Cooper Review (Cooper, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 31, Ed. 1 Friday, August 3, 1951 Page: 4 of 8
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The Cooper Review, Cooper, Texas
Frida/, August
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Insurance Agency
EXPERT FLOOR SANDING and
finishing. A. C. Bell, Commerce.
Phone 996-W, collect. tf
FULTON MATTRESS
FACTORY
New Innersprings made. Old
mattresses converted into in-
nerspring. Reupholstering on
chairs and divans. Phone 132.
Livestock
F-5
GENERAL PLUMBING
and
TROUBLE SHOOTING
John Sloan
Call 354 or 212
Food Lockers
The Best Way to Have the
Best to Eat!
WILSON FOOD CO.
In Cooper It'S
Anderson Auto Store
“Home of Better Values’’
Auto Accessories
Home Appliances
PHONE 55
CASH PAID for dead or crippled
stocK For immediate service,
phone 153 collect, Paris, Texas
Central Hide and Rendering Com-
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FARM ANIMALS
Dead or Useless
Horses, Mules & Cattle
Removed Free.
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HOWARD (Speck)
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Sulphur Springs, Texas
TEXAN PARADE By Ross Phares
Mission Murder Sets Off One
Of Texas Biggest Scandals
Miscellaneous
F-12
lee cold melons.
Guaranteed,
Riggs Grocery. Phone 62.
HOOTEN DRUG CO.
DRUGGISTS
“Your Rexall Store”
Phone 51
Prescription Dept. 52
COOPER, TEXAS
The blast of a blunderbuss at the
Presidio of San Xavier, near San
Antonio, Texas, on May 11, 1752,
set off an investigation and trial
that lasted eight years and rocked
Texas and Mexico with possibly
the most sordid scandal in their
histories.
When the presidio commandant,
Captain Felipe dc Rabago y Teran
reached the scene of the explosion,
the Mission Candelaria, he found
Juan Joseph Caballos dead in a
pool of blood on the mission floor,
and in the doorway of the mission
Fray Joseph Gonzabal lay with an
arrow in his heart. These three
men had been the chief actors in
one of the most sensational affairs
in the province, a strange triangle
of love, power, and religious zeal.
On this dramatic night Captain
Rabago stood over two fallen ene-
mies. If these had been his only
enemies life might have been
much different for him and Texas
for years to come.
All the way through the investi-
Garden fresh frozen vegetables j Ration that followed it was the
few days later Rabago brought
Ccballos hack to the mission but
made no apology.
Then ensued a series of letter
writing. The missionaries wrote
to their superiors of the scandalous
and unscrupulous commandant,
asking that the place be cleaned
up or that they he transferred to
other fields. It was reported that
“girls, whether single or married,
without distinction of cast were
made to serve the captain in his
pleasures. Modesty was banished
from the mission. The most lasciv-
ious soldiers were the most suc-
cessful; there were no other merits
for promotion than to secure new
subjects Cor the satisfaction of the
captain. In short, scandal found
its way to the walls of the temple.
The neophytes saw themselves de-
prived of their wives and daugh-
ters by the soldiers, oppressed by
cxecessive labor, insulted every
moment of the day and denied the
right to voice their misfortune.”
Captain Rabago also wrote to
his superiors telling what a bunch
of meddling and complaining
priests he had on his hands. He
would be highly pleased to see
them receive their desired trans-
fers. He pointed out, that be-
cause the military did not provide
funds for the service of a chaplain,
the churchmen were displeased.
The captain reported that mass
was said at San Xavier on holidays
so early and hurriedly that most
lanxs
A-2
lhank each and ev-
comtorting words
Ikindncss shown us
our wife, daughter
Thomas Searls.
saris and family
Jges Families
|rs. Ro> Wilson and
I express our heart-
|n to all wh<• helpei;
|t !
tratt. And we want
church friends and
■five Hi
bred, an11 ■ ; n ially
II
Irs. George Gilbert
Irs. Bruce Roseman
Irs. Tillman Mayes
EMPLOYMENT
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WANTED: Blacksmith to take over
shop. Electrical equipment. Call
243-W. tf
Help Wanted
D-l
and fruits. Everyday
Grocery. Phone 62.
ANDERSON HARDWARE
& FURNITURE CO.
"Texas’ Most Accommodating
Store”
Westinghouse Frost - Free
Refrigerators and Water
Saving Laundramnt
WANTED AT ONCE: Service sta-
tion attendant with sales ability.
Conveniten hours. No Sunday
work. Salary corresponding with
ability. Toney's Service Station, tf
Fresh frozen
Riggs Grocery.
fish. Daily
Phone 62.
