Refugio Timely Remarks and Refugio County News (Refugio, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, April 20, 1934 Page: 3 of 10
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FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1934
THE REFUGIO
THE OGHAM
Vol. HI.
Refugio, Texas, April 20,1934.
No. 23
Student Publication of the Refugio
High School
THE STAFF
Rebekah McClintock ....Editor-in-Chief
Evelyn McCord..........Associate Editor
Bessie Beryl Heard________Social Editor
Thomas Rainey-------------Sports Editor
THE LIFE OF WAYNE COATES.
CLASS REPORT.
Arcadia
Theater
Woodsboro, Texas
FRIDAY (LAST DAY)
APRIL 20
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Colleen
Moore and Genevieve Tobin
—in—
“SUCCESS AT ANY
PRICE”
Ruth Etting in
"CALIFORNIA WEATHER”
Cubby the Bear Cartoon:
"SINISTER STUFF”
“Rank Night”
SATURDAY (ONE DAY ONLY)
APRIL 21
George O’Brien and Claire Trevor
in Zane Grey’s
“THE LAST TRAIL”
Serial—Chapter 11
"PERILS OF PAULINE”
Oswald Cartoon:
"GINGERBREAD BOY”
SUNDAY AND MONDAY
APRIL 22 and 23
Lionel A twill and Betty Furness
—in—
“BEGGARS IN
ERMINE”
Louis Sobol Comedy:
"PEEPING TOM”_
TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY
APRIL 24 and 25
Ralph Bellamy and Shirley Grey
“ONE IS GUILTY”
Walter Catlett in
“ELiWER STEPS OUT”
“arch of the Years”
5DAY AND FRIDAY
kPRIL 26 and 27
logers and Zasu Pitts
—in—
Will
“MR. SKITCH”
Comedy: "Forum Fatal Follies”
Friday Night is Bank Night
Don’t Miss "ROMAN SCANDALS”
with
Eddie Cantor and Ruth Etting
April 29 and 30
No Change in Prices
TAKEN FROM THE 1940 WHO’S
WHO.
By Henrietta Thibodeaux.
Bobby Lynd is holding the position
of speaker in the House of Represen- .
tatives at Washington. tory •
in Victoria, where she visited friends.
Dorothy Hawes was in Corpus
Christi Saturday, where she took her
regular dancing lesson.
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FRESHMAN GOSSIP.
By Lucille Rodgers.
We wonder:
Who Elizabeth is getting “that
way” about?
Why Mary Jo is so bright in his-
Wayne Coates was born January
4, 1915, on King’s ranch in Kingsville,
Texas. From there he moved to Ala-
meda, Texas, where he finished his
first two years of school. He then
went to Freeport, Texas, where he
finished the fifth grade and moved to
Woodsboro, there attending school
during his sixth year. During his
seventh year in school Wayne lived
in Moran, Texas. Returning to Ala-
meda, he finished the eighth grade
before coming to Refugio, where he
has lived until the present.
Last summer Wayne made an in-
teresting and educational trip to Chi-
cago to visit the World’s Fair.
Wayne played basket ball in .Ala-
meda when he was in the eighth
grade and has played baseball in Re-
fugio two years.
After his graduation he plans to
go to Love Field, Dallas, Texas, to
take a mechanic’s and aviation
course.
By Frances Carter.
We are valiantly striving to con-
tinue these last few weeks of schooL
It is very difficult, especially after
our very discouraging six weeks’
grades in algebra.
There were many drooping and al-
most fainting figures seen in Spanish
I when our exam papers were re-
turned. Never were there so many
90's made.
Mr. Moore is very enthusiastic
about the epoch of history we are
now studying. It is called “The In-
dustrial Revolution,” and deals with
inventions leading up to our present
time.
Mrs. Hackler and students are anx-
iously anticipating a Spanish banquet,
the date of which has not been de-
termined. The entertainments will
all be in Spanish instead of English.
There will be a first prize given to
the student who gives the most sat-
isfactory Spanish speech. A booby
prize will be awarded the student
who speaks the least Spanish
throughout the banquet. There will
also be numerous Spanish songs and
toasts given.
AH students of English n may be
found running up and down halls,
thinking up data for a conversational
theme. Who knows but what a sec-
ond Irving S. Cobb or Fannie Heaslip
Lea may materialize from these ef-
forts.
Dorothy Turman is now one of the
most important make-up artists in
Hollywood.
John Falloure has won the name
of being one of the most famous
dancing instructors in the United
States. His studio is in New York.
