The Timely Remarks (Refugio, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, September 8, 1939 Page: 8 of 8
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Fast Planes and Streamlined Trains
Now Handle Mails Once Carried by
Sailing Vessels and Men on Horseback
By MAUDE H. PECKENPAUGH, in Caller-Times
THE TIMELY REMARKS
Horse Owned by Refugian Wins Silver Trophy
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1939.
Mail service in cities and towns
today is so regular and so “taken
for granted” that the opening of
a new post office is just another
change to which daily routes must
be adjusted.
Fast planes, streamlined trains,
Jbuses and steamers carry Uncle
Sam’s mails and his family’s per-
sonal messages, whether the mes
donment of postal service as
storms or changing conditions sent
the inhabitants to other locations.
St. Mary’s, near the present
town of Bayside, was one such
town which had a post office long
before the Civil War. During the
war, Philip Power carried the Con-
federate States mail from St.
Mary’s to Copano, to Lamar and
sage is a most important trans- j hack again,
action or a mere “this leaves all { Uncertainty was perhaps the oc-
well and hope to find you the casion for many complaints from
same” type. mail customers. Young Mr. Power
Mail service has not always beenj crossed from Copano to St. Mary’s
fast. An iterii m a skiff unless the tide was low.
so regular or so
from the Refugio Timely Remarks,
“History of Refugio County” by
Hobart Huson, written in 1934,
tells that mail and express
carried from Indianola to Browns-
ville along the chain of coastal
islands. Captain Peter Johnson
came to Indianola, then a thriving
coastal town and established ship-
ping trade. He carried the mails
from 1851 until the Civil War, by
boat and by stagecoach.
From manuscript notes by Mr.
Huson we learn that this hardy
Danish captain, Johnson, built a
thriving trade along the islands.
Passengers and mail were Carried x.Ilcj
along his route and the service was j whistle, m
started from Indianola by boat to Chusti, was
Saluria. Here the cargo was
transferred to a mule-drawn stage-
coach where it was taken on down
the island of Matagorda to Cedar
Bayou. A ferry conveyed the
coach to St. Joseph’s Island. Again
a, transfer was made at Saluria,
another at Johnson’s Slough at
Cedar Bayou, and the third at
St. Joseph’s. Opposite Rockport on
St. Joseph’s was quite a settlement
and the stage station was a two-
story building. Two boats were
used on this route, the Belleport,
a schooner, captained by Peter
Johnson, and the other a. sloop
captained by Charles Johnson. The
latter vessel was named the Fairy.
John Smith and Frank Peterson
were stage drivers. The Civil War
and occupation of St. Joseph’s Is-
land by the federal s was “finis”
for this mail service.
In that event, he crossed the shell
reefs on horseback. Always he
went from Lamar to Copano on
was j horseback. This carrier was paid
1 in silver, eight shiny dollars, once
each month for services rendered.
Names which occur as postmas-
ters or postmistresses during these
early days were those of James
Powers Jr., at Copano, a Mr. Ward
at St. Mary’s and Mrs. J. P. O’Con-
nor at Lamar. In 1880 Copano
was abandoned as a postoffice and
in May, 1887, the Victoria Advo-
cate stated that Indianola was to
be abandoned as a postoffice site.
The sound of the mail boat
early day Corpus
always the occasion
for much expectant curiosity for
young and old alike. The oldsters
were wondering if Brother Charlie
would write he had sold the old
home place, and the youngsters,
whose mothers told them that the
mail boat was imbued with story-
like qualities, were wondering who
would be the recipient of a new
baby brother or sister today.
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Lady of the Tropics
Coining to Rialto
With Robert Taylor and the
much - discussed Hedy Lamarr
teamed in an unforgettable story,
There is a real absent-minded
professor at Virginia Tech. He
drove to a nearby town; forgot he
had an auto, and returned home
by train. Then remembering his
ear, he went by train to get it,
but bought a round-trip ticket.
Each year relatives hold a big
gathering at the grave of Dick
Wood near Floyd, Va., where he is
buried in the center of a cross
formed by the graves of his four
wives. Wood was a pioneer with
a large number of descendants.
Thomas H. Heard Jr., of Refugio, owner of Be Blue, is pictured above accepting a silver platter
from Mrs. T. H. McCoy, wife of the president of Rockingham Park at Salem, N. H., after his horse
won the Tomlin handicap there, July 29. The stake is contributed by the McCoys and is named after
their two children, Thomas and Linda. Jockey Chuck Charlton is up. The victorious horse, Be
Blue still is excited after he won the race. The Texas horse was trained by Heard and has won
among other races the opening day handicap at Narragansett Park, Patwucket, R. I. April 22 and
three other similar races in New Hampshire. Mrs. Heard’s mare, Modest Queen, has placed sev-
eral times this year. The Heards with Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Heard Sr., are traveling with a string of
horses all from the H & H stock farm located near Beeville. '
Baseball-
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came in from first at this stage
but an all-round feature of top-
notch entertainment. The story
is ideal for the two stars. Taylor,
a young American, falls madly in
love with Miss Lamarr while visit-
ing Saigon, Indo-China. He mar-
ries her, but then discovers it im-
possible to obtain a passport for
her so that she can return to
America with him. For another
Eurasian, played by Joseph Schild-
kraut, has exerted his powerful in-
fluence to keep. Miss Lamarr in
Saigon. The solution of the prob-
lem is an unusual one and brings
a tense climax to the picture.
