the Vicksburg National Military | Steward, Fletcher Willard, J. G.
Park, boys of the CCC were at j Anderson, F. F. Sims, Judge Lex
work on the grounds and as tourists’ I Smith, Judge H. F. Kirby, W. K.
guides. I inquired of our guide, a Boyd and W. A. Parker.
the facts which may justitfy such
dynastic maneuvers but, on the face
pf it, we do not like it. Too much
family domination of public affairs,
too much centralizing of power, too
much greed.
good mannered, intelligent lad of 17
or 19, by what means some of them
had the good fortune to be guides
while most of their fellows were
swinging shovels, hoes, rakes and
weed blades.
"We are high school graduates,”
he said, “and are chosen because we
have some historcal knowledge and
can *a'k well."
TMONDAY’S News quotes Henry
■*■"•» Ford to the effect that teachers
are to blame for farms’ woes.
It may be that Mr. Ford is partial-
ly correct, but surely he wouldn't
want to shoulder the whole blame on
the nation’s school teachers. Doesn't
Mr. Ford realize that if we school
teachers had enough sense to do the
things he thinks we ought to do, we
would also have sense enough not to
Surviving Mr. Watson are the
following children: Mrs. W. R. Boyd
Jr., New York Mrs. C. E. Childs,
Fairfield; W. L. Watson, Teague;
Bibb Watson, Mexia; Tas and Ho-
ward Watson, Fairfield; Rex Wat-
son, Houston, and Ray Watson, West
Texas. He is also survived by one
brother, J. B. Watson, Teague, and
thirteen grandchildren and one great
i grandchild.
Mr. Watson was bom on Ward
Prairie, and spent his entire life in
this immediate vicinity. He served
the county two terms as County
Commissioner and until age forced
him to retire was active in farming
and stoekraising.
He was notable for his friendliness
and and few men ever
had more friends.
Prominent citizens, old friends
from Mexia, Teague, Wortham, Cor-
sicana. Palestine and other points
125,000 Votes
Cast Monday
Charley Lockhart, well known
State Treasurer, not only believes
that a State Treasurer’s arms should
be “too short to reach into the money
bags,” but believes in having a couple
of body guards with the same asset.
He has two in his Department at
this time who can be turned loose
with the money bags and not have to
at a Filling Station. Up on the run-
ning board jumped “Shorty” Mana-
han. Mr. Lockhart sized his arms up,
and thought him a safe prospect for
the Treasury. He found an ardent
supporter in “Shorty” who boasts
that he has worked for Mr. Lock-
hart for many years, although he on-
ly met him last year. He is 51 inches
be school teachers?
Men and women of superior abili-1 attended the services.
ties and initiative, as a usual thing, j--o—
want to make money. They can’t do
it teaching school so they don’t
teach. We who do teach are very
much like the average farmer—just
trying to get abyig. »
have the Rangers called out to guard tall and weighs 140 pounds.
/ANE. of America’s leading scipn-
tists is credited with predicting
that the time will come when a fer-
tile area the size of Manhattan Is-
land will supply sufficient food for
a population as great as that on Man-
hattan.
This would indicate that man’s op-
portunities are ample for his needs.
His worldwide problems are not
what he lacks in natural resources
and scientific possibilities, but his
lack of intelligent application and
self discipline.
UEADLINE: Tourists Flocking To
See Earth Sink in Southern
Idaho.
Sub-headline: Everybody Makes
Money Except Farmer Whose Prop-
erty Is Destroyed.
The sub-headline sounds so home-
like, so closely real.
IjMSCAL officials said Sunday the
Government’s September borrow-
ing may approximate $1,200,000,000
(billion)—officials expressed hope the
debt would not rise far above $37,-
<>00.000,000 (billions) during the rest
of this fiscal year.
Years ago, we youngsters in school
Cot a thrill out of the ability to read
long strings of numbers with annexed
ciphers stringing out behind like a
kite's tail. Our teacher suggested that
we were wasting time, as there was
l!” need for the ability to read such
long lines of figures.
Our teachers, then, couldn’t fore-
just what we would be up against
"i government expenditures today.
