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Dailu jjauoritc Volume XXXVII Local County Newa BONHAM. TEXAS, SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1930 United Press Service Oklahoma Geyser Tore Loose Again Fort Inglish, of the Long Ago, To Be Restored; History Students, Miss Winkler and J. P. Lair at Work on Project Miss Winkler, teacher of history in the local 'high school, is deeply interested in folk-lore and the like. She has recently turned her attention to the restoration of Fort Inglish, which Bailey Inglish erected on his farm in the eastern portion of the city.

Ninth Street, which is now known as the Lipscomb farm. Today, while the sun is shining, she and members of the history class are in the woods to get the first logs with which to make the fort. The Lipscombs have donated a spot where the fort is supposed to have stood, which is 110 feet square. Upon this land will be erected a replica of the fort. J.

P. Lair of this city, who knows how to raise a log house, is lending a hand in the work. Why Clean Up Six Members of Bonhi Vocational Class, With Teacher, J. R. Spivey, in Auto Wreck An Appeal To Bonham Citizens No of the were given aixl it is therefore not known whether the car collided Because it is decent and respectable and because it is the right thing to do just as the spring and summer months are coming.

Because it will add to the attractiveness of the city. Because the Bible says that is next to Because it is best for the health of the community, because a good cleaning up now will tend to promote good health. Because all unsightly places in Bonham will be removed by such campaign. Because everybody in Bonham is going to clean up, and i you will be unpopular if you do not join in the campaign. Because your neighbor is cleaning up today and you will be ashamed of yourself if you do not join in this laud-j able undertaking.

Because all Bonham people wish the news to go far1 and wide that Is the Cleanest City in Because it will take the cooperative effort of all loyal i Bonham citizens to make this campaign a success. Because Spring is there and the very atmosphere you that you should clean up, paint up, wash up, dress up. Because your civic pride demands that you do your part in this progressive campaign. Because. Well, because! Aiul we might give a dozen or more other good reasons for cleaning up.

You should John K. Spivey, Vocational er in Bonhi, who left yesterday afternoon with six members of the class for Stephenville, to enter Ihe cattle other ear or whether it overturned, and poultry judging contests there to- Mr. Spivey said he driving the day, telephoned friends in the city car hack just as soon as it could be last night that his car was wrecked reoaired. between Arlington and Fort Worth of lh, Jo0 and that John a ker was quite pain- John Charles Kincaid fully injured about the face and he.id. U.s jujJ Me was burned to a hosp.ta it orvid Ktansbury, Shelton Wortn, where medical attention va (riven.

Mr. Spivey later telephoned that the party was returning 1 1 Honham today, which would indicate It is not necessary to add that our that the injuries were not as entire citizenship to learn of ferious as first indicated. the accident and express the hope Other members of party were that John Walker, the more or less bruised up but no I ly injured in the party well as sustained injuries of a serious na- others who sustained slight injuries, ture. will soon be fully recovered. John Walker, poultry judg team During this Clean-Up paign the Woman's Auxiliary i of the Bonham Chamber of Commerce requests your most earnest co-operation.

In this with an- We business as well as the resident section to help in removing all unsightly and unnecessary buildings, fences, rubbish and JUNK from your premises, vacant lots and alleys. If any fences or unsightly buildings are still in use please cover with vines. Well Wild and Wooly and Wilful; Just Keep From Bursting Out of Itself and Spouting Over Surroundings OKLAHOMA CITY. April 5. (IT) six-inch stream of oil shot skyward in the South City field today as the Mary Sudik wild gusher continued to keep up its rampage which has been on for the past ten days.

It spouted full force through the battered mastergate in a huge cylinder restrained flow of eight hours last night. Officials ordered the top mastergate removed today when it became apparent I that the connections would not hold the tremendous pressure. Late last night a sand blast rising from the hole cut through the casing head. The huge cap almost lifted from the mouth as gas hissed through the cervices. Nearly 10 Per Cent Increase In Bonham Scholastics Shown.

Many Children Not Listed i It is not known what should be done next. FLOWER SEED FREE Those who want seed fur- nished them free are L-llV ijlciSt ed to call at the Chamber of Commerce headquarters on next Monday, April 7, and ar.y time thereafter as long as the seed last. We also suggest the planting of butterbeans as well as HEARD FOR MILES. AN the flowers and vines as they AUTOMOBILE SEEN SPEED- make Quite a pretty covering FROM Kv for back fences while the beans. United Wrecks a Filling Station Today Chicago Fire Had Them Guessing This A.

