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A Constructive News
and
Advertising Medium
For
Delta County
Serving Delta County For
The Past Fifty-Eight Years
fUbiito
HART BROS., Publishers
New Pos toff ice
Dedicated By
T. J. Murray
Large Crowd Attends Ceremonies And In-
spects Structure; Office To Be Moved When
Remainder Of Equipment Arrives.
Told by Thomas J. Murray, assistant solicitor general of
the Post Office Department at Washington, that Cooper
people deserved the modern new Federal building they were
getting by reason of the support and interest manifested in
its construction, a large crowd attended <-he formal dedica-
tion program Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock and in-
spected the well appointed structure.
(Mr. Murray, who filled the place
COOPER, DELTA COUNTY, TEXAS FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1937
of principal speaker when Karl A.
Crowley, solicitor general, was
called to Washington, dedicated
the building to the needs of the
citizens of this community. He
declared that the local office was
the best of Its class he had seen;
before paying tribute to members
of Congress from Texas especially
mentioning Representative Wright
Patman, who pushed the act
through Congress making the of-
fice possible for Cooper. Mr. Pat-
man was mentioned as one of the
hardest working and most in-
fluential members of Congress-
Mr- Murray was Introduced by
Rube S. Wells.
The program was opened by the
Cooper High School band under
the direction of Luther Brown.
The Rev. J D Barron gave the
invocation and Postmaster R- H-
Poster, who acted as master of
ceremonies, introduced a number
of visiting postmasters and visit-
ing postal employes.
County Agent W. H. Jones in-
troduced George Adams, Exten-
sion Service district agent, who
praised the new quarters for the
agricultural and demonstration
Alyeen Cummings
Accepts Contract
With Midget Show
Miss iAlyeen Cummings, daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs B. O. Cum-
mings, of Cooper, has aocepted a
four months contract for the sum-
mer with Stanley .'Graham wfio
operated the midget city at the
Texas Centennial ^Exposition at
Dallas last year.
After a few days training the
company will leave May 28 for
eastern cities and Canada for ex-
hibits and will return to Dallas
later in the summer for the Pan
American Exposition. Mias Cum-
mings' roommate on the trip will
be the little lady known as Mac
West
Miss Cummings is 20 years old,
45 Inches tall and weighs 40
pounds- She is a graduate of
Cooper High School.
SERVICES FOR
MRS. GRIFHN
ON WEDNESDAY
Oldest Native Citizen Of
Cooper Dies After Long
Illness.
Dedicated To
Development
Of The Resources Of
Delta County
VOLUME 58, NO. 21
She Speaks Chinese
tm
PTA Holds Final
Meeting Of Year
The last meeting of the parent-
agenti,. Following Mr. Murray’s teacher association was held on
address, the Rev. R. E Streetman ( Tuesday at 3:15 o’clock at high
said the benediction and a short school auditorium with the presd-
band concert was played.
Visitors were invited by Mr.
Foster to inspect the new struc-
Final rites for Mrs. Amanda
Elizabeth Griffin, 76, the oldest
native citizen of Cooper, were
conducted Wednesday afternoon
at the Church of Christ with the
Rev. D- T. Carleton, of Paris and
Elder J. D- Wheeler, of Cooper,
officiating Burial was made In
the old cemetery, adjoining Oak
Laiwn cemetery. Mrs. Griffin died
Tuesday following an illness of
nearly a year. Funeral arange-
ments were in charge of Smith
Funeral Home
Pall bearers were: Herbert
Lane, Wallace Robinson, Glen
Watson, Carl Adams, Tom Boyd,
and Robert Morris
The daughter of Mr and ^rs.
Wilbom Wheat, Mrs Griffin was
loom in what is now Cooper on
January 21, 1861. She is one of
the few remaining citizens who
made their home here when the
town was staked out. She was a
member of the Church of Christ.
