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ROCKDALE REPORTER
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and he took his medicine at
*UC^eral election. Furthermore.
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ADVERTISING
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Rockdale Messenger Established 1873
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THE OLDEST AND BEST
Rockdale Reporter Established V
VOL. 60 NO. 19
kOCKoaLE, MILAM COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 33, 1333
SIX PAG*,
r. ug. with Texas, and
f tue Ferguson administration of
JtS will go down in history as
really accomplished some-
tor the tax ridden citizens of
I commonwealth No Governor
“Lever entered the office has ever
W a harder task assigned than has
wre Ferguson; and by the same
tLfn the opportunity that is hers
to make a record that will stand for
5 .ime to come in this state is the
Latest ever afforded an executive.
EL good citizen should at this
,jmP endeavor to forget animosities
Jthe past and join in wishing for
Lenior Ferguson a full fruition ot-
her hopes and promises. Reporter-
Ld hopes that she will be given
Mpful consideration by the Legis-J
tare, and tha; ’he present legis-
ta« session will be marked for itsI
iriUingness to co-operate and that
its accomplishments may redound to
Ihe credit of the executive as well
as the legislative branch of our state
jjienunent.
D. JAMIESON, Uie ‘ Window
Seat” mail, believes in an in-
tad currency for the cure of the
ilk brought on by the depression.
Let Uncle Sain put more currency
to circulation; money Is what is
needed to bring farm produce back
to normal prices, and make for pros -
perity generally. To illustrate, he
tells the following story:
SUPPLIES GIVEN TO 406 PEOPLE BY RED CROS
K
Throngs Acclaim Airs. Ferguson As Governor LOCAL CHAPTK
Unemployed Get Jobs on Streets and
Roads; Fence Moving Ls Now
Progressing on Highway
SufmOATH TAKEN BY
WOMANSECOND
TUBE, 7 YEARS
Husband is “By Her
Side” During Inaug-
ural Ceremony
I.
tte
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A traveling man went into a coun-
try hotel early one morning; gave
the clerk a $100 bill saying he didn't
want to carry that much money
Bound with him all day; the clerk
put the bill in the safe; the hotel’s
butcher called to collect the $100
he him; the cashier gave him tliis
traveling man's $100; the butcher
paid his rent. $100; the landlord
paid his lawyer, who paid the doc-
tor. who owed the hotel and gave
them back the ame $100 bill, and
the hotel in turn gave the traveling
back his $100 bill. Afterwards
traveling man, chatting with
his big-city friend laughed about
the joke he had played on the "hick”
hotel, saying the bill was stage mon-
ey. and then he proceeded to light
his cigar with the bill.
But all those debts were paid, just
the same, and the parties to the
transactions were all happier.
Reporterman is inclined to be-
lieve Mr. Jamieson is right. After
reading his column regularly all last
year this scribe formed a most fav-
orable opinion of Jamieson’s views
on problems of state. Reporterman
is hoping for the day when there
*H1 again be sufficient money in
circulation for this newspaper to be
*be to afford to pay Jamieson to
tupply us his weekly feature from
Washington.
“I HAVE always known Rockdale
People were honest, and have
®*cmed them for t.heir integrity of
character, but in my opinion they
wre put to the supreme tost last
^ght. and the test only added to
®Y esteem,” said Conuty Tax Co-
j*tor Roy Law to Reporterman
wturday. In explanation, let it. be
®aid that Mr. Law. while collecting
®*es at the Rockdale State Bank
Qay, bought some country sau-
JJf from Herbert, Menu. He laid
7° e“Aage up 0n a window ledge,
wn when he went home forgot it.
wturday morning when ho came
« from Cameron he found his
wusago where he had left it. “Even
• Rockdak bankers are honest,”
r Law said. And Reporterman,
ung eaten some of Menu’s sau-
C.e' >s willing to agree that any-
J who wouldn’t, steal country
“usage is “tolerable honest.”
