Navasota Daily Examiner (Navasota, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 283, Ed. 1 Monday, January 29, 1940 Page: 4 of 4
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SOCIETY
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NAVASOTA DAILY EXAMINER
MONDAY, JAN. 29, 1940
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amber of Comumerce will convene for
7 o’clock at the home of Miss Jessie
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daughter, MisDoris Evelyn, to Rev,
Thomas Woodward Sumners of Hous-
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Plumbing Service
To buy or sett— ADVERTISE
WORK GUARANTEED
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PHONE 139
All Sales Final. All Sales Cash.
Dress Materials
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Consult us on your Abstraot
Legal Blanks
Spun Rayons in fancies and solids. Ideal fabrics for
Spring Dresses. Per yard
59c
MARKWELL
STAPLER
ALL SHORT LINES PUT OUT AT
95c and $1.49
Solid Color Sheer Alpacas in Spring shades. 39 inches
$1.00
wide. Per yard
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It is easy to sew by McCall Patterns.
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Lewis Youens, student at the Uni-
versity of Texas, Austin, is here for
QUICKLY DONE
At Keasonable Prices
Club Women, Including Presbyterians Hold
Those in Grimes, Show Book Review and
Clothing Work Interest Luncheon Tuesday
Mrs. Sam Steele, Mrs. E. D. Lawson,
and Mrs. J. E. Watkins spent Munday
in Bryan with Mrs. W. R. Sanders.
Mrs. Otto Lohmeyer returned home
tills aftprnoon from Teague where she
Keith Club Holds
Meet to Discuss
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A. J. Youens, until second semester
classwork begins Thursday.
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LICENSED PLUMBER
Miss Betty Jo Powledge is confined
to her home with pneumonia.
P. Nemir, accompanied by his bro-
ther, Stuart Nemir of Austin, left Sun-
day for Dallas where he will be in that
city during market shason ami will pur-
chase spring and summer merchandise
for his store.
Have you read the advertisements,
in the Examiner and the Review. They
are worth your careful attention.
Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Hudspeth and
son, 'Sterling, of Huntsville spent Sun-
I day with Mrs. Hudspetil’s parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Roy Smitheal.
Anderson . .. Phone 57
Prompt-Efficient-Service
ammouneed.
"Phe presence of the officers.
Mrs. Jesse B. Ruddell of El Campo
spent the week-end with her parents,
Mir. and Mts. W. H. Barry.
Mao Craig, president.
Several major activities are to.
discussed. Mi-s Craig said.
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POULSEN
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Virginia GREY
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Have just received several shipments of New Spring
Fabrics in Piece Goods.
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jOCALS
Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Woodworth and
two sons have moved into the Temple-
man cottage at the corner of Church
and Johnson streets. Mr. Woodworth
is manager of the Navasota Telephone
Company.
Money-saving vales that you Won’t want
to miss!
Miss Virginia Mings’
Betrothal Announced
In Houston Sunday
Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Thomas Mings
FOR EVERY STAPUNG
REQUIREMENT
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All the clothes made by home demonstration club women and 4-H
dub girls are not for utilitarian purposes, as the play costumes made
and modeled by Lorna Chapman (left), Pasadena; Katherine Buck,
Houston Gardens 4-H Club; and Marie Smith, Crosby, show. The
three Harris County 4-H club girls took part in the clothing work
carried on by 27,255 women and girls in cooperation with county
home demonstration agents and the Texas A. & M. College Extension
Service during 1939. ' •
Your Business Is Appreciated
PHONE 487—484
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New Spring Wool Georgettes and Tweeds for Coats
and Suits. Beautiful Spring Patterns. 54 inches wide.
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7 p. m.
Wash Silks in fancy patterns. A very large
showing. Per yard ____--Lu______________________
ORIGINAL PRICE OF THESE BLIPPIES WE
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The Franklin Fire Insurance Co.
of Philadelphia, established 1820.