Local Golfers Win
Tournament Play
Refugio amateur golfers came
m^t^reco^s^shSw^thaf 1^1847 'ofP^usu^ynSc drama
John C. Graham was a contractor
for service on mail route 6110 from
Matagorda by Port Caballo and
Indian Town (name changed to
Indianola May 10, 1849) to Port
Lavaca. This service was once
each week and the transportation
was made by sailboat. In 1850 it
is recorded that J. R. McFadin was
contractor for service on route
from Brownsville by Point
Brazos Santiago. This
,_T______ was three times a week in
our horse post coaches to the
point, or Port Isabel, as it is
known, and residue in boats to
Brazos Santiago.
It is said that one or two at-
tempts were made to bring mail
anti supplies by ox-team cart-
trains up the Islands from Brazos
Santiago to make connections with
boats to Corpus Christi and In-
dianola. But Big Shell has ever
been a fickle interruption to travel
down the beach and this project
was abandoned as too uncertain.
In Captain Mercer’s dairy which
Dee Woods has been editing, men-
tion is made of trips to St. Joseph’s
for mail and of going to Ransom’s
Point to put letters in the mail
boat for Corpus Christi.
Complaints were voiced with the
same vigor, when service was de-!
layed, in the nineteenth century,
as today. Mrs. Seeligson, in her
“History of Indianola,” explains
that the mail service was “try-
weekly, down one week and try to
get back the next.” The Rockport
Transcript of March, 1874, places
the blame on the Morgan steamer
service. From another record how-
over, we find that the slogan of
the Morgan line was “Departures
■every day, be the weather what
it may.”
There are numbers of “Ghost
Towns” along the coast which once
thrived as shipping centers during
“hide and tallow” days. Govern-
ment records tell a story of aban-
“Lady of the Tropics” which opens and promptly walked Lucas, Ka-
Saturday Midnite and also showsj shouty and Sloan to force in
Sunday and Monday at the Rialto j Brown. McClosky forced Kashouty
at second, Lucas scoring. . Grant
hoisted out to left to retire the
side.
The Rosebuds then scored one or
more runs in every inning except
the last two—seventh and eighth.
They made one in the second, one
in the third, two in the fourth,
two in the fifth and one in the
sixth. Practically all were earned
as the Buds slammed the ball hard
to all fields.
The Refugio tallies came in the
fifth and seventh. Fine defensive
play pulled Lucas out of deep holes
in the first and second innings. In
these two stanzas, the visitors col-
lected five hits and did not score
a run. Fast double plays did the
trick.
The box score:
REFUGIO LEGIONNAIRES
Olmos Athlete to
AttemlLocalSeliool
Player
AB. R. H. PO. A.E.
ed sections
this week.
of Southwest Texas
prize and runner-up position in the
Trans-Pecos tournament at Fort
Stockton, shooting a 65 for five
under par, and James Beardsley
won the Beeville Labor Day tour-
nament championship, registering
a score 114 for 27 holes. His first
round was two under par.
Williams and Beardsley, both
junior players, have been making
good showing in match play this
past summer, especially with Bee-
ville players, whom they have met
several times.
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Something new at the Rialto—
Payne, ss .........
...5
0
1
0
3
1
Roberts, 3b-lf .
...5
0
1
2
0
0
A’stein, 2b-p-lb.
...4
0
2
5
0
0
Oswalt, lb-p-3b.
.-3
0
0
2
1
1
Franger, If .....
...0
0
0
0
0
0
Wilson, n-2b .....
...3
0
1
5
1
0
Gill, cf .............
...4
0
0
5
0
0
Autry, c ..........
...3
2
2
4
1
2
Hanning, rf.......
...1
0
1
0
0
0
Riley, rf .............
...3
0
2
0
0
0
Tiger, p-lf .........
...4
0
0
1
3
0
Total .........
.35
2
10
24
9
4
VICTORIA ROSEBUDS
Player
AB. R. H. PO. A.E.
Sloan, cf
McCloskey,
May, p .....
! Grant, lb .
Gordon, 3b
Cash Nite — every Tuesday and j ^yd 2b ""
Wednesday.
“High heels, according to a
friend of ours, were invented by a
woman who had been kissed on the
forehead.”
HOLLYWOOD
FOR
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“STARS OF TI
Schoener, If
Brown, c ...
Lucas, p-rf
Jackson, rf
Total ..........39 15 18 27 12 1
Score by innings: R. H. E.
