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THE DEMOCRAT-VOICE, COLEMAN, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1930.
Twelve Story Hotel
Being Erected^ Give
I YilW
early citizens of Brownwood who
used the oil from the well are living
er 'today, but Mr Keler & sure he can
|| | prove the correctnei -oi all sta;e-
: merits made.
45-Year Old Oi
ir "Bishop S^on Will
Conduct Services ir
Coleman Sunday Eve
"thinking big" ever since.
by Arthur Brisbane
morning, placed an order -
>‘gg*. and was celled om thirty ( onduct Services in
years later he went hack into the
cafe and the owner asked him how
he wanted the eggs eooSed.' Vou will • Rt Rn E ^ seatnan Bishop
agree the tale manager had a v®*Tj$ North Tdxas. will conduct the
good memory. evening prayer and sermon at the
d. H. Keler, Burgstt. . route 1. Coleman Eldseopal Church Sunday
was In Coleman Tuesday #f»rnocm tevening a: 7:30 o'clock. He will bo
accompanied by the Rev. Alex Han-
i sort, priest in charge oi the local
church.
The Brisbane column is pub-
lished by The Democrat-Voice as
a news feature because of the in-
teresting comments qf this dis-
tinguished writer upon topics of
the day. Opinions expressed are
those of Mr Brisbane, and should
not be interpreted as reflecting
the editorial pohcy of this news-
paper.—Editor's Note.
| His best "big thinking" ha* fco*n
;devoted to the fight against disease
j Instead of using a few dollars to re-
lieve individual cases, h* U*Jd tins
of milions to elinfinate disease per-
manently. •;f
i making his money useful. He has
| sailed the ocean of millions for
many years. A few dollar waves
more or less make as little difference
to him as salt waves do to an old
captain.
Thinking Big and Smail
Dunne thi month Bfshpp Seaman An Anfifnt 1>rfa(j
vill >;,0 Chicago where the House Xo ^ ^ for RusgJj
and told one that convinced us his
mMBory is as good as the memory
of the resturant owner.
Forty five years ago he frequented
a» oil well in BroWnwood. Monday
afternoon he saw the well again. lf 1 oi Bishops wit! select a preriding
was drilled for \va -i. but'instead ■Bishop o: rbe church to succeed the 1ne r°“sh One Speaks
of water oil was found. The oil , late Bishop Anderson,
was sold to natives," Mr. Keler says,i The. north Texas missionary dis-:
"for 25 cents a pint and his father- tnet. over which Bishop Seaman}
ia-law made many purchases and j presides, comprises about 80.000
used it to grease saddles, harness, i -quare miles,
boots and other leather goods used —--mm>-- It is, after you get a start. For in-
i' . ciaticnal B. V. P. I . to Met .stance, in 1859. sixty-one years ago,
at Liberty. John D. Rockefeller, who began
—- } working as office , boy for $15 a'
The Associational B Y P. V of i month, started for himself as a co-
He was wear- Coleman County will meet next Sun- j mission man. He. began "thinking
ho had tubri-'day. March 9. at Liberty. The'pro-; bi(r Hc had accumulated $17,000 in
Secretary Lament cf the Depart-
, meat of Commerce learns that 75
1 Signals to protect pedestrains | per cent of business failures are due
from automobiles are to be installed to carelessness,
jin big cities and "amber cofored ’ Mr. Solomon, who owns forty bau-
! tights were suggested. Thfe police'ty parlors, asked "Is that a good
say: "Drivers will pay no attention business?'’ replied: “It's a good'bus-
'to anything but red. That makes I iness. if you know.how to-manage it.
; them stop.". But any business is a rotten business
; Why is it that red impresses men. I if you don't know how to manage
•/ 'and even the lower animals? Is it,»it." Personally, as he will tell you,
| perhaps, because men. for forty mil- [Mr. Solomon pays more attention to
Ballinger Directors
Decide Not to Place
Team in West Texas
lion years, and animals through | business than to beauty.
