The Fairfield Recorder (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 15, 1935 Page: 1 of 8
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THIS PAPER LEADS THE TEXAS WEEKLY FIELD IN LOCAL NEWS
FIRST In Local News
FIRST In County News
FIRST In School News
FIRST In Church News
The Fairfield Recorder
THE COUNTY PAPER—Established 1876
FIRST In Adv. Service
FIRST in Job Printing
FIRST in Progressiveness
FIRST in Public Service
fifty-ninth year
FAIRFIELD, FREESTONE COUNTY. THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1935
NUMBER 47
Preparing to
Drill Test Well
Near Red Lake
Watson - Steward Have
Let Contract; Drilling
Will Begin Soon
T. S. Watson and H. B. Stew-
ard have let contract to Clark
& Cowden of Dallas to drill a
test well on the Red & Burle-
son tract near Red Lake. The
ground is being cleared and
contractors will move in as soon
as they complete a well in East
Texas, and the are expected to
do this during the present week.
The well is approximately
2 1-2 miles east of the second
big Ras well drilled by Bryan
Daniel, and it is expected to cre-
ate a great deal of interest
among the oil fraternity.
This well is promoted by Will
R. Boyd of New York, for two
reasons, namely, confidence in
Freestone county as oil terri-
tory, and secondly, a desire to
contribute substantially to the
welfare of his old home county.
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NEGRO WOMAN
ALMOST DECAPITATES
ANOTHER AT HARP.
Altha Williams, Negro woman,
was placed in jail here Monday night
on a charge of murder earlier in
the evening at a Negro church in the
Harp community, 17 miles northwest
of Fairfield, it being alleged that she
killed Ora Collins by cutting her head
nearly off with a razor.
In an examining trial before Jus-
tice Curry at Streetman, the Wil-
liatna w>m»v> claimed the Collins
woman had threatened her. She was
bound over to the Grand Jury, her
bail being placed at $2200.
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COTTON TAGS
READY NEXT WEEK
According to a telegram just re-
ceived Cotton Exemption Certificates
for Freestone county farmers will be
ready for delivery after this week.
Farmers are being notified when and
where to call for their “tags.” They
will be delivered at eight different
towns in the county.
W. B. FREDERICK, Co. Agt.
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MRS. HUGH SIMMONS
BURIED AT COTTON GIN
Mrs. Hugh Simmons, after a ling-
ering illness, died in Teague Tuesday
of last week, burial being in Cotton
Gin cemetery the following day.
Mrs. Simmons is survived by her
husband and two children.
The family a few years ago lived
near Fairfield.
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ANNOUNCEMENT
I am now located at the T. P. Sta-
tion opposite Cook Hotel, with Lin-
wood Orand, and will appreciate my
friends and the public calling on us.
We specialize in washing and greas-
ing. Service and satisfaction guaran-
teed.
A. E. STROUD.
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CARD OF THANKS
We wish to express our apprecia-
tion to our dear friends of Kirven and
Wortham for their many kind deeds
and the beautiful floral offerings
during the illness and death of our
husband and father. May each of you
have such friends in a sad hour like
this.
Mrs. J. W. Gurley and children.
Many New Texas
Laws Effective
Saturday, Aug. 10
AUSTIN.—Legacy of the recent
regular session of the legislature,
' more than half a hundred new laws
were written upon Texas statute
books the second week in August.
Probably the most important in
popular interest of bills that became
effective August 10, is that co-ordi-
nating state police into a single unit
under the department of public safe-
ty.
Numerous measures extend the
government's supervision over in-
dustry. Some of there are: Changing
the fishermen’s and fish dealer’s
license law; virtually legislatin,;
“travel bureaus” out of existence;
bringing “funeral directors” under
the supervision of the state board of
embalming; requiring cotton ginners
to place a serial number on every
bale of cotton; prescribing the quali-
fications of trained nurses, and re-
quiring an eight-hour work day on
public works jobs in political subdi-
visions of the state.
A number of appropriation bill3
are included. Farm experiments sta-
tions will be established in the Piney
woods section of East Texas and the
West Cross timber section. Two bills
appropriated amounts ranging from
$500 to $5,000 for reconstruction of
schoolhouses burned down or destroy-
ed otherwise in a score of communiti-
es. The $20,000 general claims bill
is a ninety-day bill. A bill for a gen-
eral increase in the pay of county
commissioners will become a law. An-
other law increases the pay of prison
guards.
Tax bills of importance on the list
of new bills are: Prohibiting the col-
lection of any taxes delinquent prior
to Dec. 31, 1919; exempting property
of the Texas Federation of Women’s
Clubs from taxation ,and extending
the items of personal property from
foreclosure.
Teachers in Tftctis public schools
will have to swear allegiance to the
Texas Constitution after Aug. 10.
Another school law authorizes the
state textbook commission to adopt
German and Czech language book?
for the public schools.
In the crime bills were these:
Making the attempted burglary of a
railroad box car a felony. Constables
are made responsible for the official
acts of their deputies. Another law
will allow a trial for murder either
where the body found or the injury
occurred. Local option elections on
beer may be held only once a year.
Among the miscellaneous laws
are:
Extending the “Jim Crow” law to
motor busses.
Authorizing the creation of wind
erosion districts to combat future
duststorms.
Prohibiting the sale in Texas of
“filled” milk excepting proprietary
products.
Increasing the filing fee for a can-
didate for the legislature in largj
cities from $1 to $50 designed to prs-
vent a flood of filings such as occur-
red in Dallas in the last special elec-
tion there.
Moving the board of pardons and
paroles to Huntsville.
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FIRST BALE 1935
COTTON GINNED HERE
SATURDAY AFTERNOON
Fairfield’s first bale of cotton for
35 season was grown by R. H.
nart, near Steward Mill, and ginned
re Saturday afternoon by Fairfield
n Co. The bale weighed 435 pounds
d a premium was raised among the
siness men for the grower.
W. WILLIAMSON AND
MRS. MARIE ELIXOR
WED AT LANCASTER
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NEW HOME
G. A. Parker began work this
week on a dwelling house on the site
where his dwelling was destroyed re-
cently by fire.
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Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Peyton were
in Arlington Tuesday making arran-
gements to enter their son, George
Fryer, In school the coming term.
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Mrs, Joe Mieeildine spent last week
with her deughtor, Mrs. Alice <‘haa-
cel lor, al Poet Oek.
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Light housekeeping rooms of roem
«id hoard Mrs Laae Wlaa Up
Friends have received news of the
marriage of G. W. (Wash) William-
son and Mrs. Marie Elixor of Dallaj,
at the First Baptist Church of Lan-
caster, Dr. Hill performing the cere-
mony.
Mr. Williamson, a Fairfield b«y,
is employed by the Home Products
Co., of Dallas.
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TO ORGANIZE KPWOKTII
, LEAGUE AT MT. ZION
The young people of Ml. Zion are
to meet Sunday night, August l«,
at 7;to, for the purpose of organ!*-
tag aa Epworth League. Everyoas
cowe Md bring iwmaoae.
Freestone County
Planning Board
Has Been Named
One Man From Each
Commissioners’ Beat
To Serve
The planning board for Freestone
County has been named, one selected
by the County Commissioner of each
precinct, to recommend and handle
projects under WPA and PWA gov-
ernmental agencies.
The Board is composed of the fol-
lowing; W. A. Parker, Fairfield,
named by Corns. Bonner; R. F. Riley,
Teague, named by Coins. Withrow;
Ed Lambert, Dew, named by Corns.
Nesbitt; M. C. Strange, Wortham,
named by Corns. Bounds.
The planning board will meet in
the near future, and it is hoped that
projects will soon be started in the
county.
SAYS COTTON PICKERS
ON RELIEF ROLLS MUST
GET A COTTON SACK
AUSTIN, August 12.—As the cot-
ton picking season gradually speads
over Texas, Relief Commission offi-
cails are re-emphasizing their de-
mands that every available cotton
picker be taken off the relief rolls
and told to get a cotton sack.
District administrators have been
told to see that no able-bodied re-
lief client be allowed to stay on the
relief rqlls so long as there is a
job for him in the cotton fieds.
Despite pest infestation, the cot-
ton crop in Texas apparently will be
appreciably large, it is indicated, and
relief officials insist that there be a
commensurate drop in the relief load
in cotton picking areas.
What effect getting off Federal
Emergency Relief Administration
rolls now to pick ootton will have'!
on a client’s chances of being certi-
fied to the Works Progress Admin-
istration rolls late in the fall when
the cotton picking season is over,
has been explained thus:
It will not jeopardize his chances at
all. An unemployed able-bodied per-
son who was on the FERA rolls in
May this year and is registered with
the National Reemployment Service
is automatically eligible for a job
with the WPA. The minute a cotton
picker or anyone else who was a re-
lief client in May has worked him-
self out of a job in private employ-
ment, he becomes eligible to work
on WPA projects.
In view of this and the sharp re-
duction in relief funds, Relief Com-
mission officials are insisting that
relief rolls in heavy cotton producing
areas should be reduced by as much
as 50 per cent if not more during
the cotton picking season.
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CALVARY INTERMEDIATE
B. Y. P. U. ENTERTAINED
Thursday evening, August 8, the
membership of the Calvary Inter-
mediate B. Y. P. U. were entertain-
ed in the home of their sponsor, Mr.
and Mrs. Fred Folk.
Mrs. H. L. Robertson directed the
games for the evening and much fun
and laughter was enjoyed by all.
After everyone " became tired of
playing games, refreshments of as-
sorted sandwiches, cakes and iced
punch was served to the following:
Doris Fae Hill, Joe Fred Fischer,
Elsie Emmons, Molly Mae Richard-
son, Wm. Mack Hunter, Allen Ra-
burn, Addie Fae Hayes, Jay Childs,
Billie McFadin, Myrtle Lee Brown,
Dewey Martin, Lila Huckaby, Atha-
lie Richardson, Gertrude Peyton, W.
F. Henderson, Lena Mae Ivy, Lester
Bailey, Eloise Willard, Marion Em-
mons, Clara Gordon, Josephine
Brown, Ruby Gordon, Etta Belie
Owens, George Fryer, Hazel Grace
McFadin, Inez Condrey Edna Min-
chew, Margaret Terry, Thomas Floyd
Lott, Wendell Sheffield, Millard
Johnson, John C. Orand, Mr. Hayes.
Mrs. Mamie Richardson, and Mr. anJ
Mrs. Freddie Folk and two children.
Mrs. Folk was assisted in serving
by Mrs. Robertson snd Mrs. Rich-
ardson.
The guests expressed their* appre-
ciation to their sponsor for the most
enjoyable evening and departed for
their homes.—A Guest.
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Fei/ietd Trades Day Saturday
Corn-Hog Advisory
Committee Elects
Officers; Plan Work
Representatives 38,000
Farmers Commend
Administration
COLLEGE STATION, Aug. 12—
Officers of the Texas Corn-Hog Ad-
visory Committee who were elected
here during the 26th annual Farm-
ers’ Short Course were: J. P. Strad-
er, Canadian, Chairman; J. S. Sharp,
Paris, vice chairman; and S. M.
Ainsworth, Gonzales secretary-treas-
urer.
The committee, which acts for the
approximately 38,000 corn-hog pro-
ducers in 226 Texas counties, com-
mend the national administration for
its effort to give farmers parity
prices for commodities and to give
producers of agricultural commodi-
ties a protection similar to that giv-
en manufacturers and other com-
mercial interests. In setting forth
plans for the year, the committee in-
sisted upon the continuation of ag-
ricultural adjustment programs and
processing taxes and expressed the
determination of Texas farmers to
hold the adjustment programs re-
gardless of attacks made on them.
In endorsing the Texas Agricul-
tural Association in its efforts to
expose the unconstitutionality of high
protective industrial tariffs which
have been of great damage to the
interests of the majority of farmrs,
the committee said: “We call on all
the people of Texas to assist us in
our struggle for a fair deal which
is of great importance to the people
in all occupations just as well as to
those engaged in farming.”
The committee commended tho
corn and hog section of the Agricul-
tural Arjustment Administration in
Washington for the splendid way in
which the program was carried out in
Texas and expessed appreciation of
the farmers to the Extension Service
for the capable way in which the
program has been handled. It also
endorsed the actions of the members
of the present corn-hog review board
and the way they handled the job of
allotment.
The corn-hog advisory committee is
composed of nine members, one from
each district in Texas, elected by the
presidents of the corn-hog associa-
tions in the district. Members are J.
P. Strader, Canadian; J. S. Sharp,
Paris; S. M. Ainsworth, Gonzales; O.
J. Eder, Crosbyton; R. E. Lee, Mas-
on; George Slaughter, Wharton; Otho
Morris, Laneville; Judson Wood,
hSerman; and W. J. Fritts, Coman-
che. All were present at the first
meeting of the committee except W.
J. Fritts.
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SMALL ADMISSION
TO BE CHARGED LOCAL
BALL GAMES
The time has arrived when it is
necessary to raise funds if the Fair-
field ball team is to enter the State
tournament. In order to assist in rais-
ing these funds, the small charge of
10c for each person will be charged
for games played here with visiting
teams. Collectors will be stationed
at each entrance, and we trust the
public will cooperate.
Malakoff plays here tonight, and
Waxahachie, Ennis, Tyler and Fer-
ris are due to play here.
L. W. SHEFFIELD, Mgr.
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HEARING ON
COUNTY BUDGET
Notice is hereby given that a public
hearing on the Freestone County
Budget for the next ensuing year will
be had at the court house in Fair-
field, Texas, on the 19th day of Aug-
ust, 1935, at 10 o’clock, a. m. Every
taxpayer in Freestone county has
the right to be present and partici-
pate in said hearing.
I urge chot you attend.
A. H. BENBROOK,
County Judge Freestone County,
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FINE COTTON STALK
Elmo Lambert of Post Oak was
here Monday exhibiting a xtalk of
cotton with 36 large bolls. He report-
ed he had five acres of this cotton
that would average from 20 to >6
bolls to the stalk. He said the eot-
lott was grown on land put in cut-
tivatioa about to years ago aad on
which fertiliser bad aaver been used
Fight To Curb
Fake Security Sales
Being Made
There’s this much you can say for
a rattlesnake—at least he warns be-
fore he strikes.
As much cannot be said for the
stock promotor and seller of the blue
sky and boundless sea. By subtle
means, fair or foul, he gains the
confidence of his victim, fleeces him
or her of every available dollar and
is gone again. That’s the method of
operation of the Securities racketeer,
according to Secretary of State Ger-
ald C. Mann, administrator of Tex-
as new Securities Act, designed io
drive out of Texas the sellers of
spurious securities. Stocks, bonds,
certificates of interest in oil and gas
properties, and many other forms of
commercial interests are defined as
securities under the law.
The new law became effective May
23rd of this year. Today a few of the
tangible results may be summed up
as follows:
Two sets of operators are under
indictment awaiting trial for violation
of the law. Other cases are pending.
The operations of one of these par-
ties extended from coast to coast and
Canada to Mexico, with headquar-
ters in San Antonio. He is known to
have received as high as $5,000 daily
from the investing public, most of
whom were not able to afford the
loss. The promotor and his associa-
tes lived in royal luxury and ease.
In El Paso a gang that has mulct-
ed some $300,000 or more from
credulous investors in the past four
years, folded their tents and depar;-
ed shortly after the arrival in that
city of an investigator from the De-
partment of State. It is impossible
to compute the saving thus afford-
ed. In another Texas city a stocK
salesman returned $4,000 to one of
his victims when apprised that the
State Department was investigating
the matter.
“Put the job has on’y bwjun,” Sec-
retary Mann declares. “Our objec-
tive is to rid this State of these
racketeers, so far as is humanly
possible. It can be done only with the
assistance of the people of Texas.
No purchaser should buy any form
of security without first determining
if the seller is registered and licen-
sed by the Department' of State. We
should likewise be apprised of cases
of fraud. The time has come in Tex-
as when the securities racketeer must
take his rightful place alongside the
convicted murderer, hi-jacker an 1
common thief—behind prison bars.”
TYLER CONOCOS
TAKE GAME FROM
FAIRFIELD TUESDAY
Fairfield journeyed to Tyler Tues-
day night tfhere the Conoco team of
that city fell on them like a load
of brick, and when the dust had
cleared away Fairfield was on the
little end of a 5 to 1 score, Tyler
scoring four runs in the first inning
off Poindexter, who pitched for Fair-
field before being relieved by Chav-
ers. Even the best ball team must
drop one occasionally.
Fairfield got 1 run, 7 hits, 4 er-
rors; Tyler, 5 runs, 8 hits, 1 error.
Fairfield is scheduled to play Mala-
koff here tonight.
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SCHOOLS TO JOIN
DONIE DISTRICT
DONIE, Aug. 14.—Members of the
county board of Limestone county
met in a special meeting at Groe«-
beck Tuesday in regard to high
school consolidation.
Personville, Oakes, Lost Prairie,
Farrar and New Hope will consoli-
date with the Donie school. There
will probably- be 90 pupils to come for
high school. A new bus will have to
be bought for the new route. There
will be 14 teachers in the school
next term.
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TEMPERANCE PROGRAM
AT DEW SUNDAY
A temperance program sponsor'd
by Mrs. Oscar Johnson, precinct chair-
man, will be given at Dew at 11 a.
m., Sunday. The public invited.
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Corns. Tom Homier of Fairfield.
Coins. Tom Nesbitt, of Butler; Ed
Lambert of Dew and W A. Parker
of Fairfield attended a meeting of the
County Judge* end County Cow-
miseioner* in Dallas Tuesday
Contract Will
Be Let For Erection
Church Building
Presbyterians Rebuild
On Site of Building
Wrecked By Storm
Contract will be let within
the next few days for the erec-
tion of a modern style, brick
veneer church biulding in this
city by the Presbyterians. The
building will be located on the
church property now occupied
by the tabernacle, it being plan-
ned to move the tabernacle to
the back of the large lot.
The former building of the
church was located on this pro-
perty, and was blown down by
the cyclone on May 18, 1902,
which damaged every church
building in town, blew away The
Recorder office and wrecked
other buildings in the city.
Since that time the Presby-
terians have been holding ser-
vices in the Methodist church.
In recent years the member-
ship of the local Presbyterian
organization has been growing
young members have grown up,
until now the Church feels the
necessity of a house of worship
of its own, and by liberality of
its membership and cooperation
of others, is able to erect a build-
ing that will reflect credit to the
denomination and to the City.
Later—Work was started
Wednesday preparing ground
for foundation of building.
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CONTINUE TRIAL; NO
NEGROES SUMMONED
FOR JURY SERVICE
An unusual precedent was establi-
shed in 77th District Court here Mon-
day when attorneys representing a
Negro client in a murder case asked
for a continuance on the grounds
that ng'Negroes were drawn on the
jury. Due to a ruling of the U. J.
Supreme Court this is sufficient to
show discrimination, and Judge H. F.
Kirby continued the case, and star-
ed that in the future it would be nec-
essary to instruct jury commission-
ers to draw juries regardless of
race or color.
It is said this is the first time
this question has been raised in this
county, and probably in the state,
lawyers refusing to take advantage
of it, in order not to require Negroes
to be summoned for jury service.
A special venire had been sum-
moned Monday, the charge being
murder, Roosevelt Peters being the
defendant, and Ed Roy Simmons
and W. V. Geppert his attorneys.
CITY COUNCIL
ENACTS ORDINANCE
The City Council in meeting Mon-
day night adopted an ordinance re-
quiring the city water superintend-
ent to inspect all water and sewer
connections, and see that no septic
tanks are connected with city sewer
system, and to collect deposits from
all persons connected with water or
sewer systems.
A resolution was also adopted re-
questing PWA to increase cash grant
to the city water and sewer system
from $29,000 to $32,548.33.
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FORMER FAIRFIELD
WOMAN DIED IN
PALESTINE RECENTLY
Mrs. Annie Daniel, a resident of
Fairfield 38 years ago, died at the
home of her son, John Daniel, la
Palestine recently.
Mrs. Daniel had been a reader of
The Recorder for many years and
kept up with happenings at her old
home here.
ANNOUNCEMENT
If not providentially hindered I
will preach at A at loch next Satur-
day morning, at Teague Sunday
night. Would be glad to see a Urge
attendance at each plate
H L M« M1SSACK, Faetor
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