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"When The One Great Scqrer Comes Against Your Name Vol. 10 He Writes Not If You Won or Lost But » uw *ou Played The Game." THURSDAY, MARCH 4,1943
------; Putnam's Quota to WTCC TO HAVE DELEGA E. L. Finley Buried LONE STAR GAS TURNS TION IN WASHINGTON From The Editor's The lied Cross Has MONDAY MORNING In Ross Cemetery Been Set at $350.00 Saturday Afternoon Window 3,445,444 POUNDS OF Next week for the second time this year, the West Texas Chamber The Red Cross is putting on an E. L. Finley, a prominent rancher of Commerce will send a delegation other drive for funds this Spring SCRAP TO WAR PLANTS of Callahan county, age 74, died at to Washington to press for greater A heavy earthquake shock, ex and Mrs. R. L. Clinton visited the 3:30 Friday morning at the Hen use of two of the area’s materials, tending from about 250 miles News office Wednesday morning Lone Star Gas Company turned BURKETT o f f e r s b i l l dricks Memorial hospital. Mr. grains and cotton, in the war ef southwest of Mexico City as far and left some advertising and 3.445.444 pounds of metal and other t o liEDUCE JUDICIAL Finley owned a ranch of several fort,, M. C. Ulmer, WTCC presi north as Salt Lake City, Utah, was stated that the quota for Putnam scrap materials to the government DISTRICTS IN TEXAS sections of grazing land about five dent and G. A. Simmons, vice pres recorded during the early part of had been set at $350. This is pret industrial war salvage campaign in miles west of Putnam on Mexia ident, will head the group that wili last week. At Mexico City, where ty high for Putnam, but the Put 1942 and a citation for outstanding O, H- Burkett of Eastland, repre- Creek. apparently the shocks were the nam people have always given lib participation in the program has | sentat’.vefrom the 107th district, open the conference Monday, March Mr. Finley came from Tennessee most severe, a large rooming house erally to the Red Cross and is cer been given the company by the! com ped of Callahan and Eastland i8’ with biS officials of the govern- to Callahan county in the 1880’s ment. collapsed killing five or more per tain they will do' their part this W ar Production Board through H. countu*. and Representative Dan and became a successful rancher. The West Texas Chamber of sons. tiime. Mrs. Clinton is one of the M. McDougal, chief of the public Dove df Mexia, have introduced a He was born at Clarksville, Tenn Commerce is frankly hopeful that The shocks were felt in a distinct leaders among the Red Cross in utility division, industrial salvage bill in jthe Texas Legislature pro essee December 31, 1869, and was Secretary Wickard will either "take series. The first at 3:21, the sec Callahan county, and she with aid branch. The materials were direc posing , to re-district the judicial married to Ella S. Alvord in Calla- the lid o ff’’ of cotton as last week ond and hardest at 3 :22 and a third of the other ladies will put it over ted to war production plants. districts of Texas in the number of , han county December 25, 1894. :>t 4'45 during the early morning just as they have always done. During the first six months of courts j* from 130 to 96. The bill he did for the wheat growers who , They moved from the ranch to A bi hours. ------o------1942 the company turned in 900,000 was introduced in the house of rep now can plant unlimited acreage : ,ene in 1915 but he 8tIu operated No damage of consequence was pounds of salvage, and in the third resentatives last Tuesday. without penalties, or that greatly I hla ranch on Mexia CreeU. DUSTING COTTON ADDS increased reported elsewhere. quarter the figure was 750,084 JudiAal re-districting was sub acreage quotas will be Mr. Finley was superintendent of BIG INCREASE IN authorized, carrying a transferral COTTON PRODUCED pounds, making a nine-month total mitted | by Governor Coke Steven the Sunday school at Central Pres Representative Barry of New of 1,650,084 pounds, according to son in :his opening message to the privilege under which acres finally byterian church for several years, unplanted in sections of the belt York has introduced a bill in the Farmers in several places over C. F. Wilson, Dallas, supervisor of legislature as an emergency meas but had held that position onlj’ in may be diverted to other sections United States Congress providing this district had good results with stores and administrator of salvage ure. an honorary capacity for some time that plant later. The chamber’s for free distribution of vegetable dusting cotton in 1942. These re and scrap for the gas company. The ------o------on account of his hgalth. seeds and plants to the people to accumulation for the fourth and long time campaign for liberalized Mrs. Finley survives as does a ports are taken at random by act CISCO JUNIOR BASKET encourage the cultivation of gar final quarter totaled 1,795,360 cotton quotas has won strong sup- son Norman Lee Finley of Palacios, ual results made on the 1942 crop. BALL TEAM WENT TO dens. The custom is an old one pounds, bringing the year’s total to port in the National Congress and tWQ grandsonSi Eugene Lee and The demonstrations were ranged W AC O MARCH 1 and the idea Of reviving it might be from one acre to one hundred acres 3.445.444 pounds. 