The Arlington Journal (Arlington, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, December 23, 1927 Page: 1 of 7
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ARLINGTON, TEX AS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1927
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United. , Charities.
toward
purpose
needy and
is being
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as
and
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Perkins
;hter, better day
come back to ypu
Arlington,
prospects at
to QHtoh that up on
Just $85 will put us
MORE THAN 1,060 RATS
KILLED IN CONTEST
AT GRACE CHAPEL
othy Yi
foreign
Harney.
Barnes
elected
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BANQUET TO 500 MAT REACH $300
in
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lowship made up the
controls 1 7_ ___
“Spirit of Fellowship," Was Dor-
smile of gladness
For another who’s been true.
Give them now.
ai’ the stud<
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care of this civic need.
by members of the art department,1
STREET BONDS SOLD FDR
PAR-WORK STARTS SOON
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when
of the
College
banquet
sent out
! many
to time
with a
Amon O.
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For a friend
( through,
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lingness” and "Work" were ■
wings which
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$10,000 BRICK BUILDING
FOR NEW AUTO FIRM
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HUDSON-ESSEX CO. WILL
OCCUPY HOME TO BE
BUILT HERE
built on East Abram
street, adjoining Wil-
liamson’s garage, and
will be the home_ of a
newly organized auto*
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25 JUNIOR AGGIES
SEEK CAGE BERTHS
LEAGUE
UMBERS 4.500
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Do not wait until -tomorrow.
Some tomorrows never come.
In this life of Joy and sorrow
Often friends asunder roam.
Give them now. -
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tptain of the
me boys will .
tor some of
[t Worth and
Sunday is Christinas Day. There
is no better way to spend it than
by public worship of Him who gave
the day ita name and birth. You
arc invited to our services as fol-
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Bunday School at 9:45* a. m. W.
B Taylor, superintendent.
The pastor preaches al 11 a. m.
on 'The Incarnation.”
At 7:18 p. m. "How the
Observe Christmas in
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fellows is too i
planation hgre.
many cases solely
to I
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flT sa^ea.wAeaatA**
located at Fort
will be con-
huge plant here,
25 to 2. This was the
ne for this season of
fst Baptist team, which
__teL^’ln^the^coun'S: "
Is the third season for the team
i only one defeat being mark-
agalnst them—and this defeat
administered iy t professional
a to Fort Worth last winter. •. _____J|
of the team are picked, is asked to bring an offering to this
college boys, a class] worthy cause.
ROY A. LANGSTON, Pastor.
S-cyl fader car.
■vtaWSrS.
The fast First Baptist basketball
team of Arlington defeated, toth
eaee, th* Englewood Heights Baptist
* ■ w8i^HH®‘unKlMy cventp* to the
ition
in the talky at the
Joseph Weaver said that
of the North Texas
.College’s “Spirit’ of
Fellowship” was filled with friend-
ship and that friendships made at
college were life-long and enduring.
Miss Dorothy Weaver said that en-
ergy came from the engine of the
airplane and is Indispensable in the
development of college fife. Just
as the lapding gear of the airplane
is essential to the safe ending of
every flight so is devotion to duty
the Southwestern Exposition and
Stock Show. ths
ing animals in the herd is Gamboge
E. B.
Allan
Hudson dr Davis Co.
O. G.
G. W.
people, and otir entire citizenship is
to be commended upon the fine
support accorded this work so far.
The following is a list of the con-
tributors to the United Charities
the
our town
fund, the
to relieve the
bring Christmas
who would not
it This amount
Dec. 20 — Baskettail '■
North Texas Agricul-
tural College, with 25 men seektof
berths on the squad, are nmisuaBy -
___bright. Coach Moore's men won
Bear-k^CiL. first practice game downing
Texas Teacher reserve^
week among
citizenship of
local charity
which is
distressed,
cheer to
otherwise
and to
children
receive
will be augmented by contributions
from various sources, such
churches. civic organizations
individuals yet to be seen, also
small amount of money which
left over from the - Goodfellows
Fund of last year will be added,
totaling approximately $300.00. ac-
cording to Rev S. M Bennett, who
is chairman of the United Charities
Executive Committee and who has
been instrumental in the organiza-
tion of this work and raising the
financial assistance. J. B- Galbraith
has assisted in this work.
