The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, October 12, 1934 Page: 2 of 12
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THE HOPKINS COUNTY ECHO
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Hopkins County
Echo
_ Hxtublluhed In 187*_
JNO. 8. BAGWELL, Editor
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THAT SPECIAL SESSION
Elsewhere in this issue is a call
for an extra session of the Texas
Legislature to meet Friday, October
12th.
This reminds the Echo man about
voting for the constitutional change
a few years ago in which the salaries
of member* of the legislature were
changed from $5 to $10 a day, along
with a new procedure in dispensing
business to come before the legisla-
ture. It was agreed that less time
would be required by the legislature
and few special sessions needed.
How about another constitutional
amendment requiring the legislature
to remain itt seasion all the time,
with a vacation each year so that
they might go home for a little rest
and recreation?
} The court holds that each member
is entitled to receive pay for Sun-
days. The Echo man is in favor of
making each member attend church
on Sunday in order to earn that ten
extra dollars.
That ia all, except the Echo man
can’t understand and does not un-
derstand where the state will get the
extra money to make appropriation
for tha Centennial, etc., ahd pay for
the extra session. HoweveV Friday,
October 12, is Columbus Day, the
'day on which Christopher Qolumbus
discovered ^nerica in the year of
our Lord 1492, 442 years ago. The
new world was a babe in swaddling
clothes. Today she is the mightiest
oak in the world’s greatest forest
and the Lone Star State is the great-
est of all states in the mighty em-
pire. •
Maybe so, a new Christopher Col-
umbus will show up in the special
session and discover some new field
of finance, a gold or silver mine, or
maybe so, find an oil field under ev-
ery farm in East Texas.
The Echo man is not kicking but
just hoping.
A MOST WORTHY CAUSE
arc
er of this splendid family several
months ago. A better man and more
useful citizen and pastor did not
live in all Hopkins County. At the
time of his sudden and unexpected
death, Rev. Yeager was an active
and very efficient, pastor of four
rural churches in the Rehoboth Bap-
tist Association. His salary was small
from each church, with an income
insufficient to support his family.
He was doing manual labor on the
highway when the end came, without
warning. His good wife and fine
children ihavc been carrying on since
his death as best they could on the
farm, near Paint Rock. The long
continued drought and depression
are no respecters of persons, and
have left their marks on this splen-
did family. They are anxious to re-
turn to thu old home among old
friend* in Alabama but have not suf-
ficient funds to make the move. One
hundred dollars is needed. eryoouy s Dusiness. a »man iwu
The Good Book says that pure and_ person must he a real man or a real Roosevelt, in
undefiled religion consists of look-' ’ ' .............
ing after the widows and orphans in
their aflictions.
What are you, dear brother and
sister, going to do about it?
The Echo man does not' personal-
ly know Mrs. Yeager or any member
of her family, but he did know her himself he grows big—as big as his
erybody’* business. A small town known as Eleanor, wife of President
Roosevelt, in one of her talks, al-
woman, or be classified otherwise by ways practical, tells what she thinks
that untiring and moat observant about children and money. Her re-
small town public opinion. A man in marks are worthy of consideration,
a small town must live his life for She says:
all his little world to see. He must “In all material things, the child
be himself. That is a rare privilege who learns the value of money and
in modrn city life today. In being its uses has learned something which
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husband and the great work he did God-given talents and his own cul
as pastor and preacher while he liv- tivation will permit. He is an indiv-
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ed. Soon after his untimely death
we sent a $5.00 check to Mrs. Yea-
ger with, an apology for how little
appreciation we had shown her hus-
band while he lived. We want in
again on this final donation for Mrs
Yeager and children, as they return
to loved ones at the old home in
Alabama. The Echo man may take a
little time off to go see Grandma
Pierce if the Baptists full down.
Grandma is not a Deep Water but
she never turns down a worthy
cause when widows and orphans are
involved.
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NEW $3,000 STADIUM IS GREAT
INVESTMENT
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idual. And then the call of oppor-
tunity—more money, fame, success
—comes from the larger centers;
the men who stand out above the
crowd in the smaller places hear and
frequently answer that call.
In the smaller towns of America
today so many men are struggling
to make money with the thought in
mind of going to some city to spend
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it and also to spend that rich period money and how to save it, it is even
of their mature years. In the small more valuable to learn self-control
town they are personalities. In. the and the traits of character which
The n^w $3,000 staffidm with its
bright lights is one of the best in
vestments ever made by Sulphur
Springs, from a financial standpoint.
