The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 195, Ed. 1 Monday, December 22, 1924 Page: 2 of 4
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THE DAILY NEWS-TELEGRAM
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Daily News-Telegram
26 Years Old
Issued at 228 Main Street, Sulphur
Springs, Texas, every afternoon
except Saturday (Sunday morning.)
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J. S. BAGWELL, Editor
ERIC BAGWELL, Business Mgr.
Phone 481
Christmas sp^irt is in the air.
* * . *
Mr. Routh and Mr. Tedford, Sul-
phur Springs plumbers, are very
popular men these days. They even
worked all day Sunday to accommo-
date Sulphur Springs housewives
who had the misfortune to have
water pipes frozen in their homes.
* * • *
Chief of Police Jerry Lewis has
given some timely warning about
shooting firecrackers in the fire
limits of Sulphur Springs. The law
is a good one and it should be
obeyed, as its enforcement protects
the lives of the people and also
property from being destroyed by
fire. Let’s observe the law to its
very letter. /
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Hopkins county people never had
more to eat or were enjoying better
health at the approach of any
Christmas in the county’s long his-
tory than at present. After all, that
is what counts in life.
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Attoniey General Elmer Teer
says that he expects to receive sev-
eral country hams and lots of coun-
try sausage for Christmas present
this year. Our guess is that the at-
torney general will be a mighty
cross and grouchy man about the
second day after Christmas, and it
won’t be from over eating.
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Prof. R. E. Jordan of Wills Point
is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. W. B.
Kitts today.
$1,000,000 GIFT
TO TEXAS S. M. D.
POLITICAL
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The News-Telegram is authorized
to make the following announce-
ment, subject to the City Primary,
in March, 1925:
For Mayor:
O. E. WALTERS.
T. C. McCORKLE.
ONLY 2 MORE SHOP-
PING DAYS TILL XMAS.
Dallas, Dec.. 22.—A gift to South-
ern Methodist University of Dallas
by Mr. and Mrs. R. Harper Kirby
of Austin, of property that will
yield revenue on a million dollar
valuation, was announced late Sat-
urday by Dr. Charles C. Selecman,
president. Neither the nature of the
property nor its appraised value
was made known. The gift was made
through Dr. W. D. Bradfield, pro-
fessor in the university school of
theology.
Dr. Bradfield returned to Dallas
Saturday from Houston, where he
had been called by Mr. Kirby, for
the purpose of discussing the new
gift. “The gift consists of extensive
property, the character of which
cannot yet be disclosed,” Dr. Brad-
field said.
A memorandum accompanying a
description of the property and ad-
dressed to Dr. Bradfield said:
“We make this donation through
you in recognition of the wonderful
work of the Southern Methodist
University is doing in advancing
God’s kingdom on earth, in which
you have taken so large a part.”
It is signed by “Mr. and Mrs. R.
Harper Kirby.”
Mr. and Mrs. Kirby were mem-
bers of Dr. Bradfield’s .congrega-
tion when he was pastor of the
Methodist church at Austin, and
have been his intimate friends. It
was through Dr. Bradfield that Mr. :
ond Mrs. Kirby gave $100,000 for
the construction of the Harper and
Annie Kirby theological building at
S. M. U., which is to be dedicated
cariy in January.
In a telegram to Mr. Kirby Sat-
urday afternoon President Selecman
said:
“Your magnificent gift rejoices
our hearts and inspires renewed
hope for our university. Dr. Brad-
field has laid the entire matter be-
fore us and we gladly consent to all
suggestions and conditions made by
you. We thank God for friends like
Mrs.
DIVORCE DECREE
SELDOM ENDS TO
REAL LOVE
NEGROES ARRESTED
TRYING TO SELL
HOGS TO OWNER
San Francisco, Dec. 22.—Divorce
does not necessarily mean that hus-
band and wife have ceased to love
each other; in fact the contrary
often is true, in the opinion of Judge
Thomas F. Graham, known locally
as the great reconciler.
