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* t 9 * .v ■■ 1 ■' -. ■■ ■■■ ■■ '■■■■■! ■ ■■■ - — ■" *!*"-■ ... ■ ■ — — 1 1 — -iJ- ----- "rr—■ ——r.’.j.1. % «. .— TUESDAY CALENDAR Bebckaht meet at L O. O. F. hall, Bp.n. • • • Boca Chica Party Sunday Evening Boca Chica beach was the scene of a lively party on Sunday evening when Misses Rosalis Kibbe and Es ther Weller entertained the college crowd. A swim and picnic supper was enjoyed by nearly forty merry makers. • • • Marion Yturria Observes Birthday Little Marion Yturria celebrated her third birthday on Saturday aft ernoon. when her mother, Mrs. Fa us to Yturria entertained fifteen children in honor of the occasion. The dining room was daintily dec orated in pink and white, a birth day cake with three candles center ing the table. Pink and white nut dishes were filled with mints, top ped by favors of toy birds. Balloons were used in the living room. The cake was served with ice cream, aft er which the youngsters played games. • • • Merry Matrons Meet Friday VThe Merry Matrons bridge club held their regular meeting Friday afternoon, at the home of Mrs Kenenth Crowe, in El Jardin. Mrs. Ford Lockett received the guest prise, and Mrs. H. Kemper high for the club. Mrs. P. R. Dye was pre sented with the second prize of the club. The next meeting will take place at the home of Mrs. Harry Crowe August 30. • • • Comings, Goings, of Local People Mrs. Harry Slavitchek returned home Sunday evening, after spend ing the past two weeks visiting rela tives and friends in New Braunfels, San Antonio and Corpus Christi. Mrs. C. A. Reil returned 8unday from Houston, where she has been for the [tast two weeks. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Craig. Sr., are home from a vacation trip of several weeks, spent in Canada and the north. Mrs. Mearl Walke • and two sons. Glenn and • Curtis, returned to their horn; in San Benito Sunday after a week's visit here with Miss Marjorie Reil. Mrs. Frank Armstrong, Jr., and family are spending a week's vaca tion at Point Isabel. HIRES FIVE TO TRAP WIFE BELFAST—Joseph Clare was de fied a divorce when he admitted he had hired five detectives to trap his wife. o crisp ? j Here’s a breakfast treat that’* so crisp it crackles in milk or cream! Kellogg's Rice Krispies. Rice in its most delicious form. Toasted bubbles of flavor. Children love them. Extra good with fruits or honey added. Order a red mnd-green package from your grocer. Handy to use in candies, macaroons, etc. Made by Kellogg in Battle j RICE KRISPIES I |; 1 -. .. ■——— CRUISE SPONSOR EUzr.cc i Holcombe of Houston. Texas, will act, ns sponsor at the launching of the Vnited States cruiser Houston at Newport News. Va., September 7. SAN BENITO BIRTHDAY IIONOREE On Saturday afternoon, August 10. Jane Bohner was honored on the occasion of her eleventh birth day with a party at the home of her parents, Mt. and Mrs. E. Frost Bohner at 844 N. Sam Houston boulevard. She had six tables of bunco and Baurlne East won first prize while the consolation prize went to Olivia Parks. The guests included Santa Green slade. Olivia. Aline and Lucretia Parks, Zelda May Porter, Aline East. Helen Hinkly, Mary Kather ine Ogden, Wanda Powell, Char lotte Hinkly, Mary Hlnkiy, Betty Bohner. Angie Lee Lutt'nbacher, Iris Kicntz, Margaret and Miriam Trotti. Vela May Reuscher, Eliza beth Richards. Seeta Mayme Foster. Doris Ogden. Emily Wells, Maurlne East and Louise Burke. • • • HONOR GUESTS Monday night a dance honoring Mrs. Roy Miller of Corpus Christi and her guests was given on the Az tec Roff by a number of San Be nitans. Mrs. Miller is In the Valley with Mrs. Nisbit of Dallas, her daughters, Fairfax and Jacqueline Nisbit. and a son. Miss Eleanor Finley of Hope, Ark . and Miss Mau rine Olson of Corpus Christi also were members of the visiting party. Among those present at the af fair were George Irwin of Mission, Miss Pester of Laredo, O. S. Moon. Ralph Jennings, Paul Mood. Mr. and Mrs. Morris. George Goetzke. Johnnie Townsend, Thomas and Frank Abbott, Miss Frances Moon. Eddie Meadows, Donnie Hood. Elizabeth and Helen Summers and Frances Beckham, all of Harlingen; Mr. Lambcrton. Fred Wagner, and Misses Elizabeth