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SIXTY-FIRST YEAR—NO. 18
MINEOLA, WOOD COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JULY 29,1937
EIGHT PAGES
•REUNION PROGRAM PROMISES
LIST OF PROMINENT TEXANS
I* James E. Ferguson To
Speak At 2 p. m. On
First Day; Whitley
• Accepts Invitation
County Attorney Bascom B.
Gist, chairman of the program
committee announced this
afternoon that James E. Far gu-
ano, has definitely accepted an
invitation to appear on the
program of the Old Settlers'
Reunion at Quitman. Mr. Fergu-
son will speak at 2 o'clock in
the afternoon of the first day.
■*S. H. Whitley, president of the
East Texas State Teachers col-
lege at Commerce has signified
his acceptance of an invitation
to appear on the program, and
Gist states that he is meeting
"with a ready response with re-
gard to program invitations and
that he is daily receiving ac-
knowledgements of invitations
extended.
Attorney General William Mc-
Craw of Dallas will appear as
one of the featured speakers on
the program of the Wood
County Old Settlers' Reunion.
McCraw, former Dallas county
district attorney, had accepted
because of his many friends in
• Wood county and the general
response to his appearance at
previous reunions at Quitman.
Other Prominent Speakers
Other persons prominent in
Texas political and civic life
have been extended invitations,
Gist stated. Col. Carl L. Estes,
East Texas publisher; Col. Ern-
est O. Thompson, member Rail-
road Commission; I. N. Williams,
judge, court civil appeals Ger-
ald Mann, Bob Calvert, speak-
er of the Texas house of repre-
sentatives; Coke Stevenson, for-
. mer speaker of the house of
^representatives; Will D. Pace of
Tyler, state senator from this
district; Lieut. Governor Wal-
ter Woodul, District Judge
Walter Russell, and Mr. and
^Mrs. James E. Ferguson, have
all been invited to take a place
on the program. It was expected
that most of the invited of-
ficials would attend, since the
majority of them have political
aspirations a year hence.
William McCraw, Ernest O.
Thompson and Coke Stevenson
are all possible candidates for
governor. Will D. Pace is a
probable aspirant for the lieu-
tenant governor's place; Walter
Woodul has already announced
for attorney general, and it is
generally expected throughout
this district that Walter Rus-
sell will be in the congressional
race. That this year's reunion
will be one of the most sucessful
in recent years was the opinion
expressed by Gist, who said he
found the interest this year
Government Hires
Almqst Eighth Of
Those Employe J
Of 46,697,000 WdrMn?
There Are 6,142,000
On Uncle Sam's Pay
Roll
Of the 46,697,000 persons gain-
fully employed in the United
States early this year, 6,142,000
were drawing their pay checks
from Government jobs, a sur-
vey of the United States Cham-
ber of Commerce as released
by Roger Miller, Southwestern
manager shows.
An analysis of the Govern-
ment jobholders shows tliat
3,500,000 are in the regular
establishments of Federal, State
and local administrations, he
said, and 2,642,000 are on re-
lief jobs. The Federal Govern-
ment has 1,147,000 employees
in its regular establishment, he
said.
Industry, including manufac-
turing, construction and powers,
employs 15,460,000 persons, he
said, and 10,953,000 axe in agri-
culture.
Unemployed Number 2,225,M0
The chamber estimates that
not more than 2, 225,000 per-
sons who are able and willing
to work are without jobs, he
declared.
He said the survey shows that
business spent eighteen billion
dollars more than it took..in
during the depression and that
labor's share in the national
income has steadily increased.
Average wage earnings in
1936 were 57.2 cents iper hour
against 46.4 cents in 1919, he
said, and labor is now receiv-
ing 66.5 cents of the national
income dollar.
He estimated that the average
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Brookshire Bros.
