The Rockdale Reporter and Messenger (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. [47], No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 22, 1920 Page: 1 of 10
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the ’Rockdale
AND MESSENGER
Established 1878
The Best Newspaper Milam County Ever Had"
TEXARKANA
BY BANDITS
[\ FACES DEATH
NOTICE
KATE COMMITTEE in-
ATION BRINGS out
cal testimony
H» VO vail Kmii •nijmavvtol
by the government cennus
agent? If not, report to The
Rockdale Reporter.
now
Senate committee
t gjn Antonio an inveati-
jlexican outrages againat
heard testimony the other
ii„ Anita Whatley, a niece
Longmire, of Rocktla1®'
initley is the daughter of the
A H Whatley, who died at
|ire farm home five miles
town about two years ago.
family, Dr. Whatley went to
„ his health 30 years ago.
lttlated property there worth
but in 1911 was forced to
his holdings and with his
x back to the United States
to save their lives,
hatley’s testimony is so in-
we reproduce it in full as
the San Antonio Express,
toss of her head and a smile
Bita Whatley, an attractive
arkana girl, told the Fall
nmittee yesterday at the
otel her experience in being
ainst a wall to be shot by
[bandits nt Parral, Mexico,
|a payment of $5,000, and of
andit leader took a knife and
[started to cut off one toe to
'to disclose the hiding place
noney.
hatley attempted to mini-
experience and displayed a
[roughout while she gave her
y, but the tears came at the
len she told how her invalid
[former Texas physician, was
i leave Mexico, and she said
Lose of the climate that was
| place where he could live.
hatley is now modern lan-
Jpervisor of the State Depart-
Edueation. With her two sis-
[mother and an invalid broth-
lad been afflicted with infan-
ts in his youth, they were
Parral, Mexico, where the
|manaired a dairy while the
i invalid and-a retired physi-
td on a ranch in the country
[bis health was better there,
other was awakened in a low-
|by the bandits and discovered
[room was filled with them. |
money. He said, ‘You gringoes love
money better than you do you life/
and told the men to let us go, that he
didn’t believe we had any money.
“One of our dairy hands, whom we
had suspected of being implicated with
the robbers, came to us the next day
and said he knew who the leaders
were. He offered to denounce them
provided we gave him protection. Two
men were later arrested and my moth-
er and I were taken to the jail to
identify the leaders. They were all
brought out. Mother was unable to
identify any of them. I positively
identified the leaders and the officials
announced that he stood convicted.
But later they changed judges and he
was released.”
MiBS Whatley said that one of the
bandits had pointed a revolver at her
brother but it missed fire and he thus
escaped. Soon after their experience
with the bandits they left Parral and
came to Texas. She and her sisters
came in the fall of 1911 and the moth-
er followed in February of 1912. The
property was stolen little by little
until there was nothing left. The
family has since filed a claim for $G0,-
000. The father and brother were
later forced to come out also.
RANCHMAN SHOT TO
DEATH AT MIDLAND
\!Iau.de Hearrell, Brother of Cameron
Lawyer, Killed by a Returned
Soldier
Sun Angelo, Tex., Jan. IK.—Claude
Hearrell, prominent Midland ranch-
man, who was shot to death at Mid-
land Wednesday afternoon, was bur-
ied in his home town Friday after-
noon, according to reports of the kill-
ing which first reached San Angelo
Saturday. Asa Rutland, a returned
soldier, is charged with the crime, a
telegram stated. The trouble that cul
minated in the shooting began earlier
in the day. The court house square
was the scene.
ROCKDALE, MILAM COUNTY. TEXAS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1920
fULIIIMl CALENDAR COVERING STATE
POLITICS FOR ENTIRE YEAR Of 1928 •
tion Comes This Year on November 2.—Other Important
Dates to Be Considered
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I he Republican party in choosing
its nominees this year for state, coun-
ty and precinct offices can make UBe
of either the primary system or con-
vention system; the Democrats, how-
ever, must make use of the primary
cation with district chairman by this
day. Twenty-five qualified voters may
also file.
June 14—State executive committee
of party shall meet on this day to cer-
tify to county chairman the names of
system. The reason for this is found the candidates for state offices to be
m the election laws, which provide placed upon the primary election bal-
that parties casting more than 10
000 and less than 100,000 ballots may
ftvail themselves of either procedure.
