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For a Greater, Better Palacios> Country—Agriculture, Industry, Commerce, Living
SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
PALACIOS, MATAGORDA COUNTY, TEXAS THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1933
VOLUME XXVI NUMBER 3
Notes From County
Home Dem. Agent
MRS. LEOLA COX SIDES,
County Home Demonstration Agt.
Make a Hot Bed and Have Early
Tomato Plants
If you expect to have early toma-
toes, and a surplus for filling your
canning budget, it will be necessary
for you to select high quality seed and
plant in a hot bed or house box not
later than Jan. 20th. One seed to 5
to 7 per inch in rows 4 inches apart
covering Vi inch deep.
Varieties of Tomatoes
Break O' Day, Earliana, and Early
Detroit are good varieties, Gulf State
Market and Globe are early to mid-
season varieties, and Marglobe comes
along a little later. Marglobe is a var-
iety that is wilt resistant and gives
promise of being one of the best. It
is a heavy producer and fine for can-
ning.
If you do not have a hot bed, the
direction for making of which is given
below, you may grow early tomato
plants in shallow indoor boxes. Place
stones or crushed rock in the bottom
of box and cover 4 or 5 inches of fer-
tile loam soil. Sow seed 8 to 10 weeks
before plants are to be set in the gar-
den. Keep box outside as much as pos-
sible when temperature is above 50
degrees. Do not water too much.
Transplant to a cold frame or larger
box when the first pair of true leaves
are developed. Set plants in the field
in rows 4 to 6 feet apart with plants
set 2 to 21/o feet apart, to give plants
more room and prevent them being
"spindly."
Hot -Bed Construction
Pit—The pit should be dug about 18
inches deep, the width and length de-
pending on the size of the frame. As-
suming that we are going to have a
two-sash (0x3 feet each) frame, the
pit should be 8 feet long, 7 to 8 feet
wide and 18 inches deep. When the
frame is placed on the manure, the
manure will extend beyond the boun-
daries of the frame. By banking
manure around the outer edges of the
frame the temperature will be practi-
cally the same in all parts of the
frame.
Manure—Use fresh horse manure
which contains one-fourth part of
straw is necessary so the air can get
into the manure, thereby causing the
rotting which produces the heat. The
preparation of the manure should be-
gin about ten to twelve days before
you expect to plant the hotbed. Pile
the manure near the pit. In case the
manure is dry, moisten it, preferably
with warm water. Moistening the man-
ure with warm water is especially im-
portant in case of a small pile. In case
of a small hotbed, say a one-sash
frame, when only a small amount of
manure is necessary in order to get
it properly heated. Pile the manure in
fairly firm piles, otherwise it may not
heat. Usually two or three days are
required for the manure to heat. Re-
pile the manure when heated, placing
of the pile on the outside. If dry,
moisten again. In two or three days
the manure should be ready for the pit.
Place the manure in the pit, packing
it in layers as placed in. Firm the corn-
ers and edges well. Fill the pit level
with the surface of the soil. Sometimes
the pit is only filled with manure to
within five inches of the surface ■ of
the vsoil and then a 5-inch layer of soil
is added.
Women Decrease Grocery Bill with
Garden and Tin Cans
With an investment of less than
$50.00 for two sealers and two cookers
by the Bay City Chamber of Commerce
to be used' by Mrs. Leola Sides, Emer-
gency Home Demonstration Agent for
Matagorda and Ft. Bend Counties dur-
ing the six months period, 1940 quarts
of vegetables valued at $674.00 have
been placed on pantry shelves by club
members as a result of fourteen vege-
table canning demonstrations given by
Home Demonstration Agent in Octo-
ber. Even with the bad fall for grow-
ing gardens, the women surprised
themselves with what they could grow
by careful selection of seed, prepara-
tion of soil, and continually fighting
the insects.
Even in counties like Matagorda and
Ft. Bend, there are people who do not
realize the bountiful supply of vege-
tables which can be grown any time
of the year. A little spinach, lettuce,
broccoli, carrots, cabbage, turnips, etc.
would go good along with the sack of
flour recently given to you. Talk to
t'Jie club women of your county and get
suggestions for planting a spring gar-
den.
You would tfo well to visit Mrs.
