The El Campo Citizen (El Campo, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, May 25, 1934 Page: 1 of 8
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ElCampo, Texas, Friday Morning, May 25, 1934
No. 7
SHERIFF WILLIS DIES SCHOOL TERM IN
MAN IN NEED OF CASH RUN OFF PRIMARY
STORES TQ CLOSE
TO BE HELD IN CO.
INHOUSTONHOSPITAL
NEXT SATURDAY WEDNESDAY MORN.
Campo High School.
Campo Municpal Band. undefi the
son, E. F. Earl and E. E. Machlan.
planned
wiches,) cakes and punch were served, lucky boy and sirl
on Saturdays. a fund to purchase a gold badge,
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Commissioner of Precinct No. 4, I for the curtain fund.
three base blow and Woods scor-
McKelvey quit the mound and
Supt. of El Campo Schools.
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CORRECTION
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are closing at 6:30 p.
days and 10:30 p. m.
EL CAMPO TROUNCES
BAY CITY OILERS IN
GAME HERE SUNDAY
GETS JOB WORKING
STREETS OF THE CITY
P. M. on week days and 10 P. M. on
Saturdays; while the grocery stores
Prof. K. E. Oberholtzer
Expresses Appreciation
The following letter front Mr. Ob-
Carrico, Frank O’Bier and Bob Hill.
All in all, if ' yu didn’t see the
play, You missed the time of your
erholtzer is self-explanatory and -fk
very much appreciated by The Citi-
zen.
The El Campo Citizen.
El Campo, Texas,
Dear Sir:
I want to take this means of ex-
pressing the appreciation of our fac-
COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT AND
COMMISSIONERS TO BE CMOS-
EN IN RUN-OFF.
and enthusiastic eating, a better time
couldn’t possibly have been had by
any Senior class in the past.
'After the banquet, the Juniors en-
which was presented to Mr. Willis
as a token of the affection of his
many friends.
On April 28 this year Mr. Willis
fas nominated by the White Man's
Umion Association for re-election.
The Citizen joins his many friends
in expressing their sincerest sympa-
thy to Mrs. Willis and son, Howard.
The El Campo Athletic Stadium was
officially opened last Sunday after-
noon, when the Bay City Oilers wer
guests of the El Campo Rice Birds.
The largest’ crowd which has been
seen at a base ball game in El Cam-
American Legion
Presents Awards to
Seventh Grade Pupils
EL CAMPO CLOSES
TODAY, FRIDAY
actot played his part splendidly.
Seventy Cents for
A Clothes Closet
‛gg7N2e5,0
pe
(Madeline Retor)
“We saved $9.30 when we made
the clothes closet,” said Hazel Sal-
ley„Lawson 4-H club bedroom dem-
re a consideration of it will
me thespport of the voters
m msehhag and aqBupor
To The Voters of
Precinct No. Four:
As a candidate for the office of
shelves and nalls, Mr. Sallen «
of this idea tor making the
and did a very good piece of
it is roomy enough to suit the
po was
Birds in
HISTORY OF EL CAMPO HIGH
RECEIVES DIPLOMAS.
AGAIN, THE LARGEST CLASS IN Chamber of Commerce.
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mA Azbill is now employ-
grepher in the offices of
figure it to cost was |10.00, and, of
course, I could not afford that.”
The wall board was taken off the
wall at the wall-apace i where the
closet was to be built. All that was
bought was lumber for the frame,
tion of the qualification of the can-
didates.mh... L ' •
ballots
as a result of their own conshaora-
Me town immediately.
Wshhe di
hhad be
survey of the pecan crop had been
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Stores Observing
New Closing Hours
The Dry Goods merchants are quite
happy about the success they are
having with the new store closing
time. <
The Stores of El Campo will be
Closed Wednesday, May 30th (Mem-
orial Day) In accordance with the
schedule of Holidays adopted by the
and Raymond Johnson,, son of
“Nobody But Nancy”
Presented By Faculty
The comedy entitled “Nobody But
Nancy” presented at the High School
auditorium last Friday evening was
enjoyed by an immense crowd. The
play was presented by members of
'the faculty, in order to raise money
Earl. Hamilton
Hancher.
