The Delta Courier (Cooper, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 28, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 9, 1940 Page: 3 of 4
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1940
TUESDAY, JULY 9, 1940
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' %* Mr*. Harry putfh Smith -,
horde of tormenting memories had
been loosed about him.
But he was back again the next
afternoon. Janet was hanging pic-
tures.
the past week here with relatives.
Mrs 'Flli* Thaxton of Dallas and
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde West of Tex-
arkana were here recently as the
j guests of A C. Canup and family.
“Nothing's lacking.” she told Mr. and Mrs. John Reid and
CHAPTER VIII
Synopsis
Janet Phillips finds herself left
out of things when her wealthier
friends in Bay City come home
from their finishing schools and
colleges. Priscilla Leigh-k*^ the
moment interested in Janet's old
friend Cordon Key—is making
disagreeable. Jim Phillips,
brother, has just met red-
y~ Helen Sanders
through pampered Howard Leigh.
Jim is subbing as golf pro for tha
summer and offeree to give Miss
Sanders lessons. Although he does
not like her, he is fascinated.
Meanwhile. Janet has returned
home from her sister, Berenice’s,
apartmert, wondering ff, after
friend Cordon
disagrei
bunch?” she asked after a while.
“For Pete’s sake,” He protested,
“what is there to ttyhk about? I
can’t afford a jaunt like that and
you know it!”
She meant to be generous, her
heart was full of tenderness when
she said, “1 have money enough in
the bahtc to nay our expenses to
the fair, Bill, of you’ll go.”
He started to his feet so violent-
ly she diopped her fork. “What
are you trying to make out of
me?” he cried in a tortured voica.
“A gigolo?”
Berenice’s cheeks flamed. “It’s
like you to be that unjust," she
said. “Has it occurred to you that
after I’ve pounded the typewriter
from nine to five I’m not exactly
in the mood to be shouted at the
cheap ragged paper had been
worn through in holes from his
patient eraser.
Steve Hill, "except the portrait of
my great-grandmother which is in
our living room at home. It be-
longs here, commanding the whole
house,” she indicated the space op-
posite the wide staircase and the
entrance to the library. “But noth-
ing could persuade her to part
Peggy Jean spent
Day in Greenville.
The! Garrison, assistant
Independence
Lubbock this week. |
Jeff Hal! Crawson of Dallas wa?;
here last Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. G. P. Scott and
little son of Waco wen; here dur-
ing the past week
East Delta News
........................
‘Oh, poor Bill!” Berenice whis- \ with it.”
allt love means little and money
everything. She complains of their **st of the night?” she demanded
Jack of funds to her mother, point-
ing out Mrs. Leigh’s and “How
rfie has got ont”
By the last week in July Mr.
Busby was next to finished at the
Raddiffe house. There were only
the loose ends to be tucked in.
Janet began uneasily to wonder
what would happen next. She had
after considerable research decid-
ed on exactly what furnishings the
old mansion required. She had the
names of dealers and prices at her
tongue’s end. as well as neatly put
down in a slender rod notebook for
To: Rya- ’ consideration.
L> ’—I been engaged for sev-
eral days in carefully weeding out
the flower beds at the sides of the
Radcliffe mansion. It was work at.
which he could sit down if his leg
troubled him. The business of
pruning the trees and cutting back
the heavy shrubbery was to be left
to Rufe under the supervision of
the Earl of Jersey, so Deke said.
“Mr. Tony knows I can’t handle
no scythe,” chuckled Deke, “but
he promised to skin me alive if I
missed ary weed in these here
-■flower beds. Mr. Tony can’t stand
nothing sloveroy.”
Janet’s lips curled. “He expects
you to earn your keep, does he?”
“Yas’m.”
“There’s nothing like being able j
Bill’s mouth tightened. “Maybe
jrered to herself.
For all the pictures were torn in
half and the waste basket beside
the chifforobc lay a crumpled
newspaper. Berenice picked it up
with shaking hands. There were
the names of the winning con-
testants. The winner of the grand
prize headed them all in huge
black letters, the second in small-
er type, the third in still smaller
print, and at. the bottom the in-
conspicuous column of forty who
^e^olved five dollars each.
