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A NEWSPAPER, "OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE AND FOR THE PEOPLE"
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VOLUME 60
MINEOLA, WOOD COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, 2, 1935
NUMBER 8
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Fifty Members In Graduating Class
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GRAD0ATIN9 EXERCISES FOREST ILL
SCHOOL WERE HELD TUESDAY MM
Dr. W. G. lemigan
Delivers Principal
Address At Closing
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1 School Has Had A Very
Successful Year Un-
der Professor M. M.
'Reese.
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The Forest Hill school held its
graduation exercises Tuesday night.
k Prof. M. M. Reese, principal of the
school, closes a most successful
year. This school has been rural
champions for the last two years.
V A representative of their school,
Nettie Lee Baxley, goes to the State
.Meet at Austin this week. The For
J|A est Hill School has a very active
Parent-Teacher Association which
1 has dpne a great deal of effective
work during the year. Assisting Mr.
Reese in teaching the school are
i R. J. King, intermediate and Mrs.
Lois Reese, primary teacher.
; 1 The trustees are J. W. Weems,
J. O. Puckett and B. C. Brown.
At the closing exercises of the
school, the Quitman High School
Band was on hand in full regalia
and furnished the music while the
r crowd gathered. Rev. Clyde Smith
gave the invocation.
Juanita Matheson was salutor-
ian, Clydean Smith, valedictorian.
The class poet was Edna Moore
| r Robbie Lee Holley read the Class
I "Will; Wilma Matheson, the class
history. -
The principal address to the
graduates was delivered by Dr.
IWillis G. Jernigan, minister of the
Church of Christ, Mineola, and
Was very appropriate to the occa-
S " sion.
Prof. Reese delivered diplomas
to the following graduates.
Eighth Grade: Juanita Matheson
Wilma Matheson, Edna Moore,
Robbie Dee Hclley, Albert Baker,
Lewis James Kennemer, Charles
Smith.
Seventh Grade: Paul Horton,
Nettie Lee'Baxley, Junior Reeves,
.Doris Faye Mitchell, Clydean Smith
and Leona Raker.
[' Following the class song by the
liiates the benediction was
given by J. W. Weems.
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County Board
Of Education
To Meet Monday
' The County Board of Education
i will meet in the office of the
County Superintendent, May 6, the
same being the first Monday in
- May. The meeting will be called
[ at 10:00 a. m.
This is the day to begin the
j discussion of classification of
| schools, and defining transporta-
tion districts.
I ? All who are interested in meet-
ing the Board of Education will
faflrp notice of the time and date
anil avail themselves of the op-
portunity.
Chas O. Blalock,
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Federated Church
Organization Was
Effected Monday
r' A meeting was held at the First
f Methodist Church at 3 o'clock
f Monday afternoon representing all
the churches of the town at which
time a church federation was or-
x ganized for community coopera-
tion in social welfare and civic
betterment.
- „The officers of the new organi-
ition will consist of Mrs. Baillio,
president, Mrs. Bruner, vice-presi-
'' dent,i Mrs. Greef, treasurer, Mrs.
DuBose, Secretary.
The pincipal talk at the meeting
was given by Rev. Richardson, pas-
tor Marvin Street Methodist church
- Tyler. Mrs. Lechner gave the de-
votional and Mrs. King rendered a
vocal solo.
The ladies of the Women's Mis-
. sionery Society of the Methodist
church served refreshments to
those present. ,
Deliver Mothers
Day Message 12th
Ben A. Copass, superintendent of
he Mineola Schools will deliver the
Mother's Day message Sunday
morning, May l^th according to
an announcement by B. A. Hol-
brook, post commander of the
Luckett Cochran Post No. 296, the
American Legion, which organiza-
tion is sponsoring an union service
fcr that day. Arrangements have
been made by the post to hold the
Mother's day program this year
at the First Baptist church. Ser-
vices will begin at 11:15 in the
morning.
It has been the annual custom
to the local post of the American
Legion to sponsor the Mother's Day
program and this year they are
making preparations for an un-
usual service.
The complete program will be
given the public next week.
H. V. Puckett Appointed
Director Sabine-Neches
Conservation District
Herman V. Puckett of Quitman
was in receipt cf a telegram Wed-
nesday from Governor James V.
Allied advising him of his ap-
pointment to the board of directors
for a period of two years cf the
Sabine-Neches Concervation Dis-
trict. It is a program of large
possibilities that has been under-
taken in this plan and is receiv-
ing the attention of the most for-
ward looking men of East Texas.
