The Frisco Journal (Frisco, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, January 13, 1928 Page: 1 of 4
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THE WEATHER
This Week
There is a cold spell hanging in
Utah and Nevada which will in
all probability be in this terri-
tory within a few days, and it is
likely to be as severe as that one
after Christmas. More wet and
cold weather is in store for us
and we will likely begin getting
it within the coming seven days
--- COVERS WEST COLLIN^EAST DENTON COUNTIES LIKE A BLANKET. DEVOTED TO THE UPBUlT^T^RLSCO ____y DDI_ .. ' ' ^
VOL. 36, NO. 48. =-—- —Sf*= ------- US TERRITO«Y. PRINTED IN THE RICHEST SECTION OF THE BLACK LAND BELT
Collin County
Court News
, New Suita
G. C. Sheets vs. Viola Sheets, di-
vorce and partition.
J. W. Abernathy vs. J. A. McCor-
mick, damages.
C. T. Tatum vs. J. C. Young, suit
on note.
Pansy Thompson vs. Bluford Thom-
pson, divorce and restoration of maid-
en name.
W. L. Hall vs. C. F. Rogers et al.
action of damages.
H. A. Abernathy Farm Mortgage
Co. vs. Mittie Castleberry et al debt
and foreclosure.
Mary E. Boyd vs. Fred A Galla
gher et al, debt and foreclosure.
P. L. Miller et al vs. M. W. Stewart
et al, action of debt.
Jeff Lee vs. Aetna Insurance Co.,
action of debt.'
L. B. Garver vs. James Shaw, in-
junction.
W* H. Sapp vs. North River Insur-
ance Co., action for damages upon
insurance policy.
County Court
Bill DeBow, charged with contempt
of court, fined $5.00 and cost, amount-
ing to $12.50, and sentenced to three
days in jail.
N. B. Franklin, charged with swind
ling, fined $5.00 and cost, amounting
to $27.65.
* • *
Probate.
J. L. Chapman has made applica-
tion to probate will of Mrs. Georgia
Cole.
Susan Dowell has made application
to probate will of W. R. Dowell.
* * *
Welby Jackson and Ollie McGraw
Elmer Moore and Emma Smith.
Lee Miller and Myrtle Hart.
Joe Shelby and Wilmina Miller.
L. J. Dildy and Maude Hamilton.
Halsell Davis and Ara Simpson.
Houston Chandler and Adella Sprad
ley.
'Raymond Skaggs and Lela McDow-
ell.
W. R. Williams and Elizabeth Hale
Cullar and Frankie DeFratus
Davis Brooks and Edna Rayon.
Leon Howard and Dona Waddle.
* * *
Deputies Sheriff took five prison-
ers to Dallas and delivered them to
State Penitentiary Agent Bud Rus-
sell who took them to Huntsville. The
prisoners, who were convicted at this
tertn of District Court, were: Charlie
Duncan, sentenced for 5 years; Hor-
ace Hood, 4 years; John Gilbreath, 4
years; Bill Duncan, 6 years; Frank
Bell, (col) 4 years.
Miss Clara Bell Evans entertained
a few of her friends with a 6 o’clock
dinner at her home Saturday even-
ing. Those present were: Misses
Louise and Frances McConnell, Lu-
cile Christie, Genevieve Newman and
Martha Bruce and Messrs. Eugene
StoVer, Leonard Atherton, Owen An-
derson, Candler Porter and Frank
McDonald. —A GUEST.
-o—-
Be loyal—Take Your Home Paper.
Sunday School
For January 15
JESUS and SINNERS
Text Mk. 2:1-7
We have before us the interesting
story of the healing of the paralytic.
Jesus was again in Capernaum, “and
it was noised that He was in the
town” (v. 1). There were no hand
bills or newspaper announcements,
yet, when Jesus was around, it could
not be kept quiet.
Many were gathered together.
We read that the house was full and
the people jammed about the doors
Jesus “preached the Word unto them”
(v- 2)—not a bad idea for a preacher
who wants to attract and help
crowd of needy folk. A noted writer
recently warned preachers to give up
the old gospel and preach evolution
or the churches would soon be empty.
Such advisers could well afford to vis
it the churches of the land and see
which kind of churches are empty.
The largest congregations in the land
are found where the Word is ex-
pounded.
In the midst of the Master’s ser-
mon, a peculiar thing happened. Four
men who had a love for souls had tak-
en upon themselves to bring a help-
less man to Jesus. They did not
wear longtailed coats nor collars that
huttoned in the back. They were just
laymen who had gotten tired of sing-
ing “Rescue the Perishing” and talk-
ing about the “brotherhood of man,”
and decided to test out their senti-
ments upon an individual.
