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TilE ALTO HERALD, ALTO,'TEXAS, SEPTEMBER 17, 1936.
NO. 21.
A Litt!e Ado
About
Something
By A. Hick
Sinco the distribution of the
hot'kict, Two Hundred Fifty Years
itiAs Since eBonSath R9Rrsvoaoa
tf Alt i iiistory, dozens of interested
[eisons have written in to inquire
fAn) Where is Aito?" Being what
j i- and as famous as it is, we are
tnnnnl to exclaim the ignorance of
people is amazing! From our
jtudy of oid Spanish records we
found conclusive evidence that
tflmi Columbus set sait in 1492 he
§aa war i-ing under secret orders
tom leniinand and Isabella to find
tilf). t\<lumbus made several trips
{c t f X' w Worhi and finaiiy died of
!s, n heart. He never reached
H;o.
in 1539 De Soto landed in Fior-
)a. rested a few months and headed
{rainht for Aito. Ancient historicai
pcutmnls prove [beyond a doubt
[at De Soto was in the milk business,
[hen he got to the Mississippi
ivct- he was compieteiy knocked out
y the sight (of so much water and
pped dead without ever seeing;
[to.
! However it remained for La Sailc
) liiscovei- Aito in 1686 when he was
!sn:)iing for the Mississippi River,
[e passed by Aito and went on to
hcogdocties, but when he found
mat n mistake he had made, he got
i sick he had to stay in Nacogdoches
to or three months before he wais
k'l enough to make it back to Aito.
t retnained here iong enough for
p historians to write a compiete
^to;y of Alto, which has proved to
of invaluabie assistance to all de-
ing a knowledge of eariy events
importance.
The ancient inhabitants of Aito
iit four mounds, one for each
r in the name—Aito. This was
ine in order that no one shouid
3 Aito and still be ignorant of
location. At some later date on-
siastic members of the Asinis
amber of Commerce moved one
the mounds over to Nacogdoches,
cy probably wouid have transport-
all of them, but the Grand Xinesi
Alto got out an injunction re
aining the Asinis from taking any
re of our mounds to Nacogdoches
d so we still have ieft three marks
identification.
ceently in conversation with the
t'. C. Woodward, he informed
that in transiting the Bfbiical
!ords of Creation, he found that
n is a four ietter word which
m and Eve used when speaking
iAIto.
)n 1821 Peter Ellis Bean re-dis
}ered Aito and tried to settle on
the land around here, but the
Eomb and Berryman families
d of this land of paradise, so
came over, ousted Peter Ellis
took the country over for them-
}es.
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R'. McDonald is wearing a reguiar
[h-paste smile, the kind that won't
off, the reason being the "Mrs.
or" has returned from her sum-
vacation at Eureka Springs and
idoctor is having his hot biscuits
in.
A-H
his weeks flowers go to Durward
rs, another home town boy mak-
good, opening up a grocery
! and giving away ice cold
nude all day last Saturday!
A-H
!d John Henderson returning to
irst iove, Alto and Allen's Drug
having been in Livingston for
^i months. .John says his consti-
just naturally calis for red
the red soil of Alto.
A-H
'ogan cornering the market
"ck eye peas and running the
UP to where it wiil take a
'1 bond h,o!der to buy a bow!
t ticker.
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A. E. McKenzie states she
ound out what is the matter
^hc world. Everybody is trying
"I' ins book^ by algebra. Mrs.
M?<e has a young son in high
to whom she has been en-
to lend first aid in al-
!A man had $20.00, he collect-
"M. but when the algebraic
obeyed the answer was
$2.00.
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y. September 17, is Jewish
"ar, Rosh Hashona, 5697.
Cherokee
County Loans
Up To $117,250
FORMER ALTO WOMAN
DIED SUDDENLY
AT ZAVALLA
-so hours after she had become
a mother for the third time in her
[life. Mrs. Simon Graham, nee Miss
' j'^"' ''""CP, age 41, died at the
fn Cherokee county 91 loans were residence at Zavalla at 6 a. m.
closed in the amount of $117,250.00 :^turday morning. The condition of
by the Federai Land Bank and the ! horn son, who has been
Land Dank Commissioner, from May j Andrew, was described as
I, 1933 through June 30. 1936, Satisfactory. According to attending
cording to information received Mrs. Graham's death was
H. P. Drought, National Emergency ! heart failure.
Councii state director for Texas ! Funeral services were heid at
Of the loans dosed in thi< countv* ^
ttns county ^ church ^t), Nations of that
community officiating. Interment
Reviva! Began
Last Might At
M. E. Church
12 for $24,100 were made by the
Federal Land Bank and 79 totaling
$93,150 by the Land Bank Commis-
sioner.
