Zavala County Sentinel (Crystal City, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, July 16, 1937 Page: 4 of 8
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ZAVALA COUNTY BBNTINtL,
fAL CITY. TEXAS. JULY U. 1937
ZAVALA COUNTY SENTINEL
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
1. H. HARDY. Owner, Editor and
Publisher
■ntered aa Second Class Matter at
Uta Post Office at Crystal City, Texas,
under the Act of March 8, 1879.
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE
One Year In Advance-----$1-80
Six Months —__________~
Three Months---------- 80
Display Advertising, per coL .80
Legal Notices and Local Adleta
lc a word for each Insertion
Crystal City, Texas, July 16, 1937
BARKS FROM THE BIG WELLS
DOG KENNEL
Editor_________Catherin Hooter
Reporters—Billie Hooter, Bruce
Gregory, Patsy Sutton, Dorothy Ba-
ker, Lenora Allen, Toy Cox, and
Annie Mae Finlay, J. D. Fitz-
gerald, Junior Fox.
Sponsor _________Jessie Langston
4-H Club
The 4-H Club girls left Wednesday
afternoon at 2:30 for the Alta Frio
Encampment and arrived there
about 5:30 the came afternoon. Upon
arriving the girls were greeted by a
heavy shower, or should we say, a
rain? Anyway, it lasted the three
days the girls were there, but it
didn t set these “toughies” back any
for they pulled on bathing suits and
took a swim in the icy Frio River,
and in the rain. The following morn-
ing a hike up a mountain was sug-
gested but a “posted” sign kept us
out—but not Mrs. Comalander. She
led several little^ innocent girls up
the other side, met the owner, and
well—we've forgotten the rest.
Say, what was it Beth and Red
found out at the well? Was it a
b-o-y? It seems they just had to
brush their teeth out there, wash
their dishes out there, and spend
most of their leisure time out there.
It seems that they saw a rather nice
looking blonde fellow there, too.
, Leakey also boasted of a very nice
ice man, but to the girls disappoint-
ment he was—well, married. Tough
luck girls!
Late Thursday afternoon each club
put on a stunt in the tabernacle and
Dora Lee Bowles carried the show
away with the Hula Hula dance!
Then Miss Marian Lynch, the life of
the camp, ran Beth and Red a hot
race for the so said blonde. Who
won? Well, ask Beth and Red.
Peggy Bowles, the girls discov-
ered, has night mares. She just can
not sleep without talking, and good-
ness knows, she talks enough when
she’s awake.
Mii Hodges, Mrs. Perry Bowles,
and Mrs. Ben Comalander were the
sponsors to this rowdy bunch and
what la time they had! Mrs. Bowles
would have liked very much to visit
the well or go for ice, but she is just
a bit bashful.
Mr, Bill O’Brian and Judge Lati-
more ;took the girls on a sight-seeing
tour which was very interesting, but
you should have seen the girls. They
were sights!
Kitty Coleman, the beauty oper-
ator, got busy Thursday morning
and Betty Priddy and Peggy
Bowles were the victims. Poor thing!
Not Betty or Peggy, but Kitty.
Thanks to our sponsors, Mr.
O’Brian, the mud, and the boy at the
well. We had a grand time and hope
to go again soon.—By “Red” Brymer
• •
Mrs. E. G. King and little daugh-
ter, Betty Jean, have returned home
after a visit in Alvin with Mrs. Her-
bert Merz, Mrs. King’s sister,
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Mr. and Mrs. Ellis and daughter
and Mrs. J. C. Ellis have been the
gueSts of the Shumates and Ras-
mussens the past week.
• •
Dudley Ellis, of Houston, and Mrs.
Geo. Armstrong were the guests of
Mrsi W. B. Statler last week.
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MY. and Mrs. Joe Ringlestien and
Mr. and Mrs. William Maytun, of
San Antonio, have been the guests
of Mr. and Mrs. Harry D. Graham.
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Mrs. A. J. Fickenssen and little
danhters, of Waco, vgisited her par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Brymer,
over tee week-end. The little girls
remained in Big Wells.
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Miss Kathryn Powell, of Abilene,
is visiting Mrs. W. B. Statler.
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• C. P. L. PAYS DIVIDENDS
CORPUS CHRISTI, July 12, 1937.
Directors of Central Power and
Light Company have declared a divi-
dend of $1.78 per share on the 7 per
Cent Cumulative Preferred Stock
and ;$1.60 per share on the fl percent
Cumulative Preferred Stock of the
, payable August 2, 1937, to
i of re^drd at the close of
1937.
