The Delta Courier (Cooper, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 4, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 20, 1925 Page: 1 of 8
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THE DELTA COURIER
MAX T. TUP.BEVILLE, Publisher.
COOPER. DELTA COUNTY, TEXAS TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1925.
VOLUME 44, NO. 4
More Concrete For
Highway No. 5
Twelve
Miles of Concrete
Texarkana West
From
First National and
Guaranty State
Bank Consolidate
The day is not distant when high-
way No.5 will be a solid block of
concrete all the way from Texarkana
to Sherman, a distance of about 160
mileg. The gap of five miles between
Honey Grove and Paris has already
been contracted for, and one mile is
to be added west of Dodd City right
away. From this gap west the road
is graveled or concreted all the way
to Sherman. Of course the gravel
ed portions will not last long, and will
Dually be concreted.
Last week the commissioners court
of Bowie county let the contract for
twelve miles westward out of Texark-
ana. Work will begin soon as mater-
ials can be assemble ’
Concrete highway construction has
been under way at New boston several
weeks. A concrete highway is being
constructed through the town of New
Boston and on east for some distance.
The entire stretch will measure ap-
proximately three miles when com-
pleted.
No provision has been made to date
for improvement of the gap between
DeKalb and New Boston, where thir-
teen miles now require a full hour of
the time of automobile drivers. This
road, once graveled, was thrown open
to trffic without provision for main-
tenance and has been in a deplorable
condition two years or more. Last
year an effort was made to vote bonds
in the DeKalb district for a new road
through this and other territories, but
the issue failed to carry. It is under-
stood that plans submitted at the time
provided for considerably more road
than could possibly be constructed
with the money available and some of
the staunch good road advocates voted
against the issue on that account. An-
other bond issue, providing for a ma-
terial reduction in mileage will prob-
ably be submitted during the present
year, according to reports.—Honey
Grove Signal.
Fifty Expected At
Prayer Meeting
A merger of lifge financial interests
were consumateil Monday night when
the Guaranty State Bank and the First
National Bank of Cooper Consolidated.
Both institutions were in excellent
financial condition and wAe.'prosper-
ing, and the consolidation cahm about
largely by stockholders who wcVe in-
terested in each bank and they believ-
ed that a stronger institution which
would be more prosperous, serve the
community better, and at a less over-
head expense could be brought about
by the consolidation.
To be clcarl ywithin the require-
ments of the banking laws The First
National Bunk purchased all assets ot
the Guaranty State" Bank and assum-
ed its liabilities, and all stockholders
of the Guaranty State Bank were ex-
changed an equal amount of stock in J "'ith their voices in singing the gospel.
the First National Bank, if they de-
sired, or were paid off, and most all
In the interest of the special re-
vival services to be held at the Bap-
tist Church beginning next Sunday,
the pastor has asked every member
and all others who feel a vital inter-
est in the revival, to be present Wed-
nesday night of this week. At least
50 are expected to be present, at
which time the essentials of a revival
will be discused, and special prayers
will be offered for the success of the
meeting.
The messages of the meeting will
consist of practical Bible themes of
interest to everybody, brought by the
pastor of the church, and much will
be made of the music which will he
ably Conducted,by T. E. Vaughan, who
is a good soloist, assisted by special
"duet and quartet music, and all sing-
ers who may feel led to co-operate
Candidates Off
With Good Start
In Automobile Contest
Inventor Claims to Run | Neff Appointees
Motor On Crude Oil j Were Affirmed
Safty League Organized
The members of the Texas Public
Utilities Co., and a number of out of
town visitors met last Wednesday eve-
ning in their up-town office for the
purpose of organizing a Safety League
for the purpose of preventing acci-
dents from electricity. R. M. Moore
of Dallas, who is assistant safety
engineer was present and explained
the work and perfected the League
at this place. He took up and explain-
ed several phases of safety work and
at a later time the work will be pre-
sented to the pupils of the schools.
