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THE FLATONIA ARGUS
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VOLUME 65
FLATONIA, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JAN. 25, 1940
NUMBER 8
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By The Editor
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HOME TOWN
RECIPROCITY
WILLIAM
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Kerrville Mountain Sun:
Fiom__a biK city business-
man comes this bit of timely
advice;
Sales success is' based not
alone upon honesty; cotnmer-
cial acumen, aggressiveness,
analytical ability, personality
and approach. All these qua-
lities play their part In
modern .salesmanship. But
the sales that repeat for you
are based upon the all im-
portant . factor called Fair
Dealing.
Fair Dealiqtr and recipro-
city are ’synonymous. Ypur
community* and ifr envirdus
supply the busfhess that
makes it possible for you to
succeed. It is only just and
right that you recipricate
for the consideration your
community shows you by
patronizing home-town 4$usi-
ness enterprises.
Colored Resident’s
Home Burns Sat.
The—home of- Tom—Butler,
'’[fv'uur ^{koX . .
SNOWBALL
A £lw • alL-ii* 4»*4tKf*s:?ti»enB‘{
of your feommuhity who
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Subjects
. M.
DAY
to jtftTTttl. schools;
for you to'have a roof.over
your head; for bread and
butter and milk and meat
and eggs and .tiy.Uey.cies to
grace "your table. Certainly,
you are under no. obligation
to take-your money *a^ hun-
dred miios away from your
home town where you are
not known, nor even appre-
ciated. You might save^ a
tpw cents by trading in'the
nearby big town. Btit you
couldn’t begin to compen-
sate yourself for the trouble
anti- inconvenience encoun-
tered through depriving yoar
benefactors, friends and
low-citizcn of your business.
It isn’t worth the difference.
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ROTARY CftjB
NEWS ITEM
“Service In Business” was
the topic which W. I). John-
son discussed before the
regular meeting of the Flato-
nia Rotary Club Friday noon.
The first’ part of the busi-
ness session was taken up in,
discussing various suggest-
ed Rotary projects, and the
prominent Flatonia colored
resident, was totally de-
stroyed by €ire abotft 4;0fr
o’clock Saturday , afternoon.
The fire started in the
kitchen of the home, where
one of the girls had built a
fire in the cook stove. She
left the rpom, and when she
returned, the entire kitchen
was ablaze.
By the time the fire
alarm Was turned in, and the
fireboys had answered the
call, the entire structure was
ablaze. The pump on the
booster truck was frozen,
and the* truck was useless,
and ice in ’ the lines of the
big .hose delayed firemen
for about five minutes. By
the time \Vater was finally
gotten on the tflaze,, the
house was it 'total loss. We
understand that no insur-
ance was carried. The home
belonged to Butler.
The people ol Flatonia
sinceTgly sympathize • with
Tom and his family in their
loss, and imang have helped
with cash donations, and
donations of clothing and
household fixtures. Anyone
having any useful article,
such as clothing, cooking
utensils., or other household
equipment, that they would
be willing to donate will be
Called for and thoroughly ap-
preciated by Butler. ■ The
home was within the City
Limits, and the loss will be
charged against the City’s
fire loss for 1940.
PRAHA PARISH REPORTS
DISTRIBUTED SUNDAY -
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Tffl&.TOJSST parish report of
the Pra'
jmaevC _____ _
been completed by the Argug
job^ department. . The report,
eight pages in , length, was
printed in Czech, and was
most complete?
The report sh.owed * 27.1
families rn The parish, and'83
'students in both Ihe public
and -parochial schools. Teach-
ers . jn the schools were
Sisters - 'Gerard, Assumpta,
Germaine, ajul. Bernardine.
A toftil of $4,499.32 was
taken ini during the year,
including a balance carried
over from last year.- A total
of $4,332.16 was paid out,
yvhich included
serve fund set aside, and
leaving a cash balance on
hand of $167.16.
There were 18 births
within the parish, 15' mar-
riages, and 12 people were
buried in the cemetery there.
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WM. E. BORAH, DEAN
OF SENATE, DIES AT 74
There was lots.of fun in
and around Flatonia Mon-
day-morning and afternoon.
