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DELTA COURIER
THE DELTA COURIER
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Three *roc jet g Due
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Pecan Gap
_ , ^ , Kan* — io vs ietivrity
door scuth S. W. Cor, square |
HART BROS., Publishers I <’ TF> M
Sterling P. Hart Wren D. Hart With 23 pr lucera already, the i
in Hopkins I
PUBLISHED EACH TUESDAY
$1.00 Per Year i:i A (Ranee
Sulphur Bluff field
county wilj probably be the sceie
cf throe now oileng this week.
Latest completion is the Shell
Entened as second class matter
« the poatoffice at Cooper, Texas, wuiy^uvll «, lIIC OJ„.„
^ck r the act of Congress, March I oil Company No. 1 J. G. Reynolds
J Alex O. Wetmore survey, which
CXPrRATIONS The adoress la-■ was gua ■ id early last week at 72
Del on your paper shows the time ( barrels an hour.
to which your subscription is paid.
^Rium Jan. 36 means that your
subscription expires on the first
«1ay of January. 1936.
OBIT!'ARIKH, ETC. All obituar-
lea, resolutions of respect, card
of thanks and matter of like char
YCter will be charged for at tne
cate of 1-2 cent pei word.
Advertising rate made on ap-
plication.
By Mrs. C. A. Cockrell
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Former Pecan Gap Man Passes
\w:iv Wednesday
Robert L Slayton, age 43, of
the Lo?t Prairie community,
passed away at his home last
Wednesday with pneumonia. The
Roxton Waterworks
-To Sfaef
11 L,sDA\, MARCH 9, 1937 I TUEsdAY, MARCH 9, 1937
'Klondike
Poorly Nourished Women — +
They Just Can’t Hold Up ' ,
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i Are you petting 1 roper nourish'- ,
* 1 ment from your food, and rest! il I *
sleep? A poorly nourished body | *
And as for thi
liM. .I.IN-j-Terre
Mrs. Bobbie Wallace is
ing with influenza.
HOUSE VOTES
ADDED FUNDS
Rains and bad roads last we?k
interfered with drilling progress
in the fied, preventing the com-
pletion of thrpe tests.
Statue of operations in
field:
Dilw rth Hager No. 3. J. G. Rey-j enne. Wyoming, Ophelia, R. L
nolds, on a 200-acre tract in the I Jr., Audis and A1 Gene. The de-
Wetmore survey, ready to finish! ceased had lived in the Pecan Gap
after setting casing and cement-j precinct for many years previous
the special water distret which is' ---------- "su,,,ce 18 Suffer
sponsorng the system have re-
................ ,.1C ceived a fheck for §5,982 with Bunaay
funeral services were held at the1 vvhich to start work. Frank Wear,1 Jac]Cg0n
Methodist church here on Friday! ittorney for the project, said. The' w R M p .. . f
evenin’, being conducted by Rev.l rnone-v is from the Public Works 1 a few d *s
C. W. Shaw, pastor of the La-{ Administration, which has mada Miq„ .... .
donia Baptist church and the re- a" outright grant of $40,000 ^I'^L '
mains were laid to rest in thej^ to buy $90,000 in district j of the nu ^ "tZl
it. ,, her place as teacher
Formation of the special water! ,T .
district- «no v, . i Mis. Otis Jackson visited wi'li
tt.'toLT rrr5' v 1ew** M
■ “ ' 1fd'btedn“* b'caus<' Jackson Tuesdav. '
•n is not inonp >rated.
ROXTON, March 8. Construe-! *
am at Ro-' t in00 ;\U< rA°lk3 8yS j F°y ? Iurt visited in Fort Worth ] just can’t hold up-----------
, ... ' . 1 ' Lamar County, over the week end. ! run-down feeling, that nervous fa-
1 ''."in Monday. Officials of' mv« ___! tiguc,—don’t neglect it!
Cardui for lack of appetite, poor
p „ D . | digestion and nervous fatigue, has
c. R. Reed was a dinner guest been rec0mmended by mothers to
Sunday of .Mr. and Mrs. Otis, daughters — women to women —for
J over fifty years.
