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COLEMAN DEMOCRAT-VOICE
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FOR COLEMAN AND COLEMAN COUNTY
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Coleman, Coleman County, Texas, Friday, September 23, 1927.
CITIZENS PLAN FOUR STORY OFFICE RU1LP1N
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tentative PLANS will be^considereo at HEETlThe Great Plains Highway Discussed at Friday Meeting
HEARD ON TBE SQUARE
, Here is William Green, ,
I dent of the American Federation
j of Labor, in the flying togs he wore
Chief Dalton of Fire Department recently when taking a flight in
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FRIDAY NIGHT. TO OCCDFY LOT AT CORNER
OF PECAN AND CONCHO STREETS !
Interested citizens of Coleman will meet this (Friday) j
evening to launch a movement for a four-story office build-:
ing (m the site of the old Joel Warren homestead at the corner :
of Pecan and Concho streets. , t _
The site was acquired several months ago by the J. h. |
Stevens Company and the old home removed. Others have j
joined the owners and the meeting will be the beginning.of '
a movement to supply a moderh office building for the city,
If is believed that such a building, modernly equipped, i
will be the nucleus for'oil companies centering their activities j
in this section of Texas. The absence of such facilities is
given as the reason for some of the larger companies locat- j
ing in Brownwood and Abilene. . .
The plan of the promoters of this latest movement is to |
erect a four-story brick building. The first floor will be ar-
ranged for stores or other commercial purposes and the re
maining three floors divided into offices.
The improvement will cost approximately $100,000.
THOMPSON GARAGE
AT TALPA ROBBED
MONDAY MORNING
mo' WORTH TIRES. TUBES
AND BATTERIES TAKEN.
, NO CLUE.
The Thompson Garage at Talpa
was robbed at an early hour Mon-
'.day morning of loot estimated at
'*$260, consisting of a Ford battery,
Gould battery. 2 30x3 VG heavy duty
Firestone tires, 1 30x3 W extra size
Firestone, 1 29x4.40 Firestone bal-
loon, one 29x4.40 Road Runner, one
30x0.55 Firestone balloon, twelve
*30x3Ms high test tubes and twelve
29x4.40 Grey Tubes.
Deputy Sheriff J. G. Dancer of
vD-Talpa was on the trail of the thiev-
es soon after the robbery occurred,
but no clues were unearthed. It is
thought they came in the direction
of this city. ._
SHORE RENTS TWO
BUILDINGS TO NEW
FIRMS IN COLEMAN
BUICK AGENCY GETS ONE,
broadfoot the other.
BE OCCUPIED SOON.
C. H. Shore this week rented the
two remaining buildings acquired
by him in the deal with J. M.
Crawford. The middle building
has been rented by M. G. Broadfoot
and will be occupied on or about game tomorrow (muMn *“v“icountv t
October 15th.for avanety store j the two losing- teams will battle for : comjn‘g
The one on the #ith has been tU,e gaturday at San Angelo. .The. wi!1 be
?£ Coleman, team five homes.
Green Flies
3500 ACRES OF THE
OVERALL RANCH IS
SOLD TO J. A. HORNE
WILL BE FENCED AND IM-
PROVED FOR -RANCH.
$77,933.70 PAID.
Mr. Hughes GRANT PROBABLY
------ FATALLY WOUNDED
TUES. AFTERNOON
Shows Scouts How.
Fire Chief G. E. Dalton last Fri-
day night showed Coleman Boy
Scouts something about fire fight-
ing and another demonstration will
be given them tomorrow (Friday)
night. The demonstration and
drill last week consisted of mak-
ing three connections with two
lengths of hose, putting on the.noz-
zle and turning on the water. There
were two teams and one made the
required connection in ten seconds,
the other in twelve seconds.
Washington. He went up with
Lieut. L. J. Maitland, first of the
flyers to reach Honolulu.
A. $77,933.70 slice of tile subdi-!
vided 17,000 acre Overall Ranch,!
was sold this week by J. P. McCord |
to J. A. Horne. It consisted of
3500 acres and the price per acre '
ranged from $22.50 to $40. It em- j
braces land on Wild Cat, Home and .
