The Brady Standard (Brady, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 7, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 18, 1939 Page: 2 of 8
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THE BRADY STANDARD, BRADY, TEXAS TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1989
PRESENTING...
GARTMAN’S
...New Furniture Department
It is with no small degree of pride that we present our new furniture
department. We assure you it will be a genuine pleasure to show you
our new offerings in furniture and household furnishings!
Living Room Suites!
NEW COLORS! .... NEW DESIGNS!
Bed Room Suites!
New Furniture al-
ways adds loveliness
to the home.
Whether it’s one
piece or a full suite
....you will enjoy
it. And new furni-
ture will add com-
fort to the home for
a long time.
•
May we suggest a
visit through Gart-
man’s New Furni-
ture Department.
You are likely to
find something new
.... you will want
for the home!
Other
Furniture
Suggestions
NEW! MODERNISTIC AND OTHER BEAUTIFUL
DESIGNS!
Studio Couches!
• Congoleum
• End Tables
• Console Tables
• Lawn Rockers
ELECTRICAL
APPLIANCES
• Floor Lamps
• Mixmasters
• Coffeemasters
• Toastmasters
NEW COMFORT!. . . . NEW STYLING!
Gartman’s Store Adds Furniture
Odd Chairs
Plenty of Style and Plenty
of Comfort
•
Occasional Chairs
and
Platform Rockers
....Ina Variety
of Colors!
Breakfast Room Suites
IN NEW
—Maple!
—Oak!
—Walnut!
Everything For The
COMPLETE KITCHEN!
Formal Opening Days...
THURSDAY • FRIDAY • SATURDAY
Free! gift prizes each day!
GARTMAN’S
NEW STORE
Refrigeration
Radios
Furniture
OTHER NEW MERCHANDISE
RECEIVED BY BRADY FIRM
Special Plan On Norge Appliances From
Now To May 10; Building Renovated;
Attractions For All During Event
Gartman’s new store will be formally opened to the
public this week, the three-day event to commence Thurs-
day morning and to continue through Saturday. The festi-
val has a three-old purpose: the commemoration of the
closing of Jack Gartman’s 21st year as a business man of
Brady, the removal of his store to the new Bell building
on the northeast corner of the plaza, two doors east of
Central Drug Store, and the addition of a stock of new
furniture. Special inducements will be in effect from the
time of Gartman’s formal opening until May 10, Mr. Gart-
| man said.
I New designs of furniture are
now in stock at Gartman’s. The
1 new merchandise includes bed-
room suites, living room suites,
breakfast suites, studio couches,
odd chairs, etc., in addition to the
largest shipment of Norge stoves
and Norge refrigerators ever re-
I ceived in this section of West
i Texas,
| From Thursday through May 10,
Gartman’s will have a special plan
in effect whereby any Norge ap-
pliance can be purchased for as
little as $1 down, no interest for,
I six months, and with 36 months
to pay the balance. This will make
lit possible for any person with gas
for electricity to own one or more
of these famous Norge appliances,
( including ranges, hot water heat-
ers, ironers, refrigerators and
; washing machines.
Whether interested in the pur-
| chase of new furniture or any of
the other merchandise carried in
stock. Mr. Gartman urges all his.
I new and old friends to inspect his
new store one or more days of the
three-day formal opening begin-
ning Thursday, and to look over
his lines for future wants.
Special attractions are in store
for the visitors who call at Gart-
i man’s each afternoon of the formal
I opening days.
| The new building into which
Gartman’s has moved, has been com-
pletely renovated and redecorated,
| with a partition having been add-
I ed to separate the service depart-
’ ment from the display room. An
| office has also been constructed
■ for the business department.
Hydro-Gas Man
W. L BAUCOM
W. L. Baucom has been with
Gartman’s for the past year and a
half, in charge of the gas fuel
and service department for Hydro-
Gas. Mr. Baucom is a home boy,
having been reared here, and Is
well acquainted with the farmers
and ranchmen over this section.
Gartman’s has installed many Hy-
dro-Gas plants through this sec-
tion, and Mr. Baucom services and
refuels 105 plants as the need a-
rises.
Good Service Man
BRUCE WADE
A graduate of both a radio and
refrigerator service school, Bruce
Wade la a crack service man for
radios and refrigerators. He has
been in this department at Gart-
man's for the past two years, and
has proved both dependable and
efficient He also was reared here,
and has many friends over thia
section.
