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Secret Orders
7oday Cdiloviali
By Jack Stinnett
with a fog.” To prove it.
By A. MORTON SMITH
FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1942.
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BOBBROWNMOTORC
305 N. Commerce
Phone
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No Saturday Special
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But We Guarantee to Save You
WHEKLY
$150
—-75c
vance
18% on Your Staple Groceries
and High Grade Quality Meats.
When
newed
Bohls’ 5c to $1.00 Stor
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AAA Checks for
$4,624 Received
Dorothy
Mexican
power the press on a treadmill. Those
were the days when only initials identified
Cooke county AAA office has
received from the United States
Department of Agriculture, a total
of >4,624.45 in 1941 conservation
checks, it was announced Friday by
ONE OF THE BEST examples
of -emergency housing Mr. Belk
could think of comes from the Min-
50 cents a night, and had a thriv-
ing business for several months.
THERE WILL BE A housing
problem at Gainesville which pre-
One year, in
advance -.
course, she realized chagrined, but»
he needn’t rub it in.
across the road from the campsite.
She had a brick chicken house with
concrete floor some 10 feet wide by
60 feet long.
ef her trim olive-drab
glanced at her watch,
thirty already. And
cars ahead moving lik
J. T. Biffle, Jr., member (
county committee.
These payments account ।
checks and 42 applicationa.
DAILY REGISTER
OUTSIDE OF Cooke, Graysan. Denton.
Tise counties, Texas, and Love county.
1
Safe
Speedy
Economic
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site was only two and one-half
miles from his hotel, it took one
histamine, is present in all allergic patients, and
that the system creates this substance by way or
protecting itself from the disturbances which
eggs, strawberries, milk or starchy foods create.
With that as a starting point, medical science
may be able to deal much more effectively with
the mysterious ailment than in the past. All the
allergies fervently hope so.—Wichita Falls Times.
ft. In the past it has not been difficult to discover
the particular food which caused the discomforts
of an allergic patient, but the only advice that
physicians could offer, on finding that eggs, for
LIFE INSURANCE
“Personalized Serviee-
office 204 K. Californin. Phe
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It is on these men and their crafts that we
very largely depend. Very largely does not, to be
shop talk was scored aso
scure to the layman. Fina
investigators found thet
quent tendency to mak
rather than people and 41
heroes of government sent
The indictment was time
government pronouncemeg
ports. memos, communique
releases and such are being
out now than ever before.
Boutwell says: "Constan
munication between the |
ment and its citizens—J
sure, mean entirely. Their skills would be useless
without the skills of inventors, designers and
managers. But this is to say that technologically
we are'all parts of one body. In production, as in
the larger life, no man lives to himself alone. Each
derives. Each contributes. Each is essential. Be-
yond the indvidual wage or salary is the reward
of a common task well done for the good of all.
If this great truth could be brought home to all
workers, from the worker at the top, whose task
it is to keep the factory going, to the worker at
the machine, the hardener, the bab-bitter, the
plater, the tester, the welder some of the'bitter-
ness on both sides of the industrial controversy
might disappear—for the period of this war, per-
haps for good.—New York Times.
nesville or in Cooke. Grayson,
wise counties, Texas, and Low
as Willard Richardson, a native of South
Carolina, who guided ‘the paper for thirty
years (1844-1874) through annexation,
secession, and the Civil war; Col. Alfred
H. Belo, a North Carolina Confederate,
" (1865-1901); and George B. Dealy (1874-
—) who with his associates, sold the Gal-
veston News interests, in 1923, to its pres-
ent owner, W. L. Moody, Jr., and associ-
ates, while retaining the Dalas News.
Many are the men whose names are well
known in the business and literary worlds
who received their early. training on the
Galveston News, such as Clarence Ousley,
O’Brien Moore, William Cowper Brann
(the Iconoclast); Alex Sweet and, in more
recent years, George Waverley Briggs,
-$2.50
358
"Can you spell ‘weather’?”
“Sure — w-e-e-a-t-h-u-r-e.”
