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iNS MADE
OR JULY 4TH
h-apin Derby At City Park Is
lig Feature Announced; Cash
Prises Win Be Given
3tephenville and Erath county
izens will witness one of the
unique programs in the his-
of this city when the first
spin derby ever staged in this
will be put over Tuesday,
4th, at the city park. Owen
Henson, who is sponsoring the
>gram, announced Thursday that
now appeared that there would
at least 1000 terrapins entered
the race. Announcement of the
elebration brought instant res-
onse from local business men and
ther citizens who are anxious to
the National holiday properly
_ Dgnized.
In view of the fact that people in
lia territory know little or noth-
ig about a terrapin derby, Mr.
ienson is planning an extensive
advertising campaign between now
and July 4th in order to acquaint
the public with the plans. Radio
Station KFPL will be used Satur-
lay at 12 o’clock by Mr. Henson
[in making detailed announcement
(of how the derby will be conduct-
led. The long list of cash prizes
will be made known and in every
I way the program outlined. The
! radio station will also be used on
the following Monday and Wed-
[ nesday of next week and those who
desire to be familiar with the pro-
gram are urged to tune in for this
information.
In speaking of his plans Mr.
Henson stated that he was under-
writing the entire expense of the
affair and was asking nothing
from local citizens except their
support and enthusiasm. “We have
already posted the cash prize mon-
ey and will take care of all other
itrms of overhead," said Mr. Hen-
son. “We believe that the people
of this county expect some char-
acter of entertainment July 4th
and we are going to give it to
them.” he said.
Aside from the terrapin derby
there will be other attractions. A
double-header baseball game will
be played and other features ar-
ranged. The entire program will
doubtless be ready to release with-
in a short time.
It appears that the day will at-
tract one of the largest crowds ev-
er in Stephenville and every ef-
fort will be made to provide whole-
pome and satisfactory entertain-
ment-
Lending Helping
Hand Gets Boy In
Jam; Cars Stolen
Cecil Albright of Chalk Moun-
tain got out of bed early Wednes-
day morning to lend a helping
hand and soon found himpelf tied
to a post watching his car speed
up the road carrying the three
men he tried to help.
Albright was awakened by two
men who said they were rushing to
Stephenville to see their mother
who was in the hospital and that
their car was broken down. Al-
bright started to bring them here
in his car.
STEPHENVILLE, BRATH COUNTY TEXAS, FRIDAY, JUNE 16 1988.
PUBLIC WORK Plans To Pave highway
TWELVE PAGES—VOL. 62, No.
AID SOUGHT
Government Agent Explains Plans
To Representatives of Towns
In This Area - --------
Possible far reaching benefits of
President Roosevelt’s vast public
works program as applied to Ste-
phenville and vicinity were discus-
sed by Marshall Thompson, repre-
sentative of the recently created
Texas Rehabilitation and Relief
When they reached the broken Commission, Wednesday afternoon
Prohibition Rally
Here Tuesday Night
Draws Big Crowd
Judge Tam Chandler presided as
chairman at the meeting of the
Erath county United Forces for
Prohibition, which was held in the
district court room at the court
house here last Tuesday night. A
large crowd attended the meeting.
\ Mr. Chandler was introduced by
Mayor Pink Payne, president of
the county prohibition organiza-
. tion. He made an urgent appeal to
the people to fight with every
J alom or their power to keep the
f 18th amendment intact.
Judge Sam Russell made a
strong speech for prohibition re-
lating incidents known to him
personally of liquor days in Ste-
phenville, which brought graphi-
cally before his audience the evils
of the liquor traffic.
Dr. Henry Van Valkenburg of
El Paso, the guest speaker on the
program, appealed to the people
to be loyal to the constitution of
the United States and as loyal cit-
ieens to vote for the 18th amend-
ment as it was written when first
put into the constitution years
ago.
The chairman of each precinct
was appointed to take as many
delegates as possible with him to
the 21st senatorial district rally
which will be held at Meridian on
June 20, at 10:80 a. m. Hon. B. D.
■ 0., Sartin will be the principal speak-
er at this meeting.
down car, a third man appeared.
Here Albright was taken from his
car and tied up, and the men head-
ed toward Stephenville in the car.
He managed to free himself and
went to a filling station, and Glen
Rose officers were notified. They
notified Sheriff Mont Thomas, tell-
ing him the stolen car was headed
this way. Sheriff Thomas and L. L.