Refreshments
• "he man walked in and starts tell-
$0 -is doleful tale, something like
stair bulk station, re-
। gain and managed
VIVID IMAGINATION AND PAN-
HANDLING CAUSES VISITOR TO
BECOME A RESIDENT FOR TIME
come to you with an appeal to take
part in the run-off primary of the
White Man's Union,’ which will be
held Saturday. .And if you can con-
sistently do so, I hope you will favor
me with your vote. This is the final
statement I shall make to you before
you cast your ballot, and I hope you
will earnestly consider what I have to
say to each of you.
After the fhrst primary was held
last month and it was determined
that a run-off primary’ would be nec-
essary to determine who should re-
present the people of Predinct No.
4, on the Commissioner’s/ Court, I
determined that on my part, there
would be no misleading reports cir-
cutated of underhanded methods us-
ed in an effort to secure the nomin-
ation of the White Man’s Union As-
soclatlon.’ I have sincerely conducted
just such a campaign. I felt that a
campaign conducted fairly and with
no mud-slinging would give the peo-
ple of the precinct a better opportun-
ity to judge between me and my
Next Saturday, May 26th, is the day
set for the Run-Off Primary of the
White Man’s nion Association in
Wharton County.
In this Precinct, No. 4, the voters
will be called on to choose between
Miss Minnie Mae Hopper, present
Incumbent, and Mr. J. F. Beal for
their County School Superintendent
, for the next term. -Also they will
। choose their County Commissioner,
[ between Frank G. Bard, present in-
I cumbent, and Clarence Ellwood.
, In Precinct No. 2, a run-off will
be held between Dili and Novosad,
for Commissoner of that precinct;
Dill, the present incumbent was beat-
, en in the first primary, but when
he contested the results, Novosad
agreed that the matter should be set-
’ tled in the run-off primary next Sat-
:urday. 1 ■ IisGiEg
it is the duty of every qualified
It is reported that this is not only made and that from all indications,
the largest class, but the best, most prospects are good for the best pe-
studious group of young people ever can crop ever harvested in Wharton
to graduate. The Seniors have had Couny.
RICE BIRDS GREET THE HOME
FOLKS IN NEW STADIUM BY
TURNING IN 11-0 WIN.
The dose of the 1933-34 school
year is here, and the largest group
of young men and women ever to
of delicious sand- and Mrs. Arthur Johnson.
finish, are gradvating from the El Tuesday. He reporteed that an early
present to greet the"Rfbe
Nancy just had to get married.
Nothing else could solve her problem.
She had three men on the string—
oh what a time Nancy had. Even
the old bachelor said he couldn’t
marry her because she was too wild
for him.
The actOrs of the play were:
Mrs. Louie Franke, Mrs. Makeever.
Mrs. Rich. Miss Poch, Miss James.
Rev. J. K. Beery. Other ministers
participating in the services were
Rev. Gunberg and Rev. Carrier.
C. W. Yost was in charge of the
musical numbers with Mrs. J. S.
Morris as pianist.
Another- gala affair was enjoyed
Wednesday evening when the Senior
mothers entertained the Senior class
awuning poor want me jumors , "
wefs Gtaging a dance honoring their An error was made in last week’s
_ Seaton: aha the Seniors issue. It was stated that Mrs. N A.
who ware not born with a tantastle Stuart would present her students in
toe went to the home of Mrs. Ath a Recital on June 3rdi the date is
Carville where a lovely Nawn party 'June 1st. at 8 p. m. at the Presby-
L enjoyed wiemmeeeniormo-terianchuroh.
Miss Forge, Mr. Oberholtzer, Mr.
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His next stop, of which we have
learned was at about 7:45 at an of-
fice in the west part of our city.
The office was occupied by two
young ladies who were dong some
office work.
.The gentleman visitor vrore a dol-
lar hat, supposed to be white, valued
at |6.00, a pair of dingy blue over-
alls, and a shirt mostly patches. To
add a touch of dress and color to his
traveling suit, he wore a scarf about
his neck—a combination of a red
bandana and a white handkerchief.
Truitt took up the job for the Oilers.
Naiser singled scoring Smalley, Com-
stock singled, each advanced on a
fielder's choice by Noles and scored
when Macura hit one down the third
base line for two bases: Lykke went
out to first.
The Rice Birds made two more
runs in the seventh when Bates,
who replaced Noles, got on thru an
error by A. White: Nairn singled and
both men scored on Woods double;
Roach, who replaced Smalley got a
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we must mention the heavy feasting
in which all participated in a Ibig
way. As per usual, not a slacker.