Labor Day
Celebration At
Palestine Sept. 6/’
PALESTINE, Aug. 26.—Palestine
is inviting its neighbors to an old-
fashioned Labor Day Celebration,
featuring a free barbecue and an all-
day entertainment program on Mon-
day, Sept. 6.
Tons of barbecue will be prepar-
ed by expert chefs over pits at the
Texas Fruit Palace Grounds, head
quarters for the celebration. Several
thousand visitors from towns and
communities within a radius of 90
miles of Palestine are expected.
The celebration will open at 11 a.
m. with a two-mile parade through
down-town stfroets.
Limestone Co.
Fox Hunters
Annual Meet
them. They are Charlie, or “Shorty”
Munahan, left, and “Johnny” Clifton,
right.
In the middle stands Charlie Lock-
hart who needs little introduction. He
is serving his fourth term as State
Treasurer, and is one of the most
popular of the State Officials. He la
"Johnny” Clifton is almost as well
known around Austin as Charley
Lockhart, having lived around there
about 12 years, and been connectetd
with various activities there. He was
with the Chicago World’s Fair, where
he and his wife lived in the Midget
Village with the only known midget
Wednesday’s Dallas News reported
that the total vote in Monday’s
special election on the six proposed
amendments to the State Constitu-
tion will reach only 120,000 to 125,-
000, the smallest in a State election
in twenty years, according to an es-
timate of the Texas Election Bureau
Tuesday.
Late returns to the bureau indicat-
ed that five amendments definitely
have carried, and one, the amend-
ment calling for a return to the fee
system has been defeated as definite-
ly. Returns Tuesday night from 220
out of 254 counties, including thirty-
one complete, accounted for 87,506
votes tabulated and show the follow-
ing totals:
Bank stock liability, for 56,151,
against 28,279.
Aid for destitute children, for 60,-
643, against 22,220.
Abolishing salary system, for 38,-
369, against 49,668.
Tax discount, for 64,585, against
21,720.
Harris road plan, for 46,170,
asrainst 32,427.
Aid for blind, for 65,654. against
21,852.
The election being on Monday,
very few farmers in the State voted.
45 inches tall and weighs 120 pounds, child born of midget parents. He has
and states that he is “old enough to
be State Treasurer.” In all of his
four previous campaigns he has had
numbers of opponents, but not one
has ever tried to make an attack on
his efficient management of the State
Treasury Department, which is not a
bad record for any man, big or little.
One day last summer during the
1936 campaign Mr. Lockhart drove
through Fairfield, Texas, and stopped
known Charley Lockhart for about
10 years, and has always been his
loyal friend. “Johnny” is 53 inches
tall and weighs 80 pounds. Both are
efficient workers and have the re-
spect of their fellow employees.
We believe that with Charley Lock-
hart in charge, and these body
guards, the State’s money bags will
be in safe hands for many another
term.
Teague Railroad Over Half Million
Man Buried
Bales Of Cotton
Saturday Afternoon Ginned Aug. 16th
Cong L. A. Johnson
One of Group to
Go To Europe
WASHINGTON, Aug. 24.—Senator
Barkley of Kentucky, and the major-
ity of seven other senators and eight
representatives who make up the
United States delegation to the in-
ter-parliamentary union conference
in Paris plan to sail from New York
Wednesday.
Barkley is chairman of the delega-
tion. Other members include Fritz
G. Lanham, Fort Worth, Texas, and
Luther A. Johnson, Corsicana, Tex.
The conference is to convene Sept-
ember 5 and last about 10 days. It
will take up such questions as arbi-
tration, tariffs and international
relations.
Limestone County Fox Hunters’
Association is to hold its seventh
annual fox hunt and bench show La-
bor Day, September 8th, at Groes-
beck. All lovers of the ehase are
invited to come and bring their
hounds to compete in the bench
show, also to join in the chase.
Bench show will be held at City
Park under the flood lights at 8 p.
m. For details or further informa-
tion write J. M. Jenkins, Groesbeck,
Texas.
Funeral services for Joseph Hodg-
skins, 65, of Teague, were held
Saturday, August 21, at 5 p. m. Rev.
E. Homer Tirey and Rev. A. J.
Fitzgerald aonducted the services at
the First Presbyterian Church in
Teague, with burial immediately fol-
lowing in the Teague cemetery.
