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VOL. XL NO. 50
Died at Reagor
Registered At. Monday Morning
Honored By Carnegie Endowment
Burial In Ennis I00F Home Here Temperature 37
S. D. MYRES, Jj.
By Flying Squad
by holding meetings in downtown
Dallas and inviting the public to at-
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that he obtained considerable first
hand information about the work-
stitutions and World Peace.’ The
Photo'Orgrtin’s. Fort Worth .
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REV. FRED MILLER.
keeps up wit hthe news of the day. Chicago, will return to Chicago to-
Dies At Mineola Ernest Lee Simmons
Mineola, Texas, March 30.—Dr.
Mrs. Harry Noble of Dallas arrived W. J. Coleman, 76, a resident here
the Monday morning to attend the fu-
Baptist church in early childhood neral.
Jess Cariker made an arrest in con-
District Meet
nis.
Miss Virginia Horton of Dallas ’
spent the week end here.
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Home At Palmer
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Many Cars Here
Found Defective
Ice And Frost
Wednesday A. M.
Temperature 30
Mrs. M. B. Moseley, Sr. Died Sunday
Funeral Monday At Tabernacle Ch.
Two Jailed In
Theft of Wire
From Jr. School
Beverly Romick Has
Operation Grafting
Skin On Her Hand
more than forty years, died at his
home Sunday. Ai native of Alabama,
of the feet, a case very un-
and which is puzzling the
lights, 30 per cent defective horns,
11 per cent defective steering appar-
atus, 50 percent defective windshield
person to receive that degree from
In 1931 Dr. Myres was awarded a
Mrs. F. L. Roorbach and daugh-
ter, Bettie Claire, returned Sunday
from visiting relatives in Dallas.
e Minahan, Jr., Ennis reared
who entered the Western Union
iraph service a few months ago
Spplied himself at his leisure
"that he was given a station at
Mrs. A. Pearson Is
Moving To Houston
Selma Rams
Heads Ennis C. C.
Other Officers
IA large assemblage of friends and
latives attended final rites for
Irs. B. F. Coursey, age 84, long
G. E. Schauer, in charge of the fly
ing squadron of state police here
Thursday for the purpose of con-
ducting a one-day motor vehicle in-
spection campaign, reports a splen-
did response by the members of this
Due to the extremely cold weather
during the early part of the morn-
ing the work was delayed until a
short time after the noon hour. Mr.
Schauer reported that out of 524
motor vehicles checked that 159
While in Europe he was correspon-
dent for the Dallas Morning News.
Since becoming- director of the
Arnold School of Government at
S. M. U., Dr. Myres has written and
edited numerous publications deal-
ing with international affairs. He
has also delivered numerous lectures
After attending Trinity for two
years Dr. Myres entered S. M. U.,
receiving his A. B. and A. M. de-
grees from that institution. Later
Picked up by Deputy Sheriff Hill-
yes Estes, a man said to be from
Navarro county, has been implicated
in more than thirty house burglar-
Gran Saline a few months ago, and
has rw been transferred to a larger
her1 m
1 ed in
accidents on the highway were due
to defective mechanical features.
R. A. McCulloch
Asks Absence Leave
Will Change Jobs
Okla.
Mrs. Moseley united with
cause the greatest number of ac-
cidents on the highway.
With a temperature of 30 degrees
here early Wednesday morning ice
formed outdoors and.a heavy frost
fell. Today has been clear with ris-
ing temperature.
when she lived in Madison, Fla., and
has been a member of the Taber-
nacle Baptist Church since coming
to Ennis twenty-six years ago. She
was also a member of the T. E. L.
Class of the Sunday school and was
a member of the Woman’s Benefit
Association.
Ernest Lee Simmons sustained a ’
broken left arm in a fall this morn-
ing at the Bailey Bros. Garage and
was taken to the Municipal Hospital
in the Keever ambulance.
Hillyer Estes Gets
Man Wanted For 30
Navarro Burglaries
day atfer a visit here with his par-
ents. Rev. Miller, a graduate of the
Ennis High School, received his de-
gree from the Texas Christian Uni-
versity, and is now a student in the
University of Chicago, also along
with his duties as pastor of the Holr
lywood church.
