Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 209, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 15, 1937 Page: 3 of 8
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is Wearing Close
SALES
Now InProgress Throughout the Store
Russell’s Sales always carry bona-fide, worth-
while. mark-downs from regular, prices!
The Morrison
Milling Co.
Denton, Texaa
these
beau-
Of Executioner In
Cook Electrocution
Watch the family eat ’em
They will, by Jove.
COMMA
BOTA!
Women s Hats $1, $2, $3
Formerly priced $2 to $5
PEACEMAKER Rolls sure-
ly melt in your mouth.
My last report was a good ohe,
brought new business This repor
is for March, and this is what the
PERPIGNAN, France. April 15 —
(-Six American*, were sentenced
to one month in prison today on
from the fact that in 33 yours
he has survived:
Seven dog bites.
Five snake bites.
Three automobile wrecks.
Two motorcyicle wrecks.
Being buried in a cave in
Being suspended head down-
ward from a tree
Leites.” and Eh
the church at
i
LA MODE
SOUTH SIDE SQUARE
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Proof That It Pays
To Keep Protected
Then's Rhythm in
This Madcap...
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Be Like-T-
to
“Mama got mine at
LaMode Sale”
ed by the cotnmitte
Mrs. C. K Hastings,
Try them just once on your
kitchen stove.
T. A. Council
to Fete Teachers
The City Council of PT A wiu
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Sur
GOWNS
$119
$5, $7, $10, $15
Formerly priced $7.95 to $22.75
t »« ■ • a •
double action of
Vces
Mrs. Trigg Meet*
With Roanoke Club*
Always Use
Morrison’s
Peacemaker
Flour
Fest For All Rome
Baking
Southerners
them,
Huh. you
South.
MORRISON’S
PEACEMAKER
JINGLES
Gabardine with
Patent
KID
3 Days, FRI-SAT-MON
STORE-WIDE REDUCTIONS
ON SPRING MERCHANDISE
eremed .1 odversed
SeegKeusekeopih
Season" your
‘dark frock with
it! “Spike" your
wildest print with
it! Let the harmho:
ny of straps lead
-a merry chase
'round your foot!
And be the first
to wear it!
Children’* Anklet*..............
"• (Basement)
TO WORK BELEW CEMETERY
FRIDAY
A public working will be held at
Belew Cemetery Friday, April 11
The public is invited.
.__. - .,___-group to
have been arrested within a week.
code. Their parents would be
men who hope some day to marry
them would begin handg out blows
where most deserved That certain
models are no better than they
ahiould ba is just as certain as sin
itseit. Any protesston that numbers
J
quellties? I nave never
ty to walk the worid when it,washt
Men’s Dres*
SHIRTS
Newest Patterns
98c Each
Paul’s letter to
llllppl Opening
MODERN
uN
NATIOI
ADVER
Missionary Study
For Women’s Group
The First Methodist Women's
Missionary Society met for mis-
sionary study in the church Tuesday
afternoon beginning the study of
tthe text, “The Radiant Heart" <C.
J. Harrell). Mrs George Welch pre-
sented an outline of the first chap-
ter, titled "The Story Behind the
M***----
4 GORE SLIPS
Full Cut, A Fine Service Slip.
89e Regular. Now
69c
Regular $2.19 SUpa
SATINS AND CREPES
New
___ $1.89
Substantia Reductions on All
SILK CREPES And
SATIN PAJAMAS And
-GOWNS..
KNEE LENGTH HQSE
Remlar n gallty, Beaeuirul
Sheer, Perfect, Extra Special
sAFtE lse
Mrt A. A. Miller, secretary of the
W M 8. of the North Texas Con-
ference of the Methodist Church,
g,
Survive* Many
Mishaps, May Try
Parachute Jump
“Cradle Song” Is
Movingly Played
Brooks Drug Store
Phone 29and39 We Deliver
T2RMS
•1 down, 12 r M
monthe to pay
Stuart .
Plumbig Co.
Phon 41 -
218 w. mekomy
prayers were by Mrs. E. N Wilson
and .Mn.' C. N. Adkisson. Thirteen
members attended.
STAINLESS now J yQU prefer
in danger. !
Them are a great many opportun-
lues for -iimsarnu nmfaiing -m nn
merits of the appiicant **Mf- Mag-
ezines, advertising, publicity, mer-
chandlsing—any number of aven-
tee an open to beauteous girls. And
Uie legitimate rewards are satisty-
ing. . e. r
I merely state a few facts veri-
fied by much testimons, to prove
that a gir» UN MB be a ian-
aged that ne matter what she does
for a liVine, she can escape eriU-
elsm.