Trv it! Thousands of women testify
Cardui helped them. Of course, If It does i
not benefit YOU, consult a physician. |
DR. W. G. ELLINGTON
Pecan Gap cemetery,
j He is survived by his wife an 1
tb<?| the fallowing children: Aubrey
I Slayton, of Fort Warren, Chey-
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* Ellington-Ellington *
«• DENTIST* ^
* Office: Ur italrs ln First Natl. $
v C ■•It Bldg., S. W. Cor, Sq. 4
* COOPER, TEXAS +
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ing.
Empire Oil & Gas company
No, 3 J. E Worsham, 150-acre
tract in the Wetmoro survey,
ready to drill in.
to his move to Lost Prairie,
K. I». Swearingen Died At I.a-
donin Thursday Evening
R. D. Swearingen, age about 70,
n/\T\ Jones Drilling company No 81 ^°nla' die(1 suddenly last
FOR 1 Pierce' J' A' Graft survey drill-L™ Wlth heart
f v A ing around 3,500 feet. trouble. Mr. Swearingen had serv
Jones Drilling company No. 10
Enloe 4-H Club
Elects Oficers
Six-Cent Barrel Oil Tnv Fv nes DrUllng comPnny N<>- 30
. ,ax hx'i Pierce, operating below 4,200 feet
pecteo 10 Raise More | in sam° survey.
1 hail $15,000,000, | Walter Goldston No. 5 H J
- I Smith, J. A. Craft sarvey, rig- "“‘T ^ T, T'" °WeanJ
8.—Regarded j ging up. | ^ J and Pressin^ shoP ^
^ Ladonia. In this line of business
ed as a rural mail carrier for|
thirty years out of Ladonia, but)
had retired from service a year
or two ago He was the senior
member of the firm Swearingen
A meeting was called on Feb-
ruary 17 for the election of offi-
cers Lillie Mse Berry, president;
Betty Zoe Cregg, vice president; j “,,u *
Margaret Lou Wright, secretary- week.
■. treasurer, were the officers) Mrs W. H. Robnett and Urs.
elected. Dwight Sweat were shopping lr. I
The 4-H club girls met
Miss Valjean Jackson was aj
guest Monday night of her grand.!
mother, Mrs. Ada Nelson.
Mrs. W. A. Head is reported on 1
the sick list this week.
Paul Riley made a business ti’io',
to Sulphur Springs Tuesday.
Ileta, the lBMe daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. A. A. Ellis is sick this!
AUSTIN, Mfirch
one of the most important bills j
Jit' tVlic coooinv, 4 L , 1__1.. !
Wed-1 Cooper Tuesday.
nesda.y February 24 at the home’ Wesley Wallace went to Grand-
of Lillie Mae Berry
vieve Feagin, the
Miss Gene-j view Saturday where Mrs. Wal-
h°me demon-, lace and little daughter had been
Oil Towns Complain
Of Mail Service
at this session of the legislature,
the Redditt measure to give the
old age assistance board enough
funds to pension 125,000 applicants
was passed finally in the House to-
■day. It received more than 100
votes. It already had passed the
senate, where it was sponsored by
-Senator John S. Redditt, Lufkin.
While the bill simply gives the „ _______________ Jleie
*>oard all of the funds accruing to I there are one hundred new fami-|
stration agent being present. An j visiting their parents and grand-1
interesting demonstration was'parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. L Sib-i
he was a frequent visitor to Pecan! glve on 8'arden to»s and the; !ev They returned by thp 3fj'i
Gap and had built up a nice line bathlnS' center for the bedroom. Sherman and visited Mr and
en_l The next meeting will held onMrs. Alfred Shoffeit ■ *
March 10 in the club room. j Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Hudson, of!
SULPHUR BLUFF, March g.,
—Citizens of Sulphur Bluff and!
Talco are
of business here for his new
terprise.
Former Pecan Gap Girl Plays
Over Radio KPLT
Mrs. Charles Merrill, of Paris. *
Hi-Way Service Station
F?ct Dailas Ave.
GAS gallon
OIL 10c, l$c, SOc,
KEROSENE gallon . 7c
Groceries, Candy, Cigars,
Cigarettes and Tobacco
Come to see us. Your business appreciated.
