The Paducah Post (Paducah, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 26, 1922 Page: 1 of 10
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VOLUME XVL
PADUCAH, TEXAS, THUNSD AY,.OCTOBER 96,1899
HO. 95
PRESCRIPTIONS ACCURATELY FILLED- SWINT-BURNETT DRUG COMPANY
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PROCLAMATION BATS NEFF
“FORGIVES PERSONALLY
AND OFFICIALLY”
Austin, Texas, Oct. 19.—Gover-
nor Neff has forgiven Fisher Al-
sup and remitted his fine of
$2,000, assessed against him for
libel alleged to have been com-
mitted in the Governor’s first
campaign.
The Governor’8 proclamation,
which contains a statement of the
case, is as follows:
To All to Whom These Pres-
ents Shall Come:
On January 12, 1921, at .Waco,
McLennan County, Texas, Fisher
Alsup of Bell County, Texas, was
tried before a jury and convicted
for the crime of libel, *his punish-
ment being fixed by the jury at
a fine of two thousand dollars
($2,000), the highest possible fine
tp assess under the law. The
case was appealed to the Court of
Criminal Appeals as affirmed. The
defendant, Alsup, was convicted,
in the language of the indictment,
for “unlawfully, wickedly and
maliciously writing, printing and
circulating a defamatory and li-
belous statement” in regard to
the age of Pat M. Neff.
Alsup contended in the article
that Pat M. Neff was not born on
November 2$, 1871, as he, the said
Neff, claimed, but that his correct
birth date was one year later,
and that the said Neff, for the
A MICE SLOW RAIN
A fine slow rain fell over this
section last Thursday night, put-
ting much needed water in many
cisterns and mellowing the wheat
i««d for planting. It fell in such
a slow manner as not to damage
cotton to any great extent, and
the coming of the moisture at this
time was very'pleasing to all
Regular Hallowe’en Scare
the published article.
Found Allegations Untrue
The jury found these allega-
tions, all of them, to be untrue.
The family Bible, containing the
birth dates of the Neff familly,
nine in all, authentically chron-
icled the late of the birth of Pat
M. Neff, the writer of this procla-
mation, and was examined by
court and jury. The entry of my
birth date, nearly fifty years be-
fore I became a candidate for
Governor, was as my mother said
it was. It had never been chang-
ed. There was no evidence of any
attempt to change it. In addi-
tion to the testimony of mother,
myself, and other members of my
family, a score of old-time neigh-
bors testified to the accuracy of
my birth date. There was no
grave and no sign of any grave
where the writer of the article
claimed that a little sister of mine
had been buried. My mother,
since the article was written, has
been buried in that identical spot.
I never had a sister who died in
infancy; my mother told me that
I never had sueh a sisterr. Many
neighbors who had known the
family for fifty years, so testified.
My age has been unquestionably
established in court and out of
court by evidence, written and
oral, legal and authentic.
It so happens that I, who was
sinned against, who was slander-
ed and libeled, am Governor of
the State, and J therefore, alone,
have the authority to remit the
fine assessed against Mr. Alsup,
the offending party. He has been
unable to pay the fine. He has
been working it out for some
months on the public roads of
McLennan County. The law al-
lots him only 50c a day credit
on dm fine. At that rate, if he
were cdmpeUed to work out an
die fine, together with court
purpose of eoneealing his correct
birth da * * ‘ ^
birth date, had not only changed
the recorrds in'the family Bible,
but had stolen from the family
cemetery, and destroyed a tomb-
stone of a little sister who bad
died, it was alleged, in infancy;
and that the said Neff had oblit-
ited all signs, at her grave and
it the birth date record in the
ily Bible which Neff whs
ting as a record of Ids birth,
the birth date of this little
sister of his who had died m in-
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fancy—all this had* been
Neff, it was *
his had* been done b:
the birth dgt« of th
said Neff. These, in substance^
wme EORECISTS
MINERS' RELIEF
ADMINISTRATION WOBUHO
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costs, it wonld take him approxi-
mately twelve years.
Forgives Mm Nationally
I am not only going to remit
— fine ass cooed against Mr. Al-
sup, but I am going to »rgiv*
ing in a letter written to Secre-
tary Wallace of the Agriculture
Department and made public to-
day at the White House. It was
forwarded to the Secretary to be
“Agricultural production is
very nearly restored, taking the
world as a whole, but agricultur-
al prices are so low that it is ap-
parent to all of us that the fann-
er is not-being compensated,” the
President said. “The Washington
administration has recognised this
condition and has done every-_________
thing in its power to restore a Col. W. E.
normal balance between prices 0f the *
and costs of production. ’ ’-
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Washington, Oct.
that the farmer will ______ __
the first to get substantial reeog
nition in a “new era of activity
and prosperity,” ^°w 0° ^^^Imim of the Stale Republican ex-
was expressed by PreSidenTHird- Mative committee, in which he
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united omm suniwrip uw
paign in Texas, as evidenced in
a letter to B. B. Creager, ehair-
charaeterises the fusion of the
Republican
and Independent
Democratic parties of Texas, sup-
porting George Pedfly in a con-
centrated figh$ “against all
groaning of cbm* «d attend-
ing dictation, which k contrary
to American Mail*” no a new
mm in the polities of the Maspire
State.
