Mount Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 134, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 21, 1928 Page: 1 of 4
This newspaper is part of the collection entitled: Mount Pleasant Area Newspapers and was provided to The Portal to Texas History by the Mount Pleasant Public Library.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
- y j
"7 *
U *
I
- .
Mt. Pleasant
jj®
w ^
I
City Plan Program of Progress—More Paving, Be
“Mt. PLEASANT IS A PLEASANT PLACE.”
m '■ V •"l.C j, ;<n 1.
Daily Times
J
71
L nth ar li'iyt h .«
tions, Streets Names and Houses Numbered
tal, Health Clinic Library—To Make Mt* Pleasant a Better Place To Call Home.
alks, Tax Zoning, Milk Plant, Mail Delivery, Gas Connee-
on Plant, City Park, Public Library, Air Port, Hospi-
I
By Carrier—50c per month
$5.00 per year
.■ -<v
PUBLISHED EVERV DAY EXCEPT SUNDAY
_ By Mail—40c per month
$4.00 per year
....... .. ■ - - . . ..
^VOLUME TEN
MT. PLEASANT, TEXAS. SATURDAY EVENING, JUL^Y 21, 1928.
NUMBER 134
i
•JR
! -1
FALLS FROM
PARACHUTE
“DAREDEVIL” DOWDY, WHO PER-
FORMED HERE, KILILED FRI-
DAY AT LEONARD
Beans Eaten Are
Blamed for Trag-
edy At Crowell
v-'1
, Crowell, July 20.—J. B. Lassater,
Foard County farmer, and his 5-year-
old daughter, Mary, are dead and five*
other members of the family are in
critical condition as the result of eat-
ing poisoned beans Wednesday night.
The beans were left from a previous
Leonard, Texas, July 20.—With his
•sweetheart among the crowd of spec-
tators, Robert M. Dowdy, 23, Dallas j meai.
parachute jumper, slipped from his j Lassater died early Friday morn-
trapeze high in air here at 4 o’clock ing an<j hjs daughter at 8 p. m. Thurs-
Friday afternoon and fell to his death, day. Elroy, 16, a son, is not expected
Dowdy had made a successful leap to iive through the day and Mrs. Las~-
’’i’hursday afternoon, landing in the; sater and one other son and two
'* ~ r-r—
guv
ball park. His announced plan
to come down' on the lake near here
Friday as a feature of the annual
Leonard picnic.
daughters are still in a serious con-
dition, but have a chance for recovery.
A 2-year-old baby that went to bed
without supper is the only member of
FOR -1
Fiiie
Cleaning
Send it to
3\vm\wr
Master Cleaner
Pho.
■7
(PROSPECTS FOR
MORE PAVING
Chimney Falling,
, Kills Tyler Man
TWO OR THREE MORE STREETS
ARE BEING CONSIDERED
BY CITY COUNCIL ^ .
86
the City Council, and this body prom-
ises to give each one its close con-
sideration, but it prefers to take up
The airplane, piloted by Joe Tote the family that is not poisoned. The
of Dallas, was 4,000 feet above ground. Laagater family has lived on a farm
when Dowdy cut loose. Just as his jn the Margaret community, nine
parachutf opened the horror-stricken- mittea northeast of Crowell, for the
spectators saw Dowdy slip from
the bars and plunge whirling to a
past eight years.
A REAL EXAMPLE
The' weakness in our handling of
crime- la aptly illustrated by the re-
cord of an Eastern criminal. Dur-
’ing thr twelve- years he “i
fi«*r got in4h^ *Fst shot and killed
him. v
Anyone curious to find an adequate
reason for our successive crime waves
gets his answer in the story of this
(career. Yet professional Salvation-
ists continue to advocate anti-pistol
laws as a remedy for the reign of the
criminal. The real cure is simple:
Unflagging enforcement of the1 law
-that gives those who have worked and tl*e^ business section.
Daingerfield road so
the traffic over that highway directly this street,
to the newly paved street and on into ; There are
t- hJXI :
deserved- it
grassy spot on a field, a mile south of
Leonard and about half a mile from
the picnic ground*. The parachute,
relieved of its burden, floated away
4 out of sight.
Death was instantanopua and the
rtn^^^the ^A^crime he was arrested -twelve «mes en no further ^port^Ritete .fivage? £*far " the Presbyterian Church, dr city,
fell. Almost every bone in his body and imprisoned but twice,
was broken and his face was badly j On his first arrest, for assault he
I : was convicted and his sentence sus-
*■* — •
< * >>v 'J*. 1 wa ^
'11|
7 in Mt. Pleasant, and gave w
formance each afternoon at the Liy-
ger-Longer Park opening celebration.
<(P It was while he was here that one of
his women companions was killed in
fwhich so*'
society.—Exchange.
SOMETHING WRONG
and convicted
WHWBF
ed. Two weeks after he was arrested
and imprisoned for violation of parole.
Three years passed, again he was
arrested-and convicted'of grand lar-
ceny. Again his sentence -was sus
Tyler, Texas, July 20.—Charlie
Powell, 28, Tyler contractor, met in-
stant death late Friday when his skull
was crushed to bits by a falling
chimney.
