The Lampasas Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, October 11, 1940 Page: 4 of 4
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CENTRAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH
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MAKE YOUR HOME “HAPPY” FOR FALL!
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daughter, Laura Kay, of Christoval, i the last two years. She is well and
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Hendrix. From here
Lampasas Furniture Co
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LIONS CLUB WILL SPONSOR
E. Daniels visited Saturday
Feed Your
TURKEYS
, There is an abundance of feed raised on the fan
Producers Produce Co
J. H. CLARK, Manager
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Langford,
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MRS. J. W. TOWNSEN WILL
CELEBRATE HER 9OTH
BIRTHDAY SUNDAY
evening the book of Exodus
reviewed.
public is- cordially invited, to
services.
New furniture will give your home a
brighter, cheerier outlook for Autumn
-—with mere time bein'* spent indoors
ycu want your heme to be truly inviting
Call
Lake
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Mss Lucile Conrads spent the week
end in San Marcos with her parents,
v?r. and 5Ira. lL Conrads.
BAPTIST ASSOCIATION TO SEND
TRUCK TO ORPHANS HOME
loses tw
s twenty-!
s it to tl
rantham g
t to Badg<
o return?
are visiting here in the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Albert Brown.
BY MAIL
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Here’s Your Chance
TO GET TEXAS' GREATEST NEWSPAPER
.....AT A BARGAIN PRICE!
No special irivitaHohs will lie Issu-
ed, but all of her friends are invitdd
to caH Sunday to see her.
Badgers
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continued sup
he has served t
remember the ir.
James Thomas of Dallas spent
Thursday here in the home of his
grandmother, Mrs. J. H. II. Berry.
Third
asas kic
rd line,
ty-one.
Jackets
for
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favorably known and is popular in
church work there.
William Wittenburg is the oldest
son of Will E. Wittenburg a pioneer
ranchman who lives near Lometa.
Everybody knows and likes William,
who, like his father, is a good ranch-
man.
The newly-weds will be at home to
their friends in the Frank Stockton
house in Lometa, where each of them
will continue their former work.
—Contributed.
and Joe Herr-
afternoon in
Sunday after-
Mrs. Herman
• CARD OF THANKS
We wish to express our sincere ap-
preciation of each act of kindness,
expression of sympathy and other
courtesies shown us during the ill-
ness and at the time of the passing
away of our father and grandfather,
Eric Matthews. We also appreciate
the beautiful floral offerings.
The Children and Grandchildren (w
O. TL Hall of Kepniner underwent
'an appendectory Monday afternoon
i at the local hospital.
Mr .and Mrs. J. Neff Mainer pnd
Mr. and Sirs. Roscoe Langford were
in Georgetown Saturday evening, to
see the football game played at
Southwestern University.
THE
HOUSTON CHRONICLE’S
SPECIAL CHRISTMAS OFFER!
James Jones of Richand Springs
spent' the week-end here with his
mother, Mrs. A. E. Jones, and other
relative* and friends.
REWARD OF 1250.00
WILL BE PAID
By authority of the Livestock Rais-
ers Association and its President of
Lampasas County, I will pay the
above reward or a portion thereof,
for information leading to or causing
the arrest of- any person, found
guilty and sentenced to the State
Penitentiary, for theft of livestock
from any member, or for concealing
-livestock in this county, or carried to
another county and concealed, or dis-
posed of.
T. R. Gholson, Sheriff.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Brown of Aus-
tin are visiting here with friends and
BAPTIST CHURCH
-Man’s prayer meeting 9:15
Sunday School 9:45
Morning worship 11:00
Training Union 6:30
Evening worship 7:30 t
We invite you to worship with i
in all of the services of the day.
R. H. Mathison, Pastor.
FOR SALE — Mediteranean
seed wheat, free from Johnson grass.
11.00 per bushel at my place,
over Rural telephone through
Victor. Ward G. Bowden.
ard gain. 1
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Aldo! t
$vc yards f<
P r ten yard
and fust <
Prescott
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to their ox
eturns it
Idol three
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Llano bar
fine on th
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pasas
Mrs. Howard Yeary of Laspasas
underwent a tonsillectomy Saturday
at the local hospital. ,
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igby
!gby
rational song service and
Theme: “When Blind. Men See.”
New* Mid-Week Service Wednes-
day 7:30 p. m. A forty-five minute
service of song, devotions and study
of the “Meaning gof Prayer."
The public is cordially invited to
any and all services.
Southwest Texas Annual Confer-
ence communes Wednesday, Oet. 16th
in San Antonio. ,
Dr. G. L. Messenger, Minister
The Evangelistic Campaign begins
today.
Bible school—9:45.
Worship,—10:45. Sermon subject,
"The Kingdom of God.” There will be
special music.
Christian Endeavors will meet at
0:80.
-The subject at the 7:30 worship
will be, “The Great Enlistment.”
