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IMPERIAL WIZARD OF KLAN
stated.
K.
$13 PER CAPITA
Rub-My-Tism kills pain
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They say that friendship knows
no geographical limits.
The bond of friendship which ex-
ists between this institution and
its customers makes us ever alert
to assist, to serve and to accom-
modate in every way we can.
Our cafe service is the best to be
found in any small town. The travel-
So far as the officers and direc-
tors of this bank are concerned,
we know this is true, for the
friendly interest manifested to-
wards our friends and customers
extends throughout the entire
community.
TEXAS YOUTH BANDIT
VICTIM IN OLD MEXICO
Dallas, Texas, Aug. 24.—Diamonds
valued at about $30,000 belonging to
Shuttles Bros. & Lewis, a Dallas firm,
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PLANTERS NATIONAL BANK
Capital Stock, $100,000.00
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El Paso, Aug. 22.—Bennett Boyd,
18, of El Paso, was ambushed and
murdered by bandits in Mexico on
Aug. 18, according to messages re-
ceived today in El Paso by his father.
Young Boyd was killed at the Care-
tas ranch, about sixty miles south of
Hachita, N. M.
News of his death came in a tele-
gram from his brother, Cecil Boyd,
who was on the ranch with him.
The father, J. J. Boyd, left at once
for the scene and was joined at Hach-
ita by another son, Gordy Boyd, of
Hillsboro, N. M.
Bennett and Cecil Boyd were kid-
naped by Mexican bandits two years
ago and held for ransom.
“Friendship”
Richard Browning of Dallas spent
; the past week-end with Joe Johnson.
Sherman, Aug. 22*—Construction
work on buildings to house the exhi-
bits at this year’s Red River Valley
Fair, to be held at Old Settlers’ Park,
Sherman, Sept. 27th to Oct 1st, will
start this week, according to W. |C.
LeBarron, chairman of the building
committee of the Fair Association.
Contract for the erection of the ex-
hibit halls has been let.
Three commodious buildings will
be erected, for the housing of the live
stock exhibits at the fair, Mr. LeBar-
ron said. In addition the present pa-
vilion at Old Settlers’ Park will be
enclosed and made suitable for the
agricultural exhibits, said Mr. LeBar-
ron.
The catalogue committee of the
Fair has completed its work and the
catalogue is now in the hands if the
printer. The catalogue shows prem-
iums to the amount of $3,000 offered
in all departments.
Officials of the Fair feel very op-
timistic over the prospects for a big
fair. President A. S. Noble of the
Fair states that a contract has been
entered into with the C. D. Legette
Carnival Company to furnish the
principal attractions at the fair.
Austin, Texas, Aug. 22.—At a
meeting of the State Board of Educa-
tion today the State apportionment
was fixed at $13 per capita. The
total number of scholastics in the
State was reported by the State Sup-
erintendent as 1,298,282. The esti-
mate of expenses for the purchase of
free textbooks for the scholastic year
of 1920-21 was given as $1,681,603.
The balance in the textbook fund on
Sept. 1 was estimated to be $300,000.
The board set aside $1,381,603 as a
textbook fund, the board being re-
quired to include each year the bal-
ance in the textbook fund to meet the
expenses of the ensuing year.
The product of the 15c tax for
textbooks was estimated at $4,044,-
563. Deducting from this the amount
set aside as the textbook fund it was
found that from this 15c tax there
would remain in the available school
fund for the session of 1920-21 $2,-
662,959.
Memphis, Texas, Aug. 22.—The
home of County Attorney William J.
Bragg was fired into early last Thurs-
day morning. Four steel bullets en-
tered one room, ranging just above a
bed on which occupants were asleep.
Macon, Ga., Aug. 22.—Four per-
sons are known to be dead and search
was being made here today in the
ruins of the Brown House for others,
following a fire which last night des-
troyed the old frame hotel.
Of the dead, only one—J.
Ixay ea,
The public school opens Friday,
September 16th. On this date the
students will be issued books which
will be used during the year.
lar classes will begin Mondav the
19th.
The new high school building will
not be ready for use at this date,
therefore the entire school will be in
session in the present school struc-
ture. In order to house all the grades
it will be necessary to have half day
sessions in the first, second, third and
fourth grades until the new building
is completed. In this way the room
which the low first grade uses in the
morning will be used by the high first
in the afternoon and so on thru the
first four grades.
To meet the increasing school at-
tendance five new teachers have been
elected. They are located as follows:
One for the first grade, one for the
second grade, one for the overflow of
the third and fourth grades and one
in the high school. It will be seen
that these teachers have been placed
in the most congested parts of the
school. As conditions of funds and
attendance warrant other teachers
will be added until there will be two
teachers for each grade. All indica-
tions are that the enrollment for next
term of school will be larger than
ever before.
