Mt. Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 130, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 30, 1932 Page: 1 of 4
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VOLUME THIRTEEN
MOUNT PLEASANT, TEXAS, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 30, 1932.
NUMBER 130
Want Federal
Designation of
Highway Route
Tells Rotarians
About California
.Farm Conditions
J. C. Brown, who recently returned
from a trip to Southern California,
- j spoke at the Rotary Club Tuesday
R. A. Singleton of the good roads j about conditions existing in that sec-
division of the Oklahoma City Cham-jtion along agricultural lines. While
her of Commerce, was a visitor here j in Los Angeles, Mr. Brown made a
Tuesday. Mr. Singleton is interested ; study of methods used in growing *
in securing a Federal Highway des- crops and in marketing of products, *
Commissioners At
Work Equalizing
Tax Renditions
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The Commjfsioners Court met
Tuesday at the court house for the
purpose of acting as a board of equal-
ization to hear reasons from property
; owners as to why property rendered
them for taxation should not be
ignation of a route from New Orleans
to Colorado Springs and Denver
through Mt. Pleasant and Oklahoma
City, and was logging the route from
Shreveport to Paris.
In the past, the Oklahoma City
Chamber of Commerce has been rout-
ing Louisiana traffic by way of Par-
is and Texarkana, but Mr. Singleton
announced Tuesday that in the
future this traffic will be sent over
Highway 49 through Mt. Pleasant, as
a saving of at least 30 miles will be
made by travelers in this way.
Arrangements are being made for
a meeting to be held either in Mt.
Pleasant or Paris within the next few
weeks of organizations working for
highway improvements between New
Orleans and Oklahoma City. An ef-
fort will be made by the local ChanF
ber of Commerce to secure the meet-
ing for this place.
Mrs. J. R. Leguenec and little son,
Joe, have returned from a visit of
two weeks in New Orleans and Baton
Rouge, La.
and his talk on these lines was very
interesting. He said that although
everything is bringing a low price
there, the farmers are making money
because of improved marketing, and
that farmers in this section could pro-
fit by their example.
Visitors present were Marion
Burkes of Gilmer, D. C. Crews of
Pittsburg and Bryan Blalock of Mar-
shall.
INDICATIONS ARE
FERGUSON ELECTED
7 Days or 30
Of Legislature
Austin in Doubt
Tuesday - Wednseday
HE
RAN
OUT
ON
HIS
HONEYMOON
because his wife was too busy to
be a Wife!
For intimate details see......
Austin, Texas, Aug. 29.—On the eve
of the convening of what may be a
momentous session of the Legislature,
Austin air is surcharged with specu-
lation as to what may happen. There
is a feeling of apprehension that the
gubernatorial campaign is to be
fought over with added chapters and
that the expected session of one week
will be prolonged into a thirty-day
battle.
The closeness of the Governor’s race
has caused a tenseness. Added to
this is the knowledge that seventy-
nine of the presant House members
either voluntarily have dropped ou1;
or have been defeated for re-election,
and this has not helped the situation.
It has already drawn the next speak-
ership into consideration, even at this
early date. Revised figures show
that fifty-seven old members have
been re-elected and fourteen are as
yet unaccounted for in their races,
leaving seventy-nine new faces for
next January and possibly more. No
other Texas Legislature ever faced a
situation like it.
Mrs. R. F. Lindsay received
a telephone message Tuesday
afternoon ab|»pt 2:30 o’clock
from the Daftas News to the
effect that the latest report
given out by the Texas Elec-
tion Bureau indicate the elec-
tion of Mrs. Miriam A. Fergu-
son as Governor.
At that time, Mrs. Ferguson
had a lead of between 1,400
and 1,500 over Ross S. Ster-
ling, with only one thousand
votes yet to be counted.
raised in value.
Tax valuations of the county drop-
ped off considerably this year, and
about a hundred property owners
were cited to appear before the court
because of low renditions.
Several days will be required to
complete the work of the court.
GAS IGNITED BY DOOR
BELL SPARK KILLS ONE
Titus County to
Have Princess
At State Fair
At the Chamber of Commerce meet-
ing Monday night a communication
was read from State Fair officials at
Dallas asking that a princess and maid
of honor be selected to represent Tit-
us County at the coronation of “Queen
Progress” at the State Fair, which
will be held in October. A committee
was appointed to work out plans for
their selection.
Mrs. R. F. Linsay made a report
on the public meeting held at the
court house when the budget of Titus
County was read for the year of 1933,
Mrs. Lindsay said that a sincere ef-
fort has been made by the County
Judge and Commissioners' Court, as-
sisted by County Treasurer Dickson,
Makes Money By
Canning Chicken
Mrs. Fred Donaldson of the Old Un-
ion Home Demonstration Club has
proved that it is profitable to can
chickens.
She had 47 friers, for which she was
offered $6 on the local market, but
instead of disposing of them in this
way, she decided to can them. She
fried enough to fill 44 cans and con-
verted the bony parts of the chicken
into stew and soup, which filled 16
cans. The cost of the cans, fats,
seasoning, etc., necessary to can the
chickens amounted $9, and the value
of the chicken saved for Winter is
$18.
Sudden Flood in
Dry Creek Brings
Death To Four
Bovina, Texas, Aug. 29.—Four per-
sons were drowned Monday when a
six-inch rain flooded a small creek
near Bovina.
