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EDITORIALS
AMUSEMENTS
FEATURES
In Years Gone By
COMPUTER COMING UP ?
TEN YEARS AGO
The Tira Community, just
across South Sulphur in Hopkins
County, has been designated
district winner in the 1971 Texas
Community Improvement Con-
test.
Debra Gunter was selected as
the Head Drum Major with Jan
Moore assistant Drum Major of
the Cooper High School March-
ing Band for the coming year.
Band Majorettes selected were
Elaine Echols. Shelby Mitchell.
Jana Gillean. Nancy Little.
Lucia Henson. Netti Mitchell,
and alternate. Becky Conley.
Miss Julianne Janes, daugh-
ter of Dr. and Mrs. Olen G.
Janes. Sr., presented her senior
voice recital May 5. in Caruth
Auditorium. Southern Metho-
dist University. Dallas.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Mr. and Mrs. Carl V.
Dawsor- will observe their 50th
wedding anniversary Sunday.
They were married on May 14,
1911 in Cooper.
Harry Bartley was elected
president of the Delta Country
Club at the annual stockholders
meeting. Manton Miller was
elected vice-president and Tho-
mas Harris, secretary-treasurer.
Bob Carrington has accepted
a position as physical therapist
for Rehabilitation Medical Cen-
ter in Hot Springs. Ark.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
Wade T. Bledsoe was nam-
ed superintendent of the Cooper
Public Schools in a meeting of
Taken From The Cooper Review Files
FORTY YEARS AGO
SEVENTY YEARS
FIFTY YEARS AGO
Graduates of the seventh
grade at Lake Creek this year
are Edna Allen, Gladys Toon.
Laverne Russell. Lewis Regan,
Donald Thompson. Jack Mc-
Millan, Eugene McLarty. Minta
Marriage licenses J
sued so far this month til
Gilbert and Miss Hallitfl
Ed Smith and Myrtle Jej
W. G. Ellis and AllieClicU
Henry and Lida L. Jones;!
Miller and Laura Miller]
Morris and Kate Wolfaj
A. Jackson and OrphaHoj
Rev. Lockett Adair. J
by W. C. Taylor, is holj
revival in the Union Tabes
More than 1700 people
been present each night
A new mail service for
Cooper has been put into effect
with the withdrawal of train
service through here. A truck
service will be substituted for
the present rail transportation,
Postmaster Wilbur Hart has
announced.
A total of 93 students in the
7th grade in Delta County will
receive diplomas from Deputy
State Superintendent C. L. Yar-
borough of Greenville Wednes-
day night.
Over 500 people attended the
dedication of 'he new bandstand
in the center of the square
Wednesday. Following a musi-
cal program by the Cooper High
School band. Judge Rube S.
Wells made the dedication.
Lon Hefley is reported to have
lost 50 head of cattle in the flash
flood which hit Delta County last
week.
the school board Tuesday night
according to announcement by
Ed L. Adair, president of the
board.
M. J. Thomas, who operates
the New Day Motor Company in
Cooper, and Mrs. Jewel Giles of
Tyler were quietly married
Saturday at Hugo, Okla.
A committee of J
Presbytery installed J
Johnson as pastor of J
byterian Churches J
and Lake Creek Sundj
committee was coniJ
Rev. David J. Murray J
B. Welch and Rev J
worth.
Appearing on the pJ
the Parent-TeachersAsJ
program presented at M
er High School WednesJ
Miss Jewel Fisher. M
Lowry. Miss Lillie Pratt,d
P’att. Rev. Etnorv, J
Mrs. T. P. Berry.
Lee Goolsby. ViJ
Conway Bangs, ClvrtJ
mate and J. p
A May Fete pro?
presented Friday ’ J
Cooper High School«
with Mary Steven“
crowned as queen .
Fleming will esccn
SIXTY YEARS Afl
The Golden Yea
How Fat Is Fat?
That Wonderful Year 1920
and
(To Be Continued)
and
his
back of an envelope. One
wonders wi < could be a more
suitable memorial to FDR than a
wasteful, amorphous spending
program that hasn’t done any-
thing in 25 years. It’s a sort of
living memorial.
Lambro’s book has been
influential in helping the Ad-
ministration target their cuts,
but "Fat City" should be
required reading for every Ex-
ecutive appointee as well as
anyone else interested in seeing
just how much federal spending
has gone out of control.
Anyone who claims to have
read "Fat City" and still
opposes massive spending cuts
is simply telling you that he
never learned to read and is too
embarrassed to say so.
Protestant Church was going to
locate in Texas. Two of the
trustees that were to select the
site were from Delta County, W.
