The Austin American (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 156, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 18, 1923 Page: 5 of 42
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THE ACTIN' AMERICAN, AUSTIN, TEXAS, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 18, 1923.
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GRAND JURORS
Humane Society Opens
RESUME WORK Membership Drive Monday WELL SPUDDED
The Weifare Couneil was
day.
ments before completing this finai
Hession.
important matters were under in-
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LOCAL DEATHS
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Xmas to the
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lasts a lifetime
Time to
Choose that Victrola
&
GOOD FURNITURE?
Join Our Xmas Victrola
Club
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Decorate Your Own Breakfast Set
Fibre Reed Rockers
Drop leaf table and 4 chain, fine smooth wood, ready
Swann-Schulle Furniture Co.
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$13.95
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AMERICA’S BEST GAS RANGE
$19.50
SPECIAL FOR
MONDAY ONLY
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Swann-Schulle Furniture Co
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The gift that means so
much to the home
But you must
Half of the
turkeys are
formerly com
Society, the 1
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Take advantage of
our Holiday Terms—
$5.00 down—tell us
how you wish to pay
the balance during
the next year
Kreuz and Soft T. storey were In
charge. ■
Id age would be
t it waa a iitue
Investigators Will
Reassemble
Monday.
Southeast of
Field.
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• dtacuaaod la
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oldest winter on
predict thia be-
Iran.
We have gathered for your advan-
tage a most pleasing stock of appro-
priate gifts. Be it a Diamond, a Watch,
a piece in Jewelry, or the newest in
novelties, we have just what you want
M keep children
ing. which la one
11 to work.
EQUIP YOUR
CAR FOR
$12.50
See Pare 2
d waau to take
it beeause It la
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low the aversge
lan the averag•
it also.
inches wide.
Each.......
plete
at ...
now.
hurry,
twenty
gone.
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Will Yours Be One
Of Them?
Priced lowly
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You ean have thm If :
and Sunitation Facilities.
for decorating. Special price
for all 5 pieces..............
Priced com-
$29.95
May we aid 'you in selecting the
Right Gift?
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Special Pricing of Famous Kar pen
Living Room Suites
This 3-piece Queen Anne mahogany suite with large dav-
enport, large arm chair and rocker covered in velour with
posed of the Human,
nited Charities, the
n progreasea
vullet-proof ar-
cne buneta
Breakfast Room Set
$29.95
MMitU of table and 4 chairs.
• Iight-headed
r why a men
frivolous giri,
in her com-
mentally and.
Swann-Schulle Furniture Co.
Please mail me full details m:
Your present plan of Special Holiday
: Terms.
Year XMAS VICTROLA CLUB.
Name ...............................
OTHER 5 AND 6-PIECE SUITES, beautifully enameled .
and decorated in moat attractive colors—
$29.00 TO $125.00 '
This not only insures you delivery the day before Xmas snd a complete
and pleasurable surprise to your family, but our plan enables anyone
wishing a Victrola to easily own owe.
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Health Department
Audit Is Satisfactory
te
la go
use 10,600 tene
•nr, year, but
ir that worcie / -
3 A. CHAPMAN.
Funeral bervices will be held thia
HL lawyer ad
man- Ameriean
loose cushions, and hand woven
cane backs....................
The Humane Society la asking
for a buduet of $3,000 to carry on
its work during the next year.
The regular membership too at
the organtzation la 11 a year, Al-
though the boctety depends for
the most part on larger donauons
from citixens for Ils aupport.
Weljare orgaaizatione are this
year depending upon separate
solicitations for their support. the
Welfare Counell method of group
mupporting of the various otcani-
zalions having been abandoned,
Mrs. Moreland point'd out yester-
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Leonard, city engineer, was praised
Purcell Test Located 2z-ainitoK apihorficowpanentni-
mention the case in its report; Mrs.
Alma bishop, white woman, who
has been held in the county jail
Bevral months on a charge of mur-
der in connection with the case;
end k. B. Briggs, white, against
whom a murder charge was filed,
now under bond.
whole family—
a gift that
Gifts pleasing to the most discrimi-
nating taste.
WONDERFUL ASSORTMENT OF
MOTH PROOF CEDAR CHESTS—
Both plain snd period designs. Would
make an acceptable gif. Prices
$12.50 TO $75.00
Sage*
d*.s)
LHBXC? 909CONGRE5S
cation are confident of a suc-
cessful drive.
LOCKHART OILAustin Sewerage
Plant Praised
highly suceessful in every yespect,
aoztor“tzitt°otPcer"wndchaciea that" tOu attended to," declared
it
Tudor Dining Room Suite
in American walnut and brown mahogany, 10 pieces--large
buffet, oblong table, China case, serving table, 1 arm chair
and five diners. Upholstered in blue or cnn 7r
brown leather or tapestry. Suite complete 91>>.43
A regular $250.00 vlue.
