Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 20, 1934 Page: 2 of 4
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Bal^sfiSffean
Published Every Thursday
J. W. DISMUKES
One Year, $1.50
Publisher
Six Months, $1.00
Entered at th Palacios Post Office as
second class mail matter under Act
of Congress.
Mild Winter Forecast
A comparatively mild winter, in
keeping with n trend which has been
observed throughout th 1 world for a
numhtr of yenrs, is predicted for th
United States for this year and th
beginning of 1035. There will be cold
spells—possibly extremely cold periods
—but the bureau says that the winter
as a whole will be much more warm
than those of the period in the last
quarter of the last century.
Weather conditions are characteriz-
ed by gradual cycles, it is pointed out,
and transition from periods of warm
weather to a colder cycle is gradual.
It is for this reason that the bureau
predicts a continuation of milder win-
ters for this year.
J. B. Kincer, chief of the climate and
crop weather division of the weather
bureau, at the same time says that
householders should not derive too
many optimistic hopes for a small coal
bill this winter on the basis of these
deductions. There is always the pos-
sibility that a “maverick" cold winter
will drift into the grouping of warm-
er winters.—Grit.
Manuel King, the world’s youngest
lion tamer, who will appear in “The
Show of A Century,” in the State Fair
Auditorium, is also the youngest per-
son ever inducted into an Indian Tribe.
He was recently initiated into the Paw-
nee Tribe of Indians in a ceremony on
the Minnesota State Fair Grounds.
A display of bull frogs, the edible
kind, along with turtles and small al-
ligators, will be one of the many fea-
tures of the 1934 poultry show at the
State Fair of Texas, Oct. 6 to 21, it
has been announced here by Walter
Burton, superinUndent of the depart-
ment. The Show, incidentally, is ex-
pect'd to be the best ever offered at
the State Fair of Texas.
WHO WON THE BET?
A baby had come to bless the home
of the minister and the little church
had made up a gift of $50 for him.
“I’ll bet he returns thanks for the
money before he does for the baby,”
one elder whispered to another just
before the services b.gan the next
Sunday morning.
In his prayer the minister gave
thanks “for the timely succor sent us.”
The elders aren’t sure yet who won.
ALLEN’S
LAUNCH LIVERY
BOATS
FISHING TACKLE
BAIT
—CAMP CABINS—
—GROCERIES—
—SEA SHELL SOUVENIRS—
PHONE 78
Woman’s Christian
Temperance Union
“For God and Home
and Every Land”
Mrs. W. C. GRAY, Local Pres.
Scmo weeks ago the preacher spoke
from these words of Paul, written cen-
turies ago: "We are fools for Christ's
sake.” Fools! That is the term still
applied to many workers for right-
eousness today, particularly if they
are women, and more particularly if
they arc workers for Temperance.
Recently somione said to me, “I don’t
see any more use in ngitating the ques-
tion of temperance and prohibition."
That is exactly what tin* liquor inter-
ests would have us do—stop agitating
the question—it is ‘ants in th ir pants.'
But, Indies and gentlemen, we will not
stop.
There are some people yet who do
not mind being, called “fools." If we
are fools because we see the evil in
liquor, if we are fools because we ear-
nestly desire to see the liquor stopped,
fools because our hearts yearn over
the young people of our land, fools be-
cause we pray that righteousness
might reign in our government, then
we are worse than fools, we are cow-
ards, if we do not speak out our con-
victions.
A certain young man, one who neith-
er smokes nor drinks, said to me one
day, “I like these words from the Bi-
ble, ‘Daniel purposed in his heart that
he would not defile ’himself.” A col-
lege girl said to me, “I don’t mind be-
ing Jaughul at when I am the only one
in the crowd who refuses to smoke
and drink. Aside from being right, I
like to be an INDIVIDUAL—not just
one like all the rest of the crowd.”