1 he rexas LcSlslature- R0SS Alvord Finley of Lubbock, and profitable if seeds suitable to the Mr. Wilson said that the com ~ j a sister, Mrs. Ben Montgomery of and each instance the dusting Th- Cisco Junior basketball team various areas in the country could pany will participate in the war j Whitewright. checked -against undusted acreage participated in the state junior: Cook Ranch Pool * be assorted and distributed. salvage project for the duration. Funeral was held Saturday at showed the same results, more cot college basktball tournament at Observes Anniversary His responsibility is to see that Central Presbyterian church at 2 Four new cases of meningitis ton per acre. Waco March 1, competing with A demonstration in Hamilton obsolete or materials otherwise not p. m. with the Rev. E. B. Surface, have been reported in Brown coun nine other teams. The Cisco team ' county yielded a gain in production serviceable are sold to junk dealers The 17th anniversary of the first minister as the speaker. Burial ty for the past weel* bringing the entered the first game of the tour of slightly more than 100% over who forward the salvage to war Cook gusher came and passed on was in the Ross cemetery at Baird. total number in the county to 13. nament, according to Carlos J. acreage from undusted blocks of production plants. Material in | February 18, 1943, with every one Pallbearers Larry Adomson, R. One death from the disease has Turner, college registrar. cotton in the same community. cluded are scrap iron, steel and oth j going their way in quiet. The Cook L. Bland, Roy Thomas, Lex Buch- been reported. Arlin Bint is coach of the local Part of the acreage in Hamilton er scrap metals, scrap rubber and j pool area has enriched oil produc annan, Gordon, Weir, George Hall, The State Health Department team who says its members show county produced 480 pounds of lint paper, and discarded ranges, etc. ers, royalty owners, supply stores, H. H. Tucker, and Ben Halleck. has sent out a bulletin emphasizing some speed in defeating the Cross , landownerS( with cotton pef' acre. In Taylor county more than $40,- ■ All of his friehds were lionoraiy the importance of early diagnosis, Plains jteam last Wednesday night, j qqq one of three demonstrations, 230 from the oil, marking one pallbearers. The team is composed of the fol- hospitalization and proper treat RED CROSS DRIVE of the rchest shallow spots in Mid-i ------o______— pounds per acre. lowing? Jimmie Newberry, May, ment since by these measures the ^ Continent, outside the Yates pool Applications of dusting ranged We, the people of Putnam and mortality rate may be kept as low Texas. William. Pioneer, Paul in Pecos county. from two to eight, and the cost per adjoning communities, have been Two New Testi in as possible and control of the dis Hunr ngton, Pioneer, Durwood Ja- It is still going strong, with the acre from $6.14 to $2.25. The av asked to contribute $350 of the ease made easier. ( cobs Madison, Ed Coppinger, Car- 7th pool discovery on the 18,000 Albany Area erage net profit on the basis of in $3700 for Callahan county War j bon, o and all Aiken, Cross Plains,! The bulletin points out that no ac»‘es, and al! the profitable well:; creased production was $10.60. One Campaign Fund. W / t can and must R. H. Roark No. 1, J. H. Todd, is means of immunization is available Clifff5V, 'T?ioma.s. Carbon, Durwin1 being pumped and re-pressured in' _ I farm in Hamilton county returned do this. We all know the Red Cross a new shallow wildcat 3% miles at this time although important re Morris, Cisco, and Ralph Hunting-! attempt to remove the oil from the a net profit of $29.37 per acre. has aptly been called "The Great ton. Pioneer. east of Albany in the southwest V*. search is still being made to this 1400 foot sand stratum. • est Mother in the World.” This of section 11, Blind Asylum lands, end and has been for the past sev Had the flush- production from ; year 65% of the proceeds of the slated to test the Hope sand. The eral years. 42nd. DISTRICT COURT the Cook pool not come in on $2.00 ! CONVENED IN BAIRD War Campaign Fund will go to the MISS CLAUDIA ALLEN hole is near Hubbard Creek and is to $2.503>z.ou per per barrel, Darrel, the tne recovery recovery, ^ . . .. T rT _ , ‘ service men. We won’t fail them -- GRADUATES FROM I 1 J the first for the J. H. Todd area in Josephine (reading aloud the con MONDAY MORNING MCH. 1 record and profits would have been I , _ •. all of us have some one who is very HENDRICK HOSPITAL : several years. Roark No. 1, J. L. clusion of a long letter):" Then I much less. Other pools on $1.00 oil _ , , . will come home and marry the 42nd. District Ctfurt convened in dear to us who are giving up every Todd, failed to make a favorable In ooking over the pictures of the can not be profitable to the oil pro- | show’. Jn 6fi4 sweetest little girl in the world.’’ Baird Monday morning with Judge thing and risking all in the service foot hole north of graduates of the Hendricks Memor-] ducer, as the dry holes eat up his j Juliet: “What a dirty trick! Milbum Long, presiding. The grand of our country. Our contribution in the Ibex road, near the Todd home. ial hospital, Abilene, the picture of possible profit. The decline in ' jury was organized and given the money is small in comparison with West of the Cook ranch, Kleiner After being engaged to you.’’ Claudia Allen of Putnam appeared ( number of operators, in number of charge on law enforcement with L. theirs. Let us give generously and & Heltzel No. 2-A, Dawson & Con on the list. Thus another Putnam wells and the decline in daily pro-1 P rof.: "W hy were you so late to A. Williams appointed as foreman, gladly. way, is preparing to start drilling girl making good in the business j duction are proof of needed price class this m orning?” and Aron McKee as secretary, with We are to have workers in town on an 1800 foot test in the north world. Miss Claudia is a daughter! increase. Freshie: “They started recita- the following named gentlemen on every day next week starting this east *4 of section No. 165, E. T. of Mr. and Mrs. O. D. Allen of Put- ’ ------o------tion before I got there.” the jury: M. A. Lovell, Baird, Saturday, March 6; see them. If Ry., just west of the Cook ranch nam and is very popular, 'having L()SS W ()()DS SELLS Frank Spencer, Cross Plains, A. J. you can help in staying down there and near corner of the Nail-Cook served in the capacity as assistant |{4li^C)FI N O R T H O F Draftee: "They can’t make me Ellis, Moran, Earnest Higgins, any of this time, call me or Mrs. and Dawson & Conway ranches. postmaster for three or four years x oV V N A T $25 P E R A C R E fight." Baird, John L. Estes, Clyde, R. H. Lewis Williams, or Mrs. Fred Cook Roeser & Pendleton, Inc.