Through the agency of the Farm
Credit Administration in Texas
$196,139,976 has been loaned during, Mn<. Graham is survived
'he same period. These loans indud- „hc-.- .,„;s. Jimmv and
ed 18,363 of Federal Land Bank
was in the City cemetery here being
in charge of OaMcy-Mctealf Funeral
Home of Lufkin, assisted by R. R.
Stribiin^ of thig city.
Besides her baby, born Saturday.
by two
sons. Jimmy and DiHie; one
brother. .Tack Prince of Livingston;
loans for $89,429,400; 31,213 Land and her husband, who is a druggist
Bank Commissioner ioans in the j at Zavalla.
amount of $58,151,000; 27,593 Pro-
duction Credit associations totaiing i
She bad been a resident of Za-
At 7:30 Wednesday evening. Sept.
10th, a ten days revival began at the
local Methodist Church.
The visiting evangeiist is Rev. J.
H. Malone of Palestine, Texas.
Brother Maione is a man of severai
years experience in the ministry.
He has gained through this experience
knowledge of human nature and
its problems. He has discovered the
remedy that proves most helpful in
meeting life with certainty. In those
places where ho has served, his
leadership has been sane and per-
manently reliable. jWe enter this
series of services assured that wc
wil', be lead to higher experiences.
The iocal church has been work-
ing that the services may be far
teaching in their helpfulness to the
entire community life. Each and
every service is directed to the en-
$27,780,358- 1"3 286 emerccncv /""^i'iehment and inspiration of Christian
emetgcncy prtor to her marriage was a school tannin n,„ ..nf^it;^^ n.„
ctop loans amounting to $13,808,994, teacher there She married in 1930 t t' r ^ enfolding before the
...w) ... i; f i r ane martteu 'n i-'-'" [church of [ts p]ace tn the world of
and 4J,834 dtought iclief loans for i,,t Nacotfdochcs She was a member ^ ^ ^
07(19-)^ ! i\ai.o),<-ocnts. ^ne ssas a mcmoer^,]^ ^e leading of men,
. Baptist church. women, young people, and children
In addtt.on to refinancing loans} Mrs. Graham was the only daugh- j^to n tight relationship with life,
through the Farm Credit Administer of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Prince, ,.„n,e to know- God through
tration, the farmers in Texas were ! both deceased, and was born and ! }^t Jesus.
benefitted lalso by a reduction of raised in Aito, Mr. Prince being for
mortgage principal which amounted several ycr.r.T connected wiih the
to $6,288,500. Further Savings re- Blount-Decker Lumber Co., which
You are gi'en a most cordiai in-
itation to be with us in every ser-
ago
suiting from bwcred interest rates; operated hero several years
are cs'minted at $3,550,000 annuaily. j
In the period May 1, 1933 through ! ^ - --
June 30. 1936. 765.674 mortgtag. jQjjmgh YambOfee
ioans, totaling $2,056,156,826 were I
made and $1,391,373,603 was ad-j
vanced in ioans to co-operatives, I
while $318,878,072 was loaned to co- {
operatives by the agencies of the ]
in the.
Vice. We assure you a friendly greet-
WH! Be He!d
October 22--24
Farm Credit Administration
United States.
inn and a Christ-like regard, for your
[own convictions. We soiicit your co-
[ operation and ask you to pray
earnestly that our combined efforts
} may reveai the true nature of the
) kingdom of God. which perfects the
brothethood of men; and that this
glorious kingdom may be 'more
j definitely established in Aito.
Texas i Services at 10 o'clock in the morn-
Baptist To Have
County Wide
The tocond annual East
!Yamboree, sponsored by the Gilmer I'"K ^t 7:30 injthe evening.
; Chamber of Commerce to buiid up
{agriculture and encourage the yam.
i will be held at Gilmer October 22,
I 23 and 24.
