The Rusk Cherokeean (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, November 30, 1928 Page: 1 of 8
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The Rusk Cherokeean
WITH WHICH IS CONSOLIDATED THE PRESS-JOURNAL
Originally Established February 27, 1850.
RUSK, CHEROKEE COUNTY, TEXAS. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30. 1926.
WORKING FOR A GREATER RUSK AND A MORE PROSPEROUS CHEROKEE COJNTY
VOLUME 10, NO. 23
DEATH OF JOHN DIAL
Died at his residence in Dialville
on Saturday, November the 24th.,
John J. Dial age 86 years. He was a
pioneer citizen of this county coming
to Texas about 05 years ago. He was [
born in Georgia,and belonged to the
Royal Arch Masons at this place.
He was a successful farmer and
merchant and formerly owned the
property on which Dialville is now
located, the town being named for
him
He was twice married and is sur-
vived by his second wife and several
children and grandchildren besides a
number of relatives.
He was buried in the Providence
cemetery near Dialville, the funeral
services were conducted by Rev Roark
and ho was buried with Masonic hon-
ors.
THE PURE FOOD SHOW
A GREAT SUCCESS.
NEGRO KILLS A WHITE COUNCIL OF AGRICUL- LAING DEATH CASE WE WENT TO CENTER
MAN AT JACKSONVILLE. TURE HOLDS MEETING TRIAL IS CONTINUED. , AND THEN TURNED BACK.
Miss Beulah Allen and her father,
W. G. Allen and uncle George Allen
motored to Abilene* the first of the
week.
RIWAN'S MINSTREL SURE
TO BE SOME TREAT.
What is probably going to prove
the best thing that ha - been staged
in many months, or stars, will be the j
Kiwanis Club Minstrel, billed for the I
Artor Theatre nex Thursday night.
The minstrel proper will be taken '
over by members of the Club, and |
just to see some of them blacked will!
be worth twice the price of admis-
sion, but the program is quite exten-
sive which will contain many other
appropriate features.
As the proceeds are to go for pay-
ing for the Boy Scouts Camp House,
the building of which was sponsored
by the Kiwanis Club, it should be uni-
versally patronized and we doubt if
the Theatre will be able to accomo-
date the patrons.
The Pure Food and Better Baby
exhibition held here for three days
of last week under the direction of
the ladies of the Baptist church was
quite a success in every way. Excel-
lent programs were rendered every
evening. The booths which repre-
sented the many business houses of
Rusk were beautifully decorated.
On Saturday caning prizes were
awarded in the BeU.r Baby contest
as follows:
The first prize, $10.00 to the baby
from three months to one year old, to
Hilda Jeanne daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. T. J. Stovall jr, Second prize,
a gold ring—Joyce Smith. Third
Gilbert Swearingen.
From one to two years old, first
prize, $10.00 to Charles son of Mr.
and Mrs. Eldredge Sublett. Second
prize, a gold ring, to Joan Copeland.
Third prize, to Carmen Marie Deek-
nrd.
Decorated Doll Buggies
First prize, $2.50, to Jean Haberle.
Second prize, loving cup—Othine
Schochler. Third prize, a box of
candy—to Jean Trantham.
Decorated Tricyclcs
First prize, $2.50 to John Clai-
borne Williams. Second prize, loving
cup—to James Weldon Pryor. Third
prize, a box of candy—to Billie Auf-
richt.
The greater part of the credit for
the success of this undertaking is due
to Mesdames W. E. Sloan and Tom
Goolsby, as most of the work and re-
sponsibility was left up to them and
they certainly did it well.
A ratal shooting took place at
Jacksonville last Thursday night, in
which A. B. Crawford who seems to
have been a comparative stranger
and representing himself to be an
officer of the law was shot by Pete
Wiggins, colored.
