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THE ROCKDALE REPORTER
AND MEH8ENGER
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*The Best Newspaper Milam County Ever Bad*’
Rockdale Reporter Established 1§M
R0C1KDALB, MILAM COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1926
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£ab Repo'-torrrntv *«*: lfc iheJe
^alibis for the defeat oT The local
C “ h00i football team by Cameron
^isday-^ther has Reporter-
lan heard'anyooe else attempting an
<libi. Tbe two schools put out the
HON. C A. RASBURY ~
mmmmjurist,
IS CALLED BY DEATH
OF ROCKDALE
DIED SATURDAY FROM
HEART ATTACK
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Mrs. C. M. . Sessions was called to
*. est teams they ha^had in, yaarft, Iballas last Saturday by news of tire
^ poorer team lost. That’s all nf ha,* .TnHh*o pua^iAo
P&K i3 t0 ft __ - -
Cameron sent over a monster crowd
who occasion- In fact, Reporter-
Cameron people at tHc game 4hpn
Rockdale peoj^lc. Maybe they just
looked bigger because they came over
ran iuii v* rv r ------ , _
[decorated Tn school colors find*bring-
feg their famous little Grammar
School Band. That band, Composed of
[ about .thirty children, qaany of them
■ mere toTs, was a feature of which »UJ
[town mierhr veil be--proud......They
fonflp g»»<l rmi.sic. too, and between
death of her brother, Judge Charles
A. Rasbury, at his home ih that city.
The following account of his deaWTs
taken from Sunday’s Dallas News: "
Funeral services for Judpe Charles
A. Rasbury, 56, widely known attor-
ney and farmer Judge of the Court
of Civil Appeals, who died Saturday
afr-jHg- home, 6005 "Gaston
avehue, will be held at tbe residence
at 4 o’clock Monday afternoon. Dr.
William M. Anderson,'pastom of the
First Presbyterian Church, wfll of-
ficiate^
I little parade, fothiling the, *CamerOil*
Lhool on the -field, the
[ while they played a birring inarch.
The utmost good Mirny featured the
I occasion. Footbpjl fans on both sides
I supported their teams lustily, but a
""'JudgcRasbury died of heart trouble,
attending, physicians said.- He was
5aMs of the game they pyt on a stricken Wednesday night,
=~~" Moved to Dallas in 1892
Born Feb. 14, 1870, in McLennan
county, near Waco, he received his
early education under the tutelage" of
his mother, and in the puBTT?*'schools
of Milam county and at Sqiithville in
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friendly, feeling firm to see wa. e - i education by reading and study, and
deueed-ovhivh is as it'should- he. Cam-^^ stud5ed law with the late Judge
*2011 people ‘'amp over and took the. John Bookhout and Senator Charles
town by storm.,;mnd tliej’.. were- giveia j ^ Culberson. He moved to Dallas in
‘ j™.”S118i;2 and was admitted to the bar by
of the.iivo foo’Aa:. l-ovts L.ught their ( JudgjB Charles Fred Tucker. -
! gridiron barile like gentlemen und, Hii.Wpublic office was'that of
good sports should, I he*a was no ^6ciate Justice of the Court of Civil
[ semblance of at; m r on the jiart 1 AppeaLls, dPifth S^prelrie JudicialT-Dis- duction on the tract, , an
ve"yaI pena ^ | triet, to which, he was appointed-in-drilling campaign being planned.
He retired only last-year from
the law partnership of Rasbury, Ad-
nt lia»igy! f -B&
letter teamsTtextryie&r, and n better’ -
should result.' It .will frft- playadLj*^ the la>y, Judge
Rasqury worked on a farm jpid later
successively ars. printer’s devil and
printer on The Rockdale Messenger,
[year.■ 5.9 of which• was in cotjton and edited Try-Enoclv Breeding.—ntfe-fol-
f$> in other crops.” said Joe Cum-: lowed this profeas-km until -1-889.---------
jinings to Reportcrmah oh the street' r— Daughter Recently Married
Njjjay, “but i;r\;. j ar 1 am going June* 1896,- to Miss
Jflant ab;oiit TbTo"rn: i nil ,-ind the,bal-j Maude Camp of Dallas,'he Continued^
Uiayec, and only one
pra afflicted throughout the game, ]p|2
1 that being for an off-side.