Retspeetfully,
The Methodist Church.
More than 40,000 persons are ex-
TraiHSMH Course !"^ted to be attracted to the three-
** I day event, the program for which
will include exhibits of the yam and
September 27th to October 4th,farm products,
has been designated by the Daptist! a parade, street carnivai, football
churches of the county as Baptist: game and a. brilliant 'pageant and
Training Union Study Course Week.^''°"?'"°" 9"°°"
According to Mr. Herman Shuttles-!^"'" " ctowne
worth, president of the county wide] Governor James V. Allred, who re-
organization, at least twelve of the cently officiaiiy proclaimed the week
sixteen churches are expecting to} of October 18 to
NURSERY MOTHERS CLASS
MEETING
October 24 "Yam
have from one to five classes taught Week" in Texas, has accepted an in-
in each church.
Both local and out of the county
workers are expected to lead in teach-
ing the books to be studied. Mrs.
Bonnie Grimes of Nacogdoches, will
probably teach a class in the Alto
church. Mrs. Wallace Clark is {sche-
duled to teach a c!ass at Forest,
Definite p!ans as to workers in Cen-
tral High and Camp Ground church-
es have not been announced. Mrs.
Murphy of Nacogdoches wiil teach
at Oid Palestine.
Ciass periods in the churches will
last approximate!;' one and one-half
hours. Mr. T. C. Gardner, State B.
T. U. Secretary, is expected to be in
the county for a part of the week.
Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Whiteman
stayed in California so long their
many friends became alarmed, think-
ing that they had been captured by
the motion picture studios.
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Shattuck,
Mrs. C. A. Bennett was hostess to
the Nursery Mothers Class of the
Methodist Church Friday afternoon
September 11th, from four to six
o'clock.
Mrs. Arch Holcomb was in charge
of the program for the afternoon.
After an inspiring devotional, the
leader called on the foliowing mem-
bers for their discussions along the
lines of child management: Mes-
dames S. P. Fox, T. R. Crawford and
Tom Black. After a round table dis-
cussion of these topics, the meeting
was dismissed by prayer.
TJie social hour was spent on the
lawn where the hosteas, assisted by
Mrs. Tom Alien, served delicious
punch and cookies.
A most enjoyable feature of the
afternoon was the revealing of the
identity of the "Sunday School
Sister" for the past month and draw-
ing names for the coming month.
Mam Street.
Page the street for the man with
the hardest job. City Marshal Biil
Brunt collecting street tax—and
getting somewhere. He makes a haif
way promise that "we might get the
streets oiled, if he can coiiect
enough." This recaiis the fact to
mind that Mayor Hill and City At-
torney Lawson wore the rubber
down on their cars going t3 Tyle?
to get a project through to pave the
streets. The "project givers" said
yos, if you get the property owners
along the streets to give 15c per
foot. [Enough property owners said
no, to kiil the project. You have the
an'swer — muddy streets in wet
weather and housewives condemning
dust in dry weather. Let's hope Bit'
)?ets enough to oil some of the
streets anyway.
Mrs. A. E. Danheim comes to the
printing office to buy card board and
colored paper, which means that the
kindergarten (that always was a hard
word for us to spell. Look it up and
see if we got it right) has started in
Alto. She geM more fun out of thia
job than money, because she likes the
little ones. She's got a partner in
this endeavor in Erna Merriwether.
Both could carry the title of "young
brain developers," and their past per-
formances gives them the trade mar!,
of success.
Lrdy gimme a piece of pie this
week because I mentioned her name
in this column last week. I was over-
whelmed. Newspapers don't fjtneral-
ly "get." It's mostly give.
Business men's wives who can't
get their husbands to pick up a
broom at home, should come down
town any mottling and stand on th'
rrilroad track on San Antonio stree'
about 7 o'clock. They're cleaning
off the sidewalk and they raise sc
much dust you can't see the cen'e-
of main street. Still somebody 'beefs'
about the streets being dirty. Poo)
old Uncle Jake.
Ailene Rozelle forgotten in the
schooi write-up last week. Glad
she's level headed and did not "ball
us out." Without prevaricating,
(that's another hard 'un) we can
say she's one of the best teachers
up there and didn't deserve to be for-
jgotten, but if you'd been there Mon-
morning when we were, you'd be
surprised that we got what we did.
