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Coleman C ounty Chronicle
A Coleman County Paper for Coleman^County People ;
10 Pages
1 Section
Volume V.
Coleman County Chronicle, Coleman, Texas, Thursday, Dec. 2, 1937.
No. U
Rural Electrification Signers To
Meet Sat., Perfect Organization
A Nebraska, pastor believes that
what this country nee<ts is not a
"Rood five cent” cigar, but a na-
tional Crumble Day. In a wire to
President Roosevelt he suggested
that one entire day be designated
for the shedding of tears and air-
ing of grievances. This, he be-
lieves, would give America an op-
portunity to get all complaints out
of Its system in 24 hours,' a good
theory but not a workable one.
Sheer human perversity would
make a day set aside specifically
U ' whining one of the happiest In
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' _,i1d which customarily sym-
pat&\ *s, though passively, with
the underdog, resents the Invasion
of a peaceful neighbor by belli-
gerent, land-hungry Toklo. Amer-
icans are rouesd to prudently Inac-
tive Indignation by reports that two
Japanese lieutenants are vying to
be first to kill 100 of the peaceful
orientals engaged in defense of
their ancestral lands. World War
aviators played a similar game, be-
coming “aces’’ by shooting down
ten enemy planes, and our fore-
bears who settled the Roaring West
kept score by gun notches. Con-
auerors never censor their’own
conquests.
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Love of life is so strong in tlfte
average psychic makeup that even
a be-whiskered centenarian can
not be believed when he avows a
willingness to "die happy". An
hged Iowan, past his hundredth
birthday, expressed a volition to
greet death cheerfully if he might
first take an airplane ride. Tet
when he stepped aboard for his
first soar he insured himself
against loss of his false teeth, an
ingenious contrivance but one of
use to the living only, by placing
them in his overcoat pocket. De-
spite his glibe attitude towards
death, he intended to go on living.
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Since much insanity appears to
be footed in introversion and sel-
fishness. cultivation of an altruis-
tic attitude should aid in preserv-
ing mental health. Crazed with
envy of his sister’s sight when his
own had failed, an Invalid English
army officer sent a leaden trail of
bullets through the "beautiful
eyes” of the woman who cared for
him In his helplessness and ended
his own life with a razor slash. To
have erased his own misery was an (
understandable misdeed but to
have taken his sister with him,
smashing a happy marriage and
ending her successful medical ca-
reer, was wickedness prompted by
the unbalanced, brooding mind of
an egoist.
On Hishway Board
W. C. WOODWARD
Woodward To Serve
On Hishway Ass’n
Executive Board
Salvation Army
Representative Here
All of Past Week
WACO ENGINEER IN CITY THIS -°—-
WEEK WORKING WITH W. D. Pedigo, field reprexonta-
BOARD OF DIRECTOR/4. tive of the Salvation army, is in
-u_ Coleman this week making the an.
Arrangements are being made nual canvask for funds. He has
to perfect final organization details been coming to Coleman each fall
of the Coleman County Rural Elec-1 for a number of years,
trifleatlon Co-operative. . For this Only one appeal for funds Is to
purpose, a mass meeting of all In-! be made during the year. Any
terested has been called by the other solicitation will be without
board of directors for Saturday j authority from the organization.
afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the J —-o----------
county courthouse In Coleman. |
Henry F. Stubbs, engineer with j KJg,w R.iilrjinQ For
William fl. Morrison, rural electri- DU,IQm3 '
fieation engineer of Waco, is in the
city' this week working with the
New Sewer Farm
To Be Ready For
Use By January
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GRAVITY TO IRRIGATE TWO-
THIRDS OF NEW I,AND; 40
ACHES OATS ALREADY I P.
Santa Claus To Entertain On
East Lawn At Light Plant
Former Cofemanite
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With 40 acres of oats already
sowed and up and a four-room
overseer's home nearing comple-
tion, rapid progress is being mad
On the new city sewer farm north
of town. Heavy machinery is be-
ing employed to expedite work on
the large reservoir, a pump hous
has alreudy been finished and It i..
board of dree tors on the project In
order to meet all requirements of
the Rural Electrification Adminis-
tration.
Appropriation of 1100,000 ha*
been made to begin construction of
the first part of the project. This
money will be made available as
soon as necessary organization of
the project is completed.
The board of directors Includes
Charles W. Pitts, president; J. W.
Taylor, J C. Dtbrell. will Mathews.