AMONG SICK
Mrs. Howard Oibbs of Argyle ia
quite 111 In the Denton Hospital
Mrs Opal Geesllng of Lake Dal-
las is a medical patient in the Den-
ton Hospital.
Mias Helen James was able to be
removed to the Teachers College
hospital Thursday after iliness in
the Denton Medical and Surgical
Clinic. -
Spain to volunteer in the -
merit army. They were arrested
Their April 9. the third free
Adorable
Dresses
8
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MORRI •-MeCLENON
Fitemste mw.Rten
,885"
A large audience paid tribute to
the S C W. Little Theater's moving
production of Martinez-Sierra’s
"Cradle Song." Wednesday even-
ing. which will be repeated at 8:15
o'clock tonight.
At no time this season have the
players surpassed their work in the
farewell scene of last night’s play,
when te nuns in silent grief
embraced for the last time the child ,
they had raised from Infancy Miss ,
Frances Gosney of Denton gave a j
claim paid at once and m fulL.
One was tor small death claim ac-
caount of car wreck, the other
checks went to parties who had been
sick or had met with slight acci-
dents. I am now wrting a million
dollar lecture on the difference be-
tween a lapsed policy or no policy
at all. and one fully paid and in
good standing I have been more
than forty years saving up per-
sonal facts for this lecture and
those who will stay to hear it will
shed barrels and barrels of tears.
Don't think for one minute that
it is impossible for you to be laid
up with a long spell of sickness or
suffer with several broken bones be-
fore this. year is out. Don’t start
on that trip until you have seen
Fyffe about one of those M B A.
Safe Travel Policies. 411 South Lo-
cust St. Nuf Sed.
Laxa • esak k t Mb
You can buy A
PITTSBURGH
Water Heate
AMAS
few
A Supreme Slip Vlue!
DREAMLAND CREPE
Blas, 4 Gofe, Straight, 11.11
Retelar, Naw
>1
The Benjamin Lyon Chapter,
D. A. R- will meet at 3:30 p. m
with Mrs. 8. 8. Stroup. 307
Normal Avenue, and Mrs. J. W.
Mitchell and Miss Gertrude
Wear.
The Fortnightly Bridge Club
-will meet at 2:30 p. m. with
Mrs R. W, Zilar, 1903 Bell Av-
enue.
The Friday Bridge Club will
meet at 2:30 p. m with Mrs
Fawn Dunlop. WO North Lo-
cust Street,
BUY IT IN DENTON
Jewish, Christian
Speakers at S. C. W.
Three outstanding speakers from
the National Conference of Jews
and Christians win be heard in
a program sponsored by the Dallas
Rotary Club, In the 8. C. W au-
ditorium at 8;15 p. m Monday, April
19 The general public is invited
to attend the program, for which
there will be no charge.
Speakers will include Father Mi-
chael J. Ahem. 8 J- conductor of
the Catholic truth period on the
radio and instructor at Weston Col-
lege in Massachusetts; Rabbi Ed-
ward I. Israel of Baltimore, Md., dis-
tinguished leader i social reform
and chairman of the Commission on
Social Justice; and Dr. M Ashby
Jones of Atlanta. Ga, member of
the-International Council of Re-
ligious Education and editor of a
newspaper feature. "Texts and Pre-
texts."
DALLAS, April 1^—<47—The an-
nual State Baptist Sunday School
Convention was nearing a close
here today with election of officers
and reports of committees scheduled
for tonight. Pending also were reso-
lutions favoring racetrack betting
repeal and temperance.
Dr Perry Webb, pastor of the
First Baptist Church, San Antonio,
was the chief speaker today. •
— — — to faculty,.E
the Denton sahoois Frtdl
at * p to in the Wert WI
it was planned at a
meeting of the council, T
teinoom.
Fourteen members of the Roan-
oke womens home demonstration
club attended a demonstration on
loaf quickbreads. Wednesday aTter-
noon in the home of Mrs. J. M
Noah in that co.vnunity. Mrs Ed-
na W Trigg, county home demon-
stration agent conducted the meet-
ing and gave baking instructions.
Wednesday morning Mrs. Trigg
met with 24 members of the Roan-
oke Girls 4-Club.
