Yoakum Weekly Herald (Yoakum, Tex.), Vol. [41], No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 21, 1937 Page: 8 of 8
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secretary of
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—Flowers For All Occasions—
DR. EDWIN E. ALBRECHT
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Yoakum, Texas.
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NEW YORK, Oct. 20 (Az-
Stocks swept upward today, many
gaining one to seven dollars per
share.
the car repair business here for
almos 20 years. They will be the
Yoakum dealers for the Willard
batteries and in the near future
i will open the service station.
Yoakum 19, Seguin 12.
•N. Braunfels 19, Luling 0.
Lockhart 21, San Marcos 0.
Texas U. 10, Ark. U. 21.
Baylor 20, Centenary 0.
T. C. U. 7, A & M 7.
We do clean, honest work, that is why our prices
I <re always the same.
Call or phone for prices.
L YOAKUM MATTRESS FACTORY
[ Phone 15 408 Front St.
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football game then just come out
to see how mistaken you are.
A Spokane hotel washes
• metal money it takes in
1 makes change only with
metal and fresh currency.
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I Mr. and Mrs. Watt R. Far-
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> turned Tuesday evening from
Wellborn where they attended the
funeral of their brother, W. R.
Farquhar, who was a S. P. en-
gineer out of Ennis. Burial was
at Wellborn the family home cf
the Farquahr’a.
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searching for her, when
Bodies of some of the 33 miners killed in the Mulga Coal mine near Birmingham, Ala., are shown
lying in a ro.v on top of coffins in a Bessemer, Ala., morgue. The workers were trapped far under-
ground by an explosion blamed on coal gas. Photo)
other public place in
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Pall hearers at services Sunday J tion be fined in any sum not ex-
were: Dr. J. C. Dobbs, Berthold I ceeding twenty-five dollars.
Schiwetz, L. L. Buttery, J.
Newman, Alex Hamilton and T.
Graves.
Now is the time to look
into your Winter Bed-
ding. Bring your old
featherbeds and have
them made into Section-
al featherbeds.
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Katherin Browning of
Yoakum, secretary-treasurer; and
Kathryn Spence
OFFICERS OF THE CITY OF
YOAKUM 32 YEARS AGO
Mayor—Dan T. Price.
Aldermen—Ed. Bailey, C. F.
Kaiser, E. B. Crews, F. Alergen-
thal, C. H. Devault.
W/W. Wimberly, recorder.
II. W. Wallace, City Attorney.
H. E. Criswell, City Marshal.
J. E. Lander, treasurer.
N. W. Mitchell, secretary.
R. Pyle, Sanitary Inspe.?-
Our High School Band Director
Morey Brandstetter spends a lot
of time marching the band up
and down the football field be-
hind a high beard fence, when
he could just as easy parade ’em
down Ix>tt Street and give the
writer a chance to look ’em over.
We like to see those High
School girls strut.
And if you really want
some real “strutting’’ come out
Friday night.
The Columbus Cardinals
coming over, and if you do
think that you will see a
Samuel (Solz>m
a a a NTa^^i
MIRIAM HOPKINS
JOEL MCCREA |
Qorles Winninger • Erik RhodW»
I NEW YORK, Oct. 20 (A>)—
Irving tn pick up his i Father Breilhneh n>«n.(fe<i and J J™’ W".r,,"7- '"‘"’t"’ /!'
„ to,, large. Thelplaved.ee.....I has,, for the Worth. ! ’"'"g'" l>»"kl"K ‘""‘".V' <’> «»
;! • . . ... .. i today ot a heart attack.
I ington town team which won the'
so funny, however,. Maquoketa valley pennant. He l
crow swooped down. > was a big factor in the success
in [of the team with his slugging.
| He put together a .398 average
j for the season.
He thinks that a baseball team
’ for the typical Iowa town is
I good for the youths of the vil-
lage.
