Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 21, 1932 Page: 3 of 4
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At 89, George Barker, of London,
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I BICENTENNIAL CELEBRATION
U1RTH OF GEO. WASHINGTON
HELD AT-BLESSING.y-'Elt.- il
In addition to the study /program
"The Life of Washington,"-that the
Blessing Library members' have un-
dertaken this year, in commemoration
of the birth of the "Father of Our
Country," the town of Blessing join-
ed hands with our local Legionnaires
and on February 22nd, 1932, held a
program in the Blessing Community
House, as follows:—
Invocation and Dismissal by the Rev.
Father Weber of Blessing.
Address on the Life of Washington,
by Wyott O. Selkirk.
Address on Washington, by Mr. Wm
King.
Reading, "A Rendezvous with Death,"
by Stella Riekaway.
Songs by the Blessing Girl Reserves
of the Y. W. C. A.
At the closing of this program, the
school children and adults went out
into the community square, and wit-
nessed the planting of six paper-shell
pecan trees. Col. Wyott O. Selkirk
| conducted the planting ceremonies, and
the following names were given the
trees in memory of:—George Wash-
ington, Dewey White, Earnest Dow-
ner, Leonard E. Blackburn, George
Hawk, Cyrille M. Foisy. The last five
names are in memory of our World
War dead, which appear on the list of
soldiers, hanging in the Community
House beneath our Service Flag.
Another celebration in honor of
George Washington was held in the j
Community House the night of Feb.
22nd, by our local Masonic Lodge,
jointly with the neighboring Palacios
Lodge. An interesting program on the
Life, military and political activities
of George Washington was given, fol-
lowed with refreshments and a social
evening.
Youth Let Loose
m Classic Tale
of American Boy
DEUTSCHBURG
SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY NEWS
Miss Mary Hurta visited Mr. and
Mrs. Joe Ilurta at Palacios, this week.
Mr. and Mrs. V. Brocket- entertained
friends at their home Saturday even-
ing.
The monthly meeting of the Com-
munity Club was held Saturday even-
ing.
We are very glad to report that
Miss Aileen Howell is able to resume
teaching.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Henderson were
visiting in our community Sunday af-
ternoon.
Misses Aileen Howell and Mary
Pearce spent the week end at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Mike Brown.
Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Cavallin enter-
tained at their home Saturday even-
ing with a dance. A large crowd was
present,
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Gerhard and Mr.
John Rampmeier attended the conven-
tion of the Lutheran Church at York-
town, Sunday.
Perfect Spellers: — George Vruna,
Frank Johs.
Honor Roll:—Albert Johs, Louise
Hurta, Charlie Hurta, Martha Ger-
hard, Henry Johs, Jerome Vrana.
"Shanghai Express
Comes to the Queen
Sunday & Monday
Andy Devine Brings
Tears—Then Laughs
Andy Devine has become recognized
lately as a screen player with an al-
most uncanny ability to swing an au-
dience in a moment from laughter to
tears. The spectator laughs heartily
at, or with, the husky-voiced comedian,
and in the next instant unaccountably
finds a lump in his throat, induced en-
tirely by a change in thp expression
of the versatile Andy.
Devine accomplished this with such
telling effect in the recent football
picture, "The Spirit of Notre Dame,"
that he made himself one of the most
talked-of players in the production,
and he does the same thing in "Law
and Order," Universal's frontier drama
which comes to the Colonial Theatre,
Bay City, on Wednesday. Andy is
seen as a murderer in the Arizona
town of Tombstone, perfectly willing
to go to his death when he becomes
assured that his hanging will be en-
tirely "legal and decent."
Walter Huston and Harry Carey
play the featured roles in "Law and
Order," and the cast also includes Ray-
mond Hatton, Russell Simpson, Ralph
Ince, Russell Hopton and Arietta Dun-
can. Edward Cahn directed.
Don't you think it's time you were
sending us that order for job printing ?
TRAIN HOLDUPS, MURDER AND
ROBBERIES FREQUENT OC-
CURRENCES IN ORIENT
FRANCITAS NOTES
"Shanghui Express" is a story of
love and adventure, in which Marlene
Dietrich plays the part of Shanghai
Lily, a woman who lives by her wits
in the coast cities of the Orient and
who in the vernacular is known as a
"coaster." It will be the Queen the-
atre's feature picture Sunday and
Monday, April 24 and 25.
