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GAINESVILLE DAILY REGISTER. GAINESVILLE, TEXAS.
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MAT 3, 1939.
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Fishermen.
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Why Pay $1? Savo at Wards!
Girls* Dresses
Black
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Smart WHITES!
WHEAT mesh!
Men’s 93e
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House Paint
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brings you over 100,000 items!
The race meeting at Bowie this
year marked the silver jubilee.
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getting a single bite.”
Bright Stripos! Crow Nock!
Sport Shirts
KKitcheEh
Shawnee, Okla., spent the week-
end with Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Fel-
ker and family. Mrs. Locke re-
mained for an extended visit.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Ezell of Dal-
las and Mr. and Mrs. Sterling Mc-
sounds like a lot of trouble, but
it helps keep things straight —
and carries the important face
powder along with it.
Full size! Get a set at this low
price. With stakes, arches.
Larger size, in Wood Rack $2.69
Compare with $100 Motors!
Twin Sea King
tures: 1. Sanforized fabrics!
2. Wiltproof collars! 3. Full
sizes! 4. Crisp new patterns
and whites! PLUS a money-
saving low price!
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; and prizes the. key.
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visited relatives here the remain-
der of the week.
Charles Buchanan of Gainesville
will preach Sunday, May 7, at the
Church of Christ.
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Mr* and Mrs. H. M. Wylie and
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Lewis and family attended the fu-
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your business!
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You don’t have to pay $5 to
get quality features! Chrome
plated brass. Adjustable drag
for any size lure! Smooth-run-
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pawl; sliding click. Level wind.
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National income during the first
quarter of 1939 was about 90 per
cent of the 1924-29 average com-
pared with 90.7 during the first
j quarter of 1938.
Compare formulas! Wards
Coverall has same costly in-
gredients as most “best qual-
ity” paints—yet see what you
save! Paint up NOW!
Ban Paint. In 5‘s $.03 gal.
“pc
4sq. ft.
BUY NOW...PAY MONTHLY
on Wards Monthly Payment Plan!
Shown with their royal Norwegian guests at Hy de Park are President and Mrs. Roosevelt. Left to :
right are Mrs. Roosevelt, Crown Prince Olav, Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt, Princess Martha, and President
Roosevelt.
A Big Saving! Famous rayonn High waists, guimipes, ruffles—
crepe in prettily embroidered*! even petticoat skirts! In or-
slips. Deep shadow panel 1 32-443 gandy, dimity and lawn pastels.
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3 Silk Casting Line
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2-Tray Tackle Box
Watertight! Seam-
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Pt. Vacuum Bottle
Rust-proof case!
Gal. Picnic Jug
Enameled steel
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Lots of pep in these lively
stripes! Mothers, note: they're
colorfast and easy to launder!
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| Mr. and Mrs. Frank Holtz and '
Mrs. I. Felker of Fort Worth at-
_ $119
Makes 2 quarts of delicious ice
cream! White cedar tub, paint-
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WAKE UP YOUR
LIVER BILE-
Without Calomel—And Tosi Jump Out of Bed to
toe Haram In’DC*
The liyer should poor oat two pounde at
liquid bite into your bowels daily. Itthisbe
la not dowing freely, your food doean' t dizest
. It just decas in the bowels. Gas bloat up
* your atcaaarb. You get constpated. Yout
whole nystem is poisoned and you feel aour,
' eunk and the world looks punk.
.. A mere bowel movement doesn't get at
the cause. It takes those rood, old Carter’a
- Httle User Pia to get these two pounds
* »e flowing freely and make you feel
"up awd up.” Hermlegs, gentle, yet amaa
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Mexico. j
I Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Sparkman
of Wolf Ridge were guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Ken Henley Sunday.
C. L. Bentley of A&M College
spent the weekend with his par-
nts. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bent-
ley.
Joe Hodge of Hooker, Okla.,
s visiting Mr. and Mrs. G. E.
sentley.
Miss Ellen Ruth Colwelstu-
dent at Denton, spent the weekend
with her mother, Mrs. W, G. Col-
well. ;
The Era Senior class, accom-
panied by Mr. and Mrs. C. K. Mc-
Clendon. Misses Willie Greene. Eu-
nice Garrish, E. D. Howton, at-
tended "Senior Day” at Denton
Saturday.
