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THE ALTO HERALD
F. L. WEIMAR, EDITOR AND OWNER
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VOLUME XXXVI
THE ALTO HERALD, ALTO, TEXAS, JANUARY 7, 1937.
NO. 36.
A Little Ado
About
Something
By A. Hick
Now that the old year with all its
problems, its joys and sorrows has
gone with the wind, we begin once
more our annual trip around the s u11.
The past cycle has been packed full
of exciting incidents, but the coming
year promises more and greater
thriils. To give a good start, the
racketeers have staged a most spec-
tacular kidnapping, when they ab-
ducted the young son of Dr. and Mrs.
Mattson of Tacoma, Washington the
*^The State Legislature is about
ready to convene, and Congress will
take up in a few days, at which time
both bodies will concentrate on how
to install more Bureaus and Depart-
ments to make jobs in order to pay
off pohtical debts. This extremely
important business will consume at
least half of the sessions, and the
other half will be spent in devising
schemes to extract more blood
money from the busted and disgust-
ed tax payers.
Since the Uncivil War in Spain has
about killed off all the natives, their
depleted ranks are now being filled
with soldiers from Russia, Italy,
Germany, and France. From this it
looks like another World War is
about to be fought on Spanish soil.
At this time England is too busy
putting out propaganda against the
Duke of Windsor, and at the same
time trying to console the Empire
with George VI, to take much dish
in the European struggle. Baldwin
and Canterbury have kind of taken
in their sails, when they found out
their tirades were not so popular
with the masses, but still and all
ley are likely to break out in a ntw
i&ce any day.
Edward and Waliie have yet to
get married, so there will be news
nbout them every day, and too,
brother George VI, has to put on his
show and receive the crown on Cor-
onation Day, May 12. Juliana,
Crown Princess of Holland, and her
Prince Charming will be getting
hitched in a short time, and then
Japan is going to feel the urge to
protect China, move over and annex
another province to the Flowery
Kingdom.
Coming closer home, there's our
own royalty, Franklin Jr. and his
Ethel, who wili ankle down the
aisle in June, thus uniting the enemy
houses of the Roosevelts and Du
Ponts. Since we come to think of it,
Queen Eleanor has been mighty
quiet here of late, therefore, she is
bound to be good for a few high
spots herself. Aimie Semple Mc-
Phearson is getting steamed up and
ready to grab off a front page,
Amelia Earhart is said to be con-
templating a dash to the South Pole,
and around 38,000 people will get
killed in motor accidents during
1937.
About this time a revolution will
probably break out in Nicaragua,
Bolivia and Paraguay will reopen
the Gran Chaco Affair, somebody
will touch off a bomb in Mexico, and
Cuba wiil inaugurate a new presi-
dent. Lindbergh yill come out with
a statement that/ aviation is a won-
derful invention, all of wh(eh will
paralyze trade and commerce for a
couple of weeks. Mary Pickford and
Buddy Rogers will promise to love
and disobey, the Quintuplets will
make a new picture, rake in a half
million, cut some new teeth, and
Papa and Mama Dionne Will start
another row with Dr. Defoe and the
Canadian government.
Jimmie Allred will open seven
new bridges, crown sixteen queens,
attend eleven banquets, make forty
three speeches, lead nine grand
marches, kill one deer and two
ducks and root for fourteen football
games. Jesse Jones will lend Hous-
ton all the money that Houston
wants to borrow, and Secretary Wal-
lace will lend the tenant farmers
thirty five cents apiece If their
friends will put up double security.
But best of all the Texas Pan-Amer-
ican Exposition will open in June,
bigger and better than in 1936, with
no fan dancers and no nudist col-
onies. Whatta world, whatta world!
AH
Recently we attended a motion
picture show billed as "Dead Yester-
day." After sitting through a few
reeis of it, we come out with the
impression that it had been dead
much longer.
A-H
By the way, what has become of
our canning factory?
