The Post-Signal (Pilot Point, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, March 15, 1912 Page: 1 of 8
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VOL XXXIV.
PILOT POINT, TEXAS, FRIDAY, MARCH 15. 1912.
NO. 20
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IF YOU think you can do better by
having your clothes,made to measure
than we'll do it for you here in clothes
ready made, you've got a chance to think
again.
Hart, Schaffner & Marx
use better fabrics than you find in most
clothes; put better linings, trimmings,
tailoring into them than you get in most
clothes.
It's a waste of time, and costs lots more
money to wait for your clothes to be
made when you can step in and get the
best that's going in a half hour or less.
SUITS $18 AND UP.
The new Shirts, Ties, L nderwear and
Hats for men and boys are as pretty as
can be. Come and take a peep at them.
H. M. RUSSELL & CO
SOUTH SIDE
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PILOT POINT
passes 10 rest
child take;
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Busy Life and Honored Texan peluIiar Case! Happens! In Dal-
Succumbs to Pneumonia. ,a# |nnitution.
LONG SECRETARY OF FAIR i WOMAN TAKES GIRL OFF
ran i
has ben taken
In the Sneed -Ecyce Matter
Fort Worth.
at
i or, with headquarte s at Dalhart..
i Bennett was not a witness in the Sneed
J trial, but it was testified then that he
j was investigating the charge that let-
j teJs to the Boyce family we-e opened.
Judge Mefk charged the grand jury
! on while slavery, informing them that
' he understood they would be asked to
j investigate charges of that sort, lie
also chargd them generally us to the
thoft of letters.
arrest and conviction of the person o
persons who burned the residence o:
Dr. Norris. The state's reward, added
to the rewards offered by the city of
Fort Worth and by the chamber of
commerce of that city, bring the total
to $7,000.
FEDERAL GRAND JURY IS
Prcbing the Alleged White Slave
Conduct of the W.an Who Is Ac-
euscd ot Leaving the State Wtth
Mrs. Sneed.
Investigation of the white slate ac
cusation against A G Boyce. Jr.
was taken up by the Federal grand
jury at Fort Worth
Dr Wilmer Allison was before the
grand jury. Accompanied by J. H.
Bowman of Piano, hfs brother-in-law,
John Beal Sneed arrived in the city
and went before the jury. Dr John
S Turner of Dallas, who testified at
the habeas corpus and regular tria
that Mrs. Sneed was Insane, was also
before that body Others testifying1
were Ed Farwell of Dalhart, Miss
Flowers the nurse at the sanitarium,
and A J Bennett, postoflict inspec-
N0FRIS TRIAL.
Date F°r It Has Bern Fixrd at
the First Day of April.
Rev, J Frank Norris, pastor of the
First Baptist church ol Fort Worth,
will face trial on the charge of per
jury in the Sixty-seventh districtcourt
April 1.
Judge Simmons made a speciai set-
ting of the case upon the joint appli
catiou of the attorneys for the s ate
and the attorneys for the defense. At
the same time Judge Buck, in Forty-
eighth district court, charged the new-
grand jury to renew the investigation
of the burning of the First Baptist
church and the attacks upon Dr. Nor-
ris and the burning of his home.
Another development was receipt of
Governor Colquitt's official procla-
mation oiTerincr ?5,C00 reward for the
Price i,oo
Alarm
Clocks
Don't Be
LATE!
GOING AFTER CATTLE.
Commissioner Abbott So States
He Will Do This.
Pure Food Commissioner Abbott
has announced the inauguration of a
campaign against diseased dairy cat
tie in Texas. Heretofore he has con
lined his operations to the inspection
of adulterated milk, but now he is
after the cattle on the hoof. About r.
couple of years ago the attorney gen-
eral held that the pure food commis
sionerdid not have authority to make
investigation of cattle on hor f. but the
commissioner sa\ s lie will test the law
in ease of protest.
MATTER OF TAILS.
Peculiar Case Comes Up and I*
Decided by Jury.
Cats or dogs, if you only sec their
tails, according to a jury at El Paso
in the Thirty-fourth district court,
which found against Mrs. Ii. M,.Tur-
ner in her suit against the street car
company of that city for being put off
a car.
Seeing the tail of an animal stick-
ing from beneath Mrs. Turner's cloak
and presuming it to be a dog the con-
ductor ordered her from the cat un-
der the rule that no dogs may be car-
ried. The animal was a cat July
held that as Mrs Turner refused to
show the animal to the conductor he
had a right to conclude it was a do>r
Price 2.50
Get an Alarm Clock with a Guarantee. A Big
Ben or an America will give you satisfaction.
West
Side
Square
Pilot
Point
Texas
TWO MEN ELECTROCUTED
Clothing of Killed Is Charged
by Live Wire.
A live wire that fell across aciothes
line caused the death of Ira Davis a
telephone lineman, and Bop Mayo, n.
carpenter, at Whitewright, Tex The
accidents occurred in the back yard
of Ira Davis
Mrs Davis, wife of Ira Davis, had
a narrow escape in attempting to save
her husband Roth men came in con-
tact with the wire
Native of Alabama, Soldier of tho
Confederacy and a Resident of
Dallas Ne rly Half a Century and
Widely Known.
After an illness of but a tew d&yd
Captain Sydney Smith, a pioneer of
Dal las, residing at that city forty nino
years, departed this life. Pneumonia
was the malady. His surviving chil-
dren are Mrs, W. H. Stratton and
Sydney Smith, Jr., of Dallas, and
Mrs. Tallulah Bailey of Houston. He
was in his seventy-third year. Mrs.
Smith died several years ago. (.'apt.
Smith was a native ol Marengo couu
ty, Ala.
When in lfifil the civil war broke
out Sydney Smith became a member
of Company D, Fix at Mississippi reg
The Post* Signal $1 a year.
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3VONEY SWtTH,
im< ntm.d << i ght i i's > '1 • rr il w e
surrenderor General Itolert, E, Lte
at / pporoattox.
After the war he returner! to his
Mississippi nla-tation, following ti e
life of a planter and assisting in the
re) abilitation of the state
Deciding to fee'< a home in Trxns
he located at Da his and contribu ed
greatlv to the welfare of that city and
also the state. He first engaged in th.<
machinerv and implement business
and was known as a successful man.
When the idea of holding an annual
state fair at Pallas \\ as first discussed
by some o' the progressive business
men of that city Captain Smith was
one of the most enthusiastic workers
for the establishment of such an insti-
tufion. For twenty-six years tie had
been actively connected as secretary
with the State Fair of Texas and its
successful operation is largely due to
his fine executive ability and energy.
He saw it pass through the stormy
days of lis infancy, when it looked as
if it rruild ro 'cr^ct te r a'rti.irfd;
saw it gradually grow and become so
influential as to he now one of the
greatest yearly fairs and expositions
During the twenty six years the cap-
tain was connected with the enterprise
he never lost faith in it, and b,v many
the State Fair of Texas is regarded as
a monnmei.t to the life work of the late
secret arv.
Female Forcibly Carries n Little
Pupil From Her Teacher and
Comrade* and Goes to Eastiand,
but Uncle Rescues Her.
Excitement was occasioned n 1 tie
vicinity of the Cumberland Hill school
at Dallas and also a few blocks awav
when it oecame known that a mysteri-
ous won an tiad called at the school
and takfh Ruby Walker, ten veais of
age from that Institution As soon
as teachers of the school notified the
child's relatives officers were mallei
and immediate «,earch begun An an
cle residing at, Fort Worth rescued
the child at Eastland and returned her
to Pallas
Driving up to the schoolhouse in a
hack and after driving severai times
around building he finally went in
and inquired for Ruby Walker As
the little girl,in the fourth grade came
down the steps from the second floor
she was met at the bottom of t tie sec
orid flight by the woman.
"Your mother is dying and I have
just come to take you to her." said
the womant
The little girl did not want to go
with the woman, but despite this fact
the latter caught her by the hand and
led her out of the building and putting
her into the hack instructed the driver
to depart
A little girl who overheard the con-
versation said the stranger's voice
sounded like that of a man
Judge E L Walker, formerly the
county judge of Stephens cour.ty, re-
sides with his wife near the school
Ruby lives with an aunt, Mrs. Myrtle
Line a few' blocks from the school, but
spends much of her time with her
grandparents-
"As soon as T heard of the matter
1 was almost sure who had taken
Ruby," said Judge Walker "Her
mother has been in very bad health
for some time, and her father, Lee J.
Walker, who is my son, is now in
South Dakota The mother resides at
Eastland, Tex
"As soon as possible we called up
another son. who resides at Fort
Worth,and told his wife of the matter
She communicated with her husband,
who happened to be in Ranger on a
business mission He went from that
place to Eastland and at midnight he
telephoned that he had Ruby and was
on his way back to Dallas with
her " Ruby has a brother, younger
than herself who also makes his home
with their aunt
Now a Fire.
Nearly a year from the time a cy-
clone almost swept the town of Big
Heart, Okla., from the face of the
Osage county map, killiug live people
and injuring more than a score, a lire
wiped out of existence about half of
the business section, causing damage
to the extent of $50,000. All buildings
burned had been'erected since storm
o ' st April Included are the post-
offlc"' i confectionery, grocery, meat
ii,, ket, *< velty store, restaurant.sev
erai i otn ng houses and the new Mid-
land hotel Little insurance.
The Sunny South's Last and Best Gift is
CRUSTO
CRUSTO
CRUSTO
WE HAVE IT
SCOTT FLAKE.
GROCERIES OF ALL KINDS
PHONE 46.
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The Post-Signal (Pilot Point, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, March 15, 1912, newspaper, March 15, 1912; Pilot Point, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth291208/m1/1/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Denton Public Library.