"Br-r-r-r! That’s the worst apefl of weather
1
tation or standing of any firm
poration, will be gladly corrects
to the publishers’ attention.
One month. in ad-
. vance------1------50c
3 months, in advance —
alone.”
“And why can’t I?” Or isn’t this
a free; country any more ?”
“It’s a free country but a dark
one and cold," he said and grasped
her arm, pulled her to her feet.
“I’d consider I had been negligent
in the performance qf my duty if
I left you here.” . 4
She shook his hand off her arm.
but she got into his car. “Just
July parade. She shifts
gear, held the sleek I
down to a crawl and r
that Aunt Allison had 1
an abstruse paragraph of
tences, four beginning w
Other faults included w
"Where shall I have the young
lady’s car delivered?”
Traveling u one of our}
roomy passenger biMto
equal in comfort and i
curity to a quiet day,
your home. Our rates i
low and our service to |
ways dependable.
DIXIE MOTO
COACH CORI
PHONE 300
repairing the same.
To the east of the W. Gant well
on the J. Turner farm six miles
north of Bowie, Continental Oil .
No. 1 J. E. Penn, in A. Topper sur-
vey, is swabbing 2300 feet off bot-
tom. and in 24 hour recovered 75
barrels of oil and 41 barrels of wa-
ter. The test at present continues
swabbing at a rate of -six barrels
per hour with 30 per cent water.
Other wells throughout the coun-
ty are shut down on account of
now?’ > « Wichita Falls district Thursday
Everything, that is, Stephanie were to the effect that, except for
amended silently, except her ris- a small fraction, drilling was at a
ing-ire. Because this good-look- standstill. The heavy rains were
ing soldier boy wore a uniform the prime factor in the shutdown
didn’t make him a general, and until the roads dry up to some
“Thank you so much,” Stepha- extent, making it possible to reach
nie said sweetly and sat down on the sites with much needed mate-
m«E NO. 1 PROBLEM is con-
I nection with the building of
the Cooke county army camp
Six months, in
advance 4.00
is housing.
That's ’the opinion of - E. M.
BELK, personnel director for Rol-
lins and Forrest, and Mr. Belk
ought to know, as he has been
through the experience of the con-
struction of several Texas camps.
Mr. Belk said he could not em-
phasize too much the housing prob-
lem Gainesville will have to meet.
He made several suggestions for
carrying the message to the people
of Gainesville.
He hopes THE REGISTER will
editorially bring to the attention
of the people the serious situation
that exists, impressing upon every
citizen the importance of making
one or more rooms avajlable for
will men look in 1975?"
asks a woman writer. Probably
just as often as they do now.
$0 mne <W to another'a weather and road conditions.
tkm.” Jack county alo reported a gen-
A—-t. AI. eral shutdown hi both proven and
„ HMnu-208 wildcat sections, with Clay, Young
He laughed, a rich throaty sound and other pools reporting tests
from deep vhim hit *— - L - - * . —
frame. “No?
were listed in the 3-A
stoDped at firsf MAa xx— 4Lt-a, m - - san, aaa m_E
rage, aspaea a tow truck E0 we nedin. mnd of people an
the battered uttle bine coupe. Whds“fimna,“ankdsPpsr
Town Topics Washington
I17ASHINGTON—A cheer for the
W American University’s public
• ’ f relations department and Prof.
w D. Boutwell. They have placed
on the president’s seuena
wheel, feeling the car lurch drunk- loss aviation would suffer if Cap-
enly. She held her breath as the tain Knudsen were, to be ground-
whisk of white fuf disappeared ed, eventually!”
behind the curve of her fender. “I don’t know about that,” he
Recess Students for Harvest
BURLINGTON, Vt. (UP).—Pub-
lic school students may have an
additional vacation this spring be-
cause of the current labor short-
She sold all her chickens, moved
out the equipment, and put in* 50 Meyers
— ... - bracket.
BY MAIL,
Wise dounti
eral Wells area, under the selective
He said a farm woman lived just were posted Friday.
