Breckenridge American (Breckenridge, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 203, Ed. 1 Sunday, October 20, 1946 Page: 3 of 6
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SUNDAY. OCTOBER 20, 194&
Hk Mi>IICAIMIHCRENKID«a. ftXM
'Oh. the Pity of If*
na
tie of Sycamorc
*PERCY MARKS
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Author ot "The Mastic *a "
"k Tr«* Grown Straight"
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t.' Cayte that evening was
t" !tn.-t: and it **-•"!. found if
i way less than iuettt he
no sieu. They tallied with
t and Mrs. Kent for an. hour
iltrmtiffj, and tlieu went foe a.
k walk.
. next mwrruna Bart came
iv . . to toiFiilvfast, as Uityle hud
i .- u ted him '11 lit . "We cant
t b ,«h' I telle U> hut meals
r>," ?ihi p\pl.iinnl. "I w uki-
.. k I.f a time tern hi."
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h I
No one was hu-' in tin accid^it outured above, but it ••• . > a tiuce
happening just t!i<i same bwiiui-e tRuse tour smatwitrd cats were all
brand new. En route from the Detroit factory to Mason City, U..
the huge aut" tiansport hit a viaduct at Mulitie, I'l. Xot? ot the
(Tout war was compk'tdy sheared «1T
G.I.
TRAINING
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ABM.CNE. TEXAS
thieving I ru« t,i tnidw«l
LAY |,;NN V « . Uitlv. pet el'fV.
' ha.- bten t !iii|iort,ril\ cii ji>iiH<l
i>ni flying a- the erow tlMf.-
Vlurwttoi, he i.- the central filiuiv
. ,.f i SallO .ainaire : uit.
1> U.V i.- UM: lM'"tK;itv nt Mi. ami
Mr- Ikitih 11 ' i ri;. V la itrbU.i
, h.i g*-<l tb.it the ern'v f 1 a-- t*> tin"
•ritipe ; im - r ami t-nl o*up«>. If'
i *i . •>' 1 -11' ■ y liaumav.
tVuiliug till'I .luetic*' «f
I "en •• tiH" till I'.. Hughes i>l'"*k>i
"■lib utiilei ar in iiiiit'Mnii i ' U
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ANNOUNCING —
THE OPENING AND NEW
LOC ATION OF THE
HERRING
Insurance Agency k
.—TEXAS STATE BANK BLDCi.—
1st FLOOR PHONE Sfct
thetK I p / tut ay On Your insurant*—
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Learn thai Y our Protection is Mot Ade-
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t:\St KAiME 4 \/> (,/ & SERVICE.
' t.. i It '••tti" dimmJ' h i (s(.#*d
-.1 . .■ I h a r "at br^akiast in
i..m rr w York w*n.
r. . r I wight t«>. tho'.iall, just to
•:>v<: "j ■ •nis Kniiierhitii: to do. He's
* 1 ii'-". ("li l>c 'ilatt to give
t.|i the ."ivi. imeut and let him go."
Mr. Ivent huri:ied his tneal. "I've
to meet Jiuiiiiie,'' he sa'd by'
y ot exi'itori.'tain to Bai t.. "L
rued, and the tram's on
tllU"."
"l/u;itun t we li" a'.iMi:;'.'" iJ.ul
njUni t.'uy^c.
"Would i>u iilvc to.'"
"Vou bi t."
Mis. Kent smiled with itratinea-
tioti. There .was souiethin{£ so
iicai t - warmins about almost
Lv erythina Kart iltti. a ti iendtmess
•iiirl a boyish cagecttfiss tliat were
teiesi. utile.
Jinimi* w,"S i'i|iiaily cnihusiastii1
about turn \kh'.'U once they had
met. t pss than a year out ot cot-
teRe; Jiiriniie stilt had a goocUdenl
at the undet'iiiaduate's point ot
view, anct he Celt that it was
-omethina pret'y super for his
siat*r to rt\ir v the great Bartlett
of Yale. Yos. Bruce Barttett was
jomethina pretty extra special.
