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The Llano News.
VOLUME XXXX
LLANO. LLANO COUNTY, TEXAS. THURSDAY. MAY SI. 19S8
NUMBER 37
. I ECTURES IN COUNTY; CLOSING EXERCISES OF LONE BOARD ELECTS TEACHERS FOR JACK HOXIE VISITS LLANO; IS PACKED AUDITORIUM WITNES3- EXTENSIVE PROGRAM OF WORK
STARTING WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6 GROVE SCHOOL THIS WEEK NEXT YEAR IN LLANO SCHOOLS IMPRESSED WITH ITS SCENERY ED THE GRADUATION EXERCISES ON AT ROBINSON STATE PARK
Th . . iu ministers. Revs. On Thursday and Friday nights. At a meeting ot the School Board at jack Hoxie, famous movie stsy of On last Friday evening when the It has been a long v/hlie since the
^ Austin J W CampMll May 31 and June 1, the Lone Grove Wilburn Oatman’s office on Monday Hollywood, was a visitor at the I.iano curtain went up for the graduation ex- people of Llano, through the Chamber
J, M • d°B W Downing of Bsfton. school will present its closing exercls-; night the following teachers were re- play houses last week. Scores of ercises at the Llano high school audi- of Commerce purchased the property
o. art .in< Llano county next *-« and extend a cordial invitation to elected for the coming year: j Llano people made it a point to meet torium, that glace was *'*■*■* >.» <»* <- .war to »iu>
T, ____ „„„ _______________ __________ __________„ ,____ ,__„ _________ _ , , , _________ ...__— filled to its above town and turned it over to the
Ainftrt to 1)6 ill LlsQO county i ■ ■ ■ ■ ’
y « th rill begin a series of the public to attend these programs High School—Miss Louise Heinatz, this man whose pictures have been very capacity. Extra seats had been State for a State Park. During ail the
when ®y evenin(? ot We.i, at'd enjoy them with the players, be-J Miss Dorothy Echols and R. B. Tate. flashed on screens throughout the land placed in the hail, bnt st ores were intervening time, the property has t
1 ‘ " -----*--- * " ‘ ’ *■’ J "— - - forced, to stand after that and took up been standing in Its rough state With
While here, in company with Geo. every inch of available space. (the exceptions ot the Improvement*,
T. Futch, Mrs. Shaw and E. L. Avery, he visited the , The program as published in. this the Chamber of Commerce was able to
wsek.
Bikjf lec*ur®8 men will bring cause th->- feel sure both evenings' Grade School—Mis3 Mildred Sonn- for the past several years.
tlT *08 e^messages to the people of will be pleasant ones for all who at-j tug. Mrs. Mary C. Miller, Miss Marie, wwu h*ra tn rnmnanv
r one Grove Legion Valley and Six tend. | Pfeiffer. Mrs
V/ri hts Creek the last two Thursday night the intermediate Allen S. Johnson, Miss Clara Moran Enchanted Rock, and was favorably j paper, was carried out in detail, with make, which we might say, were po
Mie or rg » be decided Upon. ! grades will render their program,! At a previous meeting Miss VeTma j impressed with the natural scenery at many of the seniors taking purt in few, but at any rate, we have never
V/hif in county these gentlemen which consists of readings, songs, j Lindsey was elected as a member of ^ that place. Mr. Hoxie stated that the the exercises.
6 n so that each community | folk dances and also plays by the , the high school faculty and Mrs. Joe f setting there was ideal for a good pic- The graduation address was deliver- re il purk.
w a erna" ■ ----J,*‘- —"m Della Walker in the grade school. I ture, especially of the Western type, ed by Dr. B. D. D. Greer of San Anto-
Both Supt. Hart and the School and sottie day may return to make one nio and was a very able address In
Board feel that they have one of the of his famous productions at this every particular. Addressing the sen
strongest and most capable corps of poinL
will have the opportunity of hearing primary and Intermediate grades will
each of them. |,,e <?iven-
Revs. Kidd and Compbell have both On Friday nignt the high school
preached in the Presbyterian church will present the following play,
here and will be remembered by those j “Yimtnie Yortson s Y ob.