Anyone who ventured but of
doors did ‘ so at their own
risk, and risk it was, with all
the snow on the ground and
all the school children en-
joying a half-holiday.
* * *
Merchants report that
they sold nearly "'all of their
stock of boots, overshoes
and golashcs Monday morn-
ing. Everyone was enjoying
the snow, but were, trying,to
^eep their feet dry. ’
, * * * j.
Every camera jn town
was busy Monday .afternoon,
and both drug stores ex-
hausted their, supply of film
Before the. day was over.
* i • * * *
We never did like mob
violence F We know we don’t
now! A’"mob, led by Coach
.Spud “A1 Capone” Jenkins
and “Buster” Mullins, and
containing town dignatarics,
and ,‘should-be-dignified”
personages sucl^ as Mrs. Mc-
Kay, Misses Box, Adams and
Dowlings and severaj other
little gangsters, took in tfye
tovvn, and in then- round saw
to it that ye editor got a
good snow filing. They hung
out around the postoffice all-
day, trying to catch that
genial assistant of J iiYi Far-
ley, Wallace' Bludworth,
when the office 'door wasn’t
locked, but understand they
had no-luck. Someone said
Wallace spent the night In
the postoffice. »
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^..laa^bjL'-^odal rJABlack
Maria7’ delivery' trpek, load-'
| “This cqld spell ,'set fli*
—Gterdm* Club LlF 'abuill 50
years”, $upt. Kasper reward- will hold'its regular
during Hie afternoon,' and
woej-uhto the .pnspspecting
victim that was caught out
in the open.
Washington, Jan. 20. —-
William Edgar Borah of
Idaho, dean of the United
States senate, died at 7:45
p.m., Friday night at the age
of 74.
His death followed a cere-
bral hemorrhage, with which
the veteran statesman was
committeemen made their stricken about tTie tijwe he
reports. There was no ViSit-11'-suffered a fall-at h.i*. apa-rt-
at the
Bowl,
Bawl
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•qis:
FINNISH RELIEF
FUND DONATIONS
The Argus is still acting as
headquarters in Flatonia for
the Finnish Relief Fund. If
you wish to make a donation,
and haven’t done so, leave
it, or mail it to The Argus
Finnish Relief Fund, Flato-
nuns.
|J| The following donations
H W* have . been received this
RINES”
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Henry Miller $1.00; Flato-
nia Argus $1.00; C. A.
Pearson, $1.00.
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Mr. and Mrs. Moe Klein,
George W. Hawkes and Gray
. C. Joiu* atU'tuloii tho Jr. Gr
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4£1
of C. Banquet in La Grange
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Mr, and Mfs. Henry Le-
pori and family of Gonzales
wejrc Sunday guests of Mr.
[NY
*«d Mros E. V. Kopecky and
family.
nrtent he're .Tuesfla'y morning.
It was not known whether
the hemorrhage caused the
fall, or resulted from it.
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NEAR SERIOUS FIRE
NARROWLY AVERTED
While sitting at home last
Thursday night after the
cold norther had blown up,
the sons of Joe Kailua dis-
covered that the ceiling next
to the brick flue had
caught on fire, and was mer-
rilv burning. A quick dash
to the kitchen where a sup-
ply of water was kept
•brought the family running
with buckets, and extinguish-
ed the flames before much
damage was done. Had the
fire- started—after the farrri-
lv had gone to bed. no doubt
a more serious fife would
have occured.
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Miss Ruth Kopec ky of
Gonzales spent Friday with
relatives here.
> Barber Gray, wjth his
Skeezix lock of hair, or
should we say his only lock
of hair, ^ventured . out ton
far, and Ed. Brunner caught
him-,• and'rolled him in a pile
of snow unt it ho looked •dike
a miniature snowman.
* * *
Anti-freeze didn’t last
long enough for half the
people to get their radiators
car stay-
ed behind locked doors with
their motors drained during
the coM spell.
• >- * *
F. E. linger, the summer
Yankee and winter Southern-
er, said he thought some-
one had shipped him back
to Illinois while he slept when
he awoke Monday to see the
terrain covered with the
fleecy flakes.
