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THE ALTO HERAtJ)
L. WEIMAR, EDITOR AND OWNER
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $1.50 PER YEAR
ktLUME XXXVI
THE ALTO HERALD, ALTO, TEXAS. OCTOBER 22, 1936.
NO. 26.
A Littte Ado
About
Something
By A. Hick
ALTO SENDS TWO BUSSES
OF SCHOOL CHtLDREN
TO CENTENNIAL
Recent dispatches indicate that
South is tikety to tose her best
ton customer, Japan, on account
higher duties on Japanese im-
itts to this country. New Engtand
nufacturers !ast year demanded
increased duty on Japanese cot
goods jn order to protect the
tern textiie industries. Just why
Southern cotton farmers shoutd
impoverished to enrich the East-
manufacturers has never been
tulty explained except to say that
there is a iot of money and political
infiuence in the East, and the
politicians and Nationa! Job hoiders
are afraid to cross the wishes of the
Big Boys; so again the Southern
farmer is sacrificed to saw; their
jobs!
A=H
From ait foreign reports it wouid
seem that the ioyaiists of Spain may
Sjust as wtll quit and hand over the
country to the Fascists. Many his-
^pric otd cities with their priceless
sessions have been destroyed to
pease the God of War. The Span-
people may as well cairn them-
Hves, get to work and begin to pay
their foiiy. For no matter which
has won the war—the common
9pie will have to foot the bili.
AH
tAs soon as the etection is over,
we find out who is going to
)n the country, then we can start
worrying about how to get a
j)anksgivin,g turkey, and where the
}toney is coming from to pay for aii
Christmas presents we want to
)y. Life is iike that—always some-
Ring to look forward to.
AH
Yesterday wiedding bells rang for
jron Cole and his bonnie bride,
fautine Allen, who plighted their
ioth and settled down to hum-drum
parried life in their cozy little home
the Bauman apartments—and
hay the blue birds aiways sing
tappy songs for their especial
pleasure.
A-H
And this weeks orchid goes to the
IcKinzies on Highway 40 for again
[tepping off with highest honors for
[Ht'ir beautifui country home which
on first place in the State Highway
bont.st for the prettiest home and
grounds on a state highway
Cherokee county.
A-H
To those who think people are
psified at 40 and should retire
Xt'ini at] pubiic activity, hene is what
!(iny Ford thinks about the matter
['There is only one way to retire
[that is to retire in time every night
) Ki t up early to go to work again.
A-H
!t now appears the law makers
avc about decided that no one is
^iigibtu to administer the Old Age
ension payments and transact the
tusitit'ss connected therewith, unless
administrator hlods a B. A. de
H'n . It looks iike these brain-trust
have ])ot the country grabbed
' ) sinak. We. never have claimed
h any Soiomon, but just at a
f it appears to us that most any
" <ou)d go into a fellows kitchen
I! whcthn' there was any fiour
^ bin. However, from exampies
work put out by the brain
it might take a cottege degree
a fine poir.t like this.
Two busses with eighty sehooi
ehiidren and four teachers, teft
this morning at 6 o'clock for Daiias
to spend the day at the Texas
Centenniai. Teachers going to care
for the ehiidren were: Messrs. A. E.
Danheim and T. E. Cummings and
Mrs. Guyneti Kennedy and Miss
Grace Detaney.
Today is Cherokee county day at
the Centenniai, and a large group is
expected from severat schools in
this county. County Supt. D. C.
Stockton estimates that 450 wiit go
from this county today.
Howard Brewer and Sam Earte
are driving the two Aito busses.
FootbaH Piayer
Kiiied Near
Nacogdoches
(Nacogdoches Sentinei)
- - And sudden death!"
With a portion of his brains
splattered over his face, Mood flow-
ing from both ears and his nose, the
teft front of his forehead bashed in
and unconscious from these condi-1 picked up by the taw enforcing of-
Destroy Marbie
Machines Says
District Judge
(By Regutar Correspondent)
Judge C. E. Prazit of Lufkin,
sitting in a special sitting here last
Saturday morning, issued an order
requiring that at] marbte machines
found in Cherokee County and
20 Per Cent Tax
On Bank Nights
Voted !n Senate
Austin, Oct. 20.—Onty five min-
utes time was required Tuesday
afternoon for the senate to decide
to tax "bank nights" in Texas.
