The Paducah Post (Paducah, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 1, 1925 Page: 1 of 6
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HIOI HOMS BURNED
The former J. A. Lester home,
m Central Paducah, occupied
Boy Criswell and wife, and H«-
hert Inman and wife, was eom-
DINE ON ROAST PORK
Joffett, HI.. Dec. 25.—It was
roast \iork dinner and haunting
memories of other more sumptu-
ous Chri»{ma.ses for Nathan Leo-
pold and Richard Loeb today.
With 2,WO other convicts the mil-
PRESCRIPTIONS ACCURATELY FILLED—SWINT-BURNETT DRUG COMPANY
DEEPLY IMPRESSED
THOUGHT IT THE MOST WON
DERFUL SMALL TOWN
•HE EVER SAW
Just a few days ago a man from
Nocona dropped into our office
and asked what the population
of Paducah was. When informed
that it was around 2,000 he said:
“Great Scott, 1 thought you had
about 10,000 here from the num-
ber of people that were on the
street. I never saw such a crowd-
ed place in all my life; that’s
why I wanted to find out some-
thing about the town."
It so happened that this man.
who was on hi-' way to the Plains
country, tried to get through the
business section during one of the
rush days. He said that he tried
to pass on the streets on the
square, then backed up and tried
Labor’s Head
STATE AUTHORITIES
FIGHTING DISEASES
DOING ALL IN THEIR POWER
TO GET PEOPLE TO AID
IN THE WORK
Wm. Green, of Ohio Mine Work-
ers, is now president of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor to succeed
the late Samuel Gompers. Green’s
election, at a special called session
of the Executive Committee, de-
posed Acting Pres. James Duncan,
another street and found that the First Vice-President.
traffic was just about as great j_____
one place as another. When he , _ __
had parked his ear he tried to ^ MANY LOST LIVES
buy some merchandise at one of 1
the stores. It was impossible for j
him to get to a counter or to getj
any other glimpse of clerks ex-
cept on the run. Then he tried
to get a traveler's cheek cashed
IN BIG FIRE AT
CHRISTMAS TREE
Austin. Texas. Dee. 2i).—Ac-
cording to Dr. '/. T. Scott. Sec-
retary of the Texas Public Health
Association, Texas is in need of
a larger disease prevention pro-
gram if certain diseases are to be
brought under control.
The death rate from tubercu-
losis in the registration area lias
been more than cut in half dur-
ing the past twenty years, it
is estimated that Texas still has
10.000 deaths each year caused by
tuberculosis, and still this dis-
ease is largely preventable
DEPARTMENT IS UNUSUALLY
GOOD TO THIS COUNTY
IN CONSTRUCTION
Work on the F. F. F. Highway
is still going on by the State De-
partment, of which J. X. Gaines is
at the head of this division. They
are here this week and are mak-
ing efforts to improve the road
fill they can.
We understand that an effort
is being made now to secure a
right-of-way paralleling the Q.
A. & I’, on the south side and that
if it is secured the highway will
be changed at the entire expense
of the department. Mr. Gaines
has offered to grade the road |
ps-^SillSB ALL TO BOOST
COTTLE COUNTY
COLUMNS OF THE PAPER
WILL BE THROWN OPEN
TO ALL BOOSTERS
SeoK stated that more {along tile railroad if the right-of-1
Hobart, Okla., Dec. 25.—While
at one of the hanks, and to his Kiowa County and Hobart City
great surprise he found a line authorities were today search-
waiting for the teller's station dng the smouldering ruins of Babb
that would have taken an hour Switch School for bodies as the
to dispense with. But the thing result of last night’s Christmas
that surprised him most of all tree fire, neighbors and relatives
was when he tried to mail a let- of those known to have been af-
ter and found the lobby of the tending the exercises were clieck-
postoffice so crowded that he ing up to ascertain the list of
could not even get to the “hole dead, which is expected to reach
where you poke ’em through,’’ forty-seven.
and had to pass his letter down to Two more bodies were found
a man who was close to it. early this morning, both of which
This man was not a prospector, j were unidentified, making a to-
He was not hunting a home any- tal of thirty-six. Efforts were
where, but the congested condi- being made at local hospitals, no-
tions of the city so impressed him prevised with the assitanee of all
that he took time to come to our |the doctors this town of 3,000
county sanatoria and nurses wen
needed. A tuberculosis clinic, so
that the disease ean he discovered
in its early stages, is necessary.
51 ore public health workers are
required so that methods of pre-
venting diseases can be more
quickly carried over the State.
The Texas public Health Asso-
ciation has, to the limit of their
finances, been carrying on pre-
ventive work throughout the
State for a number of years.
This work consisted of health
lectures to all races, physical in-
spection of school children, tuber-
culosis surveys, hospital cam-
paigns, health work in schools
through the Modern Health Cru-
sade, literature, exhibits and mov-
ing pictures on health subjects.
They will be more tlwn glad to
assist any group in promoting
health in their community. This
service is entirely financed by the
annual sale of Christinas Seals.
way can be secured from those | 0f late''pVisiden^waT^arried
owning land on the route. If i l*»t week to R. T. Lewis, Marion,
this is done the present route for] {p-* rea^ estate dealer They wi'J
the highway will he abandoned oneyrn°oj}viP neon unable to lo
and will lie turned back to^Vlfcate relatives—but the wire con-
SPOKE HIGHLY OF THE POST
This week Airs. M. J. Criswell
subscribed for The Post for her
office to find out something about j could muster, to save the lives of'Hvo sous in New Mexico, and us
the place. He stated that he had J a number of seriously burned
been traveling most all Fall and I children, whose identity is yet un-
had not found a town or eitv, any-1 determined.
where,where conditions were so) The schoolhouse is seven miles
congested as they are here. He jin the country. At the fire last
stated that he had never seen so night three automobiles were
many people trading in a town j burned, which had hampered the
of this size in his life. To say j removal of injured to Hobart,
the least of.it. he will not forget' There was no chance to save
Paducah soon and will tell it to | the building and those who es-
others. leaped were at the rear of the
county. It will lie quite ~s their
expense in making tllis^, p.(m
but the department figii^, fath.
it will be a great saving
in the long run, as*the r
lie shortened several m . 011,1 *
the upkeep will lie a g . una"
less than it would he on lls strnn"
cut road. It will also c 0 a M1
short Dims. This ivo®
something like twenty loss keen-
miles paralleling tin*
Acme & Pacific throughd this or-
ty. npathy to
Hud it not been for C
the (department has takese resolu-
roacl it would have lithe Minutes
impossible for it to be
today. Mr. Gaines hanshed in the
usually nice, and real sent to the
the road fund of the mews, and a
in an “embarrassed"ily.
has given the ennimis-
ery advantage pnssibltvMERON,
ROOKS,
tained no instructions. Sheriff
A. G. Douglas of Bailey County
admits lie’s in a predicament.
HARD ON BOLL Pt>GAX.
she handed us tile subscription
price she said:
“I have been trying for .sonic
time to think of a suitable New
Year's present for my hoys, and
•after thinking of many different
things I might send them have
decided they would enjoy rend-
ing The Post for a year more than
anything else, so 1 am going to
The Texas Qualified
! The following letter has neen
received from I). K. Jordan from
; Wichita halls who is our cx-may-
j or and one of the most patriotic
citizens we have ever had. Mr
•Jordan was always boosting and
doing something for the town and
county. His idea as to everyone
!boosting this county is a splendid
I suggestion, and we move that it
be put in the form of a New
Year resolution. The columns of
this paper are open for anyone
who wants to give the county a
boost, if their copy will be fur-
nished in good shape. Why
) should not everyone give a boost ?
You’ll feel better by it—try it
iftnce and see.
deliv?Row*n§! *s the letter from
a metlPrdan:
MexicajP- A. Carloek, Editor The
of Newfiducah, Texas. Dear Car-
wish you woull open tile
of the Post or I might
* mow thej’ are open but
m’t each individual in
ounty say something that
enefit their plaees dur-
Leaj ? While we are making
is let us all make some
community. Let’s ail
pon ourselves and write
what we think we should
‘All medical
sons and mam h as a community dur-
Legally
established mt
Registered
.Pharmacist
Is it more highways,
Us, more railroads, more
bought of you better schools, or hun-
him to continue! ?ther that we
1 for me I think that we
sionaliy when
The- past three wcJFFICERS
been very trying on tNT
pickers of this section
trying to get the rems—(Black-let-
tIk* hollev crop that is leiuted over
have been only two iey County
days during this period . $1,000 re-
they could do anything dead or
One cold spell right afd.
other lias come in rapid i has hov-
jrooni near the door. There was
send it to them. I know that sion and tin* thermomet fled from
Gave the Prisoner*
J virtually no water at the school-
, n i house and efforts to drag some
Christmas Boxes 0f the children to safety were
halted until heavy woven wire
The Center Community Club of
this city, in looking around for u
place to strew a little Christmas
sunhine, did not overlook the
prisoners in the county jail. They
prepared boxes for them, contain-
ing cakes, home made candies,
and various kinds of goodies that
they thought the prisoners would
enjoy. The boxes were deliver-
ed to them on Christmas morn-
ing, and there is no use for us
to say that the hoys were over-
come with such a surprise.
