The Saint Jo Tribune (Saint Jo, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, April 3, 1942 Page: 1 of 4
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Bits o Nothing
By E. B. H.
We found a lot of comfort in
looking over the 50-year-old rec-
ords of the First National Bdnk
this week. H. O. Field's account
was oftimes "in the red" or "OD"'
back in those days—and now he
is president of the institution.
* * *
Of course banking laws are some-
what different these days and such
"ODs" are not possible without
Rroper signatures, which usually
are rather difficult to obtain, at
least on our notes. Another thing
about Mr. Field, which makes us
hopeful that some day we can
amount to something, is the fact
that he opened his first deposit
with only $41. He never had to
serve the various stages of "build-
ing up" to head of the institution.
He started our first as a director
and then president, while Vice-
President Roach had to start out
as "general flunkey" as he recalls
it. Jim Embry is another lucky
banker—he started in with the 1st
National as a vice-president. Geo.
Wright informs us that he, like
Sam Roach, started at the bottom.
According to all of that, one
would guess that young Cameron
Field Roach, son of the vice-pres-
ident and the "general flunkey" of
the present organization, has a
hopeful future ahead. Beginning at
the bottom, he should know the
business from the floor up, by the
time he become head man.
* * *
We have Just learnea that Mr.
T. A. Wiley, Saint Jo's oldest man
—about 93, is about our most reg-
ular reader and says he never mis-
ses a week of reading this column.
"What ever you do, keep Bit-o-
Nothing coming," he says. Now
when a young-up-start like us can
hold the interest of a man of ex-
perience and he tells us so—we're
complimented.
* * *
Some people think young George
"Son" Pedigo and hundreds of other
young Americans are taking big
chances with their lives when they
fly around, up above the clouds
so high, but other modes of trans-
portation are sometimes more dan-
gerous. Son, home for the week-end
took "pop's" car and motored over
to Gainesville. He was driving a-
long, finding his own business,
when—wham! Both cars were
"injured." The other guy was to-
blame.
* * *
Our sympthy this week goes to
Mrs. D. C. Berry, Jr., who suffers
with hay-fever at the oddest times.
Most victims have sneezes in late
summer or early fall when things
begin to die. But, not Mrs. Berry.
Her eyes swell-to, and her nose
wants to stop doing its part in the
breathing act, along about the time
when things begin to bloom and
the world is growing lovely to
about everyone—except Mrs. Berry.
We once lived where we had hay-
fever and we know how she suffers.
* * *
Good news for golfers. The U.S.
Rubber Company has announced
a plan for obtaining all old golf
balls it can and to re-cover all
balls in fairly good shape with a
new kind of material called tji-
petir. To distinguish the balls from
new balls of the same brand, the
company will mark . "re-processed"
on the outside of all balls it works
on.
* * *
Good news for women: War or
no war, the American woman must
continue to stand erect, trim with
no drooping here and there to mar
the picture. To that end, the B. F.
Goodrich rubber company has pro-
duced the first synthetic rubber
thread ever developed in this
country to replace natural rubber
thread, essential in the manufact-
ure of girdles, brassieres and foun-
dation garments.
* * *
The neWest thing in drug store
cocktails in some places is report-
ed to' be—the victory Cocktail. It
sells for 10c and is—one glass of
pure, ice water, and one ten-cent
Defense Stamp—to slap the Japs!
* * *
When it comes to waste, 1,500,000
Texas school children can do-
or save, according to dope on the
subject supplied us by Jackie Bail-
ey of the local home ec depart-
ment. Space doesn't permit furth-
er discussion here this week.
I# vb lilN*
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AINT JO
Serving Wide Area of Cooke and Montague Counties In Northwest Texas
Established In 1898
VOLUME 44
8alnt Jo, Montague Comity, Tex. Friday, April S, 1942
NUMBER 42
Highway 82 Is to
Be Resurfaced
Resurfacing of 15.7 miles of U.S.
highway 82 from Nocona east thru
Saint Jo and to the Cooke county
^line is planned by the Texas Hi-
department, and bids will be
^pened on April 10 at Austin, it
Vas announced from that city last
\The project calls for mixed in
of bituminous concrete pave-
it of the highway for the dis-
order has yet been received
\he proposed work on the
end of the Montague-Saint Jo
far as the Tribune has
The project, when it was
last fall was to have been
early this year.
