Grand Prairie Texan, The (Newspaper) - November 27, 1936, Grand Prairie, Texas First in Grand the City and the Community for Twenty Eight City and Community Interests YEAR GRAND DALLAS NOVEMBER 1 i NUMBER 52 OBSERVATIONS By The Editor There is always somebody ready to iake the joy out of Now the weather prognosticators of the north and east teE us we are in for a bad with plenty of arid Certainly we have something to be thankful We are enjoying good health and have been able this year to procure plenty to We are thankful that we live in a free a country not bound by entangling alliances with some of them much older but yet not because they want to settle their governmental arguments with shot and We are thankful for a President who can tell the world I hate a President who believes in peace and prosperity and is making every effort to maintain peace and re store we are thank ful friends and There are so many things for which we are thankful that it would be hard to enumerate Surfice to we are trly thankful for all upon The Democrats of Texas strutted their stuff in Dallas last And why not The administration during the past four years located prosperity corner which Hoover lost and the Ship of State around the and we now headed for the open sea with smooth sailing The employment situation is clearing and every able bodied man who desires work can get With the payrolls again becoming regular the American people can and will again enjoy a season of pros and that means peace and Federated Meeting Of Missionary Societies The Fifth Monday meeting of the Missionary Societies will be held in the First Presbyterian Church next Monday afternoon at 2 with The following program has been arranged Theme Chrisitian My Life For Devotional by a representative of the A talk on the subject Money by a representative of the Adventist Head for but a Heart to by a representa tive of the Pentecostal Special furnished by he Baptist of an Old Coffee by a representative of the Christian by Margarets by representatives of the Presby terian 1914 in uni A cordial welcome is extended to including the Pastors of the various Dallas Open Forum for ten years Pro fessor of Comparative Religion at Dartmouth College and formerly a Carnegie Exchange Professor from India to the United will speak at the Dallas Open Forum in the City Hall No vember on Re ligion and Commerce in Interna tional There will be pu blic discussion following the There will be no charge for admis YOUNG BUT CHIVALROUS Willie was five years old and went to church some other small each one having a But one Sunday h went to church with his and when the collection being he asked have you got a penny No she Then take Ill get under Junior Class Presents Comedy Tuesday night the Junior Class of the Grand Prairie High School pre sented their first play of the school a comedy entitled Up at Those taking part were Helen maid Gene Ed ington as Minty Pauline Taylor as Grace Kent Harlan McCormick as Peter Kent Eva Belle Goodson as Kents Mary Keck as Miss Min tys rather bossy old maid aunt and Carle Page Swadley as The play was presented in the new school auditorium to an The cast a manner that clearly demonstrated the characters they represented in hard work and careful Miss Joiner is sponsor of the class and directed the Following the play the class dis a number of prizes which included a very small duck which went to Jake while Miss Anna Belle Bean carried off the fat Ernest Scheppler Fractured Cheek Bone Ernest Scheppler suffered a frac tured cheek bone last when a windlass he was using got away from the handle strik ing on the He is now re but his head and face is still mighty ran den m John Eason and Dearn were last Saturday night with a lovely birthday party at the home of Elvis About fifty were and each of the honorees received many nice Hostesses for the party were Elvis Joe and Raz HORTICULTURIST GIVES HELPFUL ORCHARD HINTS College Dietitians tell us tha twe need around 250 pounds of fruit per person each yet Texas produces only or about 100 pounds per and then ships to other states three fourths of her crop which leaves us only 25 pounds of fruit per These surprising facts come from Extension Our fruit problem in Texas to day is largely a matter of realizing the importance of producing fruit for home Roseborough It seems to me that it is a definite indictment against good manage ment if a family lives on a farm where fruit can be grown and yet buys fruit or does without The commercial orchardist measures his success principally by the result of sales on his bank The home orchard owner should measure his success by what comes to his Rosborough holds that many old orchards can be revived with prop er vetch and other winter cover crops furnish fertilizer and will put pep in the old trees next Check the orchard for San Jose and spray the affected trees with oil emulsion as soon as they are Trees infested with scale are subject to cold dam age due to premature blossoming and most of the strength which would make fruit goes to nourish the insects under the Another practice in old orchards which means much to next years crop is to pick up and burn or bury all or diseased the horticulturist Brown scab and other diseases carry over from one season to another on the dried up In cases where no orchard is avail able Rosborough recommended im mediate plans for planting He advises picking a well pre sandy spot free from nema Hillside he should be terraced and the trees planted on the Righteousness will not live with out as alj human history A THANKSGIVING MESSAGE By Christianity teaches us to culti vate a thankful It regards gratitude as a virtue and ingrati tude as a To be thankful is to be thoughtful of blessings received and mindful of benefits For what are we to be thankful We are to give thanks for all We should give thanks for our personal We should thank God for our God pro vides everything for the physical needs of but we must labor for is a Jesus teaches us to Give us this day our daily and when we receive it we should not fail to thank Him for Man does not live by bread says Man has mental needs as well as physical We should thank God for the intellectual food which he is constantly giving We should thank Him for good books and good We should avoid bad books and bad literature as a rattle they are poison to our We thank God for our moral and spiritual When we are tempted to murmur at our lot in life we should stop and count our A man had contracted the grumbling One day he met a blind a man without arms and another without also he passed an insane Count ing his own blessings he came home that night a wiser and a better We should thank God for our Everytime we enjoy the comforts of our homes we should remember that we are indebted for these We should thank God for our na tion with its great natural resources wide fertile fine rivers and springs its form of government and Christian But above all we should be thank ful for the Christianity of Jesus Christ and His With all the churches we should love because it is made up of imperfect struggling men and wo Christ loved the church and gave himself for Let us love our own individual churches we can do this without disliking or failing to ap other We should not permit other things to come be tween us and the church When should we give thanks The annual Thanksgiving Day should teach us that everyday ought to be a day of Paul em the fact that we should give thanks Thanksgiving should run like a golden thread thru the whole texture of our To whom are we to give thanks We are to give thanks God our We should give to Him because He is the giver of every good and perfect gift How to give thanks We should give thanks by prayer and but this is not sufficient of itself We should also show our gratitude by for actions speak loud er than On Thanksgiving we should remember the less for by visiting carrying them something good to by scharing with them whatever we remembering Jesus In as much as ye did it unto one of the least of these my ye did it unto Once we were but a feeble folk Oh and felt the oppressors yolk Yet by they help his chains we broke For we thank This year has bloody discord reigned And yet in peace our land Our millions unto labor For this we thank Lead us in thy peculiar way As thou didst Israel in His day In anger turn us not away For this we pray May the discouraged and distressed Enter into our gates and rest Lead us and them to what is best For this we pray Rufus Isnt it wonderful what some insects can do Goofus It certainly I just saw a little bee lift a 200pound man three feet off the A fullgrown sinner is one who hopes God will punish bis Community Thanksgiving Service At The FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH November 1936 at 7 PROGRAMS Prelude Congregational Daniel Morgan Scripture Hines Presidents Garrett Governors Fagan Special Song Club Hines To this sunrise community Thanksgiving child young people and aie urged to Let us make it the expression of our hearts and the personal fel filling the season and in keeping with the spirit of God and the principles of our one seven until A THANKSGIVING MESSAGE By November is Na tional Of its ori gin few of our people are After the colonists had wrenched from the British Crown the next move was to organize a Gov preserving and conserving the victory Accordingly the thirteen colonies elected delegates to assemble in New York and frame a making permanent the When the convention assembled the Washington was elected its Foremost men constituted the In the midst of final discussion it was discovered agreement was hardly De bate was and the spirit of some members indicated the blood and sacrifice of the veteran soldiery was to waste in angry At this juncture Thomas Jefferson arose and said President Washington was I have been looking at the throw upon your an ea and wondering if it symbolizes confusion or there is a source to which final appeal should be and 1 move this Con vention recess and that the sergeant at arms besent in quest of a min ister to corne and lead us in prayer to who can reconcile us and permit a Nation born of a spirit of Accordingly the minister was se prayer was and Jefferson again said we have heard from the Throne of Grace and I now see our way is clear and the Nation shall be The vote was taken and the Con was adopted and submit ted to the Colonies who ratified the and thus the United States of America was born into the list of First Methodist Church November Church Morning 11 Young Peoples Evening 7 Our church was well represented last Monday evening at the Dis first in First Church in which the pastor greatly We had a good day last Sunday and all the services were well at The pastor and the church greatly appreciates the spirit shown by tlie other churches in joining in our service Sunday You cannot render a better ser vice to your your community your church and yourselves than to attend church sei vices We are looking for you next Sunday A THOUGHT FOR THANKSGIVING Of all the holidays which we cus there are two of distinctively American origin which are celebrated all over the United Those are Independence Day and Thanksgiving Both of these have peculiar significance to all They go back to the roots of our national dence Day or should an an reminder that our national lib erty was achieved only because free men were ready to fight for the right to govern And Thanks giving now about to roll around should be a reminder that the foundations of America were laid by men and women who cherished spiritual liberty even more highly than they held personal and political said Woodrow Wilson is a spiritual Liberty or conscience is one of the fundamental precepts of our national structure guaranteed to every citizen under the That spiritual lib erty the most precious of all the bounties for which Ameri cans should give thanks on the last Thursday in So far in our history America has been more abundantly blessed than any other nation has ever been since the beginning of recorded We have prospered as no other nation has ever We are just beginning to realize that the latest world depression let us off more as a than it did any other race or We are now beginning to that we are well on our way out of the depres heading swiftly toward renew ed prosperity of a magnitude beyond our present For such ma terial blessings it is well to give thanks to the Providence which has guided us but it is also well to re member that there are greater trea sures than money and the wealth of which money is a Let in the midst of our Thanks giving feasting and not forget that we are possessors of a great spiritual heritage and make the day an occasion for pledging ourselves anew to the upholding and perpetuation of that spiritual liberty that freedom of which our forebear ers sought and found in their New said the teacher give me a definition of Junior stood flustered arid Space he began is where there la I cant explain it exactly but J have U ift my Presbyterian Church Pastor Sunday school at Worship Evening 7 Missionary Society Monday at 3 Prayer meeting Wednesday at j 7 j To all services a welcome awaits For taxation purposes it was nec essary to decide on which side of the Canadian and United States border a which a gentle owner had just purchased actually When the surveyor finally an j to her that the farm was on the American side of the line she smiled and so glad to kaow Ive heard that winters iu Canada we terribly A THANKSGIVING MESSAGE By Many of us having been reared in Christian homes by parents whose lips and lives blended beautifully in support of Church and and who constantly acknowledged that it is in God we live and move and have our being feol to sincerely say with the I have a goodly The childs greatest blessing from his parents is not that which they have laid up In a basket and store of material however valuable such may be but what his parents really aro in character and These determine the the attitude and the outlook in the Thanksgiving Day has in our been A Family Day with a feast and fellowship that and made more sacred the ties of children and parents and friends each to the other and all to our common and gracious Heavenly The family idea with its fine spirit of having mutually and freely shared in the benefit dealings of Almighty God has come into the an Thanksgiving Day of Our hearts are touched with tend er emotions when we read again the story of the in their devo tion to God and struggle to maintain life and see the heroism when the meager harvest was most consumed and some of the members asked the governor to call for Thanksgiving Day before all that they possess should be exhausted and he did coll for it and did set the And just on the very eve of that day when the people felt like the widow with her little cruse of there sailed into their harbor a vessel laden with the necessities of And then from the hearts and lips of these delivered people there arose such a thanksgiving burst of grati tude that we can across the hear them crying and their hearts attesting faith and assurance that The Lord will That same sense of dependence on and delight In God should pervade each heart and stimulate each I am encouraged to believe that as communities and a country we desire to really return to God and we are assured that His welcome awaits all hum returning Following the Gipsy Smith meet ings and the wonderful Preaching Mission In Dallas we should hasten to bring a Thanksgiving offering of self and substance as an example of self and substance as on expres sion of personal gratitude to the The goodly heritage received should IKS sacredly guarded and handed down to the next generation with added value and the Psalmist speaks person What shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits toward me May we not find it in our hearts to join in his answer I will take the cup of and call upon the name of the I will pay rny unto the Lord now in the presence of all his I close with paragraph from Pres ident splendid mation Let on tlie day ap in his own but together as a whole make clue expression of thanksgiving and hum bly endeavor to follow in the foot steps of Almighty Annual Flower Show Successful THURSDAY The met last Thursday night at the Baptist church in a social A very enjoyable time was experienced by those prea Games were played and re of doughnuts and cof fee were served to the following and Elzie and Fagan and Robertson and Fagan and Hines and Floyd Pool and Hodgers and Roy Lee awd John son Miss Sarah Tate Lewandowski and Wayne The annual Flowers Show sored by the Missionary Society o the First Methodist was last and and air crowds Attend each There was a fine showing of chrys and as well as a collection of There was also good showings of fancy The programs each afternoon mid evening were The baby show on Friday attracted probably the greatest There wore some sixty babies ttx tered and examined by the special The prizes were awarded as follows Under oneyear John Carl Loyd Richard From one to two years Milam Karl From two to three years 1st John Bowles Martha Ann Friday night George Perfect oE Dallas demonstrated a new electric which will in a large replace the large pipe This instrument is small but it has lots of volume and very Perfects numbers wove enjoyed by the The Rylum of the primary grades the Public School under the of Dewey Millar and Miss gave a couple of numbers which were woU The little fellows well trained and did u good job for which they received repealed ap On Saturday evening the program was by home talent and in cluded the following Mary Suu Hancock and Betty Ruth Robert piano solos Miss Dorothy Allen and Little Miss Dolly Ann of reading Etta and Barley violin accompanied by Bingham at the piano Taylor and vocal Thea High School Glee Club concluded the program with a few At the conclusion of the the awards of the judges in the show was announced and the door prizes The awards were at follows Best Chrysanthemums over Henry Lucas Henry Best vase orchid Yeagor Boa Best vase yellow or Pago Best vase red or bronze blooms Smith Best arranged basket of chrys Page Best arranged basket of Thomas Best two or moro Jou Cooper John Best arranged basket of Best Joe Cooper Joo Best pot plant with Yeager Walter Best pot plant without Joe Cooper One must get off the main avenue of travel in order to see the native wild growth any It is u la fact that the edness of the highway department has almost completely destroyed na tive growth along the Not only are many of these native growths beautiful and distinctive to the but many of them serve to conserve the blowing and wash ing of making kss road wovk necessary and providing a beauti ful variety for those who travel The roadsides are the last place where wild may grow and here they do no harm in any They might be left to be come the living museums fast disappearing forms that have for centuries here until tbe man to destroy 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