Coleman County Chronicle (Coleman, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 30, 1936 Page: 1 of 10
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Coleman C ounty Chronicle
A Coleman County Paper for Coleman County People
No. 30
Hews Digest
Picks leading lad)
Because they suspected her of
being a witch, two Mexican bro-
thers beat an ancient woman near-
ly to death hist week, according
to a story which comes from the
Hio Grande borderland. The pe-
ons quirted ,the old woman be-
cause their sister waked several
mornings with “finger marjks on
her throat.” The pair' went to
the woman's house and demand-
ed she return with them to take
the curse from their sister. When
beat and kicked
--idi^msenslh-’.lity and left her
ftjjj 4 The brothers told bor-
to'lpliin, ‘In Mexico they don't
hang men for beating u witch.”
Three hundred years ago that
was also truo of the colonies
which were* to become these
United States.
Ljlfe the first wheel, the first
bridge must have represented a
miracle of Ingenuity to primitive
man. Today a $77,000,000 struc-
ture Is suspended over Han Fran-
cisco Bay, spanning the distance
between two California cities, San
Francisco and Oakland. A pro-
posed pedestrian's inspection of
the gigantic bridge before it . is
opened to automobile traffic in
NoVembelS has been banned.' A
hike across the four lane, two
decked passage fully eight miles in
length, could not be mastered by
the average person, the ruling was
reasonably explained.
Unique among horticultural ex-
periments is a truck farm success-
fully conducted by a California
scientist without a gram of soil.
Using tanks of chemically treated
water, saturated with nutritive el-
ements, he has produced fruit and
vegetable yields, ten, twenty and
fifty times as great as those from
ordinary truck gardening. Toma-
toes and other truck products, all
graded superior, are said to be
grown nine months out «f the
year without benefit of soil.
Though proved practical, this soil-
less,', and soul-less, method of
farming could never appeal to the
real farmer, the man who loves
his land.
Vote On Beer Question To
Be Taken In County Saturday
Voices Disapproval
!
KILLED IN A<XHDENT
Mr. and Mrs. R. a. Autry and
daughter, Qtbereneu went to Cor-
sicana Saturday to attend funeral
Of a nephew, Rudolph Parker,
small sop-of Mr. arid Mrs, Willard
Barker, who was killed In an ac-
cident there. J|r- was. watching
the men working at a hay haler
whi n a fly wheel from the en-
gine flew off, striking him; he
never regained consciousness.
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Aug. 10 To Be
Coleman Day at
Ft. Worth Show
HALIjOTK to BE CAK’I for
THiKli TIME Til DETERMINE
WHETHER OH NOT SAKE OF
I I’EH CENT Mg I OHS SR AM,
HE LEGALIZED.
MODERNISTIC SODA
FOUNTAIN INSTaVIJ.I)
RY MAYEN DREG (O.
A. modernistic marble and cht o-
.——o----. nium soda fountain bar is being
installed in .Mayes Drug store this I
A special election called by the wcek aw, wll, prot>ftbJy ,)t. r(.adyj
commissioners court in response f„r Use this weekend
to a petition presented several A freezing plant ........... with
weeks ago Win be. held Saturday the bar will make It possible fori
w i n ( Uij qy.illfh d Oder In the the store to manufacture its own I
LOCAL chamber of com-
merce INVITED TO AR-
RANGE SFECIAI, FEATURES
FOR PRESENTATION AT
FRONTIER ( TIvNTi: NNIAE.
Brian DoniCvy, broad-shouldered
motion picture leading man beams
protectively upon Marjorie Lane,
also of the films, and gives cred-
ence to Hollywood rumors of a
great romance.
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United States army was shown
Raturday to have Increased Its
actual fighting manpower by
more than 28,000 men during the
last year. July recruiting figures
show the army has 146,728 men
and this number is expected to
Increase to 165,000 by July 1 of
next year. Yet when this ex-
pansion goal is attained, practi-
cally every majof* county will still
have a larger fighting force than
the American nation, for this Is a
world prepared for war.
After living three years on
borrowed blood, James Hedley, of
St. Louis, Mo., is still braced by
the hope that physicians may dis-
cover a permanent cure for him.
Physicians are experimenting with
his ease In ah attempt to cure
anemia and they will continue, as
long as Hedley can find blood
donors to keep him alive. Friends
have proved numerous; ho has
had fifty-one transfusions, bor-
rowing from thirty-five persons.
Arplastlc anemia, the malady
which has fobbed him of the abil-
ity to continue life unassisted, is
failure of the marrow to produce
red hijM,1 corpuscles. When the
rhorjj ’ | of the body goes wrong,
•Ckf a^. . sometimes hard put to
makn^ll I i n.
