The Schulenburg Sticker (Schulenburg, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, March 12, 1915 Page: 1 of 2
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THE SCHULEN3URC STICKER
Vol. XXI.
Sclmlenburg. Fayette Co., Texas, Friday, March 12, 1915
No. 24
The Business of Being a Wife.
A woman has just told us of what
she did the night her husband found
himself bankrupt. His factory was
closed, he had lost all he owned—
plus a good deal more—and as he
look at it. life was about at an end.
tions the credit for this work
must be given.
The Civic club has for two
years kept our streets clean. The
Cemetery association has for
twenty five years kept «ur ceme-
tery beautiful. The Civic club
He reflected that he had taken his I has enrolled more than seventy
wife from a happy and charming
home and that he had brought dis-
grace and poverty on her.
It occurred to him that a well-
placed bullet might be the best all-
round solution of his difficulties.
His wife, at home, made a poignant
surmise as to what he was thinking.
Suddenly it occurred that here was
a chance for teamwork—an oppor-
tunity to show what being a wife
really meant. She prepared a de-
licious little dinner, she made her
home as inviting as she could, and
arrayed herself in her most becom-
ing dress.
Her husband returned, not to a
disheveled and sobbing woman, to
a neglected house and a drama of
disaster, but to a home where every-
members and the Cemetery asso-
ciation has probably almost as
many. Yet the active members
who are really doing this work—
busy wives, mothers and home
makers—can be counted on the
fingers of the right liquid for one
club and the left hand for the
other. In the counting of these
names you would find that sev-
eral on the one hand were re-
peated on the other. What this
handful of women has really ac-
complished would prove in itself
a difficult undertaking to relate.
With entertainment after en
tertainment, supper after supper
the funds necessary for the
carrying on of the various works
have been raised. Each entertain-
things poke of resolution, of continu- j ment,each supper,required hours,
ity, of expectation. The fire on his ( perhaps days, of extra work for
hearth, his simple, well-cooked din-
ner, the courageous eyes of his at-
tractive wife, restored him to a
true sense of values. He was able,
amid all his confusion of purpose
and torment of realization, to see
his failure as only a retrievable
episode in his life.
He is now a successful manufac-
turer, his debts are paid, and he
has a happy home with a son and a
daughter ip it. He was saved from
being ambicide by the fact that a
woman was' sportsman-like at the
right moment. Not a bad thing
to think about in these days when
unaccustomed poverty are bringing
dismay to thousands.—Collier’s.
What is Schulenburg Going to Do?
The stranger entering our city
is impressed with two things—
the cleanliness of the streets in
the business section and the
beauty of the cemetery.
Every day loads of debris are
hauled away from our business
houses, the streets raked and.
cleaned and the result is apparent
to every one. Pew towns, if any,
in the state can boast of a more
beautiful spot than that dedicated
busy women. The patronage of
the public was necessary to make
these, affairs a financial success,
but the expending of the time,
labor and strength of a few
women was necessary to make
them any kind of a success. Pat-
ronage has always been gener-
ously extended these occasions
by the public but was just as
generously-repaid by these good
women in entertainment or food,.
The pcbiic has bought tickets and
considered its duty done but has
not stopped to think that this
work cannot he carried on in-
definitely by these few women.
Other members must step for-
ward and become active.
Today the Civic club faces just
such a situation. Money must
be raised to continue the work at
the school. More money is
needed to continue the street
cleaning. Other work should be
done but the few women who have
heretofore raised from 1300 to
$100 a year need reinforcement.
The Cemetery association is
paying a sexton $20 a month
to keep up the work that has been
done. It is trying to build a
to our dead. To two organiza-1 much needed walk to the ceme-
Spring Shoe Styles
We have on display the largest line of
shoes we have ever shown in Schulen-
burg for men, women and children.
Nice low cuts for ladies at $1.50 up.
Gentlemen’s Spring styles at $ 1.7 5 up.
Largest line of “ Baby Doll ” shoes
ever shown here at your own price.
We have a. large line of ladies’
and children’© 3Read.y-to-Wear
Dresses which we can sell yon
cheaper than yon can boy the
cloth and trimmings.
X© Save Money Always Call on
Shapiro & Lippman
The Bargain Store
Lyons Avenue.
1 jUJamdan
Ullff* Q AtldlPntr ke laboring over some great plan, by which
Hill OClldlUl the present HIGH COST OF LIVING will be
greatly reduced, and we wish for him the distinction of solving
IMMENSE PROBLEM.
this
We are devoting our energies to the LOCAL CONDITIONS and are
glad to advise you that EASTER EGGS this year are as cheap as
ever. We have a large assortment of eggs from Vi cent to 5 cents each
rabbits, etc.
ter.y. How badly this walk is I cash which remained on hand—
needed, all who have witnessed ( 3b per cent, of th| outside djbna-
the condition of that road this tions—they decided to return to
winter will admit. It will requifi^ those making the advances,
several hundred dollars and take \ Communicated
time and labor to raise it.