HIGH OVER RANDOLPH! Slic-
ing through the air in his low
wing monoplane, this Aviation
Cadet at Randolph Field is one
of Uncle Sam's future flying of-
ficers now receiving his basic
training at the "West Point of
the Air." Take-offs and landings
instument flying, and aerial arco-
batics, plus an intensive ground
school course, has prepared these
pilots-to-be for a final "polish-
ing-up" at an advanced training
school. Soon they will be com-
missioned as 2nd lieutenants in
the Army Air Corps and will be
ready for a tour of duty with
units of the Air Force Combat
Command. Cadet enrollment is
expected to show a sharp increase
FIRST NATIONAL BANK TO OBSERVE 50th
ANNIVERSARY ON TUESDAY OF NEXT WEEK
Fifty years for the life of a
banking institution in this south-
western country cannot be said to
be unusual, yet it is the exception
rather than the rule for the banks
that have operated in this area,
it was pointed out this week as
the First National Bank nears its
50th anniversary on Tuesday of
next week. It was on April 7, 1892,
that Messrs. C. C. Hemming and
H. T. Douglas opened what was
then known as the Saint Jo Bank.
The original institution was op-
erated as a private bank until 1900
when Mr. Douglas sold his interest
to the late S. M. King and associ-
ates and a National Bank charter
was secured for the First National
Bank of Saint Jo, Saint Jo, Texas.
It has operated under its original
charter and capital stock of $30,-
000.00 since that time.
The original ledger of the open-
ing day's business reveals that the
Saint Jo Bank had a capital of
$20,000.00 and its total deposits on
that day were $3,557.51, its total
resources slightly more than $20,-
000.00. Compared with those early
records, the bank today has de-
posits totaling more than $500,000.00
and surplus and undivided profits
of approximately $16,000.00 in ad-
dition to its capital.
During its fifty years the bank
has been served by only three
presidents, viz C. C. Hemming, S.
M. King and its present president,
H. D. Field. It has had only five
cashiers: H. T. Douglas, T. E. and
Joe Bowers, Roach and Wright.
The present personnel: H. D. Field,
president; S. C. Roach, vice presi-
dent; H. D. Field, Jr., vice-presi-
dent; Jas. H. Embry, vice-presi-
dent; Geo. A. Wright, cashier and
Fred Meador, bookkeeper. Directors
are Field, Arthur Kingery, S. C.
Roach, Geo. A. Wright and Field.
The bank was first located in the
building by now being occupied by
T. M.' Collier, grocer, and later
moved to the building occupied by
the telephone exchange. Constru-
ction was begun on the present
banking house in 1912 and was
first occupied by the bank in Feb-
ruary, 1913.
Among those who have served
the bank in various capacities dur-
ing its existence are the following:
H. T. and N. G. Douglas, T. E.
Bowers, Nat Williams, Henry G.
Leonard, Joe Bowers, A. A. Bog-
gess, S. M. King, J. H. Whiteside,
G. L. Benson, F. H. Hemphill,
Arthur Littell, H. D. Field, C. J.
Meek, S. C. Roach, J. S. Ross,
Sam Payne, Fred Roling, F. H.
Perryman, Miss Kinzie Medley, El-
wood Dunbar, Ulis Burns, Miss
Annie Lee Wright, Geo. A. Wright,
H. D. Field, Jr., Jas. H. Embry,
Fred Meador, J. L. Huey, J. S.
Dearen, Worth Grigsby and Roach
Admire.
The bank has weathered all of
the financial storms and panics,
including both the 1907 and 1933,
without its capital being at any
time impaired and without levying
an assessment against its stock-
holders. The depositors' funds have
never been in j«opardy. The bank
was robbed of $900.00 on Oct 10,
1934, for which two men are now
serving prison terms, the third
robber died in prison a short time
ago.