C. A. (Al) Harrington
AGENT
Social Calendar
Tuesday
Woman’s Junior Chamber of Com-
merce, Miss Jessie Mae Craig's home,
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Cook Swanson student in the Uni-
versity of Texas, Austin, is a guest of
his parents, .Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Swan-
son, following mid-semester examdina-
tions.
went to attend the funeral
held for her grandfather.
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Woman’s Jr. C. of C.
To Convene Tuesday
At Miss Craig’s Home
Members of the Woman's Junior
$1.50 and $1.95 Per Yord
rxpeeted, and this meeting is open to
all members of the elub", Mrs. Bu-
tington added.
Special Reductions At
The]What Not Shop
Begins Tuesday
CONTINUES THROUGH FEBRUARY 6
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TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY
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ANOTHER WEEK OF WONDERFUL
VALUES OF .WOMEN’S SLIPPERS
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■ Mrs. C. C. Leedy and Mr. and Mrs.
Jimmie Leedy of Eagle Lake spent
Sunday here with Mr. and Mrs. W. H.
Koehn.
Yearbook, 1940 Plans
, The Womn’s Home Demonstration
Club of Keith held an interesting meet-
ing Wednesday at the club room as
yearbooks were discussed and plans
were enthusiastically made for future
meetings. -
Miss Rheba Merle Boyles,' county
home demonstratio agent, gave a
beuefieiaI talk on sird improvement
and poultry. The next meeting will
be Februnry 11 at the club roonu.
Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Sangster of
Houston spent Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. J. Percy Terrell.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Armstrong ami
sons, Rolrt. Jr., ami Bill, of Bryan
.spent Sunday with Mrs. Armstrong's
parente, Mt. and Mrs. Ewing Nor
wood.
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Mr. and Mrs. C (H. Muse had as
their guests over the week-end Miss
Una Mae Rogers and Herbert Muse of
IaGrange and Hairston Muse of Con-
roe.
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A BEAKDOWN!
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The double wedding will be an event
of early summer.
Miss Virginia Mings is a teacher in
the Navasota public sehools, being
home economics, instructor here for her
thind year. The Rev. Messrs: Sum-
ners, who are well-known in this city,
are the sons of Mrs. Charles Abrams
Sumers of Houston
Membera of the Lillian M. Knox Ju-
nior Music Club wil be presented on
the program of the Masdc Studs dub
Wednesday afternoon at 9 o’clock
when the orzanizatio meets at the
home of Mrs. HL H. Knox with Mrs.
Hunter Yarborough as co-hostess.
Itadlian opera will be the theme of!
the meeting, and Miss Mllanor Oath-
erine Foster will be leader. Those to
appear on the program are Misses
Frances Lucile Yarborpugh, Fay Gr-
ner, Kathryn Cook;'and Wilma Har-
rington. • « 7 . b
Records on Italian operatic selec- !
tions will also be heard.
49c and 69c
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Mrs. Jim Smith and three children,
James Ross, Etta Merle, and Lawrence
David, left Friday for Jacksonville to
make their home with her parents,
Mr. and Nrs. Ross Steele.
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Mr- and Mrs. R. L. Jones and daugh-
ters, Bobbie ami Joyce, and J, R.
Gaines of Anderson spent the day in
Houston. i ",u‛ ..
fa Artie
Shaw and
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of Houston aunonuce the engagement
a short meeting Tuesdhy evening at | of their daughter. Miss Virginia Ruth,
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Austin, and the engagement of their
OoLLEGE STATION, Jan. 20. —
Ever since Eve first made a fig leaf
dress women have been all ‘wrapped
up' in elothes.:
Home demonstration club women
and 411 club girls in extension district
M—a group of 18 counties bounded
by Walker, Galveston, Matagorda and
Bastrop counties are no exception the
annual reports of county home dem-
onstration agents show.
Of the U,424 women and girls who
took part in various demonstration
activities, 3,747 were interested in
clothing work, and these made 29,423
garments during 1039. Saving amount-
ing to $16,534.47 resulted, according
to Mae Belle Smith, district agent of
’he Texas A, and M. College Extension
Service, who superviess wonk of coun-
ty home demonstration agents in the
aren.
