Wise County Messenger (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, August 19, 1927 Page: 1 of 8
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NUMBER 33.
DECATUR, TEXAS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 19,1927
VOLUME XLVIII.
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Car
A
reunion
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Annual Gathering Last
Decatur Merchants and
Red River Structure At
Week Was One of
Business Men Made
St. Jo Will Be Best
Best Yet Held
Up Premium
Across Stream
in in in.
Ithome mill ami also for tin
time
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reared
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but
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a
running t*:1~i
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a ure-ut deal ol truifie
he w:s
Me
l becatir
A hard
lhr national house since
prrience in
i he
going there as a
of West Texas who hari K
d i.. .
i hr. weri
. are satisficei with t he
next election.
the republicans at the
lat .V.
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ton
his lH»m|Z' : 4
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is appr ximntely fitly seven
Sui erintendent Wal-
pavillion. Count}
chairman of the
s
it
■ Hig •
ONG TIME CITIZEN OF
Ue
COUNTY DIED TUESDAY
desire
in this vicinity
d
have their names with the
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les -o1l of Iurutur
1ity turer
Being Hurt by Weevil
the curl while hostilities wen in full
operation of the local
socirree the
l(
rr ps
igh mrda > were on hand to supply
all I he bju
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tin
pest s
e
When salicito
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r sai‘
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<>111 i 1111I on paKe 1Wo
It1ome by off
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1ous lawi
a
fella.
stunt he pulied in Wichita Fall-
that the frlh
1
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ami
to ( • o in
s,
of
1 auto establish
a lid hoiigid a
hi
flint, are beyond my ,wer ol
• d
xx lun the band cull '
his wrists, only
were bring placed on
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W. J. LOWRANCE LAID
TO REST AT DECATUR
(‘ommnissioner
road was s me
thirteenth distriet. and he predicted
that with a solid front the democratic
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a land.
Into one of th* hiif
rrents in Wichita :
t ion
4-rona
down
Heard
comnmeree ha~
r • ponsibilit •
of the Txas
fidence.
brazen
Moll
me
tle
is
COTTON PICKERS SENT
WEST HAILED ON WAY
Offi
been
smooth running and wide
And be it remembered the
ltitl. f I
l um*ral
. • nt lx to i hu ground
fricnels would bend
of 1b”
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FIRST BALE FOR
SEASON RAISED
BYLC.TOLAND
Man With Stolen Auto
Is Arrested at Rhome
OPENING OF RIG
BRIDGE WILL BE
HELD ON SEP. 2
doht' pobody s • ver-size lightin
"llease turn the hose on im
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If pickers
they may
farmers
• to the
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dime
, xx eld
addv»-----
ami by
Deserter from Army
-
Air Corps Arrested
with the
ami we-r.
former
here.
Wort II.
fields
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and
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GREAT CROWDS
SURGEREUNION
GROUNDS HERE
xla rk
time
itec
x mdy
x icted
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the
sin
land di-
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Highway Engineer To
Check Survey of 39th
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bridge in a
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deb ga
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u a charming
tansiane tossed
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two o?
ab i
w rking. I
remains a
thorn fare.
r Mrs
and v i
B
lebrai
Worih
on Hie
representative of th *
"Slh2 Cotton in This Vicinity
have
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<| ehanee I” unhorse
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and will qnote wages and terms
M
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party stood a
Skygak Gives First-Hand Information on
Merry Mix-Ups in County Seat Last Week
in a set to w il n a
immai -rf
I F
lit-
utifs
• I tt Style ~how in
ami the chileren good bye for
The opening e.-h br.H ion
the swelling
friends to r
unclaimed ’ '
io shoot
party
service j
peace in
lllllll ills arrest in this county,
cers truuut the state have
nolified to be on the watel for him
of which are built
inurrec. which will re
Wheeler Park, twenty
possible. Tim : ittered beyond ro‘
nitior wore ’ l ing in the street till
the reunion i*
-talk' are strong ami healthy, but in.
citizens along the
fficia!. and other
very little to *i}
ont cirivinK iutla} xx e
up and get a amide •
siunments of J ickers
labor office of Fort
ship is thus worked
that city to take oxer the young man.
