Sweetwater Sunday Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 121, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 22, 1930 Page: 2 of 8
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HONES
New Dtpwtf *
•rroneoui reflection upon ihe chorecter, etendlng or re^Ut^ of ^W
Item or coiporellon, which may appear In'any of The Reportor** publi-
cation! wUl be obeerfuUy corrected upon being brought to the attention of the
DISSATISFACTION
/"bUll TEXAS prison system Ih to
V/ try a new manager. E. F. Har-
rell, prison warden, has resigned
hut' "didn’t resign from the war-
denahaps because he wanted to," to
quote’ his own words. "The gen-
eral irtlimiger of the prison was
apparently dissatisfied with my
services," he said, “and i kfiew the
climax had come. 1 deemed it best
that.I resigned.”
He went on to say that the gen-
ual, manager of the prison system,
i^Te Simmons, and he could not
a£fee on several questions. Mr.
ShmnonB said a warden with great
eubusiuess ability was needed.
Something is needed.
For one thing, fire liszards
■ iiould be eliminated. Of course,
the legislature and Mr. Moody
could not get together on that so
iliere is no need of harping and
crying about spilled milk.
•There is a lot, however, io con-
sider in the ability of the resigned
wttrden. lie took the office con-
vinced that kindness would go a
lone way toward helping solve file
penal problems. He carried out
like plans by organizing I he Texas
Prison Welfare League. II was
under his direction that The Echo,
a -monthly publication, was inau-
gurated. Recreation programs for
inmates were fostered. Evange
lists were brought into the prison
lo conddet church services.
Those filings ought lo have help-
JJj|fck ed .our penitentiary to a small ex-
H^Hkiii anyway. Warden Harrell, a
Hj^Hforincr Texas Ranger, probably
SHVnuY'-r was arm i-d of being a poli-
■Blia.il and it is (jitr hope that when
JHHbm ti'-w .vaiil' ii is appointed lie
Ion ian, Further,
politics will have nothing
I *ro -do with the appointment; lmt
that’s a mighty big hope!
SALES MEET IS
8UNDAY MORNING, JUNK 22, 1930.
VY WILL BQOIRft h* ought to lure said, so dont mis?.
Welt all I know is Jo»t what 1 that show If you have to go dear
read In the papers,
let-,
tere that I get after apobtUig oa
mlth about the way be pronoun-
ced that Word,* well we just now
some to find out that was right
all tho time and the Mat of em all
Was wrong. Yes Sir A1 was absolu-
tely right. Then these people would
write mo and say, “Why dont you
name some of the words that Mr.
Hoover miss-pronounces?’’ and then
they would name em.
Say, what would I know about
them? If thats all' the people in
this country had to worry about,
•tp_Nu$r York to see it.
(-• ’ .....
to tell you
this show
the Atfk right
‘LOri) telling
t, Slid Noah
aHfckeai and the
Lord says, “Sure we' got to have
shakes.” “Well,” says Noah, "dont
you think Lord that we better taka
a jug of spirits along with us In
case one of the snakes goes hay-
wire and bites somebody during
the rain?” So the Lord told Noah
to take the Jug, and then Noah says
dont you think Lord I better take
•two Jugs." -Nor says the Lord,
Dallas Official of Commun-
ity Natural £as Company,
In Conference Here
More (ban thirty salesmen of
the Community Natural Gas Com-
pany, in the Sweetwater district,
were in Sweetwater Friday night
for u meeting and conference with
S. E. Kerr, Dallas, manager of the
new business department and Her-
bert E. McCormick, representa-
tive of the Piltsburgh Water Hea
ter Company.
Mr. McCormick had a number
of different models of water heat-
ers here for display and he talked
wilh the salesmen at the Swpetwa-
ter office of the company. Mr.
Kerr was ia charge of the meet-
ing.
Towns of this district represent-
ed at the meeting inejuded Snyder,
Colorado, Merkel, Stamford, Ham-
lin and Sweetwater.
