The Madisonville Meteor - And Commonwealth - (Madisonville, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 28, 1929 Page: 1 of 8
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Madisonville—
Where the East
Begins
The Madisonville Meteor
Madison Land—
A Kingdom of
Contentment
And Commonwealth
THIRTY-FIFTH YEAR
MADISONVILLE, MADISON COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1929.
NUMBER FORTY-NINE
Ultra-Modern Progress And Development Under Way Over Madison County
GREAT I^ARM ACTIVITY AND PREPARATIONS, ROAD WORK GOES ON, BRIDGE CONTRACT LET, AND HOME BUILDING CONTINUES
Madisonville Rotarians Together With Instituting Officials Have Session Extraordinary
Traveling Broadcasting Station
Visits Madisonville And Local
Talent Do Their Stuff Via Radio
Mr. George E. Seybold of Dallas,
Texas, late of St. Louis, who is travel-
ing with the Pierce Petrolium Copera-
tion's broadcasting station, visited
Madisonville the first of the week
with their portable receiving and
broadcasting station and gave our
local talent an opportunity to broad-
cast from Madisonville.
This truck and its radio equipment
is making a good will tour of this
section of the State with Mr! Seybold
in charge. He was accompanied to
our city by Mr. A. C. Timm, the
traveling salesman for this territory.
Mr. W. F. Fannin, the local repre-
sentative of the company, was very
much gratified with the courtesy
shown him by his company and re-
ceived the travelirfg men in a hearty
manner.
Those who participated in the
broadcasting were Messrs. Burt and
Arthur Musgrove, Paul Hensarling
and Julian Bailey with Dock Connor
as the announcer. This feature was
held from seven to nine o'clock Tues-
day night. In the afternoon Mr.
Charles Andrews sang a number of
solos over the station which was heard
by a number of our local radio fans.
Mr. Seybold informs the Meteor
that this station will be in this sec-
tion for several months and is at the
disposal of the county fairs and other
local organizations and will be
brought to our city on short notice
for their use in broadcasting pro-
grams of importance to the com-
munity.
This portable radio station is
equipped with a powerful amplifying
system and the entertainment Tues-
day evening was very plainly audi-
ble all over town for a distance of
severad blocks.
Bridge Contractors Are Moving Equipment To
Clapps Ferry This Week for Bridge Construction
Well Known Aged Lady
Dies at Center Home
Mrs. J. L. Goodrum died at the home
of her son, J. R. Goodrum, in the
Center community at 6 o'clock a. m.
Tuesday. Her death was very sudden
and unexpected. She was apparent-
ly in as good health as usual when
she retired Monday night and about
ten o'clock, she woke up the family
complaining with her head. A phy-
sician was called and he pronounced
the trouble a ruptured blood vessel
on the brain and that nothing could
be done.
Mrs. Goodrum had been a citizen of
Madison county for more than forty
years and had the respect and love
of all who knew her. She was reared
in Milam county and came here and
settled almost a half century ago and
had raised a family of seven children
to honorable manhood and woman-
hood in good old Madison county, the
place she loved so well.
She was 73 years old, and leaves
seven children: Messrs J. R. and
Homer Goodrum of the Center com-
munity; Frank Goodrum of Okla-
homa; Arthur Goodrum of New
Mexico; Mrs. J. L. Blair of Corpus
Christi; Mrs. Jennie Corner of
Huntsville and Mrs. Ola Corner of
Houston.
Funeral services were held by
Rev. J. C. Morgan assisted by Rev.
U. C. Bracewell at the Madisonville
Baptist Church at 2:00 p. m.; inter-
ment in the city cemetery.
The many friends, of this I
mother will regret to learn of her
death and will miss her loving and
cheerful disposition in the home and
elsewhere.
SCHEDULE OF SERVICES
AT THE BAPTIST CHURCH
Sunday School at9:45 a. m.; Preach-
ing at 11:00 a. m.; Prayer Meeting
7:30 p. m., Wednesday; B. Y. P. U.
at 6:00 p. m. Sundays.
