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Sixty-Third Year—Number 33.
The Mineola Monitor, Mineola, Texas, Thursday, November If, 1938.
Eight Pages Today'
J. 0. English
Is Appointed New
County Treasurer
J. O. English was appointed
Tuesday by the Commission-
ers' court to fill the vacancy in
the county treasurer's office
caused by the death of L. D.
Callaway, who was re-elected
without opposition to another
two-year term.
Mr. English is the son of Mr.
ind Mrs. J. H. English of Min-
eola, and at the time of his
appointment was employed at
the Sharp Hardware Store. He
is a native of Wood County
and was educated in the Min-
eola schools.
Mr. English was selected
after more than thirty appli-
cants were considered Tues-
day afternoon. His appoint-
ment includes the rest of this
term, which ends January 1.
The new court will then have
the privilege of selecting a
treasurer for the two year
term to which Mr. Callaway
was elected last summer with-
out opposition.
Bond Advertising
Delays Projects;
WPA Accepts Hall
Material for the publication
of advertising for bids on Min-
eola's recently voted $65,000
bond issue, expected here this
(week, has been delayed, City
jcretary W. A. Williams said
today. This will delay the
opening of bids, planned for
Nov. 21, several days.
The WPA last week approved
the $7,000 grant for the con-
struction of a new city hall
here, assuring all of the four
projects—city hall, water line
extensions, street paving, and
mineral well.
Bids on the bonds will prob-
ably be opened the last week
in November, and immediately
after their sale, work should
begin on reclamation of the
mineral well, the first of the
four projects. The other work
will probably he held up until
the first of the year.
Cooler Davs To
«/
Relieve Warmest
fovember In Years
This week-end will bring fair
and cooler weather to East
Texas, government Weather
forecasts say, relieving this
section of one of the warmest
Novembers in history.
Steadily declining tempera-
ture with possible showers is
forecast for the early part of
next week, which local mer-
chants hope will bring colder
weather, a needed buying stim-
ulant.
o —
jSearch Begun for
Slayer of Texan
Search for clues to the
identity of the slayer of John
von Hoosier of Lubbock was
started in East Texas Wed-
nesday by officers from Melvern,
Ark., near where Van Hoosier's
mutilated body was found last
week near Mt. Pleasant.
The officers went there in an
attempt to determine whether
the traveling salesman was
alone when he left Mt. Pleas-
ant in his car for Memphis last
Friday.
Deputy Sheriff Melvin Woot-
i,n said the officers had gone
the East Texas oil fields in
an effort to trace the move-
ments of a family which spent
Vst Thursday night at the
tourist camp where Van Hoos-
ier stayed.
NO. 1 PENNSYLVANIAN HERE
ARTHUR H. JAMES, Governor-Elect of Pennsylvania
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Union Service
Is Being Planned
for Thanksgiving
A special union service, in
which the congregations of
M i n e o 1 a ' s four protestant
churches will participate, will
be held at the First Baptist
Church Thanksgiving morning
£% 9:30 o'clock.
The Rev. H. M. Ward, pastor,
will deliver the Thanksgiving
message. Mr. Ward, the new-
est pastor of the group, ac-
cepted the invitation this week
of the other pastors to preach
at the service.
The Spirit of Cooperation
and the causes of a community
for gratitude is the subject of
Mr. Ward's sermon. The ser-
vice will begin at 9:30 Thursday
morning in order that those
planning out-of-town trips may
have an opportunity to attend
before leaving.
Jarvis College
Will Continue
On Cash Basis
County Votes Less
Than 2,000; Lee
Brings Up Rear
Jackets to Battle
N. Dallas Saturday
4Let 'er Go, Minnie9—Cameras
Snap Pennsylvania Champion
By BOB CARRAWAY
Monitor Staff Correspondent
"Let 'er go, Minnie!"
It was a mild sort of voice,
no different from any other, but
with an almost undetectable
Yankee accent. It was the
same voice that sent home a
plea for rationalization and
economic sanity to Pennsyl-
vania's millions that on Nov-
ember 8 effected a coalition of
progressive Republicans, con-
servative Democrats, and wo-
men voters for honest and ef-
ficient government.
And as Judge Arthur H.
