The Radio Post (Fredericksburg, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 14, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 19, 1923 Page: 2 of 6
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Bank of Fredericksburg
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TEMPLE D. SMITH, Pres.
Albert Koennecke, Cashier.
Lawrence Knopp, Assistant Cashier.
SYNOPSIS
tion,
CHAPTER I.—Jennie Woodruff con-
temptuously refuses fo marry Jim Ir-
win, young- farm hand, because of his
financial condition and PQOr prospects.
He is intellectually above his station,
and has advanced ideas concerning the
possibilities of expert school teaching,
for which he is ridiculed by many.
CHAPTER II.—More as a joke than
otherwise Jim is,selected as teacher of
the Woodruff district school.
CHAPTER XII.—The novel ideas
which Jim has introduced have been
talked about outside the county, and
he is visited by Professor Withers, ex-
tension lecturer at the state university,
who invites him to deliver an address
at the next annual meeting of the
Farmers’ institute.
CHAPTER V.—Jennie Woodruff is
nominted for the position of county
superintendent of schools. The school
board grows bitter In its opposition
to Jim and his innovations.
CHAPTER III.—Jim, in his new posi-
tion, sets out to make stanch friends
of his pupils, especially two boys, New-
ton Bronson and “Buddy” Simms, the
latter the son of a shiftless farmer.
Colonel Woodruff, Jennie’s father, has
little faith in Jim’s ideas of improving
rural educational methods. He nick-
names him the “Brown Mouse,” in il-
lustration of an anecdote.
CHAPTER IV.—Jim’s conduct of the
school, where he endeavors to teach
the children the wonders of nature
and some of the scientific methods of
farming, as well as “book learning,”
is condemned.
CHAPTER IX.—In the evening Jim,
as well as he knows how, courts Jen-
nie, without, however, making much
progress, though she is quickly losing
her poor opinion of him.
CHAPTER XI.—A meeting of the
school board, which had been gathered
to “get” Jim, is confronted by Jennie
who upholds him. He conducts an ex-
amination of his pupils at the meet-
ing, to prove that he is not neglecting
their “book learning” by the introduc-
tion of other subjects which he con-
siders of importance. The splendid
showing made by the children converts
many, who had doubted, to his views.
CHAPTER XIII.—Professor Withers
is impressed by many of the innova-
tions made by Irwin, and so informs
Colonel Woodruff and Jennie, some-
what to the astonishment of both. The
colonel suggests to Jim that he (tht
colonel) seek election to the school
board, replacing Cornelius Bonner, Im
placable enemy of Jim Irwin.
CHAPTER VIII.—Jim has Christmas
dinner at Colonel Woodruff’s, and lis-
tening to him, Jennie begins to do some
thinking concerning his ability and
his prospects.
CHAPTER X.—Jennie, elected county
superintendent of schools, receives so
many complaints from people of the
district concerning Jim’s methods of
teaching that she finds herself com-
pelled formally to ask for his resigna-
tion. After she has left, Jim is visited
by Colonel Woodruff, who strongly
urges him to refuse to resign, and
offers to back him. Jim agrees to
stick, for a while at least.
CHAPTER VI.—At a public meeting
Jim roundly condemns the methods of
teaching in the rural schools, and
makes no friends thereby.
CHAPTER VII.—A delegation of
prominent women condemn Jim’s meth-
ods of teaching, but he .is stoutly de-
fended by his pupils, especially Newton
Bronson.
Vital Statistic
Miss
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List of Letters
All members of boys and girls
agricultural clubs should get
their record books completed and
have them in the office of the
county agent, R. S. Miller, by
Jan. 1st. Mr. Miller requests us
to announce that the record books
should be left with the respective
teachers of the boys and girls or
should be brought direct to the
office of the county agent, in the
old court house building, until
recently used as the post office.
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Marriage Licenses
Erwin H. Gold and Miss Alma
Kusenberger
Arnold Crenwelge and
Erna Heimann.
Herman A. Maner and Miss
Frieda Ellebracht.
Nicanor Silvas and Miss Jose-
fa Cardenas.
Fred W. Langerhans and Miss
Cornelia Ransleben.
Births Recorded
Nov. 16—a son to Mr. and Mrs.
Wm. E. Thiele.
Dec. 8—a daughter to Mr. and
Mrs. Ernest Pape.
Advertised Dec. 17,1923, Fred-
erickburg, Texas.
