Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, November 9, 1923 Page: 1 of 4
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For a Greater, Better Palacios Country—Agriculture, Industry, Commerce, Living
SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
PALACIOS, MATAGORDA COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1923
VOLUME XVI NUMBER 45
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Game Law Open
Season Bag Limit
Several changes have been
made in the game laws since last
season, and we advise that you
read carefully the following, in
order that those venturing forth
to fill the game bag will be in-
formed on the new regulations:
You must not kill, catch, poo
sess, or ship at any time during
year, antelope, .mountain sheep,
woodcock, wood duck, egret or
other plume birds, non-game
waterfowl, song bird, insectiv-
orus bird, pheasant, turkey hen,
doe deer or spotted fawn.
You must not hunt from motor
boat, sailboat, airplane or boat
undertow; and must not hunt at
night with any sort of light or
lantsrn.
You must not buy or sell (or
barter) any game bird or animal.
You may kill at any time, in
any numbers, English sparrows,
ricebirds and blackbirds, buzz-
ards, crows, owls, hawks (ex-
cept sparrow hawk) and rabbits.
Also the following game:
OPEN SEASON.
South zone covering all terri -
tory in vicinity of Houston and
surrounding counties: Doves,
Nov. 1 to December 15. Duck,
geese, brant or Jacksnipe, Nov.
1 to January 31. Deer, Nov. 1 to
December 31. Quail and cha-
chalaca, December 1 to Jan. 31,
Plover, October 16 to December
15. Federal closed season on
upland plover.
BAG LIMITS.
Never more than 25 of all kind
jn one day's bag and never ship-
ping or possessing more than a
grand total of 75 of all kinds.
Deer, three bucks in one season
Quail or chacalaca, 15 one d?y.
Doves or plover, 15 in one day,
Geese and brant, not more than
eight in one day.
Ducks and Wilson or Jacksnipe
not more than 25 in any one day.
Squirrels, five in any one day,
$350,000 Voted for
Building Good Roads in
West Columbia District
The Road Bond election last
Saturday returned a verdict of
290 votes majority in favor of
bonding West Columbia district
or $350,000 to build a hard sur-
ace road from the Angleton to
the Sweeney lines, about 111-2
miles, which is estimated to cost
about $408,000.
It is possible and probable that
this district will receive GO per
cent Federal and State aid on the
designated highway and, after
the highway is completed, there
will be a surplus fund sufficient,
used in the proper way, to
build several lateral roads—West
Columbia Star.
Palacios Prize Winners.
Palacios was put on the map
at the state fair in Dallas, J. A.
Cunningham received a prize in
his display of Duncan grapefruit
and W. E. Green got prizes on
Satsuma oranges, kumquats and
persimmons. Mr. Teal handled
the Palacios fruit and evidently
gave them their proper places.
Next year it is hoped the dis-
play will be larger and hence
more prizes for Palacios. If the
::ruit growers would only make
their plans earlier in the season
and get up a display of their
best, what a showing it would
make.
Mrs. George Reynolds, who
had been visiting relatives in
Bishop, was returning home Sun-
day and was on the Brownsville
train that was wrecked near Cor-
pus Christi. She was accompa-
nied by her cousin, Mrs. Carl
$ishop and two children. None
of them were hurt but badly
frightened and more or less
"shook up."
Because of the funeral of the
late M. Hockey, the Wednesday
Club postponed their meeting un-
til Friday last week, when they
met at the home of Mrs. Bran-
don with ten members present.
The subject for the day was
"Early Texas" which was very
interestingly handled by Mrs.
Traylor and Mrs. Ruthven. The
roll call caused many interesting
comments.
LOST—Practically new $5.00
Biil last Friday night, Nov. 2,
between Hotel Palacios and Wil-
lis rooming house; stopped a
Luther filling station to get gas
$nd probably lost same there
Finder return to C. M. Clay
bourne and receive reward.
Miss Nellie Mae Pasal enter
tained the Junior girls at her
home Friday night. The young
ladies proved to be experts
candy making and being able to
furnish their own entertainment
was attested by the pranks
Mr. and Mrs. O. P. Clark, who
formerly lived here, but who
have been living on the Caney
:or several years, have returned
to town, that they may be near
their daughter, Mrs. H. P.
Douglas.
Next Tuesday is the regular
monthly meeting of the P. T. A,
As usual they will meet at four
o'clock in the high school library,
he membership committee re-
ports 170 members so there
should be a good attendance.
The Beacon comes out a day
ate this week due to the fact,
that the editor and force decided
they would like to go to Bay City
to see the Big County Fair. The
?air was a decided success and
we will try to tell you something
about it in our next issue.
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"iST PIN, top, spin!
Circling out and in,
Whirling 'round before my eyes,
Like "a fairy in disguise—
Who would believe a common string
Made you start to dance and sing?
