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THE DELTA COURIER
MAX T. TURBEVILLE, Publisher.
COOPER, DELTA COUNTY. TEXAS. TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1927.
VOLUME 46, NO. 25.
PASSING OF
AGED WOMAN
JUNE 5TH
Order All Signs
Moved From
Right of Ways
MOTHER OF .!. 1\ MORRILL.
91, WAS BURIED AT
LADONIA.
The death of Mrs. Laura, Hatch
Morrill, mother of J. P. Morrill of
Cooper, at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. E. F. Fitzhugh, in Waco, Mon-
day, June 5th, marked the close of
a long life service of a pioneer of
Texas. Her stalwart Christian char-
acter and unselfish service has beer.
AUSTIN, June 18.—Orders were
issued Saturday by Highway Com-
missioner Cone Johnson in behalf of
the commission to all highway divi-
sion engineeis and superintendents
of maintenance to remove all bill
boards, advertising matter, signs and
other obstructions from the State
highway right of way.
Under the old law. the right of
way was sixty feet wide, but under
the present law State highways are
eighty feet wide.
“The highway commission nor any
■‘■v officials has the right to grant
permission to any private individual
to erect sign boards or other ob-
structons cn a State hghway, under
a ruling made b>y Dan Moody when he
was attorney general,” Commissioner
Johnson said.
Orders of the commissioner will
not apply to federal mail boxes, but
only to signboards and other obstruc-
tions.
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MRS. LAURA MORRILL
a benediction to all with whom she
came in contact. The body was laid
to re3t at Ladonia Tuesday, June 6.
Surviving Mrs. Morrill are five
daughters and one sen, Mrs. E. E.
Fitzhugh, W'aco: Mrs. Kate E. Pick-
ett, Junction; M’-s. Emma Johnson,
Gordon; Mrs. Laura Spears, Paris;
J. P. Morrill, Cooper. Including the
ebove hrr nrogedy now numbers 99.
There are V grandchildren, 49 great
grandchildren and 6 great great
grandchildren.
The Baotist Stnadard gives the
following interesting facts concerning
the passing of this pioneer;
Mrs. Lauva M°rrill was the widow
of Rev. D. B. Morrill, the first min-
ister to graduate from Baylor Uni-
versity while it was located at Inde-
pendence, seventy 'ears ago. Thr„ugh
the years, after she finished bring-
ing up her own eight children, she
had hv the v-ork of her hands, aided
numbers of young ministers in their
■struggle ‘n secure an education. She
had been p member of the First Bap-
tist cHurch of Waco fifty'-four years,
having been bantised eighty years
ago by Bev. George W. Baines, foun-
der of “The Baptist.” the first reli-
gious new-sparer published in Texas.
Mrs. Morrill was born in Vicks-
burg, Miss.. August Ul, 1833. She
moved to Huntsville, Texas, in 1840,
and lived a neighbor to General Sam
Houston. She remembered, among
other things about the General, that
he arose in church one day to quiet
some rowdies who were disturbing
a temperance preacher.
Her husband, Rev. D. B. Morrill,
was ordained to the ministry in 1851
by a presbytery consisting of Elders
G. W. Baines, R. C. Burleson, R. E.
B. Baylor, Henry I,. Graves and J.
W. D. Creath, illustrouk names in
Texas. After graduating in the first
class of Baylor University, Morrill
organized the Baptist churches at
Montgomery, Crockett, Tyler and
Ladonia. Frail in health, he did not
live long. But for a period as asso-
ciate editor of the Texas Baptist
Herald and general agent for the
Baptist Convention, his labors were
almost apostolic. Mrs. Morrill’s let-
ter describing his death, written
from Ladonia February 12, 1868, and
printed in “Flowers and Fruits,”
tells how he had been taken ill while
conducting a series of meetings in
Ladonia, but continued preaching
from his bed until the very hour of
his death. A few days after his bur-
ial fourteen people united with the
church, attributing their conversion
MOODY SLASHES
APPROPRIATIONS
CUTS TOTAL BILLS NEARLY
HALF MILLION—AP-
PROVES FOUR.
AUSTIN, June 17.—Governor D n
Moody late todry,- approved the edu-
cational, judicial, eleemosynary and
emergency appropriation bills, after
slashing an aggregate of $447,260,
from a grand total of $30,944,441 in
the bills a-- final'iv passed by the
special session of the legislature.
The Governor has yet to pass fin-
ally upon the departmental and mis-
cellaneous claims and accounts bills.
The $16,344,586, educational bill
withstood the heaviest cut, losing a
total of $29.8,850 under the Gover-
nor’s blue pencil which struck out
many new positions, need for which
he said can not be met at present.
The non-salary items vetoed can
be previded from o‘her funds ap-
proved in various budgets or from
local funds, he added..
A total of $109,700 was cut from
the eleemoso nary bill carrying $9,-
300,972 as passed by the legislature.
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Revival Meeting
At Needmore
Rev. J. W. Humphreys will begin
a nrotracted meeting at Needmore
Baptist Church Monday night, June
27. Everybody invited.
BOYS’ CLUBS
HAVING PICNICS
WITH GREEN
COUNTY AGENT PLANS PIC-
NIC FOR EVERY CLUB
IN COUNTY.
Charleston cluib boys in company
with County Agent J. F. Green en-
joyed a nice picnic at Bonners Point
last Friday afternoon. Mr. Green
furnished material far a big jar of
lemonade, which was made up and
served to the delight of all during
the afternoon. A plunge in the’ wat-
er was one of the diversions. The
entire 18 members of the club were
present with their individual record
books of their work done so far this
year.
There are 17' members of the
boys’ club* of the county, Mr. Green
states, and he is very proud of them
and their excellent work. About 50
of them have pigs which they are
growing.
Mr. Green plans to give a picnic
to every club in the county. The
Klondike club boys will have a pic-
nic next Friday afternoon.
Opened Third Week
of District Court
Judge Grover Sellers began the
third nad last week of June term of
Eighth Judicial District Court Mon-
day. The grand jury, which had
been in recess for the past, week re-
convened and will complete its la-
bors.
The jury was unable to agree in
the case of Louie Hargrove, charged
with unlawful transportation, heard
last Friday, arvd was discharged.
This is the second mistrial in this
case.
The case of Harvey W. Bridges
i vs. Texas Employees Insurance As-
sociation, suit for damages, went to
trial Monday.
Cooper Invincibles
Took Paris In 6 to 5
to his last ministry.
Left with eight children, Mrs.
Morrill came to Waco, where a com-
m.ttee from one cf the lodges visit-
ed her and offered assistance. De-
clining the kindly offer with courtesy
she told the committee is she could
ever b eof help to the lodge in its
benevolences to let her know. Her
reliance, she insists, was the Psalm
“Trust in the Lord and do good; so
'halt thou dwell in the land and veri-
ly thou shalt be fed.” This she ac-
cepted literally, and at ninety-four,
when she sat for a painter whose
portrait in the estimation of her
friends rivals that of Whistler’s
mother, ^he pointed with pride to the
fact that her children have all been
well educated and have risen to hon-
orable stations in life, while she her-
self had every comfort that love can
provide.
A little while before her home-go-
ing, although she was ninety-four
years of age, she knitted a bed-
spread from a pattern which she
learned in girlhood, and had bargain-
ed to sell it for $500, which amount
she was to give to the Woman’s
Memorial Dormitory of Baylor Uni-
versity. Although he abides with
us no longer on earth, her works fol-
low her, and through the years to
come many will bless her memory.
Her life abounded in good deeds and
she was a constant witness to the
unfailing grace of our Heavely
Father.
ARMY FLYERS
PLAN FLIGHT
OVER PACIFIC
HOP-OFF DEPENDS UPON
TESTS GIVEN GIANT
FOKKER PLANE.
Ooper Invincibles, the newly or-
ganized ball club of this nlace, took
Paris Home Benefit Association team
to a cleaning Sunday by a score of
6 to 5. Bariev and McKee did the
work for thp hrm" team, while Bil-
lings and Schilling were on the
mound for +he visiters.
The Invincibles are made uin of
good nlaivers of the countv and have
promise of a fine record for the bal-
ance of the season.
Funds werp being raised Mond-v
to secure uniforms for the boys and
seme good games are promised.
Fairland and Gough have promised
them games this week.
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, June 17.
—The United States Army will at-
tempt to make the first San Fran-
cisco-Hawaii nonstop flight not lat-
er than July 15, First Lieut. Lester
J. Maitland, pilot of the giant Fok-
ker monoplane that will be used on
the flight, said iFridaq night on his
arrival at Kelly Field.
The flight will be made by Lieut.
Maitland and First Lieut. Albert R.
Habenberger, alternate pilot. The
Fokker, in which they will attempt
the flight, is being carried from Boll-
ing Field, Washington, D. C., to San
Diego, where it will be fitted for the
flight. The plane will be taken to
March Field, near San Francisco, for
the hop-off as soon as tests have
been completed.
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Secrecy Maintained.
Absolute seereqy regarding the
plane had been maintained through-
out the trip to Kelly Field, and on
arrival there late Friday afternoon
the three civilian mechanics, accom-
panying the plane took it in charge
and supervised housing of it for the
night.
Both officers refused to discuss the
trans-Atlantic flight when they first
arrived. Air corps personnel on duty
at the field were used in housing the
plane, but no one was permitted to
approach the cabin of the big air-
plane.
Later when Lieut. Maitland read
news dispatches from Washington
carrying an interview with Assistant
Secretary of War F. Hrrbee Davison
regarding the flight, he admitted that
the army was seeking new flying
laurels, and said that present plans
call for the flight to start not later
than July 15.
Notice
The Cooper Cemetery Association
will have a “working’ of the Cooper
Uome^rj-, Thursday, June 23.
If you'are interested in the work
that this Association is doing, and
esnecially if you have, loved ones
buried in this cemetery, don’t wait
for a further invitation, but. come
with a good sharp hoe or send some
one to take your place.
We are asking the ladies to help
us out in the way of preparing din-
ner for those who work. Come early
and let’s do the work in one day.
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Miss Lillie Carrell resumed her
business colloge work Monday after
spending last week at Snyder.
Coolidge, All Dolled Up in
Hip Boots, Has Success With
Rod; Hooks 7 Shiny Trout
RAPID CITY, S. D., June 16.—
President Coolidge’s first day in the
Wild West was highly successful
from all points of view, including
the piscatorial.
Seven shiny rainbow trout, the
largest weighing nearly two pounds,
were hooked by the President Thurs-
day in his first filing expedition
of the summer.
All dressed up in rubber hip boots,
Mr. Coolidge set out soon after
breakfast to tqy his luck. An hour’s
work with rod and reel brought him
tin unexpectedly large catch.
C. C- Gideon, the President’s guide,
who led him to the spots where the
trout are rnosfc hungry and bite
quickest, allowed as how the Presi-
dent was just as good as the everts
at fly-casting.
Immediately after the emniently
successful fishing excursion, the
President hurried back to the lodge
to meet movie cameramen and re-
enact the scene of his arrival Wed-
nesday night. It was like the pro-
duction of a movie. Newspaper men
stood on the side lines while Mr. asd
Mrs. Coolidge went ff down the road
in the White House car to come
whisking up to the lodge while the
cameras ground away.
Senator Beik (Rep.)., South Da-
kota, played the second lead, walking
out from the lodge to shake the Presi-
dent’s hand. Mr. Coolidge also
posed with his hip boots on, wading
into the stream that fronts the huge
frame and boulder building, which
looks like a Swiss chalet and serves
as the summer White House.
Mrs. Coolidge’s first Western gift
was a big graiy horse, “Senator,”
bearing a fancy silver saddle, the
present of Dakota (Clyde Bones,
broncho buster and cowboy.
Four Give Bond
In Marshall
Lashing Case
MARSHALL, Texas, June 18.—
Four men under charges in connec-
tion with the beating of Mr. and Mrs,
J. H. Richardson ar.d Mr. and Mrs.
V\. A. Straps near here recently,
were released on bond late today.
They are; Cain Anderson, wealthy
landowner; D. Osborne, employe of
Anderson; Tom Weems, also employe
of Anderson, and Otto Bruhn, broth-
er-in-law of Anderson.
Anderson made bond of $1,500 on
each of four charges under the State
anti-mask law, and bond of $250 on
a pistol carrying charge. Weems
and Bruhn made $1,000 bonds on each
of four anti-mask law cases, while
Osborne made a $250 bond on a pis-
tol earnving charge, having previous-
ly made bond on charges under the
anti-mask law.
The four defendants returned to
their homes.
AGENTS SEIZE
ARMS SUPPLY
STACKED ON DOCK WHILE
OFFICIALS WAIT FOR
SHIP TO (*ALL.
SAN PEDRO, Cal., June 18.—A
rumored plot to ship millions of dol-
lars’ worth cf war munitions to some
southern country was believed frus-
trated early Saturday with the seiz-
ure by Department of Justice agents
of $30,000 worth of arms, ammuni-
tion and other supplies purchased in
San Francisco and now stacked on a
dock here awaiting expected arrival
of a ship to transport them south.
The capture was made fifty- miles
north of Santa Barbara and the four
Mexicans on the truck and trailer
carrying the materials were ordered
to proceed in accordance with their
instructions. The munitions were
brought on to Los Angeles, with Fed-
eral agents accompanying the truck,
and later driven here, where watch
was kept for the craft.
Coast guard cutters stood by to
assist in the seizure if the materials
were loaded onto any vessel leaving
this countin' and the shipment of
arms law- thereby violated.
The Government officials pointed
out that thus far no overt .act had
been committed and that the four
men were not actually under arrest.
They declined to reveal what infor-
mation had been gained from the
men, two of whom were said to be
only hired drivers, but it was re-
ported that the munitions were part
of a series of big shipments destined
for some southern point. It con-
sisted of machine guns, rifles, pistols,
ammunition and medical supplies.
Storm Blew Down
Electric Line;
Damaged Trees
Electric service was interrupted
for about 40 minutes Sunday after-
noon between 5 and 6 o’clock when
the wind accompanying the heaviy
rain blew down the electric line on
East Seventh street. Manager Gib-
son and his force repaired the dam-
age and restored the service prompt-
ly and little inconvenience was ex-
perienced as a result of the storm.
Some trees were blown down and
limbs were blown from many of
them. Some minor damage to prop-
erty was reported.
LINDY DROPS
IN SUDDENLY
ON ST. LOUIS
AIR MAIL BUDDY LOCATES
HERO ANI) GUIDES HIM
TO LANDING.
ST. LOUIS, Mo., June 17.—A
graceful silver monoplane, trailed b>y
a work-worn byplane of the United
States air mail servlice, hummed sud-
denly out of the deep haze hanging
over Lambert-St. Louis Field at 3:32
o’clock Friday afternoon and five
minutes later Col. Charles A. Lind-
bergh was home.
Of all the iplanes up to meet the
world-acclaimed hero only that pilot-
ed by a buddy of the air mail service
from which the young history maker
is on leave was able to find him in
the murky fifteen miles between the
flying field and St. Louis. It was
flown h. Phillip R. (Red) Love, and
carried an Associated Press corres-
pondent as passenger.
Hundreds of thousands of St.
Louisians grouped on roofs, river
banks and in open spaces had cheer-
ed “Lucky Slim” to an echo perhaps
inaudible to him as for twenty min-
utes he maneuvered his “Spirit of
St. Louis” over the downtown and
residence district, cavorting in
sweeps and swirls of sheer joy at
being again over his own home town.
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Buddy Found Him in Air.
But it remained for Love to be
the first to greet the intrepid king
of the air and guide him to Lambert-
St. Louis Field, where 5,060 rain-
drenched men and women, including
the world-famed ivoung flyer’s moth-
er. Mrs. Evangeline Lodge Lind-
bera-h. and Dwight Davis of St..
Louis, Secretary of War, waited to
greet him.
The crowd, which might well have
numbered 200,000, was held to the
comparative handfull by strict in-
junction of the arrangements com-
mittee to keep away from the fly-
ing field.
Barry Miller
Will Be Act-
ing Governor
Mammoth Cabbage
Brought to Editor
J. W. Johnson, living west of Jer-
nigen, presented a very large head
of cabbage to the Review and Courier
editor Monday. The cabbage, which
is on exhibition in our window-,
weighed 13 1-2 pounds when brought
in. Mr. Johnson raised 300 cabbage
but they are not all as large as this.
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Walter Dale and son, Carl, of
Greenville, were visiting and attend-
ing to business in Cooper Monday.
AUSTIN, June 18.—Texas will
have another governor Monday.
For when Dan Moody crosses the
line Sunday evening on board the
“All-Texas Special” as head of the
delegation en route to St. Louis, Chi-
cago, New York and other Eastern,
cities, Lieutenant Governor Barry Mil-
ler will pick up the reins of govern-
ment and automatically be the chief
executive until Dan Moody again
enters the State the first part of
July.
Plans for a “junior inaugural ball”
for Lieut. Gov. Miller were com-
pleted Saturday hv Austin citizens.
The ball with a reception will be held
Wednesday night on the roof of the
Stephen F. Austin hotel, it was an-
nounced.
Miller has held office more than
two years, but during the Ferguson
administration he was not called upon
at any time to be acting governor.
Miller, however, says he enioys one
distinction that no other man does.
During the legislative trip to La-
redo, while State officials were gath-
ered et the international bridge. Mil-
lev playfully pushed Moody across
the line at his feet into Mexican ter-
ritory, and declared he was governor
of Texas for two seconds, for offi-
cially Moody “was out of the State.”
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Fine Rain Sunday
Good For Crop*
The fine rain that fell Sundnv aft-
ernoon put a good season in the
g.ound which assures the corn crop.
Cotton is doing fine and that is just
the thing for it if the rain does not
continue.
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Rev. D. W. Nicholas, Emil E. Lo-
max and Kirby S. True were Paris
visitors Saturday afternoon.
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Hart, W. D. The Delta Courier (Cooper, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 25, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 21, 1927, newspaper, June 21, 1927; Cooper, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth978970/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.