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The Mineola Monitor
A NEWSPAPER, "OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE AND FOR THE PEOPLE"
VOL. 53.
HINEOLA, WOOD COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1928.
NUMBER 13*
ROAD REBUKE HANDED COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
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REDUCTION IN MINEOLA ICE RATES ANNOUNCED BY POWER COMPANY TODAY
COMMISSIONER PARKS STATES
A REPLY TO BE ISSUED
NEXT WEEK
"The portion of the Grand Jury
report which dealt with the Road
Law irregularities and the part
which the Commissioners had to do
with it will be replied to in next
week's issue of the Monitor," said
Joe Park, present commissioner
from precinct number 2. He ex-
l plained that there were two sides
to this matter and that the com-
r missioners would have something
interesting for the public next
A week.
COMPLAINTS HEARD
OF RERCKLESS DRIV-
ING BY MINORS
Several Mineola citizens have voic-
ed their objections recently of the
manner in which mere children liv-
ing in this city are likely at any j
moment to cause serious injury or |
damage.
The 'State Law of Texas prohibits j
youths under 16 years of age operat-
ing automobiles without special lis-
cense. This law can be enforced and
should be enforced here. Even though
it be true that some children are able
of operating cars better than older
people, yet there are so many under
The Grand Jury report for the May j 16 who cannot do so that the law reg-
HOOVER TO LEAD REPUBLICAN FORCES
PLATFORM AVOIDS PROHIBITION ISSUE
term of court which follows has al-
ready received much comment and es-
pecially that part which referred to
the Road Law. The Monitor prints
the report as it received it as follows:
May Term, 1928.
To Hon. J. R. Warren, Presiding
Judge:
We, the grand jury sworn an im-
paneled for said term of the district
court, beg leave to submit this our
final report.
ulating all youths should be enforced
and show a non-discriminatory action.
Recent cases have been cited where
several young boys in town have bare-
ly missed crashes in the busines sec-
tion. These chaps are reckless, full
of life, ready for adventure, with a
daredevil attitude and with full con-
fidence in themselves, and admirable
at times in the execution of the abil-
ity to drive cars. Yet just this type
i is likely at any moment to injure some
We have been in session eight days; j or have a crash which will cost, and
have examined 176 witnesses, and. cost heavily. The practice should be
have returned 41 bills of indictment, stoped in Mineola without regards to
of which number 36 are for felonies ; whose boy or girl it may be. Enforce
and five for minor offenses.
We have in obedience to your Hon-
or's charge carefully and conscienti-
ously endeavored to thoroughly in-
vestigate every violation of law with-
in oar knowledge or to which our at-
tention has been directed, with the re-
sult as stated above. We feel justi-
fied however, in stating that there
%re many violations of law that we
have not been able 'to get at, due in
patft "to evasion' and concealment by
witnesses, but more especially due to
the nature of the offense. Especial-
this law by all means.
WINNSBORO
SHOT
OFFICER
IN LIQUOR
RAID
Texarkana, Texas, June, 12.—
Prohibition* Officer John Griggs,
whose home is at Winnsboro, was shot
in the shoulder and painfully wound-
ed while making a liquor raid twelve
miles west of here, near Leary, a-
bout noon Monday. Griggs and Depu-
ty Sheriff John Frye and Bill Culber-
son conducted the raid. One man sur.
ly is this true as to violations of the j rendered, but the other fled, firing
' - - prohibition and traffic laws, which j several shots as he ran. Griggs was
are unquestionably violated to an a- Lbeleived to be wounded. Griggs was
larming extent, notwithstanding the , brought to a hospital here. His wound
is not considered serious.