A four-year storage space campaign
has resulted in the building and re-
modeling of 3,634 clothes closets and
the addition of 2,579 pieces of equip-
ment. she said.
From 7,838,474 row feet of vege-
tables—-enough to reach more than
1,500 miles, or from College Station
to Washington, D. C.—and 227,615
fruit trees, there was gathered enough
food to supply the families’ immediate
needs and to can 890,472 containers,
while 682,039 pounds of fruits and
vegetables were stored in fresh or
dried form.
Beautification of the farmsteads
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went forward in all coupties. At the
end of a five-year campaign 1,231
lawns have been sodded and 67,542 na-
tive and nursery shrubs, 10,477 shade
trees, and 26,733 rose bushes have been
planted and ar now' living. A cash
outlay of less than $20 per farm was
Involved since 49,488 of the plants
were grown from cuttings and seeds.
Other items include the improve-
ment of 3,420 kitchens, bedrooms, and
bathrooms. the addition of 2,963 pieces
of furniture; the purchase of 674
factory-made mattresses, together with
277 mattresses made at home; and the
addition of 687 light-weight woolen
covers, 12,991 pieces of bed linen in
addition to 1,616 bedspreads.
Of the 18 counties in district 11, 16
are served by county home demonstra-
tion agents. These counties, with their
agents, are: Austin, Viola McKenzie;
Bastrop, Katherine Kelly; Brazoria, '
Ora Slone; Brazos, Velia Erisman.
Colorado, Winifred Jones; Fayette,'
Vada Pearl Jones; Fort Bend, Carolyn
Powell and Assistant Kedron Grace;
Galveston, Jessie Murdock; Grimes,
Rheba Merle Boyles; Harris, Sue Bon-
ner, Assistant Maude Holt; Lee, Ju-
anita Unban. Matagorda, Alma Stew-
art: Montgomery, Mrs. Grace Martin;
Washington, Myrna Holman; and
Wharton, Della Pfluger, Assistant
Nina MeCubbin.
Every Gift Item in the shop is drastically reduced.
This includes:
CRYST AL-Vases, Candlesticks, bowls.
CHINA-Dinner sets, fruit plates, cak
sets.
POTTERY-Ovenware, breakfast sets,
vases, bowls.
Also lamps, imports, ash trays, cigarette
boxes, leather goods, pipe racks, book-ends,
linens.
Musie Study Club, Mrs. H. H.
Knox’s home, 3 p. m.
Thursday
Annual Civic Club meeting, August
Horst Clubhouse, 10 a. m.
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NEW SPRING
Continuing the week of prayer and
self-denial for foreign missdons, Pres-
byterians will hold an all-day meeting
Tuesday when a book review and
luncheon takes place at the church
beginning at 10 a. m.
Mrs. J. T. Ferguson will review
“Through Tragedy to Triumph”; and
following her discusson a luncheon
will’ be held in the Educational build-
ing.
' During the prayer meeting hour
Wednesday, John Elbert Garner will
tell "The Story of the Great Ka-
gawa” and motion pietures of "The
Belgian Congo" will be shown.
■ Mrs. J. H. Powell will direct a pro-
gram on "Our Work in Ia tin-Amer ica”
Thursday at 2 p. m.; Mrs. M. H.
Pickett will be in charge of the pro-
gram to tell of work in the orient
Friday at 2 p. m., and the observance
will close with vesper service (Sunday.
Mrs. J. Percy Terrell, auxiliary foreign
mission secretary, is in charge of all
the programs. ‘
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Annual Civic Club
Meeting Is Arranged
Thursday Morning
Annual iieeting of the (’Ivie* cjob
which was postponed List week be-
eause of the freezing weather hnslieen
set for Thursdax. February 1, at the-
august Horst Olubhous at 10 a. m.
Hns.‛‛T. I’, lufington, preident, has
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Nemir, Lucile. Navasota Daily Examiner (Navasota, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 283, Ed. 1 Monday, January 29, 1940, newspaper, January 29, 1940; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1382368/m1/4/: accessed May 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Navasota Public Library.