The Paducah Post (Paducah, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 28, 1931 Page: 4 of 8
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THE PADUCAH POST
Thursday, May 28, 1931
Special Sale of Used Cars
See us if you want a real bargain in a Used Car. We’ll give you a full dollar’s
worth of value for every dollar you spend. '
These used cars were taken in trade for new Fords. We didn’t give an over-allowance
then so we don’t have to overcharge you now.
All makes—open and closed types—prices to meet_ every purse.
Here are juat a few of our Bargain Special*:
— 1930 Ford Road.ter .......... $299.00
_1929 Ford Tudor Sedan ............ $365 00
—1929 Ford Tudor Sedan $325.00
___1929 Ford Sport Coupe $239.00
_1929 Ford Model A Truck $275.00
_1925 Ford Model T Truck $ 75.00
—1926 Ford Model T Truck $ 85.00
—1925 Chevrolet Truck............................$ 50.00
—1928 Model A Truck .......................... $265.00
—1926 Chevrolet Touring Car............$
—1925 Model T Coupe -........$ 25.00
-2-wheel Model A Trailer ..............- $ 35.00
—4-wheel Trailer --$ 95.00
CALL OR PHONE FOR A DEMONSTRATION
PADUCAH MOTOR CO.
Phone 215
Mrs.W. S. Doolen and children r\ A Q C 1 t
leave Sunday for Clovis, New LI. A. I\. 06l6Ct
Mexico, where they will spend
the summer.
&
Roy Fox and family visited in
Crowell Sunday.
Mrs. Nicholson was a Crowell
visitor Sunday.
Tuesday, June 2nd, is Bargain
Day at Stone Dept. Store, Inc.
Men's Dress Pants, 98c.
L. T. Green and wife of Slaton
were in Paducah Sunday after-
noon en route to Hot Springs,
Ark.
C. E. Jackson and family were
week end visitors in Munday,
Texas.
W. E. Price and daughters,
Misses Clara, Leola and Alene,
visited in Vernon Sunday after-
W. A. Barber and family of
Linden, Texas, visited W. G.
Womack and wife this week.
Tuesday, June 2nd, is Bargain
Day at Stone Dept. Store, Inc.
Boys’ Overalls, extra value, 49c.
Misses Lucille Davis. Margaret
Combest, Vivian Chenault, and
Mrs. Crawley from Gainesville;
Bob Tull and J. P. Williams spent
Sunday at Roaring Springs.
Airs. Emma Worley of Electra
is the guest this week of Geo.
Worley and wife.
Miss Pauline Pearson is visit-
ing relatives in Amarillo.
G. C. Probasco and wife were
in Dallas this week, visiting rela-
tives and friends.
Mrs. J. M. Williford of Anson
is visiting her daughter, Mrs.
Martin Gentry, and husband.
Miss Hazel Probasco left Wed-
nesday for a two weeks’ visit in
Dallas and Sherman.
Tuesday, June 2nd, is Bargain
Day at Stone Dept. Store, Inc.
Men's work shirts, 3 for $1.00.
A. M. Morgan and wife of
Lakeview were in Paducah this
week visiting friends and look-
ing after business matters. Air.
Morgan formerly farmed in the
Coleyville section.
Airs. John Tannahill visited in
Vernon Wednesday.
Airs. AL J. Parks of Canyon,
Texas, is visiting her daughter,
Airs. R. I. Stallings, and family.
Lendon Watts is visiting in
Ralls, Texas.
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BY BRUCE BARTON
A friend of mine tells me that he has recently add-
ed to his income by working in the evenings as a press
agent for an amusement park.
It was his first contact with that great industry
which has grown up out of the rather pathetic eager-
ness of folks to be happy—to have their minds diverted
from their work and worries.
He said: “My job has been hard work, but it taught
me one thing that is priceless—how to look pleasant
whether I feel that way or not.”
It reminded me of a conversation I once had with
the press agent of a circus. In describing the freaks in
the side-show, he remarked: “Every so often we have
to send them away. They get sucker sore.”
“Sucker sore!” I exclaimed. “That’s a new one on
me. What’s the meaning of sucker sore?”