' —Dallas News
Mr. Griggs is well known in Wood
County and all of this section of tho
vigilance and efficiency of our sheriff,
his deputies and other peace officers,
with many hundreds of motor vehicles
traversing the highways and public
roads of the county at all hours of state. He operated in Wood County
the day and night; the public is prac- j for many months last year.
tically at the mercy of; incompetent, j ^
inexperienced, negligent, and often EDDLEMAN BREAKS
criminally reckless drivers, or their j ARM YESTERDAY
vehicles. Even the drivers of pas-
senger cars and busses frequently
show an utter disregard of traffic
laws and the right of the public; we 1
regret that we are not able to sug-
a remedy for this situation. Our of-
ficers have been especially diligent in
locating and capturing moonshine
stills, but it is generally difficult to
apprehend the owners or operators,
while that very nature of bootlegging
and transporting seems to baffle and
.-defy detection, in numberless in-
However, we believe the ex-
tent to which the liquor laws are vio-
lated is always exaggerated.
Many things have come to our no-
Ifetice that indicate a dangerous and
As he was cranking an automobile
yesterday afternoon, E. C. Eddleman,
line supervisor for the Magnolia Gas
Company in this distrist, broke his
right arm. After having his arm set
Mr. Eddleman is back on the job.
Mrs. Oscar Ferguson and little
daughter have returned fom a visit
to Chickasha, Okla., Mrs. W. B. Fer-
guson a relative returned with them
to Mineola for a visit.
B. Old, a citizen of Mt Pleasant,
was a Mineola visitor this week.
•^growing condition of immor ality af- required by law and the county's only
-ing the younger people of both
xes. Things not essentially crimi-
nal, but menancing the foundations
of society, and speaking out in thund-
er tones that the home is fast losing
its-place as the safegard and bull-
wa£kv of our government. ->••*•.-<• -j
W^e have not had time to make a
comprehensive investigation of coun-
' 1 \ ' ty affairs, but our attention has been
called to a matter which in our opin-
ion,-demands prompt and thorough at-
tention at the hand sof the proper
authorities.
. seems that the present Coun-
ty Commissioners and severally,, due
"county sums of money aggregat-
several hundred dollars ,collected
the county under a law that ha^
declared unconstitutional. This
.a special road law that permitt-
ich commissioned to collect from
fcounty §125. a month, or $5.00 a
jr for 25 days each month, for ac-
service as ex-officio superivis-
as .such, each commissioner kept
!,own time,, audited, his own claims
ist the county f.and ordered them
by the treasurer. We further
f upfpn inquiry {-hat for several?
.Commissioners have failed^
giving the bond
recourse is against the Commission-
ers individually.
In this era of extravagance, graft,
and corruption, in government affairs
we feel that when we find efficient,
capable and honest men in office en-
deavoring to protect the people we
are fortunate indeed; and in this con-
nection we wish to especially com-
mend our present able and active
County Judge, W. D. Suiter, District
Attorney, Walter Russell, County At-
torney, V. B. Harris, and County
Treasurer, Don Roberts, for their
faithful and courageous discharge of
duty and their determination to have
the business affairs of the county
conducted according to law and econ-
omically.
'•, We have in body visited the county
jail and found same in good condition
and prisoners well taken care of. We
find the County Court House well
kept and in as sanitary condition as is
possible.—By County Janitor Bob
Marlow. , .
In conclusion we thank the attor-
neys, the sheriff and his deputies
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Foreman.
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HIGH SPOTS IN
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM
BY SENATOR SMOOT
Senator Smoot of Utah delivered
the platform this morning. His
speech at times received a loud ap-
plause but at other times many of
the delegates became so unruly and
loud, even at times, standing up in
the convention hall and disturbing the
speaker that Chairman Moses had to
rap viciously for order. When the
name of Mr. Hoover was referred to
during the reading of the platform,
the convention went wild in applause
HOOVER RECEIVES
NOMINATION ON RE-
PUBLICAN TICKET
Herbert, Hoover, Secretary of Com-
merce, was nominated today by the
Republican Convention in Kansas
City.
