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The Archer County News
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VOLUME 31
PUBLISHED ON THURSDAY
ARCHER CITY, TEXAS THURSDAY. DECEMBER ft, 1946
Victory Loan Campaign Closes Dec. 8
With Quota 63 Percent Subscribed
Jean Man Killed
In Car Accident
Sunday Afternoon
Joe Cole, 66, rancher-resident of
the Jean community for around 35
years, was killed Sunday afternoon
In an automobile accident which oc-
curred at the intersects it of the
Jacksboro-Olney and Graham-Jean
highways in the south edge of Jean.
Cole, rendered- first aid at the site
of the tragedy, failed to revive ^jid
died 15 minutes after the crash.
H. 0. Prideaux, of Graham, well
known in Archer City, was driver of
the other car figuring iji the acci-
dent. M,r. Prideaux sustained slight
knee injuries, we are informed.
Information as to what conditions
might have contributed to the cause
of the accident is lacking here.
Funeral services for the victim
were conducted Tuesday afternoon
a 2 o’clock at the Church of Christ,
Olney. Burial was in the New Olney
cemetery.
Survivors are three sons, Theran
Cole. Wichita Falls; Travis Cole.
Olney; Joe F. Cole, Olnev, and a
daughter. Mrs. Hazel Rothell.
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Royal to Celebrate
First Anniversary
David Perdue, owner of the Royal
Theatre, is throwing his first anni-
versary party Wednesday night of
next week with a lot of free offer-
ings in combination with his regular
scheduled program which will feature
“The Woman in the Window" with
Edward G. Robinson and Joan Ben-
nett. On this night Perdue will offer „„ ..-------------. -----
a free bag of pop corn to each pa- 4 miles southwest of thif city
tron and the first 15 adults Who ap- ■ > -
pear at the ticket Window will be ad- , Q A C
mitted free. V7, Um
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MORE MEN DISCHARGED
THROUGH LOCAL 8. 8. OFFICE
Discharges from the various
branches of the military service re-
CTunty seat sine -
corded in this, the ------„ —-
last week's issue, as furnished us by
the local Selective Service board of-
f'Marvin^Woodrow Davidson, Elec- will enable us to get out a bette
tra; Joe Elton Bonoy, Holliday; Win- paper. Won’t you please help us?
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ston Byron Horn, Wichita Falls; Fred
John DaumC. Jr., Holliday; Walter F.
Old King Winter
Brings First Freeze
Of Current Season
Old King Cole was a- merry old
soul, etc., according to , the nursery
rhymes books, and Old King Cold was
a hoary old soul Tuesday morning,
according to the local thermometer—
which registered in the close neighs
borhood of 20 degrees above zero—
for our first freeze of the season.
This initial visit of 'King Winter
chased the mercury down to within
4 degrees of the coldest day recorded
here at any time last winter and
needless to say the less hardy trees—
that is, those less hardy than hizzon-
er, the Archer county mesquite—have
really shed their foliage the past
couple of days. And urobabl, evzw.
they will be nude within the im
mediate future.
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Local Girl Listed
College ‘Who’s Who’
Eight students of the junior and
senior cl*»»es of Texas Wesleyan Col-
lege will have their names and bio-
graphical sketches in the 1946 edi-
tion of "Who’s Who in American Uni-
versities and Colleges,” according to
an announcement made by Dean Wal-
ter R. Glick.
Among the seniors who will receive
recognition in the annual edition is
Mary Anne Hendricks, of Archer City.
Miss Hendricks was also recently
elected to membership in Alpha Chi,
national scholarship society.
She is the
Mrs. Herman —--------- -r---------
on the Abercrombie oil lease, about
daughter of Mr. and
Hendricks, who resides
We would like to make The Archer
County News just what the name im-
plies which can be done only by
getting all thd county news. This wo
can do only with your assistance. If
you will send in items of reader in-
terest from your community we will
appreciate it immensely because it
will enable us to get out a better
____ ______ . . Mr. and Mrs. Dutch Gosler, of
Pierce. Holliday; Claude Andrew Grand _Prairie, betwixt and between
Morrison, Archer City; Fred Oliver Fort Worth and Dallas, were last
Murphrse, Kamay, Ros* Clifton Clark, week-end visitors In Archer City
Holliday; Vernon Cooper, Wichita While here they also fnade a few
W.ll _ I avw linma onan4
Falls.
