The Brady Standard (Brady, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 96, Ed. 1 Friday, February 20, 1931 Page: 3 of 8
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THE BRADY STANDARD, BRADY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1931
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On T ay, March 3, 1931, be Sjnce 1876, Recalls Pioneer Days
tween the hours of 10 o’clock a. m.
and 4 o’clock p. m. at the door of
the Court House at Brady, McCul-
loch county, Texas, I will sell at
auction the tract of land situate in
McCulloch county, Texas, contain-
ing 160 acres of land out of N. P.
Fulcher survey 204, abstract 1552,
patented to W. R. Pence by patent
188 volume 31, and being the south
160 acres of the We st 200 acres of
said survey, and situate about six
miles north and two and one-half
miles east from the town of Brady,
Texas, which land is generally
town as the W. B. Pence place.
"(id property is to be sold by vir-
tue of an order of sale issued out
of the District Court of McCulloch
county, Texas, on February 5, 1931,
in a judgment rendered in said
court August 29, 1930, in favor of
The Texa s Land and Mortgage
Company, Limited, No. 2460
against W. B. Pence, Delia Pence,
S. F. Hurlbut, Callie Rose Hurlbut
By TEVIS CLYDE SMITH
In Brownwood Bulletin.
was no underbrush in those days
either, the land was covered with
'majestic trees, and tall, waving
The following interesting account grass. The grass, everywhere, was
of pioneer days and happenings in three feet high. It made a man feel
this immediate section is recounted - " * + "W
by C. L. Steffens, pioneer citizen
of Brownwood, and father of Karl
Steffens of Brady. The story is
reprinted from a recent issue of
the Brownwood Bulletin.
like he just had to get him some
| land and become a cattle king.
Longhorns
“Those were the real days of the
Charlie L. Steffens, 409 Mayes
street, is another Brownwood man
who has grown up with the state
of Texas.
cattle industry; they were the days
of the open, unfenced prairie, when
every man let his vast herds of
longhorns run loose until he was
ready to round them up, and take
them up the trail to Kansas City
or Chicago.
Mr. Steffens was born in Bre-
men, Germany, March 4, 1854.
When he was six years old, he
came with his parents to this coun-
Cent Gas Tax Ample I Sheep, Goat Kaisers
For Road Bond Plan Pick Convention Dates
AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 8. — The
and Hugh Grove.
Witness my hand this 5th day
of February. A. D. 1931.
LOVE KIMBROUGH,
‘ Sheriff McCulloch County, Texas.
try.
Eleven Weeks Crowing
“We crossed the ocean from the
old country on a sailing ship," said
Mr. Steffens, “and the voyage took
us eleven weeks. It seemed like a
i long time to us, yet we all enjoyed
| the trip, except when we were sea-
sick. We had some real storms at
sea.
The first State to grant suffrage
to women was Wyoming, in 1869.
A Wonderful Help to
Mothers
Dallas, Texas-
gdllam "Dr. Pierce’s Fa-
“We landed at New Orleans.
From there, we took a steamboat
up the Red river. We stopped for
a while at Marshall, and then went
by ox-wagon to Bonham, where we
lived during the Civil War. In 1865,
we moved to Waco, left there in 70
and came to Comanche, where we
stayed until 1876. At this date, we
moved to Brownwood, and I have
been here ever since.”
vorite Prescription
was a wonderful
help and comfort
to me as a tonic
and nervine. I
found it especially
beneficial during
a expectancy. It kept
me in such good
P condition that I
was able to do my
work, hardly realizing my condition
and when a woman gets along without
suffering at this time her mental corn
dition is greatly helped. Also Prescrip, Ine Lirst paper ever
tion babies are healthier and stronger.’ Brownwood,” said Mr.
