The DeLeon Free Press. (De Leon, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, January 15, 1937 Page: 1 of 8
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VOLUME 46 — NUMBER 30.
DE LEON, COMANCHE COUNTY, TEXAS
FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1937.
Governor Names
Committee Of 100
As Safety Council
Gov. Janies V. Allred has
committee of 100 persons
throughout Texas to serve
(j"vprnor’s Traffic Safety
earned a
residing
on the
Com mit-
l>-e. The committee will meet thq
latter part of January. The commit-
tee will call upon civic leaders
throughout Texas to aid in reducing
the toll of highway accidents.
The governor noted figures releas-
ed by the United States Department
of Commerce that the number of au-
JtomoUile.-death»-in-Texas during the
past 11 months totaled 1,852, with
395,708 fatalities in the entire na-
tion. Public safety department statis-
tics showed that one'highway traffic
death occurred every four hours and
4s minutes in 1936.
Senator ConnaHv
introduced Farm
Tenancy Bill
*
Washington-, D. January 6th:—
Senator Tom Connally, of Texas, to-
day introduced in the Senate a hill
creating the Farm Tenant Home
Purchase Corporation.
The measure provides for a com-
prehensive system of 13'nd purchases
and loans whereby farm tenants may
become home owners and may ae-
ijuire farm lands in amount suffi-
cient to provide a livelihood for their
families and income sufficient to
amortize the indebtedness.
Authorization is made for one bii-
•lu n dollars capital stock of the cor-
poration, which is to be provided by
allotments and appropriations from
time to time as necessity may re-
quire. The administration of the
plan is vested in a fc 'ard of five
members, including the Secretary of
Agriculture and the Governor of the
Farm Credit Administration. It out-
lines a plan whereby the' Board may
sell individual tracts or loan * money
for the purchase of individual tracts
or may also, establish colonies of
home owners.
It is provided that the interest rate
on such purchases shall be two per
cent annually. In addition the
purchaser must pay an installment
to meet the retirement of the debt
over a period of years. It is also
provide*! that purchasers must dem-
onstrate their experience as farmers
and shall satisfy the Board as to
their thrift and character. It is also
required that purchasers shall adopt
approved methods of soil conserva-
tion and land utilization on the land
ac purchased. The bill is offered to
* carry out a widespread demand for a
comprehensive, permanent system,
whereby farm tenants may become
I he owners of the land which they
till.
Filing of Chattel
Mortgages Reaches
£sew High Mark
On January 4th, 1937 128 chattel'
moitgages were filed tor registry
tion in trho Countv Clerk’s office. Orth
hank sent . such insti umi-uts.
128-.is-.tlui largest number of chattel
mortgages filed in one day in the
last thpee years.
The filing of chatel mortgages is a
good sign of prosperity. Mortgages I pawned
are a sign of credit—credit indicates mefqing 0f
prosperity.
Bank Declares Dcsdemona Man
Dividend, Howard j Loses Life In
Is New Director
Fall On Ice
Rainfall During
1936 Was Above
Sectional Average
J W. H \v;t!* 1 is the nt-wly elected
member of the it ard of Directors of
the Farmers & Merchants National
Bank, taking the
by the death of T P. Patterson. Mr.
was chosen at the first
the new voar held at the
j banking house Tuesday.
The batik declared a 20 per cent
dividend, 10 per cent of wjiich was on
the earnings of 1936 and 10 per cent
von recovery of losses for past years.
| The affairs of the bank are
A 1 otal rainfall of 33.97 inches dur-
ing the year 193,6 was 'almost-'exactly1
three inches less than thwgFdht^TP^
eerd for the preceding year, but was
still slightly above the government
average for this section of the coun-
try. Theuainfall set a record for the
largest precipitation in a single
month since the Free Press commenc-
ed keeping account of rainfall nine
years ago. September was, the- wet
month and the record' shows F2.79
inches of rain fell in that month
alone-.- - September of 1935 was al-o
a vet" month with a rainfall of 7.02
inches; however, April was the wet-*
test month of 1935, with 7.73 inches.
