The Mexia Weekly Herald (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, October 19, 1928 Page: 4 of 8
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THE MEXIA
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Friday, 0<-tnH'>
Entered at the post office at
Mexia, Texas, as second class maiJ
matter under act of March a, 1870
c. l. TA'i'U M, Proprietor
Office with
The N ews I'ubhsh. n,; Company
110 N. Kailroad St., Mexia, Texas
Subscription— One Year $1.60
Charles W. Helme,
r,o Precious to he l.ost through manager of th'
Helme Will Be
Main Speaker on
T.L.O.A. Program
Laundry Owners At
Ft. Worth to Hear
Mexia Orator
and
John Kennedy
Testifies in
Road Hearing
"I Don't Remember,"
Answer to Most
Questions
COLORED FAIR
OF LIMESTONE
READY TO OPEN
Thursday First Day
of Big- Affair
for Negroes
Saturday night at the City Hall
Auditorium, amid pageants pre-
sented by residents of Limestone,
Freestone, Falls, Navarro and Mc-
Lellan counties.
Limestone county'* pageant will
represent "Africa." All the page-
j ants are colorful represent? tiona of
different counties, Meiriwethcr
said.
Neglect."
in his
before
ventic
consid
3f Lim
GROESBECK, Oct. 17 (Sp).—
New W.\y Laundry ! John M. Kennedy, former county
of Moxia and a brairh plant in (commissioner, «.e a witness for the
address Waco, will b® tbe principal speak-: defendants in the county's suit
in' i.t'iiion con-1er on the P'ctfam of against Bramer and Wilder "didn't I Speaking, GameS and
rt.l at Sfn Antonio,! the annual meeting of the Texas remember" aoouc much of the quea-
hat are worthy ! Laundry Owners association. The tions asked him by plaintiffs in the
.i by all cit- meeting will De held at Fort Worth case.
|jj ■ ■ ■ II A defense question: "Did you at
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no counly. Pointing sometime in January, Mr. Helme
un half of our vot- j s®id, probably the aecond wetk of
iri the last gener- that month. It will be % tbree-day
that in many in-! meeting.
have been electa i Mr> Helme uge hig gub.
with only 8 to 1(1 ^ ..playirig the Gams." The fea-
voters voting, t e ture vvjjj deal with the nec-
essity of using straight-forward
methods in all business enterprises,
the speaker said. It also will deal
at length on the reUtiort of em-
ployer to employe, Mr. Helme said.
"As partners of the Government
dcr which you are privileged to
■c. you have very positive ob-
•atiin to participate in it's man-
•sment. It ia an orgrr.ua ticn of
vcrnhient by the pan In and for
? peopl*) of which ea-«ii of you is
o of the individuals.
"0iT all citizenL, there are none
;o should more clearly under-
ir.d or norvi saercily perform
:ir duties t.ha.) voter ins who had
2 lienor to boar arms in the coun-
'T v.'ich that all cltiisnr led by
tV. - ample of cur vet«sr&r.e, would
i islizc thct a:, such v« are account
aL'. ■ to car neighbors, our lriends,
arid our children for the kind and
tha cffactive-ieE* of the Govern-
ir. r: under v.-lijph they shall live.
"It hardly need be" stated that as
;(> jbop'.e v;s a/e quite a? respon-
sible for th? Its? of our liberties
t'.rough defamt, neglect or ignor-
ance as ve would be to lose them
through failure to defend them by
force of arms.
"Such neglect leaves open the
doer for the charletan or the deni
a political party stronger or more
secure. In fact, the larger the
number of bolts the quicker the
party will go to pieces.—Boston
Transcript.
SCRIPTURE REVERSED
These are the days when tha
fatted calf returns from his va-
cation half killed by the prodigal
sun.—Boston Transcript.
ALGO SILlt FUOM T-iE CORN S
EAR
ITow that they can make silt:
underwear and stockings from
cornstalks every family will want
a patch of corn and raise their
own teddy bears.—L03 Angeles
Times-Mirror.
WHERE THE MONEY GOES
American men spend $20.000,00J
annually to * support divorce!
wives. And thi3 doesn't include
agotrue to enter and assume control, the money spent to support oth*5r
of affairs, bothjlocal a ad otherwise men's
The standards-ot official life are
thus lowered and the administra-
tion of public r'crce frequently be-
comes the source of persjuai gain.
"A government deteimined by
leas than, 50 oer cent of rtie total
possible vote cannot be justl> called
a government by the people, It is
government by a minority. The
lethargy thus indicated on the part
of pur people has become a ser-
ious menace to our institutions.
"Under'no llag in the world have
people ever jnjoyed gveafer free-
don or found more of hsppiness.
These things are too precious to
bo lo^t through neglect.
