Brenham Banner-Press (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 296, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 14, 1931 Page: 3 of 4
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out
one
the beautiful young queen which is
Mary Edna Carroll and her little flow-
er gal, .Elizabeth Hacker, which is the
darter of Mrs. Ross tothec darter,
roll’s beautiful young darter has now
done been chose to be the Queen of
that May Feast, I lowed I’d step dew-
a livin’ in that fine modem btmgaloo
which ye say ye have got the Fann-
ers & Merchants Lumber Co a build-
“Wuthe Laws massy, he got mad-
der’n a hornet when I spoke them re-
mark* to him and sez he, back to me,
jist a chawin’ in his tobacke plum vi-
cious, like sez he:
be hindered by him".
’’Well, dad gum ye”, ses he, "if ye
air so hell bent on goin’ I recIcTh the
devil hisself couldn't stop ye, but ye
got to cut out them drivin' directions
and that grabbin’ of my arm and hol-
lerin* ever time ye see a ole cow corn-
in’ down the road, feY I ain’t needin’
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lowin’ to-set out on this’ .
of viewin’-Texas?’’
Well Lucindy do go on and tell how
come ye to take skh a wild goose
chase as to go plum to Washington
County and how ye come to locate
thar”, asked Mrs. Tweekins a* she and
Safronia settled themselves comforts-j
bly and got snuff bottles for a socia-
ble “dip” and neighborly visit with'
liftin’ of ’em from darkness and taller
candles and kerosine lamp* and smoky
lamp chimney* into the bright lights
of lectricity whar they kin alto git all
minds of lectricity house keepin im-
pl iment* sot tq> so’* they kin git more
time fer settin* down and restin' of
their tired frames”, said Safronia sigh-
"••’y v
**Yes Lucindy" said Mra Tweekins,
“ye shore will be a settift' party and
enjoyin’ of yer se'f plum fiue I reckon
less est man in his spiffin' a body ever f
seed and ye know he has always doted
powerful on Alviry Jones, her a bein’
his fuvrile niece, ever since she named
Rainwater
“No, Got, durn ye, wcri Me <na‘
you haisn’t a goin’ to take no trip back
to Georgy in that tha Flivver nor no
whar* els”, sez he, a chawing of his
tobacker and spittin right and left
like he ginerly does when he gits all
riled ug). does and furst he spit for-
gitful like right squash smash dab on
JOHN KIRBY JESSE JAMES
"Yes, and John Kirby and Jesse
averred Miss Safronia Higgins.
"Yes”, said Mrs. Rainwater resum-
ing the conversation. ”Me^>folks
mostly like to git out and cavort
around by themselves and not be pes-
tered by no female wimtnen folks
(specially their own lovin' dotin' wife
of'their buzoms), but a* I wuz sayin’
"Well gals, hit wuz jist this way.
The day arter Jeems Rainwater
bought that thar second flivver ofen
Heberkier Thunderbug, I jist up and
sez to him, sez I ‘Now Jeems, as soon
as ye larn to drive plum keerful so’s
ye won’t be runnin' over hogs and
cows and all skh human beeins’ as .is
ventersome enough to cross the road
in front of ye, so’s ye won’t be sued
for damages, I reckon me and you
had better take a tower back to Geor-
gy in that thar Flivver and show folks
how prosperous we air since we sold
our Hogs Mounting lease to that Liz-
zie Fluke lhe Co., -and them strikin’ of
lie so sudden like’.
“Well, I reckon he wuz right in fer
skh a trip bein’* as how Mr. Rainwa-
ter alius wuz strong fer makin* a big
show of hissef intervened Mrs.
Tweekins.
stid of spittin’ in the fire place’.
"Oh men shore is curus‘critter*.* I
jist dispise ’em all and wouldn’t marry
no man J ever sed in life”, quoth Mis*
Eafronia Higgins.
all plumbed up with the best of plumb-
in and screened in with the best of wire
so’s no flies can't git in to pester ye
whilst ye’re a cookin’ on yter new Gar-
land Gas Range which ye say ye have
got the obleegin sales feller R.| F.