Ballinger, Texas, March 5.—Unless
a member of the Texas Leigu:
establishes a farm there the Ballin-
ger fans will not support a club in
the West Texas League. The direc-
tors have decided, that it will be im-
possible to finance a team through
the season without outside aid. N.ne
players held under contract from
last season have been given their re-
lease. Only with aid from the Texas
League will insure this city main-
taining a berth in the Western cir-
cuit, the directors have declared.
hundreds of millions of years before
men came, have known and inherit-
ed one great dread, the red blaze of
a forest or prane fire?
Taxes may be bigger.
President Hoover warns congress
............ that it is inclined to spend money
Henry Ford will say in Capper's, - ; too freely. An. increase of 40 per
Magazine lor April that It is just I Russia continues her systematicj cent in taxes might follow any too
as easy to think big as it is to think drive on religious belief, and the I liberal appropriations,
sms-! ;right to religious belief. .More
by early Texans.”
When lie saw the well Monday he
could not resist, the temptation--to
again use some of the oil that serv'd
his ancestors so well,
ing a shoe Tuesday
churches, synagogues, are confiscat-
ed or destroyed, and many Moham-
medan mosques.
Russia apparently objects to the
Brownie
< Billie Ruth Moore, Reporter)
The Brownies met at the audi-
suggestion that anybody except Le-! torium of the South Ward Building
run might have something to do with’ on Tuesday afternoon with thirteen
rated with the petroleum
days.
"The new twelve story hotel being
erected in Brownwood will staiid
over the well." Mr. Keler said As
workmen excavate, the casing
probably the same casing put then
forty five years ago. is cut off. but
the oil in the hole still stands within
a few inches of. the top "
The Burkett man says that, if any-
body doublts his story he will take url'cr‘
him to Brownwood, pay transports- pa,w towels tn
tion charges and buy the doubter a individual packages
good meal. Very few. if any. of the at the D.-V. office,
the management of this earth and j members present; One of these was a
of former "ra,m to 1 given is Devotions: al,<1 took a partner. Maurice B. j the universe around it, whether it be new member.
Clyde Keilev: reading Mrs. Evans: ;cir,rk. They invested their money; Jehovah, the Christian God and ;
the relation cf thy B. Y. P D. to[jM a crude
She church. Willie Mae1 Allen; the
relation of the B. Y. P U. to the]
Sunday School, Mrs. Arthur Kelley: j^.big»
the relation of the B. Y. P: U. to] •
the church budget. Earnest Lykins; j ju jggg
oil refinery "in fpieve- Trinity, or Mohammed’s Allah.
Eight thousand enthusiastic aths-
That was the beginning of "think- ists volunteered to tear down a mon-
astry.
Art treasures In the churches con-
fiscated are' to be changed into mon-
The study of flowers was the first
of ttlie nature studies to be started.
Mr. Rockefeller, who is
The Brownies meet each Tuesday
afternoon at 3:30 o'clock and visitors
are always welcome.
piano solo, Mr Mildred Comedy f,ow approaching his ninety-first -ey and the money used to biiy trac- Mrs. Thomas A. Edison, on play-
Le every church have represents- birtiuiav and was then twenly-six, tors for Russian farms. . I ing golf for the first time Recently,
tn ■ there. whether they hate a bought out his partner for $72,530. ----- missed her tee shot. Leave it to
.•■Standard Oil corporation papers, Frank McErline. ‘the tough one.";her husband to invent a. good ex-
.wen- signed on January 10. 1870, shot three times by gangsters as he cuse.
*’«! ioo towels standard Oil is now sixty years old.
5ftfx i John D Rockefeller has been
Where Cleanliness
Is a Habit
and Courtesy
Is Unfailing
Owned and Operated By and For Coleman People
Never such a store full of bargains of the highest quality food prod-
ucts. You must visit our store and get the best.
lay wounded on a hospital cot in i ——.......
Chicago, is home at his mother's Iw0 Chicago gangsters who were
now. full of war arrested for loafing about a
"Never mind who shot me," he j lobby were soaked with
tells the fxiHce. 'McErline takes saict t0 cost 811 ounce-
care of McErline. Remember that
1 goes good with gunpowder.
