The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 144, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 24, 1925 Page: 2 of 4
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... J. S. BAGWELL, Editor
ERIC BAGWELL, Business Mgr.
the call of the church'hell getiThc
Robison Crusoe instinct out of hiB
system. "Re becomes a friend of
man, and in a large sense a citizen
of the world. His own purposes en-
large as he shares in the purpose of
the church to make over the na-
tions of the globe according to the
principles of the Master Teacher.
At church one is reminded of the
things which are really worth while;
the cobwebs are brushed away from
the chamber of conscience; faded
ideas are brightened once more as
the brown fields of autumn grow
green when spring returns; and re-
ligion becomes a real experience of
fellowship “with a Heavenly Father
who is supremely made real in the
Man of Galilee, in whose service
there is complete freedom and full-
est joy.”—The Country Gentleman.
PHONE 4-8-1
Pickton has many reasons for
celebrating In her big picnic today.
She is in the midst of the best fruit
arop in East Texas and has already
shipped several cars of early
peaches and plums. Early in July
she will begin shipping from 75 to
100 cars of Elberta peaches, the
finest that grow in East Texas. La-
ter on she will have cotton, pota-
toes, corn and other crops to gather.
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Ripe home-grown cantaloupes are
now on the market and they go fair-
ly well for breakfast these morn-
ings at 5:30. They are an appetizer
teaser for the fried chicken that fol-
lows up at our house. Try them.
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With a good rain that is due this
week our younger garden truck will
be in fine shape, such as young
beans, tomatoes and green peas, etc.
Anybody can succeed with a garden
in Hopkins county who has the en-
ergy and uses a little judgment,
When we began planting our second
garden this year Attorney General
Elmer Teer said that it would do no
good to plant. He turned his cow
into his garden and as a result now
goes hungry, while we have plenty
to spare after all needed for home
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There are so many kinds of home-
made pies in old Hopkins at pres-
ent that it is hard to get them all on
a bill of fare. There ia the black-
berry pie, apple pie, peach pie, po-
tato pie, chicken pie, with others to
follow. '
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Old Hopkins county is ton busy
now threshing oats, gathc-iing early
peaches and plums and retting
ready for the Elbertas to take much
stock In state politics at present,
but will awake in time to be on thp
job next year when the woods grow
full of cai^idates.
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THE CALL OF THE CHURCH
BELL
“Yes, sir,” said Dave, “1 believe
that church attendance pays. Why
just think of the farmers around
here who are regular at the little
white church in the grove. Judging
by their buildings and their dairies
and their crops they are certainly
more prosperous than the men who
spend Sunday loafing, fishing and
visiting.”
“How do I explain it? Well, I
sort of figure it out that church at-
tendance has something of the
same effect upon a man’s life that
a ahower has upon the fields. It
starts to growing those business vir-
tues, industry, honest apd eairfr-
ness to help, which make for suc-
cess.”
After all, Is not Dave about
right? He might have gone further
and have .spoken of church attend-
ance also as a kind of liberal educa-
tion where one hears the great
hymns of the ages, where the book
of Books is read and explained, and
where the thought that Daniel Web-
ster said was the greatest thought
which ever filled his mind—the
though of man’s accountability to
God—ia emphasized.
' Furthermore, Dave might have
pointed out that the man who heeds
THUGS HEO TO
KIU MAN’S WIFE
DEMANDED PAY
Concordia, Kan., June 23.—Con-
firmation of the report that Davies,
wealthy retired merchant of Con-
cordia, had signed a confession stat-
ing that he had conspired with Kan-
sas City gunmen to kill his wife,
was made by A. J. Kersenbrock,
sheriff of Cloud county, today.
The plot to kill Mrs. Davies was
a failure, she having recovered from
an attack made on her last October
by gangsters. ^
Davies was released on $5 UQ0
bond for appearance at an arraign-
ment Thursday.
'D*. Doty, county coroner, signed
the bond.
Davies probably will base hi? de-
fense on insanity, Leon W. Lund-
blade, county attorney, declared to-
day. He will be arraigned Thursday
to answer a charge of assault with
intent to kill. Davies has wired his
attorney, Charles L. Hunt, to hurry
back to Concordia from Colorado.
PLOT IS CONCEIVED TO GAIN
MONEY OF WIFE
Kansas City, June 23.-t-Tht Kan-
sas^ City Journal Tuesday prints a
copyright story detailing a confes-
sion of Davies, Concordia, Kan., rea-
ident, that he hired a Kansas City
gunman to slay his wife in order to
obtain her property, and of his sub-
sequent blackmailing by gunman
and their associates, when the at-
tempt at murder failed.
Davies and seven Kansas Cityans
who were alleged to have been in-
volved in the plot against Mrs. Da-
vies, were charged with assault with
intent to kill, in charges filed lat/
night at Concordia.
Davies, a retired merchant and
secretary of the Elks' club of Con-
cordia, the Journal story said, hired
Moseley »f Kansas City to kill his
wife, paying $2,000 with the prom-
ise < f $3,000 more after the claying.
