Timpson Weekly Times (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, November 29, 1935 Page: 5 of 8
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Garrison Items®S
Garrison, Tex., Nov. 27.—
Mesdames Carl Edwards and
C. C. Robinson and baby of Ty-
ler are the guests of Mrs. Rob-
inson’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
N. M. Edwards. -
Howell .McChriatian and
Pete Corley of Beaumont spent
several days with relatives
here the past week.
Miss Novia Martin of Center
has been the guest of Mrs.
Leon DeLoney the past week-
end.
Misses Evelyn Simmons,
Katherine Hartt, Marion Hartt
and Mrs. Sam Williamson
were Shreveport visitors
Wednesday.
Mrs. G. F. Garrison and son,
M. S. Garrison, spent Sunday
in Huntsville. They were ac-
companied home by Mrs. M. &
Garrison, who has been visiting
her parents.
Mesdames Paul Pickett of
New York City, Paxton Sim-
mons of Waco, J. C. Webb and
f. F. Webb, Sr., of Shreveport,
La., were the guests of Mis.
Gordon Langston this week. '
Miss Marie Edwards spent
Thursday in Nacogdoches.
H. C. Wiley of £3 Paso spent
Sunday with Mr. and Hn. Gor-
don Langston.
Mrs. Ed Eysley of Fort
Worth spent last week with
her mother, Mrs. Mattie Brit-
tain.
Mias Rosalind Langston of
Henderson .was the guest of
relatives the past week-end.
Mrs. Rho Grimes of Apple-
by sprat Thursday with
friends here.
Miss Ann Wallace of Nac-
ogdoches spent the past week-
end with her parents. Rev. and
Mm. J. D. Wallace.
Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Irwin
spent Wednesday afternoon
and night with Mr. Irwin’s
sister, Mrs. Will Arnold, of
Overton.
The .Women’s Missionary
Societv of the First Methodist
Church held its election of of-
ficers early this month. Officers
were elected as follows: Mrs.
R. L. Commander, president;
Mrs. J. R. Holt, vice-president;
corresponding secretary, Mrs.
Holt; recording secretary and
treasurer, Mrs. G. F. Garrison;
World Outlook, Mrs. W. B.
Garrison; study .superintend-
ent, Mrs. Leon. McDuffie; su-
perintendent of supplies, Mrs.
Nefl Garrison; superintendent
of baby specials, Mrs. Ruth
Harris; superintendent social
service, Mrs. Bob Yarbrough;
publicity, Mrs. A. C. Irwin.
The Garrison Auxiliary will
be hostess to the zone meeting
the early part in December.
MERCED I TEXAS
DEMIT OF SOT
(By Robert Wear, United Press
Staff Correspondent)
Dallas, Tex., Nov. 26. (UP)
—Texas is watching an expe-
riment now and wandering—
are the Texas Rangers ’’going
soft?”
Now they are merged into
the Texas Department at Pub-
lic Safety—a modern contriv-
ance with radio connections,
finger print experts and sub-
machine guns.
The public safety commis-
sion is trying to fit rangers into
the picture.
“He didn’t fit” was the
•cryptic explanation
PriCCt cut to bane at Sidney Johnson, chairman of
BLmkenshm’a. the commission, when the
H towering Captain Tom Hick-
man was given bis walking pa-
pers a few weeks ago.
Hickman’s dismissal set off
a bombshell of political reper-
cussions and argument in the
___legislature. His name was
ist University, to spend' practically gynonimous in the
--------‘ public mind with "Texas Ban-
From Wednesday’s Daily.
T. P .Rutherford and son,
Tom Owens, went to Dallas
yesterday to accompany T. P.
Jr., student Southern Method-
But Hickman had mad
raid on a aoto-
ger.’
a “water haul’1
-ions dining resort
without
and made no further explata
tion, leaving for a deer hunting
trip in the mountains of south-
Thanksgiving at home. Master
Tom Owens had just returned
from a week’s visit in Dallas.
Mrs. C. C. Murray and son.
C. C. Jr., of Lufkin were Sun-
day visitors with Mr. and Mrs.
A. M. Neel. The ladies are
sisters.
