The Mexia Weekly Herald. (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, December 17, 1920 Page: 3 of 8
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Closing Out Our Entire Stock of
ARMY And
• NAVY Goods
AT SACRIFICE PRICES
U. S. ARMY SHOES
Brand new; regulation; choco-
late color; all leather;
postpaid $4.75
Grey Wool Blankets
U. S. Army, grey blankets; all
wool; brand new;
postpaid $4.45
Olive Drab Mackinaws
Brand new and perfect. A real
■aerifice;
postpaid $11.95
1 Army Long Trousers
U. S. Army, all wool O. D. long
v patns; civilian style; brand
new - $5.75
O. D. BLANKETS
U. S. Army, Regulation, All-
wool O. D. Blankets—good as
new—postpaid;
No. 550 $5.50
No. 475 $4.75
Olive Drab Shirts
U. S. Army O. D. Wool Shirts
—Laundered and reclaimed by
the government; look like new;
only in sizes 14, 14 1-2 and 15,
postpaid;
No. 300 $3.00
No. 250 $2.50
New Double Cotton Blankets
White, with borders of blue and
pink; beautiful designs and a
good value; postpaid, pr. $2.95
New Double Cotton Blankets
' Tan and grey plaid, delicate de-
. signs and of pleasing patterns;
* size 72 by 80; postpaid, per pair,
No. 250 $3.50
Woolnap Blankets
These are double blankets, in co-
lors of tan or grey and white,
wiht blue, white, tan and pink
x border effects; daintily design-
vt ed; No. 425; per pair, post-
j paid $4.25
V Blue-Grey Blankets
All-Wool, extra large, soft, black
stripe in center; beautiful, dur-
able and a real investment;
postpaid $7.75
New O. D. Shirts
All-wool; absolutely new; sizes
15 to 19; each, postpaid $4.60
Add 16c for war tax.
Cotton Underwear
Medium weight, guaranteed
brand new; postpaid
per suit $2.00
Navy Rain Suits
U. S. Navy Regulation, two-
piece, absolutely waterproof;
not slickers; they are rubberiz-
ed suits consisting of a pair of
pants and a coat; brand new;
postpaid $4.95
Army Wool Socks
Grey color, splendid material,
durable, brand new; postpaid;
per pair 45c
Dozen lots, postpaid, $4.80
Navy Underwear
U. S. regulation; all-wool, grey
color; two-piece suits; soft, dur-
able, absolutely new. Suit,
postpaid $3.75
Army Rain Coats
U. S. regulation; brand new;
postpaid:
No. 750 $7.50
No. 850 $8.50
No. 900 $9.00
WAGON and TRUCK COVERS
U. S. Army, brand new wagon'
truck, auto covers and tarpaul-1
ins; 14 feet 8 inches by 11 feetj
6 inches; postpaid $11.95,
Army Knit Gloves
Jersey knit, fleece lined, brand!
new, per pair, postpaid 25c!
Ford Truck Bodies
U. S. Ford delivery truck bodies |
complete with rear fendei's;
made of the best materials and
bulit sufficiently strong to with-
stand rough usage; brand new;
f.o.b. San Antonio, each....$45.50
All goods guaranteed exactly
as represented, and money will
be cheerfully refunded if not
satisfactory. Send us your check
or money order.
Depository: Alamo National
Bank, San Antonio, Texas.
MUELLER DISTRIBUTING CO.
221 E. Commerce St. San Antonio, Texas
Victim Frustrates At-
tempted Hold-Up
\1
t
Louis Miller, fireman at the
light plant, was commanded to
"put 'em up" by a masked "high
jacker" near the Farmers Un-
ion Cotton yard about 9 o'clock
Monday night. Instead of com-
plying Mr. Miller gave fight.
Miller was fortunate in one res-
pect as he was carrying his flash
light in one hand and his open
pocket knife in the other, and
when the stick-up man comman-
ded him to stick 'em up he flash-
ed his light in the man's face
and at the same instant struck
at the man's arm with his knife.
The light blinded the man and
the blow from Mr. Miller result-
ed in a wound on the man's arm
evidently, as blood was found on
the ground after he fled.
Miller says the man, who
wore a mask, was a white man,
and as he ran someone approach-
ing from the rear also ran, and
it is believed the highwayman
had an accomplice.
This is the first hold-up we
have any record of in the city
since the oil boom. City Marsh-
al Allen states that very little
crime of a serious nature is go-
ing on and the majority of all
the arrests he has made thus
far have been for crap shooting
and the like.
The lines are gradually being
drawn closer around suspicious
characters and places and no
crime wave is expected here be-
cause it will be nipped in the
bud before it gets under way
should the town fill up with des-
perate characters.