Terrell Golfers
Defeat Mineolans
Mineola golfers were hosts to
fourteen golfers on the local course
at the Mineola Country Club Sun-
day afternoon. Each of the seven
pairs of players from Terrell man-
aged to defeat their hosts with the
exception of one foursome which
resulted in a tie.
Ice House Damaged
By Meat Truck Mon.
The ice house managed by Sam
Hart was almost put out of com-
mission by a Ford V-8 panel body
truck when the truck failed to
make the corner and was driven
headlong into the brick front of
the ice house. The driver* received
emergency treatment for head
wounds by Dr. R. H. Coleman. The
truck was loaded with meat.
Application Made For
Establishment Of
C. C. C. Camp Here
B. A. Holbrook, county commis-
sioner, advises that the county
court of Wood county has made
application for a C. C. C. camp to
be established in Wood county.
The purpose of the camp when
established would be to clear the
channels of the Sabine and Lake
Fork river bottoms, clearing the
bottoms, straightening the direc-
tion of flow where possible, in-
creasing the amount of land pcs-
sbile to cultivate, making the cul-
tivation of the land more general
and profitable and the immediate
district in a much more healthful
state of conditions.
Mineola Masons Host
Grand Saline Masons
At a meeting of the Mineola
Masonic Lodge Monday night sev-
eral visitors attended from Grand
Saline at which time a degree team
composed of members of the Grand
Saline Lodge conferred the Mas-
ter's degree.
Admiral Byrd's expedition to the
South Pole resulted in a deficit of
fifty thousand dollars. When he
lands here he will have enough
frozen assets to liquidate the debt.
The Admiral could have done that
well without leaving home.
52nd Session Of Mineola
Schools Closes With
Commencement Ser-
vices May 28.
Successful i ear
Of School Work
Nearly Finished
Willie Lee Knight Is
Valedictorian With
Helen Lawrence Salu-
tatorian.
With the announcement by B.
A. Copass, superintendent of
schools releasing the final grades
made for the year by the members
of the senior class it is now de-
finitely decided who will be the
honor students for this year and
who will .receive the scholarship
awards.
The graduating class will be re-
presented by Willie Lee Knight as
Valedictorian, who .is the honor
graduate of the class and will re-
ceive the scholarship awarded
among the giris. The Salutatorian
will be Helen Lawrence. E. J. Cour-
reges will receive the scholarship
award for the boys, having made
the highest grade among the boys
of the class.
Graduating with honor are Mar-
garet Peacock, E. J. Courreges,
Myrtle Coleman, Winona Pugh, Jo
Wilhite, Betty Marie Shipp, Ruth
Bruner, Evelyn Moore.
The all year honor roll is com-
posed of Willie Lee Knight and
Helen Lawrence.
Those who were neither absent
nor tardy include E. J. Courreges,
Dewey Head, Willie Lee Knight,
Iva Walters, Lindley York, Ger-
trude Neyman.
Dr. Willis G. Jernigan, minister
of the local Church of Christ will
deiver the Baccaaureate sermon.
The Baccalaurate services will be
held at the First Baptist church,
Sunday, May 26.
The Commencement exercises
will be held Tuesday night, May 28,
with Dr. E. V. White, Dean of the
State College for Women (C. I.
A), Denton,. delivering the Com-
mencement address.
The commencement exercises
will close successful year and the
completion of the fifty-second ses-
sion of the Mineola schools.
The seniors^will wear caps and
gowns for the"* services.
Fifty students compose the grad-
uation class. They are:
Betty Marie Shipp, Chlo Dene
Bailey, Dorothy Nell Trapp, Myr-
tle Coleman, Evelyn Moore, Fern
Starnes, Raymond Lee Dunivant,
Richard Arnod Reed, Thelma Ful-
cher, Francis Marie Chrietzberg,
Doris Chrietzberg, Obie Bruner,
Geneva Bruner, James Wheeler
Yoes, Smith Lyle, Coy Glenn, Lind-
ley York, J. R. Drury, John Lee
Miller, David Normington, Mary
Jane Ritch, Ronald Bookman,
Kathryn Frances Kitchens, Leo
Dale Dunivant, Ina Gene Owens.
Iva M. Walters, Gladys Stewart,
Artie Mae Magee, Mozelle Wilbanks
Willie Lee Knight, Helen Gay Law-
rence, Eldridge Stevens, Bennie
Bob Lindley, Travis Tucker, W.
Dewey Head, Buddie Tucker, Ken-
neth Stephenson, Mary Louise
Welch, Gertrude Neyman, Winona
Pugh, Ruth Bruner, Adolphus Van-
diver, Royce E. Wisenbaker, E. J.
