The Gilmer Mirror (Gilmer, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 127, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 9, 1924 Page: 1 of 4
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PUBLISHED DAIL
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IN THIS WAY THE NEAPOUTAN SAID
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Saturday and Sunday Special
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De lucius water melon am mighty fine
And de yellow legged chicken is in line,
An’ the hind leg ob de possum can’t be beat,
But Oh, Lawdy, Frick’s Fruit Hash am good to eat.
THE FIRST AMBITION OF THIS
BANK IS TO JUSTIFY THE CON- .
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TO BE TRUSTED BECAUSE Or
ITS GOOD JUDGMENT AND CARE-
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। Advertising Is the life blood
Leo Hart, W. M. of prosperous trade.
Nowhere in the world of business is “Honest
Talk’ more in demand than in the relm of fi-
nance.
The outstanding success and marked popu-
The Oldest and Strongest Hank I Ujebor Cnrary.
To Upshur County Farms Eri- Personai Mention of Those Who At
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where he had broken down, and son, Jack Bonner Crosby, went NEW AUDITOR’UM
after assisting him to get going to Dallas Thursday to have ~. AT SANDHELL
again, the crowd returned to ack Bonner’s tonsils and
town, and everyone that went adenoids removed. They return-, The pew 40x50 Auditorium at
c n the trip either of the two ed Saturday, and Jack Bonner is Sand Hill, is nearing completion,
days, returned to town in a getting along fine It < nlv lacks the painting now.
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cf cotton being brought in by
Mr. Gerbish, was overtaken
it is a well finished, and commo-'----
1 dicus hall that will be a valuable E
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= crowd repaired to the Shepperd n Gilmer. — .
# farm where he diversifies with . ----.— •, neighborhood, and four of the
— cows and the shipping of butter Mrs. Newell Bennett of Long- 70-p< und melons were cut and
fat. There was a general dis-, view, is here on a visit to Mr furnirhed an ample feast for the
cushion of conditions similar to and Mrs. R. B. Bennett. crowd. They weje pronounced
these1 on previous occasions, ■ — - by the entire assemblage as the
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where the crowd had visited., Mrs. C H. Stores of Kelsey, best they ever saw /
Coming on towards the Jefer- , departed Saturday morning for Mr Abney.te ok th • er wd it
son Highway near Gladewater, a visit to Waco and Lbbock.. to his watermelon patch/nd
the Gilmer contingent came on - —- - — shewed how they were shading
back heme on the Highway,!. Mr. T. E. Smith and family this dry weather, he/haviwy
heme for dinner. _ i and Mr. Travis Dayidson r turn- kept working th< m.longhing
in the afternoon the crowd ed Friday night from a visit to and keeping a dry mulch over
went to Glenwood, stopping at Hughes Springs and lilen. the ground to retain the moist- =
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W. Simpson, who was the speak- Gussye Tucker of Newsome,
qc of the even.ng for Mrs. Fer- ; who taught at Ore City school
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His cotton which of course suf- and son and daughter, Mrs Pat cf these melons. Abney stood a
fered for want of rain, was Marshall and son, Neil, and Miss niece of rind un side of him
about as fine as any in the coun- Lula Boyd, have returned from that reached the full length of
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outing at Camp- his leg.
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watermelon feast; Returning to after a week’s visit in Gilmer, toss over the fence.
Gilmer the crowd went out to the guest of Mrs. Dave Dou- His cotton vloughed the same .
the farm of Mr. R Gr. Friddle. phrate. way was. standing the drouth =
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Mrs. Francis L. Meyers re- make half a bah1 f< the acre ■ ■
Friddle uses a great deal of fer- turned Thursday from a visit to He had about 75 large melons prpA IC AM
tilizer and believes in intensive Mrs. Dora House in Mineola, loaded ready to market Satur-Ky\
cultivation, sprays his orchard,; Mrs. House 'accompanied her day morning, but a great many. ------
and has fine fruit, to which the home for a short visit in Gilmer, of the visitors yrchased and
crowd helped themselves, has- --- ।hauled in an extra one.
his farm scientifically terraced ' Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Aldredge To give an idea of the length
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The 8th Episode of
The Way of a Man
Abo a Two reel Comedy
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Crystal Theatre
VOL. 9. No 127
Hear, O Israel, the Lord oul
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er mething that the community j
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pre nd of it will be a great con-!
venience to the community in
GILMER, UPSHUR COUNTY, TEXAS SATURDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 9, 1924.
BARNWELL & WARREN.
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C. Abney’s Friday
Evening.
Messrs. H. M Smith, Harry'
Rutledge and Lee Robertson of j cf Bethesda Lodge No. 142, A Dr. J E. Robertson is mak-
this city, Mr. Goode Blackstone F. & A. M, will be held Saturday ing some splendid improve
of Big Sandy, and Mr. H. R. I night, August 9th. . merits on the pretty home he re
Simmons of Pritchett, are off to I The District Deputy Grand, cently purchased frem Mrs.
the State Rural Carriers Con- Brother W. H. Pierpont,'of Mar- Rosa Christian on Montgomery
venticn to be held at Brown- shall, will be with us, and all street.
Master Masons Are invited to be ---------——-
where the crowd enjoyed a to her home in Dallas Saturday < ncughto wad up in a ball and
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$ ‘‘The smiling, Fighting King of the Ouldoors' in
the biggest, most pretentious picture he has ever
made.
SATURDAY ,
Hoot Gibson
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men of that town, and the Fittsburg, are visiting relatives ors fr m town, besides the fam-। 3
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Ft rguson speech in front of the 6:4 ——-
c< urt house Saturday afternoon,
in which he said that unless the The infant daughter *>f Mr-
people elected Mrs. Ferguson and Mrs. V. B. Phillips of Green
ye country was-going .to the ville, died Friday. Mrs. Philips
devil, and introduced Judge R was before her marriage, Miss
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MONDAY, and TUESDAY
RAMON MOVARRO
The perfect lover of the screen, as
Jamil, the Bedouin Sheik’s sen.
ALICE TERRY
The heroine of "Scaramotche, ” as t be
< fiery American girl, in
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being started as we went to
press Saturday afternoon
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GOOD DAILY MiRltOB
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Screened in Algiers and Tunis wi h thousand ef
desert tribesmen in the great mob scenes.
Show Starts 3 P. M. ADMISSION 10 and 20 Cent*.
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The second day of the Trade Little Miss Myra Selden is Mr. C. C. Abney, the premier
Ti ippern, r"cropinspection quite sick watermelon raiser of Upshur ~
get-to-gether visit of the ——^^»^M»uaU(^nxilfiKLa_llumber of his S
en of Gilmer to the Mr. Mathis Elder of Tulsa, friends out Friday evening Io
sections of the county,' Okla., is visiting hs parents in attend the cutting of the extra =
carried them first to Big Sandy , Gilmer. ; fine melons he had saved for #
Thursday where they were ----- seed. #
joined by a number of the busi- Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Smith of There were twenty-two visit- =
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Tucker, George. The Gilmer Mirror (Gilmer, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 127, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 9, 1924, newspaper, August 9, 1924; Gilmer, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1432322/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Upshur County Library.