Moore, Eleanor Richardson, and Rosita Ceyanes of Brownsville; Misses Gwendolyn Staples and Maxine Bruce and Car roll Thomas, Tilton Garrison. Bus ter Collins. Pete Staples. Caesar King, Lanier McCall. Felix Gay, Al bert Herve.v, Billy Cocke, and Frank Sublett, all of San Benito. • • • SHOWER BRIDE-TO-BE Tuesday afternoon Mrs. J. J. Fitzgerald, sister of the br.de-to-be, and Mrs. E. J. Blount assisted by Miss Grace McMillan had a miscel laneous shower at the Blount home at 185 North Dick Dowling avenue for Miss Ostine Smith, who was married Wednesday evening to Charles Wortham of Fort Worth at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Will P. Smith at 487 South Bowie avenue. About 50 guests were present at the shower and the Biount home was decorated for the occasion with clusters of corona and pink roses. During the course of the party Mrs. Fitzgerald announced the arrival of an "express package" and Miss Gra e McMillan and Mrs. Jimmy Morris were sent for the packaged. When it was brought into the room the gifts for the bridc-to-be were revealed. • • » PAGE-HILL Sunday aftern an Miss Georgia Page of Mt. Pleasant, Texas, was married to O. M. Hill of San Be nito. They were joined in wedlock by Rev. Cunningham, assistant pas tor of the Travis Park Methodist church. Sa.i Antonio, where the ceremony was performed. Miss Page fcnflrrly taught in the San Benito schools and Mr. Hill is in the packing businoss here. • • • NUPTIALS SOLEMNIZED At the home of the bride's par ents. Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Smith, at 8 o’clock Wednesday evening the marriage of Miss Ostine Smith to Charles P. Wortham of Port Worth was solemnized with a beautiful j lawn wedding service. The attractive side entrance to - ^ > 1 q£&7k4 to -its a&uAt xrfetAu, /f&i/oms' ?;»fv -fanf*A£/>i/ ty£o 't&OoUlt -071/ tfe, Y£w dtf/j, Scotftojfc*** g/omt i&QiLuZlct—QcivBi/i <yc££/tt t/M/fusKj <f&urx? \rodL Autt, 'wovnj at t/o the Smith home was utilized for the ceremony. An aisle was marked off leading to the porch which was dec orated with baskets of pink roses. The vines also were attractively ar ranged, forming a lovely arbor for the wedding service. James Taylor and Earl McMillan took down the paper chain which marked off the aisle, permitting the guests to enter, as the wedding par ty approached the arbor. The bride wore an apricot geor gette dress with lace flounces and carried a bride’s bouquet of pink roses. She also wore a string cf! white pearls, a wedding gift from the bridegroom. The maid of honor was Mis.' Grace McMillan and Mrs. J. J. Fitz gerald, sister of the bride, was the matron of honor. E. C. Toothman | of Brownsville and J. J. Fitzgerald . were the groomsmen. The Rev. C. S. McKinney, pastor of the First Baptist church, performed the ceremony. Miss Iantha Demaree sang ’’At Dawning," the wedding number, accompanied by Mrs. An gie Taylor. The couple left for Houston, Beaumont and other Texas points by autemobile on their honeymoon. Out of town guests present were Mr. and Mrs. Dugger of Harlingen, brother and sister of the bride groom; Mrs. V. Lutrell of Aledo, 111.; Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Henry of Mc Allen and E. C. Toothman of Brownsville. • • • CLUB HOSTESS Mrs. L. A. Barrier was hostess to . members of the Lateral T club on Thursday Aug. 8th at which time eighteen persons were present. Mrs. E. M. Huff, Mrs. Elina Knapp Mrs. A. S Hornbeck, Mrs. Sam Sparks, Mrs. L. R. Wasson and Mrs. T. H. Smith of Rockport, Texas, a former resident of San Be nito, were guests. In winning prizes in contests which were held Mrs. Fred Curran and Mrs. Phil Horkman were suc cessful. Mrs. Barrier and her daughter, Barbara, sang several numbers which wer«* well enjoyed. The hostess was assisted by her daughter in serving refreshments. The club meets again with Mrs. E. M. Huff as hostess on August 22. • • • PERS )\ AI.S Mrs. L. E. Garard of Groveton. Texas arrived this week for a visit in the home of her parents, Dr. and Mrs. G. R. Bruce. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hartman, ac companied by Mrs. Horace St. John, left last week for a vacation trip to Colorado. They will be Joined in San Antonio by Lorine Hariman Mr. and Mrs. Paul Bruce have re turned from a vacation spent on the ranch of F. O. Landrum, Mrs. Bruces father, at Uvalde. Mrs. McMurray Richey and son. Tom, Iv've returned from a visit to Kerrville. Mrs. E. H. Downs has returned from a trip to Dallas and San Augustine. Texas. Mrs. J. A. Goolsby and children have returned from a summer camp near Kerrville. Mr. Goolsby met them In San Antonio. Mr. and Mrs. Willis Holman cf Austin are visiting in the McMurray Richey home here. Mrs. Holman is Mr. Richey's sister. Miss Thelma Copeland has re turned from u visit with her sis ter in San Augustin*. Tex. Miss Sally McCain has returned home from Baylor college at Bel ton. Texas, where she was doing work on her bachelor of journalism degree in summer session. Mrs. S. J. Burke of Dallas, accom panied by Mrs. B. J. Whiteman and Mrs. S. P. Me Roberts and her daughter. Alyn, have returned 10 their home after visiting here with Dr. and Mrs. G. R. Bruce. Mr. and Mrs. Lawson Hayes and son, Cantril, of Decatur, Tex., and H. L. Campbell of Terrell, Texas, are visiting in the O. E. Gause home. Miss Elizabeth Espey returned from Corpus Christi the first part of this week where she was visiting her sister, Mrs. G. B. Dodds, and family. Mrs. A. B. Riley and Mrs. Geo. A Espey spent last week-end in Cor pus Christi visiting Mrs. G. ii. Dodds. Jesse James returned Tuesday from Granbury. Texas, where he wa3 called by the death of his father. H. B. Livingston and family have gone on an extensive auto tour to Arizona and New Mexico. They will be back September 1st. Mr. andt Mrs. E. L. Barmore have departed on an automobile trip to the hill country near Kerrville. Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Mayer have returned from a trip to Colorado. Earl L. Hoyle of Eastland, Texas is here visiting his mother. Mrs. Jim Tom Story. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Fulcher of Mobile, Ala., arc visiting Mrs. Ful WUds Parent8, ^ and Mrs c* M Mrs. W. T. Curtis has returned from a two-months' trip to Breck enridge. where she visited relatives and friends, and Dallas where she chose nor supply of fall millinery She visited the market just before returning to San Antonio. Miss Ardith Nesseler of Rock Island, 111., is here visiting In Ure home of Rev. and Mrs. W. B. Oliver. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hornbeck and A. S. Hornbeck and Sam Sparks and family left by automobile the first part of the week for a vaca tion trip. Mr. and Mrs. Hornbeck and the Sparks are going to Junc tion while Mr. Hornbeck’s father wiL stop off in San Antonio. The Hombecks expect to be gone about a week while the Sparks will visit other points In Texas before re turning. D. P. Pounds postmaster at Rio Hondo, has gone for a month's va cation in Wisconsin. During his absence. Mrs. Elizabeth Walters is acting postmaster, and Mrs. E. M. Sizer is acting assistant postmaster N. H. Stookey and Ted Hoover have gone to Cedar Rapids. Iowa or. a busings trip. • H. G. Marshall has returned from Gamaliel. Ky., where he at tended a family reunion. L. F. Boling and family have gone on an automobile trip to El Paso, New Mexico and surrounding terri tory. Miss Mary Shafer and mother, Mrs. C. V. Shafer, and twe brothers and a sister c* . arted for San An tonio Sunday morning where they ♦ Modes of the Moment LIFE’S AN OPEN BOOK WHERE ‘MART VISITS One Feels As Though One Lived in a Glass House Says .Winifred Black, Pitying This Eaper, Grasping Soul By wi: :fsed black Mury Elizabeth has gone back home. Thank goodness. Mary Elizabeth is an awfully nice woman, too. She's bright, she’s C::d humored, she's generous, she’s amazing, but dear me, she makes me think of the wolf in little Red Riding Hood. Don’t you remember when poor little Red Riding Hood went in* her grandmother's hut with her poor little hands full of goodies for grandma, and there was the wolf dressed in grandma’s clothes as fine as fine. “Oh. grandma, ’ said little Red Riding Hood, “how big and sharp your teeth are." And then grandma ’de a grab and it wasn't grandma at all. it was the Wolf, and poor little Red Riding Hood was gone. That’s the way Mary Elizabeth is. She sees so much and she hears so much and then she goes home and talks so much. 8he tells all yr :r favorite stories and “cracks’’ all m»rv your favorlte J°kes- and to hear her talk you’d think WINIFRED BLACK that all the frienc|s you have spent a life time in l ving were just her friends and not yourr, at ill. Mention a name that she hr never heard before and you can fairly see Mary Elizabeth’s cars stand out like the recover on the'tolephone. fui»cv mu name.' never, one 119 remember It to her last gasp and she ll know all about the woman who bears it and where she lives and who she married and why she married him. and when you first met her, and why she likes you. and why you like her. Doesn t it sound selfish? But. dear me. somehow I feel as if 1 lived in a house made of plate glass and had to keep all the electric lights burning n‘ght and day so 1 wouldn't have one single little bit of a thing in my life that Mary Elisabeth doesn't know every sin gle thing about Poor Mary Elizabeth; she's al ways so hungry—hungry for food She loves chocolate and candied fruits, and mince pies, and every thing that's rich and dainty, and when she sits down to the table her eyes flash and melt and widen until you can hardly stand it. And she's hungry for clothes, she wants all kinds of clothes all the time. And she’s hungry for admiraton and for love, and for appreciation, and oh. I keep wanting to tel' her “My dear, if you wouldn't want them so hard you’d get them. Yes. I am glad that Mary Eliza beth had gone home. I feel as if I were giving r» stage performance every minute while she Is here. Do you know a Mary Elizabeth and are you ashamed Gf ourself when you do not exactly like her? LEAGUE OFFICIAL FLAYS PEACE PACT WILLIAMSTOWN. Mass. Aug. 18—Criticism of the Kellogg peace pact as a means of settling International disputes on thr grounds Of vagueness in its defini tions of defense and aggression anc* lack of indication of definite raciflc means to be substituted for war was made tonight by Dr. William Rapl pard. member cf the permanent mandates commission o fthe league of nations, before the institute of politics. CHILD CONVICTS FATHER MARSEILLES, France.—Seven year-old Jeanne Garondes testi mony convicted her father of mur dering his wife. will spend several days. They v/Jl stop over for a day in Corpus ChrisU. f_ Sinclair Requests Hoover to Free Him WASHINGTON. Aug. 18—<;p>— Hary P. Sinclair, millionaire oil man. and his principal business as sociate. Henry Mason Day, have petitioned President Hoover to free them from the District of Columbia Jail where they are serving sen tences for contempt of court as the result of jury shadowing during the Slnclair-Falls conspiracy trial. TEXAS PEN SURVEY NOW IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON. Aur. 18.—<JPy The Texas prison survey commis sion. searching .or a prison plan sf far and comprehensive that thr state will avoid present day pena! ills, reached the national capita! late today. We Make Keys For Any Lock --Also Duplicate Keys Stocked, sharpened Radiator Repair and repaired Specialists Lawn Mowers General Welding “ T. J. ROMMER PST W. O. Rozell AUCTIONEER IF IT HAS VALUE I CAN SELL IT AND GET THE MONEY San Benito, Texas V *■ XS&f ,lL . i TEXAS TOPICS Fcrs latent Bridegroom — Flatters Mayor — Critter's Grief —De rcnse of Chifferw. • A port Arthur man broke his leg in a car wreck the day of his sched uled marriage. He started with his girl to be married, when their car turned over and both he and the girl were Injured. But they went ahead and got married just the same. Another marriage item: Family of Nettle Mae Johnson of Alba ap pealed to officers to help find her; but it was learned she had gone to Oklahoma and married, 'avoiding the three-day notice law in Texas. Mayor Hot-Dog Tate of Dallas Is said to be vastly proud of the flat tery Implied in a driver's using his officer who stopped the motorist on flame at Abilene to bluff a traffic a minor traffic violation. The offi cer apologized to the “mayor." Tate intends to try it himself some day If he gets In a similar jam as the man who used his name to such effective end. A one-lecged singing. accordion claying grifter at Hillsboro mourns that times are decadent, now that he can't collect over $3 50 a dav, as compared with $25 in the good old boozy, generous times. At last the chigger has found n defender. It’s the scratching and not the—“chlgres" he calls them— that causes the pa<n. according to Or. W. F. Curran. McL»nnan coun*y health officer, who has risen to take the part of the picnic de spoiler. Summer excitement: “A vocal solo by Sterling Wooten, with accom paniment played by Miss Georgian - na Amy was the musical feature Sunday for the Victory Men's Bible class of the First Baptist church.” Farmers will build a monument to * Brady man whose name is with ’j-id from a waiting husbandry in news disnatehes. His Johnson grass killing machine has proven a suc cess. Maybe it’s a shirt factory—“Con - ! tract has been let for the second <torv to the Barrow--Johnson over all plant at Denison." Bones o* a mesozoic rentile more *han 30 feet in length have been dug up near Sherman bv an expe dition from Austin college. dS flint dS money can buy THE LARGEST SELLING ASPIRIN IN THE WORLD FOR . PLANNING FOR SUNDAY MEALS Breakfast Cantaloupe Waffles and Maple Syrup Broiled Bacon Coffee Dinner Pried Chicken Mashed Potatoes Giblet Oravy Bread Currant Jelly Peach Ice Cream White Cake Coffee Supper Sardine Savoy Salad Sugar Cookies Iced Tea Vegetable Salad, Serving Six One cup cooked peas. 1-2 cup cooked pea*. 1-2 cup cooked carrots, 1- 2 cup diced cucumbers. 2 table spoons chopped green peppers, 1-2 teaspoon salt. 1-4 teaspoon paprika, 2- 3 cup stiff mayonnaise, six slices tomatoes. Mix 1-3 the mayonnaise with the peas, carrots, cucumbers, onions green peppers, salt and paprika Chill. 8erve on the tomatoes which have been arranged in lettuce leaves. Surround with the remain ing mayonnaise. Peach Ice Cream One quart thin cream. 1 cup su gar, 1-4 teaspoon salt, 1 tablespoon vanilla. 2 cups c-ushed or finely cut peaches. 2-3 cup sugar. Mix the cream, cup of sugar, salt and vanilla. Pour into a sterllzed freezer and turn the crank until I half frozen. Add the rest of the Ingredients. Freeze until stiff. Savoy Sardine Salad, Serving Six Six pieces lettuce. 3 hard boiled eggs, 13 stalks canned or freah as paragus. 34 slices cucumbers, 13 sardines. 1-4 cup chopped sweet pickles. 1-3 cup salad dressing. Arrange portions of the Ingredi ents on the lettuce. Serve at once. Oil Showing Made In Bee County Tett CORPUS CHRISTI. Aug. It.—Oh A showing of high grade clear green * oil, thought to be about 38 gravity, was made Saturday at the Ray test No. 3. two miles southeast o* Pettus in Bee county. The pay was discovered at ap proximately 4.400 feet, which is 1,« 600Jeet deeper han any Bee county test has ever been drilled. This is the first showing that has ever been made in the county. SON KILLS FATHER LOS ANGELES. Aug. I?.—0P>-^ Frank S. Howard, wealthy southern California automobile dealer, was shot and killed by his eleven-year old son Richard today, police re ported. during a quarrel with his wife. Mrs. Irene Howard. COURT UPHOLDS HUGGING BELFAST.—Arrested for hugging t his fiancee in his auto. James Sher win was discharged in court. -, • Open Minded Where there is an open door, there’s an open mind — one that catches the other point of view and weighs it as carefully as its own. The Merchants’ National officers are out in the open—available to everyone—always. The open door symbolizes the spirit of the institu tion — a desire to be a real friena as well as a sound bank. Capital— Originally paid in $100,000.00 Increased from * Earnings .... 150,00000 $250,000.00 Surplus fund earned . 250,000.00 $£00,000.00 MERCHANTS' NATIONAL BANK BR.OW N S VILLE - -TEXAS*, IS MARKETING I A NUISANCE... I or do you sit down No need t® wear yourself, to a telephone and phone out before noon. Order your needs to the trades it by telephone and save people? your cner*y Others do .... why not you? Let § This is the age of tele- us install a telephone in f phones. The era of your home today. The morning shopping bas- cost is nominal and the kets is slipping away, convenience great «*. Ifflj EVERY HOME NEEDS A TELEPHONE I RIO CRANT>£ WLEY TTLEPHCNE Cft || I ^ j ^■1 * ** * ■■ Bn H * n • * „ ..