The McGregor Mirror. (McGregor, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 50, Ed. 1 Friday, February 17, 1928 Page: 2 of 8
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Friday
Lorning
Entered at the Postoffiee in McGregor,
Texas, as second class mail matter.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
One Year _____________________$1.00
Six Months------------------- .60
Three Months __________________
Payable absolutely in advance,
.subscriptions are renewed, na:
subscribers will be dropped.
Unless
aes of
MARRS ANNOUNCES STATE
CITIZENSHIP CONTEST
The Mirror is in receipt of a
letter from State Superintendent
Marrs, giving full details of a
contest that Avill be staged among
the high schools of the state in an
effort to promote better citizen-
ship and fix the matter in the
minds of the students when they
are in the more plastic stage.
The McGregor High School will
ALWAYS GOOD
GOOD ALL WAYS
RECOMMENDED
AND SOLD BY
I Jno. D. Mann
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dollars in gold or a medal of
equal value is to be given the
state winner in each group, while
district and county prizes will
probably be awarded the winner
in each of the lesser group prizes.
Rules, regulations and other re-
quirements concerning the. con-
test will be found in the follow-
ing paragraphs:
Eligibility: (1) Contestant
must have been born on or after
September 1, 1909, and’ before
September 1, 1921. (2) Contest-
ant must. have been enrolled as a
student in some Texas public
school each scholastic year since
September 1, 1922. (3) Contest-
ant must be a bona fide student
in a Texas public school during
the current year, 1927,1928. (4)
Essays submitted from schools
having 15 accredited units as
shown by Bulletin 225 shall be
grouped in Class A, essays from
all other schools as Class B.
Limitations: (1) Length of es-
say submitted must be not fewer
than five hundred nor more than
one thousand words. (2) Essays
must be written on one side of the
paper only and paper must be of
regular letter size 8 1-2 inches by
11 inches. (3) The last para-
graph must, contain a summary
of the essay ,setting forth the
'characteristics of a good citizen.
(4) Contestant must attach a
statement to the essay that he or
she is eligible according to the
rules and that no assistance has
been received in the preparation
of the essay. The teacher will
also certify to the eligibility of
the contestant. (5) All essays
submitted to the state committee
will be field in the State Depart-
ment of Education and will be-
come the property of the Depart-
ment.
Time Limit: (1) All essays from
all essays from senatorial districts
must be received in State Depart-
ment not later than May 15, 1928.
Decision of state winners will be
made June 1, 1928.
SPECULATIONS WERE
PURELY GAMBLES
A jury in one Illinois court was
able to distinguish between legi-
timate stock deals and gambling.
Mrs. Anna D. Sielaff, whose hus-
band. before his untimely death,
had lost more than $10,000 in
stock deals thru a brokerage
house, sued the brokerage com-
pany, and the jury allowed her
the full amount sued. The suit
was brought under the gambling
statutes of Illinois. The
found that Sielaff \ deals were
made without! any intention of
accepting delivery of the stocks
and grains in which he dealt.
If the higher courts sustain the
verdict of this jury .gamblers in
farm products will be given a
severe blow. Perhaps, then, the
Federal Government wj.1'1 be
brought to realize that specula-
tion in farm products is’in the
same catagory as the old Louisi-
ana lottery which was abolished
years ago.
The purchaser of a lottery tick-
et has only himself and immediate
family to consider. The crap
shooter and poker player under-
stand the risks taken in playing
the game, but gamblers in farm
products often seriously damage
producers who are entirely inno-
cent and without protection.—
Farm and Ranch.
5% INTERES-1'
ON FARM AND
RANCH LOANS
EASY TERMS—5 TO 36 YEARS THROUGH
THE FEDERAL LAND BANK OF HOUSTON
$10,000,000 to Loan—See, Write or Phone
HOLLEY HAYNES, S’y.-Trs. McGregor Nat. Farm Loan Assn.
Notice to Farmers
We have secured a small allotment of Seed
Algeria, the new grain about which you
have no doubt read of in the varioush state
papers. .
Since the amount of this seed that will be
for sale this season is very limited, we sug-
gest that you come in early and get what
you will need at once.
