Mob Seizes Inmate and Shoots Him to Death in Scooby Miss
Sidney Townes, a negro held in connection with the deaths of Jacob McMullen and Mrs. Mary Long, was taken from Sheriff Will Frost by about 75 men and fatally shot. Townes, wounded earlier by shotgun blows from I M McMullen, was killed as the mob formed after Mrs. Long’s funeral. The McMullen family tragedy began when Townes allegedly attacked at the McMullen farmhouse, killing Jacob McMullen, brother of Mrs. Long.
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Associated Press
Scobey
Sidney Townes
Jacob McMullen
Mary Long
Will Frost
I. M. McMullen
Mrs. Long
Townes
McMullen
Burial set for C L Ware in Colorado Texas
Interment for C L Ware a prominent West Texas rancher and former Amarillo banker will be held in Colorado Texas this afternoon. Ware 71 died in Fort Worth after months of illness. He helped found Bank & Trust Amarillo National Bank and owned ranches in Colorado Walhart and near Goldthwaite. Survived by widow Marie Bryan Ware son Bryan and sister Mrs M Carter.
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C. L. Ware
Amarillo
B. T. Ware
Texas
Colorado
Ware
Amarillo National Bank
Panhandle
Fort Worth
West Texas
Walhart
Ranger
Plains
Goldthwaite
Mills County
Richard Ware
Mr. Ware
Charles
R. C
Georgia
Charles L. Ware
Rome
Denver
Henrietta
Congregational Church of
Marie Bryan Ware
Bryan Ware
M. Carter
Rioting Between Klansmen and Anti-Klan Factions in Mass
About 1,000 to 1,700 men clashed in a riot in Reading Massachusetts. Shots were fired and stones, clubs, and tear gas were used. More than twenty were injured as police separated the factions and called in state police and aid from neighboring towns.
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Associated Press
Reading
Mass
Ku Klux Klan
Riots Erupt Near Ku Klux Klan Meeting In Town Field
A hostile crowd estimated between 800 and 1,000 gathered outside a field where about 700 Ku Klux Klansmen held a meeting. The clash prompted a siege atmosphere as police guarded against further violence. State police under Captain Parker arrived, aiding dispersal as the crowd began to thin.
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Parker
Plainview to host big Texas Farm Bureau convention
Farmers from west and north Texas will attend the district convention in Plainview over two days with several thousand visitors expected. Speakers include John T. Orr C. A. Mose W D Farris and M E Hays on cooperative marketing and related topics. John C Burns and A M Griffin will address livestock handling dairying and cream production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John T. Orr
Texas Farm Bureau Cotton Association
C. O. Moser
American Cotton Growers Exchange
W. D. Farris
Texas Farm Bureau Federation
M. E. Hays
Plainview
West
North Texas
C. A. Mose
John C. Burns
A. & M. College of Texas
A. M. Griffin
Hale Center
Prominent Kansas lumberman dies in wreck
Pittsburgh Kansas August 12 James M Lemon aged 30 a prominent Pitts burgh lumberman was instantly killed and four other men injured early this morning when their motor car skidded in a ditch turned turtle then crashed into a concrete culvert four miles east of Pittsburgh Lemon suffered a broken neck and the car was completely wrecked
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Associated Press
Pittsburgh
Kans
James M. Lemon
Here
Lemon
Next Annual Meeting of Palo Duro Baptists In Amarillo
The Palo Duro Baptist Association set its 1926 meeting for the Tuesday and Wednesday after the second Monday in August at Tabernacle Baptist Church in Amarillo. Rev. C. E. Griswold of Claude will preach the annual sermon as Claude hosts. The closing sessions also featured the Woman's Missionary Union address by R. C. Pender and a push for support of the Southern Baptist Cooperative Program.
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Palo Duro Baptists
Amarillo
Palo Duro Baptist Association
Tabernacle Baptist Church
C. E. Griswold
Claude Church
Claude
Woman's Missionary Union
R. C. Pender
Buckner Orphans Home
Southern Baptist Convention
Scott's Detective Testifies to Keyhole Drinking Allegations
Scott's divorce hearing in Alpena centers on testimony by Frederick Sikes a Washington house detective who described Mrs Edna James Scott with a bootlegger companion and liquor in her apartment and at Lake Orion Michigan He claimed to have peered through a keyhole to observe the gatherings while both sides offered strong denials Congressman Frank D Scott and Mrs Scott presented conflicting accounts during the session and the judge warned the audience about decorum as the case proceeded
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Associated Press
Alvpena
Mich
House
Edna James Scott
Washington
Frank D. Scott
Scotts
Frederick Sikes
Washington House
Scott
Tremaine
Sikes
Lee House
Gilbert Bensinger
Forty Five More Firms Must Sign for Trade Excursion
Forty five more firms must sign up for the trade trip to the South Plains before Saturday or the trip may be called off. Forty eight people have signed up, about a hundred are needed for a successful trip. The party leaves Amarillo at 6 p.m. Monday with a stop in Plainview overnight and visits to Lubbock Crosbyton and other towns in the district. The price is 45 dollars and special coach and Pullman accommodations are provided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Plains
Board of City Development
Wichita
Kans
Kansas City
Amarillo
Plainview
Lubbock
Crosbyton
Silaton
Earth Tremors Felt Across Montana Towns Tonight
A slight earthquake shock was felt in Great Falls Livingston and Bozeman around 7:30 to 7:40 p.m. no damage reported. Residents noted tremors in Shields River Valley towns as well.