Girls' settlement club and the
Healeh Center. These organisa-
lions are all independent now. the
group artangement with ons drive
for all having been broken up.
Make it a practice to visit our
stere everAgo often. Many items
are on display which you will
appreciate knowing about and
will want to see.
Seen About the Store Now.
Old English Arm
Chairs $22.50 to $30 JOO
A splendid assortment of old
English arm chain. Solid Ma-
hogany frames, cane backs—
$22.50 To $30.00
illy bad off she
that Amount
Chin
Germany her
• Biamareka
Lockhart Goes Over
In Red Cross Drive
LOCKHART, Texas, Nov. IT.—
Lockhart wont ovor the top Sat-
urday in the Red Cross roll call
for membership In that organisa-
tion and the report la that practi-
cally every family In the town waa
enrolled The work waa done In
one day.
J. T. Gillett, Sam O. McDowell.
Vance Smith, C. F Richarda, W.
If your gas range is old
and rusted out you
can't afford to pass
this opportunity by.
Get ypur A-B Range
There is always a quiet home-like
charm attached to a fibre reed
rocker. Then too, they are exceed-
ingly attractive and comfortable.
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HOME
Without
Victrola
ass. V. S. mt. ov.
y aftectionate
demonatrative
tentationa Tom
yeur guard by
otona and at
mhoula not be
lands "Vi.,i‘
ideaity auilea
Fireside Chair $23.75
Made in mahogany. Has com-
fortable cane seat, hand woven
cane back.
Floor Lamps
$19.75 to $75j00
Complete with silk shade and
extension cord. Two-lamp socket
fixture. Standards finished ma*
hogany. Priced from—
$19.75 TO $75.00
Twenty Austin families
will feast on Turkey
Thanksgiving at our
expense—
The Austin sewerage disposal
plant, and its equipment for doing
away with oders, devised by Ed’
The second semi-annual audit of
admimistration by the state health
department of the Sheppard-Towner
maternity and child welfare fund
waa completed yesterday by Miss
Lula Mitehell, auditor of the U. S.
children’s bureau. •
“I have checked over all vouchers
issued by the Texas health depart-
ment for administration of the
Sheppard-Tow nor law." she told
health, department officials, "‘and I
find every ite satisfactory and ia
accord with requirements of the
federal government." f
Dr. W H. Beazley, state health
officer, was ongratulated by ths
federal official in the economical
and efficient administration of the
fund.
a plumber col- l
are old, proving ■
verything. B
Chaise Lounge $79 JOO
Tudor period style. Made of
•olid mahogany, tapestry cov-
•rod.
TiSims
vuld arrange tor
i te hate one an-
ya a week.
Surviving the deceased are his
wife. Mrs M A. Chapman, his
mother: J. A. Chapman. Jr-. non;
Mm Ted Martin, daughter; Jert
uOur Lay Away Club” has met with
a wonderful response. Make your se-
lections now and deposit $1.00 and we
will put away the article until you are
ready to get it.
on. Shoes are
it. We make a
STEVE GLENNAN.
Funeral services for Steve Glen-
nan. 63, will be condueted this aft-
ernoon at 3 o'clock from St. Aus-
tin's ohapel. Interment will be in
Mount Calvary cemetery Deceased
ia survived by his wife.
AUSTIN GAS LIGHT CO.
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atarted out in
attera, Here’s
is gal worn out.
The Travis county grand jury
wilt reconvene Monday morning to
resume its investigetion Intol crime
in this county. The grand jury
has been on vacation two weeks. A
large number of bills have aiready
been returned by ths jury and it is
expected that ths investigators wilt
, hsve another biz belch at indiet-
jury had tailed to
Beginning Monday, the Travis
county Humane Society will open
its aetive campalgt: for annual
memberships sud donations to
carry on ths work of ths organize-
lion another year. Mm M. B
Moreland, secretary of ths or-
ganisation. announced yesterday.
The membership drive of the
Humans Society wss started sev-
eral weeks ago but in deterence
to other weltsrs ovganizations in
the city then conducting or plan-
ning delves, the canpalzn of the
society was postponed.
Adam R. Johnson has been se-
ledted as chairman of the cam-
paign organisation. A complete
race* hores man
sod him. Prob-
chance.
vestigation when the jury recesmed
two weeka sgo and these win likely
be completed this week.
Among the most Important mat-
ters up betore ths present Jury is
the investigation Into the killing
m >1. C. Greer, Austin grain dealer,
last February. Several witnesses i
were examinea by ths Jury st its
last session snd corns action on this
cane is expeetea to be Uken by the
inveatiga tome.
