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Timpson Weekly Times
VOLUME 49
TIMPSON. TEXAS. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1934
NO. 43
OFFICERS HI1KT1FQR
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•Dallas, Oct. 28.—(UP)—
Raymond Hamilton today was
the premier badman of the
southwest.
His accession to front rank
was announced yesterday by
the roar of the fans which
took the life of Charles
(Pretty Boy) Floyd.
■Frank Hamer, former Texas
ranger who led the group that
killed Clyde Barrow and
Bonnie Parker, was reported to
be hunting . Hamilton some-
where in East Texas.
Department of justice agents
are tracking him also and it is
expected that other federal
men will be put on his trail
now that Floyd, Dilltager and justment Administration that
Barrow are out of the way.
The dapper little braggart,
has the respect of the law en-
forcement officers of the south-
west. for all of Barrow’s con-
temptous designation as a
“yellow rat." Only the best
manhunters are assigned ' to
ferret him out.
Since his escape from a
death cell in Huntsville prison
last July 22, Hamilton, petty
thief and bank robber, has
been considered one of the
most dangerous men at large.
At Huntsville, Hamilton was
awaiting electrocution for the
murder of Major Crowson, a
guard at Eastham prison farm,
who was killed when Hamilton
and several others broke from
the jail in an escape engineer-
ed by Barrow.
Hamilton will rely on his
guns if he is captured, offi-
cers believe. 'Previously the
bur ?+?'•' ViRer has beer known
to back down at the sight of
guns, but this situation is
changed. He turns only to a
death sentence if taken alive.
Officers believe he may prefer
to die in battle rather than
face the law’s fatal retaliation.
Saturday Special
Pure Gold brand flour
$1.65.
City Market & Grocery.
hi I. i — ■■ \
Sweaters from 50c to
$1.95 at Blair’*.
Lovely coat suits in'
the new bark and tweed
material at Blair’s.
conoif MuusniKifr
PHAM TO COME
IN 1931 SEASON
Washington, Oct. 24.—Sec-
retary of Agriculture Henry
A. Wallace has announced that
the cotton adjustment program
would continue into the 1935
season. This announcement
was made in order that the
more than one million cotton
farmers who signed 1934 and
1935 cotton contracts can pro-
ceed with their farming plans
for the next season with full
assurance that the voluntary
cotton adjustment program
will be made effective for
1935 under the terms of the
two-year contracts.
It was emphasized by offi-
cials of the Agricultural Ad-
the Secretary’s announcement
did not constitute the formal
proclamation which the cot-
ton contract require*. It is as-
surance that by December 1
such a proclamation will be
issued.
The contract signed by cot-
ton producers is restricted to
the 1934 season “unless the
Secretary shall, not later than
December 1, 1934,' proclaim
his purpose of continuing the
Cotton Acreage Reduction
Plan for 1935.” It is further
provided in the contract that
such a proclamation shall
state the percentage of reduc-
tion required for 1935.
The cotton section of the
Agricultural Adjustment Ad-
ministration is engaged in de-
veloping the details of the
1935 program. These include
the amount of reduction in
acreage to be required and the
aiuOuiii-and manner of rental
and parity payments to be
made. The complete details
of the 1935 adjustment pro-
gram will be . announced as
soon as they are completed
and approved, it was stated.
Under the terms of the con-
tracts with producers, the
maximum acreage reduction
which can .he required is 25
per cent of the base acreage
which is the average of the five
years, 1928-1932. It was point-
ed out that since this compares
with a 35 to 45 percent reduc-
tion below the base acreage
this year, which averaged 40
per cent, it means that contract
signers may plant an average
of at least 25 per cent more
acres In cotton in 1935 than
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SAVE!.. . Your Conscience Says—
Conscience talks to all—but few have the
i
courage to obey. The man who has strength
of will to regulate his affairs to condition.® as
they exist and saves regularly soon finds that
conditions change—and always for the better.
Conscience says SAVE)—So why don’t
you start this week? This institution stands
ready to assist its depositors in many ways.
Make This Bank Your Bank!
COTTON BET STATE BANK
The Oldest Bank in Shelby County"
JIM HOT HMD
OTEflSEBIIW
Austin, Oct 20.—(UP)—E.
J. McLeroy, former prosecut-
ing attorney in Shelby county,
believes in righting a wrong.
Today he had won a ten-year
fight to free Jim Ballew from
a 99 years murder sentence
which he helped to obtain
against Ballew in 1924:
Ballew and Pearl Mussel-
man both were found guilty of
killing her husband, Tom Mus-
selm&n. They were the sole
prisoners in the Shelby county
jail for a time after conviction.
McElroy, anxious to satisfy
himself about the case, con-
cealed himself in the jail. He
listened while the two prison-
ers conversed back and forth
between the jail bars.
“I heard Pearl Musselman
tell Jim Ballew that he did not
murder her husband." Mc-
Leroy wrote the governor. He
has written several Texas gov-
ernors.
Another letter quoted Bal-
lew asking Mrs. Musselman in
jail why she had said he com-
mitted murder, and her report-
ed reply that she thought If
she laid it on some she would
get off lighter.
