The Gilmer Mirror (Gilmer, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. [99], Ed. 1 Monday, July 9, 1923 Page: 1 of 4
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Mrs. T. H. Briggs, where she is
sentence being for 25 years.
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Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Williams
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Sheriff J. W. Bryce, of this
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Mrs. Henry Mings departed
Monday morning for Dallas,
where she goes to a Sanitarium
for treatment.
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ADMISSION 10 and 20
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City Marshal J, W. C. Guest,
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prove of interest here, says the = SlUK ' n
Athens Review: I B
sion of the affair wp have not |
heard it, as we have not seen
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millinery goods
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Woodall and family and Jas. *
\ Sickles and family of Sulphur
Springs; H. G. Glover and fam- 'Boyd and family and Mrs. L.
ily of Longview; Mr. Mack G. Glovr of Sulphur Springs.
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of Camp and City Marshal J.
W. C. Guest. of Pittsburg, de-
parted Monday morning for
the Sheriffs’ Convention at Gal
veston. '
. Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Lassater
('eparted Sunday for Dallas,
Mr, Lassater returning Mon-
of Cornwallis, Oregon, are hnre
on a visit to Mr. and Mrs. John
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'thought resultedJn the recovery =
of lost tickets to the World Bar- =
tist Alliance, at Stockholm -
Sweden, a Dallas man said in
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CARL LAEMMLE presents thw
Melodmatic Triumph
The Hentucky Derby”
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Mrs. J. W. Graves departed
Sunday for a visitto friends at
Omaha.
if Yoo Want »
GOOD DAILY NOUMI
Patronize M.
IT IS YOUR PAPE
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He Was Accompanied by Sher-
iff J. E. Lawrence, City
Marshall and Sheriff
Bryce.
Everythin from Cellar to roof
DENMAN LUMBER CO.
THE HOME BUILDERS,
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him.
If there is any other ver-
visit to his sister, Mrs. Shel
Willeford.
Letus serve
coni -vatives
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Ihe Gilmer 1
Mr. S. J. Waghalter and fam-
ily motored to 1 exarkana Sun-
dr; returning nfonday.
Mrs. Allen MeClelland, who
him in
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ed out of Gilmer, going over to
Longview to catch the Sun-
shine snecial on the I. & G.N
for Galveston. . . :' ■
Rev Bennett was convicted
for the murder of M. M. Mul-
rein, janitor at the Upshur
rounty court house, whom he
shot with a shot gun while sit-
ting at a west window reading
1 on the night of April the 29th,
1921 --
at Athens, and remembered
stuffing them in his inside pock I
<t,” the Dallas man related.
"When he had been in Dallas a
iew hours, and started to search
his pockets, the tickets were
missing. The .tickets included
all of the side trips of the tour
and a considerable sum of mon-
ey was tied up it the transpor-
tation. Immediately he notified
detectives and started a search
back over the places he had
been that day. He also notified
the ticket agent from whom he
had bought the tickets.
"That night the tickets had
not been found, and the party
was ready to start on the trip
The preacher went to bed sti!
worrying about the tickets
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charge, having been has been quite sick, is convales-
convicted in Camp county on a cing, her many friends will be
change of venue, and being glad to learn.
The reason they continued
and became old customers is
your reason for becoming a
in a car, and visited as far
south as San Antonio before
• Mrs. Sallie B. Stapp departed chandler . They came through
/Monday for .St. Louis, Chicago J
•and Baltimore to buy fall mil-
Sheriff Lawrence’s prisoner,'
though, he had been in jail here
shere his crime was committ-' •
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' Higginbotham relumed Sur .
I day from i v isit to relatives
near P’ittsbur..
the Criminal Court of Appeals
and early this year was af-
firmed. . i
Crystal Theatre
Advertise your needs and
vants. Phone 179.
rangement, he agreed to let, friends in Brownwood,
him he delivered there by Sher and other places before her
The Oldest and Strongest Bank in Upshur Couaky-
with a lot of prisoners from.
West Texas, but by private ar- nay. , Mrs. Lassater will visit
From the Saturday Evenin
4 . By Peter B,Ky
’ Directed by Edward
Il A. M TO 11 P, M, ADMISSIO
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Prof. W. S. Burks,-of the
West Texas Military A¥ademy
nt San Antonio, is here on a
visit to his daughter, Mrs. Ro.
Daniela. ” • -
iff Lawrence Monday.
When it became known that
he was to depart Monday morn _____
ing a large crowd gathered at: and daughter, Miss Ternice
the jail, but there was no dem- motored over to Shroveport
enstration of any kind, and but, Saturday to visit their dauzh-
ter, Mrs. J. A. Martin. Mr. and
Mrs. Williams returning Sun-
come, or warn yow
Eryc, of this city accompa-
nie! him.
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THROUGH A DREAM U
Roy Bennett left GP.mcr jail
Monday morning et 8:30
o’c’ock fer the penitentiary at
Huntsville, to commence serv-
ing the 25 year sentence im-
posed in the Camp county Dis-
trjet co"r:. .
