Timpson Weekly Times (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 35, Ed. 1 Friday, August 30, 1940 Page: 7 of 8
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SKUNKS . .
The night of the July full
moon our 'phone'rang. A
neighbor across the village
street was calling to tell us
that a family of skunks had
just gone through our fence
into our front yard, if you live
in a New England country
town you can expect mother
skunks to come out on summer
moonlight nights, teaching
their kittens to forage for
food. We took great pains not
to annoy these visitors.
We brought the garbage can
inside, saw to it that our night-
prowling tomcat was safely
locked in the woodshed, and
called our next-door neighbors
to be sure their collie pup was
penned up. Experienced dogs
never bother skunks a second
time, but pups are apt to be
inquisitive, and yoa never can
tell what a cat will do. And
skunks in search of food will
march boldly into the house if
a door is left open a crack.
A family of skunks eamped
for weeks in the summer kitch-
en of one of oar neighbors. No-
body dared to disturb them.
They stuck around until the
first frost, then went off into
the woods. I know people
who claim to have made pets
of skunks. They are odorless
when not irritated. Trouble is,
you never know what will ir-
ritate a skunk.
FOXES ....
A few miles from our house
is a popular golf course. This
Summer, from the opening of
the season, players have been
complaining about the disap-
pearance of balls driven from
the seventh tee. Although the
balls went straight down the
fairway, over a little hill, they
often seemed to vanish into
thin air.
A couple of weeks ago the
mystery was solved. A sharp-
eyed caddy saw a little red fox
dash out of the rough under-
growth, snatch up a ball that
had just dropped on the green,
and dash back into the brush
with it An impromptu fox-
hunt minus hounds, horns and
horses, was organized, and
the burrow of the fox was
found, with a hundred or more
balls in the hole. The fox got
away.
Abont the only foxes we see
in New England now are the
little red English ones. The na-
tive American fox is the larger
gray fellow. He doesn’t dig a
hole to live in, but makes
nest among the rocks. A couple
of hundred yean ago some
sporting colonial gentleman
imported some red foxes and
turned them loose on Long Is-
land. I don’t know how far
west they’ve spread, but I'm
told they're to be found every-
where east of the Mississippi.
• * *
out to hunt for it Three days
later some of them came across
the bear, in a clearing in the
woods, all alone. He was going
through all of his tricks, then
looking for someone to feed
him. He knew no other way
of life.
Over in Bear Mountain Park
last month the keeper of the
menagerie turned a gray fox
loose. The poor creature had
lived in a cage, among people,
since he was born. Instead of
running away, he hnng around
begging for food. Now he has
become the pet of all the via-
tors and his living is
♦ • *
MICE.....
Last Winter, as everybody
knows, was one of the most
severe in years. In the north-
eastern states snow began to
fall early, temperatures drop-
ped and the snow had no
chance to melt before another
snowstorm. One result of that
severe Winter is that .1 have
seen more loads of fine red
clover hay being hauled along
our roads than in years.
A good clover crop means
that most of the field mice
were killed off the previous
Winter. Field mice have to
get to the surface of the snow
to find their Winter food. They
die when penned under a hard
crust. After the snow goes,
the field mice raid the humble-
bees’ nests, and kill off the
larvae. That reduces the
number of bumblebees In the
region for that Summer.
Now, red cloves come to ma-
turity by the aid of the bum-
blebee, which in its search for
honey carries the pollen from
blossom to blossom. No field
mice, no bumblebees; no bum-
blebees, no red clover. That,
at least, is what the farmers-
up our way say.
• • *
RABBITS .... hardy
It is a perpetual marvel to
me how most of the common
wild things get through our
hard northern Winters. The
ordinary cotton-tail hare—
which , we call a rabbit—is
about as feeble a beast as there
is, yet I seem to have seen as
many young ones of the spe-
cies this year as ever. I can un-
derstand the real rabbits, the
English kind, getting through
the Winter, because they dig
themselves bnrrows, the way
our woodchucks do. But "Mol-
ly Cottontail” just makes a
nest in the bushes, with some
grass, and somehow survives.
The toughest wild beast we
have in northeast United
States now is the wildcat. State
and county pay a bonus for
killing them, and one of my
neighbors bagged twelve last
year. 'Coon hunters shun
them, for a wildcat will kill a
’coon dog with one slash.
CAGES . . .
I don’t like to see wild ani-
mals caged in zoos or menag-
eries. just for people to look
at; though I suppose a good
many of them are better off
properly fed and cared for
than they would be in their na-
tive country. To turn a caged
animal loose, however, when
it knows no other way of life
than that of captivity, seems, to
me the height of cruelty.
A few years ago a man came
through our north country
leading a chained black bear.
He had taught the bear many
tricks, which he performd in
country towns while the man
passed the hat. One night the
bear got loose, and all the men
and boys of the village turned
"Sweethearts’ Tree”
Dying a Slow Death
Buffalo, N. Y. (UP)—Dela-
ware Park's “Sweethearts’
Tree” is dying a alow death—
a victim of the city’s progress.
