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VOLUME 06
NUMBER 0
THE SMITHVILLE TIMES, SMITHVILLE, TEXAS
THURSDAY, FEB 28 1857
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Check Chats
WHAT OUR NEIGHBOR
THINKS OP US
Truck GrowersTo Discuss Planting
There will be an important March 5, at the High School at
meeting of the Smithville Truck 8:00 P. M. All member* are urged
Grower* Asaociation on Tuesday, to attend.
Terrorizer Of Bastrop Folk Sought
An enlightening column reach-
ed our desk this week It was
from the La Grange Journal, en-
titled “From the Editor’s Note-! Bastrop Feb 27 — Bastrop
book“ written by L A. Due wall. County Sheriff I. R. Hoskins Wed-
editor of the Journal In U Mr.! *"**** c*,led for ,h* he‘P «* *
Duewall discussed the personali Prl>on *nd five hi,>od-
Uea of Iowm j hounds in his search for an elder-
Several neighboring towns, in- msn who h“ be<‘n terrorizing
eluding Smithville. were describ-
* ed In a manner
fnB
't
* residents north of here for th:
well, to say the ' F** two
least—frank. In summing up his1 Hoskins said tenant farmer, in
description of Bastrop's person-.,he Ptney Creek Hoad area
ality he says. "In a sense. Bastrop h,v* reporting the untden
1 tilled man's activities for the past
looks lilu a balloon with all the
air out hf it.’*
About Smithville he had this to
say: "At the only red light in
town you have to stop usually, and
it is then that you look one block
to the north and two blocks to
the south and you have seen
Smithville. Reminds us of Hip
van Winkle, the man that dept
for 20 years. Looks like a town
whose citizens have been asleep
that long.”
Giddinga, Mr. Duewall says, “la
• hopelessly struggling town that
despite the valiant attempts by
some to save it. it is like a sink
ing ship, hopelessly lost.'*
Columbus' personality, accord-
ing to the La Grange editor, would
Improve "if it will take off knee
pants and put on trousers **
On Brenham he waxes positive-
ly eloquent stating, "She is almost
feminine because of her beauty
and culture. You could say Bren
ham wears a formal dress.”
Some of these towns seem to be
in quite a predicament according
to Mr. Duewall. Maybe Bastrop
could Inflate her pricked balloon
by piping some hot air from La
Grange. Aa for Smithville, looks
as we have been missing a good
bet. With thousands of personr
spending millions of dollars each
year for sleeping potions, maybe
we should advertise Smithville as
*‘a town where you have no
(rouble sleeping no matter how
guilty your conscience is.” Gid
dings may be like a sinking ship
but afce baa plenty of promising
y<?ung athletes to man the oars.
Nowadays “knee pants" are quite
accepted as raiment, even among
some of our most prominent and
Influential people. Maybe Mr
Duewall la hoping that Brenham't
formal dress is the strapless kind
and be wants to be around in
case it falls off.
Of course in his treatise on
bis neighboring towns Mr. Due-
wall did not neglect his own. In
speaking of La Grange’s person-
ality be uses such words as “pic-
turesque. historic, beautiful'' He
said. "Every time we hear ad-
vene criticism of La Grange, we
get fighting mad. because we are
rather proud of our city.” Maybe
Mr. Duewall feels that it is okay
to criticise bis neighboring towns
Just as long they don’t say any
thing about his
And by the way. old Rip van
Winkle made quite a name for
himself If we recall our history
correctly. ,
Smithville may never make the
history books, but it's sure nice
to bn able to lie down and go to
sloop BiglU.
two weeks. All of the reports said
Alderman Hugh Coin
Announces For
Re-Election
1 herewith announce my candi-
dacy for re-election to the office
of Alderman on the Smithville
City Council. I am serving my
fourth term on the Council and
am familiar with the duties of
the office, having served as
Chairman of the Sanitary and
Cemetery Committees, and under
stand the methods used in the
operation of the different depart-
ments of the City Government. I
have th? good will and friendship,
not only of the Mayor, the City
Secretary and members of the
Council, but of all the employees
of the City, and if re-elected will
continue to perform the duties to
which 1 am assigned, to the best
of my ability and in a manner
which will be to the best inter-
eats of the majority of the citi-
zens. Your vote and influence will 1
be appreciated.
Hugh C. Cole, Sr
At the meeting the group will
discuss the watermelon situation,
the canning pea program, and
eomethng«new to the organisation,
the growing and marketing of dry
peas The latter topic will be dis-
cused by J. E. Swindell. Jr., at
the Dixie Bean and Pea Co., Inc.,
of Athens, who will also be glad
to answer, questions.
