The Carrollton Chronicle (Carrollton, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 39, Ed. 1 Friday, August 4, 1939 Page: 4 of 4
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BARGAINS on TIRES
ARE STILL ON THROUGH AUGUST
4—Used 600 x 16 White Side Well Tires
Worth the Money
Jim McCombs is quite ill at
his home here with no im-
provements shown in his
conditions-
Home-Town-Newspaper $1 one year. I
And still we need a really
heavy drenching rain.
Mrs. Harry Pearson and
are
GULF SPRAY
Pint 25c — Quart 45c — Gallon $1.45
Why permit mosquitoes, flies, and other insects to continue to
pester you ?
WASHING 50c
See the Gold Dust Twins
GREASING 50c
W. A. BOWMAN
GULF SERVICE STATION
CARROLLTON, TEXAS
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Refrigeration Is a Year Around Necessity
ICE in a modern Ice Refrigerator is your best Refrigerant.
We serve you at all times with the purest and best ICE to
be obtained.
We are giving especial care to the .Country trade.
CARROLLTON
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Frank Thweatt
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Ice Service
Mr. and Mrs. A T Stewart
were visiting in Irving Sun-
4ky evening.
Gerald Whitlock of Dallas
spwrts Thursday and Friday
Sere with relatives.
D M Carver Jr. of Bonham
spent this week here in the
(Sarver home. He is a brother
(#Mr. Carver.
'Jack Harmon Millaway of
iptae Baak) Texas, spent a few
dftys here this week with his
fssadmother, Mrs. Esta Roach,
oRdifamily.
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C C Carver was in Austin
Tuesday on school business.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred James of daughter, Miss Dorothy,
Paris, Texas, spent Monday visiting in Louisiana,
night here in the home of Mr. Mr. Sam Brickey of Dallas
and Mrs. Claud James. I visited here this week with
Frank Hamer of Richardson ihis sisters, Mrs. Bob Hill and
spent Sunday night here with i Mrs. Claud Knight.
Dr. and Mrs. T B Hamer. Dr. We had a light shower here
Hamer is still quite ill. .Sunday nite. We could have
A group of young people of uSe(^ a '°t.more’ but are really
Carrollton and Farmers Branch thankful for what we did get.
enjoyed a skating party
Vickery last Friday night.
Mr. and Mrs. Jay Bailey and
Mr. and Mrs. P T Whitlock
McCormick Pharmacy
Prescriptions a Specialty
Phone No. 3 Carrollton, Texas
We have some nice Birth
Announcements at the Chron
icle office. You get them at
25c per dozen--envelopes are
included,
Smohey Vandergriff cattle
over from Irving Wednesday to
care for some business with
the parent house, the Vander-
griff Chevrolet Company plant
here.
W T Squibb has purchased a
new Chevrolet pickup truck to
Mrs. Ralph Noble and daugh- rep]ace the one he ha* been
ter, Janet, of Dallas spent using for some years. This
Sunday here with relatives. one js ]arg,er and nicer than the
Thp young people of the former one.
Methodist church had charge j Doak Crosby .was in Carroll
of the Wednesday night prayer jon Sunday, driving up from
meeting and showed splendid |his fine farrn near Cedar Hill.
work- j He reports his crops as good
Mr. and Mrs. F M Vance and ' this year and that corn is
daughter, Catherine, and a made and safe. He was look-
friend all of Waco visited Mr. ing well, as usual, tho he did
and Mrs. J E Johnston Tues- say he had entertained the flu
day night. ; twice during the past year.
Mr. and Mrs. J C Carver and visited in Loilisiana a few days
son, James, of Tyler, Texas, *as*; 'Jeek w‘th Mr. Roy Bailey
were Sunday guests of Mr. and;"110 's ser‘ous^ ill.
Mrs. C C Carver and family. j Following a few desultory
■naminMnsa 1 showers received Hie first of
the week we had some cooler
weather and some nice cooling
winds. Much appreciated,
they were.
