The Fairfield Recorder (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 26, 1937 Page: 2 of 8
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PAGE TWO
THE FAIRFIELD RECORDER. FAIRFIELD. TEXAS AUGUST 26, 1937
By P. L>. BROWNE
The mother of my three children
was in need of some relaxation from
the care of four dependents. So she
suggested that 1, the oldest of the
four, leave town for a few days.
My friend, W. F. Tate, having pro-
vided for himself a modest sinking
fund for his intellectual broadening
through travel, was nibbling at the
idea of going somewhere.
We agreed on the time and the
itinerary and. not having the courage
to back out on each other at the last
minute, were under way for a favor-
able take off ten minutes ahead of
schedule. The journey was to include
Newr Orleans, Vicksburg and places of
interest en route. Our cash supply-
arid clothes were limited to the pros-
pects of sojourning by night in
tourists’ camps.
Our slogan was, “new scenery and
no backtracking.” By right of indi-
rect property ownership, mine was
the place at the wheel, while Mr. I
Tate was to act as navigator and |
relief pilot. The getaway was auspi-
cious, the weather fair with visibility
unlimited, and the course south by-
east.
Mile after mile sped by as East
Texas presented her beauty spots
and her other places that were just
spots. There were thunder showers to !
eastward and sometimes in front,
cooling the air but never dampening
our spirits.
Sundown came and we were in
Beaumont trying to find the way-
out and experiencing difficulty- stay-
ing north of the railroad. At last
we properly oriented ourselves and
were off for Orange, expressing sym-
pathy for the frogs and alligators in
the nearby swamps, and congratulat-
ing ourselves that we lived above such
environment.
Night brought consideration of eat-
ing supper and finding sleeping quar-
ters this side of the Sabine River,
but somehow the City of Orange got
lost temporarily and we were cross-
ing the bridge into Louisana where
turning space was too far down the
road.
Eight-thirty post meridian found
us just outside Lake Charles, stopped
by one of these draw-bridges that
splits in the middle and rears up
like a trench mortar shooting at
the moon. Search for acceptable
tourists' cabins proved futile here as
elsewhere in Iiouisiuna. But the
navigator’s gentle persuasiveness and
personal charm stood us in good
stead; he gained ihe consent of she
night clerk in the Charleston Hotel
to give us a night’s lodging for a
sum.
A good night's rest fitted us for
further travel, and the next morning,
reasonably early, we were off for
New Orleans. Mr. Tate was proving
himself an excellent and most ami-
able traveling compani n. lie was
buoyant and gay without boisterous-
ness. Notwithstanding all these
admirable traits, he was wont to be
a trifle critical of my chauffeuring,
raying something abcut parking in
the middle of the highway and not
allowing some fellows rolling wheel-
barrows to pass. I^ater. he ‘■poke of
my inefficiency at reading highway-
signs, suggesting that I was a devoid
of pathfinding ability as the hogs in
Hardin County are free from lat.
Consequently, he took over the con-
trols, leaving me, now second In com-
mand, to absorb scenery. And what
scenery! Huge rice mills and cane
milling concerns, not much cotton,
but hundreds of acres of good corn
and thousands upon thousands of
acres of the most luxuriant sugar cane
my- eyes ever beheld. Ami there were
flowers and trees, gigantic liveoaks,
draped an I festooned everywhere
with silvery Spanish moss.
There were plantation homes, too,
picturesque as any movie scene, old.
stately, billowed by memories and
romance, inviting and intriguing.
Near IVuiklin, La., we went three
miles ii >rt.li of the highway to see
Oaklawn Manor, buiit in 1827. The
park; and grounds were landscaped
origin illy by a French architect to
resemble Vcisuilles. Wei kept lawns,
great liveoaks drooping with moss, a
lagoon and m gard n .rrounded a
most in a jest ii two-story white brick
mansion (iontoil with ix massive
column...
