Refugio Timely Remarks and Refugio County News (Refugio, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, October 21, 1932 Page: 4 of 6

                                
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THE REFUGIO TIMELY REMARKS
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 19&
Refugio Timely Remarks
Entered as second-class matter Nov
27, 1929, at the postoffice at Refugio,
Texas, under act of March 3, 1879, and
REFUGIO COUNTY NEWS
Entered as second-class matter Nov.
10, 1928, at the postoffice at Refugio,
Texas, under act of March 3, 1879.
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In reply to a questionnaire,
82 out of 100 executives of large
enterprises reported, in sub-
stance, that business conditions
had improved since July. The
natural tendency would have
been to make a pessimistic re-
port, in order to justify docking,
i laying off, passed dividends, and
$2.00 i 0ther things that the public has
FATAL CARELESSNESS.
It is one of the most amazing
facts connected with modern life
that the number of deaths re-
sulting from carelessness makes
no greater impression upon the
general public.
had to suffer. When an unwill-
ing witness gives testimony that
A History
of
Refugio County
By HOBART HUSON
(Continued From Last Week.)
VII. County of Refugio.
Refugio County was one of
is contrary to what might    ^Re-
been expected from him, his evi-
dence is entitled to a good deal
of weight,
should be
past.
The darkest hour
regarded as in the
public of Texas, having been
constituted as such in 1836. The
of Mexico, when arrangements
to that end could be made with
ihe Mexican government. The
corporation was to have at least
10 miles of the road in operation
within two years and 100 miles
within five years.
The dream of these prominent
boundary lines were re-adjustedjcitizens of Refugio, Aransas and
at various times, Aransas Coun-
One can not tell from the
,    ,, newspapers just how serious the
In spite of the daily record cl political trouble in Ireland ac-
grade crossing accidents, drivers
continue to take a chance, with
an inevitable percentage of fa-
tal results. The same is true of
other practices which take their
grim toll of human life.
Persons who are ordinarily
careful in protecting their prop-
erty or their health appear to
throw discretion to the winds
the moment they grasp the
wheel of an automobile, and pos-
itively invite disaster through
failing to observe the most ele-
mentary cautions.
The jaywalker is equally reck-
less, taking the chance of being
run down for the sake of saying
a few steps or a moment’s time.
Those who are careless of other
dangers help to swell the har-
vest of deaths.
And the most lamentable fact
is that no amount of warning
appears to have any appreciable
effect.
tually is, but it is cabled that 12
policemen were unable to put
down a riot in the Emerald Isle.
If a dozen Irish cops could not
restore quiet, readers are justi-
fied in thinking that politics in
Erin are at the boiling point.
It is said that the United
States has no extradition treaty
ty having been cut off in 1871,
and parts of Bee and Goliad
counties were also taken off of
Refugio.
The Town of Refugio has been
the county seat of Refugio
County continuously since 1836,
except for a few months during
the year 1871, when the Twelfth
Legislature changed the county
seat to Rockport, a town then in
our county.
On the closing of the Civil
War it appears that many peo-
ple from various parts of the
with Greece. That is bad, be- United States settled at Rock,
cause an American criminal who port, and a considerable number
reaches the soil of ancient Hellas 0f them had great influence
can not be brought back for with the Reconstruction Legis-
other South Texas counties, for
a railroad to Rockport, was not
realized until more than 20
years afterwards, when the San
Antonio & Aransas Pass Rail-
road was built into Rockport.
The old county of Refugio did
not get a railroad until 1907, al-
though project after project was
figured on from 1876 onward.
Until 1907 the county was an
inland county, having no rail-
road. In that year the St. Louis,
Brownsville & Mexican Railway
was extended through our
county.
The settlements in the county
were Refugio, Copano, Lamar,
St. Mary’s, Rockport, Crescent-
trial. Neither there nor any-
where else, however, is one free
from the tongue of the untruth-
ful. Sometimes the law is un-
able to enforce its decrees, be-
cause there are places to which
it does not reach. False state-
ments have power everywhere.
