Stephenville Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, April 1, 1927 Page: 2 of 10
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STEPHENVILLE, TEXAS
THE STEPHENVILLE TRIB
r J, Cl«y returned home lest week-
■rom Houston, Lufkin, and other
Ei in that section where he was
rfusiness for the Clay Lumber
Lpany. He also spent a few hours
^Jacksonville, the new oil town in
it Texas and states that all indica-
qs point to a long lifed oil field
Mrs. M. J. Downs was a guest of
Mrs. H: Wilson in Dublin last woek-
end.
Miss Allyne Perry spent last week-
end in Hamilton as a guest of her
uncle, Dr. C. C. Baker, and family.
Miss Frances .Freese, member of the
faculty of the Stephenville high school
visited relatives in Dallas last week-
end.
Mr. and Mrs. John Hardin motored
to Spur last Friday to spend several
days with relatives.
Mrs. M. J. Byrum had as her guests
-last week-end her father, R. A. Screws
and her brother-in-law, J. W. Speer,
both of Walnut Springs.
Miss Mary Marrs with her mother,
Mrs. F. M. Marrs, motored to Dublin
Monday to attend to some 'business
matters.
You wilLnot get “April Fool” if you buy
your groceries in April from this Store.
Plenty of Quality and Lowest Prices are
Always here for our Customers
Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Perry spent the
latter part of last week in Hamilton
with her brother, Dr. C. C. Baker, and
family.
_
L. H. Fulbright of Shreveport, La.,
has been here this week visiting his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Austin Ful-
bright,
Miss Emma Gayle, a girlhood friend
of Mrs. J. W. Heaton, was a guest in
the Heaton home several days last
week. ••
nson
THE HOME OF GLADIOLA FLOUR
Fatuous £or
looks
and wearing qualities
for years, today with
many smart new de-
signs, they are lovelier
than ever. So try Gor-
don hosiery and dis-
cover what teal stocking
quality can mean! In
medium, serVice weight,
and sheer. And the sea-
son’s he§t colors, from
$1.65 to $3.00.
Clinton Burnett, son of Mr. and
Mrs. John Burnett of this city, who is
teaching at Gainesville this year, mo-
tored over Friday and accompanied
by his mother and Mrs. Otis Bryant,
drove on over to Austin for the week-
end. Mrs. Burnett lind Clinton visited
Miss Beryl Burnett while Mrs. Bryant
spent the time with her daughter.
Miss Katherine. Both young' ladies
are attending State University.
Mrs. Raymond Armstrong received
a wire Wednesday morning telling her
of the sudden turn for the worse in
the condition of her friend, Mrs. G. B.
McGlasson of Fort Worth. Mrs. Arm-
strong left on the 11:45 train for Fort
Worth and will remain with her dur-
ing this trying time. It-has been
known for some time that Mrs. Mc-
Glasson’s condition was -critical and
no hopes.have been held out for her
recovery.
Miss Lucile Moss was a guest
her uilcle the Rev. W. M. Moss, and
family at Hamilton last week-end.
Winfred Garner of Comanche is
here this week testing meters for. the
Texas ■'•Power and Light Company.
Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Collins out on
route one visited Mrs. Collins’ mother,
Mrs. I. P. Beatty at De Leon tha latter
part of last week. Mr. Collins aayi
everything in that section looks line
and people in general seem prosper-
ous and happy. While out there Mr,
and Mrs. Collins attended a sm-ics of
meetings at the Primitive Baptist
church which they greatly enjoyed.
Mrs.' John Wright recently had a
letter from Mrs. John Cress of Ama-
rillo telling of their removal to Lcs
Angeles, California.' Mr. and Mrs.
Cress and daughter!.': Misses Gladys
and Margaret, formca^ resided in
Stephenville but left here two years
ago for Amarillo. They have many
friends here who will wish for them,
the greatest contentment in their new
home.
Rev. Ben West, pastor of the Gra-
ham Street Church of Christ, filled the
pulpit at the Dublin church Sunday
afternodn. He was accompanied by a
goodly number of people from his own
congregation. A quartette composed
of I. A. Amos, Mrs. R. V. Robinson,
Loye Njchols, and K. N. Baxley and
Misses' Nell Amos and Hafvye Gox in
a duet contributed largely to the song
service during the afternoon.
The farmers' ef the Oak Dale neigh-
borhood are elated over the splendid
rain they got
, J. W. Skipvvorth of Cisco, has been
here for the past two weeks visiting in
the home of his brother, R. H. Skip-
worth.
Mrs. R. E. Skipworth left Wednes-
day for Durant, Oklahoma, where she
pi iris to spend ten days visiting in the
home of her mother.
Misses'Adcle Clark, Winnie Hamp-
ton and Lola Thompson of the Steph-
enville high school faculty, were in
Iredell last Thursday as judges in the
county interscholastic track meet.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Hudgens
motored to Dallas Sunday. They were
joined on, their return home by Mrs.
Hudgemf nijpther, Mrs. W. H. Cleve-
land, who remained here until Tues-
day .for a visit in their home.
Mrs. L. 6. Goodman accompanied
by William Bell, motored to Brown-
wood Saturday and were accompanied
home by Mrs. Goodman’s husband, L,
O., who spent Sunday here with his
family- ' -
The Pa’rent-Teachers’ Association
will meet at 3 o’clock Tuesday after-
noon at the Central Ward School
building. Remember the date, April
5th, and everybody come. An interest-
ing lesson will be given.
