The Silsbee Bee (Silsbee, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 18, 1934 Page: 1 of 4
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SILSBEE. TEXAS. THURSDAY. OCT. IX. 1934
BIG BASEBALL GAME
KEELING—KEETON
JACKSON—FOWLER
Discussing the Constitutional Amendments
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FANCHER VISITS BEE
METHODIST HOME COMING
HARRISON—YARBOROUGH
TO VISIT JASPER FAIR
BEE GETS HIGHWAY MAP
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1934 County Fair .
Is Very Successful
Tigers to Play
Livingston
Another Rodeo
Makes History
Silsbee to Have
A Real Horse Show
McDaniel Captures
lEscaped Convict
MANY ATTEND
FOOTBALL GAME
HIGHWAY 8 ASSOCIA-
TION TO MEET
SLAVIK’S SPECIALS GOOD
TWO WHOLE DAYS
In the past the grocery specials
at the Silsbee Bakery and Grocery
were good only on Friday after-
noon and Saturday, but beginning
this week the weekly specials will
be good all day Friday and Satur-
day. This will give the busy house-
wife more time to lay in the supply
of good food at the lowest possible
prices.
The fair grounds were crowded
Friday afternoon when a number
of Beaumont business men attend-
ed the horse show. Among those,
present from the neighboring city
were; Ben D. Jackson, Thos. J. Ba-
ten, H. Londendeck, J. Sharfstein,
George Dallas, Raouel Miller, T. R.
Murphy, Frank McLemore, Cliff
Douglas, Claude Owens, T. M.
Thames, Harry Longe, C. E. Locke,
W. F. Ryder and son, Duggie, E.
W. Middleton, Dave Dorfman and
wife, Ben Fienberg, H. Lefkowitz,
E. T. Thompson, Chas. Linn, Tom
Fuller, J. P. Freedman, H. W.
Gardner, Frank Nason, W D. Mar-
tin, F. B. Fultz, W. L. Rammel,
Jack Todd, Ivan Singleton, M. L.
Lefler, T. V. McCoy, Guy Plumly,
Lester DeCordova and W. E. Kelly.
SCHOOL CHILDREN TO
VISIT DESTROYER
BEAUMONTERS ATTEND
FAIR FRIDAY
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The editor is in receipt of a
large Highway Map of District
No. 20, of which Mr. G. A. Brach-
er is Division Engineer. This
map is large enough to show every
detail of the roads of this division,
and also shows roads that are not
maintained by the department. It
will remain in the off1?* nf this
paper, and anyone wishing to
make use of it may do so. We ap-
preciate the courtesy of Mr.
Bracher in sending it to us.
The Navy Department has ex-
tended a special invitation to the
pupils of Hardin County schools
to visit on board the U. S. S. Bab-
bitt which is to be in Beaumont
for the Navy Day celebration, Sat-
urday, October 27th.
Those in charge of the celebra-
tion are anxious to have the vis-
iting school children at the docks
in Beaumont early Saturday fore-
noon in charge of their teachers
so that arrangements can be made
to prevent over crowding and to
gve the young folks the best op-
portunity to inspect the modern
destroyer.
Under the auspices of the Leg-
ion Auxilary Silsbee is going to
have a real horse show. Promi-
nent men and women of Beaumont
have given their promise to assist
in every way possible and to,bring
both horses and riders from that
city.
There are many nicely gaited
horses and only a small amount of
help would be needed in order to
put these horses in shape to make
a nice showing. With this in mind,
this horse show is being worked up
Uncle Bob Turrentine has pro-
mised to lend his aid and assist-
ance in getting a practice ring in
the Fair Grounds where horses
can be worked for a while each
evening. Especially are the child-
ren who have horses urged to
show an interest in this matter.
All of those interested in enter-
ing their horses for this show will
please get in touch with Mrs. L. L.
Barclay who «will notify you as to
what days and at what time to ap-
pear for coaching.
The date of the horse show will
be definitely announced later, but
since it is expected to be held with-
in the next two or three weeks,
early registration will be appre-
ciated.
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The marriage of Miss Katie Vee
Keeton of Silsbee and Mr. R. W.
Keeling of Houston was solemn-
ized at 2 o’clock Wednesday af-
ternoon at the home of Rev. and
Mrs. T. E. McKenzie, with Rev.
McKenzie officiating. A beautiful
ring ceremony was used. The pas-
tor’s home was beautifully decor-
ated with pink and red roses and
baskets of yellow daisies.
The bride wore a model of soft
brown crepe fitted gracefully to
the figure and a hat of harmon-
izing color and a corsage of white
carnations. The groom was becom-
ingly dressed in dark blue with a
white carnation bouquet. They
were accompanied by the groom’s
mother, Mrs. H. M. Keeling, his
grandmother, Mrs. E. G. Powell of
Houston, Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Cline-
felter, Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Wil-
son and Messrs. Howard and Har-
old Keeton. Mr. and Mrs. Keeling
will make their home in Silsbee
alter a short visit in Houston.