who had the privilege of hearing them Characters , .
an being exceptionally good preachers Yimmie. Swede Ivera Williams schools should continue to move for-
and scholars of great attainment. Rev. \ Pal. a detective Alice Mae Over- ward in educational work as has been
Downing, who comes here for his first stree.
time, is one of the leading Presbyter-! Frank Gunn. Vil’ian Hudson Bale
ian ministers of the State, and like ' Mtkie. Irishman Ford Templeton
Mr. Kent, Yimmie’s Father lord
| Clinger.
Belle Kent. Mr. Kent's daughter
Juanita Smith.
Sylvia. Mr. Kent’s Niece Jaunita
been able to enjoy the property as a
I : ‘I
Biit thanks to the State of Texan,
Llano is soon to have a real park and
one of which the State as well as tbo
t iorj in particular, the speaker admon- local people will lie proud.
teachers to be found In Central Texas, This gentleman is making a tour of ‘-died them to live clean, pure lives Monday evening four men arrived
be iu Texas for several weeks.
the other two, will have good mes-
sages for his hearers.
Rev. Wesley Prince, who is respon-1
sihle for these men coming is expect-
ing great things from these lectures
and sincerely hopes that the people Smith,
from all parts of the county will avail ( Kitty, Mischlevious Girl
themselves of the opportunity of hear-1 Nobles.
them just as often as possible Pe«. Irish Cook
and under their instruction, the Llano the Southern States, and will probably above everything else; that with good here, having been sent out by the
| characters and reputations they would State, to begin work on the park and
! be able to surmount the adversities of in all probability they will be here for
life which otherwise might prove a some two or three months They have
failure. He strongly advocated a col- pitched their tent and fixed up a first
the case the past year.
MANY ATTENDED BAND CON-
CERT IN BADU PARK SUNDAY
A large crowd was present at Badu
J. M. CONE SELLS HIS TAILORING
BUSINESS HERE TO J. R. DECKER
A business deal was closed this
week wherein J. R. Decker becomes
proprietor of the tailoring business
lege education, but reminded them class camping place, and are ready lo
that it took more thau degrees to tuckle the big job of clearing up that
make a man or a woman. “To live for large tract of land,
others should be your foremost mis I). K. Colp. superintendent of State
Bessie
ing
Ruth Nobles
■during these series of lectures. | Mrs. Kent. Invalid Mother Irena
A cordial invitation is extended to Nobles,
everyone. Help them by attending ! This is a play of mysterious haunts.
these meetings and they wil
‘to help you.
be sure
LEGIONARIES IN PARIS
Who would not like to have gone to
Paris with the Legionaires to their
convention? Well here's your chance
but. of couse, as ail ghosts turn out to
be human, so does Yimmie Yonson.
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Park last Sunday to hear the concert formerly operated by J. M. Cone and sion in life." the speaker said, “and In Parks, in company with u landscape
the end you will find that your Jtttu- engineer, is due to arrive in Llano to-
i ney through life has been one crowned day or tomorrow, when the work of
given by the Llano Municipal Band. take charge of the business
Members of the organization also ap- morrow, June first.
placing the park in proper condition
will be outlined for the men now at
predated the patronage given them in Mr. Decker hud sold his barber bus- with success.
tile sale of cold drinks, etc., which in«ss to M. D. Buster with the expee- Dr. Greer's address was liberally ap~
fund is to go into the treasury for the tation of moving to Austin, hut made plauded and well received by the large work, who are busy cutting out the
purpose of assisting the band to de- “ change in his plans and will now re audience. underbrush, awaiting the arrival of
fray its expenses to Fort Worth. j main in Llano much to the satisfac- M. C. Wilkes president of the school Mr. Colp and the engineer before t.ak
Let’3 send the band to Ft. Worth by tion °f the many friends of the family, board, then delivered the diplomas to *u« up the task of beautifying tbo
all means. It will be a big advertise-, Mr. Cone will devote all of his time 27 graduates, the names of whom have Place.
nient for our town nad ali ether pr > 'to the Insurance business In which he previously been published on this page This park covers some eighty acres
gressive places will be represented by was associated with his father before Mr. Wilkes make a very appropriate of land and is Ideally located nome
BRIDGE CLUB ENTERTAINED I their bands.