PASTURE toward economy made
ari/JJb* T°xas Senate when it
arv J C ua resoluti°n to cut the sal-
Ie8lslators from $10 a day
Houxi °f58 niot dofoat when the
their ’ uWfU8e(i to (’-oncilr' Indicating
pj_ T°s!y of l)UrPose Senators
T??. ?efn*y and Blackert. sent
J and had adopted a resolution fix-
Salaries at $« a day, and
•bsJt , 'hat when shall be
ly $t nunc*Cusod "hey will draw on-
(1 ( Senator Poage, who
E?? this district, has ^been a
hte^ntoSe°my ^ MnCe hC
I ^^R1T,RMaN enjoyed a .short
^day from Jack
1 -1*’ odlt»r and publisher of
EXPENDITURES for labor of
“ the R. F. C. relief funds
made available through Pre-
cinct Chairman John M. Weed,
have proceeded with rapidity
and order during the past week.
More than twenty-five men
have boon given work every day
on various projects, such as
street and road work and fence
moving on Highway 44. Jack
Richards and his workmen on
the south leg of the highway-
have moved more than three
miles of fences, Mr. Weed stat-
ed Tuesday. Moving the fences
on the Minerva end has also
proceeded rapidly, this work be-
ing almost completed.
PIONEER WOMAN
DIES TUESDAY
AT HOME HERE
Death Comes to Mrs.
J. F. Coffield Sr. Af-
ter Short Illness
Austin, Jan. 17.—'Mrs. Miriam A.
Ferguson came back to the office of
governor of Texas today, while an-
cient cannon boomed a seventeen
gun salute and a throng that over-
flowed the house of representative.-,
and blocked capitol rotundas and
departmental offices cheered their
I acclaim.
For the second time In seven years j
Mrs. Ferguson placed her left hand
Ion a Bible mellowed with age thru
I its long use in that capacity, and
swore she would "faithfully and im-
partially discharge and perform all
the duties incumbent” upon her.
By her side was her former gov-
ernor husband, James E. Ferguson,
himself twTice elected chief executive
of the state.
It must have been a satisfying re-
entry to control the Fergusons ex-
perience today Bands paraded wet
[ pavements over the capital city from
morning until night, blaring a “wel-
come back" to the 57-year old grand
mother. "Ma and Pa” partisans,
who had stood with the gubernator-
ial couple through many hectic cam-
paigns, came to town from great
distances to offer good wishes.
An inaugural ball in three sections,
one in the spacious University of
DIVIDEND OF SIX
PER CENT MADE
BY B. AND L.
P. H. Perry is Head of
B. & L. Association
For New Year
Following an illness of only two
days. Mrs. J. F. Coffield Sr. died at
her home in this city about jL00 [^xas” auditorium7and the'others to
hotels, tonight afforded an oppor-
o’clock Tuesday morning. Thus
losses another of the early-day pio-
neers of Rockdale and Milam county.
Mrs. Coffield became suddenly ill
about midnight Saturday, with an
attack of acute indigestion. She j
tunity for the merrymakers to give
vent to their gratification. The Fer-
gusons themselves stood at the head
of a receiving line in the university
auditorium to receive congratula-
was apparently in her usual state of tionfi< old fa&hioned square dances
good health until that time. , mi th*> nriwam to accommo-
Hawkins is
coming” young
one Sr?u>beck Joumal.
Mito? ^VUp'and- -......o
The ^ of W
' if " dean °T the newspaper
P l- Erath county. Jack
!<ler JL„1# Paper business un-
Iftak EATKW wh*ch tend to
l^likl aJ?al €di1'or and a busi-
Funeral services w-ere conducted
at the family residence Wednesday
morning at ten o’clock, Rev. J. P.
Love, Episcopal minister, officiating.
Interment was in the family burial
plot at the Old City Cemetery. The
pall bearers were Messrs. Ed Pre-
witt, Jim Eads. Fritz Schifkratft,
John T. Hale. W. C. Marrs and C.
M. Perry.
Mrs. Coffield ls survived by one
son, J. F. Coffield Jr., and one
daughter. Mrs. P. H. Perry 6r„ and
two grandsons, P. H. Perry Jr. and
Thomas Coffield.
Mrs. Coffield, whose maiden name
was Annie A. Cawthon, was born In
Tennessee, ilie family later moving
to Texas and settling at Balado.
See MRS. COFFIELD. Page 6
I were on the program
date some of the pioneers who are
not ,so familiar with modern tunes.
The gubernatorial party was form-
ed by men and women distinguished
in military and civil life.
Governor Sterling remained in his
executive office until his term ex-
pired at noon, then departed for
his former home in Houston.
Ross Volunteers from A. and M.
College served as a gubernatorial
escort.
