The Mexia Weekly Herald (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, February 1, 1935 Page: 3 of 6
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I rRITDAY, FEBRUARY 1, TOntT. A
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THE MEXIA WEEKLY HERAL#
"ousins School
Preparing for
School League
Those taking part in the Inter-
icholastic League have Ifigh hope#
>e( winnintr this year for K. H.
O'ousins .school,
The teachers who will coach
•he students are: Mis. K, T. Stu-
♦on, essay; Miss Hafiel Ward,
firls baseball; H. A. Monerlef, j
junior hoys baseball; Mrs. J. L. \
Bates, spelling; MjlH Elizabeth
Huke, arithmetic; Miss Julia
Kauhl, boys declamation; Mrs. I
Ruby. Merrill, girls declamation;,
and i\4iss Mary Esterliug, music.
memory; Mrs. Fred Doering, sto-
ry telling; Miss Kay Yeldell,
spelling; Miss Grace Wellanier
choral singing;; Miss Alinb Hard-
in, one-act play; Mian Miry Kal-j
Jin, picture memory.
Wants $100,000
to Heal Heart
"dearest Ufa*"
The pupils who have entered the
Tnterscholastic League
He was her
lier pet "luiiiblebUg," she was
liiu little "salami herring," but
activities1 B,le canceled 'h*'1'' Warrtase
. - ,, plans, Hubert Isaacson, ecouu-
eo far are: Essay, Bobbie Mor- . m(gt lllr(ll,d ,ll(,uor lol)h(,rt
i ton, J,aura Walker, Modene Wal- «liowu More in Chicago court,
lace, Mary Dean Watkins; boys,' ssudly declared in Ills $100.000
(Declamation, John Henry Miller,' balm suit against Mrs. Mary B.
I ' . ■,., ,, Alexander. Harvester magnate a
Jand Rratik Booker; (iirls declama-, Wjdow. Mrs. Alexander, in
tion—Hutli Cox, Sophia Lou Ma- Klorlda, is Ignoring the salt.
vthison, Nine Kuth Trotter, Aus-
tin Page, Grace Camp, Bonnie
Drury, Bernadlne Fife, Marjorie
Hardin, Rill ie Jo Conway and
■Neva Nell Manley; Arithmetic---
E. B. Terry Jr., Tommy Stan-
berry, Roy Willis, Franklin Book-
er, and Billie Fred Wright; Music
memory—Marjorie Hardin, and
Helen Glover llonnell; Spelling—
Electa Durret, Doris Shipp, Helen
Gene Collins, Helen Clover Don-
nell, and E. B. Terry Jr.
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fi-B ENGLISH
CLUB FORMED
The (i-i! English class of K. II.
Cousins, has formed a club called
"The G-B Good English Club",
its purpose is to cultivate good
English in both speaking and
writing. The officers are: Floyd
Wier, president; Garland Oope-
Houscwives that lake pride
in fheir baking skill demand
Marechal Neil, the RICH
Flour that builds vitality and
restores STRENGTH.
FLOUR
VERIGOOI)
24 lbs 85c
481b $1.55
land, vice-president; K. O. Lan-
caster, secretary; and Billy Hor-
ton, reporter.
LINCOLN IMtOGKAM
BY fi-A CLUB
The ti-A Good English
gave a Lincoln program
day
Wildcats Will
Meet Lon Morris
on Thursday Eve
Two -'Game Se&tes Is I
' Scheduled lfor
Tehuacanat:
The Westminster Wildcats arc|
locking forward to their game'
with the Lon Morris Bearcats oil i
Thursday and Friday night's (m I
the Westminster floor. The jfame'
promise to be very evenly mate li-
ed, in the beginning of the sea
son the Lon Morris crew defeat-'
ed tiie Wildcats in two games ouv
the Lon Morris court. Both' till. ;
however, were very close.
Now the Westminster squad it; j
I reinforced and the whole team is
{ playing much better ball. They j
aluj i showed very high class basketball
ill defeating the strong Tyler Col-
- lege team Saturday night, which
has one of the largest arrays oi
1 high school stars of any eolleg
I in the stale, including Cobb am!
| Frizell, Athens' all-state player:
The public'is cordially invited t'
see these games Thursday and
Friday eights. They will not be
disappointed. There will be a pre- i
limitary game between two high
school teams. The college team
game will begin at 8 o'clock.
