The West News (West, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, August 6, 1937 Page: 8 of 8
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WEST, TEXAS, AUQU8T fl. 1937.
Scientist Puts Old Sol to Work
Dr. Charles Greeley Abbott, secretary of the Smithsonian institution
and director of the American Astrophysical observatory at Washington,
D. C., is shown setting up his solar boiler at the Great Lakes exposition
at Cleveland. The device, hailed as science's first successful effort to
translate solar energy into usable power, would yield a total of 70,000
horsepower on cloudless days, according to Dr. Abbott.
FIRST BALE BRINGS
15c PER POUND PLUS
"FIGHT
PYORRHEA!'
With
Mayo Bros Home
Dental Prescription
LARGE
SIZE
30-PAY SUPPLY
$1.00
«( I j-mrlln* Hra, Hf
Mayo Bros, l aboratories
l.o* Angrfet, Calif.
Duib BroadrAsi H %-(-O
10:18 m.. ft. m.
A new traffic hazard was dis-
covered when a car driven by Ha-
rold Ulln-y of Indianapolis collided
with a street The treet. overheat-
ed. blew up beneath him and
damaged the front of the car
ft
Accused of assaulting a playmate,
a 12-year-old boy was sentenced by
Justice O C Brewer of Pulaski, Va.,
to read seven fables
*
"It was just a clay when I wasn't
on my toes, said Charlie W Keller,
fortune teller, when he was struck
by an automobile in Kansas City
ft
If mothers would teach their
boys to knit, embroider or crochet,
there would be less juvenile delin-
quency,” deciare Charles Hoyt, bar-
* ber of Kewanee. Ill
ft
Because her husband complained;
that he didn't like to be burdened
i by a wife, Mrs. T. F Goodrich of
Los Angeles won a divorce and $20
i week alimony
$85.50 PREMIUM
Julak's Cafe...........
......501
.leli.n Grocery
.. .50
hrtstian Hardware
. 1.00
3est Theatre .....
.... 100
Dtveny Insurance Agency
.... 1.00
,'alace Barber Shop
.....50
.loyal Confectionary .......
......50
luneeek Bros. Meat Mkt.
..... 1.00
Uamo Garage
..... 100
G. Gerik ..................
. 1.00
.Vest Service Station . ...
...... 1.00
Higginbotham Lumber Co.
. . 1.00
Community Store
100
?. &M Warehouse
1.00
Harris Dry Goods
1 00
John Mikullk
. ... .50
Ben Keen Dry Goods
..... 1.00
The Texas
1.00
Wolf Store
1.00
Package Inn
. 1.00
Rud. J. Marak
1 00
Ray Motor Co
1.00
West Flour Mill
1 00
Chas. Kocian
.50
Barton Tailor Shop
.50
Cervenka & Vanzura
1 00
Highway Garage
.50
West National Bank
250
West Bottling C'o
1 00
Frank Prlkryl
25
Cechoslovak Pub Co
2.00
State National Bank
250
Walla Oin Co
200
West Gin
2.00
l J Kostohryz
50
John Zapalaz
100
L E. Garrison
50
B V. C. Mills
1 00
Adams-Denton
1.00
Jack Archer
1.00
W Q Bryan
. 1.00
West Oil Mill
250
Frontier Inn
100
E F Grimm
1 no!
Popp Bros. Grocery
100
Kramer Beeer Agency
50
Hill County Lunch Room
100
Silver Dollar
.50
Penelope Items
Miss Rcba Berry hill is visiting
In the Horace Creswell, home at
Ben Betty hill and daughter ol
Gladewater spent the week-end
Berry hill.
An tone
h. me by Miss Lois
Koptek and family of
Tallahassee, Fla. -
da will be offered
FLORIDA SETS UP NEW RULES POLICE BLAZE ON SCHEDULE
- A new Flori- The San Antonio police depart-
to the winter ment Saturday had experienced Its
tourists when they begin their an- monthly fire. Trash In the elevator
nual pilgrimage next season. shaft at the police station caught
Trere-l! be some “cussln" but fjre sending billows of smoke pour-
therell be some praise too for the1 mg into the cells on the third floor,
state solons who enacted many laws The blaze was quickly extinguished,
that will make the change | Just a month ago there was a
The state solons said slot ma- similar fire In the elevator shaft,
chines had taken some $60,000,000 ajso pUt out without damage.
to $70,000,000 annually from tourists. —_n_
Then the solons, who in 1935 legal-1 LIGHTNING STRIKES
ized them, banned them. j SAME MAN TWICE
Cattle roaming state highways
has always been a nuisance, or so
Mrs. C. D. Brylie and children j
of Van Horn, Texas are visiting
in the home of Mrs. A. J. Zinn.
