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Timpson Weekly Times
VOLUME 45
TIMPSON, TEXAS, FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 28,1233
LEGIONNAIRES CLOSE
CONVENTION WITH ENTHUS-
IASTIC BUSINESS SESSION
State Commander E. C.
Cox and Other Promi-
nent Leaden Address
Assembly; Legion-
naires Attended From
All Points of Division.
' With’an enthusiastic business
session attended by several
hundred Legionnaires at Hotel
Blankenship Sunday afternoon,
the division meeting of the
American Legion came to a
close in Timpson- With the
closing hoars of the session
praise was heard on every side
for the splendid hospitality
shown upon the part of the
local post American Legion and
citizenship of Timpson.
The convention opened Sun-
day with registration of Le-
gionnaires and visitors from the
district composing this organi-
zation. Four congressional
districts, with a total of fifty-
two counties, acquaints those
interested in the affairs of the
Legion of the magnitude and
importance" of the meeting.
Registration began at Legion
headquarters at the Blanken-
ship hotel, and continued until
teiro’clock- when parade was unit ; did Company B„
formed, led by color bearers
and National colors, followed
by the Lufkin, Timpson and
Joaquin bands, and joined by
large number of Legionnaires
and ladies of the auxiliary,
marched to the Methodist
church where the morning pro-
•gram was held.
Sunday Morning Service
Following the advancement
of colors, invocation was given
by Rev. A. A. Wagnon, pastor
of the Methodist church. The
address of welcome was ex-
tended by J. R. Nichols, secre-
tary of the Timpson Chamber
of Commerce, who told them
that on behalf of the Timpson
post American Legion, Timpson
Chamber of Commerce and the
citizenship of Timpson a cor-
dial welcome was. extended,
and that on behalf of the mayor
of Timpson the key to the city
was his gift to the organiza-
tion, that this key was like
applicable to our homes and to
our hearts. Mr. Nichols stated
further, that Timpson was the
ideal place for this gath-
ering of war veterans, because
of Its great contributions to
the World war, fittingly en-
titled to the honor which this
convention bestowed through
their selection of this meeting
place. On ■ service flag in
Timpson there are 512 stars,
those familiar know what this
means to a community; on that
service flag 14 of these stars
were changed to gold. “The
mothers, the fathers and loved
ones, alike know the sacrifice
what this means, and the full
church building of today to' be
present at the opening session
indicated the interest of the
citizenship of Timpson and the
whole of East Texas.” Anoth-
er especially remarkable fact is
that Timpson has for many
years ranked among the out-
standing towns, in the main-
taining of a National Guard
~ ' ~ ~ Thira
Texas for many years func-
tioned,’ disintegrating with the
service upon the border and
the World war, and no doubt as
a result of the National guard
training, there were fifty-three
commissioned officers from
Timpson, ranking from second
lieutenants, to that of that like-
able character, Colonel John D.
Jennings.
Response was made by Hon.
Martin Dies, of Orange, who on
behalf of the Legion, and visi-
tors expressed his appreciation
of the hospitality shown, of the
great way in which the meet-
EAST TEXAS BAPTISTS
TO HOLD CONVENTION
. HERE MARCH 25-26
Convention Will Bring
Prominent
and More Than
urn nues
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
HOLDS ENTHUSIASTIC SOCIAL
AND BUSINESS SESSION
UK TREND
SHOWN UPWARD
Funeral oS L H. Burkhalter
300: Held in Tins City Tuesday
Visitors
Meet
to Annual
Afternoon at 2 O’clock.
The North Side Baptist
church of this city will be host
to the annual convention of the
' Answering the final sum-
mons, L H. (“Uncle Buck”)
Burkhalter, aged 73 years,
passed away at bis home in
this city Monday morning at
1:20 o’clock. The death of
East Texas Sunday School and this well-known and highly re-
B. Y. P. U. Convention March
25th and 26th. This announce-
ment was made by Rev. M. F.
Gathright, pastor of the
church, in an address at the
chamber of commerce meet-
ing Monday night.
