The Bonham News. (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 99, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 6, 1909 Page: 2 of 4
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go to other towns and counties,
where there are lots ot vacant
land and farms without tenants.
—Whichita Times.
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attempting to
meaning, but I’m going to do it.
isn’t the solution of the »Jesus she has mv permission ant
God will bless the effort if done
in His Name. • Elkazer.
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The wind the past few days
reminds one of the zephyrs that
play across the plains of West
Texas.
and when
vou do, you will find it the best
proposition that your town ever
took hold of.
— A
S Repeating Things Said J
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Mineola is following suit of
the Commercial Club of Sulphur
Springs by offering handsome
prizes for the best products grown
this season. This is a good move
and encouraging to the man who
is behind the plow.—Sulphur
Springs Gazette.
The towns that tried this plan
last year were well pleased with
the result, and their success has
Bonham has secured a broom -induced many others to follow
their lead. There is no better
wav that we know of to stimu-
late the farmers to an effort to
improve the quality o f their
crops. Better cultivation, better
seed, better care of crops means
more prosperous farmers, in-
creased value of lands, and bigger
and better country towns. Any
town is but investing money for
its own good when it induces the
farmers to compete for prizes for
good crops.
The special edition ot
Cooper Review last week
The voters of the Second Sen-
atorial district handed the Senate
a rebuke last Saturday by re-elect-
ing Bascom Thomas by an over-
whelming majority. Thomas was
expelled for talking too much.
The people of hisdistrict evident-
ly do not agree with the members
of the Senate that he should have
been expelled. Nat Doak is a
better and an abler man than
Thomas, and the people were not
voting to defeat him. The re-
sult is a rebuke to the Senate
Dr. Elliot visited Texas, ant
he likes the way we do things
here so well that he was. con-
strained to follow the example o
a Texan who refused a promi-
nent official position, and he him-
self declined to accept a position
jis Minister to the Court of St.
James. In this action we fear
that the people are losers.
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• Exchange Comment J
One of the local ministers went
fishing last Saturday and caught
so many fish tb^t the next morn-
ing his shoulders were numb and
sore as a result of the strain on
them in pulling in the fish. He
told this himself, so we know it
must be so and we respectfully
reter it to Editor Evans, of the
Bonham News, who has been
hankering for a fish story from
Orange.—Orange Leader.
That does pretty well, coming,
as it does, from a preacher. How
large a one can your laymen tell,
for goodness sake?
Of the grown men who were
here 52 years ago who are now
iving, there are but few. I*
will nafhe them as I recollect
them. I will not try to give a
biographical sketch of them, as
they are yet living. It will be
time enough to tell rbout what
they have done after they have
gone to their eternal home. I
will sav this, however, they have
all been good men up
and if they do no evil between
now and the time ot their death,
I will not
thing about. their history-rthat
is provided lam here to write it.
W. A. ROUTH. •
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life in him.
ous and has too much
about him to ever give* up.
his vears be i
happiness attend him.
\ JOSEPH BRYANT. .*
Joseph Bryant was here.
His wife
The lower House at Austin
has passed a bank guarantee bill
that is something like what the
people want. The Senate has
passed one that isn’t what the
people want. If the people had
«aa opportunity they would re-
buke the Senate as the people of
Bascom Thomas' district rebuked
it last Saturday by re-electing
the man it had expelled.
Ladonia
Young Men’s
at work,
organized A
i Ravenna
a Trades Day
and Honey Grove is build-
ing sidewalks and encour-
aging the farmers to raise better
crops. The towns of old Fannin
are at work in earnest, and the
good results will soon be appar-
Considering that the black land
belt of Central and North Texas
is suffering severely from drouth,
it has been suggested that the
people of this section go to work
and send a few car loads of bacon
and flour to these drouth suffer-
ers. Before going into this, we
would like’ to hear from Editor
Evans of the Bonham News
whether their suffering is really
as great as reported. — Quanah
Tribune-Chief.