No. 39
Ten New Producers and Several
Tests in New Areas Feature This
Week’s Report of Local Oil Field
The Chicago Oil & Land Company ( Larrymore, Mason, et al., with
has another good, well in its No. 2 Groneman Bros, drilling, spudded in
White which was drilled in Monday,' last week on the T. M. Williams tract
Nov. 8, and is now alternately pump- adjoining ..Fair Park, and - at, this
ing and flu wing i 30 barrels per day.! writing are drilling with rock bit on
This company’s No. 3 White is now hard rock at 280 feet.
drilling at below 600 feet.
The Ellisofi OiT Company’s ' NoT
A new test being drilled at this
time that is beiftg watched with great
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MILAM COUNTY
COTTON REPORT
There were 52,713 bales of
cotton, counting round, as half
bales, ginned in Milam County
from the crop of 1926 prior to
November 1,1926, as compared
with 6,449 bales ginned to No-
vember 1, 1925.
BASIL McGREGoR,
Special Agent.
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THURSDAY, NOV. 11
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PROMINENT CAMERON
MAN SUDDENLY CALLED
John G. Vest Passed Aw^jj at His
Home Thursday Afternoon,
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Kevil, drilled in about ten days ago,, interest is the No. 1 Gus Lorenz of
is pruvuig. .one o-f -the -beet;-wells--Mi—Jfche Roxrkdale Development"'Company,
the field, according to report. ...It is Hewitt & .Alexander contractors, with
now on the pump and putting 30 bar- j R. Von Gonton handling the drill,
rels into the pipe line. . This well is This test is approximately 2400 feet
an offset to the Ohicago Oil & Land from-the nearest, producer, and lies
Company's No: 1 White. * well within probable ^bduc^irt^hfi
The Newton-Palmer C^*npa(hy drill- as defined by prominent geologists,
ed in its No. 51 Dees on A’rmhftice Day, The drilling block Consists of 100
and it is reported as being a good acres. If this test makes ai well it
average 'producer. . - : will have extended the field about 1-----mshoVter'CorresnondenceV
i mnjtlo 5b N-°- * Horton, also half a mils torthe east. . , J—■ -» n .
77 U’0," h; gg”,? pu3f* A-";',h'r "T W_n«w«r^l «,«*!.,; Sm. 11, at
looks tike .ft 15-barfel well.- W j by the Rockdale l^eyelopmcnt Com- - - - - - - - -
CoffieldHaleys No. 4 HDees, re- pany lies to the south «f town ,on the
cently • completed, is consistently Shelton tract. Chas^Keni^^ai^^ti^.
pumping 30 to 35 Jbarripls 'per day. contract and .is now . setting up. The
No. 5, same tract, came in on the l2th test is just two locations south of the
with a light showing but has refused Smith Oil "Company’s Loewenstein No.
to produce and will be ,plugged. " 1, and is a scant half-mile south of
Kent-Middleton- Company’s No. 2 "the city' limits. Operators pronounce
Q- Baldridge was drillcil in yesterday this a separate and: distinct producing
AMERICAN LEGION OBSERVES
DAY APPROPRIATELY AT
COUNTY SEAT.
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(Reporter Correspondence)
The Legion of Edwin Hardy Post
No. 9, Cameron, put "on a splendid
program at the • county seat last
Thursday, which included several at-“
tractirms;------------- - - - ■; ■,
Sunrise flag raising on the Court
house lawn by the Post officers was
observed with a large attendance. The
Cameron Junior. Municipal Band, gave
a concert on tlfS 4ourt house lawn-
from 10:30-to 11 o’clock in the morn-
ing. A'patriotic program was held
in the cohrt house from 11 'to 12
o’clock, with Ex-Mayor J. B^Wllltarr
n.s master of ceremonies, who intro-^
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and -the showing indicates another
good well for this 22-acre lease.
. Gaither, Noack & Lanning brought
in their No. 2 Gaither Hog Farm well
is a 5- to 10-barrel well. Power plant
is being erected on this lease, looking
to 'the establishment of good pro-
extenSive
i’nned.-
Wahpoo Oil 'Company’s Noy \ 14
Gross was drilled in last week and is
in Cameron on Armistice Day, 1927.
