The Rusk Cherokeean (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 34, Ed. 1 Friday, March 13, 1936 Page: 1 of 8
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VOLUME 17
THE RUSK CHEROKEEAN, RUSK, CHEROKEE COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1936
RUSK HAS WORLD'S
RICHEST IRON DEPOSITS:
NUMBER 34
Jim Hogs Day in Rusk
Will Draw Thousands
Here on April 22nd
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A mammoth celebration in
honor of Texas' first native gov-
ernor, James Stephen Hogg,
whose biifthplace was within
' mile and a half of the city of
Rusk, is to be held in the Chero-
kee county seat city on April
22nd, the daite Bast Texas
Downs, horse racing plant, opens
its 10-day spring meeting.
State dfenitarfes and mayors
from cities near Rusk will be in-
vited to participate in the festi-
vities that will last practically all
day. A free barbecue will be
served at <the Cherokee County
Fair Park at the noon hour.
Although plans are yet in the
emibryonic stage, local officials
and leaders in civic life are mak-
ing elaborate preparations for the
celebration, which will be Rusk's
main part on the Centennial
program for this year.
An ousfcanding college band
will be inyited to play a concert
on the courthouse lawn that day.
Rusk claims Jim Hogg as her
own, and, although no marker
was given 'by the Centennial
group to mark his birthplace, the
citizens are determined to plant
in the minds of Texas people that
this is his birthplace. Mr. Hog?
attended his first school here and
■worked in the local print shop
as printer's devil before moving
away.
Liquor Inspectors,
Sheriff Smith
Destroy Liquor
TOMATO BOX FRIENDSHIP OF 23 YEARS CON-
TINUES AS CHICAGO WOMAN VISITS MRS.
G. WATSON
5,824 Voters in Cherokee Co.
Fred Moore, inspector for the
Texas Liquor Control Board from
the Longview office, assisted
Sheriff J. A. Smith in the de-
struction of 222 gallons of un-
taxed liquor and in classifying
and preparing for sale approxi-
mately 33 cases of contrabrand
government stamped liquor siez-
edby Sheriff Smith and the in-
spectors from several persons in
Cherokee county, here this week.
Mr. Moore expressed his ap-
preciation for the "splendid co
operation of Sheriff Smith and
Constables Jay and Watts in the
detection of liquor violations in
Cherokee county."
* r W. C. Johnson
Dies Friday
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W. C. Johnson, 60, a resident
of Cherokee county for 36 years,
was laid to rest in the fealem
cemetery, six miles southwest ot
Rusk, Saturday afternoon. He
died Friday night at his home in
the Dupree farm.
Mr. Johnson was born in
Georgia on Jan. 27, 1870, set-
tling in Texas and Cherokee
county in 1900.
Funeral services were conduct-
ed by Rev. John A. Williams, pas-
tor of the First Baptist church,
Wallace Undertaking company
having cliarge.
He is survived by his widow,
Viola Johnson, one daughter,
Mrs. Claudia Starke, and one
son Henry of Tyler, also survive.
Two sisters and a brother life in
Tennessee.
Scouters Meet
At Camp Kiwanis
May we call it a tomato
friendship?
At any rate, that is what
it was.
Twenty-three years ago a
10 year old sister of Joe E.
Mqore was packing toma-
toes at a shed in Maydelle.
iLike -other tomato packers
of that day and this, she
wrote her name in a basket.
That basket of tomatoes
traveled from Cherokee
county, the center of the to-
mato industry, and after the
lucious fruit was placed on
a Chicago table, another lit-
tle girl saw the name and ad-
dress. She wrote to Miss
Moore.
Last week a visitor went
to the home of Mrs. Grady
Watson, near Palestine.
Mrs. Watson is the former
Miss Mcore. That visitor,
who has kept in touch with
Mrs. Watson all these years,
was the little girl in Chica-
go who wrote the first note
after the tomato basket left
East ' Texas.
Redditt Again
Candidate For
State Senate
County Meet Contestants Gather
Here Wednesday; One-Act
Plays Open at High School
District chairmen of the 15
counties embraced by the East
Texas Area Council of the Boy
Scouts of America met at Camp
Kiwanis March 5 for the purpose
of discussing prospects for this
year's camping program, with
field executive M. H. McMasters
in charge.
The committee discussed various
nhases of summer camps and de-
cided to leave the number of boys'
to attend to the discretion of the
camp director. It was further de-
rided by the group to have no
camping period longer than sev-
en days.
In order to properly usher in
the camping season, a two-day
jamboree will be held for tbo
East Texas Area June 5 and C.
