Judge Nash, who had been appointed manager of the Farmers' Co-operative Store at Duck Creek, took the lead on the side of that town. At the solicitation of friends, I opened a store at Duck Creek and placed it in the hands of a manager. What worried the Duck Creek men was that the postoffice was at Embree. Judge Nash started a newspaper at Duck Creek, the Duck Creek News, and placed it in the hands of John H. Cullom, now District Court Clerk of Dallas County. Embree was represented by my newspaper, the name of which I had changed to the Embree Enterprise, and which was under the management of George Crossman.
Contest is Acrimonious.
The contest reached such a pitch of animosity that the cooler heads saw that something would have to be done to avert bloodshed. It was Judge Nash who saw a way to settle the trouble. He had been a power in the convention that nominated Joe Abbott of Hillsboro for Congress, and had thereby made a friend of Judge Abbott. He suggested that the two towns ask Judge Abbott to arbitrate their quarrel. It is a fact that some pieces of mail intended for Embree had gone to Emory, in Rains County, and some Emory mail had strayed into the Embree postoffice.