The Bartlett Tribune and News (Bartlett, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 21, Ed. 1, Friday, February 7, 1936 Page: 3 of 8
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BARTLETT
FOR A 1936 FORD V-8 TUDOR SEDAN
AND ML THESE
PLUS VALUES IN ANY FORD V-8
Frfcfety February 7 1986.
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Doodlebug' Ruled of
No Valug In doMffc
of Appeals Decision
AT today's low prices you get the finest
- Ford ever built. Finest in performance
riding quality safety and beauty. Note its low
price delivered and ready to drive. Remember
how much value Jar beyond the price it gives
you. Drive this Ford V-8 before you choose
a new car. YOUR FORD DEALER
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Safety glass all around and
a windshield that opens.
9 6 x 16-in. Air-balloon Tires.
Free Action on all 4 wheels.
85 H. P. V-8 engine with dual
down-draft carburetion.
Silent helical gears for all
speeds in the transmission.
o Super-Safety brakes with
more braking surface per pound
of car weight than any other
car under $3195.
Centerpolsc Ride with pas-
sengers cradled between springs
on a springbase almost a foot
longer than wheelbase.
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THE ONLY LOW-PRICED CAR WITH A V-8 ENGINE!
The Miller Motor Company
"Serving You Since 1921"
Phone 123
Barttett Texas
SERVICE
SAXES
DAVILLA NEWS
(By Reporter)
Davilla Jan. 80 Mrs. Wilson
Burns and Mrs. J. M. Pruett
were joint hostesses at a mis
cellaneous shower recently given
at the home of Mrs. Pruett com-
plimenting Mrs. Summers of
Rockdale nee Miss Marion
Graves daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Rufus -Graves of the Li-
lac community near here. Mrs.
Summers received many beau-
EX-SERVICE MEN ATTENTION! HERE IS
YOUR APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP
IN
THE AMERICAN LEGION
LOUIS B. WELLS POST No. 183
J Name of Applicant
(Please print)
(Last)
(First) (Middle)
Service Serial No ...
Residence Address
Date and place of entry into service
Branch and unit or service I
Character of discharge..... Inspected by :.
(Post Officer)
Date and place of discharge
Occupation
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Business. Address 7.
Have you belonged to art American Legion Post previously
I hereby subscribe to the Constitution of The American Legion
and apply for membership in Louis B. Wells Post' No. 183 De-
partment of Texasj
This day of : .'. 193
$ Clip and Mail to: Harry Lindemann Vice-Commander or Martin
Pastusejc Adjutant Post 183 Bartlett Texas.
Bartlefct Texas
Enclose (?2.75) for 1936 Dues
tiful and usefl gifts. During the
afternoon's entertainment re-
freshments of punch and cake
were served the guests.
The Methodist Home Mission-
ary Society entertained at the
church on Friday evening Jan-
uary 24th with .a tamale sup-
per. A large crowd enjoyed the
affair.'
The Davilla-Friendship Home
Demonstration club met at the
home of Mrs. John Wilson on
Tuesday January 28th. Ten
members were present. Miss
Bertha Fae Strange county
home demonstration agent was
DOWN
present and gave an interesting
tal on food values and menu
planning. Miss Strange also dis
cussed gardening and poultry
raising. Each member brought
a small box of home-made candy.
This candy will be sold and1 the
funds will be used to finance)
the club expenses. Refreshments
were served the guests at the
clos sf the meeting.
Mr. and Mrs. Orival Turner of
Port Arthur were week-end
guests in the home of Mr. and
Mrs. P. H. Turner.
Mr. and Mrs. L. BBunker and
son of Salado spent a few days
here recently visiting relatives
and friends.
Mr. and Mrs. John Spott and
children were guests in the home
of Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Spott here
Sunday..
Austin Jan. 22-There is no;
efficacy in a divining rod also
known as a wigglestick and a
doodlebug in locating oil or wat-
er the Austin Court of Civil Ap-
peals ruled Wednesday thus up-
setting a cherished belief held
by many for long years.
. It came about this way:
Charles Rolff a Travis Coun-
ty farmer was the owner of
such a rod. He kept it hidden
and would tell no one of what it
was made or how he used it.
