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Selecting for Your Approval
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1 Big Surprise!
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BIGGER AND BETTER
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THAN EVER!
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Make Your Plans to Attend
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If You Can’t Laugh,
Better Not Come!
Witty Monologues
Best Jokes
Latest Songs
Newest Dances
Wilson Drug Co. - Palace Drug Co’
P. O. Drug Store Goldsmith’s Drug Store
William’s Drug Store
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No other voice I ever hear
Will sqem to me one half so dear,
No other ways will be as sweet
And life would be quite incomplete
Without your love.
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For you, through all my foolish days,
Through time ill-spent, in countless
ways,
Through fleeting joy,
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I’ve felt a-love—that passing years
Cannot destroy.
Electra Lions
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Mrs. C- A. Hodges has returned
to her home on North Main Street
after a two weeks’ sojourn in the
Wichita Clinic Hospital. Mrs. Hodges
is much improved in health but
will be compelled to remain in, bed
for a few days before resuming her
work with Hodges Insurance Com-
pany.
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A £traw wifi show which way the
wind blows—especially if it’s one
of these new $5 round babies and it
gets a ten-foot start on you.
" Mrs. L. A. Wheelis of Leonard,
who has been the guest of her
daughter, Mrs. N. D. Cooper, return-
ed home Saturday.
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Trying to be brutally frank to a
flapper the other day we told her
that her hair looked,, like a mop.
She wanted to know ^vhat a mop
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Things to Remember About China
By C. G< Klinyman, Pastor First Christian Church, Printed'in the
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J. M. Denton of the County Line
community, has recently moved to
the R. L. Proud house near th^e
City Lake.
“Boxer” move-
near Wichita Falls.
Mr. Nesbit has been a resident
of Vernon for the past six months,
where he is in the employ of the
Vernon Daily Record. His mother,
Mrs. T. Riley, lives in El Paso.
Mr, —esbit formerly lived in Elec-
tra and was connected with the
Elctra News and * is well known
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^SOCIETY
I With me, no other ever will
I Possess the place you rightly
A Mother, only, understands
And smooths the pain with loving
hands
And tender words.
world war?”
A daily newspaper editorially de-
scribes t£e .situation as “The Blind
Alley” and says:— . ’
“None of the four principal pow-
ers ,most—directly^'interested" in the
Chinese situation seemsj able, to
make up its" niirid what to 'do.
None of them seems able., to adopt
queue J a course ^which. will have anything
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Enjoy Outing
. Emp' >yees and owners of the
Texas Hardware & Supply Company
and their families spent last week-
end al Medicine Park, Oklahoma.
Camp ng, fishing and bathing was
eniovei. Those attending were: Mr.
and Mms. R. E. Scheurer, and chil-
dren; Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Scheurer
and son* Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Den-
ning and children; Mr. and Mrs.
Geo. H. R.ohlfing and daughter; and
Miss Mattie Rountree. They report-
ed a good time and a large crowd
was at the nark from all parts of
Texas and Oklahoma.
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Sliicb arid Chatter
' Mrs. Tevis Biekley entertained
the members and their husbands of
‘■he Slbch and Chatter Club with a
fortv-two party. Four tables were
arranged for the players. Mrs.
3uzzy Smith received high score
favor for the ladies and Mr. Buzzy
h received high score for the
mon.
lieireshments of chicken salad, ice
roa, ice c^eam and cake were served
Co Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Crass, Mr-
vid M^s. Eugene Crass, Mr. and
Vrs. Eland R. Stearns, Mr. and
Mrs. Bvron Wilbanks, Mr. and Mrs.
Alien Knowles, Mr. and Mrs. Edd
Kowr.shr, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd
^tovps, Mr. and Mrs. Buzzy Smith,
‘qr.d Mt. and Mrs.''Carl Dunnagan,
Little ^ettv Joe and Marion Gean
Crass I’ioyd Burton Dunnagan, God-
<• .p Groves, Dora Joe Kown-
-•ic-i’ ar/i the host and hostess.
& Si Si
j.ampas Club Have-' Picnic
■?. nc- • cosing side of a contest just
.jo5pd m the Lampas Club enter-
tained the winning side and their
.2ht‘rjt^n with a picnic at the Lions
’••vk Friday afternoon. Games were
fhavp-l and refreshments of sand-
wiches. lemonade and ice cream were
the following: Mrs- R. H.
guest. Members: Mesdames
r. Vi. Ashley, F- M. Cummings, Jess
Dannie Dale, D. L. Doval, E.
•'. D.h.ay, C. A. Franklin, Homer
Grizzle, Earl Hemby, J. M. Knight,
Clara Kreaps, Bennett Nance, L. C.
Noack, H. W- Ray, R. N. Richard-
son, R. M. Riggs, R. E. Scheurer,
L. D. Smith, Jr., C. L. Streety,
Claud Suggs, T. C. Stockton, T. A-
Seymour, and Tom Vandeventer.
