The Electra News (Electra, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 19, 1933 Page: 4 of 4
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Riff fete For
fiSfeailiers Thursday
-Brilliant Affair
*-'■ Uov&rs were laid for 130 persons
~~ ;VJOvers wore ium aui xov
the eighth annual banquet given
&
jfiy • -j;he Rotary Club in honor of
* ' rthe* Electra school faculty. The fete
5 Vas': held Thursday evening yin the
•jowell hotel club room, and a boun-
* ’ifcifhl menu, which included turkey
i and cranberry suace, was served.
* ."Plate favors were souvenir pro-
* grams bearing the club emblem, the
..roster of the cllub, school board
,3md faculty members. W. R. Skin-
z ner, program chairman, opened the
Shaw, president of
m
Geoirge Wo^fuff
Elefcttaffiiteer
Die! Siiturday
............
' Messrs and/Mesdames? A. -:N. - Rich;
ardsori.’and1 Elmer ’O’strom; '-Messrs;
C. H. DeVault'and jL..- J. Crawford
and Miss Harriett, Barwise of * this,
city went to Wichita, Palls Mdnday
afternoon to attend the fuijerai serv-
ices held at the Merkle Undertaking
parlor for George C. Woodruff, age
55, formerly of Electra but who
had lived at Wichita 'Falls for .the
past fifteen years. Julian McFall,
Christian Science reader, officiated
in the simple rites which preceded
the forwarding of the bbdy to Port
^’UJaude. Shears^F6#^th^tq^
dnent in Knights of? s^thias" ana
Tomrilo onfivifips Ill *the
meeting. T. E. ____.-7 ,___
the school board, offered the in- j Henry, New York, for burial.
"Vocation, and Superintendent B. M.
5Dinsmore introduced the members
<of the school board and their wives;
ifche teachers and wives of teachers.
JSach Rotarian introduced his spe-
Fivei.hundred ?poun(3s“\of salt poric
issued? by 'the "federal, /government"
to/needy 1 people^ on? relief i roll s-Ay as
distributed? among/’the * families/.i:?’-1
cbiving ' direct. relief hereslast? wefe&y
G. ~ J. - Price ^reports'. V, Commissioner
H. V/H." Haynes'' brought * the; meat'
from;!iiWichita?-Falls,,, to -Electra and
orders rwere/.4received ■« at .headquart-
ers?, that only an average* of 7
pounds' per family, per week, should
be given.. The meat / was shipped
to Wichita Falls for „ storage and
other communities in the county
must apply to County Relief Ad-
ministrator M. A. Bundy for their
apportionment.
Only thirty families received di-
rect grocery orders at the head-
quarters here last week.
£iotds Temple ''.activities’ ~.jn;
j state, was a visitor in'Electra Mon-
The Plectra 7^ib/Ueam,?' cbmppsed 'day. and attended «the-* meeting of
of^Raymond5Bradley/ Everett' Bell,
Claude tBarry*?' and >J)ru , Harding,
scored/ a r;10 ytp;>l ‘- victory,, over’ a
the Knights' of ' Pythias? lodge’ here
that’ night. * •' ? "•;
. Miss Ethel Golden,. nurse .at the
■Wichita?* Falls' qua’rfcet-Voh the JVfchr rParmley-Ogden -hospital! spent, the
tfibuted $y, "AC“
paid > off :
sils "Removed A^Pa^ytOg^en. hos-
was. Composed of Jimmy Williams,
Hubert Stringer,, George fOsborri and'
Roy Riner. . •• .. - ' "I
-?
.. Mrs?" Elizabeth Bunch of Fort
Worth, president of the Texas - Re-
Lekah Grand Lodge, was. guest of
Cotton ! Miss Myrtle Cooper at he/, home on
The deceased came to Electra in. picking and other work was avail- b-ast Glisson avenue, Fi iday nign«
1907 and joined his brother, Fay-|able for the mo^e than 200 fami-' fnd Saturday morning. Mrs. Bunch
D. Woodruff, then a member of the ’;jics -who had been getting a meager on a tour °f visitation with Re-
allowance of RFC .work in return hekah lodges of this section and
Electra News publishing company
and associated with W. J. Sheldon
<cial guests other than the faculty in various business enterprises. He
opened the first men’s furnishing
store in Electra and the first ex-
unember guests.
An orchestra, directed by Miss
Ruth Smith, provided the music foi
the dinner hour. D. G. Gray, toast-
imaster, presented the principal
speaker of the evening, W. D. Cline,
Wichita Falls, Mrs. Cline, and Mr.
and Mrs. Horace Robbins, Mrs. A.