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the proud parents
For Double Bed, w e start the price at 59c
Another lot up to $1.25 marked............79c
80x105 r<*e, blue, gold, helio, green,
^?1.10 value for ................................$1.29
$1.75 values ........................................ $1.39
$1.95, 84x105, rose, blue, sold’
helio, rust, green ............................ $1.69
$1.95 72x105, rose, blue, green, rust,
helio .................................................. $1.69
$2.44, 80x105, rose, gold, helio........$1.89
$2.44, 84x105, rose- blue, green........$1.89
$2.95, 86x105, rose, blue, gold, helio,
green ................................................ $2.29
Values to $3.50, marked....................$2.69
Mr. and Mrs. Harry II. Harn-:
formerly of i
CINCINNATI (^P)— Cincinnati’s
rookie, Paul Gehrman, quit the
was | Bend, Ore., fire department this
a spring to try tossing a basebad
around.
At Durham in the Piedmont
........ ‘ won 21 and lost 131
! games. Nine of his defeats came
in games in which he allowed
one or two runs. .
LAST RITES HELD
HOME OF MRS. J. C. HOW-
ERTON AT 4 P. M.
CUERO, Oct. 19. —
services were held here
for Mrs Edith Woodworth Dent, and it was the tinH>> attention
58, head ot a C uero insurance an(j worry which she gave to this
...............1 was directly resjionsi-
I ble for ill health in later years.
She served as secretary of the
Cuero Welfare Association, as a
Red Cross workers during the'ty five dollars,
war, ami an active worker in the
Presbyterian church and civic af-
fairs. i
She leaves two sisters, Mrs.
J. C. Howerton of Cuero,
Mrs. A.
and <»nti brother, J. C. Woodworth
Jr., of Cuero.
Back in the horse and buggy
days they had a City Ordinance
in Yoakum something like this:
“Any person who shall drive
or ride any horse or other ani-
mal around any corner of any
street in this city in a gait fast-
er than an ordinary trot, shall
be fined not less than one nor
more than twenty-five dollars.
NO WATER THROWING
EITHER
Thirty-two years ago it
against the law to sprinkle
fellow with water. The ordinance I
said: “If any person shall with-
in the City of Yoakum wilfully! league he
or wantonly with a hose nozzle
throw water upon another he
shall be fined not exceeding twen-
ional bank, was
day, floating in
river at a spot three miles south | jjnrnt^,n
of town.
Mrs.
ing since
There were
sons
Mexican, whose name was
learned, found the body.
Justice of the Peace H.
Chambers of Victoria returned
verdict of “death by drowning.’’
Mrs. Wheeler's sons, George]
LONDON (^P)—The stork made a student of, Texas A. & M. Col-1
163,867 calls in England am
Wales in the second quarter of
this year—6,000 more than in t he
corresponding period of 1936. Au-
thorities attribute the increase to
[ prosperity.
SUHDIY AND MONDAY
THE STORY LOX^D BY MIL-
LIONS THE WHOLE WORLD
OVER . . . NOW A P1CTUM.
jWE KNOW YOU’LL NEvijl
VirOHGET!.^£<^ ]
AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 20—The
Association for Childhood Edu-
cation of The University of Tex-
as elected new officers recently. I
one of the ke officers chosen are as fol-
rlv and prominent citi-' ’<»ws. Bernice Wilder of Corpus
both as postmaster' Christi, president ; Mary Jo
i Cuero | Wicks of San Antonio, vice-presi-
married and lived indent; Katherin Browning of
[Yoakum, secretary-treasurer; ami
Kathryn Spence of Hebronville,
I reporter. Mrs. Cora M. Martin,
: assistant professor of elementary
j education, is sponsor of the chib.
jits bill and flew away.