CARD OF" THANKS
i To the many friends and kind
jleighbors, do we wish to thank
who so ably assisted in saving
our household goods in our rec-
ent misfortune. Nor would we
forget to mention the fire boys
^ and boy scouts. May God's rich-
est blessings abide with each
v and every one is our earnest
m. prayer. Sincerely,
* Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Hickman.
Paul Anderson, for some time
a resident of Wichita Falls, has
returned to Mexia, and erected a
two-room, 16x16 ft. bunk house
? in the rear of his mother's resi-
dence, where he can room a doz-
ep or more men.
Right of Way is Se-
cured for Pipe Line
J. C. Colgan of the Texas Pipe
Line Company, superintendent
for this district, and C. I. Voss
are in Mexia, having Tuesday
morning completed the work of
securing a right-of-way for the
pipe line from the Rogers well
to the loading rack site on the
T. & B. V. tracks in Mexia.
In a conversation with Mr.
Voss Tuesday morning he stat-
ed that it was his understanding
that a six-inch pipe line would
be constructed immediately from
the well to the T. & B. V. tracks
just south of town, where a loa-
ding rack is also to be construc-
ted immediately.
When asked about the capac-
ity of a 6-inch pipe under pump
Mr. Voss said he believed 10,000
barrels of oil could be sent thru
it every 24 hours if necessary.
Mr. Voss also tells us that
construction men will be in Me-
xia later to lay the pipe line
from the well into town. He did
not have any particulars in re-
gard to the line to Simsboro,
spoken of in the News recently.
No trouble was encountered in
securing the rights for placing
the line into town and the work
of Mr. Voss and Mr. Colgan has
been completed. Several days
will be required to install the
line and make connections.
RED CROSS DRIVE COM-
PLETED
The annual Red Cross Christ-
mas roll call, or membership
drive, was concluded Tuesday,
and Mrs. W. M. White, chair-
man of the work this year, re-
ports a most successful cam-
paign, the quota given Mexia
having been exceeded.
The report giving the number
of members and amount raised
has not bene completed and will
not be available before Thurs-
day.
Those in charge of the vari-
ous committees under Mrs.
White, are well pleased with the
response by the citizenship of
the town. Half the funds rais-
ed this year remain in Mexia for
local work, the other half going
to national headquarters.
D. A. Kerzee is quite sick at
his home, being confined to his
bed with the flue.
Calendar of Work
by Club Secretary
From the Commercial Club
secretary, Mr. Baird, we learn
of a number of proposed under-
takings [\; "ich he is at present
carrying out. We give a brief
outline below e' .,ume of these
matters which at the present
time the secretary is endeavor-
ing to put over for the town on
behalf of the Club.
Mr. Baird is in the midst of a
survey of the business section
of town, and has secured a mass
of information relative to the
number of business firms, their
nature, the size, amounts invest-
ed, number of employees, etc.
Ths will be compiled and card
indexed for the information of
outside people who wish to gath-
er data and learn of Mexia and
what we have and what we
need. This information is free
for all who wish to avail them-
selves of it.
Another piece of work of
much value to the merchants
and local business concrens is a
retail credit association in con-
junction with the secretary's of-
fice. Data pertaining to credit
ratings of individuals is now av-
ailable in card index files in the
secretary's office and merchants
who wish to avail themselves of
this information may soon be
able to secure it from the offices
of Mr. Baird. oBth the details
of this work and the survey of
the town are being completed
as rapidly as possible.
A lot of valuable information
in regard to the sidewalk con-
nections is being compiled. This
will be used in an effort to se-
cure a free city mail delivery
for Mexia. The matter is being
taken up now through the post
office department and a Federal
inspector will soon be on the
ground to make recommenda-
tions necessary before the serv-
ice can be secured. From the
post office it is learned that an-
nual receipts now jusitfy a free
city mail delivery and about all
that remains to be done is mak-
ing sidewalk connections over
the city so that carriers can
make their routes without trav-
eling in the mud. A number of
gaps will have to be closed and
several miles of sidewalks built
before the post office depart-
ment will consider the putting
oil of free mail delivery.
The secretary is also confer-
ring with our Congressman,
Hon. Rufus Hardy in an effort
to secure a Federal building for
Mexia. A persistent and con-
tinued effort will be made to se-
cure this building before the
Democratic patronage passes.
Mr. Baird is also in confer-
ence with the City Commission
in regard to a proposed ordi-j
nance extending the fire limits
to include all of the business!
section and possibly a part of j
the residence section close in to j
keep out the building of tents
and cheap wooden structures
during the oil boom.