The work of the Arlington Oood-
well known for
having been
r responsible
many children
Arthur T. Bridges
following lines were written
for my pupils of the John -T. White
School to. response to some splen-
If you have a word of kindness
For
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PUREBLOODED JERSEY 1RBD
PURCHASED BY DAIRY HUS-
BANDRY DEFT OF A. A M.
APPROVED BY ATTORNEY
GENERAL SOLD 2 WEEKS
AFTER ELECTION
Devil Will
Christmas in ' .sHtaNMlt
County.” TT?>
Special music morning and night.
Epworth Seniors meet at 6:15 p.
m. with special Christmas program, and'
Miss Jennie Fielder,* president lng i
Senior Hl at same hour. Mrs. Eber-
ly superintendent. Epworth Jun-
iors, same hour, with Mrs J. H.
Elder superintendent, i - -
A ftotf beginning was made last
Sunday on our offering , to the
Methodist Home at Waco. We want
Christmas Day.
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Everyone who has not contributed
^KAVU . U UMM9U W VI U>« Ml l/imUlf VQ 1,1114
coUe$e boys, a class] worthy cause.
it First* Baptist Sunday1 ROY A. LANGSTON, Pastor.
Swaim, Bagwell. Man-
* Maag. Gibson. Hill
Ilins, Gregory, Burress,
with appreciation
friends who from
have helped me
friendly smile, a
a timely favor.
1 would especially
Rountree
here
1 students
Agricultural
annual
ikmdents, alumni and
dMtributors to the
in which
now
Dallas
one _ .
something like seventy-five
to our city's population,
substantial pay roll.
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“GIVE THEM NOW
said. Miss Myrtle Rawls.
---- _jgu$ge teacher, kept the
audience j laughing as she told
she declared that a sense of humor ]
is the stabiliser in college life. Ueut. _________
instructor at First State Bank..
park of *■-
K«pt alive to
ENROLLMENT
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Austin. Texas. Dec. 21.—An
rollment of fully 4.500 Texas sc
to different phases of the ge
work of the Interseholastic
of the University of Texas fa
P^ctod this year by Roy Bed!
un, chief of the League Bureau. There
Dr. are al present 2.M0 schools «
mjurtty according to Mr Be
The closing date for enrollmei
been set for January 15, Mr.
chek said. 3, *
eW°or *mOng ‘ the -----
the State,
School in response to i
did things th<*V gaid and did for
Trie. I’ve .1—I .
pupilt.
But these thoughts
for the
time I
along ’
“kindly" word or
In this connection
mention
arid her Standard
ers’ Sunday School Class,
their fellowship
I would also express my apprecia-
tiorv .of the Arlington business (men.
After seven years’ dealing with
them I am glad to say that I’ve
never known a group of business
men who were fairer in their deal-
ings or more considerate of the
other fellow.
Dedicated To My Wife
Every kindly word you say.
Every smile, with friendships
true,
On tome brigl
Surely 4dll
Give them now.
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Miss Sara Knupp of C. I. A.,
Denton, is spending the holidays
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. c
A. Knupp,
such "evidence" to sent it by county
and district officials, and th«re to
no need of any bootlegger escaping
prosecution because of lack of •
Sa^DT “T17?
health officer, tn an interview
the Press Thursday.
The state labor
- M>a*,pArthofUits roc
» number of years, tl
® entirely free," Dr.
