The Cotulla Record (Cotulla, Tex.), Vol. [33], No. [49], Ed. 1 Friday, February 20, 1931 Page: 4 of 8
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THE COTULLA RECORD
Cotulla Record
MANLY & MANLY.
Publishers.
THE FIRST CHICKS
Modern Singer
Entered the Post Office at CotullA
Texas, as second class Mail matter
under act of Congress of March 3,
1879.
\Ye had expected to see some real
ugly weather about this time of tn
month but as yet, it has not shived
up and in all likelihood we w ill not
have any bad freeze from now on
out.. This has been a remarkable wai-
ter. We have had ice a few times, hut
never any real bad winter. In s 'mv
of the ba' . yards castor beans are
still growing and have never been
killed down. Peach and plum trees
bloomed out long ago, anti the orange
trees are putting forth their blossoms.
Everybody seems to think spring is
here and on the farms considerable
planting is being done. Easter comes
earlier this year than usual, so maybe
spring is really here.
In this issue of the Record we i
are publishing the Delinquent Tax ,
List of the Water Improvement Dis-!
triet. This tax is due for the pve-1
liminary survey and other expenses I
incured, and as we understand it the |
total amount on the rolls covers all j
of the indebtedness. As a matter of j
fact this tax, or part of it should I
have been collected in 1925 and every
year thereafter, but at that time it j
was believed the big bond issue would !
be. disposed of and this item would be
absorbed. Therefore no tax was ev- J
er collected and now all of the bonds
on the preliminary issue are past due,
and there was nothing to do but levy [
this tax. Some of the land owners I
who have large tracts in the district j
IMILT COLEMAN
pH ,7n> EM i
*,«.*>•*« yw.W* * <'U-V»d j
with the furniture, it was all right
where it was, and there it stayed.
There were 15 children born to i
Dennis Hopkins and wife, pioneer
are hit pretty hard, and no o uht at folks of Gonzales county. And of the \ nothing
this time many will be unable to pay. j 15 there was a son named Bud (C. C.) j
Many smaller tax payers are paying u., whom and his good wife were also Well, it’
What has happened to the “endur-
ance” contestants. Have’t heard of a
up and getting the matter off
minds.
their j born 15 children.
Me and you both, we aften talk a 1 contest in several months. Busy,
lot about something we don’t know \ looking for something to eat, we
definite. \ presume.
* * * I__
got to where you got to H looks like Laredo is going to have
Thousands of Songs Must
Be Learned by Star
of the Air
light sentimental numbers that
lead to happy day dreams.
"i was r.ther appalled at the
number of songs I realized I would
have to know, but now without any
effort, I manage.
N-w 'N ork City, ewo thorn and .. l lle lew SOr.gs enai. 1 uu
soli'. s a year are sung art \ la\cd th()(5e for which I get the great-
by Milt Coleman, radio perforate number of requests. ‘Like a
of the morning hours.
take a look on both sides of any some real fine weather for her an-
Not many times has that happened |five-dollar willyum anybody offers nual celebration. The road all the
__I around here, you recon? you now-a-days. A guy passed one I "ay down is paved now except a shut
But similarity in the matter of 1 here in San Antonio the other day j strip between Artesia Wells and En-
As Mark Twain onre said of the numbers runs further. with a five spot look on one side' cinal. This has been graded since the
weather: “There is a lot that could! of the 15 children of Dennis Hop- and a one-spot look on the other side. | last rains and is in excellent conditi-
be said about it, but no one does i there are eight now living. This I Guy steps up briskly to a place | on for autoists—either going or com-
anything about it. 1 he parking „on BU(jt js one of the eight. [where a lady is selling something at !'ng.
problem is getting greater all the. And 0f the 15 children born to him,
time. Drive down town most any I Bud, there are eight now living,
evening and the chances are you will , * * *
have to park your car on a side street. 1 Dennis Hopkins came to Gonzales
and at night when the picture show j count,y in 1849, after being on the
is in progress, you have to come early . loa[j from Georgia a little item of
to find- a parking place. Tn some uwo years. He was travelling via
respects we like the side parking bet- ex-wagon, and perhaps paused- here
ter than parking/In the center of the al;(j yonder to let the oxen graze,
street, which w^ practiced in Cotulla . while he scouted around the country
up until a sh^t time ago. In times , j0oking it over. Maybe raised a coi n
of neeessiu^both the center and cuib erop or two along the way. Never
were us^H and this system accomo- thought to ask eld Toni Hopkins,
dating^any more cars than just curb gan Antonio, son of the pioneer,
purkUlg, but then it had some disad- Dtnnis.
“The few songs that I do repeat
those for which I get the great-
number of requests. ‘Like a ,
. m**. of ■"»"<
seven hundred different songs to and Plough I would like to l
I which I keep adding and subtract- . am, sinfJ it daily, I have to!
ing.” explains Mr. Coleman, and , • tfl mv p0i;Cy 0f not repeating f
than once or twice a month.
I hardly ever sing the same song
^ “’\Veh‘tV>t is°mv ukelele’am/1.1 “How many thousands of songs .
go on the air in the morning when we have here in America no one
fv.p ehi’dren are off to school and realizes, but T am sure it « more
C-o housework is just being fin- than all the rest of the world rut
jshed, so I confine my program to together.
C. C. (Bud) Hopkins lives in Okla-
homa, through which state he used
; to drive cattle on the way to Kansa-
in the trail driving era. Tom lives
in San Antonio, where he is one of
the Beau Brummels of the Trail driv-
voutages, the same as curb parking.
One of the worst disadvantages of
curb parking is to the merchant.
