Falfurrias Facts (Falfurrias, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, May 28, 1926 Page: 1 of 8
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IE XIX.
FALFURRIAS, BROOKS COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY MAY 28, 1926.
NUMBER 51.
ENTERTAINS WITH
DINNER FOR FAL.
HIGH GRADUATES
“No, this is no corn country.
Such would be the answer of Huston
999 men out of every thousand members
the Falfurrias country class.
Mrs. Geo. Frank entertained
last Monday evening with a
dinner party in honor of Love
Kossbiel, Watt Hornburg, and
Jenkins, who were
of the graduating
in
should you ask them if this The house was attractively
was a corn country. decorated with pink and white
And they would believe they1 crepe paper, and baskets fill
were telling you the truth. Yetied with white roses.
Falfurrias Must Have 1927
Press Convention
)t is asserted that the San Antonio Press couvention will
be the greatest meeting ever held by the State newspi*
Raymondvilh* is a big faker. The meeting of the Chamber
permen. Be it ever so great Falfurrias will go San An-:Some one from Raymondville of Commerce Monday night
tonio one better when the Editors convene in Fnlfurrim ^graphed to the San Anton- was taken up largely with com
Vtne ill raiiurriaa 10 Express under date of May nuttee reports and routine
in 192/ . * 24 that the year’s first carload work.
Six of the finest young ladies in Texas will leave Falfur. ot water melons was being ship The committee in charge of
f^ r ped on that date from Willacy the entertainment of the Texan
. . nas in about ten days to carry the massage of falfurrias .......... * lj(.rs,,v mttip ciuh wa« hi*
j on the (Minos, about three “42” was played. Houston W the assembled hosts. AtenUou proud of the selec- Evidently believing such a fifed with thanks to the
Miles from Falfurrias, has four Jenkins won the first prize, tlon you have made-they can’t be excelled ill all the rt‘l)0,'t> the Sail Antonio Ex- < the prompt and
cres of corn that would at- and Lucile Hassell won the world-—they just don't make ’em finer
t act attention in any country booby. ----------- --------1 — _.
on earth except in Falfurrias Those present were the hos-
Land. teas, Misses Jean Bedell, Lucile
Every one in this section ox- Hassell, Mamie Allen, Bertha
poets so much and are so used Morgan, Elenor Goldstein, Ro-
to abnormal yields that only sa Brochet, Ruth Oberwetter.
* e extraordinary receive not- Lillian Helms, Emily Maupin
Le. Mary Maupin, Berdie Dono-
"Ir. Gonzales has corn stalks hoe- Ethel Proctor, Thelma
■ that are over thirteen feet in Frank, Messrs. Watt Ilorn-
height, many of the stalks burg, Loye Kossbiel Huslon
reaching six feet before the ear Jenkins, Geo. Prank, .T. L. t
is put ('lit. The stand is good Beaman, Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Du
and tin' corn is filling out well. Bose, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. P'cr-
■ “How much will it yield?” guson, and Mr. and Mrs. II. D.
No one x\ ill venture an esti- Pike,
mate. Those who have seen
i he field say that should they
give their honest opinion as to
what the field will yield they
would be laughed at and they
refuse to made an estimate.
Several stalks have been
brought to Falfurrias and has
attracted but modest attention.
The people of Falfurrias ex-
pert such things and they will
not realize that such exhibits
are unusual and deserving of
praise and advertising.
Should California raise just
due crop of such corn a thous-
and letters would go east and
north telling of the feat eve^y
day for a month.
Here in Falfurrias the exhi-
biting of such products passes
with, ‘Oh, that’s pretty good
but this is no corn country.”
Mr. Gonzales states he rais-
Sunday. Falfurrias lost one
of its most estimable-and re-
spected citizens in the sudden '
death of Mrs. Mary Henry.
Howard
Her death came suddenly at
6 o’clock Sunday morning fol-
lowing a brief illness. Wed-j
nesday preceeding she com-!
press featured the article on its efficient manner in which they
front page, and made editorial handled the program,
comment. A resolution of thanks was
This report was without introduced and unanimously
foundation. 1 n vestigation carried, expressing apprecia-
proving that no such shipment Lon for the manner in which
had been made.
It is believed that those who
are in position to intelligently
judge, Falfurrias will make the
first carload shipment of water
melons this year. Small ex-
1 >tcss shipments are now being
made from this territory, but
melons have not ripened is suf-
TtXAS PQ&SASSX
c?he GUNTER. HOTEL,
tlUNB IO II.AND 12th
SAN ANTON I O
Forty-Seventh Annual Convention of the Texas Press Associa-
tion to meet in the Alamo City June 10, 11 and 12th], with
Headquarters at the New Gunter.
plained of not feeling well, but
ed the corn without irrigation no serious outcome was expect-
or fertilization. ed until Friday night when she
took a turn for the worse.
Mrs. Howard was born Mary
Letitia Henry, May 19, 1852,
in the little town of Peoria, in
Hill county, Texas.