Mrs. J. H Westberry, Oscar Dan-
iels and wile and Ruby Lou left
Monday morning for a visit with
friends and relatives In New Mex-
ico.
Earl Jones, wife and Mrs. W A.
Scruggs left Sunday morning to
visit relatives In Durham, Okla,
J. R. Height of Hubbard spent
Sunday In the home of George
Green and family
Tom Rankin and Miss Miwelle! an£_ftnBl y.“td no
Mcgee were united In marriage at, .. ,-
the home of Rev F H Ingram at | W"e ®on8l‘!cred when the subject, diameter.
wish them a bon voyage on the sea
of matrimony
Mrs Harry Middlebrook and Mrs.
Miss Nell Carter of Ft Worth;
visited hmefolks here this week ;
J H Mabry and family attend- ■
ed the McGllvery family reunion I
at Cameron Park In Waco Sunday. I
Jim Hartls and wife, Basil Har-j
t is and wife and Harold Hartls j
MRS R D. CARTER
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ONE-LEGGED MEN
CLIMB MOUNT HOOD
Southland Ice 0
Geo Fuston
Rud Kolar
Pioneer Gin Co.
$MAkiM
ViceM I
a
WRITING, PORTRAIT
AT BEST THEATRE
Wednesday Night, August 11th.
FOR ADULTS ONLY — ADMISSION 25c
Children under 16 years not admitted
Portland, Ore. — 81opes of Mount i
50 Hood were conquered recently by’
100 two one-legged men, John Hennen j
50 and John Davidson, who succeeded i
ginning ln their determination to reach the j
top of the 12,000-foot peak despite!
their handicap
The men made the climb ln se-1
NO CHARACTER KEY ven ancj one-half hours from Tim- j,
Lexington, Ky~ Don’t judge a berIlne ruad' considered excellent;
man's character by his portrait or time by tbeir RuldPS
his handwriting, advises Prof. Her- ECONOMIST WARNS
man W. Martin of the University of_ q,- 1939 DEPRESSION
Kentucky department of psycholo-| _
gy. While he bellves there may be Washington, Pa. — The next dc- i
some truth in the old saying that pression will come ln the summer1
the camera doesn’t lie, "it doesn't or fall of 1939. That is the prediction
say much either,” Profesor Martin of Edward Payson. Cleveland eco-;
says. nomlst. In an address here Payson
Tests conducted by his classes, based b*s Prediction on the fact
the psychologist asserts, have dem- *ndpxps of business activity all;
onstrated that It is impossible to P0*11^ to another depression j
judge general ability and character *'hicb> be said. would be "sharp' .!
bv a photograph and that hand- next depression will last at.
writing is not an accurate means least two h? Predicted,
of analyzing character
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CHEVROLET PRODUCES
OVER MILLION CARS IN 1937
i
NEW COMET SOON
TO BECOME VISIBLE
Me Kcsson's Tooth
Paste, 25c size
19c
Me Bessons Shaving
Cream, 25c sixe
Me Ktsson s Shaving
Lot fen. 59c size
19c
39c
>lc Kcsson’s Baby
Powder, 25c size
19c
Citratid Carbonate
$1.00 size
89c
Me Kesson's Mouth
Wash, Pint
49c
West Drug Store
WEST,
TEXAS
Chicago — Appearing first in the
heavens as a dim star, Finslcr's
The year 1937 take* Its place a»'comet ls pxpp<',pd 10 bpcome vlstb,p
the third successive year It. which 10 tbe naltpd eye' astronomers at
Chevrolet has produced more than YeJ?es obsprva*flry satd
one million units and the sixth _ c°met' flrst 8een July 4 at
I time in the history of the company ?ur‘ch' f^rland. will be visible
! that more than one million cars Ju',t “f* 0 fthp north star ln the
i of any one model have been built. C™S^Uat on °* UTrtsaf “V*1*- and
The millionth 1937 model Chev- will ravel south ts tall will not be
rolet was completed at the com- vlslblf and the
nany's Flint. Mich., assembly plant ^ w'l reach Its brighter point
•wo weeks after the production of A.up“h»■« h expected to fade from
the 13 millionth car since the ^w about Auguat 31.
