The Delta Courier (Cooper, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 18, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 30, 1940 Page: 2 of 4
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THE DELTA COURIER
TUESDAY, APRIL *0, 1940
DELTA COURIER
COOPER, TEXAS
W. D. HART ft SON, Publisher*
|V. D. Ila.i t Lyndol E. Hart
PUBLISHED EACH TUESDAY
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net door south S. W Cor. Square
91.00 Per Year in Advance
Bate red px second class matter
like postoffice at Cooper, Texas,
4er the act of Congress, March
1979.
OBITUARIES, ETC.—All obituar-
ies, resolutions of respect, cards
ef thanks and matters of like char
•after will be charged for at the
■■te of 1-2 cent per word.
Advertising rate made on ap-
fflieation.
Author of “How to Win Friend*
and Influence People.”
PRESS
__ASStfClAUON___
If plans to boautify the
•Cooper square are to include
any part ol the courthouse
foundation, they should be
adopted immediately as the
building will soon be razed to
the four dation. The city or
ci v i c organizations should
take this project in hand if
they have not already done so.
-O---
Hitler and his bunch of in-
ternational outlaws have no
•difficulty in finding records
in nations they overrun to
justify their treacherous brig-
andary.
-O-
Attorney General Mann has
ruled that evidence of intoxi-
cation obtained by forced test
is invalid evidence. From that
point of reasoning enforced
fingerprints could not be used
to prove a defendant’s idenity.
What is the distinction?
•5*--O--
ENLOE NEWS
BV MRS. A. C. VOYLES
Mrs- ii. B. Johnston, who is vis-
iting her daughter, Mrs. Gay Me-
MiRan of Oklahoma City, Okla., is
ill her friends here have learned.
<Jeorge Dewitt, who has under-
gone a major operation in a Paris
hospital, was* able to come home
this week.
Dr. R. E. Dewitt of Dallas and
hip niece, Mrs. Romie Stewart, of
Grapevine, made a brief visit with
relatives in Enloe Thurdsay. They
were on thier way home from
Ghicago where they visited Dr.
Dewitt’s daughters, Misses Fannie
Edrie and Loraine Dewitt.
Mr. and Mrs. G .C. Coston were
Pecan Gap vsitors Thursday.
T. F. Barnett of Albany visit-
•ed Mrs. Barnett and friends in
Enloe over the week end.
Misses Evelyn Morris of Ben
Franklin, Betty Zo Gregg. Rena
Herron. Margaret Lou Wright,
all members of the* junior class,
spent Thursday night with Wan-
da Teague.
Harry Patterson/ made a busi-
ness trip to Dallas Friday.
B. B.l Viles was a Paris visitor
Wednesday.
Mrs. R L. Huffman, Miss
Frances Bledsoe, and Miss Hiber-
nia Smith were | Paris visitor*
Monday. 1
Mr. and Mrs. Carmen. Stockton
and Mr. and Mrs! Winston De-
witt! attended the show at Coop-
er Friday night.
Mrs. Truett Carrington and
Jittje sons, Bobbie and Jerry, vis-
ited their parents and grandpar-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Blevins,
of Cooper Wednesday.
Enterprise
If you are going to graduate
from college this spring, you are
probalbly thinking about how you
canl get a job. Well, I’ll tell you
how one young man got him.
His name is Roger W. Babson,
and he lives in Babson Park, Mass.
He is now a world authority on
finannee and economic trends.
When he graduated from the
Massachusetts Institute of Tech-
nology. he wanted to get into the
statistical department of a bank-
ling house. But hq oouldn’t get a
job. He walked the streets of
Boston for weeks looking for a
iob. Hilt money ran so low that
he had to go hungry. ,He ,'kept
on looking. His shoes wore thin
He kept on looking.
One day as he was studying the
want ads, he saw one which said:
“Wanted. | An assistant in the
statistical department of a bank-
ing house. Write Box 43.”
This was exactly what he want-
ed. He wrote a letter describing
to the box and wait till the bank-
ing house sent for the mrjl.
He was living in Gloucester
which was more than thirty miles
from Boston. The only train left
at six in the morning. But he
was on' it.
He went to the post office, lp-
cated himself there to watch. For
a long time, n/obody came. ■
Then, finally, a negro boy with
a mail bag appeared- Young Bab-
son got a) jolt. Was the banking
liou.se expecting enough replies to
fill that bag?
He went up closer and read on
the bag: “E. H. Gray & Company.
