Sherman Daily Democrat (Sherman, Tex.), Vol. THIRTY-SIXTH YEAR, Ed. 1 Monday, June 25, 1917 Page: 1 of 8
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THIS IS REDCROSS WEEK.
SHERMAN DAILY DEMOCRAT
MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
THIRTY-SIXTH YEAR.
SHERMAN, TEXAS, JUNE 25, 1917—MONDAY EVENING.
50c Per Moatb—$5 Per Year Wkea Paid fa Adraace.
SHERMAN PEOPLE OVER SUBSCRIBE THE RED CROSS FUND
City Raised More Than $20,000; the County $50,000; Local Chapter Will Be Helped
Galveston Lynches Negro for
Assault Bofore Daylight Today T
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(■Hlvrsttfiv -luiic 23—Chester
Sawyer, a negro urniNcd of as-
saulting lIn* wife of a dairyman,
nan taken from Jail.hero at 2:30
o'rlorii this morning, and
at the western boundary
rity. The mob was rrmposed of
only a few mem who obtained
eiitranre to the .jail by a ruse and
overpowered tin* jailer.
Three members of the mob, nne
of them bound and impersonating
a prisoner, presented themselves
at tlie jail and were minted.
Tliey tlieti overpowered the jailerT
took his keys and removed Saw-
yer. lie was taken to the West-
ern part of the rity and It&ngcd.
The laxly was then riddled with
hullels. This is the first illegal
everiiliou tliat lias oreurred in
tialveston in more than twenty-
five years.
Sawyer was to have mine to
trial in (lie Tenth Distriet eourt
tills morning. The assault upon
the dairyman's wife was commit-
ted about six weeks ago. Saw-
yer rame here from Brooklyn*
early (Ids year.
OVERPLUS RAISED IN THE
cm WILL (JO TO LOC^
chapter'
Sheimun bus made good her a lit it -
uent to the national Red Cross fund
mil has raised $21MKXI, annul)ncement
BAPTISTS IN
SESSION HERE
THIS WEEK WILL BE GIVEN
OVER TO EDUCATIONAL
WORK.
The North Central District Baptist
Training School opened at (lie First
Baptist elmreU in Sherman today.
/.was- made this morning. Also $5,(XX! j Sunday afternoon, however, there was
was raised outside of Sherman in tin;
south part of Grayson, bringing the
total for Shermans portion of the
county ti|i to $25,000 apportioned that
part. It is further unuouneed thut
upproxlmalely $22,000 was raised in
Nherumn alone, imd that the excess of
#2.000 over the amount asked of this
city will Is* turned over to the Juertl
eltnpter of the* lied Cross Society. "*
Under tlni'hyilaws of the society lo-
cal chapters are entitled ' to one-
fourth the a mould rniseit In any cam-
paign for Bed Cross funds, but when
I he campaign for t he $100,000,000 Na-
tional Heil Cross fund was announced
the local chapter, of which Mrs. 0. E.
(Taycroft is president generously
waived the right anil requested that
all money raised be sent in t() national
headquarters, despite thefnef that the
Sherman chapter was sorely in need
of funds to continue their work of
making bandages and first aid kits.
It was then decided by the local eaiu-
paigu..organization, wlieu it became
apparent that Shermap. had oversub-
scribed her apportionment, to turn
tlie excess .amount over to the Sher-
man chapter.
The several soliciting committees'
illiiig Women and Children which had the work of raising the
i» t/Kpai.ni Ifupds in charge vvisli to thank all who
who contributed, and commends the
fine spirit wlihjh was met on all sides
In tlie matter of giving for the Red
Cross.
^inciting Works Destroy ed in
Germany.
Iftftf rreit It(Mi'll.* I
llenhim .lime 25 The Berlin
|*l'ts -ay- that ah expi's-l'Hl
jtliy destroyed the I deli ten burg
; Works near Berlin Saturday
Six workmen were seriously
Ilian Ministry Resigns.