Two men arc being held in the
Waxahachie jail in connection with
the theft of approximately 1,000
feet of copper cable stolen from the
Ennis Junior School building.
from Washington, New York and
other cities.
Claude Griffith of Ennis, is reported
quite sick with pneumonia at her
home in Palmer. Two trained nurses
are attending her.
Misses Martha and Vivian Wilson
of Dallas were guests Sunday in the
home of their parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Newt Wilson.
R. A. McCulloch, investigator for
the old age assistance commission,
has asked for leave of absence, ef-
fective April 1.
After a short rest, Mr. McCulloch
expects to be connected with the
investigation branch of the com-
mission in a different capacity.
ago. He was a member of the Ma-
sonic Lodge.
Funeral services were held at the
Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Pekar and
children, Willie and Miss Helen Pe-
kar and Joe Jurica spent Easter in
Dallas, guests of Louis Pekar.
Dr. W. J. Coleman of
Family of Medics
William Franklin Rowe, retired
grocery merchant, formerly of Pelly,
recently celebrated his 88th birth-
day at the I. O. O. F. Home where
he has ben for more than 8 years.
He was born in Springfield, Mo.,
March 6, 1848, and has been a mem-
ber of the I. O. O. F. Lodge for
more than foity-two years. He was
initiated into the Ravia Lodge, No.
55, at Ravia, Indian Territory, Oct.
15, 1894, and entered the home here
November 2, 1928, from Pelly, Tex-
as. He has one daughter, Mrs. L. O.
Chance, who lives in Pelly and five
grandchildren.
)" and “Jesus Savior Pilot Me”
the home and “Sweet By and By”
। the cemetery.
Mrs. Robert Mack, Mrs. Pearl Sills
and Andrew Fairbanks of Houston
were week end guests in the home
of Mr. and rMs. D. A. St Clair and
other relatives here.
A record that surpasses yester-
day’s snow for this season of the
year was that of 1931 when sleet,
snow and rain was reported to
have fallen in Ennis on May 6,
1931.
This unusual weather was re-
corded by City Secretary M. B.
Moseley.
Sleet, Snow And
Rain In Ennis
On May 6, 1931
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Mrs. A. Pearson, resident of Ennis
for thirty years, left today for Hous-
ton where she will make her home
with her two sons, Arthur, who has
a position with the Houston Paper
Company, and T W. Pearson, who
is attending the Houston Univers-
ity .
3 In Waxa Jail
Wanted for Theft
Of Car In Dallas
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William F. Rowe
Celebrates His
88th Anniversary
Sardis Club Women
Did Much Sanitary
Up to March 25
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Mrs. Mattie King
Thanks News For
2nd Prize Award
Rev. Fred Miller
Is Returning To
Chicago Church
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Wimbish Family
Are Moving
To California
i pneumonia. Services were held in
j the Keever chapel.
H. T. O’Bannion
Fractured Hip
In Recent Fall
Fell And Broke
His Left Arm
Notification of his appointment
to a fellowship in physics at Louis-
iana State University for 1937-38
has been received by George Newton
of Ennis, senior, who is physics lab-
oratory assistant at Trinity Uni-
versity. The fellowship will pay tui-
tion and a salary.
Mrs. P. B. Works
Is Improving In
Piano Hospital
Mrs. Laurc Loggins returned this
afternoon from Plano, where she
accompanied her mother, Mrs. P. B.
Works, who is in the Wyatt Hos-
pital there, for medical treatment.
Mrs. Works’ condition is reported
much better, and she is said to be
responding splendidly to the treat-
ment.
Mrs. Loggins was accompanied to
Ennis by her sister, Mrs. George
Burgess, who returned to Plano to
be with her mother. Mrs. Works was
taken to Plano Sunday in the Keev-
er ambulance.