The original story was written by
Harry Hervey, a master of fiction lit-
erature having an oriental flavor. Re-
cently, Hervey was discussing "Shang-
hai Express" with Hollywood friends
and recounting his experiences in the
Far East.
"Once the lure of the Orient gets
in the blood, there is no resisting its
call," said Hervey. "Shanghai Ex-1
press" was born of a thrilling ex-
perience I once had on a trip from I
Pekin to Shanghai. The Chinese rev-!
olution was in full swing and my!
train was held up by revolutionists,
a common occurrence at that time.
By adding a few characters and em-
bellishing the drama, there was plen-
ty of it there at the time, I had the
story."
Hervey knows the Orient from Ja-
pan to P^kin and down through the
coast cities to the far flung Malay
Peninsula, with Sagon, the port of
many strange peoples, and on to the
templed cities of Burmah and the east-
riden millions of India.
These countries shrouded by age-
old mysteries and fretted with a kale-
idoscopic change of color and pattern
ot millions upon millions of strange,
fascinating peoples made his fingers
itch to write the glamorous stories of
"Caravans by Night," the love lure
of "Congai," the fatalism of "King
Cobra," the demon worship of "The
Devil Dancer," and many others.
"Shanghai Express," a tale of love
and adventure in the East is his latest
story to be made into a thrilling pic-
ture drama.
Thieves stole the car belonging to
Hugh D. Harper, chief of police of
Colorado Springs, Colo.
A Negro cook answered the tele-
phone the other morning, and a cheer-
ful voice inquired—"What number is
this?"
The cook, in no mood for triffling
questions, said with some asperity:—
"You-all ought to know. Yon done
called it."
YOU CAN HAVE
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Out- Blacksmith is kept quite busy
this week.
We are glad to report that Mrs. W.
F. Schwind is back home all well.
Everybody seems to be at work do-
ing something in and around our lit-
tle city.
The depression is passing and soon
will be a thing of the past and we are
hoping it has taught us all a lesson,
that otherwise we never would have
learned.
This part of Texas could use a
little rain very nicely, however, crops
are not suffering any yet, out we are
hoping to receive a little of it in the
near future.
Our Lakeland and Standard Poul-
try Farms are both entertaining thous-
ands of little baby chicks these days
and are also shipping a good many
cases of eggs to the markets.
Our Union Sunday School is making
progress and is growing ;n member-
ship. A new class of junior girls with
their teacher, Miss Clara Bentz, was
callcd into being a week ago last Sun-
day.
Here in Francitas people can do
things that can not be done in any
other town in Texas, that we know
of, namely to farm on Main street.
It will be just a matter of a few
year's time and Francitas will have
oil wells, is the optimistic prophecy
of our Francitas prophet.
(Too Late For Last Week)
The corn, potatoes and cucumber
fields are looking very well, in spite
oi the cold dry and high winds, we
have been having this past week.
Our main street farmers are also
keeping busy and apparently in good
spirits. There is an old saying, which
still is true, "Labor Sweetens Life,"
but some one answered and said, "and
laziness strengthens the body," but
is hard on the seat of the pants.
Mr. C. D. Brewton and sister, of
Kingsville, were guests of the P. A.
Lanj;loss family this last week end.
Mr. Bock and his sister, Miss Bock,
and Miss Harper are again elected as
teachers for the next term of school
of our Francitas school.
Several of the young people are
reported as being on the sick list. We
hope they soon will be well again.
36 regular Sunday School members
were present and two visitors last
Sunday morning and the score for the
four classes in Bible reading was as
follows for the last quarter:—
Class No. 1, read 3.014 Bible verses.
Class No. 2, read 39,362 Bible verses.
Class No. 3 read 36,957 Bible verses.
Class No. 4, read 26,493 Bible verses.
The Lamentations of
A Modern Jeremiah
Another rollicking, heart-warming
juvenile comedy-drama, the third from
the Paramount studio this year, will
make its appearance at the Colonial
Theatre for one day, next Saturday.
