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-—- THE VALLEY FIRST—FIRST IN THE VALLEY—LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS—{&) «
THIRTY-SIXTH Y'EAR,—No. 205 BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1928 EIGHT PAGES TODAY 5c A COPY
LAREDO gets the sir mail service
into and out of Mexico.
And, of course, should be congratu
lated upon her success.
Cosme Hinojosa, postmaster gen
•rsl of Mexico, preferred the coast
route.
But there was too much pressure
from Nuevo Laredo, Monterrey, Sal
tillo, San Luis Potsi, Queretaro
*ad other points.
Now the fliers will have to climb
mountains to carry the mails.
At two or three places they will
have to go up 14,000 fett.
All of which means extremely
heavy outlays for plar.es as com
pared with equipment for coastal
service.
Planes following the coast route
can, if they wish, fly most of the
way at fifty or seventy-five feet,
except when nearing Mexico City.
Two hundred horsepower motors
will care for the coastal planes.
Four hundred for planes on the
mountain route.
• • •
NOW let’s do a little prognosti
cating.
Mr. Hinojosa will call for bids for
carrying mails along the route con
necting the cities as outlined above.
The bids will be received. They
will be found to be extremely high.
Mountain flying comes nigh.
Then bids will be asked for the
coast route. The figures will be
wide apart.
Perhaps flyers will not care so
much about mountain flying. Would
not object to crossing mountains,
perhaps, but might object t> taking
a mountain route for eight hundred
or so miles. Eventually the route
into and out of Mexico for the mails
will be the Brownsville route.
Might be wrong. Might be right.
Well wait and see.
PARTY of pood roads enthusiasts
from Brady, out in the Rrownwood
country, plan to visit the Lower Rio
Grande Valley to see how we build
Toads.
r —•* T fc* Valley can show them several
millions of dollars that have been
put into roads that are good and
• permanently so.
And show them where several
millions of dollars more will be
put in more good roads.
The Valley is thoroughly sold on
good roads. All it asks is sufficient
valuations to carry the bonds with
out taxing the taxpayers too heavily.
• • *
LOS FRESNOS is to have a bank
building, as one of its first struc
tures.
Announcement made that contract
has been awarded for structure to
cost about $20,000.
Bank is now being organized, to
he owned and operated by Valley
men.
Mostly men who have made their
mark in farming.
• • •
AX INTERNATIONAL BRIDGE is
being built in Brownsville, down at
the foot of Levee street, where it
h:ts the Fort Brown wall.
Men, steam engines and gasoline
transportation have thrown false
work across the international stream.
That is all preliminary work. Cof
fer dams being built at each end
of the bridge. Will be filled with
concrete. Later on steel and con
crete construction will he started.
In the meantime the hone is to
have the groundwork all finished be
fore the spring freshets carry the
R:n Grande to the bank.
They wa't to evade the great piles
of brush that might threaten the
falsework.
• • •
WORD come* from Washington
^ that the Box bill hearings will be
i gt-rted.
The house immigration committee
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WEATHER
For Brownsville and the Lower Rio
Grande Valley: Fair and continued
moderately cold tonight and Satur
day.
For East Texas: Fair tonight and
Saturday; little change in tempera
ture.
Light to moderate northerly winds
on the coast.
RIVER BULLETIN
There will be no material change
in the rive.* during the next few
Flood Present 24 Hr. 24 Hr.
Stage Stags Chng. Ram
Del Rio. 10 -00
Eagle Pass .. 16 2.9 0.0 .00
Laredo.27 -0.2 -0.1 .00
Rio Grande .. 21 6.6 -0.1 .00
Mission . 22 5.2 0.0 .00
San Benito .. 23 9.5 0.0 .00
Brownsville . 18 4.2 -0.3 .00
TIDE TABLE
High and low tide at Point Isabel
tomorrow, under normal meteorologi
es conditions:
.6:21 a. m.—7:45 p. m.
Low. 1:21 a. m.—12.55 p. m.
MISCELLANEOUS DATA
| Sunset today . 0:10
I Sunrise tomorrow .. 7;lo
LOUISIANA TO
EXECUTE TRIO
FOR MURDERS
Last Minute Efforts
Of Counsel Made in
Courts of State Are
Sans Results
LAKE CHARLES. La„ Jan. 27.—
(AP)—The last hope to save the life
of Byron Dunn faded at 1 o’clock
this afternoon when Judge Cline
refused to grant a last minute ap
plication for an injunction to stay
the execution.