A-H
The many friends of Mrs. Ed Vin-
! ing, formerly of Redlawn, but now
of Salem, are rejoicing to learn that
she has recovered from a severe at-
tack of erysipelas which spread over
her face and head. Where the
straight raven tresses used to be,
Mrs. Vining now has a curly top of
beautiful white hair!
AH
"So many gods, so many creeds,
So many paths that wind ana wind,
When all that this old world needs
Is just the art of being kind."
TWO PEOPLE CREMATED
IN AUTO TRUCK
IIEAD-ON COLLISION
Two people were burned to death
in an automobile-truck collision
about three miles south of Crockett
on highway 19, Wednesday night of
last week.
Mrs. Addie Cully of Crockett,
driving her automobile toward
Crockett, was in a collision with a
gasoline truck, ariven by Harry
Alonxo ' of Houston. The car and
truck almost telescoped, and the
gasoline tank stripped loose from its'
mountings, was hurled on top of the
cab of the truck and car and burst
into flames, burning up the truck
and car and almost consuming both
the driver of the car and truck.
Mrs. Cully was the wife of E. M.
Culley, deceased, formerly of Alto.
She was the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. W. M. Bumgarner of Crockett,
and sister of T. J. Bumgarner of this
city.
Coupie Died On Husband's Birthday
Both Buried on Her Birthday
A!to Boy KiHed
When Truck
Turned Over
Cecil Willis, age 20, was killed and
Miller Sparkman badly bruised Sun-
day morning about 2:30 when a V-8
pick-up in which they were riding,
teft the highway and turned over
about a mile west of Alto. Willis
suffered a broken neck and was
badly cut by barbed wire. Sparkman
had no serious injuries, having suc-
ceeded in getting cut of the truck
before it tamed over. Willis was
driving.
The accident happened on high-
way 21, just west of the E. J. Hol-
comb residence. The pick-up left
the road on the left side coming to-
ward Alto, jumped the ditch and
ploughed through a barbed wire
fence, and evidently turned over
everal times. The door of the truck
on the drivers side was torn loose
and thrown approximately 40 feet
into a clump of bushes.
Funeral services for Cecil Willis
were held at 3.30 Sunday afternoon
at the Shiloh church with Rev. F. C
Woodward and Rev. J. W. Treadwell
officiating. Interment was in the
Shilch cemetery.
BARSOLA CITIZEN DIED AT
JACKSONVILLE SANITARIUM
R. R. Solley, 45, of the Barsola
community, died at a sanitarium in
Jacksonville Saturday morning at
2:30 o'clock after a short illness.
Funeral services were held at the
Arnold cemetery Sunday afternoon
at 2:30 o'clock, with Rev. J. H. Jay-
roe, Jr., of Jacksonville, conducting.
Interment was in the Arnold cem-
etery.
Surviving are his wife and a son,
Howard; mother, Mrs. L. F. Solley
of Barsola; a brother, Dewey Solley
of Barsola; a sister, Mrs. Albert
Allen of Jacksonville, and a host of
other relatives.
Mr. Solley had been employed by
the Chronister Lumber Company of
Wiidhurst for many years. He was a
member of the Baptist Churehi at
Barsola, and a deacon in the church.
He also was a trustee of the Barsola
school.
We Ctm't!
We would like to have the price of
the Alto Herald $1.00 per year the
year round, but it just can't be done.
We know that there are people who
are unable to pay over $1.00 for the
paper and for that reason cannot
subscribe. We regret this more than
they do. Any newspaper wants all
the subscribers they can get, and
the Herald is no exception to this
rule, but we cannot afford to sell it
for $1.00 when it costs more than
that to produce it. It is just the
same as a grocery store buying a
sack of Oour for $1.50 and selling it
for $1.00. He might do a lot of busi-
ness for a while but it would not be
long before he would "fold-up."