Mr. Hodgskins worked on the
railroad at Teague for over 30 years,
coming there in 1906. He was born
! in Warwick Co., England and came
1 to America in 1900.
He died Friday after a week’s ill-
ness in St. Joseph’s Hospital, Hous-
ton, of complications following ap-
pendectomy.
He is survived |>y his widow and
one daughter, Miss Marguerite Hodg-
skins, who for several years has
been employed as clerk in the Coun-
ty Clerk's office. He leaves one sis-
ter in California, five sisters and
one brother in England.
|)RO. MILLER’S camment on the
timeliness of a move for voting
''I beer is well tuken. I believe the
' ‘ "rity of the voters in Freestone
( inty have seen enough of beer
i"t» and roadside dance halls to
' nvince them that we need a breath-
pell from their deteriorating and
tructive influence.
'nd what is more, there are folks
'•■rested financially in these busi-
who agree to the correctness
' ' ir contention
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' onifTY-WIUE B. V. P. V.
' • ounly.wiile B Y. P. U. will
'* with the Calvary Baptist
H Sunday night, August 29
1 >'*n» a cordially invited tv at
this meeting
entertained with
ICE CREAM PARTY
Misses Josephine and Myrtle Lee
Brown entertained Miss Anita Moore
with an ice cream party Tuesday
night. The following were guests:
Ruby Gordon, Lena Mae Ivy, Willie
Bell Minchew, Estelle Evans, Anita
Moote, Mattie B. DeFrance, Preston
Parish. Morris Harrison and the hos-
tesses.
Everyone departed at a late hour
declared themselves a nice time. A
Guest.
CALVARY B. Y. P. V.
!>ius;HAM FOR Ht’NDAY
Reading Marie Claridge.
Song Dorothy and I airline Gilpin.
Bible Story’ Ruby Gordon
Reading Kstalle Evans.
Song- -Cecil Brown and Rufus Ivy
WASHINGTON, Aug. 24.—The
census bureau reported today that
cotton of this year’s growth ginned
prior to August 16 totaled 514,675
running bales, counting 5,094 round
bales as half bales.
Ginning to August 16 last year to-
taled 208,509 running bales includ-
ing 487 round bales. Two years
ago ginnings were 318,139 running
bales including 892 round bales.
Ginnings by states were:
Alabama 6,337; Arizona not in-
cluded; Florida 1,114; Georgia, 19,-
947; Louisiana 32,624; Mississippi,
6,398; Texas 447,784, and all other
states 471.
Light Vote Cast
In Freestone
On Amendments
Black-Eyed Pea
Market Higher
Protracted Meeting
In Progress
At Tabernacle
The attendance at the meeting of
the Church of Christ which began
Monday night at the tabernacle, is
increasing each night.
John T. Stevens, age 19, of Rich-
land, is doing the preaching and
much interest is being shown.
The services will last through Sat-
urday night.
BITTEN BY SNAKE
While playing wun oilier vliitutw,
under his home Sunday afternoon,
Williford Orund was bitten on the
hand by some kind of snake, which
clung tv his hand until shaken loose.
Prompt and efficient treatment pre-
vented any serious effects
ATHENS, Texas, Aug. 24.—Dry
black eyed peas, which have been
bringing $1.35 per bushel most of the
season, jumped to as high as $1.70 to-
day as local buyers scrambled to buy
them. The market advanced Satur-
day to $1.50 per bushel. Monday it
opened 10c higher und at 2 o’clock
hud advanced another 10c to $1.70.
One local buyer predicted they would
go to $2 per bushel or higher. Re-
ceipts here were unusually heavy.
The Bluebird Canning Company
here recently entered the dry pea
market after closing its green pea
canning operations for the current
| season. Many truck loads of dry peas
are hauled daily to processing plants
| in Athens, many of them coming
j from Houston, Freestone and other
j adjacent counties. ,
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ICE CREAM SUPPER
There will be an ice cream supper
at Ivnely Saturday night, Aug. 28.
Proceeds will go tv the Methodist
Chureh of that community. Everyone
Following is the total vote cast
Monday in Freestone County in the
amendment election:
Bank liability—For 330, against
256.