The Civic club with its own
problems unsolved, has about de-
cided to join forces with the Cem-
etery association to build this
walk, but the few women now
active cannot do it alone. They
Under date of March 1, 1915,
State Superintendent Doughty
writes Judge Willrich from Aus-
tin as follows :
The State Department of Edu-
cation has not received copy of
bond of your county covering
need your help, a little of yourlscho01 flmds- Warrants cannot
time, and lahnr and if ,m„ haven't I be <>»». »?«!. Satisfactory
time and labor and if you haven’t
even a bit of that to spare, even
it up with your check book.
Unless the men and women of
our tcwn come forward in this
copy of bond is filed here.
On March 2 Judge Willrich
wrote from his office in La
Grange in answer:
. . ... . .. In reply to tire above, I beg to
crisis these organizations cannot | state that the present deposi-
go on with the work. Few would
like to go back to the days before
the streets were cleaned, espec-
ially when the fly and dust
season is at hand. Pew would
like to see the school go back to
the condition it was in when the
Civic club took its cleaning in
hand. Unless active members
are added to its list this is
exactly what will happen.
The walk to the cemetery, that
will take these few ladies a year
or two to build unaided, can be
built in a few days if more mem-
bers become active. Now what
is Schulenburg going to do about
it? R
City Council
The city council met last
Thursday and allowed some ac-
counts. The necessary repairs
were ordered to be made on the
city hall, the fire station and
equipment were inspected and
both found to be in first-class
condition. The board agreed to
meet the first of this week and
view the road to the city ceme-
tery, which was done, and the
same will soon be placed in con-
dition to compare with the splen-
did shape in which the burial
grounds are kept.
Mayor Russek reported having
received a check from the relief
committee at LaG range for
$298.80, being the pro rata re-
maining from the $830 in cash
which was sent from Schulen-
burg at the time our neighbors
were visited by the flood, La
Grange was probably the only
city which suffered from the de-
vastation of a year ago which
kept their accounts in a busi-
ness-like manner and when the
books were balanced it was
shown where every dollar had
been spent, and of the amount of
tory, The First National Bank of
LaGrange, Texas, had its bond
approved April 5, 1913, so under
the law it is the depository of the
school funds until that day, 1915.
However, before that date it will
file another bond. It * would be
unjust, I take it, to withhold
warants when there is a bond
which is ample and valid and of
which you have a copy in your
office. If you wish an affidavit
to the above statement I will
send same at once.
I trust that you will not with-
hold these warrants because it
would be a hardship oil our
teachers, and I am confident that
you will agree with me that
since depository’s bond is ample
and was filed April 5, 1913, that
the funds are protected.
In answer to this, on March
3, 1915, the superintendent wrote
as follows:
Referring to your favor of
March 3, I wish to say that I
find that the bond of The First
National Bank of LaGrange was
approved on April 5, 1913, as
mentioned by you, and that the
warrant in payment of the state
apportionment to Fayette county
for March Jias already been
mailed to that bank. The postal
card received by you was sent to
all counties which had not filed
bond for 1915 17.
An Overflow Echo
Under date of March 3, 1915,
Geo. E. Lenart, Secretary of the
LaGrange Flood Relief Commit-
tee, writes Mrs. J. C. Baumgar-
ten, of this city, as follows:
I am to-day forwarding Mr.
Gus Russek a check for $298.80.
We found that we had 36 per
cent, of the total amount con-
tributed by outside people on
hand and have paid out all of the
money to outside doners. Schu-
lenburg contributed $830, be-
sides, of course, a lot of nice
clothing, etc.
I thought at first that we
would keep the money until we
came over to Schulenburg and
then deliver it in person, but
since the statement has been
published it would seem advisa-
ble and proper that the check
j should go out with all the others.
We shall always feel that we
cannot anequately show our
great appreciation of the service
rendered by the good people of
your town. We are getting up a
book of historical data regarding
the flood and it will always be in-
complete if we cannot get a list
of those who contributed at Schu-
lenburg and vicinity. Will it be
possible to get the original list?
With assurances of cordial es-
teem, I beg to remain,
Very sincerely,
Geo. E. Lenart.
Civic Club Meeting
The next meeting of the Civic
Club will be held at Woodmen
Hall on the evening of March 15.
Every member should be pres-
ent.
As To “Jitney.”
Americans love new words, es-
pecially if they lend themselves to
those queer idioms that are gener-
ally grouped as “alang.” Newest
of all new nouns in general use
today is “jitney.” We in Texas
had it before they had it in the
North and East, thereby reversing
the usual order of progress in new
language. It came to us from Cali-
fornia, by way of Denver. For
some weeks Northern and Eastern
people called the new vehicles of
public transportation “motor
busses.” Then they heard of “jit-
ney.” It was new, it was short, it
was more expressive. Immediately
they adopted it. Rapidly the word
traveled East. Today ic is in use
even on the Atlantic seaboard.
And now the millions who have
accepted the word are asking
whence it came.