Miss Bernice Davis [eft to-
day for Nacogdoches where ! west Texas,
she will join a party of friends ] As Hickman went out, a
fox a trip to San Antonio. They | grand jury in Fort Worth still
will attend a meeting of the i was investigating a raid on
Sate Teachers’ Association [the same resort, made a few
which convenes there this nights later by two other ran-
week. gers. The names they obtain-
Mrs. A. F. Bryan and little ed from guests at the resort
grandson, Tommie Hairston, proved to be .fictitious. Cant,
left today for Dallas for a sev- L. G. Phares, director of the
era! days trip, where they will safety department, fumed,
visit Mrs. Bryan’s daughter, I Hickman’s friends took com-
Mrs. J. M. Bradshaw. , fort in the situation.
modern conditions. Tom put
aside his high-heeled boots, big
sombrero and called on "bright
spots” in Longview, Kilgore,
Gladewater and Overton, at-
tired in the horn-rimmed spec-
tacles, checked suit and spats
of a typical eastern “tender-
foot.” The trick worked He
took so many prisoners an
abandoned Methodist church
in Kilgore was pressed into use
as a makeshift jail.
Similarly, when Clyde Bar-
row and Bonnie Parker, his
machine-gunning sweetheart,
had terrorized the entire
southwest for several years
and officers apparently were
helpless, former Raager Cap-
tain Frank Hamer was employ-
d kill
ed to track them down an
them in a Louisiana by-road
through the pines.
Hickman and Hamer and
their fellows had carried on
the Rangers’ “two-gun” tradi-
tion for yeas, through cattle
rustling days on the Texas-
Mexico border in the moun-
tainous “Big Bend” section;
longshore troubles in Galves-
tois; and during the martial
law period in Borger, Panhan-
dle oil town where District At-
torney John A. Holmes had
e been assassinated.
"We’re not tough—just
rough,” Hickman once remark-
finding gambling in progress jed to a gambling game opera-
there. He blamed a “tip-off” |tor as the big ranger captain
smashed a dice table with an
ax.
Onlyafewmonthsago.Gov.
James V. Allred called the new County Agent,
ax-swinging rangers Into serv-
ice to break up gambling and
liquor-selling establishments
in Galveston, Houston and oth-
er cities.
Hickman was credited with
halting a run of hank robberies
by a spectacular gun fight on
the streets of Clarksville in
Territory. He spent his boy-;son county 12 years ago. He
Tino/T wnrlrinoi mrifli jt____ m .
hood working with cattle in
Texas and among the Chicka-
saw, Choctaw and Comanche
Indian nations: He entered the
Texas Ranger service as a pri-
vate in 1919, waa assigned to
duty on the Mexican border
and soon won the rank of cap-
tain. He served until 1983,
when the incoming adminis-
tration of Gov. Miriam A. Fer-
guson failed to re-appoint him.
When Gov. Allred succeeded
Mrs. Ferguson in 1935, how-
ever, Hickman waa restored to
the ranger force.
In the meantime, Hickman
married, toured Europe on his
honeymoon in appearances at
rodeos with the Cowboy Band
of Hardin-Simmons University
of Abilene.
Hickman's hair is turning
gray and the state safety de-
partment has decided he
doesn’t fit Texans are won-
dering — are the rangers
through?
Big sale on at Blank-
enship's.
TO SHELBT COWTYIM
CDOfKTT ACffT SHIFT
(Athens Daily Review.)
Beginning December 1st
Hen demon county wilt have a
new County Agent. This will
result from the moving of the
present County Agent John O.
Moosberg to Selby county by
the Director of the Extension
Service of the A. A M. College.
The place of Mr. Moosberg
will be filled by a selection <5
the Commissioners Court. In
the near
.... future, Mr. G. W.
1926, when one robber was:Johnston, district agent, will
killed and another wounded.' meet with the members of the
The $30,000 the robbers had in court and present for their ap-
moved from a farm in the
vicinity of Wills Point to bogus
his services in the county. Mis
energies have been expended
in every nook and comer of
the county in an endeavor to
promote sound agricultural
practices.
During the part three yearn
activities of the Federal Gov-
ern men t, Mr. Mooeber* Jus
endeavored at all times to
serve producers of the county
m their respective trading «*£■
ters thus avoiding necessity
for farmers to travel to Athens
except of their own accord.