Bruce Thomas has won fame on
the All-American football team. We
always knew Bruce would be success-
ful.
Carl O’Brien, famed zoo-keeper,
has one of the most interesting zoos
in America.
Dorothy Hawes is now the well-
known dancing teacher at T. I. A.
(Terrell Insane Asylum). We knew
it would finally get you down, Dot.
Buck Weston has grown to be one
of the greatest “mathematicians” of
our time. He vs now teaching in
“RefugVo Lk. y-est Kindergarten.”
Margaret Falloure is still waiting
patiently on the front porch for a
certain date that has failed to show
up. Poor chump!
Becky McClintock will be awarded
a gold medal this afternoon at two
for being on time for once in 20
years.
The Olympics were closed this aft-
ernoon in the final diving tournament
in which Miss Evelyn McCord was
awarded first place in high diving.
Frances Carter has now been voted
the latest Jean Harlow.
Cleopatra “Pat” Pate after just
signing a new contract with Para-
mount Theatres has planned to sail
for Paris on the 15th of next month.
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WEINER ROAST.
Thursday night, April 12, J. B.
Kelley entertained with a weiner
roast. Weiners and marshmallows
were roasted and all reported a good
time. Those present were Johnette
Windell, Thelma Kelley, Maudine
Weaver, Elizabeth Ward, Berenice
Carpenter, Mary Lee Lance, J. C. Mil-
lican, Bob Mathews, J. B. Kelley,
Richmond Carpenter, E. J. Henden,
Jack Martin, Clarence West, Howard
Martin, Lloyd Harrington, Sanford
Newsome, Leonard McCord, Dillian
Thompson, Norman Thompson and
Lewis Thompson.
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BOY SCOUTS.
The Boy Scouts met Tuesday eve-
ning, April 10, to discuss the con-
struction of their cabin, which is to
be built on the Mrs. Fanny Heard
lease. They have been clearing the
land around it all year and have al-
ready started some work on it.
In the near future the Boy Scouts
will have a meeting of the Court of
Honor, where the Scouts will pass
tests for their merit badges, which
will be presented by the troop com-
mittee, Mr. Cooke, Mr. Snead and Mr.
Bailey.
If Daisy and Norman will ever
realize that there is someone else in
the study hall besides themselves?”
How everyone survives when
George is around, to rave about every-
If it is just a coincidence or if it
runs in the family that Howard pass-
ed in history?
A SPRING FLOWER SONG
PROGRAM.
The division of the second grade in
Miss Clark’s room gave a program in
both the assembly for grades on
Wednesday morning, April II, and
for the meeting of the Parent-Teach-
er Association in the afternoon of the
same day.
Spring flowers, little girls in flower
costumes, and boys in white suits
with green caps, gave a vivid setting
for the singing of spring songs. All
sang “Come Let Us Make a Garden”
and “Spring Is Coming.” Then, in
from the woods, came “Little Pussy
Willow,” Lois Jeanne Wright, dress-
ed in her coat and hood of gray. “In
Our Own Little Garden” pretty flame
colored tulips were carried by Mar-
jorie Connor, dressed as a tulip girl.
Frances Marion, Eula Mae McGeorge,
Myrtle Cowley, Carol Ruth Dickson,
Marjorie Louise King, Juanita Lind-
say and Berta Lee Perkins were
“Blue Bells.” Margaret Mae Moore
was a tiny “Daisy Girl” and Erline
Linney was “Poppy Lady.” Billie
Jeanne Renshaw, dressed in soft yel-
low and carrying two tones of yellow
daffodils, was “Daffodil Lady.” Rose-
ann Scott was “A Wee Pansy.”
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MRS. A. T. ADKINS may see
“Melody in Spring” at the Rialto,
'showing Sunday, April 22, on a free
ticket awaiting her at The Timely
Remarks office.
JOKES.
By Henrietta Thibodeaux.
Thomas: “Why don’t you like
girls ?”
Joseph: “Aw, they’re too biased.”
Thomas: “Biased?”
Joseph: “Yeah, whenever I go out
with ’em, it’s bias that and bias this
until I’m broke.”
John:, “My operation wasn’t very
serious. It was a very small opera-
tion.”
Sanford: “Sort of an operetta,
eh?”
Frances: “What did you ever do
for the country?”
Will Tom: “I moved to the city.”
that
Margaret: “Did you know
Columbus was crooked?”
Mr. Moore: “How’s that?”
