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THE CHAMPION
VOL. XLH
NO. 34.
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' ‘90th Division Reunion at Okla*
homa City
The Second Annual Reunion
•of the veterans of the 90th Div-
I .ision will be held in Oklahoma
• City, September 25, 26 and 27.
The 90th Division was original-
ly made up of men from Okla-
-homa and Texas and trained at
Camp Travis, Texas. However
many replacements were re-
ceived from every state in the
union. The Division took part
in the St. Mihiel and the Muese-
-Argonne offensives and was one
of the divisions honored by a
element fighting him to a fi:
nad in the county he
LOOK! LOOK!! LOOK!’!
At your Champion sub-
scription date. Paper will
stop when PAY stops.
fl
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<‘<-ount of the two addresses,
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advertisement” space prevents
i'
extreme brevity. ,
Many Senatorial Candidates.
One Lady Aspirant.
There seems to be many Sen-
atorial candidates for the va-
cancy that will be created by
the present encumbent, Hon.
Lon Smith, who has been nom-
inated for the office of state
comptroller. Mr. Smith an-
nounces that he. will not resign
for the present, giving as his
reason that there will likely be
a called session between now
and the general election and he
will remain in the senate for
the present.
It seems that each county in
the district will have a candi-
date except Rusk county. Hon.
Luke Motley will contest for
the place from this county.
Miss Margie Neal of Carthage
will ask for the place and W. C.
Hurst of Longview states that
he will be a contestant. Mr.
considering contesting for the
place. In all probability Mr.
Smith will resign the place in
time for the Governor to order
an election to be held at the
same time of the general elec-
tion, and in that case there
will be no regular democratic
nominee, but all candidates
will run before the general
election.
Many Students Going Away
to School.
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oi schools comes near, there is
New Location for Flat
• Well.
The Champion is informed
that the Shine-Dillon well at
Flat Fork has been abandoned
and that a new location has
been made and another will
be sunk within fifty feet of the
one abandoned. The reason
for the abandoning the present
well is on account of the trou-
ble that they have had with
the casing.
Ready for Saturday Election
County Chairman R. S. San-
ders has mailed out the elec-
tion supplied to the various
managers and everything is set
for the Saturday primary,
there seems to be more inter-
est in the election Saturday
than in the July 24 election.
The campaign in this county
has been intense.
The election managers over
the county have been request-
ed to phone the results here at
as early date as possible. Some
arrangements will be made by
The Champion for the receiv-
ing of tne returns and it is ur-
gently requested that every
election manager call the pro-
per party here at the very
earliest moment after the vote
has been counted and give the
result. The public is interest-
ed and the general result will
be given to the public quickly.
Quite a few students who
have been attending various
summer normal colleges this
summer, have returned home
the past week. Misses Zera.
Crocker, Annie Haley and Ann
nie Mae Campbell have return-
ed from Huntsvile, Misses Lillia
Mae Ballard, Zula Spurlock
and Annie Mae Kimbro, from
-------- tux Austin. We have failed to get
Texas he will not resign, for the names of others.
A teachers certificate exami-
nation was held here this week,
and about 30 applicants wenL
present for examination. Mr. 7
Chandler .states that the coun-
ty seems to have plenty of
teachers to fill all places this
fall.
pany well at Joaquin has a
good showing for oil. The six
meh casing is being set today
at beyond 2500 feet. The
showing is a fair gas pressure
and a good live sand.
Joaquin Receives First Bale.
Joaquin received its first bale
of new cotton on the 8th instant
The coton was raised by J. C.
Daw and was bought by L. m’
& Company at 32 cents.
A 82O.00 premium was paid to
Mr. Daw.
it would compare
with Neff’s.
The debate was a perfectly
friendly one between the two
speakers and the auidence
seemed to enjoy it. After the
speaking there seemed to be
but little discussion on the
street of the governor’s issue
and the large crowd in town
went about there business as
though there had been no
speaking The Champion would
like to give a more extended
<-<-ount of the two addresses,
but the demand for “poliitical
advertisement” space prevents . ,-----. --------
it, or crowds the item down to ^lven ^e J® ^al®e funds to
Washington a*nd his brave
perish if need be.” II
done this he would today be
classed with Benedict Arnold
and not as
statesmen
Bailey cannot hide behind the
volunteered in the
Trade With
Stripling & Armstrong
Drugs, Jewelry and Sta-
tionery. Phone 4 and 5
n V
w
M.
present.
