The Shamrock Texan (Shamrock, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 36, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 19, 1937 Page: 3 of 4
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, June 19, 1987
THE SHAMROCK TEXAN, Shamrock, Texas
Page Thro#
I Daughter Slayer
Mrs. Helen Tiernan, seamstress
| who confessed slashing and
burning her young daughter and
| attempting to kill her irifant son
the Long Island woods, lost
her stoical composure on the
way to trial at Riverhead, N. Y.
Varden Stuochl supports and
Kltomforts her. An insanity de-
fense was indicated.
I Manhandle Is—
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pn with two empty five-gallon cans
i his car. He asked the filling sla-
bn operator for permission to fill
Item with water and wanted to
ow if that much would carry him
yough to Amarillo.
“What we need up there right now
jp flood relief. I read in the papers
| where John Garner was held up by
[•high waters.”
j|‘T think they ought to take some
I pictures of those green fields you
Uk about,” said George Howard of
Dus ton. “I rode for days up there
,hd never saw anything except
nd.”
'“Well, we do have an occasional
ndstorm when the prairie dogs dig
pies 30 feet up in the air; but we’ve
en blessed with rain in recent
Dnths.”
| “What would those East Texans
ys,” asked Dr. j. C. Davis of Rule,
the photographers would show
|picture with nothing in it but the
nps, the fellows with chills, the
ggers and the ticks?”
.“That same picture shows the win-
i of the Irish sweepstakes,” inter-
Harold Hankamer of El Paso,
n’t you think that ought to be
|t out as a bad moral influence.’'
Jter considerably more of the
ne kind, the resolution was adopt-
Society
RAMONA McLEMORE
WEDS DICK TAYLOR
A surprise to Shamrock residents
was the announcement made this
morning by Mr. and Mrs. Jess Mc-
Lemore, of the marriage of their
daughter, Ramona, to Dick Taylor
of this city. The wedding was an
event of last Sunday, June 13, at
Erick, Okla., with the Rev. Barber,
pastor of the First Baptist Church,
reading the ceremony.
The couple were unattended. The
bride wore a tailored blue frock with
pink accessories. Both Mr. and Mrs.
Taylor are popular members of the
younger set. Mrs. Taylor was se-
lected as “Miss Shamrock’’ to repre-
sent the city in the recent “Texas
Sweetheart” contest at Fort Worth.
Tne bride was born and reared in
Shamrock and attended school here.
Mr. Taylor is the son of Mrs. May
Taylor of Mangum, Okla., and a
nephew of M. M. Nix of this city.
has made his home in this city
for a number of years and is con-
nected wijth the Lone Start Gas
Company.
They will make their home In
Shamrock. The Texan Joins their
many friends in wishing them much
happiness.
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MRS. ATKINS HAS
PARTY ON THURSDAY
.LOCALS
Mrs. Maurey Wiley and daughter,
June, of Dallas, are visiting her
sister, Mrs. Charles Perry and fam-
ily.
Mrs. Ernest Hood, Mrs. Charles
Perry and Mrs. Murey Wiley made
a trip to Amarillo, Friday.
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W. K. Cottingame of Wellington,
Collingsworth agricultural agent,
was a visitor In Shamrock Friday
afternoon.
Lonnie Lee, Wheeler druggist,
looked after business In Shamrock
Friday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Porter are
leaving Sunday for a few days visit
in Fort Worth.
The informally careless attitudes of Senator Pat Harrison, left,
chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and Senator Arthur H.
Vandenberg, belied the seriousness of their conversational topic as
the above picture was taken in Washington At the urging of
President Roosevelt, they were preparing to open a senatorial
investigation of big U. S. tax dodgers and evaders.
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The Ace High Club was entertain-
ed Thursday afternoon at the home
of Mrs. Temple Atkins in Ramsdell.
A Spanish motif was accented In the
party appointments and Mrs. Fred
Holmes, sister of the hostess, and
her daughter, Gloria, assisted Mrs.
Atkins.
Contract was entertainment for
the afternoon, with Mrs. R. B. Lewis
winning high score award, Mis.
Horace Belew, second high, Mrs.
Edwin Griffin, low and Mrs. Frank
DuBose, second low. Mrs. Walter
Mount and Mrs. Clinton Small oi
Amarillo, were each presented with
guest gilts.
A salad course was served to Mes-
dames J. G. Hamer, Earl Roger, A.
C. Hallmark, R. B. Lewis, Bedford
Harrison, J. B. Clark, S. Q. Scott, J.
