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THE MART HERALD
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MART, M’LENNAN COUNTY, TEXAS, MARC H 3, 1922
VOL 22, NO. 38
Prairie Hill,
to call
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Dt. Holton. W. P. Alexander,
Judge
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LAW AND ORDER SER
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Read The Daily Herald ada.
Cold Wave Af-
fects Whole of Texas
Waco Real Estate Man
Killed In Court Room
Soldier Bonus Plan
Nears Adjustment
Oil Operation Start
In Prairie lliil Field
decision
.men! Columbia Ratifies
Treaty With U. S.
J. L SPENCER, Publisher
Princess Mary’s Wedding
Social Event or London
GRAND JURY NAMED
FOR MARCH TERM
Called for 2 P. M.. Tues-
day, March 7.
SUFFRAGE BILL IS
DEFEATED BY JAPS
How Trustees Are Chosen
the Several Districts
of County.
OIL MILL BURNED
AT NEW BOSTON. TEX.
J. S. Crosslin Shot to Death by
Young Girl Who Claims He
Ruined Her Life.
vices received
Colombian legation.
Subscribe for your home town
paper—60 cents per month.
tiary. The case was reversed on , Mart Commercial club
error and i ‘ ("
mony and remanded for retrial-, Sfanixation
COLDEST WEATHER OF
WINTER AT MART
To Grant Woman Seat In
British House of Lords
and
Much good
and
the
SCHOOL TRUSTEE
ELECTIONS IN APRIL
and approximately $15 worth of
cigars, cigarettes, etc., from the
Maverick.
districts
Waco, Feb. 27.—Wesley Crith
pen, age 35, was shot twice in
/‘.sandtown” here last night, and
is in a serious condition at a lo-
cal sanitarium A negro man
and his wife are in jail charged
with the shooting. The negro
man has a long gash on his back
made with a knife.
PUBLIC DEBT INCREAS-
ED DURING FEBRUARY
Washington, March 2.—In-
crease of more than 90 million
dollars in the public debt dur-
ing February was announced
today by the treasury.
special was prepared
London for Shifnal, Shropshire.!
this afternoon. “Princess Ma-j.__
ry,” the name of the locomotive | culture, which offers
planned to have the 136 milts
covered at an average speed of
between 50 and 60 miles an
hour, the train slowing down at
important centers to let the
crowds obtain a fleeting glimpse
of the couple.
Entry was made from the
rear of the Maverick, while the
front transom was the means
user! in entering the Mecca cafe-
Both cash drawers were rif-
led, the burglars evidently be-
ing familiar with the situation
at both places.
If the officers have any clue
they are not making it known.
W’ednesday, from Thornton, of, Washington. Feb. 25.—Re-
the death of Ben F. Richardson, placement of marine guards by
recruited civilian
forces of men from the depart-
ment is now being carried out
by the postoffice department,
was stated today by postofTicc
officials. Since the marines
have been on duty robberies
have decreased.
March 1 ushered in a spring
month, but a winter day—
According to the temperature
which registered 18 above zero,
or 14 degrees below the freez-
ing point, at Mart.
Sleet, which fell during the
night, made the ground almost
white by Wednesday morning.
The freeze is considered as ben-
eficial to the general interests
request from many citizens, the
I .aw and Order service planned
to be held soon at the Metho-
dist church, will be changed to
the city auditorium.
The date and program will be
definitely announced in a few
days. J. W. Mayne.
President John Gorham, with
Messrs. O. H. C "* _
-.v ,uv „ v.wn, auffield, Lawrence Westbrook late Viscount Rhondda, Great
ing. She fired three shots from und 'dhers of Waco, are ached- Britain's wartime food con’roll-
a pistol into Crosslin's body, be- d m®®t *b<* farmers of er, who died in 1918. She was
his old child.
Judge Munroe dismissed the R. IL Swaim. P. W. Wheelis and Bro McCullough. L. P. Hardin,
jury indefinitely. Crosslin was ; others, who endorse the plans J, w. Robertson and Dick Cok-
taken from his chair and laid j and purposes of the farm asso- er a]| attended the law and or-
At some time late Sunday
night, the Mecca cafe and the
Maverick cafe of Mart
burglarized with loss of
New Boston. Tex., Feb- 28.—
Fire, which broke out in the lint
I room, destroyed the New Bos-
mated loss of $100,000. Five
I freight cars were also burned.
CRU38LIN CASE TO
GRAND JURY MARCH 6
Waco, Feb. 28.—Both sides
waived in the case of the exam-
ining trial of Miss Marzie Mat- i
thews, charged with the murder |
of J. S. Crosalin, in the justice!
court here today. The case will'ton oil mill today, with an esti-
go straight to the grand jury. —‘-J ’*---*
’ which meets March 6.