Judge Graham has been hearing
divorce cases for 24 years. “It has
been my experience,” he said re-
cently, “that love is not always
dead when a woman sues for di-
vorce. I believe that 99 per cent
of the women who get divorces
leave the court room with heavy
hearts. They love the men they have
just divorced. I believe that when a
woman once loves a man, she never
ceases to love, even though she may
testify most bitteidy against her
husband.
“A man does not have the power
of expression of love that a woman
has. Yet that love is there and it
endures. When a father deserts his
children, he is arrested. Almost
many mothers desert their children/
yet we seldom hear of their arrest
for abandonment. They should be.”
Gambling in itself is not cause
for divorce, Judge Graham holds.
“There are few homes indeed,” he
pointed out, “where husband or
wife doesn’t play poker, mah jongg.
bridge or some other game of cards
for money or prizes. But when the
wife squanders her husband’s in-
come on bridge or mah jongg, or the
husband spends all his time and
money at the gaming table and
stays out until all hours of the
night, gambling becomes ground for
divorce in this state on the charge
of cruelty.”
The judge expressed pity for the
wife “who stays at home nights
waiting for her husband to come
home for dinner and he does not
come until the dinrier is cold; spoil-
ed in the opinion of the wife. And
there never was a wife who did not
ke pride in the dinners she pre-
ared for her husband. The tardy
usband inflicts a form of cruelty
his wife that causes her more
ffering than the lash of a whip,
e has a good ground for divorce.
“So has the wife whose mental
ffering is caused by the man’s
aying out until the early morning
urs. Every day we read in the
wspapers of men slugged and
bbed, sometimes killed, while re-
rning home at night. Imagine the
te of mind of the bride who waits
ur after hour for her husband to
come home and he does not appear.
Night after night many a wife en-
dures that sort of thing. Finally
she comes into the divorce court :,o
get freedom from the man she real-
h loves better than any one in the
world.”
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A'-': [• V- • ~
All Christmas Goods
Must be closed out Tuesday and Wed-
nesday—cost not considered. A rare
chance for late buyers.
Tapp Furniture Co.
HISTORY SHOWS
CHRISTMAS HAS
LONG EXISTENCE
GIVE
GLOVE GIFTS
We nave some smart and
comfortable models he’d
slip the glad hand to.
They will wear well be-
cause they’re of first
quality all the way
through.
In black, grey, tan and
yellow. Also dress gloves
and other accessories for
HIM.
A. B.
Bohannon
Tailor and Furnisher
Dallas, Dec. 22.—Two Dallas ne-
groes made a “terrible mistake” Sat-
urday afternoon, Sheriff Dan Hars-
ton says.
W. A. Peas, stock buyer for a
Dallas packing company, Saturday
afternoon started to examine two
fat hogs brought in and exhibited
for sale by two negroes.
Having a sharp eye for livestock
of any kind, he thought he saw
something familiar about the pork-
ers. Examining them more closely
he found them to be two hogs which
he had been feeding on a farm south
of Dallas. Telling the negroes to
wait for a few minutes he telephon-
ed Sheriff Harston.
Deputies T. S. Carter and Mack
McCallum soon responded, but even
the brief delay had made uneasy
the purveyors of choice Christmas
pork chops and spare-ribs. They had
departed, leaving no forwarding ad-
dress and Mr. Peas took charge of
the hojj's.
Two negroes were arrested later
by the investigating officers. They
were placed in the county jail for
questioning.
METHODIST CHRISTMAS TREE
The Cradle Roll, Beginners and
Primary department of the Metho-
dist Sunday School will have a
Christmas tree Wednesday after-
noon at three o’clock in the Sunday
School room.
BRINKER PEOPLE
WERE MARRIED
Houston, Texas, Dec. 22.—In
Christmas Day the birth of Christ is
commemorated, but from a perusal
of the history of ancient customs it
becomes apparent that the sanctity
of what is known now as the Christ-
mas season was recognized in times
long antecedent to the birth of Jes-
us of Nazareth.