John T,. Wilkinson, Gene Bell and
M. K. Witt.
Recreation Opened
In North Coleman
MARK TAYLOR BUYS
WALKER GROCERY
Mark Taylor has purchased the
■'4r'"Valker Grocery store in Soutti
| Coleman, and has assumed active
■
The football team of Carlsbad,
N. m., high school has learned that
pouting la no way to carry a point
even If organized labor has not.
When the young athletes were de-
nied a chance to watcH a well
known college team work out in a
practice session they went on strike
and! announced that they would not"
play In a game act for the next day.
No comment was forthcoming from
authorities so the strikers made a
sheepish eleventh-hour decision
that they might as well play, after
all. They did—and lost 3 to 0.
Dreams of the idealist are cheer-
[lattered by humanity's fratl-
f ^.aLaat summer the director
Industrial school in Ok-
dared to Introduce “date
nights" for her charges as reward
for good behavior. After one trial
the social experiment was banned
by unsentimental trustees of the
Institution but the fruit of that
first attempt^jjas borne unthwart-
ed. the marriage at one of the girle.
Three months later, she admits
xhi married only to escape a re-
form-school sentence and the far-
mer-husband to whom she was pa-
roled Is suing for divorce. He has
learned what the trustees knew—
delinquent girls are In training
school only because heritage and
rircumstancee have made them un-
fit for normal life at the present.
Women have a bad reputation,
particularly among husbands and
brothers, for a lack of automobile'
intelligence. Publto respect for.
feminine drivers, or even passen- j
g> rs, was not enhanced Saturday
when a girl, riding with her boy
friend, mistook the dashboard
throttle for a clgaret lighter and
pulled It out with all the vigor of
her youth. The oar did a reveres
broad-jump across a sidewalk
' fashed through a plsiegUs*
dor. But It was a mah who
towards the wrong goal post
well-remembered Boas Bowl foot-
hall game nine years ago.
Former Senator Walter C. Wood-
ward hits been elected vice-presi-
dent of Highway 67 association, it
was announced this week, and will
serve on the executive committee
during the coming year.
The association has for its pur-
pose the completion of an all-
weather highway from Canada
through St. Louis, Dallas and Cole-
man to Presidio and into Old Mex-
ico.
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Teacher Visits In
Mexican School
During Holidays
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Although modern in some re-
spects, schools across the Mexican
border do not compare with those
on f,his side of the Rio Grande,
Mr. and Mrs. K. M. Crooms and
daughter, Joan, learned during a
Thanksgiving trip to Del Rio and
into Mexico,
Mrs. Crooms, principal of tbo
Stiver Valley school, was particu-
larly interested in the schools when
they visited In Via Cuna. No Eng-
lish, of course, is spoken and the
buildings are old and In poor con-
dition. More modern trends are
shown in the curriculum, however,
with a work shop for the students
in operation and a course In agri-
culture offered.
While in Del Rio, Mr. and Mrs.
Crooms also visited the Brinkley
broadcasting station.
Santa Anna Hiway
Opened For Traffic
Compaction Period
ROAD TO REMAIN OPEN TO
MOTORISTS FOR ABOUT to
DAY&
The section of highway No. 7 be-
tween the Santa Fe underpass and
Santa Anna was opened for traf-
fic compaction Tuesday and will
remain in use for about ten days.
After this period It will bo clos-
ed again and surface materials will
bo placed. Completion of this por-
tion will give motorists a new im-
proved highway all tho way be-
tween Coleman and Santa Anna.
Last year the section between
Coleman and the underpass was
widened and re-surfaced.
In Improving the second stretch,
the winding hill several mllee west
of Santa Anna has been eliminat-
ed.
Army Officers To
Inspect Horses For
Purchase Dec, 11
A building known as North fob-
man tabernacle ha* been secured
for use by recreation workers,
which will enable them to contihue
their work throughout the winter
without a break, Miss Grace Wil-
charge of the business. Mr. Tav- holt, city director, states. During
lor, until recently was associated 1 tht- past few weeks a smaller build-
with M. T. White In the Little Bear jn(f provided through the courte-
Grocery on South Concho. sy of Temple Trust Co. has been
used. The change to new quarters
is being made to secure more room.
The new building, which Is open-
ing this afternoon, will serve as
headquarters for classes in hand-
craft. expression and music and
for story telling and singing as well
as for athletic activities and gam-
es. it is hoped that other locations
BARRELS can be opened in other parts of
Well Drilled In
On Shore Land May
Be Good Producer
CITY PUTTING UP ELECTRICAL
DECORATIONS IN HONOR OF
CHRISTMAS SAINT.
