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NEXT WEEK WILL BE
TREE PLANTING WEEK
HR. VINSON TO HEAD
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SENATOR SHEPPARD
SPEAKS TEN ROHRS
DISTRICT MEET WILL
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DENISON MAN KILLED AS
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NEFF NAMES BOARD FOR
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the Hot End of the Poker when they
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Montgomery was instantly killed and
Basil O’Gillam seriously injured at 5
o’clock this evening, when a motor
truck they were driving was struck
by a Katy engine at a crossing near
the railroad shops here.
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Austin, Feb. 19.—Governor Neff
today appointed the board of direc-
tors of the Texas Technological Col-
lege, which will be established in
West Texas under provisions of an
Act passed recently by the Legisla-
ture. Nine members were appoint-
ed, three for six years, three for four
years and three for two years.
Members appointed for six years,
W. P. Hobby, Beaumont; J. W. Car-
penter, Dallas; and C. W. Meadows,
Waco; for four years, Amon G. Car-
ter, Fort Worth; R. A. Underwood,
Plainview; and Mrs. Charles De-
Groff, El Paso; for two years, Clif-
ford Jones, Spur; J. E. Nunn, Ama-
rillo, and Mrs. Frank Drane, Corsi-
cana.
In a letter announcing the appoint-
ments, Governor Neff also called the
first meeting of the board at Sweet-
water on March 2. A general cele-
bration of the Technological College
act is planned on that date.
I am associated with the Sherman
Steam Marble and Granite Works,
which is one of the largest and best
equipped wholesale and retail monu-
and
Sherman, Feb. 20.—A hung jury
resulted Sunday at Claude in the
trial of Ridley Dean, well-known
Sherman man and former city attor-
ney, charged with assault to murder
his father-in-law, D. A. Harrell, at
Claude last year. Mr. Dean, with his
mother, Mrs. Mary H. Dean, and
Judge J. Q. Adamson and Claude
Eatherly, who were witnesses in the
case, returned to Sherman Monday
afternoon, following the discharge of
the jury.
Sherman, Feb. 19.—Seven half-
gallon jars of white corn whisky and
a number of pint bottles containing
corn whisky colored with artificial
coloring were seized when Sheriff
Floyd Everheart and Deputies Bart
Shipp and George Brinkley visited
the home of a farmer on the Ida
road, southeast of Sherman, early
Monday.
A man and a woman were placed
under arrest and charged in com-
plaints filed Monday before Justice
of the Peace H. D. Cumby with il-
legal possession of intoxicating liq-
uor. Bond of $1,000 was allowed
the man and $500 for the woman.
New York, Feb. 18.—Twenty-five
maniacs are known to have been
burned to death in their cells and
several other insane inmates of the
Manhattan State Hospital for the In-
sane on Ward’s Island in the ice-
blocked East River are believed to
have perished in a fire early Sunday
morning which reprdouced the
scenes of the “Inferno.”
Three nurses are missing and more
than 1100 insane men and firemen
are suffering from injuries. There
were 1,800 patients in the building,
most of them locked in cells, and a
number of those who perished were
lost because they madly fought the
firemen and nurses, who risked their
lives in the flaming old structure to
lead them out.
Others Seized With Horror.
In other buildings on the island
were almost 4,000 other patients and
they, too, were seized with the wild-
est terror as their crazed minds were
inflamed by the horror
transpiring close by.
The three nurses not
for are believed to have
too long on the fourth floor, where
the violent patients fought most
frantically against rescue. Some of
the patients safely brought from the
building by heroic attendants tried
to rush back again, while others
turned on their rescuers with mad
savagery to kill them.
Firemen were compelled to play
about them with the flat sides of
their axes to fight off maniacs try-
ing to wrest the weapons away. Pipe-
men handling the hose had to strug-
gle with rescued patients in order to
keep the streams playing on the
flames at the windows.
Sherman, Feb. 20.—Dates for the
delayed Red Cross roll call and sub-
scription campaign for public health
service in South Grayson County
were finally set at a meeting of the
central committee, Monday. Satur-
day, March 10, will be the opening
day of the campaign, which will then
continue through the following Wed-
nesday. Plans were made for mak-
ing the campaign reach every p'vrt of
the south half of the county, said
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leaving the shops when the lo-
comotive struck the truck, demolish-
ing it. Montgomery was crushed to
death.
