Stephenville Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, June 24, 1927 Page: 2 of 10
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-THE STEPHENVILLE TRIBUNE, STEPHENVILLE, TEXAS
:For the1
HOTSUMMERDAYS
THAT ARE HERE AND THAT WE
MAY EXPECT DURING THE
COMING MONTHS
nRlftMIM ~F°r occasions requiring formal dress we
■ fnjyy>iy> present a big showing of dresses in plain
and printed Georgette and Voile, Flat Crepe for sport
and other occasions. All in different fashions with long
and short sleeves and some sleeveless.
WASH DRESSES
We present the famous Nelly Don Wash Dresses and their
value is too well known to require more than to mention
that we have them in a wide variety.
MILLINERY OFFERINGS
Suitable hats for hot and summer weather and for any
occasion. Large flop hats that are so popular now are
here. Felts and belting silk hats for sport, travel and
summer wear.. All reasonably priced.
Flop Hats $2.95 to $4.95
Ues
ore
THE NEW THINGS FIRST
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LOCAL NEWS \
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Mr. and Mrs. Hub Gaither from
Paloxy, were Stephenville visitors
Saturday.
Mrs. Frank O. Harris of Yakima,
Washington, formerly of Fort Worth,
is visiting her niece, Mrs. B. B. McCol-
lum, and family.
Mrs. J. J. Bennett had as her guests
last week-end her daughter and hus-
band, Mr. and Mrs. Crit Newton of
Dsdlas.
G. R. Harvey and Miss Jewell But-
ler of Dublin, were married in Stcph-
enville, Friday, June 17, Rev. A. J.
Barnett performing the ceremony.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Woody and
baby daughter, Venus, returned Fri-
day from a three weeks’ visit with
relatives at Alvord.
Miss Frances Naylor, daughter of
Dr. and Mrs. S .D. Naylor., a student
in Simmons Conservatory, Boston,
Mass., is at home for the summer.
W. V. Gavit, with the Perry Drug
Co., was in Cisco Sunday to meet his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Gavit and
his sister, Miss Eulalea Gavit, who
were visiting in that city from Brady.
Mr. and Mrs. P. E. Payne, W. C.
Homeyer and Mrs. J, A. Frasier of
Cisco, left Thursday morning for
Brenham, where they Will attend the
Texas Baby Chick Association in ses-
sion there this week.
Mesdames Tom Donnell, R. E. Cox
and W. B. Head, Sr., had as their
guests last week the following rela-
tives: Mrs. C. E. Rupe and children,
Olive and Charles of Seymour; Mrs.
R. J. Smith and Miss Virginia Hewitt
of Grandview, and Mrs. Jennie Wren
of Wichita Falls, granddaughter of
Mrs. W. B. Head, Sr.
R. W. Higginbotham, president of
Higginbotham Bros. & Co. of Dallas,
was here Monday and Tuesday looking
over business interests of' the com-
pany. He went from here to Dublin,
Comanche and other towns where the
firm has stores located.
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Dean of Blanket,
were here a few days this week visit-
ihg his sister. Mrs. W. B. Thompson,
and family.
I. A. Garrick, a former businessman
of Stephenville but who been liv-
ing in Northwest Texas for the past
year, was here the past week visiting
friends. He reports all of the north-
west dry and crops poor.
Mrs. Mollie Chenault and daughter,
Miss Fannie, arrived in Stephenville
Saturday at noon from Morris, Okla.
They will visit until August in the
homes of Mrs. Chenault’s sister, Mrs.
J. E. Whitefield in this city and with
her daughter, Mrs. Henry Ray at
Huckabay.
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Thompson have
been enjoying the company of their
daughters the past week, and one of
their grandchildren.. Mr. and Mrs.
Ralph Roehatch of Wichita Falls, and
Mrs. J. T. Martin, spent several days
with their parents. Baby % Jeanette
was the center of attraction during the
visit and the little lady is all that is
claimed for, say* her granddaddy, Mr.
Thompson.
V. O, Porter and family have re-
cently returned from an extended visit
to points in the lower Panhandle of
Texas. They visited relatives and
friends, and otherwise enjoyed them-
selves. However, with all the good
times, Mr. Porter says, “we were
mighty glad to get back home,” a spot
that looks like a garden of roses in
comparison to some of the parched
sections visited in the west. The Por-
ter & Son Seed Company is one of the
most successful in the Heart of Texas
and their success is due to their un-
swerving honesty and strict attention
to business.
Your Friend
as well as ours
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"VTES, the electric meter with the round
lace is a pretty square fellow after aU^
He plays no favorites. He’s on your
premises to protect your interest every
, bit as much as ours.
Look on Mr. Meter as a true indicator
of this vast electrical system ready to
leap into action at any time to give ah
honest day’s work lor an honest day’s pay.