, & Si & Bs
Miss Lunsford Honored
Miss Juanita White entertained
Friday evening wi$i a party honor-
ing Miss Dafna Lunsford, of Chick-
asha, Oklahoma, who is visiting rel-
atives and friends in this city.
Games and music were enjoyed with
painty refreshments being served at
the conclusion of the evening-
The guests included: Misses Edna
Cottrell, Ila Ray, Nina Bills, Ruby
Curry, Mayme Lowe, Bernice
Winnie Sue Bishop, Thelma
O.dia Hudson, Gladys McDaniel,
Dafna Lunsford and the hostess;
Messrs. R. E. Corley, Karl Ballard,
J. F. Blackard, Roy Coolidge, Hugh
White, Millard Welsh, Eddie Rowe,
Kinnebrew and Theodore Bishop,
Clayton Avens, Jerry Beck, Hayes
Lowe, Elmer Parr, Keith Jones,
Dewey Lunsford, Cyril White, John
and Clyde Leitner, and Mr. and
' Mrs. Ray Sheldon.
see any real signs of China’s adopt-
■ ing communism, and feel that the ef-
i fort there is a wasted one. They
are attacking the Stalin administra-
tion, which replies that Chinses tem-
■ perament and Russian temperament
' are two different things.
i “Japan can’t \decide -whether
. more firmly bind itself to
. Britain by siding xyith London,
to set itself up as the champion
. of the yellow against the white
by espousing China’s cause. One
course offers fairly immediate and
fairly certain returns; the other
offers much greater returns, but
: remote and uncertain.
“Great Britain can’t decide wheth-
er to adopt punitive measures, be-
cause of the Laborites and other
elements who are appalled at the
posslbile cost, in money and men,
of those measures and who question
the wisdom of carrying protection
of British interests to such lengths,
with all the dangers of real conflict.
“Washington can’t decide between
the "traditional course of friend-
ship, and the supposed need for
shoving a firm hand. Any dis-
position to take energetic measures
I in China would meet violent oppo-
sition, and yet this country has a
stake in the Far East that cannot
be left without support.
“It is a confusing and troublesome
situation, from the standpoint of
all four countries. In a time when
there is greatest need of skillful
diplomacy, diplomacy seems to be
distinguishing itself by its lack of
skill. The sentiment is spreading
if -we read other editorial columns
aright, that our country needs
someone at the diplomatic helm with
more ability and more insight.”
10. Review of important dates:
1044—Manchus conquer China.
1864—“Chinese” Gordon checks
revolution.
I 1900—Anti-foreign
ment.
1911— Double Ten Festival. v
1912— Powers recognized Republic
of China -with Yuan-Shik-Kai pres-
ident.
1916—Yuan’s attempt to re-estab-
lish the empire fails-
1927—World Rowers about to in-
tervene against nationalists.
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TO YOU, MOTHER
To you, -who are so much a part
Of my own soul, of my own heart,
My hopes, and dreams of things to
be,
My pity 'for humanity—
I owe my life.
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tian Century.)
1. In 1644, the last native dy-
nasty—the Mings—was conquered
by the inhabitants of 'Manchuria,
a province of about 363,000 square
miles, in northeastern China.
Its ^present population is- 17,000,-
000. The conquering Manchus made
the native Chinese wear a Q“-"-
(ku) as a symbol of subjection, but
in time it came to be regarded as
an essential part of dress-
2. Up until .the time George
Washington became president of
the United States China kept her-
self clear xf^.om contact with the
western eWorld, -
‘ Then came the use of modern
indusfrialism in the' west, ’with
tradep? seeking • nefz markets every-
where.?; '
The decadent Manchu dynasty es-
tablished “treaty ports”, in which
foreigners, could live and carry on
business.
Finally these “concessions” be-
came huge “spheres" of influence”
within which these .foreign nations
were to have paramount commercial
rights, and which some of them
hoped ultimately fo annex.
3. The first rebellion came
1850 and lasted until 1864.
It was called “the great peace,”
and brought peace to forty million
Chinese?—peace in the form of death.
The foreigners" unwelcomed by the
masses, decided to help the totter-
ing Manchu dynasty and under a
British army officer called “Chi-
nese” Gordon, the Manchus ended
their fourteen-year rebellion.
Thus 1864; is the date of the first
foreign (British) intervention
China’s international affairs.
4. By 1900, foreign** encroach-
ments had driven the Chinese . to
madness. Great Britian had her
•series of seaport 'colonies running
all the way along the coast from
Hongkong at the extreme south to
Weiheiwei at the extreme north, and
her sphere of influence blanketed
the Yangtze valley all the way from
Shanghai westward to Tibet-
France had her French Indo-China
and her trademark on the great
southwestern province of Yunnan.
-Germany had her Tsing-tao, and
her trademark on the sacred and
teeming province of Shantung. Ja-
pan had her Formosa and her trade-
mark on the province of Fukien.
