The Paducah Post (Paducah, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 25, 1946 Page: 2 of 12
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THE PADUCAH POST
THURSDAY APRIL 24, 1946
The PADUCAH POST
Serving Cottle County for 38 years___
Published Every Thursday by
The Post Publishing Co.
Corner of Eighth and Richards Streets__
E A CARLOCK and ALFRED HINDS ................ Publishers
ALFRED HINDS ............................................... -.-. Editor
HOWARD POWELL ........................................ Mechanical Supt.
DORA feANISTER ........................................ Linotype Operator
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Texas, under the Act of March 30, 1879._
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Real Estate Is Booming
The prices of- town, city and rural real estate are booming-'?
and zooming, unnaturally. The charge has been made by sev-
eral authorities in Washington that there is an active and ef-
fective real estate, lobby that has such power that it has prac-
tically flattened out the veterans housing bill.. It is explained
that efforts were being made to place ceiling prices on exist-
ing homes for veterans, but that the real estate lobby defeated
the measure.
Looking at the matter from another angle one finds in
Washington a repeat of the real estate fabricated houses. They
are three thousand dollars and more. The houses in cities that
one could buy for three or four thousand dollars are now
listed on the markets at about three times that sum. Farm lands
in all parts of the country have also gone up in price. It took
a deprression and a crisis to flatten out the real estate booms
of World War I, and it looks as though the zoomingt prices
wili fall flat “sooner or later.” A few people get very rich out
of these real estate booms A great many go broke. We are now
on the upward curve. But watch your step, for the time when
real estate goes in reverse. _•_
EARL COMBS RADIO SHOP
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EYES
EYE SERVICE AND GLASSES AT A PRICE THAT
YOU CAN AFFORD TO PAY.
SPECIAL ATTENTION TO CROSS EYES
IN CHILDREN
DR. W. A. MEEK
OPTOMETRIST
211 Main St. Qnanah, Texas-
Pioneer Day
Planned By
Guymon, Okla.
By Bill Cox
The “No-Man’s Land” of Okla-
homa is preparing a program of
superlatives for May 2 when mo-
dern, civilized community events
are forgotten and this city is con-
verted into an era of the histori-
cal past.
This metamorphosis is the an-
nual “Pioneer Day of No-Man’s
Land”, a historical pageant spon-
sored by the Guymon Chamber
of Commerce.
It is held i.n commemoration of
the passage of the Organic Act
by Congress on May 2, 1890,
which made “No-Fan’s Land” a
part of the Oklahoma Territory
instead of a “lost” strip of land
claimed only by outlaws who
sought it as a place of refuge
from the law.
Until that time this strip, now
the Panhandle of Oklahoma, had
bean a neglected step-child. It
had been under Spanish, French,
Political
Announcements
All Political Announcements
cash in advance.
State, County, District $15.00
Commissioner ........ $10.00
Representative ...... $10.00
Constable, Justice Peace $5.00
For District Attorney
50th Judicial District.
JOE REEDER, JR.
THOS. F. GLOVER
(for re-election second term)
* * *
For State Representative, 121st
Dist.
SHEFFY MAHAN
HUBERT A. LEE
>!•
For County Judge:
O. J. (JEFF) RILEY
* * *
For County Attorney
ROY A. JONES
^ ^ ^
For Sheriff, Tax Assessor-
Collector
A. A. PAYNE
W. G. (BILL) KIRK
W. F. (BUCK) CREAMER
* * *
For County and Disti ict Clerk
MRS. C. C. McARTHUR
(Re-election)
W. H. (BILL) MULKEY
* * *
For County Treasurer:
NOBLE O. INGRAM
(Re-election)
* * *
For County School Superintendent
MRS. MARY DELL TRAWEEK
(for re-election second term)
MRS. S. E. STOCKSTILL
MRS. ALMA GIBSON SCOTT
* * *
For Justice of the Peace:
MRS. J. M. BARRON
* * *
For County Commissioner:
Precinct 1:
BARNEY BLACK
(Re-election for second term)
M. E. (Mutt) CORNELL
+ * *
For Commissioner Precinct
R. M. TOWNLEY
JOHN BIDDY, JR.
J. O. (Pete) STANLEY
* * *
For County Commissioner
Precinct 3
V. E. THOMAS
(Re-election Second Term)
T. C. SANDERSON
♦ * *
For County Commissioner
Precinct 4:
T. T. MILLICAN
J. F. CORNELL
C. A. BROOKS
* * *
For County Commissioner
Precinct 1, King County:
CHESTER HAVINS
L. 0. MAYBERRY
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ATTENTION
FARMERS
SAVE PRECIOUS SEED
We have just installed a
completely modern Kemgas
Cottonseed Delinting Plant
with all the latest equip-
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and ceresan treat one ton
or more of seed per hour.
Located south of the oil
mill on Bowie St. The
Frederick, Oklahoma, plant
is now closed.
We have seven varieties of
delinted cottonseed for sale.
Come early and avoid rush.
