Navasota Daily Examiner (Navasota, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 139, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 10, 1939 Page: 1 of 4
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NAVASOTA, TEXAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1939
NUMBER 139
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to Bolton and they anticipate a big
ow, who adopted her M she could inherit legally a $100,004 estate. Nancy is IS years old.
New Association
Cotton Council
SOME WILL
Formed to Assist
Senior Students
Here Wedn
by
Texas Marker
Pays Tribute
To Unionists
To Be Heid Sunday
as-
Dozen People Watch Federal Bureau
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the
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Eastland Sept. 28-30
and told him to go home.
Lone Violin Sounded Again at Festival
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tovsr the Townsite docks for the black
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Conroe to Have Annual
C.-C. Banquet Friday
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Mrs. J. M. Gabon formerly
Clara Mobley of Erwin.
and 9*4 at Coolidge.
Cotton pickers furnished
Fort Worth, Aug. 10. fUl’) —Open,
ing of a Federal Bureau of Investiga-
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j Young Women of
Baptist Church to
Go To Belton
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their findings and Mauaner I* B.
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100th Anniversary
Independence Church
Mother Wins . . He Travels Fastest. . $100,000 Smile
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By JULB8 B. HILLARD
United Press Staff correspondent
San Lorenzo, Chihuahua, Mex.. Aug.
10. (UP)—The rattle of gourds and
the plaintive tones of a lone violin
aounded again today in this village on
the Rio Grande below Bl Paso, Texas,
as Mexican Indians danced a tribute
to one of their patrons saints.
In a Ceremony of which no
knows the origin or meaning, grotes-
worship of the Sun, historical page-
quely masked and costumed partici-
pants shuffled in measured cadence In
in the village church yard, offering
individual prayers and asking favors
nt the feast of San Lorenzo.
At dawn the dancers began their odd
rltekr-a Mixture of old Aztec Indian
entry of the Spanish conquest of Mex-
ico, and faithful devotion to tenets of
the Catholic chnrcb. The ceremonies
end at sunset.
’ The Ran Lorenzo dances are part
of the votive “Lae Matachines** ritea^
qa Md as the coming of the Oonqulsta
dores, which are celebrated in the less
urban parts of Mexico on three big
Texas State Unemployment Service at racquets, musical Instruments and
Mexia gathered the bales. Roach said, era if they desire.
Roach asked E. C. Anderson, manager
of the local office, to furnish the lab-1 conferences will include :
orers, and Anderson obtained 26 for | Mathis. Dallas., state
El Paso, Aug. 10. (UP) — The will
of Jesus Esparza, filed for probate,
was short and to the point:
“Mrs. Candelaria B. Esparza re-
mains the other of everything and can
pick up everything. To---I give
the house. I do not give her more be-
cause while dying she put me out in
the street.” (
Value of the estate was said to be
about $150.
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Miss Juliette Mather, popular young
Mexia people's leader of the Southern Bap-
Groesbeck was the first of the year in
A dav after ha vino* the huh oinnwl '
It was announced at the meeting
of the ChambeF of Commerce today
that the annual banquet of the Cham-
ber of Commerce of Conroe will be
held Friday evening and that the new
president 'Dr. Hicks will take office.
Members of the Navasofg” organisa-
tion are Invited to attend.
Comfort, Kendall Co., Texas, Aug.
10.—'Seventy-seven years ago today, a!
battle occurred on the Nueces River
In Southwest Texas between Confed-
erate and Union sympathizers that
resulted in the erection at Comfort of
a monument to the memory of Union
soldiers, and the memory of loyalty
to/tbe flag that even the Confederates
And their descendants have grown to
admire.'
chke la one of the many killed in this term indorsement
manner. The place where it was dis “
covered is at the base of a cliff about
------- Hie Weather
Outstanding Speakers
Will Be Present
One of the greatest gatherings in
the history of the Baptist Church at
Independence is expected on next Sun-
day, August 13 when all former resi-
dents, their families and friends are
invited to take part in the celebra-
tion of the -100th Anniversary of the
old church.
“Homecoming Day” will feature the
(100 years of existence and service of
this historic church and such work-
ers as Judge R. C. Crane of Sweet-
water, Rev. D. R. Pevoto of Houston
and President Pat M. Neff of Baylor
University will be present.
This is the sixteenth annual home-
coming of the church and each year
people gather from all parts of the
state to take part in this celebration.
A splendid program has been arrang-
ed and those attending are asked to
bring basket lunches. Coffee and ice
water will be served on the grounds, each other before the employment.”
