The Madisonville Meteor - And Commonwealth - (Madisonville, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 31, 1929 Page: 1 of 8
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Madisonville—
Whwe the East
Begins
The Madisonville Meteor
Madison Land—
A Kingdom of
Contentment
And Commonwealth
THIRTY-SIXTH YEAR
madisonville, madison county, texas, thursday, october 31, 1929.
NUMBER THIRTY-TWO
City of Madisonville to Consider the
Proposal of Installing a Municipally
Owned and Controlled Light Plant
At the meeting of the City Council
next Monday a representative of the
Pairbanka-Morse Company will meet
with the city officials and consider
on a light and power plant to be
owned and operated by the city of
Madisonville in the same manner that
our water works system is owned
and operated at this time. We are
not in a position to state what the
proposition will be or what is in
the minds of the City Council. The
above company, we understand, has
installed a number of these city
owned plants in different sections of
the country and they make arrange-
ments for the revenues to pay for
the plant. Whether the income here
is sufficient to meet the expense and
pay the installments as they come
due or not, we are in a position to
state, nor do the city officials know
untill they have heard the proposi-
tion to be made by the company.
Many cities have their own light
plants over the state and we are not
in a position to say whether or not
they are more economical than when
furnished by the public service com-
panies. The matter will be gone in-
to at the meeting Monday night to
determine whether the proposition
will be considered further or not.
This would be a far reaching pro-
position if such a step should be
taken, considering the big invest-
ment of the Gulf States Utilities
Company in Madisonville and Madi-
son county.
prominent citizen of
jozye community
DIES
SENIORS WIN IN QUEEN
CONTEST FOR CARNIVAL
A very hot contest between the
Freshmen an dSeniors of the Madi-
sonville High School as to who
would furnish the Queen for the
School Carnival, closed Tuesday at
noon. The Seniors won the contest
with a substantial margin with
16212 votes while the Freshmen
voted 11243. The entire contest net-
ted the Parent Teachers Association
nearly $300.00 with the Sophormores
and Juniors adding their bit to the
amount received. We want to es-
pecially commend the Freshmen for
unceasing efforts in the contest.
Miss Lois Burtis was the . senior
selected by her class and will be
crowned Queen Friday night at the
carnival. Note their ad in this
week's issue of the Meteor and be
at the Grammar school at 7:30 and
have your part of the fun and see the
Queen crowned.
Big Carnival
Old High School Building
Friday, Nov. 1st, 7:30 p.m.
Auspices Parent-Teachers Association,
Fun Food Drink
womans reading club
met last tuesday, oct. 22
The Womans Reading Club met
October 22nd with Mrs. J. M. Day as
hostess. After the regular business
session, presided over by the Cluo
President, Mrs. T. I. Whitmire, Mrs.
O. E. Parten had charge of the pro-
gram. "Professional Women" was
the topic discussed by the club and
interesting papers were given by
Mrs. Strahn and Mrs. Day on
"Women in Medicine," and "Women
in Business." These were enjoyed by
the club members.
Mrs. Vance was welcomed into the
club and our secretary, Mrs. J. E.
Webb was granted a temporary leave
of absence.
The hostess served a delicious salad
course. The Club meets November
12 at the home of Mrs. J. A. McKay
with Mrs. O. E. Parten as leader.
Mrs. Milton Brownlee is visiting
relatives and friends in Dallas this
week.
Mr. R. F. Nesmith of Bedias was
in the city Wednesday and renewed
his subscription for another year.
Notice To
Tax Payers
I will be at the following
places for the purpose of
collection of State and
County Taxes:
Midway Wednesday, November 6th.
North Zulch . . . .Thurs. & Fri., Nov. 7 and 8.
George . Wednesday, November 13.
Mecca Thursday, November 14.
Normangee Friday, November 15.
Office will be closed on
above dates.
J, A. FANNIN,
TAX COLLECTOR.