Lb CITIZENS . f Rhome will
remember the world war fly
ing ace. Bill Erwin, who i
having columns written about
sent out of Hr
mm41
B
"Why don't the sherifi
e Fort Worih offi
| low he gained the auto dealm "on
Lee ilizlwa).
h«ng stretches
elreds of
count ies.
famous road
have done their work
by lecatur merchant"
Tuesday. August
citizen" of Wise county
mill here. «livicinu his
. h • at hM-k it
I he pieiK'li
at first thought that
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Tll.se 1..
which will clirect
(nil Brisco, twent three ?
Lui you
his look-
hi - it er the 11 a t i
lion at its meeting
'I he distance t« I he
pecan zrove. just
visitors came from othet
numbx-r "I years, died at
unty when
l.imt tier.
time ago rank
n v el exploit "
;he Air Line
compliment being paid by many
Word, ha" gone out that I r Frank
Norris Will be in Iratur to delivor
r:t «>n of a
on Monday
Ince Gregg, county
Mr and Mrs J A Simmons and
left yesterday for Corpus (’hrisli ami
other points, on their vacation.
same shows are given in
citic- of the cotmnt ry
Itrise . arre ted ntir
cor Irown Monda}.
not believe it from
HERE is one of the smoothest
ero ks in the conntrs ." slated
a Wichita Falls man. who
avrompmnicin an officer froi
am t her auto ciahu s plat < o! bmim
and traded the car he hne j"-l I"i
ehased with a bogus cherk loi anotliet
make of machine, and gave five him
died dollars 1° boot, xivin* anolhn’
Norris Will Not Speak
in Decatur August 22
to the bureau
with the lur-t
lh a "Hanger.
chamber of
port them
( reck and I iccatur
which will
s» ul b ox
' cstallishen ni Iecatur iuru lb’- pick
Ww? nuntu iePler
-THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR CIRCULArON’
More Than Three Times the Bona Fide Subscribers of Any Other Newspaper in Decatur
The woirderi ven
orficor as fa-t 1 I
our spy reports that somne
most plaintive remarks heard
749)
*.e
spuric us eleek. Arter xelinK I-,
Kion of the big car, n.<- Si r» liger le
litserately drwve out • town, mill
thien we never lrard a word of him
Oklahoma who make a p int of comin
as far sonth as Decatur ami other
like towns and intereopt inu ami side
tracking from their course the c<m
Land mu sic.
lowing a protruetel illnes*
between the wo mill"
Diealur ~quil" i"
diru her approval
A< ! Hiegi r ami wife
cvert will col-i-t of the spread
i.owrance ami her Sol in-law
anc Bus Collide
•what dusty, due to late .
otherwise it was and
questioned our spy elosely ab u1
and how he it
will be held at (in far end
Private W A. MeDearnzn. member
of the Twelfth Observation Squadron,
Air Corps, United States army. Fort
Sam lloust n, was arrested Wednes
day morning in Decatur by Sheriff
George Gage, and is being held to ba
returned to the officers in the fort.
Meleanman is charged with desertion,
it being alleged that he quit his coni
mand • n .him* 3rd.
It is said that Melarman war
"picked up” by Deputy Sheriff oma
Cartwright on July 4th, but on a
promise that he would return to Fori
Sam Houston tin* officer released him
When seen on the streets « f Iatur
Wednesday morning. Sheriff Gaze im
mediately arrested Meleuarman. Noli
fication of his leaving the army had
been communicated to the Wise county
sheriff by the army headqnarters. Me
Dearman will be returned to Fort Sam
H uston today and turned over to th*
military authorities
The government has a standing
xx a rd to peace officers capturing me1
wlo d< sert fr in the army
where they may ~olre
At wilson, oklaloma. the Air Line
September 111h at eight • cl’ ck p-
uanirer alspices ol Lakexxood M.
■ ! nreh. sonth. The pastor, lh" W
Du ito-e. has arranue to hiv
me "age broudcasied over W । ' A
Tuesdas nizhi. and while
i al Fori
then into
t;race l’iclreil. a
Well, gentle
the Dallas wholestlors were
a banqnet E eti 1 he vi ilors
to catch his la t words, they
near feebly whisprred. Tell
bl It. snre and feed the lio: >
J. M St Clair
Mrs. E B. Melton
Perkins limkerlake Company
iecatur News, year's subscript iol
laster P« *arson
Ingram Drug Company. -.....