Mr, W. F. Gibbs was in the city
from Bryan Monday and Tuesday
to visit his bi-others, Messrs R. P. and
J. A. Gibbs. Mr. Gibbs is one of
Bryan's leading business men. He
says that Madisonville has made
wonderful improvements in the past
few years and the out of town peo-
ple can see it more than we who stay
here all the time.
Explaining His Queer Ways
The jury was deliberating on the
question of the sanity of the young
man brought up for examination.
There were doubts on the subject until
he explained that he was a college
graduate. Thereupon he was immedi-
ately adjudged sane.
Early Preparation Probable Of
Trinity River Bridge Contract
Awarded To Thomas & Ratcliff
The long looked for, anxious wait-
ing has been gratified by the people
of Madison county at last. For more
than two years the building of a
bridge across the Trinity River at
Clapps Ferry has been the talk of the
county, and the talk and the action of
many of our leading citizens has re-
sulted in the contract being let by the
Highway Commission at their meeting
in Austin last week.
This connecting link in highway
21 is not only important to Madison
county and Houston county, but to all
East Texas and even farther east than
Texas goes; it will give a direct out-
let from East to West through the
State and give the most direct line
to two State major institutions
of learning, the A. & M. College and
the State University, the latter at
Austin and the former at College
Station near Bryan.
This contract not only means the
building of this important bridge but
at some future date, not far hence
we hope the highway over this route
will be paved from the west to the
east border of this state and will be-
come one of the most important
highways in the State.
Madison county is at last coming
into her own in the great road pro-
gram of Texas.
The successful bidders were Thom-
as & Ratcliff of Rogers, who made
a low bid of $240,398. Bids had been
opened at the January meeting of the
commission, but letting of the con-
tract was postponed at that time be-
cause the federal bureau of public
roads had not completed checking
the plans.
The somewhat improved weather
conditions since the winter's severe
cold, has caused an avalanche of re-
newed activity in numerous lines of
development all over Madison county
during the past week, and in the event
sunshine weather continues the county
will soon be a vertible bee-hive of in-
dustry.
Farming preparations are getting
under way after being hindered for
many weeks by inclement weather.
These preparations are accompanied
by a stimulus of energy and push of
great power and broad scope. Im-
mense agricultural plans on huge and
extensive scales are assuming a mo-
mentum of great intensity for the
year's program of farm industry.
Farm material in the way of new im-
plements for tilling the soil, fertilizer
in enormous lots, and building mater-
ial of all kinds for farm use, have
been going out from Madisonville to
the farms over the county in unusual
fashion.
The bridge contract was let last
week for a $240,000 steel bridge
across the Trinity River at Clapps
Ferry and preparations for its con-
struction have already begun. The
contractors are moving their equip-
ment to the point of construction this
week and preliminary preparations
will begin at once.
Road work on the new federal
highway is steadily going on and al-
most a train load of material for this
project alone has been arriving here
at Madisonville. Concrete construc-
tion is not yet underway, but grading
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Chamber of Commerce
Enjoys Monthly Banqoet
The monthly meeting of the Cham-
ber of Commerce was held at the
Methodist Church annex Thursday
night. The Civic League served tlje
banquet dinner and it was a great
dinner too.
The main speaker of the evening
was Prof. Clutter of A. & M. College
who spoke on the dairy industry and
how to feed and care for the dairy
cow; he also gave some valuable in-
formation as to the care of the separa-
tor and how to get best results from
the use of the separator on the farm.
He was followed by Carl Whiprecht
of Bryan who is a practical dairyman
and breeder of dairy cattle. Hie gave
some valuable information as to how
the highest tests could be obtained by
care and feeding of the dairy cow.
There were several farmers present
even if the weather was bad and they
enjoyed the valuable information
given by the speakers.
The entertainment for the evening
was furnished by Mr. F. A. Lively,
Tom Shine, Ray Burke and the
medicine show men who rendered
quite a few of the old time musical
numbers on the violin and guitars.
Rev. C. F. Andrews, Mr. Wr. W.
Andrews, Mr. Charles Andrews and
Mr. Burt Musgrpve sang quartets
which were received with much en-
thusiasm by the attendants.
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY
SOCIETY CONVENED FEB.18
The Woman's Missionery Society
met at the home of Mrs. Herman
Lynch February 18th with sixteen
members present.
