Cooper Review (Cooper, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, January 17, 1941 Page: 1 of 8
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The Past Sixty-One Year*
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COOPER. DELTA COUNTY. TEXAS FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1941
VOLUME 62, NO. 3
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Are Elected
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Officers anil directors of the
J^nhree banks
* Imost the same
Delta county are
as last year as
elections were held Tuesday to
name the officials for the ensuing
year. Officers and directors re-
mained the same in the Delta Na-
tional Bank and the Enloe State
Bank while the name of John D.
Garrard was dropped from the list
of directors of the First National
Bank due to his death some
months ago.
The First National Bank paid
its semi-annual dividend on Dec.
31, paying 6 per cent while the
Delta National Bank also paid its
semi-annual dividend at 8 per
cent.
Following are the names of the
officials and directors of the three
banks:
The Delta National Bank: J. R.
Watkins, president; Joel H. Berry,
chairman of the board; M. W.
Smith, vice president; Ed L. Adair,
vice president; Quentin Miller,
vice president; D. D. Dunn, cash-
ier; C. E. Adams, assistant cash-
ier; M. W. Smith, J. W. Good, Ed
L. Adair, Quentin Miller, Joel H.
Berry, and J.
tors.
The First National Bank: L. F.
Hooten, president; T. B. Good,
vice president; W. I. Bartley,
cashier; L. L. Allard, assistant
cashier; L. F. Hooten, T. B. Good,
W. I. Bartley, J. H. McKinney,
and E. F. Smith, directors.
The Enloe State Bank: M. W.
Kmith, president; B. B. Viles, vice
fl^sident; C. E. Cregg, cashier;
^Rilph Moore, assistant cashier; M.
W. Smith, B. B. Viles, C. E. Cregg,
J. W. Russell, and M. F. Young,
directors.
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ENGLAND . " . This British Destroyer has just
located a U-Boat. A depth bomb, hurled over the
stern, sends a geyser of water skyward as the lean
warship starts a systematic pattern over the surface
to bracket the underseas craft. Berlin claims her
U-Boats are taking a terrific toll In British shipping
and this la admitted, In part, by London. However,
the toll on the U-Bcat fleet Is exceedingly^ high.
County’s Part
In Defense
Is Discussed
Airs. W. W. Kelley Is
ifuried At Horton
Cemetery Saturday
Gus M. Thomasson, WPA dis-
trict manager, spoke to city,
county, school and other sponsor-
ing officials of Delta county at 2
p. m. in the 10OF hall on ways
and means of developing plans
for national defense through the
Work Projects Administration.
The conference is one of a ser-
R. Watkins, direc-I jes ^at ]vir. Thomasson is holding
in all of the counties in his dis-
trict and will determine largely
the program in each county dur-
ing the coming period.
Mr. Thomasson spoke on “The
Defense Program as It Relates to
(1) Certified Projects, (2) Non-
certified Projects, (3) Normal
Operations.” Frank L. Patillo,
district employment officer spoke
on “The Labor Supply” and J.
Dwight Morgan discussed “Con-
struction Projects and Available
Funds.” Mrs. Evelyn Nash Mc-
Kinney. district director of pro-
fessional and service projects,
spoke on “The Home Defense
Program.”
Rehoboth Group
To Meet Here
Sunday Afternoon
COMMERCE, Jan. 14.—Funer-
al services were held Saturday
afternoon at 2 o’clock for Mrs.
W. W. Kelley, 58, of Horton who The Rehoboth Association Sun-
died at her home there Friday (jay School meeting will be held
night at 9 o’clock. Sunday at the First Baptist
Born in 1883 in Alabama, Mrs. Church here at 2:30. On pro-
Kelley, nee Hall, moved to Texas [gram will be Rev. M. E. McGlam-
in 1879 and located at Wolfe City, I oryj speaking on “Using the Sun-
where she married W. W. Kelley | day School to Magnify the
Sheffield of
Paris Presbytery
Holds One Day
Meeting Here
The Cooper Presbyterian
Church was host to the quarterly
meeting of the Paris Presbytery
here Wednesday with the Rev.
