The Fairfield Recorder (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, June 15, 1928 Page: 4 of 8
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THE FAIRFIELD RECORDER, FAIRFIELD, TEXAS, JUNE IS, 19SS.
The Fairfield Recorder
The County Paper
Kntvred a* kvcotui class mail matter at the I'ustuffice at Fairfield, Tex-
an, under Act of March 6, 1879.
i* c. kir<;an & son
8A0IE KIBGAN
ELIZABETH WATSON
.........Publi.hers
.............. Editor
Local Ke(Kirter
Subscription Rati* In Texas— 1 year $1.50; 6 nio». 75c; 3 mos. 50c.
In other States l yeur $3.00; 0 months $1.00, 3 month* 75c. Ua*h In
advance.
Trihutei of Ke.xpect, Obituaries, and Cards of Thanks, 1 cent a word.
Privilcfc. if omitting all poetry reserved by this paper.
Any erroneous reflections upon the character, standing or reputation of
any person, firm or corporation which niay appear in the columns of The
Recorder will hi gladly corrected upon its being brought to the attention
of the publisher.
FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1928.
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BOl.'Ql ETS TO THE LIVING I AH’RECIATES BAYLOR NOW
Naturally, i great number of There can no longer Le any doubt
newspapers come to our exchange ta- that Waco appreciates Baylor Uni-
b!e«, country newspapers and the bifiV "ersity. Citizens expressed this ap-
dailii s B> side* these. we sub- preciation several days ago in a
scrib and puy for a number of campaign to raise $350,000 of the
natioriul papers and magazines >1,000,000 Waco promised to give
perhaps we subscribe and pay for the University over a period of sev-
more than the average well inform-
ed person in the community, be-
sidts getting a great number on the
exchange list. But what we want-
ed to say, is that of the many coun-
try papers that come to this office
one paper stands out as a splendid
example of good country journalism.
Tins is a paper published in a small
town and in u town that has never
had a railroad. We refer to The
Fairfield Recorder. It is a splendid
newspaper, well printed, edited,
everything about it looking away
above the average country newspa-
per, even though published in a
town several times the size of that
place.
en years in return for being allowed
to keep the institution. The cam
paign was ended, and Baylor citi-
zens not only subscribed the amount
pledge for the first campaign but
gave a total of $110,000, oversub-
scribing tneir quote, by $06,000.
A large number of citizens sub-
scribed money for the school, and
it is significant that the faculty
of the university were the largest
single subscribers, giving more than
$16,890.- -Denton Record-Chronicle.
The publisher of this paper is
saddened over the death of an old
friend, Mr. Fred Sims, who died last
We feel that this word of | Thursday at his home in Dawson. We
commendation is due such a worthy [can remember many acts of kind-
newspaper.—Normangee Star. ; ness received at the hands of Mr.
We thank you, Bro Star Editor, Sims, beginning back during our
for this expression of good will. It barefoot boyhood days, and extend-
is a pleasure to know that the press | ing on at different periods during
appreciates the efforts we are mak- the years. Mr. Sims was a man
ing to publish a real country news• | of exceptional fine qualities. He
paptr> [ was an active churchman, a strong
* . * supporter and advocate of educa-
tion. Quiet and unassuming in his
manners, he pursued his way doing
good wherever opportunity present-
ed. He was a Mason, and on all
occasions supported the tenets of
In commenting on a paragraph in
a recent issue of The Recorder an-
nouncing the losr of our local editor,
who had accepted a position to
teach journalism in the John E.
Bro ft College in Arkansas, The
Teagtte Chronicle handed our form-
er editor the following handsome
boui let, which is appreciated by all
hanm around:
"The compliments mentioned
abov5 were well deserved, for Miss
Kirgan possesses rare gifts ns a
writer and has since her childhood.
