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RURAL FANNIN COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER
The Bonham Herald
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VOLUME XI
SEMI-WEEKLY PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY
BONHAM. TEXAS. MONDAY. MAY 30. 193S
MARRIAGES
REAVES—VISE
U Miss Dorothy Reaves of Bonham
and Mr. Dewey Vise of Elk City,
Okla., will be married at 6 p. m. to
day at the Clark Memorial
M. E.
DR. J. G. VARNER DELIVERS
BACCALAUREATE SERMON
-- !
Officials from the Agricultural j
and Mechanical College of Texas i
(WILL PREACH AT THE
PROJECT | BAPTIST REVIVAL MEETING
Sunday night the forty-fifth bac-
calaureate sermon was preached to
the graduating class of the high j visited the Land Utilization project
Church. The bride’s father, Rev. W. fevered by m. Varner of the^First I °~ ^ Government on Monday and
B. Reaves will officiate.
The bride is a daughter of Rev. and
Mrs. W. B. Reaves. She completed
her high school work at midterm
and will receive her diploma at the
commencement exercises tonight.
Since completing her school work
she has been assisting with the
work at The Herald office.
Tuesday morning the couple will
leave for Elk City where they will
make their home.
Presbyterian cnurch in Bonham. The ! T^es(?ay of this week and inspected
Rev. VV. 0. Harmon, pastor of the! a P“ases of the work. The group
First Christian church here, gave the °5 ^r* H. H. Williamson,
MR. KUYKENDALL ASSUMES
FEDERAL DUTIES HERE
Mr. W. S. Kuykendall who has
been acting in charge of Rural Re-
settlement, the 38 Resettlement
units set up by the Resettlement
Administration in conjunction with
the Land Utilization program in this
county, has assumed additional du-
ties and is in charge not only of
this work, but also of all other Ru-
ral Rehabilitation in Fannin Coun-
ty, Mr. Kuykendall has taken over
the duties performed until recently
by Mr. Pat S. Roberts who was
transferred last week to Collin
County. Mr. Kuykendall has moved
his personnel and office equipment
into the office space formerly oc-
cupied by Mr. Roberts.
• Mr. Glen Mitchell from Johnson
County has moved to Bonham and
will act as Mr. Kuykendall’s as-
sistant in handling Rural Rehabili-
tation in the county.
The consolidation of these two
phases of Resettlement was done to
reduce administrative costs and to
correlate the activities of these two
divisions.
Mr. Kuykendall' states that
changes will be made in the person-
nel.
In view of the good work which he
has done in the setting up of 38
farm families m the northern part
of the county, it is believed that Mr.
Kuykendayy is well qualified to
handle Rural Rehabilitation work in
this county.
INGLISH CEMETERY FUND
IS BOOSTED $5.00
Therfe is still time and a place for
your money in the Inglish cemetery
fence fund. Mrs. W. T. Gass is the
latest to contribute. She gives $5.00.
The more money put into the project,
the better the fence—remember that,
if you are interested.
RED RIVER UP
Red River is on another bender.
It ran down from a recent 8-foot
rise, only to put another Qf equal
proportions.
Work has been held up on the
bridge at Sowells Bluff until June
15, on account of conditions, as to
the river.
The jetties are reported to be
holding, at present, but nobody
knows what will happen, when the
river falls, and the caving of the
banks starts.
WHEAT AND OATS BEING CUT
Oats and wheat are being cut in
various localities. The crops look
promising, but that cannot be de-
termined—how much the yield—un-
til we have them in the bag.
In some localities all that is left
of corn crops hit by the hail, is the
gaunt stalks. Whether that will
come out, and yet make corn, is
son^thing else. Cotton was affect-
ed^Prwe same catastrophe.
Miss Wilma Hughes, librarian at
the high school gave a picture show
party at the American Theatre to all
those who have helped in her work
as librarian. The picture was The
Adventures of Tom Sawyer, an
American classic that will never die.