Eight To Receive
Bachelor's Degree
Friday Evening
The Bachelor's degree will be
conferred on eight Coleman coun-
ty teachers . and students Friday
evening at Howard 1'ayne college
in Brownwood.
Those who will receive the do-'
gree are Mrs. Kenneth Croom of
Silver Valley, Mrs. Gladys D. Har-
din -of Santa Anno, Mrs. Frank
McCreary of Rock wood, I>. II.
Grounds of Talpa, Mrs. Dorothy
W Murrell of Shield, und Mlsrfes
Essie McGregor, Sue Smith and
Jewel Smith of Coleman.
CROPS LOOK GOOD TO
FORMER COLEMAN MAN
Hull Ray of Hull was a visitor
in Coleman county Monday
through Thursday of this week,
visiting in the Chronicle office a
short while before he left town.
Mr. Ray, who formerly lived In
this section of the country, says
that prospects for crops In Cole-
man county, are tho best he lias
Special features will be present-
ed by the Coleman Chamber of
Commerce at the Fort Worth
Frontier Centennial on August
10, which has been designated as
Oriemah day, says Secretary H. W.
Cooper. All West Texas cities
which have exhibits in the West
Texas Chamber of Comemrce hall
on the centennial grounds have
been designated special days. Aug-
ust 10 has also been specified ns
Santa Anna day.
Features planned for Coleman
day were outlined by D. A. Ban-
deen, manager, in a letter receiv-
ed by Mr. Cooper Wednesday. A
lafge lighted sign will be run up
on the top of the WTCC building,
announcing Coleman day and a
in midiWe radio program will he
presented over station WRAP,
courtesy of the Star-Telegram. !
Coleman's panel exhibit will #bc j -VKW
featured and a sponsor from this j
city will bo Introduced at the i
Casa Manana by Paul Whiteman, j
A hostess from Coleman will also |
ho allowed to have general su- j
pervislon of the Information booth !
on thnt day.
The local Chnmher of Commerce school
county will be given' an opportuni-
ty to ettat tils ballot on the beer
question.
in a similar election held about
a year ago the proposed legal
sale of beer was defeated by 240
votes. Under the present Ja« a
vote,on this question can be held
ohly once every twelve months.
Bate Tuesday evening It ab-
sentee votes in the special election
"Were on file In the office of t*oun
ty t'lerk Emet Walker 1 -> ■ n' -
voting closed .Wednesday.
Ballots are styled For. legalis-
ing the sale of' vinoti and malt li-
quors that do jnot contain alcohol
In excess of four p* r , on' i ■! p,
cent), by weight” and "Araihst u -
ga.llziiig the s«t!e of Winona—^jy,r
malt liquors that do not contain
in excess- of Tiiuri per cent (4 per
cent) by weight.”
Judges who will presidi at the
special election 4^e listed below
ico cream,
minutes.
freezing It in
even
Prospects Favor
Early Start On
Lake Work
SECRETARY s W COOPER
CONFERS WITH OFFICIALS
THIS WEEK. f RELIEVES
CONSTRUCTION 11^ DAMS
Wil l, STAR! stHlv'*'
First constructive work orf pro-
posed Centra! Colorado river au-
thority projects will begin within
a few weeks, according to present
Coleman North: It ft, Hubert I Secretary 8. W
,, . ' Hooper announced Wednesday
Prospects are favorable for im-
■ mediate activity on CCRA pro-
j grain, Mr. Cooper learned in con-
John Hehderson, Jr.. George Coch
ran. J. s. Weatherred; Santa An-
< Continued on Page 10)
Coach Shelton
Meets Football
Prospects Wed.
WPA officials this
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HliUEUAT MENTOR is
PI,EASED WITH CONDI-
TIONS; HOPES FOR SEC-
CESSFEL SI' tSON IN
fereneff with
week. 15
Mr (,'ooper conferred wijh Ma-
jor Karl Wallace, district WPA
supervisor, in Brownwood Mon-
day and s|M nt Tuesday in San An-
gelo where he conferred with A.
H. Dunjap. member of state baord
of water engineers, in reference to
CCRA program.
c, RA plans call for construc-
tion of a dozen or more earth
dams over Coleman, county creeks
' and streams Water stored by
■(■hikes created in this manner will
Mozelle Makes
State Record In
Agriculture Work
soi l'll (Oi l MAN SCHOOL IE
RANKED SECOND HIGH IN
TEXAS FOR ACHIEVEMENTS
IN THIS LINE OF INSTRUC-
TION DURING PAST TERM.