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In the weeks between now an#
t bristmas. Santa Ciaus will make
the city light plant his headqufU’--
! ter* and wiil receive visitors on the
I east lawn every Saturday night
from Ii 30 to 9:30 o’clock, H«
hopes to personally meet every
child in the county there betweefc
now and Christmas Eve.
The Christmas saint will enter-
tain for the first time this seas#*
! next Saturday night, Dec, 4, and
! will be Here on the following two
Saturday € * enings. After Dec, 1*.
ho will bo t.iulc to greet his friends
every night until Christmas.
In honor of the occasion, a greet
flood' light will be created over th*
lawn and shout 350 colored lights
will bt strung In the trees an#
hedges
While their children are visiting
Banfa, parents are invited to in-
spect (he plant, which Is being piR
in fir,1 113ss condition for their
EDMUND G. MHTKTAIV visits, rtcordng to Bupt. W. C-
......j «• ............oss, sc asvsrs.
M, who lias assumed,, a* , . , . , . _
roe month’s supply of water. duties as field scout executive for.! Zl L
The oVerseer’s home, which will .he Buffalo Trails Council of the j b?Ck
be occupied by N. W. Bransford. Boy Scouts, with heklfquarters at j ® WfS' ° ** ,P. . * ,,
will be plastered inside with a tile Big Spring. He was formerly oni- ^‘lrS ■‘wn‘ u . .
and brick exterior. A modern1 p,oyed In the. Indian Service! > black,m,th 8h°p where th* c,t3r *
barn and lots will be constructed j Mr: McCurtain lived in Coleman!
The pump house on the new land for a number of years, and was 1
was built of brick salvaged from graduated from Coleman high
believed that the new farm will
In use by January 1.
At least twVthlrds of 04 acres
of farm land can be irrigated by
gi-avlty and power will be used only j
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PROGRAM OF HOLIDAY EES-1 necessary to distribute all water
TIYITIKS PLANNED AT STAKE l)y power on the farm which has
MEETING. formerly been in use.
0 When the new farm goes into use I
there will be no more overflow of J
A program of Christmas fcstivl- waste waters into the creek. All )
ties was planned by recreation! water will he pumped from the dis-
staff members from -Coleman and poss) plant und Emhoff tank south ,
Santa Anna when they met in; of the Santa Anna highway !
Coleman Tuesday evening with lx through pipes tunneled under the j
present. Groups of carol singers-road bed Into the farm across the!’
will make trips to Various comma-1 road. There it will be stored until !
nit lea in the county during tho I used In a reservoir which will hold querque. N.
holidays. It was decided. three month’s supply
old' street paving.
CAPACITY OF 100
MAY BE POSSIBLE, FOR NEW town soon.
FRY FIELD WELL. 1 Next staff meeting will be held
- o ■ ■■ I at Mozelle, where a new project
Producers expect to know by ha* been opened.
Friday the production possibilities j ..............—0-—— -
of a well drilled in about a week ' ___
ago on land in Fry field belong- ^gudc McCIcllfln
ing to J. W. Shore, Sr.
n is believed that if salt "“"“ i New Manager Of
well will have around a 106-barrel
capacity. The salt water was not
found in the lime in which the
well Is located, but comes from an-
other well which was badly plugged
several years ago.
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D. K. Porter Heads
Pastors’ Group For
Approaching Year
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ASSOCIATION TO COOPERATE
WITH RE1JEF BOARD IN
CHRISTMAN BASKET PRO-
GRAM.
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Dr. D. K. Porter, pastor of the
First Methodist church, was elect-
ed president of the Coleman Min-
isterial Association when it met
Monday at the Presbyterian church
to re-organize for next year. Rev.
W. H. Woolard. pastor of the First
Christian church, was named sec-
retary.
The association Is hoping to In-
crease its membership to Include
every pastor in Coleman during
1936, new officials stated. Regu-
lar meetings will be held on sec-
ond and fourth Mondays at 10:80
a. m. at the First Christian church,
with the next meeting on Decem-
ber 13. »■
Working with the county relief
association and the county case
worker. Mrs. Frankie Sedwick, the
association is planning to make
provision for Christmas baskets
for the under-privileged thta year.
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Religious Film To
Be Shown Dec. 9
At Baptist Church
Office Building
OWNERNIIIP TAKEN OYER BY
NEW ORLEANS, LA., INTER-
ESTS.