H. Caperton, E. K. Caperton, W. S.
Pendleton, J. W. Gooch, Frank Du-
Bose, Earl Kromer, R. L. Baxter, R.
C. Lewis, H. P. Mundy, J. A. Hall,
Horace Belew, Edwin Griffin, Percy
Bones, Fred Holmes and Waiter
Mount and Clinton Small of Ama-
rillo.
ENTERTAuT°with
BRIDGE ON FRIDAY
Mrs. Earl Hunter and Mrs. W. H.
Walker were joint hostesses with a
contract bridge party at the Hunter
home Friday afternoon. At the
games cut prizes went to Mrs. Horace
Belew, Mrs. S. Q. Scott, Mrs. H. P.
Mundy, Mrs. Ansel McDowell, Mrs.
R. L. Baxter and Mrs. Edwin Grif-
fin.
Mrs. J. A. Hall won high score
award and Mrs. Clayton Heare won
low score award. A color note of
yellow and white was accented in
party appointments.
A salad course was served to Mes-
dames Belew, Scott, Mundy, Mc-
Dowell, Baxter, Griffin, Earl Krom-
er, Percy Bones, E. K. Caperton,
J. H. Caperton. J. G. Hamer, Frank
Mitcham, Frank DuBose, Hall, R. B.
Lewis, R. C. Lewis, Carl Llnkey,
Henry Benson, Bedford Harrison,
Clayton Heare, Earl Roger, Temple
Atkins, and Tom Britt and Buck
Britt of Wheeler.
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LOCUSTGROVE
By Cleo Sewell
W. M. Smith returned home Sat-,
urday, after three weeks’ visit with J
relatives and friends in Arkansas j
and parts of Oklahoma.
E. B. Robertson and son returned
Sunday from a few days stay in
Throckmorton where Mrs. Robert- j
son is recovering 'from an illness. 1
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Montgomery
of Twitty, were Sunday visitors in
the J. A. Montgomery home.
Mrs. Buck Springs of Pampa, was
a visitor in the W. O. Brodnax home
Thursday of last week.
Velma Hestilow was a visitor In
Shamrock Monday.
Mrs. Newman Riley visited her
mother, who is ill In Shamrock, Sat-
urday.
O. D. Richardson made a business
trip to Throckmorton county Tues-
day, returning Wednesday.
Mary Ruth Venson is visiting this
week with Mr. and Mrs. Charley
Davis.
Mr. and Mrs. F. T. Collingsworth I
of Shamrock, and Mr. and Mrs. John !
Collingsworth and son, of Texola,1
were callers In the Charely Davis1
home Sunday.
Harold Robertson left Tuesday for j
an extended visit in Throckmorton.
Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Bennett of
Pampa, visited Sunday in the home
of Mrs. Bennett’s parents, Mr. and j
Mrs. W. O. Brodnax.
W. M. Smith was a business visitor!
in Lela, Monday.
Herschel Montgomery of Memphis,
visited over the week end with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. a. Mont-
gomery.
Wynn Watching Bride Cut Celie
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Ewing of Pampa,
were visitors here last night In the
R. A. Wood home.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Forbis visited
in Wellington last night.
M, Reynolds made a business trip
to Childress yesterday.
H. A. Harris is receiving medical
treatment in the Clinic Hospital
this morning.
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Mrs. D. D. Davis of Twitty under-
went an operation In the Clinic Hos-
pital this morning.
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Mrs. Eddie Wllsford of near
Wheeler, is in the Clinic Hospital
receiving medical treatment.
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J. M. Morgan, local oarpertter,
Is a patient In the Clinic Hospital,
receiving treatment for a sprained
back. He fell yesterday morning
while at work.
Waving at Train
Wins Reward
i
Violet Kathleen Schmidt, just 9
and as cheerful as she looks
above, became a familiar figure
to the crew of the Twentieth
Century Limited, which rumbles
past her home at Elkhart, Ind.
Daily she waved a greeting to
both eastbound and westbound
trains. So she was selected to
go to New York to help celebrate
the flyer’s 35th anniversary.
Listen to the Hillbilly Program
and Boy Your Hillbilly Flour and
Hillbilly Coffee from ns.
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RADIOSQimEH':
Reaves!