These meetings will be held once
each month. After the meeting was
over the members of the company and
out of town visitors went to the
Cooner Confectionery where they en-
joyed an oyster stew.
Those present from out of town
■were, Messrs. Wil Boyd, E. B. and
Chas Lowry, C. V. Cregg and Loyd
Walker of Paris, R. M. Moore of Dal-
las, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Kelly, and Mr.
and Mrs. Troy Henry from the Com-
merce office.
of them retained their stock in the
new institution.
This gives the new bunk approxi-
mately $800,000.00 on deposit.
The forces of both banks worked
most of Monday night, making the
change and the consolidated institu-
tion opened for business Tuesday
morning.
Following officers were elected Tues-
day: • - '■"»
' r ~ Directors
Dr. J. H. McKinney.
Dr. C. C. Taylor. 7 *
W. A. Tynes.
Dr. D. 0. Lowry.
L. F. Hooten.
A. W. Winsett.
C. M. McKinney.
F. B. Lain.
W. I. Bartley.
S. D. Clower. K
A. P. Miller. , .
R. E. Patterson. I
J. T. Shelton.
J. C. Tynes. ''T
J. T. Taylor.
W. W. Pierce.
T. B. Good. 1 v.,
Officers
Dr. J. H. McKinney, President.
S. D. Clower, vice-president.
Mrs. E. J. McKinney, vice president.
W. W. Pierce, cashier.
W. I. Bartley and Chas. Naylor, as-
sistant cashiers.
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A' Christian people who are anx-
ious to see Cooper groW in a spiritual
way and tb see our neighbors and
young people saved, Are given an ear-
nest brotherly invitation to join their
prayers and efforts in this work, that
you, too, may share in God’s bless-
ings. The entire membership of the
church is appealed to both in person
and through this article, to join heart
and hand in one united way in the
great work of the Master and His
church, the work of lifting up Christ
that others may be drawn to Him
from the awful thraldom of sin. “He
that winneth souls is wise.”
To all without Christ, let it be said
that your soul is worth more than a
world, and to these services you will
have a sincere welcome, and it is
hoped that you may attend every ser-
vice, that your soul may be pointed
the way to Christ, whom to know is
life eternal.
PASTOR.
There is increased Interest in the
Ri view and Courier subscription con-
test and the candidates are doing
good work, taking subscriptions.
Most subscribers take the Review
and Courier at $2.00 a year, thus earn-
ing the candidate 6,000 votes.
The vote Thursday evening was as
follows:
Virginia Slough, Cooper R-l 122,900
Gladys Sailors, Pecan Gap 118,000
Jean Harrison, Cooper ________ 84,800
Rosa Dee McGaha, Cooper___ 77,200
Pauline Leeman, Klondike - 69,400
Pearl St in iktr, Cooper______ 89,600
Ethel Horten, Klondike_____ 27,700
Edith Blont, Cooper________ 14,409
Johnnie Worden, Lake Creek __ 14,100
Earl Moore, Enloe _______ 11,400
Clarice Bryant, Pecan Gap R-l .11,300
Marie-. Thomas, Cooper R-2 .. 7,600
Nellie Watson, (.Toss Roads____7,200
Elba Stone, Cooper R-2 ____ 5,500
Gu.vlah Skeen, Enloe ________ 5,100
Ethel Whitworth, Cooper R-3 ..5,100
Dorthy Scott, Yowcll ________ 5,100
Stockholm, Jan. 9.—A solution of | Walthall, Mrs. Sanford and About
Mrs. Max Turbeville left Tuesday
morning for Midlothian to visit her
parents, Dr. and Mrs. E. O. Moore,
and be at the bedside of her sister,
Mrs. Ola Powell, who is ill.
1656 Poll Taxes Paid
1656 poll taxes had been paid up to
Returned From
Conference at Ft. Worth
the problem of how to drive an auto-
mobile on crude oil, and at one-third
of the cost of gasoline, is claimed
by a Swedish inventor, Nils Ander-
son, who has perfected an engine
attachment for -this purpose after
several years of expermenting.