H, Mahaffey and Arthur Davis all
t>f Wichita Falls, the latter two
guest'"' artists. Miss Eloise Wofford,
Electra, contralto soloist, was also
introduced. The program included
violin numbers by Mr. Davis and
song numbers by Miss Wofford,
Mrs. Mahaffey playing the piano
accompaniment.
J. G. B. Totten led the assembly
Xln singing “America” as the open
elusive men’s wear store in this
section of the state, shortly after
the towhsite opening. His father
and brother-in-law, a Mr. Putnam,
both of whom lived in. Port Henry,
New Yok, came to Electra for the
townsite opening and while here
bought the farm adjacent to the
cemetery* northwest of the town-
site, from N. D. Cooper. The first
gusher which opened the Electra
and Northwest Texas oil pool came
in on this lease, still owned by
Woodruff-Putnam heirs, on April
1, 1911. The Woodruff brothers were
among the charter members of the
first Booster club here and were
for groceries.
Two Inches of Rain
Fell Here Saturday
Two inches of rain fell here Sat-
urday night, providing a splendid
season for planting grain and re-
plenishing the supply of stock water
in tanks and creeks which were
getting low. There was little wind
accompanying the downpour, and
cotton in the immediate vicinity of
expected to visit with units at Ver-
non, Iowa Park, Wichita Falls and
Nocona before returning to Fort
Worth. ‘ I
Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Bradley an 1
son, Billy, spent the week-end vis- j
iting relatives at Dallas and attend-}
the State Fair.
Dr. and Mrs. P. E. Fish were a-
mong Electra citizens who saw the
football game and th(l Texas State
Fair at Dallas during the week-end.
Among the numerous improvement]
projects which have helped the ap-
eotton in tne lmmeuuue vicinity ui i"vjvv.......... ..... —...... •• .i
Electra was not seriously ’ damaged, pearance of the city is the remod-j
The City Lake was getting low! cling of the Armilda hotel build-
due to the six weeks’ drouth but1 ing, owned by R .B. Magee of Wich-'
the rainfall added considerably
the available supply there.
Ing number and in singing other! active in all civic affairs during
special songs at intervals during | their residence here. They married
the evening. j sisters, Gertrude and Mary Orth,
“Gathering up the fragments” was I nieces of Mrs. C. II. DeVault of this
the subject of the splendid address j city. Fay Woodruff died at Wichita
5?iven by Mr. Cline. He based his Falls some years ago.
theme on the parable of the loaves I Mr. Woodruff was in Electra lart
sand fishes, stating that the world, week on business. His death took
Abuted States in particular, had en-j place Saturday afternoon at the
joyed a carnival of feast and sated • home of his father-in-law, T. R. 1-
smd arrogant saw the party broken Orth, and was due to a paralyti *!
ita Falls. The awnings in front of
I the brick building which occupies
half the 100 block on South Main
street, were removed and the entiie
front stuccoed in cream color. New
•• ^. w-,. i paint for the woodwork, both out- j
i* l§llt Liin Jr lrG side and inside, along with improve-1
- } ments in the store building on the j
Mayor E. E. Wheeler, Fire Chief corner, adds to the attractiveness!
Electrans Help
'up by a catastrophe, the stock mar-
ket crash of 1929.” It is our duty to
.gather up the fragments left if we
are to preserve our vaunted civili-
zation”, he declared. The fragments
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stroke. Survivors include his widow,
Mrs. Mary Woodruff, of San An-
tonio; a brother and a sister re-
siding at Port Henry. A nephew
Fay Woodruff, Jr., and a sister-in-
are the home, the school and the J law, Mrs. Gertrude Woodruff, live
•church and upon them we must (in San Antonio,
build for betterment of the races j
With health, sanity, simple living ,gjx Electrans Take
and leisure time insured by science,* _ r* r* C* r*
education and simple faith in God.1 ibxams v^* v*. Lsmp
He paid fitting tribute to teachers j -
Ben Twomo.v, C. H. Honeycutt and of the block. Improvement is also }
Clem Brown took one of the Electra under way on the Jackson building
pumper trucks and answered a call' adjacent to the Magee building and
to help fight a gin fire at Oklaunion j which has recently been leased by
Monday afternoon. The Electrans Mrs. Jowell and son, who are opei-i
were able to connect with a water a ting a hotel and dining room there. ‘
tank near the gin and saved a seed1 Mrs. Elige Reed of the Tom L.
house. The main plant and a large Burnett ranch east of town, under j
amount of cotton were destroyed by went an operation at a Wichita,
flames which had almost consumed Falls hospital Saturday.
the main building before the fire j__________ _
fighter from Electra and Vernon g ACmFFPTl !
