Mt. Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 196, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 16, 1932 Page: 1 of 4
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VOLUME THIRTEEN
MOUNT PLEASANT, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 16, 1932.
"N UMBER 196
Basketball Games
To Open at Gvm
On Friday Night
Legion Auxiliary
Play Tuesday Night
Was Well Attended
The play at the auditorium of the
West Ward school building, present-
, | ed by the American Legion Auxil-
1 he first of the season s basketball iary, was well attended Tuesday night,
games in Mt. Pleasant will be held in .spite of the fact that the weather
at the Mt. Pleasant (rymnasium in the was unusually cold for this time of
north part of town Friday night of the year.
this week. j The auditorium was comfortably
Thiee games are scheduled for this filled with an attentive audience, and
occasion, Green Hill vs. Midway, Win the play, a three-act comedy, “See
field vs. Cookville, Omaha, vs. Stone-, \nf>u Later,” was well rendered, each
wall. Each of these communities member of the cast playing his pare
have fast teams, and good contests' creditably. Several choruses furn-
are assured. j Lshed entertainment between acts.
The gymnasium is under new man-1 in addition to the play, six mer-
agement this season, and all games chants of the city co-operated in pre-
will be under the supervision of W. senting a style show, featuring the
( . Huekeba. Mi1. Huckeba plans to latest styles in wearing apparel,
have a number of basketball games |
ail during the Winter, and every fa- { f
cility has been arranged for the peo- (sV€Mat€ RodieS
pie who wish to see them. Qf 2£00 Cuban j
Storm*s Victims.
There is no substi-
tute for quality—
and ours is
PROVEN
Quality
PHONE 86
Temperature Is
Down to 19 Degrees
Here Tuesday Night
Man Reported to
Have Disappeared
On Monday Night
The official Department of Agricul-
ture theremometer, whose daily read-
ings are recorded by Clias. M. Coker,
showed a sharp drop in temporaturj Members of the family of Charley
Tuesday, when the temperature fell | Boaze, who lives on the J. Schultze
from 60 degrees about nine o’clock ^arni two miles north of White Oak
Plan Intensive
Campaign for Red
Cross Roll Call
Knox Lee of Marshall and R. M.
Winsborough of Shreveport were here
on business connected with the South-j Havana, Cuba, Nov. 15. Cremation
western Gas & Electric Company,0^ bodies of most of the estimat
Wednesday. |ec* 2,500 persons killed last week
; when a great tidal wave virtually
j washed the town of Santa Cruz Del
Sur off the Southern Cuban shore
was completed Monday night.
A military cordon girdled the area
to prevent looting in the ruins. The
sea, which contrived with the funeral
pyres to keep the exact number of
deaths a secret, brought many bodies
floating hack to shore. It was esti
mated only about 1,000 of the town’s
3,500 survived and most of them were
injured.
Public works engineers expressed
opinion that, if the town ever is re-
built, it will be several miles inland
from the unprotected sand spit where
it met the full force of the hurricane
which left a trail of ruin from Co-
lombia to the Bahamas.
TODAY
■<r
Maurice Chevalier
“Love Me Tonight99
with
JEANETTE MacDONALD
CHARLIE RUGGLES
MYRNA LOY
THURSDAY
What would you do
with
4 Weeks to Love?
Also
VITAPHONE ACTS
and
$15.00 FREE
Ask the Following
i»eo. I aiiensierns i»ept. More
O. A. Thrasher Fine Cleaning
Rullington Drug Store
Piggly Wiggly
Tit up Theatre
DEMOCRATS SO NUMEROUS
HAVE TO BORROW SPACE
Washington, Nov. 15.—The Demo-
cratic majority in the next Congress
is going to be so great that some of
those members will have to sit on the
Republican side of the aisle. Like
most legislative bodies, the House
chamber is divided by a center aisle
with members of the opposing par
ties occupying seats on opposite sides.
The -135 seats in the House are so
divided and with more than 300 Dem-
oratic members coming in the new
Congress, seats on the Republican
side must be “borrowed” to accom-
modate the Democratic host.
Also the Democrats and Republi-
cans have their respective lobbies im-
mediately off the House chamber and
the Democratic lobby also {vill be
crowded.
The House lobbies constitute the
social centers for the members. It
there that they meet the press, read
their home-town newspapers and
write letters. Democrats are expect-
ed to borrow some Republican lobby
space.
SHERMAN WOMAN, 65,
FOUND SHOT TO DEATH
Sherman, Nov. 15.—Mrs. Billy Bri-
gance, 65, was found shot to dealh
at her home this afternoon. A pistol
was near her body. She had been ili
thiee months.
She is survived by her .husband and
two stepchildren. She had lived here
35 years and was active in church
pii'clnw
Mrs. John Lilly returned Wednes-
day to her home in Commerce, after
a week’s visit with her daughter,
Mrs. Ben Patrick.
A meeting was held in the Cham
ber of Commerce office Tuesday
night to lay plans for an intensive
drive to make the annual Red Cross
Roll Call a success in Titus County
this year.
About twenty-five people from dif-
ferent organizations of the city were
present at the meeting, which was
presided over by Mrs. R. F. Lindsay,
who explained the many benefits re-
ceived by thiff- organization in thk>
county, especially in 1930, when hun-
dreds of dollars’ worth of food am,
clothing were donated by the Red
Cross to the people of this section,
following the drouth the previous
Summer.