LAKE CHARLES. La.. Jan. 27.—(JP)
—Just a few hours before the hang
ing was scheduled to take place, at
torneys for Byron Dunn, condemned
man, sent to Jennings a petition to
be presented to Judge Jerry Oline,
trial judge, asking for an injunction
to stop the execution here this after
noon of Dunn.
The application asks for a rule to
be issued directing Sheriff Horace
Lyons to show cause why a tempor
ary injunction should not be ordered,
restraining him from executing Dunn.
The petition is based on an allega
tion that “the action of Governor
Simpson on December 15, 1927, and
the order for execution of Dunn dated
on or about December 15 for the exe
cution of Dunn on January 27, 1928,
is null and void for the reason that
the governor was without jurisdiction
m ordering the execution.”
Byron Dunn, who is scheduled to be
hanged this afternoon sometime be
tween the legal hours of noon and
3 o’clock, slept soundly last night in
his cake in the death cell.
During the forenoon the condemned
man was visited by Rev. R. H. Wynn
who held a long conversation with
him and who has been giving him
spiritual advice.
Groups of idly curious persons
gathered today on tne courthouse
square. Pedestrians walking down
Ryan street, their attention attracted
by the grim gallows which towers
over the jail wall, would stop a mo
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MEXICO CITY
SCHOOLS SHUT
Instructors, Students
Held For Sedition;
Others Raided
MEXICO CITY. Jan. 27.—<&>—'The '
principal, 16 instructors and eight
students of a Catholic school were
under arrest today as the result of a
police drive to enforce the religious
laws.
The entire student body of the
Seminario de Regina was arrested,
but 190 of the students were released
last night on orders from General
Roberto Crur. chief of police of Mex
ico City. Twenty-one teachers, re
puted to be nuns of Colegio Josefino,
a Catholic girls’ school, who were ar
rested Wednesday charged with con
ducting propaganda against the gov
ernment were also released by order
of the district court.
The seminary, the Colegio Josefino
and two smaller Catholic girls’
schools were closed in the police cam
paign.
Father Ber.igno Esquivel, principal
of the seminary, 12 priests and four
other teachers were held by police
pending investigation of alleged se
ditious activities by them against the
government.
Eight students for the priesthood
arrested at the same time were also
held in custody. They were said by
police to have been found dressed in
cassocks in violation the religious
laws which forbid the wearing of
priestly garb.
The police also closed the head
quarters of the Catholic federation.
Seventeen members found inside at
the time were arrested but later re
leased.
General Crux said the police had
been informed by one of the servants
at the seminary of propaganda there
against the government.
The orders for the raids on the
schools were issued, ha said, because
of reports that the religious law*
were being violated in the schools
visited by the imparting of religious
teaching in violation of the constitu
tion. Drastic measures would be tak
en in all similar cases, he asserted,1
because the government was determ
ined to enforce the laws of the coun
try.|
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Hickman Says He
Will Testify In
Spite Of Advice
LOS ANGELES. Jan. 27.—{JF,—Wil
liam Edward Hickman upset the
plans of his defense attorneys today,
defied them to keep him off the wit
ness stand and declared that in the
face of their opposition he would
tell to the jury his story of the
Marian Parker killing.
Discussing with his lawyers the
program for the third day of the
hearing on his plea of “not guilty
by reason of insanity,” the man who
has confessed the kidnaping and kill- -
ing of the 12-year-old girl, announced
ACOSTA FREED
IN JAIL TERM
Flier Faces Larceny
Charge For Taking
Plane On Trip
WATERBURY, Conn., Jan. 27.—m
—Bert Acosta, trans-Atlantic flier,
who was arrested Wednesday in
Naugatuck for violation of the Con
necticut aviation laws, was freed on
a bond of $10 by Naugatuck borough
court today. Acosta entered an ap
peal from the five-day sentence in
New Haven county jail which he
started to serve yesterday. It is
understood that he will waive extra
dition and return to New Jersey to
face a charge of larceny in connec
tion with having flown away with
the plane “Splitdorf,” which was
under attachment at the time by the
Splitdorf Electric company of Ne-;
wark.
