Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 47, Ed. 1 Friday, November 27, 1942 Page: 10 of 12
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What have we to be thankful for In this jgur of war with
ita casualties, hardships, and disappointments? There Is
pood health—and certainly, that is something for which
to be thankful, because in It, is the strength to go on to
the final and complete victory. Guard your good health as
you guard your life because they are one and inseparable.
Lire sensibly, and enlist the skill of your physician and
the service of your pharmacist to keep you in the “pink
of condition.”
HAVE YOUR PRESCRIPTIONS FILLED HERE
CAWYERJ
ST’ORUQ STORE PH^,NE
COM POU N 0 E 0 //V BUUNEU FOR YOUR REAL TH
COMING
MAJESTIC A PALACE
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Majestic Theatre *
"Now, Voyager,” starring 1
Darts and Paul Hearted, will
Its last showing Friday.
Saturday
Fonda and Lucille
Henry
wthe ^two populmr^atMfa to^ t»
KO Radio, Damon Runyon billed
tain’s contributions
dancing and vdeally a
ginia Dais, as the fa
contributes gene
which was ably
reeled by Mark
derich. Others
Agnes
Id Ray
ALEXANDER
(By Irma Mac Holcomb)
Jack Parr of Killeen spent the
week-end with hi* family here.
Charlie D. Jonea left last week
for Fort Robinaon, Little Rock,
Ark.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Taylor of Ste-
phenvillc visited in the home of
Mr. and Mra. Frank Purves Sun-
day.
Mrs. Ida Stringer spent the week
end with her daughter, Mrs. Baail
Hilburn in Fort Worth.
Mrs. Dora Webb and daughter,
Mrs. Floyd Miles, and children and
Harold James Webb of Lometa
spent Wednesday with Mr. and
Mrs. Wade Inabnet
Mrs. R. C. Lassiter is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. Bronson in Big
Spring.
Miss Katie Nichols of Baird is
spending the week-end
Billie Jea:
Hits Jean Tidwell. "*** ***
Mr. and Mrs. N. Hickey visited
over the week-end with Mr. and
Mrs. J. Watson in Comanche.
directed the
Scurry County Times—Fire of
undetermined origin destroyed the
Fuller Cotton Oil Company mill,
located in southwest Snyder, late
Monday afternoon and marked up
a loss of from $300,000 to $400,000.
Fuller Cotton Mill was built in
1007 and had provided Snyder
through the years since then with
its biggest ^year-round pay roll.
From 60 to 70 men were employed
at the mill.
The world’s youngest owner of a
"Seeing-Eye” dog is blind. He is
Tood Lowry, 16-year-old Univers-
ity of Texas freshman. Ha is tak-
ing a pre-law course.
Majestic
Theatre
FRIDAY—LAST DAY
“NOW VOYAGER”
Saturday
“BIG STREET*9
WITH
Henry Fonda and Lucille Ball
Sunday and Monday
M Wake Island”
WITH
Brian Donlevy and Robert Preston
,..v
Tuesday and Wednesday
sapsri
BARGAIN DAY
ADMISSION: 11c and 20c, Including Tux
Runyon
for the Majestic Saturday. Other
than these two leading pis yen the
east Of ‘‘Big Street” includes such
well known film acton as Barton
Melons, Eugene Fallette,
Moonhead, Sam Levgns and
Collins.
It was to bo expected that when
Damon Runyon personally produc
od a picture based on one of his
inimitable etoriee of Gotham's
semi-world R would capture more
of the original atmoepben than
any of the previous film
which sprouted from the same
source. The result is that Runyon
fans—*nd they are legion—will
relish this picture to tne fullest
extent while othen, viewing it leu
partially, will appraise H as top-
side of the bill entertainment Pro-
duction and directorial mastery
was displayed in the selection and
guidance of the cast virtually each
one of which might have stepped
right out of Runyon’s typewriter
to contribute n sincere true-to-
character performance. Adaption
of the pietore is from the widely
read "Little Pinks” the hilarious
yst almost tragic yarn about the
lovesick, chivalrous bus boy who
devotes his life to a vain, crippled,
unappreciative night club enter-
tainer. Irving Hols
film production.
"Wake Island”
Sunday and Monday Paramount's
much talked of "Wake Island” will
be shown at the Majestic. The
story begins with ths feteful early
sunny December morning in 1941
when Wake Island, a tiny Island,
only a tight little sandy stretch of
land in the Pacific, was attacked
by the Japs with savage ruthless-
ness on the same day as Pearl
Harbor.
On this day and this Island was
written an epic of human courage
unparailed in American history.
