Wise County Messenger (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 6, 1938 Page: 2 of 8
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Thursday, October 6, 1938
WISE COUNTY MESSENGER
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Allison News
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w. Leake, who underwent
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retail organization from coist
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is heing arranged by C’hev,
to coast.
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require weeks if the retail forces we
as they were
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The task is expedited, however.
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Vehicular Travel Shows
Big Increase in State
PUBLISHING
PRINTING
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Envelopes
Letter Heads
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SOUTH SEAS ADVFNTL KE
Circulars
Bill Heads
eminded that our week of prayer is
Pamphlets
to he November
Placards
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Booklets
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You Without Any Obligation on Y our Part Whatever.
THE MESSENGER
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Since 1880
Thousands to Attend
Meeting of Chevrolet
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Or Anything in the Printing Line. If You Have Some Printing You
brought to Detroit.
1933. In that year.
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Sister, life here was short, but life
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tendea ly $o,o0 mrbers of the com-
Spectacles were invented during the
13th century.
where I am, there ye may be also.’—
St. John 14 - to 3.
september 11. 1938, which was the
The Boston airport was established
in 1922.
in
willed to take her from us.
—Her Sister, Ella.
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W. M. S. CIRCLE NO TWO MEETS
WITH MMES HARPER, THOMASON
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—l.........hen Donnell French Mission at
Want Done We would Appreciate the Opportunity of Figuring With
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tended by all the dealers and dealer
employes of the zone in which it is
held, and in the case of two meetings
— those at Boston and New York—re-
tail personnel from adjacent zones will
be included. This means that nearly
12.000 mm were
I himself
of whom
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what are now called
for Valparaiso with one <
renamed the Essex .)l„ while another
vessel left for the United States with
Chevrolet plans to announce
produet on Octeber 22.
dens and suffering. She never waver
ed. Her faith was as strong, or more
so thru trials than when all was go-
Circle No. 2 of the Methodist Wo-
man’s Missionary Society met Mon
day. October 3 with the captains.
Mrs. Harper and Mrs. Thomason in
be met Miss Couchman. who is a na-
tive of Everett. They will make their
home there, where M. H. is working.
enceunter he found
After fifteen
Ye believe in God, believe also in me.
In my Father’s house are many man-
sions; if it were not so, I would have
j told you. I go to prepare a place for
I you. And if I go and prepare a place:
land receive you unto myself; that
with eight men, only two
were able-bodied.
salesmen, ho kkeepers and mechanics
bringing attendance up to 80,000, the I
one that
time, for
6 to 12, with the
China Emergency
Dallas hospital
home and doing I
I unaware of Porter’s mishap. Gam-
three vessels; he burned a second)
shii>. and with the sole remaining
privateer taken from the British he
-ailed for the Sandwich Islands with
his tiny crew, two-thirds of which
were invalids, and with only one man
who knew anything about navigation.
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brought in by Chevrolet, and three
solid weeks were required to complete
the program. Now that, the number
of men attending has been increased
to include dealers’ salesmanagers and
Foreign Special.
All members of the W. M. S. are
an operation in a
some time ago is
fine.
her home. What
would finish the job on
days he arrived at
relet for the perind btween October
c and october 11. W. E. Holler, gen
eral sales manager aunounced today.
The purpose of the meetings, desig-
nated as Dealer PreView Conventions
is to present all models of the 1939
chevrolet line to the dealer orzani-
nation and acquaint its menbers with
sales and advertising plans for the
coming year.
De-centralization of the sessions at
which the new product is presented to
dealers and salesmen is expected to
accomplish in a few days what would
and they shall reign forever
present plan is the only
i ing smoothly. God was good to let her
Igo heme on Sunday. He was good to
Austin. october I— Vehicular travel let her go so quietly. She just closed
in< reused nearly 281 million miles this her eyes, folded her wasted hands,
year over the same period of 1937. and fied away to Heaven. The look
while 224 fewer persons were killed of suffering was removed from her
in traffic mishaps, state safety offi- face by the hand of a loving lather,
cials said today. We can’t think < f her as being dead.
Through a strict enforcement educa- but as a happy soul who beckons daily
tionai program Texas traffic guardi- for those she loved and left. Heaven
ans have managed a general I 1 Pe1 is nearer and dearer since she is
vent decrease in street and highway there and one of thee days we will
fatalities since January 1. With the see her again. and know why God
mileage increase taken into considera-
tion the death drop would have reach-
ed 21 per cent. experts estimated.
some of the spoils of war.
