The Wellington Leader (Wellington, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, April 8, 1921 Page: 1 of 8
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1921
THE WELLINGTON LEADER
V.
VO .1 ME XII.
MEMBER 36
Cycione Wrecks Many HousesD00S0NVILLE suffers gym passes
COUNTY SUHOUi. MEET CYCLONE GOES
itR
HIGHLY INTERESTING
8150,000 DAMAGE A !
MONDAY AFTERNOON
iiLAIiEON Mi’NUAY
E. rail ol liiis County
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and
a:.ll
.•rend Mai' n Ri< hard
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to the heln of
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But all uere
except Duckworth ■
Ei-
re
O'
O r *d for ;< I l ■ ■
KI IF ( OMMI I F
FORMED AND WOKKNG. .parcel?
Maili.a
I hv* w. <
Pigi’
M :■ :t-,i
NEW cm OFFICIALS
REVIVAL MEETING
■ .. — ■ ... —... . » i w >«« > '•>«! ow ) ’ twiia >
n’ .df into k .nd! ng j Jreve in. i.<>. • p< ,,pl
ELECTED TUESDAY
BEG NS SWAY
"I
roi
lin'd
Bl.
and Young <iotch of Fort Worth will
wn-tie here next Tnesdav night in a *2 C*5*t*3r htten. tert ttoujrht they
best two‘out of three fall*. under an- ;; ednesday Ajiril «, Rp. R. N cieanjn- up the jaj| ^,4
going over the fields picking
tered Afreet iron and timber.
— -— a --to i e e
iSTTotlS T,°T *rr" ”*TKR
riew^mx, living on vh^ I/. *rov*w*i*
fam weet of Wellington. . TKl ^t
El ECTIOpf.
| election of three t
CRl Hl H I ate much internet
wm <lred ra
Hi*
IN KANSAS.
ap unimportant after all, and they
Walter
tetter received Jrmn him hr the
term that the reopta tIM not
I- .
chickens survived. Some of the Jtede not inhute except the top. The
wreeked and some . tartly wreckod. windmill was Mown down and hla
The Bor. Gordon Barrett of Tulja
hoa aorepted the coll of the Flrrt
cleaning up the jail and never report
ed to the' jfailor
Luxe Noturaay-Tn
election of three t
tMM'
trustee* weir the ^ahly one* fe
the ticket by the d
i nr *■»*. m iwnax«ui »n*i
honae cared t e dugout in but hurt; dragge'i an,and ----- „ ,, »v ,
■u-t. itiack iiw -turn* nou-* and ce*ed the the storm of Monday.
accommodate
th** Methn-
Ji
•A
is
of
I !..iv will be a meeling-pT the Col-
ling worth County Poultry As.-«>cia-
Kev. R. N Hmkaliee. puxtoi of the
M.-tl.odl't iliuich will begin a rv.ival
Sunday ..nd w ill be assisted by V W.
iffli i
’4
w
ft
i ih 1
tn gloup ami
BOY SCOUTS DO GOOD
TURN TO STORM SUFFERERS
l a .'ta nIn
if >D« I.
' 'MTlp.il
r hi
r.»*‘rn m
'VESTLING MATCH
NEXT T ESIMY NIGHT.
for the en-
.t-
VS e<ine alii> morning i
inet unr wa>
he hi at tne court
a h»< h
hou mi
h»s assistance, so he ih
of voire quoted.
tnnp
five
in early
ethod-t
p Nuz
exas.
*
'4
4
1
,rt <•«
nd th
I he ladle- of the BaptikT c hurch
line pl.mnrd to nr.uiv articles that
will be of benefit to the storm euf-
Wellington.
ferers
Coinmit-
ucar
tees will go around town firat of the
u ek gathering up these articles and
a-k that all who will give IreddinL
.i linen, cookinc wtensum. nad sucl
like to have them ready for the «*>m-
mittees w-hen they come around..
A nice B. t. P.
eniei lainnien:
Prepared hv groups 3 and 4.
Plenty of fun and amusement
And thing fo cat galore
Aftei the storm the
were '<>und grax ng pcai the
I’-.UiC
while ti. wagon an wrecked and
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*picr.- of the American legion,
non recently threw Elmer Benner here
and wop lets of friends by hh clean
sport-maiuhip, fend Young (fetch han
big reputation, so the event will
iitelx.be wrtl attended.
