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TYLER, TEXAS. FRIDAY? APRIL 8, 1927
HENRY EDWARDS «c CO. Pul
RAIN, WIND AND HAIL
DO MUCH DAMAGE
Roads, Bridges, Crops, Lakes and
Farms Sustain Heavy Losses*
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in Aggregate
Tuesday afternoon’s rainfall, and
the excessive rainfall during Tuesday
night, accompanied by hail and high
winds in many sections have occa-
sioned greater losses than any like
weather visitations in many years.
From almost every part of the boun-
ty and some adjoining areas reports'
come .that farm terraces are broken
and lands washed, lands overflowed
and fences and water-gaps destroyed.
Lake Park to the northwest of
town is washed out, the dam giving
way. Untold thousands of fine fish
were thus lost. It ik said that wa-
gon loads of fish have been picked up
where they were left in the back-wash
and on high lands after the flood
waters passed. The Mt. Sylvan high-
way near the lake is said to have sus-
tained damages that an expenditure
Of $2,000 will1 scarcely repair.
It is at- this time impossible to
reach Green Brfar Lake by either of
the roads that lead to it—impossible
to reach it with a car. The Lake and
the fish Hatchery of the state nearby
are both safe so far, but the nearby
bridges on the roads are out.
The strawberry crops is said to be
ruined; gardens in almost every part
of the Cqunty are greatly damaged, as
well as corr that had been planted,
and the farm lands that were ready
for seeding. Blackberries are in many
places irrecoverably damaged, it is
believed, at least so far as the pres-
ent year crop is concerned. Likewise
fruits were damaged, particularly in
the areas where hail was heaviest.
During Tuesday night four distinct
hailstorms visited the immediate Ty-
NACODOCHES NOMINATES
FARM GIRL FOR EAST TEX-
AS QUEEN, E. T. C. C. MEET
Those planning the events in con-
nection with the annual meetings of
the East Texas Chamber of Com-
merce to be held in Tyler April 20
and 21 have made the proposition
that the county which sells- the high-
est per cent of registration coupons
above its assigned quota will have
the privilege of naming the “East
Texas Queen” who will be “crowned
immediately following the pageant,
“East Texas on Parade,” which is
to be the big spectacular and his-
toric attraction of the meeting.
Nacogdoches sends word that that
county expects to sell 300 per cent of
its quota of advance registrations—
iu other words, three tipies as many
as it was asked to sell/ This great
little city of the Redland section and
the progressive county of which it is
the capital are a unit in their desire
to have Miss Elga Daniels crowned
“Queen.” Miss Daniels is a little
farm girl of 16 who last year grew
two and n half bales of cotton on one
acre — in competition with more than
100 boys in that county, and (in a
way) in competition with very many
adult farmers of the county. Miss
Daniels’■’"achievement has made her
million friends and admirers; and
she is at the present the most-famous
girl of her age in the United States.
Her county has a right to be proud of
her.
It is stated that Cass, Houston-and
Panola county have also sold their
quota of advanced registrations, and
that they will have candidates for the
honor of being crowned “Queen of
East Texas.,f Lamar county and a
number of?>thj&rs have candidates for
the honor — and it is stated that
some surprises are in store for those
whose candidates are now apparently
“high on the score card for this dis-
tinction.” :
GAS PRESSURE RE-
PORTED AT PONTA
Magnolia Test May Become Part of
Oil Excitement In Cherokee
* County, is Report
HUNTSVILLE PEN HAS A
DALLAS 99-YEAR CLUB
Grandson of Sam Houston, Who is an
Official of the Crime Supression
League, Talks of Crime
Strong gas pressure at the Magno-
lia test well near Ponta Monday
made it difficult for drillers to pre-
vent the well from blowing in, ac-
cording to report received here Tues-
day. According to The Dallas News,
Dallas officials of the Magnolia com-
pany said Tuesday that they had been
unable to confirm report of gas pres-
sure at the Ponta test, well, and were
inclined to discredit the report.