She’s Saleslady
MISS GLENNA BRADLEY
A graduate of Brady High
School two years ago, Miss Glen-
na Bradley has been employed de-si
since then as a bookkeeper and M
saleslady for Gartman’s. Con-
genial and always pleasant. Miss
Bradley is the one who greets
friends and prospective customers
at the door of Gartman’s. She’s
capable of selling a refrigerator
or writing a business letter.
RE VER SION AD
VALOREM TAX
ASKED IN BILL
Rep. Cockrell Sponsor of
Measure;Permit McCul-
loch, San Saba, Lampas-
as Use in Flood Control
On Monday of this week the
House began consideration again
of another tax measure for financ-
ing the Social Security Program.
This time the tax measure is in
the form of an omnibus tax bill
which places a tax on 32 differ-
ent items such as beer, soft drinks,
entertainments, cigarettes, all
natural resources and some public
utilities. All such articles as food,
clothing, house furnishings and
farm implements would be exclud-
ed from taxation under this bill.
This seems to be the most desir-
able tax plan that has been pre-
sented on the floor of the House
thus far, and I shall use my vote
and influence for its passage.
The Land Vacancy Bill (H. B.
No. 9) was amended, but not so
as to be satisfactory with the
school officials, and was passed to
engrossment yesterday. It is my
understanding that a teachers’ re-
tirement bill will come up for con-
sideration in a few days and I be-
lieve it will pass.
Among those who came to see
me last week were: Mr. C. H. Mc-
Cutchen, Judge Lewis, County
Commissioners Eubanks, Smith,
Bailey and Lively of Lampasas;
and County Clerk Arch Woods,
Supt. Oliver, Judge Harrell, Coun-
ty Commissioners Bennett and Mc-
Rory of San Saba. I was glad to
see these people from my district,
and I would like for all to know
that you are welcome to come see
me at any time. These people
from my district and I met with
other county officials here in Aus-
tin to discuss a substitute bill for
the County Judges’ Bond Assump-
tion Bill. It appears in every way
that the substitute bill is better
for my district. I have just learn-
ed that the County Judges’ Bill
has been ruled by the U. S. Atty.
General as not being a diversion
of the highway fund, and this is
encouragement for the supporters
of the substitute bill as well as for
those of the County Judges’ Bill.
Yesterday I introduced a bill
asking for the reversion of the
State ad valorem taxes in each
of my three counties for a period!
of ten years for the purpose of
aiding in flood control work. This
bill may not have much of a chance
of passing, but I firmly believe
it is needed in my district.
Your Representative,
ELLIS D. COCKRELL.
• Remington Portable Typewriters
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Brady Standard.
H A PPYLt
----GO----V
E=====LUCKY
as The Standard’s Observer =
Whenever you ask anyone what
he or she thinks the country needs
they are usually of the opinion—
if they have one—that we need
more “balance” in everything. For
instance: a Brady grocer placed a
sign about strawberries on one of
his windows, then after a few
drags at a cigarette he proceed-
ed to write a sign informing the
public about their salt pork. That’s
“balance”. Whenever a hand-out
bill is introduced in Austin or
Washington it ought to have a tax-
measure written on the other side.
And by way of suggestion, it
might be well to pass the bill on
the other side first, That would
help “the balance”.
Time changes things: a news
item states that a group down
in Mexico is organizing to take
part in future presidential elec-
tions. which makes it look as
I though “group pressure” as it is
sometimes called, is going to take
the place of gunpowder.
War scares, bad markets, war
scares, headaches in all lines of
industry, more war scares. Back
during the school days there were
two boys who were always queer-
ing all our games by their con-
tinuous quarreling. This went on
for the most part of an entire
term until one day we ganged the
two and rubbed their noses to-
gether. After that they were
the best of buddies.
