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THE FORNEY MESSENGER
THE FORNEY MESSENGER ESTABLISHED 1881; THE FORNEY NEWS ESTABLISHED 1818; CONSOLIDATED 1818.
VOLUME 35.
FORNEY, TEXAS, ' THURSDAY, SEI»T. 18. 1024.
NUMBER ?.
The Doings
of Our People
DR- L. B. SOWELL
DIED SUNDAY
Prominent Physician Was Bur-j
ied Here Tuesday.
PROGRAM THURSDAY
NIGHT
Miss Cleo Farmer visited
Dallas Sunday.
were Dallas visitors Wednesday.
Jack Stephenson of Rockwall
visited friends in Forney Thurs-
day.
Calvin and Clifford Owens
were in Dallas on business Mon-
day.
Miss Ruth Tune left Sunday --
for Fort Worth to enter T. C. U. ! „ . . , ,,
_ r uneral services were held
. Robert Futrell left Tuesday j Tuesday morning at ten o’clock
for A. & M. College Station. * for Dr- L* B- Sowell, whose death
__ * j occurred at his home on South
Bois d’arc Street late Sunday
evening. Dr. S. M. Templeton
of Rockwall, assisted by J. A.
W. E. Jones was a business Horbeak of Dallas and Dr. John
visitor in Dallas Monday. |H. Burma of Waxahachie, con-
_ ducted the services which were
Jim Douglass was in Terrell al the residence. Hundreds
on business Sunday evening. of friends from far and near,
_ gathered to pay their respects
Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Dozier to one who had proven himself
worthy of all that was good in
life.
Doctor Sowell’s death came as
a shock to the community. Only
a few days ago. when reminded
that before many years, he
would be in a position to retire,
he remarked that he had no in-
tention of ever retiring, but
rather wanted to die ‘‘in the
harness.” His wishes were cer.
tainly fulfilled in that respect,
of his profession to the last,
for he was faithful to the duties
i spending practically the entire
Dallas | night Saturday attending a
.case.
He was a splendid citizen, one
Dallas I of whom any town could well
S. B. j be proud. He was a devouted
j member of the Presbyterian
church, having been trained in
its precepts since infancy : he
was a most devoted husband and
father, ever planning for the
| future of his children and his
I wife, who has for all the year >
of his married life been a most
wonderful helpmate.* A.< a niiy-
j sician he was classed among
spent fhe best. He siezed every op-
portunity to alleviate suffering
and to aid humanity, whether it
be in the home of the wealthy < r
the hovel of the poor. He will
be missed, not only in Forney,
or in Kaufman County, but by
his friends and relatives all over
his friends and relatives all oper
Miss Lucile Bryan of Garland
visited friends in Forney Wed-
nesday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. King and
son, Arthur, visited in
Sunday.
Mrs. P. J. Clonts of
visited her sister, Mrs.
Blake, recently.
Miss Tha Liles leaves early
next week for the College of
Industrial Arts in Denton.
Mr. and Mrs. Chapman and
daughter, Miss Willie, shopped
in Dallas Wednesday.
Music and Reading Numbers
Will Be Offered by Missionary
Society.
Miss Edith Dennis, assisted
by musical talent of the town,
will give a program Thursday
evening, at 8 o’cock, at the
high school auditorium. The
program consists of interesting
and humorous readings and
worthwhile musical numbers,
and will be a treat to all who
are lovers of music and reading.
A small admission will be
charged, the proceeds of which
will be used in the building of
the new Methodist church. The
program is to be given under
the auspices of the Womens
Missionary Society of the Meth-
odist Church and it is hoped
that all members and friends of
the church will avail themselves
of the opportunity to hear the
splendid program that is being
offered.
TWO FORNEY WOMEN HON-
ORED BY STATE BODY
Sam Pinson of Dallas
the week-end with his parents
here.
Miss Louise Stanberry of
Austin is visiting her gandfalh-
er, W. G. Kniffin.
for College Station
Texas A. & M.
from an
friends in California.