Fools—to the crowd—and so are
many of us, but why should we fear
to be different ? Better to have a mind
and character of one’s own than to
seek to mold oneself to the popular
mind. Perhaps it is easier to drift
along with the flock like dumb sheep
and take no thought as to whither we
are drifting.
Someone, in writing of the blind
way in which the masses allow them-
selves to be duped, said, “The trouble
with the world today is not so much
the wolfishness of the wolves as the
sheepishness of the sheep.”
Call us folos, but the day of nation-
al prohibition will return, perhaps not
in my day, but some day, and it will
be a better law than the old. Many
advocates of repeal are beginning to
admit that the long-awaited 21st
amendment has not brought the prom-
ised “millineum.”
Fools? Maybe^-
Supers oftcxas***
f IN THE AGRICULTURAL, AMU9EMEWT, HR#!A
flONAL f INANCIAl, (NOtVTRiAl. POLITICAL
^PROFESSIONAL AMO RELIGIOUS FiFlfVS.
BACK TO THE GROG
Rum was so popular a drink in this
country with all the old “sots” around
the mis.rable grog shops of a century
ago that the word came into general
usage for all the debauching hard liq-
uors, and early temperance campaigns
centered largely on the rum problem.
Thus through the years rum fell in-
to such disfavor that even the whisky
and gin drinkers in the United States
today know little of that liquor.
However this lack (?) of education
and experience is not to continue much
©1954 HARRIS ««<*'
longer. Far be it from the liquor trade
to overlook any possible bait of that
kind to lure new or heavier drinkers
into the fold. So, as states Beverage
Retailer and Wholesaler, a prominent
trade paper of New York, executives
of leading" rum producing and distrib
uting companies at a dinner meeting
at the Community Commerce Club, in
New York on July 30, made plans “for
embarking upon a nation-wide public-
ity and advertising campaign to ac-
quaint the drinking public in Ameri-
ca with the unique features of rum,
or in other words to make America
rum conscious,”
Thus boasted American culture in
this modern age moves,—backward.—
Union Signal.
BOTHERED
A Frenchman was r.lating his ex-
pel ience of studying the English lan-
guage. He said:
"When I first discovered that if I
was quick, I was fast; that if I was
tied I was fast and that not to eat
was to fast, I was discouraged. But
when I came across the sentence. ‘The
first one won one one-dollar prize’ I
gave up trying to learn the English
language.”
At least the drouth—kcr-choo-oo-oo!
—didn't hurt the ragweed crop.—St
Louis Post-Dispatch.
! THIS WEEK i
J la Palacios History j
J FROM OUR EARLY FILES
“What is an orator?”
“A guy who is always ready to lay
down your life for his country."
STYLE NOTE
on a Mew Model
c, ry»
EASY TERMS
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Phone for
Free Demonstration
CENTRAL POWER
AND
LIGHT COMPANY
10 YEARS AGO
Palucios Schools opened with a good
enrollment. Miss Liiuiie Wolf was
superintendent, H. C. Lewis, principal,
Miss Nora Hayes, Miss Frazier and
W. A. Smith were the other high school
teachers. Grade teachers were Misses
Claire Partain, Marjorie Berger, Mrs.
Bula Bowden, and Mrs. Erwin Cow-
ger. Primary teachers, Misses Lor-
ena Ifland, Vera Tanner, Victoria El-
der and Miss Vera Sanders.
Two former Palacios men die on
same day. Capt. C. W. Tandy at his
home in Plainview and J. C. Dalziell
at the hospital in Cuero.
Miss Frances Ruthven died sudden-
ly at a hospital in San Antonio.
Announcement was made of the mar-
riage of William Elrod Maecy to Miss
Meriam Coates on Sept. 7, at Niagara
Falls, N. Y. They would be at home
in Dayton, Ohio, after Oet. 1.
The pledges for the T. N. G. camp
site had reached $23,040.
Dr. Cairnes added to his already
well-equipped dental parlors, an elec-
trical unit.
Harold Barr left for Houston to at-
tend Rice; Homer Luther, for Austin
to attend the University; Jack Sisson
for Waco to enter Baylor; Mary Boll-
ing, Presbyterian College at Milford;
Josephine Callaway, Methodist College
at Jacksonville; Miss Dorothy Doug-
las, C. I. A., at D.nton and Miss Madge
Clement, Richmond, Va., for a year's
work in the Presbyterian Training Col-
lege.
AFRICAN WATERMELONS AND
ASIATIC GRASSES BEING TRIED
IN RESCUE OF ERODED S. W.
From the four corners of the globe,
strange plants are being brought to
the rescue of the eroded Southwest in
the reclamation program of the Fed-
eral Government. African watermelons,
Australian salt brush, South African
and Asiatic grasses, yuccas from Mex-
ico, sphedra plants from ChinH, Olive
trees from Russia, bushes from Turk-
estan—these will be introduced in the
effort to bring back forage for stock
and create watersheds on denuded hills
and mountains in Arizona, New Mexi-
co, Utah, Nevada and West Texas.
The vegetation of every arid or semi-
tropical country of the earth will be
tried by the southwestern post of the
Bureau of Plant Industry.
The piogram was announced after a
visit by K. A. Ryersan, chief of the
among those on the program were
Ruby Sikes, Claire Partain, Janie Sav-
age, Madge Clement, Nora Boyd, Es-
ther Cotton, Rachael Cates, Ross Key
and Willard Pratt.
Todd Littell sold his hardware bus-
iness to J. R. Joyner, of Sherman.
If one exempts the rich, there are
very few families who during the past
few months or since the last rise in
prices that have not had to cut down
on their expenses.
There is a limit to what people can
spend. Th.' necessity for saving a little
is greater than ever before nnd the op-
portunities for doing so are less. The
high cost of living is making a lot of
thrifty people seek every menns to buy
the right merchandies at th1 right
price.
As the advertising columns of the
newspaper are great market places,
everything worth having is worth ad-
vertising. About the only way of mak-
ing any savings is by reading the ad-
vertisiments in the newspapers and
buying where the best buys are.
Thrifty people always read the ad-
vertisements before they buy.
Bureau of Plant Industry. This agency
is eoperating with the Interior Depart-
ment which has charge of the soil
erosion projects. The University of
Arizona College Agricultural Station
is contributing the experiment farms.
The city of Tuscon is supplying lands
on which plants may be grown for
tests. Dr. Franklin J. Drider, director
of the units in Tucson says:
"The work of the new station wjll
follow lines. First of all, it will tnke
over the introduction and testing of
both native and foreign plants primar-
ily for erosion control and also for
other economic uses. Secondly, it will
produce erosion control plants in quan-
tity for use by soil erosion service
workers throughout the southwest.”—
New York Times, August 6.
Revue Producer's Child—Dnddy,
daddy! There’s a girl taktng a bath in
the house across the street!
Revue Producer’s Wife—Now, now,
Willie! Don’t bother your father. He’s
had a hard day at rehearsals.
Clerk—These are select apples—
twenty-five and fifty cents a dozen.
Customer—Whaddye mean “select”?
Clerk—If you select them they’re
fifty cents a dozen. If I select them
they’re twenty-five cents.—Boys’ Life.
C. GREER, MD.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Practice Limited to Treatment
Diseases, Eye, Nose and Throat
and Fitting of Glasses
HEFNER BUILDING—EL CAMPO
9:00 A. M.—1:00 P. M.
MONDAY - WEDNESDAY - FRIDAY
QUALITY
FOOD MARKET
"The Friendly Store"
(Next Door to Post Office)
-SPECIALS EVERY DAY!—
STEVE and BROTE
Campbell and Prinzing
LAND : LOANS : LAW
IN S UR A NCE
NOTARY PUBLIC
OFFICES—in Bldg. So. of Bank
IT IS COMFORTING TO KNOW
THAT EVERY DETAIL OF
FUNERAL DIRECTION
IS HANDLED BY—
A. A. DUFFY & CO.
W. H. (PETE) WILLIAMS, Manager
PHONE 54 Post Office Bldg.
