Gainesville Daily Register and Messenger (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 124, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 23, 1939 Page: 9 of 12
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GAINESVILLE DAILY REGISTER, GAINESVILLE, TEXAS
SATURDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 23, 1939.
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HOLIDAY GREETING
of business in this community. W ith gratitude in our
hearts for your loyal patronage through the retail
WITH BEST WISHES FOR A
grocer, and for your warm friendship, we wish to
MERRY CHRISTMAS
pause in the friendly atmosphere of the Yuletide to
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extend to you and yours our Sincere and Best Wishes '
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for a Very Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New
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- We are ready for you and anxious that you arrive. We are expecting this
to be the most Glorious time of the year. Christmas is a time when every-
one is happy a id we want you to be no exception to the rule.
You have been very kind in the past. We appreciate it and expect to further
our service to you during the New Year.
National Guard Trucks
Visit Orphanages in
State of Oklahoma
to the sanitarium at Gainesville
Sunday for further treatment.
Miss Gwen Morrison of Dela- *
ware Bend was brief visitor here '
Christmes brings out the finer qualities of
your lives. Because of our spirit of unselfishness
and our acts of love, manifest at this time, we
are left with a feeling of supreme joy. We are
made better and stronger to face a New Year.
May such an expression be yours is the best we
can desire for you at this season.
SCHAD’S MARKET
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pound apiece for each orphan.
Every Letter Read
The commission members read
of Grandmother Norton, held at
Mount Zion Thursday afternoon.
She was the mother of Mrs. G. O.
Renfro of Muenster.
Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Reason and
daughter, Mrs. Wilbur Webb, vis-
ited her brother. Mr. and Mrs. Bif-
fie.Burkett and family at Marietta,
Okla., Sunday.
Miss Darleen Biffle and Harold
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wish for happiness that lasts
not merely through the holi-
day season but throughout
the year 1940.
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They are the other members of ' girls in the orphanages this year
the commission. One, C. D. Mitch- will get, in addition to their other
We wish to pause in our happy Christmas celebra-
tion and say to our friends far and near that we
are thinking of you and Want to thank you for
your patronage during the past and that we are.
looking forward to a continuation of friendship
and association with you and yours.
May your happiness be manifold and untold bless-
ings come your way through Christmas 1939 and
the entire year 1940.
READY FOR THE RE TAKE—The last world war never saw anything like this: news-
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they decided the state legislature’s mas.
appropriation for the orphan’s । He also is contributing 3,900
dhristmas was far too small to | pounds of English walnuts, a
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Gainesville Oil Mill
and daughter were visitors at
Gainesville Wednesday afternoon.
There will be a community
Christmas tree and program at the
Methodist church Saturday eve-
ning.
Mrs Leonard McConnell of Gor-
donville visited her daughter. Mrs.
J. C. Butt last week.
ell, is a banker, and the other, Ken- | gifts, a tube of lipstick because
neth Hudson, is a lumberman. Halliburton remembered when hi
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spends a week flying around the
state in his twin-motored airplane
to check up on what the orphan
childrn want for Christmas.
He has some assistants, . too.
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every letter from the orphans and
try to grant each one's request to
the fullest extent. Last year,they
fulfilled 95 per cent of the re-
quests.
The commission was created two
years ago by an act of the legisla-
ture. Officially, its functions are
confined strictly to Christmas ac-
tivities, but members also have
taken steps to correct improper
conditions in some of the orphan-
ages.
really satisfy the children.
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So they “ went back to their
funeral of Raymond Denton at
Liberty Sunday afternoon.
Miss Claude Mae Clegg, who is
employed at Whitesboro, has been
called home to attend the bedside
of her father, S. J. Clegg. -
Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Crutchfield
Rosson and other relatives and
friends. "
Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow Cain and
baby spent Sunday at the bedside
of her mother, Mrs. W. T. Taylor
of Hood, who is in the Decatur
hospital critically ill.
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Besides that, the members of
the commission are contributing
additional money from their own
pockets. All of the 13-year-ol
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lives at nine each. Pegge Lippe.
Philadelphia painter, was safe-
guarding 19 lives when she fled
from France because of war.
She had been painting ii Europe.
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a red suit. He’s Erle P. Hallihur- home towns and began soliciting
ton, a multi-millionaire oil well ce- money from their neighbors. They
ment manufacturer who, each fall collected almost as much as the
before the Christmas season, original amount set aside by the
MYRA, Dec. 18. Mr. and Mrs
F. S. Piott and Mr. and Mrs. Van
Hill of Gainesville spent Sunday
afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Oren
Gaston and son, Tommie, of Den-
ton.
