Center Daily News (Center, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 75, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 26, 1930 Page: 1 of 4
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FIVE CENTS PER COPY
NUMBER 75
CENTER, TEXAS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1930
MEMBER UNITED PRESS
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Sidewalk
declared
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W. B. Rider getting ready
Mrs. Grady Keasler waiting
At-
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labor
one state
ment.
From Using City Water Dur-
ing Period of Cleaning.
councils;
department
Film Star, Renowned As “Man
Of Thousand Faces,” Goes
On To Act Under the Great
Director.
City Water User Allowed 30
Days To Get New Meters Be-
fore Suspension of Service.
By MARTHA STRAYER
(U. P. Special Correspondent)
Washington, Aug. 26 (UP)
—It was early on the morning
of August 26, ten years ago in
the library of his Washington
residence, with only one wit-
SCHOOL STARTS
SOON AND LACY
IS NEARER GOAL
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TO THE NEWS
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Y BROADCASTS COTTON APPEAL
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an explosion and fire in the W.
T. Devereaux Grain Company
mills here.
now commands an
position.
For the ]
he has been engaged under a [sons.
contract with the Texas Com-;search by posses today.
pany near
has done exceptionally good: Ridge farm led the searchers
work, according to officials of Through the Brazos River and
his company. ■ Oyster Creek bottoms.
Center Daily News
N CHANEY
Austin, Tex., Aug. 26 (UP)
—Governor Dan Moody tele-
graphed the governors of each
cotton-producing state today
asking them to join in the na-
tion-wide buy-a-bale of cotton
appeal.
Moody’s proposal is that all
who have the means buy one
stitution.
The tenth anniversary of
this historic occasion wTill be i supreme court clerks.
Speeding Automobiles Meet In
Head-On Collision I n
tempt To Pass On Hill.
Problem of Whether To Stay
Up or Come Down Is Puzzle
To Young Tree-Sitter After
His Third Week Aloft.
Hubby mustn’t become irri-
tated tonight if wifie’s coffee is
bum, her biscuits red and other
dishes incarnadined with a
eatsup-like hue. No, this time
it won’t be wifie’s fault for the
city water mains are to be
given a thorough cleaning be-
tween 6 and 8 o’clock this eve-
ning.
Residents are requested to
refrain from using water be-
tween the hours mentioned in
order that yard pipes will not
become encrusted with rust
and mud from the terrific pres-
sure
the mains.
Water Engineer .Eros Car-
riker said that while the water
might be discolored for a few
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VOLUME TWO
jviewer has had a phone call,
personal visit from one; We don t know how San
_______ -•_____i—j well'Augustine did it but their _
- r courthouse is a goal that this i county
will certainly county could well shoot at. Off
; hand like, we can’t think of a
; more unattractive place to be
sentenced for life in anywhere
in this grand old state than the
courthouse here.
observed with little more cere-
mony. Women’s organizations
are planning no national dem-
onstration of any kind, but they
are taking stock to figure just stayed up
what the sex has accomplish- 1
ed in the first ten years of suf-
in theatres.
The order
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Water users in the city who
have no individual meters will
be allowed 30 days in which to
purchase and install them, ac-
cording to an order passed by
the City Council meeting in ses-
sion Monday evening.
♦ Persons failing to install in-
dividual meters within the
stipulated time are subject to
discontinuance of service with-
out notice, the order provides.
Secretary Kimbro was request-
ed to mail letters to every user
advising the new order and
fulfill-
‘Buy-a-Bale Movement’ Would
Dispose of 5,000,000 Bales
And Raise Price, Texas
Chief Believes.
Center Rotarians will ob- larrafin.
serve “Ladies Night” in fitting
style with a dinner honoring
their Rotary-Anns in the base- for Ladies Night sponsored by
ment of the Methodist Church the Rotary Club at the Metho-
this evening at 8 o’clock. dist church tonight.
Hon. Claybrook Cottingham,
director of Rotary Internation-
al and President of Louisiana for her husband at lunch-time.
College, Pineville, La., will be
the principal speaker of the;
evening. He is expected to
prove highly entertaining be-[
cause of his wide renown as a
speaker.