Claude Cowon, Sr. and Jr, were
over today from their Fulda homes.
few
unperfunctory interrogations anent
the possibilities of renting a house
in this city where such things are
nil—-as well as non-existent
With December 8th marking the
end of the current Victory Loan
Drive, Archer county is lagging
shamefully in the purchase of E-
Bonds with a total of only 63% of
the quota subscribed todate.
In thus neglecting to purchase our
quota of these bonds we are not only
letting down the young men and wo-
men of Archer county—some of whom
gave their lives—that the balance of
us might live and prosper, butArcher
county’s hitherto unblemished record
of never having failed to do its share
in any such worthy undertaking, is
also being despoiled. —
Never, during the two World Wars,
has Archer county fallen down in
any bend drive, and that we should
proudly be able to say when the final
curtain falls on December 8, on what
the entire world hopes will be the
final drive by this or any other na-
tion to raise money to pay the hor-
rendous expense of war.
'"'ur quota is only >75.000 in E
series bonds. If every adult citizen
of Archer would buy even one >25.00
bond, that coupled with those who
are able and have probably bought
tbe limit, would place Archer county
well over the top in this drive.
A few months ago—last April to
be exact—en route home from Van-
couver, Washington, we passed
through the cities of Brigham and
Ogden, Utah. In each of those cities
are located army rehabilitation hos-
pitals. Passing through Brigham we
noticed groups of from five to ten
boys in uniform standing on street
corners, and every one of them on one
leg and a crutch, or one empty shirt
sleeve. We stopped for luneb in a
suburban cafe in Ogden. A few min-
utes after entering a group of five
care-free, happy-to-be-alive, boys
came in. They ranged from teen-
agers to those in their early twenties.
Four of them had only one leg, the
other one arm. That sight practical-
ly made us sick. Those boys, as
above stated, apparently didn’t have
a worry. , , >
Would $75,000—or all the mone*
on this earth—replace even one of
those boy* arms or legs. Probably
few of them would have sold an arm
or a leg far any amount. They didn’t.
They gave them.
Even if, by the purchase of bonds,
we were making an outright gift,
we would still be giving such a very
little to help those who' have given
so much.
But in purchasing one of these
bonds we give absolutely nothing.
It is not a donation. It is merely a
humanitarian investment in the saf-
est and soundest institution in the
world today—the government of the
United States of America. And it
pays a profit. You get 4 for every
g
' Let’s think it over, dig a little
deeper and BUY ANOTHER BOND.
If we haven’t done our best we have-
n*t done our bit.
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Wildcats Lose Play-off Game Here
To Crowell’s Cats; Best Team Wins
Wayne
le C. Davis, Jr.
Drops Part of Title
As you will notice from their dis-
play advertisement on another page,
tbe Wayne C. Davis, Jr., Hardware
A Furniture Company is no mole—
that is, under that firm appellation.
Henceforth it will be known as the
Davis Hardware A Furniture Com-
pany. The change, said Mr. Davis,
was made because—well, because the
general public just insisted on leav-
ing off the
____Wayne C. and Jr. when
■ out checks, etc., making checks
____le to the Davis, etc.
Sounds like a good idea—adopting
a firm title to which people make out
their checks.
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in* off the
filling out c
payable to
T. A. Schreiber, one of Wind-
Ihorst’s most solid and substantial
citisens, was an Archer City visitor
and an exceptionally pleasant News
caller today.
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MRS. RUSSELL JAGERS
IN GRAVE CONDITION
IN SAN ANTONIO
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Glasener, of
Vernon, drove doom to Archer City
last Thursday from where Mrs. Glas-
ener, joined by her mother, Mrs. T.
L. Looney, went on to San Antonio
k. a. iL. L-J.l _# iksieioe
to be at the lredaide of their sister
...v. daughter, respectively, Mrs. Has-
sell Jagers. who underwent another
major operation hi a San Antonio
The Archer City Wildcats, wracked
by illness and injuries, were unable to
cope with the Crowell Wildcats’ of-
fense here Friday night, and went
down to defeaEby a score of 24 to 0.
in the district 11-A championship
play-off game.