Spin, top, spin!
y Find four other spinnert Upper tide down, in flowers, upper tide down, along hatf
and shoulder*, upper side down, slong head end shoulders, upper side down, along boy*
clothes •
Don't forget your coupons for
'ree Silverware.
Nester Drug Co.
N. B. Massenburg and Felix
Hagood came down from Hous-
ton Saturday night for an over-
Sunday visit with their families.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Luther
and Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Salisbury
went to Houston Tuesday, going
up in the former's Reo. They
returned home Thursday.
FOR RENT—Five room house,
Furnished. For further partic-
ulars see A. M. Stadig. 45-4t
Stores Close Monday.
We, the following business
houses agree to close Monday,
the 12th for the purpose of ob-
serving Armistice Day:
Hayes Clothing Co.,
Traylor Hardware Co.,
H. C. Boyd,
Ruthven Grocery Co.,
M. E. Rogers,
Palacios Shoe & Harness Store
City Barber Shop,
D. P. Moore Dry Goods Co.,
The Auto Inn,
S. D. Vick,
Pickwick Bakery,
C. M. Backen,
T. A. McFarland,
J. W. Stewart,
Curtis-Sisson Grocery Co.,
T. R. Brandon,
W. B. Rae,
Palacios State Bank,
E. E- Burton Cq.,
City Feed Store,
Palacios Auto Co.,
Price Lumber Co.,
Grant Lumber Co.,
Aldrich Cafe,
Aldrich Confectionery,
Don Ross.
Miss Ruby Starr left last week
for Hidalgo, where she has a
splendid school and is very much
in love with the country and her
work. She writes her parents
she watches the sun set in Mex-
ico.
Good Records.
A. Mosier, who lives just to
the west of town, would like to
know if any one this year raised
more than a bale and a half of
cotton on two and a half acres of
land? If such there be let him
make his record known. This is
a good yield for this year, while
it has been beaten to a frazzle in
other years. Another example
of what can be done with some
work—a lot of work—is the home
place of Mr. Cavander. Mr.
Cavander came here a year ago
last July and bought a little place
just to the west of J. W. Craw-
ford which had on it a small
house, a few small peach trees
and a thriving growth of Bermu-
da. Today, Nov. 8, 1923, there
are bearing fig trees, the finest,
thriftiest orange trees imagina-
ble, grape cuttings, set last De-
cember that have made a won-
derful growth and one vine has
a bunch of grapes on it. There
are peach trees, plums and most
everything else. While waiting
for his orchard to come into bear-
ing he grew vegetables between
the rows and last summer sold
more than >100 worth of tomatoes
alone. Mr. Cavender is a veter-
an of the Spanish American war
and suffers dreadfully with heart
trouble. If a sick man can ac
complish so much what can a
well man do if he really tries.
and bursts of care-free laughter.
The El Campo Record, which
was recently purchased by F. A.
Shannon, of Wharton, from E.
B. Patrick, who had piloted it
for about 20 years, comes to our
exchange table in a new style of
make-up, full of news, a good
display of ads from the mer-
chata, neatly gotten up and ar-
ranged and is all in all a very
nifty looking country newpaper,
showing that Mr. Shannon is a
real newspaper man and thor-
oughly acquainted with the art
preservative.
Mr- and Mrs. Ben Ehlers and
Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Boyd, of
Palacios, who have been view-
ing this section of the Valley this
week, left today for Brownsville
and Matamoros. — McAllen Daily
Press.
Coolidge "18th Century"
Tos how that women are get-
ting interested in the "political
game, and are really a factor to
be seriously reckoned with, we
submit the following from a re-
cent issue of New York Times:
Hartford, Conn., Nov. 3.—
"What is the feeling of the wo-
men voters toward President
Coolidge?" asked Mrs. Emily
Newell Blair, Vice Chairman of
the Democratic Committee at a
meeting here yesterday of Con-
necticut Democratic women lead-
ers. She answered her own in-
quiry thus:
"I believe that he has not won
favor with the women largely
because women voters are thor-
ough modernists and they cannot
see that an eighteenth century
man, such as our admittedly Pur-
itan President is, is fitted partic-
ularly for the problems of this
rushing twentieth century. A
great amount of propaganda has
been sent out about his '"cau-
tiousness,' 'thriftiness' and 'si-
lence,' and the women, I believe,
do not find these particularly
commendable virtues in a Presi-
dent. Caution is easily synony-
mous with lack of courage, thrift
often degenerates into stinginess,
and silence does not always con-
note wisdom. We feel that he
ought to express himself on the
various pressing problems of the
day.
"Women will go to the polls
determined to express themselves
in positive terms against the in-
iquitous tariff."
Optimism and
Crushed Shell
Margaret Nester, Mary Boi-
ling, Wanda Gray, Mary Taylor,
Vesta Anthony, Mary Allene El-
liott, Lucile Bowden, Grace Eve-
lyn Barnett are on the honor roll
for last month's work in Miss
Holliday's music class,.
