Wise County Messenger (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 3, 1929 Page: 4 of 8
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Thursday, October 3, 1929
WISE COUNTY MESSENGER
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Oetober i. 1909.
Entened at the Post Office at Decatur, Texas, as Second Class Mail Matter
Misses Boyd, of the Oak Grove com-
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TO IRRITATE PASSENGEES
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J. E. Boyd September 20.
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NOTICE TO THE PUELIC
John J. Sehnabel returned Saturday
first opportunity of seeing
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is said that more than two
writes Mr. Adams, "that all noises are
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TOMATOES, No. 1. 2 15c
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1 During the years 1871 to 1899, Fort
Smith, Ark., had the greatest criminal
court in the world.
Life is a never ending struggle.
Both sorrow and joy it brings.
The severest hades it deals us
is • the - sa me - old - things I
Wichita. Kan.. is the center of the
airplane building activity in the Unit-
ed States.
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Bottles are now regularly throwm
from vessels at sea to help solve the
mysteries of ocean currents.
Hillsboro (Via A.B.C. Motor line)
• Waco (Via ABC. Motor line)
Marlin (Via A.B.C. Motor line)
Cemeron (A. B C. Motor Line)
Bryan (Via A.L.C. Motor Line)
Hearne (Via A.R C. Motir line)
Navasota (Via A.B.C. Motor line)
Hempstead (Via A.B.C. Motor line
• Houston (Via A.B.C. Motor line)
Galveston (Via A.B.C. Motor Line
A length of garden hose split and
slipped over the teeth of a saw being
filed, is a handy arm protection.
Tolbert
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Quanah
in ihe fun and frolic at
booths.
Eight of the 12 governors who have
served South Dakota's 20 terms are
living.
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Take a few lessons from nature—
Life will grow light as it sings.
You’ll find it kaleidoscopic
Never - the - same - old - things!
Juicy CaliS.
Oranges
Firm Head
Cabbage
Tokay
Grapes
< ‘ompkete
Circus,with
World’s
Biggest
Menagerie
Twice daity
Before
Grandstanu!
Four times in 10 years Alex Fewell,
farmer of York. H. C., has seen light-
ning set fire to his house.
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Stooped, the shoulders of sameness.
Arched into leaden, gray rings.
Show, Agricultural Shuw, $10,-
000 Band Contest, Football and
other big attractions!
Free Parking Inside Greunde.
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Watch Our Windows for Other Good
—SPECIAL PRICES--
। wife has a waist and doubly glad you
I have a wife to button a waist for
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Office of Publication—Messenger Building, BSG West Walnut Street.
Next to Postoffice
There's an element, 'way down within
us.
Out from each one's heart it springs.
That makes us most awfully weary
of . the • same - old ■ things!
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"Our C> untry ! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always
be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.” —Stephen Decatur.
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Member of National Editorial Association, World Press Congress, and The
Texas Press Association
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• Childress
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Estelline
Newlin
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Bridgeport
Chico
• Jacksboro
Bryson
• Graham
Jeremyn 4 Via Graham)
Jean (Via Graham)
Loving
New Castle
Olney
SPROLES
MOTOR FREIGHT LINE
(Atlas of the moving world)
The German city of Hamburg now
has a population of 1,127,800. This is
an increase of 25 per cent over 1919.
Movements are under way that look
to the early construction of the great
Buckner dam, near Bridgeport, and
when that reservoir is built, look for
one of the most fertile sections in the
ESTABLISHED LN 1880
PUBLISHED IN THE DAIRY CENTER OF THE GREAT SOUTHWEST
The Delaware river bridge has a
clearance above high water of 135
feet.
‘ catur more I han fifty years ago by
ad. «'A
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The West Texas Chamber of Com
merce will hold its next meeting in
El Paso—and Juarez.