Refugio 000 010 100— 2 10 4
Victoria 811 221 OOx—15 18 1
Runs batted in—Tiger, Sloan,
Grant 2, Loyd 2, Brown 2. Earned
runs—Refugio 1, Victoria 13. Left
on bases—Refugio 9, Victoria 9.
Two-base hits—Sloan 2, Lucas.
Triples — Moss, Brown. Double
plays—Moss to Loyd to Grant,
Moss to Loyd to Grant. Pitchers
statistics—9 runs and 13 hits off
Tiger in 7 2-13 innigs, 3 runs and
3 hits off Wilson in 1-3 inning, 2
runs and 2 hits off Angerstein in
one inning, 1 run and 5 hits off
Lucas in 5 innings, 1 run and 5
hits off May in 4 innings. Winning
pitcher—Lucas. Losing pitcher—
Tiger. Struck out—by Tiger 4,
by Lucas 1, by May 6. Base on
balls—off Tiger 4, off Oswalt 3,
off May 2. Hit by pitcher—Ka-
shouty by Tiger, Autry by Lucas.
Wild pitches—Tiger. Umpires—W.
Newman (plate) P. Newman and
Gill (base'’). Time 2:10.
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Steve Frodie’s critics denied that
he ever jumped from the Brooklyn
bridge, contending that he tossed o
dummy into the river. But a few
days ago Michael Ford, an abel-
bodied seaman, really made the
jump on a wager, and swam un-
harmed to safety.
Melvin Sugarek of Olmos, who
during this past summer made
softball history as a pitcher for a
Skidmore team, has enrolled in the
local high school, and will take part
in school athletics this term. The
youth, who is 18, plans to remain
in Refugio permanently, and will
probably play softball here next
summer.
The following article, taken from
the Beeville Bee-Picayune tells of
his prowess as a softball pitcher:
It was a case of too much Mel-
vin Sugarek for the Beeville Dodg-
ers in their inter-city series with
the Skidmore softballers Thursday
and Monday nights, the Skidmore
club winning both games by scores
of 8-7 and 5-1 to sweep the series.
Both games were played at Skid-
more.
Sugarek was in top form Mon-
day night as he scattered the
Dodgers’ hits over a 7-inning
stretch and scored his thirty-first
consecutive victory. The Olmos
youngster was hit hard in the
opening game of the series but his
mates slugged out a win in the
last inning when they broke a 7-7
tie with the winning run.
Bill Hatcher was on the mound
for the Dodgers in both games
and hurled creditable ball. The
veteran softballer issued few safe-
ties in the second game but in-
ability of the Dodgers to hit Suga-
rek’s offerings anywhere except
into the fielders’ hands nullified
his fine performance.
Sugarek has established an envi-
able record during the past play-
ing season. Aided by the fine hit-
ting and fielding of his Olmos and
Skidmore clubs, the youngsters
have won 47 of the 52 games he
pitched this year. He met top-
flight opposition in several of his
games, having tripped the Hunt
Travelers in three games and the
Beeville Dodgers, champions of the
Auto League, in two straight. In
addition, he had hurled his teams
to victories over clubs from Re-
fugio, Corpus Christi, Berclair,
Agua Dulce, Tynan and Skidmore.
He has pitched for both the Skid-
more and Olmos teams.
Sugarek is one of the finest all-
Georgia Acquires
Atlanta, Go.—The original per-
manent Constitution of the Con-
federate States of America has
become the permanent property of
the University of Georgia through
action of the board of regents of
the University System of Georgia.
The University paid $20,000 for the
document, the funds coming from
money set aside for the purchase
of textbooks.
The permanent constitution suc-
ceeded the provisional one which
was drawn in Montgomery, Ala.,
February 4, 1861. The provisional
constitution is now deposited in the
collection of the Confederate Me-
morial Literary Society, at the
former “White House of the Con-
federacy” in Richmond, Va. The
permanent constitution has been
for many years in the famous De-
Renne Library, of Savannah, Ga. j
Last year this library was pur-
chased for the University of
Georgia, but an option, only was
secured on this, the only known
copy of the permaent constitution.
Expiration of this option and
failure to secure another, also
known eagerness of other univer-
sity library groups to acquire this
item, valued by many at $100,000,
speeded the purchase. Also, be-
cause the late Wymberly Jones
DeRenne left his property, includ-
ing the constitution, in such a way j
that the University of Georgia was
the only potential buyer from whom
a clear title could have been se-
cured, and the fact that the early
history and personnel of many
Georgia families are intertwined
with the making of the document,
it is felt that the University of
Georgia is its rightful depository.
The constitution is written
chiefly in the handwritng of
Thomas R. R. Cobb, of Georgia. A
part, however, is written by Mr.
Sparow, a delegate from Louisiana.
around prospects in this section j
for many years. Originally slated1
to enter A. C. Jones high school, I
he had decided in favor of Refugio j
where he will enroll this fall.
Goliad Memorial Auditorium
Friday, September 15,1939
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