The Caldwell News and The Burleson County Ledger (Caldwell, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 46, Ed. 1 Friday, February 7, 1930 Page: 1 of 8
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A Weekly Newspaper Devoted Unreservedly to the Development and Upbuilding of Burleson County.
Burleson Co. Ledger. Vol. 44, No. 40.
CALDWELL, BURLESON COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1930.
The Caldwell Now , Vol. S, No. •
CALDWELL'S NEW THEATRE OPENS HERE MONDAY
Burleson County Track Meet Date For This Spring Is Definitely Set
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Move Made To Widen 'Old San Antonio Road'
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MASS MEETING
OF CITIZENS
BEINQ_CALLED
100 Foot Right-of-Way Wanted
To Get Highway Depart-
ment To Take Over
Judge Grant this week issued a
call for a mass meeting of the citi-
zens of the county, especially the
property owners on the "Old Spanish
Trail," to meet at the court house
here, Monday at 2:00 p. m. for the
purpose of taking steps to widen the
road from county line to county line,
in order to shape the road up for the
Highway Department to take over
and maintain as a first class state
highway in accordance '-vith a special
law enacted last year by the state
legislature.
Judge Grunt's call is as follows:
"I am hereby calling a mass meeting
of the citizen- living on Highway 21,
or the "Old San Antonio Trail." which
is to he built from the Louisianna
state line beyond Nacogdoches to the
Mexico line. The specific purpose of
the meeting is to obtain information
from the citizen* relative to securing
a hundred Font fight -of -way. which
is required by the Stale Highway De-
partment for the road. And, as I
consider the construction of highway.-1
in our county of very grcu: import-
ance and essentially necessary to our
further prosperity, 1 am herewith ex-
tending this call to citizens who arc
interested in highways throughout the
county to attend this meeting which
is to be held in the court house Feb
ruary 10, at 2:00 p. m."
There is concerted move alono: the
old San Antonio Road to comply with
this new law which demands 100 feet
right-of-way before the road wall be
taken over. Counties to the east are
pushing their part and the citizens
here want to net to work in this coun-
ty to widen the road so that we can
get our part arranged. Th# general
opinion in that the Highway Depart-
ment will make cardinal highway out
of the road, which eventually means
concreting all the way. Nothing can
be done or will be done until the right-
of-way is secured.
To say the least, it is an important
matter and should receive the atten-
tion and cooperation of the citizen-
ship to get worked out at the earliest
possible moment.
WEIL KNOWN
PROVIDENCE
FARMER DIES
Anton Zalmanek, aged 50, of the
Providence community, one of the
county's moot substantial farmers,
died at his home Sunday afternoon.
His remains wore buried Monday af-
ternoon in the New Tubor cemetery.
Reverends A. S. Hroaddus, of this
city, and Motycka, of Bell villi*, offic-
iated, Rev. Broaddus in English and
Rev. Motycka in Bohemian. The
funeral services were conducted at
the family home.
Mr. Zalmanek was born in Wash-
ington county in 1880 and moved here
about years ago, where he has
resided and farmed. He made many
friends here. He was married. His
widow, three daughters, two sisters
and one brother, survive him. They
are: Mrs. John Mrnustik, Jr., Misses
Tony nnd Henrietta, daughters; Mrs.
J. V. Maresh and Francis Skrabanek,
sisters; and Frank Zalmanek, brother,
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Cobb left Mon-
day for St. Louis to buy spring goods
for their dry goods store.
Methodist Pastor
Is Conducting
Series of Sermons
The pastor of the Methodist church,
Rev. W. E. Hassler is now conduct-
ing a series of sermons on the Books
o I the Bible. Every Sunday morning
at the eleven o'clock hour, he brings
the general message of a Book, then
specializes on some outstanding
message of that book. Next Sunday
morning he will preach on "Exodus,"
and at night the subject will be, "The
Christ Centered Church." Mr. C. R.
Hackney, who is the band director of
the high school band, has charge of
the Methodist choir, and invites those
who will help to the choir practice
every Wednesday evening after pray-
er meeting. Of course there is a
warm welcome in a warm church
awaiting all who worship at the
Methodist church.
EFFORT MADE
TO ROB POWER
COMPANY HERE
Attempt Frustrated by Passers
By After Employe Was Held
t'p and Bound
Tuesday at midnight Jack Allen.
Gulf States Utilities Company elec-
trician. was held up in the company's
office by two unmasked men at the
point of a pistol, was tied hog fash-
ion, and the company's safe was
about to be robbed when some boys
passed by the front laughing and
talking ami «frustrated their efforts.
The bandits broke and ran. Jack was
forgotten about altogether and was
left tied hand and feet on the hard
cement floor to root for himself as
l>e t he could. He said it was some
45 minutes before he could get un-
leashed and then only after he had
loosened the ropes that bound him
enough "to wiggle to the telephone to
call for help. Central phoned Mr.
