The Madisonville Meteor - And Commonwealth - (Madisonville, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 1, 1928 Page: 1 of 12
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The
— And Commonwealth
THIRTY-FOURTH YEAR
MADISONVILLE, MADISON COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1928
NUMBER 49
C.ofC. HOLDS A
CALLED MEETING
At a meeting of the Chamber of
Commerce on Monday night several
interesting matters were discussed
Among other things, a committee
was appointed to secure a dumping
ground within a mile or two of town
so as to protect our people from un-
sightly and unsanitary surroundings.
In this connection a reward of twenty-
five dollars was offered for the arrest
and conviction of any one throwing
bottles, rubbish or other refuse on or
near any highway or public road in
precinct No. 1. It will be well for
everybody to remember this in dis-
posing of garbage fium their prera-
ises.
It was decided to foster a campaign
for exterminating rats throughout
the limits of Madison county. County
Agent DuPuy announced that a spec-
ialist has been designated by the gov-
ernment to take charge of this cam-
paign. He will be in Madisonville
on Saturday afternoon, March 17,
when a public meeting will be held
at the courthouse at which an organ-
ization will be perfected, and for ten
days following March 26 this expert
will direct the campaign of extermin-
ation in every community. Every
man and woman, boy and girl will be
enlisted; and all the best known scien-
tific means will be employed in this
warfare on these destructive and un-
sanitary pests.
The agricultural committee, head-
ed by W. H. DuPuy will report next
Tuesday the list of prizes to be offered
for best farm yields. Three hundred
dollars has been appropriated for this
purpose. Get ready for winning one
of these prizes and at the same time
help show the world what the soil of
Madison county can do under intelli-
gent management.
At the monthly banquet on the
night of March 9, there will be an
address by a cattle and dairying ex-
pert. Arrangements are being made
to have this banquet served by the la-
dies of the Methodist church. A live-
continued on Last Page)
Madisonville Ceme-
t e r y Association
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The good ladies of the Madison-
ville Cemetery Association are mak-
ing every effort possible to keep the
cemetery of our city in the best of
shape.
For more than thirty years some
our our ladies have worked at this
job, and it is a job, to make the lo-
cal cemetery the most beautiful place
in all the city, and how well they
have succeeded is evidenced by the
cleanliness and beautiful flowers and
shrubbery that is growing there now.
They have devised various plans to
raise funds for this purpose and are
still alert to the interest of the city
of the dead and Friday night they
are giving a play at the school audi-
torium for the purpose of raising
funds to keep the good work going.
We want to say that the play is
put on by the Midway Dramatic Club
and aside from the cause to which
the proceeds will go, is well worth
the price, 35c and 25c, which is asked
and every citizen in Madisonville
Should go and help to further this
good cause.
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Mr. and Mrs. J. E. O'Bannon of
Midway were pleasant callers at the
Meteor office Friday of last week. Mr.
O'Bannon paid for a year's subscrip-
tion to The Meteor while here.
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Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Stoddard are
visiting relatives at Cooper this week.
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C. L. Gustine of North Zulch made
The Meteor a business call while in
the city Saturday.
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Fire Alarm Rousts 'em
Out Last Sunday a. m.
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Sunday morning about 9:30 o'clock
the fire alarm was sounded and the
fire boys rushed to the home of Mr.
and Mrs. J. W. Sowell and very quick-
ly extinguished what would have
been a bad fire within a few minutes.
The roof of the house caught from
sparks and the wind was blowing
briskly and soon the entire house
would have been in flames. The dam-
age to the home was not very great
except for the water that spoiled the
paper in one room. A considerable
hole was torn in the roof in order to
get to all the fire.
"THREE WISE
FOOLS" TO PLAY
HERE THURSDAY
In this issue of the Meteor we wish
to call the attention of our readers to
a half page ad on the inside of the
paper giving particulars concerning
the presentation by the Lyceum cir-
cuit of one of the most astounding
and interesting plays of all time, it
having been run on Broadway, with
the same cast that will present it
here, for some six months.
The story of "Three Wise Foob" is
buiiL about llnee baclick.rg who have
been living together for years. They
have fallen into a rut in their man-
ner of living. Existence has become
a matter of routine until they seem
even older than the are. In their you-
th, all have been in love with the
same girl. For the first time in
years, they receive a letter from this
sweetheart of former days, written
just before her death, asking that
they take care of her child. They
make preparations for the arrival of
a baby boy. Then, to their utter as-
tonishment in walks an attractive
young girl of eighteen.