Mrs. Rube Holliday accompanied by
her son, Hall Holliday and her daugh-
ter- Mrs. Wolfe, motored over from
Hico, Sunday to spend the day with
Mrs. Holliday’s cousins, Mr. and Mrs.
Eb Jones.
AN EXHILARATING EFFECT
A bottlo of Herbine on the shelf at
homo is like having a doctor in the bouse
nil the Jimo. It gives instant relief when
the digestion gets out of order or the
bowels fail to act. One or two doses is
all that is necessary to start things mov-
ing and restore that fino feeling of exhil-
aration and buoyancy of spirits which be-
longs only to perfect health. Price GOe.
. . evening. Ste-
phenville and vicinity had only a small
amount of rainfall at. that time. Big
rains are reported at Gordon and
Thurber north ind northwest of Steph-
enville, also west of town. Mr. Stark
of Hasse telephoned Eb Jones that the
Leon river was running banks full
Tuesday morning.
f LOCAL NEWS , *J
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John W. Frey was in . Fort Worth
Tuesday evening on business.
Kenneth'Foote of Dale, Texas, has
been yisltirig his patents, Mr. and Mrs.
J. W. Foote, several days this week.
John Mobley of Fort Worth, visited
his daughter, Mrs. Ross Tudor, Sun-
day. ■
W. B. Guthrie and Herschel Howell
fished on the Leon river near Coman-
che, Monday. It is supposed they
feym
I caught a lot of fish, but' whether they
did or did not they enjoyed thd early
outing and expect to go again.
Mrs. A. W. Erskine and children,
! Ruth and Robert Bryant, who have
been spending the winter in the Rio
Grande Valley, are here visiting her
sister, Mrs. Ed Patton, before going
to her home in Meridian, Idaho. She
was'accompanied here by her brother,
Howard 11am of Mercedes. ■
W. G. Strickert, chief clerk of the
Brownwood district, C. E. McGregor
and A. B. Weaver all of Brownwood
were here last Friday attending to
business pertaining to the Texas Pow-
er and Light Company. ,
Mr. and Mrs. Wade Holley and baby
daughter, Yvonne, and Mr. and Mrs.
Clem Hancock, Miss Marie_ Hancock
and Mrs. J; IE. Underwood spent Sun-
day in Glen Rose with Dr. C. L. Un-
derwood, and family.
John Akey, well known in Stephen-
vilje and who formerly operated a
machine shop in Stephenville, was
here this week from Fort Worth visit-
ing old friends. He has been away
from Stephenyflle for the past twelve
years.
Mrs.-John Wright, who attended the
.1. O. O. F. and Rebekah lodge conven-
tion at Waco last week, went from
there to Kosse where she will visit her
'daughter, Mrs. S. O. Cress, and fam-
ily for a few weeks before returning
to her home here.
Bf{AND
TO THE WOMEN WHO APPRECIATE
Quality in
Toilet Goods
MMi
STEPHENVILLE, TEXAS
We have recently completed arrangements whereby we
will handle exclusive
Richard Hudnut and Coty’s
Perfumes and Toilet Goods
Among the young people who drove j
over to Thurber last Saturday night j
for the Thurber Club supper dance j
were Mr. and Mrs. Frank Carlton, |
Misses Virginia KeySter, ElofslT Jones, j
and Messrs. C. B»'Thames, Nick Hig-
ginbotham and Mr. and Mrs. O. L.
Hindman.
The Missionary Society of the First
Methodist church of Stephenville
drove out to Iluckabay Tuesday after-
noon to meet with the Ladies’ Mission-
ary Society of-the Huckabay Method-
ist church. A nice program was given
and the afternoon spent very pleasant-
ly and profitably with the ladies of
thnt little city who are deeply inter-
ested in the progress of their church
and in the tvork being accomplished
by their missionary society.
John Weathers, who successfully
operntes the cafe next door to the
Highway Filling Station, has recently
purchased the Charles Bryant resi-
dence in the past part of town and he
and Mr4. Wgathers will move into
their new heme at once. Mt. afid
Mrs. Weathers have been making their
home in .Stephenville for some time,
and the people of this city are glad
they have decided to become 'pg^ma-
nent citizens by purchasing a home In
such a desirable residential section of
At our shop. We will be glad to show anyone the process
we use in vulcanizing tires and tubes. Come in add see
how we are repairing tires and tubes for others. And
better still, bring in some of your old tires that have been
blown out and have them fixed. It means extra mileage at
a big saving.
This means the last word in quality and we respectfully
invite the ladies of this territory to keep this store in
mind when needing toilet goods of the highest quality.
Thererra no need for us to elaborate on HUDNUT or
COTY’S because everybody knows the quality of both.
.
These goods are being recevied almost daily and
we will be glad to have you make a personal in-
spection.
LL WORK GUARANTEED
All worm of every kind is guaranteed to give Satisfaction.
We doAot -want to take any tire that we knwo we cannot
repaitAnd if we think the tire is beyond repair we will
teilg^iu so frankly. ,
c We Can Save You Money on Your Old
Tires and Tubes
The Cross Drug Store
E. A. (Jack) JONES, Prop..
NEXT DOOR TO MEL’S CAFE
the tow%.
White HWan
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Stephenville Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, April 1, 1927, newspaper, April 1, 1927; Stephenville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1121005/m1/2/?q=%22thurber+%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dublin Public Library.