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VOL. 58, N* 86. TRIBUNE VOL. 38, No. SO
STEPHENVILLE, ERATH COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1930
SIXTEEN PAGES—VOL. 58. MO. 4f
I’LL TELL THE
WORLD
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thru with this newspaper. " Now, .*lffooTho Pr^^ed him in
boys, let's get straight oh this lJ21;h<, 5*L
right now in the. beginning. We JJSS L fiuJS JEwitwJki.
Erath County Mourns
Passing Last Week of
Two Pioneer Citizens
have every respect for your ©pin
ion in reference to these road
bonds, and it is your constitution-
al right and privilege to loolc at
this thing in any manner your
, best judgment may dictate. On the
other hand, all we are going to
ask is that you grant us the same
privilege. Unfortunately, all of us
can't agree on the many and va-
ried issues that come up from
time to time. As far as we are
concerned, this newspaper will not
have a great deal more to say
about this road building program,
but from time to time we do ex-
pect to promote the merits of good
roads and their benefits, and why
we favor them.
CATURDAY we listened in on a
^ conversation concerning a cer-
tain section of Erath county, a
territory that we once knew as
^JBjttile and productive, inhabited
with many happy, thrifty people.
According to the discussion heard,
this community we speak of now
has no more than two or three
families within its boundaries. One
of these families, so it was report-
ed, is making every effort to get
This condition is nothing
ly. With hundreds
"of acres of land
valley? and over the
Is ydt'room for much
.production. Whether good roads
would help them we do not care
to say, but we do submit that
there is something lacking out
needs to be
lowing an illness of several weeks.
•Coming to Dublin in July, 1870,
Mr. Bishop -settled' in the little
community which (then Included
only eight families, and helped in
the building of the city which Fri-
day paused to do reverence to his
memory. There in 1872 he was
married to Miss Melisse Dobkins,
daughter of A. H. Dobkins, the
founder of the city. At one time
Mr. and Mrs. Bishop owned the
plot of 90 acres on which the
town of Dublin now stands.
Through his 60 years in Dublin
Mr. Bishop had served as the first
marshal and the first tax assessor
and collector, as a member of the
school board which erected the
first school building in Dublin,
and in every office of the Dublin
Knights of Pythias lodge, of
which he was a charter member.
He was a member of the Metho-
dist church and of the Hickman
A. M. MALONEY
Funeral services for. A. M. Ma-
loney, who died at his' residence
in Fort Worth Friday at the age
of 76, were held Sunday after*
noon at the Christian Church at
Dublin, his old home.
Mr. Maloney was one of the
pioneers of Erath County, having
borne here when a small boy and
settled with his ..parents at Alex-
ander.__Ls
Kn, and th
•ander, wh
moving to
years ago.
d to Dub-
:k to Alex-
iined until
about two
He had been actively
Bible class.
Sen
irvices wore conducted Friday
afternoon at the home, under a
Mrs. Bishop nine years ago. Judge
J. E. Hickman of Eastland, for-
mer teacher of the Hickman Bible
Class at Dublin and a close friend
of Mr. Bishop, and the Rev. Gor-
don Barrett of Comanche, former
pastor of the Dublin Baptist
Church, were in charge of the
funeral. Active pall bearers were
Charley Davidson, Joe Little, Jim
Humphreys, Harvey Fisher, W. T.
Cox, and Tom Easley. Forty old-
done to revive the spirit-at com- w™® Kntehte^of'^Pvthhis
munity pride, to the extent that
this idle land will be cultivated.
ultiva
in Te
No finer dairy country in Texas
could be found than is available
in this depopulated community. It
has plenty of water, good grass,
is well drained and with good
roads would almost bo in the
back yard of Stephenville, a good
market center.
lodge was in charge of burial ser-
vices.
tr- Surviving relatives include four
daughters and two sons, Mrs. Lee
Bays, Mrs. W. C. Gray, Mrs. Sam
Bailey, Miss Myrta Bishop, Ed
Bishop and Frank Bishop, all of
Dublin; a brother, J. R. Bishop,
and several grandchildren and
great-granchildren.
connected with various business
interests of the cbunty, owning a
ranch near Alexander at tha time
of his death. He had at one time
been in the mercantile business
in Alexander, Dublin and Steph-
cnville, but bad never made his
howe in this city. He was also
connected with the bank at Alex-
ander until the time it was sold,
some years ago.
Surviving relatives include bis
wife, four daughters, Mrs. Henry
Weiser of Hamilton, Mrs. Will
Adams Of El Paso, Mrs. Arthur
Voilmer of Leavenworth, Kansas,
and Mrs. Virginia Maloney Cros-
by of Fort Worth; three sons,
Chessie Maloney of Fort Worth,
Sid Maloney of Alexander and A.
M. Maloney Jr. of Hamilton; two
brothers, George Maloney of Ste-
phenville and John Maloney of
Alexander; and one sister, Mrs.
Harry Moore of Dublin. Several
grandchildren also survive.
Pall bearers included J. A.
Johnson, R. N. Carlton, A. P.
Young, John Cage, M. B. Thomas,
and A. M. Hale, with the follow-
ing as honorary pall bearers: J.
J. Mulloy, Mack Creswell, B. E.
Cook, W. H. Crouse, R. E. Cox,
Ben B. McCollum, Andrew Davis,
C. E. Deisher, B. B. Poe, Henry
Clark and Sam Russell.
Burial -was in the Dublin cem-
etery by the grave of a little
daughter who died years ago.
IT is our happy privilege this
• week to announce another step
taken toward the building of the
powdered milk plant which has
been the subject of much talk in
Stephenville for several months.
And that very announcement
brings us back to the subject of
good roads. The milk producers
in some parts of this county would
be as well off, during some seasons
of the year, with the milk pla
than without. A prolonged period
of wet weather would make It im-
possible for them to get to town
with their milk, and they would
lose by failure to make a sale
enough money to pay their tax-
es for several years. Everything
we get costs us something. Our
question always is, “Is H worth
it T Is it worth the time and the
money and worry and energy we
must expend?” To our way of
thinking, the failure to secure
good roads now .would mean fi-
nancial suicide for some commun-
ities. There are times when to
spend money is an economy, and
we believe that this is one of those
times.
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4 CHAMPIONS AGAIN 4
4 4
♦ By holding the Comanche 4
♦ Indians to a 0-0 tie last Fri- 4
♦ day, the Stephenville Yellow- 4
♦ Jackets won the district foot- 4
4* ball championship for Class 4
4 B high schools for the second ♦
♦ successive year.------— - 4
♦ The Stephenville boys have 4
♦ not lost a conference game ♦
♦ in two years. They will play 4
♦ Albany for the bi-district ♦
4 championship on Decembers. 4
4 The place for this game had 4
4- not been decided Tuesday. 4
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Flier’s Bank Fund
Is Found 11 Years
After Death In War
IN closing this “colymn” we want
* to wish every one of our regu-
lar or occasional readers—as well
as our other friends who may not
care to read all we have to say—
nksgivlng Day
food on the
a very happy Thanl
We hope that there Is
table a plentv, that the members
of your family and your friends
will be about you in this holiday
celebration, that nothing may hap-
pen to mar the peace and content-
ment of the season. We have three
great holidays coming close on
one another in the fall and win-
ter: first Armstlce Day, then
Thanksgiving Day, and then the
beautiful climax o f Christmas.
Somebody once said, "Blessed is
he that expecteth nothing"—and
we sometimes believe • it is true.
But we do a expect a certain
amount of physical comfort, food
end shelter, as well as a certain
amount of friendliness and family
devotion. That Erath county shall
have an abundance of all these
rood things,. lacking none, is the
Thanksgiving wish of this news-
paper and its staff—we tell the
world, and all the world, that we
appreciate the loyalty and friend-
snip of our friends—It Is one of
the biggest things for which we
give thanks net only this day but
every day.
