The Panola Watchman (Carthage, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 12, 1933 Page: 1 of 8
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CARTHAGE, PANOLA COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, lfS3.
COURT HOUSE
BRIEFS
The cast of the State of Texas
%'s. Watson Maklln was called in the
District Court Wednesday morning.
Evidence was submitted and the jury
had not reached a verdict at press
time.
• • •
Louie McFarrin was sentenced to
serve a three year term in the Stat*;
penitentiary at Huntsville last Friday
for the murder of Bill Clark. An
article concerning the outcome of
the trial appears at another place in
this paper.
• • *
A divorce case, Lucky vs. Lucky,
wjs heard by Judge Davis Wednes-
day. The divorce was granted.
• • •
Court will climax next week ac-
cording to an announcement, made
by District Clerk W. D. An lemon.
• • ♦
The case of the State of Texas
vs. Henry Hall will be called for
trial today. The count registered
againet the defendant deals with
arson.
Alexander-Weeks
Marriage Sunday
Of cordial interest to a large cir-
cle of friends Is the marriage of
Miss Chark-le Weeks, lovely young
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chas.
Weeks, and Mr. Norman 0111 Alex-
ander, both of Bethany, La., which
was quietly celebrated Sunday morn-
ing, Oct. 8, at 10 o’clock in the
home of the bride In the presence
of the immediate families.
The beautiful ring ceremony was
read by the Rev. McCain of th“
Methodlat Cnurch.
The bride's blonde beauty was.
enhanced by her handsome threo
piece swagger suit of Eagle blue
Fairlcen wool, with collar of white
fur. Her smart close fitting French
Turban and all accessories were In
harmonising shades of blue and she
wore a dainty corsage of sweetheart
rose buds and fern.
Mr. and Mrs. Alexander left imme-
diately after thg ceremony in their
car for a short trip to New Orleans,
La.
Tae marriage of this young couple
unites two of the oldest and most
prominent families of Bethuny, Lu.
LOUISIANA MAN
GIVES SHERIFF
GHOLSTON FULL
PINT OF LIQUOR
In these days of prohibition liquor
is supposed to be easy to get. Maybe
that is true, or untrue, but it cer-
tainly i, not hard to give away. Tha
fact its* demonstrated, when a gen-
tleman from Louisiana hailed Sheriff
Guolston, offered him a drink, and
found himself under bond.
The Sheriff was turning towards
Carthage Tuesday night, when he
slopped to assist the gentleman get
bis car started. After the automo-
bile was started, the Louisiana fel-
low caught up with the sheriff and
here is Lie conversation:
Act One.
“Say, where are yoo from Mister?*
“I live in Carthage, Texas."
“Would you like t > have a good
drink?"
“Have you got some?”
“Yep! and it sure is good—came
from Kilgore."
Act Two.
(The sheriff is on the ground and
both cars are stopped. The gentle-
man hands the sheriff the pint un-
corked. I
“Have you got the stopper?"
“Sure—here it is.”
“Well let me nave it—my name is
Gholston.”
“My name Is Blank from Lou is i-
anu.”
“I'm the sheriff.”
"Well I’ll be d—--
First Yank Captured Gets
COUNTY AGENT
WILL ATTEMPT
TO ESTABLISH
CANNING PLANTS
LOCAL ELEVEN
WILL PLAY JOE
LACY'S TEAM
Kx-Sergt. Edgar llnlyburton, first American to be token captive during tin
World war, whose famous “Shoot and be damned" expression when faced lr
German inquisitors made him a national hero, has found a Job. He was ar
copied ns one of the 5,000 war vets being hired by Henry Ford at Detroit
and went to work immediately, after months of Idleness.
FIDELITY MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE
COMPANY HAS LARGE CAPITAL
Our state highway .system* now
Include some 360,000 milt a.
I AM(
I OUR
AMONGST
OURSELVES
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The Carthage high school Bulldogs
will tangle with Coach Joe Lacy’s
eleven from Carli-de, Texas, Friday
afternoon.
1 Coach Lacy is a former Carthage
boy, and is well liked here. He will
bring a formidable eleven to the
city for the*uig scrap, and Carthage
will find plenty of combination.
Coach Lacy Is noted for his ability
to coach, and his team will show
plenty of fight and drive, when they
invade Carthage.
RED CROSS NEEDS
SEWING MACHINES
The local Red Cross is in need
of several machines, and also volun-
teer workers to sew. as all materials
must be made up before being dis-
tributed.
The lower floor of the Rest Room
Building, across th* street from the
Post Office, is being ti ed for a sew
ing room. If you have u machine
to lend or some spare time tor the
Red Cross, it will be greatly appre-
ciated, and is very much needed.
In this edition of The Panola
Watchman, theie appears an adver-
tisement telling all about the organ-
ization of the Fidelity Mutual Life
Insurance Company.
The company maintains headquar-
ters. in Texarkim, Texas, and its
directors are native East Texas men.
Some of the officers and directors
are: H. P. McCoy, manager of the
Milk Plant in Atlanta, Texas, .Judge
Hugh Carney, former District Judge
of Bowie and Casa counties, Edgar
McFARRIN GETS
THREE YEARS IN
CLARK MURDER
TRIAL HERE
MILSTEAD NINE
TO PLAY BEACON
The world series is concluded, but
"Skipper" Mlistead is still playing
baseball.
On Sunday, October 15th, at litre;
p. m. the "Skipper" will have a real
baseball nine ready to clash with
the Beacon Oil and Refining club
from Henderson.
Skipper is promising tha baseball
fans of the city a real contest, when
this engagement is reeled off.
More cotton plow-up checks are
arriving dally, und County Agent
Hooker predicts all of the checks
will be here In about two more
weeks. The arrival of these checks
should stimulate business.
* • *
Sheriff Jim Gholston says never be-
fore In the history of the state has
a man whistled an officer of the law
down, and willingly handed him a
pint of whiskey. Read the news
Dory to be found elsewhere in the
paper.
• • *
A negro defendant on trial for
murder was asked by Prosecuior J. P.
Anderson when he made up his mind
to kill his victim. The negro answer-
ed very promptly. ”1 made up my
mind Monday morning.” From our
way of thinking maybe Mrs. Fergu-
son will be making up her mind on
Monday mornings In the future for
the negro. Maybe she’ll fix him
out a regular working schedule, If the
Jury sees fit to consider that this
statement put the necessary malice
•fore-thought In the evidence.
• • •
After reading about the death of
Got Winkler a noted Chicago out-
law and underworld character, Tom
Jackson, colored, was beard tr re-
mark. "They don’t allow them men
to come down In that underworld
where they are do they?”
FIRST BAPTIST
CHURCH CALLS
REV. NEWBURN
Louie McFarrin was sentenced to u
three year teim in the state peni-
tentiary lust week, for tho murder of
BUI Clark.
McFarrin killed Clark sevrul
months ago in the Northern part of
tho county. Attorneys for McFnirln
did not file an appeal.
Testimony revealed Clurk’s death
resulted, after an argument with Me-
Furrln. The Instrument causing
Clark’s death, n chair, wan produced
in court as part of the evidence
against him.
W. King. President of All ht i Who! •
sale Grocery Company in A Uinta;
Willard Coker, active Vice-President
of the Fidelity Mutual,, T. W. Coker,
Sr., Howard A. Carney, J. Y. Brad-
field, und Cecil O. Pratt.
Tae directors of the company were
carefully chosen, ami their qualifica-
tions consists of seieoned experience.
The Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance
Company is lusuring man? people in
North East Texas, ,iud is classified ge
one of best companies in that section.
PANOLA COUNTY
WILL PRODUCE
ABOUT 10,000
BALES COTTON
County Agent K. M Hooker,
through the sid of R. F. is plan
ning to establish some twenty or
thitty community tanning pi.tits. This
work l« moving along nicely and to
date about tight-eti communities have
signed agreement* to do their port
and cooperate in this program
There will bo a meeting at, lit k
ville on Saturday. Oct. 14, to organ-
ize the tomato growers of that
vicinity and to get enough acreage
pledged to insure a market. At th
regular meeting of the Carthage
tomato growers there were two iarg
buying firms represented. Tin- sign
up brought the total up about one
hundred acres. This is < ncoiiraging
a* it is a little early, and we feel
certain that there will In- two pr
three hundred aer, s grown around
Carthage next year.
CARTHAGE WINS
EASILY OVER
LOGANSPORT
Reliable Information, resulting from
a check-up with local men inter,sled
|n the cotton production of tills coun-
ty indicates that about ten thousand
bales of cotton will In* the limit pro-
duced this year.
Already upproxlnut’tly nlm-ly per
cent of tli- 1933 cotton crop has
been ginned. About fifty per cent
of the senson’.s crop has been sold.
Farmers are holding a groat deal.
W< dnesday’s pile- ranged around
ten cents a pound.
INTERESTING CLIPPINGS FROM
OTHER NEWSPAPERS
Practically the entire membership
of tho First Baptist Church of this
city met in assemhly last Sunday
morning, in the church and unani-
mously called Rev. W. C. New burn
as their minister.
In last week's edition of The Pano-
la Watchman It was announced that
a new preacher would be called. This
mistake resulted when the word new
was inserted ns a typographical error.
Rev. Newburn Is u capable preach-
er. and well liked und admired by his
congregation. The First Baptist
Church Ih to be congratulated on
retaining the services of such a
splendid man and forceful minister.
T. & P. Pensions
Old Employes
MARSHALL, Tex.—The Texas A
Pacific Railroad at a meeting of the
pension board held here, placed two
of their old employee on the retired
llet with pensions. Those retired
were Henry Overton. ««. section fore-
man. Brazos, Texas, in service 84
years, and Robt. L. Alexander, gg,
negro, station laborer, rt. Worth, in
service 4$ yean.
Man Fills Pockets With Dynamite
And Is Blown To Bits.
Franklin, Mine. Mich.—Despondency
over ill-health was believed to have
caused John Korr, 55, to fill his pock
ets with lig.it-(I stick of dynamite and
chase his Imdlady and hfr daughter
until the fuses burned down and blew
him to bits.
The two women, Mis. Mary Chopp
and her daughter, escaped the Ida 4,
although the force of it knock d them
down, and snook the villig-.
• • •
Gives Prison Number To
Phone Operator.
Minot, N. D.—Arthur Zimmerman,
just came home to Minot from the
state penitentiary, picked up a tele
phone to call a friend to tell him
he was home.
"Number, please?" ;ald the opera-
tor.
“Five one three three,” replied
Zimmerman.
"We have no such number,” replied
the operator.
And then Zimmerman remembered.
That was the number to which 'he
had answered while In the peniten-
tiary for more than three years.
• • •
Captain Has Caved 1,500
Lives At tea.
Boston, Mass.—*Ci pt. Thomas Dud-
ley Packard of the Boston-Plymouen
excursion boat Myrtle, has saved
more than 1,500 lives during the forty
years on the sea. In June, 1918, as
com mending officer of the V. S. S.
Machtgonne, he reecued 800 passen-
The Curt huge high school Bulldog-
thoroughly and soundly trounced the
Logs ns port high school combination
on the local pi tying fid I last Friday
afternoon.
Tile final score was 7!* to 0 in fuvor
of ilic Bulldogs. Practically every
man on Die local < lut> saw action.
Twelve touch I owns were scored. All
of the markers with the exception
of one wore made through the use
of < ml inn mid lino plays. On
counter vv.is registered on un iierlnl
fling
To mine an outstanding star would
lie doing Hie entire ('iithugo eleven
an injustice. They clicked together
like a powerful machine, and swept
tho Louisiana aggregation off their
feet like a hurricane.
The loenl eleven will meet Coach
Joe Lacy’s Carlisle team hare this
coming Friday.
PLOvTuP CHECKS
ARE ARRIVING
Mr. It. M. Hooker, County Agent
of Panola County, hnH posted another
lint of names to receive cotton plow
up checks for thin week.
Wove rat checka~trgvu already neon
received here, and Mr. Hooker In-
formed The Panola Watchman that
u 11 of (lie cheeks should he received
here, in the.'next two weeks. These
checks have m.iteriully aided the
farmers of this county, and have ulso
hi l engthened hu-lnsss activity h re.
Some of tile checks were made out
for as high as eight hundred dollars
and over.
STATE HIGHWAY
FUND DECREASES
57 PER CENT IN
I ’ THREE YEARS
j AUSTIN, Texas The state high-
way fund, once the envy of all *lata
I bureaus because of the million - at Us
command, has shrunk 57 per cent
in three department y urs, according
to the tentative budget for the next
fiscal yeir Just prepared by do-
pai fluent statisticians.
T,.utI state rt venue* which will re-
I main to build and maintain Texas*
19.600 miler of »ta( - highways, after
j tie various deduc tion:! and diver*
] Dons, will he $17,000,000 the depart-
ment estimated. The suite figure was
I 09,000,000 lu 1931. tile peak y-ar.
j S’. It her sum Includes federal aid.
j Nfiiiatenance of existing roads alone
n w cost about |10,6OU,0tU) yearly, i
decrease of f 1.600,000 worked out
-line 1931.
A ide from one* -m two millions a
yen lost to the road fund through
fewer auiomobllt h and less travel,
tin* decline of 522,000.000 a year In
retail money was caused by a radical
change in the* state government’s
viewpoint regarding main trunk high-
ways, the Texas Good Roads As-
sociation pointed on> in connection
with the official figure:!.
U H. Sterling- administration
'first look tho position that counties
( no longer must vote- bonds and share
the cost of main highways with th*'
I state,” its statement saiJ. “Thus
j'county aid’ whic h exetodod $11,000-
| non in 1931, dropped ter ) 1,000,000
I i..is year, and will di appear in 1931.
The lust year one-fourth of the state!
ges mx wuu Ink u to fund such
couiry bonds already outstanding. It
was not enough, Inn it took another
$7,000,000 yearly from the road fund
"Both these steps give locul ad val
orein tux relief shifting the. cost of
road*, past and present, completely
upon the motorist through the gus
tax und license fue. The highway
fund Is so weakened that It must de-
pend on foderal aid to keep jobs for
thousands of road-workers. The plain
obligation of the stole, then Is to do
nothing thencoforfh which still Im-
peril federal aid. Shifting of any
more slate rood money to non road
purposes Is directly against federal
policy, as Washington hue siiel. This
Is what Texas must avoid.”
NEGRO MURDER
CASE CONTINUED
g. i s from a sinking ship off tin* Del-
aware capes. In 189-1 he rescued 300
Boston factory girl-c front the City of
Hilcm, grounded at. ihe mouth of
Salem harbor in a northeast storm.
« t •
Winkler Murder Set Record For
Number of Wounds.
C.tk-agn, III.—The murder of Gus
Winkler, Capon; gang chieftain, sc*
a new record for und rworld killings.
Seventy-three shotgun slugs pone
truted Winkler’s body. The previous
high ma:k was set time yarn ago
when m ir.hlne gunners killed Jo*
Aiello with 68 direct hits.
Twenty-gauge shotguh shells were
us d to kill Winkler.
• • •
Aspiring Lawyers In
Tennessee Flunk.
Memphis, Tenn.—Tennessee Uw ap-
parently la getting more complicated.
Of tho 289 Htudcnts who took the
recent stale bar examinations only
ninety-seven passed. R. I. Moore,
secretary to tho slate board of law
examiners, says It was the largest
percentage of failures in history,
see
Clair’s $75,000 Lovs Becomes
A Pugilist!
Oakland. Calif.—Confident he will
become a star pugilist, Alfred C. Read
Jr., whose affections were valued at
$75,000 In a court verdict against
j Claire Windsor, screen actresi, train-
ed here today for hta ring debut.
1 He la matched with Jimmy Hell In
the preliminary bout Wednesday.
The trlul of Orange Melton Lan-
ders, negro, which wih set for Mon-
day of this week, was continu'd until
the January term of court. Januaiy
l.sth Ins been designated us th.
day for tli*- triil. Lundois Is alleged
to have murdered one Klbert Hay-
wood Tne trial was continued when
it was le lined that the name of the
deceased negro was incorrectly us d
In tile indictment.
The killing is alleged to. have oc-
curred III the Dead wood community.
NEW FEATURES
COMMENCE IN
THIS EDITION
W. R. HOLCOMB
OFFERS PUBLIC
FEATURE PICTURE
Mr. W It. Ilolcomh il bunging (hut
unbeatable team of comedians. Wheel-
er and Woolsey back to th.* Victory
Theatre, October 20 21.
They will appear 111 the uew ver-
sion of 'iHo Tills Is Africa.” This
will he one of the best pictures of the
year, and those lu I’unola county who
iiiIhii Hits film production will miss a
real theatre tieH. The main stay
loineillaUH of tin* slag - are at their
best in tilts picture, und 'the many
wise cracks will keep the audience
l.iiig'.iiug from the stint to the finish.
W. S. CHADWICK
RETURNS HOME
Mr. W. H. f'hulwlck bus returns
to liIh home in Cartilage, aft r heln
lu the Tri-State $unltnrlum for tli
past few days.
Mr Chadwick wa; curried to th
Shreveport hospital after he su
talned a badly crushed right arm 1
a gin accident It was ueoerary t
amputate the injured member.
The many friends of thU pqnilii
Panola county citizen wish for him
speedy and successful recovery.
For sometime it has been the in
tendon of the editor to bring to
th \ subscribers a new feature on-
title <1. “R tnibllng *Roun l New York”
by Hugh Kenny.
In tilts <dition of the paper that
feature starts, li is widely r< ad, an I
considered one of the best columns
ill the country. Also starting in tin-
edition Is the feature, "Today and
Tomorrow”, a column which has ap-
peared in Tne Watchman b< fore. Be-
sides these features, a continued stoiy
Is being started. The story is titled
Whi-poring Rock,” und is one of
the best serial stories ever to appear
in a newspaper. The story was writ-
ten by John LeBar.
Tyler Fourth
For Building
DALLAS, Teg.—Dallas led T. Ml
cities ia new construction the past
week with a building permit total
of $44,421. Houston was second and
Fort Worth third, and Tyler fourth.
More than < half of the people of
Canada are under the age of >5.
Beverly Hills, Cul. — The British
are over h» re now tjlklug to us
about debts. That's one thing you
got to say for them, they were the
first to pay us anything, and even
if they are not going to pay us any
more, they at Last come over aud
talk it over with us. And It ever a
different settlement is nude they cer-
t duly deserve the first brtak
We dislike their tea, we kid their
poor Kuglish dialect, und we think
they are snobbish, but by golly wa
know that their honor all over the
world's recognised.
Yours,
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The Panola Watchman (Carthage, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 12, 1933, newspaper, October 12, 1933; Carthage, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth900774/m1/1/: accessed June 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sammy Brown Library.