-Conoco before entering Hendricks Memor Soldier: No, but they can send] Morrisette, Abilene, route 1, Ben for assignment. No. 4, failed to make a well in the ial hospital and making one of the Loss Woods, sheriff of Eastland you where the fighting is and then i Atwood, Cross Plains, R. S. John- MRS. R. L. CLINTON, Chairman. Cook ranch pool and is dry and best assistant postmasters Putnam COUnty, who purchased the Henson let you use your own judgment.” son, Clyde, S. G. Jones, Cisco, route ------o------’ . plugged at 1812 feet, being east off ever had. Miss Allen . has many ] Wagley ranch about eight miles 1, and Waker Respass, Cross GARDEN FERTILIZER set to their 90 barrel pumper in the It is said Uncle Sam has purch- , Pjains friends in Putnam who congratu north of Putnam, sold it last week WILL BE AVAILABLE Cook pay and the first new pool in ased tne 3,000-room Stevens Hotel j o ------late her on her graduation from to other parties for $25.00 per acre, j THROUGH LOCAL STORES Shackelford for the year. A south in Chicago. The Army had already this institution. Trading in ranches and grazing ! ] FRANK SUNDERMAN offset is drilling now in attempt to taken it over for its use as an air Many Victory gardeners have ------o- land has been very active in the j HAD NO FAILINGS locate the lens. force training school. been disturbed lately because Putnam territory for the past sev- j i AT JOHN TARLETON t h e j u n i o r l e a g u e ------o------A check for $6,000,000, the price they're unable to get fertilizers in eral months. The price has ranged MRS. JIM BARKER SPEAK- the owner agreed to take, was de Following announcemnt comes small lots. However, the govern The Junior League met Sunday, from $20 per acre for good grazing! e r j\T DEMONSTRATION posited with the clerk of the feder- from John Tarleton College T. V. ment and fertilizer manufacturers February' 21, at the Methodist land to $25.00; much not seiling as j CLUB MEETING FRIDAY . al court. are coming to the gardener’s res church, and Joann Smith was in high as $25.00. Crounse, registrar of John Tarleton j At a meeting of the home dem- The price to build the hotel was cue. In the near future some spec charge of the program. We began has announced the honor roll for t onstration association Friday, Mrs. sad to have been $25,000,000. ial Victory garden fertilizer will be by singing "God Will Take Care of the Fall trimester just completed. DON SMITH IS RECOV Jim Barker, vice president of the j available for local dealers. You.” The lesson was on the Des For a student’s name to appear on ERING FROM A MAJOR District 7 home demonstration According to a recent statement' ! This new fertilizer comes in cription pf Jesus. this list he' must have no failing OPERATION association, presented work ot the by Commerce'Secretary Jones the, I packages of 5, 10, 25, 50 and 100 We plan to polish our floors the grades and must have earned 30 association. Reconstruction Finance Corpora- j pound lots, which should satisfy latter part of this week. We had grade points. Among the 147 stu Don Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. j Delegates to a meeting of Dis ticn has set up a separate agency | the needs of all. About one pound j one enrolled, Louie Mae Bigger- dents attaining this rank was Dock Smith, w’as taken to Graham trict 7 in Coleman to be held in May to give financial aid in development Frank Sunderman of Putnam, Tex. of fertilizer is needed for each 25 ] gtaff. hospital, Cisco, several days ago for I will be elected at the next meeting. and acquisition of natural rubber &s gince thjR i.eport feet of row you're planting. | The old members present were was mailed an emergency appendicitis opera-; Mrs. S. E. Roberson, new council from foreign sources. The formula for this fertiizer | j oann Smith, Sue Williams, Ida out Frank has entered the training tion and has been critically ill ever chairman presided and appointed The new agency will be known as iis a little different from the kind | jyiae White, Patsy Taylor, Royce i camp for service, since the operation, but was report an education committee composed the Rubber Development Corpora sold last year, however, it will pro Wliite' Bryant Taylor; Sonny Tay ------o------— ed Wednesday to be improving and of a general chairman and two club tion and will be seperate from the! duce good result. Specificaally, it lor, and Wayne Speegie. We closed his chances were good for complete members from each precinct. This one handling the synthetic rubber I METHODIST JUNIOR contains three percent nitrogen, by repeating the League benedic LEAGUE recovery, but will be several days committee includes Mrs. Carl Cook program. eight percent phosphoric acid, and tion. f before he will be able to return as chairman, Mrs-. Jim Barker. Mrs. The Junior League met Sunday seven per cent potash. ------o------■ home. N. H. Stephenson, Mrs. Andrew It is said that the soybean indus February 28. We opened by sing Broadcasting causes lack of full ------o------JACKIE RUTHERFORD Johnson, Mrs. Dolph Hodges, Mrs. try, started