The Jacksboro Gazette (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 27, 1934 Page: 1 of 4
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JACKSBORO, TEXAS, THURSDAY, DEOEMBER 27, 1934
NUMBER 30.
Farm Report Enumerators To Be Banquet Honoring Teachers Oiven Fire Destroys Lee Harley’s Store.' At The First Christian Church.
Employed By Census Bureau.
The Census Bureau
employ at least 25,000
will soon
enumera-
tors to obtain data in every town-
ship or similar subdivision in the
United States for its regular live-
yearly report on the status of ag-
riculture.
The census Bureau insists that
its enumerators have
By Lions Club. Lee Harley’s variety store was
^ .. .. .. . , . destroyed by fire at 3 o’clock last
Complimenting the teachers of.Sunday morning. The loss is esti-
the J,H k8tM.ro schools and wiveslmated around *in,0(H)
of Lions, the Jacksboro Lions
Club entertained with a banquet
at the First Baptist Church,
Thursdavt Dec. 20th. The Christ-
mas theme was carried out in the
table decorations, and iu the pro-
the follow-j gram. After
be course dinner
a delicious three-
ing qualifications: They must be j course dinner, the following pro-
citizens of the United States; gram wa» enjoyed:
have at least an elementary edu-
cation and be able to write legibly
and fairly rapidly; be energetic
men and women of good address,
character and habits; have a
practical knowledge of farming
or some occupation closely 'con-
nected with farming, i. e., farm-
ers, graduates or students of ag-
ricultural schools, familiar with
farm conditions, and be residents
of and well known to the citizens
of the locality in which their du-
ties are to be performed.
The Census Bureau will give pref-
erence in its appointments to far-
mers, farmers’ wives, sons and
daughters. Properly qualified
veterans will also be given pref-
erence.
Two hundred twenty-five dis-
Merry Christmas, Judge H. C.
McClure.
Music, High School Orchestra.
Christmas Carols, Mrs. Ivan P.
Oliver.
Solo, Mir. Rex Younger.
The Rosary; Perpetuo, Mrs. Iven
Hensley.
Christmas Story, M.s, H. H.
McConnell.
Santa’s*Visit, Mr. A. A. Files.
J. B. Wells Golf Champion.
It will be of interest to a num-
ber of friends of George Cherry-
homes to know that he will occu-
Cause of py the pulpit of the First Chris-
the blaze was not determined. jtian Church both morning and
The flames had spread through- night on next Sunday, Dec. 30.
out the store when the fire was George is well known to the peo-
discovered by the night watch- pie of Jack County, he being the
man, John Whitaker. won of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Cher-
The burning of the store is a ryhomes Sr. lie is a junior in
big loss to .Jacksboro and Jack Texas Christian University and is
County, and the people hope that pastor of the churches at Grand
Mr. Harley will build the store j Prairie and Rule, Texas, serving
back and resume business before each of the two, half-time. He
long. 'served as pastor of the local
Reporti are that the building church for some months, previ-
und stock were insured j ous to the calling of the present
-—• — - ! pastor. Rev. Oliver Harrison. Ser-
Gruat Britain controls nearly a be^iu at 10:50 a. in. and 7 ;00
fourth of the habitable land on P-*1}*
the earth. I *'ie l)i! *or l'as announced a
■ — «--change in meeting days for the
Montgomery Ward and Bryson Io«al ehurch beginning with Jan-
uary. 1935. Regular church days
Teams Meet at Bryson. have been changed from the first
The Montgomery Ward & Co. ‘""I ,llin! Sunday* to the second
mg— " Sundays
Mrs. H. M. Bunnell.
Mrs. H. M. Bunnell, (nee Ida
Frances Ewing) was born in Tu-
pelo, Miss., Oct. 17, 1861. She
was married to II. M. Bunnell in
1877, on her sixteenth birthday.
They lived together as devoted
husband and wife for 57 years.
He preceded her in death only
ten days. To this union were
horn nine children, four preced-
Martin Littleton, Former Texan,
Dies In New York.
Martin W. Littleton former
Texas man who achieved fame in
New York as a lawyer and ora-
tor, died Wednesday, the 19th, in
a Long Island hospital, from heart
diseuse after a three months’ ill-
ness*
Press
reports say of him that
ingthem indeat'h.'one'm infancy! I'1?1™* h“ lefd hc **<*»'■
one, Lee, at the age of three yeurs,
He served as counsel for Truman
X. Newberry, former senator
from Michigan who was charged
with making unwarranted elec-
tion expenditures, and also was
counsel for Harry F. Sinclair in
was
and fourth
month.
of each
ee’s whistle to the last, the game
a thriller and held the large
of fans spellbound.
basket ball team of Fort Worth
Another champion shooter car- journeyed out to Brvson Saturday
nes the honors of the Jacksbo/o jiliRht> Dec. 22nd. for a basket ball
Loll t lub. Jack Wells and ^er*jgame with the Bryson Texans,
nie Jones of Bryson squared away pYoin the first blow of the refer-
last Sunday afternoon to shoot
for the grand prize of our latest ■ was
. handicap event. At the outset | crow(t
cl|U Amdleations'for n« L wlns^a1 a trick shot out j pame en(jed with the final score basket hall boys played good hall
brmXbyj,,:fol^ $*.?,‘i*00!* u,uint theT<'?,r’ fror- S'" "er<> b>',,ioj<'r,"-v'1
malt direct ,o the supervisors in1^ that We!^ w"' Th* t-”’* wlU ^
the particular locations as soon as usillf? vWv,1(! ^ (.n his opponent
announcement of their appoint- adjustments were made, but the
The
Antelope.
Antelope, Dec. 20.—The volley
ball girls defeated the Jermyn
girls, Wednesday night. The
Jimmie, at the age of twenty-two,
Lilly at the age of twenty. Five
children survive her, viz.: Eugene
of Paradise, Elmer and Ed of
Jacksboro, Bert of Graham, and
Miss Lena of Jacksboro. Surviv- . ... . . . . . , .
cd alao by thirUcu grand-clul-1 *he b"b^‘ l‘‘al m 'vb‘lbbe
dren. Two of these, Byron and
Hazel, were practically reared in j *''* 0,1 'Ml1
the home of their grandparents. *?u‘m t>l !’ conguss ip ",is
Mrs. Bunnell is also survived by !),,ni! ' 1 V" Nlt V" T
one sister, Mrs. Frank Crouch, oil?™*1-™; U<‘ was 1,orn 1,1 len
Blanket, Texas.
It was my blessed privilege to
be in tlm home of this dear wont-
nessee. hut \v11 to New York
l-‘ 1 ‘ .......“ • after living
biles discovered that Wells was on tj)e Bryson gym floor at 8:30
p. m. Friday night, Dec. 28.
his Into twenties
Texas for many years, ile began
the practice of law at Weather-
ford, going from there to Dallas,
and from Dallas to Now York.
He is survived by his wife, for-
Mamle Wilson of Dal-
ment appeal's in the local papers.
Applicants for the position of
enumerator will be given a test
by representative of the Census
Bureau from Washington and
the district supervisor. Such tests giij'die four to win the match four
will show the relative fitness of
the applicants for the position.
first nine ended with Wells still
five up. .lack faltered a bit on
the first few holes of tile second
round but rallied on the fifteenth
and holed a ten-foot putt for
The box score—
Brvson Texans:
up and three to go. Mr. Wells
_ , ... , got into the semi finals in the last
l:i\mcn. of enumerator* willlb* i(IUI ltillllt.nl Hhooting migin.x good
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a piece-price basis Active, | cr0jf atl(i now he is the big shot,
energetic and thorough workers Notice, all golfersBe at Coun-
r should earn $4.00 to $5 00 per day ty Building Friday, Dec 28th, at
for an employed period of 15 to 7:;j0 p Boone
2<J days.
The work is not difficult to
perform as the information re-
quired by the Census Bureau is
fully and specifically indicated
on each report schedule.
Interested persons may obtain
“sample copies” of the general
farm schedule or questionnaire
which will be used by writing the
Bureau of Census. Washington,
D. C.
Family Reunion At Bryson.
A family reunion was held at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. S. II.
Denning of Bryson, this week.
Sixty-one relatives mere present,
among them being 1. G. Coley and
family of Jacksboro.
State Finals High School Football.
The Amarillo Sandies and the
Corpus Christi Buccaneers will
battle it out for the high school
championship of the state, Satur-
day at 2:30 in the Fair Park, in
Dallas.
Corpus Christi reached the finals
by defeating the Greenville team
34 to 14, at Houston neutral site.
Amarillo defeated the Masonic
Home Masons last Saturday at
Butler Field in Amarillo by a
score of 3 to 0.
House, (e) f.
FL.
FT. PF. TP?
3
2
3
8
Riddle, f.
5
2
1
12
Johnson, c.
6
!
2
16
Chafin, f.
1
0
0
2
1 Henderson, g.
1
0
4
2
(’asliey. g.
1
n
4
2
Beniberton, g.
1
2
2
4
Totals 17 10 15 44
Montgomery Ward Co.:
FL. FT. PF. TP.
Martinec, f.
1
i
1
3
Spain, f.
2
1
3
5
1 lames, f.
3
0
1
8
Puryear, c.
4
1
3
9
Reeves, g.
0
1
2
1
Dinney, g.
2
3
4
7
Chastain g.
0
0
3
0
Totals
12
9
17
33
A. J. Myers Honored.
A. J. Myers was surprised with
a birthday dinner given him at
his home here, on Dec 9th, by
relatives and friends. Those pres-
ent were the honcrec and Mrs.
Myers, Mr. and Mrs. Kyle Spiller,
Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Callaway, Mr».
T. C. Callaway, Jacksboro; Mr.
and Mrs. A. J. Myers Jr., and R.
C. Lanning, Vineyard; Mrs. Henry
Curtis and Henry Lawrence Cur-
tis of Dallas.
Symphony Orchestra. ~
A meeting of the Symphony
Orchestra was held at the home of
Mrs. J. W. *Spears, with eighteen
present, among the number being
Mitjs Shuster and Mr. Hensley,
both teachers in the grammar
school. Handicaps were tested in
a much harder piece and the stu-
dents showed up very good. Af-
ter the meeting refreshments
were served.
The next meeting will be at
Mrs. Rauschelbaeh’s home, Mon-
day, Dec. 31st.
Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Copeland
| made a business trip to Fort
I Worth Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Bowen have
returned from p few days’ visit in
Vernon.
Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Rounsaville
niadq a business trip to Mineral
Wells Saturday.
Clint Rollans of Vernon spent
a few Jays here la*t week, with
relatives.
Miss Lois Patton of Wichita
an many times, and if I could
have been there more my own life
would have been enriched the
more. Notwithstanding the fact.
that she had been an invalid, un- .,uer • .. ... r ... .
able to walk, for twenty-three las; o»ic son. Martin \\ Littleton
years, it was a blessing to be in ^.r” " ,s * ls 1 ll. r
her heavenly presence. She 'fas ^a*saM ',UM ' ,ini, ,l ."°T" 1 ’
uncomplaining, and always cheer-UY Ldtleten ot >en no«»v. .m.m
ful and patient in her sulTerimr. I ' . . . .. , 4
1 In* Littleton taimly moved to
patient in her suffering.
She was converted ar .1 united I
with the church at the age 0f j Weatmnd^^
fourteen, and no one has doubted sm‘l
her Christian faith, or questioned
her devotion. To the home of
which she was the housewife there
was always added a “prophet’s
chamber,” and that home has
sheltered and fed many a preach- j ‘4ut l1^
er of the gospel, and other Chris-
tian workers as well.
This couple, Brother and Sister
II. M. Bunnell, labored long and
when Martin \va> a
hoy. lie was employed by
a Weatherford newspaper for a
time and later began the study of
law in Weatherford. Ilf
mitted 1<> tin* bar at tin*
and was named
was
miss uuis rmum oi w icnixa > • ’ —, , ^ -----
Falls visited relatives here during;}'*' ’ an*« fhe Good Father above
ad-
ige of 20
assistant prose-
A few years la-
he went to Dallas and then*
was married to Miss Wilson, lu
1S94 Mr. Littlton was made eouiv-
ty attorney of Dallas. Afterward
he went to New York where he
ter
D. G. Hughes, Mgr.,
Bryson Texans,
Indpt. B. B. Team.
There
Cotton Report.
were 1,439 bales of cot-
the past week.
Mr. and Mrs. Boley Sanders of
Archer City spent the week-end
here.
Mrs. J. B. Sharp spent the
week-end in Poolville.
Mr. and Mrs. Rpyce Eilaiul of
Shannon visited relatives here
this week.
I.„» fit to move them, so close kumed ","umwid' fami ;ls a lau'
together,
clime.
to a higher and better
Her pastor,
A. R. Bilberry,
ver.
Mr. Littleton was a delegate to
the Democratic national conven-
tion in 1904 at St. Louis and
there presented flu* name of Alton
B. Parker as the nominee for
Post Oak School News.
Post Oak. Dec. Dec, VI—- School
is progressing nicely with the ex-
ception of several cases of chiek-
. . .. , , i- , , enpox and whooping cough being
to,, collating round hs half bales, „„ the pllpU‘. ,
irmnn/l m .Innlr I ’nnnlir f 4 ho r r r
ginned in Jack County, from the
crop of 1934 prior to December
The P. T. A. will meet Thursday
night at which time pupil* of Mrs.
bales
1933.
Beans Prairie.
Dec. 26.—Quite a number of
young people from Oundiff attend-
ed the Christmas entertainment
at the school house here Christ-
mas Eve. There was a Christmas
tree and the school gave a short
program and instrumentat music
was furnished by a quartette.
Live Oak reports a nice Christ-
mas tree and a good time on Fri-ither
Baptist’s Christmas Son3 Service.
Laycock Brothers’ Service Station
Hijacked.
day afternoon.
Mrs. Ha ire from east Texas is
visiting her daughter. Mrs. Roy
Bean, who teaches at Live Oak.
The T. M. Berry home had as
a Christmas program.
Following is the honor roll for
the third month of the school:
1st grade—Elizabeth Fulcher,
Winnie Williamson, Velma Lee
Schmitton, Gwineth Roland.
2nd grade—Vera Sue Busk.
3rd grade-Dorothy Jane Marsh.
Lorea Reynolds, Bettie Jo Roland,
Norma Jpane Fulcher.
6th grade—Mary Ellen Boyd,
Annie Lon FnJntw»r Charles Ray
Hood.
7th grade—Raymond Leek, Lu-
Deweber, Emmet Deweber,
Federated Auxiliaries, Christian I President.
Church, Monday at 3 P. M.
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i *
Song.
Invocation. Mrs. II. A Wills.
Business.
Devotional, Mrs. J. P. Simpson.!
Piano trio, Mines. R. L. Hender-
son, P. E. Woolley, J. K. Turner, j
Japanese Statesman, Mrs. R. L. I
Gwnltney.
Reading. “The New Year,”
Betty Sue Ilieks.
Song.
Play. Presbyterian ladies. ]
Cotton Spinning for November.
The Bureau of the Census *aii-|
nounces that, according to pre-1
Mminary figures, 30,900.436 cot-
ton spinning spindles were in I
place in the United States on No-1
vember 30, 1934, of which 25,050,-
778 were operated at some time
during the month, compared with
25,095,480 for October, 22,112.888
for September, 24,153,998 for Au-1 early initiated him iu ’iie Chris-
Intermediate League Dec. 30th.
Subject. “Its Fun To Grow.”
Leader. Hazel Tipton
Song, “Open My Eyes ”
Scripture. Ps. 19:7-14, Leon
Reeves.
Songs, “I Would Be True,”
“He Leadeth Me ”
Being Pioneer. Peggy Stevens.
Making the most of opportuni-
ties, Louise Riggs.
Why go to church sehool, Pete
(’olev.
A growing knowledge of God,
Lewis Riggs.
Prayer. Mrs. Stewart.
Benediction.
What A World.
(By Tenney \L*Dowell)
Do you know that—
Sf. Nicholas whs horn !>•»*• ‘143,
at Patura. a city of Lveia. . His
parents were Christians. They
The Christmas song service
held at the First Baptist Church
Sunday night, the 23rd, was a
well rendered program replete
with the true Christmas spirit
and was enjoyed by a large con-Jin_lhe car at the wheel,
gregation.
T , nil j . . , guests for Christmas all of
bust, Thursday moroiug about > chUdren and gr„ndchitdren.
12:30 a car Mrith three men in it
Opal Deweber, Lowell Scott, Na-
dine White.
8th gride—Larue Powers, Hel-
en Campse.v.
11th grade—Ruby Deweber,
the;Harry Campsey.
John Young and son of Wichita
drove up in the Laycock Broth-(Falls are visiting in the Bowen Singing
Convention of Young
ers
Service Station. Two of the
men got out and the third stayed
The two
Intermediate League Party.
Mrs. C. A. Stewart entertained
the Intermediate League with a
party ot her home last Wednes-
day. Games were played and re-
freshments were served to Joan
and Peggy Stevens, Pauline Craft,
Louise Riggs, Virginia Gregory,
Annie Maude Garner, Kathryn
Stewart, Jo-Marie Cooper, Hazel
Tipton, Boyce Walker, Jack Black,
Leon fifaaeves, Stewart Coley, Dick
Fillmore, Herbert McClellan, Billy
Mathis, Lewis Riggs,
home.
Hubert Bowen from Collins-
worth County visited relatives
here over the week-end and until
Christmas.
Mrs. J C. Riggs has moved to
Jacksboro and taken rooms in the
Davis apartments. Mr. Ayres of
Tney r- *•?.hijMk^ b--d- -Jr; ffjrss- h"a
men went in
Layaock for
money. Ivey
station an<\
and held up John
1 small amount of
Crum was at the
relieved of his
was
ed towards Wichita Falls.
Student Night
Suuday night, Dec. 30, will he
observed as student night, at the
First Baptist Church. It is to honor
all students, but in particular
those who are home for the holi-
day season. The program will be
in tKe hands of students, both
Wejl
who are not else
I;
Red Spradlin has taken employ-
ment on the Tom Berry ranch in
the plac-* formerly held by Mr.
Morrow who has moved to Mr.
Ramzy’s place.
Iro Gleason and family visited
the former’s father at Cundiff,
this week
Mr. and Mrs. Walker Bowen
visited the latter’s father, Mr.
Cox. in Young County Christmas
day.
County To Meet At Olney.
The Young County Singing Con-
vention will hold its final session
for this year on Sunday, Dec. 30.
Every one is invited to attend
and make this the best meeting
of the year. The convention meets
every fifth Sunday at 2 o’clock
p. in.
Invitations are extended to all
nearby singers, and the officers
request that all the home folks
especially, invite all their singing
relatives and friends to come and
visit on that day so as to attend
the singing, and let’s all work to-
gether and put it over big
Officers for
gust, 24.417,778 for July. 24,621,-
334 for June, and 25,420.584 for
November, 1938.
The Cotton Code limits the
hours of employment and of pro-
ductive machinery. However, in
order that the stati<*ti<*s may be
comparable with those for earlier
months and years, the same meth-jYork City/ was granted
off of computing the percentage j Arien Cornelisscn for the
of activity has been used. Com-
puted on this basis the cotton
spindles in the United States were
operated during November, 1934,
at 94.0 per cent capacity. This
percentage compares with 97.1 for
October, 54.3 for September, 76.8
for August, 74.3 for July, 72.6 for
June and 96.3 for November, 1933.
The average number of active
spindle hours per spindle in place
for the month was 217.
0. E. at Presbyterian Ohurch.
The candle light service held by
the High School C. E. included
Christmas numbers by Maurine
Hensley, Videl Jones, and Mrs.
vear Stella Hensley.
tian faith; which he practiced so
faithfully as to attract the atten-
tion of Constantine the Great, and
through hint became the head of
an important church o5 Myra.
I11 the year 1687 a contract was
entered into by which sixteen
acres of the Basse Bowery, New
to one
consid-
eration of one fat capon a year.
Byron, the poet, in one of his
poems, defines a popular gaming
house as “hell,” where you risk
little and are cheated out of a
great deal; and he describes a
“club” as a pleasant purgatory,
where you lose more and are not
supposed to be cheated at all.
Ships approaching the Bay of
Bengal are said to sail up hill.
When a native Brahmin yaw’ns
he snaps his fingers to the right
and then the left to scare away
evil spirits. And when he sneez-
es he exclaims, “Rama, Rama,”
to attain the same end.
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