Rainfall Registers 3.1 Inches
During the Month of
February.
Tokio, Feb. 28.—The univer-
sal suffrage bill, introduced in
the diet by opposition, was de-
feated today. The final debate
was not attended by the prom-
ised
storm
ing.
Chicago, Feb. 28.—Kenesaw
Mountain I^andis today complet-
ed his seventeen years service
as federal judge of the Northern
district of Illinois. At 11 o’clock
he rendered his last
and stepped from the <
room with the announcement
that he never again will occupy
a judicial bench.
His resignation, recently sent
to President Harding, is effect-
ive tomorrow.
market—to the material advan-
tage of the farmer.
Every farmer in this section
is urged to be present in this
meeting at 2 o clocn next Tues-
day.
(Waco Times-Herald.)
Jury commissioners for the
March term of court have drawn
the rand jury for the next term
of the Fifty-fourth district
court, which will begin one
districts will order the elections,ybe jury commissioners are:
and post the notices of such B B Cobb w c M Mdn.
elections. They will appoint tosh> Mlirt c R Schaefer> Mc.
three persons to hold the elec- GregoI-
tion; these three persons must ; ()ut nf the J(. aummon< 12
n<o, lrus|et's- fb® ) sapors will be chosen for service. The
will be sent to one of the old
trustees and he will deliver
Fruit trees have not budded
in this section, and but little
damage could result from the
freeze in this section.
The benefits to the soil, along
i the good rains, make
the ranger force, who was de-! Mayor Lumpkin.
- 1 Hon. O- H. Cross is the prin-
I speaker, and
I see that full ex-
! real es-
nr-vp ininr ivniuiv in .->v- K(| |<> pUl on me gravel 11U1II
'Lr k: J u! cur’ng a ,)etter Price for farm Prairie Hill to the county line
products and the use of a cot- on highway Nt. 7. and the work
! some competition in the cotton] being rapidly completed^
The Ku Klux Klan, about 30
cars strong, passed through
Prairie Hill Thursday night,
stopping for a time at the school
house. They came from a south-
westerly direction, and return-
ed as they came-
: The late rains have been very
ample and a good oat crop is
virtually assured. Corn plant*
i ing is nearly over and so far
the weather has been very fav
orable for this crop. More com
has been planted to date than
at any time in the past.
Dr. Holton has been running
a neck-and-neck race with the
stork for the last two weeks,
having officiated at the arrival
of at least six births in the last
two weeks.
We feel assured that drilling
will be in active operation ere
this reaches the press.
Elwood Warren has been un-
der the weather for the past
two weeks, -but we feel sure he
will be alright as soon as the
Mexia school is out.
W. P. Alexander went to Ft.
Worth Monday to place the ac-
—7? of the Prairie Develop-
ment company on the market-
Thornton Pioneer Dies.
News was received in Mart I
Wednesday, from Thornton, of,
| Ito rlootlt ton 1/ I? inhn ua»i
age 73, for years a prominent, specially
citizen of the Thornton com-
munity. He is known and re-
garded highly by many citizens
of Mart. Deceased is survived
by his widow, three children,
two sisters and two brothers.
WACO GIRL UN-
DER $1,000 BONDWaco. Feb. 25—Miss Marzk."
Matthews, the 17 year old girl,
who shot J. S. Crosslin to death
in the court room here yester-
day, where he was being tried
for a criminal assault charge, is
at the Evangeline Home here
temporarily. Her case will be
calk'd for preliminary trial
Tuesday. Her father, W. E.
Matthews, is proprietor of a
shooting gallery at Rosebud.
She is under bond for $1,000.
Dallas, March 1.—Tempera-
tures over Texas varied from 2
degrees above zero at Amarillo
to 40 degrees above at Galves-
ton today, according to reports
received by the local United
States weather bureau- “Killing
frosts” are reported as far
south as San Antonio. No re-
ports are'available as to effect
of the cold on vegetables and
early crops. Abilene reported
temperature of 12 degrees, the
coldest in March since the wea-
ther bureau opened there in
1885. It was snowing at Abi-
lene today. At Dallas, the ther-
mometer stood at 20 degrees at
7 o’clock. Much suffering is re-
ported by charity workers with
many calls for food, clothing
and fuel.
Forecasts for today wa,s 12 to
13 degrees in the northern part
of the state, 18 to 30 farther
south, with probably 24 to 30 in
some parts of the coast and pos-
sibly a slight freeze in the low
er Rio Grande valley.
Thursday is expected to be
fair and not so cold.
The temperature was 29.5 at
Houston, the coldest March in
30 years.
Stock raisers in west Texas
and the Panhandle are threat-
ened with heavy losses unless
I the weather moderates immed-
iately- Grazing lands and water
tanks are frozen over, and cat-
tle deprived of nourishment.
ed and Miss Matthews had been i stood that it has the approval ed school will hold for one more
called to the stand. Confusion of many leading farmers and month,
reigned in the court room and planters, such as W. D. Kaigler.
