The Celina Record (Celina, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 30, 1930 Page: 1 of 6
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TWENTY-EIGHTH YEAR.
CELINA,TEXAS, JANUARY 30, 1930.
NUMBER 33.
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S. J. Parker of Celina
Picturesque Pioneer, 84
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The following concerning a Texas
pioneer who resides in Celina, recent-
ly appeared in the Sherman Democrat,
along with Mr. Parker’s picture, the
mat of which we have, but which ar-
rived too late for insertion this week:
An 84 year old Confederate veteran
Indian fighter, early Texas settler, and
one of the two men who captured the
youngest of Texas’ “Lady Wildcats,”
Belle Starr, is Sam J. Parker of Celi-
na. Mr. Parker is one of the most
picturesque figures in all of the north-
ern part of the state, and can recall
the time when as deputy marshal un-
der Governor Throckmorton he helped
.Tid the country of outlaws, horse,
chieves and murderers and did enough
Indian fighting to rank as an interest-
ing factor in the building of early
state history.
Mr. Parker was in his heydey when
the rather pretty and entirely inde-
pendent Albina Reed, who assumed a
nom de plume for her banditry, was
making things hots for representa-
tives of the law under the name of
Belle Starr. Frank Weldon was the
•other man who participated in her
capture, an event a Texas journalist,
Duncan lAikman, of El Paso , has re-
lated in his recent book “Calamity
Jane and the Lady Wildcats.”
Many close calls in Indian scraps
are related by Mr. Parker. One of
the closest took place on the north
Brazos river near where stands the
town of Aspermont. The battle in
Twhich he and his comrades were en-
gaged lasted all evening with the loss
of only one white man and the wound-
ing of another. Mr. Parker gave up
his shirt for bandages for his friend
and went without this article of cloth-
ing for several days as a result.
The band of about sixty white men
became cut off from their supply base
and were kept away about three weeks
by the wily Indians. Their ammuni-
tion was running low and they knew
that through its decrease the Indians
could eventually take advantage of
•them for a thoroughgoing scalping.
A conference was called and it was de-
cided to stage the death struggle im-
mediately by striking through the en-
emy’s lines.
Consequently the group took a stand
in a small draw, knowing the red men
would encircle them. With the sig-
nal of Mr. Parker’s gun each man
prepared to get his Indian. The fight
lasted many hours and at its end the
men were able to march out and on to
the base of their supplies without fur-
ther trouble.
In 18G7 Mr. Parker went to Jacks-
boro where it was reported Indians
were giving trouble and he spent some
months there. Every night for weeks
Indians tried to sieze the town, Mr.
Parker says, and though repulsed with
regularity, would take to the hills on-
ly to return with equal regularity.
Though outnumbered, the town’s gar-
rison finally succeeded in freeing the
vicinity of siege.
Mr. Parker was born in Alobusha
county, Miss., Feb. 16, 1845. His fam-
ily moved to Tennessee when ho was
a small boy and they lived there some
ten years. In 1858 his father moved
to Texas, landing in McKinney in
March of 1858 and settling on a farm
•where the town of Murphy now
stands.
In 1861 young Parker enlisted in
Fitzhugh’s regiment organized in Col-
lin county, and after serving four
Telephone Co. Plans Ex-
tensive Improvements
P. T. A. Have Regular
Meeting on Tuesday
Murderer of Stenographer Figures by Mrs. Lee
Relies on Insanity Plea
The Parent Teachers Association
met January 28 at the High School
building with Mrs. Russell Kelsey in
the chair. Seventeen members and
five guests were present.
Superintendent Dorrough suggested
that the Association make an effort to
secure free textbooks for the school
children. i
Mrs. Sam Patrick read a letter from
Mrs. E. L. Burton stating that Dr.
Burton would be glad to render aid to
school children afflicted with eye, ear,
nose, and throat trouble. Through the
influence of Dr. W. H. Stallcup, a
prominent dentist will lecture to the
school children sometime in the near ,
future. 1
Mrs. Frank Allen read a very inter-
esting paper on “How Can We, As
Parents, Encourage the Desire to go
to College?” A brief summary of
this paper follows:
“Parents have always wanted the
best that the times offered children.