The three weeks' rat killing
contest. conducted by the
teachers of the Grace Crapel
school, came to a close last
Monday The contest re-
sulted in the killing Of 1019
rata and 124 mice. The prizes
wqre, awarded to the following
pupils: First prize of one dol-
lar was awarded to John Paul
Hood, who turned in 317 rat
tails. The second prise of
fifty cents went to Floyd
Patterson, who turned in 187
rat tails. The third and
fourth prizes of . twenty-five
cents eaeh were awarded \ to
R. G Watkins and John
Nabors who turned in 182 and
132 rat tails, respectively. The .■
pupils were all paid one cent"
each for all* rat tails turned
tn and one-half cent each
for mouse tails. -
2.-135.00
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the college airs, and a feature of
the banquet was the solo and duet
singing of faculty members and
students. A turkey dinner was serv-
ed by the regular corps -of student
waiters at the college. ’ The dining
hall had been decorated in Christ-
mas colors and the airplane motif
by members of the art department,
under the direction of Miss Martye
« v Poindexter. W. A. Ransom, Miss
“J'a standing in 900 Norma Chatham and Miss ma Ttps
comb were the general committee.
The menu was prepared by Miss
Laura Breiham and C. W Stough.
J. C. Duvall and A. E. Harding,
members of the Legislature; Frank
Graves, Mayor W O. Hiett of
Arlington: N. L. Davis and L. D.
Hahn of Arlington ware visitors In-
troduced by Dean Davis.
Humor to Banquet Talks
College humor, puns at the ex-
pense of the students' and serious
’talks on the importance of fellow-
ship and cooperation in college
work were tn the talk; at
banquet
the fuselage
Agricultural
the .Nprth
A number of veterans, Captain
McCulloch. Jackson. Barron, for-
wards; Altman, cental an4 forwarg;
Hunter and Butler, guards, are back.
Among the new men showing up
well are Maxey, Tittle, Bigley. Ma-
ters; Barron. Spence,- Taylor, guards,
and Bwinnea, forward.
The N T. A. C. schedule for the
season: Jan. 9, Denton Teachers, al
Denton; Jan. 13 and 14, Ranger
Hillsboro Junior; Jan. 17, Weather-
ford College at Weatherford; Jan.
19, Weatherford College at Arling-
ton; Jan. 36 and 27, Wesley College
at Arlington; Jan. 30, Texas Pacific
Coal and Oil of Fort Worth Ct
Arlington; Feb. 3, Gainesville Junior
at Arlington; F$b. 7 and 8, Woetoy
College at Greenville; Feb. 9 and 1R
Paris Junior at Paris; Feb. 17 and
18. Hillsboro Junior or Ranger Jun-
ior
The City of Arlington s $40400
worth of street improvement bonds
a have been approved by the Attorney
About 1250 00 ha; been raised this
public-spirited
2\\Ornamental Iron
Works Purchases
More Land
Iron
will |
of
factory
on
understand
fattory will begin in earnest
after Jan.
about April 1st.
Factories
Worth and
solidated in
adding
families
with
The Southern Ornamental
Works, a corporation, which
soon begin the construction ( ,
huge ornamental iron factory on; General’s
Cooper street, has ust purchased
another lot adjoining the highway,
according to reports from real
estate dealers of this city. This new
purchase, we understand was a lot
formerly owned by Rev. Mr. Payne.
Cooper and Division streets. We
that work on this
soon
completion
... 100
... .75
_____ 5.00
____ 1.00
I M eludes twenty-eight females ahd one
C. F. Thompson ..........2-2 1.00
3. King ................. JO i---
Webb Bros................2.00 fairs,
............... loo the a
«. H. Coleman ............10.00
Bernice Turck _________ -___ 50
Knight-Whippet Motor Co... 5.00
■Titan ............^0
P. D. Yarborough .......... 100
James Leftwich ............ 2.00
Lee Shelton ........t.... 2.00
Lee Shelton ...... ®
Will MUton aw
O. D. Mitetaii..^.'......L-- 100
J, M?- Grogan ............. 1.00
Bill Norman ..............*900
H J Jones ............ «0
J. H. Purvis.............. 100
8 O. Lewto----------------- 50
Good Luck Store....
W. T. Bondurant....
Will Powell ........
