Weekly student newspaper from Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas that includes local, state and campus news along with advertising.

Weekly student newspaper from Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas that includes local, state and campus news along with advertising.

Weekly student newspaper from Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas that includes local, state and campus news along with advertising.

Indorsement correspondence from F. A. DeVerts to the commanding officer, S. A. T. C. Unit, Simmons College, discussing paperwork and a prior indorsement.

Indorsement correspondence from F. A. DeVerts to the commanding officer, S. A. T. C. Unit at Simmons College discussing required paperwork for payments.

Weekly student newspaper from Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas that includes local, state and campus news along with advertising.

Weekly student newspaper from Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas that includes local, state and campus news along with advertising.

Letter signed by twenty-nine mebers of the Abilene Council for Retarded Children to Texas State Representative Truett Latimer discussing legislation to increase aid for intellectually disabled children in Texas.

Letter from Arch Lewis to Truett Latimer discussing support for the passage of Texas House Bill #25.

Letter from B. H. Peacock to Truett Latimer discussing the Legislative Budget Board's decision to increase the Abilene State Hospital Budget by $20 million instead of the $41 million they requested. Peacock writes that the funds are necessary to care for the thousands of mentally ill patients in the state and that the funds could be raised through liquor and tobacco taxes. He recounts his own experience receiving treatment for a nervous breakdown at the U.S. Public Health Services Hospital in Fort Worth, as well as his time as an Engineer Officer overseeing care and maintenance of Veterans hospital facilities, when he encountered many mentally ill patients. He asks Latimer to reconsider funding the full amount the hospital requested and offers to answer any further questions.

Letter from Ben R. Barbee to Truett Latimer discussing a luncheon and dinner they have planned for the 3rd and 4th of February.

Letter from Bill Tippen to Truett Latimer discussing support of the District Attorneys' Salary Raise Bill.

Letter from D. C. Greer and E. J. Amey to Truett Latimer discussing how the licence plate to be issued soon to Latimer has been sent to the County Tax Assessor-Collector.

Letter from D. D. Parramore to J. L. Wells discussing receiving a map of the Cienega Ditch and sending payment for it, signing of legal forms related to the surveying of the ditch, and discussing the existing legal ambiguity of the current ownership of the property. A postscript note at the end of the letter reads, "Am working with Bill Sugart to get Charles Chinoweth or someone else and go up to Lordsburg and sign the papers." The word, "Coppy", is written in pencil at the top of the letter.

Letter from Evan Allard Reiff to Truett Latimer discussing Latimer's invitation to Reiff and his wife to attend the inauguration of Governor Daniel. Reiff thanks Latimer for the invitation but regrets they cannot attend.

Letter from J. S. to Fred R. Ellis discussing the testimony of J. L. Thompson in the case, Jake L. Hamon vs. U. S. Torpedo Co. There is an illegible handwritten note at the bottom of the letter.

Letter from Jack D. Landrum to Truett Latimer notifying him that he wrote a letter to Ben Sudderth in which he offered assistance to help with Mr. Sudderth's proposed bill to strengthen existing laws pertaining to juveniles. He also invites Mr. Latimer to have coffee and discuss the same bill but on a local level.

Letter from John Sayles to G. C. Spillers discussing the Hamon et al vs. U. S. Torpedo Company case. Sayles thanks Spillers for a transcript of testimony and oral depositions.

Letter written to J.R. Curl, the Texas Secretary of State, from K.K. Legett, concerning his appointment as a member of the board of directors of A&M College.

Letter from Truett Latimer to Curtis L. Wheat discussing sending a copy of a bill in the future that will allow businesses to garnish the wages of people who will not pay their accounts.

A letter written to Mr. T. N. Carswell, Post Commander, Parramore Post No. 57, Abilene, Texas, from Richard E. Froiseth, Major, QMC, Constructing Quartermaster, War Department, Camp Barkeley, Abilene, Texas, dated January 23, 1941. Cover letter by Froiseth advising of an enclosed copy of a letter from Taylor-Byrne-Briggs relative to the employment of ex-service men. Typewritten on War Department letterhead.

Letter from Mrs. Gerald W. Brown to Truett Latimer discussing concerns regarding state taxes.

Letter from Sayles & Sayles to African Methodist Episcopal Church informing them of their debt to the Ballinger & Abilene Railway Company as seen on a delivered affidavit.

Letter from Syd Trotter to Truett Latimer as an invitation to a Sunday School class.