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Newspaper
Monahans News
Location
Monahans, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1933
Page
1
The piece extols steady honest advertising over sporadic bursts. It argues ads must build lasting impressions through consistent effort and year after year, praising “boosting citizens” who push projects and city growth. It links truthful advertising to customer trust and time savings for shoppers.
A jumbled letters puzzle offers a free family ticket to any performance at the Wink Big Theatre. Readers are invited to call the News office if they can spell the name corre ctly, with the prize running for one week.
The Monahans School Band will hold its first rehearsal Friday afternoon under director Mr. C. S. Eskridge. The group opens with 42 members and may grow. The school board bought two large Sausaphones and one Baritone saxophone to be rented to students. others must provide instruments. Rehearsals run daily 3 15 to 4 00 in the new band building, which is open for public inspection. Mr. Eskridge aims for separate junior and senior bands and invites interested students to see him.
Otis Smith, local manager, reports the old Morse system is discarded and a new Simplex printer system is installed at the Western Union Telegraph office. The clock was added, and operation began Monday after installation last week. B. D. Barnett, Western Union general manager, visited Saturday for an inspection.
Mrs F P Gibson opens a cafeteria across from the school offering 15¢ lunches and 5¢ individual dishes plus milk and soft drinks. The service targets students who live far from the school and is expected to attract many patrons.
A party including Geogie H. Rhodes Bill Goodwin Jack Wright Earl Bennett and Major Owens returned from Gaines County last Saturday with 26 prairie chickens. They left Monahans Thursday night for the early Friday season opening hunt reporting plentiful birds and a misfire as Rhodes briefly mistook Major Owens for a chicken at about 75 yards. the shot caused a minor chest blister.
Mrs J E Spruill host and teacher of the Intermediate Sunday School class of the Baptist church entertained at her home last evening honoring thirteen members. Many games were played and enjoyed. Refreshments of cake and punch were served.
Answers from last week cover Harun al Rashid in a tales lesson and the east west time rule. It also details the Pacific Ocean's vast area, Massachusetts pioneering free schooling, and Charles Goodyear’s rubber work with Websters as their legal counsel.
The prompt asks which renowned American author was asked to leave Yale for not being a close student, and also queries dates for the summer solstice and winter solstice. It further asks who was the last emperor of Brazil and about a monument to a childhood poet funded by American children’s pennies.
The City of Monahans invites payments of 25 percent and more on all taxes due with penalties deducted if paid on or before September 25, 1933. Idla Vernon, Secretary. 29-3
Laura W. Furguson district manager of the Woodman Circle arrives in Fort Stockton this week to form a Mona Hans circle and expand the organization locally.
The Monahans Lions held a meeting last Thursday with 14 members present, the largest turnout in weeks. President Hubert Hudler named a committee to work with Mrs. W. P. Willis, the postmistress, to help recruit NRA pledges and promote Blue Eagle purchases, forming a permanent committee comprising Dr. E. J. Cook as chairman, Theo Andrews, J. E. Barber, Mrs. F. P. Gibson and Mrs. M. Bodenhoff.
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The former post office building owned by W. M. Casey is rapidly transformed into a modern structure. A glass front awning and concrete walk are installed. Casey has not announced the future business yet, but will share details next week.
Walter Stapp game warden for Unger and Frazier near Grandfalls was badly burned in an accident Tuesday this week. He started a gasoline engine that backfired igniting the gas tank and a nearby ten gallon can of gasoline. He tried to move the can away and burned his right hand and arm severely. He was taken to City-County Hospital for treatment.
Monahans Loboes begin their season with an afternoon practice as coach W P Powell returns from a coaching school in Evanston Illinois He expects a strong team with several new players including Dick Cummins John Puckett and Hugh Rixford from Grandfalls and Clarence Pickering Bennie Scroggins Wickett Roy Freeman Carl Rexroad Bert Carter Gordon Wilson Monahans veterans listed plus possible games with Lovington Wink Odessa Balmorhea Pecos Midland and Fort Stockton to be scheduled soon Meanwhile the 21st annual United States Good Roads Association convention in Beaumont Texas will discuss early gasoline tax abandonment and road funding with plans for six trans continental highways and a cabinet level Highway Secretary.
Mrs. Ella Mae Vaughan of Fort Stockton purchased the Vanity Beauty Shop in Monahans from Mrs. Teach at Jimmy's Cafe. A 1925 beauty culture graduate, Vaughan previously ran shops in Colorado and Fort Stockton and will open the Monahans shop on Saturday September 9 inviting local residents to visit.
Washington reports that the retail code hearings estimate 900000 new jobs while affecting wages and hours for 5 million current retail workers. The code excludes food and drug groups and may decide on including drug stores soon, with price fixing and profit guarantees as contested issues.
The Monahans school opened with the largest enrollment in its history, 220 students, up from 180 last year, with hopes to reach 250. A morning program featured songs, readings, a piano solo, devotional, and a speech by Major A. E. Lang, Wink schools superintendent, followed by tours of the new buildings.
In New Orleans Professor George Pinell a tattoo artist credits the New Deal with a boom in his business. After President Roosevelt raised the N R A emblem demand for NRA themed tattoos rises with sailors clerks stenographers and traveling men among his clients.
A West Texas farmer urges the Legislature to fund the 1929 law covering fumigation and sterilization costs caused by the Pink Bellworm quarantine. He notes farmers have paid $610,538.15 since the quarantine and asks for immediate state action to reimburse and operate plants at no cost to growers.
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