Bankers.” He hurried to a direc-
tory and looked up the address
and then ran as fast as he could
getting there before the colored
boy did.
He asked who did the hiring
apd found out that it was Mr. Gay
himself. He sent in his name, and
finally got to see Mr. Gay. He
told hirry1 what he had! done, and
Rural Rambler
BY ELMORE TORN
East Texas Chamber
of Commerce
When John/ tD. Rogers of Nav-
asota, vice president and chair
man of the soil and water con-
servation committee of the East
Texas Chamber of Commerce, was
elevated to the presidency of the
regional body at its fourteenth
annual convention. It ,was the
third time that a chairman of one
of the agricultural committees
had become president in; as many
years. Two years ago Paul T.
Sanderson of Trinity became pres-
ident when[ serving os chairman
of forestry committee and F. D.
Perkins of McKinney was heading
the rural relations committee a
year ago when the presidency
called. All were leading figures
in the organization for many
years.
The convention just concluded
at Marshall) was acclaimed the
best from every standpoint in the
history of the organization. The
Greater Bast Texas Parade fea-
tured 37 high school and college
bands, a score of floats und dec-
orated cars, graced by 48 East
Texas sweethearts representing as
many thriving towns oft the re-
gion. Twelve thousand heard Dr.
Geoige W. Truett on Sunday
night, and before his appearance
had listened! to 1,000 negro voices
Binging /plantation spirituals.
KLONDIKE NEWS
MRS. FRONIA McBRIDE
On account of the rain Sunday
Elder Buchanan of I/eonxrd could
pot fill his 4th Sunday appoint- j Ellis,
ment at the Church of Christ.
Miss Jewel Stewart of Coupe:
Another twelve thousand wit- j has been added to the faculty of
peased the Hit Parade of East j the Klondike schools. She will
Texas sweethearts on Monday j filjl the place of Mrs. Johnnie
night, along with entertainment | Blackburn
POLITICAL
ANNOUNCEMENTS
his qualifications, but received no J Mr. Gay looked througH the file
■answer. He knew other replies and sure enough there was his
were pouring in .but he was no* | fetter. Mr. Gay read it, thought
inese political announcements
| are made subject to the action of
the Democratic primary July 27.
All announcements are cash in
advance.’
going to let his chance slip.
He went to the postmaster and
asked who rented box No. 43, but
the postmaster said it was against
the rules of the department to
give such information. He was
courteous, but adamant.
Babson,' was stumped. But he
was going to have that job
One night as he was going to
bed he had an idea. He would go
a moment, then said:
“Your letter is the poorest of
the whole lot. But you are the
most enterprising. And that’s
what I want. Enterprise. I will
take you on.”
Now why don’t you hsow some
unlusual enterprise in getting a
job? Think this idea over, work-
out your details, and get into ac-
tion.
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Of course, a whole book could
be filled with jokes about darkies.
Here are some of the time-honor-i borough, now
ed jokes:
A negro, facing a court martial
for fleeing in the face of the foe,
was asked. “Were you runninig ”
He ansv'ered, “Naw, suh, but I
passed several whut was.”
There was a darkey who got
got scared and galloped down a
path until he startled a rabbit
that dashed along ahead of him
and the negro said, “Git outta de
way, Mr. Robbit, an’ let some-
buddy run whut kin run.”
AiV old colored man, who had
ridden into town left his mule in
front of the store and a mischie-
vious white man squirted some
“high-life”' on the animal, which
dashed down the road. The negro
came out and said, “White folks,
jhow much ob dat medicine did you
put on dat critter ” The man an-
swered, "Oh, about five cents
worth.” The eld fellow said,
“Well, squirt a dime’s worth on
me ’case I’se got to ketch dat
mule.”
A new parson had just announc-
ed the text ,of his first sermon
when a ripe tomato hit him in thi
face. He wiped the pulp and
juice away and announced.
“Breol’rn an’ sistern, fer de next
thutty minutes, 1’se gwine to
preach a powerful sermon an' den
youse gwine to see de blankety-
blankest fight' youse evah seed.”
Several members of the congre-
gation were hurt in a stampede
that resulted when, in the midst of
a funeral1 sermon, the “corpse”
rose up in the casket. At an in-
vestigation, the justice of the
peace insisted that one of the
“sisters” tell exactly what the
parson had said. “Well,” she re-
plied, “as he run by me, he say.
‘D— an archyteeit that would
j Gilliland, publisher of the Baird
I Star, which also publishes“I Give
| You Texas,” has been re-oppoint-
ed postmistress. Her father
founded the Star, edited! it for
morq than 50 years and the “im-
posing” stone on which the paper
was made up for half a century
marks his grave. Ralph Yar
rounding out his
second ‘term as district judge at
Austin, will not be a candidate foi
re-election but will return to the
private practice of law. Yar-
borough two years ago made a
strong race for Attorney General.
Adventure Magazine for May has
a Texas flavor, with articles by C.
L. Douglas of the Fort Worth
press, and Mody C. Boathright ol
the (State University. And E. S.
Shoaf of the Wood County Dem-
ocrat reminds that the North am
East Texas Press Association
meets in Lufkin, May 1 Ol and! l]
with eight trophies at stake.
A eylccne is a high /wind that
starts no place in general and is
going nowhere in particular but is
in a h— of a hurry to get there,
as my grandpa used to say.
Jack Hawkins in Groesbeck
Journal remarks:
.“The Journal does not claim to
be a truthful newspaper about
everything. We will say Mrs. So
and So’s baby is beautiful bven if
it’s ugly. We will say the ' de-
ceased was a good man even
though we might n)ot think he was
so good. But with all our little
white lies, this paper can tell the
truth, too. If you want the truth
about the awful political situation
in Texas today, read this column.
One hundred dollars to anyone
who proves what we say is not the
truth. One dollar to anyone who
proves that we don’t have one
hundred1 dblllars.”
A colored “aunty” when asked
how she had raiesd all 12 of her
children replied, “I raised ’em
wid a shingle and I raised ’em
often).”
A negro, after an airplane ride,
stepped onto the ground and said,
“Mr. Aviator, thank you for both
For Congress:
R. G. WATERS
(of Bowie County)
For Flotorial Representative,
126th District:
J. M. (Johnnie) B1GGERSTAFF
JOE W. GANDY
Of Hopkins county.
For District Attorney:
T. WAD THOMPSON
(Re-election)
RAMEY A. SMITH
HENRY PHARR
For County Judqe:
H. D. CLARK
JOHN T. TAYLOR
J. ELMER THOMPSON
For County Attorney:
E. G. PHARR
(Re-election, 2nd term)
For Count)' Clerk:
CLYDE BRACICEEN
(Re-election)
AUBREY CULP
C. V. (Duck) STEPHENSON
A. L. CARRINGTON
For District Clerk:
EDWINA MILLER
For Assessor-Collector:
MANTON POUND
G. W. (Bill) MORGAN
For County Treasurer:
SAM MORGAN
MRS. LUTIE WILSON
build a church wid only one doah.”
Facts about folks: V- D. Ring-
vvald, Alice publisher, while a tele-
graph operator in Eastland,
bought a book, “How to be a
Newspaperman,” sat up half the
night reading it and the next day
there was a mob surging around
the jail looking for a prisoner, so
Ringwald sent “queries” to, the
big papers a n! sold the story for
50 times what he had paid for the
hook. Frank Grimes, editor of
the Abilene Reporter, writes
poetry—and it’s good enough
LlutL it liao been included in never-
al anthologies. Moran Dunlap.
Meridian Tribune editor, one 61
the first to Start publishing ‘‘I
GiW You Texas,” has been nom-
i mated fer pestftiaatAr. If in* Biizs
-my fust one an 1 my
For Sheriff:
D. E. (Brick) WOOD
RAM MARTIN
R. A. (Allen) KERB0W
E. T. (Tank) TRAPP
CLARENCE L. CATES
ROBERT (Preacher) CARROI L
For Commissioner, Precinct 1 I
J. L. (Jack) JOHNSON
(Re-election, 2nd Term)
R. L. CHAMBLISS
features furnished by towns b.
ding for the convention in 1941.
Business sessions of the conven-
tion, luncheon^, the Garden Mu-
sioaile honoring the visiting ladies,
the buffet supper for visiting
sweethearts, and band concerts
drew some five thousand.
Resolutions called for expansion
of chemurgici research and educa-
tion. elfecicency and economy
in\ government, balanced agricul-
tural planning, and full service to
rural communities. A number ol
resolutions and resolutory letters
praising the work of the agricul-
tural department of the East Tex-
as Chamber for its service to rural
towns were/ received by the con-
vention from many communitie:
of the area.