Rattle of Gourds and Plaintive Tones of
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Four-year-old Susan,
Hereford Cattle,
Goats, Turkeys
Will Be Shown
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The coming Grimes county fall fair
received a real boost receptiy when
W. A; Boney stockman-merchant of
v Iola reported that he will show a
truck toad of his finest livestock at
Anderson the coming season. Mr. ^Bo-
ney la one of the county’s most pro-
gressive purebred breeders and has
| done much to build up stock locally.
| His work with Hereford cattle has
been outstanding and he probably in-
troduces upwards of a hundred regis-
tered bulls per season on the pastures
of this section.
Likewise does he deal in Rambou-
lett sheep but he is perhaps better
known for work done with purebred
Angora goats and Naraganzat turkies.
His experiments with highly bred
goats in particular has been valuable
to our range owners for two reasons.
First it proved beyond doubt that An-
gora goats do excellently here when
properly provided for and second be-
cause their ability to hold the forest
in check which accomplishment makes
them doubly profitable to their own-
ers.
In the matter of turkeys Mr. Boney
has demonstrated over and over again
that tt is more money for the farmer
to grow and feed his turkeys around
the farmstead than it is to continue to
worry with trying to wise them on
the range.
Denver, Colo.—-A resolution advo-
cating a third term for Pres.. Roose-
velt and declaring him to be the only
Representative
employed la the hauling-
Williams told of the intfi
being taken by citlzeab-
tire county in regards tl
County Fair which will take place on
Reptember 28-29-30 at Andlrpon.
Mr. Galloway of the Employment
Service stated that only five persona
had tracks in the county suitable for
the hauling of the material used on
Highway 103 and that a number from
out of the county jute bought tn.
However he stated NtelAibt date a
number of men from thto section will
be pftaced oa other Jobe on this pro)-J feast days daring the year. A«
-t . M>. Baa Lorenzo (fit. LawnMoe)
.
Bus Has Been Secured
To Convey Group for
Three Day Meeting ,
G BeHyeeu ; twenty five and thirty
youpg ladies ‘of the First Baptist
i and' fhetr' leaders will go' fo '
next week’ *for 1 >
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r uur-yvax-viu oua.n, n»ft, daughter of Songstress Marion Talley and Adolph O. Eekstrom, will rema-
her mother’s custody nine months of the year, and will spend three months of the year with her father
cording to a New York judicial ediet. Center: This lone traveler, Francis van Vedergraven, eight, com
:ea the first leg of bls California-to-Holland light in Newark, N. J. In Holland he will visit his 7ithe
hi: Nancy C. Kenniobell’s happy smile won the heart of Mrs. Mary Adamson, wealthy Miami. ’-'’a
t Roach bad previously had the first j Belton Tuesday of
county’s, three days session pf the Girl’s ami
Mexia, * young Women’s Auxiliaries of the
a bus
In looking over the crop situation
here Mr. Saunders was agreeably sur-
prised nt the progressiveness of those
who till the soil in and around the
county What impressed him most was
the quality and quantity of John D.
Rogers Acala cotton being planted in
this section. Next in line were the in-
creased yields our farmers are getting
through the use of cyanamid fertiliser
and by the plowing under luxuriant
growths of cowpeas, all of which he
admired with enthusiasm in the lush
green fields of Grimes county where
cotton really grows.
the ex-students - association at their
meeting in Lake City, Colorado re-
cently.
The board also made an appropria-
tion to cover the expense of the place-
ment service for the coming year.
This new service will be handled in
the home office of the association at
the college for the present but a sep-
arate office and force will tie set up in
the near future.
Mr. McQuUlen said that at the start J criminal courts building watched him
as he forced open a rear door, enter
sociation.
This movement was adopted by the
members of the board of directors of
Thornton merchants gave him a $21
premium.
He said he received no premiums in ing. The fee will take eare of
Kosse or Coolidge. Me was given 9% and meals on Wednesday and through
cents a pound at Thornton and Kosae lunch on Thursday. The guests will al-
so bring with them bed linen and
the' towels, as well as bathing suits, tennis
t cam-
Mr. Saunders1 expressed much op-
tomism over the reception local inter-
ests gave the movement be represent-
ed. The committee which will work
with him over the county among rural
and urban handelers and growers of
the staple and its products has already
been named and will be announced
within a few days.
mium for him, he said. His bale in pus of Mary Hardin-Baylor College.
j Reservations should be sent to Mrs.
Limestone county. ( Gordon G. Singleton, Belton, the dis-
A day after having the bale ginned : Irlct leader, by Aug. 13 but the fee
in Groesbeck. Roach brought one to of $2.50, which covers all expense-, for
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the clmpas The
Eastland, Aug. 10. (UP) — Two
committee are at work planning the
13th annual Eastland County Fair and
the Texas Peanut Festival, both of
which will be held bore Sept. 28, 29,
and 30.
