The Graham Leader (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 25, 1940 Page: 2 of 10
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TIB GRAHAM LEADER, TBUR8DAY, JANUARY, *5. !**•
Oaks Including
One In Graham
Figure In History
tragic tide at Tvsoa history
Near Gonzales stands a tree
known as the "Houston Oak," where,
j according to tradition, the Texas
leader advised his followers to seek
safety east of the Sabine river. The
story of the "Runaway Scrape'
which followed forms one of the
darkest chapters in Texas history.
Probably the most widely publi
cited tree in the state is the Treaty
Oak at Austin, which stands near
the intersection of West 6th and
Crockett streets. In a newspaper story
Scattered f(W yt,ars UKO tj,f American For-
are gnarled i Association, selected the Treaty
awka, ^still thriving, th- ugh ttl,f oak as the most nearly perfect
Rad thiff’ Beginning in the rnulsil*- ; speclmen of a tree in the United
ages and have been silent witnesses gtates
to the developmet of this empire -
from an unexplored wilderness. The ( Another old oak tree that has fig
NEW8 Of
RED TOP
The history of Texas, dating back
aaore than 400 years to the appear-
ance of the first white man on the
shores of Galveston island, could
Wall he written around its trees, ac
cording to historians,
throughout the state
„ leafy boughs that offered shel- ured decidedly in the history of
ter centuries ago to nomad Indian Texas is that which stands in a
tribes now
provide shelter for 20th protected area on the lawn of the Johnson of Graham, were Sunday
oak
century citizens. Texas forests fup- j Dollman House in Graham, an
nished both cradles and caskets for under which the Texas Cattlemen’s
early adventurers and trail blai' rs. ! Association was organized in 1876.
From the same source came lumber
for cottages and cathedrals, steam
Boats and skiffs.
The oak tree, said to live for more
than 1,000 years, has figured most
prominently in the colorful history
of Texas. "
It was under a spreading oak
that Santa Anna surrendered to
Gen. Sam Houston on the field of
San Jacito on April 21, 1836.
The first justice court of the re
public of Texas was held at C’>!um-
Bus Under a huge oak. The first
Masonic lodge in Texas was organ-
ised 103 years ago under an oak
at Brazoria.
The famous treaty oak at Austin
was the legendary meeting place
for Indian and white leaders. Two
military expeditions organized un-
der an oak at La Grange wrote a
colorful chapter in Texas history.
Galveston Island has its “Pirates'
Grove" where Jean Lafitte and his
freebooters held their councils of
An appropriate marble marker was
placed under it i 11136.
Time has dealt kindly with the
mbss-hung oak at Columbus which
shades almost the entire block bor-
dering on the east side of the court
t house square. This giant monarch
of the forest is colorful in history
and masjestic in appearance. - It Is
well preserved, and bears a bronze
plate placed on its trunk by the
San Antonio chamber of commerce.
The Columbus tree is often re-
ferred to as the 1,000 year-old oak
It was a veritable patriarch when
surveyors from Austin colony visit-
ed the site of Columbus in 1823, and
when the village was laid out and
named in 1835.
war.
The oak. too, has figured in the
NOTICE
guevls of Mr. and Mrs. Emmet Cas-
key.
Mr. and Mrs. Edd Jennings have
been making frequent trips to Gra
ham this week, wher^ their little
daughter, Margaret, has been re-
ceiving medical attention.
Others confined to their homes
because of illness this week were
Virginia Tiffin, Rev. Roark, Tom
Rutherford.
Mr. and Mrs. Blackburn Petty and
John Edward made a business trip
to Dajlas last Wednesday.
On account of my
and not being able to hire an
efficient horaeahoer I have
It was in 1837 that the first d s-
trict court of the republic of Texas
was held under the tree. The vil-
lage of Columbus bad been put to
the torch by Texas troops during
their retreat from Gonzales the year
before, and there were no buildings
left. So court was called to order
under the spreading oak branches
with Three-Legged Willie Williamson
presiding as judge.