Mustang creeks and is-ideal for;
j the use Mr. Horne will make of it.
! Eight hundred acres of the land lies i
| south of the*railroad on the Valera ,
| highway and the balance north.
Mr. Horpe in speaking of the'
deal this morning said that he had ,
had his eyes on the land for several j
i years. He believes it is one of j
; the ideal places in Coleman county ■
presi-1 for a model \ sheep and cattle
ranch. It has an abundance of
water from holes in creeks and a
sufficient amount of tillable land
for ranch purposes. \
Mr. Horne expects, ultimately, to
enclose the entire body with a net
Oats, bulk. No. 2
Barley, bulk. No. 2.
W heat, bulk, No. I.
Maize heads, ton
Hens
Springs
RAIN IS GENERAL
OVER COLEMAN CO.
WEATHER COOLER
REPRESENTATIVES ARE HERR
FROM BRADY AND ABILENB.
RESOLUTIONS PASSED,
T. N. Carswell, manager of the
Abilene Chamber of Commerce;
W. A. Minter, state director of the
Great Plains Highway; C. G. Whit-*
ten and Charles Motz, Jr, of Abi-
lene; Judge Ellis of McCulloch
county and Carl Blasig, secretary
of the Brady Chamber of Com-
merce, were in Coleman , last Fri-
day to attend a meeting devoted
to a discussion of the proposed
Great Plains Highway through
Abilene, Coleman and Brady.
At the noon hour the visitors
were guests of the Coleman Kiwan-
is Club. After lunch they repaired,
to the offices of the Chamber of
Commerce, where at 1:15, Presi-
dent Kari E. Wallace of the local
Chamber of Commerce, called the
meeting to Jtfder and explained
its purpo <>' Directors present at
the meeting from the Coleman
Chamber of Commerce were: W.
A. Robertson, vice president; H. H.
Jackson, C. W. Martin, Henry
Rockwell, B. C. Howell, Leon L.
Shield and Cecil Gray.
T. N, Carswell of Abilene ex-
plained the permanent designation
of the highway from a map and
r m • J visitors discussed it from every
No. 38
9-HOT FROM ACCIDENTALLY
DISCHARGED GUN. GOES
THRU RIGHT EYE.
F. P. Grant, tool dresser living
in the Stobaugh addition, was prob-
ably fatally wounded Tuesday aft-
ernoon while bird hunting five
miles from Coleman, when the shot
gUn he was using was accidentally
discharged as he was getting into
an automobile. He was rushed to
] the Overall Hospital by his broth-
er-in-law, who was with him at the
time, and remained in an uncon-
scious condition until Wednesday
morning. He rallied and in the
afternoon was some better.
Attendants at the hospital re-
gard his condition as very serious
and chances for his recovery are
slim Part of the shot entered his
right' eye and penetrated the brain,
i Others tore his thumb from nis
j right hand and lodged in the right
arm,
Mr. Grant lives in the Stobaugh
-se the entire body with a net j Charles Evans Hughes, alirfbst j addition j whose ranch the highway will pass
wire fence and erect necessary pn,sident. in ioi6, denies he’s seek- 3,1(1 nas a WIle anu in Coleman County, was present at
ranch houses. The middle of the j. thg office in jfgt but if nom-1 *-—--- ' the meeting and agreed to co-
Sr WARD
J. P. McCord, administrator of j lately have denied'they’ll run.
iters........
Ijmge friers
Green hides
..... 44c
65c
$1.20
$12.00
16c
............ 18c
25c and 30c
6c
12c
... 7c
CREEKS IN NORTHERN PART
OF COUNTY SWOLLEN.
RANGES BENEFITTED. ^
Cotemjm county was soaked
Sunday afternoon and Monday
morntqg. .. The rain, coming too
late to op beneficial to cotton, will
help ranges, furnish stock water
and enable farmers to prepare their
fields- for the sowing of small
grain. In Coleman it measured
11.31.
