The Howe Messenger (Howe, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 47, Ed. 1 Friday, November 20, 1936 Page: 1 of 8
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Complete Local News
Coverage
Messe
Never stand begging for
that which you have the
power to earn.
— Cervantes
Volume Thirteen
Howe, Texas, Friday, November 20, 1936,
Number 47
Theme of
om Bean
Rebuilding Soil Held Biggest
Problem by Sherman Bank
President
J, E. Surratt, secretary of
Honolula Reader Believes
In Flowers for Living
Dear Sir:
Enclosed find seventy-five
d. Hj. OUliaut, j ui^™tuuiiuocvcm.ruic
the Dallas Kessler Plan asso-j| cents for the renewal of my
ciation, spoke to a group of
Howe citizens at the school
auditorium Tuesday night, ex-
plaining the importance of a
planned community program
and presenting a general out-
line of what he thought should
be done at Howe. Several Sher-
man men were present.
J. H. Carnes, president of
the Howe Community Improve
menfc League, introduced Mr.
Surratt, who had spent the
day making a survey ol the
Howe trade territory.
Mr, Surratt prefaced his re-
marks with a resume of the
Kessler Plan in Dallas. He ex-
plained the decreasing popula-
tion trend in North Texas and
its effect on Dallas, holding
that loss of population in North
Texas towns and counties had
closely followed loss of soil
fertility.
“Dallas does not create one
cent of wealth,” the speaker
said as he took up the primary
theme of his planning program
“All wealth comes from the
soil. Dallas and Howe were
built to help the farmer dis-
pose of the products of the
soil. ”
He referred to a survey made
i n the local school 1 uesday
when 14 students, asked i f
they intended to remain i n
Howe when they were grown,
replied that they did not. This
attitude in children was con-
sidered dangerous and costly
to any small community b y
the speaker.
* Mr. Surratt recommended
vocational training in schools,
placing especial emphasis, upon
vocational agriculture. City
streets shuuld be paved and a
sewerage system provided for
in the Howe program he said.
The plan should also include a
park and a larger school cam-
pus.
L. F. Aston, vice-president
of the Grayson County State
Bank, was the first o f the
Sherman visitors to speak. “It
is a wonderful program,” he
said, adding thatSherman was
interested in the development
of Howe.
Frank Thompson, manager
of the Sherman Chamber of
Commerce, approved the soil
conservation part of the pro-
posed program, asserting that
he considered the government
soil program one of the most
important acts passed during
the present administration- He
subscription to your paper.
I wish to congratulate you
on the decided improvement
noticed in your publication.
I am su'oe that your standard
will equal the best of week-
ly papers
I look forward to its ar.
rival, which is always two or
three weeks late due to the
irregularity of the boats,and
take great pride in showing
it to my friends.
Yours truly,
Harold F. Hicks
Headquarters Battery
64th Coast Artillery
(anti aircraft)
Fort Shafter
Honolulu, T. H.
Basket Ball Plans
Outlined
Unavoidable Accident Snuffs Round Robin Tournament to
Out Life as Children Play in Be Scheduled by Commit-
tee; Three Classes Formed
Street
Sesame Club Has
Spain as Topic
The Sesame Study club met
at the Howe Christian church
Tuesday afternoon, with Mrs.
W. W. Collins and Mrs. Truett
Davenport, joint hostesses.
Twelve members and five visit-
ors were present.
Miss Marne Roberts was the
leader of the program which
was a study of Spain.
Jesse Baxter spoke on the
“History of Spain”. Mrs. W.
W. Collins discussed “What
Thej Are FightingFor”. “The
Rev dt of Spain”was explained
by Mrs Truett Davenport and
Mrs. W. L Mitchell discussed
the “Neutrality of Spain”.
Miss Buena Holcomb read
Grace Noll Crowell’s poem,
“Armistice”.
METHODIST WOMEN TO
SERVE DINNER
The women of the Methodist
church will serve a turkey
dinner in the church annex,
next Thursday, Thanksgiving
day. The public is invited to
teke Thanksgivtng dinner with
the church folk. Plates will sell
at a low price.
served the burning of straw
stacks in Texas. “In spile of
Sherman’s industrial develop-
me t, agriculture is still the
basic industry,” he declared.
