The Ozona Stockman (Ozona, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 7, 1935 Page: 1 of 6
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THE OZONA STOCKMAN
_The Only Paper la Crockett County—3,000 Square Mile* Of livestock Territory
ae Per Y« In Tmi |1.80 Elsewhere
OZONA* CROCKETT COUNTY. TEXAS, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 7, -M6
5 Grata Par Copy
Na. 44.
Ozooa Constable Breaks Into Hall Of
Fame By “Doing Nothing’’For 23 Year#;
Ripley Asks Data On Unusual Record
Tom Smith Served As Constable 23 Years And
Never Carried a Gun, Made an Arrest Nor
Served a Paper in That Capacity
“Some people work a life time
doing thinga and never attain
fame. I apend 23 yearn doing
nothing and become famous be-
cause of It.”
That’s just one of the bits of
droll good humor dittphyed by
Tom Smith of Ozona. who ha*
gained sudden recognition tis hav-
ing the most unusual record of
any similar official in the United
States.
Recent publication of the fact \
that he has been constable of the j
Ozona precinct of Crockett County |
for 23 years and never carried a
gun, made an arrest or served a
paper has brought a flood of re-
quests for his picture and further
information about hi* “crip" job
from story writers, journalists,
magazine editors and those seek-
ing the unusual from all over the
nation.
Now comes the prize request;
one from the King Features Syn-
dicate of New York, a newspaper
syndicate which distributes the
famous Ripley “Believe It Or Not’
cartoon to hundreds of daily
newspapers all over the United
States, requesting Constable
Smith’s picture and verification
of the published fact concerning
his unusual record as constable of
this thriving little western city.
The picture and data has gone for-
ward and soon the Ozonan’s un-
usual record as ar. officer of th**
law will be recorded In the fam-
ous cartoon among other oddities
of the world.
“All of which comes about,”
says Constable Smith, “from at-
tending to one’s own business.
Just don’t stick your nose into the
other fellow’s business and these
political jobs are a cinch.” Inci-
dentally, the "job” is one of these
gratis kinds.
Another oddity in connection
with Constable Smith’s long in-
active activity in his “position”
that Ripley might record is the
fact that he has never sought the
position by placing hia name on
the primary ballot. His election is
by common understanding to
“write him In.” Not that he hasn’t
had any “campaignshe has had
some hot ones when some oppon-
ent let it be known that he as-
pired to sacrifice himself to the
pee-pui’a service. And the con-
stable has always come out on
top, the opponents never having
anything better to offer than
Smith’s promise to "go to the
ranch and stay there” as soon as
he is elected.
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Crockett Shares
In General Fall
Of Ram In Area
A Inch Recorded Here
In Slow Precipita-
tion Wednesday
“Believe It nr Not'
TOM SMITH
Constable of Crockett County
23 years and never carried a
gun, made an arrest or served
a paper, Tom Smith has attrac-
ted the attention of writers,
and those seeking the unusual
all over the nation, including
Robert Ripley of the famous
“Believe It Or Not" feature.
Horse Falls Dead
With Rider While
In Fast Gallop
One of those rare occur-
ences where the horse fella
dead beneath the rider hap-
pened laat Sunday near a so*
tol camp on the Henderson
headquarters ranch with Ilex
Eppler taking the freak fall.
Z. H. Eppler, father of the
youth, threw his lariat over
a calf which then crowed
back over ihc rope. The iivin
becoming unmanageable, the
rider w» forced tc dismount
after which the mount broke
away from the rope.
Mounted on another horse,
young Eppler set out after
the riderless horse in a fast
gallop and It was then that
his own mount pitched for-
ward to the ground in a
“dead" halt. The rider found
the horse dead when he exam-
ined the animal after recov-
ering from his sprawl. Neith*.
er of the two riders suffered
injuries from their falls.
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Scouts Observe
25th Anniversary
Of Scouting Fri.
Troop And Basketball
Fauns To Hear Presi-
dent's Address
Mrs. Montgomery,
Mother Of Ozonans
Claimed By Death
Funeral Services Held
Sunday Afternoon
At Comanche
Relief Offices
To list Workers
For Employment
Free Service To Em-
ployers And Work-
ers Offered
Employment agency service,
free both to employer and employe
with a view to minimizing the un-
employment problem here as far
as possible, is bing inaugurated
Anniversary Week, in celebra-
tion of the 25th anniversary of the
Boy Scouts of America, will be
observed by Scouts all over the
nation starting Friday, the actual
birthday of Scouting.
