Cooper Review (Cooper, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, March 30, 1928 Page: 1 of 8
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COOPER. DELTA COUNTY. TEX., FRIDAY. MARCH 30. 1928. '
VOLUME 49, NO 13.
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CONCRETE AS- ] RESULTS OF
SURED FOR DEEP SATURDAY’S
\ WELL CROSSING LEAGUE MEET
PI \V FOR big barbecue winners of literary
WJHEN PAVING IS ! EVENTS INTERSUHO-
fcOMPLETED.
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Progress In Cooper PAVED HIGH- ,
Power and Light Told ^AY ASSOCIA-
TION MEETING
LASTIC LEAGUE.
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County Agent J. F. Green, J. W. Following is the unofficial result of
Williamson and Ri W. Knight report the literary events of Interscholastic
a very pleasant and profitable trip League, which was held last Friday
to Peerless Wednesday In the inter-1 and Saturday, with the winners of
est of funds to put a concrete slab1 flrs\ second and third place named,
through the deep well crossing. | respectively:
They report $605.00 actually pledged CLASS B, Declamation,
on the Hopkins side with $100.00 al- Senior Girls,
ready paid. While over there they j Imogene Muncy, Pecan Gap.
arranged with the Peerless folks for Pauline Branch, Ben Franklin,
a mass meeting Friday night to cqjn- Iona Thompson. Enloe.
plete the raising of^ Hopkins quota of Senior Boys.
$750.00 and they feel sure of having Carl Langston. Pecan Gap.
the cash in hand for the full amount Morris Brown. Enloe.
after this meeting. Elmer Moon, Ben Franklin.
The business men of Cooper through Junior Girls,
the Chamber of Commerce have al- Louise Todd, Enloe.
ready pledged a like amount of $750.00 Ophelia Reid, Pecan Gap.
to match Hopkins and this will give Bernice Moss, Ben Franklin.
Cooper and the people of that trade junior Boys.
territory a long needed road through Jeff Woodruff. Cooper.
this bottom which will mean the open- j. o. Muncy. Pecan Gap.
lng of a considerable trade territory Junior Girls.
to the Cooper merchants that has RURAL DECLAMATION
virtually been driven to Sulphur Charlene Lawrence, Long Ridge.
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Springs heretofore because this cross-
ing remains impassable practically 6
months out of 12.
Those who are in position to know
say it will ,be a red letter day for
Cooper when this work is completed
and it is the aim of this committee senior Girls,
to have a barbecue and get-together clara cathev, Long Taw.
melfine with their Hopkins County Pay Brut0n, Price.
is\nd the business men of Coop-
Thelma Garner. Cross Roads.
Amy Slough, Price.
Tunior Boys.
William Lawrence. Long Ridge.
Van George, Long Taw.
Bennett Moseley, Price.
friends
er enjoying the occasion together.
S. P. Officials Here
Next Thursday
Southern Pacific officials traveling
on a special train on an inspection tour
of the recently acquired Texas Mid-
land property, will spend more than
an hour in Cooper next Thursday,
April 5th, on business and will be
guests of Cooper Chamber of Com-
merce. Arrangements will be made to
entertain them and give them a warm Boys c]ass A
Cooper High:
Mary Emma Moore. Amy.
Senior Boys.
R. F. Wood. Long Taw.
Charles Carten, Price.
Thomas Kaiser, Amy.
ARITHMETIC
Ward.
Lake Creek, 171-2 points.
East Ward. 148 1-3 points.
Pecan Gap, 72 1-2 points.
Rural.
Cross Roads, 107 1-2 points.
Price 100 points.
Amy, 65 points.
DEBATE
welcome, states Secretary Rube S.
Wells. He extended an invitation to
the officials and secured the following
and
Womba St ell
Jack Riggs, affirmative, first.
Price: Sylvester Shaffer and Ful-
letter from Executive Vice President ton McElyea negative, second.
Girls debate not decided.
ESSAY WRITING
H. M. Lull:
“Dear Mr. Wells:
I acknowledge your letter of March CIass A Hlgh Srhool.
23rd and thank you very much for the Wilbur Hart. Cooper,
invitation extended in your letter to Cjass B
visit at Cooper when we make our Rasie' E Stockton. Enloe.
trip over the Texas Midland. Plans Savern Briscoe> Pecan Gap.
for our trip have now been made for Ward
April 4th and 5th and we have ar- Ralph E ^vce ^ ward,
ranged our schedule so as to permit Rura|
arriving at Cooper abotrt 2:10 p m
and remaining until 3:30 p. m. Thurs-
day, April 5th. In addition to my-
self our party will consist of the fol-
lowing:
C. S. Fay. traffic manager; J. T.
Monroe, assistant traffic manager; T.
Alma Millard. Antioch.
Glenn Hurley, Cross Roads.
Lorene Grant, Cedar Creek.
EXTEMPORANEOUS SPEAKING.
Ward.
Ralph E. Pierce, Cooper.
Class B.
G. Beard, general freight agent; F. B. ^ PhmipS> Pecan Gap.
McKay, assistant general freight agent; Rur_j
W. E. Briggs, assistant general freight j Lawrence Thomas. Long Taw.
agent; L. B. McDonald, assistant gen- 1 Luclle McVeyi Antioch.
eral manager; G. R. Cottingham, au- Ruth stocktonj cross R^ds.
ditor; R. W. Barnes, chief engineer; P|rst |n county
J. A. Power, superintendent motive Louise PhllUps'f Pecan Gap.
power; John Lansdale, valuation engi- ORAL SPELLING
neer; O. C. Castle, supt. of transpor- 1 sub-junlor.
tation; H. M. Mayo, superintendent : ' NeU East Ward
of safety; O. M. Longnecker, treasur-1 junjor
er; Dr. R. W Knox, chief surgeon; j Nannie May Carrington, East Ward.
Percy Hewett, superintendent of tele- i senior.
NORTHEAST TEXAS ROAD
ORGANIZATION 13
PERFECTED.
PARIS. Texas, March 24.—Details
of the organization of the Northeast
Texas Paved Highway Association,
! which was formed at Clarksville on
Wednesday alterroon at a meeting of by County Agfcut j F Creen.
virtually every town and city on High-
way 5 between Texarkana and High-
It represented fifty acres actually
. . _ , „ ... shown on a table some 7x11 feet cov-
way 39 between Paris and Greenville,; , ... , , , . „ . .
, , . ,, ered wuth four inches of light red
sand. On the front right comer wae
IDEAL FARM
HOMESHOWNAT
SCHOOL FAK
FIFTY ACRE PLOT IS OUT-
LINED BY COUNTY
AGENT GREEN.
One of the most interesting and in-
structive exhibits at the School Fata-
held in the gymnasium last Frida#
and Saturday was p : ideal farm home
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J. M. HAGOOD.
Artificial illumination used to be so ments of oil here, it began to sell at' wil1 work toward the development of
expensive in Cooper that the glow of 35c a gallon. This was a lot of money tourist travel over the highways of
burning logs in the hearth furnished in those early days of Cooper and ; thls P°rtion of Texas. The committee
the only light in many homes after most of the folks who burned oil turn- I selerted Clarksville as the headquart-
ed their lamps out after supper and, ers of the organization. Edward
by the light of the log fire in Thompson of Clarksville is permanent
citizen and pioneer of Delta County, the fir®pl®ce.
"A few years after this John D.
Rockefeller started to come up in the
were perfected Friday night at the
first session of the executive commit-
tee held at the Gibraltar Hotel here.
The meeting, presided over by J. P.
Graves, president of the Clarksville
Chamber of Commerce and chairman
of the executive committee of the
Highway Assciation, was attended by
members of the local committee of
the association as well as the central
committee.
The first step to be taken by the
committee was to make unanimous de-
cision that the association is to be
permanent. Besides working out the
present problems relative, to the high-
ways of this section, it wjll deal with
’problems that may aaHsjr in the fu-
ture. Carrying out their program on
a constructive basis, the association
the evening meal.
J. M. Hagood. prominent Cooper read
recalls ths period of Texas progress.
It was a comparatively few years ago,
and marked one of the most inter- world, and he conceived the idea of
esting 'times in our history. Strange shipping coal oil in tank cars to Tex-
as it may seem, it was the period of as. It was at this time that the price
the coal oil lamp that has been found of coal oil came down to about 15c a
to be the most troublesorhe and most gallon.”
expensive in our life.
Mr. Hagood recalls also the great
Mr. Hagood. who is president of progressive strides Cooper made in
the Enloe State Bank and vice presi- 1897 when the first electric light plant
dent of the Delta National Bank, was was established here. This was op-
bom in the tallow candle days; his erated by a company of local men
youth was spent in the day of the headed by Clem Ratliff, who was elect-
coal oil lamp, and his successful years ed president of the light company,
came about the time electricity was | In 1904 J. W. Hockaday purchased
adopted as a necessity to the progress the plant and operated it for some
of Cooper. Mr. Hagood has lived here time. It was then sold to Elmer Nel-
since 1874. coming to Cooper ju$t four son. who later sold it to the Delta
years after Delta Connty and Cooper Electric & Manufacturing Company
were organized. Ox-carts hauled the (in 1915. In 1915 E. D. Brodhead pur-
supplies from Jefferson City; “every j chased the entire plant and operat-
other” building in the town housed | ed it until 1924 when it was sold to
a saloon; the jail was erected of split
logs; the court house was an old plank
shack, and in these “grand and glo-
rious” days of Texas’ development it
took two pairs of big mules to haul
the front end of a wagon through the
seas of mud that filled Cooper’s
streets after a hard rain.
“I well remember those old days,”
Mr. Hagood recalled here recently.
"My mother used to make tallow can-
dles for our home and it was my job
to pour the hot tallow into the long
molds. I remember when oil lamps
came into general use here, and what
a luxury It was for many of the fam-
ilies here at that time.
“After we got several ox-cart ship-
the Texas Power & Light Company.
The plant gave service twenty-four
hours each day and for many years
served the town adequately with elec-
tricity for lighting purposes. Then
came the day when industry found
that more efficient and more economi-
cal operation and more dependable
service could be maintained by motor-
izing. The Cooper plant was not built
to supply the amount of electricity
needed to operate a town full of mo-
tors. Sincere efforts were put forth,
however, toward building up the plant
and in 1907 a motor was installed in
the shop of the Cooper Review. It
was a novelty at the time and visit-
ors came from miles around to wlt-
secratary.
In working out the sub-committees
four important co’mmittees—finance,
publicity, highway designation and
membership—were appointed. The fin-
ance and membership committees
work is to be carried out in each lo-
cality through the local chairman. R.
L. Pethybridge of Paris was selected
as chairman of the publicity commit-
tee. which will In,. e as its other mcm-
a very beautiful dwelling surrounded
by shade trees, shrubbery auu real
flowers. To the right of the back
corner of the dwelling was the garage
with a graveled driveway leading from
the highway to the front of the build-
ing. On the right of the driveway
could be seen shrubbery and flowers,
which many thought added more beau*
ty than could be brought out by hav-
ing shrubbery nad flowers on both
sides of the driveway. The smoke-
house was back of the dwelling on
the line of the garden which was just
to the right and the poultry yard to
the left This arrangement makes It
possible to reach the smokehouse door
or the garden or poultry yard gates
without going more than some twenty
feet from the back steps. Further back
and to the left was a large red bam
and wind mill, surrounded by green
pasture and beautiful shade trees. ^ A
slightly curved driveway leading from
the highway to the bam attracted
considerable attention, as well as the
location of the berry and fruit or-
chard which were on the opposite side
of the driveway from the dwelling.
The orchard extended almost the
full length of the driveway, thus
breaking the monotony of 'the bam
and straight rows of fruit trees. To
the left of the orchard and surround-
ing the pasture, lot, poultry yard and
i garden, could be seen large terrace*
bers one newspaper man from each.
1 running almost parallel with a beau-
tiful graveled highway bordering the
farm. Sweet clover, alfalfa, soy beans,
mung beans, stock beets, corn and six
of the towns represented in the asso-
ciation. The highway designation
committee will be composed of the
following: Rufus Scott, Jr., Paris,
chairman: A. M. Graves, Clarksville;
C. C. Crump, DeKalb; R. N. Stovall,
Cooper; and Sterling Hart. Com-
merce.
Although the program of the asso-
ciation was discussed fully, no official
announcement as to the nature of its
details was made. The next meeting
of the executive committee will be
held at Cooper. The date of the meet-
ing has not been set, however.
graph; J M. Lloyd, right of way
agent; T. H. Meeks, assistant to the
general manager; L. B. Wood, general
storekeeper; B. S. HolUmon. superin-
tendent; L. W. Wells, assistant sup-
erintendent.
While the time we will be able to
remain at Cooper is not very long, any
plans which you may make for our
entertainment will be satisfactory to
us.
Assuring you we appreciate very
much the opportunity of becoming
better acquainted with yourself and
other business men and citizens of
Cooper, and> with highest regards, I
remain, Yours sincerely,
H. W. LULL.
Laverne Dawson. Amy.
• The winners in written spelling ap-
peared in this week’s Courier Tues-
day.
-«».. 4—
Farmer Surrenders
After Man Is Slain
SULPHUR SPRINGS. Texas, March
28.—Lewis Ivey, farmer, was killed
Wednesday on the west side of the
public square here. After being wound-
ed in the arm Ivey fled into a shoe
store, where he died after two- more
charges from a shotgun were fired into
his body. W. E Bristow, also a fartn-
Sr #wreod«red to officers. ^
PROGRAM GRAND&CEM NEXT WEEK
GRAND
Jack Walker, who has represented
the Texas Company in Cooper several
years, has been promoted to Texar-
kana district where he will go last of
the week to take up his dutie? in the
new field. Mr. Walker is a Cooper
young man, and by close attention to
the interests of his company merits
the promotion which has been given
him.
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Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Armstrong of
Idabell spent Tuesday with Mrs. E.
. B. Wheat. Mrs. Wheat and daughter,
I Margaret Ann, accompanied them
UmIsj mad Tuesday
Wta. FOX Presents
“Singed”
A vrendetful picture with an a
star cast.
NEWS
Wednesday and Thursday
WALLACE BERRY and
RAYMOND HATTON
Two of the greatest comedians that
ever worked together, in
“Now We’re in the Air”
NEWS and COMEDY
Friday and Saturday
TOM TYLER
m .
‘Splitting the Breeze”
FABLES and COMEDY
GEM
Monda# and Tuesday
No Show
Wednesday and Thursday
LON CHANEY
IN
“Mr. Wee”
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Friday and Saturday tf
TEX MAYNARD *
IN
“Dude Cowboy”
home for a visit.
ness the mysterious rotating3 of the
black machine.
A few years later other plants an-
nounced their intentions of becoming
motorized and the demand for more
electricity became greater and great-
er. Later it was decided to sell the
local plant to the Texas Power Sc
Light Company, which was then ready
to bring its powerful high lines into
the town. Finally In 1924 the Texas
Power & Light Company purchased
the local generating station.
“I think this transfer to the big
company was one of the most progres-
sive things this town -ha* ever done.”
Mr. Hagood sold. "Now we are on
an even basis, so far as power is con-
cerned, with all big cities. We expand
as much and as rapidly os we wish,
and rout assured that- our eledtrlc
power supply will keep pace with us.”
varieties of sorghum seed were dis-
played for the purpose of showing
the difference in poor and purebred
seed. Nearby was a small pasture
upon which was written in red let-
ters. No one can afford to take the
chance of crop failure by planting
poor seed. Upon another poster was
written: For the land’s sake terrace
your farm. The entire background
was covered with a large poster upon
which was written: Health-Happi-
ness. Get the vision, improve your
methods. Modernize your farm.
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The Plan.
1. Encourage home ownership.
2. Better homes, better farms.
3. Every farm properly terraced.
4. Soil conservation, soil building.
5. Feed and food crops 40 per cent.
cultivated acreage.
6. A home orchard, an all-the-year
round home garden.
7. 50 hens, a cow and sow on ev-
ery farm.
8. No scrub seed, no scrub stock.
9. No farm dependent on any one
money crop.
10. County and community fairs.
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Notice
On account of some street improve-
ments the city will have several hun-
dred loads of dirt for sale at 50c per
load delivered. Phone Mayor’s
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MOVED CITY GARAGE TO -““
F. L. V. BU
Homer Hagood Jras pure!- ^
Merest in the City Garagg Oivd Children
Flannary and they OV#r 30 Yt
the F. L. U. building *
well prepared to serv*
kinds of automobiy
They are both e'
workmen and tv
your patronage, i
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Cooper Review (Cooper, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, March 30, 1928, newspaper, March 30, 1928; Cooper, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth978771/m1/1/: accessed June 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Delta County Public Library.