Delegates to the national convention
must be chosen by both parties
through the convention system.
lot, and to name the places for hold-
ing state convention.
Applications Filed
June 19—On or before this day can-
didates for nominations for offices
to be filled by the voters of a single
Here are the dates, fixed by law, I county or a portion thereof shall file
for the various political steps to be
taken this year:
Poll Tax Payments
Jan. 31—Last day for payment of
poll taxes or procurement of certifi-
cates of exemption.
Feb. 9—At February term of com-
missioners court shall appoint the
judges of elections.
March 10—On or before this day
each county tax collector shall make
statement to county clerk showing
number of poll tax receipts issued,
and to whom, in each precinct.
April 1—On or before this day each
ment of expenses with county judge
within ten days after election. Within
the same time candidates also must
file statements of expenses.
Aug. 9—Commissioners’ courts may
reform election precincts; shall serve
notice of changes on the presiding
judge of each precinct within ten days.
Aug. 9—State executive committees
meet to canvass returns of primary
election. Majority of votes necessary
for nomination. In case where no ma-
jority has been received, a second pri-
mary election shall be ordered to de-
cide between the two candidates who
received the highest number of votes
in the first primary.
Aug. 10—State convention of Re-
publican party.
Absentee Voters
Aug 18—Absentee voters cast bal-
lot for second primary election not
less than three nor more than ten days
before day of such election (Aug. 28).
Aug. 19—County clerks shall certify
applications for place on the primary
election ballots with county chairman.
Twenty-five qualified voters may also
file.
June 21—County executive commit-
tees meet to determine order of names . to each presiding judge the order of
on primary election ballot, to name
sub-committees to make up ballot
and to transact other business.
June 28—On or before this day can-
didates in primary election must pay
ballot fees.
July 12—Sub-committees of county
committees meet to makeup primary
election ballot.
the commissioners’ court, giving num
her, name and bounds of the election
precincts, and of their appointment
as judges. This service is to be made
by the sheriff or a constable within
ten days after the entry of such order.
Aug. 23—On or before this day per-
sons who have removed from one elec
tion precinct to another must secure
county collector shall furnish to the July 14—Not earlier than this day ; record of such removal by county tax
county election board (composed of ; (ten days before the primary elec- collector. Also on this day collector
county judge, county clerk and shev- tion day) not later than July 21 1 shall 'urnish to county election board
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Hearrell was about 40 years old and
heard a noise a short time be-1 leaves a wife and three children. He
was raised in Coke county, which ad-
joins Tom Green on the north, and
where two brothers, Will P. Hearrell
and Jobe Hearrell reside. Another
brother, Sam Hearrell, is an attorney
at Caiqeron. Will and Claude Hearrell
had a big ranch in Pecos county un-
der lease and the deceased spent much
of his time at Fort Stockton.
thought it was the dairy
isputing. Their first demand
I firearms and she gave them
ler. There was a .22-caliber
Bliss Whatley’s room and the
pnt to her room and rapped
loorto arouse her and told her
was full of Mexicans who
‘ to rob them.
Ik the rifle down to them,”
jw Whatley, ‘‘and also gave
keys to the dresser. They
r ^'tde money there was, but
sat‘sfy them. They seemed
all about our business. It
[first of the month and we pre-
thought we had collected
punts. We had 200 head of
Jersey milk cows and at
It) ^ ii
•* ‘•‘-re uv> ux uicoe.
Mon the night of July 4, 1911.
ft disappoints at the small
| of money and told us they
Former] Wl nrtrv 4>u~
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1 *y kept demanding more
Pn we kept telling them it
i 'had. They wouldn’t be-
.*!" then the leader told the
IT ,he three girls- my two
ftw me-out and shoot us.
a minutes
PAYMENT OF POLL TAXES
Pfi then
one of
everyone was
One of the arguments now being
advanced by the Texas League of
Women voters as c reason why the
women should pay their poll tax is the
financial aid the public schools will re-
ceive from such payments. This is
good; but for the life of us we do not
understand why this campaign was
not urged in 1918. The same great
need of money for the schools existed
last year as now, and the same obliga-
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lions resteu up un uic »*»«»»*.»*
now. So long as the holding of a poll
tax receipt by men was not pre-
requisite for voting, men were just
as careless about paying this tax as
the women were forgetful last year.
