The Alto Herald (Alto, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 18, 1930 Page: 1 of 10
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The alto Herald
F. L. WEIMAR. EDITOR AND OWNER
VOLUME XXX
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $1.50 THE YEAR,
THE ALTO HERALD, ALTO, TEX)AS, DECEMBER 18, 1930
NO. 34,
Highway Dept.
Wants Action
Citizens who live and have
property on the San Antonio
highway within the city limits
of Alto, have a proposition in
their control that mean a great wjil be sung, and the Scriptur-
SPECIAL CHRISTMAS
SERVICES SUNDAY
The yested choir of the
Methodist Church will render
two special programs of music
Sunday. The beautiful hymn
"Joy to the World" will be
sum? as a processional by the
choir. Other Christmas Hymns
deal to the entire citizenship al Anthem "Break Forth Into
of the whole town and com- j0y" arranged by Simper from
munity at large. Isaah 52:9 and 10, will be
We refer to the matter of given.
signing right of way deeds in At the evening service an
order that the State Highway1 antinbonal rendition of the
department may complete the well loved Christmas Hymn,;
work of asphalting the main "Silent Night" will be heard/
street of Alto. The Christmas Cantata. "The
This matter has been star of Bethlehem" will be
brought to the attention of the rendered in part, the entire
city authorities time and again | evening hour being given to
by the highway department, the Christmas music. The so-
and the request is now being ]0ists will be Mesdames Finan
made with the admonition that smith and Walter Martin. A
if it is not done at a very early,duet, "Away in a Manger" by
date, the highway department Lieurance, will be sung by
will use the funds' appropriat-
ed for this purpose elsewhere.
A good many of the deeds
have already been signed up,
and a committee of business
men will go out tomorrow to
see those who have not signed
up and make a last minute ef-
fort, to get the matter settled.
It is a rather peculiar thing
that some of the people who
are asked for this right of way
seemed to think that they are
giving their land away. No-
thing could be farther from
the truth. The state
Carrie Joe McLendon, soprano,
and Marguerite Crawford, al-
to. Mrs. J. C. Huddleston is di-
rector, very ably assisted by
Miss Mary Fisher at the piano.
The public is cordially invited
to attend both services.
METHODIST CHURCH.
Sunday school at 9:45 a. m..
League at 6 p. m., preaching
by the pastor at 11:00 a. m.,
Christmas Cantata at 7:00 n.
, _ m. The choir will appear for
oa * i the first time in vestments.
is ?imply asking for an 80 .oot j^on>^ mjsa these services,
right of way deed. This is de- Larpre congregations attended
manded from the state by the Sunday's services and five
Federal government before members were received into
the state can get the rederal .^ombership of the church—
aid, and the person who signs >,v profession and one by
one of these do^ns is not deed- cer+?fi<*aie
ing their, land away to any- J. C\ Huddleston, Pastor,
body. Tho -trtyfc 'nrht in
the same olao. No one «lse ~ ~ * ~
takes charge of it, no one live- vith us in the matter. It is of
on it, it continues to be a part very grave importance at this
and parcel of the owner's time, for if we leave the street
property, but on paner. it as it now is with the gravel
shows the Federal Govern- and oil on it, it will only be a
ment that there is an 80 foot matter of a few months until
As Solomon Might Say It If
He Were Lining Today
(By ROBERT QUILLISN in Fountain
Inn, S. C., Tribune)
Man is of few days and full of trouble. He laboreth all
the days of his youth to pay for a gasoline chariot, and
when at last the task is finished^Lo! the thing is junk and
be needeth another. He planteth cotton in the earfh and
tilleth' it diligently, he and his servants and his asses and
when the harvest is gathered irijto barns he oweth the
landlord eight dollars and forty cents more than the crop
is worth.
He borroweth money from th
syrup and gasoline and the ir '
hath. He begets sons and educa
ettes and wear a white colls *
hands and neither labor in the I
the sun. The children of his lol
them become a lawyer and aij
station and maketh whoopee
The wife of his bosoim n«<
when he rebukes her, Lo! she
He goeth forth in the m6rning j
the city and a jitney smiteth h^
through his epidermis. He drir
juice to forget his sorrows and J
his liver.
All the days of his life he fir
is tormented by traffic cops frd
cometh back. An enemy steal^
move his inner parts and, his teJ
daughters showeth their legsT
hardeneth in the evening of lif
ing to keep pace. Sorrow and
all the dajs of his life, and whe
fathers they sayeth: How muc
lenders to buy pork and
eat eateth up all that he
2th them to smoke cigar-
and Lo! they have soft
aids nor anywhere under
are onery and one of
ther sticketh up a filling
the substance thereof.