Ask About Free Car Wasn.
Mr. and Mrs. Ollie Harris
bitterly complaining , ^nar,es Mern11'
about the road and mail service' Wh° W&S the former Miss France*
between the two towns. Accord-1 Morgan previous to 'ller marriage,
ing to information received here'1S n°W the new pianist over the
Paris radio station KPLT.
WPA Spends Huge
S u m In Lamar
It, it also^ removes the existing li- lies in Sulphur Bluff and one hurt- Tn comi«enting on Mrs. Mer-
mit of $700,000 a month. The|dred new boxes in the post office riU 8 1ualifications as a talented
board will have $150,000 addition-j thrrv. ' -------- ------ —
al monthly old age assistance un- ! While the towns a»*e only
<3er terms of the bill. seventeen miles apart, a letter
Members today, agreeing with I mailed in Talco on Monday does
Senator Redditt, declared that
■enactment of this measure made
It unnecessary now to pas3 new
musician, the Paris News of re-
cent date, published the follow-j went
facts facts: “The new pianist at- roads,
tended both Southwestern Univer-
not reach Sulphur Bluff until the sity at Georgetown and Southern
following Wednesday, while rt' Methodist University at Dallas,
the same time there are fourjfor her ^cation and took part
in many activities at
Jefferson, visited the first of the;
. week with their mother, Mrs. W. |
J* Hudson and other relatives
here.
Mrs. Lon Stoker was carried to]
the Reed Memorial Hospital inj
Cooper Monday for treatment. j
Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Kyle, of
Paris visited here Monday. j
veys, etc. Most of this money! MrS' Jlm McGee is a flu pa-|
V tient this week.
$XX\\WAW\N\\\\mmVA\3kMi
PARIS, March 8.—WPA has
spent $663,432.23 in Lamar Coun-
ty from November 15, 1935 to
March 1, 1937. This includes road
projects, sewing rooms, tax sur-
“Say it with Flowers”
tax burdens in behalf of the pen-, buses daily between the twoj
»ion. since the bill, on its way to j points, and the mail could be de-
Govemor Allred, provided suffi-1 livered in one hour if the nos1
I*? ^ Cf,'“ >** • -tar route
“The Governor said it is neces-1 delivery permit to the bus line
sary to raise only $1,600,000 a J which is now in operation.
year for old age assistance." Red-I ...................... vaumn. Mie also
<htt explained, “and this bill will! Auto License Fee Tnf I P'ayed for the ^adonia church for
give the board much more than p. r ee ^Ut two yearg
that amount. As far as new taxes Doomed For Session
for pension? are concerned, they
those two
institutions.
After leaving these she became
principal of the Pecan Gap
High School for four years and
acted as pianist there for the
First Methodist church. She also
are not now needed.’’
The measure, as passed in the
“The daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
H. A. Morgan, of Pecan Gap, 3he
for the construction of
The county’s share of
these projects amounted to $92.-
468 or 12 per cent of the total
spent.
There has been 110.9 miles of
road base placed up to March 1,
1937.
Weldon Cummlng was a Pari3
visitor Sunday.
Miss Virginia Young
Paris visitor Saturday.
was a
'AUSTIN, March 8,-Automobile1 , " GaP' ^
owners need expert no reduction, gha""F' ^ “T7'
• in fv.ni- 11______ .... I bnaw, of Pans, the Southern
Earl B. Dunning and C. A.
Craven visited in Paris Sunday.
Mrs. Bob Horton was a Cooper 1
visitor Tuesday.
Mrs. Joe Harris, of Brushy
Mound, is at the bedside of her
father, W. E. McGee who is very
ill.
Mrs. Floyd Gough is suffering
with a throat infection this week.
Mrs. A. V. McCaleb was in
Cooper Tuesday.
Flowers for all occa-
sions » Funeral sprays \
and designs » Plants
and shrubs.
Leslie Smith has resigned his
postion in the First National
Bank and left last week for Kil-
gore where he has accepted a pos-
ition with an insurance firm.