No sooner had Porter departed than
trouble broke out among Ilie natives,
camble quickly subdued the disorder
and lived in comparitive peace for
a few months while he waited for
Porter to return. Meanwhile, the com-
modore had reached Valparaiso, and
the Essex was subseqnently defeated
by the British ships P'hoebe and t he
ruli in an unequal sea fight.
Nnaware of Porter's mishap. Gan
ble finally desided to abondon the
Pacific base. His plan- were upset
when mutiny broke out among some
of his men. and he was badly wound-
id in the foot Again the natives re-
the cost of elaborate arrangements,
whereby Central office executives and
wholesale field personnel will go into
the territory, arrange for the largest
meeting place available in each of the
42 convention cities, install scenery:
hackdrops, and other properties, and
supervise the meetings themselves.
Each of the meetings will be at-
of 1S12. Several British ships were ed.
taken, and with a few Gamble was
left to guard three of the captured
vessels in the Marquesas Islands.)
Porter then sailed aboard the Fssex
last fifteen months of her life here
her faith was tested by trials, bur-
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Jkave
TEXAS
The finest deep-water fish-
ing. boating. swimming, fun-
ning all within gasoline
arms reach on your own
golden sickle of beach the
wonderful Texas coast-line.
Take any of the Texas high-
ways that lead to the Gull
lor a genuine vacation thrill.
Spend the saving in dis-
tance on added play-hours,
extra fun-time when you en-
joy your vacation in Texas
your Texas!
presented by
Me st of the folk* here are scaree
of stock water because of the recent |
still days. A good rain with a little I
breeze would lie appreciated. It has ]
been so warm the past week.
Travis Underwood, wife and baby
left some time ago to make their home
in Southwest Texas. Archie Foster
and family are now living in the
house vacated by the this family.
S. E. Bullard and family entertain-
ed friends and relatives from sever- .
al different places two weeks ago.
A play was given at Allison last
Friday night. Proceeds will go for a
new lighting system for the taber-
nacle.
since our last writing word has
been received of the marriage of M. !
H. Kellam and Dorothy Couchman of
Everett, Washington. M. H. was born 1
ami reared in the Allison community,
while spending a furlough in Ever- .
ett during his service in the Navy
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Most of the crops have been har-i
l vested. Farmers are busy preparing
and sowing their land to grain.
Stranger than fiction is the story
of Lieutenant Jolin M Gamble of the
T. S. Marines, who in a few brief
months experienced more excitement
and adventure than most men find in the home of Mrs. Harper
a lifetime. The devotional was given by Mrs.
This gallant officer fought under Tom w. Burton. After a business
Commodore David Porter aboard the session, articles from the Missionary
Essex in the Pacific during the War Bulletin were presented and discuss-
Pete syler and family visited
friends in the Sweetwater communi-
ty Sunday evening.
Mrs. George Adams who underwent
an operation in a Decatur hospital
last week is reported doing as well as
could be expected.
In Memory of Mrs. Arville Rhine
"Let not your heart be troubled :
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8,000 men will require transporta,
tion to the meeting points in their
various zones. They will travel by
railway, airplane. bus and automobile.
•Even with the de-centralization of _____
the pre-announcement showings of blessed privilege to go to the house
1939 product to our own organization.' God has prepared for His children,
snid Mr. Holler, -attendance in the1 A mansion so perfect that we, with
various cities where meetings are to our feeble minds can't describe. "And
lie held will average nearly 2.000. In there shall be no night there: ami
th............ of cities, this will re l they need no candle, neither light of
quire the largest available meeting the sun; for the Lord God giveth them
place. It will require the combined light :
efforts of the whole Chevrolet orei and ever.”—Kev.
zation to prepare and conduct the
huge gatherings, like of which hits
never before been seen in the his-
tory of American business.
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Islands, where he gathered a native
.-row and again et sail. Fate again
ntervened when two days later he
was captured by the British aboard
Hie Cherub, who eventually put hin i
ashore at Valparaiso. Months later he
ached New York, leaving behind him
idventures even more exciting than I
t nose which followed the famous mu-,
tiny on the Bounty.
I There are about 20,000 administra-
like officers in the American public
school systems._________________
— J
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