The Alto Herald (Alto, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 11, 1927 Page: 4 of 4
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ALTO HERALD, ALTO. TEXAS, AUGUST 11, 1927.
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LOCAL AND PERSONAL
MRS. F. L. WEIMAR, REPORTER.
Dragon Overalls Only at. Dials'i Mrs. Tommie Musick of
I Burkburnette, spent Thursday
Miss Artie Holcomb left Sun- and Friday with her niece,
day for Dallas where she has Mrs. A1 Smith.
accepted a position.
999_9—99—9
Bankrupt Store. Line at Dials'.
We have some real Bargains
in Men's Suits. New Fall
Dragon Overalls Only at Dials'
Mrs. Bettie McCarty of Hills-
bora, is visiting relatives here
this week.
Mrs. A1 Smith and daughter,
I Mrs. Clyde Minter, visited Mr.
and Mrs. Jeffie Stovall in Rusk
1 Tuesday.
999—9—99—9
Bankrupt Store.
Puny Dollars and Thin
Dimes will have great times.
999—9— 99—9— Bankrupt
Store.
Dragon Overalls Only at Dials'
Luther McDuffie of Rusk
was a business visitor in Alto
Monday.
j Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Singletary
came home from Houston Mon-
'day, after a visit with their
sons, Louie and Hubert.
Dragon Overalls Only at Dials'
999—9—99—9
Bankrupt Store.
Mrs. N. G. A<gnew and
daughter, Mrs. Harry Madden,
were visitors in Tyler Sunday.
Our Stocks are complete.
New Fall Merchandise are
here. Come in and see.
J. B. Dial.
999—9—99—9
Bankrupt Store.
Mrs. J. B. Walker and baby
and Miss Amie Summers . of
Pineland, visited relatives afid
friends here Sunday.
Dragon Overalls Only at Dials' |
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hol-
comb were visitors in Jackson-
ville Saturday.
Puny Dollars and Thin
Dimes will have gfeat times.
999—9— 99—9— Bankrupt
Store.
NOTICE
FOR A LIMITED TIME ON-
LY, PURE RIBBON CANE
SYRUP AT 80c PER GALLON,
F. O. B. DIXIE FARMS, MOR-
RILL, TEXAS.
Mr. and Mrs. Jewel Single-
tary came home from Dallas
Sunday, after a visit with the
latter's sister, Mrs. Walter
Truett.
B. B. Brittain left yesterday
for Austin, where he went to
attend the State Dealers Con-
vention of the Ford Motor
Company.
Mrs. R. C. Erwin came in
Tuesday from Dallas and will
«pend several days here visit-
ing her son and daughter, Mr.
and Mrs. J. C. Erwln,
Mr. and Mrs. D. T. Martin
and son, Dan T. Jr. of Houston,
returned home Tuesday, after
several days visit in the home
of Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Brittain.
Mrs. A. P. Williams and
daughters, Misses "Glesnal and
Laura, came home Friday from
a weeks' visit in San Augustine
in the home of Mr. and Mrs. D.
A. Alford.
T
999_9_99_9
Bankrupt Store.
Dragon Overalls Only at Dials'
Messrs. Albert Holcomb
and Lester Rozelle returned
home Friday after a weeks'
visit in Dallas.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Poore
and daughter, Nettie Lee, and
mother, Mrs. E. W. Womack,
and Mr. and Mrs. Sid Womack
were visitors in Crockett Sim-
day.
Dragon Brand Overalls are
better and cheaper.
J. B. Dial.
Miss Iris Allen of Houston
spent last week-end here with
relatives and friends.
999—9—99—9
Miss Agnes Whitehead is
[spending thisfweek in Galves-
ton with her sister, Miss Paul-
'ine Whitehead.
Bankrupt Store.
Dragon Overalls Only at Dials'
Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Tread-
well were visitors in Dallas the
first of the week.
999—9—99—9
Bankrupt Store.
Dragon Overalls Only at Dials'
Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Ray and
Elmer Turner, attended the
fair at Troup Thursday.
999—9—99—9
Bankrupt Store.
Puny Dollars and Thin
Dimes will have great times,
999—9— 99—9— Bankrupt
Store.
J. E. Watters left Sunday for
St. Louis, where he will pur-
chase Fall Goods for Berryman
and Watters Store.
We are offering a Special
for the next few days on our
Dragon Brand Overalls, a good
$1.75 vKTue at $1.39.