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up to 12 m.p.h.! Streamlined!
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LITCHFIELD, Ill. (AP). — Ted EAST MIDDLEBURY, Vt. (UP)
Simmons has teen playing basket- j a small key which locks the postal
ball for 16 years, four in high | box of the door of the post office
CHICAGO (AP). — The belief school and 12 with independent here has been in use 105 yew’S,
tha coffee will sober up a drunk teams. He has never been put out Postmaster Bert G. Peck, its prs-
is discredited by experiments re- of a game because of personal, ent custodian and the 11th since
‘ported in The Journal of the Amer- fouls. . ! the office was established, has
Green, orange striping on heavy
drill! Steel head rods. All fit-
tings. Also in larger sizes.
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Entertain Guests for
Homecoming, Roundup
During Past Few Days
Relatives visiting here in the
home of Mrs. U F. Gray and Mrs.
Jess Cunningham have been enter-
tained since ‘ their coming last
week in time for the Homecoming
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H. Kirk of Dallas; Misses June
.i and Jane Miley, students at TSCW.
Denton: Mmes. Guy Harper. Eliza-
beth Harper, and Hill of Washing-,
ton; Mr. and Mrs. Welton of Mus-
kogee; Mr. and Mrs. John Cun-
ningham. Mr. and Mrs. Jess Cun-
ningham. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Hil-
liard. and Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Gray.
Tuesday, Mmes. Jess and John
5 Cunningham took the visiting rela-
j tives to Honey Grove for a reunion
of relatives in that city and a num-
ber from Commerce. The dinner
- was served in the home of Mrs.
Johnnie Raiden to 20 guests. En
route home they stopped in Sher-
man for a visit with Mr. and Mrs.
J. A. Hilliard.
Making the trip were Mr. and
Mrs. Gray, Mmes. Guv and Eliza-
‛ beth Harper, Hill, and Jess and
John Cunnnigham.
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his brother. Rev. Ray Hand, one
day last week.
Shelby Earl, little son of Mr.
and Mrs. Jack Smith, is recover-
ing from an illness.
Mr. and Mrs. Alvin McKee vis-
ited relatives in the Dye commu-
FAMILY DIVIDED
HIGH WORTH, England (AP) —
Claiming that with so many chil-!
dren they didn't know what to do, 1
a family of 11 was granted two '
houses to live in by a district re-
lief council.
Chronos Corrppact
PARIS (AP). — A new vanity
•case shown here is dial faced. One
arrow points to the printed hour,
another to printed "occupations"
such as lunch, golf, coiffeur, tea,
cocktails. When the hairdresser
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Hexagon Shingles $450
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BUYS A PAIR
Save yourself worries
. . . safeguard your car
against bad weather ac-
cidents. Get new tires
NOW for a small down
payment. Carrying
charge on your unpaid :
balance only. - I
1 Many Features
I Wards new Riverside is 3
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WOODBINE, May 3.-Rev. Ray
Hand, who has been quite ill, is
reported to be improving.
Harris Daniels of Whaley Chap-
el was a business visitor here Fri-1
day. j
Mrs. Jim Newman and daugh-
ter and ’ Mrs. Tom Moses of
Gainesville were among those
from out of the community who
attended the baccaulaureate ser-
mon Sunday.
Miss Lois Click of Iowa Park I
arrived Saturday to spend the
week with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Joe Click.
L Miss Ruby Lynch of Gaines-
ville visited relatives here Thurs-
day.
Rev. and Mrs. R. Hand of Ft.
Worth visited at the bedside of
Baptist Dinner
Program Given
The laymen of the First Baptist' Cool of Gainesville visited Mr. and
church entertained Tuesday eve- Mrs. John Gregory Sunday after-
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Save at Wards . . .
and Circus Roundup celebration.
Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Welton of
-Muskogee. Oklahoma. and Mrs.
_ed Harper, Mrs. Elizabeth Har-
r per, and Mra Harry Hill, all of
’ Washington, D. C.. were honored
Sunday with a picnic dinner at
I Reed’s crossing served during the
mid-afternoon. with Mmes. Gray
and Cunningham as hostesses.