- j Powell, togteher with fellow-em-
There is a strong prospect of sev- ployees, had been engaged in tearing
eral more paving projects being tak- down a house in South Tyler, and
en up in Mt. Pleasant in the near fu- completing the day’s work, but the
ture, and we hope that every one of chimney fell, frightfully mashing his
them will succeed. ' head and upper body, resulting in io-
Property owners haye been bring- stant death,
ing the subject before members of His wife survives.
- *
f
■.a*
A
1
Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Smith have re-
turned to Austin, after spending two
only such projects as call for perma- weeks here with relatives.
hent improvements, ahd nbt the cheap ___
kind which will require large outlays
for maintenance each year.
r
• d
11
:
• ■*§
L. L. Mode of Sherman is spend-
ing a few days here with friends.
Want More
Residents of Lide Avenue, south of
the street which has just been paved,
are asking for paving on that thor-
oughfare, and they want this street
extended south to connect with the even farther, end they
that it will bring Third Street paved to
1
Business V-
_• v ._
-Advertise!
other
want North
connect with
sections 'of tow*
v* ,
'ft
,-vl
which are also te,kin« paving, and
a chance for pared# aadj Pr«P«rty owners are also agitating the more of thii work that is done, the
that “thn-of Madison |atr^t north morerapid 'Mlllte.tbe growth of the
his women companions was killed
a fall from a string device that?-was “^d.‘^“year Tate7'he was
furnishing amusement at the park. |tenced to prison for the s&me
•V 'fe
BETTER THAN
NOTHING'
Old Slow Poke-i-Mister Jackson, er Mis sentence suspended.:
' —that is, I would like to—er—that is,1 At least six more times he was ar-
I mean I have been going with your rested, only to be fused without pun-
daughter for five years. ishment. He continued criminal ac-
Old Man—Well, whadda you want titeities until he was surprised by a
policeman during a holdup. The of-
.. - :
uns*fraMe^n*ff£t T^sxas, as low
as 25 cents per bushel being offered
for them. Onions are practically un-
salable by the producers. Tuesday
the News editor paid at the Tate of
g^.jtwo dollars per bushel for potatoes,
crime and tke difference of a dollar arid six
a term of 2 1-2 years: Within |Wts could n0t chargeable t° flight,
six months he was taken on another A traveling man from Chicago told
grand larceny charge,* convicted and
•—a pension?
'v-i ' v~ 1 -•; ~ 4)^ AJi it* fT* i ii ^5 *£
ilf
WE NOW HAVE A COMP^Tli LINE.IoF MAGAZINES AND
NEWSPAPERS—BUTTER TOASTED SANDWICHES, FRESH
PIES OF ALL £INDS.
YES. WE DELIVER.S 7*' n'V
Blue Mill Coffee & Sandwfehr Shop
PHONE
us the same day that he was paying
eight contt per pound for onions. They
can be bought here for one cent. That
difference is not justly chargeable to
freight. Somebody somewhere is get-
ting too much profit, and the producer
is Ming bilked: We don’t know who is
responsible, or where the remedy lies,
but some of these high brows who
claim to be able to settle all matters
of state could well afford to quit
talking prohibition and religion long
enough to figure out this descrUpancy
against'producers and create a more
just division bf the profits on farm
products.—Garland, Ngws. '
CONNALLY TO SHEAV AT
. MT. VERNON WEDNESDAY
PRESCRIPTION SERVICE
Nothing is more important than your
health—protect it with Pure Drugs com-
pounded in our pharmacy by pur expert
prescription clerks.
It Pleases Vs To Please Our Patrons
ELUS-KELLEY DRUG COMPANY
tyit Deliverepr^r
'p*
70 - . -Phone - - - - - 232
Congressman Tom Connally, can-
didate for United States Senator, will
speak at Mt. Verenon Wednesday af-
ternoon, July 25th, at 1:20 o’clock,
and at Sulphur Springs that night at
8 o’clock. Mr. Connally is a wonder-
ful speaker, and a number of his
friend^ are contemplating going to
hear him on one of these occasions.
Mr. and Mrs. Vard Keith and fam-
ily of Pine Bluff are visiting relatives
here this week.
'
The Weather
The weather for the past 24 hours
according to readings made ‘at 6:80>:
mrvrjjt^-m^! - =*8iit*i«nvt -vvrvirvhtm jjurmtvwm-i wtv %\K»ns-ni
Maximum .......
Minimum \.......
Temperature 6:30
Wind 11
Atmospl
..... 94
..... 74
..... 77
S
.Clear
~ - .
>v & j .
Another Good Buy
. — . ■ _ «Sf> ■-.
A regular 3pc size Palm
Olive Shaving Cream and
a Genuine Gillette Razor
Both for 35c.
• * •ikf.K •
. Don’t Miss This.
kl.L'-
SW1MT BROTHERS
\ f ,o:: ■ -
** Two Phones
187
'Prl-
‘V'* •. .urn.- %+d.
\
' ‘‘u .*,• -
»■-. ■ ■■ *
' s f
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Cross, G. W. Mount Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 134, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 21, 1928, newspaper, July 21, 1928; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth783629/m1/1/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Mount Pleasant Public Library.