Gainesville Daily Register and Messenger (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 81, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 29, 1937 Page: 5 of 8
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TBER 29, 1937.
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 29, 1937.
GAINE8VILE DAILY REGISTER, GATNESVILLE, TEXAS.
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ASK ABOUT MONTHLY
PAYMENTS—LIBERAL
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and they should have the coopera-
tion of all the citizens. Many times
shovels of dirt or gravel or the
replacing of a small culvert by
some citizen will save the county
HALF-SIZE DRESSES
GREATLY REDUCED
Those who had subscribed up to
noon Wednesday, and the amount
of money given by each, follows:
All of the bands will assemble
at the Texas State building, on the
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Broad, flat tread
puts more rubber on
the road.
Navy Forges
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Longer-Wearing-
No other first-qual-
ity tire in America
is longer-wearing.
day. Twice that much money must
be raised.
Get Free Tickets
patching rubber, 35 patches,
2 tubes cement, buffer.
able and vulnerable * cities
coast line ..."
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taken directly to the Cotton Bowl,
and likewise will have transporta-
tion waiting them when the foot-
ball game is ended.
More than $40 was subscribed
at the initial meeting, and the to-
tal had been hiked to $64 when a
report was made at noon Wednes-
Mrs. Wm. Hughes ....
Roy Albert ...........
Henry Killgore ........
The Free Press.......
Frank AJdridge .......
Drs. Higgins & Thomas
Watts Bros...........
Wade-Tex Theatres ....
Wooldridge Lumber Co.
Dr. R. C. Whiddon . ...
Chas. Goodrich ........
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Howard Visits Bulcher and
a Illinois Bend in Spite of
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this buffer of 10.4 per 100,000 population. The
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CLEARANCE
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Drastic Reductions
10 Deaths in Cooke County
'There have been 10 traffic fatal-
ities in Cooke county this year, as
OLDSMOBILE
NOWHERE ELSE CAN MONEY BUY SO MUCH!
Traffic Deaths
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This is big news from coast to coast.
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( ship among cities with more than
1500,000 population. The Wisconsin
compared with the same number
in the county last year, although
one of last year’s toll was on De-
cember 31, two days later than the
By GREGG HOWARD
| Christmas is past and we will
all soon be back to earth again
and will forget most of things
that happened. It has been a pleas-
ure to have our friends as well as
6-Qt. change or over. .........
5-Quart Sealed Can .........
8-Quart Sealed Can ......
(Add 1c qt. Federal tax)
J. A. Hulme.....
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: in the nation having no traffic Dr. Roy Rice ... .
deaths for the first 11 months of Rev. Garland Shell
1937. Milwaukee held the leader-
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Usual 35c a qt.
service station
quality!
THE PILOT STAYS ON THE GROUND when
this radio controlled plane goes aloft for naval anti-aircraft and
aerial gunnery practice near Portsmouth, England. Known as the
“Queen Wasp,” the ship can be catapulted pilotless into the air
where a robot controls its flight in response to radio direction from
the ground.
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| The meeting, called by Commis-
staked out in a sion Chairman Ernest O. Thomp-
Wards Most Popular
Battery
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tra power . . . extra reserve.
• Genuine Port-Orford Cedar
Separators.
• 367 more zero-starting pow-
patience in preparing the organi-i
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Dallas, and it is believed by those
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Friday, December 31
Center-traction tread
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H. E. BERTRAM
INSURANCE AGENCY
The Oldest Established Ageney
in Gainesville—-Since 1885.
