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The Weimar Mercury from Weimar, Texas • Page 6

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THE WEIMAR MERCURY FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 11, 1938 WEIMAR, COLORADO COUNTY, TEXAS NOTICE! SO THE TAX FJOfEKS Of COLORADO COUNTY: State Elat Rate 76 Hoad District No. 2 "9 RfflKl District No. 3 16 CoBeeSKS vm 6e is my office to wait on the public. E. H.

RABEL, Tax Assessor-Collector County, CalsmllBS, LEECH BREAKS BACK IN CAR ACCIDENT Harrv Leech of Washington, D. is still in the Holmes Hospital here, be- ins treated for the injuries he received irncd over on a slippery Waelder and Flatonia ago. His parents. Mrs. Gordon Leech.

here the Sam Pease residence. Leech and two travelling companions had toured a total of 10.000 miles over the country, taking in Canada, states in the Bnitcd States, and Mexico. Tfeey were on their way home when the car in which they were riding turned over twice on a slippery road between Flatonia and Waelder. Leech received a broken back and other bruises, but the other two boys were uninjured. They returned to Washington.

D. C. Leech was taken immediately' to the Holmes Hospital for Inquirer. FOOLISH CAUSES LLANO MAN SXA-RY laismo. Tesss.

Nov. Halloween to Lee "McDonald, iepaty assd district clerk of llano fingers keep the rr going almsst incessantly in iv clerk's office here. ssifferea a badly injured wMIe up sn automobile KSicfc some Soys had deflated the beaore as Halloween prank. The sligpeti in sssne way. cstcMng Me- SEid uEderneatls.

crush- fmgers oa Ms left nassi. Sev- -sere taken and the fin- is so- effort to save die use of SOW CS4MHOS Tesss. Nov. o'sraed fey Ebner Car- pezrier. IE 3 diasiplcm mother.

Gsiy 2 years do. Betsy has farrowed pjgs IE tteee litters- Eer most rscssss Mssr ccmSaHsed IS pigs, while IE E3sr tste a tot of nerve to retu tte presence of Henry Ford, wt tiase is went, art tie least MINISTER CHARGED WITH ASSAULTING GIRLS HELD IN UNANNOUNCED JAIL Gonzales. Texas. Nov. R.

O. Efcrut. Baptist minister charged with assault and attempted assault upon two farm girls. was held in an unannounced jail tonight because of high feeling in the girls' home fmmunity. Sheriff B.

Neighbors said he had heard ominous talk and had taken the 33-year-old minister to a jail "somewhere in South The case against tlie minister will be heard by the Guadalupe County grand jury Monday. HIGHWAY ENGINEER KILLED BY TRUCK Del Eio. Texas. Nov. Lee Minter, 63.

road construction engineer employed by the State Highway De- nartment. died in Del Rio Thursday afternoon of injuries suffered when a ran over him earlier Thursday near Brackettviile. Minter had lain down in a ditch to rest. The high grass in the ditch prevented the driver of tne truck seeing him. the truck running over him and crushing his chest.

WEDDING AT NEEDVILLE A very interesting marriage ceremony was solemnized at St. Michael's CatlioUc Church Tuesday, Oct. 25, at 9:30 o'clock when Miss Juanita Vacek the wife of Ml'. Raymond Vacek The ceremony was performed by Rev. J.

Klobouk, pastor of the church. Witnesses were Rud. Cernosek and Joe iurecky. Bridesmaids were the sisters of th bride and groom and a cousin, Misses Betty and Alma Vacek, Frances Vacek "Rita Mcnsik. Groomsmen were Ludwig Vacek, Alphonse Arnold Stavinoha and Pete Vacek.

Flower girl was Annie Mae Vacek, sis- he groom. Ring bearer was Melvin zwahr. The wedding march and High Mass as played and sung by Mrs. Tenglcr and her'choir of Corr. HaUettsville Tribune.

your wife laughs at your joke can be sure that you have a good joke or a darned good wife! The Galveston Daily and Sunday News For One Year $5.50 POWER COMPANY FILES SUIT AGAINST VOTE AT GONZALES Gonzales, Texas. Nov. suit was filed this week in district court here in which a recent election held Sept. 30, wherein the city of Gonzales voted to 1 ceed $125.000 for the purpose of buiW- '-ig an electric system. This suit was filed by M.

S. Spooner. manager of the Central Power and Light company and C. B. DuBose, an- of the corporation.

They base their contest on the lact it least 41 votes that were tast issuance of the bonds were illegal. The vote was 302 for the bonds md 214 against. HOME ECONOMICS CLASSES ELECT OFFICERS AT COLUMBUS Columbus, Nov. thousand girls mi 43 from Lamarque to York- lie classes and future home makers the ninth area of Texas convened re Saturday. At an organization officers -were elected for one ar as follows: Miss Bettie Joe Barton.

Columbus, president; Mi Bennik DAILY ONLY $4.50 BY MAIL ONLY TEXAS? OLDEST NEWSPAPER THIS OFFER GOOD UNTIL DECEMBER 31st, 1938 Please ester my suoscription to The Galve SSM for One Year by Mail StSO for and Sunday Dai! please Start Subscription Name Screen or R- F. Toum FaH Bar er Ssijscription Offer Is for Li OMING at you, it looks like a million. Going away, it looks like good fortune you've missed. A lot of fussy care went into the way it looks from the know, that the angle from which it's oftenest seen. Going or coming, it moves like a honey bee about its business.

Better look quick if you really want to see sudden "swo-o-o-sh!" and it's gone! How about it-is this stunning 1939 Buick really as lively as it looks? Maybe a bullet gets off faster. Maybe a rabbit can beat it on the jump or a sky- liner lead it from point to point. But you'll never want a highway cruiser that answers quicker to the green light's that with keener relish eats up the pleasure-packed miles. That bonnet houses a fullcomplement of eight cylinders, and Dynaflash cylinders at that. All four wheels dance on BuiCoil springing of stout spiraled steel; no quiver or shiver shakes the luxurious body in its flight.

You'll see the world-lots of it-for this sightly Buick now parades the passing panorama through windows with up to 413 more square inches of outlook than before. Other things you'll like: A gearshift out of knee-way. Front wheels that bank the curves for you. Brakes that stop on a leave nine cents change. In fine-we think you'll like all of it- from its looks to the way it lives up to them.

Won't you try it see? NO OTHER CAR IN THE WORLD HAS All THESE FEATURES if DYNAFLASH VAWE-W-HEAD STOAIGHT-EK3HT ENGINE 8UICO11 TORQUE-FREE 5PRIN6ING GREATER VB1HUIY HANOKHIFT TRANSMISSION ROOMIER UNISTEEL BODY BT BSHER TORQUE- TtieE HYDRAULIC BRAKES CROWM SPRING CLUTCH REAR AXLE GEAR RATIOS FLASH-WAY DIRECTION SIGNAL-Jt SELF-BANKING KNEE-ACTION FRONTSPRING- ING it EASY TO BUY ON GENERAL MOTORS TERMS lliih'Ifs the Beauty EXEMPLAR OF GENERAL MOTORS VALUE- Brasher Motor Co. WEIMAR, TEXAS JOHN DAWE HAS NARROW ESCAPE FROM GAS FUMES John Dawe. poultryman of Wrights- jro. narrowly escaped death from gas uenmicer of El Campo, vice-president; mes as Miss Mary Katherine Northrup, Co- WOMAN INJURED IN CRASH SUCCUMBS Austin. Texas, Nov.

vices were held here Saturday Rosie Buehring, 49, of Creedmoor, who died from injuries suffered in an automobile accident last week at the junction where the Lockhart Road turns off the Austin-San Antonio Highway. house mily from a closed gas plant was ated. arly in the The majority of investment trusts had just about enough cash on hand red, to insure payment of management salaries for a couple of years. norning to turn on lights on his noul- farm. He entered the house and ser-1 closed the door because of the cold.

Mrs. Mrs. Dawe noticed that the lights were who I not turned on and awakened her son. Stanley. They found he had been overcome with escaping gas.

He was pulled from the house and was brought back to consciousness. It is believed that he would have died had he remained inside the gas filled room a lew minutes Inquirer. "Let's Look at the Records HOUSTON MAN FOUND DEAD IN CLOSED CAR Houston, Texas. Nov. of a man identified as Ryan, about 40, of Houst in a tightly closed sed 3 HURT AS HOME WRECKED TWISTER Stamford.

Texas. Nov. was gravely injured and two others seriously hurt early today when a twisting windstorm destroyed the home of Curtis Walsch, two miles south of Sagertown. Mrs. Walsch.

caught in the wreckage the three-room house, was critically injured and brought to a hospital i the building into a cotton field, but his injuries were not serious. Walsch also was slightly injured. COTTON ACREAGE ALLOTMENTS MADE College Station, Texas, Nov. acreage allotments for individual farms, the first step in the 1939 farm program, were announced Friday by the state AAA office at Texas A. M.

college here. Allotments were released to Morris, Kimble. Rains. Calhoun, Glasscock, Zavala and Marion counties. The state office expects to calculate the bulk of the 1933 cotton acreage allotments before Dec.

10, the date of the cotton quota referendum. Last held up the release of allotments until Apri 7. or after most Texas cotton had been planted. in and possibly of cheeks prevent a. cosilv double pavment.

Sound financial management calls for 'a. Cusx'anz account. We invite you to start You can end all argument about the payment or non-payment bBIs simply by producing- your canceled checks. Each a receipt, ot payment. This feature one today.

First State Bank OF WEIMAR, TEXAS -WE OFFEE YOU- ALKA-SELTZER for COLDS, Acid Indigestion, Headache, Neuralgia, Muscular, Rheumatic, Sciatic pains body. The analgesic (acetyl-salicyl- ate), relieves pain. The alka- lizers help to correct the cause of those pains due to hyperacidity of the stomach. Get Alka-Scll- zcr at your drug in 3W and 60e packages for home use, or ask (or a jlass Alka-Sdtzer the mlafe. LUMNG NOW ON THE OLD SPANISH TRAIL The nationally-famous Old Spanish Trail which has heretofore been designated running from San Antonio thomgh Seguin.

Gonzales and Wael- dcv lu this section. changed last v.Ti-l: along with Federal highway No. cr run from Seguin through Lining lo Waelder. which has been designated by the state as Highway 3A will not markings hereafter since i v. i.l rnrry Federal highway markings.

higlnvp.y through Gonzales will be TRUCKEK SWKSEVES TO MISS AUTO. KILLED exas. Nov. E. Goli- of his broth giv In dist a flflee ic killing tool; place the night of Oct.

8 at Lcc Martin's place, during an argument over family troubles, and Lee was stabbed in tne groin, dying from loss of blood. The Houston Post BARGAIN OFFER RATES i 3P GOOD TO DECEMBER 15, 1938, ONLY BY ONLY IN STATE OF TEXAS ONLY Ij.

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