The Rusk Cherokeean (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 18, 1927 Page: 1 of 8
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Originally Established February 27, 1850.
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WORKING FOR A GREATER RUSK AND A MORE PROSPEROUS CHEROKEE COUNTY
RUSK, CHEROKEE COUNTY, TEXAS. THl'KSD \V, AUGUST IK. 1H27
VOL. 9. No.
Dixie Buys Commercial
For A Million Dollars.
Galveston, Aug. 16.—Purchase
of the Commercial Gas Company
by the Dixie Gas and Utilities
Company, for the consideration
of about one million dollars, was
announced in a message from W.
L. Moody, who is in New York.
The properties consist of a pipe
line from Waskom to Longview
and Tyler, and distributing sys-
tems in these towns.
The Dixie Company will extend
its line immediately from Tyler
to Palestine, Jacksonville and
Rusk, in line with its policy to
establish natural gas connections
in many East Texas towns Moody
said.
Young Girl Drowned In
Tullos Lake, at Alto.
According to this report the
towns in this section from which
the Dixie Company has obtained
franchises will get the gas service
within the next few months, and
have to wait until sometime n xt
year, or later
Further, we will be on a direct
line with the chief source of sup-
ply and naturally get better ser-
vice.
Word reached here early Tues-
day morning, of the accidental
death, by drowning, of Miss Ir-
ma Priestly, a popular seventeen
year-old girl of Alto, which hap-
pened at Tullus Lake three north
of that place, the evening before.
From the reports it seems that
a party of young folks had been
enjoying a watermelon party at
the lake, followed by a bathing
indulgence.
When the rest of the party had
dressed and was ready to leave,
it was first discovered that Miss
Priestly was not there, and after
considerable search her body was
found in the lake. She had prob-
ably been dead nearly an hour.
Indications por t to the same
sad story of one unable to swim,
getting beyond their depth with
help no where at hand.
Miss Prietsly was the daughter
of Mrs. J. F. Rogers of the Red-
lawn community and is survived
by her mother, a sister and two
brothers, one of whom was with
the National Guard at Camp Pa-
lacios, at the time of the sad ac-
cident.
Bosom Wells, Deputy District
Clerk of Nacogdoches county,
was here Monday, on business.
Polk Rogers, of Nacogdoches,
was here last week.
-g- PROGRAM -s-
ASTOR THEATRE
"Where Everybody Goes"
August 22 :: Next Week :: August 27
MONDAY AUG. 22ND
Woman's Eternal S'nijigle to Retain ^ outh and
Beauty, Featured in a Coinedy-Drama of
Absorbing Interest
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SLAVES OF BEAUTY
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District Court Busy
With Criminal Docket.
The time of the District Court
for the past week has been taken
up with the trial of the criminal
cases t' at came from the invest-
igations of the recent grand jury.
The following cases have been
heard:
State vs. Lee Powers, charged
with oDerating a car while intox-
icated. Verdict of guilty and a
tine of $50:00 assessed.
State vs. Fred Jenkins; charge
of forgery. Plea of guilty with a
two year suspended sentence.
State vs. William Henderson;
charge of forgery. Plea of guilty
with 2 year suspended sentence.
State vs. Fred Stockton; illegal
possession. Tried by jury with
verdict of acquittal.
Criminal Practice Case.
One of the most strenuously
contested cases that has been up
for trial in this Court for some
time was that of the State vs. P.
A. Sims (colored) doctor charged
with criminal practice, the al-
leged victim being a young girl
of the Maydelle neighborhood,
which was tried the latter part of
last week.
This was the case where two
girls were committed to fail for
refusin" to answer questions of
! the grand jury.
j A verdict of guilty was brought
|in and punishment fixed at two
' years in the penitentiary.
A motion fcr a new* trial was
overruled an appeal taken, with
bond fixed at $1,000, which was
made.
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Jacksonville Plans To
Keep Up Road Fight.
Our Street Paving Is
Young Man Electrocuted
\
Jacksonville, which always has
been the most enthusiastic sec-
tion of the county in advocating
and voting for paved roads, does
not purpose to give up the fight,
as indicated by the following ex-
cerpts taken from an article ap-
pearing in the Progress:
"Twice the proposition to vote
road bonds in Cherokee county
A Finished Product.! On Public Utility Work.