Miss Mattilou Browning of
Dallas spent the week-end with jbe "state
friends here. _ The vas^ throng that gather-
t» i , *, ;77 , ed at the residence, the seem-
.....,U 1 V1,s we.ek ! ingly endless procession‘which
enter f0|]OWed to the last resting
place and the many, many beau-
.... „ „ . ", , , tiful floral offerings bore con-
™“- vlu with!vin<'in,t 'vW™“ "f the W*h
ei tended visit with i esteem in which he was held in
this community and county.
Messages of condolence and
sympathy came to members of
this family from far and near.
Doctor Sowell is survived by
wife, two daughters, Misses
Miriam and Flora, and three
«ons, Ruyel, Frederick and L.
B. Jr.
Interment was made in Hill
Crest Cemetery. Active pall-
bearers were: Charles Itugel,
San Marcos; John Rugel. Mes-
quite; Joe H. Rugel, Farmers-
ville; Dan Rugel, Dallas; E. L.
Robertson, Lubbock; and Roy
Sowell, Dallas. Honorary pall-
Miss Louise Keith spent from
Thursday through Sunday with
friends in Dallas.
SELECMAN HERE
ON LAST SUNDAY ?
COTTON RECEIPTS STILL
LOWER TH AN LAST YEAR
Address by President of S. M. 11.
Well Received.
Prices On Strict Middling Stay-
ing Around 20c Now.
4,525 bales of cotton have] Forney
l»een weighed this fall in the
Forney cotton yards. These fig-
ures fall about one thousand
short of the number of bales
MANY STUDENTS
OFF TO SCHOOL
An unusually large audience, weighed at this time last year,
wnch over-crowded the First
Ski
Congress of Mother Gives Office
to Mrs. Madison Brooks and
Mrs. W. E- Jones.
During the past few years
Forney has been honored with
two officers in the Texas Con-
gress of Mothers, of the Second
District. For the proceeding
term, Mrs. Madison B. Brooks
has held the office of vice-presi-
dent of the Congress. At the
spring election of officers for
the coming term, which was
held in Waxahachie in April an.
effort was made to nominate
and elect Mrs. Jones of this city
as president of the organiza-
tion. Only after much persua-
did authority reconsider the
/natter and make her historian?
of the organization, instead.
Mrs. Jones asked to be ex-
cused from the duties of the
presidential office on account of ., .. ... . . ..
her health. Those who recog- they may live without wo.k. My
apti.st Church, greated Dr. C.
C. Selecman of Southern Meth-
°dist University, when he spoke
here last Sunday night. Doctor
Selecman’s lecture was the
principal event of the education-
al meeting which opened the
the public schools for the pres-
ent year.
J. N. Andrews, superintendent
of the Forney schools, presided
and the Rev. C. E. Chambers
gave the invocation. Several
local numbers were giv-
en also. Judge W. H. Barnes,
president of the school board
also poke. Mr. Andrews in-
troduced each of the teachers
present, following the lecture.
The Rev. C. W. Dennis gave the
Benediction. ,
In his address, Doctor Selec-
man said;,
‘‘I accepted, with gladness, the
imitation of your superinten-
dent to come to you upon this
occasion when you are once
more entering upon a task of
difficult problems of the homes
and the community, the train-
ing of the young people.”
A few years ago I read a
very interesting volume, which
1 still have in my library, by
Burbanks on the training of the
human plant. Burbanks, as you
know, is a genius on plant life
&<na when he speaks in terms of
jxj we may compare tit
wvJV ih-1 training of the chW.
Now I think, in some respects,
that it is fairly appropriate. I
think that in receiving an edu-
cation some people think that
To Be Represented
Many Colleges.
From present indications it
seems that cotton in this vicinity
will be considerably less than
it was last year.
The price of cotton has ranged
about 21 cents this week. How-
ever, there was some cotton
sold for as low as 20.75 Tues-
day. Local farmers were begin-
ning to despair until Wednesday
morning when the market open-
ed about forty points up. At
this time the price for middling
cotton, as given by C. W. Boone,
cotton buyer, was 21.25.