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method of express-
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our friends and
helped us during
death of our dear
Ither To the ladies
Inch, for the : 1< veri
lev. M the
poken and to Dr.
rid the Delta Fun-
|want to say thanks
3less each of you
Smiddy
Irs. W. H. Guffey
| Mrs. C. C. Moore
Idren
Irs. J. L. Small and
FINANCIAL
THE FIRST NATIONAL
BANK
DEPOSITS INSURED TO $10,000
Member Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation
DELTA NATIONAL BANK
“SINCE 1900“
Deposits Insured Up To $10,000
Member F.D.I.C.
FINE
PHOTOGRAPHS
AND
HALLMARK GREETING CARDS
HOWSE & SON STUDIO
Commerce, Texas
Attention Egg Producers. We
pay top prices for infertile eggs.
Riggs Grocery. Phone 62.
RENTALS
FOR RENT: 3 room apt. 520 East
Waco. See Mrs. C. W. Talley. *31
Riggs i churchmen against the military.
Captain Rabago had taken up
— * his duties in San Xavier in De-
cember, 1751. He got in bad with
the missionaries at the very start,
for he brought with him from
San Antonio the wife of Ceballos.
a citizen of that city who had en-
I listed in Rahago’s company. Ac-
cordind to the reports of the mis-
sionaries he had formed a liaison
with the woman before leaving
San Antonio. By the time the
journey started the affair had be-
come puhliciy known. Somewhere
enroute, it seems, the outraged
husband protested in defense of
his honor and, according to the
testimony of the captain, threaten-
ed to do him violence. As a result
of this threat—or probably mere
interference—the captain brought
the jealous husband into the new
town in chains, and stationed him
in the local guardhouse.
Captain Rabago continued his
relations with Senora Ceballos.
The affair became a matter of
common gossip. The missionaries,
chagrined, and handicapped by
this adverse influence on their re-
ligious work, urged Rabago to
send the woman back to San An-
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FOR SALE
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is, Friends
L many friends who
|d us in our darkest
to thank each and
i the depths of our
words of sympathy
offerings of food,
py appreciated.
Janes for his con-
ion and care, we will
U.
Inanv church groups
■or their words of
May God’s richest
jn you all.
.eon Millsap
F. Dunlap
Eddie McWhorter
lax Ellis *
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|US YOUR
CARS!
|S. PONTIAC
— Phone 444
lepair B-2
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STATION
Kia Products
[izing, road serv-
jattery service.
FOR SALE: 1950 8 foot G-E re-
frigerator. poster bedroom suite,
Simmons inner spring mattress
with deluxe springs. Apartment
gas cook stove. Call 48 or 434. 31
FOR SALE: Approximately 18 x
18 ft. garage to be moved from
rear of Methodist Educational
Bldg. Priced to move it as soon
as possible. Sec W. I. Bartley. 31
FOR SALE: Good used typewriters
and adding machines. Reasonable.
The Cooper Review. Phone 86.
Cooper. tf
Building Material F-l
ANY SIZE
Concrete
Blocks
Lowest Cost Material For
PERMANENT BUILDINGS
ALSO
★ Concrete Septic Tanks
300 or 400 gallon
★ Reinforced Concrete
Culvert Pipe
★ 4" Drain Tile
BELL CONCRETE
PRODUCTS CO.
PHO. 799 SULPHUR SPRING*
FOR RENT: 100 to 200 acres high
production farm near Ladonia.
Nice clean house, ideal living con-
ditions. Half interest could be ob-
tained by desirable tenant in 140
acres of good pasture on this place.
Sec V. A. Townes, 1904 Sayle St.,
Pho. 920-W, Greenville, Tex. 33
FOR RENT: 46 acres of good pas-
ture with plenty of water. See .
Shorty Parrish or Mrs. Jess Par-Iton10, Ceballos was kept in prison,
rish ' *32 | tied prostrate on the ground to
four stakes at his hands and feet
and three at his neck. Rabago, it
was stated, blamed the husband
for the scandal.
The missionaries, to illustrate
that there was no act too vile for
Rabago to commit, testified that
he, in a fit of fiendish-malice,
while Ceballos was securely pin-
ned against the wall of his cell
by five spikes had the wife brought
before the victim, and, in his pres-
ence, abused her.
On Christmas Eve, while the
guard was relaxed, Ceballos es-
caped to Mission Candelaria and
sought refuge in the chapel. Next
morning when Rabago learned of
his escape and flight, he “flew into
a rage,” and with a squad of sol-
before diers rode into the church on
horseback without dismounting
and seized Ceballos, took him back
to prison, and again put him under
torture.
The missionaries, highly indig-
nant at this act of desecration, put
the captain under censure, re-
questing an apology for his act. A
Hot
COOPER HOTEL
Rooms For Rent
running water
and cold
every room.
Ladles' and Men's rest room and
showers.
Attic Ventilation. 4 Large Attic
Fans.
Rooms cool In summertime.
You’ll reach for
morning.
Per Week $5.00
Cooperation is Two
Way Street for All
Apts., Furnished G-2
FOR RENT: Unfirnished apart-
ment. See Darwin Johnson, Coop-
er. tf
3-room furnished apartment. 2
porches and reception hall; share
bath. Call 377-J. ($30). The
John Boyd residence, near Cotton
Yard. *32
REAL ESTATE
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TO BUY OR SELL homes, farms,
or business, see your Real Estate
dealer. W. W. Garrison. Phone
412-W. tf
Acreage For Sale H-l
SERVICE
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LYON - GRAY
Lumber Co.
Phone 100
“The Price Is Right”
FOR SALE: 125 acre farm, located
2 miles SW Ben Franklin on black
top road. Two sets improvements,
plenty of water. Will sell for less
than improvements would cost. J.
R. Waller, Ben Franklin. *32
Homes
REPAIRS
ISERVICE
and Delivery
— PHONE 447
IEY RADIO
IRVICE
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ipairs
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Radio Service
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5 C-ll
FOR SALE: Lumber in stock, I
nearly all dimensions; and, orders
of any and all dimensions taken
at the DELTA HUB SAWMILL at
Charleston now Marion Spencer, i
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Farm Supplies F-2
FOR SALE: McCormick-Dcering
team mower. First class condition.
Bargain. See E. H. Parkhill. tf
FOR SALE: Nice four room house.
See J. A. Griffin. Phone 309. 30*
FOR SALE: My home on Cooper
Avenue. All conveniences. R. E.
Patterson. tf
FOR SALE: Three room house on
SE 6th Street. Large lot. graveled
street. Priced to sell. Call 450-W.
Cream Supreme
Ice Cream, Fore-
Id Ice Cream. The
V' different. Park*
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SERVICE
Ivcrics, short hauls,1
moving, day or
patronage solicited.
Phone 366. tf
IGLINE and scraper
ly hour or contract
>ct W G. McKnight,
O. Box 247, rhone
*34
FOR SALE: 2 tractors, one 49
model and 10 head cattle. 100
head white leghorn pullets. 40
acres cotton, '37 Ford pickup, ’36
Ford coupe and miscellaneous
hand tools, $3,500. J. W. Stone,
Vi mile south Camp Lake Store, i
Commerce highway. *32
WATER HAULING
“Water when you want it, where
you want it.” We specialize in
overhead tanks and pumping.
Leave order at Phone 100 or 400
for E. Y. Stewart. tf
DELTA FARM STORE
Farmall Tractors
“Your International Harvester
Dealer"
PHONE 352
FOR QUICK SALE: Three houses.
One four rooms, graveled street,
well located, $2,000. One five
room house, large lot, $1,750. One
three room house, improvements,
$1,250. Inquire at Review office.
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Coats Stalk Shredder
With 10 Big Features
J. F. HENSLEE HARDWARE
Call 37 For Demonstration.
By Fern Jefferson
There’s more than one way to
bury one’s self. If you don’t be-
lieve it,■•just quietly drop out of
sight in your local community and
let no one know where you are.
In a few weeks most people will
forget they ever knew such a per-
son.
The same is undoubtedly true
of merchants and business men in
general in every community, town
and city. It’s the business man
who keeps his name and merchan-
dise constantly before the public
whose business grows in volume
and profit.
Marjorie Burnham, executive
secretary of the North Dakota
Dairy Industries Association, re-
cently said in a bulletin to dairy-
men, “The dairy plant operator
who cooperates with his news-
paper and banker in his home
town is building a nest of good
will in his community. The op-
erator who criticizes newspapers
as being against his business,
usually is the fellow who ad-
vertises on match clips and buys
his printing out of town. Coopera-
tion is a two-way street.”
It is a widely admitted fact that
without a live, wide awake news-
paper few towns progress, and it
is also a fact that without the
cooperation of business and pro-
fessional men and citizens general-
ly, a newspaper cannot do its best.
Many realize this to the extent
that they arc willing to spend
money in building the town in
which they live, backing worth-
while community projects through
space in the newspaper. An illus-
tration of this is a full page ad
which the bank in a neighboring
city ran last week promoting in-
terest in the Little League Base-
ball boys. The ad served three
purposes—it brought to public at-
tention the need for welfare work
among hoys; it called attention to
the bank itself; and it was evi-
dence that the bankers have an
interest in the area from which
their trade is drawn.
Our editor wrote a story a short
time back about how the popula-
tion of Delta county has dwindled
through the years. Hundreds of
former Delta county citizens who
went elsewhere to get more at-
tractive positions annually flock
back to the old home town and
community because they love the
land and the people who remained.
It is this writer’s firm belief
that if the present population of
Delta county would give not only
themselves, but the money in their
pockets, to the advancement of
the county, many of these former
residents could be reclaimed. At
least, programs interesting to chil-
dren and young people could he
assured, with the consequent re-
sult that these same children and
young people will remain to help
build the county still further.
Just buying at home the things
you need, and patronizing the
local business and professional
men would help out a lot. Coop-
er’s merchants are progressive
and their stocks would be better
and better if the home-town peo-
ple would buy from them rather
than out-of-town merchants. The
money spent out of town never
comes back, while the money
spent at home remains to help
build the town. Local merchants
pay taxes in the town and country
and this money helps maintain
good schools, build good roads,
sewer systems and numerous other
improvements. Out-of-town mer-
chants contribute nothing to all
these.
Cooper and Delta county have
good lawyers, good bankers, good
farmers, good doctors, good auto-
mobile dealers, good druggists,
good grocerymen, good farm ma-
chinery dealers, good lumbermen,
good newspapermen and good job
printers, and other classes of busi-
ness and professional men; yet
many persons feel that they don’t
get value received unless they
patronize out-of-town firms and
individuals. Yet these same
people would feel hurt if they
did not share in the goods things
the town and county have to offer.
The pattern of the world today
seems to be built on prejudice,
but reformation has to start some
place, so why not start in our own
town and community by laying
aside all prejudice and giving our-
selves, our money and our loyalty
(and the greatest of these is loyal-
ty) to our town, our community
and our county?
of the soldiers could not attend it.
He suggested that
could be much better if the
voted their energies to their r re
ligious duties instead of middling
in the affairs of state.
The local Cocos Indians watch-
ed this fight among the Spaniards
with confusion, then with fear and
then somewhat after the fash-
ion of cats when the family fights
_left the place. First there hac
been a •misunderstanding" among
the Indians and missionaries, and
then Rabago prohibited the Cocos
from entering the presidio. It
seems that a Cocos Indian had
been beaten for violating the oi -
dors and then the whole Cocos
group at the Mission had fled. A
report came to the presidio that
the Cocos were on the warpath. It
was at this juncture that father
Gonzabal and Ceballos were killed.
Rabago started an investigation.
A few days later a Sayopin Indian
named Andres was arrested at the
nearby Mission Capistrano Two
days before the murder, Andres
and his wife had disappeared.
When he arrived at the Mission
Capistrano he told of the murders,
saying they were committed by
the Cocos.
Upon further questioning, An-
dres confessed to the crime. Ac-
cording to his version he and four
soldiers had committed the mur-
ders, at the instigation of Rabago.
Then Andres retracted his scc-
Ceballos.
Joseph Gonzabal and Juan Joseph
ond story, saying he was right in
the first place, that the Cocos com-
mitted the murders.
The missionaries claimed this
retraction was arranged by Raba-
go to clear himself and his sol-
diers. They pointed out that the
Cocos never used guns, also that
the confession of Andies concern-
ing his participation was too de-
tailed and intimate to be given by
anyone other than a participator.
No Indian, they insisted, had
enough imagination to have given
such revealing details of the ac-
tivities of the four soldiers prior
to the murders.
And thus ran a series of charges
and counter-charges, finally ter-
minating after eight years, in the
viceroy’s court. Rabago was ac-
quitted, and the missionaries were
declared by the viceroy “to be
free of all charges of guilt or mis-
conduct in the case" — which
meant, to all practical effect, that
nothing was proved or disproved.
Possibly everybody had become so
tired and befuddled it was de-
cided there was no point in airing
the mess any longer. Nobody to
this day can say who killed Fray
Rev. and Mrs. M. G. Nelson have
returned to their home at Holland
after visiting with Mr. and Mrs.
O. E. Millard.
Miss Nell Lowry of Corpus
Christi visited her parents, Dr. and
Mrs. D. O. Lowry, over the week-
end.
Mrs. Gene Moss has returned to
her position at Hooten Drug Co.
after a vacation.
Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Hooten, Sr.
are on a two weeks vacation in
Colorado Springs, Colo.
Mrs. Carl McDonald, who has
been a patient at the Sanitarium
of Paris, has returned home.
Mr. and Mrs. Eldridge Jarrell
and Sharon and Mr. and Mrs. Boyd
Jarrell spent Wednesday in Tyler.
TO BE SOLD AT
AUCTION
Saturday, August 11th
2:30 P M.
MILAM
School Building
From The Steps of the Building
This building located one mile East of
Bulin s Store has to be seen to be appreci-
ted. To be moved from location or wrecked.
BUILDING IS OPEN FOR
INSPECTION PRIOR TO SALE
Cooper Independent School District
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