Wise County Messenger (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 17, 1938 Page: 1 of 8
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58th YEAR
DECATUR, TEXAS, THIRSDAY MORNING, MARCH 17, 1938
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community, these five precautions are
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the year ;
reminds ns that the late Mat
Texas.
and are deeply interested in its pro
Out of town people attending the
Messenger Office
lemnly affirms and declares all her!
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her cows all suddenly went
City Election
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BUY IT IN DECATUR
—Dr. SKYGAK
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Clark.
1228 only
other year
Gather at Hotel Friday
for Good Time and
Spell W ill Run
for Congressman
of the host and i
motion pictures of
Methodist Revival in
Decatur July 31st
lire Bank forms.
These worksheets
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minimize the hazards of kite flying:
1. Don’t fly kites in the vicinity • f
electrie power lines.
2. Don't climb a pole or use a stick
new
the
F.
Mr. Robert Calvert, candidate for
attorney-general of Texas. was a wel-
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Supreme in Newspaper Field and Oldest Business Institution in W ise County—Merging Decatur News Jan. 1935
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NOTES FROM THE
COUNTY AGENT
By D. F. Eaton, County Agent
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In looking thru the files of the Mes-
August 11, 1924, he married Miss
Hazel Lee Burnett of Decatur, Texas.
Decatur citizen hr many years.
self-eriucatit n during the past twelve
years.
Married fifteen years ami have one
AGAINST
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strike and! Sweetwater
dry when
Dempsy and a host of others.
Over in the (ireenwood country. I
high that my
County. Extensive program of
011 and are invitec
ceed 25 miles per hour. Such permit-
ted speeds will get over a .good miles
in a day, yet most drivers of autos,
busses, light trucks and heavy ones
have not been content to stay within
the limits. We'll see whether or not
there is a lessing in accidents, which,
of course is the reason for the lower-
ing of speed limits. Maybe most driv-
years. Have taken active part in all
worthy community affairs.
Ei'
whatever acreage they might desire.
I ----—-----
C. M. Quisenberry
and almost sixty years ago. we find
some interesting stories. Spect there
are some items in the old files that
would not be becoming in us to repul-
lish. We recall a little incident that
Stagg and son. La well, Alvord,
I grood, patriotic citizens of the town, en, am! Charles Stokes.
the mayor belt ngs and acts with the NA+ ;o, Af
council body, all acting without pay. --
To hold these offices is a sacrifice
To this union one child, Hazel Vir-
ginia was born.
Being a descendent of the Hugue-
not Martineaus ami the Navarres, he
joined the M. E. Church in Brecken-
(‘omnmon school
at this time.
We will not
your allotments
Messenger is not a prophet, nor are
we akin to a prognosticator, but we
make the predliction that an oil field
if the KMA kind will be uncovered
school came
on the parts of the gentlemen, and
those retiring are due the thanks and
good wishes of the citizens of Deca-
tur. It is understood that the coun-
cil would employ the retiring Mayor
Ingram as city manager. His exper-
ence for the past four years would
make him a valuet man.
scription all the hens cackled a glad
new note and the cows came up to
be milked four times a day.
The Wallace boys. Will and Char-
from the
with their
I might have fallen to the ground.
The Real powe and light company
officials expressed their desire to co-
, operate to keep down accidents. If
had the happy privileze of enrolling
J. L. Whitehead as a new convert to
the Messenger. The Whiteheads live
•n the old Austin place. They are a
pleasant family to know. Two of the
was complet-
Mrs. Stutt. Messenger extends sympa-
thy. The funeral services were con-
ducted Tusday afternoon at the (’In s-
on eVel} farm in
ters having to do with the business
i end of the city government, while
Notict is hereby given that
and an invitation to the public in gen-
। eral is extended. Reservations should
be made in advance.
( cinity of electric power lines.
In order to avoid accidents in this
Decatur Young People's Encamp-
ment will be July IM—22. A large dele-
gation from Wichita Falls will join
the group this year.
