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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-02-07
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System Now Is Given
Public From 5000
Establishments

The first Piggy Wiggly store was
established in Memphis. Tenn, in
September. 1916. Today there are
in operation 5000 Piggy Wiggly
stores in the United States and Can
ada, Havana and Alaska. Piggy
Wiggly is a help yourself" store.
The customer enters at a turnstile,
picks up a basket and moves up and
down the three aisles lined with
shelves containing the goods offered
for sale and marked with swinging
price tags, makes his own selection,
reaches the checking counter where
the goods are wrapped and the
amount due paid and passes out
through another turnstile. By this
system the number Of clerks requir-
ed Is lessened. delivery cost and
credit costs are eliminated.
Piggy Wiggly stores ali carry the
same standard equipment and the
arrangement Of merchandise Is the
same in every store. The corpora
tion has patented several parts OF
their equipment-the lighting system
invention, the self-serving store in
vention, the swinging ~price-tag in
vention. the checking desk invention,
the special type adding machine and
cash register and the cash receipt
records and the store chart system
The employees used in this type store
are checkers and stock men. The
home office requires in every case
when an operator opens his first
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-02-07
BRAY DAIRY
EXPANDING
New Concern Serving
Piggy iggly
Here

The Bray Dairy company Of Oh
mito. which is becoming known in
the lower section OF the Valley for
its quality product and efficient SER
vice. supplies the Brownsville Pig
gly-Wiggiy with high grade dairy
products. Fresh supplies or grade
"A" raw milk are brought In at fire.
auent intervals and with the Piggy
WiggIy refrigeration system, fresh
milk in insured az all times.
Thos ID. BRAY. owner Of the Bray
dairy. came 70 the Valley three
months ago. He has had much ex-
perienee in the dairy line I'm his
home state. Bray purchased the
Palmer dairy herd Of Los Fresnos
and opened his Olmito dairy with
the stock.
The Bray dairy maintains a milk
route IN Brownsville that Is being
expanded rapidly, according to its
owner.
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'IGGLY WIGGLY OPENS AT new SIT|

seff-service stores are compelled to
remove from the areas OF ~congested
traffic" the manager said in dis
cussing the situation. "The major
part Of the business Is with custom
ers who make their shopping trips in
their cars. Unless they have parking
space il is impossible for them to do
their shopping in this The
new store will relieve this situation.
Our customers can always secure
parking space in close proximity to
the store, and there will be no delay
in making their selections and hav-
ing them placed in their cars.
Experienced Manager
S. NJ. Harvey, manager of the
Brownsville Piggy Wiggly, who has
had years Of experience in handling
self-service stores, expressed him.
self as well pleased with the new
quarters. Practically all fixtures have
been arranged under his supervision in
accord with the plans Of the Piggy
Wiggly efficiency engineers, and he
asserts the store will be an innova-
ton in self service.
Mr.. Harvey has been manager OF
the local store five years. the estah-
lishment being purchased about Q
year ago from s. NJ. Evans by II. T.
Butt, president oft he Piggy Wiggly
chain Of six stores operating in the
Valley. During the years Mr.. Harvey
has been connected with the estab-
lishmcnt the business has developed
rapidly, and he expressed confidence
that in the location the store
would make a new record for such
establishments in South Texas.
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were taken into consideration in
planning the standard four store.
Lines handled will continue as
heretofore. The Piggly Wiggly spe-
c~ializes in nationaliy-advertised pro-
ducts, insuring their customers Of
the best goods at low prices, made
possible by their system of mass
purchases and self-serve methods.
The meat market will be contin-
ued under the supervision Of Ben
Hahn, an experienced butcher who
took over this department after COM
ing here about a year ago from
Kerrville. Mr.. Butts home town.
Additional facilities are being Sc
cured for this department and 10 will
be improved in the future, Mr.. Butt
says.
Mr.. Butt came TO the Valley about
a year ago and now controls stores
at Brownsville, Harlingen, San Be-
nito, Mercedes. Weslaco, Edinburg,
and Laredo. He and his associates
hold all Piggly-WiggIy franchises in
the Valley with the exceptions Of
McAllen and Pharr. He is also in
terested in seven stores out Of the
Valley including ones at Kerrville,
Del Rio, Gonzales, Broynwood and
Brady.
Butt began in the grocery business
in Kerrville % years ago and has
remained in it since. building up his
system Of stores over the state. He
is enthusiastic over prospects in the
Valley, believing il to be the "best
bet in the state" His stores in this
section are located close together
and Butt believes he has found an
ideal condition as to distribution
and storing in a warehouse at Har-
lingen. All stores are easily reach
ed from that point and he is not
forced to overstock individual pro-
jects.
Butt Is aided in his central office
ut Harliegnn by NJ. B. Clapp. Clapp
has had much experience in such
york and is a valuable aid to Mr..
Butt, the system owner declares.
The figgly-Wiggly systems main
tain a national advertising budget
and their advertisements appear
with regularity in large publica-
lions. These campaigns are backed
up by local campaigns. these ad-
vertisements are proof of the lines
Wiggly handles, for only the
best an stand the spotlight OF pub
licity," Butt says.
Special prices and special induce
ments will be put on for the open
ing Of the new store here.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-02-07
Pigglv-Wigely
Head Qualified