Athletics have become, and justly so,
an important factor in the school
life of all schools: public schools,
colleges and universities. Athletics
develop the physical body and teach
self-government in caring for the
body and learning to give and take
on the field of battle.
The spirit of cooperation and loy-
alty tc* the old home town and the
Wildcats is worth far more than the
stadium cost in dollars, time and
energy. This was manifested Friday
Bight of the past week when nearly
two thousand loyal, enthusiastic fans
were present in the new stadium to
support the Wildcats in one of the
best football games ever played on
local field, although the Wildcats
lost by a small mabgin. What is true
about the new stadium is true of all
undertakings and enterprises of the
- old home town. Benjamin Franklin
Either the writer of the artiele or .ajd, “United, we stand; divided, we
City they are lost in the hurrying
crowds. It is a splendid achievement
to build a life of usefulness and hon-
or amid the wholesome neighborli
Dess of a small town.
Small towns need their local lead-
ers. Most of these fine men and
women who have been developed in
our small towns would be happier
and more prosperous to stay there.
Neighborliness is submerged and
almost lost in the city. It is a prec-
ious assgt of the small town. Henry
Grady, a brilliant small town man
from Georgia, visiting with his wife
in New York, saw a coffin being
taken from an apartment house and
no one in the building knew or car-
ed who the dead man was. Grady
said to his wife, “Let’s go back home
where somebody knows when you are
sick, and cares when you die.”
Here, in your community, develop
the talents you have. Know the joy
of constructive citizenship. Work
with your neighbors to make your
community so attractive that men
will enjoy building lives and for-
tunes right here.—Hubert M. Har-
rison in East Texas.
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EVERYBODY OUGHT TO HAVE
A GOVERNMENT JOB
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the News-Telegram and Echo made fall.’1
an error in the amount asked for in
an appeal for funds to aid Mrs. H.
L. Yeager and children to move back
to their old home in Alabama. The
statemeftt called for $1,000 instead
of $100.
That la all about the error except
that a more worthy cause has not
been presented to the Baptist people
of Hopkins County in many years.
Death claimed the husband and fath-
A TEXAS WONDER
For certain irregularities of the
Kidneys and Bladder and certain so-
called Rheumatic pains. Sold by
druggists or by mail $1.25. Send for
■worn testimonials. E. W. Hall Co.,
$679 Olive St., St. Louis, Mo.
Says the Clarksville Times: “A
Brownsville man, furnishing a list of
40 or more government bureaus cre-
ated under the Roosevelt Adminis-
Success Crowns Our
Efforts
That is all, except the same loy-
alty to the home merchant in buying
your fall and winter "togs” and oth-----
er supplies will make the home mer- tration, uses the list to show the
chant the greatest merchant in all trend toward higher taxation in the
Texas. Besides, it is the home mer- future. We can't see where anybody
chant and not the out-of-town mer- jn Brownsville has much kick corn-
chant that helped built the new st*- i„g. If u fellow livin gin Brownsville
dium, pays taxes to support the does not like the way the county is
schools, churches and cares for the run he can ferry across the Rio
needy in the town and county.. And Grande and be a Mexican in a few
don’t forget that your home mer- minutes. But he cou;dn’t expect a
chant has what you want, or can get government job in Mexico.”
it for you, and the cost will be less. of course, if a fellow doesn’t like
Now, please don’t dispute the Echo this government, he can move to an-
man’s word. Every rag the Echo man other nation. Most of us would not
wears and every rag his namesake, be willing to do that, no matter how
John S., Jr., wears were bought in much we were dissatisfied with con-
SiSlphur Springs. Who dares say that ditions here. But the fact that we
can move should not force us to sit
idly by and accept everything the
government does without comment.
There never was a government so
good that it would not be made bet-
THERE IS A REASON!
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There has never been a program presented that has
met with such wide-spread approval as the Hopkins
County Burial Association
In the short space of 18 months the membership has
grown to 8,900 members and growing daily. The plan
of protection and co-operation makes it a double-edge
program of Helping Your Neighbor and at the same
protecting yourself—and the price is so exceed-
ingly »"«ll that everybody can take part.
If you have net investigated this wonderful program,
it will surprise you to knbw how much good yon can ac-
complish by your co-operation and public spirit.
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jovernment bureaus and employes.