Press Morris, in towii early Mon-
Horne Sells Cattle to Cox and
George Beck. ,
J. A.. Horne last week sold ^5° ; dlly morning, said that it had rain-
head of cows, calves and heifers to | ed from Baird to Coleman and
Lester Cox of Stacy and George, ncarly every part of the Morris
the Overall estate, said it was the j
first sale made. Others, however j
have been investigating certain |
tracts and more deals will likely j
follow in rapid succession.
COURT HOUSE NEWS
(ALEMAN EHIOT'UNE IS CHANGED
TEXAS FAIR TODAY
CROWDED. DIVIDING i
i MORE
Beck, for an unannounced consid-
eration. Fifty head went to Mr.
Beck and the balance to Mr. Cox.
Water and grass shortage was one
of the contributing causes.
ranch was soajeed. At one point
Sunday afternoon, he said, a two
inch rain fell. This was added to
during the night. All creeks in
that section were running.
The rain was followed by the
first norther of the season and
frost was predicted for Wednesday
morning from the New Orleans
be occupied* by October 1st. The
corner building has already been
occupied by Fturges and Gibbs.
TEACHERS; use our office for
help in the great National Educa-
tional Campaign Jo prevent fires
Fire Prevention Week, October 9th
to 15th. R, E. L. Zimmerman. 38x
Coleman to Take on Winners
Coleman polo is above par since
the return of W. C. Gay from the ITOI.UJllg ,
international meet at Meadow | weatJ§er bureau.
Brook, N. Y., and the local team) goutb Texas ranchmen believe
has agreed to play the winners »n | tfcat when the f irst norther is ac-
the Abilene-Sap Angelo match c0(np8nied by rain a wet winter is
played Wednesday in a San Angelo i abead in some parts of Coleman
game tomorrow (Friday). Then j county the water situation was be-
—*----for •„£ alarming. A wet winter
iu be acceptable.'
Coleman team has five horses j No word has been received from
slightly indisposed but will take on : ejfber of the city lakes. Mr. Mor-
all comers nevertheless. Those j pjs expressed the belief, however,
who will play for Coleman are No. I tbat indjan creek ran enough to
1 Wade Hemphill and Don Saw- ra;se tbe water level in Lake Sear-
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Births. | i,
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Oscar-Tay-. ‘
lor, Santa Anna; a girl.
Deaths.
J. M. Curry, age 64 years and
7 months, died Sept. 15, 1927; place
of. burial, Coleman.
Marriage Licenses.
Adrain Harris and Thelma Mc-
Williams.
Luther Martin Hooper and
Gladys Duncan.
Raymond Usry and Thelma Wa-
ters.
L. F. Harding and Gladys Diel,
Alza Price and Jim McDonald.
yers; No. 2, Harold Kinney; No.
3, Claud McDonald and Pat Warren
and No. 4, W. C. Gay and Frank
Gillespie.
Obedience-
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to the Law of Saving which
governs Success means Free-
dom from the worries of
Poverty in the future.
First National Bank
Coleman, Texas.
j meeting in favor of the highway
designation as originally planned.
| During the time the meeting was
in session County Judge South
. v crimpvTC 'and l,ther members of a committee
JnmriAvL TFU4rHNTS I wert in Nofee and Goldsbor»
1 rbsVOTHpnq'\VfdfI)1' (.sections trying to devise ways and
ERS. OTHERS NEEDED. - means of meeting right-of-way
re. \ . I demands that have been made by
-— ! The growth of the southern part ™ Statp Highway Commission.
_ COOK and MISS i of the city is reflected m the in- j • ’* .,^,1 '
BRENT WILL BE IN CHARGE creased enrollment of the South 1 _ OQt% nnpn []llfT
OF COUNTY BOOTH. Ward school which, at this date, is\J WW ^ If fll li\ HQ VI*
__ about 100. The school board j fcijUUU1 DXUllJU 111' “
The past week has been a busy P*aced ^wa additional beaehers
one at-the Coleman Chamber of at th* banning of the term
Commerce. B. W. Wbiteker, man-; THeoe proved to be inadequate and
ager of the agricultural department the board is now, p acmg two more ,
of the West Texas Chamber of1 making four new teachers, m that.