We commend this thoughtful ut-
terance. May we not hupp that the
8"-aervice men of Limestoni county
R*ill lead us in the 1'aithful per-
formance of our peace time duties
to our great government
hailtoYOeTetlrans
Last week the veterans of two
American wars held their annual
conventions. Tha WorUl War vet-
erans met at San Antnr.io in the
great state of Tfxas, aid the Span-
ish-American war veterans held
their meeting at Havana, Cuba,
Surely the good wishes of our
citizens were with them. Say what
you please about ex-service men but
when the war was on they were in
it That is a good recommendation.
divorced
ton Post.
wives.—Washing-
HERE IT IS
One thing the artistic billing
station has done has been to ren-
der it needless to go to Europj
to study architecture.—St. Louis
Post-Dispatch.
ONE WAY
If you want to know how kids
will turn out, observe when the/
turn in.—Woostci Record.
PAY DIRT ON THE FARM
Sinclair Lewis, novelift, an
nounced that he was going to bu?
a farm—to have a quiet place to
write. There is a hint to the farm-
ers on the way to make a farm
pay.—Pathfinder.
any time enter into a conspiracy
with Brnmer anJ Wilder, or Horaca
Boyett, or both, to de fraud Lime-
stone county or road i recinct No.
4?" was not answered when a
plaintiff objection was sustained by
Judge W. R. Boyd. Plaintiffs ob-
jected to a "blanket" denial they
anticipated the witness would
make.
Asked if H«nry Untried ever
called his attention to clay in the
road material going into the Pin
Oak road, and suggested that he
(Kennedy) look into the matter,
Kennedy answered, "I do not re-
member." When asked if he ever
told Chas. Hinchliffe on the Hinch-
liffe road that .he could not do any-
thing about the materUl going into
the road, or the amount being used
in the base, and he amwered, "My
hands are tied," Kennedy answered,
"I do hot ?emember." Kennedy \va3
asked by the defense attorneys if
his attention «as ev?r called to
mud in the grav l of th« Hinchliffe
extension road, the witness said,
"I do r.ot remtmber."
Kennedy was asked by Dodson,
"Did you ever get a bill through
the commissioners court, for Bram-
er and Wilder that you knew was
false?" The witness answered, "No,
I do hot think so." He was further
questioned, "Di'l you ever vote for
a bill you believed false," and the
witness said, "JNo sires." „*
3-DAY PROGRAM
Program Ready
for Visitors
Rotoricms Will
Hear Musicians
Muek tflll ¥fcigff supreme at the
weekly session of the Muxia Rotary
club &t the Lior.tsrian Inn Thurs-
day noon, says E. M. Strange,
chairman ol tne pro*, am.
Miss Virginia Scott, soloist, Miss
Mary Lynn Sheely, violinist, with
Mrs. s. B. Werner, accompanist,
will be presented in a fcries of
numbers.
Mrs. E. M. Strange will lead the
club tinging for this we^k.
There will be no addresses on thr
program.
Everything la set fcr the of-
ficial opening of the firtt annual
Limeatone County Colored Fair at
the Dunbar high school grounds
and building Thursday afternoon at
1 o'clock. Exhibits arc in their
placea, pens have been built for
the livestock, coops for the chick-
era, and all entries liated, waiting
for judginga.
The fair will start off with a
mammoth parade of decorated flats
from fraternal organizations of col-
ored residents, churches, and
achoola, with a first piizo of $10
going to the winner. Second prize
will be ?5 and third, $3. Judges
will make the awards.
Welcome Talks
The official opening of the fair
will be with a aeriea of addresses
of welcome to the fair, the visitors,
an expression from tho Coolldge
Chamber of Commerce, and re-
sponse for the fair committee. L. S.
Patterson will welcome the
fair to this city. W. fl. landrunv
secretary of the Mexia Chamber
will welcome the visitors, and J.
E. Laney of the Coolidge Chamber
will express Coolidge'a welcome.
w. H. Hawkins fr the Fair Asso-
ciation will reapond.
Following the addreisea a review
of exhibits by the crowds in at-
tendance will be made. This will
last all afternoon with entertain-
ment, music, and other features at
intervals.
Schiol Stunt*
The evening program will be
started off with stunts from schools
from colored ccmmuniiie? over the
county. These will be held at the
Dunbar auditorium.
After the stunts the crowds will
attend again tha entertainment at
the fair, and the exhibits in the
building.
Announcement is made by S. M.
Merriwether, v.ho has had a lead-
ing part in putting the fair across
that the Limestone county contest-
ant in the raia for the honor of
"Queen of the Fair" is leading by
several thousand votes. She is Er-
line McBay, Dunbar high school
student. The queen will be crowned
We talk a lot about the public
Schools but few citizens ever take
the trouble to visit them in ses-
sion.
I If ;-ou go to law, and want yoct
■ lawyers to agree quickly, pay them
all the cash you have and tell
them ao.
iur extra slice of pie is awarde l
week to the smart young
olar who aaya he likea to go
ichool.
rolling atone may not gather
a, but you seldom see a bill
jctor able to gather the long
:n by sitting down.
you have some article around
house or store that you do not
it is time to try a want ad
he M^xia Daily News.
!ER NEAT, THIS
sters fall roughly into
a: The flip kind, and
introduce the diatin-
led guest in a tone of reverent
as if he were being unveiled
troit News.
