Wise County Messenger (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 18, 1932 Page: 2 of 8
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Thursday, Feburary 18, 1932
WISE COUNTY MESSENGER
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Let ns repeat it: A billion
dollars is what the cotton growers of
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for a ten-million-bale crop at an av-
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CAN WANG BY HIS AANDS
WIIH NO DANGER OF
SPEC K’S FEED STORE
— Location Lillard Mills
Phone 123—
FOUNDER’S WEEK SALE!
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Continuing This Week with
n> mt. WI.L.IM j. SCHOLES
GREATER VALUES
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Commemorating the prineiples en whieh Aar was founded
NOW IS THE TIME TO SrOCK YOIR PINTIY WITII Tlllw
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POPILNR MIERCIIANDISE Willi. K THE PIICES ARE LOW
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2 lbs., 7c.
25c
2 doz., 25c
2 heads. 7c
TO FATHER, SON
RHOME GIRL
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The marriage of Mr. Wilbur Fred-
College, at the w nd annual fath- Nazule Carpenter of Ithome,
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er's and son's banqnet at Hod, Hat- occurrrd in Marietta, Okla., Jan. 27,
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Official opening of the meetinz by nel MIta F. I* Carpenter of 11 h«»nie 1
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or sneezing into the I X
likeaMle air in the vicinity of ’he I
ambition
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N-B-C EXCEL SALTED CRACKERS-2 lb box 13C
Worthington and W. E. Rickman
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man's conception of a billion dollars.
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It will pay you to read the adver-
tisements in this issue of the Mes-
people living
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TE DNAM YOUTHS
DO NOT ATTAIN
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WARRX UNWIL
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KILLED SDMEONE
a billion pounds
to produce next
1232, at 8:43 |». m., the coremony be-
ing read by Rev. Wayne M. Largent,
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BE SURE AND SEE OUR WINDOWS FOR LATEST PRICES
ON SUGAR, SHORTENING, FLOUR
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Baby Chick Season is Here
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WWEN VOLNEY A FRENCH
REVOLUTIONIST, APPROACHED
GIORGI WASHINGWON FOW
A LETTER OF RECOMMIENDATION
TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
WASHINGTON WHO FELT
THAT THE FRENCHMAN HKD
QUAUTIES BOTH FOR AND
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A DURING THE FIRST CENTURY
AFTER CHRIST THE LATIN POET
MARTIAL WROTE OF FALSE TEETH UNO
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dollars is what the cotton growers of • Stowe,
the South would receive every year i
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: bronght to Decatur and his injtries ।
--- dreeued by Dr. Petty. It was at
known woowl is cocus I first thought that Mr. Pinkeron
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a friendly, informal -pirit, n larue .
number < f men making short talk*.
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BOYD BANQUET LOCAL BOY WEDS
eraze of twenty cents a pound, and inches,
it is twice as much uh they are re- i
For Livability, growth and egg producer,
feed your chicks on Red Chain Starter. De-
velopment of the producing hen starts in
th baby chick. For Starter and ('hick
Scratch, call for Red Chain, the feed for
best results.
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onlay evening. Feb, K.
Mr. Alexander stated that it wax
tie better idea of a billion dollars
than that. For example, if a certain A day without missing
family became one dollar richer ev- And et Texas produced
ery time the dock ticked off one about two and a half times one bil-isenger
econd. It would take 316 years. 326 lion pounds of cotton, which is about I
days, 21 hours, and 44 minutes for
it to become one billion dollars rich-
er.
At the rate of one dollar an inch
for advertising, assuming 200 inches
eeiving this
bale crop.
And that
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last, when wp come
to the page, it would require 136
years and :28 days to run one bil-
lion dollars worth ef adivertising in
100 newspapers, running one page in
each of them every day.
Ami speaking of inches, an inch is
i« the miii of Mr. Froi
were invented in the
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ought to be the official definition in
the public schools of the South.—
Texas Weckly.
‘s mortality statistics for
Deaths are listed accord-
zromp« and euneea
eriek Spnin of ibeentur and
her.
S; in will mnke
tanee in miles.
AND SLEEP ------------------- .