Edith Wood, gaVden demonstrator for
Wadsworth Horpe Demonstration Club,
and hear her till how she managed to
have growing j twenty-seven varieties
of vegetables in fall garden. These in-
GASOLINE TAX BIG
FACTOR IN INCOME
LEVY YIELDS 29 CENTS OF EV-
ERY DOLLAR TAKEN IN
BY THE STATE
Austin, Jan. 17.—The gasoline tax
contributed 29.11 cents of each dollar
in revenue received by the state of
Texas for the fiscal year ending Aug.
31, 1932, and, incidentally, 41.18 cents
of each dollar expended went into
highways.
The ad valorem tax brought in 24.94
cents of each dollar, the inheritance
tax, .64 of a cent; the poll tax, 1.6
cents;.gross receipts tax, 7.23 cents;
insurance companies occupation tax,
2.31 cents; occupation tax, .21 of a
cent; cigarette tax, 3.53 cents; fur
tax. .02 of a cent; fish and oyster tax,
.03 of a cent; franchise tax, 1.54
cents; fire insurance commission main-
tenance tax, .22 of a cent; workmen's
compensation insurance commission
maintenance tax, .06 of a cent; licens-
es, 3.75 cents; fees and permits, 1.17
cents; land sales, rentals and l-oyalties,
2.43 cents; sale of commodities and
properties, .59 of a cent; court costs,
fines and suit settlements, one-fourth
of a cent; interest and penalties, 3.74
cents; miscellaneous revenues, .32 of
a cent; county, federal and other aid,
16.31 cents.
In addition to highways, the state's
dollar was expended in this propor-
tion:—Legislature, .22 of a cent; ju-
dicial, 2.48 cents; executive and ad-
ministrative, 1.26 cents; military and
law enforcement, .82 of a cent; regu-
lation of business and industry, 1.19
cents; conservation of health and san-
itation, .33 of a cent; development and
conservation of natural resources, 2.06
cents; eleemosynary and coirectional,
6 cents; educational, support and free
schools, 30.23 cents; higher education,
9.94 cents; eleemosynary education, .35
of a cent; parks and monuments, .02
of a cent; pensions, 3.72 cents, mis-
cellaneous, two-tenths of a cent.
Records Needed for
Music Memory Test
The following records are needed
for the Music' Memory work in the
County Meet. If any one has one or
more of these phonograph records and
would loan them to the school for a
few weeks it would be greatly appre-
ciated by those in charge of the work
in our school:
Minuet (Bach), Gavotte (Beethoven),
Country Gardens (Granger), Shep-
herd's Hey (Granger), From An In-
dian Lodge (MacDowell), Love Song
(MacDowell), Glow Worm (Sincke),
Nola (Arndt.)
MISS VIRGIE WITT MARRIED
Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Sisson received
a letter this, Thursday, morning from
Miss Virgie Witt, that she was a re-
cent bride, and was now Mrs. Leonard
Smotherman. Miss Witt was head
of the Home Economics department of
our High School two years and has a
host of friends in Palacios, with whom
we join in wishing for her the best of
everything that life affords. Mr. and
Mrs. Smotherman are making their
home at Little Elm, Texas.
elude such vegetables as spinach, pota-
toes, kohl rabi, lettuce, cabbage, on-
ions, broccoli, swiss chard, beans, ra-
dishes, carrots, beets, peas, turnips,
etc. But Mrs. Wood did not plant one
variety once and give up. Instead she
started September 16th, and has not
let a week pass that she has not plant-
ed another vegetable or another var-
iety of a vegetable previously planted.
Her last planting was January 10th,
at which time she added beets, onions,
kohl rabi, lettuce, broccoli to her
spring garden.
You might do like Mrs. Ulland of
Clemville, who reports having canned
56 cans of beans out of her fall gar-
den that the Home Demonstration
Club made her plant.
With thirteen varieties of vegetables
growing in her fall garden, Mrs. L. D.
Chappell of Palacios is making an ef-
fort to partially fill her vegetable can-
ning budget.
