The Times Review (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, March 23, 1928 Page: 1 of 8
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY
i'EAR— NUMBER 48.
MT. PLEASANT, TITUS COUNTY. TEXAS. FRIDAY MORNING, MA
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$1.00 s year in tl» county, $UW •«
aide the county.
In order to better acquaint you with our modern method ©t cleaning, tor one we»k onl>, commencing March 26th, we are going to reduce the price
on Suita and Plain Dreamt from $1.50 to $l ©0. 1 his is Cash and Carry.
THOR NT O N
Cleaner and Hatter
RESIDENCE BURNS
SUNDAY NIGHT
HOME OF A. P. WILLIAMS TOTAL-
LY DESTROYED, VALUED
AT $6,000.00
PROMISE GAS
BY SEPTEMBER
RIGHT OF WAY FOR PIPE LINE
IS NOW BEING SECURED
FOR PROJECT
The home of A. P. Williams was de-
stroyed by fire Sunday night about
8 o’clock. The family Was at church
at the time.
The fire was discovered by neigh-
bors and was under such headway
that it was impassible for the Fire
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whole inside, of the house was ablaze
and the inner walls were falling in
when the fire boys arrived. The
flames were soon checked and the
boys did good work in preventing oth-
er houses nearby from burning.
'The house and contents were val-
ued at about $6,000, and was a total
loss. It was partly covered with in-
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Mr. and Mrs. -Van Hall of Green
Hill are visiting relatives in - Ennis
this week. (
Geo. S. Bussart of Wichita, Kan-
sas, and P. E. Hussey of Jefferson
were in Mt. Pleasant Wednesday se-
curing more data concerning the vol-
ume of business ^at can be expected
by their gas project, which they are
promoting for Northeast Texas. —
cal people, say that they are getting
along nicely with their work, and that
the line is being surveyed and right
of way secured from the Waskom
fields from Marshall to Jefferson and
! that work will be pushed toward Mt.
Pleasant as fast' as possible. Thpy
said that unless some unforeseen con-
tingency arose, they would be able to
furnish natural gas to this place by
September. ,
Mrs. Earl Glaze is visiting rela-
tives in Winnsboro this week.
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riends and Patrons:
WHAT ABOUT YOUR
FRIENDS?
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A friend of yours is one ire should like to
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When you bring your friends to Us as new patrons, you ban do so with
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the assurance that they will be treated in the same courteous, friend-
DROPS DEAD OF
HEARTFA1LURE
JACK GIST DIE8- SUDDENLY AT
HIS HOME HERE TUES- ‘ '
DAY AFTERNOON
FRUIT CROP
NOT INJURED
MORE DEATHS MARTIN GRAF
THAN BIRTHS KILLED FRIDAY
RECENT -COLD SPELL DID NOT
DAMAGE THE FRUIT IN
m TITUS COUNTY
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This city was shocked Tuesday *t-
ternoon in the sudden death Of Jack
Gist, who succumbed to an attack of
heart failure at his home on Jefferson j*
street, next to the Christian Church. | THub
Mr. Gist and his son, Bascom, had '
just killed a small hog to be consumed ore^
in the boarding house, andJiad heenj^
dressing the meat, when Mr. Gist i anY
went into the house to wash his claim
hands. He removed his hat and glass-
es and stepped into the kitchen when
he was stricken, falling to the floor.
Thaifact that the cold spell of Fri-
da^ to Monday did not materially
TWENTY-FIVE DEATHS RECORD-
ED.IN COUNTY DURING
TWO MONTHS
FLETCHER ALLEN USES SHOT-
GUN WITH FATAL RESULTS
l AT WINFIELD '.