Anderson’s device can readily be in-
stalled on any ordinary motor and
makes it possible to use crude oil,
kerosene, wood alcohol, or gasoline.
The crux of the problem, says the
inventor, was the fact that crude oil
cannot be complelely vaporized, and
without special treatment the residue
would clog the engine. He solves
this by exposing the oil to intense
heat, which shatters such ingred-
ients as cannot be turned into gas.
They remain in the form " a com-
bustible fluid and are consumed
during the explosion in the cylinder, j
When using the crude oil the motor
must, however, be started with gas-
oline from a separate small con-
tainer, while the oil is carried in the
regular gasoline tank of the car.
The crude oil attachment consists
of a super-heater, a special car-
buretor and exhaust pipe altogether
with the necessary connecting rods
or manipulation.
Among the advantages claimed
are a smaller quantity of oil con-
sumed per mile, less lubrication, no
overheating of the engine, and a re-
duction of about 10 per cent from
the cost of running of a car on gas-
oline.
Thirty Others Are Safe in Positions
Seaman-East Co.
Elects Officers
Peace of Body
In Mature Years
Ladies ’Home Journal' The diges-
tive troubles of biddlo and later life
are frequently due to older people not
realizing as keenly as they should
that as the years creep on not much
lood is required to keep the fires of
(,jfe burning properly. There comes
with middle life inevitable changes
in the circulatory and digestive or-
gans. The digested foods are not ab-
sorbed quite so actively; thee is little
or no muscle building as in children;
with less body activity there is much
weakened power to eliminate waste
from the body. It follows naturally
that, while no set rules can be given,
since age changes- vary with individ-
uals, these suggestions may well be
kept in mind: Decrease the amount
of muscle-building food eaten; eat on-
ly such foods as are easy and simple
of digestion; eat at regular intervals
in small quantities; and lastly, eat
less.
The play, “Mr. Bob”, which is to
he put on at the Gem theatre by local
tak nt. under the direction of Miss
Neal, will be given Jan. 27, instead of
Jan. 20, as originally planned.
A meeting of the stockholders of
the Seaman-East Grocer Co. was held
Tuesday in the offices of the company
here.
Officers and directors for the ensu-
ing year were elected as follows:
Directors—T. R. East, J. B. Clay-
ton, Jas. A. Armstead, A. F. Richter,
J. D. Middleton, Klough Williams, H.
- ______
The directors elected the following
officers: T. R. East, president; J. B.
Clayton, vice-president; Jas. A. Arm-
stead, treasurer: H. C. McMurray,
secretary.
T. R. East was elected general man-
ager and H. C. McMurray, assistant
manager.
The officials declared the usual di-
vidend.
Branches of this company are op-
erating in Cooper and Sulphur Springs
and a most prosperous year was had
for 1924, with a greater and more
prosperous year beginnisg, Indica-
tions from the present two weeks’ of
business show that the year 1925 has
a much better start than did the year
just past, with every indication far
surpassing the history of the com-
pany’s business.—Greenville Banner.
Tuesday evening. They are by pre-1
cincts as follows:
East Cooper___________________280
West Cooper__________________314
Klondike ..................... 112
Yowell_________________________80
Horton_________________________54
Ben Franklin ............. 239
Enloe_________________________151
Lake Creek____________________64
Charleston_____________________98
Pecan Gap_____________________208
Vasco _________________________ 48
Rev. D. W. Nicholas, pastor of the
First Christian Church, who was in
Fort Worth last week attending an
evangelistic conference, has returned
home and .reports a wonderful gather-
ing of preachers and laymen from
all parts of Texas and a very helpful
and inspiring program. Plans were
made for carrying out a pre-Easter
evangelistic campaign for the winning
of one hundred thousand souls to
Christ in Texas. After the conference
l he and Rev. J. Leslie Finnell of Paris
drove to Mineral Wells and other
cities including Wichita Falls and
from there through Sherman to Paris.
