The Delta Courier (Cooper, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 37, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 15, 1936 Page: 1 of 4

                                
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COOPER, DELTA COUNTY, TEXAS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1936
VOLUME 55, NO. 87
REVIVAL CLOSED
SUNDAYNIGHT
Many Conversions And Addi-
tions To Baptist Church.
Meeting Called For
Hunt Co. Teachers
Tho prognam for the meeting of
Hunt County teachers at Green,
ville on September 19 is announced
iy County Superintenrent W. W.
Rogers: Invocation, J. E. Black,
'.urn, President Wesley College,
Greenville; address, Dr. S. W.
Whitley, President E. T. S. T. C.
Commerce; talk, R. N. Sandlin,
State Supervisor District 6, Coop,
er; remarks, P. L, CSrism, Super,
intendent of Lamar County
Schools; city and rural schools.
Jerry Kizer Celebrates j 134 Emergency Loans ] Three Fires Saturday I Coach Wilson Resigns
His 83 Birthday! In Delta County With Little Damage To Go To Gilmer
In Delta County 134 loans were
closed in the amount of $236,900
The revival meeting under the
auspices of the Baptist church
which has been in progress for the
past two weeks came to close Sun.
day night with much interest.
There were many conversions
and additions to the church by
baptism and letters, and a spirit.1 general discussion,
ual fervor in the church.
Evangelist C. Y. Dossey brought' Long Ridge NeWS
heart searching messages which    -
stirred the hearts of the people The Long Ridge people are busy
will be of lasting good In the com. 1 as bees, gathering their crops,
munity.    j Most of them are making more
A liberal offering was taken cotton and corn than they thought
Sunday night for the evangelist they would. Everybody is all
and incidental expenses.    , smiles,
- i Ray Mills has been visiting at
Baptist Sunday School Rattan
Jerry Kizer celebrated n l s
eighty.third birthday 0n August!
24 at the home of his daughter,
Mrs. Sam Simpson with whom ha!by the Federal    Bank and the
lives. The birthday dinner was pre_lLand Bank Commissioner, from
pared by Miss Hazel Simpson, his May *’ 1933 through June 30« 1936-
granddaughter as Mrs. Si r.pson has acc0rdin8: to information received
‘by H. P. Drought, National Emer-
gency Council state director for
been ill for three mcnt‘.:s, Uncle
Jerry, as he is called was bom in
this county and lived many yoar,
at Cedar Creek before moving to
Cooper. He enjoys good health, and
lives a quiet life staying close at
home.
Conference Set For
Week Septeber 13
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Aikins have
! returned to their home in Lub.
bock.
Mr. and Pete Bledsoe and
daughters have been visiting in
the Race Track community for a
few days.
Texas.
Of the loans closed in this coun-
ty 42 for $42,500 were made by
the Federal Land Bank and 92
totaling $138,400 by the Land
Bank Commissioner.
Through the agency of the Farm
Credit Adminstration in Texas
$196,139,976 has been loaned dur.
j ing the same period. These loans
Miss Valiae Hobbs who has been included 18,363 of Federal Land
visiting her mother, Mrs. Willie ! Bank loans for $89,429,400;    31,-
Hobbs since her return from Gear. I213 Land Bank Commissioner loans
ge Peabody College for Teachers at the amount og $58,151,000 ; 27,-
Nash ville, Tenn., returned to Nac. 593 Production Credit associations
Miss Hobbs Returns
To Nacogdoches
Cooper fire department answer. Tom Wilson, football
ed three fire alarms Saturday, but
none of the fires were of any con.
sequence. The first call was a
grass fire on South West street
where a grass fire threatened pro-
perty. A short time later an in.
cipient fire at Chancellor’s gin
brought the fire truck but the fire
was out when it arrived. Later in
the day another grass fire on
STOLENCAR
RECOVEREDIN
PARIS MONDAY
coach in
Cooper school for the past two
years, resigned last Friday to ac-
cept a position as coach in Gilmer |
high school. He succeeds Charles I
Z'L rr^jP“*" Man In
tion to become head coach at Port'    ^ ® Have Confessed.