J. B. Dial.
Dragon Overalls Only at Dials'
Mrs. T. H. Holcomb left
Tuesday for a visit in Jackson-
ville with her eon, Henry Hol-
comb.
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Bynum Pu".v Dollars and Thin
and son, Edward, were visitors Rimes will have great times,
in Lufkin Sunday afternoon.
999—9—99—9
Bankrupt Store.
999—9.
Store.
99—9— Bankrupt
Dragon Overalls Only at Dials'
Mesdames Elbert and Koher
Watters were visitors in Jack-
sonville Monday.
Mrs. Clyde Poore and daugh-
ter, and mother, Mrs. Womack,
Mrs. Loy Duddlesten and Mrs.
Helen Musick were visitors in
Jacksonville Monday.
999—9—99—9
Bankrupt Store.
Dragon Overalls* Only at Dials'
Clarence Colley of Lufkin,
spent Sunday here with rel-
atives.
Dragon Overalls Only at Dials'
Mrs. Hairy Madden left
.Wednesday for several days
Tlsit in Tyler.
Free! Free! Free!—Towels
at Dials'. Ask about them.
, It is bettef to be safe than
sorry. We sell Dependable
Merchandise, why take an-
other chance.
J. B. Dial.
Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Ray of
Nacogdoches, spent last week-
end with their parents. Mr. and
Mrs. B. M. Ray.
We have some New Fall
Dresses that are real pretty,
$9.95 and $12.50.
J. B. Dial.
Mrs. Jeffie Stovall of Rusk,
spent Monday here with her
parents,Mr. and Mrs. A1 Smith.
Mr. Fate Muckleroy of Nac-
ogdoches, came in Mpnday and
is spending this week in the
home of Mr. and Mrs. T. E.
Birdsong and other relatives.
If you want the best, see us.
J. B. Dial.
Mrs. Bob McKinnery and
children of Plain, spent Friday
here with her sister, Mrs. Geo.
Merriwether. She was accom-
panied home by her sisters,
Misses Nora and Rayford, who
will spent this week with her.
The face value today of the
thirty pieces of silver mention-
ed in the Bible is about $22.50.
Palms are regarded by the
people of Egypt as symbols of
peace and rest and are held
sacred.
J. Fenimore Cooper's de-
cision to write came after he
had read & very poorly written
novel.
Humming birds pasB tMftfrin-
ter in Central America.
Contrary to popular belief
traffic on the Mississippi River
has doubled in volume in the
past forty years.
The Japanese have forbid-
den the ancient Korean custom
of carving a design on the neck
of a girl who has jilted her
lover.
To shoot a projetcile to the
moon it would be necessary for
it to have a velocity of seven
miles a second. The avenge
big gun can give a speed of
only about one one-hundredth
of that rate.
NO LIE
Boss: "See herp! You told
my office girl that you wanted
to see me on a matter of life
and death!"
Salesman: "I do, sir, I
want to sell you some life in-
surance."—r-Paul Gunder.
TERRIBLE ERROR
Reggie—Did somebody hit
you on the mouth?
Archie—Why, no. Where's
the mirror? I—well, (for
heaven's sakes! I used Mae's
lipstick on my mustache in-
stead of her eyebrow pencil!
BETTER SETTLE
Pools! Pools! Pools!—The;
best in the land.
J. B. Dial, Exclusive Dealer.
Mrs. A. D. Acrey left
.Wednesday for a visit with her
ulster, Mrs. Ed Feazell in Nac-
ogdoches.
Messrs. Chester Gipson and
Jim Holcomb returned home
from Hot Springs Sunday,
where they had spent several
days.
Puny Dollars and Thin
Dimes wilT Have great times, j
999—9— 99—9— Bankrupt
Store. |
A woman said—"Ye? siree,
I'll tell the world. The Bank-
rupt Store has got the whole
town beat on prices—Not only
on one thing, but on everything
—Not only one time, but all the
time."
Miss Madge Edmonds came Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Minter
home Monday from Dallas, and son. Harold of Jasper,
where she was the guest of Mr.' came in Sunday for a> visit in
aitf) Mrs. C. C. Heck tfce pmst the heme of Mr. and Mrs. A1
{week. S th.
weather
Ashcraft— The
seems unsettled.
Crandall—Yeah; they must
have forgotten to pavj the
weather man's salary.
^ SIGN OF AGE
Doctor—Your father ,-eems
hale and hearty at the age 104.