Berenice’s trembling finger ran
down the list. Bill had not receiv-
ed a prize, not any at all. His name
did not appear anywhere on the
page. Berenice felt an anguish of
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Acker, Mrs.
8. M* Shultz, Ihoa Louise Diggs
Miss Ruth West, who is teaching | and j. «. Acker viaited Mr. and
I in the Denison high school, is hero ! Mrs. Doyle Acker Sunday even-
county j spading her vacation. | MW-
supervisor of Hifl county, was Misses Tommie Ann Scott and i Mr. and Mrs. Royce Moore vis-
here last week visiting relatives
and friends.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Ussery of
Duane Davis were the representu
tives of the Methodist Churti’t ol
Pecan Gap at the Methodist Young
Winona are here as the guests of i People’s Assembly ati Dallast lwul
She laughed unsteadily. “There | Mrs. Ussery’s parents, Mr. and
you think I’m crazy about coming | pity. She knew why Bill had want-
home to this sort of thing when ed five thousand dollars, why he
I’ve tramped the streets all day
trying to sell advertising?”
“Is that why you’re not so hot
had clutched at his forlorn hope to
save his self-respect, but he
failed.
are some things you can’t put on
the auction block unless it’s a mat-
ter of Life and death. At least
we’ve managed to cat without
pawning great-grandmother.” She
regarded him defiantly. “A bit of
maudlin sentiment, eh, what? as
the Earl of Jersey would say.”
Steve Hill sniilled. “There was a
time when I thought I’d outgrown
the old gods, but that’s merely a
phase, you known. In the end you j
realize that life without sentiment |
Mrs. J. W. West.
Newton Thompson and son of
Dallas were here Saturday after-
noon. Mr. Thompson was a form
er citizen of Ladonia for many
years. He bought cotton at Pe-
can Gap during the fall months of
1912 for E. E. Blocker and Com-
I pany of Honey Grove.
J. Mrs. L. A. Crawford is visiting
her sister, Mrs. J. W. Grady, of
is a wine without bouquet.
She caught her breath. "I’d like
you to know my mother,” she said,
and blushed because until then
she had not known she approved
of him to that extent. “Would
you like to go home with me to-
had ■ night to dinner? It’ll be informal,
i We live in a flat and we can’t en-
I tertain on an elaborate scale, but
} Mother’s the only person I know
j of in this town who could talk to
j you about bcoks and philosophy
1 and poetry and hold her own. You
j see, she grew up in a library like
this.”
“I’ll be delighted,” he said.
(To Be Continued)
POLITICAL
ANNOUNCEMENTS
i nes<; political announcements
arc made subject to the action of
the Democratic primary July 27.
All announcements are cash
advance.
ited her grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. Pole Elmore, Saturdoy night.
Miss Janelle Chambliss and
Helen Oliver were Cooper visitors
Friday.
Miss Laverne Toon spent the
week end with her brother, Mr.
j and Mrs. Cecil Toon, and Miss
l Helen Jo George.
For ConfrMi:
R. G. WATERS
(of Bowie County)
WRIOHT PATMAN
r‘*
‘The price is no object, naturally 7” she asked.
at it?” she asked stingingly.
He picked his hat up from
where he had flung it down on the
littered desk. He did not speak or
glance back as he jerked open the
door and banged it behind him.
Berenice stood very still, Listening
to his retreating steps. Suppose
Bill did not came back?
“Oh, Bill!” whispered Berenice,
crawling into bed beside him and
putting her arm across him.
But even in his sleep he flinch- ] a wish for the bride after which
PECAN GAP
MRS. C. A. COCKRELL
»»♦♦♦♦♦»♦♦♦♦»»♦»♦< *»♦♦♦<
Recent Bride Honored With A
Miscellaneous Shower
Mrs. John Reid entertained at
her home with a miscellaneous
shower in honor of Mrs. Ray Gan- |
mibles, better known by most of
us as Ophelia Reid. The house
was beautifully decorated with
yellow and orange marigolds.
Upon, arrival each guest made
For Flotorial Representative,
126th District:
J. M. (Johnnie) BIGGERSTAFF
• JOE W. (Coon Creek) GANDY
Of Hopkins county.
