Zavala County Sentinel (Crystal City, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, September 11, 1931 Page: 1 of 6
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THK WINTER •ARDEN JOURNAL
CRYSTAL CITY. ZAVALA COUNTY. TEXAS,
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SEPTEMBER 11. 1931
NO. 16
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Crystal City Schools
• Start in a Big Way
. The Crystal City schools opened
A Tuesday morning With a total of 814
pupils Enrolled, which In 53 more thau
op t*e opening dpy last year. The eu-
roUnpeut was as follows: High School
Vt*S. grammar school 320. and Mexican
gcbodU 175. While this enrollment is
_ vW*» than on the oiicning day last
year, It Is less thau half as many us
' ^ were* enrolled during last school year,
M hat number being 1458.
•' gupt. Sterling H. Fly tells us the
puptlN started right In with their work,
lust as if they meant business. lie is
highly pleased with the outlook and an-
^Seljfctes one of the best years in the
•Cfaool’s history. He believes he has
an exceptionally good fucnt.v this
year.
Mrs. Clyde Tate has l>eon regularly
employed ns music Instructor, and In
addition to the general work in this
*Iine she plans to have two glee clubs
among the pupils.
Miss Norma Miller will again work
In connection with the school along her
special line of dramatic art. She did
•a splendid work here last year.
The grammar school opening exer-
cises were held Tuesday morning and
attended by an unusually large number
pf patrons. Rev. Williamson of the
Methodist church, and Rev. Wilkinson
of the Presbyterian church, both made
ihort talks. Mrs. Bidelspachcr, pres-
ident of" the P. T. A., also made a short
talk. Judge Hunt was the principal
speaker. He says he likes to tulk and
apparently the pupils and patrons en-
joyed hearing him.
Wednesday morning opening exer-
cises were held In the high school au-
dltorlum.
In all probability arrangements will
be made with the English department
to edit a section of the Hentlnel each
week, which would he iw'ver.v inter-
eating feautre for all.
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Chamber Coaunree Committees
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Betty Pond, Oregon co-ed,
been chosen Queen of the Pendleton
roundup to be held this month.
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A regular meeting of the Chamber
of Commerce directors wns held Wed-
nesday. There was not much business.
Many of the new committeemen had
not been appraised of tlielr dntles.
Here are the chairmen of the stand-
ing committees:
Railroad, F. W. Pulliam.
Finance, not named yet.
Highway N. H. Hunt.
Entertainment C. D. Sloan.
County business. C. C. Busey.
. City business, A. P. Hancock.
Legislation, R. S. Crawford.
Industrial, S. C. Freed.
Civic, L. T. Brokshlre.
Agricultural, H. It. McNlel.
Labor, C. L. Coleman. C. F. Jaek-
; School. B. H. Holsombaek.
Attendance, Jack Eubank, W. P.
Brennan. *
Experiment Farm, R Mortensen.
Ranchman’s Committee, W. T. Chll-
, dress, Geo. West.
Arrangements have been made wher-
by the meal at the weekly meetings
Will be only 50c hereafter.
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Picnic For Sunday School Class
Mrs. B. B. McVey entertained her
Sunday School class, the second year
Junior girls of the Baptist church,
with a picnic last Wednesday.
The guests met at the church and
by 9:80 all were ready to motor to the
Rock Quarry where they enqoyed a
swim and played games until lunch
time when a basket picnic was en-
joyed. Those enjoying the outing were
Marian Brennan, DruciUa Fleming,
Clarice Bailey, Elisabeth and Luclld'
Carpenter, Majrgaret Bo<%out, Ruth
McVey, Mrs. C. H. McGill and little
-non, Jimmie, anr the hostess, Mrs. E.
B. McVey.
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Crystal City One,
Fort Clark, Five
After a winning streak of 11 straight
games Crystal City’s baseball team
went down In defeat at Uvalde, Sun-
day, at the hands of the strong 5th
Cavalry team from Fort Clark.
With Sam Slvley, soldier ace, pitch-
ing, the local team was able
to secure but three well scattered lilts
ami were enabled to score the lone tally
only as the result of errors.
Lefty Hunt, however, did not pitch
a bad game, several of Fort Clark’s
hits coming as the result of bad hops
on account of the grounds at Uvalde
not being In good shape. Miscnes, how-
ever lost the game for Crystal City, a
total of 5 errors being officially
chalked- up during the game.