McLeroy promised Ballew
he would try to get. him freed.
In 1926, still unsuccessful, he
wrote Ballew: "I told you I did
not intend to quit until I had
obtained a pardon for you and
I intend to keep my word.”
Today the, word had been
kept. Governor Ferguson
granted a pardon. Seven of the
jurors who convicted Ballew
joined in the clemency appeal.
He has been a prison trusty.
Following is the list of offi-
cials appointed to canduct the
general election in November:
Center, North—G. G. Craw-
ford and'M. L. Davis, presid-
ing judges; Ernest Lawson and
Jim M. Rogers, assistants.
Center, South—P. 'L. Sandel
and J. W. Shotwell, presiding
judges; C. O. Gibson and F. E.
Baugh, assistants.
Short—Henry McSwain, pre-
siding judge; Mbs Fannie
Hughes, assistant.
Neuville—John Defee, pre-
siding judge; H. B. Johnson,
assistant.
Huber—Tom Hughes, pre-
siding judge; Mrs. J. D. Hollo-
way, assistant.
Halbert—W. C. "Woodwyn,
presiding judge; V. C. Can-
non, assistant
Patroon—R. O. Lovelady,
presiding judge.
Joaquin—-Cohron Davis, pre-
siding judge; Eli Powdrill and
S. S. McCrary, assistants.
Tenaha—J. H. (Womack and
Jim Wall, presiding judges; K.
M. McFarland and Will Hill,
assistants.
Timpson, North — D. F.
Stephenson and Y. O. Corley,
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SOPEWISBIIX TIMPSON
Mrs. Leo White of Tenaha
is spending the day in Timp-
eou in connection with her
duties as rural home supervi-
sor of rehabilitation for the
counties of Shelby and Panola.
Mrs. White was recently se-
lected for this place and enter-
ed upon the work about five
weeks ago. 'Mrs. White ma-
jored in home economics, and
has had several years experi-
ence as teacher of this subject,
which training will prove in-
valuable in her present work.
Briefly the duties as outlined
in the State and Federal plans
are: Assisting the homemakers
in planning family budgets,
working out plans for food
production, canning and, con-
servation; working oat plans
for clothing construction, re-
novation and repair, advising
relative to home improvement
and household management,
giving information on nutrition
problems, making a study of
home equipment needs which
might be provided through the
facilities of the community
work center, coordinating ef-
forts with the social welfare
workers, agricultural rehabili-
tation assistants, home demon-
stration agents, home eco-
nomics teachers and all other
agencies working for the im-
provement of the farm home.
M MONTY F!
OPENSWITH PA1NDE
The annual Shelby county
fair opened Tuesday at Cen-
ter, featuring a big street pa-
rade. Fair officials estimated
that 16,000 people were in at-
tendance and that more than
7000 people passed through
the fair gates.
Today has been designated
as Timpson, Tenaha and Joa-
quin day. and no doubt large
crowds from these three towns
will be in attendance.
Chum Salmon, 2 cans
25c, Saturday at City
Market & Grocery.
OFFICIALS NAMED TO
HOLD GENERAL ELECT!
presiding
Evans and Lem Eakin,
judges;
Dum
assist-
ants.
Timpson, South—Ollie John-
son and Rex Brinson, presiding
judges; Ben Adams and Ben
Childs, assistants.
Aken—Jim Hopkins, presid-
ing judge; Dave MeKinzle, as-
sistant .
Campti—Jim Cox, presid-
ing judge; Chas. Owens, as-
sistant.
Stockman—Perkin Wilson,
presiding judge; J. H. Craw-
ford. assistant.
Pleasant Hill—A. E. Eng-
lish, presiding judge; J.
Raymond, assistant
HALL OF NATIONS,
P.-T. A. SCHOOL CARNIVAL
No carnival is really com-
plete without a mid-way with
all its color and tights and
noisy attractions. To supply
this feature of the P.-T. A.
School Carnival, the student*
of the eighth and ninth grades
are arranging a “Hall of Na-
tions” which, to reality, con-
sists of a string of concessions,
each featuring a nation, to-
gether with some article foil
sale, typical of that particular
nation. The different booths
will appear, wearing the colors
and decorated with the flags
of the especial nations they
represent. Students dressed in
the native costumes of the
country represented, will pre-
side over each, and will not
hesitate to use every art they
possess to teasei and cajole the
visitors into parting with their
nickels and pennies.
There will be clowns' with
their own special booth. Be-
ing supposed to furnish a bit;
of fun, they propose to ex-
hibit a curious specimen, a real
live one, which will, no doubt,
be a genuine “pocket cleaner.”
The various other booths rep-
resented will be America, sell-
ing candies; Holland, the land
of the spinner and the weaver,
—exhibiting a real spinning
wheel, with a really truly spin-
ner, actually spinning thread
the way our grandmothers
used to spin.. Seated beside
her, will be another expert of
the good old days, busily card-
ing the cotton into long, fluffy
Tolls, preparing it for the hand
of the spinner. Another booth
will represent Italy, selling the
proverbial, peanuts and nop-'
corn. Spain, in a blaze of na-
; tional glory, will dispense hot
>1-'tamales and chili. The quaint.