E. T. SELLERS
For District Attorney:
T. WAD THOMPSON
(Tib-election)
RAMEY A. SMITH
HENRY PHARR
For County Judge:
H. D. CLARK
JOHN T. TAYLOR
J. ELMER THOMPSON
ed away from her.
Misses Geraldine Price and Gerald-
sheen. In the dining room a Sher-
She had a longing to run to her
to eat ycur cake and have it too,” j mother, to hide her head in Anne’s ! aton table and white leather-seat- to all who too kpart.
she remarked. “I mean, it isn’t j iaD flS sh€ had done when a child | *d chairs rested on a hand-woven the ,ove,y plfts were dellvered
everyone who can make a beauti-
ful gesture pay.”
“Yas’m,” agreed Deke doubt-
fully.
He had no idea what she was
talking about, hut the man who
had come up behind her knew.
“I’ve seen the skids put under too
^j^wr^Good Time Charles to let
^nat happen to me.” said Tony
Ryan in a hard voice.
Janet turned with a little gasp.
He had cc«ve in through the rear
gate. Under the dark tan of his
lean cheeks there was a red glow
, like the dusky flush on a copper
vase.
“I’d like if possible to have the
house ready for occupancy by the
twentieth of August,” he said.
“Please buy what you think the
house needs and have them send
the bills to me,” he said crisply.
^he winced, and held old antag-
onism flared up. “The price is no
fbject, naturally?” she asked.
He gave her a curious glance.
“I want the best.”
Theoretically, after she had
been busy at the office for eight
hours, Berenice should have been
satisfied to stay quietly at home
with Bill at night, only it had not
worked out that way. She was
generally tired by five and more
and more inclined to feel sorry for
ecause ^ier friends had
ing nothing all day except
tidge or otherwise amuse
themselves. She formed the habit
of stopping in at one of their
apartments after work. Usually
The Bunch was together some-
where having cocktails. They en-
cruraged her to join them.
When she came into the apart-
ment that afternoon Bill was slam-
ming things around in the kitchen-
ette. “Hullo,” he said without look-
ing up, his face like a thunder-
cloud.
“Hullo,” said Berenice coldly,
going into the dressing room to
put her hat and gloves awny.
The living room needed clearing
of cigarette butts and scattered
newspapers.
“Come and get it,” called Bill
from the dinette.
“Have you thought any more
about going to the fair with the
| lap
if she had had a nightmare or been
frightened at something. She had
stretched out her hand to take up
the telephone when it rfcng. Bere-
nice had meant to call Anne and
ask if she could come over, but
May was on the wire. “Meet us j
down in the lobby, kid. You and j
Bill are riding in our car.”
“Bill isn’t here,” stammered ,
Berenice, trying to conceal that i
blue rug. Upstairs, prim ruffled
white curtains framed the windows
of bedrooms in which there were
mahogany four-poster beds and
slipper chairs and chintz-covercd
chaise longues.
“Almost finished,” breathed
Janet one sultry afternoon toward
the middle of August. “The soon-
er I get away from here the bet-
ter. The first thing I know I’ll be
she was crying. “We had one of j breaking down and sobbing on the
our famous battles and he walked interloper’s hearth rug.
A man stood at the foot of the
out on me.”
“He’ll he back,” said May with
g hearty laugh. “Surely you aren’t
going to give him the satisfaction
of staying at home and moping.
That’s exactly what he’d like.”
Berenice’s round childish cbm.
hardened. “All right,” she said,
“I’ll meet you downstairs as soon
as I can climb into my best bib.”
When Berenice lot herself back
into the apartment a little after
two Bill was there asleep on his
side of the bed.
She closed the dressing room
door cautiously before she started
to undress. Her hands were not
quite steady and her eyes did not i Isolde.
focus correctly. That was how she
happened to pull open Bill’s draw-
er instead of her own in the chif-
forcbe. That was why she did not
at once recognize the stack of
neatly cut out pictures which lay
on Bill’s pile of handker dv.efs.
The local, newspaper had been
running a contest for eight weeks.
Each day a published a picture
puzzle. There was a grand prize
of five thousand dollars and a sec-
ond of a thousand and a third of
five hundred and forty of five
dollars each. Berenice had never
dreamed Bill was working at the
contest. Yet there were the pic-
tures painstakingly puzzled out
and lettered in Bill’s small cramp-
ed printing. Berenice’s heart
ached.
He had secured duplicates oT
each puzzle so that the set he fin-
ally sent in should be neat and
legible. These were the ones he
had worked from. They were al-
most tattered where he had writ-
ten in and then rubbed out and! which mattered to me,” he
rewritten his answers. In spots the and walked quickly away as
Gradually the stately old house j jne Br0wn sang, “Let Me Call You
began again to take on a gracious ! Sweetheart.” Three of Edgar A.
and gleaming aspect. Worn floors J Guest’s poems dealing with ro-
and wainscoting developed a satin j niance proved very interesting-
The unique contest were amusing
Just before
to
the bride by little Peggy Jean
Reid, “When Your.« Hair Has
Turned to Silver,” was sung ac-
companied by Mrs. 0. L. Scott, at
the panio.
The out of town guests were:
Mrs. Ganaway Scott of Waco.
Mrs. Opal Mc.Knight of Celina,
Mrs. Claud Morgan of Durant,
Okla., and June McCalaster of
Dallas.
Refreshments consisting of ice
dream and angel food cake were
served to the twenty-eight guests.
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And Delta Courier
May I call your attention to the
fact that this is an opportune time
to send the Cooper Review and
Delta Courier to some relative or
friend as a gift so they may keep
up with the various news items
during the summer and fall
months.
Mrs. Ollie Price of route 2 Pe-
can Gap has subscribed for the
Cooper Review, Dplta Oourier and
Semi Weekly Farm News, all for
the bargain price of two dollars.
Mrs. Beulah Yeager subscribed
for both of the county papers for
herself and also for her sister,
Mrs. Estor Bryant, of Sherman.
Miss Helen Echols of Enloe,
who graduated recently from the
Parks Junior College, has accepted
a position as bookkeeper and
stenographer at the First National
Bank of Roxton.
Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Shipman
were in Wylie and Dallas last Fri-
day.
Mrs. W. A. Morgan and son. W
A. Morgan, who are temporarily
located at Durant, Okla., arc
spending a few days here visiting
relatives.
Miss Zoulle Crawford, a gradu-
ate nurse of the Methodistj Hos-
pital of Dallas, who has. a respon-
sible position at a local hospital of
Brownwood, was here during the
past week end.
Rev. and Mrs. Guy E Perdue and
children were in Dallas Wednes-
day.
Miss Thera Jean Brown spent
Friday in Wylie as the guest of P.
B. Byors and family.
B, C. Cummings and family
Carlton Cummings of Dallas, spent
For County Attorney:
E. G. PHARR
(Re-election, 2nd term)
For County Clerk:
CLYDE BRACKEEN
(Re-election)
AUBREY CULP
C. V. (Duck) STEPHENSON
A. L. CARRINGTON
For District Clerk:
EDW1NA MILLER
For A*ses»or-Collector:
MANTON POUND
G. W. (Bill) MORGAN
week
Mr. and Mi's. E. A. Hastings and
son, Max, were Denison and SuL
phur, Okla., visitors last Thun
day.
. The Baptist revival meeting k
progressing nicely under the able
leadership of the local pastor, Rev
Charles M.ver. Much interest i"
being manifested with the in-
crease of attendance from day tp
day.
Mrs. Sam Morgan, a patient of
the Paris Sanitarium for the oast i
few weeks, is improving satiafae- i
torily. ' I
Mr- and Mrs. John W. Pattprsor ■_ p » « _• «
of Paducah, have moved back to e\. v-OCKFCU
Pecan Gap after being away for j INSURANCf
many years. We welcome them• NOTARY PUBLIC
to our city. *
) R. L. Perkins visited
Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Berry of
Houston and Miss Genevieve Gates
or Arlington are guests in th,»
home of Mr. and) Mrs. John An-
derson and other friends in the
city- ___
in Honey Grove Saturday.
Remember the big homecoming
at Cooper Sunday, July 21.
relatjvos I
stairs. “I’m sorry,” he said. “I
didn’t mean to startle you.”
He was a slight man, thin for
his height. He locked to be about
forty-five and his expensively
tailored gray suit was a little
shiny at the seams.
“You are Miss Phillips, of
course,” he went on. “I’m Steve
Hill, a friend of Tony’s. He’s done
me a great service by being alive.”
The next afternoon he was in
the library when she arrived, sit-
ting on the cushioned window seat,
turning the leaves of an excep-
tionally fine copy of Tristan and
Allah be praised, you don’t buy
books for the color of their bind-
ings!” he said.
Janet stared at him critically as
he talked on. He did not sound
like a hum, but neither did the
Earl of Jei-sey. Steve Hill had a
sensitive mobile face, and he
seemed to have read everything
worth reading and to- have seen
everything worth seeing and to
have known everything worth
knowing.
“Sorry,” he said glancing ab-
ruptly at his watch, “I’m afraid
I’ve bored you.”
She discovered with an incred-
ulous start that they had been sit-
ting there for an hour while he
literally charmed her with the
gently satirical flow of his con-
versation. “No,” sh" said, “you
haven’t bored me. I doubt if you
ever bored anyone in your life.”
To her dismay his mouth twist-
ed with pain. “I failed lamentably
with the one audience in the world
said
if a
For County Treasurer:
SAM MORGAN
MRS. LUTEE WILSON
For Sheriff:
D. E. (Brick) WOOD
SAM MARTIN
R. A. (Allen) KERBOW
E. T. (Tank) TRAPP
CLARENCE L. CATES
ROBERT (Preacher) CARROI.L
For Commissioner, Precinct
J. L. (Jack) JOHNSON
(Re-election, 2nd Term)
R. L. CHAMBLISS
1:
For Commissioner, Precinct 2:
OSCAR TIDWELL
CURTIS TOON
WALTER McKEE
For Commissioner, Precinct 3:
W. b! CLARK
W. N. McGAHA
(Re-election, 2nd term)
T. C. WILHITE
For Commissioner, Precinct 4«
PAUL (Dobber) BROWN
G. C. (Grover) COSTON
A. B. CARRINGTON
W. E. (Dick) FOSTER
For Justice of Peace, Precinct
C. V. (Doe) FLANARY
(Re-election, 2nd Term)
For Public Weigher, Precincts 1-S«
FORREST WHEAT
(Re-electio/i, 2nd term)
For Public Weigher, Prect. 3:
W. A. HODGES
For Constable, Precinct It
JESSE JONES
(Re-election, 2nd term)
For Constable, Precinct 2:
II. B. DODSON
For Justice of Peace, Precincts 3-6
NOBLE H. WEAVER
For Constable, Precinct
W. E. CANADY
Public Weigher, Precinct 4:
CARMON STOCKTON
(Be.el«cHnni ?n«J term)
Jerry Sadler
Candidate For
GOVERNOR
Will Speak In
Cooper
City Tabernacle
W ednesday,
July lO 4 p. m.
—MUSIC BY-
COWBOY STRINGSTERS
FEATURING LEON HUFF AND LOU CHILDRE
JOHN AND JACK, THE FAMOUS ALL-
AMERICAN KIMBROUGH BROS.
WILL BE MASTERS OF CEREMONIES
THE BURNING ISSUES OF THE CAMPAIGN
_WILL. BE DISCUSSED
THE PUBLIC INVITED
For Public Weigher, Prect. 6:
W. H. (Harland) McFERRlN
W. W. (Bill) RODERICK
RALPH CLEMENTS
W. M. MERRILL, Jr.
Summer Is Here
Get Ready
To GO!
I
It’s time that you visited John
and never were values greater
the car you had hoped to find
prised when you see the low
Scarborough for a better ear-
then now. You will find just
and we believe you will be sur-
price that we have placed on it.
COME IN AND SEE OUR LARGE SELECTION
CAR VALUES
OF USED
JOHN SCARBOROUGH
-INC.
Authorized Ford Dealer
E, A* RAGAN, Mgr.
W«*t First St.
COOPER, TEXAS
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