Since the Friday night rally, to
be held by most troop- will con
flfct with the basketball tourna-
ment in progress here, an elabor-
ate program for that occasion has
been abandoned, but approximate-
ly fifteen minutes will be devoted
Friday night to the Scout Anni-
versary. For that length of tiikr,
if possible, the basketball tourna-
ment will be interrupted while the
Scouts and audience in tne gym-
nasium listen to a national radio
address by President Franklin I).
Roosevelt, honorary president of
the Boy Scouts of America. At the
conclusion of this address, Ozona
Scouts will join others all over
the nation in a simultaneous re-
newal of the Scout oath and laws.
Scout Sunday will be observed
next Sunday with special Scout
services in the churches. Ozona
Scouts are scheduled to observe
! the day by attending a special
Scout service at the Baptist
Church, with Rev. Leon M. Gam-
brell, pastor, preaching the spec-
ial sermon.
Mrs. W. H. Montgomery, 78,
mother of Clay, George and Judge
Montgomery and Mrs. L. J. Kiiiic
of Ozona, died at 5 o’clock Friday
morning in Foil Stockton where
she had been making her home in
recent months. Death followed an
illness lasting only a few days.
Funeral services were conduct-
ed from the residence of a broth-
er. R. L. Campbell, at Comanche,
the old family home, at 2 o’clock
Sunday afternoon, with burial in
what is known as the Montgomery
Cemetery near Comanche.
Mrs. Montgomery was born in
Comanche County und lived there
most of her life, spending part of
her time in late years with her
children. Her husband died in
1911.
Nine children survive her. They
are Mrs. Kittle and Clay Mont-
gomery of Ozona. Mrs W. J. Funk-
houser of Houston, Joe Montgom-
ery of Fort Stockton, Mrs. Jim
Mitchell of Sanderson, Mrs.
Charles Schauer of Del Rio,
George, Fred and Judge Montgom-
ery. One brother, R. L. Campbell,
two sisters, Mrs. Lee Stewart of
Blanket. Texas, and Mrs. Andy
Elms of Bisbee, Arir., thirty grand
children and nine great grand
children also survive. All of the
children except Mrs. Schauer and
the brothers and sisters, save Mrs.
Elms, were present for the fun-
eral, these two being prevented
from attending by illness.
13 TEAMS TO COMPETE IN
4TH ANNUAL BASKETBALL
TOURNAMENT FBI. & SAT.
Strong Competition Promised In Two-Day
Meet; Ozona and Sherwood Open Hostil-
ities at 2 p. m. Friday
Several To Enter
Interscholastic
League Contests
County Meet Scheduled
For March 8 & 9;
Name Play Casts
Play in the fourth annual Ozona Invitational Basketball Tourna-
ment will get under way in the local high school gymnasi urn at 2
o’clock Friday with 13 teams to vie in the cage tussles, which continue
through Saturday night.
Among the strong contenders entered in the tournament play,
Safiderson, last year victor, and Big Lake, previous two year winner,
will be competing for the several
trophies at stake and also repeat
claim on the tourney crown. Coach
|
i Ted White enters his own quint
with reasons to hope for the tour-
; nament championship to remain
l at home. The Lion cugers have ex-
I hibited themselves favorably in
! early season encounters and last
i week defeated the Midland team
! in the Reagan meet. The locals
| were eked out of running only by
| the margin of seven points that
( shaded them in their fray with
Following the announcement of San Angelo.
Superintendent C. S. Denham of
the Ozona schools that the local
Interscholastic League try-outs
are to be held March 8, 9, several
students have signified their in-
The opening game of the two-
day joust will be staged by Ozona
and Sherwood at 2 p. m. Friday.
Features of the floor meet are a
game slated with attending coach-
es as participants for Saturday
Crockett County shared in the j fjce and their names will again be
widespread downfall of slow i placed on the available list. Per
rains that began in Ozona Wed-1 ^ns needing workers will have
nesday at noon and continued al- 1 the complete file for examination,
ternately through the afternoon “This service will be absolutely
netting .8 moisture In Ozona. ! fre«- and 1 feel that it will be
First of the new year , in this j worthwhile if all will co-operate.
section, the showers were report---o---
ed to have covered a wide area, j priaonerS G«t Job
ranging from sprinkles to one
Inch downfalls from Sweetwater
south to Del Rio and east and
greet from Brownwooo «> Fu.t
Stockton.