A number of towns/ expressing
appreciation were those having
festivals, with which the regional
chamber has cooperated because
the size of the town was not Iprge
enough to atoow a full staffed
chamber of commerce. Other ex-
pressions came from rural com-
munities,! which the ETCC agri-
cultural department has assisted
in planning and executing local
agricultural programs of work.
The first Madison County Con-
servation Festival will be held
Tuesday, May 7, in Madisonville.
According to all information avail-
able this is the first conservation
festival to be held in Texas, and
possibly in the United States. The
festival recognizes conservation
in all its phases with particular
reference to soil and' water con-
servation.
The people of Madison county
extend a most cordial (invitation
fed all people interested in con-
servation to visit their festival or-
Tuesday, May 7. They, are plan-
ning a great day of entertainment
features as well as tours which
will take visitors to inspect farms
which show concrete results of
the value of soil building prac-
tices. The / Conservation Court
of beautiful! girls from a score of
Mrs. Douglas Bigonyl and son,
John Frank, visited in Roxton Sat-
urday.
in last Friday’s letter the nv>th-
ers whoi furnished1 their cars and
carried the 5th and Cth grade
pupils to the park in Cooper for r
picnic was Mrs. Manton Pound
who took her car with a group of
children and we failed to mention
her name with the others who a.‘-
sisted.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Morga t and
daughter were in Cooper Satur-
day.
Mr. and Mrs. George Patterson
received a message Wednesday
saying their daughter, Mrs. Floyd
Mann!, was in a Paris hospital suf-
fering from a heart attack Mrs.
Patterson left Thursday to spend
n few days with her during her
illness.
Mrs. Ada Nelson visited in the
sick room Thursday with Aunt
Mary Gough, who is very slowly
improving.
Rev. and Mrs. Welborn attend-
ed chapel in the Long Taw sohoc;
Friday morning.
Mr. and Mrs. Carrol Robnett of
Mineola visited Mr. and Mi's. Hen-
ry Alley Saturday.
Delbert iHooten, who is working
for an insurance company in Dal-
las was in Klondike Sunday.
Miss Geraldine Evans, with her
home economic class, enjoyed the
day 'Saturday pi-nicing in the
woods. A nice lunch with cold
drinjks wns enjoyed at the noon
hour. The afternoon was spent
in game* and making pictures.
Those who were present/ for this
pleasant day of outing were Maty
Beth Ray, Helen Haddock, Jua-
nita Robinson. Nora Spigner, Ileta
Christine Caine, Ruby
Rushing, Rachel Rtainey, and
Dorothy Hooten.
Mrs. Dovie Wil(liam» and little
son, Bobby, visited their brother
and uncle. Mr, and Mrs. W. A.
MciBride and daughter in Cooper
Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Obie Hooten and
little son visited i Sunday with
their father, W. A. Hooten,
family.
O, P> Hooten its lepoi led t
sick list this week.
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'T'HOSE spikes are no fake!
-L Jimmie Lynch rode over them
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Gc
East Texas towns will be present-
ed Tuesday night, May 7.
The second annual Texas farm
chemurgic conference was held in
Dem'iton, A.pril 26 and 27, with the
three regional chambers of com-
merce cooperating. This makes p
total of ten chemurgic meetings
sponsored; either cooperatively ot
individually by the East Texas
Chamber of Commerce. The re-
gional chamber has been a pio-
neering force in the farm chemur-
gic movement with the purpose
of finding new uses and added in-
come for present farm crops.
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For Commissioner, Precinct 2:
OSCAR TIDWELL
CURTIS TOON '
For Commissioner, Precinct 3:
W. B. CLARK
W. N. McGAHA
(Re-election, 2nd term)
T. C. WILHITE
For Comw.i.iiciner, Precinct 4:
PAUL (Dobber) BROWN
G. C. (Grover) COSTON
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larst one.”
When asked' if he
white or black chickens, Rastus
answered, “Both has dtre ad-
vantages; de white ones is easier
to see on de roost but de black
ones is easier to hide.”
A darkey was trying to find out
from his son whether he had got-
ten married. The !so*nl was using
a lot of big words in an effort to
evade but the older man broke in
“I ain’t askin’ you, is you ain’t;
I’se asking you, ain’t you is?”
Two net, - wci'ii iH « pokia
game. "What you got?” Hie
first negro said. “A pair ob fives
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Per Public Weigher, Precincts 1-S:
FORREST WHEAT
(Re-election, 2nd term)
preferred J For Public Weigher, Prect. 3:
W. A. HODGES
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JESSE JONES
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NOBLE H. WEAVER
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