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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1925
Page
4
United Press reports in Austin that the attorney general finds the new Texas child labor law does not allow minors to work in mines or quarries under any circumstances and forbids employing children ages 12 to 15 in dangerous jobs with explosives. The ruling clarifies ages and safety requirements amid mining hazards.
Dr. George C. Butte former dean of the University of Texas law school is appointed attorney general of Puerto Rico effective May 14. The White House announced the move. Butte previously ran for governor of Texas last year.
In Moscow on May 12 Leon Trotsky attended his first political reunion since returning, amid the Russian Soviet Congress and a member of the new five committee.
Austin May 12 report that Dr George Butte will accept the appointment as attorney general of Porto Rico and depart immediately to assume duties Mrs Butte stated Butte has been in Washington for a walk
Paris May 12 General Mangin France's famed one armed war hero died suddenly this morning after being stricken with appendicitis on Sunday and sinking rapidly from uraemic poisoning
President Coolidge told callers at the White House that the government is negotiating to work out a plan to settle four billion dollars of French debt. He declined to comment further.
The First National Bank received 100 half dollars to be sold at $1 each to aid Confederate memorial efforts at Stone Mountain. Half proceeds go to the government and the Stone Mountain Confederate Monumental Association, with delivery after July. Each shows Lee and Jackson on one side and the American eagle on the other.
Two suspects, a man identified as William Smith of Nouston and a female companion, were captured after a night gun battle near Lufkin. Officers confiscated 337 quarts of contraband liquor and prepared liquor transportation charges to be filed by County Attorney C. K. Brazil. The man was seriously injured in the exchange of shots.
The Fannin County Commissioners' Court met in regular session and ordered the oath of a board of equalization to canvass the completed tax rolls. It authorized 10 cents of the 25 cent mobile headlight test fee to stay locally, with 15 cents to the test station, and required $500 bonds from each station. The court also authorized a Home Demonstration Agent, approved $1,600 for Extension service funding, and adjourned.
Hail struck Sver City damaging roofs and uprooting trees while lumber yards report booming demand for shingles. So widespread were the holes in roofs that many yards show shingle shortages as residents seek repairs.
Commissioner Sam Powers of Precinct No. 1 hosted a dinner for the Commissioners' Court on Monday at his West Third Street home. Attendees included J. J. Worsham Leonard Tom Selfs, J. F. Stephenson, County Judge Sam P. Neilson, County Auditor E. A. McMahon and deputy Smith Lipscomb, Pinkney Price, county engineer, and Charles Whisenhunt. Dr. O. C. Nevill will host the next meeting at his home in June.
Raymond Poincare, two years after serving as foreign minister, allegedly sought Abdel Krim support in Paris to push Spaniards from Morocco. Andre Berthon quoted a communist paper claiming Poincare planned expulsion of Spain and a French protectorate in the Riff region of North Africa.
Two dead and a seriously injured person followed a domestic dispute near Stago Oklahoma. Bill Lookado, 40, allegedly killed his estranged wife Lorris, 22, and wounded sister-in-law Clyde Redding, 25, after a reconciliation offer was rejected. Lookado himself was slain by two unidentified men at a Red River ferry as he waited to return home.
In the Asheville Times, Addy Froth notes that the voice improves with time. The piece muses that life’s joke falls on the man who cannot laugh at himself, while calling poverty a habit in Nashville Tennessee.
Meat sellers advertise their business offering both meat and price appeal for one month, promising satisfaction in price and quality to customers.
Paul Shoup vice president of the Southern Pacific Railway says he knows nothing about a railroads merger or consolidation order. In France India fever is cited as the cause of editor J. M. Adams of Plainview News death.
New York May 12 Asst Dist Atty Ryan ordered two tiny unmarked graves opened in a bid to gather evidence against Mrs Helen Grisen Volk the so called baby farmerette Exhumation orders were sought after new allegations against the founder of the East Line Infantorium where twenty three infants were cared for surfaced.
Attendance tallies from last Sunday show total 868 across churches. First Baptist 257, First Christian 98, First Methodist 177, Clark Memorial Methodist 94, First Presbyterian 45, Church of the Nazarene 0, Trinity Episcopal 0, Second Baptist 0, with several reports unavailable.
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