“I had :90 acres in cultivation this
|siice to feed aild ‘grub’, crops* I’ve to make-Dallas his home and reared
parae’d biylesson, which is that the his- children here.' They are Mrs.
sandy land farmer can’t raise cotton ‘ "R. B. Courtney Jr. and Mrs. Allen G.
|anj make a living at it.’’ As an il-1 Flythe, who was married last* Wed-
: lustration' of tb|.-profit'fin hogs, -MrJ nesday to Dr. Flythe. Both daughters-
[Cummings_^ay^lhe ifnade $3^0 during[ j've in Dallas'. Besides the daughters
[the past twelve months on one bor-jand his wife, two brothers, E. L. Ras-
|/owed brood smv. This saw brought'.bury of Thorpdale and L. L. Rasbiiry
[him three pics, all sows,- a-nd- at 8 of El Pa’soiand one sister, Mrs. C. M.
[months these three sows farrowed Sessions of Rockdale, survive, [v
land he sold and kept pig^s to the above j____H is- father • w us jj. L, Rasbury, a
pilp#. He-,,uide- .'iuiTltushols of swe€?t native of Holmes county, Miss., a
j potatoes on fwtr acres of land,^ and Confederate soldier of Hood’s Bri-
j next year he is going in for divers!- j gade, and his mother was formerly
| fiction, arni \Vill pip some, of his'f&ith Miss Catherine Margaret Gates, who
p'?s’ Peafi» peanuts and potatoes.! was born in Washington county diir-
j l Cummings has 40 acres of rented [ ing the days of the Republic.
and'on which he is paying " $100' Judge Rasbury was a prominent,
j inonoy pent, and he expects to make member of the Elks’ Lodge; '
Lthe^Qur p*s» pity hjm a nice profit on11 --7—-— . ,
[that piece of.land.; .UNION CHURCH SERVICES
- HELD ARMISTICE NIGHT
S being skidded to the' No. .18'joca’
'ion to take care of: offaet.
Smith Oil Company’s No. 1 Irroew-
enstein, just south of the city limits,
was reported flowing oil yesterday.
-This well has had lots of trouble; and
Driller Kemp - is stilt hopeful of get*
ting it under control and on the 'pump.
Wills Oil Company is drilling on
its .No.' 2 Kevil.',.i NcT. 1 is reported a
“ji-m-dftndy” '
The Gohman Oil Company’s No. 4
Gohman fee is a location, and drill
will be turning ,next week.
Elbel-t1 William^- is drilling this
district from the present field proper,
the oil in the Loewenstein well being
-of-ar different grade and found at a
considerably deeper leveL The ’Rock-
-dale IVvelopment Company-bold. 50
acres of the Shelton tract and ■ 23
;res of the Eli tract to the. east of
the’ Smith-Loewenstein well.
Harry Moody, drilling with cable
tooh. is putting down a test well on
the Di-j Sypert lands for the Chicago
Oil Iumff Company. This company,
bos falockeg j large acreage around
this- test;: viThich is located^, along the
Balcones^fault producing area about
18'miles,west of RoekdWe. It is .unj
°:30 o’clock jn the afternoon at his
home on_f!ast Third Streetriin Caim-
nron, east a v’gloom -over the entire
city.
Mr.-Vest had be^n in poor health
for some time but had been confined
to his bed only since Sunday before.
He was not considered in a serious
condition, and his sudden passing was
a 'shock to the family and to friends
Who were near him.
Deceased was 62 years old;’ was
born in Newport News, Virginia Jater
'roving to Richmond, Va., and came to
Texas in 1883... Since that time he had
been engaged in th’e cotton business
at Sah Antonio, Rockdale and Cam-
eron, locating—in .Cameron in 4901,
where he had since made-his home.
He was a devoted member1 of the
Baptist church, .living a high-stand-
vuuicu, .11 * in«
arrt-Ch ri sti arr -1 ife /‘ was - on g' nf ha
ture’s - noblethen;, highly cultured, of
the -true type .of' gentility: Always
derstooti that^ one of the ^major oil^,dved for those qualitles by^all who
knew hinft- 4-———^ .
