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Pass FOUR-gficrioN one
TliE SHAMROCK TEXAN, SHAMROCK, TEXAS
IN SPORTS, DRAMA, MUSIC, SCIENCE, POLITICS:
Ireland’s Link With America Is Strong
Throughout Ireland during the
Autumn of 1854 troubles were put
out of mind and hope filled every
heart. For the potato held* were
green with what promised the
finest crop for many long years
Then or a single October night
a mysterious blight fell upon the
plants like n rain of deutli. In the
m a ning tr.e terrorized people
found the fields changed to a
sickly, withered brown and soon
the air from Donegal to Cork,
stank with the mouldering har-
vest.
Through the next summer, the
peasants planted and prayed, but
every autumn saw the scourg ■
return.
After four black years of famine
more than half the Irish had been
reduced to homeless wanderers,
singe. Some of these outstanding
actors are Helen Hayes, Margaret
Sullivan, the Barrymores, Spencer
Tracy Burry Fitzgerald and Gene
Kelly.
As playwrights, the Irish have
iven America George Kelly, Marc
onnellv, Philip) Barry and the
gneatest of all American drama-
lists, Eugene O'Neal, Patrick
CVilum ranks with the best-known
twentieth century poets. And »-
mong the novelists were James
Farrell, John O'Hara and Kathleen
Norris.
In sports os In arts, Irishmen
soon came to the lore. In boxing's
ban-knuckle days, John Mor-
Repeatedly elected Governor of ; 1851, invented the process of con- sumed a double burden, support-
NeW York, by overwhelming ma- i verting pig iron Into steel by the ing themselves, and saving to send
joritlri. he became the first of hU use of air blast. ! financial aid to their families tn
creed to be nominated for the SCIENCE AND EDUCATION I the home island.
Presidency, by a major politlcy.1 Irishmen have occupied Prom- j In the seventeen years following
party. He failed to be elected, jnent positions in the develop- IMS- at a time when the Irish-
but he received five million more ^ nient of medical science. Dr. Americans had gained but a bare
votes than had ever before been Joseph Dwyer devised the tech- economic foothold in the United
# Bullydehob, Co. Corf, Court of St. Jame's, Washington given to i. candidate of his party, nique which saved the lives of States, such remittances reached
ami the Marquess of Quecnsbury and Steve Casey, were world's h,.s been represented by Joseph , tremc,Iidous proDortlnn of thousands of diptheria victims, the amazing total of more than
mbs became the fashion John L. champion wrestlers and held the Kennedy; in China by Pat Hur- Lm.-rieln le^i haveTen o' »r. John Murphy was the firs. 15 million dollars.
Sullivan and Jim Corbett held the belt which was studded with ai, while Walter Donnellv has ''mencan nadirs navt, been o. . y ...
monds for several “ d ,ty' „ f » J " Irish stock. John Mitchell was fmrgeon to remove an appendix. Today, irlsh-Americans stiU
,1..... years. , n U S H,-h Commissioner and a founder of the United Mine Dr. James McGee became surgeon- maintain their old affection for
\ ' *OU ,,,,‘I'C*MACY Ambassador to Germany and workers J Maguire of the Car- general of the United States Army, -the land of the forefathers, even
e ir h were quick to enlrr Xllstrla- punters’ Union, whs one of the while Dr. Ldward McCormick has ‘though their homes are in A-
Amerlcin political life, and have of all Irlsh-Americans in politics organizers of American Federation been President of the American merica.
the Irishman’s aflection lor his weight championship when gloves lomane,
ancestral lslt: nd
Several talenteu men and women
have continued to enrich the U. S
title For nearly thirty years after
;hut the majority of all king titles
were held by Irishmen such
as Jack Dempsey, Jim Jef-
in Congress, none so captured the public
g vX «nd Cy McGovern havi «■«*•»•«» Imagination as the late A1 Smith.