Four camping periods will be
held this year at the local camp,
the first period beginning June
14th. Improvements on the camp
site will continue in the meantime
with several additional conven-
iences to be added to the camp
I equipment.
Head of Paper
Company Sends
Felicitations
JOHN S. RF1DDITT
Virginia Shook
To Become Bride
Of C. J. Shaeffer
The approaching marriage of
Miss Virginia Shook, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. William Harrison
Shook, 5922 Swiss, to Charles
Shaeffer, Dallas, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Shaeffer, Paris, was
announced Tuesday by the par-
ents of the bride-to-be.
The wedding ceremony will be
performed at the home of the
parents of the bride-elect Satur-
day afternoon, March 21. Miss
Shook will be attended by Miss
Pauline Tittle.
The bride-elect is a graduate of
Southern Methodist University
Hundreds of school children
from the pine hills of Cherokee
county, the city streets, and from
the forks of the creeks will meet
here Wednesday, to compete for
honors in the annual county meet
the meet will be held March 18,
I'd, 20, and 21.
One-act plays, under the direc-
tion of R. B. Mathews, will offi-
cially open the meet Wednesday
night at 7:30 o'clock, at the lo-
cal high school auditorium.
Rural declamations will be giv-
en Thursday evening at 7:30, and
at 9 o'clock the following morn-
ing play will start in the play-
ground ball contests. In this
connection, the Committee ruled
that a 14-inch balKvrill be used
nnd that no team will be eligible
that enters a composite team;
thatis.a team composed of both
high school and gramtnrar school
and is a member of Kappa Kappa ( Ktujents. A team may he compos-
Gamma sorority. She attended d entireiy of high school stu-j 21
With only 339 "unders" ex-
exempted from poll tax payment
this year, voting strength of
Cherokee county for 1936 totals
5,824, records at the county tax
assessor-collector's office show-
ed Tuesday.
This total does not * include
the "overs," who are not re-
quired to get exempion cerifi-
cates.
By the boxes the voting power
is:
Box No. Name of Prec. No Polls
1
2
3
4
5
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
Columbia University in New York dentS( provjde(] they arc within 22
Kiwanis Club
Committeemen
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George Sutton and Maurice
White began working for the Na-
tional Supply company, an oil
concern, in Huntsville, oMnday.
THIS WEEK IN TEXAS
HISTORY.
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Week of March 8.
16a7—Robert LaSalle was kill-
ed by one of his followers near
the present city of Alto.
1827—'he constitution of Coa-
mutta and Texas was adopted
Mtarch 11 and provided that only
the Roman Catholic relNfion
should be tolerated, and that in
all matters pertaining to the in-
ternal government, the state re-
tained its sovereignty.
11M6f—General Zachary Tay
lor had been for some time en-
camped with an American army
among the salt cedars near Cor-
pus Christi. On March 9 he
moved his army across the Nech
es toward the Rio Grande, with
the purpose of better establish-
ing the claims of the United Stat-
es to the territory between those
two rivers.
1861—On March 11 Congress
of the provisional state govern-
ment of the Confederacy passed
an ordinance to ratify the Consti-
tution of the Confederate States
of America.—Texas State Col-
lege or Women (CIA).
A complete list of the commit'
eemen for the Rusk Kiwanis club
for this year is:
Finance—E. B. Musick, I. R.
Aufricht, P. T. Butler.
Agriculture—John Parks.
Business standards — Bryan
Stovall, John C. Williams:
Kiwanis education—C. E. Kerr,
D. C. Stockton.
Membership—T. H. Cobbtyj,
Bud Walace.
Attendance — A. E. Laney,
John Parks.
Classification—J. W. Pearson,
Carl Clicjc.
Inter-club relations—F.
Bingham, Homer Byrd.
Laws and regulations—B.
Perkins, Frank Devereux, Jr.
Program—iW. W. Finley, E. R.
Gregg, Geo. P. Francis.
Publicity—A. E. Lowe.
Receptionh—Wm. Thomas, R.
S. Marshall.
.Public affairs—W. .. Norman,
P. B. Musslewhite.
Under-privileged child— R. L.
Hatchett, W. T. Norman.
Vocational guidance—A. S.
Moore, V. R. Roach.
'Music—J. E. Hamilton, Fred
Martin.
C.
B.
Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Sherman
left Monday night for Eden af-
ter receiving word that Mrs.
Sherman's father had been strick-
en with paralysis a short while
before.
He who hasn't time to m*ke
friend* wil some day need them.
An excellent compliment paid
by the vice president and mana-
ger of the Carpenter Paper com-
pany, Virgil Buzard, came to the
ofice this week.