Dot
\\ El.1.1NG 1 OX, ( ollinx!sw(>rtli Cotintv, TE\ \S, F'RIDAT
\PRILS, 1921.
.n<lu. ,.l
of
egg* were left
of the cat and
-till
>rl
•uff<
of the
Citi
vi«u!t t>f the election
I he incoming officials
wind bee grea tforce and that it wa
fortunate indeed that it trawr ed a
.settled community,
doing no great damage in.the loss <«f
e c r property.
it i,a.s been many yeai
.me a cy- |
clone united th county, the taut one;
I. ok.-l
: TKi ASS<M I ATI ON
ro MEET XT DODSOXVM.LE
01 Glenn s and luo mile
Blirkhoider,
Mai vin >k( iu11.
1 he ich. { committee was formed
nd < oinmervtal
< <ub .»f lAellingtun and i> woikmg -.,
Uiat relief may- be given in a busi
n*~--likc an.l equitable tnannei.
the present
h;r, e
lime
arp-nter-
bcm secured to -inoct U>e w tk and
all who will donate help are a-k«d to
take hammers and tool*, report to the
connmittee wbo will refer you to oar
nf the places for Work.
Thc.-e wishing to
i.tinata
mane)
should -m<| check to A. L New lin no.
rotary. Ihoae wishing u> danate fewi,
food, clothing, and such are a>ked to
hold same until the residences are
ready To iCKx-upanry.
All who visited the wrecks, are anx-
ious to aid in some wav. ami the best
nay to <k> it is through the Relief
Committee, because thi* committee
in touch with aad know, the need’
the sufferers.
F
,.f
fill wit
and Up
and
unite in
I .’xarn-
• II. ’(
n’At-dnu’ itisi
hilled KMI i< •
J. M. Duckwurth was demolished.
One mile north ol Stalls the horm
Xveceand E. O. Watson \Aere demolished.
The tenant house of G. . GO aulvt lei.
last ol town Has xuept awa\.
()uite a lot ol lixcstock, poultry
and l..c like were
dextro) ed.
Man) barns, sheds, lartniim machinery, feed
and the like were swept away.
Two and a quarter inches ol rain tell in Wellington
dip inu (he hour of storm.
A relief committee under the direction ol the Com-
mercial Club is working to relieve the storm sufferers
tnd the neighbor* and friend are rallying
*h:iM* in distress.
\o loss of life and no one hint here.
sa'ed hx storm houses.
tr-yed.
i*i inforrtaiion La «■ i
• d a/ to th» lu >
i vwG-nti .
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A
HEAVY STORM DAMAGE WEST OF CAREY
ano iam Heavy Ton of Prop
r'.Pl 1ST WOMEN FORM
REIJEF COMMITTEE
Bpturday O. O. Adafeng livifeg
MUthMfft
stating Utet Ma
OX.
MISS ADDIE HF
ji
• '.i't ion
. ti
Nowlin.
Experience
My
Jis,,
1 he inesi
»srn ki ll maos
iai m lv
a orfl, counts
41 I I IS HIV- ... .
.JL' I Bu-iness” L. A. Hunt.
* I “'! he Rn.nkcrs View of I
f Ru-im -
h 1. Ma
Kund, Glenn Riggs
Richards.
I'M) S ,r,i Da;
Jun.br -J- ii-t. r.i
IWll ( ROI PS H 1
Ol HI- R GKOI PS
-k.i ul
'iicce place
for a piece
bo
kagg
T ic B. V. I' I
grqup> wr,u it
to i ntei'din 1 and j ]
Inurrf.lay night.
anil It
•' a- ilon- ,n tr.e nio.-l piv.i.-ant
Invitatnin
way.
• •
w ere
out a
follow -:
Ft ti. iimpietbn
A ermen J E LeggiU, Dr. E. W.
Jon, Dr. H I Stoner, B<4> Gullv and
F 1- Clay.
men were run on a ticket
■f
co,i i .ng a change >n the running of
th, a iKtiuent state
of the finance.'-, tetter service
r,., :
on ■- part of public utilities, and a
economical exjienditure of the
mu r»
finu.-i. Judging from the majority
fax v i ng the candidate* on the ticket
ti., people of
Wellington are in
fin,, of such changes being niade
Poultry
Mr*. J D. Nesbit.
i ■ •••ling for Egg Production.
