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WEATHER
DENISON AND VICINITY
Fair and warmer today
and Tuesday
DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY
REPRESENTATIVE OF THE
CTi' * ' ■ i. "TBar-ascra—;
THE DENISON PRESS! » —
UNITED PRESS
DENISON, TEXAS_MONDAY, NOV. 13th, 1939
WEEKLY FOUNDED 1980—JAILY 1984
VOL. 6-NO. 120
Germany Is Irked By WinstoiChurchill’s Address
Russia Warns
Tiny Finland
•MOSCOW’, Nov. 13—The Soviet ritoral demands.
press today hud warned Finland
that Russia will ‘‘find ways und
means of obtaining whatever we
need,” for improving the defense
of Leningrad despite Finland's re-
jection of Soviet military and ter-
Everyday
Denison
By
LOUIS ANDERSON
To start the week by giving you
something to make you want to
throw things. Gov. O’Daniel yes-
terday made one of his few utter-
ances with which we agree when
he urged the U. S. stay out of
war. We all feel the same way
even if might not be able to say
it as eloquently as Mr. O’Daniel
. . . Jack Benny's scrip writer had
a rare brain child last night when
he turned out the dentist sequence
. . . Some sort of machinery all
yesterday afternoon made the air-
waves very buzxy and listeners
hopping mad when they couldn’t
hear their favorite programs well
. . . Mr. Smith Goes to Washing-
ton” is just as good a film us ad-
vance notices claim, although a
couple of the sequences could have
been left out with ease. The pic.
ture, all in all, keps you so irt
tcrestod that not even the guy
next to you notices you have your
mouth open.
New
against the United States and
President Roosevelt, with charges
that the lackeys of llritish and
American capital are guilty of
supporting Finland’s dangerous
game of preparing for a war
aguinst the Soviet Union.
The newspaper Red Fleet, organ
of the Soviet navy and the offi-
cial organ of the Soviet Trade
Union led off with a blast against
wiiat they called Finland’s danger-
ous game calling for war against
the Soviet Union.
The revival of the bitter pre?s
attacks followed an admitted dead-
lock in the month-old negotiations
at the Kremlin between Soviet an '
Finnish conferees and a formal
Soviet accusation that Finland i
adopting an increasingly irrecon-
cilable attitude toward the Rus-
sian proposals for defense bu-o.
in the Gulf of Finland.
The Red Fleet, decribing Rus-
sia’s unalterable demands for mil-
itary bases on the Finnish main-
land and on islands in the gulf,
said that Russia will overcome ail
obstacles to obtain them and find
ways and means for reliable de-
fense of our naval and land fron-
tiers.
“How can the war intrigues of
the Finnish leaders end?” asked! HILDAG'O, lexas, Nov.
the newspaper Trud, organ of the] ^w‘n cables supporting the
trades council.
FRENCH REJECT PROPOSALS
OF PEACE BY LOW NATIONS;
FINLAND IS GROWING UNEASY
HITLER ESCAPES BOIdB—For eighth time Hitler escapes assassination as he lea s Munich
beer hall 15 minutes before time bomb wrecks place, killing six. Scone shows him in famous
hall year ago. Ulrich Grab, left, and Rudolf Hess, No. ? Nazi, at right.
ONE DIES, SEVEN
HURT IN ACCIDENT
Cacklo Voters
Asked To Give
New Franchise
,i
000
13- ■ Francisco Delgado, 30, of K.Iin-
$bll,- burgh, driver of a small sedan,
suspension bridge across the was missing am! three oilier on u-
GADDO, Ok., Nov. 13—-Request
for a city elc tion fur the pur-
po o of granting a new franchise
to the Oklahoma Gas and Electric the finish
be i
LONDON, Nov. 13—First Lord
of the Admiralty Win-ton Church
ill Sunday night blasted talk of
peace and mediation in the Europ-
ean war with a blunt announce-
ment that the allies will fight un-
til that cornered maniac, Adolf
Hitler and lii= Nazi regime arc
crushed and destroyed.
Descril ing Hitler as that mon-
strous apparition and that evil
man over there, Churchill chal-
leng'd the German chancellor u>
n «a-h the merciless blow- which
!h Nazi have bun threatening.
