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THE HOPKINS COUNTY ECHO
THE
[Hopkins County
Echo
Established in 1876
JNO. S. BAGWELL, Editor
ERIC BAGWELL, Business Manager
Published every Friday at 228 Main Street*
Sulphur Springs, Texas.
Entered at the Post Office in Sulphur
Springs, Texas, as second class mail matter.
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One of life’s dreariest sensations
is paying prosperity’s debts with de-
pression’s income.—Washington Eve-
ping Star.
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1 People as a rule have greater
yearning than earning capacity.—
The Oklahoma News.
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I A situation has grown up in this
teountry in which a war would be a
[lull in the anti-war demonstrations.
a—The Atlanta Constitution.
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j A party of Minnesota farmers are
going to Alaska to start over again.
It would be a joke on them if the
politicians followed them.—The Buf-
falo (N. Y.) Times.
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Huey Long threatens that Louis-
iana will secede from the tax-paying
[Union if they don’t watch out. But
what is worrying him most is that
Louisiana has been removed from
the tax-eating list of the Federal
Government.—Bonham News.
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Missouri decrees that liquor may
inot be sold within 300 feet of the
state university, but what are 100
yards when one is young and active?
•—Exchange.
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The men who are working sixty
hours a week are the , ones who are
trying to run their business so they
will be enabled to pay their employes
for a thirty-hour week.—Pittsburg
Gazette.
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The man who wants to conduct his
own business in his own way is free
to do so as long as he conducts it the
way somebody in Washington wants
him to conduct it.—Bonham News.
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The Kaufman Herald is hitting it
up on the right line when it refers
to Ralph Fults, captured at Denton
and wanted in Mississippi on a bank
raid charge, as Texas Chump No. 1.
The records of a number of alleged
“bad men” who have received con-
siderable publicity recently show
them up as plain chumps.
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Wine, beer and gasoline consump-
tion increases, says headline. There
is a mixture that should cheer the
heart of every undertaker.—Sacra-
mento Bee.
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EAST TEXAS’ ACHIEVEMENT
President Charles F. Ashcroft of
the East Texas Chamber of Com-
merce said in his annual address at
Henderson that the Texas Centen-
nial is the greatest project that Tex-
as has ever undertaken. He believes
that, with the righkkind of co-oper-
ative effort, it will bring to Texas
more people than visited the Century
A TEXAS WONDER
For certain irregularities of the
Kidneys and Bladder and certain so-
called Rheumatic pains. Sold by
druggists or by mail $1.25. Send for
sworn testimonials. E. W. Hall Co.,
3679 Olive St, St. Louis, Mo.
of Progress. The record of the East
Texas organization during the last
few years qualifies East Texas lead-
ership as expert in recognizing op-
portunity and knowing how to take
advantage of it.
The East Texas achievement has
been the more remarkable because
it has been a comeback, a civic
renaissance. Ten or twelve years ago
even East Texans acknowledged that
they had fallen into a rut in civic
and commercial matters. Some of
them were joining in the chorus:
“Just look at West Texas.” Probably
East Texas owes West Texas a debt
of gratitude for the challenging rec-
ord made by the latter. At any rate,
something happened and East Texas
came to life. It has been alive since.
The East Texas chamber’s record of
accomplishment has not been sur-
passed by any other civic or com-
mbercial organization in the coun-
try. It has been an effort that could
be accurately characterized by
Dumas’ “one for all and all for one.”
Every resident of East Texas has
benefited from the efforts of the
East Texas chamber. Certainly, Dal-
las has not been the least among
the beneficiaries.
With this kind of record behind
it, the East Texas chamber’s plan
for a Centennial observation is
doubly reassuring. From San Jacin-
to Battlefield to the site of old
Jonesboro on the Red, East Texas
is a land of historic interest. It was
the threshold of Texas during the
great migration of the Old South.to
the New. In the strength of its new-
found youth, East Texas has especi-
al reason for joyous celebration of
one hundred years of accomplish-
ment since the achievement of Tex-
as independence.—Dallas News.
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THOSE PERILS OF PAROLES
Only one thing gave America the
parole system: kind-hearted sympa-
thy. Yet today there are many kind-
hearted people, seeing its abuse, who
are doubtful of its efficacy, the
Houston Post explains.
