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PAGE EIGHT
THE MERIDIAN TRIBUNE
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1939
R. L. Hopson, of Stephenville,
was a Meridian visitor Monday.
R. L. has recently leased the Ste-
phenville State Park, located
District Court
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Congressman Poage
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YOUR Ranket
miles from Stephenville on
Mineral Wells highway,
the
where
IS WORKING FOR YOU
there is a large club house, Garner
lake, picnic units and other at-
tractions. He invites all his
friends to call and see him there.
Against You
You and your banker are never rivals.
He is a player on the “home team.” He
wants your side to score — because it
is also his side.
, Yet there are people who always sus-
pect the banker of “playing against
them” in every transaction.
Nothing could be further from the
truth. The only way the banker can get
ahead is to help you to get ahead.
Therefore, your banker’s efforts to co-
operate are 100% sincere.
V Mrs. Lowell Krizan, of Austin,
spent several days last week with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. B.
Jones.
POSTED NOTICE.
My land from the H. A. Sonntag
line south, to Elmo Waldrop line
north, and to the middle of the
Lee, divorce granted and plaintiff’s
name restored to Helen Holman
and judgment against defendant
for costs of suit and $50 attorney’s
fee.
Matilda Canuteson v. P. C. Ca-
nuteson, divorce granted and plain-
tiff given care and custody of two
minor children, Billie Joe, age 11,
and Wayne, age 8 years; defen-
dant ordered to pay into court $10
per month for care of minor chil-
dren until they reach the age of. 16
years.
Bosque, is posted.
allowed.
No trespassing
D. R. Blalock. adv-19p
NOTICE.
The Commissioners’ Court
of-
: FARMERS STATE BANK
MERrbLAN, - - Texas
“THE BANK TO BANK WITH’
Bosque County Texas, will receive
bids at 10:00 A. M. Monday, Octo-
ber 9th, 1939, for one or more
new one and one-half ton, short
wheel base, hydraulic dump steel
body trucks, F. 0. B. Meridian.
Bids must be accompanied by a
cashier’s check, drawn on a State
or National Bank, for not less that
five (5) per cent of the total
amount of bid. Notice is given
that a 1936 Chevrolet truck, one
and one-half ton, short wheel base,
hydraulic dump steel body, Li-
cense No. 15827 will be offered as
part payment and the balance will
be paid by a cash warrant drawn
on Road and Bridge Fund of Bos-
que County, Texas, and that cash
warrants are not to exceed the
amount of $1,000.00. The right
is reserved to reject any and all
bids.
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Locals and Personals
“I know not what the truth may be.
I'll tell it as 'twas told to me."
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Miss Dorothy Brown, of Morgan,
has been selected as a member of
the all-girls’ band at John Tarleton
College.
Mesdames H.. J. Cureton and
Earl B. White were visitors in Dal-
las Tuesday.
A number from Meridian at-
tended the dedication ceremonies
and open house of the new hospi-
tal at Clifton Sunday afternoon.
Miss Tommye Jean Boulware, of
Hillsboro, is visiting Miss Elizabeth
Shaffer.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred McElheney,
of Iredell, are visiting her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Dobe Porter.
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. McConnel
and A. D. Campbell were called
to Goldthwaite Sunday to be with
their mother, who is seriously ill
at the home of her son, Dr. J. M.
Campbell. Mrs. Campbell’s many
friends will be pleased to learn
that she is some better.
Mrs. Linnie Brewer and daugh-
ter, La Jean, of Waco, visited Mrs.
Brewer’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. S.
H. Cooper, last week-end.
Mrs. J. 0. Talley and Miss Lin-
nie Massengill visited Mr. and Mrs.
S. H. Cooper last week. Mrs. Tal-
ley is Mrs. Cooper’s sister. •
Solomon .Jones returned to
Houston Friday after a visit of two
weeks with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. G. B. Jones.
Mr. and Mrs. Sim Goodall and
daughter, Miss Anna Mae, of
Gatesville, visited friends here last
week-end.
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Burdette and
children, of Denton, visited Mrs.
Carl McNeil, R. L. Gandy and Mrs.
Sallie Siddall last week.
Mrs. Eldon Chiles, of Conroe,
and Jim Robertson, of Baytown,
spent the week-end with their fath-
er, R. S. Robertson.