'He was inarifed lo-Mbts.'Eden Smith
companies will assist the- Chicago O.
& L. Corin' Carrying thrir' S
to the Edwards- lime.
^AnoTKer ne'v test to (start wfthin-
ihe xiekV-few days-Will bp on the Billy-
Smith farm, southeast of the Gus Lo-
renz farm- and half a mile fOi the
east of the oil field proper. Henry
Davis has this lease and is moving on.
"fftrceff'ffon. T. • S. Henderson Sr., who
-gave one of hjp matchless patriotic
addresses, fallowed by a reading, "On
Flanders Field,.” by Miss Dorothy
Blaylock. The meeting closed with.
one minute silent prayer for the boys
“gone west.”. LIU
A splendid dinner was served. 'to
ex-service men in the Monroe 'build-
ing by the ladies _ of. Cameron, Icon-
listing—of meats, ehtckeh, pickles,
.salads, pies ambeake with hot coffee,
under the direction of A. F. Mitchell.
The annual Armistice football
game, Cameron vs. Rockdale,' was
played at Rockdale at 3 o’clock, Cam-
eron winning* 13 to 0. A large dele-
gatio'n of Cameron citizens accompa-
nied the boys to Rockdale,
; Retreat was sounded at sunset on
.the'court house lawn when the flag
was lowered.
fur "ex-service • men at night:, but
coring;to" the sudden death of a prom-
inent Cameron citizen,, the dance wtls1
givijm at the K. C. Hall where . the■'
Micjnight Serenaders of Lake Springs,
Indiana, who haye been filling en-
gagements af- Hoiiston thg past sea"-
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ANNUAL ENTERTAINMENT :
The Log Cabin Oil Company is
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week on the Baumgartnef tracts across J Kent-Middletpn .Company got an^
the Bushdale ro^d and west from the j,other light producer oni the ^Lpuis
Kevil tract, and adjoining the . old ■ Lewis lease this week—probably good
King dairy farm. — 1 for ten barrels.
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GEORGEIfifNtnBEJS
ARE PAVING ENTHUSIASTS
May 18, 1892, at the home of the[son> furn}9hed splendid' dance’ music
bride’s sister,- Mrs.^E. A. Wallace^ in J for the occasion.
Rockdgle; hisVvife* being the-daughter } • _L___________
and .Mrs. C. R,. gmith^iA. AMERICAN 'LEGION GIVES
came from Alabama to ,Cameron^
coming on horseback, and later re-
turning" for his ,bri'de to Alabama...
Mr. Vest is survived by his wife
and four Children, nameljh Miss Vir-
ginia Vest, J. G. Vest Jr., Richard B.
and Miss Mary Orf Vest, all, of Ca-m-
DELINQUENT TAX SUITS
TO BE FILED BY COURT
The 'funeral wag held at the family
home Friday afternoSlf^atfixSO/ Rev.
E. S. Hutcherson, pastor of-the Ft
Baptist thurch, "conducting the ser-
vices. Interment was irt Oak Hill
cemetery, where beautiful floral of-
The union church service last Thurs-
day evening was a commendable fen-
Fn’Ti^y - f, Da villa was in
1 own Friday with a shipment of
icrcarn nn(i some. rf the biggest sweet, -
potatoes Rcportprmhn fias seen. Wal- jture ’ of the observance of Armistice
I r * Milahv county's tarnous“-berry, Fay in Rockddle. The service ’was
Ll&n/Ibut his tierry crop has failed ^eld at the Methodistj^church and was
J re® .years in succession and las':1 pitched along patriotic lines, wifh an
drouth killed out most of his 1 appropriate program, Consisting . of
hymns, speciaL music and readings as
outlined in last week’^ Ropprter.