Russia had her trade-mark on Man-
churia and Mongolia.
5. The dowager Empress Tzu Hsi
affectionately known as “The Old
Tiger,” had little hope of success-
fully resisting the foreigners, xbut
she knew that if she did not try
to resist in such a way as to car- i
ry conviction, her dynasty doom was |
sealed.
So she did not suppress the at-
tack on the foreigners of the “So-
a name
which we have converted into the
term “Boxers.”
6.
like general support at home. Rus-
sia, yapan, Great Britain 'or the
United States could force, the others
to decide, if any of then? could de-
cide for themselves. Diplomacy
everywhere is up a blind alley.
“Russia can’t decide because of the
growing dissatisfaction which z has
appeared owing to the lack of prog-
ress by the Communist ■ cause in
Hugh ^Nesbit and Miss Zola
Cooper "Marijr--'' /
Hugh ,M.< Nesbit- of Vernon and
Miss Zola.;;Co(qper of Wichita Falls
were^married^at.\the - Mefhodist par-
sonageAiin''^Henrietta at 8 o’clock’
Saturday evening." The young couple
returned Vernon Monday after-' (
no dh where they will' make their
home/at;1911 Beaver * Street.
■ The “bride and groom -were accom-
panied,-to', Henrietta from Wichita"
■Falls, by Miss- Marie Beaty, close
friend of the bride,’ and Eugene
Nesbit, the bridegroom’s brother.
Mrs. Nesbit is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Cooper, pioneer
family of the Wichita Falls section.
She is a graduate of the Wichita
Falls high school, and- a former
student of the Northwest , Texas
Teachers College, at Canyon. She
China- Some Bolshevist leader .ean’t taught two years in Copero school
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Marie Robinson Has Birthday
Party
Mrs. A. S. Robinson entertained
in honor of her daughter, Marie
Robinson, on the occasion of her
sixth birthday? Friday afternoon at
her home, 319 North Electra Street.
Gafes were played and the hon-
oree receivd many nice gifts. Re-
freshments of jello, cake, and lemon-
ade were served the following:
Wanda Preston, Evelyn, Mary Jo
and Imogene Lamb, Evelyn Beatrice
Daugherty, Dorothy Kinnebrew, Billy
Darland, Elza Modell and Master
East, Wilburn Bean, Wilina Smalley,
Richard Smalley, Betty Gean Green-
way, Pauline Robinson, Maytha At-
taberry, and J. W. Greenway. Mes-.
dames Greenway, East, Daugherty,
Norwood, Pullium, Smalley, and
Robinson.
In 1908 the Empress died and
after three years of intrigue, the
declaration of Chinese independence
came ,in the form of a premature
mutiny in a garrison at Hanyang,
a city which is almost the exact
geographical center of China.
This revolt is aclled by Chinese
“The double ten festival,” because
it happened on the tenth day of
the tenth mon^th—Oct. 10, 1911.
Under Sun-Yat-Sen, the rev-
olutionists organized a secret so-
ciety and combining their strength
vith rebellious soldiers they soon
controlled all of China south of the
Yangtze and set up a provisional
n publician government, with Sun
Vat Sen as provisional president,
vith headquarters at Nanking.
The word “Nanking” means
‘ .*-outhern Capitol,” just as the word
'“Pekin” means “Northern Capitol.”
7. The Manchus seeing the hand
v -iting on the wall, appointed Yuan
•Shik-Kai, who had learned the value
of a modern army, to arrange the
I -t terms of surrender possible.
^un-Yat-sen had a provisional re-
T>ub‘ic wit its capitol at Nanking,
1 m-Shik-Kai had a modern army
v ■ th headquarters at Pekin.
Finally it was agreed to make
Yuan-Shik-Kai the first permanent
T> < sideiii, and let Sun-Yat-Sen write
t e Constitution ana the other na-
F ns recognized this so-called “Re-
I r»hc of China” in 1912.
8. In a sense, Yuan was traitor
the cause of freedom. He was-
a political “modernist.” With
s army he soon became a mili-
tary despot,. with strong lieutenants
in every province. This lasted un-
tn 1916. Yuan’s hatred of Japan
f'au«ed him to imagine that by
I ’’oclaiming himself emperor, he
'Guld deal more easily with Japan.
L it the Chinese had been fed up
‘ n all kinds of emperors and want-
( 1 no more.
Yunnan, with its forty million
1 ' i’Ic revolted against Yuan-Ski-
I - >1 Many, of his lieutenants join-
<J tho revolutionists, and with his
f’ ath. the last hope of re-establish-
J,~cr a Chinese empire died-
Thus since 1916, the question in
t 1 11 a has been—“Who’s Boss?”
'* The big question for outsiders,
‘■'petially for Christians, is this:
China’s internal troubles
•is an occasion Jor another
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Franklin, R. A. The Electra News (Electra, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 72, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 24, 1927, newspaper, May 24, 1927; Electra, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1219353/m1/3/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Electra Public Library.