The Weimar Mercury from Weimar, Texas • Page 13

THE WEIMAR MERCUKY FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 23, 1935 WEIMAR, COLORADO COUNTY, TEXAS The Purpose of Deposit Insurance When Congress created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Its primary objective was the protection of depositors. This Corporation began insuring deposits January 1, 1934. It is a scgsmxattai. It now insures deposits in a great majority of the banks, Sacluains CBS institution. As a result, millions of depositors enjoy a degree of financial security heretofore unknown.

When you have mosiey on deposit here you know for a certainty that your de- postSs up to fully safeguarded against loss. Deposit in- ance is for year protection. First State Bank of Weimar, Texas fmaimuiMintiiiiiiniiiittiittmmnoiiiiiNiiiiEiHiiiiH STEP OUT SMARTLY THIS SUMMER IN WELL CLEANED CLOTHES Yoa can lode your very best always if you take advantage of the low clothes to the cleaners frequently. Sanitary Geaners Johnnie Prop. Segsm, Texas.

Aug. Albert Saegert and other Seguin officers are mafeirtg a. search for clues to ban- eltis wiio Mst nigM held np and robbed tuo places of business in Seguin and escaped with about $35 in cash. An unmasfced bandit held up Ralph Sage- beO, Isms attendant at the Corner Filling Station in the business section, forced him to open the cash register. arsi after forcing to enter a small room msde his escape Kith a confederate in an auto.

The bandit used a large calibre gun in the hoMiip. A negro proprietor of a watermelon stand ess Austin Street was hit over the head by hijackers and the small amount of 35 cents taken- He was a description of his M. L. Heiman. wen known Garwood citizen, is nursing sery sorely burned left hand On Tuesday of last.

week. Mr. Heimsn was heating a small can of pitch, which exploded in a red Hams on his hand. "I don't know lost Iww it happened." Mr. Heimann ssM.

"it happened so The hand for a few days was horribly swoHec. The swelling, for the most part, toss left toe hand and the injury is much improved at this Lake Headlight. HE GOT OVER IT. Five-year-old Bobby was showing the family photographs to a playmate. Very sbajnefaced.

he exhibited one of hiKseU when three years old. wearing beautiful golden curls. ApotogeUcaHy be explained. "I was bcmed a uring sixteen feet on display at the Eagle Lake Grain Company have attracted attention of fanners during the past week. This cane was grown by Mr.

G. W. Keith on his farm near Matthews. Mr. Keiih planted four acres hi Japanese seeded ribbon cane and he says the entire acreage will average ten foot height.

Many of the stalks range from ten feet to sixteen feet and are heavily headed. This cane is said to be excellent for stock feed and also for making good old sorghum molasses. Mr. Keith is plan- and made into Lake Headlight. Miss Agnes Kopecky, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Jos. Kopecky of Hallets- tille, entered the novitiate at the Incarnate Word and Blessed Sacrament Academy, San Antonio, on Aug. 15, This is the second daughter from the Kopecky family to enter this convent. Sister M.

Theresa (nee Angeline Ko- pecfcy) is a teacher at St. Michael's School at Weimar for the coming school year. Teachers at the parochial school at Praha are also members of this religious Argus. OAKLAND NEWS. Hot, dry prevails at thi: writing.

The heat is almost fierce a times, and we certainly would welcomi a good rain to cool things off. Mrs. O. C. Strunk went over to Houston last week to help her little grandson celebrate his birthday.

Mrs. Mayes and son accompanied her. Mrs. Gordon Eourke of Yoakum spent last week with her father. Mr.

55 S. Hughes. She returned home Sunday, her husband coming for her. Mr. and Mrs.

J. C. Calhoun left iurday for a visit to their relatives, II and Mrs. Chas. Poulk of Egypt.

III Mrs. Selma Berger and sisters J'jbecn attending the revival meeting at this place. Last Saturday on thcl ay to Oakland her car turned over nd the windshield fell on her hand, rushing her watch and ring, and bruising her hand so badly the doctor took fifteen stitches to close it up. The other occupants suffered no injury. Mr.

and Mrs. O. C. Strunk were itors to Columbus one day last we Mr. and Mrs.

O. P. Moore and children visited here Saturday afternoon. the Masonic lodge, at which meeting Mr. H.

W. Hasse became a full-fledged member of that organization. Mr. Chas. Underkirchcr was in ou city Monday, en route to Weimar.

Mr. F. Obenhaus is the guest of Mi and Mrs. W. D.

Obenhaus. The tent meeting is still going 01 and large crowds throng the tent every night. Sunday services were held during the day, with dinner on the ground and in the afternoon a regular singing was held. There were solos, duets, quartets and general singing by the choir. They have some splendid singers, and the singing is beautiful.