Cooper To Attend
Area Flood Control
Parley In Austin
JOINT B\mV~i
school In 1930. He was prominent
In Boy Scout activities here.
tools ore cared for. More bricks
Hie being placed in the yard as ta-
bor is f.vallable. The storage yard
back of the plant has also be**
cleaned off.
PAINTINGS OF LOCAL
TEACHER WILL BE
SHOWN AT ABILENE
J. E. Stevens Co.
Wins First Place
paintings In Window Contest
An art display of oil
__________COMMITTEES To Mrs. Lauryl K. Venning, principal! -°
MEET FRIDAY AND HATl'R- of the local Mexican school, will be ONLY 1 • MORE SHOPPIXfi
DAY. exhibited at a tea Sunday after-j DAYS REMAIN; EARLY
■ ,i o noon from 2:80 to 4:30 o’clock at j MAILING URGED.
, the Hilton Hotel in Abilene, spon-! 0
Revised recommendation, as re- *ored by the Federated clubs f Winners In a Christmas <m«r-
OBOOU B. DeMILLE SUCCESS.
“KING OF KINGS.” TO BE
PRESENTED
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One of the most Impressive of
Claud McClellan has, been ap-
pointed manager of the Coleman
office building and took charge
Monday, following change of own-
ership of the six story structure,
which has been acquired by New
Orleans, La., Interests.
In Coleman Monday as represen-
tatives of the new owners were.
Judge B. L Agerton. Fort Worth
attorney, and P. H. Httges. vice-
president of the Louisiana Saving*
and Trust Co. of New Orleans.
There will be no change In ren-
tals or employee personnel so far
as he has been advised, Mr. McClel-
lan says, and operation of th
building will be continued along
lines now being followed.
turned after study by the Nation- j
al Resource Commission of region
al planning, at Washington, are izatlon will provide a program for
to be studied Friday and Saturday the tea.
in Austin by Joint state basin com-
Committees, uf which S, W Coop-
er of Coleman is a member.
Mr. Cooper, who plans to attend,
represents the area drained by the
Colorado. Brazos. Nueces jiiid
Guadalupe rivers.
R. J. Tipton of Denver, water con-
sultant for the resources commis-
sion, in charge of the entire south-
west region, will preside at the Aus-
tin meeting. Area committees are ln Talpa Wednesday, were held this
Mrs. Venning will show 86 can- chants' show window contest, ee-
vases An Abilene music organ-
Mrs. H.B. Hale of
Talpa Is Buried
There This Thursday
Visits In Coleman
meeting so that plans for flood
control can ho coordinated, as
three measures are pending before
Congress regarding water conser-
vation and improvements.
Six Receive Minor
Injuries In Auto
Wreck Near Here
TRIP FROM ANSON TO AUSTIN
DELAYED WHEN BLOWOUT
OVERTURNS CAR.
Six persons escaped with minor
injuries when the automobile in
which they were traveling from
A'nson to Austin overturned on a
hill about half way between Cole-
man and Abilene Monday evening.
A blowout on the right front tire
caused tho accident.
Driving the car was J. H. Mit-
chell, who, with B. C. Mitchell and
C. W. Mitcheli, escaped with minor
Injuries. Mrs. J. B. Mitchell, Mrs.
B. C. Mitchell and Mrs. Cobb Mor-
ris received treatment at Overall
hospital. The first two were dis-
missed Tuesday and Mrs. Morris
left the hospital Wednesday. Ail
received cuts and bruises.
TravelsAbroad
Are Described At
Kiwanis Luncheon
LEWIS
GOODRICH
Army officers representing the
Fort Worth remount area of thej Thursday evening,
tr department will be In Coleman
rday. Dec. 11. w. C. Gay, Cole-
hman, has been adrieed
Is time horses wilt be In-
fer purchase, Major U>
eea, officer In charge,
wrote Mr. Gay.
looted by popular ballot, were. J.
E. Stevens Co., first; Powell-Cav-
anagh, second, and Gray Mercan-
tile. third. Cash prizes of $16, ft
and 12.50 were presented the win-
ning firms
At a given Signal, windows dec-
orated ln holiday style displaying
Christmas merchandise, were un-
veiled and Christmas street tights
were turned on. Thfe holiday shop-
ping season was officially usherOB
Funeral services for Mrs Harriet in by an advance visit from SanW.
Baugh Hale, who died at her honn Claus and a band om > '
courthouse lawn.