The Whitewright District Inter-
scholastic League meet will be held
here Saturday. A complete program
has been outlined and appears on an-
other page of this issue of The Sun.
It is expected that some twenty-three
schools will take part in the meet.
The program will start Saturday
morning at 8:45 o’clock at the gram-
mar school auditorium and will con-
tinue throughout the day. The lit-
erary contests will be held in the
various rooms of the grammar school
building and the athletic contests
will be held at the athletic park and
will start at 1 p. m. and will continue
until 5 o’clock. The finals in the
declamation contests and debate will
be held at 7:30 Saturday evening.
On Friday evening the music mem-
ory contests will be held at the gram-
mar school auditorium.
The actual day by day work of the
Whitewright schools will be on dis-
play all day Saturday. Thursday be-
ing Washington’s birthday, is a legal
holiday, but Friday will be taken in-
stead of Thursday, so that the dis-
play may be arranged on that day
and everything made ready for Sat-
urday morning.
Read the program on anothei’ page
of this paper, which gives full de-
be
A list of prizes for
the events was printed in The Sun
last week.
Washington, Feb. 20.—Republican
managers in charge of the Adminis-
tration Shipping Bill capitulated
soon after 11:30 o’clock tonight to
obstructionists who have been wag-
ing a filibuster against the measure,
and on motion of Senator Jones, Re-
publican, Washington, in charge of
the bill, a recess was taken until 11
o’clock tomorrow.
Single-handed, but with the
operation of a group of determined
opponents of the ship bill, composed
largely of Democrats, but including
several Republicans, Senator Shep-
pard, Democrat, Texas, for hour
after hour during the day and into a
night session held the floor in a con-
tinuation of his speech, begun
night on the League of Nations,
completed his address shortly after
6 o’clock tonight. His associates in
the filibuster remained at his
continulaly, ready to take
task should he falter. On
ing he had spoken a total
hours and 45 minutes, and
ously for six hours and 40 minutes.
Slight hopes of exhausting the fil-
ibusterers appeared today, as they
formulated their plans for carrying
out their long promised fight. These
plans, they said, contemplated
lengthy speeches by a dozen or more
Senators, and the estimate was made
that sufficient strength was at hand
to carry on the fight through
speeches alone until the end of the
week..
The planned addresses varied from
the discovery of King Tutankhamet’s
Tomb to the history and principles
of co-operative marketing.
The necessity of other opponents
getting into the battle, however, was
deferred hour after hour as Senator
Sheppard proceeded in one of the
most remarkable demonstrations in
the history of the Senate.
The Texas Senator, on concluding
his speech, was congratulated by
Senator LaFollette, Republican,
Wisconsin, the leader in many
toric filibusters, and a number
other Senators. After a quorum call,
Senator Williams, Democrat, Miss-
issippi, who retires from the Senate
next month after twelve years’ ser-
vice in the body, took the floor.
We have it. Bread, cakes and pies
fresh every day. Try them.—The
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The forestry committees of the
Parent-Teachers Association and the
Chamber of Commerce have arrang-
ed for a special tree planting week in
Whitewright FeK 26th to March 2d,
inclusive, and they expect the active
support and co-operation of every
member of the two organizations.
They want a pledge from every
property owner that one or more
trees will be planted at every resi-
dence during the week mentioned
and they want the pledge carried out
in good faith. Our native forest
trees secured from the woodlands
near Whitewright are considered by
many as good or better than nursery
trees, but those who may prefer
trees from the nurseries can get
them here for planting at some time
during the designated week. The
committee expects the co-operation
of the school and city authorities in
the planting of some additional
trees on school grounds and city
propetry.
Miss Susie Noe is .chairman of the
tree-planting campaign, and the com-
mittee asks that a report be made to
her from those who have planted
one or more trees during the week
mentioned, stating the number of
trees planted. A list of those plant-
ing trees thus secured will be printed
in the local paper, in order to de-
termine and announce the extent to
which the people have co-operated in
the effort to beautify the city with
shade trees and shrubbery.
Men experienced in digging up
trees for replanting should find it
profitable to take orders and go out
to the bottoms and secure quantities
of choice hackberries, elms, oi’ other
native trees. In every case roots
sufficient to support the tree during
the first two years should be taken
with the tree.
