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WOE TWO
THE MEXIA WEEKLY HERALD
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER, 4 1036
Take Your Order For A Made
Measure
Fall Suit
Overcoat
Fit
Guaranteed
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faculty ready
to mm its
work SEPT. 14
With school opening two weeks
away Frank L. Williams, super-
intendent, Saturday announced as-
signment of his faculty, including
nine new members of the official
family. Mr. Williams, his secre-
tary, Dorothy Goodwyn, Maco
Stewart, assistant coach and
mathematics; Mrs. E. T. Staton
recently of R. B. Cousins school,
as English instructor; Corine
Schmidt, mathematics; Vera Lee
Beam, history and English; Lily
Shindler, home economics, are the
new additions to the high school
Htaff. New instructors in the R-
LOOK KIDS!!
Big Kiddie
Matinee
SATURDAY MORNING
AT 10:00 A. M.
IN CAPABLE HANDS
10
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Hillbilly Bread
Wrappers
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TO OUR FUN
FROLIC
MILKMAN'S
MATINEE
Saturday Morning
6 A. M.
Robert Taylor
Barbara Stanwyck
'His Brother's Wife'
William Boyd hands back Sidney Blackmer's gun, whilehis range
pal Jimmy Ellison keeps the rustler under guard. It's a scene from
the Hopalong Cassidy picture, "H eart of the West," at the Palace
Thearter Friday and Saturday.
FREEH
BREAKFAST AT . .
PAPPAS GRILL
DON'T MISS
THIS GALA EVENT
AT THE
IMTIONM
cpuiaee,
Fri. and Sat
Doors Open Fri. 7 p. m
Saturday 11:00 a. m.
B. Cousins school are Mary E.
Forrest, low and high second;
Shirley Sue Ball, English, and
Ruth French, history. \
The rest of staff with no chan-
ges from last year are: Frank
Evens, engineer; W. R. Beaver,
tax collector. High school, A. J.
Laughlin, principal; George W.
Evans, shop work; Elizabeth
Fleming, commercial; J. D. Fos-
ter, mathematics and coach; Lila
T. Greene, Spanish and Latin;
C. R. Hackney, band; B. B. Hut-
son, vocational agriculture; Onei-
da Kennedy, English; Mary Lynn
Park, history, English; Eula
Schulz, English; Anne Whittaker,
history, library; Walter Williams
science.
R. B. Cousins school: P. F.
Boyer, principal; Mrs. J. L. Bates
reading, spelling: Floyd Bounds,
arithmetic; Mrs. Fred Doering,
low second; Mary Easterling, low
fourth; Mary Fallin, low and high
first; Elizabeth Huke, low and
Turner, English and reading; and
Rebie Williams high second and
third..
Another teacher is to be add-
ed to teach home economics and
other subjects for the high school.
This addition is made necessary
by increased enrollment of high
school students from Tehuacana.
The selection will be made at the
next meeting of the school board.
The Dunbar colored school fac-
ulty remains the same as last
year with the following being
re-elected: S, O. Parrish, princi-
pal; W. R. Gerald, manual train-
ing; Pearl Greene, first grade;
Lucille McBay, fourth and fifth
grade, Willie B. McBay, home
economics, Charles , R. Pierson
Latin and history; Ruzie Pollock,
sixth grade; Wilbur Sewell, coach
and science; Iola V. Washington,
English; Lenora^ Williams, sec-
ond grade; and Octavia T. Wird-
low, third grade.
The Douglass school faculty
promise find
out just who
made attack
\ MADRID, Sept. 1 (U.R) — The
government, replying to a protest
from the United States aginst the
bombing of the U. S. destroyer
Kane off the Spanish coast, inform
ed Erie C. Wendelin, charge D'Af-
faires, today that no loyalist plane
was iii the vicinity at the time.
Moreover, the gevernment said,
it does not possess a plane of the
type described.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 (U.R) —
The Spanish government has as
sured the United States it will con-
duct a rigid investigation into the
bombing of the U. S. destroyer
Kane by a Spanish airplaine off
the boast of Spain last Sunday, the
embassy at Madrid informed the
State Department today.
Eric C. Wendel, third secretary
in charge of the embassy, tele
graphed Secretary of State Cordell
Hull he had delivered the protest
which Hull had instructed him to
make to the Spanish foreign of-
fice concerning the bombing.
Wendelin said the foreign office
had promised to make a prompt
investigation of the incident and to
inform this government of the re-
sult.