I Pi cm irtapult,'* j
|lune 25 lla- Serbian min
resigned. A new one will lie
Itli Nikola I’, t’oebtieh as
Vi minister of foreigu af-
25 An Amsterdam
Times says that Cuts
irg, who conducted the
lid on Ixuidoii June 13.
|rge number of | sir sons
wounded, lias reeviv
t’our let Mcrite from
tennucnt.
WiHinded.
ppaivh 1
po-The Daily Ex
(trigadler General J
linister of war, ims
founded in France,
■injuries Is not glv-
[man Titles.
HI
Ifhe Times learns
UeeTit 'decision of
Lose princes of
Iw subjects find
lid titles should
Tlmke of Teek
Lit of Cam-
landci' Batten*
Caristirooke.
guns were
in the dis-
til ing here,
p'linii after
fuiled i.o
cordoned
|co chased
stoning
kgutis he
rioter
[severely
1 treated
other
ptually
[ng In-
General linns H. Von Beseler. gover-
nor general of German occupied terri-
tory in Russia, inis closed Warsaw
University and tlie polytechnic insti-
tute because of a student strike dating
back to last May.
King Buys Hour.
4»»<Ktofe<t Press Dispatch l
Amsterdam, .lime 25—Former King
Con st an tine of Gretas*, who recently
arrived at Lugano, Switzerland, ' 1ms.
according to tlie Berlin F/ikal Anzei-
gi*r. bought the magnificent chateau
Uliartreusc. near Thun, Switzerland,
belonging to the tlerman Baron Von
Oodlitz. ;
Root Gets Ovation.
Atauciatcl Press Dispatch]
Moscow, June 22— (Delayed) —The
headquarters of (he war industrial
oomnfittec was visited today by - the
American mission beaded by EUliu
Root. Mr. Root in answer to an ad-
dress of welcome, said that America
wifi summoning ten million imyi to
tlie colors in defense of freedom.
Ills remarks were enthusiastically
applauded.
a “gel together'* meeting at the church,
corner of Travis and Cherry streets,
which vias well attended and at which
much enthusiasm was shown.
Announcement Is made that the
following schedule iif classes and lec-
tures will be observed during the
present week;
From 10 to 11 a. ui.-Sunday school
and B. Y. P. U. conferences. led by
secretaries Phillips ami Gardner.
From 5 to 5:15 p. m.—Junior B. Y
P. U. Mainml, taught by Secretary. T.
P. Gardner and Elementary Sunday
School Work taught by Mrs. 1*'. I*’.
Brown.
From 5:15 p. in. to (i p. m.— Song
Service aud Devotional—The Con-
vention Normal Manual, divisons oue
and two, will be taught by William T.
Phillips; division three, taught by tlie
Rev. George W. Sherman of Denison:
“Doctrine of Our Faith,” taught by
Secretary H. Beauchamp; Settlor B
Y. P. U. Manual,, taught by Secretary
T. C. Gardner.
From 0:15 to 7:30 p. m. a lunch
will lie served to all enrolled mem-
bers.
From 7:30 p. in. to 8:15 p. m.—The
various sections of the Convention
Normal Manual will again lie taken
up by Secretary Phillips, the Rev.
Sherman and Secretary Beauehump.
and tlie Senior B. Y. P. U. Manual
will again be taken np by Secretary
Gardner.
At 8:15 p. in. - Address on Sunday,
school ami B. Y. P. U. work, by Sec
rotaries Beauchamp, Gardner and
Phi illps.
Tills training school, it is announced
will be of great importance to the
Baptists of Sherman and Grayson
county, and all nre given a cordial
invitation to attend all the sessions.
M1TY PARKS
LARGE NUMBER HEAR HIM
CHAMBER All’ COMMERCE
8ATCRIIAV NIGHT.
ILLUSTRATED LECTURE
PROVES INTERESTING
Tents Will Be Used to House the Red
River Valley Fair Tills Year—
Shemian In (lie l'r»e
gresshe Class.