Naturally everybody can not be on
the government payroll, and if the
number so employed is increased to
a much greater extent, it will be
very burdensome on the few left to
raise the revenues and expenses of
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SULPHUR SPRINGS, TEXAS
jgfCBtS in each City or Community in Hopkint Coaoty
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Don’t put off enjoying life until that’s my land; if they drill to the
you are old. It will then be too late, north, that’s my land, too, and I'll
Such a life is filled only with re- get my share of the ojl wherever
grets—and when you reach the age they drill,
of reflection and introspection, you “**
will have nothing worthwhile to com-
fort your declining years. Make it
a point to enjoy life as you live it—
John S., Sr., and John S., Jr
not well dressed?
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A SMALL TOWN MAN
Big men grow in small towns—
and frequently move to the city. The
small town person develops charac-
ter and personality because in the _ ----- — -------------
smaller groups there is time for close every day will bring the reward of
personal contacts, for meditation and happiness to those who hand out
for the seasoning of the finer things good will and good cheer to others,
inside one’* self. There is not the With your daily tasks, take time
frenzied bustle that leaves little time play and enjoy refreshing amuse-
for turning one’s thoughts in on ments—also to scatter sunshine
one’s self. City life tends to make along the path of others with good
men all alike—mill-run, standurdiz- deeds and a friendly disposition
ed automatons, who know how to Thus will your spirit be continually
catch cars, talk shop, race to and refreshened and you will have found
from work, to live and die in a hur- the real fountain of youth.—Farm-
ry.
In a city a man may live pretty
much as he pleases and a few may
know of his goings and coming*. In
u small town everybody knows ev-
ereville Times.
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CHILDREN AND MONEY
Grandma Roosevelt, otherwise
“If they drill to the west, that’s
my son-in-law’s land, and my grand
children will get the royalty there.
“Just go ahead and drill, drain
and ho d—d, for all I care.”
Natural gas is available by the
millions of cubic feet, but “Uncle
Andy,’’ as Hardin is known to the
neighborhood, sticks by carbide
lights and a big fireplace for
wormth.
“I’ve still got a mighty good wood
pile out there,” he says, pointing to
a fence row piled high with well-
seasoned hpnhvood. “I’ve never
gone cold yet, and I’ve been here
tong time.”
And determination to remain
written on the weathered features
of Andrew —. Hardin—the man
who’s "even with the world.”
will help him all through life. He
may spend dollars later instead of
cents but his knowledge of values
will be there. When my children
were young they had a small allow-
ance which they were allowed to
apportion to charity and school uses
and to presents, but if they desired
to do some special thing which they
could not cover with the allowance
they had to earn it by working at
something really useful. Valuable as
is the knowledge of how to spend
RED RIVER COUNTY
WANTS GOVERNMENT
TO BUY CATTLE
A meeting of Red River County
cattlemen and a few interested citi-
zens was held at the courthouse here
Friday night, when the crisis which
faces a large number of livestock
Owners was discussed and a plan of
action adopted in an effort to se-
cure the further co-operation of the
Federal Government to relieve the
situation. Telegrams prepared
to be forwarded Saturday to O. B.
Martin, director of the Extension
Service; George W. Barnes, in
charge of the state cattle buyirg pro-
gram; Senator Morris Sheppard and
Congressman Wright Patman, ask-
ing consideration. It was pointed out
that approximately 12,000 head of
cattle were offered to the govern-
ment under the emergency buying
program, but only 2,700 were pur-
chased when the program was stop-
ped. About 8,000 head are still un-
individuals
emotions and we applaud when the
fullback spectacularly hurls his hel-
met toward the side line and then
crashes the line for two yards; we
cheer when the crippled captain (is
lushed into the game to save the
‘honor’ of the school, but should we?
Instead of upplauding und cheering
such examples let us resolve to elim-
inate them. Insist that the boys
weur their helmets and that injured
players remain on the bench, re-
gardless of the score.
“With the hope that those who
are responsible will carefully con-
sider these important matters the
following suggestions are offered:
Have a physician give each and
every boy a thorough physical ex-
amination. Get a written parent’s
consent giving permission for the
boy to play. See to it that the boys
are properly equipped with adequate
protectors such as shoulder, hip and
kidney pads, helmets, taped ankles,
etc. Give immediate attention to all
injuries, even seemingly unimportant
scratches and bruises. Have a
physician on hand at every game.