The quota assigned to Titus Coun-
ty this year amounts to five hundred
memberships.
At this meeting, it was decided
that visits should be made to every
school in the county to enlist the
school children in this necessary
work, and it is expected that many
school rooms will become hundrect
per cent contributors.
Local comittees will solicit a mem-
bership from every person in Mt
Tleasant, and buttons can be procur-
ed at each of the four drug stores
here. Miss Louise Keith Moody will
be in charge of the sales at Hines
Drug Store, Miss Frances Ferguson
at Proctor’s, Miss Emma Lou Milam
at Swint Brothers, and Miss Kather-
ine Florey at Bullington’s. Button-
may also be procured at the Jeffer-
son Hotel.
At the conclusion of the meeting
pie and coffee were served to thos--
present.
Walter C. Temple of Dallas was a
business visitor here Wednesday.
The Weather
The weather for the past 24 hours
according to readings iu»«Jc at C.3C:
Maximum .................................... 60
Minimum .............................. 19
Temperature 6:30 .................... 20
Wind from ............................NW
Sky ..........................................Clear
NOTICE
Clothes wear longer if we clean
them. Call us and save. No charge
on minor repairing or buttons re-
placed.
GUARANTEE SATISFACTION
Or your money refunded.
HENDERSON
CLEANERS
PHONE 8
in the morning, to 19 degrees Tues-
day night.
A difference of 41 degrees in so
short a time caused much discomfort
to everybody, and Wednesday morn-
ing local plumbers were busy answer-
ing calls to all parts of town to re-
pair water pipes, which had burst
during the night.
The weather Tuesday night was
practically as cold as it was at. any
time during last Winter, and the cold
wave arrived about a month earlier
than usual.
WOMAN SETS SELF
AFIRE AFTER SPAT
WITH HER SPOUSE
Houston, Texas, Nov. 15.—Climax-
ing a bitter quarrel with her husband
Antonio Flores, 17, soaked her cloth-
ing with oil and applied a lighted
match to make a living torch of her-
self here Tuesday.
As she was being taken to a hos-
pital, she was reconciled with her
husband and died in his arms a short
while afterward.
THE ELECTION BETS
When people are licked in an elec-
tion, they usually feel a desire to
crawl out of sight, and escape the
joshing of their successful opponents.
But here and there are found those
hardy gentlemen who have agreed
that the loser shall give the winner
a wheelbarrow ride, or push a pea-
nut with their noses over some long
distance, and so on. At Dowagiac,
Michigan, one gentleman is due to
ride a cow through the business dis-
trict, and probably has done so by
this time to the applause of the pop-
ulace.
Most of us might not relish thus |
furnishing a spectacle for
crowd, but the people who perform
such stunts as a penalty for mistaken
dom not to lose any of their money
Creek, were in Mt. Pleasant Wednes-
day to report to officers that Mr.
Boaze had disappeared, and they fear-
ed that he was a victim of foul play.
The family retired for the nigh
about 8:30 o'clock Monday night, and
when Mrs. Boaze awakened about
eleven, she saw that her husband was
not in bed. As all of his clothe i
were still in the room, and he had not
returned some time later, she became
alarmed, and began a search. Mr.
Boaze did not return at any time dur-
ing the night, and on Wednesday
morning no trace of him had been
found.
Tracks of a barefoot man were
found leading across a field to the
woods of White Oak bottoms, and it
was reported to officers here that it
was feared that Mr. Boaze had be-
come demented during the night and
had wandered away from home in a
dazed condition, or that he had beer
kidnaped. If he had become lost in
the woods and remained there Tues-
day night there is no doubt that the
extreme cold weather would have had
disastrous’ results to him.
Search for the mi-sing man was
continued throughout Wednesday, and
Mr. Boaze’s disappearance was still a
mystery.
CHORUS GIRLS FORCED
BY THE DEPRESSION TO
WEAR LONGER SHORTS
Chicago, 111., Nov. 15.—The chorus
girls’ shorts are going to be longer
this month.
There are two reasons for this, said
N. Ford Essig of Chicago, newly
elected president of the National
Costumers’ Association, convening
Tuesday.
One is the recent trend toward long-
."‘I'-'" | ei- skirts and the other he attributes
derisive ,
I to the depression.
j “Hard times have forced the shows
i out on the road, and folks in smaller
| towns aren't trained to the nudity
dom no tto lose any of their money,. . , ,
... , . , in vogue in the large cities and are
on anything as uncertain as an elec-1 ... ...
tion.—Ex.
protesting,” he said.
Mrs. J. M. Barit and Mrs. Clarence
Badt returned Tuesday from Dallas,
where they have been visiting Mrs.
Donald Brin, who underwent an op-
peration for appendicitis at that place
Monday.
1 Dr. W. A. Taylor returned Tuesday
from Galveston, where he spent some
time with his son, William, who was
badly injured in a fail on the night
of November Ith. William is report-
ed as rapidly improving.
Back to 1914 Prices
With all our new equipment and many im-
provements, we are now serving all our
Fountain Drinks at 1914 prices.
Hot Jumbo Chocolate----------------------—10c
Hot Jumbo Ovaltine...__________________________-10c
Ice Cream Soda ________ 10c
Banana Split (Special).................. 15c
Swint Brothers
Nyal Service Drug More Phones 38 and 187
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Cross, G. W. Mt. Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 196, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 16, 1932, newspaper, November 16, 1932; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth783493/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Mount Pleasant Public Library.