The Timely Remarks (Refugio, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, October 20, 1939 Page: 3 of 12
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1939
THE TIMELY REMARKS
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Home Demonstration News
MRS. VERA CARGILL, County Home Demonstration Agent
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GARDEN IN TIVOLI
Mi'S. R. H. Beckman of Tivoli
can point with pride to her frame
garden when she has carrots, beets
and salad vegetables now. Her gar-
den is sub-irrigated by using old
tin cans and is very easily watered,
soon be worked out by a commitee
to be selected by Director William-
son, together with three leaders in
the agricultural press: Frank
Briggs of Farm and Ranch, Eu-
gene Butler of Progressive Farmer,
and Victor H. Schoffelmayer of the
Dallas Morning News.
PEARS
Summer is over and with the fall
comes the pear, ready for eating
fresh, for canning or for serving in
many delicious ways. Pears will be
.... . ... .. at their best for canning if they
children, armed with new pencils are not allowed to ripen on the
and a book strap, trudged back to. tree. They will have a £sa astring_
school this fall. Fresh hair cuts ent taste and will be finer in tex-
and new clothes were in evidence ture if harvested when mature but
the first morning of school, and still green and allowed to ripen in
anxious mothers were making nu-! a cool, dark, well ventilated room,
merous last minute preparations. Once ripened they must be used
But Dosca Hale, specialist in promptly or discoloration will de-
TIVOLI H. D. CLUB
The Home Demonstration Club
met Friday afternoon with Mrs. O.
F. Hartman at her lovely farm
home on the bay. Mrs. C. B. Friday
presided and the regular routine of
business was carried out.
Mrs. Vera Cargill, our home dem-
onstration agent, discussed shoes
and their care; different kinds of
leather; a good fit; and the proper
shoe for different occasions.
Following adjournment the host-
ess served delicious refreshments
home cooked and drinks made of
home grown citrus fruit.
MRS. L. F. SCHORLEMMER.
WERE REFUGIO CHILDREN
READY FOR SCHOOL?
Numbers of Refugio County
baking pan and pack into hot ster-
ilized containers. Fill to overflow-
ing with boiling medium sirup and
seal.
PEAR HONEY
Cut ripe pears into small pieces.
Use a little less than half sugar by
weight. Mix and cook until the
consistency of honey. Seal in hot
“sterilized” containers.
parent education and child de-; velop.
velopment for the A. and M. Col- After preparing the fruit, place
lege extension service, points out the pieces immediately into a solu-
that there is a deeper readiness tion of two tablespoons each of salt
than this the readiness parents and vinegar to one gallon of water
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have been slowly building through-
out the child’s infancy and pre-
school years.
“If the child is to give the most
from this new school work, he will
need the best possible health to
work hard and play hard,” Miss
Hale says. ‘Parents need now to
know the special needs of their
own c h i 1 d r e n—especially the
amount of food and rest which
they require.”
The specialist points out that
many children start to school
every fall with handicaps that
could be corrected or greatly im-
proved by proper treatment.
Among these handicaps are weak
lungs and hearts,' defective eye-
sight or hearing, diseased tonsils
or teeth.
Proper health habits are pointed
out as remedies to many of the
child’s defects. Order and regu-
larity are as important for a
child’s well being as are sunshine
and good food, Miss Hale believes,
and she adds that sound health
habits are not developed in an at-
mosphere of worry, hurry, and
strain.
She concludes: “There must be
that comradeship between parent
and child which maintains order
and regularity without too much
rigidity and which makes allow-
ance for personal preferences and
unusual circumstances.”
Our children have a right to ex-
pect that we as parents provide
them with the best health habits
and the opportunity to develop to
the best of their ability.
SUMMER MINCE MEAT
7 1-2 pounds pears (peeled and
cored)
1 pound seedless raisins
1 orange, 1 lemon, 1 apple (peel
and all)
3 pounds sugar
1 cup vinegar
1 cup grape juice or other not
too sweet fruit juice
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon each cinnamon,
cloves, mace or other spice to
taste
Grind pears, orange and apple.
Mix with other ingredients and boil
for two hours. Pack in jars and
seal while hot.
This is an excellent way to use
hard pears.
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Farm News
L. A. Weiss, Jr., County Agent
to prevent discoloration and loss of
vitamic C.
Our specialists have given us
several good ways of using this
fruit:
CANNED PEARS
Pare half and core ripe pears.
Exhaust in boiling sirup for four
to eight minutes according to size
and hardness of fruit. Seal immedi-
ately and process containers of all
sizes 20 minutes in boiling water
bath.
FRAME GARDEN
IN BONNIE VIEW
“I didn’t realize a frame garden
could be so interesting,” said Mrs.
Herbert Pfullman of Bonnie View,
“I am planning to plant strawber-
ries in one and then I can easily
water it when it needs to be
watered and can cover it when
there is danger of frost.”
Mrs. Pfullman made her frame
garden on a wire frame and has
covered it with cotton bagging. She
is planning now to remove the bag-
ging and cover it with chicken wire
so that the sun can shine through.
In size it is about six feet by
20 feet.
