The Teague Chronicle (Teague, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, October 26, 1934 Page: 4 of 8
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THE CHRONICLE, TEAGUE, TEXAS. OCTOBER 26. 1934.
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I uill think—talk—utile . . . Texas
Centennial in 1936! This is Lu.he my
celebration. In its achie venHut I may
give free (Hay to my patriotic love for
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Texas’ heroic past; my confidence in
its glcriei that are to be. .......
A NEW PANACEA. ' j HERE’S THE ^.NSWER. t
: teactici^lv every, sort of eco-' * A leader asks us, ‘\ou.have
nomic plgivtlje human brain can mueh optimism, jour PaP*r
devise for correcting . conditions glows with. it. l>ut doesn't good
Uta "the United States has been judgment _ dictate'that' you be
'brought forward in the-past, four rPore _ pessimistic? Listen a
years. JPhose sent & Washington moment. The world is , coated
through the mail ant? offered for
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political stumps and soap boxes
would stall a train. But the ode
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world
with pessimism. It is like tuber- j
cfilosis germs—everywhere. An
individual must have a super- j
amount of optimism to be even
the first line of wtuch reads, "The Holy Bi|>le,
' and which con tarns Four Great Treasures
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PAUL WRITES A MESSAGE
The Teague Chronicle
Established ' in 1906.
Published Every Frktay.
KNITTING.
Wm. J. Stringer. Editor.
Everything seems to click these
lovely autumn days as knitting
needles are plied ceaselessly in
ar.d our. If you don’t believe it,
just dnp in on any of the wom-
'THHF. work was going well everywhere, even in Thessa-
recenfly proposer! by Dr. F. E.j.amount ot optimism to oe even , ^d^lhev hoped Paul would come back!
jTawnseod, of Long Beach, Calif.W^ar normal. There are so many, ,. rfv pT, payment and, with Timothy as a
promises to create the greatest gl«om carriers, pessimism ped- vojunt'er stenographer, be rlictated a letter to send back to
lik? *l“* Z —- W»«k>mca.
diviuual dtdn t glow .a bit withq
The Sapphire in
• Moonlight
GORGE MANNERS
much in love with Mar"v I
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comment, and Teague citizens are
due to hear a lot about it in the
next few months.
Townsend's plan is for the Unit-,
ed States to issue bonds in the
Subecription Rate*:
«"’» clubs and watch the needles amount'‘of two billion dollars—(night
the elements of hope and faith,
he would find hiihself in' the
middle of a perpetually dark
A whale of d lot of qp-
Ujjder 50 miles, one year $1.50 f*T. w hsten in on the conversa-
L'nder 50 miles, six months .75 Tion at th* bridge dubs.
Over 30 miles, one year___2.06 But, seriously, why has the
Over 50 mifcs, six months.... 1.25
Entered at the postoffice at
Teague, Texas, for transmission
through'the mails at second-class
rates of postage, under the Act
of Congress of March 3, 1979.
like the Liberty loan bonds. Then i timism is required
he would have Uncle Sam start
immediately paying a pension of
tow n's feminine contingent gone 8200 a month to everry citizen of
sixty years of age or over—on
certain conditions. One woud be
that the citizen have no .criminal
record; that he must retire from
all work and give up any income
--;.-ga i.jt r .knitting^.Tt is a ques-
tion of many- answers. First of
.all. it is one of the most fascinat-
ing of occupations or pastimes,
merely
this manipulating of the fine,
'irh-cilored farns, for the balls jhe may have, and that he fhust
; .......J......- ~~ f yarn themselves are so 1 usd us spend the $200 within the month
Obituaries. nsofattiaM, cards of-Hooking that we want to .go Jin which he received -it, thus put-
thanks. and other such matternot straightway and’ concoct some- ting everjTdollar of it into circu-
usuailj. considered news is to be thing out of them. Another an- lation Within 30 days after he
paid for at regular advertising might be that knitting is a'received it. .
rates.
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sort of sedative for restlessness
1..........=-===J^rjijLi^~..Lbai.Ja._ supposed to be chayacter-
jAny en MMtiaii irflatiua upon ;st;f (1f tbe modern woman.' At
the character. stas>.img or reputa- fbe same time it satisfies the
tion of any person, firm or corpo- urge to be busy and doing some-
thing.
Many
ration which may appear " in the
columns of the Chronicle will be
br^StTm when swea‘frs' scarf,s
management.