s. M. Harvey, manager for Piggly-
Wiggly store here. which moves into
its new quarters in the Brown White
building at Elizabeth and Eighth
stretch tomorrow, is declared to be
unusually we'll qualified for the post,
having had many years experience in
the business.
For five years he has been acting
as manager for the store before its
purchase by the Piggly-Wiggly inter-
ests. He is a married man and has a
son.
In order to assure the patrons of
the Brownsville store the best Of
services, Mr.. Harvey has associated
with himself a corps of efficient
c~o-workers. In this list are the fol-
lowing:
Otto Rohr, Brentwood. head check
er; Ben Hahn, butcher. who ONE TO
the Valley from kerrville. Hahn is
declared by Mr.. Harvey TO be an ex-
pert cutter aud one Of the best
judges Of meat in the state. Rod
erick Edens of Center Point, comes
here n a checker in the store; viii
liam Fraser, Brownsville, will act as
~stockman. assisted by Manuel Garcia.
Brownsville. Eliseo Valdez, will be
the butchers helper.
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store that he not undertake the
opening Of a store or the placing of
merchandise in the display cabinets
except under the supervision and
general direction and instructions OF
an experienced a
The policy OF Piggy Niggly calls
for advertising in the local papers.
cleanliness and courtesy. All are in
vited to inspect the store on its
opening day.
Piggy Wiggly is q "help-your-
self store" with the advantage Of
chain store operation and chain
store buying developed to the high
est degree Of efficiency and economy
for its customers and profitable re-
turn for its operators.
Piggy Wiggiy Stores have sue
ceedd because they appeal to the
thrift. the taste, the comfort and
the convenience Of the housewife.
The Piggy Wiggly System cuts
the family food bill from 5 to 25
per cent.
Customers shop at Piggy Wiggly
with pleasure, profit and satisfaction,
Piggy Wiggly Stores have sue
ceeeded because Of the low operating
cost which Is obtained by the Gus
toners helping themselves. bringing
their purchase to the checking coun-
ter. paying cash and taking their
purchases with them-unnecessary
clerks, bad debts and delivery cost
are eliminated.
One hundred people can help them
selves at Piggy Wiggly in the same
time as ten people can be waited up.
on at the ordinary grocery store.
Piggy Wiggly Stores have sue
ceeded because the volume Of bust
ness by reason Of the patented fix
lures and the labor saving instru'
m~entalities used, Is from two to five
| times as large rs in an ordinary
grocery store. location and floor
space being the same. The larger
volume-the faster the turnover
which means more profits.
The cost OF operating the average
retail grocery store Is from seven
teen to twenty per cent. according q
the United States government fig
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-02-07
S~LEEPwALKING DEFENSE
IN AN EVICTION SUIT

L0ND0N.-When Mrs. Florence
Cargo, a widow, sued to eviet George
Grindley from her home Mt Whit
church because he had entered that
section OF the house reserved for
her use, Grindley presented the
novel defense thta he was a sleep
walker. He said that when he rented
accommodations for his family he
told Mrs. Cage he was a somnam-
hulist. He denied any knowledge Of
entering Mrs. Carge's quarters.
Judge Bowen declared Grindley's de-
Tense the most original he had ever
heard and adjourned the cast for two
months.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-02-07
fore NOW AT
LIzABETH and
STREETS
Accommodation
For Customers In
Marking Space Is
kuse of Move