R. F. Barnes........
Bob Bardin -------------
E. C. West ..............U 80
Ferry Oox. A to F Btore .., IM
“ C. Adams ..... IM
R. G. Hornsby ....---------- M
O. C. Johnston ........T--.. M
Richard Towery ..... M
,O. C^Jga&y ...... M
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Keep Adverttofec
and Advertising r
will Keep y©u.
Department and have
been sold to the Brown-Crummer
Company of Dallas for 1(» cents on
the dollar This company also as-
sumes all indebtedness and ex- —
penses incident to the issuance of
the bonds, such a* printing, legal
procedure, drafting, etc., which sum -
will run into several hundred dol-
lars. Thus may be considered as a
bonus above par for the bonds, as
the City received par on the $40,-
000
These bonds were voted by the
people of Arlington Dec. 6th and
were approved Dec. 17th, less than
two weeks after election. This is "a
very remarkable record and ths
City Commission is to be congratu^T'
lated upon the efficient and rapid
manner in which this work' to. ba- i- *
ing put through. It is now assured
that actual construction work on
Aillngton’s new paving program will
begin in early or the middle of
January
was kept
r by the M
fibers He” _
hter when he said
Dean E E Davis, in a short
Christmas message. brought greet-
ings to the students from the
faculty, and declared that the
Semester which will end at the be-
ginning of the Christmas holiday
tomorrow afternoon.' has been the
most successful in history The at-
tendance at the college approximates
500 A new science hall is being
erected on the campus A splendid
showing has been made by the Re-
serve Officers’ Training Corps The _____
scholarship record maintained by Santa’s visit
the students has been of a high
character; The Fall has been featur-
ed by a good athletic season
Toasts to Airplane
College students, ex-students, fac-
ulty members contributed to the
program Toasts were so arranged
and subjects alloted, that the word
“Fellowship" was spelled, for each
of the speakers addressed his or her
remarks to the various parts of the
mechanism and frame of an air-
plane. fuselage. engine. landing
gear. log. oil. wings, stick, horizontal
stabilizer. Ignition unit, propellor.
Robert Horton of Fort Worth led
the audience in a sing long The
orchestra music was played by Earl
D. Irons and his college orchestra.
“Slim" Smith, college yell leadta.
ex-
in
for
of
this community whose parents were
financially unable to see to this
matter The Goodfellows, as well
as all other non-denominational
charity organizations of the city,
have been merged In to what is
known as the United Charities, the
purpose of which is to eliminate
promiscuous giving to those asking
for aid and prevent duplications of
assistance, which have been found"
to encourage dependence instead
of helping the suffered to remedy ■
his condition and support himself.
The Pastors’ Association of the
city in a called meeting at the
Presbyterians Church, which was at-
tended by a group of Arlington busi-
ness men, discussed at length the
__destitute condition of the needy of
delighted^the"’ crowd" with "some (-city, the means and methods
- ■ ~ that had deen used to relieve them,
and found that much duplication
had occurred, due largely to a lack
of supervision of the work. The re-
sult was a committee was appointed
to perfect an organization to take
The follow-
ing committee was named by Rev
S. M. Bennett, who presided:
Homer Slaughter, Cliff Barnes, Ben-
Collins, W. B. Milbum. T. J.
Lightfoot. Pat Thompson. S. F.
Wine. T. F. Yates. Rev. S. M. Ben-
nett was elected chairman of the
committee at the suggestion of
those present. This committee was
called together Monday night and
•iwtMi an Executive Committee of
consisting of T. F. Yates,
Homer Slaughter, and Benton Col-
lins Tom Spruance was elected
Treasurer of this organization,
known As the United Charities.
Anyone in need of help in Arling-
ton should go to Messrs. Yates,
Slaughter or Collins who alone
have the authority to giye help.
These three men will investigate
any case of charity that is called
to their attention, buy what is
necessary, and the name of one of
these gentlemen must be on every
bill before it-to paid from the char-
ity funds. This move
made to protect the pi
beggars and giving to”5
The good plane Spirit of Fellowship
with Santa Claus and the Christmas
cheer aboard, landed at North Aggie
Flying School here tonight
the faculty and
North Texas i
had their eighth
and reception
faculty were
good fellowship banquet,
the idea of the airplane was carried
out in the toasts, and
Carter of Fort Worth
“flying instructor."