Churchill said that there i
I grave menace of a German in-1
’..-ion of the Netherlands and B- l-l
:;ium—an invasion which ha saidj
might be expected from the frenzy
of a cornered maniac and would;
be the worst or all his (Hitler’s) |
crimes. I
Britain and France, he said, are] RECALL ASKED—Angry Call-
staking all on the crushing of Hit-; forn;a Ham-’N’-Egoers, smart-
lerf-m and “if we are conquered tng at defeat 0f fhe;r 0|d„age
all will be enslaved and the Unit-j pension plan, ask recall of
ed States will be left single hand-, Governor Culbert L. Olson,
ed to guard the rights of man. j above, who made strenuous
Churchill’s flinging down of the j campaign against the plan,
gauntlet to Hitler D r a war to! Recall petitions are already in
in a radio address, ap- circulation. Olson demands
of last
::------
And if the last fellow who bet
us on the Gainesvillo-Denison
game Friday will come by we’ll
give him that last shirt. It’s all
we have left after a harrowing
weekend . . . That new high school
addition hero will be the classiest
joint added to Denison in some
time. The auditorium is so big
that you will have to use flag
signals to each other from one
end to the other ... A ballot
reaches this desk asking our vote
on the Heisman trophy for the
most valuable collegiate player
football award. If you have any| they wcre tak,,n
suggestions, shoot ’em our way.
please . . . Too bnd the death of
Etienne Girardot, actor, yester-
day. His acting was easier to
take than his name was to pro-
nounce . . . When the Dutch-Ger-
man incidents on the border are
mentioned, they mean the two
countries border on war . . If
the German's weren’t angry at
Britain before, the address of
Churchill last night should make
them so, even if the utterances
were true. He used the term
Hun for the first time since the
war started.
Four Injured
When Car Hits
KOG Underpass
Four Bonham citizens were hurt
here shortly after 11 p. m. Sun-
day when the car in which they
were riding ran headon into tho
Kansas, 'Oklahoma and Gulf rail
road underpass on South Crockett
avenue, according to city police
reports.
All four of the occupants were
painfully cruised and shaken, but
none was reported in serious con-
dition at a local hospital where
by a ShortJMur-
r»y ambulance.
Police reports said that Charley
Poston was driving the machine
which was badly damaged in the
j tired.
Compensation
To Car Strikers
Is Ruled Out
internal injuries, Joaqubi Gonzales
and Pedro Garza all of EdTiburg.
Abundio Amador, Hargill, drivt r
of a small coupe which plunged
Amador, escaped with minor
DETROIT, 'Mich., Nnv. 13—By juries,
action of the Michigan Uncmploy- Ramirio Rodriguez, employee of
ment Compensation commission, Hie Valley Bridge company, was
announceent is made today that! collecting tolls when the bridge
strikers at the Chrysler automo-* crashed. He turned and saw two
bile plant are not entitled to the; pedestrians hurled through the air
benefits which accrue for either, into the water,
partial or total unemployment, i
The resolution sets out that the j
"I jerked off my clothes and
situation was brought about bv j iMt.° thc watrr-” Rodli ue7-
the men at the plant themselves I'"1”' 'II "as as <;0,d as ite- 1,ut >
tion or lr,
gi
BERLIN. Nov, 13 — German
source.-; here today charged Great
i-Dtain and France had “sabotag-
d the ptace proposals advanced
by King Leopold of Belgium and
Queen Wilhelmina of the Nether-
and after the two allied nations
Uatly rejected the Low Countries
uhr - offers to mediate m the
war.
B ilin charged that the soul ami
°f the a ..s in the war is “de
truction of the Reich” and re-
ferred to King George of England
uid President Albert Lebrun of
France as “impudent.”
I.ebrun, in rejecting the peace
propt ait, ,nid that reparations to
Poland. Czechoslovakia and Aus-
tria would have to be forthcom-
ng from Germany before France
would even consider talking peace.
The Nazi press attacked Britain
viciously today after the address
oi First Lord of the Admiralty
\\ inston Churcl ill, most hated
Britisher in thc mind of Germans,
in which Churchill flapped Nazir.m
md Adolf Il tler on both cheeks
challenging him t,o light.
Little activity was seen on the
| western front during the past 24
; hours, but Paris saw its, first
: 'light of German war plane? early
! this morning. No bombs were
| dropped and the maq flight for-
mation was broken up bv French
anti-aircraft barrages.