Who can estimate the value of
shade trees now growing in White-
wright? How would it impress you
if some one should propose to cut
them all down? Compared with
original cost, no improvement is as
valuable as shade trees. We can
have them in abundance at Nature’s
expense. Time goes on; why not
plant now a generous supply of trees
and let them grow up with the pass-
ing years?
Tree planting in this special cam-
paign will be an individual matter.
How many will YOU plant?
Members of the executive board
of the Chamber of Commerce, to-
gether with several other interested
citizens, met at the American Legion
hall last Friday night and transacted
some business that bids fair to ma-
terially advance the work of the or-
ganization. J. L. Dyer, vice presi-
dent of the organization, presided.
A forestry committee, composed
of John L. Reeves, E. J. Lilley and
F. E. Douglas, was appointed to co-
operate with a
representing the
Association,
this joint committee are fully
lined in another statement in
Sun this week.
The Chamber of Commerce
sponsor a plan to visit the several
community centers of this section in
the near future and give a radio pro-
gram at each, incidentally bringing
to the people of the rural communi-
ties a message of good will and mu-
tual interest between the town and
the country, in an effort to foster
closei* friendships and better under-
standing of the aims of the Cham-
ber of Commerce. H. L. Gordon, R.
L. Johnson and C. J. Meador
appointed as a committee to
range suitable dates for these com-
munity entertainments and for
transportation and other things nec-
essary to the success of such meet-
ings. Joe Johnson, radio operator
and agent for radio sets, will accom-
pany the committees and develop the
radio programs.
As the season for sprinkling the
streets is again approaching, a com-
mittee was appointed to apportion
the cost of same among the merch-
ants, to secure a confirmation from
the merchants of such apportion-
ment, and to establish the district to
be covered. The relative cost and
merit of regular dust-laying road oil
will be considered this year, and used
if it appears that it will be more ef-
fective than water.
A committee was appointed to ac-
company representatives of the pub-
lic schools on an immediate visit to
the neighboring schools for. the pur-
pose of advertising and soliciting at-
tendance and participation in the
athletic events to be held here on the
24th of February.
The offer of the Parent-Teachers
Association to serve the next com-
munity dinner was accepted, and a
committee composed of J. H. Wag-
goner, J. C. Gillespie and J. W. Wil-
son was appointed to set a date in
March for the banquet and provide
the entertainment. Inasmuch as the
meal will be in charge of the Parent-
Teachers Association, an organiza-
tion having aims and purposes sim-
ilar to the work of the Chamber of
Commerce, it was voted to authorize
the sale of banquet tickets to both
ladies and gentlemen for this occas-
ion, that the ladies of the city and
community may have a full part in
the welfare program.
The farm boys judging contest and
agricultural exhibit, to be held here
under the direction of Agricultural
Director C. C. Willis during the
month of March, will also be proper-
ly advertised on the community trips
above referred to. The Chamber of
Commerce is financing this event,
particulars of which 'will be more
fully explained in a subsequent issue
of The Sun.
The American Legion was extend-
ed a vote of thanks for use; of their
hall, following which the meeting ad-
journed.
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The death of Mrs. Henry Williams,
which occurred at an early hour
Wednesday morning of this week,
has touched the hearts of the people
with emotions of profound sorrow,
emotions accentuated by the added
sadness which attends the untimely
summons of a wife and mother at the
noonday of life.
Residing at the Biggerstaff home-
stead just west of the city, she was
contented in her happy surroundings,
devoted to her little family and con-
tributing faithfully her might to help
her husband fight his way to success.
A series of recent sickness in
home, which she attended with
vigilance of a true mother, had spent
her vitality. After having brought
her little girl and boy safely through
a siege of scarlet fever, influenza
came into the home, and falling vic-
tim to the malady, she was unable to
ward off the fatal consequences. She
made a valiant fight to live, but lost.
But even in the helpless extremity of
grief it is some consolation to the be-
reaved husband and other loved ones
to know that no effort in the power
of medical skill or neighborly min-
istrations was spared to stay the
hand of death.
Mrs. Williams was born April 29,
1888. Her maiden name was Jessie
Biggerstaff, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. J. H. Biggerstaff of this city.