It is time the chureh realized that
the Lord’s work is not tied to preach
ers. When four praying men yoke
themselves together to get a man to
the feet of Jesus, there will be some-
thing doing.
Four men lugged a man to the place
of meeting and couldn’t get in with
their load (v. 4). We talk about the
obstacles in the way of our doing soul
winning work. If the poor paralytic
had been in the hands of some mod-
ern church members, the story would
have ended outside the door. The
sick man would have had to take a
taxi home.
But these four laymen had faith
and they had love. When men have
that combination, their hearts are not
slow to work. An idea struck the
mind of one of the four. Why not
make a hole in the roof and let the
man down by ropes, into the very
.presence of Jesus? They were de-
termined to get the man before Je-
sus. They had faith that he would
go home on his. own feet
We may well imagine the comments
of some of the staid and proper church
members who beheld these men break-
ing into the routine of the service by
punching a hole in the roof. Did a
real revival ever take place, that
there were not plenty of religious
kickers on hand? One of the great-
est hindrances to soul-winning today
is the conservatism of church mem-
bers:
In spite of the kickers, the man
Was lowered iato the' presence of Je-
sus. “Jesus saw their faith” (v. 5.
Faith is the look of expectation to
HIM that HE will do the work. Sav-
ing a sinner is not a human task. We
can only be instruments of getting
sinners to the feet of Jesus.
FRISCO. COLLIN COUNTY. TEXAS, FRIDAY, JANUARY IS. 1928.
The Story of a Circle
By Miss Minnie Roberson
Frisco High School, January 3, 1928
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Spurgeon was once asked by a
young preacher how he might get
greater results from preaching. “You
don’t expect conversions every time
you preach, do you?” asked Mr. Spur-
geon. “No—of course not,” replied
the young minister. “And that’s why
you don’t get them,” was the answer.
Did the paralytjc have any faith
for himself? He should have had af-
ter witnessing the faith manifested by
his four friends. The Master, after
noting the vicarious faith of the four
turned His attention to the needy man
“Son, thy sins be forgiven thee” (v.
5). He saw behind the paralysis. He
always goes to the roots of things.
He knew where the shoe pinched.
There are plenty of people who
would run to Jesus for healing who
prefer to keep the sin question under
cover. Some so-called divine-healing
systems begin by the denial of the
fact of siri! Jesus heyer failed to
bring the fact of rift before those who
sought Him for healing. In many
-■
It does not always follow that heal-
in* 9* body would result from the
salvation oT the soul Many times
the physical results of sin remain af-
ter —--- - - -
(Continued ea Last P^a)
“Oh, gracious! can’t some one help
me?” echoed from the blank face of
a circle the teacher had just drawn
upon the undecorated blackboard. The
circle was merely a blank portion en-
closed by a closed curve line, with a
white dot in its center.. There was
not another thing on the whole board.
Not even a straight line or another
circle to help the lonely circle explain
its importance in the geometric
world.
I can’t stand it much longer,”
whispered the circle. “Not a line of
any kind to support me, and my poor
back is hurting so badly. It seems
as though it has no means of sup-
port”
Just then a little curley haired girl,
hearing the cries and wails from the
poor circle, rushed to the board and
with a ruler and crayon drew a line
outside the circle letting it touch the
circumference in only one place. This
line, she explained to her classmates,
was a tangent and if it was moved
toward the center of the circle, so as
to cut the circumference in two plac-
es It would become a secant.
As the little girl paused to pick up
a piece of crayon she had carelessly
dropped to the floor, the circle heaved
a sigh of relief and the little girl,
gratified by his sigh of appreciation,
began again to work diligently with
ruler and crayon.
This time she drew a nice straight
line from one part of the circumfer-
ence to another, being careful to let
the line pass through the center of
the circle. Upon this line she wrote
diameter”. With the diameter serv-
ing as a backbone, the circle appeared
to be more comfortable for awhile.
The little girl was explaining how the
diameter divided the circle into two
equal parts, Icnown as semi-circles,
when suddenly the diameter broke
half in two and one part fell perpen-
dicular to the other half. The pupils
were all amazed at this peculiar act
of the circle and wondered what it
could do in such a predicament. The
little girl, however, quieted their
amazement in a few minutes, “That
movement of diameter,” she explained
“is very peculiar but forms a very
important part in the explanation of
the circle. The diameter has brok-
en in halves to form radii which, you
will find, are always equal in the
same circle or in equal circles. This
position the radii have chosen to fall
in is to explain that radii, forming
right central angles, mark off a por-
s itrsssarzzsz
•acts in are on the circumference of
the circle, and if the central «ng1es
«• always equal to the earn* circle
« to circles the cgt off
Iff them wffl always ha equal.
aagb foTm* by two smdii in
■ k always known ns
a central angle. The radii, that form
the sides of the central angle, together
with the arc intercepted by them,
bound a sector or a circle.” ’
The circle now felt and looked a
great deal better and the little girl
was almost ready to go to her seat
when a frown from the teacher made
her remember something. Then with
ruler and crayon she drew another
line inside the circle and touching
the circumference in two places. This
line, however, did not pass through
the center, therefore, it was not a
diameter but a chord.
