The Stamford Leader (Stamford, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 70, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 21, 1927 Page: 4 of 8
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.:- JO UkAlll IN SONORA
Haskell, June 17.tUm aanlMR *1 monij aiwr obm-
twu fradMUt of Sioumm University n**1* tefco®
of Abftase—Jliss • Bernice Mask. WH'*“ Gook “d <**•* pffl^r*
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. V. M. Mask. •ou**t * r'*wr«c “ «**W«Wl*
and Freak Kimbrough. saw of Dr. and which h~?.b<^» »»«*d «» perk-
Mrs. W. A. Kimbrough. both of Has- "** plmc* °" **™«< Ww earlier
kell —eras solemnized hare Wcdnes S* th* *»■*■ B*'™* »*. ot
da> evening, at <:90 at a lovely borne **on>' Ffint, was brine held in the
service. The marriage marked an- j ' V Verde County pail Monday on the
other milestone in the association of j rharge of car theft,
these young people, who have been' Vhe car belonged to Charles A.
sweethedkfs since childhood. ’ ]$*•• border patrol officer. The ma-
A color theme of apricot, pink, and J chine was trailed to Sonora. Offi-
orchid was observed in the decorations ! ears *a»d that the three occupants re-
fer the rooms, flowers, and the eos-v sister arreat. The ^hird man escaped,
tumes of the bridal party. The im- Bishop's hodv la being sent to
at the Pestaffiee at Stamford, Texas, fee traasmi
a as secawd-class matter.
Office PahiicaUsa: lid Meat McHarg Am
STAMFORD, TEXAS. Jt’Xtll, IV27
TEXAS GETS THERE FIRST
The old axiom ome* to mind. Work
Without Thnlt is* Energy, Wasted. Lindbergh is onysnap. It is a tbrhr*
We've often wondered how much the community 900 souls act far
man «ast*<i who neither• workad ovr from Brownsville on the Rio Grande
was thrifty. T _ j riieh* Cniicago capitalists *t$r; the
“ T . ! oaner*. of the place, hey needed a
Will Rogers just simply mus gv ^ An<j {be flight and the Feturn
welL If we did pot know Cowpuncber ^ ^ cpW| fllw tb, bu|.
Bill's ailment was gall «one*, we^ h u Undber|rhi fesas. US.
should-be r r< ne to believe that he was _ ,
suffering from an attack of self-con- .
BuTsm i. to, r,l- • to .rnv.
■Ub . *.» •« th. .h.! »» **’ 'h™t*Td,.ut*rn,k T*
,W.l b* him. TWo« b. uf ' tmmb-rlm. Thi. u . (<*frr
hope for a speedy-recovery to the an-, *orW_ .
officia: amt'assador. htterateur. and P™' * Runyon >« right- They
xnayor of Beverly Hills. -w haw harried . them a ripe pe&h a
heatig has been net for Tuesday.
fTiRINXB GRIFFITH IS
DUE l\ -THREE HOURS”
.... “Three Hours-,” the First National
picture which begins an engagement
at” the Alcove Theatre tomorrow,
givea Corinne Griffith, the star, an
opportunity to dramatic acting some-
LiDcy b ;utt *.iqf:y mazing
*n*i similar
i«MekH. -—■=—r;—■———--
I- 1 • H • : r - Tu (‘Im: r»- -
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is one of the headlights of the at- *• 4
taction; but. wlieitea* the transition ' A type sf Cattle os The Cslbert Raa ch to he a
in “Black 0\en’rwiirdie to patholo- 24th. Part wf the herd of buffaloes os Colbert I
gical rejuvenation, is this instance *d h*r«hi is any sUte in the union. T he animals
it is brought about by fine clothes. j ver Ranch, twenty miles southeast of Stamford.
Paul Bern wrote the continuity | — . , .........- — -....... ..i. ■
fVom a story by Mary Fajington ami ( “WATCH YOI R WIFE” ST ARTY* I J
James FInkI directed. ! WITH SPAT BETW EEN C4>-$TARS The Le
The supporting cast includes John J to the fiI|ninJt of “Watch , <lf irn.
fT' Ct!Tf *“Tv P*i‘l E‘",VoUr Cni«,r„IJ«™lj. ,o b. lhi. ritv.
hs Ann Schaefer and Mary Uiuis* M.reened at the Alcove the.t* Fri- j .udilenly i
?*”J*r* ' 1 .lav onlv Viremi* VaBi' srwl Pat ‘___i______
“Horatius at the Bridge." Get that.
Can’t you recall to memery of hearing
thmt at some time, some where. A
man queried ye scribethe other day.
