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C1ENTENNIAL
TURKEY TROT
JO, 11, 12, 1936
Nov.
VOL. 42.-4NO. 259.
Ik Cuero jlkcord
A NEWSPAPER REFLECTS ITS COMMUNITY
he Weather
colder, freesing
wave southwest
might.
Wednesday fair, rising
turc in north portion.
CUERO. TEXAS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3. 1936 <
ftTogn Tali'
1 While Thie Record had de-
oided to wait until after the
Turjtey Trob to launch its
drive for funds for the "Cross
the ’Ransus’’ Christmas Tree
PAfty. the fund has already
A>een started, with the honors
Dinter Post
American Legion Auxiliary. A
qash conti;
made b{y
Mondaj.
spirit,
lict that
ROOSEVELT TAKES L
ibution of $10.00
the Auxiliary
We appreciate j
It prompts us to
this year’s party
be one ct the most sue-
ful ever staged. Approxi-
itely four hundred boys and
rls were nude happy at last
^ party. Many of them
received no other gifts for
Christmas than those receiv-
ed at the Cross the ’Ransus
party. What would Christmas
have been to those youngsters
without that little Christmas
• tree. The Re x>rd sponsors the
party but it js you who makes
* *
time to
leaned, those gas
sted. We’ll ex-
perience little warm weather
\ tfora. now on through th«
Winter season and fires will
W<>st likely lie burning daily.
Let’s keep those fires under
it a success.
. *\
Now is the
g those flues c
connections
MERCURY WILL
DROP NEAR THE
FREEZING MARK
New Cold Wave Slated to
Invade This Section
Tonight.
SPELL TO BREAK
North Texas Expected to
Get Warmer Weather
Wednesday.
wave
NEW COLD WAVE TO HIT TONIGHT OVERTAKES EARLY L
BY LANDON AS VO
CHECKED OVER NA
GUN IN HAND, A WOMAN AIDS IN DEFENSE OF MADRID
sweejjjng over Scuth Texas Tuesday
icon was expected to bring
Control however
‘Joying a splendid fire record,
are certain of an increase
our fire credit if we con-
»rd. It is to the
ich and every
of us Ahj|t we do so. Make
a personal inspection of your
le today.
tthue this
Interest of
The election is over. Let’s
settle back dc wn to work on
A new and vicious cold
sweeny
afterac
near freezing temperatures to this
haye ! section before morning.
The mercury had dropped to 41 j
degrees shortly after noon after cne •
of the hottest nights experienced j
here in more than a month.
A continued fall of the mercury !
was predicted for Tuesday afternoon '
with the coldest point to be reach-
ed early Wednesday.
Rising temperatures will be felt
in north Texas Wednesday accord-
Cuero is en- i ing to the report from the Interna -
tional News Weather Bureau, with
‘South Texas to probably feel a
break in the cold by Thursday.
Light rainfall amounting to only
.07 of an inch accompanied the
norther which swept into Cuero j
shortly after 5 a. m. All sections of
the county reported light rainfall.
Stock warnings remained up in
the northern portion of the state
where temperatures ranging below
the 30 degree mark were expected
to be experienced tonight.
onr Turkey T)rot, and with the
•pening day
we still find
* ' fie complete^ We are hoping
' that city offii lisfls will make a
thorough job of cleaning up
the business district on Mon-
'iy night before the opening
if the Trot and that the
PRESIDENT TO
RECEIVE FIRST
TROT CACHET
Centennial
By International News Service.
7— i Overtaking an early lead scored by Governor
Commission j Landon as scattered returns trickled in from the far
* Will Mail Letters to
• Dignitaries.
MUCH INTEREST
!
Thousands of Letters
be Maiied From This
City.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
j will be honored wit hthe first cachet
$
applied to out-going mail on ihe
morning of November 11th. a letter
addressed to the President
ameng a host of letters to
distinguished citizens or the United I ROOSEVELT HAS
States filed with the Chamber of!.^.-^ TXT ,„cca,idi
Commerce for mailing on that date 1 UW
; by the Texas Centennial Commis-
, j sion of Dallas.