The tax woutd be 20 per cent of
the amount bank nights pay in
prizes. Bob Poage, senator from
Waco, succeeded in getting bank
nights into the omnibus bitt.
"In my opinion, they are a tot-
tery," he said, "but this woutd not
have the effect of legalizing then).'
The senator from Bt'ownwood was
tone cynic. He remat' ed: "This
like a mother totting htr boy not
to steat, but if he does, to be sure
and bring home ' he toot "
'Taters
It's sweet potato time in East
Texas, and the big ones are being
brought in for exhibition. Whit
anier teft a big one at Dert-yman
Watters store Tuesday, and N. S.
Hcndricks brought in two whoppers
nd teft one at the Continentat Bank
nd the other at the Heratd office,
he one teft with us weighed 5
oounds and four ounces. Gus Roun-
savitte and Atvin Shattuck says the
one teft at the bank weighed more
than that, but we've onty got their
word for it.
We're starting a big sweet potato
ontert and the perscn bringing in
the biggest swclet potato between
now and November the first,
we'tt make them a present of the
Atto Heratd and Dattas Semi-weekty
News for one year.
)
AH
"'my t few days remain unti) the
"i! Nationat etections come
^ contest betwe-en Democrats
'O I !!"iml)]imns waxes warmer and
' ]f a]] politicians say
' "" editions in this country
wt
rtbn
"re due to have a revolu
i" two days after the election
"tatter which candidate
" Lint being the caqe
""nn't
tith^
-n<
[ < ho.-
t'ff
is
it
ook tike a cinch to vote for
and Lemke has signed
" what is a poor voter to do?
A-H
^ i' opte are born famous
[a-; thrust upon them
[And .
^ just tank up on hooch,
tions in addition to a basat fracture
of the skutt - - the timp, unconscious
tody of Ftavet Burks, 17-year-otd
member of the Henderson high
schoot footbatt squad, was brought
to City Memoriat hospitat about
11:15 o'ctock Friday night, and the
ycuth died at 3:10 o'ctock Saturday
morning, as a resutt of the injuries
he received in an automobile cotti-
gion some five or six mites north of
the city beyond the overpass.
Riding in the same open Ford
V-8 with Burks, and likewise in-
jured, were four other Henderson
peopte: C. C. Fetch, athtetic di-
rector and assistant footbatt coach of
the Henderson high schoo), who is
Mid to have received a stightty
crushed arm and a cut wrist; Jim
Daniets, squadman on the teani. who
is thought to have received a broken
cottar bone; S. T. Cote, high schoot
sophomore and first string halfback
on the team, who had a head injury;
nd J. T. Bright, high schoot senior
and footbatt, track and basketbatt
squadman, who is thought to have
suffered interna] injuries.
Petch, Cote, Bright and Daniets
vere taken on to Henderson fottow-
in,g the accident, which occurred
when their car, was in cottision with
A Ford pick-up truck and traiter,
the truck containing three men and
the traiter carrying hogs.
Petch was driving the open car,
which was one in a caravan of four
schoot busses and other private
automobiles, returning from Lufkin
to Henderson with the team, schoot
band, and pep squad, and students
and fottowers of the schoot who had
attended the Henderson-Lufkin foot-
batt game in Lufkin.
EIGHTH CORPS AREA
HAS MANY VACANCIES
TO BE FtLLED AT ONCE
The War Department has catted
attention to att Recruiting Station
n the Eight Corps Area that a po-
tentiat vacancies lof about twenty-
even hundred men wiit be needed
to fit) originat vacancies in the
eight corps area, by November 13,
1936. This means that vacancies in
ntarty att branches of the Army ser-
vice wit! be open, and men making
application first, for en!istment, wi!!
have a much better opportunity to
get their choice of service. Men de-
siring to entist in this tocatity shouid
nake apptication, or write, to the U.
S. Army Recruiting Station. Post
Office Buitding, Patestine, Texas,
or to the nearest Recruiting Office,
and state what branch of service
hey woutd prefer, and ask for fut!
information regarding en!istment.
INFANT DIED
Littte Larry Henry Mclntyre, in-
fant son of Mr. and Mrs. Lois Mc-
tntyre, died at the home of its
Tfrandparents, Mr. and Mrs. G. F.