Fechner to set up fer ye in yer
kitchen (after he showed ye the
worin’s of it that in the Texas Cities
Gas Co.) and ye give orders to Hol-
land Rankin to hook Ve up with that
naterl gas) same as he is a doin’ the
rest of them enterprisin’ Washington
County folks who' \ is fur sighted
enough to locate their selves nigh
them Lone Star Gas pipes sp’s they
kin het it up with naterl gas!**
(To Be Continued)
AVIATION
Requires the Best
"Yd*, they’re powerful curus actin’
som times, especially when they git
therselves sorter riled up at thar old
woman, but as I wuz sayin’ he just
walked backwards and forwards, and
sez he:
“Texas is jist as full of sights as
Georgy -fa and I perpose to see Texas
fust but I warn’t figgerin’ on takin’
you long me no whers, for ye are sich
derned nuisance always keepin’ me sol
peeVeu aud flustrated up with yer I*-!
lerin’ every time ye see a ole cow
crossin’ th road and grabbin’ holt of
my arm and yellin’ like a wild Indian.
Look out. Yandcr comes a cow, or
some fool carryin' on a gittin me so
fhistrate Id can’t skeercely drive and
I kin drive a heap more keerfuller
when you hain’t long to give no driv-
in’ directions, I say pintedly ye hain’t
goin no whers on no trip with Jeems
Rainwater, and' besides” ses he "1
have heer from Alviry Jones that a
big May Feast is a goin’ to take place
down thar at Brenham; and at which
feast the sez several kings and queens
is a goin* to hold forth and her a bein’
plum well acquainted with one of them
queens whidh she *ex is the beautiful
young darter of that good lookin Ross
gal whkh usen to come down to Coon
Skin Crossin’ with her maw and which
young gal growed up and married a
feller by the name of Jimmie Carroll
who is a runnin* the Washington Ho-
tel.anct <*»»- —'ey the place whar
Bin and Mirandy Smith and also Al-
viry and Ezry Jones add the rest of
their eatin’ when they go to 'orens-w
ton accouht of Mrs. Carroll a settin out
Jtet about the best and most reason* -
blest priced meal of vittles fer fifty
cents whkh kin be got in Brenham,
so Alviry sea.
“ Shore nough, is that whar Mrs.
Carroll holds forth?"
MIRIAM JIM
“Yes, so when Jeems up and lowd
as how he wuz figgerin ’on goin’ to see
Alviry’s nwe baby, little Rossy Ster-
ling, I knowed right then and that hit
wuz my bounden duty to go longer,
him fer I knowed Alviry would be a'
needin’ of me to 'vise her how to reg-
erlate and raise little Rossy bein’s how
she had made such a fizzle of raisin*
Included in the group is a five pas-
senger Stinson D«roftbr«rWdfk by
Red JMickey) McGuyre; a Waco "F”
piloted by E. "C. Gibs0n, an Eagle
Rock. piloted by R. B. Brown-
ing add a Monocoupe piloted
by Richard- Young. The Tex-
as Aairfair ‘carries Its own public
address system, completely equipped
with a power plant, amplifying appara-
tus and loud speakers* This bus is
I maintained by Hoeck Davis and all an-
nouncements are m^de by “Count" W.
E. Sandlin.
-Arrangements have been made to
carry passengers for <?ne cent per
I pound of weight, dollar minimum, and
‘all in all an interesting program is
. promised.
"To be sfibra he give tn when he
seed 1 wuz agoin’ and didn't low lu
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in’ them Queens, May Feasts and cindy? Why them two twins, Jim
flower gals which he heerd wuz to;and Miriam Ferguson, haint skercely 2
hold forth in Brenham in May and he years old and Idon’ t reckon them 2
wanted to git that plum early so as not big twinses, John Jlirby and Jesse
to miss nothin". | Jones 'is' skeercely is big enough to
"Now wouldn’t that beat a goose a keep outer'the fire an yet ye say Al-
cacklin* fpar Jeems Rainwater to be viry has another new baby?”
takin’ _of a travelin’ tow$r plum to
Brenham to git to set down at a big
May Feast and likely as not eat his
head off at the Feast and view a beau-
tiful young queen which ye say is the
darter of Mrs. Carroll and her done
growed up to be a Queen of a May
Feast”, asked Safronia in great sur-
prise.
