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The Aransas Pass Progress
VOLUME XXXIII
ARANSAS PASS, TEXAS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1942
NUMBER 28
Channel Bridge To Be
Deeded to Fish Company
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Transfer From
City lo Western
Shell fish Co.
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Repairs Will Be
Made by Company
Under Agreement.
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Negotiations were completed |
this week between the City of;
.Aransas Pass and the Western
Shell Fish Company for the re-
pair and transfer of ownership of
the bridge which crosses the
channel to the company’s shrimp
peeling property beyond the sea-
wall.
Transactions were between
Commissioner H. K. Miller, rep-
resenting the city administration,
and W. J. Godfrey, president of
Western Shell Fish Company;
Tilman Falgout and Ernest Fal-
gout, members of the firm.
Under the agreement reached
■during the week’s discussion, the
bridge, which was damaged in
the August hurricane, will be re-
paired under the supervision of
the City of Aransas Pass and the
expense of all repairs, covering
both materials and labor, will be
paid for by the Western Shell
Fish Company. It was provided
that the cost must not exceed
$600, and it is believed that the
actual expense will be between
$400 and $500.
Contributing to the project, the
Central Power & Light Co., has
donated five pilings, valued at
more than $200, to be used in the
construction.
After the work is completed,
ownership of the structure will
be transferred to the company by
the City through quit-claim deed
and future management and up-
keep will be the responsibility
of the Western Shell Fish Co.
Tolls Prohibited
It was stipulated in the agree-
ment that the bridge, under its
private ownership, shall never
be a toll bridge. The company
officials not only found this ac-
ceptable but stated that they
would always leave the
open to public use.
The bridge is a wood structure
across the channel to the small
island on which is located the
Western Shell Fish Co., peeling
plant. The bridge is outside
both the City of Aransas I^ass
and San Patricio county.
However, concerning that point
city officials Wednesday com-
mended past city administra-
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U. S. Troops at Port Moresby
WAR WEAPONS TO GO
INTO SCRAP PILE TO BE
RETURNED TO GERMANS
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A German machine gun, two
German army rifles, a German
helmet and several shells, all
captured by American dough-
boys in World War I, are go-
ing back home to Germany.
They will go via the junk
dealer, the munitions factory
and the Allied forces in Eu-
rope, local Veterasas of Foreign
Wars hope. Souvenirs of the
last war, brought from Ger-
many, they will go into the
VFW scrap collection after the
Veterans voted that they
would be of immensely more
value being made into modern
implements of war than as out-
dated relics of a past conflict.
The contribution is also be-
ing made with the hope that it
will induce residents of Aran-
sas Pass to examine more
closely their possessions to see
if there might not be some
souvenirs of metal or rubber
which would do more service
by going to the government for
use in its war program.
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Heard.
Bill Jenkin’s dog “Bobbie” has
•adopted the R. K. Lovett family
identity Cards
let Required of
Transient Guests
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Guns in Boats
Not Restricted
By Coast Guard.
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Coast Guard officials have re-
lented a little in their require-
ments of identification from
transient fishermen, and have
denied that hunters will be for-
bidden to have guns in their
boats.
Transient guests and passeng-
ers using navigable waters no
I longer shall be required by the
Coast Guard to have identifica-
tion cards. Transient guests are
described as “those persons liv-
ing outside the coastal area and
bridge ; not using navigable waters more
I than four times a year.”
The master of any vessel carry-
ing such persons is fully respon-
sible for their behavior and ac-
tions while on the navigable
waters. Passengers on public car-
riers also are exempt from hav-
ing identification cards.
Regarding the carrying of
guns in small boats, rumors had
led many persons to believe that
the Coast Guard would not per-
mit such practice. According to
authorities, no regulations to this
effect have been issued. The on-
ly requirement is that persons
carrying firearms on vessels in
the inland waters of this district
shall be required to comply with
Tons of Scrap Pour Into
Yard Here Wednesday
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Carrying barracks bags, personal belongings and ammunition, these
American soldiers are shown as they arrived at Port Moresby, New
Guinea. Since then these troops have likely seen action with Jap jungle
troops, headed towards this base. New Guinea natives and Australian
soldiers sitting on gas drums inspect the troops as they march past.
n t i state and municipal laws cover-
C“ v ing such firearms.
