Mount Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 126, Ed. 1 Monday, August 5, 1929 Page: 1 of 4
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MOUNT PLEASAN T DAILY TIMES
‘MT. PLEASANT IS A PLEASANT PLACE”
By Carrier-
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PUBLISHED EVERY DAY EXCEPT SUNDAY
By Mail—40 per month
$4.00 per year
VOLUME TEN
MT. PLEASANT, TEXAS, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 5, 1929.
NUMBER 126
Machinery Ready We're Getting Some 1
* „ To Take Census Summer Weather Now
Washington, Aug. 4.—Machinery All previous attempts at getting
for the census tabulation next spring hot were mere warm spells compared
which is to be the greatest ever un- to what the weather did Saturday,
dertaken in the history of the Na- The official Government thermometer,
tion, was said Sunday by Census Bu- read daily by (.has. M. Coker, local ;
reau officials to be practically com- weather observer, showed the highest j
plete. record this year when it registered j
105 degrees. This is not only the
DO YOU KNOW
That Clean Clothes
are Cool Clothes?
Dr. W. M. Tabb
Suffers Sunstroke
Injured When Car
Turns Over Sunday
persons will lvu '***"=*'’• *“ |
hottest for'this year, but is one cle-
time last
An army of 100,000
be mobilized to enumerate statistics
on four phases of American life—pop- guv‘ tban at an-v
ulation, unemployment, farms and yeat •
trade distribution. They will be un-
der the direction of 573 supervisors OLD WAR SHELL BURSTS;
and will start on April. 1, 1930, their ” POLISH FARMERS DIE
census taking, which is the- fifteenth
decennial enumeration of the Nation. Warsaw, Poland, Aug. 4. Seven
No appointments of supervisors or farmers .were killed Sunday by the
enumerators have, yet been announced explosion of a shell they found on the
old battlefield at the village of Lat-
_ nice, near Lemberg. They unscrewed
ABILENE MEXICAN BOY the ?use caP to take off the C0PPer
! Dr. L. M. Tabb suffered a sunstroke Mr. and Mrs. Don Nolte and little
I Saturday at his home three miles! girl were badly bruised, but not se-
i southeast of town. He had been out ; riously hurt Sunday when their car
| to the lot to water some cattle short-1 turned over at the Cotton Belt cross-
ly after noon and returning to the ing two miles south of town. The
house fell to the floor and was uncon- ■ road is very narrow over that cross-
scious for several hours.
Phone 86
A “Master Cleaner”
EXPLOSIVENESS OF WHEAT
FLOUR
| ing and when they met another car
j at that place they were crowded into
| the ditch.
FUNNY CREATURES
by the bureau.
The prodigious power locked up in j . ----
the ttiny atom has been vouched for! Man is a funny critter, never sat-
by scientists, and it is little doubted, isfied with things as they are.
in the world of science that some day j The grass looks greener in the oth-
a means of releasing and utilizing the er field, and man is continually mov-
MARRIES IN HOLLAND strength of the minute body will be ing, trying to find opportunity just
___ realized. Some of the tiniest bits of over the other Kill. Sometimes this is
Mi's R T Baggett arrived P°.wder Hve the greatest force when well and good, for anyone is foolish
MT. PLEASANT MAN
KILLED BY STRAY SHOT parts and the explosion followed.
_ i Several other persons were injured.
Abilene, Aug. 4.—Bias Garcia, 14- *
Mr. and
here Sunday afternoon from New
Orleans, where they spent a few days
on their wedding trip. Mr. Baggett
set off and it is interesting to note deliberately to l’efuse to better him-
in this respect that fine, ordinary, self. But pursuing the vvill-o’-the-
flour is highly explosive. Govern- wisp, to try the impossible, gets us
ment chemists, after seven years’ into trouble.
The latest is the effort to fly to the
Liie im»L vuui uj muxc. iiiaMUK vma i ____
year-old Mexican boy, struck Satur- MUSSEL SHELL YIELDS
clay night by a stray bullet from a PEARL WORTH $2,000
running street fight, died Sunday. A --
21-year-old Mexican was held. j Poplar Bluff, Mo., Aug. 4.—Opening Xlke Wheat of Holland Texas, where ' Persons wil1 reca!l the recorrt explosion wind up dead.
Garcia and other children were play- mussel shells in quest of bait for his both were reared For* the past two'of 1878> when five sepavate flouv Some things we know, and some we
ing in the street. Two automobiles fishing lines, Arthur Ramsey of Pop- rg ghe has been a teacher in the ulill:4 wtre bluWn UP in Minnesota do not. We know that airplanes have
loaded with Mexicans, said to have lar Bluff found a 17 1-2 grain pearl p:d'inburg schools The wedding cere-iwith a loss of 18 lives' . Dav1d J- been UP 35>000 to 40’000 feet’ where
been at outs over a girl, swept by, the which local jewelers estimated to be ^oriy was‘performed Friday morning Price’ enSineer in .PharSe of Uncle the air is extremely rare. We know
has been a resident of this city fori1 .
X Phis' lu'iMlquartei's1 Ids^work' sorne diking facts Since I860 at moon in a large rocket, and while the
with the U. S. Department of of Ag-ileast 40 f ™.r mi11® bave beca w*'eck' matter has been mentioned for years
riculture. His bride was Miss Vada1 ed by explosions of flour dust Some some day someone will try it, and
occupants firing at each other,
cia was the victim.