Below are the teachers for next
year:
First-grade, Mrs. Kate Whedbee,
Miss Gertrude Schooling,; second
grade, Mrs. Finnell, Miss Elvie Eag-
leton; third grade, Miss Oneida Cope-
land; fourth grade, Miss Alma Horn;
overflow grade, Miss Gertrude Hearn;
fifth grade, Miss Emma Davidson;
sixth grade, Miss Mae Hall; seventh
grade, Miss Susie Noe. Miss Noe will
be principal of the grammar school as
well as teacher in the departmental
work of the fifth, sixth*and seventh
grades.
Sherman, Texas, Aug. 20.—Will
Stone of near Dorchester was tried
in the Fifty-Ninth District Court Fri-
day on a charge of assault to murder
on Lee Moss at Dorchester last No-
vember, and was found guilty and
given a sentence of two years in the
State penitentiary. The verdict came
on the second trial, the jury having
disagreed the first time Stone was
tried.
Stone pleaded self-defense in the
case. Evidence in the case tended to
show that the difficulty between the
two young men arose out of atten-
tions both were paying to the same NAMED TO HEAD UNIVERSITY
young lady. Moss was wounded, but
has recovered from his wounds, it is
High School.
Miss Coralee Echols, home econom-
ies. Miss Echols has practically
completed her work for a degree in
home economics. She has been spec-
ializing this summer in the College of
Industrial Arts.
Mr. Robert Holland, A. B., Baylor
University. Mr. Holland made an es-
pecially good record while in the Uni-
versity. He will teach mathematics.
Mr. Lloyd Wright, a two year stu-
dent in A. & M. College and during
the war student instructor in the
University of Texas, will teach the
biological sciences and direct boys’
athletics.
Mr. O.»C. Skipper, A. B., Univer-
sity of Texas, will be principal of the
high school and will teach history.
Miss Lillie McBride, University of
Texas, an experienced and success-
ful teacher, will teach English. She SCHOOLS WILL GET
comes very highly recommended by
the State Department of Education
and the University of Texas.
Mr. H. L. Durham, A. B., Austin
College and doing M. A. work in Bay-
lor University, will superintend the
system and teach the physical
sciences.
Miss Gladys Ray, student in Col-
umbia University, will have charge
of the physical training in the high
school and also in the grades and ex-
pression in both schools. She will also
direct the plays of the season and
girls’ athletics. .
Miss Tommie Chenowith, a grad-
uate student in music, will direct
public school music and teach music.
Her studio will be located in the
grammer school building.
Mrs. Annette Harp, a graduate in
music, will teach music in the schools.
Her studio will be located in the high
school building when it is completed.
Until that time her studio will be in
the grammar school building.
New Courses.
Home economics will be taught in
the ' seventh grade beginning next
year. One half year of cooking and
one half year of sewing will consti-
tute the course. Open to girls.
Vocational agriculture will be of-
fered to the boys of the seventh
grade next year. These courses are
had in all well registered systems.
Spanish will be offered to all soph-
omores and juniors next year.
Economics will be offered to sen-
iors.
Calisthenics will be required of all
high school girls.
Military calisthenics will be
quired of all high school boys.
Possibly bookkeeping and steno-
graphy.
TWO YEARS ON CHARGE OF
ASSAULT TO MURDER j The shots were fired in rapid succes-
sion from a fast-running automobile.
Officers of Hall County lately have
been very active in a general crusade
against lawlessness. The opposition
to law enforcement gave rise to the
shooting.
Several moonshine stills have been
raided and more than thirty arrests
made. Several petty thefts have tak-
en place and at one still raided, sever-
al hundred feet of garden hose were
found, all of which had been stolen
from lawns in Memphis. Owners of
the hose identified it and got it back.
Washington, Aug. 22.—Congress
will go into recess with the fact de-
finitely established that leadership re-
Regu- sides in the White House.
Developments during the last four
and a half months have shown that
President Harding will not hesitate
to take a hand to enforce the admin-
istration’s views: He has repeatedly
used his influence—or the influence
of his office—to defeat legislation or
mold it in the way he or his Cabinet
officers think best. .
The fact is important because pre-
sumably it will govern during the en-
tire administration.
It is interesting as well because of
the situation that obtained during the
election. Woodrow Wilson was as-
sailed as a “czar” and caricatured as
a “schoolmaster.” An era of govern-
ment was expected during which Con-
gress would be permitted to exercise
its judgement without fear of the
lash. Senators who supported Presi-
dent Harding, one of their own num-
ber, were resentful of the treatment
accorded Congress by the previous
administration, and looked forward
to the establishment of congressional
supremacy.