J. H. Hines, state director of
vocational agriculture. was
here last week inspecting the
work of the Prairie Hill class.
He spoke in highest terms of
the work being done by the
class at this place, and we are
justly proud of our boys and
their teacher.
The contractor has commenc-
Washington, March 2—Rati-
fication of the treaty between
the United States and Colombia
whereby the American govera-
VICE ANNOUNCEMENT ment pays Colombia 25 millions
. las compensation for the loss of
Because of lack of room and I Panama, was exchanged yester-
day at Bogota, according to ad-1
today by the y $ marines Relieved
From Postal Senice
London, March 2.—Petition
of Lady Rhondda, to sit in the
house of lords was granted by
the committee on privileges of
the house of lords, today. If
she takes her seat she will be
the first woman to sit in the
upper house of the British par-
liament, as Lady Astor was of
the lower chamber. Lady
Cross, J no. H. Rhondda is the daughter of the
._.j Viscount Rhondda, Great
demonstration, a snow
and cold wave interfer-
Ft. Worth, Feb. 28.—Snow,
sleet and rain throughout the
night in west Texas resulted to-
day in a mass of tangled tele-
graph and telephone wires, in-
terrupted communication
impassable roads,
were will accrue to farmers
uurgianzeu wan loss oi $231 stockmen, especially in
cash from the former, $5 cash | grain sections.
4 Below Zero at Amarillo.
Dallas, Fob. 28.—Snow, sleet
and rain are reported in north
and west Texas today. The tem-
perature at Amarillo was four
degrees below zero this morn-
ing and snow was falling.
In Oklahoma, a bitter wind is
drifting the snow nearly a foot
deep on a level. In the northern
part of the state temperatures
are constantly ranging down-
ward.
on the floor. i ciation. der meeting at Groesbeck Wed-
The shots were heard by cv- The meeting will lie held at nesday.
ery party in the court house.; the city hall, where a comfort-
and Captain Tom Hickman of able room will be made ready by’
the ranger force, who was de-: Mayor Lumpkin.
tailed to wait on Judge Richey’s I Hon 0. H C1OSS js the prjn.
court across the hall, rushed to!(.jpH| speaker, and President
the scene. But few people Gorhan) wll] gee that ful) ex.
present, and finding the sheriff s planation is made of the bene-
department had the situation flts derived by the farm-
well in hand, he returned to ms era of ^bjg aoctjon jn having
PO8J- an organization at Mart. The
Crosslin was in the real ®*’. co-operative feature aids in se-, ed to put on the gravel from
tate business, and when th®; curing a better price for farm Prairie Hill to the county line
charge was filed against him :t products and the use of a cot- on highway Nc. 7. and the Work
created a sensation. The lit !e)ton (.jaKaer here means whole- from this place to Coolidge is
girl, then only 15, testified to
her shame for which she ?aid
Crosslin was responsible. Sh*
had given birth to a child which
was taken from her at a sani-
tarium by the Caesarian opera-
tion. She is a little girl, weigh-
ing not more than 90 pounds.
EDUCATORS OPPOSE EF-
FORTS OF EVOLUTIONISTS £• C. Johnson, alias Cooper,
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Chicago. March 2—Attempts p|Hjn*t8 flled here,
supposed by law, for teaching, been removed to
the doctrine of evolution and 1 county.
other scientific theories in pub-
lie schools, was vigorously op- W .\(’O MAN SHOT IN SAND-
posed here today by speakers
at the annual meeting of the ” '
National Education association
Washington, March 2.—Un-
animous agreement to eliminate
the cash feature of the soldier
Imnus, except in the case of
men whose adjusted service pay
does not exceed $50, was report-
ed today by the special sub-
committee of republican mem-
bers of the house ways and
means committee.
In lieu of the cash for the
! other service men, it was agreed
'to add a new provision to the
JUDGE LANDIS ENDS bin, under which men accept-
inwr Drkiru Troll ing ’“UuftiMl certificates could
LUliU DtnUn 11Kin ; borrow immediately on the cer-
tificates from banks the same,
equal to 50 per cent of total ad-
justed aervice pay, computed at
the rate of a dollar a day for
domestic service and $1.25 for
foreign service.
Commercial Clnb
u” ! Wants Radio Station
celles, with all the pomp and -
dignity befitting a royal wed-! At a meeting of the Mart
!4ing. Vast crowds gave tumult-1 Commercial club directors Tues-
pous greetings while the chimes; day morning, Chairman Roy
pf Westminster rang out the' Connally was authorized to se-
happy message. i cure further information as to
Princess Mary’s honeymoon cost and plans whereby a radio
special was prepared to leave ] station can be secured for Mart.
