Mount Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 207, Ed. 1 Monday, October 15, 1928 Page: 1 of 4
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The Mt. Pleasant Daily Times
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VOLUME TEN
MT. PLEASANT, TEXAS. MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 15, 1928.
NUMBER 207
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Phone 149
P D. THORNTON TAILOR and HATTER
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Phone 149
BOY IS KILLED
j squarely into the rear of the truck. I
| Anderson was Said to have been |
. t ! standing at the back of the vehicle i
R If I*14 I while the repairs were being made, |
” lMjVll. I while Allen refrained seated with his!
t _ tr - j feet hanging off the truck. The. ne- -
ANOTHER BOY GETS BOTH LEGS 1 gro’s car struck the boys, fracturing
BROKEN IN SAME ACCIDENT | Anderson’s skull, and he died at the
" V * SATURDAY NIGHT ‘home of A. A. Riddle, a short dis-•
j tance from the scene of the accident,
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A deplorable accident occurred 6n
the highway south of town Saturday
night about seven o’clock, resulting
in the death of Eddie Anderson and in
^hich smother boy named Edgar Al-
hafTbpth legs >roken. The boys,
in company with about twenty youjag- other automobile and knocked into
St' one o’clock. Allen was brought to
town foV medical treatment And his \
fractured legs were set and bound. |-
Some say that the negroes Were ,
hot to blame for the accident; be-
cause their car was struck by an-
the truck, Miile others say that there
is no mark on their car that would
indicate that another vehicle had
struck it hard enough to hurl it into
the truck and damage the radiator
as much as it did.
people, were on their way to the
Pittsburg Pair, and the truck on
•which they were ridifig was parked
by the side of the road while a punc-
ture of one of the tires was being
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Owing to the excitement of the
people on the truck after the acci-
dent, conflicting reports as' to the
irif
s truck, which had the sideboards re-1 struck the truck. ..
moved, was standing by the side of j Eddie Anderson was buried Sun-
the road, a car driven by a negro, day afternoon at the 1* armer’s Acad-
with another colored man as a pas-. emy cemetery, the services being con-
senger, came the same way and ran ducted by Rev. J. D. MeClung, He
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K‘7,MZXmu,K- HARRISON
Two old men aged 88 and 85 took I DIES SUNDAY
politics too seriously Tuesday and I -
tried to settle the question with fists I PASSED AWAY AT HIS HOME IN
and a cane. The fight was over in EDGE OF TOWN EARLY IN
the first round Wherf both' went down THE EVENING ^
! and friendf lifted them Ijactt dn their , ——— .
' feet. Neither of the parties was in-j R. Harrison died at 8:4ft o’clock
ijured and the greaf political issues Sunday evening, after an" Illness of
of the day are still unsettled.—Pitts- several weeks. Hie death4* ivaa doe
burg Gazette. * ' bo the infirmities" of old age. Mr.
* | Harrison’s wife dTeti lasC’f'ebrilary,
SLEEPING DURING SERMQNS jand he leaves a number ofc children
,i: .. to mourn his lotfs. Some of thfe^i
Why do people go to sleep in live in this county/White ^majority
churches? , are residents of other StatJ5S?“
The problem is as old as Christian- \ Mr- HiMson had livecHmthte coun-
ity itself. Tn colonial days it was ty ior m*nY jeaH,' and tQs reebg-
solved by having deacons prowl up nized a8 a S°od neighbor and a,gdikl
and down the isles with long-knob- citizen. He leaves many friends tjo
bed sticks, with which they tapped erieve over his departure. He was
sharply the heads of all who dozed. neai-ly years of age.
Dr. Edmund Jacobson of the Uni- Funeral services have not been ar-
versity of Chicago has studied the ranged for, awaiting the arrival of
question and thinks he knows the relatives, but will probably be held
answer. Complete muscular relaxa- Wednesday. Interment will take
! both negroes disappeared, and offi- tion of the thinking powers. The P|ace at the ROuntree cemetery about
cers are searching for them in every man who slumps down -in his seat,
part of the county. The car is said inert hnd motionless as possible, can
to he owned by other people, and not keep his senses alert. Conse-
they had borrowed it to go to Pitts- quently he fails to concentrat^ on the
sermon, and goes to sleep.
We don’t know just what the rem-
edy should be. Apparently,, howev-
four * miles north of Pittsburg, in ' er, the moral is that the body, as well
which some Titus County and also
some Franklin County people were
pretty badly cut and bruised, and oth-
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blame have been made, and it is hard i not go between it and the truck he
to ascertain exactly what was the j swerved back on the right side of the
cause of the accident. While the : road and could not stop until he had
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Still another re- ! wag seventeen years of age and was
port is that a car was coming from j a son and jyjrs E. D. Ander-
the opposite direction so rapidly that son) wbo live three miles southwest
when the negro saw that he could of town. Edgar AHen is about the
same age and is a son of Mr. and Mrs.
Ad Allen of the same community.
Immediately after the accident,
eleven miles north of town.
WIN TRIP TO FAIR
burg.
A little later the-same evening, an-
other accident occurred in this road
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Today and Tuesday
He know nothing oJuIdj <ships'crilishine~cnoUgh tO
prevent him from giving ^rea^ Spirit—^-
to his son the bestTthe, "Andso hecarrieefonv^th
.world had to offer. ffKitV* words in his heart;',
__v *!Tell *em, Daddy, you’re
—that life held no*sor* Capt. Stephen Sorrell,<
tasks, no. hard-w M.C .” ,
JOSEPH M.SCHENCR presents • ^ _ ,
HERBERTBRENONS
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WITH
HBWARNER
ANNA Q. NILSSON
er minor accidents have been reported, /wisdom are apt to go unheard.—Den
-.- ison Herald.
GINNINGS FOR
NEARBY COUNTIES
COTTON IS BEING GATHERED
FASTER THIS YEAR THAN
IT WAS LAST
Although in Several of the nearby
counties the cotton crop for 1928 will
not be so good as it was last year,
it is being ginned more rapidly ow-
ing to more favorable weather this
year than last.
The total number of bales ginned
in the State of Texas prior to Octo-
ber first slightly exceeds the total
last year at the same time, there hav-
ing been 2,431,382 bales ginned this
year to 2,300,530 last year. *
The ginnings for Titus and nearby,
counties are as follows:
j County 1928 1927
I Bowie...................... 18,440 17,754
Camp ........ 2,953 4^95
| Cass ..............................31,300, 22,988
Franklin_4.310 5.709
Misses Monte Alice Moore and
Katherine Cambron of Cookville and
Mary Lou Harbour of Old Union went
to Dallas Monday morning with a
as the miftd, must be kept alert and company of other club girls from
responsive while in church. Other- Bowie, Cass and Morris Counties un-i,
wise some of the pastor’s gems of der the direction of the Home Dem-
onstration Agent of Bowie County,
i These girls won the trips to the Fair
--i by their good scores in club work.
EXAMINATION OF CITY ! Thelma Welborn of Cookville and
WATER SHOWS ITS PURITY Mabel Cody of Winfield also won the
_ trip, but were unable to go because
Cotton Belt Chemist O. M. Bakke °ther school work.
has_finished an examination of the
city water, in which he tested it for | Mr. and Mrs. Palmer Kidd and lit-
B. Coli and other germs, and he de- tie daughter, Mary Louise, of Port
dares that there is no contamination Arthur, who have been visiting their
whatever in the water. parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Keeney
------- (left Saturday for Dallas to visit other
Blank notes for sale at this office. ’ relatives.
Hopkins ........................16,256
Lamar ..........................36,658
Marion .......................... 4,883
Morris .......................... 5,510
Red River....................22,993
Titus ............................10,505
Upshur ............ 10,991
Wood ............................15,064
15,485
26,005
5,107
6,682
18,413
8,987
16,309
14,416
NOTICE SCHOOL BOYS AND GIRLS
We will have a complete line of School Sup-
plies. Your business appreciated. Make
our store your hang-out Place.
Blue Mill Coffee & Sandwich Shop
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Mrs. G. B. Holder left Monday
morning for a visit with relatives at
Trinidad, Jacksonville and Rusk. She
was accompanied as far as Tyler by
her son, George B. Jr., who spent the
week end here.
The Weather
The weather for the past 24 hours
according to readings made at 6:30:
Maximum .................................... ?2
Minimum ..............................- 61
Temperature 6:30 .................... 61
Wind from ................................
Atmosphere ............Partly Cloudy
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Cross, G. W. Mount Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 207, Ed. 1 Monday, October 15, 1928, newspaper, October 15, 1928; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth784021/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.