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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1940
Page
9
Community notes report a five month old girl’s first teeth in January and grandparent links in Amarillo. Sickness updates include patients at Wesley Hospital Wichita and local ailments. birthday wishes go to several residents. Train and rail yard activity, hospital patients, and crew changes are described along with weather and travel notices.
Cyrus Jirousek, held up by two gunmen in Cleveland, recalls a passerby leaning from a car shouting let him go, Bones I know him, prompting the bandits to flee. Nearby reports note caterpillars halting trains in Australia and armies crawling on rails slowing locomotives.
Elective divan members of Khiva Temple of the Mystic Shrine will be installed tonight at 7 30 in Masonic Hall on the third floor NE corner Seventh Avenue and Taylor Street Amarillo Dr L V Cradit presiding for the last time as illustrious potentate George Ham mock becomes potentate Oriental guide new member T W Bill Gilstrap high officers Jerry Briscoe Robert Hester Col R P Smythe Harry S Wilbur plan to attend only Shriners with 1940 cards admitted tonight
Clark Regal was elected president. Directors named include Charles Lowndes Wayne O Keefe W A Askew Jr Benton King Dorsey Smith George Bates. O Keefe named first vice president Bates second vice president. The exchange meets on the third Friday of each month.
Margaret Johnson announced a screening of Camp Cheley motion pictures tonight at 8 at Polk Street Methodist Church in Estes Park. F H Cheley, camp director, will attend to present the films in the church parlors.
C P Brewer outlines a Texas extension lecture on selling and personal development and urges clear objectives. He contrasts power applied to tasks with scattered thinking, urging readers to concentrate mind power to rise above the crowd.
The annual school for Christian Workers begins January 14 and runs to January 20 at Polk Street Methodist Church Amarillo. Sessions are nightly Monday through Friday at 7 30 pm two hours long. Open to anyone seeking to be a more effective Christian worker. Courses include Christian Service in the Community by Rev W E Hamilton Understanding People by Annie McDonald and Recreation and Personal Development of Young People by ...
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