Only three of the original pat-
rons of the bank that eventful day
are now living, they are: T. A.
Wiley, Geo. Rogers and Tom Pur-
year. The first day's deposits, total-
ing $3,557.51, were taken from the
original records as follows:
J. D. Bellah $861.00
Bruton, W. S 22.00
Brown, R. J 15.47
Bailey, J. W 55.50
"Collections" 300.00
Cook, J. A. 225.16
Evans, J. D 403.85
Hughes, Thomas F 42.10
Hendricks & Thomas 100.45
Howell, V 30.00
• Johnson, R. M 175.00
McDermott, P. P 201.67
Pettit, Jno 62.25
Puryear, Z. T. 158.75
Phillips, G. W _... 200.00
Rogers & Puryear 315.71
Sampson, R. F 93.60
Shultz & Savage .... 35.00
(General Merchandise, Dye Mound)
Smith, E. C 40.00
Whaley, M. H 75.00
T. A. Wiley, Co 145.00
Present day citizens who partro-
nized the new institution during
the first few months of its estab-
lishment included such names as
are still familiar in most business
circles today. Names and dates tho
accounts were opened and their
amounts follow:
W. L. Thomas, April 14 .. $300.00
D. L. Dowd, April 28 $241.80
H. D. Field, May 4 .... $41.00
J. H. Chancey, May 18 .. $120.00
C. F. McGrady, May 27 .. $35.00
(Now living in New Mexico)
Smith C. Pedigo, May 30 $160.00
Meador Bros,. June 7 $500.00
(S. D. lives here, T. S. is dead)
J. S. Ross, July 16 32.75
S. J. Hott, Sept. 27 $215.00
W. J. Walker, Oct. 10 .... $70.00
W. S. Chancey, Dec. 2 .. $50.00
(Now lives at Memphis, Tex.)
H. D. Field has been active in
the institution since he purchased
his first stock, in the amount of
ten shares on July 1, 1903, a little
more than a year after the bank
was opened. He purchased his first
10 shares July, 1903 from A. A.
Boggass and received certificate 28.
In August of the same year he
bought 10 more shares and received
Certificate No. 29. Sometime short-
ly after that he was made a direct-
or and in July of 1907 he purchased
fifty shares. Two months later, on
Sept. 4, he was named president,
succeeding the late S. M. King
who had resigned to accept the po-
sition of vice-president of Lind-
say National Bank, later known as
the Gainesville National. Mr. Field
has been active with the local
institution longer than any other
individual. Joe Bowers was associ-
ated with the business for 40 years,
or longer than anyone, althought
he was not active much of the
time. He sold his interest in Decem-
ber of last year about the time
the First National purchased the
Citizens National Bank.
Geo. Wright Is next tn line of
service, having been with the bank
21 years, since May of 1921. Roach
was with the bank for seven years
one time and later returned to be-
come next in years of service.
H. D. Field Jr has been with the
organization for a number of years,
but Jim Embry and Fred Meador
have only been in the bank since
January of this year.
"The officers and directors of the
First National Bank are happy to
acknowledge their appreciation for
the loyalty and cooperation of its
many customers," is a statement for
publication reads, "without which
it could not have enjoyed any
measure of success and solicit their
continued friendship and coopera-
tion, pledging the bank to the up-
building of Saint Jo and its trade
territory."
Local Elections
Attract Voters
GILES. GORDON.
DOWD IN RACES
FOR CITY POSTS
Interest in the annual city elect-
ion continued to mount this week,
with the announcement of T. E.
Giles for re-election as mayor and
D. L. Dowd, former mayor of &
number of years ago, back in the
race. Dr. M. L. Drabing announc-
ed his candidacy early last week.:
W. F. "Bill' Donley is opposed
for re-elction as city marshal' by
Charlie Gordon, night watchman
here for a number of years. Gor-
don announced his candidacy Fri-
day, according to Mrs. Bige Davis,
city secretary. 1
Giles, who had not made a public
statement when the Tribune weift
to press last week, filed his name
Friday and Dowd entered the race
the city secretary.
