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SULPHUR SPRINGS. TEXAS, SEPTEMBER 19~ 1919.
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RUSSELL .
SERIOUSLY ILL
Hlas, Texas, Sept. 9, 1919.
dge J, R. Blaaes .of Sher-
Fclerk of the United States
of Eastern District of
passed through Dallas
light on his way to Kerr-
attend Judge Gordon
ALL CATTLE
TO BE DIPPED
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Sulphur-Springs, Tex., Sept.
11,1919.
To all cattle inspectors in Hop-
kins Gaunty
You will please see that all
cattle in your district are dip.
ped at least one time in Sept
to —---- -- —----- ---- -
11 of the District Court, and one time in Oct
is ill ther^, A telegram This includes released herds
idge Blades from Mrs. Rus- and.all.
If any party refuses or fails
to dip as directed please send
in his name and number of the
vat where he should dip and
the dates Dipping orders will
then be secured for him, and
is set tor jje will be required to dip .each
f case f,„0 weeks until released by the
J said, that Judge Russsell
Bt expected to live.
CASES ARESET
fhe Scitern case
l^t Monday. The first ——j v.' o weens unui reieaseu uy
gainst Stockton charged with;tive stock Sanitary Board.
|rder is set for Tuesday and Very Respectfully,
| second case is set for Thurs- Sid Galt, Supervising
j specie l. *
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MEETING CLOSED
The Methodist revival meet-
closed Sunday night and
SPEAKING DATES
FOR GOOD ROADS
DISTRICT COURT
CRIMINAL DOCKET
JUDGE RUSSELL
DIED SUDDENLY
The criminal docket was The many friends and ad-
taken up by Judge Pierson in mirers of Judge Gordon Rua-
th Distric Court Monday with sell in Hopkins County and
a large crowd present, many of
whom have remained all the
week. The following cases
have come up
One negro was sent to the
pententiary for four years on
a charge of theft of articles
from the Ford garage. Anoth
er negro was fined $100 on a
charge of aggravated assault,
the assault of murder being re-
duced to assault. A white
man charged with burglary,
was given two years in the
pen and a suspended sentence,
_ _ Ht>ger»_.Ca»e tor, Judge Russell wa:
Jh? murder case was g pppr in Texas and it
called Tuesday and the State j »<-----j
announced ready. The de-
fendant asked for a continu-
ance on account of the ab-
sence of material witnesses,
one of whom Mrs. Rogers, the
defendant’s wife, was very sick
The folio*™* i.U »»*M* «. b. Th.
— * «“ *—1”" C°Toidght Sherley . ....
fcwHJ lb“ “iSK: I.tufd^.t.7™»o™-Peer. ... .he Jury l.te Wedne»,I.y .(•
IThe revival resulted in a num- less, Cumby and Bra-shear. | fernoon. At noon Thursday.
Jber of conversions and addi-i Saturday night—ParkSpgs. thf,J.ur* .WM *f.nl out artd ***
| tions to the church and a gener- Monday night—Posey and | said to be unable to agree on a
1 al awakening among the mem- Birthright. „
bers of the church. - | Tuesday night—Arbala, Tira
- 'and Emblem.
throughput the State were sad-
ly grieved fo learn of his' death
ip Ketrville last Sunday after
many months of suffering with
-the great white plague. He was
Federal Judge of this district,
and many of the citizens of Hop
kins County were personally ac
quafntqd with him. He was
born in Georgia and came to
Texas early in life, settling in
Van Zandt county. He was
named for his uncle, John B.
Gordon, and in oratory sur-
passed the great Confederate
chieftain. In fact, as an ora-
tor, Judge Russell was without
a peer in Texas and it was af-
ter he had delivered one of his
great speeches in Congress that
President Taft, a Republican,
appointed him as federal
Judge of this district. In one
of the warmest political cam-
paigns ever pulled off in Tex-
as, Judge Russell defeated
Congressman De Graffenried
for congress from the Third
District of Texas, a position he
\vemr- bwgta*y District of Texas, a position he u‘* .*"* \ , * , * ,
1*2^ Cl8
he
]ENSE
ITION BOARD
• fiunwm7Znrriah^ i Mayor J. KiTThoma. has
issued the fol g X appointed the following per-
licenae since the last issue of gong oQ the Equalization
Th« E™°: . Board: B. F. Hopkins, W. B.
C E. Geer and Miss Lutie Harri>on ,;and D/n R June„.
T>.Ch.«ll« .. .nd board i. i. .e»ion thta
Mamie Gates. “*
Johnnie Southerland and
Miss Josie Thomas.-
J. E. Ellis., and Miss Sadie
Mitchell. '
‘ W. E. Glenn and Miss Nora
Rhyme.