BRICK PLACED IN THE
NEW METHODIST CHURCH
Cerremony of Inlying of First
Brick in New Structure Held
Monday.
Monday at 1 o’clock a large
number of persona gathered to
witness the laying of the first
brick of the New Methodist
About thirty-five Forney
Forney l>oys and girls will leave
within the next week or ten
days for the various colleges
and universities over the state.
A preference is shown for state
schools, A. & M. and C. 1. A.
claiming fifteen of the number.
Denominational schools are
next, Trinity University enroll-
ing the largest number from
Forney of any of the church
schools.
So far as can be ascertained,
only three students will attend
college out of the state, these
being Grady Taylor, w’ho has
gone to California to enroll in
one of the colleges of that
sftate, Rugel Sowell, who will
attend Tulane University and
Miss Jessie Roddy who leaves
Sunday for New York to en*er
Columbia University.
The Forney students and the
colleges they will attend are as
follows: College of Industrial
Arts at Denton, Misses Louise
“'Ho* Finn . j ^ yWJw~rS55:
*5 *£! lair-
Baptist church, led in prayer.
The Rev. W. E. Chambers, pas-
tor of the Christian Church road
a part of the 28th chapter of
Genesis.
Rev. C. W. Dennis, pastor of
the Methodist Church, made a
short address and laid the first
Cartwright, Coreen Spellman
and Christine Groves; Texas A
& M. College: Tha Liles, Phil
Holloway, Perry Summers,
Robert Futrell, Kill Pinson, A.
J. Fanner, and Jack Criswell;
Trinity University at Waxaha-
chie, James Tune, Marion Do-
zier, A. C. Blake. Louis B. Chan-
nize the importance of the w-o-i
of this organization and the
vast good that is being done by
it in the state, realize that it
is an honor to Forney to be re-
presented by two officers in this
organization.
Mr. and Mrs. E. V. Goodn m
spent the week-end with rela-
tives in Fort Worth.
Press Bryan and family of
Garland visited in ilie home of
Mr. and Mrs. C. A Floy 1 Wed-
Mrs. Walter Ealy of Richard-
son visited in Forney Wednes-
day and Thursday of last week.
Mrs. Dee Campbell and baby : bearers were: Dl . E- M- Fowler,
are visiting Mrs. Campbell’s
sister, in Oklahoma City, Okla.
Jack Brooks of Crandall en-
tered the Forney High School
Monday and is making his home
with Llonzo Yandell.
Bonn, to Mr. and Mrs. John
Kelley (formerly Miss Minta
Mills) of Tulsa, Okla., a boy-
nesday.
Dr. D. H. Hudgins. Dr. P. C.
Shands, Dr. W. M. Bailey, W.
D. Adams, O. E. Griffin. Frank
Milton Adams. Jno. M. Lewis.
John Costello, T. J. Meyers, H.
Venner, Sam Pinson, Frank
Marion Adams. W. E. Chayinan,
T. F. Ivey, C. C.Senter, Dr. Geo.
F. Powell, of Terrell; Dr. L. L.
Jones of Greenville, Oscar Chap-
man of Waxahachie, Fred New-
ton of Ennis, Dr. S. L. Hornbeak
Presbyterian Rally Tonight
A rally will be held at the
Presbyterian Church tonight.
The Rev. Graham of Green-
ville. and Dr. Daniel Greider of
Terrell will preside over the
business meeting. Plans are to
be made for the coming year.
All members of the church are
urged to be present, as matters
of vital importance are to be
discussed and decided upon.
Gross, Dr. J. B. Bryant, Dr. A.
F. Jones, C. A. To«h, Rev. Mr.
A. K. Price. L. C. Ebrite. and
Virgil Dietz, Miss Gretta Rugel.
Clyde Rugel, Mr. and Mrs. I).