Mr-.
<a-uriv direction ■
Afte leaiing the
Rusi-cil place it turned t«» t'w* north
imd hit the grvur,,l tim<
an<‘. <v i n,
..'k w;r- at
and the next i»la<-,-
'.he Glenn place
M M. Duckworth recently com pie t-
1 i'i’» itioJ kI a bvmr on his place north
kind ng and town and the storm wrecked this
l . .ft . 1 »»• <1 1 loci.
freakish
more
i7 well a* <!he ,t'rank‘ ^an at any of tfce others.
The bouse, wa- unroofed
and
'tie
west end. the south wall and the
east porch cairied away. Two north
rooms were left standing with the
ceiling overhead and the
partition
walls still standing, the floor was
left hut the wbt,le thing moved a
few inches north on the foundation
despite the fact that it wax bolted
into the concrete foundation wMdi
nulled out.
Some of the furniture
was damaged :»n<l destroyed while his
rnuno and‘several nieces of furniture
Two of three beds
with bailclolhing were left untouched
in (he gnuth room* where the walls
A drawer of the
were swept away ___
chifforobe wn« found under one
the m at tresses' fen the bed with the
l ollori :
k‘iH‘1
Mrs
• 1‘AII
.1
(HI <■ V. son I i. •-.
I- list.
>n I
i • n,i
vie pickpo Up
mo
A Neecc's ome wa- the
,wprat wrecked of any. >t was left
ktli-d
or., o.u.e
One of the nr ght.<.
rv the RusM-ii
<: uca: ih •■ i uu <1 not
’aiiK*-. but
* bril ’ bi-
te $aw th»* )i,,'< • lift Iwd
• lv into the ai* and then *• to pieces •
this plur
The home of F O.
« a trim
ju-st
it r<. » the read northwest vf Mr*.
and
drmnlixhed
his hou »*hohl efferls ruined or blown
Im from the roof df
his
be»is were scattered al! over the field
pme of it Wnt around telephone
ta,le.« j be cat shed almost a
total wreck while the car
i id
■ t
••cm to be damaged except the top.
11 chicken house wa< wrecked and
other -beds dir
Mo«t of his
lot- ami bam !<•'
truing. The fam-
-is m t
ii house anil the
hw were not tiw
•it by the wind.
The
this place as well as th«-
►oemed to go eastward
then sweep due north.
440 tarda—J. D. Sugg
Broad Jump Chester Frank
lieclainut><n Junior
Girt
and <a-’ to K irk land j Champlin
soutl.
Bov
ten or
ago - Goodmgiit.
i :><(«•
and i i i ‘."it i hut luckdy
n-,t ’ urting
ircoyenng from the mall (*■*
fortunately the exposure did not hurt i *"y o; the family,
and there wen
.. I the
arg»-
any of there.
ii.an-,
■>Ut by the
H eho><! good - and piundei destroy
fd and
"You are invited to be present
the church at half past
Rea<\
ly fot a mia.nhght picnic
Somewhere ut in tl.e .Lick..
1HI RSDAY, APRII
Something like 7., young people ap
neared al T t. church at th* appointed
l>oa fried
, ar.-
ano
‘ i u< k- and ywn
to the bridge north
of town wlieie
big fin
wa- hudt
;ui,l a rirc><
which had to a t a
he moon <>n this
occasit»n, le.
■ n fa: ••<! t< keer
•the try st.
1 he ‘thint to eat galore"
n.a'i.
appearance like mute and d .-appeai-
n tin
shape, form, substance and manpoi
of ice cream tickled th,- palate jind
froze the gulh t of ail
Aft.,-, which
all became ixiys and girls full of fun
and frolic and made the welkin ring
w ith joyou- Taught* i
\\ hen the time
• ame to go home al! voted the ocea
ion on*' to be long rementberet!