He explained that, in the parlance of the circus, a
customer is a sucker. It is not a derogatory term, mere-
ly the conventional phrase.
“The freaks sit there on their raised platforms,
listening to the comments of the suckers who press
around them all day long,” he said. “The living skele-
ton hears the same rude jokes a hundred thousand
times. The fat lady is poked at with umbrellas, and
kidded by smart young fellows who imagine that their
wise cracks are something absolutely fresh and new.
“Day after day the freaks put up with it, smiling
patiently. But every day the strain of their suppressed
emotions grows greater, until finally they want to
jump down off their platforms and bite the customers.
Then we have to send them away for a rest They are
‘sucker sore.’ ”
Most of us can sympathize with the freaks; we, too,
have been sucker sore. There have come days when our
tired nerves rebelled against the demands of the cus-
tomers who give us a living; when we grumbled at the
job for which we should have been grateful; when it
seemed that all interest had gone from our work, leav-
ing only dull routine.
It is wise on such days to pull down the desk and
walk out of the office, and say: “I will not be back until
tomorrow.”
But even this cure does not always work, or can not
always be applied. Soon or late we have to face the
fact that life is a fight, not a picnic. And one of the
elements of victory, in the words of my friend, is the
capacity to “look pleasant, whether we feel that way
or not”
i Rev. Hubert Thomson and fam-
ily of Amarillo are visiting J. H.
Thomson and family of Delwin.
Tuesdav, June 2nd, is Bargain
Day at Stone Dept. Store, Ine.
| .Men’s Golf Knickers, ’2 price.
Airs. Etta Covington was in
Fort Worth the first of the week.
Walter Swint and wife visited
in New Alexico this week.
Mrs. H. F. Hill left Alonday
for New Alexico to be gone for
several days.
Airs. Sherrod A. Williams and
children were in Abilene this
week, visiting relatives and
friends.
Aliss Edith Hill visited in New
Alexico this week.
Bill Harris left Sunday for his
home in Alerkel. He has been at-
tending high school in Paducah,
finishing this year.
Joe Pate and wife visited rela-
tives in Hollis, Ok., Sunday.
Tuesday, June 2nd, is Bargain
Day at Stone Dept. Store, Inc.
Ladies’ fabric gloves, 25c.
J. R. Hailey, Hubert Hailey,
Aliss Lorene Lon. Leon Wilkins
and family and R. R. Gaggers
and family were enjoying an out-
ing at Lake Kemp Sunday and
Alonday.
V. H. AleClintock and family
are visiting in Bosque County.
Airs. H. G. Briggs left Sunday
for a visit with relatives in Kosse.
Aliss Alinnie Payne of Rails vis-
ited June Watts and wife Sun-
day.
Airs. Jack Bryan came in Sun-
day from Granfield, Ok., for a
visit with W. H. Brooks and
daughter, Aliss Hallie.
Airs. A. Z. Alillsap and children
are visiting relatives and friends
in Hamlin, Texas.
Jim Townsend of Alatador spent
Sunday with Billye Alorgan and
wife.
Chas. Long and Aliss Audys
Ratliff, Percy Godfrey. Rannel
Watson and Aliss Ir.a Alae Long
of Roaring Springs were the
guests of Walter Alexander
Woodrum Friday.
Tuesday, June 2nd, is Bargain
Day at Stone Dept. Store, Inc.
Men’s Unionalls, $2.95 values,
$1.49.
Airs. R. E. Gentry, Airs. B. F.
Bailey and Aliss Ima Gene Gen-
try from Childress were the
week end guests of J. L. Howell
and family, AL R. Blake and
wife, and Ernest Stewart and
wife.
Aliss Irene Hobbs from Little-
field was the week end guest of
Aliss Hazel Newby.
Doyle Wilson and wife of Qua-
nah spent Sunday in the city
visiting J. B. Hamrick and wife.
Airs. W. F. Hoffman and chil-
dren of Anson were the guests
the latter part of last week of
Doc Armstrong and family.
J. C. Bryan and wife of Cro-
well spent Sunday with Airs. ]
Bryan’s parents, D. P. Aloore;
and family.