Those attending were the follow-
ing: Johnnie O’Keefe, Jean Chris-
tian, Mary Ruth Little, Fay Kirk-
land, Lucille Adamson, Dorothy
Reaves, Glenna Douglas, Dorothy
Vernon, Oletha Bell and Miss
Hughes.
Glenn Mitchell, of McKinney, has
arrived in the city to take the place
of Pat Roberts in federal projects
here. Mr. Roberts has been trans-
ferred to McKinney.
Miss Glenna Neeley is here from
Dallas, where she is training in Bay-
lor Hospital, to visit her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. D. B. Neeley.
Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Crawford are
here from Tulsa, Okla., to visit their
daughter, Mrs. Carleton Henderson.
Leasing for oil is reported in the
Ambrose territory, which is north-
west of Bonham some twenty miles.
invocation, a scripture reading was
by the Rev. J. E. Fender, pastor of
tne Calvary Baptist Church, and the
benediction being by the Rev. W. B.
Reaves, pastor of the (Clark Memorial
church, this city. This makes that
part of the program, which was not
in the order given., 100 per cent Bon-
ham talent.
The program started with the
graduates entering—a processional,
singing as they came. The next
musical number by the class, or
rather the members of it who are in
the Glee Club was “All Hail the Pow-
er of Jesus’ Name.” The singers
had been trained very well on the old
hymn by their director, Miss Mary
Alice Pritchett. They actually held
the very first note of the song the
required length of time, something
many people do not do, spoiling the
effect of the hymn, altogether. The
instrumental music for the evening
was played by Mrs. Margaret IVIars-
ton at the organ and Miss Mary Ann
Peterson at the piano. Mrs. Marston
gave an organ number, before the
students entered the auditorium.
The girls’ chorus, “Calm as the
Night,” was well done. The solo by
Gregory .Raker, showed the young
man to be in good voice. He is a
very promising singer, so out of
town musicians have also said. He
sang “The Lord Is My Light.”
Liszt’s “Liebestraum” and Elgar’s
“As Torrents in Summer” were de-
lightfully given by the Glee Club.
There were about 1500 people in
the house to witness the event. Many
of them were the parents and friends
of the graduates; many were people
who now have no children in school,
but who take an interest in the pub-
lic schools just the same. Then there
was that part of the audience which
is always present,, and always wel-
come, those who came to be enter-
tained. They heard a dignified, high-
class program, the equal of any, any-
where.
■One of the most interested spec-
tators was Supt. 'Glass, who came
back from Austin to be present.
The history of the public schools,
as this story indicates starts along
about 1893. The late J. M. Terry,
who founded the Favorite, was also
one of the proponents, and perhaps
the strongest one, of the public
schools, it is hard to believe that
we did not have public schools be-
fore the “Gay Nineties,” but the
facts are that we did not. Before
that, the old-time system of getting
enough money from the state to
teach a “free school” three months
in the year, was in fashion. After
that the parents had to find the mon-
ey themselves to pay for their chil-
dren attending school.
Those who fought the free schools
used the argument that they did not
want to pay for the schooling of
someother man’s brats—a crass
statement at best. It got votes
against establishing the system all
right and lots of them, but not
enough!
B. F. Pettus was the first superin-
tendent of the public schools of Bon-
ham. Some claimed he was something-
on the order of a martinet for he
certainly did not believe in sparing
the rod, for he thought more switches
grew where the ones he had came
from. This much is remembered
about his pedigogy: He did not lick
boys who wanted to do right, and
did it. Anybody could get along with
him if he knew his lessons and be-
haved, so he was far from a bad su-
perintendent. He certainly had ex-
ecutive ability, along with it all. If
he could come back here now and
see the buildings we have, he would
certainly think we had gone forward.