Early in the afternoon of the sec-
ond day ve weie iii New Orleaii-, on
Canal Sir.-I, and down ty tin riv-
erside, idinii mg Me nigh') lul tei
of Wale. . bile Mr Tate explain-
ed that to new understood what kept
(be A I la el a Mi ill full the V) i
ijipi Kina , flowing in' it
Inb ii si mti m plot at urn .11, wed
sight.at mg a boo I tin (/hi Klein b
Mattel snd Quilt-is, sl ips unloading
<sigo, mliinmllle-w al l /Id * atbolo
cemeteries. Then we got lost, sunk
in a city that we couldn’t find for
the houses.
Every- where wealth and poverty,
pride and shame, comfort and misery,
virture and vice, the old and the new,
mixed and mingled, lived, worked,
walked side by side. There were
peculiar faces, strange races, a bab-
ble and chatter of foreign tongues.
It seemed as though some of all the
peoples of the earth had been dump-
ed into one cosmopolitan area. My
worthy companion inquired of me
whether we might find some sure
enough Americans. I didn’t know.
The second night brought on the
second sleeping problem. Hotel prices
were too high for poor boys, and
some of the desk clerks, after look-
ing at our none too attractive at-
tire, refused even to make us a price
1 for lodging. Later, we discovered a
large building that wore an unlight-
ed hotel sign. Imagine our chagrin
j when we treid to get a room and
| were informed that it was not now a
hotel but a nurses' home of the
Charity Hospital.
One way streets added to our con-
fusion and to our miles traveled
about that city. We were getting
hungry, tired and disgusted. And
there was talk of leaving the city-
cold that very night. Then it was that
Mr. Tate, in one final thrust, gath-
ered about him his most superb and
compelling manners and succeeded in
engaging us a room for the night.
Funny sight, indeed, we made wear-
ing our one dollar trousers through
a big hotel lobby into a five dollar
rnnm
Wednesday morning brought us re-
newed vigor and a whetted appetite
for sightseeing. We invaded the Old
Absinthe House, built in 1752, and
made famous by the patronage of
Jean Lafitte and his pirates. Mr.
Tate didn't want to push himself in-
to the place without buying some-
thing (in his thinking a cash custo-
mer is the most welcome guest.) Not
wishing to risk an absinthe frappe, he
inquired about a cigar. The atten-
dant's words were. “Keep moving."
But my friend's sudden fear was out
of place. The clerk wasn't ordering
him out, merely stating the name of
a special brand of cigars.
A short drive brought us to the
Chalmette battlefield, where Andrew
Jackson, with the aid of Lafitte's buc-
caneers, administered to the British
General Pakenham a monumental de-
feat during the War of 1812. The
monument there is much older than
Mr. Tate surmissed, but he reserves
the right personally to relate his
error.
The Cabildo, seat of French and
Spanish Colonial Governments, where
seventeen states were added to the
union, now perhaps the greatest mu-
seum in the United tates, challen-
ged our interests and attention as
nothing else could have. Built in
1795, this memoryy-hauntod old
structure held more than we had
time to see or could comprehend.
Next followed the feast of beauty
in Audubon Park and on the campus
of Loyola University, and we were
off for Baton Rouge.
Here in the capital city of Louisana
we inspected the second of Huey P.
Long’s great monuments. The first
had been the marvelous bridge at
New Orleans, now it was the capitol
building. Words fail to describe the
artistic and architectural beauty of
this building. At least my words fail.
On the road to Vicksburg we edged
the Homochitto National Forest, mar-
velled at the old plantation mansions
around Natchez, and visited Spring-
field, the plantation home where An-
drew Jackson married Rachel Ro-
bards in 1791. Not far away is the
marker on the Natchez Trace, near
where Aaron Burr was captured be-
fore his trial for treason.
During a lunch period at Port
Gibson, a slightly- inebriated intellec-
tual suggested that my companion
seemed deticent Mr Tate, quiek to
resent an insinuation, showed spirited
resentment until an explanation of
"reticent’’ assured him that he was
thought to be reserved in speech and
modestly retiring by nature.
At Vicksburg, our interests were
in the National Military Park and
• emetery. This Park of 1822 acres
is the otc ol the snge and defense of
Vicksburg in 1863, which battle, to-
gether with that at Gettysburg, mark-
ed the beginning of the end of the
Southern f'olifedei ary. We felt that 1
we were on hullowed ground as we
'ood withn the salient angle ol me j
old railroad redoubt, where Krei .
