The Mexia Daily News from Mexia, Texas • Page 6

The Mexia Daily News. Mexia. Texas, Thursday, August 21, News From the Courthouse LIMESTONE COUNTY COURT HOUSE Marriage Licenses Marvin P. Rogers. Ester Ruth JCfviile.

John Cochrum. Ellen Luka- Edward Washington, Ednic- Beck. Dons Evant. Crcil Hif.gms. Annie Elizabeth Evans.

Jack Cun-c-y. Marie Cheiiuult. Eugene Williams. Kalie Juanita Johnson. James Beck.

Catherine Camp- Cases J. W. Strode and wife for adoption of Elaine Silverman. Marilyn Parker vs. Leland Parker Divorce.

Arthur Bluitt vs. Maggie Lee Bluilt Divorce. Mary Lou Wilson vs. J. J.

Wil son Divorce. Emmely Low vs. W. R. Low- Divorce.

Lola Mac Lee vs. Dandy Lee- Divorce. Gertrude Mays vs. Wortharn Mays Oma Lee Cook vs. Joe D.

Cook Divorce. H. H. Fleming vs. Ruth Fleming Divorce.

J. C. Alexander vs. Clarice Alexander Divorce. Mary E.

Gardner vs. Nathan Helen Oliver INSURANCE AGENCY Phone 293 FIRE AUTO TORNADO WILL YOUR CHILD ATTEND COLLEGE? For Educational Endowment Insurance See C. W. MITCHELL Youi Southland Life Insurance Representative DINE DANCE The Sunset Club GROESBECK Happy Seven Orchestra EVERY FRIDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT LONE STAR PLAYBOYS of Sta. WACO EVERY WEDNESDAY NIGHT Wo Specialize In STEAKS FRIED CHICIf.EN Best- Open Every Day Except Monday Laundry Service I Cleaning-Pressing-Laundry PHONE 670 MODERN CLEANERS If And LAUNDRY 500 E.

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LEGAL HOLIDAY TEXAS Special Slate-Wide Election I This bank will observe Saturday, August 23, 1947, as a holiday and will not be open on that date. FIRST NATIONALBANK Of Mexia Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Baggage NO Razor Ninety-One Persons Dead or Missing in Mexico Hurricane TAMPICO, Aug. 21 (UP) Ninety-one persons were reported dead or missing today in floods and landslides following last week-end's hurricane. In Mexico City, the newspaper El Universal said the death toll probably bould be more than 100 when final reports are compiled. Forty-eight persons were known dead.

Forty-three others, including a detachment, of 28 Mexican soldiers, were reported missing. The bodies of 36 persons drowned have been recovered near the town of Higo, in Vera Cruz State, according to Juan Vite Ovaldo, head of the local relief commit- 4ee. Vite Ovaldo made the report following an aerial visit to the stricken town of 5,000 inhabitants about 80 miles south of here. He flew in one of several small planes which shuttled between Tampico and an airport near Higo all day yesterday with food, medicine and clothing. Twelve other bodies were recovered from flood waters or from under slides in San Luis Potosi State.

Twenty-eight soldiers attached to a foot-and-mouth disease control encampment near the town of Axtla, San Luis Potosi State, were reported missing today. Military officials said they been unrcported for two days. Fifteen fishermen have been unreporlcd for two days out of the village of Chontla, Vera Cruz State, where 24 houses were flattened by the hurricane. READ THE CLASSIFIED ADS Ninth District Congressional Race Mow in Home Stretch GALVESTON, Aug. 21 The Ninth District Congressional race, now in the home stretch before the Saturday election, appeared today to narrow clown to a contest between Clark W.

Thompson and State Sen. Louis J. Sulak. Meanwhile, all eight candidates were expected to climax the campaign in a rally sponsored by the Galveston League of Women Voters in Menard Park tonight Of the candidates, only Thompson, Sulak, J. Curtis Trahan of Texas City and' George W.

Hill of Bellvillc have made active campaigns. The other candidates are Robert II. Abell, Galveston Attorney; Ben Tabor. Eagle Lake Engineer; W. M.