Those given 1-A
BY MAU
Montague,
Oklahoma:
were Hugh Alexander, Lawrence
William Schmitz/ Claudia Escul
Gilbert, and C. B. Moore.
W. B. Conley and Earl Robert
infuriating. “Fil bet the S. F. Mo-
tor Corps doesn't know the risk it
runs. Remind me to continue
cots. For these cots she charged
Simmons’ All-Metal
Cots With Spring
39 INCHES WIDE; 72 INCHES LONG
$5.00
While They Last
—‛ — 7._‛T---. — - ——— Q440 c
within toll, Joon dosed down on account of flooded
2 And youi unifur m leases and rising streams
doesn't obligate you to drive as if ___________________
the state highway were your own
data can only be read between the lines. . . _ • , , Ji
The destiny of the News is probably GmlA Awhile
best characterized, through such figures
kebuff •
Gosh, something's happened, the engine’s dead.
Well, it has plenty of company in this crowd.
Tick-Tick
“I woke tip last night with the feeling that my
watch was gone, so I got up and looked for it”
"Well, was it gone?"
“No, but it was going!” ? ,
88 ' ¥ ’ Then she let it go when there was said, his smile not quite covering
no thud, no pained yelping. his seriousness. "I only know that
“Missed him, thank—” • flying happens to be the most im-
The Word was Jerked away, lost portant. thing in life for me. I
in the terrible scream of tires wouldn’t be worth much if my
BY MAIL. in Gai
Denton, Montague,
county. Oklahoma:
Six months. in
"That’s obvious,"—dryly. Then 4..
to the men who had stopped to
help, who were climbing back into Rata Halts Dailling
their cars now. "Thanks a lot. WICHITA FALLS, April 10.—
Guess everything is under control Reports from various pools of the
Buckingham danced a
folk dance.
New Additions in
City Are Planned
Two tracts of land to be used for
townsite additions in northeast
Gainesville, have been purchased by
investors, R. B. Cowan, local real-
tor. said Friday.
One is the 17-acre Murphy tract
on U. S. highway 82, northeast of
the junction with U. S. highway
77 near the north city limits, which
has been purchased by Leland
Fikes of Dallas, and the other is
the Whaley tract, adjoining the
Murphy land, and consisting of 12
acres, which was purchased by
J. W. Gladney and Felix Lynch.
GainesvilleQailn Register
i, ■ * ' ! J ’
Founded August, 1890, by JOHN T. LEONARD, Published Each Afternoon, Except Sunday
(Absorbed Gainesville Signal. February, 1939)
The Register Printing Company, (Inc.) Publishers Gainesville. Cooke County, Texas. Editorial and Busi-
ness Office, 308 East California St. -
Virginia Roberts
Embarrassed Young Man: "Er-ah-sir-I-er-
she-er loves me.”
Parent: “Oh! And you have come to ask my
permission to marry her?"
make her behave.” • t
Young Man: “No, sir; I came to ask you to
that-is-I cameto say that your daughter tells me
towns, Mr. Belk pointed out? - ,
..Camp workers are now very
much interested before they take
jobs, in how far from the campsite
they will have to live. He said
that when camps were built at
Mineral Wells, Abilene, Brown-
wood and other cities, camp
workers thought nothing of
driving 20, 30, even 50 miles to
work and back at night.
But now,’ camp workers are in-
terested in conserving their auto-
mobile tires and they don't want
to make any such drives. Conse-
quently it is of prime importance
to get housing within a short dis-
tance of the Gainesville campsite.
bridge. Thrusti
your Boy Scout deed for today,
I? Well, rm not going with -
so you might as well pursue
age. Officials announced that
classes will be recessed for all who
prefer to work in the maple sugar
orchards.
Those classified in 1-B were
Ual Curtis Haney, J. T. Livingston,
and Kenneth Paul Snider.
Casper Hugo Dietz was placed
in 4-F bracket.
desk a ripping:
ten-point indict-
ment of the writ-
ing in govern-
ment communica-1
tions it is the re-
sult of five years
of study by the
department under
direction of Bout-
well and B. P. |
Brodinsky.
erroneous reflection upon- the gha ranter.