County Clerk Hardwick this
week issued a marriage license to
Edward James Henneke and Miss
Roberta Weehunt.
Mrs. Jno. S. Odle has returned
from a visit with her daughter,
SPECIAL TO STUDENTS, Mrs. Allie Molloy, at Ennis. Mr.
TEACHERS! A regular weekly
letter from home sent to your
school address, now until next
and Mrs. Molloy accompanied her
home for a short visit.
June for only $1.00. THE ME-
RIDIAN TRIBUNE. adv-tf
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YOU BUY CHEAPER
EVERY DAY
at
‘SHAFFER’S’
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. P. Robertson
have gone to Fort Worth to make
their home. Their many friends
here sincerely miss them, and wish
Mr. Robertson a speedy improve-
ment in health there.
Mrs. J. W. Bowden has return-
ed from San Antonio where she
had spent the past three months
in the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Fred Hicks. She was accompan-
ied home by Mrs. Hicks and son,
Jack, who returned home the next
day.
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KARL L. LOVELADY,
County Judge,
Bosque County,
Texas.
Natural enemies of rattlesnakes
continue to take their toll. The
latest incident to come to the at-
tention of the Game Department
was reported by P. W. Krauter of
Medina county, who recently ob-
served a coachwhip snake crawling
very slowly in a circle. Approach-
ing closer, Mr.- Krauter saw the
snake make a quick movement.
It grabbed a- three-foot rattler
about midway of its back and
shook it, apparently breaking the
rattler’s back. After the venom-
ous snake was dead, the coachwhip
snake ate it.
Not only did birds destroy vast
numbers of grasshoppers, but one
game manager observed a flock of
Swainson’s hawks numbering more
than 1,000 feeding on mature hop-
pers last week and also scratching
and digging around in the ground.
After, the flock flew away he
checked the large field closely and
was unable to find any egg pods.
Thus is shown another good reason
why the wildlife of Texas should
be protected and why it is worth
millions of dollars to landowners
as well as sportsmen, the Executive
Secretary pointed out.
Typewriter Ribbons, 50c, at the
Tribune office.
Criminal Cases.
A. C. Jarrell, charged with mur-
der, on change of venue from
Johnson county; set for trial Mon-
day, Oct. 2, and special venire or-
dered summoned.
Allen Gossett plead guilty to
burglary and was given five years
in the penitentiary with sentence
suspended.
Leonard Mills plead guilty to
two charges of burglary and two
charges of theft over $50 and was
given 3 years in the penitentiary
in each case, to run concurrently.
Defendant gave notice of appeal
to the Court of Criminal Appeals,
it is said, for the purpose of delay-
ing sentence until he can arrange
his affairs - and was released on
$1000 bond in each case with P. P.
Mills and A. Y. Mitchell as sureties.
Tommy Reed also plead guilty
to two charges of burglary and
two charges of theft over $50 and
was also given three years in the
penitentiary in each case, to run
concurrently. Reed is under eight
years sentence at Marlin and says
he has other cases coming up in
Limestone and McLennan counties.
The cases against Mills and Reed
in this county are the result of the
burglary of the warehouse of Roy
Pool at Valley Mills on July 28,
when thirty casings were stolen,
and burglarizing the warehouse of
Sam Sheppard at Morgan on Aug-
ust 16 when 114 gallons of lubri-
cating oil, valued at $85.95, were
stolen. The sheriff’s department
recovered 15 of the casings and
most of the lubricating oil.
Harold Paschall plead guilty to
two charges of forgery and passing
and was given two years in the
penitentiary in each case, the sen-
tences to run concurrently. These
cases are the result of Paschall
forging and passing a $20 check
which was cashed by W. L. Forson
out of the zone of hostilities. It
does nothing to keep American
ships from carrying contraband
cargo, except “arms, ammunition
and implements of war” to any
port in the world. On the con-
trary, it definitely allows the de-
livery of oil, cotton,- wheat and
iron to any nation by American
citizens, on American ships, fly-
ing the American flag. These are
the things that Germany, as well,
as England, want to buy in the
United States. These are the
things both sides will try to get
for themselves, and will try to pre-
vent reaching their enemies. Just
as surely as we allow this traffic to
continue in American ships, we are
going to see American ships sunk.
