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VOL. 33, NO. 37.
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MIERID
Devoted to the Upbuilding of Meridian and Bosque County
BUJ
MERIDIAN, TEXAS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1928.
4748 PAY POLL
TAX IN COUNTY
FOR YEAR 1927
Fred Jenkins Again
In Hands of Law
Gain of 17 Over 1925 Shown by To-
tals from Records of County
Tax Collector.
Four thousand seven hundred and
forty-eight poll tax receipts were is-
sued by County Tax Collector D.
Preston Hornbuckle this year, a gain
Fred Jenkins, who several weeks
ago was the leader in an unsuccess-
ful attempt to break jail at the Bos-
que county lock-up here by trying to
overpower Jailer H. D. Wintz, sawed
his way out of the jail at Waco last
week and made his escape.
Jenkins was captured near Roswell,
New Mexico, Wednesday. He was
AIRLINE ROUTE
TO DALLAS TO
BE ADVOCATED
New Produce Buyer
Opens Office Here
PRICE $1.50 A YEAR
Grandview Rotary Club Wants New
State Highway Meridian to
North Texas City.
of 17 over the total issued two years
ago.
This figure is fairly representaive
of the voting strength of the county
for the coming primaries, although
in addition to these poll tax holders,
those exempt and minors becoming
21 years of age after January 1, 1927
and on or before the primary elec-
tion, July 28, may vote without poll
tax.
Poll Tax receipts issued in the va-
tried in the District Court here in
December on five cases of forgery
and given two years in the pen in
each. He was turned over to Mc-
Lennan County where he was wanted
for forgery and car theft and Tues-
day of last week pleaded gulity to
forging checks, and got a lecture from
Judge Munroe.
“The ony way you seem to keep
A new state highway, from Meri-
dian following practically an airline
to Dallas has been proposed and is
being advocated by business men’s
clubs along the proposed route. At
the regular weekly luncheon of the
rious voting precincts:
Meridian ........................
Cove Springs .................
Iredell „____________________
Spring Creek .................
Walnut Springs ........
Eulogy.............................
Kopperl ......................
Morgan ...........................
Cedron..............................
Womack ..................
Roswell ...................j_______
Cayote ............................
Valley Mills ......-....
Mosheim ..........................
Clifton .............-......
Norse ..___________.....______........
Kimball ............................
Cranfills Gap ..................
Steiner ............................
Wallings Bend ..............
Greenock ...........................
Mustang ...........................
TOTAL .............................
..601
.. 63
..528
.. 46
.480
.112
.194
.249
. 42
.197
.115
-.191
.....465
.....155
.....662
.....205
.....66
.....171
.....67
.... .18
.... 26
.... 95
..4748
A total of 4731 receipts were issu-
ed in
1926. Noticeable
out of trouble is by being locked up,”
he was told. “You are not out of the
penitentiary 30 days until you’re in
trouble again.”
He got two years in the peniten-
tiary, to which will be added a two-
year sentence in Bosque County and
a five-year sentence in Wilbarger
County. He sawed out of jail the
night following his trial at Waco and
was at large for about a week.
Baptist Plan Drive
at Meet Held Here
The combined Conquest Campaign
Rally and Workers Council of the Me-
ridian Association met at the First
Baptist Church here Thursday of last
week.
The visitors present were: Dr. J. C.
Hardy, Belton; Mrs. Hans Bush,
Houston; Revs. Alvin Swindall and
J. J. Youngblood and wives, of Hills-
boro. Rev. Youngblood led the de-
votional service, reading selections
from 1 Cor. 12 and 13. Rev. Swin-
gains in dall, who is the organizer for this
strength were made by Clifton, Val- district, gave a fine setting out to the
ley Mills, Iredell, Walnut Springs and campaign, showing that the purpose
is to pay the debts on all our state
Morgan.
Richard Dix at His
Best in Film Tonight
institutions and to free the Home and
Foreign Mission Boards of debt.
Dr. J. C. Hardy made the inspira-
tional address of the day. He show-
One of those fast moving comedy
dramas with which Richard Dix has
carved for himself cinema fame,
opened last night at the Palace The-
atre, when “Knockout Reilly,” his
latest starring effort for Paramount
had its initial showing. The same
picture will be shown tonight.
