The Silsbee Bee (Silsbee, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 13, 1934 Page: 1 of 4
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NO. 37
VOL. 16
SILSBEE, TEXAS. THURSDAY. SEPT. 13. 1934
$1.50 A YEAR
County Fair to Have Many New Amusements
Large List of Premiums to Be Given Away
very
Big Poultry Show at the Fair
There is not a single reason why
losing of
FARM MARKET NEEDS
WOODEN SHOES WORN
FURST CHRISTIAN CHURCH
these
in
Fair Features for 1934
Exceed Past Years
Plans Complete
For County Fair
Booster Trip
Many Silsbee
Students to
Enter College
Sponsor
in 1934
various
ELLISON TO HEAD
BETTER HOUSING PROGRAM
PARADE TO HAVE
$50 PRIZE MONEY
DENTAL SOCIETY
MEETS IN BEAUMONT
ner will be in Tyler Commercial
College at Tyler. Miss Hester Fay
Million has entered Chenier’s at
BUNA SCHOOLS
OPENED MONDAY
iums offered may secure a catalog
of this year’s Fair and observe the
premiums offered. The fair bul-
letin is on the press now and will
be ready this week.
Individuals interested in show-
ing their poultry and wanting any
help or instruction on how to pre-
pare their fowls for the show
may get that help free of charge
LAWSON ADDRESSES
KIWANIANS
clIh* Silsbee Ike
—THE VOICE OE SATSUMA VALLEY
afternoon.
At seven o’clock a banquet was
held in his honor at the LaSalle
Hotel, with members of the South-
east Texas Dental Society honor-
ing him. The president of the so-
ciety said that they were very for-
tunate in having so noted a man
at their meeting, and they enjoyed
the day very much.
I HA
A Cicero bandit who held up
Frank Greshen of Chicago and
found he had no money forced
him to surrender his trousers.
The Southeast Texas Dental So-
ciety, of which Dr. W. C. McNeil
is president, held an all day meet-
ing and clinic at the LaSalle Hotel
in Beaumont yesterday. The prin-
cipal speaker of the day was Dr.
Walter T. McFall of Atlanta, Ga.,
widely known authority on child-
ren’s dentistry, and professor of
children’s dentistry in the Atlanta
Southern Dental College. He has
appeared on the last two programs
of the American Dental Society,
and has lectured throughout the
United States on this subject. He
delivered an address at Beaumont
Athletic Sponsor
Contest Gets
Under Way
Twenty-one graduates of Sils-
bee High School will leave within
the next few days for various col-
leges and universities scattered
over several states. This is one of
the largest groups to go from here
in several years and they are an-
ticipating successful years in the
schools of their selection. They
take with them the best wishes of
all of Silsbee, and we are sure that
their careers will be successful,
both in school and in the years
following their higher education.
Many courses of study will be tak-
en up, an it is hoped that the stu-
dents will remember that the hon-
or of Silsbee High School and of
Silsbee rests upon them.
Following is a list of the boys
and girls who will be leaving very
shortly :
Miss Bonnie Bailey and Mr. Os-
car Ehrensberger will attend La-
mar College in Beaumont. Ray
Baker will enter Oklahoma Univer-
sity at Norman, Okla. Rex Forten-
berry and James Manning will re-
enter Texas University at Austin.
Kenneth Marshall, J. W. McGinty
and Henry Lea Hyman plan to
attend A. and M. College at Col-
lege Station. William Sagstetter
will go to Loyola University in
New Orleans. Bobbie Read and
Raleigh Upshaw will attend Texas
Tech at Lubbock. Miss Janet Buck-‘the Hardin County Fair this year
; should not have as large a poultry
show as any community fair in
the country. Not only should it
as the best so far as quality of
birds is concerned, and it will be
if the patrons will get behind the
wheel and work hard and as dili-
gently as the vocational agricul-
ture boys at the high school are
going to work.
The Vo-Ag boys are going to do
their best to put over one of the
largest and best shows that has
ever been put on However, they (by canjng on ^he Vo-Ag boys at
the high school. They will be glad
to come by and show yo / just how
the birds can be prepared for show
to look their best for the judges.
Bringing of the birds to the
show room at the Fair grounds
will be left entirely to the individ-
uals owning the poultry, for the
Ag boys have no way of going
around to collect the hens, pullets,
and other show birds. But you
are assured that your prize show
entries will be taken good care of
at all times when inthe show
room. They will be housed in a
building that is much more sani-
tary, and comfortable than that of
the average farm poultry house.