Clark, superintendent of the local
company. He rushed to his assistance,
notified Marshal Broaddus and the
two liberated him.
Mr. Allen was unhurt only for a
bruised head and some burned places
on his arms where his head hit the
cement floor when he was pushed
over by the robbers after he was
hound and where the ropes bound his
arms. "Yes, I was a bit frightened,"
Mr. Allen said. He said, "They took
me by surprise, and the gun they used
looked like a little cannon." He ra-
marked that it was his first hold up
and that he hoped it was his last.
Only two weeks ago, his home was
entered by burglars, he told the News.
The robbers made efforts to get
into the safe but were scared off just
about the time they got started.
Mr. Allen worked at the new Isis
until late and went over to the office
across the street to write a letter to
V.is wife and spend the night. He was
locked inside but went out the rear
door of the building to get some wood
to rekindle the fire. When he re-
entered the building, the robbers fol-
lowed behind. They ordered him to
drop the wood and turn around. While
one held the gun on hint the other
hound him.
The men were unmasked. One was
said to be about 86 years old and the
other about 2-. They were rather
small in statue and were well dressed.
They wore white shirt- and collars
and had kid gloves on. No trace of
the two have been found.
Mrs. J. W. Skrabanek spent last
week in Temple studying special fea-
tures in permanent waving and fin-
ger waving.
ANNUAL SCHOOL
AFFAIR SLATED
FOR MARCH 21
(
Officers Meet To Work
Details To Govern
Meet
Out
The Burleson County Intcf-
scholastic League Meet will be hold
March 21, according to the County
Director General, Mr. Smyre, princi-
pal of the Caldwell High School. Do-
bate eliminations will have to take
place before the county meet, how*
ever, for, according to the new Inter-,
scholastic League rules, all teams en-
tering debate are required to partici-
pate in a round robin elimination
schedule. Coaches of all debate teams
in the county should communicate
immediately with the county director
of debate.
The Burleson County Interscholastic
League officers are as follows:
Director general, S. H. Smyre; direct-
or of debate, Leigh Peck; director of
declamation, Mr;i. W. L. Surovikj.
dire tor of spelling, J. W. Hare;
director of athletics, E. E. Darby;
director of music memory. Mrs. J.
Ripple.
HUMPTYDUMPTY
STORE OPENS AT
TEN TOMORROW
T. B. Parkhill Announces Every-
thing Will Be In Good
Shape by Morning
At ten o'clock tomorrow morning
T. 13. Parkhill will throw the doors
to his new "Humpty Dumpty," in-
dividually owned cash store, wide
open to the public throughout the
county and adjacent trade territory
for their inspection.
For the past two weeks extensive
preparations have been going on to
make a good appearance and im-
pression on the public. Brand new fix-
tures of the very latest style have
been installed this week. The interior
of the building has been reconditioned
throughout. New lights to adequate-
ly illuminate his grocery department
have been installed. Practically every
piece of his old fixtures have been
discarded. The grocery department
will be new and modern throughout.
His fixtures are of the counter type.
They are painted orange and white
with black trimmings. A wide black-
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Home For New
Cash Grocery
Gets Under Way
Early Monday morning contractors
commenced work of remodeling the
old theatre building for the hot. i
the new Piggly Wiggly cash ' "
to be opened and operated by W, L.
Surovik sometime around the first of
the month.
The major portion of the old floor
was torn out and will be reconstruct-
ed. The entire interior will be mod-
ernly and beautifully refinished
throughout and a new plate glass
front with show windows will be con-
structed.
Spe ¡al Piggly Wiggly fixtures will
be in-*:ailed with some modern show
¿i.-c to preserve certain peri hable
items that will be handled regularly.
Mr. Surovick stated that he feels
lik.> lie will have a very ri-n'mn and
inviting place of business when he
opens formally for business.
Inventor Of Talkies
Explains Them Fully
We have all heard motion pictures
talk and sing and perhaps wondered
what made them do it. Many people
who should know have offered un-
explaining explanations of this new-
est wonder of the motion pictures,
and some lucid bits have emerged
from the discussions of it during the
past months. The impression has
grown up that it is much too compli-
cated a process for the average non-
technical person to understand. But
really there is nothing very compli-
cated about the process which per-
mits persons to speak one place and
then do it all over again, as many
times as required, any place in the
world. We have the word of Dr. Lee
DeForest, the man who is known as
"the father of radio" because he
made radio possible, that it is not a
complicated process. He ought to
know for he is the man who first
made talkie pictures possible, and he
has constantly improved his own in-
vention, DeForest Phonofilm, to a
point where it is recognized as being
superior to any talking device in
American theatres.