J imime was a highly sensitive
vount; man, however, and Bart
• fiuld have shattered the ailmira-
t.inti w '.h one t..l.-e move; but his
I wonder ot the world. Ko w'd you
do it? I'm teUing you. man, I'd
have died if I'd been in your
place."*
Bart dropped to the d*ve nort
it hwglied. "It was something,
i wasu't it?
Darta«uth game, if you're asking
me. But what's a guy to do. You v -•
. ' just got to talLe it; that's alt/*
<•> cry move was right. Elc held out ^Yotl tiwfc jt benuHlultv." ?tr'.
his big hand, smiled broadly, aadtjcat told him admhrfnely. "J">
said. "Hi. Jimmie. I ve been want- ©uyie and I tried to
nig to meet you (or a darned ioug s(aM out> way or an-
time." I uaie^ but they nei*er even benrd
"Not as long as Tve been want-
ing to meet you. I'll bet." said
Jimmie. "Nate used to talk about
you when t was a little kid."
"Did he'" Bart's smile grew
broader. "-Well, he talked about
you, too; so it's fifty-fifty."
Halt an hour later they were
arguing about football, and by the
middle ot the morning they were
buddies. • • •
JIMlVrir. Part, and Mr. Kent" Wfrtt
I.i a ba.'.obali earn* in the Mwr-
wtuto ciavlo and h«r mother
.niiB. Hjinoil thirty friend , at tea ii
order to announce the- engagement
UUUMi SAM H.VSS
(Sy United timut
ROL'XE> KOt'K. Tex., Oct. li -
Murk, tiidiurkey, operator of Lhe
Sum Bus- Caste here, is thinking
of plucini; a siffn in front of the
establishment hcariuf the kg.'iul:
"Sum Buss doesn't live here any
more." v
t>ehai^kev says people refuse to
iictievc tliat Bass, ttetorious des-
perado of the tost 1800s who was
-kiui in Round kock by 'L'1 xas tiiui-
gei's. actiudly is dead.
fhe eufe operator say# Uuriuir
th/> past few veers he has sent
At the home of his parents, he j back, hundred* of letters addressed
IUMDEO 61 BECOMES
SCULnOK IV FEEL
PASADENA. CtiL (U.B) When
bis. ambitions to become a water
color pointer were blasted away
Worse "than the last | with his eyesight in the- battle o£
the Rhine, 21 year old Wesley
Smith determined to turn to ai new
medium, sculpture.
IDs progress led tu acceptance
by the- Los Angeles county museum
Gt Art Exhibit ut a sculptured
Indian head, molded in his own.
DtuMiuitos .V Eaeh
DLSPLAINl£S,ItL-1.L tlarfcV
saidtiuiv engineer of the l *>*
Plsiiiifs Yatlev n>wH(ttito aliate-
meiit district, grows thousands of
mosi|uitns for experimeutal pur-
p«.-es. To nn exhihitor -if tut inseet-
repellent, lv reeentyiy sold liJMIO4
of them for n nickel each
us. Welt. now. it's oflBcitil—and I'm i hands.
afraid both of you arc going tn | At t
have to take a lot for tuc next. pxplained his desires to be a sclup-| to Sum Buss from alt over the
week** • tor, creative writer and tuttuxkBsl. i."m(a-y
•* v k
'I'llE next morning.
* • *
the Keuts'
were amazed to Bnd the amount
af spaee given to Gayle's engjige-
ment in the Columbus newspaper; ,
but thai spaee* they found little-
later. was as notbirig to the spne«
ihe New York and P)iitj detphia
papers eave. ttoiie-'s skeb'h t'f
tiavle- appeared always, and man"
>)t the papers rat* a picture of
wondered.
tie already hud made headway
toward becoming a painter before
he went to war as art infantry-
man.