Miss Lillian Seller, of Temple, who
made her opera debut in Milan,
Italy, last month, rendered several
solos, concluding with “The Eyes of
See FERGUSON. Page 6
2 Years Suspended
Sentence Given To
Maysfield Robbers
Cameron. Jan. 16.—Two years sus-
pended sentences in each of the case
of Charles Barmore and Eugene
Crawford, charged with, burglary,
were given in district court Monday
morning.
The boys were charged with bur-
glary of the home of Warren Hern-
don. at Maysfield, on the night of
December 29, when $5.66 in money
was taken. Herndon is principal of
the Maysfield school.
R; C. Traweek Shot
When Gun in Hands
Of Son Discharges
Rockdale relatives were called to
Austin Monday by news of an acci-
dental shooting in which R. C. Tra-
week had been seriously wounded
Sunday. A shotgun in the hands of
one of Mr. Traweek’s small sons was
discharged, the charge striking him
in the abdomen.
Tuesday he was reported resting
easily at an Austin hospital, and it
was thought that the wound would
not prove fatal.
Mr. Traweek is well known here,
his wife being a daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. D. B. McMillan.
Check Dated 1874 Found
In Attic Of Local Hotel
Old Papers Found Include $500
Check Drawn on Bank of
Isaac .Talonick & Co.
R. Estell, local tinner and plumber,
while making repairs on the roof of
the Rockdale Hotel one day last
week, found in the attic of -the
building a bank check dated June
1. 1874. The check was drawn dn
tlie bank of Isaac Jalonick <te Co.,
Bankers, and was for $500. made
payable to Howell & Howell, and
signed by George G. Wicker or Wit-
cher.
Some of the older residents of the
city remember that Isaac Jalonic
opened the first bank in Milam
county when the town was establish-
ed in 1874, and erected and occupied
a. rock building which is still stand-
ing and a part of the present Rock-
dale Hotel, formerly known as the
Wolf Hotel. All names on the check
are familiar to old timers here but
no representatives of those families
are residents here now.
APPOINTMENTS 9^^/^vnEAY
ANNOUNCED BY
NEW LEADER
The Rockdale Building & Loan
Association, at its annual meeting
recently declared a 6 per cent an-
nual dividend, and the following of-
ficers and directors were elected for
the ensuing year;
P. H. Perry, president; M. N.
Strieker, vice president; W. C.
Marrs, secretary-treasurer. Direct-
ors: H. H. Coffield, H. T. Coulter,
C. M. .Sessions. W. E. Gaither, E.
A. Camp, P. H. Perry and M. N.
Strieker.
While the association has never
cut any wide swrath in the world of
finance it has made steady progress
and has declared a dividend every
year since its establishment. It has
been the means of dozens of citizens
owning their own homes.
COUNTY DIVIDED INTO 3
GROUPS FOR CAGE PLAY
County Basketball Champions to be
Decided by Round Robin Be-
fore February 11th
Milam county was divided into
three groups, A. B and C, and de-
tails of deciding the basketball
championship of the county were
worked cot yesterday p_t o mpphinp1
of county Interscholastic League of-
ficials and cage coaches in Cam-1
eron. Winners in each class must!
be determined by February 4, and
the county winner by the following
week, according to Ralph H. Gay.
coach of the Rockdale school.
Only two teams, those of Rock-
dale and Cameron, are in the Class
A division. Eight schools are in-
cluded in Class B and 16 In Class
C, which is composed of rural
schools. The round robin form of
play has been adopted, and no
county tournament will be had this
year.
In the class A division, the first
game between Rockdale and Cam-
eron is scheduled to be played in
Rockdale Friday night of next week,
with the second game tentatively set
for the following Wednesday in
Cameron. Coach Gay states that
a change may be made in the sec-
ond game schedule, however.
The local basketeers of Rockdale
high school, both boys and girls
teams, will meet the cagers from
Sharp at the city hall court here
tonight at 7 p. m. Friday night the
Tigers will play Rosebud here.
Hutchings Named Ad-
jutant General and
Heath Sec. State
Austin. Jan. 14.—Mrs. Miriam a.
Ferguson, governor of Texas, today
announced a list of those who will
be appointed by her to head some of
the major departments of state.
Brigadier General Henry Hutch-
ings of Fort Worth was selected to
be adjutant-general.
W. W. Heath, former county judge
of Grimes county, was named sec-
retary of state.
