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FALFURR1AS TEXAS, FRIDAY. JAW. 22, 1937
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Falfurrias Facts
Pubilahed Weekly by FALFURRIAS PRINTING COMPANY
Dan F. Smith-----
.Editor
Entered as second class matter, April 2, 1906, at the Postoffice at
Patfarrias, Texas, under the Act erf Congress of March 8. 1879.
Home Demonstration
Club Work Report
(by Co. Home Dem. Agent)
Subscription Price $2.00 per year Payable In Advance
FALFURRIAS, TEXAS, FRIDAY. JAN. 22, 1937
We Congratulate The Commissioner’s Court-
In the selection of Garland Lasater as sheriff, tax collect-
or and tax assessor, the Commissioner’s have done themselves
a signal honor All will have to agree that the obligation rest-
ing on their shoulders was a heavy one. shot through with con-
flicting claims of many very worthy aspirants, and we sin-
cerely believe that after Brooks County’s citizens weigh all
the problems that faced the Commissioners, that a very large
majority will join us in agreeing that in the selection of Gar-
land Lasater, the Commissioners have done themselves honor.
And Mr. Lasater honors himself and gives evidence of
keeping faith with the heritage he enjoys of carrying on the
fine tradition of his father, in accepting the position at a sacri-
fice of his business and his own fortune. Mr. Lasater takes
over the office during a trying time at a real sacrifice and we
feel justified in writing that he will be given the hearty co-
operation of all our people in bringing order out of a perplex-
ing situation.
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There’* Plenty Left to Do—
“ . . . . nothing is done, finally and right . . . ”.
From the pen of the greatest muckraker of all time comes
this significant passage. It is found in the last book of Lincoln
Steffens, friend of presidents and breaker of many a public
official who wandered from the ways of propriety.
Lincoln Steffens died August 9. 1936, the day after he
finished correcting the proofs of his last book.
The above quotation is taken from his advice to youth in
which he continues:
“ . . . nothing is known, postively and completely.”
Lincoln Steffens’ span of years touched two centuries. He
speaks with authority when he gives counsel to the young*
His was a life that ran the gamut of journalistic experience.
And his philosophy certainly is food for thought.
No system of government is now, or ever has been, perfect.
No business has been conducted with the utmost in perfection.
The perfect book has never been written. The perfect musi-
cal composition has never been evolved. The perfect machine
of any type bas never been built.
We live in a world where there is constant room for going
ahead. In no business or profession has the ultimate in attain-
ment been reached.
It is estimated that in the field of science 99 per cent of
that which is knowable is yet to be discovered. Most scientific
endeavor has led only to questions yet to be answered.
Most of us have a slant on life in which we see little left to
be done. We see astounding inventions and arbitrarily com\
to the conclusion that that is the last step to be taken.
We feel left out—we feel that others have snatched the
greatest accomplishments from under our noses. We bow to
adversity. We refuse to push on.
What if the inventor of the first motor car had decided he
had the perfect machine and quit trying to improve it? What
if our writers and musicians decided that all that there is in
the world to be written about or composed has been presented?
There is always room to do the thing done well a little
better. There are always new avenues to open in science,
literature, art, music, business and other things.
Youth is ever standing at the threshold of possibility)
Only he who has not the initiative to forge ahead is defeated.
So with Lincoln Steffens we would say to youth:
”... nothing is ever done, finally and right . . . Nothing is
known, positively and completely.”
—Houston Chronicle
4-H Girls Are Presented With
Pins
The County Home Demon-
stration Council presented 9
4-H Club girls with gold 4-H
pins Friday mdfning, January
8th. The pins were offered to
the 4-H club girls who com-
pleted all of their club goals
set up for 1936.
The goals were as follows:
Gardening:
1. "Crow 50 tomato plants.
My rose bushes around the
outdoor living room cost $2.50.