A neighbor named Schram
and some of his friends agreed
with stockholders in the Pearl
Oil Coloration to find oil they
claimed. The rod was taken to
the East Texas field when it was
in its infancy and its discovery
limits small. Schramm and Rolff
claimed they were to have an in-
terest in anylease made.
After the rod was used by
Rolff atract of land was bought
for $9(f)0 and a peg was driven
where the doodlebug said there
was oil. Drilling brought in a
30000-barrell gusher.
But the lower court having
J no belief in wigglesticks heart
lessly ruiea tnat ine roci nao. no
part in the location of the oil.
Schram appealed to the higher
court equally unsuperstitious
and unbelieving sustained its
lower brother.
No legal literature was found
on the subject said Chief Justice
McClendon but it quoted many
other sources including an el
aborate description tof a rod giv
en in' the fourteenth edition of
the Encyclopedia Britannica. It
was in use in ancient times and
one purpose cited was to discov-
er heretics and thieves. It was
referred to as supermachine.
The brief for the oil company
was prpared by J. Glenn Turner
of Dallas. It declared that "wig-
glesticking is but an outgrowth
of a belief in witches and sor-
cery. It may be properly com-
pared with palmistry fortune
telling witchcraft switchhold-
rs uuiju. uuitiuujB iiuiu-oib- rea extent
ters chair turners goosebone.a 1;
readers rabbitfoot carriers and
other practices of a lie supersti-
tious nature."
It Pays to Select Good VariutiftS
Of Seed
Georgetown Feb. 0 Mrs. B.
C. King one. of the Subirriga-
tion Demonstrators of William-
son County home demonstration
club member in the Weir Home
Demonstration Club believe
that cabbage planted in the fall
will mature for use during win-
ter and early spring.
In October Mr. and Mrs. King
ordere(T500 Flat Dutch Cabbage
plants from South Texas. They
sold 300 plants to friends and
neighbors and -planted out 200
plants in their own garden. With
the proper care in preventing in-
sect damage the heads began to
mature before Christmas. Since
Christmas Mr. King has been
selling the heads for 2 for 15c.
Physicians and dieticians em
phasize the importance of salads
and green foods in the diet. By
proper plantings a supply can
be maintained in southern gar-
dens practically the entire year.
It is time now to start the
hotbeds. Plant -out a package of
Flat Dutch and Early Jersey
Wakefield Cabbage for your
spring garden.
Results From Pantry Demon-
strator's Garden Demonstrated
Mrs. Arthur Rice 1935 Pantrv
Demonstrator for the Weir
Home Demonstration Club Wil-
liamson County shows the fol-
lowing results on her garden ac-
cording to Bess Vogt Home
Demonstration Agent. Her cash
out lay was 50c for two pounds
of Bliss Everbearing English
Peas. From these she canned a
total of 150 No. 2 cansand had
fresh English Peas to serve on
her table while they were in sea-
son. Mrs. Rice had a total of 783
containers of 43 varieties of
foods in her pantry during 1935
that were valued at 192.37. The
Rices raise their own meat ani-
mals have their own lard eggs
milk butter and thus supply
their own family foodsqpply to
.
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Peas are drilled in row.3- two
inches apart with rows' 2 feet
apart for dwarf varjgtMg and
feet apart tor onesjiraa
suDDort. Peas shoulla&eSDl
3 to 4 inches deep. OfchePvarie-
ties recoinmended by the Ex-
tension Department are: Early
Alaska Thomas Laxton and
Laxtonian.
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Our long record of prompt payment of claims glvos our policy-
holders added assurance of cash to moot Inevitable oxpensos vhoro
death occurs.
Our low cost protection prevonte tlio necessity of lapse when
mQnoy Is scar:e.
Inqulrlo about our popular Fixed Premium policy Issued from
nges 15 to 60 Inclusive. The monthly premium for ago 35 is only
J1.35. Tho annual premflum for tho samo ago is $15.05. Premiums
mlay be paid mlonthly. quarterly seral-ahmially or annually according
to tno convqwonco or tno insured ltatea for otner ngos nro In propor-
tion. 7
AbU also about our remarkable $300 chftdrfn's pOJIoy paying full
lienefits f.-om dnto of Issuo. This polloy as Issued front tvges ? to 1C
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Austin Feb. 6 Pellagra
while not a communicable dis
ease is of concern to the State
Department of Health as many
people die of it each year in Tex
as. Pellagra is a disease that is
caused by tne lack of proper
foods. It comes on slowly ana
may not be recognized until the
victim begins with a sore mouth
stomach trouble and reddening
and scaling of the skin. When
these symptoms appear the dis-
ease has been present for some
time stated Dr. John W. Brown
State Health-officer.