Even with three of the main cogs
of the Wildcat machine, Bobby Mc-
Daniel, end; Halley Paul Knox, quar-
terback. and Eugene Winn, fullback,
incapacitated, the first two r ,nied
having gotten out of bed the day pre-
vious after being down with serious
cases of flu and Winn not yet re-
covered from head injuries, sustain-
ed a couple of weeks earlier, their de-
feat was by no means ignominious.
The Cats that night, even though
they lost, earned an E for effort and
u T for trying. They literally play,
ed their hearts out—but they just
weren’t good enough—and we ser
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VERNE CARRINGTON RECENT
DISCHARGEE AIR CORP
Mr. and Mrs. Verne Carrington vis-
ited shortly in this city 'Wednesday
at about mid-day. They were en
route from New York to San Antonio
where they expect to make their fu-
ture home. Tbe young couple, inci-
dentally married only .* couple of
months, had been in Lafargueville,
New York, visiting her parents.
Verne, as a technical sergeant, serv-
ed with tbe Army Air Corps-In tbe
South Pacific mostly on Guadalcanal.
He received his discharge about a
month ago
iously doubt that they could have won
that night even if they had been in
the pink of condition.
Crowell’s star back, Joy, was cer-
tainly just that to the Crowell fans
—and everything else to the Archer
City partisans. He just couldn’t be
stopped. The balance of the Crowell
team also performed almost flawless-
ly.
Eugene Winn. Archer City’s hard-
charging fullback, had to be removed
about midway of tbe game and Mc-
Daniel, regular right end. out of bed
one day, was moved over to the
only one. --------------
fullback slob where be performed
creditably.
We are making no alibis for this
loss. There are none to make. Our
Wildcats are good—dark good, in fact
—but they jjst weren’t good enough.
’«turned Tuesday reporting! Next year, however, tins Wildcats
it** Mn. j*gerz wot jshould realty go fc. town with only
improved but Her condition I two of this year's regulars to be
aecom Host Another
Jr, j to what was t—
to Coach Locklear
of ' • ‘ ' ‘
r year should
this year’s big
dear—a woeful
should add heft
shortage
Former Resident
Of Archer Gty
Dies at Spur
jBuij
Funeral services were eond»eta<
Tuesday at Spur, Texas, for Mr*.
Lynn Rankin, former resident of Ar-
cher City, who died at her home at
Spur esrly Monday morning foBsw
ling a short illness.
Death was attributed to cancer tM
the liver.
Survivors include the husband and
five sons, Jack, in Okinawa,
Wayne, Leland, Mutt and
one daughter Vivian, all
the aged mother, Mrs. S.
Cracken, Gainesville; two ««•»—-»
Jack and Jim McCracken, Gainesville;
a sister, Mrs. Hervay Whittaker,
Bluegrove ,and a half-brother, W. T-
Wilson, Archer City.
Mr. and Mrs. John Fish, Mr*. J««
Gameson, Mrs. Graham Campbell and
W. T. Wilson, of Archer City, rrfn-
tives of the deceased lady, attended
the funeral. Jim McCracken, Gaines-
ville, also attended
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Chas. Abercrombie
Suffers Heart Attack
Chas. Abercrombie is reported in
an improved condition in a Wichita
Falls hospital following a heart at-
tack last Saturday. Mr. Abercrombie
was stricken while on a cattle in-
spection tour of one of his ranches
near this city in company with Pedy
Peirce, this city, and Percy Neville,
of Henrietta.
He was rushed to the Archer hos-
pital where emergency treatment was
'rendered, later being removed to his
i home. He was taken to Wichita Falls
Sunday afternoon where he was plac-
ed under the care of a heart special-
• According to information
__________K __ ___________ today.
it is expected he will be confined to
bed for some time to come.
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Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Pott* received
word recently that their son, Ben, i*
now on a trip to Guam, aboard the
U. S. S. Makin, a carrier of super-
proportions and super-fittings, which.
has been converted into a troop trans-
port. The Makin is makin’ the_ round
trip in about 33 days and brings a
whole bunch of troops home from
that military base. Potts stated that
it was a real nice ship with a music
room, a library, a store and fountain,
a different picture show every night,
good cooks and fine food. Sounds
like i
He expects to resume his pre-war
job at the air depot, formerly Kelly
Field, at San Antonio.