L. M. Scholl, manager of the
Sweetwater district, declared that
I lie officials of the company were
very well pleased wilh the meet-
ing here ami that it was one of
the most successful held in the
several distircts of the territory.
(Continued from page 1)
AW,
(Give US
A
PEstA
s
Cisco Mai| Touches Off
Charge As He Lays in Bed
- —Was Hospital Inmate
CISCO, June 2UU.R)— Explosion
of a charge of dynamite on his chest
as lib lay in bed at Ills home here |
\ ;
Cases to be Called in Court
at Dallas on Change of
Veuve From Sherman
DALLAS, JuM 21: (UR) —With
prosecutors avowing they will In-
voke the law against mob; rule,
preparations werp made today for
the arrangement Monday of 14
Grayson county men, indicted in
connection with the lynching of
George Hughes, negro and the burn
ing of the courthouse at Sherman
on May 9.
, Nine of the 14 men are in the
yesterday (Uamembered the body of .Dallas county jail and five have
iV-nade bond'of *5,000 each. Cases
were brought here on a change of
venue.
Visiting Sister
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Rhodes of
Waco arrived Thursday and are in
Sweetwater us guests of Mrs.
Rhodes’ sister, Mrs. line Porter.
McDonald returned a verdict of
death self-inflicted. Leslie hud been
an inmate of a state hospital until
recently.
wiPaovebe city
PORT AT OPENING
Suffers Broken
Ffeg# faFjgjit
J. T. Phillips, 202 Orange street,
suffered two broken bones in-the
little finger of his right hand Sat-
urday afternoon in a street fight on
the 100 block of Oak street.
Phillips was' accosted by J. W.
Rushing, 805 Lamar street, it is
alleged, who told Phillips he was
going to “whip him.” Phillips
fought back and had Rushing on
the ground when officers arrived.
An x-ray picture showed the two
broken bones following the fray.
The two men almost mixed again
later on but officers intervened.
Charges of affray were filed ag-
ainst’ both men In the city court
late Saturday.
Sunday School
Installs Fans
- First Methodist Church 1
O. P. Clark, Caatar
Sunday School. * •■ M*
Broking.
Preaching, ll a. m. 7 p. m. by
tb« pastor. . ty
Leagues, 1 tj. m.
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14 to be k
m. for Vocation!
200tf
• i v»i ruvnuui
ation to date
0 Monday.
'.a-
•M»n««uTIK;K6
Tired of listening to both sides and
OUR POSTOFFICE
\WEHTWATER, within a com-
paratively short time, will
point with pride to a new postof-
Viae building, built by the gov-
ernment at a cost of *130,000. The
building will lie a credit to Sweet-
water. The city needs such a
structure.
The building, too, will he a mon-
uippnt, in a way, to the tireless ef-
forts exerted by Sweetwater citi-
zotti in behalf of tiie structure. Co-
operation received in Washington
slftAuld not be overlooked. Con-
gressman Blanton points to Con
Bijeksional Records to show lie in-
troduced the measure that ulti-
mately lias resulted in Sweetwa-
tej’s securing the postoffice. Con
gressiman Lee. during ids term of
office, is said to have worked un-
tiringly for die hill.
thveetwater appreciates Hie new
posloffice. it’s a big step toward
a greater city that eventually will
lie built here.
vey of Sweetwater by the postof-
fice department. Early in 1927
Carl Besserer, an inspector, was
here and made the survey and re-
ported back to his superiors.
Then a representative of the treas-
ury department called and made
another survey.
Other Surveys Asked
In the meantime, Mr. Blanton
had 'tmedf for a survey of the cit-
ies of Abilene, Breckenridge, Cole-
man and Sweetwater and he for-
warded Mr. Howard a letter from
John H. Bartlett, then first assist-
ant postmaster general, which de-
clared that Sweetwater had al-
ready been selected for a federal
building.