Imported Irish Linen
sum
Black, Brown, Navy, New
....... 35.98 ■ •
SMOCKS, tAFFRYA
fn BensuinW Colors,
THE VANITY SHOP
Shop of Style and
Personality
SIX NEGROES PLEAD GUILTY
TO GAMING
Six negroes, arrested by city po-
lice Wednesday night, pleaded guil-
ty to gaming Thursday and were
fined by Mayor J L. Wright. *13
each in four cases and *14 each
in two cases where the defendants
had recently been in court on sim-
ilar charges. The six were arrested
by City Marshal I. E Jones and
Officers Luther E. Allen and Ray
Powell in a raid on a dice game,
they said.
ed president of the Lee School P -
T. A at a business meeting Wed-
nesday afternoon on the school, and
the group voted to sponsor a bene-
fit operetta to be held at a date yet
to be announced. Other officers
elected are: Vice president; Mn.
Richard Buck; secretary Miss Glen-
na Harris; treasurer, Mrs. Jack Hes-
ter.
GIRLS
A recent triple murder in New
York it hM inspired much morai-
sing--k was that kind of • murder
Evary so often New fork has ar*
and the moth and the flame are
temporarily rushed to the fore as
exhbits A and B These symbols'
have been doing duty for many
years and they will no doubt con-
tinue to do so as long as any read-
ers of this column are alive.
Many maidena in many places
will be told that to be good is to
be happy and no end of copybook
maxims will be forthcoming to
strengthen this theory.
Mah factors conspire to bring
about such tragedy in the lives o
+1. ceX hkeet i de » +N Aik b** wiMhvah
in owe desuned to air DY vIoence:
The worst part about murder is that
it does not stop there t the back-
ground happens to be provocative
and the character glamorous. “
One's Part Dug Up
The enterprising newspapers
launch their own bright young re-
porters on the case and in nq time
there is scarcely a move or a mis-
take made by the victim over a pe-
riod of 10 years that isn't trotted
out and held up to the public eye
for analysis.
I sometimes think that if murder
would stop at murder It might be
best for the victims, who are usually
entirely helpless in the matter and
whose reputattons frequently are
rallied for all time. — .....
I would like to think that the
lapses, slight and otherwise, that
sometimes enter the lives of beau-
tiful young women would benefit
other similar yotmg women But
they win not
I one of the many millions of
fascinating young women no win
circulation should happen to be,
murdered under the same cireum-
stance* as we are now considering,
the same ritual would be applied.
Every man and every woman is
the exception to the rule. If any-
thing happens it is invariably to the
other person. We are all immune-
until the death sentence is read.
I am not pretending to say wheth-
er the beautiful model recently slain
in New York was or was not a mad-
el of all the virtues. I merely make
charges of attemj
NEW YORK, April IS.—IM—The
American Telegraphists Asociation
today declared a general strike
against all vessels pane* by the in
ternational Mercantile Marine now
in United States ports. Four ships
with thirteen operators were affect-
ed fmimediately and other ships will
be Ude up upon entering port.
Airmaid Hosiery
CLUB. IM PAIR FREE.
New shipment of spring and summer shades.
CUBATAN, NOONDAY, AVENUE, PLAZA, and
SMOKE MIST, priced—
PLAY DAY FOR
SCHOOLS MAY 14
May 14 be observed as play
day far the elementary schools and
Junior High School ot Denton. D L. I
has announced. Track and field
Ligon, director-general of the event,
events for both boys and girls, and
other contests, will be sponsored by
the Teachers College Physical Edu-
cation Professional Club, and will
be held in the afternoon at the col-
lege recreation part.
The Junior High School win par-
ticipate on the basis of contests be-
tween home-rooms of the school.
Other contests for boys from all
schools taking part will include
marbles, washer-pitching, and horse
shoe pitching; and for girls: jacks,
hop-skotch. soccer kick for distance,
and baseball throw for distance.
WILMINGTON, N. C., April
15—(P— William H Pitched
salesman, is planning a para-
chute jump just to pove he bears
a charmed life
AT MOVIES TODAY
TEXAS—Last day. Charles Boyer
and Jean Arthur in "History Is
Made at Night"; News events; Re-
gis Toomey in "Sweethearts and
Flowers"; "Birds in Love," color
cartoon.
PALACE—“Charlie Chan at the
Opera"' with Warner Oland; ■ Pat
Rooney Jr. in “Hold If”; “Music.
Music, Everywhere" with Clyde
Lucas and orchestra. . ,
DREAMLAND—Last day. The
Mighty Treve"” with Noah Berry
Jr and Barbara Reed; Deanne
Durbin in “Every Sundav"; "Dot
slander the
It’s Time to Think Of
. SPRING APPAREL
We have all the newest
fashion details to offer
you, and invite your
visit.
p —, - sympathetic, excellent portrayal of
Events Tomorrow Siogerc°annanearendinepenamonn
STYLE SHOW
Interesting showing of
dresses made the SING-
ER way. Also Draperies
and Slip Covers. FRI-
DAy,76 P. M.
don't like
Substantial 1 jeductions On AH Spring Millinery
GRANT VOGUE
CHICAGO, April —(—John
mechanic, was seized by Federal
Anthony Buzas, 18-year-old garage
agents today and charged with
sending sn extortion letter to Gin-
ger Rogers demandinig $500 under
threats of death to the Hollywood
actress “or anyone else who gets in
the way."