as a project, has met ing several good songs. fertilizing value due to wasting J MARRIED TO CHARLES ! GILMORES RETURN FROM E. E. Sunderman, Mrs. Wesley jvith surprising results in the reg Those present were: Ila White, Applying it in the row- and chop- KNIFFIN FEBRUARY 9 GRADUATING EXERCISES Wagley, Mrs. Jim Barr and Mrs. H. ion around Plainview. Nineteen Dorris Ann Speegie. June Manes, ping it in the row and chopping it OF SON IN OKLAHOM A G. Whithorn. acres planted by one farmer has Sue Williame, Wayne Speegie, In with a hoe until thoroughly Announcement was made in Clubs represented were Clyde tins past ye-.r yielded 25 bushels Royce White, Weldon Manes, Patsy m^xed with the soil will give best Baird Thursday of the marriage of Mrs. Ethel Dixon, of Edcouch, j Helping Hand Club, Entemriae, per acre and sold for $160 per Taylor. rnsuts. Its best to apply the fer Jackie Rutherford, daughter of Mr. arrived in Putnam Wednesday af-! Eula, Midway and Putnam. bushel. Figure this for yourself Our new business was to select tilizer two weeks before you plant. and Mrs. Willie L. Cutbirth, and and see how the Plainview farmers ] two soldiers we would write to each ------o------Cpl- C- B. Kniffin of Clyde, son of temoon to visit her daughter, Mrs. j -1------o------are prospering. Nor is this all. week. We voted on I. G. Mobley Max Kennedy returned Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Kniffin of E. H. Gilmore, for a few days, and j CAR REGISTRATION 1943 car tabs, which are to be at- These same enterprising fanners and Darr el White. Our lesson was from Fort Worth where he visited Clyde, which took place on Febru-1 she and Mr- and ^ rs' Gilmore went realized a crop of more than 2,000 on my health and my task. with home folks for a few days. He Corporal___ Kniffin is station-' from here to Norman, Oklahoma to j tached to 1942 tags, must be on " cars by April if they are to be used tons of sugar beets the past year. All Junior and Intermediates are was accompanied by his mother, ed at Olando. Florida, and his wife j attend the graduating exercises of on the highways. The sugar beet industry in North cordialy invited to attend our lea Mrs. lone Kennedy and aunt, M ss will join him there soon where the "Donald," a son of Mr. and Mrs. REMEMBER TO BRING YOUR Texas was started just five years gue nexxt Sunday evening at 7:15 Willrc Kennedy, who spent the day couple will make their home for the Gilmore who is graduating from a CERTIFICATE OF TITLE. ago and has prosppred to the ex p. m. here in the home of their mother, pi-esent. naval aviation technical training tent that it w'as hard to move the Secretary Patsy Taylor. Mrs. Ella Kennedy. school, rhe graduating exercises The office will make every effort I to accommodate late registrants by crop last fall because of limited ------o------S- E. Park, wife and baby. Mrs. i were Friday. Mrs. Dixon and Mr. remaining open after the usual transportation. This handicap wili Mrs. G. P. Gaskin and sons of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Vernon Neil Logan all of Knox City, were | and Mrs. Gilmore 3tayed over visit- closing hour. soon be removed, however, and our Fort Worth visited in the home of Smith of Fort Worth spent Sunday visiting with Mr and Mrs. R. L .1 ing wiith their son until Monday rc- MRS. T. W. BRISCOE North Texas neighbors will bounti her brother, Raymond Clark and in the home of their parents, Mr. Clintou and Mrs R. D. Williams turning to Putnam Monday after- Tax Assessor-Collector. fully reap the result of their labors. family Sunday. | and Mrs. C. C. King Sunday. noon. 4
THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1943 THE PUTNAM NEWS, PUTNAM, TEXAS
IN AUSTRALIA Mrs. G. P. Gaskins, Bill and Mr. and Mrs. Pug Kile, all of Fort OUTSELLS ALL OTHER The Putnam News 1 Worth were visiting friends and E O T i M S i PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY COUGH relatives in Putnam Sunday. J. S. YEAGER s t o a r EDITOR AND MANAGER MEDICINES * ASK YOURSEI-F WHY ’? Subscription Price: $1.00 Per Year Mrs. D. M. Weed and family of Dan Horn were guests in the home Entered as second class matter £ e c m & i a Buckley’s CANADIOL Mixture of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. King Sunday. August 29, 1934, at the post office Leonora straightened the objects Rosebud is eight, and the most now on sale and made here in Am PADDY THE BEAVER A\0 beautiful shade of caramel fudge. at Putnam, Texas. on her desk with great care. She SAMMY JAY TALK THINGS erica acts like a flash on coughs had put her desk at the end of her To her loving Mammy and Pappy Any erroneous reflection uoon room facing the door so that when OVER she is known, on approximately al due to colds or Bronchial irrita her mother came in she would have ternate days, as “ Angel” and "You tions. Buckley’s is by far the larg the character, standing or reputa devil cljild". It was on her devil- L. L. BLACKBURN to cross the whole room under Leo OADDY THE BEAVER sa( look- est selling cough medicine in all tion of any person, firm or corpo nora’s stern executive “ye to get to child days that Rosebud tied the ATTORNEY-AT-LAW 1 ing thoughtfully at the aspen trees knots in the shirts that Mammy had wintry Canada. In Australia, New ration that may appear in the col her. From movies and pictures in he would have to cut to corr.plete BAIRD, TEXAS the newspapers Leonora had gotten taken in for washing, and poured the Zealand, Newfoundland, etc., its the umns of The Putnam News will be his store of food for the winter All whole of the vanilla bottle into the a good idea of how the desk of a those near the edge of his P°nd same story. Take a couple of doses gladly and fully corrected upon be busy woman of affairs should look. lamb stew, just, she said later ing brought to the attention of the With an important scowl, Leonora had been cut. The others were scat through bitter tears, to “ flavor it up —feel its quick powerful effective FOR HAY FEVER some” . editor. picked up a sheet of paper. Now she tered about some little distance action spread thru throat, head and away. “ I don’t know,” said Paddy On her angel days Rosebud is Dr. La Monds prescription for was two people — herself, the busy bronchial tubes—starts at once to Cards of Thanks, Resolutions of woman, and her own stenographer. out loud, “ I don’t know.” equally imaginative even if a more Catarrah, Asthma, Hay Fever and restful occupant of the little shack loosn up thick choking phlegm, Respect, and any kind of entertain “ Miss Simpkins, take a letter to the “ What don’ t you know?” asked Head Colds will positively refund Secretary of the Treasury, will down on Vinegar Hill. Once when soothe raw membranes, making ments where admission fee or other Sammy Jay, who, now, that he and Mammy was out your dollar if not satisfied with re you?” she murmured under her Paddy had become friends was breathing easier. Get Buckley’s monetary consideration is charged, breath. “ Y es, doing day work, sults after using one entire box ac very much interested in what Paddy Rosebud got a CANADIOL Mixture today. will be charged for at regular ad- j immediately,” cording to directions. sh e murmured was doing. wave of cleaning vertising rates. “ Why,” replied Paddy, don’t fever and scoured Y. A. ORR, DRUGGIST back at herself. every pot and pan CISCO MEDICAL COMPANY Leonora know just how I am going to get in the kitchen so Putnam, Texas CISCO, TEXAS cleared her those trees. You see now that Old that they literally throat and Man Coyote is watching for me it glistened. Anoth looked at the isn’t safe for me to go very far from er day, left alone, ceiling for in my pond. I suppose I could dig a she tidied up spiration. Miss canal up to some of the nearest trees Mammy’s and Pappy’s room to such The World’s News Seen Through Simpkins bent a point of apple-pie order that it was over the sheet of paper hanging on and then float them down to the, pond, but it is hard to work and; a week before Pappy could find an T he Christian Science M onitor the words about to fall. urulershirt. “ Dear Mr. Morgenthau,” — “ Got keep sharp watch for enemies at the Art International Daily Newspaper 7t f u q u d l a Rosebud is a great reader of the that?” — “ Yes, madam.” same time. I guess I’ll have to be newspapers. Mammy and Pappy is Truthful— Constructive— Unbiased — Free from Sensational Augusta Travers—you know, the "I am—ahem—thirteen years old content with some of these alders don’t take one, but there are plenty ism — Editorials Are Timely and Instructive and Its Daily one who runs the little hat shop and anxious to be of all possible growing close to the water, but the of perfectly good newspapers blow Features, Together with the Weekly Magazine Section, Make down on Main Street—she’s always service to the country at this time, bark of aspens is so much better ing round Vinegar Hill. It was out the Monitor an Ideal Newspaper for the Home. been dead set against gambling in ahem! that I—I wish I could get them.” of one of them that Rosebud got her any form. Never will forget when I “ I earn a weekly income of from idea for spending the ten cents the The Christian Science Publishing Society $1.37 to $2.12 by helping with the “ What’s a canal?” asked Sammy One, Norway Street, Boston, Massachusetts was a kid and she found little Ham abruptly. Bunny had put under her pillow the my, her youngest nephew, playing housework and by shovelling snpw. night her tooth came out. After break- Price $12.00 Yearly, or $1.00 a Month. marbles for keeps out back of the I am at present in possession of one “ A canal? Why, a canal is a kind fas Rosebud disappeared down Saturday Issue, including Magazine Section, $2.60 a Year. shop. Took it on herself to give him War Savings Bond and am buying of ditch in which water can run,” the Hill and reappeared soon* after Introductory Offer, 6 Saturday Issues 25 Cents. a whaling and point out the evils of stamps weekly. I want to become a replied Paddy. with a beautiful ten-cent War Stamp gambling. She’s a strict woman, member of the 10 percent Club. I Sammy nodded. “ I’ve seen Farm pasted firmly into a brand-new book Name__ Augusta, real strict. Good as gold, feel it to be—ahem—not only my er Brown dig one over on the Green with neat little squares for more duty, but my privilege” ( “How do stamps. She displayed her invest Address. of course. But mighty set against Meadows, but it looked like a great the lighter things of life. you spell privilege?” asked Miss ment to Mami*^. “ 1 declare you're SAMPLE COPY ON REQUEST Well, so you could have knocked Simpkins. “ Don’t bother me with deal of work. I didn’t suppose that an angel child,” Mammy said. Rose s us all over with these details,” said Leonora)—my any one else could do it. Do you bud went on sitting on the kitchen a feather when privilege as an American^to invest really mean that you can dig a floor staring with large brown eyes Augusta started at least ten percent of m y income canal, Paddy?” at the empty squares in her book. her gambling in War Bonds. “ Of course, I mean it,” replied From time to time she took hold of campaign for Yours truly,” Paddy in a surprised tone of voice. one or another of her teeth and War Bonds and “ Get that off at once, Miss Simp “ I have helped dig lots of canals. wiggled it, gently. Stam ps, right kins,” said Leonora. “ Yes, Ma’am! Mammy was engrossed in a par out in the win You certainly are an important You ought to see some of them ticularly big washing. Rosebud was SPECIALIZING IN SECURING BITH dow of her shop. woman, ma’am,” said Miss Simp back where I came from.” as quiet as a mouse and Mammy First she got kins. “ I’d like to,” replied Sammy. “ I forgot about her until, coming in hold of the pho (Letter from an actual communi think it is perfectly wonderful. I from the yard with her arms full of CERTIFICATES tographs of every boy here in town cation in the files of the Treasury don’t see how you do it.” dry sheets, she encountered her child who’s joined up, and pasted them on Department.) U .s. Treasury Department with a large hammer in her hand. “ It’s easy enough when you know Scenting the devil in her angel child, a big board in the window, with little how,” replied Paddy. “ If I dared American Hags at the corners. Half Mammy shouted at her, “ Rosebud! Office at News Office the town was down there watching ★ ★ to I’d show you.” Come yere with that hammer! What her do it. She left the middle empty. Sammy had a sudden idea. It you planning on doing?” Then she brought out a placard she'd h V U a i o u Q u y W M t almost made him gasp. “ I tell you But what was done was done. In had printed up and put it in the mid what, you work and I’ll keep watch!” Rosebud’s other hand was another dle, and this is what it said: “ These tooth. Her mouth was stretched in are the Local Boys who have enlist WAR BRADS a broad if slightly bloody smile. “ I NOTARY PUBLIC ed in America's War—They are bet ain’t doing nothing, Mammy,” she ting that you are buying War Bonds said. “ I’m just filling up my stamp and Stamps—Hitler and the Japs are While we have not heard so much book.” betting you aren’t—Place your bets about them, our air-borne command (Story from an actual report in inside.” is inferior to none. We have thou the files cf the Treasury Depart My wife couldn't wait to get her sands of these especially trained ment ) ALL KIND OF NOTARY WORK self down there and inside Augusta’s troops and the glider is a necessary I shop to see what in the wide world factor in thei1’ successful operation. Say yes. Take your change in War had happened to her, turning right Stamps. Your investment in War around about gambling like that. Bonds today wiff save a payday for You know my w'ife. She kind of tomorrow. 07 . S. Treasury Department likes to talk. She went right up to Augusta and said, “ Augusta Travers, seems like something’s come over you. Why, I never thought I’d see you running a gambling campaign BURTON - LINGO COM PA N Y in your own shop.” hi/Uat 'Ijo-ufeiuf, W ith Mean to tell me it’s a gamble whether this country buys enough BUILDERS SUPPLIES bonds to win this war?” Augusta WAR BRADS asked. Paddy hatched him go with a I forgot to say. Wasn’t just a hat puzzled and disappointed air. my wife brought home. Was a hat Every shipyard in our country is Fix that leaky roof now. Winter and a $25 bond. he cried. “ You know my eyes are setting amazing records in the con (Story from an actual report in We build gliders in three types and their capacity is a military se very sharp.” struction of a merchant marine so means trouble and added expense if you the files of the Treasury Depart essential to the transport of supplies ment.) cret. The type shown here costs “ Will you?” cried Paddy eagerly. Remember: It takes both—taxes about $19 000 each. Buy War Bonds “ That would be perfectly splendid. and men to the seven seas. The don’t. Whether you do the job with pa and War Bonds (and more War with at least ten percent of your in You have the sharpest eyes of any overall cost of these hundreds of per, composition or wood shingles, you’ll Bonds)—to run the War and combat come every payday' and help pay one of whom I know and I would ships now building runs into mil lions of dollars. inflation! O'. y. Treasury Department for these gliders for our intrepid feel perfectly 'safe with you on get both economy and reliability if you lighting men. S. Treasury Department watch. But I don’t want to put you to all that trouble, Mr. Jay.” let us supply the material. “ Of course I will,” replied Sam my, “ and it won’t be any trouble —DO IT NOW! at all. I’ll just love to do it.” You see it made Sammy feel very proud to have Paddy say that he had such ROCKWELL BROS. & CO. sharp eyes. "When will you begin?” tOi “ Right away, if you will just take a look around and see that it is per LUMBERMEN fectly safe for me to come out on land.” Sammy didn’t wait to hear more. He spread his beautiful blue wings SHERWIN WILLIAMS PAINTS and started off over the Green For Many of them are called “ Victo ALEX RAWLINS & SONS est straight for the Green Meadows. ry” ships and you are contributing and a little building Paddy watched him go with a puz to this victory by your purchase of Weatherford, Texas zled and disappointed air. "That’s War Bonds . . . at least ten per funny,” thought he, “ I thought he cent of your income, every payday. really meant it, and now off he goes We’ll need these ships after the war, We appreciate the friendship and without even saying good-by.” too, when Peace comes. In a little while back came Sam U. S. Treasury Department patronage of the Putnam people. my all out of breath. “ It’s all right,” he panted. “ You can go to work i f i f just as soon as you please.” Paddy looked more puzzled than 'What you Btuf. liJ iil ever. “ How do you know?” he The last thing you will do for your asked. “ I haven't seen you looking around.” WAR BRADS mm. “ I did better than that,” replied loved one will be a marker at their Sammy. “ If Old Man Coyote had One of the most essential articles been hiding somewhere in the Green ' of equipment for our soldiers is his Forest it might have taken me some canteen. In equatorial countries and last resting place. Why not buy the time to find him. But he isn’t. You in other warm climes they are par BABY CHICKS see I flew straight over to his home ticularly important to the welfare of in the Green Meadows to see if he our fighting men. best. In business 60 years. On is there, and he is. He’s taking a sun bath and looking as cross as Is High Quality Chicks al Low Prices. two sticks. I don’t think he’ll be same lot more than 50 years, Can 8 back here this morning, but I’ll keep a sharp watch while you work.” ig A A A grade, unsexed, $9 per 100, pallets Paddy made Sammy a low how. give you latest styles. | $16.50. A A A A grade $12, pullets $20. “ You certainly are smart, Mr. Jay,” said he. 11 Leghorn Cockrells $3, Minorca Cocker- els $5. Special prices on surplus chicks. Trick of Trade G la d jL iste n , Mabel. This is I what my boy says in his letter. jg Hatches each Monday and Thursday. ‘Darling I think of you all day— \U your naturally waved hair, your The canteen, now being largely Custom Hatching. brownish-gr: y eyes, your slightly manufactured of plastics, costs :8§ about 43 cents. The canvas cover prominent ehecKbur.es, your twenty- four-inch waist—” . . . about 41 cents or 84 cents in It all. Your purchases of War Bonds, Mabel—WeiL that’ s a queer sort of or People's Bonds, will buy many of S. Y love-letter! What on earth does he these for our men in the Solomons Star Hatchery$ ■A io? or in Africa where they ate badly Putnamy Texas Gladys—Oh, didn’t you know? Bob needed. Buy War Bonds every pay Baird, Texas writes those descriptions of m sing day . . . at least ten percent of your people for the police. income . . . through a Payroll
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THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1943 THE PUTNAM NEWS Pl I'\Am , TEXAS
WARWICK-MARTIN S m n S ? f u n e r a l f o r John Cook made a trip to Sweet A good variety of bulk garden I MARRIAGE IN CISCO MOTHER AT ANSON water Friday afternoon to meet his sedd at Western Auto Associate daughter-in-law, Mrs. Major Glynn Store, Cisco, Texas. The marriage of Miss Brenda \^r8' ^ L. Dunham has returned Cook, who had been visiting with I Warwick, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. f 'l,in AilSon where she went last her husband in California. Mrs. j P. R. Warwick of Cisco to Mr. Rob u
flI|P '‘'‘fflliip ig lp l TJI M PIIIBIIIL' L GET YOUR VICTORY GARDEN *36 Del. Ford 35 Chev. Standard Tudor Coach TOOLS NOW t'heckcd anil really to go Good tires, new rings. A1 Tke Greatest Mother Only $223 sha(>e, only $165.00 in the World STOCK IS LIMITED Get all your next winter Stoves while 35 Chev. Standard Model A Coupe Coach you can— a few left and none are being A Clean-Out Bargain To wreck, only $30.00 manufactured. At Only $135.00
CISCO LUMBER & SUPPLY l— ’31 Model A ’35 Ford Tudor Tudor A little rough, but lots of We’re Home Folks Cheeked over and ready to go service, only $150.00 $125.00 ----^ r------
1936 Ford Tudor *37 Hudson Sedan A real buy at only Overhauled and ready to go. AMBULANCE SERVICE $200.00 CHEAP. WE HAVE TIRES and TUBES WYLIE FUNERAL HOME Earl Johnson Motor Co. PHONE 38 PUTNAM, — TEXAS
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BAIRI). — TEXAS WYLIE BURIAL ASSOCIATION Phone 218 W. O. Wylie Jr., Sec.-Treas. Symbolic of the' role the Red Cross is again playing, the 1943 Red Cross War Fund poster depicts the organization as a mother ministering to the needs of the men of the United Slates armed forces and the victims L o f war throughout the world. The poster is an appeal to all men and women for contributions to the War Fund. Lawrence Wilbur, noted illustrator, Mrs. Aieta Pinnell has resigned J. C. Overton, former resident designed the poster. Helen Mueller is the model. ^ i her position in the school here and and a teacher in the Putnam high accepted a place in the Sweetwater school is reported to be seriously ill Announcement school. She left Monday for Sweet in a Sweetwater hospital, but last Red Cross Needs $125,000,000 water where she will take up her reports were that he was thought new work. Mrs. Archie Boshear to be improving. I have been appointed as a storekeep To Finance Wartime Program will go w ith her to Sweetwater. —------o------o------W. P. Ledbetter of the Scranton er for Uncle Sam at Camp Hood in the community was in town Saturday WASHINGTON, D. C.—Faced with is confident that all our people will I. G. Mobley is home from train Ordinance Department. Mrs. Culp and the greatest wartime program in be generous in their support of the ing in California visiting with his afternoon and reported everything Mr. Bob Walker will offer the best serv history, the American Red Cross 1943 War Fund.” sisters and nephew this week. He looking good in his community. will launch its 1943 War Fund ap More than 65 percent of the fund has a furlough for ten days before receiVed by the national organiza ice possible during my absence. peal for $125,000,000 on March 1. he has to return and said he might Mrs. J. A. Heyser, Mrs. Fred Chairman Norman H. Davis has an tion will be devoted to meeting Red nounced. Cross responsibilities to the armed ask for an extension. Heyser and Miss Lavada Stanrich, I sincerely appreciate my many Pointing out that the bulk ot the forces. These include the Red Cross ------o- were in Putnam Saturday after fund will be used to expand Red overseas club program, recreation Mrs. A. H. Nelson was reported noon. friends and their support ot my busi Cross services to the men of the and hospital program, the station to be quite sick with a case of flu f — o ------ing of field directors at all foreign armed forces and their families. Sunday, but she is reported to be J. A. Yarbrough was in Putnam ness, and I will appreciate your contin Chairman Davis urged every Amer and domestic military camps and ued patronage. ican man and woman to contribute bases, the huge surgical dressing improving and thinks she will be Friday afternoon and while here to the fund. productijn program, and the blood out again in a few days. made the News office a sho^t visit. 0 v ' With the approval of President plasma project which recently was Roosevelt, who also is President'6t expanded to a total of 4,000,000 PAUL M. CULP, Owner the American lied Cross, the month pints at the request of the Army of March is being observed as Red and Navy. Cross Month. Walter S. Gifford, Chairman Davis pointed out that president ot the American Tele the 1943 program will be vastly phone and Telegraph Company, is greater than the accomplishments Western Auto of last year, in which the Red chairman of the Red Cross 1913 War Fund. Cross aided millions of war victims Dunn*s Produce Co. “ Red Cross services to our armed through its foreign war relief pro Cisco, Texas forces and to the needs of dis gram; gave aid to thousands of Associate Store tressed civilians on the battle and piisoners of war; collected 1,500.- borne fronts can be supplied ouly 000 pints of blood for the armed by great expenditures and sacri forces; produced 520,000,000 sur BUY YOUR BABY CHICKS FROM Cisco, Texas fices," Chairman Davis said. “We gical dressings, and aided more are exerting our utmost efforts to than 1,500,000 servicemen and their DUNN’S AND YOU WILL BE SURE accomplish these tasks with the families. least possible drain upon the re The $125,000,000 quota, he said, TO GET WHAT YOU PA Y FOR sources of the people in funds, time will finance the local, national and and energy. We must pever falter international work of the Red Cross \ in our determination to meet these for the entire year, barring unfore SCHAEFERS RADIO REPAIR SHOP definite obligations. The Red Cross seen emergencies. Don't forget the place— Dunn’s, the peo Cisco, Texas ple who are making the Produce Market in this territory. A' : *A>' / BIG STOCK OF RUGS, PRICED TO SELI^- 7 ~ GET OUR PRICES BEFORE BUYING Schools Open Drive * Rugs, 9x12 $1.95 to $7.95— PRICED TO SELL Buy your chickens from us and feed Radios sold and exchanged. Only a few more left. To Buy 10,000 Jeeps S r ? J them Purina and watch them grow. Full SZi~- 9 i When these are gone, there will he no moft1. line of Purina Feed at all times. We repair all makes of Radios. If your Radio is not HE little jeep which Is serving acting right, bring it in, we can fix it. T so nobly from Guadalcanal to i - 1 Africa has become the symbol of s i i the gigantic efforts of millions of l American school children in their 1 War Savings program. Thousands of public, private and parochial .schools soon will be dis playing a certificate of honor from n Secretary of the Treasury Henry r Morgenthau, Jr., signifying that Livestock and Poultry Rassers? ♦ they have paid for at least one jeep s by buying $900 in War Stamps and fcjj Bonds. Our government wants everybody to i O D O M C A S H Countless others will be flying the Schools At 'War banner awarded to produce MORE and BETTER livestock f i schools with 90 percent pupil par ticipation in War Savings. and poultry. Ten thousand jeeps and a hun of the education section of the War GROCERY dred bombers! This is the new goal Savings Staff, are: You can do this by using medicines, * S of America’s schools as 30,000^000 More than 7,000,000 elementary children continue their Schools At and high school students from 30,000 tonics, serums and vaccines of a well- | Putnam, Texas War program under the auspices of schools have prepared special i the Treasury Department and the Schools At War scrapbooks for state known and proven brand. { i U. S. Office of Education. and local exhibits. Results so far in the program re War Stamp and War Bond pur- iA ♦ ported by Dr. Homer W. Anderson, chases may reach a grand total of * We carry a big line of Nationally Ad- | Associate Field Director in charge $300,000,000 for the school year. vertised Livestock and Poultry Reme- y A Amount of Victory Tax Deductible from Weekly ♦ dies and Supplies, as well as Serums and | I Wages of Selected Amounts and Amount of Vaccines. Net Victory Tax After Deduction o f Credits ♦
Weakly Net Victory tax after credits We feature the following WHO IS THIS WOMAN? She has a wage Gross Single Married Married (grots Victory pervon— person— : person— Manufacturers' Lines: limited income to spend, bui feeds her •mount) tax no d«p«nd«nH no dependents :two dependent! $ 12 -...__ -— ■ — ♦ Dr. LeGear’s Franklin’s family well. She spends less than many 15 $ .15 $ .11 $ .09 $ .08 20 .40 .30 .24 .22 Geo. H. Lee’s Parke-Davis’ .54 .50 but her meals have variety and full 30 .90 .68 ♦ Mulford’s Cutter’s 40 1.40 1.05 .84 .78 ♦ 50 1.90 1 43 1.14 1.06 U Globe’s nourishment. SHE IS THE WOMAN Martin’s 60 2.40 1.80 1.41 1.34 ♦ ♦ 70 2 .9° 2.18 1.74 1.62 as W'ell as many others WHO DEPENDS UPON THIS 80 3.40 2.55 2.04 1.90 90 . 3.90 2.93 2.34 2.18 ♦ ♦ FRIENDLY STORE FOR VALUE, 100 2.64 2.46 8 4.40 3.30 The credits may be taken currently or after the war. They DEAN DRUG CO. FOR QUALITY GROCERIES. amount to 40 percent of the tax for married persons, 25 percent for ♦ single persons, and 2 percent for each dependent. They may be taken currently and will be based on (a) payments of premiums on THE REXALL STORE PHONE 33 life insurance policies in force on September l, 1942; (b) payments of old debts; (c) net purchase of War Bends, u.s. Tnasnry Deportment ♦ s -