Athens Weekly Review
April 9, 1936
The Reviewing Stand

Wednesday
Among letter of congratulations recently received by
Sheriff Jess Sweeten was one from Tom Ray, former
county gin man, now living in San Antonio .. The sheriff
got letters from several persons having the name of
"Sweeten" who wondered if they were not related to him ...
One such gentleman in Hoboken, New Jersey, turned out to
be a distant cousin ... John Easterwood getting off a truck
load of baby chick shipments ... One box went to Van, Texas;
another to Hot Springs, Arkansas, and a third to
Oklahoma City, Okla. ... L. J. Fitzgerald showing a group a
poll tax receipt dated May 28th 1890 ... He paid two dollars
for it when he was living in Maury County, Tennessee ...
B. C. Hall telling a group that no decision had yet been
reached as to where George Patton, mass slayer, would
be taken for his examining trial here next Monday...
Conscensus of opinion is that the hearing will be on the
second floor of the county jail. ... Joe Leonard, Gainesville
publisher, who came here Tuesday to make up his attendance
at the Rotary Club, found himself attending the Chamber of
Commerce banquet with local Rotarians. Editor T. A. Price
of the Dallas Journal complimented Chief of Police Homer Williams
after the latter had stopped him and advised him to drive slower
by the Grammar school building - Price admitted he was making
**"forty" at the underpass.... Senator George Purl arrived in the
city just as the banquet closed -- But he kept a crowd interested
for half hour or more- The Senator said there were 10,000
people in the new oil field town of Mt. Pleasant Tuesday.
** the speed limit is still 30 ... 2006

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