Mt. Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 37, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 30, 1932 Page: 1 of 4
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Titua County—Center of the Beet Dairy and Poultry Section of Texas
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VOLUME THIRTEEN
MOUNT PLEASANT, TEXAS, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 30. 1932.
NUMBER 37
BITTEN BY DOG
DEVELOPS HYDROPHOBIA
A fine Jersey cow, belonging to A.
A. \V bite of Monticello, developed
hydrophobia Saturday morning.
The cow was bitten by a dog about
two weeks ago, on the same date that
a little girl in that community was
bitten. The child has been given a
sei’um treatment, and is said to be
out of danger at present.
Bishop Hughes, of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, says that every
living person as had 16,771,210 an-
cestors.
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“THE BROKEN WING”
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LVPE VELEZ—LEO CARILLO
MIDNITE FROLIC ONLY (TONITE 11
P. M.)
The Love Adventures of a Love Adventuress
“DEVIL’S LOTTERY”
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3—DAYS—3
SUNDAY-MONDAY-TUESDAY
MAURICE
CHEVALIER
engages you iij a
game of mirthful
martial didoes
in
HEAR THESE
SQNG HITS:
Here it is folks! And
here is “It!” An
tirely new idea in inti-
mate entertainment!
JEANETTE
MCDONALD
GENEVIEVE TOBIN
CHARLIE PUGGLES
Little Girl Is
Shot Accidentally
Friday Afternoon
ELISSA LANDI
Victor McLpglen — Paul Cavanaugh
Glamorous Landi as a woman of affairs. She’ll fascinate you as she
drives one man to crime, lures another to disaster, steeps a third in
disgracce . . . and lifts a fourth to romance and happiness.
CARTOON and NOVELTY ADDED
Aileen Phillips, aged thirteen,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Darwin
Phillips of the Green Hill commun-
ity, was accidentally shot in the ab-
domen Friday afternoon about four
o’clock.
The little girl had opened the top
of a phonograph case to get some
needles, and while fumbling around
! for the needles picked up an auto-
Loses Hand When
Gun Discharged
Accidentally
Edgar Huffman, operator of a fill-
ing station at Cookville, was acci-
dentally shot in the left arm Satur-
day morning with a shotgun. The
arm was so badly mangled that it
became necessary to amputate the
member just above the wrist.
Mr. Huffman, in giving an account
of the accident, said that he and John
B. Kirby of Cookville were in some
woods about two miles north of that
place, and he was watching a squir-
rel in a tree when in ^ome unaccount-
able way his shotgun was fired. The
charge struck Mr. Huffman in the
arm, causing him to faint. When
lie regained consciousness, Mr. Kirby
had come to investigate. After a
short while, Mr. Huffman was able
to walk about a quarter of a mile to
the car, and he was driven to Mt.
Pleasant at once for treatment.
The bones were so badly shattered
that there was no hope of saving his
Senior Class Is
Entertained By
Junior Students
The Junior Class of the Mt. Pleas-
ant High School entertained the Sen-
ior Class ' i ’32 and faculty with a
banquet at the Baptist Church Fri-
day evening. The large rooms were
beautifully decorated in English ivy
interspersed with tall baskets of
roses and other Spring flowers placed
at vantage points made a fitting
background for the long tables center-
ed with bowls of other flowers em-
phasizing the senior’s chosen colors
of blue and gold and the Junior’s col-
ors of pink and green. Overhead
was a network of ivy and pink rad-
iance roses with colored lights, show-
ing through, reflecting the beauty
of the girls in evening dresses.
Places were laid for 110 and a
faultless menu of four courses was
served by the ladies of the chui’ch.
Glenn Johnson was toastmaster
for the evening and it is needless to
say that the spirit of happiness ana
arm, so it was amputated by
Ellis, Broadstreet and Taylor,
accident occurred about 11:30,
matic pistol. The gun was discharg- the amputation was performed at
ed and a stell jacketed bullet struck
j her in the abdomen, piercing her
i body. Her mother heard the pistol
fire and ran into the house where she
found her daughter lying to the floor.
