Amarillo Daily News (Amarillo, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 190, Ed. 1 Friday, May 20, 1927 Page: 3 of 30
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FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 20, 1927.
AMARILLO DAILY NEWS
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How Money Grows At 7%
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THE IDEAL
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He was surprised to learn that the accumu-
lated interest at 7% on his payments was
about enough to pay this last deposit.
You, too, can receive this 7% on your sav-
ings by investing $10, $20 or $50 or more
each month in General Public Utilities
Company $7 Cumulative Preferred Stock.
Ask any employe or write, telephone or
call at the office for full information.
As a result he indorsed his interest check
and turned it in on another five shares.
He said that he had been saving just to put
some money away, considering only the
deposits he made, and that he had no idea
how rapidly interest accumulated during
the period of saving.
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By CHARLES E AHRENS
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
BATH, Mie., May 10.— Thie was the
day at the school pienic.
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Harry Ma Snodgrass, known to radio fans the country
over, as the King of the Ivories, and James Witten, famous
announcer, will broadcast over Amarillo’s radio stations to-
day and Saturday. The special programs at stations KGRS
and WDAG were arranged under the auspices of The News
and Globe.
Why You
Should Own
Thia Stock
They will be heard over WD9G Friday and Saturday
at 12:45 to 1:15 p. m. .
THE
AUDITORIUM
PHOENIX
Athletic Silk
SHIRTS '' '
Sim 36. to *2, 214® value
DR. CALDWELL
Eye. Kar. Nona ana Troas
Smith Building
Feetoffee»
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A man who purchased fie shares of our
stock on the Monthly Savings Plan, re-
cently came in to make his last deposit of
$50.
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It's a satiefaetion to know that
drugs pare ba»ed here are the best
poseible quality. When you buy
here you are sure of quality and
parity. Preseriptions compounded
WK DELIVER
by registered pharmacista.
Amarillo Drug Co.
2724— PHONES— 4383
1201 Polk Street
Try Our Curb Service
Plenty of Parking Space
Over KGRS they will be heard today at 12:30 and
6:30 p. m.
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HIGH GRADE DENTISTIY
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Mayo Dental Clinie and
Laboratory, Ino.
Masele Bldg, Comer 4th and Polk Sta.
Roems 6,6,10 and 11
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PAJAMAS
Sizes A to D, some with collar,
some slipover, values to $2.50
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Savings Plan at *10 per
share per month.
den that there was littie conscious ef-
fort to eseape. Those on the two floors
of the wrecked wing were trapped.
On the first floor of the wrecked winy
were the third and fourth grade pupil.
The second floor housed the fifth and
sixth grades.
"The three outer ■ wall, were blown;
away and the room came down upon
those on the second floor. A few awainst
the inner wall escaped, but those on the
outside were crushed. Part of the mass
aljid down among the children on the
two lower floors.
Miss Manel Weatherber, H. was the
only teacher who died with her pupils.
The other three in the wrecked wing
were injured.
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were moved away. The agonizing cries
of the little ones were awful to hear."
On the Kehoe farm, nulled to the door
of the partly burned barn, was found
this nets:
“Criminals are made, not born."
General Public Utilities Co.
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Three Days Only
ENGAGEMENT
EXTRAORDINARY
Appearances at 3:30; 7:42; 9:30 P. M.
COME TO THE MATINEES--
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OUT AT NIGWT.
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No, Showing
BIG DOUBLE PROGRAM
JOY AND HILARITY TURNED
TO SADNESS AND WEEPING
d. Dividends exempt
from Normal Federal In-
come Tax.
' RESILIO
' NECKWEAR
All' imported alike, at 20%
. . teduetion.
-Men’s Dress •
SHIRTS
Sixes 14 to U. values to 22 M,
n brondeloths, perVales snd
madras, at only"
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individual measure
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Low Price
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per Khare and necrued
dividend to yield 7.140.
In cashmeres. cheviots and worsted materials. In
desirable fabrics—in all the newest models. Some
with 2 trousers ,
Southwestern Public Service Co.
16-35
Miss Leona Gudekust. who taught the ---~~
little first grade pupils in the other fromLansina
winy, told how she herded her chargen
lie new
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l. It is baeked by a go-
ing business firmly es-
tablished. well managed
and permanent.
t. Your aavinys will lie
safe. There is sufficlent
property equity to pro-
tect funds invested.
2. A a su red dividends
through earnings three
times the requirements.
4. lour dividend check,
will be regular and de-
pendable.
2. C onvenient income
paid quarterly on first
of January. April, July
and October.
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to safety when the explosion came and
reeked that part of the building.