They were very much impressed with
West Texas and Rev. Nicholas pre-
dicts that in the very near future
Texas will be the leading agricultural
state of the union.
Total______________________1656
1492 automobiles and 73 trucks have
been registered to date.
Grave Yard Working
There will be a grave yard work
ing each Tuesday afternoon at the
Dawson cemetery until the work is
completed. Everyone interested in
their loved one’s graves come and
help.
Sunday School
Attendance Report
Austin, Jan. 16.—Ferguson ambi-
tion to have Ferguson men in ad-
ministrative places went down in de-
feat today in the Texas senate when '
R. B. Walthall’s nomination as a mem-
ber of the board of control was con-
firmed at an executive session with
only two of the 31 members voting
against him.
A two-thirds vote is required to con-
| firm.
Mrs. Epsa Sanford was unanim-
ously confirmed as a-member of the
.State industrial accident hoard as wat,
John H. Bickett, member of the high-
way commission, all recess appoint-’
ments of Governor Pat M, Neff. No,
contest), however^ was expected in
Bickett’s case. -y
The committee on gubernatorial nom-
inations, of which J. G. Strong of
Carthage is chairmen, recommended
the confirmation of these as well as
a list of about 50 others, but a further
report on appointees is to be made at
an executive session of the senate
Saturday marning. — — ■--»>
The vote in the senate was by roll
call as required, but the names of
those voting against confirmation
were not given out. That the voting
>oes not indicate that Ferguson poli-
cies will be opposed many senators
wpre frank in saying. They simply
thought that James E. Ferguson had
gone too far in his appoinement pro-
gram. v
The list approved by the senate
this morning omits the names of
university regents and directors and
carries the names of many whoa®
terms are about to expire.
Following was the attendance and
offering at the Surday schools of
Cooper last Sunday:
At’d’cr
M. E. Church ----151
Baptist Church5------121
Presb.terian Church -.51
Christian Church ____46
M. P. Church________36
Offering
$10.90
4.55
3.05
2.67
2.31
- * ‘-s ’v * ~'t' ' 1 ” 1
Total............ 405 $22.53
(To Sunday' school secretary—Be
sure to hand in your reports promptly
each Monday—Editor.)
Notice
We are so far behind with our city
work, especially street work, that it
will take us several weeks to catch up,
hence we are compelled to discon-
tinue our plumbing work for the pub-
lic.
Please keep this in mind and look
after your water pipes and plumbing
fixtures and take no chances with
freezes. We can not answer your call
for we cannot postphone the city work
any longer.
We sincerely hope no one will ask
us to vary from this rule.
Very truly,
W. C. HAZLEWOOD, Mayor.
Courier want ads get results quick!
PROGRAM
UiA.1 tviilti ll ■
Under Direction Of
MISS JOHNNY MAY NEAL
Gem Theatre, January 27,
1925
“MR. BOB”
By R. E. Baker.
' ACT I
SCENE—Breakfast room in Tresham; time, morning.
ACT II
SCENE—Same as in act I; time, afternoon.
CHARACTERS
Philip Raysdfi ----------------------------------
. Delbert Rohl
• Robert Brown, clerk of Benson & Benson —-------
Harley Primm
Louis Nicholas
Rebecca Luke, a maiden lady--------------------
Mrc. Rushing
Katherine Rogers, her neice----------------------
Edna Worden
Marion Bryant, Katherine’s friend---------------
Josephine Long
Patty, 5£iss Rebecca’s maid----------------------
-- Miss Neal
SPECIALTIES
Reading_______________________________________
Christine Hardy
.. Murray Jeffries
n„oJir,n. .. ______ _ Tillie Foster
Band concert at 7 o’clock.
Cooper People—Do you like comedy? I know you do. Come
to see the play. It is a laugh from start to finish. "MR. BOB” is
given in two acts. A very bright play, ingeniously constructed, and
full of comical situations. It is the cleverest play ever written.
