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COOPER, DELTA COUNTY, TEXAS FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1940
VOLUME 61, NOi 4
otiee Filed
jo Issue Time
Warrants
Sieam Heating Of
Building To Effect
Large Saving.
Notice of intention to issue in-
terest bearing time warrants has
been filed by the Commissioners’
(Court to the amount of $40,000
At five per cent interest for1 the
county’s fund in constructing the
proposed court house.
Federal funds for the project
(Brill amount to $70,00,0 to 'bring
the total to be spent for the coun-
ty building to $110,000. This
ium will inclfude steam heating
in the building as a central heat-
ing plant will effect a saving of
from $30 to $40 per month over
gas stove heating.
Samples of the soil on the site
where the building will be con-
structed have been obtained and
sent to engineers for study-
sample to the depth of 12 feet
has been sent. Engineers deter-
mine the kind of foundation for
a building from the soil sample-
The warrants that will be/ is-
sued will be retired- in 22 years
according to the plan, the war-
rants maturing in such rates as
shall be fixed by the Commission-
ers’ Court.
No date has been set ,for the
first soil-brealung ceremonies but
they are expected' in a few weeks.
Funeral Services
Held Wednesday
For John Carrell
James Carrell, 70, died at his
home Tuesday morning at 9
o’clock, following a short illness.
Funeral services were held on
Wednesday afternoon at 2:30
o'clock from the First Baptist
Church, conducted by the Rev.
Streetman, the pastor. Burial was
made in Oak Lawn cemetery. The
Smith Funeral Directors had
charge of arrangements.
Survivors are his widow, and
four children, also 11 grandchil-
dren. Mr. Carrell was born Jan-
uary 5, 1870, and had lived in
Delta county for a number of
years, and was a member of the
Bapttsi Church.
Pallbearers were: Clyde Land
ers, Willie Pilgrim, Edward Car-
veil, Ernest Hardy, Woodrow Wil-
son and Raymond Wright.
Since Indian Times
FREDERICKSBURG, Va. — Dan
King, 5, of Fredericksburg. In the
dog house with Doc, a 3-month-nId
fox hound, at the annual Fredericks-
burg Dog Auction, Annual auctions
date back to the 17tli century, when
white settlers met with Indians once
a year and exchanged dogs for corn
and furs.
Smith Funeral Home
Empowered To Write
Special Policies
Through arrangement with E.
H. Doolin, district manager for
The Praetorians, it is now possible
Smith Funeral Home to write a
special emergency Praetorian pol-
icy. i | j
While it is possible to write a
policy of several different
amounts, the Praetorian special
emergency policy is written in the
amounts of $250.00 and $500.00
and has many additional advan-
tage? not found in ordinary poli-
cies of this type.
Written in 20-year or ordinary
life, this policy carries a blank
bark draft attached. This unusual
feature makes it possible for the
policy to be paid in full the day
the death claim is filed.
Premiums on this policy can be
paid monthly, quarterly, semi-
/ Annually, or annually at Smith
Funeral Home which is the local
office for The Praetorians.
Persons interested in securing
this outstanding form of adequate
protection are cordially invited to
visit Smith Funeral Home for full
details.
Smith Funeral Home lias found
a demand for life insurance in
addition to the funeral policies
thov offer and to satisfv de-
mand has arranged to offer this
safe and economical nolicy to
those who desire additional in-
surance.
Third Safety Film
To Be Shown Here
In JJear Future
“It Can Happen to You,” a
thrilling film driving home tie
lesson of safety, will be shown in
ihe local theaters here for several
days beginning January 30 and
through February 5.
This film is brought here by
the Cooper Lions C?ub and i>-
lurnished without charge by the
Texas Safetv Council of which
Pierce Brooks of Dallas is presi-
dent. ! |. 1 ’*!
The council has previously re-
leased a two-episode film on
“Death Takes No Holidays,” which
also is being shown throughout
the state as a part of the safety
campaign work.
“Tins film is in nc sense com-
mercial and carries no commercial
hook-up,” Mr. Brooks said, in
making the release. “It is the stOTy
of a young man who twice was
brought before a court for reck-
less driving, and although admon-
ished bv the court and his family
to exercise the rules of safety, In-,
continued and in the end ran down
and killed his own habv sister.
