The Champion (Center, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 18, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 4, 1927 Page: 2 of 10
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THE CHAMPION, CENTER, TEXAS, MAY 4, 1927
Special price
The
DR. V. R. HURST
WENDELL W. MAYES, Publisher.
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Gryder & Hurst
Barber Shop
Polley Hotel Building
Capable Barbers
Modern Equipment
Center, Texas
Your Patronage Solicited
WILL H. MAYES
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Center, Texas
| Practice limited to diseases of
| Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat and
Fitting Glasses.
Office Hours: 8 to 12—1 to 4
5 by appointment
Office Over
Stripling & Armstrong
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HEMSTITCHING
am now located at the C. M.
Willis store--.Mrs. J. P.
McIver.
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Commendable Service
Junction is a small town so far as
population counts, but large in the
heart of its people. When the report
of the Rocksprings tornado reached
there its citizens got together and
asked what was the most urgent need
of the town. When told that it was
the restoration of its water plant and
that the cost would be $6,000. Junc-
tion promptly told Rocksprings to
have the plant rebuilt and it would
pay the bill. Other towns have re-
sponded nobly, but none showed a
quicker and more generous response
the true
re-
Burnet County Graphite
A $360,000 graphite mill is to be
built to handle the graphite produc-
tion of Burnet county. Capitalists do
not invest that sum on uncertainties,
which means that the graphite indus-
try there is going to be thoroughly de-
veloped, which in turn means that
other industries will certainly follow.
One good enterprise in a community
brings another, just as one good deed
performed paves the way for other j
good actions.
Norris & Morrison
Fire Tornado and
Automobile Insurance |
Good Strong Companies
Prompt Service
Farmers State Bank, Center
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Come to our salesroom
and see the new car that is
breaking every precedent
for popularity. Learn for
yourself why it has every-
where been acclaimed as
the greatest automobile
value of all time.
Thoughtful Assistance
It was not so much the magnitude
of its help as the spirit of it that
made the aid which Schreiner Insti-
tute at Kerrville rendered Rock-
springs a notable gift. Just after
the disaster it was announced that the
school building had been demolished
at Rocksprings and that the sc/hools |
would have to be suspended, thus pre-!
venting the senior class from graduat-
ing. Schreiner Institute promptly of-
fered to take all the boys of the class
to that school, board and instruct
THE CHAMPION
Published Wednesday Afternoon.
County Flower Show
San Patricio county has been hav-
ing a county-wide flower show in
which towns and communities from
all over the county contested and
furnished entertainment programs,
thus fostering a wonderful inter com-
munity spirit. Sinton, Taft, Aransas
Pass, Odem, Mathis, Elroy and other
communities were represented. This
is an idea that might well be develop-
ed in every county. The way to de-
stroy ugliness is to replace it with
beauty. A love of the beautiful in
nature creates a love of the beautiful
in character.
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SUBSCRIPTION RATES—One Year $1.50;
Six Months $1.00; Three Months. 60c.
ADVERTISING RATES: Do cal readers
2 cents per word: display rates made
known upon application. All resolutions,
cards of thanks, programs and other mat-
ter not general news, will be classed as
advertising and charged for at the rate of
one rent for each word, and the sender
will be held responsible for payment of
bill.
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£he prize actually awards it. There
will be some skepticism on the part of
the farmers this year, and with just
cause, because in the past big prizes
have been offered and in many cases
have never been awarded. ( This is
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IS A PRESCRIPTION FOR
MALARIA, CHILLS AND FEVER,
DENGUE OR BILIOUS FEVER.
It kills the germs
NOTICE OF THE FIRST
MEETING OF CREDITORS
In the District Court of the United
States for the Eastern District of
Texas.—In Bankruptcy.
In the Matter of Wm. S. Helpinstell,
Bankrupt, in Bankruptcy.