The Schlelcher-Tom Green coun
Ur line area waa reported to have
recived the heaviest fail in the
area of precipitation.
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this week at the Crockett County
Relief Offices, R. O. Smith, admin-
istrator, announces.
An index file, where the names
of pereon* seeking employment
are U> be listed, together with
what information a prospective
employer would want, has been
opened and those cut out of em-
ployment invited to file their
names therein. With this file a-
vailable, ranchmen and others j
needing help may call at the re- ■
lief office and examine the file j
of prospective workers and select ,
his crew from the information con {
tained on the cards, the adminis- |
trator said.
“To muke this plan successful,
it will be necessary that we have
the co-operation of the men who
want work and those who want
men,’ Mr. Smith said. "Those want
mg employment need only to call
at the office and register. Then
••hould they get jobs on the out-
side, it would be nee* ssary that
we be notfied so that their names
could be rntoved from the list un- j --
til they are again out of work By order of the county health
When the job is finished, the) j officer. Dr. H. B. Tandy, the local
need only to again contact this of- kindergarten ««» closed la-t Mon-
Kindergarten Is
Closed h Fear
01 Scarlet Fever
Class Dismissed After
Exposure; To Resume
February 18
day and will remain closed thru
February 18.
The dismissal of the kindergar-
ten came as a resulf of a child
visiting in the school a few day*
previous to developing scarlet fev-
er. The school was closed that the
disease might not break out a
mong the pupils.
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Sw«x»pin« Street. Woma„., Club To
Meet Next Tuesday
Dudley Ingham ia ill with a bad*
ly infected hand eauaad by a
ar retch In handling n daad aheap.
H waa necessary to five him anti-
C-UT.”’ *»ri««n»ra who "work j
out" fine* are being provided with
*urk by Sheriff W s Wiliia and
mm a result considerable improve-
ment in the appearance of the
downtown paved streets is being
made.
Tha prisoner* Era being pro-
vided with big brooms and wheel-
barrows and am swaaping the
loose trash and gimvel from the
sides of the pavement.
The Ozona Woman’s Club will
hold ita next meeting Tuesday at
the home of Mrs. l-e« Childress
with Mrs J. W. Henderson as as-
sisting hostess. Mrs Georg* Bean
will be director of the government
program on which Mias Elisabeth
Fussed, Mrs. Royee Smith, Mrs.
Evart White and Mrs. Ism Careen
will have parts.
Baptist Church
To Open Prayer
Revival Sunday
Services Twice Daily
During Week ; Sub-
jects Listed
Ozona Baptist Church forces
will begin their prayer revival
Sunday evening, the pastor. Rev.
Leon M. Gambrel!, announced
| this week. Services will be con-
i ducted daily, in the morning at 19
! o'clock, and at 7:80 p. m. The
I thought, in all services of this re-
J vival. will be “Prayer.” Some of
the topics will be:
Sunday 7:80 p. m , A Prayer
; Revival."
Monday 7:30 p. m . “Getting
Ready to Pray."
Tuesda) 7:30 p. m , “Tile Mean-
ing of Prayer."
Wednesday 7:30 p. m. ‘The
Prayer of Jesus.”
Thursday 7:30 p m., “Prevail-
ing Prayer.”
The pastor will announce his
subjects for the rest of the week
ill next week's “Stockman. All
topics will be discussed in it i rae-
ticable manner with the question
before all who attend: “When dr
we pray?”
“U is hoped that •very Chris-
tian. who comes into contact with
these services, will be assisted in
his prayer life and will be enc our-
aged to pray more," Rev. Gambrel!
said. Every one in our city and
community is rgust cordially in-
i vited to attend an I join in this
j revival. It is planned to last only
one week so there Is no time to
lose.”
Ben Williams Gels
$50 Theatre Prize
i A prize of |50 was received by
lU-i, Wlli'.Z™ I**** "io’ht at the O-
i zona Theatre, the amount accum-
ulating from four week- time dur-
ing which time the winner waa not
; present to receive the award.
A month ago a ’’big purse" went
j to 8hetley Gray The amount vh
987.M.
tention to enter the several fields 1 afternoon at 3 o'clock and a game
and two casts have been named j betiw*,«n th* Sanderson girls’ team
, , , . . I and the Ozona miaaea at 5 o clock,
for the one-act play division. j A mounted Ki,ver basketball
In the junior division of decla- j trophy will be awarded the tour-
mation, Lillian Baggett, Crystelle j nament winner und mounted tro-
phies will go to runner-up and
second brack**: victors. Winning
team coach will receive a mina-
ture gold basketball as will each
member of the all tournament
team, selected among all player*.
The championship game wil] bo
played at 8:30 Saturday night.
The champion of the second brack
et (composed of teams eliminated
from scheduled rounds of play)
will Ik- determined at 7:30.
Schedule:
First round— Friday
2 o'clock Ozona—Sherwood.
3 o’clock Sonora— Mertzon.
4 o'clock Junction—Rankin.
5 o’clock Baratow—Crane.
7 o'clock Big Lake—Barn-
hart.
9 o’clock Eldorado—Sander*
non.
By drawn by Iraan in firat
round.
Winners of the six brackets will
meet hi three games, the second
round of play, slated for 8 p. m.
Friday, and Saturday at 10 and 11
o'clock. Semi-final* are set for
Saturday at 2 p. m. and 4 p. m.
AH Second bracket play will be
run off Saturday. The entire brac-
ket schedule is found on page
J three of this issue of the Stock-
man which publication has been
I made possible by the co-operation
' of th< Ozona business firms whose
I advertisements appear on the
page.
Season tickets to the entire
tournament are being offered at
fl for adults and 50 for studnts.
Admission chnrges for single di-
visions, afternoon or night, will
be 30 cent* for adults and 15 cents
for students. Prices have been
placed a* low as possible to en-
courage fans to witness the games
school officials said Fans are
asked to enter at the east door of
the gymnasium.
Walter Chi 14 re as waa reported
ill laat week with the flu.
j Carson, and Louise Casheer will
comj»ele in th* girls' bracket In
the boys’ declamation Maurice
I>emmons and Ely Bright Baggett
are slated to enter. Thus far only
two entries have l>een made in the
senior division of declamation,
Maggie Seaborn and Elmon Pow-
ell. The entries are not closed.
Twenty-four pupils have made
entries in the declamation try-
outs for the grade school, six from
the fifth grade, seven from the
sixth grade and eleven from the
seventh grade.
Medals will be given to first
and second place winners of all
divisions of the contests.
“Pink and Patches." a one-art
production has been selected as
the local play entry and two casts
have been named to compete in
the try-out*. The winner will rep-
resent the local high school at the
i F^r* ^t»*ckton meet.
i The one act drama, a serious
type, is plotted around four char-
acters. Assigned to parts in one
: cast are Eda Schnremann, Joe
Thomas Davidson. Vicky Pierce
and Willie V. Coose. In the other,
; roles have been given to T L.
, Gnmbrell. Esther Kate Pierce,
Willena Wyatt ;.r,d Imogen* Rak-
er. Miss Nit a Nelson will direct
the plays.
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Five New Readers,
Many Renewals Are
Listed By Stockman
Five new subscriber* and a num
her of renewals have been receiv-
ed by The Stockman in the last
few week-, for whi* h due thank*
are now offered these loyal read-
er** Mrs. S B. Phillip* recently
ordered th< Stockman sent to her
sister, Mrs. Tom Petriny of ban
Antonio. The Honolulu Oil < <»rp.
I of Midland is among the latest ad-
ditions to the subscription list.,
and Mra. W. D. Jones and Mrs
Boyd Cox are other late additions,
Mrs. Cox receiving the paper as
the gift of her mother. Mrs. Mary
Perner. Mrs. T. A. Kincaid this
week ordered the paper sent each
week for the coming year i» ««»
daughter. Mrs R P. Lynn at Ran
Antonio.
Among recent renewals which
the Stockman acknowledges with
thanks are Mrs. W. H. Augustin*
tha Univarsity of Texas, Vumon
B. Cox, G. M. Couch, Cam Longlsy
Gaorge Brown, Goorga Bean and
C. W, Taliaferro.
Busby Revival To
Be 15th Appearance
Of Evangelist Here
On Sunday morning, February
17, Horace W. Busby, Fort Worth
—f!! becin : r**,w*i *t
the Church of Chrlet here which
ia to be continued for -r. indefin-
ite time.
Coming of the evangelist will
mark hie fifteenth visit to this
city for revival services. Services
will he held each moraine aad
sight aad the bean are ta be an**
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White, W. Evart. The Ozona Stockman (Ozona, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 7, 1935, newspaper, February 7, 1935; Ozona, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1103558/m1/1/?q=Women+labor: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .