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STEPHENVILLE. KRATH COUNTY, TKX ASk FRIDAY. AUGUST 6, 19.17
CITY PUBLIC
SCHOOLS WILL
OPEN SEPT. 6
Opening of the public and rural
schoola of Stephenville and Erath
county is right at hand with two
rural schools planning on opening
the middle of this month and the
public schools of the city getting
ready to start their 1937-1938 term
on Monday, September 6. John Tar-
leton will begin registration
Monday, September 13.
Huckabay will open the doors of
its school building August 16, of-
ficials at the county superinten-
dent’s office announce, and Corinth
has made known its intentions of
beginning its term about that
time or a little later.
The rural schools which open
early do so with intentions of clos-
ing during the greater part of the
cotton picking season to allow the
children to aid their parents dur-
ing the busy season of the fall. Re-
suming classes later, the schools
will complete their regular terms.
A number of the rural schools of
the county will “take up books’* in
September, while all will be open
in October.
City School Supt. J. E. Burnett
said that approximately 1,100 stud-
ents are expected to enroll in the
Stephenville schools this coming
term, including those who have
transferred to the schools here
from the outlying communities.
Two vacancies exist in the teach-
ing personnel of the public schools,
but these are expected to be filled,
and other problems ironed out, at
the regular meeting of the city
school board Friday night of this
week, Supt. Burnett Baid.
County Supt. Clendenin states
that “if” the $22 per capita voted
for by the State Board of Educa-
tion recently is permitted, “if”
Erath county bus routes are im-
proved, and “if” the special session
of the state legislature this fall
will approve more money for bus
aid, the rural schools of this county
will be in excellent condition. Oth-
erwise there will be about a 50 per
cent deficit in the transportation
fund for the coming school year,
forcing drastic reductions in oper-
ations which would result in less
satisfactory service to the com-
munities depending upon this bus
aid.
Revivalist
■ ■
ROY E. COG DILL
LAY PLANS FOR Poultrymen of This City
ANNUAL HORSE T" Direct Annual State
SHOW IN FALL At Houston
I>ean J. Thomas Davis of John
Tarleton College has been honored
with an invitation to preside the
second day of a three-day conven-
tion of the Texas Baby Chick As-
sociation ut Houston, August 10-
18. He has accepted.
A. H. Demke, local poultryman,
is cxecutive-socretary of the as-
sociation and, with his secretary,
Miss Jo Clifford, Mrs. Demke and
his son, Donald Demke, will go to
Houston Wednesday, August 11, to
establish his office in the Rice
Hotel and complete preparations
for the convention.
Mr. Demke informs that Ste-
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President I COUNCIL LETS
Holley Melons Are
Considered Among
The Best In Texas
J. A. Holly, producer of the fam-
ous Holly melons, who lives about
nine miles northeast of Stephen-
ville, has gained the reputation of
having the highest quality melons
in Texas. Over a period of thirty
years he has gradually improved
the quality until it is now unsur-
passed, say those who have had an
opportunity to taste them. They
are exceptionally fine this year.
Three of the famous melons were
sent to Fort Worth and Dallas
Monday, while a number were pass-
ed out to Stephenville institutions.
One of the largest of the 1937
crop was left at the office of the
Empire-Tribune where the entire
force of workmen enjoyed eating
it Wednesday afternoon.
County Agent G. D. Everett is
anxious for other growers over
the county to plant some of the
Holly melons next year. He be-
lieves them excellent for shipping
purposes, since they have a thick,
heavy rind. Seed can be had by
seeing either Mr Holly or the
county agent.
PLAN SUNDAY SERVICES AT
ACREA-SMITH SPRINGS
S. L. Weems, pastor of the re-
cently consolidated Acrea and
Smith Springs Methodist Church,
announced Wednesday that S. C.
Goodman, superintendent of the
Huckabay school, will be the speak-
er at the 11 o’clock hour next
Sunday, August 9. Sunday school
will begin at 10 a. m.
Supt, Goodman also is associate
district lay leader, Rev. Weems
informed. A good attendance was
present at services held last Sun-
day at the church. Rev. S. L.
Culwell, pastor of the First Meth-
odist Church in Stephenville, was
the speaker. In the near future,
Rev. Weems said, the Acrea-Smith
Springs church will be known as
Anderson Chapel.