Stokes, of Victoria, and Morris Schreiber, Galveston Republican. Retired Manager of Swift and Company Dies Wednesday FORT WORTH, Aug. 21 (UP) Funeral Services will be held Friday for John H. Hall, 59. retired manager of Swift plants at Fort Worth and Dallas, who died at his home Wednesday night.

Hall came to Texas from Tennessee as a child and spent most of his youth on a farm near Daingerfield, where he acquired an early interest in cattle. IT PAYS TO READ MEXIA DAILY NEWS CLASSIFIED ADS FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS By Merrill Headed for his home in bearded and barefooted rveH't Orval Brown pauses in Hoopeston 111., on the last lap of his "prescription" bike lour, which has taken almost 11 months Brown, who was discharged from the Navy for nervousness resulting from wartime sea duty, said the trip has settled his nerves and 'restored his confidence. Suit for title and damages. C. Terry vs.

Ruth Terry Divorce. Frances Dailey vs. Tommy Dailey Divorce. Irene Carter vs. Walter Carter Divorce.

Grand Jury The Grand Jury will open September-October term at nine o'clock Monday morning, September 1. The Jury will be held in the 77th: District Courtroom. The Grand Jury will be selected from the following: Wyatt Hayter, Mexia. U. E.

Hughes, Thornton. Luther Hunt, Kosse. Henry Rivers, Prairie Hill. Harold Nussbaum, Mexia. W.

J. Easterling, Personville. Homer Wilson, Thornton. Homer Hickman, Big Hill. W.

L. Slaughter, Farrar. C. H. Garrett, Groesbeck.

Lester Funderburk, Kosse. Arthur Evans (c), Groesbeck. J. J. Clonts, Thornton.

L. F. Jones, Kosse. Dave Murphy, Mexia. H.

C. Gantt, Mart. 308 N. facKinney, Street LINE UP with BEAR FRED MARBERRY Your Dodge and Plymouth Dealer Corner Palestine and McKinney Phone 299 60-Year-Old Man Charged With Assaulting Child ORANGE, Aug. 21 (UP) 60-year-old man was being returned here today from Center to answer a charge of raping a 12-year-old girl.

Sheriff Dick Stanfield and Sheriff Ester Holts left this morning to bring T. R. Thomas back to Orange where a rape charge was filed against him on Monday by County Attorney Graham Bruce. A Mauriceville couple claimed that Thomas attacked their daughter last Monday. Deputy Holts said that Thomas was working with a seismograph crew at the'time of the alleged assault.

Trie man was arrested today by Shelby County peace officers near Logansport, La. Holts said that Thomas had a record of prison terms in Louisiana and Texas, and was wanted for questioning in connection with rape cases in Minden, and at least two other places. Dallas Man Receives Metal of Military Merit from Mexico DALLAS, Aug. 21 (UP) B. Dunl'ap, acting Collector of Internal Revenue in Dallas, today held the Mexican Medal of Military Merit presented him by Mexican Consul Efrain G.

Dominguez. In a ceremony held yesterday in a federal coutrroom, Dominguez awarded Dunlap the medal for service to Mexico while serving with the U. S. Army as a colonel on the border in World War II. Dominguez said the nations of the Americas must present a bulwark of liberty, democracy and everlasting peace.

"I regret that the people of this country did not see and know the contribution Mexico made to the war effort," Dunlap responded. "To me it is significant that there has been no fortification on our Mexican border for more than' 100 years. This medal I accept not as a personal matter but as a symbol of friendship and unity between two great nations. China originally cultivated cotton as a purely decorative plant. It was used in the ceremonial drapings of Buddhist images.

The soils of the Red River Valley in North Dakota are, in general, well adapted to sugar beet production. He THOUSHT- THATS MB: i BE I GEMEROUS AS THE DAY is CANT 60 To PARADISE- LAKE HOW ABOUT HIS MESSEN3EJ2 LONESOME AT LAKE SO HE TOODLEOO, WORK HARD. SEE YOU WE'LL AFTER. SEND YOU LABOR- 1 A FOSr- rV CARD THAT DOES BACK TO THE HAMMOCK FOR SOLD-Our LAR.O. I YOU TO MEET MYRTLE i SHE'S GOItOG HERE.

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