This convention will bring a
speoted citizen came after an
illness of several weeks. While
on duty as nightwatchman in
thi3 city sometime ago he suf-
fered a stroke of paralysis,
since which time be has been
confined to his room.
The funeral service was
number of prominent Baptist held Tuesday afternoon at 2:00
leaders to our city, and it Is es- o'clock at the Methodist church
timated that more than three in this city. Rev. A. A. Wagnon,
hundred visitors will be In at-
tendance during the two-day
meet. The East Texas district
is the largest in the state, pas-
pastor cf the Methodist church,
conducted the service, and
interment was made in Wood-
lawn eemeter.
“Uncle Buck” has been a
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§
Be Ready for Your
Trip This Summer
Vacation time is not far
off, yet there is time to
Start a vacation fund
which will at least help
meet the cost of any trip
you plan. The amount
you can save in a little
while will surprise you,
especially if you save
each week.
COTTON BELT STATE BANK
“THE OLDEST BANK IN SHELBY COUNTY”
tor Gathright states, being j^gj^ent of Timpson for many
composed of about forty coun-, years. At the time he was
tics- I stricken with illness he was
The meeting comes to Timp- nightwatchman for this city, a
son upon invitation of the local, piace he fiilecJ with credit to
church and the Timpson Cham- (himself, and during the time he
ber of Commerce. All sessions hejg this place—something like
’will ' be held at the Baptist fourteen year*—he was alwsj-Sj
church, and full co-operation in i on the job, and missed very few
entertaining will be offered by, hours from dBty#
the people of the city. { He u surrived by his wife;
Prominent among the lead-1 two . Herbert Burkhalter
s to attend will be T. C. Leesville, La., and Dan Burk-
Gardner of Dallas, state secre-
tary of the B. Y. P. U.; G. S.
Hopkins of Dallas, state secre-
tary of Sunday Schools; Bobert
Jolley of Houston, superintend-
ent of the Baptist hospital, and
Dr. M..T. Andrews of Tex-
arkana.
Rev. Gathright and his
church have already begun
plans of entertainment and the
program to be announced at an
early date will attract hun-
dreds here from all points of
East Texas.
■ FIRE HID
CREDIT BF NINE PER
CENT Film
To ascertain whether or not
Timpson bad received addition-
al good fire record credit on in-
surance rates for this city, the
Times wired the State Fire In-
surance Commission for infor-
mation this morning. A tele-
gram to the Times from J. W.
Deweesc, State Fire Insurance
Commission, states that Timp-
son receives a nine per cent
credit on and after March 1st.
A six per cent good fire rec-
ord has been in effect in this
city since last March, and the
good record of last year, in-
creases the credit to nine per
cent.
Timpson fire losses last year
totaled only,about $35.00, but
the good fire record credit is
based upon the loss ratio,for
a three-year period.
City fire marshal W. P.
Langhara also received a tele-
gram from Commissioner Re-
weese announcing the good
fire record credit of nine per-
cent.
halter of Fuqua; one daughter,
Mrs. C. M. Solomon, of Carth-
age; two sisters: Mrs. Florence
Draper and Mrs. Jocie Allen of
Atlanta, Texas.
“Uncle Buck” as he was
known and affectionately call-
ed hi all his friends, had
friends in every section of Tex-
He was a great friend of
tbe children and was never too
busy to have a land word with
them or to greet them with
friendly conyersmtion.
Among the out-of-town rela-
tives and friends attending the
funeral were: Mrs. J. T.
Draper, R. B. Allen, Aubrey
Allen, Atlanta, Texas; R. L.
Draper and wife, W. M.
Pickett, Vivian. La.; T. T.
Burkhalter, C. C. Burkhalter,
A. A. Burkhalter and son,
Queen City; -Mr. and Mrs. W.
E. Draper and Mrs. C. AL Hill.
The Times joins the people
of this city in extending sym-
pathy to the bereaved loved
ones.
Washington, Feb. 24.—The
federal reserve' board in its
summary of general business
conditions reported a four per
cent increase in industrial pro-
duction in January from the
low level of December. •
This increase, the board said,
reflected principally a .large,
output of automobiles, steel,
cotton textiles and shoes. Out-
put of copper, cement, lumber,
anthracite coal and flour de-
clined. In the first two weeks
of February steel plants re-
ported tn increased rate of op-
eration, but continued to be
lew active than in the corre-
sponding period of 1929.
“Factory employment, which
was In relatively small volume
in the middle of December,
was farther reduced by the
middle of January but preli-
minary reports indicate a
slight increase in the three
weeks following," the summary
said.
“In automobile and steel
plants there was an increaae in
employment in tbe month end-
ing January 15 and in refent
weeks farther increases have
been reported for these indus-
tries. There were decreases
in January in the number of
wage earners- employed in
the machinery, car-building
and repairing, lumber and ce-
ment industries.”
The board said there was a
farther liquidation of bank
credit and a decline in money
rates, while commodity prices
continued to move downward
See us before spending
your money for Dry
Goods, Groceries or
Feed. Wood’s,
BANKS TO OBSERVE
HOLIDAY MONDAY
The banks of this city will
observe a legal holiday Mon-
day, March 3rd—-Texas Inde-
pendence Day.
Members to
Efforts in Tows and
Community Building;
“Feed” is Enjoyed By
Large Crowd.
Attended by someforty
members, the chamber of com-
merce meeting Monday eve-
ning was one si the must en-
thusiastic held in some time. A
spirit of optimism prevailed
among the members and this
was manifest throughout the
evening, as numerous talks
were made, all touching open
matters of vital importance to
Die welfare of the Timpeas
community.
President Blankenship pre-
sided at the meeting -and Die
following members were in at-
tendance : J. EL Blankenship, J.
B. Nichols, W. D. Wade, B. T.
Blair, Bev. M. F. Gathright, B.
F. Giles, H. A. Crasaby, Rev. EL
E. Luck, J. B. Gasway, W. M.
Ramsey, A. J. Wigley, A. A.
Seek, L Bates, Z. B. Ramsey,
Geo. - Hutcherson, G. C. Mc-
Dsvid, J. A. Smith, F. R. Bus-
sey, R. M. Frauds, B. F. Mol-
loy. Austin Stephens, F. 0. B.
Johnson, K. X. Eooooe.- J. SL
Wilson, E. E. Smith, J. S. Tay-
lor, Dr. D. Brookshire, Edgar
Taylor, J. N. Craig, A. K. Sum-
mers, Class Rain bolt, E. H.
Hebert, J. J. Compton, S. Win-
frey, Joe Friday, J. J. FatreH,
W. F. Corry, Chas. Wigley. H.
S. Spain, T. J. Moiloj, H. R.
Fory.
The program was begun
with a “feed,” well prepared
and served by the committee in
charge. Rev. H. E. Luck gave
the invocation, after which Die
members indicated their appre-
ciation of the “feed” in keeping
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$7,000,000 SEED LOAN
BILL PASSES IN HOUSE
Washington, Feb^ 24.—The
house today passed the senate
resolution to provide £7.000,-
0G0 for seed and futilizer
loans for farmers In storm-
stricken areas in Southeastern
and several Western States.
The measure goes back to
the senate for agreement on
house amendments which in-
creased the amount from $8,-
000,000 to $7,000,000, and
added the states of Ohio, Okla-
homa, Indiana, Illinois. Minne-
sota, North Dakota, Montana,
Neu- Mexico and Missouri to
the list.
New Wadi anti Silk
Dresses just in—Wood’s.
THE POWER of
Your “Spoken
Word”
We estimate that more
than half the accounts on
our books were brought
to ua through the influ-
ence of present depos-
itors. This is a record of
which we are justly
proud. We thank you for
your co-operation.
Guaranty Bond State Bank
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Molloy, T. J. Timpson Weekly Times (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, February 28, 1930, newspaper, February 28, 1930; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth764955/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Timpson Public Library.