There should be a quiet corner
from which, during a campaign,
the liar can not extradite even a
presidential candidate.
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and they got their wires in op-
eration to build a metropolis at
Rockport. The first movement
toward this end was to have a
resolution passed by the 'Twelfth
William Fagan................1852-54
Thomas S. Tatum............1854-56
A. C. Reed.............  1856-58
William H. Holbrook......1858-60
C. P. Miles........................1860-62
S.    M. Robinson................1862-65
W. H. Upton....................1865
John Little ......................1865
T.    H. O’Callaghan............1866
Wheelock H. Upton..........1866
Judge Peter Rowley........1866
James M. Doughty..........1866-68
R. A. Upton......-.............1868-70
Jephtha Williams ..........1870-72
J. L. Billingsley............-1872
Jephtha Williams ..........1873-78
W. C. Clemmens—...........1878
Jephtha Williams............1879-83
John H. Fox......................1883-91
G. W. Moss, Sr.................1891-98
Dan S. Fox..............—1899-1900
G. W. Moss, Sr.......... 1901-05
Peter A. Johnson........—1905-16
Charles P. Fox________________1916-29
Ira Heard________________________1929-
The foregoing list is incom-
plete between 1866 and 1876 in
several instances, due to change
of County Court jurisdiction
during the time the Constitution
of 1866 was in effect.
It is hoped that before con-
cluding this sketch of the coun-
ty’s history that we can publish
a list of all persons who have
held office in our county.
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Political Announcements
Subject to the wishes of the voters
at the coming general'election, Novem-
ber 8, 1932.
CONGRESSMAN
Ninth Congress District
J. J. MANSFIELD
Candidate for
CONGRESS
Ninth Congressional District
18th SENATORIAL DISTRICT
E. J. BLACKERT
Candidate for
STATE SENATOR
24T1I JUDICIAL DISTRICT
J. P. POOL
Candidate for
DISTRICT JUDGE
(Re-election)
(Continued Next Week.)
HOWARD P. GREEN
Candidate for Re-election to
Second Terms as
DISTRICT ATTORNEY
24th Judicial District of Texas
It is reported that ocean fares
will be raised to the old stand-
ard, because the cut of a few
St, Mary s, Rockport, Crescent- months ago failed to produce
ville, Hynesville and Fulton. morg passengers. In other words
Lamar, Rockport and Fulton    - .. .
are now in Aransas County. The
present towns of Refugio Coun-
ty are Refugio, Woodsboro,
70TH REPRESENTATIVE
DISTRICT
Austwell, Tivoli, Bayside and
Vidauri. Copano was aband-
oned in 1880, and St. Mary’s
Legislature petitioning the fed-< was abandoned about 1900.
A paper reports a Virginia
man as having been injured by
a shotgun in his stomach, which
is not beyond the bounds of
probability.
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Alabama has taken action
against anything that “looks
like, tastes like, or smells like
beer.” In view of the very defi-
nite views held, respectively, by
the wets and the drys, neutral
writers will make no comment
upon the propriety of the move,
yet it may be observed that if
there had been in attendance a
real politician,, anxious for bi-
partisan popularity, he would
have suggested an amendment
striking out “beer” and insert-
ing “limburger cheese.”
eral government to make Rock-
port a port of entry. The Leg-
islature did this in the early
part of 1871. The next step
( was to incorporate the town,
wThich was done by special act
of the same Legislature during
the same year. On March 15,
1871, an act was approved mov-
ing the county seat of Refugio
County to Rockport.
This act of the Legislature
must have put consternation
into the hearts of the “old-
Until the constitution of 1866,
the affairs of the county were
administered by a county court
I composed of justices of the
peace and a chief justice, since
1866 the administration has
been by a county judge and
commisioners court.
