Mt. Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 8, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 23, 1937 Page: 2 of 4
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HT. PLEASANT DAILY TIMES
Leisure to Repent
_ by <ZQisn£a rPaMatt M_
Beautiful Spring flowers deco-
rated the entertaining suite.
At the close of a pleasant so-
cial hour the hostess served an
attractive refreshment plate.
MR. AND MRS. C. BADT
HONORED MONDAY NIGHT
Society and Club Notes
Published ditil;
Time* R«
G. W. CROSS. Editor
MUCH C. CROSS, Assiitant Editor
Entered as second class mail matter at
Em Post Office at Mt. Pleasant, Texas,
Vnder the Act of Conicress, March 3, 1879.
all the tomorrows. Between, there’s
this irrelevant episode, meaningless,
lovely, not exigent.”
He did not answer.
Between the dance-tunes, between
moonrise and moonset, and the turn-
ings of their carriage-wheels along
CHAPTER XIV I h .. li”r clear hazel eyes wide. “It’s
They went into the Savoy and 1 important to make you sure she will
chose a table far from the music. H never come back to vou/’
was suddenly completely aware of Never is long,
something he had sensed vaguely ‘ I learned that, sometime since.
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actrr, standing or reputation of ai
Sun or eoncern which may appear
Seeted when brought to the atten
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Badt,
who will leave April 1st. to make1
their home in Dallas, were hon-
ored with a delightful courtesy
by , their friends with a farewell
the white roads, they told each other
tion from her than she decided to
She sighed: “Antagonism is a
nr.cnntlv efrnno* omntinn ioti’f ifV*
things they had told no other per-
give.
He said slowly, making conversa-
tion: “I’m well enough. I’ve been a
bit tied down with Father.”
“Yes; sorry to hear he was ill,
wai
Obituaries, resolutions of ref
sards of thanks will be chargi
Secular advertising rates.
pleasantly strong emotion, isn’t it?’’
“I assure you my antagonism for
you is the strongest emotion I’ve felt
in years.”
“All right. Come to see me,
Wednesday, at tea-time, and let’s
have more of this.”
He did not say that he would
come. But somewhat to his own
surprise, he found himself ascend-
ing in the elevator of her apart-
ment-house, at five o’clock on
son. “Because we want nothing of
each other,” she said.
A terrible unsureness was grow-
ing in him as to that. He told her
By Mail »2.60 per year
By Carrier 40b per month
of his mother, of his first nearing of
in I heard he was bet-
that old story, of all his childhood.
party at the lovely new home of
ter.” Her voice was so completely
Liittw uiu aiujy, ui mi uia bimuuuuu.
She told him the whole story of her
love for Duane Fenton. Then lie
was able to talk to her of Denise
at last, certain of her understanding.
There was a night of bright moon-
indifferent that he laughed; and
she smiled, a little maliciously.
“I’ll tell you everything you want
to know in two sentences, Keith:
We all feel Denise has made an ex-
cellent marriage, that it will last,
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Patrick Mon
day evening. Colorful
Sidelights on
spring
flowers added fragrance and
light that cast deep shadows. The
iage, that it will last,
beauty to the spacious party
Wednesday. She was, after all, as
C. of C. Banquet
and is the best thing she could have
palm tree in her garden stirred in
rooms. The honoiees were pre-
sented with a beautiful gift, aft-
er which a delectable menu was
served buffet style to the fol-
close as he could come to hearing of
his desire!
That day she had thought out her
words. She told him coolly that he
was weak, changeable; but she took
the edge off her words by saying he
was like herself. She reiterated that
Denise would never come back, until
he told her furiously that she was a
malevolent Cassandra. Then she
the night breeze softly. The harbor
below was silver and deep dark, a
substance between water and fluid
light. He and she were two light
It is very unusual that two
members of the Highway Com-
mission attend the same Cham-
voices, two shadowy outlines in long
chairs.
1 owing: Mr.- and Mrs. Clarence
Her voice said: “We are shadows,
or all the world beyond us is a eha-
‘Jesus, the Pioneer”—Mrs. E. Bad\ Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Jon-
ber of Commerce banquet, but
Mt. Pleasant is always doing the
es, Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Branch,
dow world. The edi
Vocal solo, “The Old Rugged
Mr. and Mrs. Allen Phillips, Mr.
blur. I am no more than a tranquil
laughed at him, and asked him to
ner of her pretty mouth. “Dance
Baptist W. M. S.