Frank Spindle.cashier of the
Grayson County State Bank
asked that he be called on any
time he could be of assistance.
(From the Tom Bean Times)
Trag< dy stalled into a group
of hapoy playing youngsters
in south Tom Bean Saturday
afternoon about 5 o’clock and
snuf ted ouc the life of K. C.
Ballard, young son of Mr. and
Mrs D B. Hillard, who would
have been three years old on
November 17.
The youngster together with
his older brothers and ..sisters
and a number of playmates
was playing in the street in
front of the Ballard home on
Rose Hill road when struck
down by a passing motorist.
The tot scampered across to
the east side of the road and
when struck by the death car
was nearly across. The driver,
Cecil Henderson of the Rose
i Hill community, was entirely
off the road when his car, a
Ford coupe, struck the child.
Car tracks at the scene of the
tragedy plainly showed that it
was unavoidable and that he
was driving slowly or the car
could not have been brought
under control so quickly. Mr.
Henderson stopped to render
aid and Dr. A. R Littrell was
summoned, but the lad died a
few minutes after his arrival
from severe bead injuries.
In a statement this week to
the Times the parents of the
victim said, “We don’t blame
Mr. Henderson and have > r.
hard-feelings against him. It
was simply unavoidable and
he did all in his power to keep
from hitting him.”
A large crowd attended fu-
neral servicesheld at the family
home Sunday afternoon con-
ducted by Rev. N. L. White,
pastor of the local Pentecostal
church. A number of friends
from out-of-town were present.
Interment was inWarden cem-
etery, south of Tom Bean, un-
der the direction of W, T.
Francis.
He leaves to mourn his loss
hisDarents, his grandmother,
Mrs. Viola Warden, and the
following brothers and sisters,
Mr. and Mrs. OrdiceBallard of
Trenton, Mr. and Mrs. Dalton
Reagan of Winnsboro, Mr. and
Mrs. Knox Sprowl of Howe
and Alma Lois, Marv Jewell.
Deloris Fay and Jack David
Ballaid, Hubert Paul Carroll,
and J. B., Florence, and Anna
Lee Atkins, all at home.
P. J. Waldrop,Commissioner
described the soil conservation °f Prec’nct ^ne-^ said^ he w’as
methods in use inPennsylvania
when he was a boy,and told of
his horror when he first ob-
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vitally interested in Howe for
he still considered it his home.
He told of encouraging the use
of terracing machines 20 years
ago. Mr. Waldrop assured the
listeners that he was enoeav-
oring to build as many roads
as possible, devoting most of
his time at the present to the
main roads, after which de-
creased maintenance costs
j would permit all weather con-
struction to practically every
j house in the precinct.
METHODIST REVIVAL TO
START NOVEMBER 29
(From the Tom Bean Times)
The championship bask etball
team of Grayson count’ for
1937 will be determined by a
title game between the w;nn*rl
of a round robin tournament
and the annual county tourna
merit, it was decided at a meet-
ing of Grayson county coaches
and school officials in theSher-
man Chamber of Commerce
rooms Monday night. Coach
Curlee Cummings of Bells,new
county basketball director, was
presiding.
It was explained that in the
event the same club should win
both the round robin tourna
raent and (Tie county tourr.a
ment the championship game
would not be necessary.
Two representatives of each
of the three divisions of play
in the county were appointed
to work with Mr.Cummings in
arranging schedules for the
season.
TomBean will probably com-
pete in class B. Denison will
again in cla«s A.
A motion was adopted pro-
viding that the home team is
to receive 60 percent of the
gate receipts after expenses
have been deducted. A discus-
sion to split receipts when
playing on a neutral court was
never made a motion. It was
decided to set an admission fee
of 10 and 15 cents for all games
i i t he roundrobin tournameor.