II accommodation # its Gus
is given as the reason for
koyal Of the Brownsville
Iiggly from it's present To-
etween 18th and 18th on
to Eighth and Elizabeth
Butt, owner Of the local
as well as numerous other
Ter the Valley.
become a national policy Of
TO move from congestcd
to locate in positions cas-
lsible TO house wives and
be wishing to spend time
for parking space in
districts.
l,oblem becomes more and
BUS as the town grows and
feels that he is making
Ec move as he believes that
year or two parking space
own Brownsville will be at
am. Customers frequently
make small purchases and
EEL repaid for their trip IL
forced TO brook heavy traf-
perhaps be forced 10 walk
blocks after finding a posi-
their automobiles. In its
j. the store Is out Of the
kaffic district and customers
d the store easilv accessible
Ftimes. the chain store owner
Is.
10 20 the downtown district Is
nal occasion for many that re-
Z time to prepare for. Time Is
tied 10 be saved again in this
ct by locating the store near
residential district Of the city.
o new store will have more floor
and will be what is known as
Idard four arranged and stock
specially for n town the size Of
nsville or larger. The standard
represents the accumulated wis
of the huge system as TO equip
and methods. evolved after
observation Of results over n
Of years. The new location
designed by Piggly- Wiggly engi-
and they pronounce Il one Of
modern and efficient mod
open recently.
matters such as storing facili-
lighting system, patrons con-
nee. fast and accurate checking
Gods at the cash register and
location OF goods desired,
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MORE SMITHS ARE COMING

SOUTHAMPTON. Eng.-A liner
sailing from here had 81 passengers
named Smith bound for the United
States and Canada.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-02-07

ures. The lost or operating n Piggy
Wiggly store is from eight to twelve
per cent, according 10 statements
rendered by Piggy WiggIy operators
from every part OF the country who
have been operating Piggy Wiggly
Stores from one to seven years.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-02-07
GOOD NEWS FOR PIGS

L0NDON-The fund Of SIPS, 900
started for the establishment of a Pig
Research Council TO ascertain the
best methods of raising pigs has been
completed.
Putnam patriot., 1929-01-31
VIVID DRAMA OF AIR HAS NOVARRo AT HEAD OF
 SPLENDID CAST

Thrills of naval aviation form a spectacular background for "rhe Fly ing Fleet" Ramon Novarro's new Met ro-Goldwyn- Mayer vehicle which will be featured at the Bradley Theatre on Sunday and Monday. Novarro plays a young flying officer in a vivid drama of the airmen of the sea. Sensational reviews, battle practice, a rescue al sea with burning airplane as a bea- con, and other sensational evolutions' with hundreds of navy planes in the air, are among the thrills.
 Most of the picture was filmed in the air and aboard the nayy's great airplane carrier ships.
 The navy's famous "suicide squad ron" stages sensational stunts in the air for the picture. and many famous navy aviators are seen in the air "ghpts,"
Putnam patriot., 1929-01-31
GREAT EPIC IRISH FILM
 ANOTHER MACHREE' AT BRADLEY TUES. AND WE'D

Poignant drama, whimsical humor, a superlat.ve cast and scenes from old Ireland that intrigue the imagination, mark Fox Films versions of Mother Machree." which will be first shown at the Bradley Theater on Tuesday and Wednesday,
 And just as the song has stirred the hearts of the world for a score of years SO too the picture bids fair to become as well loved as the great Tyr ic.
 From the first scenes in Ireland where the mother, played with sym pathetic understanding by Belle Ben nett. thinks only how she may save her son from his sordid, crushing en- vironment, to the time of the Great War in America, the story sweeps for ward with the power of an epic.
 Little Philippe De Lacey plays the part of the young son in the early se- auences with feeling for the part that moves the heart of the most sophisti- cated, while Neil Hamilton, the same son grown Co manhood gives a per formanee long to be remembered.
Putnam patriot., 1929-01-31
MISS BYRNE MEMBER
 OF THE COMMITTEE
Gold Bugs, Is to 1, Full Dinner
 Pail, Setting For Annual Din ner of Mckinley Association.