Mr. Pettus was superintendent when
we had some wooden buildings, two
of them, perhaps, on a lot northwest
of the First Methodist church—ver-
itable fire-traps. There was no beau-
tiful high school, no ample gymnas-
ium and fine auditorium, no ward
school buildings, no negro school,
and no athletic field. All these
things mentioned have come to us as
we felt able, to vote bonds and buy
them, and today the school system
in Bonham- is a good as those in
cities many times Bonham’s size, and
the rating of the schools is right at
the top,—the schools have come far,
and have wrought well.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Manly left
today for their home at Chattanoo-
ga, Tenn., after visiting at the Will
Shelton home. They will visit at
the A1 Sadler home at Carlisle,
Ark, on their way.
Director of Extension Service, Dr.
L. P. Gabbard, Head, Agricultural
Economics Department, Mr. Bonan
of the Experiment Station, Dr. Da-
vis of the Biological Survey, Mr.
Jones of tne Forest Service, Mr.
Weddington, Chief Clerk of the Ex-
periment Station, and Mr. Bassett
On, Si.ate Land Planning Specialist.
These men were appointed by Dr.
T. O. Walton, President of A. &
M. College, as a committee to in-
spect this area and make recom-
mendations to him as to the advis-
ability of the college’s taking over
the project.
Wlhen the first proposal for this
project was submitted to Washing-
ton by Malcolm M. Campbell in
1935, it was stated that the primary
purpose for the project would be to
make proper land use adjustments
within the area to be purchased. To
do this it was further stated that it
was hoped that an experiment sta-
tion for experimental and demon-
strational purposes might eventual-
ly be set up in the area by A. & M.
College of Texas, and that the pro-
ject be administered by that insti-
tution. Land acquisition and de-
velopment work have been carried
on such an extent that it appears
that the College is interested in this
proposition. Many details neces-
sarily will have to be worked out
whereby the College may take over
the management of this project un-
der lease agreement with the Go-
vernment, but it is hoped and be-
lieved that the College will take this
project over in the near future. If
such a thing happens, it will mean
that the larger part of the area will
become a laboratory and that the
larger part of the area will be car-
ried on by the College in an aU
temjpt to find out what the various
soil types will grow, .what can be
done to develop permanent pastures,
and what acreage is necessary to
complete within the area an econo-
mic unit. It would mean also that
proper land use will be adjusted on
this 15,000 acres, and would serve
as a demonstration for proper land
use on hundreds of thousands of
acres of similar soils extending
from the Wichita Falls area east-
ward along Red River, and into
Louisiana.
Within the next few days, Mr.
Campbell will again confer with the
President and Board of Directors of
the College in regard to the Col-
lege’s taking final action in this
matter.
We are informed that, as a result
of their inspection, these gentle-
men from College Station were well
pleased with the project, and are
very eager to cooperate with the
Federal Government in its Lands
Use Adjustment program.
GRAMMAR SCHOOL GRADUATES
One hundred and eight students
of the grammar schools of the city
graduated Monday morning at the
high school auditorium. Sixty-
nine received diplomas from Duncan
School; thirty-nine from Bailey
Inglish. Mrs. L. C. Coffman is
principal of Duncan, and Miss Min-
nie Gribble occupies a similar posi-
tion in Bailey Inglish. Following is
the program.
Invocation ........ Rev. W. O. Harmon
Awaking ........ Bohemian Folk Song
Where God Hath Walked .... Chorus
Address ...... Principal Roy Fletcher
Presentation of certificates,
.................... Supt. H. A. Glass
1 he reports of the two schools
show them to be in splendid condi-
tion.
ilSIl
MASONIC PICNIC THURSDAY
VERY DELIGHTFUL AFFAIR
Rev. Luther J. Holcomb
Special services will he held at the
First Baptist church from Sunday
June 5 to Sunday, June 12.
Rev. Luther J. Holcomb of Nash-
ville, Tenn., will do the preaching,
assisted by the pastor Rev. S. R.
Smith. Jack Gardner of Dallas will
be in charge of the singing.
Meetings will be held each day ex-
cept Saturday at 10 a. m. and 8 p. m.
TREMENDOUS RAIN AND HAIL
STORM WEST OF ECTOR
From parties who came through
Savoy Friday afternoon The Herald
learns that a tremendous rain fell
along the way, west of Caney Creek.
Nearer to Savoy the hail that ac-
companied the rain was very heavy
and some of the hailstones were
larger than the proverbial hen egg.
One school bus driver reported that
a lot of glass was broken out of his
car, and that he thought the top
v, as going to cave in, so he put the
cushion over his' head, a stunt that
is frequently -resorted to in West
Texas. Corn near Savoy was badly
beaten up by hail.
From other people The Herald
learned that Ladonia was visited by
a heavy rain and hailstorm. No
especial damage was reported.
Bonham escaped all this. All this
section got was a light rain with
enough electric effects to stage a
first-class cyclone.
BIRTHDAY PARTY
GOBER SCHOOL IS CLOSED
The Rev.
Hugh E. Anderson, ac-
companied by his brother Hull An-
derson went to Gober Friday night
to make the graduating address to
the school. There were nine grad-
uates and a splendid program. Go-
ber has a good school.
29 NEW VOLUMES RECEIVED
The Bonham Public Library has
received twenty-nine new volumes.
At this rate it will not be long be-
fore the library will be a two-story
affair.
Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Anderson of
Randolph honored their twins with
a birthday party on May 20 at their
home.. It was their 16th anniver-
sary. Refreshments of ice cream
and cake were erved.
The following were present: Oneta
Cates, Lois Massey,-Jo Reta Jones,
Jeane Williams, Douglas L-andress,
Clifton Burchfield, Evelyn Walker,
Ruth Mankins, Annie Smith, Billy
George Queener, Billy Shelly, Doug-
las Anderson, Billy Gene Clayton,
Anara Steedman, C. B. Burchfield,
Marjorie Burchfield, Jo Welton Mas-
sey, James Morris, Loyd .Stroud, Wal-
tei Smith, William Madison, Thomas
Watosn, Luola Moore, Thomas Jaines,
C. M. Hagg, Harold Cates, Billy Rhea,
Lee Baker, R. D. Hance, Donald
Richardson. The twins received many
beautiful gifts. All went home wish-
ing them many more happy birthdays.
7-—--
The Senior Golf Tournament had
a big game in Denison recently.
Charles Halsell; of this city, was
one of the partcipants. Mr. Halsell,
in his salad days, was a baseball
catcher, “taking them off the bat.”
Later he decided to leave off ath-
letics, then along came golf, and
the,re you have the story.
The. Masonic picinic staged at
Site No. 1, of the federal projects,
and which is on the ground former-
ly occupied by the Bonham Country
Club, is growing in fame as the
news gets around—other lodges, in
other words, are writing in to get
details as to how /it is done, etc.
They want a picnic, too.
E. G. Gilley of Ector gave the ad-
dress of welcome at this picnic. Ec-
tor, Savoy, Trenton, Leonard, Bai-
ley. Ladonia, Honey Grove, and
Dodd City lodges had parts. The
Bonham High School band played a
program. The Community Quartet
sang. Will H. Evans, of Sherman
was one of the speakers, and Judge
H. A. Cunningham, of this city,
and Wallace Hughston, P. G. M., of
Plano, were on for speeches. The
speech of Judge Cunningham was
especially interesting, since he went
into details as to the formation of
the lodge, and he also gave some in
teresting data, as to those who had
been members of the lodge, and
what famous Masons visited the
lodge, at various tim.es. In the list
of visitors were General Albert
Pike, a Mason of international re-
nown, and -General Albert Sidney
Johnston, a. Confederate general
who fell at Shiloh. Judge R. M.
Lusk was also high in Masonic
ranks. He lived here for years, and
there were many more of them, too
numerous to catalogue here.
Miss Mary Cornelia Roberts, of
near Whitewright, was invited to
sing some number in English and
some on Spanish. She complied,
with Miss Zora Swagen, of Tren-
ton, playing her accompaniments.
A check-up showed S. D. McGee to
be the oldest Mason on the grounds.
