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THE EXAMINER, McKINNEY, TEXAS, OCTOBER 22, 1964
PAGE FOUR
BY CAPT. ROY F. HALL
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9909999
Joe Duncan to Paul D Medley
in Plano
to
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Smith et ux Lot in McKinney
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the scales to weigh the empty
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DID YOU
KNOW?
Vaughn 12 Inst Lot in Princeton
275.00
Clay et ux Lot in McKinney
L V Chapman to Eldred
the team a minute.” 4
He got down and unwound th
wires holding the brake beam un-
der the wagon, and we heard it
drop to the ground. After a while
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West et ux Lot in Plano
W W Drain et ux to Carl
KAans KJMow W • • • UOSIIM V
Walter E Ellis to Virginia E
Ellis Lot in Plano
Richard M Edwards et ux to
A C Rickman 0.497 acres S Sloan
B M Clay et ux to Billy E Mc-
Euen et ux Lot in Allen
Eilly E McEuen et ux to B M
Clip out entry blank and bring to Johnson’s Furniture.
Nothing to buy—You need not be present to win—To be
given away December 19th.
load of cotton.
Dad said that he couldnt imag-
C L Marshall et ux to Bob
Parish et ux Lot in McKinney
10,054.21
Chemical Bk. & N Y Trust Co
to Federal Housing Com., Lot in
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Joe Marchman to Clarence S
Landers et ux Lot in Plano
Ruth Hallet al to V T Banks et
ux Lot in Copeville
Dal-Mac Climax Co to Oscar E
Felty et ux Lot in Plano
Robert C Martin et ux to Can
Cook Jr, et ux 12 int . . . H Brant-
m
we took in a bale
Giant Fall RCA Victor
Sale
weighed, then under the suction
pipe to suck the cotton from the
Phones
McKinney LI 2-5541
Dallas AD 1-1901
Pennington Lot in Frisco
Owen Dunn to Joe Duncan Lot |
in Plano
Llewellyn Green to E G Kill-,
insworth et ux Lot Shamrock Add
ing. This piece of iron weighed
about 80 pounds and I practiced
trying to lift it above my head
ux Lot in Josephine 300.00
Anthony E Vita et ux to Ber-
nale R Stubbs et ux Lot in Wylie
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CUSTOM GRINDING AND MIXING
FERTILIZER
COMPLETE LINE OF NUTRENA FEEDS
BUYERS OF HAY AND
ALL TYPES OF GRAIN
gence.
I had carried, with tremendous
effort, a broken brake beam from
H E Utley to Marvin Densmore
Lot in Princeton 400.00
T E Gatlin et dx to J C Curtis
et ux 4 ares M Hearne survey
4000.00
Joe Starnes to Joe Duncan Lot
21240.05
Roy G Gist et ux to Kenneth
t ux Lot Deep Water
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Local Boy Scouts are planning
an enormous good deed for the
revolve. I was not allowed in-
side. for the engineer had been !
killed there shortly before, and
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Fast Results.
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— Tommy E Lasiter et ux to Don-
Mildred Edwards to W V Ed- aid C Liggett et ux Lot in Plano
Joe Duncan to John Strawn
engi- handicapped at Goodwill Indus-
tries. The Scouts urge you to takeem
It seems that the engineer had part by giving your repairablG))
on a long necktie and while discards when Scouts call on you
steeping over the drive shaft to Sunday,. November 1, Good Turn
oil something, his tie wrapped Day.
w
the present
by granny.
was allowed in the room.
Plano 11000.00
Joe Lee Vineyard et ux to Vet- siever vicLariy was tue weigiel i tneir uy roaussue 0l ’ kc v ay
erans Land Board 36,503 acres J at Burgher’s gin. You drove your ; home. I have seen the Fog Wil-
Hefflefinger survey 7762.00
Lola M Klinglesmith to Ray
Klinglesmith 110 acres Geo Mc-
FM sound k One-set VHF fine tuning
* Intricately detailed all-wood Colonial-
styled consolette
$27995
“There you
g106 iSGeqi-umgining. Before and after ginning hummed and whistled all the way,
^hlt -fter a diror so butter I they were known as bales, Wheth- being as I could see in a very
that otter a flay ° so "uue _ in the seed or in the ginned good humor and pleased with
lint himself. I was worried about my
" I went with Uncle Tom on the weight and kept asking Uncle
to Tom when we would get it. He
gin. The seed cotton in a
called a “bale,” as was
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.Pherson survey wagon into the gin, and back on
Monk Clearman to John Sims - • "
around the shaft and he was ;
caught to the revolving shaft and •
whipped to death in no time at '
-a d
“SMAJT*3vaicg-
et ux Lot in Piano wvagua. e uliuce Jl . ...
