Criminal cases set for trial in Hempstead district court
District Court in Hempstead convened with Judge J L Manery presiding. The grand jury was sworn and empaneled with J B Sorsby as foreman. Plea entered by George Daniels in a DWI case and a one year suspended sentence imposed. Upcoming docket lists multiple burglaries thefts and assaults from March 27 to 29 with numerous defendants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
District Court
Hempstead
J. L. Manery
Livingston
J. B. Sorsby
George Daniels
Ennis
Texas
Joe Littleton
Charlie Potts
L. C. Frazier
Burgary
John Styles
Israel Taylor
Willie Wiseman
Jamerson Bragg
Joe Canill
W. P. Canill
W. P. Scott
Eddie Lee Brode
State of Texas
Eugene Howard
Times Ads Promise Savings Across Brookshire Goods
Read the Times ads for money saving offers. Nearly every line of merchandise appears in Brookshire and is sold as cheap as elsewhere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Times
Brookshire
Birthday Surprise for Mrs Martha Wilpitz at Pattison
Friends and relatives held a birthday surprise Monday night at her Pattison home. About sixty guests attended as Mrs Wilpitz, despite her advanced age, joined in the celebration with enthusiasm and many dishes were enjoyed by all.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martha Wilpitz
Pattison
Lundy Couple Attend Examinations at Hempstead
Mr and Mrs J H Lundy teachers at Pattison Public School travelled to Hempstead last Tuesday for final exams in the second quarter extension work from Sam Houston State Teachers College. Lundy notes fifteen or twenty students enrolled in the last quarter and the new quarter began Tuesday this week with a course on Philosophy of Education and International Relations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. H. Lundy
Pattison Public School
Hempstead
Sam Houston State Teachers College
Oil test wells eyed near Pattison in coming months
Some believe several oil test wells will be drilled near Pattison in the next few months and hope that promising producers may be discovered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pattison
Petit Jurors Drawn For Third Week of District Court
Wal ler County jurors for the third week of District Court begin the week of April 3 1933. Names include Hakemack Severéin Blasingame McCauley Dawson Zard House Feagin Mikeska Clett Sheffield Spinks Eber Robertson Buller Mayer Hailey Loggins Stasney Davis Tompkins Burch Dawson Garrett Lange Pattison Clemons Neiman Williams Frey Kloecker Jenkins Reed Bullock Hafer Murleroy and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
District Court of
Waller County
W. G. Hakemack
Fritz Severéin
J. G. Blasingame Ford McCauley
H. M. Dawson
J. E. Zard
H. H. House Boy
Feagin
Joe Mikeska
Thos. Clett
G. G. Sheffield
Sam Spinks Hobby Eber
J. A. Robertson
G. L. Buller
Martin Mayer
J. B. Hailey
R. RB. Loggins
Frank Stasney
W. A. Davis
P. B. Tompkins
Ben Burch
T. L. Dawson
Sam Garrett
F. A. Lange
G. T. Pattison Fritz Clemons
John Neiman, Jr
J. C. Williams
H. 8
Frey
Aug. Kloecker
T. C. Jenkins J. W. Reed
H. H. Bullock
W. 8
Hafer Fritz Murleroy
Hempstead Deputy Arrests Negro in Millican Turkey Theft Case
Deputy Sheriff F C Blumberg and Sheriff Horace Reed arrested Joe Littleton, a colored man, in Millican Texas for turkey theft. Littleton had evaded arrest since 1931 after being indicted in three turkey thefts and a church burglary. His co-defendant Charlie Potts was arrested nearby two weeks earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. C. Blumberg
Millican
Texas
Joe Littleton
Blumberg
Horace Reed
Bryan
Littleton
Cedar Creek
Charlie Potts
Rail service cuts reduce local passenger train
On Wednesday the M E T removed local passenger train number 16 after a Texas Railroad Commission petition granted last week in Austin. Now only 1:05 p m northbound and 6:05 p m southbound service remains, with R J Danshack's position abolished and unemployment resulting. The move reflects drastic rail cost curtailment amid dwindling passenger traffic and sparse day-coach ridership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Texas Railroad Commission
R. J. Danshack
Injury at gravel pit sidelines Arley Festervan
Arley Festervan formerly of Brookshire now working at a gravel pit in eHarne suffered a serious lower limb injury last week when caught in machinery at his job. He was transported to St Joseph's Hospital in Houston by visitor Sylvan Witte who intervened to help.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arley Festervan
Brookshire
eHarne
Festervan
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Houston
Sylvan Witte
Is 3.2 beer real beer or near beer
Harvey Conover of Modern Brewery writes to the Dallas Chamber of Commerce clarifying alcohol content of historic beer brands and noting that 3.2 per cent beer remains legally acceptable until the Eighteenth Amendment is repealed. He cites Schlitz Pale at 8.15 per cent weight and other brands ranging from 2.55 to 2.97 per cent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harvey Conover
Modern Brewery
Dallas Chamber of Commerce
Conover
Pabst
Jung Brewing Company
Tosetti
Dallas News
Times Representative Visits Katy Pattison
Mrs. Mary Finks leaves the switchboard to tour Brookshire Katy and Pattison with a companion. The writer remarks on Pattison’s modern school building, campus and athletic courts, the clean town, civic pride, and a bus carrying pupils home after classes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Finks
R. ‘L. Jones
Katy
Brookshire
Pattison
J. H. Lundy
Duncan Coffee Co. Rep Pils In Houston Visitor
L F Anderson of Houston representing Duncan Coffee Co visited our city on Wednesday and dined at the Wonder Coffee Shop which proclaims We Serve Admiration Coffee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. F .Anderson
Houston
The
Duncan Coffee Co
Wonder
Dairy Owner Dies In Train Truck Crash Near Katy
Luther F. Maness a 35 year old dairy owner living near Katy died after his milk truck was struck by a passenger train one mile east of Katy. He was thrown from the vehicle and died about an hour later in Katy. Maness leaves a wife four children and two brothers. Funeral services were held at Katy Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Luther F. Maness
Katy
Maness
South Texas Producers’ Association
Houston
Anna
Lloyd
Betty Lou
L. F. Maness Jr
Tennessee
Walter Maness
Prominent Lady of Hempstead Died
Pauline Meyer Menke age 70 died at her son J J Menke's home 187 Taft Houston Tuesday. She had lived in Waller County 40 years making Hempstead home. Last rites were at Hempstead residence 3 p m Thursday. Survived by five sons T M Menke C H E P LL and W M Menke Hempstead and husband C A Menke. Funeral attended by many friends from this end of the county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pauline Meyer Menke
J.J. Menke
Taft
Houston
W. M. Menke
Hempstead
C. A. Menke
Shipping Activities of Week with Local Receipts
Mr H P Donigan received a car of cotton seed for planting from Whitewright Texas. One car of lumber and one car of bricks unloaded for Will Gra Estate lumber yard. A car load of rice received by E H Wilpitz.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. P. Donigan
Whitewright
Texas
Will Gra Estate
E. H. Wilpitz
Local Residents Involved in Courthouse and Social News
R A Tubbs serves on federal jury in Houston this week. Multiple locals visit Houston and Hempstead for family events and funerals. Ed Wilpitz and Ed Neumann serve as Hempstead district court jurors. J T Boyd ill with family visitors from McDowell and Uvalde. Jimmie Day recovers from infection after tooth extraction at Memorial Hospital Houston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. A. Tubbs
Houston
Mesdames H. Seidel
Ford McCauley
Mae Buller
T.H. Wise
Ernest Wilpitz
Joe Smith
C. A. Menke
Hempstead
Dave Landsberger
Dan Soloman
Murphey Lee Urquart
Matt Howard
Matt Edward
Dorothy Gay
Natalia
Texas
Howard
J. W. Avery
G. T. Shearer
Brookshire
W. D. Mills
Elmer C. Haynes
Elmer Jr
Brownwood
M. H. Ryland
Uvalde
Ryland
J. T. Boyd
McDowell
Boyd
J. B. Anderson
Fred McCauley
C. Gra
Jimmie Day
Memorial Hospital
Day
Also Mentioned on This Page
Tex
Katy Pattison
RED & White
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!