Ceth with a stranger and
k'teth him in the finale,
the road that leadeth to
so that his ribs project
!th a drink of whoopee
burneth the lining from
Sth no parking place and
his going forth until he
his car; physicians re-
and his bank roll; his
strangers; his arteries
rid his heart busteth try-
Ill collectors follow him
he is' gathered to his
did he leave? Lo! he
hath left it all. And his widow fejoiceth in a new coupe
and maketh eyes at a young s;
and playeth a nifty game of b
Woe is man! From the day
when earth knoweth him no
and catcheth the devil. Dust
his name is mud
TEXAS STATE TAKES
OVER BULLARD BANK
k that slicketh his hair
e. ■
his. birth to the time
he laboreth for bread
as in the beginning and
PROMINENT ATTORNEY j
DIES AT NACOGDOCHES
V. E. Middlebrook, 65, prom-
inent attorney of Nacogdoches
died at his home Monday after-
noon at 4 o'clock after a short
illness.
Judge Middlebrook was a
former member of the court of
civil appeals at Beaumont. He
was also a former mayor and
was active in all civic move-
ments in Nacogdoches for th-
past 28 years. He was county
judge about 1902, and had
practiced law since that date.
Judge Middlebrook was
born in Georgia, and came to
Texas in early youth. He mar-
ried at M'inden, Rusk county.
He is survived by his wife;
two sons, Edward and Eugene;
and six daughters, Mrs. Lo^
rena Farmer of Richmond, ana
Misses Affie, Vera, Mamie and
Ruth, and Mrs. Tom J. Bucha-
nan, all of Nacogdoches.
PARENT-TEACHERS
MEETING
Oil Company Makes
Two Locations
The Alto Oil Company made
the first two drilling locations
on their 14000 acre tract east
of Alto Tuesday.
The Cherokee county loca-
tion was made on the D. W.
Kellum farm four and a half
miles east of Alto. The Nac-
ogdoches county location was
made on the J. N. Craft farm,
three miles southeast of Doug-
lass.
Work of getting material on
the grounds for the erection of
the derricks will go forward
just as rapidly as possible, ac-
cording to Mr. H. F. Mitchell,
president of the company, and
it is now planned to have drill-
ing in full operation just as
soon after the first of January
as possible.
Representatives of this com-
pany are very optimistic con-
cerning their holdings, and
point to the fact that with oilt
Friday, December 19th, Par- already found on the north in
ent-Teacher Association will Henderson county and north-
hold their regular meeting, j east in Cherokee and Ander-
The organization of Parent-! son county, they have good
Teacher Associations is one of reasons to believe that oil will
the most nromising movements be found in paying quantities
today. When the home and in this new wildcat location,
school agree to support each|
500 Pairs of Shoes to go at
street through Alto.
A little reason will convince
the most skeptical that them
will be no nroperty movnd
back at this ti™e, or for any
time to come. Had the state
highway department contem-
plated any such move, t^ey
would have made the property
owners move back and Kid t.Vie
base wider to begin with. It is
it will be full of holes, and in
th'e shape it is now in, the oil
ard gravel road cannot be
dragged, and we will be in a
worse condition than we were
before the oil base was ever
placed on the road.
It is high time for the citi-
zens of Alto to begin to realize
the importance of working to-
gether for the betterment of
and within a very short
ie now. as soon as the rec-
ord* can be verified, the de-
A notice appeared in this pos tors may write their checks
paper Saturday to the effect omHhe Texas State Bank and
that the Security State Bank of thev will be honored. It may
Bullard was in financial dif-j be accessary first, however, for
ficulty, but that efforts were each depositor to appear at the
being made looking to liquidat-
ing the bank and paying off
the depositors in full. Since
that time, through the good of-
fices of the bank examiner, J.
T. McMillin, with the co-opera-
tion and financial assistance of
the First National Bank, First
State Bank and the Texas State
Bank of this city and the Tyler
purely a matter of helping the Alto. We have . been working Bank and Trust Company, a
St«t« Hiohwv Com-iiifjf.ion individually for a long time, deal has been closed whereby
get Federal aid for this road, n.nd this highway matter would the Texas .State Bank of this
and if it is not done, we wi'l br- « mightv fine time to get to-
have to take care of our own gether and make a concerted
street, as the department effort for the betterment of
seems to be out of patience the town in which we live.