Fort Clark secured one ruu In the
first inning when McConnells sharp
lilt took a bail bound and got uwuy
from Racer and Ryan and Jackson
followed with singles. They scored
again In the 3rd when Slvley got a
base on balls, McConnell’s grounder
to Curtis was fumbled and Ryan hit
for a two-bugger. In the 5tli Slvley
again secured a base on balls and
scored along with McConnell and Jack-
son on a single, a two-bagger—Ryan's
second of the game—aud several er-
rors which occured when It seemed
that no ont on the Crystal City team
could handle a ball for a few minutes.
After the 5th, however, the whole
team tightened up and not another hit
or run was allowed them, but the
game was already lost.
Slvley received marvelous support
iu the field as well us doing a nice
job of pitching himself. ,
At this writing no game Is sched-
uled for Sunday, September 13th but
It is expected that the 5th Cavalry
from Fort Clark will play here, Sun-
duy, Sept. 20th.
The Score
A. R. Ponder Died at
Asherton Wed. Night
It was a shock to the Crystul City
community when the report came that
Mr. A. R. Ponder had dropped dead
while making a speech at- Asherton
Wednesday night
Mr. Ponder's home was In San An-
tonio but he had been closely Identi-
fied with developments In this section
.for the past 20 years or more, aud hud
some very warm and Intimate friends
here. He also had considerable prop-
erty holdings In this section and was
vitally concerned In the future welfnrr
of the Winter Garden section. He sur-
veyed the route for the 8. A., U. A G.
Railroad and continued with the line
until taken over by the Missouri Pa-
cific Lines, when he joined that sys-
tem.
Mr. Ponder was a guest Wednesday
at a celebration at Asherton commemo-
rating the re-openlng of the hank there
and he was on the program for a talk.
He had been talking only a few min-
utes when he fell backwurd. It Is said,
and died Instantly. The body wns
brought to the Munifold Undertaking
Parlors here Wednesday night and
special train to San Antonio Thursday
morning.
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BAPTIST MISSIONARY DE-
LIVERS ADDRESS ON BRAZIL
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ENJOY FISHING TRIP
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Business Good Here
Is General Report
Business at Crystal City la reported to
be good. One merchant told us this
week that last Saturday’s business
was us good us during the busy winter
season. Every merchant with whom
we tulked during the week reported
business exceptionally good last Sat-
urday and for the past several days.
We understand there was si big pay
roll last Saturday. This is accounted
for In the harvesting of the large feed
crops and getting ready for fall plant-
ing.
A number of property changes have
been reported recently, and there has
been quite u little building going on
H. L. Addison reports the sale of the
Otis Templar home to Mr. and Mrs.
Earl Butler, and J. A. Baker reports
the sale of a home owned by Mayhew
Lumber Co. to Jack Spence.
King Ware has contracted to sell
771 acres of land to E. E. Plumley of
Beaumont and In turn will buy a 2110-
acre ranch from Mrs. Florence Wil-
liams. These sales are subject to titles
which ure now being examined.
There Is considerable prospecting
for oil and gas in the southeastern
part of the county.
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PEARSALL FAIR OUT. 7th to 10th
After Kansas' Laurels
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Mary Gib*on, of 'Pitubtirgh, is
shown alongside of a 19-foot sun-
flower. the tallest ever raised in
Pennsylvania, it is laid.
Largest Pumping Plant
In Distri ct Installed
Crystal Farms Inc., composed of
| t'rlbbs & Davidson, Hugh Greer and
! Otis Templar, all local people, have
just Installed on a 320-acre tract of
land'northeast of town what Is said
to be the largest pumping plant lu the
Winter Garden District.
The engine is a IK) horsepower An*
del-son and a Kimball pump. Installed
through the local branch of the San
Antonio Machine & Supply Co..A test
recently made showed a production of
1370 gallons of water per minute, so
it is said. The test was made by Mr.
St. John of tlie Central Power and
Light Company. Tlie well, drilled by
Crhibbs A Davidson, is about 1000
feet deep and the water stands at 44
fact but while pumping was pulled
down to 07 feet, showing a production
of nearly 80 gallons of water per foot.
There is a storage reservoir of two
million gallons and it Is expected to
irrigate the entire 320 acres from this
well.