The oil painting recently placed
in the postoffice building is a
scene of a pioneer home-seeker
crossing a prairie with perhaps all
his worldly goods packed in a
Conestoga wagon. The wagon and
team has been pulled into the bed
of a ravine while the people in the
scene are watching a distant herd
of buffalo being pursued by
Indians. The men are armed with
single-shot muzzle-loading rifles.
us would-be gunners now-
adays would feel pretty enpty-
handed with an arm of that sort,
but those old coalburners were
plenty “pizen” in the hands of the
oldtimers. Many of the rifles of
that day were hand-made, and for
for farm benefits and for handling
surplus agricultural products.
| “It is believed that with the a-
doption of the $250,000,000 parity
(payments and the $60,000,000 in-
, . , ... . crease under Section 32. substan-
accuracy up to two or three 1 protein 1211 mad 4.1
Comar -nlainp Farerceaectuni cetaetwes ??«3»> Hemtri pry
sporting arms, even if you couldn’t IT 1
shoot them as many times per
minute .... According to what
information I have been able to
get, the first serious attempt to
develop a repeating rifle was in-
spired when an early-day gun-
smith’s brother, having missed _
shot at an Indian, was tomahawk- Prittii
ed by the redskin before he could toothpick star,
reload. Too, it seems that the
first experiments were in the effort
to place two or more shots in
the same barrel, roman-candle
fashion . . , Someone once asked
a noted authority on sporting arms
what particular make of rifle had
killed the most game in North
America. “The old brass-sided
14 Winchester,” was the answer.
The old brass-sider, or Model ’73
Winchester is often called “the
EnA-hEtA, e popular mpatmtey Tro a PHCEE five-point star,
the ammunition for them would
also fit the Frontier model Colt
six-shooter. However, the old ’73
was not the first repeater to be
placed on the market, as it was
preceded by several rim-fire types
such as the Spencer, Sharps, Henry i
and a Winchester that was
chambered for the Henry cartridge,!
all being brought out at about the
time of the civil war.
Heard on the street: Q:—“Where
can a man buy an aged bull?”
A.—“At any of the meat
markets.”
BUM BUSINESS
Abe had shot a man, and was
sentenced to be electrocuted. On
the morning of the execution the
warden told him how sorry he was,
and how it was going to cost the
state $500 to electrocute him.
Pretty bum business,” spoke up
Abe. "Give me $50 and I’ll shoot
myself!”
BRISK BUSINESS
„ "Yeah," said the Westerner,
we re sure plenty tough out here,
stranger. Why, every time I kill
a man I carve a notch on my re-
volver butt.”
.. “Well,” replied the stranger,
you cant scare me, for you
haven t done much killing, I see.
That revolver butt of your hasn’t
a single notch on it."
“Yeah, I know it, stranger. I
have to put a new butt on every
week." 7
• Patera. The Brady Standard.
We Extend Congratulations
to the New
GARTMAN
3 LEX
STORE
SEN. CONNALLY
ASKS AMENDMENT
Favors $250,000,000 Amend-
ment to Provide for Carry,
ing Out 1939 Ag Program
Washington, D. C., April 13,- 4
Senator Tom Connally of Texar
introduced an amendment to the
Agricultural Appropriation Bill to
provide an additional appropria-
tion of $60,000,000 for use of the
Secretary of Agriculture under
SENATOR TOM CONNALLY
Section 32 of An Act to Amend the
AAA, approved August 24, 1935.
Section 32 was originally adopted
through an amendment offered by
Senator Connally in 1935.
“To secure provisions toward
parity payments I strongly favor
the adoption of an amendment in
the Senate for $250,000,000 for
such parity payments.
“I have also offered an amend-
ment to increase the funds avail-
able under Section 32 in the a-
mount of $60,000,000. Section 32
is that provision which allows the
Secretary of Agriculture to em-
ploy 30% of all customs revenues
TOOTHPICK STAR .
Materials needed for this effec-
tive stunt are a plate or saucer,
five wooden toothpicks and a glass
of water. After exhibiting these
articles, the performer tells his
a audience he will make them a
Then he proceeds to break each
toothpick in the middle, but does
not break it clear apart. Next he
places the cracked toothpicks on
the plate with the free ends point*
ing in five different directions and
all the “breaks” bunched in the
center. To complete the star, he
dips his finger in the water and
drops a few drops of it on the
"breaks”. As the wood fibers ab-
sorb the water they begin to swell
and move the cracked toothpicks
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PAINTING
....and Expert
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RE - FINISHING
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Phone 80
Brady, Texas
BARBER
and BEAUTY SHOP
-------Phone 507-------
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