Four persons now stand charged
with Greer's murder—Homer To-
ney. negro. who was tried once on
such a change: Leon Keys, negro
released from the county jail on
habeaes corpus proceedinge after
Mahogany foot Itoda, similar to
cut. tops covered with velour,
mohair and tapestry. Sin 7'
inches high, 16 inches long, 9
Rook Trough and
Magazine Stand $8.95
A very handy piece of furni-
ture. Easily carried from • one
room to another. Strongly
constructad, finished in mahog-
.......$8.95 ,
JOE KOEN &‘
Texan Killed by Fall .
CHILDRESS. Tezan, Nov IT.—
Tom F. Benton. 40, was kmed hors
today when he fell from a motor
truck. His wife liven in Dallas.
a feel that he
That is the
mue-ttea Per-
day, who completed their four-day
sehool of instruction with a visit
to this plant and to Ausun swim-
ming pools, mdael dairies sad
oreameries and food plants in the
dty. The visitors were escorted
about the city by Mr. Leopard, Dr.
W. H. Beazley, state health officer,
bureau chiefs of the health depart-
ment. snd Austin citizena. Cleanii-
ness of the two model dairies war
also prained by ths visitors. Ths
milk pastsurlsatlon plant was a
revglation to otticiain from emaller
towns, it was stated. >
-Dr A. H. Pliekw’r, Houston city
health oweice» and newiyeiki
president oi tue association of
sanitation organized during the
health school here, extended an ij-
vitation to health worzers end
pthera engaged in food protection,
tndustrial hygiene, to co-operate
with the association.
The visitine nanttarians left last
night for theif homes every section
at the etete having been represented
in the meeting.
The school of instruction was
Console Table $22 JO
A console table of exceptional
beauty * Mahogany walnut and
gold, Chinese laequer. One of
a special grouping $22.50
- . . . erew of workers has been re-
it ia thought that Mvoral crulted and officials of the organ!*
from doom-
David Loyd
dgamAllen Poe.
application to
rovided It ap-
ot the dramailr
0 long It le
it what sueces-
wilt bo won in
th two wives in
o. Wonder how
eng his clothesr
The A-B is widely known as Amer-
ica’s Best Range. Hundreds of
A-B’s are giving daily service in
Austin homes. You, too, will be
delighted with its performance.
You can buy an A-B Range as low
as $49.00 on easy terms and get a
big 18-pound gobbler FREE. But
you must act now before the tur- •
keys are all gone.
LOCKHART. Texas, Nov. IT—
With ths clearing at the weak's
bad weather, oil operation in this
section was pesumed.
Ths rig for the Purcell No. 1,
which is to bs drilled, has been
plated by Hughes and Buchanan,
suecesaful California oil drillers,
and the well will be spudded in
next week. This loaatlon was se-
leeted by three well-known eeolo-
gists, sack reprenenting major
ompanies an tha log ot the well
will be used ea a bahis of other
wells to be drilled later. The logs
of the Delhi and Cole of McMahan
fellow closely with Welle In proven
area. Hughes and Buchanan have
been successful here and have a
number of good wolle to their
credit They am drilling meveral
for the United North ted South.
The Purcell is three anda half
miles southeast of Lockhart and on
a due line from proven field. C. V.
Petion. who is reeldent agent for
the Atlaqte Oli Ce, secured the
i block of land that irisures acreage
sufficient to protect the drillea.
Well can be completed in fifteen
dage with good working conditions.
That ths major companies who
own ma hot the ecreage in this
seetion hsve contidenee in the
field le shown from the fset that
no leases are for eale and renewals
are being paid promptly.
n at a diiher
k expectd to
my rieht, ar
worda dpeert
wo only ef the
onsetous, •tu-
Mi joke l hay-
•• refuse- to
mm of whether
tor the tart
I in a danee
are simple If
•areal ip aad»
r the ooupi•
mimiple if
See the steps
DIAM ON DS^WATCHES
J EWELR Y^S I LVERWAR E
Buffet Mirrors $19JO
New mirrors to be used for
decorative purposes over side-
board. Polychromed frames.
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any’a gost snd
i glus factory. I
this country to .
nem We will t
> then enough. b
-
Ie trying to live :
Wish it would
vura. ,
Chapman end Eugene Chapman,
brothers: Mm M. B. Buford,’ Mies
Emma Chapman and Mm Stella
Whitten, sisters.
afternoon at 2 o'clock for J. A. un rre-ennre
Fhavman. 54, who died Thursday ■ 1 I .11^1 IKF
L ciem.mgouei-
1202 West avenue, interment in “,_W-L‘HDMNEAPPIT
Oakwood cemetery.
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