To tell what hapens after that
would be to lessen an evenings unu-
sually good entertainment. It is made
up of one laugh after another and of
course the much enjoyed tear. For
a moment it leaves comedy alto-
gether and hits big, holding drama
with a great punch.
"Three Wisp Fools" as played by
this exceptionally strong cast of
New York players, stands as one of
the foremost plays of the present day
theater. If you miss it you will have
missed something that would, at any
but this occasion, cost you three or
four times the price of admission in
Madisonville. Come' and' bring some
one with you to thte-High School audi-
torium March 8th, Thursday nite,
and see a New York Play presented
by a New York cast, in our own little
Madisonville.
Mrs. R. F. Andrews has been dan-
gerously ill this week with the flu
which later developed into pneumonia.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Sowell of Nor-
mangee were the guests of Mr. and
Mrs. J. W. Sowell and family the first
of the week.
Mrs. J. H. Sowell ordered The
Meteor sent to her sister, Mrs. H. P.
Black, at Hallsville, while in the city
Monday from Normangee. This was
Mrs. Sowell's birthday gift to her
sister.
James C. McGarren of St. Louis
has his wife arrested for breaking
his false teeth, but they later made
up.
Appropiately enough, Pittsburgh's
largest food store is run by a Mr.
McCafin.
Next Week Country
Wide Onyx Pointex
Hosiery Dem. Week
Marcm 5th to 10th is Onyx Pointex
week, a week 'set aside by the makers
of this splendid line of hose in which
to demonstrate their super quality
and graceful lines to as many people
as possible. The mark they have set
for this year's demonstration is five
million.
The new stockings—in style and
color—are offered at special prices, as
you will note by reading the large ad
for J. W. Viser in this issue of The
Meteor. Mr. Viser is one of the ten
thousand merchants all over the
country who handles this hose, and we
take pleasure in calling the atention
of our readers to his ad.
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Mr. L. T. Cretsinger was over from
Normangee Wednesday looking after
his business. He moved the figures
on his paper date up one year while
here.
Mrs. N. C. Fulghan and Mrs. W. S.
McMahan and littl son were in from
Cottonwood Wednesday. Mrs. Ful-
ghan paid for another years subscrip-
tion while here.
Mayor, Citizen, School
Official and Merchant
There came to Madisonville in the
year 1895, from the Elwood commun-
ity, one Frank Dean, a young man re-
cently from the farm, and glad to
call the farm his home, as he is to-
day, and began work for Easlham
Bros., in the Burtis building. East-
ham Bros, was a dry goods firm, and
while in the employ of those people
Mr. Dean learned a great d^al that
was to help him in the years to come
when he got into the game for him-
self.
When Eastham Bros, moved their
store to Huntsville in 1898, Mr. Dean
wpnt. along also, but only remained in
that city a few months, when he came
back to Madisonville and opened up
a store on the west side of the square,
remaining there for a short while and
then moved to the corner where Her-
ring-Turner now do business. It was
here that Mr. Dean had the misfor-
tune to lose everything he had in a
fire in 1901.
In 1902 he entered a partnership
with Mr. N. M. Wycough, and opened
for business in the brick building
now occupied by him. The partner-
ship continued for some four or five
years, at which time the stock was
divided and Mr. Dean continued in
business, alone, at his present loca-
tion.
In addition to having raised a splen-
did family, overcome many hardships
in the business field, etc., Mr. Dean
has contributed a great deal to the
city of his choice,, namely, Madison-
ville. Since the laet incorporation of
the city he has sewed as Mayor, and
was in this office at-;the time the water
works ceased to bf a dream and be-
come a reality. }
Mr. Dean was a member of the
School Board for at least twenty
years; resigned *two years ago, and
was a member of same when the
present schol building was built. Not
one move for the benefit of the town,
its uplifting organizations, or the sur-
rounding communities has ever failed
to have the hearty co-operation and
ounnort of this loyal citizen.
In his splendid store one can find
all their needs in the dry goods and
clothing lines, in addition to a court-
eous welcome and a cheery "time o'
day" from both him and his daughter,
who is an able assistant.
We take the utmost pleasure in
calling the attention of our readers
to Mr. Dean's large ad in this week's
issue of The Meteor, and look forward
to his ads which will follow.
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The Cemetery Associa-
tion of Madisonville
We are calling attention of the
readers of The Meteor this week to a
program to be rendered by the Mid-
way Dramatic Club next Friday night.
This play is one that has pleased the
audiences at Midway very much, and
those of Madisonville who have seen
it give a very favorable report of the
entertainment.
Aside from that we want to state
that the play is for the benefit of the
Madisonville Cemetery Association.
The Midway Dramatic Club has kind-
ly consented to bring their play here
for this purpose and we should be
very grateful to them for the cour-
tesy. Those who atend are assured
of geting their money's worth of high
class entertainment, and every cent
of the Cemetery Association's part of
the proceeds, except a few dollars for
expenses, will go toward keeping the
cemetery beautiful. It is the duty of
every citizen of Madisonville and
vicinity who have loved ones resting
here to go and contribute the small
amount of the admission price to this
play to the care of this beauty spot
in our city. .
The Madisonville cemetery is kept
by an organization known as the Cem-
etery Association, composed of ladies
principally of Madisonville, and for
thirty years they have been strug-
gling along to keep the resting place
of our deceased relatives one of the
most beautiful in the city, and they
have succeeded wonderfully by the
help of our patriotic citizenship.. We
must keep it up, for the passersby
look with admiration on the city of
our dead and speak words of com-
-mendation to those who have wrought
so faithfully in the past to make it
such. No cemetery in all this sec-
tion is better kept than ours. We are
proud of this and we ought to sup-
port it in every way possible.
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Rev. John E. Davis of Midway was
here the first of the week.
Glynn Randolph came home from
Port Arthur last week where he has
been in business college for the past
several months. He is not tussling
with a good case of the measles.
COUNTY MEET TO
BE HELD HERE
FRIDAY, March 20.
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The county meet, in which the win-
ners of the county division o fthe In-
terscholastic League will be determin-
ed, will be held in Madisonville the
30th day of March, at which time
all the schools of Madison county will
be on hand with their contestants in
the various divisions, ready to com-
pete for the honors. This meet
should, and no doubt will be, attended
by every one who can possibly spare
the time.
Judges for the contests will be out
of the county men, who are capable
of judging and awarding the prizes
and honors impartially and correctly.
The schools of the county are enter-
ing contestants in both literary and
athletic events and the meet promises
to be a huge success in every respect.
In the show window of the Meteor
office there are four banners, one
rural school, one grammar school, one
Class B, and the Madison county
basket ball championship banner, the
latter having been won by the Madi-
sonville High Schol boys a few weeks
ago. The boys lost in their district
meet by only a few points, but we are
proud of their record anyway.
It will be an honor to any school in
the county to carry one of these ban-
ners home with them from the meet
here the later part of March, and we
are looking forward to some hot com-
petition in the various events at the
County Meet.
ATTENTION
Readers of the Meteor will please
take notice of the page ad this week
of Kellogg's Corn Flakes Company.
Every reader of the Meteor is entitled
to a free package of Kellogg's Corn
Flakes. All you have to do is to cut
out the coupon and fill it in and pre-
sent it to any Grocer in the county
and he will give you absolutely free
one full size pack^pr 'of thosfe nice,
crisp, flaky edibles. There is no
trick to it. This is merely an adver-
tising scheme of the Kellogg's Com-
pany.
HOLD COTTON RE-
DUCTION MEETING
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Mr. Luther Hensarling returned the
later part of last week from Jackson,
Mississippi, where he nttended the
cotton reduction meeting of the
Southern States. He savs many
plans were offered by the different
delegations, and among them were
some which advocated legislation that
would force the farmers to reduce the
acreage from last year's crop. But
the final plan adopted by the meeting
was to use every effort to get the
farmers to reduce the acreage by ed-
ucational methods. Governor Moody
pledged Texas penal to a reduction of
at least 4000 acres from last ypgr'a
crop, and it is now up to the" com-
munity councils, the Chamber of Com-
merce and in the last analysis to the
farmers themselves to either get 20c
for their cotton, or 10c, as they please.