Another derrick is being erected
within a few dc/zen feet of Carey
lake, by the Humble company, to off-
set the Hpmble Well No. 1 which
struck oil a few weeks ago. Two
cars of machinery arrived at Jack-
sonville Monday for the Humble com-
pany.
During the past few days excite-
ment in the Jacksonville Section has
centered at Midway, where scores of
building lots have -been sold, in be-
lief that this is the probable ^ite-of
3^ new town. -The Midway addition
is 5 1-2 miles from Carey lake and
the same J,~*i ' T~~’
“I have just read of a Canadian
criminal case, where a sailor, charg-
ed With assault, was arrested as his
ship was about to sail, taken to
court, arraigned and returned to his
vessel, all within thirty minutes,”
said Temple H. Morrow, Vice Presi-
dent of the Dallas Crime Suppression
League.
“This illustrates what I believe to
be the most important need in sup-
pressing crime. Swiftness of justice
and certainty of punishment will de-
ter criminals more than severe penal-
ties. When public opinion demands
quick and prompt punishment; crimi-
nals will scatter as they are now do-
ing in New York where the Baumes
law is driving them to New Jersey,
Illinois, and other ‘pointfc west’.
“Some of them may"* even be ac-
cepting xhe invitation of State Press
to ‘Come to Texas,’ bpt if so they will
find that Daljas has started a new
and popular Iqncheon club .at Huntsr
rLTLTrLZvr known over the State be the
™‘Ninety-Nine Club,’ and that other
in territory about fifteen miles north- TeXas c,t,es are fee(?innln» to elect
ler area.
At Elkton,
Gresham and
other
nearby points famed for tonlato pro-
duction the damaged wrought by nail
and rain to the tomato plants but’re-
cently transplanted to the fields is
incalculable. Very many of the
growers were without hail insurance.
Streams thruout Smith county are
higher than they have been known to
be in many years. The Cotton Belt
Railway sustained a washout west of
the city and trains were delayed for
many hours Passenger tiains on
that line were marooned for- sever-
al hours Tuesday morning.
TYLER SHIPS 4TH SOLID
,CAR LOAD OF
EGGS
It’s like this paper has told you:
. The poultry industry in Smith coun-
ty is growing more rapidly than ever
before. Aside from the numerous
shipments that are going out by ex-
press from Tyler and other Smith
• county towns — and aside from the
generous volume of business that
trucks from the big cities account for
when they make their regular trips to
this territory—the firm of E. C. Pen-
igton ‘ Prod
ed from Tyler the fourth solid car pf
nington’Produce Company has mov-
eggs within the past few months.
Their second car of eggs was shipped
to a customer in South America: the
third car went out Saturday nignt to
a Fort Worth firm. Their fourth
Car went out Tuesday to another large
city.
The Pennington Pr6duce Company
have many men at work at their place
on South Spring Street. The aggre-
gate amount that they are paying to
Smith county poultry producers for
poultry and eggs has already attaiji-
FEED CROPS REPLAC-
ING OLD COTTON LAND
Normal Spring Business Conditions,
artfl Better, in Every Part of State
—Except All-Cotton Areas
Dallas, Texas, April 4—Undoubted
decrease in cotton acreage in 1927 is
shown by the first crop, report of the
year, statistics being gathered by the
Department of Public Relations of
the Southland Life Insurance Co. Pre>-
liminary estimates of the extent of
that reduction over last year, how-
ever, appear to be high and it is
doubtful if the actual cotton acreage
will be cut more than 15 per cent—
if that much.
Crop conditions, so far, appear to
be much delayed by cold or wet
weather, very little cotton being
planted so far, although many of the
feed crops are in the ground. This
delayed season, of .course, wiH be
favorable providing it does not con-
tinue far into spring.
