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-Ah THURSDAY AUGUST 6, 1031. LOCUAIT FOST'MMISTER, LOCKHART, TEXAS Church Notes METHODIST CHURCH 1:45 A. M. Sunday school. A.

M. and 7:45 P.M. Preach P. M. Epworth Juniors.

P. M. Senior League. 1:00 P.M. Tuesday Young Peo pWu Choir Rehearsal.

7:46 P. M. Wednesday Meeting, Followed by Choir Rehearsel. The home-like church broad smile and a hearty welcome to all. S.

C. Dunn, Pastor 0 PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Prayer regular with a Services at the First Presbyterian Church first and third Sundays of each month, 11 A.M. and 8:00 p. M. Sabbath School each Sunday at :4SA.M.

Everybody cordially invited. DR. SAM L. JOEKEL, Pastor. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH Pastor W.

A. Knight will preach at 11 o'clock a.m. and 8 o'clock p.m. Come to Sunday School at o'clock a.m. 1C CHURCH OF CHRIST G.

H. P. Showalter, Minister Bible Classes 10 a.m. Preaching 11 a.m. with the Lord's Supper following.

Bible Lecture 7 p.m. Preaching 8 p.m. Prayer meeting each Wednesday p.m. All are mvited to attend these services. i FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH C.

E. Moore, Pastor Attend services Sunday at the following hours. 0 :45 A. M. Sunday school Ed.

V. Horne, Supt. :10:45 a.m. Communion and sermon. 5:30 p.m.

Junior Christian Endeavor. 7:00 p.m. Intermediate Christian Endeavor. 8:00 p.m. Preaching.

Every one is most cordially invited to worship with UB. It's the "old time religion." Don't you love to IJBPISCOPAL CHURCH SERYICE Eauaanael Church Rev. L. G. H.

Williams, Rector 'Sunday School, 10 A. M. 1st Sunday Service 11 A. M. other Sundays, 8 P.

M. 5 Public cordially invited. -O EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH Jul. Reichert, Pastor Sunday School at 9:30 Broaching- at 10:30 A.M. Choir meeting every Wednesday 8:00 P.M.

Ladies Aid Society every second (Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock month. This church invites you. INTERMEDIATE CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR The Ob atacles To 5: 13-16. Devotional Up "for Jesus, Loyalty to Christ, Living for Jesus. Talk by the Leader.

General Discussion, led by Martha Smith. Violin Newsom. we as deeply interested in as we should be? If not, isjrhy? How can we overcome this Katherine Hilgers Is our Society serving our community as effectively as we should 5 Why or why VogeJ Is our minister getting from us, (a all'ways, the support he should If not, at what point do we fail IU Has our Sooiaty developed leaders as should? not, why has lit failed, and how could this ob- be Mary Smith What are some of the chief ob- Itacles of Annie K. Smith Mixpah Benediction CARD OF THANKS means of each and one who ren- assistance or extended us is during the illness and death oi our mother, Mrs fjMfjit do we thank the nurses, the officiating who sent flow. for CHJU)REN Yellow Mongrel Who Broke the Ice By H.

LOUIS RAYBOLD ONFOUND you, quit sniffing at my heels 1" The young man turned crossly on the shaggy nondescript creature which had followed Mm for several blocks. Then something In the dog's ble eyes touched him and he stooped down. "Lost, old man? And no collar on. Dixon Blaine troubles of his thought he didn't feel like wasting time on dogs, but he had a soft heart, and there was something about Hie animal which reminded him of that pampered creature belonging to the girl of his dreams and by her so petted and made so much of as to arouse la his breast. So be picked 'up the dog and walked on, becoming once more absorbed In the al Important was he going to make the acquaintance of Betty Lotft Ob, yes, he had discovered her name by careful circuitous Inquiry, but he had been quite unable to unearth anywhere that boon to young men in his eligible acquaintance.

Living In the same block, he and shared the tame Iceman, paper boy and grocer at the corner, but Dixon felt that they would hardly serve as Intermediaries. Still possessed of the dog, he turned in at his sister's house, and not finding that lady In, proceeded to rummage the Icebox for the refugee. Then he wandered out to the veranda, found the evening paper, and sat down to read it, with the dog stretched contentedly at his feet Ordinarily he read the sporting page first and ultimately wound up with the editorials, but tonight he was halted in the middle of the advertisements by an In the lost and found column. yellow mongrel, answers to the name of Rags. Finder please return to Miss Betty Lou Collins, 57 Cox avenue." "Oh, Gosh exclaimed Dixon, thoughtfully.