The following were chief jus-
tices of Refugio County:
Benjamin F. Neal............1840-45
John Dunn ...................—    1845
Cyrus W. Egery ..............1846-48    j
business is poor and it is neces-
sary to charge more, and there-
by make it better. That sort of
argument does ont ring like the
sound reasoning of big business.
What the ship owners actually
see is better times ahead. They
should have been more candid,
and should'have passed their op-
timism along to others who do
not have the same facilities for
observation and conclusion.
MORRIS ROBERTS
Candidate for
REPRESENTATIVE
REFUGIO COUNTY
LEO C. BUCKLEY
Candidate for
COUNTY ATTORNEY
W. L. REA
Candidate for
COUNTY ATTORNEY
(Re-election)
timers” of Refugio County. The j Walter Lambert ..............1849-52
county seat does not appear to
have been actually moved, but
John Hynes _____________________..1852-54
Lieuen M. Rogers............1854-56
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JOHN F. BAILEY
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Located on the Hi-Way
A man who conducts a fish
stand in London claims that he
is the son of the late Emperor
Maximilian of Mexico, and heir
to $5,000,000 worth of jewels in
a vessel at the bottom of the
sea off the coast of Virginia. If
his cause is just, he should ac-
cept it as a foregone conclusion
that all he will get from the
world will be a laugh, and steel
himself accordingly.- If he is a
faker, he will fare better. He
has received a large amount of
free advertising, and hencefor-
ward will sell more fish.
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Doctor Einstein will head a re-
search school in America, where
learning can be sought with
freedom from the distractions of
college life. Albert is all wrong.
If he wishes to fill the benches,
he will have to plan a college
life in which the distractions in-
cident to the pursuit of learning j tors were J.
it would seem that the leaders
of both factions got together to
adjust their differences, with
the result that the Twelfth Leg-
islature on September 18, 1871,
passed an act creating Aransas
County out of Refugio, and
making Rockport the county
seat of the former, and the Mis-
sion of Refugio the county seat
of the part remaining of the
old county.
Since September 18, 1871, the
two counties have functioned
separately, and the kindliest
feelings have always existed be-
tween them. Many old-timers
upon the separation moved from
the new county into the old,
while, on the other hand, many
former Refugians are to be
found among the sturdy citizen-
ship of Aransas County.
Before leaving Rockport and
Aransas County attenion is
called to another ambitious
project of the boosters of the
new county. On November 11,
1871, the” Twelfth Legislature
specially chartered a corpora-
tion to be known as the “Rock-
port, Fulton, Laredo & Mexican
Railroad Company.” The name,
in 1874, was changed to “The
Texas & Mexican Pacific Rail-
road Company.” The incorpora-
M. Mathis, G. W.
are minimized.
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Wilson Heard, Jr., Prop.
Refugio,----Texas
Japan is said to be deter-
mined to put through its Man-
churian policy, regardless of
what the rest of the world may
think. Ex-Kaiser Wilhelm was
of the same mind. He said once
that the Hohenzollern dynasty
was responsible to the Almighty
alone, which sounds well, but it
is our recollection that the scrip-
tural command also enjoins a
duty toward one’s neighbor.
The neglected neighbors finally
took Wilhelm in charge. The
neighbors may prove an instru-
ment in the hand of omnipotence
for Japan’s undoing.
(Fulton, John W. Baylor (gen-
eral in Confederate army), Rich-
ard King (founder of King-
ranch) , Thomas M. Coleman (of
Coleman-Fulton Pasture Com-
pany), Thomas O’Connor, J. H.
Wood (of St. Mary’s), J. M.
Doughty, William S. Hall, T. M.
