The Talco Times (Talco, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, April 25, 1941 Page: 2 of 4
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THE TALCO TIMES
Weekly by The Talco
Pub. Co., Inc., Talco, Texas.
C. HOLLOWAY...........President
HARDIN____________Editor
EDITORIALLY
SPEAKING
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE
Titus, Franklin and Red River
Counties
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR
Sent Elsewhere the Subscrip-
tion Price Is $1.50 a Year
^VARIABLY IN ADVANCE
Entered as Second Class Matter
March 20, 1935, at the postoffice at
Jaico, Texas. ■
No charge is made for publication
of notices of church services or other
P*»blic gatherings where no admis-
sion is charged. Where admission is
charged or where goods or wares of
any kind are offered for sale the
regular advertising rates will apply.
FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1941
So far as we have been able
able to learn no packages were
mailed from this town to Hitler
.on his birthday Sunday. But
BURT LOCKHART
in Pittsburg Gazette
One big trouble with our country
is that nobody wants to make mon-
ey the hard way. V
Bombs in Europe and brickbats
in Detroit. Such are the smears on
the fact of civilization.
Y®5JJR
H rher
Natiqns that have “found their
souls” in Europe are the ones that
are doing the best fighting.
The politician who keeps his ear
to the ground usually finds it neces-
sary to use soap afterwards.
If the foolkiller is dead why is
it that people buy stocks when they
are up and sell when they go down?
quite a few were heard to ex-
themselves as well pleas-
that he had one year less to
HE
; Many farmers in this areal
Jlgve a distinct distaste for cot-
ton planted during the monthl
of Maty. In speaking of possi-
ble production of such cotton
they say “it may and it may
sot.” But it begins to appear
that unless Old Sol gets back
on thp job and strows his stuff
promiscuously and omnilucent-
ly there will be a considerable!
acreage of this year’s crop plant-j
ad.during May. Let us hope itl
® Will be a “may” crop this time.
Man wants but little here below.
If he stops when he gets it he won’t
be bothered with the income tax
collector.
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AICUIATEP FOR THt WEIK OF
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QUALITIES Of A DIPLOMAT AMD AMY SOME-
DAY ATTAIN AM IMPORTANT POSITION-!
Is VOUR NAME MONROI7TH/S IS
AN IRISH LOCAL NAME. MUNROF MEANS
"MOUTH OF THE ROE: REFERRING TO THE
RIVER RQE IN COUNTY DERRY, IRELAND.
WHERE THE MONROE FAMILY ORIGINATED.
Never tell your mistakes to your
friends. Your enemies will find
them out soon enough and they will
tell the world.
Government printing presses turn
out thirty million postage stamps
daily, and it looks as if no two of
them are alike.
APR-30• GEO.WASHINGTON INAUGURATED
AS FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE U.S.-I789
MAY 2 - LIEUTS.KE11Y AND MACRFADY LEFT
ROOSEVELT FIEID.M.0N FIRST NON-STOP
TRANSCONTINENTAL AIRPLANE FLIGHT-1923
a
’COULD I 8EOFANY HELP,SIR?"
ra®®^®^ MOKnr
IF YOU FILL THE ICF-PANS WITH BOILING
WATER,THE DEFROSTING OF AN ELECTRIC
REFRIGERATOR CAN BE DONE IN LESS TIME.
•Choose him whose life and manner of speech please you."-?emeca
Ain’t that Sump'n
By NUMBER SEVEN
Seing contented with his lot has
a lot to do with the genial nature
of Yank Womack, Halesfioro clod-
buster. Asked if he ever tired of
the farm, Yank shook his head hor-
izontally. “Nope,” he said. “It
suits me. A farmer is the only fel-
low I know who can go broke every
year and still stay in business.”
Well, there is—but of course our
government isn’t a fellow.
A local farmer, who hasn’t been
able to raise the dust on his farm
this year, was in a hardware Sat-
urday asking to see some water
sweeps for his cultivator. When the
puzzled clerk guessed that he meant
buck wing sweeps, the customer
snorted, “No, I want water sweeps
to run out my water furrows.”
tend an invitation
Saturday at Dallas.
athletic meet
TIMBER
FOR SALE
On State School Land in sev-
eral East Texas Counties ,
May 1, 1941
Write
BASCOM GILES
COMMISSIONER
Of The General Land Office
Austin, Texas
For Description and Location
Deport Slugger
Attends Tourney
j Jackie Griffin of Deport and Pete
Simmons of Bogata, accompanied
! Mac Webb to an invitation boxing
| tourney Wednesday night at Bon-
ham.