They have used their strength and in-
genuity to give them the best. The
adventurous of long ago paved the
way for the schools of today. We
have voted taxes, built better build-
ings, equipped them and have chosen
well prepared teachers who have had
enthusiasm of our school, and we
have worked for the affiliation we
have applied for and secured. |And
while we have been doing these things
we have been instilling in the minds
of our children the desire for a better
education, a college education, so they
will he better prepared to meet life.
‘Where there is a will, there is a way’
can be the slogan of every boy and
girl desiring a college education. On-
ly ’ast year 425 boys were given jobs
in the State University; they ranged
from waiting on tables to doing yard
! work. For the girls, there are always
5 tables to be waited on, halls to be
The trial of Judge John W. Brady
at Austin for the killing of Miss Leh-
lia Highsmith Nov. 9, is nearing the r, ; .
i L c.. indis singing.
; “What makes all poultry raisers say
Brady s defense is insanity and •, (T . . ,, . ., , „
, , ..„ j ,, , i I just cant make poultry pay’?
many witnesses have testified that i .
T> J . v, J . i But you can’t make me say
Brady is much changed the last few | (T, .. ,
years, during which time he has been 1 „ "A1 W0I?1 . pay’ , ,
, . . . , .. , f Fcr they will if you have hens that
drinking heavily, and that m their be- l . „
lief he is insane, especially when he is ' ‘ ‘T , .. ... . -
. Mrs. Lee submits the following fig-
Construction plans of the South-
western Bell Telephone Company of
Texas call for a gross expenditure of
817,600,000 for 1930, it was announc-
ed today by W. L. Prehn, General
Manager of the Company.
This is a part of the construction
program for the five states in which
f he Southwestern Company operates,
Texas, Oklahoma, Arkapsas, Kansas,
cr.d Missouri, which will require an
estimated expenditure of approxi-
mate 852 000,000 during 1930. This
amount exceeds by nearly $12,000,000
! ’he construction expenditure for 1929.
Increased use of the telephone and
jthe necessity of providing for an ex-
pected gain of 24,500 telephones in
| Texas during the year make the ex-
penditure necessary. The Company
nuw serves more than 431,000 tele-
phones in Texas, 1,353,000 in the five
states.
New biuldings is one of the main
items in the 1930 budget. A new
long distance office is to be built in
Dallas, an addition will be made to
the Dallas “5” office; a new building
in lArlington Heights, Fort Worth, 2
new buildings and an extension of a
building in San Antonio. Approxi-
mately $3,500,000 will be spent for
land and buildings in Texas, it is es-
timated.
More than $2,500,000 has been in-
cluded in the budget for placing long
distance cables underground and
ouilding new long distance circuits
Telephone workers are placing a long
, distanct cable underground between
On. Chickens and Cow; Dallas anl Fort Worth. It is expect-
- j ed that work will start during the
This is the song Mrs. Ira Lee. who J year on an underground cable between
lives a short distance northwest of j ^a^as and Holdenville, Oklahoma,
! which will connect there with a cable
to Oklahoma City.
drinking.
A fistcuff was engaged in in the
court room Tuesday by Defense At-
torney Dayton B. Moses and the coun-
ty attorney, in which Moses, who was
just out of a sick bed, was knocked
down. |
Brady’s wife testified that he was
insane and that she knew of secret
meetings of Brady and Miss High-;
smith.
LEASING FOR OIL AT GUNTER
Gunter.—Leasing of a block of 7,000
acres of land in and near Gunter at
50 cents per acre for ten years is be-
ing completed by a Fort Worth firm
preparatory for drilling oil. The block 1 -q
will be irregular in outline when com-' £,uo
pleted it is stated, and will extend
ures to show what she has done with
her poultry and cows during 1929:
Starting Jan. 1 with one cow and
217 chickens, adding another cow Feb.