"Oh, Goshl" Then, "Ragal" be fairly shouted, and the animal quivered and lifted one Inaahinf eyelid. "The Gods are with me 1" chuckled Dixon. "Come on, you blond beast" Ha snatched up the dog and hurried out of the gate Pres. eatly, a bit breathless, be was ringing the Collins doorbell. "Oh!" Betty Lou In person had opened the door.

Betty Lou, pi- Lquantly pretty and considerably -jroor advertisement in the paper. Miss Collins, and having Just found the dog, I you see, I tried the name on him, he responded "Yes, Indeed." said Betty Lou. "1 understand. Thank you so much." She hesitated, then came swiftly out to the coiiotf Wiaiiimocay reached out her arms for the dog and nodded toward a rocker. "Tell me all ft.lt" after hat could young man do but sit down and plunge Into detail? In the next few minutes Dixon showed the skill of a dollar- a-word writer in spinning out the meager tale of his finding the cur.

All might have been well bad not a middle astfd man turned In at the gate. Considering that It was Betty home to supper, he could not have been expected to remain away, but for a moment events took an embar-, raising tunc Dixon had risen at once. "I bad the privilege of finding your daughter's dog," be explained pleasantly. "Oh, yes," said the gentleman. "A great nuisance, too.

Chewed my slippers Dixon, following his glance, saw, to bis surprise, that Betty Loo very red of face, seemed to be attempting to conceal the dog behind her and the couch hammock back. "That isn't our dog," declared her father testily. "Don't, you know your own dog, Betty?" At that moment a voice issued from the kitchei. where presuro-. ably Betty Lou's mother was getting supper, unaware of significant happenings on ber veranda.

"Oh, Betty Lou I That old tramp dog of yours Is back again In the yard Silence reigned for several mln- utes. Then, as Betty Lou's father with rather an odd expression upon his face passed indoors, Betty Lou held out the object under discussion. "I'm afraid," said Dixon slowly, "that it's all, my fault. You see I knew It wasn't your doS, he floundered and then continued pleadingly. have wanted to know Jong and djM Kp anyone to Wrodiic? lis aW-well, sort of used the dog as a mutual -i.

w- But it was waay moons before Dixon understood Just why aj, this boint Betty flung back her prfll 1 head, and laughed and laughed, er JeSflL the stood Just why aj; thii jbed and Iftughed. Anjd pretty Mi WfesftK inle Tow ot his shoulder and both her hands were held in his. "You old darling," she told him then, "the minute I laid eyes on him, 1 knew that mangy cur wasn't my darling Bags, but for months I had wanted to know only good looking man in the block yes, you are, Dickie, so, weU, 1 was every bit as bad as you. I think," she went on seriously, "that where two people are really meant by fate for one another, it's quite all right to-" manufacture a mutual acquaintance out of a mangy mongrel. Exactly," said Dixon.

"So do II" MB. ay fyndltttO (WNU SpeaUaf Wo.ta A wild mustang is of no value If feUa, pjnwtrjr USB? CO-OP HEAD TO HAVE OFFICE AT FARMER'S UNION WAREHOUSE H. G. Thompson, head of the local cotton co-op will have his office at the Farmers' Union Ware house. Mr.

Thompson, before the cotton season opens, is spending his time meeting the-farmera and explaining the system. Eleventh Step Held the Key By H. RAY WALKER THE stairs scampered the black cat, as the ancient clock clanged 10 and the whid howled mournful serenade. Alone I sat In the lower hall, Us tenlng to the kerchug-kerchug of the old-fashioned registrar of time and watching the antics of the cat. Within a few feet of where I sat two men had met death mysterl ously during the last six niontfas.

John Simon had been a naturalist find a bachelor He had rented, the house for i home, but 5b the morning following the day on which he moved In, his dead body was found at the foot of the stairs. The coroner pronounced It heart disease, but when Alfred Lozler, another met the same. fate three months later, the owner of the property, Frank Judson, called on me to Investigate. My quest led me to call on Gudlow. the caretaker of the old house who occupied a shanty half mile away.