He has been a Mason 65 years, is
past 90 years old, and is still going
strong. John C. Sparger, of Bon-
.ham, came next. He is 83 years
old, and has been a Mason 51 years.
Such fellows as Jim Anderson and
Hugh Rodgers are away down the
line as to the time they have been
square and compass lodge mem-
bers. Jim has the advantage of
Hugh, as the former joined up in
Bonnie Scotland, some time before
he set sail for America. He comes
from the famous old town of Edin-
burgh, Scotland, and has been a Ma-
son on both sides of the Atlantic.
A basket dinner was served, and
DEATHS
Miss Clara Inqz Dewoody
Miss Clara Inez Dewoody was
born November 15,1919 at Dodd Ci-
ty, Texas. She was summoned to
her heavenly reward May 27, 1938
at the age of 18years, 6 months and
12 days.
She joined the Baptist church at
Martha, Okla., in 1934 and became
a member of the Telephone church
last August.
She leaves behind to mourn her
going, a mother and father, 3 broth-
ers, 2 sisters, 5 half-brothers and 2
half-sisters, many other relatives
and a host of friends. The brothers
are Albert of Santa Ana, Calif.,
Charley of Telephone, Texas, and
Johnny of Santa Ana, Calif. Sis-
ters are Mary Henry Dewoody of
Telephone, Texas, and Mlrs. Ralph
Runyan of Bennington, Okla. Half-
brothers: Sam of Telephone, Texas,
Fred of. Bokchito, Okla., Ed of
Mangeen, Okla., Ewel Ruth of
Nashville, Tenn., Ross Ruth of Fort
Davis, Texas. Half- sisters: Lettie
Shields and Ozella Groom of Santa
Ana, Calif.
Funeral services were conducted
Saturday afternoon at Telephone by
Rev. C. P. Sansom. Interment was
in the Dodd City cemetery.
SOONERS SWOOP DOWN ON US
WITH BAND AND EVERYTHING
A crowd of boosters from Madill,
Oklahoma, “blew in,” that’s the term,
to Bonham at noon Monday, with a
band blowing great guns, and other
tunes. They had evidently heard of
the number of fishermen we had
around here, the ones that brag about
the big ones that got away, and alL
that, so they came down to invite
them and others to come over and fish
in Lake Murray, which is evidently
named after Governor Murray of the
Sooner State. (At so much per ten
days—1$1.25.)
The band with the organization)
was one of the best high school bands
heard here in many a day—it
simply snappy.
was
SUNDAY SCHOOL REPORT
Following is the reported attend-
ance at Bonham Sunday schools:
May 22 May 29
314
310
161
Church of Christ ............... 60
Presbyterian ............................ 54
First Baptist .................. 263
First Methodist .................. 273
First /Christian .................. 133
the crowd was estimated by one who j Clark Memorial M. E. ... 71
attended as about 250 people. (Calvary Baptist ............... 82
Plans are now that it will be made Nazarene .................................. 72
an annual affair, and when the oth-
er members find out what a big
time those there had, they will be-
gin right away to make their ar-
rangements to be there next year.
Also, when the 100th anniversary
of the lodge here is observed, it is
already announced that a monster
affair will be staged. There is
plenty of time to work out the pro-
gram, as it will be in 1940.
Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Lockhart and
their son, Robert, have returned
from San Antonio, where they vis-
ited another son of the Lockharts,
William, and his family. The Bon-
ham Lockharts made the trip home
from San Antonio in one day easily.
Mrs. Ernest Hairston and Miss
Edna Clinkenbeard have gone to
Vernon, to attend the graduating
exercises of the school there. Miss
Talcrecia Pearson, a niece, is grad-
uating with high honors.
Choice Moore is now recovering
from an illness.
Mr. and Mrs. Haskell Arnold of
Dallas have been here as the guests
of Mr. and Mrs. Julius Evans on Park
Avenue. Mrs. Arnold is daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Evans.
