The Delta Courier (Cooper, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 36, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 7, 1937 Page: 1 of 4
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COOPER, DELTA COUNTY, TEXAS TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7. 1937
VOLUME 56, NO. 36
XOOPER LOSES
FINAL GAME TO
TEXAC04T03
Bailey Leads Hitters In Last
Contest With Three
Safeties.
Receipts Fall Off
Monday As Market
Takes Full Day Off
Showing a let-down from the
brilliant play that marked their
victory in'the Northeast Texas in-
vitation tournament. Cooper stor-
ed their baseball uniforms Sunday
after losing a close 4 to 3 decision
to the Texaco club of Dallas be-
fore a large final game crowd at
the city park.
Outhitting the visitors by 11 to
9, the local club (was behind all
tho way because of costly errors
and failure to hit when men were
on 'bases. Luke Newman, regular
Texaco backstop who caught for
the locals In the Sulphur Springs
tourney, proved a thorn In their
sides all afternoon, getting two
hits, scoring two runs and playing
his usual excellent game behind
the bat. His knowledge of local
hitters’ weaknesses probably paty-
©d a big part in the victory.
Leroy Bailey slammed out two
singles and a double to lead the
Cooper hitters with Marvin Cof-
fey close behind with his two sin-
gles.
After rolling in ct the rate of
almost 400 bales daily for the last
three days of last week, cotton
receipts at the Cooper yard slow-
ed preceptibly Monday as there
was no market because of the
labor day holiday. Hot* ever iOrae
cotton continued to come as about
60 bales had been weighed up to
the noon hour.
Total receipts for the season
are 2,821 bales. The price being
paid Monday ranged from 9 cents
to 9.65 cents a pound.
The demand for cotton pickers
is steadily growing as a majority
of farmers are far behind in gath-
ering their crop. A greater amount
of cotton ia open in the fields
than at any time in the past sev-
eal years while little luck is toeing
had in securing hands to pick It.
Conduct Last Rites
For George Fulton
Thursday Afternoon
The last rites for George Ful-
ton, 76, were held Thursday after-
noon at the Klondike Methodist
church, conducted by the Rev. W.
J. Wilson of Lake Creek, assisted
by Mrs. Redmond S lmpson
interment occurring in Klondike
cemetery. Inglis Funeral Home
had charge of arrangements.
Pallbearers were grand sons of
| the deceased and were: Janies
1 Fulton, IFloyd Fulton, Lloyd Ful-
SCHOOLS START
ENROLLMENT OF
PUPILS FRIDAY
Regular Class Work Sched-
uled To Begin On Mon-
day Morning.
Frontier Fiesta
Site Brings Back
Memories of 1879
A site on the Clear Pork of
Trinity river just beyond the fair
grounds at Port Worth has a sig-
nificance to James Patte^on, ven-
erable attorney of Cooper, that it
Buainess Men Are
Entertained With
Dinner by HD Clubs
The County Council of Womens
Home Demonstration clubs, assist-
ed by County Agent W. H. Jones
and Miss Genevieve Feagin enter-
tained the busineas men and their
Cooper Schools To
Enroll Students On
Sept. 10th and 11th
gif's
Cooper
Hardy, of
Bailey, 2b
Bledsoe, 3b
^^fey, **
J^PRdns, rf
Hodge, If
Clark, c
McAlister, 1
Kent, p
Total
Texaco
The Cooper schools iwUl enroll
all students on Friday and Satur-
day September 10 and 11, so that
regular work may begin without
interruptions on Monday, Septem-
ber 13. No students will be en-
rolled Monday morning because
all teachers will be busy with their
p! work.
0 It is very necessary that all
0j students be enrolled on Friday
11 and Saturday, so that the grade
3 rooms may be equally divided and
high
Staley, cf
3
MoClanahan, lb
4
Brown, as
5
Allen, rf
4
Stewiart, 3b
4
Chancellor, If
4
Williams, 2b
3
Newman, c
3
Willison, p
4
Total
34
Umpires:
bow.
9
McKinney and Ker-
Old Age Pension
List Is Cut Again
AUSTIN, Sept. 6.—!W. IA. Little
acting director, said today that
the old age assistance commission
began mailing September checks
Jti 114,444 needy aged; a reduc-
tion of 1,947 since August.
NOTICE
All parties awing accounts
me will please settle with 1
Ben a White—my collector.
M. A. ESTEP, M. D.
A, ca^d to Mrs. W. D. Hart from
Mrs. D. E. Cox, of Ardmore, Okla.