Mrs. Fannie McFadden,
94 Years Old, Dead
Mrs. Fannie MsFaddin, wife of J.
C. McFadlen, died at their home near
Posey, in Hopkins County, Tuesday
morning. Mrs. McFadden was 94 years
of age. Burial will take place at the
McDonald grave yard in Lamar coun-
ty, Wednesday. .
Floyd Proposes Aid
For Rural Schools
Austin, Jan. 16.—Senator Floyd <*f
Paris today introduced a bill propos-
ing the appropriation of $3,000,000 for
the aid of the rural schools for the
two years ending August 31, 1927.
Tht bill is designed to assist the rural
schools and those in the small towns;
and carries the provision that its haw
fits may be shared in by no school dis-
trict having more than 400 scholastics.
It is provided that preference shall.
given to those schools where the ap-
portionment and the local tax are not
sufficient for carrying on the school
for six months.
Restoring Sight
Ruined Business
Honor Where The
Honor Is Due
Mrs. Sam W. Meharg, of Plain-
view, Hale county, has been appoint-
ed as secretary of the state by Mrs.
Miriam A. Ferguson, the incoming
governor of Texas. Mrs Ferguson
might have combed the state for
months and she could not have found
a more excellent or worthy woman
than Mrs. Meharg, She is one of the
best and most intelligent women of
our state. The Denton Herald knows
whereof it speaks, for we have known
Mr«. Meharg ever since she was a
little school girl, as a classmate and
as a church worker. She is a grad-
uate of the old Southwestern Normal
College, one of the leading schools in
Texas a quarter of a century ago.
Mrs. Meharg is one of a family of six
children, three tyo.vs and three girls,
all living, except one sister who died
a few years ago at Plainview. All
members of the family together with
her parents were conscieritions and
consistent members and workers of
the Presbyterian church.
Mrs. Meharg is not a society wo-
man, but a real home woman. She
has two children, a boy and a girl,
both of whom are grown and the el-
der—a girl—is married. Her hus-
band, S. W. Meharg, is city assessor
and collector of Plainview and also
a graduate of the old Southwestern
the Sam Houston Teachers College.
Normal College and the Sam Hous-
ton Normal College, now known ns
Mrs. Meharg was before her mar-
riage Miss Emma Grisby, a native
of Tennessee, hut half of her life was
spent at Italy, Texas.—Denton Herald
An unusual case is that of Amos
Cady, of Bolivar, Mo., who could
play six musical instruments simul-
taneously while he was blind and who
can only play one now that he has
regained his sight. He was blind for
twenty-two years. He played a har-
monica held in his mouth by a yoke
with his hands; a bass arum Deaten
with his elbow, symbals struck with
his knees, a triangle and eight Swiss
bells rung by his feet. His inability
to play more than one instrument now
is explained by the fact that he can no
longer concentrate sufficiently to play
' six instruments due to the fact
* it the acute sensitiveness of touch
and feeling that comes with blindness
left him when his sight was restored.
And so Mr. Cady’s business as a street
musician is ruined.—Honey Grove Sig-
nal.
Bov Scouts to Observe
Anniversary Week
The Boy Scout- of Cooper plan to
observe the week of Feb. 8 to 15 as the
fifteenth anniversary of Boy Scouts
of America. Attendance in a body at
church, demonstrations in school and
on the square good turns at home and
to the community, and as patriotic
boys, will be observed. Special efforts
to enlist new boys and leaders will be
made. All scouts are asked to attend
the scout meeting next Friday night.
SCOUTMASTER.
FOR SALE
Russell Big Boll cotton seed from
seed farms in Red River county. It
will pay you to investigate these seed.
They will produce from 38 to 40 per
cent lint yield and 1 1-16 to 1 1-8 inch
stnplp, big bolls, drouth resisting, and
picks well. Don’t take hut 1300 lbs.
seed cotton to get from 500 to 535 lbs
lint. For sale by, c4rtf
R. W. KNIGHT, Cooper.
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