The Archer County News (Archer City, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 8, 1940 Page: 2 of 8
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THE ARCHER COUNTY NEWS
ARCHER COUNTY NEWS
Cbas. Martin, Editor and Owner
Published Every Thursday
Entered as second-class matter
at Archer City, Texas, under the Act
of March 3, 1879.
Subscription $1.00 Per Year in Coun-
ty and SI.50 Outside County
Mrs. Lloyd Tuckev and son. Don,
spent last' Wednesday with friends
in their ole home town, Henrietta.
Misses Zora Morris and Donia
Trent have taken turns-about at be-
ing “puny” this w-eek and laying off
duties at the City Cafe.
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Charles Martin and James Trent,
at present roommates after both
having returned to school this week
following recent illnesses.
Miss Teenie Trent is thoroughly
disgusted with scarlet fever and all
of its implications, because she con-
tracted some after having nursed
her brother. James, through the
quarantine period.
Mrs. C. A. Calvert was in town
Tuesday, the first time since Thanks-
giving. she said. She has been con-
fined t-o her home with a sort of
bronchial trouble. She also reports
that her son, Leland. has been ser-
iously ill recently, due to paint poi-
soning in the blood stream. He is
able to be up now, however, and _ is
at a loss as to how enough paint
got in his blood to rplace the “suds"
already there!
Miss Z. McKee was released from
the hospital Tuesday after three
days of illness with flu. She is re-
ported much better.
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Mrs. M. E. Durham is reported
better after a serious illness the
past week.
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School News
Have You Ever Noticed?
Orchids to Elizabeth Ann Burkhart
for bringing us this article from
the January issue of the Gulf Safe-
ty News. This originated in the
“Highways of Happiness.”
“When’ the other fellow acts that
way, he’s ugly. When you do, it's
nerves.
“When the other fellow is set in
his way. he’s obstinate. When you
are. it’s just firmness.
“When the other fellow- doesn’t
like your friend, he’s prejudiced.
When you don’t like him. you are
simply showing you are a good
judge of human nature.
“When the other fellow tries to
treat someone especially well, he’s
toadying. When you do the same
thing, you am using tact.
“WKen thq -tiier fellow takes
time
“To?,
do. your are generous.
“When the other fellow picks
flaws in things, he’s cranky. When
you do. yor are discriminating.
“When the other fellow is mild
in his manners, he is a mush of con-
cession. When you are. it is
gracious.
introducing the Seniors
Today we have the pleasure of in-
troducing Eilizabeth Ann Burkhart,
one of the four charming daughters
of Mr. and Mrs R. M. Burkhart.
She joined us w-hen we w-ere "fish’’.
Elizabeth is the possessor of beau-
tiful blonde hair and blue eyes, she
has attained the age of sixteen al-
ready. Her ambition is to be a vo-
calist for an orchestra, maybe
Wayne King or Guy Lombardo—
yes? Playing volley ball and tennis
art- her favorite pastimes. She hap-
pens to he the volley ball captain
this year and she really can play
too. For a hobby. Elizabeth collects
stickers and other things. I wonder
what the other things could be. After
graduation, Elizabeth plans to at-
tend college, but she has not de-
cided upon the institution yet.
Kenneth Bailey, who is better
known as “Sentimental Bailey,” is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Bai-
ley. Last year he was our junior
class president and was awarded
the leadership for the entire high
school. Kenneth is very handsome
with his light brown hair and blue
eyes. His ambition is to go to col-
college. For a pastime, Kenneth en-
jovs all kinds of sports. After grad-
uation, Kenneth plans to make
money so he may enter college at
Hardin or Texas Tech.
Seniors Select Class Song
Although we are very busy with
our senior play, we have taken the
time to select our senior song. We
feel that we have chosen one of the
prettiest and most suitable songs
for seniors. “Auld Lang Syne,” Be-
cause of our choice. “Auld Lang
Syne” will be heard on many occa-
sions before school is out.
Juniors Order Senior Rings
The members of the junior class
met Friday afternoon to select their
senior rings for next year. Every-
one that was present at the meet-
ing ordered his ring. Approximate-
ly forty-three rings were ordered.
So juniors, let’s all work hard and
earn our rings.
Freshman News
Billy Haig and E. L. Powers have
gotten permanent waves.
Dorothy Ann Ashton is proud of
her fifteen lucky bucks.
A freshman girls has been seen
with a junior boy. What will little
Ted do?