“The primary purpose of the
production is to call the attention
of boys between 15 and 21 to the
need of careful and safe driving.
It has mot an enthusiastic recep-
tion wherever shown.”
The film is brought here in ebu-
iunction with the campaign of
civic clubs and other interested
citizens in bettering the safety
record of the city and county and
in the hope that it will be the
means of causing thought upon
Ihe part of both our young and
old drivers.
This and the other two films,
have been universally indorsed
wherever shown, schools have
been dismissed so that students
could see them, and the demand
for them is such that they are
hooked far in advance.
First County HD
Meeting Of Year
Held Saturday
The first county home demon-
stration council meeting of 1940
was held at Cooper Federal build-
ing Saturday with six dubs be-
ing represented. \
The following committees were
appointed by council chairman:
Finance: Mrs. W. D. Hollon,
Mrs Otis Jackson, Mrs. Homer
Presley.
Education and expansion: Mrs.
W. A. Berry, Mrs. IL. S. Nolan,
Mrs. .Hub Jeter.
Exhibits: Mrs. Melvin Wallace,
Mrs. J. B. Adah, Mrs. O. L. Har-
wood.
Yearbook: Mrs. Elmer McWhir-
ter, Mrs. Paul Petitfils, Mrs. Jack
Arnold.
Rules of council was explained
by Miss Feagin.
Miss Bess Edwards assistant
state Home Demonstration agent
from A. and M. was present and
discussed the importance of learn-
ing, passing our knowledge on to
others, and thereby growing
wiser together.
County superintendent, Alvin
Welch, ga/ve a short talk on “The
March of Dimes.”
Singers To Meet
At Craig-Tranquil
The Delta County Precinct
Singing will be held at Craig-
Tranquil Sunday afternoon, Jan-
uary 28, at 2 o’clock. Everyone is
cordially invited to attend.
W. I. CLARK
C. C. PTCKENS
C. V. STEPHENSON.
Mrs. Monroe Anderson, who
has been ill since Sunday, is able
to be up. 1 1
~yy$r Resident
.jp&es Away In
LS^’me In Memphis
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^brge Rich, former resident
4of Delta countv and a brother of
tq T. T>. Fieh. passed nwnv suddenly
" * at Ms home in M.°mnhis, Texa*-.
Tuesday. Funeral services we*e
he?d at the family home in Mem-
phis Thursday.
Mr. R;ch was horn in Lamar
cm’ntv near Poxton hut lured in
De'ta countv for a number of
years suit was meTI known here.
JTo survived hv i-!s wifo and 11
f cJ,f(,fron and torq h-oH-iors, T. L..
and George R?oh. of Foxton.
i Mrs. Delane MowPi of Poenn
Gan is uudor mirg’ml treatment
*at Janes C,?nic and Hospital.
GRAND THEATRE
SATrtmAY, JANTTAPy 27
“HEAVEN WITH A BARBWIRE FENCE”
Jean Rogers and Ward Bond. Also “OREGON TRAIL.”
OWL SHOW SATURDAY NIGHT
“SMASHING THE MONEY RING”
Ronald Reagan and big supporting cast.
SUNDAY and MONDAY, JANUARY 28 - 29
“CONGO MAISIE” *
Ann Sothern, John Carroll and Rita Johnson. Not since “Red Dust’’
has there been as snappy picture made. Also cartoon and comedy.
TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30 - 31
“STAR MAKER”
With 99 kids and Bing Crosby. If you like Bing Crosby, we guarantee
this to be the best, picture he ever made. Also news and comedy.
THURSDAY and FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1-2
“WHEN TOMORROW COMES”
With Irene Dunn and Charles Boyer. One of those heart warming love
stories that is right down Irene Dunn’s alley. Also news and comedy.
DELTA THEATRE
FRIDAY and SATURDAY, JANUARY 26 - 27
“WESTWARD HO”
With Roy Rogers. Also “LONE RANGFR RIDES AGATN ”
SUNDAY and MONDAY. JANUARY 28 - 29
“THE SUN NEVER SETS”
With Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and Basil Rathbone. Also comedy.