The Silsbee Tigers, after a week
of inactivity, will venture forth
Friday night to the Polk County
metro polis of Livingston to
trounce the strong eleven there.
Coach Pitman has been putting the
boys through some strenuous prac-
Incredible as it may seem, there
is still one real Daughter of the
Revolution still living. She is
Mrs Caroline Phoebe Randall of
Greenfield, Mass., who recently
celebrated her 84th birthday." Her
father was Stephen Hassam, who
fought at Bunker Hill and in oth-
er battles of the war for independ-
ence, and was 90 years old when
she was born.
A number of Silsbee business
men have decided to visit the Jas-
per County Fair which is in ses-
sion at Jasper all this week.
Among them will be A. R. Neyland
who, besides being a business man
of Silsbee, is a business man of
Jasper. He will put on a banquet
in Jasper Thursday night for vis-
Mr. W. C. Fancher, ex-publish-
er of the Corrigan Plain Dealer
and numerous other Texas news-
papers, was in Silsbee Tuesday
visiting with the Bee force. Mr.
Fancher is at pre,lent out of the
publishing business, but we wag-
er that it won’t be long until he
is again in the game. He is well
equipped with personality and
brains, and knows the newspaper
business from start to finish.
Come again, Fancher.
One of the biggest church af-
fairs of the year will be held here
Sunday when the Methodists hold
their Home Coming Day. Besides
the local membership, which is
expected to be there 100 percent—
there will be many out-of-town
folks who at one time or another
have been members of this church.
Special music and preaching will
be held and a gala day will be en-
joyed in the church. It is near-
ing the end of the conference year
and Rev. F. C. Woodward, pastor,
is hoping that the Methodist will
rally round and make the day a
great success.
Among the old times who will
be on hand are Mr. and Mrs. Carl
Markley, Mr. and Mrs. Carr Gibbs,
Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Griffin, Mr.
and Mrs. Phil Lynch, Mr. and Mrs.
W. M. Miles and many others.
ton. Mr. Neyland vyill probably
spend most of the day in the neigh-
boring county.
Mr. John Harrison and Miss No-
ra Lee Yarborough were married
Monday evening at 7:15 at the
home of Rev. F. C. Woodward with
only a few friends present. Mr.
Harrison is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. W. F. Harrison and is em-
ployed at Pope’s Cafe. Mrs. Har-
rison is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. A. W. Yarborough, long time
residents of.Silsbee. The young
couple will make their home here,
residing in the Claude Ashworth
house.
Mr. McDaniel also recovered
this week two other stolen automo-
biles and was hot on the trail of
the theives. John Hanicak’s car
was found in Houston and the car
stolen from the fair grounds, be-
longing to Ira Wilson, was found
in Pitkin, La. Tuesday.
' SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION
NO. 16. Our Constitution now pro-
vides that taxation shall be equal
and uniform. This amendment
would change the present Consti-
tution so as to impose different
rates of taxation on all property
other than real property, provided
that the taxation of all property
in any class shall be equal and unr
form.
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION
NO. 21. This amendment provides
a means whereby two or more
counties could be consolidated.
The legislature by a two-thirds
vote of both houses could combine
existing counties, abolish existing
counties and change the boundar-
ies under certain restrictions and
limitations specified in the amend
ment.
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
NO 30. If adopted, this amendment
would subject all lands owned by
the University of Texas to taxa-
tion for county and school district
purposes, the same as privately
owned lands. At present Univer-
sity lands are taxed for county
purposes and this amendment
would require the State to pay
school taxes also. This would ben-
efit counties and school districts
where University lands are now
located.
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
NO. 41. This amends Section 5, of
Article of the present Constitu-
tion so as to permit any Home
Rule City to alter amend or re-
peal its charter every twelve
months instead of exery two years
as now provided.
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
NO. 32. This amendment would
authorize cities having a Home
Rule Charter to so amend their
charters as to permit city officers
elected in such cities to hold of-
ice not to exceed four years, as
now provided.
A good number of Silsbee foot-
ball fans attended the A. and M.-
Centary game at Purple stadium
in Beaumont last Saturday. The
score at the end of the conflict
was 13-0 in favor of the Louisiana
school. The editor was among
t’ose privileged to see the game
v’hich about 7000 other people
w’fnessed. Beaumont was crowd-
ed with people and eleven bands
took part in the parade which pre-
r o'-'led the game. It was a real
gala day in the city.
A meeting of Highway 8 Asso-
ciation will be held in Center on
next Tuesday, October 23, accord-
ing to W. L. Rammel, secretary.
