Wise County Messenger from Decatur, Texas • Page 2

i i I I i i 8 I i i i i I I i i I Special Notice EX-SERVICE MEN sure to see our our full line of fresh new stock of tires and tubes. We will meet any prices on standard makes of tires. We do not carry any off-brands to offer you at padded prices! Good Galt Gasoline Real Service with it Two Convenient Pumps. itomobile Parts and Accessories GENERAL AUTO REPAIRING I i i I GARAGE uglas Burton, Props. E.

Main Street iiiiBiinnwiniia iiisiwimin.inira Truck General Hauling of all and moving given special attintwUc Trips to any place, day 01 Good charges. Independent Phone 307 The ex-service men of the county are arranging to pull off a big night in Deratur on Wednesday, January 3rd, at the armory hall on the second floor of the MeMurray Gettys building. Every ex-service man in the county Is urged to be present at this time, as a real good time is anticipated. A special program is being prepared for the entertainment of the men, which includes, oratory, fun and amusement, with plenty of music. A big banquet will also be served at this time.

At this meeting new officers will be elected for the Wise county post of the American Legion, and other plans perfected for the renewal of the activities of the legion in the county. Tell all your buddies of this big time in store for them and bring them with you. Don't forget the date Wednesday night, January 3rd METHODIST CHURCH Next Sunday being Christmas eve day, we will have a brief service Sunday morning. The decorations and music will be appropriate to the season. At the night service a pageant representing the nativity of Christ will be presented by the junior and intermediate leagues, under the direction of Mmes.

Milton and Thompson. This will be an unsually beautiful and entertaining program. Everybody should go to church Sunday in observance of the birth of our Lord. Be in your place next Sunday. SPECIAL COURSE IN ENGINEERING FREE The A.

M. College agricultural extension department is offering, be- i ginning January 24th and February 28th, 1923, an eight course i in automobiles and tractors. This i course is to prepare the power farm er, or anyone operating an automobile or tractor, to operate with minimum expense. This is done teaching the construction, operation and repair of the internal combustion engine in its modern application. The repair is emphasized doubly so bj the necessary intensive shop work.

It is the intention that this cour.e shall save more than its cost to the 5 1 owner of even only one machine by increased efficiency and longer dura bilitv; while to the owner of a number of machines or those interested in commercial repair, it offers an opportunity to obtain the necessary knowledge. This course lasts eight weeks. Special housing facilities provided for the student, convenie.it to the laboratory. The cost is small. Anyone interested may obtaiu a special bulletin from the agricultural extension department of A.

M. Col- 'at College Station, Texas. o- De MolXv basketball game tonight. I 1 I I 1 I I I i 8 i Give Useful Gifts Make your gifts practical and useful. Our large stock of furniture, floor coverings and musical instruments will give you the best opportunity to give your relatives or friends the gifts which they will appreeiate because they are both beautiful and useful.

The following list will suggest a few of the many gifts we have in stock for your selections. We are making some very attractive prices during the holiday season and you will be able to select your gifts at money-saving prices. Yours for a Merry Chistmas and Happy New Year The New Edison Phonograph and Records Columbia Grafonola and Records Living Room Suites Bed Room Suites ming Room Suites Chairs and Rockers Cedar Chests Large Selection of Rugs New Method Ranges Kitchen Cabinets Porcelean Top Tables Smoking Sets Baby Buggies Serving Trays Picture Frames Dreamland Mattresses DeLuxe Bed Springs MAN CHRISTIAN 8 I 1 i i i minis A Christinas Prayer. Just for today, dear God, give me the faith That gilds each star to eager childish eyes, And paints in smoke-wreaths blue the chimneyed wraith reindeer speeding for thru Christmas skies. as in the days of me again, old, hand in hand, with every face friend; In every tinsel-shine find purest told, And asure-trove at every rain Wr's end.

Let ferret the pretense and the The mumn ery of those who gave to take And thrill once more thru Christmas candle-glow While carol white streets awake. to I would shut far from me the wiser years. And close my ears loss; would be blind to want and and tears. Nor test each to find the dross. woe In Lord, let these Christmas sing back the dream: Give mo my world this ditewiad undeflled, i From prirnrose-dawn to holliWvfkper gleam, all the sure, sweet of a Clark1.