A communication was read VIIVjm lt> luu ,
from the state bureau of agri- of t/be country’.
assigned to draw the train is' ’"^7^’1 "The water gauge at the F. &
? g J / U JI "’-I nut dal,y market reports and National bank of Mart, in-
quotations free, through the dicates a rainfall of 3-1 inches
radio station of the University f|urjng the month of February,
of Texas. i — ’ - - - -
The service is free to all por-'
tions of the state where radio-1
phone stations are prepared to
receive the report. ( The benefits to the soil, along
The good roads, natural gas, with the good rains, make
oil and other matters were dis- p|easing prospect for the farm-
cussed by the directors, and an jng interests.
! optimistic note soGnded by all i '
present. TEYAC CETC CAI HU/
Important developments are IlAAJ ULI J dnUn
expected to be announced with- Cl EET AND DA 111
in the next few weeks. uLtLl A1W KAill
S. Gause, Mart; R. V. Mitchell,
Sr., Moody; T. B. Stanford, Lo-
I rena; Ed Punchard, Riesel; W.
I B. Brazelton, F. M. Coates A. C.
“The returns for the election
for county school trustees will
be made to the county judge and
will be canvassed by the coun-
ty commissioners’ court, and
the result will be declared by j
said court There will be a coun-
this
Pre* i at Concord, on the night of Feb.
—. ., . . - . i ... Two negroes have been ar-
• OtmrKCMnty 7“”; rested by Constable Ix-slie Ste-
(Waco Times-Herald.)
There will be elections thru-
out the county in April at which ! Twn Marl fafoc
the people will choose the school ]
trustees for the common schools! Blirsld! JZ(*d
and for ai Lain independent 5
districts. County Superintend-1
ent R. L- Abbott made the fol-
lowing announcement yester-
day:
“The school laws of Texas
fixes the day for the election of
school trustees, in all common
school districts and in all inde-
pendent school districts, ex-
cept the independent i
created by special act of the
legislature and operating under
a special charter. The first
Saturday in April is the day fix-
ed for these elections. The pa-
pers are being prepared now for
the several boards of trustees
to use in ordering these trustee
elections.
"The trustees of each school
district will order the electfcu
for its particular district. The
county judge will order the
trustee elections for county
trustees and the same judges of ]
the election will act in the case
of county trustee elections, as 1
they do in that of common
school trustee elections. The
trustees of the common ^hool| w7ek’from next Mondly'. McL
|b. The jury commissioners are:
... . . B. B. Cobb, Waco; C. M Mcln-
They will appoint ((uab( Mart; C. R. Schaefer, Me-
tion; these three persons must]
not be trustees. The r\"“
will be sent to one of the oM '|igt of 16 fojlowg: j w King
. .. . . , . and L- R. Roach, McGregor; W.
men aPP°,nted ut0 T. Rogers, T. N. Moody and E.
hold the election. The men who
hold the election will canvass,
the returns, and make a report
to the old trustees within five
]•»'■££I'-'f
(aufield, J. J. Owens, Dero M.
Wood and Mordis Falkner, Wa-
co.
Probably the most important
case to be investigated by the
probers will be the triple mur-
i der of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Bar-
ty school trustee elected thi. b | jjom ,r
■ year in commissioners p»-«- ; -
' cincts No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3. "j
tees will hold over for another ga]1 and thcy hHy(j aeeording
•vear- j to the officers, made state-
ments, admitting the killing.
The negroes, Benny Young and
, are
(charged with murder, in com-
They have
an adjoining
Farm Association To
waco, Feb 24—-He disgrac- Organize At Mait
ed me, ruined my health, and °
deprived me of school privileg- .. ,, ------
es, but he will never ruin anoth- ee>*ng
er girl."
This was the statement of lit-
tle Marcine Matthews, age 17.]
after she shot J. S. Crosslin in
the Fifty-fourth district court I
room at 9:30 o’clock this morn-
a pistol into Crosslin’s body, be- to m®®i . ibe I
fore Deputy Sheriff Burton ™»rt and vrinity at 2 p m.,
could reach her. Crosslin died ' u®S(‘{,y. March 7, in behalt ot
instantly. He was 59 years old. i'oca' organization of the Mc-
He was charged with criminal *;en,,*n < ounty Farm associa-
assault upon the girl two years tlon-
ago and tried, convicted and The Herald is authorized by
given nine years in the peniten- 'President Roy Connally of the
“ / '* ‘ ’ ‘i to call Prairie Hill, Feb. 28.—Ar-
admission of testi-, the meeting, and while this or- rangements have been made to
«.<« .vr.iandcd fo; retri.b is glad to sponsor carry on the Prairie Hill school
Preliminaries had been complet- the meeting, it should be under- two months more, and the color-
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