15 and another April 1, up to August
she had sold $209 worth of butter and
cream. By Aug. 15 she had reduced
her flock of hens to 125, having sold
$356.50 worth of eggs and $247.35
worth of broilers and hens, to say
nothing of what was consumed
table use. This shows a total of
$812.85 from the cows and chickens.
Mrs. Lee sold $95 worth of turkeys.
She raised all of her feed except egg
mash, which cost her $135.35, leaving
a profit, not counting the cost of
home-grown feed consumed, of $772.-
I try and cows since August.
Bethel News Letter
an unusual amount of sick-
, ness in the family, Mrs. Lee was un-
souiffi the Collin county line and three £j)je keep the figures on her poul-
milus west of the city, taking in sev-
eral lots in the business section of the
town. jA Mr. O’Neal of Fort Worth
is said to be a representative of the
firm making the leases.
Land owners north of town are
pooling their property preparatory for
drilling, forming a block which ad-
joins the block being leased by the
Fort Worth company. The pool will
extend three miles north of Gunter, it
is said, and is being handled by Mrs.
The project which will ultimately
connect the principal cities of the
southwest by underground telephone
lines was begun in 1929. Danger of
service interruption by storm, flood or
fire is practically eliminated when
wires are underground. An under-
ground cable is practically ready for
use between Fort Worth and Cisco.
The placing of undergound cables
between cities requires “repeater”
stations to amplify the voice current
approximately each 50 miles. One of
these “repeater” stations is planned
near Sherman this year.
New switchboards, dial telephone
for ^ aPParatus> other associated equip-
ment will cost about $4,700,000 it is
estimated. Increase in the number of
telephones to be operated by dials is
estimated at approximately 37,300.
By the end of the year, Prehn esti-
mates, 221,000 telephones, or 48 per
cent of all the telephones served by
the Southwestern Company in the
State will be operated by dial equip-
ment. Two exchanges in Houston and
one in Fort Worth will be changed to
dial operation during the year.
For the extension of telephone lines
| in exchanges v/here the Southwestern
j Company operates, more than $3,600,-
- i 000 has been included in the budget.
The weather still continues pretty These extensions are required in those
Fear Diver Trapped in
River Has Perished
Quebec, Jan. 29.—The elements ap-
peared to have triumphed Wednesday
in a desperate battle for the life of a
deep-sea diver who was trapped at the
bottom of the Outarde River, in an
isolated section 175 miles north of
Quebec.
Peter Trans was caught in the crib-
bing at the bottom of a falls where
the Ontario Paper Company is con-
structing a power plant, at a point
near where the Outarde empties into
the St. Lawrence. That was Monday.
Two airplanes bearing two rescue
divers set out Tuesday to go to the
diver’s aid, but they were forced down
by a snowstorm at Rimouski. A vol-
unteer diver went down twice Tuesday
and reported Trans could be freed on-
ly by sawing away the crib, but he
was afraid to try it himself lest be ac-
cidentally sever the air lines.
Arvo Silyala, a laborer, put on a di-
ving suit Wednesday and went down
into the icy waters. He worked close
enough to Trans to grip his hand.
There was no response. Trans was
either unconscious from the long ex-
posure or dead.
Meanwhile the two rescue divers re-
sumed their flight Wednesday and
arrived at Riviere-aux-Outardes. But
'when they got there the current had
become too swift for them to go be-
low.
A dispatch from Toronto, Canada,
said a third diver, W. T. Dudley, who
never had flown before, started from
there Wednesday afternoon by plane.
His party expected to reach Quebec
Wednesday night and, if weather con-
ditions are favorable, to continue at
once to another point, across the St.
Lawrence from Riviere-aux-Outardes.
They will complete the trip Tuesday
as soon as daylight and weather per-
mit.
‘ cold with rain Tuesday and a light
i snow Tuesday night. The farmers
would like to see some fair weather,
; as some like quite a little having their
land put up.
Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Manes visited
0‘Neal, said to be no relation to the
Fort Worth representative.
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ANNA STORES ENTERED
of 1873 he married Miss Sarah Mar-!
garet Wilson of Collin county. The! A very interesting round .able de-
couple lived in Sachse, Dallas county j cuss,on of practical means whereby
for thirty years or more where they!"” <;hddr™ c°"ld to Colle^ fo‘-
reared their family of six children^-- disappointed because Mr.
of whom only two are now living, Mrs.! vv« ", ... o
Mollie Brigham of Ralls and Mrs. j Jackson could not be with us.„
W„ A. Parker of Hamlin. In 1902; ^ ~ 7°
Mr. and Mrs. Parker moved to Celina Mother Mrs, L. F. YV llSOSl
where htey have lived ever since.
Mr. Parker is a cousin of E. J.
Parker of Sherman and has other rel-
atives in this county.
Anna, Texas, Jan. 29.—Five stores
were broken into at Anna early Tues-
day morning, it is thought. In each
case, glass doors at the front were
broken, evidently with an axe which
was found near Morgan and Sons Curtis spent Sunday with
market where a plate glass window i Mrs. Charlie Bilderbaek.
j Mr. and Mrs. Jim Manes Saturday,
j Miss Nellie Bilderbaek spent Sat-
; urday night with Misses Earline and
i Gussie McWhirter.
j Mr. and Mrs. Hersehel Wester, Jack
Bilderbaek and DeWitt Luscombe
l were bedtime visitors in the home of
i Mr. and Mrs. Murph Balch Monday
: night.
Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Helms and son
Mr. and
was broken.
Though the loss has not been deter-
mined, it seems to be principally in the
destruction of property. A safe at
Roddy’s Dry Goods store was wreck-
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Gentry spent last
week with Mr. and Mrs. Ray Helms.
Mrs. Henry Luscombe is on the sick
list.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Rigsby of near
parts of cities where growth makes
necessary additional telephone lines.
New telephone instruments, priv-
ate branch switchboards, known to
telephone people as P. B. X’s. which
will be installed by the company will
require an expenditure of about $3,-
400,000 during the year.
“By increasing out 1930 appropria-
tion over that of last year,” Prehn
said, “we demonstrate our belief in
the future development of Texae and
recognize our responsibility of pro-
viding adequate, telephone service to
the people in the State.”
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ENTERTAINED CURCH WOMEN
Seriously Injured on Ice
-- ea and 150 pennies, all the money it j Weston spent Saturday night and'year,
Mrs. C. F. Wilson, wife of Postmas- contained, were scattered over the Sunday with the latter’s parents, Mr.
ter Wilson, received news Sunday that floor. Nothing of any value has been! and Mrs. Stiles Miller.
--o--j v,or brother, Hugh O’Brien, while skat- missed so far. j Mr. and Mrs. Claud Willard and two
GLENDENNING BUYS TRUCKS ing on the ice at Randlett, Ok., fell Stores broken into were: W. B. Lus- 1 sons, Claud and Guge, spent Tuesday
of the skull comb’s grocery, Weldon Smith Drugs; j with Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Bilderbask.
and snot.- ined a fracture
at the hs:/3 of his brain.
The injured man was taken
hospital at Wichita Falls for
meijt and iarer taken to his
Tom Glendenning has purchased
Clay Howell’s truck line, which oper-
ates between Celina and Dallas, and
will operate it hereafter. The Record '
is informed that lAlec Glendenning While the case is a serious one, he is
will operate the line while his broth- reported to be doing as well as could
er Tom continues to give his attention be expected.
to farming, --°-
Mr. Howell had been operating the I Ed Stone visited his brother Bert
line for a number of years. Stone in Denison Friday. ,
D. M. Roddy, dry goods; James Alex-
to a ander, grocery, and Morgan and Son,
treat- market and grocery,
home. McKinney officers were notified ear-
ly Tuesday morning and are working
on the case.
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The fifth prison bill has gone to the
legislature since the fourth called ses-
sion met.