Individual or
upon being <
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Entered at the Gainesville, Texas, Postoffice
as Second-class Matter.
Member of the Associated Press. United Press.
Texas Press Association, and International Circu-
lation Managers’ Association.
■ • DAILY RFtHSTKK
private race track, either." He Tr A. Thaa1
glanced at her a moment. "Just 2 1 92mG
what to the uniform for, anyway?” “TD “3-—-
"San Francisco Red Cross Motor By .The Associated Press
Corps. Stephanie Merrill is the A, B. McDONALD
name Age twenty--aimost. Height KANSAS erry.—A. R cDon-
Amdang Se Wa"ka min,akerpaskcit SS
"' in 1981 with a solution of a Texas
“Oh, good lord," his laughter murder mystery.
bunt out again, infectious and—
one year, in advance --------
---subscription is not paid in advance or re-
within one week after expiration, straight
price of 50 cents per month will be charsed.
in Cooke, Grayson, Denton, Mentague,
les. Texas, and Love county, Oklahoma:
Six months, in ad-
vance
would be at seven. And dinner at er,.
Stonehurst meant white tie and He shook his head again.
tails! She heard Captain Knudsen
Stephanie shrugged, tried to re- smother a laugh. “I'll be glad to
1st She shouldn’t have volun- drive you to Stonecrest, Miss Mer-
tzeraqutrttnkeuthatarxtnaoomutysh Furious, she stepped back into
might have known she’d never be the captain’s car. “Thank you so
hadn’t^v^had timeto^h home “No Ipoation at° all. It’s a
and pack a bag. Now she’d have pleasure to help a lady in dis-
to borrow • a dinner dress from tress,” he teased and added with
Vicky, who loathed lending things, a grin. "Especially girls with
She grimaced. Poor Vicky. The big brown eyes and devilish tem-
mst beautiful deb in all Marin pers."
county and always afraid someone Stephanie’s laugh relented a lit-
wm going to challenge her title. tie. “You’d be in .a devilsh tem-
Her slim foot pressed the ac- per too if you’d just smashed up
celerator and the powerful little your dad’s birthday present and—”
car lept ahead. She flicked on her “And been rescued against your
highway lights, moved out into the will?” He slanted a smile at her.
center lane. Pa Ming can steadily. She met his smile with a cool
she finally saw traffic ahead thin- facsimile of her own. "Exactly,
ning out. The highway curved and by a Boy Scout whose gallan-
gradually around the breast of a try is oniy exceeded by his con-
hill and the needle on Stephanie’s ceit."
speedometer crept toward sixty. “Ouch!” He whistled softly.
Then she saw the dog. • “That hurt. Conceited, huh?”
Only yards ahead as she came He turned into the gravelled
over the last rise, he dashed out road that curved to the top of
into the center of the highway full bill where Aunt Allison's spacious
into the path of her headlights, villa sat like a bejewelled duchess.
She stepped hard on the brake, “A woman always grounds a
, signalled frantically. flyer, eventually,” he said and as
The little dog stood, legs apart, be stopped the bar in the drive al-
as if transfixed. ready clogged with cars, he opened
‘Tm going to hit him!” Steph- the door for her.
anie heard her own voice shriek. It was Stephanie's turn to smile
She swerved then, yanking the teasingly, “And think what a great
Once voice in particular—a man’s "It must be. When I hear of a
deep-throated command. nice safe hermitage, I’ll let you
“Give me a hand here. We’ve know. Goodbye, now, and thank
got to get her out first” you so much.”
Then strong arms lifting her She turned then, ran up the
slowly, carefully. As in a night- broad steps to Stonehurst, uncom-
mare, Stephaniestruggled to rouse fortably aware that she’d behaved
herself,, to fight her way back like a spoiled brat and that tall
through the. 'gathering gloom. Captain Knudsen was laughing at
When she did get her eyes open, her
she looked straight up at the
owner of the voice.