Interest in the election is ex-
pected to reach a new high by
election day. All candidates in the
mayor's race are exceptionally
popular as are the two candidates
in the marshal's race. The Don-
ley-Gordon contests in previous
years have always brought voters
to the peak of interest.
The election will be held Tues-
day of next week. Voters will al-
so vote on an ordinance for a ten-
cent tax levy for the police fund.
No opposition has been announc-
ed for the two aldermen posts,
for which Geo. A. Wright is seek-
ing re-election and Doyle Powell is
an announced candidate for the
post left vacant by retiring council-
man C. N. Turner.
SIX MEN ARE IN
RACE FOR LOCAL
SCHOOL BOARD
Voters of the Saint Jo Inde-
pendent School District will go to
poll Saturday to vote the last three-
man ballot they will vote in three
year. Interest in the contest is re-
ported to be high as six candidates
teke their places in the field.
' <M the ballot for re-election will
bte the names of T. L. Richey, sec-
retary of the board, and Fred Hol-
land, member. Other candidates
for the three posts are Field Grant
Hoover, Cecil Bellah, Arthur Phil-
lips and Earnest E. Hayley.
''The election, to be held at the
City Hall, as far as the Tribune
could learn late Thursday night,
is expected to attract the largest
number of voters a local trustee
Saturday by filing his npme. .with. Jfclfiction has received in a num-
OLD HEN DAY IS
AGAIN SUCCESS;
PRIZES GIVEN
The Tribune's 8th annual old-
hen day was again a marked suc-
cess, despite the high market price
which prompted many subscribers
to pay $1.00 cash rather than dis-
pose of a priceless hen at this time.
Approximately 50 new subscribers
were added to the list, althought
some have been cut because of
expirations.
The top heavy hen of the day
was brought in by Mrs. Sam Har-
wood, city. The hen weighed 9%
pounds as compared with the top
hen brought in by J. H. Embry
last year and weighing 9% pounds.
Mrs. Harwood was mailed a check
for $5. as first prize money.
Second prize was taken by W.
A. Williams, route two, who had
a hen weighing 9 4-10, one-tenth
short of the first prize. He re-
ceived $3, second prize money.
Third prize was won by Mrs. R.
L. Williams, route one, with a hen
weighing 8 9-10 pounds. Prize was
$2.50. Fourth prize was taken by
C. R. Hoover, city with a hen
weighing 7 6-10 pounds, and was
paid $1.50. This fourth bqnas was
a new division this year. In other
years only three prizes have been
offered.
Others bringing in heavy hens
which almost placed in the money
were: Annia Wilson, city, 7 pounds;
Mrs. J. A. Redman, route two,
7 and 1-10; and Jewell O'Neal, rt.
two, 7 and 2-10.
This year's "long distance champ"
came from Mrs. W. G. Besheons,
Durant, Okla. She sold an old hen
at a produce there and mailed
the Tribune a receipt and money
order. It takes one heavy and one
light hen to pay one year's sub-
scription outside Montague and
Cooke counties.
CEMETERY WORKING IS
SET FOR APRIL NINTH
A cemetery working at Mc-
Grady has been set for Thursday,
next week, April 9th, it was an-
nounced this week. '
The public has been invited to
attend and bring work tools and
basket lunch.
ALL-MALE SHOW
NETS FOOTBALL
TEAM NEAR $30.
A style show of unusual merit
—to say nothing of style and figur-
es— was attended by a nice crowd
at the high school gymnasium on
Tuesday night. The all-male affair
was a benefit for the Panther
football letter fund. A total of
$29.27 was taken in at the gate.
A number of businessmen work-
ing in cooperation with the foot-
ball players, modeled all types of
ladies' garments, much to the de-
light of those attending.
The list of characters and the
garments worn follow: house coat,
Cecil Lawler; pajamas, Cecil Smith
and C. N. Turner; morning dress-
es, Billy Julian, Allen Bohanon,
Gene Evans, Ralph Donnell, sport
dreses, Mule Thompson, Roy W.
Lawler, Doyle Goulding; indian
girl, Wilie Golding; house dresses,
Dilbert Bowen, shorts, Paul Jones,
Purity Bread boy; slacks, Field
Grant Hoover, Dave Roberts, Ber-
chil Kuykendall, J. C. Smith, Sun-
day dresses, Herschel Boyd; grass
skirt, Cy Young, bathing suit.
Charles Yetter, sport costume,
Lester Victor; evening dresses,
L. W. Mitchell and E. E. Hayley.
Others assisting in the fun-mak-
ing were Happy-the-clown and the
girls chorus.
WOODMEN TO
HONOR 50-YEAR
MEMBER HERE
Farrar Newberry of Omaha,
Neb., national secretary of the
Woodmen of the World, will be
honored by an area-wide meeting
to be held at Gainesville in May,
it was disclosed at a meeting at
the Gainesville camp Tuesday night
it has been announced.
Also expected to attend and be
recognized will be Smith C. Pedigo,
Saint Jo, who this year is com-
pleting 50 years of continuous
membership, according to announ-
cements from Gainesville. A special
meeting in his honor is to be held
here by the local camp on April
28. District Manager E. L. Mann
of Wichita Falls has revealed.
Sinclair Workers
to Give Blood
Sinclair employees, members of
Oil Workers International Union
Local No. 44, of Bonita and Walnut
Bend, have voted done blood to
the United States military forces,
it was disclosed here this week.
The workers, many of them live
in Saint Jo, and work in the Bo-
nita field, have taken the action
as a patriotic one.
ber of years, according to "street
predictions."
TETTER DANCE*
TICKET SALES
ARE UNDER WAY
Members of the 1941 Panther
football team went to work in
earnest this week as sales of tickets
for the "Letter-Dance" was open-
ed Thursday. The dance, featuring
Gordon Shay and his orchestra, is
to be held at the Aldriedge Bldg.
Thursday night of next week.
Proceeds from the dance are to
be used toward purchasing letters
for the football players of last
season. The sponsors of the ball
must sell sixty tickets before they
can begin to realize any benefit
from the affair, since the orchestra
is costing them $50 and other ex-
penses, including $5 for advertis-
ing and $5 for the hall must be
paid from the ticket sales. All above
that amount will go directly into
the sweater fund, which now has
$29.27, proceeds from the all-male
style show of Tuesday night.
The athletic fund has been in
bad condition most of the year, ac-
cording to a statement handed the
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BRING YOUR OLD
TUBES IN WITH
YOU, OR NO SALE
WASHINGTON—Uncle Sam has
laid down his own send-in-box-top
rules for seving precious tin: From
now on, to buy a tube of tooth-
paste or shaving cream, you must
turn in an old tube.
The War Production board fig-
ures there are innumerable lumps
of tin and tin alloys in the form
of empty collapsible tubes on the
shelves of American bathrooms,
and kitchens as well. The order
issued Wednesday, completely elim-
inates the use of such tubes for
foods (such as fish paste and chees-
es), cosmetics and moist toilet pre-
parations.
Retailers are to be held respon-
sible for enforcing the tube trade-
ins by purchasing of shaving
cream and tooth paste. The trade
in tubes do not have Y be exactly
the same type. The merchant
will hold the old ones until further-
orders from the director of indus-
try operations. Eventually, it was
understood, the used tubes will be
reprocessed and reallocated to man-
ufacturers.
With the rich tin mines of the
Straits Settlements now in the
hands of the Japanese, the once-
common metal has assumed new
importance in the riation's war
economy. WPB officials estimate-
that the new order would reduce
the tube industry's consumption
from 5,000 tons a year to 578 tons.
The restrictions on tubes were
announced shortly after the issu-
ance of other emergency orders
designed to save essential mate-
rials and speed the conversion of
factories to war production. Toy-
makers were instructed to quit
making electric trains after July 1,
and to quit using scarce metals*
plastics and colorings. The use of
iron, steel and zinc in a long list
of household gadgets was restrict-*
ed. Production of vaccum clean™
ers must be halted after April 30.
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New subscription rate now in ef-
fect on the Tribune: Montague amt
Cooke counties, one year $1.23; Out
of area, one year $1.75. Cash in ad-
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