Miss Katherine Byrne of Putnam and Raymond F. Gates of Williman- tie. are members of the executive committee from Windham county in charge of arrangements for the an- nual dinner of the Mckinley Associa- tion to be held at the Hartford Club, Hartford, Thursday evening, Febru- ary 7th.
 Mayor Walter F. Patterson of Hartford will act as toastmaster. The speakers will be Congressman James T. Begg of Ohio and Governor John H. Trumbull. Two guests of honor have been invited. Mrs. William Me kinley Osborne and Miss Elizabeth Osborne. widow and daughter of the late William Mckinley Osborne. a cousin of the martyred president and his campaign manager in 1896.
 It Is understood that the setting for the dinner will be revival of gold bugs. free silver at i6 to l. the full dinner pail, and other immortal shades of the campaign of 1896 when Me kinley defeated Bryan.
Putnam patriot., 1929-01-31
Union

MT. and Mrs. Walter Darling spent Monday at A. T. Aliens.
 Miss Margaret Oliver of Thompson. Vile spent the weekend with her cou. sin. Miss Evangeline Horton.
 Mrs. Mabel Horton and little son Donald visited her sisted, Mrs. Oliver, m Tasompsonville, Conn, Sunday.
 MT. and Mrs. Charles Morse of Southbridge visited Mir. Morse's moth CT, Mrs. Charles Rindge. Sunday.
 Visitors at Mrs. Louisa Thayer' s Sunday were Mrs. Leonora Howard, Mir. and Mrs. Thomas Harman, Marion and Alice Spencer, Hazel Harman, Fritz Berger and Stanley Sheldon Of Putnam
 Reports from friends who have vis- ited Mrs Capitola Walker at Memorial Hospital, Worcester. Mass, are that she is making good recovery from a serious operation a couple Of weeks ago. She was very hopeful that sine would be we'll again.
Putnam patriot., 1929-01-31
Small Blaze Thursday Night IT Storeroom of United Cigar
 Store

Rats gnawing matches of the "bird'' eye" brand, it is believed, caused . fire in large room in the Bradley | building. Front street, used for stor' age by The United Cigar Store, Thurs day night. The fire was confined te the room where it started and but lit tie damage was done. The loss IS cs- timated at $500 or less and covered by insurance.
 It was about quarter of eleven Thursday night when Charles T. Thayer, superintendent of fire alarms, and James Barnes, an old fireman, were passing the Front street build ing. They smelled smoke. Their ex- perience told them that a fire was smouldering somewhere. Mir. Thay- CT pulled the fire alarm on Mansheld's 's corner. Box 4l. and then started an investigation to discover the location of the blaze.
 The fire department had but a short run and get to the fire before it had gained much headway. One line Of hose was laid through the store and later chemical was used.
 The room where the fire was locat- ed is a fire proof room with concrete floor and was at one time used as a bowling alley and pool room. There are some old box ball alleys there and these were partly burned as were some goods of the United Cigar Store including a case of matches. A little water seeped through into Wool worth's Five and Ten Cent store.
 Alarms Columbia Players
 When the fire alarm sounded mem bers of the Columbian Players in the cast of Tn the Next Room" were having a final rehearsal. There had come a pause in the rehearsal as there was wait for one of the members to appear. Someone saw curl of black smoke coming from under a partition and it was at first thought the thea tire was on fire. The members went down stairs and looked about but found everything all right and later
Putnam patriot., 1929-01-31
AttaWaugan

Mrs. Edward Aubin was confined to her home by illness last week.
 There are still a number of people confined to their home by colds and grippe.
 Robbie" Bruce, little son of Mir. and Mrs w Bruce. is a patient at the Day kimball Hospital
 Mrs Henry Provost and baby Of North Grosvenordale spent part of last week with her parents Mir. and Mrs. Joseph Aubin.
Putnam patriot., 1929-01-31
Pomfret Landing

The farmers are busy harvesting their ice.
 Mrs. Stephen Shawles of Boston spent the weekend with his family.
 Mir. and Mrs. William Dick and son William of New Haven spend the weekend with Mir and Mrs. T. D. Witmore.
 Mir. and Mrs. John Lane and family of Danielson visited Mir. and Mrs. Tourtellotte Sunday.
 Miss Celia Brockton. Mrs. Jennie White, Miss Margaret, Howard White and Mrs. Searles attended the install lation of officers at the Armory in Putnam last Monday evening.
Putnam patriot., 1929-01-31
PUTNAM GRANGE NOTES

Putnam Grange, No. 97, held a meeting at Odd Fellows Hall Monday evening. Games, dancing and refresh ments were the. order of the evening, following the regular business of the meeting. Mrs John Bulger and Mrs. Dan Durand were committee on re- treatments. and Mrs. c. D. Sharpe had charge, as instructor, of the eve ning's entertainment. A large num- Der attended.
Putnam patriot., 1929-01-31
RATS GNAWED MATCHES
 FIRE DEPT. CALLED OUT

found that the fire was next door.
 George Anas, proprietor of the United Cigar Store, closed his place of business a half an hour or more be- fore the fire was discovered. A man familiar with the premises states that the store room is paradise for rats and that he has seen some "big ones'' in the room.
Putnam patriot., 1929-01-31