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Ingleside Youth
Succumbs Sunday
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Graveside services were con-
breald for him; however, he’s
still Bill’s dog, he just lives with
the Lovett’s____________Paul Huff was
sent by the Army to Massachu-
setts, stayed there one day and
was then sent back to New Or-
leans—he reported that he had
a pleasant trip_L_i___for the people
who complained about the mos-
quitoes around here not buzzing,
we now have mosquitoes that
buzz________Dr. Bull referring to a
dog as being “one of those dogs J ra^
you have to stick a pin in to tell
which end barks”—one of the
school kids whose mother is tak-
ing the course being taught for
adults at the high school wond-
ering who was going to give her
a dollar if she makes A’s and
B’s and who was going to spank
her if she fails.
Charles Gilchrist saying that
he had seen his name in the Pan-
ther Scream but his one ambi
Aransas Pass Man
Stabbed During
Tavern Brawl
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Thomas Luther
Freeman Dies
This Morning.
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Thomas Luther Freeman, 38-
year-old resident of Aransas
Pass, died at his home at 7:30
o’clock this morning (Thursday)
after he was stabbed in an affray
outside a inn near Rockport at
midnight last night.
Inquest was being held at Cage
Funeral Home here at noon by
Justice of the Peace Bill Priddy
of Rockport and he was expect-
ed to render a verdict later this
afternoon when he returns to his
office there.
Two suspects have been arrest-
ed by Aransas county officials
and ate being held in Rockport
jail, but no charges had been
filed, awaiting the inquest ver-
dict. It is reported that the
victim made a statement regard-
ing the stabbing before he died.
He was wounded at the base of
his neck on the left shoulder,
j The weapon used was probably a
knife, it was reported.
After the affray at the tavern,
which is located one mile south
of Rockport on the highway lead-
ing to Aransas Pass, Freeman
was brought by private car to the
Aransas Pass hospital for treat-
ment. He was removed from the
hospital to his home at about 2
o’clock this morning and died at
7:30 a. m.
Freeman was an operator at
the United Carbon Company
plant north of Aransas Pass. He
was born August 24, 1904 in Ar-
kansas.
Funeral Saturday
Funeral services are scheduled
for Saturday afternoon at 3:00
o’clock but the family had not
decided where the services would
be held. Burial will be in Rock-
port Cemetery under the direc-
tion of Cage Funeral Home.
The deceased is survived by
his wife; by four children, Mau-
PROGRESS REPORTER
RESIGNS — TO ENTER
SOME BRANCH SERVICE
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Miss Jean Graham, reporter
of The Progress for the past
five years, last week tendered
her resignation, and has made
application to the WAACS and
is waiting word to go to San
Antonio for examination.
"Jean", as she is known to
her host of friends, insists that
she is going So do her part
someway in winning the war.
Lee Weilman, of Teague,
Texas, arrived Saturday and
will succeed Miss Graham as
reporter. Mr. Weilman has
had much experience in the
newspaper line, having edited
his own paper atj various times.
Mrs. Weilman is expected to
join her husband here shortly
and they hope to be a part of
Aransas Pass in every way.
ducted Monday afternoon in the
Aransas Pass Latin-American
Cemetery for Guadalupe Lerma,
21-year-old Ingleside youth. Cage
Funeral Home had charge of ar-
Lerma, a laborer, died Sunday
in Ingleside. He is survived by
his mother and by two brothers.
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MARINE SEALE NOW IN
AMPHIBIAN TANK CORPS
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Pfc. E. Y. Seale Jr., son of the
Rev. E. Y. Seale of Aransas Pass,
has been transferred from the
Marine base in Nevada to the
Replacement Detachment of the
Community Meet
Band Hall Tonight
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Every person in Aransas Pass
who likes to sing or who likes to
hear others vocalize have been
invited to the informal commun-
ity meeting at the band hall on
the high school grounds tonight
(Thursday) at 7:45 o’clock.
Old familiar songs, such as
everyone has sung at some time
in his life, will be on the pro-
gram. About 12 are planned for
the congregational singing and
two special numbers also are
scheduled. Mrs. C. E. Farley
will be pianist for the evening.
This is the first community
meeting of this kind held in Ar-
ansas Pass in several years, and
the Lions Club and Parent-Tea-
cher Association, sponsors, hope j working
to make it a regular event if peo-
ple show an interest.
Informal gatherings of citi-
zens for singing and programs
are becoming popular in the
small communities of America as
tire and gasoline rationing will
prevent the people from going
far afield for their entertain-
ment as they have done in the
past.