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Colorado-to-Gulf
Highway Would
Come Thru Ennis
ley, Jr., and Frank Moseley, Ennis; Jr., Tom Moseley, Frank Moseley,
Mrs. D. B. Ferguson, Yale, Okla., H. J. Stone, Dr. A. L. Thomas and
and Mrs. Willie Hamby, Weleetka, John Sparks.
tend. In this institute ’’The Cotton
Crisis” was discussed by leading ed-
W. C. Langham Died
in Jackson, Miss.,
Buried At Rice
Funeral services will be held this
afternoon at Rice for W. C. Lang-
ham, age 41, who died Sunday in
Jackson, Miss., following a ksief
illness of paralysis.
He was born and reared in Rice
and had made his home there prac-
tically all of his life, until six years
ago when he accepsea a position
with a gas company and worked in
various parts of Arkansas before go-
ing to Jackson four years ago.
Surviving are his mother, Mrs. R.
M. Langham, and two sisters, Mrs.
W. E. Edmondson and Mrs. Mabel
M. Bell all of Rice.
r She has been a member of the
Tethodist church since early child-
hood and held her membership here
rh the First Methodist church for a
umber of years.
Gillespie Rites
Saturday At 2:30
in Keever Chapel
With Rev. R. R. Preddy, Baptist
minister officiating, final rites were
held Saturday afternoon at 2:30 for
D. M. Gillespie, age 78, retired farm-
er and resident of this community
for forty-eight years, who died Fri-
day afternoon at his home, 506 West
Milam street, following an illness of
aby’s Cold
Proved best by two
generations of mothers.
Bvicks
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Dr. Myres recalls with pleasure his
two years at Trinity University,
where he made an excellent record
as a debater, played the violin for
the Men’s Glee Club and took part
in numerous other student activi-
ties.
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Out of the 159 motor vehicles
that were found defective sixty-
three came back later for a re-check
and were adjudged OK by Mr.
Schauer. For those who failed to
return Thursday for their OK slips
Chief of Police Clarke has been
commissioned to represent the de-
partment and will recheck the cars
and furnish the OK slips.
Mr. Schauer also wishes to inform
the public that those whose automo-
biles were adjudged defective are
Gillespie, Temple, Okla., M. E. Gil-
lespie, Kaufman; D. E. Gillespie,
Bardwell; Pat Gillespie, Rosser, and
Jimmie Gillespie, Seagoville. Also
' surviving 'are two brothers, M. D.
and J. A. Glaspy, Ennis, and one
Officers said the poultry had been
stolen that night in Corsicana.
A theft case in Ellis county also
was cleared when Deputy Sheriff
usual,
doctor
Selma Rains was elected president
of- the Chamber of Commerce to
succeed Dr. J. W. Tolleson, retiring
president, at a meeting of the di-
rectors held Monday night for the
annual election >of officers. A. E.
Ramsey was elected first vice presi-
dent; Bert McKee, second vice pres-
ident, and Grner Dunkerley, Jr.,
third vice president. Dr. J. W- Tolle-
son was elected treasurer.
A. Dupree Davis was elected secre-
tary-manager for the third succes-
sive year.
With J. R. McMurray as chair-
man, a committee will formulate
plans for a program of activities for
1937.
The directors were very enthusias -
tic over prospects for a successfu.
year’s accomplishments and commit-
tees will be announced within a few
days by the president.
were educators and undergraduates.
In 1935, however, Dr. Myres broad-
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Beverly Romick, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. H. B. Romick, had the
first of a series of operations in
Baylor Hospital Tuesday for the
purpose of grafting skin on her
right hand. The skin was taken
from her right thigh. The wire which
had been holding the hand in place
has been removed also. She stood
the operation well and was resting
nicely Tuesday night.
Beverly was injured last June in
an accident with the city street
sweeper.
(By Lester Jordan.)
Dallas, Texas, March 25.— An
adopted son of Ellis county who has
gained international recognition is
Dr. S. D. Myres, Jr., director of the
Arnold School of Government at S.
M. U. Dr. Myres, a former student
of Trinity University, is the son-in-
law of Judge and Mrs. W. M. Tid-
well of Ennis, and he has visited in
Ennis frequently.