He had thought to resign
that candidates for his place
be saved the expense of a spec-
ial primary election and be-
lieving a n^ore representative
vote would be had on August
28.
District Court On Criminal
Docket.
District court is busy this
calling ordinary felony
ony cases this term.
■ tion in Germany. Every man
B who trained or served any time
| 'with this division is cordially
htfmvited to attend the reunion.
■’The 90th Division has perma-
Wment headquarters in Dallas,
» Texas, in charge of Arthur J.
W Reinhart, Secretary.
/ Special rates have been
■ granted by the railroads from
V .all points in Oklahoma and
■ Texas to all veteran of the 90th
I Division attending the Second
■ Annual Reunion of the 90th
■ Division, which is to be heid
* in Oklaiiorn <’iu, September
25. l-!»3 and 27 a?? rding to
wo'i j. received t»v Arthur J.
Reinhart, Secretary of the 90th
Division Veterans Association
of Dallas. These dates mark
the first three days of the Ok-
i homa State Fair and in adJi-
L tion to this attraction, Mayor
I Walton has promised to make
I "The best entertainment ever
I given anyone and that the city v ’ AAiAA’k'
I will be turned over to t’.ie rorrn- W,3,11 • ^or
! er soldiers during their entire
I stay in the city.”
[ ’ A bully time and a royal
I 'welcome awaits these vets.
I Death of Mrs. Robert Looney
> Mrs. Robert Looney, nee Miss
Virgie Owens, daughter of the
I late Jeff Owens, died TTnmer
Ta., last Wednesday afternoon.
| The remains were buried at
i that place. The Champion
r cannot secure any of the parti-
culars relative to her death,
i further than she was ill with
typhoid fever and had not
I been ill very long. It is
j also said that one of the chil-
dren is ill with the same de-
sease and is critically ill.
B and well known in Center and
B in the community surrounding. ----------------
I She is survived by her husband the ?act that Mr. Neff received
■ and four children, the youngest
■ being three months old. The
I family moved from here to Ho-
■ mer only a short time ago, the
■ move being made on account
■ of Mr. Looney securing employ
■ ment in the oil fields there.
■ (The friends of the family
9 here are in deep sympathy with
9. surviving husband and lit-
9 tleShildren.
■ Miss Corine Thompson of
■ here this week.
a , Mrs. Will Buckner of Orange
city the Su.est.of her
18ter, Mrs. M. Y. Powell. Mr. Bailey’s" w'ar re'co7d“*and
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Mrs. W. M. Chandler, who is
confined at the hospital here
on account of an operation, is
doing very well and will likely
be removed to the family home
within a few days.
Tennessee Wins Worn a n
Suffrage Contest.
Nashville, Aug. 24.—-Ac-
cording to Frank M. Thompson
attorney general of Tennessee,
?A0VoeAn?r, A- H- Roberts at
o clock this morning cer-
tified Tennessee’s ratification
of the suffrage amendment,
sending the certification to Sec-
retary of State Colby by mail.
The 'announcement was
made after Chief Justice LansA
den of the State Supreme Court
on petition of the attorney gen-
eral, had granted a writ of
certiorari and supbrsedeas, vir-
the injunction case brought to
certification, ouf of the
hands of Judge Langford in the
Brido-p, 2°unty Chancery Court. Jus-
tice Lansden ordered all re-
’ 4 cords in the case before the
Supreme Court for review.
Attorney General Thompson
declared the action of Justice
Lansden vacated the injunction
granted by the lower court amf
it was on this express opinion
that the governor certified rat-
ification to Washington.
Argument by the attorney
general on his motion that the
Supreme Court take jurisdic-
tion was made before Justice
Lansden last night at the jus-
tice’s home. Opponents of rat-
ification charge that the pro-
ceedings violate the rules of the
Supreme Court in that the oth-
er party was not notified that
the hearing was to be held.
Mrs. Will Satterfield of Ty- Jw
naa m tne county he received pm ntv-6? ber,brother, j
county he claims as his homp
Mrs. M. Y. Powell. ‘
CTn^ry’maL!heeVerbe To the Presiding Officers of
the Primary.
