Coleman County Chronicle (Coleman, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 17, 1939 Page: 2 of 10
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Coleman Co. Chronicle
Coleman’s Family Newspaper
Entered as second-class matter April 26, 1933, at the post office
Coleman, Texas, under the act of March 3. 1879.
Published Weekly by the Commercial Printing Company
R. A. AUTRY
MILTON AUTRY
OTHR.CN E AUTRY
Owne:-Publisher
boys are boasting a linkup that
carries plenty of raw meat. Beef
is plentiful on this squad as 19 of
the players- weigh over the 200
pound mark The baby of the lot
is a wee 192 pounder.
Society Editor
Telephone 690.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
One Year in County, $1.00.
Outside the State, $2.50.
Outside County, $1.50
Any erroneous reflection upon the character of any person or firm
Ba.se ball Ditties
News of Pitchers: You can't keep
a good min down at least so say
Dizzy Dei.a and soulhpaw Larry
”,tor i French of ;h» Chicago -Cub* 1
came out of the .doghouse to win
games for the Cubs French pitch-
ed a nifty four-hitter. French has
been going for a long time with
the Cubs, and is showing his stuff
Cor two .young pitchers who are
certainly going to be great, watch
John Rigney of the Chicago White
Witten Demonstrates
Floating Ability
At Ft. Worth
Lemay- left
Mr. and Mrs. J, P.
Monday for a vacation trip to Port
Worth, where they visited , Mrs.
Lemay’s brother. W. O McMillihi.
; They are also visiting relatives In
i East Texas. ,
appearing in these columns will be gladly and promptly corrected upon. Sox and Ken Chase of the Wash-
calling the attention of the management to the article in question
m Senators. Rigney is ' the
A R Scott of Kerrvllle has
purchased the J, ft Holley home
in the Stobaugh addition in South
Coleman and is moving here this
week with his family.
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R D. Sutherland of Del Rio has
accepted a position with the Holley
Chevrolet Co. as shop foreman.
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Frank M Taylor and family of j
Ardmore Okia.. visited here last
Mr and Mrs. C. R Jcanes were
In Coleman Saturday afterhoon
from their farm, and ranch in the
Vos.x ectlon.
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Alton Witten, local swimming in-
structor who recently accomplished
an amazing feat In floating, ‘ dem-
onstrated his unusual ability along
that line at the River Crest Coun-
ry Club in Fort Worth last Satur-
day and Sunday. The occasion was
the Southwestern AAU champion-
and diving con-
Jim D Meeks was in Coleman
Saturday afternoon from his farm
west of Coleman, attending to bus-1 shtl> swimming
iness affairs ! tests.
_______o Jeff tsabell, YMCA swimming ln-
I Self farmer living south of! structor invited Witten to the event
81,209 MALARIA
Cases reported in the I' * in 19381
DON’T DELAY!
Start Tbday with '
666 Checks Malaria In?
66
*n day*
Sports
Squints
The Benchwarmcr
—————— - most reliable pitcher of the White
off the court With all this the So* »»<* he is a rookie. Some go-
prospects look worse for the Amer-1 Chas has pitched two master
leans. Meanwhile, the Australians.
under the inspiration of a revamp-
ed Adrian Quist arc massacreing
other contestants for the crown
With such capable players as
Quist. Jack Bromwich and Jack
Crawford honoring their roster,
the Aussies look suprqme
Dog Fight
Ail summer the boys have batted ■
Who Said Sportsmanship?
According to tradition, the dour
Englishmen are • supposed to Be
the c,:e ball back and forth across) models tnthe matter of sportsman -
the net like demons working for ship. However after a recent oc-
«hat coveted spot on the Davis Cup ; eurrance I can only say "phooey"
team But now that the time is ap-: to that statement. At the Prlnce-
proachxng for the cup matches, the' ton Invitation tournament about, - - ,
outlook is still very gloomy Amer- j two months ago four of America's: Recl Sox walloped the Yanks good
lea's No. 1 star. Bobby Riggs, has 1 topnotch milers and England's one \ and Pr0Per Red Sox have been
been caking beatings here and j and only Sydney Wooderson were! l,la>in*
there and most of the time just I
ful two-hit performances to put
him In a very select class. The old
veterans are still coming through
to show up the youngsters. Lefty
Gomez and Red Ruffing are still
as effective today as they were in
their prime Lefty Grove has the
most impressive pitching record of
any pitcher in both leagues Teddy
Lions has been going sensationally
Charlie Root, ancient pitcher of
the Chicago Cubs, is one of the
present mainstays of the Cubs'
pitching corps
Are* the Yanks slipping? Your i
benchwarmer thinks so, and he
wouldn’t be surprised if the Boston;
Mr and Mrs °n f Ui1P and Henry Marcus of Valera was a { classes to be conducted Witten gave
children Mr and Mrs A1 Gardner Coleman business visitor Saturday two performances dally before
children, M. and Mrs, ai Gardner aftprnoon large audiences, demonstrating
0 - methods of floating and showing
Chap Eeds was in Coleman Sat- how he accomplished his record
urday afternoon from his farm and i Many prominent sivimmers and
ranch out from Santa Anna, at-
tending to business and laying in
supplies.