Employees Attend
Annual Picnic
Building Permits
Must Be Secured
From City Office
Sewer Connection Is
Required For All
Construction On the
North Side of Track
Interest Increases
With Each Service
At Baptist Revival
'All Church Night' Is
Desiginated Friday
Night; Meeting To
Close Next Sunday
Interest is increasing daily in
the Baptist revival with the at-
tendance growing with each
service, according to the local
pastor, Rev. Perry F. Evans, who
is conducting the services. Rev.
Evans says that this is the j Monitor, must provide for sewer
third revival which he has con-
ducted in Mineola and that he
is more than gratified with the
attendance and interest.
The membership of the
church is showing a sipirit of
co-operation that is really ac-
quiring results. A large num-
ber of additions to the church
Is reported, with more than
twenty-five since Sunday.
All construction contemplat-
ed for the portion of Mineola
located on the North side of the
railroad tracks, according to a
notice by the City Commission,
printed in this issue of The
Between 600 and 700 were in
attendance at an annual picnic
in Nacogdoches Sunday when
the firm of Brookshire Bros,
was host to their employees and
jobbing friends, 500 barbecued
fryers and considerable barbe-
cued beef were served at the
higher and the program very f picnic
promising.
bounty Board of
Education Will
Meet Monday
The Board of Education for
Wood county is scheduled to
meet Monday, August 2, ac-
cording to County Superintend-
ent Chas. O. Bialock, who asks
that all who have business
with the board to meet with
them at that time. The meet-
ing will be held in the office of
the county superintendent in
the court house at Quitman. •
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DuBose Remodels
Store Building
Work was begun this week
in remodeling the lower floor
of the DuBose building. The
plate glass windows will be set
back from the front brick
work about six feet. A parti-
tion will be placed down the
center of the building, dividing
1 it into two separate business
establishments.
The north portion of the
building and the entire up-
stairs will be retained by the
ipuBose Funeral Home. The
.South portion will be rented.
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Amos Bowdoin was a Mineola
visitor Thursday night.
All of the local employees of
j the Brookshire Bros, store, not
I away on vacation, attended the
outing. They were Chester
Magee, Mr. and Mrs. Albert
Melton and family, and Buddy
Courreges. Mrs. Kathleen Flynt
attended with the Mineola em-
ployees.
PEGUES SELL HOMEPLACE;
WILL BUILD ON PACIFIC ST.
H. G. Pegues sold his home-
place at the West end of Broad
street to H. Watts this week.
He has begun removing the
structure from his lot on the
comer of Pacific and Blair
streets, where he plans to erect
a new and modern home.
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DICKSONS RETURN FROM
VACATION AT LUBBOCK
Friday night has been desig-
nated "All Church Night", at
which time all of the various
churches in Iflineola will con-
centrate on this one service.
The revival at the First Bap-
tist church will continue on
through Sunday night, closing
at that time. The pastor, Rev.
Evans, states that the Sunday
School has set for themselves
Sunday the 300 mark in at-
tendance. He urges that every
member strive to assist in at-
taining this goal.
Constable Makes
a Forgery Arrest
Here Tuesday
Wesley Taylor, constable, ar-
rested Andrew Parker (col.)
Tuesday, charging him with
forgery in connection with the
passing of 15 checks on J. S.
Lockhead, scrap iron buyer, in-
volving an amount of approxi-
mately $200. Parker has already
served two terms in the peni-
tentiary for similar offenses,
according to County Attorney
Bascom B. Gist, who states that
he will be charged as an habi-
tual offender. Parker confessed
to the county attorney this,
afternoon to the forgery of
over ten of the checks.
Final Rites Held
$
For Mrs. Slay ton
Mrs. Jack Slayton, age 24,
died at her home near Crow
Sunday, and was buried Mon-
day afternoon in the Turner
cemetery. Rev. W. E. Stagner
officiated at the funeral ser-
vices.
Surviving are her husband
and one child, her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. A. R. White, four
brothers and two sisters.
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Shoes Cost Fiesta
Dancer $100 Week
connections. The commission
notice states that approval of
out-door closets or sanitary
pit-toilets has been definitely
discontinued on property north
of the raildoad tracks.