In Explanation of why t - <* group
had to
entertain
the
nth, •
two
iield
in
groups
w-hich the member-
of each group
uf scripture
and the
quote verses
groups quoting the least number had
to entertain tr.e other two; m> group -
3 and 4 were the ones to entertain. It
is. said of one of the leaders of one of
the successful groups that ho exhort-
ed his fellows to help and
sow he w»s
lhe morning after the
a r.aa
. hecked up
:h» ,»g,
damage wae much
*otMtd *bal the
graatf than at firet reported
On Mr* Russcir, farm the farm - nothiing but kindling and mattered to.
m which lire . Riggm* family| tbe four winds- yearling ealvea.|
wa» bung »*- completely destroyed or-es and hog, were killed. All
and everything htterFy torn to pieces, i the olhei .re,,»e- wet
ITie family wa* in the dugout and th*iWill he of no u*»-.
e tnjurey -«» tbej time about 11300 were -subscribed for
• tuioi relief and a committee was ap
west to
it pointed to relieve tne sufferers from
The commit
tr». went vut tv tire different w reck* d
hon.e-
and investigated their need.-.
It will take
all money
that ran '■><
raiMitl and ai) the food and clothing
< olunteei
labot,
an<l such like that
th, counts can po -ibiy donate tQ re
i. »• ,,( id
• n nun
, in
,n
•ut.
i r.e
• ies
t he |
big fui ;>aped clouu move to tire
t appeared to people of this .
ire
north a
-niuo tunn-
could
r ty.
:•: ,n ■
il< u
,ul
ir ,n <Sir
blown out.
a ilkiri-on
nd
v damaged
„ff tin
1 ir..
A
southeast»whore H went to
uart of it piling furniture.
ju-Khlte
r. and ti
i d. u<
i ’ v moutn
tn. ;>
< lotortn.
I ‘G n..,ut i.
Fust.
kJUII’.K » i • • • i I Vv i I I » <w. I Z* V're I 1 ‘ \ » - v "
Goodwin, ci.tni leader of the Baptist
church, who will lead the song sei vice
fi»r the meeting
The Baptist people
have tendered their church for the
meeting and beginning with the Sun-
uuy night -e> vice the <fi?*vice will | •■
held in the Baptist church.
1’his i«
done because of the fact that the
Barit;.- t church
w :
many more people than
diet ciiuj-ch.
This will ire a ineeiin
tire community and ad
:usked to co-operate in
and the singers and musician are e-
pectally requested to assist
By all
people joining in the meeting fo> th<-
saving of souls and revival of relig-, ■“ ",
ion among ail Chiirtians. this can be' overwhelmed because his fellows did
made a greet season of refreshing.
ert < in
kill*.i
than i
lire f,'r.d« - ,,f which were fiyund neai caure
v
[ ••• krii.‘ - place i mile north, a
s part of t lie Ajigon the ; |,v uH buxines* non
was nut found.
,»f it
At this
Keliy stopped when he saw
. t r lorni Luming and went into the
•-* *HH —
ferl L*rri h<»u < ieax in< his inuJo* hitch-
rerkage. c<‘ t*“‘ "••‘gon. *'*- *‘ ‘
northwistwar.
where it left a ma -
Hi* barn ih feet ue.-t of the hi-ure
mimI the lot fencing wm not touchixi.
The furniture ami houreihwhi goods ••*»>.
were den idisherl and cattered rrory
where
II.
The J H. Sieelniari rr,-gden>e
which co»t him I74X*'. *'*' picked up
a»l pu-hed about 100 feet west into a''a*
tte field- ite porch was taken </f,
the roof badly ifamaged and (he in-
-uric of the house wax ilamaged Some
of his hou-ehold goods were ruined
car ahad
His
■•d' c’/.i-i (.imaged. —
wax blown away and ins car inovpd
out. turning around and «il
liudly damaged. Tw„
on the running board
after the storm ere
Si rtnicr'
bi oken.
M
.nd hix outbu 1 Unv
ilamage
,W StelTa
The hou sv ru *r V
ulaie occupied by
wav -wept i.vuy „rwn „
< vervthing the family hail was ,’’st,hoUw and
excetd ju t the ch thing they were
wearing. This Ix ’i-e — —
one of .Mr. Burkholder. «ns *wept due
north.
Mr. Burki vide’1 ’•<'' < wnd all ou'
hodsehold good-
buildings al'd all -----
were a total Io*' and piece* could be
found scattered foi a mile north in the
fie’rtx Their chickens could be found
in tihe wire fencing picked clean of
feather*.
Stall had a beautiful country
3. M
of tree*
home and a great grove
around the I'iu-w. The storm here
• cmed to sweep from the wert up were untouched,
rooting the large tree* and dragged
not come tli
a despairing
"MyGod, my God. why ha t »hmt for
< i.osi:n Tin* „ls
Fr.rv « iavS,1.Bd,h.bl Two lpi» cteula in real <MUte‘a*‘the IPUghtei of the crowd.
A1^ were clmexi in this city Wednesday. TW0
Ab’« One deal was between Ire? p*^]; ™O PRISONERS
O'Neil trades him
was between
ESCAPED FROM JAIL
K W. Robinson.
wmle land in Wheeler county anil ixis ’
home in this citv for a half section
near Fresno.
The other deal was
lUchard- of about IbO acres’ of land
joining Wellingt* n on the south
o
R. R. Margin for Sl',0 per acre. This
is a splendid place and will make a
good home for Mr. Martin who exj I
poets to move to am? right awav
tb.n it bteminvdte Saturday Apr !' RM; |{E M Ty nJ-A| s
Ifitn at 2 p. in. tne meeting i« being —------
held at Dodsonvilte that it may be ‘
.on\enient fot -anne members to i
F'rarv ifefev*if**} mrvrt oltxk '
moi r
members are unred to atteml
mertmg la expected.
Program for meeting:
; the ba; n and all
uthou re
. t. k« n
picked and | community >- called upon
cairreti for more, what they cun ,n money, feed, fotxi,
hundred yard- and junked— cfething. or lub<>: to aid in thi - good
run) <a>
tJK refficial.
ties a
>G laid Da d. Junim
J 11 -t.
I next Ea<i>. M'.'nnd,
led. i third, Al\in Wintf
Au t -n ( hri (■■
path su»u that,
second, Ewing [alley.
JI lie Race Inst
Forward
Mdr-
One-half
Race First.
thu* Sloug+i; econd. Ew ng Talley
Wednesday after school the Wei- *
lington Boy Scouts marched out to t OscUr Dotson of Chickasha,. OklA..
the Wat«on anti Nence place-- caxt of
town and worked like men clearin
up the debris dragging tree*,
the fields picking
up scat-
iron and timber, r rom
he there thm went, south to the Stall
„f piece anti picked up the scattered
timber M they crenate the field, ar-
Last .Monday nifcht Ab Hpyett
I charged with burglary, and B.
the sale by Jim I™"**; forgep-. escaped
1 acres of land th? jail by removing brrnk from
. over one of tho wrest winrtowa ..They*
j made their get-away because all wires
i were down from the storm of Mon-
day evening and iG< road were al
most impassable for several hours.-
Tuesday, .giving them plenty of time
to get away from this neighborhood.
i They xi'emed to have been working at
, .. .l i ... , (he wihifew all during .Monday, ac-
Mi-* Amin; ^K*d 14 years;icmiling to reports of people who *aw
’them, but tCioujfht thev were just
Wednesday. April «. Rm. R. N.
Huckabee (s>mluctng,the funeral ami
burial service at the cemetery.
De
of
i> n u
M. IKhku iitb J
> rs.
' i Fortu:iAtl<M\
Ku
f »r th
cumpanv t.hirvinv tf**
insui *
and \\ithr.
adjujitfMi
u» n
• al
? < i »a»t iii prop
11 'ii.. (>
di eked a huuiIxt id houM
illt.iiiion about 1 o'cIikt.
'ivrihin live uiilt.-, ol \\ viii.TRiofi u<i the total ih xh ucUon
. ■>. , a •■; b Hues and pai ual d<$>l icliti
III out OtlH I
I he hoiw* (IcxliGyed were
ienam house live milt
Russell
a it* h the faniih ot < . i». Riuuiiis v.ax lit in
(.ibl) ' «k*ni. s d a t II:
.1. II. Steelman x I tin
olace
h us Glen"
ill):
(lanriged
One mile not ih
o
town the (Imeiiine
i»<l J. . Stall weie all demolixhcd.
One and a hall mik> north oi loan tFiv lic« home ol
Mi*. :
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