Kid McCoy and urry Mci.ovirn. ia particular talent for dinlnm.i.-v
•........ rvxfshnnv rif Iireen- t,..!....- ___«... . u‘*"u,nai >
,, . mi.hnh. nf tireen- ! - 1 . „ . ------ — «*s>*uniai y. Burn of Irish parents, and edu-
Daniel OMahony, of Drsen Robert Murphy, son of a railway- ,-ated :us he loved to remind Ids
I man has served as an American
Ambassador in France,
Shamrock Women
Attend District
Meet In Perryton
Members of the local Senior
Fulton Fish Market,,
Belgium ;n New York, he managed to win
and Japan. Jefferson Caffrey has the affection and support of
been U. S. Ambassador in Cuba, thousands, who would never have
Brazil, France and Egypt. At the voted for any son of Tammany.
of Ijubor. Micnael Quill, heads j Medical Association,
the Transport Workers’ Union. The Irish have always been
James Butler organized the first noted for their deep devotion to
chain of grocery stores, and , their Faith.
Marcus Daly developed the vast No immigrants have ever found
Anaconda Cooper Company, and It easy to break with those they
John Holland, a Clare school left behind them. For the Irish
teacher, invented the first practical 1 to do so was unthinkable
submarina. William Kelly, in Thousands of Irish-Americans us-
striving hopelessly to sustain lifeirissey claimed the world's heavy- Wesleyan Service Guild were
on the b.uk and berries: whiio
disease and despair, spread durk
wings over the land. Never since
the Black Death of the 14tn
century hud any European nation
suffered so terrible a disaster.
TWENTY MILLION IRISH-
\ VII RI< \ vs
lir'one span of 15 years. 1845-80
m,.i-Cfc from
seftleain the United states, than
all the rest of the world had sent
to America since 1776.
T! rouehout the world, news of
the great Irish famine of 1847,
evoked a wave of sympathy. Tho
Turks were the first country t
send them aid food and provisions
for the starving peasants. In A-
merlc - nearly one million dollars
was speedily subscribed, to send
shiploads of food to succour the
starving. But when the rescue
fleet arrived at Cork and Water-
lord. It found the quays choked
with families begging for a chance
to F,ee fiom the stricken land, and
flee they did to many countries
Most of them turned to the United
States. Between 1845 and 1850
nearly 800,000 hunger-driven re-
fugees retched the U 8. seaports
By 18t,o almost 1,000,000 more had
arrived.
Today. Americans of Irish de-
scent number nearly twenty mli-
VM
honorable place In every phase of
American life; as scholars and
statesmen, ns school te-whers and
surgeons, as singers, scientists,
(k*1|
T» iliJol the t ' toif
were not the fir t Irish to emi-
grate to America. From the earliest
days the love of liberty and adv-
venture had lured many of them
across the ocean In 1737 th,-r
were enough In. h in Boston t
Special Week
Is Observed By
Dunbar School
launched
Perryton recently for a district
meeting of the organization.
During the business session the
following new officers were elected
as follows: Mrs. Bill Day nf Perry-
ton district secretary; Mrs. W. R.
: Wooten of Shamrock, recording
! secretary; Mrs Harold Hudson of
| Perrvton. missionary educational
secretary; and Mrs. Wade Gluts-
: pie of Burger, spiritual life serre-
tary.
could provide experience r
and nt'i i- in wh. i
•hov - f c - *' o and r
I ) t-
Dunbar High School
Public schools Week activities
on Monday of lust week with a
program on which H, C. Weather-
Uj was guest speaker. Mis Elsie Mae Hood of Shar.t-
Mi Wciitherby's subject was ! rock, was elected as a delegate to
Democracy In Action.” j the meeting at Mt. Sequoyah, at
Among special guests were Roy Fayetteville, Ark.
Scrivner, chairman of the Citizens
Committee on Public Schools and
vice president of the school board.
The Dunbar A Cuppella Choir
rendered numbers and Shiricy
Dorsey gave a soprano solo. Too
second, Hurd, fourth, fifth and
xth grades participated in a
pell in,; bee, and the junior high
scii "Oi competed against the senior
nigh school in a spelling bee.
A greeting was given by Mrs.