The bell rang and the pupils left
the room with a few circles, angles,
and lines still on the board. .
One of the circles, feeling rather
lbnely, started over to join the circle
that had beert the center of attraction,
through the whole class. Before the
other circle could get there, however,
h straight line rushed in between the
two circles and when the other cir-
cle got there it bumped into the line
a*id made it tangent to both the cir-
cles. At this moment the two circles
began to quarrel. The tangent re-
fused to move and the small circle
wanted by the larger one.
. “I’ll fix you yet,” cried the small
circle as he jumped over the tangent.
one of the circles, but when the old
encylocepedia spoke up and told it
that no geometric square could be
made with the same area of a circle
the square was ready to be quiet.
A Surprise Birthday Dinner
Friday night, January 6th Mrs. E.
W. Sonntag entertained a few friends
honoring her husband’s birthday
Mr. E. W. Sonntag can say what |
few people can, he has never moved,
having lived his entire life at his pres-
ent home. This formerly having been
the Sonntag’s old home place. j
Mr. Sonntag is ond of our best far-
mers. While he was busy all day
with his farm work, Mrs. Sonntag
made preparation to entertain their
friends not mentioning the fact of it
being his birthday. About seven
o’clock guests began to arrive and
Mr. Sonntag said, “What does all
this mean ? By the way, this is my I
birthday, the first time I’ve thought
of it.” Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Gordon
with violin and saxaphone and Mrs.
Lois Gordon and Miss Lovetta Sonn-
tag at the piano, we enjoyed several
beautiful music selections. About ten
o’clock we were invited into the love-
ly dining room, the table was cen-
tered with
*— ------—“ i*rou wicn a beautiful birthday cake
l °_™’” flatter-1 whieh was lighted with tiny candles,
which were blown out by Mr. Sonn-
. -— < uuwuii* iu«, naiier-
cB the tangent, “for I am now a com-
mon external tangent to both you and
your friend."
1 While the circles and tangents were
si» busily employed a little angle had
placed itself in the segment the lit-
tle girl had cut off by the chord, so
that its vertex was on* the arc and
the ends of its sides were at the ex-
tremeties of the chord. The little
angle did not realize what it had done
but really it had made itself an ang-
le inscribed in a segment.
All this time a square had been
changing sizes many times trying to
make itself exactly the same area of
tag. Dainty refreshments of hot
chocolate and cake were served.
Later in the evening Mrs. Sonntag
gave us some splendid music on the
Edison. Before we realised it, it was
almost twelve o’clock. We left for
home wishing Mr. Sonntag many
happy returns of the day. Those
present were:
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Gordon, Mr.
and Mrs. Martin, Mr. and Mrs. J. G.
Sonntag, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Ramsey,
Mr. and Mrs. S. I. Kelsey, Mrs. Lois
Gordon, Mr. J. W. Webb, Mrs. J. H.
Sonntag. —A GUEST.
L. A. Sears is
j in the Race for
County Clerk
L. A. (Lonnie) Sears of McKinney
authorizes ns to present his candi-
dacy to the Democratic voters for the
office of county clerk subject to the
primary election to be held July 28.
Mr. Sears is already known to a
goodly number of the citizenship of
this county. He went before the peo-
ple two years ago as an aspirant for
the same office. He made that cam-
paign as fairly and honestly and on
his own merits, strictly, as he knew
how, promising, if elected, to render
to the citizenship the most courteous
| service of which he was capable. He
received a most flattering vote, of
which he ia very proud, but it was
not sufficient to win. the race.
He deeply appreciated every vote
cast for him in the former race as it
was a vote of friendship and confi-
dence in his ability to render an ac-
ceptable public service. No one in
that campaign ever questioned his
superb qualifications for the honor
He is fully qualified to take charge
of and perform the many varied du-
ties and responsibilities appertaining
to the county cork’s office. In re-
sponse to a county-wide solicitation
of voters in line with his own lauda-
ble ambition to serve the people in
the capacity of county clerk, he has
concluded to again announce his can-
didacy, and is herewith soliciting your
support and influence. He hopes also
to see you personally before the cam-
paign closes.
J For the past five or six years he
I has held the responsible position as
adjuster with one of the leading Col-
lin county banks. Speaking of his
j candidacy, one of the most prominent
officials of that institution says: “We
have found Mr. Sears to be absolu-
tely dependable, capable, uniformly
| courteous to one and all. He is un-
doubtedly one of the best qualified
men for the particular office that he
is seeking, from every standpoint,
that I know of. He does things thor-
oughly and promptly. His broad ex-
perience in business dealings with
men have afforded him exceptional
training that will stand him in good
stead as a public official.”