Wheat, corn, oats and forage crops
appear to be in the lead -in supplant-
ing abandoned cotton acreage and a
certain stimulation in the production
of poultry, hogs and dairy products
is seen. East Texas appears to have
been somewhat disappointed by the
low price of poultry products, but in
other wayB is in better shape than
most parts of the state.
Business conditions -are on the up
finore’hopeful attitude is
east of Tyler, in Smith county, ac
cording to a Tyler news dispatch.
The area of these tests lies near Wi-
nona. The Humble company, it is
reported, has sixteen men in charge
of E. S. Sherar, making thes^ tests.:
OIL, OIL, OIL IS TALK
OF EVERYBODY STILL
It is hard to give a survey of what
is denominated at present at “the oil
activity” of Smith and adjoining
counties. Thruout all parts of the
area within 75 miles, or more, of the
Humble Gusher, at Carey Lake in
Cherokee county there is much leas-
ing of lands and more or less activ-
ity in royalty sales. Mixed along
with the actual facts are many ru-
mors afloat that make it hard to spt
down in brief and accurate form the
situation—except to say that * the
hope, the belief, the prospect of the
oil field being extended, are the up-
permost thoughts in the minds of
very many people.
As respects Smith county, almost
every kind^of test, survey and “scout-
ing” is being resorted, to. One well
will be spudded in Southwest.of Ty-
ler near the Neches river as soon
as the derrick Cain be completed and
machinery installed. It is said that
other wells to the north and to the
South (or Southwest) are sure to he
started at an early date. It is also
said that many land oWners who haye
leased at a price fair to fabulous
are not thinking of utilizing their
lands otherwise—at least for this
year. This may be mere' guessing,
or wild speculation. There is so much
of both- connectde with the present
excitement in the county that it is
futile to try to sift out the actual
facts in every case. *
v yiuu) auu v
Texas cities are beginning to
members to it.
“The Baumes law is serving as
model for other States and it might
work well in Texas, too. Under its
provisions one who commits a felony
with fire-arms gets five to ten years
added to the regular sentence; if he
is a second offender ten to fifteen
years more are imposed, and if he a^e distance,
has been convicted of felony three
times /rom fifteen to twenty-five
years extra are included in the sen-
tence. If convicted for the fourth
time he goes to prison for life. These
sentences are mandatory: the courts
must assess them and the governor
is powerleap to pardon.
“Such a law in Texas would put be-
hind the bars many who are now ter-
roriting different parts of the, State
and stifling legal action through fear.
That this feeling exists is shown in.
the published report of the grand jury
for the January term of the Red Riv-
er county district court. (T-.....4
‘We deplore the attitude of some
Witnesses, the report reads, ‘who
seem to hestitate to divulge crime
on the grounds that the lawless ele-
ment will do them or their property
some injury. Until our good citi-
zens are made to understand that
there is no compromise with crime,
just that long will we have trouble
with criminals.’
“As a private citizen I have no
desire for publicity,’ continued Mr.
Morrow, “but it becomes the duty of
every loyal citizen to speak out for
law and the protection of society,
when they are menaced by apathy
and fear.” :
DICKEY PREPARED TO SINK
TEST 5000 FEET, IF NEED BE,
TO REACHWOODBINE SANDS
Chandler, April 5—H. C. Dickey,
Independent operator from Fort
Worth, began active work here today
sendiiig out Derrick timber to the
site of the well which, under direc-
tion of Dr. Gaither, Geologist, he will
sink in the extreme western edge pf
Smith county. The site of thg well is
upon what is known in the immediate
territory bb- “Bunker Hill.” It is ap-
proximately nine miles from Tyler
on direct line, owing to the inaccessi-
bility of the point from the Smith
county Bide, it is easier to reach the
site via Chandler. The road from
here to the Neches river is in good
condition. Local interests began to-
day the construction of a bridge
across the river at its nearest point
to the well, which is only a few hun-
dred yards from the stream.
A representative of the Dickey in-
terests who is now here directing the
preliminary preparations states:
“We are building a heavy derrick, 1J2
feet high. The very best . type of
drilling rig is now en route here. Mr.