It is the famous Mark-Twain story,
"Huckleberry Finn," with Jackie Coo-
gan, Mitzi Green, Junior Durkiri and
Jackie Searl in the featured cast.
"Huckleberry Finn" is the further
adventures of the lovable youngsters
who won favor from screen fans of
all ages in "Tom Sawyer." Junior
Durkin, as Iluck, runs away from
home, in fear of his angry father.
His father follows him, takes him to
a deserted cabin, but Huck is rescued
bv Tom, and, together, the boys de-
cide to embark on a life of adventure.
The story tells how they saved two
young sisters from a pair of roving
desperadoes, at great danger to them-
selves. This adventure brings them
great satisfaction and honor.
In the cast of adults are two well-
known character players, in addition
to the talented actors who continue
in the roles they portrayed in "Tom
Sawyer." Eugene Pallette and Oscar
Apfel give a humorous interpretation
of the two desperadoes. Clara Blan-
dick is again seen as Tom Sawyer's
Aunt Polly, and Jane Darwell con-
tinues in the role of the good-hearted
Widow Douglas.
More than two hundred children
were used in the production, a larger
number than found employment in
either "Tom Sawyer" or "Skippy.''
Norman Taurog. who made "Skip-
py," directed "Huckleberry Finn." A
whole Mississippi River town, in the
manner of the 1850's was constructed
as a setting for the story, with every
detail faithfully reproduced.
CELLOPHANE WRAPPING ON
SHRIMP IS LATEST WRINKLE
A new use has been found for cello-
phane, that remarkable invention that
has taken the country by storm dur-
ing the last year or two.
According to Ike's scouts, negro fish"
ermen along the wharves are using
it to wrap their shrimp in after plac-
ing them on the hooks. The advan-
tage, it seems, is the durability the
cellophane bestows. A cellophane-
wrapped shrimp lasts twice as long
in the water, they say, and may even
be used again after a fish has been
caught on it.—Galveston News.
WHAT-A-LITE
111 the opinion of a New York scien-
tist, "no psychologist has publicly ut-
tered anything in 10 years worthy
of the attention of a 10-year-old boy."
And we wonder if the gentleman was
not rather conservative in limiting
I the period to 10 years.
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PALACIOS, TEXAS
Now in the last few months of the
unhappy reign of Herbert the Great,
the people of the land despaired of
ever turning the corner.
For it had been prophesied unto
them many times that prosperity was
just around the corner. And around
this corner was a land overflowing
with milk and honey.
And the people had listened unto
their prophets with great joy and
they had turned corner after corner
always with the high hopes of coming
to this land of plenty.
And it came to pass that they turn-
ed more and more corners and yet
their reward was stiil afar off. They
turned corners in high, they turned
corners in low and they turned corners
on two wheels, but alas the end of the
rainbow was yet a dream and their
hearts were heavy within them.
"Are we dogs that we should chase
phantoms forever? Who are the
prophets in the high places that they
should keep us trying to turn corners
seeking after that which is not?"
"Lo is not our land fallen until it
is as a closed book. Yea, our banks
are closed, our schools are closed, our
temples are closed, the soup kitch-
ens are closed, even the hull of the
hickory nut fails to open in its sea-
son."
"When our children cry aloud for
bread, there is none. When we be-
seech the governors of our land for
our portion of bread, they tell us to
eat cake."
And it came to pass that the inhab-
itants of the land were in sore straits
as springtime came again. And great
hardships came to them because they
were forced to choose between their
homes and their cars, no longer was
it possible to have both.
For the state required of them that
they pay their ear license, and their
landlords asked of them their rent
money, and the people were filled with
woe. For one does not easily give up
the homes of one's fathers.
Now in the third month of the year
which is the month of Interest and
Moving, there arose many candidates
for the high offices which are in the
power of the people to bestow.
And these candidates went up and
down the land telling of the evils that
had befallen the people and the rem-
edies which they could offer.
And, as was the custom among the
inhabitants of the land, they listen-
ed to the candidates talk and they
read their platforms over and over,
yet they were not moved to enthu-
siasm nor would they reply to those
who besought their votes.