A screen planting along the
south side of the drive was
made of Myrtle, Turks Caps
and other shrubs. The service
yard was screened from the
front yard by Turks Caps,
from the play yard by Olean-
ders and other Oleanders were
used to screen the play yard
from the drive. We took the
back yard fence down in order
SOUTH
TEXAS
(By Bill Elliott)
Reports Are In
A few weeks ago, in the
closing days of 1936, forecasts
were made freely that the
year would prove to have been
one of the most significant in
2. (an ^.) cans of tomato i to jjav a circuiar drive,
juice, tomatoes, or tomato In all we planted 147 shrubs as. None ot the forecasts was
soup. about 200 annuals, 147 bulb* exaggerated
made that work will be con-
tinued on 'Cuero’s beautiful
municipal park.
Gonzales already is making
plans for an elaborate celebra-
tion to be held in connection
the development of South Tex- *Hh the Gonzales County Fair
A Man’s Man—
Vice President Garner’s silence during the campaign was
impressive. It was made doubly so—nay, a thousand times so
—by the extreme volubility of Frank Knox, who thought he
was running for the post occupied by Mr. Garner. The country
seemed grateful to Mr. Garner—he got as many votes as Roose-
velt.
The vice president has a speech, however, and he has
made it in Washington. It is brief, pointed, terse, emphatic, elo-
quent. It consists of one word, “No!”
That word was delivered when the Washington social
lobby began planning its usual round of festivities. High a-
mong them are the vice president’s tPhiner for the president,
in return for the president’s dinner to the vice president. Mr.
Garner said, “No!” no dinners, and the president agreed. Now
Cactus Jack can retire at his usual hour. 9, and be happy.
There is a man. We know of none other in this broad and
happy land who would dare even so much as whisper “No!”
to his wife’s plans for a dinner party. Meek and subservient,
the rest of mankind goes through with it. Other husbands give
up their happy hour with the latest mystery, or their tuning
in of the radio, or their sleep. They wear the white and black
armor of society and venture forth to stupid dinners, and give
them in return. But not Jack Garner. He’s not only the vice
president, but the sole survivor of man’s ages-long futile fight
for independence. After this, when we hear someone speak
of a place where men are men, we will think of the broad
plains of Texas, the little town of Uvalde, and Jack Garner,
a man’s man.—Omaha (Neb.) World-Herald
The Country Press-
Ill England, where almost everyone can have a London
morning paper at his breakfast table, newspapers published
in small towns have become more parochial than in this coun-
try ami often have been neglected. Today, however, as Eng-
land faces the possibility of mobilization for a new _war, the
importance of the country press is becoming recognized anew.
The British leaders are aware that winning a war involves
mobili ition of more than military, naval and air forces. In-
dustrial production must be regimented, food supplies con-
served and equitably distributed, and public opinion whipped
into line in support of the Government’s war policies. In
gaining these ends, the local papers are just as important as
those in metropolitan centers.
In the United States, the more enlightened politicians and
industrial leaders have been aware all along of the impor-
tance of the country weekly as an organ of news and opinion.
No matter how many large dailies a small-town resident may
take for his national and foreign news, he depends on his
local paper for news of neighborhood happenings and for
grassroots opinions.
Since the day of the hand press, the country editor has
been one of the real leaders of his community. His aid is one
3. Learn to prepare 3 toma-
to dishes and serve them to
j your family at least once.
Bedroom Improvement:
1. Provide a bedspread for
your bed.
2. Make one piece of protec
tive bedding.
3. Arrange the top of a
dresser or table in your bed-
room attractively.
The girls who accomplished
these goals and received the
pins are: Mildred Frances
Fort, Sue Farr, Annie Negri,
Eva Douglas Bowden, Helen
Hanson, Joyce Keith and Lena
Mae Wells from the High
School 4-H Club and Selma
400 cuttings and 5 vines. , ------- "”T ' . x. m ul) cenr montns, nas a nousing
i„S;fan Vuh.ro5beer^f my SK "bee" gathered fi- portage which indicate, ex-
Statistics and reports on the
Alice, in spite of a large vol-
ume of building activity in re-
cent months, has a housing
rose bushes. I didn’t think the
water from our well would
kill plants as it didn’t kill
burmuda grass, so before I
realized what was the matter
I had killed a large part of my
shrubbery watering it.
The total cost of my yard
improvement amounted to
$11.40 and of course much start already.
gures on increased bank depo-
sits, increased postal receipts,
increased building activity, in-
creased tax payments, increas-
ed general business. They were
accompanied with new fore-
casts that new high records
will be made during 1937.