—Mrs. L. J. Bryant, 3723 Race St was The Pecan Valley Eagle. It
All dealers. Fluid or tablets. appeared in 1876, a short time af-
Write to Dr. Pierce’s Clinic in Buffalo I ter I came to Brownwood. A man
N. Y., lor tree medical advice, enclosing I ter 1 -- .
wrapper from medicine.
Became a Printer
In Waco, Mr. Steffens learned
the printing trade, and worked on
three different newspapers in that
city. After moving to Comanche, he
went to work on the Comanche
Chief. That was back in the old
days, before the advent of linotype
machines; all the type was then set
by hand, and the papers printed on
hand presses. The Washington
press, a primitive piece of appar-
atus, was then in vogue.
“The first paper ever printed in
......., Steffens,
"Times were good. Except for the
depressing year of 1883, I can’t
remember a single season in which
people didn’t make money. The
cattle men grew rich; the mer-
chants prospered also.
“And then came the fences. They
were protected by law. Wirecutters
fought a losing battle; the range
was fenced; the longhorn, wild de-
scendant of Spanish cattle, passed
away; smaller ranches became the
rule, and then men began to break
the ground and go in for agricul-
ture. The grand, gala days of the
cattle industry became a thing of
the past.
The Pageant of the Herds
“So we come to the present time.
When people nowadays see fifty
cattle bunched together, they think
that they have seen a large herd.
"What a sight it was in the old
days. I remember when I lived at
Waco how the cattle used to pass;
the cowboys always drove trail
right by our house, and there was
hardly a day that a continuous
stream of longhorns did not pass
by our place. We saw cattle from
dawn to dark. The size of the av-
erage herd was from 3.000 to 4.000
head. The larger herds contained
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T\R. WN. C. JONES
D Dentist
X-RAY EXAMINATION AND
DENTAL DIAGNOSIS
Office front suite rooms on the 2nd
floor, Brady National Bank Bldg.
I, J. BURNS
( Attorney - at - Law
Brady, Texas
named Morion was its editor and
publisher. This sheet was follow-
ed bv the Banner, which was owned
by W. H. Martin. The Mickle’s
later bought this paper and merged
it with the Sunny South, one of the
most widely read newspapers to
ever appear in a frontier settle-
ment. The Sunny South, for a
while, had such a large subscrip-
tion list of out of town readers
that the stages could not carry all
of the bundles of papers. For some
strange reason, though, the Sunny
South suddenly died as completely
as any news sheet in history.
"Another old newspaper publish-
ed here was called The Appeal.”
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T. J. BRADLEY
Plumbing Contractor
Located at Wilcox Hardware
Store
Phone 250 Brady, Texas
PARKER
ELECTRIC CO.
for
ELECTRICAL SERVICE
Phone 362
H. A. WULFF
A Small Community
Brownwood was a small com-
munity when Mr. Steffens came
here. It consisted of three or four
mercantile establishments, and a
dozen or so residences. John Mc-
Minn, Sam Myers, Mr. McConnell,
and Joe Howard were the town’s
leading business men in those days.
Mr. Steffens and Frank Smith
soon entered into competition with
them, establishing a business of
their own. Later, Mr. Steffens
bought Mr. Smith out, and entered
business with the late Jess Lowry.
Costly For Comanche
Mr. Steffens, who is an enthus-
iastic musician, and who organized
Brownwood’s first brass band, in
1877, was one time a member of a
group of serenaders who proved
costly for the town of Comanche.
“It was a bright night,” said Mr.
Steffens, “and a number of us de-
cided to serenade various houses in
the town. So we made the rounds
of the city. The next morning, when
the people went out after their
horses, they found the stables
empty. Looking around, they saw
moccasin tracks. A N Th
dians had raided the town
night before; they had followed
right behind us, robbing each horse
lot as we were serenading the own-
er’s house. We made so much
racket that we acted as a perfect
shield for the thieves. I don’t think
that they left a single horse in the
town.”
party of In-
the
INSURANCE
IN ALL ITS PHASES
Phone 30
Brady, Texas
Brady Monument
Works
No Better Time Than Right
No w to Place Your Order
for a Monument.