A warrant charging him with lar
ceny of the plane Splitdorf from
Tetreboro, N. J., flying field was
left with jail authorities by New
Jersey officers to be served on the
flier when he leaves the jail.
Acosta was arrested late Wednes
day night after he had stunted ar.d
flown his machine at a dangerously
low altitude over Naugatuck.
Under Sheriff J. W. Donaldson, of
Hackensack, N. J., said that one
hour after the plane Splitdorf had
been attached on Monday, Acosta
left with it for Long Island, where
he picked up Harry Brandien, of
Naugatuck, as a passenger. Acosta,
the officer said, had given his word
of honor that he would not fly the
plane.
Mexico Plans To
Route Air Mail
Through Laredo
MEXICO CITY. Jan. 27.—UP>— Re
plying to Postmaster General New’s
suggestion of an airmail route from
Mexico City to Tampico and thence
to Matamoros, connecting with the
United States air mail at Browns
ville. Postmaster Genera! Cosme
Hinojosa has announced that an air
line between Mexico City and Laredo
will be established instead. He said
a larger number of cities and towns
would benefit by the Mexico City
Laredo plan.
Hirojcsa added that If the pro
just was found unsuccessful the
plans would be modined and the
suggest’on of the line to Matamoros
accented.
his own plan which his counsel, Je
rome Walsh and Richard Cantillon
said would seriously hamper the de
fense.
Walsh said: “We don’t want Hick
man to take the witness stand in
view his insanity defense, and we
have told him so. Of course, if he is
determined to talk we cannot stop
him, but such a move would serious
ly injure defense plans.”
The burden of the offense in the
trial of Hickman will be piled upon
the shoulders of the defense at
torneys by the prosecution.
This became known today when
District Attorney Asa Keyes re
vealed that the prosecution in the
trial now in progress merely w'ould
read the indictment charging Hick
man with the kidnaping and murder
of little Marian Parker and then
rest its case. Under this procedure,
all of the state's evidence—testi
mony of seven alienists and numer
ous other witnesses and the confes
sions of Hickman to the crime—
would be presented in rebuttal.
But the question of when a jury
would be completed to hear that in
dictment and the evidence brought
conflicting opinions from the rival
attorneys.
Eight men and four women, all
middle aged except one, held tenta
tive places in the jury box at the
close of yesterday’s session. But Je
rome Walsh of Kansas City, the 25
year old chief defense counsel, an
nounced that nine of these would
lose their seats under peremptory
challenges of the defense in today’s
court session. It will be next
Wednesday, in the opinion of the de
fense. before the jury is completed
and the march of the evidence be
gins.
Keyes, who examined 12 prospec
tive jurors in four minutes after the
defense had spent the entire day in
weeding 19 men and women down to
a dozen, predicted that the final jury
would be seated before the close of
court today.
At the close of the first day of
jury picking, the state had used the
first of its allotted 20 challenges.
The defense still had its permitted
score intact.
Judge J. J. Trabucco's chief spur
to a speed in jury selection was the
order that prospective jurors be ex
amined in groups of 12 on general
questions. Although the defense
dropped back into individual exam
ination repeatedly, the judge quickly
brought the attorney back to group
questioning.
Crisply he overruled the greater
part of the objections generously
sprinkled through the first day of
the trial by the defense. At times
he placed a definite period of his
decisions with a “there will be no
argument."
Seek Fire Cause
At Penitentiary
HUNTSVILLE, Tex-. Jan. 27.—{&)
—Official investigation was under
way here today to determine the
origin of a fire which last night de
stroyed the wagon factory in the
walls of the state penitentiary. With
a loss estimated at from $10,000 to
$20,000.
Warden M. L. Spears, who at
tributed the checking of the fire to
the timely arrival of Huntsville fire
fighters, conferred with electricians
during the morning attempting to
determine whether the fire might
have been caused by faulty wiring.
Military Highway Is Abandoned When Court
Adopts‘Border Highway’ As Official Name
The military highway has ceas
ed to exist, officially, in Cameron
county.