Mary Hughes to C B Martin Lot weighings was the weight of your
in Wylie 1672.50 - - - - .
Marvin L Young to Elmer Re-
cer Lot in Culleoka 1800.00 le LU, II.ally ucg alyug
Alla Bell Hudson et al to John that was not just and right, and
L Hendry III et al Lot in Plano., u aly nus ae alcui L
Jessie M Moon et ux to Jewell doubtless Uncle Tom’s fault.
D Harr on et ux Lot in Plano
wards, Lot in McKinney ---
F L Evans to Marguerite Reed Bldg Co Lot in Plano
________.. i the Southwest.'■■Out of this grew a
Ralph E Morris et ux to Chap- the great Burrus mills of Dallas so _____
parral Properties Inc,‘Lot in Pla-i and Fort Worth. from a cottonseed-fed cow grew er in
no ! If you attend the Dallas Fair too rancid to use. It is not gen-
James M Lee et ux to Leslie O and happen to see the Borden ex- eraliy known, but cottonseed will . , ,
Smith et ux Lot in McKinney hibi: look at the great square kill hogs. We lost several before ’ high , wagon load of -cotton
Don D Divinia to Ray Barker timbers which compose part of we found out they were eating . Burgher s gm, but got off when said next t ne
et ux Lot in Plano the structure that houses Elsie the feed over in the cow trough. , he drove up on the scales. Bur- ocoyton.
Dal-Mac Climax Inc to Royce the Borden trade-mark cow
Gerald Stengele Lot in Plano 'timbers came
Federal Housing Com. to Phil- original mill on the branch nere i asked Uncle Tom not to orng1g Juol •-J-- II- 5
lip A Parton et ux Lot in Plano in McKinney on the Woodlawn back the seed from the bale he platform on s did 8round.
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wagon up on the scales to
Provident Institution for Sav-1 » - g - A . • g
ingpippocdsrnrouiomeoUncle Tom Er The weigher i
C 885.00
E | he went through the gate leading
25 ! into the lot, he flung back, “Go
5 I look in the wagon bed and you’ll „ -- _
5 see for yourself, Steve Hall.” I with both hands. Physical culture
9 Seeing Dad going toward the . was the rage at the time and, 11
g wagon which Uncle Tom had left :
g out by the seed shed, Uncle Tom '_____ -- .
53 stopped in the middle of the lot i lished a popular magazine on such
s and waited. Dad stepped up on things, titled, “Physical Culture.”
n the end of the brake beam and Don’t recall whether I ever was
e looked over the cotton sideboards able to get the weight up with
Jack B. Weatherery et ux to
Housing Authority City of Farm-
ersville Lot in Farmersville
Nor-Tex Development Cpn to noy U U1
Ronald Dunn Lot in Plano ID Eppers et
John M Smith et ux to John'Point Add
, the back near the scales and Uncle
load was Tom went in to get the checke
the 500 while I held the team. W
On the way home Uncle Tom
0 4e
•Ag)
Rollins et ux Lot in Wylie
Joe Starnes to Joe Duncan Lot
in Plano
Leonard Myrick et ux to Morris
Williams et ux . . . J Anderson
survey 4972.00
S. L. Smith to Loyd Hamilton
et ux Lot in McKinney
Edgar L Dement to Leeton
Zachary 20 acres A H Burns sur-
vey
Wm H Hunt Trust Est to Joe
Duncan Lot in Plano
Edgar L Dement to Howard M
Haisten et ux 5 acres A H Burns
survey 3750.00
Joe Duncan Inc to Robert L
-------- — , " , . ’ was not much. Dad always dis-
gained control of the mill and it liked feeding cottonseed to a
East River Savings Bank
I Federal Housing Com., Lot
Plano
aaememmusssesemnsmamg There oU, 8 again Afuew
• ' I am saying you blame me for ______
it.” Uncle Tom swung off toward ! the railroad to our back yard to
use as a dumbell in weight lift-
’. Those i " Our gg house v’sful "of cot gher’s gin weighed only the wag- The next baleI asked Dad to
from the Burrus i tonseed, and that was why Dad j on and its lord the team stand- let,me 80 with him aboutW my
-the branch here , asked Uncle Tom not to bring ingeus bezondsthe-weishins wright Uncle Tom”ad left there
Road. Just a few notes of history, took to the gm. But Burghey’s the cotton was sucked up into —and set.off fireworks, 'and
that’s all. Now back to the Burg- seed houses were full too, and he the gm the empty wagon Was asked ne Tomd tiuan
her cotton gm. j refused to let anybedy else leave driven back on the scales and the latter proudly mounce*
Mv Uncle Tom came home, two their cottonseed, which amounted weighed again, the difference. - ho eha &0tt .