The tree, a 60-year-old
weening beech, has countless
initials carved on its trunk
and lower branches—a living
memento to innumerable ro-
mantic couples.
Although Father Time has
obliterated many of the older
initials, carvings from as long
ago as 1919 are still discerni-
ble.
Expiration of the southwest
by Coronado took place 80
years before the Pilgrims
landed on Plymouth rock.
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PREPARATION
Would you like a glimpse
into the way the greatest real
estate salesman in the world
works? Joseph P. Day has sold
almost two billion dollars
worth ol property.
He never even entered high
school, but he has sent his six
children to college.
His first job.was in a whole-
sale grocery. It paid him ex-
actly one hundred dollars a
year. And he worked there
for eight years. He got raises,
but not big ones. It was not
until he went into real estate
that he found himself.
His first big sale was made
when he was 34—for a mi! lion
dollars.
At 87 he sold New York’s
Third Avenue “El” for twenty-
six million dollars.
Most of his success has been
due to the thoroughness with
which he prepares himself be-
fore the sale. I asked for an
example. He told me this in-
cident :
He was asked to auction a
piece of property on Union
Square, New York, between
Fourth Avenue and Broadway.
He made an appraisal of the
property and decided that,
with good luck, he could sell It
at auction for about $900,000.
He realized he would have to
make tremendous efforts to
get it up to that
Then trouble developed.
Rivals started a campaign
against this property. They ad-
vertised that business in New
York was moving uptown and
intimated that only a fool
would sink money in property
so poorly located. The argu-
ment appeared convincing.
New York had swept on past
Union Square.
Mr. Day didn’t agree. He
had been in business for thirty
years and knew a thing or two.
But he had to convince the pos-
sible buyers that the rivals'
statements were not true. It
would not be enough merely
to declare that this property
had a good location. He had to
prove it. And in some striking
way. Some way that the buy-
ers could understand in a few
words. Some way that would
be convincing.
After studying it for some
time he decided to do it with
figures. Two subway lines ran
close to the property, so he
sent his men to the subway
with counting machines to find
hew many people got on and
off at these two locations.
Next, he sent them to the sub-
way stations in Times Square,
which is generally regarded as
the throbbing heart of New
York. Then he counted the
people who got on and off the
subway stations at Times
Square during the business
hour He counted the people
who passed a certain building
in the Times Square district,
and those who passed a given
point in Union Square; and he
pro ed that more people fre-
quented Union Square than
Time* Square.
When the hour came to auc-
tion off the property he gave
the certified figures. The real
estate men blinked. The proof
was simple; it was convincing.
No one could dispute it
He sold the property for
$1,400,000, half a million
more than he had hoped for.
One of the secrets of his suc-
cess is knowledge of his sub-
ject. Preparation! Prepara-
tion ! Preparation!
Mrs. Gertrude E. Fox has
become a successful mink
bre-der. After spending a
year visiting several mink
ranches about the country to
learn how to care for and feed
these valuable fur-bearing ani-
mals, she settled down to rais-
ing a species native to Labra-
dor. The first year ahe raised
seventy-five. Since then she
has averaged 2,600 a year.
She has a ranch at Garlar d.
Maine, making a specialty of
breeding animals for stock and
selling them for $15 to $30 as
pelts and $100 for breeding
purposes. The sturdiest ani-
mals are kept for breeding
purposes and those which de-
velop some weakness, such as
nervousness, are sold for their
skins.
• • «
Sne Sanders, "Mother” San-
ders to a great many people,
made a fortune in oil, lost that
and made another, and now
has a plan for repatriating her
own folk, the migrant work-
ers of Oklahoma and Texas.
She wants to get them back on
land in their own states.
She herself picked cotton as
a child, but she says that the
migrants will have to do more
than just plant cotton when
they are back in their native
states. They’ll have to plant
vegetables and raise meat, and
they'll get along. Mother San-
ders is the author of "The
Common Herd.”
* • »
Frances Miller of New York
has turned her attention from
decorating to weaving rugs
and other handioomed mate-
rials. which are eagerly
sought by decorators desiring
modern media for floors, walls
and windows. Some of her ef-
fects have been achieved by
hand-blocking and novel dye-
ing processes.
* m *
In Switzerland the wives of
men on active service helping
to keep their country protect-
ed from belligerents,' have
been offered training as tram
drivers and a special course in
nursing and military science.
• • •
Dorothy ' Liebes of Califor-
nia, contributed the outstand-
ing exhibition of American
decorative arts at the San
Francisco World’s Fair. She
has created many beautiful
hand-woven fabrics.
* • •
Twenty thousand women in
Hungary have united under
Mrs. Keresztes, wife of the
Minister of the Interior, to see
how best they can prepare for
a possible national emergency.
• • •
Eve Curie, daughter of the
late Mme. Curie, who, with
her husband, discovered
radium, has been awarded the
New York Cancer Committee’s
Clement Cleveland Medal.
The award was made in rec-
ognition of Miss Curie's biog-
raphy of her mother, “The
life of Marie Curie.” The
award was established In
1987 by Mrs. Hebert G. Mead
In memory of her father.