The records of the commission
ers court meeting Thursday con
tain the following entry:
“In the matter of change of
name of the military highway:
upon motion duly made, second
ed and unanimously carried, it was
ordered by the court that the
name of the highway known as
the old Military and Telegraph
Road be, and the same is hereby
changed to Border Highway.”
“There is no justification for
the term ‘military highway’,’*
Commissioner A. V. Logan said,
“and I move that it be ordered by
this court that the designation be
changed to the ‘Border highway’.”
Will Rogers, after his recent re
turn from Mexico, criticized the
designation of the border road as
the “military- highway,” stating it
was an insult to Mexico and was
a constant source of irritation to
the Mexican people. The Browns
ville Herald editorially endorsed
the suggestion of Rogers that the
name be changed.
Following the vote Commission
er Logan requested a representa
tive of The Herald to apprise
Will Rogers of the court’s action,
and the following telegram was
dispatched Thursday night to Mr.
Rogers, who is attending the
Stockmen’s convention at El Paso:
“Cameron county commissioners
court today adopted your sugges
tion and charged name of old mili
tary road to Border highway. Com
missioners suggest you write and I
mail appropriate preamble for
resolution to include in official
records of the court. Pass the
word to El Paso.”
*‘I can readily understand why
Mexico should feel affronted by
the designation of this road as
the military highway.” Commis
sioner Logan said. * We would
consider it a national insult if
Mexico persisted in maintaining a
‘military highway’ on the south
side of the Rio Grande.”
The motion of Commissioner
Logan was immediately seconded
by Commissioner Laroche, and
each of the commissioners and
County Judge Dancy voted “aye”
when the motion was put to a
vote.
Commissioner Baughn called at
tention to the fact that the county
will soon be calling lor bids lor
extensive improvements on the
Border highway, and that the ac
tion of the court would require
that all official designations use
the term “border highway.”
The old road has been known aa
the “military highway” ever aince
General Zachary Taylor hewed his
way through the Rio Grande
brushlands from his base at
Brownsville to Roma. During the
early years of border warfare the
road was extended westward, and
eventually reached the Pacific.
It is understood the War De
partment still refers to the old
road as the “military highway of
the Rio Grande.” while the High
way Department recognizes it as
the “Border Highway.”
KIDNAPER OF
GIRL ESCAPES
POLICE DECOY
Ransom Demanded for
Return of Missing
Student Gives Im
petus to Search
NORTHAMPTON, Mass., Jan. 27.—
(/P)—A ransom letter writer who de
i manded 512,000 to restore the miss
ing Miss Frances St. John Smith to
i her grieving parents was at large
today, having escaped a police trap.
Despite faithful adherence to the
directions contains in a letter to
representatives of the Smith family
in New York, a package appearing
to contain the money went un
claimed.
Had those in the plot sought to
snatch it from the designated spot
at the foot of a flight of stain* be
hind a Springfield department store,
they would have been surrounded by
a squad of policemen.
The supposed money had been
placed there by a messenger who left
New York on a train which arrived
in Springfield at 2:51 p. m. yester
day afternoon, in accordance with in
structions from the ransom writer.
He deposited the packet and then
registered at a designated hotel to
await word which would tell him
Miss Smith’s whereabouts.
In the meantime the state police
took up positions where they could
watch without being ooserved. The
long vigil was unrewarded and late
last night the hope that the plotters
would appear was abandoned.
Police said the letter had been
penciled by an educated person.
Various other clues about the New
York broker’s daughter, missing
from Smith College, were run to
earth without result. Detectives
withheld final decision on the possi
bilities contained in news from offi
cers of the Savannah line’s Citr of
Atlanta that a girl resembling Miss
Smith took nassace aboard the shin
on the night of Jan. 13. several
hours after she left the college.
DEMOCRATIC
MEET SOUGHT
Commerce Chamber
Invites State Con
vention to City
Letters urging Brownsville as the
site of the 19^8 state democratic
convention, and cordially inviting the
body to meet here, were sent Friday
to every democratic state committee
man in Texas by the local chamber
of commerce.
The letters were a follow-up to
a series of similar messages sent
out during the earlier days of the
week by Milton West, member of the
committee, urging the body to meet
here, and pointing out the ad
vantages the city has to offer over
other snots under consideration.