Mr. W, R. Simes died at his home
in the Jozye community October 25tb
at 8:10 o'clock p. m. He had been in
bad health for about a year. He was
buried at the Methodist cemetery at
Bedias at 4 o'clock p. m. Saturday.
Rev. Davis officiating. He is surviv-
ed by his wife and four children, Mrs.
Lenriie Brown, Mrs. Ellie Midkiff,
and Mrs. Lena Price all of Bedias,
also a son Mr. W, E. Simes of Jozye;
one brother, Mr. J. T. Simes, two
sisters, Mrs. Lula Landers, Mrs. Mae
Hall all of Bedias. The J. M. Day
undertaking establishment had
charge of the funeral.
Mr. Simes was a very prominent
citizen of North Grimes county for
Many years and later moved over on
the Madison county side of the
Grimes-Madison county line. He was
known as an upwright and honorable
citizen fas as he was known by his
fellowmen and the citizens of his
community will miss him as well as
his immediate family. We join their
many friends in extending sympathy
to the bereaved family. He was 65
years, 11 months old at the time of
his death.
Dr. and Mrs. G. P. Day and child-
ren of Houston spent the week-end
in the homes of Mr. J. M. Day and
Mrs. J. P. McAdams.
mother of c. o. drennan
passed away at conitoe
Mrs. Frank Madole returned home
Friday from Mart where she had
spent the past week visiting Mrs.
J. M. Allen.
It is with deep regret that friends
of Mr. Charles O. Drennan, learned
cl the death of his mother at Con-
roe last week. Mrs. Drennan had
been in ill health for some length of
time and passed away to the better
life beyond Tuesday of last week.
She was 61 years of age. Her hus-
band, Mr. J. G. Drennan, had pre-
ceded her in death about a year ago.
They were pioneer settlers of Hous-
ton county and were well and fav-
orably known all over this section of
the state. The burial took place at
their old home community at Mount
Vernon, Houston County.
The following account of Mrs.
Drennan's death is taken from the
Conroe Courier of last Friday:
Mrs. Penelope Ann Drennan, aged
61 years, died at her home here Tues-
day after a lingering illness. Her
husband, Mr. J. G. Drennan preced-
ed her in death just one year ago.
Funeral services were held Thurs-
day at & p. m., at Mt Vernon ceme-
tery in Houston county, Rev. S. H
Werlein officiating.
Mrs. Drennan was born May 27,
1868 in Houston county. She had
been married 42 years and was the
mother of seven children, four of
whom are living, three sons, E. E.
Drennan and O. E. Drennan of Con-
roe, C. O. Drennan of Madisonville,
one daughter, Miss Lena Drennan of
Conroe. She also is survived by one
brother, John Moses of Augusta and
one sister, Mrs. W. M. Bumgarner of
Crockett.
Madisonville Newspaper
of Pioneer Citizens Who
of 41 Years Ago Speaks
Were the Bosiness Men
Mr. Lew Morgan of some 3 miles
east of Madisonville brought to the
Meteor office the other day a news-
paper that was printed in Madison-
ville in the year 1888 and dated
April 19th of that year. This is
over 41 years ago, and is a relic of
the earlier days. J. P. Nail was
editor and Henry E. Nail was pub-
lisher. The paper is yellow with
age and considerably worn along the
folding creases. The name of the
paper was "The Texas Watchman."
The leading article of news on the
front page was the W. H. Roe trial
at Anderson with Judge Kittrell's
court passing the death penalty for
Roe poisoning his wife. This article is
about two columns in length and was
taken from the Galveston News, and
dated from Anderson, Texas, April
9th, 1888.
In the announcement column we
find tha t Hon. E. L. Byers was a
candidate for County Judge; and Mr.
F. M. Black was a candidate for
Sheriff. Mr. James B. Lee was a
candidate for re-election to the office
of District and County Clerk.
The Farmers Alliance was strong
in the county and we find the name
of J. T. Carter and J. A. Jones as
President and Secretary respect-
ively of the Union Alliance. A. S.
Wilson and S. H. Lindsey were
officers of the High Prairie Alliance.
At Greenbrier the president and sec-
retary were J. R. Hightower and L.
T. Hawks. At Elwood Robert L.
Walker was president and A. A.
Collier secretary. S. M. Casey and
W. H. May were the officers of the
Willow Hole Alliance; while at Cot-
tonwood A, J. Burnet was president
and J'. J. Hooper was secretary.
There were several other Alliances
which are indistinct, all of which sait"
they met twice a month.
County Judge E. L. Byers had in
this issue an Election Proclamation
calling for an election to be held at
which the voters of Madison County
were to vote on the issue of whether
or not hogs, sheep or goats should
run at large over a certain precinct.
A call for the County Republican
Convention appears in this old paper.
It was to be held at the Madisonville
Court House and is signed by J. W.
Green as Chairman and E. J. Green
as Secretary.
In Cottonwood news we read: Mr.
J. M. McMillain has opened up an-
other new stock of poods. And the
first item says: Corn is beautiful.
The second item reads: The train
ain't come yet.
Among the advertisers we find:
Parten Brothers, One Price General
Store; J. R. Burtis, Drugs; T. & A.
Viser, groceries and hardware; Viser
& Westmoreland, Drugs; B. Smither
& Company, groceries and hardware;
Frank Perry, plantation supplies;
R. G. Johnson, tin shop; J. Shapira,
dry goods, and Mr. Shapira had the
largest ad in the paper, two full
columns. Frank Y. Nixon had a
Buggy Shop; W. T. McAfee was
proprietor of the McAfee Hotel;
Doctor J. T. Hill had a professional
c«.rd stating that he was a Physician
and Surgeon at Willow Hole, Texas.
Among the attorneys who had ads
in the paper were: J. F. Randolph,
W. C. Gibbs, M. Y. Randolph, John
Gordon Scott, and W. M. Imboden.
Mrs. Boiling had a millinery store;
John T. Wyse was a Jeweler and
had a Jewelry store; J. R. Mclver
was proprietor of the City Saloon,
all of them having ads in the paper,
the last two having their ads on the
front page.
The paper is interesting as a relic
or souvenir of those early days and
we are glad to have1 had the oppor-
tunity of looking this copy over.
Local news seems to be scarce.
There is no personal column, but a
local said they were crowded out.
There was a report of the Rogers
Prairie Alliance signed by A. J.
Bledsoe as secretary. J. W. Gillespie
was Justice of Precinct 2 and was
advertising the fact that he was
going to west Texas and desired to
resign and asked the citizens to
select a suitable man in his place.
R. R. Boyd was advertising his
farm for sale; 200 acres in the north-
east part of Madison county; well
watered and finely timbered. For
particulars see S. W. Dean and N.
J. Williams, Elwood, and William
Harbuck, Midway.
A short mention says the Madison
County Institute was called to order
by President J. H. Allen. The ap-
plications of Mr. Jordon and R. O.
Allen were received. A motion for
R. R. Boyd to write an article for
the Watchman urging teachers to at-
tend promptly the meetings of the
Institute was unamimously carried.
A program for the next meeting was
arranged with "W. S. Bryan on Algeb-
ra; R. R. Boyd on English Grammar;
J. H. Allen on Arithmetic.
Mr. Morgan has two issues of The
Matchman, the other is dated May
17, 1888. In this issue the entire
first page with the exception of the
ads appearing thereon, is devoted to
Judge Norman G. Kittrell's charge
to the Grand Jury of Madison Coun-
ty. It appears that there was plenty
of court work in those days, and the
papers are decidedly political, in
fact political articles predominate
instead of news matter. Evidently
news was very scarce in those days
and nothing much really happened
except court troubles and political
doings.