Mrs. R. Robbins, who had been
making an extended visit here
with her parents, Representative
and Mra. E. T. Wyatt, left the
latter part of the week on her
return to her home at AI
que, New Mexico. Lloyd
turned to Albuquerque with ljis
•liter and will be located in bus-
iness there again after nai
been In Stephenville
How a chance conversation led to
discovery of a $6,000 bank account
In France of a dead American avia-
tor 11 years after the end of the
World War was related here today
hv S. R. Mathews, who is visiting
Coleman friends. He was a student
at the A. & M. College when the
war began and knew the aviator
overseas. Mathews, formerly of
Coleman, now lives at Kansas City.
Last year in Missouri he met a.
woman who had gone to the univer-
sity in the Middle West which the
late aviator attended and where he'
played football. His name was men-
tioned, and the woman spoke of be-
ing intimately acquainted with his
sister. The family was in need of
money, though before the war they
had been in more than coprfortable
circumstances.
Mathews inquired as to whether
they had investigated to sot if the
late aviator’s bank account in
France had been turned over to the
'amily. The woman did not know,
but she took the information to the
family
A few months later, after corres-
pondence and a minimum of red
tape, the family received a check
from a bank in Lyons for nearly
>6 000. • 7
The aviator waa killed in an air-
Trtane crash at Bt. Jean des Monts,
France, a shojrt time before the ar-
New M. E. Pastor
Holds His First
Service Sunday
A good crowd was present Sun-
day at the Methodist church to
hegr the Rev. Frank E. Singleton,
newly appointed pastor of the
church here, in his first service.
Mr. Singleton chose as his text
for the morning, "We are workers
together with God,” and took the
opportunity to stress the import-
ance of cooperation in church af-
fairs. He spoke of the failure to
use one’s ability to work as the
unpardonable sin, stated that “if
we do not work together we do
not need to work at all,” and
closed by emphasizing the neces-
sity of God’s help in worthwhile
work. In the evening the minis-
ter spoke on "The Need of a Pur-
pose.” , .v'•
Introducing his Bermon, the new
pastor spoke of his delight in c'pm-
mg to Stephenville and his appre-
ciation of the many courtesies ex-
tended him and hi» family, and
asked for an opportunity to be of
service in all community interests.
A new form of cold in London
is believed to be caused by an in-
sect sting. *
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4- HOW’S THIS RECORD? 4
4 - 4
4 Fourteen years of playing 4
4 football, with only one game 4
4 lost—such is tiie record of 4
4 Dr. Verne A. Scott, professor 4
4 of veterinary science at John 4
4 Tarleton College. ■'•iW
4 Dr. Scott has a character- 4
4 istic way of being exceeding- 4
4 ly enthusiastic about what- 4
4 ever he is undertaking, and 4
4 his enthusiasm for football 4
4 began whdh he was in high 4
4 school at Spokane, Washing- 4
4 ton. Later he played in the 4
4 Texas Agricultural and Me- .4
4 chanical College, in the ar- 4
4- my, and on the professional 4
4 field. 4
4 At one time Dr. Scott re- 4
4 ceived an offer of $1,000 for 4
4 coaching during the three 4
4 months of football season, 4
4 but he turned it down be- 4
4 cause at that time, he ex- 4
4 plains, the social standing of 4
4 football coaches was not what 4
4 it has come to be since. Af- 4
4 terwards he was sorry he did 4
4 not accept, he sayvr. Dr. Scott 4
4 ia now a member of the 4
4 Southwestern Board of Foot- 4
4 bail Officials. 4
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ONE MAN DIES
AFTERWRECK
Three Othf^p Injured When
Car Overturns on Highway
Sunday Night
MILK PLANT
IS ASSURED
Whittkamp and Neilson Report
All Finances Arranged and
Ready to Start Building
An announcement tbat met with
popular favor Tuesday morning
was a statement from Messrs.
Whittkamp and Neilson. promot-
ers of the proposed powdered milk
plant in Stephenville, that all fi-.