He was accompanied by Sher
you in our capacity \
bankers. •
SAFETY
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A BANK ACDOUNT IS THE BEST
SAFETY DEVICE BTaINABLE . . . -
A Bai k Account should he your bus-
few farewells spoken, and
Mr. E. R. Thompson, of
Sirevcport. La . is here on a
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PENTENTIARY
Personal Mention of Those Who
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GILMER, UPSHUR COUNTY, TEXAS. MONDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 9, 1923.
The case "was appealed to quite sick.
I .g, , him.
Mr. J; M. Baxter and wife ox- Ray Adams was the young
Pittsburg, are here on a visit to man that he alledges struck
They were on their way to 1 Mr. Tom Baxter and Mr. Jake
the Sheriffs’ Convention at ( Smith 8 families.
Galveston, and will be met by a
penitentiary agent at Phelps,) Misses Mary ou —id Glady8
ri- miles from Huntsville, .who Higginbotham relumed, Su - Mr. Adams or any of the other
will take Roy Bennett on up to
Huntsvike. the officers going
on to Galveston. They motor-
N . linery goods • for her Gilmer
millinery establishment. She
will be absent several weeks
and during her absence Mrs.
Bas Phillips will have charge
of her millinery department in
the * Crosby-MeGaughy-Mar-
E ehiall establishmen.
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Mrs. H. M. Prater, who hat
He/was tried in the District' been visiting friends at Athens
court of Upshur county in Jan- on her return from a visit to e, oT n, cgers wu
uary 1922, the jury failing to friends and relatives in south oWner 0 the First Baptist
agree and making a mistrial. | Texas, has retuvned home. , EherAtot Athens, Texaa Who
Judge Warren on his own ---— ■ - V ....
ertien transferred the case to Mr. Francis L. Meyer, of
the Camp county District court J Marshall, spent Sunday in the
and he was tried in March fol- city, visiting, his wife at the
lowing, smd convicted and his home of her parents, Judge and
About midnight he W ke sud-,
denly with a startling dream
still clear in his mind. He saw
in his dream that on a visit to,
hic safety deposit box that day,
he had placed the tickets in the,
box unconsciously with other
papers, not thinking what they]
were. ■ Then he went back to
sleep and the next morning
I found them in the deposit box."
. we
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Mr.W. B. White of Dallas,
is here tn a visit to his old
name. 1
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A motion for a rehearing
was filed and this motion was
overruled just before the ad-'
iournment about the 25th of
last month.
Penitentiary agent Bud Rus-
sell was to have carried him
from Big Sandy last Saturday.
AT TWIN LIKES OFFICER COMING
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.i- Navy Recruiting Officer C.
Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Lome- V. Crenshaw will v)sitSmer
pack are having a house party July 10th in the interest of re-
in tents at the Gilmer Boating nuiting men for the U. S.
& Fishing Club twin lakes this Navy, so it is learned through
weck entertaining Mrs. Lome- Postmaster Todd. who was
heen teaching at Kewanee, Hl.,
duarng the past year, but have
it month visiting
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: see youJele : PARKER HIlL
DEPARTED FOR :
rn- siderarion We Offer f
I HE HEAD | Your Account Here is t
wn a Plive or Timber While = Considerate Interest V
a. AnEntertetoment E Take In Your Welfare.,
At an ice cream supper in the’ pSa
Sand Hill neighborhood Friday = ► z 62
qight, Parker Hill, son of, Mr.
M. A. Hill was struck on the
head with a piece of scantling
and scricusly hurt, having re i
mnined unconscious for -somae
time, and a physician from Gil-+
er geing out to see him Fri-
day night
Nr. Hill said that his report
c the tair was to the effect
that two other young men were
having some words and about
to tight, when Parker askel the
-t with the scontling to putt
it down and fight his opponch
fair, and s he stepped back
swung the scantling striking I
issippi, from
on A visit
Misses Ena and Lurline Ma-
in are here on • visit to their
irenta Rev. and Mrr. T. C.
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nack’s brothers and sisters and
, sister and * brothers-in-law.
K y Among those present are Mr.
o R. E. Mu~ and family; J. L.
coming here. They left home
June 14th. h , .
a lasting job. All paint
look* good when new—but
after several seasonis’ wear,
te Wonderful condition of
your Glidden-costed home
/will make you glad you
/ chose this nationally used
/ quality. e
/ If your property needs Glidden
paint, don’t put it ofT, pue iton
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iness barometer. It il. e, 3 the pie—
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* speaking of peculiar incidents =- Phone Us Your Sunday Order
The owner of the tickets was = -
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."He had bought all of his
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Tucker, George. The Gilmer Mirror (Gilmer, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. [99], Ed. 1 Monday, July 9, 1923, newspaper, July 9, 1923; Gilmer, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1414675/m1/1/: accessed June 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Upshur County Library.