Pilot Grove News Highlights Weather and Community
Rain disrupted Sunday services with zero attendance. Wheat fields improve though green bugs appear. Local visits include Sherman, Whitewright, Tom Bean, and Dallas. Pilot Grove boys win Class B league title after two wins and a follow up loss to Gunter.
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Joe Ashinhurst
Sherman
Luella Matthews
Whitewright
Lowell Andrews
S. F. Garland
Dallas
Charley Kaiser
Curtis Ashley
Medlintown
Marian Barbee
D. M. Taylor
Lavelle Jeffries
van Alstyne
Earl Benson
J. L. Taylor
Tom Bean
Roberta
Louise Sloan
Jim Biggerstaff
Howard Judd
Slaton
Ralph
Burr Hulet
Westminster
Lon Farley
Farley
A. M. St. John
Jewel Hopper
Herbert Taylor
A. K. Sparks
Pilot Grove
Pink Hill
Bells
Gunter
Hogwallow Echoes on Marriage and Music
Atlas Peck jokes about couples agreeing on marriage as the town pokes fun at hymn singing. A postal reward note flirts with crime chatter while Raz Barlow’s watch tale ends with a comic courthouse joke. Sidney Hocks laments wasted film after a Bounding Billows screening.
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Sidney Hocks
Bounding Billows
Ice coats Whitewright as early thaw turns to frost
Whitewright woke to an ice coated landscape after rain froze overnight. Icicles hung from roofs and trees wore a glistening coat while previous spring like warmth had trees budding. Farmers report few field days since Christmas and sowing delays threaten a very small oat crop without dry weather soon.
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Whitewright
Death Sentence for Harry J Leahy in Ramsey Murder Case
In Georgetown on February 9 a jury sentenced Harry J Leahy to death for the murder of Dr J A Ramsey of Mathis. Martinez testified Leahy summoned Ramsey, drove him to hills near Mathis where Ramsey was killed and buried. A prior trial had resulted in 50 years but was overturned at Leahy's request.
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Georgetown
Harry J. Leahy
J. A. Ramsey
Mathis
Leahy
Martinez
Ramsey
E B Martin Moves Harness and Repair Shop in Whitewright
E B Martin announces purchase of Manning Clark and Meador harness shop and relocation to L O Lackey tin shop. He offers Bridles Lines Harness auto top work repairing and recapping curtains tents tarpaulins and heavy fabric goods with fifteen years of local experience and invites customers to visit the new stand.
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Manning Clark & Meador
L. O. Lackey
Whitewright
E. B. Martin
Rio Grande Border Marks Investment Versus Speculation
The Rio Grande serves as a boundary highlighted by Weston Oregon figures noting the line between investment and speculation in regional finance.
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Rio Grande
Ore
UT Students Duped by Polite Eastern Suit Salesman
Austin reports UT male students were wooed by a courteous salesman from an Eastern clothier promising trade ins and deductions for new spring suits. He claimed handling old attire and even watches or typewriters. A UT student sought confirmation by mail, which denied any South sales or UT orders.
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Austin
University of Texas
South
Punctuation Puzzle Narrated in Rhyme
A playful league of surreal vignettes describes odd scenes such as a man in June in a snow drift a ball game at sea a jellyfish in a tree and gum in tea. The speaker apologizes and says the tale is true when told properly as a puzzle in punctuation.
B Y P U Program Hears Speakers At Baptist Annex
Group Captain Guy Hamilton Jr introduces the B Y P U program with talks including Jesus Went to Church by J P Haliburton and We Need to go to Church by Jimmy Daugherty. Myra Nell Vestal urges loyalty and inviting others as Billy Magar and Bernard Magar lead songs and offerings. Visitors welcome at 6:00 PM.
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Guy Hamilton Jr
Jesus
J. P. Haliburton
Jimmy D. Daugherty
Myra Nell Vestal
Billy Magar
Bernard Magar
Cleophus Haliburton
Baptist Annex
Cheap at Any Price
An honest speeder returns after hitting a dog and pays the owner five dollars to cover damages. The motorist, who aimed to avoid a hunt in the woods, explains the mishap and hands over the bill in Whitewright.
Quips and Quirks from a Texan Newspaper Parlor
A collection of humorous asides from a Texas editor and readers. The piece riffs on perfect people, simple friends, and social foibles. It notes the oddities of human behavior and a failed typography joke about a church living headline. It closes with disbelief at a fanciful League of Nations buying tale.
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East Texas
Bad Copy and a Mad Editor Turn Misprints To Glee
A Jackson Ohio editor prints a miscopied communication exactly as written. The piece mocks spelling and punctuation, recounting a comical pastiche whose author brags of shaking 151 bushes and 20 ponds in 8 4 overs and claiming county and state honors.
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Linotype
Jackson
Ohio
J. B. Bratt
Madison Co
To Cure a Cold in One Day Take Laxative Brom Quin
Advertisement notes a cold remedy urging one dose of Laxative Brom Quin tablets to halt cough and headache and combat the cold, with E W GROVE'S signature on each box and a 30 cent price.
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S. C. White
Ernest Moran
Whitewright
E.W. Grove
Local reader asks for newspaper to publish notes from J. B. Pratt
A fragmentary message describes a man proud of his 75 bushel yield and confident in beating rivals. He insists he will go over anyone who challenges him and asks to place the note in the first-year edition of the standard journal, sending farewell from a writer named J. B. Pratt.
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J. B. Pratt
Another Snake Story From North Dakota Farmer’s Find
A kind hearted farmer in North Dakota found a rattlesnake in a trap. The incident was shared in an exchange received at this office.
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North Dakota
Rattlesnake A Pet Helps Foil Home Burglary
A farmer shelters a rattlesnake after freeing it from danger. The snake becomes a pet and, when a burglar enters at night, coils around the intruder’s neck and alerts police by rattling its tail from the window. The scene ends with local commerce notes about typewriter paper for sale at The Sun office.
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