State department officials were
waiting for word from Consul
Charles Bay at Seveille that he
had made, informally, similar rep-
resentations to Gen. Francisco
Franco, commander of the rebel
forecs, with a similar demand that
the rebel forces be given instruc-
tions not to fire on American wars
ships in Spanish waters.
No Weary Mothers
on Western Trains
CHICAGO. — A whole family,
even one of quintuplets, may now
tour the North American continent
without a sign of prickly heat or a
smack from a tired mother. More
than any other group of travelers,
perhaps women and children are
benefiting by the remarkable prog-
ress which the Western Railroadi
are celebrating in their annual ob-
servance of "Railroad Week" from
July 13th to 18th.
The regulated, even temperature
of air-conditioned cars, now used
on all the principal trains of the
western roads, makes a vacation
trip cool and comfortable instead
of the nightmare it once was for
mothers of young children.. From
midwestern heat and dust, the fam
ily may step at once into fresh
mountain atmosphere aboard a
train, and the relief to fretful chil-
dren and tired mothers is immed-
aite.
Less Luggage
"On our last trip to the coast,
three years ago," said one recent
passenger, "I changed Jean's dress
es at least five time a day. And in
spite of that, she looked as if she
had just come up from the coal
mines, most of the time."
On the same trip this year, both
Jean and her younger brother can
romp in spotless aisles, press their
noses against dustless windows,
and manage to stay cleaner than
they do at home. The end of an
air-conditioned railroad trip finds
mothers with a much smaller heap
of clothes for the laundry, and
none of them begrimed by soot.
farmers after
closed season
on game birds
Allied on the side of the
Supreme Court, the Attorney Ge:
eral's department, the state game
warden and Limestone county's at-
torney, seeking enforcement of the
ban on dove hunting in Limestoiw
eotlnty until December 1 are., .the,
farmers of Point Enterprise^ .„•(*-
mous peach growing section.
L. I." Gatlin, pioneer farmer
orchardist, and R. O. Kerzee, farm'
er and Democratic precinct chair-
man, warn hunters that thft'fcil-
4.B, Bunn Hired as Special Tax
Adjuster for Limestone County
A. B. Bunn. former assessor and
collector of taxes in Limestone
wunty, has been employed by the
qqunty commissioners court as a
c jutfyrcial tax adjuster in an effort
to bolster the receipts of the coun-
ty.
- Faced with an increasing budget
and emergency expenses because
of the purchases of right of way,
Cooperation with WPA project*',
'etc, the county is seeking a way1
to "Encourage collections. The old
method of court threats will be de-
layed for the time, and Mr. Bunn
Is instructed to assist the assessor-
fcollector, at Tucker, in persuad-
high third; Julia Kauhl, low will be; L. C. Kirven, principal;
first; Elizabeth Park, low third?
Hazel Ward, geography, health,
and Fay Yeldell, low and high
fourth.
W. M. White school: G. W.
Perkins, principal; Jesse Mae Cal-
ame, low third; Mrs. Anne Comp-
ton, English; Ernestine Erskine,
low fourth; Mary Carol Hintz,
history and geography; Ellie
Hughes, geography and health;
Lottie Kilgore, low first; Chas.
H. Laurence, arithmetic and his-
tory; Mrs. Ruby Merrell, low
and high first; Mrs. Estelle Mc-
Mahan, low second; Mrs. Bettie
Priddy, history and math.; Sibyl
Ernestine A. Hall, first grade;
Ella Mae McDonald, second and
third grade; and Alice A. White,
fourth and fifth grade.
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-FEATURETTES—
Wilson and I ley
Named by Party
in New Precincts
Democratic precinct chairmen
of two newly created precincts
were named Saturday morning
when the Democratic Executive
Committee met at the court house
in Groesbeck.
A. B. Wilson was named chair-
man for north Mexia, or Precinct
2-A, while Edgar Iley was named
chairman for Precinct , 2-B, west
Mexia. W, K. Boyd retains the
place of chairman of South Mexift
precinct.
The two new precincts
BURGOS, Spain, Sept. 1 (U.R) —
Gen. Virgilio Cabanellas, head of
the rebel "goevrning junta," pro-
tested violently to the loyalists to-
day against bombing of a hospital
in Burgos by a government plane.
Four were killed and 17 injured
in the bombing. The hospital and
girls' school was struck and two
bombs were dropped elsewhere in
the city.
A father, praying with his son
over the body of another son who
was killed at Guadarrama, were
killed when the hospital was
struck. A wounded soldier walking
to the hospital was killed and a
fourth victim fell in the doorway
of the hospital.