The athletic ability which won him
such acclamation stands him again
ed what our institutions have been
to Texas and the world, especially
the two Baylors, and that to pay the
debts of the institutions will not only
enable them to do a greater work but
will free our mission boards and en-
able them to go on in a glorious for-
ward movement for giving the Gos-
pel to the world.
A fine .lunch was served to all the
visitors present, of whom there were
in good stead in this saga of a young) about 100 present, representing 17
steel puddler whose hard fists win churches of Bosque ‘county. This
him a pugilistic championship after meeting takes the place of the Work-
many viccissitudes. ers Council which would have been
Motivating it all are two very hu- held Feb. 13th.
man passions of revenge and love, The attendance at these monthly
with an ample sprinkling of the de- meetings is growing and the interest
lightful Dix brand of humor.is growing.
Mary Brian as the cabaret enter-) There will be a general campaign
tainer is extremely easy to look at. for debt-paying put on over the coun-
She is one of the chief motivators of ty extending through March 15th.
the action. Things hum from the The next Workers Council will be
very first, when Dix arrives on a Sat- at Walnut Springs on March 19th.
urday night at the cabaret looking) The county has been laid out in
for reaction. He finds plenty when four zones, each with a director and
Killer Agerra (Jack Renault) who assistants to see that each church has
has just defeated Pat Malone, Mary's information about the ‘campaign
pugilist brother, makes unwelcome
advances to her. How Reilly with
the help of Mary and through a bit
of clever manipulation makes his op-
portunity to meet Renault in the
ring and to prove to the world his
innocence of crime, makes a series of
out Reilly” may well be classed the
a smashing denouncement. “Knock-
out Reilly may well be classed as the
best thing Dix has done in pictures
to date. Adapted, from the story
“The Hunch” by Albert Payson Ter-
hune, it is engrossing in all its as-
pects and exceptionally well handled
down to the last small detail.
For Sale—100 White Leghorn Hens
at $1.00 each. Also Selected Hatch-
ing Eggs, $1.00 per 15, $5.00 per 100.
H. O. Hanson, Kopperl, Texas, Route
A’ tfc
through a rally at such church.
W. D. BOWEN.
New Street Lights.
Meridian with its new street light-
ing system presents the appearance
of a modern city, and when viewed
from one of the nearby hills at night
is now quite attradtive. The new
lights are well-scattered throughout
the entire city, and furnish abundant
light on practically all traveled
street corners.
.The new system was turned on last
Thursday night for the first time.
The ornamental lights for the court-
house square have not yet been com-
pleted but installation is now in
progress
J. H. Starr,' of Morgan, visited R.
D. Gibson Monday.
Meridian Produce Co.
Wholesale and Retail Dealers
in Poultry and Eggs
Meridian, Texas
Highest Cash Prices for Your Produce
Phone 73—L. J. Elliott Cream Station
I Grandview Rotary Club last week,
the question was discussed and a com-
mittee appointed to investigate the
feasibility of a highway from Mid-
lothian by Griffith, Grandview and
Covington direct to Meridian. Later,
it was proposed, this road could be
extended to Brady by way of Hamil-
ton and Goldthwaite, linking three
county seats.
Examination of the map shows that
the proposed road would be an air-
line from Dallas to Brady, passing
and livestock sections of the state.
W. H. Curtis, who has, been resid-
ing the past several months at Cle-
burne since coming to Texas from the
East, opened the Meridian Produce
Company here this week, and is of-
fering highest cash prices for the
produce of Meridian community and
surrounding territory.
Mr. Curtis has been in business
here only a few days, but states that
he is highly pleased with the outlook.
The fast developing importance of
egg, chicken and turkey production in
this section assures the future suc-
sess of ventures of this kind, it is
generally believed here.
Headquarers are at the L. J. El-
liott Cream Station, on North side
of the courthouse square.
Mr. Curtis 'expects to move his
family here from Cleburne at an
early date.
$8152 IN STATE
AID IS GRANTED
RURAL SCHOOLS
Twenty-two Bosque Schools Benefit
from Grants Made by State
Department.
State aid amounting .to $8152 has
been granted to 24 rural schools c
Bosque county. The schools are to
ROBBERY PROBE
BRINGS ARREST
OF 15 NEGROES
Goods Stolen at Valley Mills Are
Recovered and Other Burglar
Work Uncovered.