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dine, Edine, Thomas Lee and
Edna Lee; a brother, Sam Free- Cemetery Damage
man of Aransas Pass and a sis-
ter, Mrs. Tessie Dillon of Shuld-
er, Okla. Other survivors in-
clude his half-brothers, Marvin
and Joe Leister; a half-sister,
Kizzie Leister and his step fath-
er, all of Aransas Pass.
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Drainage Contract
Planned by City
City
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commissioners
this week
Result of Storm
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A report of the Rockport Cem-
etery Association shows that the
cemetery sustained damage in
the Aug. Storm and that funds
| are needed for repairs.
The fence was blown down,
palms were uprooted and grass
and weeds need cutting. County
labor was promised by Judge B.
S. Fox, but since funds were not
were hopeful that by next week j available for repairing the fence,
fees are being collected and
tion was to set it in The Progress ; Amphibian Tank Corps at Camp
tion was to gel it m me progress gan DiegCj Calif>
Pfc. Seale is the second Aran-
________Marcella McCleary, who did
not know a Yankee from a Car-
dinal won the $2.50 pot with a
borrowed quarter Thursday________
Miss Dinsmore calling to say
how much she enjoyed the letter
from Hubert Cheaney about life
in the army which was printed
in last week’s Progress________a six-
teen year-old describing the first
visit of her life which she made
to the doctor’s office recently
and saying she was so scared
■that her heart was pounding in
her throat________Mrs. Allen said the
wrong thing when she told'her 3-
year old granddaughter that rai-
sins have iron in them—little
Patricia laid them aside, exclaim-
ing “I don’t want that in me—
they use that to fight the Japs!”
sas Pass youth there, Pfc. Sam-
uel Sterling having recently been
stationed at Camp Elliott.
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Shop Here-
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Bexley 8c Warren Grocery:
Oxydol, large pkg_________________21c
Pure Lard, 4-lbs. _________________59c
Peaches, No. 2i can ______________15c
Edward's Fruit Stand:
Potatoes, 7 pounds__________________28c
Lettuce, large head ______________12c
Spaghetti, 3 pkgs. __________________10c
Lee's Red & White Grocery:
Yellow Onions, 2-lbs_______________9c
Milk, 3 tall cans ____________________25c
Salad Dressing, qt. jar__________28c
they will have secured a contrac-
tor to begin work on a complete
storm drainage system for Aran-
sas Pass, not only in the north
and south sections but also in
connection with the WPA central
project now underway.
Machines such as are needed
for the work have been found
and are expected to be contrac-
ted for. It is believed that the
work can be completed in sixty
days after it is started.
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Pastor To Attend
State Synod Meet
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/the Rev. Frank M. Taylor will
attend the annual meeting of the
Synod of Texas of the Presby-j
terian Church in the United
States, which is being held in Ft.
Worth from Oct. 13 to Oct. 15.
He plans to go early in order to
meet with Synod’s Stewardship
and Religious Education commit-
tees, and also to attend the pre-
Synod Evangelistic conference.
NLRB Will Hold
Election Tuesday
At Ingleside
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Employees Will
Choose Represen-
tative Agency.
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Production and maintenance
employes of the Humble Refin-
ery at Ingleside will vote Tues-
day on whether they want to be
, represented in collective bar-
i gaining by Local 316, Oil Work-
} ers International Union, CIO, or
by the Employees Federation,
which is an independent union,
or by neither. The election was
ordered by the National Labor
Relations Board as a result of the
petition filed by the CIO in July,
and it will be held by Lindsey
Walden of Fort Worth, field rep-
resentative of N. L. R. B.
This will be the first NLBR
election yet held in an Humble
plant and the first in a Standard
of New Jersey subsidiary. The
organizational campaign at Ingle-
side which has resulted in the
election for Tuesday is part of a
nation-wide campaign in the
Standard Oil Company plants
all over the country, spokesmen
for the CIO said.
Edwin S. Smith, national di-
rector of the Oil Workers cam-
paign and a former member of
the National Labor Relations
Board will speak at a pre-elec-
tion meeting at 8:00 o’clock
Thursday, Oct. 8th. The public
has been invited to attend the
meeting. Myles Horton, director
of Highland Folk School, will be
on the same program and Zilthia
Horton will lead group singing of
patriotic songs.
Humble employees from Bay-
tpwn where the CIO is also con-
ducting an organizing campaign
will be guests of Local 316 in In-
gleside on Friday, Saturday, Sun-
day and Monday preceding the
election.