We have had to turn several
people down the past few days who
offered us $1.00 for a year's sub-
scription to the paper.
We sold the Herald for $1.00
through October, November and
December of 1936, being warned all
that time by the paper mills that
newsprint" was going up. It did,
and paper we buy now is just fifty
per cent higher than what we bought
in October.
Much as< we would like to, we
cannot take the loss. It's too big, and
we are sure that our friends who
want the Herald will be willing to
pay what the paper is worth, $1.50
per year.
(Florence Spaeth of Chicago has
kept a card index record of every
movie she has seen in the last 10
years, Mg^ng the title, cast, theatre,
and her opinions of the picture.
Piiath struck a double blow in a j
family home a few miles northeast
of Alto just two days before Christ- }
mas. L. W. Jenkins, age 56, died
j suddenly about 7 o'clock from a j
heart attack and worry caused by -
the serious illness of his wife. A few
hours lhter Mrs. Jenkins died with- !
out ever knowing the death of her j
husband. She was 57. She had been j
il) over a period of several weeks,
and her husband had been with her '
More Highway
improvements
!n This Section
constantly and this worry, together
with a weak heart, caused his death.
The day of their death was the
birthday of Mr. Jenkins, and it is
strangely true, the day they were
buried was the birthday of Mrs.
Jenkins.
Funeral services and interment for
the couple were held at Rusk, with
Rev. Wallace Clark of this city and
the Presbyterian minister at Rusk
officiating, being directed by Fox &
Att^n.
District Court Canning Piant
Convened At Meeting Set
Husk Monday For Friday
The first few weeks of 1937 will
find several improvements under-
way in highway construction, ac-
cording to information coming from
the State Highway Department at
Austin.
Bids will be opened on January 15
for nine miles of paving on highway
21, on both sides of the Neches river
in Cherokee and Houstoh counties.
Six miles is to be paved on the
Houston county side and three on
the Cherokee county side. When this
work is completed highway 21 will
be paved all the way from Alto to
Crockett.
An appropriation has already been
made by the department to refloor
the bridge over the Angelina river,
seven miles east of Alto on highway
21. The total cost to be $890.00. The
bridge has been in a hazardous con-
dition for several months, and it is
expected that this work will "be done
at once.
Another project of interf"^..t? "n
highway 40 between Lufkin and
Ktjltys. This gap wiil be closed with
paving during the next few months,
and asphalt work done on ttie strip
now oiled between Alto and Lufkin.
When this work is completed it will
put the finishing touches on high-
way 40 between Aito and Lufkin.
and will give a paved highway all
the way from Lufkin to Tyler.
Weiis Bank Robber
Confessed To
Denver PoMce
Five months freedom at $600.00
per month, is the way the case of
Claude L. Manning might be read.
Manning confessed robbing the First
State Bank at Wells last July.
He entered the bank on Friday
afternc-t, July 31. in his shirt
sleeves and informed Cashier E. B.
Bailey and Assistant Cashier Miss
Leona Childers that "this is a hold-
up." He ordered them to get in the
vault. About this time T. B. Warner,
Vice-president of the institution,
came in the front door of the bank
and he ordered him in the vault also.
Locking the vault door, he scooped
up about $3100.00 and fled, and
while many clues were hunted
down, he .was never found until a
few days ago when he was picked up
in Denver, Colorado on a minor
charge there and confessed to the
robbery at Wells.
The first information concerning
Manning came out under an Asso-
ciated Press as follows:
Denver, Colo., Dec. 29.—A man
arrested in a routine investigation of
a minor case was held today under
$10,000 bond on a charge of robbing
a Texas bank.
Arraigned before Leo J. Crowley,
United States commissioner, the
man, listed on police records as
Claude L. Manning. 30. admitted
holding up the First State Bank at
Wells, Texas, last July 31.