Destitute children — For 300,
against 198.
Salary—For 338, against 159.
Tax discount—For 386, against
113.
Harris road plan—For 255, against
193.
Aid for blind—For 349, against
150.
Total 3027.
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MEN’S BIBLE CLASS
CALVARY CHURCH
Controversy
Continues Result
Rangers In Dallas
AUSTIN, Aug. 24. Although
voicing approval of Governor Allred’s
determinaton to prevent mob violence
in Dallas, and promising co-operation
Mayor George Sprague today had
taken exception to a statement that
“nothing had been done” about the
situation before state officers arriv-
ed.
“Men have been kidnapped and
beaten, and one was tarred and
feathered, and nothing was done
about it until state officers stepped
in” the governor said in a statement.
“I do not intend for this practice to
start in Texas again.”
“I believe Chief of Police Bob
Jones can show where he had the
guilty men just about cornered”, said
the mayor.
This, said Chief Jones, was true,
and the grand jury now have the
facts before it.
“Now that the rangers are here,
we are very glad to lend them our
full co-operation, and every assis-
tance in this matter, just as we al-
ways have when they have been here
before,” said City Manager Mosely.
The governor’s statement was in
reply to telegrams of criticism of his
action in sending rangers to the Dal-
las millinery strike front, received
from a number of Dallas residents.
Houston Youth
Meets Death On
Freestone Road
DEW, Aug. 23.—Herbert Hoider-
man, 20 year old Houston oil comp-
any employe met death Sunday night
on the Buffalo-Dew highway when a
car struck him after he had fallen
asleep from jx’-austion.
An unidentified companion, also an
oil company employe of Houston, was
not injured.
Officers quoted Holdeman’s com-
panion as saying that they were
hitchhiking back to Houston from
Ft. Worth where they had gone to
purchase an airplane for the “novej-
ty.”
D. O. Hall, Teague, reported to
have been the drver of the car
which struck Holdeman, was not
blamed, officers said.
The accident was said to have oc-
curred when the tv.o men, sleepless
for two nights, sat down by the
highway to rest. Holdeman dropping
off to sleep unintentionally, his
companion said.
J’he youth’s body was sent to Hous-
ton for burial.
Result Monday
Election In
Fairfield Prect.
We have organized a men’s Bible
class and have an enrollment of 24.
We had 17 present last Sunday and
< hope to have more next Sunday. Each
1 member is taking great interest in
the study and work and we are
having a great time studying God’s
word.
We invite you to join us if you
are not already enrolled in some
Only 126 people voted on the im-
portant amendments to the State
Constitution here Monday, the re-
sult being as follows:
Bank stock liability, for 91 against
31.
Aid destitute children, for 64,
j against 49.
Abolishing salary system, for 103,
against 22.
Tax discount, for &2, against 32.
Harris road plan, for 56, against
47.
I Aid for blind, for 70, against 41.
NO FIFTH SUNDAY
MEET AT STONEY POINT
Sunday School. Come and bo with
us.—Reporter.
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MARES PAID OFF FOR
KNOX CO. FARMER
invited to attend this affair.
“In the fall of 1919,” says S. L.
Sibley, Knox County, “1 bought four
3 year mares for $50.00 each. They
did their part in working 400 acre*
of land.
“At the end of 10 year*, each
| mure hud produced fouu.ooo wonii uf
| mules, or an everuge yearly income
of $200.00 from the four. Then I sold
the mares for $100.00 each to earn
an additional profit on my invest-
| merit "
I
On account of sickness and other
things that we have no control over
we feel that we will be unable to care
for the 5th Sunday meeting that wbr
billed to meet with us. We sincerely
hope that other arrangements can be
made.
Stoney Point Buptist Church.
CARD
We take this method of expressing
out .r. aonrecia-
tion to the people of Fairfield and
Hollis, Oklu , for the many kindnesses
shown us during the illness und
death uf our little daughter, Martha.
Mr and Mrs. Mark Short,
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Kirgan, Lee. The Fairfield Recorder (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 26, 1937, newspaper, August 26, 1937; Fairfield, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1119876/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fairfield Library.