Martin, deputy, started an imme-
diate watch, going down the high-
way toward the scene. But no trace
of the men or Albright’s car was
found.
The broken down car the men
left where they took Albright’s car,
it was learned by Sheriff Thomas
Thursday, belongs to Jim Chap-
man of Athens, Texas. Chapman
was robbed of $66 and his car
taken by three men June 12.
Thursday morning E. A. Martin
reported that his Whippet car had
been stolen early in the morning.
Later in the dav Albright’s car
was found on Highway 10 between
here and Dublin. Martin's car is
still missing.
Home Talent Play
To Be Given Friday
Night.at Huckabay
The Huckabay baseball club will
present the play, “The Gate to
Happiness," at Huckabay, Friday
night, June 23, at 8:16 o’clock.
Following is the cast of charac-
ters: Jack Gay, Eden’s young
brother, Rev. Clark Calvert; Jenny
Gay, Eden’s lame sister, Grace
Gentry: Mrs. Blair, the minister’s
wife, Mary Winn; Aunt Sarah
Gay, who has shooting pains, Mrs.
J. O. Jones: Eden Gav, the dancer,
Carlotta, Mrs. L. F. Parten; Oscar
Gay, Eden’s father, O. T. Cline;
Rev. Blair, the minister, Fred Al-
len > Stephen Blair, his son, L. F.
Parten; Rex Curtis, Eden’s New
York admirer, Autrey Merrill;
Bunnv Gay, Jack’s bride, Mrs.
Inez Thornton.
Everybody is urged to attend
the play, which promises to be
unusually good.
_
Eastern Star to Hold
Instruction School
Here Next Tuesday
A school of instruction for chap-
ters in this section of the Grand
Chapter of Texas Order of the
Eastern Star will be held in the
Masonic hall here Tuesday, June
27, Mrs. A. A. McSweeny an-
nounced yesterday. She said it will
be the first of this kind of slhool
offered here and that all members
are invited.
Chapters included in this sec-
tion of the order are Mineral
Wells, Strawn, Gordon, Tolar.
Thurber, Santo, Glen Rose, and
Granbury. About 150 persons are
expected to attend, Mrs. McSweeny
said.
The school will be conducted by
District Deputy Grand Matron
Mrs. Gertrude Joiner of De Leon.
Worthv Grand Matron of Texas
Riva C. Burnett, Miami, will also
be here.
Other officers who will be pres-
ent are Mrs. Mildred Harris, grand
examiner of district 8, Waco, and
Mrs. Clara Mae Wynne, deputy
grand matron of this section,
Thurber.
Hardy Gibson from Fort Worth
is here visiting his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. M. L. Gibson.
Government Camp of 200
Men Coming in October
For Soil Conservation
A camp of 200 men will be locat-
ed here to do soil conservation
work as part of President Roose-
velt’s emergency relief program,
Lawrence Westbrook, director of
the Reconstruction Finance Corpo-
ration in Texas, has announced.
Mr. Westbrook works between the
federal officials in Washington and
the governor of the state.
The camp will probably open in
October, and the workers will be
here for three or four months, Mr.
Westbrook said. Local men and
trucks will be needed in the work.
Such camps are Joint projects
between the state and federal gov-
ernments, and the work is under
the supervision of U. S. Army of-
ficers and enlisted men and experts
In soil conservation work.
Besides placing a large amount
at the Chamber of Commerce,
The Rehabilitation and Relief
Commission, Mr. Thompson ex-
plained, is working in conjunction
with federal relief commissions to
aid the states in securing loans
from the $3,300,000,000 fund creat-
ed by President Roosevelt for the
specific purpose of putting men to
work all over the nation.
Stephenville business men and
the City Council have under con-
sideration some sixteen public
works projects for which they hope
to secure loans. These include a
lake for city water supply, a mun-
icipal swimming pool, repair on
school buildings, a court house,
highway and lateral road work,
soil conservation work, a municipal
golf course, a Boy Scout home, a
municipal gymnasium, work and
repair on church buildings, a water
softener, a tourist camp, and city
park and street work.
Several committees from the
City Council and Chamber of Com-
merce are working on the projects
estimating probable cost and the
amount of labor the work will cre-
ate. Application for loans to carry
on this work will be made within
a few days, it was pointed out at
the meeting Wednesday.
