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HBfM DENISON PRESS
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Representative United Press and International News Service
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DENISON, TEXAS,
TUESDAY. AUG. 14,1931
VOL. 4—NO. M
Editorial
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TO MANY RECTIFIERS
Now that the nation is conceded by business men of rec-
ognized ability and leadership, to be well on the way to re-
covery, wfe are having many far loss qualified persons rise
with a program whereby they can rectify things. They lead
off with criticism of the manner in which President Roosevelt
is accomplishing the task.
The whole program of criticism is really nothing short of
an efflort to accomplish a defeat of the recovery program
Whether such critics so intend or not. People who are down
are rendy tin rdaifli for any*'-—-
kind of hand lliat. will extend
help, but when they begin to
get well, many turn to eriti
cizing the source that helped!
and icffer many ways wherein
the whole thing eoifld have j
been done better or different.]
Such a policy is nothing
Swimmer’s Clothes
Taken Payment
For Broken Oar
Flashes From
Everywhere
Clothes, a broken oar,, an irate
owner anil oounty officers all fig-
ured In a mlx-up at Red River
Sunday afternoon that at first had
the earmarks of becoming serious,
but took on a humorous attitude
as It noared a solution.
Two Denison youths, deciding
tile day too l.oi for anything
but swimming, Journeyed to the old
toll bridge over Red River, slipped
Into the bathing trunks behind some
bushes and proceeded to enjoy the
cooling touches of the water.
fdot far from where they were
swimming was a boat that belonged '
to a man or. the shore who was
Twenty Farmers
Ask $2000 for
Feed Loans
Twenty feed and forage loan ap-
plications had been filed with Fred
Elkins receiver at Sherman, to
Monday, Mr. Elkins said, in a to-
tal request for around $2,000.
The applications ask sums vary-
ing between $90 and $400 and aver
aging around $150
The goverrment is not requiring
security on loans, being satisfied
with a note and the assurance that
the livestock to be cared for by
means of the loan are not encum-
bered with previous loans agalr.st
them
Mr. E.klns has been notified lie
will be asked to handla seed loans
! also, but has not received forms or
camping-. The boys asked permit - j instructions,
-inn to use the boat which w t : I There is 1 m»
closing date yet ar.-
granted.
But sad to say, their eagerness
to make the , boat move swiftly,
broke one of the oars.
pounced for loans for purchasing
feed. Sept. 16 Is the deadline fur
applications for loans with which
J (o plant forage crops. Closing date
a policy IS nothing I SANTE FE( N. M.—Mrs. Mary
short jof sheer ingratitude aild I Austin, noted author and writer of
those guilty take their place more than a score of hooks, died
along by the side of the nine [Monday Of heart disease. She has
ungrateful lepers who were 1-een in poor health for mouths, and
healed bill WjOllld not retlrfh 1o l-'.d received only close friends arC *lle accident Immediately became
give thanks. i visitors. j a,-«ry and told thf boys that they the combined purpose of sum-
Of course (he government has • __ must pay for the oar at once. I mer fallowing and purchasing seed
Condemning and
Slaughter Cattle
Continuing Here
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No order as yet to move fur-
ther cattle to market from Gray-
son county has been received by
government agents in charge of A
AA drouth cattle purchases, but
checking and slaughtering of con-
demned cattle is proceeding this
week.
An order making Grayson and
Collin counties a two-county dis-
trict for cattle inspection and pur-
chase, transferring H. P. Penix,
appraiser, and Howard Ellis of
McKinney to Grayson and Collin
to work with Dr. A. C. Bolle, in-
spector, was received Monday.
The order carried the informa-
tion that the men would work
three days of the week in Gray-
son and three in Collin county.
They are beginning their work this
week in Grayson.
An uncounted number, estimat-
WhoHidThe
Pistol Solved
in J. P. Court
Joe Carter, negro, was fined on
dollar and costs in Justice cour'
Monday afternoon before Judge M
M. Scholl for posesslng ar.d con-
cealing stolen property In the form
of a pistol that was taken from the
car of Ike Large as it was parked
on the street several days ago.
The justice court room was pack-
ed with both whites and blacks for
the trail and many witnesses tes-
tified pro and cor. In the matter.
As the story came out at the trial
the pistol was taken by other neg-
roes who hid It under the house
of Carter and then sent word to
him (Carter) that It was there and
to take care of it.
Officers, suspecting that Carter
was connected w.th the case, went
to his house ar.d forced him to
hunt for it, finally digging it up
from a trash pile near the house.