Loriii'- Llgg:ns, prssldent of the
Duftbar P-TA,
Following the evening program,
the audience was served refre u
rnents by the P-TA hostess,
era fTsnd Mrs, Anna :
oSlund. ^
A 'eneral exhibit was placcipj>'
. ohool jeparuni nt ny t the u nu il nn -1 ng < f *!he
.......... with tne Public Sellout, lahoma State Cotton Exchange
Wck observance. ! Convention, held last week-end at
Tne. ay's program was hi h Texhoira lodge, Tracy Tapp of
igHci by an address by Ur;..; this city was elected ns a member
>r ,.i the Ch oi J 'he ti ,rd ol flirt- tors
ii, ft | All cotton-produi ng tatea ha/aj
ir © Ilshf’lmi ber and the Oklahoma Ex-
• Cl) t . h.- 0 ' » "f the ere in I
o
An Interesting program was
given by Mrs. T E Piddarrt
president of the Conference WSC8
at Anson.
Mrs Earl Hannll of Shamrock,
sung a specisl number.
A salad luncheon was served at
the meeting.
Ladies who attend from Sham-
lock were: Mrs Elsie Mae Hood,
Mrs Enrl Hamill, Mrs. C. R
Burks, and Mrs Ed Scuffner.
Tracy Tapp Named
Director Of Slate
Cotton Exchange
tion; in New York the records of
similar festivities go back to thp
year 1762.
Tic . amis of0rixh, T- •
r ■ t h, -lc AV
passage by signing Indentures tha* I
bound them to seven year, or mnr- i
of semi-slavery as bond servants !
Others exiled In Cromwell tinn j ^ r (
to the Wet Indies, had escaped
' , • Junes Baptist <
from the sugar plantations t.
o
for their own
n k£
i H tin, t»y iii in.
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In, "Juanita "
Ciuesi- for the Tue-dny program
were HeV. C I) Long, pastor of
ihe Texola B.iptin Church, and
K. Smith, pastor of St.
ie J E^Sfiiith
a "Brn f W’
iMoli. " and mu
’ ihe Dunbar (
l
■ was presented
inrus.
Wednesday
0 D'l
rations. and will celebrate their
50th anniversary in IMS
ii- ,1 ol Wwsl .
ton, D O , who is a director of
lire commodity Credit Association
of the U s. Bureau of Agriculture, ;
was the principal speaker at the j
meeting.
Aside from the business res- i
slons, there was f slung, boats
ti i ss ,.ml nther forms of enter-
tainment for Ihe guests.
Mrs Tapp accompanied her
husband to Texhoma, win-re som*
200 members from the various
states were in attendance.
Rev and Mrs, David Mill* if
this week, en route to Fort Worth
to -i•tend the funeral of \tav Ms.
l.ru r. Mr Llvesay. xj
Mrs. Jewel Lyle of Dumas, w-a
. Putnpa, were through Shamrock
.! a ^ Senior here In t week visiting her sisters
•moon <t 2 o’-
a .
n - progrir i ov*i HiUlio Sta-j
EEVA Archie L EdWa-cis j
a pa pci
Mrs Tun Clay nnd Mrs, Frank
pernncr.u ■ m Action." and
> poem, "The Ne TO Mother," was DuBose. Q
Mrs emttrude Weems returned
•b morninfc ] home TtSflay from a month
visit, with her son, J. D. Weems
II'. 1 (limit 111 Baytown, imQi
H ion spoke t<i the
-roup on “WhV the Parent Ex-
f the the M
poellv ehnlr ,m s number.
settle in Virginia and (’irnliri
Otiiers Joined with EnalUili Cai
holies in establishing the Colony |
of Mi i 1 T> pi < <
ter were the Carrolls of Carroll-
ton. a family that produced
signatory of the Declaration of
In 1, it-nileu ■ Ir 17V if )
first Cu’l liL-hop 1,0, - r
Colonists from Ireland were
ardent members of Washington's
forces The Muster Hyig. of the
Continental Army reveWs m,->>
than 4.000 men, who bore Irish
names The O'Kelly alone total-
led 635. Tills was reckoned a
high proportion in a force thT
numbered only 25,000 men - 1 1 !'vw' " U- l>a»>t Dun-
one time 1 Tlw " ,< u activities dosed
IRISH SINGERS AND BOXERS i A 'Hx a b-tr The pr ham was
Most of the Irish refugees lacked J speared with Ihe ’.roup n • Down
the training that would have1! By The River ate Invocation
qualified them as craftsmen, and [ w*s given by Bro Carney
the building of the embankments j Children nf the first and second
for the Chesapeake Railway ■ rniil':i ',flve a number “Little
in Npw England ' mb." bv P oil I awren Dunbar
The Irish laid the first, railway | was recited bv Lonzelle Peace,
line from Boston to Providence. In j 'fh< r r!loir ::,|v' "By and
Pennsylvania, they pushed the j By," and Mrs Pciee recited "The
winding rails towards the until- [ Negro Was Tn it"
raeite country, after such projects) A tribute i the v h ml was
were completed they provided a iven bv Mr Olivia Majors and
reservoir of labour for the boom-! 1 paper on 'Democracy in Action"
ing texile mills of Massachusetts j was read In Mis Dorothy Thnrn**.