STAR TIRES
are
Guaranteed
and daughter accompanied by the
Misses Jean and Jackie Billups of
Winters and Billy Ann Shipley of
Corpus Chrtsti. will attend a re-
union of the Lane and Denny fam-
ilies in Comanche Sunday
barely escaping defeat by the skin
on his neck While Riggs has been
having his troubles other top- :
seeded players have gone down in j
defeat at the hands of some un-,
known Texas' own Bobby Kam-
rath downed second-seeded El-
woode Cooke in a tournament re
centlv While another fellow Texan ]
Frank Guernsey, manhandled Bob- [
by Riggs and literally swept Riggs:
far better ball than the
entered in the mile Wooderson ac- ! champion Yanks and may just ex-
claimed bv some to be the world's i change that difference in lead
best miter was going around a turn | The ClncinnoU Reds show no
and was accidentally bumped by; s**n ot slipping for they are chug-
Texan Blaine Rideout and thrown j alon* in high gear and no
a little off stride Sydney finished j backslides to mar their track
last in the race and immediately j ' ~
English newspapers began catling ) t Utl DEPARTMENT
the race a frameup to make Wood I ANSWERS 1 WO t ALLS
HERE MONDAY
The local volunteer fire depart-
ment got a good workout Monday
The Pat Marrs and Felix Mayo
families enjoyed a picnic at the
Brownwood state park Tuesday
evening.
Wilbourn Campbell, who Is em-
ployed by the Owl - Drug Co., re-
turned from a weeks vacation last
Sunday proudly displaying a tan
that he claims to have received
while doing manual labor
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Billie Marie Stallings and Dan
R. F. Davis, who farms down In
divers were present at the event.
Witten announces that he will
conduct three classes in life saving
and swimming at the old lake each
morning from 9 to 11 o'clock and
W. E. GIDEON
nri\ Tornado, Accident, Healt'
and Life I nun ranee.
Only the beat cmipaXJea
represented.
415 West XIve Oak St.
the Elliott school section was a jlnvltes the public to attend. A
Coleman business visitor Saturday
afternoon. He is still suffering
from dry weather
-o----
Mr. and Mrs. W F. Fowler were
in Coleman from their farm in the
Bowen community Saturday after-
noon. purchasing supplies.
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Arthur Young wax in Coleman
_ , , „ , . , , . . Saturday afternoon from the Young
Taylor of Stacy visited friends here rftnch ■ BurkeW
last week.
water safety school, will be held at
Brownwood soon, and anyone de-
: siring to enter should contact him
at once so that he can send In for
• reservations
——o——
Chubby Brooks who has been
employed by the WPA at Norton,
has been transferred to Coleman,
where he will work on another pro-
ject. L
666
Checks
MALARIA
|in 7 d s and relieves
COLDS
symptoms First Day
liquid Tablets. Salve. Nose Drops
Try Rub My-Tism" a wonderful
Liniment
erson lose This accusation is en-j
urely uncalled for and unfair The]
incident could happen in any [
match and was not a frame And !
to add more to the pot Blaine j
Rideout ran in. a London race re- ]
cently and was booed and jeered by j
i.h'o dour Britons Would you call [
that
TRAILER WHEELS
AND USED TIRES
Hicks Rubber Co.
as they were called on two missions.
However, neither proved to be a
bad fire and the record of not
having a major fire in seven years
still stands The first blaze was a
the heigh* of •ssjorisman.ship? i grass fire on lonth street but no
__ , damage was done. The second fir?
was in a used car lot, which was
O'Brien Worshipped quickly put out' with small dam
Wee Davey O'Brien is the toast! aR(.
of Philadelphia since he decided to j „.......—.......o _ —»--------
w pro football for the Philadel RETURN FROM CALIFORNIA
phta Eagles He will wear his oki j and Mrs. Woodrow Jolly re-
No. 8, which carried him to fame j turned from a 12-day vacation trip
and now to fortune
Other coaches are fearing their
meeting with this year's Hardtn-
Simmons Cowboys, for the Cow-
Tbe wishes of the family always
govern us; when your need calks us
to service, we place ourselves, our
experience and our skill at your
disposal.
