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THE MEXIA WEEKLY HERALD
Office with th« Newt Publishing company
Entered at the postoifice at Mexia, Ttxai, as second
flass mail matter under act of March 8, 1879.
The Country Prsss
In England, where almost everyone can
have a London morning paper at his break-
fast table, newspapers published in small
towns have become more parochial than in
this country and often have been neglected.
■Today, however, as England facets the poa-
sibility of mobilization for a new war, the
importance of the country press is becom-
ing recognizcd anew.
The British leaders are aware that
winning a war involves mobilization of
more than military, naval and air forces.
Industrial production must be regimented,
food supplies conserved and equitably dis-
tributed, and public opinion whipped into
line in support of the Government's war pol-
icies. In gaining these ends, the local papers
are just as important as those in metropol-
itan centers. *;
In the United States, the more enlight-
ened politicians and industrial leaders have
been aware all along of the importance of
the country weekly as an organ of news
and opinion. No matter how many Urge
dailies a small-town resident may take for
"his national and foreign news, he depends
•"on local paper for news of tuighborhood
happenings and for grassroots opinions.
Since the day of the hand press, the
country editor has been one of the real
leaders of his community. His aid is one of
the earliest sought when any public im-
provement or civic campaign Is desired. He
makes little money, but he has the satisfac-
tion of helping to develop his home town
and of upholding the most basic of our
American traditions.—Dallas News.
Good Meals Are
Urged by County
Home Dem. Agent
Murder, Suicide
Verdict Given
Result Killing
DENTON, Feb. 9. (UP).-Lea-
He Cai*ell, 35, unemployed for-
mer WrA worker, killed his di-
•V 'OR A KIRK MAN ;
(Co, Tronic? Dem. Ascent)
■~f> have rs giiod meal? a* cir
, >ar !i->r.c,>ft will permit, and meals]
'fct4 v. :'i meet the nutritional! fitted suicide in the woman's
---e.e.eJ.'v oC 4?he individual, should be \ -room at a boarding house in San-
§ >ha Rfn! "of..every family. GotwH **r' * *m*" tnw" "ear
1 voiced wife "mst night, then com-
-:• ill
ffieta .ieps'fiil iVot ho much on the 'The couples' five children, Agree
FDR REVISION
PLAN OPPOSED
BY SENATORS
By GORDON K. SHEARER
UnitMl Pre** Staff Correapnndent
AUSTIN, Peb. 9 — Texai
•«n«tor* and congre« men today
were requested by the Texaa Sen-
ate to oppose Pneiident Roosevelt's
plan to incrtase the United States
Supreme Court. The vote in the
Senate, composed entirely of Dem-
ocrats, was 22 ayes to three noes,
There was one pair.
At the same time the Senate was
in morning-long debate over the
proposal, The Texas House votgd
95 to 38 against a resolution that
would have recommended the pres-
ident's suggestion. The commend-
ing resolution had been drafted by
Reps. Lonnie Smith, Fort Worth,
and Churels Rutta, Columbus.
But three senators voted against
the request which was aent to
Washington. A. M. Aikin, Jr., Par-
is, questioned the advisability of
one representative body advising
another body elected by the same
people.
Sen. Wllbourne Collie, Eastland,
thought the resolution went to far.
He feared it might be considered a
protest against a small increase in
the Supreme Court membership,
which he thought advisable.
Sen. Claude C. Wesfcerfield, Dal-
las, was flatly against the resolu-
tion. Sen. Allen Shivers, Port Ar-
thur, spoke against the resolution.
He was paired with Sen. Frank
Rawlings, absent, Shivers voting
no and Rawlings aye.
Sen. Clint Small, Amarillo, vot-
ed against substituting a milder
[resolution for that which he and
Sen. T. J. Holbrook offered to the
Senate yesterday, but after the
substitution had been made by vote
of 21 to 3, Small voted for its a-
doption.
Holbrook joined a dozen other
senators in signing the milder res-
olution, remarking: "Some of the
senators don't want to take their
IpJU straight."
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£ranct:n* .mrfyey jt as on
:. fvutfitiv* vis'ir* of tdifferent
rS'.ectad for it.
