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Newspaper
Wellington Leader
Location
Wellington, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1938
Page
9
A Minneapolis Moline MM Comfortractor demonstration will be held at Mrs Creed Hills farm on East Avenue from 1 20 to 8 30 pm Thursday December 15. The display highlights a modern tractor with safety cab radio heater self starter electric lights and full instrument panel.
Modern tractor shown with front fender removed for belt work and road speeds near 40 mph. It features five forward gears and a variable governor for precise speed. A power take-off is optional and a display at Mr Williams’s shop will showcase the machine. Dorothy Onderdonk, once an $150 calf buyer at 8, now a 20 year old hall resident, grows her Guernsey herd to an estimated $7,000.
Nationally known dramatist Rachel Crothers receives the Theater Club award for the season's outstanding play for Susan and God.
Robert Edwin Mitchell died November 29 in a Wellington hospital after several weeks illness. Funeral services were held at home with Rev. L Stonecipher. interment at Memphis cemetery. Born September 2, 1934 in Collingsworth County, he was four years four months and twenty seven days old. Survived by parents, two sisters and grandparents. Eugenia Simmons is sheriff of Okeechobee County Florida.
Chillicothe Missouri Miss Johnnye Lee Barton daughter of Mrs Ruth Barton Wellington Texas has been selected as a member of the Cosmopolitan State Club basketball team at Chillicothe Business College where she studies this fall The team includes students from several states and two foreign countries Cuba and Guam Barton played center in the season opener defeating South Missouri The annual State Club Tournament awards gold basketballs to winning team members
Druggists offer a money back guarantee if the first bottle of Leto's fails to satisfy. Palace Drug Store advertises the remedy for itchy or burning gums in a period ad style.
The industry chosen family from actors Anne Shirley Dorothy Peterson Samuel 4 Hinds Charlie Grapewin and Johnny Walsh will tell why motion pictures are the best entertainment in the short The World Is Ours. Basil Wrangell directed the piece with Frank Whitbeck as producer.
A fragment outlines the course of the film and intriguing behind the scenes activities of the industry across various studios. It hints at hidden processes and creative efforts shaping productions and technology during filming.
Frances Puccio of New York City saved a dog struck by an automobile and nursed it for three weeks, earning a medal for her brave acts.
E. G. House aged 81 of Pocatello Idaho marked his birthday anniversary by taking his first piano lesson, a small personal milestone noted in local reminiscence.
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