The group agreed that all
the schools with both girls a».d
buys teams arrange scheduled
for both to play opponents from
the same towns at the same
time. Girls gp*mes will count it
their title race. Pay of officials
for games will be left to agree-
ment between the teams in-
volved, it was stated.
All coaches and superintend-
ents were urged to make im-
mediate choice of the division
in which they are to compete
and to forward entry blanks to
the sports department of the
ShermanDemocrat. In explain-
ing classification it was stated
that schools with more than
120 pupils are listed in class A,
those with as manyastwo high
school teachers and less than
120 pupils are in class B and
all others are in class C.Teams
may play in divisions higher
than their class.
Howe Takes Lead
In Class C Football
RoundUp Bill FreemarpWe
Need A Poet.
Poets have written reams
about the frost, on the pump-
kins delicatelytinted leaves,
% h e s m e 11 o f s m ) u l d iv i n g b o o -
fires,and other signs of fail,
but for some reason or other
they have overlooked the
tasty goodness of fresh pork
the beauty of a well shaped
sack of sausage and the
aroma of the pungent sea-
soning used in preparing
real, old, honest-to goodness
country sausage.
After tasting a delicious
ham brought, us by J. C.Mc-
Bee and a side of spare-ribs
that amounted to more than
bones and a generous supply
of sausage brought in by P.
J. Francis, we have but one
desire in life, and that is to
pen a sonnet that will do
justice to such a treat
SADLER MAN LEASES
FILLING STATION
R. M. Johnson of Sadler has
leased the Sinclair service sta-
tion and opened for business
Tuesday evening. Mr. Johnson
Announcement, has been
made of a revival meeting to
start at the Methodist church, *s residing at the station and
November 29. Rev. Williams wil1 render d*y and ni«ht 88r'
will do the preaching. vlce t0 autoists, he states. The
station will operate under the
J L. Blackburn was elected
as ehairman of the Board of
Stewards and Mrs. J. C. Galli-
more, secretary, at an organ-
ization meeting Monday night.
The beard will meet each Mon-
day following the firstSunday.
Rev. Williams will preach at
Tom Bean at 10 a. rn. Sunday,
and at Cedar at 11 a. m. and
7 p. m.
John Perry, president of the
Grayson County State Bank Employees of Precinct one,
spoke at some length on the underthedirectionofCommis-
i nr ortance of rebuilding the sioner P‘ J‘ Waldrop’ have
soil. “The biggest thing ahead ! filled up a number of bad hole*
of us is the conserving and re- i *n *jbe H°we'Tom Bean road
building’of our soil,” he said I with gravelthis week. The im-
He told of watching Grayson'proveraent is hlffhly apprec1’
----—----- ! ated by those using the road
(See PLAN on Last Page) 1 frequently.
name of Jonnie’s service sta-
tion. A line of candy and ci-
gars has been added.
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SENIOR SPANISH CLUB
ORGANIZED
Former Resident of
County Dies
Funeral services for Mrs.M.
A. Slaughter, 85, who died at
the home of her daughter, Mrs.
C. S. Stephens in Leveiland at
6 o’clock last Thursday after-
noon, were held at the Level-
land Baptist church at 1:30
p. m. Saturday. Mrs.Slaughter
was the mother ofD.P.Slaugh-
ter, who accompanied by Mrs.
Slaughter, and d a if g h ter,
Frankie, attended the funeral
Mrs. Slaughter was ViissMary
Ann Higginbotham Before her
marriage to R. M. Slaughter,
She was born in Mississippi,
coming to Texas in 1880, seve-
ral years after her marriage,
and settling near Van Alstyne,
later moving to Farmington.In
1883 Mr. and Mrs. Slaughter
moved to Oklahoma and later
to Leveiland. Mr. Slaughter
died about 20 years ago,
The deceased is survived by
the son, D. P. of Howe, two
daughters, Mrs Minnie Step-
hens of Leveiland and Mrs.
Cora Copeland of Rosweil.New
Mexico, one brother, R. N,
Higginbotham of Coleman,Ok-
lahoma, 13 grandchildren and
13 great gran JehiJdren.
