Semi-weekly Hallettsville Herald (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, July 20, 1928 Page: 3 of 4
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HALLETTSVILLE HERALD HALLETTSVILLE, TEXAS
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FACTS
C.—What is grass?
H. I don’t know.
C.—Whiskers on earth.
YOAKUM DEATHS
WINSLETT —Newton B.
Winslett, aged 39 years, four
months and 29 days died at
his home at Hochheim Mon-
day morning at eight o’clock
after a short illness. Funeral dians in this show?
services will be held at the Mother—Hush, no.
COURT REPORTER ' THE RACE FOR UNITED
RECOMMENDS TYLER ‘ STATES SENATOR
SCHOOL. There are six candidates rn
Mr. H. C. Sansom, Court Re- the race for United States Se-
' porter, 77th Judicial District,. nator.
Bobby—Mdtjher are there In- Groesbeck, Texas, writes a The line of difference b:t
brief directly told story of a ween Alwin Owsley and the
; splendid success, splendidly other five, is clearly drawn.
Yoakum Catholic church this Bobby—Well, wild scalped earned. In this message from Owsiey is the onl; cancti-
morning at 10 o’clock, by Rev. all the men in the first row? a young man who has proved date that was and is for G^-
Father Kieffer. Interment will * * [the value and advantages of veinor $mith the democratic;
■^ake place in the Catholic No one w$ ever beat your j a Tyler Commercial College, nominee. Tie declared openly i
Cemetery. He is survived by time if you are in love with Tyler, Texas, training you will *or Governor Smith months j
several small children, his yourself. — get an idea of what yoii can a£° when it took real courage j
wife preceded him to her * T ~ accomplish if you will take to face the fanaticism that was ■
grave about six years ago. | Honeymoons are mighty | the same surer safe road to sweeping over the country and
SHINDLER— Frank Shind- nice if you can keep themj your future.v' still has to be faced and
ler, aged 79 years, died at the [from getting too Soon. I Mr. Sansom writes: fought in this campaign
COME! COME! COME!
DANCE AT NATIONAL HALL
SATURDAY JULY 21st.
Music by Buske’s Orchestra.
COME AND ENJOY IT!
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home of his daughter, Mrs. Ivy
Mott, who resides at Prairie
Hill just south of the city, Mon
day afternoon at 3:15 o’clock.
Mr. Shindler was one of
Yoakum’s industrious farmers
and has lived here for many
years and is well known in
both, DeWitt and Lavaca
counties. He is survived by
seven children, Mesdames L.
C. Sunday, Sophia Hattenbach
and Messrs Emmett and Chas.
Shindler, all of Yo&kum and
Frank Shindler 0/ Deertraii,
Colorado.
Time of the funeral has not
been set, awaiting the arriva1
of his son from Colorado. —
Yoakum Times .
NOTE—It would be illcga.
10 publish thi~ if not true.
Fiftee~ Year Goitre
Removeu. Texas Woman wanis
others to know Her experience
With Home Treatment
Mrs. N. A. Holiman, Honey-
grove, Tex. Rt. 3, says in her
own home paper, the Honey-
grove Signal: “My goitre bo-
thered me terribly. Had such
pains in my head and eyes.
Had dizzy and choking spells.
Two different treatments did
“I entered your school di- Owsley is the only candiaat i
America chewed 90 million j rect from high school and, af- that demands equal chance for.
dollars worth of chewing gum ter completing the course in the farmer by direct loans!
last year. That makes about}bookkeeping-shorthand, went from the government without!
two hunks for every chair in | to work in the office of an at- iGd tape or delay, the same at {
torney here, where I remained now given to the banker, the
until appointed Court Repor-, merchant, and the manufactu-
ter 77th Judicial District, rGr- All the other candidate:
Limestone County, Texas, either proposed no relief o:
which position I now hold. In they favor some poard or bu-
looking over the field of acti- reau that would take always
vity now open to a young man to do anything or would squ-
or woman of limited means, I ander all the money before the
can see no-other field of en-; farmer would gez any of it.
deavor or place where training Most of the other candidates
for a life work can be prodm;have been in Congress for
ced at anything like the cost Aears an^ they have never pro
of attending your school. You j trelief or consideration
are doing a wonderful workj W the farmer,
for the young men and wo-; Owsley is a pTohibitionist
men who enter your school, j by precept and practice. But(
preparing them for a profes- m the same time he is oppose '
the world.