Monday Stated that she and tho
Rev. Oox, her mother, Mrs, Vir-
0| classes properly divided
0, school.
Oj The busses will be sent out on
0, Friday and Saturday. We have
0 four busses, one for each route.
._ They will be expected to return
4 to Cooper by 8 o'clock on Friday
E and Saturday.
0 All students expecting to be en-
rolled in the 8th and 9th grades
Should be present at the high
school at 8 o’clock Friday Septem-
ber 10. The teachers will enroll
you and give you your books.
A,U students expecting to be en-
rolled in the 10th and 11th grades
should be present at the high
school building at 8 o’clock Sat-
urday, September 11th. The
teachers will enroll you and give
you your books.
All students expecting to be en-
rolled in grades are asked to re-
port to the grade buildings on Sat-
urday, Spetember 11th at 8
o'clock. The teachers will enroll
you and give you your books.
To Non-Resident Students
If you are entering the Cooper
schools for your first time please
bring your report card and book
card. If you are entering high
school, please bring either your re-
port cards or a transcript of the
work that you have done in high
school. You cannot be
ently classified in high school un-
til we have a record of the work
that you have completed in high
school.
If you have not transferred it
will be necessary for you to bring
a check for your state money, if
and Eldon Frazier. Flower
were nieces of Mr. Fulton.
Mr. Fulton died at the home of
his daughter, Mrs. Grover Hill in
southeast Cooper following sev-
eral month’s illness.
Born in Indiana, ne moved to
Delta County where he has spent
the most of his life. He reared a
large family of eight children, all*
living. Besides his wife he is sur
vived by the following children:
Clarence Fulton and Allen Fulton,
both of route 2, J. R„ C. E. Ful-
ton, Mrs. Tom Frazier and Mrs.
Gordon Hill, of Cooper, John Ful-
ton of Greenwood. Tnd., Frank
Fulton, of California, two brothers
Orville and Miles Fulton, of Se-
dalia, Mo. and two sisters, Mrs. C.
E. Scott of Paris and Mrs. Edna
Goins of Oklahoma. He also leaves jJIarie Kingston
a number of grand children nnd
great grandchildren. Mr. Fulton
was a member of the Methodist
Church.
Out of town relatives who were
present for the funeral included
John Fulton, Greenwood. Ind., Mr
and Mrs. C. E. Scott and two
i daughters of Paris. Mr. and Mrs
Lloyd Fulton and Mr. and Mrs
Harold Thompson, Durant, Okla.,
MhP. Luther Knfighrt, Dallas rjid
David Fulton, Greenville.
Cooper schools begin another
I year's work Friday and Saturday
when enrollment in both the high
school and the grades is scheduled
to start. Regular class work will
begin the following Monday. A|
complete announcement of the
times and places for enrollment
for all student® by Supt. R. L.
Stephenson will be found elsewhere
in this Issue.
The faculty employed for this
year is:
High school: Goebel Templeton,
principal; Woodrow Keahey, Ray"
Lowe, E. O. Box, Misses Loren e
Miller, Chrystelle Paul, Susie Al-
bright, Lillie Oarrell, Lucile Hen-
dricks, Attelia Muller, Anne Wood-
ruff, and Mrs. Martha Stockton.
Ward schools: Wade Bledsoe,
principal; Luther Brown, Musses
Eula Potte-, Etha Stokes, Eliza-
a fried chicken dinner at Harmon
park Friday night. Thus meeting
is held annually, honoring adver-
doeg not have for many. Recently wives and a number of guests with
he visited the Fiesta at Fort.
WoriJi, after which they drove
across the river and parked.
While sitting there in the car. tisera in the council year book,
musing and looking at Will Roger’s Mias Feagin and club members
memorial building suddenly there)led in singing ‘'She'll Be Coming
came into his mind a picture of; 'Round the Mountain” as guests
BANKS TO MAKE
9 CENT ADVANCE
LOAN0NCOTTON
Federal Applications In Price
Pegging Plan To Reach
Here September 13.
scene In 1879 when as a young
man driving stock west to Breck-
enrklge they camped on that spot.
He called an old negro passing
and asked him if once there was
not a bridge across the river a
little ways up from the present
bridge. The negro said yes, ‘ a
long time ago.” He then asked him
if there was not an artesian well
near there and the negro said,
“there was, but It was a long time
ago," The dripolling hand of man
has wrought many changes in the
surroundings of the place since
he camped near the little frontier
town of Fort Worth 48 years ago,
Mr. Patteson said, but the picture
of it came back to him as vividly
beth Tillman, Margaret Woodruff,
Ethel Henson, Maud Ellington, |as if it was yesterday.