■rr. On* nui.H riu'.ntain ?. no or I bal-
** c iw'iahydi'fitus. proteins,
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til?
rr;
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COll'I
if Ih?y rr
iv-*! t'i? nu'r
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it's pvOv'-'fiK r.r- f'j"
"■dr. Ihc«*isrc' Hi"
elements
:e, water and
to have mee.ls
onnl n??H? of
:tbet« t<s9ix is cbtcrn
■.-pv.ovtnt of \vo"l; and r
f'ivhi-irl mcmHpr. of
Artimil piv-finh' hay
IV, mily.
and \TtTC-
producinjc
ii'VOunt of
!i;ird by the j
xcrc'-ie of in- j
the family, j
the added
from two to eleven years old,
watched is horror as their father
shot their mother in the head
and then put the pistol to his
own head in dfired.
Residents of the rooming house
| *aid they heard the couple quar-
I relinjf some time before the shoot-
\ ing occurred, Cazsell demanding
j that his former wife, Reta, re-
marry him. She obtained a" di-
I voice a year ago in Denton, on
grounds of cruelty and recently
had been working in a WTA sew-
ing room here to support her
children.
"function of building new tissues of
-•-•the Mdy, and keeidnir in repair the
£"old oner, Our- bodies are so compii-
eated in form however, that car-
- bohydrates, fats, and protein are
• not ruf'eit"t to supply all of the
•" needs. Minerals as. rafcium, plio?-
' "phoru.-. iron and iodine are equally
important in the functioning and
:"repair of tlvctsody—calcium forms
;ra large part of the bones and teeth.
ar.d iron is needed in the blood and I
"".ether body fluids. Many of the dis-
eases attributed to malnutrition '
Justice of the Peace W. H. Lain
returned an inquest verdict hold-
ing that. Mrs. Cazell's death was
murder and that of her husband
sucide.
Mrs. fa>./.e!l is survived, besides
her children, by her parents Mr.
and Mrs. R. A. Jones, who live
on a farm near Sanger.
R. L. Mftddox has recovered;
from his illness, and has resum-
ed his work.
Gaming Charge
Filed Against
2 Houston Men
are said to be caused from a lack J Miss Florine Stoveall has re-
of vitamins. A ita'nin A found in j turned home from Chicago, where
leafy vepetables, egg yolks, butter,1 s^e has been attending a busi-
eream, cabbage, rutabagas, yellow ; nW„ school.
corn and sweet potatoes. Lack of I . _____
Vitamin A caur.es eye disease and
rickets. Vitamin B. secured from
turnips, beets .tomatoes, oranges,
carrots, potatoes, etc., a lack of vi-
tamin B causcs a lack of appetite
and slowing of Metabolism. Vita-
min 0 found in tomatoes, uncooked
' greens, oranges, lemons, fresh
fruit, raw cabbage, and raw milk.
Vitamin C, is easily destroyed by
heat, absence of this vitamin caus-
es various kinds of skin diseases.
It is not expected that every
meal of the day will contain all the
desired food stuff, hut the day's
meals, or the week's meals should
be considered as a unit. Surely In
the course of a week the meals can
have a good balance of sugar,
starch, whole cereal, fat, milk pro-
ducts, meat, and a variety of vege-
tables and fruits.
In meal planning however, no
"menu can be so good that it can be
used day after day, for any food
loses its savor if used in excess:
When planning meals one should
remember that, the sight, of food
starts the flow of digestive juices,
and simple Inexpensive dishes may
look attractive or unattractive de-
pending upon theartistie senee of
the cook. Avoid uninteresting look-
ing meals, drab in color, as boiled
beef, mashed potatoes, buttered
turnips, celery, bread. The meal
should be perfect in balance and
color, do not serve foods together
that clash In color. The clever hos-
tess originates new dishes and new
forms for left over foods. We
irjight say that menu planning is
based upon scientific facts and art
principles. The health of the fam-
ily is the reward for well chosen
meals --wise selection furnishes
the necessary elements, good cook-
jli(t develops the flavor and attrac-
tive service tempts the appetite.