Courreges, Margaret Peacock, Fran-
cis Jo Wilhite, Irene Peterson,
Maxine L'Herisson, Reed Huff and
Mildred Wallace.
Rip Morrow of Oak Grove was a
visitor at the Monitor office 'one
day last week.
Bowman Completes
Taking cf Pictures
For Yellow jacket
Subscriptions Are Now
Being Taken; Only A
Required Number To
Be Printed
G. T. Bowman, local photogra-
pher, completes the taking cf all
the pictures which are to be in-
cluded in the Yellow Jacket Year
Book being printed from the week-
ly Yellow Jacket page published
in the Mineola Monitor.
The campaign for subscriptions
to the year book is now in full
force at the high school. The book
will sell for $1.50. Everyone de-
siring one of these books should
subscribe foj- one immediately as
only the required number will be
printed.
The book is a complete and com-
prehensive chronological record of
current events for the school year
and will become a valuable me-
mento of the school life since it
mirrors more accurately and vivid-
ly the actual events of the school
than would be possible in any
Other manner.
Next week the Yellow Jacket will
be edited by the members of the
Jtenior class and a calender of
events in connection with the clos-
ing of the school year will be given
detail. The Senior edition of the
Yellow Jacket will close the book
for the year.
The Mineola Monitor will then
complete the printing of the pages
in which the engraving and such
advertising as the merchants may
desire "to combine within fee book.
It will then be assembled and
bound ready for delivery. The book
should be in the hands of the
student body at least ten days prior
to the close of school.
Southwestern Gas
& Electric Company
Officials Re-elected
Shreveport, La., April 25.—All
the officers of the Southwestern
Gas and Electric Company were
reelected today at the first meet-
ing of the board following the
annual meeting of the stockhold-
ers.
The officers re-elected were A.
Lieberman, of Texarkanna,presi-
dent; M. T. Walker, of Shreveport,.
vice-president W. E. Bann, of Tex-
arkanna, vice-president; E. H.
Wilson, of Shreveport, secretary;1
H. L. Nickerson, cf Shreveport,
treasurer; J. F. Caroll, Shreveport
assistant treasurer; L. R. Williams,
of Sheveport, auditor.
The directors elected at the an-
nual meeting of stockholders were
A. Lieberman, M. T. Walker, W. E.
Bann, H L Nickerson, L R. Will-
iams, Knox Lee cf Marshall and
R. M. Winsborough of Shreveport.
David Wells Shot
Accidently With
Pistol At Pittsburg
Word was received in Mineola
Wednesday morning that David
Wells, 33, was seriously shot
through the abdomen Tuesday af-
ternoon at Pittsburg. While exam-
inating a pistol in a store there
Tuesday afternoon it was acci-
dently discharged. He was taken
immediately to a hospital at
Winnsboro where his condition is
considered seripus.
Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Garrett were
visitors in Mineola last Sunday.
EAST TEXAS MASONS ARE INVITED
SPECIAL TYLER MEETING TONIGHT
Masons from all East Texas are
anticipating the meeting to be
held in the Masonic temple in
Tyler Thursday night when Carl
H. Claudy of Washington, D. C.,
who is past grand master of the
District of Columbia and executive
secretary of the Masonic Service
association of the United States
will be the distinguished speaker.
He is a nationally known writer
and orator of the Masonic frater-
nity. _ '
St. John's lodge of Tyler is mak-
ing preparations to entertain an
unusually large crowd.
Secretary Claudy delivered an
address at Tannehill lodge at Dal-
last Wednesday night. A delegation
of Tyler Masons headed by Gal-
loway Calhoun, grand senior war-
den of Texas, attended this meet-
ing and will escort the speaker and
others to Tyler for the Thursday
meeting.
Leon McClure, worshipful master
of St. John's lodge, has urged all
local Masons to be present and
welcome Mr. Claudy. Many visitors
from neighboring lodges are ex-
pected.
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HE-EliCTS ALL MEMBERS OF FACULTY
Students Who Will Rep-
resent M. H. S. At
State Meet
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LEE DUNIVANT.
Superintendent
Takes Students •
To State Meet
B. A. Copass, superintendent of
schools, left yesterday for Austin
accompanied by Oscar Bobbitt
and Lee Dunivant,participants in
the State Interscholastic meet.
They attended the regional met
at Longview with the result that
Oscar Bobbitt won first place in
declamation and Lee Dunivant
tied for first place in pole vaulting.
This entittles the boys to partic-
ipate in these events at the State
meet now being held at Austin.
Mr. Copass was the director of
extemporaneous speaking at the
Longview meet.
general Nesbitt
Now In Washington
Attending a meeting of Adjd-
tant Generals of all the States,
Carl E. Nesbitt Adjutant General
of Texas, is in Washington this
week. He left Austin the first of
the week.
Tommy Douglas Will
Furnish Music For
Dance At Beckham's
R. L. Moore Made
Director Athletics
New Head Coach
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Tommy Douglas and his "Harlem
Aristocrats" will furnish the music
for the dance at the Beckham Ho-
tel Saturday night, May 4th, ac-
cording to an announcement by
J. L. Beckham," the proprietor. This
orchestra, according to Mr. Beck-
ham, comes here direct from the
Novelty Supper Club, Kansas City,
and their feature entertainment
is furnished by George E. Lee, nov-
elty singer and dancer.
This is a return engagement be-
ing played by this orchestra as
they have previouly furnished the
music for a dance recently held
at the Beckham Hotel.
Carl P. Kitchens, The
New Principal Now
Teaching At Terrell
Graduate Of Baylor
At a meeting of the school board
Wednesday night. Carr P. Kitchens
was elected principal of the Min-
eola High School. Mr. Kitchens
will succeed Ben Copass as prin-
cipal, Mr. Copass having been ad-
vanced to the supedintendency '"X
after Carl Nesbitt's appointment
to the Adjutant General's office by
Governor Allred. Mr. Copass was
re-elected superintendent for next
year at a meeting of the board
several weeks ago.
Mr. Kitchens is a present Dean
of Men at Texas Military College
at Terrell and a *tedcher in the
college there. He has been teach-
ing in the Texas Miitary College
for the P^t four years and has
had previous experience in teach-
ing in various public high schools
of this State. He is a graduate
of Baylor University at Waco and
has both a bachelors and masters
degree, receiving highest honors
with each degree. He participated
in athletics while attending Baylor
University and received his foot-
ball training wider Coach Frahk
Bridges, and will therefore be of
inestimable assistance to Coach
R. L. Moore, who has now been
appointed head coach since the
change in superintendents, in.
whatever capacity Coach Moore
needs him. The faculty feels that
in this appointment they have
maintained the high standard they
have previously persued and ob-
tained a man of wide experience
and most excellent worth in th^p
work. At the same time all the
other taachers employed in the
Mineola Schools were re-elected.
They are as follows, High School
R. L. Moore, Mrs. Charm Reitch,
Miss Lulu Viverett, Mrs. B. A. Co-
pass, Miss Doris Williams,- Miss
Mary Jane Harris, Mrs. Fairy Jen-
nings, with Mrs. Mary McReynolds
also ^teacher of the Choral Club
and Mrs. J. D. Harris teacher of
Music. The Ward school teachers
are L. M. Roch, principal, Mrs.
Marie Cullom, Miss Grace Aldridge,
Mrs. R. L. Moore, Miss Minnie
Alice Carraway, Miss Corine Pre-
cise, Miss Inez Cline, Miss Wilda
West, Mrs. Anna Martin, Miss Mary
Church, Miss Versanoy McDougal,
; Miss Ora Pritchett, Miss* Rosalie
Gibson, Miss Pauline Greer.
The teacher at tue Lone Pine
School are Mrs. Hob Addy, princi-
pal, Miss Dorothy Brooks and Mrs.
J. B. Jones.
Homer Willingham is retained
as janitor for the High School
builing, R. B. Elliott for the Ward
School and W. H. Rose at Lone
Pine.
With the selection of the principal
of the High School, no further va-
cancies exist in the faculty of the
Mineola Schools, and no further
appointments will be made unless
any of the teachers appointed fail
to accept the appointment offered.
Funeral Rites Held
Sherman Edmondson
Near Emory Wed.
Sherman Edmondson, 21, died at
the home of his mother, Mrs. W. M.
Edmondson, Wednesday • morning
a few minutes after midnight. •
He was born at Cumby and came
to Mineola with his parents in
1928.
Funeral services were held at
Clifton cemetery near Emory in
Rains county Wednesday after-
noon at three o'clock with ReY- J.
T. Robinson, local pastor of the
First Baptist church officiating.
He is survived by his mother,
five brothers, W. H. Edmondson,
Frank Edmondson and Robert Ed-
mondson all of Mineola, Raymond
Edmondson of Shreveport, La, Al-
bert Edmondson of Henderson, and
two sisters, Miss Eula Edmondson
and Mrs. Mattie Schahon both of
Mineola.
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Carraway, R. H. The Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 2, 1935, newspaper, May 2, 1935; Mineola, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth286194/m1/1/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Mineola Memorial Library.