Governor James V. Allied and a
host of other distinguished citizens
of the Nation. President Franklin p. Roosevelt
ternoon was forging to the front in. ^11 sections.
Only a1 smattering of votes had been counted
Roosevelt lead was growing steadily. Included in the *
cratic ranks was Landon’s home Staite of Kansas wl
returns gave the president a lead over the GOp, nc
ROOSEVELT VOTES
AT HYDE PARK
HYDE PARK. N. Y„ Nov. 3 j
—Wearing Andrew Jackson’s mas-
sive gold watch chain for luck,
President Roosevelt cast ballot 312
shortly before noon today in the
being : Hyde Park town hall,
other j
where they said they
out tlieir usual routine of
the remainder of the day,
i
A woman, aided by men, firing on enemy on the Madrid front.
KIRKSVILLE, Mo., Nov. 3.—(IMS)
—President Roosevelt today was
leading Governor LarMon by 54® to
449 in incomplete returns from six
Using a cart as a barricade, a woman, together
with other members of the Loyalist militia, fire on
Fascist enemies as they seek to halt advance in
CLOSED SHOP
ON 11TH LOOMS
El-
Eft
By International News Service.
Virtually all of Texas shivered in
onlv a week oiT *the state’s worse cold spell this fail
* i which brought a temperature drop
,hefe is Jnuch to of 4$ degrees in slightly over 12
hours and came on the wings of a
stiff norther which blew in ' from
the Rockies.
In Dallas the mercury took a
nose dive from a balmy 83 to a chil-
ly 37 before 7 a. m.. with no im-
mediate relief in sight.
Colder and freezing was the fore-
cast for the day.
•eets will bd cleaned nightly
hiring the celebration Tidy
streets do thejir bit to impress
rteitors and We want to make
“~e best impression possible,
it’s get our city in order.
* * *
• A final chedk-up revealed
that Saturday night’s Hal-
lowe’en carnival grossed ap-
pfoximately $177.00. Of that
■an more than $125.00 will be
ifiared and that means the
Sfihn C
*>n room can carry on ’ for
Arnold Says Merchants in
Favor of Closing on
Armistice Day.
a village on the Madrid front. Dropping of bombs
on MadriA by Fascist planes^ in the meantime, has
caused the death of many "women and children,
", —Central Presa
Prominent Yoakum
« Physician Dies
QUINN TO MEET
TROT BOOSTERS
are included in the letters which j Precincts out of 25 in Adair county.
^fi^en?ulCc°nfSh. j™11 NORTH CAROLINA
The rubber stamp Y.ilh which the ' IN DEMO RANKS
cachet is to be applied arrived in » RALEIGH, N. C., Nov. 3.—(INS)—
Cuero Tuesday morning and accord- j First official returns from North
in ' to J. W. Arnold is most at- ! Carolina today gate President
Roosevelt 100 percent (of the vote.
The Nutbush precinct in Vance
l ti relive. ,
j . The cachet features' a-strutting _______
turkey and also \>ears the dates of county completed its voting at 10:10
j the 1936 Turkey Trot. -a. m. and a short time later the
I Lccal stamp collectors declare ) precinct officials announced ail 31 of
PANNEN SELLS
NURSERY HERE
Cuero's Chamber of
favors a city wide holiday on Wed- j
nesday, November 11th, Joy W. At- j
nold, Chamber of Commerce secre-
tary stated Tuesday.
Sentiment in favor of closing is
growing daily Arnold added.
"Mcst of the merchants I have
contacted favor closing the stores
on the Uth, and I believe it is safe
to say that the entire town will be j|
{ closed,” he added.