Carbon Union
This will be the second NLRB
election to be held in the county
recently. Last month CIO Local
316 won the exclusive bargain-
ing rights in an election at the
Aransas Pass plants of the United
Carbon Company. The carbon
workers received a raise of 11c
per hour and have already nego-
tiated a contract covering all
conditions, union offi-
cials said.
Local 316 and the United Car-
bon management are now pre-
paring to set up a union-manage-
ment production committee to
speed production of war mater-
ials. _ \ • 'A
Employees believe that thru
such a union management, com-
mittee they will be able to fnake
a more substantial contribution
to the war effort, it was stated.
The local has strongly supporte
President Roosevelt on his eco-
nomic program and his foreign
policy and in the nation’s war
program, spakesmen declared.
CIO Officers
Officers of the Oil Workers
Local 316 are Henry Wier, presi-
dent; J. B. Coulter of Aransas
Pass, vice-president; and Harry
McKenzie, vice president; J. D.
Hickman, financial secretary;
and R. S. George, recording sec-
retary. W. N. Hydrick is chair-
man of the Stewards Council and
D. L. Appleman is secretary.
C. C. McMullen, stillman, and
R. Massey, rigger helper, will be
the CIO observers at the election
on Tuesday.
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OVER $10,000 IN WAR
BONDS SOLD FOR THE
MONTH OF SEPTEMBER
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War bond sales in Aransas
Pass for the month of Septem-
ber totaled over $10,000, re-
ports from the U. S. Postoffice
and from the First State Bank
show.
Bonds sold at the Postoffice
amounted to $5,325.00, Post-
master R. P. Park said. War
stamps amounted to about
$900.00.
At the bank. Series E bonds
totaled $5,500.00 maturity val-
ue, and of Series F, $150.00 in
bonds were purchased by Ar-
ansas Pass residents.
donation accepted.
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PARSONS EMPLOYED IN
CAUSEWAY OFFICE HERE
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C. S. Parsons, who has been] . .
managing the Harbor Island store ! 24 DOgS Are (xTVCH
for the past several years, is now j RabieS SerUHl Here
employed m the office of the j
Harbor Island Causeway com-
pany here. He replaces Law-
rence Ray, who resigned last
week to work in the office of
Western Shell Fish Company.
Mrs. Parsons is in charge of
the store at Harbor Island.
Mrs. Davis Hurt
By Automobile
In San Antonio
—Buy Bonds—
Concussion and
Other Injuries
Are Sustained.
—iSUJ Buuos—
Mrs. Margaret Davis of San
Antonio, sister of Mrs. W. A.
Kieberger and a former resident
of Aransas Pass, suffered concus-
sion and other injuries early
Sunday morning when she was
struck by an automobile. She
was dragged about 200 feet by
the vehicle.
The accident occurred at about
7:30 a. m., as she was crossing
the street in front of her home at
302 Taft Boulevard. She was
taken to Santa Rosa Hospital
where she remained unconscious
all day Sunday. Not until Tues-
day were physicians able to de-
termine the extent of her injur-
ies, which besides concussion,
were principally cuts and bruis-
es. She will be in bed about
three weeks.
Heavy rains had made the vis-
ibility poor, so that neither the
driver of the car nor Mrs. Davis
saw each other.
The accident was a double tra-
gedy for Mrs. Davis’ family. Her
brother-in-law, Wayne Bohan-
non, had died about an hour be-
fore she was hurt, and her be-
reaved sister witnessed Mrs. Da-
vis’ accident from her home.
Funeral services for Mr. Bo-
hannon were held Tuesday in
San Antonio, and were attended
by Mr. and Mrs. Kieberger of
Aransas Pass. They returned
home Tuesday night.
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Tax Discounts
Being Allowed
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City and School District tax-
payers were reminded by collec-
tion officials that if they pay
their taxes during the month of
^October, a three per cent dis-
count will be allowed.
In November the discount al-
lowed will only be two per cent
and December will be the last
month in which reductions will
be allowed. Taxpayers will re-
ceive one per cent discount then.
Discounts will not be in effect
in January and taxes which have
not been paid after that time will
be subject to penalty, starting in
February.
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SMITHS VACATION
Mr. and Mrs. B. R. Smith left
last Saturday for Kerrville where
they are to spend a week’s vaca-
tion. They expect to return Sat-
urday.
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—Buy Bonds—
I own Closes Ip
Four lours To
Golleet Metal
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Estimated 45
Tons Heaped On
Downtown Lot.