E E Davis,
message,
the
and
niobile agency, known
as the Arlington Hud-
. son-Essex Company.
W. McAlister is
J President of this com-
pany and General
Manager, Henry F.
Williamson, V i c e-
Preaident and Sales
Manager; Pirie,
~_Vice-Pres ide rft and
. Treasurer, and Mrs. J.
tary. Rose Bros, and
Hiett &' Yates will
construct this ( new
building for the Hud-
son-Essex Company.
I jA The Arlington Hud-
[IflRson-Essex Company is
capitalized for $25,000:
It will be in a position
J With
cars
MINERAL WATER
STRATA HO
McAlister, Secre- t t —- •
— - The strata <?f mineral water which
has made Arlington famous was
struck this week at a depth of
1150 feet, according to the drillers.
This water was analyzed and con-
tains all the properties of the old
water' except sulphur, which was
hot expected to be Tound at this
depth. The drill is now going down
to approximately 1290 feet, when
it will be in the center of the sul-
phur bed and water strata known
M the Glen Rom formation. The
well will be finished at this depth.
An abundant supply of fine water
- • «» . h»s been found, much stronger in
serve the. public ^nenU .Prpp®rtiea th*0 •*« j***®-
x feet of water, and< there la conjec-
ture as to whether or not it will
flow when the strong streams of
the Olen Rose strata are -en-
countered. .• _ (
The city 1$ to b«. congratulated
upon this fine well and many un-
hesitatingly state that it to the best
thing that has ever happened for
these popular
in a most ef-
ficient manner, being,
;>s t r o n g financially,
and having direct
^.factory connections
that will give 100 per
cent service . to ^the
great Arlington coun-
try, This firm will <1-
} so sell the Marmon, an
City of Arlington..
Davis & Bondurant
Hiett 8c Yatas^....
T. L. Cravens.....
Web Rom ........
H. B. Oaton.......
CannOR, Bros. .....
Wm. Douglas .i...
Geo. Luttrell._____
Perry Bros. .T -
W. C. Bowman Lbr. Oo M...
Meyers Bakery ....i.
The GifYBhop
C. D. Btrch..r.....
the airplane th«l J. B. AMdSul'
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Hugh Moore *..........j
R. O. King ................
Mrs. J. B. JonM...........
W. F. BiUupa-.-..........
_ gear of every college effort,
the toast. “The Log," Miss Ma
Bozzell responded with a poem
which college events were recited.
Oratory was compared. with oil by
Madison Garland who said that
oratory and the social communica-
tions of college life were Important
to good fellowship. Miss Ro»ie
Beth Bennett, class of 1922, and now
a teacher in the Fort Worth public rni, urus. ...______t bjo
schools, speaking te" "Wings,” em- North Tex Traction Oo.^.J*. '8.00
the
stu-
and
"Work-
pt the
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College Station, Texas, pec. 23.— yl
With the recent purchase for the
dairy husbandry department of th* *
college of purebtoodbd Jersey herd
of the Mistletoe CreameriM. of Fort
Worth. A & M. College of Texas
dow has what are considered amoag
the best, if not the outstanding
Holstein college herds in the United
States.
The new Jersey herd, acquired by
the college as a foundation herd, in-
V.
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mate; Individuals from this herd
have won many awards at Texas
, including the State Fair^ and
Artong the outstand-
Fox Agatha, the cow that produced
81 pounds of milk in one day which
. is the second highest production of
i any Jersey cow in the world. Her
yearly record is 17,811 pounds of .
milk and* 787J pounds fat.
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“HOME BREW” AMALYZEM
BY STATE LABORATORY
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"The laboratory of the state health /x®
1 department to ready at all timre to
make an analysis of "
M <nd^ other contrqiyuid
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