Summit Garage
Incatur Motor (ompany
(iiy National Bank
Dillehay MeMorie Company
Z I Lillard
Mississippi Si re
Lilian A (‘oman
Decatur Cash (irocery
Shelton's (irocery
Stokes X Miller
H M Kuttrill
• tevenson s Grocery
M Sy stem Store
Chamlur of (‘ommerce
Roc She emuker. hair cut
< 'a sh.
daughter f" W. B l’iekrell. one of t‘
church, always accompanied
visits here by the son. Willie
Captain 1. mne Star Bill Erwin
union at
mnonni kne t. .aid l’olicvortieer A <
"Bri . while \ i -iti ' in the M - -en 1
ortice witl hi new bride, who tri r«
the marriage was 'Ir 'Uqb Mit
Walker «•! that Hyl Officer Bn •
is on, of the bst kiwI keepers o
(he pen. e o|| I he l’anthertowi foit
for by 1'1 •
romarking ns the steel rinK wam
snapped on him: "Why do thisi l m
im iiuhwayman"
number of
The few fnruers who Leg.tn II",’
wi-on. when lie- in-tei- t rat appeal
co. xx ill fare mm-h better than th
v |.., de'aycd combat ting tlivin.
them citizens of
it was on the
A representative from the -tute high
way department is expeted to tomi"
here today er tomorrow and muk '
reoumendation of the line recentl}
surveyed for the seven mile gap of the
Thirty Ninth H ghway between Suniy
riven by th.- jo -tie
, 1boctir. "O whil xx«
surveys have been made by the enzi
neer in an effort to come into Deraiur
on the lowest grade.
It is understood that Chico citizens
have appealed to commissioners’ court
to change the route from the ertek
and come to Deeaulr over the Cactus
Hill route. •
my boots ami spurs
"Cigatds wor lh
owinE to oth’l onungrmnnt Ii
not cotie
a n aildress "il t be " 11 ri
,„l ......la) niulit, Nugu l
has moi: ieil his frieu’s
I., nav. on hamnd for tie wrvasion nuil
a mmtwr of Ioadling state ft i'-m I-
I.. Ill the states of T’xas Ulul "kl
in....... and tt Ieatur rhamler
separate us?" I
The rir-t huh- of colt’ n arrive in
Icatur 'il Wednesday morning. Tim
othm was grown ami marketed 1
1. c. T lad, farmer in the Swer
water community
Ihe bale was ginned free by the
Milligan Gin Company, ami neighed
102 pounds, bringing 20.30. with a pre
August 9th, at l.ccompte Louisiana.
W. J iowrance of Meruan ‘By- di<
from injuries receive in an auton •
bii nericient. and hi" r ninins We.
orough! to Decal ur for intermeni Tin*
funeral was hele al the residence •1
.b l.n G Gose in Souihwe-t leratlr.
m Thurselay. \uuust 1 lth. at ten
thirty a in and the luni) laid 1o r* .
in < aklaw li crineter
Th«- wife • f Mr lowrane was Mi-
T i.owance. citizen of the con
coniributei to the remiun:
First National Bank
E W. Blyl he
Empire ! rug < 'ompany
Beniros Drug Store
cireathonst Hotel
Simpson s Meat Market
Belal Variety store
Mes-eluer. years subseripiion
I.. Sehulkey
Frank (ireen
F.^. I Store
Rieger Dry (ioods Store
Cicoro Smith Lumber < ompany
Dick Rccx'S. hair cut
IIurdwick & ! Hcksnn
Texas Powa i X Light C mpany
Buster P<‘arson
( B Bradford
• harhs Stokes
Boyd ~ Sons
C 1. Christian
ioin (Jentry.............
W right Brothers
sway were :
hurry and
trouble and expense of getting pirk"ls
started to their fieleis "
Mr Woodson said, if necessary, a’
agent of the departmeni would be
IiHNI I. 1. iranjenburK of
Oklahom City, was down to
do his pari in "pulling oxer
| the big J e Whceler Park
Before moving to Oklahoma.
XI nn
.50
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1.00
1.00
1.00 I
1 no
.50
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J 411
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AMI nil tin was fri r ■ ।
Wort to have your justi"
of Ihe I”®' here. suir.