The hospital is built in the shape
of a cross and is easily distinguish-
ed from the air. Cabanellas said,
although it was not flying the red
cross flag.
son is always closed at Point En*-] nfr' people to pay their taxes and
clear up their property titles.
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4-iWhile the court cannot remit
taxes, there are occasions where
adjustments can be made. Some-
times assessments are on the "un.
rendered" roll, and out of line with
true valuations. These are to be
ferited out and a solution of 'the
problems made on an individual
basis.
., County Judge Lewis M .Stay
says the commisioners' court
hopes to make the new • worker,
employed temporarily, a great help
not only to the county treasury but
to the property owners of Lime-
stone county as well, •
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Cartoon
"Three Little .
Wolves"
Chaptsr 10
' Fighting Marinw"
"I Wanna Be a Lifeguard"
LEW KELLY in
"LISTEN TO FREEZIN'
Popular Science • Color
Latest News Events
Midnight Show
SATURDAY
Sunday - Monday
mammam
THEY SNAPPED
THEIR FINGERS
AT LOVE
TOO LATE lit
created by order of the commis
sioners court recently. The coun-
ty committee also agreed to ask
consolidation of several voting
precincts which failed to cast but
a very few votes. One of them
is the merger of Mt. Antioch and
Billington.
Before another election Groes-
beck will be divided into two
precincts, it was agreed.
Some are advocating a mini-
mum of 50 votes and a maximum
of 350 votes to each voting pre-
cinct to more nearly equalize the
burden of election officials, and
to increase the vote in the con-
gested districts.
The newly named precinct chair
men will serve until the next pri-
mary in 1928, when precinct con-
ventions select their chairmen.
Some of the horror of Spain's
civil war was brought home today
by news of bombing in all partB of
the country of cities and towns,
mostly undefended and with large
civilian populations.
In the last 24 hours, eight cen-
| ters were bombed, either by insur-
were | gent or loyalist planes. Madrid
Raymond Briez is the cham-
pion blood doner of Paris. During
1935 he gave 98 transfusions
without harm to himself, each
transfusion averaging about 10
ounces of blood.
White men explored Califor-
nia for more than 300 years be-
fore they discovered the "General
Sherman" tree, the world's larg-
est living thing.
itself was attacked from the air
for the third time.
The bombardment of beleaguer-
ed Irun was merciless. Airplanes
and artillery poured bombs and
shells into the center of the city,
starting fires and killing an un-
known number of persons. Women
and children had been evacuated
from Irun, but rebel hostages held
by the loyalists were placed in the
most exposed positions, to be kill-
ed if possible by the fire of their
own comrades.
From Irun, Bilbao and Burgos
in the north to Malaga in the
south, the cruel work went on.
Frome everywhere came reports of
the mass slaughter of rebel and
loyalist prisoners. Some were con-
demned by court martial and shot.
Others apparently, were merely
lined up in batches an dmowed
down.
The external human ear
tains three muscles, but most peo-
ple have no control over them.
Soap bubbles blown with hot
air will carry small objects aloft.
Blood does not flow steadily
through the small vessels of the
body, but moves in jerks as the
heart pumps.
cartoon
Comedy - News
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Buy Genuine
Chevrolet Part
You KNOW they arc good!
MEXIA MOTOR CAR COMPANY
MAIN AND SHERMAN STREETS
In planning more comfortable
family travel the Western Rail-
roads have added many features to
the prime feature of air-condition-
ing. Special cars on many trains
are reserved exclusively for wo-
men passengers. Stewardesses and
trained nurses are in attendance on
many vacation trains to aid in the
care of child travelers. Thus, the
mother traveling alone with her
children has that precious chance
of occasional relief when she can
turn her charges over to an exper-
ienced nurse.
Many Innovations
Large, airy lounges and wash-
rooms on Pullmans and coach cars
are especially appreciated by moth
ers who can no wwash Johnny's
face, comb Mary's hair and change
the baby's cltohes without having
anyone trampled underfoot in the,
rush. Sicentific indirect lighting on
both new and rejuvenated old cars
makes it possible for Junior to
read his absorbing book or to work
on his puzzles without a trace of
eye-strain.
A special dark blue light is used
in coaches at night, so that restful
sleep is assured, while the stay-
awakes may read under bright in-
dividual lights without disturbing
any other pasesnger. Rest lounges
in day coaches give mothers an op-
portuntiy to arrange an afternoon
nap for the younger children,
while the older ones play safely in
the main car.