But the ladies are right. The poll
tax was primarily a school tax, and
♦he men took ! Gov. Hogg told the teachers of Texas
,md started to lead me | In the nineties that we were then
#,er .. .....m the nineties tnnt we were men
prom‘i i ■ < * G*e other i short of school funds because 400,000
no rrmr > ' bailor that j men in Texas were failing to pay their
‘side •' ?10I,K*y‘ bUt She Was I po11 taxos- Both mon pn<1 women
d mv ♦!' • " ,V o men lcd should pay their poll taxes, first, be-
two sisters and I were
a. WaH aru* Depurations
to shoot us.
th*m ami to°k
L ni(' by the throat
Ring tUt my ,hrout
But. he
A'airi.they demanded
'T a!r''lin had to tell them
Th;,n lhr
be Was
if
— P°*ng to cut
|»here the and ^ if We (lid
Wn^ZTWaB- It0W
Nrl°0l0ff.?np of my bed-
%h itan^di,d CUt one t0* a
, li* d,(Jn’t hurt much. I
•fain
We d'dn’t have
any
cause the tax is a debt any citizen
owes his state; and second, only by
doing so in this month can either have
an effective voice in the selection of
officers or on any other question
which will be decided by vote this
year.—Williamson County Sun.
During the recent hbwl about the
world coming to an enrton the 17th of
December, .n Kansas editor had the
following to say: “Please pay up
your subscription before the seven-
teenth as the world will come to an
end on that date and we don’t want to
go chasing all over h.......1 trying to
collect the small sum due us.”
1—Radicals boarding the "soviet ark,’’ otherwise the transport Buford, for deportation to Russia. 2 -Gen-
eral Pershing with some of the wounded Yanks on whom he called while In Chicago. 3—The Alejandrlna,
which lay on a reef In the Straits of Magellan for twenty years and recently arrived at New York from Patagonia
with a cargo of wool worth $1,500,000.
iff) certified lists of citizens of each
precinct who have paid poll taxes or
obtained exemption certificates prior
to Feb. I.
May 1—Looking to the nomination
of candidates for president and vice
president, all parties shall hold pre-
cinct conventions on this day, sending
delegates to county conventions.
May 4—County conventions of ail
parties.
Republican Convention
May 11—Republican State exccu-j
tivc committee shall meet at some
(three days before such election day) ! supplemental list of voters showing
qualified voters who expect to be out
of the county of their residence on the
day of such election may cast their
ballot with the county clerk of their
home county.
such removals. These provisions ap
ply only to cities of 10,000 or more in
habitants. Collector shall furnish full
list of qualified voters.
Aug. 25—If such lists of^voters have
July 19—On or before this day per-! not been supplied
presiding
sons who have removed from one;
election precinct to another must pro- j
sent their poll tax receipt or certifi- j
cate of exemption to the county col- j
lector for record of such iciitOVni.
Also on this day, collector shall furn-1
j jsh to county election board supple-
CENSUS ENUMERATORS
WILL ASK OF FARMERS
FACTS AND FIGURES READY
ON SHORT NOTICE
Mr. Louis Lewis, who this week
completed the taking of the census
in the north half of Rockdale, has
been appointed to take the census in
all that part of Beat 4 south of the
I. & G. N. and west of the S. A. & A.
P. railroads. This territory was to
have been covered by Miss Gusta Vo-
gel, who was forced to give it up on
account of illness.
Mr. Lewis asks The Reporter to say
that he will be on the job at once and
will push the work to completion. It
is slow work at best, Mr. Lewis says,
and he suggests that The Reporter
call the attention of the farmers to
some of the questions they will have
to answer and ask them to be pre-
pared to answer these questions
promptly, thus saving the enumerator
much time.
Here are some of the questions al-
luded to:
How many years did you work on
farm for wages?
How many years were you a ten-
ant ?
How many years have you farmed
as owner?
How long have you operated this
farm ?
Total number acres in this farm
Jan. 1, 1920?
No. acres improved land?
No. acres woodland?
Crop land in this farm?
Total value this farm Jan. 1, 1920?
Value of all buildings?
Value of all implements and ma-
chinery ?
Amount, expended in 1919 for hay,
grain, mill feed, and feed stuffs not
raised on said farm ?
. Amount expended in cash in 1919
for farm labor? ,,, •
Milk produced in 1919?