Mclntyre Saturday morning at 10:30
o'ctock.
Funerat services were hetd at the
Methodist Church Sunday, Oct. 18,
!:00 p. m., Rev. F. C. Woodward
officiating. Interment was in the
Atto Cemetery under the direction
jf Fox & Aiten.
ficers be "put to death under the
stedgehammer," which means that
they witt be totatty destroyed. The
Court hetd that they were Riming
devices and viotated the gaming
taws, and ordered destruction under
that provision of taw permitting des-
truction of att gambting parapher-
nal. The machines, costing from
$60 to $150 to their owners, wit) be
rendered worthtess.
White the equipment usuatty
works out to retieve most persons of
their surptus money, no doubt many
(inctudiag your humbte correspon-
dent) woutd tike to have one (with
a key to the cash drawer, or severai
tead nickets) just to ptay with and
see what there is to this skitt game
—without too heavy a financiat toss.
But, under the Court order, they
wi!! be destroyed.
Most )noptc, not directty retatea
to Cherokee county school affairs,
do not know that Cherokee County
has a schoo! fund of a permanent
nature in the sum of $22,000. It a!!
happened back during the 1847s to
1850s, when 22,000 acres in Wtchita
county was deeded to this county to
be so!d by Coni'u'.isioncta' Court
and the money to be f lac^d in a per-
manent fund and invested, mu?h as
?re the University of Texas funds
derived from their oil properties.
We!!, the Commissioners' Court got
in a hurry (instead of waiting unti!
about 1920, when they have brought
in some oit wetts) and sotd this
22it)00 acres for $22,000, or $1.00
per acre. This money has been used
to buy school bonds, and the interest
derived from the investment has
been pro rata ptaced att over the
county. Last year, from the interest
on this money, 8c was deciared on
each schoot chi!d in Cherokee
county. This year, the County
Schoo! Board wi!! dectare a 10c per
capita to be passed around to att dis-
tricts, common and independent.—
Jacksonvitte Progress.
Counterfeit Hait Doiiars
Circuiting in This County
FOUND
A package of saw teeth was picked
up on the Hi^'iway and teft at the
Heratd office. Party may get them
rv ratting and paying for thi
notice.
Counterfeit hatf dottars have
been showing up in Atto the past
ten days. The Continentat State
Bank here states that some of them
jhowed up at the bank several days
ago. I
Thursday night of tast week, one
was passed at the Atto Theatre for
admission to the show. Miss Nina
Moore, who was setting tickets, de^
tected the counterfeit and advised
City Marsha] E'i!t Brunt and Niff.it-
watchman Arthur Ross. They waited
untii the man who passed it came
out of the theatre and confronted
him with the hatf dottar, but hs
stated he was unaware of it being
bad money and said that he had re-
ceived it from a barbecue stand at
Jacksonville. The hatf dottar was re-
turned to him and he was advised to
turn it over to Chief of Potice Mitls
at Jacksonvitte. He did as instruct-}
ed, but the barbecue stand atso
passed the buck and coutd not re-!
member who they got it from.
Tuesday the Jacksonvitte Progress
gave out the fo!!owing on the situa-
tion there concerning the appear-
ance of the bogus hatf dottars:
Several bogus hatf do!!ars, which
are near to a perfect imitation of
genuine money, have been report
ed in circu!ation here durin*? the
past few days. Officers have been
at work in the case, but as yet been
unable to obtain any definite infor-
mation as to the source of the bogus
coin.
One of the coins was traced to
Jacksonvitte tast week when it was
presented to a theatre in Atto by
a tocat man. Officers questioned
the man, who they said was innocent
of any connection with the circuta-
tion sc*heme, an<l he totd them
when K was secured in Jacksonvitte.
The owner of the estabtishment was
subsequentty questioned, but he
coutd shed no tigtht on the source
of the coin.
Chief of Potice F. M. Mit!s has
the coin, which so ctosety resem-
btes a genuine piece of money the
average individuat woutd accept
?.nd pafs it on without question.
WCMEN DEMOCRATS OF
CHEROKEE COUNTY MKT
AT RUSK YESTERDAY
A meeting of Women Democrats
of Cherokee County met at the
courthouse in Rusk yesterday after-
noon for the purpo-iJ of furthering
the campaign of the Democratic
party in this county.
