The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, October 16, 1931 Page: 1 of 8
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Albany, Texaa, "The Home of th* Hereford" October 16, 1031
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Shackelford County Drenched - Precipitation 5.47
Delphiaa Club
Mn. J. L. Rarstow was hostess
Wednesday afternoon to the Del-
phian Club. The president, Mrs.
Joe Overton was unable to be
present, and the business session
was conducted by the vice-presi-
dent, Mrs. M. L. Hays. The Club
was pleased to receive Mrs. Henry
Green as a new member. Mrs.
Green has formerly lived in
rBreckenridge, and been identified
in club work there, and now
makes a welcome addition to the
Blue Bonnet Delphian Club of
Albany.
After response to roll call, Mrs.
Geo. Kiker substituted for Mrs.
John F. Sedwick and conducted
an interesting discussion of Inter-
national events. Mrs. Margaret
Wylie talked on National events,
and Mrs. Ore Hubbard gave some
interesting glimpses of State ev-
ents. Mrs. Louis Shoffet conduct-
ed a short parliamentary drill.
♦ The next hostess will be Mrs.
Merrick Davis, on October 28th.
At Dorothy's Picture
Show
Next Tuesday and Wednesday,
Octobet 20th and 21st, will be
two great show da^s in Albany—
"Seed" is the name of the play
that is coming, a short subject but
a great drama. "Seed" is the
meftt book in the fiction world,
everybody is reading it. It's the
game or battle between two wom-
en for a man's love. John Boles,
Genevieve Tobin and Lois Wilson
are the stars in this great drama.
See this play at Aztec next Tues-
day and Wednesday, October 20-
21. Let's give Dorothy a big
house for this show, she has bet
ier money on the play, believing
hat Albany would appreciate the
picture. You know Dorothy's
motto is, "Nothing too good for
Albany."
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Baird Vs. Albany
Baird and Albany battled for
supremacy here last Friday on the
Albany campus—Score 44 to 7 in
favor of Albany. Looks like that
Albany football team is making a
clean-up this year—So far, they
made Anson walk—Clyde did not
get a look-in.
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Voice Program
Mrs. J. T. Lowery was leader
for a Voice program Tuesday af-
ternoon at a meeting of the wom-
en of the Methodist Church. The
cession was opened by singing
#Close to Thee," and Mrs, Mob-
erley led in prayer. The leader
kve the Scripture lesson story in
own interesting way, the sub-
being "Comradeship with the
iiie." Echoes from the Wash-
ington Congress were givtlt by
MmM. Moberley, ShoTflt, Me-
Whorter and Suther.
Miss Clauaell presided for a
short business session at which
time it was announced that the
'Mission Study, "Korea, Land of
Dawn" will be started next |
•day. Every woman in the
is urged to attend as many
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CONFERENCE
/ The regular services will be
held at the Methodist Church
Sunday morning. Sunday school
at 9*5 and preaching service at
11:00 o'clock. Rev. E. E. White,
presiding elder, of Abilene, will
preach at 7:30 Sunday evening
und hold the fourth quarterly
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at the close of the
and visitor* are urged
hese service*.
BIRTHDAY GREETINGS
An Anniversary With a Kick
No one who has rubbed elbows with Col. Dick McCarty, edi-
tor and publisher of the Albany News, can doubt that anything
he celebrates will be celebrated with a kirk. Not that the .sa-
gacious colonel seeks to review the years or anything else
through the neck of a bottle, but that he puts virility and hu-
man nature, sympathy and sunlight into every line "ne writes
and every oratorical word he utters.
"The Sage of the Shackelford County Hills" won his title
not in banquet halls or in the halls of justice, but in the streets
of Albany and in the councils of his fellow county-men. It re-
mained for him to achieve the title of the most distinctive edi-
tor in America, and the distinction carries with it none of the
poppycock by which some notables break into the headlines of
an incredulous world. Jis is a distinction born of dignity and
beauty (not physical) and truth.