Mr. Jesse Ward is wonderful on the liano, and the two young ladies, of Katy, oil the violin and two young men of Houston, completed the music Sunday. There were visitors here from Sublime, Halletsville, Katy and Houston, whose names we failed to Those who have been assisting Mr. Dickson in the meeting are as follows: Mr. and Mrs.

W. A. Ward of Camden, Mr. and Mrs. Bennie Stanberry of Katy Texas; Misses Lela Kathryn and Mildred Peck of Katy; Mr.

and Mrs. Peck Katy; Mr. Marion Carl, Houston; and Mr. Boyce Tucker of Katy. DECEMBER.

OAK GROVE ITEMS OF INTEREST. Dry, hot and dusty weather is what we are having, with one hard whirlwind after another. What we and would appreciate very much setting awful dry and the grass that is left is drying up. Everybody is busy gathering what coiton they have. It isn't a very hard job keeping up with the crop this year, ns cotton throughout this section is Vacation days are just about ovei with, so get busy, children, and hunt up all of your report cards, for on 9th of September the school doors will be thrown open to you once more.

I hard, but it's fair! We noted in our paper where unty commissioner said the N. elau, Oakland and Osage roa mid get first aid out of this mon that has been appropriated for rui oads. If we are not mistaken the ire the only roads that ever get any rork at all. We were lucky enough to ravel over the Osage road a couple of floor. We certainly can't see where it needs any work at all.

We wonder Mrs. Chas. Wegenhoft spent the i'eek end here with her parents. Prof, Mrs. L.

B. Rabb, returning home Monday. Mr. W. A.

Rodgers and wife and Mr. Edgar Rodgers and family were visiting their son and brother's family over Fayetteville Sunday. Mr. Herbert Mehrens, oldest son of Jr. and Mrs.

Otto Mehrens, formerly of Oak Grove, but now of Glldden, was the 3rd instant married to the girl his choice in San Antonio. We failed to learn the young lady's name, but feel sure friend Herbert chose and well. We wish them much health and happiness throughout their idded life. They are now living in Word has been received here by the family that their son. Homer Rodgers, is very ill at his home in Galveston.

Just what the trouble is we failed to GOLDEN LOCKS. JOE HERZIK DIES. Joe Herzik, 69, formerly of Engle, this county, died at his home hi Gon- zates Wednesday afternoon after" a long illness. Deceased is a half-brother to Representative Gus Herzik of this city and A. L.

and Fred Herzik of Schulenburg. Representative Herzik received a message of the sinking of his brother Wednesday and left immediately for his bedside, but before he arrived the end came. Funeral arrangements had not been made at press Record. CAR PLUNGES FROM FERRY, TWO DROWN Jasper, Texas, Aug. 19.

Two persons were drowned near Jasper yesterday when the sudden tilting of a ferry boat crossing the Neches River caused their auto to plunge into the stream. Mrs. J. H. 52, and her daughter, Merle, 11, of Normangee, wer ned.

TRUCK FIRES BRIDGE. Yoakum, Texas, Aug. Burketfs truck became ignited while driving Thursday morning on the highway about a mile from town, and was demolished. Burkett drove off the highway on a side road but the flames spread so rapidly that he had to leave on a wooden bridge, the flames from car burning the bridge. Burkett rscaped with minor burns.

The accident occurred at Tom Bluff ferry, a Neches River crossing 16 miles west of Jasper. The river at that point is 60 feet wide and 20 feet deep. Three other occupants of the car, Hubert Skinner, his wife and a son of Mrs. Dowell, Vaughn, extricated themselves from the submerged car and swam to the bank. Mi's.

Skinner was Mrs. Dowell's daughter. Skinner said the machine skidded through the guard railing and plunged into the water, despite his frantic efforts to halt the car. Women Who Rave Pains Try CARDUI Next Time! On account of poor nourishment, many women suffer funcUonal pains at certain times, and it is for these tbat Cardui is offered on the record of tho sate relief it has brought and the good It has dona in helping to comfort. Mrs.

Cole Young, of Lees- vflle, writes: "I was suffering with irregular I had quite a lot ft pain which made me nervous. ,1 took Cardul and found it helped me in every way, making me regular and stopping the pain. This quieted my nerves, making my health much If Cardui does not benefit YOU, consult a physician. LITTLE GIRL BADLY CUT IN WRECK SUNDAY Late Sunday afternoon the car driven by Mrs. Herbert Freytag of our city was struck by a car driven by a man from Waelder, and the little daughter of Mrs.

Freytag was thrown through the windshield and badly cut and bruised. The occupants of the car were Mr. and Mrs. Freytag. their little daughter, and Mrs.

Freytag's parents. None of the other occupants were seriously injured. The car was slightly I damaged. I Later Sunday night a car driven by! Mr. Koudelka of Engle ran into the ditch west of Engle and was slightly I damaged.