Mrs. Anna C. Lumm entertained tha
Thursday Bridge Ciub last week with
o lovely summer-titne party at her
B & M CHEVROLET COMPANY
entering the tailoring work.
'address to the class, after which he two miles west ot lown between tho
Success to both of these gentlemen, called out the names of each member, river and State Highway No. 2k.
_____ ! who came forward and received his, There are hundreds of large pecan
l
and elm trees along the river hanks,
to see just what the boys did while in home. The cut flowers which adorn-
“Gay Pajree.” led the rooms were especially fragrant
Remember Mademoiselle from Ar-
mentiers—She was there and how?
and pretty. Sweet peas and larkspur
in the pastel tints were effectively
Legionaires in Paris was actually j arranged in the living room and har-
filmed in Paris during the celebration niouized with the light gren table
while the American Legion was there. \ covers and game accessories. A red
See two doughboys take Paris and i color note predominated in the din-
the fun they have! ling room, the table being centered
Showing at the Lantex Thursday ! with a bowl of lovely American Beau
CONTINUE TO RECEIVE CARS GRAND JURY QU,T YESTERDAY; ‘ ^er diploma. ,
_ I EIGHT FELONY BILLS RETURNED Without exception the year’s work affording good shades an,! also beaut,
Chevrolet Com an re-i * __ just conii)1<,tei1 waH the ln ,he ful catnD|n* HitHH 0nc« th-’ {mr!t iH
ompany re-^ 'grand Jury finished its work history of the Llano schools, and Sup*, placed in proper condlti > i. if will be
.yesterday afternoon, when eight fel- Hart, his faculty and student body de- one of the best in Texas nd will at
j pny bills were returned, although the serve much credit for making it so .tract tourists from every section, e«-
names did not appear on the docket ---o---- —
The B & M
ceived- four Chevrolet automobiles the
past week and unloaded another on -
load Tuesday of this w-eek.
The deliveries made last week un
to Saturday night by this firm were:
H. F. Willbern. coupe.
Ohas. Hinman, touring.
James E. Swann, coach.
and Friday of this w.eek. A star cast
including Al Cooke, Kit Guard, Louise
Loviaine and John Aason, the tallest
man in the world.
The Llano Municipal Band will play
outside and give a short program in-
side the theatre before the show on
ty roses. The trays, on wheih a re-
freshing salad course was served, held
small bouquets of sweet peas.
Four exquisite prizes were awarded.
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IN THE CHURCH
yesterday afternoon, as the arrests ic
tlie cases had not been made.
ENTERTAINS AT “42”
Mrs. John Cone entertained a few
of her friends with a Forty-two party
in her usual
CHILDREN
—- I Wednesday of last week
Martin Luther said, “How precious charming manner
m Averv received a Dresden nlate I cllll<lren are to the lj0rA- au‘* Tile home was beautifuly decorated
Mrs. Avery received a Dresden plat, j-j,|s because they receive all things
for high score and Mrs. C. M. Wal- j
lace a bridge set for
with spring flowers and
u profusion
, Mr* ^th such a simple trust.” Jesus said of pot plant8 After eight games had
" | “Suffer the little children, and forbid h.„n „|.)V..rl Mra t,- w
each night. Come see a good picture Franklin Dean of Louisville. Ky., won th not to come ,,nto nie for . ‘ ‘
— - - M |1 n,n’ lo tome unl° n,e- n,r to Tarreuce held high score.