According to the records of County ! About 10:30 o’clock Friday morn-
Clerk McClintock, there have been ing, Martin Graf of Winfield was shot
the fruit crop of this section more deaths than births in Titus and instantly killed by Fletcher Allen,
gratifying to the people of County so Tar this year. also of that place,
uffty. j The records for March are incom- From reports reaching here, the
tapd that a number of plete, but for^the months of January men had been having trouble, and
ts have examined their trees and February there were recorded in Graf claimed that Allen had turned
they are unable to notice his office a total of twenty-five him in to officers for.selling .liquor,
age to the fruit, altho some jtleaths, while only twenty-four births He is said to have made threats that
t the .crop will be short the i were registered. During the past he would kill Allen, and that he tele-
coming summer becausd of the fact! two weeks,- there have been a great phoned him Thursday night that he
that ffcw buds were developed last many deaths,.and the chances are that would kill him for this,
year for this year’s crop, but it is ex--the ratio over "births wilt- be much Friday morning Allen was driving
Mrs. Gist heard a noise in the "kitchen, pected that the quality crop will bejgreater than in January and Febru- along the road just east of Winfield
and knowing that her husband wasj^etter J^is year. Last year the El-, ary. ' Most of the deaths have been on his way to his farm work when
subject to high blood pressure, feared bertas jyere unusually poor in quality, I elderly people, and pneumonia and in- | Graf ran out from behind a cedar
and m de a bad showing, but unless ' fluenza have been the chief contri- ! bush a short distance from the road,
the w* ther conditions are extremely buting diseases accounting for so i where he had been hiding. When he
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ly manner you jare* an,d that they will share in all the usefulness and
benefits of a strong, friendly bank. ?
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BRING THEM IN
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THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK,
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something had gone wrong, and ran
into the kitchen. She found Mr. Gist
crumpled on the floor, and she
screamed for help. Her son ran into
the room, but Mr. Gist died in a few
seconds.
Deceased had been a resident of
Mt. Pleasant only a few months, mov-
ing here on January first to take over
the operation of the boarding house
for Mrs. Abernathy, who had retired.
Owing to his friendly, pleasant bear-
ing, he soon made many friends, and
his sudden death brought grief to a
large number of acquaintances.
The body was taken to Winnsboro,
where Mr. Gist was reared and made
his home before coming here, Wed-
nesday morning, and funeral services
were conducted there in the after*
noon at 2 o’clock.
Deceased was a member of the
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ggst November, and _
md eight children, as follows:
W. V. Gist and Mrs. G. <3. Mikule of
Winnsboro, - Rev. Joe Gist, Durhrim,'
N. C., Adolphus Gist, Dallas, Mts.
Raymond Stephens Greenville, Mrs.
Earl Glaze, Mrs. Clyde Raley and Bas-
com Gist of this city.
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Tax Remittance of
One Penny From
Business Costs 28
unfavo able, the prospects are very
good.
Titu County should give more at-
tention to its Elberta crop, because
the be^K flavored peaches in the whole
countr; are grown here. Through
proper frowing methods and at mar-
keting, Aime more efficient, grading,
this section could be made famous for
fruit glowing and command a better
price for "peaches than any other lo-
cality.
Roof Blows Off,
Is Kellyville Man
Texas, March 15.—E.
resident of Kelly-
d Thursday after-
s received when the
Bar
off in a night;
and fell on him, the edge
.of the tW striking him on the fore
many deaths. • came to about sixty feet from the
The registrations in the Clerk’s of-! wagon in which he was riding, Allen
fice do not account for all of the vital j raised a shotgun and fired twice at
statistics of the county, however, as : Garf. One of the charges struck
a new ruling has been in effect lately Graf in the face and the other in the
allowing these statistics to be filed 1 breast, and he died almost instantly,
with Justices of the Peace in the vg-j ’Officers were soon notified and
rious precincts and many of, them
have been filed at these places during
the past two months.
Baze Breaks
Out of Jail
several people went from here to'
Winfield to investigate. Allen’s ex-
aming trial was held at Winfield Fri-
day.
Graf was about 25 years of age,
while Allen is about 35., *
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Midland, Texas, March 19.—Q, C.
Baze, held in connection with the Buy-
ing‘of two Mexicans in an aljpped
bank robbery ‘frame up” at Stanton,
and fwo other prisoners escaped from
the Midland jail at H o'clock Sunday
Student Gives Life to
Save That of Girl
Columbia, Mo., March 15.—John D.