4-H GIRLS’ CLUB FARM
FRUIT DEMONSTRATOR
Maud Emma Kramer, the 1940
farm fruit demonstrator for the
Bayside 4-H Girls’ Club has her
bed already to plant strawberries
this fall. She will plant them as
soon as the weather ,is a little
cooler.
Maud Emma plans to have
enough strawberries to serve them
to the family fresh and have a
few to make into strawberry pre-
serves. She will care for them
according to methods approved by
the specialists and will be able to
help other members of her club
with their strawberry problems.
CANNED BAKED PEARS
The small early pears found in
many localities are delicious when
baked in the oven just as apples
are baked. Remove while hot from the
PEAR BUTTER
Peel and core one gallon of late
ripe pears; put in kettle and add
two cups of water; boil slowly;
when done put through ricer or col-
ander. To every four cups of pulp
add two cups of sugar. Place on
stove again and cook slowly until
dark and very thick. Stir to pre-
vent sticking. A few minutes be-
fore removing add juice of one
lemon. Sterilize jars, rubbers and
lids; fill while hot.
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Engineer Is Hero
Of Railroad Fire
Little Rock, Ark.—Fellow train-
wen here acclaimed a veteran rail-
way engineer as the hero after he
raced his train with 200 pessen-
gers through a lake of fire, guided
it across a river trestle with his
cab in flames and brought it safely
into the railroad yards.
The engineer was J. M. Bland
of Little Rock. He gave this ver-
sion of the incident:
Shortly before his Memphis sec-
tion of the Missouri Pacific’s Sun-
shine Limited pulled into the
North Little Rock yards early
Tuesday, a gasoline taiik car was
punctured, spilling gasoline into a
large pool along the right-of-way.
Unaware of the gasoline, Engi-
neer Bland put his train into the
yards. Sparks from the engine’s
fire box ignited the gasoline, en-
veloping the engine and creating
a blazing lake hundreds of yards
in front of the nine-car train.
Grasping the situation “almost
instinctively,” Bland shoved open
throttle and increased his
REFUGIO COUNTY FARMERS
USE COTTON BAGGING
Refugio County farmers had 82
1-2 per cent, or 8.187 bales of the
9,920 bales of the total cotton crop
grown in the county in 1939, wrap-
ped in cotton bagging.
Bonnie View was the first com-
munity in Texas to use cotton bag-
ging, adopting it in 1938. In 1939
the L. J. Piehl gins No. 1 and 2
and the Michna gin of southern
Refugio County and the South
Texas gin at Austwell this year
used 100 per cent cotton bagging.
The Farmers gin and South Texas
gin at Tivoli and the Herrin-Mc-
Donald gin at Austwell used a
large percentage of cotton bagging
this year also.
Plans are being made to have all
cotton grown in this county in 1940
wrapped in cotton bagging.
ACADEMY 4-H CLUB MEETS
Eleven members of the Academy
4-H Club met at the county agent's
office Saturday morning at 9/
o’clock. Reports were made on
their projects, 4-H club record
keeping was explained by County
Agent L. A. Weiss Jr. and a farm-
ers’ bulletin on breed of chickens
was distributed to all members.
Eddie Kircher,, Pat McGuill and
Howard Bochat were appointed as
a committee to arrange for a 4-H
Club picnic Thursday, October 19,
at The Forks.
C. P. & L To Build!The Timely Remarks 1 Year for $2.00
Million Dollar
Power Plant
Additional power for Central
Power and Light Company’s South
Texas network of transmission
lines will be provided by a brand j
new “million-dollar” power plant j
to be built on Nueces Bay adjacent!
to Corpus Christi, according to Lon !
C. Hill, C. P. & L. president. Actual
construction will start this week.
The plant, which includes latest
type generating equipment, is the
tenth major power station to be
connected with C. P. & L. lines,
and will augment the power supply
of every customer on these lines,
Hill said. Conti’act has been let to
Lee Aiken of Donna for the exca-
vation and pile driving portion of
the construction. Alamo Iron
Works was low bidder on the steel
and steel erection jobs, according
to J. T. Persons, chief engineer for
the utility company. A contractor
is yet to be designated on the brick
work.
Plans for the station, which will
develop three times the power of
the company’s Water Street Sta-
tion in Corpus Christi, call for a
building 101 feet by 132 feet to
house the new staion.
In height, the building will be
equivalent to a four-story struc-
ture with basement. A 150-foot
smokestack will be erected.
The site selected is between the
Corpus Christi ship channel and
Nueces Bay, and the investment
Roofing Is Important
Good roofing not only prevents
water from leaking in but also
stops cold from entering. Make
yours weaterproof!
ZARSKY LUMBER COMPANY
til
will be known as the Nueces Bay
Members present were Pat Me- Station. Water for use in cooling
Guill, Bobbie Engilsh, Billie Ray, steam will be drawn from the ship
Alois Vogel, Clarence Vogel, Ro-j channel and will be transferred
bert Freeman, Howard Bochat, jto the bay. Water for making
steam will come from the city
water supply.
Plans call for expansion of the
station as time goes on. Two gen-
erating units will be installed im-
meriately and a third by 1942 is
planned.
