The Grand Saline Sun (Grand Saline, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. [8], Ed. 1 Thursday, December 26, 1935 Page: 1 of 4
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Bennett Conner, 15-year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Conner, who live
South of Grand Saline, Was seriously
injured Friday morning, when the
shot gun he was carrying was ac-
cidentally discharged. Young Con-
ner's thumb was shot away and tcoies
of small shot were imbe'.!d«*d in Ha
face. Fear is felt that the sight of
one eye may be impaired.
The wounded youth was hunting in
the river bottom near the Golden
bridge with Howard Lucas Jr., Mosey
White and Elmer Lee Cuinutt. He
had started to climb the bank, pushing
his gun up the bank ahead 'f him.
The gun started sliding oack, and
when it did fhe boy grabbed for it
and acidentally pulled the trigger, the
charge tearing off his right thumb
and entering the left side of his face.
His companions rushed him to a
gravel pit about a mile away, and a
truck being used in the hau'uig of
gravel to Grand Saline’s streets,
brought him to town for medical aid.
Mrs. Conner, the boy’s mother, rr-
rived in Grand Saline Monday evening
to be at his bedside. She had been
with her sick mother in Dallas.
Big Ruth of Business
Here This Week
Ml CLAUS US
Grand Saline merchants were en-
joying an unusually fine business this
week in the last hours allotted in
which to do Christmas shopping. Last
Saturday had ‘been a day set aside by
many to take care of their wants, but
due to the rain and snow which fell,
the plans of many went awTy.
For a few days following Christ-
mas most of the business houses will
be busy taking inventory, and other-
wise preparing to start in on the new
year.
ILL ABLE-BODIED
MEN 1! WORK
Able-bodied men in or near Grand
Saline, who can qualify under WPA
are being given an opportunity to
work. Three WPA projects have been
approved, and parts of two of them
are already under way.
The street improvement was the
first to get under way, and the water-
works improvement will be started at
once. Eight-inch pipe was ordered
Monday for this latter work, and it is
thought the material will be here
shortly after the first of the year.
The waterworks, street improve-
ment and park projects ahve all three
been approved by the Federal govern-
ment, and a successful local bond
issue insures that local money will be
forthcoming.
Materials to be used in Grand Sa-
line’s waterworks improvement pro-
gram were ordered Monday, the
American Cast Iron Pipe Company of
Birmingham, Alabama being the
lowest bidder on the materials.
A total of 4,000 feet of 8-inch pipe
has been ordered. This 8-inch pipe
will be used in the place of the prsent
6-inch mains, anu the six-inch will re-
place some of the 4-inch mains. Some
connections and fire hydrants are
also to be purchased.
Santa Claus came to Grand Saline
Saturday morning! And in an airplane,
too.
Hundreds of children cheered, and
as many of their elders stood with
mouth agape as the plame loomed
over the Grand Saline streets, carry-
ing Santa on one wing.
As Santa waved his cheery greeting,
the youngsters drowned out the roar
of the motor with their yells ,and then,
when he landed and came to town in
his car, the children became even more
excited.
And now all that remains to climax
the year for them is his visit Christ-
mas eve after they are fast asleep.
NOBLE—GARNER
Legion Distributes
Christmas Cheer
Many children will be happier
Christmas eve because of the fore-
thought of the American Legion and
Legion Auxiliary. These organiza-
tions will distribute three hundred
sacks filled with candy, nuts and
fruits. In addition, many toys, re-
paired and re-finished by the mem-
bers, will be given.
The Legion and Auxiliary acknow-
ledge recent contributions from Mrs.
J. E. Persons Sr., Mrs. J. E. Hanes,
Rufus Ritchie and A. L. Bates.
Among other organizations looking
toward the needs of the needy is the
Main Street Baptist church, which
will take care of 40 children.
Jeff Noble, pharmacist at the City
Pharmacy, and Miss Flossie Garner,
Athens, were united in marriage at
6:30 P. M. last Saturday at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Coleman of
Tyler. Rev. Leo Hopkins, former
pastor of the Methodist church here,
said the words that made them man
and wife.
The bride is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. J. M. Garner of Athens and a
very popular member of the younger
set there. She is a graduate of the
Athens high school and for several
months has been in charge of the
ready-to-wear department of the J. C.
Penny store in Athens.
The groom is also a graduate of the
Athens high school and he later
studied pharmacy at the Danforth
school in Ft. Worth. For several yeais
he was employed at the Palace Drug
Store in Athens. For the past four
years he has been in the employ of
the City Pharmacy here.
Mr. and Mrs. Noble will make their
home at the A. L. Farrell anartiireut
in Grand Saline.
Attendants at the wedding includ-
ed: Miss Nell Noble, Dallas; Mrs. D.
T. Griffin, Athens; Mr. and Mrs. Roy
Ginn, Rusk; Damon Burton, Miss
Doris Lamb and Miss Irene Forgey,
Athens.
LIONS CLUB HELD
Grand Saline Lions Monday night
celebrated the approach of Christ-
mas with a Santa Claus party, each
member bringing a present for the
one with whom he was paired. It was
also ladies night, and guest night.
The invocation was delivered by
W. A. Welch Jr., and after the banquet
this program was given:
Reading—Peggy Jean Ray.
Dance—Wanda Robertson, with
Mrs. Raymond Robertson playing her
accompaniment.
Reading—Mrs. Rutherford Coker.
Song—James Dixon and T. S. Dix-
on, with Miss Opal Dodd playing the
accompaniment.
Dance—Wanda Robertson.
Visitors present Monday night in-
cluded: Mrs. Lucy Winderspin, Miss
Clemma Billingsley, Alpine, Mr. and
Mrs. V. O. Teddlie, Canton; Miss Fay
Viars, Whitesboro; Misses Louise
Andrews and Jaunita Adrian, Mrs.
Marie Dyess, Misses Uldene Jones,
Oral Dodd and Wilda White; Mr. and
Mrs. Horace Cook, Van; Bill Quinn.
Succumbs to Injuries
Received Near Here
Eswald Pettet, 51, who was injured
in an automobile accident near here
more than a month ago, died last
Thursday in a Shreveport hospital.
Mr. Pettet was brought to the Grand
^Saline Hospital, where he remained
for several days before being taken
back to his home.
Mr. and Mrs. Pettet were en route
from New Orleans to Dallas, when
an auto passed the Pettet car, side-
swiped an approaching truck, throw-
ing it crosswise in the road. Mr.
Pettet’s car then collided with the
truck.
FINIL LETTERS
MW STORE
BURBUiZi
Will Remodel Theatre
After December 31
S. G. Fry, who recently purchased
the Palace Theatre from W. H.
Spencer, announced that plans are
being made to close the theatre after
December 31 for an extensive remodel-
ing.
“Everything will be done to make
this practically a new theatre’’, stat-
ed Mr. Fry Monday.
Mr. Fry is operator of the Victor
theatre at Van and also operates a
show in Tyler.
Dear Santa: I am a very small boy
I have been good this year. I have
been going to school and have not got
but one paddling. So please dear
Santa bring me a tricycle, an air gun,
a rubber ball, a teddy bear, some fire
crackers and plenty of nuts. Santa
Claus be sure and don’t forget Cynthia
and Ellen. Good bye Santa. Archie
Tipps.
Dear Santa Claus: I want a pair of
pants, a comb, a micky mouse tie, a
pop gun and lots of nuts, fruits and
candy. Billie Joe Darr.
The T. A. McLain ft Son store Ml
entered some time Sunday night *nd
a quantity of merchandise was t.
Entrance was gained by cutting hrl
heavy iron bars at one of the roar
windows.
The McLain store has been closod
for several days, and the property is
in the hands of J. R. Blade, trustee.
Local officers and members of the
Sheriff’s department have been work*,
ing on the case and it was thought
that the Federal authorities would
send a finger print expert to assist in
the work. In addition to finger prints,
the only clue left was a dark felt hat.
It was not immediately determined
what articles had been taken, though
several pairs of shoes, several bottles
of extract and also some snuff was
missing.
DO-U-NO
Teacher Selected for
Second Grade Work
Dear Old Santa: I want a pair of
pants, a comb, a micky mouse tie and
a pop gun and lots of fruit, nuts and
candy. Henry Lee Darr.
Dear Santa Claus: I want a pair of
pants a micky mouse tie and lots of
fruits, nuts and candy, and a pop gun.
Virgil Ray Darr.
Income for Texas Farmers
Gains by $45,171,000 in 1935
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AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 22.—The
United States Department of Agri-
culture Sunday estimated Texas farm
income for 1935, exclusive of money
received from the Federal Government
on acreage adjustment contracts, will
exceed 1934 receipts by $45,171,000.
The estimate was based on seasonal
average farm prices to Dec. 1, for
principal Texas crops. Value of the
chief crops for 1935 was listed at
$875,298,000 compared with $330,127,-
000 the previous year.
“Although the unit pirce of all Tex-
as crops, excepting wheat and pea-
nuts, is below that received in 1934,
the increased production for most
crops more than offset the effect of
low prices on total values,” the Guv-
ernment reported. “The combined
yield per acre df all important Texas
crops this year is 104.3 per cent of
the ten-year average compared with
79.9 per cent for 1934.
Cotton Yield Off
“All field crops produced higher
yields in 1936 with the exception of
wheat, rice, Irish potatoes and broom-
corn. Pecan production is the high-
est on fecord, estimated at 44,000,000
pounds.”
Due to lateness of the crop, coupled
with an unusual amount of insect
damage, the final cotton yield of 188 |
pounds an acre is less than average |
hut is twenty-six pounds more than
the 1984 yield.
..Texas farmers last year received
$150,469,000 for 2,406,000 bales with
the' income from 8,050,000 bales in
IMS listed at $166,836,000. Income
Strom cottonseed increased $5,000,000.
Wheat Acreage Cut.
come from com was up $14,604,-
Rlee $800,000 peanuts $1,842,000
potatoes $920,000, truck crgpe
rt potatoes) $5,000,000.
income showed a decline of
> 4» to ehfarp acreage cur-
‘ 11$84 the harvest was 85,-
8^81,000 adtes
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Revelers Pay Fines
As Christmas Nears
Bailey Making Good
Showing at Basketball
Drunks and disturbers of the peace
had their two innings here Saturday
night. Their first inning came when
they commenced drinking over-much,
and the second and final one came
when local officers landed them in the
city jail.
Six were charged with being drunk,
and two were charged with disorderly
conduct.
Stolen Drums Returned
Whether it was a twinge of con-
science, or the discovery that some
stolen articles could not be converted
into cash, caused the retu-n of two j
large acetylene drums, will probably
never be determined. The drums, the !
property of the Morton Salt Company, )
had been unloaded south of the piant 1
about a week ago, and shortly there-
after were stolen. A few days ago
the drums were brought back u> the
identical spot from where they had
been taken.
Ike Bailey, son of Isaac Bailey of
Grand Saline, Is one of the outstand-
ing candidates for a regular berth on
the 1936 basketball quintet of the
North Texas State Teachers College
at Denton, Texas. Bailey, who plays
at guard on the Eagle cage team, has
seen service in several of the pre-
season games
Bailey is a graduate of Grand Sa-
line High School, where he lettered in
football and basketball. He is major-
ing in chemistry at the Denton school.
Miss Verlia Eads, Cedar Hill, Tex-
as, has been employed by the Grand
Saline school board to teach second
grade work in the place of Mrs. John-
nie Hopkins, who has resigned.
Miss Eads received her B. S. de-
gree this winter from the North Tex-
as State Teachers College. She has
had five years previous teaching ex-
perience, including schools at Cedar
Hill and Mansfield, Texas.
Dear Santa Claus: I am a littie boy
just past two years old. Please, Santa
won’t you bring me a little tricycle,
a barking dog, one of your Big Litrle
Books, candy and fruits and anything
else you have to spare. Please re-
member my Granny and Gtan Gian
and all other little folks. Merry
Christmas. Lots o’ love. Richar 1 Blue.
$125.00 REWARD OFFERED
FOR FURI OUGH VIOLATOR
GIN REPORT
Van Zandt county continues to show
an increase in bales of cotton raised
this year compared with last, accord-
ing to the report on December 13 by
the Bureau of Census. 17,936 bales
were ginned this year, compared with
14,658 bales in a like period last year.
MERRY CHRISTMAS
Governor Allred isued a proclama-
tion last Wednesday offering S100 foi
the arrest and delivery of V. O. Perrir,
furlough violator.
Pprrin was tried in Van Zandt coun-
ty for disposing of mortgaged prop-
erty and received a suspended sentence
for 5 years. Hhe was later charged
and tried for driving drunk in Wood
county and received a penitentiary
sentence which revoked his suspend-
ed sentenc in this county.
He was granted a ten days’ fur-
lough on the representation that his
wife was ill and in serious condition
in a Grand Saline hospital and did not i
return at the expiration.
Sheriff Allred has offered an ad- !
ditional $25 as a reward leading to I
the arrest of the fugitive.
Billie Morgan Fail
Injured In Wreck
Billie Morgan Fail, small son of Mr.
and Mrs. Morgan Fail, was cut about
the face Monday when the car in
which he was riding collided with
another car on the highway.
The wreck occured on the highway
oust of to vn. Dewitt Flower?, uriver
of the car, was uninjured.
Grand Saline. Texas
Dear Santa: T am a little boy five
years old. I have been real good.
Please bring me a little gun and a
Kiddie Car and all kinds of nuts,
candies and fruits. Your little friend,
Billie Peel Jr.
HERE FROM N. T. S. T. C.
Among the students of the North
Texas State Teachers College who
have returned to Grand Saline for the
holidays are: Misses Mirl Craddock,
Joe Marie Phillips, Opal Dodd, Fay
Thopmson, Adene Thompson, and Ben
Thompson and Clifford Earl Phillips.
Last “Prosperity"
Auction Held Saturday
Grand Saline, Texas
Dear Santa Claus: We are a little
boy five years old and a little girl two
years old. We want you to brine us
a pair of new shoes, a knife with a
chain and a little cart with a mule, a
doll a little Choo-choo train, set of
dishes and a dress. Don’t «forget our
little sister Dorothy. She is 17 motnhs
old and wants a rattler, a pacifier, and
a little rubber doll. With love, Betty
Jane and Billie Joe Word.
Dear Santa: I am a little boy eight
years old. For Christmas I want a
little car, a knife and chain and a new
dump truck. Don’t forget to bring
fruits, nuts and candy and lots of fire-
words. With Love, J. D. Word.
MERRY CHRISTMAS
The last of the “Prosperity Money”
auctions, sponsored by the Grand Sa-
line merchants, was held last Satur-
day in front of the Sun office.
Various prizes were sold to the highest
bidder, and the top prize, a ten dol-
lar bill, went to Dempsey White.
Grand Saline, Texas
Dear Santa Claus: I am a little girl,
six years old. I have been a pretty
good little girl. I want you to bring
me a little doll, a doll buggy, a set
of dishes and a chsir. Also nuts,
fruit and candy. Don’t forget my
little brother, Leon. I think he wants
a little train and tricycle. With love,
Christene Blue.
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Dear Santa Claus: I am a little boy
throe years old. I have been a pretty
good little boy this year. I want you
to bring me a little train, a rubber
hall and a red wagon. Also lots of
fruit, nuts and candy and a lot of
fireworks. With love, Ollie Blue. P.
S. Don’t forget my little playmate,
Hardy Word and Martin Hilliard.
Grand Saline. Texas
Dear Santa Claus: I am a little boy
nine years old. Please bring me an
airplane, coloring set and a marble
machine, xtlso fruits, nuts, candy and
firework*. Remember daddv. mother,
sister and grandmother. Your little
friend, Edwin Earl Moore.
Fruitvale, Texas
Dear Santa: I am a boy nine years old
and I want a target and some nuts,
fireworks and be sure to lfedag $•■
THAT although Texas leads all
states in production of wool and
mohair there is no manufacture of
woolen or mohair goods in the state.
THAT Paradise, Utopia, Diving
Sublime, Loving, Blessing, Happy and
Joy all are towns in Texas.
THAT the capital of Texas was
once in Louisiana at Pilar de loa
Adaes.
THAT there are in Texas today
only about 2,100 Indians.
THAT Mud, Clay, Sand, Earth and
Grit are all towns in Texas.
THAT a Mexican was the first vice-
president of the .Republic of TwjSw
Lorenzo de Zavala, aidfe To Santas
Anna, who took the side of the Tex-
ans in their fight for independence bi
March, 1836, at Wahington-c*i-tl»*%
Brazos.
THAT there is a rose bush in every
yard in Rosebud, Texas.
THAT two railroads cross Crane
1 County but there is not a stop on
; either line in the county.
THAT Texas produces about 90 per
cent of the polo ponies in the United
States.
THAT 85 per cent of the sulphur
produced in the world comes from
Texas and has an annual value of $38,-
000,000 00.
TIL *. 1 Ttxas is cclebra.i her first
100 years of progress and her indepen-
dence with not one great expedition
ut several.
THAT Texas has enough land to
supply every man, woman and child
in the world with a tract five feet by
twenty feet and there would be tnough
left over for the armies of the world
to march around the border five a-
breast.
THAT Texas is SOME STATE!
Two Cars Collide on
Van Road Saturday
The Morton Salt Company truck
and a County truck collided Saturday
afternoon at 4:15 as they came arooaft
the curve in the road at the Stone
corner a short distance south of Grand
Saline. Ernest Rodden, driver of tb*
Stone truck, was knocked unconscious
blow on the head.
Leon Thornton, driver of the county
car, was only slightly injured. Both
cars were badly damaged.
Ernest Rodden was on his way to
the salt mine after a second load of
employees when the accident occur-
ed.
50-Minute Trial Brings
50 Years in Robbery Case
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LONGVIEW. Texas, Dec. 20—In
one of the auickest. trials on record
here, J. D. Hope was tried, convicted
and sentenced to fifty yeari’ imprison-
ment Friday for robbing the Piggly
Wiggly store here Nov. 16.
The taking of testimony, argument*
and jury action took fifty minute*.
Three State witnesses were eaBsd^
The defendant offered no
Several hundred dollars and a
register were taken from the
Two men held up the atwr*
third watchd outside. Up ,
iater was recovered ,
latr in the w**ds betwemi *
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Proctor, Willard. The Grand Saline Sun (Grand Saline, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. [8], Ed. 1 Thursday, December 26, 1935, newspaper, December 26, 1935; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1015597/m1/1/: accessed July 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Van Zandt County Library.