Mount Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 129, Ed. 1 Monday, August 18, 1930 Page: 1 of 4
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Last Baseball
Game of Season
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•*MT. PLEASANT IS A PLEASANT PLACE”
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By Carrier—50c per month
$5 .00 per year
PUBLISHED EVERY DAY EXCEPT SUNDAY
By Mai!—40 per montk
$4.00 per year
VOLUME TWELVE
MI. PLEASANT. TEXAS. MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 18, 1980.
NUMBER 129
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These two teams are about evenly'
matched, and are rivals for second j
place in the standing of the clubs, i
so this will be tui exciting' contest. A j
i big attendance is sure to be present. I
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The last came of the season for I
the Northeast 1 exas Amateur Base-| A. C. Montgomery lias returned j i
ball Association will be played at the J from Paris, where he went to bring j j
Litzpatrick Park in Mt. Pleasant to- his son, Joseph, back from a sanitar-j
morrow afternoon, with Linden as ium, where he spent two weeks re- I I
the team opposing the local boys, covering from an operation. j|
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Wear Klean Kloth-
es—They are
Kooler.
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THRASHER
PHONE 86
LAST
TIME
TODAY
TtTU5
Sound News
Sonny Jim
Comedy
Victor McLaglen
LAUGHING
TALKING
Movietone
FA Brendel
County Court
Opens Monday
With No Work
Beat Pittsburg \
Sunday in One-
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iimcu outi
! The Mt. Pleasant baseball team
took the heart out of Pittsburg fans
i Sunday afternoon by decisively de-
feating the Pittsburg team on their
1 own grounds, after it looked like. a.
certain victory for the Camp County
boys.
Sanders stai’ted out pitching for
Mt. Pleasant, but was taken out in
the third after two runs had been
made and the bases were full. West-
l brook, who relieved him got out of
I the bad hole when he helped pull a
j double: play and the third out follow-
) ed. After this inning', it was all in
Short Wheat
Crops Abroad
Are Expected
London, Aug. 16.—Europe will bear
with America’s heavy agricultural
losses which a summer of protracted
drouths and severe storms have oc-
casioned from the British Isles to the
steppes of Russia.
Reports from many countries where
harvesting operations are about to be-
gin showed Saturday that Russia and
Rumania would bo the only ones with
surplus cereal crops for export, while
England, France, Italy, Germany and
Austria would have suhnoi-mal yields
of whPftt, rye, oats and barley.
French and Italian wheat farmers
Pittsburg—
TV ESI) A Y and WEDNESDA Y
Revealed to Women For the First Time!
JHEROES
VILLAINS
COMEDIANS
COURAGE
ROMANCE
DANGER
DARING
DRAMA
Thrills
SUSPENSE
PATHOS
'File
daring drama, baring
uried secrets ai the very end
of the earth before your eyes
MENACE F
and a real STORY
with a smashing climax.
That's*--'
WITH BYRD
AT THE
SOUTH POLE
Cl paramount CpLcture
County Court began its August
Term Monday morning with a form-
al opening of court, but there was
no work to be handled on that date.f Westbrook and Cato,
so nothing happened. Shockey and Spencer.
There will probably be some busi- j At the same time, Winnsboro won
ness to be transacted from time to j from Mt. Vernon by a score ot 20 to
time during the three weeks of the ' 5 and Linden defeated Avinger 13 to
term, but nothing of importance is 2.
j W inns boro's win gave them the
! championship for the last half of the
season, unless the dh-ectors of the
League vote to throw out the game
■ favor of Mt. Pleasant, five scores be- have been suffering r-om fickle
ing made by the local boys during the weather almost as much as have the
next inning. i grain growers of the United States.
The score by innings: | Soviet officials, however, reported
Mt. Pleasant ...........100 580 101—ii j that Russian peasants have benefited
Pittsburg .. .............002 000 003— 5! from a season so uniformly good they
Batteries: Mt. Pleasant—Sanders,; are preparing to harvest a huge crop,
on the docket.
NO
C. OF C. MEETING
FOR TONIGHT
There will be no meeting of
Chamber of Commerce tonight.,
the secretary is out of town on
! p ayed at Winnsboro last Friday with
the ■ Avinger, when a number of ineligible
as ! players were sent over by Avinger.
with prospects of having grain to
spare.