KEV. K. R. ISBELL.
<. W.
on and
«uota in the county.
1 he state and the south also have
a very favorable majority for this
Results of Cotton Referendum
The results of the election as tab-
ulated by the connty committee:
gross, and they state they are in fa- funeral wore: Mr. and Mrs. A. M
vor of those things that will accrue Smith, ami son. Charles. Mrs. E. O.
a resident of Chicago at the time of cended towrite his name and that ot
the great conflagration. He told this his girl friend in the soft concrete.
Iwas in
sion of
Ion the
pndanfs
premis-
f same
। from
uni of
came within a
dinner at the
I he setting up exercise
School of l’hurmacie, connected with
sidered
I ndant s
I nd on
If r the 7
nds for
it and
y show
equity.
will wager our last shirt that ( lar
ence, with all the learning acquir
on this mundane sphere, is wiser to-
day, anent God and His work.
three points to be distributed thru
local merchants as last year.
The movement at Decatur has been
tremendous amount of work.
Given Call on His
either of which
fairs of Decatur, one who is to de- Nabb, Dewey McNabb,
vote his time to looking after the mat- F. E. Stagg. Mr. and
lias made sood in that thriving little 1 liis shows that the county voted a
metropolis is 1 tie other than Clar- . safe majority in favor of the cotton
ence Vauglu. (larene tells me he
water well on the edee of the puilic
square. Practically the entire male
the things that made for a better cun-
munity; he was outspoken for tr,
ami his influence for good was fel:.
such men leave their impress on the
times, ami the .good Bol stmt did •
his sphere will le felt over the years.
instructor. H. I.. Wall. Tuesday after
the Messenger ceased to come. And 1 noon. March 15th. and were shown
immediately upon renewal of her sub-through the plant of the Messenger
Today the Messenger announces ridge, Texas. Easter Sunday, 1925.
that Oscar I. Thomas, Dr. J. L. Ward, The funeral services were held at
C. P. Dodson and Bun Johnson are the First Methodist Church of De-
candidates for the offices of May catur, March 1 1, 1938. Dr- J. I.. Ward,
or and aldermen of Decatur, the plae- Decatur College and the Kev. K. it.
es expiring during April, held by Isbell, Pastor M. E. Church, conduet-
Aubrey Ingram, Frank Green, Hiram ed the service. He now rests in beau-
ers have gotten into the habit of let-' Helm and George Gage. tiful Oak Lawn Cemetery.
ting the sperdometerEet somewhat I These gentlement at the solicita- The pallbearers were Drs. S. J.
higher than these limits now imP"o*-tions of many friends have consent- Petty, J. V. Prunts, Messrs. Aubrey
el. ' ed to become candidates. They are Ingram. H. J. Brown, W. T. MeCrack-
tian church in Paradise, and burial i
was had in the cemetery of that place. I ,
A number cf Decatur friends of the 5nsl
dereased attended the last rites.
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Clarence Darrow, the great
nostic, is dead. Don t know, but
wild and hid at my approach. I made
a practice that when no one would
answer my knock at the front door I
would go around the house and peep
in at all the windows and nearly
every such place I could count from
two to eight pairs of feet sticking
out from under the bed. At one place
I twisted an old grandma out from
under the cabinet with a fishing
pole.
the county must !
our alotmnent can
my hop-s I
next trio I
be able to give you
until later bin will
the Slidell country is made a happy state office,
dwelling place by the weekly visitsa
are running I
will Im* light
Slidell I met
friends. cine
They favor a manager for the af ' Mrs. W. McNabb, Mrs. Robert Me
The quotas will be for
and will not involve any
Rev. George Tucker, one of our
general Evangelists from Memphis.
Tenn, and his singer will lead us.
senger, running back forty. fifty.
to plant
writer that the OLear cow, by
kicking over a lantern, was the cause
of the fire.
to the happiness. contentment and May,
forward-movement of all our people, j ridge;
I find pnutieally every
ine in
irs ani
of file
iligeni
I oblain
I hereby
s suit.