LOWEST PRICES.
$ Guaranteed Workmanship.
See Us Brady, Texas
J. E. Stevens - Gober
Co.
AMBULANCE
SERVICE
Day Phone 4, Night Phone 195
Hardin and Webb
Mr. Steffens was in Comanche
at the time Hardin killed Charlie
Webb, who was at that time sher-
iff of Brown county.
“It happened in either ’71 or ’72,
I don’t remember which year it
was. Hardin picked the fight,
claiming Webb had insulted the
Comanche county sheriff. He drew
his gun and shot Webb through the
heart and through the head. He
was a bit too quick for Webb.
"Hardin and his gang were tough
hombres. Living off the country,
they spent much time in the town
of Comanche. They always went
heavily armed; they were two-gun
men, and were also handy with
Winchesters. They kept these wea-
pons strapped on their horses, to
be used in case of a running fight.
"The Hardin incident almost
caused a civil war. Feeling grew
bitter toward these suave, well
dressed desperadoes, and the peo-
ple of Comanche county got up in
arms against them. There was a
fight at Leon river and a number
of Hardin’s gang were captured.
They were put in jail, and closely
guarded. One night, a number of
citizens broke through the guard,
took three of the prisoners out of
jail, and lynched them.
"As well as I remember, Hardin
was later killed in a gun fight
north of Comanche.”
A Different Land
Like all of those who have been
here a long time, Mr. Steffens
comments on the past beauties of
Brown and adjacent counties.
“This country isn’t like it was
then," he said. “Why, in those days
a man could ride all over the coun-
try and never see a weed. There
about 6,000.
“Everybody looked with admira-
tion on the cowboys. Sunbronzed.
lean, hard muscled men, wild and
reckless, they were toilers of the
trail. They ’caught the public eye
with their mad courage, dashing
into the midst of stampeding cat-
tle, plunging their horses into
swollen streams to lead the cattle
across, or doing any of the thou-
sand and one things neccessary in
performance of their daily duties.
They were always on the job, rain
or shine.”
Marriage . ,
Mr. Steffens married Miss Mat-
tie Day in 1882. Two children,
both of whom are living, were born
to them.
Mr. Steffens retired from the
mercantile business in 1900.
Health Officer Tells
How to Avoid Colds
Declaring that one must live in
a positive manner if he would
avoid sickness just as he must if he
would attain the pearly gates. Dr.
Lane B. Cooke, City Health Direc-
tor of Dallas, has issued a list of
what to do and what not to do in
order to avoid colds and other re-
spiratory diseases.
“He alone deserves health who
wills to be well,” Dr. Cooke said.
The health director gave the fol-
lowing list of things to do and not
to do: .
What to avoid: Excessive fa-
tigue, overeating, overheating,
chilling, especially after meals; as-
sociating with one who has a cold;
crowds in which there may he
coughers and sneezers; raising un-
necessar y dust; the use of alco-
holic stimulants, especially before
and during exposure, as they pro-
duce an acid condition.
What to do: Form regular hab-
its of body elimination; breathe
through the nose, inhale plenty of
fresh air, sleep in well-ventilated
room, drink plenty of water, at
least six glasses daily, between
meals; get plenty of rest; sleep
at least eight hours a day; main-
tain an alkaline rather than an
acid condition of the system; cor-
rect such physical defects as dis-
eased tonsils, decayed teeth, etc.;
dress warmly, but do not over-
dress; keep the feet dry and warm;
keep the home and office well ven-
tilated and keep the air moist by
placing pans of water on the ra-
diators; admit lots of sunshine to
office and home; maintain an even
temperature in office and have 70
degrees Fahrenheit.
If you catch cold see a doctor,
even though the symptoms are
slight; remain in bed as long as
there is fever.
