The Denison Press (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 189, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 3, 1940 Page: 3 of 4
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SATURADY, -FEB. 3, 1940
~ THE MOnSOM
DENISON
YEARS AGO
62-50-35
By DULCE MURRAY
Feb. 3 1878
The oyster supper, given by the
ladies at Hibbard’s Hall last night,
for the benefit of public school
grounds, was well attended, anil
the pecuniary result quite gratify-
ing. The oyster6 were served in
every style desired and the var-
ious dishes were prepared in an
excellent manner. The ladies were
indefatigable in their efforts to
please their guests and are cer-
tainly entitled to considerable
praise for their efforts to assist
in promoting so laudable an ob-
ject, as the beautifying of the
grounds of the public school, the
pride of our, city.
Several festive young men am-
used themselves last nijht in that
part of our city known as Sugar
Bottom by throwing stones and
bottles against some of the houses,
and by yelling, and other boister-
ous manifestations calculated to
disturb the slumbers of the good
people residing in the neighbor-
hood. Persons who recognized f watching a dog figflt when one of
them made comment to the mayor
today and now the offenders
against the peace and dignity of
the city will have to appear be-
fore Judge Kirk Monday to show
cause why they should not be fin-
ed for their scandalous conduct.
The Sherman Register says the
material is on the ground for fin-
ishing the court room. We aty:
glad to hear this. The room,
in its present condition is little
better than a barn.
(Feb. 3, 1890
the belligerent animals having had
all the combat it wanted, wheeled
and ran, dashing between Ed’s
legs so suddenly as to turn him
sideways, spraining the ankle.
The chain gang negro who made
his break for liberty while at
work on the streets yesterday, and
was recaptured by Deputy Marshal
Hackny, is handling the hoe today
with a large ball and chain attach-
ed to his ankle.
The henroost of Mr. Cummings
on Scullin avenue, was raided last
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THAT LITTLE GAME” h.ter-n,t>ICrtooaO.,N.Y-By B. Link
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Nouj Listen,-
i svut t*rt openers
AND POt . A O ACH ltd
-to Pot and ,P vYo
not There ns|
Not wi foneral >
\ t>«ESS NOO
it OP
NMBE l to\D Pick
It OP,-
too 5HO0OD POT T
UNDER The Cl .IPS, H
MOT NEAR THE
DISCARDS 1
Hooi Did \ •’.Now
\t was There*
The discards
have No Business
bein' near The
Vot, —
ThET Should
Be thrown in
Front of tne
ne*t dealer-
ujhy does
A Gut SPLIT
OPENERS ?
I'oE BEEN
TRTin' Al.
NIGHT To
GET ‘EM.
WHERE'S
7At HOOCH .
’
Ed Kenedy was hurt today in ' night and K number of chickens
rather a peculiar manner. He was stolen. His fine imported
was standing out in the street shepherd dog was found dead and
j il is supposed that the thief fin-
l ished off the dog before he raided
the hen roost.
-(A surveying party is at work
today under the direction of Col.
M. F. Foster; laying op; -Tounts
lor the Cotton Mill.
Main street is being cleaned of
the filthy accumulations qf about
two months and the improvement
it makes in the looks of this thor-
oughfare is quite wonderful.
February 3, 1905
f Ctood Roads Convention, contin-
I ued: Col. Decker proved beyond
I question that he did know a great
deal about the subject. On the
axiom “the civilization of a people
| is best exemplified by the roads
they make” he contrasted works of
Peter the Great—the building of
the famous national highway from
St. Petersburg to Moscow. He
referred to the Queen of Roads
portions of which remain after 22
centuries, attest the civilization as
well as the stupendous energy of
the Romans, and finally to the
splendid highways that remain yet
in a good state of preservation
built by the original inhabitants
of Mexico and Peru; tacitly ad-
mitting, that judged by our high-
ways, we are not civilized.