-Who the Sam hill is th»* Horatius'
you mention? I’ve read about Julius
Caesar, Mark Anthony, CJeopatra and
d good many others; but this Bird
'Horatius' seems to have slipped my
jniad.” In Roman legend. Horatius
Cockles defended Rome at a Bridge
against the Etruscan army. Hence
'Horatius' is only s heYo-ps fable. But
■o famous was he .that someone wrote
a poem “Horatius ’ at the Bridge"
mfcsrh in trdth was all that remained
clear in the inind of the writer. That
* H. S. Pratt returned to his home
in El Paso after a vi*jt here with .
his relatives. He , P«nt by Midland,
where he visited a brother." W.T i
Pratt, who is openinc^up a large dry '
goo3? store there. Mrs. Pratt and i
the children are still here, visiting 1
relatives and friends and are guests
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. H.
T.ayne. Mrs. Layne being Mr«. Pratt’s
mother.
«iuarre1 between them at the very All modern conveniences. New aad
beginning. „ ! well furnished. Hewett Hotel. Call
In "Watch Your Wife,” Pat plays 223. 70-tfc
an author with no other thought j L ....... . ■ — ■ . '
.but for his work. Miss Valli is^-his | The flag pras a hundred and fifty
wife who. as the picture opens, seeks years old the other day. But H seems
to tear him from his typewriter in to be young enough to have a perma-
erder that they might .not be late for nent wave. ''
j the theatre. Hence the <|uarrrl. Fol- -U 1 ■
lowing this there are frequent quar- Mrs. Mike Guthrie of Dallas is
rels between the two. A divorce re- visiting her mother Mrs. Bea C. Me<-
•ults, the wife going to a hotel. calf.
A^d there made friend*, with the
popular couple who honored them by-
appointing them as attendants at the
pretty home wedding.
Mrs. C. H. Van Eman and children
have returned to their home in Cisco
after visiting at the T. J. Turner
home. Mifi* Margaret Turner returned
with them and -will spend the summer
at that- place.
Picnic Sapper—
Mias Floy Cahill, of Holdenville,
Oklahoma, who is visitng Miss Katie
Black, was honored by a number of
her friends with a picnic supper at
College- lake, Monday evening. The
crowd met at the Church of Christ
at seven o'clock, after which they
left on a truck for the lake taking
sandwiches and soda pop.
The following attended: Mesdames
Pearson; Black, Stanley and Nichols,
Misses F'loy Cahill, Oleta Stanley,
Mary Opal Ashley, Katy and Joanna
Black; Messers Virgil Allen, Wil-
liam Lieb. L. T. Ashley, Prentiss
Ptarson, Lamie Black, Aredavee
Pearson, Orville Nichols, —C- H.
Stanley Jr., and .Mr. and Mrs. John
Ashley.—Contributed. ____
Mrs. Sadye Croft, of Bonham, is
here, tfith her three children. Mrs.
Croft is the youngest sister of Mrs.
G. L. Irjglish. whom she is visiting.
Mrs. Croft visited another sister,-1
Mrs. John Meier, in Altos Oklahoma,
before coming here. They are mak-
ing the rounds in theit Ford sedan
and getting along nieely.
the gplf champion. Tommy Armour,
pumod it on our friend Harry Coop-
er at Oakmont. Just aslight mar-
.gin after a gruelling weild by each
writh the driver, mktiron, etc., was the
ser’s to be cherished. Now this i
Cooper was slated, by any, to take
the Scotchman down a peg. ami make
him like it. But ta <hit opinion Mr.
Armour, out of the hordes practicing
art the game, will find his Waterloo
aooner or later, and that this Golf
Championship is not going u> ha easy
to keep. Burely one many won't last
long at it midst s multitude of quali-
fications. • I * ' 'f
Mrs. A. Boston, also Mrs. C. H.
Swift and children.‘of Best, Texas, are
the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Bos-
ton. They are mother and sister of
Mr.'Boston. Mr. A. Boston, father of
Tom, was recently here on a visit, but
has returned home to Best.
*” Our friend and ex-champion pug of
the world. Mr. Jack Dempsey, suffer-
ed dire disappointment when promoter
Tex made the offer of 15 percent
gate receipts at a Sharkey-Dempsey
hoot. Now Mr. Dempsey seems to
have withstood the loss of title, in val-
ue at to bit borreceipt attractiveness,
it jest seems that it is almost unbear-
able when mentioned. Hence Jack is
to break friendly relationship
with Mr. Rickard altogether and seek
someone who hasn't completely lost
this here Tunney.- .