Jack Flynn of Houston was chosen
commissioner of labor.
F. L. Denison of Temple was des-
ignated to be a member of the high-
way commission.
H. J. Lutcher Stark of Orange, Dr.
K. H. Aynesworth of Waco, and L.
J. Sulak of LaGrange were named
to the board of regents of the Uni-
versity of Texas.
A. & M. Director Picked
E. J. Kiest of Dallas was renamed
to membership on the board of di-
rectors of Texas A. & M. College, a
place he held under the adminis-
tration of Gov. R. S. Sterling.
Members of the live stock sanitary
board were named as follows: Leo
Callan of San Antonio, chairman.
Dr. E. F. Jarrell of Smith county,
and W. M. Glenn of Angelina coun-
ty.
A. J. Power of Fort Worth was
made assistant secretary of state,
and Henry Owsley of Denton, a bro-
ther of Colonel Alvin Owsley of
Dallas, was designated blue sky com-
missioner in that department.
Miss Frederick Turner of Wash-
ington county was appointed cashier
in the secretary of state’s office.
Mayo Neyland Jr., of Greenville,
who served as a lieutenant in the
144th infantry overseas during the
world war, was named assistant ad-
jutant-general.
Lawrence McGee of Dallas was
made quartermaster-general.
Ranger Captains
Ranger captains designated were
J. E. Vaugh of Presidio county, D.
E. Hamer of Dallas county, James
Robbins of Bexar county, H. T. O’-
Neal of Pecos county, R. W. Aldrich
of Travis county, and E. H. Ham-
mond of Harris county.
Rockdale Girl Stenographer
J. H. Davis Jr., of Temple, was
Uncle. Billy Dykes Was Negro Slave
Before Civil War Days for the
Familj’ of Lee Williams
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'JCLE BILLY DYKE£ 96-
year old negro citizen of
the Liberty Hill community in
Milam county, died at his home
in that community Saturday.
The burial was held Sunday af-
ternoon and was attended by a
number of white friend: from
Rockdale and other sections of
the county.
Uncle Billy had lived in this
county longer than most local
citizens can remember. He was
a slave before the Civil Wai
being owned by the Lee Willi-
ams family. He acquired quite
a competency in lands and pro-
perty, and was recognized as a
leader among his race in the
Liberty Hill section.
MEAD BROTHERS
GET CONTRACT
ON DEEP TEST
Oklahoma Crew Ex-
pects to Spud in at
Tanglewood Soon
CLOTHES nm
65 FAMILIES
Still Many More Needy
To be Served; Sup-
ply Getting Low
Sixty-nine families have been
clothed and 406 people given assis-
tance in clothing and supplies by
the local branch of the Red Cross
since the opening of the work room,
according to a report Wednesday by
Mrs. Ren Loewenstein, Red Cross
chairman for this precinct.
Mrs. Loewenstein states that her
investigations reveal the fact that
there are still many needy people
to be served, and that the stock of
clothing and supplies furnished her
is about exhausted. However, she
is expecting another shipment from
Red Cross headquarters, as well as
another shipment of flour. Two
shipments of floitr have already
been given out.
Some of the families served have
numbered as high as 16 people; oth-
ers as lew as two, the general aver-
age being five to the family.
Mrs. Loewenstein’s report shows
the following invoice of supplies
handled by her up to Wednesday:
22 pair men’s pants, 170 1-2 yards
cheviot, 36 pair men’s socks, 31 pair
light weight men’s socks, 68 pair
women's hose, 34 pair children’s
hose, 7 suits women’s unions. 13
suits boys’ unions, 37 pair men’s
unions, 249 1-2 yards prints, 250
yards gingham, 62 1-2 yards birds
eye, 31 5-8 yards white outing, 18
suits children’s unions, 12 men’s
overalls, 6 men’s jumpers, 7 pair
boys' knickers, 6 pair boys’ over-
alls. 11 pair infant's hose, 125 yards
muslin, 99 yards light outing, 62
1-2
yards dark outing.
See A FPol NTTMEN TS, Page 6
Negro Man Given
Thirty Days in Pen
For Turkey Theft j W. M. Dees Dies At
A crew of fifteen men, headed by
Chas. Mead, are now at work on
the Stewart-Paten deep test on the
Turner farm near Tanglewood. The|yardfi DjXie print shirting, 167
derrick has been moved to a loca- ‘
tion 300 feet from the old test, and
the work of setting the machinery
is under wav. Mead Brothers, of
TuLsa. Okla., are the contractors.