Miss Lula Maggie Kelly spent Sat-
urday night and Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. Floyd Perry.
Mr. and Mrs. Ramey Helms visited
Mr. and Mrs. Ky Helms, the former’s
parents, Saturday night. ,
Miss Earline McWhirter spent Mon-
day night with Miss Nellie Bilderbaek.
Read your Home Town Paper.
Mrs. R. E. L. Miller etertaied the
members of the Aid Society of the
First Christian Church Monday after-
noon with a social.
This being the first meeting of the
appropriate articles pertaining
to the New Year were read, after
which Mrs. Orlia Moss of McKinney
and Mrs. Bill Brewer of this city won
prizes.
New officers were elected as fol-
lows: Mrs. Roy McWilliams, Presi-
dent; Mrs. Jim King, Vice President;
Mrs. R. E. L. Miller, Sec., and Treas.;
Mrs. Jim King, Parliamentarian;
Mrs. C. C. Andrews, Teacher; Mrs.
Bill Brewer, Reporter.
A delightful salad course was serv-
ed.
ATTENDED FUNERAL HERE
The following persons from other
towns and communities attended the
funeral of Mrs. W. F. Levy here Sun-
day:
Mrs. Levy’s children and step-chik-
dren were all present at the funeral,
those from out of town being Sena-
tor and Mrs. Joe Moore; Mrs. Claud
Neely, Lubbock; Mr. and Mrs. Alla
Commons, McKinney; Carl and Roy
Stelzer, Sentinel, Ok.; Miss Jewel Le-
vy, LaFayette, La.
Two sisters, Mrs. C. R. Barber, of
Fredericktown Mo., and Mrs. E. L.
Francis, of Denton> Mr. Hurt Davis
and daughter, Malachia, and son Lew-
is, of Durant; Miss Lizzie Davis of
Kenefic; a grandson, Roy Stelzer, of
Sentinel, Ok.; Mr.and Mrs. J.A. Biggs,
of Denton; Mr. and Mrs. Houston
Clark and Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Pedigo,
of Pilot Point; Mr. and Mrs. Lee
Francis, of McKinney; Jean Francis,
Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Graey and Mrs.
John Phillips, of McKinney; Mr. and
Mrs. Hubbard Francis, of Gunter;
Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Francis, of Dal-
las; Mr. and Mrs. Dee Finley, of Ft.
Worth; Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Tarpley,
Greenville; Mr. and Mrs. Joe Watson,
of Greenville; Mrs. J. T. Teel, of
Denton; Mrs. John Phillips and son,
J. B. and daughters, Louise and Lau-
ra, of Frisco; Miss Marguerite Phil-
lips, Dallas; Mr. Will Mitchell, Howe;
Mr. and Mrs. Brook Brown of Boyd;
Mrs. N. C. Settle and sons, N. C. and
Ted. of Prosper; Mrs. Jerry Johnson,
of Prosper; Mr. and Mrs. Robei't
Mitchell and son, Robert Lee of Pros-
per; Mr. Ray Fields of Sentinel, Ok-
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CONDUCTED FUNERAL
Read your home town paper.
Rev. W. J. Epting was called to
Whitesboro Tuesday to conduct the
funeral of an aged and highly respect-
ed citizen of that place. Mr. Perk-
ins, who was about 80, fell on the ice
while the coat of ice was on the
ground recently and broke his hip.
Pneumonia followed and resulted in
death.
DEATH FROM DIPHTHERIA
There was a death from diphtheria
near Weston Monday, the victim be-
ing Lalla May, the little daughter of
Oscar Holland and wife, aged 2 years,
4 months and 28 days.
Undertaker S. K. Pafford had
charge of the burial, which was at
Warden Cemetery Tuesday.
B. J. Nichols was in Frisco
day. He reports everything
there.
Tues-
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Andrews, C. C. The Celina Record (Celina, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 30, 1930, newspaper, January 30, 1930; Celina, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth773490/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Celina Area Historical Association.