MRS. GREER ORTON
RETURNING ROME
ROUND WORLD TRIP
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General Store
Opposite Express Office
On Jefferson Street
GILBERT REA, Prop.
GOAL OIL X. 29c
MEAL
20’s
50c
Extra Good GuerfPtepd
FLOUR $1.65
CRACKERS 20c
MEAT
Dry Salt,
. Lb.
15C
No. A Galvanized TUB-^—
SPECIAL 29c
INDEPENDENT
Cream Station
Give Us A Trial
imv-n iu ^veu whim — —— —
fought, 4-to-3 victory in the sixth
game of the baseball championship
battle. * i-
The younger member of the cele-
brated Dean clan, fighting to avenge
the setback to brother Dizzy Sunday,
himself drove home Leo Durocher
with the winning run in the seventh
inning and then hurled back the last
Tiger charge in the eighth.
Relatives here have received news
of Mrs. Greer Orton (Miss Dorothy
Pate) who, with Mr. Orton, made a
trip around the world, stating she
was sailing from Shanghai and ex-
pected to land in San Francisco
about the 27th of this month. Mr.
and Mrs. Orton have been on the
trip the past two years, and he will
be detained about four months long-
er.
make it possible to have money, to
save it, or to give it away.”
Here’s a bit of sound logic that
parents would do well to ponder on.
Her boys may not be models in ev-
ery respect, but her comments on
the forming of traits of character
while young as a foundation for sue- _____ ______
cess in life, should cause parents to appraised. Hundreds of
think and to more seriously realize are unable to care for their cattle
their grave responsibilities.—Lamar during the coming winter. They have
County Echo. not produced feed and it is now too
late to hope for a feed crop.
They undoubtedly face a crisis.
was
not inaugurated here until iate in
the season. It was stopped here
when halted elsewhere. As a conse-
quence this county has been able to
secure only partial relief from this
„ . ,, program.—Clarksville Times.
And it’s just the jolly, joking thing, F .
The “Never-mind-the-troubie”
things,
The “Laugh-with-me-lts-funny
things, •*
That make the world seem bright.
ST. LOUIS WINS
WORLD SERIES
OVER DETROIT
LITTLE THINGS ------------
The government buying program ■
Oh, it’s just the little homely things, oot inaUg„rated here until iate
The unobstrusive, friendly things,
The “Won’t-you-let-me-help-you"
things
That make our pathway light.
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For all the countlea? famous things,
The wondrous record-breaking things
Those never-ean-be-equaled things
That all the papers cite.
Aren’t like the little human things
The every-day-encountercd things,
The “Just because-I-like-you”
things
That make us happy quite.
So here's to all the little things,
The done-and-then-forgotten things,
Those “Oh-it’s-simply-nothing”
things
That make life worth the fight.
—Grace Haines.
MAN REFUSES TO
LEASE TEN ACRES
LAND FOR $100,000
Ada, Okla.—An offer of $100,000
for a lease upon a ten-acre home-
stead, the site of a sturdy little tog
cabin, reputedly has been refused
gooa uiai it wuuiu .»v. ~~ ,-------- by the owner, Andrew J. Hardin, 80
ter, and it is generally admitted that year-old pioneer,
thete is some rod ’ from criticism - Not far the cabin’s historical sig
about the way things are being run nificance—although It is very old-
in thin country nt the present. One nor for its workmanship—it is
of the chief causes of dissatisfaction staunchly built o' hewn logs chinked
Js the rapidly increasing number of with mortar—was the offer made.
The cabin tract lies squarely in
the middle of the new John Fitts oil
field, a few miles south if here.
Hardin, who has lived within two
miles of his present home for sixty-
six years, has one answer to the
"lease hounds" who pester him'daily:
those doing government work. We “I am doing what I please. I ajn- old High Scho
concede that the Brownsville man’s where I want to be.- 1 -am where I lose than win
complaint is not without merit. am going to stay.” jurie& tp play<
■*•••** His independence may have been ness, thoughlessnew or heedlesaness,
The government cattle buying pro- fortified by oil leasee he' has execut- Roy ,B. Henderson, athletic director
gram in Hopkins County is like a ed upon the other 276 acres of his of the University of Texas Bureau
baseball game being called in about farm. Hardin jovially admits he now of Public School interests, emphasiz-
the seventh inning. Too many small is “even with the world." Oil men ed in a recent letter to schools par-
le owner* to tha county never estimate the Shatter Ofl Co.’s No. 1 ticipating In Interscholastic League
l an opportunity to get to the Andrew J, Hardin well to be good football this rear,
and certainly it was no fault of for 10,000 to 15,000 barrels daily
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Fourteen to nothing was not to An argument that surrounding
for the Wildcat? in their first wella would drain all the oil from
mu* night game. Bough Stuff My- under Ms ten-acre tract *as quickly
says it was not fair, and the squelched by the old pioneer,
man says Woodrow Wilson “If they drill to the south, that’s
do it again. * ray land; if they drill to the east,
Detroit, Mich., Oct, 9.—The Saint
Louis Cardinals, pennant-winners of
the National League, defeated the
Detroit Tigers, pennant winners of
the American League, here this aft-
ernoon in the seventh game of the
World Series, to win the World
Series, four games to three games.