Him)., to lie us a main
were < arte off lo the city .lump
(orion Now rejoris Hull lie hi." u
larre of unnin ears and teeth down
in the I', em cut of the court hulls .
and if n il elammee in ten days the
cars will he IM ■ ' to tile shoemaker for
sole lenther. <• lentil eruslied m>
and Shill to rulirs mon ns oyster
-In'll for fudaing.
• down emuigh t 1
e them. The • bit
e (him thirty hours
lienry Walker
his attempt to ero the Pacific Ocean
in an airplane, (‘aplain Erwin, as In-
is titled, is the son • f a Presbyterian
preacher, and in the past years the
father held protruded meetinzs in tle
town of Rhome Al that limo the son
was a youth about fifh-en years •1
age. ami assistod in the instrumentni
music at his father's meetinzs. He
vill be remembered as wearing hi-
Lair long, and at lime." he played tie
piano. When the elder Erwin was an
evangelist he lived with his family in
Dalia.". Many Icatur vitizens r
hsaber the reacher. and it is said
tbit on severa! oc a i h". years aH •
he preached al the local l‛resbyteri:n
Highway will ikt collat ’
for a lol"
his home
lle cotton crop in Wi-t clili) is
being sei ions ly damaged l inst 1 .
ami late repwrts to Ilie Me-- nzer n
very discouraging Some farmers -a.
the er p will not run a bale to fi.
acres: others say thrir
spotted. From the prairie
.J I.. Stone whs seriously injured
on the head and rigid arm. and Nir.
and Mrs Roy Reynolds of Rhome.
le- instruet ons are to Ii~e th ""*
empkHed high" n) all lb' "ny 1" ati
aero-', lh'* lie" bridue. the finest ol it
, ind aer . Red River, il is roporte
but by agents from West Tekas an 1
oruanizat ion of ilu* Sons of Confed-
erate Veteran" of Wise County, mid
thru them - Id every medal furnished
him by the Stone Mountain associa-
and while he w:s a citizen of Ietatur,
'‘Brandy became identified with the
repnjon as a committeeman, and each
y{8 he comes back to do his bit and
ci with his friend." "We look
forward to these big reunions,” said
"Brandy lo a Messenger reporter,
"and it de es us good to get back
among our friends here As soon as
E. L arrived, two days before Ihe'
opening of the reunion, he rolled up
his sleeves and began his work, assist
lug Chairmau Jack Rieger in getting
affairs in ship shape “Il’s a pleasure.
im said, "to do a part in making tin
wise county Reunion the occasion for
the old timers to meet." Mr. and Mrs.
Brandenburg loll Saturday f r lheir
home in Oklahoma Cily.
machine, ziving H 1nau elirrk
drove Dll' car arrss III.' stront
ery veteran "f the county, but when
th. li..... ....... for presentation of the
mees. it was found Hint quite i.
wumtr ”f Illi' "soldiers of till' sixties"
conla not be supplied.
t in Ir-ilas. sorond dny -f the re-
niulilrlmui- Ho "‘I .......
lo mke i. qnarter boh'
It i- wiciinu rapiils. 'll"
auu, MUS ill'll sti’l in Ithonn Tuesilan)
In orfieer Joe Brown of Hint town
an ivns brought to tie Iratur Jail
Briseo was found in possession • t an
oldsmelile conch that 1a 1’" " 1
ported stolen from a party in Wichit:
Falls With Brisco was a younz nine
by the name of Johns' n.
A fifty dollar reward had Inin 'f
fi rd for Hie return of the ear.
ered quer. This qur bird lines "ii
dander (‛rk. over beyond Ilozwash
It has bl ■ II said of -udge I’rus
that he mini's his friends lie’ly. Inl
if one of rhri i • flies Infore 1 in a-
a law violator and has no def ■ 1 u
Hint of fricndship, he is a "lilowel up
sinker Friend and foe look ulike
in Illi' judlue’s court.
our spy further reports Hint, owinz
to the sudden demand for bei f ste k
for Mlack eyes. Il"' prie "f .....at tok
a sudden rise: mid he suguests that
in Ilie future nil hellizerants be re
quird to bring his on steak wit’
lii in. -skysal.
coruers had Iwn rlipwd by this
corner culling commissionet.
Conzressian Guinn Willaiins spoke
the 1 rst day, and his remarks foune
listening ears He told of his eX-
past and twelve long months must roll
around before we enjoy another. In
many respect." the past three days •1
fun and frolic bore some of the ear-
marks of the early days, when the
bob' bad nirii rede int” town am!
challenged the whole universe to do
ball le
instead of zoppiny pistols, ind in
-ted of tnllet- as big as door knob"
flying ihru the air a" thick ns ura~-
hoppet in Nansas. there was a pop
ping of ham like fists and arm- : ,:,t
fanned the nr like a lteh winrhmill.
At each p”p of :i fist s me poor victim
w. tild give a gurgling sigh and sink
Thirty fifth annual reunion of Wise
county old settlers and ex confederate
soldiers, held August HHh. IHh and
12th, at Joe Wheeler Park, south of
Decatur, will go down in history as
one of the most successful entertain-
ments Umi Ims ever been held in this
scction, and to the committee having
in charge the arrangements, headed by
Chairman Jack Rieger, go the thanks
of the thousands of visitors who came
and had the "time of their lives.” A
good carnival I roup and one of the
best rodeo shows gave the thrills ex
peeled, and the entertainments under
the pavillion furnished the old-timers
and their friends with rare treats.
There were more campers than ever
before, and it became necessary for
the committee to enlarge Ilie camp
grounds to accomm date more than
fifty families, who decided to take an
outing and live three days under the
beautiful spreading trees: and when
the festivities got under way on the
first day the wood." were «L th*d with
tents and camp-fin " All sections or
the cotnty were represented, and hua-
were painfully bruised on their boties
Monday night al nine o'clock as the
result of the car in which they were
riding colliding with a Wichita Falls
jitney bus Mr. Slone was taken to
hi" home on West Main street and
Mr ami Mrs. Reynolds were treated
at the Rogers Sanitarium
The accident oceurred near the E
Williamson filling station on the Meri
dian Highway in South Decatur TBe
Reynolds car. going south, had jii"t
turned into Ihe highway when it Wa-
struek by the bus, going north. Th
biz bus esend injury Iriver of the
im- w s arresteri by officer from th”
sheriff " departmnent. but laier wa-
released.
Mr Slone was going to lthome wit’
Mr and Mr Reyn« Ids. who had bern
visitinu in incatur. He is the milier
r market, and he uel - exact ly wln
cm reel f- r his customers. Th-
(»ne difficult? ha bern. he sail',
ihai groups of picker- destinee frori
Fort Worth and other pints to S*
lions of West Texas were st ppd ol
the road prior to their reaching the
original destinations and induced iv
go to different sections 1o work. lhi-
is not done by citizens of this couni)
it seems, are reling to olr "py. thai
_ooi| fizhting men could be bad for a
onE when the season first opolei. but
by the third day uoo fighting hands
were scarce and hard to gel
When the smoke of battle had clear
ed away there was a grand lush io
Judge II E Brady s ('.1111 to donate
a little something to keep the wherl-
of justice moving. Most of the com
Iatants paid off with a smi’e. but or •
xtremist actually laughed out lord
tnc dechired it was a rositive pleasure
to pay a fine in .Indue Brady’s couri.
stone M itain Memorial Association,
endncted a most interesting program,
assisteu by sons of ex confederates.
stone Mountain Memorial Associa-
tion of Atlanta, Georgia, had Hu* noted
seulptor. Augustus Inkeman. who is
in charge of the Stone Mountain • li-
federate memorial, to design a gold
me.tl to be awarded to the living <*x-
confederate veterans. It was contem-
plated by the associntion Ihai si ns of
confederate veterans and other inter-
osied in the old heroes of the south
tv. uid purchase and present the medals
to the veterans. In pursuance of this
plan, the county chairman of Ilu* Stone
Mountain memorial lor Wise county,
connty > uperintendent Wallace Gregg.
Director Woodson of linited Miate*
Labor Bureau at Fort Worth, visited
the office of Ihe chamber of • mmere
here this week b seck the coeratin
of this community in the aim of sup
plying the several sections of the statt
with cotton ph-kor." as the senson now
the best report' "Ui’
and he finally K’artiel
ow ha l 1, n Lickel by a
Thursday, the second day of the
ceiebratic n, and desiznated as Con-
federate Day f und the ground over-
flowing with the old boys, their de
sc. mhnts and their friends At the
te-t road that ha" evor beei
to the reunion grounds is the
inu season to attend Ihai pickers, when
once started, will get on thru to their
destinations without being interfered
with or divertee on the route
Mr. w.odson requested that lh”
chamber of e mmeree conle le ”I
service to farmers by securing rei
tration of pickers in this section who
cosirc to go to other sections to work
after the cotton is picked out here.
