Wise County Messenger (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, May 4, 1928 Page: 1 of 8
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Meeting, Decatur, May 9
Cotton Farmers
iunansssucmat
On
the
NUMBER 18.
Street
DECATUR, TEXAS, FRIDAY, MY 4, 1928
KNOW DECATUR!
th • l • in • •
.1- i r
Vtry
iz tti
er to the first priz
r
in
r i«*
done on the basis of rreatest
tlie Joc Builcy Olub won first place :
Cla
pletely
H
< or ciinz
i:
from a farmer.
stated he bonght Ha h.
-•him:
and Ici vowed that he knew
to 910 polni*.
of
Hd (entry.
Iasi
h
FARMERS
Claud l.r*'
135.
Vriting the Messenzer.
I jek
M |s.
735. cost X11.39.
85, Iasi score
TO MEET
given
much as ps-
Intent on savin:
b ads for the enterprise-
mimeialed
i' hi b women :t re to be
I )allas
hizive made.
finding out who is
re
damage.
the manageineni
ineg acts Of t hi charaet
fUh tab
of
i ha-ige 0
the Top.
preti}
«ieinenst rat ion
u wait upil ’b
hr too late it }
formation
max
destroy your trt.
it
unable to
that isi‘
Johunie
notling about it until on
the sec
«
Messenget nds bring the results
quene
o
lh)
bright.
is, Childress,
in the issue
MRS. ED GENTRY
WINS IN CONTEST
last
clyde
first prize in Class 2.
rhe ieginning of the contest in
Stolen, But Found
in Fort Worth
a rd will he
to the per-
Mr-
pint
proportion to the
Mrs. Ed <Jentry of
Heexes.
Smit’.
It u * h
Oppose Reservoir
Project Here
score
$1z:
in the
knew I
Captures First Prize In
Class A. Mrs Casey
First In Class B
33:
ini
Ross,
cost,
firs
213,
M rs.
165.
lin inE
very
i
I
w rk. was
and that
com
Mrs.
Club
M r.
onec-rn
and
of
wililtr
Clio
re very
aw a rd
in rach
1 s| en?
lb
big
clas-. < ‘ontestalit -
twenty -five collars ‘
point' 1
points,
from a
The
N. W. HIWAY KILL
BE POPULAR
W 1
won
At
$21.15.
score
art. he
I your
ss. h- •
til Mier
sh tdd lead to positive re
hoped before the meeting
mat hines when
<1lts.
eudls
first
Early Day Landmark
Is Being Remodeled
I
...........................
mediately communi ate
(). F. F. Club Meets
With Miss McCaskey
ioriy a IV.
(•h.rk“h
J erigun
12/
result in colirt action.
Under the permits Tarrant County
One-Way Bridge Is
Scene of Accident
LONE MOUND IS CHICKEN THIEVES BOONSVILLE TRIP TARRANT WISE
GIVEN A TREAT GET BIG FLOCK IS RAINED OUT MERGER HALTED
6
Social Service Ladies
Have Meeting Here
of Friday, April 20th. 1,1
making nse of mnt-
mi
the comparative results
""Nonilie heldjn the district court room. on
l . tha floor of the court houe.
which Ims pioneered the wav
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81
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pest Iurgius to
About f ifty local men and farmers
met in Hie chamber of commnerce hall
and heard Mr. Jarksrn’s talk whici
touched' on nearly every phase of til"
problem.
Attend theMajestie
Monday at
hinted that unless the motion to con-
solidate were granted tnat it might
material
Ilie cri-is
The ehirken yard of W. T.
order that the nateria
hand and th- marhiue
visit will be made in!' r.
vile will appreciate ‘
the kind is r rice ed l
zive n b)
m repot i
ers in efforts to SitVe
uir-fulm S- nt
provcitlit.
first score
wG
I
ac ompi ishinent in
cash expenditure.
ready for the «merrene
meet with you folks when you com"
So call or write me a day of two
ahead before y..... me. I assure you
I will do all I can to make your trip
pleasant and I know Iha! it will I"
worth a great deal to Ibis communit}
Those in Cla-s 2 were
li was only due to tieir
i VOLUME XLIX.