Little bits of kindness of this
over most of the windows could
he torn away.
Some of the children rescued
were saved after frantic farmers
had torn the wire through with
their hands.
Airs. Florence Hill, teacher of
the school, was one of the hero-
ines of the disaster. Through
wires she pushed children and,
going back to save others, she
gave her life in what by then
had become an inferno of flame.
Hysterical parents became sep-
arated. Many of them had come
miles from their farm homes.
they will be glad to read about been hugging the zero m following
the best town in Texas in one of j closely as an old hen wounch house
the livest weekly papers publish
ed in the State.’’
We certainly thank Airs. Cris-
well for the kind things she said
about this publication, and Fn-
cerely hope that Ewell and
George will find much of interest
in its columns during 1925.
least build enough
eateh up with our hous-
ige.
enow we should resolve
This store endeavors through handlingvacant property to
and rendering you a full measure
fair prices, to merit your patronage.
(’ho will build upon it,
' that is not bringing in
will eat tip itself in
is. So sell it to some-
AIKEN’S DRUG SiU improve it, as there
i way to build a eom-
_______ __! that is don’t be a hog
MEMBER TEXAS QUALIFIED DR:alj anything is worth
nee.
Vacant property
Read the League’s message,axofl i;f^0 , an<*
and Ranch and Holland’s
her chicks. i Evelyn
There is very little cottoyv school
in this county to gather, ive still,
weeks of bright, warm wet admit-
wotdd make it a tiling olve been
past, and thi* farmers and im hoax
ers alike are wishing for lat they
such weather. an uni-
----------------(s in a
hive thousand cross word piw Taking things as they con;
zles have been shipped to 'so , t, not a Lad philosophy of !iftoast
America. Our neighbors 1 vou take only that to which comber
will be civilized. | are entitled. pistol
l ow gown-- demand high s; Back-biters always have sharp his
ried upkeep. I tooth
Bati
kind are always appreciated, more
especially by men who are eonfin- Many, not knowing whether their
ed in prisons. It might he the children had perished in the
nr and a truck ran
'together on the public square at
the northwest corner Saturday
afternoon, caving the front end
of the car in and completely de-
prisons
means of helping to make bet-
ter men of them.
NEW HOMES GOING UP
vPaducah’s residential sections
vare still on the boom. George Tay-
pr ja erecting a pretty bungalow
' the lots just across the street,
st of Uncle Tommy Smoot. This
will be a splendid addition to
ttpt part of town.
Godfrey is having a mod-
• home erected in the South-
t part of town. This home
add materially to the appear-
ed of tjjat part of town.
- R. 'Blake is preparing to
a six-room bungalow in the
jweat part of the city, on
known aa the Backus
This beautiful home
moat attractive ad-
neoghborhood.L
flames, walked back to their farm
in the frantic belief that the only
way they would find their loved
ones would be that they escaped
and in some way made their
way home.
y,;stroying the radiator. No one was
, I\ ,/v ,hurt, but it was a narrow es-
- -
cape for all the parties.
»| This is another reason
we should widen the public square
streets by taking a part of the
court house lawn and throwing it
into the street, as we have too
much lawn anyway.
GOT BIG STICK OF CANDY
Marvin Wall was the lucky
person, and got the 100-pound
stick of candy given away by
Ralph’s Candy Kitchen on Christ-
mas day.
Marvin gave the huge stick of
sweetness to the children of the
Buckner Orphans’ Home, and it
is useless to add that they had
a “most sticky tyne’ whe^Turn-
1
ed loose on it.
Thi biggest
of ell
the
the crow
thi;
le is the source
• m nuinufm*
twee if
“No Longer A Toy”
its as lightly as possi-
o encourage improve-
your little city is
terse.
asks $300 per lot I say.
0. If a man has a
c asking that price if
the taxes up on him
1 it, and let someone
improve it. This will
ah and penalize some-
building. The specu-
(1 be taxed at 90 per-
is value. The home
50 per cent, and espe-
aducah. And if you
>ver the tax rolls you
’acant property worth
ed $500. Residence
property worth $5000 taxed at
$3500 to $4000. It should be re-
versed a while, don’t you think?
In conclusion I want Paducah
to support the Lee Highway, as
there is a big move now to have
at least two highways east and
west taken over by the Federal
Government, and my ambition is
for one of thhm to be the Lee.
So don’t overlook the Lee.
Yours for a prosperous 1925.
D. E. JORDAN
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Carlock, E. A. The Paducah Post (Paducah, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 1, 1925, newspaper, January 1, 1925; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth721943/m1/1/?rotate=270: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bicentennial City County Library.