So outstanding has Dr. Myres be-
come in his field that last year the
Carnegie Endowment for Interna-
tional Peace sponsored the Institute
of Public Affairs held at Dallas un-
der his direction. In his annual re-
port to the trustees of the endow-
ment, Nicholas Murray Butler, di-
rector of the Division of Inter-
course and Education, praised high-
ly the institute directed by Dr. My-
res.
Heavy snow began falling in En-
nis about 7 o’clock this morning
and continued for three hours. The
snow followed rain, and it melted
almost as fast as it hit the ground.
The temperature was about 37.
Snow in March is very unusual
here, though on rare occasions we
have snow even in April, but usu-
ally it melts, as it did today, on hit
ting the ground.
Chas. Cotton and J. Limes of the
Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce,
met with a group of Ennis Chamber
of Commerce representatives this
morning in the interest of a highway
from Colorado to the Gulf.
The highway will extend from
Denver', Colo., through a direct
route to Fort Worth, via Ennis,
thence to Corsicana on Highway 75
and from there via Pelestine, Beau-
mont and Port Arthur.
An invitation was also extended
the Ennis group to attend a meet-
ing of the twenty-fifth annual con-
vention to be held in Fort Worth
April 11 and 12 for the purpose of
furthering plans for the Colorado
to the Gulf Highway Association.
The meeting will be held for the
purpose of securing federal aid in
designating and construction of the
highway.
Those attending the meeting this
morning were Dr. J. W. Tolleson, J.
E. Keever, J. S. Sanderson, J. H.
Duke, O. R. Colvin, Selma Rains,
C. W. Duke, Felix Atwood, J. R.
McMurray, w. M. Tidwell, A. E.
Ramsey, J. N. Goodwin and Secre-
tary-Manager A. Dupree Davis.
The group pledged their support
to the project which will be a great
asset to Ennis business interests if
designated through this city.
Mrs. Maggie Kelly is quite sick
with a streptacocca throat infection
। in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lynn
' Henry on West Avenue.
Mr. Rowe, although an invalid
for more than a year, is of a happy
and cheerful disposition and never
complains. He reads quite a bit and
Seventeen women at the Sardis
Home Demonstration Club meeting
March 25, checked their homes on
the sanitary condition. The points
scored were:
Number of houses screened with
16 mesh wire 17, number of houses
with windows screened full length
8, screen doors that fit tightly 10,
’number of fly proof pit type toilets
8, number of toilets located at least
100 feet from water supply and
placed so they will not drain to-
ward well 16, number' of wells curbed
so that filth and germs cannot enter
and covered so that bugs, worm and
bird fallings cannot fall into the wa-
ter 10, number having rain water
barrels, cistern or artificial contain-
ers protected so that mosquitoes cai •
not enter 15, number who dispose o
waste water for mosquitoes 17.
A questionnaire consisting of these
items are being checked by women
attending the club meetings during
March held by Miss Maegene Bay,
home demonstration agent, on the
repair the house demonstration.
rs.
Pleased with the manner in which
the 1936 institute was conducted,
the endowment is also co-operating
with the 1937 sessions which will be
held in Dallas, Fort Worth, Waxa-
hachie and Denton April 26-30. In
this way Dr: Myres hopes to spread
the influence of the institute
throughout North Texas:
Started in 1934.
The Institute of Public Affairs
held its first session in 1934 with the
Government of Texas as its theme.
Sessions were held on the S. M. U.
campus and most of the listeners
The Ennis Weekly Local
Mr. Newton is a son of Mrs. Lena
Newton, teacher in the Ennis schools
and has achieved distinction in
many ways at Trinity, being a
leader in scholarship and activities
at Trinity, isa member of the Blue
Key, honorary fraternity composed
of campus leaders; is president of
Alpha Chi, honorary scholarship so-
ciety; is head cheer leader at Trin-
ity, vice president of the senior class
and of Scripcrafters, and has been
president of the Physics Club for the
past two years.
