Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 34, Ed. 1 Friday, August 24, 1923 Page: 1 of 4
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For a Greater, Better Palacios Country—Agriculture, Industry, Commerce, Living
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PALACIOS, MATAGORDA COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1923
VOLUME XVI NUMBER 34
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Rice Acreage
Near Palacios
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The Turner Rice and Irrigation
Company, who have immense
land holdings across the bay, 12,-
000 acres of it being in rice, this
week closed their first sale when
they disposed of 15,000 bags of
rice for $60,000.00. The thresh-
ing machines are disclosing an
excellent yield of superior qual-
ity grain and it takes a fleet of
four large tractors to carry it to
the warehouse. The largest field
on this side is the George Harri-
son tract of 1200 acres, which is
also yielding well and the grain
is A-l. There are numerous
smaller acreages that will total
several hundred acres.
This land has recently changed
hands and is now owned by a
number of capitalists, who are
planning a number of fine im-
provements. There will be a
greater number of acres planted
to rice, the equipment will be
improved and everything done to
facilitate work on the. immense
ranch. The new owners have
- ^other ideas than just those of
•making more money to buy more
land, etc. They are planning a
^^..vast game preserve, and will
build a comfortable and conven-
ient club house to take care of
jthe sportsmen.
That the possibilities of rice
farming is beginning to be real-
ized in this section is evidenced
the fact th^t plans ar$ afoot
ia have thousands of acres of the
fertile soil lying between the
Tres-Palacios and the Caranca-
hua planted to rice next season.
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THE BEACON
SPORT COLUMN
PERSONAL EVENTS
AND BRIEF ITEMS
Mrs. S, J. Pybus and Miss Py-
bus left Thursdap to spend a few
days in Velasco, visiting J. E.
Pybus and family.
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75 Years Old
But Brings in
Largest Bale
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Howard Campbell and Row-
land Burton came home last
night.having spent several weeks
in North Texas and Arkansas.
Miss Mildred Winchell, whose
home is in Michigan, came yes-
terday for an extended visit with
her cousin, Mrs. M. M. Miller
and family.
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How does this sound to the
young, healthy, able-bodied man
who possesses a good farm and
A-l equipment?
J. T. Smith, who was 75 years
old last January 4, this year rent-
ed about seventeen acres of cot-
ton ground from I. P. Miller,
and planted it to cotton. His only
help in raising his crop was one
small mule, but to date he has
picked and brought in the big-
gest bale of the season—one
weighing 628 pounds. Had the
worms only been kind and pass-
ed him by he would have had a
splendid crop to harvest, but ow-
ing to their devastation it will be
deplorably short.
Mr. Smith is possessed of a
cheerful disposition, a tall, wiry
frame and unbounded optimism,
and is sure he and his mule will
beat all records next year.
Blanchard Belknap and wife
arrived from Dallas the first of
the week to spend their vacation
time with their parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. W. Belknap.
Mrs. W.'E. Green and children,
Misses Muriel and Dorothy Green
and Jim Green, left this morning
for San Marcos, to be present at
the commencement? exercises
when Miss Leafa Green will re-
ceive her degree.
C. W. Nester and children,
Miss Margaret and Charles Nes-
ter, spent the first of the week
camping in and near San Anto-
nio. They were accompanied by
Mr. Nester's father, Mr. I. H.
Nester.
Mr. and Mrs, A- H. Sayles, of
Oklahoma, came the first of the
week and will remain through
the winter months. The summer
colony has not yet evacuated and
the winter comers are rapidly
filling the few places vacated.
Mayor R. H. VonKessel, Post-
master Hardy, Gul L. E. Smith
and Steve Brown, of Francitas,
paid our city a call Monday and
carriecjjhome something less than
$100 worth of job printing for
the Francitas Land and Improve-
ment Company.
J. JL Gather, of Oakdale, La.,
|eft for his honie \yednesday af-
ter q very pjeasant and profita?
hie stay in our ideal city. Mr,
Gather came for the benefit of
his health, and was doing so
nicely he had planned to make a
longer stay but illness in his fam-
ily hastened his departure. He
was delighted with everything
here and hopes to return soon.
M. K. Feather came home
Wednesday, after having had the
time of his life motoring through
Indiana, Michigan and New
York. Mrs. Feather and Russell
stopped in Houston for a few
days with their relatives there.