Mir. Davies was attacked In her
bedroom Octobei 14, 1024, anil was
left for de.id. She recovered from a
f .ic'ured rkuil, however.
Promise Completion.
Several days after the attempted
kilting, the Journal said, Davies con-
!'<■<• 'd, Jr,o»eley and Biyan also of
Kansan City demanded the remain-
der of the money. Davies refused to
pay because the job had not been
completed. The two men, according
to Davies' confession, then offered
to complete the work.
The confession of Davies, the
Journal said, was obtained by
County Attorney Lundblade of
Cloud City, upon information fur-
nished by the Journal.
Prior to, meeting Moseley, the
c onfesslon said, Davies talked with
Lloyd Canfield and Hayden about
■ommitting the proposed, crime, hut
they would not sgree to take the
job. After the murder attempt, the
confession continued, the two men
extracted i(mall sums from Davies
for their silence.
Later Cash of Kansas City learn-
ed of the plot and continually at-
tempted to blackmail Davies.
Offers Reporters Bribe.
Shortly before his confession Da-
vies offered Heren, a Journal re-
porter, $500 to “bump off” Cash,
according to Heren.
Davies, the confession said, ob-
tained the services of Moseley after
writing to Lee Bird, Kansas City
First National Bank
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gangster, to come to see him on
“important business.” Before the
letter reached Kansas City,' Bird
was slain by a policeman. Davies
then instructed Pat Bird, Lee’s
fathpr, to turn the letter over to one
of his son’s associates. Later Mose-
ley came to see' him.
When Moseley and Bryan offered
to complete the job after Davies re-
fused to pay the $3,000, Davies, in
hi: confession, said: “I told them I
had come to my senses and would
not go through with it, and Mcseley
to'd ms at that time that he would
get
me.
CONCESSIONS FOR SALE AT
OLD SETTLERS REUNION
I am ready to receive bids for
concessions for Old Settlers Reunion
at City park on August 5, 6 and 7
on the following: Shaved ice, tub
drinks, Coca Cola, shooting gallery,
ice cream, fish, chicken and barbe-
cue, Root Beer, frozen suckers,
chewing gum and other concessions
that may be offered.
d23-3t T. C. McCORKLE, Mgr.
AUTOMOBILE LOANS
Money to loan on used cars, pay
back in ten monthly payments,
loans closed promptly. A. R.
Holmes, office back of First
National Bank, Greenville Tex-
as. (dlO-lm)
RESOLUTION
Notice to Owners of Property on
Fore Street, in the City of Sul-
phur Springe, Texas, in Improve-
ment District Number Twenty-
six ■
Notice to owners of property on
Fore Street in the City of Sulphur
Springs, Texas, in Improvement
District No. 26, the same being Fore
Street, and beginning at the inter-
section of the $aid Fore Street with
Connally Street, in and along said
Fore Street, in a southerly direc-
tion, to the intersection of the said
Fore street with Main Street, of
said City of Sulphur Springs, Tex-
as, of a hearing before the City
Commission of the City of Sulphur
Springs with reference to the as-
sessment of a part of the cost of
improving said street against said
owners and their property.
A resolution determining the ne-
cessity of assessing part of the cost
of improving Foie Street against
the owners of abutting property ani
their property, known as Improve-
ment District No. 26, and providing
for notices thereof and fixing the
time and place for such heating and
declaring an emergency.;
Whereas, the Commission of the
City of Sulphur Springs, Texas, has
heretofore by resolution directed the
improvement of Improvement Dis-
trict No. 26.of said Fore Street, in
the City of Sulphur Springs, Texas,
from the intersection of the said
Fore Street with Connally Street, in
and along said Fore Street, in a
southerly direction, to the intersec-
tion of the said Fore Street with
Main street, of said City of Sulphur
Springs, Texas, by grading, paving
and building concrete curb and gut-
ters thereon.
Whereas, thereafter, the City En-
gineer filed with the City Commis-
sion his report stating the total cost
of such improvements and the pro-
portion of such costs payable by the
different- owners of abutting prop-
erty, and the names of the persons,
firms, corporations and estates own-
ing property abutting on the propos-
ed district with a description of their
property and the total cost of such
improvements to each parcel of
property, and,
Whereas, the Commission of said
City finally determined to assess
part of the cost of said improve-
ments against said owners of abut-
ting property and their property.
Therefore, be it resolved, by the
Commission of the City of Sulphur
Springs, Texas:
1st. That it is finally determined
hereby to assess such part of the
cost of said Improvement against
the owners of abutting property
upon said street and their property
as hereinafter provided. That all
persons, corporations and estates
owning any real estate within £the
said District or any interest in said
real estate and any and all persons,
firms, corporations and estates, in
any way interested in such proposed
improvements, or the way in which
the cost of the same is to be paid,
shall file in writing with the City
Secretary of the City of Sulphur
Springs, Texas, any objections they
may have, either to the making of
such improvement or to the manner
in which the cost of same is to he
paid or to the manner fn which the
said improvement district is consti-
tuted orr any other objections which
they may desire to present. Such
notice shall be filed' with the said
City Secretary on or before the 30
day of June, A. D. 1925, when said
objections shall be fully heft'd and
considered, and if a necessity exists
the Commission shall continue said
hearing until all notices which have
been filed before said time above
specified have been duly heard.