Edgar ,H. Graham of Honey Grove
being the chief speaker. Rev.
Graham spoke at 11 o’clock fol-
lowed byj a luncheon at Hotel
Cooper.
Sherman was selected as the
place of the spring meeting of
the Presbytery by the 30 pastors
and laymen present. Following
are the persons registering for the
day’s meeting:
Rev. Charles W. Ester, Whites-
boro; Rev. Guy Perdue, Whites-
boro, E. T, Gordon, Whitesboro;
Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Williams, Dial;
Rev. Geo. W. Fender, Arlington;
Rev. Charles L. Dickey, Paris,
Gaither Dunagan, Paris; Earl Mc-
Clure, Bonham; Rev. Bomaz,
Sherman; W. B. Fuller, Deport;
H. E. Fuller, Ladonia; P. C.
Cooper, Sherman; Rev
Stowers, Ladonia.
Rev. Thomas Wilbanks, Tex-
arkana; Rev. E. H. Graham, Bon-
ham; S. S. Hardin, Texarkana;
Rev. B. Wrenn Webb, White-
wright; S. T. Montgomery, White-
wright; Rev. J. C. Weaver, Leo-
nard, Dr. R. E. Joiner, Athens;
Rev. E. P. Smith, Jefferson, Z. F.
Johnson, Jefferson; Rev. James
E. Spivy, Denison; G. A. Winn,
Clarksville; Rev. George Ray
Hodges, Denison; and Rev. A. F.
Wood, Denison.
Comforts To
Be Made By
Delta Families
As a supplement to the Depart-
ment of Agriculture’s 1941 cot-
ton mattress demonstration pro-
gram, cotton comforts will be
made by the low income rural
farm families in Delta county.
Materials, consisting of ten
yards of printed percale and four
pounds of cotton per comfort,
will be furnished by the Surplus
Marketing Administration. The
labor and expense of sewing
thread, tacking thread, needles, j guard;
Four Cooper Bulldogs were
named on the first string of the
18-A all district team recently
selected by the coaches of the
three schools, Commerce, Honey
Grove, and Cooper. Emory and
Lone Oak declined to make se-
lections of all-opponent teams
which was the method of making
the selections.
Cletis Sanders, tackle, Tommie
Joe Wheeler, center, Joe Kitchen
nnH F.Iuood Robertson, backs,
were the players named. Sand-
ers and Wheeler each received
three votes while Kitchn and
Robertson each received two
votes.
The teams as selected: j
1st team: Moody, Emory; Gil-
bert, Commerce; ends; Sanders,
Cooper; Presswood, Commerce;
tackles; Cowan, Commerce; Paint-
er, Commerce; guards; Wheeler,
Cooper, center; Brookshire, Com-
merce; O’Rear, Emory; Robert-
son, Cooper; Kitchen, Cooper,
backs.
2nd team: Clark, Honey Grove;
McClendon, Commerce, ends;
Bickncll, Leonard; Dawson, Hon-
ey Grove; tackles; Clark, Honey
Grove; Siebienthall, Honey Grove;
guards; Meade, Honey Grove,
Butler, Leonard; Wilson,
Convictions In 16
Cases Obtained In
Court This Week
and other supplies, as well as I Honey Grove; Hanson, Honey
paying the center supervisor, will'Grove; Alexander, Commerce;
be furnished by the families who | backs.
make the comforts. The fee for J --
in 1903. To this union was born
ten children. She had been; a
member of the Baptist Church
for eighteen years at the time of
her death.
Last rites for Mrs. Kelley were
held in the Union Church at Hor-
ton with the Rev. Nello Gillmore
officiating. Burial was ini Hor-
ton cemetery. Pallbearers were
W. E. Earwood, Nolen Brook-
shire, A. D. Clark, Milton Frazier,
Thomas Wright, and Marvin Wil-
son.
Sheely Funeral Home had
charge of all1 arrangements.
