The Aspermont Star (Aspermont, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 10, 1941 Page: 4 of 8
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STETSON AND YOU...
Judges of Good Value!
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Stetson knows hats, and proclaims this Stetsan a
great value ! You will, too, when you try it on. Here
is a hat so dashing, so correctly styled, it will have
you looking like the boss though you live on a budget.
SPRING TONIC: Some
New E & W Shirts!
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I Give You
TEXAS
By Boyce House
I bow my knees before no man,
Nor take orders at a tyrant's
command.
1 live in a land of democracy,
And not in the throes of autocracy!
1 am an American!
i worship God as my choice may be,
And truthful news is free to me.
All radio programs it is my right to
hear,
And trial by jury I hold most dear!
1 am an American!
I train for games and not for war,
My home, the bombs shall never mat.
I live not in terror nor fear for my
life,
Not in a land torn by dissension and
strife!
1 am an American!
I live in a land respected by all,
Where beauty and truth shall never
fall.
Love |s our watchword, and peace is
the cry,
Where the Stars and Script's forever
fly high!
I am an American!
Written by Robert Moore, patient
in the State Sanatorium, whose home
is in Brown wood, quoted in John C.
Biedeger's La Coste Ledger.
1.00-1.50
A big help in making you feel your best is looking
your best. Now's the time to get yourself some hand-
some E & W Shirts—with their clean-cut tailoring,
their handsome collars, their dandv patterns. Every
E & W is Sanforized-Shrunk, fabric shrinkage less
than 1 per cent. Come in and pick some out today.
Bryan t-Link Co
Momentum was given to the pro-
posed return of horse racing at a meet-
ing in Austin of representatives of a
dozen organizations, including Dirt
Farmers Congress, labor, old age pen.
sions and First Voters League. A reso-
lution was adopted that any taxes
from racing be set aside for poisons.
It is estimated racing would provide
$2,500,000 and, while almost every
industry and business included in til;
omnibus tax bill is pleading to he re-
leased, racing is willing to be taxed
From students' examination papers:
The object of "he" is ' she."
A plagiarist is a writer of plays.
What kind of a noun is ' trousers' ?
An uncommon noun because it is
singular on top and plural at the bot-
tom.
A child: A stomach entirely sur-
rounded by curiosity.
Committee: A body that keeps min-
utes—and wastes hours.
Love: A season pass on the shuttle
train between heaven and hell.
Slang: Language that takes off in
coat, spits oil its hands and goes t<:
work.
A deacon is a mass of inflammable
material placed in a prominent posi-
tion to warn people.
(Encountered in Frank Svoboda s
Bonham Favorite.)
Contractors Notice of Texas Highway Construction
Scaled proposals for constructing 15.444 miles of Cir., Dr. Strs.. Flexible
Base and Double Asphalt Surface Treatment from U. S. Highway 380 to
the King County line on Highway No. U.S. 83, covered by FAP 1030-B(1)
in Stonewall County, will be received at the Highway Department, Austin,
Texas, until 0:00 A. M., April 22, 1041, and then publicly opened and read.
The prevailing wage rates listed below shall apply as minimum wage rates
on this project.
Type of Laborer,
Workman, or
Mechanic
Prevailing Minimum
Hourly Wage Rate
Prevailing Minimum
Per Diem Wage
(Based on an Eight
Hour Working Day)
Skilled Labor $ 8.00 $ 1.00
Intermediate Grade Labor 4,00 .50
Unskilled Labor 3.20 .40
Legal holiday work shall be paid for at the regular governing rates.
Plans and specifications available at the office of C. T. Trickey, Resident
Engineer, Abilene, Texas, and Highway Department, Austin. Usual rights
reserved. .., .
Can't Stay on Promises
'Hie Dickens Press says: "Seven-
teen weeks ago we started the Press.
The people said they wanted a news-
paper and would patronize it with
their advertising, printing, etc. At
the time of these promises there was
n0 newspaper here. I did not have a
subscriber, nor a place to print a news
paper, but on the strength of these
promises I went ahead and spent ap-
proximately $1,000 on a building,
moved in and secured a list of sub
scriptions to send the advertising mes-
sages to each week, and started out
with an eight-page paper. We soo-t
saw that couldn't go, and dropped
down to four, and now the business
men are not patronizing that enough
for us to stay here. The Press won-
ders if the business men were sincere
in wanting a newspaper. Most people
think the town weekly should be a>
big as the city daily^ carry news from
all over the world, tittle realizing that
it costs a lot of money to publish even
a small newspaper, and a weekly
newspaper cannot print a big papcc
any more than the merchant can al-
PRICES ARE GOING UP
So manufacturers and jobbers say. On advice of n
wholesale houses, I have stocked heavy. Prices have
already gone up 20 per cent on spectacleware.