Jack Oakie Stars In
“Sea Legs," Palace
Throw out the laff-lines! Amer-
ica’s joy friend uncorks another
panic.
Jack Oakie, the ever-smiling,
smart-cracker, features the enter-
tainment at the Palace theatre
Friday and at night of this week
in his latest production, "Ser
Legs.” Oakie is shanghaied aboard
a boat load of beautiful girls, and
"wotta break!”
In this comedy of seas, navies
and girls, Lillian Roth is one of a
dozen daughters of the scheming
skipper, but she is also the one
picked by Gob Oakie as his light-
o’-love. Eugene Pallette and Har-
old Green are other stars in this
comedy.
Charles Baker, manager of the
Palace, has announced Friday as
“Family Day,” when every mem-
ber of the household will be permit-
ted to see either the afternoon or
evening performance for the price
of only an adult ticket.
astonishing statement was made
Sunday that a net 1c per gallon
gasoline tax would meet every out-
lay of the proposed $200,000,000
road bond plan, which is in direct
contradiction to the oft-repeated
charge that the State road bonds
would form such a burden that
they could not be met by even a
tax’ higher than the present
amount, which is 4c per gallon, but
only 3c of which goes to the high-
way fund. This unreserved aver-
ment of the sufficiency of a le gas
tax to pay off $200,000,000 of the
roads, when taken in connection
with other highway income, was
made by Representative R. M. Hub-
bard of New Boston, leading advo-
cate of road bonds in the House
movement to obtain the adoption
of the joint resolution submitting
that proposition to a vote of the
people.
If Mr. Hubbard’s calculations are
correct, the present gasoline tax
could be cut in half, giving le to
the highway fund and 1 to the
state school fund. Under the con-
stitution one-fourth of all occupa-
tion taxes collected go to the school
fund. A 2c tax, if divided in exact
ratio as required by the constitu-
tion. would provide 112 cents for
the highway fund and 1 cent for
the school fund. However, the road
bond advocate would want to give
the school fund one full cent of
the gallonage tax and since 1c
would be necessary for their pur-
poses, the total gas tax would be
2c, equally divided. This would
give the school fund the same
amount it is now receiving, 1c out
of the 4c, or one-fourth, a demand-
ed by the constitution. At the
same time the motorist and com-
mercial users of gasoline on the
highways would have their tax cut
in half.
See Better Chance
If Mr. Hubbard can substantiate
his figures to the Legislature and
carry conviction in his presentation
the road bond amendment will have
a much better chance of submis-
ion. as one of the most persistent
arguments against it has been that
the obligations would mean a huge
increase in tax levying to pay off
the interest and principal as the
latter would fall due periodically
under serial bonds. This is to be
one of the surprises of the coming
road bond advocacy.
STEVENS-GOBER CO. ENJOYS
BIRTHDAY PARTY
Stevens-Gober Co. had a birth-
day party yesterday, and they let
it be known by making whoopee
last night at the store. Just as
the employees were putting on their
hats to go home, had all the doors
locked but one, and were begin-
ning to wonder why all their wives
had appeared to take them home,
the back door came open and the
show master began to cry his per-
formance, advising the "Ladies and
gentlemen” to come up close and
get a good seat for the show about
to begin.
When he took off his high black
SAN ANGELO, Feb. 17.—Dates
for the 1931 convention of the
Sheep and Goat Raisers Associa-
tion of Texas to be held in San
Angelo have been set as July 28-31.
The executive committee recent-
ly in session heard a report by E.
S. Mayer on the Eat More Lamb
movement, of which he is chairman
in Texas. A committee composed
of Roy Aldwell, W. H. Beck and
Robert Real was appointed to con-
fer with the legislative committee
of the association relative to the
appropriation for the Sonora Ranch
station.
A proposal that the association
indorse the plan for raisers not to
breed one-half their ewes for a
period of two years was tabled.