No definite announcement had
Jccme from the Retail Merchants
j Association. j
! It was previously announced that
j closing would be up to the individ-
ual merchants.
YOAKUM, Nov. 3.—Funeral serv-
ices were held in Yoakum Tuesday
morning at 9:30 for Dr. Thomas
j James Hill, pioneer Yoakum- ’Phy-
sician. He had made that city his
home since 1912, and was one .of
i Lavaca county’s best kpown phy-
! sicianT. j _
Commerce j t He leaves his wife, two daughters j Mayor Quinn of San Antonio and
an£ one son to survive. ia special police escort will meet the
Will Provide Police Escort
On Edge of City
Limits.
that philatelic mail from all sections
of the United States has been pour-
ing into Cuero during the past few
weeks and that it is highly probable
that more than^ 10.000 letters will
be mailed cut of this erty on No-
vember 11th. The special cachet
stamp, they say. will be very valu-
the voters had voted the Democratic
ticket straight for both national and
state officers.
VICE-PRESIDENT
EARLY VOTER
UVALDE, Nov. 3.—(INS)—Vice-
President John N. Gamer and Mrs.
TEXAS CITIES GIVE
ROOSEVELT LEAD
HOUSTON, Nov.
Roosevelt-Gamer ticket
ning approximately
ahead of L&ndon-Knox
cast ii i Harris county in
three hours the polls
unofficial canvass by
dicateft. Voting was heavy
eral election.
The unofficial figures
velt 2,267, Landon 254
and Browder 1.
FIRST RETURNS GIVE
LANDON A LEAD
By International News
First towns in tba
port complete return*,
idential election'
Towfi
Millsfield, N. H. ____4
New Ashford, Mass. 26
Tolland. Mass.____44
Somerset, Vt. _______ T’
Martins Station, Ala. t
pSpert^n j
WESTERN AUTO
* STOREISSOLD
F. B. Hufham of Beau-
mont Buys Interest of
of C. E. Smith.
later years.
Victoria Man to Open
Florist Shop on East
Main.
Sale of his nursery to H.
Weidemeier ot Victoria was
French school lunch- nounced Tuesday by Joe Pannen of
this city-
carry on ___
_ __ • ' 'i Pannen stated that Weidemeier
SOther month or more. If you would take charge of the
ERnt to get ah idea or Just
hat the luncheon room is
ling, just go - out to the
fcool at nooh op one of these
Id days. Children from both
Up public sch ools
parochial school are
cajed for we mderstand, and
tot many of the youngsters
e meal daily.
only nourish-
get during the
is well worth-
uld receive the
support of ev»ry citizen of
Cuftro who is able to contrib
ate.
if. ap, m
Tirkey Trot officials' ar? j
going to attempt to break the!
bugaboo” of bad weather for
many of
receiving a frfc
thC food is
ing food they;
day. The worlj
while and she
nursery
within a week, and will also open a
florist shop in the^Braves building,
corner of Main and Gonzales sts.
Weidemeier was not in Cuero
Tuesday,'having gone to San An-
tonio to purchase equipment.
. ; He formerly operated a florist
and the j shop and nursery in Victoria in
being | company with G. M. John selling
his interests recently to his part-
ner.
DECORATION OF
CITY BEGUN
F. B. Hufham announced today
that he has purchased the interest
Colored Lights Being! k,
Strung in Business
Section.
of C. E. Smith in the Western Auto
Associate Store at 112 E. Main St.,
and has taken charge of the busi-
ness.
; * Hufham comes here from Bfcau-
mont but prior to removing to that
city was in business for several
ii [years in Lufkin.
Smith has made no definite plans
or his future but he Intimated he
is considering entering the grocery
usiness at Corpus Christi. * He
aboift a
Cuero Turkey Trot Caravan on the
outskirts of the city Thursday af-
f ternoon and escort the Trot boosters
, to the Plaza Hotel, according to a
letter received by Mayor J. T. New-
man from the San Antonio Mayor
Tuesday. .
