Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 184, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 16, 1937 Page: 7 of 8
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DAY, SEPT. 16, 1937
Classified
LOST AND FOUND
LOST: Elgin pocket watch near
Blue Bonnet Service Station.
Reward. Notify George L.
White, Merkel.
AUDITORS & ACCOUNTANTS
Ben M. Davis & Co.
Mims Bldg. Dial 581
Abilene, Texas
HATS, cleaned, blocked and re-
styled by an expert milliner.
75c and up. Mrs. E. A. Boice,
007 E. Third.
SAVE up to 25 per cent on paint-
ing and papering. Act imme-
diately. L. J. Dyer, 801 E. Ave.
B. Phone 2542.
1% Is All You Pay
Special Introductory offer
Borrow $50.—Repay $50.50
Borrow 30.—Repay 30.30
Borrow 15.—Repay 15.15
Borrow 5.—Repay 5.05
$5 to $300
To steadily employed men and
women on plain signature
Personal
FINANCE COMPANY
Rm. 1, Aycock Bldg. Ph. 431
IF INTERESTED in hand knits,
Dial 408. Yarns. Free knitting
instructions. 1101 Locust.
FOR 8AIR
FOR SALE: Good red wheat
seed, $1.25 per bushel, also
cotton pickers wanted. M.
H. Norwood, Dora, Texas.
FOR SALE: 300 ft. block of land,
west of hospital. Sold in one
tract; purchaser could make
into 12 50-foot lots. See Guy
Morris, 907 E. Third.
FOR SALE: 20 room modern
brick hotel, completely furn-
ished, located in Roby, Texas,
in the oil play. Write or wire
R. R. Stolley, Austin, Texas.
FOR SALE OR TRADE: Beau-
tiful lock home, 502 E.
Twelfth. Inquire Mr. and Mrs.
,1. M. Nidi, 1209 Lamar.
EOR SALE: FUR COATS. .lust
10 samples; must sell at once
at sacrifice prices. New 1938
styles, $27.50 up. Mrs. J. E.
(Coots) Cunningham, Phone
2238.
BARGAINS IN TYPEWRITE-
ers. See us first. McCaulley-
FowlCx* Ins. Agency. Blue
Bonnet Hotel. Dial 2491.
OUR BOARDING HOUSE
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SWEETWATER REPORTER, SWEETWATER, TEXAS.
With Major Hoople
PAGE SEVEN
OUT OUR WAY
PID SOMEONE
LOSE A COIN)'2 1
SEE YOU ARE DOWN
OKJ ALL FOURS, POKING
THAT BIG SMELLER
OF YOURS INTO
- EVERYTHING/ TELL
ME WHAT IT WAS
SO ~L CAN HELP
YOU SWIFF IT OUT/
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X HAVE MISPLACED MY
STRIPED TIE, DRAT IT/UMF-FUFF/
A VALUED PRESENT PRESENTED
TO /ME. BY THE OWLS CLUB IN
APPRECIATION OF MY SUCCESSFULLY
Piloting our little craft
through the troubled
WATERS of THE DEPRESSION —
IT IS BEYOND MY COMPREHENSION!
THAT 1 CANNOT RECALL
WHERE I PLACED IT—SPUTT —
SPUTTr 1 AM POSSESSED
OP THE MOST REMARKABLE
MEMORY— EGAP/ 1 CAN
STILL "RECALL COMPLETE
CONVERSATIONS THAT 1
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JONES BEAUTY SHOP
Genuine Oil Steam Wave .$1.00
Eugene wave, complete . $2.00
Other waves reduced—all work
guaranteed.
509 Cedar St., dial 2449
THE SOUTHWESTERN Life
has assets of over Fifty Mil-
lion Dollars. Joe II. Boothe,
Representative.
WANTED TO RENT
WANTED TO RENT: Furnish-
ed or unfurnished bedroom
near hospital. Beulah Bell
Winhurn, Sweetwater Hospi-
tal.
"apartments for rent
FOR RENT: Furnished apart-
ments. Phone 484.
ROOM AND HOARD
WANTED: Boys to room and
board. Reasonable rates. In-
quire Ell E. Ave. B.
WANTED TO BUY
WANT TO BUY: Hens to dress;
will pay 16c for 5 lbs. and
up, 14c for 4 to 5 lbs, and 11c
on leghorns under 4 lbs.
These prices good this week
only. Western Produce Co.
Phone 512.__
WANTED TO BUY: A good
used sewing machine. Address
Box 100, Care Reporter.
EMPLOYMENT
WANTED: Woman for general
housework, 1005 Oak Street.
ROSS SECRETARIAL SCHOOL
for young ladies, will open
Sept. 10th in Suite 224-5-6. A1
len Hotel. Day and night class-
es. Enroll now. Phone 821.
WANTED: Middle aged wom-
an to cook. Also yardman who
can milk. Phone 2612.
TWO MEN with or without car
for sales work in Texas. See
Mr. Rochelle at Commercial
Hotel, 6 to 8 o’clock._
WANTED- Reliable white girl
for general housework, care
of children. Health certificate
required. 409 E. Ave. B.
FOR SALE: Several nice resi-
dences in northeast part of
city. B. C. McCall Real Estate
Agency.
118 ACRE improved farm for
sale, reasonable. Terms. R. C.
Oliver, 405 Johnson St., Big
Spring, Texas.
P0!NY EXPRESS’
FIRST ISSUE
FRIDAY
The first 1037-38 issue of the
Pony Express, Newman High
publication, is to be distributed
among students Friday. This
paper is written by the stu-
dents of the journalism depart-
ment under the direction of
Miss Laura Sheridan, who re-
ceived her training at Texas
This publication, financed by
the advertising of local merch-
ants. is published monthly.
1 Editor of the Pony Express
is John Palmer Leeper, assis-
tant editors; Evelyn Harris and
Mickey Tubb; Horace Young is
associate editor, and Roy Sou-
day is in charge of the sport
department. Marcello Moore is
business manager. j
Other Members of ('lass
Other members of the jour-1
nalism class, who act in the ca-
pacity of columnists, reporters,
and members of the business
staff are. Thomas Allen, Wan-
na Ruth Beal, Henri Elizabeth
Brown, Mary Louise Chambers,
Bertha Eberle, Scott Allen Greer,
Marjorie Moore, Margaret O’-
Keefe, Elizabeth Paddock, Gar-
land Rayborn, Mable Sheppard,
Pat Slavden, Dorothy Rowland,
Joyce Whaley and C. P. Wood-
ruff.
The Pony Express is a mem-
ber of the Texas High School
Press Association and plans to
send representatives to Austin
in April to enter contests in
copy-reading, feature story writ-
ing. news writing, editorials,
and other phases of newspaper
work,
Oil Compact To
Meet Oct. 14-15
AUSTIN, Sept. 15.—(UP)—A
meeting of the Oil States Com-
pact commission will be held
at Houston Oct. 14 and 15. Col.
Ernest O. Thompson, chairman
of the compact commission said
today. The Houston Oil World
exposition will be in progress
at that time.
'(Like an elephant
a hoople never
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TO SUPPORT, AND BILLS TO PAY. I'VE WORKED
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Sweetwater, Texas
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Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 184, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 16, 1937, newspaper, September 16, 1937; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth559964/m1/7/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sweetwater/Nolan County City-County Library.