FAUING - HV ARMS ARE SO BULI V
TWAT the weight of his BODK 17
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of the earth was a billion persons, for a ten-million-bale crop at an ai
less than a hundred years ago, the erage of twenty cents a pound and it
density of population was less than is twice as much as they are recely-
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J A NONKEY
Thomason and Mr Hoy Richter of
Decatnr.
Mix Spain is the daughter of Mr.
know how
Mr. Kp in
Kpain of thie
If a billion dollars
elistrinzteri aim ng the
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"C.VOLNY NEEDS NO gaS
RECOMNENDAKON FROM.
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a very In- «ren, eouz hing
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Respiratory Infections
In Infants
that it was a "helluva lotta money." I" ".Person to the square
, , ,. ... mile of land, but a large portion of
Judge ( combes remarked that this . . ......
....... , the land was uninhabitable.
was a good def nut ion of the average
it would take more than fifteen
years for one to count a billion. '
counting 300 to the minute ten hours
a single day. !
we can all comprehene, and
was knoekel down while walking
al ng the highway, by an autome-
of the distriet of Columbia. and **c $*************************************4*
to measure dis-
Well, one billion
in Texas.
Envelopes were first nsed in 1839 bile, driven by a man hy the name
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as his home Mr linkerton, with
season. A billion body
were eqnaily 3
six million । j
each would 1 -
inenes nunt.t. 15782 mile. i 457 |
yards, two feet, and four inches, or 3
712 more than the distance traversecl/-
] "spect I growed. Don't think nt -
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. BILIOUSNESS (6
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ed among the people of the United i
Slates Rich would receive less than ;
eight dollars. If one billion persons 3
lived in Texas the density of popnla 3
tion would be about the same a. that I 3
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FARMER IS HURT
BY AUTO DRIVER
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W. I), l’inkerton. living ohe mile i
Common Method* off Infeetion
The zerms which caus the res- ,
piratory infer tions, as well a« those '
which canse s me of the other In |
fections dlisenses nre conveyei in the |
serretionu of the nose, me dh or
threat. Indiseriminate kb*iiK ef
the ivaby by ad lts and older elail- I
scho I h over.
Messenger joins th*' friend of Ilie
happy rouple in wishing for iliem
the lost of everything in this life.
I hr tigh I he no-o, mouth or
HOW Much is a BilliOll? i there would be one town lot of about
। Go by 120 feet to each person, though desire,
many of them would be on the'tops
, , of mountains. When the population I the South would receive every year
ford convulsed an audience at Rang- ......
er by telling a story of a little boy
who reported his father’s definition i
of "one billion'’ dollars to his tench- ।
on a round trip between Los Angeles ।
amt .Manila. • r 568 miles more than
eizht times the distance beteeen j
Dallas and Boston.
If Adam began six thonsand years !
ago saving at the rate of four him- |
dnil dollars a day and lived until I
the present day. continuing this 1
very commendable practice withoui I
interruption, he wculd still Im* some i
$:0,000 short of a billion dollars.
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334 White O 2% f RU ‘L g |
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l fatally injmrel. The man. Freeman
permittin the lvaly to IIt
m uth things whieh may be
inated with zerms, are so
ways in whieh the baly may
A span is ten and seven eighths
ever made me—Mrs. IL I:
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F. A. I*. T. Tatum. duetrione,
Accomt lishments of Ilie Boyd romn m H
By respiratory infeeti Us we mean
such dlseases ns cold-in-tlie-1 ad,
brenehiti«, puenmonia, infineuza and
wiopine congh. Tae germs waich
cause ,11s,-; si , of this type eute the
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For hatching call Jess Turpen, manager,
Decatur (’hick Hatchery. Price $2.40 per
trays 120 eggs. Baby Chicks, 7-8c each.
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I t hut state.
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The harl
wone; It t
c’hapter. Erile Ice Nirdwell.
our Work in Vo ional Agrieul
ture First Yenr, It. J. Hailey.
(bur Work in V eutii luil Azrirul-
ture Kerund Yeur, Alfred i"illipa,
A«eress, K. IL Alexander.