According to an account of an
| early trial under the oak, a defend
health Snt’ accused °* stealing a horse, was
** found guilty and sentenced to hang.
As the judged called the next
„ . . case, the condemned man was drag-
d.acont.nued horseshoeing but ^ ^ th(? other side of the tree
will continue to do general aild strung up to a convenient limb,
hlackamithing and welding, as \0 verification of this story can
j lie found in the court records, but
I wish to thank one and all *'n is defini* evidence
for their patronage for 27 h ‘ frlon" fluently
years here among you.
Wishing all
1940
prosperous
were
whippings on ci urt order o
Mrandej with an iron-
va.j
Respectfully,
T. 0. CALVIN
The VILLAGE BLACKSMITH
to show
given
were
PAINFUL ENDING
Graham. Texas
"I hnpe that's a nice book for you
to"'"read,’" said the" fond mother to
her young daughter.
“Oh, yes, mother, it’s a. very love
ly book, but 1 don’t think you would
. hilfe,it. It's no sad :.t the end.1’ -
“How is it sad, dear?”
"Well; she dies and -he had -to go
tack to 1 is wife.”
J. C. Petty is ill with pneumonia.
The following children are here to
visit Mr. Petty: Mrs. Arlie Stone,
Austin; Mr. and Mrs. Jack Petty
and Calvin of Bunger; Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Guinn. Paducah; Mrs. Le-
mons, Paducah; Mrs. Adkins and
Norma Lee and Roberta, Big Spring;
Mis. Mattie Orr, Mertens.
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Bills were
called to Denton Sunday because of
the death of Mrs. Bills’ step-father
who resided there.
Mrs. Claud Terrell has been in
Graham this week visiting her
granddaughter, Helen LaRue Roark.
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Swaim of Lav-
ing, Henry Hutchins cf Olney, Bill
Highway Commissioner Contrasts
Attitudes Shown Toward Casualty Lists
Of Wars And Of Traffic Accidents
AUSTIN, Texas.—Recalling theOconstruction that will prove a boon
NEWS OF
HERRON CITY
Mr. and Mrs. J. Henderson and
family spent Sunday with Granny
Henderson at Salem.
More than half of the Ming Bend
school pupils were absent Thursday
and Friday, due to sickness and cold
weather.
Miss Beulah Cole visited in Jacks-
boro Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. I. H. Bobo and fam-
ily visited Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sharp
of Bunger last Sunday.
A group of Herron City people at-
tended the funeral of Mrs. Jeff An
derson at Gooseneck cemetery, Mon-
dap afternoon. Mrs. Anderson was
former resident here.
Grandpa Newby is ill at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ribble.
NEWS OF
FLINT CREEK
Everything is beautiful this (Mon
day) morning, wrapped in u tSaifet
of white.
all
improved at this'
29.19 miles
per gallon
— The lick in-JHir community a:
seem to be some improved at tni
writing.
Grandma-Cody passed away after
a long illness. Grandma was the
mother of Clay Cody and Mrs.. A.
D. Moore, both of this community.
The friends of Lois Newman of
Red Top regret to learn she wps
very painfully injured in a car wreck
last week. We hope for her a speedy
recovery.
Miss Susie Barnhart spent Sunday
in Grahafti with Miss Ethel Trout
and Mrs. Jack McClatchey.
Miss Lucille Brashears became
the bride of Berl Tiffin January
12, in Fort Worth. The many
friends of Lucille wish them the
greatest of happiness.
anxiety with which the public scan-
ned the casualty lists from the West-
ern Front back in 1918, State High-
way Commissioner Harry Hines
draws a vivid comparison between
the intense interest and c'::cern
manifested in those days to the
apparently apathetic attitude dis-
played by Texwis today to the ap-
palling losses on Texas highways
and streets. In an article on “This
business of Safety" in the January
issue of Texas Parade Mr. Hir.et<
draws a not too encouraging picture
of the traffic situation y it exists
in the Lone Star State.