-tulle ( unt) hoy of * aplaiii Iliad
ley'. ( omijiuo) won farm- r i ip'ur.
mg a strategic |> -11ion lost cailici
ill the day of May 22
Nigt day v.. vo.iid the alU of tie
a' ./ field of ’<Jai field where u'l.i i
SHOWER HONORING
MRS. EVERETT HARRISON
Mrs. Fred Richardson entertained
last Saturday afternoon, August 21,
with a miscellaneous shower given in
honor of Mrs. Everett Harrison who
was the former Miss Martha Chavers.
The color scheme was beautifully
carried out in pink and white decora-
tions.
After all the guests had arrived
and registered in the bride’s book the
following program was rendered:
“A Toast to the Bride—Mildred
Richardson.
"Pinning the Apron on the Cook”—
A contest which was won by Mrs. A.
E. Stroud.
Reading—Doris Faye Ivy.
Contest—Won by Mrs. E. P.
Hughes, Jr.
Reading—Roger Dale Anderson.
Mrs. Harrison received many love-
ly- and useful gifts, and after they
had been admired by all she gracious-
ly thanked everyone for the many
gifts and good wishes.
Fifty guests were served with
pimiento cheese and chicken sand-
wiches and iced tea.—A Guest.
AND HOW!
A girl may wear a golf skirt and
never play golf, or wear a bathing
suit and never go near the water, but
when she puts on a wedding gown,
boys, she means business.
For years the two sexes have been
racing for supremacy. Now they have
settled down to neck and neck.
“My wife came in very late last
night, explaining that she had spent
the evening with her friend, Cora.
“But she did not look me in the
nUn coll) If
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“But what could I say, coming in
but a few moments before, after hav-
ing spent the evening myself with
Cora?"
The law today attempts to curb
primitive cave man instincts of man
to take what he wants wherever he
finds it and kill his enemies, but
here again the wits step in. The man
with the smartest lawyer gets away
with it and goes back to his cave the
victor.
In six years Brazil has burned 45,-
000,000 bags of coffee to keep down
the surplus.
Freestone County boys fought in
1864.
On Friday morning we «ers in his-
toric old Natchitoches, oldest town in
the Louisiana Purchase, made famous
in history and fiction by the exploits
of that intrepid Frenchman, Lotus
Juchereau de Saint Denis.
Places of interest in Nacogdoches
claimed but little of our time. Our
vacation jaunt, as scheduled, had con-
sumed its allotted time, and Mr. Tate
felt that Fairfield must in dire need
of his immediate return.
NOTICE
The State of Texas, County of Free-
stone.
To those indebted to, or holding
claims against the Estate of C. H
Watson, deceased:
The undersigned having been duly
appointed administratrix with the
will annexed of the Estate of C. H.
Watson, deceased, late of FVeestone,
County, Texas, by A. H. Benbrook,
Judge of the County Court of said
County, on the 9th day of August,
A. D. 1937, at a regular term there-
of for probate matters, hereby noti-
fies all persons indebted to said es-
tate, to come forward and make
settlement, and those having claims
against said estate to present them
to her within the time prescribed by
law at her residence at Steward Mill,
in Freestone County, Texas. Any
claim mailed to her should be ad-
dressed to her at Street man, Texas,
Route 2.
MRS. AVA WATSON,
Administratrix with the will annex-
ed of the Estate of C. H. Watsoon,
deceased.
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That’s the sensible way —
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Bold In 25-cent packages.