Tom Holmes, who is editor and
man-of-all work on the Trenton
Tribune, was a Bonham visitor last
Friday.
J. C. Melton, of Dial, was a Bon-
ham visitor last Friday. Mr. Mel-
ton is one of the good citizens of
that section.
Mrs. Tom Thornton was recently
operated on at St. Vincent Hospital
Sherman. A report from her states
chat she is getting along very well.
Mrs. George Brent has been in
Dallas to visit her mother, Mrs. M.
L. Austin. The latter came home
with her for a visit.
7 KINDERGARTEN GRADUATES
Seven children received diplomas
last Friday morning at the graduat-
ing exercises of the Kindergarten.
They were Pearl Benton, Zelma
Hayes, Joan Smith, Max Hickfang,
Billie Bunt, Richard Diles, Joyce
McKenzie, Glenn Goppforth, Edith
Cummings.
Interested friends attended the
closing exercises, and were delight-
ed with what they saw and heard.
Mrs. Chester Marston and Miss
Katherine Phillips were highly
praised for their work. Mrs. John
McKenzie, mother of one of the
graduates gave the children bags of
fruit and cakes, and Mrs. Kurt
Goppforth, mother of another of the
graduates, treated the children to
cakes.
The Kindergarten wishes to thank
Mrs. Ben Johnson and the Wesley
Class for free milk during the year,
and every one who has assisted in
any way.
Telephone Baptist
Bailey Baptist .......
1008
1202
137
124
SURVEYING NEW ROAD
Engineers from the Highway De-
partment are engaged in surveying
the road from west of town to Ran-
dolph. The new line will be shorter
than the old road, and in addition
will be a hard-surface affair. It
will be something that the county
has needed ever since there was a,
Randolph.
SIT AS EQUALIZATION BOARD
WEDDING IS ANNOUNCED
Announcement has been made of
the approaching marriage of Miss
Winnifred McWhirter, of this city,
and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. I. W.
McWhirter, to J. EUis Hufstutler,
the wedding to be solemnized June
17.
The commissioners court met
Thursday, and agreed to sit as a
board of equalization, commencing
on June 6. The county clerk’s office
began the work Friday of sending
out notices to parties to appear
before it, and show why their taxes
should not be raised.
S. S. ATTENDANCE CONTEST
Members of the graduating class
were invited to a picture show party
at the American Theatre, following
the Style Revue, recently, given at
the auditorium. Cecil Fairchild,
Howard Gatlin and Bobby Turpin
were co-hosts.
Miss Jane Morgan is home for the
summer from Dallas, where she has
•been working.
Mrs. Charles Dulaney and her
daughter, Mrs. Jimmy Sullins, have
returned from a visit with relatives
in Waxahachie, the guests of Mrs.
O. R. Newman and family.
A. J. Eaton, county agent of
Wise county, has been in the city,
the guest of County Agent V. J.
Young.
Everyman’s Class, of the First
Christian church, has accepted the
challenge of the men’s class of the
Denton First Christian church for
an attendance contest. The results
will be reported each Sunday morn-
ing by telephone—that is, the at,
Miss Bess Saunders, daughter of
Dr. and Mrs. Jack Saunders, Mon-
day night wore the graduating dress
of her aunt, Mrs. C. H. Van Zandt,
who was also Miss Bess Saunders.
In addition she inherited the name
plate of her aunt, for whom she was
named, and her cards for her invi-
tations were made from the very
same plate. The first Bess Saunders
was a graduate of Cai’lton College.
Mrs. W. R. Wood is here from
New Orleans to visit her sister, Mrs.
Ashley Evans. Mrs. Wood lived
here as a girl. She was Miss Car-
tha Biard.
Mr. and Mrs. Nunnelee Smith and
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Johnson and the
colored cook have gone to the
Brownwood country to go fishing
for a week. \
Mrs. J. M. 'Lowrey and daughter,
Mrs. Harry Swann and son, David,
have gone to Cache, Oklahoma, to
visit relatives.
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