MORE ABOUT THE
ROAD WORK
Holley.
De SATURDAY
—MiM u“,e
=d *"d M“ LurfS.77«7.“IlS'HiXy
council, writes:
"We have seen the road
work.of'the country expand
______ from your township unit or pre
C C Holbrook, a w'ell known. cinct unit into the county unit*,
citizen of Cornersville, died on from the' eounty unU into the
last aturday after a lingering state aid unit, from the state
illness with bright* disease. He aid unit to. the SUte unit from
w as 73 years old and a good the state unit to the federal aid
man who had the esteem and unit—and each step forward
respect of all who knew him.
verdict.
Sherman Case
The Sherman murder case
is on trial at noon Thursday
with Thornton ,aind - Thornton
representing the defendant.
A GOOD MAN ,
DO TUESDAY
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Elisha Thurman,,one of the
best known men and leading
citizens in this part of the coun
ty, died suddenly Tuesday a-
bout LI o’clock in his wagon
near his. home seven miles
southeast of Sulphur Springs.
Justice Clifton E. Beasley and
Constable Charley Holley went
out and held an inquest and it
way their verdict that he died
from natural causes. He' had
been suffering from brights di-
sease and also with his heart.
Apparently he was in better
health lately and his death was
a great shock to his family and
host of friends throughout the
county. He was 63 years old
at the time of his death and is
survived by hi« wife and eight
children. Funeral services and
burial took place at Forest A*
cademy on Wednesdiy.
FOR THE GOOD ROADS
Again The Echo man would
urge all who favor good roads
the greaC#t;ate he represented,
until he was appointed to the
Judgeship which he held at the
time of his death. Another re-
markable thing about Judge
Russell was his ability to re-
member and call names. It is
said he never forgot a man or
his name and that he never
proved false to a friend.
J
TO SPRAY ORCHARDS
The Echo man invaded the
enemy’s country last week and
wrote mahy now subscribers
to The Echo and lots of renew-
als. He went down into the
Pickton country, the old. home
of Elmer Teer, and .received a
warm welcome. The fact is
The Echo is gaining in sub-
F scriptions all the time,
people believe in living and
let live and are paying. the
new rate of $1.50 per year just
as they' did the $1.00 before
prices advance on everything
used in the printing of a paper.
Honor Roll
The following is a list of
those who have renewed or
have subscribed for The Echo
since our last Issue:
S. W. Simms, Pickton; M C.
HansoVi, Pickton; Carl Ran-
olph, Pickton; W. T. Hart. Pick
ton; J. M. Norton, Pickton; G.
E, James, Winnsboro Rt.
| P, ,S. Paschal, Piston ; T.
MRS.J.C. HARRIS
BURNED TO DEATH
SUNDAY NIGHT
Mrs. John C. Harris, age 65,
was burned to death Sunday •
night in her home between
Pine Forest and Greenwood.
Her home and all of its, con-
tents were a complete loss and
she was burped bo where it waa
almost impossible to identify
her. The Origin of the fire ia
unknown, but there are evi-
dences of foul play, - as the
lower part of the right aide of
her head was found to have
been crushed. She was lying
on her right side apd therefore
it is not thought that she could
have been hit by falling timbers
in the building. The remains
were buried at Pine Forest on
Monday.
Story of the Fire
As best The Echo can learn,
the .story of the fire in sub-
stance is as follows:
About 11 o’clock fast time,
or 10 o’clock old time, Sunday
night, Grover Corley and Noah
Richie were passing the home4
in an auto. They noticed a
light in the house and then one
in the barn. They went to
the barn and saw what seemed
to b© two or three fires at dif-
i« "ogpoaey. to im two or three fires at dll-
shouUl vote against the btmds.pl#Cf!a in the Barn. They
The Echo man is for good roads ru#hed back to the house to no
tify Mrs, Harris or whoever
they might find of the fire.
They found no one at the house
first, last and all the time.-
county wide, commissioner pre-
cinct wide, justice precinct
wide or state wide. He does
not know how to build good
good roihls or how we might
get the most aid from the state
or when We could get that aid.
Other people know that and
-4-ro*kes little difference with
him ab6cdlh«rmaU<^^
the bonds to build good roads
and can’t or won’t build reads
any other way. Of course, we
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IRMILAM
MAKES HIS
Assessor Tom Milam com
pleted his work of assessing the| — ----- - ^
property of Hopkins County for rm®y d)Yf«r as to the best( ay
this year and sent the same *'» build these roads And al
to' Austin this week. This is can’t have our. own way, and
rather early, for the report to
be completed, but then Tom is
^ an early bird and is always rea
dy with any'work he is called
on to do.The report shows
nearly one million dollar in-
crease in the value of the tax
property of Hopkins County,
to be exact $11,281,280, a-
gainst $10,342^320 last year.