Shoppers are reminded that they
have 19 more shopping days. Th»
Chamber of Commerce, urging co-
operation with postal officials in
early buying and matting, wiL
again operate a parcel wrapping
station for the convenience of tho
public.
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Presbyterian Youth
To Give Pagearft
White Cnapel Church
The Voting People's organization
of the First Christian church has
begun work on a Christmas pro-
gram which will be presented *tt
the White Chapel church during
Christmas week. -Including sever*
special numbers and also a short
play or pageant. It will be given
on Sunday night, Dec. 19,
The pageant will include sever*
of the carols that the group plan*
to use during Christmas week
when they wilf sing carols for tho
shut-ins over town and also in tbo
down town section.
Thursday afternoon at 2 oteloek
frortt~the residence at Talpa. Rev.
B. B. Hester of San Angelo offi-
ciated.
Mrs. Hale was born March 8,
1876. in Brownwood, moving to
Coleman county 34 years ago. She
was a member of the Preebyterian
church. She Is survived by one
daughter, Mbs. Eula Hale Thomp-
son. *j,
Pall hearers are Ira Deaklns, A.
V. Livingston. Elbert Evans. .
Ernest Thompson, Matt Fox. Ray-
mond Rush. Grover Trott and E.
E. Evans. J. E. Stevens Co. direct-
ed the funeral.
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SOFT-HEARTED HUNTER
SPARES LIVE DUCKS IN)
BOMBARD WOOD ONES
Duck hunter* Rt Lake Scar-
borough Saturday decided the
decoys were so good they fooled
an aspires Nimrod as well as
ducks .or that somebody was too
tenderhearted to Shoot live birds
so took a pot-shot st wooden
ones instead.
Two hunters concealed behind
a blind at the lake were startled
when a shot whizzed over their
heads and jumped from their
ambush to see shot spattering
the water around their wooden
decoys,
"Those are the best decoys I
ever saw.” said a puzzled hun-
ter, reported to be one of Oole-
man’s beet known pastors, and
shouldering his gun, he trudged
off In search of more quarry.
J. E. STEVENS CO. MEN
Dr. Moore, pastor of the First urrxj WFTV'Q TR.TP Tft The Public will be Invited
Baptist church at Santa Anna, de- __ ” nTncVi. lh« ^ew home of the Coleman high
Lewis M. Goodrich of Shamrock, scribed his travels in England. ElxX.-l7iKO.LUA FACTORY school band Friday evening from
Cecil B, DeMIUe's motion pictures,: who has announced that ho will Scotland, Franco and the Holy 4 to I-.I0 o’clock when open ho
“Ktng «f Kings,” will be shown at 'run for office of attorney general Lands at the Kiwanis luncheon Joe £. Stevens and Glenn (Trig- will he held in the basement ban*
the First Baptist church next In the 1*18 ^mary, wea a visitor here Tueeday. ger) Defies of J. E. Stevens Co. room at ths school building.
», at 7:10. In Coleman Wsdnesday. At the Roger Gideon sang a solo and left Monday night oh a trip to will bs received at the wvst
■ present time hs is district attorney Osrvei Hector and Perry Russell Evansville, Indiana, where they trance.
In the list Judicial district and is played an Instrumental duet. ' are vl si ting the Electrolux Refrig- Band instruments and
serving hs third term. Prior to Kiwantans will entertain on erator factories this wgek. The will be on display and 1 i
his election to this office, hs was Dec. II with ths annua! football trip was won by the local men ln of orchestra music will be
city attorney for ft vs years at banquet honoring Coleman Blue- a sales contsst. at I, and I p. m. Miss Voe-
8ltamrock, whore he has lived since cats when Dutch Meyer. T C U I cT7ts trip to Indiana was made ln nelkt gttmeon Is In charge of fh*
1961. I co h, will bs gue«t speaker a special ’train from Fort Worth entertainment.
Band Holding Open
House At School
Friday Evening
INSTRUMENTS AND EQUIP-
MENT TO BE ON DISPLAY;
CONCERTS PLAYED.
o'clock.
Ths plb'ure, first released several
year* ago. ires produced at a cost
of tl.SOD.OOO. There will bs no ad-
mission charge but a silver offer-
ing will bs taken. Rev. O. L Sav-
age, pastor, states.
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Autry, R. A. Coleman County Chronicle (Coleman, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 2, 1937, newspaper, December 2, 1937; Coleman, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth731593/m1/1/: accessed July 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Coleman Public Library.