Mountaineer — Yep, bnt
pap's slippin'. T'other day I
heard him say he reckoned
he d take up the game of golf.
DIAGNOSED
Teacher—"If I 'gave ^hi a
big red apple and you gave
Robert seven-eights of it what
'*;ould you have7" j
Tommy—"Sowie kind of di-
sea^b-in my brain."
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Cowboys Shoot Way
From Wrecked Car
Miles City. Mont.—A novel use
for pistols wui discovered by
two cowboys of this section
when tllpy used their "pats" as
nn Hid to extract themselves
from under nil overturned «•*>■
Bert A. Mumpower and W. L
Vawter were pinned beneath
lliclr auto when the mnchlr.t
skidded off the road.
With no one In sight and little
prospect of extracting them-
selves, Vitwter poured a hall of
bullet* into the door of the car.
Under the shower of the shots
the door opened und enabled the
men to cruwl from their peril-
ous positions.
The men escaped with minor
Injuries.
OHKHSMHWHKHCKHKWSW
DOG IS VICTOR IN
FIGHT WITH COBRA
REDLAWN
Guy Tullis of Ffeeport, spent
the week-end with home folks.
Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Parrish
had as guests Sunday Mr. and
Mrs. E. Boatman of Maydelle,
Mr. and Mrs. B. Cook of Nacog-
doches and Mr. and Mrs. T. Ed-
ding of Linwood.
Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Haws and
Mrs. W. I. McKenzie attended
Kills Snake and Escapea thf
Poison Fangs.
Calcutta.—How a terrier kilted r
cobra and escaped the poison fangs of
one of India's most deadly snakes Is
related by a correspondent In n Cal-
cutta paper.
"While at dinner nt Rarrnckpore,'"
he writes, "a party of nine was dis-
turbed by a terrier luirking furiously.
Failing to silence him. one of our
number went out willi n torchlight
nnd shouted that t> c dog whs burking
at huge smile
"The torch pmih'"d the dog to see-
the snake; he xelsteil it. dmgsTM It off
the veranda mils mil. in a series of
rushes, pulled the ur'<tlng. writhing
horror probnhly -JO or "0 yard*.
We were then stMe •" *ee by the Jtood
thai the stink, - ii cobra.
"Most <il ii- it-1 .| buck to the
house fur «ll>'kv il ' mini with
the torch ,n:d .*"•.> ' endejivured to
gel tin i|o!j ii<v \ hum 'lie snake, but
keepln;; in a safe dlM-'iice,
"By the time we lied returned with
the sticks, however, the dog had done
his work nnd appeared none the worse.
Every moment we expected to see
him show signs of distress, but he did
not do so. regarding hl« victim with
apparent disdain. The cobra was still
alive, but Its back was broken. It
then only remained for us to beat Its
brains out with our sticks. /
"I may add that one of the party
has been living In the country for
pver 30 years, spending most of bis
time In the district, and lie expressed
astonishment that the dog had escaped
• fatal bite."
8o/i Fake Fire Alarm
Causes Fireman's Death
New York.—A prankish boy turned
Id a fnlfc alarm that caused the death
of a flremnn when the hose truck on
which he was riding struck an ele-
vuled pillar nt One Hundred FH'ty-
BlKtli street and Westcljesler avenue,
the Bronx.
Henry Hoslter, forty ffve, of 00ft
Knst One Hundred Tblny-lifth street,
the Bronx, the father of four children,
was the man killed. Two others were
Injured when the driver. Joseph Con-
roy, swerved the truck to avoid a col-
lision with another truck mid struck
the pillar.
The police locked up Irwin Blum,
ten. of 702 ICast One Hundred Fifty-
sixth street, who le alleged to have
admitted he turned In 'the alarm he-
cause lie "wanted to see how the box
worked."
Neck Broken 3 Years,
Farmer Didn't Know It
Hlghtstown, N. Y.—Three years ago
Maurice Croshaw, twenty-one years
old,, son of El wood Croshaw, a farmer,
wns milking when the cow kicked and
knocked him off his foot-high stool
His neck was injured, but Croshaw
-thought it merely a bad wrench. An
X-ray picture rcvenled that one of the
vertebrae in the neck was fractured
nnd he wns taken to the Anderson
hospital in Philadelphia, where It was
reported that his condition Is not se
rlons.
Several times during the three years
Croshaw suffered pains In his neck.