When the rural busses came in, it
looked like the crowd at the Texas
Centenniai—oniy smalier. The school
board is contemplating getting Hart
p strait jacket. They don't want a
bald headed Superintendent.
HOLCOMB—BOWMAN
packing her
for the trek
and dear oid
college days—minus one set of ton-'growers to the tune of more
sils and adenoids. f""'' 'i""'"'*'
Helen
trunk in preparation
back to Nacogdoches
vitation to come to Giimer ani crown
Queen-Yam on Friday night, October
23.
Many prizes will be awarded in
various contests to be held, ranging
front the finest yams to the best.
recipes for cooking the delectable
tubers.
At least twenty counties, which
joined in contributing to the success
of the first Yamboree last year, will
again be represented by exhibits and
many will send pt-ia<na"M to pat-tic-
ipate in the pageant and coronation
ceremony.
Recognizing the need of emphasiz-
ing both the food and monetary val-
ue of the yam crop, the Giimer
Chamber of Commerce last year in-
vited al! East Texas to help celebrate
the first Yamboree. As a resuit,
more than 25,000 pet-sons filled the
city during the two day celebration.
*As a food crop, the yam ranks. visitor.
first in the State of Texas. There } i _ _
were 71,000 acres of yams grown in' A Newark street cat-conductor be-, for speeding, she grabbed his book
Texas in 1935. with fin average of lieves he discovered the poiitest of violation tickets and slapped him
90 bushels per acre, producing drunk some nightis ago. The in-} soundly tin the face with it. Sent
6,390,000 bushels, enriching the ebriated one arose to give his scat to to jail for five days, she did not
han r. lady when they were the only two protest, but remarked: "It was worth
passengers in the car. it,"
Maurice Y. Hoicomb, son of Mrs
Laura Holcomb of Augusta, and Miss
Lura Bowman, daughter of Rev. and
Mrs. Jowel Bowman of Percilla, were
united in marriage at Hutchints, Texas
; September 12.
Members present were: Mesdames After a short wedding trip to the
W. N. Roberson, S. P. Fox, Arch centennial, they will make their
Holcomb, A. B. Powers, Garrett Hoi- in the Liberty Hill community
comb, Perkins Hoicomb. Arthur j^g}r ^ny friends wish them a
Brooks, B. H. McLendon, Albert Hoi-} and happy married life.
comb, Alfred Spears, Eugene Glenn, i
T. R. Crawford, Curtis Rix, John j Q^y one out of every 166 per-
Ailen, Jr., Herman Jones, W. E. ];yeg [ong enough to die of old
Conger, Tom Allen and' A. E. Dan-'
heim. Mrs. Willis Holcomb was a;
When Patrolman Koster of De-
j troit stopped Mrs. Elsie Gat-lane'
LET'S ALL PLAY FOOTBALL W!TH TED
clean in habits, clean in character,
and a fine example for the boys he
is working with. He has built up an
Alto spirit in his football team, but
he can't keep it there if he is forced
little en-} Central High, Jones' Chapei and Lin-I that they might do that, Ted Moore [to piay his football team away from
t ttft A! .. 1! HO tvsonti !o lift rtmrn thnn hnlf thn tinm tm-
let's nlavball with Ted Moore! wanted to do, they have iaid them, to get them here. When the Alto
From tinu! * to time, criticism has; aside and went out to practicc. , boys run on the field tomorrow
been cast at the Alto High School; Thirty toys, each one trying to be, afternoon, they wiil go out - —
Football Coach, and 95 per cent of
tn new
e of eleven that make a football. helmets, new .black and orange
it was not justifiable, and came from! team. Boys from Alto. Redlawn,! uniforms. Get that. NEW. In order
sources that had ^ Whether they all make it orispent $187.00. What we mean is, hcjhome more than half the time be-
couragement to neither the coacn
not, they are working for the team,! is to PAY IT. Whether you ever see ! cause he doesn't get the support in
nor team. foot-lfor'the school and for Alto. Get that, a footbali game or not, he'll pay it, Alto that he is entitled to.