More than 10,000 paroled convicts
were re-arrested during 1934. The
list of crimes they were charged with
include nearly everything which de-
based minds could conceive.
A recent report by the division of
investigation of the United States
Department of Justice shows that of
the 10,000 re^arrested convicts a
heavy per cent were known to the
authorities as “repeaters.” Nearly
400 had been convicted of criminal
homecide; 1,788 were robbers; 2,798
were burglars.
There is little question that as the
parole system is being administered
and abused, society is endangered.
Director J. Edgar Hoover, of the
division of investigation, states very
bluntly that but one thing is respon-
sible for the maladministration of
the parole system in the United
States: failure of public officials to
carry out their public trust, placing
paramount the welfare and interests
of society.
At the present session of the leg-
islature a bill is in the hopper which
would revamp and perhaps change
the locale of the board of pardons
and paroles. It would be well for the
committee to which the bill was re-
ferred to give the parole system in
Texas a thorough going-over and
propose methods to strengthen it
and impose' restrictions which will
prove kind-hearted to society as well
as to the enemies of society, the
criminal class.—Waxahachie Light.
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The best thing the citizens can be
taught is the truth that he has no
protection for life or property or
freedom except the protection of
law, and that his liberty depends on
his obedience to law.-—Bonham Dai-
ly Favorite.
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“Everything that we can do with
intent to increase the security of the
individual will, I am confident, be a
stimulus to recovery.”—President
Roosevelt.
Phone 481 for your next job printing
TREATY OAK
Unnumbered years this oak has stood
unscathed
Of storm of wind, and hail, and
snow, and rain;
One boom it craves of us, and only
one:
The right to live! and must it sue.in
vain?
I think oak trees are human, that
they know
As much as we of joy and prayer
and pain;
I think they give expression to their
moods.
I’m sure I’ve heard them shouting in
the rain:
And I have seen them on a day in
Spring
A-tangle in the winds, as madly gay
And radiant as any child of flame,
And breathless with the beauty of
the day!
And often I have seen them stand
apart
As gray as granite grief, as stoic,
grim,
So bravely lifting faces up to God,
To almost take the strength of Him.
I think God loves these oaks, and fa-
vors them:
He gives them posts of honor, and
revers
Their steadfastness and strength and
they are brave
Enough to try to live a thousand
years.
—Georgia C. Bader.
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MORAL CRIPPLES
The world is full of moral crip-
ples and deformed men. Morally
speaking some are without arms:
they have never helped a fellow
creature over the rugged spots of
Life’s way. Some are without feet:
they have never gone a single inch
out of their way to assist others.
Some are voiceless: they have never
even by a word encouraged anyone
who was cast down. Some are deaf:
they have never listened to the pleas
of the suffering. Some are without
heart: they know no sympathy or
generous feelings. Just stop by the
way some day and watch yourself1 go
by.—The New Era.
SHOWER IS GIVEN
FOR RECENT BRIDE
The Ruth Sunday School Class
showered Mrs. Paul Kids, better
known as Vivian Bufkins, formerly
of DeKalb, but who now resides in
Royse City, Texas, Monday evening
at 6 o’clock at the home of her
mother, Mrs. Frank Bufkin. The
shower being given as a surprise to
the recent bride who is here on a
visit. For the occasion, Easter lilies,
snowballs and roses were artistically
arranged and beautifully decorated
the home.
The guests were entertained by a
dance number by Frankye Imogene
Jolly; song, “We’ll Make Hay While
the Sun Shines,” by Opal Fay Dob-
bins and La Voy Dobbins; “toast to
the bride,” by Bessie Lee Holder.
“Here’s to the Bride, Vivian Bufkin:
she is not Bufkin any more but a
kid, not grown up, but just a kid;
I’ve known of girls being kids and
growing up, but did you ever know
of a grown-up turning to a kid this
one did, and now we are to give her
a toast, all right, here goes: May she
live long and be happy, and may the
road she travels be smooth, and the
double harness she has put on be
easy to wear. Her friends are wish-
ing her every pleasure and long and
happy life. You’re starting down aj
brand new road, just like a field of*
clover. But if you carry all the load
the fun will soon be over. But if you
smile, wink and laugh the kidd will
always carry half.