IN UTAH IS
DANGEROUS
lmoclated Pi en Dispatch]
Fairview, Utah, June 25.—The
crushing force of hundreds of millions
of gallons of water caused by the
melting snow, flowing suddenly into
the mammoth reservoir which Lm
pounds the waters of the Price river
irrigat ion company, 12 miles north-
east of Fairview, yesterday afternoon
caused the concrete core of the im-
mense dam to give way. At an early
hour this morning the dam was re-
ported to be rapidly crumbling and
the 11,000 acre feet of water whieb^
lmd been stored Is rushing down the
Price river valley. No loss of life
Jhas been reported.
Resideuts of Scofield, Helper, Castle
Gate and Colton deserted their homes
and went to higher groutW to escape
the flood. All hope of saving the dam
lias ben abandoned and it is said that
many miles of main and branch lines
of tlie Denver and Rio Grande rail-
road may he'washed uway.
George> E. Kessler, nationally known
city plan expert, Who has been engag-
ed by tlie city of ,Sherman to draw up
plans for an Improved park system in
citis, even as large as New York, and
these of a similar character in Sher-
man. The slides exhibited have been
over tlie entire country uud show tlie
work of transformation that was
done t0 the Bronx River in New York.
Sherman and especially for what Is; making u portion of the city that was
known as Fair park, between Houston
aud Peciiii streets in West Sherman,
presented preliuiitMt* working draw-
ings of the proposed arrangements of
the tepijKiiHi y structures to be used for
exhibit purposes (Ids year at a con-
ference with city- officials held at the
Chamber of Commerce Saturday uftcr-
noon.
These drawings were also exhibited
at the Chamber of Commerce on Sat-
urday evening when Mr. Kessler guve
mi Illustrated lecture on civic improve-
ment. and were viewed by a large num-
ber of citizens.
It is planned for this year to use
tents ami other such temporary
once tlie refuge for garbage and even
sewer dlsixisal over into park prop-
erty. sought by thousands of people
in tlie city duriug the warm mouths
on account of the coolness, beauty aud
proximity of the stream.
The "liefore” slides allowed condi-
tions that are little different
from many that now obtain along the
banks of Post Oak creek while the
“after" pictures rfboiv what wonder-
ful results can lie obtained with lit-
tle effort.
In introducing Mr. Kessler, J. E.
Surratt, secretary of the Chamber of
Commerce, stated that he had learned
at recent civic conventions that there
ODD FELLOWS OF
TEXAS START A
Order Will Follow Members and All
Beneficiaries Through the War
and Care for Sick and
the Injured.
MEN AND THEIR
FAMILIES AND
i ■ *;■? i ■'
T, P. A. AND U. C. T, GIVE THEIR
ANNUAL AFFAIR AT
WOODLAKE.
structures on the West Houston street were two classes of cities in the coun- ,
property for exhibit purposes during try, namely; those that had engaged:
the Red River Valley fair. These j Mr. Kessler to plan some feature of
will be arranged in accordance with their development, aud those that had
Mr. Kessler’s plans. In presenting j not. In his opening remarks, Mr.
these Mr. Kessler stated thut these Kessler amended the introduction by
the form In which it passed the
house with its drastic prohibition
amendments added, as a sub for the
bill drafted by Senator Chamberlain
was assured.
were merely preliminary drawings to
the city officials and himself some-
thing tangible on which to express
themselves and work together on.
They are by uo means the final plans
for the park system of Sherman that
will be worked out by Mr. Kessler.
As preliminary drawings they have
received tlie approval of the city qf-
Ilciuls.
Talks on Civic Matters.
In his illustrated lecture delivered
before u large audience Saturday ev-
uing, Mr. Kessler showed die relation-
ship between civic welfare and the
commercial success of a community,
pointing out how anything done to In-
crease and benefit the pleasure of
people living in a certain locality
would increase the value of the place.