Hibernia TuitoevlUa and Willie —--
assembled. A tempting fried
chicken dinner with delicious cake
and drink were served to 90 guests
Mrs. T. B. Craig, of route two
Mrs. Wesley Wallace and Mrs. W.
D. Hollon, of Klondike, led in
games.
Judge Rube S. Wells in behalf of
the busineas men and guests
thanked the club women for the
pleasant meeting.
KLONDIKE
To Honor Baseball
Club With Picnic
At Park Tuesday
Officers Fill Jail
As 14 Fighters And
Drunks are Arrested
Excessive consumption of liquor
over the week end went a long way
toward filling the county jail as
officers arrested 14 on charges
.growing out of too much drink.
Drunk err ess charge® were filed
against 12 while two more were
charged with fighting. Another
man, from Kensing, was caught
and charges of driving an auto-
mobile while intoxicated were
placed against him. He was re-
leased after making a $750 bond.
PERKINS HAS FOOTBALL
GIFT FOR LOCAL TEAM
An up-town official football, one
of the best on the market, i3 a
.gift of Perkins Bros. Co., to the
Cooper football team. The ball is
on display in the Perkins store
perman- j -window where members of the
team and football fans are Invited
to call and see it. It will be used
in the first game of the season
(with Paris at Cooper, Sept. 24th.
you are less than eighteen years
ginia Barnes and sister, Miss Mary old, from your local trustee® and
Edna Barnes, were vacationing in
Colorada Springs and Denver,
►lo. Rev. Cox who was a former
tor of the First Presbyterian
church here, is now serving -the
Presbyterian church in Ardmore
Oapt. W. V. Rattan of Stillwat-
er, Okla. who visited his parents
Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Rattan, over
the week end, left for his home
Monday afternoon. Capt. Rattan
and Mrs. Rattan, and son have re-
turned from a several weeks trip
to San Francisco, and other point
In Caiifymla.
Mrs. Harry Brunson of Shaw-
nee, Okla. was a week end guest
In the home of her sister, Mrs
Arthur Stahmer.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Grant o
Ennis visited several days lact
week with Mr. and Mrs. Johi
Stahmer.
nave it approved by the Count v
Superintendent before you can
enter. Please have this check
with you when you come Friday
or Saturday to enter.
If you are expecting to enter
the Senior class It will be neces-
sary for you to take examinations
on the 10th grade work or bring
your final examination papers and
questions on this work.
The Cooper scholia can accept
only eight credits from a non-af-
filiated school.
R. L. STEPHENSON
ATTENDS SHOWER
FOR MISS BENTON
Ask CCC Applicants
To Register Tuesday
It is requested that all CCC re-
plicants register with the employ-
ment agency on Tuesday, Septem-
ber 14, from 9 to 12 a. m. at the
court house.
Honoring the Cooper baseball
team for their successful season
that closed Sunday and particular-
ly for the winning of (the North-
east Texas championship at Sul-
phur Springs last week, business
men of Cooper are planning a bar-
becue Tuesday night with mem-
berg of the team to be guests
The arrangements are in charge
of Rube S. Wells. The picnic is to
be held at the city park at 7:30,
o'clock. I
Mr. Wells said Monday that the
affair was being staged by sup-
porters of the team. He contacted . . _
„ „ . • . . . . .'Friday afternoon at Tira for Dr.
a group of fans Monday but said: J
it would be impossible to see all B- F- Chapman, veteran Sulphur
of them and for those not invited SPri^9 phy^ian.
who desired to come to notify
him sometime Tuesday.
will bear 4 per cent interest.”
Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Stokes and Of the deferred subsidy pay-
daughter, Miss Etha, and son, ment Senator Connally said:
Thomas, Mrs. Harry Ward, Mrs. “In the matter of benefit pay-
Dowitt Bledsoe and C. W. Bledsoe ments the Secretary of Agricul-
attended the funeral of Dr. Chap- ture will pay to cotton producers
man of Sulphur Springs Friday who sell on the open market the
afternoon. difference between the sales price
I The body of George Fulton, who 7-8 inch middling .cotton on the
I died at his home in Cooper Wed- ^ay of sale and 12c a pound, but
ggj For Monday ne^day, was brought here Thurs- n°t exceeding 3c a pound. If a
_ jday afternoon where services were | farmer should sell on the open
held at the M. E. church and market at 9c, the Secretary of Ag-
buriai in the cemetery in west! riculture would pay Sc to such*
Klondike. producers, contingent upon com-
MJ^s Beulah Hollon and Mrs.