She is survived by her husband,
a son, Waldo Barker, and two
daughters
Pecan Gap Fire Destroys
8 Buildings, Loss $15,000
FORMATION OF
SAN FRANCISCO . . . Janet
Whiteside was born In Manila
and spent most of her 18 months
in Shanghai. She learned Chinese
from her nurse and English from
hep.parents, but prefers Chinese.
COUNTY FARM
GROUPSOUGHT
Five Divisions Of County To
Be Made In Agricultur-
al Association.
Plans For Annual
Singling Convention
Being Formulated
SEWING ROOM
IS INSPECTED
BY 150GUESTS
Ingenuity In Using1 Every
Scrap Of Material Shown
In Display.
Organization of a Delta County
agricultural association is called
for in plana developed Wednesday
at a meeting of land owners and
tenants. The county organization
will be affiliated with the Texas
Agricultural Association which
has headquarters at Brownwood.
R. G Arnold, state organizer
for the (American Farm Bureau
Federation, wag the speaker at
I the Wednesday meeting and ex-
j plained the dire need of such an
| organization in this county. The
value of an organized farmer
I group in presenting views on leg-
i islatlon before Congress was
i stressed by the speaker.
H D. Stephenson was selected
a., temporary president and G. D.
Albright as temporary secretary
for the county organization. A
meeting has been called for Sat-
urday afternoon. May 22. in the
The slogan of the Delta County
Singing Convention, “the older it
grows, the better it gets,’- will bo
borne out in the annual meeting
this year at Cooper on Saturday
night, June 5, and Sunday, June
June 6, according to O- R. Bridges,
ipresident of the organization.
Plans are now underway to
make this year’s meeting one of
the best, in the long history of the
tion- The program opened with a
ture and employes of the local ( play “Vacation Time ” presented
post office explained the uses to. by pupils from West Ward. Miss
which different parts of the j Anna Lou Miller gave a piano
building would be put. The build- solo.
ing was decorated with attractive in the absence of Mrs. Guy Ray
baskets fo flowers sent by various who was ill, Mrs. J. H. Scrimshire
citizens of Cooper. gave the high points of the state
Inspectors completed their task and national president's message.
Of looking over the building Tues. Supt. R. L. Stephenson gave a
day and found everything in ex-; report on the art exhibit and
cellent shape with the exception stated that all expenses were
of minor retouching and painting (paid, a balance of $15.00 was on
•AH the equipment for the build- j hand to be used for buying pie-
ing has arrived with the excep- tures for the school. Mrs- Floyd
tion of lock boxes and the post Chesnut and Miss Eula Potter
office, agricultural and home were appointed as a committee
demonstration offices will b e to purchase the pictures
moved as soon as they arrive-
Among the visiting postmasters
were: T- W- Russell, of Paris,
Carl Little, of Ladonia, Will Mil-
ler, of Charleston, R. W. Hunt, of
Klondike, Mrs. Robbie Phipps, of
Lake Creek, S. W- Rlbble, of Rox-
ton, O A* Walls, of Naples, and
J R. Thigpen, of Omaha. T. P
Berry, Evan Cameron and O. B
mT, vZ. IT* B°yd P”:"1”5-! convention. Further plaw will be
Mu,, Etb. stoke, gave the mvoea- made Frktty „lght Jay ^ a{ .
pointment of a membership coni'
mittee will be made for the five
divisions of the county. Every
landowner and tenant is
to attend the meeting.
urged
Miss Rosa Lee Moody spent the
week end in Dallas.
Briggs, of Paris, were visitors. C
V. Rattan, who has served as
postmaster 35 years of the 65
since an office was established
here, was present for the dedica-
tion.
meeting to be held at the Metho-
dist Protestant church in Cooper.
Mr. Bridges invites those interest-
ed in the annual meeting to at-
tend and assist in making fur-
ther plans.
Play Is Presented
At Brushy Mound
“That's One On Bill’’ a comedy
drama in three acts was present-
ed at Brushy Mound school house
Friday night. A small admission
charge was made, the proceeds to
be used to send a delegate to the.
young people’s assembly at S M.
