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THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN, WHITEWRIGHT, TEXAS
Thursday, December 24, 1931.
Merry Christmas All!
THE AMERICANIZED BIBLE
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J. M. STURDIVANT
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To thank you most sincerely for your most valued
patronage during the past years;
To wish for you and yours a glorious and success-
ful New Year in every part of your life;
of the kindness shown us back .through
the year and of the new friends and old
friends. As we think back this Christmas
been good to us. Thus feeling and in the
great spirit that fills our hearts and our
minds at this season, we extend
our hearts are filled with gratitude and
we are made to believe that 1931 has
and Good Wishes for Christmas
and for 1931.
A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
BE SURE OF
THE BRAKES
LARGE BUCK IS
KILLED BY PANTHER
A plant to can oysters from the
gulf and winter vegetables and citrus
fruit from the Rio Grande Valley is
planned for Brownsville.
Lingsland Granite Company, capi-
tal $35,000, has been incorporated at
Llano to quarry Texas granite.
A creamery for Raymondsville is
reported planned by W. J. Knight of
San Augustine.
TEXAS INDUSTRIAL
ACTIVITIES
Mexia has established a new chile
packing plant with a daily capacity
of a hundred dozen cans.
Now Thrice Welcome
CHRISTMAS
L. LaRoe & Company
“EVERYTHING TO BUILD WITH”
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And to serve you in the future with a definite,
fixed policy of “He Profits Most Who Serves
Best.”
/"CHILDREN hate to take medicine
^^as a rule, but every child loves the
taste of Castoria. This pure vegetable
preparation is just as good as it tastes;
just as bland and just as harmless as the
recipe reads.
When Baby’s cry warns of colic, a
few drops of Castoria have him soothed,
asleep again in a jiffy. Nothing is more
valuable in diarrhea. When coated
tongue or bad breath tell of constipation,
invoke its gentle aid to cleanse and
regulate a child’s bowels. In colds or
children’s diseases, you should use it
to keep the system from clogging.
Castoria is sold in every drug store;
the genuine always bears Chas. IL
Fletcher’s signature.
The peanut plant of the Barnhart
Mercantile Co. at Denison has paid
$3,000,000 this year to Texas and
Oklahoma producers for peanuts and
pecans and $150,000 in salaries in
seven months. The plant was burned
in September, but has been rebuilt
and re-equipped and now has a daily
capacity of handling eight carloads
of nuts a day.
Arkansas owners of the tract have
leased 320 acres near Big Spring to
Jop B. Neel, who will develop the
limestone deposit as a lime plant.
Operation is expected to start within
ninety days.
The Borden plant at Waco is pay-
ing out nearly $40,000 a month to
farmers of McLennan and nearby
counties for raw milk. Daily receipts
are exceeding 100,000 pounds a day.
Almost a half million dollars has been
paid out for milk by the plant this
year.
The Banner Co. is arranging to es-
tablish an ice cream and milk and
and butter department to its San An-
A New York company is planning
establishment of a fireworks factory
in Fort Worth.
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Walking Beer Ad
ST. PAUL, Minn.—Walter Howard
walked up to a policeman and said:
“I am a brewery advertisement.”
The policeman agreed with him, so
he got a $25 fine for intoxication.
Three Sherman flour mills are op-
erating twenty-four hours a day to
handle the business on hand and a
fourth is doubling its capacity by in-
stalling new machinery.
Double Dipped Ice Cream Co.,
Flint, Mich., is reported to have de-
cided to move its plant to Houston.
gelo ice factory. The new depart-
ment will give employment to twen-
ty or more workers.
A company has been organized at
Lufkin to plant tung trees as an ex-
periment in utilizing suitable soils in
that vicinity. Success of an experi-
ment will create a necessity for a
plant to extract the oil, which is
largely used in paints and varnishes
and which is mostly imported from
China.
It is our sincere hope that Christmas morning will dawn upon you as it dawned upon those hun-
dreds of years ago across the plains of Palestine, upon a scene where truly there was peace, good
will, and happiness. At Christmas time we offer to you our sincere thanks for the kindness you’ve
shown our business. We are thankful for your neighborliness and friendliness. And it is the great-
est wish we have that this Christmas will long stand in your memory as one of the outstanding
happy days of your life. Of course we wish you unlimited happiness and prosperity for 1932.
A dry goods store in Plymouth,
England, has received from the
United States a $5 bill, which the
sender said was to pay for goods he
took from the store a few years ago.
Three panthers were captured in
two days in the Martin pasture south
of Cotulla the first part of the week
by Ira Woods and Jack Maltsberger,
with Woods’ pack of panther hounds.
The first day a large female was
treed and killed and a half grown cub
captured. There were two cubs but
one got away.