»w for this pninute, while I
unusual.
sy for dinnei
For a long til
with me, Keith. As I remember, you
don’t move to see if there’s anything
beyond.”
His voice, laughing, said: “Magic 1
Well, then, this corner of the world
is all."
Her voice said dreamily: "I re-
member once I was a bitter, proud
woman who loved and minded 90
dreadfully losing Duane.”
His voice said: “Long ago, far
Circ'e Meetings At the conclusion of the pro- and Mrs. Donald Ralph, Mr. ant
The W. M. S. of the Baptist 8ram the hostess served delicious Mrs. J. T. Williams Jr., Mr. anc
church met in circles Monday j refrshments . Mrs. Ben Patrick, Mmes. Meric
afternoon, for the monthly Bible! Mrs. Frank Bernard entertain- Lilienstern and Margaret Thrash-
study with the reports as follows: members of Circle 3 of the er; Messers. W. O. Irvin Jr., Mar-
Circle 1 met in the home of Mrs. Methodist W. M. S., with a social vin Coffey, O. C. Lilienstern Jr.
Bill Hamilton with five members meeting at her apartment on West j Steve Rotondi, and Captain Har-
present. An interesting Bible 3rd St. ryBadt.
study was directed by Mrs. J. W.' _r.~ '
Lokey. Mrs. R. L. Thacker was
hostess to Circle 2, with six mem- j
bers answering roll call. Mrs.1 ^A^AA^BAfe^
A. S. Mitchell directed the study, j Mb
Circle 3 met in ttije home of Mrs.' pg ^ jB \'
Jr.c': Cross, with seven members T A | CO
an ! one new member enrolled. I1 II | A rC ^
The r-::dv was directed by Mrs. LIbIJ jj Li4 ^^^BMMMMSKKMMMMfML
Frank Wilkinson. Circle the
Business Women’s Bible Circle, |
met at the church with a splen- 1 U 1 „ '*•’,
did attendance enjoying the Jf-, I / * 0
study directed by Mrs. Norma ‘f ]h q Jb yft
Martin. Mrs. Bob Whitaker was 4/ li C AA'
hostess to Circle 5, with nine ..
members present. Mrs. W. A. M m m mu jb V
Ford directed the Bible study. IS A AI . ^ / *$
Circle 6 met in the home of Mrs. UN II III * M
W. S. Swint with twelve mem- , iVIlTlI m /f L
bers present. Mrs. Doyce Davis <j V
conducted the study for the after- j u
noon. Circle 7 met with Mrs. f | MmbiW
Henry Traylor, with seven mem- € MmmW
bers present. The hostess di-
rected an impressive Bible study. .
Mrs. Jeff Swi-t was hostess to y%r5$r ^
Circle 8, with five members an- sXaSvmIIA V"
swering roll call. Mrs. Swint
conducted an inters:,:] g Eible
For a long time after that evening
they both meant well, aa the moat
curious liking for each other grew
in them. Felicia discovered that ahe
looked forward to aeeing him rather
apecially, on her way back from ten
days in New Mexico in February.
(Of which the laat nine daya had
been long.) She worried very little
about that discovery. He and ahe
were old hands at the unimportant
and amusing game they were play-
ing. There would be no burnt fin-
rro’T! With mixture of meta-
phors in her head, she got off the
train, not expecting to be met, to
find him waiting for her.
“Thought it would be a pleasant
gesture,” he said, “I missed you.
Not the least good will come of us.”
“No harm either, I assure you.”
“I know that too.” And they
laughed. . . .
Eustace was going to the North-
west from New Mexico on some af-
fairs of his family. He had not
planned to take her, because ex-
treme cold weather sometimes made
her ill. Her trip to New Mexico had
been a gesture before he started his
journey north. There were, ufron
her return, a succession of bitterly
cold days in New York. She had a
slight attack of influenza, and re-
covering, sailed to Bermuda.
“Check from grandfather-in-
law," she told Keith cheerfully.
It waB entirely accidental that,
the evening of her departure, Keith
Sheldie, Senior, said to his son:
“Couldn’t we take a trip, out of this
weather? I’ve never been to Ber-
muda. It sounds pleasant—buggies
and things."
“They call them victorias,
dance superbly.”
As they started to dance, he said:
“Don’t treat me like a gigolo, Feli-
cia. I may even dance as well as
your kind words imply, but I’m a
man of substance. Came into money
lately.”
“How nice for you! I hadn’t heard
that your father was in his dotage.”