2nd. That after the said hearing
of the notices* of protest as afore
said, said Commission will by Ordi-
nance assess against the owners of
abutting property and against their
property such sums as shall be do
terpiined to be just and' equitable
and that said assessment will be
made in accordance with the “Front
Foot Plan or Rule,” as the frontage
of such Is to the whole frontage to
be improved; provided, that t|f the
said rule or plan shall be determined
in any case to be unjust or Inequi-
table, then and in that event the
Commission will adopt such rule of
apportionment as shall be just and
equitable, having in view the bene-
fits to each owner and the ’burdens
imposed upon them; provided, that
no assessment shall be made against
any owner or his property in excess
of the benefits to said property in
the enhance value thereof by means
of such improvements.
3rd. That the total estimated coat
of said improvements is in the sum
of $8,164.08.
That the proportion of the whole
cost which is proposed to assess
against the property owners and
their property is $4.14 per front
foot.
That the amount per front foot
of abutting property on said Fore
Street in said Improvement District
as estimated is shown in the tabu-
lated - schedule hereto attached and
made a part-of this notice. That the
names of persons, firms, corpora-
tions and estates owning property
abutting the improvement, the de-
scription of their property and the
total amount to be assessed against
each parcel of property as estimat-
ed, and its owner, is as" follows, to-
wit:
Estimate of the Coat of Printiaf,
Grading, Engineering, and Paviag
Fora Stroot:
Curb and gutter, 6in.xl2iw.xl2in.
Pavement, 6 inches thick.
Length of streef______1060 feet.
2203 Lin. Ft. Comb, Curb and
Gutter.
2816.83 Sq. Yds. Pavement. Or
total of 561.4 Cu. Yds. Concrete.
Total estimate cost to im-
prove said street____..$8,164.08
Property Owners’ frontage on said
street 1972 Lin. feet
Average cost to property owners,
per front foot, $4.14.
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Property
Front
Owner Lot
Blk
Feet
Mjnttr Smith 4
19
180
J. Boggs____ 8
Christian .
19
75
Chtgrch... 8"
19
75
J. W. Arnold 21
Marvin
19
75
Thomas „. 16
Mrs. Sarah
Hughes .. 24
Miss Mamie
19
75
19
75
j Beale ____29
A. D. Mc-
19
75
Laughern . 32
19
75
J. G, Bridges 37
Klougb
19
72
Williams.. 40
19
68
R. S. Barrett 44
MarkhRoi Lbr.
19
70
Company.. 47
L.R.4N. Ry.
19
70
Company pt47 19
8
W. E. Byrd. 43
19
141
H. L. Ardis. 41
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60
O. W. Morgan 36 19
73
T. R. Lindley 33
Fore Es-
14>
75
tate. 20-25-28
19
225
R. Sheppard. 17 19
Mra. Walter "
75
Young ... 12
19
75
Hass Green.. 9
19
’75
A. M. Pate .. 3
19
180
Total
Cost
$*746.20
310.50
310.60
310.50
310.50
310.50
310.50
310.50
298.08
281.52
289.80
289.80
38.10
583.74
248.40
302.22
310.50
981.50
310.60
Total Cost---- 1972;ft.|
4th. That the City Bed
hereby directed to give no
of by publication of this
signed by him, which
shall be by advertisement ]
three (3) times on three
secutive days In the Dai]
Telegram, a daily newspaj
lished in said City of
Springs, the first public|
which shall be at least
daSrs Uefere the date for
ibjonion? and surii notice
further given by said City
mailing a copy thereof,
him, by registered mail I
said owners at their
known, or if unknown, a cl
be mailed to the agent or ]
of said owner, which
shall be deposited in the Po
of this city at least ten (j
before the date mentioned i
protest.
5th. The fact that Fore
said Improvement Dll
need of a needed improven
ates a public emergence
perative necessity that tbfa
tion be finally passed on
its introduction and take ef
be in force from and aft
sage and it is so resolved.
And the said property
their agents or attorneys,
fore notified to file their
with the City Secretary ef
of Sulphur Springa, T«
before the 30th day of Jun
1926, presenting their obji
any they have, as to said
ings or assesaments.
Passed and approved, this I
day of June, A. D. 1926. *
J. BERT THOl
Seal!
Witness my hand and
City of Sulphur Springs, Te:
310.50 Bthe third day of June, A.
310.50 JNO. M. BIGG!
745.20 City
Sales 2h Times
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Bagwell, J. S. The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 144, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 24, 1925, newspaper, June 24, 1925; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth814836/m1/2/: accessed July 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.