1 he American Ambassador to
he Dutch conferred at length with
Queen Wilhelmina, but what the
conference was about was kept
secret.
Belgium and Holland were pre-
yed for thc worst if Germany'
hould invade the nations to ««-
; blish ground bases for attacks
n France and air flights against
Britain. The country was armed
o the teeth and the greatest war
reparations since the World War
were underway.
Belgium was report d ready, to
thr, di intered.-' en-l ......I!....................^ • by the Rev. Ray Cleveland, return-j «PC" i( frontier# to British and
, i ; ‘ , ^!at at,y further proposa j C(j missionary home on furlough » **rc'nch troops if Holland wp^p >n-
i must conic from Gcrininy. | from Belgian Congo, Africa. Bur- vaded by Nazi horde;.
, ] King George’.1 answer, like a jaj wag jn Hill cemetery, I Britain prepared to bring more
erec? thc right to! =imultaneoUs reply front France
"sound" program for elderly
electric eoi.q-any with Caddo city week’s peace appeal by Queen Wil-! relief.
and i
ce v v he lr. i filed I v the reared to seal Ihe 'loom
I - — -—° -............ ......... —«-1 electric company with Caddo c
Rio Grande between Ilildago and pants of bis automobile which fell, officials. ' j helmina of the Netherlands
lteynosa, Mexico, snapped Sunday into the rive- fear he drowned. I Provisions of the proposed new King Leopold III of Belgium. ----
(right plunging two automobiles The three passengers in Del-’ fra ,,-K a- quit- liberal. i Immediately aftet the first lord! 1* OlflTier GraVSOIl
. into the river and two to the bank.] gado’a automobile were Anastncio' v . c . 1 .« .. . , ■ r.-.. c- i J
One person is lost and seven in-, Espinosa who suffered po1 ible
f: "i ■!ii:o is rtwi-l of thc admiralty finished h's bit-!
the
Representative
Dies On Sunday
Voting of t
id1 red I . : S a routine matter, ter radio attack on Hitler
A summary of the provisions* British Broadcasting company!
follow;: 'struck up “Should Old Acquam-j
Tim proposed fran.-bi-c renews ( tance Be Forgot?” Officials of j ___
the permit of the Oklahoma Gar the BBC explained that it was, SHERMAN, Nov 13—Gustavus
into the river, suffered lead an! and Electric com-any to continue, meiely a coineiden e. . Atkinson, 82,' a member of the
icst injuries. Physicians said his using the treets and alle? fo i - Message to Sc »-• rei*,,, Texas House of Representatives
condition also was crtica . Venus- „.... and wire; f >r thc purpose! Only a few hours before Mr. f tbe forty-fourth district for
linno Garcia, Hargill, riding with
and it..; inhabitants
from the forty-fourth district _ .
of d livering - leetvieity to the city! Churchill spoke King ileorge VIj ,wo terms, beginning in 1922, died
had sent a long and polite me»*| Sunaay at his home here after
:'ev to the Belgian (Dutch sover-j fjve months’ failing health,
i cigns acknowledging their peace
at any m/vcro and mediation offer, hut
The city r ’serves the right
terminate the franchise
time upon the purchasi
... i..... , , .... I' announced war amri and . tntm, by thc Rev. Ray Cleveland, return-
Funeral services were held at 2
p. m. today at the First Presby-
L. McCutch-
impact, and he was accompanied' and they are therefore not entitle,I| ”,;l.nap<;d to get I- th,. two iv,„
by Mr. and rMrs. R. W. McDowell
and Lavern Bonman.
and hold them up until a boat a1
| riv. d from thc Mexican side ”
One of the pedestrians, Eu-ebio
If you think the dam bids to
bo opened'Dec. 15 are not huge,
drop hy thc Press office sometime
and take n look at the invitations
from engineers which covers all
details of the l ids asked. It looks
like another Gone With the Wind
• . . Best cartoon of the week
comes off the pen
Bhowing n football player being
carried away from a bench by
hospital attendants with one play-
er cracking to the other “He’s got
splinters" . . . Someone lias got
to be the fall guy in tho 'Munich
beer parlor explosion and it’s go-
ing to be tough on the one Nazis
choose, regardless of innocence or
guilt . . . The U. S. Chamber of
Commerce has recomended 10
changes in tax laws. There is al-
ways change connected with tax-
ation ... To this corner it looks
like the U. S. could do well not to
allow American ships to take war
supplies to belligerents even if the
vessels do fly the flag of another
nation.