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Co. Agent Attends
Wichita Meeting
County Agent C. W. Wilhoit at-
tended the Regional Chemurgic Clinic
in Wichita Falls today, Thursday,
at which program R. E. Karper,
agronomist in charge of sorghum in-
vestigations at Texas Experiment
Station of Lubbock; F. K. Pence,
of research laboratories at Texas
University; Dean R. C. Goodwin,
science, Texas Tech; E. D. Marshall,
director Texas forest laboratories,
Lufkin, Texas; a»d Dr. Harold Jes-
key, chemurgic research scientist of
S. M. U. D. A. Brandeen, general
manager of West Texas Chamber of
Commerce, presided at tbe morning
session and Lester Brooks, superin-
tendent of the Iowa Park experiment
station was in charge at tbe after-
noon session. Hie clinic met at noon
with the Rotary Club.
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J, B. Curry, Jr., of Wichita Falls,,
late of the Aleutians where he serv
SEAMAN POTTS NOW
ENJOYING THE SCENERY
Harold May Start
Taking Big Chances
! Buster, am*
*11 of Bpwri
8. A. Me-
Not So Bountiful
But Still Nice
Harold Kelleher, Wichita Falls oil
operator, was an Archer City visitor
Monday. In conversation with Har-
old, he told us he had just completed
another dry hole on Prideaux land
in northeast Young county—the last
being either No. 7 or 8—-all dry.
Kelleher, some time ago drilled his
first test on this land and got a
two-barrel producer. Thinking he
would find the exact spot where the
sand would prove more prolific, he
then dug 3 more to the north. All
were dry. Then he offset to the east,
south and west, and they, too, were
all dry. He is now getting ready for
another attempt. For this he should
get at least a P for perseverance.
We hope he finds it this time. He
is a nice fellow and deserves a just
reward but w^re afraid even if be
hits it won’t do him much good.
He’ll probably then start trying tb
fill a three-card straight with two
inside openings.
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We wish to express our thank#
the following folk who have tM*
week paid their subscription to The
News. We think they are just dan*
nice people. May your tribes never
diminish and much obliged to earns
of you; __
Roland Craig, Wichita Pall*; Le*
Glazener, Vernon; Mrs. Nettie John-
son, Amarillo; Herman Hendricks,
city; Judge Joe E. Shelton for Mr*
C. E. Florence, Jr., Gilmer, Texas;
J. W. Heard, city; T. A. Schreiber for
Father Albert, Corpus Christ! and
Ernest Riehl, San Angelo; ~
WILDCAT SQUAD TO BE
GUESTS LOCAL MEN AT
WICHITA-AMARILLO GAME
: smooth sailing to us.
The entire Archer City football
squad 30 of ’em, including their
coach—will be spectators at tbe
Wichita Falls - Amarillo bi-distriet
game Saturday at Wichita Falls, as
guests of Mayor Roy Heard and Joe
Deal. Transportation will be furnish-
ed by the Archer City school dis-
trict.
‘Forty-two Game in Rhyme”
The following poem, which the writer chose to call doggerel, was taken
from the issue of The News dated March 3, 1916. It is from the gifted
pen of the late Mont Hart, father of our printer, R°Ker Hut There-are
a lot' more of his poems in existence in old copies of The News which we
will publish from time to time. .
As you will note from the date, the following poem was composed
nearly thirty years ago and the names which appear will be unfaipinar
Vo - Jo* fcf Hot readers. However, each of them ttUT be remembered by
a whole lot of our older readers. Since the time this was written »
of changes have come about. So far as we know, only one of those whose
names appear in the poem is a live today. He is Snip Snider, who incident
ally, has never given up hopes. He’s still trying to win * domino game
waiting on a scut.
____ 1 Dorothy
Gatlin, city; Mrs. Arlie Campbell,
city.
Makes Good Hand
Even Though Blind
Dennis Rowlett, blind ---- — „
zen Tom Rowlett, is and has been fe*
the past two weeks, an employee of
the Wichita Engineering company,
of Wichita FaQs. Dennis’ job. w*
are informed, ha# to do with placing
insulations on washing machine stat-
or*. Congratulations to Dynamite.