* * *,
I “Why I knew you when you
wore short pants.”
“Thats ’nothing I knew you
when you wore three corner-
ed ones.”
* * * ■
Why are cooks called cruel?
Because they beat the eggs
and whip the cream.
* * *
Around the bathing beaches
the rule seems to be—never
put on today what you can
leave off ’till tomorrow.
* * *
Young lady (just operated
on for appendicitis) “Oh doc-
tor, will the scar show?”
Doctor: “Not if you are
careful”.
* * * i
Mrs. Blake: “Husbands are
strange creatures.”
Her friend—Aren’t they?
John has to ask his garage-
man a hundred questions be-
fore he puts a drop of oil
into the car, but he never asks
his bootlegger a single ques-
sion at an expense within thej^°.'Jbe private home and *pre-
means of any ambitious boy mises_ of the citizen being
of girl. I can and will most
heartily recommend your
school to any one who contem-
plates taking any of the cour-
ses offered by you”.
searched and seized by offici-
ous agents because it is suspec
ted that somebody might have
a little on hand for home
1 consumption. For that reason
Our Agency now represents some of the strongest firms
of Investment Brokers, Bonds, Common and Cumulative
Preferred Stocks, Notes and Building Loan Issues of
great reliability, safe and sound Investments, no trouble
to buyers, Interest and Dividends promptly paid. All
Mortgage Notes on property fully covered by Tornado
and Fire Insurance for protection of holders of Noth*.
Full detailed information on request. Also Rental and
Real-Estate Agency. All business entrusted to our care
will receive prompt and careful attention. Phone No. 81.
Reference: First National Bank.
McKNIGHT BROTHERS
, , tion for fear of hurting his
:io good. Then commenced, to fOPiintre
use Sorbol Quadruple the co-
lorless liniment. Imagine my
joy when in about a week
Deacon White will now lead
., , , ,. ,us in prayer. Deacon, will you
the goitre began to disappear, j jea(j ?”
Now after two months the goi-
tre with its disagreeable sym-
tons is gone. I will be glad to
tell or write my full experi-
ence to anyone.”
Deacon waking up—“Lead
yourself, I just dealt.”
* * ap
When you hear a man sing
.... . . . “how dry I am” you can de-
It is not expensive and isjpencj Up0n it that he is “wet”,
easy to use. Sold by all a rug
stores. For more information
Q write Sorbol Company, Mecha-
nicsburg, Ohio or locally at
Hruzek Drug Co.
T^tere have been two men
who really understood wo-
men. One is dead and the
other is crazy.
* *
Farmer—“Yes, I’ve insured
my farm against fire and my
crops against hail.”
Ikey—“I , can understand
the fire insurance, but hail—
how can you make it hail.”
* * ^
Did you write all the jokes
in your show?” -•
“Yes'”
‘Well if 1 may compliment
ivou must be much older than
If you could look forward Owsley stands with Governor
to such a position as Mr. H. Smith in favoring a change in
C. Sansom holds, you would! the Present liquor laws so as
be very happy.
The knowledge that you are
going to succeed—that a high
LIGHTS CHAPEL
Rev. Fraser filled his regu-
lar appointment at Salem
church Sunday and also at
night. There was Sunday sch-
ool in the morning and B. Y.
P. U. Lessons in the evening,
just before the church servi-
ces. Good singing by the choir
with Mrs. Henry Jones as or-
ganist.
It was given out at Salem,
that Mrs. Borchers and other^
from below Hope will render
a program at Salem church
Sunday 22nd at 3 :§0 on Mis-
sionary work. Everybody is in-
vited to attend this meeting.
R. E. Thigpen and wife,
Thos. Judd and Miss Emma
Judd made a trip to Morales
while Wednesday with Mr.
John Lell.
Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Spani-
hel and baby visited Mr. and
Mira. Adolf Fajkus Tuesday
night.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Spanihel
spent Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. Ig. Steffek.
