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Sunday, October 1, 1961
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summer home of Adelia, her hus- home, her mother was English.
band, Frederick Delafield, and
So is her literary mother. The
T. W. KING, JR.
their daughter Lucy. It is also ghosts of all the English novels
the home of villagers and sheph-
one read in college live, move
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B. J. Chute is Joy to her fami- dwelt in English novels for sev-
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perately to free itself of the weight
half-shrouded in the mists of its
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then had wrecked the lives of her
could never marry her. His mar-
of the Nazarene which was found- earlier and his wife was in an
stronger point of B. J. Chute’s
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learned about Charles’s wife, it ster, but it is an engaging mon-
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Selby Pens
A Memorable
an American father and an Eng-
lish mother, she grew up in a
Moon and the Thorn." They have
nothing whatever to do with Am-
erica in 1961, living under the
threat of nuclear warfare, or
The performer who is more interested in the size of the audience than in the
number of curtain calls spends most of his time looking for work.
icance of a nationally syndicated
columnist whose corny effusions
were read by millions of females.
She had tricked a simpleton of
fellow Q
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As a member of this independent circulation auditing organization, we recog-
nize the power of reader confidence — that they have chosen to be a member
of this paying audience of their own volition, and that they will continue to do
so only as long as we effectively serve them.
that Pilot Point is a good place
to live, work and start a new
ABC-audited paid circulation facts measure readers response in such terms
as how much they pay to receive copies, how many copies they buy, where
they live, and how their copies are delivered.
this novel, all will end happily,
as it does in this novel, and the
payment'will be cheap. For even
in life we know this is some-
rimes true.
A good critic should make a
English “rest home."
THIS LEFT Charles and Hen-
rietta nothing to do but slip away
from the island on a boat. For
30 years they lived in sin and
Paris and happiness with but one
irritating grain of sand in their
private oyster. After Henrietta's
first glowing letter to her older
sister Adelia, all the rest came
back unopened and unanswered.
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We must serve and satisfy the editorial needs and interests of people in our
area. The validity of this circulation audience and the applause readers give us
is registered by the Audit Bureau of Circulations.
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A $1 property tax rate and a
$1.35 school tax rate are furth-
er inducements for new residents.
The last of the city streets are
scheduled for paving early next
year, and the water supply is ade-
quate for future population
eral hundred years.
FOR THIS allegedly American
island is off no recognizable coast
Larry, the spoiled brat who be-
came a pervert.
Madame raised herself from
For advertisers, the significant differences between counting the audience
and measuring the applause is reader response.
lot Point within 30 minutes drive
to Lake Texoma and 20 minutes
from Garza-Little Elm.
The successful performer recognizes that only effective efforts build responsive
audiences. He seeks applause.
ed in Pilot Point in 1908. The
Nazarene Church founded Rest
Cottage where more than 2,500 un-
wed mothers from all parts of the
United States and as many babies
have been cared for in their Pilot
Point home.
Citizens voted back incorpora-
tion in 1906, and at that time the
present volunteer fire department
was formed. It, like the 10 oth-
er civic and fraternal organiza-
tions. offers many activities to the
residents. The Kiwanis Club is
the town's only men's service or-
ganization.
Agriculture remains the big bus-
iness in Pilot Point although four
factories have been started there
in the past few years. A slow in-
dustrial buildup, particularly the
smaller type of businesses, is ex-
pected during the next few years.
“There will be continued, solid
growth," Irick predicts. “We have
good water, good streets and are
close enough to the big cities, but
far enough away to be outside the
times, you cannot help but loathe
her, but you have to concede that
she was a woman of will — her
own will.
Selby has written his story with
skill. He leads you into it with
a gradually expanding chronicle
of Madame’s early life and then
caps it with Madame’s three self-
Chamber of Commerce She has
been holding 6 a.m. breakfast-
meetings of the directors to dis
cuss and plan the town’s develop-
ment.
While culture and agriculture
still meet, Mrs. Beck and the
the very first page, one finds the
heroine “garlanded in her private
grief,” her servant Rosa “blow-
ing about in a small, fierce tem-
pest," and the two of them con-
cerned with a “clown-faced poo-
die.”