Mrs. Kathleen Tcrre!!, Chairman
of the women of this county, has
issued the ca!! for !adies from a!l
parts of the county, and a represen-
tative group were present.
As a means of raising funds, a
bronze token is being sotd for 50c
each that carries the heads of Roose-
ve!t and Garner on one side and the
imprint of an e!ephant on the other.
The inscription: "Heads we win,
taits we tose," is a very appropriate
stogan, as the tai! of the e!ephant
is very prominent on the coin.
The Cherokee county quota of
coins to be disposed of is on!y 250,
and wi!! tikely be sotd the first few
days of the activity of the women's
organization.
A!to Piays
Rusk There
Tomorrow
It is understood Fed era) agents
have been
vestigating.
here recentty in-
CHEROKEE COUNTY
FOX HUNTERS MEET
The fourth annua! meet of the
Cherokee County Fox Hunters Asso-
ciation, wi!! be he!d Saturday Oc-
tober 31, beginning at 3:00 o'clock
p. m., one mite east of Fastritt on
the Atto and Fastritt road.
Everybody come and bring your
tunch. Free coffee witt be served
to the pubtic by the Association.
Festus Crysup, Sec'y.
Among the Alto fo!ks attendir !!
the Historicat Pageant in Nneogdo-
ehep Friday were: Mr. and Mrs. E.
P. Pa!mer and daughter. Edwina,
Mps. J. A. Shattuck, Mrs. C!yde
Poore, Mrs. Jno. Ftoyd and daugh-
ter, Ch!oe, and son, Jno. Bi!!, Mrs.
Chas. Murphy and son, Chas. Ray-
ford, Miss Marie Seates, K. !.. Raney
and daughter, Mrs. E. M. Kolb, Mts.
A. Wig)?inton and Mrs. Robt. Ushei.
Summers Buiiding Being
Torn Down This Week
Work began Tuesday morning in Fuqua, att deceased. An otd negro
tearing down the two-story* buitd- by the name of Dennis Anderson,
n'f !ocat.d on the northwest corner stated that he was one of the first
of highways 40 and 21 in the center , to stick a pick in the ground to dig
of the business district of Atto.
t he building is the property of
smash the daytights out of some-
body, and wind up on the front
page.
A-H
France has as many sore spots
fs the proverbiat Job had boits, ant
now with att her troubtes Betgium
has upped and said she witt no tonger
putt chestnuts out of the fire for !.a
BeHe France—which is to say Bel-
gium wit) not stand in the road tp
keep German buttets from tutting
Frenchmen. If the wortd stands a
few years tonger France may even
uatty team a thing or two.
:h Summers estate, and the iot on
... ,.ich the buitding stands wi!! be
used for a modern Service Station
be erected by the Gutf Refining
Co.
Th
vcry
r
new station wit! be of the
tatest type, according to Mr.
the foundation.
T!'.o brick in the structure was
burn:d here in Atto, according to
MtMrs. F nry and Jim Berrytnan,
who wer: ycung men at that time,
end were burned cn tand now owned
hy the Acrey estate on east San
Antonio street.
Back in the early days of 1892,
George Wittiams, tocat representa- wiped out by a dis-
the of the Gutf. and witt be a great
improvement for the city over the
present structure which has been
hete for the past 44 years.
The buitding now being removed
was buitt in 1892, by J. W. Sum-
mers and Pope Bagley of Rusk, and
was first used as a dry {hods store
hy these two genttemen. As time
passed, sevcrat other businesses
mostty drug stores have occtlpted
the tower part of the buitding. The
west side of the buitding was oc-
cupied for about ten years by J. R-
Luker grocery, probabty the tongest
continuance tenant since it was
erected. .....
Construction of the buddtng was
in charge of Dick, Witt and Chas.
astrous fit:. A string of frame
business houses were tocated up and
down San Antonio street, and atmost
the entire tot of them were des-
ttoyed. Messrs. Summers and Bag-
tey were here in the dry goods busi-
ness at that time, and when the
town burned they decided to erect
a brick home for their business, and
the buitding now being razed was
bui!t, bein,? the first brick buitding
to be erected in Atto. It has been a
familiar !and mark of alt East Texas,
and its' removal with a new one
story structure to take its' ptace,
wilt make a change in the appear-
ance of Atto that wilt help the tooks
of the town materiatty.