Will conclude and leave
space for others. With best
regards, I remain, S B4
Sweet Sixteen.
All the other candidates a fe", ?ays ag0' Ih?y als.°
nnf attended a supper that was gi-
to bring about a more safe
sane aiipd fair onrorcement of
the law.
position awaits you—that &a
splendid salary is only a mat-!™* to continue the present I ven “a? FraX B^lirTnYonor
ter of a short time-would deplorable condition of prohi-IBa‘f’ chariot?I
change your entire outlook, bmon enforcement and if they, Tex;s who had come in on a
All questions would disappear '■«-« “nt Senate th.?3; visit to her children, Mrs.
-you could proceed conf,deni ^ould be out of harmony with Franl.. Ba„ and Fred’Mixon
ly-. ,t. . „ b 38 presldt£nt' and family, also two sisters, |
And that is exactly the mes- «ndJor the same reason they Mre. Jim Miller of SpeakvillT
sage we want to bring you.; be of no service to th and y,, chas Fenner 0f Pro-
1 ou can look forward to People of Texas. videnc" Citv The crowd gath-
choice positions and good sa-i Owsley demands that gamb-! ered about dark ■ mostlv
from now' I™8 k C?t0n «? Tain u"'kinfolks. There was a bTnti-
UL ?LIj?FA- ^ ou can enjoy Ames be stopped by lav.. He fuj sir?piy 0f good eats for sup
a splendid income while you, says all gambling looks alike j ver a-V an hands enioved the
are young Every advantage to him and that offering tplLme 't their fulled extent
tnat H. C. Sansom had can be sel1 cotton that does not exis* xhis j v>l crowd were all kin
yours. can h3ve but one effect and folks >.nd was like a family
Glip and mail the coupon tllat 1? to beat down tne P~ic° reunic 1
printed below for the big book of cotton that does exist. To Respectfully
“Achieving Success in Busi- bring about this relief. Owsley; * Ranger.
” It is free and it will wants to pass a law with hea- __^
COIKIaTRE
HALLETTSVILLE TEXAS
Weeks Program Beginning
July 20.
FRIDAY
Conrad Veidt in
“A MAN’S PAST” *
With Arthur Edmund Carewe
Barbara Bedford and George
Siegman.
A Comedy
SATURDAY
Ted Wells in
“THUNDER RIDERS”
William Desmond in,
“The Vanishing Rider”
A Comeuy
ness.” It is free and it will -wants to pass a law with hea- " cer, Geo. Lewis, Patsy
help you just as it helped Mr. vy penalties to stop future HALLETTSVILLE ROUTE 4. Miller and Kathlyn Williams.
THE EDITOR’S JOB
The editor of a trade jour-
nal knows how it is. He says:
“You can’t please everybody.
If we print jokes, folks say we
are silly—if we don’t we are
dry as dust. If we publish
original matter, they say we
lack variety, and if we swipe
things from other papers, we
are too lazy to write. If we
don’t go to church we are
heathens—if we do, we arej^on 1^*1,
hypocrites. If we stay in the! m * m
office we should be collecting ... ,
data. If we are out rustling Th?re was another man who
for news, we should be attend-j as byri-peckcd.
ing to business our office. . Hls "/e concerned him one
If we wear old clothes, we are 1 and said, I m sick and
not solvent; if we wear new i Hre( bearing y ou refer to
ones they are not paid for. if j the caras your car. Hereafter
we print what we are told we !, "anl ■^,0l?I f® lt.our car-! Monday afternoon while ta «r»Y u’nc
are easy going; if we don’t we\m every'i king n short rice? d! lV P.l 1 shfR °f battle* land children of your city visi-
SUNDAY AND MONDAY
“WE AMERICANS”
.With Geo. Sidney, Beryl Mer-
Ruth
‘Pathe New*”
Also A Comedy
Sansom reach a splendid po- gambling bv cotton exchanges. jujy jg After a long pe
sition m ith splendid earning All the other candidates on rj0(j Gf silence will again try c , . « „
power. A choice of fifty-four want to regulate cottorrex- to write a few items to the1 Matinee Sunday at 3 p. m.
different courses in America’s changes and permit them ] to happy Herald,
la -gest and best business s^ay open and speculate in! the
school. Send the coupon 7iow.lPrice of farm products in ; Hr
(We have no branch schools, production of which they Have
We lead; others follow.) -no part.
Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Spani-!TUESDA^ & WEDNESDAY
hel and children returned to | daZAi:»»
their home in Eagle Lake Fri-)x^u ®PEN RA^lGt ^
Tyler Commercial College
Tyler Texas
Name...:_____________ _;
Adcbess_____________________2_______
(See Editor of The Herald
for scholarship.)
Owsley was a gallant soldier
in the World War and went
through the campaigns onfthe
Lioody battle fields of France.
The other Candidates were not
there and most or them were
enjoying lives of luxury as
members of Congress where ifek Sundry
day after spending a week’s; Wl*Jh
vacation with relatives and j
Chandler, Fred Kohler.
Also a Comedy
friends here. j
visited Mr; and Mrs. Ig. Stef-;
bcLv e,re Y0171 ^-be shot j Mr. and Mrs. C. A Spanihel
Grave*.
Also A Comedy
If we are rich I thxhaT^i Xt'he .said to -^tarAusY7un JTim??if bi ‘a - Tt'tL'1 jaSt .ye”? j '>v.',th". Mr-
. What in Sam'HHIi—wPn>t ^ Pat<* 6ur \lTthfwiring o°n hte°ca^he"
are stubborn
we are crooked, if we are poo?
ROTARY CLUB
The Rotary Club held their
is a poor editor-feller to do ban^s*
anyway? Like as not some-
one will say we swiped this: . . , .
from another paper. We did.“ • 0U! ^’JtUT‘e husband
in the prime of life and!and Mrs. Rud. Spanihel.
mentally and physically vigor-! Mr. and YIrs. Eddie Neuvar, regular meeting Tuesday at
teen set a fire bv a cross cirt ™V cnPable active. All Jr. spent Sunday with Mr. I the noon hour. The following
. euit. By quick action of him 'G.er eandidatfe have had and Mi's. Jim Ors^ek. i members of the Yoakum Rov*^
iand opportwrffr-ft* ^rHcci The ' ' *
Mr. and Mrs. Ben .J. Mertz ’- 'e peei-iy cashier. ^ „ u„ Irluve co
cf Jackson Ohio, arrived Tues-i . -^Pbe:lr:.nce mv dfea ■, re- dla(|e urdesa something
CSV id visit his n,»K Mr !PJ«d the spinster salesclerk: . , T £1™
bv a liii’ge crowd. Meger, H. Seekamp, Mai lie
••ho attended had a Hertz and Henry Paulus. E:i-
picnic and dance at rY Club were present. Ew
v.... res soou ^laze was e\- !' .ve not produced result:. Sweet Home Sunday was at- Bill Browning, ^Marcet
biiuy, or appearance? 'asked tlingutehecl The “r w“ in a ’.v are now ^far advan.--; tended ' ' ‘ --“ -------
Stage where no move could heV!l ln.,vears t0 much .Those ............ „„„ „ .
J frbm them. ; r . high stepping time (tertainers were Charlotte ano
to visit his parents Mr.j “,1C ^1'1SLer s^se tfrK; t- me. Being on the : Yoakum-* Texan needs new blood and Mr. and Mrs. Louis Gerlich Martha West, who delivered r
a.od Mrs. Wm. Mertz. They -^ut uq s g©- to appear pretty ;;allettsviile Highway where a ne'v Senator?frbm TejXas visited Mr. and Mra. Frank Pd-!voca^ an^ piano solo. J. F.
fade their trip in a Ford, tra- jstKyn* » * * ' traffic is always gre?< he *s "ba^iony with the sek at \Yied Sunday. i Bozka and Eli Rubin made
ve ing through six states. ’ „ , , _*:new someone would offer a f’emocratic president soon to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Orsak|ta,bs on “ Business Men Co-
Mr. Joe Dufner is visiting ' f dapper young hardware belriing hand Just then be eiected. Let “A1 and Al” and family were seen going! operating with the Boy Scouts’
1 * son Dr. J. H. Dufner at salesman visiteo a small coun- jarta^ Worthing - n be s^°Kan. _• - towards your citv Sunday. I and “What the Boy Scouts
Sa!1 Antonio' lZ ambitious young elecu’ician For these reasons based up-!, C- A -Spanihel and _rf.il Several short
J.'