Sixteen persons, 15 negroes and one
white man, believed to have composed
a ring of burglars working out of
receive amounts ranging from $900Waco, have been arrested as a result
to $86 each. of investigation started by Sheriff
C D n . Lowery Lewis following the robberv
oGeorge P. Barron, ofthe State De-of Simpson’s Store at Valley Mill
partment of Education at Austin, J^nuary 81st,
accompanied by County Superinten-
dent A. D. Clark recently finished
-inspecting all the schools applying
for state aid in the county.
when between $800
and $1000 worth of silks, suits, shoes
and various other articles were taken.
The aid given the individual schools:
The Grandview Rotary club ap-
I pointed a committee consisting of W.
W. O’Hara, C. D. Browder and E. V
Rootes to visit Meridian, Dallas.Mid-
lothian and Venus in the interest of
the project.
Reward for Dead Bank
Robbers Is to Stand
Texas bankers’ new anti-bank ban-
dit policy of paying $5,000 for every
robber killed while in the act, of rob-
bing a bank, and no reward whatever
for live bandits captured is vigor-
ously defended by Mr. William M.
Massie, president of Texas Bankers
Association in an article appearing
in the February number of Bunker’s
Monthly, a Texas magazine, pub-
lished at Fort Worth.
Following the killing of a number
of bandits by peace officers, while j
attempting to stage daylight holdups
of Texas banks, and the alleged
“planting” and killing of several
Mexicans in what is charged was a
fake bank robbery for the purpose of
securing the bankers’ association re-
ward, a tremendous furor over the
propriety of placing a price on human
life, and the article is attracting wide
attention.
“The Texas Bankers Association is
determined to make bank robbery un-
healthy in Texas,” Massie declares in
his article. “We expect to make it
more difficult to rob a bank in Texas
and get away alive than anywhere
else in the country.”
Affirming that the decision to pay
for dead robbers was made necessary
by a “situation which was growing
more intolerable every day,” Massie
said:
“During the past eight years there
have been 140 successful bank rob-
beries in Texas, in which the robbers
got away with $564,065, and during
the same period only thirty convic-
tions of persons charged with bank
robbery! And a number of those
convicted were soon at liberty and
free to commit more bank robberies,
some pardoned, some escaped.”
Pointing out that the great ma-
jority of present day bank robberies
are by “daylight bandits” usually of
the generation, Massie declares -flatly,
“There is only one way to stop a day-
light bank robbery after it gets start-
ed and that is to shoot the robber and
shoot to kill.”
Results of the new policy already,
have far exceeded his expectations,
the bankers’ association president
declares.
Between the time the reward no-
tices first were posted, late in Novem-
ber, and January 1, three Texas bank
robbers have been killed in the act,
two wounded, the leading members
of a well-organized gang believed to
be responsible for a series of bank
holdups over two years time have
been rounded up, only one successful
bank robbery occurred! and one bank
robber was sentenced to the electric
chair, Massie pointed out.. Further-
more, “there has been a greater num-
ber of arrests on the charge of bank
robbery in Texas during the past six
weeks than during the previous two
years,” he adds significantly.
We are going to keep on advertis-
ing the fact far and wide that we
will pay $5,000 for every dead bank
robber and that we will not pay a
cent for a hundred live bank robbers,"
Massie concludes. “We are launch-
ed upon this policy for an indefinite
period."
Fifth Grade to Give
Program for P.-T. A.
Pupils of the Fifth Grade, assisted
by music pupils of Mrs. Jennie A.
Crow, will put on the program for the
meeting of the Parent-Teachers As-
sociation Tuesday, Feb. 14th, at the
High School auditorium at 3:30 p. m.
The public is invited to attend.
The program:
1. Glee Club.
2. Pictures of Life in the Colonies:
(a) Life story of a New England
Boy—Victor Griffin.
(b) Life Story of a Southern
Boy—Mary Josephine Weeks.
3. Music—R. B. Coleman.
4. Downfall of New France—Atys
Cooper.
5. Colonial Rebellion:
(a) Colonies Quarrel with
Mother. Country and Paul
vere’s Ride—Ora Kendrick.
the
Re-
(b) What the British Do in the
South—Ethyl Rhyne.
(c) The Story of the Close of the
War—Travis Landman.
6. Music—Jolue Linthicum.
7. The Story of Benjamin Frank-
lin—Healen Lovett.