No Trace Found of Car
Stolen Saturday Night
No trace has so far been had of
the 1928 model Chevrolet sedan
stolen last Saturday night from 0.
E. Hurd, of the East Sweden com-
munity. The car was left parked
on the Brady plaza by Mr. Hurd’s
son, while attending the show, and
while the key was taken out of the
ignition switch, the car was not
locked. When the car was missed
after the show, officers of neigh-
boring points were all notified to
be on the look-out, but not a single
clue has been developed. Mr.
Hurd is offering a reward of $25
for recovery of the car unburned
and unstripped, while Sheriff Kim-
brough is adding an additional re-
ward of $25 for apprehension and
conviction of the thief.
Theft insurance was carried by
Mr. Hurd in the Goetha Fire Insur-
ance association, Swedish mutual
organization.
ROSS STERLING BIRTHPLACE
RICH IN HISTORIC TRADITION
AUSTIN, Tex., Feb. 12.—Ana-
huac, the birthplace of Ross S.
Sterling, Texas’ new governor, is
rich in the traditions of history.
Its cycle ranges through a period
extending from 1756 through the
stormy days of the Republic and
into the era of Texas’ statehood.
Near this little Texas town at
the mouth of the Trinity River
Ross S. Sterling was horn 55 years
ago. He was one of 12 children
born of parents impoverished by
the Civil War.
Twenty years after the Ameri-
can revolution in 1756, three quar-
ters of a century before the com-
ing of Stephen F. Austin, a Span-
ish fort and mission stood on the
present site of Anahuac. The pur-
pose of the fort was to guard the
frontier against the French and
other foreigners. The mission was
erected to christianize the Orco-
quisa Indians. The fort was known
as the Presidio San Augustin de
Ahunda and the mission as Nues-
tra Senora de la Luz, or Our Lady
of the Light.
Thus began the history of Ana
huac, the home of Ross S. Ster-
ling.
The Orcoquisa Indians lived at
that time in villages along the Rio
de Trinidad, Spanish for Trinity
river. Near the mouth of this riv-
er where Anahuac now stands was
hat, to make his courtly bow to
the audience, they discovered that
he was Hugh Lee Gober, Jr. By
that time his performers were on
the improvised stage beside him.
One was a young lady entirely____,______... . ... _____.
hidden except her face, by a huge ring center. Traders from French
General Electric Refrigerator, an-villages along the
other a floor lamp with a face
showing through the shade, anoth-
located the main village of the Or-
coquisas. This village was the trad-
! Mississippi
brought trinkets, guns and blan-
Correct for Spring
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fashion’s darlings for 1931.
Here you will find newest ver-
sions in frocks of gayest
prints.
$1295
STYLE
SUCCESSES
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A costume that will “suit
you” in the manner of 1931!
Light weight woolen in spring
shades fashion this smart
frock and the jacket to match.
$12.95 to $19.75
All the Jew Straws
NOTICE
You can get your shoes half
soled 85 cents and $1.00, best
leather; ladies leather taps 25
cents. E. E. SCARBOROUGH
SHOE SHOP, Southwest cor-
ner Square.
er a bouquet with a hand holding a
little ambulance, and the fourth a
large tin tank, thus representing
the four departments of J. E. Ste-
vens-Gober Co., Inc.
The young gentleman then an-
nounced that the department repre-
sentatives had assembled on the
third anniversary of the opening
of Stevens-Gober Co. in Brady to
wish the firm a happy birthday, in
which the young ladies joined him
loudly. Then the performers be-
gan a little birthday song which
ran to the time of an old love
song:
One, two, three four departments
we have here—no more.
Eins, zwei, drei, vier—we wish you
birthday cheer.
Yet, nee, sain, si—we envy not the
Chinee;
Good seed we’ve sown, each year
we’ve grown,
One, two and three.
One, two, three, Uh—we’re just be-
ginning our four.