He didn’t answer. She danced like
a dream—he remembered, but he
wouldn’t say sol
Back at their table an idea came
to him: “Felicia, how much did you
have to do with Denise’s marriage?"
“A great deal.”
He thought definitely that he had
never hated anyone so much in his
life.
“Why did you?"
Her voice was suddenly gentle;
she put a lovely hand on his sleeve.
“Don’t look murderous. I wanted
Denise to be always safe. She
couldn’t have been, with you.”
But his anger only lessened a
little.
“That’s what you married for too,
isn’t it?”
“Shot in the dark, Keith. I sha’n’t
tell you if it landed.”
“Not interested.”
“No, I don’t suppose so. You
wouldn’t have made Denise a good
husband, all the same.”
“Why are you so sure?”
“Want what you want just till
you have it. I knew some one else
like you. That’s why I’m Mrs. Eus-
tace Gardiner Dayne."
“Poor Eustace 1 Let’s dance again.
Your dancing’s better than your
Seventeen towns were repre-
sented by visitors for the occas-
ion, coming from all over North-
east Texas.
Joe Pinson, Willard Moore,
Byron Black and Mr. Bowers of
Clarksville came early in order
to inspect the new Times build-
ing and plant. They were very
complimentary in their remarks.
au voice MiQ. iMiig ago, isr
away. He will never come back."
Then he knew why he said those
words. He stood up, flqng his arms
out to the unregarding sky. “She
won’t ever come back. I was a fool
to dream she would.”
Felicia said: “No, she never will.”
The world steadied. He was a
man, and she was a beautiful woman,
The Highway Commissioners
spent a large pa: of the after-
noon looking over highway needs
of the county. They were guests
in the home of President Claude
McDonald.
The “telegrams” from Popeye,
■Mussolini, Santa Claus and John
L. Lewis, which were jead as
takeoffs on four local people cre-
ated a lot of fun in the midst of
the serious portion of the pro-
“Tonight too, Felicia?”
“Yes, let’s waste tonight, in honor
of—”
“Of something or other.”
“You sound unflatteringly cheer-
ful about it, Keith.”
“Being a gentleman in spite of
all.”
“You are fun, you know.”
“You too.”
“This is going to be very, very
thin ice.”
“Fun to skate on, Felicia.”
“I know,” she sighed. “Don’t kiss
me often.”
“Very seldom, or practically all
the time. Does it occur to you we’re
being very adult. I begin to have
great respect for us.”
“That’ll be a novelty. Kiss me
good-night, briefly, and go home.”
“No, I couldn’t—briefly. T’T1 go
home without, if you don’i mind.”
“But I do mind.”
He remembered, too, that first
time they danced at the Savoy. They
both laughed. He kissed her and
went home.
The “very thin ice” held surpris-
ingly, through February and through
March in the North.
Felicia said: “The trouble is we
aren’t despicable, any more than
we’re admirable.”
“My sweet, like all women, you
try to define too many things. We
are pust butterflies dancing in the
sunlight and careless of tomorrow.
Will that stop you?”
“Very quickly, Keith.”
(To be continued)
OopjritM by Unult Parrott
Diatributsd by Kln( Vesture* Syndicate. Is*.
More people were present than
were expected, and the entire
dining section of the hotel had
to be utilized to accommodate
flie crowd.
Moving slowly about the crowded
flood, he said: “I think I shall go
abroad and take Denise away from
her highly reputable husband. She
and I belong; and you don’t know
what you are talking about.”
“I shall go to your father."
He chuckled. “You mean it, don’t
you; and you guess that, newly re-
covered from pneumonia, he can’t
stand shocks—and that having come
into money, I feel grateful. Did
anyone ever dislike you violently
before?”
“I am not sure.”
“You are beautiful, trivial, no
good at all.”
“I said that about you to Denise
—no good at all. I have great influ-
ence with Denise.”
“We’ll go back to the table, if you
don’t mind.”
“But I do mind. I like this music.”
They danced the rest of that dance
in a complete silence. Back at their
table, she said: “And another cock-
tail.”
“ 'Fraid I haven’t time.” *
“Yes, you have, Keith. It’s im-
portant. Besides, I need it for my
courage.”
She sipped It slowly, regarded
Only one thing could be. said
against the meeting—it lasted a
little too long.
The Mt. Pleasant Band gave a
short concert before the banquet.
They gave excellent renditions,
and show great possibilities. But
the effect of their playing is
largely lost because they are
Without uniforms. Some plan
should be developed for pro-
curing these essentials for a good
musical organization.