Crowley ordered him to be taken
before federal district court at
Dallas. ,
R. D. Brown, federal bureau of in-
vestigation agent, said Sergeant
Lawrence Cook of the Denver police
said the man signed a complete con-
fession after a check of his finger-
prints showed they tallied with those
of Charles O'Keith, hunted in the
bank case.
Cook said the man asserted in the
confession he stole a car at Com-
merce, Texas, and "drove around"
the state "seeking a bank to rob."
He said he obtained $3091 in the
holdup and escaped by locking thrfe
persons in the vault.
He came to Denver in mid-Aug-
ust, the confession said, and return-
ed to Texas in November, coming
back to Denver ten days ago in a car
stolen at EI Paso.
The man said a 41-ealiber re-
volver found in his possession was
obtained during the bank robbery.
He was arrested Christmas day by
police investigating complaints that
a cheap grade of motor oil was being
sealed into cans bearing labels of a
high grade oil and sold.
Car Thieves
Caught in
Nacogdoches
Willie Crawford of Black Jack,
Nacogdcohes county, and Earnest
Herrin, originally from Roberson
county, an ex-convict, are held in
Nacogdoches county jail for car
stealing.
Trail of the two was first picked
up when a 1933 Chevrolet coupe
with a San Antonio license number,
was found on highway 40, five miles
south of Alto where it had been left
after running it in the ditch. W. E.
Bailey noticed the car there and no-
tified Sheriff Bill Brur.t who went
out and brought the car to Alto.
The same night the car of Ed
Scales was stolen from in front of his
place of business west of Alto on
highway 21. These same two men
were caught in Nacogdoches with
the Scales car the next day and
placed in jail.
Besides the two chargcs of ear
theft, Crawford has confessed to the
robbing of the Robert French Fill-
ing Station the same night they
the Scales car.
Cherokee county officers are now
making an effort to'get tbem back
into Cherokee county with a bench
warrant in order that they may oe
tried this term of court now in ses-
sion.
LILBERT GIRL
INSTANTLY KILLED
IN CAR ACCIDENT
Tragic death had claimed the life
of Edith Denney, 16, of Lilbert, and
four others were critically injured
as the result of an automobile ac-
cident which occurred at the Mul-
berry Creek bridge four miles west
of Nacogdoches on Highway 21,
Tuesday morning, Dec. 29.
Those injured are:
John D. Denney, 20, of Litbert.
critically injured brother of Edith
Denny.
Thelma Self, 18, of Douglass,
broken shoulder bone, cuts, and
bruises.
Her sister, Theresa Self, 15, of
Douglass, unconscious and suffering
from severe burns from battery
water.
Mrs. Armand Cooper, 33, of Bal-
linger, severe cut, internal injuries
and bruises.
Armand Cooper, 34, husband of
Mrs. Cooper, of Ballinger, suffering
from minor injuries and cuts.
M. R. Jackson, 28, of Ballinger,
brother of Mrs. Cooper, broken nose.
First aid treatment was given to
Joe Cozby, 18, of Ballinger, and
Lonnie Cooper, 19, of Ballinger, be-
fore they were released from the
hospital.
The accident occurred at 9 o'clock
Tuesday morning, Dec. 29, when the
Ford V-8 coupe, driven by Denney
and occupied by his sister, Edith,
and Thelma and Theresa Self,
struck the concrete bannister of the
Mulberry Creek bridge and swerved
around in front of the Dodge sedan
driven by Mr. Cooper and approach-
ing the bridge from Nacogdoches.
The Ford, which was said to have
escaped from the control of Denney
while traveling at a high rate of
speed on the slippery road, was hit
broadside by the Dodge. The Ford
was completely demolished and the
entire front of the Dodge caved in.
The car driven by Denney was
coming toward Nacogdoches at the
time of the accident. When he struck
the concrete railing, Edith Denney
was thrown, from the machine the
same time it was hit by the Dodge.