losiug programs and we don 1 wan
our program* to interfere with theirs
poolvillle has organized a chamber
of comineree and are planning to
for the various schools will, I clo
January each room was scored to a"
Th« members of the 0.1 1 1 ‘ul
me al III- home f Miss Ln < Hj
Meea-ke Friday •>. After bi.
bon, the eiub was enert’wiich
eral plat.....ualwr onjwnd " I
mcil"" das rat aisointely they could "tpI
aatractiv" and ........ line the weevil in the ""
of making a profitable crop ii Hm'
wornmg we aw. he mid i
some pwer nad Nt"uudm
had been in exi
-- century: "
these ro al- srored from, 10>
ge-t the
the (Do You Know colnmn. you ear
ried an item about J. 0. Mode wres!
||lll{ with a Iear. This happenei it
pahas, during the state fair, ami l
tyuk Mr. Mode killed the bear m.
A least, he KOI the decision over to
Iar. I just had a talk with J"nK5
Mode, supt. of the FL W. A D rad
road, and be told me be rememlrt
the occasion very well, although he
was very ypng."
twinkle of an eye.
elosi April :0. 'I he
mil ti e repurt- some
spent more than twenty-five ollar
in both Olas- I and Class 2 th'scor
were made to two of the scho ’
. ehiildren of the Lone Mound scho..
3P"I the pig being the presentation of . '
suhmsuru r Lumber Cmpany : d
the Cicero Smith Lumber Compan
is the time 1
range now to gel
Mrs Lee
score 910,
Rumen
refurnishing the room
Casey of the Paradise
r. J nurriss was here from th"
Paradise country Tuesday. and white
in town h" called at the Messenger
fflee. Conversing with a repr"uut:
live of the Paradise P'Oples favorite
4.wspaper, Mr Hurriss said. I her.-
i not meh talk about politinsiu.
country at the present time: in Tuf
I have heard vers Bule "
candidate. Severn) of the canliutit
r United SI...... senatr have Horn"
( -upwrter ■ down my way.
tire Is mi me IrII I" 1""1 "12 "
.1- I he zentiemel
the score card thai Wa:
•< 'hn hd-rr
! atur '
We were-
be uu-e the
ra i oi:t
wha1 may b i
where a litile
tower anel U
j* also a vor:
pour at any iint te dissuaded the i
eutur delevution fr m onile oriug •"
.respond to an iuviiation from R wont -
villa to hold • community urozinn
there Friday night. April 2<Mh. Tn-
sible of the present year’s cotton crop
from boll weevil destruction by re
a,. . , os; nt ng with calcium arse-
nate, another meeting convened last
Friday to confer with J. Lee Jackson,
of Dallas. whom the committee had
invited to Decatur for a conference.
wouid use the i ion in ti rizl "
and al (he right time.
II- commended Hie muvoment 1hii
1ipg Imide lo interest cotlol faru
inu acmonstrtinn "f what il malt
Wise couty as a wlud- l" hat.
||ic advantag 'I -uel artinti
persuasive ability a' Mi - Ni" '■
"vidences in Ibis egitest am 1 '
er Kitchen < mte l conut" 1:1
X PH 1 .
First score
$55. cost of
following table will indicat '
for Hm wonderful improvnments N‛
don - by every iontestant
Manager Blythe of the Majestic, w
endeavoring to give Decatur and W is:
County patrons of his show the bit
entertainment, and it is said that tin*
Majestic is one of the most comfort
able .show-houses to be found in any
town of its size on the Denver road.
The patrons appreciate the manager's
efforts to give our people the be8e
but there seems to be certain of the
patrons who desire to go back to th.
carly-day border stuff and play ..the
role r “hath and desperate boys," by
destroying the f roperty. A numbe
of seats have been cut "P and put
of use by these gents, and this week
it was necessary for repairs to be
made «n picees of Hie houses furni
litre. For some time I ill- iniserab’"
conduct lm- ......n zoing "" nnd it iN
suggested that the good ttrN »i
Um house assist Manazer Hlyth 1
that orders sufficiut for ili
ear load will be recorded. more
if needed, in
may be on
about the raid: tlmt Hunter promis'd
him a drink of good whisk- if l"
meet him at a certain corner in Nori '
Fort W rib assisted in "istsiut
of the cliickens. and wh- 'be "en
appeared Iae was waiting for il
arink, said
Majestic Theatre Seats
Destroyed By ‘Toughs’
will construct a lake in Tarrant
and Wise, impouding more than 1,000-
0w, acre feel of water, forming the
largest, artificial body of water in
Texas for municipal supply, power,
domestic use and irrigation. The
county recently voted $*500,000 in
•Sum Boyd and Joe Boyd, from Cros-
byton. visited relatives in Decatur
the latter part of last week. Sum
is a brother to Mrs. George Arrington
and Joe is her nephew.