To the Creditors of Wm. S. Helpin-
stell, trading under the name of
Pay & Save Grocery Co., of Center
Shelby county, and district afore-
said, a bankrupt:
Notice is hereby given that on the
26th day of April A. D. 1927, the
above named party was duly adjudi-
cated a bankrupt; and that the first
meeting of creditors will be held at
my office, Beaumont, Texas, on the
6th day of May A. D. 1927 at 10
o’clock in the forenoon at which time
the said creditors may attend, prove
their claims, appoint a trustee, exam-
ine the bankrupt and transact such
other business as may properly come
before said meeting.
S. B. COOPER,
Referee in Bankruptcy.
Beaumont, Texas, April 26, 1927.
Important—each creditor should
immediately file with the referee
proof of debt, in form as required by
the Bankruptcy Law. Payments are
made only on claims duly filed and
allowed.
Seventy-five Bands
Seventy-five bands are to take part:
in the musical contest at the West:
Texas Chamber of Commerce meeting
at Wichita Falls, May 15-16, and
about 50 glee clubs will sing in con-
test, which goes to show that in Tex-
as the arts are making themselves felt
in commerce and are coming to be
regarded as essential to life as busi-
ness.
IRVIN & MANGUM
UNDERTAKERS AND
EMBALMERS
A complete line of Caskets,
Coffins and Supplies.
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
Beautiful Chevrolet
Runnels Chevrolet Company
Phone 98 Center, Texas
The Center chamber of commerce
this year is offering valuable cash
prizes to farmers. The division of
the prizes into a number of groups
makes it possible for almost every
farmer in Shelby county to take part
in one or more of the contests. De-
' tails of the contest appeared in the
last issue of The Champion, and again
in this issue. These contests are
very valuable if the farmers enter
and carry through the program, in-
cluding the crop report, to the end,
'and then if the organization offering
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Bankrupt Sale.
Notice is given that on Saturday,
May 7th, A. D. 1927, at 10 o’clock
a. m. at the place of business of W.
S. Helpinstell, bankrupt, Center,
Texas the undersigned will sell at
public sale the following described
property.
Stock of Groceries inventoried
at......................................$1299.35
Store Furniture and Fixtures
..........................................$1949.00
Said sale to be for highest offer
with the Trustee reserving the right
to. reject any and all bids, and the
Suffered
weaK, nervous
“T WAS in a very weakened,
x run-down condition, surely
in need of a tonic and build-
er,” says Mrs. J. R. Wrenn, of
Anna, Texas. “I was so weak
I had to go to bed, and kept
getting weaker.
“I suffered with my back so
much. I was very nervous,
couldn’t rest good at night. I
couldn’t eat anything—I just
wasn’t hungry.
“I had read so much of
Cardui, I thought best to use
it. I took seven or eight bot-
tles, and by the time I had
taken them I was stronger
than I had been in several
years. I can highly recom-
mend Cardui.”
Thousands of other women
have found that the tonic ef-
fects of the purely vegetable
ingredients of Cardui were
just what they needed to help
restore their appetites, to help
bring them easily and natu-
rally back to normal health
and strength. Its action has
been found to be of great
benefit in many common fe-
male ailments.
Buy it at your druggist’s.
CARDUI
For Female 1 roubles
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Speaking of Hotels
Texas is going through an era of
hotel building such as was never
known before in the State. It means
that people are going about in all
parts of the State and that they have
money to spend for their comfort. If
one town doesn’t provide the right
kind of hotel facilities, it is easy to
drive over the good roads to the near-
est place^that does. Every week—al-
most every day—there are reports of
new hotels under construction. La-
redo has splendid hotels, but is going
to build another to cost $500,000.
Harlinger has contracted for another
hotel to cost $200,000. La Feria has
ordered plans for a $125,000 hotel.
You can come to Texas now and be
assured cf comfortable hotels in al-
Calotabs are the greatest of all
____ a family pack-
age, containing full directions. Only
35 cts. At any drug store- <Adv.)
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The Most Beautiful Chev-
rolet embodies the largest
number of fine car fea-
tures ever offered in a low-
priced automobile.
Bodies by Fisher, for ex-
ample ... beaded, paneled
and finished in attractive
colors of genuine Duco...
smartened by narrowed
front pillars, upholstered
in rich and durable fab-
rics ... completely app oint-
ed—and enhanced by
such marks of distinction
as full-crown, one-piece
fenders and bullet-type
headlamps.