"Boy, use the originality and brains and sense that God gave
you," Col. Dick says, in substance, when he makes his annual
oration before the Texas Press Association. That philosophy
of his, that philosophy that has brought the gold of the Shack-
elford County hills to the world in the form of his brimful pen
siftings, created this typical news article in last week's Albany
News:
It looks like things are going to piek up, in fact already
picking up. Cotton is coming in pretty fair, not worth much,
selling around six cents. Nobody making much money out of
M—It means that thirty dollars Ls left here in the county. It's
estimated that the Albany gin will gin something like a thous-
and bales, that will mean thirty thousand dollars left here in
Albany. Will help some at least. Here is the situation, ev-
erybody must have their living at home. Two hundred farm-
ers in the county will have their own meat, plenty of feed, the
granaries are all full of small grain, most everybody 'nave Jer-
sey cows, and laying hens. Thee ellars are all full of canned
goods—Now that comes of diversification. We've got our liv-
ing at home, and this small cotton crop, and cheap lint cotton
is our surplus crop on the side. Not so bad, everybody has got
a job, the cry all over Texas is r cotton pickers, so if you
haven't got a job, it's because you s..e too durn lazy to work."
—The Scurry County Times.
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The Albany News
Last week's issue of the Albany News was its 47th Birthday
Anniversary Edition. The News is the oldest business enter-
prise in Albany. It has been under the management of Col.
Richard H. McCarty since 1916, who is one of the best known
newspaper men in Texas. It is conceeded that his editorials
are more widely read and commented upon than those of any
other weekly newspaper in Texas, even the nation's magazines
quote editorials from the News quite frequently. He is a close
student of nature and sees the beauty of all out-of-doors, and
has a style of writing all his own. Here's best wishes to Col.
M*'.('arty and the Albany News, and may they both nave many
more years of useful service.—Haskell Free Press.
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Congrats Colonel Dick
Colonel Dick McCarty, editor of the Albany News and fre-
quently termed "the sage of the Shackelford Hilss," issued a
birthday edition of his publication last week.
The issue which marked the forty-seventh anniversary of the
News, Shackelford County's oldest business institution, was pne
of unusual interest. The striking personality of the "prince
of Pioneer journalists" although unmentioned in the "Anni-
versary Jidition" was reflected throughout the eight pages of
interesting reading.
Congratulations, Colonel Dick; may your task be only half
finished.—Cross Plains Review.
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Austin, Texas, Oct. 6, 1931.
Col. R. H. McCarty,
Albany, Texas.
Dear Mac:
I take peculiar pleasure in congratulating you on the 47th
annual birthday of the "Albany News." I know you are not
47 years old, but can readily understand how the paper may be
much older than you.
You will recall my having met you frequently in sessions of
the Texas Press Association. I was denied the pleasure of at-
tending the Press Association for Texas last convention but
hope to be with you when your convention meets next year.
I will be interested in the success of ycur organization, and
Your friend,
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State Railroad Commission.
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Snyder, Texas, Oct. 3, 1331.
Dear Old Friend Dick:—
Please permit me to remove the spoon from "my-high-ball
after stirring it firmly and well . . . and drink to you, old
friend . . . with the happy thought that you will round out
many more newspaper anniversaries with the best written and
finest edited papt r in all the land, so damn unique that it takes
precedence over any paper in the land, barring none. That s a
perfect repetition, but I mean every word of it. straight from
the heart.
Fraternally,
"Jimmie" Smith.
Veteran Editor Stops Over Here To
"Get Breath"
Most visitors stop off in Mineral Wells to drink the water,
or to take the baths, but Col. Dick McCarty, publisher of The
Albany News, and orator of The Texas Press Association, stop-
ped off here Friday "to get his breath," while his wife and
daughter went on to Dallas to attend The State Fair.
No wonder Col. MoCarty is out of breath—he has been pub-
lishing his well known paper for forty-seven years and most
editors would have completely stopped breathing under this
strain, long before the half century had so nearly slipped away.
You know it takes a lot of "breath" to pilot a newspaper safe-
ly through the ups and downs of a community for almost half
a century.
