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Thursday, October 16,1947
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HAIR & POOL
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
General Practice
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YOUR FALL WARDROBE
For Your Car
That neat as a pin, well dressed appearance is
no accident.
Seat Covers
Floor Mats
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scientific methods . . . dry cleaning that not
suits and coats.
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Heaters
Have that spruced-up, well-groomed look this
fall. Come here for dry cleaning of perfection.
For Your Home
Wool Blankets
FOR SALE
Heaters
Radios
1 - 1947 STUDEBAKER
Elmo Glass Men’s Wear
also
RADIO, HEATER, OVERDRIVE and SPOTLIGHT
Good stock of Christmas
CLEANING AND PRESSING
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merchandise
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Use our lay - away plan
NEW MOTOR, PAINT and TIRES
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KERMIT MOTOR CO.
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HIWAY PACKAGE STORE
L. R. NUTT, Owner
Phone 390
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ONE DAY ONLY
AFTERNOON and NIGHT
Our modern display arrangement enables you to
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make easy selection from our fine stock of Whiskiesf
FOR KITCHEN and BATH ROOM
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Liqueurs, Wines, and Gins.
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BEAUTIFUL TILE FINISH
Assorted Colors
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AUSPICES KERMIT FIRE DEPARTMENT
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Picture Framing
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BROS.
WORKMANSHIP GUARANTEED
CIRCUS
THINNER AND OIL
Tal Turner, store manager, welcomes you and
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PIONEER
assist you with party planning.
Paints and Varnishes
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Made for Southwest Climate
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Bill Wynne
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POPLAR STREET
SHOW GROUND
Quarterback Club
To Stage Sports
Events Oct. 30
BANK RATES ARE LOWER
KERMIT STATE BANK
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Batteries
THEY GET RESULTS
BANK RATES ARE LOWER.
Post Office Facing
Courthouse Square.
PHONE 135
Paints, Varnishes, Stains, Wallpaper and all kinds of
Material and Tools for Home Decorating
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Presenting a Plethora of New.
Novel, Strange, Startling and
Tremendous Features.
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Rare Wild Beasts From
Everywhere.
3 Rings - 2 Stages - Hippodrome
With Features From All Parts of the Globe
METEOR-CADILLAC.—Pictured is the new $6,000 Meteor-Cadillac combination ambulance-
hearse placed in service this week by Maples Funeral Hime.
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NEEDS CALL THE WINKLER
COUNTY NEWS—PHONE 124.
With: Captain Hugh Bennett, fam-
ed wild animal trainer; The Knight
Family of high wire performers;
The Larkin Troupe of bare-back
riders; Swede "Buck" Johnson,
rodeo and western screen star, and
scores of other features unparalel-
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Office: Fifth Door North of
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NOTHING CUT! NOTHING
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Tree - Planting
Program Slated
Sunday By Scouts
Beautification and landscaping
pf the Boy Scout Park, surround-
ing the Scout Hut, is to begin
Sunday afternoon, when members
of Troop 66 will plant the’ first
trees in the area. Trees chosen
for the project are elms. While
the Scouts already have located
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At a regular meeting of the
Kermit Quarterback Club, which
was attended by thirty-six mem-
bers and guests Monday night, the
club made plans for a competi-
tive sports evening the night of
Oct. 30 between halves of the
Junior High and Bee team games,
A. H. Linne, annoucnced.
Four events will be held; in-
cluding passing for distance, punt-
ing for distance, kickoff for dis-
tance and kicking extra points
for accuracy.
The Quarterback Club has ex-
tended invitations to the officers
of the following organizations to
field teams: Kermit Lions Club,
Veterans of Foreign Wars, Ameri-
can Legion and Kermit High
School 1947 football squad. The
Quarterback Club will field a team
and will be in charge of running
of the heats.
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Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Kelly of
Plainview visited their daughters.
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SWEETHEART.—Attractive Bobby Noles, recently elected
Sweetheart for the local 20-30 Club, is shown as she sang “Feudin’
and a-Fightin’ ” at the club’s box supper and barn dance in the
American Legion Hut Saturday night. Miss Noles is a student
in Kermit High School, has brown hair and brown eyes, and her
songs Saturday night rang the applause meter at 100—and she’s
Twenty-Thirtian Sweetheart!
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Mrs. Charles Ives honored the
Kermit Dirt Daubers and Coach
Neal with refreshments at the
Ives Cafe following the Kermit-
Fort Stockton football game.
promises courteous, prompt service. He also will
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a number to transplant, still more
are needed, according to Clyde
Carson, Jr., scoutmaster. Any
Kermit residents who have extra
trees or shrubs are asked to
contact Carson at Apartment 3
in Kermit Veterans Housing or
at The Winkler County News.
The boys will be working Sun-
day afternoon -and assistance of
adults will be welcomed.
Regular meeting of Troop 66
was held in the Hut Tuesday
night, with Rex Palmer, district
scouting official, present, The boys
enjoyed a number of sporting
contests, and made plans for the
tree planting.
Recent activities of the troop
have included a number of hikes
in preparation for a two-day hike
into the Davis Mountains in
November. A hike Sunday, to the
south and east of town, resulted
in a number of items being
brought in to decorate the Hut.
The new Boy Scout camp site,
Needle Rock Camp is located on
the Strain Ranch.
Father of Kermit
Resident Passes
Away in Lubbock
Funeral services for J. T. Pip-
pin, 70, father of Mrs. Floyd Led-
better of the Fashion Shoppe, were
held Sunday afternoon in the
Brownfield Church of Christ, with
burial in Brownfield cemetery.
Mr. Pippin died in Lubbock
Memorial Hospital Friday night at
10 o’clock after undergoing major
surgery the preceding Wednes-
day. He had been ill about one
week.
All of Mr. Pippin’s children were
present at the time of his death.
Kermit residents attending the
funeral services were Mr. and
Mrs. G. P. Mitchell, Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Medford, Mr. and Mrs. A.
D. Millinax, and Mrs. Maude
Leslie.
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TEXTONE — BONDEX — KEM-TONE
Mrs. Bill Medcalf and Gladys
Jenkins, this week.
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Paint and Paper Co.
ACROSS FROM CITY HALL
KERMIT — PHONE 548
AFTERNOON—2 P. BL
NIGHT SHOW—8 P. M
Doors Open 1 and 7 P. M.
PRE-WAR PRICES
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Williams, Nev H. The Winkler County News (Kermit, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 16, 1947, newspaper, October 16, 1947; Kermit, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1457779/m1/6/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Winkler County Library.