Thanksgiuing Service
Early Thursday Morn
Begins holiday here
4 Beginning with an early morn-
ing Thanksgiving service at the
Tarleton Avenue Christian Church,
the people of Stephenville will
celebrate Thursday along with the
people of othar cities of the na-
tion as a day of thanksgiving.
Rev. Ernest Ulmer, pastor of the
F.esbyterian Church, will preach
nancial requirements had been met1 the morning sermon. All church
and that they were now ready for es of the city are c
Cub Hale of Hamilton county
died at 10 o’clock Monday night of
injuries received in an automobile
wreck just about 24 hours earlier.
Mr. Hale suffered a fractured skull
and concussion of the brain, and
did not regain consciousness after
the accident
A. D. Fulbright of Stephenville
and J. B. Oates of Hamilton coun-
ty were still in the Stephenville
Hoepital Tuesday morning, and it
waa thought that they would have
to remain there for several days
linger. • The former has several
fractured ribs, and the latter has a
lacerated head and a badly bruised
arm. Oscar Lowrance of Hamilton
county was also injured,.receiving
a lacerated hand, but he was dis-
missed from the hospital Monday,
after his wound had been dressed.
The accident occurred between
L0 and 11 o’clock Sunday night at
a curve on the Fort Worth highway
near Bluff Dale, when the Ford
touring car in which the four men
were riding toward Fort Worth
collided with a truck coming west
toward Stephenville. The four men
were thrown out and the car was
turned completely around. The
automobile was demolished.
the business men of Stephenville
to fulfills their agreement to pro-
vide funds for the building of a
structure to house machinery and
equipment of the plant. A tentJ
ative understanding has already
been had by local interests and it
is believed no time will be lost in
securing subscriptions with which
to take cate of the erection of
the building. ,
At a meeting held in this city
early in the fall the- full plans for
the operation of the proposed plant
were outlined, before a represent-
ative body of Erath county far-
mers, numbering more than 590.
At that time Messrs. Whittkamp
and Neilson agreed to install ma-
chinery and equipment with which
to operate a milk condensery and
powdered milk plant, estimating
that their investment would ap-
iroximate something near $6&,-
100. As a bonus and extra in-
ducement to these gentlemen bus-
iness men, bankers and milk pro-
ducers indicated they would erect
a building to house the machinery
and donate it to the builders,
holding the property for a period
of ti^e as a guarantee that the
plant would be permanently oper-
ated. It has been estimated that
it will require at least $7500 to
erect the building And secure a
building lot, although the site
was offered by a local citizen as
a free will offering to the cause.
Both Whittkamp and Neilson
are practical dairy people and have
been engaged in this line of busi-
ness for-a long period of years.
Before coming to Texas they op-
erated in the State of Wisconsin
where they were connected with
some of -we largest milk manu-
facturing plants in the state. Neil-
son is a native of Norway where
dairy production is the main
source of income and has spent
his entire life in this work. More
recently Whittkamp has been man-
ager of the Lamesa Dairy Plant,
a $200,000 project put over some
time last year.
In the event the building, is se-
cured at any time soon there
seems to be no doubt but what
the plant will be in operatipn
within a comparatively short time.
cooperaMng it,
the service.
Practically all business houses
of the city will bo closed f>r the
day, and it is expected that ihe
day will mean the usual number
of family get-togethers and din-
ner parlies, as well as many en-
tertainments of a more formal na-
ture.
Students of the Stephenville
public schools and of John Tarle-
ton College will have week-end
holidays beginning Wednesday af-
ternoon, and a large number of
the college students are expected
Mr. and Mrs. Will Russell of
Selden are announcing the arrival
LEOPARD’S KEEPER IN JAIL of a lovely baby daughter into their
home on Saturday, November 15.
The little lady’s proud and happy
parents have given her the beau-
tiful name of Ruby Patrica, but „
the pr'a.nt uh. l, tain* C.1W a KvU mE
la Charged With Negligent Homi-
cide After Child’s Death
Tlainview, Texas, Nov. 20.—
Charles Howard,-keeper of a leop-
ard which Saturday fatally in-'
jured James Evins, 4, at Little-
field, was held in the Hale county
jail hete on' a charge of negli-
gent homicide, filed at Littlefield.