Dr. \V. R. Coit, a civil engineer
of Kansas City, gave an illustrated
talk on streets, roads and drain-
age. Col. T. P. Rixey’s address
on legislation closed the afternoon
session. Col. Rixey’s address
throughout sparkled with wit and
teemed with wisdom. The evo-
Interesting Bits
About Our Friends
How is this for quick service?
Richard Medford, manager of the
Safeway store here, advertised in
Thursdays’ Press that he hud lost
t' pet dog. Before the paper wa:
on the street the dog had been
found and returned to him. If
you want to get results, all you
have to do is to get in touch with
the Press and let us tell the
world. If we got that kind of
result for Mr. Medford before
the paper go on the streets, you
can figure out for yourself what
would have happened had the pa-
ning session was called to order
at 8 o’clock, the first thing in or-
der being the report of the Res-
olutions committee which was read
by Judge W. B. Pearson and ad-
opted. The opening number on
the programme was a piano duet
by Mrs. T. J. Odell and Miss Lil-
lian Revce. Capt. W. S Grant,
a pioneer farmer of Grayson Co.
who in spite of bad weather and
worse road's, had come from his
home 15 miles away to attend the
convention was next on the pro-
gramme. He was followed by
W. E. Louoks. A vocal solo by
Mrs. 'E. ,A. 'Thompson was follow-
ed by a streoptican lecture by Col.
Moore on “The Roads of the
World.” After thanking the peo-
ple for their interest in the con-
vention and expressing- the pleas
per taken the regular course.—
Speaking of making claims for.
one’s self, when your territory isj
large and your spirit* high, one'
is entitled to all he can get, ex-
cept he must not overdo it. For
instance, we know of a paper pub-
lished in Denison that threatens to
close the Katy railroad up by tak-
ing away its freight patronage
which they claim is around $300
per month. Ours is only around
the $3 mark (that’s the truth so
help us) but we wonder if when
we threaten the Katy with
WHAT
OTHER EDS
ARE THINKING
•--•
COURTS
FIFTEENTH DISTRICT CM
K M. CARTER, JUDGE
New Suit. Piled
C. P. Buchanan vs. Mae Bfeagh
et al partition.
Divorce Granted
Fi ed Me Dude vs. Carrie Mc-
Dade, divorce granted.
CYCLONE DAV|S
J. H. (Cyclone) Davis attaint J
an age at which most men elect
to sit by the hearth and recall-
the past. But the reason!
taking away $-'100 per month pa- that this veteran Texas political will of A. E. Clark, deceased, for
tronage, (or all of Denison for, stormy petrel carried on to 85 probate
GRAYSON COUNTY COURT
JAKE J. LOY, JUDGE
Probat* Docket
A. Euil Clark has offered the
if we would not be with unjmpaire(j menta] vijfor may
well have been that he prefrred
that matter)
acting the part of a silly ass.
we take up that kind of fight to to remain a lively fighter so long
try and keep the Katy from mov- as a spa,|< Ufe remained. He
ing, we rather guess we are like was no general willing to die in
cildren who imagine they hurt bed. He liked the battlefield,
the tree by climbing out on the
limbs end and sawing it off back Populist leader in a long-ago
toward the trunk. We know of a era when populism split great po-
man who asked for a barrel of litcial Parties, prohibition advo-
pepper frdm the Lord and when caU" whe" in politics and out pro-
he got his prayer answered he hibition debate was as likely to
had so much of an eye full he bring on a physical riot as a poll
could not see his way about. The booth upturn, more lately a stout
moral is don’t ask for too much protagonst of old-age pensions,
trouble or you might get your Cyclone Davis believed in what he
belly full of it.-And still we fought for and gave all that was
say that we ought to fignt in him to thg numberiess skirmih-
the Katy with everything the law Cg jn every campaign in which he
gives us. We understand there is partcipated. You could not say
Marriage License.
J. Bradforl Camp and Hope
Riddle, Paul’s Valley, Okla.
Moses A. Smith and Duresscr
.McCloud, Denison.
Automobile Regi.tration.
R. C. Hart, Sherman, Old&mo-
bile coach.
J. IL Carraway, Sherman,
Chevrolet coupe.
a law forbidding removal of such
as is proposed, and if the law of-
fers us anything with which to
fight, th-a is what we need to
use. Rest assured if Dallas can
take anything away from u- they
will not bat an eye.-A n d
that he ever saw both sides to a
question. He saw only Cyclone
Davis’ side. He was always right
and the other side always wrong.
Realty Tran.far.
G. F. Webb et ux to Bennie
Miles-, lot 4, block 1, Webb City
addition to Denison, $600, Feb.
1, 1940.
‘Matie D. Harrell to Mrs. Ann
Munn, lot 139, Belmont addition
to Denison, $50, July 20, 1939.
Mrs. Daisy Beaumont et v!r
to Mrs. Ann Munn, lots 4 and
5, block 11, Tone’s second addi-
And once hiK mind was made up, «to Denison’ $600’ DeC’ 2’
speaking of Dallas and the people
of Denison we hear that one con-
cern alone in Dallas, sellers of la-
ure he had had in conducting it, dieg c]othing. and t|le Uke, has oil
he believed' in figthing tooth and
nail for convictions.
That was Cyevlone Davs. Per-
haps he was wrong. The New .
which often disagreed with his
their books more than 400 names contentions, has often, of course,
, of Denison people. We will not thought him wrong. But stout
of Ins audience for more than an | say where we K-ot the information, c0nviction breeds a wholesome re-
hour. Roadways of lAmerica, | nor how, but wo understand it Ls . r . r\ , , ,
Europe and other lands were ] authentic. That is one thing J ' ...r e man who olds it.
-how. and historic facts, and the that is wrong with us. How sha.l "i1? su™der no jot or l.ttle
scientific methods of making good we expect the Katy or any other " 1 ’ "Y’’ 1 ' ‘1' 11" 1 "
roads elucidated. America was interest, to stay here and help us, ,he °PPosltlon- That- t00, "a
then thrown on the canvas; stand- ' build the town when we ourselves c^one Davis. He could be outvote !
ing the audience sang the patriot-1 ,]0 not think enough of homo but not convlnc,t*ci-
ic song, and with the last note , stores to spend all the money we'
Denison’s first Good Roads Con-j ,can wRh them? “Physician, first
vention ended. heal thyself.”
E. D. Jones et ux to Willie V.
Clark et ux, lot 14, block 21,
original town plat of Denison,,
$3,250, Jan. 31, 1940.
Col. Moore entered upon his sub-
ject and held the close attention
Strips that fit into bevel in a
new display board can be re-
moved, permitting the hoard to
e bent without cracking to fo.-m
background for store windows
mi other purposes.
‘SNOODLES'
By Gy Hungerf ord
No!
IT "THO06HT
(A'i B'LoorJ
vtuz. MS :
| Cyclone Davis holds an un-
| doubted place as a part of Texas
history, a picturesque, hard-fight-
ing political evangelist who never
conceded defeat.—(Dallas News
The United States imported
about 83,643,000 square yards of
cotton cloth for consumption in
the first ten months of last year,
. compared with 52,282,000 square
I yards in all of 1938.
HINGS THAT NEVER HAPPEil
“IT’S A GREAT UFE IF YOU DONT WEAK EN”
f By Jack Rabbit
£rrv«.
actiRNA-noNAL Cabtpon Co a ». \
And The Worst Is Yet To Come
DOROTHY DARNIT
Rv Charles McManus 1
THAT'S The REASON!
SHE LEFT'
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The Denison Press (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 189, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 3, 1940, newspaper, February 3, 1940; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth736283/m1/3/?rotate=0: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Grayson County Frontier Village.