And at the beginning of Chapter
2 a carriage arrives, “high-sided
lightness.” Throughout the novel,
B. J. Chute's prose has this same
"galleon lightness.”
Let us not forget that her fami-
ly calls her “Joy."
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COTTON IS STILL KING OF PILOT POINT AGRICULTURE
An Average Of 100 Bales A Day At The Massey Gin
Southwestern Life
AGENT
MRS. C. W. WOOD
“A Compact History of the Civ-
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Lady Monster
MADAME. By John Selby.
Dodd, Mead. $3.95.
A matriarch often is a benevo-
lent soul whose wisdom is a guid-
ing light to her descendants and
whose compassion is a golden
blessing upon her children and
grandchildren.
But in this story the matriarch
is an overbearing female whose
driving egotism devours her chil-
dren completely. Her name was
Gertrude Olivier Donner. Her
initials were G. O. D., to signify
the part she played in the lives
of her children—Don, who wanted
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was Adelia, the apparently more
marriageable sister, who had set
her cap for Charles. So back on
Great Island, Henrietta became
both a legend and an outcast.
Now, 30 years later, as the book
opens, Charles is dead and Hen-
rietta is coming home to face the
problem of her sister’s hatred.
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state, 12 churches were built or
being built, Texas & Pacific Rail-
way built a track through town
which was also used by M-K-T
trains. And a Masonic Lodge, one
of the state’s first, was organiz-
ed. During this time the first
brick building in the county was
erected on the square.
Cotton had become a major
crop and the first cotton gin was
built in the early 1870s, and a
few years later the largest gin in
the world was operating on the
spot where the present Lee Mas-
sey Gin is located. A. H. Gee op-
ened the first bank in 1884 and
prosperity came to Pilot Point as
an agricultural and trading cen-
ter.
With prosperity came the Ger-
man Roman Catholics and St.
Thomas Church was dedicated
in 1891. The new settlers integrat-
ed into the economic and social
life of the community with their
large, productive farm holdings.
They now have the only parochi-
al school in the county.
IN 1901 the Holiness Church
bought the old Franklin College
which had closed the year before
and, later, united with the Church
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order on the square in Recon-
struction Days, but history re-
calls “plenty of excitement for
all.” Pilot Point became a “Sat-
urday night” town with drinking,
drunken brawls and occasional
shootings.
By 1878 voters abolished incor-
poration which had been in effect
for 12 years and decided to do
without local government.
DESPITE THE unlawful acts
of a few residents and many
visitors, townspeople were shaping
the trend of the new community.
by the election of
Beck to head the
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PILOT POINT
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The town along the "roaring way”
was officially on the map.
Violence came during the Civil
War after 101 Pilot Point volun-
teers joined the Confederate forc-
es, leaving the town open to cat-
tle rustlers and other outlaws.
Large herds of cattle roaming the
prairies were stolen and thieves
celebrated in the town's saloons.
To counteract the outlaws, the
“Regulators" was formed and one
of the group's first acts was to
hang six cattle thieves in a
nearby oak thicket. Another who
escaped the mass hanging was
strung up on the corner of the
square.
Highway 99 is by-passing the
town. This new highway puts Pi- business.
THE AGONCY AND THE ESTASY, Stone.
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, Lee.
THE WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT, Stein-
beck.
MILA 18, Uris.
THE EDGE OF SADNESS, O’Connor.
NON-FICTION
THE MAKING OF THE PRESIDENT 1960,
White.
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE THIRD
REICH, Shirer.
A NATION OF SHEEP, Lederer.
INSIDE EUROPE TODAY, Gunther.
THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE, THE NEW
TESTAMENT.
ed. "The Priceless Gift,” a plan
for cultural self-education by Cor-
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identify herself, an equally select-
ed situation and problem—"the to be a musician, and having been
story of a beautiful woman who frustrated by his mother became
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America that conquered a vast
new continent. Just as England
is a tight little island of peo-
ple. so "The Moon and the Thorn”
is a tight little island of a book,
hanging in a never-never land.