Mr. Buzard's letjter was:
'Your anniversary edition of
the Rusk Cherokeean came while
1 was away from the office, but
was on my desk upon my return;
and I am delighted that you have
seen fit to remember me with a
copy,
"Your entire organization is
to be congratulated on having put
out such a wonderful edition and
you may well be proud of it
from many angles.
"The reading matter appears to |
be of wide reader interest andj
well diversified, giving wide op-|
peal throughout your county and
probably beyond its borders;
while the advertising you carry is
something to he p(roud of and
evidently the merchants in your
community recognize in the Rusk
Cherokeean an advertising me-
dium worth the price.
"But that is not all. The paper
is one of the best from an ap-
pearance standpoint that has
come to my desk in some time,
an4 I congratulate the boys in
the plant on having done a good
job wel."
John S. Redditt, present sena-
tor from the third senatorial dis-
trict, this week makes his an-
nouncement fotf re-election
through the columns of The Rusk
Cherokeean.
• Mr. Redditt, considered one of
the outstanding members of the
upper house of our state govern-
ment, has been governor of the
state on two occasions when he
served as 'president pro tem of
the senate.
The thi,"*! district is composed
of Angelina, Cherokee, Jasper,
Nacogdoches, Newton, Sabine,
San Augustine and Tyler coun-
ties.
Further news of Mr. Redditt's
candidacy will be forthcoming.
City last year. Mr. Shaeffer is a
former student of Louisiana State
University at Baton Rouge and
received his law degree at South-
ern Methodist University.—Dal-
las News.
Eagle Rank
Attained By
Local Leader
MRS. VERMILLION
RETURNS HOME
Mrs. Raymond Vermillion, who
has been teaching in Smyrna this
winter, will arrive this week-end
to stay for a short while with
her mother, Mrs. W. S. Bonner.
In April, MrS. Vermillion will
return to Stephen F. Austin State
Teachers College, Nacogdoches,
where she will complete work on
her bachelor of arts degree.
CITY flECTION TO
BE HELD APRIL 7TH
An election for the purpose of
choosing three aldermen and a
city attorney will be held here
April 7th, it was announced this
week.
Polls will open at the city
hall at 8 a. m. and remain open
until 7 p. m.
Present incumbents include M
B. Ellis, Johnnie Williams, R. L
Hatchett, John Parks, Alvin
.Pryor, aldermen, and B. B. Per-
kins, city attorney.
Think less of ante-bellum days
and more of cerebellum ways.
NEW CARS REGISTERED
V. A. Soekwell, Rusk, Chevro-
let Sedan.
J. H. Sucke, Rusk, Chevrolet
Sedan. 1 " "•
Paul Guinn, Rusk, Ford Coupe.
Walter Rainey, Rusk, Ford
Tudor.
W. D. Thomas, Rusk, Chevrolet
Sedan.
G. O. Murrell, Rusk, Chevro-
let Sedan.
C. C. Taylor, Rusk, Chevrolet
Coach.
Robert McClure, Alto, Ford
Todor.
C. O. Bean, Rusk, Chevrolet
Sedan.
L. P. Perkins, Rusk, Chevrolet
Coach.
Vick Holmes, Reklaw. Ford
Fordor.
A. M. Dullnig, Rusk, Chevrolet
Coach. '
Forrest Hassell, Rusk, Chevro-
let Coach.
ROACH
the age limit, or entirely
grammar school students, tout a
"duke's mixture" \ is strictly
forbidden.
At the same time, tennis com-
petition will begin, and at 10
o'clock ward school declamations
and extemporaneous speech will
be judged. Entries in the essay
writing contest *j11 weet at
11:00 o'clock.
Thursday afternoon, beginning
at 1:30, track and fjjeld events
will be held, and, simultaneously,
girls volley- ball will be run off.
Other events for ihe ofternoon
includes story telling, arithmetic
and choral singing.
High school declamations will
be given at 7:3© Thursday even-
ing.
"•rack and field event" begin
Saturday morning at 9:30, and
at 10:00 o'clock picturc n>eni ry
preliminary debates, spelling, am!
the 3R contests will be held.
Saturday afternoon nt. 1:30
music memory experts will meet
and finals in the debates wil! be
given at the same time.
Presentation of awards to the
various winners will take place at
3:30 Saturday afternoon.
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S. W. Rusk 445
North Alto 428
East Jacksonville 879
Mt. Selman 56
Griffin 136
Lone Star 38
Box Creek 54
Wells .209
Mixon 66
Maydelle 210
Union Grove IT
Bells School House 34
Forest 156
East Rusk 669
South JacksonriU? 411
Dialville 119
South Alto 314
N. W. Jacksonville - "oS
Bullard 56
Sumnierfield 131
Turney 7ST
Gallatin 85
Reklaw 67
Henry Chapel 8®
Reese 49
Pleasant Hill 6S
Ponta 88
Ward's Store 36
Concord 118_
Black Jack 65
Fastrill 75
N. E. Jacksonville 228
Total 5.824
CUSH1NG HIGH WINS
STATS, CHAMPIONSHIP
MRS. JAMES SALMON
RETURNS FROM HOSPITAL
MiTS. James Salmon Vetiurned
Sunday from Nan Travis hospital.
Jacksonville, where she under-
went an operation Thursday
morning.
Her condition is somewhat im-
proved.
J. B. C. Jaguars
Are State Champs
The Jaguars from East Texas
won the Texas Junior College
conferenco basketball champion
ship handily, climaxing the round
robin with their third straight
Victory and by placing all five
of their starting line-up on the
all-tourney team, selected by
Mike Williamson an4 Nemo Her-
rera, who officiated all games. #
Although pushed throughout
the first half, Coach A. D. Mc-
Ancar's Jacksonville quintet de-
feated Victoria, 40-21, in the
final game Saturday night, after
having added Westmoorland 45-
21, Saturday mornrng to a 65-42
win over Plainview in the open-
ing game Friday night As
about fifty Jacksonville fans who
traveled three hundred miles for
the tourney, cheered, Coach Mo
Anear accepted the champion-
ship trophy.
Although scouting was un-
known during his boyhood, V. R
Roach, local scout leader, has at-
tained the highest rank in the
organization.
Mr. Roach has served the youth
of Rusk and surrounding terri-
tory for many years as a scout
leader, and several years ago re-
ceived the Award of the Silver
Beaver, the highest tribute paid
to any scout leader. Since be-
coming scoutmaster for Rusk, Mr.
Roach has continued his scout
work along the same line requir
ed of the youths of the organiza-
tion. He has successfully pass-
ed all tests and is in receipt of
an official notice stating that he
is an1 Eagle Scout
Ms. Alvin Sherman, Mrs. Frank
Coupland and Mrs. Lee Ross were
in Dallas Wednesday on busi-
ness.
It is easy to march in the Pa-
rade of Fools.
A day is not complete unless
you have communed with God.
Mrs. Bryan Stovall and Miss
Beanlah Allen visited in Houston
San Antonio Light Wat weak-end.
Mrs. Charlie Murphy and moth-
er, Mrs. Jeter, of Alto, were
here on business uesday morn-
ing.
Cushing High school Saturday
night was crowned state basket-
ball champions by defeating El
Paso High school in a tense, thrill-
ing final game at Austin by a
score of 33 to 29, again bringing
to the piney woods of East Tex-
as that cherished crown.
The game was stubbornly con-
tested throughout and an estimat-
ed crowd of 3,000 spectators
stood and cheered as the teams
battled evenly.
For the first time in several
years Athens High, the team that
twice won national titles, was
not represented at the meet.
Athens was defeated in the coun-
ty meet by Brownsboro, playing
class A ball fo<• the first time in
history.
Cushing was the favorite from
the first game. They defeated
Carey, 35 to 2, in the semi-finals.
MRS. POATNER IS
HOSTESS FOR CLUB
Mrs. James .P. Boatner was hos-
tess to the Junior Sewing club
Thursday afternoon. Refresh-
ments were served.
All members of the club were
present.
Laughing Around the World
With IRVIN S. COBB
Spreading the Glad Tidings
By IRVIN S. COBB
A GENTLEMAN who evidently thought well of himself entered s
restaurant and with commanding mien beckoned the head waiter
o him. He ordered a seven course dinner, winding up with this in-
Oosr "TE11. em
.traction to the obsequious servitor: .... , _ , ,
"Now don't forget to tell the cook that these things are for Colonel
Slocum—understand, Colonel Slocum. Just mention my name to him
and he'll understand." . . . , ..
A gentleman of mild aspect had been a witness to this. As th
headwaiter turned over Colonel Slocum's order to an underling the mild
man caught his eye. , ,,T t . ,
"Just a minute, please," said the second patron. I want to giv
an order, too. Got any fresh clams?"
"Yes, sir, some very fine clams today."
"Good! Here's my visiting card. Now go down to the cellar, opea
twenty-four clams, put 'em on some cracked ice, and while you r* doing
!t, mention my name to every damn one of 'cm."
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Miller, Elton L. The Rusk Cherokeean (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 34, Ed. 1 Friday, March 13, 1936, newspaper, March 13, 1936; Rusk, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth341700/m1/1/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Singletary Memorial Library.