Survivors include the deceased’s
husband, W. W. Kelley, six
daughters, Mrs. T. M. Wright,
Mrs. W. E. Earwood, Mrs. A. D.
Clark, Mra Nolen Brookshire*
and Mrs. Marvin Wilson; and
four sons, James E. Kelley, Leon
Kelley, Dearwood Kelley, and Ed-
ward Kelley.
Conveys Property
T.AiO*oper For
Jervv Lake Site
Judge Newman Phillips has this
week delivered to the City of
Cooper a deed conveying to the
City enough of his Cedar nollow
property cast of the crity lake to
meet the needs of the city for the
enlargement of the city lake and
thereby enable the city to p-'--
vide a permanent and abundant
water supply for the city.
Judge Phillips made a gift of
this property to the city for the
purpose of providing an adequate
water supply to the people cf the
town.
Mrs. Lucile Van Scoy has been
Church”, John M.
Sulphur Springs speaking on “Or-
ganization and Visitation in Reach-
ing Adults and Young People.”
Miss Eula Potter will speak on
“Reaching and Teaching” in the
final talk of the day.
Father Of Former
Citizen Succumbs
Friends in Cooper have been
advised of the serious illness of
Mrs. J. D. Jordan of Commerce.
Her daughter, Mrs. W. I. Bartley,
Jr., of Dallas, a registered nurse,
is attending her*
Word was received Thursday
morning that the father of H. S.
Slatton of Clarksville passed away
at his home in Ciscio. No parti-
culars Were known as to the fu-
neral arrangements.
Mr. Slatton lived in Cooper for
almost a year and was funeral di-
rector of the Delta Funeral Home.
He is holding a similar position
in Clarksville at the present time.
this expense will be 25 cents per
comfort.
Under the regulation^, comforts
must /be made in the qommunity
centers set up as in mattress pro-
gram. There will be separate
Lloyd days for working on comforts and
on mattresses, however. ing practically every Methodist
To be eligible for a cotton com- Church in the Sulphur Springs
fort, the family must first make district, attended the Missionary
and receive a cotton mattress be- Institute at the First Methodist
fore it can obtain materials for Church in Commerce Wednesday,
making a comfort. One comfort The session, which convened at
will be made for each mattress. jlO in the morning to last until 3
Each family participating in the j o’clock Wednesday afternoon,
mattress program is eligible to re- heard the following persons in
ceive the material necessary (10 (ten minute talks: Rev. Joseph M,
yards of percale and 4 pounds of | Connully, pastor of the Commerce
cotton) to make one comforter First Methodist Church; Claude
for each mattress which it has
made and received under the mat-
tress program. The application
filed by a family in connection
with the mattress program will
serve as an application under the
comfort program, but it will be
necessary for each applicant to
make a written statement indicat-
ing that the family desires mater-
ial for making comforter. This
statement can be made at the
Basketball Teams
Get Underway In
Championship Go
The Cooper Bulldogs climbed
the first rung to the county bas-
ketball championship ss they won
the first game of the round robin
scries from East Delta High
School at the Klondike gymnasium
January 9.
The round robin playoff is
made up of 10 playing dates with
the three teams playing eight
games, two playing seven games
by drawing byes on three of the
nights. The games will be play-
ed in the four gymnasiums of the
county, Pecan Gap, East Delta,
Klondike, and Cooper High
Schools. Cooper and Pecan Gap
have to play seven games and
Klondike, Enloe, and East Delta
teams have to play eight games.
Following is the schedule for
the rest of the season: Jan. 16 at
Pecan Gap: Enloe vs. Cooper,
East Delta vs. Pecan Gap. Jan.
21 at Cooper: East Delta vs. Klon-
dike, Cooper vs. Pecian Gap. Jan.
23 at Klondike: Enloe vs. Pecan
Gap, Klondike vs. Cooper. Jan.
28 at East Delta: Cooper vs. East
Delta, Klondike vs. Enloe. Jan.
30 at Pecan Gap: Klondike vs.
Pecan Gap, Enloe vs. East Delta.