T, E. Richardson of Eastland is In
, charge of the livestock department of
the fair, which is to be enlarged this
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head of the peanut festival committee.
Mrix Jaschke waa fishing when he ---------——'--
noticed the akull in about six feet of j M1NKRN IMMMISE FIMC
water. He recovered it and sent tt to . FO* THIRD TERM
Dr. O. M. Ball, curator of the mu- ~
seum, for identification.
, The skull, with horn cores. La a
splendid example of early American available liberal to block '*■ reaction-
animal life. ary coalition In 1940” was adopted by
Dr. Ball says that in the early daya [cheering acclamation by the Interna-
the Indiana would round up the buf tlonal Union of Mine. MUI and Smel-
faloe and drive them off a cliff and ter Workers.
aa they fell they were kMled. and says *1%# CIO onion’s convention reetat-
no doubt that the skull found by Jas | ed in the reeoiutton a similar third
I adopted by the
hp VOLUME 44
W. A. Boney To
Exhibit Fine Stock
gravel is brought over teem Hauatoi today; Friday partly (toady la south,
by towbest. Ftftesa local tracks are I tbuadsrahowvra and cooler in north
Ipuettea.
Boy Break In Store Office To Open
Fort Worth, Aug. 10. ((Tt Dis-
crimination Certainly was not the
guide for the 10 year old boy who tion offlce lu the Fort Worth FMerai
broke open and entered a store with . building has been announced by E. E.
in sight of the Tarrant C-ounty Crim
inal Courts building.
At least a dozen persons
Conray, .special agent in charge of the
j FBI .office of Dallas.
Dwight MoCormick. FBI agent, will
lH' in charge of the local bureau.
The office here, together with "no
i in Amarillo, will handle FBI invest!-
’ gallons throughout West Texas. A. W.
Miller'will be in charge in Amarillo,
13th Annual Fair At
A. & Receive*
Another Loan Exhibit
College Station. Aug. 10. — The
Texas A4M College Musenm has re- ■
ceived another loan exhibit In the J
form of a bison (buffalo) skuU which
was found by V. H. Jsachke. of Vic
toria, about seven miles north of that year. Cecil Barham of Eastland
town in the Guadalupe River.
Only eighteen persons were present
at the organization meeting of the
league, all of whom took an oath not
to bear arms against the Federal Gov-
ernment.
On July 4, 1882, when a general
meeting of the league was held on
Bear Creek In Gillespie County, over
..,000 Unionists wore present to perfect
, their organization, and, among other
things, they organised three companies.
£ the Gillespie County company, the
*;■ Kerr County company. Frits Tegener
' Was elected Major to command the
battalion.
Word of' thia gathering of Union-
ists however, was carried to the Con-
federate forces and the General
command declared the counties
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loads of articles.
Among the spectators was Ike Eden,
a member of the grand Jury which ‘
was investigating crime. Finally, after
the youngster had made his second
trip into the store and otH again. Ed- :
en walked across the street, collared
the culprit, gave him a stern lecture,
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GRAVKI. RECEIVED FOR
ANAHUAC ROAD WORK I East Texas — Partly cloudy today
Anahuac, Tex.—The Haden A Aus ' and Friday. Fresh aoutbesst and
tin Ou.* of Houston is moving gravel j south winds on tbs coast.
West Texas — Partly cloudy, prsb-
topping at the Jane Brown road. The | ably thundershowers In the Panhandle
Mexis, where be received a $25 pre the houseparty, does not have to
mium from the Chamber of Commerce ' paid until arrival on
and 10 cents a pound for his cottoit houseparty will begin Tuesday evening
picnic lunch which will be
by the young women atteud-
a room
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Every Effort Be Put
Forth to Find More
Uses for Product
ed to realize a bale to every three Missionary Union; and the Rev. A. G.
acres. Miller, pastor of the First Baptist
Mr. Roach was formerly of Grinies Church. Mis.s T.otlie Hancock. Austin,
<\>unty and last year was married to who has been attending the North-
Mise Western University School pf Miy-ic ''
this summer, will direct the singing^
To appreciate what was in the heart
of the Unionists, we must look into
their backgrounds and see why they
had refused to take the oath of alle-
giance to the South’s cause. The fact
Is, they couldn’t see their way clear
to take this Confederate oath, because
they bad taken another, that of alle-
’ • glance to the United States flag and
to the Union. Foi- most of those who
fell in the battle of the Nueces River
were Germans who had come to Amer-
ica as the land of liberty and Justice.