Bernice Eads gave the toast to
the girls left behind. “Girls, it’s a sad
day to us, no matter how we primp
and fuss, the boys just pass us by,
but now we have one less to fight.
Our path in life may yet be bright,
so let’s not sit and cry. If the boys
will come around, a lot of girls are
easy found. If you don’t believe it,
just try, as Vivian’s out of every
race. We’ll primp and powder up our
face and catch us a guy.
Little Bonnie Sue Jolly drew in
the beautifully decorated white and
blue float which was overflowing
with gifts and presented them to the
young bride.
After opening of the gifts by the
bride, ice cream and cake were serv-
ed to about forty guests.—DeKalb
NewfL
Mrs'. [Kids is well known in Sul-
phur Spriri^B where she formerly liv-
ed. She was a graduate of the 1933
class of Sulphur Springs Hi School.
Lots of talk about planned econ-
omy around the national capital.
Well, we’d like to see a little econ-
omy up there whether it’s planned
or they just accidentally cut ex-
pense.—Greenville Banner.
Try Our Classified Ads For Results.
Hopkins County Burial
Association
| A Home Organization for Home
lL , \ People
Strictly co-operating to help each other, with eleven
thousand, four hundred members, should be evidence
enough to convince anyone of the value of this Plan—
Can you afford to neglect your family when you can
protect them for less than A PENNY A DAY? Let
us explain this plan of protection to you.
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PALESTINE PALS
OPTION SHORTY FRANCE
TO SHREVEPORT
Palestine, Texas, April 30.—Re-
lease of Shorty France, Palestine
Pal shortstop, on option to the
Shreveport Sports, also of the West
Dixie League, was announced by of-
ficials of the Palestine baseball club
Monday. France joined the Sports
immediately.
GLENDON WEIR
MARRIED TO
MILFORD IRVING
Milford Irvin and Miss Glendon
Weir announced their marriage,
wbic-h occurred Oct. 27, 1934. The
Rev. Brooks of the First Baptist
Church of Hugo, Okla., officiated.
The bride is the lovely daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Weir of Ad-
dran, where for the past two years
she has been an efficient member of
the school faculty. Her charming
personality and winning ways have
made her a host of friends among
both young and old.
The groom is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. John Irvin of Nelta, and is a
splendid young man, liked and re-
spected by all who know him.
Both young people are members
of Hopkins County’s oldest and most
prominent families.
They are at home in a beautifully
furnished apartment at Nelta, where
the groom is a successful merchant
and farmer.
We wish them success and happi-
ness in the years ahead.
OHCUUtllAD lASK
An association of men
have fought America*
(tercign wars on land and aaa
Next Monday night, May 6th, the
Perry F. Griffith Post No. 2213, V.
F. W., will meet in Mt. Vernon for
the purpose of organizing a new post
in that cityj The veterans in Mount
Vernon will probably provide an en-
tertainment for that occasion which
will be well worth attending.
All members of the Sulphur Spgs.
post are urgently requested to at-
tend the meeting. A cordial invita
tion is extended to all overseas vet-
erans of Hopkins County to join
with us in a get-together rally.
Yours in comradeship,
J. PI. HINNAND, P. C.
W. E. CRAMPTON, D. C.
Mr. W. E. Crampton,
Sulphur Springs, Texas.
Dear Comrade: In reply to your
letter of 26th, am glad to say the
Mt. Vernon Veterans will be looking-
for you and as many of the com-
rades as you can bring along for our
meeting Monday night, May 6th, at
8 o’clock.
Yours in comradeship,
R. O. COX.
Economy
Prices
Dough Boy Flour—
an extra Floor
$1.85
Light Crust Flour____
$1.90
Superior Flour—
Special Patent
$1.70
Meal
Best grade McLemore
Coffee, lb.
19c
Health Club Baking
Powder
20c
6 large bars Laundry
Soap ”
25c
Mother’s Cocoa, 2 lbs.
__20c
4 lbs. Raisins
32c
Eagle Milk _
21c
2 boxes Soda
15c
3 lb. can Maxwell House
Coffee
86c
Prince Albert Tobacco,
per can
10c
All 6 oz. Snuff_____
—30c
Fresh Lard, Vegetole
and Jewel
$1.07
4 lbs. Lard
57c
6 small or 3 large cans
Milk
20c
See Us For All Kinds
of Feeds
We Buy Chickens, Eggs
and Cream
Your Business Appreciated
Alexander &
Horton Co.
Connally Street
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WIDOW TELLS TRUE
STORY OF LAST RIDE
OF CASEY JONES
Memphis, Tenn., April 30.—The
rails were clicking a requiem today
to Casey Jones, thirty-five years aft-
er he made “his farewell trip into
the Promised Land.”
The real story of Casey Jones as
a railroadin’ man goes back to 1893
and the scene was the Columbian ex-
position at Chicago.
Two men shouldered their way into
the exposition hall crowded with lo-
comotives. They paused beside the
largest, and the older man said:
“That’s 638, Casey, and she’s all
yours.”
Casey took over the engine that
was to pull the “Cannon Ball”—
then the fastest train of the Illinois
Central.
Not only was “638 to pull the Can-
on Ball,” but it was to send Casey
to his death and put his name down
as legendary wherever trainmen:
meet.
Widow Tells Story.
Starting in 1893, Casey “hightail-
ed” through the Mississippi delta
and in 1900 was given the Memphis
to Canton, Miss., run.
Then came that fog-shrouded
night in 1900. Casey was at the
throttle, and his Negro fireman, j3im
Webb, was at the firebox.
Mrs. Jones, Casey’s widow, told a
graphic story of the tragedy today:
“Casey pulled into Memphis about
10 o’clock. His fireman, Sim, helped
him check the engine. Both men were
tired out, Casey sat down1 in the rail-
road office for. a chat with friends
when a report came in that the en-
gineer of the southbound “Cannon
Ball” had become ill and could not
make his run.
“Casey immediately volunteered
to double back over the tracks he
had just come over. Sim went with
him. I heard them as they eased out
of Memphis. Casey had his whistle
wide open.
Weather Was Bad.
“It was foggy and drizzling rain.
The light cut the fog for only a
short distance, and Casey kept blow-
ing his whistle.
“Fifty miles from Memphis Casey
had to stop while the axle of a
freight car was repaired. He was
thirty minutes behind schedule when
he hit the main line.
“ ‘Pour in the coal, we’ve got to
let her have it,’ Casey yelled at his
fireman.
“Sim heaped on the coals, and
:hey flashed over the rails—fitty,
vixty and sixty-five miles an hour;—
hrough Vaughn, Miss., and ap-
proached a long curve just before a
Ading below the town.
“Then through the fog loomed the
caboose of a string of box cars on
the main line. Casey threw the driv-
ers into reverse.
“ ‘Jump, Sim, jump,’ he yelled to
his fireman.
“Casey went to his death in a blaz-
ing mass of splintered wreckage. He
was still holding the whistle cord
when his body was removed. Sim
landed in a bush unhurt.”
Casey’s widow lives with her son,
Casey, Jr., at Jackson, Tenn.
I. T, HARPER
NOW LOCAL AGENT
FOR TIMES-HERALD
BANK ROBBERS USE
CON MAN METHODS
WITH SUCCESS
I. T. Harper has taken over the
gency in Sulphur Springs for Thi
iallas Times-Herald, assuming his
uties Wednesday.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Walter Harper, a graduate of Sub
hur Springs High School, a rustler,
nd will, no doubt, make The Times-
[erald a good representative in Sul-
hur Springs.
SHOOKS CHAPEL NEWS
Preaghing services were held on
Sunday morning with a large attend-
ance. The services were rained out
for the evening hour.
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred McCord spent
the week-end with his mother, Mrs.
J. B. McCord, at Weaver.
Mrs. Lottie Williams and Mrs.
Winnie Money have returned to
their homes after a visit with their
sister, Mrs. J. M. Alexander.
Ulys and Willie Morris of Dallas
spent the week-end with Mr. and
Mrs. B. H. Morris and family.
REPORTER.
PLEA OF GUILT IN
J, P. COURT TODAY
Two young men appeared before
Justice of Peace Johnny A. Wyatt
Wednesday morning and entered
pleas of guilty for fighting. The men
were released following agreements
to pay their fines.
The Bankers Record gives the fol-
lowing interesting account of how
one group of criminals gained free
access to a bank in a well planned
robbery attack:
The bank holdup artist and the
swindler of today is often a man
with banking experience which
makes him a very dangerous individ-
ual to be at large. Endowed with
good appearance, self assurance and
intimate knowledge of bank routine,
such a person is able to create con-
fidence of which he takes advantage
in the most deliberate and cold-
blooded way.
A pair such as this, Reade and Mc-
Master by name, both experienced
and daring in the extreme, recently
went to most unusual preparations
in order to rob a country bank. They
succeeded in a most thorough man-
ner.
Their plan started at trailing three
State Bank examiners from the cap-
ital of a western state to a country
town where they were due to make
an examination. From a hotel lobby,
directly across the street from the
bank, they kept their watch.
The examiners completed their
work about 11 o’clock one morning
and left immediately on the drive
back to the capitol offices.
Twenty miles out of town, on a
lonely stretch of road, they were
without warning, crowded into the
ditch by a car coming up from be-
hind. Two armed men lost no time
in binding and gagging them. They
were driven to an abandoned shack
in the foothills close by and securely
imprisoned.
Just at closing time that afternoon
the efficient bandits walked briskly
into the lobby of the bank in a near-
by town. The bank examiners’ brief
cases were under their arms. Smil-
ing, and most courteously, they pre-
sented themselves as examiners. Cas-
ually, they stated that Mr. Hudson,
the Chief Examiner, would join them
in the morning.
The cashier offered them the use
of the Board Room, which adjoined
the vault behind the cages. He also
appointed a young assistant cashier
to aid them.
They spread out their State Bank-
ing Department reports and work
sheets. After attaching officials seals
on various drawers, Reade, the elder,
started checking the cash in the tel-
lers’ cages.
McMaster requested the bank’s se-
curities from the vault which he then
spread out on the long Board Room
table and started tabulating. The
bank assistant sat idly by, smoking.
Reade, after counting the day’s
cash, placed it in the cage drawers
and sealed the same. He stated that
it would be released as soon as he
checked the vault. Returning to the
Board Room he asked that McMas-
ter and the assistant leave their
work for the moment and accompa-
ny him to the vault. The currency
reserve, unusually large in anticipa-
tion of pay day on a local power pro-
ject, was kept in one of the larger
safe deposit boxes. Reade asked that
it be carried into the Board Room
where they could work to better ad-
vantage.
These two bandits now had all the
securities and all the currency in
convenient places outside the bank
vault. All customers had departed
and the employes were busy at their
various tasks.
Suddenly Reade and McMaster,
with the helping employee in front
of .them, emerged from the Board
Room. Reade, springing to a desk
top, with two automatics, command-
ed the entire force to get into the
vault. In consternation they obeyed.
The door was slammed. In no time
Reade and McMaster had stuffed
their large brief cases with the con-
venient currency and bonds, and
walked coolly from the bank.
The
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Dry Salt_________
COOKING OIL—
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COFFEE—
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COAL OIL—
5 gals., guaranteed-
MACKEREL—
3 tall cans___._____
CRACKERS—
2 lbs.___________
19c
99c
50 c
29c
23c
19 c
FEED-SEEDS
Best Prices in Town
Independent Cream
Station
BULK SEEDS
We Buy Eggs, Chickens,
Sacks, etc.
W.T, WAGGONER,
OIL KING, LEAVES
$1,650,000 ESTATE
Fort Worth, Texas, May 1.—The
estate left by the late W. T. Wag-
goner, Texas capitalist, not including
the W.*T. Waggoner estate, a trust
agreement created in 1923 for the
benefit of his children, was given the
probable value of $1,650,000, ac-
cording to the application accompa-
nying the will filed for probate on
Tuesday.
The estate represents half of the
community property of Waggoner
and his wife, Mrs. Ella Waggoner,
who is named sole executrix. The
trust fund includes most of the Wag-
goner fortune.
A codicil, added to the will in 1931
bequeaths to Paul and Guy Wag-
goner their father’s community in-
terest in the $2,500,000 Arlington
Downs racing plant and the Three D
Stock Farm. The rest of the com-
munity property will go to Mrs. Wag-
goner. The $1,650,000 estate includ-
ed, in addition to interest in the
Downs and the stock farm, securities
and interest in the Waggoner resi-
dence here.
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