W. Pierce being the chairman.
It was thought that Cooper
would make the trustees a nice
inducement.
Willie Graham and Buster
Dixon were painfully injured at
this time when a team they were
driving ran away and they
jumped out of the wagon to
escape. The team became
frightened at a mortar board on
the wagon as they were passing
in front of the Buck Hotel and
began running. Mr. Graham fell
on his chest and his face
evidently struck a board. His
nose was fractured and badly
lacerated. A splinter ran into his
face and protruded out through
his lip and several teeth were
knocked out. Buster Dixon had
the small bone in his left leg
fractured but notwithstanding
his injury he picked up Graham
who was bleeding profusely,
and with some aid carried him to
the drug store for treatment.
Roy Riley, who was also in the
wagon, escaped uninjured.
W. L. Gideon reported the
following burglary at the M.A.
Cameron store at Ben Franklin:
"Several hundred dollars worth
of merchandise was stolen on
Wednesday night. The burglar
entered through the rear win-
dow by tearing away the screen
and left by opening the rear
door. There were no clues as to
who committed the crime, he
said, and the guilty party may
never be apprehended but he
was going to confer with the
sheriff about it."
Cooper was to have a through
package car from Dallas be-
cause of the influence of F. B.
McKay, assisted by Agent J. W.
Green. The T & P Railroad had
agreed to the freight car to
become effective May 5. Since
the beginning of the war freight
It was announced in the April
20, 1920 issue of the Cooper
Review that a wholesale grocery
house to be known as Seaman-
East Wholesale Grocery would
open during the month of
August in Cooper. The an-
nouncement was made by T. R.
East and J. B. Rattan, officials
of the company. They had
closed a deal for the H. H.
Moore I -2 acre lot north of Clem
Lumber Co. yard adjoining the
railroad and said that work
would start in about ten days on
the 108’ x 108’ brick building.
The article stated further that
Seaman-East was a strong and
successful wholesale firm which
had houses in Greenville and
Sulphur Springs.
Because of the serious illness
of the Methodist pastor at
Cumby, the District Conference
of the Methodist Church was
changed to Cooper from Cumby
for the May 4-6. About 100
delegates were to attend and
Presiding Elder J. P. Luton was
scheduled to preside. The fol-
lowing committees were ap-
pointed to assist in looking after
the delegates and the success of
the Conference:
Committee on entertainment,
Mrs. W. C. Hazlewood, chair-
man; Mrs. Geo. B. Simmons,
Mrs. J. F. Crowson. Mrs. H. E.
Cabeen and Mrs. J. H. Newton.
Reception committee, Rev. C.
C. Armstrong, chairman; C. C.
McKinney, J. F. Crowson, W.
C. Hazlewood and C. M.
McKinney.
Arrangements committee, G.
G. McAlexander, chairman; W.
S. Mangum. B. J. McMillan and
W. H. Smith.
Rev. H. B. Chambers of
Pecan Gap was to preach the
opening sermon.
Directors of the Chamber of
Commerce were considering
making an offer of a contribu-
tion at this time to secure the
orphans home which Methodist
service out ot Dalias had been
very slow and unsatisfactory but
with the package car all local
freight from Dallas to Cooper
would go into this car and no
other, and it would be sealed
and come direct to Cooper,
coming to Terrell on the "Hot
Shot” at night and on to Cooper
the next day. To show the T & P
officials that this service was
wanted. J. W. Green secured a
large number of signatures of
business men asking for the
service.
Also published in this issue:
"D. H. McCord has sold his
bakery to W. E. Brackeen
will leave Cooper with
family.”
Noted in the briefs
personals section:
"Dr. C. C. Taylor is in New
Orleans where he is taking a
post graduate course.”
"W. H. Smith left Sunday for
northern markets to buy stock
for his furniture store.”
Mrs. J. C. Tynes will leave
Sunday for Lometa, Texas, to
visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
M. C. Wilson, and her sister
who is in ill health.”
Hugh Yeager has purchased
the Elmer Nelson place on So.
East First Street of Ed Turbe-
ville.”
"Mr. and Mrs. Harmon Dunn
and little daughter, Lorene, left
Friday of last week for Weath-
erford. where Mr. Dunn has a
position with the Texas Power &
Light Company.”
"L. M. Miller returned last
week from Mineral Wells when
he is ptting on an addition to the
city of Mineral Wells.”