This the chamber of e mnmeree will d .
nerstanding" lhe Wix h la Falls
mail was speaking I” i Me*-"‛r f
porter Wene -day nizlit as thn onIK
man was being taken from the ro1)
jail for the returu lo Wichita by Ihe
orricers. The acoused y rung man hael
Word was brought to the ehambxr
.f commeree office l’nesday by George
Legate of Wilson. Oklahoma, chambet
that work n the Red Rix«*r brivize.
north of St -I”, to acromm date tin-
Air Line or Texas Oklahoma Highway
from pocatur. via (ireenw.....I and St
Jo. to Oklahoma (’ity. wonle be com
pieted I his Friday
A eelebration is being plannei • •
mark the opining of lli<- bridge
traffic This "lil pr babi 1 helet
Friday. September 2nd, which i- the
official date of the expiration of th
contract and when lhe bridizt owneI -
will receive the structure from the
conf raclors.
Decatur a nxl Wise count citizenslp
have been put on notice that they will
hi* ox|<«h*d to attend the opening in
Air Line ilixhway h ids so man
• inus in promise for 1eatur and
i-,. comt) that ont peoph’ shoti*
nanire-t 1i ir int- 1 -t by alleml-
tie. op ninu •ebrat i n in z! u nin:
ir 1 lamtr tif cmen ' "ill
ulul business mi'll, of forty dollars.
S A lillard bouyrht the cotton.
Ful.winE is a list of 1e-e i li*
-urvices were held yesterday afterne .1
nt tie rasain ciruve vhureh mill Ilie
interment wurre ni that comrtrry
Mr I.owae sixty ...... >eur- of
au, mid in ha ....... mi hunord 1
I vitiz..... H>'' wouuty i"i' nimiy
ycars 11 wa- "n<- of the "nt:
mst prursive man. and Hu' "utin
. mI1, suffers a loss in his dnilb
A vumber of friends from Drcatu
attenleil the funeral.
Messner estends -ynpahty in lh'
Iraved relatives.
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tanuliter, Mr and Mrs II I! Ilanil-
Ion, arcompanicd the body i” Iecatu
mid were greeted b tleir formr
friends with l ive and syupathy. Sei
ral friends of lhe decrased fr t
11oston. Dallas. Iori Worth mid
Weatherford attended the funeral.
Fueral sorvicus Here ronneted by
lir. J I. Wmd. I resid id of Icatur
culleze. and an old lime friend of He
Pickrell family. Aetive pall bearer-
wer II II 11milion. ' I. McKenzie.
; S Ilewett, Buck Collins. Hugh
iireeie, J. G Gose. It A Hardin
and J W Lillard
tlie tiz e; ris :1 de
affairs, participated in by reprnuta
Hies of lhe liugest nerthern and
'■astern milkers of wearing up; mi l
are attractive events, and femme Ilie
gutiering "f buyers Iliul e me togrte i
in Dallas” said Mr Iiczer in n
versatiou witl a Messenger ropuri
lhe very Inle t lu ladirs dress i-
drmonst rated, and lh- parae o 1u
liful women in the exui-te cruon-
Unit will be worn this fall and winte
is a rare treat. You m t 11 true a"'1
acurat line on what is what in -tsi
and this gives the sual1 1 n 1 Ni""
the same alvantaze the city shop-
have, necause nil styles ar exhihilci
al these shows. The small town ner
chant, attening these affairs, knon-
wiat he is buying "hen he gm- in
. IuI ehmged « ill He
of enuravinz the ai tent ion
offirinls
or the bridue ' ponin
vio--cimer i- requested !• atlnolire
in its cmm- that Bev. .1 P. rnele
Bud Sher ii o’ d "ill prach in the city
hull anditerium ol I mllii.-. "ii Sunday
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Collins, Dick. Wise County Messenger (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, August 19, 1927, newspaper, August 19, 1927; Decatur, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1583974/m1/1/?q=wichita+falls: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .