The Champion (Center, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 34, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 25, 1926 Page: 2 of 14
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TO THE VOTERS
OF SHELBY COUNTY.!
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weal . and ds trying to do/ gqod
with it while he lives. He has created
a trust estate to erect and maintain
a hospital at Dalhart, to be used first
as a charity hospital and then to re-
ceive pay patients if the trustees so
elect. The property set aside for the
hospital fund is a theatre building at
Amarillo that is leased for 15 years
at a monthly income of over $700.00.
The property is not to be sold for
fifteen years, and if sold then the
income from the selling price is to
b used to maintain the hospital.
Texas men of large fortune, like Col-
onel Coon, are learning that the best
use of large wealth is not in hoarding
but in distributing it where it can do
most good.
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Mrs. Bridges Writes |an
! of Alabama Visit.
’'Ernesto, 14 years old, and Lilly, 7 j
years old. They were in Houston at i
the tiine of his death.'
Mr Merkling’s real name was Merk- '■
linger, but he had omitted the last |
two letters because of the length of
the name and the difficulty of pro-
nunciation. He was a member of tne
Houston Typographical Union and
was also a member of the Fraternal
Order of Eagles. He was about 46
years old.
Notice is hereby given to all property
owners ■ and to all interested parties that
at the First Called Session of the Thirty-
Ninth Legislature of the State of Texas,
to be convened in the city of Austin, Tex-
. as, on the 13th day of September, A. D.
1926, there will be introduced a bill in
resuect to Road District No. 1 of Shelby
County. Texas, and the substance of such
proposed law .is as follows:
An Act to Create Road District Number
1 In Shelby County, Texas; validating and
approving all orders made by the commis-
sioners court of said county in respect to
the organization of said district; val:
idating the authorization, issuance, anc
sale of certain, road bonds thereof, anu
providing for their payment by the annual
lew, assessment and collection of general
\ Ad’Valorem Taxes on all taxable property
'•"in said road district;- approving and val-
idating all orders of the Commissioners
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terested in lots, houses, small acreage
or business houses near the Teachers
College. Have something especially
good to offer now. Act quick.—
Zeno Cox at Magnolia Filling Station,
Nacogdoches. l-22e
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You may fool part of Shelby coun- |
ty part of the time but you can not!
fool that splendid county all of the I
tme. On Saturday August 28, Shel-
by county will defy Jim and his gang
and you will find her listed in the
Moody column.
Asking once again that the people
of Shelby county be not persuaded
from the duty that they owe this
state by such false alarms as given
by Mr. Crouch, and beseeching the J
folks to say with one accord on Sat-1
urday, “Dan’s the Man.”
Respectfully,
LON E. ALSLUP,
Carthage, Texas.
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Emission through the
mails as second class matter.
WENDELL W. MAYES, Publi»her.
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Comanche Chief Celebrates
The Comanche Chief is 53 years
old. Last year it celebrated its birth
day by giving a watermelon party to
which everybody in the county was
invited.-. This year, in addition to the
watermelon slicing, a grape festival
was added. A ton of grapes and 550
Comanche county watermelons were
offerings at the feast, all ice cold.
The entire population of the county
was invited and most of it was there.
The Comanche band furnished the
music, and 32—-there should have
been 53—of Comanche’s most beauti-
ful girls served the guests. It was a „ .. 11
great day for the Chief, but more i this with the health of my family i;
important than the Chief’s pleasure < makes it impossible for me to look j
in its birthday celebration, was the j after my campaign for County Treas-
big advertising given Comanche coun7 urer, so I appeal to my friends ana ,
; culture and water- well wishers to look after my interest i
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like the Chief, with the enterprise to j 28th, and whether elected or not I
undertake big things, are a
community asset.
Center to Shreveport
Leave Center 8:30 a. m. and 1:30 p. m.
Arrive Tenaha 8 :50 a. m. and 1:50 p. m.
Arrive Joaquin 9:30 a^ m. and 2:30 p. m.
Arrive ’. Logansport 9:40 a. m. and 2:40 p.
Arrive Shreveport 12:00 m. and 4:30 p. m.
CARD OF THANKS.
We take this method of thanking
the good people of our community
for their faithful service they gavA
us during the sickness and death of
my darling wife and mother.—J. A.
Going and family.
quick before it is g<
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i yellow. It is cool and rajasaht up
here at Altoona, about 50 miles north
of Birmingham, but to take all into
consideration, I must acknowledge
that I am partial to Texas. I am
planning to be back in Texas some
time in September.
With best wishes for The Cham-
pion and its many readers, I am,
As ever,
MRS. J. D. BRIDGES.
Leave Shreveport 7 :15 a. m. and 3 p.^m.
Arrive Logansport 9:10 a. m. and 5:10 p. m.
Arrive Joaquin 9:30 a. m. and 5:20 p. m.
Arrive Tenaha 10:00 a. m. and 6:00 p. m.
Arrive Center 10:20 a. m. and 6:20 p. m.
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Colonel Coon's Generosity
Colonel Dick Coon is a ranchman I
who lives at Houston and has large!
ranch and cattle interests m Harris ■
county and in the Dalhart section of! & Payne.
Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, Amer
ican ace of aces aurmg me 'World
War, and since that time a manufac-
turer of automobiles, predicts that
the development of the airplane will
be much faster than the development
of automobiles has been. That all
sounds very well, but will it? Not
unless airplanes develop much faster
than they have during the past ten
pUB ‘.I’CAY Sip). SupinQ ’OJOUX jo s.rssA
at the close of the war it was freely
predicted that within a very short
time planes would be as numerous
^s automobiles, and air travel would
Have client wanting to sell grocery
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big advertising given Comanche coun-
court'Tf saiT county in respect of said ty for its grape
road districts, bonds and taxes, or certi- , p-rnwinc
Tied copies thereof, and constituting- such melon gloving,
orders legal evidence; and declaring an Chief, W
emergency. ,
Dated this 10th day of August. 1926.
F. C. POWELL,
County Judge of Shelby County, Texas.
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Improving the Zinnia
The dictionary says that a zinnia
is a coarse, easily cultivated flower.
This may have been true once, but
the zinnia has been refined and is now
just about the most gorgeous flower
grown. The zinnia show in Austin
recently under the auspices of the
Amateur Garden Club rivaled the
much exploited dahlia shows of the
North in beautiful and gorgeous
blooms and in brilliant and pleasing
colors and combinations of tints. It
was a revelation as to the variety and
size of the blooms and as to marvel-
ous shades and tones of coloring.
The zinnia is peculiarly adapted to
Texas. Get well selected seeds of the
varieties wanted, give the plants good
soil, plenty of sunshine’ and water,
along with cultivation, and the results
will be all that could be desired.
Here is a suggestion for enterprising
Sponsor!
The Champion jumped the gun last
week in announcing that Rudolph
Valentino had died in New York. The
report was received by wire, and was
considered authentic. Valentino ral-
lied, however, and" lived until Mon-
day of this week, when he died.
newspapers for next year,
a zinnia show in your town.
San Saba Fair Success.
The newspapers say that 12,000
people were at the San Saba Fair
one day. That is 2,000 more than
the average paid attendance at the
Philac|elpb4a Sesqui-(|entennial. Na-
turally San Saba is proud of the suc-
cess of its fair, which is due to the
untiring work of some of the citizens
of that county extending over a num-
ber of years. San Saba gave a show
that was worth while, gave it good
publicity, and got results.
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Junction’s Nevz Hotel.
Junction, out in Kimball county,
where the fishing and hunting and
resting are good, is building a mod-
ern hotel to care foi- the increasing
Jravel to that section. There are a
number of camp resorts near Junc-
tion, all of which have been filled
this summer. The people who go
there talk about the good times they
have and the hospitality of the people
and this makes others want to go.
Texans are learning that Texas has
as good resorts as may be found any-
where.
The Norman G. Crocker Post,
American Legion, this week adopted
the resolution suggested in The
Champion two weeks ago, calling on
the Texas convention to be held next
montK tin Amarillo, to sponsor a
moveifffellt to postpone the holding of
the national American Legion con-
vention in France next year. The
resolution will be presented to the
state convention by delegates from
the local post. It is a move in the"
right direction, considering the pres-
ent circumstances, and it is to
the inconveniences experienced
taking off and landing airplanes
' not offer a serious obstacle.