There were short talk* by larney
Wise, .m D. Met lumo T A. l’arker,
J. M. King mid A. T. rown, super-
intenient of the Boyd high school.
Dadis of the vtcational agriculture
hoys present worn: It. E. T’etty, E. T.
Forth B. S. Wise, T. F. Petty, J. M.
King, T. A. Parker, E. k Cobb, Mr.
Mercer, Bob Walker, C. E. Young, II
C. Harris, C. B Birdwell, A. J.
Serogzins, F. M. Owens, Loe Bur
row, Hass Tatum. It. J Bailey, Gill
of the bulletins is me!
h« tilth cepa rtinent
Black
/Dsaught
, A Purely Vegetable ,
f Remedy lor 1
CONSTIPATION J
a unit
we all
Whittington and Mr. F’hillip**, VIM- . - ---- - —
tors were: 1*. IL MeCluney, John west of Dcatur, on the noth high
Karly. X. A. Hiett, A. B Brown, E. ' way. was seric usly injured Noudas '
J. Wren, Kam Applewhit, K. W. afternoon about one o’clork when he
the Itoyd chapter <4 th,- Future
Farmers of America.
Welcome to the dads and the vi-i-
ton by McAfee Wise.
Response by it E. Petty.
Invoeation by E. T. Font.
Tieadinz by Catha Fite Harris n.
Jokes by 1C,.« Mile..
Obje c i . > th r . • )
She ia well known in Decatur, a, -he
attendlel sehool here wren years |
F, r the past four and one half
[ month, -he hne leern employed as a
! t, actler in the Ithome aeioola. She
i« a very eharming and ambit loos
yunng womnn.
U. S. NO. 1 POTATOES-Peck
VERIGOOD FLOUR-48 Ibs. ■
। that of Texas today. It was approx- ing this year for a 16, 800, 000- bale
! imately 17 persons to the square crop.
Yes, that's a good definition. It
not emough for the farmer just to 1 minister «f the (‛hnreh off Christ,
live ul home, but that Ilir farmer vas made known to the world Fel
ought to eonsider the world market II by Mr*. Spain telling her parents,
in relation to his own problem | Tin* younz people were accompani-
The banquet was • ha nut prized byed to Oklnhoma by Misa (larys
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contam- । ©
of the @
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or in-
of the se‛)
that over one-third of all the denths
due t this disease oceurred among
hables lees than one year obi.
Ironehitis a Caure
Rronehitis is a common cause <4
bn neho-penumenia. Measles, scar-
let fever, diphtheria, infuenza. ty-
phoid fever and small-pox may he
complicated by broncho pneumonia.
All of these are infectious and nre
transinitted either directly • r indi-
retiy, from one person to another.
Anything that prerents any of there
lisen«e-s, aleo serves to leswn the
ceurrence ot broncho-pneumonia.
infuenza, :100; aeute hron hiti~. Sti: ©
w h oping consh. 27 Hroncho-puzen -1
monia ean- .'list deaths among M
people of all azex It will Iu noted §
nr neho-pmenmonta canwd the
death of 1007 infants less tl 1 one
INSTITUTIONS ’
‛LIVE° ®
ox . Support
ft5i FROM
year for a 16,800,000- i A hand (horse measure) is four
inches.
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8 O'CLOCK COFFEE-World ‛s Largest Seller-3 lbs 50C
NUTLEY OLEO—Lb. - - - - - - 10C
BROOMS-A Real Buy—Each.....23C
CIGARETTES-The Poular Brands—Carton - $1.59
PRESER VES-Pure Fruit, Ann Fage, flav., 16 oz' 23C
Forihis -1 l
l lobar pueumonin cansed 282 deathe: (©
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NBC CHOCOLATE COOKIES —Assorted, Reg. 29c,13C 1
FRESH CHEESE-Lb........ISC 1
K.C. BAKING POWDER im; I
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LUNA LAUNDREY SOAP - 10 bars 25C
STRING MOPS..........23C i
REB PITTED CHERRIES-- - 150 I
IONA CBRH OR PEAS-No 2 can - - - IBC |
GRANDMOTHERS BREAB......5C
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