"They had begged for one mere atery
before starting their work at the black-
beard,” eke said. "It was the day be-
fore the picnic so I let them atay in
their scats and told it to them. Just
then the explosion came. If I had re-
fused to tell that story, they would have
been gathered at the innet end of the
room. against the west wing, which took
Ike brunt of the explosion. Taat story
saved many ef their lives."
Beenes Indescribable
She and Miss Bernice Sterling, the
teacher in the next room, yot their
charges together in the confusion and
got them out in fair order. Those on
the top floor of the same winy, which
held up under the force of the explo-
sion, eseaped through windows and down
the partly wrecked stairway. Some were
injured.
Mrs. Daniel Carpenter, who lived near
the school, told of her horror when she :
heard the explosion, looked out and saw i
the school collapsiny and children •
tumbliny from the window, of the un-
wrecked winy. She ran to the scene.
“To describe the seene as pitiful
could not beyin to picture. that first
hour after the blast," she said. “As men
came running in from the neighboring
workshops and farms, the first of the
little bodies was carried out and laid on
a knoll to the notth of the nchool. First
one, then another. I counted ten before
I had to leave, sickened and yrief
atricken.
“Then came the sirens of ambulances
Irena Summerly Stock Co.
Presents
“The Cat and
Canary”
Each Evening 8:30 o’clock
Entire Lower Floor 75c
Balcony 50c
Matinee Wednesday
Saturday Afternoons
Popular Prices
All Next Week
“The Family Upstairs”
“Broadway Hits at
Main Street Prices’*
lay sad baking for the great children’s
day of the year. Big frosted cakes,
AKounda of homo made bread, baskets of
sandwiches aad tubs of pickles wars be-
lay made ready
Dresses of the . little giris were
atarched and ironed. Sanday suits were
, waiting for the boys. “Dates” were
made among the elder members. It was
a community affair at which everyone
was going to turn out.
--A Examinations at the nchool were sehed-
Rated te end yesterday and the atmo-
sphere there was full of the suppressed
exeitement that precedes such a holiday.
Today dawned and the village of Bath
was preparing, not for a joyful pienic,
but the muss burial of its dead. The
pitiful little bodies which had been
taken from the dynamited school lay in
serrowiny homes.
Community la Stunned
There was little sleep in the village
last niyht. Today, the community had
not yet recovered sufficiently to make
plans even for the funerals.
Mothers set in their homes, diseon:
solute. Fathers gathered at the ruins of
the school, where state troopers were
still supervising the work of the search-
ere.- Other distracted parents waited at
the hospitals in Lansing where the in-
jured had been token, suffering with
their children.
It was the tragie aftermath of a com-
munity taxation dispute. Similar to dis-
putes which have occurred in school
communities the country over, but never
before with such an outcome. The fi-
nancial burden which the taxpayers
carried today was hardly noted in the
general grief. but it was that burden
which sent Andrew Kehoe mad and
caused his twisted mind to conceive the
punishment he visited upon his neigh:
bon.
Those who were on the scene of the
explosion yesterday shortly after it oc-
curred will never forget the cruel con-
sequences of Kehoe's act.
Explosion Heard for Mlles
The sound of the terrific explosion
was heard for miles. Mothers and fa-
thers came on the run from every home
in the village and its nearby farms.
For hours, others were coming from out-
lying sections .as the news spread. The
school drew its membership from a large
surrounding district.
A conception of the scene as mothers
and fathers, frantic for their children,
serambled into the ruins, was given
graphically in two sentences of one of
the villagers who aided in ths work.
His words picked out a detail of the
whole, like a searchlight bringing out
in relief one section of a Jumbled pic-
ture:
•“Women were frantically pawing over
the timber and broken brieks held to-
gether by mortar heavier than the av-
erage man could think of handling with-
out a erowbar."
Une by one, the small bodies were
-sgtried out by men and women, some
of whom were dry eyed and fixed of ex-
pression. while tears which they did
not know were flowing coursed down
the,cheeks of others.
The bodies were laid in long rows un-
der blankets and parents passed down
the line, looking for their own. A hus-
band, in his farm working clothes,
would support his wife, called from her
duties in the kitchen and trembling se
she -could scarcely walk. With agony,
heppeered beneath eack blanket as the
coror was thrown back and passed on
to ‘tke next. Ueeasionaily came a
' scream as a woman collapsed at -tke
eight of her son or daughter, dead, and
was led away.
' 4. Tae Sodden for Escape
"Events in the school when the ex-
plosion came, as described by those who
escoped, were confused and terrible. The
effects of the explosion were ao sud-
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Howe, Gene A. Amarillo Daily News (Amarillo, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 190, Ed. 1 Friday, May 20, 1927, newspaper, May 20, 1927; Amarillo, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1569046/m1/3/?q=denton+aerial+199%2A: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Library and Archives Commission.