James, governor-elect of the
second greatest voting state in
the Union, spoke, he grinned
pleasantly, and cameras click-
ed, for "let 'er go. Minnie" was
his signal to "shoot."
The governor smiled because
he was pleased—pleased not
because Tuesday was the first
day photographers had been al-
lowed to take his picture since
his arrival in Texas, but be-
cause he was enjoying Texas
sunshine and the hospitality
of Col. Carl L. Estes' Rock Falls
Lake Home, and especially be-
cause he was pleased with his
catch of some fifteen or twen-
ty white perch and bass which
he obligingly held up for cam-
eramen to "get a load of."
"Let 'er go, Minnie" became
' a favorite expression of the
Judge while he was engaged
in one of the most heated
gubernatorial campaign in Penn-
sylvania history. "Texans can't
really appreciate professional
politicians," said Col Estes, close
friend of the Judge, "until they
understand the type of opposi-
tion that confronted Judge
James."
The modest James has little
to say about his victory ex-
cept to comment that "it was
a campaign in which we got
close to the people." But big
Eastern dailies are saying plenty
about it. They are pointing
out that this man, who got his
start in the Quaker State's an-
thracite mines and rose to be-
come its chief executive in an
election that brought under
Republican colors counties that
have been traditionally Demo-
cratic, has become defiinitely
presidental timber.
Here for Rest.
Official worries are far from
Arthur James' mind as he tus-
sels with lively Rock Falls bass
and blazes away at careless
mallards. He won't talk of go-
ing home. Doesn't want to
think about it, he says, be-
cause he's having fun here . . .
a lot more fun probably than
those defeated opponents who
are doing their recuperating
in Europe.
Judge James was born and
bred a Yankee, but he'd pass
for a Texan any day, especially
when he's under the colonel's
ten-gallon job. However, when
he sits down to eat, he gives
himself away, because he's
never seen ccrnbread before,
and he has never eaten cab-
bage, turnip greens, and one
or two other Southern stand-
bys. In Pennsylvania they eat
spoon bread.
Good Omen.
The Judge got the thrill of
his life the other night when
he and the colonel and the
colonel's colored charges—
Sampson, Mouse, Doc, and the
rest—took off on a 'possum
hunt into the densest section
of the lake district. The big
pack of hungry hounds roam-
ed all over the country before
they finally settled down to
confine their howling to one
particular tree. When the hunt-
ing party caught up, the tree
was cut down and out came
the fightingest piece of ani-
mal flesh that ever ripped a
dog's ear . . . and Niggers scat-
tered like frightened quail. A
terrific battle raged until one
of the boys got in a mean lick
to the head with a young sap-
ling and the catch— a young
white coon—was momentarily
(See JAMES, Page 8)
Continuance of the cash basis
operation of Jarvis Christian
College for Negroes was report-
ed at a meeting Wednesday at
Hawkins of the thirty white
members of the board. Kieber
Lipscomb of Dallas, chairman,
presided.
The college is supported by
Christian churches of Texas
More than $1,000 was spent
on improvements during the
summer, yet the college open-
ed the current session with a
small balance in the treas-
ury, the board was told.
Policies of the new president,
Peter Washington, were prais-
ed by board members. Wash-
ington succeeds J. N. Ervin,
head of the school for twenty-
five years, who died in August.
A good crop year enabled B.
B. Hulsey of Forney, commit-
teeman on farming activities,
to report a large supply of food
at the school, including 10,000
quarts of fruits and vegetables
grown and canned by the stu-
dents. Donations of other sup-
plies were received from many
states, Mrs. A. S. Latham of
Longview reported.
Present needs include a great-
er number of modern books
for the library to maintain the
senior standing of the college,
and a heating plant for the
main building.
Orville Mitchell of Dallas was
elected to the board vacancy
caused by the death of John
E. Mitchell.
Dr. W. W. Phares and M.
Boyd Keith of Dallas were ap-
pointed to draft resolutions on
the passing of Ervin and Mit-
chell.
o
Thompson Moves
To Line Street
With less than 2,000 votes—
one-third of the county's vot-
ing strength—being cast in the
general election Tuesday, Nov.