Margaret: “He double-crossed the
ocean.”
Dorothy: “Did you mail those two
letters I gave you, Payne?”
Payne: “Certainly. But I noticed
that you’d put the two-cent stamp on
the foreign letter and the five-cent
stamp on the city one.”
Dorothy: “Oh, dear, what a blun-
der.”
Payne: “But I fixed it all right.
I just changed the addresses on the
envelopes.”
Mrs. Hackler: “What makes dew?”
Mertie Lovett: “The earth goes
around so fast that it perspires.”
Miss Durham: “Do you girls really
like conceited men better than other
kind?”
Dorothy Turman: “What other
kind?”
Hazel: “When do the leaves begin
to turn?”
Miss Black: “Just noticing casu-
ally, I would say the night before ex-
amination.”
SOCIAL NEWS.
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Berenice Carpenter was a visitor
in Beeville Sunday afternoon.
Pauline Risber and Melba Euton
were visitors in Victoria Friday.
Kathleen Prescott was shopping in
Beeville Monday.
Mary Jo Goldman motored to Cor-
pus Christi Friday morning.
Pat Pate spent Sunday afternoon
Thomas A. White Joins
A. & I. College Faculty
By BILL ELLIOTT,
Special Correspondent.
Kingsville, Texas.—Another impor-
tant step in the development of Texas
A. & I. as the leading agricultural
force in South Texas has been taken
with the addition to the faculty of
Thomas A. White, who will be in
charge of the division of agricultural
education in the department of agri-
culture.
The division- of agricultural educa-
tion is planned primarily for the prep-
aration of Smith-Hughes teachers of
vocational agriculture. Dr. White
will work under the college and the,
state department of agriculture..
Dr. White will have charge of the
college, under the direction of R. J.
Cook, head of the department of agri-
culture, of the preparation of voca-
tional agricultux-al teachers, leading
to certification under the Smith-
Hughes act and also will have a
course in principles of vocational edu-
cation which applies to all vocational
education.
In addition to his class work on
the campus Dr. White has been ap-
pointed ' and has assumed his duties
as district supervisor of vocational
agriculture schools in this section,
numbering more than 30. The district
included takes in a large part of
South Texas with the Winter Gar-
den, Rio Grande Valley and gulf coast
districts.
Dr. White began his work with the
college at the beginning of the spring
semester.
Dr. White has declared that his
greatest impression of South Texas
has been the agricultural possibilities
of the section. “They are greater
than in any state I know,” he said.
“I also am impressed by the fact that
your people are interested in agricul-
ture. They think, talk, and appre-
ciate agriculture and its possibilities
in South Texas. They realize that life
depends upon it.”
After taking his B. S. and M. S.
degrees from the North Carolina
State College, Dr. White took his
Ph. D. degree from Cornell Univer-
sity in New York. He has special-
ized in agricultural education ana
agricultural economics.
Tit for Tat.
A club of young men have for one
of their rules that any man who asks
a question that he himself can not
answer must pay into the treasury a
fine of $5.
One evening Thompkinson asked:
“Why doesn’t a ground squirrel leave
any dirt around the top of his hole
when he digs it?”
He then was called upon to answer
his own equestion.
“That’s easy,” he said. “He be-
gins at the bottom and digs up.”
“All very nice,” suggested a mem-
ber. “But how does he get to the
bottom?”
“That’s your question,” * returned
Thompkinson.
Tivoli News
Mrs. R. K. Marberry left Monday
for Brady, where she will visit rela-
tives for several weeks.
Miss Helen Louise Crews spent the
past week-end in Victoria, the guest
of her cousin, Miss Sibyl Crews.
While in Victoria Miss Helen Louise
attended the district meeting of the
Interscholastic League.
On Monday, April 16, the farmers
of Tivoli and Austwell signed up the
hog and corn contracts. County
Agent Weiss and his committee were
busy the entire day.
On last Wednesday night the East-
ern Star Chapter No. 686 of Austwell
and Tivoli entertained District Dep-
uty Grand Master Dahlman of Aran-
sas Pass. After the regular meeting
of the chapter, a social hour was en-
joyed, at which time delicious re-
freshments were served the members
and visitors present. While in Ti-
voli Mrs. Dahlman was the guest of
Mrs. H. G. Crews.
The Rev. Stuart McC. Rohre, pas-
tor of the Presbyterian Church of
Tivoli, returned on Saturday of last
week, from San Antonio, where he
attended the spring meeting of West-
ern Texas Presbytery. The fall meet-
ing will be held in Falfurrias in Sep-
tember.