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SABI S AL AND D’HAN'lg
IN CHAMPIONSHIP PLAY-OFF
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5th Cavalry
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Allen, 2 b
5
0
0
2
5
6
McConnell, ss
5
2
2
1
4
1
Ryan, 8b z
4
0
3
1
3
0
Jackson, rf
4
1
1
2
1
0
Staley,If
4
0
0
0
0
0
Dawes, lb
4
0
0
13
0
1
Tulaski, cf
i
0
1
1
0
0
Massa, c
4
0
0
7
0
0
Slvley, p
0
2
0
0
0
0
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Totals
84
5
7
27
13
2
Crystal City
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Morris, c
4
0
0
10
2
0
Adams, 83
4
0
1
8
8
1
Morgan, lb
4
0
0
6
0
2
Justice, cf
4
0
0
2
0
0
Hunt.p
3
0
0
0
2
0
Racer, 2 b
8
1
0
1
2
1
Juvenal, rf
3
0
0
2
1
0
Taylor, If
3
0
1
2
1
0
Totals 31 1 3 27 11 S
1 Summary: Two base hits, Ryan, 2;
bases o- balls, off Hunt 4; struck out
by HtvSpr, by Slvley 7. Umpires Pitts
and Byrd. Time 2 hours, 10 minutes.
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AUGUST WEATHER AT LA PRYOR
Rev. Harley Smith, Baptist Mission-
ary to Brazil, delivered an interesting
address at the Baptist church Septem-
ber 4th. Rev. Smith Is n son-in-law
of Dr. W. B. Bagb.v, missionary for
50 years to Brazil. The Bagby family
Is very prominent In Baptist work in
Brazil. Dr. Smith Is a Texan and was
reared lu Utopia, Texns. He has spent
eight years in Brazil as a missionary.
He spoke of^lrnzll as a vast Winter
Garden with a ell mate somewhat like
our own. only slightly more tefnporate,
where practically every known fruit
and vegetable flourishes. He said
hnnun|iH, oranges and all tropical
ffults were In abundance In the south-
ern part: that fine laud that would
produce anything could be bought for
$5 and $10 per acre—and that Immi-
gration wns welcomed; that huge
waterfalls, some of them larger than
our own famed Niagara, wasted un-
told horsepower hourly, one of them
l>eing 300 feet high and wasting 24
million horspower per minute and that
there were ten or twelve of what would
be classified major falls In Brazil. He
spoke of the wonders of the Amazon
river and adjacent territory much of
which was unexplored, where huge
snakes, some of which at least, were
45 feet in length, and of a huge turtle
that Inhabited the Amazon river, speci-
mens of which had weighed as much
as 1760 pounds.
He said that American thought of
Brazil as being a wilderness but some
of the country was very highly de-
veloped nnd that other parts were
adapted to cattle raising which was
carried on, on a large scale. Swift
and Armour nnd other packers main-
tain large packing houses in Brazil.
Porte AUegre, the home of Dr.
Smtth, Is a city of 800,000 persona and
with all modern conveniences, having
one of the most efficient street rail-
ways In the world.
He went oil to say that what Brazil
needed most was more schools, ns It
had a population of 40 million, 75 per
cent of which were Illiterate. Ht said
that the best way to further the wor.c
of the BapHsts In Brasil was to edu-
cate the native, who was very eager
to learn. Hec pleaded for more in-
terest In the missionary work In for-
eign fields where such work was so
badly needed. He then ended his In-
teresting address by singing a hymn
In Porteguese.
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P. T. A. MEET 8KPT. 17th
Messrs. I. 0. Crlbbs, L. T. Brook-
Ibire. B. L. Walker, Ray Wiley, W. P.l
anuu, W. L. Bishop, nnd E. J.
Miller returned Monday ftoin a fish
Ing trip near Saljlnas, Mexico where
they hgd splendid luck catching both
baas and catfish, which amounted to
abont six hundred pounds. One Inter-
phase of the trip was that they
caught many catfish on dowajlac* and
other artificial lute. The catfish were
even more game than the boss. Jay
Miller enjoys the honor of hanging the
■ be was about
The P. T. A. will meet at the gram-
mar school next Thursday afternoon.