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mea 1 COt butt, w young doctor was able toir,n the 28th. (Pol. Ad) ancl .Mrs- 4im Bender. j Mrs. Ada Timm and grand-
make it to Yoakum. Only a i . (6) J ,T.Iiss Annye Spanihel visited | daughters, Evelyn and Dulcie
nere.
tobt. Hanak, clerk of the
nc i!dv. Co. is enjoying
f k’s vacation. Bennett
: . taking his place.
hop corn—that is-
c fered pop butt, or rather
slight damage was done to the
'. ^August Sommerlattf 'O guttered pot born. 1 mean system
: rhter Miss Hilda apd ! 'V,’®B gimme some
pea-
Wiiliam 1/aizer returned f,,u- •
visit to Yoakum relati-i „ . " *
| Conductor—How o<d is you
t’ddie Mikulenka of San An-
tenio is spending t^is week
•"ith his oarents Mr. and M s.
Jo’ 1 L. Mikulenka.
Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Poch a^d
daughter of Little Rock Ark.
are visiting his brother Paulus
pnr’b and family here.
Take a Dip in Moore ' Swim-
ming ^ x>l. i '-«l pii,<e foi
piCP" ” * ..... •—
Miss Delores Elstner is vi-
siting relatives in Dallas.
toy ?
IycI cl v p* ou r
Conductor—How old are you : L" lai;t',,,‘"!a, anu *
sonny? * .T'».ved. Refreshments
Sonny—Four.
Conductor—Well, I’ll Jet
him ride free this time, but I
know what he’s going to be
when he grows up .
.A. K. Buss left yesterday for
Houston on business.
The social dance at the Na-i
..ona! Hail Wednesday night
.’riven by the C. f>. of A. was
ell attended and g.eatly en-
were ser-
ved. Migl’s Orchestra furnish-
Misses Annie and Agnes Stef- Marie Timrrv of Hallettsville,
,fek Sunday eve. 4 jwere thg guests of Mr. and
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Dornak Mrs. Q. Guess Tuesday.—
and children spent Tuesday Yoakum Times. *
night with Mr. and Mrs. A. F.1 »
~ Joe and Dtto Djerschke of
Rowena returned to their home
ud free music.
YOAKT M, Juiv 19.—Otto been absent from the city on a
Peters, son of Mr. and Mrs. brief pleasure trip has re-
'etrrs. who reside in the turned home and is on his job
Eady—What"is 'he going to {hochheim FTaifie eommumty, agsin. lie reports a fine
qc-> ' has accepted a position with time, plenty of fish (so he
Conductor_Either ;; liar o- the Fl?st National bank in San ,says) and has that tan color.
a giant. Antonio. , Yoakum Times.
V '
:Dornak.
! Say Orleana, your letters
|are ii Cresting, keep on com-
ing oitener as we all like to iir
----read them. How did you en- ^ a,t*r ^rschke and
Dr. C. L. Kopecky, who ha.s J0\.Sunday niteJuly 15? 'v,fe' Herald.
K Mrs. Eddie Neuvar spent
this morning after a brief vi-
sit in Yoakum with ther bro-
Monday eve with Misses An-
nie and Agnes Steffek.
Mr. and Mrs. Adolf Fajkus
and daughter spent Tuesday
with his mother Mrs. B. Faj-
kus.
Mr. Adolf Fritz spent
L.T
Mrs. M. V. Anderson, re-
turned yesterday from a visit
to her daughter Mrs. H. B. Al-
len of Yoakum.
Miss Shirley Gustwick of
Yoakum visited Miss Coreene
a Winfree yesterday.
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Strauss, Mrs. Leo. Semi-weekly Hallettsville Herald (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, July 20, 1928, newspaper, July 20, 1928; Hallettsville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1041097/m1/3/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Friench Simpson Memorial Library.