Dennis, John Hynes and Owen
Gaffney. J. M. Doughty was
made commissioner of organi-
zation to negotiate with capital-
ists for assistance in building
tld0 ro£td
The capital of the road was
fixed at from five to 15 millions
of dollars, and the road was to
extend from Rockport to Lare-
do, and thence into the inter!oi
Lieuen M. Rogers............1860-62
Charles G. Norton__________1856-60
William P. McGrew........1860-65
William Sheriff ______________ 1865
The following were County
Judges:
Patrick Shelly ................1866-68
Edward Upton —...........1868-
Lieuen M. Rogers------------1876-89
James Y. Hamilton__________1889-90
James O. Gaffney............1891-95
John H. M. Ryals____________1895-99
William L. Rea________________1900-12
Leslie Adkins -------- 1912-16
Eugene Low ____________________1916-18
J. Turner Vance ------------1918-2?
T. W. McGuill..................1927-31
James A. Steele...-------------1931-
The following were County
Clerks of Refugio County:
James Byrne....................1840-45
John W. B. McFarlane....1845-51
John Shelly ......................1852
Patrick Shelly ________________1852-62
Thomas Sheriff .........—1865
Robert P. Clarkson........1866-68
Edward S. Winsor----------1868-70
R. P. Clarkson ________ 1871
Hugh Rea ------- 1872
R. P. Clarkson...---------------1873-80
George Howard --------------1881-89
George P. Rogers------------1889-94
Eugene Low ----------------1895-1916
Claude Heard------------------1916-30
T. W. McGuill__________________1930-
The following were Sheriffs of
Refugio County:
Jeremiah Findley------------1840-40
Walter Lambert”------- 1845-46
Michael Dugan ---------- 1848
John Hynes -------- 1848
John Shelly --------------- ..1849
Michael Dugan----------------1840
Michael Fox _______ ........1850-51
John Hynes --------------------1851-52
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* Church Directory *
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FIRST BAPTIST—Rev. Vernon Gar-
rett, pastor. Sunday school at 9 :45
a. m.; church services at 11 a. m.
and 7:45 p. m.; B. Y. P. II. at 7
p. m. Everyone invited.
Woman’s Missionary Society meets
at Baptist Church every Monday at
3:30.
OUR LADY OF REFUGE CHURCH—
The Very Rev. Peter C. Illigen, pas-
tor. Sunday masses at 7:30 and 9:30
IRA HEARD
Candidate for
SHERIFF
AND TAX COLLECTOR
R. A. (BOB) MORROW
Candidate for
SHERIFF
AND TAX COLLECTOR
W. (BILL) SITTERLE
Candidate for
SHERIFF
AND TAX COLLECTOR
J. C. JOHNSON
Candidate for
TAX ASSESSOR
a. m.
ST. JAMES CATHOLIC CHURCH—
The Rev. Father M. Puig, pastor.
On first and third Sundays, masses
at Tivoli and Austwell at 8 a. m. and
10 a. m. Second and fourth Sundays,
masses at Blanconia and Refugio at
8 a- m. and 10 a-m.
PRESBYTERIAN—Rev. C. S. Long,
pastor. Preaching each Sunday in
the month, except the first, at 11
a. m. and 7 :45 p. m. Sunday school
at 9;45 a. m. Christian Endeavor
Sunday at 7 :00 p. m. Woman’s'Aux-
iliary Monday at 3 p. m. Song re-
hearsal Thursday'- a? 8 p. m. A cor-
dial welcome for aH.
PENTECOSTAL HOLINESS—Preach-
ing Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday
nights at 7:45 o’clock. Sunday
school at 10 a- m. Mrs. M. B.
Schoder, pastor. Everyone invited-
EMMA HUDDLESTON
Candidate for
COUNTY TREASURER
T. W. McGUILL
Candidate for
DISTRICT AND COUNTY
CLERK
JAMES A. STEELE
Candidate for
COUNTY JUDGE
PRECINCT No. 1, Refugio Co.
T. J. HEARD
Candidate for
COMMISSIONER
GENTRY JETER
Candidate for
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE
HERBERT (PAIN) RUSSELL
Candidate for
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