' , such helongeth the kingdom of heav-1 Delicious refreshments were served
and help your band go to kort Worth, high score for the guests and
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BABY HEAD CHURCH OF CHRIST
Clay Fowler received the cut prize, j eB_- sun(iay morning at the Llano the following guests- Mesdamee Wil
Guests of the club were Mesdames ' {,, , , . . . “rt l",'ow,n* *U68H Mesdan.es Wil
- - ...... , i nrisuan cnurcli, the minister, Horn- hum Oatmun. Milton Wilkes, J. W.
Payne, will use as his text, Davis, Frank Kothmann, Jack Cartor,
Maude D. Moore of Fort Woxth. Joe gr
W. M. U. PROGRAM
The W. M. U. meets with Mrs. J. L.
Connors on Friday, June first at 3:30.
Devotional—Mrs. O. P. Gurrett.
Song—Jesus Calls Us.
Piuno Solo—Mrs. Gallraun.
Vocal Solo—Mrs. Laning.
Piano Solo—Mrs. Connors.
Address—Denominational and King-
dom work—Mrs. J. L. Brjan, Burnet,
Associational President.
Offering, benediction, social hour.
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WORK STARTS ON ANOTHER
NEW RESIDENCE IN LLANO
Interest is growing at Baby Head YVelboan of Freeport. Franklin Dean "|$xcept ye turn an(] become as little
Church of Christ. We now have twen-
t'-' three members that meet regularly
at Baby Head every Sunday afternoon
for communion, services and Bible
teaching.
Our Protracted Meeting begins Sat-
urday- night before the third Lord's
Day in August, 1928, to be conducted
by Evangelist Homer Gay, and song
loader, David Storms. Everyone is
cordially invited.
T. F. GRAY,
HUGH YARBROUGH,
Elders.
of Louisville. Ky., A. B. Shoemake of children.
S V.
Waco, J. Dunn of San Benito, Slator
Duncan and Boy B. Inks.
Oatman, Walter Todd W. W.
Hart, Oiln Hillman, Percy Brown, Al-
Sunday night the ministers subject ,an N>Wsom, J. W. Fowler. Anna
will be, “The Book of Life." The Of- Brown, A. H. Bruhl. J. H. Atchison,
Work has begun on the new home
which A. It. Weber is erecting ,ii the
southern part of town directly across
the street from the T. J. Watklts
HONORED WITH PICNIC
i Board will meet Sunday after- vv. J Moore, Will McCoy. W. J. Saun- *>ome. Mr. Weber purchased this lot
METHODIST CHURCH
Sunday school at 9:45. Rev. C. E.
Swann will preach at 11 a. m. All
girls between 12 and 18 are to meet
Mr. Raesner immediately after Sun- j
day school in the Missionary Society |
Members of the Baptist church,
and friends of Rev. P. M. Murphy and
family enjoyed a picnic at Badu Park
Monday evening, given in honor of
Rev. Murphy and family, who left
Wednesday morning for Houston,
where they will make their future
home.
The pastors and their families cf
the several churches were invited
guests. Despite the threatening
weather, a large crowd assembled,
and all enjoyed the delicious spread
noon at 2:30 o’clock.
ders. T. Y. Hill, Belle M. Wilkes, Ar-
PRESBYTERIAN AUXILIARY
I „
nd social hour together.
LUTHERAN CHURCH
tliur Baumann, E. VV. Tarrence, W. Y.
Fowler, Regnor Cone, D. L. <’arl.
I Mesdames Carl. Regnor Cone and
The Presbyterian Auxiliary will Baumann ussisted the hostess in en-
meet with Mrs. W. B. Haynie Friday tertaining
afternoon at 4:00 o’clock. | _________n_____________
• Leader—Mrs. Barnett. j K. L. Avery and wife, Mesdames M.
