The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 121, Ed. 1 Friday, May 21, 1937 Page: 6 of 8
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<6y Eli Hargrave.)
Rentiniaeance* and some pleasant
with a brief historical
the vicinity of Dike. We
tag an effort, and no
in this effort you will find
but we'are trying to give
late*in 1882. She was married
to Elmer Craig late in life. She died
at 82,,Fab. 11, 1914. Isabella, born
Feb. 26, 1834, and died April 29,
1911, She was blind. Sarah, was horn
April 2, 1836. After reaching her
majority she was married to Francis
‘ Davis. She djed Jan- 28, 1906. Wee.
ley, born about 1888, entered the
Civil War and died, In the service.
The father, David, horn Oct. 9, 1804,
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Dike has net always been Dike,
goes, it has been
by fsereral different names,
beginning-this community of
irs extended-to beyond Caney
the smith, u, rloml Hiam h
west, to Cross (Timber and
er Branch on the north and to
bounds of now Flora on the
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These people in this vicinity were
neighbors and visited eaeh ether.,as
friends in hern or .ox wagons, but
y at that time newer, by automobile,
Thcy began settling he«o aaiaarly as
1^46 wftd of course fonnd no rail nor
wire fances bat bleak prairies covers
ad With longhpra oatgle, mustang
ponies i aitrd < jack rabbtW; with ' the
timbered regions Infested with, raor
eoon*, *quir**ls('deer sad ocossional
ly a Mick baar,*iY«u may -wallimag-
ine tha grave undertaking that con-
fronted theip.fand while we have no
hero specially ia this story, we
consider every man and woman
mentioned id this article a hero and
heroine to the fullest extent.
Of eourse at this time Dike was
unknown, a half century In the fu
lure, just a mere spot on the old
Jefferson, road leading from the
praitfifti of the west to the timbers
of tbe east, with a crossing on White
Oak H Cre*k, afterward familiarly
known as the Armstrong croseing.
Aboet the first settlers herofwere
the rVesees, McCauleys and Ratliffs
on the south, the Smiths, ihe jCUck*
and EWridgot on the west, the Con-
ner*. Pendletons and Millers on the
east,, soon-to find the Smiths locat-
ed do Cross Timber Creek en the
north..
The Vosses, McCauleys and Rat
1 Iff si seme..here from Tennessee in
184$. i With the Smithe from-Ken
tucky at about the eg me date. Wil-
liam, Vo^Wtarent efsMwWo* .fam-
ily, mode hi*, settlement R teems on
the highest spot, an elevated rocky
point,!that, heefound near Caney
Cre»k. on,,the i farm now owned by
Onis Taylor. Here he built a log
house and resided for a few years,
aftetward-meyin* *orth and locating
about wbllre.Hunter Moss now lives
He hSd two sons and two (laughters
of our. knowledge, namely: Eli, John,
Clara and Melinda. >:*
Clara Vote married Henry Mc-
Cauley. They were parents to Geo
Reily and Vesaie McCauley. They
made their settlement and home on
thetblll just east with their farm ad-
joining the,Voss farm, the place now
known as the County Farm. Ceorge
McCauley married Ann Co.nncr, the
daughter ef^Matiry *nd Bettie Con
ner, .They first settled what is now
known as. the Sam Parker place
Reily MeCauley married Ada Dil-
lingham, (daughter of Jim DlUIng-
bamrntid granddaughter of KUlridgr
Hopkins. Their home was next north
to bis brother George, the Kate
Burkbam place. ,Vesaie MeCauley
married Bettie Smith, daughter of
Rafis Cnllen and Peggie Smith. Their
home is npw known,ae the Joe Wor
sham place. , a .
Melinda Voss married David Rat
liff. They made their home onB
tract of land just west and adjoin!
ing her father’s home on Caney
Creek. Thev had the following chil
dree: Elisabeth Jane, born Jan. 13.
1831. She waa married to John
Kearney- in early womanhood. Shi*
diediJune 29, 1973. Ann Ratliff
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died May 22, 1868. Melinda, the Hargrave brothers.
mother, born March 20, 1814, died
May 14, 1883. Buried at Conner
Cemetery-
Ei Voss married Frances Har-
grave, daughter of Seth Hargrave
lgarn from this record including flood control and land
other con-
these Voss children, the Me-
at this place. It was called Mt. Zion.
You will
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Csuley children and the Ratliff chil-
dren were all cousins.
You will also note that Johnnie
Hargrave and Lou Hargrave-Shoffit
were first cousins and both first
tousins to Frances Hargrave-Voss,
mother of Jeff Voss and wife of Ell
Voss. They were children of three
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Indiana, both of whom died before
aha oarne to Texas with her uncle,
Harvey. Hargrave, in 1842. Their
children were Marion, Jeff D., and
Martha. Marion died young, Mar-
tha married-Sam Bone. Jeff mar-
ried Ummie DeBord, by whom he
raised , a family of children, but has
now .passed,to her reward. He is
passed 75 years of age but is still
on the go. He is happily domiciled
■pit his old home with Aunt Lizzie,
his present wife, and is on the same
farm where he was born Aug, 5,
1801. His parents lived on this
farm continuously until their death.
They are burfed at the Smith grave-
yard. Uncle Jeff, with his sister,
Mattie, and his cousin, Aunt Lusana
Thomason, are the only surviving
member* of this generation of the
Vwss family. c
John Voss, son of William Voss,
married a Miss Ashmore*, He made
his settlement and home farther
east on Caney, about what we call
tbe old Hudson place, now owned by
J. W. Brant estate. Some of their
children,were. George, John, Melvina,
Lucinda, Caroline, Serena and Lu-
snoa. George Voss married Mary
Bullard. They were parents to Hgr-
vey and Ella Voss. They once liv-
ed in a little log house on the hill
about where Ed Bennett now lives.
John Voss Jr. married Lonnie Craig.
They had Ida, Ue and Effie. Ves-
pto waa his son by a former marri-
age. Melvina married Bill Hogsett.
They were parents to Dora, Josic,
Pearl and others. Lucinda married
Wilson Miller, father of Johnnie and
Levi Miller. Serena murried Mr.
Coppage. Caroline married Henry
Shrode, a rural school teacher of
that day. His first marriage was to
Manerva Hargrave, sister of Leo and
Alfred Hargrave. Her second mar-
riage was to Uncle Johnnie Young-
blood, who will be kindly remem-
bered by many as an efficient teuch^
er and Instructor in vocal music. He
was a wonderful character, born in
Texas, Nov. 16, 1804, died Sept. 25,
1910, nearly 106 years old. With so
many years well spent makes a re-
markable record.
Lusana, the last surviving member
of this family, was born Nov. 4,
1849. Shfi was first married to Mr.
King; one girl, Willie, was born to
their; union. After the death of
Mr. King she was married to Elisha
Thomason in 1874. Mr. Thomason’s
home at this time was what wo call
the Rafe Pendleton home place
where his father and mother, Nat
and Amanda Pendleton resided for
a number of years. Mr. Pendleton
bought this place from Mr. Thoma-
son in 1875. In 1877 the Thomason
family moved north about four miles
to the Tom Thomason place, where
they remained a short while tiH it
was sold- to Uncle Bill Johnson,
where Marcelius Johnson now owns
and occupies. Mr. Thom-
ason then moved south to what was
known as the K*»g place. Elisha and
Tom Thomason were sons of Elisha
Thomason Sf., an early settler of
(his community, who once owned
and occupied a furrn north of the
Addie Arganbright place which we
have known ns the old France place.
In about 1860 the first' school
house in this community was erected
by the neighbors and built of logs
to be used for school and church
purposes. “All buildings at this time
>r nearly all, were built of logs, andl
the first fences were often built of
brush und later of 8 foot rails. This!
school building was located across
the branch east and south from the
Fate Burkbam home place. It was
.afterward moved west and north
across the branch for its second lo-
cation, where it was still used for
the same purpose. Aunt Lula Thom-
ason, mother of Mrs. John Eppars,
tells us that in this log structure and
primitive building, she acquired 'most
of her book learning. She says
that our late Aunt Lou Shoffit, then
Lou Hargrave, in her school girl
days, once spent a winter in the
home of Eli Voss and attended school
at this place, they being school girl
friend* at this time.
The late Johnnie Hargrave oncej
told us of making u school session at)
that building, boarding in the home I
of Eli Vo»s and having R. W. Bil-J
Jups as his teacher. He said Mr. Bil-
lups, being a Baptist minister, would
occasionally preach at the school-
house. These neighborhood gather-
ing* were great occasions for the
neighbors at that time, and no doubt,
were enjoyed to the limit. Cull Rat-
liff, nephew of David Ratliff, and
u Mr. Wilson were other teachers'1
MOSQUITO, SOIL
PROJECTS EMPLOY
5,576 IN TEXAS
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Washington.
Mosquito eradica-
tion was providing work for 3,305
petoon* dn Texjs* at the end of last
March and 2,271 more were at work
on soil and water conservation proj-
ects of the WPA, according to an
accounting of employment and mon-
ey spent made public recently by
Harry L. Hopkins, Work* Progress
Administrator.
The number of WPA conservation
’ptiojects In the State wa* reported
at 130 with an estimated cost of
$3,179,110. At the end of March,
Texas was participating in only three
of the six types of conservation
projects operated by WPA. The
■projects and number employed on
eaeh, a* of last March 81, follow:
BUJMB.WHW ...11 1 '
Irrigation and water conservation, the *end of March, of which only 2,-
utilization, 46 persons;
servatkm projects, 867 persons,
WPA Work Curtailed.
General curtailment of WPA ac-
tivities if! March is indicated by
comparative figures for earlier per-
iods. The peak of employment in
Texas was reached in December of
1936, when 5,801 were at work on
irrigation and water conservation
projects including flood control, out
of a total of 6,195 employed an
WPA conservation projects of all r !
types.
Peak of employment in mosquito
eradication, in Texas was reached in
March, 1936, when 4,419 persons
were at work. By June, 1936( the
number employed had dropped to 2,-
823 but climbed back to 3,072 by
the end of December.
WPA conservation projects on
which no one tn Texas was reported
employed at any time were: Stream
pollution elimination; forestation,
and plant, Crop and livestock con-
servation,
WPA failed to provide a break-
down for Texas of Federal and
State contributions to the cost of the
conservation projects. For the No-
tion, however, the completed cost of
6,031 conservation project* was re-
ported at $195,786,743. of which
amount $174,083,917 was federal
money and $21,702,826 contributed
loeally.
More than 118,500 persons were
employed on the 6,031 projects at
271 were in Texas. In addition,'26,-
692 were at work on mosquito con-
trol in 26 States, of which number
6,305 were in Texas.
Other federal agencies'operating
with relief funds under the works
program provided work for $10,577
persons on conservation projects. Of
that number the Civilian Conserva-
tion Corps gave work to 309,525.
LAYINGEST HEN
’INTHE COUNTRY
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Stephenville, Texas.—The “layin’r
est hen in the country” has. some-
thing to cackle about.
It is a single-combed White Leg-
horn J. T. Rarnage of Temple en.
tered in the John Tarleton College
International Egg-laying Contest,
one of 17 such experiments in the
United States. She Jayed 2(H) eggs
in 204 days to jump far ahead of
the some 7,000 fjne birds compet-
ing.
After entering the contest, the
Ramage Leghorn layed every day for
17,1 days. T. A. Hensarling, head of
the John tarleton poultry depart-
ment and manager of the contest,
says the hen completed the longest
laying cycle on record in America
and deserves the title of the “layin’
eft hen jn the country.”
The Tarleton contest is self-sup-
porting, entrance fees and eggs pay-
in* 'all-the-costs.-Thirty-two pons of
13 birds each, or a total of 416 hens,
were entered. The contest last* about
a year. - .
Th'e other 16 contests are con-
ducted in practically the same man-
ner and all have the same put-pose—
the testing of method* designed to
increase production pet hen.
All birds art trap-nested so an ac-
curate -cheek can be kept on each
bird’s output. Result* of the eonteets,
Hensarling says, make available sig-
nifigant information to poultry rais-
ers. The results include the response
to the various breeds to specific
treatment and feed. The effect of
special breeding on egg production,
and general information on the be-
havior of the laying birds.
The Tarleton contest,' one of the
oldest in the country, has been con-
ducted annually for 17 years.
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Syrup Labels, either blank or priut-
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Prices for Saturday
ENGLISH PEAS
Blue p OCn
Circle fa canifaWV
MINCE MEAT
White *3 ORo
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We respectfully call your attention to
our New Market Department . . . install-
ed this week and now ready to serve
you. Clean and sanitary throughout,
everything; has been arranged for your
convenience in shopping for all your
food needs at one place.
Our Market will carry a full stock of
fresh and cured meats in a wide price
range. Especially featured will be
Baby Beef cuts . . . and price* will al-
ways be consistently LOW!
MACARONI
or SPAGHETTI
3 pkgs. 10c
Steak
Vanilla EXTRACT
L 10c
S O D A
2 pkg». 15c
J E L L O
All flavor. pkft. 5C
CANE SUGAR
10 \r 57c
Mixed Sausage L>
Beef Roast ^
Sliced Bacon u
Full Cream Cheese
Dry Salt Jowls
Oleomargarine
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Bologna "• 10c Wieners
Prices for Saturday
B A N A N A S
14c
APPLES
Doz. 1 4C
CORN FLAKES
vlT 10c
SOUR PICKLES
25 15c
CIGARETTES
_ A11 Popular 4 F.
Brandt I 3C
OATS
Large Size, 4 A.
3-Minute I 3C
MEAL
American <4 Lb.
Beauty I W bags1
SUGAR
MUSTARD
MATCHES
Cooking Oil
CATSUP
Tobacco
Quart
Jar
boxes
Gallon
Frazier’s
14 oz. bottle
Country
Gentleman
Pkgs.
Jefferson
Street
Bevis ti Owens
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You’ll like its full flavor
and
FULL STOCK OF
Feeds and Field Seeds
Feed Store Located Three Doors East of Our Store
on Jefferson Street
Bring L* Your Cream and Eggs
Highest Cash Prices Paid
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Bagwell, J. S. The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 121, Ed. 1 Friday, May 21, 1937, newspaper, May 21, 1937; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth825701/m1/6/: accessed July 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.