The facts are reported by the Jack-
sonville Progress as follows:
The shooting occured at the home
of Jewel Price, colored, in the north-
ern part of the city Thursday after- Agriculture,
noon about 5:00 o'clock. It occurs
that Crawford had gone to Price's
place and had bought some whiskey
from Price. First, it is stated, he-
bought a drink and afterward a pint,
for which Crawford paid $1.00. After
the whiskey purchased, Crawford
placed Price under arrest and hand-
cuffed him, presumably representing
Thereafter
The Jacksonville Progress got a
"Scoop" on us Monday night, and !
here it is:
Ten matters of considerable magni-
tude and importance to the entire
county were discussed and adopted
following the report of the committee
appointed to work out a major acti-
vities program, at a meeting at the
Deckard's Ilotei in Rusk Monday nite '
of the Cherokee County Council of 1
j himself to be an officer.
witnesses state, Crawford demanded
a cash deposit of $".0.00 from Price
i as security for his appearance before
1 federal court at Tyler in January;
that Price and hi- friends agreed to
rai.-e the $50.00, and sent down town
: for the money. During the perfor-
, .!)«!>• • Price requ, '.cd j receipt for
the money, and it is said Crawford
I prepared a receipt to be delivered j
to Price when the money was paid j
over. When the messenger returned
with the $50.00, some one raised the
question as to Crawford's authority;
to require and receive the money, j
whereupon Crawford told the negroes j
he would not accept the money, but
These activities include a County |
Home Demonstration Agent, county i
wide rodent campaign, county wide
; fertilizer campaign, terracing spelling
be, adoption of policy on highway |
construction favoring removal of tax '
; from farm lands and placing it on
i gas and oil, and various other mar- j
ters.
It was decided that the en|irej
council would appear before the coun-j
ty commmi. sioners at their next meet
n nterest of securing a County
: IImv.- Demon.-(ration Agent. The
: J: cksonville Chamber of Commerce ;
Lufkin, Nov. 28—Trial of three
men charged with murder for the
slaying of John Laing, Houston p.'int-
er and paperhanger, was continued
here today on motion of the state,
which alleged six material witnesses,
including the sheriff, who is ill, wer-
absent.
What is expected to be a long legal
battle began here today—the trial
of Lloyd Carter, 30, charged with
the "hammer slaying" of John Laing
Houston painter and paperhanger, at
at house on the outskirts of town
near midnight one day last summer.
It was a big day for Lufkin, A
large crowd jammed in the court-
room in District Judge C. A. Hodges'
court, all intent on hearing the de-
tails of the gruesome murder.
By agreement ot counsel. Carter
will be the first to answer to the
charge of murder and the assault to
murder ch«iye=. resulting from the
attack on Mrs. Laing and the two
The Ru-:k Hi Eagles went down to
Center la t Friday with all the glam-
or, hope and confidence possessed
by Napolion when he inarched on
Mascow and returned just about as
badly beaten and humiliated as the
army of France in that ill fated cam-
paign.
The score was 6 to 0 in favor of
the Shelby county chiefs.
It was a good game as indicated
and Rusk put up the best game it
has played so far this season and the
loss was no disgrace. Luck was
really responsible for the defeat.
-mall
who were beaten uncon-
Mrs. Laura Guinn and Mr. and Mrs.
Cameron Guinn and son of Mineral
Wells arrived Wednesday and will
spend several days here with rela-
tive?.
has been doing considerable work in
tlvs e nnection and has obtained a!
p • tion containing approximately!
5<i■: names, generally representative
of the entire county.
A county wide rodent campaign to j
be started within the next few days j
under the direction of W. L. Knapp ;
will be launched. This campaign will I
benefit every section of the county j
and will be worth a great deal to the '
would turn his prisoner over to the | farmers. Rats are taking many places
sheriff. It developed that Crawford "lc c'^ Jacksonville now, and
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PROGRAM
ASTOR THEATRE
Your Own Place of Fun and Amusement
Now Showing
ALL STAR CAST
"Thief in the Dark"
— ALSO —
Snappy Comedy
Playiny Saturday, Uec. 1st.
Another K sizing Thrill o drama of the
Untamed West
"The Amazing Rider"
- WITH —
TOM TYLER and FRANKLIN DARROW
Added Hits
Two-Reel Comedy
slope
had secured someone to phone Sher-
iff Martin atRusk at some stage of
the proceedings. It was while he was
waiting for the sheriff to arrve that
Pete Wiggins, colored, entered the
room, and after having some conver-
sation with Crawford, pulled out a
pistol and shot him. It is stated that
the pistol used by Wiggins was the
property of Melvin Thompson, color-
ed.
After Crawford was shot, Con-
stable Smith secured from his person
a receopt reading as follows: "11-
22-2'J Jacksonville, Texas. Received
this is true in other parts of the 1
county, it is understood.
W. T. Norman, E. W. Thurman and
C. K. DeBusk were appointed as a
committee to work out plans for a
general fertilization program. The
interest in this is growing all over
the county and it has been stimulated
to a considerable extent through the
efforts of the Kiwanis Club of Rusk.
Boy's and Girls' Club work was de-
clared to be one of the most impor-
tant phases of the Council's work,
and a committee of five, coposed of
II. I). Rawlinson, Chairman; C. K.
of John Williams $50.00 Fifty Dot- i DeBusk, O. O. Miller, Geo. William-
!ars and no-100 for bond to appear
in Tyler for federal court on Jan.
28-28."
(Signed) Jackson Crag.
As the result of the shooting three
negroes were arrested and placed in
the county jail at Rusk. They are:
son and K. \V'. T-.urmond, was ap-1
poined to develop plans for carrying J
on this activity, working out prizes,
plans for attendance at A. & M. short
Course and various features of such
a program.
Terracing was included in the pro-
Pete Wiggins, Jewel Price and Melvin J gran and W. L. Knapp County Agent
i Thompson. was placed in charge of this project
Local officers know very little con-1 with the idea of working out a de-
i eerning Crawford, saying that he had ' finite program along that line.
' no connection with them in any law j A county wide Spelling Bee was j
scious. Frank Miller and Charlie
Garwood l'a-e similar charges and
thier cases will come up after Carter's
trial.
At first it was expected the de-
fense would ask for a change of ven-
ue, but the plan was abandoned, at-
torneys said. About 150 defense
witnesses, many from Houston, were
in the courtroom. J. J. Collins and
John Redditt of Lufkin and J. W.
Armstrong of Houston are defense
counsel, while the state is represent-
ed by District Attorney Sam Town-
send, County Attorney Curtis Finley
and Jimmie Yancey, assistant county
attorney
About as many witnesses as the
defense has also have been called
by the state, some of them from Tri-
nity County, where the men were ar-
rested by Special Ranger Glover,
Sheriff Art Youngblood and other of-
ficers
As court opened the three men
took thier pices at the bar, Mrs. Car-
ter accompanying her husband. By
Miller's side was his sister. Carter
hurst into tears when his son. about
5 years old, came in, jumped into his
lap and began sobbing.
Laing was slain early in the sum-
mer. The Laings had come from
Houston to paint and paper a house
near town. They got here late and
decided to spend the night at the
vacant house.
About midnight, while the family
lay on pallets in the house, they were
Several attended the football game
at Center Friday, including, Mr. and
Mrs. Ed Singletary. Mr. and Mr .
Elmer Mu-ick, Dr. Thomas, Clyde
Patrick, Ted Butler, F. ■!,. ick Fra-
zier, Cha rp Carter, Dr. Summers and
sons, Ed Summer and sons, Mr. and
Mrs, Fini; Stovall, Mrs. Jeffy Stovall
C. E. Jay, Mrs. Clarence Adams, Her-
man Odom, Red Manning, Ray Man-
ning, Dr. and Mrs. Cobble and child-
ren and J. R. Aufricht.
Mrs. Laura Guinn, Mr. and Mrs.
Cameron Guinn and daughter of Min-
eral Wells Texas, will spend the
Thanksgiving in the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Jno. B Guinn.
attacked with a blunt instrument,
first Mr. Laing, then Mrs. Laing as
she screamed when she saw her hus-
band knocked into insensibility, and
then the two children.
Mrs. Laing for several days was
unconscious at the hospital here. At
first -he was in doubt as to the iden-
tity of Carter when he was arrested,
but later she identified his as one
of the slayers of Laing. It was in-
dicated that defense attorneys would
offer an albi and attack Mrs. Laing's
identification.