The recent rains have been a
godsend .to the truck growers,
several of whom have already
planted watermelons. They may
have to replant but they are tak-
ing that chance In order to try
and have some early melons Over
000 acres of watermelons have al-
ready been signed up in the Truck
Growers watermelon program.
the man came to farm houses and
demanded food, clothing or bed
coven.
Some out of fright, othen out
of pity, gave the man what he
demanded.
But a week 1 ong search (or the
man has been unsuccessful, Hot
kins said. Even the search with
the bloodhounds Wednesday turn-
ed up no new clues. W. B. Town-
send, owner of one of the tenant
farms, has searched the area per
sonslly on horseback, as has
Hoskins and his deputy, Hall Tar-
ver.
The search was intensified Wed-
nesday when Mrs. Pauline Barker,
waitress in a downtown cafe who
lives on Old Piney Creek Road,
Tuesday reported seeing a man
fitting his description carrying s
rifle near her home Later she
noticed that her deepfreeze unit
had been raided of a lot of food-
stuffs. She told an Austin Ameri- with the W. J. ‘ Nixon Masonic
can correspondent the man alsoll-odge in charge of the graveside
carried a sack over his back. rites.
“Tub" Young Dies
Allen E. (Tab) Young, 73, died
at his residence in Upton Feb-
ruary 27th at 2:00 A. M Funeral
services will be held today 'Thurs
dya) Feb. 28, at Marrt Memorial
Chapel at 2:00 P. M with Rev.
A. C. Peterson officiating. Inter-
im nt will he in Oak Hill Cemetery
Hoskins described the man
elderly and poorly dressed
lightweight clothing.
The search will continue Thurs-
day, Hoskins su'd.—Austin Amer-
ican.
Mr. Young is survived by his
in wife, Mrs Ruby Tiner Young of
Upton, a daughter. Mrs Paul
Young of Upton; a lister, Mrs.
Cressie Flint Austin, and two
gr andsons.
&
SeaiorPlay
Scheduled For
March 1 And 2
The senior play, “Miss Presi-
dent, Please” will be presented
Friday «nd Saturday nights,
March 1st and 2nd at 0 00 P. M.
hi the High Schpo! Auditor! im.
■ring your family, neighbors,
and friends to view an evening's
entertainment for the small fee
at 60 cents. Then, too, everyone
present may register for a lovely
Wrist witch, compliments of Mr.
Old license Plates
Can Help A Child
The license plates you dump
will help a child who needs your
help.
As thousands of car and truck
owners change to 1857 motor ve-
hicle licenses, an all out campaign
is being made to collect discarded
lags for sale as scrap metal to aid
the Austin Preschool Hearing
Center
The Smithville VrW Post is
sponsoring the collection of old
license plates in this area. Col
lection centers will be at all ser-
vice stations. Here is what you do;
When you install new license
plates, leave the discarded piste
at some service station in town.
Containers marked “Dump Li-
cense Plates Here” are being set
up at all stations
Elmer Renfro, VFW member
who has charge of the drive in
Smithville, urges everyone to co-
operate. "One set of tags isn't
very much hut when this is rnuUl
(ipi ted by hundreds , a great
amount of scrap metal can re I
suit.”
Rites Held For
Mother And Son
Funeral seriicet were held here
Tuesday for Mrs. I a Van a . Sophia
Rightmer, 30, and infant son who
died Monday, Feb 25, 1857. at
2 25 A. M. in the Bastrop llospi
tai Mrs Rtghtmcr's death result
ed from a cerebral hemorrhage,
and the little baby boy was ft*
livered posthumously The see
vices were hrl<1 at Mam Memorial
Chapel Tuesday, Feb 20. at 3:00
P M with Rev J. C. Watkins of
f suating.
Interment was In Oak Hill Cem
elery. Serving as pallbearers
were T O. Gregory, D B. De-
Loach, M. S. Hayes, T. P Light
nor, E. H. Canada, and C. M.
Livingston.
Survivors include her parents,
Mr Antone Ellas of Kirtley, Mrs
Sophia Ellas of Kirtley; her hus-
band, Johnnie Rightmer of Smith-
ville; a small son and daughter,
Donald Wayne Rightmer and Ann
Rightmer of Smithville: and a
sister. Mrs. Antohia Winkler, also
of Smithville
Program Announced
p'»biic School Week
Death Claims
Rhyne Goebel
llrinhold G. (Rhyne) Goebel, 07,
of Route 2, Smithville, died in a
Houston Hospital February 24,
1557. at 4:25 A M. Me had been in
HI health for quite aomc time.
