The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 273, Ed. 1 Friday, December 3, 1926 Page: 1 of 4
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Consolidated with Daily
Gazette July 28, 1924.
VOL. 28—NO. 278.
sctrau. ariuNQs. tbxas. pwmy. Dg^xan ln«.
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Piame Du Chien, Win., Dec. 3—
The inquest into the death of Clara
■ (Bn Annacmlnd Prtu)
• Belton, Texas, Dec. 3.—Fisher.
ye*r* uld. tod#y w®* permitted
Jpi*>09 bail after he had been for-
fiomtfmally charged ad1*1 assault to mur-
kd a older pending the5 result of wounds
|e uf sustained last night by Albert Bonds,
iy wf long time peace officer Of Bell
srhef county, and who is under indictment
•al l®for the alleged slaying of Fisher's
lentsffather.
fter i 'Bonds is reported today to have
ranc a chance to recover, although his
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Olson, found In a shallow grave^ea-
terday, was postponed today by the
u ed Tuesday night, according to
police, waa aimted hero Int night. * !
McWilliams, who was wound^in
" street fight, diad here yesterday.
Coroner until a pathologist arrives
Saturday.
In the meantime an officer is on
hi* way to Dwight, Illinois, to ques-
tion a youth believed to Have been
the sweetheart of the slain girl. He
it wanted qn a charge i murder.
(Bn Au»rinltd Prntm)
Gainesville, Texas, Dec. 8 —
Caught beneath an avalanche of cot-
ton seed, Will Lyons, 21 years old,
was smothered to death here today
Chicago^!®**1
! Lake SupwmM|
still on account io
ing the northern
tiona of the coun
Several freight*
trouble.
MAIN HOBSON
3.—Shipps
jkttoet at a
sweep-
see-
In the Gainesville Cotton Oil Mills.
He was married last Saturday to
News-Telegram:
\ou talk about having so many
men in Sulphur Springs that hear
the five o’clock whistle. I want you
to know that Weaver has a few,
Mr. Jt. B. Branom got eight bales of
cotton to the gin yesterday before j
night. Beat that with your rooster
Miss Moilie Watson of Denton.
■ C Fiaher, of Temple,1 last August, was
ur< shot and probably fatally wounded
em about 9 p. m. Thursday by an un-
iuti identified assailant. A posse was im-
{mediately organised by Sheriff
Bingham, and search for the slayer
Yakima, W^»h„ Dee. 8.—Billy
IO *»>o »peak?lC “* L“ An**,#»;
I just before noon^»L. *.V *S§v*f
of Dallas is accomnmilfc1 W#bb
speaking tour covering tbPffcJI” *
XV P««-t of the state.
*" At ‘he Fi«‘ Methodist church tSli
I ",5bt k* W,B leaver, free, his great™
Chautauqua lecture, "The Crtafc»‘
ver- No man in America ia better pre.
" st * txs?£ hT:::\z*
an man he graduated from Southern
ita- University in Alabama, then waa an-
ere pointed to the Naval Academy mV
I Annapolis, when he waa a claatmate
and special friend of Hon. Cullen F.
Thom., now 0, 0„1J(M Afttp Krad.
uating fron^tjia Naval Academy tha
Anwyfcan Government sent him to
. for a thre, y«r courw J
as « ln th® Army College of that
jy Notion. Hi* whole life has been glv-
lems we face, and undeTthf ablest
at leoderahlp pf our Uh4
»t *" th* n»val academy at Annapo-
|* “* Ciptiin Hobson wus § clAttnuite
Of Hon. Cullen F. Thomas of Dallas,
>• “nd *P«nt ye«e» In the navy. During
the Spanlsh-Amerlcan war, when It
e r*‘ *" 7*' • . • •
id "tternpt to bottle i
n Ceet in the harbor
i„ Cuba, by sinking (
across f
led seven other men with the M»rrl-
mac and scuttled it under the furi-
ous fir# from the Spanish forte.