A building permit is necessary
before construction is permitted
in any part of the City of
Mineola, north, south, east or
west, and the commission urges
adherance to «this particular
requirement in all Instances be-
fore starting any kind of build-
ing.
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A. & P. Completes
Ten Years Service
To MineoJa Trade
Claud Crenshaw Succumbs To
Injuries Received In Auto Crash
SMALL ENTERPRISES ACCOUNT
FOR 84 PER CENT U. S. INDUSTRY
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Dickson
returned Friday from a visit of
several weeks in Lubbock where
they visited their daughters
and families, Mr. and Mrs. Owen
McWhorter and Mr. and Mrs.
Howard Kirk. Mr. Dickson says
the folks in West Texas are
prosperity crazy with the finest
crops being harvested this year
that has been known in the
history of West Texas.
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RETURNS FROM VISIT
Shoes cost Miss Harriet Hoc-
tor $100 a week.
The dainty ballerina, star of
Billy Rose's Casa Manana re-
vue, could get by on the two
pairs of shoes a week which
the management purchases for
her but the extra pairs of shoes
which she buys means the dif-
ference etween a painful job
and a pleasant profession.
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District Judge
Holds Special
Term of Court
Ten years ago this week,
July 28, 1927, A. & P. entered
the grocery field in the Mine-
ola trade territory with A. J.
Page as manager. The loca-
tion of the store at that time
was in the Reneau building next
door to the present location.
The present manager is Har-
vey Jones. He has been manag-
er of the local store for the
past five years of the ten that
the store has been located here,
and it has been under his
management that the store has
evidenced its greatest growth.
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Paralysis Fatal
To Tyler Boy
Vernon Edward Howze, Jr.,
14, died of infantile paralysis
at Mother Frances hospital at
2 p. m. Wednesday in Tyler.
For days before death occurred
paralysis extended over most
of his body.
The youth, a track and foot-
ball star at Hogg Junior High
school last season, was the son
of Mr. and Mrs.' Vernon E.
Howze of 123 East Houston
street. Mr. Howze, an indepen-
dent oil operator, was one of a
small group of associates who
brought in the discovery well
in the Talco ail field.
Only Victim In City
Young Howze is Tyler's only
victim of the disease, although
there are three other cases in
the county. Attempts of health
authorities to trace the source
of the infection have been fruit-
less. It was reported the Howze
boy had visited both in Talco
and Kilgore a short time before
becoming ill.
Father Is 111 In
Grand Saline
Mrs. V. V. Bialock has re-
turned from a visit with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. L.
Dowell at Caldwell. While there
she studied voice with Mrs.
Douglas, one of the leading j is rumored that another
District Judge Walter G.
Russell was in Quitman Mon-
day holding a one day special
term of district court. Several
motions were heard. County
court has also been busy this
week, and several fines were
assessed for law violations. It
beer
musicians of that section of the < joint" in Mineola, is slated for
state. [the padlock soon.
Mrs. Tr a/vis Bruner is in
Grand Saline with her father,
J. O. Allen, who has been seri-
ously ill for several weeks.
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Willefords Move
Into New Home
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Willeford
moved today into their new
home on Newsome street.
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Reynolds Purchases
Mayberry Residence
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Reynolds
closed a deal last Friday for
the purchase of the home on
North Johnson street of Judge
and Mrs. Albert Maberry.
Decentrilization And
Population Growth to
Add To Southwest's
Diversity
In an analysis of factors
necessary to assure Texas the
prosperity and sound economy
her rich resources and energetic
population warrants, the All-
South Development Council in
a report recently called atten-
tion to the growing part played
in industry by "modest-scale
enterprises capitalized at $50,-
000 or less, which today con-
stitute 84 per cent of the 190,-
000 industries in the United
States."
