Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 108, Ed. 1 Friday, December 18, 1936 Page: 2 of 12
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Tenancy Parley
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Tenant Farmer
AMONG SICK
Clint Starr Jr. is improving after
an illness of several days.
Billy Mays, who has been confin-
ed to the Denton Hospital with a
badly crushed leg sustained in an
automobile accident rcently. was re-
ported improved, Friday, ■
R. P. Dubberbley Jr., five-month-
old son Of Mr. and Mrs R. P Dub-
berbley of Lewisville, was able to
return to his home Friday after
illness of pneumonia in the Denton
Hospital.
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After all, there are few people who would
not be pleased and flattered with a gift of
blankets! Our stock offers you many good
suggestions, from genuine Beacon in the in*
expensive grade to fine Amana in purest,
softest wool. Here is truly a gift that will
bring pleasure this Christmas, and for years,
to come!
yuring the long period when the British newspapers kept silent about
King Edward's romance with Mrs Wallis Simpson, the smiling features
of the Duchess of York were displayed at every opportunity. The favor-
able press notices given her eased the way for the Duke of York to
ascend the throne with popular approval when possibility of King Ed-
ward's abdication loomed. The duke and duchess are pictured in a new
and exclusive portrait.
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Automotive Report, said today to-
tal autompbil proaaction this '
week reached 122,960 units, “the
highest for any single December
week in the history of the in-
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Miss Mary Farwell, who was
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pital here tor seven years, died
at Ills’ p m. Friday in the Meth-
odist Hospital, Fort Worth, where
she had been seriously Ul lor» three
weeks. A brother is expected to
arrive soon from Washington, D.
O., when funeral plans wul be
made. Mb* Farwell left here two
o.three yeara was em-
ployed in the Methodist Hospital.
LOAFER
WASHINGTON, Dec. U. —(
W. L Blackstone, only tenant farm-
er on the committee of to persons
appointed by the president to sug-
gest a national farm tenancy pro-
gram. expressed “some disappoint-
ment'’ today with the two-day ses-
sion of the group which ended late
yesterdas,,-----------r,
“I think we should have taken
more direct action, and look into
actual corditions now existing, e87
peclally among aharecroppers," said
the 52-year-old Arkansas cotton
farmer.
Blackstone said his idea of a
“good, farm tenant plan would be
government ownership of the land
and supervised operation of indi-
viduals through co-operatives."
From "what he had read,’ Black-
stone said he "thought Denmark
and Russia had done the best" in
solving farm tenancy problems.
Trotzky Invited to
Live in Mexico
PECANS S E
Fancy Almonds
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Dorger was arrested last night
TUCSON, Arii., Dec. R&—P—
Federal grand juror, investigating
the June Robles kidnaping of
1934 reported to Federal Judre
Albert M. Same, today “We do
not feel the farts dtsclosea by the
evidence arc sumeient lo warrant
the indictment of any person or
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YOUR DRESSED POULTRY
.square Denton was stepping out
| when the sidewalks were graveled.
I North Locust Street had no busi-
ness except one lumber yard where
the postoftice now is and one black-
smith shop and a livery stable across
the street with a aback, where the
Gulf station now is, occupied as a
paint shop. There were no Schmitz
Street, no Texas Street. Just With-
ers Street and Bell Avenue up to
College. Frame Street was a lane
and circus tents marked the ground
where Texas Street has some of bar
nicest homes. No buildings east of
the C. I. A. except the old Bell home
and away out the road in the coun-
try was a house which was the fore-
runner of the R. J. Edwards home.
All that was rabbit hunting terri-
tory as well as all north. Carrier
Street and that whole locality was
a field. From Prairie Street south
was a field and South Locust ran
only U> Prairie, The site of the pres-
ent high school was a cotton field
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We are prone to accept what is
evident without ever stopping to
think about what caused the effect
we see. Loafer has been a citizen
of Denton for a long time. In fact,
there are men and women with
families almost grown that were
children too small to go to school
when Loafer arrived in Denton. He
liked the town then. Likes it now.
If he did not like it he would get
up and move.