Feb. 4 at East Delta: Enloe vs.
Cooper, East Delta vs. Pecan Gap.
COMMERCE, Jan. 16.—Ap- Feb. 6 at Klondike: East Delta vs.
proximatcly 175 people, represent-1 Klondike, Cooper vs. Pecan Gap.
Feb. 11 at Cooper: Pecan Gap vs.
Enloe, Cooper vs. Klondike.
Methodist Church
Holds District
Meet At Commerce
H. McCorkic, layman of Sulphur
Springs; Mrs. B. C. Cain, of Sul-
phur Springs; Rev. Hugh Porter
of the Cooper Methodist Church;
Dr. Ira C. Kiker Dallas; Rev.
Henry Mood, First Methodist
pastor at Sulphur Springs.
Dr. H. L. Robinson, pastor of
the First Methodist Church of
Lubbock made the main address
of the morning, speaking on the
Missionary Challenge in the Light
County Agent and Home Demon-
stration Agent’s office.
SPARKS
At The Sparks
THEATRES
ill with
days.
influenza for several
SATURDAY, JANUARY 18
“SEVEN SINNERS”
Marline Dietrich, John Wayne and cast of hundreds. It’s another
“Destry Rides Again.” Also comedy.
SUNDAY-MONDAY, JANUARY 19-20
“THE LADY WITH RED HAIR”
A true life story of Mrs. Leslie Carter, the famous actress—the story
of a life written with fire. Also cartoon and band number.
TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21-22
“ARGENTINE NIGHTS”
Ritz Bros., Andrew Sisters, and big supporting cast in a howling
comedy. Also News and cartoon.
THURSDAY-FRIDAV, JANUARY 23-24
“THE LONG VOYAGE HOME”
From the pen of Eugene O’Neil and directed by John Ford. Starring
Thomas Mitchell and John Wayne. A great action drama. Also News
and comedy.
At The Grand
FRIDAY-SATURDAY, JANUARY 17-18
“THE STAGE TO CHINO”
With George O’Brien. Also “Green Hornet.”
OWL SHOW SATURDAY NIGHT
“DISPATCH FROM REUTERS”
Featuring a cast of youngsters that really sing and dance.
SUNDAY-MONDAY, JANUARY 19-20
“DISPATCH FROM RENTERS”
A newspaper story featuring Edward G. Robinson.
Funeral Services
Held Saturday For
William Estes
| of World Conditions.
: Attending from Cooper were
i Rev. and Mrs. Hugh S. Porter,
IMcsdames J. H. Scrimshire, Henry
Brooks, Chester McKinney, C.
T'. McKinzie, and Miss Hallie Mc-
Kinney.
The last rites for William
Estes, 78, who passed away Fri-
day morning at 5 o’clock after a
seven days illness, were held Sat-
urday afternoon at 1 o'clock at
the First Baptist Church at Ad-
dran, conducted by the Rev. J. C.
McClain, assisted by the Rev. R.
L. Hewgley. Rites were with the
Tapp Funeral Home with inter-
ment in the Oak Lawn cemetery.
He was born in Warren coun-
ty, Tenn., Oct. 17, 1862, and
cmae to Texas with his family in
1908 and settled in Delta county,
later moving to Hopkins county.
On Feb. 20, 1890, he was mar-
ried to Vonia Thoxton of Volia,
Tenn. Nine children were born
to this union, one iiaving died
when eight years old.
He is survived by his widow,
Mrs. William Estes, and eight
children, five sons, Will Estes of
Cooper, Tom, Czerny, and Dewey
Estes of Addran, and R. O. Esr.es
of Beaumont, three daughters,
Mrs. L. S. Noland of Cooper, Mrs.
E. P. Noland and Mrs. R. E.
Worthen of Greenville. He is
nlso survived by fourteen grand-
children apd two great grand-
children. Mr. Estes was a mem-
ber of the Baptist Church of Ad-
dran.