SOMECHOW
Sheriff Bingham and Con-
hva raftk-v
tlmipast p
some of us would make a mess
of it if we did. The present plan
for 13 good men to lay out and
build the roads is to our way
of thinking the very best we
could have. The best man in
each pf the eight justice pre-
cincts ia to be elected to act
with the commissioners and
county judge in laying out and
building these roads. The Echo
does not know, who the next
commissioners or the county
judge will be or furthermore
who will be alected as j super-
Tit nnlv (Oremrthenlnv the Dre ton; J. M. Norton. Pickton; u. vreek and got a new kind of a his part of the road building to
,inft bu? areitfv beSe- E„ James, Winnsboro Rt. 5; drink. The Mexicans down at the 13. Perhaps there might
nued the ent.re hSway Z- P. A Paschal. Piqkton; T. H. that place seem to have been be one or two in the 13 that
trrjr-n The federal unit will Flournay. Pickton; E- T. Plour- making or keeping something might* want to act a littlh self-
■f. ‘ 'i out the line of nroirress na-v- Pickton; J. M. Jones, Rt. which was making some of i»h in locating the roads but
civ, CnTuTeS: Texas Sept i ^^dSvSdomsS which - ( O. Osborh. Rt.’3; W; O. those who used it cut all kinds! the o.ther ten or more ,'cduld
I,Su1aP,qUr TPo The Echo-Prof a^0^tely neieLary to tliv Pharr. Oklahoma City; G. A. at capers, A keg was secured'keep them straight It.is safe
if’ I I;' ,he Extension Hor interest* of the entire 'country. icreamer. Rt.. 4 ; K. W. Odom, Rt and brought, to Sulphur Springs, to say the 13 will.do. the right
• u 2ft1 L'the A and M i?« WHSuSiSrt and «:0. G. Bridges, Miller Grove; and jt ig said, turned over to thing as they see It in; every m
ticultunst f vr t ■■ . . n , , i,.,isol Williamsort, Reily Springs; I the grand jury. The Echo stance. It is estimated; that
College f h’rd idJ Stie- Aid and Claude'Wallace. Saltillo; J,' A .man will not vouch* for the lat 200 miles of good roads dan be
pruning, spray.and ort:\* | A,d’ St£WL A,d Penn, Saltillo; A. D. Kincaid. ter pftrt 0f the statement as he land will be built from the *2.-
planting demons^tfon^^n counties Eva\S Brashear; Dick Quaid. Como;|is trip busy on “Busy Main” to OOO.OOO bonds to be voted.
’ Roy Guliege, Como; Ray Me- f0„i around the grand jury 200 miles will cover lots and
Grady. Rt 3; Odus Gullege,;rCK)m unless he gets a special!lots' of roads in Hopkms
Como; W. F. Hull, Dallas; A.'invitation and so far he has es- County, especially when it is
J. Kenny, Arbala; J. H. Hytie,:,.app(t that honor. Two Mexico be added to the more than
Rt 3; S. J. Milner, Rt. 5; SWW. cans were arrested in connec-;40 miles of paved roads al-
Milner. Rt. 5; Miss Annfe tion with the Chow and plead ready built in the county. It
Polk. Cincinnatti; L. B. Leigh, guilty andjpaid their fines. means a first class road to Yan
Rt, 1; Joe Kunze, Peerless;! »Tini/ PnmiirP
AT PARK SPRINGS
W. R. Johnson,, Fambush, K'ytP —— ’ J" tmory via nonanza. one \
J. A.Johnson, Rt.. 8; G. F.\ piegse announce in The Echo bala. one to Cooper via the
AT DCTI VCDDimrC r Baber, Pickton; L. FHumphrey that we Will have a gt)od roads Addran country and many
Al Kl.IL I JllVinuD Pickton; S. H. Horton, Merkel; meeting at Park Springs school cross roads in the county such
W S. Snow, Rt. 8; T. P. Grif- house, district No. 78. Saturday as the ope from Ridgeway to
fith, Saltillo; T. J. McCorkle, njght, September %20f This Miller Grove via Cumby. and.
Rt. 1; Richard Morris, " Bra- meeting will be in the interest north and south from . Como,
dav^nteh“whh?he following of shear; T. L. Medders, Rt. 5;, of g0od roads and all Invi- Pickton. and SaltiUo, Dike,
ficers: G. B. Sheldon/ chair- P“.Mc£«
SOLAN MORGAN
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Hopkins County in November, |
dates to be agreed upon later.!