Select Best Birds and Enter
Be looking your birds over from
day to day as you work with them
According to Dean Saxby, chair-
man of the Parade and Float com-
mittee of the Hardin County Fair,
the directors have alloted him
fifty dollars to distribute as prizes
for the best floats, etc., in the
parade this year. Mr. Saxby says
that the prize money will be dis-
tributed in the best possible way,
and this paper next week will show
the complete premium list. Or-
ganizations, clubs, business
houses and individuals will come
in for their share of the prize
money, and now is the time to be-
gin working on your float. See Mr.
Saxby for any additional informa-
tion needed, as he will be in full
charge of the parade.
neida Tuxworth and Edna Rich-
ardson will attend Sam Houston
State Teachers College at Hunts-
ville. Emil Hanicak will go back
to Stephen F. Austin College at
Nacogdoches. Misses Maurice Shef
field, Maxie Palmer and Ruth Mat-
tiza will re-enter C. I. A. at Den-
ton ; and Miss Marjorie Burns will
attend Baylor College at Belton.
Andrew Carnley is to attend
Lamar.
It may be surprising to many,
as it was to us, to learn that
around a million pairs of wooden
shoes are manufactured and worn
in the United States every year,
but such is the case, according to w^° says: ‘‘Obviously business will
the Department of Commerce.
\Ten factories in eight states
specialize in the manufacture of
wooden footwear, which ranges
from sandals for women and chil-
dren to heavy work shoes for men.
Soles from half an inch to three
inches in thickness are used for
the heavy work shoes.
Prices of wooden shoes range
from $1.00 to $3.00 a pair, while
high boots with wooden soles bring
$6.00. They are in demand by
workers in damp fields in certain
parts of the country, and by those
in factories who must stand on wet
concrete floors. The movies and
the stage also use some of this
product.
Wooden shoe factories are lo-
cated in New York, New Jersey,
Massachusetts, Hlinois, Iowa, Wis-
consin, Nebraska, and Florida.
They keep stocks on hand for im-
mediate delivery, just as makers
of leather shoes do, but those used
on the stage are usually made to
special order.
At a meeting of the Directors
of the Hardin County Fair Tues-
day night, final plans for the 1934
exposition were completed. Plans
were made for the sale of season
tickets, the sale to be pushed by
the Kiwanis club. Other miscellan-
eous business was finished. At the
conclusion of the directors’ meet-
ing E. M. Prewitt, newly appointed
chairman of the Booster trip, took
charge of the meeting and plans
for that feature were discussed.
It was decided to have the boos-
ter trip on Thursday and Friday,
September 27 and 28. Mr. Prewitt
appointed a route committee to se-
lect an itenerary for the boosters,
and a transportation committee to
secure cars for the trip. J. E. Col-
lier heads the route committee and
the transportation committee is
composed of J. A. Riley, W. J.
Davis, C. W. McGinty and Mrs.
Vyrl Miller. Dr. W. C. McNeil was
appointed to select a clown team
for the two days. A public address
system will be secured to furnish
music and power for the announc-
ments in the various towns along
the route.
The full cooperation of every
one was urged, and the most suc-
cessful trip in years was predicted.
The enthusiasm for the fair this
year is greater than ever, and the
directors anticipate a great fair.
The publicity chairman, Mrs. Jack
Hill, has made plans to have the
announcements broadcast over
KFDM every day from now until
fair time. The publicity committee
has also laid plans for their cam-
paign in the county papers.
premiums for the past two seasons,
on account of free passage into
the Fair grounds. This year we
have decided that the small sum
of 15c and 25c will be charged as
admission into the Fair Grounds,
which receipts will go toward pay-
ments upon the premiums given on
all eligible entries, as awarded by
the judges.
There is going to be one of the
best parades that has ever been
given. The parade will be under
the direction of Mr. Dean Saxby,
any one wishing to make entries
will see Mr. Saxby, for such en-
tries as they wish to enter.
The different chairmen will be
glad to confer with you regarding
any matter you wish to discuss
with them relative to entries.
There will be fun for every one,
and we are asking that you meet
with us. Let’s mix, mingle, and
shake hands, and forget all about
the depression that is slipping by
us slowly but surely.
Watch The Silsbee Bee for fur-
ther write ups, which will be given
in detail at a later date.
thrive best in a favorable environ-
ment, where opportunity is open
and unhandicapped, and will lan-
guish in an unfavorable environ-
ment, where opportunity is re-
stricted and artificial handicaps
beset endeavor.”
The prompt removal of legis-
lative threats held over our domin-
ant markets, such as wheat and
cotton, would work wonders in the
restoration of local as well as in-
ternational trade relationships, it
is agreed by many.