The two papers are copies mailed
to Mr. A. J. Morgan, father of Mr.
Lew Morgan, and considering their
age, the papers have been well pre-
served and taken care of.
Meeting of Farmers to be Held Here
November 5th for Demonstration and
the Solving of the Terracing Problem
On Tuesday, November 5th, M. R.
Bentley, Extension Agriculture En-
gineer of A. and M. College and A.
K. Short, Chairman of Texas Soil
and Water Conservation Committee,
assisted by several county agents,
will be at Madisonville to hold a
terracing school.
A demonstration of adjusting
levels, running lines and building the
terrace will be given at Mr. Henry
A, Turner's farm, one and one-half
miles east of town, during the morn-
ing, beginning at 9:30. Mr. Bentley
will have charge of the demonstra-
tion while the county agents will as-
sist in adjusting the levels and run-
ning lines and Herring and Turner
will furnish a tractor for building the
terrace.
At 1:30 p. m. the meeting will be
convened at the courthouse where
talks on terracing will be given by
Messers Short, Bentley and others.
Messrs. Short-and Bentley had much
experience in soil conservation work
in Texas and havg made studies of
the work3 done by other states. No
doubt, they will bring us some inter-
esting facts which every farmer
should know.
It is hoped that this school will be
the beginning of a great terracing
program for Madison county. Each
year this county loses thousands of
dollars in soil erosion which, by em-
ploying the proper methods of ter-
racing, could be saved. The farmem
of this county are spending about
$40,000 (according to the best infor-
mation available) annually for com-
mercial fertilizers. If the farms on
which this is used were properly ter-
raced, the benefits derived there from
would be greatly increased. The use
of this fertilizzer is a fine thing but
we should get the greatest returns
from it possible. This cannot be
done on lands where the water is
allowed to leach it out of the soil
before the plant has time to use it.
The value of terracing needs no
explanation to the farmers of this
county. After the washing rains of
this year most all know its value and
there is only one question confront-
ing them at the present time^ that is,
"How are they going to get the land
terraced?" It is hoped that a
method will be worked out at this
meeting whereby every farm in the
county can be terraced should the
owner care to have it done.
Business men are urged to attend
the school. Remember the time,
place and date.
I Free Show Tonight
J And All This Week
Next to Cotton Warehouse
§ Seven Big Acts. Black Face Comedy.
"merry wives" entertained
in e. l. leonard home friday
An atmosphere of cheerfulness
heightened by tables bright with
orange Cosmos and candles brighten-
ed the home of Mrs. E. L. Leonard
Friday afternoon when she was hos-
tess for the "Merry Wives." Seven
tables of players enjoyed several
games of "42" after which a delicious
salad course was served consisting
of pear salad with hand printed flap-
per faces on each half of pear. Also
chicken sandwiches, sweet pickle
.cocanut macaroons and ice tea.
Every one expressed themselves as
having a most delightful time.
Mr, and Mrs. Harry A. Powell of
Kerrville are visiting Mrs. Powell's
father, Mr. Frank Dean and other
relatives and friends.
Mrs« L. P. Young, formerly of
Houston, left Sunday for Corpus
Christi where Mr. Young has recent-
ly accepted a position as book-keep-
er in one of the banks there. Mrs.
Young had been visiting her mother,
Mrs. Minnie Faulkner the past week.
Standley Chevrolet Co.
Used Car
Department
We have for sale the following used
cars on our floor. You can not appreciate
these cars until you see them and get our
prices.
1927 Chevrolet Roadster. A dandy.
1928 Chevrolet Imperial Sedan.
1926 Chevrolet Touring.
1926 Ford Touring.
These cars are far above the average in
their quality and equipment and you will
be surprised at the price asked. See us at
once. They will not be here long with the
quality and price at which we are offering
them.
Standley Chevrolet Co.
Every car has an O. K. that counts.
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