The singing evangelist land his
wife, Rev. and Mrs. G. L. Messenger,
Jr., of Canyon will not arrive until
late Sunday night or Monday morn-
ing. They will be at the Monday
evening service.
The public is invited to all of these
services.
present from Mr. and Mrs.
tenburg.
Mrs. Wittenburg is the
of Mr. and Mrs. A. G.
of Goldthwaite. She finished Goldth-
waite High School and at John Tarle-
ton, after which she graduated from
a school of Beauty Culture. She owns
and operates her own shop in Lo-
meta, where she has been living for
nders
r,
We are glad to advise with you from time to ti
about your turkeys. .
CHURCH OF CHRIST
First and Walnut Streets
Silas Howell, Minister
Sundap, 10 a. m. Bible study. Class-
es arranged for all. -
11 a. m. Preaching service a n d
communion Sermon topic, “Fishing
on the Right Side.”
7:30 p. m. Preaching service.
The Wednesday evening Bible class
which meets from seven-thirty to
eight-thirty is reviewing one book of
the Bible for each lesson. Next Wed-
nesday
will be
The
all the
LOST—Sorrel horse, 7 brand on
left shoulder. Any one having seen
him please get in touch with Ray
Jones, Jones BoOtTShop. (d88w)
Mrs. Bessie Hendrix of Brady is
I visiting here in the home of Mr. and
she
will
and
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CARD OF THANKS
We take this way to express our
jtincere thanks to those who helped^
in* anyway during the illness of our
mother, grandmother, and sister. The
floral offerings were beautiful.
Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Romans
John Romans and Children
Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Crumley
Mr. and Mrs. Dee Bodenhamer
Martin
with Mr. and Mrs. Sam Hatley.
T. J. Criswell spent the week-end
| with Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Daniels.
Joo end Dnphine Daniels spent
, Saturday afternoon with Mrs. C. E.
Daniels.
Willis Goins spent
i noon with Mr. and
| Garner.
I Martin E. Daniels
i mann spent Sunday
: Brownwood.
j Mr. and Mrs. Sam Hatley and fam-
j ily. visited Sunday afternoon with
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Walker.
Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Daniels visit-
ed Sunday afternoon with T. J. Cris-
well.
I with her
Ruther.
i FINGERPRINTING OF ( 1TIZENS ,
The Lions chib Pad (). 11. Shands. 1
State Highway Patrolman, at their I
; luncheon as a guest this week. Mr. I
| Shands made a short tail; to—the [
; P-.embers stressed the importance
of the fingerprinting of all citizens,
■ as a matter of identification in case ,
of accident.
The club was heartily in favor of
such a movement and decided to'start
an educational campaign along that j
line. If the citizenship of Lampasas'
is interested in this the Department i
of Public Safety will do the work for ■
t.hem and these records will be placed
in civilian files at both Washington
and Austin. ■ ~
The club appointed E. M. Pharr,
Gordon Cass and P. A. LeCorppte, Jr.,
as a committee to carry out their
campaign.
We are always anxious for our customers to get ever
penny possible from their turkeys each season. Ou
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advice to you is to start NOW and have them in read
ness for the first Thanksgiving market. There will b,
a greater demand for early turkeys than there will
for the latermarkets.
this year and you can put it to no better use
through your turkey crop. Watch your turkeys and
that they are kept healthy and well fed.
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touchdown
and
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Sat-
A birthday
her
Ronda Welch and Max Goodson
were visitors Sunday in Waco. v
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two, G.
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JT for two a
jr ends.
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Seco
Mrs. J. W. Townsen of this
will celebrate her 90th bijthday
urday, October 12th.
dinner will be prepared by
I daughter, Miss Elizabeth Townsen. i
I All of her friends are invited to call j
Sunday whert open house will be held
at her home. Mrs. Townsen -was
among the early - settlers of Lampas.-
•ns and has been privileged to see
Lampasas grow from a small group
of families to its present size.
WITTENBURG-LANGFORD
WEDDING
Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 ini
the rectory of St. Mary’s Catholic |
Church, Lampasas, Texas, the holy (
vows of marriage was given by Fa- >
ther Roach to William IE Wittenburg
[and Miss Naomi Langford. Mrs. John!
Samuel KuykeMilI, sister of the |
groom, and Edwin F. Berger, of
Weimer, brother-in-law of the groom,,
w’ere the only attendants.
Ferns and large baskets #f white j
gladiolus and feverfew made a very ,
pretty setting in the living room of i
the rectory for the sweet simple sin- j
gle ring ceremony w’hich was said
before the families of the bride and
groom and a few close friends.
Mrs. Wittenburg was becomingly ,
gowned in a lovely Indian earth silk j
crepe dress. She wore a tailored off
the face black hat, black suede slip-
Firsl
io kicks o
unit' yard
o thirty-nil
ne, G. Baj
OGLE NEWS
Henry Lloyd and Willis Goins
spent Monday afternoon in Hamilton.