Volley Ball News
Last Tuesday, a week ago. the
volley ball girls defeated Geraldine
two games out of three at Geral-
dine. This made our lost games
only I and those won 3. Last Fri-
day. we were defeated by Holliday
on our home court. This made the
proportion 2 to 3. Tuesday night
we played Megargel -on Megargel’s
court. Friday we play Geraldine on
our court. Everyone come out to
see it, for we expect it to be a
good game.
Wildcats Scare Eagles
The Archer City cagers plucked
eagle feathers last Friday night on-
ly to go down in defeat 40 to 35.
Goodwin, t h e Wildcat’s shortest
player, made twelve points as com-
pared with fourteen points for Lou-
der, Holliday’s tallest. At halftime
the teamt were tied up 20-20.
A new discovery in basketball is
Selby Johnson, one hundred and
eighty-five pounder. Until two weeks
ago, "Johnson saw little service. Al-
though Johnson weighs one him-
dv/'d and eighty-five pounds, he
handles himself better than any man
on the team.
Members of Band Went to
Mineral Wells
E. L. Powers. Nelda Rbae Roberts,
L. K. Hyer, Bennie Jo Wilson and
Mr. Slaughter attended the Clinic
of Musical Knowledge February 3.
in Mineral Wells. Texas. There
they learned how the contest num-
bers are to be played. We hope
they learned enough for all of us.
Mr. Huey Has Been 111
The civics class met only once this
week because iou,r i list rue-,or. Mr.
Huey, has been ill. Mr. Sandlin
taught the class one day. Other
than that, we seniors have been us-
ing our time profitably our sen
handy
The
in the study of fractions,
students just received their
papers for a test on factoring. They
had grades ranging from 20 to 100.
Not bad. eh?
Home Ec News
The Home Economics club ™et
Monday, February 5th, for a short
business session. They are discus-
sing whether or not to serve the
county teachers’ banquet to be held
the last -of February. All mothers
of the home ee girls are requested
to be at the school house tomorrow.
Tuesday. February 6, to discuss the
nlun. if we do not serve the ban-
quet, the money will be used to send j
the winners of our contest to the
s’ate rally in May.
Forty nine attended the meeting.
Typing News
The typing students have been
typing simple exercises the last
week such as typing a given amount
of words several times, typing busi-
ness letters and typing a few para-
graphs. These typing lessons are
taken from our tvping books and
they consist of a faculty word drill
keyboard review and intensive drill
Latin News
The Latin II class is studying the
relationship between woman's part
in polities during the days of Rome
and now.
The first year class is busy -on its
projects of the Trojan War. Both
classes are also busily preparing for
the three weeks test.
Sis Sezs
These fish girls are really run
ning some of these upper classmei
ca-razy! Well, maybe they are both
ering some of the upper class girls
to-o. M. H. is one who is trying ou-
all of them. Saturday night it wa
'Blondy” G. and Sunday it wa
“Twirler” S.
We wish to announce that hal1
of our column got under “Gossip ’
last week. G. G. don't tell us thi :
we have started dealing in th( l
malicious stuff!
Ptsh. ptsh, but ain’t it pawfu 1
J. P. finally got all right t-oday. T1 ■
letter finally arrived.
Won’t we be glad when the senii
play is over so P." O. W. can get v
haircut? Which reminds me— v:
still want everyone of you to appei r
there Thursday night for this per-
formance of “Two Gun Pete and a
Bucket of Blood.” or maybe better
known to you as “M’liss.’’
Mr. Huey has been absent from
school this past week. The ole in-
stitute doesnt seem the same with-
out him. I
N. P. wasn't home this week efd,
so R. P. was seen with T. H
ing the past two weeks due to a
great deal of sickness. The largest
number of the cases, however, seem
to be over and most of the students
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1940
, , ni„„, mini Is of the A. C. band at the State Mu-
are back school 1 | L.1 sic Festival at Mineral Wells, Texas,
Powers!*" Nelda' Rhae Roberts ’ and February 2-3. They report a splen-
John Purcell, were representatives, did time.
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-..<1 ,__, , , . ior class activities. M’ ey hopes
Aw* ante
Student. Maytag he can -oil you.
if he feels well. To classify a verb-
al without hard thinking is some-
thing unusual. The class has been
working diligently for the past few
days for verbals are one of the
L1 most important parts of grammar.
"j Chemistry Class Makes Nitric Acid
! Nitric acid in concentrated form
is nothing to be laughed at. At
least the members of the chemistry
class do not think so. After mak-
ing some pure nitric acid. Mr.
Slaughter accidentally spilled some
on his hands. Before he could neu-
tralize the acid, it had blistered his
hand.