Mayor Newman is tc present May-
or Quinn with a special invitation j
to the Turkey Trot and also a fat j Weather
turkey gobbler.
The Cuero Caravan will probably ’
visit several cities throughout thi. I
section before going into San An-1
tonio for a radio broadcast over
Station K. T. S. A. Thursday after-
noon from 6:15 to 6:45.
j lots they returned to their home
Totals __ ............82
Millsfield, N. H., was
report and Quincy
Millsfield. was United
No. 1. New Ashford
(Continued on
CUERO VOTE IS
SLOW TUESDAY
Having Some
Effect on Voting
Here.
Death Claims Two
of Quadruplets Born
To Farmer’s Wife
[opened the Cuero store
^nbnth ago.
R D. Johnson district manager
or the Western Auto Supply Stores
Was in Cuero Monday to assist
Hufham in taking over the
business.
FIRST CHECK
FOR XMAS TREE
American Legion Auxil-
iary Starts Fund Off
‘ With $10.00.
Indications were early Tuesday
local
Colored ligh{s and ether decora
tiens were appearing in the busines* .
section Tuesday as the decorating
committee and individual mer-
chants began to dress up streets and
business houses for the Trot.
Colored lights will be hung up
and down Esplanade and Main
street. A string will also be hung at
the Cudahy Packing Company, one
at the Stowers Furniture company
and gnother across the intersection |
of Esplanade and Broadway.
Decorating qf stores has. already,,
begun and the city is expfeted to j1 _________________
take on a decided holiday air by the [ |^ere today on the grounds that ■ he j mediately after the close
Mayor Can’t Vote
Due Stay in Jail
HUNTINGTON.
INS)—Mayor Clare
nilitant for ’privately owned public j
itilities. was prohibited "from .voting
this year’s ce
lebration. They
have contract id for rain in-
suraice for
November 11th. j
the ttg day of the Trot and in
the event a fe
inch of heavy
w tenths of an
d4w falls they,
Will etsh in. T tiat should stpn
fuiy brand of bad weather. <
SENATH. Mo., Nov. 3.—(INS. i
—with death having claimed
two of the quadruplets born late
yesterday to Mrs. James Bridges,
wife of a Share Cropper living
near here, an ambulance was to-
day speeding to the Bridges two- .
room log cabin to transfer the
remaining infants to a Mem-
phis hospital in an effort tp
save their lives.
The babies, who died accord-
ing to John L. Sando, local
druggist were the oldest, a 3
and one-half pound boy, and
t'ne youngest, a two pound girl.
The tv o surviving infants are
girls.
i end of the week.
Crude Oil Price
• J [ 1 !
Boosted Tuesday
HOUSTON. Nov 3—(IMS)—'Tvr,
increases of fiye cents a barrel fQ"
[•yvas in jail.
The mayor spent tfie day in jail
i inon committment for‘violation of
!■ k court injunction.
crude oil. l>oth eMee'ive asjnf fM
veinber l. were] announced rr>day by ,
the Humble and Texas comifcnus. j
The increase]' on c rude were tor ‘*
four fiplds. fhe Saxteh * Mnandc.
Refueio and Talco I'
_• J
DALLAS. Noy 8 - -(lHS - The '
Magnolia Pet Tpleum company pffic"
here today announced ».baT| efleirt-.
ive- as of Novell, ani until If-ufct l;’.er .
notice, the price of crude i ?r har-
'ret at Miran.loj Textfs ’ 'would L- [
HO cent . an ihcijowo of five dpri*s.j t
CENTENNIAL RECORDS
Copies of The Record's
Centennial Edition can
be found on sale at The
Record office or at Wi-
ners’ No. 1 or 2 at 5 cents
per copy. Copies mailed
anywhere in 'the I'nitcd
States from this office for*
10 cents.