Eleanor Roosevelt says life is
moving so fast these days it is im-
possible to keep up with it. Well,
if she can’t who can?
Tips on What to
Send to Draftees
FT. ORD, Calif.—For relatives of
the boys at army camps, Chaplain
New Quick-Freeze
Machine Finished
Both men are proficient with the
gloves, Griffin having made a spec-
tacular record at the recent Golden
Gloves tournament. *
Griffin and Sonny Fagan will at-
GENERAL
INSURANCE
IT’S BETTER TO BE
SAFE THAN SORRY
Felix Jones
At the Bank
TALCO
PROFESSIONAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
Now we can have frozen foods in
less time and for less money than
J. L. ROMINE, Pharmacist
“The country weekly news-
paper is the most American
thing in America. I’ve been
reading many of them lately to
get my mind off the world’s
troubles and you don’t know
what a tonic it is.” This fine
tribute to the country weekly
was paid recently by H. R.
Baukhage, Washington corres-
pondent and radio news com-
mentator. We do not ask a high-
er compliment in these days of
distorted news and press propa-
ganda.
A Georgia town uses the fire
alarm to get people out to a revival.
In the old fashioned days they us-
ed the hell-fire alarm.
W. V. Morgan of the Thirteenth ever before.
Show this to the wife: A dish-
washing machine with a capacity of
eight thousand dishes an hour is
in operation at Albuquerque.
Engineers has compiled the follow-
ing list of suggestions to make the
lot of the draftees and regulars a
happier one.
1. The mailman is one of the
most important persons on earth to
soldiering youths. To avert loneli-
ness, they should receive at least
one letter every week.
Luis H. Bartlett, University of
Texas research engineer, has put
the finishing touches on a new
“quick-freeze” machine — a box-
like structure five by five by eight
feet which can be built for $1,500,
said to be less than one-fifth the
Your Doctor’s Prescription Accur-
ately Compounded, Day or Night
Romine’s Pharmacy
Crawford & 9th, East Talco, Ph. 85
^ Dr. J. B. Ferrell
^ Optometrist
Specialist in Examinat-
ion of the Eyes and Fitting
Glasses
Office First National Bank Bldg.
MT. PLEASANT, TEXAS
A boom has been described as a
period when we make ourselves
feel rich by spending the money
we’ll make in the next ten years.
cost of the most advanced equip-
2. Laundry problems are multi- | mcr|t °f similar capacity now in use.
tudinous. Just send a handkerchief B reduces freezing time of foods
or a pair of socks occasionally. | from about an hour to three min-
3. Candy makes a fine present. It utes-
Rat Trap Designed
to Give Hot Foot
The president has designated the
week beginning May 4th as Em-
ployment Week. And that’s the
week when the fish begin to bite.
A new model rat trap of his own
Invention is being tried out by Rog-
er Kelsey at his barn in East De-
port. The contrivance consists of
a 3x4-foot plank platform, in the
center of which a piece of cheese
is securely nailed. The outer edge
of the platform is circled with mo-
lasses, liberally sprinkled with con-
centrated lye.
Mr. Kelsey believes Sir Rat will
Smell the cheese, cross the molass-
lye line and in doing so get’it on his
feet. Then he assumes the rat will
lick the hot feet, get the lye into
its system and die of poisoning.
should be wrapped in oiled paper.
4. Send a book of stamps. Sol-
diers find it difficult to get to the
post office to mail letters.
5. Send the hometown newspaper.
6. Adopt a package-a-week plan.
If you have lots of things to send,
mail them singly. It is more fun
for the soldiers that way. Among
, u t 4U Pyizfd it£-ms are tobac™’ razor was arrested as a tramp,
such spending and what will those blades and camphor ice for chap- j —...
nations use for money? ped lips.
The war is costing Britain fifteen
billion dollars a year. Germany and
Italy may be spending twenty-five
billions. Three or four years of
Instead of freezing produce into
a solid block, the process is report-
ed to work on each separate piece
of foodstuff, allowing packaging af-
ter freezing and a reduction of
bruise-damage by packing before
frosting.
J. B. Rowland
General Insurance
Auto Insurance a Specialty
Box 129 Mt. Pleasant
Watches Diamonds Jewelry
J. W. Caruthers
Beethoven dressed so shabbily he
Watchmaker-Jeweler
East Side of Square
MT. PLEASANT
Fine Watch Repairing
Thos. E. Hunt, M. D.