“Likewise, the present law plac-
es no obstacle in the path of those
American citizens who want to
travel in the war zone. As far as
our law is concerned they can ride
a British ship loaded with high
explosives, or they can travel
through the front lines. Of
course, to allow this will inevitably
result in the loss of American lives,
but our present law does not pre-
vent it. Neither does the present
neutrality law prevent the sale of
goods on a credit. The citizens of
any nation can, so far as our neu-
trality laws are concerned, come
here, and if they can find anyone
who will sell them oil, iron, or cot-
ton on a credit, they can buy it
and take it or send it on an Ameri-
can ship to any beligerent port.
“What, my friends, took us into
the last world war? Certainly we-
wanted to stay out then just as
sincerely as we do now. Less
than six months before we entered
that war, the public had express-
ed its determination to .stay out of
war, and had elected a President
and a Congress largely on that is-
sue. However, when war came it
came in response to the demand
of the American people. What
had caused the change in Ameri-
can opinion? As I see it, two
things had conspired to bring the
American people to a willingness
to fight. These two things were
(1) the sale of goods to beligerent
nations on credit, and (2) the in-
sistence of American citizens
their privilege to travel in the
zone.
on
war
APPLES
ORANGES
BANANAS
Grapes, lb.
.5€
Last Chance:
Flour, 24 lb.,55c
Flour, 48 lb.....$1.05
Lard, 4-lb. cart...45c
Sugar, 10-lb. cloth
bag ....................60c
LUMBER
1 x ^............^ co
2 x 4‛s. ..............04.0U
2 x 6’s.........-------------------
SHIPLAP...................Per 100
CENTER MATCH.........Feet
“Shaffer"
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FOR SALE-50 Rhode Island
Red pullets, 8 mos. old; 50 Barred
Rock pullets, 5% mos. old. Geo.
Arthur. - adv-p.
Mr. and Mrs. Levi A. Dunlap
and son, Moran, visited Mr. and
Mrs. R. L. Wiginton at Itasca Sun-
day.
EASY WAY
to Raise
GOOD CALVES
Put
PURINA CALF STARTENA
before your calves, and let them
feed themselves. They start eat-
ing when 4 days old and need no
milk at all after the first month.
It’s easy. It’s cheap. And folks
say it raises calves with real dairy
quality. Try some. We’ll bet you’ll
never go back to raising calves
on milk out of a bucket again
MARKMAN’S
FEED AND HATCHERY
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at Clifton on August’ 23 and a $10
forged check cashed by Omer
Jones at Clifton, July 28.
Jurors for Next Week.
Olin Brantley, H. C. Graves, Ire-
dell; O. C. Johnson, Clarence Car-
penter, W. H. Bonds, Oran Canut-
eson, W. P. Downey, N. M. Clark,
Jodie Arthur, Axle Dahl, M. L.
Lambert, W. T. Dixon, R. M. Jones
Clay Canuteson, T. C. Matson, E.
G. Bronstad, Jorgan Gaustad, Clif-
ton; W. R. Elrod, C. 0. Bergman,
H. H. Darby, J. I. Brock, O. K.
Brown, C. E. Dansby, Sowell Cox,
Valley Mills; Conley Tergerson,
Loy Burch, J. L. Brown, W. C.
Gilmore, Jeff M. Hanna, Meridian;
T. K. Blalock, Walnut Springs;
Burl Johnson, Kopperl; G. W.
Bearden, Mosheim; Robert Cole,
Abner Greer, C. L. Burgan, Mor-
gan.
Court adjourned Thursday af-
ternoon until Monday morning.
St. Olaf Lutheran Church,
Cranfills Gap.
Sunday, Sept. 24:
No Sunday school this Sunday.
10:30 a.m.—Mission Festival at
the Rock Church. Lunch at the
church grove? -
2:30 p.m.—Service continued,
Speaker will be Rev. P. E. Thorson.
. Monday, 7:30 p.m.—Male cho-
rus.
Wednesday, 8 p.m.—North Aid
will meet in church basement.
Mrs. Ida Nelson, hostess.
Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.—Mixed
chorus.
Saturday, 9 a.m.—Catechetical
class.
“But so much for 1917. What
will take us into war in 1939?