Deputy Sheriff Bart Shipp and
fT'\ course hip government has
S |been forced to take steps that
The owner, it Is said, witnessing ! for emergency crop loans, covering eci as between 600 and 700 appli- Deputy Constable Wesley Barnhill
1 the accident Immediately became! loans for general purposes and loam:! cations for sale of cattle, has been made the arrest of Carter Saturday
received by Marvin Hogan, who is night,
handling the office detail in con- ______
CHICAGO, III—Ellice Wright, 28,
are rather extraordinary bntlwb0 was stabbed in th§ heart with
an unusual occasion had to be an ice pick in a. quarrel with >
niet and there Was no time to j woman, chatted with the physician
sit around. Action Was pnoni-l while three stitches were taken hi
ised by the Democratic admin-' his heart. The stitches were taken
istration under Roosevelt and directly in the heart mu Mile nn.i
action Was given. ] barring complications, Wright will
Any lair-minded Ilian knows recover. some manuevering around, on.
__ ! tlie boys succeeded in getti
..._......WASHINGTON-Pretzeis will have «f his wearing apparel an •
what it V, t ; a few months ago. j e blue eagle twist from now on. A l°wn for aid. Offlc.
That is omethillg lor which 1 new code announced by the NRA > a“J Barn..ill, utter hr
we Should be thankful, rather prescribes a forty hour week and j ,5t0i * 01 t‘ie h°y return:
than become critical of the pro wages of 40c ar.d hour for machln: B‘e river bank and i.v.
that this nation is on the way!
to recovery and is far ahead .of i
Being told they had no money,
the Irate owner of the oar, grabbed
the clothes of the boys and mad
known his intention to keep them
until Ihe damage was paid for In
full.
This action Immediately compli-
cated matters for the boys, but with
of
for winter wheat, rye or barley, is
extended to Sept. 15. There Is no
time limit or. loans covering vege-
table or truck planting.
New Denison
Directory Just
Destroy Breeding
Places Mosquito
i States Police
flaws
operators and oven men, with i and
twisters, If men, 22 1-2 cents, mid if
women, 30c.
't part .
'•■adD,;
Shipp |
; the
h him
,ed the
return
Off The Press
I-.:,
gram and look for
think exist.
The position of the president
lias been when men came to
him with complaints as to tiff WASHINGTON-Prcsident F.oose
manner in which It is program ' velt ordered Increased Federal re-
WHS wbrkillg, tjO put such par- I lief for the drouth ravaged West,
ties ill charge of some of the Monday. He directed Aubrey Wil-
tllings they thought needed to hams, acting Federal emergency ro-
be bundled differently. Tile lief administrator, to begin mimed-
result WHS that they were glad iate purchase of surplus fodder and
to ei. e their harping. That* fruit crops. The fodder will be giv-
js the best way to end the car-] en to the many thousands of stare j about thirty feey across the line
eer of most of these self-elected ed cattle, while the meat will be on the Texas side. That was all
critics. canned. I they wanted to know for they lm-
nuuD that he would hav
the clothes to the boys.
This he refused to do with the
assertion that he did not have to
obey the officers as he was stand-
ing on the Oklahoma side of tin-
line and they had no jurisdiction.
The officers however, were too
wise for the mar.-.
nection, at the headquarters of
the county agent, B. F. Gray. The
government men are being routed
out over contiguous areas as
speedily as possible. They will
have to return later to buy cattle
for shipping as only the condemn-1 -
ed animals are being inspected Mosquitoes have became a nui-
and disposed of now. sance within the city the last few
Saturday a total of 273 head weeks and many complaints have
were condemned and slaughtered come to the police department I
- the men visiting 11 farms in the within the past few days asking j
A new Denison city directory, course of the day The largest that investigations be made in dif- j
reflecting a wholesale change in number were shot at the Marshall ferent parts of the city for breed-1
listing, etc., since the last edition ranch in Delaware, where a num- mg places of the insects, ]
was published in 1929, has just ber of men have cattle among a Special mention was made | Denison people sweltered
come off the press. It is published herd of around TOO. The broad Tuesday morning of a place in the through another night of heat
by the John F. Worley Directory, prairies of this 1,700 acre ranch southwest part of the city near Monday night and the thermomet-
Co., of Dallas, publishers of lead-i are too dry to support half that the outskirts of the city of an old er registered its coolest at six
number, it was said. well about twenty feet deep that | o’clock Tuesday morning when it,
Condemnation was completed is releasing the insects in largelstood at eighty-seven degrees,
as follows, for individual owners, droves. The place is said to be* Many citizens could be heard
Harry Hudgins, 38; Wood and near highway seventy-five. (commenting on its as being one
Barnes, 70, C. D. Anderson, 22;
Monday Night
Hottest This
Summer, Said
ing Texas city directories.
Regardless of back to the farm
movements and the ravages of de-
pression, the records of the di-
The line ha l rectory publishers indicate an in-
A special appeal today was is- j of the hottest nights that we have
several times before been pointed ] crease jn population here over M. S. Hall, 4; C. L. Spradling, 1; sued to the people for an investi-j had this summer and one of the
out to them and a swift look around j j92Q g. C. (before the crash). B. F. Wood, 6; I. A. Knight, 3; gation by each citizen of their hottest in several years,
showed the man to be standing with only those seventeen years W. R. Hughes, 1; V. S. Anderson., own premises and if a bad place] Monday afternoon although not
Whre were Ihese rectifiers
befpre Mr. Roosevelt took
charge-? They were in the
same hole with the rest of the
fellows, cussing Republicans
and looking for a new deal and
a new leader. Now that they
have such a one, and have be-
gun to be lifted out of their
desperate condition, they turn
to their trade of trying to dis-
count their good amaritau.
There is back oi! it a subtle
propaganda and in times like
A Thousand Miles
FROM
Walter Winchell
] mediately told the mar. that un
less the clothes were returned he
would find himself in the county
Jail This was soothing powders,
j the clothes were returned and all
left happy with the exception of
] the camper, who could he heard
mumbling under his breath
Imagine the chagrin of u local
young man who was to have a( -------
date with a married woman of the ^
city, the husband allegedly being Nnok Satldwich
absent from the township. The
of age and above listed, the 1929 < 2; Joe Page, 2.
edition contained 8,448 names,
while the new one has 9,608.
| Denison is egaged in 216 dif-
ferent kinds of business and pro-
, fessional enterprises, the direc-
tory publishers found. Some of
; these varieties have one represen-
tative each; some dozens each
“Beer” is a new comer in the clas-
sified columns of a Denison city
directory.
The new directory embraces
340 pages and includes such fea-1
Is
young man drove up to the lady’s
I ... I ...... “ home as ner schedule and was g-.-t -
these, when the nation has been 1 ,
deelai. 1 to be ,on an cncrgcncv **t...g out (,t th* cav wl’en *romi
prograVi, such persons arc not the vic,nity ol th‘‘ l>°™h therf
> far from being guilt'- of os- bellowed a masculine voice with
’ the query, “Well, what the H~—
Shop Celebrates
9th Anniversary
This week marks the ninth an-
North Texas
Singing Meet
Big Success
Ti e annual North To.via singing
Convention camo to -i close lar,:
Sunday afternoon with the best at-
tures as a story of the “Gate City tendance that they ever hid, ae-
of Texas,” names of government cording to B. B. New land, chairman-
ofifeers, householder’s guide, of the meet who expressed himself
identifying by a symbol tenant- as well pleased in every respect,
owned homes, and a list of names! Singers from :UI parts of North
distinguishing married and single I Texas and Southern Oklahoma were
persons, white and colored pec-! Present and Includes quartets from
is found, either destroy it, -#c if I the hottest of the summer by
you know of any place, notify the! nearly three deigrees, was hot and
police and they will handle the] keenly felt by the citizenry. At
matter. three in the afternoon, the regia-
_ ‘ tration was one hundred and six
j and the thermometer remained ak>
j most stationary until seven in the
! evening, when it stated on a slight
1 decline.
A checking Tuesday morning
showed at ten a. m. a reading of
ninety-eight degrees, a rise of
eleven degrees in four hours.
_ pionage. Certainly they lie- — -»—•> - . , «««>«• ........— - , - ------ — ------- rwi . .,,
W serve nothing Short of severest do you want?” You ask us did the njverBary of the Nook Sandwich ■ sons, heads of houses and room-| DaIlas- MadM, Mtehmney and Coiim
condemnation themselves for at bo>' >iut on the seram act? Would Chop, according to V. Roberts, ers, employers and employes, cor- *"'* ..........
u time when the nation stands you? ! 'ri’° ,n"
in need of cooperation, they |
are doing what they can to Richafds tO Be
proprietor. The local institution porations and partnerships, etc.
- was founded in 1925 and has been] Tha publishers explained that, as
spread discord by their half-]
baked arguments and ill-timed
palaver j
Miss Mattie Belle Steel is visit-
ing in Denison, a guest of her
sister, - Willie Mae Steel and
other relatives and friends. Miss
Steel is a nurse at the Parkland
hospital in Dallas, and has been in
that city for the past two years.