Mrs. Jack Ellington of
Odessa, Texas, is visiting here
with her parents, ’Mr. and
Mrs. 0 L Dickerson. She ar-
rived Monday night and is
expecting to stay two or j
three weeks. i
A baby girl was born to Mr. ‘
and Mrs. Ross Boykin of Big1
Spring, Texas, this week.'
Both mother and baby are
doing nicely. Mrs. Boykin
will be remembered as Miss
Louise Hale formerly of this
place.
Quite a number of Carroll-
ton people attended the
funeral of Roy McWhorter of
Texarkana Monday of this
week. Special services were
held at Texarkana and then the
body .was bi ot to Keller, Texas,
where the funeral was held
and where he was buried.
Mr. McWhorter lived here a
number of years ago and will
be remembered by many Car-
rollton people.
The New Residence
on College avenue is about completed. It will be
open for your inspection ALL DAY SUNDAY and
you are invited to see this nice new residence, and
see how well it is built and the extra good quality
of materials used in its construction.
The time to build a home for yourself is
NOW, while the opportunities for get-
ting a good place and on payments that
you can afford to make are yet open.
Which Would You Sooner Have
A HOME or a Bundle of Rent Receipts ?
Smart People Build Before a Boom.
Lyon-Grey Lumber Company
C. W. RAMSEY, Manager
Established 1876 PHONE 40 Carrollton, Texas
We Deliver Anywhere, Day or Night
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The Saga of a Home-Made Toiler;
Texas to the New York World’s Fair
The Home Town Newspaper help*
Do you support it?
Wf want to supply you with
your copy of the Texas Al-
manac.
Mrs. Noble Whitlock and
Mrs. Perry" Whitlock of Dallas
visited in Carrollton Tuesday.
Miss Penny Green of Gal-
veston is spending the week
here in the O C Cashion home.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Potts of
Dallas visited here Monday
afternoon with Mr. and Mrs.
Claud Baxley.
Mrs. Andrew Jackson, Mrs.
Roy Pierce and Mrs. D J
Bailey spent this week in
Mineral Wells.
We try to mare the ChronTol*
worth muoh more than the gubaerlp.
tion price. It you like the paper per-
haps you will send in a dollar on
subscription without us being to the
expense of sending you a statement
I if you have the Chronicle do them,
i We thank you for all the good
Miss Ola Mae Tutt of Car-1 words you say about the Chronicle,
nnrt Rart Tavlor of Tel1 Chronclle Readers what yon
ana liert lajior °I have to aeil or trade and you should
Dallas were united in marriage dispose of it.
rollton
A Texas journalist built himself a
■toiler, loaded in his wife and 11-
Stnr-old son and started on a 2,000
•wile trek for the New York World’s
Mir with $50.00 in his pockets. His
rtqvsrriences are recounted in the fol-
■ etwing story:
H By TOM CAUFIELD
'ITulio covers police, fire alarms, boll
weeotl's.and all news in and about the
Miasas: Bottoms of Central Texas for
•SferWSeo Times-Herald).
WOHEETS FAIR, New York—Fran-
tss airdi the eleven-year-old and I
fcve seerrthe Fair and all the folks
■Hack in Waco told us it couldn’t be
tdfne on’ the Caufield bankroll. The
SBeedometer on Ancient History II
*\J«SSf>£i00ff.'miles from Fifth and Aus-
fiz; the wallet is out $50, and we’ve
.grt.SlO left. I've just wired the boss
s5r the" SSET he promised me to get
tome on, and if the chewing gum and
Hiding wire on the trailer and jalop-
T; don’t relax their holds during the
to me ward 2,000 miles, we shall have
made the whole: junket on $85.
1 Vvv'e spent a little over $1.50 each per
.lay Tin the Fair itself, counting admis-
son at*Jbe gates. Thomas, the eleven-
.jsar-old and Frances, the woman
i*®fio ’tells me how to drive, and I
t- valked’and walked and looked and
-"Sfcred, Anally .becoming convinced
•fetal the best part? of the Fair are free.