THE OLD LADY BY THE SEA prominent Dallas tanker; Edward Angly,
. , aT foreign correspondent, Chicago Sun; Niegs
WITH A PAGE for every year of the pa- Frost, veteran New Orleans newspaper
"" per’s existence (unless the unfore- correspondent; George F. Weston, Erie
seen occurs) the Galveston News will cele- railroad official; Frederick Gardner, U. S.
brate its one hundredth anniversary with News; “Peggy Bowman,” AP feature
a special Centennial edition, as Texas’ old- writer, and Jack Glenn, “March of Time”
est newspaper, on April 11th. director.
1 B KEN E.
H EAT
The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to
the use for republication at all news dispatches
credited to-it er not otherwise credited in this
paper and. also to local news appearing herein.
-
In case of errors or omiesions occarrta* in Logna
or ether adwtiseseenta oromisions on scheduled
HOPE FOR THE AHRGICS
QOME hopeful news was published recently for
3 the many sufferers from that mysterious
trouble known as allergy. Like most news of
the kind this report is one to be viewed doubtfully
until medical science has made further progreas
in the matter. But the fact that the culprit has
been tentatively identified is encouraging. It is
a chemical which is manufactured in the human
£. . ... Draft Registrants
(hour and 45 minutes to drive that A _ e, a
trstancwwhgneatstcamp workers Are Classified ’
WRRKLY REGISTE ",
BY MAIL, in all Other counties of the United
States:
Six months, in One year, in
advance---.------31.00____advance ________UM
NOTIOE TO THE MPMC
The worst fault UTT
ments are too long. They average
from 65 to 80 words. In god 8°
ernment writing (the Office .of
Facts and Figures “Report tothe
Nation” and the president s own
speeches are cited) length of sen- ------
tences is 15 to 18 words, which must be by the writtei
The next woret Xy isodteo hanentjabrtocommwazad
the fellow who always wants to XA Chepresidentpn2
leave a loophole, just in case. said: "And how," for was
the weak, ineffec- president himself in a press J
tive verbs: “‘Point out,’ ‘indicate’ ference the other day who edi
and ‘reveal’ are the weak reeds on an obscure polysyllabic letteg
which many a government sentence blackout instructions from a
leans. Director James M. Landis. 2
Too many sentences begin the eluded such phrases as “tem
same way, especially with “the.” the illumination. j
At that point, the authors tossed The president explained |
off a nifty: “A sentence beginning Dean Landis’ Harvardese i
with ‘the’ is like a day beginning meant turn out the lights.
date. the publishers do not hold themselves 1
for damages further than the emount reeeiv
tbit -for such advertisements.
give tense and indirect phr
the attempt to be impersonaz
abundance of abstract nom2
per abundance of prepos
phrases, too many expletiva
the 'school of paragraphen
start each with “it is”' mA
are.”
“Federalse"_ the gove"
instance, were causing a patient’s troubles, was
women in the News such as: “Miss L.” or ‘to tell him to quit eating eggs.
Mrs. “S.” and when an original poem by - R has been found that • bodily chemical,
the editor greeted readers every New
Year’s morn. . :
The day following the Galveston storm,
The News came out with an issue—merely
listing the available names of the dead.
But the heroics entailed in compiling this
skidding on loose gravel. wings were clipped." ,
Strong Arns “And I suppose—” still mock-
For toe next few minutes, Steph- ing him, “countless of the fair sex
anie went spinning down into a have tried time and again to en-
black vortex like some. relentless snare you, you poor dear.”
maelstrom that sucke - ner farther "Sure," and laugh lines fanned
and farther ayey from reality, around his blue eyes. “I just have
Thundrous silence pursued her at to beat them off with clubs. It's
first. Then voices from away off. terrible?’
Speech Students
Present Program
Under the direction of Miss Ce-
cile Purdy, speech instructor, stu-
dents of the department presented
an assembly program in the high
• school auditorium. Friday morning.