Hearing On More
Condemnaton Suits
WASHINGTON, Sept. 6.—Cot-
ton loan application blanks will
be mailed from Washington Sept.
10 or 11 and should reach Texas
by Sept. 13, Senator1 Tom Connally
said Friday after conferring with
Jesse H. Jones of Houston, chair-
man of the Reconstruction Fi-
nance Corporation, R. F. C. loan
agency for the 9c a pound loan
•authorized on this years crop.
“In the meantime,” said Sena-
tor Connally, “bonks are author-
ized to make such loan® to ootton
producers with the assurance that
the Commodity Credit Corpora,
tion will take up such loans from
the bank upon request. The loans
Monday, September 13, has
has been set as the date for a
hearing on eight additional con-
demnation suits filed to secure a
right of way along the new route
of Highway 24. About 20 suits
were heard last month. The jury1
of view that will inspect the land
and place a value on it Is com-
posed of Oscar Scott, Prentice
Morrill and G. E. Cross.
Services At Tira
For Dr. Chapman
Funeral service^ were held on
Sept. 27 Selected
As Session Date
Dr. Chapman died Thursday af-
ternoon at a Paris hospital where
he had been receiving treatment.
He iwac the father of Joe N. Chap-
man, who was a candidate for
flotorlal representative last year.
Claud Moxley visted Friday after-
noon with their aunt, Mrs. M. Hol-
lon, of Gough, who as been ill for
some time. They report her as
slowly improving.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Nelson, of
Fort Worth, visited relative's here
over the week end.
Carroll Robnett has accepted a
position with the faculty in the
Mineola school for the
school term.
Mr. and Mrs. D. Reynold® are the
parents of a 10 pound son bom
Friday, September 3. He ha® been
named Lynn Dell.
pliance with the 1938 agricultural
program to be adopted by Oongrea*
at the next session. The Secre-
tary of Agriculture assured m*
producers (who have already sold
cotton of the 1937 crop will be
eligible to receive euch benefit*.
Cotton producers who already
sold .cotton of the 1937 crop should
retain the sales receipts and re-
cords in order to receive the ad-
justment payment on such cotton
following heretofore sold.’’
Senator Connally voiced disap-
pointment over Secretary Wal-
lace's fixing the loan figure at 9c
instead of 10c as advocated in Con-
gress by Southern members.
AUSTIN, Sept. 6.—Governor
Allred today selected Sept. 27 as
the date for the opening of a spe-
cial session of the legislature
which he hopes will result In
boosting taxes more than $10,000,-
000 a year.
The governor insists substantial
additional taxes must be levied for
adequate support of the old age
pension program, state funds fo”
teachers’ pensions, aid to the adult
needy blind and dependent chil-
dren and to pay the much higher
appropriations voted at the legis-
lature's regular session.
SATURDAY BUSY DAY
FOR COOPER MERCHANTS
Miss Beulah Hefner, who has
Mr. and Mrs. Hoyt Williams and Loans of 10c, he said, such as were
son, Mr. and Mrs, Hershali Hooten j made in 1935, would have tended
and lSttle daughter, and M!r. and to support the market more ef-
Mrs. Basil Dehn, of Dallas, were j fectively.
Klondike visitor® over the week' The Texas Senator promised a
eni^. j determined fight in behalf of spe-
Mrs. Maud Wallace returned cial treatment for cotton when the
home from Sherman Saturday af-
ternoon after several days visit.
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Shoffeit re-
turned home with her for
week end.
Saturday wtas the busiest day
Cooper merchants have had this
fall. Extra sales force was used in
all dry goods and clothing stores
and most grocery and other store®
and from mid-afternoon until late|year ^ club ladleg of c^.
at night they were kept busy ty entertain the men with a sup-
administration’s new surplus com-
modity control bill is brought be-
fore Congress next session Sen-
the’ a tor Connally contended that cot-
ton deserved speacial treatment be-
Quite a few from here attended cause “it is the only agricultural
the banquet given the business men1 commodity that can get no bene-
in Cooper Thursday night. Each fit from the tariff.”
waiting on the large throng that
crowded the stores for merchan-
dise.
EASTERN STAR MEETING
ON THURSDAY NIGHT
Regular meeting of the Eastern
per. This year they served fried
chicken, potato salad, pickles,
buns, tea and cake. Many games
were played and songs sung. Those Labor day on Monday, Septem
I attending were: Mr. and Mrs. E. J. j ber 6, meant exactly that to the
Etha,
Labor Dav Is Taken
Literally In Cooper
Lewis Carrell and family of
Dallas spent the (week end with
relatives and friends In Cooper.