Moore’s Poultry Farm at Waco,
Texas, is the place to get your
baby chicks in ail popular breeds.
All chicks are from free range
flocks, the very best the country
has to offer. Prices range from
10c up. Custom hatching a spec-
ialty. I have three Mammoth in-
cubators and can handle large
amounts of eggs. Write for cata-
log of my White Leghorns. Joe
Moore, Waco, Route 3. tf
Come to mill at City Garage.
We grind every afternoon. tf
McGREGOR MILLING & GRAIN CO.
E. W. CROUCH, Manager
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Mississippi Merchant Recom- *j|§
jg|j mends Black-Draught For ‘m
|g This Symptom Of Indigestion. ^
Mr. D. W. Huff, a retired spi
rr merchant of Centerville, Miss.,
and verj* well known in his if
jpi part of the state, makes the EPS
following statement, in re-
gard to his experience with E*
g& Thedfords Black-Draught:
Lv] “About thirty years ago, I
found myself in need of a E
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rag Black-Draught, as it had been
gp highly recommended to me.
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ing in my chest, after meals,
suffered from indigestion, and
gl was very uncomfortable. I gag
rft would feel tired, not like “f;
mi working. I would take a few ££
§“$ doses of Black-Draught, and Era
/eeZ like work. I’call it ‘my "$
Gw] medicine’. ” 1^;
Hj Let Thedford’s Black- EPg
m Draught be your mediclnfr,
fna too. Sold everywhere. One Ml
cent a dose.
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The Riddle home, beautiful in
itself, was abloom wjth lovely
yellow blossoms carrying out the
color scheme of yellow and green
featured during the entire after-
noon.
After the tilt at bridge quite a
number of callers mingled for a
social hour wth the players ®and
enjoyed the refreshment of lime
ice and angel squares.
The hostess in a quite novel
manner presented the honoree
with a beautiful gift; also two
other gifts were given, one to Mrs
J. II. Hooker, the other to Miss
Gladys Granbefry and each of
these were in turn presented to
Miss Cunningham.
Little Miss Virginia Ford,
jury' dressed the part of the gypsy and
acting wiell her part, distributed
beautiful green and yellow bol-
loons to each guest as favors.
As a fitting climax to her af-
ternoon’s entertainment, Mr. and
Mrs. Riddle were again at home
to a large number of intimate
friends for Miss- Cunningham,
that evening. In this special
courtesy to Miss Cunningham,
Mrs. Riddle, who is noted for her
clever ideas and originality,
scored quite a victory for it was
indeed unsurpassed in both
beauty and entertainment.
Cpon arriving each guest was
presented with a printed program
and ushered to their seat in the
spacious living room which bad
been converted into an auditor-
ium and which faced the conser-
vatory wihich later proved to be a
“stage,” and here a real play was
enacted by local talent not to be
excelled. The title of the play,
was “A Mere Man,” and this
with several specialties, all good,
made this informal evening one
long to be remembered and prov-
ed the clever hostess and orig-
inator of this unique entertain
ment, an artist indeed. Follow
ing the play, Miss Dawn Isbill
gave a very beautiful interpertive
dance and dressed as a fairy, stop-
ped by a large pink heart and
when touched by a magic wand,
the heart opened and out stepped
a, dainty Valentine, little Miss
Virginia Ford, who gave an ap-
propriate reading and leading
Miss Cunningham to the heart,
she found many beautiful gifts
from the .trends who all wished
for her in her present coming
marriage much happiness and
prosperitju •
Mr. and Mrs. Riddle served
dainty refreshments at the close
of this very novel and informal
evening.
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CASTORIA
Exact Copy of Wrapper.
MMnrmw-anr*™ r THE CENTAUR COMPANY. NEW YORK CITY
Our big hen went on the nest
January 16th. We will set her
every Monday and we will be in
the market for good hatching
eggs. Also we will have young
chickens for sale each week. Cass
Produlce Co. Phone 198. tf
CENTRAL CITY
lOMMERCIAL COLLEGE
Upon Request
(Familiarly Known as “Four C”)
WACO. TEXAS
ih CENTURY BOOKKEEPING
ITARIAL COURSES
IVITIES
[w.vi. L. BAINE. Vice-President
SDITKD SCHOOL”
‘Sfie&nblem
gfifcient School
DOESN’T LIKE WINTER.
