Refugio Timely Remarks (Refugio, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 30, 1946 Page: 2 of 12
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Page 2—REFUGIO TIMELY REMARKS, May 30, 1946
I GIVE YOU
REFUGIO
By “Sparky” Barton
In this following bit of verse, we
give you an idea for some serious
thought. It’s entitled: “Pull To-
gether.”
Two foolish jackasses, now get this
dope,
Were tied together with a piece of
rope,
Said one to the other, “you come
my way
That I may nibble at this new mown
hay.”
WI won’t,” said the other, “you
come with me,
For I too, have some hay, you see.”
Well, they got nowhere, just pawed
up dirt
And pulled each other with a rope
that hurt.
Then they turned about, those fool-
ish mules,
And said, “We’re just like human
fools,
We must pull together, I’ll go your
way,
Then you come with me and we’ll
both eat hay.”
They ate their hay and they like it,
too,
And swore to be comrades good and
true.
As the sun went down they were
heard to say,
“Ah, this is the end of a perfect
day.”
Now get this point, do not let it
pass,
Lean this lesson from a stubborn
jackass;
We must pull together, it’s the only
way
To keep us living with friendship,
and in harmony every day.
Have y’ heard the one about the
young negro recruit who was the
victim of so many practical jokes
that he doubted all men and their
motives. One night while he was
on guard, the figure of one of the
officers loomed up in the darkness.
The recruit challenged with: “Who
goes dere?” To which the officer
answered, “Major Moses”. The re-
cruit, in a cheerful voice, replie'd:
“Glad to meet you, Moses. Advance
andg ive the Ten Commandments.”
We would like to hear more about
BYRON WILSON and his motor-
cycle riding escapades. The same
doubt. Later, we’re sitting in the
office looking out the window and
little birdie that told -us about it inj there’s SNOOKS and ROGER |
the first place tells us that he rode i SHURLEY arguing with EMMETT j
it up to the back of C. P. & L. FREEMAN about something and
office and fell off the thing. BY-
RON says he didn’t fall off, that
was just the way he gets off of
motorcycles. How about herding it
down the main drag once, J. B.
Plans are being made for the an-
nual Rotary celebration, come the
4th of July. A look into the crystal
ball promises a bigger and better
celebration this year than ever be-
fore. If present plans materialize,
the concession stands won’t be run-
ning out of something to concess
by the middle of the afternoon.
BILL (GRAMPS) LEIGHTY plans
to have enough barbecue to feed
JACK ROGERS and BYRON WIL-
SON and then .anyone else who is
hungry. SLATS O’NEILL is so
enthusiastic about the possibilities
that he is even contemplating turn-
ing his penny pitch concession into
a nickel pitch. So Mr. and Mrs
REFUGIO COUNTY, start getting
ready for a grand celebration, and
if everyone forgets to stock up on
firecrackers, it will indeed be
grand and glorious fourth.
SEEN ALONG THE MAIN
DRAG:
We make the Post Office first
and as usual, it’s a busy place.
CHARLIE STRYKER rushes in
and out again. DENNIS LINNEY
hands us a cheery greeting as we
head on around to the coffee count-
er. We glance through the window
at H.E.B.’s and notice A. A. BUCK
hard at work. The coffee counter’s
practically empty, the only custo-
mer being B. W. CROMEENS. He’s
sipping a cup of the bean extract
and wishing that he had a nice cool
place like that to spend the summer.
NINA and TINY are there with
their usual line of wise cracks but
we don’t fall victim to any of their
jokes this week. NETTIE is behind
the counter subbing for the “Chief”.