1 Majestic shows are good shoWs! AMERICAN LEGION PLANS NffiW WORK A sp. ia 1 lb (1 meeAig- of the local po Ll American Legion was held in the armory of the battery ot eld ar ill ery last day night y-two were present and em.h is apm was manifested concerning the n'icipated activities of the legion NA.se county. Plans were porfei te for a meeting of all ex-service men be held here on Wednesday January 3rd. at which time a idefljdid program will be carried out entertainment Ten present. The ir meeting of the the county will an annual affair, In the county are 3rd.

Miami iBlltBlllBillBlllB III llIBlliBsllB-liB I1B III of all cx-servhe coming ex-service probably he and all btidd, urged to bo ere on January The local legn expects to be much more uring the next year, and new of era will be elected at the Januarmeeting. GREETINGS desire to thank the many good mends and customers who have made it possible lor me to close the most successful and profitable business year I nave ever enjoyed in Decatur. this store has been to supply thj wants of our customers, and be have succeeding in pleas- juving the coming year it will meet your demands in the serve you is a pleasure. Hierry Christmas, and the most enjoyable to an understanding that ui during the recent dairy Decatur, Professor J. W.

of the Nissley Creamery of Fort Worth, will return ounty Wednesday, January to Promote the organ tion, buB association among the of the vicinity. Pro- fessfiKeway wlll have with him appte display distures on a talk and lecture will be ft picture show, Couiifnt W. M. Love and See! retary CJfttes are now mapping a plikthe series of meetings which wBKld nights in churches or.schq^k3 in the respective direction from of the 1 places will be niade TWENTY YEARS AGO Messenger Dec. til, 11X12.

Vvonk Ford went to Alvord last Monday Guy has returned from the university at Austin. Charley Devereux oP Jacksonville, is here visiting his parents. risit ico Perry Hogg is here on as visjtt his parents from Roswell, New Eex- George and Azariah Cobb here from the Dan country last Tuesday. Venor Patterson has returned from Austin, where he has been attending school. Miss Mabel Ford has returned from an extended visit to friends in Dallas.

Mrs. J. E. White came up from Fort Worth Thursday to attend the given by the ladies of the Presbyterian church. Misses Jennings and Tompkles, the elocution and music teachers of Baptist College, will leave Monday to spend Christmas at their respective homes at Lampasas and eron.

On last Monday morning Sheriff Cearley received a telephone sage from Chico advising him to go at once to Alvord and take his best deputy with him. The message de not state what work was on hand, bat it afterwards developed that several prominent citizens of Chico had been Informed of a plot to rob the Alvord ank. robbers wen John McFall and all residents of Chico. From the the Messenger can what followed it appears that and McFall entered the hank, remaining behind to look after later stepping inside bank- McFall and Golden bank railing, McFall of Cashier Carter that he up the money of the bank. The men were met by Cearley and who demanded that they throw up their hands.

Golden, who was faced by Cearley, complied at once, but McFall resisted, throwing pistol into face. Yeary it away before it was discharged, at the same moment firing at McFall who dropped to the floor, shot thru the neck. It Is difficult to determine just what took place in regard to the shooting of Martin, as in the co plication and rapidity of events no one seemed able to see it all. It seems that when lie saw the result of the shooting in the bank he mado a dash for his horse. On mounting he was greeted by shots and fell to the ground mortally wounded.

The Inquest developed the fact that he bad four buckshot wounds he and all presumably fired at one Who fired the shot is not made certainly clear. The body was taken to Chico the next day for burial. Golden was brought here and lodged in the jail the same day. McFall, whose wound does not seem to dangerous, was removed to this placM Wednesday and is quartered at ttnfl jail. The annual production of rice In Texas would furnish real every day for every br akfast ale In this state for more tl an two -o mining industry of Texas rep- a capital investment 000,01 The factories inual production of Texas ilued at $999,998,000.

A Merry Christina and Happy New Year TO ALL OUR PATRONS, FRIENDS AND CUSTOMERS! In this season of gladness may good cheer and contentment be your share. Decatur Light A Water C. Mgr..