in pr rtion to the number of mem-
,r cirolied will he awarded a steam
prossur........ker as Hi" club p’riz".
cu, prizes will be announced next
week.
market, bringing alut s10D,0M an
nalls. In addlition there i "
Irv industry producing al.....I 81.IW.
tsio annually T'lml makes S! 1.00
for dairy and pouitry prodm-l- t"i":
sjn we blackla........ an- ..............
to be nuterly cott » minled, iet 11 " '
further said Hi'l this amoimt of .......
ey is euivalent I" Hie r"I!"5 1r"!
। 1.00 bales of cotton at 20'
von plesse, 28.0 bale- at H>
' Again, it may l- -aid ih:...... ,li"
rv and poultry imlustru have roW1!
v,-i - rapidly in his arra :""1 ‘
prolml.lv run well ab le ......iuri
given alve during the cm relit X"
flu.......... of the Northwest Hrm
way imply .....ans that these Ind17
ricis the kind of farm industrim "
I F..,. v :m I if rie"
ans hav prayed .Tonistrics, rhis
aden inrtUted to .............rop
"iirxeRI. wh eh will be inrrea-rd j
by the openinz of the new route to a
rits market. The country server by
the Dallas Nortlwest Highway and
all the markets serving this territe r
will be ienefit led.
. pwrivue
ro m is a
fascinati
rlist as a fislrrman
fin llmd-d Rhmh l lanu
■ w-re ink'-:: oil. When M"
but stir- to come. o all con
Too mmli seriqr menting in the
vusted in Mext Werinesday prepar
cerr in one of 'ho most important
iavements llu- public Ims yet under -
taken for its owp protertim
: imnovine
alleved 1
Mis ora Grirfitl, first score,
last score, 6:55, <"sl. #2list.
John H. MeDa Idel, first score,
la-'t score 555, rost. $21.82
Results in class 2 will Ie
said. Ar
p iso. I
-m out by the Extension Service f
A. & M College Al' tin beginin
Jackson represents a
of (ommere,
Tovim.
i lie final scores
bonds more marketable, but that eon
struct ion of one dai without Hi"
of her would be futile, as far as flood
prutertion is concerned.
"The bond houses," advised Hump
it is znerally under-sto by the I ton. "demand Hint the two projects be
citizons of Dallas that the buidinK united, which if done will affecj cn
the new Dallas Northwest lighway I siilerabie economies for us.’’
will open a short route to the Dallas Roth Clark and Dunlap Tuesday
market for a great and growing dairy afternoon took the 1osition that the
poultry and truck producing terri board action w uld not hurt the pro
"ory in Wise County, John t. Sim ject nor the .......is. ami saw no re.
mons, member of Hie bond issue cam- son why Hie district b—"rd can not
paign c mmittec, in commenting a build and operate the lakes as a.com
message from Decatur, telling of a iined project. However, the officia
forthcoming general ratification ineet records will show that they are seP
in- of Wise county citizens, speaks arate and distinct.
or the fact that Decatur is one of Hu- Monday at the hearing. Hampton
leading milk and dairy prolucts, de
pots of the State. He does not. how |
ever, give figures.
For the benefit of that elat) thal
likes to have its information in th"
form of conerete figures, let it be
said tlmt in furnishing information
for,the Texas Almanac last year the
pecatur Chamber of Commer " "I
ml Hint there were approximat! 1
:,00 lows milked in commer'-ml
niries in the Decatur district More
chan 12,0X0.00 I’ unds "f milk inll
JlMllXm pounds ot butter fat K" '
crompli-le! in a horn •
l lonzlu fulness is I
we nit of expense. ’I
prarticul air! satisfy
.r cur citizn- state in Ia-t "" K
M—enger." remarked 11 I".......
buhiness man to this revrt"I ।
woniiman referred .........""". '
............. that Del atur go, .n Hu
, I . . of -marslal tow " iha1 V"
, u H the peculiar plar it "I!",
1V being Hu onls inr rporated 1"W!