Mrs. W. B. Daniels and family vis-
ited Wednesday with Mrs. C. E.
Daniels.
Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Reagan visited
in Mr. and Mrs. Albro. Haynie’s
home one day last week.
Mr. and Mrs! Raymond Reagan
visited a while one night last week
parents, Mr. and Mrs. A.
Other Living Room Suites, lower and higher, priced; Dining Room Suites
Room Suites; Odd Pieces of Furniture, and anything else you need.
Also, Ranges, wood and oil, and Heaters of every description — all priced very
reasonable. See our line before you make your purchases.
—A Large Stock of Second-Hand Furniture and Stoves—
in the
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FUNERAL SERVICES MONDAY
FOR MRS. SARAH JANE RAMSEY
Funeial services were conducted
Monday at Nix Cemetery by Rev.
George Brown, for Mrs. Sarah Jane
Ramsey. She passed away at 12:30
a. hi. Monday at the homo of her
daughter, Mrs. John Bear, a few
miles north of Lampasas.
Mrs. Ramsey was born November
16, 1353 in Washington County. She
had lived in Lampasas County fot
the 45 years. Her husband pas t-_
ed away fifteen years ago and since
that time, Mrs. Rantsey had made her
home with her daughter and son-in-
law*, Mr. and Mrs. John Bear.
She is survived by the following
children: Billy Machen oU Lampasas,
L. M. Machen of Nix, George Machen
of Nix, Mrs. J. C. Bear Of Lampasas,
W. C. Ramsey of Lampasas, Ross
Rainsey of Lampasas, Frank Ramsey
of Brady, Mrs. George Bunch of
Georgetown and Lee Ramsey of
Lampasas. She is also survived by
thirty grandchildren and twenty-three
great-grandchildren.
$640
Daily Only
ONE YEAR
Regular $7.80
KYLE OLIVER RESIGNS
AS CITY SECRETARY
Kyle Oliver, who has served the
City of Lampasas as City Secretary,
Tax Assessor and Collector for al-
most eleven years, tendered his resig-
nation Tuesday to take effect as soon
as the City Council could secure
some one to fill his unexpired term.
Mr. Oliver entered civil service
work a few months ago and is serv- Secretary, Assessor and Collecto
ing as sustitutc clerk in the local ( a very satisfactory manner and m
pp^t office. He was also carrying on progress and improvement has
the duties of tire city but was in-; made by the city during the
formed this week by n postal in- he has been in office. He was
spector that he would not be permit- ways pleasant and agreeable
ted to hold both places. He has had tried to handle all matters in a 1
previous work in the civil service ness like way with those who 1
and was intending to give up the city business connected with that
$790
Doily and Sunday
ONE YEAR
Regular $10.80
FUNERAL DIRECTORS—AMBULANCE SERVICE
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The Lampasas Baptist Association
is making plans to send a truck load
of supplies to Buckner Orphans Home
at Dallas again this year. For several
years a load of supplies, consisting
of canned foods, clothing, quilts and
linen, feed for cattle and so on, has
been sent to the Home each fall^
All contributions this year are to , Mrs. T.
be brought to Senterfitt’s Wool House 1 will go to California where she
in Lampasas on Saturday, November ■ visit tor a while with friends
2. Monday -following a truck will relatives.
carry the supplies to the Home at 1 —---------;—--
Dallas. ' | J. T. Carpenter of Burnet was a
The churches should make plans business visitor Wednesday in Lam-
now to collect their gifts of all ‘ pasas.
hinds in oidei that as generous—an
offering as possible may be gathered.
Cash contributions also should be
made to defray the cost of the truck.
The balance of cash will then be
sent to the Home. Remember the date
is November 2.
R. H. Mathison, Moderator.
work when his present term expi
In resigning his poistion with-j
city, Mr. Oliver states that he V
deed grateful to the citizens of I.
pasas fof their
during the time
and will always
kindnesses shown him as a city
ciab__
He has filled the office as
THE METHODIST CHURCH
J. H. Estes, Pastor .
Church School 9:45 a. m. R. L.
Northington, Supt.
Morning Worship 1(1:50 a. m. Third
of series on “Jehus’ Views”, “Jesus’
View of the Kingdom of God.”___________ ____________
Evening Service; 7:30 p. m. Inapt- pers, lizard trim with harmonizing
sermon, accessories.' Her corsage which was
made of one white astor and moline
ruffled minute feverfew was her only
other adornment.
Mrs. John Samuel Kuykendall wore -
a tailored model the same color the .
bride wore, with black accessories,
and a white gladioli corsage with (
feverfew buds. Thv>-groom wore a
dark pin striped green suit and dark .
shoes and hat. His attendant also f
wore dark green.
Mrs. Wittenburg added a matching
costume.coat and black gloves and
purse, before gding away on their (
honeymoon to parts unannounced in]
their new car, which was a wedding
present from Mr. and Mrs. Will Wit-
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