Entere
Texas,
News has been received here of
the death of Ernest Merkling at Gal-
veston about ten days ago. No par-
ticulars of his demise are available,
except that he died after a brief ill-
ness at a Galveston hospital.
Old residents of Center will remem-
ber him as a boy who was taken from
an orphan’s home by the late Judge
and Mrs. R. S. Bryarly, and in his
boyhood days in Center, was known
as Ernest Bryarly. He became dis-
satisfied after living here a few years
and left. For a long time his where-
abouts were unknown, but he was
finally located with Mollie Bailey’s
circus, and for several years traveled
extensively with that organization.
About sixteen years ago, at Browns-
ville, Texas, he was married to Miss
Alice F algo at.
Mr. and Mrs. Merkling had been
residing in Houston for the last sev-
eral years with their two children, ‘
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To the People of . Shelby County. |
In last weeks issue of The Cham-
pion, I read very carefully a letter
written by Mr. J. C. Crouch. As I
read this letter, I wondered how any
one could use such beautiful lan-
guage for such an unworthy cause as
FERGUSONISM.
Mr. Crouch, don’t start raving for
I am not a Klanaman, and neither do
I belong to the Butte crowd. I am
merely an East Texan who believes
that now is the time for all good men
and women to come to the aid of
their dear old state. Your friend
Jim has been weighed in the balance
has been found wanting. Wanting
of this great Lone Star State and
what, you may ask. Wanting the
tax payers money and believe me, he
got it.
I suppose you admire the way Jim
stood by the wager he made Dan
Moody? As usual Jim slipped quiet-
ly behind hiswife’s coat tail while
she, Mrs. Ferguson, had to tell the
people of Texas that she did not make
such a challenge.
Yes, you would try to persuade the
people of dear old Shelby county to
vote for a man who has proven his
disability to serve them by singing
that song of 1924, “The Klu Kiux i
Klan.” If you must sing songs for
consolation, then listen to this: “Tie!
Ma’s Apron Strings Once j
How does that appeal to,
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Home Canning Profitable.
While community canneries
sevatively operated seem to
wherever establishd, no land owner
need fail to can at least enough of his
farm products for home use. “Major”
Whitaker and his family live near
Grapeland. Grapeland is over in
East Texas where Albert Luker edits .
a newspaper and talks diversification .
\ the Messenger. “Majqr” '
Whitaker had two acres in tomatoes ,
this year, but prices were low and .
the market was poor. So he bought
a home canner, and he and his family
canned 2,200 cans of tomatoes, 113
cans of corn, 71 cans of speckled and
crowder peas, and 36 cans of peaches,
and have stored 196 half gallon and
quart jars of berries, peaches, plums,
beets, cucumbers, chow-chow, pears
and figs. Most of the canned goods
will be sold to local and neighboring
merchants. Can you beat it?
Organizarag County Federations.
Over at A. & M. College recently,
met that wonderful little woman,
Mrs. Phoebe K. Warner, who lives at
Claude, Texas, and writes for the
newspapers. Like most other writers,
she writes for the love of writing and
for the good she hopes to do. Just
now she is busy studying a plan for
the federation of all tl<e women’s
clubs of each county into a county or-
ganization of a kind where each may
continue its own special field of club
work and all may co-operate for the
general good. This looks easy, but
those that have tried it find that it is
difficult to get clubs of all kinds to
lay aside their likes and dislikes—
prejudices if you please to call tnem
such.—and work together harmonious-
Mrs. Warnev believes it can be
done. The idea is splendid and there
is a splendid little woman at work at
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"" be as common as travel by motor car
or rail. But such has not been the
case. Nearly eight years have passed
and the airplane has not developed
as predicted, and still is almost as I
much a novelty, as it was before the
war. Not until the airplane is made
as safe as the automobile or railroad
coach will it be important as a means
of regular transportation—and then
only for long distance trips, where
the inconveniences experienced in tak
ing off and landing airplanes do not
offer a serious obstacle.