One newspaper, usually right in
its deflations, has announced that
“jitney’’ means “a small coin,” and
it is a word commonly used in parts
of the South and West in reference
to a five-cent piece, even as “two
bits” is a Southern phrase for a
quarter. And this is correct as far
as it goes, but it doesn’t explain
where the South and West got the
word. Undoubtly New York would
be greatly surprised to learn that!
“jitney” has been a common word |
for many years in a certain section i
of that city—a portion of the Bronx
inhabited mainly by Russians and
Polacks.
It is not clear whether the word
is Russian or Polish, or a corruption
of both. It has been quite com-
monly used by Slavic immigrants to
America for a good many years.
Probably “a small coin” is the cor-
rect definition, because it is said to
have at one time been commonly
used to mean either a nickel, a penny
or the two-cent piece that is now so
seldom seen. But mostly it has come
to mean five cents, and it is doubt-
ful if it ever had any other meaning
in the because in California,
where the word gained a foothold
and has been quite generally used
by Americans, the nickel is the
smallest coin in common circula-
tion.
“Jitney bus” is the way the East-
ern newspapers are referring to the
vehicle, but it cannot be doubted
that in a very short time the second
word will be dropped and the five
to discuss the arrangements for
the annual election of officers
and the entertainment of its
members on some day during
the first week of April.
A committee was appointed by
the President to represent the
Club at the general meeting of the
citizens of our town to be held in
the near f uture, which meeting is
proposed to be called for the ap-
plication of funds returned by
the LaGrange Relief Committee.
The Club adjourned to meet on
Monday afternoon, March 15, at
Woodmen Hall. Do not forget
the date. Business of import-
ance is to come np before the
cent passenger carrying automobile , - ■ AT . ■ ,
° , house. Not only make an espe-
will .come to be known—as here — I • i #, , .. , J .
i .] . , ..... ,. rT . j cial effort to attend yourself, but
by the simple name “litncv.” Unless j ,
bring some delinquent member
some more expressive word is m-! -h, _ „
vented to take its place, there b^ ..........Reporter.
little doubt that “jitney” has come j ^ £orrecfjon
to stay, and that dictionaries of a
generation hence will give it place ’ ias ^een reP°rtsd that csr-
as a word having the sanction of I am Pai^es “1 Schulenburg in-
good usage.-San Antonio Light. Iduc®d me to run for marshal.
____ | ouch statements are untrue as
Civic Club Meeting ! r am making the race on my own
The Civic Club met in spe-1 merits and not controlled by any
scial ession Monday afternoon, I faction. I ask all my friends to
March 8, at the residence of
Mrs. R. A. Wolters, with the
President in the chair.
An invitation had been ex-
tended to the good people of La
Grange to pay their deferred
help me in my campaign and as-
sure them that my platform will
be the impartial enforcement of
the laws regardless of any cam-
paign schemes or lies which may
be sprung at the last minute by
visit to Schulenburg on Easter | the opposition. If elected I wil
Monday. A letter from Mr. j play no favorites and see that
Lenart was read. He advised j every one gets the same treat
the Club that it would be impos-: ment so far as jt lies in my power.
sible for LaGrange to accept this
invitation on account of other at-
tractions on that date, but that
they would take advantage of the
first opportunity of good roacls
to come. Steps were taken by
the Club to entertain the visitors
when they do come.
without fear or favor.
-U ‘ Max Steinmann.
Of Local Interest.
B. E. Prickette, proprietor of
the Opera House Picture Show,
was here the first of the week
, from his home In Columbus to
ie Club decided not to give | learn what other comforts and
the dance it had planned for Eas-1 convenience he might add for
ter Monday. ! the pleasure of the many who
report read by the treasurer regularly patronize that popular
showed that the end of the Club
year, April 1, will see the treas-
ury almost depleted. The Club
play-house. Next Sunday even-
ing will be given the eighteenth
episode of the Perils of Pauline,
has been paying towards thej thc be3t batch of pictures that
janitress at the school, has sup- that have ever beea thrown on a
plied the school with many nec-; screen in this town,
essaries and has contributed!
each month towards the salary
of the street cleaner.
The members of the Club
The following students from
this county are in attendance at
the State University: Arthur
present at this meeting agreed I Gleekler. Victor Gleckler, Lero.x
to make a supreme effort to get | Teichmueller Mattinly, Roxie
sufficient members out to the [Adeline Weber, Edwin William
next regular meeting, Monday, j Stork, Waldemar Frederick
March 15, at the Woodmen hall, jHenninger, Wm. Dyer Moore.
Wagner Folding Carriages
Are just as roomy and comfortable as the old style reed carriage,
but more convenient for Mother to handle. Large roomy hood
with roll-up side curtains and rear shield. New models just re-
ceived equipped with automatic hood adjustment and quick
detachable wheels. Safety brake and folds with one motion.
Cranz & Kessler
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The Schulenburg Sticker (Schulenburg, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, March 12, 1915, newspaper, March 12, 1915; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1126002/m1/1/?q=War+of+the+Rebellion.: accessed June 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Fayette Public Library, Museum and Archives.