Just the same factors will take us
down that bloody road today if we
allow these same factors free play.
Credit to warring nations always
creates a financial interest in the
outcome of some foreign fight.
The sale of goods of any kind on a
credit to any beligerent should be
stopped, and if it is not stopped it
will lead us to war just as it did in
1917. But the present law allows
such credit sales..
this war before Christmas. I
know, of course, that Americans
and American ships have a theoret-
ical right anywhere on the high
seas. I likewise know that I have
a right to drive along that street
out there whenever I want, but if
the sheriff was shooting across the
street at a gang of bandits and the
outlaws were shooting back, I
think I should be “bored for the
simples’’ if I should insist on my
right to drive down the street.
That is the situation as regards
American ships taking goods to
any of the warring nations today,
except that those who send Am-
erican ships to these nations, and
even those American citizens who
insist on traveling in the war zone,
endanger not only themselves but
they are endangering the whole
nation. The only way to avoid
this source of war is to keep Am-
erican citizens and ships out of the
war zone. Yet the present law
does nothing to prevent this. Do
you think that kind of a law is go-
ing to keep America out of war?
I don’t. The bad dog bites the
delivery boy, not the grocer who
sold the goods and filled the order
in his store. We must stop being
delivery boys to those folks who
are at war. Let’s make those fel-
lows buy their goods on the Pig-
gly Wiggly plan.
“The way to prevent a repeti-
tion of the horrors of the last war,
so far as Americans concerned, is
to profit by the experience of the
past. Let us stop the sale of
goods to warring nations on a
credit. Let us stop American cit-
izens from traveling in the war
zone. Let us keep American ships
out of the combat area. Are
these three objectives unfair, un-
American or unneutral? Is there
anything so sinister about these
simple proposals? I think not.
On the contrary, I think they are
good common sense. They are
the principals of the proposed
cash-and-carry neutrality bill.
“This program continues the
rules of International Law which
has always recognized the right of
any people to sell anything to any
other people. It allows our peo-
ple to continue to do business with
the nations of the world without
involving them in the hazards of
submarine warfare. It allows
American fields and American fac-
tories to continue to produce for'
export as they have always done.
The American farmer and the
American laborer did not cause
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Rays rood Store
MERIDIAN, TEXAS
Flour
48-LBS. LIGHT CRUST......$1.50
48 LBS. GOLD CHAIN........$1.50
CREAM OF WHEAT, 48-lb. $1.30
Sryup
STEAMBOAT, per gal.
KOO KOO, per gal.......
Salmon
2 CANS .......................
Mother's Oats
LARGE SIZE .............
Milk
7 CANS ...........................
Pork and Beans
PER CAN ....................
...50c
...50c
25c
.20c
25c
.5c
Bright and Early Tea
PER BOX ....... ....10c
Bananas
Apples
PER DOZEN ...............
Pennant Coffee
PER LB. ......................
.9c
17c
Notice
- We Will Gve Away Free:
6 SACKS OF CANE SUGAR
Immediately After Good Will
Event
Let Us
WASH, GREASE AND
VACUUM-CLEAN YOUR
YOUR CAR, ALL FOR
$1.00
Try a Tank of Esso—It Is More
Powerful' Than Any Gasoline.
Bring in Your Eggs. We will pay
- highest cash pdice for them. .
PHONE 4—WE DELIVER
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"The travel of American citi-
zens in the war zone is certain,
sooner or later, to involve our
country if we continue to permit it.
If Americans continue to ride
British, or the ships of any other
beligerent, it is sure that some of
them will ultimtely lose their lives,
and when that happens it is going
to be very doubtful whether we
can maintain American neutrality.
We did’nt do it in 1917. But the
GASOLINE & OIL
Gal., 124c ; Qt. 10c
Shelf Hardware
Lumber
Building Materials
I’LL HAVE EXTRA GOOD
VALUES EVERY DAY—YOU
CAN COUNT ON PLAYING
SAFE WHEN YOU TRADE AT
THE ONE-HOSS STORE.
Price Not Going
I EVERYBODY TALKING PRICES GOING UP—But there is one |
= exception. Insurance rates, in almost all classes of risks, have =
9 been lowered. The effective date of these -changes being =
E September 1, 1939, and were set up by the State Board of Insur- =
= ance Commissioners at Austin, which sets all rates for the state, =
E thus making rate cutting impossible anywhere in the state. Every I
E agent .has a rate book sent him from the State Department and =
= he must be governed by the rates, credits, etc. in this book.