Throughout he also si coved the rela-
tion between the problems of other
stating that he had also learned of
two classes of cities, namely: Those
that were progressive enough to seek
self Improvement, and'those thut were
not. and that he was glad to state that
Sheriuun was of the former class.
Mr. Kessler urged that the people
of Sherman in planning for ' their
parks would not lose site of the factor
of utility, lie suggested that waring
and swimming pools be provided and
other features added that will make
the parks popular places with Ihe peo-
ple.
The auditorium of the Chamber
was completely Installed with elec-
tric buzz fans for the occasion through
tlie courtesy of Jim Roberts of the
Roberts’ Electric Co., who is vet*
thusiastic over the employ men
Mr Kessler tty tlie city to
parks.
15 Ul IIIC
; very en-
Donjr of
pi|u the
PRINCETON AVIATORS TRAINING FOR WAR
-V ■
Tim German War.
Associated Pren Dispatch]
Copenhagen, Juue 25—German
newspapers for obvious reasons con-
ti’nue to treat the three socialists,
.Gohlfarb. Uelnsteln aud Davidovich,
‘who recently arrived at Stockholm
from tlie United States as thoroughly
Mpreaqatatlvc Americans, qimlilllcl
to s|teak for socialism and even the
laintr movement in America.
Fro Measure In Senate.
Associated Prist DispatchJ
Washington, June 23—The fate of
prohlbiton as a war time measure
rested today with the senate where ac-
ceptance of the food control bill into
Left 1o right—Lieutenant E. R. Ketmesou, chief instructor of Princeton Aviation School; James Barnes,
presldeut; Marshatl F. Mills, director: Lieutenant II. P. Culver, instructor; Frank Stanton of .Galipot! campaign.
Instr
ictor. jf
Princeton University has taken up
the training of'aviators for the war
in France, and already one hundred
young men have joined the Princeton; once in
Aviation School. Aide instructors from
The annual picnic aud outing of the
local members of the T. P. A. and U.
C. T. and their friends at Woodlake
on Saturday evening proved oue of
tlie most enjoyable affairs of the
year. Tlie greuter part of the party
left! the city on the 5 o’clock car, car-
rying with them the usual picnic edi-
bles—chicken, hum, beef, deviled eggs,
salmis, sandwiches of all kinds, cake,
pie, fruits and the makings for the
lemonade—although not a few went
through in automobiles.
Immediately after the arrival of
the picnicers, lunch was spread on
the pavilion overlooking the lake, and
following invocation by the Rev. B.
Wrenn Webb, the order was given to
"dive in.”
The lunch, however, by no means
formed the principal part of the eve-
nings program. The party remained
nt the lake until a late hour, some en-
joying boating, others bathing and
still others enjoying walks In the cool
of the evening’s breezes.
Among those who participated were;
Mr. and Mrs. I* K. Vumatn. Mr. and
Mrs. A. D. Tong, Miss Mildred Tong.
Mr. and Mrs, J. J. Howe. Mrs. Ellen
McCarty, Clara Wheaton Gribble, W.
G. Venable. Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Hew-
itt. Annie und Lewis Hewitt, P. R
Hewitt, Mr. -and Mrs. Fred W. Hud-
son. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Brown, Mr.
and Mrs. W. C. Shearer, Mr. and
Airs. Walter Akers und daughter, Rev.
B. Wrenn Webb, Mrs. Chas. Murrell
und Hudson Murrell of Cordell, Okla..
Mr. and Mrs. E. N.
key, Mrs. J. H. Hilger
Misses Laura and Mae Hilger,
and Mrs. ,T. W. HohlJs, Airs.
Davis, Miss Vera Davis Alnliel
Laura Louise Grinnell, Felix
war, have been obtained to
Alias Ethel Winsted, Miss Alattte
Shearer, Miss Eunice Houston, Mr.
and Mrs. J. R. Sanders and Glen San-
ders, Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Koehle, Mr.
and Mrs, Carl Pool, Mrs. R. F. Pool.