“Mr. Creager in kh reeent vis-
it to Wi
other L--~—r-*?,
with many BwHl „
ties concerning tike state of af-
fairs here—and
world M
GIVEN ONE YEAR IN PRISON
The case of the State of Texas
versus Albert Sheppard, charged
with bootlegging, was tried last
Friday, and the defendant given
sentence of one year in the
penitentiary
A few weeks ago D. C. Brew-
ster and Walter Liedtke caught
Sheppard with whiskey in his
wagon ,and the chirge was filed
against him.
COMPRESS RUNNING
The Paducah compress made its
initial run last Friday afternoon,
and has been in full sway ever
since. .
This is quite an enterprise for
Paducah and surrounding section,
and will enable the farmers of
this part of the State to have
their eotton compressed without
having to pay transportation
charges to distant points.
MAIt VICTIMS
TRIPPED M REDS
CHILDREN BURNED OE SUF-
FOCATED WITHOUT OP-
PORTUNITY OF ESCAPE
HAVE PLENTY OF WATER
New York, Oct. *22.—Fourteen
persons, most of them children,
lost their lives early today in a
fire believed by city officials to be
the work of a pyromaniac. The
flames swept with murderous sud-
denness from cellar to attic of a
five-story brick tenement at Lex-
ington avenue and 110th street in
the thickly populated East Side.
The blaze apparently started in
a baby carriage under the stairs
in the lower hall under almost
identical circumstances as the re-
cent incendiary fire in an upper
West Side apartment house which
resulted in seven deaths. So
quickly did the flames shoot thru
the buillding that a number of
the dead were found in bed, burn-
ed or suffocated without the
slightest opportunity to escape.
Fire Spreads Quickly
Nathan Silver and four of his
children were among the victims.
Mrs. Silver escaped. Mr. and
Mrs. Abraham Matilsky and Sid-
ney and Catherine Sugarman,
brother and sister of Mrs. Matil-
sky, also perished.
Shortly after 1 o’clock this
morning, City Marshal Joseph
Lazarus, while on his way home
saw smoke issuing from the hall-
way of the building. He ran to
the next corner and turned in
an alarm. When he returned
the whole building the ground
floor of which is occupied by
stores, was a mam of flames, and
exit by the stairways was cut off.
Most of the persons on the sec-
ond floor sncceeded in making
their way down the fire escapes
but those on the upper floors had
to battle through smoke and
flames pouring oat of the win-
dows.
Several tenants perched on up-
per story windows threatened to
jump, but were prevailed upon Vy
firemen to remain until ladders
could be raised to take them
down. One aged woman, .Mrs.
Mary Ingliah, disregarded the
warning and leaped from the
fourth floor receiving injuries
which will probably cause her
death.
today the oataide
lot, State director
JSsTSTt' SS®' 60-
mitted and for the injury that he
did me, and thus permit him to
go back to his dependent wife
The engine at the waterworks
plant is now running about ten
hours a day, and there is an
abundance of water at the pres-
ent time. The standpipe has been
full for the past two weeks, giv-
ing an assurance of plenty of wat-
TI l er, with sufficient pressure, for
m (firefighting purposes, and also af-
l^ Jfording plenty of water for do-
mestic use.
When first completed, the big
reservoir did not hold water as
it was hoped it would, but it is
doing better now, and the_ supply
of water in storage there is prov-
ing very satisfactory.
The entertainment given at the
High School Auditorium lact Fri-
Sav night by the expression clam
was a big success. The visitors
all declared it great, and were
very complimentary indeed. The
class is doing splendid work this
year, and the people ate promised
some choice programs during the
term.
It is charitable, however, to
judge some people by what they
don’t say.
Texas, declan
ring (he c
President Hu
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you relate to i
Republican f
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GIVEN 4-YEAR SENTENCE
Legion W<
New Hm
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Now, therefore, I, Bat M. Ntff,
ivernor of Texas, do by virtue
Alvin Francis was tried in Dis-
trict Court last week for the
killing of Walter Tucker at Dun-
|gp list year, and a verdict was
tendered by the jury of being
[|m|)tjf of manslaughter and the
nimffty assessed at four yean im-
[SpMBisOTit in the penitentiary.
[‘ thefsets in the case are not
MflF- Well known, it being alleg-
MTthat the trouble began when
polled the whistle
ipM .in a gin being operated by
E^flUUa afterwards killed by
Mm—It is further alleged
[grit taken die killing was done
SSknr was sitting on s counter
store at Dunlap, and that
■MhhM' walked up to him and
111315i$a,4Mth- Frineis, so it
BWBB- claimed self-defense as
AAmmittis* the act.
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the Constitatitttt
State, hereby i
mentioned fine c
against thsimtjfl
the County Cm
County, Texas, !
Fisher Akup, and
part of said fine be
testimony wl
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Carlock, E. A. The Paducah Post (Paducah, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 26, 1922, newspaper, October 26, 1922; Paducah, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth721697/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bicentennial City County Library.