I Aileen was brought to Mt. Pleas-
ant and given first aid treatment, and
! was afterwards taken to Texarkana
j in a Masters & Thomas ambulance
^ I and -an operation was performed,
$ j when it was discovered that the bul-
; let had pierced the edge of her liver,
j She was accompanied to Texarkana
j by her parents, Dr. J. M. Ellis and
j Floyd Thomas.
Saturday it was reported that she
i was doing nicely and there was a
good chance for her recovery.
C. C. Black and sons, Preston and
Clyde7 of Barstow, arrived Friday to
spend a few days with relatives.
Dr. and Mrs. T. S. Grissom left
Friday afternoon for a visit with
relatives in Alexandria, La.
The Weather
The weather for the past 24 hours
according to readings mrde at 6:30:
Maximum .................................... 75
Minimum .................................... 515
Temperature 6:30 .................... 58
Wind from ..................................
Sky ..........................................Clear
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ALSO FOX NEWS AND “STRANGE AS IT SEEMS |
DON’T let faulty brakes on
your car cause sorrow to some
family. A split second is not
very long, as time goes. But
that is the way accidents will
happen. Let’s save a life—the
cost is small.
Irvin - Robertson,
Inc.
jlr IomshhI ftaymrnm
12:30.
Bomb Is Fatal
To One of Five
Jap Officials
Shanghai, April 30 (Saturday).—
Y. Kawabata, president of the Shang-
hai Japanese Residents’ Association
and one of the five high Japanese
officials injured in a bomb explosion
at Hongkew Friday, died early Sat-
urday.
Physicians operated on Gen. Ken-
kichi Uyeda, second in command of
the Japanese army contingent here,
removing the toes of his right foot.
Mamoru Shigemitsu, the Japanese
Minister to China, who was in a criti-
cal condition with thirty-two pieces of
the hand-grenade bomb thrown by
the Hongkew assassin in his body,
passed a fairly good night.
The other victims of the bombing
were Gen. Yoshinori Shirakawa, com-
mander in chief of the Japanese land
forces, who was suffering from se-
vere bruises on the upper part of his
body and had lost all of his teeth,
and Admiral Kichisaboro Nomura,
naval commander, wrho had serious
head wounds and lost and eye.
Police identified the bomb thrower
as Yin Kitsu, a Korean revolutionary
frorn Manchuria and a member of a
(Chinese-Korean revolutionary society j
functioning in various Oriental :
countries.
Drs. fellowship predominated throughout
The the following program rendered:
and Invocation—E. C. Brice.
Toast to Seniors—Mildred Shelby,
Junior President.
Response—Dick Presley, Senior
president.
Piano solo—Faye Driggers.
Musical reading—Montez Houston
and Helen Holmes.
Quartette—Glenn Johnson, Dean
Williams, Daniel Russ and Coach H.
W. Bullock.
History, past, present and future
of the Seniors—Sam Harvey.
Spanish solo—H. W. Bullock.
Burlesque of Faculty—By students.
Address—Supt. P. E. Wallace.
Address to Senior—A. L. Bennett.
A number of impromptu speeches
were made by members of the facul-
ty and students of both classes.
GOES TO GREENVILLE
' FOR AN OPERATION
Mrs. J. J. Burnett was taken to a
hospital at Greenville Friday night
for an operation for appendicitis.
She wras accommpanied by her hus-
band, her sister, Mrs. Henry Traylor,
and her brother, Homer Hamilton,
and Dr. W. A. Taylor.
Rev. R. L. Owen and son, Tom G.,
of Longviewr, came up Saturday to
visit friends.
for Mother
Mrs. W. Green and children return-
ed Saturday to their home in Chica-
go, 111., after an extended visit here
with the former’s parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. H. Goates.
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Cross, G. W. Mt. Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 37, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 30, 1932, newspaper, April 30, 1932; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth784694/m1/1/?q=b-58: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Mount Pleasant Public Library.