But both islands have a pe-
culiar reality and vigor of their
own. It is a stagy reality, a con-
trived and plotted reality, an,is-
land reality. The typed villagers,
seamen, shepherds, nurses, spin-
ster, minister and principals
move through carefully charted
orbits and collisions and result-
ing emotions with a patterned and
foreseeable certainty. But it is a
vigorous movement, the speech
has flavor, and the graveyards
muse in the misty distillations
of Hardy. There is a salty old
man who is the essence of all
the nonagenarians one has ever
known. Believe it or not, in 1961,
there is a witch.
IN FACT, all the emotions with
which the story is concerned are
female emotions, and the wom-
en will love it—particularly the
women who read novels in bed.
For the story is built on a beau-
tiful legend which all of us—men
and women—want to believe, that
a woman who sins for love is a
brave, a beautiful and, ultimate-
il War” by Col. R. Ernest Dupuy
and Col. Trevor N. Dupuy was
selected as a memorial for Mrs.
C. W. Woods by Mr. and Mrs.
Hank Erwin and sons, Hank, Jr,
and Scotty.
frank McReynolds
As a memorial for Frank Mc-
Reynolds of Orlando, Fla., son of
Hrs. S. L. McReynolds, Judge and
Mrs. Ben W. Boyd and Mr. and
Mrs. Joel D. Fowler gave "The
Green Year” by Barbara Webster.
FIVE MOTHERS
“Little Britches,” the autobio-
graphy of Ralph Moody during
his boyhood, was selected as a
memorial for Mrs. Ada Cade Mc-
Curry of Rockwall, the mother of
Mrs. J. E. Savage, by Mr. and
Mrs. B. Carnie Marsh.
"Lone Star Leader, Sam Hous-
0008
aenmiceim.
never marry her," to quote the
jacket.
The story: When Englishman
Charles Bryce came to America,
he fell in love with a business
associate's daughter, Henrietta
Blackwell, the moment he walk-
ed into the parlor of their island
summer home and saw her por-
ler gave "The Will To Believe”
Blackwells, the island is still the grew up in a Minnesota Country by Marcus Bach
students from several parts of the Shakespeare, Ben Jonson,
other English poets.
for Mrs Kate Robbins Taylor, the
mother of Mrs. Jack Hodges, by
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Brooks.
The two volume set of Arthur
Cleveland Bent’s “Life Histories
of North American Birds" has
been ordered for the library’s me-
morial shelves. Volume 1 will be
for Mrs. Julia Hill, the mother of
Mrs. C. E. Curry; given by Mr.
and Mrs. George M. Hopkins;
and Vol. 2 will be an addition to
the shelf for Mrs. Pearl Rowland,
the mother of Mrs. H. E. Roberts,
presented by the American Legion
Auxiliary.
"Images of Peace," a television
chronicle of a turning point in
history, was added by Judge and
Mrs. Ben W. Boyd and Mr. and
Mrs. Joeel D. Fowler as a mem-
orial for Mrs. Allie C. Walsh,
the mother of Mrs. L. Doyle
shanty to the Rolls Royce munif- ly, a virtuous woman. If she must
pay for her sin, as she does in
Because Madame is a thorough- lyric and imaginative style. On
ly disgusting creature of her . .
THIS FAMILY data may seem
irrelevant to a discussion of "The
Moon and the Thorn." But con-
sider the following observations.
Here is a novel by a profes-
sional writer, a popular writer, a
sometime best-selling writer, a
member of a family of writers—
in short, a book by a "pro.”
It has all the trademarks: a
fresh, adroit prose, a very care-
fully selected heroine with whom
the female reader may secretly
riage had broken up five years offspring by alternately neglect-
ing them and ordering them about.
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growths.
INSTEAD OF the “roaring chamber directors are proving
way" of the past, a modern State *
was judged a sinner because of , .. „ ,
her love for a man who could escaped extinction by seeking fru-
being added to the memorial shel-
ves in the Denton County Public
Library.
Among the latest memorials :
CHARLES L. DICKEY
Starting a memorial for the
Rev. Charles L. Dickey, Mrs. W.
J. McConnell chose “Look to the
Rock”, one hundred ante-bellum
Presbyterian Churches of the
South, by Daniel W. Hollis, and
photographs by Carl Julien, which
surveys the history of Presbyter-
ianism throughout the South.
“The Story of America’s Reli-
gions" by Hartzell Spence was
added by Miss Eulah McElroy.
