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DECATUR. TEXAS. FRIDAY. FEB. 1. 1924
VOL. XLI1I, NO. 41
ESTABLISHED 1881.
($1.50 A YEAR.)
By Arthur Brisbane
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ANVER DEAN MURDER
CASE IS DISMISSED
PATENT GIVEN
DECATUR MAN
ever held in this section of the state. I
Save the exception of Dr. Alford, of ,
a scale of success were de- '
veloped and brought out as only
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KIRBY EODND NOT I
GUILTY BY JURY
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o’clock and the case given to the
jury at once.
Afted being out about twenty
Wires Contractor to
Begin Graveling
North Meridian
Judge S. M. Ward wired R. B.
Sparks, contractor .for graveling the
north end of the Meridian highway to
begin graveling the road at once.
Ambition the Picker
Money Cheap, Stock Nervous
Fourth Dry Anniversary
Enough Wealth For All
The Hen’s Ancestor
minutes the jury returned and ?
rendered a verdict of “not guil-!
i ty.”
When he tired of
tying taxes, his sister, Mrs. Hester
ik the land and went on
(a) To a Wild Rose
(b) An Old Trysting Place—Mac
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Life of MacDowell—Mrs. IL M.
| Helm.
Selection from McDowell, by Miss
I Preston.
I Life of Neven—Mrs. Roy Robert-
• son.
Mightv Lak a Rose—Neven—Mrs.
J. W. Lillard.
Narcissus—Neven—Mrs. Zack Lil-
Sam Pavillard cotton farmer of the 1
| Boyd community, in this county, has
! received advice that a patent has been I
I granted on a device he has invented I
to prevent accidents at railroad cross-
ings. A model of the device is now on ;
exhibition
A demonstration of the operation of
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1 at a’crossing of the Rock Island rail?
Important Legion
Meeting Feb. 4th
TSbere will be a regular meeting of
the Dunaway-Smith Post of the
American Legion at Decatur, in the
Legion Hall. Commander Hardwick
requests that every member in the
county make every effort possible to
he at this meeting as very important
affairs are to be transacted. The Le-
gion is in need of your presence and
were taking place.
“He had a f
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meeting
such a
Washington, Jan. 28.—Former Gov-
ernor Walton of Oklahoma today
asked the supreme court to advance
the hearing of his appeal from the
decision of the federal district court
Slidell High school
r. Defeat Local Lads
The Decatur high school basket ball
team lost a hand fought and bitterly
contested game to the Slidell school i
team last .Saturday night at the col-
lege gym. A full house witnessed the
contest and all were surprised at the
splendid team work of the Slidell
aggregation. Their floor work and
passing was much swifter than that
ofxthe Decatur lads, but the good work
of Ray a
snonsible
‘«n,
The fourth anniversary of the
eighteenth amendment was celebrated
in Washington last week. How do
you think prohibition has worked thus
fair?
Its enemies tell you, truly, that the
bootleg liquor born of prohibition is
the worst ever drunk—it blinds, and
poisons as well as kills.
Friends of prohibition tell you, also
truly, that fewer people go to the jail,
the poor house and the insane asylum
and many more millions are deposited
in savings banks than in the old days.
It is for you to choose. Meanwhile,
be sure of this: Nobody will know
anything about prohibition for at
least sixty years. It will take that
long to prove whether alcohol is
necessary to Northern races—wheth-
er Orientials have amounted to little
because they dring no alcohol, or in
spite of the fact that they drink no
alcohol.
MARRIAGE LICENSE
I. T. Garrison and Ines Wafford.
Alvey Anderson and Leona Ray.
A. W. Wortman and Willie Huch-
aboe
fact of relatives in Oklahoma
were notified. The body was
balmed by Man & Christian and sent
to Oklahoma for interment.
You
Did you know also that
they had gizzards and that scientists
find in skeletons of dinosaurs lavge,
finely polished pebbles with which in
the dinosaur’s gizzard ground up food
as the hen now grinds her food with
gravel in her gizzard?
And did you know that the hen of
today is the direct descendant of the
dinosaur seventy feet long ? The hen
would probably object to that state-
ment while Mr. Bryan objects to
Darwin’s theory. But in both cases
the facts are overwhelming.
A big (Unosaur would weigh 200,000
pounds. What Burbank will reverse
evolution’s process and give us a
chicken of that size?
New York is quite a city. The 1924
telephone book contains more than
750,000 listings. That one city has
more telephones than all of England,
Scotland and Wales put together.
Only a while ago. when men now in
fifties were starting out in life, you
could have bought the original tele-
phone stock at your own price.
It was called an •'interesting toy."
network of lateral roads leading to
them from all over the county. He
believes in guarding the county
treasury and keeping a credit balance
in the bank, and also of having work {
| done under competent supervision in
, order that full value may be received
for the money spent. Having made a
success of his own business, he thinks
he is competent to manage a part of
the county business, and if elected
will give him time and talent to that
end.
urday, February 23, as the date for
! the election. Official notice of the
i election as required by law appears in
this issue of the Index.
The road called for in the election
is a hard-surfaced lateral, to connect
I at Bridgeport with the 39th Highway
and runs to Boonville and Balaora, on
to Poolville, Parker county, and there
meets another hard-surfaced lateral
that connects with Bankhead High-
way at Weatherford. Various voting
places interested in the election are
Boonville, Balsora, Willow Point and
Bethel. Citizens of these places are
thoroughly alive to the importance of
better road conditions and it is pre-
dicted that the issue will carry with
votes to spare.
Chorus*—Boat Song—Neven—Club
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CARD OF THANKS
It is with grateful hearts we wish
to thank our good friends and neigh-
bors for their many kind and thought
ful acts shown us in our recent be- . .
reavement, and for the beautiful floral i influence and you need the Legion Jf
offerings. God’s richest 1 ’ ’ , ’
rest with you.
MRS. W. J. STOKES
AND CHILDREN
was <
You could borrow generally comes to most men only!
All Air O VI cl f /A cn/O’ . 1 tmo »•£- z.C i 1
garded with such favor that Chief ’
I Fncrinnor T. A fliwri n nf thn atntp
was modest,
I. C. Herman, manufacturer of
handkerchiefs, gives his business to
employes saying, “I am rich enough,’’
and that surprises us.
We should all be rich enough, ten
times too rich, as regards what we
really need if the earth were properly
developed and competition were re-
placed by emulation.
This earth would produce more than
enough of everything for all the
people on it, and for ten times as
many people, if it were intelligently
developed, as it will be some day.
It happens once in a while, as Sen-
ator Capper tells you. Swindlers per-
suaded Dave Tapper, of Iowa, to buy
some land in a Texas town “to be
built immediately." Tapper paid $50
and got a deed,
pay ..
Egbert, took ....
paying. Now, after twenty-three
years, an oil company has paid Mrs.
Egbert $10,000 for her land and one-
eighth of all the oil. That “eighth”
pays her $1,000 per month. The
. swindlers swindled themselves out of
a fortune.
But observe tht Mrs. Egbert did not
buy stock—she bought land, and
Texas land at thlft. there is nothing
like owning part of the earth.
Dinosaurs used to lay eggs,
knew that.
Coffee Talks ’ | of man, yet a
glad to take part in this!
because you are offering
man as Will Edwards for the
Lieutenant-Governorship of Texas,”
said Roy C. Coffee, of Decatur mem-
ber of the 37th and 38th Legislatures
of the State and former resident of
Denton. “I knew this man Edwards
while I was in the last • Legislature I
and there are several outstanding
things about the service he rendered
while there. He went there unac-
quainted with Legislative action, un-
acquainted, personally at least, with
many of the men who made up our
lawmaking body. But it was not long
before" he was well known to all of the
members of both Houses and was
I
l vvau a muu muiv i ne is lo uv cum iiienueu iur trie auie ,
or some slower and j way he has performed his duties as '
The stock market) Judge, and looked after the vexing j
road problems which 1
when he went into office. i
blessings you expect to get that bonus, so by
all means, come.
Don’t forget the date, Monday night
February 4th.
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Mrs. Ben Grubbs entertained with
bridge Wednesday afternoon, honor-
ing Mrs. E. W. Bass of Fort Worth.
There wil be a pie supper at Oak
Grove church house Friday night,
February 1st Everybody invited.
The L. A. L. Club were entertained
by Miss Annie Rhine at the home of
1 Miss Annie Workman, Wednesday
night.
Mrs. J. B. Tate, Corinth, Mrs. Jim
Sycamore, Miss Alexander,
, are all patients in the
Decatur Sanitarium this week.
Argument in the case of the
State vs Oliver Kirby, charged
witWthe killing of Wm. Coving-
ton on the night of Monday, De- )
cember 10, was brought to a’
close Friday evening last at 5
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Denton Will Have
Six Fairs in Fall
Denton, Texas, Jan. 29—Six fairs
„ will be held in Denton county next
CROSSING ACCIDENTS IS AP-1 fall, the dates for all of which have1
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It is suggested that the United
States admit “picked immigrants.”
How will you pick them ? A picking
system would have rejected Stein-
metz, crippled hunchback, who came
here as a boy, became head electrician
of the General Electric Company, and
created work for many thousands.
The picking system would have re-
jected Napoleon, had he come to the
United States when he went down to
Italy and beat the Austrians. He was
undersized, pallid, thin and suffering I
from the itch.
The picking system would have I
turned away Pope, who wrote the I
“Essay on Man” and some other
things worth while. He was such a
sickly little creature that he had to be ■
sewed up in a canvas jacket each
morning, that he might sit up
straight and write.
The safest “picking system” is to
allow immigrants in future as in
past, to be selected by their own am-
bition and energy.
Money in the stock market was
cheap last week.
it at 4 per cent if you wanted to spec- I
ulate in stocks. It cost a little morel
if you wanted it for some slower and j
duller business.
went up and down like the pulse of a I
nervous lady expecting a proposal.
Gentlemen that are gambling (or as
they would prefer to put it, “invest-
ing”) don’t quite know what is going)
to happen with General Dawes in
Paris and the Labor Party in the
House of Parliament.
There was some comfort for the
farmers, corn and oats going to new'
high prices for the season. Of course,
the new high prices come, as usual,)
after nearly all the farmers have sold i
their corn and oats.
MAN DROPS DEAD WHILE AT A COUNTRY DANCE
j lard.
Trio—Good Night—Neven—Mes-
i dames Fullingim, Payne, anad Thur-
mond,
) Selection form Neven—Artie Mae
’ Floyd.
' Chnni,a Rrvn ^nnn>. MnVAn (7111L
News By Telegraph
lators upon important questions.” j | |
“Thi s man you are offering for) LONDON, Jan. 26.—Among the
Lieutenant Governor is a friendly sort new Labor ministerial appointments
strong enough, the most interesting is that of Miss
powerful enough and intellectual Margaret Bondfleld, the first woman
enough to cope with the best intellects) to find a place in the British Govern-
ment.
date. 1 , .
had not signed the petition as it was I
not generally known that such a paper
was being circulated.
While committees were out, Judge )
Speer turned the gathering into a
sort of “experience meeting” and
numbers of short and enthusiastic j
speeches were made giving reasons
why Edwards should be elected to the j
office.
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and Guthrie was largely re-
j in holding down the score.
The locals had many opportunities to
score but the breaks seemed to be1
against them as only two field goals
were made during both halves, giving
Decatur only four points.
Line-up, Decatur: Ford and Hughes,
forwards; Petty, center; Ray and
Guthrie, guards. Substitutes: Spain
for Hughes.
Line-up for Slidell: Loter and
Parell, forwards; Rudd and Atcheson,
guards; Burton, center.
Decatur’s points were made by Ford
who threw two field goals. For the
Slidell boys Loter and Parell threw
two field goals while Burton and At- the county made up the enthusiastic f
cheson made one each. Points made band of Edwards’ supporters. A del-
on free throws were made by Atche- egation from Wise county was there
son, 3; Loter 2, and Parell 1. Final to offer its support and that of friends
soore was 12 for Slidell, 4 for Decatur, and neighbors, to the Denton County
Mir. and Mrs. C. E. Shaw and son I
Arnold, Marco Terry, Herschel Wil-! - CAn , . ... ..
murth, Leroy Smitherman, Clinton V50° P' h° endorMd the candi'
McGhee, and Miss Florence Brammer , dacy of Edwards and approved of the
of Rhome, werein Decatur Thursday.) plan to form a club in Denton county
SAVE MONEY. Make your own ! worJ‘. *n behal£jaa "hibited.
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flowers and Spring Braids, aand get rounding towns and at the schools and
new ideas. MRS. E. B. MELTON. | collages here by friends of the candi-
Wise county’s finest land. Mr. Walk-
Many persons, it was stated, ’ fully informed about the actions that
‘ ----'were taking place.
“He had a faculty for making .-
friends and was one of the most pop-I ' ark Springs,
ular men in the lower house,” Coffee ) ™
continued. “He was modest, plain ) ,
and unassuming and yet his advice' j
was sought by any number of Legis-, \
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The case of Anver Dean, charged
with the death of H. F. Jones, a sixty-
year-old cotton picker, at the time of
the burning of the W. H. Miles home,
nine miles southeast of Decatur, Sept.
- 10, 1923, was dismissed by County
Attorney P. L. Gettys this week.
This change grew out of the burn-
ing of the W. H. Miles home, nine
miles southwest of Decatur on the
night of Monday, September 10, 1923.
) 11. F. Jones, 60 years old, a cotton
| picker, staying in the Miles home, was
burned to death. His charm! body
was found at the foot of the stairway.
On investigation by Sheriff Workman
and County Attorney Gettys, Avner
Dean, who had been employed as a
cotton picker by a neighbor of Miles,
was arrested on a charge of arson and
placed in the county jail.
The story goes that Dean had been
a friend of the Miles family
) years ago when he had courted
older daughter in Plano. lie ™..
Rhome and found work as a cotton
picker, when he became attentive to
Miss Elizabeth Miles. It is reported
that they had a falling out; Miss
Miles was awakened the night of the
fire by some one pulling her out of
bed and when she screamed her assa-
ilant fled. As he ran through the back
door he was seen to strike a match
and instantly the home was in flames.
It is believed that highly inflammable
liquid was scattered over the house.
In the house were Mr. and Mrs. W.
IL Miles, two daughters, one son and
five or six cotton pickers, including
Jones who lost his life. All others
escaped, several leaping from upstairs
windows. The loss of home and all
furniture is estimated at $10,000 with
$2,500 insurance.
On December 22nd, Dean was con-
victed of the Arson charge, and given
a sentence of fifteen years in the peni-
tentiary.
were present. Dr. Alford1 was detain- :
ed by important (business at home. |
The important' detail of dairying
entering into the conduct of the busi-
ness on a scale of success were de- ! is the proud possessor of 500 acres of
veloped and brought out as only ca-1 \yjge county’s finest land. Mr. Walk-
pable men of science and experience ■ er js a believer in good roads, and he
can achieve. There were good audi- wanf,? lgee two good thoroughfares I
ences of the communities foremost crosRing the county fn>m North to!
farmers and dairymen present to South and East to Wegt and then a
hear the discussions. The testimom-. na¥virnr}i. i„QZj;no. +„
als of these were to the effect that
the meetings had been eminently
worth while and had conferred inval-
uable benefit on the dairy constitu-
ency. During the two days most ev-
ery part of the county was repre-
sented and a car load or two of visit-
ors were on hand from Bowie among
them Messrs. Young and Williamson
directors of the Bowie Chamber of
Commerce, who were so pleased with
the meetings that they straightway
made arrangements flor holding of (
a like meeting at Bowie next month. [
During the course of his discussion
Lindsley Waters, president of the
Tennessee Dairies., Inc., Dallas, re-
ferred to Decatur as being the out-
standing dairy region of Texas. His
talk on the superiority of a dairy com '
munity over another of farm^type | Friday evening, during a dance at
was very convincing*. I the home of John Hague, nine miles
Due to the interest developed m I southeast of Decatur, near the Key-
better cows during the meetings stone wen, the body of S. H. Brimm,
County Agent Love will soon under-1 an employee of Mr. Hodges and one
take the effort of cow testing among of the partioipants of the dance, was
the herds of the dairymen who had j found jn the kitchen dead, where he is
shown concern to know which of their supposed to have died from heart
cows were paying their way. failure. He had been dancing and
stepped into the kitchen when he was
stricken. He was found by other
guests who heard the noise, went in
to find the cause, when they found
him lying on the floor. He had a
small cut on his cheek and forehead.
Letters on his person revealed the
Sneer then read a letter from T. J.
McMurray
writer offered to champion the cauae
of “my neighbor.” He said that tho
he could not be at the organization of
the Club in body he was there in
spirit and that any service he could
uu vv auvaiitc VII<7 tauuwwuy ui virc wiciui vi «v.( thi
Denton county man would be willingly primary campaign manager announc-
man
enough i
in the State or Nation. And when the
people of Denton County offers a man
like Bill Edwards for a state office
the people of Wise county will rise
1,000,000 strong, so to speak, to his
) support,” he concluded.
of Decatur wherein the for Western Oklahoma, which refused
to intervene in his impeachment.
St. Louis, Jan. 29.—U. S. Senator
James A. Reed » a candidate for the
<».r. v.... Democratic presidential nomination,
do to advance the candidacy of the Ed Glenn of Louisana, Mo., his 1922
| ed this afternoon.
Denton Record-Chronicle: More
than than 500 persons, said to be the
largest crowd ever assembled in Den-
) ton county for the purpose of forming
a political club, gathered in the dis-
trict court room at 2 p. m. Friday to
organize a Will C. Edwards-for-Lieu-
tenant-Governor Club in Denton
County. Persons from practically
every walk Th life—farmers, merch-
ants, clerks, lawyers, doctors, school
teachers, mechanics, preachers and
housewives—were there. Delegations
from practically every community in
the county mad< .
Edwards’ supporters.
son, 3; Loter 2, and Parell 1. Final. to offer its support and that of friends
I candidate.
A petition signed by more than
last Wednesday and Thursday under!
the auspices of County Agent Love i
and the Chamber of Commerce, was I
the most successful event of its kind farme.rs from the Brumlow commu-i INVENTION TO PREVENT RAIL
PROVED BY COMMISSION. I been set, according to announcement I
I by Secretary H. F. Browder of the
Chamber of Commerce. Five com-
munity fairs will be held, which will
culminate in the annual county fair
to be held in Denton October 29, SO,
31, and November 1.
r inc vexing
he inherited !
wnen lie wene ineu vmw.
With the experience that he has j
already had, and what he will accu- [
mujate by the expiration of his first I
term, he will be in a position to ren-1
der still more valuable service to the
people of Wise county.
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Dairy Short Course
A Successful Event
The two day’s dairy short course W. H. Walker For
I held in the Chamber of Commerce hall j
Commissioner 1 and 6
W. H. Walker, one of the successful
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nity announces this week as a candi-1
Danas,” all the’ leading participants date for Commissioner for Precincts
scheduled in the_program of education 1 and 6. Mr. Walker has lived in his I
present location for 42 years. Begin- '
ning with a small place he has added
to it from time to time until now he
The community fairs are to be held a bond issue in the eum of $76,000
; for road building purposes in Justice
Lewisvilie, September 25, 26 and ) Pj ec inct.No. AX™-?"
Cktobe"/' It) and "1'1;” Aubrey,* October was granted, the court fixing Sat-
' err 1 e n.' 1 ZA _ x _f1 no n 4 lirriMV KAIYr'll A t.nr» llAfiA Ynr
witnesseel by Walter Splawn, of an<l 25.
MUSICIAN’S CLUB
Roll call—Current musical events.
Early American Music—Mrs. S. A.
) Lillard, Sr.
Intercession was made for a further .
demonstration of the invention on the) _ ™
line of the Fort Worth & Denver rail-' Dowell—Mro. Torn Wright,
road at a crossing within the city ’
limits of Decatur and this will soon be )
carried out, it is said. '
ANOTHER ROAD
BOND ELECTION
Bridgeport Index: Qualified voters
in Road District No. 4 last we^ filed
petition with Conuniasionen Court of
Wise county for an election authorts-
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as follows"“ U"‘ 3 *"““i foJ road building, purposes in justice
LewisvilTe, September 25, 26 and ; Precinct No. 8. The petition had more
the invention was given last summer 27; Justin, October 3 and 4; Roanoke,) Jhe ™I”^te m.mbejr fiOf.nnames
at a crossing of the Rock Island rail- j--------
road in the town of Boyd, Texas, and and 18; Pilot Point, October 23, 24
was ' ’ . ’ .
the state railway commission and sev-
eral company officials, and was re-
Engineer L. A. Gueringer of the state
commission was commissioned to
make a technical examination.
Judge S. M. Ward
For Re-Election
County Judge S. M. Ward announ-!
i ces this week as a candidate for re- '
j election. Judge Ward has been in!
office a little over a year, and by close
j study of the affairs of the county, and
strict attention to the duties of his )
office has developed an efficiency that;
after several years of experience.
He is to be commended for the able
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