An interesting program taken from
The Missionary Voice was rendered.
Supject: "Making Home The Cen-
ter," Leader Mrs. W. L. Hawkins.
Lovely refreshments were served
by hostess.
Madisonville Rotary Club Is
Given Its Charter At Banquet
Meeting With Many Visitors
B. F. Leonard Died Last
Satorday at Age of 67
Mr. B. F. Leonard died at the
Ferguson State Farm Saturday night
very unexpectedly. Mr. Leonard had
recently recovered from an attack of
flu and had gone back to work,
when attacked by a chill Saturday
morning and the affects of the flu
effected his heart action and at 11:30
Saturday night he passed away. He
was for many years a peace officer in
Madison county and had for the past
several years helped the state take
care of their criminal institutions at
various places, most of the time at
the Ferguson State Farm. Mr. Leon-
ard was always punctual to his
trust as an officer.
He was born in 1862 and was about
67 years old. He leaves his wife
and three children: Mr. E. L.
Leonard and Mrs. S. J. Brown of this
city and Miss Eunice Leonard who is
teaching at La Porte, Texas, besides
a host of other relatives and a great
host of friends who mingle their
tears in sorrow with the bereaved
family.
Funeral services were held at the
Methodist Church Sunday afternoon
at three o'clock by Rev. B. C. Ander-
son; interment in the city cemetery.
Mr. Leonard was born in Mont-
gomery county and there married
Miss Mattie Montgomery. Shortly
after their marriage they moved to
Madison county and had lived here
for some forty years, as honorable
citizens and reared an honorable
family. Uncle Ben, as most of us
knew him, will be missed from our
midst and from the institution of
which he served for the State. His
jovial disposition made him many
friends who will regret, to hear of
his death.
Pall bearers were: Messrs. T. B.
Viser, S. W. Jackson, T. M. Hensarl-
ing, J. W. Mathis, J. E. Viser, J. O.
Thompson and Ottie E. Parten.
At a special banquet given at the
Shapira Hotel Wednesday night the
charter for the Madisonville Rotary
Club was presented to President
R. A. Manire on behalf of the National
organization by District Governor
Walter Kingsburry of Dallas. A full
representation of the local organiza-
tion was present with their wives and
a number of Rotarians and Rotary-
anns were over from Huntsville to at-
tend the meeting and enjoy the occa-
sion.
A program as follows was render-
ed: Duet by Rev. C. F. Andrews and
Mr. W. W. Andrews, solo by Landon
Neal of Huntsville; Welcome Address
by President R. A. Manire, response
by R. W. Miller of Huntsville; Read-
ing by Miss Doradell Knight, introduc-
tion of the District Governor by Judge
T. E. Humphrey of Huntsville, ad-
dress and delivery of charter by Wal-
ter Kingsburry of Dallas. Mr.
Kingsburry gave an outline of what
the origin and the things the Rotary
Club stands for, which was very in-
structive and the president of the
local organization received the charter
with much pride and his pledge that
the spirit of Rotary would be carried
out in the 'Madisonville organization.
Owing to the bad weather and the
condition of the roads there were not
as many visitors as were expected but
the meeting was fine and exemplified
a fine spirit among the members of
the Madisonville organization and
started them off right. They expect
to help in an organized way to carry
out a very constructive program for
the benefit of all the citizens in the
town this year.
CHURCH OF CHRIST
Evangelist R. L. Whiteside of
Denton, Texas, will preach at 11:00
a. in. next Sunday at the Church of
Christ. Come and hear him.
CHAS L. SPEIR.
WESLEY GLEANERS BIBLE
CLASS ENTERTAINED
The Wesley Gleaners Bible Class
met with Mrs. B. C. Anderson
February 20th. Twelve members be-
ing present.
After business session lovely re-
freshments were served by hostess,
assisted by her daughter, Miss Clara
Anderson
—Reporter.
Capt. R. W. Connor came up from
Houston to attend the funeral of his
old friend, Mr. B. F. Leonard Sunday.
Capt. Connor and Mr. Leonard had
been associated together in handling
: prisoners for the State for many
i years and were very close friends.