FAREWELL PARTY
FOR MRS. MILLER
The Presbyterian Auxiliary and
other friends met at the home of
Mrs. G. W. Reed, East Maverick
Street last Friday evening where
they entertained at a miscellaneous
shower as a farewell party in honor
of Mrs. R. M. Miller who, with her
two children, Robbie and Buster,
are leaving this week for Globe, Ari-
zona, where they will join Mr. Miller
to make their home. The attractive
rooms were made even more so with
beautiful zennias in bowls placed at
vantage points.
Forty-two was the diversion for
the evening. The games were inter-
rupted when away in the distance
the squeak of the old wagon wheels
were heard and when it came in
sight it was a real covered wagon
with the following inscription:
“Westward Bound!” Little Fred
Scoggins pulled the wagon in and
little Chula and Mary Jane Schanks,
representing the women folk, wore
long dresses and sunbonnets. Jimmie
Statler was the gentleman, carrying
the rifle, ready to protect his party.
The wagon was overloaded with
gifts for both Mrs. Miller and Rob-
bie.
With Mrs. Miller moving away the
Auxiliary and church are losing a
splendid friends and co-worker. She
has been Sunday School secretary
for a number of years. The family
will be missed but it’s the hope and
prayer of friends that they will be
happy and contented in their new
home.
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MR. AND MRS. SHROPSHIRE
ENTERTAIN CLUB
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Shropshire en-
tertained the Tuesday Night Bridge
Club, Tuesday evening at their home
on East Edwards Street.
Dr. and Mrs. S. S. Peters made the
high score. Mrs. D. H. Monkhouse
and A. R. Racer were successful in
cutting for ladies and gentlemen’s
trophy. Mrs. R. W. Manifold was re-
ceiver of the traveling prize.
At the conclusion of the games
lovely refreshments were served to
Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Lancaster, Mr.
and Mrs. D. H. Monkhouse, Dr. and
Mrs. S. S. Peters, Mr. and Mrs. R. W.
Manifold, Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Racer,
Mr. and Mrs. Leo Curtis and Mrs.
Geo. Johnson.
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Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Brice, hei-
mother, Mrs. Mannering and daugh-
ter, Miss Ruth and son, Tom, arrived
Tuesday from their home at Edison,
Georgia and are guests of Mr. Brice’s
mother, Mrs. George Brice at her
ranch home in the Loma Vista com-
munity. They also are visiting his
aunt, Mrs. Ena Barnes and family.
They expect to leave during the
week-end on their return.
Mrs. C. L. Coleman and Mrs. Guy
Wildridge spent Tuesday in San An-
tonio. They were met there by Roye
Coleman, who returned from a
month spent at Big Spring as the
guest of Sonny Wooten who accom-
panied him home for a visit. Royce
acompanied Mr. and Mrs. Wooten
and Sonny on a trip to Carlsbad
Cavern and Grand Canon, Arizona.
He says he had a wonderful time.
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Mr. and Mrs. Lindle Mogford of
their guests, Mrs. Miller's sister,
Mrs. W. H. Parker, of Abilene. Mrs.
Parker accompanied Mrs. Miller and
infant daughter, Carrol Josephine,
home from San Antonio two weeks
ago. Other guests in the Miller home
for several days are: Mrs. H. A. Dan-
iels of Seguin, also sister of Mrs.
Miller, and Mrs. Gathings and son,
Wilburn, of Cleburne, who arrived
Thursday.
A number of families of the local
Baptist Church went to Alto Frio
this week where they are attending
the Baptist Eencampment which
opened Tuesday. Among those are
Rev. and Mrs. Hojloway, Mr. and
Mrs. H. R. McNiel and family, Mrs.
E. L. Ready, Miss Sarah Neale
Ready, Mel Ready and possibly oth-
ers. A number are planning to leave
here (jarly next Monday morning and
spend the day there. They plan to
get there in time for the morning
services. Rev. Holloway will return
here Saturday to fill the pulpit at
the Baptist church Sunday morning
and evening.
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Rev. and Mrs. Henry Jeffrey were
recent vistiors to Lockhart, San
Marcos and Austin. They visited
their son and duaghter-in-law, Mr.
and Mrs. .C. B. Jeffrey, in Austin.
While at San Marcos they were
guests of Mrs. Jeffrey’s sister, Mrs.