She is survived by her* husband and
three small children, having given
birth to the youngest son during her
recent and .last illness. She is also
survived by a brother, Victor Big-
gerstaff, and the following sisters:
Mrs. Willa Carlton, Mrs. Bess Ben-
ton, Mrs. Hugh Wilson and Misses
Ruth and Edith Biggerstaff. The
surviving brother and sisters all re-
side in Dallas, except Mrs. Benton,
whose home is in Whitewright.
The funeral, which was held at the
home at 4 o’clock Wednesday after-
noon, was conducted by Elder W. N.
Carter and Elder J. A. Dickey, min-
isters of the Church of Christ, of
which the deceased had been a mem-
ber since childhood. Following the
services, the body was borne a few
hundred feet from the residence and
laid to its final rest in the rustic set-
ting of the wooded environments.
The large number of friends assem-
bled there were profoundly touched
by a scene that cannot be portrayed
by printed words.
Austin, Feb. 20.—Genuine sur-
prise was expressed by members of
the faculty of the University of Tex-
as and others upon the announce-
ment from Cleveland, Ohio, that
President Robert E. Vinson had ac-
cepted the presidency of the Western
Reserve University. The report was
confirmed by Dr. Vinson, who stated
that he had no statement to make at
this time beyond the announcement
that he would submit his resignation
as president of the university at a
special meeting of regents which is
to be held next Monday.
His selection as the head of the
Western Reserve University came
unsolicited on his part. The matter
of the time when the change of posi-
tion will be made by President Vin-
son is left entirely to the board of
regents of the University of Texas,
provided, however, that this change
shall not be later than July 1, 1923,
which will be the close of the seventh
year of Dr. Vinson’s administration.
Several leading educators of Tex-
as are being mentioned Tuesday as
probable successors of Dr. Vinson.
Dr. H. Y. Benedict, dean of the uni-
versity, who has been connected with
the university for many years, is
mentioned as a fitting successor to
Dr. Vinson. Among others mention-
ed are Dr. W. B. Bizzell, president of
A. & M." College, and Dr. S. P.
Brooks, president of Baylor Univer-
sity, Waco.
Dr. Vinson will succeed Dr. Chas.
F. Thwing, who resigned Nov. 11,
1921, after having held the presi-
dency for 31 years.
Dr. Vinson is 46 years old. He
has been president of the University
of Texas since 1916, previous to
which time he served as the head of
the Presbyterian Theological Semin-
ary, Austin, for four years.
We are grateful to the good peo-
ple of Whitewright for the many
kind deeds extended our loved one
during her illness and for the kind
words of sympathy following her
death.
J. W. Wilson, W. E. LaRoe and
Guy Hamilton, committeemen rep-
resenting the Chamber of Commerce,
have been carrying on negotiations
for a cream station in Whitewright,
for the purpose of creating a ready
market for dairy products and mak-
ing the dairy business more profit-
able to the farmers of this section.
The committee is about to bring
this important project to consumma-
tion. A complete apparatus for test-
ing and grading cream has been
shipped to J. W. Wilson, and Mr.
Ridgway, director of dairy develop-
ment of the Mistletoe Creameries of
Fort Worth, will be here Friday of
this week to give complete inform-
ation to the people of this section of
the advantages of a testing and ship-
ping station. Mr. Ridgway will set
up the apparatus and demonstrate it
to the farmers and others interested
at Mr. Wilson’s store all day Friday,
and Friday afternoon he will give a
lecture on the subject, fully illus-
trated with stereopticon or motion
pictures. This lecture will be
at the Odeon Theatre, beginning at
3 o’clock.
The lecture entertainment will be
under the auspices of the Agricul-
tural class of the high school, of
which C. C. Willis is director. The
agricultural class has already had
considerable training along this par-
ticular line, having in their labora-
tory complete apparatus and devices
for analyzing and testing dairy pro-
ducts.
Farmers, school teachers and pu-
pils, town folks, and all others inter-
ested in bringing this industry to its
most profitable state of develop-
ment are urged to witness the dem-
onstrations Friday at the Wilson-
Montgomery hardware store and to
attend the illustrated lecture at the
Odeon Theatre Friday afternoon at
3 o’clock.
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