112 the slide without a town "TiI
il, citizen continued hi- romarv
something like IUD If I r.....il".
. orr -lly. the eitizens of Iatur WEn
never consulted when Hu fw “r"1
to abolisl the town miirsmH. It Wo. _ ..
done as the mazirian do- bi- rl k lo puri
and .. v vat
' Dor 1
.....................nzyw
2„“'rii "ET-amua ii
wierwrzueim wr9ug --------
ntjon ro show thcin lip.
iater.
Not mily have ....... who have 10
I,rolled in Hl" State C ntest been do
Ing living room improvement but also
practicany every home demonstration
.-lull memter has met the goal of hav
in - at least four improvements in the
Iiving Room as a result of the con-
test work. The club making llu- high
-si number of scores in improvement
gnu. li iL i wo nil ea- of Erl "
port, wits raided Modu, nigl .mu
don't know it is a one way brile"
nnd drive -into it before rozlizinn
tlmt they can't pass Ilie other car "It
it. This bridge should be made wider
by nil means, as there is an immense
trafrie on this higlway* and publi"
safety demands that it be iimd,*oi'l
enougl fir cars to pass emh other on
it. Road < ommissinner Dick Robin
• of Alvord informs us Hint he lx
doing what he can to induce the High-
way Commission to widen this bridge
mid make it safe for the traveling
1 ublie. This should by ull means I
done- Alvord News.
cream ayt..mu count*, Plori
' ‘ 1 vk.y. Mation
......ran. cathery"
MeMordit,
the Fort Worth officers apiared on ing out and the most of tlnem
the scene. The young mnen, who . •.
weatier ki het ' T ’ ।"
sar Friday 1 4hi. W
you are
and the
inilcii ‘h
< Hi last Saturday afternoon. Mr. A
F Melherson and Mr. J. S. Ker
were driving on State Highway Ne.
2. aid when er ssing the narrow
bride across Brushy Crcek, abotli
two and a half miles north of Alvord
another car coming from the opposite
direction ran into the bridge and ran
into their car, cansing a wreck
Mr. Kerr was severely bruised abouli
the ’ace and nose, and was treated by
Dr. C. C. Riley of Alvord.
Tils bridge is too narrow’ for card
to pass on it, and many accidents
hav occurred there, as some people
While in Iten rrutl lb" M-
2, r iter bud ile l>h';' «" '
; 11 ur1t1man Wit'' "lai...... "!
.. .-omc •
p : . go; " H' ■ b"-
iior <ome w lonpin*
in fuel llie mullemnns mH 111 11
I.■m.l.li -oril. m Iulim" tlat ..... " '
Demon <■ mH.' slremm ........I
lug uneasy live and "II
rheir days in the limpid wm.-i- "I.
t„-re Tim geul man •" '' "
1, is Rrent Mlarkson. count.- I'"1-" "
pelectili Del...... Cont nI
prtinz -b"L wheu (l‘" M' "1'-'1 '
. ".r took Icv. h -lioute .
pavenport and sureh in Irrtu 1i
I m Eoning over in n -hort tin
iow Umm - m- rul fishing: I’"!"’"
them for lb" worse, for it i m' "
rov.« ro ms are truly Li' alle .....ms
will, roadling ......... a writing cell
!. . m-i a1 eeuter. Il "Itr 1"
quici tame- and a
conter ’I'll'' rooms are
liuw , very imitine apwara"
!• i "-Idem Hmi mi amnonait
.ror ........mi- mid spiritual
tisratim .......alt for 0 11:1′1
m, wulas ■■ - l- ' mlauliri in Mr.- <len
Tuesday was ......peninK day of
the fishing season, mid a large nu‛
ter of pecatur ritiv.ens went a fishing
.i‘ Deatur lake No startline ctl -
were repwrte: in fuel - me "I th
most exirt in the erowu rturunl
. aitbwut a cut'll I' i- reprteil ||1!U
.. "% water in the lake is very low. Im
. that numerous bass and eraprit m-
- to be found- West Fork and Sami
are sanid to te toming with monster
catfish, and home whoppr* an- ex
Icted to be Imught in soon
judging cola-
ver expeet ing quite a In •. but we
still want yon ihople to onn when
Hm weather fail- up- Colne when i:
is must couvenicu li you. It may
be better to come if possible, on some
other night rather than Friday nixlt.
anting t, only $11.32 for
ti-cuverett his 1
omes." V' warn'd
A main obje t of the meeting I"-
week was to discover, if possible. 1! W
mmiy planters! ext.....I to apply ’h"
dust as being iuformation ne".