This was no more than was expect-
ed according to the predictions by
political experts of both parties. The
^mention of Hoover's name any time
during the convention always brought
WARDLAW TO SPEAK
IN MINEOLA FRIDAY
HAS SCORED MOODY
Fort Worth, June 13.—In a state-
ment given to the press today, Louis
J. Wardlaw, candidate for the Demo-
cratic nomination for the governor-
ship charges that since his election
and up until May 15th of this year
Moody has spent less than half of the
working hours in his office. He also
alleges that gross favoritism has
been shown by the Highway Commis-
sion in expending money in the vicini-
ty of Houston and Abilene, the homes
of Ross Sterling, Chairman and W. R
Ely member of the commission.
The statement in full follows: "To
The Voters of Texas-" In the cam-
paign two years ago Dan Moody made
certain specific promises to you con-
cerning his proposed acts if elected.
I charge that the conduct of the
forth a loud applause and he was a administration has been but a train
favorite long before the convention j 0f broken promises and pledges,
convened. After Secretary Mellon of j I charge that in the face of his
and continued for two minutes before I Pennsylvania came with that state's [ solemn pledge to avoid tax increases
support to the aid of Hoover on the j and to practice frugality the general
first day of the convention, there was appropriation bills under his admin-
order could be established.
Some of the high spots ir. the plat-
form were as follows:
little doubt but that Mr. Hoover would
Tariff: Plead for a high protective j be the nominee of that party. The
tariff for the propserity of the nation, only hitch in his nomination was from
Foreign Debt: The foreign debt a-
mounts now to over 11 billion dollars.
This party opposes the cancellation
of these debts. (Applause.)
War Claim: The Act of Congress
in 1928 providing for a statement of
all war claims incurred during the
war and the return of all alien pro-
pety as well as the property of Am-
erican citizens in other countries was
endorsed
Foreign Policy: The party approv-
istration have been $10,000.00 great-
er than before in the history of the
State.
the Middle Western Farming States] I charge that the chief executive
which held out all the way through (has been neglectful of the enormous
against the secretary. It is this hitch responsibility that has been his as
and that of New York State which pre
diet the downfall of the Republican
Administration in the coming Novem-
ber Election.
Since Mr. Hoover has already end-
orsed Pres. Coolidge's veto of the
MeN&ry-Haugen Bill it is predicted
your Governor and that he has not
been in his office more than half the
time during working hours prior to
May 15th this year.
I charge that the administration of
the Highway Department by his
agents and appointees has been one
fred Smifth be the Democrat Nominee j reds of thousands of dollars more than
he will carry New York State and
with these helps the Democrats of
the nation will be next power.
COLLEGE STUDENTS
AT ELVADALE LAKE
FOR SUMMER CAMP
Galveston Bathing Beauties havs
nothing on the group of girls who are
guests of the Kappa Sigma Fraterni-
ty of the local chapter at* Southern
Methodist University this week at
the annual Summer outing which is
held each year and this year is being
held at Elvadale Lake four miles
East of Mineola. This fraternity is
host this week to the young ladies al-
so of S. M. U., together with their
chaperons. This is an annual affair
with this fraternity and this year the
members selected the beautiful Elva-
dale to spend a short vacation after
finishing the school year.
Tonight the Kappa Sigmas will
stage the Big Party which is the
that he will not secure the vote of j of favoritism for certain sections. I
farming element of the^ nation. It : charge that the great majority of the
ed the policies of the Coolidge Ad- is supposed also that, should Mr. Al- counties of Texas have paid" in hund-
ministration in regard to its foreign
policy. It recommended the outlaw-
ing of war and the settlement of dis-
putes among nations by peaceful
methods and diplomatic oppeals. It
endorsed the Pan-American Confer-
ence held in 1928 in Cuba. It demand-
ed the protection of American rights
and property in all foreign countries.
(At this point the speech of Sen.
Smoot was interrupted by a commor
tion which stopped the speaker and
made the chairman raps vigorously
for order time and time again.)