The next day they caught a mon-
strous male panther, and within three
hundred yards of where he was
killed found a large 11-point buck
and also a doe, that he had no doubt
killed and had been feasting on. The
buck had been dragged some dis-
[tance and partly covered. The head
of this deer was on exhibit in the
Central Power & Light Co. office.
Ranchmen say that scores of deer
fall victims to these panthers and
that size makes no difference to
them. In fact most of the carcasses
found over the country are of grown
deer.—Cotulla Record.
“It Can’t Be Done”
In the days when electricity was
young, Britain’s parliament once ap-
pointed a committee to examine the
matter of electric lighting, and this
committee, after having before it as
witnesses nearly all the noted scien-
tists of the day, came to the conclu-
sion that a practicable system of elec-
tric lighting for private houses was
impossible!
SUBSERVE how the chimneys
xx Do smoke all about,
The cooks are providing
For dinner no doubt;
But those on whose tables
No victuals appear,
O may they keep Lent
All the rest of the year!
With holly and ivy
So green and so gay,
We deck up our houses
As fresh as the day,
With bays and rosemary,
And laurel complete,
And everyone now
Is a king in conceit.
—Poor Robin’i Almanack—1695.
CHILDREN
CRY FOR IT—
A great locomotive moved majesti-
cally out of the railway roundhouse
the other morning, preparatory to be-
ing coupled to a long train for a fast
journey across several states. In the
cab sat a veteran engineer watching
carefully the performance of his son,
a young man just beginning his serv-
ice as a master of the speeding
wheels and rods. Suddenly the griz-
zled engineer reached out his hand as
the engine gathered speed and ap-
plied the mechanical power control-
ing the brakes. The locomotive in-
stantly slacked its speed. The son
looked quizzically at his father, ■ fail-
ing to understand the reason for his
action.
“Before you start out on a run be
absolutely sure your brakes are in
good working order,” admonished the
veteran engineer with a smile. “That’s
one of the first rules of the road—
and it is sure to prevent things going
wrong in time of emergency.”
A similar standard of practice
could be applied with profit to an-
other form of transportation, the
automobile.. How many pilots of cars
know for a certainty when they set
out across streets thickly strewn with
traffic wheels in a swift second after
the foot is applied—whether they are
complete masters of the mechanisms
they guide down the highway? Sta-
tistics recently gathered indicate that
one of the chief causes of automobile
smashups is defective brakes. One
way to cut down the hazards of fast
motor travel is for every driver oc-
casionally to test the gripping power
of his brakes, perhaps each time he
leaves the garage. And of course, the
motorist who already knows his
brakes are “not taking hold as they
should” ought to voluntarily rule
himself off the road until they are
fixed.—Christian Science Monitor.
ters of the gospel of John,
Christ’s trial before Pilate
scribed—that take on a new clarity
and a new .interest.
But in the main, one lays down
this “Americanized” Bible with a new
feeling of admiration for the men
who rendered the familiar King
James version centuries ago. They
were absolute masters of English,
and they dotted their work with
phrases and sentences that cannot be
improved on, any more than “King
Lear” could be improved by being
rendered into Broadwayese.
And that is a point we too often
forget. When we count up the great
master-works of English literature
we speak of Shakespeare’s plays, Mil-
ton’s poems and so on—and forget
that the King James Bible (either in
the authorized or revised editions),
considered purely as literature, is a
heritage that can never lose its value
as long as any man anywhere on
earth read and speak English.
Consider, for example, the famous
quotation from Paul’s epistle to the
Corinthians—“For now we see as
through a glass darkly.” Something
is lost when that becomes, “For now
we are looking at a dim reflection in
a mirror,” even though the meaning
may become a shade more clear.
Nor does the line in Revelations—
“And I looked, and behold a pale
horse; and his name that sat on him
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To send you the season’s
One of the most interesting events
of the fall is the publication, by the
University of Chicago press, of a
new “American translation” of the
Bible.
For years a group of scholars, at
the university has worked on a plan
to render the Bible in a modern
idiom, free of all archaic forms of
speech. Now their work has been
finished. It is an excellent job, and
there are certain passages—notably
the eighteenth and nineteenth chap-
where
is de-
was Death, and Hell followed with
him”—retain its original bite when
it becomes, “And there I saw a horse
the color of ashes, and the rider’s
name was Death, and Hades followed
him.”
Then there is the thunderous line
from Jude—.“Wandering stars, to
whom is reserved the blackness of
darkness forever;” its force ebbs out,
somehow, when it reads, “Wandering
stars, doomed forever to utter dark-
ness.”
The new version, to be sure, has
been done skillfully and reverently.
In the matter of clarity there is a
distinct and valuable gain. But the
mightiest lines of the old version
cannot be improved upon.—Houston
Press.
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