Twenty - five members of the
choral speaking group offered six
numbers; nicely done and appeal-
ing to the audience. They were
“Kitchen Clock.” “Choosing
■ Shoes,” “Whistle, Whistle,” "Road
to Town," “Why Hannibal Crossed
the Alps,” and “Song of the Fore-
runners,” the last named selection .
by Carl Wilson Baker.
Anne Culp read a portion of the
story, “My Sister Eileen.” and
Donald Howeth gave “My Finan-
cial Career” by Stephen Leacock.
A skit was given by students of
the J. M. Lindsay school, to pub-
licize a pageant to be presented
Tuesday evening at the junior high
school. Reo* Habern, principal of
the Lindsay' school, announced the
.program and introduced the par-
ticipants. Anet Levine, Bobbie
Clair Robinson and Sam McBur-
nett. Norman Bennett sang
Referred to as “The Old Lady By the
Sea,” the News will make the 147th pub-' p
- lication which holds claim to a century of (on tomnorarv
continuous operation. And when one con- • Vil •
aiders that there are approximately 15,- JACK-OF-AL-TRADES’ sons
000 periodicals in the United States, this TUHE old-fashioned jack-of-all-trades would be
makes, therefore, a one per cent batting I flabbergasted bythe "list of selected .occupa-
. U JJ __ tions” Which is to be sent out with the new
average for attainins a hundred year rec- selective service questionnaire. Some of the trades
ord. mentioned would be familiar to him, of course. He
Oddly enough the Galveston publication could qualify as a blacksmith, boatbuilder, brick-
xamofananroumda 2Stzes2saas
of continuous service under three flags, fitter, upholsterer or weaver. He would have
across seven cycles of panic and prosper- known all those trades ever since he was knee
. ity, and upon the threshold of its sixth maketanyknanghorpereinggtaneangiedpuncheblana
war with the slogan. Remember Pearl shearer, a metal chipper, a dynamic balancer, a
Harbor.” Incidentally, it holds the unique Keller machine operator, a motor analyst, a pro-
record of being the lone survivor of the filing machine operator, a scarfer, a.template
... c .1. rr..N. maker or a transformer rebuilder. If asked to set
era of the Texas Republic. to work at once he would have to beg to be ex-
A special edition for which “copy” has eused. - 2
been in the making since last summer will He might learn, It is evident that the sons of
be issued, characterized by that spirit of the old jacks-of-all-trades have learned. They
Defense-’Defens, of home and country have learned new skills and the lingo that goes
—e-enSE 25-5n55 or nome and.-oun, with them. They can talk, and also work, a lan-
of community and nation. Of individual and guage that is Greek to the rest of us. In their en-
state, according, to its publishers. tirety, in all their big and little occupational
The story of the News with its hair- groups, they afe examples of the division of la-
ine story 0 me news wim its AA1 bor carried to a point that even wise old Adam
breath escapades, its fiery political cam- Smith could not foresee. They testify, too, to the
paigns, its defiance of blockades, and its fact that the machine has not abolished skill?The
issuance of editions during flood and fire, man on the assembly line can learn his little bit in
reads almost fictional. afew months or evenaweek or two He cuidn,
. learn to. be a telephone man, a cable splicer, a
The Galveston News holds a record of. fingerprint expert, a pulpit man in a steel mHl, a
‘That bank was the only thing ‘
that saved you,” the man with a I | HaaazngUe
nice voice said dryly. “What hap- LAEI MbULU33
- ------------------------ -— -—, pened? Do you kow?"
body itself. As a rule, when medical science can ■- Stephanie remembered then. “A COUNTY COURT
put its finger on a guilty factor in an ailment, it dog! In the middle of the high- probate Docket
is well on the way to dealing effectively with * way. I was just trying to avoid
' --- hitting it" Applications to establish birth
rhe tall young man — captain records for William Thomas Short.