May 29, 1875 she was mar-
H. C. Preston of Dallas en-:rjed to Nathan Calvin Howard,
route lo ,the Lower Vailev.’To this union five sons and
stopped in Falfurrias Thurs- f0Ur daughters survive, and
OLD FRIEND OF
THE BENNETT FAMILY
SPENDS DAY IN CITY
< ay morning to see hi> old
time friend, Dr. H. M. Bennett.
two step-sons and one step-
daughter, whom she reared.
MONROE TO ATTEND
MRS. J. C. THOMAS
U. S. ROAD CONGRESS ENTERTAINS CIRCLE 1.
W. E. Monroe has receive.! j 0n ThursoU^ afternoon of
an invitation to attend and ad-1 last week the ladies of Circle
dress the convention of the Unit No. 1 of the Baptist W. M. U.
ed States Road Congress, which j were entertained at Sunshine
meets in St. Louis next month. | beautiful home of
Judge Monroe is a life mem-i * , , . ,
her of this organization, hav-L™H M l£nLtt lift V
i7thrCadCCoVgrosTh?ni'ii" i"‘he S.-ripl'urJ reading"* Co.. F.lfurri.. Bakery. G. 'decided to
oi me noaa congress in iJiA Tmn».,a « .,..,.,11,.-----u— Castillo. Nolls fate. I revino mm.irad u un.i
Facts and the personel of this
publication co-operated in en-
tertaining the visitors.
'I he committee having in
. barpt* the proposed trip to
in Antonio next month to in-
\.L* tin* Texas Press Associa-
- ion to meet in Falfurrias next
vear, reported that the expens-
s of the trip had not yet been
iicient quantities to make car-| financed, as the business secur-
load shipments, as yet. ed bv Fact# under its proposi-
However, it is safe to savjtion to finance the trip of the
that carload ahipmenta wil! | >'oun* ladies to San Antonio
, Irom advertising and circula-
commence next week trom ^jon secured had fallen far
Falfurrias which will be the [short of the expectation, us so
year’s first melon shipment. far the workers had not been
—o- able to convince the Falfurrians
of the advantage of such a trip,
md the great good to be real-
ized from making the right
kind of showing in San Anton-
io next month.
Considerable discussion of
the subject was had, it finally
being decided that the Steering
x . , . , „ . I Committee should work out
nteiest in baseball is grow- t|0ffinite additional plans for
ing apace in haltunas. During financing the trip, it being the
he week the members °f unanimous sentiment of those
International Ball I layers of present that under no circum-
falfurrias have been soliciting dances should the idea be a-
funds to purchase the ball bandoned and the trip called
suits.
It being proposed that on the
front of the blouse be the
words, “Falfurrias Merchants.”
and on the hack the name of
firm or individual donating the
suit. UP to date the following
have signed up to help the
boys:
W. S. Belton, Vela Bros.,
Ignacio Trevino, J. Milales-
Harry Edwards, Starr Lumber
off.
Secretary Caldwell stated
that a reduction of two per
cent in the insurance key rate
could be secured by the Cham-
ber of Commerce posting a re-
ward of $100.00 tor the arrest
and conviction of any one con-
victed of arson in Brooks coun-
ty, and the filing of a bond
with the Commissioner of In-
surance to pay such reward. It
Judge Monroe claims credit
There was a goodly member-
ship, together with several
The Benne.ts and Mr. Pres- Mrs. C. F. Wagenschein and for having delivered the first . . ij *h ‘
ton have been Iriends since Mrs. W. B. Gardner of Falfur- public address advocating an , {' ,A !
i'.iOO, Mr Presstating that rjas are two of the surviving ocean to ocean highway. ,vV* A l£,e Bowaid,
Castillo, Nolls ( afe, I revino pOSt the required notices and
& Solis, Fallurrias Mercantile1 file the bond, and the seereta-
C'o., and M. G. Perez.
Dr. Bennett v. a.* ihe firs); nian j daughters.
lie got acquainted with after, ^|ra> Howard passed on at
coming to lexas. 1 the age of 74 after a long ife
Judge and Mrs. Monroe ex-
social hour Mrs. Thomas, as-
tir. Preston says that in no UBefuineas loved and re- St: Louis visiting enrout
the month- bv automobile, for 1 ’ •
f !i! ... delicious ! * t
*arn and 1
section of the country has he .na„ ,n „
se-n crops looking so good as camo Jtl cjntad>
in r alturrias Land.
. 1, Uli 'it‘.e
WHITE KITCHEN CAFE
friends and relatives in IIou
ton and Lousisiana points.
The funeral took place ! mm FAL_ Hj DEFEATS
the Wagenschein home, and
was attended by a large ion-j
HAS CHANGED HANDS corse of sorrow inv !
- with heavy hearts followed the
Henry Livingston has sold remains to the cemetary.
the White Kitchen Cafe to E. The pall bearers were II. S.