The drilling rig will be powered
by a battery of three Waukesha
gasoline motors, each of 375 horse
power, this being the first gasoline
powered rig ever set up in Milam
| county.
Mr. Brown, one of the crew mem-
bers, stated Saturday that they hop-
ed to spud in this week, and that
700 feet of 15-inch surface casing
would be set, and that later sev-
eral thousand feet of ten-inch would
be set and every precaution used to
obviate losing another hole by reas-
on of the quicksand known to un-
derly that .section.
The Edwards drilling company lost
two holes on this test last year when
1 the drill stem “froze” in quicksand
formation, the first hole at around
onon f
feet. *
Local Girl Given
Position in Office
With Fergusons
Rockdale friends of Miss Cora
Langston were delighted to learn
Monday that she had received ap-
pointment as private stenographer
in the Governor’s office at Austin.
During the political campaign last
year Miss Langston was given em-
ployment as stenographer In the
Ferguson campaign headquarters In
Austin, and so well did she fulfill
her duties as such that her new ap-
pointment followed.
Miss Langston, following her grad-
uation from a business college, re-
ceived office training in Rockdale
under W. H. Bird well, local oil man
and promoter. Here she manifested
unusual ability, with accuracy and
In district, court last Monday Har-
jvey Wilson, colored, charged with
theft of turkey, was given 30 days
in the state penitentiary.
Wilson was under a two year sus-
pended sentence for forgjery and
passing from September term, 1931.
of the court, and being again con-
victed of a felony. Judge Gillis sen-
tenced him to the penitentiary in
the former case after revoking the
suspended sentence.
The case of the State vs. Charles
Stanford is set for Monday, Janu-
ary 23.
and the second at 57001 neatness as an outstanding feature
j of her work. Her Rockdale friends
feel that among all the appoint-
ments to be made by Texas’ new
Governor none will be more deserv-
ing than Miss Langston, who is
known and esteemed a; a young
lady of the highest type of character
and personality.
His Home in Milano
Saturday, Jam 14th
W. M. Dees, 70, truck farmer, died
at the home of his daughter, Mrs.
C. L. Martin, in Milano. Saturday
after an illness of four months.
Mr. Dees had made his home in
Milano for 44 years. He was a mem-
ber of the W. O. W. Services were
conducted from the Milano Baptist
church Sunday.
Three children survive; Mrs. Ottie
Morgan. Mrs. C. L. Martin, and John
Dees.
50 Years Ago Rockdale
Man Made Bid on Capitol
One-Time Mayor of Rockdale
Offered to Build Capitol
For 2,970,000 Acres
TWO BANKS AT TIIORNDALE I
CONSOLIDATE THIS WEEK j
Effective this week the First Na-
tional Bank of Thorndale and the
Thomdale State Bank have con-
solidated under the name of the
Thorndale State Bank. The merg-
ed institution will occupy the State
bank building.
Tlie 50-years-ago column of the
Dallas Morning News recently con-
tained the following Item:
“The bids for the Capitol lands
were opened yesterday. Walter
Schell of Rock Island, HI., offered >
erect the building for 3,000.000 acres.
A A. Burck of Rockdale offered to
build for 2,970,000 acres. Both bids
were backed by syndicates.”
A. A. Burck, mentioned in the
paragraph, was at one time mayor
of Rockdale, and old residents here
remember that when he left this city
he went to Austin and had some-
thing to do with the construction of
the Capitol building. The Burck
home occupied the site of the pres-
ent E. B. Phillips residence on North
Green street.
Former Rockdale
Man Made Manager
County Poor Farm
E. G. Lowe, former prominent far-
mer of the Forest Grove community,
south of Rockdale, but for the past
year living in the Salem commun-
ity, was named last week manager
of the county iioor farm by the com-
missioners court. It is understood
Mr. Lowe will take charge of his new
duties on February 15.
Dr. W. R. Newton, of Cameron,
was named county health officer, a
position he has held for several
years.
Gidding-s Citizens
Busy on Highway 77
Right-of-way Work
The commissioners court sat Wed-
nesday in conference with the com-
mittees securing the right-of-way
for Federal highway 77 through Gid-
dings from the Fayette county lino
near Warda to the intersection with
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