May was the second, wettest month
in 1936, with 8.57 inches.
The rainfall by-months for 1936 fol-
lows:
Januaiy _________________
_ .75
Februaj^- ____
_ .28
March _________wl____’ _
April-____________________
. 1.11
1.54
May _____________________
June .
.00
July _______________________
_ 2.76
August ■ .. . _
_ .75
September ___;________
12.70
October _________
. 3.53
November
.25
December
1.73
Total ________ .
33.97
The total rainfall by years for the
past nine years, follows:
1928 28.76
19*9 _______ 19.55
1930 24.98
1931 ____________________ 23.99
1932 ________2___________ 34.00
1933 ____________________ 20.59
1934 18.18
1935 ___________________J 37.98
1936 1--------------------- 33.97
Mrs. G. P.. Donnell returned Tues-
day to her home in Mexia after visit-
ing relatives here.
On Silver Screen
—At The Liberty—
Friday— Comedy, thrills, mystery,
Zasu Pitts and James Gleason jn-JRw
Plot Thickens. Zasu PitTs funnier
than ever. Also a good two reel
comedy.
Saturday—A big triple bill. Johnny
Macjk'-Brown in The Undercover Man.
A thrilling, outdoor action' drama.
Also Ace Drummond and. a good- Vi—
tagraph Blue Ribbon Comedy. You’ll
like this three in one show.
Sunday & Monday—A great show.
M. G. M.’s Great Ziegfield. William
Powell, Myrna Loy, Louise Rainer
“"iand a" great -supporting cast. Door
open Sunday afternoon at 2:15, show
starts at 2:30. Only one show being
shown during the afternoon. Night
doors open at 7:15, show starting at
\7:30. Admission 10 and 25c.
Tuesday—A big new bargain night.
40c to everyone. A fine show will
,be announced later. Cheaper than
staying home and burning your own
gas. Remember Bargain Night,
Tuesday night 10c to all.
Wednesday and Thursday—Anoth-
er fine hit from M. G. M. Clark Ga-
ble and Joan Crawford in Love On
fcThe Run.
A smart up to the minute show
equally as fine as Libelled Lady.
Y oil’ll like Love On The Run. Ad-
mission 10 and 20c. Coming soon
Bsnjo On My Knee.
Business In County
Clerk’s Office Shows
Increase During 1936
County Clerk, Hollis Burton’s re-
port shows a decided gaiO for the
year 1936. Clerk Burton turned a
surplus of excess fees of $841.00 into
the General Fund of the County for
1936. The surplus for 19.35 was only
$780.00.
In 1935 there were filed 5756 chat-
tel mortgages; in 1936 there
6581 chattel mortgages filed.
Marriage licenses, also show
gain for 1936. There were issued
1935, 206 m'arriage licene and
1936, 222 were issued.
were
CHIROPRACTOR
OPENS OFFICE IN
TERRILL BUILDING
O. A. Jones, formerly of.....Ranger;
bu,t. coming direct to .Do Leon from
Post, Texas, has opened an .office
and will practice his profession in
the Terrill Building. His offices are
on the second floor. He invites the
patronage of the De Leon public.
Consultations are fiee.
Dr. Jones has been practicing ten
-years. He graduated from the Los-
Angeles, Calif. Chirapractic College,
and practiced three years in Ranger
before going to Post. He is married
and has three children.
Oscar Wall, 45, Desdemon.i man, is
dead following a peculiar accident at,
bis home last Satuidav. Wall was
place made vacant J carrying a log oft his shoulder which
It■* intended cutting into . fire wood.
His feet slipp'd from under him and
t4ve~log in falling, crushed his skull
against the ground. S■ > violent was
h7s fall that his skull was broken ami
his brain crushed against - the ice-
ioated, frozen ground.
Wall was .married and is survived
by his wife and three children. He
has lived about four miles east of
in a very
healthy condition, this would indicate.