Dickey, who is regarded by those fa-
miliar with his - operations, both in
wildcat areas and in proven fields,
has directed that from the beginning
every preparation be made for going
down five thousand feet, if the Wood-
bine* sands are not reached-ufc/a high-
er level. Our geologist, Dr, Ghither,
states that the Woodbine sands are
never dry-—that they always contain
gas, oil or water.” -
The well, which will be known as
“Bunker Hill Well” will be spudded
in just as soon as the' derrick can be
completed and the heavy machinery
installed. It wil be located on the
W. M. Parker tract, a narrow strip
which touches the Neches River ana
runs back eastward for a consider-
SWEET POTATOES BEAT
COTTON $3.31 TO $1.00
36 Acres Potatoes Bring $4,700, But
160 Acres Cotton Bring Only $6300;
Teat of Merit, Per Acre Yield
TEXAS SUMMER
COTTON SCH<
Next Session Will Open on June 0i
and Continue Until
..
—
Several experts on cotton market-
ing from the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture and a number of
outstanding cotton men of the state •’$
will be at College Station, Texas, for
the summer- school of cotton to be
held at the A. & M. College of Texas
from June 6 to July 16, J. B. Baglfy
professor of - textile engineering and
head of the textile department, who
will be in charge, of the school has
announced. ,
Among the representatives from
the U. S. Department of Agriculture
who have accepted invitations to ad-
dress classes in the school are, Dr.
B. Youngblood, special senior agri-
cultural economist, Bureau of Agri-
cultural Economies, who is director of
the Texas Agricultural Experiment
station but is on leave for nis pres^
ent work;'and Arthur W. Paliper, in
charge of the division of cotton mar-
keting, Bureau of Agricultural Econ-
omics. The Division of Cotton Mar-
keting has also indicated that an ex-
pert to instruct in cotton standards
will be here for the school.
Victor H. Schoffelmayer; agricul-
tural editor of The Dallas News; W.
H. Wolfe, well known cotton man of
Dallas, and W. L. Clayton, outstand-
ing cotton man of Houston, all of
whom are widely known in cotton and
agricultural circles, have accepted in-
vitations to speak during the school
session, Prof. Bagley said.
L. E.- Do.wd, associate professor of
textile engineering, head of the di-
vision of cotton classing and market-
ing of the textile department of the
college, will be in charge of course
of instruction in the cotton school.—
Missouri Pacific Magazine.
MRS. W. F. M. COX PASSES
AT HOME NEAR HENDERSON
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Special to The JournaL
Overton, April 4—On
Thursday
LOOKS LIKE “OJL BOOMS”
Mr. W. C. Barnwell has just sold
his sweet potato crop to a Pittsburg
firm, and they were to sort them and
move them from the curing plant.
His 36 acres of potatoes brought
him $4,700.
His 160 acres of cotton made 101
bales and brought him $6,300.
So it will be seen that the potato
crop yielded nearly two to one, in dol-
lars against a cotton crop.
The vines off his potatoes, turned
under, are worth a good deal to the
land and will cut down his fertilizer
bill this year. “
He planted alternate rows of peas
and corn to enrich -his land with pea-
vines, and then plants the land to
cotton saving $8 per acre in fertilizer
in this way.—Gilmer Mfrror.
ning,
the midnight hour,
of Mrs.
TEXAS EDITORIAL ASSN.
SHOULD MEET IN TYLER
ed very big figures, as may be in-
ferred by the fact that after business
hours on Saturday evening they is-
sued more than $1,000.00 worth of
checks to poultrymen who were late
in arriving with their weekly sales
offerings. It is an interesting sight
to visit the Pennington Produce place
oiy busy days. Many are busy leak-
ing crates; many are engaged in
packing eggs; others are weighing
and cooping chickens; others are load-
ing out trucks with eggs or poultry
to be. placed at the railway loading
track for shipment. A half car of
live poultry was shipped the lattpr
part of the week, going to another as-
sembling point to the North of us for
completion. It is hoped that ti e time
will soon come when cars of live poul-
try can be made up in Tyler without
depending on other points for com-
pletion.