D. | beautiful, Japanese booth will
[furnish,refreshing hot tea and
New Harmony—W. H.j cookies, while for those who
Shull, presiding judge; Jesse; W8„t something cold instead of
Boles, assistant j hot. ample means of satisfying
Jarry Store—Jim Monk, their craving will be found by
presiding .judge; W. T. An- hunting Alaska—the land of
drews, assistant.
Pine Grove—Hamp Nichol-
son, presiding judge; W. A.
Hamilton, assistant.
Shelbyville—J. S. Howard,
presiding judge; W. B. Beck,
assistant.
Dreka—J. W. Blackstock,
presiding judge; Frank Shof-
ner, assistant
Huxley—B. F. Fleming, pre-
siding judge; Crit Furlow, as-
sistant '
East Hamilton—'Walter Pal-
mer, presiding judge; Ivy Al-
exander; assistant
Star Springs—Tom Kerr,
presiding judge; Stewart Leg-
gett, assistant k
Paxton—D. S. Hurst presid-
ing, judge; Mrs. S. S. Watson,
Paul’s Store—Jim Bailey,
presiding judge; C. D. Fitts,
assistant
Hurst Store—W. G. Cannon,
presiding judge; J. T. Beck,
assistant
Waterman—J. F. Stewart,
presiding judge; S. Tyson, as-
sistant
Arcadia—J. E. Smith, pre-
siding judge; Mr*. Lou Wheel-
er, assistant.
Hasiam—Ed Burgess, pre-
siding judge; Mts. Ernest
Owens, assistant.
Haley’s Store—T. W. Lynch,
presiding judge; Bentley Wil-
burn, assistant.
. Wilda—Mrs. T. P. White-
side. presiding judge; J. M.
Johnson, assistant.
Grigsby—C. T. Davis, pre-j
siding judge; O. N. West, as-
sistant.
McClelland—L. A." Runnels,
presiding judge; Frank
Graves, assistant
hunting
the Esquimaux—where ice
cream in abundance will await
them. , These booths will all
be found on the lower floor,'
ready and anxious to wait up-
on visitors by 5 o'clock next
Friday evening, Oct 26th.
Reporter.
Beautiful line of suit-
ing at attractive prices.
R. T. Blair.
LEAD! MINSTREL SIN
Of THE SEASON Mill BE
AT SCHOOL dim.
“I WiQ Rise and Shine Society”
Will Entertain With a So-
cial Friday Night at School
Budding*
Members, of the “I Will
Rise and Shine Society” are
entertaining with a social at
the school building at 9:30 o'-
clock Friday night
The program arranged for
the amusement of the guests
will consist of many interesting
numbers, among which are:
Songs by the dub members,
tap dancing, instrumental
numbers and stunts. 1
The public is cordially in-
vited'to attend. A full even-
ing of enjoyment is promised
to all. Reporter.
FARMERS DESIRING TO
SURRENDER CERTIFICATES
SHOIILDJCT IKILT
The following is a telegram
received by. C. P. Seurlock
from M. T. Payne1, district
agent:
^Telephonic commlunir
cation with deal this morn-
ing. National Pool short
one-half million bales. If
farmers want to serreader
certificates get them to
act immediately. Pool will
close approximate
ember tenth; set
will be made imm«
after close. Pool expense
less than one hollar per
bale. I feci sure the pro-
ducers will net nineteen
dollars plus per bale. Give
wide publicity.”
Anyone desiring to pool cer-
tificates, should get to touch
with the County Agent imme-
diately.
r. root wui
stely Nov-
settlement
o mediately
Hesters—18, 20 and
22-inch wood heaters.
W. F. Corry.
Mr. and Mrs. Sixth Grader
announces the engagement of
their daughter, Beth, to
Mitchell, grammar school. The
wedding to take place at high
school auditorium October 26,
7:80 •*. m. Reporter.
$ shoes
ship’s.
at Blanken-
Cheaper
Store.
at Bargain
Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Smelley
and Messrs. Loris King, Ed-
ward Todd and William Red-
ding were among the Timpson
people attending the Center
fair Tuesday evening.
Shoe , sale $1.75 at
Blankenship’s.
DEPOSITS INSURED
Tin Feftnl Deposit Insurance Cirpralion
WASHINGTON, D. C -
$5000 $5000
THE 3 C’s OF CREDIT
Character—C apital—Capacity
Character is the basis of all credit, for a man’s j
good name is the first
every loan.
consideration behind
man
i “makes good” at his bank,
; through confidence and cooperation, may de-
pend upon his banker’s interest in his affairs
and his assistance in times of need.
CTAMAHTY mom
BTATE BMm
TIMPSON, TEXAS
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Molloy, T. J. Timpson Weekly Times (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 43, Ed. 1 Friday, October 26, 1934, newspaper, October 26, 1934; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth765002/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Timpson Public Library.