Day Phone 152
Night Phone 137. 610R
Horne Funeral Service
to California and other points last ■
j week and rp|x>rt a mast, interesting .
{and educational tour While in,
j California they visited in several I
; movie studios, and saw many in-’
[ wresting sights during their stay
Mr Jolly who is connected with
j the Howell theatre here was given
| special courtesies by the studios
They Returned by way of Carlsbad
N M and went through the caves
there and arrived here Friday.
DRY DIRT LOOKS GOOD
j AFTER TENNESSEE
VISIT
i T J Dalton and son T. J, Jr
j and Miss Vickie Dalton who live
1 and farm down near the Elliott
J school house in southern Coleman
i county returned Thursday of last
i week from a visit with relatives: and children,
j back In old Tenne-see state whence Charles O ’tit.
Mr and Mrs Dick McMahan and
daughter Mary Sue. of New Cas-
tle were Coleman business visitors
Monday afternoon The “horn"
hung on Dick and it took a Chron-
icle man and W D. Terry 30 min-
utes to get it "shut off."
o
Martha Pope is visiting this
week in Dallas while on her vaca-
tion She will return this week end
o----•
Mr tand Mrs Jake LeMay are
vacationing in East Texas this
week They stopped first in Fort
Worth, and will return home this
week end.
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Miss jRouberta Rickets who is
employed with the Farm Security
Administration is spending her va-
cation in Mexico City.
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Dr. H A. Robertson and family
vLsited friends and relatives in
Coleman county this week They
formerly lived here
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Mr and Mrs. S. W. Cooper and
son Charles, spent last week end
in McCaulley. visiting with rela-
tives. returning home Sunday.
Merton Livingston was in Cole-
man Saturday afternoon from his
plantation in the. Silver Valley sec-
tion.
-o-—
Monte Scott of Valera was a
business visitor In Coleman Thurs-
day afternoon of last week and was
a pleasant caller at the Chronicle
office Mr Scott and his family
consisting of a wife and four, chil-
dren moved to Coleman county
recently from South Dakota.
JUNCTION SCHOOL TO
OPEN SEPTEMBER 4
Announcement was made thefirst
of the week by Mrs W A Wilhite
that the Junction school will open
September 4, with the enrollment
being about the same as it was
last year. Mrs. Wilhite is principal
of the school.
BUILD AND REP AIK
Estimate* Gladly Furnished
Without any Obligation*.
ROCKWELL BROS.
& CO.
lumbermen
W Live Oak. Phone M«
William Burkett and his neph-
ew, Charlie Burkett, of Burkett,
were Coleman visitors last Friday
morning early. Mr. Burkett said
that his section of the county has
never really suffered for rain this
year, but that the early hail did
considerable damage to crops
Alvin M. Fischer
CHIROPRACTOR
Phono 242—Office Building
Mrs D E Mathes and children,
who have been guests the past 30
days of her parents. Mr. and Mrs
T E D. Shepherd left Thursday j
afternoon for their home in Hons !
ton. via Kerrvillc where they spent j
the week end attending the Pres- i
byterian encampment They were!
accompanied as far as Kerrvllle by |
Mr Shepherd, who returned to
Coleman the first of the week.
■ • 0 ' ' |
W L Brown and Mr and Mrs.
Arthur Brown of Talpa were Cole-
man visitors Saturday afternoon.
Arthur has been, "under the weath-
er" recently, but says he believes
he is improving at this time.
SPECIAL
FRIDAY AXI) SATI RDAY
EGG MASH
• 100 lbs. for $1.80
GEO D. RHONE WAREHOUSE
W est Side (Square
1
Oscar Cheaney Santa Anna
banker, was a Coleman business
visitor early Monday morning.
--o--
Dr. and Mrs. Charles O Moody
Ingrid Ann and
are‘ Vacationing in
A V. Livingston sheep man of
Talpa. was attending to' business
affairs in Coleman Saturday after-
noon.