Prudie Griffin. Mr. and Mrs. B. H
Zauk. Carrol Scruggs, Rush Waldrop.
Murray Stewart, H. E. Berry, Mr. and
Mrs. W. B. Frances of Tom Bean, X
B. Fox, Ed Roiierts. Dorothy Scott.
Air. and Airs. Jim Berry. Jim Parker.
Mr. and Airs. T. A. Shearer, Miss
Ora Mae Bond. Aliss Margaret Hen-
dricks, Jim Lewis, Mins Gambol, Jim
Kimbrough, Air. and Mrs. Ralph John-
son, Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Waldrop, lit-
tle Susie Bell Carr of Dallas, Geo. A.
teach tlie boys. These photographs. Stewart, Miss Nina Faye Waldrop,
show the instructors a*nd officers of»Mrs. Qulmby Jefferson and Mrs. Pink-
One of the most important and far-
reaching movements for making the
lot of soldiers in camp and on the fir-
ing line more endurable has been
launched by the Texas grand lodge.
I. O. O. F., and the gigantic under-
taking will soon assume concrete
form.
At a meeting of grand lodge officers
held in Dallas last Monday the plan
of Grand Master C. L. Brachleid was
endorsed and a committee appointed
to at once proceed with working but
the details The Beneficiaries will be
Odd fellows and sons of Odd Fel-
lows who have volunteered for service,
are already in the ranks or who may
be drafted later on.
This, it is stated, is the first move
made by any of the great secret or-
ders in' this direction.
“It is the purpose of the movement
to follow our lodge members through
their camp aud training experiences
and even across the seas Into the
trenches with the care and consid-
eration that we show our brethren in
peaceful -times,” said S. Wi Porter of
this city, grand treasurer at the
three link organization in Texas, end
he has kindly furnished the Demo-
crat with the following Interview
given out by Grand Master Brachleid:
“Tlie order of Odd Fellows looks
after Its members In sickness and
times of trouble, seeing that their com-
fort Is assured Its far as possible,
and we feel that in these times of the
nation's travail we should moMfijpar-
ticularly seek out our membersand
their sons and see that nothing we
may do to better their condition while
serving the country Is left undone.
“There are 50,000 members In the
900 lodges of Odd Fellows In Texas,
many of whom have sons of military
service age, who will take part In the
war or -preparation for war. All that
we do for members in following the
precepts of our order in other days
should be even more faithfuly per-
formed when they are far from their
homes and the lodge rooms where
they arc wont to fraternize. They
tmust he made to feel that they are
ever present with us in all but the
flesh aud (hut their welfare is a con-
tinual charge ui»n the order.
"When the plan was mooted we could
not tell whether the army comman-
ders would approve, or even allow us
to carry out our intentions. So we
came first to San Antonio to settle
that point Today we had a confer-
ence with General James Parker and
Colonel AL H. Barnum, chief of staff,
and laid the matter before them in de-
tail. Greatly to our gratification
they warmly approved the idea and
Mul- 'wUl even assist u& where able and
and invited to do so. They both pro-
nounced the undertaking to be a pro-
nounced step in the right direction.
“We propose to list every Texas
Odd Fellow and all sous of Odd Fal-
lows who enter the service, through
the subordinate lodges, and not lose
track of them again. We will be able
In a few nours to communicate with
any of them should- eeoaolon require.
Wo propose to facilitate their wel-
come In the homes of the best people
by vouching for their moral status as
obtained from the subordinate lodges
with which they are affiliated. Thus
tliey will not be elbowed out of the
way as Ineligible. If they are wel-
come visitors in pleasant homes they
are less liable to grow careless amid
the temptatluns beseting the soldier/
path.
“If they gre 111 or wounded, the or-
ganization can exert a watchful In-
Mr.
Cora
and
Drake.
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