The mean maximum temperature for 8ept 17th at 4 0'cioek to hold the first
the month was 95 degrees, and the meeting of the year,
mean minimum was 67 degrees, with jt ho|*d a Urge and enthusiastic
a mean temperature for the month of |trowd will W present to asalst In map-
80. The highest record was 99 degrees p{nK out a program for ■ the year’s
on the 20th and the lowest 87 on the
i8th.I • jy
The highest temperantre in August,
1960, was 106, and 27 days showed 100
degrees or over, with a mean average
temperaure of 88, being 6 degrees high-
er than the mean temperature for Ali-
gn* of this
work. It la the wish of every interest-
ed member to make this year’s P. T.
’A. the beet in the history- of the or-
ganisation. 0
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OPEN DINING MOfA , .
v We null open oaf Dtilifig Sal.* Sept-
16 and hope % have the seme aood
The directors of the Winter Garden
Fair at- Pearsall have decided to
"carry on" despite the fact that some
fairs have been called off this year.
Ami efforts are being made to make
tlie event attractive and joyful as well
as educational and entertaining. Dick
Barnhart, president of the association,
says that the iieople are entitled to a
certain amount of amusement: that
fairs do not come around but once a
year; that not only the little children,
but that the grown folks as well should
have a certain amount of diversion
from the year's work..And the folks at
Pearsall are going to try to provide
just that at the fair this year which
opens on Wednesday, October 7th, and
r As through Saurday the loth.
All school children will be admitted
free to the fair grounds the first day,
Wednesday. There will be a free bar-
becue the second day, Thursday. The
coronation of the queen is the colorful
attraction for Friday night, and free
fireworks lighting the uight with niy-
riads of colors will be shot one eve-
ning.
Mrs. Hollen Cox, prominent ludy of
our community, has been honored by
being named good-will t-halnuna of
the fair from this city* Other similar
appointments from this section are: 8.
A. Armstrong, Onfrlzo Springs; W. D.
Cord’ett, La Pryor; E. W. King, Bates-
vllle; Pink Spangler, Uvalde; E. Mor-
tensen, Winter Huven; E. B. Sutton,
Asherton; Yancey Strait, Big Wells.
The outstanding social event of
Southwest Texas each year is the coro-
nation of the queen of the fuir. Lust
year more than seventy-five princesses
and duchesses paid homage to their
Queen, Miss Katherine Teel of Devine,
In a ceremony that was witnessed by
some 3500 loyal subjects of Her Maj-
esty. The following charming young
ladles of this section formed a portion
of the Queen's Court: Misses Lois
Knoblauch, Doris Cox and Anna Mae
Humphries, Winter Haven; Misses
Ima D. Eld ridge, Emma Jean Burris
nnd Joyce Carmichael, Uvalde; Misses
Lillian Williams, Lila Mae Barton and
Sybil Jones, La Pryor; Misses Doris
Van Nleumenhuyse and Nellye Ruth
.Yeuts, Carrizo Springs! Misses Montle
Lee Jones und Verna Waldrop, Bates-
vllle.
Football games, roping and rodeo,
the usual carnival attraction, school
booths, educational exhibits, live stock,
farm produce, dancing each night and
other features which go to make a
fair a success await all who wish to
get away from the regular grind of
work and attend the 11th annual fhlr
at Pearaall, October 7, 8, 0, and 10th,
1931.
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PUBLICITY THAT TRAVELS
Visitors from mother sections, who do
not know us, Judge the town by the
outside appearance of our homes, our
yards and streets. The Impression
that they receive on their first vtsl Is
usually the one that remains in their
minds, and they speak of this and that
town as a "beautiful little place,’’ or
the contrary and 1 Is pnpbliclty
Buries Alligator Eggs
Hatches 25 Young
The S. H. Miller home bus hail
many visitors the past week to see the
25 young alligators hatched last Sat-
urday.
Some four weeks ago Harry Miller
.found a nest of 47 alligator eggs near
the Comtnanebe Lake west of town.
The nest was about 20 feet from the
water’s edge. He took a spinach basket
partly filled It with dirt and buried
the eggs In the dirt us nearly like lie
found them In the nest as possible He
brought tlie basket of eggs to his home
in town and put It under a tree In the
buck yard. He says the eggs looked
as If they were ready to batch when
he found them and when they were so
long hi batching he decided he had
not handled them properly. He found
a nest of 50 eggs last year and brought
them home in a sack and none of th»m
hatched. Last Saturday morning there
were several young alligators In the
basket and a number of eggs pipped.
During the day 25 hutched—all thut
were good. The longest one meus
ured 9 1-4 inches.