Office Phone 63
Res. 494—1313
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DRESSES
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$22.95
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completely insulated
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More mileage—than other
first-quality tires is a River-
side test record! We have
eight sound reasons why you
can always expect longer
wear from Riversides. We
can only name them here—
but we can tell you their
complete story in eight min-
utes, if you’ll come to our
auto supply dep’t. Eight min-
utes that will save you money
ever after. And those eight
minutes will prove to you
also that Riverside is a safer
tire as well!
our own family with us i
home and Santa Claus wa
to us and brought severs
~ things to add to our happil
or handed to A. W.
subscribed to noon Wednesday,. • A . 1
business men interested in the sue- H llpno Qyeried
cess of the affair, were calling on! A 4 CL 4;
their fellow citizens during the Alter 3h00lngS
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I got stuck in the mud several
times last week but I am thank-
ful of the fact that I have never
• been in a place that I did not get
out of. The roads in that section I
are in bad condition just now,
but Commissioner Bezner is try-
ing to fix them. The road hands
•have been putting in some much
needed bridges and otherwise re-
pairing the bad places. On day
I met them with two truck loads
♦ of lumber and other material on '
moeerprrux
Wards New Supreme
Qualil Hooter
with D)efroster eompletes:t.a
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50.000 angkay, 30, was wounded.
From a background of 35 years
Roger W. Babson tells you what he
thinks lies ahead, in 1938.
From countless sources in this
country and Europe he has weighed
and measured the uncertainties of
today and gives you a clear cut busi-
ness calendar for 1938. “ Better Times
game. Each band will have the standi ig events of their lives,
opportunity to play during the j c c. Shell, director of the band.
rector of hands for the Dallas
high schools, will lea the massed
band, of some 5,000 instruments.
YOU CAN BUY AN
after a gun fight in which robbery ’
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3-00 i Wells, Ted Herrmann, or J. K. Me- other Filipino and seriously wound- retary, said today.
Attend the "RESOLUTIONS"
preview at the Majestic on Friday
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game and can play any type has been devoting much time and
music desired. William Herzog, di-
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Longer-Wearing-
Safety bead con-
struction provides
extra stamina.
oil industry probably will be |
avoided in official discussions
when the interstate oil compact
More important than anything
else to a battle fleet are its bases. ।
A baseless fleet soon would ex-
haust its fuel and become helpless.
Therefore, our naval defense total for this year to date.
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the road in better shape.
Monday of this week I ma e a , .
- run out to Lindsay and Myr and resented a six per cent boost over
while at Myra had lunch with Mr. I the number of the corresponding
and Mrs. Pilgrim and her mother. 1936 period.
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Counp^y/ards New Models
with any Nationally Advertised
AUTO HEATERS
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Since onlv one-half of the money । jn action, that the Wocal unit will
to make certain the band will be make one of the best showings of
able to appear at the Cotton Bowl) any similar group at the Cotton
and to participate in other festivi- Bowl game.
ties of the gala occasion, had been . _________
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«h Riversides give you More Mileage
tial citizens of Gainesville for per cent boost in the 25 to 64 year
many years and belonged to a pio-1 age group, and a 17 per cent ri""
' neer family of this county. E - among persons over 65.
Our old friends are passing and Everett. Wash., with a popula-
• this should remind us to Shetter tion of 31.100, was the largest city
qualify to take their places!
Top Materia
64 inch width 36 .
Double texture—long service.
Storm-proof! 101 other uses!
Handy Top Repair Kit.....8 Oe
Cauldwell of Desmit, Texas.1 I am
laying off my work this morning , by their elders. There were eight E y LaCour
to attend the funeral of my! per cent fewer deaths among chil- ' n Ward
wife’s aunt. Mrs. Mary Fin- dren under five, in contrast with I JOhn Hardy
ney, formerly Miss Mary Midkiff. an eight per cent increase among R D Clack
’She has been one of the substan- persons between 15 and 24, a nine Lon Gilmore
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and at the other in the Aleutians,
off the coast of Alaska.
In betweenr it swings south from
W the Virgin Islands to the Canal union in which state elections are.
Zone, west to the Samoan Islands, not held in November.
s thence northward to Hawaii and
the bleak Aleutians. Its outermost
extremity from the United Staes
bumps the 180th meridian. .