—:—o-
I F Neff. Burkett farmer, was a
Coleman business visitor Saturday
afternoon.
m
v
When
Opp
ortunity
Knocks
j they came. Jep told a Chronicle re-
j porter Friday that after such a’
Norfolk, Va
j trip the old dry dirt in Coleman
; tounty looked mighty good to him
VISITS HERE
E. H Varnell, area conservation- j
j 1st Ui the soil conservation service, j
j was iisrc Monday morning discuss-1
|ing they local program with Cole-:
man citizens arid R. G Hollings-
worth who is the local chairman
: of the soil conservation committee
Jean Russell
In McGregor,
is visiting relatives
A J. Morrlsson was in Coleman
Saturday afternoon from his farm
west of Coleman
. -o---
Monroe Forehand, with his fam-
ily was a Coleman visitor Saturday
afternoon.
-o-
Mr. and Mrs O D Hector and
Mrs T. J Allen had as her
guests the past week her sister,
Miss Lela Thomlinson of Wichita
Falls and nephew, Coby Dick, of
Fort Worth,
son. Laton Dean, and Miss Gladys
Townsen have returned from a
week's vacation at Corpus Christ!
-—-o-
Misses Winnie Evelyn and Jim-
Mrs Burgess Weaver of Santa
Anna wax a Coleman business vis-
itor Monday morning
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Miss Roylene
j Cross Plains has
! home after a
Arrowwood of
returned to .her
week's visit with her
grandparents. Mr and. Mrs, T. H
Colvin.
S
it frequently calls for
C/CSH
<4^
i
This bank’s main interest is to as-
sist the people of this county in
carrying on their business efficient-
ly, progre&ively and profitably.
Coleman County
State Bank
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
JUST THrNK ONLY 1-6 OF AN
I OUNCE IS THE VERY SMALL
; iX*SE OF TETRA SHEEP DRENCH
j TO RID YOUR SHEEP AND
GOATS OF WORMS NO STARV
NO 8TR ANGULATION
SOLD ONLY AT COULSON 8
I>RUO STORE WE FURNISH THE
SYR WOE
Wallace Harlee Jr is visiting his
father in Denver City.
Jack Russell
in Austin.
is visiting relatives!
mie Pauline Netherton have return-
ed from a visit with relatives in
Dallas and Port Worth
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Miss .Frances Mulkev is visiting
with relatives in Weatherford and
Fort Worth.
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Mrs. Henry Dunman is visiting
! her daughter, Mrs. C J. Rollo >in
Lubbock.
"Chronicle Advertising Pays.”
Jdl r We 1 Talpa rancher, was a
Coleman business visitor Friday
Ranges In that section are In pret-
ty good shape, following the rain.
Mr West aid Field crops have not
done so well. The rains were Just a
little tardy
Miss Mary Edith Alexander and
Charles Kaveckt of SmithviUe have
returned home following a visit
with Mr. and Mrs E H Sassman
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Mrs P R Jeffrey has returned
to her home In Rutherford N 3
following an extended visit here
with her father R. L. Cope, and
sister Mrs. Douglass Taylor.
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HOME BARGAINS-
4 room dwelling, close in
4 room dwelling, close in
5 rooms, $100 cash, pays out monthly
5 rooms, $100 cash, pays out monthly
5 rooms, $150 cash, pairs out monthly
5 rooms, hard wood floors, pays monthly
7 rooms, dose in, $250 cash, monthly
6 rooms, on pavement, $150 cash, monthly
6 rooms, on pavement, $250 cadi, monthly
10 rooms, 1 acre, $260 cash, monthly
1 Stock farm bargain
3 residence lots, each
Nice Brick Veneer Home to pay out at $16.25, including
taxes, on corner lot at 1200 San Marcos.
$350.00
500.00
7.12
1000
10.68
12.46
15.82
16.80
17.80
18.51
50.00
J.M. McDonald, Mgr.
HOME OWNERS’ LOAN CORP
201 Office Building Coleman, Texas
Mrs. A. O. Beach and mother.
Mrs. Josephine Hughes of thi* city,
and Misses Newt Mell Hughes and
Clara McGee of Temple are vaca-
tioning in Colorado and New Mex-
ico.
* ——o-
Mr ancF Mrs Elmer Stmpaon of
Coleman and Mr and Mrs Newby
Simpson of Goldsmith left Sunday
for Mexico GKy and other points
of Interest In Old Mexico.
Ladies!
Lock your husbands in!
Maisie
is on her way.
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Autry, Milton. Coleman County Chronicle (Coleman, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 17, 1939, newspaper, August 17, 1939; Coleman, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth732177/m1/2/: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Coleman Public Library.