Mrs. C. B. Waddell and her two
small daughters, Vivian and Virgini.;,
were drowned when the rush of water
swept their automobile downstream.
Her husband escaped with a baby
daughter. The iamiiy lived at Friona.
Richard Caldwell, 21, was drowned
later while searching for the bodies.
He either fell or was thrown from
his horse into the creek. Caldwell’s
body was the only one recovered.
Waddell said the creek bed was
nearly dry when he started to drive
across. The automobile stopped and
was washed away by the rapid rise
of the water.
Some damage was done to highways
and the Santa Fe Railway tracks.
Mr. and Mrs O. F. Hays went to
Dallas Tuesday for a short visit.
While there, Mrs. Hays made a selec-
tion of new material for her expres-
sion class.
Eclipse of Sun
Is Due Tomorrow
Norfolk, Va., Aug. 29.—Gas ignited
from an electric doorbell exploded
with such force Sunday that it fatally i
injured Miss Annie C. Enright, 32, |to reduce expenses of the county, but
wrecked her third-story apartment, j *n opinion of the Chamber of
and trapped other inmates of the j Commerce committee there are still a
; building behind warped doors. j number of items on which savings can
The explosion occurred when a girl I made> especially in the general
who came to visit Miss Enright push- I ^und> and that recommendations had
ed the electric button at the apart- been made to this effect,
ment entrance. Thrown back by the • ^he Question of representation fur
force of the blast which splintered the j Morris and Titus Counties at the spe-
door, the girl suffered a severely in- cial session of the Legislature was
jured hand and other less serious in-1 discussed, and Judge Wilbanks said
juries. • • - itfeat he hart received information from
Miss Enright was found unconscious the Governor’s office to the effect tha*-
in her kitchenette. She died in a
hospital.
Investigators were unable imme
diately to determine why gas was
present in the room.
DRUGGIST IS MURDERED
BY SHOT FROM DARKNESS
it is too late to call for a special
election, and that these two counties
would go unrepresented at this ses-
sion. However, it was recommended
that Traylor Russell, who was nomi-
nated for this position in the primary
Saturday, be asked to attend the ses-
sion in an advisory capacity.
J. A. Petty made a report on the
Texarkana, Aug. 29.—Berry Quillen, J'Litus County Fair, which is to be held
50 a druggist at Fouke, Ark., sixteen
miles south of here, died in Texarkana
hospital Monday of gunshot wounds.
He was sitting in his drug store Sun
day night when an unidentified person
during the week of October 10 to 15.
Mr. Petty asked the opinion of the
membership as to the alvisability of
the merchants being asked to offer
premiums to the principals of the pub-
A partial eclipse of the sun will be
visible in this section tomorrow un-
less the sky is cloudy. Many people
are interested in seeing this phenom-
enon, which occurs only at long inter- bootlegging in and near Fouke. Quil-
fired a shotgun from the dark, the i wedding, which is to be one of the
charge entering Quillen’s chest and chief attractions, and all present
penetrating the lungs. He is surviv-1 agreed that this would be a big in-
ed by his wife, a son and a daughter, ducement. It was also announced that
He was born and has lived all his life j Congressman Wright Patman had
in the vicinity of Fouke. He has nine j agreed to deliver an address on the
brothers. There is said to be much|even’ng °f Wednesday, October 12.
The time for meetings to be held
vals. Smoked glass will be necessary
to view the eclipse, as the sun’s rays
are said to be brighter at this time
than at any other.
The eclipse will be total in the
northeastern part of the United Stat-
es, and another total eclipse will not
be visible in this part of the world
for about forty years.
PUCHASES SINCLAIR
FILLING STATION
len had been outspoken against the
traffic and several times had been ac-
cused of tipping officers in liquor
cases. He has one brother who is a
prohibition enforcement officer. Five
men have been arrested in connection
with the shooting, but no warrants
have been issued.
The average consumption of coal
per hour in steam boilers is twelve
pounds per hour per square foot of
grate sufface.
C. C. Clark has purchased from J. |
A. Glass the Sinclair filling station
on "the southeast corner of the square,
and took charge of the business Mon-
day.
Mr. Glass has not announced his
plans for the future.
in the future
o’clock.
was decided for 7:30
Ewell MdiClinton spent Monday in
Dallas attending a convention of
RCA dealers. He attended a big ban-
quet given in their honor Monday
night.
The period between 1764-1800 saw
the establishment of more nations
than any other consecutive period of
the same length.
DESTROYER COMES OUT
SECOND IN ENCOUNTER
WITH 80-FOOT WHALE
New London, Conn., Aug. 29.—The
Coast G,uard destroyer Wood return-
ed to the New London base Sunday
with a heightened respect for whales
and in need of repairs.
Officers reported the destroyer col-
lided with an eighty-foot whale Sat-
Castle Peak is one of the highest urday night while the Wood was on
peaks of the Sierra Nevada in Cali-1 patrol duty forty miles west of Nan-
fornia, rising to 12,500 feet above the ' tucket lightship. The craft came out
— ' of the encounter with its bridge sup-
ports wrenched and its starboard pro-
Ewell Stiles of Falfurrias is visit-
ing his uncle, F, G. Wynne, and family
! this week.
peller bent.
The whale, officers said, disap-
peared after striking the Wood.
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Cross, G. W. Mt. Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 130, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 30, 1932, newspaper, August 30, 1932; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth784915/m1/1/: accessed June 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Mount Pleasant Public Library.