A patriotic party of interest
was noted in the society section
and read: "Last Thursday after-
noon from two-thirty until five
thirty. Mesdames James Pat*
teson and Margaret Gray enter-
tained the members of the Bay
View and Chautauqua Clubs '
and a number of invited friends.
from HISTORY'S SCRAPBOOK
DATES AND EVENTS FROM YESTERYEARS
May 14. 1904 - First Olympic games held in the United States
open at St. Louis, Mo.
May 15, 1918 - First U. S. airmail service inaugurated between
Washington and New York City.
May 16, 1927 - Supreme Court rules that bootleggers, although
illegal, must file income tax returns.
May 17. 1885 - Philippe Bartholdi’s Statue of Liberty, a gift
from France, arrives in New York City.
May 18, 1796 - Public Land Act authorizes sale of public land in
minimum lots of 640 acres at $2 an acre.
May 19, 1863 • Union forces under Gen. Ulysses S. Grant
make 1st assault on strongly defended Vicksburg on the Mis-
sissippi River.
May 20, 1939 - Pan-American Airways inaugurates regularly
scheduled commercial mail flights between United States and
Europe.
The guests were greeted at the
door by Mesdames Patteson,
Gray and Hickey. The rooms
where the games were played
were decorated with cut glass
bowls of Mexican red blankets
and other flowers. American
flags were in evidence in the
different rooms.
"After all the guests had
arrived score cards, done in
hand painted carnations, were
passed and partners matched
for the games. At table No. 1 we
discussed ’Presidential Possi-
bilities'; while at table No. 2 we
had rounds of merriment at the
old time game of ‘Hull Gull.'
One of the most enjoyable tables
was a clever and original contest
which was answered by names
of Cooper club women. ‘The
opposite of ‘old’ drew forth
Young . The familiar express-
ion of an old time darkey, and
what a boy always like to do -
elicited ’Darwin’. The danger
from a fire on a windy night •
which is of course ‘Sparks', and
many others as unique.
"We cannot refrain from
mentioning one other table,
centered with a vase, holding
the flag of every country be-
longing to the League of Na-
tions. and it was noticeable that
every great country, save our
own, was represented. Miss
Lambeth fittingly described the
meaning of these flags, calling
attention to the missing one,
the Red for blood our fathen
shed'; White for purity and
right’; blue for all who are bbal
and trae*.
"Miss Fisher pteyvt qfe
national ain of the oMhtftot
who have signed the petce
treaty.
"A delicious ice courte of
brick cream in pink and white,
angel food cake and grape ice
*« »«*ed to the delight <
icd at Oaklawn CemettiJ
Cooper.
Peter and Della Ann J
had six children: Ida I
Annice Pearl. Lula Eliza
Clyde Henry, Jessie OtM
and Lewis. All six have m
away. In Delta County. Aw
Pearl Miller Petitfils' daua
Celine Petitfils Little dw
January of 1980. Bessie 1
Petitfils Mitchell lives mi
Creek with her husband La
Mitchell. The Mitchells
LaFray and his family liw
up the way.
The children of LaFrad
Mary Dee Jackson Mitdw
Shelby Scarborough, Nettil
berling. Berk Mitchell and!
Mitchell, are the fifth ra
tion raised on the lands
White Miller. Jr. bought!
he came to the county.
LaFray Mitchell children
great great great great n
children of John Miller.
Rachel Lee Petitfils Ga
the fifth child of Annice N
Miller and John D. PetitfW
passed away. Her sons d
Gillean and Kenneth fii
live in Cooper.
Lula Elizabeth Milled
third child of Peter R
Miller. Jr. and Della Ann N
Miller, married William I
Wilson. Their seventhchw
the late Billy F. Wilson,■
wife. Sara Scott Wilson. I
east of Cooper.
Jessie Othelta Miller,tM
child of Peter White
and Della Ann Pierce,
mother of Wanda
Valree Hicks. Wanda
late J. C. “Buddy"
daughter, Rosanne, i»
James Donald Weaver,
son, Jacob Collin Weaver-
great great great great
son of John Miller.
The very latest great
great great grandson «
original John Miller who
from Germany has just
This young man is the
great great grandson of
White Miller, Sr. and th*
great grandson of
Miller, Jr., who did so
Delta County.
On May 8, Valree and
Hicks' grandson, Jk«’fl
Hicks, came to IM *ith
and Diane Hicks
By Angeline Sharp
John Miller and goodwife
were natives of Germany, who
came to America • probably
stopping off in Holland for a
while.lt is believed they lived
for a time in Pennsylvania.
Stories handed down say John
Miller and his wife spoke
German only. We know the
Millers were in Virginia in 1814;
their son. Peter White Miller.
Sr., was born there in that year.