Mir. and Mrs. s. Nikoloff. Pomfrei road, will leave Friday for three months in California. They will first 70 10 San Francisco for ten days and then will go to the southern part of the state.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-03
Class War in the Lumber City

with them, though when they were
hanged he was six years old. Nc
Rae and Merrill and sundry other
police and lumber trust hirelings ap-
peared and testified they saw Tracy
fire the first shot. The prosecution
witnesses contradicted each other as
in all such cases. Where the EN-
ployers have the whole community
driving along ahead of their propa-
ganda, such contradictions mean
nothing. They meant nothing in the
Haymarket case, in the later Cen
tralia, and Mooney and Billings
cases, or in others. But where there
is a real mass sentir- 1T of the
working class back of the defense,
real organization for the defense,
the prosecutions case collapses on
such points. 1t did this time. Tracy
was found not guilty, after nearly
two months trial. The others were
released without trial.
One thing that modified the
workers of the world back of the
Centralia defense, and decided the
verdict was good defense publicity.
The Seattle Union Record, daily
paper, at that time militant paper,
gave the facts to the world. The
l. W. w. had two papers, weekly,
which helped. 1t is generally adj
mitted that the reports of Anna Lou
Use Strong, in the Union Record,
and of Charles Ashleigh, in the l.
w. W. papers, modified the work
ers for the defense, and checked
the effect of the lying yarns sent
out by the mill owners.
probably close sontact with this
case helped to make Anna Louise
Strong now an interpreter of So
Wet Russia, and Ashleigh a Com
munist.)
So, in the Gastonia case, it is
no accident, but one of the skirnl-
ishes of the class war, that the en-
ployers, bent on legalized murder
of their rebellious slaves, strive in
cessantly to muzzle the Interna-
tional Labor Defense, and the Daily
Worker. The post office depart
ment is trying to bar from the mails
all l. L. D. envelopes carrying any
mention of the frame-up, and the
mill owners paper, the Gastonia Ga
zette, is trying to lay the basis of
an authoritative demand that the
Daily Worker also be deprived of
mailing privileges. Frame-up tao
tics, once learned, are never for
gotten by the bosses.
q made mistake in the Joe Hill
article. The Rowan who had charge
of the Joe Hill defense was Ed
Rowan, not the Rowan who led the
split in the I. w. Wv. S.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-03
Anglo American War Maneuvers Against the
IT, s. s. R.

THE statement Arthur Henderson, British Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs and pillar of the Second
International that is impossible for the British Govern
men to reestabsh normal relations with the Soviet Union
before there is "a solution of the questions outstanding
tween the two countries proof of the continuation by
the leaders of the Second international of the mperas pol
of preparation of the against the Soviet Union The
outstanding questions the collection of the debts
of which the auocacy crushed the 1905 Revolution debts
repudated by the revolution twelve and the ques
ton of propaganda that is of Communist propaganda.
This attitude of the British Labor Government does not
merely signify that it the faithful servant of the British
bondhoder The significance lies far deeper The action of
the Macdonald Government is the first fruit the Anglo
American conversations which, it already suspected
based secret understanding that the Macdonald
Government would act in concert with the Hoover amnstra
n against the interests of the workers and of the
the autumn of 1925 though purperng to be step towards
peace actually step to bind together the pow
in alliance for against other powers especially
against the Soviet Unionso the Anglo
ton designed not much to bring temporary pause
in the ornaments between Britain and America
bind together these two greatest of the capitalist
world in the oncoming attack upon the Soviet Union.
further significance of the action of Macdonald is the
proof it affords that the specific role of Social Democracy
and of the Second International especially in this Third Per-
od of capitalism after the to be the trusty agents of
imperialism in the preparation for against the Soviet
Union At this moment Macdonald and Henderson more
effectively out the purposes of Imperialism than
the Baldwin Government Their specific role to dupe the
masses In this particular Macdonald actually
turned to slogan of immediate resumption of
lions with Soviet Russia His first act
relations but to promise to Baldwin and the Conservatives
that relations would not be resumed until the fall His
ond act to endeavor to make the resumption of relations
impossible except terms which would destroy the results
Of the revolution
Thus just as the AngloAmerican conversations with
their ostentaous atmosphere of pacsm are be-