I do not like the winter time. 1
many be rather funny. If God
would grant me just one prayer,
“Id pray “make my days sunny”
I ’d like to live thru sunny days,
will) south-born breezes blowing,
with little children all out-doors,
and little roosters crowing, with
jolmny-jump-ups all about, and
little onions springing, and al-
ways fish v^orms to be dug, and
little birds a singing, with radish-
es as plentiful as are mid-summer
roses, and jasmine blooms with
their perfumes enrapturing folks’
noses. I’d like eternal summer-
time, with cloudless skies above
me, and always little necklace.#
arms, and little tads to love me.
I think of millions of little white
beds, and little children sleeping
at night, and how they will awake
when rosy dawn comes creeping,
to peer at them, and smile at them
through many an ived casement.
Oh, summer is a splendid thing,
from the roof to the basement!
And 1 want a whole lot of it.
LU tell the world, the winter
makes me about as comfy as if
I’d sot on a splinter. If life was
always filled with love, and sum-
mer, and a baby, I’d want to live
ten million years, or three times
that long, maybe.—Judd Lewis.
Miss Katie Freeman of Dallas
spent last wfcek-end here with her
mother, who has been ill, but we
are glad that she is now much im-
proved.
Only first run pictures are
shown at the Dixie and the ma-
chine is operated by a licensed
operator.
Green cord wood for sale, six
miles from McGregor on Harfis
Creek at $4.50 per cord. Will de-
liver a few cords in McGregor at
$6.00 the cork. Jake II. Smith. 51
BEAR THIS IN MIND.
If yon have a visitor at your
home, or are expecting one, give
the item to The Mirror. You may
think it amounts to nothing, but
should they look through the per-
sonal items and find that no
mention is made of their visit,
they may feel slighted, and it is
your fault. Phone us the person-
al and local items.
fiAILROAB TIME TABLE
SANTA FE
No. 16—North 3 :42 a. m.
No. 6—North 4:41 p. m.
No. 15—South 2 a., m-
No. 5—South 11:53 a. m.
No. 153 from Waco 12:45 a.m.
No. 154 to Waco 3:45 a- m.
fsidor Block, D.O.S. I
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Optometrist
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Specializing in the Exami-
nation of the Eye and
the Fitting of Glasses
21 YEARS IN WACO
421 Austin Ave. WACO
COTTON BELT
No. 110—East 10:06 a. m.
No. 102—East 4:40 p. m
No. .101—West 11:50 a. m.
No. 109—West 4:45 p. m.
CITY GARAGE
TRAIN SERVICE FROM
McGREGOR
Northbound
No
102 Ar.
4:28 p. m.
No
102 Lv.
4:43 p. m.
No
110 Lv.
10:06 a. m.
Southbound
No
101 Ar.
11:50 a m
No
101 ' Lv-
12:0^ p m
No
109 Ar.
4:25 p. m.
No
109 Lv
4:45 p. m.
W. L. WARREN
Ticket Agent
Phone 68
“SERVICE WITH COURTESY’
OUR GAS AND OIL ARE
FULL OF PEP—AND SO
IS OUR SERVICE
COLLEGE STREET
FILLING STATION
C. J. Howard, Prop.
WE HAVE GOOD MECHANICS
and
GOOD EQUIPMENT
Therefore, we are prepared to
do your overhauling and repair-
ing in the most efficient manner.
Our prices are right. Our
work is guaranteed. Give us a
trial. We strive to please.
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The Taste is the Test Proving
STATE HOUSE BEST
R. E. HENRY
CASH GROCERY
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From the 6th to thy 12th is Boy
Scout Week. Have J his protrait
made in uniform. From scout age
they are men before you realize
it. Phelan’s Studio,, phone 33.
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The McGregor Mirror. (McGregor, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 50, Ed. 1 Friday, February 17, 1928, newspaper, February 17, 1928; McGregor, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth874339/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting McGinley Memorial Public Library.