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With the sounding of the siren
at 1:00 o’clock p. m. Wednesday,
every conceivable method of
transportation began the delivery
of scrap material to the Snyder
Used Car yard and adjoining
lots on Commercial street. Lit-
tle red wagons drawn by chil-
dren, some not more than seven
years of age, outmoded Fords,
late model Buicks, two ton trucks
unloaded their prescious cargoes
of rubber, copper, iron and steel
to be used in the manufacture
of war supplies that will bring
Adolph Hitler to his knees.
Jacob Goltzman of the Missouri
Iron & Metal Company was the
dealer who purchased the Aran-
sas Pass collection. He estimated
this morning (Thursday) that
100,000 pounds of metal were in
the heaps on the lot, although he
has not weigehd it.
It was a real holiday for the
more than 900 school children of
Aransas Pass, as all schools as
well as business establishments
closed in the afternoon from 1:00
o’clock until 5:00 to participate
in the drive, and to the juvenile
population of the city must be
given the credit for the success
which was attained.
The salvage program was ori-
ginally started by the Veterans of
Foreign Wars. Last week the
Lions Club and the schools join-
ed the movement and Wednes-
day afternoon was set aside for
the big drive. Veterans and
Lions members agreed that re-
ceipts from all scrap metal do-
nated would be divided equally
between the VFW and the Boy
Scouts, the latter organization
sponsored by the Lions Club.
Students Help
School children joined enthus-
isatically in the drive. Grammar
school children, encouraged by
their teachers to collect scrap
and buy defense stamps with the
money received, today (Thurs-
day) were reported to be pur-
chasing large amounts of stamps
at the school. Junior and Senior
students in the High School,
wishing to raise funds for their
annual Junior-Senior banquet
were believed to have salvaged
between ten and twelve tons, al-
though the buyer Wednesday did
not get time to weigh their col-
lection.
City and public trucks were
used in collecting scrap from the
residences, with school children,
many of them Boy Scouts, assist-
ing in gathering the metal. _____
(Contiued on page 8)
Throw scrap Into tlie Fifflit—
They Say
is Invite — -
To be our guests at the
picture “The Talk of the
Town” playing Sunday and
Monday at the Rialto Theatre,
Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Young.
This notice clipped from The
Progress will be your admis-
sion ticket.
Saturday afternoon 24 dogs
were vaccinated against rabies by
Dr. J. E. Spring of Corpus Chris-
ti. The veterinarian came to Ar-
ansas Pass on the request of city
officials, who reported that there
. .were still many animals here
1 'who were not innoculated against
rabies when Dr. Spring was here
earlier in the year.
Approximately 100 innocula-
tions have been given to dogs
here this year.
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Mr. and Mrs. Wade Rebouche
left last Friday for Tenessee
where they are spending a two-
weeks’ vacation visiting with re-
latives.
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H. T. FOREMAN, Weather Bu-
reau representative: Correct,
accurate weather data is quite
often used in deciding the lo-
cation of defense industries.
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ROY DUPHORNE: Even tho
Aransas Pass was included
in the rent control area, rents
here were already below those
of the March 1 level.
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CORP. J. C. CAMPSON: The
60 pies sent to us by the Ar-
ansas Pass women Sunday
were more than enough for all
the men. We certainly enjoy-
ed the pie feast.
Seen
Mrs. A. D. Hanke coming out
of the Post Office broke, but the
pessessor of a big war bond——
a new slogan for the bond sell-
ing campaign, “For the love of
America and the good of your
own future, Buy another War
Bond”________a large piece of card-
board tacked to the door of Roy
Duphorne’s office and in the very
center the small typewritten
words “Out of Town”.
A soldier leaving the tailor
shop with a Navy uniform over
his arm______________Commercial street
bustling with activity during the
scrap drive Wednesday afternoon
__________Commissioner Miller laying
aside his dignity of office mo-
mentarily to roll an iron hoop
which turned up in the scrap
drive.
Somebody wondering how the
high-school boys kept those
white coveralls so spotless vhile
all the scrap metal was flying
around Wednesday—Mrs. Henry
Wind with a lovely new perman-
ent wave______Teacher Taylor hav-
ing quite a job weighing scrap,
figuring the price and paying off
to the various classes—“Kansas’”
Moore, as he is better known;
back for the winter----------various
families figuring their meat
consumption at present and find-
ing it over two pounds per per-
son. . ;
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