Mount Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, May 16, 1930 Page: 1 of 4
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MOUNT PLEASANT DAILY TIMES
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VOLUME TWELVE
MT. PLEASANT, TEXAS. FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 16, 1930.
NUMBER 52
Sixth Census
Area Figures
Total 200,070
Marshall, Texas, May 15.—The
population of the sixth census dis-
trict of Texas was announced late
Thursday by Homer M. Price, district
census supervisor, as 200,070.
This district includes Bowie, Cass,
Marion, Harrison, Gregg, Upshur and
Wood counties.
Bowie county showed an increase
of 23.2 per cent over the 1929 census
and Harrison county’s increase was
12.3 per cent. The other counties j who was with .Tones when
Youth Hurt in |
Windstorm Dies
A valiant 12-day battle against'
death was ended in Michael Meagher j
hospital at 6 p. m. Thursday when'
Don Jones, 17-year-old Fouke high
school student, succumbed to injuries
received in a windstorm near Naples,1
May 3.
Two operations and as many blood
transfusions were useless after 12
days in which surgeons attempted to
keep the flicker of life in the youth’s
body glowing.
Dr. C. M. Junnell, Fouke physician,
a large
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Wind and Rain
Cause Damage
Plan Scout Work
For Coming Year
showed an average of 5 per cent de-1 limb was blown from a tree in the
crease. I woods in which they were squirrel
There are 29,373 farms in the dis-! hunting and hurled against the body
trict, the report showed. I of the youth, submitted the blood for
Falling Tree
Hits Automobile
Harrison county with a population
of 48,926, is the largest in the district.
Population of other counties: Bow-
ie, 48,637; Cass, 29,972; Marion
10,322; Gregg 15,733; Upshur, 22,-
297; Wood, 24,183.
The population of the district shows
the two
Gazette.
transfusions.—Texarkana
a total increase of 9160. This in-
crease is in the counties containing
the two larger towns in the district,
Texarkana and Marshall.
A. B. Lawrence, local manager of
the Cities Service Distributing Com-
pany, barely escaped death in a storm
near Shreveport Thursday night.
Mr. Lawrence had been to Rogers’
Station, La., to attend a gathering
of company employees, and was re-
; turning with Mrs. Lawrence and her
mother and two small children to
their home in Shreveport when the
storm came up. While driving along
the road, a tree over a foot through,
was blown across the road and fell
on the front of the car Mr. Lawrence
driving. Fortunately, no one
was hurt, but if the car had gone
three feet further they would pro-
bably have all been killed.
Mr. Lawrence said that when he
returned to Mt. Pleasant Friday
morning, there were at least fifty
trees that had been blown across that
portion of Highway 49 which runs
through Cass County. The sawmill
at Avinger suffered considerable
damage because of the wind, accord-
ing to Mr. Lawrence, and residences
also suffered.
Quite a bit of damage was caused
in various parts of the county as a
t result of the heavy rain and wind
i Thursday night. According to the
Government rain gauge, kept by
Chas. M. Coker, local weather man,
j three inches of water fell during the
■ night, causing the streams already
j swollen, to rise still higher.
Wind also did considerable dam-
age in many place, especially near
Damascus and Cypress communities. : be arranged.
Barns and garages were unroofed,
trees and fences blown down, and in
some cases residences were twisted
from their blocks. The derrick,
which had ben completed by the
Deep Rock Oil Company only a few
days before, was blown down and the
machinery damaged.
A terrific electric display accom-
panied the storm, and a light hail
fell in some places.
A meeting of the executive com-
mittee of the local Scout troops was
held Thursday afternoon, with Scout
Executive Geo. W. Powell of Texar-
kana present. Work was outlined
for the coming year, and attendance
at Camp Pioneer, in the Arkansas
hills, was discussed.
Tuesday evening, May 27th, was
set as the date for the next Court
of Honor, when a special program
A movement was started to inter-
est various communities of the coun-
ty in Scout work, and a special meet-
ing will bo called for the leaders of
these communities to explain to them
how the work is conducted and the
benefits the boys will receive from
it.
A. J. Copellar returned Thursday
from Fort Worth, where he spent
several days attending the State
Bankers’ Association.
Retail Merchants
Select Officers
The director® of the Retail Mer-
chants’ Association met Friday morn-
ing and selected officers from among
their number to serve for the com-
ing year. P. O. Wilhite was elected
president and Cheney Riddle vice
president.
Miss Chattie Slayton was again
chosen as secretary and manager of
the Association, and her work in the
past was highly commended. H. G.
Bi’own was re-elected as attorney for
the organization.
A committee was apponited to make
an effort to secure some new mem-
bers in order to better carry out the
work.
The United States does not ex-
change ministers with either the re-
public of Andorra, which is between
France and Spain, or the republic of
San Marino in Italy.
J. Stephens and
were in Texarkana
Thursday.
B. Gilpin
business
Some species of opossum carry
their young upon their backs, the tail
being used to-hold to.
The Weather
The weathc- for the past 24 hours
according to readings made at 6:30:
Maximum .................................... 86
Minimum .................................... 62
Temperature 6:30 .................... 63
Wind from .................................. E
Sky .....................................Cloudy
Rainfall ....................................3 in.
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have the thirty-three vital
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Cross, G. W. Mount Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, May 16, 1930, newspaper, May 16, 1930; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth784615/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1&rotate=90: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Mount Pleasant Public Library.