The body lay in slate at the
family residence where brief ser-
vices were held at 2 00 o’clock
Tuesday, Feb 26. The body was
then taken to St Michael's Luth-
eran Churrh at Winchester for
funeral services at ••30 V. M.,
with the Rev Walter Stretcher
officiating. Interment was in the
Luthchm Cemetery at Winches
ter.
Mr. Goebel was very well known
in this vicinity having owned and
operated a gin and store for many
years. He is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Martha Goebel of Smith- f
ville; three sons Martin C. Got- j
Jbel of Houston, Willie C. Goebel
of Smithville, and Marvin G
YourCofC
It seems that no matter what
anyone does or tries to do, Ibere
are always others who are anxious
to say Row it should have keen
done, or what changes should
have been made in the process
of doing
This week I want to give every-
one, and especially those directly
concerned, an opportunity to ex-
press their ideas and views on a
project before It Is started
Every year about thia time we
begin thinking about and planning
for the annual merchant* Trade
Show which it usually held tome
time in April in the High School
Gymnasium
So far this y>ar I’ve heard com-
ments to the effect that “It should
be made bigger, have more enter-
tainment. have it outaidc, it
should he held at a different time
of year, it should last longer, etc "
However, these comments are
rarely followed by any auggei
turns as to how to accomplish
these things satisfactorily. It Is
always easy to SAY we ought to
do this or that, but MOW to do j
this or that and make it WORK
tg a different story.
So now I'm inviting some sug-
gestions as to how we can moke
our Trade Show better thia year.
Public School Week. March 4 9, tentative* of every church) will
will begin In Smithville with a read the third chapter of 1st Cor-
Sunday night service in the High nnthtan*.
School Auditorium, according to ( The speaker for the evening.
Max Jones, chairman [I*. Arthur K. Tyson, president
The non denominational service «f Mary Hardin Baylor College,
will begin at 7 30 with June Hum. wli| be introduced by
presiding and welcoming those'
and
present Bettye Watkins will give
the invocation, which will he fol-
lowed by Introduction of the
Mary Hardin Baylor Choral Group
by Linda Young.
Choral readers (senior reprr
Cancer Service
Committee Meets
Shade And Davis
Named All-District
District 21 AA basketball
coaches named two Glddings lads
and one each from 1.x Grange,
Columbus and Smithville on the
all conference tfam
Making up the No i aggrega
tlon were Maury Crow and Mike
Schmidt of Giddinga. l-rslte
(Hutch) Blume of lx Grange, Joe
^ er-^SST
—PHOTO SV rsto MQNIK
BILLY OTTO, Bastrop County 4 II Club boy,
pound Hereford beef scramble steer that he will exhibit at the
Houston Livestock Show February 25 March 3. Billy is the son of
Mr. and Mrs H A. Otto of Rosaa'iy. lie is s Junior in the Smith
Yille High School Hilly was awarded this oalf in the 1856 Calf
Scramble Hi* sponsor Is Mr. Charles Scliilibo of Houston
Breeder of the steer is Jack Ebling of Round Mountain. Texas
Billy will attend a banquet given or beef scramble boys in the
Rice Hotel Thursday night. Roy Rogers Dale Evans, and other
rodeo notables will be present. —Photo by Fred Moree
ers. Paul G. Goebel of Smithville,
Gus and Otto Goebel of Port Ar-
thur. and Herman Goebel of Bis-
trip; three sisters Mrs Freda
. ... ., Hehling of Port Arthur, Mrs
shown with his 850 ,, ... „ . _
Hattie Kogrs of Port Arthur, and
Mrs. Bertha Moerhe of Houston;
sit grandchildren and two greaj
grandchildren
The second 21 AA team includ-
ed Wayne Childers and Henry
Ocltjrndiers of lx Grange, Wei
don Kcklund of Elgin, Tommy our Immediate
Mrs T. N, Porter, director of
District 7 of the American Can-
cer Society. Mrs. Joan llodges,
Miss Adell Crawford, field repre-
sentatives, met with the li.iatrop
County Service Committee chair
man and club and churrh nrgant
ization chairmen, Friday, Feb. IS,
in the parlor* of the First Baptist
Church, Smithville, for a school
of Inatruction in the making,
cutting, and sterilization of ban
dages.