Mexican Relations: The Republi-
can Party advocated friendly rela-
tions with Mexico and also demand-
ed the protection of American rights
in that country. It offered to that
nation friendship and confidence.
Nicaragua: The Party declared for
a co-operation with that nation, that
the United States should protect the
property and lives of American citi-
zens, should keep the Marines in that
country until peace was restored and
an assurance of order and the enjoy-
ment of a fair and free election could
they received back in the form of
maintainance and new construction
and that this money, in the main, has
been expended in territory adjacent
to Houston-the home city of R. A.
Sterling, the chairman of the commis-
sion, and around Abilene, the horn'
city of W. R. Ely, a member.
Governor Moody in his campaign
two years ago asserted from the
stump that every administration
should stand on the record it had
made. The Governor at that time
did not believe that the issue of a
second term should enter into the mat
ter. I agreed then and I agree now,
with the proposition as stated by him.
If Governor Moody's administration
will bear the scrutiny o fthe public;
if he has faithfully complied with his
campaign promises; then he is entitl-
ed to a second term and I do not ex-
pect your support.
If Governor Moody's administration
will not bear scrutiny; if he has not
kept his plighted word, then the state-
ments he made from the stump two
years ago applies to him and he
should be retired to private life.
Mr. Wardlow will speak in Mineola
highest spot in the camp enjoyment.
be established, and to assist it and' An orchestra from Tyler has been
other Central American countries in'secured for the occasion. Many addi-
emergencies. I tional guests have been invited an-.l
Agriculture: It realized the pro-'several from Mineola. Some of the , Friday June 15th at 8 p.m., at which
blem confronting the farmers of this j members and their guests who are noL time he will deal with several fea-
nation, which were due to foreign,with the regular party will be at th-:i i tures of the Moody administration,
competion, Labor and Federal and j lake for this party. These ae Mitch-! A large crowd is expected to attend
State Taxes. It sought to relieve the ell Mings, Tyler, Luther Kay, Tyler, I this speaking. The Mineola Band
conditions that exist at the present to
place the farmer in more of an ad-
vantage. The platform promised to
recognize the marketing systems for j Mcintosh, Dallas, Chappell DuBose.
the farmers with their suggestions 'Mineola, Nelson Jones and I. N. Wade
and help. It promised to create ajMineoJa. , !r >.^
Farm Loan Board to initiate loans! The regular members of the camp
to farmers. It advocated the estab-! are Misses Ann Pittman, Corpus
lishment of co-operative marketing j Christi, Mary Osborne, Paris; Lillian
of farm productss and pledged to | Cox, Dallas, Laura McCoy, Texas U.
place the agricultural interests of the'student, Dallas, Helen Summers, Dai-
Bud Craig, Dallas, Wilton Daniels, j will give its regular concert on the
Dallas, Russell Holland, Dallas, Tom I same evening. Judge H. G. Puckett
Haughton, Dallas, Mr. and J. Russell | will introduce the speaker.
nation on a basis of stability.
Prohibition: The^perty touched
lightly upon this subject, seemingly
las, Margarette Collet, Dallas; Im-
ogene Lane, Brownwood, Helen Vance
Dallas and Routh Coit, Renner.
scared to take a firm stand. The Messrs. Jimmie Stewart, Freshman
platform declared that it stood for Coach of S. M. U. Joe Boone, Dallas,
the enforcement of the 18th Amend-
ment and for all the Constitution. This
was practically all it said upon the
question.
The statement was very general
and left room for a better statement
awaiting the declaration of the Demo-
crats at Houston, it was supposed.
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CHRISTIAN CHURCH
Sunday School -—....10 a. m.
Preaching 11 a.m. and 8:15 p.m.
' Every member' urged to be present
it all these services'.11'Visitors-: always
Dutch Daniels, Dallas; Hugb Ross.
Baird, Ralph Jones, Dallas, James
Squires, Dallas, Frank Jones, Dallas
Neal Tharpe, Humbolt, Tenn., and
Paul Williams.