And it came to pass that the poli-
ticians became more and more insis-
tent and they spoke loudly saying, "If
I were your ruler, I would do this and
I would do that," and the people an-
swered them and said, "BALONEY!"
Then were the chieftains of the
great tribes afraid. And they coun-
seled one with another and said,
"What meaneth the people when they
speak such strange words as "Banana
Oil," "Hooey," and "Baloney?" Sure-
ly they are forgetting the faith and
the party of their fathers and are
wandering away after false prophets."
Now I, Jeremiah the Prophet, grown
old in the ways of parties, the politi-
cians and the people, hear again the
same old stories told in different
words. In the days of our fathers
we called it "Soft Soap," and "Hot
Air."
It's the same old bait on the same
old hook and the water is no deeper.
—Clarence Independent Courier.
DISCRETION
Tom canu running into the house
with his nose bleeding, and while fa-
ther rer.dc^c^l first aid, explained that
he had received a. from another
boy. —».
"Did you hit him back?" inquired
father.
"No. You see, he was smaller than
me."
Father's heart warmed at such chiv-
alry.
"And besides, he was a poor boy."
Father's face beamed at such mag-
nanimity. \
"And," concluded Tim, "you never-,
can tell what these poor boys can
do."—Tit-Bits, London.
Smiliri Charlie Says-
" There's lots o'
folks on Easy-
Street - - comm'
back "
fOLONlAI
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BAY CITY, TEXAS
FRIDAY, APRIL 22—
"THE STOWAWAY"
Fay Wray, Leon Waycoff, Lee Moran
Montagu Love and Roscoe Karns
A Beautiful Girl at the Mercy of Men
Who Knew No Law!—She Stowed
Away on a Giant Ocean Freighter to
Escape a Terrible Fate and then found
herself in an even Worse Predicament!
ACTION EVERY MINUTE!
SATURDAY. APRIL 23—
"Huckleberry Finn"
JACKIE COOGAN—MITZI GREEN
JUNIOR DURKIN—JACKIE SEARL
Mark Twain's Romance of American
Boyhood and the Sequel to TOM SAW-
YER. Joy For All The Family! Sail
Down the Mississippi with Huck, Tom,
Becky, the Duke and the Rest in
Search of Boyhood's Greatest Thrills!
SUNDAY & MONDAY, April 24 & 25
"BUT THE FLESH
IS WEAK"
ROBERT MONTGOMERY
Nora Gregor, Edward Everett Horton,
Heather Thatcher and Nils Asther in
MONTGOMERY'S Gayest SUCCESS!
Cash or Kisses ? As a Fortune- Hunt-
er he Was A Complete Failure. He
Needed Money but he Craved LOVE!
CiriHin* Charlie Says
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fiSL
* You wonder why-
grandmother vrorp'
five or six petti-
coat$?-~Did
of you yoang lad:
ever try fiftnnV qru
a haircloth chairr
TUESDAY, APRIL 26—
"DEVIL'S LOTTERY"
Elissa Landi, Victor McLaglen, Paul
CavHiiagh, Alexander Kirkland. Beryl
Mercer, Barbara Weeks Ralph Morgan
Men Were Dice in Her Hands! In-
toxicating! Fervent! Mysterious! All
the Heartaches of 111 Gotten Wealth!
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27—
"LAW AND ORDER"
The Blazing Romance and Roaring
Drama of the Early Frontier
Days in the Old West!
WALTER HUSTON. HARRY CAREY
Raymond Hatton, Russell Hopton
Andy Devine and Ralph Ince
Rice with these Great Horsemen 'Mid
Blazing Guns and Thundering Hoofs
as they Swoop into the town of Tomb-
stone. This story will carry you into
the Strangest of Adventure and Deep
into the lives of Bad Men and Reck-
less Women!
THURSDAY, APRIL 28—
ALIAS THE DOCTOR
RICHARD BARTHELMESS
Norman FOSTER & Marian MARSH
The Career of a Great Surgeon Torn
Between Two Loves. FAME and his
'SISTER! HERE'S A REAL TREAT
IN STORE FOR YOU!
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