If -a ys :
Irv 19:8
lie own
Ing des-
I ’ ounty
1 survev.
B line
Thence
ence S
uth 77
th 762
n of 7
g. Con-
Sorbonne ( niversity.
After returning to the United
states, he was salesman for the Up-
come by my fascinating nature and
finally swapped me un old spavined
=obbler for a year’s subscription to
the paper and other voluable consid-
orations. The gobbler came to an un-
timely end on the road to home.
Which only goes to prove that all gob-
blers that glitter are not gold.
Dave Reed is another lad out on
the Decatur-Greenwood road who has
enrolled for another year of connubial
bliss by reading the Messenger. Mr.
ami Mrs. Reed specialize in raising
fancy Rhode Island Red chickens.
They have three or four of the finest
roosters for sale now.
I find the home of Mrs. D. L. La-
guile is to be made doubly happy by
the presence of the Messenger for an-
other year. Mr. and Mrs. James F.
Ashlock, a couple of friendly young-
sters living on the old Rock Ranch. a
sh» rt distance above Greenwood have :
placed their names on the happy list
Says Mrs. Ann Devaney, just cele-
brated her 105 birthday . A girl with
a cigaret hanging out of the corner
of her mouth doesn’t seem as sweet
and gentle as the girls I used to
know.”
in the pnissing of Mr. Bob Stutt, at
his home in the l’arudise country
Monday. Wise county loses 4 ne of its
hest known citizens. He was passed
80 years of age. and for almost half
century he has lived in the souih
end of Wise county. Bob Stutt was
known as a got d man; one who was
true as steel to friends. He had a wile
circle of aequnintances. ami was proi-
ably intimately known by every man.
wi man and child within miles of his
residence. He stood four square for
an Kir
L harl-
-ir un
nd said
r--pa-.
Fresh cement appears to have at-
traction for some of our young boys
and girls that is irresistable. Section
Foreman Holly Renshaw and his
crew have been engaged in patching
West Main and West Walnut streets,
ami it is almost impossible for the
$ workmen to finish a piece of work
hefore some girl or boy walks over
the fresh concrete, or write their
names in it* Witnessed, where a young
master of some household ruined a
walk on West Walnut. The workmen
had hardly left the job, finished, when
the young "ruler" appeared, and
walked thru the concrete; not being
proposition.
This will reguire that we have a
work sheet un every farm in the
county for 1937 that has grown or
will grow cotton- The purpose of this
is two fold. In the first place, every
farmer who sold cotton this year is
entitled to his subsidy payment which
is dependent un his establishing a cot-
ton batse for 13337. In th** second place,
we must have these work sheets to
establish next year’s cotton allotments
and we do not want to overlook any
farmer who will Im* entitled to an al-
h tment next year.
Miss Emma Hope, Brecken
Mrs. 0. J. Mathis. Graham;
a little slower th.in elsewhere, but
names of Dick Willis. Mrs.
llorten, Joe Jamison. J. E.
G. MeCarroll, D. II. Moser,
for tin- good year 1228; ml. j . School Children Visits
Hingsley, an ardent Messenger read- J — -
er and one of the most vivacious ma-
irons of the Greenwood country.
Marv Jane Caraway. Helen Cam
was, James Caraway. Bob Caraway,
Josie May Ivy. Minnie Fay Ivy. Man-
rine Childress. Mary Jo Childress.
Lucille Scaff, Mary Ketej. Joyce Sud-
derth.
The Sweetwater school is splendid
ly managed by Mr. Wall.
