Mount Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 220, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 30, 1928 Page: 1 of 4
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“Mt. PLEASANT IS A PLEASANT PLACE.”
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MT. PLEASAM1, TEXAS. TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 30, 1928.
NUMBER 220
Phone 149
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DR. JOHNSON
DROPPED DEAD
DIED SUDDENLY
MORNING AT HIS HOME AT
GREEN HILL
at his home at Green Hill, eight
miles north of town, shortly before
noon Tuesday. Dr. Johnson had suf-
fered a cerebral hemorrhage several
and if is supposed that he received
. - I times previous to his dpath Tuesday,
9N TUESDAY another stroke, which caused his
death.
Dr. W. R. K. Johnson, pioneer phy-
sician of Titus County, died suddenly
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Dr. Johnson had been following the
practice of medicine for many years
and was one of the most highly 're-
spected citizens of the county, and had
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PRODIGALS TALK PLANS STRONG
AT ROTARY CLDBi FUNDS DRIVE
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ABSENT -MEMBERS MHO HAVE
RETURNED HAD PLACES ON
PROGRAM TUESDAY
The program at the Rotary Club
Tuesday was presented almost alto-
gether t>y members who have not been
present for some time, but have re-,
jturned to the local fold for the rest
j of the year.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE TO
MAKE CAMPAIGN FOR COM-
MUNITY BUILDING
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! The Chamber of Commerce at its
meeting Monday night, decided to
make an intensive drive in the very
near future for the erection of the
proposed community building that is
j attracting so much interest in the
j Chas O. Lide, who has been on a county’ and in which every sch°o1
(trip to the Pacific Coast for the past district is to have a Part* Stock
i four months, told an interesting story subscriptions are to be taken up in a
‘of the many sights that he saw in the short whlle in order to raise the ne‘
North and West, and especially cf?ary ' amount of money to erect
around Los. Angeles, where he spent.tde buiUlmg, which is to be used for
a host of friends all over the county j most of the summer. Mr. Lide, dur- a purposes o# entertainment that
who will regret to hear of his death. jing the entire time 'that he was 'the people of the county desire, and
away, missed only one week in Ro- als° for *he hoas in* °[ tde Titus
County hair. During the discussion
Funeral services will be held at
Green Hill Thursday, but the final
arrangements have not been com-
pleted.
GorrON GINNED
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TO OCTOBER 18
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SHOW AN INCREASE QYE
YEAR’S CROP ofeWS f-" 7
BALES
tary attendance.
Cheney Riddle made a short talk
on what happened to him when he
was in the Mayo Bros, hospital at
Rochester, Minn., and feelingly thank-
ed the club for the bouquet of flow-
ers that it had sent him while he was
confined to his bed recovering from
his operation.
B. Dixon, who has been spend-
the past six weeks in Pittsburg
doing the- plumbiftg work in the
_ jnew Camp County courthouse, also
The cotton crop of, this year is | had been attending Rotary meetings
stifl. in excess of. that of last year, j one hundred percent, and said he was
-according to, the number of bales glad to be hack with the old gang
’ that have been ginned prior to Octo-
ber 18th, the data being taken from
I %he, report given to the Census Bu-
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Charley Bolster, in charge of Troop
of the matter, it was decided if pos-
sible to locate the building in a place
that will also be suitable for a landing
field.
Resolutions were adopted com-
mending George B. Holder,- vice pres-
ident of the- Chamber of Commerce,
for his work with this organization
(luring the three years he has been a
resident of Mt. Pleasant; Mr. Holder
Whs* recently appointed » Division
Agent -for the- Cotton Belt, and his
duties will keep him away from town
in the future.
Owing to the bad weather there
was only about a dozen members
present at the meeting.
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No. Two of the Boy Scouts* informed f Mrs. Donald Brin, who has been
by J, A. Davis, special census jthe club thatpit wps sponsoring this | visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J\
f4igen£ for Tit^iS'County. j troop and that the ...boys met every IM. Batlt, returned to her home in Dal-
The number of bales ginned in this j Monday, njjrpt. in the Presbyterian j las Tuesday.
county prior tp October 18th of this i Church) pavement, and intimated that
ear amounted to 12,967 bales, while jthe club,members ought 'to
,t the same time last year the gin-
: jijmgs .were 12,338 bales, an increase
for this year of 629 bales. This in-
crease is not so heavy as it was in
the last report, but is still large
enough to indicate that this year’s
crop will be equally as large as last
year.
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attend j ; r{’he ’crescent-shaped arm of the
-w; I Bosporus on which Constantinople is
vi^ed to hold a meeting'du- situated is called the Golden Horn.
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some of these meetings.
It Was;
ring November in which the Rotary
Anns will/be present. The meeting is
to be held at night.
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In some African tribes
musician
JPfe badly ;is cruelly mutilated
with RICHARD ARLEN
ADOLPH ZUKOR'ami JESSE L LASlOf x
Blazing hair. Blazing personality. Clara blazes her way through a
scorching series of thrills in a tense drama of underworld moll.s and
mobs. Made by the director of “Wings” and “The' Legion
Condemned”—William A. Weldman.
Also Comedy—“SEA FOOD”
CHILDREN on
Wednesday and Thursday
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in an uproar, and then convulsed
Shebas!
Pultet at Stierma...
Lay8 “Hoover* Egg
As “Absentee” Vote
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Sherman, Texas, Oct. 29.—Herbert
Hoover got a hay nest ballot here
Monday.
A White Leghorn pullet cast her
(‘absentee ballot” for the Republican
^presidential nominee in the form of
n . otherwise ordinary egg bearing
^e , clearly formed initials , “HU H.”
The initials Were about half an inch
high and three-eighths of an inch in
, width and were smoother than the
-Aie here, after Sunday,” owner,.
» jJR. Ci Hart,1 a Hoover supporter, said.
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Shaving does not increase the rate
-of growth of the beard.
| British inventors in 1927 took out,
a thousand inventions,-for radio.:. |
WHt WORfiV ABmiT COLD WEATHER
; . ..WE HAVE Aj-L .KINDS OF HOT DRINKS
delicious better tdasted sandwiches ..
I V^e also serve GiPhardt’s Famoua, Chili. A Fresh Shipment of Bulk
, ( Candies.
) YOUR BUSINESS APPRECIATED
m MU Coffee & Sandwich Mp
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THEY'LL CONVULSE YOtT TOO!!!
in the greatest soldier comedy ever filmed.
ALSO COMEDY—“TELL ’EM NOTHING”
PARAMOUNT NEWS
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The weather for the past 24 hours
. according to readings made at 6:30:
Maximum .................................... 67
Minimum ................................... 43
Temperaturfc 6:30 .................... 43
Wind from ................... NE
Atmosphere ..................Cloudy
Rainfall' Monday ................0.18 in.
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Cross, G. W. Mount Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 220, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 30, 1928, newspaper, October 30, 1928; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth784818/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.