founding of the company 25 years FIND 0LD CATACOMBS
aS° I ' UNDER HUNGARY CITY
The first year ln which Chevrolet! -
produced more than a million units Budapest — Several miles of ttn-
was 1927 In 1928 and again in derground passageways dating from
1929. the company built more than tbe middle ages have been dlscover-
a million cars and trucks Produc- ed under the city More than 11
tion passed the million mark rrd*es these curious catacombs
again in 1935, repeating the are now open ,be publlc The
achievement In 1936 Chevrolet led subtprranean passageways were ex-
the entire automobile industry In lab°rloudy during the
sales during eight of the past ten urk ah invasion when they served
as refuge and escape for the be-
leaguered garrison The catacombs
are supplied with wells and were
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Plan Your Trip to
1 Pan - American Exposition
DALLAS
via INTERURBAN
as that term is defined in H. B.
77, second called session, 14th
legislature, as amended by H. B.
5. Arts of the Regular Session, 45th
Legislature, and S. B 2*. Acts of
the First Called Session, 45th
Li gislature.
Said retail package store is to
be located at “Y" on Highway 3,
at city of West, Texas.
Shadow land Package Store.
Jos. F. Hoiasek
years.
LEGAL NOTICE
provisioned to withstand long sieges
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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
State of Texas
County of McLennan
Aug. 6. 1937.
Notice is hereby given that an
application has been filed with
the Texas Liquor Control Beard
at Austin, Texas, for the issuance ..
of a retail package store permit, I "““P* Clty
j Commission on the 24th day of
The citizens of West are here-
by notified of the Public Hearing j
on the City of West's budget for
the period from April SI si, 1837;
i to April 20th 1938. to be held In ;
the regular meeting of the
‘August. 1937 at 7 30 p m In thel
jCItv Hall,
O B HELTON, Mayor i
-o-
Joseph Kranz of Duluth had his,
3-foot beard burned off when It
caught fire from hi* upset pipe.
With a pistol he purchased at a!
five and ten cent store, Elmer Ford.
held up an Oklahoma bank and
robbed it of $500
Without work for five yean, W. *
Harris of Flint, Mich., finally ob-!
tained a WPA job and lost his first
pay check of $18.
In exchange tor a postage stamp, j
8 C Berger of Seattle. Wash., re- j
eelved a house and tot The stamp
DAYTON THOROUGHBRED
Tire Sale
—on-
CREDIT
EVERY SATURDAY
No Credit Charges — No Interest
Charges will be made
GOOD TRADE-IN ALLOWANCE
FOR YOUR OLD TIRES
Why pay more when you can buy
Standard Dayton Thoroughbred
Tires here cheaper?
BE WITH US SATURDAY
Capital Garage
WEST, TEXAS
West Ice Delivery
Delivering Geyser and Southland Ice
Will Appreciate Your Business
We are grateful for your past patron-
age and support and hope to con-
tinue to serve you.
Meat Curing a Specialty
W j have an experienced man in
charge of the curing of hams and
breakfast bacon. See us for best re-
sults. We also have ample room for
all types of refrigeration storing.
All accounts are payable weekly
and must be paid each Saturday at
the Geyser office or service will be
discontinued.
West Ice Delivery
Crocket Closner and E. C. Goodman
PHONE 50.
t
Broadus, Mont. Lightning ne-
the solons were
still enjoy the.iw.lves. “ ‘t ? K1 ,,
thfTnn e 1 b‘s hat Two minutes later, re-
tne pennies and nickels of tourists . «
might swell the coffers of the state; coverad bl! *"■ bp wa*
if taxes were placed on such items
as soft drinks .ports, cigarettes and ^ ^orXs
other "luxury" taxes There Was! 'V was^deaf for days
also talk of the sales tax PLANE TIRES WEIGH
But the solons debated passage of 380 POUNDS EACH
these *1 railed “nuisance" taxes -
Akron. Ohio — The largest alr-
The wealthy winter tourist also, plane tires in the world, 5t* feet ln
2 feet wide at the base
; to permit passage of an Income tax pounds each, have recently been
law came up And again the solons built by the B F Goodrich compa-
said no ny for a new fleet of 40 passengers
The solons also said no on reduc- super transport airplanes More
1 Ing from 90 to 42 days the residence; than 45 miles of tire cord were used
requirement of divorce actions. In the construction of each tire
i
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The West News (West, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, August 6, 1937, newspaper, August 6, 1937; West, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth590195/m1/8/?q=%22~1~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting West Public Library.