MRS. W. D. HART
House today, .satisfies those favor' j in their ]icense at this session! Methodist ^ f ^
taff liberalized pensions meets of the Legislature. ' th dlSt University school <>,, is a patient at Reed Memorial
of the Legislature. , ,
Governor’s requirements andYa'i-l To the House, the Committee on and H0^-
isfier those ••eying f. : more taxes Hlghway" ...... Motor Traffic Fri- of st ltl ... : . I - nca' e Greames,
for pensions, it was declared. day rep3rted unfavorably Rep.re-; „ AA‘ Da,las- j Mrs- Giltner, mother
" I < c-,f-f!... w.'——..... . I “Other miscellaneous organlza-1 Chas. Wright, who has
Telephone 83 or 86
When the bill
Home today it.
was
was before
' v as
| ? ontative Sharpe’s bill to cut the
of Mrs.
organiza-j Chas. Wright, who has been ill!
Bong and activities in which Mrs. with influenza is improving. I
spons red by Ilicena® " " The vote was by , activiti“s :n which Mrs.
■apresentative Clarence Farme- 1 maIorlty suffloJent to prevent any1 “emu taken part include j
Fort Worth, who has been strong. attompt to revive the bill on min-' Pian° accompaaist and in orches-j Mrs. M. J. Thomas left Monday)
Ixr --- t. . ' ronr\*-4 I tT3, for 19th nrodlintirtri r»f ' for T-T.ot finrlno-c A rlr 1_____ i
SO LET
tx* ■ "
ED SO LOW
ly in favor of both taxes and lib-
eralization, while Redditt, ever
aince thi- sos<:on met, has assert
ority report. j tra for 19th production of “Pow-'for Hot Springs, A,rk. to visit h’r
Sharpe had proposed that at J d6r and Patches” revue at S. M.j mother and brothers.
.... „.„t> 1IBB itS3erl. the -first registration the fee be‘U’ Women’s Athletic Association! ----
ed no more taxes arc needed $5; when the car was two years! &t S' M' U' a"d Southern Literary Mrs. J. T. Morgan who
There was almost no discussion inj °ld’ lfc wou,d be cut to $4; and! C,ub at Ladonia” ! been ill for
the House. thereafter, the fee would be $3.
$7.500,990 From Oil Tax
has |
im-
several days
Mrs. Flora Houchin is visiting, proved. I
friends in Dallas this week. j___!
: ......(on'P.ri. GolWe May ........ “
Uet INeW Building; Mrf Morris Moody is on the j being ill with influenza for two'
today, the 6-eent barrel oil tax
passed a few days ago by the
House, gives the pension fund $7,-
500 000, while other bilb on
i sick list.
Prospect"' Morris White and R. W.
Bris-
a I coe were transacting business in
^ PARIS, March 8.—n
calendar would raise several times I *" ^ ^ ereCU°n °f - ----------
this sum. The oil tax increase . | new buildinF for Paris Junior CoL.1 Foi't Worth Thursday.
good for $15,000,000 but allocate I accordin* to President J. R.| Mrs. P. B. Byars, Mrs
diiuuu. iicLeraore. who rwonti,, ’
weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Haddock.!
^ Mrs. H. B. Blackwell, and Mrs. S. j
I » — «.v a. xv.j -• — Byars, Mrs. H. T.■ T. Townsend visited in Paris Sun-
j McLemore, who recently confer- Shipman and Miss Dorothy Cheek! day,
red with WPA nffip^nlo rolafb-« 4-y-. i WPfP cVinnninrr wjj___ I
$4,000,000 to the general revenue 1 VV1IU recenuy confer- ompmaii ana miss Dorothy Ch
Other tax bills will come before ^ WPA °fficla,a rela«'*e toj were shopping in Paris Friday.
the House next week, and Renre-
sentative Herman Janes, Decatur,
obtaining funds for the erection^ B- P. Wooten and family have] Mrs. Samuel Skinner who has
of a $150,000 building here. The, moved to Ladonia. been under medical treatment at
is to try once more Monday Pf";s Scho°1 B=ard gently voted, W. W. Roderick and family Janes Clinic and Hospital was able
m favor of such a plan and indi-i who moved to Sherman several to leave the hospital Monday,
rated the money the board would, weeks ago, have moved back to,—------
have to supply is available.
brinr up his measure to place a 5
per cent tax on corporation pro-
fits, no matter whether they are________
large or small business firms. | more money and additional taxes. v Martha J’ Sandlin who.
d yield $20,000,000 to''»iis was made plain when the! ^ ^®n critlcally 111 for some!