I , the to the desire to pool order I"-'
buying of a car load or more, it be
ing stated that the wison may I" "I
taint'd eheaper in rar lots es11" '
if tlie order is tiled cor Ir 1
' ."bam. of tin......on "' r....... '
.,qnctical and viiiitbie was Mi
.romation which Mr neksou '-mi
thill 'd "3 deumu auvisuble lo cull-
duel awtier meetin and afford in
oortmits I" discuss the prolilem I'
rore li |lill larger numher. Tim da;.
I 1 weesday. May 11th, at 2 "elork
I in the irternoon. was selected ami
I Mr. saeson Indmed to promise lo re
turn nt Hint lime. The gathering will
I. her actual expenditur
wam I- -ub-eritw "■ "11
Austin. Texas, May 2—The propcs-
id Tarrant County consolidation con
servatiou plan will not go through.
The State Board "I Water Engineers
Tuesday afternoon, in voting to al-
iow the two applirations of ‘l’arrant
’■"limy Improvement Distriet No. 1
passed up all reference to the Fore
। Worth attempt to merge the Wise and
Tarrant (ounty lakes as one project
Ihe ap| lications alid permits go into
the official records as separate pro
l p sit ions.
John A. Norris, board chairman,
I was in favor of approving the consoli-
dation, but opposition came from C. S
Clark and A JL bunlap, the other
I memlers. wh explained Hint to grant
Hm Fort Worth moticu would be to
I set an unusual precedent and that
I "Ihe county could work out the pro-
I ject as one anyway, that bond sales
I likely would not be afrerted."
.Monthly, Sidney Samuels, Ireland
Hampton. John B. Hawley and Mar-
vin C. Nichols, representing the Tar
Irani county District Board, came to
nstin and in a c nference that last-
d most of Hm day, pleaded that the
I i wi, irmits I.- consolidated, dieclar-
1 ing Hmi it not .inly would' mak"
Clouds that threatened a down State Board In Austin
their names as Ed Hunter and J
Lc, were arrested and turned over
to Sheriff Gage, ami they wen
brought t" the Wise < aintay Jail
Mr. Jernigan, win Im found that his
ehkkens nad teen stolen offerea a
re nar of $1.00) er Imad, ami when
tlie fowls were iorated in Iori Worth
he was .ailed mid immediately ideut
fied them as lli- property. 'Um men
arrested told a numter of conrtintin
stories about Hm chickens. Iiuute
Dorothy IhiH*"
Wednesday should ■ halleug" ri i:
tentinn of everybody in the "I"
and justify .......rcest mtemlmm".
Mr Jat kson will vourtaf D'1’ in
detaibd auvice as marhines ilnir
mmeits for acreages of dirfori
size, methots ot operation an 11ni
cost, and will give the cost of Hm
pi-.I. .......mil I" apl y and 1ow “l"1
where it may Is- secured- This in
The Smhil serviee Commitir was
hostess to Hm Missionary Society. ol
Ii„. M i: chureh. Smith. Monday at
trno, n. April :o. at (Im home of Mrs.
1,-1, ( >i— with an old tit.....tilling
pris Th" l"P was don:...... l! MT
A|i- .lorn- villi lb" ruet.Ire
........... ............... fy send,
quest will Im "H"iNta Mrs.
ing ii 1" the litii" 2g. After ti
t at Class i- -"I‛I wome( wet"
uilt was finkid i— na,
-ervel tiks will ....... Monday. May
ri-a I'. M.
There is a sit for a dam An
Denton Creek licit would orm
nearly as large a lake as th one
at Bridgeport? Dallas will, doubl-
less, obtain the site if he ever
finds out ahout il.
Tlie body of clay and shells that
Decatur is situated on and extend-
ing„East is the largest body of I)"*
-hale inowu in the world.