Prospects are Good for
A Large Pecan Crop
Mr. J. O. Graham, the Wharton
County Agent, was in El Campo
ulty, and my personal appreciation a
for the manner in which you haveed:
This gives the merchants and their
clerks a few hours for daylight recre-
ation. Since the stores open at 7
a. m., this gives the shoppers eleven
hours in which 'to make their pur-
chases and also makes eleven long
hours of work for the merchants and
their clerks.
A leader, and then some coopera-
tion, is all that our city needs to put
over such worthy changes as this.
It is hoped. that these store hours
may be observed by all places of
business at all times in the future.
voter in the County tq go to the polls
next Saturday and cast a ballot,
and naturally you wll vote for the
person who ban best serve the inter-
ests of the County, in your judgment.
Just because there are only a few
candidates in this run-off is no reas-
on why you should neglect to vote.
Starting last Monday, all the Dry
--oods Stores of our city closed at 6
onstrator. "The one we made cost ___
A 2 ■ F rom”
exactly 70 cents, andir we had used a hug
all new materials, the least we could
John Cochran Willis, 58, sheriff of
Wharton County, who went to Hous-
ton the early part of the month for
medical treatment, died at 11:55 a. m.
Wednesday in Turner Hospital.
At the time of his death he was
serving his third, term as sheriff of
Wharton County and recently had
been re-elected to that office.
He is survived by his wife: one son,
Howard Willis of Wharton, three sis-
ters, Mrs R. A. Armstrong of Austin,
Mrs. M. J. Millican of Bay City,. Mrs.
E. F, Belisle of Houston, and one
brother, L. R. Willis, also of Whar-
ton.
Funeral services were held Thurs-
day at 5 p. m. at the Episcopal church
in Wharton under the direction of
the Ira Broughton Funeral Home.
Rev. L. R. Goodrich and Rev. Mr.
Knox officiated. Burial, was in the
Wharton Cemetery.
Active pallbearers were E. J. Koehl,
Carl Sebrict. W. W. Pittman of
Wharton, Hester Clapp and Sam
Clapp of El Campo, and Dick Heynle
of Glen Flora.
J. C. Willis was one of the most
popular men ever to serve this cown-
ty as sheriff. He was elected four
years ago when A. H. Reitz, sheriff
at that time, resigned to settle an es-
tate of a brother who was accident-
ally killed.
Mr. Willis served the balance o
the term wth such credit that he was
re-elected. Shortly after his election
to serve his first full term, friends
in Matagorda County who had known
Mr. Willis during the early years of
his life, presented him a pearl-hand-
led revolver. Last year many friends
in Wharton County subscribed to
, The Sam R. Craig Post of the
A program of cleverly planned American Legion awardea a medal
mock examinations- and commence- to the boy and gir or th, sevesth
ment exercises and diploma awards arade ratin . highes-
was found to be unusually entertain- The American Legion ali par .
ing
of the State, are makiny awards of
Then, on May 4th, the Seniors this type to the 7 sradt pp Is o
were highly complimented by the their scheols. This is the dirst time
large crowd attending their play, en- our local post nas attempted a thing
titled ‘The Adventures of Grandpa,” of this kind. However, they antict-
The Play was excellently presented pate doing so every year in the fu-
by a well ehostn cast. Between acts ture
their new home. The
the graduation days did not really nold Reber, post commander of
begin until last week when the sen- the Sam R. Craig Post of the Am.
iors accompanied by their faculty Legion. In the presence of Lonnie
sponsors, motored to Palacios for Glaze, and Frank Rod, members of
an all day picnic on the beach. Swim- the committee for this purpose.
ming, sunning, lounging on the sea-' Celeste and Raymond were quite
shore and various other pastimes happy, and indeed they have reason
were enjoyed, and last but not least, to be both happy and proud.
There will be an ice cream eo-
cial and May Dangcarnival given on
the P C. ewen lawn the evsntag of
h»4i #be used to band
after which games were enjoyed. The They are to be congratulated: it
parents of the honor guests assisted is indeed an honor to receive this
Mrs. Hancher in serving. (distinction in such a large class.
However, the true excitement of The awards wore presented by Ar-
life. It was interesting and each
HAD GONE TO HOSPITAL FOR
TREATMENT EARLY IN THIS
MONTH; FUNERAL THURSDAY.