Railroadf men spent the
better part of Monday and
Tuesday attempting to keep
switches open in order that
trains might go through on
time. '
• • •
It. O. “Tom” Hill must
have washed his car, and
couldn’t do a thing with it
Monday morning, • cause it
left the road at the Metho-
dist church and ruined the
radiator and fan. Took all
the fun out of the event for
Tom. - ’ - *' v
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• Next, to overshoes and
camera films, hot coffee was
the "order of the day, and
the stools and tables in the
.cafes wore filled to capa-
city most of the time.
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The scream of the week
was the snow fight between
N. II. “Lightning” Cook,
and Barber Gray. It “was
worth the price of admission
to, see it, even if it. was In
slow motion.
* * *
Roland “Deacon” Sullivan
deputy nightwatchman, ^ en-
joyed the snow more Than
anyone,-as hqJ<L been looking
forward- to it for about ten
years. • *' ' ■
« * •
Gray Jones is carrying his
upper lip in a sling as a.re-
sult of a snow fight With- a
couple of ’Cistern ladies
Monday afternoon. They
must have put^a rock in that
show ball, Gray!
WINTER GRIPS TEXAS AS
MERCURY DROPS AGAIN
PAVLICA-HART WEDDING
PERFORMED SUNDAY
The wedding of Miss Orita
Hart and Mr. Robert Pavli-
°ca was solemnized j^t the
home of Rev. and ~ Mrs. G.
Royalty Hopson Sunday even-
ing, January 21st, at 7:00
o’clock, Rev. Hopson offi-
ciating. Mr. and Mrs,— Otis
Wright were the witnesses.
The bride is the oldest
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
O.. 15. Hart of Flatonia, and
is well and favorably- known
bgre. .The groom, son of Mr.
find Mrs. James Pavlica, is
a popular'young-farmer and
cattleman. Both have many
friends who join in- %ishing
for them every success and
happiness. They will make
thefr home at the present
with the groofn's paints.
The Argus extends congra-
tulations and best wishes for
a happy married life.
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FATHER DIES
school!
Doc Wheeler, noted for be-
Ang an ontdeo- enthusiast,
didn’t venture out of the con-
store. Reason —- a. group of
locals were awaiting a chance
to roll him in the snow.
* * *
Henry Miller was chal-
lenged lo a duel in the snow
by C, A. Pearson, but didn’t
accept. It’s a cinch he
couldn’t get any in his. hair!
m m m
Shocster Prihoda had a
hard time keeping the sidoT
walk in front of his business
fro6 of snow and ice. Used
ashes. *
* * *
Killough Faires, cowboy
boots and all, got the worse
of a snow fight in the rear
of Stein’s store Monday after-
noon. Put up a good fight
though.
* * •
And talking of cowboy
Rev. and Mrs. ' Vernon i
Perry and sons left Tuesday
night for Waco after having
received a message that Mrs.
PeYry’s father was not ex-
pected to live. After leav-
ing, word Was received here
that he- had "passed away
late Tuesday night. Parti-
culars were not available ill
press time.
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GARDEN CLUB TO. .
MEET THURSDAY
* WEATHER FORECAST *
* Considerably colder ♦*
* tonight with snow pre- *
* dieted. Drop to 22 de- *
** grees expected by night- *
* fall with low of 8 pre- *
*■ dieted by morning. *
* «•**»•••
A week-old „ cold wave
throughout the state ap-
parently was poised for a
fresh onslaught at AnlaTtllo,
where the mercury reading
at the airport -early Wed-
nesday night was 3 below
zero- * •
Earlier, the day’s low
there had been reported at
10 degrees-above zero, with
an inch of snowfall. -
„ Tcintinued cold for the 're-
mainder of the week was
expected over a large area
of Texas, At Austin, a mini-
mum of 15 was forecasf for
Thursday. (
Meanwhile, in the lower^
Rio Grande Vajley, where
Brownsville reported a low
of 29, growers and shippers
estimated the citrus loss at
from 30 to 80 per cent. ' <■ ”
Fehi:unry_l at 2:30
Q-’clock, officials announced
this week. ' All members Are
urged to be present.