Sweetwater citizens kept work-
ing on tills malter and continued
to gather data and after compiling
it would file it with 1)01(1 the post-
office ami treasury departments.
After Congressman Blanton re-
tired from Congress on March 4,
1929, and the late Col. R. Q. Lee,
Cisco, took his seat in Congress,
Sweetwater citizens kept in touch
with him and the late Congressman
Lee worked hard In Washington
to keep the Sweetwater interests
alive. He was here on several oc-
casions to confer with citizens re-
garding the pOstoffice matter
and kept in constant correspon-
dence with Sweetwater civic lead-
ers and Mr. Howard during the
time lie was in Washington.
Senators from Texas were also
working on the matter and Con-
gressman Blanton, in his telegram
to Mr. Howard, says that Senator
Morris Sheppard helped immense-
ly in seeing to it. that Sweetwater
got a postoffice.
It was pointed out that by the
delay in Sweetwater obtaining
definite assurance of u postoffice
building that approximately twice
as much will he expended here in
the construction of the building ns
was originally planned. Tlio first
|V 1 . IJ • 1 j appropriation was for $70,000, Hie
round ill Baird hound for $J15,O00 ami the third
and final appropriation was $110,-
000.
Has High Value
When the building is construct-
ed, the government will have an
investment here valued at ap-
proximately $200,000.
While Mr. Howard was in Hous-
ton attending the Texas Postmas-
ters’ convention several weeks ago,
John W. I’lillp, connected wlili the
postoffloe department at Washing-
ton, made tiie statement that "con-
struction on your new postoffice
building would be started some
time In Hie full." Mr. Howard was
very much pleased with tills report
and declared that lie believed Mr.
Phflp’s report was correct. The
action taken Iasi week assures
Sweetwater, it is to Hee active con-
struction of Its new postolTico un-
der way before the year of 19.11) is
history.
(?ar Stolen Here
■A Chevrolet coupe owned by the
Neil P. Anderson cotton company
whS recovered Friday near Baird
after being stolen hero Tuesday.
The machine had been abandoned
by the thieves, but was still In
gdqd shape.
-Lonnie Roden, representative for
tlfo cotton company here, reported
that, the car was stolen from the
duel) near a garage where he had
left it in atorage.
Titxas Exchange Clubs to
Hold 1931 Convention in
West Texas City
AUSTIN, June 21.(U.RV— Abilene
litis been selected aH till 1911 con-
vent I on city for the Texas Exchange
Okibn mid P. I). Mathis of San An-
tonio elected president. Tiie annual
convention will adjourn in San An-
tonio today after having met here.
Tku transfer was made to attend
ihe graduation exercises of the
urmy air training school at Kelly
Field.
Visiting in Charles Home
1). Charles ami family were
in Sweetwater over the week end
visiting In'the home of Mr. ami
Mrs. M. I). Charles.
Return
Northwest
why we would he sitting pretty
fine. If there was nothing wrong
witli us hut our pronunciation we
would he well off.
But talking about getting letters
front Folks, I have had more let-
ters about my broadcasting a week
or so ago on Prohibition than 1 have
on any one of the oilier subjects,
and 98 per cent of them agreed not
with the subject so much as the
fact that what 1 hud to say about
it wuh that We were tired of lis-
tening to botli sides of the argu-
ment and didnt care what happen-
ed to it.’ Well you would be sur-
prised the amount that are really
tired of it and wish Ihe whole word
and subject would pass out of our
every day usage. They have asked
me so many of them to try and give
them something in print of wliat
I did say, and especially they
wanted the real dope on whether
the stuff about Noah was on the
level or not.