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1-’S church for th? Fifth Mon
.Iry social.
Sunbeam and Junior Choir
'"he Sunbeam and Junior Choir
sponsored by the Baptist W. M.
S . under the direction of Mrs.
H It Lewis and Miss Louise Baird
rrrt c.t the church Monday after-
noon for an Easter Egg hunt.
Sixtv members of both organiza-
tions enjoyed the occasion.
LOOKING
BACKWARD
p ASTER comes
early this year,
iuac means you
Tuken from the files of The
Mt. Pleasant Daily Times
Twelve Yean Ago
ing forward to Friday afternoon,
whe nthey will enjoy an Easter
egg hunt.
Birthday Supper
Friends and relatives of grand-
tvill want to gat
your Spring ap-
parel NOW.
Come in and see
our wonderful ar-
ray of
• Hats
• Shirts
• Sox and
• Ties
... they are the latest thing
in style . . . and are priced
riguti
Melon growers hold meeting at
C. of C. office and make plans
for planting 150 acres to this
crop, expecting to harvest 35
carloads of melons.
Tommie, little son of Mr. and
Mrs. Oscar Keith, sustains brok-
en leg when run over by auto-
mobile near place where Junior
Caudle was seriously injured two
weeks previous .
David Ray’s garage burglarized
for third time in short while.
Daily Times ads were bring-
ing results, J. D. Strother re-
porting a 100 per cent increase
in business due to a certain ad-
vertising plan in its columns.
Concord
pa Mills surprised him with a
birthday supper at the home of
his son, Rev. Oscar Mills. The
occasion being the honoree’s 78th
birthday. The table was center-
ed with a beautiful birthday cake
decorated with 78 candles. The
following were present: Grandpa
and Granny Mills, Rev. and Mrs..
Oscar Mills, and children, Jodie,
R. L., Virgia, Merrill, Geneva anc
Lavern, Rev. and Mrs. Clifton
Mills and son, Jr., Mr. and Mrs.
Lacy Mills and daughters, Reta
and Betty Ruth, Mr. and Mrs. Jer-
ry McMical, Mr. and Mrs. Jessie
Mills and baby, Mr. and Mrs.
Roy Burnet, Mr. and Mrs. Walker
Ferguson and little son, W. M.,
Mr. and Mrs. Edd Fortenberry
and daughter, Marline, Lee Grey,
John Ray Ferguson.
• By MRS. WALKER FERGUSON •
HAYS BROTHERS
THIS DATE fN
NEWS of PAST
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By International News Service
Tuesday, March 23
1884—Federal Judge Florence
E. Allen, first woman to occupy
SO high a place in the judiciary,
was born in Salt Lake City.
1905—Japanese defeated Rus-
sians in battle of Mukden, one of
most decisive engagements in
history.
1908—Joan Crawford was born.
1913 — Dayton floods raged,
causing deaths of 762.
1918—Big Bertha bombarded
Paris from 75 miles away.
1936—Mussolini announced that
state would take over all large
Italian industries.
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WOMEN’S CHURCH
ORGANIZATIONS
Fannie Wallace Auxiliary
The Fannie Wallace Auxiliary
of the Presbyterian Church met
Church of Christ Bible Study
The Ladies’ Bible Class of the
Church of Christ met at the
church Monday for the weekly
Bible study. A large attendance
enjoyed the study of the third
chapter of Timothy, directed by
in the church parlors Monday
afternoon at 3 o’clock for Bible
Study. The meeting was open-
ed by singing, “Nearer My God
W. S. Wiley.
The W. M. S. of the Methodist
Church met in circles Monday
afternoon. Circles One and Two
to Thee,” followed by the Lord’s
prayer in unison. Mrs. Joe Em-
brey was in charge of the busi-
ness session. Mrs. DeWitt Huck-
abee directed the Bible study
met in a joint meeting at the
home of Mrs. A. J. Copellar with :
fifteen members present. Mrs. j
W. O. Tittle directed the inter- )
esting program for the afternoon: j
for the afternoon, which was a
review of the Book of Genesis.
The meeting was closed with a
prayer. Next Monday afternoon
the Auxiliary will meet at the
Opening song, “Jesus Calls |
Us.”
Prayer—Mrs. Sam Hays.
Talk, unristian Living”—Mrs.
O. Martin.
MOUNT PLEASANT, TEXAS, TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1937
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