"It is appalling to know that from
January 1 to September 30, 1939,
there were 1,098 deaths on the high-
ways and streets of Texas,” he
writes; “more than 39 per cent of
these deaths were caused by drunk-
enness and fast driving. This tota’
does not include those who may be
permanently injured, nor those who
were temporarily confined to hospit-
als or homes because of minor in-
juries.
to highway safety. One of the im-
portant innovations adopted and one
which is proving of major import-
ance is the filling of ditches adja-
cent to the highways and the widen-
ing of shoulders so that a driver
forced off the highway can keep his
car upright and return to the high
way safely.
NMW8 or
LOVING
During my tenure in office as a
highway commissioner, I have exert-
ed my best efforts and energy upon
major objective of safety within
our organization and upon our high-
ways, roads and streets. Death!
and accidents are a common foe of
all mankind.
“These traffic safety protective
measures have not solved the prob-
lem <>f safety on the highways. Ne
one measure can succeed in elimin-
ating all of the hazards confronting
us. Proper engineering can mak;
our highways safer for motor traf-
fic, but all of the engineering skill
and educational advantages in the
world will not complete the job.
There is absolute necessity that the
law enforcement oficerg of the State
of Texas rig'dly enforce traffic reg-
ulations on the highways and in our
cities and towns. Uniform traffic
signals should be installed and they
should be obeyed. Regardless of his
walk of life, every driver of a motor
vehicle should be forced and com-
pelled to follow the rules and regula-
tion* of safe and sane driving. Fail-
ure to do so should bring down
upon him the wrath of the proper
courts and his punishment should be
sufficient to make him realize the
Mrz. Knrlene Garrett at Graham
visited last week with her parents
here.
Visiting Mr. and Mrs. John Strat-
ton last week were their daughter
and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Jess
Kennedy of Haskell.
Several from Loving attended fu-
neral services in Graham Thursday
of last week for little Dorothy Mae
Harlan. Mr. and Mrs. Coleman
Howard of Hedley, and Mrs. Marion
Crowder, Dallas, were also here for
the services.
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Harty visited
last week with the latter’a mother,
Mrs. C. L. Mahaney, who has been
ill at her home in Bunger.
B. \V. Drum, formerly of Indian
Mcund, but lately of Graham, ia
here to make his home with hi*
sister, Mrs. Jennie Johnson.
| Mr. and Mrs. Dirk Smith,\ Mrs.
Ben Smith and Mr. and Mra. G. -H.
Cunningham were shopping in Wich-
ita F'allr Wednesday.
Onie Elliott and family have
, moved from the Flint Crek commun-
ity to make their home here.
Mrs. Lewis Bills wa~ called to
Denton Monday to attend the funer-
al of her step-father, Charlie Pier-
son.
, enormity of the crime, for we must,
Pursuing that objec- realize we are attacking an all-pow-
tive, the State Highway Commission >rfu, destnictive a(cency and that
created a safety division within the ^ ingenuity and resourcefulness
will be taxed to the limit.
Highway Department. The accom
plishments of this new division dur-
ing the short period of its existence “Public sentiment and attitude
indicate that its creation was a can make or break the enforcement
valuable contribution in the promo-1 of any law in this democratic land
tion of safety upon the arteries of | of elective judges and lenient juries
transportation. In coordination with It is therefore the duty of every
other existent organizations it has man, woman and child to support
beeq able to reduce motor vehicle the enforcement agencies of our
fatalities in this State very mate-: traffic safety departments,
rially. The reduction was made pos-
sible by the traffi? and safety di-
vision's conduct of various surveys g ^ g infIuencc ^
of danger spot, on the highway* bu wi„ do evn,ythin(r within
and the resultant elimination. iu power ^ mppt (hp conditiona
“The Highway Department, in its imposed upon it under its new high-
long range highway planning, is way plannnig and construction,”
looking forward to such types of promises Mr. Hines, “but what about
Jess and Joe Shepard, W. B. Shep-
ard and Fay Gartman, who ia now
living with Mr. and Mrs. W. R.
