The Trinity Times (Trinity, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, November 25, 1927 Page: 3 of 20
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ATTORNEYS - AT - L A W
TRINITY TEXAS
Gives Interesting
History Of Trinity
Aiming the first businessmen in
Trinity was \Y. A Bell, who has
not yet deserted the town. He
recalls many incidents reminiscent
of early days in Trinity, which he
herewith gives in connection with
certain phases of his business career.
“1 came here from Houston 381
years ago and embarked in the drug
business. The stock was practical-
ly 1 ought on credit, #127 being the
extent of my capital.
“There were only two general
stores here at that time, one dry
goods store and five saloons. There
was oidy one brick building in
town.
“As 1 now recall the most inter-
esting part of the life of the old
town citizens for the first fifteen
years 1 was here, was the business
of getting rid of those five saloons.
The contest was so close between
the antis and pros that friends of
the prohibition cause found that
they would have to raise up more
children and teach them the art of
voting the prohibition ticket be-
fore we could get rid of those* sa-
loons. Finally it was decided to
try the sub-division plan. First the
question was voted on in the school
district, next the justice! of the peace
district ami finally aleout the year
1907 or 1908, prohibition earned
throughout the* country.
“The moral status of the town
was bad, but not as bad as other
districts of the county and adjacent
territory, l>e*e*ause* the influence of
half a dozen or more good men in
Trinity tended to check the lawless
element in this iinediate locality,
among some e»f the most prominent
b«*ing S. E. Barnes,' Hcv. Jesse Lee,
Presiding Elder of the Huntsville
district, Rev. Y. A. Oodby, now
Presiding Elder of the Marshall
district; Hon, Jno. B. Peyton, W.
H. Maner and \V. A. Bell,
“The town has suffered one com-
plete conflagration, Feb. 22, 1909,
and one disastrous fire, for the
reason that in those days the town
was wit hout water works, and when
a fire got started there was no
means whatever of checking the
flames.
“In 1889 the Bell Telephone
Company built a line from Pal-
estine to Houston, and put in my
drug store the first telephone
the people of this section ever saw,
1 now recall with a great deal of
amusement how some of my old
customers would come in and in-
spect the telephone. After looking
it over they would express the belief
that it wouldn’t work. In those
days not more than ten or fifteen
calls per month would be put in.
“About tin* year 1903 1 built the
first telephone exchange in Trinity
that was in this part of East Texas,
beginning with 17 subscribers. 1
sold the exchange in 1927 and it
had more than 400 subscribers.
“In 1895 I began writing fire
insurance, representing Trezevant
& Cochran, which firm I still rep-
resent. And the most remarkable
feature of this situation, to my
mind, is that last year Trezevant A
Cochran celebrated their golden
anniversary, which 1 was privileged
to enjoy, after representing them
33 years. Both of these good men
are still living, and Mr. Cochran is
one of the most active men in
Masonry in the United States.
“In 1911 the town of Trinity was
incorporated under the village act,
(1. M. Waller lieing elected mayor,
W. A. Bell, E. I). Trow, (l<*o. Wood
Jno. B. Peyton and one other
whose name 1 do not recall, was the
first lioard of officers.
“The incorporation was formed
to better police the community and
provide waterworks, sewerage ami
other facilities that a community
must have to grow; and it has in-
deed been very gratifying to me to
see the substantial growth each
year since these improvements were
first installed."
Trip Expected to Add
to World’• Knowledge
;A geological summer school on
wheels, housed in a specially con-
structed sleeping, dining and lec-
ture pullman car, will roll this year
from the Atlantic to the Pacific
over Canada's great mineral empire.
The trip, extending from July 15
to August 25, will be under the aus-
pices of Princeton university and
under the direction of Prof. Rich-
ard M. Field. As foreign guests,
two eminent foreign geologists,
Prof. Leon W. Collet, of the Uni-
versity of Geneva, and Dr. E. B.
Bailey, of the Scottish geological
survey, will accompany the party of
23, which will include professors
and practicing geologists as well as
undergraduates and graduate stu-
dents. Bv living and traveling in
the special car, a new mine or geo-
logical site can be visited nearly
every day. The Canadian geological
survey will co-operate in the in-
struction. I^ast year a similar trip
was made across the United States
and the combination of lectures
while enroute and field experiences
was proved to be an efficient meth-
od of instruction. Rocks laid down
in past ages, from 100.000,000 to
1,000,000,000 years ago, will be
seen at various points along the
route. The deposits where the
bones of gigantic dinosaurs are
found, oil wells, copper and nickel
mines and large industrial develop-
ments will be visited.
North Africa Anxious
Over Lake's Reception
North Africa is anxiously won-
dering whether Lake ( had iu the
French Sudan is soon to disappear.
The body of water, which, being fed
by various tributaries, upon whose
volume its size has dejiended. has
covered sometimes as much as 20,-
000 square miles at high water time,
is diminishing below its usual pro-
portions during drought, when its
bed has measured only some 4,200
square miles.
The lake has never been known
to have a permanent outlet and Col-
onel Tilho, who is devoting his lifa
to African matters, warns that it
now threatens to empty its entire
waters into the River Niger. Such
an eventuality is very much feared
in technical and colonial circles, as
it would mean sterility for the rich
lake delta with an area of 120,000
square miles.
This land is unexcelled for fertil-
ity and. besides being the home of
countless flocks of fowl, is culti-
vated with cotton, sorghum, rice,
wheat, sugar cane and tobacco. The
drying up of the lake basin, with its
resultant effect on the productivity
of the delta, would be calamitous.