Evenly Matched Teams Turn
In Near Perfect Game; Locals
Only Undefeated C Team.
Knocking pre-game dope
higher than a Literary Digest
straw vote, a snapping, snarl-
ing, pugnacious Howe Bulldog
eleven turned in as near a per-
fect game of Class A football
as will be seen in many a day
to dethrone the conference
leading Tioga Bulldogs 25 to 19
heie Friday afternoon.
The game was replete with
thrills from the starting to fi-
nal whistle, both teams dis-
playing the fighting qualities
and tenacity implied in their
names. Class C teams they
may have been, but seldom is
such football played by iwo
Class A teams and not often
do college teams better it.
The first thrill came when
Cloud received the initial kick-
off on his own 7 yard line run-
ning the full length of the
field for a touchdown.Scarcely
had the ball been booted than
every man got a man, leaving
but two players on their feet,
Cloud and Chaffin, the Tioga
safety man. Fincher kicked the
extra point. Tioga received the
kickoff returning to the 25-
yard stripe where they tried
three passes, all incomplete,
and kicked on the fourth down
on their own 44. Bates, Cloud
and Powell alternated in carry-
ing the ball to within inches of
the goal, where Powell went
over for a second pointer. The
kick was blocked.
Tioga received again moving
the ball to the 46 yard marker,
where they were forced ta
punt to Howe’s 32. Howe re-
ceived a 15-yard penalty and
punted to Tioga’s 40, the kick
being returned to Howe’s 43.
Aaron sained three and then
lost the sarnie. A pass from
Chaffin to Gordon placed the
ball on the 25 another moved
it up to the 15. Kay hit the
line for 7 and then again for
four, and two and one, going
over on the next play for the
score. An attempt to pass for
the point failed.
The second quarter -was
scoreless, with neither team
seriously threatening.The third
(see LEAD on Last Page)
Results of Class 2C
Football Contests
The senior class of the Howe
high school organized a Span-
i s h club Tuesday. Emerson
Bates was elected president;
Ida Mae Boozer, vice-presi-
dent; and Ruth Smith, secre-
tary-treasurer. Other commit-
tees are to be appointed.
The club plans to meet one
Friday each month.
W. T. James of Sherman,
spent Wednesday night with
his neice, Mrs. John Hopper.
Results of last week-end’s
Class 2C grid contests, this
week’s schedule and standing
of conference members are as
follows:
Last Week’s Results
Howe 25, Tioga 19
Van Alstyne 68,Collinsville7
Whitesboro 36, Gunter 19
Denton Demonstration 19,
Pilot Point 6.
Tom Bean 38, Sherman B 0
Where They Play Today
Bells at Howe
Tioga at Collinsville
Conference Standings
TEAM —
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PCT,
Howe ................
....... 4
0
1.000
Tioga....................
..........4
1
.800
Collinsville.......
........2
1
.667
Bells.....................
.........2
2
.500
Pilot Point.......
..........2
3
.400
Gunter................
........11
3
.250
Tom Bean ........
............0
5
.000
Line-Ups and Statistics
Howe-Tioga Game
The Dorcas class of the Bap-
tist Sunday school met at the
home of Mrs. W. W. Ferguson
for an all day quilting yester-
day. A covered dish luncheon
was served at noon.
Howe
Patterson
Fincher
Woods
McCraw
Wiggins
Knox
Bryant
Cloud
Hates
Powell
Ban.ett
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Tioga
Cook
Cannon
Moore
Kerr
Hall
Aaron
Cheatham
Chaffin
Gordon
Cherry
Kay
Howe 4; Ti-
Touchdowns
oga 3.
Goals—Howe 1; Tioga L
First downs —Howe ll;Ti-
oga 10,
Passes —Howe 3, 1 com-
pleted for 45 yards, 1 inter
cepLed; Iioga 26, 7 com.
pleted for 168 yards, 1 inter-
cepted.
Punts average—Howe 6
for 32 yards; Tioga 9 for 27
yards.
Scrimmage—H owe 300
yards; Tioga 64 yards.
Officials—Fortner, Harper
and Stevens.
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