Gar-
GETT1NG SHOT SEEMS
TO BE HIS SPECIALTY
worth $2,000.
REVIVAL AT WINFIELD
;July 26, at Holland, Rev. J. M. Hays
, officiating. *■'
Mr. and Mrs. Baggett are at home
A revival meeting will begin at the apartments
Winfield Baptist Church Wednesday,
Dallas, Aug. 4.—Being treated for evening, August 7th, at 8 o’clock. The
tL running in 'friendly fights" a tion will furnish the music. Every
grievous error. body is invited to attend these ser-
“1 alius runs, and they shoot,” he vices,
groaned.
Miss Lena Cook went
Monday to visit relatives.
S Mrs. J. M. Lowry and baby returned j
Axtell to their home in Dallas Monday, after;
| a visit here with relatives. j
Sam’s investigation of dust explosions, that the earth is surrounded by a
says that dust as a rule is a high ex- strata of atmosphere only a few miles
plosive. Combustible dust is an un- thick.
• V,,' ~ ~ ‘ „_____, avoidable bv-product of about 21,000 We also know the sun is 93,000,000
manutactunng plants in our country, miles away, the moon 248,000 thous-
Terrific explosive power lurks in the and miles and that Mars is most like-
dust of coal, cork, aluminum, cotton- ly to be populated with beings like
seed, rubber, sawdust, sugar, starch on earth. This is because of the tem-
and spices. Many factories have peratures and topographical forma-
been burned down by the fires start- tions. But the moon is too cold, too
ed by spontaneous combusion in dust rocky and cdVernous.
accumulated deeply on rafters. But, Why anyone will try to fly to the
although it is explosive, the dust can moon is beyond comprehension when
rarely be voluntarily set off.—Wall all the hazards are taken into account.
Street News. Yet a few are still trying it. They
---- J wish to get in a huge rocket with a
The weather for the past 24 hours j MASONIC SCHOOL OF series of explosions propelling it for-
Mr. and Mrs. Maurice McCarty and
death of Mr. McCarty’s father, who
had been ill for some time.
The Weather
according to readings made at 6:30:
“COOL, REFRESHING COMFORT”
TODAY
AND
TUESDAY
DON’T
MISS
IT!
“You Don't Know the Half of ‘It’!”
ALSO FOX NEWS AND COMEDY
“THOSE TWO BOYS” - $
ADMISSION ............................ 10c and 35c
Maximum .............
Minimum
Temperature 6:30
Wind from
Atmosphere
... .100
.. 76
... 78
E
Clear
USED CARS
1927 Chevrolet Coupe......$400.00
1920 Chevrolet Coach......$600.00
'1927 Chevrolet Touring..$350.00
1927 Chevrolet Touring. $325.00
1927 Chevrolet Coupe......$400.00
1926 Chevrolet Coach......$285.00
.1928 Chevrolet Coupe......$450.00
1.927 Ford Coupe ............$250.00
1927 Chevrolet Sedan......$475.00
1926 Chevrolet Touring..$175.00
1927 Chevrolet Cabriolet..$350.00
1928 Chevrolet Roadster .$450.00
1929 New Ford Sedan......$670.00
1928 Ford Coach..............$45Q.OO
1926 Chevrolet Touring..$150,00
1925 F,ord Tudor Sedan $175.00
1926 Overland Touring..$ 75.00
1928 Chevrolet Coach......$450.00
1926 Ford Sedan ............$260.00
1927 Chevrolet Touring $185.00
Buy a Used Car
with an O. K. That
Counts
m
Irvin-Robertson,
Inc.
INSTRUCTION THIS WEEK ward at a terrific rate.
—- But who’d want to go to the moon
A school of instruction for Masonic even if there were hourly train or
work will be conducted at the hall of bus service? And what’d we do when
Temple Lodge this week, and all Ma- we got there?—Waxahachie Light.
sons interested in increasing their---
proficiency are invited to attend.—T. Major and Mrs. J. M. Moore re-
F. Stamps, Secretary. turned Sunday from a visit to Cor-
^--- pUS Christi. They left Monday for
Misses Ave Frazier of Farmersville, Hampton, Va., where Major Moore
Inez and Louise Beeman of Denton, will be connected with the Langley
who have been the guests of Miss air field. They will stop enroute at
Opal Smith, left Sunday morning for Meridian, Miss., to visit Mrs. Moore’3
a visit in Galveston. Miss Smith ac- sister, Mrs. K. P. Allen,
companied them. ---
--’- Orville and Clayton Holcomb, R. L.
Mrs. W. P. Martin of Lubbock ar- Vickers, Burns Davis and Taylor Kay
rived Saturday night to visit her sis- have returned from Fort Sill, where
ter, Mi-s. W. R. Whitaker, and other they spent the past month in the Citi-
relatives in the county. zens’ Military Training Camp.
Ci-Mi Toilet Goods
To Quickly Introduce Ci-Mi Complexion
Soap
The Nyal Company Authorizes Us to sell, for a limited time,
a regular $1.00 box of Ci-Mi Complexion Soap for................................25c
with the purchase of $1.00 worth of other Ci-Mi Products.
Brilliantine, Cold Cream, Dental Cream, Face Astringe
Face Powder, (3 Shades); Liquid Shampoo, Vanish Cream,
, Rouge (6 shades). JL
SWINT BROTHERS
Drugs and Jewelry
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Cross, G. W. Mount Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 126, Ed. 1 Monday, August 5, 1929, newspaper, August 5, 1929; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth784628/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.