Center Daily News (Center, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 189, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 20, 1931 Page: 1 of 4
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Center Daily News
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NUMBER 189
.VOLUME TWO
CENTER, TEXAS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1931
MEMBER UNITED PRESS
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Former Center Merchant Killed In Automobile Crash
ROSS STERLING, TEXAS’ NEW GOVERNOR
ROSS STERLING TAKES OVER REIGN
OF OFFICE BEFORE LARGEST CROWD
EVER TO WITNESS AN INAUGURATION
ANNOUNCEMENT
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Johnnie Thompson up after ■
his coffee at the “We Feed the'
People” place.
Clifton Brittain, County Tax
Collector, stated to one of the
News reporters this morning
that the auto owners of Shelby
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Automobile Owners
Slow to Buy License
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Walter Beck, the merchant
from down Shelbyville way, in
the city for a few hours.
Ira Bell in the city for a few
hours.
M. C. Thompson entering the
postoffice.
East
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Glad you
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Marriage License
Show Big Decrease
Over January, 1930
Program Arranged For First
of Series of Broadcasts; Will
Begin Tomorrow at Noon.
M. M. Weaver watching the should prove a different story,
progress of the moving of the
Christian Church-
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Print Mrs. Coolidge’s Poem
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Former Watchmaker, Connect-
ed With Harkrider Drug
Firm, Killed Enroute to His
Home.
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The Sheriff’s department of
Shelby County had a busy week
ending January 17th. Fifteen
arrests were made during the
past week, all being of petty
offenses.
Sheriff O’Banion captured
one man
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SIEDWALK REVIEW !
Charles Burnett, sales man-
ager of the Parker Motor com-
pany, entering the said place
of business.
W. H. WROTEN, TOR-MANY YEARS
RESIDENT OF CENTER, KILLED IN
CRASH NEAR ABILENE, TEXAS
SHELBYVILLE TO I SHERIFFS FORCE
PLAY CENTER HI
HERE WEDNESDAY
J. W. Shotwell crossing the
something'square near the Polley Hotel-
station! thousands that had
for the ceremonies.
Inaugural Bajl-
The traditional Governor’s
inaugural ball, to be held at
the spacious Gregory Gymnas-
There is C. S. Hill, district
manager of the Southwestern
Bell Telephone Company, in
the city on business matters-
I OWNER OF RADIO
STATION WILL
VISIT CENTER
Sterling Inaugurated At Noon
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I music for the ball.
Hon. Ross Sterling, accom-
i panied by Mrs. Dan Moody will
lead off for the grand march at
ill o’clock. Gov. Moody and
m • Mrs. Ross Sterling will follow
| next In the procession- The
largest crowd ever to attend
the Governor’s inaugural ball
is expected tonight at the Gre-
gory Gymnasium at Austin.
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THE WEATHER
will start promptly at 9 o’-
clock. The reports that have
been heard around the Capitol
indicate tl?at this will be the
largest social function tender-
Augustine P“ati°r‘
. .,! be Paul, the Radio Man,
man m jail: , ’ . .. .. , „
known to all radio listeneis of
this section.
Mr. Dean stated in the con-
The Champion and Daily
News take pleasure in an-
nouncing that arrangements
have been made whereby
the famous story of Capt-
Mayne Reid, entitled “Regu-
lators and Moderators,” has
been re-written by a well
known East Texas writer and
will be published in The
Champion and News exclus-
ively. The story is exceed-
ingly interesting. It covers
a beautiful romance and
many a frightful tragedy,
and the scenes are all in
Shelby county. You don’t
want to miss a single chapter
and so to get it all you must
start reading The Champion
and Daily News now. The
story will run several months
and will be intensely inter-
esting.
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Abilene, Texas, Jan. 20 (Sp)
•—While enoute from Hobbs,
New Mexico, to his home at
'Abilene, Texas, W. H. Wroten,
former resident of Center, was
killed instantly in a head-on
collission with a truck, near
Lamesa, Texas.
Wroten’s skull was fractur-'
ed, arm and leg broken and his
chest crushed in the
Death was instantaneous,
was traveling alone at th§ ti
of the accident.
For many years W. H- Wrot-
en was connected with the drug
■frmof Harkrider and Com-1
Jpany of Center, as a watch-,
maker, but for the past few;
years had been connected with
the Compton Drug Company;
of Abilene.
Mr. 'Wroten is survived by a:
widow and four children, all of
Abilene. Funeral services will
be held at Abilene Wednesday
afternoon.
And some more telephone
! men^—ye editor does not know .
| their names, but they are here
I in interest of the new tele-
phone exchange that is to be
crash, built soon.
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Boston, Jan- 20 (UP)—The
first Boston University Antho-
logy of Poetry, to be published
in February, will include “The
Open Door,” the poem which
Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, wife of
the former president, wrote at
the time of her son John’s They seem to
marriage.
15,000 People Witness Inauug-
ration of Hon. Ross Sterling
at Noon Today; Perfect
Weather Prevailed.
but if the little Askew lad does
as much damage as he did in
the game at Shelbyville on last
Friday, the writer is leary of a
victory for Center.
But we shall see—come out
to the Center court, Wednes-
day afternoon and see these
two teams battle. Center has
an average of 666, while Shel-
byville has an average of 1,000.
be the likely
champions of this district.
is in readiness for the broad-
casts and that he was coming,
over to meet the people of]
Center and to see that the pro-
gram was handled in the best
possible way.
The following persons
render the first program:
Jimmie Payne Quartette,'
consisting of Jimmie Payne, L.'
S. Muldrow, Jno. W. Davis,
P. O. Davis; Mr- Clifford Ful-
ler, Bruce Willis, Mrs. Neal
Rogers, Billie Burke Windham,
Vernor Windham, Miss Opal
Liem, accompanist, and
Tol T. Smith, director.
The program follows:
Chorus.
Selections—Quartette.
Piano Solo—Vernor
Mr. Wroten is well known in
this city, having been con-
nected with the firm of Hark-
rider and Company for five
years as a watchmaker.
The News joins with
many friends
their sympathies to the loved
ones.
J. W- C. Hughes telling of
the big singing at his home
i Thursday night.
According to a statement
from Mrs. Banks, County Clerk
the marriage licenses have
shown a big decrease over the
month of January, 1930. Mrs.
Banks states that something
over twice as many license
were issued in the month of
January of 1930, as compared
to the licenses issued in the
month of January, 1931.
Up. to the week ending Jan-
uary 17th, only a small num-
ber of licenses had been issued.
just received a letter from
■Uncle Henry Fuller, Editor ofi
rthe Nacogdoches Sentinel—,■
■Uncle Henry is writing a story,,
and you can read it in the News,
Monday of each week. It be-;
gins today. Thanks, Uncle ]
Henry! :
Editor Nelson of the
Texas Light, in the office for
county were far behind in se-' few-minutes’ chat,
curing their 1931 license called, Mr. Nelson,
plates. Up to the present time1
only ‘586 license plates have'
been issued, with r—
like 3,500 to be issued in this
county. 172 were issued dur-
ing the week ending Jan- 17,
and with only one more week
in which to secure your lic-
ense, Mr. Brittain urges all
that can possibly do so, attend
to this matter this week.
After February 2nd a 20 per
cent penalty of the cost of the
license will be the fine assess-
ed to auto owners that have
failed to secure their plates.
Out of the number of cars to
be registered in this county,
3,000 have not secured their
plates.
The tax collection for the
county is about the same this
month as it was in the month
pf January, 1930.
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■Mr. and Mrs. Blanche Case
Aounce the birth of a son.
the Uncle Tom Covington enter-
in expressing ing the court house.
East Texas—Fair tonight
and Wednesday, except on the
West Coast and lower Rio
Grande Valley.
West Texas—Fair and not
much change in temperature
tonight and Wednesday.
Austin, Texas, Jan. 20 (UP>
—Hon. Ross Sterling of Hous-
ton, Texas, was inaugurated
Governor of Texas shortly af-
ter noon today before one of
the largest crowds to ever wit-
ness an inauguration. Perfect
weather prevailed, and more
than 15,000 paid traditional
respects to their new Governor
of Texas. Retiring Governor
Moody, his loyal friend and
Ross Sterling, a great ovation
was given the retiring Gover-
nor.
On a special erected plat-
form, projecting from the south
portico of the State Capitol,
and so fixed that every person
desiring to do so would be able
to witness the ceremony, the
Hon. Ross Sterling took from
the outstreatched hands of Dan
Moody, his loyal friends and
Texas’ youngest Governor, the
reigns of the Texas Govern-
ment-
Going into the office
Hon. Sterling, will be
Governor Edgar Witt.
Governor Witt was
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a few minutes.
Coach Hayden Malone, in a
statement to a reporter this
Jack Brady in the office for mOrning, stated that the Shel-|
byville High School basketball. one man that was wanted in
team, under the direction of Crosbyton, Texas, on charges
Coach David Dunham, would'of forgery and idling 0’-^.“““ ium a*t the university of Texas,
, ii ttja-i. c<aI>aa1 iRaninTi madp rnp. nrrpsr. titteen . ___i. «+ n
- ; miles beyond San
; an^ placed the
here-
Many other petty arrests!
, were made, and active work is! ,J"\-^7ndn7that7vprvtWnff!ed to Texas officialdom. Three
played two games, with Shel- stm in progress in an attempt .J orchestras will furnish the
byville coming out victorious in capture the Timpson Bank
both contests. But Coach Ma-
lone promises a different story
in this game. With Baker,
Ramsey, Taylor, Lawrence and
Defee going at their best, it
with
Lieut.
Lieut,
given a
great ovation as he arose to
take the oath of office. Chief
In a telephone conversation, justice C. M. Cureton admin-
with J. B. Sanders, promotor of (istered the oath of both of-
Center’s broadcasts, Mr. R. M.'flees, amid the cheers of the
Dean, owner of the station thousands that had gathered
through which the programs
will be broadcast, stated that
he would come to Center to
handle the first program. Mr.
.Dean will have one of his en-
meet the Center High School}Banion made the arrest fifteen
Roughriders in battle on the j
high school court here
nesday afternoon.
Center and Shelbyville have
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