Tuesday, June 2nd, is Bargain
Day at Stone Dept. Store, Inc. j
Alen’s Khaki Pants, $1.95 values,
9,-,c.
Tuesday, June 2nd, is Bargain
Day at Stone Dept. Store, Inc.
Alen’s summer suits, $3.98.
J. N. Christian and £. L. Tal-
ley of Hollis, Ok., were visiting
in Paducah Thursday morning.
Wilmer Mauldin, Airs. F. S.
Mauldin and Miss Grace Alauldin
left Friday for an extended visit
in Savoy, Texas.
J. B. Foster and wife have re-
turned from a visit in Dallas and
Rule.
J. P. Hogue is visiting in Okla-
homa.
Little Miss Martha Ann Hob-
son is visiting relatives in Den-
ton, Texas.
Tuesday, June 2nd, is Bargain
Day at Stone Dept. Store, Inc.
Printed Crepes and Georgettes,
69c. Values to $2.50.
Miss Lorena Prunty, who has
been teaching in the Paducah
schools the past term, left for
her home in Denton this week. |
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Doc Hare of Swearingen was
a Wednesday business visitor to
Paducah.
Miss Faye Dee Young, chief
operator of the telephone ex-1
change at Silverton, was the
week end visitor o< Paducah rela-
tives.
Mrs. Roger Peppers and chil-
dren of Holliday, Texas, visited
B. M. Coker and family this
week.
Virgil Lytle and wife from
Childress are visiting Hosie Willi-
ford and wife.
Tuesday, June 2nd, is Bargain
Day at Stone Dept. Store, Inc.
Ladies’ Dress Slippers, 98c, $1.98.
Alvie Criswell of Anson was
visiting Doc Armstrong and fam-
ily the latter part of last week.
G, W. Snider of Narcisso was
in the city Saturday afternoon.
A New Tree
Each Year
Washington, D. C., May 26.—
A three-hundred-year-old tree in
a church burying ground at Falls
Church, Virginia, has been se-
I lected by the Daughters of the
American Revolution as the sec-
ond living memorial of America’s
past to be preserved for poster-
ity.
The National Society of the
D. A. R. has embarked upon a
plan of choosing one historic tree
for preservation each year by
means of a nation-wide referen-
dum through its state chapters.
The trees are saved by tree sur-
geons, whose services are do-
nated by former Congressman
Martin L. Davey, head of the
Davey Institute of Tree Surgery.
The tree at Falls Church—a
tulip poplar with a foliage spread
of 75 feet—has .looked down upon
more than three centuries of Am-
erican history. It was more than
100 years old when George
Washington, vestryman of the
church rested in its shade. Crum-
bling tombstones, in desolate dig-
nity, speak mutely of the death
of all else that lived in pre-revol-
utionary days. The tree is the
only living thing that was alive
in the hamlet of Falls Church
when Washington lived.
During the revolutionary war
the church was a recruiting place
for the Company of Captain
Charles Broadwater, a fellow ves-
tryman of George Washington.
Captain Henry Fairfax restored
it just before the Mexican war,
but in the Civil war it was used
by Union soldiers, first as a hos-
pital, then as a stable. All of its
equipment was destroyed except
the font, which pious hands hid
and saved.
In recent years the church has
been restored and today is a
replica of that in which Wash-
ington worshipped. Located on
the Lee highway six miles south
of the Key bridge in this city, it
is a Alecca for visitors who come
every year from all parts of the
nation.
and
intermediate credit banks
private banking resources.
The $26,000,000 does not rep-
resent the total the board has in-
vested in cotton. Its total loans
to.cotton co-operatives as of last
January, including the cotton
holdings, was $69,000,000. In ad-
dition it has advanced $116,000,-
000 to the Cotton Stabilization
Corporation, which organization
is holding 1,300,000 bales.
Statements that the total of
3,700,000 bales was Farm Board
cotton was denied by Air. Stone,
who pointed out that the co-
operatives are handling their own
cotton, in which the board had
no financial interest save as the
staple is pledged for the Govern-
ment loan.