Mozelle high school was classi-
fied as the second high ranking
Texas school .in which vocational
agriculture is taught last week at
Cu state Foture Farmers of Ainerl-
| ca convention held at Htephen-
ville W. T. Bowers, superintend-
eii|lvl,f iti, .Mozelle school sate,
while in Coleman Wednesday aft-
ernoon.
The three high ranking schools
selected were .judged by their ac-
complishments in the vocational!
agriculture line during the pazl
school year. Mozelle'a record wan
made under a handicap, with stu-
dents attending school In a tem-
porary building and working with
| Incomplete equipment. Mr. Bowers
1 pointed out. Next year, he stated,
they will have a complete set tiip
ijrj that department and hope to
..better the record which they have
already set
C, B. Edwards, Mozelle vocation-
al agriculture instructor, received
, the Master’s degree from Oklaho-
ma A AM college tilts summer
and is considered one of the best
trained men In the state in this
work, Mr. Bowers said.
John I). Rockefeller, Jr.
on the quo ti Mary as he return
cci to New York from vacation in
Europe, decried the manner in
which some states .-tie handling
the liquor situation and said high
liquor taxes have harmed Instead
of helped conditions,
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Boost In Cotton
Production For
1936 Is Forecast
Stephenson Rites
Held Tuesday At
Baptist Church
IMUREAKE OF MORE THAN
5.004) RALES OVER TOTAL
GINNED LAST YEAR IS FRE-
dhteii by field survey-
or.
An estimated Increase of
than 5.000 bales in cotton
j be used by all farmers and stock -
t oath E. 1*. Shelton, under men in the vicinity of each par-
whose direction Coleman high (1‘ ular project during the dry sea-
Bluecats will attempt to 'son. Sponsors of the project tie-
will also be allowed to present j win the district football chain Heve that tin s,, lakes will relieve
any special stunts which members pionship this year, met with pros- tin- drought problem In this , min-
ty to a laryu extent if not en*
wish to
arrange. Mr. Cooper was pectivo members of the. 19*6 team
asked to let the Fort Worth offi- j for
dais know what notlvlticj, had
been planned as soon as possible.
tircly.
I
Saturday Is Last
Day For Securing
School Transl
Parents of children In the rur-
al districts who plan to change
from one school to another this
the first time Wednesday aft-
ernoon at JHufford field, discuss
ing plans for t> coming season
Actual field work for the Blue-
cat cluli will begin September 17
There will tie no summer camp
conducted "before the opening of
school. Mr. Shelton stated that
ho was highly pleased with con-
ditions In Coleman and is hoping
to produce a winning squad. SI RlF.s OF CoMMI NITI noil
Mr. Shelton returned to his;
home In Honey-Grove following j
the meeting with the Blueeat
Churches To Hold
Union Services On
Sunday Evenings
mow
pro-
~~—-c* j duet ion over 1935 has been pre-
Imi • rit*■ k for Wiliam Scott 8t*- | dieted for Coleman county hy
phennon. 34. prominent young field men of the West Texaa Cot*
business man and manager of the , Oil company.
Oil Belt Tool company, were held I
jit the Baptist church Tuesday
Afternoon, conducted by Uev. O.
h. Savage
Mr. Hfephennon. who had made I
l ie horf »• in Coleman for the pa**t |
eight >.,•>*- died Monday morn- j An increase of around 100,006
to, at *h, (iverall .hospital after a j bains over 1885 is expected f4»t
eleven counties m the. Abilene
territory, according to the fore-
Exp acted production is ltstao
for this county at 32,000 bal«a
There were 28,427 bales ginned to
Coleman county from the HU
I crop.
seen and that they arc better j/“U >n order to take work in an
prospeets hut' will ho baek
than thoso of neighboring coun- i advanced grade are reminded that
ties. Mr. Ray formerly lived on they have only two more days
the R. D, Kinney ranch but mov- after this Thursday In which to
ed fro'm the county in 190(1. This secure an official scholastic trails.
was his first trip back.
Living > the as yet uncrowded
area of the southwest. It Is diffi-
cult for Texans to realize that In
the world's largest metropolis,
there sr* children who have never
breathed air other than that of
the smoke-laden elty. Monday a
slx-ton sample of the country-
side, with plants, garden tools,
frogs and even poison Ivy, started
rolling through Manhattan In an
attempt to give city children an
Idea of the surroundings lit which
thalr rural contemporaries live. A
tridlls-eovered automobile trailer
Land Purchased
For Centennial
High Building
Coleman shortly, before the open-
Kill!* SERVICES To HE tON-
DECTEJ) THROUGHOUT Till
MOVjll OF AUGUST.
thg of school to begin preliminary
work with til,- hues
for for 4he students from the of-
fice of County Superintendent J.
1 1,. Beard.
! Students who fall to transfer]
| correctly in accordance with the
state ruling, will be required to
! pay tuition. ,
Saturday Is the last day for se-
curing transfers, which must be
J made in the county superintend-.
ent's office. As it will be impos-
GR AIN MXHKKT
No. 1 hard wheat
NUMBER OF I’UUILS ALREADY *lhl° (<> 'ransf. r after August 1,
TRANSFERRED INTO NEW t,ar,'n,H are urged to take care of
DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOL. ,hl!, mb'<er in order that their
0_ children may receive the benefit
A 12-acro tract of land on the of tho h<‘r capita apportion-
No.
No.
No.
No.
oats .....
barley .....
shelled corn
Cireshed tnlio
II 11
. ..37c
. ..55c
„..75c
.. 95c
Oil Notes
Warnock farm, about three mih»H m0nt and ^vo1^ paying tuition.
A It Epponauer Shields No.
drilling: at 1400 s<-t raaing
1080.
AdkiNSon I’; u^.£i^y on John
Phluger farm ntlll fishing for aho$?
joint
In order to provide a cooler
: place for rongregationa to gather,
union rvires will bo held each
1 Sunday evening on the lawn of
the First Baptist church. First ,of
| the series of worship «ervice?i will
be held Sunday evening. August
> ’J. tit «fght. o'clock.
C'hurchuM joining in th** uuion
f ,*V rvice», which will bo continued | ^
; throughout AURiiMt, are* Baptist, ‘
I Methodist, Pp nbyteriap and (’hrii*-
4) | tl»n
Minlktern who will deliver the
[ sermon each week w ill, not be’ an-
I noupeed until the uervleo begins.
1 Tb«* • dit'lt >v ill i" cm impose‘i | *. i
at 'member* of all church ehoirs par-
ticifwtlnir in t^te fir vices
due north of Valera. *wa» pur-
chased this week by the Centenni-
al district school board as a lo-
cation for the new Centennial
high school building which will
he built In the near future.
Ijand which was purchased for
Mrs, If. T. O’Bor and daughter,
Faye, are visiting in Uvalde.
short illness of only a few days.
He was born April 6, 1902. In Cor-
sicana. A member of the Baptist
church, he also be longed to the
Masonic lodge and Kiwani* club.
Survivors are his widow, Mrs.
W. S. Stephenson, and two chil-
dren Wiliam Ame* and Pauline
His parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.
Stephenson, reside at Strawn.
puli bearers were J, B- Hilton.
W P. Stobaugh. E, C. Edens, J.
p Holman. 8. T. Cobb, Carl Peter-
rotr, John Crammer and B. B
Nunley. Flower bearers were Mrs.
J b Hilton, Mrs. W, P. 8to-
haugh. Mrs. K. C. Edens, Mrs, 8
T Cobb, Mrs, John Crfimmor,
M» P. It Xunlev Mr* Carl J»e
ter*4i ii M, Vf \\ Holnmn • an,<j
4;«♦>}*.;<' Rhone • 1 ''--i-t*
Interment whm made ftt <'ole
man .1 E. Htevens Funeral Home
j wa in charge of funeral arrange*
| ment;*.
j Honorary pall hearers were Dr.
J F: Gaines, George Rhone, Don
Sawyer, Dewey |tarnes, Tom
Crews, H T*. Pinkerton, Bob Ellis,
Eucten White, Charles Polk. W
J. Coulson and Joe Hedleston.
cast, Ginnings for the area during
last year amounted to 301,S7ii
bales. Forecast compiled for thta
year aomunts to 419,600 bales, an
increase of more than 25 per cant
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Local Faculty
For Next Year
Nearly Complete
INTERIOR IMI*R4)VEMENT8 OF
WARD BUMPINGS TO itt
FINISHED,IN TIME IXIll TUB
4>i*i:ni\g of school on
HEFT. 7.
MMAtoon feet Uuw. fully 4Hjulp-,| ,he bulll,lnK face* on to the old
with ttorz of plants, gardsn nallinger road. A largo '■nroll-
Iti'-plements and several forms of ,n,'nt “kpsetsd for the new
wild Hf«, Is bringing tho country oph4>ol, as a, number of students
I havo already been transfrrrt'd In-
.....* I to tho district.
to the city.