Saturday, she will leave for Fort
Worth, where she will stay until
the following Wednesday, return-
ing to Dalian at that time. ;
Buried Denison
Wednesday Morn
i the installation
The rr-maina of Henry Clinton equipment.
Richards, 74, who died Friday nigh, j “For years,” states
heretofore, the new Denison City
Directory will be distributed to free
Directory libraries In all the larger
cities of Texas and to several of
the great cities of the U. S. for the
reference use of the public.
3>Hiisband «nd Wife
at 10 o'clock in f, ttle Rock, Ark.,
i cached Dei ison Tuesday morning
at 11:40. The deceased was ill lor
several weeks preeed nq his death.
He was born in Allentown, I’a„
December 23. 17."!', the son el Dir.
Mrs, John Jacob licit-hardi. Ow ng
to the fact that the name Relchanit
was so frequently mlspelled and
mispronounced, for convenience
snke it was changed to lchards
from Its original Dutch spelling. He
received his schooling .at a private
school for boys in Pennsylvania. He
had been a resident of Arkansas for
30 years. He was a retired railroad
conductor and a member of the O.
it. b.
Surviving are one s.ster, Mrs.
Dora VI. Swartz, Dallas, a former
running continuously ever since.
Mr. Roberts stated Monday after-
noon. The original location at 319
West Main street has remained
unchanged, with the exception oi'i
of all modern 1
I Mrs. .Martha Abbott succeeds
Mr Ro-I •' -'Vhney as the "first citi-
zen of Denison" and William E.
Zuvef succeeds to last place, held
by Mrs. Jennie Zook in 1929 The
surnames include those of But-
berts, “I ate at all sorts of rest-
aurants and cafes while I was on
the road, finding some with then-
good points and others with their
bad ones. I decided that I would
open up a place that incorporated
all the good features of these
places and I chose to locate it in
Denison. Thus the Nook was
born.”
"Others have tried to copy the
original idea of the Nook, but they
have failed. I try to feed people
what they want the way they want
it," Mr. Roberts added.
Mr. Roberts states that he has
always tried to employ the very
best help he could find and esti-
mates that in the nine years his
business has been located here,
cher and Carver, Frost and Snow,
Bear and Fox; F.sh, Trout, Basr,
Pike and Haddock; and B.rd, Swan,
Crane, Crow. Peacock, and Finch.
The most fanciful bulsness name
listed In the directory Is probably
the Flying rig Restaurant,
county and Shawnee.
A feature of the convention wa (
the singing of the choir of the I
Travis street Methodist church Fri- j
day night. This was ore of the1
« i
highlights of the meet. j
During the meeting special recog-
nition was given the Sams quartet
of Dallas and the Matthew sisters
from the same city.
Rev. C. T. Wharton, pa tor of
the Sherman Presbyterian where
the stnglLg was conducted, expre.-,
sed himself as well pleased With the
conduct of all and invited them
back for a session in me future.
Paving Program
Soon Completed
Says Brenneke
The present paving program was
nearing completion Tuesday morn-
ing with only three and ore-quar-
ter blocks of the 32 block program
left unfinished. Par, of the 200
block West Munson street, the TOO
i and 800 blocks of West Crawford
! street and the 700 block West Chest-
I nut street alone had to he r-om-
I pleted, accordlrg to A. M. Brenneke
' elty engineer, supervising the pro-
I ject.
Demonstrations
Lighting Systems
Shown T o Board
TOM HUNTER TO SPEAK
IN HOUSTON STREET
PARK TONIGHT AT
7:30
resident ot Denison who Is now dan- , thfct hg hag a(Jded jn the
gerouzly ill at tlie borne of her
nelce, Mrs. R. C. Foster. In Dallas;
another noh-e, Mrs 9. 7. Johnson.
Tulsa. Oklahoma
Funeral services will lie held
neigh-
borhood of |40,000 to the payrolls
of Denison.
Free coffee and cake between
1:30 and 4:30 p. m. Wednesday
is the promise of Mr. Roberts to
If the telephone rings while my
wife is talking, it doesn’t make any
difference to her. She's got to iin-
ish what she’s saying before she
will answer it.— 1. J. C. i
WHAT DOES YOUR WIFE DU
Wednesday morning at 10:30 from
Urn Hnlton-Swank Funeval home those attending the Nook’s birth-
wll-h Dr. J. 9. Hodges, pastor of the j day party.