"Those drtiwers over there," he
said pointing; to. the cabinets tin
ittg. one wall of his room, "were
full of tny wlleetkM.s of luilm-a-l
phencunena he tore [ went ltw y.
rviow when t S" 'o Hip iik nil i taint?.
!*ut the pay-off cu.ne the oihur
du>. he said".
He got a loiig-distuiH-e call. The
other eiai wanted Sim: Bass and
Hoi'iidy bill Sinn Pass.
In a hoarse wh.V.pir, the cnlh i
saii:. "-E goL a deal Sam liiiglit he
interested in."
Tn w,„ ,* -
girls refused to go home long after ! information about her father, who | of the smells, the .shape ot objects,
it was time to go. They offered n« was Professor ot English at Cal-' and the beautiful sounds of uu-
pretexts: tliey simply stayed, and; vui College, came obviously from | ture."
he knew why they were staying. "Who's Who," but where had they
One and all. they wanted to meet learned that she was a direct de-
Dart—not "Black Bart." the fa- \ scendant on her mother's side of
mous Yale football player, but; Samuel Rogers? Come to think oi
Bruce Van Dyke Bartlett, the
handsome son of the great multi-
: millionaire Van Dyke Bartlett
| And while the girls waited, the
three men sot in a bar drinking
beer and themselves waiting, as
Jimmie put it, for those femmes
it, she- had mentioned it to Bart
once. He must have told M
Bartlett. and she in turn had t-.\t
Miss Holland. Miss Holland. Cry e
fought admiringly, eertaisiy
knew- her business.
She sighed. It was kind of ex-
to get the heck out of there. Most citing to. see one's picture in th.-
of them, however, stuck it out j newspapers, but she knew it w-a.;
untit Bart appeared, and then they , there simply because she bap-
made a fuss over him that re-' pened to be engaged to Brui
dueed alt the Kents to an agony I Barttett. Prince Charming hud
n( embarrassment. But if Bart was I chosen a bride, and the world, of
disturbed, he successfully hid even, course, was federated and curious,
the faintest .evidence of resent- She would be stared at„ com-
ment or confusion. He stniled and' mented on, and to most people site
accepted the effusive congratula- would be a great disappointment,
tions, assured everybody he knew- She could hear them saying, "t
just how luekv he was. and told 1 wonder what he ever saw in her."
them he thought Calvin was just j Wetl. she couldn't tell them; tliat
about as pretty a little town as he wail sure. She didn't know. At th ;
had ever seem ! moment, tired and let down, she
Eventually, of course, the girts couldn't even guess. She won-
said. dered If even Bart knew .
The blind veteran depends upon
gravitational bukince tor his sculp-1
turing. "You see," he suir. "this
sense is developed by the blind
just as it is used by the seeing
with their eyes shut. If a seeing
person tries to carry a cup of
water across the room with his
eyes shut, he must depend upon a
| sense of catenae to keep from
spilling it."
AtRPVANt rUSMKC* AT lO-,OOC
•err KLEJflttlON. CASTS tUE SAME
S12C SHADOW AQ WHEN. KUVIM6
*ft iqo feet. . The suir «tr its
SMtOOM AtEVEf? VARIES UHEH.
r/t*r sum/s sr/nt/mr overhead
ALEX* RAWLtNS H SOMS
.•kOHUiMEMTft
Over 62 Yettr* Servme
w«*thBrfort , texat
■Iwfci.
IS
I
Moor America's favorite tenor
had to- go.
"Phew! Bart,
and Jimmie
you're the e'
(T«
t'ontinuad)
Potent, Judge
Soys After Sniff
BEATTYYtfi.LB, Ky. — Court-
house hungers-oil recalled Kip V an
Winkle and his "wicked t'lagon"
when Deputy Sheriff Prater Kiu-
catd staggered into the county
iudge s office with a five-gallon
keg of Kentucky moonshine oil his
buck.