Neches.    j    --
Mr. Wilson was a successful j A '31 model Chevrolet coach be.
coach here and very popular. It is longing to Lee Toon of Liberty
out house of Allen HazleAood’s on
fire. It was soon extinguished by
the hose from the fire truck
South West First street set a small with regret that he leaves Cooper ^ Grove was stolen from the public
square in Cooper where it was
parked Saturday night. Ths
Sheriff’s department located tho
car in Paris Monday and arrested
a man and brought him to Cooper
where he was lodged in Jail. The
man is from Pecan Gap and is said
to have confessed to taking the car
B. M. Camp, 97, Dies
At Sulphur Springs
SULPHUR SPRINGS, Sept. 11.
—Col. B. M. Camp, 97, Confeder-
ate veteran, former Legislator and
school. His place on the faculty
has not yet been filled, and Prin-
cipal Goebel Templeton may take
his place as football coach.
Pigmy Elephants
With Huge Circus
7,109 Bale. Ginned
Organ!
i-Nasuviiie, lt-iui., returned to i>ac.    ------------"--- ------->-------- —------------,    *    ----------- “-----1 I /~»    .    q    -
ogdoches Sunday where she will '.staling $27,780,358; 123,286 emer, former honorary vice-president of zations Offer Among Vast Hosts U1 l_OUnty to Oept. 1
the State Fair at Dallas, died
Thursday at his home near here.
Funeral services were held Friday
at the First Baptist church.
Of New Features Col. Tim McCoy,]
Screen’s Gretat Western Star, Mid. | There were 7,109 bales of cotton
get African Elephants and Pon. ginned in Delta County up to Sep.
gurs.
Rev. Roy L. Johnson of Win.
nsboro, Superintendent of Sunday
School Work in Rehoboth Baptist
Association, announces a special
week of conferences for the week
of September 13th. The meeting
will begin with a rally at Sulphur mumps this week.
Springs Sunday the 13th. at 2:30 Clyde Porter was a Charleston
to 4:00, with speakers from Nash.! visitor Saturday,
ville, Tennessoe and Amarillo, Mrs. Lillie Layer who has been
Texas-    I ill is improving.
teach in the demonstration school j gency crop loans amounting to
of Stephen F. Austin State Teach, j $13,808,994, and 42,834 drought re.
us College at Nacogdoches.    1 lief loans for $6,970,224.
Misn Lillian MrKinnev In atldition t0 refinancing loans
® li    TICIVIIUI y    through the Farm Credit    Admin.! Colonel Camp, a native of Geor. j    With one hundred double-length i    last    year    9    bales had been ginned
Returns    to    Glstdewstter    stration, the farmers in    Texas    gia, fought at Murfreesboro, Chick. ‘    railroad cars, bearing 1,600 people, I    in    the    county.
-    were benefited also by a reduction    amauga, Missionary Ridge and At. 1    African pigmy elephants, African j
Miss Lillian    McKinney returned    Df mortgage principal    which    lanta and served as a special j    pongurs, seven herds of full.sized |
tember 1st this year. Same time
Rev. and Mrs. D. E. Cox w*U
Miss Odie Marie Boyd has been 1 ,t0 Gladewatei' lasL Wednesday amounted to $6,288,500. Further (scout under Gen. Joseph Wheeler, i elephants, 1,009 menagerie ani.j leave Tuesday for Howe, Collin
ill with the mumps,
Hollis Slakey is ill
with the
A. V Masihburn of Nashville,
Tennessee, will have general sup. visi~: Saturday.
eryision of the conference to be Mr. and Mrs. Lois Wright were
held each night at Sulphur Springs Cooper Saturd ni ht
a here    she    teaches    in the    Glade-    savings resulting from lowered in.    After the war he taught school, ]    mals and 700 horses, the Ringling ^ County to attend    fall    meeting of
water    schools.    Miss McKinney    i terest rates are estimated at $3..    later taking charge of the women's    Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Com-, Paris    Presbytery.