Certain customs associated to this
day with the Christmas season, his-
torians say, are holdovers of pagan-
practices.
Analogues of present-day Christ-
mas season customs are found
among the customs of the early Ro-
mans, when the winter solstice festi-
val was' observed in December, in
connection with the worship of the
sun-god, Mithra.
In this country, Christmas always
is pictured with a glowing fire in
an open hearth. This, it is pointed
out, is an outgrowth of the lighting
of the yule log, once widespread
custom in England, which was a
function of predominant importance
among the early Lithuanians and
Letts.
The decorating of homes and of
buildings with holly and mistletoe
also is a pagan survival, if the his-
torians are to be believed.
Indeed, the Chri|tmas dinner is a
•custom passed through generation
and generation from more primitive-
days.
In earlier days there was some
argument and criticism as to wheth-
er Cl ristmas day should be observ-
ed with feasts and rejoicing; and in
1644 the English Puritans, by an
act of parliament, forbade any mer-
riment or religious services on the
day, holding that the customs veto
cf heathen origin. It was ordered
that the day be kept a fast. Howev-
er,. Charles the Second revived the
feast on Christmas.
Before the fifth century, when
the great church adopted the cus-
tom of commemorating the birth of
Jesus Christ on December 25, there
was no general consensus of opin-
io;
more of the German Father Christ-
inas type, although it is widely
an clerk and fired a badly aimed
shot in her direction. Maddox, see-
ing Riordan approaching with a gun
in hand, fled toward the basement
but before he could reach a point of
safety was struck by three bullets.
The slayer paused above him with a
single shot left in his gun. Deliber-
ately, Riordan placed the gun to his
|own head and pulled the trigger, his
lifeless body crumpling over that of
hddox. ,
an methodic-
ally planned the murder of Fred S.
Stewaft, promoter of a local shoe
store, S. Ra Turner, store manager,
and H. E. Maddox, a department
manager, and his own death.
Steward and Riordan are dead.
Maddox and Turner are not expect-
ed to live. A painted little French
doll said to be one of the causes of
the shooting, lies unnoticed, un-
wanted, in the office of the store.
Thousands of Christmas shoppers
thronged the streets in the neigh-
borhood of the establishment when
Riordan elbowed his way through
the crowds to the office of Stewart,
where he found the proprietor and
his wife. Mrs. Stewart left the two
men alone in the office.
Five minutes later Riordan pump-
ed a bullet into Stewart and turn-
ed from the office, meeting Tur
ner. A second bullet disposed of the
store manager and Riordan contin-
ued his way down a flight of steps
leading to a panic-stricken crowd of
shoppers on the main floor of the
establishment.
Seeking Maddox he espied a wom-
While Doing* Your Christ-
mas Shopping Dine at the
E.&M.
Received Saturday a large Ship-
ment of Vamtine’s Christgas goods.
On Sale at Mrs. C. Frost s, Gilmer
Street,
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
DIAL & BRIM
Attorneys-At-Law
First Nat’l. Bank Building
On Saturday evening, Dec. 20,
Mr. Walter Landers and Miss Thel-
ma Claunch motored to Sulphur
Springs and were married by Rev.
J. Howard Williams, returning to
the home of the bride, where they
spent the night. Sunday a sumptu-
ous dinner was served, with Aunt
Danna White, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
Owens, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Martin.;
Miss Irene Crane and Messrs. Bruce
Bevis and Carl Clark as guests.
Walter is a son ‘of Uncle Dick
Landers of Richland, being born
and reared in that community where
he has many friends who will con-
gratulate him on his choice for a
wife. Miss Thelma is the beautiful
and industrious daughter of J. R.
Claunch of Wood Springs, where
she grew to womanhood and is lov-
ed and respected by all who know
her.
May happiness and prosperity be
their lot, is the sincere wish of
A FRIEND.