He'll Aid Alibi
of Hauptmann
t
Club
Thurs-
NOVKL MAI' TO
BE SHOWN
On Friday, February 1. at 2:48
p. ni. the children of the li. B.
Cousins school will be given an
opportunit. to see an unusual map
of Texas. The map, with the per-
formance which goes with it, is
considered worth while. All the
friends of the school are invited
to attend. An admission charge of
10c will be made.
THREE RIVERS, Jan. 31 (HP)
-Mrs. Bessie Harvey, 25, suffered
a gracUtred leg and broken back
today when the automobile in
which she was riding went otov an
embankment alter a tire blew out.
A friend expected to be a strong
alibi witness for Bruno Haupt-
nianii Is Ilans Kloepneuberg,
above, who the defeiigUQt de-
clares sat la the HBUPlniirtm
homo playing a guitar at a "first
Saturday" music festival, a Ger-
man custom, on the night that
the state pays the prisoner re-
ceived the 180,000 ransom money.
Twelve Million
Acres of Land
CASING SET ON
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FAYETTEV1LLE, Ark. Jan. 26
—-(UP)—The federal government
will purchase 12.000,000 acres of
sub-marginal lands in Louisiana,
Mississippi, Oklahoma, Arkansas
and Texas in accordance with its
sub-marginal land program provid-
ed present plans mature, Dr. C. F.
Clayton of .Washington, chief of the
land policy division of the AAA
said last night. Dr. Clayton told a
conference of state representatives
the land would be converted into
Indian reservations, refuges for
migratory birds, and national parks
and put to use for agricultural pur-
poses. The purchases would involve
$60,000,000 Dr. Clayton said.
IN THIS SECTOR
With trading as high as $:!0
and $40 per acre Mexia was ex-
periencing the heaviest oil trad-
Leroy lane Pays
with Mis Life
for Staying Man
HUNTSVILLE, Jan. 215, (UP)
—Laroy Lane died in the electric
chair at the state penitentiary
early today, paying for the death
of a Dallas county deputy sher-.
iff, Cecil Chapman.
The holdup man, who was con-
| vieted of killing Chapman in a
! vain effort to evade arrest, went
calmly to the chair. He required
no assistance from the guards on
j the short walk from hi* cell to,
i the execution room.
He sat down in the death chair
;is his guards directed him and
•vns strapped in. The current was
turned on a few minutes after
midnight and Lane as prouounccd
dead at 12:1!! a. m., the usual
leath hour for men condemned
o die at the prison here.
Lane made no final statement,
nd sent, no last minute messages
ii relatives, or friends, officials
: aid.
"He hail himself under control
all evening and went to his death
calmly," Night Warden T. T. Kas-
ley said.
l.ane was convicted of killing
Chapman during an attempted
holdup the night of Sept. 8. He
and his brother, Eugene had rob-
bed several couples parked on ru-
ral highways just outside Dallas,
and Chapman and Deputy Sheriff
Bryan Peck were ordered to arrest
them.
The two officers parked their
car near where the bandits had
Sinks in Crash; Many Missint;
\
ah.
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Third Ware) lines to meet disaster along the Atlantic coast in five
months, the Mohawk, above, sank a few miles out. from Seagirt, N. J
after a collision with the Norwegian freighter Talisman. Rescue
craft rushed to the scene and saved more than 120 of the passengers
and crew members from the strick en vessel, Havana and
hound from New York. Mbre than 40 were reported miffing. The
Talisman, though damaged, stood hy. r
Call Meeting to
Scale Debts ol
Mexia on Feb.
A meeting ht« be^n arrsn^'ief ts
be held in The City Hall , of
at 2 p. m. Satnrm
when owner* of City
bonds will discucs with the city
commission and their accountants
and counsel the bonded debt posi-
tion of the City of Mexia for the
purpose of arriving at some Wffi-
jitructive and final solution of fin-
ancial difficulties, according to
City Manager Howard F. Mace.^,
"Final reports of our account-
ants and financial statements up
to and including January 31st, ljfeo
will be presented at this meeting,"
said Mr. Mace.
The city is trying to find a HVT
to scale down either the interfe*
or the principal orr, its bended in-
debtedness. Bond owners btt'l
shown disposition to cooperate -in
splendid spirit, it was said.
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Mr. and Mrs. George Pe
were Dallas visitors Monday'
Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Urschel si
Monday in Dallas
Other mills strive to do
but somehow fail to equal 1
Mexico ; superlative quality of
RICH flour, Marechal
Ask vour grocer.