House educational committee last ' 18 considerably batter at this)
night heard the bill to jump the' 1 mC‘ '
Pecan Gap.
Mrs. Martha
This vould yield $20,000,000
$25,000,000 yearly, far beyond
tb amount suggested by Allred,
although he did indorse the Jones
bill in a message.
Then Representative H.
Graves, Georgetown, will try
bring up Monday his bill to
crease the sulphur tax 100
rural aid appropriation to $15,000,.
000 for the biennium. This is an
increase of $5,000,000. The per
capita apportionment for schools is
now $19, where a few years ago it
Rev. C. W. Dennis, who has
been quite ill is able to be up and
will fill his regular appointment
at the Methodist church Sunday.!
C. A. Cockrol)
INSURANCE
NOTARY PUBLIC
PECAN GAP — TEXAS
cent, from $1.03 a ton to $2 Oppo-
nents of the increase in the Legis-
lature say that Texas has just
about lost its sulphur industry and
payrolls due to exploitation and
imports of sulphur in other States
and countries.
No Rush in Committee
All of these bills will come be-
fore the Senate State Affairs
Committee, which Will D. Pace,
per) was $15, and since there are 1,-
600,000 students in Texas public
schools an increase of $4 per
student runs into the millions.
North and East Texas
Association To Meet
r- -T -raw bn'
to^a subcommitte to work out. J win meet here May 14 and 15, of-
" committee today has ficers of the association have an-
reduced this amount to $5,000,000| nounced Charles Devall of Mt.
Vernon is president and Fred I.
Massengill of Terrell is secretary-
treasurer.
a year. Seven yeara ago when the
rural school appropriation was
made $2,500,000 a year, it was re-
garded as a big Increase. The
Tyler, is chairman, and he and) amount now sought is an increase
his colleagues say there will be' of 300 per cent,
anything but a rush to hear andi -—_
pass out these bills in committee. | Wylie France transacted buai-1 accompaniedTer “daughter "toe
Checks
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and
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Mrs. O. H. Roberson, of Sher-
man, visited her mother, Mrs. W.
N. Rogers, Saturday. Mrs. Rogers
I - ------- i «*v,winptmieci ner da
Meantime, echool interest* want!nesa in Sulphur Springs Friday, for a month’® visit.
Dr. W. C. Walls
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* Second Floor, First National
♦ Bank Building
* Office Hours: 8 to 12 a. m.
♦ COOPER, TEXAS
^ and 1 to 5 p. m.
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::r.uPa.SK>T_
SIXTH IN ST A LL.Y1E N T
SYNOPSIS; Ellen Mackay, on her
way from school at Winnipeg, to
join her father at Fort Edson,
mi'Ses the boat by which she was
to travel. Hearing that another
boat is to start north in the
morning, Ellen goes to the owner,
Joh. Berham, and begs him to
jn her a passage To hei sur-
he flatly refuses,
PRngry and puuled, Ellen tolli
Pac McClatchney, a kindly old
storekeeper of her difficulty, and l Crusader
Pat with the help of one of Ben-
ham’s crew, succeeds in getting
Ellen on board as a stowaway.
When the vessel is well under
way Ellen emerges from her hid
ing place and faces John Benham,
who now cannot help taking her
with him.
During the voyage Ellen begins
to be strongly attracted by John.
But when she reaches Fort Edson
she finds her father broken, ill
and disgraced, and learns that his
trouble., are due to one man —
John Benham.
Instantly Ellen resolves that
she will fight for her father. She
will reinstate him with the Hud-
son Bay Company, his employers,
and will show up John Benham
fro what he really is.
seen them, a
left to them,
will be with
Benham. I h<
cent babies £
to die of fani
ter, will haun
You-you—bh,
erous dog!’’
Ellen w’as
trembling win
rade of accus
flamed with 1
Bet
face white, ti
jaws bulging
Ellen spoke
scorn.