There isn’t any drouth in Fan-
nin County, but thank goodness
there isn’t too much rain. Prov-
idence has smiled on us for the
last year and given us a fine
season and good weather. But
before that—well, Bro. Koch, a
drouth was what . we were pray-
ing for. We felt sure that we
could stand it for a I
time without another drop o’t
water. We had had rain before
breakfast, rain after breakfast;
rain before dinner and rain after
dinner; rain before supper and
rain after supper, and rain all
night long. We longed for a
dry spell. It took it a long time
to get here, but last year it came
—not too much, but just enough.
Now our fields are all smiling.t occasionallv'a family is forced to j Christmis. She has quite a num-
our crops are growing, our peo-
ple are building and improving,
everybody is at work, and old
Fannin is herself ‘ once more.
While we believe you would help
us if we needed it, we don’t need
offered by some dentists,
low price is the principal
one. Nothing is said about
quality of material or worfe
manship. These features I
think the most important
in all Iwanches ot dentistry.
I give an iron clad guarsn- j
tee with every txt of work
done by me, regardless of
the fact that one canrot
please everybody. If I do
your dental work, you^wtll
be delightfully surprised at
the absence of pain. Call s
any dav and I will cheerful-
ly examine your teeth tree.
DR. F. C. ALLEN
S, G ALEXANDER.
S. G. Alexander is one of the
men who came here first—that is
to srv many years ago. He has I
basked in the sun light of Tex-11,..
is not permitted unto them to
speak.” But she does* speak,
teach, sing. pray. There is a
loop-hole somewhere.so that she
does this. f *
I know Paul says: “If they
will learn anything, let them ask
their husbands at home.”
But she does go to church and
learns from, the preacher. Manv
of them would get very little
knowledge if they stayed at
home to get it. Then too many
have no husbands; what.are the
young maidens and widows to
do?
There must be some misunder-
Yes, the wind was pretty dis-
agreeable, but it did not blow
trains from the track, as it did
on the Rock Island in Kansas,
nor do the destruction in prop-
erty and life it did in several
counties below the cross timbers.
—Clarendon Chronicle.
Speaking of hard winds brings
to mind an incident which is said
to have happened on the Orient
railroad last week, which is
vouched for bv a drummer travel-
ing out of this city who is also a
Sunday School teacher. He was
a passenger on a mixed or local
freight train on that road which
was making its way into Chilli-
cothe and among the string of
box cars were two which were
very old, but before they reached
Chillicothe these two cars were
made to look more like flat cars
than anything else* The high
wind had literally stripped them
of tops, sides and ends, and the
prairie Between the starting and
stopping point was literally
sprinkled with material out of
which box cars are made. These
March winds are terrible, and
there is no use denyirg the fact.
—Wichita Times.
Down here in sedate old North-
east Texas the March winds
toyed with our whiskers Tather
friskily, but thev didn’t get quite’
strong enough to tear up a house
or blow the sides off a box
car. 'The West excels us in some
things, and strong wind is one of
them.
kind.- Dallas News. -
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— Chronictings.
Houston Chronicle.
It is hardest to tell the truth to
ourselves.
the
was a
very creditable one, and presents,
the advantages ot the town in a
Ladonia has caught the in-
fection and is building concrete
sidewalks. A transformation is
taking place in the towns in Fan-
nin County.
Gov. Campbell made a record
last Friday that ought to please
those who want fewer laws. Out
of eighteen bills submitted to
him, he approved two and vetoed
sixteen.
Silly man, whoever you are, for
what is singing the gospel bu;
preaching it in a manner? Woman
can teach the Bible. but
must not preach it. I thank Goc
that I am not that narrow that I
would deprive anv one of leading
souls to Christ.
If I would silence any one it
would be a lot of men who thii k
thev are called to preach when
they might better leave it to
others. But I would not silence
any one who is worthy and who
has a message for sinful man.
standing of Paul’s meaning, for Not many wotflen want to
no one takes his words literally, i preach by standing Sunday afttr c _ ------
I beg the pardon of preachers for Sunday in the pulpit as the shep- * —-
explain . Paul’s herd of the flock. But it she de- Horace Woodward a daughter.
sir rs to hold up the cross of
factory and a blind man is to run
it. Evena blind, man can see
that Bonham needs sweeping.—
Honey Grove Signal.
