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THE MERCEDES NEWS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1928
The pie was dragged through the
streets by 31 horses, and 60,000 per-
sons watched the triumphal proces-
sion. The climax of the story is
lhat when at last the pie was hauled
In to the platform whence it was to
be served, its weight caused the plat-
form to collapse.
One pie, made in 1887, was even
less of a success. When it was
opened it was found to have gone
bad, and a near panic ensued as the
spectators sped away from its odor.
It was dragged by horses to a wood
and buried in quicklime.
--o--
No, Lucille, a racketeer is not nec-
essarily an adept at tennis.
British Miner Will
Try Channel Swim
Brighton, Eng.—(INS)—In a tiny
cottage on the outskirts of Brighton
lives an ex-Derbyshire miner, John
Tomlinson, who is training to swim
the English Channel this year.
To achieve this, he has given up
everything but the bare necessities
of life for years past in order to
save the money to pay his training
expenses.
Tomlinson is a short, sturdy man
with a bright sense of humor. “I
was working in the mines until three
months ago,” he says. “I have al-
ways been keenly interested in swim-
ming, and when I saw the Channel
being conquered, especially by for-
eigners, I made up my mind that I
would have a shot at it, just to show
what provincial England could do.”
STORES
GREAT
OPENS SATURDAY, AUGUST 4TH
PROMPTLY AT 9 O’CLOCK A. M.
WE CAN LIST ONLY A FEW ITEMS IN THIS AD
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<The StovY'
fur Edinburg and Mercedes Stores, at Mercedes—the
Mighty Bargains may be taken advantage of by the
gives us $60,000 worth of High Class, Seasonable
Store, which is too much for the room we have, espe-
>ig Stocks of New Fall Merchandise will soon begin
ty to buy Summer Merchandise at Astonishingly
Price Reduction in the heart of the season. You can-
| offer at this time. Nothing is reserved—the stock
I*. The big store is crowded with bargains in every
shed something awful—cost is forgotten on many
•oqm for Fall Merchandise. Come early. Two big
r quick moving. Naturally, the first buyers ivill
Jo do not delay. You should be ready to enter ivhen
y morning, August 4, promptly at 9 o'clock. BE
ur every summer requirement can be supplied at
the entire Rio Grande Valley.
Men’s Work
Clothes
Men’s Work Pants.
$1.39
Men’s Blue Overalls..
Men’s triple wear Union Suits.
Men’s Work Shirts.
Men’s Work Shirts, extra value___
Men9s Socks
Phoenix Half Hose, regular
$1.25 value, for___________________
79c
Phoenix Half Hose, regular
$1 value, for_______________________
- 69c
Men’s Pure Silk Sox.
49c
Men’s good grade Sox, only.
Men’s Work Sox, only.
Men’s Summer
SUITS
We are showing the largest line of Summer Suits
for men who care, and can positively save you
money on suits that are dressy and serviceable.
The season is only well started. Buy now for long
wear and satisfaction. All suits priced regularly
at $25.00 to $30.00, only
*16
.95
Men’s and Young Men’s Summer Suits, reg-
ular $15 grades, priced to move quickly
at only ______________________________________________
Extra Pants for both men and young men, regular $6.50 to $7.50 values,
going at only___________________________________________________________________________________
$4.95
nits
Bathing
dons, are
Men’s and Boys’ Hats
All Men’s and Boys’ Straw and Panama Hats
must be closed out. Your choice at
Half Price
Men9s Shirts
$1.89
98c
$1.29
One lot Manhattan Shirts
at only __________________________________________________
Men’s Dress Shirts,
special at __________________________________
Men’s Dress Shirts, guaranteed fast
colors, to close at___________________________________
LAR
aited For
Mercedes, Texas
DON’T MISS IT!
Men’s Shoes
Some of the best bargains in the house are being shown in the
Men’s Shoe Department. Look at these:
Edwin Clapp
Shoes ___________
Florsheim
Shoes _______
One lot Packards
at only _________________
One lot Douglass Shoes
at only ______________________
Men’s and Young Men’s
Oxfords _________________________
SUIT CASES
Regular $1.50 Suit Cases,
only _______________________________
Solid Leather Suit Cases, regular
$7.50 values, at only_________________
$11.95
$7.95
$£95
) mm omm-o-mmom
$4.95
$3.95
95c
$5.95
Be Sure to See
Our Piece
Goods Bargains
Extra Special!
_ _
Extra Special!