The longer a person has pel-
lagara the harder itis to cure
so one should be on t he look
out for the early symptoms such
as nerousness indigestion and
burning of the feet and hands.
The disease may become so se-
vere as to affect the mind. f
Pellagara is not contagious.
As long as a person eats enough
of the right kind of food and is
Triot otherwise diseased he is in
no danger even if he lives with a
pellagara patient.
The prevention of pellagara
depends upon eating the right
kind of food at all times. To
make sure that the diet is right
it should always include plenty
(of milk daily; some fresh meat
and as many fresh vegetables
as possible. Tomatoes -whole
wheat products salmon brew-
er's yeast and fresh fruit are
especially valuable. Having pro
vided these essentials of a pro-
per diet the rest may bo ar-
ranged according to family and
personal likes. In this way pel-
lagara may be avoided.
"We Drivers
'A Series of Brief Discussions on Driving DcdU
catci to the Safety Comfort and Plcasura
O of the Motoring Public. Prepared
by General Motors
l .c.::.y. cj
No. 6 POWER AND SPEED
Mosc of our motor cars will go so much foster than wo ever care to drlva
them that no doubt people often wonder why so much speed Is built
into thm la the first place. Of course automobiles aren't built with the idea
of pleasing the manufacturer or the engineer or the
salesman. They re built to suit the men and women
who m going Uf own and drive them. And there arc
certain things that people do insist on in their cars.
It happens that some of those things aro of such a
nature that when the engineers provide them an
ability to go fast just naturally results.
For instance nearly 'everybody likes to get going
as promptly as possible. Now that's just a matter of
the power we have in our engine and how our car is
geared.
Then there's Ihetuslness of hill-climbing. That
may not mean as much in some localities as in others
but can have to be built to suit us whether we live
in Malnn or Florida Iowa or California wherever
we may live and wherever we may want to go.
Engineers tell us that they could build a fairly low-powered car that
would ntill 11 im ih Rtpnnpflt Villi ttnfc it thnv ilM.
flPpEt'3fIl they would have to gear it so low that when we got
go crawling along at a rate that wouldn't satisfy
even tho most conservative drivers.
J vft. But perhaps the most important reason for hav-
ing our power what It is in modern cars is a matter
t tnat many or us nave never considered we all know
what happens to us when we ourselves aro going
at high pressuro all the time either physically or
rocniauy. a person can worjc iz l-i or m nours a day
but we know wo get along best when we don't tax
our last reserves of energy all tho .time.
In the samo way anybody who has ever run
mlpVilni"V Vnnnre tlifll it vmi Itoat If ontnn f ft.11
capacity and full speed day-ln-and-day-out you're Just multiplying the
chances of a breakdown sooner or later.
And that's how it i3 with a car. By building in tho
ability to run at high speed engineers make it prac-
tical to run at reasonable speed. If our car can go
seventy eighty or maybe even more miles on hour
then it won't have to strain to go thirty-five forty
or somewhat faster it circumstances demand. So wo
can drive it along at sensible speeds hour after hour
day after day without over-working it.
grrr" i vjmii' wnen wo stop to iruntc
aDoui it iota oi xnings are
built with that added safety
margin. Elevators in our of-
fice buildings could carry far
heavier loads than the weight
of all the people they can
hold. So could modern brldgos. Tho steel girders
of our buildings the rails under our trains in fact
any number of things wo depend on day-by-0.y
ore much stronger than they really have to be. They
oil have that extra margin of protection.
So with our cars what we have to remember is
that speed Is simply a by-product of power We can
use that tiowor unwisely or we ran use It smntlhlv
nnd get better performance and dependability as the result Manufacturer
can't decide that. It's all up to Us.
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Fox, W. W. The Bartlett Tribune and News (Bartlett, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 21, Ed. 1, Friday, February 7, 1936, newspaper, February 7, 1936; Bartlett, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth76413/m1/3/?q=big+bear+creek%2C+tarrant+county: accessed June 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bartlett Activities Center and the Historical Society of Bartlett.