Church of Christ
To Begin Revival
Sunday, August 8
Revival services at the Church [
of Christ, located on Graham street,
will begin Sunday, August 8, with
Evangelist Roy E. Cogdill doing the
preaching. Night services will be
held under the large tabernacle tent
across the street north of the Tre-
witt Funeral Home and the morn-
ing services will be conducted in
the church building.
Day services will start at 9:00
a. m. and night services at 8:15
o’clock. The meeting will continue
through August 22. Song services
will be in charge of K. N. Baxley,
local song leader, and Olan L.
Hicks, minister to the local Church
of Christ.
Evangelist Cogdill is well-known
to Stephenville audiences, having
conducted a series of meetings here
in 1935 and 1936 and appeared
on the lectureship program of the
local Church of Christ this year.
He is recognised throughout the
South for his ability as a student
of the Bible and as a forceful, yet
easily understood, pulpit speaker.
He has spent the summer in mis-
sionary work in Montana, South
Dakota and Wyoming, where he
was sent by Texas churches be-
cause of his exceptional ability
as a gospel preacher. He is now
on his way back to Texas. Mrs.
Cogdill and their small daughter
will accompany the evangelist to
this city.
Arrangements have been com-
pleted to seat unusually large
crowds, according to Mr. Hicks, and
the entire public is urgently re-
quested to attend all services.
Light Shower Falls
A light sprinkle of rain fell
here Wednesday night and heavy
showers were reported between
h?re and Dublin at the same time.
Some of the local soft ball fans
who went to the game at Dublin
stated that they drove through
rain five or six miles on the re-
turn trip, but that when they near-
ed the west edge of Stephenville,
only a sprinkle had fallen.
Mrs. Harry Moore of Ringgold
made a short visit here Thursday
with her parents. Mr. and Mrs.
A. T. Allison, 949 West Frey street.
SCHOOLS FACE
REDUCTION IH
193S BUS AID
A serious situation confronts the
rural schools of Texas, if the state
legislature, at a special session ex-
pected to be called within the next
month or so, fails to appropriate
more money for transportation aid.
^ Thus informed J. S. Clendenin,
Erath county school superinten-
dent, and thus said State Supt. L.
A. Woods in a speech at Brown-
wood Monday afternoon, August 2,
in the district court room from 2
to 4 o'clock. The state official spoke
on “The School Situation in Texas,”
pleading for more money to be
appropriated by the state legisla-
ture for bus aid.
Supt. Clendenin states that there
are two ways to alleviate the sit-
uation in Erath county. One, the
better way, is to induce the Texas
lawmakers to set aside about 50
per cent more money than they
already have done for this parti-
cular purpose; the other is to help
the county commissioners to im-
prove the bus routes and thus re-
duce transportation expenses.
"If something is not done right
away,” Supt. Clendenin said Tues-
day, “there is going to be a deficit
of about 60 per cent at the close
of the school year. If we cannot
get more money appropriated, there
is but one thing left for us to do—
and that is to reduce expenses by
aiding our commissioners to build
better roads over which the buses
must travel to bring the children
to the schools and take them home
in the afternoons.”
Accompanying Supt. Clendenin
to the meeting at Brownwood Mon-
day were City School Superinten-
dent J. E. Burnett, W. T. Lanham,
Lingleville, county school board
member; Emmett R. Moon, who
will teach next year at Bluff Dale;
and W. W. Graves, former assist-
ant to Supt Clendenin and teacher
in the Bunyan school. Many other
teachers and trustees from over the
county also attended, as did offi-
cials, teachers and board mem-
bers from all over the Heart O'
Texas.
A meeting was held by the
Chamber of Commerce Tuesday
morning to discuss the views of
the business men of Stephenville
concerning the annual Horse Show
to be held in October. Unanimous-
ly, the group was for it—not only
for it, but for the biggest and best
Horse Show ever staged in Ste-,
phenville.
The annual Horse Show, promot-1
ed and put on by the Erath County
Horse Breeders’ Association, has
come to be looked upon as the cli-
max of the year’s activities in
producing better livestock in this
country. This is the direct and
prime purpose of the Horse Breed-
ers’ Association in promoting the
event and for the same reason the
business men of the city are be-
hind it one hundred per cent.