Fred Hartung and four other sisters,
| the Misses Brown. While on this visit
Rev and Mrs. Jeffrey attended the
funeral of Mrs. Mamie McClintock,
only sister of Rev. Jeffrey. She
passed away at her home at Hender-
son and the body was taken to Dale,
small place near San Marcos, for
burial.
—CRUSHED ICE for ice cream mak-
ing at ice plant. No extra charge.
ENGINE . . . Today’s Needs
Any inventive young man who
thinks there are no opportunities
left might look into the problem of
making an engine which will use less
fuel than the ones now in use, to do
the same amount of work. There is
no engine made, steam, gas or Diesel,
which uses even a quarter of the
possible power contained in the fuel
it uses. An engine which would cut
down the fuel load of an airplane by
a third, or run an automobile twice
as far, would make its inventor one
of the world’s richest men.
News comes from England that a
young man has invented a motor car
engine which does not deposit car-
bon on cylinder walls or sparkplugs.
A motorcycle ran 75 miles on a gal-
lon with this engine. That young
man is on the right track.
The surest road to success is not
in discovering something new, but
in finding ways to do old things
cheaper, quicker or better.
OIL .... Origin a Mystery
Nobody knows where petroleum
came from in the first place. Scien-
tists are divided as to whether it is
still being manufactured by Nature,
deep under ground. Some believe it
comes from animal and vegetable
deposits buried countless millions of
years ago. About the only thing that
seems certain is that there is oil to
be found almost everywhere in the
world, if one goes after it hard
enough.
Not long ago the discovery of
oil in England was announced. How
much the supply may be is not yet
known. It would not be surprising
to hear of oil discoveries at the
North Pole or in equatorial Africa.
Geologists are now convinced that
oil underlies a large part of Florida.
Two or three big oil companies have
taken oil leases on millions of acres
of Florida land, and at least one well
is in process of drilling. With Flori-
da’s near neighbors, Texas and
Louisiana, producing oil, why not
Florida?
WINDMILLS . . Power Producers
The cheapest natural power to
harness is the wind. The only reason
wind power is not used more is that
it cannot be relied on to blow stead-
ily in most places. Even Holland,
land of windmills, is replacing them
with Diesel engines where continu-
ous pumping operations are neces-
sary.
Traveling lately along the Atlantic
seaboard, where wind blows most of
the time, I have been struck by the
number of windmills of a new type.
Atop of a light steel tower is mount-
ed a fan like airplane propeller, at-
tached to a little electric generator
also at the top of the tower. When
the wind blows, current is generated
to light a house or run farm machin-
ery, and the unused surplus is stored
in batteries against the day the wind
doesn’t blow.
It looks to me like a very eco-
economical way to get power on a
small scale, though no‘tJvagv.ru(Jtlrr-
esque as the huge windmills with
their canvas sails which used to
stand on the headlands of the New
England Coast.
COSTS.....Sun Power
On the face of it, it seems as if
water-power, sun-power and wind-
power must be the cheapest ways to
generate power. In the days when
labor was cheap and there were no
taxes to speak of on invested capital,
that was true. Today it generally is
not the case.
The interest and taxes on most
water-power developments, except a
few especially favored by nature,
like Niagara, usually come to more
than the upkeep and operation of a
coal-fired power plant. Dr. Abbott,
famous scientist, who heads the
Smithsonian Institution, has invent-
ed and built an engine which gen-
erates power from the heat of the
sun. It works—but so far the cost of
building it makes it probably more
expensive to operate than a steam
engine.
We may some day learn how to
put the power of the atom, or the
cosmic rays, to work. But the out-
look for getting power absolutely
without cost is not very bright, so
far.
CAMPHOR . . Made Domestic
Until a few years ago, practically
all of the world’s supply of cam-
phor came from Japan. The camphor
trees grow on the island of Formosa,
whose people all work for the Jap-
anese government, which has a mo-
nopoly on the camphor industry. Ef-
forts to grow camphor trees com-
mercially elsewhere have not been
very successful.
But I saw camphor being made the
other day, in a factory in Pensacola,
and the raw material was old pine
stumps! They dig up the stumps all
over the South, haul them, some-
times, 250 miles, then boil and distill
them and get rosin, turpentine, pine
oil and other chemicals out of them
and camphor.
Since camphor is an essential in-
gredient in the manufacture of cel-
luloid and other plastics, the value
of the chemical ingenuity which set
American industry free from the
Japanese monopoly is apparent.