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DROWNED IN RIVER [
| den of Skidmore,
VICTORIA. Oct 17.—The hotly ! <
of Mrs. Grace Wheels, missing of a |)a|)V jrjri, born at 4 a. m., I Mrs. I. F. Gassert has returned
October 19. Mother and baby are from San Antonio where she HPIID API7ANA
the spent several days visiting her 1 flu iillltJvlln
• son, Mr. and Mrs. Allen Lander, PII1T DIPlJFnDD
and baby. I riUfllllK
terian church, officiating,
interment was in Hillside
Ctery under the direction of
Freund Funeral home.
In ill health for the
several months, Mrs. Dent
at her Lome on E. First Street
sometime Saturday afternoon. Her
body wa> discovered about 7.30
in the gas filled bathroom when
her sister Mrs. J. C. Howerton,
at whose home she was staying, \
■bee arm* alarmed at
and together with
stituted a
Mrs. Dent
home at 1 p. m
fill an appointment at a beauty
parlor. It is believed her death
followed a short, time later.
Mrs. Dent was the daughter of
J (’. Woodworth, one of the
city’s ea
zons, serving
and mayor o
She was
A new garage has been opened
here by Sam Taylor and Charles
l“Mup” Jaeger, in the new build-
ing recently constructed by Ixmis
Lippmann at his station across
ffom the freight depot.
The new business has been
named the Taylor & Jaeger Gar-
I age and repair and service work
| on all ears will lie done. Both
Air. Taylor and Mr. Jaeger are
well known to (“ar owners of this
problems of the Arch- t section, having been engaged in
bishop of Canterbury. Here he talks to Prof. Chang Peng-Chung at
a protest meeting against war in China.
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A NEW KIND O:
WtbFtkN THRIlLEL
WICES FOR MRS DENT
HaD AT CUERO SUNDAY
I Returning to Cuero in 1918
FROM she became associated with her
father in the insurance business
| of Woodworth & Dent, and upon
,, . his death assumed charge of the
r uneral
I agency.
> Sunday | was active in welfare work,
11.....’ and it was the time,
insurance
firm and member of a prominent 1 work which
Cuero family.
Services wen1 conducted from
the home of her sister, Mrs. J.
C. Howerton, with Dr. W. A. M<-
Leodj pastor of the First I’resbv-
church, officiating, ami
was in Hillside eem-
tlm
VICTORIA, Oct. 17.—The body I Yoakum
I bookkeeper of the Victoria Nat-
found late Sun-
the Guadalupe fjftj, gjr[ born to Mr. and Mrs.
"c
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Every summer Sunday
you would naturally find the Rev.
J. J. Breit bach in the pulpit of
the Catholic church here.
look for him in the afternoon and
you would discover him in
unusual place—out managing the
home town ball team.
The young priest is convinced
i religion and baseball mix well.
[ His parishioners are proud of j
“• his religion® work, and the box j
and bicycle upon and along any side-! BICKNELL, Ind. (A’)—-Golfer scores show he did all right with
L. Cash of Nacogdoches walk of any street, alley, public ’kll Donham laughed when he his avocation—baseball.
saw a. crow trying to pick up his j Father Breitbach managed and
golf ball. It was too large,
bird gave up.
j It was not so f
I when a larger
j It gras|M‘d t be ball firmly
. 'itoday of
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. this city, he shall upon
C. Dobbs, Berthold I ceeding twentv-five
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of Houston, were among the
searchers.
The search was organized Sat-
urday by Sheriff R. A. Rogan
after a coat, a pair of shoes and
a wrist watch belonging to
missing woman were found
river bank, a short distm ce
town.
It was discovered that
Wheeler had not slept in
[home Friday night.
Funeral services for Mrs.
Wheeler who was 53, will be held
at 3 p. in. Monday at the Epis-
copal church.
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Morgan, Cena S. Yoakum Weekly Herald (Yoakum, Tex.), Vol. [41], No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 21, 1937, newspaper, October 21, 1937; Yoakum, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1295372/m1/8/?rotate=90: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Carl and Mary Welhausen Library.