Elgin Courier and Four County News (Elgin, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 19, 1958 Page: 4 of 12
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ELGIN COURIER, Elgin, Texas
June 19, 1958
HOSPITAL NEWS
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A planning meeting for the
eleventh Annual McDade Water- worked under social security at
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melon Festival will be held
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warm friends.
formerly
Pioneers.
F riday
Planning Meeting
Set By McDade
Watermelon Ass’n
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ENTERED AS SECONp CLASS MATTER AT THE POST OFFICE AT ELGIN,
TEXAS, UNDER ACT OF MARCH 3, 1879.
Tuesday, June 24 at 8:00 p.
at the McDade School.
With the departure of the railroad shops from Smithville
we realize that our neighbors suffered a serious loss. We
have heard many comment that this marked the end of Smith-
ville, it was doomed to become a ghost town and the end was
not far off.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES: 1 YEAR, $3.00; 6 MONTHS, $2.00; 3 MONTHS, $1.00.
PAYABLE . IN ADVANCE.
ALL-YEAR GAS
AIR CONDITIONING .
Yes, even the churches of the community can and will suffer
if we fail to move ahead . Churches have budgets too and most
of them growing each year. It takes more members, more
church goers, more earners and more contributors to keep
pace.
In recent weeks we read in the Smithville Times published
by our good friends the Micks, numerous reports of activity
including new business establishments, a new hospital and
other marks of progress and development which are most
certainly NOT associated with a town that is dying. We con-
gratulate our Bastrop County neighbors and wish them well
in their determined effort to keep Smithville alive and to
make it a bigger and better place than ever in which to work,
live and play.
.m. before their disability began and Leove For Alaska
at least one and one-half years
For the benefit of our readers we wish to observe that all
through those dismal months Smithville was recovering from
a serious blow to their economy, Smithville merchants main-
tained a steady volume of advertising in their local newspaper,
constantly making a bid for the business of the people of
that area. A volume of business that would put this community
of ours to shame for its lack of vision and lack of confidence
in the people of the Elgin area to respond and buy. We hear
repeated complaints from local merchants about the local
people who spend their money in Austin and Taylor and most
of it comes from the very merchants whose efforts to pro-
mote their goods and stores through the columns of the local
newspaper are practically nil.
Eveiy last person who has any dollar or living interest in
Elgin is positively involved and will ultimately be effected.
I o keep up with the constantly growing school population
new schools will be needed, new municipal facilities will
be required and almost everything effecting our daily life
will demand greater budgets for improvements. Who is going
to pay for these things? Will local tax payers whose interests
in Elgin have settled down to living out their lives in peace
and comfort be willing to pay the bill in increased taxes on
property that is worth less and less? What we need is re-
vival of interest, hope and courage, the kind of spirit that
will bring us all together in a determined effort to build for
the future by attracting new payrolls, business establish-
ments whose vision extends beyond their front doors, new
residents who will provide new and constantly growing tax
receipts.
THE ELGIN COURIER AND FOUR COUNTY NEWS
Published Every Thursday
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least five of the ten years
Patients, June 18-
Mrs. T.J. Hudler
Earl Clark-
Miss Lena McDuff
Clabe Carter
Mrs. Everett Harding and
baby boy
Mrs. Theo Scott
Dismissed
Mr. Theo Scott
Mrs. Ignacio Salazar
Oscar Snowden
Mrs. Rufus Daughtry
Bobby Abel
Mrs. Andrew Stenholm, Sr.
Vickie Hibbs
Apparently there were red blooded people in Smithville who
were not about to let the town be counted out or become a
memory. Chances are that the nucleus of the community
that refuded to go down for the count included a group of
people who were not content to let their investments in
homes and places of business depreciate to nothing as the
result of indifference or neglect. They must have been typical
Americans who were unwilling to be counted out without a
real determined flight to stave off or avert disaster.
Elgin.
Both the Athletics and the
American Legion teams are
EPRESSE
WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO ARROUSE A
COMMUNITY TO ACTION?
In recent weeks we have been trying to reconcile in our
minds the things that are happening in our neighboring
town of Smithville with the numerous comments we have
listened to in the past year or so.
reaches his 50th birthday, he
will be able to start drawing
monthly social security checks.
The checks will continue for as
long as he remains disabled,
or until he reaches age 65 at
which time he will receive old-
age retirement benefit.
Any disabled person who thinks
he might be entitled to the dis-
ability protection of the social
security law should contact the
social security office before
June 30, 1958.