arrived, Mr. Twomey reported. ] ^*^*,~*^*y
The gin company sent a check for • ADVERTISING
who have played and will play an Six recruits for the Civilian Cun'
Important part in the New Deal. 11 servation Corps were sent from
•concluding his address, Mr. Clin11 Electra to Wichita Falls for ex-
Who is district chairman of the ‘animation Tuesday, G. J. Price, re-
lational Recovery Administration, ‘ lief headquarters manager, reports,
reviewed the political situation ami Those going were J. B. Freilly, Leo
■explained the workings of the NRA * Conley, Albert Pearce, Joe Hixon,
codes which he termed simply the Victor Lewis and Ben Quick. If ac
old law of fair play embodied in eepted, the young men, all of whom
the original constitution of the pre under 25 and over 18 years old,
$25 to the department here Wed-
nesday and expressed gratitude for
the assistance rendered.
BRICK, 25x100, best location for;
beer and domino parlor; long lease
if desired. S. Y. Ferguson, Wichita
Falls. 3-tfc. j
fg;
You Will'll®®
Somethi u£ NeW
'Each Week.......
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FOR BET
ELECTRA, TEXAS
. PHONE 86
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We have a buyer at the market every week
and can get you anything you want ijt the line
of Wearing Apparel, The whole country’s maiv.
ket is wide open to us. Tell us what you nec^i
and we will get' it for you. . „
For the Men—
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For' the Women—
Stetson Hats.
Gage Hrfts. ' ,
Friendly Shoes and Boots,
Gossard line of Corsets.
Kangaroo Work Clothes.
Humming Bird Hose...
(made in Texas)
Queen Quality Shoes.
Arrow and Vanheusen
And as nice a -? line of
Shirts.
Ready-to-Wear as .you’ll
Chaney Ties.
find anywhere.
Come to our store . . . the reliable and depend-
able place—a place where you can feel at
home and courteous sales people to wait on
you.
United States.
Mr. Gray presided over a brief
will be sent to various camps in
the eighth corps area on October
business session of the Rotary Club 18-19, it was announced. Each will
•during which Dr. C. W. Monroe, assign a major part of their wage,
sdxib president, named C. H. Me- to dependent relatives here. Wich-
Uaim, B. M. Dinsmore, W. C. Mar- ita county’s quota for the C. C. C.
t t m*A««r**:~** xxr t> I....... „..n _____ ioa ___
tin, J. L. Chowning, W. R. Skinner, camps on this call was 120 men
D. G. Gray, J. G. B. Totten nndjfrom ig to 25 and for 11 war vet-
J. D. Bright as committee from the erans. Ex-soldiers accepted will be
club to sell tickets for the Arling- 'sent direct to Sargent, Colo., on
ton Downs excursion being spon- October 19, it was announced. Vet-
sored by the Electra Chamber of
Commerce. B. M. Dinsmore made
announcement relative to the
an
■Quanah-Electra football game sched-
uled for the following night.
■ ■
cran enlistments are not handled
by the relief bureau but by the
Veterans Administration Bureau an
Dallas.
_ _ . . Mr. and Mrs. Hal Suttle and lit-
D. G. Gray, superintendent of the son of Pampa were guests of
Waggoner Refinery, made a busi- ^jrs> Suttle’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
ness trip to Tulsa during the week- w c Alexander, this week.
*end. *
CHECK
YOUR
Let Us (.he Your Battery A
Thorough Inspection Before
Winter Sets In
PHILCO and UNITED MOTORS
AUTO RADI O.S
Electra Battery
Station
215 East Cleveland
CWillahO
Arlington Downs-Electra Day
October 25,1933
Buy One of Our Aetna Accident Tickets
for 24 Hours Protection
—$5,000 ACCIDENTAL DEATH.
—$5,000 For Loss of BOTH HANDS and
FEET,
$2,500 For Loss of One Hand or Foot,
$25,00 Per Week for Total Disability, Limit
52 Weeks.
$15.00 Per Week for Partial Disability np to
26 Weeks.
All for Twenty-five Cents
insurance
W&CEY ts
We believe in sensible football clothes
. . . We believe in Tweeds that are
just as warm as they are sensible.
We swear by KNITTED DRESSES
with a bright, young air. . . #
And We Are Telling You
that our
A rlington Downs
Dress Specials
are the talk of the town . . . Drop in
and see them today . ..
$05°. $ J J50
Up
to
$1050
marchant dry goods CO.
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The Electra News (Electra, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 19, 1933, newspaper, October 19, 1933; Electra, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth892777/m1/4/: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Electra Public Library.