A belated item of news is the
social and business meeting held
by the R. N. A. at the home of
Mrs. Frank Gillespie last week.
At the conclusion of the business
the hostess served apple pie with
whipped cream, fruit cookies
and hot coffee. All the resident
members of the camp except two
were present and report one of
nicest times imaginable.
Mrs. Mary S. Gaines and her
son and his wife, of Houston,
were in town Wednesday. Mrs.
Gaines is selling some of her fig
land which she has had put in an
excellent state of cultivation and
has set to fig cuttings. She has
sold several tracts at the com-
fortable sum of $400.00 an acre.
There is other equally as good fig
land but there are not enough
Mrs. Gaines who have the energy
and foresight to have the land
broken and made productive.
A friend at Deutschburg re-
quested me to write an article for
the Beacon, As he did not men-
tion fhe topic for the article, I
have taken the above heading
for my subject.
I think it was the Bay City
Tribune and also the Farm and
Ranch that made some good
points on optimism. One wants
us to start a lot of "optimistic
seed." The other would have us
plan for a real winning harvest
before the seed are planted.
The very atmosphere around
Palacios is optimistic about the
small and the large fig orchards
that are "to be." It is a fore-
gone conclusion that fig trees by
the thousands are going to be
planted as one of our optimistic
crops. But I see, our land must
je rich in lime if we grow figs in
the quantities that the real opti-
mist desire. This now brings
me to remark, that a number of
years ago I had the soil from my
ittle home in Palacios examined
by experts. It was found to be
deficient in lime. I was advised
;o lime the soil. This I did, but
jy and by I found the lime was
insufficient. Therefore, as an
experiment on my lot, a little
ess than an acre, I scattered
over 16,000 pounds of finely
crushed oyster shells. This ap-
plication was put on two years
ago. The results were so decid-
ed, that last year I placed over
the same ground one ton of the
crushed shell.
Our citrus expert, Mr. Bryant,
only a few days ago remarked
that my trees had made unusual
growth this season. He had
reference to the orange trees,
jut the same can be said of my
igs and other trees. An exam-
ination of my soil now shows a
nice supply of lime from the
;reatment of crushed oyster
shells
Looking across the railroad
near the depot, I see a large
bank of crushed oyster shell, al-
most as fine as "silk." Do you
know that every yard of that
powdered shell should find its
way out and upon our own Pala-
cios lands. Not a car should
eave here until every acre in all
this section should be. made
sweet. Then the orchards will
yield those optimistic crops,
hat all our journals are praying
for. ' Dr. T. F. Driskill.
Mr. Nester has installed a fine
new springless weighing scale in
his drug store. The scale is a
good-looking piece of machinery
and adds to the attractiveness of
the store. If in doubt about your
correct weight you now know
where to go to find out.
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Pybus went
to Bishop Friday and spent the
remainder of the week with their
daughter, Miss Louise, there and
with friends and relatives in
Kingsville. They drove out Sun-
day to view the wreck on the
Brownsville.
Coming soon our Rexall One
Cent Sale. Nester Drug Co.
After the business meeting of
the Eastern Star Tuesday night,
initiation and the worthy matron,
Mrs. Nester's, report from
Grand Chapter, those present
were delightfully entertained by
Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Cole, Mr.
and Mrs. Noble Hayes and Miss
Hansen, who served a delicious
salad, cakes and hot chocolate,
Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Tandy, of
Brownsville, are the guests of
Mr. Tandy's cousins, Capt. and
Mrs. C. W. Tandy. Mr. Tandy,
who has a large vgrapefruit or-
chard and is also engaged in
trucking on a big scale, came
Monday and his wife who had
been visiting in Fort Worth came
Tuesday. Mr. Tandy is very fa-
vorably impressed with Palacios
and especially with the extra fine
fishing and duck and goose hunt
that has come his way while
here. They expect to leave for
their home today.
FOR SALE:—4-room modern
bungalow, close to school. See
Grant Lumber Co. 42-4w
Mr. G. F. Wilbur, who with
his wife recently returned from
Iowa, had a stroke of apoplexy
Saturday night, is still in a very
critical condition and no hopes
are entertained for his recovery,
Mr. Wilbur is almost 86 years
old and has been in failing health
for the past year or two. Later:
Mr. Wilbur passed away Friday
morning at 2:15 and the remains
were interred in the city ceme-
tery. Obituary next week.
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Ehlers and
Mr, and Mrs. Erve Boyd return-
ed Tuesday afternoon from an
eleven day trip through the Rio
Grande Valley. Their good time
was interferred with because of
the unusual amount of rain they
encountered. For three days at
one stretch there was a steady
rain with no glimpse of the sun.1
Palacios has escaped all these re-
cent rains but as the soil here is
not suffering for moisture no of-
fense is taken.
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