PALACIOS
FUNERAL HOME
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
AND LICENSED EMBALME11S
AMBULANCE SERVICE
PHONES PALACIOS, TEXAS
M. K. FEATHER, Mgr.
FEATHER & SON
—RE AL~EST ATE—
FIRE, TORNADO,
AUTO AND LIFE
INSURANCE
B_O—N—D—8
—NOTARY PUBLIC—
For Kodak Finishing,
Enlarging, Copying or
Other Photographic Work, go 9
Blocks North from City Hall,
then l Vi Blocks East, or leava
Films at—
MURIEL’S NOVELTY SHOPPE
H-U-N-T-E-R
J. L. PYBUS
PLANING MILL
Manufacture all kinds of wood
Wood yard in connection with
Plant
PHONE 27.
PALACIOS
15 YEARS AGO
A tropical storm struck Corpus
Christi, doing great damage and caus-
ed the highest tide ever known here
to wash the oyster houses and wnarfs
belonging to Ruthven Packing Co.,
Liberty Fish and Oyster Co. and the
Texas Fish and Oyster Co., at the B.
Y. P. U. grounds the Ft. Worth House,
Class Pavilion, and bath houses were
totally destroyed. The City Pavilion
was badly damaged and the pier lead
ing to it. Small craft were scattered
along the entire east and south fronts
of the city shore line but no lives or
large vessels were lost. The barom-
eter dropped to 29.40 and wind blew a
good 30 miles per hour.
Miss Edna Underwood and Mr. M.
P. Moore were united in marriage by
Rev. Echols.
R. E. Lindsey, of Bay City, special
cotton agent for Matagorda County,
reported that up to September 1st only
57 bales of cotton had been ginned,
compared to 6,282 the year before at
the same time.
School opened with the following
faculty in charge: H. A. Miller, Su-
perintendent; Miss Linnie Wolf, prin-
cipal; Miss Marianna Elder, Rev. Ech-
ols, Miss Lura Arnold, Mrs. Bowden,
Mrs. Miller, Miss Cotton, Miss Leafa
Green and Miss Ima Wolf.
Those going away to attend school
were Ralph Bussell, A. & M.; Miss
Mary Lindumood, to Austin; Howard
Campbell, Sun Marcos; LeRoy Hillyer,
State Medical College at Galveston;
Miss Reolu Estes, Clara Ifland, Nora
Muy Boyd and Mary Gillespie, C. I. A.,
at Denton.
20 YEARS AGO
The Palacios Slorugc Association
wus receiving cotton from the farm-
ers and storing at the B. Y. P. U. au-
ditorium. S. M. Baird, the caretuker
had been appointed public weigher.
The Palacios Hotel was in new
hands, Mrs. C. M. Re'boe, a former
popular landlord, taking it over.
The Athenean Literury Society was
organized in the High School, and
The Sulphur Industry
—IS ONE OF TEXAS’ MANY OUTSTANDING ASSETS.
—Three Mines Produce Practically all of the Nation’s Supply
<o%2)
SULPHUR IS INDUSTRY’S
MOST IMPORTANT
COMMODITY
(3*lsg)
Its Presence in Texas, therefore, constitutes one
of the State’s Most Attractive Inducements to
the Development of Industry within its borders
s’**®
Texas Gulf Sulphur Co.
“The World’s Largest Producer of Crude Sulphur*’
MINES:
GULF, (Matagorda County,) Texas
NEWGULF, (Wharton County) Texas
HEADQUARTERS:
Second National Bank Building,
Houston, Texas
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Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 20, 1934, newspaper, September 20, 1934; Palacios, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth725549/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Palacios Library.