Her head hit a concrete post on the
opposite side of the bridge, the ter-
rific impact killing her instantly,
and sending her mangled body hurl-
ing through the air to stop sixty feet
away.
The other victims were not
thrown clear of the wrecked auto-
mobiles.
Many described the accident as
the most gruesome they had ever
seen. The motor of the Ford was
thrown clear of the machine and
rested in the highway forty feet
away. Miss Edith Denney's body
was fully 100 feet from the motor,
at the opposite end of the bridge.
Mr. Cooper, driver of the Dodge,
saw the Ford leap from the control
of Denney, strike the bridge 'ban-
nister and swerve directly Into his
Cherokee county's new Sheriff Bill
Brunt, got his first opportunity to
"Oh Yez! Oh Yez! District Court of
Cherokee county is now open," Mon-
day morning, and Judge Brazil's
gavei brought the court to order for
the 1937 spring term of District
court.
- The first duty of the court was to
panel a Grand Jury, after which the
docket for the term was set.
Another new face to appear in
District Court this term was that of
the new District Attorney, R. C,
Musseiwhite, who takes the job left
vacated by Emerson Stone.
Albert Ailen, formerly of Alto,
but now residing in Jacksonville,
was appointed as foreman of the
Grand Jury which is composed of
the following citizens: ,'
W. W. Bobbett, Maydetle; F. H.
Holcomb, Rusk; R. R. Gray, Henry's
Chapel; S. P. Richey, Ponta; R. R.
Banks, Rusk; J. E. Cates, Alto; Ben
F. Bailey, Wells; J. M. Vining, Mt.
Selman; E. U. Smith, Jacksonville;
J. H. Strickland, Reese, and R. L.
Dickey, Troup.
The grand jury selected the fol-
lowing bailiffs to serve during the
term: Clyde Tidwell, door baiiiff; C.
E. Jay, Earle Pryor, G. E. Gunter
and L. J. Leinback, riding bailiffs.
Petit jurors for the second week
cf District Court at Rusk, beginning
January 11, have been named as
follows:
M. J. Russell, Rusk: Lec Richard-
son, Troup; E. M. Averyt, Jackson-
ville; T. J. Cruse, Jacksonville; J. P.
Devaney, Reklaw; Frank Jones,
Jacksonville; O. B. Tiitman, Jackson-
ville; Lincoln Barber, Jacksonville;
C. C. Bowman, Wells; F. C. Dickey,
Alto; R. L. Reed, Fastrill; Lon Rich-
ards, Rusk; M. A. Currie, Fastri)!; C.
D. Mo)!oy, Jacksonville; Carlton
Odom, JacksonviHe; Herman Dalby,
Ponta; C. B. Frost, Alto; J. B. Lan-
caster, Jacksonville; Elmer Barber,
Jacksonville; S. I. Danner, Troup;
Ned Martin, Troup; S. L. Davis,
Ponta; A. E. Laney, Rusk; W. R.
Dennis, Troup; Mart Hill, Jackson-
ville; B. W. Cocke, Jacksonville;
Dan Davis. Troup; Ed Bagley, Rusk;
Vernon Gray, Jacksohvi;^' 'r. w.
Darby, Troup; C. E. Gober, Ru^;
J. H. Arnwine, Maydelle; Wallace
Clark, Alto; H. D. Byrd, Jackson-
viile; L. L. Simpson, Wells; Mack
Duty, Jacksonville.
The court calendar for the term
is as follows:
First week, beginning January 4—
Non jury civil cases.
Second week, beginning January
11—Jury civil cases.
Third week, beginning January
i8—Old criminal cases.
Fourth week, beginning January
25—New criminal cases.
Fifth week, beginning February
1—Capital cases.
Sixth week, beginning February 8
—Jury civil cases.
Seventh week, beginning February
15—Criminal cases.
Eighth week, beginning February
22—Non-jury civil cases.