Dr. DeForest explained the talkies
to the National Radio Institute and
weiv made by John Toupal, Lester . in doing so waved away much of the
HORNETS GIVEN
GOOD OVATION
FRIDAY NIGHT
Banquet Held In Their Honor
Terminates Highly Success-
ful; Eighty Attend
The Hornet football team of 1929
were guests of honor Friday evening,
at a banquet given by the Parent-
Teachers Association in the upper
corridor of the high school building.
Eighty guests enjoyed the tradition-
al turkey dinner. Music was furnish-
ed throughout the evening by D. L.
Alford, Jr. and his orchestra.
Further musical numbers on the
evening's program included a vocal
solo by Miss Cuenod, a saxaphone
solo by D. L. Alford, Jr. and a duet
by the Hundley sisters. The chief ad-
dress was made by Mr. W. G. Clark,
local superintendent of the Gulf
States Utilities Company, who
atuily:ed the value of football as a
trair. ng for practical life. Short talks
Albert Houston, Joe Toupal,
Morris Cross, Robert Porter, and Ivo
Schoppe.
LOCAL POSTAL
RECEIPTS SHOW
FAIR INCREASE
In spite of sluggish business condi-
tions the past fall, the local post of-
PROUD
OF US ADDED
ATTRACTION
Opening Night Monday Expect-
ed to Draw Mammoth
Crowd People
Mr. and C. W. Mrs. Matson are
happy to announce the formal open-
ing of the new and perfected sound
system. It is with an unusual feel-
ing of service that the Isis welcomes
the theatre going public of Caldwell
and Burleson County and vicinity to
the opening of 'Phonofilm. It is the
wish of the management that all of
the hours spent in listening to thia
new and greater entertainment will be
hours of happiness and pleasure to
be cheriahed in memories as the yeara
go by.
The installation of sound equip-
ment has been a task. The Isis for
the last two weeks has been a topsy
turvey place but now it is finished
and ready for your inspection and it
is hoped that you will enjoy this new
marvel of the ages.
We «re glad to announce to the
lew of higher type of amoeeinnit-
that it will be ready for them at the
evening performance Monday, Feb-
ruary 10th. The house will open nt
6:30 and the performance will sta;-t
at 7:15 o'clock, when there will le
presented "Sweetie," a picture re-
cently released. It is an all-talking
picture.
With the installation of sound
equipment which has been carried for-
ward by the Isis, the front, lobbies,
and foyer have been redecorated.
New draperies and stage equipment
hove been installed, that greatly en-
hance the beauty of this theatre. New
upholstered seats are the mo st, com-
fortable possible to get. Now you
can come to the Isis and get the ulti-
mate in comfort and the premier in
the presentation of highest class of
synchronized pictures.
It is with great pleasure that you
are invited to attend the new open-
ing of the Isis Theatre.
The building and installation of
new equipment nears completion. It
will be ready for the opening Mon-
day. The citizenship generally are de-
lighted with this coming attraction.
A packed house is virtually assurred
by the interest manifested and the
number of advanced tickets that have
been sold.
CITY ALDERMAN
SMITH RESIGNS
FROM COUNCIL
After serving more than fourteen
years on the city council, Alderman
M. Smith Wednesday tendered hia
resignation effective at once.. Being
a director in the Caldwell National
Bank, the present depository for the
city funds, which is contrary to law
were his reasons. He was compelled
to relinquish one office or the other
and he chose to give up his position
as a city official.
The city loses one of the moat
capable and competent officials it has
ever had. Mr. Smith was well versed
with city affairs in all its ramifica-
tions. He was hroadminded and
honorable in his dealings, always
authorities would permit, and during!alive and alert to its interests and
the intervening nine years I have needs. He was a faithful attendant
been engaged mainly in the develop-|nt all meetings and took conscientious
ment of talking movies, with the ex-
ception of some recent research and
mystery that has surrounded them.
He also intimated that radio made
the talkies possible. His explanation
in part follows:
"The opportunity in talking pic-
ture experiments came in 1919, after
I had developed radio broadcasting
just about as fur as public interests
and the mercies of the Federal Radio
lice officials report a slight increase engineering developments on the im-
in business over the past year. Busi- proved types of auditions and vacuum
tirst halt ot I• ran good, tubes for broadcast reception, which
during the
ness the
but was checked some
later half.
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stands on all questions. The city ia
losing a valuable off icial, one who vill
be missed in the council chain b* .
Miss Lois Brooks left last week
for Stephenville where si:" wM at*
tend John Tarleton College.
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Cromartie, C. E. The Caldwell News and The Burleson County Ledger (Caldwell, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 46, Ed. 1 Friday, February 7, 1930, newspaper, February 7, 1930; Caldwell, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth174886/m1/1/: accessed April 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Harrie P. Woodson Memorial Library.