He was working on the awning at
the garage doing some repair work
in the electric wiring, when he fell.
His left arm was broken near the
wrist.
Hospit
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J< • Minahan Has
een Promoted To
lammond, La., Job
had been turned over to Sheriff Ruf
us Pevehouse of that place.
At the time Estes arrested the man
Last year fifteen per cent of the j more than forty chickens were be-
1 ing carried in the back of his car.
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other professional leaders in such
a manner that national attention
was attracted to the meetings. Last
aris, and several nieces, among
em Mrs. Henry L. Perkins, Ennis,
id Mrs. Jack Figh, Dalhart.
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Business College
Foremost in Dallas Since 1887.
An established, reliable school.
Experienced teachers, thorough
training, successful graduates.
Write call or phone 7-8514 for .
full information.
report 1 her grandson is at Baylor
2nl for treatment of “tropic
recorded and every highway patrol
member will carry a list of the au-
tomobile license numbers. Charges
will be filed if they are seen on the
highways, therefore it will be to
their advantage to return to City
Marshal Frank Clarke and receive
their OK slip.
These inspection trips, made by
the state department of safety, will
be made in every town in Texas. It
is a plan of the department to make
these inspection tours twice each
year and they expect to return to
Ennis later this year.
Inspection is made of four haz- । ies in Corsicana, it was reported to
aids, biakes, steering gar, lights Sheriff Joe Roy after the prisoner
and mufflers, which are said to
ho died Wednesday evening at 8:30
t the home of her daughter, Mrs.
ugene Boren, following a brief ill-
ess. Services were held Thursday
vening at 4 o’clock in the nome of
r. and Mrs. Eugene Boren at
eagor Springs with her pastor,
lev. E. W. Bridges, pastor of the
first Methodist Church of Ennis,
d Rev. Fred Miller, pastor of the
pllywood Christian Church of
Biicago, officiating.
A choir of mixed voices compos-
■ of Mrs. P. V. Allen, Mrs. T. O.
the scope of the organization he obtained his Ph. D. degree at the
ldine mentines in -oumtu University of Texas, being the first
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untain, Mrs. A. H. Dunkerley, J. . ,
prarke,Miss DnaLonr ana D. -Wipers.
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EMrs. B. F. Coursey, age 84, resi-
Pent of this community for seventy-
hight years, died Wednesday even-
■g at 8:30 at the home of her
2- Jghter, Mrs. Eugene Boren, at
■eagor Springs, following an illness
■nee last week.
■ Mrs. Coursey, formerly Mollie El-
■n Anderson, daughter of the late
Weff and Cassie t^bdei'c,on, was born
■ear Corsicana^|^^avarro county,
■uly 6, 1852. She came to Ennis with
■er parents when she was a small
Echild and has lived in this commu-
nity since that time. She was mar-
■ried here to C. M. Bond, who died
ghere thirty-two years ago. She was
Emarried in 1910 to B. F. Coursey,
■lio died three years ago.
■ Mrs. Coursey is survived by two
■hildren, a daughter, Mrs. Eugene
“"oren, with whom she has made her
me for several years, and a son,
■ has. Bond of Paris.
■ , Also surviving are four grandchil-
j fen, Mrs, H. C. Dunkerley, Ennis;
I id and Harlen Noel of San An-
L nio, and Miss Mary Sue Bond of
Dallas, Texas, March 30.—charges
of automobile theft were filed in
Justice John Baldwin’s court Mon-
( day against three men, held in the
Waxahachie jail, whom police offic-
ers say recently escaped from the
Venus jail by blowing the jail lock
with nitroglycerin.
The automobile allegedly was stol-
en from C. A. Tullos in Dallas,
March 21, by Edward Snoden Rhett,
William Earl Parson and Weldon
Burkleo.
in the Venus jail escape the men
used an eye dropper to fill a lock
with nitroglycerin, officers said.
Mrs Lillian M. Bell, who receives
Ul out of Italy, Route 2, visit-
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’"The Slouthwest in Ipiternatipnal
Affairs.”