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DELINTING
COMPANY
P.O. Box 2190, Vernon, Tex.
Mexican and Texas rule.
When the Lone Star State
threw off the Mexican yoke and
petitioned for admission to the
United States, this strip became
the “Territory of the Cimarron”,
better known as “No-Man’s Land.”
The reason for its severence
from Texas was this: when Texas
asked for admission to the Union,
the Free and Slave states were
Involved in a bitter controversy.
No territory north of the Mason-
Dixon Line could be admitted
into the Union as slave territory.
So the present Oklahoma Pan-
handle became a region without
flag, since it was the’ part of
Texas that lay .north of the im-
portant line.
One glance down Guymon’s
main street on Pioneer Day is
enough to scare a tenderfoot
Easterner back Into the East. For
the town looks pretty wild and
wooly, especially wooly, what
with mean-looking hombres deck-
ed out in whiskers, mustaches
and six-guns strolling along the
streets.
The celebration really begins
weeks before May 2. The me.n
throw away their razors and be-
gin growing chin whiskers. Prizes
are awarded for the best whiskers
and 1890-mustaches on Pioneer
Day.
Old time dances are held every
Friday night, starting smetime
early in March. Everybody turns
out i,n pioneer costumes for these
shin-digs. The dancers dress just
like grandpa and grandma used
to dress, and in some cases the
grandpas and grandmas who
used to dress that way are at the
dances, showing the “youngun’s”
how a real, old-time dance should
be put on.
On the big day Guymon’s
streets look like scenes from a
technicolor western picture. All
the people are bedecked in blue
jeans, loud shirts, banda.nas, 10-
gallon hats, boots, spurs, six-guns,
long skirts, bonnets, and buck-
skin jackets.
Covei’ed wagons,' chuck wagons,
many of them authentic, roll
freighters and stagecoaches,
down the streets on parade,
forming a two-mile caravan com-
posed of floats of all sorts, mount-
ed cowboys, cowgirls, Indians and
old-timers who know what this
pioneering business is all about.
Pioneer Day begins with a
chuck-wagon breakfast early in
the morning for the old-timers.
Then comes the vivid parade in
mid-morning, followed by a rodeo.
Street entertainment, including
various games and contests, goes
on ah day. An old-time dance is
held in the evenings; also a mo-
dern dance. Last May 2 Ted Fio
Rito and his orchestra furnished
the music for the modern rug-
cutters.
This year’s celebration is the
first held in four years. It has
been discontinued during the
war. But one of the outstanding
figures of the day will be missing.
Earl Gilson, parade wrangler for
many years, 'died last year.
Harold L. Gibson, farmer and
rancher who lives at Hardesty,
has one of the outstanding floats
of the parade each year. He
portrays Abe Lincoln splitting
rails, and he’s almost a dead
ringer for Abe.
He started growing his drop
whiskers at the early stage of
World War II and swore he’d
never shave them off until com-
plete victory. He kept his promise
and the day after V-J Day, Gib-
son was in the barber shop for
most of the day.
People from ah over the South-
west attend Guymon’s Pioneer
Day. The crowd runs as high as
40,000 “pioneers” or more. The
strip will probably never forget
its “No-Man’s Land” past with
such a gala celebration ns a re-
minded.
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PADUCAH, TEXAS
Representing
Southwestern Life Insurance Co.
“Don’t fail to keep sufficient Life Insurance”.
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NOTICE
YOUR CONTINUED PATRONAGE
EARNESTLY SOLICITED
May I take this opportunity of announcing to the
public that I have purchased the Sanderson & Ander-
son Butane Agency as of April 16th and hereby solicit
your continued patronage.
R, L. Owens will continue with the deliveries and
will assist you in any adjustments you might need on
your appliances. You may continue filling your bottles
at Mr. Owen's home on the Crowell Highway, or you
may exchange bottles at our office on North Main
where Lynn Futch will be glad to assist you and take
your order for butane, equipment and appliances.
It is our earnest desire to give you the very best
possible service in this business and we expect this to
be a permanent line along with our gasoline and oil
agency. We will continue all past truck routes and ex-
pect to make new ones.
J. F. POWELL
Butane and Equipment Co.
Phone 143
Here’s to the day...Have a Coca-Cola
.,, the friendly pause adds to the gay times
A surprise shower for the bride-to-be. A time just made for friends
alone. One of those gay occasions when the invitation Have a Co\e
bubbles with friendliness like Coca-Cola itself. Coca-Cola belongs in
your refrigerator for friendly refreshment—to brighten the most
important part of home, the people in it.
BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY BY
Paducah Coca-Cola Bottling & Ice Co.
[“Coca-Cola” and its abbreviation
a“Coke” are the registered trade-
l marks which distinguish the prod-
bet of The Coca-Cola Company.
.© 1946 The C-C Co..
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Hinds, Alfred. The Paducah Post (Paducah, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 25, 1946, newspaper, April 25, 1946; Paducah, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1014716/m1/2/: accessed June 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bicentennial City County Library.