Strange how some fellows when
they get drunk, thc first person
they hunt for Is an officer. They
always want to talk and eventual-
ly wind up in the calaboose . . .
Ground breaking ceremonies for
the new Paris Junior collich build-
ing will take place at 10 a. m.
Tuesday. Gus W. Thomassoi,
WHA head of Dallas, will turn in
thc first ditch digging job1, ie.,
turn the first spade . . . The world
Saturday wondered if Nov. 11,
1940 will again be used to celo-
(Continued on page four)
to the benefits.
The resolutions say “that the
total or partial unemployment of j r ^ ivt-nm
such individuals is due to a labor I L °’ Reyn.Hsa’ suffVred mine,-
dispute actively in progress in the mjUneS and the othcr’
establishment in which said indi-
viduals are or were last employed
WASHINGTON, .......... ’ ~ ’ ’
average farm family income will} virtue of ^ V 'i'' *nil iu' dropped rixtecn
be somewhat larger in 1940 than npH“wol.v^„ J i riv«'r ,):lnk ‘v’nile he
, *o pay bis toll on the American
j side, all other motorists escaped
Farm Income In
1940 Seen Higher
N,v ,, T1 } and such workers' are* diractly Vn-1 J*81" ^an*aI'n' Mission, who auf- ,,-cd.
'frliu voIved i" 3aid labor dispute' by T,
state law.
Th,. cT.v
acquire potv
menial hydro-electric
build it s own plan?
Tbe courmny a recs fa pay to j
th- idly 2 p-r cent of its grossly, the failure
r’cipts arif’Hfr from the sale of,
from any irovern-i demanding the restitution of Po-
plmt or to |an(j; Czechoslovakia and Austria
' as a prerequisite for
r ti-nrded in itself rn sufficient to
of tin? new peace
move.
name was r,nM i "'hose ole tricity within the city limits.) Then, Sunday night, Churchill
name was not learned, was unhurt. The r tv i ■ ; - . the rio-ht tT1 , ,, , f
Witu tVaxr x- r T. 1 1 1 ,unt lT capped the reply with one of the
'' t'1 the (XC 'ption of Balde- audit the company hooks if de-j
in 1939, says the Bureau of Agri-
cultural Economics in its annual
report and outlook survey. Total
ped working in concert with fol-j
low workers other than at the di-!
rection of their employer, or
The franchise is not exclusive.
(*u diopped fifteen feet to the The ci'v ha - the right to grant ns
was wa ting many franclTso-- a- it d' :res. sub-
ieccqits Tom mi^T ^
products reflect a substantial in-
crease, keeping pace with expect-
ed expansion in industrial activity
and increased income of consum-
ers. The value of products for
also will in-
of Ed Reed,! home consumption
crease.
Farm operating expenses will
show an increase dring J 940, hut
the rise in prices received for
farm products should more than
from the 'McrV-
ly interested in said labor depute | ™{; ",V.-nT; , i"
and aro consequently disqualified n ' ,
as prescribed in Section 29 (d) ot ■
the Michigan Unemployment •" i'™ dragged
Compensation Act as amended." fr°W b°aU
JUST ICE OF THE PEACE (search for Delgado’s body began
DIES AT CRAWFORD ;at day,if,ht.
i river at the bridge -^iti■ to locate
' the submerged automobiles. The
strong*1!.!, slftemento made by any
government leader since the out
break of th0 war ton weeks ago
Sunday.
There, cun be no turning back
joct to thc anproval of the voters.) noWt >,e sfvi(li ani| everybody had
The franchise runs 2- years,| Uettei make up their minds to
in accordance with thc city’s char-) that solid, somber fact,
t o. uni'- th.1 city elects to ter-! “You may take it absolutely for
lrirate R sooner. : certuin that, either all that Greet
---- • — — j Britain and Franco stand for in
this modern wo dd will go down or
Hitler, thc Nazi regime and thc
recurring German or Prussian
PARIS, Nov. 13— Official j menace to Europe will he broken
ground breaking ceremonies on| oml destroyed,” he said.
was m West Hill cemetery,
directed by the Masons. | troop 'nto the fignt as it ordered
Mr. Atkins, familarly known j British garrisons n China to bo
over Texas as Uncle Gus, follow-j u- (be smallest number of men
pence, was! jng ^i.- service as legislator, serv- P°?sible.
efficient to e(j as aSvistant doorkeeper in the Finland was uneasy more than
House of Representatives this yearj"'1'1 ’’ M°|le after it was announa-
until a week before final adjourn-1 !^at lbo Finnish delegation to
ment, when his illness forced him j [^u?s*a been recalled from
abed. Moscow. The talks, involving So-
He was born in Smithfield, N ! v‘et demands for Finnish fortifica-
------------ i on the Baltic, are reported
(Continued on page four)
BREAKING GROUND OF j
NEW COLLEGE BUILDING ;
I Spectators said that tho ea-t th- :a,t of work on the new Par-j He referred to how well this
Justice of the cable snapped at its anchor on Junior College building project w,‘r bas turned out for the allies
Leace Alex Armstrong, 70, of (]ie (Mexican bank as 'Delgado’s will be held at the building site I l'ie first ten weeks and spoke
WACO, Nov. 13-
• .............. *• » III* 1» 1 lilt1 l|l \H illl lltUll\ ,1V Lx' I I * 1 1 I .
offset the increased cost. Income'hT8"’*.’ Uventy miles west of | automobile approached the middle at '-11 m. Tuesday, it was an-! °* Britain’., love for peace,
to farmers from government ben-i aco’ 'v‘^e*y known in Central t 0f the bridge. The west cable gave nounccd by J. R. McLemore, pres- J ‘‘But now we are at war,” he
efit payments probably will re-jje'’as Republican circles, died j way slowly, letting the bridge and Went of the college. (added “and we are going to make
Texas
main on par with such payments! ‘t’ur|day at his home.
• during 1939. Born at Coyrell City, he came
National gross income from ’ *0 Crawford in 1882. He had sorv-
farms for 1939 is expected to be!ot* as postmaster there and in a
about 3 per cent greater than dur- s’ni'*ar capacity at Pecos and
automobiles into the river.
Temperatures Lower
Gus \Y Thom arson. \YPA ex-
[ ecutive of Dallas, will be the
I principal speaker and will turn
war until thc other side has hud
enough.”
Then he spoke °f Hitler as that
evil man over there and that mon-
Temperatures in Denison reach- 'the fat spade u dirt. McLemore | strous apparition and spoke of the
j ,L. ■> < j------- -----1. ku:„ ------- 11,., ccicmonics will be held;
was constable1 c<* t*le degree mark this morn- said the i luiiunm wm ue umu)
result of increased govenment i ^or a number of years at CrawT'iR early after a high of 50 de- during the regular activity hour
! grees Sunday afternoon, w-th and that col ■ D:e classes will rvej_____
Funeral services were held Mon-! warmer niereur>’ readings and dismissed and the student body rev. R. L. ELY, 73,
ing 1938, but this increase will be ^anffpr. He also
for j
payments rather than an increaa-j ^or(^*
ed cash income from the sale of1 Fu - ----- ----- ...----- , , . . . , , . , , ., , , ,-
farm products. Income from! ^ Mr. Armstrong is survived by! clear skie* forecast for todlW and 1ranf0 tod *° tkr n w u,ld,n«
(Continued on Pag* 4)
farm marketing of both crops and
livestock during the first eight
months of 1939 was 5 per cent
less than such income for thc cor-
responding period of 1938, but
the sharp advance in prices of
farm products and of livestock in
recent months has changed th"
picture and the fnrm income for
September, resulting from the sale
of farm and livestock products
and government payments, was 9
per cent greater than for Sep-
tember, 1938. Excluding govern-
ment payments the September
farm income was about 3 per
cent less than for September of
last year.
his widow, a daughter and son. j Tuesday.
site hy bu- for the ceremonies.