At very alight extra cost in Pull-
mans, a small family group may
tarvel in an airy section with a
curtain or Venetian shutters to
afford privacy. New built-in steps
to upper berths make the ascent
and descent safe and easy for the
tiniest or frikiest young traveler.
New Economies
Reduced cost on compartments
and drawing-rooms, and the new
low-priced bedroom cars make it
possible for a whole family to
travel in luxurious seclusion at the
lowest rates in railroad history. A
single bedroom to accommodate an
adult and chaild may be turned
into a suite for the larger family
by opening the doors which sepa-
rate connecting beedrooms.
To families traveling on a limit-
ed budget, the daily meals are an
important consideration. Prices
here, too , have been drastically
con-! cut on the western roads. Restau-
rants cars attached to tourist Pull-
mans and day coaches serve tables
d'hote meals for as little as twen-
ty-five cents for breakfast, thirty-
five cents for luncheon, and fifty
cents for dinner.
Contrasted with the risk of
changes in water and milk supplies
which often affect children'#
health, and tha dangers of irreg-
ular or improperly balanced meals,
the low-cost, restaurant services on
the western roads appeal to moth-
ers more than almost any other
feature.
Tha average tuberculosis death
rate for the United States it 67
per 100,000 of population.
It has been estimate that the
annual loss through sofl erosion
in the United States is $400,000,-
000,
terprise, where they regard doves
and quail as their friends, and pro-
tect them to the best of their abil-
ity. All other birds, are wanted in
that section where fine peaches
are being grown.
These two farmers offer to take
any skeptics to nests today where
they claim young doves are still
being fed by the parent birst, as
proof that September 1 is entirely
too early in this section for dove
hunting.
Mr. Gatlin and Mr. Kerzee want
a five-year closed season in Lime-
stone county on all doves and quail
—infact everything — so that the
birds on which the farmer depends
to protect him fro minsects will
have a chance to multiply. Birds
work for them and are welcome to
any peaches or other crop they
may eat for food. "They are good
hands on my farm and are wel-
come to all the food they can eat,"
said the veeteran Mr. Gatlin.
Incidentally, J. W. Stubendauch,
retired orchardist and farmer, is-
sued a letter warning farmers not
only to save their soil but also
their birds so they would continue
to produce crops.
Representative Ross Hardin
says Limestone county got in the
"south zone" by error, and sought
a ruling against enforcement of
the ban on dove hunting in this
county. He promises speedy repeal
when the legislature meets. Dis-
trict Judge H. F. Kirby, much agi-
tated when the supreme court at
Austin granted a writ of prohibi-
tion against his injunction against
enforcement of the law, wa3 inves-
tigating possible further steps but'
admitted it appeared his hands are
tied.
The Attorney General's depart-
ment, in a ruling to County Attor-
ney Roy Lewis said the law puts
Limestone county in the South
Zone and there it stays until an-
others legislative act. The state
game warden was apparently de-
termined to enforce Limestone
county's closed season at any cost.
Hunters went to other counties,
and apparently there were none
who cared to defy the farmers, the
county attorney, the attorney gen-
eral and the supreme court regard-
less of the feelings of the repre-
sentatives and district judge.
Russell Circus to
Play Mexia Sept. 22
Circus fans and lovers of
amusement will be given an op-
portunity to see the fourth larg-
est, of its kind in the United
Jtajtw on Tuesday, September 22
when Russell Brothers circus
shows at City Park.
" ?tbis is the first time in sev-
eral years that a circus has been
billed in Mexia.
N
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Theater
Thirty-one states require chil-
dren to attend school until the
age of 16, four states until 17.
and five states until 18.
The Roman emperor, > Caligula,
provided his favorite horse with
an ivory manger and a golden
drinking goblet.
A 3-inch common steel shell
was found to have burst into
2378 pieces, in an experiment of
military explosives.
Now Showing
Also Saturday
BOB. STEELE in
"Sun Down Saunders"'
plus
Selected Short Subjects
Sunday and Monday
, Stan Laurel and Oliver
" Hardy in
"BONNIE SCOTLAND"
60 Minutes of Laughs
—Added—
Comedy - Cartoon - News
Travelogue
Tuesday, One Day Only
EDMUND LOWE
ANN SOTHERN in
"THE GRAND EXIT"
also
Selected Short Subject
Wednesday and Thursday
NORMA SHERER
LESLIE HOWARD
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"SMILING THRU"
plus Comedy & Cartcon
The raoftit population of the
North Woods goes in cycles. In-
variably, after a few years of
stady increase, a plague year fol-
lows,: and but few rabbits are
left. Then the cycle starts _absw..
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