Any activity the Chamber of Com-
merce takes in making prepara-
tions for the event is for the sole
purpose of aiding the Horse Breed-
ers’ Association in making an out-
standing suedess of the show, which
is the work of the Association and
not thfe Chamber of Commerce, ex-
cept insofar as officials of the
Chamber of Commerce can, at the
request of leaders of the associa-
tion, aid in completing the prepara-
tions.
Committees will be appointed
by the Chamber of Commerce to
offer this assistance to the Horse
Breeders’ Association in planning
for the 1937 Horse Show next fall,
in the hope that this year’s spec-
tacle will exceed any presented
thus far. The business men of Ste-
phenville have this in mind and are
willing to lend all assistance pos-
sible to the Erath County Horse
Breeders’ Association in working
out a program for the show.
The Association is expected to
meet later this month to decide
on a date for the show and to ap-
point committees to start to work
on plans for the program, which
is expected to include the appear-
ance of troops from the Second
Division, U. S. Army, which it is
reported will be located here tem-
porarily during the Horse Show. (
LOCAL TROOPS
DEPART TODAY
FOR PALACIOS
I’LL TELL THE
WORLD
’J'HAT front page story this great
moral and metropolitan weekly
carried in its last edition relative
to the removal of the famed Sec-
ond Division of the regular army
to Stephenville was a bit mislead-
ing. The division is' coming into)
the Stephenville area, but will be
here only a short time, at the end
of its maneuvers moving back to
its base in San Antonio, What we
really meant to say was that the
unit will maintain its headquarters
here during the time it will inhabit
this territory. More than that, Ste-
phenville will be the rail head for
the outfit. This is no apology for
the story—it was a good one—-mm!
the fact that all supplies and equip-
ment will be consigned to this point
is something—quite a feather if
you get what we mean. It is entire-
ly possible that the division will
have several thousand men around
these parts during the time it will
operate in this sector. But nobody
knows about that yet.
Company D, 142nd Infantry,
Texas National Guard, left this
morning about 3:00 o’clock by train BHL. _____________
for Camp Hulen, near Palacios, for' phenville has six active members
a 17-day annual encampment. Ap-1 of the Texas Baby Chick Associa-
proximately 76 enlisted men and
officers made the trip, which will
culminate on their return Sunday
morning, August 22nd, at 2:45
a. m.
Two Pullman cars and a baggage
coach were reserved for the Ste-
phenville troops. These left the sta-
tion for Fort Worth with the re-
gular 3:00 o’clock morning train.
In that city the cars, will join other
contingents from North Texas to
make up special trains for the Pa-
lacios run, which will begin about
1.1 o’clock Friday morning from
Fort Worth.
Arriving in Palacios at five
o’clock or shortly thereafter Sat-
urday morning, Company D will
unload and trucks will haul the
lockers and other equipment to
Camp Hulen, located two miles
west of town, at the water’s edge
tion and that Stephenville is the
only city in Texas that has this
many—a signal honor of distinc-
tion for this city. Evepr chick pro-
ducer in this section is a member
of the association, Demke said.
Demke Directs Activities
The convention is to be held in
the Rice Hotel and is the fourteenth
annual session of the TBCA. Mr.
Demke served as president of the
association for five years. In ad-
dition, he has been appointed on
the Seventh World’s Poultry Con-
gress and Exposition Committee.
The exposition will be held some
place in the United States during
the summer of 1939. Other num-
erous services to the poultry in-
dustry contributed by Mr. Demke
include the presidency of the In-
ternational Baby Chick Association
and managing director of the
of Matagorda Bay. The troops will | Breeder and Hatchery Fair Trade
march to the camp, where break- j Practice Committee, a national or-
fast will be served in the mess hall ganization headed by Mr. Demke
before the tents are erected. with headquarters in this city.
State Troops There i J. R. Peace, East Bernard, is
GENTLEMAN comes in to in-
quire how many Boldiers are
required to make up a division.
We would say the war strength of
a complete division would require
around 25,000 men. On the other
hand, however, peace time strength
might not use more than half this
amount. The army is continually
changing its plans and specifica-
tions, but in the old days a divi-
sion was made up of four infantry
regiments, one regiment of engin-
eers, a machine gun battalion, san-
itary, supply and ammunition corps,
and of course the hospital.