He is an efficient teacher and a
fine young man. The Messenger in
vites Mr. Wall anil the students of
Sweetwater school back again for an
other visit.
concerned are Decatur. Paradise and
George Stanford, age 63. a WIA Alvord. The buying company at Ini-
worker, living on the Frank Smitn las has suggested the period April :
farm, two miles east of Boyd. died to 10 for planting and has advised
Thursday evening. nine hours after that send will soon be received at the
the birth of his 14th child, the eldest
There ar? some hoys here, who,
unknowingly may find themselves in
trouble with the law one of these
days, reports come in that some of the
boys, with airguns or rifles, are shoot-
ing birds. It is absolutely against the
laws of Texas to kill these tame
birds at any time of the year and the
offense is punishable, so just a word
of warning to the boys as well as
their parents.
most entertainiu: . solicitetl.
ley, were busy planting corn and
counting their chickens before they
hatched. The boys let it be known
they are banking more on the Meg-
senger than the rains for making the
crops.
An old time friend. Jim Caddell.
I found at home, hah* and hearty,
and happy in the knowledge that his
home will Im* made happy by the pre-
sence of his favorite weekly another
year. Jim lives over there at the bot-
tom of a hill about a thousand feet
higli and has a dandy place to run a
wildcat st ill. I didn't see any signs
of any still while there. All of Jim's
children have grown up and married
and moved away from the old home
except one boy, Henry. Henry is mar-
ried to a charming little girl and
still lives on his dad’s place.
I called at several places on this
trip where the women folks all ran
give them out at the earliest possible
time.
our work receiving work-heets has
been delayed because of failure to
be received lefore
i be given by the
.My ranblings the past week carried
me out into the dreenwoud-Slidell
country and parts of Denton and
Montague counties. Twice during my
The following students
Shaw. .1
H. E.
rambles out there I
mile or so ol tak ng
home of t ap. Blown
sugzested. which, if observed, will
ppulation of I be town was present ,o
। give sage advice to the well drillers
.as how and where to place the drill.
Some Business
“In Old Chieago," is said to be one people. Your influence and support
the kites —
speed for passenger cars is 45 miles I
per hour, for buses and light trucks New Men Would
40 miles per hour is permitted and » • -1 1
heavy trucks are not supposed to ex- Join UOOUIClI F orce
Synopsis of the Life of K. U. Spell
Born on a farm in Jefferson (‘oun
ty, Texas. 1895. Lived on that farm
I until seventeen years of age- Work-
ers whose name fails me now. The
main attraction for the day was the
Planning an erecting of a well ring for drilling a
i mingle with the boys and girls from
other parts of the state.
There must have been 1o or 12
thousand down there from all over
Texas.
We will give a report of the re-
sults of the honors won in the lamb
and calf show next week.
The thing that interested me was
the fact that the boys and girls were
systematically viiting all exhibits
as was shown by their inquiries about
the location of the various depart
ments and their actual presence at
all departments.
Only boys and girls who were actu-
ally engaged in club projects were
eligible to make Monday’s trip.
The home and county agent service
lias about 800 members in the county
so you can see that the majority of
M hools were represented.
We have in boy’s work 300 in 15
schools here in the county.
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happened several years ago. A cer-
tain fellow kept hanging around the
office. He would come in. and then
go out. without saying what he want-
ed. Finally, in the afternoon he came
in for at least the fourth or fifth
time and plucked this writer off in
one corner of the room, and said, in
a low voice. ’Want to ask a favor of
youWe told him to ask. He said,
in publishing your happenings of
past years, you will probably se*»
something about me, that I wish you
would not re-print.” We told him
that we would respect his wishes. His
request caused us to wonder what it
was that he did not want publshed.
So we went back over th** old files,
and discovered that the gentleman
had gone off with the wild crowd
back yonder. He had been in court
on serious indictments. And, we res-
lofted his wishes; glad to. Almost as
interesting was the “girl" who asked
us not to reprint anything about her.
coming out of the old files, "for it
gives my age away, and I am stil
trying to catch a man.” Truly inter-
esting sometimes in being a country
editor with files of your publication
running back half century and more.
Krum: Mrs.