All officers i f the bank were re-
elected for the coming year, including
W. H. WiMiams, president; W: A.
Nunnelly, chairman-of'the btard; R.
R. Harvey; actiytvjdce president.; W.
■PrA¥etrverrrtcp-pTr«rritCTrn“J.'D. Tate,
cashier; Miss Nina K. Butler, Assist -
and Cashier; N. W. Pounds and J. W.
Howard, directors.
Dcsdemona, on the Lingleville road,
fnr_majiy years where he was engaged
in fuming. The funeral and burial
was at l owell Cemetery, Sunday af-
r-noon.
Georg.- Wall, who foimerly was in
the employ of the Magnolia Pipe Line
Station, near De Leon, was a brother
of the dead m^i.
WH OCICS HELP* -
tOIMl A(, 1 N=4 WILL - SL LI A LAUNDRY
HU '» Ol.WKR SPRINGS \ [)I)> 2 MACHINES
TO. E\PI \ 1 N PROGRAM
Fred Adcock’s Helpy-Selfy I.aun-
( ounty Agent N. K. Scudder will j die it as added two new standard size
come to Oliver Springs at 7:30 this machines this week, making five now
Monday night, Jan. is. at 7:30 o’clock in .q -ration at his place. The addi-
fo»- the.purpose of exid^injng the)ti. u . t the new euuipment gives his
Ghent Sandei ford
Named Board Head
State Department j
Austin, Ian. 12. .— Ghent Sander- I
ford of Austin today was elected i
chairman of the State Board of Edu-
cation, succeeding Ben F. Tisinger of
Garland. Star-Telegram.
Mr. and Mrs. Sanderford lived here
about fifteen years ago and still
have many friends who will be glad
to hear of the recent honor Mr. San-
derford has leceived.
Federal Faim ‘program for the crop
year 1937.
The meeting, is not for+the people
of any community in particular, but
for all farmers, and a cordial invita-
tion is extended to farmers residing
in adjoining communities to be pres-
ent and hear Mr. Scudder tell of the
plan.
This announcement is authorized by
R. H. Reed of the Oliver Springs
community.
COMANCHE COUNTY
‘ TEACHERS TO MEET IN
DEMONSTRATION SCHOOL
plant a daily capacity of fifty-wash-
ings of average family size. Mr. Ad-
cock has three employees now, and
his business has. grown by leaps and
bounds since be began seven months
ago.
Other modern equipment, besides
the five machines, ale a new ironing
machine, which takes care of flat
work nicely, a water softener, and a
large steam boiler which provides
ample hot water at all times.
ODDFKLLLOYVS HOLD OPEN
HOUSE AND INSTALLA-
TION OF OFFICERS
ASSEMBLY pastor
HOLDING REVIVAL
AT LAIRD HILL
Rev. H. B. Holdridge, local, mer-
chant and a minister in the Methodist
i»church for many years, has gone to
Laird Hill, near Greggton, to hold a
revival meeting for
God -Church there."
the Assembly of
Senator William E. Borah: “\Vo_
can neveiy make any real progress
otowarrUTermanent peace so long as
we Recognize tfe'' institution of war
as legitimate and clothe it with glo-
ry^
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Gregory, Mrs.
Velma Sparks and son, Jack, and J.
D. Roch, Jr., have returned from a
two-week visit to Arizona and Calif.
They visited Mr .and Mrs. Walter
Rose in Yuma. Mrs. Rose will be re-
membered as Miss Estelle Gregory.
While away the party visited Mr.
and Mrs. L. W. Larson at Calexico.
They also visited in San Diego, Los-
Angeles,' Palm Springs, The Rose
Bowl. The party was much impressed
With Hollywood and the beautiful
homes and flowers in Beverly Hills.
The Cotnanche County Educational
Association is to be the guest of the
Comanche City School for the first
meeting of the year, Friday after-
noon and evening, January 29, 1937.
Program
“Class Room Teaching”
Section Meetings—1:30 p. m.
I. Primary3.gg
Meeting Place—West Ward School
Demonstration Teaching
II. Intermediate Grades:
Meeting Place—Grammar School
Demonstration Teaching
III. High School:
Meeting Place—HigTf JjcKobl
Demonstration Teaching
IV. Supt. & Principal’s Section:
Meeting Place—High School Build-
ing
Meeting Place—High School Build-
ing.
Speaker—H. E. Robinson, Deputy
State Superintendent
Time—3:00 o’clock.
V. General Meetings™,
Meeting Placer—High School Audi-
torium
Time—3:45
VI. Reception & Refreshments —
H' me Economics Department
Time—5:00 print.
Place—Home Economics Room.
VII. Picture Show:
Time—6:00 p. m.
The High School Orchestra, with
Pat Howard directing, and the public
school music department, directed by
Miss Pattie Ruth King, will furnish-
music for the occasion.
A select group of visiting teachers
will relieve the Comanche teachers
for a part of the time with the dem-
onstration teaching; and pxjiert
teachers front the Teacher Training
Department of Howard Payne and
Daniel Bak"r Colleges will give spe-
cial work for one hour each in___the
primary and the high school work.
Deppty State Superintendent, H.
E. Robinson, will be the streaker for (-for
the general meeting of th*' after-
noon. ' 3'
E. H. Boulter, President
J. R. BramlUtte, Vice-President
Mrs. C. S. Ross, Secy.
B. R. Me(/orkle, Co. Supt.
De Leon Lodge No. 175 of the
I: O. O. F. held its annual open
house, honoring Thomas Hiley, the
founder of Oddfellowship in the
United States, Thursday night. Odd-
fellows, Rebekahs, and their friends
families were present for this event.
There were several out of town vis-
itors, including W. D. Carroll, former
Deputy-Gran^ Master of the I. O. O.
F. of Texas.
Refreshments were served during
the evening, and the celebration was
marked by the public Installation of
the following officers for the present
Jack Haynes, Noble Graph
Jesse James, Vice Grand
......E. H. Boulter, Secretary
Hardy Caddell, Inside Conductor
Frank Allen, Chaplain
John Grisham, Past Grand
J. G. Cariet'di, Inside Guardian
Frederick G. Harmon, Warden
J. M. Blankenship. Ed Retd, Sup-
porters of the Noble Grand.
Other officers are to tie installed
later.
The fact that Oddfellowship i- a
live and growing organization was
demonstrated by the fact that 10
new members have been initiated in-
to the lodge within the past three
months.
De Leon Picture -
Film Given Texas
Schools By WTCC
Stamford, Texas— Through an ar-
rangement with the Vi-sual Instruc-
tion Bureau, a Division of Extension
for the University of Texas, school
children throughout the entire state
will have an opportunity to see the
forty films used by the West Texas
Chamber of Commerce last season in
All West Texas Community and Re-
source Exhibit at the Fort Worth
Fiontier Centennial.
The films showing the industries,
res. urcej-*__eiiucational and recreatio-
nal activities of the forty West Tex-
as towns were provided by the towns
f'-r th*- Centennial exhibit and were
shown each day during the big "FrbnC
tier shew. They attracted attention
and numerous requests for their loan
have come to the offices of the West
Texas Chamber of Commerce front
other sections of the state. General
interest in them was so great that
the West Texas Chamber of Com-
merce tendered the films to Mrs.
Charles Joe Moort, Chief of the Vis-
ual Instruction Bureau, who will
route them through the bureau’s reg-
ular school channels.
The West Texas Chamber of Com-
merce exhibit which attracted many
visitors at tl;e Centennial last sum-
mer has been held intact in anticipa-
tion of the reopening of the Centen
nial again this year. .
De Leon’s Postal
te ■ (m »
Receipts At New
High Since War
Business in the year 1936 climbed
up to a high record for the De Leon
Post Office. Postal receipts during
the'year totaled #11,041.71 which is
fine of the best barometers of local
business conditions. Wheq the peo-
ple of a community the size of De-
Leon spend that sum in one year for
postage-stamps, “box rent, etc., it la
an indication of a healthy, prosper-
ous business condition.
The receipts for • 1936 were the
highest since far back around World
War- times. War conditions and an oil
boom sent postal receipts to record
high marks at that time. However,
the retord just made by the De Leon
office is probably the highest ever
made in what may be termed as nor-
mal times. f
The receipts of $11,041.71 for 1936
was a gain of $3,778.’25 over the total
business of 1933 when the office did
a gross total of $7,263.46.
The receipts for 1934, totaled $7,-
992.71 jytdj for 1935 the gross total
was, $9,849.60. ...........
A postoffice must sh*hw a business
of $9,412.1^0—4+1- mairTTayf the Second
Class rating. The business for 1936
placed the De I .eon office in Second
Class rank for another year with a
margin of more than $1,600.00 to
spare t
Ten people are regularly. 1 employ-
ed in connection with the De Leon
postoffice, including postmaster,, two
clerks, five carriers, one mail mes-
senger carrying mail to and from
trains, and one special delivery mes-
senger and janitor.
The Po3t __ Office Department
spends approximately $18,000.00 per
year on salaries and for maintaining
quarters in De Leon.
ELECTRICAL FENCE
ON COLLEGE "FARM
EDUCES EXFENCE
A one-wire/ controlled electrical
fence has been installed at the John
Tarleton Agricultural College farm
near StephenviNe.
The fence is designed to' reduce
cost of fence building 80 per cent
and to make practical erection of
temporary fences for grazing cattle
ami sheep -on patches of land.
Another important factor in the
new type of fence is that it elimi-
nates wire cuts to animals.
Tarleton Plow boys
Seek Sixfy-Sixth Win
Tonight Over Hillsboro
Stephenville Jan. 14. —- Either its
sixty-sixth consecutive victory or its-
first defeat in more than three years
is in store for the John Tarleton
Plowboys tomorrow night, when they
meet the Hillsboro Junior College
eager.-* ~at" the Tarleton gym for thejr
second conference game of fhe sea-
KiRMER DE LEON"
MAN HEADS ROTAN
UIVH CLUB
1937
Guy Patterson, former
man, was elected president
van
Late N. A. Palmer
Praised By County
Executive Group
De Leon
if the Ro-
uncheon Club at the first meet-
ing of the new year. Mr Patterson
bus been a resident of Rotan for
many years. Accomplishments of the
Rotan Club in 1936, presented in The
Rotan Advance, show a worthwhile
list of civic accomplishments includ-
ituy“sponsoring a baby beef show, a
beautiful yard contest, railroad week, (
the Rotan fair, made 200 feet of film
the Frontier Centennial, helped
se<-are the $36,000 swimming pool
for Rotan, assisted the ladies in
yqom rent jo.....Cpntihue the sevVirlg
room, sponsored a radio broadcast
front Fort Worth, named a sponsor
to the Cowboy Christmas ball at An-
on, entertained football team and se-
cured a Santa Claus float and parade.
Tn addition* the club spent $65.85
in worth^r-'charity work and influ-
enced the retention of tjie Rotan
Cotton Oil Mill as the company was
considering removing the mill. *
The Indians, veterans front last
year, are touted to Ik; Hillsboro’s
best in years. 1^ is just possible,
they may be the ones to break Tarle-
ton’s unexcelled winning streak.
. Tuesday night the Plowboys took
their first conference game of the
year'AvrtH ati 83-:;o win over T. M. C.
That made 65 in a row. Monday |
.night they defeated N. T. A." (
18.
Outstanding among Tarleton’s 6-
foot-plus carers have been . Killeen,]
Smith,.....Cerrigan, MeConachie, and
Hull.
■fCqa,b W: J. Wisdom said today
that a game with the University of
Mexico is possible for: the near fu-
ture.
The following data and resolutions
concerning the life and death of the
late N. A. Palmer, for several years
County Democratic Chairman, was
adopted at the recent meeting of the
Democratic Executive Committee held
in Comanche.
IN MEMORIAM
To the Chairman and Members of
the Democratic Executive Committee
of Comanche County, in called meet-
ing assembled:
On Sunday afternoon, October 25,
1936, just eight days before the Gen-
eral Election, the Messenger of Death
came to. Hon. Noah A. Palmer, the
Chairman of this Committee and also
a candidate for re-election, with his
name already printed on the ticket,
and summoned him from further act-
ivity in this present life, while lan-
guishing in a - Brownwood hospital.
Funnrat ' services Were had at the
First Baptist Church of Comanche
the following day anil interment was
made in the local cemetery. He,;is
survived by his widow, five daugh-
ters and many other relatives.
Mr. Palmer was a native of this
State, lioru in Leon.' County, about
67 years ago, son of M. L. Palmer,
who was himself a pioneer of that
section,, and, sTTlT Tivin^. The deceas
29 to i8rove to manhood in that county,
land married there at an early age.
For a short time he taught school in
his native county, and then remov-
ed tn Comanche County, and again
SHERIFF SPIVE* ON
JOB; MAKES
(Continued on Page Four)
FRIENDS PiT(,H IN
TO KELT' NABORS
BUILD NEW SHOP
\RREST
A German diploma^ says there will
be no war "between his country and
Russia, only an exchange of dares
and insults. Boys will be boys.—
Dallas News.
“ZOOLOGICAL”
“Bulldogs to Meet Lions in Cage
Series” reads a he&dline in the Bra-
dy Standard. Sounds like there’s
going to be trouble, at the zoo.
BOULTER SISTERS
TO BE HEARD OVER '
RADIO TONIGHT
Misses Felecia Rea, Bettye Joyce
and Nelda Sue Boulter, daughters of
Mr. and Mrs. FI. H. Boulter, and stu-
dents of Chas. Froh, head'of the Pine
Arts Department of John—Tarleton
College, will be heard in piano reci-,
taf along with other students tonight.
(Friday) at 8:00 o’clock. De Leo*
friends will be glad to tune ,. in and
hear them.
Sheriff Will Spivey is. now active
on his new job. His first arrest wa.+
made at t>e Leon the day he took of-
fice. Lee Miller, Rucker youth, was
arrested on forgery and automobile
theft charges at De Leon. After be-
fgg held four days, Miller was re-
leased on $1,000.00 bond in each case
to await action of the grand jury.
Eleven prisoners are now in custo-
dy at the County Jail. Mr. apd Mrs.
Spivey have apartments at the jail,
and W. P. St. Clair, Deputy Sheriff,
has ^n apartment at the Mrs. P. C.
Sloan residence on Brownwood St.,
& dwelling recently purchased by her
{laughter, Mrs. Pearl Phipps, from
D, M. Vinson.—Chief.
tollman gleepers have been intro-
duced in Switzerland. Those moun-
tain climbers should be able to scale
the upper berths With little difficul-
ty. < ;
About twenty-five men, friends of
I,eland Nabors, rolled up their sleeves
figuratively speaking, and helped him
build a new barber shop building,
across the street from Holdridge &
Sons store last Tuesday. The new
house is 14x18 feet with a 9-foot wall
and it is to be painjed white and
green, and have an inside finish of
light-colored paper. M r. Nabors
hopes to have the building complete
and ready for Occupancy thjs Satur-
day.
RESIGNS
Miss Jeanette Egbert, efficient
secretary at the office of Texas Elec-
tric Service Co., has placed- her re-
signation with the, Company, effec-
tive^ February 1st.* Miss Egbert will^
go to Dallas where she will be withN
her sister and expects to work. Mitt
Marjorie Morris will take Miss Eg-
bert’s place and ii being trained far
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Scott, Mrs. R. L. The DeLeon Free Press. (De Leon, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, January 15, 1937, newspaper, January 15, 1937; De Leon, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1143072/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Comanche Public Library.