SUCCUMBS AT BONHAM
Cars Entered
Two cars were entered by
thieves here over the weekend,
with small losses to owners, ac-
cording to city police reports. W
E. Varner, 1700 W. Washington,
said about $4 worth of groceries
was stolen from his car Saturday
night as it was parked in the 100
Opera Chairs Being Placed In High
School Auditorium, Best In N. Tex.
Opera chairs were being placed
today in the new Denison high
school auditorium, expected to bo
BONHAM, Nov. 13—The Rev.
R. L. Ely, 73, and minister of the
Methodist church for fifty years,
died suddenly at his home here
Sunday. He had preached for a
number of churches in thc North
it in use I foie 1910 Texas Methodist conference. He
The new auditorium will have "as one of fourteen children. Tho
1525 stationary opera chairs on, little town of Ely, in Southwest
th. low r and upper floors more' Fannin county, was ranted for
soot than any other high school his people. Rev. Ely had been
auditorium in this area w th thc I 'uperannuated by the conference
.4...... t, . I,,».. .* nllil nn Qtwt
the best in this section of the un-
block North 'Austin avenue, while1 tion whon completed this week,
Leslie Inman, 901 E. Pecan street, | Contractors Wood and Elliott stage having the latest, equipment! and he and his wife were making
Sherman, reported an overcoat., of Sherman have told city author- available. j their home in Jlonham. His wife
stolen Sunday night, from his car.j ities that the entire now addition. Draperies in nil schools have; and three daughters survive. Fun-
parked in tho 800 block South would be finished late this month arrived and today were being hung | oral services were held Monday
Crockett avenue. | and school officials hope to place! at Houston elementary school, |afternoon with burial here.
Newest Okla.
Well Spudded
In Carter Co.
:o have hit a snag.
; , Ras;'!an newspapers attacked
1 nited States and President
Roosevelt for “supporting Finland
m preparation for war.”
CHILD 7. KILLED
AS CAR STRIKES
BRIDGE
ARDMORE, Nov. 13—Southern'
jstSLr"’ w"tol 'p""i f'■*' y.' ?r,dA;«syAs=i?
Drilling got under way and in- ^ SWcrvina'
terest of tiie state oil fraternity . ",h'1( 00 :t
it.. ■ ... .eV0"' t! jLk ‘he concrete railing of
i a bridge. Thc child lived about 2
hour.- aftoi the era-h. Her father
was slight!? hurt The little girl
automatically switched to
southern part of the state.
The wildcat is Waco F. Turner
No. 1. C. R. Smith estate in
neswse section 16, 3slw in the
Newport and Woodford districts
of western Carter county.
Turner, 'an independent 'Ard-
morL. oil man who has been active
in the east Texas field for sev-
eral years, and has drilled more
than one test well in this part of
the state, intends to go to 3,500
feet or more or to tho Simpson
or Hoxbar sands
that he may drill
deeper was seen in the fast that
a 129-foot derrick, capable of
drilling a couple of miles into the
earth, has been set up.
Final rigging up operations
were completed Saturday.
The wildcat is on a block of
2500 acres which Turner has as-
sembled in that region of western
Garter county and is approximate-
ly «iv miles northwest of Pure Gil
company No. 1 Noble, a Sycamore
sand producer making around 75
barrels of oil dally from below
1800 feet.
Major companies for tho most
part hold acreage in the terri-
tory surrounding the Turner tract.
was the only child of Mr. and
Mrs. (,. A, Meek, Bell Mead, just
east of Waco, where the accident
occurred. She was the eighteenth
traffic accident victim of the year
in McLennan county
Get* Promotion
onugs.Mi, iARIIMORE, Okla., Nov. 13-
Possibility, Official announcement that <M*-
conslderably jor Dana H. Allen, USA, local na-
tional guard instructor, has been
elevated to the rank of lieuten-
ant colonel of infantry with his
promotion effective as of Oct. 1
has been received here and the
officer is being congratulated by
his friends
The promotion was by order of
the secretary of war and marks
another advancement for Lieut.
Col. Capt. Allen, who has been
with thc military forces of tho
nation continuously since 1905.
NOTICE
If yon do not rocalre your lbs*1
before 5:80, plen.se phone Ituj
me wil! he sent yett.
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The Denison Press (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 120, Ed. 1 Monday, November 13, 1939, newspaper, November 13, 1939; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth736476/m1/1/?q=atkinson: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Grayson County Frontier Village.