Ml. Eugenej hens went
A general meeting of the Cham-
1st of Commerce is announced for
tonight, Friday, at 7:30 o’clock, at
Hotel Gireathonse. to provide an up
IHHtunity for the discussion of corn
munity affairs in general and election
• f directors for the year. Dinner will
be served at thirty five cents a plate
... . .. definite arrangements were made in a
(ome visitor with the Messenger one , ,
day this week, calvert is ..... of the here last Saturday am in-
aiding planters have Deen put on
most prominent attorneys in c**n- , .1 . ...
, 1, . ..... . notice that the market will Im* read'
tral Texas. His home is in Hlillsboro. . .. . .
. . _ here to receive the ci-p when brought
He was accomnpanied by Senator . ..... . ,
in. n} larihers mt so tar pledged
.......t.— I niuimI "t ".....1......uuty - Flying Kites Dangerous
Play for Boys
((ireenwood Section is
election will be held in the city of
Decatur. Texas, on the first Tuesday
in April, the same being the fifth day
of said month. 1938, at the court
house, in the, corporate limits of the
city of Decatur, Texas, for the pur-
pose of electing a mayor and three
aldermen: the aldermen are to lie
elected, one from ward No. 1; one
from ward No. 2, and one from ward
No. 3. Saki election was ordered
March 3, 1938 at a regular meeting
of the City Council of the city of De
catur. Texas, in accordance with laws
and ordinances governing same.
All persons who are legally quali-
fied voters of the city of Decatur,
Texas, shall be entitled to vote in
said election.
Signed. AUBREY INGRAM,
Mayor of the City of Decatur.
G. T. ELDER, City Secretary.
atisfied with this stunt, he pro-
Three hundred acres of cucumbers
for the counts have been pledgev for
this year’s planting. (‘ommunit ies
His parents came to Aubnrn, Maine,
U. S. A. 184. Removed to Lewis-
ton. Maine, where he grew to man-
he od: attending Bates (ollege and
Bowdoin C« dirge. Brunswick. Maine.
Having completed the course of
studies prescribed by Bowd in, he
then ret urlied to the city of his na-
tivity. where he graduated from 1 he
in Wonderful Wise. Maybe, not as big Candidate Re-election
and pretentious as the Wichita Falls v "——"5 -5 5e-uo
riiset very, but a wonder field. Mark ■
rhe prediction. And, it will be brought C U euiseuberry. an exprienced
in tin- gcod year, 19:8 ioficer of the law, and I
____t____ I for th** past two years, comes before
1 fen short days ago, a funeral the Messengrer readers, asking the vot
train was on the siding at a little ers to re elect him to the office for
station in New Mexico to carry t he unother term, (ius as he is familiar carelessness in Dying kites in th** vi-
bedy of John J. Pershing east for 1 known to most all olir pe pie says
burial. In a few days the general, in he will do his best to merit the sup-
the flesh, may take a passenger train lort of the people, if they elect him
for a pleasure trip. The expert doc-ias their constable for the coming
tors got out their bulletins without term. The experience "( ush has had
reckoning with -Black Jacks" fight -As an officer tin ruly qualifies him
ing heart. for an officer. He is a pleasing fel-
____X____ I bw. a g od citizen, am! liked by our !
With spring breeves and sunshins Joseph Martineau
days at hand, youngster’s thoughts Dieg HIere March 10
re turning to kite flying, and power
and light company officials today is 1 .
su an appeal to parents to warn Elzear • l' sepl Martineau, only M.ll| 1 Wa, ther "U it was dis;
al constable children rearding precautions which Louis Joseph Maili lieu u and Flor- ( ' ", that, the while Hung was I
shinai he taken in tle pusuit of this ence Marie Martine:.....iee Marcoux) tc06 to an innocent by-
ppular pastime. Each sear brines Was lworu 1,1 Paris, Iranis-. .Xo.eml.er ! " • " ' ’”••» aud the rig had to be
(many serioi 1s accidents iecaus. of 16, Departed this life March latk"....... and movpd.
lu. at Rogers Hospital. Deca-
tur. Texas.
on a set-down
joln Drug Company- in 1917 hie came
to San Antonio where he was em-
ployed by the Wagner Drug Com- Loys, husky chaps
P’harmaceutical Depart- . could whip his win^hl in wildcats,
met me at the gate and were over-
of the Messenger. Among those who
renewed their allegiance io the good
in order to dislodge a kite or string
entangled in power wires.