Johnson, 22, of Marshall, a law stu-
dent of tip University of Missouri,.
night. They were still at large late,died here today of injuries suffered
Monday. The other men are’Teague ’ M iss Jo Bet'tis of Chickasha. OkI£
Lawler,
are Teague Miss Jo Bettis of Chickasha, Okla*
convicted of robbery with'last Thursday night when he. thrust
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hfead and he received three broken firearms and under ninety-nine year |from the path of a truck which struck
ribs and internal injuries. He leaves sentence, and C. A. Duncan, charged him. He was a son of R. D. Johnson,
a familjj.
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Cents to Collect ,week
with forgery.
The three men overpowered and
.-Mist Annie Hall haa returned to *■‘■"<1 SheHff D. E. Coving-
Mllford. after spending the week end i on ,ak , e W^,?. an lnf em
with her parents at Green Hi,,.. ^
gagged ori a farm two miles from
Midland. He succeeded in freeing
himself an 1 reported the, men’§, as-
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Mrs. H. C. Willis of Whitewright is
a guest of Mrs. S. U. Crabtree this
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prosecuting attorney of Saline county.
Mr...and Mrs. A. A. Kirk returned
they
land
cape.
Hpnpr Jobnsop of Texarkana spent
f$priday 1»fire with relatives.
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J. R. Hart Cashier
E. L. Garrison, Ass’t Cashier
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Lee, Ass’t Cashier
OFFICERS *
F. A. Smith, 'Chairman of Board
I. N. Williams, President
A. J. Copellar, Active Vice Pres.
.-on^l|^tnny,Mchp|iedIJtAk.,cTA‘'waA,:- i
ceived in a recent day’s, collection of
about $2,000,000, the remainder of
ywhich was in checks, by the State 1
Treasury. ' ~ , |
The penny represented the gross
receipts tax of a nationally known j
yeast manufacturing concern on 50
cents worth of business in Texas.
[The concern figured up its liability
to the State and found that the
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Getting Ahead
The only man who feally gets ahead in the world is the man
who saves part of his income.
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Earning capacity may vary from time to time, but savin?
capacity is a p^manent asset that will mean eventual-success.
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To the “getting ahead"'men and wdmen of this communi-
ty, this bank offers its full service, friendship and co-operation.
!H®SI8Mgll8 I amount of business on which it owed
' tax was only half a dollar/' The pen-
J ny represents 2. per cent ta:5c. on the
sum.
Treasurer W. Gregory Hatcher'said
his office had estimated that the to-
tal ;-Aost of reports and correfepbndence I
entiled in making the return and
paying the penny was 28 cents.
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Mrs, Jack Gist and children have
returned from Winnsboro, where thby
wdnt to attend Mr. Gist’s funeral.
They have decided to make Mt. Pleas-
ant -their future home and continue
their boarding house.
THE G UARANTY BOND
STATE BANK
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E. S. LILIEN3TERN, President B. F. LINDSAY. Ca*W**
CLYDE SHANNON, MARSHALL BR ANCH, Assistant
DIRECTORS!
P. POUNDERS, C. S. STEPHENS
JR- F. LANDS A. Y. W. A. FORD, H. A. WILSON
EL S. LI MEN STERN
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Clarence Badt came in from Dallas | ■
Wednesday night to remain until he I 2
recovers from an automobile accident8 ff 1
which occurred about two months ago,
and which kept him in a hospital for
over six v.-co’s. .. r
LILIENSfElM
OEiPAlf MB?T SfOKlS
Mrs. Sam Hess, returned Wednes-
day from a visit with her daughter in
Corsicana.
Miss Eima Connor went to Sulphur
Springs Thursday to-visit relatives.'
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Cross, G. W. The Times Review (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, March 23, 1928, newspaper, March 23, 1928; Mount Pleasant, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth784276/m1/1/: accessed March 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Mount Pleasant Public Library.