and them 2 little twinses, Miriam and
Jim wuz 18 months old the day little 1 a greater interest in aviation
Dan Moody Jones wuz borned, but >and will «ive every one opportunity to
Miriam Ferguson Jones is awful puny investigate the ships on the field. Each
like an<| Alviry is powerful skeert she plane is of a different type, including
never will git Miriam raised, she’* so bo‘h closed and open designs, and are
_______ puny and backards like—not bit like PMed by experienced pilot*.
“Thus w«ii*his identical remarks Tim. tother twin, because he’a a* for-
spoke to me Safrony, but when he ward a brat as any one ever seed", _
spoke them remarks. I made up my
mind good and proper Jeems Rainwa-
ter warn’t goin' to no big feed to eat
nis head off without me along to view
no young gal queen without the lovin’
-thar beside him a viewin’ of the Queen
hhrself” replied. Mrs. Rainwater.
“Oh men shore is; curus critters an’
I’m powerful glad J hain’t got none to
^•pestered with, fer I hate ’em”, again
from all skh temptations”;' argued
Mrs. Tweekins.
“Well hits a'plum wonder to me
that ye wamt fetched home as dead
corpses' funeralized by Brother Gitl-
wuzzle and buried out yander in Coon
Skin Graveyard instid of the live
kickin’ critter ye be, a fixin’ to move
away down yander to Brenham whar
ye say y« have bought yerself a fine
chickery and dairy farm and gittin’ a
fine new up to date bungalow built
by the Farmers and Merchants Lum-
ber Co. (of which ye say Bob Jahnke
is the president) and gittin’ hit ail lit
up 'Ey tnai thar Texas Power & Light*
Co. whkh big electricity company ye
‘Yaa and sez he” beins Mrs. Car-j no backseat driver’, sez he, a* he spit
on old Tige’s tail agin'."
"Oh", interjected Safronia, “Jeems
Rainwater alius wuz the most keer-
T jist* sorihjr-ca’mly nittin’ atr sse,Jeems Rainwater I warn’t
Jeems Rainwater, jist when' are ye I goin’ to ghirk my duty „ tbe wife of
By GEORGE KIRKSEY
United Preu Staff Correspondent
Chalay White RecaUa
Old Days of Boxing
Charlie White, who was a terror
among the lightweights in his day, ha*
some interesting comments to make
on the boxing game.
"All this talk about boxing being so
crooked makes me wonder some-
times”, White said: "I was in the box-
ing game for 17 years and in all that
time I was never cheated out of a
penny. Sometimes I neyer even
made a contract, just a verbal egree-
ment, and I never had a single pro-
moter, or manager, or fighter, fail to
live up to his agreement
White, whose career extec< A from
1906 to 1932, ha* been conducting the
“Charlie White, Muscle Sense Sys-
on Michigan Boulevard in Chi-
cago for1 the past eight years. Hi*
j women,
treating* more than 7,000 since he re-
tired from the ring.
"After I left boxing I had a lot of
business dealings with banker*, law-
yer* and others", said White, "and be-
lieve me some of them will hook you
anyway they can, even if you have a
contract It make* me think boxing
can’t be so bad when even business
men try to crook you".
White believes that boxing will
as long aS the world.
"They'll never legislate boxing
of existence”, said White. "It is
of the best of all sports to develop a
mgn physically. And, even though
some may not think so ,it takes some
brains to be a real boxer”.
Twica Tricked
by Fate
During his career White fought
more than 300 battles, and at least
twice in his career fate tricked hi
out of winning the lightweight eham-
pkmship.---He Was Tlttous fits hl
murderous left hook.
White, oufoo"***^ »h'«n flight
weight champion, Willie Ritchie, in a
10-round no decision bout. In 1914
at Milwaukee White’s margin of vic-
tory was so decisive the newspaper*
afterwards galled him, "legitimate
lightweight ehampion of the world”.
In 1920, Benny Leonard, who won
the. ttile from Ritchk, was knocked
out of the ring by White in thek bout
at Benton Harbor, Mkhigan, but the
rtferee stopped counting at five and
although about 20 second* ' elapsed,
Leonard was not counted out. In
the ninth round Leonard knocked out
White but he would never fight him
again. White said.
Then he palled a tattered and torn
old newspaper cartoon out of his
pocket, and it read: "Charlk White,
lightweight champion of the world. He
bent Willie Ritchk tor the title".