Pleasant Service
"It's A Pleasure to Serve Y ou" has
long been a slogan here. We delight
in giving you good service, good food
served like you like it, andjmake the
price so attractive you'll come back
Mrs. A. E. Boyd, Proprietor.
PHONE 68 ' ALTO, TEXAS
city take? over the assets of the
Bullard bank, and has agreed
and obligated itself to pay off
and discharge the deposit lia-
bility of the Bullard bank, ful-
ly paying the depositors in full
as their accounts are shown on
the books of the bank, and
otherwise to discharge in full
other liabilities of the bank, as
they are shown on its books.
The assets of the Bullard
bank have already been taken
Texas State Bank promptly and
have their signature registered
with the bank's officials before
attempting to draw their mon-
ey therefrom.
The Texas State Bank be-
comes the owner of all notes,
accounts and other assets of
the Bullard bank and all per-
sons who are indebted to the
Bullard bank, may take up the
settlement thereof with the
Texas State Bank.—Jackson-
ville Progress.
Friends of Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Richardson will regret
to hear of the death of Mrs.
Richardson's sister, Mrs. Ollie
Martin, who died at Wharton
Tuesday night. The remains
were shipped to Lufkin for
interment.
other morally and materially,'
the'education system will pro- •
fit greatly. However, the chief,50c * WoHo„,
function of the parent-teacher; e y n & Watters.
organization is not money rais- _
ing, it is necessary to have DROP your watch and DROP
money to furnish aid to the lnto Bee Wal-DROP, Rusk,
school when it is needed.Fri-
dt v is the day set aside for the1
^'Chicken Drive." Pleas? bear,
/this in mind and if .you_ not -
have a chicken het votfr- cliild.
or children, bring the price of
a chicken or else send eggs.
Quite a neat sum was derived,
last chicken drive, and as this
is the last it is honed that each
will respond to the call.
Following is the program:
Song: Joy to the World. (
Prayer—Rev. ,T. J. Ray.
Peace and Goodwill Mes-I
sage.
Quartet: Holy Night.
Christmas Story—Rev. Ray.j
Reading: "His Xmas Rose"i
—Pauline Houston.
Piano Number—Nettie Lee
Poore.
How can we give our chil-
dren a " happv Xmas in our,
homes—Rev. Robt. Smith.
Second Grade—Xmas Num-[
ber. !
Piano Number—Joy Allen.!
Xmas Story : "The Green, j
Green Tree"—Mrs. R. R. Strib-
ling.
W. H. Rix
visitor Monday.
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J.D.Sartain Filling Station
GOOD GULF GAS AND NO-NOX MOTOR FUEL
Ajax Gold Bond Tires
QUICK AND COURTEOUS SERVICE
Day Phone 259 Night Phone 260
Gordon Hosiery
FOR YOUR CHRISTMAS GIFTS
Through a national advertising campaign of
Gordon Hosiery Mills they have made it pos-
sible for us to give you
Regular $1.95 values, 3 pair $3.00
or 1 pair for $1.19. „
All the New Colors.
Buy this High Class Hose and save money.
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL
W. E. Williams"
A new Calender for every Man and Lady
who calls at this Store Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Mc-i
Anulty and little son arrived ,
Sunday from Kansas and willj
be located here for a while, j
Mr. McAnultv is connected!
—— | with the Shell Oil Co. They
was a Rusk i are occuping the Curtis Rix
home in the east part of town.
Get the Christmas spirit and
insure your love ones. The
Young People's Mutual affords
those within its age limit the
opportunity to carry protec-
tion at the lowest possible cost.
Use application in this paper.
A MERRY CHRISTMAS
We sincerely wish you one
and all. At this time we'd
like to suggest that the
National Bird be changed
from the Eagle to the Tur-
key; we never have tasted
fried eagle, but we have
had our teeth in many a
piece of fried turkey.
We'd also like to have you
change to FORD BAT-
TERIES for certified satis-
faction and a gratifying
realization of what bat-
tery dependability can ac-
tually provide. In FORD
BATTERIES you will find
a combination of perfec-
tion and service that de-
fies competition.
FORD 13 PLATE BAT-
TERIES @ $7.50 fits 95
per cent of all cars, with
allowance for your old
battery.
Alto Motor Co.
Phone 240 Alto, Texas
Sweetheart Cakes
\ Baked Fresh Every Day
• For Sale At Your Qrocer
Minter's Hot Shop
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Weimar, F. L. The Alto Herald (Alto, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 18, 1930, newspaper, December 18, 1930; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth214577/m1/1/?q=middlebrook: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Stella Hill Memorial Library.