he was, Stephanie noted from the Robert Vernon Shor, HazelL_La-
silver bars on his shoulders—shook verne Short, Andrew. Jack Kirk-
his /head. “Nice Tor the dog but land, Tessie Marie Stalcup,Wil-
a little risky for other people on lam Irvin Fenley, Charles Edwin
theroad. Do you always drive Si ms, Dora Vernon Fields, Charles
1ik Robert Williams, Thomas Fritz
Stephanie stiffened. "Certainly Hansen, Dorothy Mae, Keltner,
not. It was just an impulse.” Weldon Balley Paull, Alma,Lena
"Pretty deadly businesshav- Williams, John , Clayton Razor,
ing an impulse At sixty miles per Glen Howard Violet, Wayne Louis
hcur.., Violet, Yimmie Lynn Violet, Joseph
“I realize that perfectly. And Bernard Wiesmann, Henry Clay
Tm sorry. I guess I just didn’t ---eh- - — .*
think." He was perfectly right of -------------------
rental purposes.
And he hopes that Gainesville
merchants, appreciating the im-
portance of keeping the camp
workers within the city qf Gaines-
ville, will impress upon their em-
ployes and customers the necessity
of making rooms available to rent-
ers.
MR. BELK SAYS IT is difficult
for Gainesville people" to realize
how their housing facilities will be
taxed when the army camp work
reaches its peak.
He recalled that Mineral Wells,
a town of 7.500 before camp work
began, had an influx of 30,000 new-
comers when the construction
work was at its peak.
> And Mr., Belk said he had to
leave his hotel room by 5 a. m. in
order to avoid the rush of work-
ers: He said that while the camp-
service act Tell your merchant you
- advertisement in The egi
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the battered running board of her rials, no important drilling, is ex-, “White Cliffs of Dover,” as he held
scarred -Uttle car. “I don't mind pected to start. v an English flag. Gail Stanfield,
waiting right here. There will be The Sinelair-Prairie No. 1 Coj-
a highway patrol along soon. I lier in the Collier survey, east of
wouidn't think of detaining you." Denver in Montague county, while
“it may be some time before pulling core at 7718-28 feet, had a
a. , .L. 4. LG. e nI+I, a patrol arrives. .You can’t wait breakdown with draw works and is
what happens when the body is completely _
immersed in water?” •
“The telephone rings.”
Ll
(rEPHANIE signalled, turned "To 18 Hillerest Circle, please."
3 left into the stream of traffic Stephanie directly coolly: "Stone-
•--tag onto the Golden Gate cret Lodge. How soon can you—”
back the cuff He shook his head. “Depends on
" uniform she the amount of damage, miss.
. Nearly 'five- Probbly not until the middle of
i toe Une of toe week."
te a Fourth of . Stephanie sighed. She was go-
D second ing to hav a lot qf explaining to
i eto*P* do.
iembered "Cah you get a taxi for me
d dinner now?” she asked the garage own-
- having been the originator of chain jour-
nalism, when as far back as 1873, it .estab-
lished the Dallas News, and operated both
newspapers, 315 miles apart,under a joint
telegraphic and telephonic communication
system. Incidentally, this paper also main-
tains the distinction of having been the
state’s first to utilize both of these facili-
tie for news coverage.
While the city was under blockade dur-
ing the Civil war, The Galveston News
moved lock, stock and barrel to Houston,
fifty miles inland, but still carried on wi-
der a Galveston banner. Upon moving
back to this island, the News operated its
own train to Houston, known as a “dinky,”
guaranteeing “delivery at the doorstep be- ‘
fore breakfast” to its out-of-town patrons.
During the Civil war an acute shortage
. of newspaper print resulted in reducing
the News to the size of a dodger, printed
on yellow straw wrapping paze "ith sub-
scription rates soaring to $43 a year.
Eggs, butter, poultry, and other produce
were also accepted as barter.
Difficulties of publishing, furthermore,
brought forth the ingenius device of em-
ploying an old blind horse “Charlie” to
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Additional names of registrants In most homes, fatherb
who have been classified recently er’s silent partner,
by the Cooke county draft board • — |-----—
The Word of God
If You Have No Church of Your Own Denomi-
nation Near You Try Worshipping in the One
That Is Accessible. God May Be Found There
Too: True worshipers shall worship the father in
spirit and in truth.—John 4:33.
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