Mr. Leti Danz
Mr. J. S. Dawson
Mr. Fred. Gass
Mr. Fred. Gass
Mrs. J. H. Young
Sr. Eduardo Viarrial
Mrs. J. W. Johnson
If the above listed letter are
not called for by Dec. 31 same
will be forwarded to the Div. of
Dead letters.
A. H. Kneese. Postmaster.
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Marrs on Right Track
The Radio Post
Fredericksburg, Texas
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"A Liberal Education
ISSUED ON THE 20th
Albert Moellendorf, Proprietor
Central Drug Co.
Fredericksburg, Texas
From the San Antonio Chamber
of Commerce a booklet has come
to the desk which tells in words
and excellent pictures the advan-
tages of San Antonio and its sur-
rounding territory. The atmos-
phere of the booklet will invite
thousands of winter tourists to
make their winter home in and
at San Antonio. The Hill Coun-
try with its game, lakes, streams
canyons is included. Publicity
of this kind will surely help San
Antonio and all its trade terri-
tory.
GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
"The Homemaker’s Authority”
ISSUED ON THE 20th
OFFICE HOURS:
Open at 8.30 a. m. Close at 4 p. m.
Miss Helen Schultz, operator of
the Red Ball Transportation Com-
pany, which runs busses in Iowa,
is the center of a legal battle in
which she is endeavoring to prove
to the satisfaction of the State
board that her service is a “public
convenience,” within the mean-
ing of the Iowa motor-carrier law
This is denied by the opposing
railroads, the Chicago Great Wes-
tern; Chicago, Rock Island & Paci-
fic; Chicago & North Western;
Minneapolis & St. Louis; Fort
Dodge, Des Moines & S uthern;
and the Chicago, Milwaukee &
St. Paul Roads. These roads are
supported in their contentions by
the county supervisors of Worth,
Cerro Gordo, Hardin, and Frank-
lin Counties, who also declare the
heavy busses damage the high-
ways excessively.
Friends of the highway bus
idea contend that the remedy for
any damage done roads by bus
operation lies either in higher
taxation of such busses or the
construction of roads able to bear
Jthe traffic of heavy busses. They
say that the bus is a convenience
as much a necessity to towns
served as are trolley cars, and
point to the fact that in the be-
ginning the railroads were againsi
the establishment of interurban
trolley service, but that in later
years the railroads found them
of such value in relieving them,
of the unprofitable short haul
that many railroads have built
trolley lines themselves.
Restriction of a public utility to
serve private interests has been
so often tried in this country and
so often decisively denied that
the eventual outcome of this case
should not be hard to predict.
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NAGEL BROS.
MONUMENTS
FREDERICKSBURG--TEXAS
S. M. N. Marrs, state superin-
tendent of public instruction, is
on the right track. He has issued
a statement in which he says he
is opposed to the injection of re-
ligion into the public school sys-
tem of Texas, and as the duly
elected head of that system he
will oppose it to the limit of his
ability.
Mr. Marrs is to be congratulated
upon his clear conception of the
purposes of the public school sys-
tem. His courage in opposing
the long-haired reformers who
would disrupt that system is to be
commended. Good citizens will
join in the fervent hope that he
will be able to stem the tide that
is setting in and which will -ulti-
mately destroy the splendid edu-
cational system of the state if
not checked.
Mr. Marrs’ statement will
doubtless incur for him the op-
position of all these fanatical class-
es which are willing at all times
to leave wreck and ruin in
their wake to carry their purpose.
For this reason the people ought
to let Mr. Marrs know now that
they are whole-heartedly with
him in his effort to preserve and
maintain the public school system
of Texas in its integrity and along
the lines intended by its creators.
—Ferguson Forum.
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that these great prairies on which their
forefathers had been wont fearlessly
to alight had been changed into a dis-
gusting expanse of farms. Colonel
Woodruff’s hired man, Pete, stopped
Newton Bronson and Raymond Simms
as they tramped across the colonel’s
pasture, gun in hand, trying to make
themselves believe that the shooting
was good.
“This ain’t no country to hunt in,”
said he. “Did either of you fellows
ever have any real duck-shooting?”
“The mountings,” said Raymond,
“air poor places for ducks.”
“Not big enough water,” suggested
Pete. “Some wood-ducks, I suppose?”
“Along the creeks and rivers, yes,
seh,” said Raymond, “but nothing to
depend on.”
“I’ve never
been nowhere,”
Newton, “except once to Minnesota—
and—and that wasn’t in the shooting
season.”
A year ago Newton would have
boasted of having “bummed” his way
to Faribault. His hesitant speech was
a proof of the embarrassment hts new
respectability sometimes Inflicted upon
him.