This will be a very important
meeting at which discussions of
changes in the route of this im-
portant road will take place. It
is hoped that Silsbee will be well
represented. Hardin County Di-
rectors of the association are N.
A. Cravens, A. L. Bevil, F. S.
Payne and J. N. Collier, Jr.
This afternoon at 3:30 o’clock,
the American Legion Auxiliary
will give a benefit baseball game
at the ball park here.
This game will be unique in that
the ladies will play against the
i men, and in order to give the la-
dies an even break with the men,
they will be permitted to wear ov-
eralls, while the men will be forc-
ed to wear either a dress or a skirt
Uuless the game is called on fee-.,
count of darkness, nine innings
will be played.
In'most places where a game of
this sort has been played, the la-
dies have beaten the men due to
the fact that the men are usually
prone to forget they have on a
skirt and in" their anxiety to get
to first base after they get a hit,
they get off for a fast start only
to fall. On the other hand, the la-
dies do not get so many hits, but
when they do they are not hamper-
ed by their clothes.
The lineup for the ladies will
be; Grace Logan, Mrs. J. C. Di- i
nan, Mrs. G. C. Bracken, Miss Je- (
well Hicks, Miss Margaret Mc-
Ghee, Mrs. R. E. Wright, Mrs. V.
McDaniel, Mrs. W. C. McNeil, and 1
Mrs. W. L. Trotti, pitcher, Mrs. <
G. H. Ballinger, catcher. ,
The lineup for the men is as
follows; H F. McMahon, A. W.
Overland, D. J. Lewis, Rev. Wood- 1
ward, G H. Ballinger, O. P. Elli- ;
son, R E. Wright, L. Y. Evans, ,
C. D. Landolt, John Dinan, R. R.
Million and W. J. Davis. Rev. T. !
E. McKenzie and Mrs. Gussie Em- 1
bry will umpire. 1
The admission will be 10 and <
15 cents and the proceeds will be <
used for carrying on the work of .
the Legion Auxiliary. Don’t miss ,
this world’s series!
The editor is indebted to Hon?
Alf Roark for the following dis-
cussion of the proposed amend-
ments to the Texas Constitution:
There are eight proposed amend
ments to our State Constitution to
be voted upon at the general el-
ection on November 6. These a-
mendments are of such import-
ance to all the people of Texas
that a careful study should be
made of them so they may be vot-
ed upon intelligently.
In this article I list all eight of
the amendments briefly and in sub
sequent articles I shall attempt a
more detailed explanation of them.
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION
NO. 2. This amendment seeks to
abolish the fee system of compen-
sating county and district officers
in all counties having a popula-
tion of 20,000 or more. This does
not abolish the collection of fees
of office, but provides that county
and district officers shall be paid
a stated salary instead of receiv-
ing the fees collected.
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION
NO. 13. This amendment would
limit the power of the legislature
to levy taxes and spend tax money
If adopted the legislature will not
be allowed to levy taxes in excess
of $22.50 per capita for the bien-
nium. At present there is no limit-
ation in the Constitution, except
as to the amount of ad valorum
itors from Beaumont and Hous-' tax.
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
NO. 14. This resolution provides
for the reorganization of county
government and places in the hand
of the Commissioners Court in
each county, authority to run the
county government, giving them
greater authority than they have
at present. It grants to the legis-
lature authority to set up by gen-
eral law different forms of county
government to be effective when
voted upon by the majority of the
people of any county.
The 1934 Hardin County Fair | fine specimens of poultry were ex-
closed Saturday night, and when hibited in the poultry department,
the final proceeds were checked| which, we believe, was the best de-
Last Saturday Mr. Ulys McDan-
iel captured single handed an es-
caped convict who was trying to
sell this town some extension
cords stolen from a business place
in Beaumont. Mr. McDaniel said
that the man, whose name was
Bud Shipley, attracted his atten-
tion by his suspicious movements, tice, and they are ready for the
The officer accosted the man and
after some questioning, arrested
him and his companion on suspic-
ion and took them to Beaumont
where it was found by fingerprint
that Mr. Shipley had escaped from
the penitentiary. It was also found
that the car he was driving was
stolen off the streets of Grand Sa-
line a few days ago, and that the
man was wanted by officers in
fray. This will be the third game
of the season for the Tigers. In
the first they bowed to the French
high, and the second game was
won when they beat Nederland 6-0.
Captain Self is confident that
his teammates will hold togerh-'r
for the coming game. The Living-
ston boys have a tough reputation,
but the local gridsters are not soft
babies, either. They have worked
Stephenville and Matador, Texas, formations and signals and hard-
ened themselves to where they
should be able to make a fine
showing with any team in their
class.