The conflict between legislative
and executive was not new. It had
existed since the days of Washington.
But it was sharpened and brought in-
to relief by the peace treaty struggle,
and the tactics of Wilson.
The result is now clear. Senators
did not find President Harding as
amendable as they thought. Willing-
ly or not, the President found him-
self obliged to exert his leadership
on many occasions to end confusion
and delay, and prevent what was con-
sidered unwise legislation. There has
been no open rupture, and likely will
be nope. But there has been the sub-
surface contest, and the primacy of
the presidental office has again been
established. %
At the outset of the session the ad-
ministration put through the Colom-
bian treaty, to accomplish which Sen-
ators were obliged to reverse their
previous position.
A more striking example was fur-
nished in the passage of the Knox
peace resolution, because it was on
the ^question of peace that the Senate
had -most loudly asserted itself. As
influential a member of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee as Sen-
ator Knox was obliged to drop a
clause from his peace resolution that
he had considered essential, because
the President did not want it incor-
porated. The Preident’s will ruled
again when Congress refrained from
including in the resolution any clause
which would have guided the execu-
tive.
were taken from a drummer’s trunk
Monday night by burglars who broke
into the railway depot at Royse City
where the trunk was stored. About
$20,000 worth of diamonds were
turned over to Sheriff Dan Harston
yesterday afternoon by a railroad
brakeman on a train from Royse City,
who said he had found them in a car
on the train. H. V. Baker, salesman
for Shuttles Bros., had placed the
trunk in the depot. There were eigh-
ty-eight diamond rings in the hand-
kerchief turned over to Sheriff Har-
ston, according to R. H. Shuttles,
president of the firm.
A 15-year-old-boy was arrested at
Royse City early Tuesday by officers
who found him sleeping in a church.
He was released after he had been
held about two hours.
A boy caught the freight train com-
ing to Dallas about noon yesterday,
according to the brakeman. He men-
tioned the robbery and offered the
brakeman a ring which the brakeman
said might cost about $1,500. When
the brakeman refused the ring the
boy threw it into the weeds along the
right of way. As the train approach- I BULLETS FIRED INTO COUNTY
ed Rowlett the boy jumped from the i ATTORNEY’S HOME AT MEMPHIS
train and ran. The* brakeman search- i
ed the car in which the boy had been i
riding and found a dirty blue hand-
kerchief which inclosed the diamonds
turned over to Sheriff Harston.
Atlanta, Aug. 19.—In announcing
the election yesterday of William J.
Simmons, Imperial .Wizard of the Ku
4 LOSE LIFE, OVER 20 I Klux Klan, as president of Lanier Un-
HURT IN HOTEL FIRE ■ iversity here, Benjamin Sullivan, a
------- local attorney, said that Colonel Sim-
mons's was elected by the trustees of
the institution “on account of his
wide acquaintance as head of the
Klan, and by reason of which he
would be in a position to raise money
for the university.”
Sullivan emphasized the point that
Hayes, a Macon justice of the peace the Ku Klux Klan, while not taking
—has been identified. Two unidenti- I over the university, is doing so in one
fied bodies of men were recovered I sense, as the name of Colonel Sim-
this morning. Not more than seven ■ mens, he declared, “has become syn*
persons, it was stated, now are mis-j onymous with that if the Klan.”
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ing men will tell you this.
Pierce and Sons.
W. B. and David Womack are vis-
iting in. Dallas.
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SCHOOL WILL OPEN ON
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16
$30,000 WORTH OF
DIAMONDS STOLEN
NEW HOUSES FOR RED
RIVER VALLEY FAIR
; HARDING MAKES USE
OF HIS INFLUENCE
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COTTON COMING IN
METHODIST CHURCH
A Partnership
ness
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sions.
Through a friendly under-
standing partnership with
this bank, each individual
depositor has at his com-
mand willing and experienc-
ed counsel to guide him and
to help him, through conser-
vative service, to build fast-
er and more firmly in busi-
and personal posses-
CLARA HAMON WEDS
MOVIE DIRECTOR
PASS BILL TO PROVIDE
RELIEF FOR FARMERS
LEGION WANTS PICTURES ..
OF DEPARTED SOLDIERS
THREE INJURED IN CROSSING
ACCIDENT AT SHERMAN
WORLD’S BIGGEST LINER
EQUAL TO 800 APARTMENTS
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
Capital, Surplus and Undivided Profits, $246304>»00
C. B. BRYANT, President. R. A. GILLETT, Cashier
New York, Aug, 22.—The new 56,-
000-ton liner Majestic, the largest
ship in the world, will be put into ser-
vice on the New York-Southampton-
Cherbourg run next Spring, the In-
ternational Mercantile Marine Com-
pany announced today. The Majes-
tic, which was to have been called the
Bismarck by her original German
owners, is being finished at Hamburg.
