News from other parts of the state 1908, 1910, 1915, 1923 Henderson Co., TX

Port Arthur News
Friday, March 2, 1923
Athens 1B Wins
Athens, Texas, March 2-The Athens 1B quintet defeated Simpsonville 1B of Upshur county on the indoor court at Tyler, by a score of 25 to 15, gaining undisputed title to East Texas championship and placing in the state meet.

Wichita Daily Times
18 Sep 1908
Duel With Burglar
Athens man grapples with intruder and is stabbed with a knife
Finds Revolver Fires
Neighbors rush in and arrest robber
Both men are seriously wounded
Special to Times
Athens, Tex, Sept. 17-George Munroe fought a duel with a burglar in his home here early today, both receiving serious, but not fatal wounds.
Munroe grappled with the robber who stabbed him. Munroe then managed to get his revolver from under a pillow and fired one bullet in the burglars side. Neighbors rushed in and the robber was arrested. He gives his name as Jim Davis.

Wichita Weekly Times
January 28, 1910
Accidently Killed
Athens Farmers' Shot Gun is Fatally Discharged
Athens, Tex, Jan. 24-B. L. Nelson, a farmer, who resided four miles south of this city, died this morning from a wound caused by the accidential discharge of a shot gun. Nelson was preparing to go hunting, when the weapon fell from the table and the jar discharged it. Nelson was forty seven years of age.

Wichita Weekly Times
Oct. 1, 1915
2 Investigations in Progress at Ardmore today.
Oklahoma Railroad Commission and State Fire Marshal Investigate Explosion Disaster
Death List Stands at 47
Ardmore, OK, Sept. 29-Names of the Dead
Aaron C. Gould, poultry man, aged 44, married of Palestine, Texas.
J. T. Gilkey, Santa Fe Yardman, 38, married, Athens, Texas, burned in freight depot fire.

transcribed by Holli Boone Kees

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