"Your Electric Seruant”
TEXAS POWER
AND Ligllt COMPANY
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Sherrill were
very proud and happy last week to re-
ceive an invitation to the piano recital
of their granddaughter, Little Miss
Frances Fain Sherrill at Houston on
the night of June 9th. Frances Fain
is a pupil of Mrs. Vaa Nort, piano in-
structor of Houston. She is only eight
years of age yet she is quite an ac-
complished pianist already. Her
mother, formerly Miss Lois Havenhill,
before her marriage to J. Guy Sherrill,
was a piano pupil of Charles W. Froh,
head of the music department of John
Tarleton College.
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Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Glass and lit-
tle son, Donald of Desdemona, were in
the city Monday on business. They
are extremely interested in seeing a
high type road built from Stephenville
to Desdemona and feel that such a
road would be greatly beneficial to
everybody concerned. Both Mr. and
Mrs. Glass are members of two of the
pioneer families of the Lingleville
country, their parents having been of
the type that made many sacrifices for
the establishment of churches and
schools in the Lingleville country in
the early days. Incidentally, Master
Donald while visiting in the Tribune
office took a special interest in the
manipulation .of linotype machines,
printing presses and other equipment
in the mechanical department of the
Tribune.
FAMILY REUNION AT GENOWAY
The Genoway Second annual family
reunion was held Saturday and Sun-
day. They all assembled Sunday at
the Desdemona Hotel where a sump-
tuous feed was served, by good ladles
of the family for twenty of the rela-
tives. A few other who were present
making a total of 26.
.All of the children of Mr. and Mrs.
C. H. Genoway were present except one
who with her husband and two chil-
dren, Mr. and Mrs. John Shackleford
of Fort Worth, could not attend. Those
present Sunday were: Mr. and Mrs.
C. H. Genoway, father and mother,
and their thrge children at home,
Theta, Afatha and Miss Emma, Mr.
and Mrs. Luther Harper and children,
Mr. and 'Mrs. Whitt Richardson and
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Cypert
of Stephenville, Mr. and Mrs. Otis
Hat-rel of El Reno, Okla., and a grand
son, Eldon Shackleford of EriM Worth
and Frank Genoway. out of
the family who were present were Mr.
and Mrs. Richards, father of WUtt
Richards and children ot Stephenvffle,
Alvin Armstrong of Swetewater, a
grandson of the elder Richards, Capt.
A. J. Orear all had a good time. They
all do when they get together and all
will meet here again next year.—
Desdemona Gusher.
MAN’S BEST FRIEND
IS NEAR EXTINCTION
Washington, June 23.—Is the horse
in danger of becoming extinct? Many
government experts fear that he is
traveling the route of the dinosaur,
and that a thousand years or so from
now people will be digging up his
bones for exhibition purposes, along
with other rare specimens.
Statistics show that there is a
marked decline in the use of horses on
farms, and in the cities he is rarely
seen. Even the garbage wagons are
spurning the use of this noble animal.
The track is about the only place left
where the horse is an absolute neces-
sity. So far they have found no sub-
stitute for him there.
The multiplication of automobiles'
and tractors has been nt its heights
since the World war. It was during
the' strenuous period of that engage-
ment that the farmer, represented
largely in khaki, learned the tremen
dous potentialities of automotive pow-
er. He saw great loads of war mater-
ial that would have required the com-
bined efforts pf many teams moved
with utmost ease in huge trucks. He
saw heavy field guns, mired to the
muzzles in thick mud, hauled out by
tiny caterpillar tractors half the size
of one of his heavy-footed draft hors-
es. He saw staff officers whisked from
one command to another with surpris-
ing speed in fast automobiles.
The vast movement in the traffic of
war put the thinking cap on the farm
er as jt^rjever had before. Since that'
time figures show wide adoption of
automotive power. It is true that in-
the initial cost of gasoline power and
horse power there i& a great differ-
ence. A team of horses costs a great
deal less than a flivver, and a set of
horse plows and horses represents
considerably less than a tractor, but
this initial cost is not the only ques-
tion involved.
In the first place, there is no com-
parison between the speed and com-
fort of a horse-drawn passenger ve-
hicle and an automobile. In the second
place, the most powerful team can
not pretend to draw the load of one
good, truck and their speed capacity
is greatly limited, In the third place,
a single horse pulling a plow can not
hope to accomplish the results of a
tractor half his size drawing a dozen
tongues over a field. Besides the man
behind the horse plow works almost as
hard as the horse.
The farmer is making other com-
parisons. Automobiles, trucks and
tractors require fu91 only while they
are working. A horse eats hay all the
year around in busy seasons and dull
seasons.
A tractor, an automobile and a
truck all can be stored in a space much
smaller than a barn used for a two-
horse team and its equipment.
- Since the horse must be fed all the
year around; It is necessary to allot
considerable space on the farm for the
growing of feed. The farmer has
learned that the space can.be used to
advantage in the raising of other pro-
ducts.
When a horse breaks a leg the farm-
er’s use for him is.at an end and he
gets what he can for the carcass.
When a motor vehicle breaks a whoel
there arc plenty of others where the
broken one came from.
The last official census in 1920
showed a general decline of horses
used on farms since 1910, but it is
since 1920 that the big decrease has
occurred. Official figures will not be
known until after the next census in
1980, but government agents have
made estimates and unofficial surveys
in some of the Southern states which
show surprising results. According to
the federal agricultural statistician
for Maryland, the farm horse popula-
tion of that state has decreased at the
rate of 6,000 a year since 1920. In
1910 there were 166,000 horses on the
farms of Maryland. In 1920 the num-
ber had fallen to 141,000, while today
the total number is estimated at 112,-
000. The estimate made by the gov-
ernment agent shows that the number
of tractors have greatly increased. In
1920 there were 1,626 tractors in use
on Maryland farms, ast year 4,026
were being used and many more have
been purchased since then.
It is claimed that this condition is
true in all states, and that automo-
biles, trucks and tractors are gaining
a tremendously important place in all
farming sections.
The army still retains a cavalry di-
vision, but no doubt in a few years
this, too, will pass. The World War
demonstrated the futility of this
method of fighting, many experts say.
There is doubt that the horse is
being crowded out, but wHether or not
his annihilation will be completed re-
mains to he seen.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH SUNDAY
The regular services will be held at
the First Baptist church next Sunday
morning and evening. Our Sunday
school starts fifteen minutes earlier
than it did. We begin now at nine
forty-five every Sunday mornnig so
that we may have more time with the
lessons. We ask that the fathers and
mothers and children as well take due
notice of this change and govern them-
selves afccordingly. We greatly need
more people in our Sunday school each
Sunday morning.
We hope to make next Sunday a
great day. The pastor finishes his
sixth year as pastor next Sunday and
begins the seventh year. These have
been joyous years full of busy service.
They seem so short. We want every
member and every friend of our
church to be present next Sunday
morning and evening. Miss Lessie
Head is in charge of the orchestra
while Sister Richardson is away and
the music is very fine. If you'enjoy
good music them come and- worship
with us.
We make our services short and ap-
propriate and our house is very com-
fortable. A special invitation is given
to one and all for next Sunday morn-
ing and evening. Come thou with us
and we will do thee good.—S. B. Cul-
pepper, Pastor.
Japanese enthusiasts of “flower pot
forests” have formed a dwarf tree en-
couragement society which has al-
ready started to hold annual exhibit-
ions. Recently 300 of the finest little
trees in the islands were exhibited, in-
cluding tiny pines with a 500-year
pedigree. These very old trees are
valued at several thousand dollars
apiece.
CARD OF THANKS
We take this method of tryiag to
thank our many friends for their
every act of kigdness to us in the loss
of our husband and father, Calvin
JVloss. For every word. The beautiful
•flowers. The sweet singing. May
God’s richest blessings abide with you.
From the depth of our hearts we
thank you.—Cora Moss, Pauline Moss,
Marie Moss.
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Very Low Round Trip
4th July Fares
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Phone for details .
TRAIN SERVICE
From Stephenville
NORTHBOUND
No. 110 Lv. 5:45 a. m.
SOUTHBOUND
No. 109 Ar. 9:10 p. m.
J. D.Rillough
TICKET AGENT
Phone 131
Service With Courtesy
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A SPLENDID FEELING
That tired, half-sick, discouraged feel-
ing caused by a torpid liver and consti-
pated bowels can be gotten rid of with
surprising promptness by using Hcrbine.
You fool its beneficial effect with the first
doso as its purifying and regulating effect
is thorough and complete. It not only
drives out bile and impurities but it im-
parts a splendid feeling* of exhilaration,
strength, vim, and buoyancy of spirits.
~ Oo. Bold by
HOLT’S DRUG STORE
Another Reminder
Our Telephone No. Is
112
Try our phone service.. Most of the women folk know tha
number and we have had the pleasure of selling them
groceries through this medium in the past.
You will be pleased with our phone service.
Frank Henson
THE HOME OF GLADIOLA FLOUR
BARGAINS
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OLIVER DISC PLOWS
$65.o°
Also some bargains in Mowers, Rakes,
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and other farming- tools.
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Petty Bros. Mercantile Co.
Hico, Texas
LOOK! COMING!
LOOK!
All Next
Commencing
MONDAY
JUNE
BOB AND CARL
Grandi Bros.
Present
Bob and Carl’s Comedians
Located on Trading Block. Openint
in the Great Comedy Drama
“The Charity Child”
35 People Including 12
Vaudeville Artists and
“Little Symphony Or-
chestra”
LADIES FREE Monday Night
—When accompanied by one
paid ticket.
DOORS OPEN AT 7:16 O’CLOCK. MUSICAL C
CURTAIN AT 8:16
Feature
PRICES. ADULTS....... ..30c
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Stephenville Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, June 24, 1927, newspaper, June 24, 1927; Stephenville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1120487/m1/2/?q=music: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dublin Public Library.