Diary Of German
Prince Tells Of
Early Wild West
It turned out that Mrs. Hilda Keenan Wynn was on the right track
in her assertion that Ed Wynn was romancing with Frieda Micrse,
former Follies beauty. Hardly had Mrs. Wynn gotten her Reno di-
vorce than the comedian and Miss Mierse dashed to City Hall in
New York to be married. Yes, that’s the new Mrs. Wynn cutting
her wedding cake while Wynn cuts capers just before sailing on a
honeymoon cruise ,
Cruises Along at 160-Mile Clip
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This baby biplane, manufactured by a Chicago firm on the order of
a customer in the Argentine, looks like: a toy as Mechanic Charles
Trapp, upper photo, indicates its wingspread of 15 feet, but it
cruises at 160 miles an hour. Below is a side view of the tiny craft,
which is powered with a four-cylinder, air-cooled, 70-horsc-
power motor.
FUR GARMENTS LOW
AS CREDIT RISKS
SPOKANE, Wash., June 19 — Fur
coats were placed below stoves and
refrigerators as credit risks touay
by the National Retail Credit As-
sociation.
The association resolved for a
tightening on credit standards “In
keeping with sound business prin-
ciples,” and recommended these
standard payment periods:
Fur coats over $300, six months;
refrigerators, 24 months; furniture,
18 months; radios, 12 months, wash-
ing machines, 12 months; stoves and
ranges, 18 months.
HANDICAPPED
At a territorial camp a battalion
was being instructed on “How to
take a convoy through open coun-
try.” One company was told off to
represent a convoy, the men being
told that they were to represent
horses, cows, and wagons. When the
order to advance was given, the con-
voy moved on; but the major noticed
that one man continued to lie down.
He galloped up to him and said,
“Why don't you advance?”
The man replied, “I can’t sir.”
“You can’t? What do you mean?”
:.-“I’m a wagon, and I’ve got a wheel
off.”
WASHINGTON, June 19 — The
“wild west” of western Texas as It
really was before many white men
showed up has been unearthed
over in the state library at Stutt-
gart. Germany.
Prince Paul of Wurtemberg walked
out of the luxury of a European
court and into the hardships of
travel in the west when it really was
wild — Indians, desert, buffalo and
little else. Many a trip he made
through the west, studying it with
the eye of a scientist.
Diary Comes to Light
What he saw he wrote down In a
diary from which he wanted to write
books. What he wrote in the diary
has just come to light after more
than 75 years of darkness, lying In
those library vaults.
His notes have just been examined
by Dr. Charles Upson Clark, acting
for the Smithsonian institute. He
found them, according to the Insti-
tution, “replete with valuable infor-
mation on aboriginal life beyond
the Mississippi during the second
quarter of the century (19th).”
The institution’s bureau of Ameri-
can ethnology plans to study them
thoroughly because they are expect-
ed to tell much heretofore unknown
about the wild west.
The prince is not unknown as an
author to Smithsonian because oth-
ers of his journals have been found
and proved interesting . But it was
on the trip this “new” one covers
that he hit West Texas and set
down what are considered the first I
scientific ideas of what the country
was like and how the Indians acted.
,Thls trip was his fourth. Starting
in 1849 he looked over West Texas,
crossed Mexico to Acapulco, then
took a steamer to San Pedras in
California and on up to Sutter’s Fort
near Sacramento.
Suspected At First
The first time over. Prince Paul
I looked a bit suspicious to the powers
| that were. He had been trained for
i a military career, so they looked on
| his motives with suspicion. They did
| not know whether he wanted to set
up a German colony out in the west,
if he wanted to establish an exten-
sive foreign fur trade or what.
But the government officials took
a chance and he was “accorded ev-
ery courtesy,” according to Smith-
sonian, and after the first trip he
abandoned the military career and
studied botany and zoology.
Apparently he intended to publish
accounts of his expeditions but he
died while editing them. Ij is
thought that he intended that his
son, Maximilian, should complete the
job and have them printed. But
Maximilian was contented by plac-
ing them in the hands of the royal
library. And there they are.
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AN OLD TIMER
A tourist traveling through a sec-
tion of the country badly burned
by the drouth got Into a conversa-
tion with an old settler and his son
at a filling station.
“Looks as though we might have
rain,’ said the tourist.
“Well, I hope so,” replied the
native. Not so much for myself as
for my boy here; I’ve seen it rain.”
Edwina George, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Flake George, brings ap a
neighborhood legal question when
she informed Mrs. V. W. Shoemaker
that one of the Shoemaker hens had
laid an egg in the George flower
bed, “and just who gets the egg?”
she inquires.
Dick Taylor, who married this
week, had better watch out if the
Lone Star bunch really mean to do
all those things B. K. Golson said
they were planning to do.
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Bones, Percy. The Shamrock Texan (Shamrock, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 36, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 19, 1937, newspaper, June 19, 1937; Shamrock, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth526145/m1/3/: accessed May 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Shamrock Public Library.