Jfe could while away two weeks here
^Staging at the free shows, and never
otBgeat and never suffer from-v.T.at the
' -.lAk paper writers call ennui. We are
Laving only because a wolf is howl-
wg at a door bearing the coat of arms
mt a certain small town newspaper-
man in Texas.
„ Nothing Like the Brazos
1 We stood and gulped when we saw’
lie illumination at the lagoon of na-
ters last night. Nothing like that
tang the Brazos, nor anywhere else.
fy ' lightning bolt hit a telephone post
x. ” car-trailer combination passed
-‘-e road to Knoxville, coming
• m,tu shed Post’ splattered our
splinters, made an outra-
, -j^us noiso So.orod us stiff We saw it
C* aver-again, *ee, at fcc General
•jr , trie show here.\They made 10 mil-
volts for us—BANG! and we
ii^ugbt we were back onTheTenncs-
^efoSgVoclVoaTandiad com-
,ip General Motors showed us all
Tr'od in a panorama that 27,000 people
tto look at. GM parked us n up-
fc-Mered chairs, started a public ad
^ explanation from the cha.r
£ns, and showed us the highway
hadn’t'been for that roads
. > ww. i e n 1 a v, we might have
in the aviation building, that
Z? was fixing to leave the ground
iniiililll
Here is Tom Caufield's homemade trailer in which he, his wife and son
traveled all the way from Waco, Texas, to see the New York World’s Fair.
for good; but GM gave us hope for the
highways. We could hardly get the
boy away from the aviation display.
Instead of wanting to ride on the car-
nival gadgets, he wanted to go back
and look at the model wind tunnels,
the cross section of the Yankee clip-
per, arid things like that.
Need for Adjectives
We heard the Voder. That’s a con-
traption we had read about, a sort
of talking typewriter. Pretty girl
punches keys and make a combina-
tion of hisses and grunts that sounds
like Charlie McCarthy at his worst,
but is understandable.
I never was much on adjectives.
The one adjective needed around here
is “marvelous.” Give me enough syn-
onyms for that, insert them as needed,
and that’s the Fair.
There’s a moving mural in the Ford
building. Pistons, cogs, things like
that fixed in tho wall, all moving.
Time for one of the synonyms. In the
same building, walls hung all round
with a one-piece yellow curtain made
of sDun and woven glass.
More free stuff; the City of Light,
with 100,000 individual bulbs; the
Forward March of America, showing
how lighting has changed. They’ve
got a fountain running over the exit
of that building, and when I lost
Frances and Thomas, by getting
mixed up on a rendezvous, they wait-
ed an hour for me there, perfectly
satisfied, while the fountain splashed
outside.
They’ve got a real ship parked in a
pond by the New England building,
They've got life-sized toy monkeys
climbing trees in a toy exhibit and
real monkeys climbing on a rock in-
side the Frank Buck enclosure.. The
rock is higher than the bamboo walls,
so you can see the monkeys withbut
going in.
Escalators and Ramps
About transportation; this fair is
/front on saving shoe leather. It has to
be, it is so big that unless there were
a lot of escalators and moving belts
the cobblers would have a field day
at every exit. You go up into the Per-
isphere on an escalator, and ride
around it on a moving belt; and
there’s the moving belt at the GM
building. Everywhere you find ramps
instead of steps, and the ramps are
exactly calculated to ease your legs as
you go up or down. Streets and walks
are asphalt, and the buildings gener-
ally have rubber composition Aooring.
Ajid if you want to ride, it costs a dime
for a bus from any point on the
grounds to any other point.
If your feet do get tired (and they
oughtn't to often if you’ve got the
right kind of shoes, which is impor-
tant, especially to the women) you
can stop in at any of the first aid sta-
tions and get a free foot treatment to
ease them.