Col. McCarty is a jovial fellow, whose gray hair still has a
tinge of red—evidence of the source of "pepper" sprinkled ev-
ery now and again throughout his paper. Few editors of Tex-
as newspapers are better known in Texas than Col, McCarty,
and few weekly newspapers are as popular as The Albany
News, with its editorials and stor'es written so originally by its
veteran owner.
Like other newspapermen who come to Mineral Wells for a
"rest" Col. McCarty had no more than settled his baggage
safely in the Crazy Hotel, than he ambled off down to The In-
dex to chat with folks "who spoke his language"—«.nd to inci-
dentally poke around in the exchanges with his cane for the
latest copy of The Albany News.
"It's the first vacation I have really had for forty-seven
years and I actually went to sleep this morning in the day
time," stated Col. McCarty. He had ir.tended to attend the
press day at the fair, but was not feeling any too well when he
arrived here, hence his decision to remain over for a short vis-
it in the resort city.—Mineral WeUs Index.
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In West Texas
What?a state daily calls "the most distinctive weekly paper
in the country" celebrated its forty^seventh birthday last week.
The Albany News attained Volume 4fi, No. 52. This week it
will raise the volume ante to 47. The News is the oldest busi-
ness institution in Shackelford county, we are assured in a
page-one write-up which was the contribution of one of Colonel
Dick MoCarty's numerous admirers. The history of the News
and Colonel Dick's connection therewith is ably traced in that
article—from the pen, we believe, of Mrs. Charlie Fryar, form-
erly of Abilene. Dick McCarty is an Institution in West Tex-
as—and in Texas, for that matter. The News enjoys a wide
rreputation. It treats the news from a different slant. It Ls a
human newspaper, reeking with personality—the personality
of Dick McCarty. Congratulations are in order—to Albany,
as the home of the News and its editor, and to Colonel Dick
MoCarty, for the gift of self-expression and that rarer, more
magnificent gift of the Magi—the ability to stay young in
thought and deed in open defiance of advancing Time.—Abi-
lene Reporter.
An Albany Event
The Albany News, which for years has carried the impress
of the highly individualistic personality of Col. Dick McCarty,
its present editor, celebrated its forty-seventh anniversary last
Friday. The edition of that date bore a "lead" story on Page
1 not in the MoCarty idiom, because it was largely about Col-
onel Dick himseKf. It was a history of the Albany News, and
necessarily, of its editor.
The Albany News is one of the most distinctive newspapers
in the country. That it is so is due entirely, of course, to the
distinctiveness of the writings of its editor. Its 47 years make
it the oldest business institution in ShackeLford County, and its
lustiness promises that it will remain in the running to claim
that honor whenever in the future a similar event brings on
comparisons of ages.
Albany is proud of the News and Colonel Dick, and West
Texas is proud of them. And be it said that any member of
the craft who is able to lift his shoulders above the rank and
file awakes the pride of the newspaper trade.—Star-Telegram.
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Anniversary
The Albany News, which reflects Co' Dick McCarty like the
n >ror pool reflects the image of Narcissus—the Albany News,
which is Col. Dick McCarty, has aehieved its forty-seventh an-
niversary and come to be the oldest business institution in
Old-Time Editor
Hlllsboro, Texas, Oct. 7, 1981.
Col. Dick McCarty,
Editor Albany News,
Albany .Texas.
Dear Sir:
1 saw a notice in the Dallas News a few days ago, that you
were observing the forty-seventh anniversary of the establish-
ment of your good paper, and it occurred to me you would be,
perhaps, pleased to get the information I have of the earlier
history of the News.
I landed in Albany March 16, 1884, and went to work as a
printer for J. C. Son, now of Palo Pinto but at that time editor
and proprietor of the Albany Star. Sen sold the Star during
that summer, and I went to work on the News which was own-
ed and edited by Deed H.M eyers A Bro. (J. J. L.). In March
1885 I bought the Albany News and associated with me in the
publication was O. D. Cheatham. In August 1889 The News
was sold to Geo. P. Barber, now of Mineral Wells. From that
transaction I lost the accurate history of the paper, but think
Frank Cook bought out Barber. If interested you can trace
the history from Barber on to your own splendid management.