3. Don’t fly kites with wet strings.
4. Don’t fly kites with metal
strings.
5. Don’t pick up a wire which
To th** bereaved relaives, and to that:
splendid companion of his. who has
trod the path of life so long with him.
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It appears to the Messenger that
Volkman, one of the tomato kings of
Wise county, is striking in the eigh-
borhood of the truth when he says:
“It seems to me that we should have
a market in Decatur for tomatoes, ’f
all indications do not fail, we are to
have a glutted market lien* the coin
ing season, with no one to handle our
production, and it looks like we will
have to seek a market elsewhere. If
Decatur would give the tomato grow-
ers a market, we will show the world
what tomato-growing really is."
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Mail order house= are sowing down
the county with advertising matter.
If the country patrons of these lions
vs would ponder these questions In*
fore ordering from these concerns
$ don’t believe there would be much
wise county money going into their
tills. Do they support our schools
and churches? Do they contribute um*
penny to the upkeep of our roads?
To whom do we go when misfortune
overtakes ns? To whom do we go
+ "hen We want assistance for a
neighbor when bad luck overtakes
him?
olel Religious Weekly or became
subseribers outright. I leva II
Bbdkasgsgu 3
W g
by his front dot r. In Decatur
a number of old-time
old Decatur boy who
has been lotin the mails for tie past
twenty years and during all that time
he has never been oft the job excepi
slIch times as he was tardy.
Another chum of Indian Days is
D. H. Moser, a (ireenwoov ioy who
has made good in the city. Harley is
one of th** lending merchants of sli
dell and his close attention to busi-
ness ami cvurteous manner has gain-
ed for him a loyal and liberal pat-
ronage- Among the most prominent
loafers and retired farmers I met in
town was Joe Jameson. (", F. Muncy,
Jim Freeman, and a nuanter of oth-
com
I callei
H A
County,
T. J.
iapman,
Ian Kin
ichards
esidence
as been
If ter be
I respect
laintiff
I sworn 1
nod det l
wn te ’
y and I
I places
- nam- 2 f.
• to af f I
ascer-
pnd in-
ks that j
herein. j
ed as a harher and commi n laborer
until 1921. S[n‘nt seven months in the
United States Army during th** World
War. (‛ame to Wichita County in 1921.
Have owned ami operatt^l my own
Barber Slops for the past sixteen
I
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I1 :
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as I
ilIImIT
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I I H Boys and Girls at Ft- Worth
There were more than 500 +H
Club boys and girls from the schoois
of Wise county at the Fat Stork
Show Monday.
Each school group was in charge
of a teacher or club sponsor. We want
to express our appreciation to these
leaders for this cooperation.
Everyone feels that it is well worth
the time and effort on the part of
these youthful club memtwers. In the
i exhibits they have an opportunity to
see some of the best livestock in the
। nation. I hey also get to mix and
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It seems that Texas is going strong
for eurrcement of I...... on the hizh-joperate tol’keepdown accidents, 'if pany in the
ways this year, and toward that ...... kites become entangled in electric ment.
more hghwaj patrolmen will be plae ........ lines, a company employe will 1919 found him at Breckenridge
do the state roads. An efort is to be to help in retrieving it. But where he enazed iu the drug busi-
be made to stop or arrest violators . t the best rule possible is to not Fiy «««• owning the star Drug store.
Ilie law and to prosecute those guilty. , kites ner mwer lines
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Collins, Dick. Wise County Messenger (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 17, 1938, newspaper, March 17, 1938; Decatur, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1612027/m1/1/: accessed June 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .