The Olney Enterprise (Olney, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, June 9, 1933 Page: 1 of 10
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The Olney Enterprise
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THIS IS YOUR TOWN—THIS IS MY TOWN—HF WE ALL SUPPORT IT ONE HUNDRED PER CENT IT WILL BE A ONE HUNDRED PER CENT TOWN.
VOLUME XXIV.
ONE HUNDRED PER CENT FOR OLNEY
THE OLNEY ENTERPRISE, FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 1933.
BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM IN YOUNG CO.
NUMBER 10.
CONSTRUCTION WORK STARTED ON HIGHWAY 79
MONDAY, JUNE 12TH IS OLNEY TRADES DAYp' V™
— i Five Months
Monday Trades
Day Program
Being Arranged i
i
MANY MERCHANTS OFFERING
SPECIAL PRICES FOR
MONDAY
Monday, June 12 th, is Olney’s
regular trades day date. A program
of entertainment is being arranged
by Edwin Hill, secretary of the
Chamber of Commerce, and other in-
teresting inducements will be of-
fered.
For that day a number of fier-
chants have arranged to offer spe-
cials and a general day for trading
in live stock, cars, farm implements
or what have you, will be enjoyed
by those who visit Olney on the
above date.
Despite the fact that many farm-
ers are extremely busy in their
crops, it is hoped many will find it
to their interest to take a day off
and do some trading, buying and
enjoy the program.
For the amusement of the Trades
day (crowd M-onday, Edwin Hill,
secretary of the Olney Chamber of
Commerce, has arranged for a water
fight between various teams. Four
teams from the local Fire Depart-
ment will compete. Two teams each
from Company No. 1 and Company
No. 2 will wage a battle. In this
•contest, the fight will be put on
(See “Monday” last page, col. 4)
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Dorothy Hankins
Of Ingleside
Wins Contest
BEDROOM JUDGED BEST IN
COUNTY—DISTRICT JUDGES
HERE NEXT WEEK
j Facts* Folk 1
BY
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FACTS
Along the Street—On the Curb
Business Men Report
Increase Of From 10
To 50 Per Cent
In- a county-wide bedroom contest
of the Home Demonstration Clubs
Miss Dorothy Hankins of Ingleside
won first place. Mrs. G. R. Warren
and Miss Esther Mae Hooks of
Graham served as judges in the
. contest.
Miss Hankins, by reason of her
county winning, will be in the dis-
trict contest which includes several
counties. Judges for the district
"were here Thursday of this week to
judge Miss Hankins’ room. It is
quite an honor to win in a contest
of this kind and Miss Dorothy is to
be congratulated on her skill in
planning and arranging a room good
enough to win the ‘county contest.
One of the rules of the contest
was that each contestant write a
story concerning her efforts, and
"he following very interesting story
by Miss Hankins is given:
Improving My Bedroom
One night, when I came home
rather late, I was unusually happy.
•So I jumped out of my clothes and
hopped into bed. Imagine my con-
THERE’S a little germ that lies
dormant in most every normal hu-
man’s spine. In some people this little
germ comes very much alive at
certain times of the year and wants
to go places and see things—bath-
ing beauties.
* * * *
WEATHER has to do with this
germ to a large extent, Fa'cts has
concluded. When it gets hot and
gooey and clothes are a nuisance,
this germ develops. Hot weather
causes people to visualize bubbling
springs, spreading shades, cool beach
sands, idle happiness and carefree
minds. -This really, is a plain sym-
tom of laziness. But just the same
it’s a poor man’s luxury to be able
to sprawl in the shade where cool
breezes fan; with just enough clothes
on to flutter.
■if # # #
OF COURSE, Facts has this gerraj
—x’eally, two of them he thinks at
times. Every time Facts sees an
old Model T Ford with luggage on
the sagging fender, bedding on the
reax*, ma and pa in the front seat and
anywhere from nine to thirteen
cotton headed brats in the rear com-
partment, he wants to emulte them
—only, he would substitute pups for
the brats—for commercial reasons,
mostly. Some people call this in-
clination “wonderlust.” But the
proper name for it is "cussedness.”
* * * *
DENY it if they will, but highly
Cultured people have this same in-
clination—only they call it by still
another name. They want to go to
Colorado for their summer vacation.
But the same germ that causes wan-
derlust, and cussedness causes this
j urge to take a Colorado vacation.
The main difference is this. These
people who mount the trusty old
Model T and /carry everything with
them (including the little cotton
headed brats), drink branch water
instead of beer, sleep out in the
open instead of in hotel suites (pro-
nounced, so Facts has been told,
“Sweet’) eat anything they can kill
in the forests and live to happy ripe
old age while their Colorado vaca-
tionists nibble at dainty sandwiches,
have dyspepsia and die broken
hearted, young, and divorced.
* * * *
ONCE UPON a time, Facts paid
all his accounts except the grocer,
dry goods merchant, water bill, light
bill and doctor’s bill, and felt
pretty prosperous. So prosperous
did he feel that he launched out—
dare-devil-like—-on one of these wan-
derlusts journeys. He took his one
wife (and children if he had any at
that time, pardon such a tricky
memory) an aged squirrel dog, a
pet bantam hen and a fearless
Almost without exception the Dal-
las wholesale and manufacturing es-
tablishments reported increases in
May business over May of last year
from 10 to as high as 50 per cent.
In an entire afternoon of inter-
viewing executives of firms in the
wholesale district not one man was
found who predicted anything but
steadily increasing business, and not
one reported declines in volume.
Several said that the increase in
volume was so rapid as to be notice-
able in the short portion of June as
compared with the last few days of
May.
E. L. Blanchard, sales manager
for Higginbotham-Bailey-Logan Co.,
said that rough calculation indicated
well over 25 per cent increase in
unit volume.
FwLIS'dB^uin 'Fifteen-Game
Fri.,Bif FfdDietrich
Elevator
Tfhe first/load of 1933,
delivered t& the Wic
heat was
Mill and
Olney Friday,
Schedule To Be
Played In Season
June 2nd, and was sold for 57c per six TEAMS
bushel with an added premium of
10c per bushel; making a total price
of 67c. ,
The wheat was grown on the Sun-
nyview Farm of Ed Dietrich, a few
miles north of town. The yield
averaged 12 bushels per aci’e, tested
61 pounds and was from a nine-acre
tract.
In this connection, it is mentioned
that the Young county wheat crop
will be light this year, but there are
a number of farms north and north-
west of Olney that will make a fair
yield. A rain two weeks earlier in
the season would have meant thou-
sands of biscuits more per acre.
Farmer And Sons
Load Out Ten
Car Loads Steers
Farmers Really
Are Too Busy
To Visit Town
OLNEY, ARCHER
CITY, LOVING, NEWCASTLE,
JEAN AND SPRING CREEK
To Complete
FIFTY MEN ARE AT WORK
CRUSHING ROCK FOR
TOPPING
According to W. M. Creech and
Earl Williamson who made an ex-
tensive drive over the community
Sunday, farmers have really been
too busy to come to town and do
buying on Saturday afternoons.
It was also learned from Messrs.
Creech and Williamson that the late
rains packed the fields in many
places to where much plowing has
been necessitated in order to pro-
ceed with row crop planting. But
corn, where it has been worked out
since the rains is looking promising.
Other field crops that are up and
have been properly worked are also,
making fast growth, but farmers are I
kept at a lively pace to get their
field work done as it should be.
In some parts of the community,
fair grain crops will be harvested,
while in some sections grain will ;be
(See “Farmer” last page. col. 4)
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First Car Of New I Little Girl injured
. ft71 jl at • t m Cherri H<xunis, small dauglitGr of
Wheat Shipped Tues•: Mr. and Mrs|lVIorriss Hannis had
I the misforttiiT&N^ receiving a severe
The first car of 1933 wheat was ' head wound la\&CSunday afternoon
shipped from Olney to Graham! at the O. T. Anderson farm when
Tuesday of this week by the Graham ! she pulled a blacksmith’s forge over
Mill & Elevator Company. ! on her. She was rushed to the Hamil-
The car totaled 2,000 bushels and i ton Hospital where several stitches
tested 63. jwere taken to close the wound.
W. R. Farmer and sons loaded
out ten car loads of one and two
year old steers Tuesday at Me-
gargel. The shipment was consigned
to Kansas where the buyer, John
Arrignton, will place the steers on i
grass. Approximately 445 head were
in the shipment.
The above shipment was loaded
at Megargel and routed to Kansas
over the Frisco to Olney at which
point it was taken over by the
W. F. S.
The Kansas buyer made purchase
of the Farmer steers some time
back. About 1,000 head were pur-
chased, but the remainder of the
herd; some 500 head, was left on
grass near Megargel pending im-
provement in range conditions in
Kansas; where continued dry weather
has rendered range coditions unfav-
orable.
At a meeting held in Olney Wed-
nesday night, May 31st, the Archer
and Young County Baseball League
was organized. “Stub” Rowlett’ of
Archer City was chosen president
and Vernon Harlan, secretary. Six
teams compose the league and a fif-
teen-game schedule is being wovKed
out.
The teams composing the league
are: Olney, Archer City, Newcastle,
Jean, Loving and Spring Creek. A
schedule is being worked out where-
by these teams will be grouped and
play each Sunday.
Four of the teams played initial
games Sunday. Olney met Archer
City on the Refinery diamond where
a nice exhibition of baseball was
enjoyed. The Olney team made a
creditable showing and won the en-
counter 6 to 3.
Jean and Newcastle played in
Newcastle and turned in a 10 to 5
score with Newcastle on the winning
end. Spring Creek and Loving were
scheduled to play Sunday but
were unable to meet the schedule.
They will meet in the near future
for a double header which will get
them under way on even terms with
other teams.
1
Dr. Harrell Writes
OS Wyoming Camp
Field Artillery
Unit To Visit
Olney Saturday
CAMP TO BE PITCHED IN HIGH-
LAND TERRACE IN NORTH
OLNEY
(The placing of materials and ma-
chinery on the ground for Highway
79 work is well under way this
week, and from fifty to sixty day
laborers have started breaking rock.
Included in the list of workmen
are a number who have been sup-
plied from the list of local charities
workers. The contractoi’s have
started men to work at 12 l-2c per
yard for prying and breaking the
rock into sizes under twelve inches
which rock are then put to the
crusher and prepared for topping
purposes.
It is understood the contractors
are establishing a regular commis-
ary on the east bank of the Brazos
from which groceries and other sup-
plies will be furnished workmen up
to the amounts due them at any
time. It is also understood in case
of an emergency laborers may be
paid some cash during the month
and before regular pay days. Pay
will be issued only once per month
it is understood.
The above plans, etc., are rather
tentative in nature, and may be
altered as the work proceeds. It is
estimated five months will be re-
quired to complete the work called
for by the contract.
Rock for topping purposes are
being procured where possible along
the highway. They are being bought
at 3 c per yard.
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Fourteen Register
For Royal Ambas-
sador Camp
IMPORTANT LECTURES TO BE
GIVEN BY PHYSICIANS—BIG
PROGRAM ARRANGED
Olney Baptist Church will be well
represented at the annual Royal
Ambassador Camp which will be
held on Prescott Farm June 12th
to 15th. This farm is located be-
tween Wichita Falls and Burkbur-
nett, and is a splendid place for just
Acting on an invitation from the
Olney Chamber of Commerce, Cap-
tain E. O. Nelson will bring B Bat.
131st Field Artilley, Wichita Falls,
to Olney Saturday for an overnight
camp.
There will be fifty to sixty men! such 'camp,
under command of Captain Nelson. I More than two hundred boys with
They will bring the usual regulation J proper sponsors from the Baptist
motorized Artillery unit equipped! churches over District eleven are
with guns, etc., and will form a j expected to attend the above camp,
regulation camp here for the brief;Fred Forrester, state Royal Ambas-
Buffalo, Wyoming, June 4, 1933.
Friends: Leaving home hastily
on telegraphic Government orders,
I had little opportunity of bidding
organization intact for so moment-
ous' an undertaking is responsible
for the discipline, health, food,
clothihg- and shelter for the Civilian
Model T Foi’d. Common sense good-bye and good luck to you for I Conservation Corps. But contrary
should have warned him better, but
he went just the same. One day
(T sternation when the bed very out at sea like this and his one wife
declared a moratorium on travel,
the squirrel pooch developed dis-
sister temper and could not enjoy the
fragrance of the waving flowers and
promptly fell through the rails to
the floor instead of rebounding as
I had expected it to. My
raised up from the bed and said
sleepily: “My goodness, you ought
to know better than to jump on
this bed like that.”
“Yes,”I answered her, “but I
ffun’t see why we can’t have a
(See “Dorothy” page 3, col. 3)
a few short months. I was directed | to many rumors the government is
to report to Fort Warren, Chey-jnot preparing for another war inso-
enne, and from there was sent to far as
a camp in northern Wyoming in
what is called the Big Horn Moun-
tains. It is a chain of mountains
extending out from the main range
I am able to ascertain.
the bantam hen went on an egg • 0f the Rockies in a horn-fashion.
(See “Facts,” last page, col. 4) j And “when it’s springtime in the
, ---------o----------------! Rockies,” it’s cold for one whose
** )“Yes>”1 answered her, “but 11 NeWmOJlS Observing : nativity is in the South. We have
rpi . li • |attacked the mountains and are only
1 nira Anniversary j about half way up. Our objective
; is “over the top.” But as the snow
I Newman’s^yajftT whTfch opened for; has not yet all melted from the
Q D L T !bushiess J^fO]ney thref years a£°> j road higher up the pass is impossi-
Sutters Broken Jbeg^is ceteitfatihg its annfrersarv with.ble. Now it is easy to understand
a st^e-wide\^ale. Jjiisewhere in this j what
issue is
Jackie Tillman
Jackie Tillman suffered a broken
leg Monday when he fell from his
tricycle. He was taken to
Hamilton Hospital Tuesday whore
an X-ray was made, revealing that
eg was broken. He is now at
I is resting well, despite the
setting.
easy
is meant when the tourist
isement announc- j speaks of the “all year southern
g the sale, and the Enterprise this;route” (through Texas) in travelling
the"'' week printed a large quantity of j from coast to coast. Our altitude at
circulars for the firm. ! present is 7,200 feet. When the
Commenting- on their anniversary, j camp is moved to the mountain top are many acres of productive land
Newmans expressed themselves as lit will be 10,000 feet. in the valley which depend on an
being pleased with their business in ! At present there are 200 boys in even supply of water from the melt-
The
boys are given practically no mili
t-ary training. It- is true one who j
is in camp would perhaps have a j
better conception of what life in j
camp during war time is like than !
one who did not enroll. The direc- J
tion of work in the forests is by 1
another branch of the government—
the forest service. Men who know
the habits of trees like a cowboy
knows his cattle, take the boys into
the forests and there supervise the
art of re-forestation.
Why should the forests be pre-
served outside of the reasons of
beauty? First, for commercial pur-
poses In lumber production a better
yield will be obtained by eliminating
the weakling trees. Secondly, there
stay. The visit is the first of a
series that is planned by Captain
Nelson in nearby towns. The object
of the trip is for benefit of civilians
who may gain useful information by
seeing such an army unit mounted,
in camp and in motion. A salute
will be fired and other interesting
maneuvers may be expected.
The camp site for this artillery
unit will be in Highland Terrace in
north town. This will be con-
venient for the citizens to view the
camp once it is set up and to see
other interesting phases of army
life.
! Olney sirice opening.
} camp. The army being the only* (See “Harrell” last page, col. 4)
Bird And Parsley
Make Trip Into Okla,
Sam Bird and Joe Parsley re-
turned to Olney Tuesday night after
a long trip in the border state, Okla-
homa. They visited Oklahoma City,
Tulsa, Seminole and other points
where they inspected gin machinery.
Commenting on crop conditions
in Oklahoma. Mi*. Bird stated that
grain in the Olney community is
much better than any he saw in
Oklahoma and that other local crop
prospects are far more promising
than are those of the border state.
In fa»rt, Mr. Bird stated that the
more he saw of conditions in other
places the better he feels when he
gets back to Olney.
sador Director, will have charge of
the camp. He will be ably assisted
by a number of pastors and capable
laymen from over the distinct.
The daily schedule will consist of
Mission study courses, sermons, in-
spirational addresses and lectures by
capable physicians on vital topics.
The boys will hear such subjects as
“Effect of Alcohol on the Body,”
“Clean Living,” and other vital
topics discussed by these physicians.
There will also be conferences on
how to conduct R. A. work;
The boys, particularly, will be in-
terested to know" that for their recre-
ation, shimming, ball games and
tennis will be provided. In short,
the camp will offer a well rounded
program of education, recreation
(See ..Camp” last page. col. 4)
Bruce Shulkey Visits
In Olney Wednesday
Bruce Shulkey, former superin-
tendent of the Olney public schools,
spent a few- hours in Olney Wednes-
day greeting old friends. He was on
his way to Throckmorton and Lub-
bock. Following his visits to these
towns, Shulkey will join his family
at Alvord for a visit, and later will
visit his parents In Sanger.
Shulkey plans to spend six weeks
in Chicago this summer taking a
special course in Chicago Universty.
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Warren, Len C. The Olney Enterprise (Olney, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, June 9, 1933, newspaper, June 9, 1933; Olney, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1125499/m1/1/?q=Kerr: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Olney Community Library.