At last the first installment of
the street paving of the city of
Rusk is finished. We should not
say at last, as it has not been so
long. The first of April not one
shovel of dirt had been moved,
and today we have twelve blocks
of firm asphalt pavement as level
as a floor. It has seemed long as
J. L. Hart, a young man about
twenty-seven years of age, met
death in a tragic manner, in this
city, about 2:C0 o'clock Tuesday
afternoon.
Young Hart was employed as
a lineman, doing construction-
work for Gulf Public Service Co.
at the time of the accident, and
was up on a pole near the inter-
so many of our strees have nec
has failed. The principal oppos- essarily been torn up a goodly section of Second and Crockett
ition to the measure has came ; portion of the time. streets
from across Mud Creek, but the , But, who says it is not worth Jt wiH never be known just how
vote against the bonds in some of j the money? As an advertising!the accident 0C(;ured one
the boxes on this side of the creek, agency alone it is worth every 1 witnessed it- The first intimat-
was equally as pronounced. It j dollar of the cost. As a lady from i°n anything wrong was when
seems to be a foregone conclus-1 Jacksonville remarked, in "speak- the -vounS man's father, who was
,on that a county wide bond is-ling of the improvement, "I can working with him on the ground,
sue is far tin the luture. That
beijig the case, the people of the
Jacksonville Koad District are
not going to sit idly|by and see the
golden opportunity fleet away.
Already paved road enthusiasts
are making calculations for the
future and while the whole coun-
ty will take its place among the
backward ones of East Texas the
Jacksonville district proposes to
keep abreast of the demands for
first class roads and will make its
plans accordingly,
Don't be disheartened over the
defeat of Tuesday. We shall
have another day. Jacksonville
may be able to take care of her
hardly realize that I am in Husk.' lieard him £roan- and on !o°king
When strangers driye in here now up saw the limP body hanging
they realize that they have ar- by the belt with which he was
rived somewhere. The grandest strapped to the pole It is the
feature of it allis that there isn'H supposition that he must have
a vacant or unimproved spot] in
nad his back in contact with the
the whole area. Every property main conductor and stepping on
owner signed up for his part and an uninsulated telephone ground
his town vv're formed a connection and the
Much credit is due our city ad- 2,300 voltage of the service wire
ministration for its progressive
passed through his body, produe-
ness and determination, as well 'n^ 'nstant death.
as practical business methods in As soon as P°ssible the b°dy of
putting the proposition over to a the y°un£ man was lowered and
gloriuos finish. Mayor Summers, attempts to restore life by arti-
backed by alloyal and unfaltering ficial respiration, were resorted
council, has gone right ahead, in 'or ' w0 houis, but to no avail.
(face of spme opposition and pro- The remains were prepared for
own road situation, but we should testing and accomplished a great burial by a local undertaker and
have preferred toeo-operate with thing at the rightjtime. They can sen*' to his late home in Jackson-
other sections of the county. If not be too strongly complimented v'"e> 1 uedsay evening.
Deceased leaves a wife and three
small sons to bear the irreparable
loss.
she acts alone it will be from ne-
cessity and not from choice.'
Paymaster Of Sawmill
Killed By Hi jackers.
FEATURING
MARGARET LiVIMGSTON
I, Also Paramotnt Mews and FELIX THE CAT
TUESDAY AUG. 23RD
MILDRED DAVIS-GEORGE BANCROFT
IN
"TOO MANY CROOKS
Also Good Comedy
WEDNESDAY - AUG. 24TH
MADGE BELLAMY
IN
"BERTHA, THE SEWING MACHINE GIRL"
See 1 he beautiful Madge Holla my as the tempting model
in an exclusive lingerie' shop
Also PATHE REVIEW
THURSDAY FRIDAY AUG. 25TH 26TH
D. W. GRIFFITH S
"SORROWS
= SATAN"
With an All-Star Cast, Including
SDOtPHE MEM. MM CM,
CUOL DEMPSTER AND EVA DE POTT!
Chapter "> "The Silent Flyyer"
SATURDAY AUG. 27TH
TOM TYLER
IN
"CYCLONE ON THE RANGE"
Also Good Now* Rool and Comedy
Dave Patterson. 37 years old
1 paymaster for the Frost Lumber
| Industries, was killed and Harold
• Williams, a youthful companion,
I was shot through the knee, in an
I attempted holdup, staged about
[sixteen miles southeast of Nacog-
! doehes, last Wednesday after-
|noon.
Patterson, who was carrying a
$1,300 payroll for the company,
was driving up a hill in a touring
car, when the assasin or assasins,
fired on him from ambush. Two
s ots from a shotgun, one load of
buck and and one of bird shot
were discharged into the body of
the victim; and he probably died
almost instantly. A few scatter
ing shot hit the youth, who run
to the camp without taking any
note of the perpetrators of the
dastardly crime.
The assasins took a dummy pay
roll, provided for deception in
case of a hold-up, and overlooked
the genuine article, which was
concealed in the car.
Tom Ross, 32, Nocogdoches
county eggro, has been arrested
and is claimed to have made a
wrstten confession.
, The foregoing attitude is com
mendable in the abstract and the
position well taken, but the ques-
tion of practicability nv y enter j Gregg, Mr. and M rs. K.
into it. They could put over a ett and Misses Wilrna
Attend Kivauls Meeting
B. B. Perkins, president of the
Rusk club, Mr. and Mrs. E. R.
Hatch-
.• rkins,
TAKES A VACATION-
bond issue, but to raise enough I Linda Bonner and Evelyn Sim-
funds to cover all the state and j nions attended a city community
federal highways would push the | Kiwanis Club meeting to which
tax proposition to the limit. j Marshall, Rusk and Jacksonville
Further, would the benefits de- j were invited, given by the Tyler
rived be worth the money? The i Kiwanians, last Friday night,
part of the improvement connect-j Mrs. Gregg and M rs. Hatchett
ing with paved roads in Smith j had been honored with invitat-
and Anderson counties would be I iens to appear on the program,
invaluable, but they would have 1 the former with a violin solo and
to cover all the designated hign- the latter to sing, and both ac
ways in the district and some j quitted themselvos in the usual
sections would connect up with ' gracious, artistic manner. Miss
the non-progressive dirt roads. Simmons accompanied them on
It would seem that if a plan 1 the piano,
could be [worked out by which No report on Bennett
the Jacksonville. Rusk and Alio
districts could go in together and
vote bonds covering their terri-
tory, leaving the Mud Creek dis-
trict out of it. that would be the
best thing to do. This would
pave the Jim Hogg Highway all j
i the way across the county, while |
' saving most of the state roads.
Having disposed of most of the
probate and ex parte matters on
the County Court docket tor the
curr .'tit term, and finding it dif-
ficult to do much while District
Court is in session. Judge Bolton
very properly decided to recess
his court until September 6th.
Accompanied by his wife and
two children. Judge Bolton left
Tuesday morning, for a trip to
Beaumont, where they will visit
in the home ol Mrs. Bolton's
brother, Judge Daniel Walker
of the Court of Civil Appeals, for
a few days.
They will visit other points on
the way.
THE UNIVERSAL CAR
Big Auction Sale Here
Billed for August 27.
Cherokee County Is
Invited To Bridge Fete
Cherokee county was officially !
invited to participate with Ander-
son, Freestone and Leon counties!
in t he opening ceremonies of I he I
Trinity River bridge, at a meet- j
of the representees of those in-
terested, held at the bridge last
Friday afternoon.
Governor Dan Moody will de-
liver the principal address of the
occassion at 11:00 o'clock a, in.,
the opening day, September 2nd,
and this will be followed by a big
barbecue.
A number of other prominent
speakers have been invited to ad-
dress the assemblage.
As will b seen from the two-
page ad in t 'lis issue of the Clier-
okeean, G. M. Read, a licensed
autioneer, is advertising a Public
Auction, to be held in Rusk, on
Saturday, August 27th
In this sale anyone can oll'er
anything oi marketable value and
be all that is claimed for it, with-
out any entrance fee, and only ! e
liable for the customary auction
eer's commission on sales.
This should prove a ureat draw-
ing card to the trading public,
and inadt. ition to the auction our
merchants and other dealers are
going to oll'er some special bar-
gains on staple goods on this oc
casio n.
Mr. Read is an experienced
autioneer, being a graduate of
one of the best schools in the Un-
ited States and positively knows
his business. Of one thing all
rest assured and that is that they
will get a square deal from this
good man.
WATCH!
For the announcement of the
New Model Ford
It Will Pay You
Coming Soon
PARRISH, FORREST & WILLIAMS
Authorized Ford Dealers
The Big Filling Station on the Corner
open day and might
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Ward, H. O. & Ward, Pearl L. The Rusk Cherokeean (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 18, 1927, newspaper, August 18, 1927; Rusk, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth291327/m1/1/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Singletary Memorial Library.