Censor Victim Takes
Slap at His Critics
“Censors,” said Gilbert Miller,
the censor-ridden, in the course of
an argument about the New York
stage—“censors always misunder-
stand, and it’s always a vulgar mis-
understanding, too.
“Censors are like the beautiful
Brooklyn girl who got a job in the
fruit department of a fashionable
New York’grocery. During her first
morning’s work an aged millionaire
philanthropist descended from his
magnificent limousine, entered the
fruit department, and said to the
girl with a fatherly smile:
“‘How do you do? Do you keep
dates ?’
“The beautiful creature blushed
as red as a rose; then she drew her-
self up to her full height and an-
swered coldly:
“ ‘Yes, I keep ’em all right, all
right, but I don't make ’em with old
octogenarian dodos like you, see?’*’
—Detroit Free Press.
Grasshopper Part of
Regular Indian Menu
About seventy years ago my
grandfather was agent for the Paw-
i nee Indians on their reservation in
what is now western Nebraska. I
have often heard my father, who
was then a boy, tell of those Indians
eating-grasshoppers and the inter-
| esting way in which they caught
I them. They would dig a deep hole
j in the ground and then, choosing a
j time wht •> there was no wind and
I when a fire would burn on the
• prairie slowly and could he kept un-
l der control, they would encircle sev-
l eral acres around this hole with a
^ ring of fire and drive the hoppers
I into the hole and capture them bv
i the bushel. They were then dried
and ground into meal to be mixed
j with their corniiieal and made into
| bread.—A. L. Gillis, in the Path-
finder Magazine.
Locating Ore Bodies
There are two main groups of
electrical methods of locating ore
bodies. The potential involves send-
ing an electric current through the
ground and tracing the current
lines. Ore bodies offer less resist-
ance than rock and soil and at-
tract the current, producing easily
detected disturbances. In the elec-
tro-magnetic method, an electro-
magnetic field is established and
anomalies caused by ore bodies are
examined. A third method, as yet
barely suggested, involves the use
of the radio or wireless.
Fear for British Oaks
Britain's most noble tree—the
i oak—is being rapidly depleted by s
mysterious epidemic, which ” en-
gaging the attention ol research
workers on the forest commission.
Mildew, together with the rover
moth, is responsible for the disease,
| which has spread over the southern
j counties of England. The only oaks
i being grown to replenish the na-
! tional supply are those planted by
the forestry commission.
Killers Must Pay Heirs
Sentenced by a lower court to
death for a double assassination, Eu-
genio Cartagena and Vicente Bande,
who have been awaiting their fate
in a jail at Leyte, Philippine is-
lands, have had their sentence put
on a cash basis. The Supreme
court of the Philippines has ruled
that the two shall serve life impris-
onment, providing that it does not
exceed 40 years, and they are to
indemnify the heirs of Tan Yuking
and Sov Tng, their victims.
Resourceful Fire Chief
Fire Chief Henry A. Whitney, of
Brattleboro, Yt., commandeered the
buckets in a maple orchard and a
brigade of firemen and others ob-
tained water from a deep ravine in
quantity sufficient to supply a mo-
tor fire pump and save the burning
house occupied by Cyrus Andrews
and family. The house is remote
from the hydrant system and the
brook in the ravine could not be
reached bv the suction hose.
Records Kept by Pupils
Four thousand eight hundred
copies of a farm account book pre-
pared and distributed by the Uni-
versity of Wisconsin were used, un-
der supervision of teachers, by
pupils in seventh and eighth grades
of rural schools and in Smith-
Hughes high schools for keeping
records of their home farms, says
the United States Department of
the Interior bulletin.
English See War Dances
American Indian war dances
marked the first official reception
to the group of Rhodes scholars
who entered Oxford last fall. The
dances were given in costume to
tom-tom accompaniment by Karl
Young, Rhodes scholar from Utah,
who had spent much time among
Indians during the time he attended
the Utah Agricultural college.
Distinguished for Height
The highest building is the Wool-
worth in New York city, height 792
I feet. The highest Egyptian pvra-
| mid is the Cheops, height 450 feet,
j The spire of Salisbury cathedral has
a height of 404 feet. The cross on
the dome of St. Haul's cathedral,
Ixjndon. is 305 feet above the street
lay el.
Powerful Searchlight
A fwo-billion candle power
searchlight, the largest in the world,
was shown at the Electrical Indus-
trial exposition in New York city
recently. It is said that a man 40
miles away could see to read by it
and that those operating it can
dearly discern objects at a distance
of five or six miles.
Cosmopolitan University
The University of Hawaii is a
cosmopolitan institution. Its 728
students represent 43 of the United
States, Japan. Korea. China. India,
Guam, the Philippines. Mexico and
France. Caucasian students com-
prise 41 per cent of the enrollment,
Japanese 28 per cent, Chinese 14
per cent and Hawaiian 12 per cent.
Playground on Prison Site
Lyttleton prison, Christchurch,
N. Z., that has housed thousands of
criminals, is being torn down and
the site will probably be converted 1
into a playground for children. The
maasive walls now are being leveled
and plans for the recreation park
satm trill be started.
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The Best of Cars
Winter months are hard months on cars and even the best
of them will develop balky, little ailments.
One guarantee against licing caught on the road at such times is to
have your car gone over thoroughly, by expert mechanics, at change
of season.
Our mechanics are experienced workmen. Bring in your ear and
let us tune it up for winter driving. You can have it again in a few
hours—and you will lx* agreeably surprised at the new pep it will
have.
Plenty of grease and oil, changed regularly, will prolong the life of
your ear. Let, us attend you today.
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