Construction of the lant has been
made necessary by the growth of
South and Southwest Texas, and in
order to
Jimmie Bochat, Eddie Kircher and
Joe Weldon Sneed.
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Rope Made from
Native Yucca
Rope of exceptional strength has order to care for and encourage
been made from the native yucca future °-rowth of industrv in tnL
plant, which grows throughout the territory President Hill ^nki “Tt’«
major portion of Texas, bj the' eke-1 ° -President Hl11 said- It s
murgic laboratories of the North
Texas Teachers College at Denton
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speed to 50 miles an hour. With
the train clear of the blazing gaso-
line, the scorched cab caught fire,
forcing Bland and his fireman out
onto the platforms in front of the
Professor: “Oxygen is essential
to all animal existence. There
, . could be no life without it. Yet
cab. This occurred just as the | strange to say, it was discovered
our job to not only care for present
needs, but to stay well in advance
of them in order that electric serv-
ice may actually promote develop-
ment.”
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speeding locomotive
the big railway bridge spanning
the Arkansas River between the
Twin Cities.
Bland trust his gloved hand
through the flames.of the cab to
the throttle and the train roared
safely into the yards here where
the fire was extinguished.
approached j only a little more than a centurv
“ — ago.”
Student: ‘What did they do be-
fore it was discovered, Professor?”
“So you taught your wife to
play poker?”
“Yes, it was a swell idea! Last
Saturday I won back nearly a
third of my salary.”
DOES THE WHOLE JOB OF
AMD WmtemnceBY ITSELF!
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That's the advantage of using the "Caterpillar"
Diesel No. 12 Motor Grader — it's a road builder and
a mcrintainer in one package. Designed for heavy-
duty grading, ditching, tough and high bank cuts_.
as well as maintenance work, high-speed smoothing
“—all withjhe bedrock operating economies of
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One investment— one machine to main tain — a one-
man crew!
From heavy-duty road construction to high-speed
maintaining, the "Caterpillar" Diesel Motor Grader
is a time and money saver.
Caterpillar
PAT. OVV
Ulm. K. HOLT fllflCHMSRY CO.
AUSTWELL 4-H GIRLS’ CI^UB
The Austwell 4-H Girls’ Club
met in the school on Wednesday,
September 20, 1939 for its regular
meeting. Vacancies among the of-
ficers made an election the first
busines of the afternoon. The new
officers are as follows: President,
Ellen Glover; vice president, Sadie
Edwards; secretary-treasurer Mel-
barine Hendrix, and reporter,, La-
vonia Barker.
Mrs. Cargill discussed with the
girls the characteristics a Gold
Star Girl should possess and the
club decided a girl who had com-
pleted her work for two years and
had the following characteristics
would make a girl any county
would be glad to select as county
representative:
1. Good personality, (a) friend-
lv (b) cheerful (c) good disposi-
tion.
2. Interested in 4-H Club work.
3. Well groomed.
4. Good leader.
In the demonstration, the agent
planned with the girls the number
of strawberry plants needed, how
to prepare the bed and the amount
of space needed for them. When
the plants arrive, the club will go
to the home of the farm fruit
demonstrator and put them out.
REPORTER.
PEAR MARMALADE
Peel fresh late pears, quarter I
and slice lengthwise. Cover with j
sugar using three-fourths pound'
sugar to one pound of fruit. Let!
stand until it forms a sirup, boil }
slowly, until thick and fruit is j
clear. Seal in hot sterilized contain- j
ers. A good addition when fruit is I
partially cooked add one-half cup i
of grated pineapple to each pound
of fruit.
HOME DEMONSTRATION
COUNCIL MEETING
Saturday, October 21, the reg-
ular meeting of the County Home
Demonstration Council wiM- be held
in the office of the Home Dem-
onstration Agent in the court
house. The meeting will open
promptly at 2:30 and close at 4:00.
This is the time for election of of-
ficers for 1940 and all members
are especialy urged to be present.
SAN ANTONIO. TEXAS
Branch: Weslaco
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ENDS
SATURDAY, 28th
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LADIES’ WOOL
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Carole King
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“Tom Sawyer” Pants
Gifts For Baby
Quilt Bundles
FAMOUS GARZA
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1.88
Shop our Baby department for the most
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For both dress and school. Can be washed or
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shower and the new arrivals ... If it’s
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Garza products cannot be surpassed, so
be sure to take advantage of this Sale.
“Tom Sawyer” Suits
4.98 UP
We have a big assortment of these suits in
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BLANKETS a”d COMFORTS
GREATLY REDUCED
The biggest assortment of Blankets and Comforts we have ever shown.
Beautiful color combination . . . Wool, part wool and cottjon . . . See
the prices, they’re cheap.
MEN’S SOLID LEATHER
Work Shoes
1.96
The greatest shoe value in America . . . Oak
bend leather sole, both nailed and sewed. Reg-
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Jones, J. L. The Timely Remarks (Refugio, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, October 20, 1939, newspaper, October 20, 1939; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1098106/m1/3/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dennis M. O’Connor Public Library.