Out FOR AWHILE FI LOOKED AS IF FIRE WAS NOT TO i stopped in 1 KANSAS April A Please call early as our seed 1 heard lor miles wrecked a iling supply is limited Robert L. Henry Is In Favor of Voting on Booze Question Information from the office Superintendent of the City Schools is to the effect that 1234 scholastics have enumerated on the i in the Bonham City Ssc loed District so far. However, Superintendent W. i T. White thinks that a number of six-year-old children have not been since only white ehil- tells dren were reported be seven Ml 'I HE MEXICANS REPORTED United Press.

CHICAGO, April A spectacular raced the northwest cor- today, Executive Committee. jOWs houses away. It ol mysterious The I believed that a bomb is responsible, were out of control and endancering An automobile is reported to hav the skyscraper district. After five 'speeded away immediately after the of hattling practically all Hunt for Bristow In Mexican Wilds Is Still Going On blast. the fire fighters of the downtown dis trict the were hrought under control.

The file originated in of the Western Radio Company. The final damage estimated to be- between $200,000 and years of age. Mr. Wh.te* also tai I that he did not believe all the negro children had been enumerated, due to the fact many of them were pos. sibly out of town at the time the census was taken.

He would like DEATH" MIGHT NOI HIS MOTTO 1 HE STILL AFTER THE BANDITS WHO HIM Ly United Press. GEORGETOWN, April HenryV proposal to have modifica Oklahoma's Big Gusher Finally Under Control Eaglet Glider Gets As Far as Cleveland By United Press. AZAT I. AN. OKLAHOMA CITY, Oh The oil flow in the Marv 1 jrusher, which has be The determined man hunt continued wild for the la day do it jUHt because it is the to do.

Ciet busy today! have anyone who a child from 'he prohibition pit in today a motu? the tortuous mountain April Sudili No. running was -hat Paint Rubbed Off; Men Meet 7 Lady Was Arrested in Alabama By United Prefs. KANSAS CITY. April the water color she used -Because to make By United Pro s. BIRMINGHAM, April counterfeit twenty lollar bills Members of the board of ifirectors of off on the fingers of mail order Ihe American Cotton o-onerative lerks.

Pansy Coats, an artist Association met here today to elect of Simmons, was held bv federal general manager and name agents today. She is alleged to headquarters city. Alexander Legge, have confessed. Agents say ihe hills chairman of the Federal Farm Board, are the cleverest counterfeiting they and Carl Williams are uere for the had encountered. meeting.

six to seventeen years of age who has not been enumerated him over the telephone, in or ler that the schools may have the of 50 per scholastic next year. Comparison of the Census for past years shows that, exclusive of year-olds there is a gain among the I white scholastics this year over last year of and a gain among the children this year ovei year before last of negroes, exclusive of Quick Step Paint For floors as quick as in 60 minutes for use in 5 hours. KEENE HARDWARE Where Quality Reigns Supreme Call Phone 74 Bonham. Texas THE BANK safeguards money, makes its handling accurate and convenient, promotes the exchange of business transactions from one section to another, and encourages the saving of money. STATE BANK TRUST CO.

However, the six-year-olds lost scholastics this year over last. People with childien becoming six years old on or before Sen- tember 1 thould be very careful that the names of the children are enrolled; otherwise such children may not be able to enter school ne xt fall. Below is a report of the census for the past three years: Whit-' Col. Total 1928-29 90i 041 195 11M 19UO-81 (tentative) 1U.U 197 1231 Baby Drowned In Hole Dug To Set Out a Tree DALLAS April 4. Falling into a water-filled hole that his fatht i had prepared for planting a tree, little I sect Mendosa, 2, drowned ri- day afternoon while the parent was at work near by.

Tiie drowning occurred in the hlockof Thomas avenue, near Halt, where1 Mendosa, ot Thomas avenue, wu preparing to set out young trees. The father had (fiown accustomed to tin- child playing about him as he labored. And so after digging a hole and lilting it with water he went cannly to the next designated spot for a tree. After digging for several minutes he turned and saw his son's feet above water in a hole hud prepared I but a short time before. The chihl was dead.

the Democratic primary bn Hot lot referendum vote will be presented to state- Democratic executive oin- niittee at the lune nie ting. State hainnan I). W. today. Pruitt to Be Sent to Electric Masonic Meeting Chair on June 6th jn Bonham Friday athways of the region near Tepic, as fede-ial troops sought locate the tandit captors of J.

K. Bristow, the Texas mining engineer. Rumors that Bristow had been slain were discounted by the United Statse ionsul here, fi p. a lonjr rod sttach after a newspaper had published a the valve and with grab report to that effect. After tussling with an overshot cap i all dav, the crew of a eh en wild well experts finally made the ieie fast late in the afternoon and at down the cap was anchored, at 1 CLEVELAND, April ft I the Eaglet glider, Prank rived here today on ihe lap of his He continuing next overniirhi before New th continente tow-nlan ight up, an Citv.

Muffalo, the lust Pilotini fteenth flight. before the lew. A Ito ut the trick flow was MAN ACCI OF KILLING LAS SCHOOL BOI Mis UK'S INNOCENT Py Pre DALLAS, April ft. William (Dagger) Pruitt stoc I almly before Judge C. A.

Pippin ir criminal court here toelay and heard himself sentenced electrocution on June lor slaying William Mann, a Dallas high school boy, in an attempted hold-up a ago. not guilty. 1 realize what I i appea Dig evening high crew began to turn the fifteen revolutions the terrific stemmed in an instant. The well atne in unexpectedly Match 2fi, as a gasser, throwing 000,000 cubic of a day into the air. A few days later a heavy oil content appeared and the well barrels of igh gravity petroleum alonjf The with the gas.

The white ga WRLI ITT BN DEI) MAHONS I BOM OVEB FANNIN COUNT1 I NKillT gold" Was thrown the path of heavy dissipated most of it Iteyond Juelge Hiram Livi 1 say will now have no hearing on my case," Pruitt said. Pippin to a him that he lui.l given lair trial. Pruitt murmured you as sentence wa d. REFRIGERATORS If you need a Refrigerator, See Us! BAILEY HARDWARE L. BAILEY, US W.

Sib SI. 39 Three Persons Die in a Blaze Which Burns Rent Houses fikk in TKNKMKNT sk in NBW YOHK OF MINKI) ORIGIN NEW YORK, April Three persons lost their lives and three were seriously injured as the result of a fire believed to be an incendiary in a Brooklyn tenement today. MOON WAS NOT Hl IM WHEN HE VS FOKCKD Uy United Pre CiLENDALE, April Representatives of he Kinner Motoi e'o. were infoi ned that A M. Mooney, who attempt tig a Worshinful Master of the- Masonii IamIuc of Texas, and Wilbur Keith, Executive Secretary of the same organization of Dallas and W.

W. Rodgers Deputy lirand Master of lodge, who lives at lieonard, were in Bont- ing by Masons here in I Wal lodge rooms. Every Masonic lodge in the county was represented, and a big meeting I was the- report from all. we-re macie by Judge Lively and Mr. Rule In Business Glider Club Will Be Next Thing; 1 si Meeting Held TKe policy iVua A big meeting was night at the office of the purpose of organ' for Keith, and others during the t-vi-n j( iut, nUmber of enti ing, and refreshments served.

Following the- meeding Judge- Lively and Mr. Keith drove home to Dallas. Mr. Keith Iiveci for number of years at Ladonia. He was the Ktop flight from Los Angeles to New' of tin i News foi York, was forced down at Fort Wayne Ind.

J. W. MEYEKs VPPKALS CASE HK.IILH COl'RT Ky United Press. AUSTIN, April ft. A Ult-year sen- tence was given J.

W. Meyers in 1 Dallas on a chaige of robU-ry was appealed to the court of criminal peals today. The movement for free and modern libraries in China is increa-ing rapidly; there are now ubout in the country, ftO in Pu-ping. WEATHER time, lie Masons in line- man to ne Lively course the lo a over the- with Mr. ime the known rn I 't a mighty isonally.

Judge known, and Mason- und others re well aeoua.nt« sts there, and much progrc-s in the undertaking There will he another meeting, and all of those who are aie- to watch for the date-. Honham boy, iiardncr Smith, who now lives in St. Loji has already achieved more or fame with a glider He built the lachine himself, and believes that there i much future fm the unique air With Hawks getting like is, it must be pretty i good as anyhow. Particular Bank Tiie First National Bank Bonham, Texas Temperature for 24 hours ending at 7 a. m.

today: Maximum KS; minimum 61. and colder in the north and west- Frost in the northweht tonight. Sunday fair. West ad colder. Frost tonight.

Sunday fair. Van Oil Field Gets Nineteenth Well; Is Big Producer Texas, April 1 The Van oil field got its nim-tee-nth producer I Friday when the D. It. Howell, an offset to the Well-. No.

came in at p. m. The well apparently is good for 18,000 and is I owned by the Pierce Oil Company. It extends the field ftOO t'ee-t west and is five locations west of the discovery well. Workers had been fishing tools in this well for about ten days.

Casing has been set in the Freeman well, a mile of the D. R. Howell. This well would extend the field feet east. Spring Suits For Men and Young Men H.

L. RODGERS COMPANY.

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