Now it sure was. You know 1
wrote a litle hook all on Prohibition
away back in about 1919. It was
called “Will Rogers on Prohibi-
tion’ 'and published by Harper and
Bro., along with another one called,
Will Rogers on the Peace Confer-
ence” and when i was writing this
one on Prohibition I remembered
that the Bible had a lot to say
about drinking and wine, so I bor-
rowed me a Bible, and 1 started in
to read it just to sen what I could
get that applied to Wine.
Well I really had the surprise ol
my life. I hudent read over a few
pages till I run onto this early story
of the wild life ot' oiir old original
Ancestor, Noah. The way the Book
started off it looked like 1 would
get what I wanted right off the
reel and that if I used all that was
said in regard to wine that I would
have to issue it in two volumes.
You see thats one wonderful
thing about the Bible. There was
no censorship in those days. Of
course now some of our Churches
hold Conferences and cut out cer-
tain parts that they they think
dont belong in there, or ehango
them according to what they think
should lie said instead of what was
said, in other words we are always
having somebody improving on tho
words of the Lord. Thats even
worse than a Scenario Writer
brightening up Shakespeare.
Then here just the other day 1
went to that wonderful play in New
York called "Green Pastures” and
say, by the way dont miss it, its the
greatest thing 1 ever say. lls lliu
play as you probably know that
really enacts all the scenes of the
Bible in the every day homely way
that the real old down homo Ne-
groes think that it is. There is ono
Character of t lie Lord, just an or
dinary fellow, walking among them
and talking to em about like any
old Preacher, lie offers some of Ills
subjects, "Here Brother Noah, is
a good ten cent Cigar.” Auulher
time when lie was having a lough
time with ills subjects he says,
"Tills job of being the Lord is no
elneh."
Going arouml with him all the
time up in Heaven is old Galiriel,
ami lie keeps saying lo Gabriel,
“Look out Gabriel dont tool tlial
horn yet." Hub is always shining
up Hie old Alto Horn, its the most
simple, and the most impressive,
und the most reverent thing you
ever saw done on a Stage. Ami its
Just exactly like those old Camp
metings that I have gone to down
home iu Oklahomu, and it comes
about as near helng right as some
of these otlior more so-fistleuted re-
ligious that we have. These Ne-
groes lake what the Lord said lit-
erally and not what they thought
don’t care what happens.
“Only one Jug.’’ "But,’’ says Noati
“Two Jugs would balance the boat
put ope on each side.” "No,” says
the Lord, “Put the one Jug In the
middle of the Boat.” So you see ev-
erybody seems to be pretty well
wise to old Noah. He wasent hardly
what you would call the backbone
of the Anti Saloon League.
You see it was in the early Chap-
ters of Genesis that it reads,
“And he became a Husbandman and
planted a Garden.” You see the
minute lie got married lie Btarted
rigid in raising the ingredients that
go with married life. So you see
you dont want to prevent wine rais-
ing. You war’ prevent marriage.
Then it h "He drank of the
wine and wt .rank.” Not just a lit-
tle tight or „bout half loaded, but
drunk. And 1 expect in those days
and times among those old Timers,
when they admitted anyone was
Drunk, I expect he filled the bill.
Now The Lord dident seem to mind
it, in fact it was on account of his
drinking that he picked Noah to
gather all these animals Into the
Ark, lie was the ouly one that had
peen all of em. So Noah just went
out and every time he needed an-
other pair of Animals lie would just
take another drink, in tact two
drinks for lie always had to have
a he and a she, all but a Democrat
and its mate, lie run out of Wine
just as he was looking for the mate
to the Democratic He, and thats
today wliy there is so few drinkers
in the Democratic party. They are
the Party of law and decency, all
due to Noah running out of wine.
(Copyright 1930, by the Me-
Naught Snydicate, (no.)
Jensen Announces Addi-
tion to Sunshine Special
tunl The Texau in
Passengers’ drf Texas- and Paci-
fic trains—The Bupshine Special
and The'Texan—are now- afforded
4 impr sopvicte with the' Addition of
lie luxe Immge-chh :ars, it was
announced last ’ week by Frank
Jensen, Dallas, general passenger
agent of (lie Texas and Pacific.
'Hie npw iplihge-club cars were
jnst received from tiie Pullman
Compauy and are representative if
the finest Tonnge-chib equipment
ever offered by railroads.
All Known conveniences are em
bodied in these elaborate cars.
They include a sun-parlor, buffet
and soda fountain; shower and pesl
room for Women; similar conven-
iences for men; barber shop; valet
service; guthe tables; library and
radio.
The windows are very wide and
the interior decorations harmonize
with the 'upholstering an Ufittlngs.
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To Dedicate New Hangar
DALLAS, June Bl.(U.R)— in ob-
servation o ftfie dedication of a
new hangar, neurly 100 airplanes
were nsembling here from various
southwestern ports today for a
week-end air carnival. Stunt flying
and various maneuvers will feature
the programs today and Sunday.
Placanls.llisli'iliiili ii ai (tip;
Ded "cation IVognm; held
Al Ru.ftlolpli Fid !
Attractive plmaiila, telling of tin
Sweetwater Municipal uirpml and
tiie $40,000 eating place- I In- Given
Flag lull—were given each pilot al
Hie opening of the "We I Point of
Tile Air" Randolph Held, R.m
Antonio, last week liy MmOo E.
Owen, secretary of the Sweet water
Board of City Tlevelopmeril. who .0
'^li'Jed the celebration program as
a representative of this city.
Mr. Owen and two or fliree oth-
er Sweetwater citizens had plate
tied to make the trip lo San Antonio
by plane but arrangements were
not made In time for the trip.
Thousands of persons from till
parts of the country and hundreds
of army, commercial and private
pilots, were al Hie airport dedica-
tion and opening In San Antonio.
Mr. Owen also planned to call on
Major W. S. Fitzgerald, command-
ing officer at lirooks Field, Sun
Antonio, and invite him to send
Hie next group or young aviators to
Sweetwater on their regular cross-
country training flights.
The Men’s Bible Class at tho First
Molhodhd Cliureli lias installed el-
ectric fans iu tint Sunday School
i room for Hie summer months.
| Tho fans have bee's installed for |
Mlie comfort of all, it was said, lmt , M
(especially to prevent any excuses;
•if Ibe weather being too hot to at- j
(i ml Sunday School. This class
■ lo inis to he the largcsf men’s class
is Sweetwater, having more Ilian
ii members and growing from Sun
y io Sunday.
Lamar Street Baptist Church
Announcements For Thg Week
' Sunday
6:00 a. m. Sunrise Prayer Mgft*
Ing.
9:45 a. m. Sunday School, If. B.
Sasse, Supt. ,,
11:00 a. m. Sermon by the Pastor.
2:45 p. m. Associations! {I, Y,
P. IT! Meeting
7:00 p. m. B. Y. P. U’e.
8:po p. m. Setmqn by the Pai|to$.
3:00 p. M ’’
8:00 p. m. Teachers and Officers
Weekly Council.
Tuesday
9:00 a. in. Visitation atarta and
lasts till 12:00.
Wednesday
8:00 p. in. Mid Week Prayer Ser-
vice, ,|
Friday
15 p. in. Choir Rehearsal —J.
Hitiiit-li .director.
Mother Is III
Mi and Mrs. ('. I). Conley and
childi'i-n left Friday for Fort
Worth where lliey were called by
Hie dangerous illness of Mrs. Con
'* y’ mother, Mrs. Ferris.
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yiion Section
Crops Ingress
« r>
Another vecl: of sunshine will
pm crop; in t.lie Hylton section
; in ;■;< h! I ape, Roy Campbell,
iiunity (oniiuissioner, declared Sat-
urday wnilo in Sweetwater.
Weeds and grass that sprang up
during recent tains still cover
j many fields Inn plows are running
! from 11 to lit lnmrs a day. Most
fanners can calrli up in five or six
days, Mr. Campbell said.
The Hylton community lias a
good season in the ground and
prospects for a normal crop are
I bright.
Christian Science Church
The Christian Science topic for
Sunday, June 22, us announced Sat-
urday: "Is the universe, iuclildlpg
iiiuu, evolved by atomic force?”
First Baptist Church
| 9:40 a. rh. Sunday School, C. (i.
| Simmons, Supt. Classes for every-
body.
I 11 a. tit. Morning Worship. Ser-
mon Subject: “The Source of
| Bower for Hie Christian Life."
7 p. m. B. Y. P. U.
8 p. in. Evening Worship. Sermon
I Subject: "The Ability to Know
1 Clod”
Special mimic at each nervlee. B.
M. Ct abb, director of music. A wel-
come for all.
George Green, Pastor.
First Church of The Nazarene
J. H. Whitaker, Pastor
Sunday School, 9:45 a.in.
Preaching Service, 11 a. m.
N. Y. P. 8., 7 p. m. *
Preaching, 8 p. m.
Morning Subject: The Kingdom
of God in the hearts of meu.
Evening subject: Night Scenes
in Bible History.
Theentire snug service of the ev-
liming will be composed of old limp
| songs that have si ivi ed our heart?
iu oilier duys.
DODGE BROTHERS SIX
AND U P
FACTORY
Mr. and Mrs. George Winler and
two daughters, Misses Eleanor and
Evelyn, and Jay (Pinkie) Fitz-
gerald, huve returned from a three-
weeks motor trip through the
northwest. They spent several
duys in Seattle, Wash.
WRITER IS DEAD
Leo Feisl, 60, Dies In Npw
York After Several Weeks
of Illness
NEW YORK, June 21.0I.R)—Leo
Feist, credited witli being tiie first
man to see the possibility of popu-
lar songs typifying the American
splhlt, died today at Mt. Vernon,
N. Y., after several months illness
of arthritis.
He was lit) years old, and had ris-
en from a corset salesman who
wrote popular songs iu ids spare
time to become ono ot the greatest
music publishers i lithe country.
ATTEMPT FAILS
Cashier Found Gagged Af-
ter Being Kidnaped—
Bank is Not Looted
ciNCINNATfTo.. Time 21JU.R) —
Henry A. Green, cashier ot the
Bank of gentling at Reading, O.,
near here, who was kidnaped from
ids home by bandits lust midnight,
was found, bound and gagged, in
tiie hank today. The bank had not
been robbed.
Green wns abducted by n gang
of robbers who seized him and IiIh
wife when lliey returned home lute
lust night.
A WOMAN CAN DRIVE ANY CAR
BUT SHE ENJOYS DRIVING A DODGE SIX
Motoring pleasure and satisfaction reach their maximum in a car that is easy to
handle and one in whose safety you have full confidence. This is the reason
why so many thousands of women have selected the new Dodge Six. !t is easy
to handle because it has a smooth, flexible, alert performance, and because its
stoering mechanism is perfectly balanced. It is safe because it has positive, easy-
acting internal hydraulic brakes, and because its silent Mono Piece Steel Body
affords unusual piotection. In addition to these purely mechanical advantages,
it is beautiful in design and appointments. Furthermore, it is economical to
operate and maintain, and it has fifteen years of Dodge dependability behind it.
sixes AND 6-I6HTS
UPHOLDING E-VERY TRADITION OF- DODGE- DG-PeNDABIUTY
Hendrix-Woldert Motor Co.
Dodge Bros. Motor Vehicles
JOHNSTON FUNERAL HOME
Seth Johniton — Embalmeri r- Mel Seth Johntton
Ambulance Service, Phone 50
*#«#). 9610; Coupe (rutribl»
buuI), $625; Tuuriut, 9625. .
Ccmvortlbki Coupe, $695.
I]. O. b Factory.
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