None of such loans can be re-
tired by taxation and loans for
projects not putting men to work
cannot be made, it was explained.
Delegations from Glen Rose, Co-
manche and Dublin attended the
meeting Wednesday. H. B. Guest,
American Cast Iron Pipe Company
man of Dallas, explained different
systems of water works.
Mr. Thompson in explaining the
relief and public works measures,
said a swift, decisive campaign to
bring home to the people through-
out the state the advantage of
quickly seizing the opportunities
presented them under terms of the
federal relief bill is being carried
on by the new employment-relief
agency at Austin. The motto, he
said, is “Take families off the re-
lief rolls and put them on pay-
rolls."
Thompson estimated that at
least $250,000,000 for public works
can be obtained for Texas from
the enormous federal fund if
prompt action is taken by those in
position to negotiate loans cover-
ing eligible projects. He said also
that wide-spread interest 1b • al-
ready being shown in the work and
that experts have extimated that
1000 men will receive jobs for each
million dollars of construction put
in force.
On accepting projects, Thomp-
son pointed out, the federal gov-
ernment will make an outright
grant or gift of 30 per cent of the
construction cost, and will loan the
balance of 70 per cent at a low rate
of interest. Eligible projects will
make possible self-liquidation of
the loans, and city and state tax-
payers will not be called upon to
help retire the indebtedness.
At a called meeting of the
Chamber of Commerce and busi-
ness men Wednesday night, a num-
ber of projects were taken under
consideration and committees were
appointed to make investigations
and to recommend applications for
loans.
The City Council likewise has
committees at work, and it is be-
lieved that the investigations of
outstanding needs of the city will
be completed and application for
loans made within a few dayB.
Suggested eligible projects ex-
plained by Mr. Thompson are
building and construction, includ-
ing city; halls, county courthouses,
hospitals, schools, auditoriums,
prisons, markets, libraries, factor-
ies, warehouses, terminals for air,
road, and rail routes, and police
and fire stations.
Under health and sanitation, the
following are suggested:* Water
storage, water filtration, water
softening, sewage disposal, civic
centers, slum eradication, parking
spf
of streams.
The projects under consideration
by local men come under the elig-
ible group, and all are designed to
put men to work and to add per-
manent improvements to the com-
munity.
A o. 66 Across Erath Are
Definitely Made Known
Plans have been completed and
contracts are ready to be let for
construction work on Highway 66
between Stephenville and Hico,
and plans are under way for work
on the road between here and Min-
eral Wells, C. A. Chipley, project
engineer of the Texas Highway
department, said yesterday. He
said work will probably start this
summer.
Stephenville, according to Chip-
ley, who is located here, will prob-
ably be headquarters for the con-
struction companies. Although the
work will be done under contract,
many local men along the highway
will be employed.
The right-of-way for the Hico
road has been secured. It will fol-
low in a general way the present
highway, cutting into No. 67 abo
four miles north of Hico.
The north end of the highway
will enter Stephenville over the
Country Club road, and a new
right-of-way will have to be cut
over the entire route. The stretch
from here to Mineral Wells is 40
miles long.
From Mineral Wells the road is
paved to Wichita Falls and on into
Oklahoma. The new highway will
give Stephenville a short cut to
Highway No. 1 and to the north
and will benefit many farmers who
trade in Stephenville.
The south end of the road is
under construction in various
places between here and San An-
tonio, where continuous pavement
begins and goes on across the
state.
Chipley said nb definite plans
have been announced as to when
construction work will begin or
what type of road will be con-
structed. It will be a hard-surfaced
road, however.
No plans for Immediate work on
ighway 10 have been announced.
The much agitated road program
in Erath county was given much
impetus the past week when a
me mber of the staff of the Em-
pire-Tribune was given the follow-
ing story from the local engineer’s
offices of the Stite highway de-
partment:
CHURCH WORK
SCHOOL EHDS
190 Children Attended Ten-Day
Training Period Conducted
By Local Churches
The 10-day vacation school con-
ducted by the Stephenville church-
es closed last Friday with an open
house program and refreshments.
The program began at B o’clock in
the afternoon with the display of
the hand work of the children in
the auditorium of the Christian
Education Building of the Meth-
odist church.
At 6:30 o’clock there was a short
program of games and folk dances
and the remainder of the program
consisted of songs, readings, and
short talks. Nearly 200 children
attended the school.
Members of the churches and the
parents of the children say they
are grateful to the large number
of workers who assisted in making
the school a success.
Rev. Joe Patterson, pastor of the
Methodist church, was general sup-
erintendent, and the Rev. Ernest
Ulmer, pastor of the Presbyterian
church, was superintendent of the
assembly and of manual training.
WEEVILS REPORTED
Sid Farrar, Lone Oak commun-
ity farmer, brought to the Em-
pire-Tribune the past week a well
developed stalk of cotton heavily
infested with boll weevil. The cot-
ton was planted early and came
from the field of Lee Mclnroe. Mr.
Farrar is considerably aroused ov-
the present activities of this
pest and believes that the hope for
cotton production in Erath county
will have to rest on the outcome of
the late crop.
They’re selling eggs in New
York with the date of laying stam-
ped upon them.
Former Attorney
Of Erath County
Dies In California
Word comes from Lou Annies
of the death in that city June 7, of
Lee Riddle, formerly of Stephen-
ville. His home had been at Long
Branch, a suburban district of Los
Angeles, the past twenty-three
years, or ever since he left here.
Mr. Riddle moved to Stephenville
from Granbury, soon after he had
been elected district attorney, and
was for some years a resident of
this city. Previously he had served
as county attorney of Hood coun-
ty, and had also represented that
county in the legislature two
terms.
Mr. Riddle was a native Texan,
having been born in DeWitt coun-
ty 70 years ago. At the time of his
death he hadbeen in ill health for
quite awhile, and was under treat-
ment at a Los Angeles hospital.
Mrs. RidUle and their six sons and
one daughter survives him.
Father-Son Banquet
Will Be Tonight At
Methodist Church
sponi
ship
BM
be held in the banquet hall of the
First Methodist church tonight at
7:46 o’clock. The get-together is
onsored by the Oxford Fellow-
Club and will be the last
meeting of the club until next fall.
Women will serve at the banquet,
and more than 150 men and boys
are expected to attend.
Dr. C. Q. Smith, Cisco, will be
the principal speaker. Other speak-
ers and their subjects are Rufus
Higgs, Jr., “My Father,” a poem;
E. C. Johnson, professor of poultry
at John Tarleton College, “How
My Dad Helped Me;“ Ben McCol-
lum, “Recollections;” Mack Blake-
ney, “Odds and Ends;” Coach W.
J. Wisdom, “A Friend I want;”
W. C. Selman, “A Help or a Hind-
rance.”
The club says every man and
boy of the church is expected to be
present.
MASOHS HOLD
DISTRICT MEET
Stephenville Lodge Celebrate* Ita
Seventy-Second Anniversary
Here Monday
The sixty-seventh Masonic dis-
trict held an aducational meeting
at the local lodge hall last Mon-
day. In connection with the district
meeting, the Stephenville lodge
celebrated the seventy-second an-
niversary of the granting of its
charter. A. A. McSweeny, District
Deputy Grand Master, of the loeal
lodge, presided. Lodges in the dis-
trict are Stephenville, Dublin, Han-
nibal, Morgan Mill, Bluff Dale,
Lingleville, Thurber, Chalk Moun-
tain and Clairette.
A musical master degree was
conferred on Arlle Brown by a de-
gree team from Waco at 2:80
o’clock in the afternoon. At 6
o’clock a barbecue dinner was serv-
ed at the city park by the ladies
of the Eastern Star.
Grand Master of Texas Wallace
Houghston, McKinney, the princi-
pal speaker, talked at the Masonic
lodge hall at 8 o’clock in the even-
ing. He was accompanied, here by
Deputy Grand Master Steve Cook,
Fort Worth.
Other grand officers attending
the meeting were Grand Junior
Warden W. M. Weatherred, Cole-
man; Wilbur Keith, executive sec-
retary of the Masonic Service
Committee, Dallas; District Depu-
ty Grand Master J. D. Waring, Co-
manche; and District Depdty
Grand Master H. N. Brown, Cole-'
man. All made short talks.
Cotton Belt Ry,
Will Attempt To
Discontinue Line
\eteran Texas Pecan
Wizard Adds hew
Laurels to his Record
Texas pecan growers owe much
of their success in the propagation
pecans to E. E. Risien of
San Saba. The work which has
of fine
of money in circulation here, the
work will be of much value to farm
land. It will constitute the con-
struction of dams across small
streams to conserve moisture and
to nrevent flood damage.
This district, due largely to the
work done by the School of Agri-
culture in John Tarleton College,
has already made much progre v
toward preventing soil erosior.
much of the farm land being un-
der terrace.
The camp here, which will prob-
ably be located at the city park,
will be one of thirty-four such
camps alloted Texas by the federal
government, and the projects are
divided into parks, prevention of
soil erosion, and forestry groups.
Nearly 8.000 men will be given If or Austin to enter
work in the damps. at the State Uni
FREE TICKETS
Read the classified advertise
ments this week to see if you are
the lucky one who wins two free
tickets to see “I Love That Man”
at the Majestic Theatre June
18, 19, 20. The theatre is guar-
anteed to be the coolest place in
town.
Maurice Price
Stone are in Chicai
attend the Centu:
and International
Miss Alleen
and Bedford
this week to
of Progress
xnosition.
left recently
miner school
been done by this pecan wizard
during the past fifty years makes
an exceedingly good story, and
will be of great interest to the pub-
lic. '
E. E. Risien, of English birth,
came to San Saba more than fifty
years ago. He became interested in
pecans to the extent that he offer-
ed five dollars—a big price then—
for the best pound of pecans
brought to San Saba. The tree
that won the prize was a large
seedling pecan tree growing where
the San Saba River flows intd the
Colorado River, nine miles east of
the town of San Saba. The nuts
from this tree had been harvested
by topping with a chopping axe,
leaving only one small limb to
stand on to do the work.
Mr. Risien bought the crop of
pecans from this tree at 5 cents
per pound, and sold them all over
the world for $1.00 per pound. To
save the tree, he bought the 820
acres of land on which the tree was
growing, paying $1,000.00 for the
tract.
He named this pecan San Saba,
from the seed of which he planted
out 1000 trees, expecting each re-
sulting tree to produce nuts like
the seed planted. From the 1000
trees he got 1000 different kinds of
nuts. There were nuts of all sizes
and kinds, among which were six
that were superior to the nut
planted.
Mr. Risien top worked by bud-
ding a large, native tree to one of
his improved varieties, the first
native pecan tree ever to be top-
worked in the world. This was the
beginning of the papershell pecan
industry.
The demand for Mr. Risien s
new pecans came from all over the'
world, among his customers being
Queen Victoria and Lord Tenny-
son of England. The nuts were the
most delicious and nutritious food
that had been found.
Mr. Risien began breeding his
pecans by taking the pollen from
one of his fine trees placing it on
the nutlets or female flower of an-
other fine pecan. This was a very
slow and expensive process, frau-
ght with many hazards and disap-
pointments. After nearly 40 years
of patient work, he has created the
finest pecans in the world.
When Mr. Risien began his pe-
can work, there were no barbed-
wire fences in Texas, no telephone
or telegraph and there were no
railroads in that section. Pecans
were brought to town h> ox wag-
ons, poured loose in the wagon
beds.
Frequently deer, turkey and buf-
falo meat was brought along in
the same wagon bed and the wild
meat was peddled along with the
pecans. A deer ham or turkey
sometimes, if fancy, was sold for
60 cents.
Mr. Risien has lived to see all
those conditions changed. He is
now 80 years old, but is still going
on with his wonderful work.
The Texas legislature on March
The Cotton Belt Railway com->
pany has filed an application with
the Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion seeking authority to discon-
tinue operation of the Stephenville,
North & South Texas line, running
from Stephenville to Hamilton, a
distance of about 45 miles. At the
same time the company sought au-
thority to discontinue operation of
its line from Hamilton to Coman-
che.
Local interests are making plans
to protest this action and will
make’every effort to show cause
why the road should continue to
operate.
Tarleton Avenue Christian Church
We extend a cordial welcome to
summer school students and visit-
ors to attend our services. They
are as follows for the summer
months:
Sunday school, 9:45; morning
preaching, 8; Christian Endeavor
meets the first Sunday in each
month.
Last Wednesday evening we wit-
nessed the baptism of six of our
young people. We are happy to
make this report. May we see you
next Sunday.—Church Reporter.