Both a physician and un osteopath
had treated It without discovering
the fracture. Ten days ago Croshaw
Jarred bio neck while working over u
tractor nnd It began to swell.
Boy's Body Located
by Rooster's Crowing
Belllngham, Wash.—After dynamite
und grappling irons had failed to re
cover the body of Selgur Anderson
from the Fraser river. In British
Columbia, nn old Scandinavian myth
proved the means of Undlng the
stream'* victim.
Relatives, who are Norwegians, oar
rlcd a Rhode Island rooster In their
boat and rowed about the spot where
the lad drowned. Each time the root
far was carried over a ccrtuln spot
he crowed Instlly. True to legend drag
hooks Immediately grappled the body
Roosters thus need In Europe when
locating drowned persons, according
to superstition* ones, were always
successful.
Leaps to Death
Milan, Italy.—A seventy-three-yesr-
old man commlttoed suicide recently
Ay. Jumping'from thf spire, of the «i-,
ttiedral. ivii« hilled Instantly. He
had been hi III health for some time.
GATES TIRES
I don't want to sell you
tires just ONCE. Therefore
I must be sure the tires I sell
are good tires. That's why
I recommend Gatea Tires to
all motorists. You'll like
the way they stand the gaff.
J. D. SARTIN FILLING
STATION.
Phone 259 Alto, Teras
church at Linwood Sunday,
j Miss Clara Fay Blanton is
spending a few days with
friends in Forest this week.
Miss Mabel Simmons, who
has been visiting relatives and
friends in Freeport, has return-
ed home.
Misses Marie Quimby and
Marie Tullis, visited Mrs. D. C.
Haws Tuesday afternoon.
Mrs. Will Wallace was able
to be brought home Sunday
from the sanitarium at Jack-
sonville.
I Mrs. J. King and little son
of Freeport, spent the week-
end with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. F. M. Simmons.
! Mesdames W. I. McKenzie
Vida Lee and D. C. Haws
I motored to Pollok Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. O. R. Bice had
' « guests Monday Mr. and Mrs.
, B. Smellie and children of
jOkla., Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Hag-
er and children, Mr. and Mrs.
i H. G. McClain and children,
i Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Watson of
} Maydelle and Mr. and Mrs. W.
jl. Brock and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Ross
spent Wednesday with Mr. and
Mrs. A. Read.
Mrs. J. B. Page spent Friday
with Mrs. F. M. Simmons.
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Vining
spent Saturday night with Mr.
and Mrs. L. Middleton.
Mesdames Jewell Cole, Jew-
ell McClure and children, Wal-
ter Cole, P. Hill, G. Singletary,
F M. Spracgins of Jacksonville
and D. C. Haws were guests of
Mrs. J. E. Cole Friday after-
noon.
Everybody come to Sunday
School Sunday.
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A. B. ALLEN
AGENT
Amicable
Life - -
* nsurance Co.
ALTO, TEXAS
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TRAIN SERVICE FROM
ALTO
Northbound
No. 402 4:27 p. m.
No. 404 9:27 a. m.
Southbound
No. 401 10:42 a. m.
No. 403 5:42 p. m.
J. H. Morris,
Ticket Agent.
Phone 98.
SERVICE WITH COURTESY
DR.
J. C. HILL
DENTIST
Phone 58 Office Over
Ray & Thomas Store.
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R. C. Allen
Agent
Houston Chronicle.
Post-Dispatch.
Dallas News
Fort Worth
Star Telegram.
Agent Ineeda Laundry
/
lllllllt' KtlW'H
it
we 11 do this
dirty job for you
The bothersome business of
motoring — greasing, crankca&e
draining and refilling, washing
your car—
Let us do it for yon.
We're not far from you. Just
drive around and leave your car
with us—we'll lubricate it correctly
and completely. Bring it back in
a jifly—we're equipped to do this
sort of work.
And we refill your crank esse
with Gargoyle Mobiloil, the lubri-
cant that minimises carbon, saves
engine wear, increases power.
We'd like to perform this service
for you on a monthly basis—we
can afford to do it for leas that way.
Drive ar-jund to-day and we'll
talk it over.
J. H. PEAR MAN'S GARAGE
Phone 236.
PEARMAN BROTHERS FILLING STATION
Phone 216
Mobiloil
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Weimar, F. L. The Alto Herald (Alto, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 11, 1927, newspaper, August 11, 1927; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth214441/m1/4/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Stella Hill Memorial Library.