Women in home demonstration
elubs over the county have meal
planning as a part of their home
fcod supply work this year. Most
T, H, Tiuelove wss a Bloom-
ing Grove visitor Saturday.
Mrs. Billie Crider has returned
home from the local
where she ha* been ill
eral weeks.
hospital,
for sev-
Mrs. R. L. Maddox visited rel-
atives in Waco Saturday,
HOUSTON, Feb. IS, (UP)—M.
K. Brown and C. C. Smith were
at liberty under $$700 bond each
on gaming charges here today in
connection with a police raid on
an expensive "residence" yester-
day.
Capt. J. J. Kuykendall, chief
of the police vice squad, began
checking over a list of roulette
wheels .receipts, ledger's IOU's
and other articles seized in the
raid.
Kuykendall s id the IOU's
ranged in amounts from $5 to
$500 and there were two checks
for large amounts—$1,000 and
$2,000 which bore the name of a !
"well-known" Houstonian.
Brown and Smith, arrested at i
the place, were charged specifi- i
eally with possession of gamb- I
ling equipment and with operat- j
ing a horce race book.
"That place was the most ela- j
borate gambling house 1 ever
saw," Kuykendall, a veteran of-
ficer said.
Mias Mary Louise Smiley is
tpe*i4tnf the week-end in Austin.
Mrs. Harry Humble, Mrs. Wil-
ford Sandford, Miss Ruby Bates,
and Mrs. Scott Reid of Oroes-
beck attended Miss Evelyn Op-
penheimer's book review Friday
i night.
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The Big
INER
Lucky Number
SALE
Ends Saturday Night ... We are
\ offering some very usual values
in this sale.
J. I. RIDDLE & CO.
Hardware Department '
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Young Parents
Take Separate
Paths Saturday
FORT WORTH, Feb. 6 <U.fi) —
The paths of Pauline and Henry
Bjrt Mullins, Tarrant county's
youngest parents, went separate
ways today. Pauline was re-mar-
ried and her ex-husband awaited
transfer to a reform school.
Records revealed that 16-year-
old Pauline Mullins, twice a moth-
er, was married to J. R. Inman, 23,
here Dec. 19.
The unhappy wedded life of Pau-
line and Henry ended in a divorce
several months ago. The couple
was married at S3, became parents
at .1*1 and were divorced at IS. A
daughter was born Nov. 19, 1934,
and a son in June, 1936.
Until the first baby arrived, the
two live.d happily. A few weeks la-
ter they quarreled and were recon-
ciled, but only after the husband
had threatened his father-in-law.
They quarreled again in February
last year and Henry Birt was sen-
tenced to a reformatory on charges
that he struck his wife with a ham-
mer.
The husband was paroled to his
father and Pauline got a divorce.
Then the grand jury idicted the
father for non-support of his two
children.
The youthful father and two
companions were arrested last
month at Arlington on charges of
counterfeiting. Federal authorities
gave custody of Mullins to the
county, because of his youth.
Yesterday, Henry Birt calmly
puffed a cigaret as a county court
revoked his parole, given after the
hammer-beating episode and or-
dered him transferred to a state
reformatory.
Mrs. Fred Walkup left fori Mrs. Marcus Clover and Miss
Wichita Falls Saturday to visit j El™* Reynolds spent Saturday!
her mother who is ill. ' j afternoon and Sunday visiting J
; friends in Dallas.
|
Falix Jackson has returned to i
Schreiner Institute where he at- Mrs. C. W. Kennon, Mrs. L. H. j
tends school. I Simpson and R. L. Crenshaw i
Average annual production of
grapefruit in the United States
between 1928 and 1932 was 14,-
730,000 boxes. In 1930 the pro-
duction rose to 27,fi0!i,000 boxes
the largest total ever recorded
in the nation.
There are five "poles" in the
Arctic: North pole, pole of the
greatest cold, magnetic pole, ice
pole, and wind pole.
From the Panama Canal zone
have come several reports of
automobile windshields being bro-
ke • by giant beetles. The insects
grow to a length of several in-
ches and their armored shells
are exceedingly thick and hard.