8. Glee Club.
Kopperl ..........
Spring Creek .
Mt. Zion .........
Flag Branch ...
Black Stump .
Eulogy .............
Union Hill’ .....
Fowler ..............
New Home .....
Morgan ............
Lanes Chapel ..
Boggy................
Hunton ..............
Cooper ..............
Mosheim ..........
Willoy Springs
Coon Creek ....
Cayote ..............
Rock Springs -
Cranfills Gap -
Dry Branch .....
Mt. Creek ......
Marriage Licenses.
-$386.00
-$138.00
..$104.00
-$395.00
.....$86.00
$166.00
..$900.00
-.$354.00
-$587.00
..$720.00
-$360.00
$250.00
-$405.00
..$254.00
-$630.00
.$433.00
.$248.00
.$625.00
.$155.00
.$492.00
A darkey’s anxiety for a new pair
of shoes and his unthoughtfulness in
leaving his discarded ones behind re-
suited in the apprehension of the
ring, one of the largest discovered
in this section. The only clue left
by the Valley Mills thieves was a pair
of old shoes with the toes torn out,
unmistakably those of negroes. This
clue was connected by the Sheriff
with the fact that a Buick
given appearance
car of
was seen on the
streets of Valley Mills on the night
of the robbery, and when the car was
found to' be that of Waco negroes,
the trail of detection was soon an
evident one.
Sheriff Lewis, Mr. Simpson, Con-
stable Raley and City Marshal Ab
Howard, of Valley Mills, proceeded
to Waco following the investigation
e robbery, and secured the as-
sistance of the Police and Sheriff’s
.$346.001 department at Waco. On Feb. 2nd
$118.00 City Detectives Huff and Buchanan
(located the Buick car and arrested its
owner, Richard Hurst, also Tom Wil-
A. G. Moore and Miss Laura Leon-kins, colored, who was with the own-
ard. er delivering some of the stolen goods
. Charlie Hall and Miss Jennie Mae at the time. Hurst was brought to
Pierson. Meridian and is now in jail here.
Gerald Licett and Miss Laura Me- Further investigation led to dis-
Coy. covery of a considerable amount of
M. E. Gimpton and Miss Mary Hil-loot at different places in Waco. The
debrand. biggest amount was found at a sec-
Sterling Harris and Miss Fannie ond-hand store run by a negro, who
Mae Terry.
was arrested and placed under bond
Jake H. Smith and Miss Orine Pat-to await action of the grand jury.
terson.
A portion of the loot, which was iden-
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Mills, Penelope, and Oglesby, was
found at another second-hand store
f owned by a white man, who was also
arrested and placed under bond to
await action of the grand juries of
different counties.
About $4000 worth of stolen goods
has been recovered, which represents
about three-fourths of the goods
known' to have been stolen. The
negroes are from Waco, Austin, Ft.
Worth and Wichita Falls, all gather-
ed at Waco for their scheme of oper-
ations. The case is still being inves-
tigated and other arrests and recov-
ery of other stolen articles is ex-
pected.
Superintendent Clark
Is Asking Re-election
A. D. Clark, who is now serving
his first term as county superintend-
ent of Bosque county, authorities for-
mal announcement of his candidacy
for re-election, subject to the. action
of the Democratic primary.
Mr. Clark is an educator of wide /
experience and needs no introduction
to the people of Bosque county. For
14 years before his election to this
office two years ago, he served as
superintendent of Bosque county city
schools—at Morgan, Walnut Springs
and Meridian—and his thorough
knowledge of the conditions and
needs of the schools of the county
has been used to frequent advantages
of the schools during his present
period in office. His record and er-
perience, his friends feel, best quali-
fies him and merits for him continu-
ation in the office.
In asking for re-election, Mr. Clark
promises to continue to give his best
efforts to advance the educational
affairs of the county. He will per-
sonally call on as many of the voters
as uninterrupted performance of his
official duties will permit, and mean-
while invites investigation of his rec-
ord and solicits your support and in-
fluence.
Mrs. J. L. Brown was taken to the
Baptist Sanitarium at Waco last Fri-
day for treatment of a severe attack
of erysipelas. Mr. Brown accompa-
nied her and has been with her most
of the time. We are pleased to note
that she is reported some better and
the doctors think she will be able to
be brought home next w.eek.
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