Mr, Carrell, who hats a position as
linotype operator for Dorsey was
off duty to observe labor day Mon-
day.
Miss Helen Brock was in Com-
merce Thursday evening and at-
tended a miscellaneous shower a
the home of Mrs. Lloyd Taylor 1*
honor of Miss Velma Benton
bride-elect of E. O. Box, Jr., also
of Commerce.
Thomag Newton Camming, who
ts with the National park service
located at Austin, spent the week
end with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. T. B. Gumming, jn Cooper,
returning to Austin Monday.
r. position in Dallas who visited, qtar chapter will be held alt the
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. S. ^ Masonic hall Thursday night, Sep-
Hefner, left Saturday to return to tember Pth, 7:30 o'clock.
Stokes and daughter, Miss
Mr. and Mm. Ellis and Ileta, Mrs.
majoritv of citizen® of Cooper and
Delta County, (with only post office
Coleman Foster. Mrs. Bigony, Mr, j employees observing the annual
her work. Mr. and Mrs. Hefner
have recently moved to Cooper
and have rooms at the W. S. Jones
residence on East Second street.
Miss Adelle Casseday will leava
Tuesday for Dallas where she will
visit several days before going to
Waco where she will enter train-
ing as a nurse. The Rev. and Mrs.
Wm. A, Casseday and daughter,
Ocwinne accompanied her to Dal-
las.
and Mrs. Wesley Wallace and
Mary Elizabeth, land Mr. and Mrs.
Walter Hollon.
Misses Naomi and Myrtle Rob-
nett left Friday for Littlefield
where they will begin their school
Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Rogers and work Monday.
All members are expected to be
present.
Miss Adele Bansing, who has
been visiting her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. R. W. Banging, left Monday
tor Lubbock wehere she has a
position.
Betty Jane, daughter of Mr
and Mrs. R. L. Stephenson who
had her tonsils removed Tuesday
in a hospital in Paris was able to
be brought home Wednesday af-
ternoon.
Mrs. C. A. Moon, patient at
Reed Memorial Hospital, is im-
proving and will be able to leave
the hospital in a few days.
son, Estel, of route one, Mns. W.
N. Rogers and Mrs. R. S. Steven-
son were in Sulphur Springs Mon-
and attended the funeral of Wor-
sham Williams who was instantly
killed in an automobile accident
Saturday.
Mary Ruth, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. John Brunson of Ben France
lin, had her tonsils removed Sat
urday at Reed Memorial Hospital
and was able to return to her
home Sunday.
W. H. (Dad) Whitaker, 86, who
makes his home with ihs daugh-
ter, Mrfe. Mylle Bowers, near Per-
kins community, has been criti ?
cally HI for several days. Monday
hi* condition waa Improved.
Prentice McCombs and M. Stub-
blefield were tn Dallas Sunday.
Mrs. Emma Bills was a guest
of Mrs. Mary Hunt Friday.
Harry Ward, J. R. Ward, Wil-
liam H. Hunt. Mancel Gillean, and
McGlasson Fielding attended the
ball game in Dallas Saturday.
Mr. and Mm. Ernest Hooten
and mother, Mrs. Mathis, of Paris,
were Sunday .guests of Mrs. Vlrgie
Hurt and family.
Misses Myrtle and Lassie Smith
and Prudie Patterson were in
Cooper Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. George Patterson
were shopping to Cooper Satur-
day.
W. A. Hooten, Coleman Foster
and Ed Poe were attending court
in Cooper lest week/
holiday. Merchants in Cooper were
busy rearranging and cleaning
stock following one of the best
Saturday’s business of the year.
Farmers were making every effort
to clean their fields of open cotton
before rains that have been
threatening for several days begin
falling. Shortage of pickers iff
handicapping many. Scattered
fhowers Monday afternoon called
a halt on a number of pickers and
enforced a half day holiday.
POTEET SHOP OPENED
SATURDAY TO PUBLIC
The Poteet ready to wear shop
opened Saturday with a new line
of fall ready to wear for ladles, in-
cluding drosses, hats, ooats, line
of children’s ready to wear, bed
spreads, blankets, hose and a pret-
ty line of novelties. Miss Victoria
Baker, of Sulphur Spring*, will
assist Mrs. Poteet and she invite*
her friend* to coll and see the
beautiful line of fall ready to wear.
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