“I used to shoot ducks for the mar-
ket at Spirit Lake,” said Pete. “I know
Fred Gilbert just as well as I know
you. But that’s all over, now. You’ve
got to go so fur now to get decent
shooting where the farmers won’t drive
you off, that it costs nine dollars to
send a postcard home.”
“I think we’ll have fine shooting on
the slew in a few days,” said Newton.
“Humph !” scoffed Pete. “I give you
my word, If I hadn’t promised the
colonel I’d stay with him another year,
I'd take a side-door Pullman for the
Sand Hills of Nebraska or the Devil’s
lake country tomorrow—if I had a
gun.”
“If it wasn’t for a pasel of things
that keep me hyeh,” said Raymond,
“I’d like to go, too.”
“The colonel,” said Pete, “needs me.
He needs me in the election tomorrow.
What’s the matter of your ol’ man,
Newt? What for does he Vote for that
Bonner, and throw down an old neigh-
bor?”
“I can’t do anything with him!” ex-
claimed Newton irritably. “He’s all
tangled up with Peterson and Bonner.”
“Well,” said Pete, “if he’d just stay
at home it would help some. If he
votes for Bonner, It’ll be just about
a stand-off.”
“He never misses a
Newton despairingly.
“Can’t you cripple him some way?”
asked . Pete jocularly. “Darned funny
when a boy o’ your age can’t control
his father’s vote! So long!”
“I wish I could vote!” grumbled
Newton. “I wish I could! We know
a lot more about the school, and .Tim
Irwin bein’ a good teacher than dad
does—and we can’t vote. Why can’t
folks vote when they are interested in
an election, and know about the Is-
sues. It’s tyranny that you and 1
can’t vote.”
“I reckon,” said Raymond, the con-
servative, “that the old-time people
that fixed it thataway knowed best.”
“Rats!” sneered Newton, the icono
clast. “Why, Callsta knows more
about the election of school director
than dad knows.”
“That don’t seem reasonable,” pro-
tested Raymond. “She’s prejudyced.
I reckon, in favor of Mr. Jim Irwin.”
“Well, dad’s prejudiced against him
—er, no, he hain’t either. He likes
Jim. He’s just prejudiced against
giving up his old notions. No, he
hain’t neither—I guess he’s only
prejudiced against seeming to give up
some old notions he seemed to have
once! And the kids in school would
be prejudiced right, anyhow!”
“Paw says he’ll be on hand prompt,’’
said Raymond. “But he had to be
p’swaded right much. Paw’s proud—
and he can’t read.”
“Sometimes I think the more people
read the less sense they’ve got,” said
Newton. “I wish I could tie dad up!
I wish I could get snakebit, and make
him go for the doctor!”
The boys crossed the ridge to the
wooded valley in which nestled the
SImms’cabin. They found Mrs. Simms
greatly exercised in her mind because
young McGeehee had been found play-
ing with some blue vitriol used by
Raymond In his school work on the
treatment of seed potatoes for scab.
“His hands was all blue with it,”
said she. “Do you reckon, Mr. New-
ton, that it’ll pizen him?”
“Did he swallow any of It?” askec
Newton.
“Nah!” said McGeehee scornfully.
Newton reassured Mrs. Simms, and
went away pensive. Jim Irwin’s meth-
ods had already accomplished much in
preparing Newton and Raymond for
citizenship. He had shown them the
fact that voting really has some re
lation to lilfer At present, however
the new wine in the old bottles was
causing Newton to forget Ills filial
duty, and his respect for his father
He wished he could lock him up in
the barn so he couldn’t go to the
school election. He wished he could
become ill—or poisoned with blue
vitriol or something—so his father
would be obliged to go for a doctor.
He wished—well, why couldn’t he get
sick? Newton mended his pace, and
looked happier.
“I’ll fix him!” said he to himself.
“What time’s the election, Ez?”
asked Mrs. Bronson at breakfast.
“I’m goin’ at four o’clock,” said
Ezra. “And I don’t want to hear any
more from any one”—looking at New-
ton—“about the election. It’s none of
the business of the women an’ boys.”
Newton took this reproof in an un-
expectedly submissive spirit. In fact,
he exhibited his very best side to the
family that morning, like one going on
a long journey, or about to be married
off, or engaged in some deep darl
plot.
“I s’pose you’re off trampin’
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Dietel, William. The Radio Post (Fredericksburg, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 14, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 19, 1923, newspaper, December 19, 1923; Fredericksburg, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1313834/m1/2/: accessed June 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Gillespie County Historical Society.