Sub-Freezing Weather
Prevents Effective
Fire Control
The fire that gutted the home
of John Harrison late Monday
afternoon almost had its own
way as firemen were unable to |
get water through the sollidly
frozen water hydrants. The fire
started in the bathroom and ran
rapidly up the side of the house !
between the walls, causing the
firemen more difficult, in reach-
ing the flames with the water.
In a few minutes after the fire
was reported, flames nearly 40
feet high were leaping from the
roof of the house. Before the
flames were put out entirely, the
whole roof of the house was
burned off and a lot of the in- j
terror.
Mr. and Mrs. Harrison have
moved the furniture that they
were able to save to the Tom
Cumming 'house: in east Cooper
where they will live until they
rebuild their home It is under-
stood that they will fouildV a du-
plex ias soon as the burned house
can he demolished. Some insur-
ance was carried on the house
and furniture.
Youth Takes To Arms
Rockwall Gets Okay
On New Court House
m
V AND ALIA, Ohio. — 18-month-old
Jackie Sanders, son of Mr. and Mra
John Sanders of Keyser, West Vir-
ginia, the two-time winners of the
Grand American handicap cham-
pionship husband and wife shoot. Is
pictured among clay pigeons, with a
toy gun in his hands, as the little
fellow officially opened the 40th an?
Anal tournament here recently.
Bible Clasls In
High School
Finishes Exams
Fred Bowers Passes
Away Monday; Last
Rites Held Tuesday
Fred Bowers, SO, died at 2:15
o’clock Monday afternoon at
Janes Clinic and Hospital where
he had been critically ill for sev-
eral days.
Services were held Tuesday af-
ternoon at 2:30 o’clock at the
First Baptist Church by the
Rev. R. E. Streetman assisted by
Rev. J. O. Simpson, pastor of the
M. E. Church at Lake Creek, and
Rev. J. C. McCain.
Burial was made in Oak Lawn
cemetery with Smith Funernl Di-
rectors in charge. Pallbearers
were: Hugh Caperton, Paul Mil-
ler, Bill Pickens, Audley Jeter,
Casey Harris and Farland Stanley.
He is survived by his wife, who
was Miss Opal Mobley, one son,
his mother, Mrs. J. W. Bowers,
one sister, Mrs. Cecil Hendlcy,
and three brothers, Hugh, Herbert
sr.d Walter Bowers. Mt. Bowers
was born in Delta county, having
lived here all his life
ROCKWALL, Jan. 24.—Lan-
nia Stimson, county treasurer, re-
ceived a telegram from the Hon.
Snm Rayburn, congressman of
this district, stating that the
Rockwall county courthouse WPA 1
project has received presidential
approval in the amount of $52,-
000.
The late Judge Mike Reinhardt
cof.erred with Senator Morris
Sheppard, Congressman Rayburn
and the Works Progress Admin-
istration on the proposed project
on his recent visit to Washing-
ton.
29.453 Bale* Cotton
Ginned In Delta
According to renorts from
Washington, Lewis W. Riggs has
reported that there have been
29.453 bales of cotton ginned in
Delta county from the crop of
1939; prior to January 16, 1940,
as compared with 26,740 bales of
cotton ginned to Jan. 16, 1939.
These reports are tabulated by
the Department of Commerce,
Bureau of the Census, Washing-
ton, D. C.
Dramatic Club To
Present Book Review
Mrs. Herbert Emory will re-
view Frances Griswold’s bool:,
“The Sea Island Lady” Friday
night, February 2 at the Christ-
ian Church at 7:30 o’clock under
the sponsorship of the Tom A.
Lambeth Dramatic Workshop.
Individual tickets will be 50
cents, college students 25 cents,
or three adults for $1.00.
Examinations in the class of
English Bible in Cooper High
School were finished this week,
according to Rev. W. A. Casseday,
pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church and teacher of the class.
The class has been so popular this
year that two sections had to he
made to accommodate the stu-
dents.
A class in English Bible is very
rare in high schools in Texas as
less than 10 per cent of them of-
fer such classes. Cooner R!g!i
School is following a policy of of-
fering the greatest possible ad-
vantages to its students.
Following are the names of the
students that completed the first
half of the year’s work: Stanley
Arnold. L. C. Allen, Garland Bar-
nard, Vernice Choate, Maurire
Cregg, Jake Carroll, Buddy Gil-
more, Jo George, Voila Hunt,
Evelvn Hanna, Mary Jackson,
Davton Kerbow, Charles Ray Mor-
gan, T. R. McGuyer, Robert Me-
Braver, K. D. Blankenship, Jack
Oliver, Zenita Poteet, Anita Par-
du\ W. J. Rex, Marshall Regan,
T. A. Rav and Truman Ratliff.
Duane Robertson, Neal Shep-
herd, Gailen Stewart, Jack Tay-
lor, Inez Thurman, Robbie Lee
Tate, Treva Nell Watson, Johnnie
WalkeT, Ollie Pearl Arnold Jim
Brooks. Edwin Rav Briscoe, Kitty
Chancellor, Jo Nell Cantrell, Les-
lie Foster, Martha Jean Fisher.
Charles Fowler, Roland Giddens,
Neva Nell Harris and Helen
Looney.
Opal Mullins, Dorothy McLaugh-
lin, Fronia McOaha, Rowena Nc-
land, Dorice Pickens, Eula Jeau
Bobnett, Lave me Pickens, Glen-
dale Regan, Davis Rex, Coy San-
sing, Irene Wheat, Edna WebsteT.
Durline Thompson, Randall Young
and D. C. Moore.
Paris Presbytery
Holds Meting At
Lake Creek
Quarterly meeting of I’aris
Presbytery was held with Lake
Creek Presbyterian Church as
host Wednesday of last i week
Rev. Wr. A. Casseday is modera-
tor and serve:; until the annual
meeting whihe -will 'be held in
'Denison beginning April' 10th
Pastors ha\ e been installed at
Ladonia, Dial, Bonham and sev-
eral outpost Sunday schools have
been organized since l"st meet-
ing of Presbytery.
Ladies of the local church en-
tertained with a luncheon at the
Boy Scout house.
Services Held For
Hooking Woman At
Atlanta Monday
Funeral services for Mrs. Fletch-
er Smith, 70, who died at her
home at Birthright, Hopkitis
county, at 1 o’clock Sunday morn-
ing were held Monday afternoon
at the Baptist Church at 3 o’clock
in Atlanta, her former home.
Smith Funeral Directors had
charge of arrangements carried
the remanis for burial in the At-
lanta cemetery.
Survivors include four sons,
one daughter and seven grand-
children.
Hundreds Left
Without W ater
During Cold
Expect Shipment Of
Water Into Cooper
To Begin Soon.
Huibert Sharp of Dallas, who
has been ill in. a hospital there
for several months, had a leg
amputated last week and is get-
ting along as well as I can be ex-
pected. 'Mr. d Mrs. Sharp
formerly liveq in Cooper but
have made Dallas their home,for
a number of years.
News Clipping Brings
Memories of Hanging
Rites Held Sunday
For Oyler Infant
Funeral services for the infant j
son of Mr. and Mrs. Will Ovlor, I
horn at Reed Memorial Hospital
on Saturday. were held Siindei 1
mornin'* at 10 o'clock at S'
^tinecal TTnm°. Oscnr Smith, mln-
Mser of the Ch’irch of Christ was
assisted bv ,T. TV Wheeler. Inter-
ment was in Oak Lawn cemetery.
NOTICE TO WATER
CUSTOMERS
Do not build fires on your
water meters as they are costly
and will have to be replaced if
burst by the fire. To conserve
the water sunniy, we urge vou
not to do anything that might
damage the motors.
TOM ROUNTREE, Mayor
Following is a story that was
printed in the Cooper Review 46
years ago that was sent to the
Review by F W. Pruett, publish-
er of the Robert Lee Obse. ver,
Robert Lee, Texas.
Mr. Pruett came by the clipping
by George Me Craw who had got-
ten It from Tom Pate, a former
resident of Delta county, whose
father was an old time settler
here.—Ed.