This year the institute will devote
its discussions to “International In-
stitutions and Worldj Peace.” The
list of speakers will include not only
outstanding Texas authorities oil upon the League of Nations and its
the subject but leading officials work.
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(- m n* AneWI, g .4 nection with the theft of a cow from
•---3/3 OL former Sheriff Dave Fearis. Deputy
Cariker said that he obtained a con-
fession after he had charged him
with cow theft.
F sta ic at Hammond, La. His broth-
m Minahan, visited him at
1 Saline ove)^ week end
efore JerArGSor his Luis-
Ob’ MG
were found with defects that were a ■ sister, Mrs. J. A. Driskell, Wichata
hazard to safety on the highways. I Falls.
Fifty-five per cent of the cars) He was a member of the Bardwell
had defective brakes, 3 per cent had j Baptist church.
bad mufflers, 88 per cent defective I ----
Mrs. M. B. Moseley, Sr., age 56,
native of Florida and resident of
Ennis for twenty-six years, died
Sunday .morning at 10:05 at her
home, 220 South Main street, fol-
lowing a brief illness since Satur-
day night.
Mrs. Moseley, formerly Mary
Louise Creech, was born in Madi-
son, Fla., October 27, 1880, where
she made her home until her mar-
riage to M. B. Moseley, Sr., of En-
nis September 19, 1911. Following
their marriage they came to Ennis
where she has resided since. Mr.
Moseley died here September 3,
1923.
Mrs. Moseley is survived by three
children; two daughters, Mrs. Ern-
est Lee Simmons and Miss Mary
Elizabeth Moseley, and one son,
John Henry Moseley, all of Ennis,
and four step-children, M. B. Mose-
Rev. Fred Miller, pastor of the J
Hollywood Community church of 1
With Rev. C. B. Knight ‘ficiat-
ing, final rites were held Monday af-
ternoon at 3 o’clock for Mrs. M. B.
Moseley, Sr., age 56, resident of En-
nis for twenty-six yeas, who died
Sunday at her home, 220 South
Main street, after a brief illness.
Services were held at the Tabernacle
Baptist Church, of which she was a
member, and her husband, the late
M. B. Moseley, Sr., served as deacon
until his death in 1923. Rev. Knight
paid a beautiful tribute to the life
of the deceased.
The choir of the church sang “He
Lives on High,” “The Old Rugged
Cross,” and “When They Ring
Those Golden Bells.”
I New Directors
ye Elected For
U Ennis C. of C.
■five new directors have been
■ted for three years, taking the
gce of five outgoing directors for
le Chamber of Commerce. The
|w directors elected were R. W.
esser, Felix Atwood, John Sparks,
I R. Stout and Garner Dunkerley,
I Holdovers are J. E. Keever, J.
buke, C. H. Mosshart, Dr. J. W.
■zson. Bert McKee, Selma Rains,
ED. Arden, A. E. Ramsey, F. L.
■bach and J- R. McMurray.
S meeting of the f if ten directors
■ be held Monday night for the
ion of officers for 1937. The
Eing will be held in the Cham-
■of Commerce offices at 7:30.
Mimes were submitted last week
She membership' for the election
ofefive-new directors by ballot.
H. T. O’Bannion was taken in the
Keever ambulance to the office of
a local physician Wednesday where
an X-ray revealed an impact frac-
ture of the left hip. Mr. O’Bannion
has been confined to his bed since
last Saturday when he fell on the
porch at the home of his daughter,
Mrs. D. W. Ramsay, where he makes
his home.
Mr. O’Bannion is ninety-three
years of age and is said to be the
oldest Confederate veteran living in
this community. He has been a resi-
dent of Ellis county since 1870.
Interment was made in Myrtle
Cemetery with J. E. Keever in
charge of arrangements.
Pallbearers were M. B. Moseley,
EAls Boy Treated
For Tropic Ulcers
Of The Feet
Waxhachie Saturday. She
ings of the League of Nations.