The slaying was perhaps the most-
sensational tragedy that has ever oc-
cured here. Officers worked for
weeks without a clue. Carter and
Miller, arrested at Liberty soon after
the tragedy, were released soon after
the first arrest, but were rearrested
after several weeks
The three men were denied bond
after indictment. Bail of $5000,
however, was granted when the cases
were appealed, hut neither of them
made it and all have been in jail
here since.
inforcement program. Sherff Mar-
tin said the same. It appears the
among the proreets adopted. It was j
decided to have three of these each '
man has been in Alto, Rusk, and then ] year, and the first would be held in
Jacksonville soon after the first of j
the year. E. S. Erwin was put in ,
Sunday-Monday, Dec. 2d-3d.
"THE FIRST KISS"
The drama of a youth who turns picturesque river
bandit for the honor of his family. And the beau-
tiful heiress who braves scandal and death in her
great love for him. A strong picture of the type
that is in high favor with modern audiences.
FOX NEWS EVENTS
Tues.-Wed., Dec. 4th-5th.
SALLY PHIPPS NICK STUART
IN
"The News Parade"
Lindbergh and his plane have nothing on "Newsreel
Nick," the camera and Sally when it comes to breaking
records. In the air, in planes and skyscrapers, in Hoods
and tires, Nick is on the job with his camera. Thrills
aplenty!
v)ON T FORGET to see Chapter 5 "YELLOW CAMEO'
: out in tiie Mud Creek section for some
time. He wore two badges, one in
j dicating that he was or had been a i charge of plans for this affair.
deputy constable somewhere, and the 1 A resolution was adopted favoring
; other saying in simple words, 'Tri- a plan io take the tax off of real
j vate Detective." j estate and farm lands and place it on !
Local officers say, and the facts j gasoline and oils for the purpose of
j obtained show that, notwithstanding : road construction. It is possible that
j there is pome question about Craw- i a committee will be appointed to
; ford's operations, Wiggins had not i handle his matter at a latir date. This
; the slightest right nor excuse to shoot resolution is in line with two road
him. programs that have been advanced
i previously.
Crawford died at an early hour! A- E- Garner was selected to con-'
I Saturday morning and owing to the' ftr with °fficia!s of the East Texas
excitement, and some talk of mob vio- s Chamber of Commerce p . ardii -
1 lence Wiggins was removed from the thcir Plan? for undertaking a tick
county jail by Sheriff Martin Satur- eradication campaign in the in: -ted
| day night, and taken to some jail in | orc'n- which inchldGS Cherokee county
an ndjac' nt county for safe keeping. Organization of Bull Circle* and
Two other negroes, Melvin Thomp- man>* other matters of interest the
son and Jewel Price, who were arrest-1 Keneral advancement of the county
cd in connection with the shooting w<'re discussed.
i having been present at the time, have i Thosc in "tendance last night were
been released on bond. E- S- Erwin, A. E. Garner. VV. L.
Knapp, H. D. Rawlingson, O. O. Mil-
| ier, E. W. Thurmond, T. G. Norton,
' C. K. DeBusk and VV. T. Norman.
K
DR. JOHNSON ENTERTAINS
Dr. J. F. Johnson entertained with
a most inviting and thoroughly en-
joyed 'birthday dinner at his hospi-
table home at the noon hour Friday
Nov. 23.
The occasion was Dr. Johnson s
birthday which falls on the same day
as that of Dr. A. 0. Li ter but they
were not born in the same >car and
these observances have been occur-
I ing for the last three or four years.
The invited guests were Dr. Lester,
B. F. Sherman and H. O. Ward.
Mr. Sherman acted as chaperone and
the old fellow seemed to enjoj being
cut with the kids.
The next meeting will be held at
4 o'clock Monday afternoon, Decem-
ber 10th, at Rusk.—Jacksonville Pro-
gress,
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Mrs. Akin Sherman visited friends
at Henderson last Sunday.
M. D. Hollenback and Irene Most-
ley.
Sani Richardson and Julia Mae
Hanger.
Bt nt Mass y arid Lnutmna McCrim
men.
John E. Ilardie and Ruby Spigener
F. L. Baker and Elsie Arlington. (
Walter Cole Jr., and Bessie Lee j
Cleveland.
Lonnie Triplet! and Delia Me |
Brown.
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Ward, H. O. The Rusk Cherokeean (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, November 30, 1928, newspaper, November 30, 1928; Rusk, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth291381/m1/1/: accessed May 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Singletary Memorial Library.