Luckily no one was Flatonia Argus. A TROUBLE MAKER. Somehow that fellow Mussolini of Italy reminds us of Kaiser Bill of any. He appears to be going around a scrap with someone, it mutters it who, when or where. Some day proved in Kaiser Bill's case.

Then le, too, will go into permanent retire- Just now he is eager to become embroiled in a war with Ethiopia. Ethiopia apparently has no desire for war, it is a much smaller nation and lly-prepared for war, but it seems as Italy through Mussolini will force upon that country, whether or no. A disgraceful spectacle, in our opinion. ITS TRUE! By Wiley Padan SANG" GUILT) STEPPED INTO TW Of HIS FIRST WHOP, MADC SUIT FOPiHIS UNIFORM STAB. Cf HAS TAKSN UP WOODWORKING AS A HOBBY, AMP HA5 INSIAlLtD A- SHOP IN HI? HOME "IT'S TRUE! That a kitchen on a truck, a traveling garage, and a traveling power-plant provided all the comforts of home for the oddest location company ever sent out crsto the highways and byways to film a says artist Wiley Padan.

"This v.G5 a motorcade, or motorized studio, which filmed 'Pursuit', Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's adventure romance of the high road which extended from San Franriscn to the Mexican INFAKT1LE PARALYSIS CASE RECOVERING The little child of Mr. and Mrs. Will Minever of this section, who recently ifJeicd. a stroke of infantile paralysis and was considered in a precarious ndition, is now reported much better id apparently recovering rapidly. The child is able to walk, and the attending physician, Dr.

A. H. Potthast, is ipeiul of an almost complete recovery. It is very seldom in tliis disease that the patient escapes a slight limp ifirmity, but the Niemeyer child is said to be getting along just splendidly. DISCOVERED.

(Exchange.) First Girl inserted an ad- night's hiking trip. Second interesting. Did First there was a terrible row hi the house over it. Second gracious, why? First was one of the applicants! Young Fred Froehlich got his nose v.ith as a part of hay- happened Thursday of last week, and is a rather painful injury. The Me ury for $2.00.

SNAPSHOTS MF Biw Money at Interest has been the foundation for many large fortunes TWO GIRLS ARRESTED AFTER FIGHT AT DANCE Seguin, Texas, Aug. and Marthan Gildcn, 18 and 20 years, giv- ing their residence as San Antonio, were arrested by Sheriff Saegert and I placed in the Guadalupe county jail Saturday night as the result of a free- for-all fight staged at a Shertz dance hall earlier in the evening when ano- jther girl was shot at and with knife, allegedly by the two siste: examining trial will be jheld in Seguin within the next five DEPOSITS INSURED 8V WASHINGTON, D. C. ftflflfl MAXIMUM INSURANCE CKfllln FOK EACH DEPOSITOR )dUUU HILL BUI 4 TRUST QHW of Weimar, Texas Colorado County Depository Weimar, Tezu ENGINEER IS SCALDED I TO DEATH BY STEAM Fort Worth, Texas. Aug.

workmen stood helplessly by Tuesday while B. B. Taylor, 30, day engineer, was scalded to death by steam escnp- ling from a broken pipv at the Pang- iburn company's Ice cream plant. I Trapped in the steam filled corridor behind the boiler room and with all of escape cut off, Taylor apparently had tried to protect himself by covering his head with a water i bucket. His body was found lying with the head toward the only exit in the small enclosure.

A Nazi leader at Koenigsberg. Germany, wants to abolish the old German custom of calling a woman by her husband's title, such as "Frail Lawyer and limit women's titles to those who earn them. the caricature of Emperor Hirobito of Japan appearing In a popular magazine. Caption reading "Japan's Em- gets Nobel Peace Priu-." Thli protests ight rom Am- Salto in Washington and caused severe protests In the Japanese newspapers. STEVE O'NEILL selected for rest of the 1935 season to lead the Cleveland Indians.

Walter Johnson will act In att advisory capacity WARNS OF PUBLIC ENEMY NO. slick, worn tire on my right," says E. W. Beck, past president of the American Society of Safely "Is the real Public Enemy No. 1.

Don't take your vacation In ft- ear equipped with tires like this. The tire an my left It good, safe company on any car on any road. U. S. RoyaL" COMPLETELY" COVERED with water, this Cal- rod cooking unit from a modern Hetpomt electric nknge gfews on, without damage, and nukes the of the Kotpotnt Company, of Chicago, conducted this Interesting experiment to test the efficiency o( the unit under extreme conditions.

It dying colors! Me Lobby Committee Out he urged the uUltty AIR CONDITIONING FOB EVEBYBODI-Carroll SwllCT(left) Northern Ililnota TMJL Director, hero the new machine little larger than a tnMeaae that operate, with radiator heat to oondlHon ate room house, and costs little mon than half the price I an electric refrigerator. He to shown Martta Belrn, (right) vice-president of the AaMlfean ttator Co, developer, of Me machine, at the Sloven. HoM, mentt thtt.