one i to about 1,000 pounds per bale of tween the first and second weigh- McLarry. Looking at
_ x , , , ___- .... ------------ .€ +N, ~A++Am nrowhinU glme an S
the barn on his one crutch. As
Wallace Land Cr to I Don Mann
et ux Lot Canyon Creek Add
Woddy Blooketer et al to S T
Stubblefield Lot Lavon Lake
Lodge
East River Savings Bank to
Federal Housing Com., Lot in
Plano
65.39 acres W Q Edwards survey -
9100.00 । et ux Lot in Plano
Phillip J. Foley et ux to Floyd! Wallace Land Co to John D
K --n* Drake Jr Lot Canyon Creek Add
Joseph L Howell et ux to Mar-
ian Reed et ux Lot in Farmers-
275-
NEEDS*
Herfurth ’ 52.75 acres Robert
Trammell survey
Nor-Tex Development Cpn
Joe Marchman Lot in Plano
12500.00
Thomas L Dean et ux to Claud-
ie A Graves et ux 3.30 acres H
that Bob McLarry made me do, j from the gm and usually dumped in t e wagon. Tae office of.the Shpdne in the fi^W and both
Steve?” McLarry was the weigher J them by the roadside on the way gm was so near the scales that veig tinthesfe wrone
'■ - - T - ‘IT:1- the weigher could sit in the of- saw that something was wrong
son branch that runs by the pres fice and weigh the cotton on the somewhere. Surveying the situa-
ent power house north ofPMc- beams on the side of the wall tion and closely/questioning me
Kinnev filled almost up to the next to the scales. He would jot brought forth the .fact that Me-
bridge ’with dumped cottonseed, down the weight of the wagon Larry had not weighed me with
Don’t know why but Uncle and its load, and tell the driver the load but had weighed me in
Tom took the matter to heart. We to pull out under the suction, with the empty wagon. It did
always believed that McLarry and | Just south of the scale office not take much, figringto.see
him had some argument over the was the engine and boiler house that my Weight.,just.a tbal.
affair, in which Uncle Tom got that supplied power for the gm anced that of the brake be4n
the Worse of it Anyway he pro- machinery. This power was trans- and the total effect was that t aS
tlaimedSlong and loud that he ' fitted to the gin. fifty yards east, brake beam was lost completely,
would find a way to get even by a long steel shaft leading from Nobody won; nobody lost save
with Bob McLarry. He did not the engine flywheel to the gm. Uncle Toms work , on fastening
wait long either to plan his ven- This, to me, was a fascinating the weight under trie wagon
8 ’ I place, and as Uncle Tom drove I lost face though. It was a long
up on the scab s I dropped off time before Uncle Tom got around
and ran to the door of .the engine to calling me anything as nice
room to watch the huge flywheel as, “A knuckle-headed gump.”
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। one hand or not but it always lay all. I watched a while and wherg
in our back yard and that was I saw Uncle Tom d"ve up under
’.where Uncle Tom'got his idea of 'the suction pipe, I ran and climb-
revenge on McT arry | ed on the wagon to watch that.