Mesdames D. M. Jones and W. D.
LaTaste of Dallas are the Chaperons.
Miss Willie Mae Jones is assisting
in the conduction of the Madam Lee
Beauty Shop.
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SPENSER HORTON
LEASES BUILDING FOR
TAILOR SHOP
Glenn McDowell of Wichita, Falls is
a gyest ' Of , and Mrs. , Gif f ord
welcome/' Cbme' iahd worship with us Wright at <the gas plant- in Mineola. jyxt. the
next Sunday. 'West.
Upon the completion of the Engel
building across from the Select
Theatre, Spenser Horton, Tailor and
Cleaner De Luxe of Quitman will cast
his lot with the business interests
of Mineola and move to the southern
metropolis of Wood County.
Mr. Horton has been in business in
Wood County for many years and has
made a success of the business in
which he is in. He plans to enlarge
his business as he enters this new
field.
Mr. Horton will move into hps new
quarters as soon as hisbuilding is fin-
ished.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank our many friends
for their kindness and assistance in
the last illness aad &ath of our hius-
band and father. We aTaothtok you
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NEW ICE RATES IN LOCAL
ICE DEALINGS HAVE
ALREADY BEGUN
i'y-
The Southwestern Gas and Electric
Company inaugurated new ice rates
in Mineola the past wek according tc
announcement by B. A. Brooks the ;
local manager. The new rate is much
lower than it has been and the
Mineola housewives are much pleased
over the decrease. This was evidenc-
ed when a representative of the Moni-
tor conversed with several patrons
over the phone after hearing of the
reduction. "Yes indeed I can tell tl|e /
difference," one woman announced
when asked if she ^aw the difference,
Another lady rematked, "I'm certain- \
ly glad of it because I save five cents \
each day on my ice bill."
The rates as disclosed by the local
ice office follows: 100 lb coupon
book formerly 65c. now 60c: 500
pound coupon book formerly $3J!5,
now $3.; 1000 pound coupon book
formerly $6.50, now $6.00;1500 pound
coupon book formerly $9.00, now ,
5000 coupon book formerly $25, now
$22.50. On the old wagon rate iee' ■-*
was 80c per hundred pounds, now Cho' ;•>
rate is, up and including 200 pounds
at 60c per hundred. For 300 pounds
the rate is 45 cents, per hundred.
That is, any amount from 12 1-2
lbs to 200 lbs the rate is 60c above 200
pounds the rate is 45c per hundred.
The old platform rate is as follows:
Less than 100 lbs. at 60c per hundred;
10p lbs. at 55c jer hundred; 300 lbs.
at *$1.35; Ton lots $37.55.
The new platform rates follow: Up
and including 100 lbs at
hundred; 300 lbs at $1.20; Ton
CUPID AND CALORIES .
TO BE PRESENTED AT
HIGH SCHOOL BUILDIN&
A comedy which promises to be an
excellent entertainer from strart te
finish will be presended at the high
school auditorium June 22 at 8 p#Sn.
This play is given for the benefit
of The First Baptist Church to raise
funds toward its completion, accord-
ing to a statement of one of the spon-
sors.
The personnel of the cast is made
up entirely of home talent but talent
which has already proven itself to he
par excellence. The cast is as fol-
lows: Mrs. O. J. McCain, as Sud die
commedian, Mrs. Grover Smith,
Misses Juanita Huff, Vendelia Vandi-
ver, Maurine Clark, Eunice Fulcherr
Mary Rose Johnson, Mamie Smith,
Ruth Campbell and Mary McCaiiat
The ineola Band wlil furnish be-
tween acts music. The play will last
about two hours.
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Carraway, R. H. The Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 14, 1928, newspaper, June 14, 1928; Mineola, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth286066/m1/1/?q=%22Student+publications+--+Texas+--+Mineola.%22: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Mineola Memorial Library.