The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, October 31, 1930 Page: 2 of 14
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THE HOPKINS COUNTYi ECHO
TH1
Hopkins
Eqho
Established in 187#
JNO. S. BAGWELL. Editor
ERIC BAGWELL, Business Managw
published every Friday at 228 Main Street,
Sulphur Springs, Texas.
Entered at the Post Office in Sulphur
."Springs, Texas, as second class mail matter.
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-PHONE 481
WANT DR. GEO, FRENCH TO QUIT
KICKING OtfR HOUND DOG
ROUND
the Echo man will inform him that
the papers, both daily and weekly,
within the bounds of the North Tex-
as Conference give more free adver-
tising and more reading news about
churches, and the editors are more
liberal with their means for the cause
of-the church and religion than any
other class of people in all the con-
ference. Dr. George, should turn his
gun where it belongs and shoot some
of our politicians and leaders of his
church and other churches. Senator-
Morris Sheppard and Senator Tom
Connally are both Dry-cleaners and
Congressman Wright Patman is a
Deep-water. They should make a
fight to amend the Federal prohibi-
tion laws so that the penalty for vio-
lating the prohibition laws would be
more severe and in keeping with the
State laws.
The Echo man can’t answer and
will not answer the charges about
the religious newspapers, as he pleads
ignorance on the subject and does
not even know who edits the Chris-
tian Advocate. If the editor of the
Advocate does not pour it on the wets
it is none of our affair, and it is
obligation to help his neighbor in time
of need. No one must go hungry or
without sufficient clothing in Sulphur
Springs during the next few months.
The Lord must have loved poor peo-
ple as there have always been lots of
them, before His day, during- His
stay on earth and since His going
away. Besides, the Savior of men
spent most of His time while on
earth ministering to those in need.
The Echo man has not much confi-
dence in any fellow’s religion, wheth-
er he be Deep-water or Dry-cleaner,
who does not respond to the cry of
the needy and we don’t care whether
the needy are worthy or not.
Our old friend, Bill Parker of the
Times-Herald, does not know what he
is talking about when he picks
Greenville Hi to win over the Wild-
cats. It can’t done done and will not
be done, Bill.
One of the finest grasses for win-
ter pasture in Hopkins County is
wild rye. It stands cold Weather ex-
tra well and grows on almost any and
all kinds of land. When once planted
none of our affair if the Deep-water rye perpetuates itself. The City
The Echo ni'an is not a Dry-clean-
er, never has been and never will be,
although his mother’s people from
the days of old Abraham have be-
longed to that church and always
will. The Echo man is not complain-
ing at the North Texas Conference
over at Greenville about, what it did
or did not do, but we appeal to Bish-
op Boaz to make Dr- George C.
French “quit kickin’ our hound dog
around-” Reports from the confer-
ence on Thursday were to the effect
that Dr. George said, “The daily pa-
pers are syndicated and standardiz-
ed to discredit prohibition and the
weekly papers are brow-beaten, while
the religious press has no strength.”
The Echo man denies the -charge
and defies the charger. The charge
is not true, never has been true and
never will be true. Dr. George is all
balled up on this newspaper business
just like he is on the River Jordan.
He has" never crossed the River in the
old apostolical way and knows noth-
ing about the newspaper business.
We defy him to- point out a weekly
newspaper in all the bounds of the
North Texas Methodist Conference
that-is not bone dry, both by precept
and example. Come on, Bro. George,
and name just one. Not only this, but
the Echo man does not know a big or
small .daily in all the inference that
is not strong for prohibition and the
Eighteenth Amendment. If Dr. Geo.
knows a daily that is on the wet-side,
he will please speak out in confer-
ence.
For the information of Dr. George,
editors soft-pedal on prohibition.
This is all the Echo man has to say
except that if Dr. George will come
over into old Hopkins and remain a
few days he will find that the prohi-
bition laws are better enforced here
than ever before, and that enforce-
ment is done by county and city of-
ficers and not Federal officers. Now-,
the Echo man does not mean to say
that the prohibition laws are not vio-
lated over this way, but what we do
say and will say face to face with
Dr. George is, that the prohibition
laws are as well enforced as other
laws and that it is a very rare thing
to see a drunk man in Hopkins Coun-
ty, and that- when one is seen he is
generally in the hands of the law on
his way to the “lock-up.”
Not only is this true, but when
District court convenes, the bootleg-
gers and violators of prohibition are
promptly dealt with and, as a rule,
prefer to plead guilty rather than
face a jury in Hopkins County.
No Man’s Land is bone dry, Dr.
George, and we don’t drink the
“filthy stuff”—a bottle of cold Coca
Cola and a famous Travis Club are
all.the stimulants that are needed or
ever used in No Man’s Land.
There is no one going hungry so
far as the. Echo man knows in Sul-
phur Springs, but more good people
are without work and are hunting
A TEXAS WONDER
For kidney and bladder troubles,
gravel, weak and lame back, rheu-
matism and irregularities of the
kidneys and bladder. At your drug-
gist's or by mail, $1.25. Small
bottle often cures. Send for sworn
testimonials. Dr. E. W. Hall, 8679
Olive street, St. Louis, Mo.—Adv.
work than we ever saw in the town i for the mower.
park will soon be a place of beauty
with wild rye grass growing all over
it, sufficient to graze many head of
cattle. When the Creator made old
Hopkins he must have brought forth
the bermuda grass for the spring and
summer and Avild rye for the winter.
Cattle will soon be breaking out of
pasture to graze on the wild rye by
the roadside. Sow a patch of wild rye
on your wooded pasture or else-
where. Many people sow it on laAvns
in town and it makes a beautiful
green covering.
The greatest of all grasses for pas-
ture in Hopkins County is bermuda
grass. Bermuda grass on the sandy
lands of the county make a pasture
from early spring till late in the fall
and early winter. Not onl^ does ber-
muda grow luxuriantly on almost any
kind of land in the county, but it
stands the drouth well. Bermuda
grass remained green on Ioav lands
over the county during the long hot
weather the past summer, and now
bermuda meadows are ready for a
second cutting, with a crop of hay in
many instances superior to the first
cutting. No crop on the farm pays
so well as a bermuda meadow and
there are hundreds of acres of ber-
muda grass in the county that ought
to be turned into a meadow, as they
now have a crop of hay that could be
harvested if the land was in shape
over the back field of the Wildcats
Friday afternoon. The Cats will play
all over the back yard of the Green-
ville team next Friday, and not may-
be so. The Echo man means' to be
there by the side of Mack and to see
it well done and keep Mack posted
on the high points. It won’t be long
now- till the Wildcats will be march-
ing home from the blackest land
and whitest people, shouting songs
of victory. It Avon’t be long now.
The Mineola YelloAv Jackets pour-
ed it on the Wildcats, 14 to 6, in our
OAVri back yard Friday afternoon.
That is all the Echo man knows about
the game except that we hope Louis
Willeford and Tom KerboAv are sat-
isfied. HoAvever, Ave want no back
talk or “sas” from them, as it was an
accident.
The entire tOAvn of Sulphur Springs
and adjoining country regret that
Pastor G. A. Lehuhoff and Rev. Fred
P. Broyles ha\-e been transferred to
other churches in the Conference by
Bishop Boaz for the next year. They
are fine men and able pastors and
have done a very fine work during
their stay here, being popular not
only Avith their own churches but Avith
all churches and those not affiliated
Avith any church.
WE SAY “GOOD-BYE”
We say it for an hour or for years,
We say it smiling, say it choked with
tears,
We say it coldly, say it with a kiss;
And yet Ave have no other word than
this:
“Good-bye.”
We have no dearer word for our
' heart’s friend,
For him who journeys to the world’s
far end,
And sears our soul with going, this
we say,
And unto him Avho steps but o’er the
way—
“Good-bye.”
Alike to those A\re love, and those we
hate,
We say no more at parting at life’s
gate,
To him Avho passes out beyond earth’s
sight—-
We cry, as to the wanderer for .the
night,
“Good-bye.”
—Charles Dickens.
RATES—Per word, first insertion, 1c; subsequent insertions, per word, Yzc. All classified
advertising CASH IN ADVANCE. No classified advertisements taken for less than 25c.
before. Every fellow in the town and
surrounding country that has any-
thing to do around the home or on
the farm in the Avay of repairs
should have it done noAV. Help the
fellow that needs help and is Avilling
to Avork. Repairs on the home must
be done or property will deteriorate
and now is the time to do it. If you
have something, you want done and
can’t find someone to do it and do it
well, phone the Echo office. We will
send you the man to do it. Remem-
ber, the Lord helps those that help
themselves and every man is under
The annual Red Cross drive for
Sulphur Springs and Hopkins County
is on this Aveek and here is hoping
that she goes over the top. The Red
Cross is the greatest agency for aid-
ing the distressed in all the world and
knows no bounds in its efforts to re-
lieve the distressed except by finan-
ces. Get in on the drive and let’s go
over the top.
* * *
The Greenville Hi need not and we
hope they do not get chesty over the
Mineola Yellow Jackets playing all
: ;r ,,-y /.va v. :- a .
‘WHERE QUALITY IS HIGHEST”
FOR SATURDAY, NOV. 1st.
Free - Free - Free!
14-k. Gold Plated Ball Pointed
FOUNTAIN PEN
Saturday, November 1st, we will give one 14 karat gold plated ball pointed Foun-
tain Pen FREE with each one dollar’s worth of our famous Peaberry Coffee.
You buy the Coffee at the regular seilingprice of four (4) pounds for $1.00 and get
the pen absolutely FREE.
Coffee is something you use every day. School days are here and you will be called
on to buy fountain pens. Come in Saturday and get one while they cost you nothing.
We are Selling our Shoes at CLOSE-OUT PRICES.
OUR PRICES ON GROCERIES ARE ALWAYS RIGHT
GENE WILLIAMS' STORE
comers mTliemi-transients. Surely
there is nobody resident in Hopkins j
for as long as a year Avho is suffer-
ing for food. Certainly that county
affords soil and climate for an end-
less variety of the best foodstuffs,
the victuals which city populations
pay high prices for. Certainly these
include fruits, vegetables, poultry,
eggs, syrup and heavy meats. Cer-
tainly Hopkins raises all these, and
more. But those Avho do not raise
their food in Hopkins have to buy it
from those who do, just like every-
Avhere else. It is simply a case of
have or have not. As Avith all the
good things of life, some get.them
and some don’t. Those Avho don’t oft-
en blame their lack on society, on
political administration, or on any-
thing that comes handy, except them-
selves. For months there has been
what is called a financial depression
on our well-known country. Profes-
sional publicists engaged in econom-
ics, finance, manufacture, transpor-
tation, agriculture and dressmaking
have undertaken repeatedly and tire-
somely to tell what is the matter,
and say it is about over. All of them
are engaged in the discussion of
pure-D tosh. What ails the country
as a Avhole is exactly the same thing
as ails an individual when he spends
more than he makes and comes at
last to confront his debts. For eight
years the American people engaged
in a reckless splurge, laying up theo-
retical treasure against actual in-
debtedness. When the shoAvdoAvn
came, with the Wall Street underpin-
ning giving Avay under the super-
structure, the aggregated people be-
gan doing precisely what an individ-
ual does when he realizes a reverse
of fortune. He began saving, reduced
spending, got Avise for the time be-
ing, and stopped fancying itself rich
in paper profits. When the balance is
restored the depression Avill be over.
All the people will never be wise all
the time but most of them get Avis-
dom at some time.—Dallas News.
LOST AND FOUND
STRAYED — Tavo red white-fac
steer yearlings, weight 250 to 300
ears marked. Notify D. B. Gregg
Birthright, Texas. d26-lt-Av31-2t
LOST—Black and white pointer hire
dog pup. Name on collar. Please no
tify Floyd Stacy at Perkins Brother
Company. d27-2tAv81-lt
STRAYED—Black mare mule, 1
hands high, B on left shoulder, J oi
left jaw; reward. J. A. Gulledge
Sulphur Springs, Rt. 5. wit
MISCELLANEOUS
FOR RENT
FOR RENT—Good bottom land pas
ture Avith lots of cane switch and an
abundance of Avater; Avell fenced.
Will carry from 150 to 200 head of
cattle through fall and winter. W. E.