Citing a tendency for reitera-
tion of the word "industry" to
create an exagerated picture of
the typical industrial unit, the
report recommended a "more
realistic viewpoint of industry,
that is, as embodying small
units clearly identified with the
activities 'find the donsumSer
demands of the people of a
region and warranting the ac-
tive financial support of those
of moderate means."
A broadening of participa-
tion in industrial processes—
seen as inevitable with the de-
centralization of major indust-
ries and the rapid growth of
population and consumer mar-
kets in the southwest—would
bring better understanding of
the problems facing industry
in Texas today, and more ag-
gressive interest in combatting
state extravagences which are
making the tax burden more
and more acute on industry,
business and "John Public"
alike.
The report quotes from an
address by Arthur Coleman,
associate editor of Holland's
magazine: "Other things being
equal, 60 industries capitalized
at $50,000 each, decentralized in
40 or 50 suitable locations, will
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Press Freedom Held
As Liberty Guardian
Clark Howell .publisher of the
Constitution, declared this week
j in Atlanta, Ga., that preserva-
j tion of a free press is the only
certain way to forestall "the
depredations of plutocracy on
one hand or predatory poverty
on the other."
Howell, chief speaker on the
Atlanta Kiwanis Club, program),
said the Nation's newspapers are
unfettered now, but warned
"the price of freedom is eternal
vigilance."
Howell, who is a director of
the Associated Press, called for
realization by the public that
freedom of the press is a boon
for the people as a whole,
rather than for the individual
paper, saying:
"Freedom of the press is that
proteotion which makes our
people independent and free
rather than slaves.
"As long as we maintain free
expression, we shall enjoy free-
dom— and only for that long.
For freedom is not a tangible
thing to be won, locked up, and
prized thereafter. Ut is in-
tangable and must be won and
held anew by every generation."
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Mineola Drug Co.
Adds Stools To
Soda Fountain
Congratulations!
Mr. and Mrs. Bennett Thomp-
son announce the birth of a
6i/2 pound girl, Barbara Ann,
Monday afternoon. , „. _
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Master's Degree
To Be Conferred
Monday Night
A master mason's degree will
be conferred by the Mineola
Masonic lodge, Monday night,
August 2, according to an an-
nouncement made today by Sam
Hannon, worshipful master.
Mr. Hannon stated that re-
freshments would be served at
the meeting, and that all mas-
ter masons are invited.
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Eastern Hosiery
Mill Will Open
Factory In Tyler
The location of the Mueller
Hosiery Mills of Robesonia, Pa.,
in Tyler was practically assured
Wednesday, following the ap-
proval of a written contract by
the Tyler Chamber of Com-
merce directors. The contract
was drafted from a verbal
agreement made last week by
the local committee members
and W. F. Mueller, president of
the company**,.
The contract will have to be
approved by the board of di-
rectors of the hosiery mill. Since
Mueller owns controlling in-
terest in the mill, the approval
is practically assured.
The terms of the contract
provide for the provision of
ground and the erection of a
unit of the hosiery mill by
Tyler businessmen at a cost of
$32,000. The total cost of the
mill will be 40,000, the hosiery
mill supplying $7,500. When the
contract is approved Mueller is
to place in escrow $2,500 in each
of the three local banks. The
$32,000 will be provided by local
businessmen through mieans of
an association known as the
Tyler Industries, Inc. Thirty
days are allowed to raise the
money for the lot and building
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Mineola Woman's
Sister Dies At
Edna Wednesday
Mrs. F. H. Payne died at her
home in Edna Wednesday, July
28, according to a telegram re-
ceived here by her sister, Mrs.
Hope Dozier. Mrs. Payne was
the former Miss Nannie Read-
ing, and is well known in
Mireola having visited her
sister here several times.
Grand Saline Woman
And Garland Man
Escape With Minor
Injuries In Wreck
S. D. Smith, Jr., of Garland
completely wrecked the Terra-
plane belonging to Claud Cren-
shaw,of Mineola, which he was
driving, when he crashed into
a tree Wednesday night about
9:30 seven miles west of Min-
eola on Highway 80. Smitht
suffered a fractured ankle and
severe face lacerations, Cren-
shaw received severe scalp lac-
erations and a fracture of the
skull. Miss Pauline Wilhite, of
Grand Saline, the only other
occupant of the car, escaped
with a fractured ankle.
Claud Crenshaw died Thurs-
day afternoon following injuries
received from the auto wreck.
Funeral arrangements are pend-
ing.
Mineola ambulance answer-
ed the emergency call and
returned the wreck victims to
Mineola where they received
treatment, by local doctors. Miss
Wilhite was taken to her home
in Grand Saline Thursday
morning and Mr. Smith carried
to Garland. They were reported
recovering satisfactorily.
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Rural Relations
Committee Meet
Called by Morris
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Thomas L. Williams has added
a line of high stools along the
front of the soda fountain at
the Mineola Drug Company.
These new fountain chairs add
materially to the convenience
of the customers patronizing
the fountain.
Mr. Williams has also added
to the drug store a circulating
library of the latest and most
popular novels, among which
are "Gone With the Wind,"
"It Can't Haippen Here," and
other popular books. Books are
rented on the three day basis
similar to all rental libraries.
Magazine Article
Will Be Answered
By Local Minister
An article appearing in the
current issue of the American
Magazine in which it is pointed
out that the church of today
has lost its influence for good
and no longer appeals to the
great hosts of church goers, will
be reviewed by Willis G. Jerni-
gan, local church of Christ
minister, from his Broad street
pulpit Sunday morning at 11
o'clock.
The article to be reviewed
recites in part: "The church,
which c^nce exetrciscfcl devils
from the minds of men and
restored tranquility of soul, is
being replaced by gland special-
ists and psychiatrists, who hold
that crime and abnormality are
the result of disordered glands,
disease, poverty and ignorance."
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UNDERGOES OPERATION
IN DALLAS HOSPITAL
Mrs. H. E. Neel returned from
Dallas Monday reporting Mr.
Neel was resting nicely follow-
ing an operation.
The first meeting of the East
Texas Chamber of Commerce
Committee on Rural Relations
has been called for 10:30 next
Thursday morning, August 5,
at Ferndale, located 15 miles
East of Winnsboro.
In calling the meeting, Alf
Morris, of Winnsboro, chairman,
of the committee stated that
the purpose of the conference
was to outline a rural relations
program of work for the re-
gional organization.
The East Texas Chamber,
anxious at all times for bene-
fits of its general program to
accrue in full measure to all
rural communities in the 70
counties in which it serves, has
named the Committee on Rur-
al relations to coordinate its
efforts in that direction.
Featured on the morning
program will be talks by A. G.
(Pat) Mayse, of Paris, on "Our
Tenantry Problem," and by
John W. Carpenter, of Dallas,
on "Rural Electrification." The
business session, which will be-
gin at noon at the luncheon
table, will be presided over by
President E. L. Smith, of Dallas.
Agricultural leaders well ver-
sed in rural relations work are
being invited to participate
with members of the committee
and other officials of the East
Texas Chamber of Commerce in
mapping a comprehensive pro-
gram, it was announced by
Hubert M. Harrison, vice pres-
ident and general manager of
the regional chamber.
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Local Firemen
Answer Alarm
Last Sunday
The fire alarm called out the
services of the Mineola Volun-
teer Fire Department last Sun-
day afternoon. One of Mrs. B.
B. Hart's rent houses on the
south side of town was damaged
about $15 before the fire was
extinguished.
Alarms have been few and
far between in Mineola for the
past several months, and if the
present record is maintained,
will determine a substantial re-
duction in the present fire in-
surance rate. Estimated fire
damage in Mineola this year
as estimated by the fire depart-
ment secretary, Carl Bruner,
will not exceed $150, and the
fire losses paid by the insurance
companies will not likely ex-
ceed $25.
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