Charles McKlnnis and e. r. uyern by wak-
ing publication at this Citation once tn
each week for four consecutive weeks perv-
ious to fhe return day hereof. In some
newspaper published in your County, to
appear at the next regular term of the Dis-
trict Court of Coleman County, to be hold-
n at the Court House, thereof, in Cole-
man. Texas, on the 2nd Monday In April.
A D. 1930, the same being the 14th day oi
April, 1930, Ihrn and there to answer a
petition filed In said Court on the 5th
day of March A. D. 1930, in a suit, num-
bered on the docket of said Court No.
mo. wherein R. H. McKee ud Is Plaintiff,
and J P. McLean. B. Jackson. B. M. Jack,
son. M. B. Jackson, Mike II Thomas, .Sam-
uel M. McLean. John McLean,, Andrew
Hale. Robert Douglap, Robert Douglas. Ed-
ward C, McLean, Edward E, McLean, Jane
McLean. Virginia A. McLean, W. C. 3un-
! mons, J. W. Lawrence. E. W. Needham,
M. S. Needham, James Oowen, James Oow-
lena, a. W. Oowens, St-renah Turner, Al-
, bert W, Turner. W. P. Dancer, Eva Dan-
I rer. Julia Hamilton. J. T. Hamilton. Mrs.
'V A, Hufft, Mary McLean. Elizabeth Mc-
jLean, Virginia A, Hufft.' James Gorran,
; “-twin F LV't-meter, Daniel P Turner.
! Samuel W. Williams, H, Vl. Blackshear. P
\ a, Oowens. Rachael Oowens, Artie Wof-
j ford. Fiunetta Roberts, Charity Ray. H. H-
I Whitmore. Mrs. Leona Thompson, Mrs
Florence McJunkin. Mrs. Mary Klotz. 8.
W. Thompson, Lee Ayres, Amy Ayres. Wil-
liam J. Davis, W. B. Summy. William
Thiele. E. It Broslus, J. L. Thompson,
Charles W Camp. Merrick M. Miller,
Charles McKlnnis, F. P. Lyons, Federal
Production Corporation, and the unknown
heirs of J. P. McLean, B. -Jackson, B, M.
Jackson, M H Jackson. Samuel M Mc-
Lean. John McLean. Andrew Ilale. Rob-
ert Douglap. Robert Douglas, Edward C,
, McLean. Edward E: McLean. Jane Mc-
hotel j Lean. Virginia A McLean. W C. Simmons.
,, iv-rfnn-ve i 1 W. Lawrence, E. W. Needham. M. S.
1 Needliam. James Gowen, James Oowens.
Mebbe it > J. w Oowens. gSerenah Turner. Albert
1 : W Turner. W P. Dancer. Eva Dancer.
thf- next time you find some rat!
The Nat-ipnal
dead in a ditch, like a sieve.” “Uke U^pieU the slogan "Get Acquainted j”
a sieve,
holes.
means with many
Turner,
Julia HanilUon, J. T. Hanaillcn. Mrs V. A.
— •* j Hufft, Mary McLean, EHzabeth McLean.
Morticians, who Virginia .A Hufft, James Gorman, Eawin
P Delunieter. Daniel P Turner, Samuel
W. Wiliams. H M. UlacksheaV, P E. Oow-
SO I cds, Rachael Go wens, Artie Wofford. Pin- f
! netta Roberts, Charity Ray, H H. Whit-
j mire, Mrs. Leongv Thompson. Mrs. Flor-
! McJunkin. Mrs. Mary Klotz, S W
Thompson. Lee Ayres, Amy Ayres. Wil-
. ham J Davis, W u Summy. William
, What's become Cf the person' Who j rhiete. L H. Bio«1us. J L. Thompson.
3 the inventor , f flnnloilri th - m(Wies9 Charles W Camp. Merrick M Miller.