And, in addition, the Most
Beautiful Chevrolet pro-
vides many mechanical
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^The American Legion is to have a
box supper Friday night on the court
house lawn. Proceeds from the sale
of the boxes will go toward defraying
the expense cf a delegate to the na-
tional convention of the Legion, to be
held in Paris, France. From the
standpoint of the Legion, this is more
or less of an experiment. It is hoped
to raise a considerable fund through
this box-supper, and if the people of
Center are behind the Legion to any
•extent, then this goal will be easily
realized. However, if the people do
not respond, to this invitation of the
Legion and the Legion Auxiliary,
then the Legion doubtless will aban-
don its efforts to have local repre-
sentation at the Paris convention, for
\ it would not be able to stand the ex-
pense of sending such a delegate if
the people of Center are not behind
them in the movement. It is to be
hoped that the event will be one of
. the best yet sponsored by the Legion.
___ The liberality with which the peo-
responding to them free of charge the rest of the
" * > school year and give certificates cf
; high school graduation to all who
! might deserve it. Schrienex* Insti-
! tute is a boys’ boarding school and
for that reason the offer had to be
restricted to boys.
Denton Gets Hotel
Those who visit Denton—and Den-
ton being a great school center, they
are legion—have for a long time felt
the need of a modern hotel there.
Denton people long ago saw the need,
but waited for “George to do it.”
Finally, as that figurative and unde-
pendable town builder failed to re-
spond to duty, the citizens raised a
bonus of $20,000 and gave it to the
owner of the leading hotel to be used
in a new building. Now, Denton is
realizing the completion of a fine four
story hotel building of 90 rooms, with
all conveniences and most of the lux-
uries of modern hotels. The moral is
that the town that helps itself gets
helped, and in more ways than one
Denton has helped itself in this enter-
prise.
soever before —
So many fine car features
at such low prices /
improvements. A new AC
oil filter and AC air clean-
er add to the performance
and dependability of the
Chevrolet motor. A full
17-inch steering wheel,
coincidental steering and
ignition lock, improved
transmission, new gaso-
line gauge, new tire carrier
— all of these are now
standard equipment on
the new Chevrolet.
Miss Winfrey Rushings friends will
have a chance to tune in on station $3.50. Telephone or write for reser-!
JWFAA, Dallas, Tuesday, Thursday j vations. Also special price on Baby;
■{’.nd Saturday afternoon between the
hours of 4:30 and 5 o’clock and hear
her give a reading. Miss Rushing is
the sister of Oscar Rushing and was
reared in Center. She finished high
school here and has a host of friends j
who will be glad to know she is doing
well in her work. She is a pupil in I
Miss Cock’s school of expression in
Dallas.
Renew Your Health
by Purification
Any physician will tell you that
Perfect Purification of the System
is Nature’s Foundation of Perfect
Health.” Why not rid yourself of
chronic ailments that are undermin-
ing your vitality? Purify your en-
tire system by taking a thorough
i course of Calotabs,—once or twice a
week for several weeks—and see how
: Nature rewards you with health.
as down payment.—Runnels Chevro-‘ system purifiers.^ Get
let Company, Center.
Can You Believe It?
San Benito, Brownsville and Olmi-
' to—down in the Valley—had shipped
11,540 cars of patotoes this season up
to April 20, and the new spuds are
still going out of the Valley at the
rate of about 100 cars a day. It is
a bad potato season, too, the potatoes
being small on account of insufficient
rain. Robstown has shipped more
than 1,000 cars of other vegetables.
The North is still shivering. Minne-
sota, which seems to delight in calum-
iating Texas, should take notice.
Entered at the postoffice, Center, 1
Texas, for transmission through the
mails as second class matter.