There are said to be thousands
of clubs and organizations endors-
ing the plan. It will go to Con-
gress when that body meets in
January, with a recommendation
that a national sales tax be levied
of us learned to knit in | to raise the money. Form your
own opinion as to whether or not
it is a good proposition, and a
workable one. BUT make up your
to
think normally. . Don’t ^Ofty- If
there is any one thing *the world
needs today, it is optimism. The
nation is suffering from a scarc-
ity of enthusiasm.
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SUMMYKHOOI
LESSON
ly Rev C harlcs E. Dunn
and - sox ''were so badly, needed.
This probably left us with the
Friday, October 26, 1934.*
, r.eedelust that lures us over miles ! mind right now that you are go-
The Christian's Standard of Life
Lesson for October 28th.
Ephesians 5 ;1S-21. —J—_L.-
Go’.den Text: Ephesians 5:18.
' HDo not get drunk with wine"
;and miles of yam.
Of course the knitting fad has
A SMALL TOWN MAN. economic symptoms; but the hand
Big men grow in small towns knitted suit is a luxury’, and the
-and frequently move to the city.
The small town person develops
character and personality because
in the smaller' groups there is
time for close personal contacts,
for -meditation and for . the sea-
soning of the finer things inside
one’s Self. There is not the fren-
zied bustle that leaves little time
for turning one’s thoughts in on
one’s, self. City life tends to
make men all alike—mill-run.
standardized automatons, Who
know how to catch cars, talk
shop, race to and from work, to
live and die in a hurry.
In a city a man may live pret-
ty much as be pleases and a few
may know of his goings and com-
ings. In a small town everybody
knows everybody’s business. A
small town person may be a real
man or a real woman, or be
classified otherwise by that un-
tiring and most observant small
town public opinion. He must be
himself. That is a rare privilege
in modem city life today. In be-
ing himself he grows big—as big
as his God-given talents and his
own cultivation will permit. He is
an individual. And then the call
of opportunity—more money,
fame', success—comes from the
larger centers; the men drho stand
out above the crowd in the small-
er places hear.Und frequently an-
swer that call,
In the smaller towns of Amer-
ica today so many men are
struggling to make money with
the thought in mind of going to
some city to spend it and also to
spend that rich period of their
mature'years. _ In the small town
they are personalities. In the city
' they are lost ifi the hurrying
erowds. 'It is a. splendid achieve-
ment to build a life of usefulness
and honor amid the wholesome
neighborliness of a small town.
Small towns need their local
lc* ders. Most of these fine men
r nd women who have been devel-
oped in our small towns would be
happier and more prosperous to
. tay there.
Neighborliness is submerged
and almost lost Ln the city. . It is
a precious asset of the small
town. Henry Grady, a brilliant
small town man from Georgia,
visiting with his wife in New
York, saw a coffin being taken
from an apartment house and no
one in {.he building knew or cared
who the dead man was. Grady
said to his wife, “Let’s go back
home where somebody knows
when you are sick, and cares
.when you die.”
Here, in your community, de-
velop the talents you have. Know
the joy of constructive citizen-
ship. Work with your neighbors
to make your community so at-
tractive that men will enjoy build-
ing lives and fortunes right
here.—Hubert M. Harrison in
"East Texas,” official organ of
the East Texas Chamber of Com-
merce.
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person who knits it is an artist
with the needle. If a hand-
knitted suit were placed on Hie
Lng to hear a Tot of discussion
■concerning it as soon as Congress
meets.
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A CALL TO ARMS.
Despite control efforts initiated
the past year, tons of thousands
market, it would go up well into j of elm trees have fallen victims
the dollars, and only a few .could of - the “Dutch elm disease’’
own one.
The real essence -is not in
economy or the beauty* of
yarn, but in
having accomplished
worthwhile.
brought to this country from
Europe in 1930. The area of de-
struction is rapidly spreading and
the satisfaction of]now the American Forestry As-
somethinitjl sociation has appealed to Pres-
ident Roosevelt to take steps "to
wipe out the pest before it .de-
stroys every elm tree in America.
Unless the infection carriers are
removed this winter, it is claimed,
the task of fighting the plague
next spring will be an almost im-
possible one. Failure to remove
COMPARATIVE DROUTHS.