The new year is off to a good
hard work, but my improved
yard is worth all of the effort
and expense.
Since Yard Achievement
Day we have continued our
improvement by digging
Around The Area
Projects planned or already
underway in practically all
tensive construction work dur-
ing the next few months. Total
building permits already is-
sued this year has been un-
usual.
Is Welcomed Home
South Texas newspaper men
and Taft residents join hands
in welcoming back to this sec-
tion Fred L. Williams as pub-
lisher of the Tribune in the ac-
tive San Patricio County busi-
ness cpnter
Williams sold his Taft plant
Bechthold and Etta Belle Lov-1 ditches, filling them with Ter-
VTr VW ^r’ ^ *kr 1 School tilizer and dirt all around the
4-H Club. ! {irive and yards , replanting
t T™e pr*T8eMt£tion made al, cur plants that {lied. We
ky Mrs. Ned Rupp, chairman y1ave replanted with 94 Cenisa
°J County Home Demon- hushes, 34 other shrubs, and
stration ( ouncil. about' 150 cuttings of hedges,
° | Esperanza, Afnol, Turks Cap,
Mrs. W. H. Pfeiffer’s Yard etc- a11 mixed together for our
Improvement screen plantings. We’ve also
“To improve your yard calls 11 \
for much hard work but the trees, about o0 Athol
result is worth all of the ef- cuttings for a hedge and 5 ya-
fort.” announced Mrs. W. H. | ™eties of vines including
Pfeiffer. 1936 Yard Demon- Honey Suckle, Woodbine Bou-; a
strator in the Falfurrias Home Fa,nvilla and others. Part are
Demonstration Club. Follow
South Texas cities indicate the j in 1935, going to Clarendon as
tempo which progress will publisher of the widely known
take during the current year. Clarendon News, but he re-
in the following compilation of j cently repurchased the pro-
individual projects no effort perty he had sold and is back
was made to cover the field ! in the South Texas field “for
thoroughly but the number good.” The active, young pub-
and variety of activities indi- lisher made a newspaper of
1 to cover a trellis I intend to
build by the garage.
ing is the story of Mrs.
Pfeiffer’s yard' improvement
as told in her own words: Falfurrias Home Demonstra-
The Story of My Yard tion Club Meets
Improvement The Falfurrias Home De-
When we bought our home monstration Club had their re-
last year, the yard was a pro- gular meeting at the home of
blem.The front was a wilder- Mrs. W. F. Stroud Wednesday
ness of shrubbery, bushes, afternoon January 13th at
trees, etc. It had an old wire 2:30 o’clock,
fence around it covered with The first part of the meet-
vines and the wind had blown ing was devoted to a business
cate graphically what is going
on in this extensive area.
As residents in theTity of
Bishop are "becoming accustom
ed to the use of natural gas,
made available to them only
a few weeks ago, work is pro-
gressing at Benavides, in Du-
val County, on installation cf
a natural gas system which
that community
from a nearby field.
Plans have been announced
for the construction of a new
$70,000 high school building
at San Diego.
A new library building is be-
ing contemplated at Robstown
which Taft and South Texas
could be proud out of the old
Tribune during he time he
published it. Everyone who
knows him is glad to have him
back in the territory which he
himself believes offers the best
opportunity of any in the coun-
try to an ambitious young man.
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Mrs. A. J. Burditt has re-
turned from several weeks vis-
it to friends and relatives in
Albany, Ga.
and piled up sand until there
was a sand hill along the front
fence, while the soil was blown
out to the hard pan near the
meeting, after the business
meeting the program was turn-
ed over to MIssEdmond Earle
O’Neal, the County Home De-
house. There was also a large I monstration Agehf, who gave
trashpile between tTie fence! a demonstration on the can-
and the road.
We didn’t know how to be-
gin to improve it, until one day
Miss Louise Hogue, our Home
Demonstration Agent at that
time came out and asked me
to be a yard demonstrator. I
was glad to be and have enjoy-
ed the work very much.