taught in Giadewater last year. 1550,000 annually.    (department of the Middle Georgia bined Circus will arrive in Paris1    -——
In the period May 1, 1933 through College at Jonesboro. He moved to Saturday. September 26 for after- j Considering’ Fumish-
June 30, 1936, 765, 74 mortgage 1 Texas in 1S70 and settled on a noon and night exhibitions.    |    CM p
loans, totaling $2,056,156,826 were 500-acre tract five miles southwest' The circus is especially elated mgS i Or [New CiOV-
ad-! of here, where he became one of this season over the amazing sue. i    eminent Building
vanced in loans to cooperatives, ] the first diversified farmers of ni3    cess of the Big Show’s sensational j    -
while $318,878,072 was loaned to ]    Lime. He specialized in the culture 1    new super-feature—the first herdi D.    C. Jernigan    of    the
Mrs. Bonnie Boyd was shopping
•in Cooper Saturday,
i Miss Sybil Daniels is much im.
i proved from an illness with the
, mu.r.ps.
j Hammett Stubblefield and Miss
I Dorothy Bee Lisle attended the
j dance Saturday night at the Hi.
I .Vay Inn.
Dr. B. Wright and son, Jigs were
ill Cooper Saturday.
Neiman Boyd who has been ill
; in Cooper Saturday.
for thq whole Association, 7:15
to 9:30. He will discuss the Adult
work. Mrs. G. L. Yates of Amar-
illo will lead the conferences on
work among Young People. Miss
Verda Von Hagen of Nashville
will direct conferences on Exten.
sion Department work. This lat-
ter department is an almost new
phase of Sunday school work in
most of our churches. It endeav. j
ors to enlist all who cannot at— ]
tend the Sunday meeting to sys.l ....    _______.
J    6    with the mumps is improving,
tematically st(udy the Bible le3.•
sons at home. It meets a great
need.
Quotas are being assigned var.
lous churches for attendance at
the night meetings in Sulphur
Springs, and a large attendance
is expected. Every person attend-
ing will be privileged to become
acquainted with the organization,
plans and programs of each of
these three departments.
In addition to the night meet-
ings, a day meeting will be held
In Cooper on Tuesday beginning
at 9:45 and closing at 12:15. °fPer
Lunch will be served to all visitors
from the various churches. The
same type of meeting will be held
in ML Vernon on Wednesday,
September 16, and at Winnsboro
on Friday, September 18.
Miss Angie Morgan who has been
visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
J. T. Morgan, since the closing of made and $1,391,373,603 was
summer school at Galveston,
Miss Odessa Boya was a Cooper ] where She taught during the six
weeks term left Friday for that
place to resuxie teaching
Ball High School.
cooperatives by the agencies of the of grapes and other fi’uits.
procure-
of African pigmy elephants (tiny] ment division of the postal depart.
in the parm Credit Administration in the j Camp built one of the first arti- tuskers that years ago attained , ment of Dallas was in Cooper Sat-
| States.    i ficial lakes in this section, stock.' their full growth) ever to leave the urday confering with Cooper post.
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
as happy a childhood as
~'—~Hng it with game fish. He was ac_ depths of darkest Africa, and the, al officials and County Agent
C *    tive in Hopkins County political i first herd of African elephants | Jones, Assistant Joe Williams and
^    ,    iy. | t-i vt,    nvyiuua L'wuuLy puuuu.di •    u    1    i u    uve vv imauGs tutu
G. \\. ROLAND boya ant g r s, o piccious    affairs and represented the county ever to set foot in America. The Home Demonstrator Miss Ramsey.
_    | memories of summer when he
G. W. Roland was born in could climb trees, slide down creek
Greenridge, Ark., Dec. 22, 1881,! banks, or join whole-heartedly .n
and departed this life, Aug. 2S, whatever we did, while mama pre.
11936, being 54 years, 8 months,' pared delicious meals over a brush
and 6 days of age.    ! fire. How good the food tasted
He had been a member of the ] when we gathered around the
Methodist church at Greenridge, table cloth on the ground and ate
in the Nineteenth Legislature. Ho
\va3 a member of the committee to
select the material to build the
present State capitol.