D. W. Wilcox, of Georgetown,
chairman of the committee, headed
■ the list of these to whom the letter
was sent.
The letter starts by cordially in
viting the party to meet in Browns
ville. and points out the advantages
of Brownsville as a meeting scene.
The fact that the weather here may
I (Continued on page two)
r FRENCH AIR HEROES IN PANAMA
Dieudonne Costes and Joseph LeBrix, first to fly the South Atlantic,
who have been flying northward on the American continent in a series
of short hops, are shown above with the secretary of the French lega
tion upon their arrival in Panama.
4-DAY-OLD BABY
* * *
GETS REGISTERED
* * *
BY PROUD DADDY
Cameron county has one citizen
who believes in observing the
strict letter of the law.
The said citizen recently be
came a father, and was imbued
with all of a father’s pride in his
offspring. The attending physi
cian informed him that the child
should be registered without de
lay.
There was very little delay.
Four days after the child had
arrived in this “vale of tears”
the proud father appeared at the
office of County Clerk H. D. Seago
with a tiny bundle from which
emitted faint squawks of protest.
“I want to register him,” the
proud father proclaimed to the
county clerk.
“Register what,” was the clerk's
polite inquiry.
“This kiddy of mine; he’s four
days old, and I brought him down
to register as soon as I could.
His mother objected, but I told
her it was necessary to have him
registered without delay.”
Seago was momentarily nonplus
sed. but soon recovered his usual
equanimity, produced the neces
sary blanks and the child was reg
istered.
“Our supply of 1928 tags has
not arrived,” the clerk informed
the father, “but as soon as they
get in I will send the set.”
Handling the tiny bundle of
four-day-old humanity as though
it was the greatest treasure on
earth—as it undoubtedly was—the
father left for his home in the up
per part of the county, satisfied
that he had fully performed his
duty as a law-observing citizen.
Plane Crash Fatal
To 2 Texas Students
McLEAN. Texas. Jan. 27.—<&—
Donald Moring and William Miller,
McLean high school students, were
killed instantly and Harold English,
Amarillo, their pilot, was slightly
injured when the plane in which
they were "stunting” went into a
slip and fell 400 feet to the ground
here Thursday evening.
The plane was describing a loop
when the slip occurred.
PLANTS PICK
BORDER TOWN
Matamoros, to Get 4
New Ventures In
Coming Year
Inspired largely by the probabili
ties of the Valley having its own
deep water port at Point Isabel,
four strong Mexican concerns are to
launch new enterprises in Mata
moros within the next year, Luis
Rendon, secretary of the chamber
of commere of thst city, announced
Friday.
Soap, vegetable cooking oil, and
cotton producta are included in the
manufacturing plans of those who
would make of Matamoros the manu
facturing city of the border. Three
of the new enterprises are to be un
der the direction of Maipmoros bus
iness men. while one company from
Nuevo Laredo wjll locate in the city
opposite Brownsville, Mr. Rendon
stated.
The entire increase is being
brought about largely because of the
strong probability of the establish
ment of a deep water port at the
Point, he declared. Such a port will
afford the manufacturer an oppor
tunity to place their products in the
markets of the Gulf of Mexico with
a minimum loss of time, Mr. Ren
don said.
The oil comnany. La Victoria, is
to establish a factory for the manu
facture of vegetable cooking oil, and
another where soaps r»t all descrip
tions will be made. The cotton seed
oil refinery, alreadv in operation,
will furnish the basic ingredients for
the manufacture of both these pro
ducts. it was said.
Machinery for both the new ven
tures already has been ordered, and
delivery probably will be made with
in the next few weeks, it was said.
The comnany is a strong one, and
fully capable of carrying out its
plans, Mr. Rendon declared.
The firm of Gonzalez Hijo, of
Nuevo Laredo, has dennitely re
solved to establish a cotton seed oil
mill in Matamoros, and it is possible,
according to their statement, that
within a year they will be refining
oil and manufacturing shortening
soms of all kinds.
M. J. Garcia and Brothers, owners
of a cotton gin now in oneration in
Matamoros. will establish another
one this year.
Ibanez, Noted Writer,
Is Dangerously 111
MADRID. Jan. 27.—(tP\—The news
paper Heraldo today received a dis
patch from Mentone, France, stating
that Vicente Carrich Blasco Ibanez
was dead at his villa there.