Lesson—The Book of Judges. I M. Moss, W. W. Watkins, H. C. Bu>-
----------- tery and little son, Henry (' went to
Mrs. J. C. Stribling, Jr., returned San Antonio the first of the week to
home last week from San Saba whore attend the convention of Federated
she visited relatives for sev-ral days Clubs. Mrs. Buttery and son will go
and was accompanied by Miss Jean- from there to Lytle to visit her sister,
ette Morris, daughter of Mr. au I Mrs. Mrs
VV . T. Morris for a short visit in tliU to l valde to attend the wedding of
pXtce.
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several weeks ago. has Itad it improv-
ed and is now having au up-to-date
residence erected (hereon which wil?
be another fine new home for tills
town. Llano is receiving its share of
peclally during the hot summer
months when they can enjoy camp-
ing. fishing and bathing
Since (lie time this property was
purchased the Chamber of Commerce
has been on the Job all the while, en
deuvoring to have the State make the
necessary improvements, but in as
much uh the State was without funds
for this particular work, nothing has
been done along that, line until now.
It Is Indeed gratifying to know that,
the Robinson State Park is to become
a reality In all particulars and soon
Llano will tie able to advertise to the
world one of the best State Parks to
be found in Texas.
The work now in progress will bo
supervised by T Y. Hill, J. F. Buttery
and Allan Newsom after It has been
outlined by Mr. i'olp and the land-
scape engineer.
LATER—Mr. Colp arrived In Llano
Wednesday afternoon and has already
begun directing tile work at the park.
O. G. Congdon, wife and son, Keith
of Windfield. Kansas, have been in
building progress at the present time. Uan'» f,,r 8f‘Vf-ral da^ vi8itin« at ^
homes of Wilburn Oatman and family
Mrs. Tom Robinson and children of
Levelland arrived In Llano last week
fer a two weeks visit with relatives
and friends. Mrs. Robinson stated
that the Panhandle was a great coun-
try. where a vast amount of ievelop-
merit was going on all the whiia. but
Secrest and from there will go they would never forget Llano
and would always return for a visit
.her brother. VV aclittffkn Atkins who whenever the' opportunity presented
will marry in that city on June sixth. ,(^,f Th|a ,, her fl,gt vUit back t0
MIsh Johnnie Marie Brooks, an in- Mr. Buttery will al«o attend the wed-
room to perfect the organization of j ^ Llano-Sunday school / """ ““ mr w.„ aue.c me wr„- , Iano SOme three years
the Junior choir. Missionary Society j - -* ’ structor ln the Llano High school the ding and ret irn with his wife and son.
in regular business session Friday , at »:** a. m. German services at 10:30 pa„t year ,eft Mon(lay for San An(?e,H _____<>___ a«°
advance in the hour of meeting. An-
nouncements will be made at the 11
( o'clock service concerning the even-
ing service.
J. J. MASON. Pastor
jn who h-M
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Mf)
r*w' ■*
ai 2:00 p.
00 p. m.
M. HEINRICH. Pastor.
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Mrs. Latting’s aunt. Mrs. Grady Fau-
bion and with other relatives. They
were returning to their home at Ran-
X.a after a visit of several days in
Austin
Hugo Oestreich was a business vis!-
C - in the county “e*t the first of the
• *ek and reported a good rain in nn
section Mot: lay a-gh*.
___ _____ her horns in Yoakum.
Mesdames George Shaw. B. W. Tai- ~~~~ “ ~“~
ren eand W W Watkins motored to J K Battery returned h >me
San Antonio first of the week to meet Tuesday from Houston wli----- abr had
where site accepts a t*o*iri..j) on Jiim ■ Mrs. Sophi" OrenweiK« returned to
m. German Services at pirst Methodist church in that city piotracted visit with relatives in Aus-
] --—o--- tin. She reports an enjoyable visit.
I Mrs. J. Dunn and baby daughter, but i» glad to lie among Llano friends
Jane Wallace, have returned to their again.