Now for the Tariff
Let’s count the cost, after you get
to New York. Figure you're in a trail-
er—that’s $1 to get over the George
Washington Bridge, which is the best
way for a
Rev. and Mrs. Earl Johnston
of Lwufswillev Ky., are here
visiting their parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J E Johnston and J E Jr.
and Mrs. Johnston’* parents,
Mr. and Mrs. F M Vance of
Waco.
The- Union Baptist Senior
BTPU class has some very
interesting plans ror the fu-
ture. They had a meeting
last week and elected new of-
ficers. We urge all young
people who are interested in
i the Lord’s work to come and
be with us-—Cor. See’t.
I, Diiuje, mother. —Re
trailer; 75 cents a night at | neraU-Triiunc.
last Saturday night.
Clifford Cashion of Houston
is visiting here with his
the trailer camp; a few cents for milk Parents, Mr. and Mrs. O C
and whatever other groceries you, j Cashion, and family,
need for eating at the camp; 25 cents j
foil over Whitestone Bridge for your I Mr. and Mrs. E L Russell
car (leave the trailer at camp) and ,agt week from the
25 cents toll back again (or ride a bus, , .
fare ten cents each); 50 cents to park Ogden apartments to a resl
in the parking grounds at the Fair; dence on Denton street owned
75 cents admission for adults, 25 cents | « Mvtn
for children; 25 cents each for the 1 “Y Mrs‘ JJax,*3r-
Perisphere, which is a must because
it is the Fair’s symbol; 10 cents for
the Town of Tomorrow, which also
ought to- be a must for any house-
holder, and gas and oil.
We ate dinner at one of many res-
taurants'in the Fair grounds. My wife
had chicken and mushrooms with cof-
fee for 60scents. I ate a. Salisbury steak
with coffee for 60 cents, and lamb
chops for the boy cost 75 cents. For
lunch we had hamburgers and pie,
which ran us 20 cents each. It costs a
nickel for pop or root beer at any of a
dozen stands. We got to the Fair for
lunch one day and had dinner there
that night. We had breakfast in camp
next day, lunch at the Fair and pulled
out late that afternoon for home.
Seeing New York
You can see something of New York
while you’re at the Fair, for the mere
cost of gasoline. The night we arrived,
we took a 50-mile drive across town,
along the Hendrik Hudson Parkway
and back from the Battery up Broad-
way to Times Square, then back to
camp. We had a volunteer guide—one
of the officials at the camp.
The policemen go out of their way
to help a visitor. One of them talked
to us for a half hour about things in
general while we waited for an open-
top bus next morning for a sightsee-
ing trip in Manhattan. In fact, any
New Yorker goes out of his way to
help a Fair visitor.
We felt so much at home that when
we parked our car to catch a bus to
the Fair on our first day’s visit, we
forgot to make a note of where we left
it; just walked away from it like we
would have done in our own home
town. And believe it or not, we found
it when we came back in the rain—
with the help of some of the passen-
gers on the bus.
Bear in mind that the cost of coming
to New York depends on how you are
willing to come. We had a camp trail-
er, slept in it, using a trailer camp
once, a cabin one night during a pour-
ing rain, using school grounds twice
with the permission of rural neigh-
bors, and parking three times at fill-
ing stations. It took us six days to geti
here.
That $85 is an education worth
thousands, for a boy of 11, and worth
plenty more for his father and
mother. — Reprinted from the New Yorlt
QeAAjonal/
IN (7s
of
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tion payment.
The Chronicle
Printing Office
Does
Fine
Printing
Here you get the Better Class
Work and the price is right in
line with the commonplace;
you profit.
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Envelopes
Letter Heads
Statements
Social Stationery
Business Forms
Booklets
Publications
See us for Printing. Always
pleased to do good work,
— Am
The
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Chronicle
Phone 92
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Martin, W. L. The Carrollton Chronicle (Carrollton, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 39, Ed. 1 Friday, August 4, 1939, newspaper, August 4, 1939; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth728162/m1/4/?q=%22%22~1: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Carrollton Public Library.