8, complete returns gave the
Democratic ticket an expect-
ed victory, but revealed that
W. Lee O'Daniel, the most pop-
ular man in Texas politics last
July when he won the guberna-
torial nomination over an even
dozen opponents, was the least
popular of all Democratic can-
didates for state office.
O'Daniel polled an even 1,800
to his Republican opponent's
25.
Amendment Defeated.
The most peculiar thing about
the Wood County vote was the
fact that the dueling amend-
ment, which was designed to
eliminate an historic absurd-
ity from the State Constitu-
tion, was defeated by a vote
of 543 to 504. The Mineola box- j *
es voted substantially for the
amendment, but the margin was
not enough to offset the strange
way the remainder of the coun-
ty went on the question. Thej
amendment, however, carried in
state totals.
County Totals.
O'Daniel 1,800, Boynton 25;
Mann 1,803, Fletcher 22; and
Giles 1,805, L. A. Wood 1,806;
Hawkins 1,804; Graves 1,803;
Sadler 1,802; Lockhart 1,805;
McDonald 1,808; Johnson 1,811;
Sheppard 1,803; Beckworth 1,-
810; Bailey 1,812; Gist 1,811; C.
B. Smith 1,812; Chaddick 1,807;
Calhoun 1,811; Holbrook 1,812;
Puckett 1,812, Williams 1,812;
Callaway 1,812; Lindsey 1,812;
Morrison 1,810; W. B. Bacon 621;
Pendleton 488; Willingham 487;
and for weigher, Shelton 546,
English 2, and Davis 1. The
votes for English and Davis
were write-ins.
o
NEW PASTOR
Next Year's Eleven ta
Meet Stiff Competi-
tion in Anderson's
Weil-Groomed Club
REV. H. M. WARD
* * * *
Baptist Pastor
and Family Move
Here This week
Gilmer Mirror
Attacks Wood Co.
Hunting Practices
Today's Gilmer Mirror warn-
ed Upshur County deer hunt-
ers against hunting in Wood
County and also told of un-
ethical practices of certain per-
sons, reputed to be Wood Coun-
ty residents, who have been
reported to be driving deer
from Upshur County into Wood
County.
The Mirror article follows:
"Although the killing of buck
deer, 3 point or better, will be
legal in Upshur County, begin-
The Rev. H. M. Ward, formerly
of Troup, began his work as
pastor of the First Baptist
Church here Tuesday. He had
his first service at the prayer
meeting hour Wednesday^night.
Mr. Ward comes to Mineola
highly recommended for his
work and accomplishments in
a pastorate of ten and a half
years with the First Baptist
Church of Troup. In his pas-
torate there the church in-
creased from 336 members to
624. He also led the church
in repair programs in which
the auditorium was made un-
usually attractive and all de-
partments for Sunday school
work furnished with modern
equipment. The church rose
in denominational offerings un-
til it is now considered one
of the 100 leading churches in
Texas.
the Yellow Jackets, is mark-
North Dallas High which, like
ing time until the big Thanks-
giving climax battle of the
season, will come here Satur-
day night at 7:45 to do battle
with Coach Snow's Yellow Jack-
ets, according to announce-
ment made today as final ar-
rangements were completed.
Coach Pots Anderson will
run in his class B team against
a Yellow Jacket lineup that
will consist mostly of player*
who will have another season
of competition. Eight Jacket
regulars, Coach Snow pointed
out today, will be disqualified
for this contest by the nine-
game rule. They are Shirey,
Fulgham, Smith and Bartlett,
backs; and Lankford, Rodgers,
Morris, and Sims, linemen.
It's no secret that the Jack-
et mentors are looking ahead
to next season's play when
the teams will be in a tougher
district, and so the boys who
will bear the Orange and White
banners next fall may be ex-
pected to see much service the
remainder of the season. Three
returning lettevmen, Sims, Mor-
ns and Bartlett, however, wont
be able to play against the big
city outfit Saturday night.
Looks for Hard Game.
Coach Snow intimated he was
looking for plenty of competi-
tion from the Dallas club, es-
pecially since Coach Anderson
will bring along his entire-
squad. Anderson said he plan-
ned to hold back his first
stringers unless the going got
rough.