Mrs. G. N. Brubaker will be hostess home in San Benito, after a visit of -----«* -
R. L. Lacing and wife were in the t-' the members of the Sewso Club a few weeks at the home of her par
city yesterday visiting at the home of Monday afternoon *t 3:00 o'clock at elTt«. Mr and Mrs. C. M. Wallace
1 her home. ! -p-
-o- Mrs. I. E. Daniel returned home Mrs Erby Dvais and little daughter. f,,r tht* l*aV *"***• ,n ,a,‘
Mrs. W. Y. Fowler left yesterday for Monday from Waco, after visiting her Cora Lynn, of Harlingen, who will h<d»es of relatives and frte.i 11
San Antonio, where she will attend sister. Mrs. Sparks She was accom- visit with her parent* Mr and Mr*
the biennial convention and also visit panted home by her little nephew.
; in the borne of her sister. Mrs. ('has Howard Sparks, for a visit.
E. Davia. ........-..... - 0— ,
** ™ Mrs. L. ('. Ader left Sunday to join
Mis* Mj.t>e| Walston, who iias been her husband In Kansas City. Mu,
* * h'ng in Abe high school in Llano where they expect to make their fut
•or the pas- year, left last Sunday for ure home Mrs Ader has l»een visr
. hjma ia Hoars. in* with her parent* Mr and Mrs A
—— -o .............. C Ahren* for th- past few months
and Dr. W. Y. Fowler and family. Mr.
Congdon was at one time cashier o|
the Llano National Bank, but left the
town some thirteen years ago, and
this was their first visit back. Their
many friends were glad to welcome
them to our town.
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H. W. Keller and Walter Kothr.man
o’ T.iu-Mri were in Llano for a sbori
while .Vor.day. They reoort than sec-
tion as being iu good condition and
that crops are looking fine
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_.<ohn Slribling and familv arrived in
guest of her aunt, Mr* C fa,>g-i-■-n*T?i!iri(7,fasr w’-’-'a aliTj ‘wfo oe
and other relative* for several days, several day* visiting with reintieeH
loft l**t .Saturday for Fredericksburg and friends,
on a short visit before returning to ------- . p_.___ -
Mrs. Nellie Eaves Sinnard and twin
babies of Lubbock, are in Llano the
guests of her father. J S. Eaves, and
other relative*
K W Tarren.-e. for sometime.
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M • and Mr* (<rady Callender, and
little nephew. Bobby Grataani sre
g-j“»t* of Mr and Mrs Alte-n Johnson
Jn Llano this w»»k
J L. Hurl and wife went lo Han An
tonio th*- first of the week to vtaft
their daughter. Mi** Lucille at West-
m-orland ollege
-las O'KKf ,n»«
tx-ea tea, nBjg at Jn
s .sool >■■*.»' arriv
we«x, an is flsitlt
I er graau pa i. »
!• it wtwr.
Liar.. *-t I b it
** n lor the past
d in l.lsno last
* at -b* home *
ir. < nd Mr* J Y\
'is* Lou's Heinatz, member of
I Ian • high school faculty dur-ng
year Just - lose! e*urned to her
,c tn •&'* Falls last Baiurday
Mr* C W
i lugliter. Mary
f| ‘ tfl'S frl
R Duval!
arrived in
•m their ho
and little
Llano fir*t
me In H-n
Miss1 l*o * Or.ment. after
the Mann Schools for thv
has retu un.1 to her b->m-
t tty tor the riluast
eat-hlng in
ImmI year.
In Karnes
X it liiri'iti was In the city yea -r
day In the Interest of his Arm and *•<
Ring with relatives and friend*
, ir»ni a.
((•xiriU
I'-rblnc la the Man
yt.gr, in viiittii ta
IbatK o
Mrs. C W Miller and little ,laugh
her have returned to their home In
Houston Mrs Miller his b-ea teach
ing in th- '.'ano sin e th“ ilrst
i of the year.
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Miss Mildred Sonniag. on- of the
high school leather* ha* returned to
h-r hom-- in Bartlett
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Howard Wallace *n i wife *erB ft*,
tjra In I.. berty M U Hun lay at tks
h ,r.se of Mrs Wallace sister Mrs.
Vein t a*beer «nd (aailiy
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