DURING the late world war in-
fantry regiments that left this
country bound for France were
made up of about twelve companies
of around 250 men to each com-
pany. But the company of the local
national guard that left Stephen-
ville this week for the State en-
campment at Palacios had no more
than 75 men. So that’s the way
the army goes, changing and re-
changing. All these rearrange-
ments are made for what is con-
sidered the best results of course.
Any time the powers behind the
manipulation of the army see that
a change is needed they do not hes-
itate to make it, and rightlfully so.
In any event, when the above men-
tioned second division comes into
this territory it will present man-
euvers that will be interesting and
well worth seeing. There is a cer-
(Continued on page 12)
Saturday will be devoted to set-
ting up camp, where between seven
and eight thousand soldiers will be
located until Saturday, August 21,
when they will entrain for their
respective homes over the entire
State of Texas.
Providing Company D is not
assigned to guard duty the first
or second day of camp, the soldiers
will get a rest on Sunday. The in-
tensive military training schedule
will start on Monday morning and
continue throughout the two-weeks’
period, from early morning until
night.
Mornings are devoted to drill,
personal and tent clean-up and
policing of the company street.
Afternoons are varied, with area
beautification, kitchen police, reg-
imental and divisional parades,
short and long marches, schools of
instruction, details, war-time man-
euvers, inspections, retreat parades,
24-hour guard duty, and other tasks
to complete the schedule. If any
time is left, the troops may devote
some of it to shower baths, per-
sonal laundry and cleanliness, writ-
ing letters back home, and what
not.
Return August 22
Troops are paid for the two-
weeks’ drills on the last night of
camp. They will entrain early Sat-
urday morning, August 21, after
tents have been struck and all
company and private equipment
packed for the return journey
home, which will end with their
arrival in Stephenville about 2:45
o’clock Sunday morning, August 22
Monday night the local unit held
the first of four consecutive drills
preparatory to departure last night.
Another drill was held Thursday
afternoon at 2 o’clock to load the
baggage on the special cars.
The annual encampment is the
highlight of the year for the Ste-
phenville company, as well as for
all others in Texas, and since the
local organization has always made
one of the best records of any in
the outfit at camp, the same is
expected of the Stephenville mili-
tiamen again this year.
Heat Wave Brings
High Temperature
Reading In City
Wednesday was the hottest day
of the year up to that time, ac-
cording to the Gas Company's me-
chanical recording chart which reg-
istered 115 degrees at 4 o’clock
Wednesday afternoon
This record, however, exceeded
the mercury showing of the preced-
ing day only one point, as 114
degrees were registered on the
chart at the office of the Gas Com-
pany at 5 o’clock Tuesday after-
noon.
Thursday morning at 11:30, the
chart recorded 94 degrees, but the
mercury was expected to reach its
zenith for the day between 4:00
and 5:00 o’clock in the afternoon.
Repair Work Continues
Improvements and repairs con-
tinue on the former Carlton build-
ing on the northwest corner of the
square. Neblett & King, owners,
state that work will continue on the
structure until the entire building
has been remodeled inside and out-
side, including improvements in
front and rear of the actual frame-
work of the spacioua and commod-
ious edifice.
president of the Texas Baby Chick
Association.
The signal honor extended Dean
Duvis by the association is a recog-
nition of his contribution to the ex-
pansion of the industry in Erath
county and the entire state. He
long has been interested in poultry
and its possibilities and the Texas
Baby Chick Association pays him
this tribute as a token of apprecia-
tion for his efforts along this line.
John Tarleton College is known
all over the world for its annual
International Egg-Laying Contest
und through this introduction has
become better known for its work
in behalf of the poultry industry
in its every phase.
Erath Poultry Center
Nor is the Demke Hatchery and
John Tarleton College only out-
standing poultry institutions of
this vicinity. There are several
others, including the Erath Egg
Farm, J. Lewis Hollingsworth’s
Hatchery, Barham’s Hatchery and
Sanders’ Poultry Farm.
Besides these there are many
who are interested in the poultry
business on a smaller scale. Every
farm in the county has from a
few to several hundred and even
thousands of hens bringing in cash
incomes weekly to their owners.