Myers New Grocery
To Open on June 2nd
Mr. M. Meyer has just about clos-
ed out his stock of dry goods, and
everyone around there is very busy
in transforming their store into a
first class grocery store, which line
of business they will follow exclus-
ively in the future.
It is the intention of Mr. Meyer to
operate one of the best grocery stores
in this part of the country, and the
fixtures he will add and the stock of
goods he will carry will carry' but
this idea. Watch for his opening
announcement which will appear in
the near future. He Intends to open
this new place of business June 2nd.
and will have many inducements for
you to call on him that day.
.
NOTICE
the audience enjoyed hearing Hester This award has made the seventh ' held his old team mates to four seat-
Carrier sin;., and Walter Presley tap- grade boys and girls just a little more tered base knocks and walked three
dance- studious, a little more auentise and : men. The only time he was ever, in
- On- May loth. Mrs. Hancher on- from all indications has made them 1 the least trouble was in the fourth
tertained the members of the class hetter pupils, collectively speakinginning, when he walked the first
with a garden party and tea. The The teachers and the entire mem-two men to face 1iim, and they ad-
guests of honor were Crace Smith, bership of the Seventh Grade select- , vancod a base on an error "Nookie"
Bernice Morton. Lucille Boyd, Fran- ed the boy and girl whom they then proceeded to take the situation
cis Stallworth and Charles Benner, thought most worthy of receiving the in hand and strike out the next three
Roll Kent, Charlie Naiser, Kinnear award. Celeste Whiteside, daughter i batters. We don't know why he will
of 1934 and the entire faculty with a
banquet at the High School. I A..I R....
The study hall and library were ar- —ocan Boys Enjoy
tistically bedecked with silver bas-; Visit to Mexico
kets of red roses and Quen Anne’s E... .. ~~ ,
. .0. ... Each year some class or group
lace. The red tapers in silver can- .. - .. , . . . , ,
„ . . . ... „ .. , from the Agricultural pud Industrial
die holders and the silver baskets of C,1. . v, , ,
_ ... college in Kingsville is honored with
red roses and Queen Anne s lace lin- „ ... . A ,
. 1 , a trp to Old Mexico.
ed the tables. A sumptuous chicken , It has been learned that one of the
dinner, with all its trimming, was BlOlogy classes enjoyed the tr this
served. The guests were duly and year. Two of our local boys were
hi ariowsl announeed by the bes of members of this class, namely Mal-
the bWt English Butlers, Hamilton colm and Drew Mayfield. ’ •
Machlav- I The weekend was enjoyed im-
From:ali reports the Banquet was mensely and the that
— excellent and never before have they seen such
entertaining program was presented magnificent scenery. The hotei fa-
and JZing by the reports and the cilities were excellent and the natives
varlous commnents, merry laughter of Mexico treated the
roup royally.
One seldom thiks’of Mexico having
beautiful scenery and expects nothing
of the sort when going there, so they
M . . . . 2 , _ are always shocked to find such beau-
“ tertained..tn a dual way. The Sen- ty as may be seen around Monterey.
tors inclmed to bo lovers of music.
Mr. before this year and to treat his old
moonlight and romance, went to the
Swimming pool where the Juniors
of any bedroom. : T j _
Mrs. Salley sald. "I thought we di4 worthy
was found in our Senior class.
From all reports, a most happy day
was enjoyed at Palacios.
The Baccalaureate services were
held in the High School Auditorium
Sunday morning, May 20th,. The
parents, relative? and friends of the
graduates attended the beautiful -and
impressive ceremony. Every seat in
the auditorium was filled. The Bac-
calaureate address was delivered by
The Rice Birds won the bull game
jn the very first inning, just to show
the home folks that they had a ball
club this year. Smalley. first man
not have epqugh space in th* room
for a closet, but wo really liave more
room as we have pat so many shings
the closet." tad -• 2dN ’
Any giri or hoyskile womdqbe
quite an eventful closing of school
calendar.
On April 30th, te Seniors were
royally entertained by Mesdames L.