TORNADO INJURES FIVE
FARM BOARD’S COTTON
ONLY 2,500,000 BALES
Washington, Alay 21.—Cotton
co-operative associations operat-
ing under the financial support
of the Federal Farm Board have
about $26,000,000 of board mon-
ey invested in cotton staple,
reckoned at something like 2,-
500,000 bales. The total amount
the co-operatives have invested
in this cotton is not available
here, but is estimated above
$100,000,000. In discussing the
situation Thursday, Chairman J.
C. Stone of the Farm Board said
the amount obtained from the
board for holding this cotton was
comparatively small, the remain-
der having been obtained from
Borger, Texas, Alay 21.—Five
persons were injured, twenty-two
oil derricks blown down and sev-
eral buildings damaged early
Thursday by a small tornado
which struck Skellytown, a com-
munity in the oil field sixteen
miles southeast of here, in Car-
son County.
Air. and Mrs. J. T. Francis,
their daughter, 14, and a nephew,
Carl Alexander, 17, were injured
by flying debris as they fled
from their home to the safety of
a boiler firebox near by. The
house was demolished. They were
brought here to a hospital. Fran-
cis and his wife suffered broken
bones and bruises but the chil-
dren were less seriously hurt.
Tom Jones, farm boss on a
lease in the Skellytown area,
suffered minor injuries when his
house was crumpled by the wind.
He walked a mile through rain
and hail to another house and
was given aid, then was removed
to White Deer for treatment.
The Seaboard gasoline plant
was badly damaged, stills and
buildings being blown down.
Three homes and two pump
houses were demolished. Skelly-
town itself, a community of
about 200 persons, was not dam-
aged by the storm, although the
rain, hail and high wind extend-
ed to Pampa and Borger.
BUST OF HERRICK
IS PRESENTED PARIS
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The stately figure can
wear the new fasMont with
charm and dignity—if she
chooses this Gotsard com-
bination. It's designed with
an inner belt to flatten
the abdomen. Fashioned
of beautiful brocade and
elastic, with bust sections
of satin tricot. Model 3606
Baker-Hanna Co.
PADUCAH, TEXAS
Paris, Alay 27.—Their first
sample of the culinary art of
Paris was the outstanding experi-
ence Wednesday for the party of
American Alayors touring France.
They were the guests of the city
of Paris at an elaborate luncheon
at the Hotel De Ville.
Afterward members of the
party said they had never imagin-
ed anything so good.
Four kinds of wine and two
kinds of champagne were served
to add flavor to a menu prepar-
ed b.y the best chefs of France.
This included baby lobsters, sad-
dle of lambs, chicken in jelly ar-
9'enteuil, pudding and wild straw-
berries.
There were no speeches while
the guests were at the table, ex-
cept for toasts proposed by Am-
bassador Walter E. Edge and
Count Jean De Casteilane to the
Presidents of France and the
United States. The toasts were
honored in brimming cups of
champagne.
Luncheon was followed by the
ceremony in which a bust of the
late Ambassador Myron T. Her-
rick, carved from a beam from
the first White House at Wash-
ington, was formally presented to
the city of Paris by Ambassador
Edge, on behalf of the visiting
Alayors. Count De Casteilane ac-
cepted on behalf of Paris.
Airs. H. H. Gaddis and children
of Plainview were the week end
guests of Airs. Gaddis’ parents,
AL L. Alitchell and wife.
Aliss Jeanette Aloore is visiting
relatives in Wichit^ Falls this
week.
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MATERIALS
Prices Never Were Lower
The economy in keeping homes and business
structures always under good repair may be enjoyed
still further when only first grade materials are used.
For new structures . . . there are no sound reasons for
using inferior materials.
Our lumber, roofings and building materials are
guaranteed standard supplies and there is no variation
in quality. If you want good materials, at lowest
prices... and delivered promptly then you will call or
phone for prices and estimates. No extra charge for
estimate or building plans.
Prompt Service
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Drummond-Crump Lbr. Co.
“LUMBER HEADQUARTERS”
Phone 86 Paducah, Texas
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Carlock, E. A. The Paducah Post (Paducah, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 28, 1931, newspaper, May 28, 1931; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth723784/m1/4/?q=lumber+does+its+stuff: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bicentennial City County Library.