Maybe we might be able te see *
stator but that would be a very IRt’e
help if we could. We wouldn't recog-
nise it
inspecting heifers
Dan Powell, J. D. M ounce and Jeff
McMurtry left Monday for El P**»
motivated by a desire to scrutinise
the beauties of the' feminine of the
specie bovine. Up until the time thin
v as written Thursday ayem. they bad
not returned to their Archer City
abodes. ... ...
Mrs. Powell, who furnished us with
the above information, also delivered
s few other choice comments regard-
ing this heifer inspection tour, but
due to the fact that we prefer to
have our greying locks removed by
a barber, we believe our best bet
would be to punt
Up to the city one morning I came
At tire Kitchens Hotel I found a big
I%X ure mtenens nvm i iwuuu » mg game;
The bones was a rattling, the tobacco passed ’round,
-Oil” in bis rocker was sleeping real sound.
The maid in the kitchen was singing a tune.
About plucking wild flowers by the light of the moon;
The office was crowded, sweaters by the score,
Every seat was taken, wasn’t room for more.
Chair number one was occupied by “Sowell,"
Chair number two was crowded full by “Powell;
“Uncle Sim Melugin" was playing number three.
In number four was who offered thirty-three.
Everything was lovely ’til “Baggett” made his bid.
The sweaters were a sweating, and chewing of their quid;
“Powell” offered eighty-four on a lay-down pure and plain,
“Melugin" gave one-sixty-eight, and “Sowell" bid tbe i
game.
Sowell" bid on sixes and led the double six,
Everyone played sixes and of course he took the trick;
_ 1____a • Mi 1*T>____11 M slllff
Next he 'played the six-five. “Powell" couldn’t .luff.
“Ghobon” “ ‘ *---
who was sweating, declared it awful tough.
Next be played the double blank, then tbe double four.
“Martin” fainted plum away and fell upon tbe floor.
"Twaa a lucky thing for "Martin" as the “Doctew” both were there,
And tbe sweaters were a “rearin’ and tearin’" all their hair;
ed a hitch with Uncle Samson’s Ar-
my Engineers, eras a visitor in Ar-
cher City Tuesday night Jimmy
spent several years of bis boyhood
in Archer City where the family once
resided. They moved from here about
12 years ago. He was discharged
from the service about a couple of
months ago.
Next be played tire double ace, which was awful good.
But fos next play paralysed tbe sweaters where they stood.
For he had pkyed bis little off. just an ordinary “tote.____
And “Soup Bon." fell upon U Uke a tiger would a gooa*;
“J. D.” played tire four-five, “Simeon” .luffed a dime,
Twas awful bard on sweaters and harder still on rhyme
“Sowell” and "Powell”
And the gam* waa call
ere badly beat
| off till tire boarders
Mr. and Mrs. L. C. H«
Wit Saturday to set up ttei
abode in that section of tire --—
Colorado where the citizens give Ti-
oga as their post office
Tony Hoff was over from Ws
thorst home Tuesday.
RECENT BRIDE HONORED
WITH BEAUTIFUL SHOWER
Mrs. Clifton Voss, Jr, nee
Dorothee Burkett, was honors*
beautiful bridal shower last
day night at the Amity clt
with Mesdames Roy Heard.
King. O. M. Wylie, J. T. Mu
Garland Ray. George Gauldee
E. Potts and Misses Patsy
Helen Heard, Joy Wallen ai
raret Strange as hostess**.
Mrs. J. S. Melugin
large number of guests a
bride's book which she 1
and which contained a t
bride, composed by Mrs.
Little Miss Cissy Sullivan
number*,
iiano b;
£
gave violin seiectioi
•t tbe piano by 1
4 by i piano solo
y Heard. Mrs. Mel
oecarii
mhhbhHBHh
■
>y M
B. Wilson read a
poem about the bride.
Beaks gave violin selection*,
ponied i
followed
Dorothy _______ — s
reed her toast to tire bride.
An array of beautiful
eluding a dinner service of
and pottery was pye*
honoree and cake and
#«rved from the
which held as a
bride and grooi
mother of the
punch bowl.
Mrs.
honor
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