Commerce was in the city last-^ool. As a further njeans *;t te-;
ri,ti„E S,,re,.,ry 0-N..1 JgK! « ET WEATHER HAS RFTARD-
i, Mhdkc th. K.t_ ,i|j b, *. ED I'lTKISfi. SANTA ANNA
fleeted to West Ward; where there j GINS ARE IN THE LEAD,
is still plenty of room. - * ' . ,
The line between the two wards .From' information received over
was changed so as to run as fol-1 telephone this morning the Demo-
lows; Beginning at the intersection j crat-Voice is able to report total
of Live Oak street the eastern; ginnings for the county to yester-
boundanv of-the city,' thence west., day evening, showing an increase
BEEN REPORTED TO
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have been gathered from all parts
of the county. Elmo V. Cook,
teacher of agricultural in the Cole-
i man high school, commenced Sat-
| urday where Mr. Whiteker left
~\V-,rraiit7 Deeds ! off and haa been bus>' since assem‘
Warranty Lteeds , exhibits and arranging for
Earnest Fletcner to J. W. Bow-, -------
boondaiw ottne cmy, me nee ^ ;
along the center of Live Oak street j over last week of 2,883 bales. Ham
to its interseetkm with Cummer- [Sunday afternoon and Monday
cial Avenue; thence south along i morning had retarded picking and
Earnest Fletcher and wife to J.; '
the superior-i to us mimmivn **«m I
Earnest t letener ana wue 10 y.j : p, . _ ' a~:cuitura!': street; thence west along the can-. Reports over telephone tnw
W. Bowers, lot No. 3 in Block No. ®f,. ; , distr;bute pamphlets ter of Walnut street to it.- intersect morn ng show that ('Jeman county
10 of J. A. Stobaugh’s subdivision;^™^ i le‘countv’s resmifees ! tion with Neehes street; thence I gins have turned out 12,937 bales
of Farm Block No. 5 and 6 Clow’s “.•“* -“wVwauSSin'1 ■oath along the center of Neehes I of cotton to-Sate. Reporting gk.
No. 2 Farm Addition to town of streej to its intersection with Sec- give the following figures: Wallace
Coleman; $10.00 and other consul-j froduced”in the county fncluding - end street; thence west along the gm. Coleman, So9 bates, Jjflgw
eration ' | produced in tne county, mciuaing Second Street to Fifth ; gin. Coleman, 619 bales; Whatley
Frank -Guthrie et ux to M. L. If1’ I Avenue, and thence south along the j gin. Coleman, 603 bates; Fanners j
Guthrie, 39 acres, 16 miles soUth;! months Mr O’Neal and' center of Fifth Awnue to the city' gin Coleman. 8<o bales; J. R.
west of Brownwood, being a part j „ a___ __limit: Children living south and Adams, Burke
to its intersection with Watnutj pected-
'street; thence west.along the cen-j
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borough.
$348 TMEN FROM
SAFE AT COLLINS
DRY GOODS STORE
MEXICAN CUSTOMERS BE-
LIEVED GUILTY. $300 IS
NOT DISCOVERED.
The safe at the Collins Dry
Goods store was'robbed of $348.15
Monday morning during or imme-
diately after the sale of a 5 cent
pair of shoe strings to a Mexican
customer, who entered the store
while Mr. Collins was sweeping the
floor. To pay for the shoe strings
t! e Mexican produced 50 cents and
Mr. Collins went to the safe to get
the change. He handed the
Mexican 45 cents and he, apparent-
ly was interested in other mer-
chandise and inquired about prices.
He was told the prices of jackets
he was interested in but did not
care to make a purchase. An-
other Mexican, a companion, was
on the outside of the store at the
time and was making a careful sur-
vey of the interior. Mr. Collms
did not know how or when the safe
was robbed, but was confident that
it was during the transaction, as
but three people had been in the
store since the doors were opened.
The loot consisted of $253 in
checks and $95 in silver and cur-
rency. Three hundred dollars m
currency deposited in a letter file
Saturday night wts not discovered
by the robbers. ^ ___
P.-T.-A. Jo Meet Monday
Sept. 26th.