Drilling on the G. W. Bissett test
well is steadily proceedings, there be-
ing three shifts working night and
day.
Mrs. J. L. Walker and children, J.
L., Jr., and Frances Marie, were
guests of relatives in Goliad over the
past week-end.
What might have proved a very
serious accident occurred Wednesday
of last week, when Billie Doughty and
Lawrence Landgraf collided with
each other while riding their motor-
cycles on Highway 57. It is said that
Billie, who was some distance behind
Lawrence, looked back, and as he was
traveling at a greater rate of speed,
crashed into the motorcycle ahead.
Fortunately, in the pile-up which re-
sulted, neither young man was se-
riously hurt, although both were pain-
fully cut and bruised. Lawrence suf-
fered 7, strained and cut knee, while
Billie was cut about the face and
head, necessitating the taking of sev-
eral stitches. We are glad to report
both young men out again, seemingly
recovered.
Billy Doughty has been making his
home in Refugio with his sister, Mrs.
A. T. Adkins, for the past few
months, and had com^ to Tivoli to
visit his mother, when the accident
occurred.
Quite a large group of young people
are planning to attend the district
Christian Endeavor convention in
Corpus Christi Saturday, April 21.
The Junior Society of the Tivoli Pres-
byterian Church has been invited to
conduct the devotional on Saturday
morning.
During the past week Tivoli and
vicinity has had plenty of rain. Mon-
day morning we had a regular old-
fashioned thunder storm, and on Mon-
day night another shower fell. Judg-
ing by the lightning, some place must
have had hail as well as rain at that
time.
Mrs. Fred Barber entertained with
two tables of bridge on Friday night
of last week. At the conclusion of
the games a delicious refreshment i
course was served those present, who
were, besides the Hostess, Mesdames
E D. Barber, Mollie Gregory, J. H.
Angerstein, Frank Strickland of Har-
din, Texas, E. R. Hartman, H. G.
Crews, R. C. Brigman and Mr. H. G.
Crews.
The Senior Class of the Tivoli High
School is whipping its class play into
shape, and expects to present it in
the near future, weather permitting.
Mrs. Herman Reagen has returned
to her home in Corpus Christi, after
a delightful visit with her sister, Mrs.
J. C. Barber.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarke Adkins had as
their guests last week Mr. and Mrs.
L. R. Jeter and Mrs. Ed Jones and
daughter, Lenette, of Refugio.
1 Mrs. Corra Doughty and her
daughters, Miss Thelma Doughty of
Tivoli and Mrs. A. T. Adkins of Re-
fugio, spent the past week-end in Or-
chard, Texas, guests of another
daughter, Mrs. Bill Roper, and son,
Hugh Doughty.
Tivoli Is now a regular stop on the
bus line from Corpus Christi to Port
Lavaca and Houston. The fare is
reasonable and the cars used on the
line are very comfortable, making the
trip from Tivoli to any station on
the route a pleasure. Why not try
it? Call the Turner Cafe and get the
schedule and fares for this bus line.
between November 1 and March 15,
Bath tubs were heavily taxed i*.
those early days, even as the modern
automobile. Shortly after they were
introduced into Virginia a state tax
of $36 was imposed on each tub in-
stalled.
Still, the Americans of those times
were given more to bathing than the
old Russians. We have read some-
where that Peter the Great bathed on-
ly once a year. But there were ex-
tenuating circumstances. Russia is a
very cold country.
5,000 VOTES IN MAY QUEEN CON-
TEST WITH A $2 SUBSCRIPTION
WHEN BATHS WERE FEW
If certain data we have run across
lately are authentic, the joke about
the Saturday night bath is not so old
as we imagined. It is recorded that
the first bath tub put in commission
in the United States was christened
on Christmas Day, 1842.
Looking up the day of the week in
a perpetual calender, we find that
this was Sunday, but it is possible
that the first bath was really taken
on Christmas Eve, thus establihing
the Saturday night tradition.
Upon its introduction the bath was
looked upon with much suspicion, as
it is by small boys until this day. In
Boston an ordinance was passed pro-
hibiting baths except upon the advice
of a physician. About 1844. the Phila
delphia city council came within two
votes of prohibiting baths altogether
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Jones, J. L. Refugio Timely Remarks and Refugio County News (Refugio, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, April 20, 1934, newspaper, April 20, 1934; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1098731/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dennis M. O’Connor Public Library.