and Rhode Island and for thp coal j Guest speaker w-is Rev A. P
mines of Pennsylvania ! Williams, rwstor of the Church of
After 1845, the Trish population God in Chn;! who perl the sub-
of cities in the Eastern United) ject. "Democratv in Action."
States doubled. Most Americans The eot.rr scl ml was erved re-j
admired their industry and were * freshmenla bv Mrs Jeraldin* j , . ... ,
charmed by the warmhearted good j Rhodes, who r homeroom mother) ' 1' 1' 0 ,n 11' nvs ^
humor thev displayed in the face j of the senior hi-h school,
of adversity Alter a few yea-; Phirlcv Dot nnd Irenn
the Irish were accepted as a wet- ' Thomas of Dunbar exhibited some
come and enriching addition t>! beautiful dresses mad- in the
the population of the United j clothing department now being
i taught bv Mrs Williams during
Ho small share of the credit for | the llliv- .-.f m- pic who Is
tlie popularity of the Irish, must teacher of home economies
■fro to the large number of gifted j Tie Tuesday and Thursday
actors, dramatists and song w-rii - oro-ran's g-vre anepcored hv Mrs
ers these immigrants produced porch ,T F-lwards roach Tke Avery
A tremendous vogue for Trim .nonsored the W»dnesSpV
m'isic ywep* the United States grim, -nd Mrs
Tlirough such old ballad as "The
Jfinistrel Bov," "The Dear Little mm
F'b rporning durip- tb- week
-»hliet'*- were gh-en by Prin
E. s. Davis.
her brother-in-law and sister, Mr
nnd Mrs. Charley Bayley in Gold
thwuite. --JJ?
Mrs ChaiKi^i Ferguson
Ohappaqua, New York, Is here th ,
week visiting with her lather
Rev. Ed R. Watince, nnd her sister, j
Mr. H T Fields and family.
Patients reported dismissed
from Shamrock General Hospital
this week were Mrs. Rose Seago !
E’reida Smith of Wheeler. Mr
James Hollabnugh, Fishbum
White, Mrs Minnie Tate, Louis
Ogle, Mrs Orville Briley, Mr V
F Chuiree Jr, Bobby Rushing
Robert Kenney. Mrs Harry Har-
lan. Mrs Cecil Perrin, Mrs Lige
Mitchell, Mrs. Luke Gonzale.
Sheriff Bus Dorman, Barbara
Bublett. Tommy Buirell. Leo
Ex ana Kenneth Foster, Mrs jo a *
Harris. Mary Louise Willla -
Mrs. Judy Pugh, Shirley Ann
Hvmilton Mrs. James Hobbs, I
Mrs
Mux Baird, Keith and LaDon.i
Phillips
Among patients receiving med.
ral and surgical care in Shamrock
General Hospital this w-eelc arc:
Marvin Anderson, B F. Chance
Jr., Hester Dodson. Mrs. Mildred
Davis, Mrs, J. C. Dennis of Lela
Dan Pike, Mrs. B. T Holland of
McLean, Mrs Ida ‘ Gardner, Mr*
Rose Rny, Mrs Zorene Potto, John
Knoll J K Ribble of Mobee' p
Shamrock of Ireland." “The
Wearing of The Green,'' Ameri-
can* gamed an understanding it
pro- Mrs. Alvin E Roberts, Jr. Roy
Blanch Williams j Tuck. Mrs Jim Venrner, Mrs r
nnns-ir of the ...... pro*, J V. Allen of Erick.. Okla., Mrs p. m
j Walraven. Bnbbx McPherson Mr;
N O. Bruton, Dwight E Burton
Mrs. Doug Morgan, and Mr and
Mrs. C. A Morgan. i
nripal j
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