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat
Glasses Fitted
503-504 First Nat’l Bank Bldg.
PARIS, TEXAS
Dr. L. B. Stephens
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat
Specialist
Errors and Refractions Corrected
Glasses Fitted
505-8 First Nat’l Bk. Bldg., PARIS
Financial Statement of Titus County
First Quarter of 1941, Titus County Cash Funds, Previous Balances,
Receipts, Disbursements and Present Balance on Books, Closing
March 1941, Covering period from 12/31/40 to April 1, 1941.
303.23
9,204.34
Pension Applicant
is Mother of 37
DALLAS. — When Mrs. George
Womack made application for a
widow’s pension, she revealed she
was the mother' of 37 children, of
whom 14 are still living.
Mrs. Womack, 58, said she was the
mother of five sets of twins, three
sets of triplets, one set of quadru-
plets and one of quintuplets. Her
husband died in 1939.
Funds
Jury Fund .............
Road and Bridge ________
Rd. & Brge. In. & Snkg.
Perm. Impv., Avl...........
Spcl. Rd. In. & Snkg. 27,770.75
General County ............ 6,942.98
Trial Fees .................... 5.00
Treasl Comm. Acct. 02
Lateral Roads Acct. .84
Operating Fund ..... 9.35
Perm. Impv. In. & Snkg. 10,072.14
Gen. Co. In. & Snkg_______ 3,350.68
Prev. Bal. Receipts Disburse. Pres. Bal.
$ 4,644.34 $ 919.68 $ 1,977.81 $ 3,586.21
20,263.02
688.52
2,569.86
8,270.03
5.376.62
509.00
1,599.98
19,790.35
3,581.52
2.28
28,906.68
7,339.78
432.00
500.02
561.91
1.285.15
1,101.08
519.96
10,180.58
775.90
6.311.34
2,567.58
7,134.10
4,979.82
82.00
1,099.98
.84
51.30
1.176.71
4 451.76
Store Your
FURS
In Our Vault
LlL*
Grand Total $62,303.67 $43,144.85 $73,230.98
County Treasurer’s Fund, unapropriated, balance
$32,217.54
$ 995.35
$33,212.89
TOTAL IN TREASURY
I certify that this is a true and correct reflection of cash balances
aken from records of office of Titus County Treasurer. April 1 1941.
(Signed) D. C. MORGAN, County Treasurer.
Statement of Bonded Indebtedness of Titus County Texas
12-31-40 to 4-1-41
Road and Bridge, Machinery Warrants, dated 5-10-37
Road and Bridge, Machinery Warrants, dated 8-10-37
Road and Bridge, Machinery Warrants, dated 3-14-38
Road and Bridge, Machinery Warrants, dated 7-10-39
Road and Bridge Refunding, 1940 Series, dated 7-1-40
-
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M
1,000.00
1,000.00
2,000.00
27.000. 00
30.000. 00
Total
Special Road, County-Wide Bonds
$ 61,000.00
Refunding Series 1940, dated 4-10-40
District No. 3, dated 3-15-16
District No. 5, dated 6-1-18
District No. 8, dated 5-10-16
District No. 6, dated 9-10-19______
Refunding, Series- No, 3, dated 10-10-36
Refunding, Series No. 4, dated 4-10-37
Refunding, Series 1940, dated 9-10-40
District No. 1, dated 3-15-16.....
$ 19,000.00
10,000.00
10,000.00
23,000.00
148.000. 00
85.000. 00
17.000. 00
20.000. 00
48,000.00
Total
' General County
Refunded, Funding, dated 12-10-39
Refunded, Refunding, dated 5-28-40 ...
$380,000.00
9.000.00
59,250.00
Ours is the only Fur
Storage Vault in Paris.
You may store your coat
and call for it at arty time.
Our charges are 3% of
value of coat. We will
clean and glaze your coat
for $2.00.