The United States fleet and its
subsidiary units have their main
base at the hub of the arc- San
Pedro, Calif. Ships and planes can
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Orleans will be
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plan is outlined by our naval bases • Five of the ten traffic victims
as a huge arc on the world map. j in the county this year were pedes-
The arc is anchored at one end in ' trians killed by motor vehicles,
- the Virgin Islands. In the Atlantic, whereas last year, no pedestrians
were among the victims
me way to me sena ana ytney over-age ciaft with swirt new ves-
were stuck on a slick hill. If the ' sels. Among them are two battle-
boys did not do any other work ships of 35,000 tons each, now
that day, they earned their money building and dozens ot destroyers,
digging out that old truck. A ad- submarines and cruisers.
mire the boys who build, out roads
several dollars as well as keeping pedestrian traffic deaths for the Sanford will provide each band
— i first 10 months of the year, the member, the director, and business
„ latest figures available. This rep-imanagert s3t20ketc.to the 8ame ।
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Every Ri verside mile—guaranteed,
forWards famous Riverside guar-
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long as the tire is on your car,
even as a spare, that guarantee as-
sures you oP satisfaction without
limit of time or miles.
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In return for their services
during the football game, Mr.
edged through the columns of this The officers,_____ _ ... c... a. .. .p-,
newspaper. [downtown hotel on a robbery tip, son, of the Texas railroad com- Win yourself a prize. Write your
* 2001 The Gainesville High School. reported the three men forced en- mission, is a quarterly session New 1 ear’s RESOLUTION and
200/band only recently received its try into a room and two fired when provided for in the commission's turn it in r the Majestic Theatre.
' 200 handsome new uniforms and the ordered to surrender.
1 00 New Year football game will give The man questioned said he was
| the members opportunity to make' Pete Cantaro. The dead man was
their first formal appearance be- I identified only as John Doe, alias
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Complete—with miaget set.
A combination for every need.
Extra thin-walled sockets.
Our travels were cut shorfagain
last week by the rain and the holi-
days but managed to do quite a
4 lot of work over at Bulcher and
Illinois Bend. On Tuesday night I
stayed in the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Dennis at Bulcher.
They have both lived in that com-
munity all their lives and he is
now cultivating the same farm on
which he was born. They have an
• Interesting family of children and
.’grandchildren *and we enjoyed
their hospitality very much.
I again stayed at the home of
1 Mr. and Mrs. Artie Williams, in
Illinois Bend and I havejtayed
there so much it seems lilhome
with the warm welcome thf they
always give.
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nvalu- i 17.7.
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were compiled during^ the first W Bank and Em-
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the central base to a danger spot.
This force includes, however,
about 200,000 tons of old vessels,
incapable of delivering a swift,
henvv blow at the enemy.
It is the purpose of the new
naval program to repiece these
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Stturday.rkeauqdartrswiilneset persons, weather permitting. Nor
and^seats tisssetcdrnedamasqtin favorable impression of Gainesville Stabilization of ■
be massed into one huge musical n the minds of visitors from all A., I • n . j
anumanogethFmarcn tPeho Oil Prices Muted
of the classic. The massed band roys their first opportunity to wit-
will play the Star Spangled Ban- ness a football classic of nation-
ner, the Eyes of Texas and the 1 wide interest, and may he recalled (AP). Price stabilization for the
Stars and Stripes during the in later years as one of the out-
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the arc, like the spokes of a hug*:
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The navy has a million tps of
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and 130,000 men to shoot < 9 from
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the necessary amount. j LoS ANGELES, Dec. 29 (APi.
Subscriptions may be left at the Police questioned a Filipino today
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soldiers to the a
cargo of Japa- .
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Cheer
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Gainesville Daily Register and Messenger (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 81, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 29, 1937, newspaper, December 29, 1937; Gainesville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1459038/m1/5/?rotate=90: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Cooke County Library.