A finished training has added ma-
terially to her value as a writer and
that order. Summing up his virtues
in a few words, Mr. Sims possessed
those attributes "which after all
constitutes the real good roan.” In
his passing we are reminded of the
words of the Psalmist when he said;
“Precious in the sight of the Lord
is the death of his saints.”
the completed the work at the Mis-
souri School of Journalism, thus
Funds saved and deposited
will be a source of pleasure
to you from the beginning,
and will give a feeling of
independence that comes
to those who lay aside reg-
ularly from their earnings.
Let Our Bank Be Your
BANK
Fairfield State Bank
Fairfield, Tex at
OFFICERS i T. J. Hall, Pr*«.| C. H. WsU.a, Vl«*-
Ffm-i F. E. Hill, Jr, CmSIti C- L Childs, Aml Coikbri
K. F. GUmmt, AmI. CaskUr.
DIRECTORS i F. B. HOI, Si, H. A
Wibw, T. J. Hall, r K. HOI. Sr.
C. H.
LOOKING AHEAD FOR
NEXT FIFTY YEARS
A charge of the Rough Riders. Find the picture of an officer who
iatei became a President of the United States.
As Others See It
Great Minds
While you are on your vacation I never make the mistake of ar-
this summer look around. See for guing with people for whose opin-
yourself that there is no better place {ons I have no respect.—Gibbon,
to live in Texas or any where else It is great, and there is no other
than in Limestone and Freestone greatness—to make one nook of
counties. With splendid towns, God’s creation more fruitful, better,
fine schools, paved highways near .more worthy of God; to make some
completion, ideal climate, hospitable human heart a little wiser, manlier,
people, prosperous industries, good happier—more blessed, less ao-
transportation, friendly churches cursed.—Carlysle.
and steady prsperity the Bi-Stone
Empire cannot be excelled by any
It may make a difference to all
eternity whether we do right or
section of the country. There are wrong today.—Clarke,
good places to take vacation per- j xhe )aw of worthv iife is fun<ia.
iods, but the Bi-Stone Empire is j mentally the law of strife. It is
•he place l.ve. Remember that. on)y through labor and painful ef-
fort, • by grim energy and resolute
Mexia News.
per work. Gifted with a more or
less sentimental application of hu-
man activities, her writings carry a
all around mwspaper woman. She J high degree of human interest for
was never satisfied with anything I the everyday folks as well as other
hulf done. After finishing her j classes. Freestone? county is justly
liternry education while teaching be- | proud of Miss Sadie, and it is a
tween terms of attending school, pity that the meagre income to be
derived from the publication of any
newspaper in Freestone County
equipping herself for any position j would not be sufficient to justify
in connection w ith the editorial or I the continued services of one so cn-
reportorial departments of m-wspa-1 pable and deserving.”
The editor of a weekly newspa-
per in a distant, part of the state
draws a /cry accurate picture of a
type of citizen found in every com-
munity, both little and big. Here
is the description; “There is a cer-
tain type of man in every communi-
ty who poses as a good citizen. He
breaks no laws, lives morally, pays
his honest debts and is never tang-
led up with the law in any manner.
But he lives of himself and for him-
self exclusively. When the call Is
issued for volunteers to put across
a community movement and give a
boost, he never answers. When cal-
amity has befallen people in a cer-
tain locality and charity flies to the
rescue, he is never one of their num-
ber. When money is needed for a
public enterprise his name is never
on the list. When he sees some
neighbor stuck in the mud he de-
tours to avoid him. In fact, if he
stood on the shore and saw the ship
sinking, he would never offer to
throw out a line. And, if all man-
kind was fashioned from this kind
of chap, what would happen? There
would be no churches, no hospitals
for the sick, no institutions for the
unfortunute, no progress. If you
are about to become useless ‘good
citizen,’ read this editorial again.”
—Grand Junction, (Col.) Daily Sen-
tinel.
A couple of years ago a good but
peculiar old man got mad at an
item in this paper and ordered it
stopped. Since then we have met
him on the streets and he seemed
surprised that the paper is still run-
ning after he had ordered it stop-
ped. Some day that poor old man
will turn up his toes. His spiteful
old heart will be forever stilled, his
neighbors and relatives will lay him
to rest beneath a bank of flowers;
the poor pastor whom he never con-
tributed a dollar to, will pay a glow-
ing tribute to the dear departed.