They then under fire swam ashore
and surrendered to the Spanish com-
mander, ThJ* feat waa one of the
> many that have made the American
I navy famous and respected the world
ver.
*’ w^h,n tbe Hpanlah-Amerlcan war
n- mjjn* Captain Hobson retired
•e Conih® n*Vy ‘nd w“* elected to
l* made'*!! wb<m he introduced and
« ,ubmlt vfl‘ht for th* r**°lntlon to
•• several ^'8th am*"dm«"‘ * the
d it. adopt!,?: f0.r '••CflMtlon. Since
d his efforts'* hM h**" “»*«** In
* hack u. LtLMu **ntlment to
Sunday is going to run for President
if the Democrat* nominate Al Smith
and the Republicans don't name a
dry, he announced here.
was* instituted.
|iond» was shot in the left side of
[the "head, and the sight of one eye
probably will be lost even should he
recover, it was stated at the hos-
pital. A charge o' buckshot struck
him at a spot within a block of the
place where Fisher waa killed Aug.
20 with a shot gun similarly loaded.
«d at far as available fund, permit
hut that is only half as far aa the
[need for horses goes.
I At the present time, ’departmental
records show, many “moapted” na-
tional guard orgapliatlom are but j
I partly equipped with hones *d sev-
eral have none at all. The total
shortage i, 2,000, The funds on
hand will take care of half f^t
number and nothing can be done tq
get the remaining 1,000 until Con«
gress opens it* purse.
The War Department promises the
horseless guardsmen that a “fair
and equitable" distribution of the
mounts will b« mads as the purchases
proceed, '■ $ * 1
Los Angeles, Dec.'l.—A liquor
distilling plant:-, with an estimated
value of *600,000, described by Fed-
eral dry agents as the most exten-
sive and modern they had ever seen,
was confiscated and. five men were
arrested here today. It was one of
the biggestralds “taped in the West
since prohibition became effective.
I Mexico City, Dec. 8.—The Cover
non of the State of Tamaulipa, i,H,
ordered an investigation Into the at-
tack last week by Agrariana on an
American owned ranch near Mata-
moroa in which six Mexicans were
After the slaying of Fisher, Bonds
was not heard from by authorities
until he surrendered a few days ago
to a state ranger at Austin, He was
brought here and released on bond.
Boqtds wa, just alighting from ae
automobile at a drug store when he
jvas fired open.
Terrell, Texas, Dec. 3.—J. M,
Tucker Wednesday entered upon his
twenty-sixth consecutive year as
mail carrier in the city of Terrell.
Mr. Tucker walks approximately 13
miles a dsy, and has done so for the
past twenty-five years. Eliminating
Sundays and holidays, 291 days
mark a year’s service, or 7,400 days
in the twenty-five years. This would
amount to four trips
DIZZY DANCE &e£
WHIRL BEGINS * hsSa
IN GERMANYfe^i
■ ■ the gluten, which i
Berun, Dec, 2.—Berlin Wednes-1 be put together In
day began the dlssy whirl of ita dltlon.
meet dance-mad month tinea th# I __——
daya of the World War. I mi iifv*i > aii*ai
Twenty major ball, that will set fill WFIL NEA
thousands of feet on the terpsicho- sawn
rean path, are scheduled between! Pirif«PM/A\
now and Christmas and these do not IIIUOLff M I
include the regular daily and week- nr I
ly dances of the hotels, nor Ihe |Jfc |
countless private dancing parties
that will be held. _ ., „ .
Huge establishments, with from I ’J* Pf‘"
sii to a doten dance halls, »ccom- h y , **te ®*"k *** 1
modating up to 6,000 guests, have ,A| d
been engaged months ahead, The 7^1"* i? * *** *,Up
organisation arranging the eldef I b*^
bails Include the Athletic, Engineer,, *,ver. 'n HoPk’
Pharmaceutical, Automobile, '
thorcs.es and Turkish Clubs. f 7 *d , ?e m,lM Borl
Jh, r..!,!.- B." « Dm. 11.
which the 1927
around the
world, or 96,200 miles. HI* average
daily load ia fifty pounds, making a
total of 185 tons of mjg] delivered
in his quarter century of service.
Five more year, of service will en-
title Mr. Tucker to retirement on a
pension from the government.
Judge George C. Stephens re-
quest* that all county and precinct
officera-elect have their bonds ready
for approval by December 15, and
leave with County Clerk so that they
may be approved by the County
Court by January 1, when the new-
ly elected officers will assume their
duties.
H* Captain Hobton *
of Hon. Cullen p. Thomas of DalU.,
and r*—* _ * ■ _ •_ T*7rvm
the Kpunlsh-Amcrfcan war, when it
wa# thought to be good strategy to
- ——j ;1 ’ up Ike 8paitish
• at t Santiago,
the Merrimac
the entrance, CepUIn Hobson
CAPTAIN HOBSON
Leeturer tonight at the Methodist
Church.
Mr*. Carl Ward is makihg a very
fine record with her flock of thor-
oughbred White Leghorns at her
home in the east part of town. She
has 250 hens and pullets and during
the month of November made an av-
erage of $4.50 per day from eggs
sold. Her feed bill amounted to $1.50
per .day, Carl talk* about his chick-
ens but Mrs. Ward is the real power
behind the throne in making such a
marked success of the poultry busi-
ness. She has one of the latest and
most up to date poultry houses in
East Texas.
. (Bn Attocmud Ifttt)
Somerville, N. J., Dec. 8.—Alex-
ander Simpson, special prosecutor In'
the Hall-Mills case, completed his
argument to the jury this morning.
The court recessed for an hour. „
At the opening of the afternoon
session Supreme Court Justice Par-
ker will deliver his charge. The case
is expected to go to the jury at 2
o’cloek. * ,
Dallas, Dec. 3.—“Goodbye. 1
can’t stay no longer,” White, 42
years old, formerly a peddler, wrote
on the back of an envelope shortly
before he swallowed poison at his
home Wednesday night. Mrs. White
found him dead in bed.
He had been despondent for some
time because of illness and had
threatened to end his life,” Mrs.
White toW police
hospital doctors.
White retired
Menti Carr and Seif Robinson are
writing back West Texas for
room in old njh iown uinty. They
left Neita aTWC^JInths ago for that
country but are homesick,and on the
way back. They will be here soon
Queen of Fashion
will be chosen, is attracting unuau-
al interest.
early Wednesday
night, according to his wife. Two
hour* later she found him. Emer-
gency hospital doctors, who wet*
called, said that death was due to
poisoning.
A bottle, which had contained car-
bolic acid, and the note, were found
beside him in the bed.
The local sales force and em-
ploye, of the Pari* Grocer Compa-
ny^he Seamon-East Grocer Compa-
ny and the Adkins-Polk Grocer Com-
pany held a banquet Thursday night
at the Nelson cafe with Mr. Wil-
liams of the Seamon-East and Mr.
Bagby of the Paris Grocer Company
in charge. A very fine feast of good
things to eat waa served, after which
I splendid business and social ses-
aion was held that proved very in-
teresting and profitable to all in at-
tendance.
The cotton market is practically
unchanged for the week with prices
ranging as high as 13c. One hundred
twenty-six bale* were brought in on
Thursday, bringing the total receipts
for the season up to.14,742 bale*.
Auttln, Texas, Dec. 3__Judge
Calhoun today rendered a Judgment
for $20,464 for Dexter, Dallas sub-
contractor under the Hoffman Con-
struction Company and intemnor
in the State’s suit against the com-
ucers on Board the alleged rum run-
ner it yet unknown.
A score of vettojt tr* ttill searcb-
Pocatello, Ida., Dec. 8.—An order
haa been received from Washington
pany for recovery of alleged *xce*-[by 8. R, Justice, ranger in charge of
sive proflta on highway contract#. tb* Pocatello division of th# Cache
Attorneys for the Hoffman Com- National Fore#t reserve, to make a
pany gave notlde of appeal in the Uurvey of the wild horses on th«
Dexter case. Pocatello range. Th# survey is to be
•...................................- m*d* In order that the number and,
ICintliP PITI7CII lueatlon of the horimi may b# had
LlAUIIiU III I MLlI! tor tk* Purpo## of arranging a “wild
OF DALLAS DIES According to Mr. Justice, It i«
Ul UM.LIHJ UILO intended to #t#rt the hunt in the
nr pyrimninicm>n* °f th* n*xt tbr>* "m**
Ul r nCUIMJMA j <*'•«'* there are cloee to 300 her###
- on the range which are too wild to
<Bn Smmwm pjmt eorral and whkh are harmful to
Dallas, Dee. 3.—-G. if. Shoellkoff, the gam# oh the preeerve*. It is
foq#lr here of on# of the largest I to kill off these animal# that th#
saddlery and harness manufacturing forestry department is arranging
concerns in the counW died today the hunt.
ing the Gulf of Mexico
schooner.
Austin, Dec. 2._D*sPRe the feet
that Gov. Miriam A. Ferguson grant-
ed in egc#*^ of 190 pardons during
the month of November, including
the Thanksgiving pardons, the pris-
on population of Texas only decrees-
ed 17, according to reports received
by the executive department. On
Nov. I, there were 3,832 prisoners
in the penitentiary and on the state
farm#, while on Dec. 1, the number
was 3,316.
These 3,316 convict# are distribut-
ed as follows: Asylums, 24; Blake-
ley farm, 70; Blue Ridge, 288: Cle-
mens, 277; Farrington, 168; East-
ham, 292; Ferguson, 168; Goree. 62;
Harlem, 249; Huntsville, 321; Im-
perial, 346; Ramsey, 462; Retrieve,
171; Shaw, 146; Senior, 106; Wynn#
112; Oil Mill, 54.
London, Dec. 2.-—The greatest
industrial strugdKe it, history, involv-
ing between 5,000.000 and 10,000,-
000 men and costing England *2.
000,000,000, a sum equal to the
country’s war debt, came to an end
at midnight Thursday,
With return of the South Wales
miners to the pits, the British offi-
cial wireless broadcast the follow-
ing message:
“The roal stoppage, which crip-
pled British trade for seven months,
definitely ended Thursday."
Revocation of the emergency pow-
ers regulation*, under whkh Great
Britain ha* been governed since
shortly after the coal strike began,
was made effective at midnight
her finger a month ago are thought
factor# in the queer slumber ^nto
which she fall*.
The sleeps come on with slight
warning, but indications are that the
girl doe* not immediately lose pow-
er to walk when she becomes un-
conscious.
The sleep last week canto on in
the middle of the day. Miss Kelly
had washed her hair and wa* dry-
ing It. She walked out into the sun-
shine in the yard, had a diwy spell
and lost consciousness.
©n November 24, 1926, st their
holme near Fine Forest, Mr. and Mrs.
Johm Anglin celebrated their Silver
wedding anniversary1 with their four
fhildren, Mrs. Lonnie Turrentine,
Mrs. Floyd Parnell, Mr. Raymond
Anglin land wife), and Mis# Myrl
Anglin, being present.
Among the presents received was
a handsome silver soup ladle, which
was used freely a{ the noon hour.
<- The occasicn was enjoyed by all.
and ended with wishes for many
more happy years for Mr. and Mrs.
Anglin. ONE PRESENT.
The Woman’s Missionary 8<
of tho Christian church *0} ol
their annual Woman’# Day si
at th* regular preaching hour
day morning. . r/ jjl
^Judgo J^ H. Davis w$ fc
•d to be pre*ent.KV8r,f *"* * 1
The Womanlets Divorce Cu* will
be held at the High School next Fri;
day night. Water for further an
nouneements. ,
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Bagwell, J. S. The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 273, Ed. 1 Friday, December 3, 1926, newspaper, December 3, 1926; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth826459/m1/1/: accessed July 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.