Let's bunch up and join tne too
ball LU and ^ayJff the criticism; they are working for Alto. They
team. Here is the lay out this year, want a winner, worse even than the
and it will produce a winner if Aito
will back it up:
Coach Ted Moore has thirty boys
who have been going out to try and
make the team. They have been
working hardi and ifait hfui eveiy
afternoon for the past three weeks.
No matter what other things they
and like he has in the past,
you'll never hear him "gripe" about
coach, and the Lord knows he wants! it. The oniy heip he expects is what
one bad. ; Koes througth the gate in admissions.
But above all things, they want] All of this is for one purpose:
Alto support. They have to have it. To bring victory instead of defeat
to win. 11° Alto. It's about time we took as
Tatum wili be here tomorrow, i much pride in the school and team
Friday, the first game of the season. [ as the Coach, or quit our eternai I winner as well as they are. Back 'em
Ted Moore had to guarantee $40.00 [griping. We've got a good coach, ^to the limit.
Go to the football game tomorrow
afternoon. If you don't know any-
thing about football, go anyhow!
Holler! Let 'em know you are
there and behind the footbail team.
Remember, they are playing for your
school and. your town. You are the
New Church
Bui!ding Needed
At Oid Paiestine
For several years the pastor and
members of Old Palestine Church
have felt the need of a new church
building but, owing to the depression
and tshort crops, no definite steps
have been taken toward a building
program untit the iast few weeks.
The condition of the old church
building has become such that the
cost of repairing it would, be too
great, as both the foundation and
roof would have to be rebuilt.
Therefore, it was decided that the
old building would be torn down and'
the sound lumber be used in a new
buiiding, one more modern and
adequate for the needs of any oc-
casion that might arise.
Due to the fact that Oid Patestine
Church is one of the oldest churches
in East Texas, and that the cemetery,
adjoining is one of the largest and
best kept country cemeteries in this
section of the state, there are a great
many who should be interested
enough to contribute toward help-
ing put up a new church building at
this place, so an appeal is being
made to the people of Alto and sur-
rounding neighborhoods for your fi-
nancial assistance in this worthy
cause.
Most of the members of this church
pre poor people who were not able
to pay their taxes or meet their other-
obligations during the past years of
depression and drouth, but they are
gradually paying off these old ob-
ligations and are making every sacri-
fice possible toward a new church
building.
People of every denomination, and
some who do not profess to be Chris-
tians. are contributing and we feet
that God is blessing our efforts.
It is the purpose of the finance
committee to see the people of Alto
and vicinity within the next week
or two and solicit your help. How-
ever, if they fail to see you and you
would like to help out either with
your money, material or labor, please
see some member of the finance com-
mittee, who are as follows: George
W. Smith, Chairman; J. W. Will-
iams, Vice Chairman; Paul White-
head, Secretajt'y-Treast^'er; Robert
McCuistion, Mrs. W. W. Wiolfe,
Mrs. Etta Smith, Mrs. Vioia Murphy,
E. L. Collins and Walter L. Smith.
T,he plans for the building have
been drawn and tentatively approved.
We believe that when this building is
completed that you will agree with
us that it adds much to the appear-
ance of the grounds, and cemetery
and that its field of usefuiness is un-
united.
Finance Committee.
October 1st.
Dead!ine Set To
Pay Street Tax
All persons in Alto who are subject
to street tax payments are hereby
warned that if their street tax is not
paid by October 1, 1936, they will be
notified to appear at a certain point,
later to be designated, for the pur-
pose of working the streets in the
City of Aito. There wiil be no ex-
ceptions to this ruling, and all will
be treated alike.
Bill Brunt,
City Marshal.
MATTRESS RENOVATING
I have my mattress machine up
and ready to go at Dickey's Store
at Central High. We specialize in our
well known guaranteed Dorothy Mae
Mattresses. Your old mattresses
made like new ones. 'I call for and
deliver my work. Phone me at
Dickey's store or drop a card in
care of W. H. Dickey. Route 1,
Alto, and I will be glad to come and.
show you ticking samples and get
your old mattress.
Wade Tannery.
FOR SALE
Something new: Deiicious dairy
butter .spread. Sweeter and freshet*
than any butter you ever tasted.
Also sweet cream. See Mrs. Paul
Whitehead, or telephone 235.
Mise Beatrice Lempel of Los An-
geles makes a living sorting and
matching glass eyes for {mounted
specimens.
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