Besides the instructions, actual
• acta and needs of this committee
were reviewed and "what each per
son of Bastrop County can ac-
tually do to help First, every
person can go for a periodic
theck over It is estimated that
one third »( the person* now dy-
ing wtth cancer could be saved,
by following the advice of the
American Cancer Association
Second, bring your clean, soft
rags, such as nld shirts, table
linens, diapers, etc , so the organ
ization ran make bandage* for
cancer patient*. It Is estimated
that the average expense for ban
duge* for a patient is about forty-
five dollars per month If you
know of any patients who are in
need of bandages, please notify
your chairman
7'hlrd, learn the facts about the
rapid increase in cancer in your
county Do you, a* a resident of
this county, know that it it an
Tommy McClain The benediction
will be spoken by Perry Wied.
The general public is Incited to
attend this service The churches
of the town will dispense with
their regular evening services in
order that all may attend
Monday through Thursday will
be visitation days at all schools.
At any time during those dayu
you are invited to visit the
schools Tuesday afternoon at 3:00
will be the regular meeting of the
High School Parent Teacher As-
sociation Anyone who would rare
to come is invited whether a
member of the PTA or not.
Friday night. March Hth, will
lie night school at the High
School Regular classes will meet
at night instead of in the day
time so that parents ran attend.
At the same time the other two
schools, Sam Houston and Central,
will hold open house,
Night school will he followed
by an assembly at High School
where pins will be presented to
scholastically ranking students
from each class In high school.
A more detailed program for
frlilsy night wtll be given in
next weeks Times.
Shrine Club Meets
The Rastrop County Shrine
Club held U* monthly gathering
on February 22nd. 1857. at 7 00
P M. in the VFW Hall. Smithville,
and had as their guest* their
wives. Invitations were also ex-
tended to the widows of Shrtners
w Im> lived in Smithville.
A pot luck dinnae was enjoyed
by all After the dinner the Pres-
ident, Noble O. W Cradock, ex-
tended greetings to ell present
and introduced our guests from
Austin, Noble Miller Rhodes, As-
sistant Rabban of lien flur Shrine,
outstanding county Texas for land Mr-. Mho-ii-s Nehte Jimmie
(cancer? Thirty three person.* In (Browning, Assistant Recorder of
vicinity ure now Ben llur Shrine, snd Mrs Brown-
rS
V
5.
Betty Jo Wiest
k Debate Winoor
Austin, Texas. Feb 2$—Bettv
Jo Wiest, University of Texas stu-
dent from Smithville and her
partner. Dorothy Patricia Heard
of Houston, recently won first
place in women’s debate at the
Abilene Christian College Foren
sics Tournament
Miss Wiest, senior arts snd
sciences student, is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs Joe Wiest, Jr.,
505 Burleson. She is a member of
Alpha Lambda Delta, honorary
society to which she was elected
on the hnsis of her freshman
(Trade*: Phi Beta Kappa, highest
honorary society in arti and
fagadalc The lucky winner will silences; the varsity debate squad,
be drawn on Saturday night from i Cap and Gown, senior women stu
all the name* registered for both
Senion will be expecting
dents* organization, and PI Sigma
Alpha, honorary government and
political science society. She is
also an honor roll student.
“PHOTO av MOD MOSII
RAYMOND HOFFMAN. Bastrop County 4H Club boy. with his
Guernsey dairy acrimbl' be f r thxt he will exhibit at the l!.i ;»ton
Livestock Show February 25 to Mvrch 3 Hiymond is the ton of
Mr and Mrs Albert Hoffman of lockne and he attends the Bis-
trop High School. Raymond re -ivrd the heifer in the 1856
Houston Dairy Calf Scramble His sponsor is Mr. E T. Pr^dy of
the Mver Blank# Company of Houston. The breeder of the hei-
fer is Hillerest Dairies of Bestrop %nd Travis Counties.
Tom Wallace
Catches Calf
Tom Wallace of 104 Garwood
in Smithville won a $200 certifi-
cate fo buy a dairy hired calf by
catching a calf in the 1957 Silver
Jubilee Houston Fat Stock Show
Calf Scramble The Houston Show,
which will continue through
March 2. will award calves,
through sponsor* to »ome 200
boys who scramble at each of the
119 performance*
Tom competed in the Future
Farmer of America dairy scram
ble and caught the calf sponsored
by P. A. Mattingly of Marine A
Petroleum Supply Company in
Houston He will rrturh the calf
to show the next two years in
competition for additional rash i
prizes and awards
I Entries in this year x -Silver An
niversary show total 12X50 and
exceed by about 10% entrieg from
any prevmu* year Also greater,
premium money and special
awards have been increased to
about 0216.500 this year, approx
imately $25,000 more than |»nt
year Ribbon * innerx in the Jun-
ior Show alone will share $87 862
is prize* sikJ an estimated $273,-
000 in sales in the shows’ suction
ring, now world famous for its
premium prices,
Headlining the World's, Cham
pion Rodeo are the popular Wes-
tern star*. • Rov Rogers snd Dale
Fvsaa. With them are comedim
Pat Brady snd the Son* of the
Pioneers. Playing to a full house
every performance, the show an
tirfcwte* a record attendance
, thia year.