F. Rugel, Mrs. Cora Savage,
Jim Self, Tom Sowell, Mrs. The-
die Tillery and J. A. Hornbeak
Miss Edna Rugel of Mesquite;
C. E. Rugel and Mrs. Dare Wil-
liams of San Marcos; Dick Per-
ry and John M. Coleman, Mineo-
la; Miss Mam.ve Allen, Mrs.
Craig and Dr. Powell, Terrell;
Miss Lucy Belle Taylor, Ballin-
ger; Miss Euna McGee, Louis
McGee, Arlington; Dr. John II.
Burma, Dennis Newton, Mr.
and Mrs. O. H. Chapman, Miss
brick in the new building. L) man Misses Willii Chapman,
L. Lindsey ears* rorward< and, Ad|| , ou |*,rJerxncl Llleilo Pia-
placed a quarte/; lop of V1.1* | son; State University at Austin.
Jack Crawford, Lois Riter, Ben
Brooks and Eugene Dozier;
Southern Methodist University
at Dallas, John Sewell, Helen
idea of an education is not that
it will give one a certificate to
live without yrork.
I believe in the gospel of
work and I believe that if every
body in this country, and Eng- The building progress could In-
land, France and Germany and followed with interest by the
brick where it is now securely
nm bedded in the structure.
This was quite a unique and
interesting service. No doubt
many others would have been l Traii and Abdenc
present it the time for the scr- ] rhristian College. Homer
vice had been more generally, AdamH. Texas Christian Ui.ivcr-
known. . sitv, Fort Worth, Miss Ruth
rhe material is now on the Tune and Ll.s,jt, Cliambers;
vorkmen are busy laying brick- University. Waco, Cur-
Russia would quit trying to
solve the world problems, the
world would return to normalcy.
1 belive the biggest curse to
any young people, rich or poor,
is the curse of idleness. I wish
to sav to any young man. boy
or girl longing for an education
to keep from work, that is false
arrtbition and they are the ones
to be distappointed. 1 read that
many members of the church.
a liberal part of my educati -n,
I wonder how m«nv here raid
McGuffie’s reader. I want to see
how many are na.'t fifty. The
story in the old McCiiffi *’s
reader was of two boys who went
out one day on a long tramp.
To one it was a day of drugei"
and Ik* was glad to get home
University,
t is Burch; Terrell Training
School, Dallas, Davis Brooks.
FORNEY SCHOOLS OPEN ,
Chapel Exercises are Held to
Inaugurate Now Terms.
The Forney schools opened
with record attendance Monday
morning. With the recent rains
and cooler weather, the students
started in fresh and in a good
humor. A large number of pa-
the father of one of those poor * he other boy came home with i lions were present at both
boys led to the state prison, put
his younger son out to hard
wor.
I belive a boy should w-ork.
and I believe this go-pel is as
good for girls as for boys. One
reason we have so many grass
his shoes muddy and his clothes
a little torn and told of the
wonderful time he had. He be-
gan telling what he had seen
on the way. In this story the
moral is that one was able to
see and observe, the other was
widows is that they cannot cook
and make l>eds. I believe we | Now there is a sort of a re-
have girls these days who think i lining process in an educational
they are pets for their mol her i career. I read some time ago
to lake care of. While this is that a bar of pig iron that is
not a part of my subject I will worth $5 made into horse shoes
try and get hack to mv subject. jH worth $32, and if made into
I want to say that education is knife blades is worth $300. and
not a means of making more jf made into cambric needles is
money. worth $3000, and if made into
We see by a computation main springs for watches it is
table, that a boy by going to j worth $30,000. Now the riift'er-
school the last two years ofj,.nP,. between pig iron and horse
high school was realy paying; shoes requires labor and in telle- j nouncements as t othe plans
himself for the rest of his life gence. Now if you will not be 1 work during the coming .ses-n n
schools for the opening exer-
cises.