Behind the deputy ruine W. C.
Price, Jr.. who had been caught
sneaking the potent brew down the
hollow t.L his home in the lower
end of to.-*!!.
After sniffing the evidence, the
judge -^aid it was potent enough to
make a man sleep forever, instead
of a mere 20 years, and held Price
for the grand jury.
Mutton-bird Catcher
SYDNEY. Australia. — Prubably
one of the strangest jobs tn Aus-
tralia is held by a man who told:
a Perth (Western Australia), cen-
sus taker that he was a "shark-fin
classifier." There were two kinds
ot' sharkfins. he said, one geiatiit-1
ous and the other meatyj. the first,
was worth up to ttf shiliins t$&50) j
a pound and the other t shilling,
ninepence ("25 cents)-.
Other odd answers to "what isi
your occupation" were mutton-bird|
catcher, pauper, temperance agent,,
snake charmer, professional tour-1
isc and wizard. Store tll-naturedi
was the head of a bouse who filled
in his niother-in-taw s card with:
"sits in her chair and smokes all1
day."
[HO
M E TO
NEWS
TafoMfUftttWill
life
ore Than Ever
Before!
Wi- Have Mure Living Room
Furniture Than we Have
Ever Shown Be ton-
l)ti Display tn '.hit
.Store You Will Find
[>tan\ Stvlrs and A
jvaru ty of Material.-
"in Upholstering
TWO AND THREE
PIECE SUITES
STUDIO COUCHES
. .REMEMBER!
Long Winter* Nights are Ahead.
And More Time Will Be Spent
At Home. A Complete Suite Or
An Odd Piece Here and There
Will Moke The Home More At-
tractive.
Glad To Show You
Here Ycu Will Find Furni-
ture For The Living Room
Sure to Mjiet your Approval
lit Design, Quality, Durabil-
ity And Correct in Price.
MANY ARTICLES FOR EVERY ROOM IN
THE HOME AWAIT YOUR INSPECTION..
—for furniture see—
THURMON'S
FUKNIItlRE CO....
310 West Walker—Phone 101
Here in an inexpensive homo reeine fbr tak
lt K ult unipdnly weiaht arid help brine
hack ftllurinir curves and sraeeful slender^ i
nes8 Ju.it set front your drugsiftt; fou^ :
ouncp of tlnutd Barcenferate (formerl*
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grapefruit juice to make m pint* Then jUah
take two tabieitpooiisful twice a day. Won-
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you may slim d« wn your ft cure and lot*
p«iunda of usly fat witho«tfe bark breaking '
•xoreiiio or ntarvation diet. eaay tr
mak.-> mid fatty to take, t'ontaina nothlmt !
Imrmftil. If tha very flr*t bottle doesn*% j
i ht*ur you the himpl< , ea*y way to- low* i
bulky w* ight and b« lp regain Rlender. mor I
anifofiil r irvi^« return the empty bottle
and get vour money baek.
"Good tires are as important to
a car as good hay is to Jou^
jows I'm going to the
JARL.TON TIRE SERVICE
ind have- my tires checked and
•epaired."
CARLTON
TIRE SERVICE
3 -*tj <4 f *4 *
Regardless of the size of your
cleaning bill .... we treat
everyone the same. Our clean-
ing wiil penetrate to the heart
of fabric fibres. Protect the
life and beauty of winter woo
lens.
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SIGNS
Eleelra Neon
Sign Co.
JAMES MELTON
Evcty Sunday on the
HARVEST OF STARS
with Howard Barlow
ami 60-piece Orchestra
lyrt Murray Chorus
Distinguished Dramatic Casts
Special^ Musical Guests
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We have Factory trained and
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adjusting and repairing alt the
electric units: as well as all other-
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McDOWELL
CHEVROLET CO.
Phone 505—Breckeirridge, Tex
ROYAL
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Wwk On Alt Typo*
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