O. Lundy, P. A’ Lundy, Mattie Hud- i
nu on we e
up-Ot a two-base. hit. L. Naiser, fol
Towed with a single; Comstock slap-
ped a hard hit ball, through the
short -stop's legs and Smalley and
Naiser scored: Noles hit safely but
was thrown out trying to steal sec-
ond. Comstock held third. Macura
struck out; Lykke walked: Comstock
scored on error by catcher, Lykke
going to second: Blezek singled scor-
| ing Lykke: Nairn went out second to
first.
McKelvey settled down .niter that
first inning and the Rice Birds did
not score again until the sth inning,
when five runs were made from six
hits. Lykke, first up, went out third
to first. Blazek walked. Nairn singled,
and each scored when Woods poled
one for three bases; Smalley hit one
over the center fielder's head for
our tair city, too. He was given a oponent, and so cast their
private room id the Clappshac4 cal-
were the team-mates that way just doesn’t
| seem hardly right somehow
Machlan and John of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Whiteside, do these things, but it has happened
contributed to the publicity of dir-
ferent school activities during the
past year. Our relations have always
been quite pleasant, and I assure
you that we are grateful for your
kind cooperation. I am,
Sincerely yours.
K. E. Oberholtzer.
.During my service as your Com-
miseloner, I have tried to represent
do for an hour later the people ‘of the precinct honestly
somewhere and eftlolently. My "tecord to open
“ "ie people of the County and I
A visitor of would-be great Im-
portance made his arrival "by truck”
in El Campo Tuesday evening. He
informed the people of our city that
his mother is the stater of our pres-
ent Governor Ferguson; also that
his brother was Sheriff J. B. Ar-
nold of Beeville, and that Ted Bish-
op of Beeville was also a brother.
Another brother who is quite well
to do is the only Lincoln dealer in
San Antonio, and now as a final
bit of information, we might add
that his name is Robert Butler, Phone
68, of Gonzales, Texas.
He arrives in our fair little city
at about 4 p. m. Since the Mag-
nolia Bulk Station was so easy for
him to see on his journey, he stop-
ped and called on the manager there.
He reported that he managed for
“two bits” there with which to buy
food for he and his family.
recton of Prof. G Martno, gave a
thirty minute concert before the
game started, and bv three-thirty,
when the game was called, the grand
stand was rmt to eve "lowihg and
cars lined the first and third base
lines to the extent of the playing
1 field.;
The Ricd Birds rv1 the strongest
line-up of the >enrt reet the Oil-
urs, and they gave them a warm
• neof : and te homs folks a treat ■
by turning in an eleven to nothing
I victory.
"Nookie" Woods, last year with
the Bay City Oih-rs. was on the
mound for the Rice Birds. and he
"Ladies, I’m certainly in need of
just enough money to buy a gallon
of gasoline. I have two truck loads
of vegetables that I’m trying to sell.
I’m out of gas and thought maybe
you might help me get some. I’m
telling you, there’ll be no more plant-
ng of onions and potatoes on my
farm, all I want, is to get home. My
wife and children are waiting at the
truck for me and my boy came in
with me to try to get some gw.” B}
the way the ladies looked for the
boy but he wasn’t around. The man
tarried on as follows:
“Ladies, I’ll leave my >6.00 hat
here if you’ll only help me get 18
cents to buy some gasoline. I'll re-
pay you in the morning: I’ll just
bring down my trucks and load off
all my vegetables; you might as well
move out all the fixtures, cause I’m
leaving ’em all with you. If there
ain’t room, we’re a gonna’ make
room.”
Finally he took off his hat and
insisted on leaving it as a deposit
for the 18 cents he needed so badly.
After considerably more conversa-
‘ tion the ladies gave the man some
money and he left. He went to Leo
Richardson’s store and told the same
tale and ended by wanting to pur-
chase a 35 cent harmonica for 5 cents
His next stop was at the Mayfield
Hotel; same tale all over again with
juet more emphasis on the fact that
. ’’there'll be no more taters and on-
2 ions on my farm.”
i , Sam Clapp, who had been re-
c quested to go to the Hotel and talk
with the noted visitor, finally asked
I him where he was going to sleep
2 tonight. "Ob, out there on top of
t my truck." Sam then asked if he
K wouldn’t rather sleep in a good
m comfortable bed. Naturally he had
■L for he had also informed the people
■tar the city that he always slept in
SMheeest hotels. Well, so he did in
"A areI
mpmhri 29 707, . 9, 3 *
Laboose- i-
Wednesday morning, when he was
dhped ioose, he was Hnetrueted to
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