Al the high school, the pro-
gram opened with the singing
of “America.” The opening ad-
dress was made by Superinten-
dent Andrews, who expressed
pleasure at being once again
lineal up for work in the Forney
Schools, and seemed full of en-
thusiasm for the work before
him. Short and appropriate
talks were made by Judge W. H.
Barnes, president of the Fornev
School Board, the Rev C. E.
Chambers and the Rev. (\ W.
Dennis.
The teachers were introduced
by Superintendent Andrews,
who also made important an-
il. Herring. Mrs. Prank Ghap-j-ioo of 10,000 a year class
man, Beit Shands and Jack| higher, and you will be di-ap-
showing exactly what high offended, I will say that when
school and college will do, using j teachers get hold of the average
the salary of the average un-
trained man. hut if you think
will get out of the $50 or
Following this, the pupils re-
ported to their various class
boy and girl, they are in Hie pig j rooms for classification and the
iron stage, and I will sav many I issuance of Isioks. The high
of them are a little pig-headed- [ school enrollment was as fo’-
It is like the case who « ,< - lows; 8th grade, twent.v-six;
teacher asked a boy to ado and, 0th grade, thirty-three* lOili
when he couldn’t a little girl grade, twenty-five; 11th grade
Ttoal enrollment
Ruth Chapman, Miss Lena An-
and Dr. J. H. Burma of Waxah- drews, Mrs. A. J. Rice, Mrs. J. vou
achie, I)r. S. E. Milligan. Dr. C.1....... “ 1
M. Grigsby, Dr. I). L. Bteeison
and Dr. Jno. O. McReynolds of1 Shands of Waxahachie; Mr. and i pointed
f.0*<h"\ *i, ! \|,S' «;CTx^nr-W<*^i ‘<^)We11- j Now I want to -ay that every Lack in the house said “please | twenty-three.
Ill I,'. I),- »T A l,od:v sh.?uId hHVt' a." ‘•dut'*,.ioj; teacher, I know w-hy_ Willie can’t 107.
as it will enable him to think add. he went to the hospital last i A similar program was carried
more deeply and have broader week and had his adnoids took out at the grammar school-
svmpathis and enable him to1 out.” Following the sining of the
have an intelligent and more | ---—---- songs. “America the IJ autiful”
vivid viewpoints and enable him Jju.k Ilby Ieft Wednesday and L|fUH! Mf'V t,Mf HvV
to render a more valuable i , h.. wi»i 4,nfer Jas Stanley lead in prayer,
service to his fellow man, and Hj h|and pa,k High School for ,heM mHd<\ i,nf <* t«’"M*lnjr
funeral were: Dr. I). L. Betti-1 A. Cooley, and Frank Tolbert,
son. Dr. Leslie H. Foore, Dr. Kaufman; Charles Cartwright
and Mrs. C. M. Grigsby, of Dal- of Mineral Wells; Mr. and Mrs.
las; Dr. Alexander of Terrell.| Fred Newton of Ennis, Mr. and
Dr. H. A. Taylor. Dr. Meyers, Mis- E. L. Robertson of Lub-
Dr. Fuller. Dr. Brewer of Kemp bock, Miss Katie McSwain of
and Dr. A. D. Ledbetter of Oan-1 Crandall and Mrs. Earl Curtis
dall; Mrs Roy Edgar. Mrs. of Wills Point. Other visitors as he wolks through life he has
Lillian Holcombe, Mr. and Mrs. Monday were Miss Mary Smith really contributed to God Al-
Gross, Mr. and Mrs. John Rugel, of Arlington. A. W. Jones of! mighty's handwork
pf Ka,Ir= r and 1}™’ £ £ Farmersville and Mrs. F. C.j There is a story’in McGuf-
Bedford Galloway. Mrs. M. R. Rugel of Dallas. fie’s reader from which I dr-w
the coming year.
Read Martin Jarvis advertis-
ing on last page.
talk on "School Days.” Prof.
H. R. Thompson, piinrip.il of
the grammar school, p.eridc'l.
making announcements and in-
troducing the teachers.
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