The lack of complaints front
producers in the county to
Washington headquarters and
JS?* s**te headquarters at
College Station waa one of the.
things that brought the Exten-
sion Service of the A. A ItcX
lege to the realization that as
compared with other sections
of the state the program to
Henderson county is moving-
smoothly along. Mr. Mto£
oerg has presented every cont-
r:unity in the county with op-
portunity for making adjust-
ments in the contracts of the
respective communities, in ef-
fort to correct allotments marie
to the farms of the county.
In many instances his rime
has been given to explanation
of rules and regulations of the
adjustment program which fit
turn necessitated working at
night in the office to complete
details incident to comnTcrion
of the contracts. App—eis-
tion bf this service to the grow-
ers of the county was sooken
recently in the office of the Re-
view by a prominent farmer-
from an adjoining county when
he secured information con-
cerning the cotton program it
was either from the news
items Dlaced in the Review by-
Mr. Moosberg. or by visiting-
wit h him in the office.
C. E. Whitson has returned | “Bunch of swival-cair jnhn- a suitcase was recovered. The
from a several weeks trip tolnies,” they labeled the safety Texas Bankers' Association
therewith decided to put a
price of $5,000 on the head of
each dead bank robber. .
-. Hickman, now 49, grew up
bn the Texas-Oklahoma bor-
Indian came to Athens and Hender- tertainment.
Houston. \ department.
Miss Maudeilc Johnson.) Hickman’s clean-up of the
teacher in the public schools of East Texas oil field during its
Livingston, spent last week- boom davs, in 1930, was cited
rad with her parents. Dr. and'as' proof of the old-time ran-
Mrs. F. 0. Johnson. ger’s ability to cope with der, just south of the
proval three or more men who j Newspaper advertising has
““ *’■* —1 ” been the biggest single factor?
in teaching the people every-
where to want and buy things
for the home, good clothes,
good food, automobiles, sad
to patronize all forms of e»-
ihave the approval of the Ex
tension Service.
County Agent Moosberg Is
being moved to Shelby county
hi recognition of his services as
County Agent. Mr. Moosberg
CONTINUES IN FULL SWAY ... WITH ADDED BARGAINS IN EVERY DEPARTM ENT. HUNDREDS OF OUR CUSTOMERS
ATTENDED OUR OPENING DAY AND WERE WELL PAID BY THEIR PURCHASES. TO THOSE WE ASK THAT YOU
COME AGAIN, AND TO THOSE WHO HAVEN'T ATTENDED YET, WE SAY DON’T MISS THIS MONEY SAVING EVENT!
SHEEP LINED JACKETS
$3.98 value, Sale Price
$1.79
OIL CLOTH.....................................
*r
MEN’S OVERALLS
$1.19 value, Sale Price
[• 79c
CHEVIOTS, PER YARD...........................
......4«
OUTING, FIRST QUALITY, YARD..................
7c
LADIES’ SILK DRESSES
PRINTS, FAST COLORS, YARD...................
6C
LADIES’ HIGH TOP SHOES
$4.98 value, Sale Price
MATTRESS TICKING, YARD......................
4*•
$1.98 value, Sale Price
$1.98
LARD, 8 POUNDS.......................... .....
99*
$1.19
CAIT « PniiNDS .............
“'**'*» » ............................................dOpOH
GIRLS’ SCHOOL OXFORDS
« M min* Hal* P*,.
SHORTS, SACK..................................
$1.24
MEN’S Heavy Work SHOES
$2.98 value, Sale Price
$1.89
f " ' '
$1.49
MATCHES, 7 BOXES...........................
*4*
MACKEREL, CAN...............................
9c
POSITIVELY THIS IS THE BIGGEST EVENT OF OUR MERCHANDISING CAREER.... DON'T MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY
TO SAVE ON YOUR FALL PURCHASES!
The Bargain^ Stoi$
J. J. GREEN, Manager.
TIMPSON, TEXAS
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Molloy, T. J. Timpson Weekly Times (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, November 29, 1935, newspaper, November 29, 1935; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth765068/m1/5/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Timpson Public Library.