Silage has ^certain latati^e pro-
perties which keep the digestive or-
gans cf animals in goo 1 rn^f-r
Livestock receiving some (orrr. , < *
succulent feed have kes-nrr f.*>r'-
ten. softer and more pliable rkio.
and a more thrifty, more healthy
appearance than these fed exclusive-
ly on dry rations. ^
Program Monday Aftemoan—
Monday afternoon at Central Pres-
byterian Church the Young Peoples
Missionary Society mterianed the
Ladies Auxiliary with a delightful
program as follows: *
Scripture Reading—Lacy Moudy.
Prayer—Ruby Gould.
Letter* from Tuseon, Ariz.. school
—Maxine Rowland and Rowvna
Hines. .......—
Psrrtomine, “A school in Japan,”
—Cora Belle Hines, RriBi Rogers,
Keith Louise Furrh and Dena Davis.
“India,”—Ory Bob Hines.
“Siberia—Grace Moody.
“Africa”—Grace Moudy. Joe Wil-
Hams, Janette Davis and Charley
Frank Williams.
“Porto Rico”—Norma York.
Pageant, “VUistors from Places
where Presbyterian Schools are Es-
tablished:” Tuseon—Maxine Row*
laiwFP-'Wlaska—Rowena Hines; Ire-
land—Grace Moody; Southern Moun-
taineers of Tennessee Marla Cot*
We are increasing our number of service men because the
service riven by D. E. Pruitt, H. D. Lawhon, Sam Morse, Erskine
Phelps, Lee Dillard, Tom Hale, and Ross Dillard ia of the quality
that satisfies, a^d you can feel sure that the same careful, skilled
workmen wM be installed to care for our increase in business.
Bring your Ford to the home of the Ford where there is
their mind over
Jack exploded ferociously when in-
fsraid that the meager -end of gat»
receipt* would be his and stated that
when he had faded to such depths as
• drawing card in sports, it was
about time for him to hang np the old
gloves and quit for good; that is if
there weren’t enough fans who want-
had knocked off oe kndek somebody’s
mi to pay to see him either get his
hand off he had estimated the retiring
point about reached. Anyway, we are
anxious to aee Sharkey and Dempsey
water. When it is put into the cock
s heating WF^anggUng process takes
place. If the hay is wet’ by rain
while in the cock it heats too rapid-
ly, and its feeing value is lessened
rr ruined. The use of hay caps on
hay cocked at the right stage will
prevent damage by rain.
one of the biggea
Our work is the c
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nothing except F
i.
Ford parts. You
ganization to see
interested in seeing
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the lowest possible i
and best equipped Ford shops in West Texas,
eapeot, because it is positively guaranteed, and
pda are serviced in oar place, and use genuine
hve at your disposal twenty-two men in our or-
you have the best service possible. We are
drive your Ford, regardless of the age, at
LOST—Lcathar hand bag containing
baby clothes and some bahy madicine,
two bed sheets, four gingham dresses,
and other articles. Notify Call New-
by, Route A, Stamford, Texas. 70-1 p
Fete Chepelas
Too. will find an advertisement in
this issue for the Crystal Cafe at Abi-
lewe. This is the place of Pete Chop-
alga, who used to live here, and if you
think Pete ia not the same good fel-
low, try him out while down there,
ukoi you wil] find that-be has some of
the heat food in the land.
to cut out tbr-hadly diseased, crook-
ed, * overcrowded, and inferior trees
for fuel wood, girifcg more growing
space to the straight promising
young trees and better kinds.
Authorized Sales and Service
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TOWNSEND MOTOR CO
FOR RENT—"9mhll 2 room fur-
nished .apartment at W.50 per week.
See them Ea«t Moran 592. Half
Mock East school building. Phone
77.—H. A. Right ’ 70-tfe
Married
Mr. J. W. Foster and Mias Irene
Coeper, both of Stamford, were mar-
gjad last Thaaday at one o’clock in
ffrrwt1 Among those present at the
lar^nar were Bill Bettis and Jack
S#th Wedding Anniversary _
Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Pattfllo for-
mer residents of Stamford, ire to
eelebratb their 54th wedding anni-
versary next Sunday. Mrs. George
Zachary leaves Thursday for a visit
hi Dallas and from that city she1 will
go to Terrell to attend the celebrs*
Matntaininr a forest cover on
steep slopes, is the surest and cheap*
ert method of protection against
soil ero.ion. ,
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Inglish, G. L. The Stamford Leader (Stamford, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 70, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 21, 1927, newspaper, June 21, 1927; Stamford, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1024300/m1/4/: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Stamford Carnegie Library.