Erath county is recognized as
one of the leading counties in Tex-
as for its poultry production and
the industry continues to expand
with increasing rapidity. Those
who attend the convention this
month from Erath county will hear
a review of the past year’s activity
over the state toward progress in
the industry and will hear impor-
tant plans of the association for
the coming year. They will be in a
better position to put some of the
ideas expressed at the convention
into practice in Erath county dur-
ing the coming year and aid in
the promotion of the poultry busi-
ness in this section as a result.
*
Mrs. Pearl Ward, of Rusk, who
was a recent guest of her brother
and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. W.
E. Lyle, in Stephenville. Mrs. Ward
was elected president of the Texas
Woman's Press Association at the
laat meeting of that organization.
She was owner and publisher of
the Rusk Cherokeean, a weekly
newspaper at RUBk, until about
two years ago, when she sold the
publication.
Paluxy Bridge Job
Near Morgan Mill
Has Been Finished
Civil Service Tests
The United States Civil Service
Commission has announced open
competitive examinations for the
following positions: Associate nav-
al architect, $3,200 a year; assist-
ant naval architect, $2,600 a year.
Dental laboratory mechanic, $2,000
a year; assistant dental laboratory
mechanic, $1,440 a year; dental
hygienist, $1,620 a year; Public
Health Service, Treasury Depart-
ment, and Veterans’ Administra-
tion. Full information may be ob-
tained from Herschel Howell, Se-
cretary of the U. S. Civil Service
Board of Examiners, at the post
office or customhouse in this city.
Called To Father’s Bedside
Rev. and Mrs. W. F. Henderson
Jr. of Clay, La„ have been visit-
ing for the past week in the home
of his sister, Mrs. V. H. Wallace,
having been called here on ac-
count of the critical illness of
their father, W. H. Henderson, who
has been spending the past Several
months with Mrs. Wallace. Mr.
Henderson was reported slightly
better this week.
Carl House Stricken
Carl House, popular cashier at
the local Santa re station, was sud-
denly stricken with appendicitis
Wednesday night. He was immed-
iately transferred to the company
hospital in Temple where he sub-
mitted to an operation Thursday.
Reports from Mrs. House late
Thursday afternoon indicated that
he was resting well.
Ernest Loyd, Fort Worth, con-
tractor on the North Paluxy bridge
and one and one-half mile of grad-
ing and drainage structures on
Highway 66 near Morgan Mill,
has completed the project and J.
W. McCutcheon, resident engineer,
has accepted "the job, but M. C.
Welburn, divisional engineer, Fort
Worth, must accept the project for
the State before it is officially de-
clared completed.
J. S. Moore & Sons and W T.
Todd, contractors on the grading
and drainage structure work for
Highway 66 from Morgan Mill
north to the Palo Pinto county
line are building culverts and doing
some dirt work on the project.
Contractors on the paving job
from Stephenville to Highway 67
on Highway 66 south intend to
start laying a seal coat Thursday
morning, but the asphalt did not
arrive and it probably will be Mon-
day morning before this work
starts. Later the asphalt and stone
will be placed. Contractors have
about 7 more weeks in which to
complete the paving work, accord-
ing to the number of days allowed
by the state for the project.
ERATH COUNTY
TAX RECEIPTS
GAIN IN 1937
Tax collections for the fiscal year
ending June 30 were higher in
Erath county than they were for
the corresponding period a year
ago, officials of the local assessor-
collector’s office announced Thurs-
day. A break-down of the figures
indicates a substantial increase.
In 1936 the tax roll charge show-
ed $35,340.60 state ad valorem and
$57,264.23 county ad valorem. Tot-
al collections from the 1936 roll,
state ad valorem, amounted to $29,-
921.86, and county ad valorem, $46,-
095.37. Total collections from the
CONTRACT FOR
FARM MARKET
Contract* already have been let
, for construction of the farmers'
j market square buildings on the
| trading block and excavation work
i completed. Contractors are await-
! ing the arrival of the lumber to
begin building work, which Mayor
Clark said Thursday probably
would he finished within two weeks.
Higginbotham Bros. & Co. was
awarded the contract for the mat-
erials to be used in construction
and S. M. Kay & Son, local con-
tractors, received the construction
order, which will be the erection
j of buildings, a thorough paint job
and other tasks pertaining to
j completion of the construction
work. Cost of the project is es-
timated at $1,500.00.
Hays Anderson was in charge of
excavation work done by the City
in preparation for construction of
the buildings and more than 40
laborers were employed on this
task last week.
Large Building Space
Buildings will be erected on a
space lf>0 by 20 feet, with display
booths in each building. If nec-
essary, twice as much construc-
tion work can be done at a later
date, providing expansion is nec-
essary. If conditions justify, the
expansion will be made, possibly
next summer when farmers again
will have an abundant supply of
vegetables, fruits and melons, as
well as other farm produce, for
sale at the display booth in the
market buildings.
A committee handled the nec-
essary steps in letting the con-
tracts for the project. This com-
mittee was composed of Reid Bas-
set, chairman, Jim Holcomb and T.
T. Oliver.
Farmers are enthusiastic over
the market square, which will give
them a better outlet for commodi-
ties grown on their farms, and
which usually are produced in quan-
tition greater than the local stores
can handle. The market will give
the farmers a chance to sell their
products themselves in “stores” of
their own.
Council Meet# Tuesday
At the regular meeting of the
City Council Tuesday night, a
depository was not selected for
for city funds, due to a legal tech-
nicality. The law requires that
applications for keeping the funds
must be turned into the Council
before a depository can be selected.
There were no applications; hence
no selection. This matter will be
disposed of in the near future.
Other business disposed of at the
meeting was of a routine nature,
including the approval of the re-
gular accounts.
Mayor Clark informed that the
City has more than $40,000 cash
on hand in the treasury at this
time.
Service Drug To
Begin Remodeling
And Summer Sale
Following the completion of re-
omdcling its store throughout, the
Service Drug Store inaugurates a
combined remodeling and summer
sale this week. S. E. Richardson,
owner of the establishment, is ex-
tending a county-wide invitation
to the people of this area to visit
the store during the sale, not only
for the purpose of taking advan-
tage of the savings in merchan-
dise, but also to make a personal
inspection of the new store.
When Richardson reached the
decision to remodel his store he
counseled with modern drug store
SJL^' owner* the State over. He also dis-
collections from the insolvent roll, . .. , ... ftv
state ad valorem, $113.73, and from " d *YL !iLI
the county ad valorem. $114.10 To- h , f
tal collections from the redemption 1 ^rwhat h,e. cons.dered the best fea-
roll, state ad valorem, $5,483.62,1 <»1.1'^*2*“
and from the county ad valorem, *
$8,939,73. Total collections from all rebuilding program. One of the
sources, state ad valorem, $35,960.-
84, and from the county ad valorem,
$5,575.98.
State ad valorem collections
amounted to 84.6 per cent of the
assessed roll and the county ad val-
orem collections were 80.6 percent
of the assessed roll. Total collec-
tions, including delinquent collec-
tions were 101 pe r cent of the
amount charged for state ad val-
orem and 97.4 per cent of the
amount charged county ad vtlorem.
Total collections in 1936 from all
sources amounted to $157,970.08
and in 1935, the total was $149,-
684.57, showing an increase in the
past year over the preceding one of
$8,321.51.
Collections on motor vehicles in
1936-37 totalled $51,076.90, whereas
the total for 1936-36 was only $45,-
726.06, an increase of $6,360.86.
By months, total collections from
all sources from July 1, 1936, to
June 30,1937, were as follows: July,
1936, $1311.17; August, 1,097.02;
September, $1,922.95; October, $8,-
180.95; November, $17,920.06; De-
cember, $18,522.03; January, $89,-
279.66; February, $3,318.01; March
$3,970.06; April, $2,693.25; May,
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leading designers of the State was
brought here to supervise the con-
struction
The store now represents all
that is modern in the way of drug
fixtures and arrangement effects.
Virtually every department is so
arranged that each and every item
is displayed before the eye of the
customer. With the many changes
that were made more room has
been made possible.
The merchandise department of
the store, however, is not the only
part of the establishment that took
part in the remodeling program.
The prescription department was
completely rebuilt and is now re-
ported to be up to every standard
of modern efficiency.
Featuring Rexall merchandise,
as well as many other standard
brands, the Service is bringing to
the people of this territory many
outstanding reductions during the
sale. Formal announcement will
be found on page two of this edi-
tion of the Empire-Tribune. One
of the statements contained in the
ad is the fact that Richardson has
been operating a drug store here
for a period of 24 years. He first
started on the east side of the
square in 1914,
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