REAI) THE CLASSIFIED ADE
Parker Brought
Back to Brady
to lace Trial
BRADY, Tex. Feb 9 <U.fi) — Rrcd
Parker, 26, farmer-athlete who ad-
mitted slaying his 42-year-old wife
with a fence rail Jan. 22, wae ex-
pected to be returned here today
for examining trial.
Since his arrest last week, Park-
er has been hold secretly at Baird,
Texas. Sheriff Love Kimbrough of
McCullouch county said Parker
made a written statement detail-
ing how Mrs. Parker, former Fort
Worth school teacher whom he
married 10 months ago, was killed
at their farm home 25 miles north-
east of Brady.
Parker first reported that his
wife died of a head injury result-
ing from a kick by a horse. Last
week, however, he was arrested
and charged with murder. Peace
Justice W. B. Douglas, after an au-
topsy, returned an inquest verdict
that death resulted after she was
struck with a fence rail and narmed
her husband as the assailant.
Parker's statement said that the
rail afterward was burned.
Relatives said that the couple
quarrelled frequently and in their
10 months of married life spent
Mrs. Parker's savings amounting
to several thousand dollars. Offic-
ers have declined to give the mo-
tive for the slaying,"however.
4,
Marriage Licenses
Roy Shinault and Altha Jones.
McKinley Brooks and Pearl
Hughes.
New Cars Registered
Guy Woods, Groesbeck, Ford
pickup.
New civil cases filed in the of-
fice of District Clerk H. C. Fitz-
gerald:
Exparte Shirley Oene Red-
doch, removal of disabilities of
minority.
Frank O. Bernard vs, Anne
Bernard, divorce,
Exparte ,T. D. Gideon, removal
of disabilities.
Shabe Smith vs. Lois Smith,
divorce.
Lena Alexander vs. Everett Al-
exander. divorce.
Bessie Medlin vs. Cecil Medlin,
divorce.
Electrical devices buried deep
in concrete, measures stresses and
strains in Boulder dam.
The North Pole, which is mov-
ing at the rate of six inches a
year, would shift less than a mile
in 10,000 years.
Robert Daniel, a student ofj
A&M is visiting his mother, Mrs.'
M. B. Daniel. j
Mrs. Lake Watson, Mrs. N. W.
Bendy. Mrs. Harrison and Mrs.|
Folsom of Teague were in Mexia
were Dallas visitors Thursday.
Mrs. Pete Whalev and little i
daughter, Carrie .lane, left Fri- j
day afternoon to return to their
home in Dallas after a week's
visit in the home of Mrs.
Whaley's mother. Mrs. Joe Fee-
Friday night to attend the Book P'"- Thpy wer* accompanied by
Roddie Peeple* who will spend a
: few days with them in Dallas.
Review.
\V. S. York and Ira Lawley
were in Mexia late Friday en-
route t>% Groesbeck from East
Texas.
Rev. V. A. Geeo, pastor of Cal-
vary Baptist church, who has
been confined to hi* bed with in-
fluenza for several days is up
again. |
Mrs. Mary S. Bauder returned
to her home in Waxahachie Sat-
urday afternoon after several
days visit here with her daugh-
ter, Mr*. Jack Tatum.
of them work to provide the quan-
tity of food necessary for an ade-
quate food aupply for the year, and
have their meal* planned for a
week in advance will not only save
time, hat will inaure them more
balanced meal* for their families.
Elmer Williams has returned!
to Dallas after several days visit j
here.
Mrs. C. B. Davis is spending [
the week-end in Dallas visiting'
her *on, Cedriek, Jr., who is in j
a Dallas hospital and improving!
nicely following a recent opera- j
tiop.
Mr*. Floyd William* and little
daughter, Karen, Mrs. Layton and
Mi** Margie Frederick* were |
Cor*icana visitor* Friday.
Choose Your
Bank
This Bank trips to deal humanly with our
customers ... to share your common in-
terests ... to serve you with understand-
ing and judgment ... to make this a
Friendly Rank that people like to come to.