As they came out of the shell the |
young alligators were put In u tin cal
of water about 3x6 feet and ure doing
fine. They are being given to those
who want them.
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LA PRYOR SCHOOL OPENS
The Lu Pryor high school began its
session with opening exercises at the
high school auditorium Tuesday morn-
ing.
Following a short talk, by Supt. A.
C. Mogford and while the audience
stood, we were given u rendition of
•’America” on the cornet by Paul Goff,
Jr.
Prof. Mogford then called utxin Rev.
W. H. Shine, pastor of the Methodist
church, who brought an Intereslng and
helpful message; also upon Mrs. B.
\V. Grant, president of the board of
trustees who spoke a few words of ap-
preciation of being there and of the
school.
Judge N. H. Hunt of Crystal City
who was the principal speaker of the
occasion then spoke to us on patriot-
ism, reviewing early Texas history and
giving sketches from the lives of early
Texas patriots.
A large audience of patrons and stu-
dents wefe present and enjoyed and
appreciated the opening exercises.
The faculty for this year Is composed
of the following;*
Prof. A. C. Mogford, superintendent
and will teach biology and chemistry.
Prof. *P. W. Goff, principal, civics
and history.
Mrs. A. C. Mogford. commercial
arithmetic, algebra and Spanish.
Mrs. Paul Bhlera, home economics.
Miss Ouids Valllant, English, typ-
ing and shorthand.
Mrs. Ore Griffin, 5th and 6th grades.
Miss Msdie Trees-, 3rd end 4th
.grades.
Mis* Aunnh Bradshaw, 1st and tad
grades.
Miss L1UU« WiHUm« and Mis* No
re** Whitehead, teachers to the
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SABINAL, Texas, Sept. 8, 1931.—
The Subinal Hustlers, leaders of High-
way No. 90 baseball league, aud the
D'llauis Pirates, the Runners up, will
meet in a three game series for the
championship of the league) These
teams have met four times this season
and have split, each team winning two
games. Tlie first game will be played
at Subinal next Sunday, Sept. 13th,
starting at 3 p. m. The second gam*
will be staged at D'Hanla Sept. 2Dth.
The flip of a colli will decide where
thi* third game will lie played. These
towns can Isiast of two of the strongest
bull clubs in this section and judging
from the Interest und rivalry displayed
by the fans of this part of Texas, a
large crowd will be on band to witness
he first game at Sablual. Thornberry
anil Ariiltn will form the Subinal bat-g
tery. While Nester and Finger will
probably work for D’Hants. ThoriP
berry has won 12 of 15 games pitched
and has 136 strikeouts to his credit In
the 15 games.
Glffln, local outfielder, Is among the
leading hitters of the league, with an
average of .411. Allen Koch, Jim Fin-
ger and Amos Finger of D’Hnnls are,
all in the first ten hitters
league.
The A. G. Spalding Co. has dol
a silver cup to lie given to the wlnnl
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Opens Tea Room
The formal opening of Polly's Japa-
nese Tea Room wns held last Saturday
afternoon. Sept. 5th from 5 to 9 o'clock.
Many guests called during the hours
and paid compliments to "Polly” for
the decorations and artistic arrange-
ment of the Jaiwnese Idea carried (Jut,
also for the dainty and delicious via
served oil the occasion. She was ]
stated In serving by Misses Vir
and Jane Sjioedy.
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V. L. Adams, employee of the
trnl Power and Light Company!
returned to Crystal City after spj
Ing several* months In Sail Anton]
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Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Hancock
several-days this week in Fort
ns guests of his parents, Mr. and'
,H. L. Hancock.
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Mr. nnd Mrs. Largen Euetl are the
proud parents of a little daughter who
was born In Del Rio. Sunday. Septem-
ber 6th. The little miss has been
named Barbara Lynn.
Mrs. Johnson of San Antoln'o, wkof
Is with the home economics depar
ment of the Central Power ami Ugll
Company. Is spending the week i|
Crystal City. B. Morrison of Dn
district manager of the company, wJ
here several days this week in t|
Interest of the company.
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E. H. Dreler, accompanied by
ton Wendet, la in Cuero thla week,
tending to buatneea.
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nmtall
Taylor Sr. who baa
Crystal Hospital for the last tare1
on account sf a broken leg caused i
a car accident, was able to-be teas©
to San Antonio Wedseday la tl
hula nee. driven by D. J.
Taylor MM hi*
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