Attending the affair were Mr.
and Mrs. R. M. Miley and Mrs. R.
NO DANGER
“What is this stuff I’ve just
picked?”
“Wow! That's poison ivy!”
“Well, dpn t get so excited,—
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meaty pork delicacies—look!
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ican Medical Association.
i The paper’s Berlin correspond- j
ent says that experiments at Ger- i
m a n y’s Heidelberg University
showed no change in the alcoholic
content of the blood of persons
who downed “substantial quan-'
titles of beer"followed by strong
coffee.
“Fifteen to 30 minutes after;
drinking the coffee, the subjects
no longer felt fatigued; the gait'
was steadier, and indistinct speech
had disappeared,” the article re-'
ports. "However . . . the drinking;
of coffee produced only brief re-
covery; and if the person was ac- ■
customed to coffee, the sobering;
Mr. and Mrs. Loyd Wilson and i
pecacbeaaat thenMethodist church,sona - X ksndot’ner I
andrMrndsera EX WijSm Mrs. w. L Young vis-
Point were guests Sunday in the ited relatives at Tyler several days
- - - ' this week.
Mr. and Mrs. George Henderson
and son of- Wichita Faris visited
Mr. and Mrs. L. T. Henderson here
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neral of their brother-in-law, John
Goldman, in Loves Valley, Okla., . „ . ■ ________
Friday / and Mrs. John Allen of Dallas vis-
Mm- Nrtin Ralara of Den- ited friends here Sunday. j
ton.Emoryranar of Dallas, Mr. claude Duffey and son, Clinton,
Hattie Turner of Gainesville, Tur- of Meadows, are visiting relatives i
ner Odom of Greenwood visited and. frien ds here' . „ i •
Mrs Belle Odom last week. Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. Wiley Henderson
- Odom is ill at her home. j and. JimBailey of Durant, Okla., i
Mrs. Ina Osborn and children, visited Mr. and Mrs. L. T. Hen-
John Barlow. Mrs. Gladys Sanford derson here Sunday,
and children of Gainesville, Mrs, ( Mrs. Alma Green of Muskogee,
Helen Ballard and daughter, Dar- Okla., has returned, to her hom
lene. of Marysville, were guests after attending the bedside of her
of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Gregory mother, Mrs. T. F. Young, here •
Sunday. । for several weeks. ___ . j
Rev. R. C. Wilson of Callisburg
II, the dial is I “Excellent, your honor. I've
known him to admit openly that
ning with a dinner in the educar noon.
tional building of the church fol- Mr. and Mrs. Blake Kilmer of
lowed by an address by R. A’Bunky; La., spent the weekend
Springer of Dallas, state terasurer with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
of the Texas Baptist association. J. Harry Purcell.
' L. Leazer was toastmaster. Api- 1 Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Ely of Ver-
proximately 70 attended with a non were here for the homecom-
large number of visitors from the ing Sunday.
• Grand Avenue church and other Mrs. Maud Dancy of Houston
churches in Cooke county. (returned home Monday..after
An introductory talk was given pending the weekend with ner
by Rev. A. L. Jordan, pastor, and hrother, Bailey Inglish and fam-
numbers were offered by a male 1 7- - p,.m
quartet composed of E. E. Lewis. Mr. and. W. B. Bauc
Mason Winters, Oscar Neal, and and daughter; Mr. and Mrs. John
9 Mm. i.-lica wr Gregory and children, Donald and
Ray White., accompanikv Win Patricia, went to Marietta, Okla.,
Mane Shepher JudgeRayWin Friday to attend the funeral of
der sang a solo,his.accomP I '^hn Goldman. Mr. Goldman was
. ment played byMrs. Winde . former citizen of this commu-
A tempting dinner was served nity.
by the women ’of the church, un- Mr. and Mrs. Lee Griggs. Mrs.
der the direction of Mrs. R. H. Florence Harris. Mr. and Mrs. J.
Bailey Cut flowers decora .ed the c Gaines, Mr. and Mrs. W. C.
- tables. I Westbrook, and Mr: and Mrs.