DIRECTORS OF
MEXIA C OF C
MEET TUESDAY
The Mexia Production Credit
Association, roads, the Spring-
field park project, a colored play
ground in East Mexia and the
(fisposal of the city's rubish held
the spotlight at the meeting fo
Chamber of Commerce director*
Tuesday morning at nine o'clock.
The park project committee,
headed by Dr. Marion M. Brown,
reported word had been received
from the government that unless
two additional tracts, one on each
side' of the Navasota river, was
secured the park's dam would be
lowered two feet, The committee
reported that the tracts were se-
cured; one was taken by Mexia
at an approximate cost of $100
and the Oroesbcck Chamber of
Commerce subscribed for the
other.
"We will know definitely just
how we stand on roBd matters
within the next 30 days," Leslie
Steele, chairman 'of the road com-
mittee, told the directors. Mr.
Steele said that one and one-
fourth mile strip connecting with
the Milam street overpass will
be paved before April 1, with
contract being let in the next 30
days.
Urged Cooperation
J." I. Riddle, chairman of the
committee of the Mexia Produc-
tion Credit Association, urged di-
rectors to financially support the
Association. Mr. Riddle said with
out exception each town enjoy-
ing an active home building and
repairing campaign has access to
such a credit association and that
Mexia is now in a position to
finance home building through
this Association. Several loans
have already been made, Mr.
Riddle said, but more are needed.
The fact that each dollar invested
locally will allow the Association
to loan four dollars was stressed
by Riddle.
Smith Voted Thanks
A vote of thanks was extended
to E. L. Smith by the directors,
when it was revealed that he had
paid for one-half of the expense
incurred by the Mexia high school
band on its trip to the inaugura-
tion or Governor Allred.
Howard Mace reported work
was resumed this morning on the
Tehuacana rock crusher project
and that the first improvements
to be made on Mexiu streets will
be the fillnig in of th^ skips on
Milam street in order that the
street will be in good conn, n
prior to the completion of trie
Milam street overpass. All of
Mexia's rubbish has been buried
in the eastern section of the
city, Mr. Mace said, thereby re-
moving an eye sore. Near where
the rubbish has been buried the
city plans e. negro playground
HELPS AVOID
MANY COLJS
Especially designed
aid for nose and
upper throat, where
most colds start.
Used in time, helps
prevent many colds.
VlCKS VA tro NOL
and work is being rushed through
the cooperation of a committee
of Kastaide negro citizens.
M. L. McGannon, new superin-
tendent of the Humble Pipe Line
Company, Frank L. Williams and
W. L. Foreman were named as
diii2c\ors to fill vacancies which
have occurred in the body.
The directors voted unaltiinc
ly to renew the Chamber's me
bership in the East Texas Cha
ber of Commerce.
Saxophones may not be impo
ed by the Mexican state of 1
baseo where all jazi music
barred.
FUEL
COAL • COKE - WOOD
Prompt Deliveries
PHILLIPS ICE & COAL
COMPANY
Phone 61
Walter Boyd of Corpus Christ!
ha* returned there after having;
visited here with his brother, Abe
Boyd.
Mr*. D. S. Maddox, mother of
R. L. Maddfrx. is ill with pneu-
monia in Dallas,
Farmers State Bank
In Mexia
f .ft, Xr*
Used Car
Baigains
We have a good
stock
PRICED
LOW TO
SELL
See us first!
Battery
&Tirs Company
Wunstop Duzzit
sMs&Ji
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Men, what about your
clothes? Are they Clean
and Pressed?
Could you get a job
with your clothes un-
kept? Bring them to us.
We'll fix Ihem up right.'
That's our business.
R. L. Maddox
CLEANING AND PRESSING
WHIN YOU BUY THE**
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where's the fun in risking your money on
razor blades? Probak Jr. at 4 for 10<, offers
you a double-edge blade of known quality
Made by a special process, Probak Jr. glides
through toughest whiskers without pull or
irritation. Probak Jr. is made by the world's
largest blade manufacturer. Buy a package
of these smooth-shaving raior blades today.
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Would YOU Give
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Think it over. Put yourself in the place of
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job? Not when you're turned out in clothe? i
cleaned by JIM BRADY! Perfect cleaning
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and keeps up a standard of good appear-
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