“You—you
brutalize and
blood-brothers
“Stop!” Thi
Benham in a
muscles of hii
writhe, and it
s mething wh
unconsciously
For a tract
thought he w;
her. Then, i
quiet. His faci
grew cold. A,
broke flom h
A tremendous, smoldering rage
grew in her heart against the
man responsible for all this. Gone
were all her earlier memories,!
submerged completely in the!
tawdry horror of what she had [
seen. Over and over to herself did
she vow implacable vengence.
And by this time she had virtual-
ly forgotten her ow*i dilemma.
Her thoughts were only for those
helpless, apathetic children, be-
wildered, dumbly protesting,
doomed to slow, terrible death in
the winter. And then, at noon on-'
day, she came upon a camp of
Cree.g on the border of Mink Lake.
Even as the prow of the canoe
.dithered upon the shingle beach!
before the camp she sensed the
undercurrent of excitement with
I’hieh the camp was being sway-
ed. There was a jumble of move-
ment about the tepees, the shrill
yammering of squaws, the wail-
ing of children, and the hoarse,
m
mi
11 turned away, ,
his arm sent t
hurtling again
guttural exclamations of the men. ■ nearbY spruce,
Not far from where Ellen landed
there was a. York boat, piled high
with cargo, pulled upon the shore, i
Her senses stirring w’ith aj
strange trepidition, Ellen made,
straight for the center of the (
camp. In an opening among the1
tepees she came upon a strange)
| to a thousand
running flown
the tree in an
Without a l
strode off, an
carried away
and anger. Fo
innings. He ha
scene. A knot of Indians were ’ er to tbe ver8f
swaying back and forth in fierce1 was determine
strugggle, and in the center of
them loomed the tall figure of—
John Benham!
For a moment, things seemed
to whirl about Ellen. Then she
steadied, calmed by a cold, trium-
phant satisfaction. At last she
pushed closer to the center of the
conflict. She saw John Benham
lash out with one fist and drive a
short, powerfully built buck to
the ground. Others closed in, but
Benham beat them back with
short, driving blows, knocking
many of the maddened bucks
senseless to the ground. Finallv
the ring about him broke. He
know what hei
bution would t
in advance tha
was over the
gina would bo
She followed
pee, then halte
old squaw had
and was facinj
was gnarled ar
shrunken old c:
“Thank you,’
saying. “The
bless you, my
Benham patl
one bowed, ,<
“It is nothing,
leaned over and swept something
from the earth before him. When
he straightened up again Ellen
could see what he held. It was a
full, unopened bottle of whiskey.
Hardly realizing what she was
doing, Ellen forced her way
thrqpgh the jam and bedlam un-
til she faced him, where she drew
herself up proudly and looked the
cstontshed free trader in the eye.
“You!” he gasped. “Ellen—MiSg
Mackay.”
"Yes,” she answered, her voice
kdripping with cold contempt. “It
is I—you—you—- contemptible
hound! I’ve been followin'- evi-
dences of your—your daring ac-
tivities for nearly a month now,
and at last I see you in all your
disgusting glory.” She pointed at
the bottle he held. “What was the
matter Wouldn’t these poor un-
fortunates pay you enough in
furs for that poison?”
For a moment Benham looked
at her incredulously. “This,” he
muttered, almost stupidly. "This?
Do you mean to say you think I
have been trading whiskey to the
Indians?”
*T don’t think—I know. I have
been in a dozen-camp* and I have
slowly “And t
for this shall a
Then, before
him again, he
the forest.
Ellen went s
canoe, where 1
emotionless an
the triumph s
would be hers
stale and ta:
weary, weary i
words kept rin
"Son,” the squ;
And "mother”
And now a
wheih she c
haunted her m
had fought wit
take the whisk
then he had cr
pieces against
this last could
a gesture to t
why should the
■hanked him?
had she calk
Three days
I'esched the ea
below Fort Edi
was there, a st
official insignia
Ellen paid scat
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The Delta Courier (Cooper, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 10, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 9, 1937, newspaper, March 9, 1937; Cooper, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth983660/m1/2/?rotate=90: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Delta County Public Library.