„f s.AHo fpAm u.hi-u ;used to applaud at in movies. ;chkrlrf> McKtunis aha f p Lyj«s, are
of she ridt from vhich a man---------— . ! uif« udants, and a brief statement of yjain-
marked and “nut on the spot" never , citation by piblication. hit's cause of action, being as follows:
* • ! THE STATE QF Tp-X-a* suit m regular form ol trespass to try
returns. jxo the Sheriff or iiuy -ConMaWe of Cole- ( (or righj, title and possession of
. — i - nun County • Greeting: [three certain tracts of land in Coleman
The natkmnl industrial conference i You'ere hereby commanded tp summot) t county. Texas:
ine national mmsuiai enunme [j p McLp:ul B Jiickson, B. M Jack-son. hrst TBACTi Comaintn^ 170 acres.
i. Jackson, Mike H T1........ ‘
bullet j Witjj your Undertaker." weren't
[dumb when they chose Chicago as
Lots of energy and gameness go-:-heir convention city,
mg to waste in our gunmen,
j police say McErline
me!
more or les4 be trig the S W one-fourth
cf .section No. 32, Block No. 1. H. B B &
C R R. Co. survey patented to J N
Needham by patent No. 232. Vol. 12A. re-
corded in Vcl 123. page 629. Coleman
here referred to.
icrlbed in the cleod ffoin G. Wy Oowens
anti v ife to J. N. Neealutm, recorded in
Vol 6i. pas* 543. Coleman County Deed
board tells you that the wealth of} b jalkson. Mil:? u Thomas, Samuel
the United States amounts to three
hundred and sixty billion one hun- c McLe.*n. Edward a Meu-an. Jane mc-
, . ^;u. ■ Lean,.Virginia A. McLean, W. C. Simmons, corwu IU Vl4. 140.
area million. [j w Lawrente, E Vv Needham. M S- County Deed Records,
. - • — j Needham. Jamr:, Guwtn. J..mcs Oowens | SECOND TRACT. 40 acre#* more or less
It SOlUlflS fl lot 0 but it is only i w Oowens. Serenah Turner. Albert W. Cf :he Joseph McLean Survey No. 701 de-
1 $3.00(1 for each American, with about I h»!,'’ h,t, jiIwHoiL^irs^L a'nilntL
; 5500 extra for New Yorkers. That X-........... ____________
[isn’t enough. - i meter. Duma r. Turner, iiumucl W Wil-| THIRD TRACT bying 7 95 acres of land.
nlnnp Ipovintr daiuX. H. M. Blackshear. F E. Gov;eiu. more or less, out of the Adams. Beaty and
a.uuc, lra 1 ig Rachael Oowens. Artie Wofford, Pinr.eua, Moulton Survey No. 9 described in the
Roberts, Charity Ray, H It. Whitmire. <jeed from J N. Needham and wife to H
Mrs. peona Thompson. Mrs Florence Me-1 s Needham, recorded in Vol. *5, page 37.
Jtrnkin, Mrs. Murv Klotz*. s.. VV. Thomp-jof suici records here referred to, and all
«m. Lee Ayres, Amy Ayres. William J pi sold lands being the name lands con*
Davis. V B. Summy: William Thiele. E. H. veyed to R. H McKeand by J N. Need*
Broslus. J L. Thompson. Charles W. barn and wije dated November 1, 1922
Camp. Mf rrlck M. Miller. Charles MeKin-(.recorded In'Vol. 129. page 351 of said rec-
nts. F. P Lyons. Federal Production Cor-1 ofs here referred to. plaintiff claiming
1 uimrvfat ffftm th*
1 Human machines
| out mines, real estate, factories, are
worth more than three hundred and
] sixty billions.
! This land and its people are worth
whatever science and industry
j choose to produce—certainly not
■ mere billions, but trillions.
Snowdrift
3 lbs_____________
6 lbs_____________
C
-65
$1.15
Friday and Saturday Specials
LARD
Advance Shortening
81b.