Fay Earnest, who returned last
week from an absence of several
weeks while substituting for em-
ployes of Piggly Wiggly stores in
West Texas, who were on vacation,
has resumed his duties at the Pig-
gly Wiggly grocery store in this
city. Mr. Earnest has just recent-
ly been appointed manager for the
local store. Mr. Hyatt, who has
been managing the business since
it was opened up two months ago,
will remain with the sales force at
the store here.
Volunteer Fireman
Attend State Meet
at Corpus Christi
Fire Chief, J. B. Cox. Mel Mor-
row, J. P. Hedrick and Elmer Fer-
guson, Stephenville firemen, at-
tended the state firemen’s conven-
tion in Corpus Christi Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday.
Morrow as acting fire marshall,
and Hedrick and Ferguson went
as delegates.
By belonging to the association
and sending a fire marshall and
delegates to the state convention,
the fire department here receives
fire insurance credit.
American Legion
Official To Visit
Post Here Tuesday
Department Commander Carl
Nesbitt of the American Legion
will visit the Amon G. Turnbow
Post here Tuesday. At noon he will
be dinner guest of the Legion here,
and at 2:30 o’clock in the after-
noon he will speak in the district
court room at the court house.
The visit here is part of a long
speaking itinerary by Texas de-
partment commander of the Am-
erican Legion. In announcing Com-
mander Nesbitt’s visit here. Robert
O. Whiteaker, department adjut-
ant, urged that the public attend
the meetings. Nesbitt will go to
Albany and Abilene from here.
CULPEPPER AT DUBLIN
Rev. S. B. Culpepper is in Dub-
lin this week conducting a revival
meeting at the Baptist church In
that city. He will be there until
after Sunday and announces that
his pulpit at the local church will
be filled Sunday by Rev, J. M.
Bradford of the Dublin church.
Rev. Culpepper has also an-
nounced that a revival will be held
here at a later date by Rev. Brad-
ford.
Miss Willie Little and Miss
Mary Merle Killough left last week
for Chicago to attend the Century
of Progress Exposition.
Mr. and Mrs. Swan Richardson
left for Chicago Thursday to at-
tend the Century of Progress Ex-
position.
E. E. RISIEN
1931, passed a resolution hon-
oring Mr. Risien for his work. As
it happened, the date this reso'u-
tion was made, was Mr. Risien’s
78th birthday, but this fact was
unknown to the legislature.
In July, 1982, the Texas Pecan
Growers awarded him a gold med-
al for his creations. In December
1932, a variety of his pecans won
fhe John Garner prize for the
finest unnamed pecan in Texas.
This pecan has been named by per-
mission of the vice-president, who
is himself, a Texas pecan grower.
The right to propagate this vari-
ety has been bought by Ross R.
Wolfe of the Wolfe Pecan Nurs-
ery, Stephenville.
The John Garner pecan is pro-
ducing nuts from buds set less
than 60 days ago. It is thought to
be the most valuable of Mr. Rl-
sien’s creations to date.
Mr. and Mrs. Mount Taylor are
attending the Century of Progress
and International Exposition la
Chicago this week.
Central Ward Building
W ill Be Rebuilt it Loan
From Government Made
Long considered a fire hazard
and wholly inadequate for the
needs of primary and grade stu-
dents, Central Ward school build-
ing In Stephenville will be rebuilt
at a cost of approximately $80,-
000.00 if nlans now being made by
board members mature. After hear-
ing a representative of the govern-
ment relief plan here Tuesday it
was definitely decided to apply for
the loan.
John E. Burnett, with C. A. Mc-
Donald, G. A. Tunnell and W. M.
Bellville. has been working on the
details of the anolieation and were
making every effort to get the ap-
plication in the mails last night
In the event the present struc-
ture is wrecked and rebuilt the
new building will be erected along
modem lines, constructed so that
there will be a large number of
class rooms, cafeteria and auditor-,
lum. All class rooms will be on
ground floor with the auditor
on the second floor.
School board officials feel
ful of securing the loan and „
i ng construction at an early "date
Just how much will be required to
complete a loan of this character is
not known, but it is presumed a re-
port will be received soon, showing
what can be expected.
Miss Anne ElUa returned recent-
ly from a visit with her sf«ter.
Miss Lucv Ellis, In Dallas. While
there, Miss Ellis accompanied her
sister to Denton where she will be
in summer school at North Texas
State Teachers’ College
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