10 TO 11 SATURDAY MORNING
Good Grade Ladies’ Silk Hose,
More than 200 yards Remnants,
per pair, only
all kinds, at
39c
Half P
New Truck Added
To Chevrolet Line
The Chevrolet Motor Company,
whose unprecedented sales and pro-
duction record of placing on the road
750,000 “Bigger and Better” mod-
els since January 1, established a
new mark for the sale of a new
model, announces this week the ad-
dition to its line of a new utility
truck. The new truck, which em-
bodies several improvements, chief
of them a four speeds forward .trans-
mission, four wheel brakes and
channel steel bumper, went into pro-
duction in the various Chevrolet
plants July 2. It will be on view
this week in dealers’ showroows
throughout the country.
The four speeds forward transmis-
sion will insure a more efficient ap-
plication of engine power. The ex-
tra low speed gear provides maxi-
mum pulling power on heavy roads
and steep grades while normal driv-
ing requirements are met as usual
with second, third and fourth speeds.
A power take-off port, to which va-
rious power devices can be applied,
is a further feature of the trans-
mission.
The four wheel brakes are non-
locking and supply a total of 317
square inches of braking, aside from
an entirely separate and independ-
ently operated set of emergency
brakes of the external contracting
fj'PS; insuring quick and positive
stops regardless of grade or speed.
A new low loading height, 41 in-
ches from the ground, is made pos-
sible by a special “kick-up” feature
of the long chassis. An unusually
long frame support, extending be-
hind the center of the rear axle, as-
sures proper load distribution.
Rigorous and exacting tests, cov-
ering thousands of miles over all
types of roads and under winter
and summer climatic conditions,
were apllied to the new truck at
General Motors Proving Grounds be-
fore the Chevrolet engineering divi-
sion approved of it for production.
PANNING OF
(Continued from page 1.)
He is lucky, too, in that the elimi-
nated candidates have jumped on
Mayfield more than they have him—
though he got a goodly share of
the mauling. The dopesters figure
that all in all, Connally is in a bet-
ter way to get the support of those
who voted for Blanton, Owsley,
Cunningham and McLemore than is
Mayfield. However, the junior sen-
ator has many friends; he pitched
his campaign on an impersonal, dig-
nified plane, and put fqrth an im-
presive record of performance in
office.
Defeated Candidates
Vexing as the runoff problem is,
it is not nearly so annoying as fail-
ure to get in the second primary at
all. Poor Tom Blanton, the eagle
screamer of the West Texas step-
pes; after spending so many years
in congress, he probably won’t know
what to do with himself, now that
he’s out of political circulation. And
what will the house of representa-
tives do for a “watchdog of the
treasury,” as Blanton’s friends char-
acterized him?
And Mrs. Cunningham. The state
electorate apparently agreed with
the sardonic Owsley, that “she’s a
good little girl.” Seriously, she is
good; she’s proved the potency of
her efforts in past legislative work.
And she made some of the cleverest
speeches in the six-cornered cam-
paign. What does her extremely
small vote in last Saturday’s pri-
mary mean ? Is it the peoples’ naive
way of saying they have enough of
feminine offcials for a spell, thank
you?
Owsley ran a strong race, but not
quite strong enough. He may laugh
it off with: “Well, I’ve been defeat-
ed for better offices than that”; or
he may wait and run another day.
However, he’ll have to wait at least
two years before he can make the
dream come true which he visualiz-
ed in his campaign by saying: “Sen-
ator Owsley! My goodness! Doesn’t
that sound great?”
As for Jeff: McLemore, he hard-
ly is nurturing any shattering dis-
appointment. He got the consola-
tion prize, but surely he couldn’t
have expected anything more. All
he was out in the campaign was the
certification fee, and he got his
name before the people again, and
no doubt had a lot of fun fighting
the campaign in his picturesque
newspaper.
With all its embarrassments and
annoyances and vexations, the con-
gressional runoff is going to be a
big time show. It is going to bring
out what fight there is left in the
klan, and bring the Smith issue to
a red, if not white, heat.
Russian Movie Actor
At Age of 52 Sets a
Hammer Throw Record
Moscow—(INS)—A 52-year-old act-
or, Chistiakoff, who plays grand-
father and cripple roles for the So-
viet Kino trust, established a new
Soviet hammer throw record against
competitors half his age. Chistia-
koff threw a 15-pound hammer 163
feet in the Moscow district amateur
track and field meet at which dis-
trict entrants to the “Red Olym-
piad,” the Spartan games were
chosen.
A question about his eligibility to
thq international Spartan games has
been raised because of his profes-
sion. It is claimed that as the games
were organized as a sort of work-
ers’ Olympiad, Chistiakoff, who is
aot technically a worker, cannot
’•ompete.
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