{ A meeting has been called for Fri-
day afternoon at 2:30 at the Alto
Theatre for the purpose of discussing
the feasibility of a canning plant for
Alto.
Whjle the meeting will be for
everyonp. farmers particularly are
asked to attend and hear the plans
outlined, as they are the ones who
are to decide whether or not a
canning piant can be successfully
operated here.
As stated in these column several
weeks ago, a canning plant would
require beans, peas, tomatoes, pepper
and other vegetables to be grown in
tins section in large quantities, and
unless the farmers agree to do this,
the plant will not be installed.
A representative from the Ozark
Mountain Canning Co., will be at the
meeting. The county agent is also
expected to be present and Dr. P. A.
Young, who has charge of the ex-
periment station north of Jackson-
viHe. Efforts are also being made to
get some farmers in the Jackson-
ville territory to attend the meeting
who have grown vegetables for the
canning plant there.
Tomato Seed
Shouid Be Chemi-
caiiy Treated
TO THE PUBLIC
I will not be responsible for any
checks drawn on my bank account
unless they carry my personal signa-
ture, and parties taking checks with
my signature should be sure that
they were signed by me before ac-
cepting them.
37-c. Mrs. Lula McFadden.
path. He was powerless to stop his
machine in the split-second allot-
ment.—Rediand Herald.
MRS. LULU SMITH
DIED HERE MONDAY
Mrs. Lulu Smith, age 75, died at
the home of her son, Russell Smith,
here Monday morning about 10:00
o'clock.
Funeral services were held at the
home Tuesday morning at eleven
o'clock, Rev. F. C. Woodward, pas-
tor of the Alto Methodist Church,
and Wallace Clark, pastor of the
Alto Baptist Church in charge of
the services.
The remains were carried to Jack-
son, La., the old family home for
interment.
Mrs. Smith had been a very fre-
quent visitor to Alto over a period of
several years, during which time she
made many friends who regret to
hear of her death. Mr. and Mrs.
Russell Smith also have a large ac-
quaintance in this section, and their
many friends extend to them their
sympathy in their great loss.
Condensed Statement of the
Continents! State Bank
December !1, H!8
RESOURCES
Loans and Discounts $ 37,422.20
Overdrafts 169.82
Other Real Estate 4,831.00
Federal Deposit Insurance Fund - 208 28
Banking House, Furniture and Fixtures 10,500.00
Customer's Bond Account 9,000.00
Liquid Assets
Cash and With Banks $ 138,609.34
U. S. and Other Bonds 53,545.00
State, County and School Warrants .. 12,372.47
$204,526.81
$266,658.11
LIABILITIES
Capital Stock $ 25,000.00
Surplus ($5,000.00) 6,000.00
Debentures 7,500.00
Debenture Retirement Fund 600.00
Bonds Deposited 9,000.00
Dividend, Checks Outstanding 1,800.00
DEPOSITS 216,758.11
$296,656.11
Dr. P. A. Young, who is conducting
the experiment station north of
j Jacksonville, under the direction of
the A. & M. Coilege, was in Alto
Monday. Dr. Young is conducting
experiments in this section more
particularly on tomatoes, in order to
combat the various tomato diseases
that are springing up in this section
from year to year. **
Dr. Young stated that tomato
growers will find that they will have
much better success with their toma-
to crop if they will chemically treat
their seed before they are planted.
The cost of thq treatment is very
smali and very liwle trouble, accord-
ing to Dr. Young. The chemical
treatment kills all germs in tiie seed
! and many instances prevents
much of tht)"*n<.., that later de-
velop in the stalk. '
Ceresan (ChoMride) is "ht^ .^Qod
ehemica) to use. Also CttproBM&f"**
(red copper oxide) is good. Two^- *
fifths of a pound to one pound of
seed is recommended. Either of these
chemicals can be placed in the en-
velop of seed and thoroughly shaken
up to where the dust chemical will
stick to the seed.
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