Quite a few of the local fans will
accompany the team to Livingston
for the game, which will be played
under lights. This is the first
night game the local lads have
played and it will be interesting
co see how they perform. If you
like football, grab your car*and
follow the Tigers to Livingston.
Last Sunday the Hardin County
Rodeo Association, in connection
-with the Fair Association,' put on
. a first class rodeo at Paynes
Ranch[ The rodeo- was well at-
tended and the spectators Were
well pleased.
The afternoon of course carried
out the usual, rodeo program, but
several events happened that were
not at all usual. For one, tne first
money for calf roping was paid to
a lady roper. Men and women
alike cheered the roping show put
on by Mrs. -Black of Port Neches,
-which proved they were thrilled
at seeing a lady enter and win an
event of this kind. She ro-de well,
in an easy going, dashing manner,
and that she was a splendid roper
was proven when she made the
beautiful throw she did, which
took the money.
Another event of the evening
which was unusual was the hard
spill that Curley McCullum of
Center, Texas, took from the back
of a bull. Curley expressed sur-
prise at being thrown, and made
the statement that this was only
the second time he had been
thrown in twenty-two rodeos he
had participated in, riding every-
thing that was offered.
A regretable event of the eve-
ning was Uncle Bob Turrentines
horse being gored by a bull. The
bull was being ridden ( when he
charged upon horse standing close
to the fence. A veterinary in the
crowd was called at once who gave’
first aid to the horse and expres-J
sed the opinion that the horse had
barely escaped a fatal blow. The
horse now is well on the way to
recovery.
So, Silsbee can boast another
successful rodeo, both from a fi-
nancial standpoint, and from the
standpoint of satisfying the rodeo
•goers.
up it was found that the Fair As-
sociation had made a substantial
profit on the venture. The expo-
sition opend with the big parade
on last Wednesday and from that
time until Saturday night it was
well attended. Nearly every nighc
found the grounds crowded, people
milling through the exhibit build-
ings and along the midway. Al-
though somewhat disappointing
this year, the carnival was never-
theless one of the cleanest ever
to visit here.
One of the interesting features
of the carnival was Rev. Doc Wad-
dell, the only show preacher man
in captivity. “Doc” -was on hand
every day, and his job was to see
that the show people had spiritual
advice. Roy Gray, owner of the
shows, was here in person, al-
though the larger part of his carn-
ival was at another county fair.
Visitors to the four-day fair to-
taled over 5000 persons, with a
great many of them coming from
other towns and counties. Num
erous groups visited the exposition
notably the Beaumont and Jasper
Boosters. The Beaumont group
was here Friday and enjoyed the
horse show at four p. m. Many of
them declared that the show was
as fine as they had seen anywhere
The prize winners have collected
their money, and many of the first
place winners will exhibit their
stock or produce in the South Tex-
as State Fair which begins in
Beaumont on October 25. Many
A wedding of.unusual interest
took place last Thursday night
when Miss Maurine Fowler be-
came the bride of Mr. R. E. Jack-
son, Jr. The ceremony took place
at the home of Rev. T. E. McKen-
zie, pastor of the Central Baptist
Church, who performed the cere-
mony. Mr. Jackson is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Jackson, Sr.
and is well known over this sec-
tion from his activity in athletics.
He is the proprietor of the Jack-
son Sales Co. He graduated from
Silsbee High School and attended
A. M. College. The bride is the
daughter of Dr. and Mrs. I. R.
Fowler who recently moved here
from Bessmay
The young couple will make
their home in Silsbee and the Bee
joins their many friends in wish-
ing them happiness and success.
$1.50 A YEAR 1
—THE VOICE OE SATSUMA VALLEY
' partment of the fair. The com-
mercial exhibits were not as num-
erous as was expected, but those
that took space had beautiful dis-
plays. The art and relics division
was very interesting, and the home
demonstration department had a
good snowing.
The crowds this year were very
ordeily with but few exceptions.
Of course there was the time tha.
the show girl and an ambitious
local girl—both ebony hued dam-
sels—disagreed and had a cutting
match. The sheriff conveyed both
to the county boarding house for
examination. The grounds were
patrolled at all times by an ade-
quate number of officers and only
minor outbreaks occurred.
Of course the biggest day of aL
was Saturday and Saturday night
when the Queen’s Ball took place.
Not for several years have so many
people visited the fair in a single
day as did Saturday. Attendance
on that one day was more than
500 persons. And those who at-
,ended said that it was one of the
best dances ever put on here. Fred
Gardner and his band furnished
the music.
The officers and directors of
the fair are already looking for-
ward to next year’s celebration,
and plans are being made for an
improved fair. The mistakes of
this and. other past years will be
corrected, and Silsbee will put on
a show to be proud of.
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