City Steam Laundry
Part*, Texas
Total ______________________________________
_ . Permanent Improvement. Bonds
Court House:
Refunding Bonds, dated 6-10-40
Perm. Impv. Warrants, dated 9-15-40
$ 68,250.00
$ 48.000.00
7,000.00
Total
$ 55.000.00
SAVE ON
SAVE ON
GAS
SAVE ON
OIL
SAVE ON
UPKEEP
Civl lOW’fWW"
ITY QUIZ -
Grand Total all Outstanding Bonds ______
„ General Countv Scrip
Outstanding Scrip, all Years, 1941__ _
1*40________H _1“
tun ________________■ ~ •
IMS ............1
1937-36-35 "T~~~
1934 and prior years 1920
$564,250.00
$ 5,092.76
- ,14,427.45
5,399.72
~~ 4,741.05
380.74
8,927 85
I certify that this is a true and correct ret
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Dp
Aunt, 1941
(Sign
signed)
D. C. MORGAN, County Treasurer.
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And In addition to saving money every day
and In every way, you'll also en|oy the
livelier performance and more luxurious com-
fort of the only low-priced car with all the
fine-car features listed here In Chevrolet's
famous 'Quality Quiz." Why Pay More?
Why Accept Less? ,
AGAIN CHEVROLET}! THE LEADER
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IRV IN-SANDLIN CHEVROLET 60.
MT. PLEASANT
(LOCAL NEWS
PHONE 101
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V LUCILLE BELL, Reporter
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) The Baptist church at McCrury 1 Qf
f undergoing repair work this
veek.
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A stillborn son was born Monday
Mr. land Mrs. C. A. Allums of
igata.
Wc
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S. C. McAlister and daughter, Pol-
, made a business trip to Hawkins
n Monday.
f
f Misses Polly McAlister and Lu-
tille Bell visited in Deport on Sun-
lay evening.
c -
M. J. Gage of Talco, after treat-
lent at a Paris hospital, has re-
amed home.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Bell and son,
lilly, made a business trip to Paris
pij Thursday.
Miss Annie Sue Cato of Tyler, is
►isiting relatives and friends in Tal-
fo this week.
Mrs. Otto Holland and daughter,
5at, spent the past week end in St.
o with relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Chester Corbell of
logata, are the parents of a 10-lb.
irl, born Sunday.
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Miss Barbara Jagger of Talco, af-
er treatment at a Paris hospital,
las returned home.
Miss Odessa Reid of Talco, was
irried Monday to a Paris hospital
ar surgical treatment.
County Commissioner Ed Neu-
fcent transacted business in Mt.
pleasant on Wednesday.
A son was born Monday at a Par-
hospital to Mr. and Mrs. W. T.
Lawrence of Cunningham.
jMrs. Ray Womack had as her
jest this week, her mother-in-law,
Irs. Womack of Atlanta.
Mrs. Addie Wimms of Mt. Ver-
|on, visited here with her mother,
rs. Lottie McFerrin on Friday.
Virginia, small daughter of Mr.
|od Mrs. Amos Wright of John-
Jwn, has been ill the past week.
Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Pittman of
^cCrury community, spent Thurs-
ay with Mr. and Mrs. N. W. Neu-
cnt.
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Libert Owens returned home
Wednesday after spending a few
lays with his mother in New Lon-
an.
j^Hugh Dunagan of Union Ridge,
sited here Tuesday night with his
arents, Mr. and Mrs. B E. Duna-
In.
| Mrs. W. R. Stone, Mrs. Lottie Mc-
errin and Mrs. W. C. Crawford
ade a business trip to Paris on
jesday.
fMrs. Felix Jones returned home
anday after a visit with her dau-
|ter, Mrs. Fred Blackard in Val-
View.
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Irs. J. A. Bell returned home
kturday after spending the past
Fo weeks in Olla, La., with her
aghter.
liss Addie HqzelvVood spent the
^ek end in Neches with her sis-
and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Coy
lassingame.
■ Mrs. H. E. Ganaway left last
pek for her home in Caplinger
llls, Mo., after visiting here with
daughter, Mary.
Ir. and Mrs. Honest Welch of
^rshall, visited friends here on
bursday Mrs. Welch remained
ler until Saturday.
R. W.
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Ir. and Mrs. L. J. Truitt of Me-
Inney, and daughter, Addie of
jillas, visited Monday with Mr.
Mrs. T. L. Leake.
Irs. Renford Sikes returned on
|ursday from Texarkana, where
spent a few days visiting her j
rents, Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Law-
sce.
C. Barnwell and son, Freddie,
Jerry Jones visited Mrs. Barn-
11 in a Paris hospital on Sunday.
Barnwell is reported doing
sly.
and Mrs. Laurel Sullivan of
spent the week end with
parents, Mr. and Jirs w H-
i of Bogata and Mr. and Mrs.
trf Talco.
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