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Montana
Associated Press
Great Falls
Mont
Livingston
Shields River Valley
Bozeman
Amarillo Weather Forecast and Regional Update
Thursday promises fair skies for West Texas with partial cloudiness and a chance of showers. Panhandle and eastern New Mexico see little change in temperature as high pressure dominates the northwest and southeast with a broad low pressure area bringing rain from Missouri and Iowa toward the lower Missouri valley. Rain has occurred in the central and northern Rocky Mountains as a northwest high pressures shifts, favoring fair conditions tonight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Vierney
West Texas
Panhanaie
New. Mexico
Missouris
Iowa
Missouri Valley
Rocky Mountain
Amarillo Yesteray
Esa
Kent
Two-Year-Old Girl Ditches Show to Explore Amarillo Streets
Maxine Campbell, age 2 of Dumas, left a Fair Theater show with her mother Mrs. T. H. Campbell and sister Virginia Ruth, ages 6, wandered into Adams Dry Goods and window shopped. Clerks alerted police. girl spent hours at the station before being reunited with her mother around 4 pm.
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Maxine Campbell
Dumas
Fair Theater
Amarillo
Maxine
T. H. Campbell
First State Bank of
Virginia Ruth
Adams Dry Goods
Amarillo Cotton Gin To Be Operated By New Owners
The Amarillo cotton gin on East Third street will operate for the 1925 season under new owner L Fickel of Copperas Cove Texas. He will move here with his family to take control and plans to add a boll extracting machine, boosting capacity to four to five bales per hour. A group of local citizens funded a $3,000 loan to secure the purchase, ensuring the gin remains in operation for the Panhandle, with repayment tied to ginning fees. The Board of City Development and Amarillo Real Estate Board coordinated the sale after mortgage foreclosure precluded moving the equipment, and 20 local sponsors backed the financing.
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Amarillo
East Third Street
Board of City Development
L. Fickel
Copperas Cove
Texas
Lampasas
Panhandle
John B. Gilvin
Fickel
Thegin
Dallas Gin Machinery Company
Amarillo Real Estate Board
L. Fickle
Real Estate Board
John Gilvin
T. W. Cotten
Royce Gant
Dallas
Fickle
Citizens
Odom
and Cotten Co
Charles Green
C. T. Herring
Nobles Bros
Dean Kirk
J. T. Moore
Amarillo Bank and Trust Co
National Bank of Commerce
W. N. Durham
John E. Hill
Walter Barlow
Amarillo Gas Co
Walter Blackburn
Ross
PD. Rogers
Amarillo Daily News
Amarillo National Bank
Roy Cullum
Statue of Texas hero placed at Houston
Enrico Cerrac chio’s equestrian statue of General Sam Houston was set atop the granite base at the north entrance to Hermann Park in a ceremony attended by monument committee members led by Mrs. J. M. Stewart and governor’s committee members. An unveiling is planned for 6 p.m. Sunday.
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Associated Press
Houston
Enrico Cerracchio
General Sam Houston
Hermann Park
J. M. Stewart
Youthful father blames low pay for forgery spree
Bernard Klotz, 19, confessed to forging five checks totaling 500 dollars at New Orleans police headquarters. His 16 year old wife was rushed to Charity hospital for childbirth, the baby named after learning of the father's crime. Klotz admitted forging the name of Crawford H Ellis, vice president of United Fruit, on each check. He earned about 15 dollars a week as a file clerk and blamed poverty for his actions.
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Associated Presse
New Orleans
Bernard Klotz
Charity Hospital
Crawford H. Ellis
United Fruit Company
Klotz
Fruit Company
Record Price Paid for Lease in Hutchinson Field
Wi R Fisher a local broker set a high Panhandle oil lease price after closing with Iowa operators for an 80 acre Weatherly ranch tract in South Hutchinson county oil pool between Prairie and Plains wells. The deal included 10000 cash and 10000 in oil with a 1 16 overriding royalty. Drysdall interests of Des Moines said they would start a well in the center of the north ten acres of section 17 block Y. The lease was held by Eugene Boulware who has wide Panhandle field interests.
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Wi. R. Fisher
Iowa
Weatherly Ranch
Hutchinson County
Prarie
Plains
Drysdall
Des Moines
Sec. 17
Blk. Y
Eugene Boulware
Panhandle
JF Anton Youngest Santa Fe Supervisor on South Plains
Slaton Aug 12. J F Anton began as a yard clerk at 14 with B&O and today at 40 is superintendent of the Slaton division of Panhandle and Santa Fe, the youngest Santa Fe superintendent. The 498 mile division includes main and branch lines with a 65 mile new branch to Bledsoe under his charge. Witnesses at an Interstate Commerce Commission hearing praised his diligence and courtesy despite circuitous routes from Dallas and Fort Worth.
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Associated Press
Slaton
Baltimore & Ohio
J. F. Anton
Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
United States
T. J. Norton
Chicago
T. B. Gallaher
Amarillo
General Freight
Panhandle
Santa
Anton
Santa Fe
Doud
Lubbock
Hockley
Cochran
Bledsoe
New Mexico
South Plains
Mr. Anton
Interstate Commerce Commission
Plainview
C. E. Boles
Dallas
Fort Worth
North Texas
Temple
Youth drove miles with victim's body propped beside him
Everett Adams seventeen confessed to driving from Otterville Missouri to a ditch near Lamonte with Aden R. Clawson’s body propped in the seat. Officials note the route through Sedalia supports the confession after the body was found early today. The case, investigated at Argentina Kansas, points to a detour near Otterville as the scene.
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Associated Press
Lamonte
Everett Adams
Aden R. Clawson
Lodi
N. Y
Here
Wilmington
Ohio
Clawson
Otterville
Sedalia
Argentina
Kans
Jefferson City
Fate
Califo
B. F. Parker
Death Clawson
George F. Myer
Myer
Clawson Guarder
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Rae
Bryer
Emer
PSS
Ea Res Bi
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BIG Farm
Kansas
Gilvin
Hutchinson Field
Santa FE System
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