"Sure, I know wfio done It," said Gudlow, decisively. "Judson knows, too, only he won't admit It Them two men were killed by the old in ventor rather, by McKee's ghost McKee lived in the house a year ago, and he seemed an all right sort of a man until he got taken sick, and the way he raved then made me think he must be crazy. The day he died he called me to him and said: "Gudlow, I'm going to die; but ril haunt this place forever. I'm taking a secret with secret that may mean death to many. But only Demon knows the secret and hej never telL" The caretaker then explained that Demon was his black cat which had been accustomed to considerable time with the old Inventor and who even now frequented the house.

When I entered the house of mystery there was the black cat and he interested Ikte strongly, particularly on of the supposed secret -he held brain. For the third time I watched him skip up the stairs, wheel at the landing and retrace his steps. Suddenly my conscious mind grasped a fact with which my subconscious brain had been Juggling. Bach time, In ascending and descending, the cat had leaped over a step about midway In the flight, the step against which the big clock seemed to lean. It was about time far -me to get busy, so I picked up the, smoky lantern and mounted the stairs.

Pausing on the tenth step, I examined the eleventh, but it looked no different from the others. At the top of the flight 1 turned right and encountered a door which admitted me to a bedroom. The room was partly furnished, and I lay down on the bed after extinguishing the lantern and placing my flashlight and automatic -conveniently near. When the midnight hour began to clang 1 sat up, possessed of on Inexplicable conviction that something was about to happen. Scarcely had the twelfth stroke died away when a loud, flapping noise came up from the first floor.

I sprang from the bed, with the flashlight in one band and the revolver In the other. The noise bad ceased, but began again as I passed Into the upper hall. It lasted only a moment, then all was quiet except the the wind. The flashlight found the explanation of the hiss. It showed the black cat standing on the bottom step, his back arched, his tall standing straight up, his eyes blazing at me like fiery emeralds.

Guided by the flashlight, every nerve taut, I finally reached the step which was the tenth from the top. Bending over I held the light close to the there partly I solved the double murder mystery, although the horrifying discovery for a moment threatened to congeal the blood in my body. The rest of the solution, Jn tbe big clock. I bad all along believed, apparently without reason, that the huge timepiece had something to do with it, and tbe revelation on the eleventh step sent me bjjrrylng fo tit cWfc which, I proceeded to dlss-ect with aty Si some tools I found 6n the premises. An Intricate device, which Included a strong spring aside from "be one tha) gave power lo the pds, deftly concealed from nimdom's favorite grew lonely for her husband and daughter, left bchted Berlin Tor many mouths, sad she went and got them got thun.

Here are Herr and Frau Rudolph Sieber and link Maria as shey arrived in Hollywood many years a member of the Lutheran Church. 0 MRS. SAM J. HENDERSON A Anton J. Ccrinak, civic head of Qucnm, told New Yorkers the Ccn- tgrolr 1 ft" VQUtd expect MRS.

MARIE BALSER After a long and painful illness Mrs. Marie Balser passed Friday afternoon about 6 o'clock. The funeral was held from the Balser homestead northwest Lockhart Sunday afternoon at three o'clock. Religious services conducted by Rev. A.

O. Hinkle, pastor of the Lockhart Baptist Church assisted by Dr. C. E. Moore pastor of the Christian Church were held in the Lockhart Cemetery where the body was laid to rest in the family plot.

The active pall bearers were Herman Hartung, B. C. Cheatham, Emil Strandtmann, Lloyd Btundell Arthur Schuelke, A. E. Bartram.

The honorary pall bearers were Dr. Edgar Smith, Dr. A. A. Ross, Julius Ohlendorf, William Bodeman, Ed.

Starcke. John T. Storey, Chris Weisser, Charles E. Mohlc A. W.

Mohle, John P. Joilcy, H. W. Fielder, Dr. J.

F. Narl, Boeme; Herman Esser, H. M. Forester, T. C.

Gideon, Massie Stewart, Fred. Garthardt, Dr. A. Reeseuweb'er, Los Angeles, A. Weinbaum, H.

W. Schulz. A large number of relative? were present to pay the last tribute of respect and flowers were, mute otkens of esteem covered the grave. Mrs. Balser was born in Anhalt, Dessau, Germany December 25, 1853.

She came to America at the age of sixteen with her parents and Mved at Austin until 1875 when she married Carl Balser who departed this life 1922. Deceased and her husband lived a few-years-at Bastrop and then moved to the farm home where Mrs. Balser had lived fifty years. Mrs. Balser is survived by four sons; Bruno ot Boeme; Carl and Adolph, Lockhart; Otto, Karnes City; four daughters Mrs.