Rotarians and Rotary-Anns
Houston, Tex., Aug. 26 (UP)
—Safe blowers dynamited the
safe of the Union Bottling
London, Eng., Aug. 26 (UP)
least five out of every package. ’—The play, “Last Mile,” was
—----- banned in England today by
The SIDEWALK REVIEW the official censor of British
is necessarily interested
sidewalks. Prices for labor i
and material are 1
to enhance the
• a
i small consideration with per- ■
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Robbers Get $1,000
In Houston Today
Some of the chronic cig-:
arette bums around here will,
even smoke the Picayunes that;
; we bought with the express-
view in mind of smoking at i
: Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCor-
a historic document with as lit- [ mick’s nomination to the Sen-’
tie ceremony as if it had been ate has climaxed a’fairly ac-
a
order. *
The document was an official ■ h
i proclamation telling the worldjgress—eight still there;
ithat the 36th of the 48 states,:state governors; 149 in state
: Tennessee, had ratified the ' legislatures; six secretaries of
>i suffrage amendment giving [ state; three state treasurers
American women the right to;and two assistants; two state;
vote, making the amendment a; auditors; three women mem-
part of the Constitution of the bers of governors’
United States.
> Not even a photograph was member, one state labor com-
taken of the proclamation’s , missioner and one member of
signing. As soon as the pa-! a state industrial board; three
i pers containing official notifi-1 members of state welfare de-
. cation of Tennessee’s ratifies-j partments; two members of
governor asks
FELLOW LEADERS
TO PUSH HIS PLAN
Longview, Tex., Aug.
(UP)—Six men were injured,
two seriously, when two cars
crashed head-on near here last
night.
Dave Baxter, postoffice em-
ployee of Henderson, received urging its immediate
internal injuries, a broken leg
and deep cuts, while Ross
Brown, a Henderson barber,
was severely cut when the two
cars attempted to pass on a
Special to the News—
Hollywood, Cal., Aug. 26—
Screenland stopped its make-
believe today and bowed un-
ashamed as news of the pass-
ing of Lon Chaney flashed
Review
One of the cars, occupied by
dens; one state supreme court L. A. Egan, Claude Johnson — — ------- _
i justice, one state supreme’and Fred Deutsch of El Dor- Works before dawn today and
court reporter and three state ado, Ark., was racing paralell escaped with $1,000 in cash
’ with a speeding train. and checks. s
Minneapolis, Minn., Aug. 26
(UP)—Two grain mill em-
ployees were killed today and
Distinguished Educator
Pineville, La., Will Be Prin- anj a
cipal Speaker At Brilliant of figures involved.
Affair This Evening.
Numbers of oil men and
Harvester and Tractor men at
the Polley Hotel.
™K«ers mourns passsing
OF NOTED ACTOR
Hollywood, Cal., Aug. 26
(UP)—Lon Chaney, the
screen’s man of a thousand
faces, died in a hospital* here
early' today of carcanoma of
the bronchial tubes.
His passing was unexpected
as he had been transferred to
the hospital last Wednesday
night and had seemed well on
the road to improvement yes-
terday when doctors declared
that he spent his best after-
noon since coming to the hos-
pital.
Chaney’s wife and son were
at his bedside when the end
came and he conversed with
them quietly until a few mo-
ments before his death.
I WATER MAINS TO
BE BLOWN CLEAR
MUCH TOO TENSE OF MUD AND RUST
ment Resented By British
Theatre Censor Who Closes
Play.
550 hours to his credit.
Cleburne lad is the holder ofj
the record, Lacy can surpass
him by staying up 15 more
days. However, due to the
galaxy of tree-sitters over the
nation, L ------ ---------- .....
ascertain the true claimant to
the record.
It all depends on how Lacy
feels about it and how much
parental pressure will be
brought to bear on him now
that school is just around the
corner. At any rate, he’s
> a lot longer than
most people believed he would.