England will market a smaller
wheat crop than usual, as a result of
a decrease of 200,000 acres in culti-
vation, but expects to obtain better
prices for wheat because of conditions
in America.
Spain, which never raises enough
wheat for her own use, will have a
better than average crop upon which
to draw this year. Unusually cool
weather this summer, together with
country a
olives and
were sent, over
bu-! A meeting was scheduled to be held J copious rains, gave the
siness and there is nothing special to ; at Pittsburg Monday afternoon to de-j good yield, especially of
come before the organization. The j vide on that game. 'grapes.
hot weather is another reason foej *--- j Southeastern Europe has been fat-
missing this session. j J((ckS0U and O*Brine I vored wilh temPerate weather and
---.— ------ . |* rr , cven where drouths have been experi-
Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Cargile and; In AlV o47 H Olll'S cnccd the dryness came at an oppor-
j family are on a visit with relatives' - ^ | tune moment to ripen crops and per-
in Clarendon, and will extend
trip to points in Colorado.
their! St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 17.—The first mit of easy harvesting.
| ‘‘come-back” in the history of refuel- j France has begun to entertain seri-
i ing endurance flights ended at 6:39:30 ous doubts of producing enough wheat
■ J. C. Vandiver and family have i a. m., at Lambert-St. Louis Field Sun-! at home to provide bread for the
returned from a month's stay in the ' day. ; Nation.
! Ozarks.
The Weather
j Shortly after dawn Dale (Red) •
| Jackson and Forest O'Brine set their
; monoplane Greater St. Louis on the
j flying field over which they had cir- ‘
I eled for twenty-seven days and nights,1
! hecoming the official holders of the
The weather tor the past 24 hours
- -— i world’s sustained flight record again
! at 617 hours, 38 minutes and 30 sec-
* conds.
I Motor trouble, which developed
about midnight, forced the plane to
j alight, Jackson and O’Brine told in-
t terviewers.
j according to readings made at 6:30:
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Maximum .............164
Minimum .................................. 74
Temperature 6:30 .................. 75
Wind from SW
Sky Clear
MARRIED SUNDAY
Rev. Don Rogers and Miss 'Jewel
Johnson were quietly married Sunday
afternoon at the home of Mr. and
Mi’s. Ulean Brown, Rev. J. N. Van-
diver performing the ceremony. Both
have many friends all over the coun-
ts to wish them every happiness.
BARGAINS
Brought from the “bottt m of the
world!” Where no woman has ever
been. The real drama of an afaz-
ing achievement. Thrilling romance
rare humor inspired by high daring.
Usual Comedy Program Added
Every living human should see this nii-lnre. It is real, not man’s
ideas nor man made. It is the nearest the most tif us will ever be
to the South Pole
No advance in prices—Vic and 35c
USED CARS
1929 Model Chevrolet Road-
ster. Fully equipped. Every
part of this car is absolutely O.
K. Ask for a demonstration
today. $ 125.00 down.
1929 Model Chevrolet Four
Door Sedan. Fires, finish and
motor in perfect condition. This
is a real buy for the family.
$150.00 down, balance easy
terms.
192b Pontiac Coupe in perfect
shape all over. We have re-
duced the price of this car
•5.150.00. Its a real bargain.
See it.
Irvin-Robortson
Inc.
J*r >au> fVuufi
Mrs. Walls Baker of Stamps, Ark.,
and Mrs. Richard Jones of Idabel,
--- t Okla., reutrned to their homes Mon-
J. M. Copeland and son, William, i day, after a visit here with their sis-
spent Saturday and Sunday in Dal- j tors, Mrs. Sam Austin and Mrs. Rab
las with relatives. i Bell.
Harry Grissom returned Sunday j
from a two weeks’ stay in Chicago, j
Miss Winnie Coker spent Sunday
Longview with friends.
A Real Bargain
THE NEW GILLETTE RAZOR
Improved and better than ever, will be giv-
en FREE with the purchase of a tube of
shavin gcreatn or shaving stick. Your
choice, Colgate or Palm Olive.
DON'T MISS THIS!
SWINT BROTHERS
DRUGS and JEWELRY
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Cross, G. W. Mount Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 129, Ed. 1 Monday, August 18, 1930, newspaper, August 18, 1930; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth784269/m1/1/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Mount Pleasant Public Library.