Herman Frobocse and Mrs. E. Boeme Mrs. Louise Cheatham T. F.

Sanders, Austin, Mrs. Balser was one of the best devoted wife, a self sacrificing mother, a kind and helpful neighbor and friend. She was for Mrs. Sam J. Henderson, whose maiden name was Annie E.

ers, was born near Lockhart July 24, 1861. Here she had lived, here she married and reared her family nnd in her home or Pecan street in Lockhart she passed away Saturday afternoor August 1st at one fifty o'clock, Mrs. Henderson had been in feeble health a long time and for about two years had been an extreme sufferer. She was under the care of physicians in different places without relief. Her last days were spent in her.

home in Lockhart where she was the object of solicitous care on the part of her husband and children. For a time she was able to receive visits from life-long friends. The body as it lay in state nt the home was surrounded by beautiful flowers, the mute evidence of love and esteem. After a service conducted at the family home by her pastor, Rev. S.

C. Dunn, of the Methodist Church, the body was conveyed to Lockhart Cemetery. and, laid to rest in tho family plot Rev. Dunn made fitting eulogy of the long and exemplary life of Mrs. Henderson and spoke words of comfort for the bereaved family A large assembly was present to pay the last tribute of respect.

The active pall bearcrB were R. B. Blundell, Walter, R. F. Leyeridocker, D.

E. Guckiao, B. J. Bellamy, A. W.

Livcngood, Clint Moreland, T. A. Smith. The honorary pall bearers were Fred L. Blundell, C.

E. Mohle, C. B. Zachary, E. B.

Coopwood, W.M. Carpenter, M. C. Kelly. W.

Swcaringen, O. Ellis, C. Williamson, W. W. Randle, J.

Dunlap, W. A. Hartsficld. Mrs. Henderson was a devoted wife and mother, a helpful and kind neighbor and friend.

She was most appreciated by those who know her best. She united witV the Methodist Church in girlhood. She was married December 7, 1882, to Sam J. Henderson who with the following children survive: Mrs. R.

B. Ellis, San Antonio; A. W. Henderson, Lockhart, Mrs. Clarence Dcrr, Houston; Miss Susie Henderson, Lockhart.

She is also survived by fifteen grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Among those out of town attending the funeral were John Fant, Mr. and Mrs. Clay Milstead, Austin; J. M.

Dunlap, Mrs. M.W. Dunlap, Mrs. W. J.

Schroeder Luling. Mrs. Connie Mewcs, Roy Mewes, Shiner. Music was rendered by a picked choir who sang the songs Mrs. Henderson loved during life.

FRESH CHURNED BUTTERMILK is now being bottled at the Creamery. For sale at grocers, markets and confectioneries. tf FRESH Typewriter Ribbons al ways on TShf oue winding the time toy. In a way this wM that of an alsjj- on fostead of ringing bell it unfolded a thin steel ITm, which extended Itself HM rapped against the glass face of the clock. This occurred every twenty-four hours, at midnight The rapping against the glass served as the lure to get the dead Inventor's victims to tbe eleventh step.

The fame device controlled mechanism under the step, which at midnight thrust twenty needles In two rows through tiny boles la the step, causing them to rise about a third of an Inch above the surface. Tills double row of needles, extending across tbe step, comprised the discovery I bad made while descending the stairs, As I suspected I found that tbe needles were hollow and contulned a virulent poison which was Injected into the veins him who chanced to step with bis foot on the at the midnight hour, Special One week only beginning August 10th Pierre French Flat Marcelle Permanent $fiJoo We Guarantee this Permanent This includes both Shampoos and three Free Sets MAKE YOUll APPOINTMENT NOW YE BEAUTY SHOPPE PHONE 208 Marriage Licent. Juan Bega Santioga Jueroli Philip Baahara Beatrice Motf Julean Gonnales-Nosaria ButtttU' Vernon Humphries-Beatrice Brow Milam Johnson-AlberUne Koenecki James W. McQuaid Mrs. WIN Fray Parchman CARD OF THANKS We thank every one who rendered us assistance or spoke words of sympathy during the illnes? and at the death of Mrs.

Sam J. Henderson. We also thank those who sent flowers to the funeral. Sam J. Henderson nnd Children.

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