Peter White Miller, Sr. mar-
ried Rebecca Compton on Nov-
ember 24, 1836. Peter and
Rebecca had fifteen children.
They farmed in Tennessee -
starting out on a small scale and
owning more than a thousand
acres at the time of Peter's
death.
Peter White Miller, Sr. was a
trader, a Master Mason, and
belonged to the Sons of Tem-
perance. He and four of his sons
and a son-in-law fought in the
Civil War. They were among the
early volunteers The sons were
William Henderson Miller, John
Henry Miller. Wright Smith
Miller, and James Lafayette
Miller; the son-in-law was Lewis
Collins Ferguson. Early in 1863,
Peter White Miller. Sr. was sent
home on medical furlough; he
died on April 9, the same year.
Four of the fifteen children of
Peter White Miller and Rebecca
Compton Miller came to Delta
County. Wright Smith Miller,
the fifth of the fifteen, and his
wife. Orpha Darwin Miller,
came to Delta County in 1872.
Alfred Compton Miller, the
tenth of the children, and his
wife, Margaret Jane Thompson
Miller, came sometime between
February, 1877, and May 1881.
Eldest of the fifteen. Martha
Elizabeth Miller Ferguson,
in 1897, after the death of
her husband. We will tell the
stores of these three later.
This is the story of the
* born
m Xhei Count,. Tennes^e. on
1. ItM. He came to
County in IR78. He
««rried Della Ann Pierce the
jur Dena
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Doubts and jealousies of-
ten beget the facts they fear.
Thomas Jefferson
Years may
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wrinkles the smtl.
Douglas
Pillars of Pecan Gap. Earl and
Shirley (Humphries) Cooksey,
have run the C and C Lumber
Company together since 1948
Shirley was born in Littlefield
but came to the Gap imme-
diately. with her parents. Wal-
ter and Argie (Dowell) Humph-
ries. She met Earl when they
were school kids.
Earl’s folks were Frank and
Mary (Watts) Cooksey. Earl was
born here. His Great Grand-
father Pitts (on his father's side)
died in the Civil War Earl
recalls his father telling of
picking up mini-balls left on the
Shiloh Battlefield when the big
guns shot their bursting ammu-
nition and selling them by the
bucketfull.
Earl’s first school was the
Giles Academy; then he went to
Pecan Gap School. Earl and
Shirley were married on June 1.
1946. In 1948. they bought the
lumber business from Earl’s
dad. who had owned it. with a
partner, since 1938.
The Cookseys' son David and
wife Ann live in Shreveport with
their two daughters, -our year
old Kelly and Ashley, who's
eight months. Earl and Shirley
are regulars at Pecan Gap
Baptist; their minister is the
Reverend Tim Mabe.
We checked out more of
Pecan Gap on Saturday. 5-3.
Managed to find Paul Miller’s
establishment Paul keeps a low
profile • no sign • but folks find
him anyway. Calvin Tailant,
new Pecan Gapper, was carving
up some steaks in his Northside
Grocery Calvin used to own a
piece of (weekend) property in
the East End; he admits he
misses it. Calvin's right hand,
Virginia Johnson, was out on an
errand - hated to miss her. Joe
Erwin was working hard.
Joe and Kay Blackwell lost
their toy poodle. Tu Tu, some
three years back Now they’ve
adopted Tu Tu 11. This eight
week old white bundle of charm
is registered with the World
Kennel Club.
Jim and Anna Mullis of Pecan
Gap adopted Tu Tu H’s half
sister, a personality in her own
right. The Mullises have named
her Geisha Girl. Toy poodles, by
the way, are the smallest.
Miniatures are the next larger
size. If you see one of these
teeny ones, you're going to want
one, so be careful.
O ☆ O ☆ ☆
Grandparents overheard: We
went after the little angels on
Friday and took the little devils
back on Sunday.
☆ * * * *
The only bachelor President
the U.S. has had: James Buch-
anan.
Preas Update: Jerry and
Joann (Allen) Preas’ kids are
growing up. Deann, after two
years at PJC (she sang with the
Madrigals, remember?) is fin-
ishing at ET in August. Because
two courses didn’t transfer,
Deann will take two this sum-
mer and picks up her degree in
Speech and Hearing Therapy in
August. In the fall Deann begins
at North Lamar in Paris.
Gary • nineteen now • is with
the Air Force at Sheppard AFB
in Wichita Falls. Gary was CHS
Class of '80. Denise is fifteen, a
freshman at CHS. was a major-
ette this year and will be a
Junior Varsity Cheerleader this
fall.