TEXAS CO. SCHOOL SUPTS.
GET RAISE IN SALARIES
pai
sine
grade and a
apparent from the reports received.
The Panhandle, the Rio Grande Val-
ley, the Houston and Beaumont dis-
tricts are still leading in general
prosperity with a marked stimulation
very naticeable within the past three
weeks in East Texas, due no doubt to
the discovery of oil near Jacksonville.
“Regardless of cotton prices”, says
one corerspondent who most nearly
voices general opinion, “Texas should
have the MSGt year of its history pro-
vided, of course, that weather condi-
tions turn favorable.”
LOUIS LIP.SITZ
yler truly mourns the passing of
is Lipsitz whose death came sud-
denly at Mineral Wells Friday night.
had been a citizen of Dallas
T;
Lou
Dabney White, Corresponding Sec-
retary of the Texas Editorial Asso-
ciation, write's us to enquire if we
are in favor of this Association hold-
ing their next annual meeting in Ty-
ler. Sure, we are. Colonel Dabney.
We know lots of the members. They
often meet with the Texas Press As-
sociation. The Editorial Associa-
tion were in flowers as publishers in
these parts seventy-five years ago
and upwards (and Dabney is report-
ed to be one of the original charter
members). Of course, we boys of
the Texas Press Association ' can’t
qualify by virtue of , youthfulness—
but we are for them to meet in Tyler.
In fact Tyler is the best place on
the whole face of Texas for them to
hold their next annual meeting — and
the only hope we can entertain pf
ever meeting with the'm and giving
the whole gang the once over is nur
tured by the prospect that they will
meet in Tyler.
News comes this week that a ne-
gro was shot and seriously wound-
ed Sunday at a Jacksonville hotel
where he worked. No reliable details
are given.
At Chandler on the same day a res-
taurant keeper shot and killed one ne-
gro and wounded another. Reports
indicate that the tragedy was the re-
sult of drunkness op the part of the
dead man and his companion, in that
they are said to have “rdised a rough
houBe” by directing insulting orders
for service toward the wife of the
restaurant proprietor.
At Starrville on Sunday morning
Richard Greer was seriously wounded
in the head by a charge from a gun
in the hands of Joe Packson,. Both
parties are colored; and investiga-
tions by the Sheriff’s department
elicited only evidence tending to Show
that the shooting was accidental.
EAST TEX. RETAIL DRUGGISTS
ASSOCIATION HERE NEXT WEEK
In the fourth paragraph above,
exchange says: “So it will be seen
that the potato crop yielded nearly
two to one, in dollars, against a cot-
ton crop." We figure it out this
way: If 36 acres of potatoes produce
$4,700, that is a per acre yield of
130.55 for the potatoes. If 160 acres
of cotton produce $6,300, that is a
per acre yield of $39.37. Divide
$39.37 (per acre cotton yield) into
$130.55 (per acre potato yield) — apd
you get $3.31. So the comparison pf
the per acre yields of the two crops
show that for each dollar produced
by the cotton, on the acre basis, the
potatoes produced $3.31. That beats
the “almost two to one” comparison
of our exchange.
There is also this advantage which
much not be lost sight of: It does
not require as mtich labor to produce
and harvest an acre of potatoes as it
does an acre of cotton. There is not
so much hazard of chance in finding a
profitable market for sweet potatoes
Deceased had been
for twenty years, and
theretofore,
Austin, April 4—-Two bills passed
by the Fortieth Legisature as part
of the proposed public school refortp,
both raising the salaries of certain
county superintendents, were signed
by Governor Moody Saturday.