, Hon. E. A. Camp delivered the ad-
dresa, which started out as a patri-
otic address and wound up as a really
wonderful lay sermon. Mr. Camp
pointed out to hte hearers that there
| is no more effective way to demon-
[ vines, leaving .hi
P^^imys k;s' "tKf&TJcraiv
*6-Mtved his Jifo this year
“up agftinst it.”
cows
p>gTjKlRTs HI.AMED
F(3,R OVER-Sl PPLt OF
I ^ jCOTT’ON and low price
Former Local Citizen, Talks Interest-
ingly and Encouragingly Con-
cerning Street. Paving
'< “I am glad to see Rockdale starting
a;movement fbr street paving,” said
Robert Isaacs, former Rockdale b’oost-
erTbut now a citizen of Georgetown.
Mr. Isaacs was here on business Mon-
day, and stated to Reportennan that
Georgetown started street paving on
a modest scale in 1922, and th^y flow
have more than one hundred flocks
paved, using the Uvalde rock asphalt
process, and the work is still progress-
ing. -
“It costs money,” said,Mr* Isaacs,
“hut there*if notyr citizen in George"
County Attorney of Milam County is
Instructed to Proceed to Collect
. Ilclinquent Taxes by Law
I* ferings completely covered the newly
In The Reporter’s court house news,
dPlumn last week appeared an item
to the effect that the Commissioners
CpurA of- Milam county has ordered
the countv attorney to bring suit at
lonce for collection of all delinquent
taxes. Due to the apparent fact that
some of /bur readers overlooked this*
importijht item- we are again calling
attentidn to it,
The Court instructed the County
Attorney to secure the services of thd
abstract companies and to proceed in
a thorough and, business-like manner
____________ ( Have you enrolled il the Improved
town liviftg r<m paved street who j-toward filing these~5Uifs and secUnfig Kitchen Contest? If-not, do so now
judgments where necessary. It is The
Vould give it up for four times what
it cost him.”
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The plan used over there was the
' and ' '-wouTd'• "patVidtiam"arid love as that proposed for Rockdale:
[in thei/’I Put beeves country than hy obeying the country's namply, the city.., issuing bonds and
j enonrfi, St,S’ <llere Fould not be; laws and doing one’s full duty to-
farm**r in a^’.....^e’Bare^- AnlAnsob, wards promoting law enforcement.
Cliamb
namply, the city., issuing _._i _
phying for one-t^ird, the property
owrfers paying for the other two-
letter to the West Texas! “During the world war,’’ the Speaker thirds. Due to plenty o? rock being
|MMj| jjj- - ’■ at hand, the paving, was laid at the
very reasonable price of $I'i90. p«r per month will be filed until the
er Of Commerce.
declared, “it was important that ev
was an overprd-J ery good , citkeij ‘do his ibit;’ it is
and equally important that every Citizen
do his bit toward making our country
a better place in which to live.” The
speaker was both forceful and elo-
quent, and his address made1 a deep
impression upon his hearers. The at-
tendance was good, the house being
comfortably filled.
AJI local pastors participated in the-
service, Rev. Smith of the Methodist
church acting in (the capacity of mas-
ter of ceremonies.
thi;re WOB
A thf;'°lt0n in the «tate
fe-con.! T!resent condition to un-
when^I? thC h0Ct'C days of 1920'
Picking Crld n0t Pay for the
^d l^“ COntinUCS’ “they ln-
XPgr.’* g !UMU f°r llttle boys
anlL5r"WuM look WUCh better
1 the nn. W($ld be helPing
b; •• e pEes«nt coftorr situation.
niCfi ,ine ib »u sizes in
|lb'?bareIinSS 8ch°o1 shoes at
M. S. COHN.
intention of the officers to make all
lien holders parties to the suit and no
further notice is to be given property
owners, as Tax Collector Roy Law has
notified All delinquent tax payetsr in
addition/Sb the legal notice given
through the newspapers.
Probably two to three hundred suits
front foot, and the asphalt streets are
giving excellent satisfaction. When
the movwment was first started there
yvere many objectors, and home prop-
erty owners refused to 'kick in, ,but
later, after seeing the benefits, all
paps were Closed and all the original
Objectors are now enthusiastic paving
supporters, as was proven by the re-
cent election-at which more libnds were
voted to extend the paving airea.
records' are cleared of all delinquent
taxes, it is announced.