The coton productive committee has
figured that if the acreage is reduced
ten per cent all over the South that
cotton will sell for twenty cents per
pound next fall, while if it is increas-
ed ten per cent it will sell for ten
cents per pound. Every farmer
knows that there is more money in
five bales of coton at 20c per pound
than there is in ten bales at 10c per
pound, and if they want to get along
even better than that, reduce the acre-
age more than has been suggested.
Governor Mody was the center of
attraction and presided over the meet-
ing, since it was called by him, and
after Governor Bilbo of Mississippi
called the meeting to order and spoke
a few words of introduction, present-
ed Governor Moody.
There were delegates from every
cotton growing state in the union and
all pledged themselves to use then-
best effort to get the farmers in the
various localities to carry out the
spirit of the meeting on their farms
at home and not make it just talk.
Now, good farmers, it is up to you
to co-operate and get a good price
or plant more cotton and get in debt
again so that it will take five years
to get out.
When she slipped on an icy rail-
road track, Miss Ruth Cazen of
Evanston, 111., lay flat between the
rails while a train passed over with-
out injuring her.
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When arraigned for failure to
procure a dog license Charles Kil-
burn of Chicago showed a doctor's
certificate that he was a sufferer
form rheumatism.
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Miss Phyllis Seal of Brighton,
Eng., won $2,250 in a breach of
promise suit, but refused the money,
saying she only wanted vindication,
o
Rev. R. B. Dinsey of Leicester,
Eng., resigned his pastorate because
his congregation objected to his
teaching the young people about sex
matters.
If you like our paper—tell us so.
Midway Cemetery
Association Working
O n Beautification
The Midway Cemetery Association
is making an urgent call on all who
are interested to meet them at the
cemetery next Tuesday, March 6th,
and bring some kind of shrubbery or
flowers that you may help them to
beautify the resting place of your
loved ones and friends.
The Meteor wants to say that this
is a worthy cause and should be res-
ponded to by all who are in any way
connected or interested with the
Midway cemetery.
No place in the community will
give a better insight into the civic
pride of a community than the way
the cemetery is cared for, and the
ladies cannot do all the keeping them-
selves without some help from the
men.
The Midway cemetery is well kept
but there is always room for im-
provement and we are sure they will
all readily respond to the call of the
good ladies of Midway. ,
New Church tuiding
At North Zulch Open
The Baptists of North Zulch have
erected a new church building on a
centrally located lot, and it was used
last Sunday for the first time. The
pews had not arrived, but seats were
borrowed or improvised for the oc-
casion.
Attendance at Sunday School num-
bered 42, and a good congregation at-
tended the regular services of the day,
in spite of the fact that no heating
apparatus has yet been installed. Rev.
M. J. Webb of Madisonville made a
ten minute talk on the Christian's ob-
ligation to love and maintain the
church. Pastor N. W. Washington
.then preached a good mission sermon.
The pastor is well thought of by
the good people of North Zulch, and
it is hoped he will be cordially sup-
ported by the church membership and
others who have the religious inter-
est of the town at heart.
Much credit is due to the live build-
ing committee, Brethren M. C. Keefer,
W. M. Dowell and T. J. Keefer, and
those who helped and encouraged
them. The ladies have decided to im-
mediately paint the building, and the
new pews will be in place long before
,the next preaching service on the
fourth Sunday in March.
Last Monday the brick work on the
front of the new building on the East
side of the square caven in and tore
a corner off the Frank Dean building.
Repairs are being made rapidly.
Mrs. Ella Hawkins and son, Hays,
of Houston, returned Wednesday at
noon from a few days visit to Dallas,
where they visited with Mrs. Hawkins
daughter, Mrs. Simpson.
Business Firm Sells
Out to a New Man
The Squyres - Thompson Variety
Store was sold this week to Butler
Grimes Company of Conroe. This is
the fifth store owned by the Butler
Grimes Co., and they are variety store
people of long experience.
Mr. Squyres, who has been the man-
ager here, has not definitely decided
his future plans, but will doubtless
establish a business in some other
locality. We are sorry to lose Mr.
Squyres and his estimable family
from our midst, but we are glad to
extend to the new firm a cordial wel-
come into the business circles of our
city.
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Knight, J. A. The Madisonville Meteor - And Commonwealth - (Madisonville, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 1, 1928, newspaper, March 1, 1928; Madisonville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth192249/m1/1/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .