The DeLeon Free Press. (De Leon, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, January 25, 1929 Page: 1 of 8
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G. IL Goosby, who became taxi
commissioner
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’. Goosby is t» increase the number
J.-T. Gilbreath, sheriff, $6,000,
ended Sunday
sessed while ometimes a large
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MRS. GILLOCK OPENS
NICE BEAUTY SHOP
New Dresses fo:
Real JJargains. jZ
taken to
3 o’clock Wed-
were
SOUTHWESTERN BELL
TO RUN CABLE FROM
DALLAS TO CISCO
Mrs. B. W. Speed, two bonds of $-10,1
. One for state and one for
two
One for state
Leon school in about the
She is 23 years of age.
Mens work pants,
per pair. —zZ
One hundred
prints. Faster
Goods.
FOR
One Brand Ncty
chine in pi
been used
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of being made
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Ironclad Sfk Ho^rf
for $1.50 a pairJrt Smith Dry Good*.
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And she planted the red rose of courage
In our hearts with an infinite care,
With the daisies of kindness arid ir.c’ey,
And the blue bells of penitent prayer.
Though our lives may be tumbled and twisted
I am sure that in gladness or gloom,
There’ll he wonderful memories of nmlher
When the hollyhocks burst into bloom.
inger Rewing Ma-
epnditition. Never
✓Ceck* time. Wil! bo sold
for George at Frw Pro**.
A.M. Northcutt,
Old Pioneer, Did
at De Leon Home
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If interested in S
call at the Farmpl
National Bank S
SATURDAY— BEBE
DANIEL IN THE
BANDITS—LIBERTY
“RAMONA” AT THE
LIBERTY TREATRE
MONDAY & TUES.
J. W. Kennedy, old time citzien of I
this section, who has been living at
Cross Plains with his daughter, Mrs.
Lillian Boazman, since the death of
his wife heer on December 27th’ past,
is down now for a visit with De Leon
relatives and friends. . He is staying
this week with Mr. and Mrs. Wesley
Jones. Mr. -Kennedy and Mrs. Jones-
are brother and sister.
^Jirand new. $1^00
imith Dry Goods.
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/^5.95 and $10.95. ! Morton.
Smith Diy Goods.
Mrs. Ocie Huddte.stgl
L. Huddleston, is
from Baxter, Tt
home of her had
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,ced today.
cape taxation. By using a lurg; num-
ber of local deputies Mr. Goosby Jbe-
. lieves that this evil can be largel z w-
|trcome.
Another plan Mr. Goosby wlil sug-
; gest to the Commissioners Court is
to fix a standard value on certain
; classes of personal property speh as
■certain grades and class of livestock,
and certain models and makes of au-
Tliis will have a tendency
he thinks, to equalize the values
i all parts of the county.—Chief
There will be a called meeting of the
Eastern Star on Friday night at 7:30
for the transactions of any business
that may be on hand.
Mrs. Mabel Hill, W.M.
Mrs. Emily Lowe, Secy*.
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Sets—Terrill Grpc-
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Mrs. H» G. Gillock has opened
very attractive Beauty Shop in rooms
at Higginbothams. The space is com-
modious, there being a compartment
where work is done and a comfortable
waiting room. Mrs. Gillock is giving
permanent waves, facials and other
forms of beauty work.
Pattern* Dress
at Smith Dry be
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Wednesday’s Rain
Near Two Inches
21-2 In. for Jan.
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it Clover Seed,
& Merchants
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year indicate that one project—the
intercity toll cable between Dalia*
and Fort Worth and Fort Worth and
Cisco—will coat about $1,700,000. The . .
eoat will include th* associated land, land and buildings. $M«M*>
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Wednesday afternoon the atmosp-
her condition got right for a good
rain—and it poured! W’ithin a very
short tinie one and ninety-six hun-
dredths inehes of Lain fell. Five hun-
dredths fell one morning earlier in
the weektmaing a fraction over two
inehes. of rainfall this weekk.
The total for January up to Thurs-
day noon was two and fifty-four hun-
dredth inches.
I in the Tiner pool, northwest of Merk-
el. Mr,. Carter has recently, been
spending much time in that section
while . A. Delaney, who has charge of
drilling operations *or the company,
1 went to Pennsylvania
Leon dates back beyond the recollec-
' tion of the writer or at least a quarter
of a century. The plan has been
changed from time to time, but it is —
the same "hoss tradin’’ institution—
with garnishments.
Ask any merchant for details of the
new plan.
There’s a hollyhock down by the gate
AU aflame in the warm Rummer air,
And the fair hand i* withered with age
That so carefully planted it ih< re.
When she’s gene from the Old Cm ; ly circle, -
To the quiet repose of the tomb
There’ll be beautiful memories of riiotr
When the i^Hyhoe^burst into bloor.i.
There arc wonderful flowers of the spirit;
lively blossoms with petals of gob i
That will bloom in our inemof/es for- •.. r,
WhcnThe baubles of life ar^-gi o.. n old.
We’ll remember her singing' at twilight,.
Rock of Ages ard Never Alone;
Of the temple not builded with hands
And angels around the white throne.
Ln approximately .$35,
518,000 was spent in the whole area
for construction and improvement.'.
‘ Work planned for T92!> is simply
following out the general policy of
the company,” said Prehnm, “in or-
der to fulfill the organization’s obli-
gation to the public, t^o see to it that
the service shall ate all tinu'8 be ade-
quate, dependable, and satisfactory
to the user.
Figures compiled in outlining the
buildings, and other necessary equip-'
ment. Ji ■. .A
According to Prvhn1 the following • t)
major items will be included in the , ,
Ing cement walks from the house to
the sidewalk in front of his property,
walks around the house, new cement
The' Southwestern Bell Telephone
Company will spend about $14,231,
000 on construction and general im-
provements in Texas during 1929, W.
L. Prehn, general manager, announ-
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W.H. Williams is
Elected President
F.&M. Nat’l Bank J
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At a called meeting of the directors
of the Farmer* A Merchant* .Nation-
al Bank last week, W. H. Williams
was elected president of the institu-
tion. W. P. Weaver was elected on
the board of directors. Mr. Williams
has been connected with the bank as
a director and stockholder for a nunv
ber of years. The bank has enjoyed
remarkable development in the twen-
ty-four years of its history.
The Farmers, & Merchants is cap-
italized at $50,000.00. There are about
fifty stockholders. The stock, before
the last dividend was paid,-about two
for one.
. The present board of officers and
directors is as follows.
W. H. Williams, president; R. R.
Harvey, Active Vice President; W,
A. Nunnelley, Vice President; J. D.
Tate, Cashier; Joe Ashby, Assistant
Cashier; J. D. Ham, T. P. Patterson,
and W. P. Weaver, directors.
FORMER DE LEON GIRL
IS “FLYING HIGH”'
tral office equipment, $3,455,000; tefo
phone instruments and associated o-
quipment, $3,043,000; exchange tines.
$3,651,000; toll fine*. $2^54.000 an*
OVV ERS STORE HERE
ON BUSINESS VISIT
Messrs John Garner of Dallas and '
; C. E. Alvis of Gatesville, were both
L. L. Lightfoot
Hardware Closed
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L. L. Lightfoot has closed his hard-
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a special sub- '
Man Dies Few
Hours of Wife
Carter Oil Test Dollar Day To
on Reed Tract is Be Continued But11
Nearing 1500 Ft.
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R. 1.. Jackson has advised the Free *n Leon on business early in the
Press to teHd their copy of the paper week, conferring with John A. Mohon
each week to ‘‘De Leon” and not to an^ their sales force, who are carry-
Weatherford. They moved to the fa- •** affuire of
mous watermelon city»last fall,
are now home again . in
Friends welcome them back.
Bob Steele in ‘‘The Bandits Son,"
Let each member attend regularly 1 »n exciting and .thrilling big western
Tax Assessor
Has a New Plan
No; 2; $3,000.
I T. A. Ward, commissioner Precinct
lessor on January 4, will iMAugurate I n0- i, $3,000. ___
J. G. Howell, commissioner Precinct steps and curb and walk in front of
his property. The improvement* will
run into a considerable figure and will
add mucl
I'llrs^ Oscar Howard writes from Beau-r )vare store and will not again operate.
He has not filed petition in bankrupt-
cy, as some have reported. Adjust-
She plans to j ment is in process f '
of teaching and en- which it is believed can* be made sat-
gage in selling airplanes. She has ' isfactory to all parties, without bank-
taught in Beaumont school recently, ruptcy proceedings.
Miss MlcCuuIoh”),’as^a student in Det------
year 1920. GARNER AND ALVIS
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JACKSON FAMILY HACK
FROM WEATHERFORD I
merit that she has taken up aviation,
and has a good many hours of solo
flying to her
leave her work
The Death Angel visited 'the same
homfe in , Comanche twice Tuesday
when at ten o’clock in-the morning*
Mrs. Jolm B. Edwards died from in-
fluenza ami just before midnight the
same day her husband answered the,
call. Both Mr. and Mrs. Edwards
havq been in poor health for some j
a time and during Christmas week
at their daughter’s,
sioners Court when it meets. ■ Henry S. Freeman,
, °£ the innovation planrUiT by precjnct 4> 53,000..
’mF. Goosby te t» tnersa^e the number
I of deputies so that he will have j----
raseMative person in each the j
larger communities to assist him in '
,mith they were taken assessing. Mi. Goosby points -out that
A wedding that was a genuine sur-
prise to their families and frien ls was
age of 15
wards.
Mrs. Edwards was converted in ear-
ly girlhood and united with the Bap-
tist Church, being a member at Mt.
Pleasant at the time of her death.
She and Mr. Edwards were sur-
vived by the following children: J. IL | that of Miss Ona Mae Peak to Glen
Edwards of Rule; R. O. Edwards,; Edgar Morton. Close iri?n<is 1^/uw
J- T. Edwards, Mrs. Jodie Smith, of their attachment for '’acn other,
to attend his for offerings, and when many owner*- .
while visitir
Mrs. Jodie “_________ .
sick and were never able to return lbc expenses ot the comity far the
home.
Their bodies were
I family residence at
nesday where funeral service
conducted by Rev. S. D. Lindsey.
J. B. Edwards
J. B. Edwards was born in Tenn-
essee Feb. 9, 1851. When a boy l.>
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E. H. Little deputy sheriff ?500. \
a rrP ...J. P. Graham, justice of peace $1000 IQ • •
Iva Hart, county treasurer, one for nare Bargain is
I Offered in Waco
j Daily Newspaper
Just on the eve of going to press
Free Press received
scription pffer on the Waco Times-
Herald. The price for a full year is
. only $2.95 for this W'aco daily. It is ~
published six days a week. There is
a big full, complete Sunday paper in-
cluded in the offer, with full news
section, feature articles, markets, edi-
torial and eight pages of the best
comics. The Times-Herald issues no
paper on Monady. I
The Times-Herald is an afternoon -3-
paper. De Ijeon subscribers would
receive the paper the morning follow-
ing its publication, coming up from
Waco on the night train.
and help the new officers in ever way-! picture, also a good comedy, “Th ■
possible. ' Gold Digger of Weepat,” Lots of
Let each member that is interested
in the work in any way.be at the ball
Saturday, January 26th at three p.m.
to attend the School of Instruction.
Jean Smith, N.G".
• : Lennie Snead, Secy.
O. Edwards, ; lldgar Morton.
Jodie Smith, , of their attachment
Mis. Roy Raines, Mrs. Jake Phifer, but because they are.£0 n youivr
tno one had guessed that "hey conte: 1-
the De Leon
but #d°re since the resignation of E. W.
De Leon. I Owen. The Garner-Alvis Co. has ;
very attractive store in De Leon and
do a very fine business. Just a pres-
j ent much new merchandice is being
i-shown.
I BIBLE MARATHON
TAKES 70 HOURS
It took just sevent!y> hours for, read-
ers in the Ranger Bible reading mar-
1 the stretch between
Genesis and Revelatoin.
tural scoot which
night at nine o’clock
night at seven o’clock.
As the last word “Amen” was ut-
tered a sigh of relief swept over the
congregation.
It took just 12 hours longer to read
the book than the pastor, tKe Rev. P.
T. Stanford, thought for at the begin-
ning. He predicted it would end be-
tween 7 and 8 o’clock Saturday morn-
ing. As it was, it was necessary to
postpone the morning service in order
to get the marathon over
NEW GARDE*
.Onion Plant^dflcf
ery.Compdny.
| mother, who was critically ill.
i Court Approves
Officers Bonds
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and W. A. Edwards, all of Comanche
Comanche Chief plated marriage.
, marriage license
I home of Rev. A. F. Nabors, where the the telephones in the five states will
wedding was solemnized on
i vening this week.
In order to make the surprise con.
plete, the young people had T ik -n a
house, the pretty little ______ _______
bungalow, next door east from the
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Holh/hot
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De Leon Rebekah Lodge No. 30 met
Tuesday night, January 22, with g^od
attendance qnd the officers for the '
new term was installed by the Lodge
Deputy, Winnie Haynes.
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' Gold Digger of Weepat,”
fun and thrills at the Lib'erTy Satur-
day. Come and enjoy a good show.
Coming Mary Pickford in “My
Best Girl”
DE LEON, COMANCHE COUNTY; JstXAS FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1929
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Much New Concrete
w. t. House,^county judge $1,000. = Wprk Being Done at
I m.o. b. w. GpwG, vwu Mui™- vf $.,g,i the e. E. Dabney Home ‘
I 000 each. One for state and one for __
! county. p *" ~
Tom Patton, eomnwmoner Precinct work at his residence this week lay-
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J where he grew to manhood. In 1818
Tie moved to Hearne Texas and a year
later moved to Parker County. It
was here he met and married Rqsetta
Kidwell. He later moved to Red sti-
ver County and from there moved to I
Comanche County in 1901 where he I
has lived since.
He had been a member of the Bap-
tist church 33 years at the time of
his death.
Mrs. J. B. Edwards
Rosetta Kidwell was bom in Parker I
County near Mil Sap in 18Gb. Here I
she grew to womanhood and at the tomobiles.
was married to John D, Ed
A. M. Northcutt, father of^RvtL. athon to coveh
Northcutt of this city, died at his ' ~
home near the North Ward school at
7:30 o’clock p.m. on Wednesday, Jan-
uary 16th, 1929. Death came as a re-
sult of a stroke of paralysis suffered
three days perviously. While he had
not been ill prior to that time, he had
been practically blind for seventeen
years. He is survived by his wife and
eight sons and daughters and two
brothers. * , ' '
A. M. Northcutt haA-every right to
the title of “pioneer.” He was born
in Tallapossa county, Ala., and moved
from there when' quite young to
Georgia. In the year 1870 his father,
Rev. Nortcutt, joined an overland
party composed of the families of
(Jarruth, Nunnelley, Pounds, Barker,
Northcutt and perhaps others, coming
to Texas in wagons. On the way
young Northcutt became ill in Louis-
iana and his father remained with
him expecting him to die, while the
wagon train came on to Texas. He
recovered and while in Louisiana was
converted and some time later became
a member of the Missionary Baptist ■
church, living a devoted, consecrated |
Christian life.. He was a deacon in
his church for almost half a century.
The family first settled on the “Big
Bend” of the Brazos not far from ;
Granbury. Alter three years they I
came to the Liveoak community, six
or seven miles cast of DeLeon and
inade their home, the Rev. Northcutt
preaching in the pioneer churches, his
several sons doing their part towa/d
carving out of the wilderness a home
that Would bp worthy of their efforts
civilizing and Christianizing th? com-
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Twenty-four years ago Mr. North-
cutt moved with his family to wiuch-
ell county and continued bi reside
there until two years ago when he re-
turned to make his home in DeLeon-
Aa an evidence of the richrcki uf
•hi* good man’s life, many ^ieopla.
came when it was known that he was
no more and asked the priilege of
helping to dig his grave._ Many were
the incidents recounted there that day
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immortal love classic, featuring Do-
lores Del Rio will be presented at
the Liberty Theater Monday and
Tuesday. This is one of the outstand
ing pictures of the year and is indeed
very good. Don’t miss this program.
I Also Fables and News. Adrpission
IQ and 35c.
Soon Mary Pickford in “My Best
Girl.”
Co.ming soon
-6,000; another for $1,000.
Clyde Coan, county clerk $7,000. j
IL S. Walker, county superintend- '
, most part are fixed and the tax rate I ent, $1,000.
Uh, L'MCh-Xear has to-be adjust? 1 to meet I
the expenses and that it is h'gh'y de-
sirable that every person bear his just
proportion of the expenses in order to
make the burden as light as possible
on all. Mr. Goosby says thftC pcon-
h . omists and tax specialists p «nt Out
moved to Kentucky with his parents ' t^iat greatest evil of tn; personal
where he grew to manhood. In 1878 -PEOpert3f Ux system 18 that ‘JT who
own real estate never escape being as-
’ sessed while ometimes a large
cent of thos *who do not own real
I fate but have personal pronerty
The J. F. Carter oil test on the R.
H. Reed tract, seven miles north of
town, is progressing nicely. A fishing
job for a bit broken off in the hole
held up the progress of the work ear-
ly this week, but this was soon recov-
ered and drilling resumed. On Tues-
day the hole was 1360 feet deep. By,
this time the well should be around
! 1500 feet. The pay is anticipated aa
around the 1500 to 1650 foot level.
• Lowe,1 Delaney and Carter are also
drilling two wells on contract in the
west, one a wildcat three miles south
The following bonds for the Cdunty
I officials were approved Monday by
the Commissioners Court:
G. R.,Goosby, tax assessor,
I bonds of $5000 each.
I and one for county.
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Features of the construction pro-
gram will include an addition to the
Haskell Building at Dallas to provide
space for the nfew toll board instata-
tion; a two story addition to the town
office building in Fort Worth, to
house Udi,terminal equipment; addi-
tion of four stories to the downtown
office building in Houston, and an in- j
stalation of about 134 miles of inter-, •
city toll cable.
- Prohn estimates that about 20,000
! new telephones will be connected to
| the system in Texas during the year.
; In the entire Southwestern territory
which includes Missouri, , Arkansas
Kansas, and Oklahoma, as well as
Texas, it is estimated that about 58,
000 new telephones will be connected
to the system during ‘$929.
The plans for the entire territory
also provide for converting about 36,
1 000 manually operated telephones to
After procuring a dial operation. Witii this acqpmplish-
they went to ine
a -new system of assessing taxes if his |
plans are approved by th? Commis- n0, 3, $3,000.
Henry S. Freeman,
Plan is Changed
After the first of the year there was
some talk of discontinuing the usual
Dollar Day celebration at De Leon,
but forward looking merchants got to-
gether and decided that it would be '* ]
the wrong thing to discard a niOHffiTy
trade event that has run so long as to
be considered an institution. DeLeon's
DoUar Day is widely adertised. Do -
Leon pioneered in putting on special
features to attract Crowds on one big
trade day in each month. Half a doz-
ein towns in this immediate section
have fallen in line, some of them
of Trent in Taylor county, and other1 exactly duplicating the De Leon plan.
Dollar Day in De I<eon is a day
when merchants mark down merchan-
dise, putting on red hot specials. It
is a day when buyers of produce en-
deavor to 'pay 'just a littl^. bit more
of live stock come in to trade and to
traffic. „ - .
Second-Monday Trade Day in De
The amount to be spent in Texas-1
during 1929 is part of $ 12,404,000 to
be used for construction and improvo-
A_ J. Beilis ! ments to the service in the entire ter-
ritory.
Slrcety home and had it prac'ica'.!> .
fitted up before anyone knedv of :1c
wedding.
Mrs. Morton is a daughter of Mr,
nd Mrs.* Steve Peak and Glen Edgar
son of Mr. afid* Mrs. G. E.
Both are De Loon reared
young folks and each of very excel -
___ I 1< nt character, having hosts of fiends
r, sister of C. j ’ ho-a*e deeply interested in their
:ted this week 1 welfare. , ,^-y.
if fdr a visit in the | ' ...... -______i-r . _ general improvement plan for th* new Toxas appropriation as follows: cen-
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