COURT OF HONOR
WELL ATTENDED
The Court of Honor, held
at the high school auditorium
Friday night, was fairly
well’ attended, despite the
cold weather. Scouts from
Waelder, , Sehulenburg and
Flatonia were present. *
Scoutmaster George ’ Y^.
Hawkes acted a.s chairman
of the,court, and Scout Field
.Yoakum was
NuiHfuous-1
secretary,
e madftL
awards for 12 merit badges,
and -LeRov Jurica of Flatonia
^____reccjveji^h'S j^ Star - Badge1
boots, nearly every ' youngs-1 awwrcl. Jaimes %Rutz of Fla-
fines of .his office orStein’s!. ter vuhqae parents'had tho was _a warded his First.
price or a charge -account,
are sporting a pair since the
cold snap hit. Say they’re
warm, and they do look
sporty. .*•
* * *
Snowmen and -snowwomen
were numerous, hilt the best
in town was sculptured by
Rev. and Mrs. Hopson.
‘Queen Victoria” they called
her, bustle and all!
• •
Agent Will Holt Went
around all-day waving a
white flag; said he had a
had tooth. It’s a wonder
someone didn’t extract it
with a snowball!
* * •
But "nojv the snow is near-
ly all gone, and*the “once
in a decade” sport is his-
tory.
Class badge.
A fun • program. * with
Stunts KTTd songs, . was en-
joyed after the awards were
mnd.e. Scoutmasters Victor
•Baumgaften of Sehulenburg
and- l)T. Aide of Waelder
were also present.
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+ SCREEN HITS . *
Burst Water Pipe Is Just A Joke Of Nature
But It Isn’t To The Man Calling A Plumber ,
.When your water pipe
burst one morning this past
week you got 'a practical de-
monstration of nature’s most
colossal joke—that water is
thicker than ice’.
. Maybe we should have
said denser, . but anyway,
neither has been as thick as
some householders since the
second Ice Age hit this sec-
tion of Texas last'‘weekend.
If water shrank like anything
else as it gets cold, your pipe
wouldn’t be acting like a
lawn sprinkler when you
turned the water on. '
Water shrinks like any-
thing else wheft It first begins
to chill, then expands sud-
denly as it freezes. It then
starts shrinking again, but
it!* Too—late. The - damage is
done; When it expands it
can shame even John 'Kim-
brough’s chest/ ’ «
It’s all a. part of nature's
little marble game. All of
the materials in., this uni-
verse, according To our learn-
fert nt proportions. In water,
one black marble called
oxygen is linked up' with two
white marbles called hydro-
gen. All these particles are
held together by an electri-
cal attraction called •' mole-
cular tension. (Thit’s what I
learned n Physics, and no one
had proved it otherwise yet,
so it must be so). Ypu can
see this tension demonstrated
^b.v the reluctant way in
which a drop of water sags
off a dripping faucet. In
solids, like iron, the tension
W very great, and. the parti-
cles are relatively motion-
Imb.-They-are tied jess ttglrt-
eil professors,’ are made up
'of atoms,, which a*e always
portrayed as little marbles.
In each substance, the'
marbles art* arranged in dlf1 .Ttoms, which is w|iy ice is
“Bnbes in Arms”
Mickey Rooney and Judy
Garland, co-starred for the
first time, come to tho Lyric
Theatre Sunday and Monday
in “Babes in Arms”. Mickey’s
first musical, and they are
flanked by the largest accu-
mulation of Hollywood’s
juvenile talent assembled to
date in one picture.
While musicals are- no-
thing new to Judy, they are
to Mickey and he makes the
most of it, offering the In-
triguing opportunity to see,
“Andy Hardy” dancing, sing-
ing, giving impersonationsj
and, in fact, doing everything
in the ent’efTainment book-..
It'ri a "story of the pass!
4ng of vaudeville and the atr‘
Flatonia Enjoys
2.67 Inch Snow
. ]
Old King Weather reigned
supreme all over the nation
this past week, as the cold-
est weather in unany moons
struck all the way from the
Rocky Mountains to the east
coast, tumbling temperature*
down below the Ztttt'
.and blanketing many of the-
Southern states with the first
snow fall in about ten years.