Previous to the five or six years
banking service to this bank, Mr.
I Sears had a two- or three-year sim-
ilar connection with another bank, and
was also designated by the State
banking Commissioner of Texas as
liquidating agent for this district, an-
other testimonial of the highest char-
acter for Mr. Sears.
As to his former race, Mr. Sears
again submits his candidacy strictly
upon his own merits and special fit-
ness to discharge the duties of the
| office in ’a most acceptable way to
the public. He assures the voters,
if they elect him, that he will owe
the citizenship of the county a debt
of such gratitude that will "inspire
him to redouble his energies in the
effort to serve them. He will untir-
ingly put forth his very best efforts
to render a public sendee that hie
supporters and the people at large
of the county will indeed be proud
of. We commend Mr. Sears’ candi-
dacy to the most careful considera-
tion of every voter..
The Journal editor has known Mr.
Lonnie Sears several years, and we
have discussed him and his qualifica-
tions with men who have known him
for many years, and we have found
that, without exception, he is rated
one of the best qualified men in this
county for the position he seeks.
The voter usually wants to elect a
person who knows the business, and
we firmly believe that Mr. Sears fits
that demand.
M. E. O’NEILL, Editor and Publisher
Store; Wyjie
Was Bur glarized
The general merchandise store of
S. H. Hill is ft Son at Wylie was bur-
glarized Wednesday night of last
week when approximately $800 worth
of merchandise was taken. No clue
has been found.
Z. P. Shaw Died
Near Anna Friday
Z. P. Shaw, 78, died at his home at
Anna Friday, January 6. Deceased
was born in Kentucky March 6, 1849,
but came to Texas in 1890.
Deceased is survived by six chil-
dren as follows: Sam Shaw, superin-
tendent of the Mosher Manufacturing
Company, Dallas; Tom Shaw, who
holds a position with the same comr
pany; Frank Shaw, a resident of
Grayson county; Abe Shaw of Anna;
Mrs. Talks Daugharty and Mrs. Ma-
ble Goldstein, both‘of Grayson county.
Numerous other relatives reside in
this county.
Items Taken From
Rev- W10 Sawyer's Paper
Rev. Will Sawyer is located below
San Antonio, at Camp Wood, and ia
publishing a paper In addition to his
other duties. Following are a few
items of unusual interest taken from
his paper:
The editor returned Monday from
a brief visit,
parents Gold)
i January 1st,
The small pox scare that closed the
Vance and Camp Wood schools this
week turned out to be measles. Mr.
Lum Thompson has besn quarantined
at the home of Mr. Hugh Cox of
Camp Wood.
One of the coldest spells for many
years hit this part of the State and
the weather indicator tumbled to 8
while aero weather was reported at
Rock Springs. Slight damage was
reported in the Winter Garden dis-
trict. . - - ,
A group of ranchmen paid $200 a
piece for two wolf scalps up on the
head of Bullhead and East Prong.
The ranchmen were J. T. Burleson, W
E. Dietett, R. A.( Ramsey, John Col-
well, Bob Turner* and Bennett Nance.
A Good Day.
Yes, we had a good day at the
Methodist ahurch Sunday. Let’s make
it better next Sunday. Come to Sun-
day school all of you, and be on time.
Can you be satisfied to stay away?
I doa’t see how you can.
The Pastor will precah at 11 a.m.
on “Character” and at 7 p.m., on “No
Room for Jesus.”
These subjects ought to interest
the young and old alike. We had a
nnmber of visitors last Sunday. Come
aguini —> ■—*R. B. Porter, Pastor.
The Stewards of the Methodist
church have decided on the 6th Sun-
day in July, the 29th. as tbs thee fnr
the annual revival meeting.
The Inside of the Cup.
Leader—Mery Blacketer.
8ong—Give of Your Best to the
Master.
Scripture—Luke 11:89-44.
Prayer.
Bills that are due you—
1. What 1 Owe to My Friends—
Eula Nixon.
2. Sincerety—Charles Montgomery
2. What 1 Owe to My Church-
Yon! mye Cook. '
8. What I Owe to My League—A.
B> Rogers.
4. What 1 Owe to the World.—
Frances KeConnell.
«. WhaS-f Owe* to Owlet—AtW-
lean Flttckcf.
Mcial—Louia*
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O'Neill, Matt E. The Frisco Journal (Frisco, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, January 13, 1928, newspaper, January 13, 1928; Frisco, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth507683/m1/1/?q=music: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Collin County Genealogical Society.