Teague Chronicle: The harvest
season is nearing a close in' this
country and reports from all sec-
tions are to the effect that more
bountiful yields are. being real- trees will,7t is contended,
ized than were P^icted last sum- be nothing short 0f national
mer. A few months ago, one of
the worst drouhts in history was
tragedy. At present the infection
appears greatest in Atlantic coast
sleeping the land. Then forecasts ; states> but it js sajd to be gradu-
were freely made tfeat this or j ally spreading westward and the
that Crop would prove a total drastic measures must be taken
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The three things that keep peo-
ple honest are good birth, good
training and good times.
failure, and they have in many
cases. But nature went right on
about; her business and today in
many sections yields are close to
normal. \ _
State Press in the Dallas News:
I he drouth was exaggerated in
the exaggerating states. Texas,
not being one of. the above men-
tioned, had a real drouth, a warp-
ing, blistering drouth. Insuffici-
ent moisture reduced crops to
zero .in some Texas counties and
to—only a few degrees
in lots of counties. But Texas
lived through the dry year as it
is living through the depressions
years—with a good deal of grum-
ble, but not without courage.
Texas is that way. . She has re-
cuperative powers beyond the rest
of the world. There, are times
when all. seems lost, then a sud-
den change of weather puts an
entirely different and wholly
beautiful face on everything.
Smiles succeed frowns and songs
reverberate where low undulations
were heard before. Such is Tex-
as. The States of the Middle
West put up a pitiful pl^a this
summer. They suffered a;drouth
of thfee months’ duration and
their ’fluence men hurried to
Washington or to the White
House and wept on every shoulder
that offered, a sympathetic head
rest. There wasn’t going to be
any com, so the pigs would
starve and the beef cattle curl up
and die, bleating freely. Yet we
find, by report, quite a crop of
nice-looking nubbins being har-
vested in the com States and
quite a neat amount, of meat go-
ing to market from those regions.
Texas doesn’t consider that it
has a drouth unless there have
been six months of rainless
weather. Sometimes,” In some por-
tions of Texas, the dry' wegthgr
may last a year or two years,
without extorting much of a hol-
ler from the people. Texas is
that way, Texans the same.
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If you think men are stronger
than women, then show us a
Teague man who could cook a
meal with two babies underfoot
without going crazy.
or it will soon be general-through-
out the United States.
AH owners of elm trees in and
around Teague are warned not to
neglect hiv immediate inspection
of them. If there is a semblance
of scale, or any indication that
insect pests are working on them,
they are- urged to take, immediate
steps to eradicate the pe^t, even
though it is necessary to cut and
bum the trees. Like the oak, the
elm is one of the greatest forest
^ ^ ^1% Alt
TTlt? nn llUft ctrtl tllcj
must not be permitted to perish
through lack of attention now
that the deadly scourge threat-
ens them.
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BACK TO THE PIONEERS..
No matter how'hard the depres-
sion may have . hit him, • fair-
minded citizens must admit that
some few blessings really came
out of it. Take, for instance,
the way many farm women of-to-
day have turned back to the very
practices their grandmothers used
ir. pioneer days in providing food
and other nepessities of life.
While many t»f them have autos,
washing machines and other 20th
century conveniences, they have
been forced to go back—te-.mak-
ing their own bread, cheese, soap,
household cleaning supplies and
so on. Others are repairing and
making their own furniture. Ac-
cording to the Department of Ag-
riculture, many young rural
wives who had never tasted any-
thing but baker’s bread are now
proudly baking their own. The
reason for this, the Department
points out, is that their money
or ready cash is so limited that
they cannot spend a penny for
anything they can make them-
selves. Don’t offer your sympathy
in such cases. It is really one of
the few blessings that have come
out of the depression.
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With the children in school and
out from underfoot the poor tired
mother can now get a little more
time to do her telephoning.
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This day in time any Teague
girl is old-fashioned if she thinks
eight people can’t ride in a coupe.
warns Paul in our Golden Text.
How greatly we need today this
advice! The repeal of the 18th
Amendment was
hailed as a great
forward step
toward real tem-
perance, but as
everyone now
knows, it has not
solved the liquor
problem. In fact
we are now just'
about where we
were a generation
ago when the
fight against the
saloon was
gathering
momentum.
-JlQotlegging is
Joseph H. Choate, Jr., director of
the Federal Alcohol Control Admin-
istration, reports that two-thirds of
all the liquor now sold in the coun-
try is made in illicit stills. The high
tax on liquor makes it profitable tc
make and sell it under cover so as
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Rev. Chat. E. Dunn
still flourishing.
makes imperative a determined war
on~bootleggers by both federal and
state authorities.
The saloon also Is back despite
the loud assurances that it would
never return. “And it is back,” as
the New Jersey commissioner of al-
cohol control points out, “bemuse
the people want it back.”
And it is painfully revealing to
read newspaper reports in Chicago
and elsewhere telling of an increase
in drunken driving. Insurance statis-
tics reveal that out of the total
number of drivers involved in motor
car accidenfs the first half of this
year, 2.36%r were 'declared intoxi-
cated, as against 1.66% in the cor-
responding period of 1933, an in-
crease Of 42%. ■
The problem of course is one of
great complexity. We are in a period
of readjustment. What the church
and the community must do is to
find the most workable plan of
effectively reducing the consump-
tion of alcoholic beverages. In this
militant crusade we cannot afford
to fail.
He told them how he had left with his two
companions, but on reaching Athens .had
changed his mind and sent Sttas and Timothy
back: ----r—
Wherefore when we could no longer forbear,
we thought it good to f>$ left at Athens alone,
And sent Timotheus, our brother, and minis-
ter of God, and our feljow-labourer in the gos-
pel of Christ, to establish you. -v\
It almost killed him to think that they
misfit have forsaken their faith. But they had
Bruce Banos not; they were Standing fast.
But when Timotheus came from you unto us, and brought us
~ good tidings of your faith and charjey, and that-ye have good re-
membrance of, us always, desiring greatly to see us, as we also .to^
see you : )
Therefore, brethren, we are comforted over you in all /bur
affliction and distress by your faith:________■ ..........- i
For now wc live, if ye “stand fast in the Lord.
So he dictated, fast as Timothy could write, and sent the
letter by a messenger going north fi^m Corinth. He put in
sundry exhortations, a little doctrinal teaching, and started
the message forth on its eventful journey, He did not know
that he had begun a n^w Bible He never suspected that this
impetuously composed first letter to the Thessalonians was
to be the first volume in a new sacred library. But it was;
and that is the way the New Testament began.
He had to write a second letter to the Thessalonians t6
answer some questions growing, out of the first one. These
letters were lent to near-by churches and copied and read to
the congregations. Paul heard, how widely they were used
and so he wrote more and more. He had learned to supple-
“ment The living voice with the written page. If he were at
work to-day he would not only preach; he would be a regular
contributor to the press. •
After eighteen months in Corinth he went back to Jerusalem The girl was naturally dlstrai
and gave account of his second missionary journey. He had a
string of new churches through Asia Minor, Macedonia and
Greece. He had developed his method, and he was happy
in the knowledge of a great success. He learned that in Galatia, in
Asia Minor, where he had established churches, he had been fol-
lowed by fundamentalists who were-telling the people that Paul
-was-not.really an apostle: that he possessed no real authority:
that the good news was defective because he did not teach the
Mosaic law.
celles, of Middle, I
proposed marriage to her. ’*
She was an orphan and livt.
her brother. Edmund, but fo^
unaccountable reason he odi
thg match.
The girl, who was one of the
ties of the neighborhood, wag |
, fond of her brother, and tn ji
ence to his wishes she consent]
postpone the wedding for an J
nlte period,
Love deferred is very likely
love enkindled, and George
tiers was more than ever deslr
making the girl his wife.
They corresponded frequently
one night Manners called unex
edly to renew his suit.
The brother was not at ho_
the time and Manners consent)
wait and see him.
The interview between the)
men was not a pleasant one.
They retired to an adjoining t
and when they emerged twenty-1
utes later, Manners had a
flushed face and -Edmund Las
wore a look of dogged det
tion.
On leaving, the suitor ofTe
shake hands with Lascelles, but|
repulsed."
As he left the house he freed
mind:
"I’ve asked you for the ha
your sister for the last tlme.l
have tried to be nice, but myf
tlence Is at an end. The next
we meet the results may be a 1
different."
Next Week: Paul Scores Fundamentalists Coprrifht. Bobbs-Merriil Co.
When accumulating a swell
to avoid the tax. This situation' head tt is jUst as well k6ep a
mol/oc mi nuntiwo o Hetarminen war *
few patches handy for the com-
ing puncture.
What has become of the . old
fashioned Teague woman who
used to be, on good terms with
her neighbors, only when there
was a revival meeting going on
in town?
Another thing worth remember-
ing/ is that it’s going to have to
be “America first” if we are go-
ing to make America last. , '
The pioneers rid the land of
wolves. You see, they didn’t cage
them for awhile and then parole
them.
No sensible Freestone county,
man wjll brag that he is “a man
of strong convictions.” The less
one knows the stronger his con-
victions are.
It’s all very well for Germany
to. make dress materials out of
wood, but what are they going to
do about the knot-holes?
Fame is a gobd deal like a
woman. Winning it isn’t the end;
you have got to keep on feeding
it.
While Kentucky is busy erack-
ing political nuts other.states are
wondering what she will do with
all her colonels.
When tt‘ Freestone county citi-
zen insists an the right to blow
his own horn he never figures
that he ifiay come out the little
encf of it.
/
Prospective autumn brides may
face the immediate future without
undue alarm. Uncle Sam says
there, wijl he no shortage of can-
ned goods: ’ *
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The average Teague man is a
funny animal. He can always
see dust on the floor but he never
sees his discarded newspaper,
socks and underwear.
EASIEST 1MIU6S
III THE. WOJU4> FEB.
FOL-K4 TO DO IS "Til FOR-
CalVE THEIR. EUEMlES.,
AFTER THEY 66T EVEU
WITM EM.
The Fact Finders
—AND THEIR DISCOVERIES.
By ED KRESSY
MOW FOB DI6GIUG UP
AUemiEft FACT OB TWO-
let’s see what vie cam
FIND
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TDU WOULD BETUBKI TO YOUR
STARTlNO POINT.,
TIMES IT HAS BEEH
CONSIDERED AMOUG
THE BE0OUIU ARABS
A SERIOUS BREACH OF
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UP 1bTHE FOOUT or
A MAMS TEUTWITH-
OUTSToPPlUG AMD
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WE HAVE. A LITTLE TIME
LEFT TO BMP OUE MORE.
FACT before returning
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0. Cain, Tea
at this quarrel between the two i
she loved most.
Lascelles was morose aud si]
for a long time and then he
his hat and left the house.
Shortly after ten o’clock
night two men came to the do
the cottage, carrying betweeatl
the dead body of Bdrnund Lasce|
It was a terrible shock and
almost fainted. But before she I
time to recover, George Mans
came to the house with his face!
hands marked with blood.
He said that he had fouiid I
body In a ditch and,had seat-]
It~while he rema
to try to And some clue to
tragedy.
The circumstances were
against George Manners.
Nearly everybody was posll
that he had murdered Lascelles, f
It must be admitted that the
dence was against him.
But there was one who aceed
his protestations of Innocence,
that was Mary Lascelles, the slj
of the victim.
She did everything ln her
for him at the trial, but in sj
of that he was convicted and
demned to death.
Even then the devoted girl did j
despair;---Sb® worked until she
secured a reprieve for the man
loved.
After that she enlisted the
ices of a detective and set ab
the seemingly hopeless task of |
curing evidence that would .ex
erate Manners.
Now one of the curious
shocking features of the crime
the fact that the right has
been cut from the body of Edn
Lascelles.
It contained a costly sapp
ring that he had been In the
wearing.
No trace of the missing hand
been obtained before the trial]
Manners, and when the detectlr
James Shropshire—began his
lated task he kept this fact
ily in min'd.
What had become of the hand (
talning the sapphire ring?
That was the question he
himself, not once but a hun
times.
The first clue that he obt
was hr the nature of footp
around the Lascelles home.
Although many weeks had
Shropshire found footprints in
grass. Mp||H
These prints were carefully mej
ured, as they did not corres
with the size of Manners' shoes.j
_ The detective sought the
shoemaker and learned that
were about the size of the
worn by a farmer named
Parker.
Mpre than this, the footp
when followed led to the hou
this man.
An examination of his barn
closed a knife that had been
den ln one of the stalls.
There was a loose board in
floor of the barn, and when
waa removed the detective
the missing hand buried
earth.
Parker, confronted with
dence. confessed that he had
dered Lascelles.
He said he had been
the sapphire ring,
moonlight, and1 that
to get It off, had se
from the arm. ' -q
He waa t—* *“** ‘
soon after l
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Stringer, William J. The Teague Chronicle (Teague, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, October 26, 1934, newspaper, October 26, 1934; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1140853/m1/4/: accessed May 3, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Fairfield Library.