Aged Red!awn
Citizen Passes
After Long Niness
J. B. Crouch, age 80, died at the
famity home in Redtawn Friday,
after an extended ittness over a
period of several months.
Funeral services were held at the
home Saturday afternoon with Rev.
Wallace Clark officiating, assisted
by Rev. R. P. Hughes. Interment
was in the Alto Cemetery directed
by Fox & Atten.
Mr. Crouch was a native of
Georgia, coming to Texas in his
young manhood. In 1881 he was
united in marriage to Miss Dasha
Hr.zet at Henderson Texas, and to
this union 10 children were born,
four of which preceded him in
death. Those surviving are Mrs. Jim
Andrus of Henderson, Mrs. S. P.
Folsom of Houston, Mrs. R. F.
hawthorn of Forest, Mrs. R. B.
Boyd of Atto, Wm. F. Crouch of
Houston, and J. C. Crouch of
Charleston, S. C.
Mr. Crouch had been a resident
of Alto and Cherokee county for
the past 34 years, and had a host of
friends throughout this sectmn. who
regret to hear of his death.
A TEXAN HEADS SENIOR CLASS
AT KANSAS CITY COLLEGE OF
OSTEOPATHY AND SURGERY
Dan Whitehead, Atto, Tex., was
eteeted president of the senior c!ass
at the Kansas City CoHege of
Osteopathy and Surgery, 2105 Inde-
pendence Avenue. Other officers
elected include Marvin McDonatd,
Springfield, Mo., vice-president;
Jack Tedrick, Wichita, secretary;
Galen Drownett, Marquette, Kas.,
treasurer; George Welch, Keytes-
vitle, Mo., and Etdon Bowers, Her-
ington, Kas.. members of student
council; Kart Gray, Honesdate, Pa.,
sergeant at arm:.
Tomorrow night, under the tights
at Musick Field in Rusk, a battte
wii! be waged. It's footbatt, the
game that has become so intensety
poputar that it is about to crowd the
nationa! pastime of baseball out of
first place in th? spcrts of America.
America.
It's Rusk and Alto. "The Big
Town Against The Littte One."
It is aiready taken for granted in
the big county seat town that to ptay
Atto is just a matter of fitting out
the district conference schedule, and
more, Atto shoutd feel gratefut that
Rusk should condescend to ptay such
insignificient smatl town outfit as
the Alto Yeltow Jackets.
That Alto wilt be defeated in the
contest is a foregone conclusion, ac-
cording to G. Hetm, Sports Write?
of the Rusk Cherokeean, and Bitt
McCtuney, Coach of the Rusk High
Schoot Eagtes. Tk;se two moguls of
the county seat, and high authority,
of footbatt, are confident In making
this statement. Haven't they de-
feated every team they ptayed? AH
but Jacksonvitte, and they wit)
modestly tell you that they would
have defeated JacksonviHe if, and if,
and so forth and so on, and if Jack-
sonvitte wi!l give them another game
they wit! prove it, AFTER they have
defeated Atto TWO games.
It is to be deeply regretted that
alt of this egotism has to be swept
aside by these tittle boys, in this
littte schoot, in this tittle town of
Atto. But chances seem that this
wilt be done, much as the Atto
Yettow Jackets regret it.
Jacksonville defeated Rusk 13 to
6.
JacksonviHe defeated Atto, 6 to
0.
Rusk defeated Beckviltc 27 to 5.
Atto defeated Beckvitte 35 to 0.
Taking these figures as a crite-
rion, it seems that Alto is a better
team. Coach Moore of the Yetlow
Jackets gives out the statement that
the Yellow Jackets wiH defeat Rusk.
Coach McCluney of the Eagles says
Rusk wi!! beat A!to. The sports
writer states the score wi!! be 18 to
0 favoring Rusk.
Not being famitiar with the game
of footbatt, this newspaper c?n
hazard no guess as to the score, but
we can safely make this statement,
we believe Alto will win, and we
base the statement on the Jacksrn-
vilte and BeckviM; games, as the
Yettow Jackets played better foot-
bat] against Jacksonvitte and Beck*
vitle than the Rusk Eagtes.
FOR SALE
Severat acres of land suitable for
building purposes just beyond city
limits. $50 per acre. Atso good hay
for sate.
W. H. Brunt.
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