Dupree, nine miles north of Mount
Vernon, on Talco route No. 1. dwtf
FOR RENT—100-acre farm, 3 mile
south of Sulphur Springs, Texas.!
Write. Mrs. L. B. Leslie, Gran
Prairie, Texas. w31-ltp
“COMMON CUY” ~
SHOWS TO FULL
HOUSE AT MISSIOI
“Common Clay,’ one of the out-
standing pictures of the new- season,
“The Friendliest Place in Town”
‘The Friendliest Town in Texas’’
The turnip wagons and trucks had
the right of Avay on the public square
today with the big white purple-top
Globes decorating the square from
end to end. The question now is,
what will Hopkins County do with all
its turnips? It is impossible to eat
so many turnips. Besides, we have so
many other things such as Dooley
Yams, ribbon cane syrup, fresh coun-
try sausage, etc., to take care of, to
say nothing of droves of big yelloAV-
legged Plymouth Rock friers, Avith
the turkey crop just around the cor-
ner.
Reports from New York are to the
effect that the dear old party still
owes our good friend', John J. Ras-
kob, a little over a couple hundred
thousand dollars. Hoav about a little
drive to clear the debt? What say
you, Bro, Sam Moore? The Confer-
ence is now OAmr and a few dollars
around will Avipe the slate clean.
The Echo man’s Avhiskers are
growing long and his hair needs
trimming, but there will be nothing
doing at any barber shop till Ave see
the Wildcats pour it on Greenville Hi
Friday afternoon, and not maybe so.
It won’t be long now,
Bose Berry left Tuesday morning
for Oklahoma is search of the fine
saddle oAvned by the 101 ranch to
use in riding his famous little black
filly on Arlington Downs next week
Avhen the big racetrack opens up for
ten days. According to Texas laAA^s,
there can be no betting at the race-
track, but No Man’s Land Avill have
plenty of the long green to back
Bose and his little filly. Who Avants
in?
* * *
The Echo man has an even dozen
little A1 Smith derby hats coming
from betting Avith the Sycamore club
membei-s that Hopkins County made,
more than 20,000 bales of cotton
this year. The ginning report for Oc-
tober 18 was 19,047 bales. Please
come on Avith your hat, Brother Jno.
Stribling. We believe you came first,
with Mayor G. S. Day of Como sec-
ond and John Hatchett third.
•I* ;i!
PLENTY TO EAT IN OLD
HOPKINS
Sulphur Springs 'News-Telegram:
The month of October is near its end
and nobody is hungry in old Hopkins
so far, and no one seems to be un-
easy about there not being sufficient
feed and food to care for the wants
of all our people. However, it is time
to make a drive for charity and be
ready for those Avho may be so un-
fortunate as to need assistance later
on.
Probably there are some people in
Hopkins County who could use bigger
and better breakfasts, but those in
such case would be listed as neAA--
POST-DATED CHECKS
(Columbus Dispatch.)
A man in New York gave a check]
October 3 which was dated Oct. 30.
When October 30 came and the check!
was presented to the bank for pay-j
ment, there Avas no balance in the
account of the draAver of the check ]
with which to meet it. He was prose-
cuted for fraud and convicted in thej
lower court. The case was carried to j
the appellate division of the Supreme
court, by which the conviction has]
just been reversed.
As the check was post-dated, it be-
came in effect merely a future prom-]
ise to pay the indebtedness, accord-
ing to the reasoning of the court,'j
and fraud, said the court, cannot be
predicated on the mere non-perform-j
ance of a future promise. The fact!
of non-payment of such a check is:}
not in itself proof of fraudulent in-1
tent any more than it is to let a|
promissory note go to protest.
A creditor is under no obligation,!
of course, to accept a post-dated
check, and the very fact that it is*
post-dated indicates rather that the!
drawer has not the funds on deposit]
to meet it, than that he has. The New
York decision will doubtless make;
creditors more Avary about taking]
post-dated checks, the drawing of
which* under ordinary circumstances,
is not an indication of good business
habits or of sound financial stand-1
ing.
The Fall opening shows few]
changes in the style of China’s mill- j
tary campaigns.—Terra Haute Star.
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Bagwell, John S. The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, October 31, 1930, newspaper, October 31, 1930; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1125827/m1/2/: accessed July 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.