‘The Famous
Shop*
Sandwich
*ss
The City National Bank
Large enough to handle big accounts; Not
too large to appreciate small accounts.
WE WANT YOUR BUSINESS
STOCKHOLDERS NOTICE
The regular annual meeting of the
stockholders of the First State
Bank of Sulphur Springs, Texas,
will be held in the office of the
bank on Tuesday, January 13, 1925,
for the purpose of electing di-
rectors for the ensuing year and for
the transaction of such other busi-
ness as may properly come before
said meeting.
(d-15-tf) B. A. KING, Cashier.
P. W. Loyd of Reily Springs was
here early Monday with one of his
fine bull dog pups that he sold for
$7.50. His bitch has brought him 17
puppies during the year and s^e has
proved a good investment, pas he
j sells the pups at from $2.50 to $7.50
each......
These characters are represented
in many different ways. St. Nicho-
las sometimes is pictured as a stal-
wart young man who rode around
the world on a white horse, with a
black servant at his heels, giving
presents to the children and to the
poor, and dowries to virtuous mai-
dens.
The German Father Christmas is
supposedly a shaggy, bearded old
man, who comes from the far north
laden with toys and things for chil-
dren.
In some' parts of Germany the
real gift giver is pictured as the in-
fant Christ, and the other Christ-
mas characters are merely attend-
ants. The Christmas character oc-
casionally is described as a hunch-
back dwarf called Krampus, who is
supposed to carry off naughty chil-
dren.
The American Santa Claus is
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in joy.
Remember our Big
Turkey Dinner
Christmas
|‘The Home of Good Eats”
OPEN ALL NIGHT
Ea& M.
Main and Davis Sts.
MIKE STROUP, Prop.
If It’s a
SERVICE CAR OR JOB TRUCK
You Need, Call
TRAP4EL
At Askew & Bufgrd’s. Phone 46
DR. L. FAULK
Physician and Surge-oil
Boyd Building
Sulphur Springs, Texas
DR. M. C. MARRS
Physician and Surgeon
Rectal Diseases, Diseases of Women,
c Chronic Diseases
Phone 614 and 4g
rom Rainey Lloyd Davidso®
RAMEY & DAVIDSON
LAWYERS
Pulley Building
Sulphur Springs, Texas
DR. R. A. HARRIS
Physician and Surgeon
Specialty of Chronic Diseases
Phone—Resident 352, Office 46,
41 and 226
F. A. WHITE, M. D.
Ear, Eye, Nose and Throat
Glasses Fitted Correctly
First Nat’l. Bank Building
Phone 33
D. H. SCOTT & SON
Paris, Texas
Affiliated with
SCOTT TITLE COMPANY
Sulphur Springs, Texas .
O. E. Walters, Manager
tO THE FOLKS OF OUR COMMUNITY:
And, we like to think that they are ALL our friends, we
extend our very sincere wishes for a joyous holiday
season.
May your Christmas mean more in happiness and con-
tentment, this year, than ever before. )
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
.EGALLY DEAD;
MAN ARRESTED
AS EMBEZZLER
Mount Holly, N. J., Dec. 21.—
plifford Shelby Heller, former as-
sistant cashier of the Mount Holly
National Bank, arrested in Detroit
Wednesday charged with embezzling
$18,510, is legally dead, according
to a record at the Burlington coun-
ty surrogates office here under date
of August 30, 1922.
It is substantiated further in the
office of the Metropolitan Life In-
surance company which at that time
paid $4,000 in insurance money on
Moller’s life to the daughter, Mrs.
Grace Bowne, then living at Ash-
bury Park.
The long absence without an ad-
judgment of the insurance claim,
made it necessary t® go into court
for a legal declaration before the
insurance company would make any
payment and for more than two
years he has been “dead” by formal
decree of the • Burlington county
court.
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Bagwell, J. S. The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 195, Ed. 1 Monday, December 22, 1924, newspaper, December 22, 1924; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1125366/m1/2/: accessed July 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.