Denton today is not the Denton
that Loafer came to. When he closes
his eyes he sees many changes. So
many that he wonders iP they have
really happened in the space of
time since he came here. For in-
stance there was no C. I. A. Just a
foundation with some walls Just
starting the North Texas State Nor-
mal, now the Teachers College, con-
sisted of one building which stood
about where the prestdent’s home
now stands. This burned and the
present college came al! new. East
and south of the Teachers College
was a fair ground Just abandoned
■ but a field with no houses. South
and west was in timber and picnics
were held in the groves long after
Loafer came here. In fact the boys
used that belt of timber to hunt
rabbits and possums in. The Wright
home, now the home of Mrs Char-
les Smoot, was the only house west
of the Normal on the south side of
Oak Street alter you reached the
top of the hill until you came to the
Owsley home which was out in the
country. Oak Street west was Just
taking away the inhabitants from
Oak Street east. There were three
school houses. The north side was
building and the west side was just
bullt. In fact it is not sure that it
was built. The high school stood
where the Lee school now stands
and was three stories In height.
Around the square there is not a
house that stands today Just as it
stood then. If no other change has
been made new frnts and modem
arrangements have so changed the
buildings as to make it impossible
to recognize them. A heavy chain
was swinging around the iron fence
that surrounded the court house.
That chain disappeared most mys-
teriously much to the disgust of
many boss trading "Fust Monday"
addicts who predicted that Denton
had “ruint" herself when the chain
was moved. There was not a foot of
pavement on any street in town. No
concrete sidewalks, some stone pav-
led sidewalks around the square and
I perhaps a little concrete around the
ENZESFELD, Austria, Dec 18 —
(The Duke of Windsor termin-
ated his voluntary seclusion today
to pose for a battery of photograph-
ers on the grounds of Baron Eugene
de ROtschtid’s Austrian castle.
Hatless and in a serious mood, the
former British ruler walked alone
to the courtyard where 17 camera-
men awaited him. He appeared fa-
tigued.
■■Gentlemen, haw do you want
me? he greeted the photographers r
“Shall'’ I sit or stand?" (
A flood of replies and subsequent
questions followed his remarks as
the business of making pictures ol
the abdicated monarch began.
Three minutes later the photog-
raphers, clutching their plates, be-
gan a 500-yard sprint to automor
biles and motorcycles to carry them
the 23 miles to Vienna.
The Duke replied to only one di-
rect statement made by a British
photographer who said:
"We wish your highness every
happiness.”
“I wish you luck also," the Brit-
ish prince responded.
The activities of the former king
were not disclosed prior to his ap-
pearance before the cameramen.
There were some who said he. hi
host and hostess had been out and
around the countryside the night
before It was whispered among the
villagers that maybe the bouquet of
local vintages was the lure which
drew the Duke from his seir-im-
posed exile.
But ff he did venture from the cas-
tle grounds, where he went or what
he did for amusement were matters
only for conjecture.
a a pre-
the pres-
with not a house in all that section.
Bolivar Street was largely pasture.
North Elm stopped at College Street
and if you wanted to go .out north
you had to go to Bolivar or North
Locust. They were not streets out
there then but were called the Pilot
Point road or the Bolivar road, and
roads they were. Old deeds to prop-
erty on North Locust Street call for
the middle of the Pilot Point road
The City Park was a collection of
squalid negro huts. Did not look at-
tractive. Did it ever occur to you
that Denton has the best looking
negro quarters today of any town
in Texas? The district known as
Soomon Hill is the best district in-
habited by colored people to be
found in Texas.
A few houses on frame Street east
of the railroad were all that could
be found. That district was a field
A frame Baptist cnurch and one
livery stable standing where uie bus
station now stands were the only
structures on West Hickory Street
that were not residences. More than
half the lots on every street to the
city with the exception of East Oak
and East Hickory were vacant and
East Hickory was nearly all vacant
property. There was no city hall ex-
cept a business house on West Oak
Street. There was no postofTice
building, no separate high school
building, no sewers, very few street
lights off the public square and on
it not so many The census taken
shortly before had given Denton
3,000 people and the one 10 years
before that had shown Pilot Point
with more people than Denton.
When ft was dry the streets were
sand beds and when it was wet they
were bog holes. Some places on the
square were dangerous for loaded
wagons to try to drive through—
mud. mud everywhere. There were
20 residences on North Locust
Street from the square to the city
limits and most of these were three
or four rooms with a Tew larger
West Sycamore stopped at Bernard
and West Highland. West Prairie.
West Maple, West Mulberry. West
Chestnut and West Sycamore were
Just imaginary lines or trails through
the timber
“ Everybody went to the depot when
the passenger train came in. That
is if they were not busy. Everybody
knew when every train ran Now
there are not 50 men in Denton
who can tell you the hours of the
passenger trains and there are
young men and women grown to
Denton who have never ridden on
a train, when George Sheridan,
Gentry Thompson, A. E. Graham
and Jack Fry brought the first au-
tomobiles to Denton everybody quit
work and watched to see if the
thing would make it across the
square The horses reared and broke
loose The men reared worse than
the horses and there was strong
talk of passing laws forbidding the
new contraptions from using the
highways In fact, laws were passed
requiring operators of automobiles
to stop; kill the engine and get out
and help the fellow with a scared
mule get by Dogs ran out and
grabbed the front wheel and then
howled when it ran over him. The
owner of the dog made a dive for
his shot gun and the autoist had
better get going. The boys took their
girls riding in a buggy and they
did not have to hold the steering
wheel to keep the dam thing from
wrecking either
Time brings changes and has
brought changes to Denton and they
are for the better. The best place
to live in any man's country.
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l to see him with a terse:
nz only carrying out orders.”
OS, already, feeing charges 2
ng disorderly -conduct, was .
(Photo from Studio Liza; sonyright, 1936, NEA Service, Inc.)
Closer moves the day when another Queen Elizabeth may rule Britain.
With the Duke of York to the role of king, pretty, popular little Princess
Elizabeth becomes the heir presumptive to the throne Here she is shown
to an exclusive new portrait, fondling her pet dog—a child who already
has captivated the hearts of millions of her future subjects.
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MEXICO CITY, Dec 18.—(P—
Leon Trotzky’s plea for asylum op-
ened hospitable doors to Mexico
today for the wardering exile from
Soviet Russia who could Tind no
refuge in Europe,
The for revolutionary leader—
despite “earlier intimations he
would refuse Mexico's offer of a
haven unless he were promised full
freedom of political activity—was
expected to satl , from Norway on
the next boat.
Trotzky, literally a man with-
out a country, applied to the Mex-
ican minister at Paris, Adalberto
Tejeda, for permission to reside.
In Mexico, government officials
said.
The ministry of interior, an-
nouncing Trotzky had 'accepted
the government’s invitation, said
immigration authorities were or-
dered to admit him.
Trotzky’s permit to reside in
Norway, his present refuge, expired
> estaggay.
Police Arrest Trio
For Junkyard Theft
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Quaint, unsual gift baskets that find a
ready welcome around any fireplace. Really
hand woven, of sturdy oak strips in attrac-
tiv maple finish. Large size for wood or
logs, smaller size for chips or kindling.
This latter comes with woven hearth
broom.
whUe the farm strike threatened to
haltuene flow of produce tp Paris
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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING FOR
THE PURPOSE OF AMENDING
THE ZONING ORDINANCE OF
DENTON, TEXAS.
Notice U hereby given that there
will be a public hearing held at the
City Hall of the City of Denton
Texan, on the 28 day of December
1930, for the purpose of considering
the application or petition of the
Denton County National Bank of
Denton, Texas, to amend what is
known as the Zoning Ordinance of
the City of Denton, Texas, so that
the hereinafter described property
■hall be included within the business
district of the City of Denton, Texas
All that certain tract or parsehO»f
land situated in the City of Dsh
Denton County, Texas, being
of the Hiram Sisco 330 acre euney
and described as follows; BEGIN-
NING at a stake in the south line
of Oak Street 60 feet east from the
northwest corner of a tract of land
out of said survey conveyed by R M
Barna Substitute Trustee, to Denton
County National Bank by deed dated
March 4. 1930. recorded in Vol 229
page 303 Deed Records of Denton
County Texas, thence south 100 feet
for corner in south Une of said tract
thence east 160 feet to the south-
esst corner of sajd tract thence
north 100 feet to the northeast cor-
ner of **id tract; thence west 150
feet to the place of beginning
Any citizen of the City of Denton,
Texas, desiring to be heard in favor
ol or against sald proponed amend-
mint will have an opportunity to De
heart at *»1<1 hearing
J W ERWIN. City Secretary. City
of Denton, Texas. 09-100-101
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City police toaay believed they
had solved the reported theft of
a number of miscellaneous articles
from an East Hickory street junk
yard, with the arrest of three men
by squad car officers Thursday
night. Two of the prisoners were
arrested by officers Luther E
Allen and Ray Powell at a va-
cant lot near the Junkyard, where
officers said they located articles
identified as the stolen goods, and
the third was taken into custody
later to the night. The theft was
reported as naving taken place
the previous night. The throe
prisoner, were questioned by City
Marshal I. E Jones Thursday night
and again Friday, then turned
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