Floyd Jones of Gainesville were
here for the homecoming Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. George Lewis and
daughter are visiting Mr. and .
Mae Morrison visited Mr and Mra after atending the funeral of Mrs I
Carl Lang in Slidell Sunday and T. F. Young here Tuesday and ,
attended the homecoming’. I
. Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Fears. Mrs.
Nancy Morrow and Miss • Edith
Ward were visitors of Mrs. Henry
Fears in Myra Sunday.
Mrs. E. F. Beckham of Fort
. Worth is visiting her son. Virgil
Beckham and family.'
News has been received by Mrs.
ft. W. Williams that her son, Tony,
has been transferred from
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John Dugan and daughter of No-
cona. Mr. and Mrs. Horace Dugan,
and Ernest Patterson of Loves
Valley, Okla., Mrs. Thelma Atkins
and daughter of Gainesville, at-
tended the homecoming at the
Baptist church Sunday.
Mrs. Lula Moore of Dallas spent
the weekend with her daughter,
Mrs. Doyle Dees and family.
Misses Ruth and Thelma Greg-
ory and Miss Wanda Lee Gregory
of Gainesville were weekend
guests of their parents, Mr. and
Mrs. John Gregory and family.
Mrs. Mary Griggs of Luling
spent several days last week with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bailey
Inglish and son.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Brewer of
Ardmore, Okla., visited his father,
D. L. Brewer Sunday, and attend-
ed the homecoming.
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Perryman
and children, David and Anna
Jean, and Mrs. O. S. Locke of
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See the Police
Before Starting
On Your Vacation
. AUSTIN — State police ad-
vise summer vacationists to
start their trips by way of
their local police stations.
'ihere an obliging officer
will record their fin erpp’nts
and give them an identifica-
tion card valuable in case of
accident, amnesia cr other se-
rious illness.
"Your card will be a sort
of inter-state passport, show-
ing who you are and where
you’re from — a mighty handy
thing to have along with your
driver’s License,” Colonel
Homer Garrison, Jr., state po-
lice head, commented.
85= $115
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Braided cotton cord reinforce-
ment. Stands 375 lbs. pressure
per square inch. 25 foot coil
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May 3,—Mr.
A beautiful new roof of
Wards fadeproof Hexagon
Strip Shingles can be yours
under the liberal F.H.A.
terms for only $3.20 a month
—-no money down! (Includ-
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heckey captain, averaged 40 min-
utes a game the past season.
Visitors Honored
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ERA. May 3. Elder J. H Chism tended the annual homecoming
of Gainesville preached at the Sunday. Mrs. Felker remained to
Church of Christ for both serv- spend the summer with her sons,
ices Sunday. John and E. A. Felker.
Mrs. L. K. Shirley and son, Stet Glenn Felker of Fort Bliss, El
phen James, of 'Venus, visited Paso, arrived Tuesday to spend
relatives last week. his furlough with his mother.
Miss Mary Atha Grey of Fort Mrs. Louella Felker and son.
Worth is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Rev. and Mrs. Winton Blaine of
Perry Grey. O’Brien and Mr. and Mrs. Gard-
A. A. House of Wichita Falls ner and son of Vernon attended
visited his mother, Mrs. S. E the homecoming here.
, House Wednesday, and attended ! Mrs. Deloris Holloway of Flora.
. the circus roundup in Gainesville Illinois, Miss Doris Kilmer, Mr.
Mr. and Mrs. Dave Sherrill. Jr., and Mrs. George Piott and daugh-
and 'daughter were guests of his ter,and Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Epps,
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dave Sher- of Gainesville, Mr. and Mrs. Don
rill Sunday. Cooke and mother, Mrs. J. Cooke.
Frank Sherrill, who is teaching of Liberty, were here for the
school in Dexter, has accepted a homecoming Sunday.
school in Grayson county for next • -
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of Gainesville, visited Mr. and
Mrs. R. C. Cunningham Sunday.
Miss Jo Kerr of Myra visited
relatives here Friday.
J. H. Ray, F. R. Lynch, Iva
Hawkins, J. M. McDaniel, J. T.
Brooks, and Jack Smith were I
Gainesville visitors Saturday.
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