N«*L
wg campaign in years as David j been active, and a few minutes
Johnson Crawford prepared to I |Rter the Lane, drove up. As
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SUGAR
GRANULATED
101b 48'
SHORTENING
Vegctole, Swift's Jewel or Bird Rrantl
S lb. carton 98c
SULTANA
PEANUT BUTTER
1 lb, inr 15c; 2 lb. jar 29c
TALL CAN
Red Salmon 17c
A-P PUMPKIN
2 No. 2!4 cans 17c
ION A NO. 2'/2 CAN
Apricots 19c
PACIFIC
Toilet Paper, 6 rolls 19c
TOMATO SOUP
VAN CAMP'S
TOMATO JUICE
can 5c
3 toll cans 19c
BUFFALO
Match??, 6 boxes ... .24c
ION A STRING LESS
Beans, 2 No. 2 can...17c
5c
BEANS, I on a
PORK & TOMATO
SAUCE, tall can
Grandmother s Bread
Regular Sliced, 2 for 15c
Rolls, dozen 5c
Raisin, loaf 9c
8 O'CLOCK
Coffee, lb 19c
TEXAS
Oranpes, doz /5c
WfNESAP
Annies, 2 doz ?9c
GRAPEFRUIT
SEEDLESS
6 for
POTATOES
w ihs
N.li.C. EXCEL
CRACKERS
?■ Ih, box
CRUSHED DELMONTE. Huff el cans
Pinpfwr.le ? cans 17c
15c
Mr
17 c
Jit redded Wheat pkg. lie
Lop Cabin Svrup table size can 23c
Grape-Nuts, pkg 18c
Post Bran F!akes, small, lie
drill the plug one day this week
on his Crawford Petroleum com-
pany's Vol De Long Nd. 1, two
and a half miles north of Thelma.
The test, bottom hole at 2S0I feet
in six feet of shaley saiid with
oil showing, was cemented oft' as
pipe was set during the past
week. Evidently oil men regarded
it the most favorable showing,
for .the hotels were filling up,
maps were pulled out and farm-
ers were propositioned on their I
leases and royalty.
The test, in unproven territory,
is south of the Cedar Creek and
Nigger Creek fields, which pro-
duced for a time but were later
abandoned. The formation was
running high with top of the bro-
ken sand at 2772 feet, with base
of the Austin chalk logged at
2150 feet' on the test. Elevation
is 523 feet.
The Vol De Long is eight miles
west of Mexia, and is almost due.
west of the south end of the
Mexia field. It is reached by the
up.
they attempted to rob the officers 1
the deputies ordered them to put !
up their hands. Eugene Lane an-
sered with a shot, and the officers
returned the fire. During the bat-
tle Engene l.ane and Chapman
were fatally wounded and Peck
was shot. ,
Despite his wounds, Peek
powered Laroy Lane. He
then
BUY
A Good Food Store
took Chapman to a hospital and
Lane to jail.
Laroy l.ane was
tried twice
Oil
charges of murdering Chap-
man. The first trial failed to get
a verdict, bat on the second he
was found guilty and sentenced
to death, despite his plea that
Eugene fired the shot that killed
Chapman. He admitted, however,
that he also had fired at the of-
ficers.
Freeman Named
President Bank
- ",v i
Reunion grounds road and the]
Horn Hill crossing. It is west of j W. D. Freeman is the new presi-
! the Navasota river. | debt of the Farmers .State Bank.
the result of a stockholders and
directors meeting held Tuesday af-
Meanwhile. C. F. Carter and Ut-
ile Jones were endeavoring to
complete their Forest Glade test ternoon. Mr. Freeman succeeds the
to shallow pay which had a bot-
tom 175S feet down, Mr. Jones
late Julius Nussbaum to that of-
fice. He formerly was a vice prcsi-
Prices Good for Friday Afternoon, Saturday nntf Monday.
Dressed
HENS
39c
Spuds
10 lbs 19c!
COMPOUND
crt, 98c
Cahba
op
said 1101 feet of casing was be- nl'
ing used. Gas pressure was hea- ^"^holdera selected H. C. Frcc-
vy. A careful test of formations n,a" "ml HaioU1 Nus<,lmunl ns now
is to be made when the drilling 'electing George L
is resumed. The test is on what
is known a,s the Dean farm, of
75 acres, formerly a part of Mrs.
S. E. Powell's tract. It is south
of the Mexia field.