I have the bound copy now before me of the Albany News
from February 27, 1885 to February 1886, and in that volume
I see a notice that the first paper ever published in Albany was
"Tomahawk" the first number being issued February 14, 1879,
with County Attorney Edgar Rye as editor, at that time there
was only a half dozen houses in Albany.
Apother item of that date may be interesting to you, stating
Capt. George Robins, "x-editor of the Albany Echo was a call-
er. I think Robins gold the Echo to Meyers, but of this I '
not certain, but the facts can be "had from John J. Meyers a
brother of the Ute Eli Meyer. '
The file of the paper I have seems to indicate that The News
was established by Meyer Bros. February 1884, for this vol-
ume I have is Vol. 2 and the first paper of the file is No. 1.
Hoping this will be interesting to you and with best wishes
for the Continued success of The News and yourself, I am,
Very sincerely,
' L. J. Thompson.
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Veteran of the Press
Colonel Richard H. McCarty is one of the stalwart fighting
veterans of the Texas press. Away out in Shackelford county
the Albany News now has celebrated the forty-seventh year of
its activity. Colonel MoCarty is its editor and publisher.
The News was founded in 1888 and it is one of the best edi-
ted and most fearless weekly newspapers under Texas skies.
Colonel McCarty is the official orator of the Texas Press asso-
ciation. For years and years he has been prominent in Texas
newspaper life. He is a veteran of the Spanish-American war.
He has participated in t'ne political campaigns and battles un-
der the skies of Texas for 50 years. He was born a fighter.
He has lived a fighter. He never deserts his convictions or
hauls down his flag. May his years be many and his load be
easy to carry.'—Waco Tribune.
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Newspaper Celebrates 47th Birthday
Albany, Texas, Oct. 8.—The Albany News, owned and edi-
ted by Col. R. H. (Dick) MoCarty, celebrated the forty-seventh
year of its activity this week.
The weekly newspaper was founded about the time of the
building of the Shackelford County courthouse in 1883.
Colonel McCarty has been for several years the official ora-
tor for the Texas Press Association and is prominent in the
Texas newspaper life. He is a veteran of the Spanish-Ameri-
can War.—Dallas News. , . * ,
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Colorado, Tens, October 6, 1*31
Col. Dick MoCarty,
Albany, Texas. i •.
Dear Mr. MoCarty: •'
I have juit read in yoUr newspaper account of faet that ypa
have brought The Albany flews through another year and ea-
ter how upon the forty-seventh year as editor it that most in- .
teresting newspaper. oj jfc s
Colonel, I am a believer in giving flowers to the. living tod-X,
consequently am taking the initiative to write you to say that I
wish to be counted in with the hundreds of other newspaper
men of Texas who revere Colonel Dick MoCarty. In fart, I
would be ungrateful if I did not actually love you, and I
and triumph- would be ungrateful if I did not actually '
ed over his personal, individual forty-seventh quite a while you to know that l leet tnat way aPQOT iv.
. -V^4g-y«*l c>a--ftf-jaan: of the
£uts to back up your convictions on any public question has
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.md confident every week int he year. The Colonel has been
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of years, and graces"the o7ffce, but initio citadel of Kis'hearf
he is a poet. He walks with beauty and loves the beautiful,
whether landscape or ladyscape. And ail the people love him,
because he loves the people.—Stutr Press.
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The Albany News passed its 47th birthday last week, and we
take this opportunity to congratulate Editor McCarty. Mr.
McCarty is one of the best loved and best known editors in
Texas and his fame s almost nation-wide as an editor with dis-
tinctive style, coupled with force, wit and rare logic. Many
more years to the Albany News and F/ditor McCarty.—Mo ran
News.
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pie many, many years after that you have passed on to your
last reward to receive at the hand of Saint Pater a golden pen
with which to write upon the scroll of heaven's messenger of
cheer and good will those ideals that encourage the best that
man may be able to produce.
Congratulations, Colonel. I wish you many more happy an-
niversaries and may your declining years be filled with sun-
shine and all that lends to the better things in this life.
Please convey my sincere regards to Mrs. McCarty.
Dour friend,
BILL COOPER, Editor Colorado Record.
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