Poultry on hand Jan. 1, 1920? t
Eggs and chickens produced in
1919?
Young animals raised in 1919?
Hay and forage grown in 1919?
Corn grown in 1919?
Ollier field crops?
There are many other questions hut
these are the ones most likely to
sl<jw up the progress of the enumera-
tor, so all farmers are requested to
prepare figures on above list and be
ready to give the enumerator prompt
answers.
COUNTY JUDGE G1LL1S
INTERESTED IN OIL
New Company Organized at Cameron
of Which Judge Glllis is Elected
Treasurer
1 i Uc:ntn pVmirmnn mental lists showing such
place named by the state chairman j _ . . .
removals.
and decide whether the party will TW'S0 provisions apply ml../ .1" ' 'tier parties).
make nominations for state, district ■>' W or more mhiihifc. it. Col-
judge of election, he shall send
them.
Run-Off Primary
Aug. 23—Second primary election
(run-off).
Aug. 28— District conventions to
nominate candidates meet on this day
(both Democratic arid Republican
Sept. 1—On or before this day com-
and local offices by primary election! l(,f'tor shall also furnish ..m lists 0T i rnissioners’ courts shall file with coun-
or through the convention system, j 'pialified voters. ty collector certified copy of order
and shall certify its decision to the | July 21 If presidingjiu ges o e ' I establishing election precincts.
secretary of state.
May 25—State conventions of
Sept. 1—On or before this day pre-
siding judges shall make returns to
county chairman.
Sept. G—State executive committee
meets to canvass returns of second
primary.
Sept. 7— State Democratic nominat-
ing convention opens.
Sept. 7 -Candidates’ campaign man-
agers and others must file statements
, tion have not been furnished with
ap , certified lists of qualified voters by
may au •omnc w..»■>.■ time, they “shall send for and
parties to elect delegates to national ■
1 i procure them,
conventions. i K ^ „ .
June 7—Candidates for party nom- Day for I rimanes (j
inations to be made by primary dec- July 24—“Primary < lection ay
tion for offices to be filled by the vot - [ and “precinct convention day for
ors of the state at large shall file ap- both Democratic and Republican
plications on or before this day for parties. Primary olect.on opens at
place on the primary election ballot. 8 a. m. and closes at < p. m. (
Such applications may be filed either [ July 28—Presiding judges of elec- of cumpaiKni expenditures on or be-
l,y. the candidate or by any twenty- tion shall make returns on or before j forc this date.
five qualified voters. Deposit of any this day to county chairman. ; Oct. I Commissioners’ curt to
such applications in the United States July 31-County executive commit-; furnish taN collectors’ supplies for
mail by registered letter within the; tees canvass returns. Democratic I po!! tax business,
time limit herein indicated has been! and Republican county conventions j 0ct. , First day for paying poll
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h rune 7-Candidates for party nonv Au*. 3-Managers of political head- j 0ct. 1-Citizens of cities of 10,000
inations to be made by primary elec- quarters or others who may have ex- more inhabitants who intedn to be
firm for office in districts composed of pended money in behalf of any candi-,---------
more than one county shall file appli- date or political party, must file state- (Continued on page
The daily press contained news dis-
patches from Cameron the first of the
week announcing the organization of
the Tracy-Maysfield Oil & Gas Co.
with lease holdings of 3,800 acres in
the Tracy, Cameron and Maysfiold
communities of Milam county. The
capital stock of the new company is
$200,000. and the par value of the
stock is $10 per share.
Officers are: A. F. .Schofield, Pres-
ident, S. M. Messer, Vice President,
W. B. Bin hum. Sec.; W. G. Gillis,
T ren surer.
Besides work in the shallow field
at Tracy the company will drill a deep
test on their 8,000 arres tract near
Maysfiold.
It was held by the attorney general
in an opinion last week that in cities
collecting poll tax from male voters
women must pay a city poll tax as
well as that of the county and the
state, in order to vote in primary elec-
tions held, even though the primary
elections be for state, county and dis-
trict officers. The law requires male
voters to pay city tax, and the attor-
ney general construes that part of
the woman suffrage act requiring the
same qualifications as male voters to
compel payment of the city tax by
women.
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Cooke, John Esten. The Rockdale Reporter and Messenger (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. [47], No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 22, 1920, newspaper, January 22, 1920; Rockdale, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth741836/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lucy Hill Patterson Memorial Library.