U. in June. The sum of $8.20 was
realized.
The following had parts in the
play: Bess Edwards, Lee Ed-
wards, Douglas Scott, Mildred
Mobley, Stiles Conley, Estelle
Mitchell, Red Johnson, Frank
Robertson, Jasper Jeter and Nor-
cne Newman.
Hal McKinney Is
Honored At SMU
DALLA|S, May 20—-Hal McKin-
ney has the distinction of being
the only junior engineering stu-
dent at Southern Methodist Uni-
versity to be electee to Theta Al-
pha Omega, honor society of the
school of engineering.
Hal, son of Mr. and Mrs C. M.
McKinney, received recognition
when the university staged its an-
nual honors convocation and sen-
ior program recently.
Federal Structure of Colonial Design To
Accomodate Postal, Agricultural Offices
The new Federal building is
Cooper had its beginnnig in 1635
when Congressman Wright Tat-
man secured the passage of a
Congressional Act on August 12,
Authorizing its construction and
Piloting $65,000 for the acquisi-
tion of a site and construction
of the building On September
15, 1936, this amount was in-
creased by $15,850 making a to-
tal limit of cost of $80,850
Sites were advertised for and
after investigation, selection was
made of the proposal submitted
by Tom J. Snell for property lo-
cated at the southwest comer of
Dallas avenue and East Second
Street with dimensions of 108
tost by 216 feet at a price of $2,-
230. Title to this property was
Sept-
vested in the government,
ember 8, 1936
The plans and specifications
for this project were prepared in
the office of the supervising
architect, procurement division
Treasury Department.
On Sept. 26, 1936, the Treasury
Department awarded the con-
struction contract to Eckert-Fair
Construction Company, of Dallas,
in the amount of $61,440, the
building to be completed within
210 calendar days from the day
of notice to proceed.
The building is erected on a
Corner lot having a frontage of
58 feet on Dallas Avenue and a
depth of 66 feet on East Second
Street- It is a one-story, base-
ment and mezzanine structure of
Colonial design, it occupies a
ground area of 3,762 square feet
and has a content of about 112,-
000 cubic feet. The exterior
walls are faced with buff brick,
having window and door open-
ings trimmed in limestone. All
windows, doors and cornices are
of wood. Foundation walls, foot-
ings and main slab floors are of
concrete. Generally, the building
is fireproof. Granite entrance
steps and platform with iron
railings and lamp standards are
placed about the front entrance
A high tile roof covers the front
portion and over the rear the
roof is of composition material
enclosed by brick parapet walls.
See FEDERAL on page eight
With 296 pieces of work, a
week's supply on display Tuesday
at the WPA sewing room of Delta
County at Cooper, Mrs. W. T
Stewart, supervisor of the room,
and her 31 employees showed not | district court room when the ap-
only quantity of work, but also
quality workmanship, and real in-
genuity in using every inch of
material furnished them by their
Sponsors, Delta County and City
of Cooper- Dresses were trimmed
in pointed tape made from scraps,
night gowns an<j pajamas were
trimmed in hand made bias tape,
rugs were crocheted out of all the
selvages trimmed from the mater-
ials, mops were made from odd
shaped and off-grain scraps of
overalls and shirts, children’3
dresses were made out of the
scraps of adults presses when the
materials were suitable, and other
small scraps were used for patch
work quilts in the old fashioned
designs. Mrs. Ste.vart says, “We
use everything except the spools "
All of the women were at work
the entire day as the guests were
conducted through the finishing
room, stitching room, cutting
room, storage room, and hand
sewing room. Women were sew-
ing buttons on the men's work
shirts and hems in dresses in the
finishing room, making women's
print dresses in the stitching
room, cutting six pairs of mens
'work trousers at a time on the
cutting table, storing the cut gar-
ments as well as the finished gar-
ments which are bundled in doz-
ens for delivery to the relief of-
fices, carding cotton, piecing
quilts, and crocheting rugs in the
hand sewing room.
Infant’s clothes, finished chil-
dren's clothes, men’s work shirts
and trousers, smocks, night
gowns, pajamas, slips, boy's cov-
eralls, finished quilts and rugs
were also on display in the stor-
age room and reception room-
The registry showed that 150
guests called during the open
house including the entire body
of County officials attending in
a group. Mrs I- N- Hardin, sup-
erintendent from Hopkins County,
was also among the guests.
The entire sewing room gave
Youngest, Older
Pllayers to Meet in
Inter-Club Tourney
IAn inter-club golf match be-
tween young and older members
of the Cooper golf club will be
played Sunday afternoon starting
at 1 o’clock.
Members of the young mens’
team will be Carl McMillan, John
Gelino, Doyce Wheeler, Wilbur
Hart, B J. McMillan, Jr., Dr. C.
E. Moore, Vance Aikin, Jack
Chesnut, Pat Krauskopf, Russell
Tucker.
The older mens' team will be
B. J. McMillan, J. T- Taylor, L. L-
Allard, A. R. Byms, Bill Chesnut.
J. R. Watkins, Dr. W C. Walls,
Jim Early, John Woodall, Leon
Sanders, Earl Dunning and Ches-
ter Keith.
James Scheduled For
Principal Address At
East Texas Reunion
Explosion Is Thought
Cause Of Disastrous
Blaze Early Thurs-
day Morning.
$1,500 INSURANCE
Fire Equipment I s Called
From Ladonia And Cooper
To Subdue Flames.
Mrs. Tom Snell, of Paris, visit-
ed Mrs J. H. McKinney and at-
tended the dedication of the new
Federal building Wednesday. Mrs.
McKinney accompanied her home
for a short visit-
Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland Ratliff
were in Denton Tuesday to visit
their daughter. Lucile, who is a
student in Texas College for Wo-
men-
COMMERCE, May 20—The an-
nual home coming of the ex-stu-
dents of the East Texas State
Teachers' College will be featur-
ed this year by the dedication of
the new men’s dormitory, recent-
ly completed as WPA project, on
May 29-
Julian Montgomery, Fort Worth
State director of WPA, will for-
mally deliver the building to the
college and Dr. James G. Ulmer,
Tyler, member of the board of
regents, will accept the structure
for the college.
The home coming this year
marks the culmination of twenty
years of work done by the college
as a State-owned institution, and
following the dedication of the
dormitory the meeting will he
turned over to O. L Couch of
Bonham president of the Ex-
Students’ Association-
L- L James of Tyler will give
the principal address of the day
and barbecue will be served by
two ex-students of the school, Mr.
James and Joel H. Berry of Hous-
ton.
Mrs. J. M. Merrill
Dies at Ardmore
Mrs W W Garrison was called
to Ardmore, Okla last week in
response to a message that her
sister, Mrs. J. M. Merrill, was
seriously ill, having been stricken
with paralysis. Mrs Merrill died
Friday and funeral services were
held Sunday.
AT THE QRAND
o.aJ’UEDAY, MA\ 22—BUCK JONES in
’SANDFLoW"
The shootinest tootinest picture Buck ever made. Also chapter one
,^Secret Agent'’ the G-man gangster serial with a hundred thrills a
minute.
OWL SHOW SATURDAY NIGHT 10:45 P. M.
“JOHN MEADS WOMAN”
With Edward .Arnold (Diamond Jim Brady) and an all star cast
SUNDAY and MONDAY, MAY 23 - 24
“THE WOMAN I LOVE”
Paul Muni, Miriam Hopkins and Louis Hayward. The picture destin-
ed to be acclaimed the motion picture achievement of 1937. '
TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY, MAY 25 - 26
“THE CAPTAIN’S KID
Sibyl Jason, Guy Kibbee and May Robson. Little Sibyl has reached
the stage where she compares favorably with Shirley Temple and
Jane Withers. Also news and comedy. The comedy is "Our Gang'1 and
I the nows shows in detail the great catastrophe, the wreck of the
the impression of quiet, system a- j Hindenberg. The cameramen were there shooting scenes of its land-
unin/terruipted even by ing when the explosion took place, so they got it just as it happened.
THURSDAY and FRIDAY, MAY 27 - 28
“SHALL WE DANCE”
With Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. They greet you again, the
screen’s top favorites in their crowninJg joy fest. See them dance on
roller skates, a song-drenched dance and gay glad romance. The
show we’ve all been waiting to see. A^lso comedy.
AT THE DELTA
FRIDAY and SATURDAY, MAY 21 - 22
“CAVALRY”
With that favorite of all western fans, Bob Steele. Also comedy.
WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY, MAY 26 - 27
“COME CLOSER FOLKS”
With Jimmy Dunn and Marian Man*. A dandy show. ,
tic work uninterrupted ev»n
the constant line of 'guests pass-
ing through
Ray Wilson Adds
Market Equipment
Ray Wilson is adding a meat
market to his grocery. A new
General Electric refrigerating
counter and accessories have been
installed and he expects to have
fresh stock in readiness for his
customers Saturday.
Flames that broke out either ttk
the Moody Cafe or the J. H. Sulli-
van Barber Shop swept the east
side of the business district of
Pecan Gap early Thursday morn-
ing, destroying eight business
houses and their contents and
causing an estimated loss of
$15,000.
Thought to have been started
by an explosion of some sort, as
many Pecan Gap residents re-
I ported hearing noise of an explo-
| sion, the blaze spread so rapidly
i that it was out of control from
I the beginning and made it impas-
sible for residents to save stocks
or furnishings in the buildings-
The blaze was discovered at 3:4S>
o’clock.
Although Pecan Gap possesses
an excellent waterworks system*
built last year, the city owns no
hose or pumper and equipment
from Ladonia and Cooper was se-
cured to fight the fire. Neither
town could be reached by tele-
phone as the fire was probably
the cause of the interruption in
survice. Citizens drove both to
Ladonia and Cooper, C A. Cock-
rell stated while in Cooper Thurs-
day. The Cooper equipment and
five firemen arrived at Pecan Gap
shortly after the arrival of the
Ladonia engine and the two con-
trolled the spread of the flames
immediately.
Mr. Cockrell stated had the
equipment arrived ten minutes
earlier two buildings rould have
been saved while had it arrived
ten minutes later three more
structures would have been lost.
The buildings destroyed were
the Gray and Fain garage and fill-
ing station, the J- A. Gray ware-
house, the Leeman Estate build-
ing in which Moody's Cafe was lo-
cated, J. H Sullivan Barber Shop
and Carl Wood meat market in
the Warren buildings. J. E Phil-
lips and Sons general merchandise
store, the post office in the S D.
Miller building, and the Schoolar
building which was vacant. The
Miller building was the only brick
structure destroyed by the blaze-
It was formerly oocupied by the
Pecan Gap bank-
In addition to the buildings de-
stroyed, electric and telephone
wiring was considerably damaged,
while heat damaged glass in seven
buildings on the opposite side of
the street to the extent of $150.
Probably ten per cent of the
loss or $1,500 was covered by in-
surance-
Mrs. Clarence Walls
Presents Pupils In
Recital On Tuesday
Mrs. Clarence Wallb presented
Miss Laurelle Chancellor and Miss
Elizabeth Cumming’ i n senior
piano recital Tuesday evening,
May 18th at 8 o’clock at the high
school auditorium
An appreciative audience heard
their program, and the rendition
of the numbers played showed
much study and practice upon the
part of each pupil.
A color scheme of pink and
white was carried out In the stage
decorations. Misses Chancellor and
Cumming received a number of
gifts.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Acton
and Mrs. J. T- Dawson visited in
Dallas Monday.
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