Mr. J. R. Davis and daughter, Miss
Willie Mae, and Mr. and Mrs. Joe
■ Boswell of North Zulch have ie-
turned fro mTimpson where they
have been visiting Mrs. Bureai Seay.
Rev. and Mrs. T. B. Anderson and
daughter, Margury, were visiters in
the city the past few days, the guesta
of Mrs. A. Viser and Mrs. J. W. Viser.
"" : Ladyof Hen-
nessy Community Dies
Mrs. Atice Rucker died at the home
or her son, Dalton Bucker in the
Hennessy community, February 18th
at the age of 51 years and ten months.
She was married to S. T. Rucker in
1899, who preceeded her in death five
years ago. To this union six chil-
dren were born: Redelle Rucker,
Dalton Rucker, Mrs. Earnest Johnson.
Mrs. John Stringer, Frankie Mae and
Rachel Rucker. She had six grand-
children. In addition to her duties to
her family she raised Elton Johnson,
her younger brother, from infancy to
manhood. She was a member of the
Missionary Baptist Church from early
childhood.
The influences of this good mother
falls as a benediction on the lives of
her children and friends. Funeral
services were held at the Allphin
cemetery at 3 o'clock Friday after-
I noon.
Our heartfelt sympathy goes out
to the bereaved family in the loss of
their mother. A Friend.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Finney were up
! from Huntsville for a few day's visit
j with relatives and friends here and at
Midway the past week.
Mrs. A. L. Stoddard is visiting her
parents at Kosse this week. She was
accompanied to Kosse by her sister,
Miss Lyn Polk who has been with
Mrs. Stoddard the past several days.
Mr. and Mrs. S. Y. Brooks were
here from Houston the past few days
to visit relatives and old friends.
They were accompanied home by Mr?.
Tom Friery and Mrs. Maness who had
been in Houston for a visit.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Brock arrived
from New Mexico last week to visit
Mrs. Brock's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
W. H. Allphin. Mr. Brock will re-
turn in a few days but Mrs. Brock
will remain for a longer visit.
THE HEAVENS SHINE UPON MADISON LAND
C. M. L.
Upon the desert plain the stars shine forth their luster bright,
They seek no choice of land to glorify it all with light;
The world is good in every part to stars that shine above,
Likewise upon Mad-i-son Land they give to us their love.
The sun goes round each day and night—the world to see and bless.
It knows no spot on earth where it may shine greater or less;
The beauty of the world is like a golden shrine to all,
And all over Mad-i-son Land the sun lets its great glory fall.
The moon in Hs noc-tur-nal path will smile and gladden you,
It looks upon the Earth's great crust and Rees a mighty view;
It wanes and goes away—a thing so hard to understand,
Then all the stars come out and shine glory upon Mad-i-son Land.
Old Fiddlers'Contest Held Here
During Past Week Is Interesting
Free Entertainment For Many
Saturday night, February 23rd,
marked the event of another old
fiddlers contest. This contest was
promoted by the man who has had
a medicine show in Madisonville for
the last three weeks. Saturday night
being his last night in Madisonville,
he tried to give the best entertain-
ment possible.
Three contestants participated in
the contest: Mr. T. M. Kellett and
Mr. F. A. Lively of Madisonville and
Mr. Tunstall of Crockett. Judges
were selected from Madison, Leon,
Brazos, and Houston counties to
judge the contest. They indeed had
a difficult task, for all three parti-
cipants did exceedingly well.
Mr. Tunstall said at the conclusion
of the contest, "I've been knowing Mr.
T. M. Kellett for 'a hundred' years,
and I've never heard him play like
he has tonight before."
After some ten minutes, spent in
make a decision, the judges present-
ed the following returns: P^irst place,
Mr. F. A. Lively; second place, Mr.
Tunstall; third place, Mr. T. M. Kel-
lett.
Mr. Lively said in expressing his
thanks to the audience, "I told Mr.
Tunstall before the contest, if he beat
me that I would pull one hundred
hairs from my old bow. I don't know
one note from another. I was raised
in a briar patch, and learned how on
an old gord."
This makes 18 of such con-
tests Mr. Lively has won in the last
two years at various places over the
State.
Jim HenBerling paid for his sub*
scrlption while in town Tuesday. ^
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