Louise Creech, was bora end reared ical College in 1884 and came to
in Madison, Fla., and was married I Texas in 1895, locating at Mineola,
there to M. B. Moseley, Sr., of En- He retired from practice ten years
interment was made in the fam-
burial lot in Myrtle Cemetery,
th J. E. Keever' in charge of ar-
ngements.
Pallbears were John Carroll,
orge Burchfield, Ellis Moore, R.
| Hesser, O. W. Parker and Joe
hetwood.
mong those out of town here
I the services were Mr. and Mrs.
Il Noel and Harlan Noel, San An-
Iio; Mr. and Mrs. Neal Hardan,
s. Ray and Mrs. Charles Kent, '
Ixahachie; Chas. Bond and daugh
I Miss Mary Sue Bond of Paris.
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Mr. L. B. Griffith, mother of
The register for visitors at the I.
O. O. F. Home is an interesting book
according to those who have in-
spected the names of visitors who
have called during the nine years
the Old Folks Home has been lo-
cated in Ennis.
Although all the visitors who
called at the home have not register-
in the guest book the register con-
tains the names of 1519 guests who
have been in the home during this
period of time.. The first guest to
register in the book was George
Moore, Sr., of the Dallas I.O.O.F.
Lodge No. 44, who was a guest on •
Aug. 10, 1929.
Practically every section of the
state of Texas is represented with
a number of visitors registered from
other states including Missouri,
Tennessee, Massachusetts and Okla-
homa.
B F Coursey 1519 Guests Have) Snow Fell Here S. D. Myers, Former Ellis Countian
Moreene Crumley, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Ross Crumley, and
Jean Davis, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. A. Dupree Davis, won the
ccunty championship honors in
spelling in the Interscholastic
League meet held in Waxahachie.
These two girls, seventh grade stu-
dents, competed with several hun-
dred other students from over the
county for honors. Their record was
100 per cent.
Cynthia Haynes, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Craig Haynes, was award-
ed county championship in short
story writing. She also competed
with several hundred other stu-
dents for this honor'. She is also a
seventh grade pupil.
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me resident of this community, i community in the work.
Interment was made in Myrtle
Cemetery with J. E. Keever in
charge of arrangements.
Pallbearers were Roy Glaspy, Wal-
lace Glaspy, Truett Glaspy, Ervin
Glaspy, Dave Horn and Whit Wood.
Mr. Glaspy, a native of South
Crolina, had resided in Fort
Payne, Ala., a number of years be-
fore coming to Ennis in 1889.
Surviving are his wife and seven
children, two daughters, Mrs. Curtis
Harris, Powell, and Mrs. Ed Hutch-
ins, Kilgore, and five sons, W. T.
ENNIS, ELLIS COUNTY, TEXAS THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1937
Ennis Girls Win
j home Monday. Surviving are five
sons, Charles D. Coleman, Dr. R. H.
A IF Ai in 11 । « Coleman and Dr. John Coleman,
George Newton Gets Fellowship , oAvMinep’anaPrr S. P Coleman
of New Orleans, La., and nine grand-
in L. S. U., Pays Tuition and Salary j chudren —
• 5 I Dr. Coleman was a brother-in-law
____________________,_______ of Mrs. L. C. Holloway, for years
of Ennis, and who is now living in
s 1 Alabama, Mrs. Coleman and Mrs.
.Holloway being sister. Mrs. Coleman
— died a few years ago.
I Mrs. L.B. Griffith
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Mrs. Moseley, formerly Mary he was graduated from Mobile Med-
Ennis Daily News,
Ennis, Texas.
Please accept my thanks and ap-
preciation for the check of $10,
which I received for second prize in
the "Buy At In Ennis” contest,
sponsored by the Ennis Daily News,
with the co-operation of our mer-
chants.
MRS. MATTIE KING.
Mrs. Pearson will continue her
beauty shop there and will be locat-
ed at 1912 Dunlavy.
I
Rev. and Mrs. H. A. Wimbish and
two children left this afternoon for
San Bernardino, Calif., where they
will make their home. Rev. Wim-
bish, pastor of the Church of Christ
resigned recently to accept a pas-
torate in that city.
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