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One of the strangest assort-
ments of garments ever worn by
a male of the species was found
on one Delbert Hill, arrested in
Tulsa, Okla., for vagrancy and
suspicious actions. Ordered to
“peel off” when police saw some-
thing pink protruding from his
overalls, he was found to be wear-
ing a pair of teddies, a pair of
step-ins, and four pairs of bloom-
ers, in addition to his outer cloth-
ing.
From time immemorial boys’
pockets have been receptacles for
an endless variety of junk, but it
remained for 12 year-old Freddie
Brown of Memphis to add a dis-
carded safety razor blade to such
a collection, which he carried in
his hip pocket. He sat down; arose
quickly; had several stitches tak-
en; used no chair again for sev-
eral days.
The season for the 1934 Hardin
County Fair is here. The dates
for this grand event have been set
for October 10th, to 13th.
There will be four days of pleas-
ure and past time for everyone. We
will be entertained by The Big
State Shows and Carnival. The
shows are larger and better this
year than ever before, and we as-
sure each one a grand time dur-
ing the four days. There will be
all kinds of amusement for the
children, and educational things
for the older ones. In other words
there will be a complete program
for every ones amusement.
The bulletin, or catalogue, for
the Fair is now complete, and may
be had by calling upon Mr. David
Read, editor of The Silsbee Bee, or
Mr. J. E. Collier, at Collier’s Store
after Saturday. The catalogue
carries a complete list and details
of all premiums. Premiums will
be paid this year on all eligible en-
tries, such as, agriculture, poultry,
live stock, art, etc.
The Hardin County Fair Asso-
ciation has been unable to pay
Robert Hargis, Minister
September 16, 1934
9:30 a. m. Sunday School.
10:45 a. m. Communion and and
Worship Service: “The Mali
Who Was Lost.”
7:00 p.p m. Christian Endeavor,
Society. 4
8:00 p. m. Worship Theme: “TlMI
Freedom of Truth.”
Come and Worship With U»! !
Freedom of operation in com-
modities markets, with removal of
all possible restrictions, and the
revival of foreign markets for
American farm surpluses, are de-
mands being voiced in rural sec-
tions and ineditorial comment.
Farmers are protesting that if
speculative support had not been
driven from the grain market by
advocates of more restrictive laws,
higher prices would have pre-
vailed during movement of the
winter wheat crop. A seasoned
observer of commodity marketing
writing in a leading farm paper,
says: •;
“There |is little doubt in the
minds of conservative students of
the grain market situation that a
large part of the wheat recently
sold by farmers from the new crop
has brought much lower prices
than would have been the case if
there had been a normal volume
of speculative and investment buy-
ing.”
A similar view is expressed by
the editor of The Cotton Digest,
Mr.Thompson, the new Superin-
tendent of Buna Public Schools
was in the Bee office this week
and announced the opening of his
school last Monday. There were
a total of 410 pupils enrolled, with
40 beginners, the largest begin-
ning class they have ever had. The
senior clas this year is composed
of 39 students.
Mr. Thompson, and Mr. Nations,
secretary of the school board, are
pleased with the outlook for a
successful year, and they are hard
at work on their duties. They will
have interesting news
columns from time to time, and
we hope they visit the Bee again.
Mr. P. F. Lawson, publicity di-
rector for the Beaumont Chamber
of Commerce, was -the principal
speaker at the meeting of the Ki-
wanis Club yesterday. Mr. Law-
son spoke on the value and the
progress of Hardin County Fair,
and promised for Beaumont, all the
aid that they were able to give.
He is a frequent visitor to Silsbee
and feels a personal interest in
the affairs of this town.
After the speaker had finished,
the vice-president, G. C. Bracken,
acting in the absence of the pres-
ident, announced that it was plan-
ned for the Kiwanians to take up
the question of whether or not
Silsbee should be incorporated.
The time seems to be propituous
for some action along that line,
and the Committee appointed, con-
sisting of O. P. Ellison, A. R. Ney-
land, N. A. Cravens, Ed O’Neil and
L. A. Yankee, will study the sit-
uation and advise what course to
pursue.
Winners of the first three place
ribbons on poultry this year will
be awarded prize money for their
efforts. Every one interested in
Beaumont. Misses Lloyd Baker, O- b^as^'large*" but should" be as good showinS Poultry and the prem-
The suit in district court of the
Silsbee Farmers vs. Newton and
Wallace, to recover the farmers’
losses in the radish deal of several
years ago was scheduled to take
place Monday at Kountze, but af-
ter part of the jury had been se-
lected, the suit was continued to
the January term of court. A
great number of Silsbee farmers
were in Kountze to witness the
suit, and many other Silsbee per-
sons were there. The case was
being handled by Mr. Journegan,
an attorney from Port Arthur.