South Ward Parent-Teachers’
Association will meet Monday aft-
ernoon at 3:30 o’clock with Mrs.
Karl Wallace at her home on south
Commercial, Parents and all mem-
bers are, urged to attend.
of the J, L. Tindel survey.
J, J. Lewellen to W. H. Lewellen,
76 acres out of Block No. 17 of
subdivision of L. C. Manson sur-
vey; $1200.00. , ,
S. A. Howard and wife to Jack
Bible, 130 acres out of Jefferson
George survey; $10,00.
First National Bank to John
Ehrler, Lots No. 9 and 10 in
Block E. Quinn Subdivision of
Blocks 14, 15, 16 and 17 in W. E.
Anderson addition to Coleman;
$150.00. ■ ,
Joe Wellborn to Haywood Black-
burn, 106.4 acres out of section
No. 13 T. N. O. Ry. Co.; $500.00 and
other consideration.
E. K. Jones nad wife to M L
Walker, Lot No. 4 in Block No.
11 of town of Santa Anna; $10.00
and other consideration.
Milton-Fuller to Neal Fuller,
118 2-10 acres out of H. Starnes
Survey; $621.77 and other-consid-
eration. _ '
A. E. Dalton et ux to G. G.
Moore, 62 V4 flet by 120 feet facing
Concho St.; $375.00.
H. Amberg to S. B. Pentecost,
Lots Nos. 7 and 8 in Block 82 in
town of Goldsboro; $20.00.
City of Santa Anna to W. L.
Hunter, Lot No 6. Block No. 26
in town of Santa Anna; $600.00.
R. M. Warren and wife to R. E-
L. Culp, 125 feet by 229 feet out of
Block No. 17 of Clow’s 2nd Addi-
tion to town of Coleman; $600.00
and other consideration.
J. E. Bleeker to Rockwood Mer-
cantile Co., Block No. 18, being out
of a part of subdivision of Block
No. 12 in the town of Rockwood;
$10.00.
W. G. Cross et ux to L. H. Wil-
son, Lot No. 10 in Block No. ,15
of the VhJ*' Bartlet subdivision
of G, C. StS- F. addition to town
of Santa Anna; $50.00.
Ford Cockran to Mrs. Ethel John-
son Nance, west one-half of Lot No.
2 in Block No. 31 of J. A. Stb-
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I Mr. Cook have been gathering
these products from 'the fields and
the best of each will be used in the
display.
Miss Gertrude Brent has devoted j +
her time to collecting canned
of Fifth Avenue to tne ettj gin v oteman. *•
Children living south and Adams, Burkett, 316 bales: Grimm
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fruits and vegetables put up by
farm women.
The Coleman county booth, Mr,
O’Neal says, will be one of the
prettiest at the fair. The plan is
to have it represent the State of
Texas with a heart in the center
through which Coleman will be
spelled in cotton or a variety of
small grains.
This will be Coleman county’s
first exhibit at a fair. For this
reason the work has been very
difficult in spite of the hearty co-
operation of farmers. The Abi-
lene institution, however, is a west
Texas proposition and Coleman
is anxious to contribute to its suc-
cess and permanence.
Burkett School to
Open Monday Mom.
With Four Teachers
-pr-
The Burkett public school will
open Monday morning, according
to our Burkett correspondent, W.
R. Chambers is principal of the
school and has the following assist-
ants; Mrs.,E. E. Morgan and Miss-
esKJuida and Thelma Casey. They
are expecting a very successful
term with an increased attendance.
West Ward P-T.-A. to Meet
Monday, Sept. 26th.
The West Ward Parent-Teach-
ers' Association will meet Monday
afternoon Sept. 26th, at 3:30
o’clock at West Ward building apd
the following program will be giv-
en: Reading, Marie Bryant; piano
solo, Elizabeth Walker; reading
Beth Beck. A business meeting
will be held after the program. All
interested parents and members
|.are invited to attend.
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Williamson, J. T. Coleman Democrat-Voice (Coleman, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, September 23, 1927, newspaper, September 23, 1927; Coleman, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth748275/m1/1/: accessed July 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Coleman Public Library.