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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1923
Page
4
A Klux sympathizer told the Erie editor that a man urged tar and feather tactics. The letter labels 100 centers as lawless and questions eligibility for Klan membership if a group formed locally.
A reconstruction of events says a Ku Klux Klan meeting near Sanderson built an unburned fiery cross that burned for hours. A girl suffered a flesh wound and another was struck by a bullet in the arm during the incident. Local authorities investigated the act as a crime.
Three confessed Klan members will each serve two years in the penitentiary for violent assault on a woman. The report frames the case as a public issue and criticizes Klan secrecy and hooded attire while denouncing violent acts by members.
The Enterprise notes only one subscriber lost in a two week collection, a local man who reads Mayfield's Weekly and ignores campaigns. It warns that reading shapes thinking, urging readers to choose wholesome material to become true 100 per cent Americans.
A rural opinion argues for modernizing schools alongside roads. It notes the shift from the old red schoolhouse to better rural schools with educated teachers and broader curriculums, and it warns against resisting higher taxes for education.
The piece argues that progress outpaces past methods and urges support for better schools. It stresses fighting for good roads to education, higher teacher salaries, more books, and a longer school year to empower today’s children as tomorrow’s citizens and leaders.
A compilation notes patriotic displays on Oregon coast homes with half mast flags, references President Coolidge's 1920 acceptance speech urging virtue from households, and ties to rural settlers in the Cascades. It strips to themes of national unity through everyday homes and the duty of citizens.
Friends across the district celebrate Tom Garrard for securing the appointment as assistant attorney general. Garrard is praised as a successful fighter for justice and well deserving of the honor conferred.
Tom McClure of City Pharmacy was praised for securing poison to combat leaf and boll worms. He spent about eighty dollars in telegraph and telephone tolls to obtain the product, distributed roughly three thousand pounds to local farmers, and is credited with saving the cotton crop in the area.
Industry means employment and payrolls underpin spending on life’s needs. Graham-Shelley Oil will produce 2,000 barrels daily. Alice begins a $600,000 hard surfaced highway. Three Rivers plans a $500,000 dam to irrigate 16,000 acres on the Atacosa river. Orange starts a $450,000 plant. Taylor approves a $50,000 park bond. Rockdale awards $12,000 for a new school for Negroes. Elgin enlarges its ice plant. San Antonio National Bank to erect a new...
Mrs Lucy Mitchell records the opening of school on Monday at 10 am with music class to be held at the residence of Mr and Mrs M M Leeman.
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