The Hindus believed that a
flawed diamond or one con-
taining spots or specks was so
unlucky that it could deprive
even Indra of his highest
heaven.
The Agricultural Market-
ing Service, which administers
the new Federal Seed Act, has
notified seed dealers that after
August 9 seed labels must
plainly show the kind and va-
riety of seed in the package.
Texas high school students
last year obtained 20,000 plays
from the University of Texas
Drama Loan Library, register-
ing the largest demand for the
department’s free service in
its history.
DBAS BOHN, Mich. . . . Henry
Ford, world's tonmnst automobile
manotoctuier, demonstrated his
fitness go So m d kb nth
birthday by riding three miles
around his Dearborn estate on
Check Your Hat?
GALVESTON, Tex. . . . Lyda
Sue, who fa a dancer when aha
isn’t playing uuemaid on the beech
at Galveston, finds fids 100-*aUon
hat just the thing when thine* get
too warm in tbs sa.
Everybody Grins
ATLANTIC CITY, N. i. . . .
Even the hone gits* as be comer
up 1mm toe plunge oft the 48-foot
tower at Steel Pier; Atlantic City.
that perhaps it’s just a boms joke
that wc wouldn’t understand.
Willkie Greeter
CHICAGO; m. ... AD dnawd
* Witt a Wfilkfe ’’Victory” hat
aad a Mg pin. Him Gertruds
if the Chicago delegation to 13-
utionfartts
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Pmffienejr
1949 EfillWN OF
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Summary o4 Foot kali
Material and Prospects
For Season, as Teams
Starts From “Scratch.”
Moose Soon to Ba
Extinct in Maine
Augusta, Me. (UP)—De-
spite a year-round closed sea-
son, moose rapidly are disap-
pearing from the Maine
woods.
Game commissioner esti-
mate that there are only 1,000
to 1,500 of the animals left in
the state and say about 60 of
these are killed each year by
automobilea, trains and law-
breaking hunters.
(By Robin Hooper)
The Timpaon Bears, under
the guiding hand of their
brand new coach, Robert E.
(Bob) Gillespie, will take to
the practice field Monday,
Sept. 2, in preparation for the
1940 grid season that will be
ushered in when the Beai-
travel to Shelbyville for th-
iid-buster, Friday, Sept. IS
The success of the Bears
this year is quite problemati-
cal, after a year lay-off. Coach
Gillespie will have to start
from scratch in building his
1940 team. Aside from Frank
Morgan, every boy on the team
will be playing his first foot-
ball. Morgan, flashy back,
was a letter man on the 1938
teairf.
Let ns take a look at the
1940 edition of the Timpaon
Beam. At the end positions
he will have such material as
Joe Bill Nelson, Joe Bussey,
Sidney Watson and Chester
Dunaway. From this quartet
there should develop a couple
of likely wingmen. The tackle
position will be taken care of
by Red Whiteside, John Stone,
Trammell Molioy, W. C.
Brown, Richards and David
Turpin. Guards; Frank and
Gerald Stamps, Ted Taylor,
and Wig Smith. At the pivot
position will be Delton Stilley,
Mike Kyle and Gary Ash.
Backs are listed as -Frank Mor-
gan, Bert Rhame, Boyce Gleu
Nelson, Billy Poss, Archie
Whitson, Jack Ramsey, C. B.
Nipp, Asa Lee Humphries, Joe
Rhodes, Junior Billingsley and
Lewis West. The above list
are boys that participated in
spring practice. There will be
others that will come in from
the rural section.
From the above material.
Coach Gillespie should be able
by mid-season to have a very
formidable aggregation that
should give a fair account of
themselves in district competi-
tion. His line will lack both
weight and experience, two of
the main elements that go to
make a good line. Watson, let-
terman on the 1940 basketball
team, should show to advan-
tage in one of the wing posi-
tions. The tackles will be
light and very very green. Dit-
to for the guards. Stilley look-
ed good in spring training at
center, he will be a very valu-
able man to the team. For
backs, Coach Gillespie has a
wealth of material. The wick-
ing and passing should be well
taken care of by Frank Mor-
gan, a real triple threater.
Royce Glen Nelson should fur-
nish plenty of power and Bert
Rhame has speed to burn.
With lota of hard work aad a
little experience the fans of
this section may expect to see
some very interesting football,
but don’t expect too much
from the Bears in 1940.
NEW KSHEttE 1HBEB
mem FOB HI.
mmum
Mr. and Mrs. Z. B. Cramp
have recently purchased the
residence property located on
South Second street, whleh
was owned by the late Mrs.
Mary Garrett. The present
building is heing dismantled
in part, and will be remodeled.
The new structure, when com-
pleted, will contain seven
rooms and bath, Mrs. Crump
said this morning.
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Molloy, T. J. Timpson Weekly Times (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 35, Ed. 1 Friday, August 30, 1940, newspaper, August 30, 1940; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth811917/m1/7/: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Timpson Public Library.