The Howe Enterprise (Howe, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 22, 1970 Page: 1 of 8
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H. D. Moses
Box 2?6
THE HOWE ENTERPRISE, THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1970 — VOLUME VI — No. 27
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A friend of ours, Ted
Rickenbacker, publisher of the
Carrollton Chronical and Far-
mers Branch Times, was leaf-
ing through copies of the Ch-
ronical from the early 1900’s
and found an editorial entitled
“Getting married too soon”,
from a 1904 paper.
The editorial contains a
certain amount of merit, and a
certain amount of humor.
Here it is:
A green boy without a dollar,
present or prospective, spark-
ing a girl regularly and talk-
ing about marrying, is a spec-
tacle. He should be reasoned
with, and if he will not quit
it until he is able to support
a wife, and knows who he loves
and the difference between love
and passion, he should be quar-
antined or put in a convent
erected on purpose for cases.
Nine - tenths of the un-
happy marriages are the result
of green human calves being
allowed to run at large in the
society pasture without any
yoke on them. They marry
and have children before th-
ey have mustaches, they are
fathers before they are pro-
prietors of two pairs of pants,
and the little girls they marry
are old women before they
are twenty. Occasionally one
of these goslin marriages tu-
rns out all right, but it is a
clear case of luck.
It is time enough for these
bantams to think of finding a
pullet when they have raised
enough money'by their work
to buy a handle of laths to
build a hen house. But they
see a girl tha't looks cunning,
and they are afraid there is
not going to be enough girls
to <p around, and then they
begin to get into their work
real spry, and before they are
aware of the sanctity of the
marriage relation they arehit-
ched for life, and before they
own a cookstove or bedstead
he has to get up at night and
go for the doctor, so fright-
ened that he nearly runs him-
self out of breath and'abuses
the doctor because he does not
run too. When the doctor gets
there he finds that there is
not enough linen in the house
to wrap up a baby dolL
It is about time that a young
man begins to realize that he
is a colossal fool, and as he
flies around to heat water
and bring in the bath tub, and
goes whooping after his mother
or her mother, he turns pale
around the gills, his hair turns
red in a single night and he
calls high Heaven to witness
that if he lives until morning
of which he has serious doubts
he will turn over a new leaf
and never get married again
until he gets older.
And in the ippruing a green
continued on back page
A water leak at the old city water well created this scene fihlsil
week as temperatures dipped into the teens.
Debbie Melton, Chris Cavender,
King And Queen Of County 4'H
Girls Split Games;
Boys Lose Two
Girls A basketball team
split games in action within the
past week while the boys team
dropped two contests, one by a
one-point margin. Girls de-
feated Tom Bean Friday night,
62-11, with Theresa Cooper
leading the scoring with 19
points, Marsha Bonner and
Carlene Wilson each scored
16. Boys lost to the 'Tom*
Cats, 50-49, with Brian Wil-
liams hitting for 20 points,
while Ricky Hanning scored
17 and Robert Billy 16.
Savoy took a twin bill here
Tuesday night, defeating the
girls, 61-25. Bonner was high
scorer for the locals with 18
points. Ricky Orr scored 15,
Billy 11 and Hanning 10 in a
72-44 loss.
Junior High team defeated
S&S last Thursday night and
topped Princeton Monday,
Girls defeated Princeton, 38-
13, with Debbie Bowers, Mi -
cheile Schmidt and Maria Cor-
rea each hitting for 12 points.
Girls also defeated S&S, 34-15,
with Bowers scoring 17 points
and Schmidt, 11. The team has
a season record of 17 wins
and one loss.
‘A’ team girls have a 20-5
' season record with four wins
and one loss in district play.
Stockholders
Meet Tuesday
Howe State Bank
Twelve directors of Howe
State Bank were re-elected
Tuesday night when stockhold-
ers’ annual meeting was held
at the bank. Following the
election, the board convened
for business and named A.L.
Geer to again head the board
as chairman.
Announcement was made
Wednesday morning that the
bank will increase interest on
savings, time open accounts
and certificates of deposit to
the maximum allowed follow-
ing recent changes made by
the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation.
Directors of the bank are
E.F. Arterbury, P.K. Car-
michael, A.L. Geer, Edwin E.
Hayes, Ray Houston, ’C.C.
Jones, Joe C. King, N.R. L&ng-
ford, Jack Norman, Jerome T.
Ragsdale, Dudley Robertson,
Marshall Robertson, and ad-
vi sory directors Sammy D. Nel-
son and William J. Trice.
Register To Vote
Deadline
January 31
Debie Melton and Chris
Cavender of Howe 4-H Club
were crowned king and queen
of the annual Grayson,County
4-H Share-the-Fun Festival
Saturday at Grayson College.
Debbie, 15-year-old daugh-
ter of Mr., and Mrs. James
Melton, and 13-year-old Chris
son of Mr, and Mrs. George
Cavender, were crowned by
County Judge Les Tribble. The
two won over 26 othe contes-
tants. Winners were selected
by having collected the most
donations for the 1970 council
activities.
Prince and Princess were
Ted Moore and June Hunter
of the Van Alstyne 4-H Club.
Twenty skits, presented by
4-H clubs across the county,
were also staged. In senior
competition, the Van Alstyne
Independent 4-H C'-ib won first
place with a skit called ‘Up
With People.’ Second place we-
nt to Howe with a skit ‘The
Howe Clovers.’
called ‘The Howe Clovers.
Steve Watson of Howe
and Sharon Oakley of Sher-
man were masters of cere-
monies.
Howe 4-H’ers had a very
good rec-H'd at the festival,.
The two junior skits were
‘The Jolly Green Thumb’ with
Randy Matthews, Ta;n.4 iMel-
ton, Brent Hollensed, Ronny
Davis, Brian Usrey, Ronni.e
Watson and Steve Sasser, each
of whom received a blue rib-
bon; and 'Howe’s Own Tiny
Tim and Friends’ featuring
Peggy Melton as Tiny Tim.
Friends included Raylyne
Stanbaugh, Susie Austin, Don-
na Trammell, Terri McDan-
iel and Tina Stambaugh. They
also received blue ribbons and
were selected as second al-
ternates io district. The sen-
ior group included Gilbert Nel-
son, Kathie Cate^ Mac Man-
hart, Willie Sims and Debbie
Mel ton. They received a blue
ribbon and first alternate to
district. They sang western
songs and played guitar, drum
and piano. During intermi ssion
Gilbert Nelson entertained
with some songs. This added
much to the program and were
appreciated by all.
The Howe club had collected
a total of $234.68, this amount,
being raised through the car-
nival and selling SMU signs.
Hospital News
Wilson N. Jones - D.R.
Bonner, Michelle Kannenburg,
Mrs. Joe King, Mrs. Eugene
Scofield, Mattie Long.
Community - Mrs. Maggie
Orr, Mrs. Clyde Fielder, Mrs.
Allie Schneider, Joe Dennis
Gray.
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