The leopacd was confined in a zoo
at Clovis, N. M.
Wade Potter, county attorney
at Littlefield, said Howard made
an affidavit that the drug store
where tha child was attacked had
employed him to exhibit the leop-
ard there.
The Evins child died in a Lub-
bock hospital. The cat had sudden-
ly pounced on him, almost scalp-
ing the little * boy. The leopard
was with a carnival show.
little sister by her big, seven-year-
old brother Rayford, who with his
parents is giving her a joyful wel-
come into the famil” circle. Mr.
and Mrs. Russell are well known
©untry, Mr.
for the
in this part of the c
Russell having taught for the past
thirteen years in rural achools Qf
Erath county. He has been prin-
cipal of Selden school for the past
four years and Mrs. Russell has
also taught there during the great-
er part of that time.
A $55,000 high school building
is being erected at Friona, Texas.
A charter has been granted to
the Saline Chemical Conmpany at
Houston which will construct a
plant at the Pierce Junction salt
dome to convert the salt resources
thete into chemicals, ft is said
that $1,000,000 will be expended
on the plant.
iccount in a French bank, but did
mt know in what bank. The rec-
ords the aviator carried in his pock-
'ts at the time of the crash were
'estroyed, as the plane caught fire
md burned.—Coleman Democrat-
Voice.
sk on ner
'Srith w.
wun nil
ad in bas-
er having
Ilia for tee past
. 'll.
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Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Barron and
’amily of Putnam are here to vis-
t Mrs. Barron’s parents. Mr. and
Mrs. Lum Sterner at their horns
iix miles east of this city and will
amain with the family until after
Thanksgiving holidays.
Eleven Millions Waiting
to avail themselves of the oppor-
tunity- to visit at home during he
four days off, or to see friends
in other cities.
Football fans will have an op-
portunity to. see the high school
Yellow jackets in a game with Dub-
lin at Dublin on Wednesday af-
ternoon, and the Tarelton Plow-
boys in 'a game with Westminster
College here Thursday afternoon.
This ia the second successive sea-
son for the Dublin and Stephen-
ville high schools to play a post-
season game, last year’s game
having ended in a tie.
Many sporstmen of the city' are
planning to take to the woods
with dog and gun for the day or
for the week-end, on their annual
hunting outings.
A dance at the City Hall on
Thursday evening will be the big
social event of the day for many
persons here and in surrounding
cities.
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Rev. R. P. Ogan Dies
At Home in Selden,
Had Been a Baptist
Minister 30 Y ears
Funeral rites were held Friday
afternoon at 4 o’clock for Rev. R.
P. Ogan, .whose death occurred at
4:$0 o’clock tbat morning at the
Stephenville hospital following an
illness of several weeks duration.
Rev. J. H. Bays, Baptist mis-
sionary of Erath County and Rev
W. C. Bramlett, Baptist minister
and friend of the family, conduct-
ed the funeral services which were
held at the family cemetery on the
farm of the deceased in the Sel-
den community.
Th(4 deceased was born in Mis-
souri op June 21, 1862, and contin-
ued to live there, until 'about 85
years ago when he came to Tair-
as, locating at Selden.
Rev. Ogan had been in the Bap-
tist ministry for more than thirty
years, having held pastorates at
several Baptist churenes in Erath
county a number of years ago, one
of which was the Valley Grove
church located two miles southeast
one now standing, was erected by
his congregation. His mentbershi
at the time of his death was witl
tha Baptist church at Rocky Point.'
■ He was the father of nine chil-
dren, all of whom were with him
during his last illness. They are
as follows: George, Burleson and
Robert Ogan and Miss Sallie
Belle, Annie, Susie, Virgie and
Esther Ogan who were making
their home with their father at
the family homestead near Selden.
He is also survived by the fol-
lowing brothers and sisters: M. H.
‘ (Abilene Times.)
The Federal Government ia
going to help Texas. It has an-
nounced that an appropriation
of eleven million dollars has
been made available for the Lone
Star State and will the btate
please come and get it. There
are, however, some strings to
this munificent gift. The au-
thorities at Washington admit
there is a depression and are
willing to help Texas to the ex-
tent of the amount named, pro-
vided—
Proviso number one is that the
money must be ueed to build
roads. Furthermore, these roads
nistlce. Mathews knew lie an mbit be built where the Federhl
authorities designate and accord-
ing to certain specifications laid
down by them.
Proviso number two is to the
effect that the said eleven mil-
lion dollars must be matched dol-
lar for dollar by state funds. Or
in other words instead of build-
ing around 600 miles of roads,
there must be constructed in Tex-
as approximately 1000 mile* of
roads in order to make the feder-
al Appropriation available in this
Inasmuch as the voters of the
state did net seem to be unanim-
ous about a state road bond is-
sue, the State Highway Depart-
ment does not have the sums
available to its credit to use up
the Federal allotment unless the
various counties use their own
credit in the time honored man-
ner by voting their own bond is-
sue.
It all reverts back to the pro-
position that if West Texas wants
some roads it must devote its
own enegries to the matter. If
West Texans want some work
going on put here that wHl pro-
vide jobs for those overcome by
tho creeping patelysli of depres-
own behalf.
Ing
■ion, why West Texans have just
got to bestir themselves in theirj!
If everybody whose goings and
comings have boon inconvenienc-
ed—to put it mildly - by tho lack
of travorsablo roads in recent
weeks get busy in their own
counties, the 11-million-dollar
Federal road appropriation will
soon bo doing some good in Wcat
Tefcaa.
There ia no question about Tex-
as using the Federal money.
Alert and enterprising counties
of tela state will aeTto it that
they get heir share. Bu what The
Morning Times is interested in is
how much of it is going to be
used *6ut * here in West Texas.
' How much of this money is going
to be devoted to the construc-
tion of smooth ribbons of brick,
concrete or asphalt that will defy
the elements, toward bridges that
will render these draws impotent
and to the provision of work for
a lot of people who need it?
It is up to. each county to
tafce stock of its needs, draw up
a comprehensive road program
that will meet, as nearly as pos-
sible, everybody’s requirements,
and then crack down, at ohCC, on
building roads. And by so do-
ing, give a typical Weat Texas
answer to the challenge of de-
pression.
But haste is necessary. At
boat there is a whale of a lot
of red tapo and unavoidable do-
lay In tho preliminaries to rosd
building. Public bodies do not
move in a burry. iFerha
Perhaps it Is
the
bast that they do not,
need for roads in West Texas is
urgent. So is the need for jobs
One thousand mtlea of roads
won’t go so far, after all, in Tex-
as. The early bird, etc.
Ed Fleming, Mrs. A. E. Stone and
Jim Ogan of Selden; Mrs. J. R.
Preston, Stephenville; Lee Ogan
and Mrs. Robert Martin of Mis-
souri and a number of nieces and
nephews. All of the sisters and
brothers of the deceased were here
for' the funeral except Lee Ogan
and Mra. Martin.
Royal Holland Bell
Ringers to Be Here
Oil December 1 For
Concert at J.T.A.C.
The Royal Holland Bell Ringers,
presented as the second number
on the Tarleton lyceum for the
year, wjll give a program in the
college auditorium o n Monday
evening of next week. This num-
ber has been substituted for the
lecture of Frederick Warde, Shak-
espearean scholar and actor of
note. Mr. Warde, who is now
quite old, has , been ill and is un-
able to fill his date on the ly-
ceum this winter.
There-are six persons in the
group composing the Holland Bell
Ringers. They appear in costume
and introduce such novel musical
instruments aa the Swiss band
bells, the cymbal harp, * peculiar
instrument which must be played
with gloved hands, cathedral
chimes, rattlebones and the ocari-
na, the smallest musical instru-
ment imported from Holland. They
even are reported to make music
>ut of ordinary farm bolls. Wll-
lelmina, queen of the Netherlands,
has spoken of their programs as
di'liRhtfu],' entertaining and in-
itructtve.”