First Presbyterian church, officla
ting. Interment will
view cemetery.
be In Falr-
Advertia* in Tha Daniton Praia
Tom Hunter of Wichita Fail*
candidate for Governor of Texas 1 i
the runoff with James Allred of
the same city, will speak In the h
terest of his candidacy at the Hous-
ton street park in Sherman tonight
at 7:30 o'clock.
Hunter has many friends in Deni-
son- and many of them have Indica-
ted their Intention of going to the
Holy City and listen to his plea
for votes.
A band concert will precede his
address.
At a meeting Monday afternoon
before the high school officials,
representatives of Crouse-Hinds,
electrical supply house, demon-
Work was temporarily suspended
Tuesday, awaiting the arrival of
more asphalt from Port Neelies
which is expected to arrive here
about next Monday, according to
Mr. Brenreke,
Many people have been inquiring
the purpose ot the gravel that Is
being laid on each side of the
street on the old paving, and why
It is not being placed In the center
of the streets. The original paving
like the present variety was found
to be too thin, so in 1931 an 18 foot
str.p of asphalt and chats was laid
down on top of the old paving.
The sides were not completed at
that time, Mr. Brenneke explained.
Denison will have a total of 69
blocks paved with thle type paving
when the present project U com-
pietod, Mr. Brenneke stated.
AGED WOMAN RECEIVES
BROKEN HIP FROM FALL
Mrs. A. L .Sharp, about 70,
strated their reflector type flood celved a broken hip Monday uf-
lighting system which the school ternoon when she fell while walk-
authorities are contemplating pur-j Ing In- the backyard of her home
chasing for installation at the new on South Seventh avenue Becom-
football field at Forest Park. No -ng dizzy, possibly from the ex-
action was taken by the officials, treme heat, Mrs. Sharp Is reported
this being deferred to a later to have fallen In such a position
date | that her hip was fractured.
Members present at the meet-1 The injured lady was removed to
ing were W. B. Munson, president the SL*ed cllnic Tuea<5*y
of the school board, A. M. Bren- "lorninS ln an ^ulance "here she
neke, city engineer, and Dr. F. B. b* *;ven medical attention.
Hughes, superintendent of local. —
schools. I Advertise in Tha Danlaan Praia
f I
More Counties
Placed Drought
Loan Area Now
The form credit admlnlstrttiaa
today announced an additional Nat
of emergency relief drought coun-
ties which places the entire etata
of Kansas and 27 cour-tlee In six
other states ln the primary, emer-
gency drought loan area.
The new add'tions give a total
of 1067 counties In twenty one states
ln which loans from the recently
appropriated relief fund may be
made to purchase feed for livestock
to purchase forage crops or to move
livestock to new pasture and range
lat-d-e. App’lcatton for the loans
may be mad’ to the local crop and
feed loan committee in the appli-
cant’s county. The announcement
sets Sept. 15 1934, as the final date
for receiving applications for loans
for forage production.
The additional counties placed on
the emergency drought list are:
Arkansas— Store.
Colorado-Jefferson, Sedgwick and
Teller.
Kansas—All counties,
! Minnesota—Becker, Clay Pir.-e
and Wadena.
Montana—Broadwater.
Nebraska—Antelope, Cedar, Chans
Grant, Keith, Morrill, Pierce, Wash-
ington and Wayne.
Texas—Harrison, Jasper, Newton,
Panola, Polk, Sabine, San Augus-
tine, Shelby and Tyler.
Colbert Youth
Dies in Denison
Of Heart Attack
James L. Chumley, 21, died at 5:10
Tuesday morning at the City Hos-
pital following a heart attack. The
deceased resided rear Colbert, Ok ,
on Route 1 where he had lived for
-one month He wXs taken, sick
Monday and had been ln the hos-
pital only eight houra when death
took him. He was born April IS,
1913 at Plar.o, the son of Mr. and
Mrs. D. G. Chumley. He was a
farmer by occupation
He was a member of the Church
of Christ of Colbert
Surviving are his mother, Mrs.
Polly A. Chumley, Columbia, Tenn;
Four brothers, W J and D. II. of
Colbert and W. M ind Clarence of
Columbia, Term three listers, Mrs.
Louise Clr.-lmon, Arthur, Tenn., Mrs.
Bessie Brown, Colbert and Mrs.
Roxie Mae England, Achille, Okla.
Burial arrangements are awaiting
Instructions from relatives. The
remains are now in the Short-
Murray Funeral home.
Dresses Stolen
From Showcase
Perkins Brothers
Thieves broke open the door of
the show case In front of Perkins
Brothers company sometime Mon-
day night and stole two dresses
that were being displayed In the
case.
Officers were notified of the
robbery and are making an In-
viUgation.
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