One of the measures provides that
the county superintendent in each
county with a population of not less
than 60,-000 nor more than 70,000,
shall receive not more than $3,800 per
year and the other gives the count-
county having a population of 210,
000 or more. The last bill is believ-
ed to have affected Dallas county
only.
boys
affairs in Tyler. Here he was educa-
ted. Here he began his business ca-
reer, which was truly successful and
always praiseworthy. Here his fath-
er sleeps, a circumstanced to which
Louis Lipsitz often adverted, as hal-
lowing to him the soil of Smith coufv
ty. Here too, most assuredly, were
the greatest number of his most loy-
al friends and admirers,
His career as a business man, as a
servant of those interests which
make a people ' great, is too well
CONFEDERATE VETS HAVING
GOOD TIME* AT TAMPA
Several of the Confederate Vete
rans of Smith county, members Al-
bert Sidney Johnson Camp of Tyler,
left Saturday on the Cotton Belt to
attend the reunion at Tampa, Fla.
Many who would have gone are too
feeble to have stood the trip. Those
who did go were chaperoned by
younger people solicitous for their ev-
ery need. Trqup sent with the Smith
county delegation a larger number
than any other Smith county commu-
nity. >
Reports to relatives and friends
come come from Tampa that the
Smith county contingent of the grand
Retail druggists to the number of
more than pne hundred are expected
in Tyler Wednesday, April 13, for
the purpose of perfecting perma-
nent organization of the East Texas
Retail Druggists Association. The
meeting will convene at the Black
stone Hotel at 10 a. m., sharp. E.
Oliver is temporary Secretary. J.
Rayford of Henderson is Chair-
man of the Membership Committee.
Tyler druggists arc prominent,4n the
preliminary work of the proposed or-
ganization and plan to see that all the
visitors next week are accorded a
genuine Tyler Welcome.
INTERESTING LECTURE DELIV-
ERED ON SUBJECT “MEXICO”
“Mexico and the Influences of Bol-
shevism at Work there” was the
protitaoie market for sweet po
as for cotton, granting that the pota-
toes are properly harvested ana put
into a curing plant of the right kind.
And, in adition, think of the extra
land that might be released from cot-
ton if farmers would plant more po-
tatoes, and more of other food and
feed crops. Of course, it wouldn’t
do for every farmer to plant only po-
tatoes. It wouldn’t be any safer In
the establishment of a safe and sane
—and balanced *— farm program than
is the planting and cultivation of cot-
ton only. But that probability is so
very remote that no farmer desiring
to enlarge his potato acreage need to
think, about it for years" to come. :
RUSK WILL
BUILD
A “WHITE WAY’
Rusk, April 5—The Rusk cit;
council haR signed a contract wit!
the Gulf Public service company for
installation of a thirty-six unit
“white way.” Work of installing the
lightB will begin at once.
large capacities, of broad views, of
abundant and generous sympathies.
ft nrn be tmiy-nidd of htm that hr*
loved his fellowman. Outstanding in
the appraisal of his character* is the
fact that men of the humbler walks
of life loved him.
The passing of Louis Lipsitz closed
the earthly career of a man of great
usefulenss, of a character that exem-
plified and dignified the finer things
of life. Tyler njpurns.his going. -
Last year farmers and poultrymen
in America bought'at least 500,000,000 ,
chicks from commercial hatcheries
alone.
ing a most enjoyi
time. So be it till they return home
and thereafter. __
TUESDAY’S CITY ELECTION
■ people great, is too well Smith county contingent of the grand theme of a largely attended lecture
■Collins of Boston. The speaker ap-
peared under auspices of local Coun-
cil No: irm Knights.....flf TsnirnTirar
which fraternity is exerting its pow-
ers to combat the bolshevistic ideas
that seem to be spreading from Rus-
sia to almost all parts of the civilized
world.
Prof. Collins proved a most inter-
esting speaker. His opportunities
for djrect, first-hand information
have been exceptional for more than
thirty years. He is scholarly, and
eloquent and those who heard his ad-
dress were not only entertained bu*
were given information that has not
often been available to the public. -
BULLARI) ALL- AGOG ABOUT
HER OIL PROSPECTS
Bullard, April 7—The oil outlook
W .ASrl™ —wsrcnsrwr
ing well not but a few miles from us
and numbers of
t»ttrrmrarfmmry trying n
qualified
put a very small per cent of the
voters.of Tyler participated
in Tqcsdny’s election for commission-
ers. The returns show the following
totals for the four wards:
Shuford
Hendrix
Lyle
Howard
Sinclair
Johnson
Reick
,..606
....482
...396
...887
.....256
...244
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March 31, the
spirit of Mrs. W. F.‘ M. Cox passed
at the family home near Henderson.
Her death terminated an illness which .,
kept her in poor health for a long
time and which became acute somo
months ago. She was 65 years, two
months and twenty days of age. She
was the mother of eleven tmildren
nine of whom survive, a grown son
and a baby daughter preceding her
some years ago.
No wife and mother was ever more
devoted to the high ideals of wifehood
and motherhood. Her home and fam-
ily life always came first with her—
and that she Was true to those high
ideals ip attested by the sons and
daughters who Have • gone out from
the old family roof to take honorable
places in the world where, in their
own homes and lives, they are pe?1-
petuating the ideals of a sainted
mother.
TMrs. Cox united with the Mission-
ary Baptist church at the age of thir-
teen and always lived true to the
faith which she professed. Always
till the heavy hand of disease impair-
ed her physical strength she was reg-
ularly in her place at church and
Sunday school services, and she took
nd active part in those community
activities which make for the wel-
fare and happiness of one’s neigh-
bors and promote the spiritual apd
cultural development of a communi-
ty. Truly it was said of her so of-
ten that she didn’t have an enemy
in the woild—that none knew her but
to love her. Truly her memory lives
in the hearts of those who were privi-
leged to come within the circle of her
life, and the fruits of her life, rich in .
good works, yet abide to bless those
who survive her.
It was a touching scene as her
children and neighbors looked for the
last time upon her mortal remains,
touched as They were it seemed, with
the peacefulness of sleep, and bright-
ened and freshened with a foregleam
of that eternal rest unto which she
ever looked in that abounding faith
in Deity and Immortality which sus-
tained her in every trial, that com-
forting faith which he life commend-
ed to those about her. An aged
brother, H. P. Trammell of Los An-
geles, was unable to attend the fun-
eral because of ill health.
Rev. R. L. Wood, Pastor of the
Baptist church of Henderson, con-
ducted the funeral rites, and inter-
ment was made in the family burial
plat at Pleasant Hill Cemetery a few
miles Southeast of Overton. A great
concourse paid there a last tribute
to a most noble life, and a gre.it
profusion of floral offerings comfort-
ed those who mourn and symbolized
that richer life beyond the tomb. -
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men all
over
IKe '
the Albert Ballew, Troup high school____
mcisr ■sttHtetrer tk s i oo- '"”***
promising places for sinking of
other wells nnd the assurance of geol-
ogists that oil indications in this area
are of the most promising type give
the foundation for a lively hope. This
hope is further fortifield by the fact
that innumerable leases have been
signed in this area and that contracts
are reported to have been executed
for some drilling ventures.
The estimated population of Tejc-
as is 5,312,661. This is exceeded by
only three other states.
yard dash at the Prney Woods meet
held Friday and Saturday at Nacog-
doches. Ballew also won second place
in a 220-yard dash there. The f’iney
Woods meet is conducted annually at
Nacogdoches under auspices of the
Stephen F. Austin teachers’ college
About 500 students from about 25
East Texas schools usually enter the
contests.
Ballew also won third place In a
220-yard dash at the North Texas
meet held a few Weeks* ago at Green-
ville. —- 4 ;
il.sduA’S*
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Edwards, Henry. The Tyler Journal (Tyler, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, April 8, 1927, newspaper, April 8, 1927; Tyler, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth638014/m1/1/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Smith County Historical Society.