In view of the fact that the
charge is being made that a
concerted attempt to vote re-
publicans, socialist, etc., in the
democratic primary of August
28th, I urge that every presid-
ing officer, use every lawful
means within his power to pre-
vent such unlawful act.
Democratic oath authorized
( ys the Attorney General and
none but democrats must be al-
lowed to vote.
The presiding officer under
the law and their oath of office,
must challenge the vote of any
person who is not known by
him to be a democrat.' Such
challenged person must take
the oath that he will support
the democratic nominees of the
primary and if he refuses to do
so he shall not be permittea to
cast his ballot. The presiding
officer has a perfect right to
swear every voter that he will
support the nominees. No dem-
ocrat will object to this arid
this method will doubtl -ss be
followed by many presiding of-
------------ avoid any em-
barrassment by singling" out
doubtful cases. On the poll
list opposite the challenged
voter the word “sworn” must
be written.
Very respectfully,
R. S. SANDERS,
County Chairman.
Senator Smith Will Not Resign
Senator Lon A. Smith, nomi-
nee for Comptroller had con-
templated resigning as senator
of this district, that names of
candidates might be placed on
the ballot next Saturday.
Acting on the advice of
friends in the district after it
was stated in the daily press
that there might be a special
session of the Legislature lof
F- RiRingsly and Miss
-------- Winnie Henderson were mar-
week with the criminal docket, j rie(* here this morning,
calling ordinary felony cases, ceremony being said by
The docket has 17 capital fel- Brothers at the parsonage,
ony cases this term, must of - reside m x1-
them being set for special days of tiie county,
of the court.
Monday the case of Lum
3tn!n°®Ce.^..^rict at’ Quired a few1minutesltto1try ff.
Mr. Daw wras charged with the
murder of the negro that shot
and wounded his brother, Will
Daw, some six weeks ago. It
will be remembered that the ne-
gro shot and seriously wounded
Will Daw at his home in the
Fellowship community and
then attempted to escape into
Louisiana. A posse went for
him and located him
edge of the river. He made
fight and was shot. He died
the next day. ihe
found an indictment against
Mr. Lum Daw, and the case
was tried and the jury return-
ed a verdict of not guilty.
The case of Jesse Johnson,
ffiarged with statuatory rape
was tried Monday and the iurv + n i • * y~
ound the defendant guilty'and -y takl,ng Proceedings in
assesesd his punishment at five ** m’unct'"n ‘’a!“
years, with the suspended sen-
tence.
State vs. A. A. 7 ‘ ’
charged with cattle’ theft,'
years, with suspended sentence
Good Oil Showing at Joaquin.
this primary.
Tor Governor:
PAT M. NEFF
. of McLennan county.
JOS. W- BAILEY
of Cooke County
For Lieutenant Governor:
® W. A. JOHNSON
' 1 - l of Hall- County,
' ■ LYNCH DAVIDSON? "
of Harris County.
Tor Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court:
WILLIAM E. HAWKINS
of Hunt County.
WILLIAM PIERSON
Travis County.
[Tor County Judge:
I JOHN B. BURNS
I T. H. POSTELL
tor Sheriff:
I LUCKY PLEASANT
F J. N. SMITH
com-
spent the summer.
cases.
most of TJ16/ reside in the western part
was still thankful for the
munity for the good woman
that was his companion.
His address was mainly in re-
discussed the labor issue at (
important matter"at life UnT I Jasper at'i)uff?altea
He discussed the N?ff land ' ~ ‘ '
P,.M r
i
defs being thrown
ity in which he was born he re-
r—s except
v; at McGregor where he
, - _ i--------J re-
red per Fent of the
>pe of Mrs. Edna'o’.' Patter"- ..... ala no
,e receded more votes than his ward, his home city'
niee opponents combined: p nn n 1^'1 At " i • w.
:he old ~ salog^ (Poiitmar'adVekfeem
defense of their country.
Mr. Blount called attention
to the constitutionality of Mr.
Bailey’s candidacy.' He said
that Mr. Bailey could not serve
as Governor if elected, since
that he had not resided in the
state within the prescribed
time. He s£id that if Mr. Bai-
ley was nominated that. he
would not vote for him in the
general election, but called at-
tention to the danger that
Mr. Bailey should be nominat-
ed that there would likely be a
court proceeding to keep his
name off the ballot in the gen-
eral election and that the elec-
tion would then fall to either
the American Party candidate,
Mr. McGregor or to the Repub-
’ governor.
He said that this could be a
possibility.
He referred to Mr. Kirby in
his speech and said that Mr.
Kirby and Mr. Bailey had been
close friends for a long time,
that Mr. Kirby had in times
past paid Mr. Bailey large fees
for his services and that they
continued to be close friends.
He referred to Mr. Kirby’s
statement relative to Mr. Neff’s
prohibition record and said
that was at a time when prohi-
bition was not an issue in state
politics. He said that Mr. Neff
had at all times been in the
fighting ranks with the prohi-
bitionist and that his home peo-
--------------Pie gave him a wonderful vote
Mrs. Looney was reared here ^e first primary.
Referring to the
matter he called attention
most all the votes of the
munities that this matter
said to be an issue in.
Mr. Garrison, in his open-
ing his address, said that he
right; Right or Wrong My
Country.
While Mr. Bailey is worship-
ing at the shrine of the past,
why did he not draw inspira-
tion from the noble and patriot-
ic sentiment of Stephen Deca-
tur during our war with a for-
eign country. Suppose that
Thomas Jefferson, whom he so
often quotes, had said at the
beginning of the war of the
Revolution: “I’ll close my
mouth and make no attempt to
use the talents that God has
J CHK"
ry on that war, I’ll let Gborge
-. J men
Had he
classed with Benedict
one of the greatest
of all time. Mr.
patriotism of his two sons who
volunteered in the officers
training camp.
Mr. Bailey has at least one
and one-half timse as many
speakers on the stump in Tex-
as as has Mr. Neff. A majority W W
of these are the whiskey poli- ^cers m order to
ticians kicked out of office by
the voters of Texas several
years since. The others are
men like Mr. Kirby who have
an axe to grind, who either own
or are attorneys for men who
own vast bodies of untilled
land. Landlords who pay a
very low tax and who do not
want to be disturbed by Mr
Neff while they hold this land
off the market for speculative
pui poses. Mr. Neff proposes
to put a graduated tax on this
land so that the rich landlord
may be forced to cultivate this
land or put it on the market.
There are still other speakers
representing Mr. Bailey who
are attorneys^or l^rge corpor-
ations like Mr. Garrison.
These speakers harp on the
Ppen ®^°P- They know that
the Governor has no power to
abolish labor organizations,
that no Governor can forbid a
strike, that ninety-eight per
cent of the strikes that we feel
occur in other States, that or-
ganized labor of Texas is Smy
aoout two per cent of the peo-
ple and^ that the Governor can
- r--w CV11VL LIJ.C'1
by prevent union men from in-
terfering with non-union men
a s^dke as is Governor
Hobby doing today. This Mr.
Neff has promised to do in a
number of his, speeches and
judging by his record as county
attorney (McLennan is one dis-
trict, so F ffi —
torney is called county attor-
ney) of McLennan county he’ll
enfoice this and other laws
without fear or favor. The
open shop matter is mere cam-
ouflage, simply an attempt by
a bunch of politicians to ride
m office on.
You have never heard of Mr.
Bailey or any of his cohorts
denouncing profiteers,
more than eighteen
millionaires who made
union and non-union men and
by cornering the products of
the farm. Many of these same
millionaires have sent forth the
edict that cotton and cotton
seed must be brought down to
pre war prices or as near that
puce as possible that they may
further swell their ill gotten
gams. These blood-suckers
a^e ten thousand times more
dangeious than the labor un-
ions yet, not a Bailey speaker
has a word to say against
these traitors. Mr. Bailey has
been m the employ of these
corporations for fully twentv Dr F “A
mg you in the National Con-
gress. Can the servant be-
come greater than the master.
Men and women of Shelbv
county wake up.
Mi. Neff was born and rais-
ed m McLennan countv, so
m in-
tvt' lancy ana by their vote on July
Miss Jimmie Baggett is home 24th they answered the slan
T ’ defa being thrown broadcast
by his enemies. In the commun-
ceived all of the votes
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grelv to young manhood "he
ceix I *“
ne aiscussea the N?ff land) Save’ Save” f p . Me; at^Moody which Ts the
Plank^n, full an^ridiculed it your hoJ— - * -«■
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, 'CENTER, SHELBY COUNTY, TEXAS, AUGUST 25, 1920
Blount Garrison Joint Debate said that
> Monday.
Hon. Steve Blount and Hon.
! John Garrison met here Mon-
1 day and engaged in a joint de-
bate, the former in behalf of
Mr. Neff for Governor and the
latter fqr Mr. Bailey. The
speaking was held in the court
house and the building was
. well filled and many more
would liked to have been pres-
ent at the speaking.
District Attorney J. P. Al-
derson presided at the meeting
introducing both speakers. Mr.
Blount spoke for one hour and
five minutes, Mr. Garrison fol-
lowing with an hour and twen-
ty five minutes. Mr. Blount
then had a 20 minute rejoinder.
There seemed to be but very
•little interest or enthusiasm in
| the speaking. Mr. Blount said
he was no stranger in the field
of politics, that he had cam-
paigned Shelby county in be-
half of Mr. Bailey at a time
when he thought Mr. Bailey
was right. He said that he had
quit Mr. Bailey, though, sever-
al years ago when he, in his
opinion he went wrong. Said
that 12 years ago, when Mr.
Bailey defended then United
States Senator Lorimer, repub-
lican, who was being tried be-
fore the senate on a charge of
having bought his seat in'the
senate. Lorimer was expelled.
He said that he wrote Mr. Bai-
ley a letter and told him that
he could follow him no longer.
He discussed the labor slo-
gan of Mr. Bailey and said that Davidson of^Harrison'county^is
there was no difference in Mr. “—- ■ ■■ ~
Bailey and Mr. Neff on the sub-
ject so far as a governor being
able to do anything. He said
that the governor was charged
with the enforcement of the
laws and that was all that Mr.
Bailey could do, that the law
of the land provided for the or-
ganization of labor unions.
He discussed Mr. Bailey’s hos-
tidty f° the Wilson administra-
place in the Armv of Occupa- di°n and reviewed Mr. Bailey’s
- - - war record. He said that Mr.
Bailey claimed that he sent his As the time for the opening
two sons to the war, but declar- °t schools comes near, there is
ed that Mr. Bailey sought to much discussion of the students
take the honor from his boys, I that are going away to school
since they volunteered for the'and much preparations for
same. The Champion will be - . .-------xuui
grateful to those of Center, and ?nly enforce the law and there-
over the county, to 'inform us '
of who and where such stu-
dents are going. It will be
impossible for us to get an item
of all unless we have the co-
operative help. This informa-
tion can be handed in at any
time and will be used at the
time the student goes away.
Neuville News.
Miss Jewell Defee has re-
turned from a visit in Spurger
Mr Steve Holt and Mr. Dan
Welch of Carthage spent a few
days in Neuville.
Mr. Gus Holt of San Augus-
tine spent a few days in Neu-
ville.
Mrs. S. L. Williard and
daughter are visiting in High
Island.
Mrs. J. F.- Stephens of Neu- millions "by the labor^of these
ville is visiting in Hemphill. -----1
After a few days of illness
Mrs. J. B. Defee returned to
his work in Hemphill.
Mrs. Robert O. Holt of Neu-
ville has returned from a visit
in Rogansville.
Born, to Mr. and Mrs. J. R.
Bailey, a girl. Mother and
baby doing well.
Mr. H. C. Austin left Mon-
day for Fort Worth.
Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Frank
and children left for a visit to
relatives in South Texas.
Mr. H. J. Johnson is back in
Neuville from Huntsville where
he has been attending school.
Mr. Coy Campbell of Bron-
son has been visiting in Neu-
ville.
. Mrs. Sam Matthews is visit-
ing in New Mexico.
Mrs. Kate Holt is visiting in
Carthage.
mg his address, said that he Mrs-.Kate McDonald of West ect m McLennan county,
loved Center and Center folks. * e*as 1S/^tmg her father, Mr. they have known him fron
bec'ause he married here and d0?P- t- a’- -r, fancy and by their vote on
from / Longview, where she
that was his complffion." th® su.mmer-
His address was mainly in re-LnoJ-88 Mane Rudd of San Au-
ply to Mr. Blount, though he t / ha,s returned home af-
tt. . c ■ — discussed the labor issue at days visit m Neuville.
Hot is the guest of relatives length and said that it was an 1 AriTle Ra£gett visited
He discussed the
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