The Cardinals "salted the game
away” by scoring seven runs in the.
third inning, at the expense of prac-
tically all of the Tigers pitching
staff.
HAPPYJjCCASION
On Wednesday afternoon, Oct. 3,
the many friends of Mr. and Mrs.
Ethel Martin surprised them with a
miscellaneous shower, honoring their
wedding, which took place at Hugo,
Okie., July 16.
After the guests had all arrived,
Miss Sallle was placed in a chair and
the lovely gifts were presented to
her. Last, but not least, enough'
blocks for most three quilt tops of
a star design. Refreshments were
then served, consisting of iced tea,
fruits and cake.
Those enjoying this occasion and
wishing them a long and happy life
were Mollie Weir, Johnnie Robert-
son, Minnie Withrow, Vailie Vaden,
Lelia Johns, Laura Adams, Mary
Chapman, Inez Honeycutt, Addie
Mae Weir, Lois Rawson, Fannie
Wood, Rosa Spuriork, Eddie Evans,
Bobby Jim Evans, Ellen Wilhite,
Virgie Searls, Mary Vandever, Jes-
sie Garner, Dora Dean Garner, Gen-
ova Vandever, Aliie Weir, B.
Thompson, D. M. Henderson, Nan-
nie Hooten, Sallie O’Guinn, Nannie
Bryan, Thelma Karney, Louella Raw-
son, Ethel Martin, Ruth Withrow,
Verda Nftlle Withrow, Nettie Mae
Thompson, Margaret O’Guinn, Vera
Mae Ross, Wayne Evans, Bud Gar-
ner, Thelma Webb, Joe Weir and
Ruby Lawson. REPORTED.
ROY BJENDERSON
WARNS AGAINST ...
FOOTBALL INJURIES
Detroit, Mich., OcL 8.—In the
moat tensely dramatic game yet play-
ed in the current world series, 31-
year-old Paul Dean whipped 22-
year-oid Lynwood (Schoolboy)
Rowe, Detroit Tiger ace, Monday
and pitched the St, Look Cardinals
MEMBERS ATTEND
BAPTIST M
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The following members of First
Baptist Church attended the Baptist
Woman’* Association meeting at
Purley Tuesday:
Mines. T. J. Russell, 0. E. Walters,
R. W. Coffey, Lewis Roach, L. L.
Thomas, Cub VanWey, L. C. Scott,
J. D, Spence, Old Smith, Levi Bird,
J. J. Robertson, J. I. Brown, Nellie
Crosby, Rev. H. R. Long and Miss
Sue Middleton.
GABO OF THANK!
To our many friends, we sincerely
wish to thank each and every one of
you for your kindness and the beau-
tiful flowers and the many kind
word* and deeds in the recent loss
of our dear one, the mother and
wife. We pray God’s richest blessings
on each and all. of you.—I. N. Dea-
ton and Sons. >»- <
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Austin, Texas, Oct. 6.—It’s all
very well to “win that game for dear
High School,” but it’s better to
at the cost of in-
juries.tp players caused by careless-
ness, thoufhlessness or heedleasneas,
football this year.
for 10,000 to l &,ooii Darreis uany “It is well this early in the
if the check rein of proratlon were son to consider the importance of
the old adage ’an ounce of preven-
tion is worth a pound of cure’,’’ Sir.
Hendersoil said in his letter. “Even
when every precaution has been tak
en looking to the protection and
safety of the players there are haz-
ards enough in football. It stirs our
FRANKLY
SPEAKING
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Bagwell, John S. The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, October 12, 1934, newspaper, October 12, 1934; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth774853/m1/2/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.