Altoona, Alabama. (
Dear Old Champion: ;
I am visiting Old Alabama, after ]
an absence of more than 33 years. I l
surely am enjoying my visit very
much. I have one brother and other
relatives here.
I have visited Altoona, Atlanta,
Gladsand and Alabama City. Am
planning to visit Troy, Augusta, En-
terprise and Geasgama with friends
and relatives.
The scenery here is beautiful, the
mountains wiith their great gray
rocks and green trees, wild flowers
and many other things of beauty.
We visited the coal mines, went to
the entrance of several. One old
miner went with us, showing and ex-
plaining things, making it more inter-
esting to us.
Crops are good here in this county,
the vegetables and fruit are fine, es-,
pecially the grapes. The vines are j
just hanging full of ripe fruit and
the apple trees with the green foliage
If you want Goodyear Balloon Tires, get them now.
Reduced prices are in effect, and there is no need to deny yourself or-
your car any longer.
At the new low prices, you can have Goodyear Balloon Tires, made
with extra-elastic extra-durable 5UPERTW1ST, for either your pres-
ent wheels or small diameter wheels, for very little more than the cost
of good high pressure tires.
Takes us less than an hour to make the changeover.
Drop in or call us for Goodyear prices and changeover appointments.
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Some Blackberries—Count ’Em
Lindale is in Smith County, where
diversification is being preached and
practiced. Lindale is literlly in the
sand or on the sand, but that town
doesn’t care. Among other things Lin
dale grows blackberrijs and stells
what it can and cans what it can’t.
The blackberry acreage around Lin-1
dale is about 4,500 acres, and these
acres produce every year. This year
the crop shipped from Lindale will
reach 150 cars, of which 100 cars
will be fresh and 50 cars canned.
This is about half of the blackberries
produced annually, the rest being
sold in the fields, or sent out by autos
for consumption in other towns or
canned or preserved for home use.
The blackberry crop gives employ-
ment to an army of workers at profit-
ble wages. Many of the berry pickers
go there every year and camp near
the berry fields while the crop is be-
ing harvested. Lindale also producer-
other berries, and melons, and toma-
toes, and corn, and cotton, and things
i Lindale prospers.
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Berries Grow in Giber Places
There are hundreds of places in
East Texas adapted to berry grow-
ing In fact berries of one kind and
another can be grown on almost any
kind of soil and in dny part of the
State. At Bangs, in Brown county,
dewberries are extensively grown and
shipped. I haven’t the figures to en-
able me to say how many acres are
cultivated or how many cars are ship-
ped and canned. But Bangs bets on
berries and finds it safe. A big ber-
ry patch near a cannery is a sure
money maker, and Texas needs more
of both.
Highway building now offers the .
most difficult problem confronting
I state officials. How are roads to be
. 7 built? In Shelby county we have a
striking example of the need of build-
ing for permanence. A few years
ago we had one of the best systems
of highways in the county, to be found
in East Texas. Today we are faced
with the situation of having roads .
that are practically worn out, that re-
quire heavy expenditure for mainte-
nance and can be hardly kept in good
^onlfition, but which are not paid for.
.T It will be many years yet before the
bonds which built the highways are
* paid off—but not many yeass before
it will be necessary to rebuild the
L roads if we are to get any service
k out of them. The answer to the pro-
A blem seems to be to build for perma-
nence in the first place. If the '
^k amount of money spent on the high-
ways in Shelby county, in building
\£4n keeping them up for ten
Toeen spent all at one time
0Astruction of a system of
[T highways, we doubtless
■ -‘Thad permanent highways
cost. As it is, there is a good
a permanent road, and the
'ZmoFt economical and best program
.n probably would be to resurface
thc-m, as a maintenance project, with
permanent topping.
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Miss Lassie Bailey, who has been
visiting in Houstorx for two months
with Mr. and Mrs. Elza Hughes and
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Layton, has re-
turned home for a visit with relatives. ,
Miss Bailey will teach in the city I
schools of Houston next year and will |
return next month to resume her j
duties.
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