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SIX INJURED IN
CAR CRASH NEAR
LONGVIEW TODAY
^f JOHN BULL BANS
LAST MILE! AS
son Farm Used In Effort To
Capture Wife-Slayer.
toward specialized! Houston, Tex., Aug. 26 (UP)
He has risen!—Jose Kita, 25, Mexican, who
rapidly in his profession and i ran amuck in a Fort Bend
excellent: county cotton field and clubbed ition had been received at the'state civil service commission-
ahis wife to death with a rifle [State Department, the solicitor j ers; five superintendents of
past several months'before firing at three other per-[took £hem to the Secretary at [state public instruction; one
m engaged under a Isons, was the object of a [his home, the signature was af- deputy state game warden and ■ hill,
ith the Texas Com-'search by posses today. [fixed and the suffrage amend-[five assistant state game war-
Victoria where he[ Bloodhounds from the Blue! ment became part of the Con-.
John Neal Lacy passed his
which will rush through 22nd day in the courthouse oak
Monday at 6 p. m. and much
discussion could be heard con-
cerning the probability of his
remaining up after next Mon-
day when school will start.
The lad who lays claim to
holding the world’s record, M.
T. Ledbetter of Cleburne, came
down yesterday after having
remained alpft 900 hours or
the equivalent of 37 days.
At the present time Lacy hasiabout the many locations where
550 hours to his credit. If the | were jn the making.
Great and near-great paid
tribute to the greatest charac-
ter actor in the history of mo-
tion pictures and many fervent
------ prayers were offered for the
it is most difficult to;“star” who has gone to act un-
der the Great Director.
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INSTALLATION OF
SEPARATE METERS
IS COUNCIL ORDER
to normal by morning.
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Greeley, Colo., (UP)—What
was said to be the largest mort-
gage ever recorded in this
/ was filed when the Col-
orado and Southern railroad
recorded one for $100,000,000
in favor of the First National
Bank of New York. The
mortgage covered the entire
system of the railroad.
WOMENS SUFFRAGE IN UNTTED STATES “
REACHES 10TH BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY
the
a
'London audience and added
that such an indictment of
. capital punishment could not
' be presented on the English
stage.
i Mrs. Ella Blake of Amarillo,
will Texas, recently secured sub-
recall that the lack of side-1 stantial remuneration while
walks probably cost Center a was being staged in
city mail carrier delivery ser-l^ew York because it had been
be “larrapin.” ) [allegedly written from a play-
/ , let her son, Robert Blake,
axe. wr0^e Just before his execution hours tonight it would return
very
routine State Department five record of state and na-
tional office holding. There
ave been 13 women on Con-
two
Several, barefoot boys pass-
ing the office discussing the re-
form Nacogdoches are expect- turn of school with evident
«. ed to be present. A special sinking sensations in their turn-
feature program has been ar- miesr Already the displays ofpiess present, that Secretary ofjfrage.
ranged and all Center Rotar-[ school supplies in the local ; State Bainbridge Colby signed
ians and Rotary-Anns are urg-' windows has sounded the death
ed to ttend. knell to vacation and are the
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Youth Who Made Good lads and lassies of this vicinity.
Spending Vacation At 0
^[MEXICAN, WHO RAN
operator with the Geophysical A MI If K IQ QfillfHT ’
Exploration Company of Beau- HluUvllj 10 JVUulU ;
mont, is spending a vacation DV Pf|QC|<C TODAY
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. » I f V00L0 1VVH I
R. R. Loving. --
Young Loving is a striking Bloodhounds From State Pri-
example of determined man-
hood and youthful ambition di-
rected toward specialized [
achievement. He has
lowrer now [drama to be too tense for
than they have been in years
, and it looks to us as if this is
bale of cotton and take it off; a gOiden opportunity for pro-;
the market. He believes that; owners
this move would dispose of five j va]ue of their property for
million bales and raise the;srnan consideration with nt
price considerably. manent sidewalks.
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LADIES NIGHT IS
I ROTARY FEATURE
at m r rniiRCM it>s nice to wieid an -
Al 111* £• vilUnvll night something very a^ the Texas State Peniten i-
i funny happened and the Re- arY’
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We don’t know
Well [Augustine did
[that malted milk, our price for
[“hush money,”
Indictment of Capital Punish- j Residents Asked To Refrain
$25,000 damage was done by j
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Lynch, John W. Center Daily News (Center, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 75, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 26, 1930, newspaper, August 26, 1930; Center, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1356973/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fannie Brown Booth Memorial Library.