The Literature Department of
the Ariel Club selected the new
biography of one of America’s
most famous authors, "Sinclair
Lewis" by Mark Schorer.
Dr. and Mrs. James H. Dough-
erty ordered the late publication,
“The Age of Reason Begins, 1558
-1648" by Will and Ariel Durant,
which is Vol. 7 of Durant’s schol-
arly “The Story of Civilization."
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon A. Dibble
added Warren Armstrong's “Tal-
es of the Tall Ships," a group of
true stories of the old sailing
ships.
ARTHUR E. MACKEY
As a memorial for Arthur E.
Mackey, Mr. and Mrs. John C.
Roberts selected "Iris for Every
Garden” by Sydney B. Mitchell.
The Denton Garden Club added
“Lilies in Their Homes” by F. R.
Maxwell, representing two of Mr.
Mackey's hobbies.
Judge and Mrs. Ben W. Boyd
and Mr. and Mrs. Joel D. Fow-
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se. 2327 a
Mrs. Montgomery and "A Teach-
er’s Guide to Children's Books"
by Nancy Larrick was given for
Mrs. Mizell.
To commemorate Mrs. Mizell's
work with the Indian schools of
New Mexico, Mr. and Mrs. W. B.
Chambers of Sanger gave “Coch-
iti a New Mexico Pueblo, Past and
Present” By Charles H. Lange, an
award winning publication of the
University of Texas Press.
Three other titles were added
to the shelves for Mrs. Montgom-
ery, Dr. and Mrs. Charles H. Sau-
nders and children. Charlie and
Gail Ann, have ordered pre-publi-
cation "The Romantic South,” a
collection of Southern authors’
works, edited by Harnett T. Kane.
Mrs. Mary Patchell selected
"The Conspirators of the Crown”,
an English history of the reign of
Queen Mary and her sister, Queen
Elizabeth, in the 16th Century, by
Hugh Ross Williamson.
“Shakespearean Playhouses,” a
history of the English theaters
from the beginnings to the Re-
storation, by Joseph Quincy Ad-
ams was given by Col. Lloyd R.
Garrison to commemorate the
friendship between Mrs. Mont-
gomery and his mother, the late
Mrs. R. H. Garrison. Both women
served as presidents of the Shak-
espeare Club.
MRS. WILL D. BONDS
Starting a memorial for Mrs.
Will D. Bonds of Lewisville. Mr.
and Mrs. Wesley C. Hendrixson
of Lewisville gave "This is the
Holy Land, a Pilgrimage in Words
and Pictures,” conducted by Ful-
ton J. Sheen and photographed in
color by Yousuf Karsh.
The newest titles on the current nelius Hirschberg, was given for
non-fiction lists are constantly.....
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Hazelwood. She and her two sis- l
ters became professional writers,
and she herself has written many
short stories for major maga-
zines, and four novels, including
the best-selling “Greenwillow."
Another initialed sister, M. G.
Chute, has • contributed regularly
to the Saturday Evening Post.
Marchette, the only one to publish
under a feminine name, is a seri-
ous biographer of Chaucer,
revealing sketches of her chil-
The reason—before Henrietta had dran. He has created a mon-
louniedlarbrolgh
ster, and a memorable one-
MILES A. SMITH.
MRS. MONTGOMERY, MRS.
MIZELL
Starting a memorial for two
former members, Mrs. C. A.
Montgomery and Mrs. Phoebe
Goode Mizell, the Literature De-
partment of the Woman's Shakes-
peare Club chose two titles con-
nected with the teaching profes-
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THE MOON AND THE
THORN. By B. J. Chute. E.
P. Dutton & Co., Inc. 190
pages. $3.75
By GENE SHUFORD
Record-Chronicle Book Critic
Once the summer home of the again that though B. J. Chute
P.O. Box 937 Ph. 382-9362
Mr. and Mrs. Alex Williams
added "The Southwest. Old and
New,” emphasizing Texas his-
tory, by W. Eugene Hollon.
F. W. KUHN
As a memorial for F. W. Kuhn,
the father of Mrs. E. M. Acker
of Sanger, Mr. and Mrs. H O.
Harris chose the newest book on
Texas, an autographed copy of
“The Face of Texas” by Green
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