The Jackets looked good when
they finally came to life in
the second half of the Winns-
boro game last Friday, scoring
two touchdowns to win 13-6
over an inspired Woodchuck
team, and should be in top
i shape for the season finale here
Mr. Ward began his life as | Thanksgiving Day against an-
a coal miner in Southern Ilii- J other ancient rival, the Gilmer
nois, but feeling a definite lean- , BUCijeyes.
ing to ministerial work he en-; starting Line-Up.
tered school in the Moody Bible
Institute in Chicago. He be-1.
came active at that time as a
gospel singer and assisted in
numerous revival meetings dur-
ing his stay in that city. Upon
graduation he continued his
evangelistic work until he be-
Coach Snow said his start-
ing line-up for the North Dal*
las game here Saturday night
would have Fred Morrison ani
Frank Morrison at ends, Jack-
son and Dodson at tackles,
Phillips and Cooper at guards.
Cowan at center, Copass at
quarter, York and Molnari at
came assistant pastor of the
ning November 16, it will bej^1 f; ^pactt^'he the halfback posts, and Hughes
against the law to do so in
Wood County.
W. L. Thompson, farm im-
plement dealer, moved to his
week from the Flynt Building
to the Mallory Building at 108
Line Street. The new address
is the building next door to
the Lyon-Gray Lumber Com-
pany that was formerly occu-
pied by the Kelpen Ice Cream
Company.
ON DEER HUNT
Leonard Bruner, H. W. Mere-
dith, Joe Sharp and Ross Luk-
enbill left this week on a deer
hunt in South Texas.
Congratulations
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Russell
announce the birth of a dau-
ghter, Patricia, Thursday, Nov.
10.
"There has been considerable
misunderstanding, especially in
the county to the west of us,
and a number of hunting par-
ties had gotten ready to take
a try at deer in Wood County
beginning Wednesday.
"Today the Mirror has a tele-
gram from Wm. J. Tucker,
Executive Secretary of the
Game, Fish and Oyster Com-
mission, saying:
" 'Illegal to kill deer in Wood
County before November 16,
1939.'
"It is said Wood County
parties have been in this county
for a couple of weeks running
deer with dogs, trying to chase
them westward into Wood
County, instead of permitting
them to remain wherever they
choose to be.
"Game Warden Morrell of
Kilgore was in Gilmer Monday
investigating reports on Wood
County plans to shoot deer. He
learned last week County Attor-
ney Hubert Faulk of that coun-
ty had an article in the papers
to the effect that shooting them
(See GILMER, Page 8)
at full.
York, senior end, has been
converted into a halfback for
this particular game.
served both the First Baptist
Churches of both Herrin and
Marion, Illinois, two of the
strongest Baptist chui'ches in
that state affiliated with the |
Southern Baptist Convention.
From there he went to Troup in
1928.
Mr. Ward is now a graduate j
of the following schools, in j
addition to the above mention-
ed: Ewing College Academy.
College of Marshall, and Bay-
lor University, and he has also B announced today
done work in Southwestern
Baptist Theological Seminary in
Fort Worth.
Nine Marriage
Licenses Issued
During November
Nine marriage licenses were
issued the first two weeks of
November, County Clerk Chas.
Licenses were issued to the
following:
H. M. Aaron of Mineola and
While in Troup Mr. Ward) Miss Martha Lou Brown of
was also active in civic affairs.
He served one year as presi-
dent of the Kiwanis Club, and
one year as its secretary, and
Lindale; J. T. Shaw of Route
2, Quitman, and Mrs. Pauline
McAllister; Otis Terry and Miss
Flora Bennett of Alba; Daniel
he was very active in the pres- D Counts of Crow and ^
ent civic club, and was a mem- Lura Rodney of Como; Wesley
ber of the newly created park:pryor anJ Mis£ Maurine Tay-
lor of San Antonio; Paul Greg-
board.
Mr. and Mrs. Ward declare
they are happy to become citi-
zens of Mineola, and are high-
ly elated with their new church.
Their daughter, Miss Shirley
Sue Ward, is seven years of
age and has entered school
here in the second grade.
ory and Miss Hazel Crocker
of Yantis; Guy Cooper of Winns-
boro and Miss Reba McKen-
zie of Quitman; Arlon Busby of
Winnsboro and Mrs. Ida Mae
Ellis of Leesburg, and Johnnie
B. Wooten, and Noble Thomp-
son.
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