Nitric acid in its pure state has
a brownish yellow color and is very
active. Concentrate nitric acid and
hydrochloric acid when mixed will I
Who is the guy C. G. has a .
ture of? She even has a picture
his sister. Oh well, sisters are
excuses some tinu-s—eh?
Don’t forget, grammar school
seniors are giving a prize to
room that sells the most tickets
our play.
Mrs. Huey had better lock into
matter -of M. C. S. and G. 0.
afraid she isn’t getting home in
minutes as she should.
Who was it called M. d M.
Saturday afterniw-l and trio to
»w*. . • ra v
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of
gliod
he
he
0, .it. What ever it was it sure-!
<na the trick, for they were at j
Abraham Lincoln
the GREAT
EMANCIPATOR
• Monday, February 12, is the
anniversary of the birth of Abra-
ham Lincoln, known as the Great
Emancipator. In the years since
Lincoln’s death, there has been
a growing appreciation and re-
for the greatness of this
of humble birth who
President during one
tragic periods in
sped
A merican
served as
of the
American history.
most
ELECTRICITY-
THE MODERN EMANCIPATOR!
• Reddy Kilowatt’s contribution to history
comes in a much happier period of human exis-
tence. Today, electricity is regarded as the
"modern emancipator,” freeing millions of wom-
en from household drugdery, making their days
easier and their homes more comfortable.
This freeing of women from unnecessary work
wasn’t just an accident. Years of planning, work,
and investment of many millions of dollars, to-
gether with constant labor day and night by
thousands of employes, were necessary to bring
to your home and other homes the benefits of
this economical, useful servant.
dissolve srold.
Algebra Students Factoring
At the present, the algebra class-
es are studying the reduction of
fractions. Later on in the week
they will take up the reduction of
common denominators to the lowest
term. Factoring comes in very
An F. S. A. man is in the county
agent’s office each Thursday after
noon to answer questions on the
farm security problems.
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ly
the dance together Saturday night.
N. M. G. kinda appeared late after
P. J. P. Saturday night I betcha
if he comes again it will be earlier. j
S. J. took the little H. to the shoot-
'em up Saturday night. He has a1
date with the next size H. for the
Junior-Senior banquet. Isn't it
pity that there aren't more of the
same family for him?
E. L. P. must think he’s the lone
Ranger. Monday he was shooting
’he villian with toy caps". P. S.—
where's Silver.
L. K. H. should really get the
attention now. He has rated driv-
ing that new Buick.
Tinker Herron, Juanita Ballard,
Juanita Burnett and Mary Ann Cal-
vert were home this past week-end.
Poem of the week:
The One And Only
No other hand in the world
Can greater solace bring
Than that sweet hand I held last
night—
Four aces and a king!
The Safety Counsellor.
“Gossip”
If you have a clock that you want
"fixed," see P. J. P,, she is really
good at it.
We are glad to have two members
of our senior class back with us af-
ter illness. They are Kenneth Bui-
Icy and Eloise Hvc-r.
M. J. M. thinks that a mirage is
the place where the “little man who
! wasn't there” keeps his car.
W ho says that girls are lonely
when their boy friends are out of
town ?
Advice to freshmen: Study whim
work is assigned you. the seniors
are three years behind.—The Wiciii-1
tan.
Geometry
The geometricians have entered
the study of the numerical relations
between the arcs of a circle and the
angles associated with a circle. A
quantity is measured by finding how
many times it contains some unit
of measure. The unit for mea: .r*
ing angles is the angle degree. The
unit for measuring arcs of a circle
is the arc dpgree.
Sophomore Class
The attendance of the sophomore
class has decreased considerably dur-
= t
Te4as Electric Service Company
FRED RAYBORN, Manager
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Baby Chicks and
Started Chirks
From Blood Tested Flocks
Archer City Hatchery
On N. Wichita Falls Highway
Texas oil plays a
vital part in providing
our boys and girls with
school buildings and
other educational fa-
cilities that are among
the finest in the world.
Oil taxes collected and used only for Texas public school purposes during
1938 amounted to $21,425,773.00.
Based on the per child educational cost of $55.30, this sum provided educa-
tion for 387,446 children—or 25% of our entire 1938 scholastic enrollment.
To No Better Cause Could This Tremendous Sum Be Dedicated
Thii Advertisement Paid for by Various Units
Of the Industry and Sponsored by
TEXAS MID-CONTINENT OIL AND GAS ASSOCIATION
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Martin, Charles. The Archer County News (Archer City, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 8, 1940, newspaper, February 8, 1940; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth708436/m1/2/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Archer Public Library.