CITATION
The State of Texas. To the Sheriff or
any Constable of Freestone Coun-
ty—Greeting:
You are hereby commanded to sum-
mon the unknown heirs, assigns and
legal representatives of J. H. Ran-
dolph, deceased, and each and all
persons owning or claiming an in-
terest in and to the hereinafter des-
cribed land by making publication of
this citation once each week for three
consecutive weeks previous to the re-
turn day hereof, in some news-
paper published in your county, to
appear at the next regular term of
the 87th District Court of Freestone
County, Texas, to be holden at the
courthouse of said county, in the
town of Fail-field, Texas, on the first
Monday in October, A. D. 1937, same
being the 4th day of October, 1937,
then and there to answer a petition
filed in said Court on the 18th day of
Aug., A. D. 1937, and all other inter-
vening pleas that may be filed, in a
suit numbered on the docket of said
court as number 1049-B, wherein the
State of Texas is plaintiff and the
Buffalo Independent School District,
Mrs. J. H. Randolph, the Trent State
Bank, the unknown heirs, assigns and
legal representatives of J. H. Ran-
dolph, deceased, and each and all
other persons owning or claiming an
interest in and to the hereinafter des-
cribed land, are defendants and said
petition alleging:
That said defendants are indebted
to and due plaintiff the total sum of
one hundred sixty-three dollars and
ninety-four cents ($163.94) for taxes,
interest, penalties, and costs of which
said sum forty-nine dollars and forty-
three cents, ($49.43) for State taxes
and eighty dollars and fifty-three
cents ($80.53) for county taxes, due
and unpaid on the following described
land situated in Freestone County,
Texas, to-wit: Being 160 acres of
the, J. H. Harrison survey, abstract
No. 709 of Freestone County, Texas,
being the same tract of land on said
survey as described in a deed from
W. J. Barnes et ux to J. H. Randolph
recorded in Vol. 76, page 546 of the
deed records of said Freestone Coun-
ty, Texas, first tract.
Second tract: Being 160 acres of
the J. H. Randolph survey abstract
No. 734 of said Freestone County,
Texas, being same tract nf land on
said survey as described in said deed
state and county taxes and for all
from W. J. Barnes et ux to J. H. Ran-
dolph, recorded in said Vol. 76, page
546, deed records of said Freestone
County, Texas, and plaintiff praying
for judgment against said defend-
ants for the total sum hereinabove
mentioned, same being for the said
interest, penalties, and costs allow-
ed by law to be taxed, and plaintiff
further praying that its lien against
said land be in all things fore-
closed to satisfy said taxes, penal-
ties, interest, and costs, for order of
sale, for writ of possession, for court
costs and for all general and special
relief. '
Herein fail not, and have you
then and there before said ■
the first day of the next tern’ h j
of. this writ, with your return thi
on, showing how you have ex„ J
the same. T
Given under my hand and ,a
said court, at office in Fairfield
the County of Freestone, .
Texas, this the 18th day of \ , I
A. D. 1937. ,u<
3t A 19 J-H. HARDING, d,rk I
District Court, Freestone Co., rj
Bluing spots on white clothing
be removed by boiling in clea- \
ter.
What Is Balanced Bank Relationship?
Bank service that functions perfectly in all de-
partments as patrons may require.
Service without guesswork.
A relationship that gives both bank and patron a
workable understanding based upon frankness and
co-operation.
You are entitled to that sort of banking association
KET IT
Fairfield State Bank
Safe . . . because it's sound
BLACK-DRAUGHT
A GOOD LAXATIVE
Westminster College
Increases Its Facilities
In order to meet the demands of the modern busi-
ness world, Westminster College at Tehuacana,
Texas, has installed a complete commercial depart-
ment for the coming school year, so that young men
and women who plan to enter the highly competitive
field of business may be able to receive training in
commercial work as well as the benefits of the regu-
lar cultural college courses. Thus, graduates will be
in a position to advance more rapidly in their chosen
field. If a student desires to continue his commercial
training in a senior college and receive a Bachelor of
Business Administration degree, he may do so with-
out the loss of any time or work.
In addition to the new business administration
department, students may receive two years training
leading toward degrees in liberal arts work, bachelor
of science in education, bachelor of science in ele-
mentary education, law, and journalism as well as pre-
paratory work for medicine, home economics, and en-
gineering.
With regular buses operating to the college from
your community, students can live at home while do-
ing their college work. In this manner, a great deal
of the heavy expense of a college education is avoid-
ed. With the remodeled classrooms, reception room,
laboratories, library, and other facilities, the college
is well prepared to give each young man or woman
thorough training in a delightful collegiate atmos-
phere.
If interested write to the registrar
RUSSELL I. JOHNS
Westminster College
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Kirgan, Lee. The Fairfield Recorder (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 26, 1937, newspaper, August 26, 1937; Fairfield, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1119876/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fairfield Library.