See: DR. FRED R. BAKER, Optometrist
At the Rash Hotel Wednesday, April 1$, Only
Old reasonable prices still prevail. Do not neglect
your eyes, but—
See Baker and See Better
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ford to carry a $50,000 stock, and
meet its operating expenses on a $2.0^
per week patronage or a $2.00 sub-
scription for a year's reading.
R. L. Spradley, L. D. McAfee and
Curtis Winn attended the ball game
between the White Sox and Cubs at
Lubbock Tuesday. The White Sox
won the game by a score of 9 to 7.
Ted Lyons pitched three innings for
the White Sox.
Jimmie Robertson, who is a student
in Texas Tech, is here this wat
visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.
H. Robertson.
D. J. O'Keefe, president of Ik
Texas Legal Reserve Funeral Socfety,
wag here yesterday on business.
Miss Huck Brannen of Texas Tedk
is here this week visiting her parent^
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Brannen.
Be at Your Best
On EASTER
Have your work done where you can get
guaranteed high quality beauty work at
special low prices.. You'll want to be at
your best on Easter.. .and a visit to our
shop will be the realization of your wishes:
Guest Beauty Salon
Numerous newspapers arc urging
lepeal of the chain store tax. "Mosr
chain stores today are home-owned.'
says the San Antonio Evening News.
1 he tax is called "a discriminatory
penalty" by the Dallas News, and the
Fort Worth Star-Telegram asserts
the levy is '"punitive, not against the
chains but against the consumer, re-
producer and business in general "
Says the Austin American, "The con-
sumer is the real goat of the law."
Out. in West Texas, the Post Dis-
patch calls the tax "a fine on effici-
ency" and continues, "A spokesman
for the Southwestern Cattlemen's As-
sociation recently reported that a pro-
gram in which producers and chain
stores worked together had materially
increased beef and lamb consumption
and given the cattle industry three of
the best years in its history. The
chain stores have participated in simi-
lar programs on behalf of cotton,
fruits, pottery, cactus plants and other
commodities whose sale had to be in-
creased if producers were to avoid
possible ruinous losses." The San An-
tonio Express sums up, "Civic senti-
ment generally demands repeal of the
unwarranted Texas chain-store tax."
Ladies, to this advice give heed-
In controlling men:
If at first you don't succeed,
Why, cry. cry again.
Diner: There isn't a bit of turtle
in this turtle soup.
Waitress: Well, we have cabinet
pudding but you wouldn't expect to
find Harold Iekes in it, would yon?
Lady: Have you tried to cure this
parrot (if swearing?
Pet Shop owner: H . ves. lady,
but the d—— fool bird keeps getting
worse.
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CARD OF THANKS
We desire to express our sincere
thanks to our many friends for the
courtesies extended us during the ill-
ness and burial of Mrs. Willie K.
Brown, also for the many flora! of-
fcringt.
The Family,
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An Open Letter to Easter Brides;.
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kUR. salesmen are in the midst of a cam-
paign to provide electric servants in
every home where the womenfolks are over-
worked .. . dishwashers, food mixers, new
refrigerators, ranges, hot water heaters, and
the like. That, of course, means I, Reddy
Kilowatt, do the work-—and the ladies merit
credit for being neat, clean, cool and lovely
home-makers.
"Maybe the boys haven't contacted you,
not knowing you're to be an Easter bride.
"If they haven't—well, let mc get in a word
about how you and an all-electric kitchen go
together. Chances arc you're dreaming and
planning the wonderful home you'll make for
Jack. But have you thought how easy and how
practical it is to start off with everything clean
and cool and white and beautiful? And how
u on it erf ul it is to have your kitchen STAY
clean and cool and white and beautiful!
"Home making, you know, isn't all a bed
of roses IF the home isn't modern or if it lacks
the up-to-date comforts and conveniences
your friends enjoy.
"So I want to give Jack a hint: suggest to
him that he call us today. Ask -a salesman to
come out and explain our budget plan which
makes it easy for newly weds to start right away
enjoying the many benefits brought to West
Texas homes by CHEAP Electric Service."
Your Electric Servant,
fiaddtf, -Kilowatt.
Westlexas Utilities
Company
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The Aspermont Star (Aspermont, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 10, 1941, newspaper, April 10, 1941; Aspermont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth127040/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Stonewall County Library.