MENTONE. France. Jan. 27.—UFV
Vincente Blasco Ibanez. 61. noted
Spanish author, is seriously ill at
his villa here. He is suffering from
a grave complication of broncho
pneumonia and diabetes.
The condition of the writer, who
is now in exile from his native land
because of his opposition to the
present political regime, is regarded
as critical and several physicians
have been called to his bedside.
WOMAN TO DIE
OF WOUND BY
STRAY BULLET
Slap Administered to
Girl Credited With
Being Cause of War
On Dance Floor
(Special to The Herald.)
MERCEDES, Jan. 27.—Because the
sweetheart of one man was slipped
at a dance Sunday night, one woman
is in the local hospital today at the
point of death and four men are at
their homes slightly wounded as the
result of a shooting affray at a
dance Thursday night in which a
dozen shots were fired.
The woman, Petra Fegura, who la
shot through the breast «.nd will die.
according to hospital authorities,
was an innocent bystander and had
no connection with the shooting or
the quarrel that is believed to have
led up to it. She conducted a small
store near the dance but was in
her home, about 30 feet away, when
she was wounded by a stray ballet.
The four men wounded are Jorga
Cantu, Garza Cano, Ramon Gonzalaa
and Lino Carrisal. All are residents
of this place.
The shooting occurred about 11:1ft
p. m. Thursday and it said by offi
cers and i« said to have broken out
on the am al of one of the mounded
men at the dance. Wstresses said
parties in the affray had quarreled
bitterly at a dance here Sunday night
after a girl, said to ha the sweet
heart of one of the men, had been
slapped while on the dance floor,
Later the man who slapped her was
accosted by her lover and the inter
ference of friends is credited with
preventing a fight at that time.
Last night is the first time they
had met since the Sunday quarrel,
friends told officers.
Three of the men have been ar
rested and are being guarded in their
homes. Gonzales, who is believed to
have been wounded by a stray bullet
and who officers say apparently had
no nart in the shooting, has not been
held.
The men under arrest will ha
taken to Edinburg for a hearing as
soon as they are able to make the
trio, which is expected to be within
a few davs. The arrests were made
by Jim Pszar, city marshal.
Mrs. Feruga is expected to dlo
momentarily and murder complaints
will be lodged against all three men
if this happens, officers said.
Mrs. Besteiro To
Be Buried Today
The funeral of Mra. Julia P. Bes
teiro. who died at her home at
Eighth and Washington streets at I
o'clock Thursday afternoon will be
held at 4 o'clock thia afternoon.
The funeral cortege will form at
the residence, and services will be
held at the Church of the Immacu
late Conception. Burial will be in
the City Cemetery, in the Besteiro
family plot.
Mrs. Besteiro was born 77 years
ago, in 1851, at Caderyta, in the
state of Nuevo Leon. She removed
to Brownsville with her family
while still a child, and in 1888 wat
married to Jose Besteiro, who cam*
here from Spain.
To this union were born thirteen
children, of whom seven survive
i their mother. They are Jose and
Alberto Besteiro of Brownsville,
Martin Besteiro of Salinas. Cal*
Miss Maria Besteiro, Mrs. Alfonso
Bennevendo, both of Brownsville,
and Mrs. Gonzales Diego of San
; tar.der, Spain.
The active pallbearers will be
;Joe Celaya, Jr., A. Orive, Jr* Joaa
Martinez, Antonio Alonso, Juvencio
Garcia, Jose Z. Garza, M. Landin.
and J. P. Putegnat. The honorary
pallbearers will be Jose Celaya, Sr*
George Champion. Sr* C. P. Bar
reda, Joe Webb, John G. Champion,
B. L. Cain, Manuel Berreda and C.
C. Olivers.
Commissioner In
Hidalgo Resigns
MISSION, Jan. 27.—Geo. Brooks,
county commissioner from this dis
trict for eiht years, has resigned
from office, and the board has ap
pointed S. M. Hargrove to fill out
Mr. Brooks’ unerpired term.
Mr. Brookt regretted very much to
make this move but his private bus
iness and the precarious state of bie
wife’s health, compelled him to re
tire. This district will be very cap
ably represented in the person of
S. M. Hargrove.
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