Peyton Brothers, after a shut-
down because of the big freeze,
resumed operations on the fam-
ous Stubenraueh test, a Trinity
Peyton, C. A. Nussbaum and W. D. I
Freeman. The new directors are H.
('. Freeman and Harold Nussbaum,
filling the places of J. Nussbaum >
and H. W. Freeman, deceased.
Directors selected the following j
officers:
W. I). Freeman, president, J
George L. Peyton, vice president, j
sand effort. It was bai
to o700 feet Saturday and was
rigging up with cable tools pie-
Harold Nussbaum, vice president
''own' (', G. White, cashier, Lizzie Mae
Parker, assistant cashier.
President Freeman said "we havi-
| paring to start making hole a- had a good year and with prcr.e.n
gain some time during the week,, prospects conditions should con-
Keeling to Drill Plug : tinue to improve steadily." The
The W. J. Keeling estate test j meeting has been postponed from
on the Hushing farm in Navarro i January S.
county, which set casing 10 days
ago, was'preparing to drill the I /)«
plug early this week. This test, • tJ' • ^*'£'7 DUX'S
which was started by W. J. Keel-
ing shortly before bis accidental
deafh, has been continued by his '
estate and persons interested with J
him in the operation. A number
Cows in Freestone
Rice 4 lb. .
Tomato Juice ,...5
Onions 4 !b
Jello, 2 pkjsfs
Post Toasties, larjre
15c
12c
GASPERG00
FISH
PICNIC
HAMS
PURE PORK
Sausage
lb
lb
lb
10c
15c
19c
DAISY WISCONSIN
CHEESE lb 21c
ARMOUR'S WHITE LABEL SLICED
BACON lb 27c
DRY SALT
ACON lb 21c
Dr. George H. Allen of Dallas,
arrived Monday mornina: in Fair-
of local people have acreage near J ffvld to start the cattle buying pro- g
by. This test is four miles west imam in Freestone county. Otis l
of the Currie field. Casing was j title,v of Fairfield is working with |
set to 2853 feet with the bottom Dr. Allen as cattle appraiser. The
of the hole at 2880 feet. | work is to last only three, days as ''
The Magnolia Petroleum com- all cattle must bo shipped hy Feli-
pany has made a location ,100 tirirfy 1st. More than IO.OOii cattle
No. 2 ( an:
Standard
n o
at
47c
rur? Cane
I TO
W* rh
Apples, ea
i
Lemons, ea. .....lc\
Bananas, ea
Lettuce
"pTntos
5 lbs 39c
feet west of the N. B. Boyd No.
1 in Wort ham field for a shal-
low test. Drillers were reported
moving in to begin operation. An
effort was made to turn a Wood-
bine test into shallow production,
without success but with enough
information to call for the shal-
low test,
Meanwhile Joe Hoover was pre-
paring to explore the McFall
neighborhood in the eastern edge
of Limestone county, east of
Mexia. The location, however, hod
not been made.
JED ADAMS ILL
DALAS, Jan. 25—(UP) -Jed C.
Adams, member of the board of
tax appeals and former Democratic
national committecnjan from Tex-
as, is critically ill inV Washington,
D. C„ hospital, it was learned here
today.
have ben sold to the government
already from Freestone county.
The cattlemen are not nearly so
eager to dispose of their cattle as
they were when the program start-
ed, but some producers arc practi-
cally forced to as they have no feed
nnd the cattle can not go through
the winter without considerable
feed.
CASE POSTPONED
WAXAHACHIE, Jan. 211,—fee-
cause of the absence of four ma-
terial defense witnesses, the
case of C. R. Yarbroujih charged
with fatally burning his foster
daughter, Doris, was continued
for the second time in District
Judge Tom J. Ball's court Mon-
day. It was reset for Feb. 18.
One hundred nnd fifty special
veniremen had been summonded.
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Veal Chuck
Roast., lb,
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Early Bird CO I FEE, ?1; . ..19c
Ufiffht & Fatly
COFFEE "
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Dry Sail
jowh, ib mc
Nice and Tender
Steak lb 10c
Admiration
COFFEE
lb.
?lb,
31c
92c
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Special Introductory Offer oiv
Tasty Oleomargerine, lb. ,17c
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The Mexia Weekly Herald (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, February 1, 1935, newspaper, February 1, 1935; Mexia, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299387/m1/3/: accessed May 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Gibbs Memorial Library.