From early in the morning the
farmers and others began arriving
in the court house, and by nine
or ten o’clock, every where one
looked there were Silsbee men.
Farmers, professors, bank e r s,
salesmen and even publishers of
newspapers were there. They
milled about trying to pass the
interminable time that is always
taken preliminary to trials. The
judge sat at his bench awaiting
the lawyers. Jurymen were sworn
in and lectured .by the judge. At-
torneys looked important and re-
ferred often to the legal looking
papers in their brief cases. And
the spectators sat and talked or
just sat
On the first floor of the court
house, ladies of Kountze were sell-
ing coffee and cake to impatient
customers. Former Sheriff G. C.
Gardner was there from Sour Lake.
The commissioners of Hardin
County were on hand for their bi-
monthly meeting. County officials
were mixing with the crowd—all
except Willis Selman who ap-
peared to be very busy.
Just before noon it was decided
to defer the case, and the judge
released the jurors, the farmers
departed for home, and another
long day of court was over.
,Mr. O. P. Ellison of Silsbee has
received an appointment as Coun-
ty Chairman of Hardin County to
direct the work of the Better
Housing Division of the National
Emergency Council. The appoint-
ment came last week through the
office of Mr. M. Woods, Execu-
tive Assistant to the District Di-
rector for Eastern Texas.
This appointment affords Mr.
Ellison a great opportunity to aid
recovery in Hardin ounty by push-
ing the building and remodeling
business in this vicinity. The Fed-
eral Government has arranged a
program for home owners to aid
hem in securing loans through
banks and other agencies for the
repair and remodeling of homes.
Many people in Silsbee have al-
ready taken advantage of these
loans, and there is much work be-
ing done at the present time. Car-
penters are given work, lumber
and building material business is
better and the wheels start turn-
ing for better business.
Mr. Ellison .will probably ap-
point his assistants at an early High School at one o’clock in the
date and organize the county so
that the work will go forward at
a rapid rate. He will appreciate
the cooperation of everyone in this
work, and if you wish informa-
tion about the better housing pro-
gram, he will be glad to give it.
Following is the letter of ap-
pointment received by him:
Mr. O. P. Ellison
Silsbee, Texas
Dear Sir;
We take great pleasure in an-
nouncing you County Chairman of
Hardin County to direct the .work
of the Better Housing Division of
the National Emergency Council.
This office wishes to thank you
in advance tfor all possible co-
operation that you can give us,
and I assure you that there is no-
thing in our power that we will
not do to help you organize your
county and make it one of the out-
standing 'counties in the State as
to modernization.
We will forward you supplies
just as soon as possible.
Again assuring you of our full
cooperation, we remain,
Yours very truly,
The race for Athletic
for Silsbee High School
is under way and the
classes of high school are already
waging a bitter battle for their
favorite candidates. Always one of
the most interesting contests of
the year, this year it promises to
be especially attractive with four
very popular and beautiful young
ladies as candidates The selection
of a freshman candidate was no
easy task and it was necessary to
have a run-off primary before the
candidate could be named. Betty
Ballinger, Mary Virginia Collier
and Elizabeth Shaklefer are vieing
for the freshman honor. The soph-
omores have selected Miss Jo Fow-
ler to carry their banner, the jun-
iors are betting on Miss Nedra
Mantooth, and the seniors have
put Miss Marguerite Watts up as
the winner.
Voting has started off very
briskly and the usual means of se-
curing votes are employed. Votes
are one cent each and the winning
candidate will be the one with the
most money. The fund raised will
be used to help defray the expens-
es of the athletic season.
Hand in hand with the selection
of a sponsor is the organization
of the Pep Squad. Miss Jewell
Hicks has charge of that impor-
tant work and all who wish to
join that group should see her at
once. The pep squad often has a
whole lot to do with the winning or
losing of an important game.
will fail in their efforts if the
farmers and poultry raisers do not
rally to the occasion and show
their birds. Silsbee and the sur-
rounding communities have as fine
birds as one will find in any other
community in this section, and it
remains to be seen whether or not
the people are interested in the
fowls enough to show others what
they have.
in many sections it is a matter
of great importance, pride and per-
sonal gratification, if one poultry
raiser can beat his neighbor or
poultry friend in taking the most
ribbons in any show.
Many of the farmers in this area
should make an effort to show
the public the birds that have paid
their grocery bills during the past
several months. It is a fact, sev-
eral farmers have personally told in the feed lot and yard, and be
the writer, that many a farmer making your decisions as to which
would have been in the bread line birds you should show. If you
had it not been for their farm need any help call on the Future
flocks of hens and their dairy cow. Farmers at the High School.
Farmers’
Raddish Suit
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