Then e beautiful obituary will ap-
pear in this paper; dear wife, who
shared his joys and sorrows, will
send the darling boy for a copy of
the paper with papa’s obituary in
it, and between the leaves of the
old Bible it is placed to be read uy
his granchildren and great grand-
children, and he, poor man, lying
cold, stiff and dead, will never know
that the last kind word ever spoken
of him was by the editor of the pa-
per which in life he “stopped.” He
knew in life that he would not live
in a county that didn’t have a local
paper; he knew that the editor and
family were dependent on that lit-
tle paper for their daily bread, and
by hia act he tried to render them
paupers, but all, all forgotten;
grim desth has wiped out every
fault, end the editor left for his
posterity to read nothing but hie
"irtues.—Jewett Messenger.
courage, that we move on to bettc
things.—Theodore Roosevelt.
What we can do for another is
a test of powers; what we can suf-
fer for is the test of love.—Bishop
Westcott.
Divinity consists in use and prac-
tice, not in speculation.—Luther.
The worst sorrows in life are not
its losses and misfortunes, but its
fears.—Benson.
The nation that has the scnools
has the future.—-Besrr.3v?k.
New York.—Fifty years from
now, in the opinion of Sir Philip
Gibbs, British journalist and novel-
ist there will be—
No motor cars.
No restaurant*.
Perhaps no telephone or telegraph.
And maybe no newspapers.
By 1978 all this thing will be out
of date, he says in his new book.
“The Day After Tomorrow,” which
concerns conditions that will exist
a half century from now.
In 25 years, he predicts, the motor
car will be obsolete because by that
time the airplane will run around
on the ground as well as over it.
“The ordinary man will take thp
air as now he gets into a motor car,"
he writes. “The aerial highways
will be crowded with the traffic of
tourists, trippers, traders and per-
sons paying social visits to friends
and families hundreds of miles
Fifty years from now there will
be no restaurants, according to the
picture he envisions before his
typewriter as if it were a crystal
glass. He says there will be “no
public banquets of 17 courses to
poison the guests, no anxiety for
the young married woman who has
been advised to feed the brute.”
“There will be," he explains, “a
few bottle of A. B. C. or D. vita-
mins on the mantel shelf, from which
the family and friends will help
themselves—just a drop or two on a
dry biscuit—when their intellectual
activities call for a little refresh-
ment.” •
Thought transference or mental
telepathy, will be in use years from
now. It probably will have dis-
placed the telegraph and telephone,
he thinks, by 1978. He visualizes
the hard-working business man go-
ing into a darkened room, where
he can concentrate, and establish-
ing mental communication with a
client or a prospect in another coun-
try, thousands of miles away.
LOCAL LEAGUE HONORED
IN MEETINC OF LEAGUES
IN TEXAS CONFERENCE
Each of the ten districts in the
Texas Conference were represented
at the Seventh Annual Summer As-
sembly of the Texas conference Ep-
worth League held in Jacksonville,
June 2-9. The three leagues of the
Marlin District sending representa-
tives were, Marlin 8enior, Hearne
Epworth Hi. and Fairfield Senior.
This District retained her same
District Secretary, H. E. Kelly of
Reagan, and secured Miss Grayse
Springfield of Marlin as Junior Ep-
worth Hi Secretary.
Upon the last day of the assem-
bly awards were presented to the
delegates satisfactorily completing
the prescribed course. Miss Mary
Vernon Huckaby and James Mc-
Donald, Fairfield’s delegates, each
received such a certificate entitling
them to two units toward a Chris-
tian Culture Diploma.
Seals were also awarded to the
chapters successfully following the
Standard of Efficiency. Fairfield
Senior was presented a gold seal
signifying that she wa3 100 per
cent on the Standard of Efficiency,
Her Secretary’s notebook had been
faithfully kept and her leaguers had
faithfully followed the plan outlined
by Central Office, otherwise this
honor would not have been re-
ceived. Only three other leagues
in the whole conference received
like award.
The Executive Cabinet of the
Conference, chosen and elected
from the assembly flooi is as fol-
lows: President; Miss Renee M.
Moechel, Houston; 1st Vice-Presi-
dent, Gordon Alexander, Lon Mor-
ris College, Jacksonville; 2nd Vice-
President, J. L. Stover, Tomball;
Secretary, Miss Elizabeth Watson,
Fairfield; Treasurer, Joe Kerr, Jr.,
Lufkin; and Superintendent of
Recreation and Culture, Miss Al-
berta Baines, Houston.
A yard beautified by flowers,
shrubbery and trees, is an asset to
a town, creating a beauty spot
pleasing to the eyes of the town
dwellers and the visitors. What a
difference to the places permitted to
be overrun with weeds and where
no effort is ever made towards
beautification by the easy and
pleasurable method of planting
growth that promotes beauty.
H. M. Smith, representing the
Houston Post-Dispatclr, spent sever-
al days here taking subscriptions to
this great South Texas daily. He
made arrangements for Tate Drug
Co., to handle the paper, the late
edition, published at 5 o’clock a. m.
reaching here on the bus about 10:30
morning of publication. This early ar-
r \ ;i 1 of the late edition is made pos-
sible by the Post-Dispatch putting
on special truck service to Huntsville,
connecting with bus lines to various
sections of the state.
Draw your own conclusions: The
difference between the man that
plants a beautiful flower, a shrub,
or a tree, and the one who creates a
rubbish pile, or endures a stagnant
mudhole or other unsightly spot.
Only Six.
Mike Murphy, who lived on a
farm, sent his friend, Jimmy O’
Brion, in town, a crate of chickens.
“Did ya get the chickens?” ask-
ed Mike the next time he saw Jim-
mie.
“Some of ’em,” answered Jim-
mie. “After I got ’em from the
station they got out av the crate
and I wus two hours scourin’ the
neighborhood, an’thin only got tin.”
“Sh-sh-sh, Jimmie, not so loud.
I only sint ye six."—Utah Farmer.
Haynes Ward, who is connected
with the Ford Motor Company of
Oakwood, visited Tom Lindley one
day this week.
When In Fairfield Eat At The
COOK HOTEL
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Now that concrete work has been
completed on Highway No. 7, through
Fairfield, we are going to miss the
activity caused by road building op-
erations. May it only be a short
time until concrete pouring will be-
gin on the highway from Fairfield
t.o Strtetman. We have waited long
for this road, and old age is rapid-
ly overtaking the men who first
began the fight for it.
The editor and family recently
received an invitation to commence-
ment exercises of the University of
Texas, from Mrs. Alvah W. Bounds,
membtr of the Senior class. Mrs.
Bounds is a daughter of E. E. Wil-
liford of Fairfield.
Road building is necessarily slow,
yet the trjt payer should be excused
if he should glow impatient and dis-
like any move that might cause de-
lay in the realization of his dreams
of two gr/at concrete highways
across Freestone County.
Farmers over a large scope of
Freestone County were hard hit in
the flood Saturday night, ana many
report cotton badly injured by soil
washing. Some wUi have to re-
plant.
Death has stalked for the first
time on the new Teague-Fairfield
road, and while the tragedy may have
been unavoidable, it should, never-
theless, exist as a warning of traf-
fic dangers, and the need of care-
ful and sane driving.
’T is the mind that makes
body rich.—Shakespeare.
Saturday nitfit waa a bad night for
traveling, and a number of out of
town people wore mamoned here un-
til about midnight before they
would take a chance on traveling.
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Kirgan, Sadie. The Fairfield Recorder (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, June 15, 1928, newspaper, June 15, 1928; Fairfield, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1127046/m1/4/: accessed June 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fairfield Library.