Flatonia felt the first of
the severe co|d blasts last
Thursday night, when the “
mercury dropped to 10 de-
grees. Friday it moderated a
bit, and when the bong-chill-
ing norther quieted, tem-
peratures Began to rise again.
Sunday tW sun brought the
temperatures above freez-
ing, but when the populace
awaken from their slumber
Monday morning, they were
greeted with a blanket of
snow, the first to fall in Fla-
tonia in .about .eight years.
Government Weather Ob-
server W. D. Johnson infor
The- Argus that a total of
2.67 inches of snow fell
during Monday. This amount-^
ed to.about .29 inches o
moisture.
Although the weather was
cold and disagreeable, and
the moMure rather small,-
farmers were loud *in their
applause of the cold weather,
a* the gromid was frozen
ratfier deep dn separate oe-
casions. and much insect
^Brando - «
much M
rth'e' citgjs .fruit, cropv and
killing many' tree£. Highway
+Travel wnwr . dtrvm con-
siderably by, the snow and
sleet in . alb sections of the
state, and many- lost their
lives is fiYensfand highway
accidents. 4
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FIRST DAILY ON TEXAS
PAPER RUN AT LyFKIN
-
Lufkin, Tex., Jan. 28.-—
The first newspaper ever
printed on commercially
manufactured southern pine
newsprint rolled off the
presses of the Daily News
*here today.
The paper came from the
Southland Paper Mills’ first
commercial run.
Southern publishers have
contracted for the output of
this mill for the next five
years. -
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Donald Kopecky is back
in school again and back in
his accustomed place as
“printt?r’s-deyil” at the ^jfgus
after an operation for ap-
pendicitis.
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♦
^ ritLji ‘
l.v logoi her in liquids, like
water; hence liquids flow.
Here we get down to cold
facts.
The only way water can
solidify and keep Its two
while marbles teamed with it frees**.
• • * ’ ' • . ' ' ,
the black.one is te • become
a . 01T of chunk' on-» w,hicb
each side is a hexagon. A4ot . ____________
of space is'* left between the j tempt of a group of former
vaudeville headliners to
rescue their fleeting fame.
When they fail, their talent-
ed kids come to the rescue.
Familiar with the modern
trend, the youngsters stage a
show of their own when they
are faced with being com-
mitted to the state farm be»
cause they are not being
cared for properly. Their
show attracts the attention
loss dense than water, and
will float on top.
Water shrinks as it gfcts
cold until it chills to about
39.2 degrees Fahrenheit. It
expands rapidly until It
freezes, and after it becomes
a solid, it tends to contract
again.
The only way you can
keep a pipe • from freezing
is to turn off the water be-
fore the freeze hits. A lot of
well-meaning householders
tried to let the water run
during the day and turn it
off at nightfall. Hence, the
p+ttmbar’s business 1 '
up, and you get a busy signal
•when you call.
Leave all faucets open, If
there happens to be water
in the pipe, -it will have room
to expand along the pipe as
of a producer and they land
in a big Broadway revue.
Mickey Rooney plays the
son of a famous vaudeville
team. Inheriting all his
fsther’s talent, he is the
guiding light of the go-get- c
Ting voungsters and the cen- e
tral figure of a puppy love ’
storv that involves Judy
Garland, the ugly duckling,
and Juqo, Frelsaer. playing an
ex-screen baby star who has
the looks ’and money needed
to stage bis show. *
•Little Miss Virginia Black-,
mon has been on the sick . . ^
list this past week but la -
much improved, we are glad .
io report. . *
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Gray Jones. A. L. Vrana
and Frank Zouzalik were
Austin business visitors Mon-
day.
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When a candidate solicits
your vote this year, here is
a good measuring stick to-.,
place beside him in making^
your decision as to whethsf
or not you will K>ve h1
your vote and support:
“Motive in the long run •
what counts—motive acco
panied by good manneWK
leaders have good motf
and good manners and,
the same time, know
the different parts' of
country .and of
ence, you can he ttuti
in Sssummir that thev
wreck your e-over wmo
Thov are He
gentleman - npr*'~*
velt.” »peakin'-
Jackson Day
Jnftsa.
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