B. Griffin of Alice. Bedell, R. C. Hassell, S. E.
ALICE IN THE LAST
GAME OF SEASON
The High School base ball
team wound up the season in
m r Vr * l’ n.>P„ n i n ur 1 wi * r n \i7 grand fashion bv defeating the
Mr. Griffin took charge on Cone, W. J. Wilson, L. D. ^c-)Ali . nin* The vidorv
Sunday morning. j Intyre and G. M. Gear. 1 AUCe team mne- 1 ne ',clor
He comes highly recom-l ^e funeral arrangements
mended both as a public spirt- [were n charge of Orville Moy-
ed citizen, and a responsiable ] er> mortician, and was con-
business man.
Mr. Griffin expects to muke
a number of improvements in
the cafe and make a specialty
of catering to the best class
of home trade, and the travel-
ing public.
ducted with the dignified sim
plicity in keeping with the life
of the departed.
Mrs. Howard had been a
consistent and devout member
of the Presbyterian church for
many years, and the funeral
Alice team nine,
was a signal one, as the Alice;
team had not met defeat dur-|
ing the season.
EIGHT COUNTIES
REPRESENTED AT
HIGHWAY MEETING
Sli]i| ing and sliding and pull
ing nunid’. roads for more than
ry was instructed to attend to
Ihe matter at once.
MUCH RAIN IN JUNE
FORECAST BY HART
AND OBERWETTER
Following is Billie Hart’s
weather forecast for June,
which ha received the o. k.
f our local weather prophet of
national fame, II. Oberwetter.
June 12—Local rain North-
'riles, delegates from
east and west of Tilden
present at the meeting
h>te Oil Wednesday to
nr plans for the propos-
al surfaced highway ' west Texas. Cool.
Hilly to Three Rivers June 8—Fair,
where it will connect with a june 4—Local rains North-
hard surfaced highway into west Texas. Southwest Texas.
Corpus Christi and to the iuw-jQulf Coast, Houston, South-
er Rio Grande Valley. east Oulf Coast Texas, Corpus
Carrizo Springs, Dilley, Geo- Christi.
Last Saturday night, in the | West. Calliham, Three Rivers, June 5_Local rain North-
rhe game was played on the lower hall of the High School Alice, Los Angeles, Fowlerton. west Texas East Texas Pales
home diamond^ last^ Tuesday, building, the Alumni banquet Premont Kingsville and Til-1 tine. North Texas, Fort Worth,
Falfurrias took bats, ran in tiful in its decoration of moss sonal delegates. Brownsville,1 Tflylor South Central Texas
a score in the first inning, and and flowers. The moss com- Corpus Christi, San Antonio. I San Antonio. Kerrville, South -
continued to lead throughout pletely covered the walls and The Valley Chamber of Com- east Texas. Gulf Coast, Hous-
.he game. In tact, it was the ceiling of the hall, giving the merce and San Antonio were|ton, Southwest Guff Coast Tex-
-----o-
MOONLIGHT NIGHTS
Along j represented by letters of en- as. Corpus Christi, Rio Grande
Moonlight parties and pic-1
sixth inning before the Alice;effect of a moss cabin. ________________
services were preached by Kev. | of the sea^ y ^ °i(>an(,c‘rs. mingl-jdorsement^ ^ | Valley, Southwest Texas, Uval
ic»ri!*h nii1'Pol* 0 tlft-v'fra*v‘. ^io')r baskets contain-jwns enthusiastic in pledging wind, hail, Northwest Texas,
nics are the order of the day in REALITOS FUTURE BRIGHT rit]\ hn«..a «-ith !?.* il!1”?./]jWtir!,..!vf.re at!.rac.' Live Oak county’s support. The North Texas, Dallas, Ft. Worth
Falfurrias Land. No country........ ' I * t'mhn placed about the hall. A (total of fifty-three who were Local rain Northeast Texas,
in the world has the jfloriou.j „ McBride and Carl Maun, ^TklW gfme.ndex" i bfth'e'r^offloorkmp^hid present the meeting repre-
th^^aVfurrUs ^ounVry08The1Bea^litos^were busniess visi-jceptinK a little wildness, pitch ed in pink. sented the eight counties of ’ east lixu » »ult Coaft,
beauty oj the night, j These gentlemen report every Staggs, behind the bat. caught by Miss Morgan and the econ-
dor of the southern skies, and thing looking the “best ever,
the soft and balmy gulf breeze jn their neighborhood and say
are so pleasant and agreeable that if the Realitos* neighbor-
that the most plegmatic become hood keeps on improving that
enthusiastic and regret when j„ the future Realitos will peti-
the lateness of the hour conj- tion to annex Falfurrias to that
pells them to go to bed. | thriving manicipality.
with his usual success. No
substitutes were used in the
game.
For Alice, there was good
pitching and batting; but the
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omics class, assisted by the
membtrs of the last years econ-
omics class. The colors were
beautifully carried out in the
menu. According to those who
'_ (Continued on page 5)
Zavalla, Frio, La
Salle, McMullen, Live Oak, At-
ascosa, Jim Wells and Kle-
berg.
Committees were appointed
to secure the designation and
work out the details premimin-
ary to voting the necessary
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bonds in La Salle and McMuli*
en counties.
Delegates from Eagle Pass
and Pleasanton were en route
to the meeting but were forc-
ed to turn back on account of
the road conditions,
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