Shepard, were business Visitors in
Fort Worth Wednesday.
Visiting Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. Rush Bills were Mr. and Mre.
J. R. Bills Jr. of Graham.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Wheat had as
Sunday guests, Mr. and Mra. Travis
Wheat of Albany.
i
Mrs. O. B. Underwood and D. F.
Ford are ill this week, iFriends of
Grandfather Petty of the Red Top
community will also regret to know
of his serious illness.
! “The Texas Highway, Department,
realizing that traffic control will
you?” he asks of the public.
“Will you make a pi dge to keep
your motor vehicle within the' bounda
of ‘reasonable driving’ and thus be-
come an asset to safety? Being
thoughtful, considerate, patient, kind,
and courteous will reduce traffic
accident* in Texas by one-half in
the days to come.”
Census Reports On
Cotton Industry
Df THE 1940
GILM0HE-Y0SEMITE
SWEEPSTAKES
Expert driven piloted the Btudebaker Commander, President
and Champion equipped with extra-cat overdrive that
fmiahed 1-2—3 in this year’s Oifanore-Yosemite Economy
Sweepstakes. But average Champion owners know that
there’s no other car in its lowest price field that’s to dollar
saving a* the Champion, mile after mile. 8ee and drive a
# Champion first! Low down payment—say C.I.T. terms.
DAN ORR MOTOR CO.
A report received here hy R. L.
Rehders 'from the Bureau of the
Census shows that for December,
237,252 cotton spinning spindles
were in place in Texas of which
222,880 were active during the
month. Active spindle hours for
J the state totaled 78,621,955, or an
! average of 331.
( Preliminary figures show that
24,943,802 cotton spinning spindles
were in place in the United States
on December 31, 1939, of which 22,-
777,1'36 were operated at some time
during the month, compared with
22,774,170 for November, 22,638,991
for October, 22,231,976 for Septem-
ber. 22,012,186 for August, 21,989,-
«M Ter July, ar.d 22,4:2,648 for
December 1938.
The aggregate number of active
spindle hours reported for the month
: was 8029,84!',028, based on an ac
i tivity of 80 hours per week, the
cotton spindles in the United States
were operated during December 1939
at 100.7 per cent capacity. This !
percentage compares, on the same |
basis, with 101.3 for November, 97.9
for October, , 92.6 . for September,
86.1 for August, 81.9 for July, and
82.8 for December 1988. The aver-
age number of active spindle hours
per spindle in place for the month
was 322.
you
Save
MONEY
with'youR,
ELECTRIC
REFRIGERATOR
EVEN IN THE
WINTER
You Need Electric
Refrigeration even
in Winter
NORTH tLM STRtfT GRAHAM TfXAO
John Cendroski and a Mr. Lowan-
dowski, Polish citizens of Wichita
Falls, visited M. R. J. Ba wo row ski '
.ia Graham Sunday,
I
• Don’t let cool weather outside fool you
into thinking that food won’t spoil indoors.
Warm kitchens and warm winter days when the temperature gets
above 50 degrees cause food to spoil unless it is kept in a refrigerator.
Your electric refrigerator will remove all doubts as to whether milk
and other perishable foods used by your family are kept fresh and
wholesome. In cold weather, your electric refrigerator has very lit-
tle to do, but when the kitchen is hot or the weather gets warm, it
automatically fulfills is job of protecting food from spoilage — at a
com of only a few pennies a day for electricity.
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Trout, H. I. The Graham Leader (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 25, 1940, newspaper, January 25, 1940; Graham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1116439/m1/2/: accessed May 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Library of Graham.