In becoming naturalized citizens,
they were evidently sincere in their
oath to the flag, for when the matter
of secession came up for a vote, these
residents in Gillespie, Kerr, Kendall<
and other sections of Southwest Tex-
as voted strongly to stay in the Union.
When they next organized the Loyal
Union League in 1881, this was mis-
understood by the Oonfederates and
the sympathizers ot the South.
The intent of this league, according
to the descendants of those who fell
K \ 1 In its cause, was not to foster strife
between the North and the South but
J to peaceably protect its members and
their families from being forced to
j bear arms against the flag they had
|sworn to protect, also to protect them-
K selves against roving bands of hostile
■ Indiana, still prevalent in Texas in
that period.
W. R. Roach Brings
In First Bale to
Coolidge Wednesday
Mexia .Aug^ 10,
Thornton tiqd the. fir.it bale of ^939
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b -i
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The ^atiopal Ootton Council was
represented in Navasota Wednesday
by W. A. Saunders of Dallas who dis-
cussed with cotton minded people the
gigantic strides this organization is
making toward their organization and
' a general awakening of the industry
■ where they expect to met its present
drastic situation, (hie of the principal
points to be pushed by cotton plant-
ers ami processors as well, will be In
the Increased use of their pnxluct for
road building, sacks and binding ma-
terial for agricultural produce, grain
and lint.
only seniors will be placed, but as
soon as possible Juniors will be placed ' ed the store, and carried out two arm-
for summer Jobs.
“This service will be the first of Its
kind in the southwest and will l>e an
aid to both students and employers”,
he said.
“A prospective employer may select
a student during his junior year and
watch his work at school during bis
last year. By this means the employer
and student become acquainted with
Other speakers and leaders for the
Mrs. R. L,
• young people’s
him, he declared. | leader: the Rev. and Mrs. K L.
Roach has 40 acres in cotton on his ! Brown, College Station; Mrs. Clem
80-acre farm about three miles north Hardy. Waco; Mrs. B. A ('Opuss, DaL
west of Thornton. He wild he expect- las, state president of the Woman's
I is one of them. The dances, represent-
ling the struggle betwee good and evil,
have many variations according to the
locality and group performing.
Participants carry bow« and arrows
and gonrds rattles and deck themselv-
es ont lu skirt-Uke costumes of bright
red and yellow cloth, to which beads,
feathers, and bits of mirrows are sew-
ed. Plumed bead-dresses and grotes-
quely painted masks also are worn.
The rites are a strange mixture of
ideas handed down through the cen-
turies, with Im sic gestures, derived
from the old Astec sun dance, exem-
plified by the armed warriors and the
prefalling color of the Astec religion
—red Superimposed is a certain dra-
matic idea of the stories of Ortez
and Mectesom and the conquest of
Mexico. Catholic priests preside at
masses during the day and permit use
of the cbarch yards and Mints' ban
nera while the crowd offers individual
prayers. t. J. <
. Chief figures in the dances ars Mai
Inche, representing good, and Bi CMr-
100, representing evil.
Malin'be historically Is the Indian
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,W. it. Rohct).Of
cotton iftnned in- Cpoildife Wedbefiday. Chureh
h«az) viruviAnai Si-..* ’
bales ginned in Limestone county’s,"
, fbur other principal towns, Mexia, ' young Woman's Auxiliaries
Groesbeck, Kosse and Thornton. Old-1 chureh. Il is understood that
timers said this was a record, and Jhat has been secured to convey the group
never before In his(pry had one man t* -- *
brought the first five bales' into each time,
of the five towns of the county.
Roach, who came through I
Wednesday en route home after hav- tists, will be the principal speaker at
ing sold the bale in Coolidge, said he the bouseparty of members of the Girl’s
received his best price in Groesbeck, and Young Women’s Auxiliaries of the
where he got 12 cents a pound. Groes Baptist churches of the Fifteenth Dis-
beck merchants also made a $38 pre- j trict to be held Aug. 15-17 om the cam-
Such Service Will
Be First Of Its
Kind in Southwest
College Station, Aug. 10. — The As-
sociation of Former Students of the
Texas A. & M. College will establish
a placement bureau at the cod lege in
.September to assist graduating stud
ents In securing positions and to as-
sist employers in the Southwest to
get reliable men, according to an an-
nouncement made here by E. E. Me-
Qntllen. executive secretary of the
Pat M. Neff and Other h
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avasota Daily Examiner
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Nemir, Lucile. Navasota Daily Examiner (Navasota, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 139, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 10, 1939, newspaper, August 10, 1939; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1382224/m1/1/: accessed June 3, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Navasota Public Library.