Radio and wireless hurled the news
back home acroes thousands of
miles of ocean. The people were
stunned; they were furious, venge-
fuL ,
There were some four hundred
United States Marine Corps off!
cars and men on that island and
over one thousand civilian defense
workers. Twelve planes and sever-
al coastal guns and several bat-
teries of machine runs and anti-
aircraft units guarded the outpost
Wake Island is an open, sandy atoll
treeless shsdeless without hills,
low, level, flat without natural pro-
tection of any sort This gives a
picture of what those breve cour-
ageous Marines must have had tp
battle and endure daring those
fourteen days of relentless attack
which went on, growing more fur-
ious by the hour. The Japs lashed
out with what they must have be-
lieved would be a crushing blow.
Giant planes bombed every inch
of the unprotected island, but the
Marines held. The attack grew
more ferocious day by day, still the
Marines lashed back, making the
Japs pay a frightful toll
This is the story of Marine hero-
ism. the greet unforgettable hu-
man drams, the might epic drama-
tised In "Wake Island” and re-en
acted by a great cast—Brian Don-
levy, Robert Preston. McDonald
Carey, Albert Deltker, Walter Abel,
Barbara Britton and William Ben-
dlx, and others who also play cre-
ditable roles in the great produc-
tion.
The magnifloent story was film-
ed with the cooperation of the U. S.
Marines, insuring authenticity.
John Farrow, distinguished Holly-
wood director and himself a lieu-
tenant commander in the British
Navy until recently invalided out
of service, directed the new film
drama for Parmmdhnt
Bargain Days
Tuesday and Wednesday bargain
days attracUon at the Majestic is
Lucky Legs" starring Jinx Falk-
enberg-Russell.
“Holiday lam”
Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire
In the cast are Walter Abel, Lew-
ies Beavers and Marek Windheim.
Palace Theatre
Friday and Saturday the Palace
will present the popular singing
star, Gene Autry, in "Call of the
Canyon”. Autry fans wjll not want
to miss this chance of again hear-
ing him in some of his vary'best
tunes.
Sunday and Monday
The film offering at the Palace
Sunday and Monday is "Smart
Alecks” featuring the East Side
Kids. Hers is a treat for grown-
up as well as children.
“Old Homestead”
Double feature attractions on
Tuesday and Wednesday are “Old
Homestead” starring Weaver Bros,
end Dick Purcell, also "Down Tex-
as Way” with Buck Jones and Tim
McCoy in leading roles.
Bargain Day
Thursday, Bargain Day at the
Palace, the exciting mystery play,
"Phantom Killer," will be featur-
ed. Dick Purcell will appear as
leading man in the picture with
Joan Woodbury playing the lead-
ing feminine role.
present entertainment in a care
f*ee style in "Holiday Inn” show-
ing Thursday and Friday. What
foes on in the story
lay. What
is inconse-
quential—its the entertainment of-
lerod by Crooby and Astaire plus
the-lrving Berlin music that makes
for interest
The plot serves as a vehicle for
the introduction of episodes and
interludes of song, dance and
“Lucky Legs
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Thursday
^Holiday
WITH
Btar Craft? and Fred Astaire
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HARVEST
BBSERVAN
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We are grateful for the opportunity to give thanks
on this typically American Day,
Thanksgiving Day
Jos Fitxgsrald Spins Yarn About
i Dirt Daubers, Etc.
Everything
hurt tries to cure i
that gets .sick
tself. If the limb
of a tree is sawed off the stub will
try to grow over. At the samh time
there is a continued war going on
among all creatures. War is the
fight of nature and any statement
to the contrary is in error.
But this is not what I aimed to
write about. Wo have wonders all
around us. One of our wonders is
the common mud wasp or dirt dau-
ber as some call her and It is al-
ways a her for among insects the
males play a very insignificant
part. Early in the beginning of
things the males learned not to
work and .they are considered no
bodies.
The common dirt dauber knew
anotomy long before man ever did.
When a dirt dauber catches a
she stings that spider eight
The spider spioeCe becomes numb
and helpless ^et* the spider lives
on. All his functions ceass except
life.
Last summer I owned a nice lit-
tle 410 guage shotgun. It was on a
rack. I took it down one day and
spider
times i
found the barrel was full of mud
and spiders. The dirt daubers had
barrel
filled up the barrel but there was
one thing they failed to figure on,
the young dirt daubers that were
placed far back in the barrel
hatched first and could not get'Out
for the ones in front This is one
time nature in some way went
wrong. It 1s interesting to watch
these creatures. , *
They must have been givsn to
tight lacing at some ancient time
like the women were fifty yean
ago for a dirt dauber to nearly in
two. And here is something else to
ponder those old tight laced women
of fifty yean ago could marry and
have a dozen children without bene-
fit of a hospital. And some of them
have now outlived their, husbands
and an now on widow street. A
creature in that shape is more re-
iroductive and they live on, he-
ieve it or net. Some wonderful
provisions of nature caused the fe-
males of all creatures of all kinds
to get in that shape. Now the
world to full of people and they do
not tight lace any more, but are
trying to kill off some of them.-
But to get back to Miss Dirt
Dsuber. She only makes love once
in a life time then she forgets all
about her love affair and her hus-
band deserts her. Then Mn. Dirt
Dauber starts out to hunt a place
to raise her family. She builds a
loose of mud usually six stories
ligh sometimes eight She builds
this house just one story at a time.