The giant craft, which is 2,000 tons
larger than the Leviathan, and 10,000
larger than the Olympic, carry a
crew of 1,100 and have passenger ac-
commodations for 4,100. She is
equipped with four huge oil burning
engines, capable of developing from
62,000 to 64,000 horsepower. Her
normal speed will be about twenty-
three knots.
The ship’s agents estimate that the
space occupied by the 1,245 state
rooms, engines and machinery equals
that of about 800 average 4-room city
apartments.
The Preston Everheart post of the
American Legion wants a picture of
every soldier or sailor of Whitewright
and surrounding community who died
while in the service or was killed , in
action during the world war. The post
has several pictures now on the walls
of its hall. The post will have the pic-
tures framed if the parents of the de-
parted ones will furnish the picture.
The pictures should be larger than
the average photograph, as they will
be framed and hung on the walls of
the Legion hall.
Washington, Aug. 22.—With a
number of amendments the senate
bill, which would make $1,000,000,-
000 available through the war finance
corporation for stimulating exporta-
tion of agricultural products, was pas-
sed today by the house.
Only twenty-one representatives
voted against the bill, while 324 vot-
ed for it.
The house eliminated senate sec-
tions authorizing the purchase by the
war finance corporation of $200,000,-
000 worth of farm loan bonds and the
creation of a hew bureau in the de-
partment of commerce to obtain in-
formation as to trade conditions
abroad. The house further overruled
the action of its.committee in elimin-
ating a section whiph would permit
government Ioans to accredited for-
eigners engaged in exportation of
American farm products, but added
an amendment providing for rigid re-
striction of such loans.
Another house amendment would
fix June 30, 1922, as the date on
which liquidation of the war finance
corporation would begin with the
capital stock of the corporation can-
celed in proportion to the surplus
funds turned into the treasury.
By a vote of 196 to 136 the house
rejected a motion to recommit the bill
offered by Representative Wingo,
(Dem.) Arkansas, to reinsert the eli-
minated senate provisions for pur-
chase of $200,000,000 worth of farm
loan bonds and to add an amendment
authorizing the war finance corpora-
tion to make direct loans to agricul-
turists.
Sunday school at 9:45 a. m.
Preaching at 11 o’clock a. m., and at
the usual evening hour.
The Senior Epworth League will
meet at 7 p. m.
Los Angeles, Calif., Aug. 23.—
Clara Smith Hamon, who was recent-
ly acquitted of murdering Jake L.
Hamon, Republican national com-
mitteeman and Oklahoma oil million-
aire, was married here today to John
W. Gorman, movie director, who sup-
ervised the film story of Clara’s.life.
Up to Wednesday at noon fourteen
bales of cotton had been ginned in
Whitewright, and more than this
number is expected to be ginned dur-
ing the remainder of the week.
A number of farmers have not
Sherman, Texas, Aug. 19.—The
grade crossing on Brockett street be-
tween the Texas Electric Railway
right-of-way and the Houston & Tex-
started to picking cotton, but most of as Central-Frisco joint tracks was the
them will begin by the first of the scene of a collision Thursday night at
week. Cotton is opening fast, and if 9:45 o’clock between the north-bound
dry weather continues most of it will Denison limited which leaves. Sher-
be open in three or four weeks. As at 9:32 p. m. and a string of box
all know, the cotton crop in this sec- cars pushed by a Frisco switch en-
tion will be very short this year. The : gine. Three persons were more or
boll weevils have demonstrated to all ■ less seriously injured.
that they can ruin a crop of cotton in i Allen Brock, Plano, motorman on
a short time. And it has also been ! the interudban, deep cuts above left
demonstrated the past month that! eye from flying glass,necessitating
dry, hot weather does not kill them, j several stitches; resting well at Sher-
Very few farmers can be found > man hospital Friday.
that think they will make as much as ; Arthur L. Lawrence, 1119 Brough-
a fourth of a bale of cotton to the i ton street, Sherman, switchman for
acre. Most of them claim it will take j the Frisco, broken nose from being
from five to ten acres to make a bale, (thrown from top of box car; resting
/ ---------------- well at Sherman hospital Friday.
Willie Johnson, negro, Denison pas-
senger; complained of injuries in left
side from being thrown against seat.
The Whitewright
Sun
WHITEWRIGHT, GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS, AUGUST 26, 1921.
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Waggoner, J. H. The Whitewright Sun (Whitewright, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, August 26, 1921, newspaper, August 26, 1921; Whitewright, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1285130/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Whitewright Public Library.