NEGRO PLEADS GUILTY IN LIQ-
UOR CASE
R J Haynes. negro, charged with
possessing liquor pleaded guilty in
County Court Wednesday evening
and was fined *100 and costs. He
was arrested in a raid staged by
Sheriff Dallas Curtsinger and Dep-
uty Constable E B Floyd that at-
temoon.
Childrens Colds
Vm Yield quicker to
enair-
w: * Mann, conmen T
president, and Mm* R Q. Ham-
mood. K. woPrvence, LM Ei-
son. Boozer. R. W. Bass, P. M.
Brickey, Eugen* Daria, Jae strong,
Glenn E Allman. V. Y Craig, ’and
Ttortn-J. Fauta ■
minded gins, to be sure But then,
what MMnam orprotesstonrdoes net man. Mrs.
BENTON, TEXAS, THURSDAY, APRIL it, 1*37
Mrs Houston Eggleston was elect- memladkim
MEH," “a - _
texta I 1* a calling for rtreog-
39c
Lawns! Organdies! Ba-
tistes! Plain colors and
printed! Washable! Col-
or-Fast! If you want
your little girls to look
their sweetest, hurry in
for these! They'll love
them! Buy plenty!
its basket, and later in the final
scenes: here was the most Interest-
ing role of the play.
Particularly good characteriza-
tions were given also by Miss Eliza-
beth Petzel of Denton as the pain-
fully precise and virtuous vicaress.
Miss Mary Walker as the vivacious
Teresa, and Miss Mary Gene Frank-
lin as the understanding prioress.
Emory G Horger directed the pro-
duction. which closes the season for
the Little Theater, and also com-
pletes the current Drama Series.
3.95 Silk Frock* .............
: - (Basement)
All Spring Silk
DRESSES
$6.98 Values No*
~~ >3.98 ~~
$1.98 PRINT SMOCKS
Pretty Patterns, New
89c
SAiN find CREPE Slips
Blas and 4 Gore. Regular
$1.79 Values, Now
>1.49
ALL $1.79 PAJAMAS
In Assorted Colors, Now
>1.59
gtRING HOSIERY
til Ne* Shades, 2 and 2
Thread, $1.19 Regular, No*
$1100
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SPECIAL
CHICAGO, April 15—(P—Dum-
my switches—an Innovation in the
grim procedure of electrocuting con-
demned prisoners—will cloak the
Identity of the executioner of three
convicted police slayers tonight
Warden Frank Sain of the Cook
County 'Chicago) jail has added
three dummy switches to the board
in the death chamber so that none
of four jail guards will know which
has been assigned to the fatal
switch.
MH. L. A. Sharp wil speak at the
meeting of the Dnton Garden Club
next Monday at2:30pm.m the
8. C. W rock.garden, the weather
pepmatting fiescribing informally
her recent pilgrimage to Misslssppi,
Alabama and South Carolina gardeh
points, •u.
Mis. J. H. Weems, <1* Withers
Street, underwent a minor opera-
tion in the Denton Hospital Thurs-
day. Her eonathion is good.
S. A. Pritchard of Wainwright
Street is ImpsOved from *rtttca; 1l-
nesec in the Denton Hospital
WIREBRIEFS
deputy assessors at work in the
county, Assessor-Collector R T.
Haynie announced Thursday.
Since all taxes are to be render-
ed by May 1, the official requested
that all property-owners who have
not seen the assessor should come to
the Denton office and render their
taxes.
' L
'. .. .21
County Assessing \Oiticers Elected
Nearly Finished by ICard P.-T.
the point that every indiscretion
she ever committed has been un-
earthed from the dusty files of yes*
terday. ____
Live Conservatively
The only moral I can possibly
draw la: Be conservative. I you
cannot be conservative, at least
leave no lose ands flapping Thing*
invariably look so very bad on the
printed page
It * In me, too, to feel very lor-
ry for the profession that model*
for a living I have known many
estimable young women in this line
of work They were hard-working
girl*, guted by nature so that their
fadees are their fortunes
These girls would resent any claim
that they side-stepped the moral
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McDonald, L. A. Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 209, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 15, 1937, newspaper, April 15, 1937; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1539873/m1/3/: accessed June 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Denton Public Library.