An effort is also being made]
to interest the city authorities
in co-operating with various
concerns now promoting city ad-
ditions in order to secure a har-
monious building of the residen-
tial section of the town and the j
prevention of a haphazard j
growth of the town. This will
seek to connect up streets uni-
formly and harmonize the city
blocks in such a manner that if
the city grows it will do so nat-
urally and in a manner pleasing
to the eye.
The Commercial lCub secreta-
ry has also taken up the matter
of securing, if possible, from the
war department, one or more
large guns used in France dur-
ing the late war and which are
being given away by the govern-
ment to municipalities which
wish to put them on display in
their parks.
These are some of the things
now being undertaken by the
Club through its secretary. Oth-
er important matters are com-
ing up daily.
550 Copies Dallas News
Sold Here Sunday
Great Reduction
Hardware Sale
Buggies Cheap - Stoves Cheap
Special low prices on the Celebrated Her-
cules Buggies.
Big Bargains in Home Made Harness.
We have a very large stock of the above
goods and they must be sold.
If you want to save money, trade with us.
All kinds of Heavy Harness for Oil Field
Work---Collars, Bridles and Lines.
Sausage Mills, Lard Cans, Stove Pipe, Am-
munition of all kinds, BoyTs Wagons, Any-
thing we have. All kinds of Saws, Buckets
and Tubs.
Come to see us and we will save you money.
Klotz (EL Yeldell
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Five hundred and fifty copies
of the Dallas Morning News
were sold in Mexia Sunday. I.
Newman, local circulator for the
Belo publications, states that
this is a record so far as he
knows, and no single issue of his
paper ever reached this point in
sales before in Mexia. Mr. New-
man distributes 300 copies of
the News in Mexia every day.
J. B. Mathis' new cottage
south of his home, is nearing
completion.
W. E. Pringle and Lorena
Hand.
Hugh C. Hooks and Eloise Ro-!
berts. _ I
Leroy Riley and Evangeline,
Jones.
C. H. Burlin and Ebba Car-
roll.
Rogers Samuel and Julia
Parks.
Julius Story and Lillian Stone
Eugene Rhodes and Mazrel-
aine Tubbs.
L. D. Bently and Estelle Ire.
Chas. Brown and lone Wil-
liams.
Arch Gibson and Mrs. Mat-
tie Washington.
Reuben C. McGilvary and
Mary Kate Holloday.
Sam Lenoir and Zada Allen.
Tom McGee and Mrs. Rosa
Jackson.
Ernest Mack and Addie L. De-
bose.—Groesbeck Journal.
How About It?
If a publisher, a publishing,
Should print a nifty "sheet,"
Should subscription and adver-
tisement
Make cost and income meet?
They surely should, but if they
do
The publisher feels faint,
According to the usual rule
Such conditions simply aint.
ARCHITECT'S DRAWING
OF HOTEL IS ON EX-
HIBITION HERE
A large picture of the hotel
building now being talked of in
Mexia. and whifch gives one ar-
chitect's idea of how the struc-
ture should appear when com-
pleted to eleven stories, is now
on exhibition at the Mexia Drug
Co. store.
The picture is about 20x30
inches and is attracting consid-
erable attention. An architect
in Waco furnished the picture.
Chicago, Dcc. 15—J. T. Chris-
tensen, pilot of the United
States air mail service, today
holds all speed records, averag-
ing 162 miles per hour.
Christensen covered the dis-
tance from Omaha to Chicago in
two hours, and forty-five min-
utes, actual flying time.
$7,000 Worth of High
Grade Leather Goods
Being Sold at Less
Than Factory Cost.
Every Item Guaranteed.
Oil Field, Heavy Dray and Farm Harness,
Collars, Sweat Pads.
High grade Leather Gloves, Saddles and
Blankets, Lap Robes.
Come and see us before you buy.
Factory Out-Let Co.
LOCATED ON RAILROAD STREET,
PITTMAN BUILDING
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St. Louis, Dec. 15.—Part ofj
the town of Madison, 111., near
here is threatened by a confla-;
gration which broke out short-
ly before 11 o'clock this morn-
ing in the $1,000,000 plant of
the Helmbacher Rolling Mills
Company.
Burning brands carried over
the town by a stiff wind, started
a dozen other fires.
At noon it was said that the
Helmbacher plant would be tot-
ally destroyed.
Cork, Dec. 15.—Residents of
this fire ruined and bullet swept
city were thrown into a panic
early today by a heavy fusillade
of shots and bomb explosions.
Many persons, fearing anoth-
er conflagration would sweep the
unburned portion of the city,
rushed from their beds to the
streets. There was heavy rifle
firing in the southern part of
the city.
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The Mexia Weekly Herald. (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, December 17, 1920, newspaper, December 17, 1920; Mexia, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth292393/m1/3/: accessed May 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Gibbs Memorial Library.