Surviving arc one son, Elmer A*
Camp, and six grandchildren.
i Ark. since he was 15 years cf j ravenously, while he laughed and ^
‘    ‘ ‘    teased us all. There never can be j
another outing so happy and care. ]
age. He leaves to mourn his pass
Mrs. Leona Logan was shopping j ing his companion, 8 children, 9
Lloyd Adams Marries
Miss Beatrice Anglen
weird midget pachyderms are ac. ( He had under consideration pur-
companied by a herd of miniature ( chase of furniture and fixtures for
African pongurs, world’s smallest, the new post office and agricul-
beasts of burden. These new im_ tural building.
portations have taken America by    _
storm.
The Big Show’s big top, seating
16,000 persons, covers seven rings
and stages, a huge hippodrome
track and encirculing grandstands,
I and is one of 31 great tents among
Faculty Member
Fights Roosevelt;
Dropped by U. of T.
grandchildren. 2 brothers, 4 sis.]free. More precious are the mem-( Miss Beatrlce Anglen, daughter! lheil the menagerie, sheltering the
•    I    1    I    o    '    o    lUv.il Lliv lllvliciig vl iVj ollvtvvtutg    I Tj _ 1 . ..    _ _ _ _ _ i
Miss Merlie Porter has had the, ters, and a host of relatives and|0ries of long winter evenings when of Mr and Mrs H H Anglin, wasjworid’s largest traveling zoo. In its! y c d
imno Vviit ic imn*’Airi tv nr nmir    1    __>, _ n______a — —.. -J    1    _ .    ...    _   ..    1GSSOT Jit t llG
mumps, but is improving now. 'friends,
Nick Boyd is doing fine since j His ,mother died when he was
since he had the mumps.    2 years of age. His father died
when he was a little boy of 10.
Most of the following ten years
were spent with various relatives,
separated from the brothers and
sisters, he loved, longing
Mrs. Freddie Mills was in Coop-
er Saturday night.
Mrs. Gladys Wright was Shop-
ping in Cooper Saturday night.
Miss Sis Mills is planning to at.
tend the Centennial Exposition
soon.
Elton Clark spent Saturday in
Mr. and Mrs. W, O. Wright and
1 daughters are still busy picking
cotton. They have been trying to
! get through in the bottom before
it rains.
we all gathered around the firs
place before a cheery fire to play
childish games in which he and
mama joined or to listen quietly
to the sweet familiar strains cf
Home Sweet Home, Old Black Joe,
and other favorites
married to Lloyd Adams of Dike, centeT this season will be seen Col.
Hopkins County at the Baptist Tim McCoy’s Indian Village, with
parsonage Friday at 9:30 p. x„ gioux and Blackfeet warriors en.
the Rev. R. E. Streetman readincampe(i. col. McCoy, the screen’s
the marriage rites.
most outstanding western star.
were the hardships endured in
those days. In 1901 he came to
Texas and was married to Lizzie
Watson and together they built
the home he had longed for and
how he loved his home and his
companion, who for 35 years
walked by his side, thinking ever
Miss Fay Daniels spent Satur-j0f his comfort and happiness. He
, The couple was attended by the win himself lead his congress of
(    as ho played| bride's sister and a few close roUgh riders of the world in the
always | the French harp. Often times ^ie ( friends The bride is a graduate of main performances and in the
each child his favorite hymn. How past year has been librarian a:    The Greatest Show on Earth of.
we loved to hear him sing, Lean., oooper high school. Mr. and Mrs.' fera 8Cores of foreign features this
for a real home of his own. Many : sang to us for hours, singing ior ( cooper high school and for the wild west.
ing on the Everlasting Arms, An j Adams will make their home here; year, including the Naittos, the
Applications For
CCC Camps Will
. Be Received Soon
day in Cooper and so
Jewel Goodman.
did Mrs. ■ was s0 prou^ 0f eaCh of his eight
boys and girls. He never complain.
Hiss Lucile Sneed has returned ^ ahout the necessary hard work.
home after spending a few days
Aith her sister at Sulphur Bluff.
Mrs. E. Wright gave her seven
children a dinner Sunday. Five
Unclouded Day and Death is Only in Cooper,
a Dream.    1 1    .
How can we ever go on without
his tender guidance and sweet
sympathy? Two years ago as we
were taking my little son to Paris
for a serious operation, it seened
as if my heart would break under
the strain. Papa, knowing so well
AUSTIN, Sept. 12.—J. Evetts
to be a history pro-
fessor at the University of Texas
on August 31, six days after he
became chairman of the Jeffer-
sonian Democrats of Texas, an
anti-Roosevelt campaign group.
Dr. H. Y. Benedict, university
president, said Haley’s connention
was terminated at the end of the
fiscal year when a project on
which he had worked for ten years
expired. Reinstatement, he haid,
was a matter to be determined in
the future.
j Royal Bokaras. the Imperial( ' Raley announced on Auguat 24
Viennese, an assemblage of 60
1 that he would be the active head
• free-running horses,, ponies and of the campajgn ,t0 fight against
I elephants; the largest aerial hal_ the re_eiecti0n of Presitlent Roose.
; let ever produced. Fresh from Eu. ved(. and asked for a leave of ab_
Mount Pleasant’s
Paving Job Began
FOr Fifty Blocks rope are the Walkmirs, the An- sence during the campaign. Head-
- 1 taleks, the Buemrangs, the Rom. quarters was established here.
MOUNT PLEASANT, Sept. 12. eos, the Maschinos, the Robertos,__
An extensive paving plan that, the VVillos, the Torrence.Victorios, red river BRIDGE SOUGHT
To him it was not a hated task,1 how I was suffering and not being been carri€(j out in Mount the Rooneys, aerial novelty sensa-
but a blessed privilege to work able to talk much about it, (be- Pieasant for the !ast few months, tions. The Loyal-Repenskis, the'
Application for CCC will be tak. ^ twQ ^ and four grand_
en at Delta County Relief office on
jgridays, beginning about the mid-
visitor Saturday.
die of October.
To be eligible a man must be
between 18 and 29 years of age,
single with dependents on relief
or eligible for same. Those who
have served at least four months
in camp with an honorable dis-
charge and have been out at least
one year are eligible.
Should Patman camp reopen ex_    . ....... “7
.    ...    .    . ... accepted a position in
perienced men will be eligible
without the above restrictions.
from sun to sun to provide for
the family God had given him.
He kept on working to the la3t
children, two grandsons and two, hour of his life so that none might
granddaughters. Three of her sons (have to bear his load. He couldn't
are married and one daughter, two] bear the thought of ever being soothing to my nerves was
sons are at home with her.    | old, helpless and dependent.    ] sweet voice, how comforting
Pact Porter was a Charleston; hadn’t been well for several message he
..    ... .    BONHAM, Sept 12.—An effort
cause the child was in the car and ^ but whiCh had recently been delay- Rieffenachs, the Walters, famous being made by the Bonham
must not be alarmed), suddenly ] ^ wag regumed this week after bareback riding troupes; the two    Qf Conrmerce to have
began to sing so soft and low, wpA fundg were agaln availabie Guice aerial comedy troupes on the work staited on t^e bridge over
Jesus is a Rock in a Weary Land, for the construction of fifty blocks lofty bars; the two renovned Wal. Rcd ^iver -j^g structure would
a Pillar in the Time of Storm. How, wlth curbi gravel and asphalt top, lenda troupes of high wire thrill- p^icF a shorter route from Okla.
gave.
years arid to him. the end was not1 In the past few days, the dark-
I ping. Work was well under way ers; the Otaris, who fly
at the end of the week under the somersaults from an aerial cross;
supervision of City Engineer Tom the Flying Concellos, with Antoin.
day.
O. J. Boyd was in Cooper Mon. unexpected. Many times he has est I have ever known, when the
] said, “I have gotten more out cf. burden of sorrow gets heavier
life already than most men ever .than I bear, It seems that once
Linnis Garrison has resigned ^ and am ready to go when God | again I hear his dear loved voice,
I from the Antioch school and has Aees fit.’’ Truly he lived each day] with the saxe sweet message of
Box Supper At
Mulberry Church
one of the
city school in Haskell. He states
that they have just finished the
school building and that there are
ten teachers employed there.
There will be a box supper at
Mulberry church Friday night,
September 18tJh. The proceeds are been a subscriber to the
to be used for paying for the new and Courier for many
seats. Those who desire will bring
boxes. The public is invited.
s Miss Margaret Wavson will leave
today (Tuesday) for Commerce to
enter E. T. S. T. C. as a freshman,
Mr. and Mrs. Jimmie Killian of
Amarillo are visiting relatives here
this week. Mrs. Killian who has
Review
years re.
newed her subscription
Cooper Saturday.
while in
W. T. Walker of Howland spent
Sunday with his daughter, Mrs
Wallace Robinson.
to the fullest extent, appreciating comfort and hope.
every kind word, every kind deed His going left an empty aching
homa to Tyler and the oil fields
of East Texas.
Grissom.
HOUSEWIFE, SWEEPING,
ette, only girl to accomplish a two.
and_a_half mid-air somersault to a
Mrs. George Phillips Aikin and
h'anX.t"o-hand"' catchT the” Iriying | daughter, Cara Pat left Friday for
KILLED BY GUN BLAST, Comets; Dorothy Herbert, madcap ^arsbaU whe^e    *aC ® ‘ ®
- rider of reinless jumping horses ^ “ in    Sam HoustoQ
and scb00'3- Mrs. Aikins
COMMERCE, Sept. 112.—Mrs. over fire hurdles, and Hugo
and every friendly hand-clasp.
He was a true friend, holding a
confidence as a sacred trust, al-
ways 'dependabe meaning every-
thing he said. He was a tender,
void in our hearts that never can
be filled until that glorious hap-
py day when we shall meet him
Ln that land where sorrow cannot
enter and where partings come no
affectionate companion, always more
daughter,
Blonnie Faye Rimmer, 46, of the Mario, human projectiles—these/ ‘,,a 1 at ua graduate fr”'”
Scatterbranch community near are some of the most prominent s^v,on    G' ein° V<1
'here, was killed accidently Satur. features of the superb 1936 Ring-
day in her home when a shotgun ling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey
1 of her class.
considerate, sympathetic and help,
ful.
Words are inadequate to de-
scribe him as a brother. A jolly
play-mate in childhood, a youth-
ful pal as we grew older and a
sympathetic adviser when worries
came our way.
I feel that few children ever had
He did not write me sonnets
Nor send me orchids rare
But when I was in trouble
I always found him there.
He 'was the jolliest playmate
That I have ever had,
He was any girlhood chum
My true blue sweetheart—Dad.
c37*    JEWEL
supposedly discharged while she
was sweeping, the full charge tak.
ing effect in the chest.
She was alone. A son, Lester
Rimmer, found tho body shortly
after noon. Funeral arrangements
are incomplete.
program.
YOUNG WOMEN LEAVE
FOR C. I. A., DENTON
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Russell and{
son, Billy and Misses Maud and
Mabel Ellington spent Wednesday
In Pallas visiting the Centennial
Exposition.
Misses Nell Lowry, Louverja
Estep and Lucile Ratliff left today
(Tuesday) for Denton to resume
their studies in C. I. \
I Mr. and Mrs. Mays Jenkins and
[four children will leave (Tuesday)
morning for their home in Brown-
field after spending a week with
Mrs. Jenkins’ parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Walter Lane and family.
They will stop in Dallas to visit
relatives and visit the Centennial
Exposition.
Sam Simpson who has a
tion in Sherman spent the
end with his family.
Mrs. J. R. Watkins and mother,
week Mrs. Martin of Tyler visited in
Paris Thursday.