When a room is built she starts
out to find spiders to fill that
room. She usually uses six spiders.
If she happens to losf one of the
spiders after she has numbed him,
she does not hunt another one but
that room has five spiders and the
Aims us-First\ ationm Rank
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be that a man to building in a gun
barrel, he tries to go ahead no
matter how disastrous the end
may ba. -•
All creatures that come in con-
tact with men are not as smsrt in
a way as they were before. The old
ancient cattle could take care of
themselves in the wild and they
could get back to the wild quicker
than we think. The original dogs
were smarter as far as living is
modern d'
concerned than the modern dog.
The dirt dauber to "sot” in a way
and her ways are as old as time.
Long drouths render the mud wasp
almost extincC-And starvation can
stpp wars, this might be a hint to
the feilows who are trying to take
all the workers off the farms. But-
ter could only be found in museums
to a few more month. Some people
need to punch a hole in the notion
that they can fight the fanners
and all come out on top side.
Let us return to the dirt dsub-
er or wasp—all hypocrisy to not
in the human family. There to a
dirt dauber as black as ink and she
catches black widow spiders and I
have never Seen one of them with
any other spider. It is a trei
see this wasp catch a black wi
The black widow has her web con-
structed so it would catch the wasp
if the wesp were to approach it as
we would think. This black wasp
slouches down and can get herself
looking exactly like a black widow
kpider coming. That makes the
black widow think it to another
black widow coming to disturb her
home and she runs away from her
web and meets the wasp. And as
the wasp stings the widow she
hums s l'ttle nasal tune. Ffce might
say “I mean you no harm my an-
cient friend. . W# have always beet,
f-lends.’ But I doubt that the blafck
widow believes any such rgama-
role. And verily, verily I say unto
you always watch your supposed
friends; they are the ones that get
you Into trouble. Yon know the
color of your enemies.—J. £. Fitx-
gerald.
Card of Thanks
For the many flowers, words of
sympathy and othar deeds of kind-'
ness shown us by our friends and
neighbors during the illness and
death of our husband and father
T for a finished
Ith the unfinish-
addition to it, in fact it seems they
tog sailed his romance with Vlr-
(onip Dale quits, he then sets out
preoccupy Marjorie with the
**Mtar glory that will be here ss
• star partner of his. Astaire’s fit-
SWSj’B’LtftKSS
«»# picture is everything that It
promised to by—-highly entertain-
Vi
opular hit
rXyhtort2£*£I
Of the audience wUI
tog *re great.
by Berlin,
with such casual
Is pretty,
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com potent In
how much mud
know exactly just
tt takes to build a cell but they do
not know when s cell is finished.
LT. CECIL FOWLER HOME ON
LEAVE FROM FORT BENNING
Lt Cedi Fowler, who has just
received his commission as second
lieutenant at the officer’s training
school. Fort Banning, Ga., arrived
here last Tuesday to spend a few
days leave with his parents, Mr.
end Mrs. D. J. Fowler, Lt Fowler
will return to Fort Benning to take
a three menths maintenance course
in the school there.
This is his first leave since last
February when he was home for a
tzzn ir'r
end the wesp will never seem
•jetlee it, ttahflirnot Hpttlr It 1
go right ahead with her work II
nothing had r
•ttto^it!jrwT^r Jo a
tlk farther than th# wasp seei
**• I*, ^ ■n<l
around, but h4 Will try to go
with the same nld thtof. It i
short
furlough. At
was stationed at Cam:
that time he
. _ _7 p Bowie with
the 86th Division going with his
division to Camp Blanding, Fla.,
when it left Camp Bowie in Febru-
ary Shortly after his last visit
home. After maneuvers in North
Carolina with the 142nd Infantry,
ha entered officers training at Ft.
Benning where he received his
lieutenant’s commission last week.
we desire to express deep appreci-
ation. We shall ever be grateful for
this manifestation of friendships
Mrs. J. W. Landes and family.
Staff Sgt. and Mrs. H. R. Miller
were here last week end from
Camp Van Dorn, kill, where Sgt
Miller is stationed with the armed
forces. Mrs. Millar, the former An-
na Beth Cowan was employed until
recently st the ship yards at
•fBeafhnont While here they visited
her mother, Mrs. Bert Cowan.
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Free textbooks have been furnish-
ed the children of public schools in
Texas since 1918.
PALACE
THEATRE
Friday and Saturday
“CALL OF THE CANYON”
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WITH
Gene Autry
Sunday and Monday
“SMUT ALECKS”
WITH
East Side Kids
Tuesday and Wednesday
DOUBLE FEATURE
“OLD HOMESTEAD*
WITH
Weaver foes, and Dick PoFi!!
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‘TOWN TEXAS WAY”
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WITH — :
Buck Jones and Tim McCoy
’Thursday—Bargain Day
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