About the first of November
we made a plan of the way we
wanted the yard to look when
finished. As we have a large
rambling house, our plantings
had to be informal. First we
dug up the shrubbery which
was later used for foundation
and screen plantings, took
down the fence, hauled off the
trash, plowed and dug the
sand hill pulling the dirt back
tbward the house, hauled 20
truck loads of dirt to fill in a-
round the house and made
foundation beds, then leveled
and terraced the lawn, scatter-
ing of citrus stock. Miss
O’Neal demonstrated how to
can orange juice, and grape-
fruit juice that could later be
used in the making of jelly and
marmalade. She also canned
grapefruit peel that could be
used in making marmalade.
During the demonstration she
distributed mimeographed cop
Mr. Charles Moyer of Alice
was a luncheon guest in the
c i t , . home of Mr. and Mrs. J. Britt
where plans also are being Dck|e Tuesday
considered for the establish-1 3
ment of a feed mill.
Aransas Pass interests are
making preparations for the
biggest tourist business in his-
tory this year.
Work was started during
the week on construction of a
new $10,900 municipal build-
ing at Taft.
The city council of Woods-
boro has asked for bids for
paving a number of streets un-
der provisions of a bond issue
voted several mohths ago. Re-
fugio County Tarmers are plan-
ning to inaugurate several one-
variety cotton communities
this year, carrying out a pro-
gram urge'd for South Texas
counties for some time.
Sinton is planning, through
j community-wide action, to es-
ies of the New 1937 Citrus Re-1 tablish a ‘hospital which will
cipes. The object in putting up serve its section of San Patricio
the citrus in the form of stock
and later making the stock in-
to jelly or marmalade is to
keep the clear color as long as
County.
Beeville expects continued
business activity from oil oper-
ations in nearby territory.
possible. It has been found Plans have been announced for
that citrus in the form of stock remodeling of a business build-
will keep the color better than ing in George West into a mo-
in the form of jelly or marma-; dern motion picture theater
lade.
for tKe Live Oak County city.
Several small business enter-
Saturday were Mrs. Dawson,
Jimmy Dawson, Mrs. C. F.
ed bermuda grass over it wa- ^l88 £aS.h?l Racha1,
tdrim, if ,.,/xii T'u„ ____. . * x, _ ! and Mrs. Jim McBride.
tering it well. The cost of the
work was $4.00_that I paid a
man for help.
The house was net under-
pinned so we underpinned it
with wire netting costing $2.00
we built ne_w cement steps at
a cost of $2X0 for the cement
and sand. The front porch had
at one time been screened so
we took the slats that had
held the wire and built five
trellises. We made them our-
selves using paint we had on
hand so the only cost was five
cents for nails.
My foundation plants around
the house were Mountain
laurel, Jasmine, Esperanza,
Hibiscus, Hedge. Agarita, and
Cenisa. Part of them were tak-
en from the lawn, some from
the woods and some were giv-
en to me. I bought 2 gardenias
and 3 Hibiscus for 75 cents.
fViS^ng.!r!„Sa"fAnt^ni0.last oU 8cityhof Pettus stac^tliffiret
of the year. Runge, interested
in oil development, sees more
immediate income as ship-
ments of spinach are started
from its section.
Arrangements are being
completed for the opening of
a modern creamerv plant in
Floresville which will give Wil
son County farmers and dairy J ’iii
men a new market for sour I ill!
and sweet cream and grade B
milk. |||!|
Announcement has
Brown: “I’ll never ask an-
other woman to tfTarry me.”
Smith: “Refused again?”
Brown: “No; accepted.”
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••• amination. Sold to both llll
Father (admiring his recent
ly born heir) : “That fellow
will be a great "statesman one
of these days.”
Mother: “Oh, Charles dear,
do you really think he will?”
“Sure of it. Look how easily
he wriggles out of everything.’’
* * *
As District Missionary of
the A. M. E. Methodist I take
this means of Inanking those
in Falfurrias who by their
thoughtful contributions are
enabling me to carry on the
Lord’s work among the color-
ed peoples.
L. C. Browning
men and women. Only
$10.00 A Year
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campaign is desired. He makes little money, but he has the
satisfaction of helping to develop his home town and of up-
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