A blind man is not without
some ability even if he is sorely
afflicted and shut out from the
beauties of the world. A blind
man is not altogether unskilled
if he has anv native ability even
in the arts and sciences. A blind
man can sometimes be found
doing better work with his hands
than many do with the aid of
their eyes. A blind man is a
member of the United States sen-
ate and has already attracted the
attention of the nation by his
logic and eloquence. A blind
man wrote “Paradise Lost.’’ one
of the masterpieces of the cen-
turies. While it is “doing good
unto these the least of Mine” to
lead the way . of the sightless
creature, gently, by the hand,
over the rugged places, we often
find the blind intensely acute in
theiib discernment ot a given
work or purpose, either mentally
or mechanically, and well
equipped to teach those of us to
whom nature has been more gen-
erous.—Sherman Democrat.
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We could reply to the Honey
Grove humorist that a blind man
knew better than to try to do
anything in Honey Grove, but
the Democrat’s remarks are so
much better that we shall just
quote them.
it now. But this fall if your peo-
ple vjant to buy a million or two
bushels *of corn, two hundred
thousand tons of ha^ a hundred
thousand head of fine mules aqd
h’orses, a hundred thousand
bushels of vam potatoes, a hun-
dred cat loads of peanuts, and
any amount of eggs and poultry,
we will have them to sell you
just as cheaply as you can buv
them any where.
Bonham has a Booster Club
and from the reports in The
News it is boosting some. Won- greater,
der if Athens couldn’t start one. 1
—Athens Review.
Certainly vou can,
The report Of the committee
on Future work for the State
Sunday school convention is pub*
linked in this issue of The News.
It is worthy of your careful read-
ing, and if you are interested in
Sunday school work you should'
not fail to study, it carefully.
The suggestions made therein
are all good, and most of them
are new. Every school in Fan-
nin County should adopt the sug-
gestions._______b______
A professor in the Chicago
University has been to Mexico
and there discovered that the
American young man knows
nothing of throwing kisses
gracefully. It takes the young
Mexican to do that. The pro-
fessor overlooks the fact that the
young American doesn’t have to
1rnow bow to throw kisses grace-
fully. He delivers them grace-
fully right on the spot.
Bonham has organized a Boost-
er Club and is at work,
has organized a
Business Club and is
Leonard has
Corn Association,
has instituted
Honey
sidewalks
jealous ot bis reputanon for
are clamoring for a bank guaran-
tee law ever lost a dollar in a
bank failure?—Waxahachie En-
terprise.
Well I don’t know. We don’t
have any bank failures, up here
in Fannih County.
be allowed to works of the elders.- Whv do I
Paul makes it plain
in I Timothy 2: 11-13: “Let the
woman learn in silence with all
subjection,
woman to teach,
authority over the man, but to
For Adam was
first foimed, then Eve.”
Here is the basic principle ot
the whole matter. She is not to
be authority in the home, or in
church. This leaves her free to
engage in every service of the
church, to preach, teach, sing,
prav, just so long as she does not
rule. \
That this is true, Paul’s teach-
ing on the subject elsewhere
proves. He says: “Greet Pris-
cilla and Aquila mv helpers in
Christ Jesus.” Peter said in the
djiy of Pentecost that Joel’s
prophesy was: “Your sons and
your daughters shall prophesy.”
“Thv handmaidens shall proph-
esy.” Philip the evangelist had
Jour daughters who prophesied.
What is it to ^prophesy but to
preach and teach?
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Paul said: “Help those women
which labored with me in the
gospel.”
In conclusion I will sav: Is the
gospel so previous or intricate
that only a man can understand
and declare, it? It is precious 1876 he became
but not to the extent that woman
is to keep silence about it.
“The spirit and the bride say
come.” The church is the bride
and women are a part of the
church; let the women say come, neverfeel old as long as he h
If is the spirit of Christ, the
spirit of love; it is reasonable, it
is scriptural to proclaim the way
of salvation to a lost world. To
shut out the greatest power anc
influence on earth (woman) from
proclaiming the glad news of
salvation would be ridiculous.
Woman can sing the gospe
One Fannin County farmer
who planted peanuts last year is
going to plant fifty acres this
year for hay. Peanut ha^ prop-
erly cured is better even than
Alfalfa for all kinds of stock.
The women of Chicago are up
in arms against the proposec
raise in the tariff on gloves and
hosiery. Maybe they suspect
that the larger these articles
have to be the more in propor-
tion the cost will be.
then sheriff of this county.,. In
I860 he was United States deputy
marshal; in 1861 he was chief
justice ot the county court, but
resigned that and went into, the
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armv. He was lieutenant i n
Howell’s Artillery company.
When the war was over he settled
on a farni*west of Bonham and
near Whitewright.
•A few years ago he moved to
Coleman County and engaged in
mercantile pursuits. He still
resides there. . He is a bright and
zealous man, a Christian gentle- k0n our streets,
mad and a true and faithful
member of the Baptist church.
T J GATES.
| Thos. J. Gates, now past* 88
years ot age, was a wagon maker
^mi-
in 1859. He was deputy sheriff
under Alfred Davis. Mr. Davis
went to California and Mr. Gates
was appointed sheriff and filled
out the unexpired term of Mr.
Davis settling up all of tha old
business left on hand, and was
re-elected to the office. After
which time he tilled the office of
county treasurer. Now in his
old age he is a good citizen and
resting quietly at his home, look-
ing forward to the time which is
near by when he will
mind, writing some- take a home in Willow
M. J. JACKSON.
M. J. Jackson is one of the old
timers. He came from Missouri
W. A. Routh was here, be was and settled in Bonham 52 years
It 1 am not mistaken he
was for a while in the employ of
Mr. Alexander.
When the war came up he
went into the Confederate army
and served until peace was re-
stored. He was an active, indus-
trious man, and until affliction
overtook him and his physical
strength was reduced, he was
always busy at something. He
iu . would dot be idle long at a time,
ill1 He still resides in our^ city and
when able to be out is often seen
"Mr. Bryant was an honest, no* '
right man in all his dealings. 4
He would not knowingly wrong
any one or do any one an injury
by word or act.
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fully filing away the Copies of J
f Shall Women Be Allowed to Vote? |
studying how he may best, swat j jj ' > By “ELEAZER”
pleasantries ^concern!I
Windy West. The editor of The
News has been on the frontier
and has been in the West. He
knows that Midland is, a good
’ town, and that it wi)l continue
so as long as it rains occasionally
and the crop of eastern suckers
does not fail. If I enjoved catch-
ing suckers as well as I do black
bass and rainboyz trout, I would
move to L___
News.
Brother Evans is mistaken
about our filing his papers. We
are afraid some of those former
Fannin County “suckers” who
are now living out here with
peace and plenty, might come in
a id want to look over The News
for old time's sake. We don’t
, want them to change their former
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■ good opinion of him. They
would flare up’if they knew he
i called them all suckers. Never
fear, Bro. Evans, we destroy The
News as soon as we have glanced
over youn “sucker department.'*
— Midlana Examiner.
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Editor Ford of the Orange
Leader is eternally bragging to
his brother editors about the
flowers, the scenery, the climate
and other creatures around Or-
ange, but he never says anything
about the kind and quality of fish-
ing they have. I know, Ford is a
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her of friends here who wish h&r
i all the happiness life can bring.
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County Court convened yester-
morning for the» trial df
criminal cases. V i
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A true f riends approval is the
test of desert.
Happiness is real in
world and ideal in the real world
Judgement is learned by post-
graduates ;in the University of
Experience.
Holy Writ will mike the reader
holy, provided he reads humbly
and reverently. ' . t
Religion is both aristocratic
and democratic; aristocratically
will bring!is gentilizes, democratic^Hv it
the people, they said.— Bonham j Mu'ifts the humblest.
froml Married.
' Miss K'tta Belle Elkin was
married Sunday to Mr. W, T.
Glisson, at Stanton, Texas. Both
parties live in Midland. The
young ladv is well known here^
having attended Carlton College
for.~a number of years until she"
graduated, and then having
taught in the school mp tojast
truthfulness, but that’s no reason
for his failure to tell a fish storv.
Ain’t no use to extend n?e any in-
vitations this time of the year,
unless a positive guarantee con-
cerning the fishing accompanies^
it.—Bonham News.
After a careful study of the
topography of Fannin County we
are constrained to ask, what do
you know about fishing anv way,
Evans? If you were in Orange
you could sit in the Leader edi-
torial rooms, cast a line out
through the back window, and’
fish to vour .heart’s? content,
though you would need a long
line, for the editQrjarrooms are in
the second story and the river is| keep silence in the church tor it
40 feet deep at this point. Then,
if you don’t like deep wat^r fish-
ing, you can board a launch and
go to any numerous streams near-
by and. catch white perch, goggle
eyes, bass and trout. Fishing,
why man there isn’t any better
fishing anywhere than right here
in Orange.—Orange Leader.
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seven other
counties of the 244,in Texas that
equal Fannin in the amount of
agricultural products, and all 7
of these are in the bla£k land
belt ot North Texas. There are
many counties whose area is much
Surely here is Lsome-
thing for the Bonham Boosters
to make a note ot.—Bonham
News.
There is certainly Something
for the.Fannin fellows to be proud
of in the place theircountry hold:*
in the list of producers of good ‘1^?
things. Those who have journey-
ed across the black i land belt of
Texas within the last ten days
have been impressed by the
beautiful vistas the ficlj .and
level fields have offered, tj><
ground being in an unusuallv
high state of tilth, and the. green
corn and oats and wheat set in
their backgrounds of dark soil
suggest riches incomputable and
husbandry of the most compefen’
Did you see those movers from
Wichita Falls Saturday9 They
were here and they said they
had all of the West they wanted.
They-talked freely and said there
was nothing doing out that way,
while this country was looking
good to them. When asked it
they wanted to rent land they
said they were fixed, but if any-
body wanted to rent land they
could find all the tenters they
wanted in Dallas and Ft. Worth,
as those two cities were full of
folks who were wanting land and
thev were from the West, Take
the cue. Boosters and boost vour
lands. A small a<l in the big
papers of the State
long, lon£ News.
If the movers were: !
Wichita Falls their reason -lor
going away must have been for
the very good reason that they
could not obtain a house to live
in. ' Thev only trouble with
Wichita Falls and Wichita Coun-
ty is that^e can’t build houses
ast encugh to accommodate the
people who are coming in and
It would pay some of us to pon-
der more the thought of Carlyle:
The greatest of faults is to be
o f none.”—Orange
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conscious
Leader.
The man who is
scious of no fault isn’t capable of
pondering. It is true, however,
that we do not always realize
some of our faults, or do not
realize bow serious they are.
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He is too industri-
ffet up”
Msv
many more,
als) married here. His wife was
a Miss Sylvester of this city. He
but must not presell it, says one. was a £reat man in his maaj
attentive to his business, reliable
in all things. During the war
he was Superintendent of Trans-
portation under Major Record*
who was commissary Jor Mc-
Culloch's Division. Joe bad a fine
memory. Could at the close of
eaca day tell bow many things
had beet? done, bow many teams
anl wagons sent out* how many *
hal come in; gave full details of
hi < work without even having a
memorandum made of same as be
went along. He died here in
Bonham a few vears after the
close of the war. His wife and
children continue to reside here.
James Bryant is his son* Mrs.
Shall women
preach? Not it I Can help it, say this?
says manv a man. There is as
much prejudice agaiqst women
preaching as there is against
women voting. . -
It has taken centuries for
Midland.—Bonham | women to reach the high posi-. be 10 silence,
tion thev now occupy in lite.
Custom has-a great deal to do
with settling every great ques-
tion. It is not the custom to see
women preaching the gospel
from the pulpit. ;
It is true that man was created
first, that he is physically
stronger than woman, that the
chiej^ffairs of all matters nearly
are given into his hands, and he
must be woman’s protector. But
this doesn’t touch the subject of
the right to preach ? or not to
preach. V •
The error in all ages has been
in the belief that woman is far
beneath man, that she has no
soul—was merely created for
man’s convenience. z
The world is waking up to the
fact that perhaps woman stands
as htgji as man in the sight of
God if not in the sight of man.
She has a tenderness of heart, a
loving soul, a sweetness of ways,
fine and attractive-features, a
gentleness of tone, that do not
belong to man to the same de-
gree. She has! human intelli-
gence, judgment and wisdom,
with a soul to sive and a burn-
ing desire to have other souls
saved. Having this Christ-like
desire which is God-giyen whv
shouldn’t she express it in words
at home, in other homes, in the
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church?
But you say: Paul forbids it.
If so then he is in error.* But I
do not believe he forbids it. I
know he savs: “Let your women
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as £or more than half a cei
I will not say how many
years, for Sam does not >
be classed with the old
He still claims to be a kid.
is from Kentucky* not
bluegrass region. However b4
is one among the few Kentucky
tans who is willing to admit p>a1
he is from the Penneroyal dt*
trict, which is also a land of fin«
stock and handsome women and
where hospitality is to be met ifl
every house and plenty of good
things to eal.
Sam was clerking /or hit
cousin, C. C. Alexander, 52 yean
ago. He married Miss Lizin
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Russell of this city. After tha
he concluded to move ft-otn Fab-
nin and went up to Grayson
County and thought he would
make a good shepherd. So he
purchased several hundred sheep*
got a shepherd dog and put the
dog and negro man he owned,
(called Long Joe) to watch altefr
the flock.
He also lived in Marshall* Tex-
as* awhile. Finally, like all
truant sons of old Fannin* he
came back to his former home
and is now one of us again.
J. M. NUNN.
J. M. Nunn, who still nsi
in our city, clerked for awhile
C. C. Alexander. Then he p
chased a stock of merchandise
and did business for himself. Im-
mediately after the close of th
war he again engaged in me:
cbandising in this city. Abot
a commercii
traveler, and has pursued thi
occupation to the present tim<
Though he is growing old i
years, yet he is still young* an
active in his ways, and w>
MH THE......
IHW
Our entire citizenship should
pull together and have the
creamery. It means more money,
better stock, increase in the
value of lands, and an increase
of the dinner pail. Increase the
“bucket, brigade” and you help
every enterprise in Tyler. This
helps the trucker, fruit grower,
farmer, and every section of
Smith County.—Tyler Courier.
Every word of the above is
true. It applies to Bonham as
well as to Tyler. Last year
Texas imported eleven million
dollars worth of butter, cream
and cheese. Instead of doing
this, Texas ought to export
many million dollars worth.
There is no country under the
sun better adapted to the dairy
and creamery industries. Texas
towns that have creamers have
found them profitable, and it
takes but little capital to~£>ui<ld
and operate one. —
A. G. ADKINS.
Albert G. Adkins lived near
the opera house. He remained
in town only a short while. He
wn a quiet, peaceable, good
citizen* one who stood well in
our little town. I recollect he
had a family. There were two
boys. They had a swing in the
yard and one day while swinging
one of them got caught some way
in the swing and killed by hay-
ing his neck broken. The other
boy is Robert Adkins* now an
old man ot 55 or 60 vears. resid-
ing near Carson in this county*
and one of our best 'citizens.
Whether there w£re any other
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Evans, Ashley. The Bonham News. (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 99, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 6, 1909, newspaper, April 6, 1909; Bonham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1370780/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bonham Public Library.