The, 1936 C.css the Ransus
Christmas Party fund was in re-
ceipt of ’’its first contribution Tues-
day.. ,
'A $10.00 contribution from the
Dinter Post American Legion Aux-
iliary was voted by the organization
_ j this, week to ftart off the fund.
Ind Nov. 3;—! Forntal announcement of the
\V H. Ban1?'. | party had r.o: ben made by The
Reco.d but with the firS check in
tbe drive will begin in earnest im-
of y the
; Turkey Trot*.
Seme four" hundred boys and girl.-
were treated to a creat time in 1935
and at- lea.-t. this number. if no-
more. are expected to attend the
1936 pa.tyi
. . L_ i__:______ . 1 __r_1_
afternoon that Cuero's vote fh the
National election would be approx-
imately 30 per cent lighter than in
the Democratid primaries. , i
Weather was responsible to soint
degree for the light vote up to nocn, |
but observers stated that regaifilcss j'
of weather the poll would be con- j
siderably lighter than in the pri- j
maries.
Pells will close at 7 o'clock and |
counting of votes will probably be
completed by 9 a. m.
Train Bearers For.
Coronation Selected
as is Crown Bearer
Chauncey Jackson Wofford and
Mary Aldridge Wofford, children cf '
Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey S. Wofford *
Jr., will be train bearers in the
Coronation ceremonies of the 1930 [
Turkey Trot, the young members of |
the royal party being selected by;the
Queen.
Jce Fiank Edgar, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Joe Edgar Jr., will be crown
bearer, the coronation committee
announced Tuesday.
Public Hearings on
Drouth Slated
Hanke’s Grocery
Has New Meat Dept.
a _____
HanktW Grocery now has a new
and modern meat department, op-
erated by W. T. An. Ur. Amslen
• \ *' "1 •
an experitjpeed, meat cutter and'
Well kbo'xfi m thi.- community,
: states IhaC lu1 will ly.nulH* a } com-
plete 'line 'of. me.«ts. MUi.-avf'j. etc.
J and .that ‘choicest barlx e’.i mf»> be
’ had ;r all times.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 3.-»IN$)—
Public'hearings on a long-rah?!?
program for the western drought
area will be held by Pre'sidrn:
Roosevelif^ Great plains commititr''
at Dalhhrt Texas. November j 18.]
and a: Bishiarck.^N D . Novemlnn |
23. Chairman Mprns L Cooke. In- J
jail electrification 'adniinistrAtipn
nunouncedi today;.
Governor s of the tr :i Great !
Piuns drpjuuh; states' have beehl
invited to attfiid subtnit if>o|ii- j
mendatimis.
Here’s a Tally Sheet
Election Night
Electoral
vote*
Alabama ............ 11
Arizona ........|.........«... 3
Arkansas ................ 9
California................•>.. 22
Colorado .......L............ 6
Connecticut......;........... 8
Delaware .................... 3
Florida......... 7
Georgia ........ 12
Idaho ........ 4
Illinois .........«............ 29
Indiana......... 14
Iowa........... 11
Kansas......... 9
Kentucky ......J............ 11
Louisiana ..... 10
Maine....................... 5
Maryland.................... 8
Massachusetts ............ 17
Michigan....... 19
Minnesbta................ 11
Mississippi f • • ••••*••••• 9
Missouri ........ .*. 15
Montana ..................... 4
Nebraska........i.........,.. 7
Nevada ........
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio .........
Oklahoma
Oregon......
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee ....
Texas......
.
Vermont ........1...-........ 3
Virginia .........1.........\ . 11
Washington .....*......... 8
West Virginia ...I......... 8
Wisconsin .......j........... 12
Wyoming .....-.I........... 3
Total
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Putman, Harry C. The Cuero Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 259, Ed. 1 Tuesday, November 3, 1936, newspaper, November 3, 1936; Cuero, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1072887/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Cuero Public Library.