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HANDY IMPLEMENT
jack ia useful. It can lift a
a mortgage and the family
I standing — Birmingham
IURAL LUCK
ifhbor in Australia," a
itas, "often lives a*
w.nty miles away." In
ry, when a man buys a
r, it_ practically beconvaa
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consecutive minutes—
at surprisingly low cost
$860—
Mexia Motor Car Co.
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STUDEBJ1KBR.
The Great Independent
Freestone Co.
Fair Opening
Early Thursday
TEAGUE, Oct. 17 (Sp.).—En-
tries began coming into the fair
grounds of the Freestone County
Fair as early as Wednesday morn-
ing for the annual exhibition of
livestock, poultry, farm product J
and other phases of the event.
Everything ia set for the opening
of the fair at 9 o'clock Thuraday
morning, officials have said.
The Freestone fair will be held
here three days, October 18, 19 and
20.
With th# growing entry list, in-
dication point to one of the most
auccesaful events of its kind held
in this county. Virtually evety
community in Freestone County
will be represented when the fair
grounds gates are opened for tho
attendance Thursday morning.
A full list of premiums for
which the entrants will compete
in different events has been prr
pared by the' officials of the fair.
PROGRAM
OPENING DAY PROGRAM —
LIMESTONfi COUNTY COLOR-
ED FAIR—THURSDAY
1 p. m.—Mammoth parade of
decorated floats from churches,
fraternal organizations, and
schools all over county. Route:
Dunbar high school, cast on Main
street to Rosa avenue, down Ross
to Commerce, up Commerce to
Belknap and return to Dunbar
high achool. Prizes given for
winnero.
2 p. m.—Official opening of the
First Annual Limestone County
Colored Fair.
L. S. Pattereoii, for J. Sandford
Smith, Mayor, "Welcome to Lime-
stone County Colored Fair."
W. B. Landrum, "Welcome t-i
Fair Attendants."
J. E. Laney, Coolidge Chamber
of Commerce.
W. H. Hawkins, response for
Fair Association. Review of Exhi-
bits.
7:30 p. m—Stunts from colorad
achoola of Limeatone County, Dun-
bar high school auditorium.
Fair entertainment and review.
Singers Prefer
Rural Auditorium
for Rig Singing
Pt. Enterprise Ch^.en
for Next Singing;
fcrowd at Kosse
Point Enterprise, enterprising
farming community, near Moxia;
won the apring semi-annual tinging
of the Limeatone Couaty Singing-
Convention when nearly 3,000 peo-
ple gathered at Kosee for the fall
song fest.
Point Enterprise won over Med-
ia's invitation, the singers prefer-
ing the rural community near Mex-
ia to the city auoitoriu'
It was two Mexia
one for the auditorium
tho rural community
Point Enterprrtr la i
from tho li.uirt of the
tho gardou of Mexia.
Tho Kosse .-(invention was well
attended throughout Hunt'ay, an^
pronounced a great auccess.
■ Catalog a coi
but neither hoi
There are few dimples, whether
on kneo or chin, that are doomed
to be unae«n,
-O-
Let's make Mexia a friendly
town by helping all its people U
succeed. -r '
— M.
iratlons,
for
f o 1'
minutes
cit-v and ia
M>! '
wen
and orders go,
our communit;
Broiles Talks
to Kosse C. of C.
KOSSE, Oct. 17 (Sp.).—Meeting
in the domestic acience buildir.g
of the high school Tueaday nig'.it
directors of the Chamber of Com-
merce were given a banquet ir
which Hallowe'en decorations and
menu were featured.
President J. w. Young presided
over the business session, with re-
ports of progress in civic enter-
prise. B. H. Broiles, editor of
The Mexia Daily News, talked to
tho directors on cooperation of
towns in the Bi-Stone Empire As-
sociation of Chambers of Com-
merce, of which he is president.
Woman Freed of
Killing Another
FARMERSVILLE, La., Oct. 1/
(UP).—Mra. Naomi Day, 30, niece i
of a former Arkansas governs r i
Wednesday stood acquitted of the {
slaying of Mrs. Mittia Medlin.'
near here last August. A jury
last night found her not guiity
of manslaughter after deliberating
ons hour.
Mrs. Medlin was shot to death
after she found the defendant and
Dr. Ira Medlin in a car parked
on the roadside. The defense wi1--
nesa teatified the deceased firvd
the first shot.
There are more small towns
gone crazy on the subject of fac-
tories than on any other ten topics.
WACO, Oct. 18.—Baylor Univ-
ersity is showing much skill in
breaking up Centenary plays this
week and Coach Jennings is hope-
ful that the Bears will avenge the
defeat handed them last week by
Arkansas.
."A Jazz Holiday"—Ted Lewis.
"Adoree"—Fox Trot.
"Breeze"—Riley Puckett.
"Cotton Eyed Joe' —Gld Tanner.
"Jesus Paid It All"—Deal Family.
"Denomination Blues"—Washing-
ton Phillips.
"It Won't Be You"—Bessie Smith.
'Half Way to Heaven"—Ukelele
Ike.
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