The East half of Wise County
' is exccedingly hard for geologists
to geologize, because between %
and 9 hundred feet of shells and
“hales dverlay Um Pensyivania
sands.
(old He
। $
! 1
I
iloinc (his wanton
er Decatur, mol llm chickens Hint "I
the Mosely poultry farm. NIvord. A
number of business men of Alv ri
were 1 resent and it was made a join
I meat m -Ah ord meeting.
I eatur college orehestra furnisi-
oil excellent music. It was not "
speech milking orcasion but the go d
feeling present inspired a number o.
-hort talks aluling to important sub-
jects of county and community in
provement. Rev. Jones, instructor at
Ilie college. I cd in some old fashioned
<• ngregationai singing, after which
lie delivered a good sound talk. Brit 1
talks were imide also by Chairman
Hus Hughes, of the committee < . 1 .
Dodson. President of Hm Chamber "I
Commerce. F. V. MceMordie. ntol
Adcock and W. M. Flannery, Alvord.
Mr. Peyton, of I be c mmnuuit: "
plied, expressing appreciation of th:
entertainment that had been provided
and for Hie gift of livestock, lie said
such meetings are calculated to strong
then’ the friendship between the town
iiml country and results in the mu
rual azvantass of boti.
(;eo (arz . w!o in l r: '•
with Hm Fort Worth detectiv •
and within a fow 9 urs the cuirkon
were located and two men about I wen-
tv-fi.e years of aue, wet'.' ili Hm Inin"
of the law. Th" chickens were inik
delivered to a produce concern when
Did You Know That:—
* William S. Oats was the first
(ounty Judge of Wise County.*
rie was called Chief Justice.
A. B. Wharton owned tlie first
automobile in Decatur and W is’
conty?
The lake formed by the building
of the Bridgeport dam will be one
o te largest artificial lakes in
Ute world?
mu of a pssible score of 100
Now these same roomns ranK*
in Texas For llie protection •f "TiT
from weevil devastation. His exper t
ine for everal past years embran
tin cotion growing rezi • H'"" tl"
Ki- Granre section to north Toxa-.
He frnky told his hearers lust I"
clo- Fifteen dollars will Is-
Hie f.Bowing litter from Mis
ders, principal of hn athonl.
Tim county Living Room Contes
WtSF nuntg MirPler
“TRIM IS N«> SuBsTITUTE Fon CIRCULAroN
More Than Three Times the Bona Fide Subscribers of Any Other Newspaper in Decatur
, ri,I- on hand tha they were ale
make -ml. mark'd improvinionls I
-mall expendisur Tli ""
I ' B'
says: “Friend
The Fox brothers are remodeling
i hi* old sheet-iron building on Waest
Main Street. This structure is one of
l hi* few lanr -marks nf the Drrat ur o?
variy days. It was erected by J. (’.
(‘arpenter and Irent (‘lisbee mor
than forty five years ug L and when
built was thr finest and most com
modlious buiidinz of its kind in all
this section of the state. It was er
rrird for a livery stable by Messr. • •
(arpenter and (ilsber. and for many
yers it was OM’d as - ’ Ii it was
thr headqnarters for the Decatur
Jacksboro stage line, also of the Den
Ion Decatur line. The first omnibus
in Dmitiir was owned by the find op
erating the stable. When the firm
dissolved Clisbes moved haif the stock
and buggies to Vernon, then a youn:
boom town, and Mr. Carnenter retir ,
rd to his farm east of Decatur, nnd
engaged in the horse and mule busi-
ness. Fox Bros, will remodel the
building and open u machine shop anil
moving business.
Notices of the occasion are being
sent tcall parts of the county. So
deep al widespread hape been the
ravageot the weevil in Wise count
nnd sdeplorable the financial conse:
to all that the meetinz next
As a compliment to Mabry olir
Director of Dectur College orrhestra
and to t Im people of the Ione Moul
.■•immunity, the Mercantile Bureau "I
the chamber of Commeroc. gave •
of it- tie gram- of entertainmeut ‘ i
the itojewell Church Wednesday i '
April 25. The gif of a fine pur
bred pig and a tri" of fine chirk*
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Collins, Dick. Wise County Messenger (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, May 4, 1928, newspaper, May 4, 1928; Decatur, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1584010/m1/1/: accessed June 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .