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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1931
Page
6
In Houston on August 7, two Black suspects fled into woods after a fatal officer shooting and wounding a second officer. A posse pursued with dogs. George Tolson, exhausted and wounded, collapsed near Spring Street as bloodhounds closed in. Isaiah Edwards, 18, was captured earlier that day.
A word puzzle yields vertical column transposition using seven letter groups. The text hints at a historic chase scene, mentioning a corn field encounter with posse members and a fatal shooting of Constable Thomas Beyett. The page also recalls the Lindberghs at Aklavik and a jail escort incident in Monroe.
Mrs John Co Hudson entertained the Merry Mix Up Club at 814 Virginia Street with a pirate motif in blue and gold. Guests included Mrs Sid Jones Mrs Bertha Myers and Mrs Polly among others. prizes went to Mrs Pressig and Mrs Jones with top honors to Mrs Pressig.
The Berean Sunday School class of West Amarillo Christian Church will hold a business meeting this evening at 8 at Mrs. Omer Davis home, 4240 West Sixteenth Avenue. Mrs. G E High and Mrs. R A Barhytt will be assistant hostesses. All members urged to attend.
The regular monthly business meeting of the auxiliary of the Spanish War Veterans, Guy Henry Jr. Camp, is set for this evening at 8 o'clock in the American Legion rooms at the Municipal Auditorium. All members are urged to attend.
The Will A. Miller Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy will host a picnic outing in Ellwood Park this afternoon at 5 o'clock with Confederate veterans as special guests. Popular Grove No 171 will meet in Woodman Hall Friday evening at 7 o'clock and all members are urged to attend.
Mr and Mrs J W Cook of Crowell Texas are guests of daughter Mrs L B Sloan at 315 B West Seventh Avenue. Mrs I L Patterson has returned from Birmingham Alabama after escorting her father's body to Amarillo where he died July 9. Mr and Mrs W B Burkhalter of 2008 Qag Street and Mr and Mrs M Liebhart of Enid Oklahoma have returned from a two week fishing trip in Colorado and New Mexico mountains. W L Hogg and Charles E Osgood of Denver who visited Misses Geraldine and Davilla Kelly at 1509 Taylor Street have returned to Denver. Mrs A F Lumpkin Miss Adeline Lumpkin and Miss Katherine Cobb returned from a stay at Mrs J Lindsay Nunns cottage on the Pecos River in New Mexico. Miss Frances Wayne Smith daughter of Mr and Mrs Wayne J Smith of 1803 Taylor Street returned earlier this week from Northwestern University in Evanston Illinois this summer.
Canyon hosts Wallace and Princes Alice Clark at a Wednesday evening buffet and dance. colorful garden blooms in yellow and orange decorate the Clark home with guests including Amarillo residents Glover Vernon Crudgington, E. Broome, T. Caldwell, W. Stevenson, Clifton Jarrett, Harrison, Jimmie Swann, Bill Dawes, and others plus Canyon residents.
Dr Nan Gilkerson will address the Wesley Friendship Class at San Jacinto Methodist Church Sunday at 10 o clock. All members urged to attend and bring a guest.
Amarillo participates in national pollen tests conducted by H T Collman and assistants from the U S weather observer service. Vaseline slides trap pollen for 24 hours to count grains per unit area and per cubic yard of air, with nine months of tests starting August 10 across 60 cities.
Fifty members of the Christian Endeavor Society of the Central Presbyterian Church traveled by car to Camp Amaryllis northwest of the city for a picnic. Each attendee signed an address book presented to Bob Rives who departs soon for the teachers college in Nacogdoches. After supper, Tom Koontz led games for the rest of the evening.
The Pleasant Valley Parent Teacher Association will entertain with an ice cream social on the school lawn Friday evening at 7 30 o'clock. The public is invited.
Amarillo area council executive Marvin J. Paul announced that no court of honor will be held in August. Five merit badges per month are allowed whether a court is held or not, and Scouts may receive more than the allotted number at the next court.
A liquor runner told police in Dallas that two men hijacked a truck carrying 150 gallons of whisky last night on the outskirts of the city. He said the assailants followed from Lancaster in a car, threatened him with pistols, and seized the liquor.
A sympathetic pitch touts Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as a remedy for menstrual discomfort and backache. It claims the medicine strengthens and eases “trying time” and notes thousands of endorsements with letters praising the product. A call to buy a box of the new tablets ends the notice.
Explosion of a gasoline loaded truck and trailer on the Dickinson bridge disrupted traffic on the main highway between Galveston and Houston for two hours this morning. The driver was uninjured.
A vintage advertisement touts a costly offer: a genuine 50c Taylor Professional Shaker free with any size can of Ovaltine purchased at drug or grocery stores. It extols Ovaltine as a scientifically formulated energy food for children, contrasts it with imitations, and claims health benefits, wartime uses, and doctor endorsements from Europe and the U.S.
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