T. L. Gaston of Denton was a
weekend visitor of friends and
relatives here and at Linn.
Mr. and Mrs. N. Melton and
son, Glen, visited their daughter,
Mrs. Lena Mae Gray and family
in Dallas Sunday.
Frank Hogan of Mallard was a
weekend visitor of his sister, Mrs.
Richard Cain and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred McTaggart
spent Sunday in Dallas with their
I daughter, Mrs. Henry Wheat. They
also visited relatives in Denton
and were accompanied home by
their grandson. Donald Lee Green,
who will spend a few days here.
Mr. and Mrs Alvin Taylor and
baby of Lubbock are visiting rela-
tives here. Mr. Taylor is at the
bedside of his mother. Mrs. W. T.
Taylor in Hood. who is seriously
ill.
Burl McKee of Grand Saline is
visiting his mother, Mrs. Fred Me-,
Taggart. »'
Mr. and Mrs. Fred McTaggart.
Mrs. Dora Fears and Mr. and Mrs.
George Reed attended the funeral
A few weeks when they daughter was 13, she told him sh
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shall of Gainesville was a visitor
here Monday afternoon.
- Mr. and Nirs. Neel Atkins of
Stamford visited Mr. and Mrs. B.
L. Lewter Monday.
Several people from here at-
tended the funeral of Cal Barnes at
Mt. Zion Tuesday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Collum were
visitors at Whitesboro and Sher-
man Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Collum and
son. W. G. Delashaw, L. B. Barnes
and D. H. Lamb were visitors at
Gainesville Saturday.
S. J. Clegg, who has been sick
the past two weeks, was removed
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A murder mystery radio program held more interest for Harry
Leopold, SO, slayer of a Denver tavern keeper, than his own death war-
rant. So Warden Roy Best, right, postponed reading the warrant (held
in his left hand) until the program was over. Then Best supervised
Leopold's execution in the Colorado prison lethal gas chamber at Canon
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OKLAHOMA CITY, Dec 23
(UP)- To the 3,000 children in
* Oklahoma’s 23 orphanages, Santa
Claus is a strange fellow.
It used to be that he never quite I
got 'around to visit them on I
• Christmas Eve, but all that has '
been changed now and next week
the orphans will be sitting up late
listening for the roar of National
Guard trucks and Santa Claus.
Santa Claus comes in the guard
trucks because he's the state of '
Oklahoma and can do what he likes ।
with them. Santa Glaus has an of-
fice in the state capitol. The sign I
» on the door reads; "State Santa ,
Claus Commission.”
It's the only one of its kind in ■
the nation, but the orphans like i
it because it's a real Santa Claus I
.. and brjngs real toys and gifts.
Check Mnde by Plane
Chief Santa doesn’t look much i
like the popular conception, but
he works just as hard at his job
as if he wore white whiskers and
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day with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
J. G Biffle.
Mrs. A. R. Andress spent the
wrekend in Childress and attend-
ed the golden wedding anniversary
of her sister. Mrs. John Hayten,
and Mr. Hayten. Sunday, Dec. 17.
Rev. Preston Springfield of Fort
Worth ‘delivered sermons at both
morning and evening services at
the Baptist church Sunday.
•Mr. and Mrs. Thad Harrison and }
children of Bellevue were weekend t
visitors her mother, Mrs. J. T. I
HOOD. Dec. 20. — Rev J. M.
Cochran fillo-1 his regular appoint-
ments here Sunday at the Method-
ist church.
Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Taylor and
son of Lubbock are visiting rela-
tives and friends here.
Oscar and Hubert Perryman- of
Shawnee. Okla., visited here Thurs-
day.
Glen Felker, who has been sta-
tioned at Fort Bliss, El Paso, re-
ceived his honorable discharge last
week and will arrive here Friday
to visit his mother, Mrs. Luella
Felker.
Mrs. W. T. Taylor is seriously
ill in the hospital at Decatur. All
her children have been attending
her bedside.
Misses Anna Beth, Gertrude and
Betty Meyers and Maggie Beth
Shaw of Denton, spent the week-
end with their parents.
Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Gordon vis-
ited Mrs. J. P. Gordon at the Den-
ton hospital Saturday. Mr. and
Mrs. J. P. Gordon are the parents
of a girl, bom Dec. 15. She has
been named Brenda Lee.
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