USE THE CLASSIFIED ADS
FIRST COST
.UUUML"ss
Right now we need a nucleus of red blooded local people
with pride and ‘‘guts” to sit down together and plan a pro-
gram that the rest of the people of Elgin can be sold on and
persuaded to support. That will make our investments in the
community sound with pessibilities of growing and our pride
in Elgin real and justified beyond the fact that it has been
the place of birth, a home for .many years or because we have
not yet experienced the kind of disaster that it apparently
took to arrouse Smithville.
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Saturday, July 12. A full day’s
program is being planned for
your entertainment.
All interested and willing to
help please remember the
Watermelon Festival Meeting
Tuesday, Jne 24, at 8:00 p.m.
at McDade School. You are
urged to attend.
wodctakevhotseambcnum riM DISABLED YOUMAY
school team in an 8:00 o’clock BE ELIGIBLE FOR 55
with the Austin
either Billy Hees or Dale
Robertson, both of whom played
BUSY WEEK AHEAD
FOR AMERICAN
LEGION AND ELGIN
ATHLETICS
The Elgin Athletics, after two
consecutive victories, will play playing good ball and a lot of
the Austin Cats with whom they excitement is in store as some
are tied for the league lead in of the best ball players in the
Elgin Tuesday night June 24. state will visit Elgin to com-
The two undefeated teams will pete against these two teams
lock horns at 8:00 p.m. with in the next few days. Please
either J. P. Schroeder or Jim come out and support these
Fisher on the mound for Elgin clubs.
while the Cats will go with ________________________
Disabled people who have not
been able to work for sometime
because of their disability have
until June 30, 1958, to apply for
full protection of their social
security rights, James B.
Marley, district manager of the
Austin social security office
said today. If disabled people
wait until after June 30, they
run the risk of losing their
social security benefits.
Marley explained that disabled
people, besides being so dis-
abled they are not expected to
be able to do any kind of sub-
stantial work for a long and
indefinite period, must have
All those interested should be of the three years just before
present. Time is growing short they became disabled.
with lots of work and planning By filing on or before June 30,
necessary. Many of the commit- the social security record can
tees still need more help. be protected back to the time a
This year’s 11th Annual person became disabled. If he
Watermelon Festival is set for is unable to work when he
Athletics will play Dripping
Springs in Elgin. This game
will also start at 8:00 p.m.
In the last meeting of these
two teams Elgin won a 2-1
decision
The Elgin American Legion
team, under the coaching of
James Lyda have a tough job
ahead meeting all three of the
Austin schools teams in the
next few days. Although they
dropped their first two games
by rather large scores, the
Legion team has been bolstered
by the return of Harry Krenek-
and several others who should
aid the club quite a bit.
Friday night, June 20, the
Legion will play Travis High
School of Austin in Elgin at
8:00 p.m. Monday night , June
What will it take to arrouse Elgin people to a recognition of
the basic fact that communities do not just coast along (like
most local minds) without change. They either progress-or
they deteriorate, they move up-or down. In a business sense,
Elgin is slipping, it lacks ‘‘guts’ or the will to go ahead.
And, while business and civic leaders berate us for such
bold and rash remarks, real estate values slip down grad-
ually but certainly, local business establishments become
worth less each year and budgets for local improvements
keep shrinking.
23rd, they will take on Raymond Fidelis Class To Meet
Culp and Co. of Stephen Austin
High School of Austin at 8:00 The Fidelis Class of First
p.m. This game will also be Baptist Church will hold a bus-
in Elgin, and then again on iness and social meeting at the
Thursday night, June 26th, Church Thursday night, June 26.
Payments As Low As
$25 ft
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Three Elgin businessmen, ac-
companied by one from g
Granger, left this week for
Fairbanks, Alaska. They will
go northwest through Denver,
Colo., Billings, Mont. Calgery,
B. C. Edmundton and on to
Dawson Creek, B. C, There
they will begin on the Alaska
highway on to Fairbanks. They
also plan to visit Anchorage and 6
Juneau.
On their return trip they will
go East from Edmundton to
Regina, Sask, and on down g
through the Black Hills of North
and South Dakota.
Those making the trip will be
Albert Mikulencak, Albert Mik- e
ulencak Jr., Joe Simon all from
Elgin and Bernard Mikulencak
from Granger.
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Bredlow, Robert L. & Finch, Lena. Elgin Courier and Four County News (Elgin, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 19, 1958, newspaper, June 19, 1958; Elgin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1562350/m1/4/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Elgin Public Library.