I DON’T BE MISLED—The price of GOOD, RELIABLE Insurance 1
E cannot be changed in any way, by any agent without the consent 2
5 of the state repartment, then all agents are notified of the E
E change and rating st’ll remains the same to all. .
1 . . •
E When in in need of Insurance in any line that 1 write I will =
= appreciate your business. 5
| Faye Young, Insurance 1
Agent For I
| HARTFORD FIRE INS. CO. NEW YORK EQUITABLE E
HANOVER — MERCURY
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the present- conditions in Europe.
Are they to be denied the oppor-
tunity to sell the produce of their
toil to people who want to buy
them, just because some foreign
nation wants to starve its enemy?
If such sale of American goods
seemed to endanger the peace of
America, the answer might be
“yes.” I am willing, and I am
sure that you are willing to go to
are so unmindful of their nation’s
welfare it becomes the duty of our
government to throw away the
broken reed of existing law on
which we have leaned and to im-
plement our nation with a real
neutrality law on which we can
go to great lengths to keep Am-
erica out of war, but let me again
repeat-—it is the delivery, not the
sale of goods that leads to war.
If then, an embargo on American
goods is only intended to help one
of the European countries, I am
against such an embargo. I am
willing to impose most burden-
some restrictions on any and all
of our people to maintain our
peace, but I am not willing to ask
our American people to close half
their factories and let half the
farm land of the South grow up to
safely rest. Of course,'11 know
that we can no more guarantee
peace by law than we can guaran-
tee that there will be no more
crime in Waco, but just as we
know that laws check crime, so we
can and should check our headlong' *
course toward war. Let us do all
we can. Let us stop credit sales
to beligerents. Let us forbid •
American citizens and American,
ships from going into the combat
zone. Let us tell all the world
that we will sell to all who come,
but that they must pay cash and
take their goods home. Let us do
these things that we can see to do
and pray to God that He may do
for us those things that we cannot
see to do.’’
present law on which some of our
citizens rely for American security
allows a repetition of the same er- Johnson grass, simply to T
rors we made then.------e please
Nor is that all. The most im-
mediate threat to our neutrality
lies in the movement of goods into
the war zone on American ships, at our own ports.
And the present law does absolute-
ly nothing to prevent this. I have
already mentioned petroleum and
its products as being of vital im-
portance in any modern war. If
there was nothing else to involve
us in war, I cannot believe that we
will be able to continue shipping
American oil in American ships,
with American crews under the
American flag, into the war zone,
without involving our country in
any of the European rulers. Let
Americans work. .Let our farms
and our factories continue to pro-
duce. Let us sell to all the world
- All of this is
purely a domestic matter and will
not involve us in any trouble.
But, let us see that in our desire to
keep our people working we do not
inject ourselves, our people or our
ships into the war zone.
Since there are Americans who
I Saturday Specials
Brazilian Peaberry Coffee.
Cabbage
| 25-Oz. K. C. Baking Powder
S Cake Flour.......
Bisquick
3 Boxes 80 Paper Napkins
Matches
12c Lb.
3c Lb.
17c
23c Box
31c Box
23c
3c per box
Fresh Vegetables Fancy Meats
Your Business Appreciated.
SPITZER'S GRO. & MARKET
MERIDIAN
s
SPECIAL TO STUDENTS,
TEACHERS! A regular weekly
letter from home sent to your
school address, now until next
June for only $1.00. THE ME-
RIDIAN TRIBUNE. adv-tf
APARTMENT for Rent. Mrs.
T. L. Dunlap. adv-c
WILL TRADE—-Farm wagon
for pony, gentle to ride and drive.
Frank Frazier. adv-18p.
Happiness is a delicate balance
between what one is and what one
has.—J. H. Denison.
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ing for The Norther"—we have E
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OUR PURCHASES ARE HERE. |
Selections of Dresses, Hats, Coats, |
Shoes, and Gloves. E
Come, let us show you our new
Merchandise.
Visit Our Store. We Like to Show Our Goods.
F.R.ODLE
Meridian, Texas
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