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THE MOST WIDELY CIRCULATED NEWSPAPER IN WISE t’OlNTY
the late D. Waggoner, his initial ven-
ture in the business world being a
N.B.C.Ssamtmkee
I tendance will break the best records
of the famous Churchhill Downs races
in Kentucky, where the classic derby
is run annually. Seventy thousand
MACKREL, 2 cans
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Is No SUasTITUTE ror CIRCULATION
shopping in the city
But happy, sure, is the butterfly: (---------- ----------
Nor - chases - the ■ same - old - things! j button. Some men's wives who have
1 waists with buttons on to button don't
SUEW 1Y CLATTER FAILS
have been invested in
"Variety is tlie spice of life.”
It’s spice that gives the tang to things.
A change? Yea ’ That’s spice, indeed !
Fut the same ’ old - thinga!
Dmh’t kiek because you have to but-
ton your wife’s waist. Be glad your
munity, were
Saturday.
A son was
lington, will have its initial race meet
in November, starting on the Gth and
continuing until the 1Gth. inclusive.
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born to Mr. and Mr*
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Any err neous reflection upon the character, standing or reputation of any friends and relatives,
firm, person or corporation which may appear at any time iu the column of
the Messenger will be gladly corrected upon its being brought to the attention from a visit to Corpus Clristi.
Of the publisher.—DICK COLLINS. Publisher.______________________________ capt. Brady and his military
* Dallas
Grand Prairie
Arlinscton
Hanley
» Fort Worth
Saginaw
Rhome
* Decatur
Alvord
Sunset
• Bowie
Post Oak (Via Bowie)
Vashti (Via Bowie)
Montague (Via Bowie)
Newport (Via Bowie)
Bel levue
Henrietta
Blue Grove (Via Henrietta)
Halsell (Via Henrietta)
Ringgold
Nocona
• Wichita Falls
Symour
Dundee
Holliday
Byers
Petrolia
Burke Burnett
Iowa Park
Electra
Harrold
Okla Union
• Vernon
It appears that Governor
The rangers say Borger is a hot bed
Show, Poultry
Rangers going into Borger to bring
about law and order in a bad town,
reminds us of the day. when citizens
in a city of Texas, years ago, appealed
the sove rnor to send rangers to
qnel a riot. Capt. nMeDonald
ent to look al. nt the trouble. When |
the train pulled into the town “ con.
mittee from the law and order leagu
was preseni to greet the rangers. Off
stepped Cupt. Bill, and up rushed the
35c pkg. Now32c
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The western town of Borger gets in
the limelight again. and today armed
soldiers are patrolling the streets of
i the town. The marshal and mayor
have been taken in tow by rangers.
' who are working with the soldiers,
and some sensational news is due.
vated cars: and they frequently fail
asleep in that great clatter.
"Generally speaking, It may be said
that the noise that falls to arouse
your imagination is neither harmful
nor annoying. You hear noise like
that with your ear, but not at all
---I A. P. Tankersley ( Fort Worth. has
been in the city this week, visiting
not harmful noises. Nor lias volume dollars
Arlington plant and horses.
I committee. "Where are the rangers:
Pound
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Two w< men went on Hie warpath
one night this week, and when thel
smoke from their revolvers had clear- !
ed two husbands had gone to King-
dom Come. A Dallas lady became
blood-thirsty when her "I rd" choked
her, and she shot him to death imme-
diately. A Kansas City woman be
came ’ peeved when her husband "P-
braded her for playing a bad hand in
1 ridge She pulled her trusty revolver
and pumped him full of lead. 1,1 each
case so reports from the p lice 527:
a quantity of liquor was found in the
rooms where the frolics were staged.
pkg. 21C
i dollars in purses have been arranged
The thcusands who daily squeeze by the Waggoners, and il is said that
their way to work via the New York there will be special races 1 at
subway appear quite unconscious of worth ten to twenty thousand 40 ar-
the terrific din raging about them. re- The racing kings of the nort > a“
marks Franklin 1’. Adams. famed east will have their strings t ere a
journalist in the current issue of thousands of lexans will ave 1 61
Liberty magazine, first opportunity of seeing ome o te
“It has been proved past and doubt," racing world's most noted fizures
* Indicates Terminals. Regulated by the laws of the State. Second
morning returns on C.O.D. Shipments. Merchandise handled shipers order.