SIX HEAP STRAYED
GOATS ARE LOCATED
Short Ticket Indicated For
County In 2nd Uemo Primary
iton-
Both Mozrtle and Burkett high
school buildings will bo ready for
—o-
IBx head of while goats, about
a year old. have been picked up
here In town, by Sheriff) Frank
Mllte, who Is anxious to Wate the
The owner le urged to contact
Mr, Mills al once end. takf
»M anlwala. which have been
damaging crop# In ihe vicinity
where they were found
I occupancy when school ^opens
According to the latest official re-
port, the Moselle building was 95
per cent complete and Burkett
was 80 per cent complete.
Mln4»r repairs and Improvements
ore being motle In a number of
rural school houmw this summer.
The Folk building la being paint-
ed and plans are being made for
over repairing the Goldsboro building
Pvaatteafty all rureJ faculties have
been selected with the exception
of one or two achoola. >
4>NL$ SEVEN RUNOFF ItAt'ES tin. t4r,, for Justice peace' In
FOR (XJUNTV TO BE DEUID- ctnt om. and llu-h Johnlgan
ED IN REUXIND DEMOtTlAT- stable in precinct one
IU URIMARY ON AUGUNT 22. A runoff race between L. Erne!
With runoff races slated only Walker, Incumbent, and Mrs. Ora
) Jameson 919
for county clerh. four comml*sJpn- j West wilt determine the nexi
era constable of precinct 2 and county clerk of Coleman county,
weigher In precinct 7, a short tick- Mr Walker received 1,423 votes
et is Indicated for the second In the primary compared with 9*4
Democratic primary eftatUon In for Mr«. West.,, H7« for Carroll
Coleman county on August S>. jKingsbery of Renta Anna 411 for
Elected In the
without a runoff w
first primary Ai Illntner of Talpa, 14* for, K,
f4ir cortgreas, Rose Prescott
state representative, E. J.
f°r judge of *Sth Judicial district,
W B, Baker for ctmnty
Frank Mills for shertff, .
ton for district clerk.
South B. Evans of Talpa and 641 (ot I^e
, •_____ ..... . ...._____ F
In the runoff for commission,f;
of precinct 2 are Curtis CoTtlns
and 'Ford Barnes . with Monroe
Forehand and Carl Isjhn In the
runoff foi , urnmiseloner of pt'e-
etnet I. Barney Rathmell and ft
A. Cox remain In the race in pre-
cinct 4.
‘ Candidates who had no opposi-
tion In the first primary were ' A,
O, Newman, district attorney for
Faculty personnel for f'olemaa
public hi bools, w h|rh will ojwn
ori Monday, September 7, l» al-
most completed, Supt. C, H- Huf-
ford said Wednesday. A number
of satisfactory applications have
been received for submission -to
the board of trustees, and Mr,
liufford believes that all vacan-
cies will have been filled by the
early pHrt of next week.
Although consolidation of rur-
al schools will reduce the number
of rural students attending Cole-
man high school, it is thought than
enrollment will be up to normal at
the openthg of sohjool. Due t»
number of new families moving
OF 20 ! Into town, Mr. Hufford bcll«v««
PART | that the number of pupils rs«t»-
____ dncci
Subject to fipiprovat of the state i During the sumhler rhnnt
NYA office, 20 hoys between the . Improvements have heen made la
ages of is and 25 will begin work
within two weeks Improving and
Burkett, Mozelle
,School Grounds
To Be Beautified
V*
PROPOSED BEAUTri’ll ATION
PR4MECT WILL GIVE EM-
PIStYMENT JV CREW
ROYS IN KOI THERN
OF <X)UNTY.
1
ISfh district;
beautifying grounds at' the new'
Moxefle and Burkett schoots.
County Ruperintendent J. o' L.
Beard. Rupt. W. T Bowers of $1°'
zelh- and Ben Jackson, district
the plants of both ward schiado. It
The petmavy
trictsttorney
Rtroman. dts-sNYA representative, hgve drawn
for 1!#th district;
l#th district;
up and submitted the National
Youth Administration project to
the state NYA office at Austin.
Is estimated that
work at Moselle and; ten at Bar- j dors or
O ontinued on Fog* 10.) | Roitth Wart!
tr. r1;,
,.J .1 Bar-1 ,or* o< k,.n
hwNsabTgrtrt, West Ward hag Iwm
repainted and Improved and will
be ready for occupancy at the
opening of schoeal. Cloak
et West Ward a re ■ being
led and will be used for
rooms next year. In
ers for students j
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