^bwer hig buzum and would go right along
with him whefi he went to see Alviry
“I’m figgerin’ on gittin off termor- and her new 'baby", declared Mrs.
row an’ I don’t want ye to fergit to Rainwater.
put them red flannels o’ mine in my | • Oh, men is shore eurUs actin’ crit-
verlecse when ye pack it so I kin put ter*”, again ventured Miss Safronia.
Vm on if hit turns off cold, an’ I, "Yes, and gittin’ more cururer every
reckon ye’ll better also put in that thar flay b|*t <jo go on and teU lf ye gire
old linen duster I wore last summer in to yer old „,an”, urged Mr*. Twee-
when I wus makin' fer Ros* bterlin, jana,
for Texas is so durn big, an’ tfifc weath-
er so changeabei a body is liable to|-
run into a big norther one day an'
blazin’ hot weather next day, so ye kin
fix up fer summer as well as winter
while ye're packin, see he fer I^mought
need skh' garment it any <__ ___
iriends is a runnin’ far office?’’
"Where ye lowm to go first?" sez
I stil ca’mly nittin’ on. „
‘Well”, sez he, "I lowed to run
down by Calf Creek to see my niece,
Alviry Jones and take a look at that
little new baby of her’n after I get
done viewin’ of that beaiqjfpJ-^vm"^-
Queen of the May Feast", sez he, sister Rainwater, and I’m i ____
(him havin’ a letter.from Alviry Jones glad ye tuz sich precautions and went
a teelin’ him as how her little Ross longer ye old man, fer thar fist hain’t
Sterling wuz the peartest baby in the no teliin’ what a frisky old man like
hull world an gittin’ more prear’tier Jeems Rainwater and Ebemeezer
every day). “lie h«»ku
tha and spend Easter with Alviry an’ i
a * 1 1 _ a* a L* aaa
and Eberncezer
He wanted to step down Tweekitl* will be up to when they git
off by tha selves on a ridin’ tower
take a look at title Rossy afore the1 some whars in them high powerful
pirtness wore offen him a*i* also to take flivers and they ort to be protected
a look at several fine farm* Alviry
told him wuz Ter sale down thar nigh
to Brenham. (
"Ye* hit shore don’t take the peart-
ness very long to wear offen ’em these
day* fer my little Jimmie Ferguson
aint nigh a* peart a* he usen to be
specially since 1 ha* sot into weanin’
of him”, remarked Mr*. Tweekins.
"So I jist up and told Jeems Rain-
water I waren t goin’ to shirk my duty
a* the wife of hi* buzom and would go
right along with him when he went to
•ee Alviry and her new baby”, declar-
ed Mr*. Rainwater.
“W*U, &!.•?:.* 7 ">Kindy? Men
shore are curus actin’ critters ye
. “Well, I jist sot thar plum calm and
stiddy goin’ never speakin’ no word
back to him jist then, fer I had done
made up my mind 1 warn’t goin’ to let
him git off on no seein’ Texas trip by
<Jll time himself to get vampired by none of the
I wild women. vampire* I have heerd
1 Texas is plum full of, specially around
Dallas and Austin and I warn’t goin*
to take no chance* on lettin’ my old
man fall into sich pit falls as on sus-
’ pectin’ ole men! falls into if ; they
t hain’t keerful”.
abont ,y«
. .. powerful cjjente|e ia
among society
The four planes sent on a goodwill
tour of "Texas arrived at Becker Field
this morning for a program this after-
noon and tomorrow.
Mrs. AJmeda Babcock adds to the
flying entertainment with her daring
leap from one of the planes while 1500
feet in the air. Mrs. Babcock is seen'
»«, «<>u jv.... ...» on the field in her stunning white uni-j1
Jones is plenty big enough ter keep f°rm ready to add a thrill to theocca-
outer the fire,-them a bein’ 4 yar old^’0”-
The Texas Airfair is endeavoring to
were u jed by
COMMANDER RICHARD E. BYRD
In hi* flight over the South Pole
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Blake, T. C. Brenham Banner-Press (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 296, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 14, 1931, newspaper, March 14, 1931; Brenham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1174724/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Nancy Carol Roberts Memorial Library.