Joann is with AFLC at E
Systems in Greenville (and
serves on the City Council).
Jerry is a Dallas Fireman and
has his Electrical and Air Con-
ditioning business here, as well.
The Preases attend Cooper First
Baptist.
Doug Albright is two years
older than his sister, Susie
Kathleen. When Sue was tiny,
their nurse. Rose, dressed the
two to the nines, put baby Sue in
the pram, and with Doug
trudging along, they walked
through town to the Clem
Lumber Company (where Quen-
tin and Catherine Miller hve
now). Rose's beau worked at the
lumber yard.
Passersby would say to Doug.
"What do you have there?" His
proud reply. "Sudie Kateen
pretty baby." Sue breaks up
when she tells this; she declares
pictures prove she was homely,
and skinny, and all eyes.
* * * ☆
Further Adventures of the
Albrights: James Albright. Sue
and Doug's late older brother,
and Earl Morgan had a laundry
business. This was 1917 or '18.
In their four wheeled horse
drawn hack (pulled by Bess, the
Albright horse), they picked up
soiled laundry and sent it to
Sherman on the Texas Midland.
One Halloween evening,
James and Earl were making
out bills at the Albright kitchen
table. James' sharp ears detect-
ed the sound of the hack being
pulled away. Sure enough,
Hobson Crook and his cronies
(almost for sure Aubrey Adair
and Haywood Lane) were mak-
ing off with the hack.
James gave chase with his
dad’s pistol. The pranksters
managed to make Hagood Hill
with the vehicle and pushed it
into Big Creek (dry at the time).
Hobson said later, "Bullets
were popping all around our
feet. We didn't dare stop. We
were terrified." However it
was. after all, Halloween, and
the funseekers went on to
disassemble a wagon parked on
the Square, take it to the
Courthouse belfry and re-as-
semble it. much to the amaze-
ment of the populace next
morning.
Now that Income Tax Day is
behind us and our blood pres-
sures have dropped a cit, do you
know that your taxes might have
gone to fund the Smithsonian’s
"Anatomical and Ecological
Study of the Indian Whistling
Duck?"
Of course, your taxes might
have been used for other things.
They might have gone to make
the Navy's $64,000 film entitled
"How to Succeed With Brun-
ettes." showing officers (not
enlisted men) how to help ladies
with their coats.
Then again, they might have
been spent on the $2.9 million
Bee-keeper Indemnity Payment
Program, which pays for bees
killed off by federal pesticides.
It's director recently remarked
that since the program began,
he has not known of a single bee
dying of natural causes.
These wonderful things
brought to you by the federal
government are catalogued in a
fabulous panoply of government
waste called Fat City: How
Washington Wastes Your Tax-
es. The results are 400 pages of
amazingly stupid spending pro-
jects compiled by former UPI
correspondent Donald Lambro.
If there is anyone left in this
country who doesn't believe
federal spending can be cut. Fat
City should put an end to the
discussion once and for all.
Some programs he cites seem
straight out of "Alice in Won-
derland'"; the officials of the
$1.2 million Office of Small Pox
Eradication beg that the pre
gram be disbanded. They are
bored stiff because, other than
one case in 1963, there hasn’t
been any small-pox in the
United States since 1947. But is
the program disbanded? Of
course not.
According to a study by the
American Bar Association cited
by Lambro, the Federal Trade
Commission issued complaints
that companies did not disclose
that "navy shoes" were not
made by the Navy, that Indian
trinkets were not made by
American Indians, and that flies
were imported.
Lambro contends that more
than $100 billion is squandered
each year by the federal gov-
ernment. He divides the book
into two parts; the first dealing
with wasteful administrative
practices common to virtually
al) agencies, and the second
attacking needless federal
agencies and projects •• a
Bureaucratic Hit-Parade of the
top 100 wasteful spending pro-
grams.
"Fat City" has moments of
brilliant irony. Over $400,000
has been spent on the Franklin
Delano Roosevelt Memorial
Commission, which has sat
since 1955 trying to devise a
suitable memorial to our 31st
President. So far, they haven't
gotten around to planting a tree,
drawing up blueprints, or even
making a few sketches on the
Teenager of the Week: Joe
Erwin. Dutch and Jean Ann
(Briscoe) Erwin's fine son, is a
sophomore at Fannindel. He
works afternoons and Saturdays
at the Northside Grocery in
Pecan Gap. Joe said he’s been
too busy to firm up plans for
what conies after high school.
■Ct ☆ ☆ tr <r
Delta County is proud of our
own Kentucky Colonel and
Colonel’s Lady, Dr. Gaza and
Louise Janes.
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