Trucking Industry
Pays $92,678 In
Taxes To County
AUSTIN; Jan. 15.—The Texas
trucking industry last year paid
taxes to Delta county amounting
to $92,673.38, Lynn B. Shaw,
general manager of the Texas
Motor Transportation Association,
reported today.
Shaw said the amount repre-
sented $83,402.58 for highway
construction and maintenance,
and $9,270.80 for the public
schools of Delta county. For
each scholastic in the state, the
truckers paid $2.80, an increase
of 31 cents over the previous
year. An amount equal to the
school fund was distributed to
counties to absorb bonds for road
building purposes.
For highway and school pur-
poses alon,e the Texas trucking
industry last year paid taxes in
excess of fourteen million dollars.
Court To Meet
Again Monday
Sixteen cases were disposed of
in the 8th District Court Mon-
day and Tuesday as the second
week of the court with District
Judge Charles D. Berry presiding
got underway. As District At-
torney Ramey A. Smith of Sul-
phur Springs is in a hospital ill
with influenza, County Attorney
E. G. Pharr handled the cases, ail
being pleas of guilty.
Five men were sentenced in
the sixteen cases, a total of eight
years being assessed against three
men. Four suspended sentences
were recommended by the jury
and given by Judge Berry.
Sentenced Monday and Tues-
day were Wirte McBride, two
cases burglary, two cases theft
over $50, one case possession un-
stamped cigarettes, two years in
each case to run concurrently;
W. A. McBride, burglary, five
years suspended sentence; M. B.
Traylor, five cases burglary, four
years in each case to run concur-
-ently; Robert Palmer, Jr., one
case burglary and one case of
theft over $50, two years in each
case to run concurrently; Earl
Chancellor, willfully burning
automobile, five years suspended
sentence; Nathaniel Maxwell,
swindling over $50, five year sus-
pended sentence.
Sheriff Clarence L. Cates took
Traylor and Palmer to Huntsville
Wednesday where the two men
were put in the custody I of the
warden.
No more cases have been held
this week as no contested cases
have been set until Monday when
Attorney Smith will be present.
A large number of indictments
returned by the grand jury will
be heard during the final week
of thet court. The grand jury
will reconvene on Jan. 23 to
make their report to che court.
Mrs. W. I. Bartley visited Mrs.
J. D. Jordan of Commerce Wed-
nesday. Mrs. Jordan is seriously
ill at her home there.
Misses Pauline and Rebecca
Aikin, who have been ill with in-
fluenza, are improving.
Mrs. J. E. Adair, who has been
ill with tonsilitis, is slightly im-
proved, but she is still confined
to her room.
Seven Volunteer
For U. S. Army In
Selective Service
T. P. Berry of Paris, a former
resident of Cooper, is in a hospit-
al in Paris for medical treatment.
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Sever! more Delta county men
have volunteered for service in
the U. S. Army with the Local
Board here, it was revealed Thurs-
day by H. R. Chesnut, secretary.
Three of the men were enrolled in
college but quit to enlist.
These men will be put in the
third call for men in Selective
Service from Delta county and
will leave sometime in February.
The quota tor January is filled
with 14 white men and one negro.
No indication has been given as
to the number of men that will
bo required for the third call.
Following are the names of the
volunteers: Roy J. Jones, Jessie
James Chambers, Roy Olives Wat-
son, Virgil Clifton Ovelton, James
Brooks Fife, Wayne Wright Sock-
well, and Sam. D. Merrill. t
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TN ENGLAND . . . The British Army is taking
no chances of being caught napping and Is giving her men special
training in beach fighting tactics. This picture shows the Royal
Scots Fusilliers maneuvering on the beach.
iRay Latimer of Greenville has
been named to take charge of
the WPA project for the band-
stand to be erected in the center
I of the public square in Cooper
and will begin preliminary work
today.
Some 2d| or more men have
been transferred from the city
street program to this project and
will begin work as soon as mater-
ials arrive r.nd the weather
mits. A large amount of the
needed materials will be furnish-
ed by the county out of the ma-
terials salvaged out of *he old
courthouse.
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