She has the look of a sweet young
bride on her face. No victims show
up so we down our eye opener and
breeze on out. LOKEY HUDDLES-
TON hands us a cheery good morn-
ing and we hand him one right
back. We notice DON WOOD in the
barber shop taking advantage of
the tonsorial abilities of barber
CLAUDE, which reminds us that
we’re going to get a haircut soon
or start paying for a license. JOE
HEARD and JOHN JOHNSON on
the way to the coffee counter for
to take on some of the bean, no
apparently getting nowhere. They
should know that they are dealing
with a past master at that sort of
thing. Seeing them reminds us that
they will probably be over in a
minute hunting copy, so we put
the wind-up on this and try to be
ready for them when they get here.
Passes were not called for last
week. We would like to give passes
this week to the lady whose tele-
phone number is 278-J. If she will
come by the Rialto office, she will
be given two passes to see “San
Antonio” with Errol Flynn and
Alexis Smith at the Rialto Sunday
and Monday.
With this thought, we leave you:
“You can do something to make
the world better. Improve your-
self.”
NOTICE TO CREDITORS of the
Estate of Mary Frederick Rooke,
Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that Let-
ters of Guardianship upon the per-
sons and estates of Robert E.
Rooke, Jr., Marion B. Rooke, and
Joan E. Rooke, minors, were grant-
ed to me, the undersigned, on April
3, 1946, by the County Court of
Refugio County, Texas, and that
any and all claims against Mary
Frederick Rooke, Deceased, mother
of said minors, or against the Es-
tate of Mary Frederick Rooke, De-
ceased, should be presented to me
as Guardian of the estates of said
minors for adjustment and pay-
ment.
My residence and postoffice ad-
dress are Woodsboro, Refugio Coun-
ty, Texas.
Dated at Woodsboro, Texas, this
6th day of May, A. D. 1946.
A. D. Rooke,
Guardian of the Estates of
Rooke Minors.
We’re doing all we can
to serve people waiting
for telephones
IhE urgent job of getting telephone service to
those waiting is going ahead. We are nearing a
milestone: Soon everyone who needs only a tele-
phone instrument itself to get service will have
it. That shortage is about over.
In the first three months of this year we have
installed 150,000 new telephones in the five states
we serve. This is as many as we would have in-
stalled in six months of a normal year.
Although 170,000 new applicants for service
during this time kept the waiting list long (223,-
000 in the Southwest as April began), we now
are getting service faster to those waiting longest.
A great many of the people waiting for service
on V-J Day now have it.
Two big jobs remain:
j As quickly as we can get it, we are wiring
the precision, intricate machinery that han-
dles your calls at the exchange. This takes
time and skill. We must do years of work
in the next few months.
2 In a great many places we also need outside
cable and wire. We plan to have this in and
ready when the new equipment in the tele-
phone office is completed. Where we can,
we are wiring homes in advance for tele-
phones, ready to connect them the moment
we are able.
Meanwhile, we are trying every way we know to
s-t-r-e-t-c-h the service... and we are temporarily
squeezing in everyone we can with party lines,
hooking more telephones to already loaded
switchboards and dial equipment, putting dis-
connected lines back into service faster. If for a
while telephone service is not always as fast as
you'd like it, it is because of this crowding.
We repeat: The telephone company is doing
all it can to provide service for waiting custom-
ers. We’re looking forward to the day we get in
touch with you to arrange the details of installing
your telephone.
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
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Grandma looks calm and collected as she poses for
posterity, but she wasn’t — not on your tintype!
Getting her family ready for this picture was a long,
weary business.
The day this photo was snapped, Grandma was up
at dawn, wrestling with the old wood stove, coaxing
the kettle to boil, cooking breakfast. And the day be-
fore, she ironed the mountain of clothes that had
needed such hard scrubbing. The day before that—-
But that was Grandma’s life. She didn’t know any
other kind. Her way of housekeeping took lots of
time, lots of elbow grease. In Grandma’s gayest
dreams she never imagined the time would come
when a woman would have dozens of electric serv-
ants daily for the cost of a bottle of milk.
Electric service — ready and willing around the
clock and calendar — is a modern miracle Grandma
missed by being born too soon. But electrical
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