THE MAJESTY OF THE LAW
VINDICATED
The Fxecution of J*<"« Fisher
At 2 o’clock last Fridav James
Fisher wss hanged here for the
mtirHor of Austin Hardv. comrv’it-
ed the 5th dsv of last Julv. The
hour for the execution was s°t a4
2 o’enlek. and hv half past 1
o'clock, between four nod s?v
thousand people had nssemhlod at
f-Vie ocrffold. ahont a half or throa
fourths of a m*lo south of the
piiM'ii rnnnro on the nralrln.
Sheriff Acker and deputies. F*’
Wallace, Jas. H. Paterson, and
others who had been specially
deputized for the occasion, arriv-
ed at tha scene of the execution
at 1:30 o’cHock with the prisoner,
and asscended the scaffold. Revs
Jones of the Methodist and Booth
of the Christian Churches con-
ducted a short religious service
consisting of the old familiar song
“There is a fountain filled with
blood” and a very earnest prayer
offered by Rev. Jones.
No one was on the scaffold ex-
cept the sheriff and guard, the
two ministers and the press re-
porters. The prisoner showed but
little sign of weakening, though
fV.o rinrinnr bravado sometimes
witnessed op the scaffold was en-
tirely absent.
He ascended the steps to the
gallows with a firm step and was
seated in a chair on the tran
doer. The doomed man made an
Eight straight days of
freezing weather has brought mm
air of philosophic understanding
to most of Cooper’s citiions a*
most of them are still without
running water in their horona-
Somo few are able to get watma
from hydrants in yards wWto
others have to borrow from ftsix
neighbors or go back to using Ifcg
cistern.
Numerous people have
their waterpipes repaired aft*®
the first cold wave decended om
Cooper but as yet have not bee®
able to keep thenH thawed Wfc
Practically every town In nodi*
and east Texas Is in the same
condition.
More snow and cold is predict-
ed by the weatherman for tb*
week end with no relief in dgfcL
This cold wave is mild in com-
parison to the cold wave of 1917
when the temperature wasMbelavr
freezing for 40 days.
The cold has buckled water
mains in many places, keeping
the city waterworks repair nan
on the job 16 hours per \dajt
Every break is being repaired m
quickly as possible to conserve
Ihe water supply.
Letters have been sent out to
surrounding towns inquiring far
-ates on purchasing water as the
upply at the city lake is feat
diminishing and only a few dayv
supply is left. According to re-
liable sources, shipment of water
should begin the last of next
week unless some heavy rains
fail in the meantime.
No plans have been released is
to< how the water will be hrni^H.
in and put into the watep main
but it is expected that water wDP
come in in tank cars ^nd
pumped into the water tower.
See HANGING on page eight
Cooper Placed On
Itinerant Service
By Social Security
Arrangements have been mad®
by Glenn T. Dunn, acting maw
ger of the Social Security BorrJ
field office at Paris to place Cow-
er on an itinerant service bas<t^
according to a statement by Sanr-
’iel F. Ward, field representative
who was in Cooper today.
Regular visits will be made to
Cooper every second and fourth
Wednesdays of each month, Ward
said. These visits are for the pnr-
nose of serving prospective claim-
snts under the old age and surm-
"ors insurance system, unrl'W
which monthly payments began oi*
January 1.
To oualifv for monthly old age
!nsurance benefits, Ward said, »
"age earner must be 65 vears oM
nr over; he must have worked on
a job or iobs covered by the law
nnd he must have received a cer-
tain amount of pnv from such jobr
during certain periods of time.
It was explained that the
nmnunt of pav a worker must hav*
"amp.? in order to qualify for
benefits ij $50 or more in each of
a certain number of calendar
"uarters. Calendar ouarters are
the three months hewinning Jan-
uaiv 1. A mil 1. Jn?v 1 and Octo-
hn 1 of anv wear. The quarters In
which a worker earned $50 or
mom on poverod inhs are called
“quarters of 'overage.”
In order to net benefits, an ein-
plovoe must have had not lew
than one quarter of coverage for
eneh two quarters of the calendar
veer after lOeq. and before tb#
ouarter in which ihe worker i>v-
carne 65. Tn anv rase. Ward stat-
ed. the worker must have had at
least Mx quarters of coverage.
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