FRESH
$1.19
CORN FLAKES
White Swan
per package only
10c
SYRUP
Hoe Maid. I gallon
None Better, [ gallon
99c
53c
SAUSAGE
Vienna Style Advance
3 cans
25c
POTTED MEATS Just,hc,^yndwithe* 25c
Fruits and Vegetables—Fresh Every Day
John D. Rockefeller.' Jr., says, and
every well-informed man believes it,
since Mr. Rockefeller tells the truth,
that neither he nor his father caus-
ed the recent cut in crude oil prices*
They learned of such cuts from
newspapers. The elder Mr. Rocke-
feller docs not pull any strings from
“behind the scenes," but probably
follows what goes on with mild in
terest. Past
I Mr.
potation, nr.cl the unknov.n heirs of J. P.
McLean. B Jackson. B. M. Jackson. M. B
Jackson, Satnwel M McLean, John McLean
Andrew ‘ Hair, Robert Douglap, Robert
Douglas. Edward C. McLean. Edward E-
M?Le*n. Jam? McLs'ac. v*rgla*6 A. Mc-
Lean, W C. Simmons. J. W Lawrence. E
W. Needham, M, S. Needham, James Gow-
titie to said lands In fee simple from the
sovereignty of the soil and also under the
live ana ten years statutes of limitation
and alleging that defendants are making
some claim of title thereto, the exact na-
ture of which is urvknowr. to plaintiff but
that any right, title or interest that they
may have Is inferior to plaintiff’s title
en, James Oowens. G. W. Gcwens, Sennah [and should be cancelled as a cloud there-
Tumer, Albert W Turner W P. Dancer, ; on, and plaintiff prays judgment for the
right, title and possession of all of said
lands 'ind premises and for all costs of
suit and for general relief.
Herein Fall Not but have before said
Court, it its next regular term, this writ.
Eva Dancer. Julia Hamilton, J. T Hamilton,
Mrs. V. A. Hufft, Mary McLean, Elizabeth
McLean. Virginia A. Hufft. Jamas Gorran.
Edwin F Dele meter. Daniel P. Turner.
Samuel W Williams. H M. Black .shear, F
E. Oowens. Rachael Oowens, Artie Wof-
ford, Pincette Roberts, Charity Ray. H
H. Whitmire, Mrs Leona Thompson. MM
, Florence McJunkin. Mrs, Mary Klotz, S.
W. Thompson, Lee Ayres. Aiuy Ayres. Wil-
nmety years OI age, i liam J. Davis. W B Summy. William
Rockefeller is interested injjjjj^i " ” ........
E, H Bio.v.i.-.' J- l
5 W, Camp. Merrick
Thompson.
M. Mi\lcr,
with your return thereon, showing how‘you
have executed the game.
Given under my hand and seal of said
Court, at office in Coleman. Texas, on this
the 5th day of March, A D., 1930
iS?al» Wf R GIDEON, Clerk,
District Court, Coleman County, Texas.
10-13X.
LETTUCE
.arge Jumbo, nice and crisp,
per head
APPLES
, Delicious, just the size for lunch pails,
just Look Per doz.
18c
Market Department
Ask your friends and neighbors. "They Know.” Our 35 years ex-
perience in buying and selling meats in Coleman is why "We Do the
Meat Business.
FISH AND OYSTERS
of the best quality Try Them.
FOR SALE OR I RADEf—-Our 12 foot Counter Display Case.
Gene Love at HANDY-ANDY.
Trade Here
and Save
Best of
Food Products
HANDy-ANOy
THANKS
1 wish to thank the people of Coleman and Coleman County
for their patronage while operating rhe Service Station on West
Live Oak St. and wish to advise you that I am
Retaining the
Exide Battery and Electric
Shop
in the same Building with Clark,
1 wish to invite you to continue doing business with me in
the Electrical and Exide Battery, Generator and Starter serv-
ice.
* t-T %. " ■■
Lyle Magill and myself offer you our services in the shop
and will be at your call and service at any time, any distance
with a fresh "Hot Battery" when yours fails. Exide Batteries
for sale.
Phone 620
Gillidhi’s Electric Shop
One Block West of Court House
, I
Coleman, Texas.
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