When in front of his place is jammed
with parked cars a customer has but
little chance and will often drive to
some other store—if one can be found jng. set
where! no cars are parked in front, i Dennis Hopkins lived to be 98
Then, again country people when they ! jeai.s am| eight months old, spending
come in Saturdays find the parking remainder of his life in Gonzales
places all taken up in front of the,county after his arrival in 1849. In
stores where they trade. It would be time he came to be greatly beloved
good advertising it the word c uld 0f aj] the country, and was known 1 early) and this year they done had
go out, that town people will leave the intimately to thousands of men and I peach blooms some time around close j
one of the regular places on Houston j
Street and buys 15c worth. Then he
lays down a five-spot before her eyes,
and just casual-like holds it there, 1
his big paw on it, while she takes a j
look at it and then reaches into the j
cash drawer and brings out 84.85 and !
lays down before him. I
I
The guy switches his hand over to
the $4.85, picks it up and walks a-
way. Just loses himself amid the
madding throng. (Now, please, Mr.
Printerman, don’t put it ‘maddening’
throng, ’cause it ain’t.)
The guy’s pretty slick. The sales-
lady is talking to a lady friend when
this crook comes up, and keeps her
mind on the conversation while the
aforesaid crook is putting his racket
over. After half a minute the sales-
lady picks up the bill, looks on the
yan side, and sees what’s what.
It’s too late then.
* * *
One thing about Hebbronville being !
so far away from the North Pole, it
lets the peach trees bloom airly (see
convenient parking spaces open on
Saturdays for the country people.
From E. W. Howe’s Monthly: You) Up at Leakey (Lakey) there is an,
read and hear many things said to be old man who has three cars on his
true and important. Usually the sug- place but only paid license on ONE
gestions turn out to be trifling. Let ! of ’em. Speaking of Uncle Dave
me tell you something actually true; ] Thompson.
you can help yourself enormously by j How come he is able to renig on
heeding it. Here it is: You eat too I the tax assessor like that?
much. I know dozens of gloomy, Well, Uncle Dave says he only uses
half sick people of no use to them-1 one to ride in, one of the others be-
selves or others who might be effec- j ing hitched to a woodsaw and the
tive and reasonably content if they third one being used as a hen roost,
would eat less. Do not dismiss this | Them old mountaineers have their
with the usual shoulder shrug; you]own customs,
are guilty, so confess it and do bet- >
tor; not to oblige me, but yourself. “If I got all this right about them
It is a little difficult to intelligently Turks being hung,” sighed Heck
select your food and consume only i Blunder of Cactus Canyon as he
the proper quantity, bu: not so diffi- slumped down in our favorite office
cult as a sick spell, or an operation, chair. “Why, the pore devils
Most persons who write about diet ad-; martyrs.”
vise too much and are not easily un- Trails was flabbergasted. He nev-
d-trstood, but anyone can understand er thought of Heck as reading about
this: More carefully select your food anything that far from home,
and eat less. When I am out of con- “Why, dad-gum it, what 1 read
dition I can get back to normal in a seemed to indicate they passed a law
few days by obeying this simple rule, making those fellas quit wearing the
I know a man who is governor of a kind of hats they been raised on,
Federal Reserve Bank and 75 years called fezes, and made ’em go to
old. The best doctors in his town | wearing derby hats,” continued Heck.
women as “Uncle” Dennis. j to February oneth. Anyways, a long
He died in 1917, hence when he , time before we had any in our back
first came to Texas he was around 1 yard here.
30 years of age. j And if you happen to be a person
* * * I who does not get a raise out of a
peach orchard in early bloom, you
better go see a chiro or an allopath
or an eye doctor, or an alienist.
There”s something wrong with you,
someplace, somehow, someway.
Old Oscar Thompson, former sher-
iff there in Hebbronville, for a long
time in the winter he was laid up in
a Dallas hospital, and bet ya those
peach blooms sure looked good to
him when he got back.
told him he had a bad heart, a badland that being so, who blames ’em
liver, high blood pressure and Blight’s for fighting about it?
disease. They dosed him with medi-
cine and he grew steadily worse. He
adopted the simple rule of eating less,
took no medicine and slowly and sure-
ly recovered. He was too fat; he
ate too much. Doctors in a univer-
sity hospital who later examined him
said his heart and liver were alright;
that his blood pressure was normal,
and that he had no Bright’s disease.
Bet you pass a law like that on
the folks of Cactus Canyon and you‘d
have to come out and whip the whole
caboodle of ‘cm.”
Of course, now, Heck, he just hap-
pened to read a headline which was
sort of misleading, and he was shoot-
ing his head off about something he
did not know anything about, in
reality, and in detail.
Anytime you show me a guy who
is the butt of any joke he tells, and
you show me a regular guy. He’s a
guy will be thinking—as much about
his friends’ welfare as his own—all
was the time that way.
Take this guy here who was tell-
in’ Trails about himself coming home
all lickered up and carryin’ a hallucin
ation that the furniture should- all
be moved over into one corner.
Without sayin’ anything to ANY-
BODY, here he sets in at stackin’
the furniture, tables and chairs and
little what-nots, they look fine and
dandy all piled up on the bed today,
says he.
Then who should saunter into the
room but the wife, and she sort of
opened up the palm of her hand and
there was the family automatic gat
lyin’ snugly therein, and she just
swung her arm back and showed the
guy she might be nccident-like just
let it fly hack and land the gat on
the side of his haid.
Then, sez the guy to Trails, there
didn't seem to me to be nothin wrong
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The Cotulla Record (Cotulla, Tex.), Vol. [33], No. [49], Ed. 1 Friday, February 20, 1931, newspaper, February 20, 1931; Cotulla, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1162377/m1/4/?q=j+w+gardner: accessed June 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Alexander Memorial Library.