Eins, zwei, drei, vier ’twill be the
firm’s best year.
Yet, nee, sam, si—we’ll beat the
heathen Chinee.
The year that comes will beat the
sum
Of one, two, and three.
When they were encored back
onto the stage, they sang the last
stanza of the little song and threw
multicolored balloons into the au-
dience on each county, the balloons
bearing in silver figures ’28-’31.
When this shower was over, little
George Hill Jr., who presented to
Mr. Gober a birthday cake bearing
three burning candles and the lit-
tle crier announced that if the audi-
ence would come “right this way"
they would find red lemonade to
accompany the cake. This lemon-
ade was served by the four per-
formers from the departments,
Misses Pauline Gober, Charline
Gray, June Jordan and Virginia
Hughes.
By that time every one agreed
with the sentiment expressed on
the little hand-decorated cards
which hung on streamers from the
birthday cake, that "Mardi Gras
hasn’t anything on us; we celebrate
in February too,” “Washington
can’t have all of February,” “Lin-
coln started life in February, but
so did we.”
Sheet Metal, Water Sup-
plies, and Plumbing. BROAD-
WINDROW COMPANY.
kets to this village and exchanged
them for furs and skins.
The Spanish resented the intru-
sion of the French and subsequent-
ly sent troops to be stationed
among the Indians.
One of the missionaries at the
mission in writing to the governor
of Mexico, said:
“This place is excellent, sir, be-
cause of its elevation, commands
a view of the whole site of the pre-
sidio and a circumference to the
west and south where the River
Trinity turns, as far as the eye can
teach. Toward the east the land is
a little less elevated. At a distance
of a league enough corn can be ob-
1 tained to support a large popula-
tion. All these advantages being
seen the mission was located on
the site."
Little more was heard of the
settlement until Stephen F. Austin
came to Texas. In 1831 Col. Brad-
burn was sent by the Mexicans
with a garrison of soldiers with
headquarters at Anahuac. The set-
tiers were harassed by Bradburn
and his men and finally resorted
to armed resistance. William B.
Travis was at this time arrested
and thrown into prison because of
his part in the organized resist-
ance of the settlers against Brad-
burn and his Mexican soldiery.
Bradburn was placed under arrest
by Colonel Piedras of Nacogdoches.
Travis and other American pris-
oners being held were liberated.
It was at this time that the news
of the battle of Velasco was re-
ported.
NEW LOCATION.
Pay us a visit, we are now
located on the East Side of the
Square, one door south of
Townsend’s Variety Store.
Shoe, Boot and Harness re-
pairing. J. B. LEDDY.
NOTICE SHEEPMEN.
A meeting will be held at
the court house in Brady next
Saturday afternoon at 2:30
o’clock to discuss the -ques-
tion of price of shearing this
year. Contractors of shear-
ing invited to be present.
McCULLOCH COUNTY.
WOLF CLUB, .
W. N White, President,
H. P. Jordan, Secretary.
Spring's greatest Millinery
Success. The flattering New
Straws, including panama-
laque, baku, and soisette in
snug-fitting effects of flat-
tering brims.
Spring Bags
$3.95
New Handbags of tapes-
tries, silk, calf, and antelope
in smart styles.
A SPECIAL TREAT
FOR THE LADIES
I Regular $3.00 Facial Treatment Given Without Charge
to Prove Unusual Results of New System
of Beauty Culture.
As a special courtesy to our cus tomers we have obtain-
ed at considerable expense the services of Mrs. Vir-
ginia Goodin, beauty expert and special representative
of Dorothy Perkins, who will be at our store February
23rd to 28th, inclusive.
She will analyze your skin, advise you on your personal
beauty problems, give you a complete facial treatment
and show you how to give yourself the same treatment
at home.
No charge for this service.
(We will have a private booth in our store.)
Phone 386 now for appointment.
Sturges & Co.
“The Ladies Store.”
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