Department of Journalism
University of Texas
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Politics in Schools
In resigning from the presidency
of the University of Texas, President
Splawn gave a distiflct rebuke to
those who use the schools of.the State
and especially the University, to fur-
ther political ends. He stated that the
uncertainty of tenure of position
makes the presidency of the Univer-
an uncertain and, therefore, an
position. President
Splawn knows from experience where
of he talks and has grown weary of
playing politics even to further the
interests of a great educational insti-
tution. Educators and schools should
be left free to devote their time un-
hampered by political exigencies to
the great-work of education, and with
the feeling that so long as they do
their work well it will not be imped-
ed by political considerations. Every
educator in Texas of any real worth
has suffered from politics, either
State or local, as President Splawn
has suffered.
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equipment on all models.
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Delivered Prices
They include the lowest
handling and financing
charges available.
Yoakum Tomatoes
According to word sent out by Edi-
tor Richter of the Yoakum Herald,
Yoakum has shipped its first car of
tomatoes, sending them to Toronto,
Canada, and it is estimated that 100
more car loads will go to other parts
of the country.. There are 500 acres
of tomatoes in the Yoakum territory,
and the growers have a co-operative
marketing association. Each tomato
is wrapped in a lithographed wrapper
bearing a small map of that part of
Texas and briefly stating something
about its products. Can you beat
this for favorable publicity?
One 1926 Ford Touring, new Duco
paint; 2 new 3 extra good balloon'
tires, motor perfect. $109 cash and
10 notes of $20. Will take small car
plb of this county are
the appeal for funds for flood relief
is a credit to the county. Shelby!
county always can be depended upon
to do its part when the necessity
arises.. It should be remembered,
however, that the need for funds is
not over, and a second appeal has
been issued. It was first thought that
five million dollars would be enough
to take care of the sufferers of this,
the greatest flood in the history of
the country. Later estimates place
the amount needed at ten million dol-
lars.
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most any progressive place.
I “wagon yard” age has passed.
! Ey®» Ear, Nose and Throat and Fit
ting Glasses.
Hurst Hospital Longview
Dr. Hurst will be in Center first Fri-
iays. Office with Dr. J. C. Hurst.
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SUNDAY CLOSING.
Filling station operators in Center sity
and Joaquin are to be congratulated undesirable
on their movement to close their sta-
tions on Sunday. They have volun-
tarily adopted this measure, and, to
take care of tourists and emergency
cases, two different stations will re-
main open each Sunday for the pres-
ent. If the public cooperates to such
an extent that one station can handle
the /business, then. only one station
will remain open, according to the
^statement of the operators themsel-
ves. In addition to the Sunday clos-
ing, the stations in the future will
close at 8 p. m. daily, instead of re-
maining open until late every night.
While every possible argument
from a religious standpoint is in favor
of the Sunday closing of the stations,
the operators will also reap a great
economical benefit through their ac-
tion. In addition to the Bible in-
junction to take one day of rest out
of the seven, this schedule also is in
accord with the physical laws of na-
ture. The human body, just like any
machine, needs rest, and was not
made to run unceasingly seven days
a week, 365 days a year. Those who
operate filling stations, like those who
follow other vocations, need and are
entitled to one day of rest out of the
seven.
And while the filling station men
are enjoying their day of rest, the
public they serve will not be incon-
ienced. After the first week or two,
it will be just as easy to buy your
gasoline Saturday as it is now to buy
it on Sunday. Then everybody will
be satisfied.
It should prove to be a most ideal
arrangement for all concerned, and
the most’happy incident of it all is
that the movement came from the
operators of the filling stations them-
selves.
est on the part of the contestants,
- and also because no responsible or-
ganization is behind the offer of
prizes. This year the chamber of
commerce is on a sound working basis
and there is every reason to believe
that the offers which they have made
will be carried through, and that ev-
ery farmer entitled to a prize at the
end of the year will receive the exact whole subject & the approval of the
amount now offered. Many should ■ court. J. W. SHOTWELL,
due in a measure to the lack of inter- ‘ enter. | . Trustee.
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on Hatching Trays,! DR. V. R. HURST
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Chicks, this month while they last.— j
East Texas Hatcheries, Nacogdoches,
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The Champion (Center, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 18, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 4, 1927, newspaper, May 4, 1927; Center, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1353868/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Fannie Brown Booth Memorial Library.