Mr. and Mra. Roy Neblett of
San Diego, Calif., and Mrs. W. H.
Compton of Fort Worth are visit-
ng their mother, Mra. J. W. Neb-
lett, and also with other relatives
n the city. Mr. Neblett and Mrs.
Compton are both well known in
Stephenville where they were rear-
'd, and are receiving a hearty wel-
'orjie back to the city by their
nany friends here.
HULL, Eng.—Mrs. Mary Foyle
nidged 76 miles to court to re-
ds! an injunction against her
naintaining a refreshment booth
in New Forest
Funeral Services
For Mrs. Chapman
Sunday Afternoon
The death of Mrs. Annie E.
Chapman, which occurred at her
home on South Floral street Sat-
urday evening at 8 o’clock, mark-
ed the passing of one of the ear-
ioneer ■
- h
liest pi
county,
settlers of Erath
Mrs. Chapman was born a! San
Augustine, Texas, in 1854, and waa
reared to young womanhood theie.
She later removed to Waco with
her parents and was married there
to W. P. Chapman. She and her
husband came to Stephenville 68
years ago, when the town was a
mere village and had watched ita
growth from year to year with
great pride and satisfaction.
Mrs. Chapman, who was one of
the old-time pioneer women af
Texas, still clung to the old ideas
and Traditions of those early days
and had very firm and fixed con-
viction* regarding honesty and in-
tegrity. She was dearly beloved g
of her family and friends, who tf
found great pleasure in her aasQ3^L-'
elation.
Funeral services were conducted
for the deceased at East En<T cem-
etery at 4 o’clock Sunday after-
noon, her pastor, Rev. Tom Walk-
er of the Graham Street Church
of Christ, officiating.
She had been a devoted member
of that church for more than half
a century, having united with that
faith at the age of IS years.
Interment was beside the grave
of her husband, W. P. Chapman,
who preceded her in death 17 years
ago. ' ‘ „
The deceased is survived by the
following children: Jim Chapman,
Oklahoma City; Mrs. AHard Whit-
ley, Mrs. Ed ' SevUard, Mrs. Jim
Roberts, Mrs. William Beard and
Martin and Tom Chapman, all of
this city. All of the children were
with their mother during her long
illness and all except one son,
Jim, were here for the funeral.
He was. in attendance at her bed-
side, however, just a short time
before her death, remaining with
her for two weeks.
Four grandchildren, who survive
the deceased, were also present for
the funeral Sunday afternoon.
W. D. Grissom Found
Dead in Bed Nov. 10
Funeral services were held at
the Huckaaby Church of Christ
Tuesday afternoon at 8 o’clock for
W. D. Grissom who was found
dead in his room at the home of
his niece, Mrs. Jim McAdams, near
Lingleville early Monday morning,
November 10.
Mr. Grissom, who had lived in
the Lingleville community only
about a year, was making prepa-
rations to move his family to
O’Brien, Texas, and the day before
he was to leave for that city was
stricken ill with a heart attack
and was removed to the home of
his niece. A physician was called
in but it was not thought that
his condition was at all serious.
Upon going to his room about five
o’clock Monday morning, howev-
er, it waa found that he had pass-
ed away, supposedly only a short
while previous to that time.
His family who were notified
of hia death, his wife and 6ne son
having already gone to O’Brien,
returned to atttend the funeral.
The deceased who waa 68 years
of ago. was a highly respected cit-
izen of the Huckabay and Lingle-
ville communities for a number
of years and was a member of the
Church at Christ.
He is survived by his wife and
four sons and two daughters.
Construction on a big reservoir
on Pecan Bayou, near Brown wood
will be under wav in the near fu-
ture. contract having been let re-
cently to tho Standard Paving
Company of Fort Worth at
008. The new project
about $1,000,000 and w
n municipal water
eity of Brown wood in aoa
irrigating a large tract ef
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