Connection made freight delivered to reliable freight lines at Childress
going nerth—Wichita Falls, south—Ft. Worth—points west and southwest
--Dallas north and east—at Waco going south to San Antonio and
intermediate points.
Bonded and Insured—When you have some-
thing to ship in or out of Decatur, call or see
J. D.Breedlove, local agent.
Beef and
feeder Cattle
irst week.
Dairy Cattle
ast week.
Other cattle
dso.
Like will take to like: a white
pigeon will not fly with a crow.
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Eona CO A?2 Cans
B Chum Salmon Can 17c j PARED
2 CONDENSED Milk . Can 19c,Post Toasties 2
pany have been invited to attend the
! Taft-Diaz meeting in El Paso on 17th ..... .... ... .
of noise anything to do with eficien-
Dr . C Bramlett has purchased 1 cy 1,1 thought or work. The continu-
the Joe Perkins residence on West ous noise of the New York subway.
1 . , I for example. is terrific. Yet hundreds
Main street. 1 , , ...
Lola Lively of Olney, and Tal Live-of thousands of passengers daily are
unconscious of it.
Rutabagas « 316 J"
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The battle of New Orleans was
fouglt over a month after the sign-
ing of peace by England and America
Waggoners propose to make Arlington
Downs one of the best and most popu-
lar tracks in the world. The vast
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CTI AR. 10 lbs.
I asked one - f the leading ciiizens Some of the best and fleetest hordes
I "Hen I am," reyliedl the veteran peace ' in the w rid will be entered in " ♦
I | officer. "You have only one ri t her. : meet, and it is predicted that the at
I ba ven’t you."
that the po r continue to participate a
The fall plowing can continue: the
sister of Vice-President Curtis says
she will surrender her place at stale
dinners and receptions, when the
prime minister of England visits
Washington next week.
’ h Broadway
of 150! Ro-
drama.
Is, laughs!
torium show
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SWIFT JEWEL, 8 lb. $110
Pound €6
Dallas. Phone 2-2285
the voting
Toilet
Paper
6 aet23c
23c“FeanastButter 17c
Much ado was made over the wed-
ding of John Coolidge and Florence
Trumbull the other day, when the loy
and girl were joined UP for life. Joln
is the son of an ex-president, and
Florence is the daughter of the gov-
ernor of Connecticut. There’s a
reason!
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care a continental whether they are
buttoned or not. Some men don’t have
any wives with waists with buttons on
to burton, any more than a rabbit.
Automobiles being imported in
New Zealand number nearly twice ।
many as a year ago.
I of crime, and that Ilie criminals are
' being given encouragement by repre
1 sentatives of the law, Gen. Wolters
I is in command f the troops doing
duty in the bad town.
In using medicine Friday. Mr. Lind-
ley has been dosing his eye witli eye-
water. but accidentally got hold of a
bottle of carbolic acid.
Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Logan of Fort
Worth, were here Sunday.
folks hen thisweek;.. 610 Ins: they can think away from the sub- .
Rufus r. nli of a mistake made I w«y: they read-1 should wonder if general merchandise store with the
an eye as a result of a mistake -most of the noncommuting city men father of the present editor of the
and women do nealy all their news- I
paper reading iu the subway aud ele- '
ECONOMY / \
TWINS V •
"a’ 23c
Mustard g:.t 15c
DAILY Ft. Worth 3-2154
selecting his appointees, favi rs the
fellow who cares little for the salary
going with the office. The rich and
prominent can. no doubt fill the places
acceptably, but the records will how
All freight picked up or delivered without
additional charge in city limits, that moves
Via SPROLES Lines.
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galore! I
thrills! I
daily, t ?
12-20.
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K-C Raking Powder 19c
48 'ST $1.59
659 Medium
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