Mrs. S. E. Boiling, of Fairview,
entertained some friends of Auld
Lang Syne complimentary to
Mrs. W. B. Cunningham, of Co-
manche, Mrs. W. J. Cunning-
ham, of Waco, Mrs. W. D. and
Miss Helen Sartwelle of near Pa-
lacios. The day was one of real
pleasure to all present as it is
many years since the ladies had
met. Nothing was more enjoyed
than the Gulf breeze and the
beautiful view of the Bay.
Little Miss Dorothy Lee Curtis
celebrated her seventh birthday
yesterday by inviting in about
20 of her small friends. The af-
ternoon was spent in playing
games on the lawn. The center
of attraction on the refreshment
table was the beautiful birthday
cake with its burning tapers.
•> Mrs. Dora Loftin accompanied
Mrs. H. M. Sanders home from
San Antonio and spent a week
here, leaving last Saturday for
Houston, where she will visit
with her son before going on to
her home in Wallis;
Circle No. 4 of the Presbyterian
Auxialiary is the "livest" organ-
ization in town. Last Thursday
afternoon twelve cars containing
the Circle members and their
families drove to the Harriman
beach for a frolic and supper.
There was a sumptuous picnic
repast, open air games and more
"eats." The moon was just
right, the supper was just right,
and everyone's spirits soared.
Mrs. F. B. Chilton and daugh-
ters, Misses Mabelle and Irene,
returned to Houston Wednesday,
after having spent three months
in their summer home here.
They regretted the necessity for
returning so soon, but must be
there to meet Miss Frances Chil-
ton, who is returning from her
work in the summer normal.
Capt. Chilton says he will stay
here until it is cooler in Houston.
Makes Thrilling
Rescue on High
Scaling Ladder
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High upon the balcony she
stood—a grim spectre outlined
by the searchlight against flam-
ing, smoking walls! Down in
the teeming street a riot of panic
and disorder, stood the father,
struck to the heart by terroi" as
he saw the smoke engulf his
daughter, and blot her complete-
ly from view. Then the thrilling
rescue!
That, briefly, is but one of the
terrific action situations in the
great fireman's melodrama, "The
Third Alarm" at Queen Theatre,
Friday-Saturday, Aug. 24-25.
Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Haines and
daughters, Misses Mildred and
Edwina Haines, of Dallas, spent
a week camping on the cool,
clean and restful encampment
grounds and were delighted with
their stay. Mr. Haines is a rela-
tive of the H. C. Hunt family,
who uled to live in Palacios, and
Mrs. Haines brought her daugh
ter, Miss Mildred, here in 1912
for the benefit of her health and
in 1913 they came again. Miss
Mildred has entirely regained her
health and gives Palacios the
credit Unlike a great many, she
has not ceased to be grateful.
They left for their home Tues-
day, going via San Antonio where
they will look up the Perry fam-
ilies.
Recently the married ladies
played a game of baseball with
the single lassies, and to say that
both sides surprised the fans
puts it mildly. The batteries for
the singles were Crawford and
Skinner, and for the married
team, Stapp and Withers, the
latter two being in the single
class, however. The sports writ-
er would like to make mention of
all the players individually, but
space will not permit, but wants
to say that Mrs. Bergerand Mrs.
Sanders walloped tne pill like
old leaguers, and in fact both
teams showed they had not for-
gotten what they had learned in
the old school days. Both catch-
ers decided masks were made on-
ly for the timid men, and faced
the pill with no protection.
The score was slightly in favor
of the married team, When you
take into consideration that fac-
ing, stopping and throwing a
hard baseball effectively is no
pink tea party, the ladies did re-
markably well, and while the
men expected to see them the
next day nursing aches and
pains, to the contrary they were
out about their business and
about town shopping as usual-
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Williams,
of Gulf, and their friends, Dr.
McCullough and wife from Iowa,
spent the first of the week with
Mr. Williams' parents, Mr. and
Mrs. W. C. Williams. Incident-
ally, they were visitors at the
Eastern Star, Mrs. Williams be-
ing the W. M. of the Bay City
chapter.
Our City Park
Did you ever stop to think how
easy it is to criticise? Just any
one can criticise. Why criticism
is about the most plentiful thing
there is. Constructive criticism
is a wonderful thing, but is very
rare. Now, if our friend that
wrote up our "City Park" is last
week's Beacon had offered some
plan whereby it would be possi-
ble to beautify our park and keep
it beautiful, his criticism would
have been worth while.
The present administration of
the Chamber of Commerce has
never turned a deaf ear to any
plan for the betterment of Pa-
acios, and a plan for the upkeep
of our park would have especially
appealed to the writer, because
he was with the Boy Scouts when
they worked so faithfully in
cleaning the park. It is a very
easy matter to get the park
cleaned and setting out the flow-
ers, but flowers need more than
'a little land,, a lot of love, some
rain and some sunshine;"—they
need a lot of WORK and care.
When the Chamber of Com-
merce has a budget large enough
to hire the work done, then our
City Park will be a credit to us.
Volunteer workers I am afraid
will fall short on this kind of a
proposition. Think it over.
Whenever you have any criti-
cism to make, or any plan for the
betterment of Palacios, come to
to the Chamber of Commerce
headquarters at the city hall and
et's talk it over. And remem-
ber, constructive criticism is
what counts.
Carlton Crawford.
Mrs. L. Brewer came from
San Antonio Tuesday, where she
had been the guest of her son,
Mr. Leo Brewer, a prominent at-
torney of that city, Mr. Brewer
spent several days with his par-
ents here and on his return took
his mother and sister, Miss Es-
ther, home with him. Miss Es-
ther is staying for a few more
weeks.
Mr. R. B. Stone, wife and
daughters, Misses Nellie and Ma-
rietta Stone, of Dallas, spent last
week on the Encampment
grounds, where they took ad
vantage of the bathing and fish-
ing. They started on their re-
turn journey Tuesday, going via
San Antonio where they will
draw comparisons between the
beauties and conveniences of
Breckenridge park and the Palac
ios Encampment grounds,
Mr. John Carroll Cairnes, who
took post graduate work this
summer in the state university
at Berkley, California, has re-
ceived the distinction of being
one of five appointed to teach
physical education in the schools
of San Francisco, Carroll is di
rector for three schools, where
he has charge of the boys' ath-
letics and classes in P. E. As
this is along the lines he most en-
joys he is delighted with the
work and bound to make a suc-
cess of it.
The article about the city park
in last week's Beacon had imme-
diate effect,, and Monday morn-
ing th,e city marshal mowed part
of it a,nd trimmed the palms. For
some reason he did not finish the
mowing, but perhaps he will
soon. If the city council could
see its way clear to having the
water piped into the park, flow-
ers and trees could be taken care
of better, and there would be
more incentive to plant flowers.
Dr. F. W. Dimmitt was delight-
ed by receiving a visit ftom his
son, Dr. Frank Dimmitt, of Gal-
veston, who came to spend the
week-end with his father. Dr.
Frank is a very successfully buey
man and but for these occasiona
week-end visits with his father,
when he is both physically anc
mentally x-efreshed, he possibly
might not be able to accomplish
the almost unbelievable amoun
of work he does.
Miss Linnie Wolf, as superin-
tendent of the Palacios schools,
is surely having her share of
troubles. After having written
sheafs of letters and sent dozens
of telegrams trying to secure the
services of an H. E. teacher, she
:inally found one whose recom-
mendations said she would prove
satisfactory. The contract was
signed and all was calm and
peaceful when—plump! into this
calmness dropped a bomb—a let-
ter from the very inconsiderate'
young lady saying she had "done-
gone and got" married and was
going to Port Arthur with her
new husband. Miss Linnie's time
is short and her summer work
has been arduous, but she still)
must find an H. E. teacher for
our girls.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Wendel, of
Adah, Oklahoma, drove in Satur-
day for a visit at the homes of
C. M. Cojaman and mother, W.
P. Clen^ent, and Mrs. Angle.
Mrs. J. M. Ball, of Houston,,
who has been entertaining a
house party on the Encampment
grounds for the past two weeks,
returned home Monday. The
City-cy-the-Sea is growing in fa-
vor with the Houston folk who
are seeking a nice clean cool
place for their vacations.
Mrs. F. G. Berger and daugh-
ters, Misses Marjorie and Ruth'
Berger, and Miss Holliday, drove
to San Antonio Monday, where
they expect to spend a week or
two camping and seeing the
sights..
Dr. J. L. Lush from the A. &
M. college came in Tuesday and'
drove out with Mr. Jas. W. Sart-
welle to see some fine specimens
of Brahma cattle. Dr. Lush is
especially interested fn this breed
and could go nowhere where he
could find a finer lot of cattle
than Mr. Sartwelle has.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Q, Adams who
spent two months with Oklahoma
relatives, came home Tuesday
night, more pleased than ever
with the good judgment that lo-
cated them in Palacios when
seeking, a home. They had a
splendid trip, but the urge for
the home caused them to drive
135 miles the last day.
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