! He told me he wanted to bor- This was also fascinating to a
rowtheoraks"beamfor a short smealhanyoperate "hlesucatnine
Burgher’s cotton gin once stood which were stil] on the wagon. I f - Li &1P -as finished. ' accidentally dropped his hat,
on the block on the east side of climbed up the-tailgate and look- - diq know 4 L, time what which was sucked up in the pipe
North Tennessee Street, and in ed too. In fact, I was so curious dan u + t me t0 instantly. Now and then the man
the block just north of the present to see what Uncle Tom had in hep him fasten th brake beam , would let me hold my hand in
Dugger super market. This gin the wagon that I beat Dad to it. P der th enthe bed box. I the end of the pipe and feel thee
ceased operation about 1930, but All I could see was the wagon , course what was plan- powerful pull of the air rushin €9
of the time I write, in the early bed half full of cottonseed. I was mn"u got nwnatn_commital in and upward in the pipe. The
1890s, it was in full swing, gin-! still looking when Dad turned and Uncle Tom mrely say- pipe was plied back and forth
ning 5,000 or more bales of cot- yelled at Uncle Tom. You Tenn- “Wait and see and ask no and soon had all the cotton out of
ton a year. . i essee ridge runner. I told you not n Auestions Se 4ei1 nObody the wagon.
Burger also established the ! to bring any more seed back heie, bout .this.” । Uncle Tom drove around out in
grist mill on the branch on the ] didn’t I?" ' ’ ' , the gin yard and started back to-
lower Bonham road, a hundred Uncle Tom gave off what might ‘ e 8. AS Pu "Lg a- ward the scales. There was a
yards north of the present live- be called a horse laugh. “Whaa, Uol and.whenWe hadPK Dad I wagon on the scales though, and
stock commission and selling barn whaa, whaa,” he roared. “Next bout1,6 Tnm 4n, -i ' we' had to wait. Uncle Tom hand-
on present Highway C andsthetime, by granny,,you'll listen to GOodncotton wouta ithirdlitsf, ed me the reins. Here, Brat. Hold
woodlawn road. w U burrus , a feller when he talks sensible to th at • A pound of lint for every
later came from Weston and j you. Bob McLarry made me shov- tla inds°o seoq unt
bought this mill and added a el that whole thousand pounds of two.Poun ° Seed , .
cotton gin there. Burrus later es- cotton seed back in the wagon All cotton was welgned at the
tablished the Collin County Mill- afore he would give me the check, , wagon as picked, so that the PiCK,
_ . ing Company, and later, the Col-lth-t' what I was trving to tell ers, if hired help, could be.pald T,"rve inAn the scales apain
Mack Devers to Mrs. R L Hight lin County Mill & Elevator Com- | you,Ssteve H^J "broght the for their picking it was weighed ' We_drr hardly looked up. He
Lot in McKinney pany. This mill was located on the I check back and I brought the there too SO that the amount need- — - --s-
Valley Development Co to C M west side of the railroad north of rseed. They’re yourn. Do what you fe" " hnie 1318 he datermin-
Palmer Lot Lake Lavon High- Virginia Street and the cottonvan .. wi.u. U..2. Tu
lands 895.00 i wharves south of it. This mill stumped away toward the barn.
R L Willard et ux to Joe Frank , burned in the middle 1890s and —f 1—
Willard . . . B.B.R. Ry Co survey the present mill and €
E H Koon et ux to Lucy San- . company was built where it now
ford et ux Lot in McKinney 1500.- [ stands. Burrus’ son, Perry, later
00 ganca .J-1 J1 .. 1..111 .. lIkeu ieeung colculiseeu 1U ci ------- - . ■ . - -
' Southwood Estate Cpn to Gen- became one of the great mills of milch cow for it gave the butter pounds of lint obtained from gm-
try Jones Lot in Allen T "------t-n-t fdhi- "" . 8 , . .. ninn nd nften oinnine
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{edfora bale could be determin- weighed usand told UncleTom
mms-
elevator when cottonseed had any value, cotton had to, be picked ore
over its use as cow feed, and that the bale could be taken to
, • ci- I H A ~NNR n nttNm A Inem
ville. . , i
North Hampton Institution for
Savings to Federal Housing Co. :
Lot in Wylie I
Ronald Dunn to Nor-Tex De- i
velopment Cpn Lot in Plano
Edmund Fritz Unger et ux to
Dewey E Hardin et ux Lot in ■
Farmersville
Ralph H Booker et ux to Carl .
B Moreland Lot in Plano
James N Sides et ux to John
Strawn Lot in Plano
Melissa Nichols to Oras G Rich-
ardson et ux Lot in Farmersville
8,000.00 1
C V Houser to J H Dorman et
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