Persons interested in this work
should make application for,
the demonstrations. Mr. Hays
states in his letter also as fol-j Rnnker last Saturday
lows: night the citizens of forest A-
*T note “The Hopkins County;; cademy, Brinker and Wood
Day’ at the^Dallas Fair is on spr]ng8 unanimously endorsed
the 10th. 1 will be in Dallas golan Morgan as road super-
on that date; at which time we visor for precinct N°- 1 to he
will have a meeting of the exeer ^g^ for- on Saturday week.
‘ utive committee of the Horti-,
-cultural Association and in alii
probability we .will determine |
. at that'time the dhte for oifr j
winter meeting. Our executive; A g »od roads club was or-
eommittee meeting will be in ganized at Reily Springs Satur
the Chamber of Commerce at
2:30 p. m. on the 10th.”
tis, one to Sulphur Bluff, one
to Winnsboro, one to Mt. Ver-
non, ohe to Comme^e, one to
Emory via Bonan'za, one to Ar-
but instead saw the house on
fire. They never thought of
Mrs. Harris being on the inside
and at once rushed to some of
the neighbors to tell then} of
the fire., In the meantime F.
ST. Chapman and his son, who
44w-Atmnt one fourth of a mile
away, sawthTTIFeTmTHturried.
to the sefene. They were una-
ble to do anything when they
arrived and so were Messrs.
Corley and Richie and the pep
pie they had notified. Sheriff
Bingham and County Attorney
Tom Ramey were called over
the phone and „ reached the
Scene about three o’clock. They
made a thorough investigation
of everything as far as it was
possible, but so far, no arrests
have been made and -qo state-
ment has been given out by
them as tp whether they have
any evuftmee as to who might
have committed the crime.
Mrs. Harris was living atone
at the time of h*r death. Wal-
ter Keelin, her nephew,- and
his family had been living with
her, but ,had just arranged
move t» Sulphur Springs and
their things were still there and
were burned In the house. Mr.
Keelin was in Sulphur Springe
and his wife at his sister's, Mrs.
Cates. Mrs. Harris had sever-
al hundred dollars in the housa
at the time of the fire,
ROAD MEETING
OVER AT CUMBY
The campaign committee of
the Hopkins County good roads
association has called a mass
meeting for Cumby next Sat-
urday afternoon at 3 o’clock to
consider matters of import-
ance, pertainitag to the road
bond election on Saturday, Sept
27. All voters in precinct.NoT
4 are urged to be present.
sulphurspWgs
NO SUPERV
Dike; F.
WV IX*. VII .......^ j 1IWV1C
Hopkins County should have man; A. M. Whitehurst, vice
the1 Horticultural Society mid- chairman and Thuron Hunt,
winter meeting in Sulphur secretary.
Springs, we can secure thi8IPt/iirr r.pPp ~
meeting if the citizens will manAf ll.H I I A\rN
ifest the proper interest in it-! WWLaJ
W. W. £VANS.
CIRCUS COMING
0-1 ted to attend.
Bain,
1: W.
HOOD MORRIS.
TO WEST TEXAS
Peerlekp and one via Pine For-
other
est, Reily Springs an
points.—Ql,course eve .
could not x would-not live on
ARE FILED
FTippin, Dike; F. M.
Pickton; Drew Hall. Rt.
A Terrell. Rt. 8; J. E. Roberts,
DikeT V. L. Fleavharty, Jack-
sonville ; Jim Bentley, Rt. K;|
L.’B. Goggan. Rt. 4; WilUe ____ „___________
Gordon, Rt. 2. jgo out to the Sweetwater travel over them- Lets t
J. M. Thurman, Anson; B country the first of next weei( the roads and lift ourselves
A., to buy a farm. There are some 0-f the sand a«d the mud.
The Echo man is planning to near
out to the Sweetwater
There was a large and
thusiastic good roads m
in the county court room
Monday. A number of
es weye made and the cro
showed its appreciation
... hearty applause. The
aw.hjfi,:n*d7hTothZ,wcWb:i —<-««-
a good road and w«;uld
v
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^ K. Baumgardner, Dallas; J. A. to_buy
mously as being in favor of
electing any supervini
in the city of Sulphur
Jtlytn*
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j ■ • in euiayivt vii* wh **' ' ' — - - - v —- ■ * ,
Sells-Floto Circus is coming Beasley’s court against parties! son, Como'; J. A. Cooper,
__ Sulphur Springs
day, October 14th.
joessiej's court against p4iucs »uu, wuiu f
living in this precinct for fail-: m», N. M; O. W. Perrin, Pick-
ing to dip cattle. jten; Pickton Telephone Co.;
$16.00 to $40.00. If any
The Echo reader* want to
drop in to see u*.
of i was here Monday and made ar
go rangements for a good roads
j meeting at Saltllo last night
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