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COUNTY AGENTS COLUMN
(Continued from page 1)
seed cake. The difference in market
price of the two groups, however,
did not justify either the cost of
grinding the corn or the additional
cost of feed
KIRK’S GROCERY
Appreciates Your Patronage
Calves from each group, when fed
in dry lots for 196 days after wean-
ing, on tee same rations they had
received before weaning showed po
significant difference in total gains.
Those fed shelled corn and cotton-
seed cake were the heaviest at the
end of the experiment although not
so well finished as the ones fed
ground com.
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and Batteries and Zenith Radios,
both home and auto sets, on easy
payment plans. OLIVER’S SUPER
SERVICE STATION. Tel 303. tfc.
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—CRUSHED ICE for ice tea at Ice
Plant. No extra charge.
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MONKHOUSE
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
SPECIALS FOR FRIDAY & SATURDAY |
SNOWDRIFT, 3 lb. pail.................58c |
SUPER SUDS large size..........................................................-....... 18c 8
OXYDOL. 25c size ........................................... 21c $
FINE ART TOILET SOAP, 2 for . 9c *
JELLO, all flavors, 2 for ......................................................................... 11c *
KNOX GELATINE, pkg. ............................................................... 19c X
DEL MONTE PEACH JAM, 5 lb. can 49c ft
WHEATIES, 2 pkgs. (one bowl Free) all for 24c jjjj
POST TOASTIES, lg. size..............11c f
NATIONAL OATS, round pkg. ......... 17c X
PORK & BEANS, Philipp’s, 16 oz. can, 2 for 13c X
SUGAR CORN, Harvest Inn, No. 2 can 10c M
TOMATOES, No. 1 can
EARLY JUNE PEAS, Choptank’s, No. 2 can
PINEAPPLE JUICE. Libby’s, No. 2 can
CATSUP. Harvest Inn, 14 oz. bottle
PINEAPPLE, Libby’s sliced, 15 oz. can
1)RED BEEF, Armour Wafer Sliced, 5 oz. can
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12c *
12c X
21c |
WHITE SHOE POLISH,
Shinola
bottle
8c j
46c
LAWTON BLACKBERRIES, 1 gallon can
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4 VEAL RIB STEW, lb. 14c $
* ARMOUR’S HELMET BACON, lb. 27c *
X CHOICE OF 6 MEAT LOAFS, lb. 25c 4
X STRAUSSBERGER SAUSAGE, lb. 30c X
$ TEXAS CERVELOT SAUSAGE, lb. 23c X
$ OLEOMARGARINE, Armour’s Mayflower, lb. 20c $
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—PIANO, first class condition. Sell
or trade. Churchill’s.
It only takes 2 dabs of Yodora after
which it vanishes instantly.
Soothing as a cold cream and does not
stain delicate clothing.
You get positive protection with Yodora.
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no "drying”. You can use it right after
■having. Yodora protects from the mo-
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Yodora is ideal for sanitary napkins—
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NEW SAFETY for BABIES
Mother—think of it! Nine-
tenths of ell the hospitals im-
portant in maternity work
now give their babies a body-
rub every day with Mennen
Antiseptic Oil! Why? Because
this treatment keeps the baby
Mennen
safer from his worst enemy,
germs ...helps protect his skin
against infection. Give your
baby this greater safety. It’s
so important! Buy a bottle of
Mennen Antiseptic Oil at
your draggist'a today
OIL
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Bulwark of
family health
3 CONCRETE
SEPTIC TANK
AMONG the hundreds of
xJLuses for concrete around
the farm or suburban home,
f// none better protects the health
''//A of your family than a concrete
septic tank.
A septic tank makes it possible
to enjoy the benefits of run-
ning water and modern plumb-
ing in sajety . . . disposes of
household and human wastes
, . . prevents the contamina-
tion of drinking and cookie
water by sewage that n. v
cause typhoid, dysentery and
other ills.
A septic tank is only one of many permanent improvcmi. u
which can be made with concrete.
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Write for Booklets showing how to build «T„C
tanks or other farm improvements. Mail card to Portland Cement
Association, 1301 Norwood Building, Austin, Texas.
And go to your Local Comont Ooalor for help jQ
figuring a bill of materials and estimating building costs. He
knows prices and labor conditions that will spply *o your job. If
you need a concrete contractor, he will know whom to recommfD(j
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