Davis <>( Smithville
Roche of Guiding*
Receiving honorable men! ion
were John Ma»»ey of Columbu*,
Tom Pate of Elgin, Herman Se-
'trnskv of lx Grange, Edgar Rich-
ter and Charles Kriegcl of Gid
dings.
The Smithville Tiger* basket
hall team was coached by Kd
Tisdel
The Giddingv Buffaloes, repre
«entmg District 71 AA in hidis
trict playoffs, defeated Gorg- d 0
01 58 Tuesday ntght, tip- game
being played in Weimar
and Richard asking for bandage* Some arc
now being servieed
Fourth, face the fact* Go to
jour doctor; at a nominal price
he will give you a complete can
cer examination You may save
IMg
’the meeting was thin turned
over to Noble K L Ifargi*. tho
program chairman for the even-
ing lie gave u* a me talk on th*
principles of the order and ex-
your life and other* Wta> is to. pressed hi* regret* of his leaving
Smithville, which wa* bought
about by hi* accepting the pulpit
of a church at Port Nechex
The first part of the program
was presented by three of our
[talented young ladies, Misses Ijn-
High School P-TA
To Meet Tuesday
The High Krhool PTA will hold
its regular meeting. Tuesday,
March 5. at 3 00 P M Since the
banquet for the teachers has been
indefinitely postponed, the meet
ing will not be dispensed with as
had been previously announced
John Welting,, guidance director
snd counselor for the Bastrop
County school*, will be the speak-
er. All parent* are urged to at-
tend as Mr Writing will discuss
the testing and guidance program
for students In Sam Houston and
High School Visit your school*
next week during Public School
Week and plan to take part at
PTA.
BIBLE VERSE
All scripture is given by inspir-
ation of God, snd i* profitable for
do-trine for reproof, for correc-
tion. for instruction in righteous-
ness: That the man of God may
be perfect, thoroughly furnished Robert Carroll (Toddy),
blame when curly symptom* of
( nn< dr are ignored7 Indeed, who
lx to blame wheh doctor'* instriic
lion* and medication* arc ignored
or when recognized illnexse* are
neglected?
Pray daily that God will instill Ida and Kathy Youpg and Betty*
in Dime person bruins that they j Watkins They presented several
may find a cure or preventive for vocal numbers which were well
this, the deadliest of all killers. [rendered and enjoyed by all.
and be able to accept it and do I A film strip wax then present-
something about it. Texas is iust led “From the Hearts of Men’*,
one of the few areas where years |Thi* film gave us a complete his-
of research and million* of dol lory of the processing of a mp-
lars have beep spent in search of pled child through the Shrtno
'something Progress and great Hospital for Crippled Children,
thing* have been accomplished showing a child going into the
Ja-arn and observe the seven dan- .hospital crippled, and coming out
ger signals and do something
shout it, now
The City has granted the
American Cancer Association the
privilege of using the upstair*
room In the city hall for a ban
dago work room, where any club
can go and cut and make ban
dagos Watch your local news
paper for further information re
gaMing your cancer association
activities.
Parents Of
Baby Boy
cured and being able to run and
play the mils a* other children.
Our President, Noble Craddock,
expressed his appreciation for
the fine attendance, there being
45 present. AH voted a very en-
joyable evening
Noble F P I-oughridge,
Recorder
Junior Bake Sale
And Country Store
A take sale and country store
will be held Saturday, March 2.
ir th* Powell Building, starting
Mr. and Mrs Trd Hargis are at 8 00 A M sponsored by the
happy parents of a fine B pound Junior# n.is* -tod their mother!,
baby bov horn February 22, 1837, Homemade pics, cakes, candy,
at 11 43 A M at the Bastrop Ho£-.M'ach. ' courtly store items such
pital. The little fello'v hue been sa fresh ergs, country butter,
nimed Mictrid Fdward. He is be- c-'nncd goot’s etc. will be
ing welcomed by his big brother, sold. Also pie by the slice and
and his WffM will be sold.
unto all good w srfcs ■
fl Timothy 3 1617
jTsndpsrents, Mr. and Mrs Car-
roll Roa.inky, and Rr« and Mr*.
R, L llargis.
Proceeds from the sale will he
used to help finance Junior-Sen-
ior Day.
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