A 77-year-old missionary in For-
mosa has undertaken the task iof
translating the Old , Testament into
the Amoy dialect. He expects to
finish the wotlc in three years,
The inside of the stomach has been
successfully photographed foe the
Asked if he had any aflyWe KtaTftgrrdoctor.
^ We are overstocked in all kinds 6f
children’s shoes, which we mu^t un-
load. The newest styles; , come in
while we have all sizfes.V \
It M. S. COHN. -
on how Rockdale should proceed, Mr.
Isaacs said; “None, except to get busy,
and vote the bonds, being careful to
made gra\e from view, many coming
fronv distant friends over the State.
Honorary pall bearers were: J. M.
Ralston, Wm. Henderson, A. N. Green,
W. H. Triggs, 0. L. Kidd/j. C. Jo-
seph, R. L. E^atte Sr., A. H.„ Baskin,
Dr. J, Derison, J. C. Martin, Judge
Carlisle Post No. 358, American Le-
gion, held its annual banquet last
Wednesday evening (Armistice Eve)
at the city hall in Rockdale, and a
.most • enjoyable social affair is , re- .
John W.atsdn, L. L. Blaylock. Active
11—hearers u—W
Triggs, j. E. Flinn, F. C. FahrendOrf,
J. W. Joynes, E. C. Cammer, S. H.
Hopkins and D. H. Slaughter, prom-
inent cotton men of Cameron.
The “banquet” was in reality an
oyster supper with Tots of good home..
cooking “on the side,” and a better*
spread has possibly never been set'”
before the Legionaires than on <this
occasion. Members of the Post, their
.Tallies and a few invited guests, to the
number of half a hundred in all, were .
present. Dr. I. P. Sessions was toast
master, and brought opt the best
speakers among „ the membershij); ''
Music 'also featured the evening’s en-
joyment.. . • . .
. A short business session of the
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IMPROVEMENTS TO BE MADE
. IN THE KITCHEN CONTEST
and get your Home Demonstration
Agent’s help on improving conditions
in your kitchen. Let us get together
and— . *
1. Get running' w^ter ih your
house at small expense.- -This will
save your lifting a ton of water a day-
'1-2. Rearrange your kitchen furni-
ture to save steps.
,3. Correct the heights of your
working surfaces to save energy.
4. ' Get yojjr kitchen properly light-
ed amLlhus save eye strain, nervous
energy and physical energy.
'5. Refin-ish your wall and floors
and thus sav^e energy in cleaning.
6. Group' your utensils, according,
to the kind of work to be done. '
7. Utilize things that you consider
waste material around the plate in
the construction of labor-saving
AWjutpment. - *—v
5. ,Make a member of labor-saving
t:on in, Georgetown was due to the devices.
fact that some property owners did not 9. Secure a number of inexpensive
outline in detail the exact streets and get their streets paved at first because pieces of-kitchen equipment. ■>
number of blocks that are to be paved the bond issue was not large enough to * MISS MONTGOMERY,
first.” He said the onlyAlissatiSfac- complete the program.
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Post was also held and officers_yere
elected for ^h-d' ensninp- ypar as fnl-
lows:
A. GT. Balhorn, Post iCommandpr.
G. G. York, Fitst Vice'Commander:
M. K.. Cuh'er, second Vice Com-'
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M. N.; Strieker, Pos^ AdjutantL_
W. C. Marrs, Finance Office^.
, I. P. Sessions, Chaplain.
—H. Afoody, Service Officer.
The annual dues are $2.25, and At
this meeting it was voted " that the
Post should pay one dollar of these
dues, leaving the amount to be. paid
annually by the members at; $1.25.
FORMER ROCKDALE GIRL
NOW LAWYER IN DALLAS
A recent issue of the Dallas Times-
Herald Carried a picture of Mrs. Imo-
geni Munoz, young woriian lawyer of '
that city, who was appointed by the
district judge to defend a negro in
a murder case. . ;
Mrs. Munoz is 26 years of age And
is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. E,
Richards of Rockdale, and was reared
in this community; Mrs. Murio? was
admitted to the bar in Dallas last''
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Cooke, John Esten. The Rockdale Reporter and Messenger (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 18, 1926, newspaper, November 18, 1926; Rockdale, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth742217/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lucy Hill Patterson Memorial Library.