The annual report of Mrs, Sides who
is employed by the State disclosed the
value of the 43 beeves and porks pre-
served during November and a part
of December as a result of 14 demon-
stration given by Mr. F. O. Montague
and Mrs. Sides in proper methods of
cutting, curing, brining, and canning
to be $1297.66. This means that 3138
number 2 eans and 2123 number 3 cans
of high quality roasts, steak, chili,
hamburger meat, meat loaf, liver
paste, head cheese, mince meat, scrap-
ple, and sausage have been added to
pantry shelve »
To add variety to her pantry, Mrs.
P. R. Elkins of Gainesmore has 7 cans
of rabbit in addition 175 cans of meat
loaf, stew, steak, chili, and soup, as
well as a goodly amount of pumpkin,
swiss chard, tomatoes, pickles, relishes,
snap peas and beans.
Cheese making has been the order
of the day. As a result of 5 demonstra-
tions given by agent to council mem-
bers and individual club^ome^Ahave
reported 56 pounds of cheese at
a cost of less than five cents per
pound where they had a surplus of
milk.—Mrs. B. F. Curry, Reporter
rl
Palacios was again visited by petty
thieves this week, two business houses
being broke into some time Monday
night, the Price Lumber Co., and the
Grant Lumber Co., being the victims.
At the Grant Lumber Co. entrance
was gained by breaking a pane of
glass in a back window. The outer
door of the safe had been left unlock-
ed. but the inner door fastened secure-
ly. This was opened by the use of a
punch and hammer and something over
$9.00 taken.
At the Price Lumber Co. a back
window had been pried open to gain
entrance. Here they found the safe se-
curely locked with both doors, but the
would-be robbers were either scpred
away before finishing their work or
else gave it up as a bad job. Tuesday
morning Mr. Stadig found the safe
had been tampered with, the door and
lock jammed in such a way he could
not open it. A fuse partly burned was
found on the floor and something
around the safe that appeared to be
nitro-glycerine, however, it is now
thought it was not that sort of explo-
sive. A lock expert was called from
Houston to open the safe. In a way it
was a clumsy job and it seems like
there could be some way of discovering
the perpetrators of this work. Mr.
Stadig says it would have been cheap-
er for the lumber company if the safe
had been opened and money taken as
there was only about $15,00 in it,
while the cost of repairs will be some-
thing like $100.
H. D. Club to Meet
Jan. 23 for Peanut
Butter Demonstr'n
The Home Demonstration Club will
meet with Mrs. B. H. Oakley on Mon-
day, Jan. 23 at 2 p. m., for a business
meeting together with a peanut but-
ter demonstration. All Club members
please be there and bring with you the
food budget cards that were given you
October 10th at the vegetable canning.
Items of importance to all who are in-
terested in canning will be brought up
at this meeting and thoroughly dis-
cussed. Everyone interested in food
preparation invited.
HOME TALENT PLAY AT
QUEEN TONIGHT, AND ITS
"NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH"
Tonight, Thursday, at 8 o'clock, on
the stage of the Queen Theatre,
"Nothing But The Truth," will be
presented by the "P" Association of
the Palacios High School, under the
direction of J. Roy Williams.
"Nothing But The Truth," a three-
act comedy by James Montgomery, is
a story of a young man in love with
a millionaire's daughter. He makes a
bet of ten thousand dollars with the
girl's father that he can tell nothing
but the truth for twenty-four hours,
as a result he gets into some terrible
jams and the story is full of exciting
mc .nts—but you will find out about
it by going to the Queen tonight.
There you will see our local young
ladies and gentlemen stage a show
well worth your time and money.
Between acts specialty features will
bo given by Misses Nancy Price and
Mary Eleanor Louderback. The price
of admission to this high-class enter-
tainment is 10 cents for children under
12 years of age, school children over
12, 20 cents, and adults, 30 cents.
TEXAS' NEW GOVERNOR
Safe Crackers Get
Small Loot From
Local Lmbr. Yds.
MRS. MIRIAM A. "MA" FERGUSON
BUSINESS WOMAN'S CIRCLE MET
The regular meeting of the Business
Woman's Circle met Thursday night
with Miss Elizabeth Sisson. Eleven
members and one visitor were pres-
ent. The usual Bible Study was held,
after which followed a prayer by Miss
Wanda Gray. Miss Jean Trull was
appointed Devotional Leader for the
next meeting. Roll Call was respond-
ed to with the name of a Bible char-
acter or a Book of the Bible commenc-
ing with the letter J. After business
matters were disposed of, the hostess
served delicious refreshments. The
Circle adjourned to meet with Miss
Margaret Nester in February.
&
Sisk No. 1 Comes in
Tues., 500 Barrels
On A Small Choke
Watty Watkins of,
St. Louis Cardinals,
Here Hunting Sat.
The Sisk No. 1 at Clemville, 411 feet
northeast from any production in that
locality, came in Tuesday morning
about 7 o'clock for 500 barrels of oil
flowing through a small choke. The
well is 3336 fet deep and is consider-
ed in new territory. The Powers and
Thompson Production Company drill-
ed the well.
There are several producing wells in
the Clemville territory but this dis-
covery marks the opening of new ter-
ritory and widens the scope of the in-
dustry in this section.
Drilling, leasing and much enthu-
siasm in general is aroused in the
county. Companies are sinking wells
in nearly every section and the bring-
ing in of the Sisk No. 1 marks some-
thing new for the county.—Bay City
Tribune.
Small Blaze in Dr.
Cairnes' Office Sun.
Sunday afternoon between 4:30 and
5 o'clock while Dan Paulk. Jr. and
some boy companions were playing in
the street, between the post office and
M. E. Rogers Grocery store, Dan no-
ticed smoke coming out of the win-
dows in the second story of the Pala-
cios State Bank and Trust Co. build-
ing, and ran home as fast as he could
to tell his father, D. D. Paulk, that the
bank was on fire. Mr. Paulk imme-
diately gave the alarm and it was not
long until a crowd had gathered on the
street at the corner of Main and 5th
streets. Some of the members of the
fire crew were out of town, but this
did not deter the action of the depart-
ment in the least and a force was soon
here ready to fight the blaze, which
was discovered to be in the dental office
of Dr. A. B. Cairnes.
How the fire originated is not known
but many think a defective electric
wire might have been the cause. The
loss was not much, the greatest being
the breaking of the glass door to the
reception room, ceiling of room blister-
ed by the heat and smoke and some
damage by water. Three of the doc-
tor's work coats were ruined, also a
laundry bag of soiled towels and a
box full of papers, files, etc. Repairs
have all been made, Dr. Cairnes tells
us and he is back to normal, but does
not care to go through another like
experience. He and Mrs. Cairnes had
just returned from a trip to Bay City,
put up their car and settled down for
an evening of quiet and rest, when the
phone rang and they were informed
of the fire. Well, it did not take them
long to get their car out and drive to
town.
Watty Watkins, a noted fielder and
slugger of the St. Louis Cardinals ball
club, was in Palacios last Saturday
afternoon on his way to Houston,
from a hunting trip to Oyster Bay
hunting grounds, south of this city.
Watkins can field and slug a ball just
about as good as Dizzy Dean can
pitch it, and entertained some of his
admirers with stories of his exper-
iences both on and off the baseball
diamond. While here he visited Gamp
Hulen, west of town, and had many
words of praise for the camp and the
officers and men in charge here. He
thinks Oyster Bay the prize hunting
grounds and says he expects to come
back next hunting season.
Edna Dairymen Ship
2,000,000 Pounds Milk
Edna.—The dairymen of the Edna
section of Jackson county shipped to
a creamery at Wharton a little over
two million pounds of milk in the year
1932, according to the report of J. A.
Scoffield, county agent. This has
brought an income of something over
$27,000 into the county, produced al-
most altogether on home grown feeds
and pastures.
Four registered Jersey bulls were
placed in that many dairy herds the
past year and two trench silos were
dug and filled and Mr. Scoffield states
that if the comments are any indi-
cation, there will be at least a dozen
silos dug and filled in 1933.
WEDNESDAY CLUB
BOOKKEEPING CLASS
TO ORGANIZE MONDAY
Those business men and women in-
terested in a special course in first
year bookkeeping report to J. Roy
Williams at the High School Mondf
Jan. 23 at 7:45 a. m.
The Wednesday Club had a most
enjoyable meting this week at the
home of Mrs. J. L. Koerber. The pro-
gram gave the topic as "Music Day,"
and Mrs. Harper gave a very interest-
ing talk on the "Music of the Ameri-
can Indian." We were then delightful-
ly entertained with vocal selections
from American composers. First was
Cadman's "Land of the Sky Blue Wa-
ters," by Mrs. Sisson. Mrs. Koerber
gave "In My Bark Canoe," by Lieu-
rance, and Mrs. Arnold, "Pale Moon,"
by Long. The program closed with a
trio, Mrs. Arnold, Mrs. Sisson and
Mrs. Koerber, rendering "By the Wa-
ters of Mini.etanka," by Lieurance'.
Mrs. E. E. Burton of the program
committee, assisted at the piano. The
hostess gave her guests a happy sur-
prise by serving light refreshments of
salad, wafers, cake and tea.
FORMER VISITOR PASSES
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Pitman returned
today from Houston, where they had
been the past few days. t,While there
the former was at the S. P. hospital to
have a growth removed from his low-
er lip, which y ' been giving him
S«ime trouble. r
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Dr. A. B. Cairnes handed us this
week a paper from Petoskey, Mich.,
in which appeared the death notice of
Albert Whitfield, who died of a heart
attack on Jan. 10, stricken while re-
turning from an hour's skating on
city park rink. Mr. Whitfield, accom-
panied by his sister, Mrs. Mary P.
Webb, spent a winter in Palacios,
some years ago and were located in
the Cairnes home. During their stay
here they made many friends who
will regret to learn of Mr. Whitfield's
Ridden demise. The paper stated that
Mrs. Webb was seriously ill, was the
reason they were not spending the
winter in the south as they usually did.
INVITATION TOURNAMENT
TO BE HELD HERE JAN. 27
Starting at 7 p. m. Friday, Jan. 27,
at the Pavilion, you will see basket
ball teams, boys from five counties in
action. There will be eight teams play
in four games Friday night. The semi-
finals Saturday morning and final
game Saturday night. Admission 15c
and 20c. You can see four games
Friday night for this small price. Re-
member—Friday of next week.
(Signed) J. Roy Williams.
Heart Attack is
Fatal to Officer
of Texas Guards
Austin, Tex., Jan. 18.—(AP)—Lt.
Col. Taylor Nichols, 45, U. S. proper-
ty and disbursing officer for the Tex-
as National Guard, died unexpectedly
at his home here today of heart, di-
sease. Col. Nichols was a former
assistant adjutant general and was one
of the most widely known national
guard officers in Texas.
Col. Nichols complained of pains in
the region of his heart this morning
and went home about 11 o'clock. A
doctor was summoned immediately
but the pains became more intense and
Col. Nichols died about 3 p. m. His
widow 'and three children survive.
A veteran of the world war, Col.
Nichols was assistant adjutant gener-
al four years under the late R. L. Rob-
ertson during the administration of
former governor Dan Moody. Robert-
son was killed in an automobile acci-
dent after he left office.
Col. Nichols was born at Lampasas,
Sept. 22, 1887. During the war he
was a second lieutenant in the 36th
division signal corps. After the war
he made his home at Robstown, organ-
izing there and commanding company
C, 141st infantry Texas National
Guard.
Nichols had the rank of a captain
while at Robstown. When he was ap-
pointed assistant adjutant general,
Feb. 17, 1927, he was given the rank
of lieutenant colonel. On Feb. 28,
1930, he became assistant quartermas-
ter general and U. S. property and
disbursing officer for Texas.
Tax of $45 Per Auto
Reported Annually,
Burden on Motorists
American motorists paid $1,088,000,-
000 in special motor taxes in 1932, an
increase of nine per cent compared to
1930, in the face of a decline in the
same period of some 2,500,000 regis-
tered vehicles and curtailed use of
those in operation, says Thomas P.
Henry, Detroit, President, American
Automobile Association, Washington,
D. C.
Highway users paid $1,015,000,000
in state, county and municipal motor-
levies and $73,000,000 in special fed-
eral excise taxes under the revenue
act of 1932, he said.
"This represents an average tax of
$44.82 on every motor vehicle in the
country and an increase of 18.8 per
cent since 1930. In some sections gas
taxes amount to a 100 per cent tax on
the wholesale price of the commodity."
With a score of legislatures pro-
posing either diversion of motor rev-
enues to other than road purposes or
increases in motor vehicle taxes, our
clubs in many sections have a fight of
titanic proportions on their hands,"
he said. "Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur,
speaking at a conference in Washing-
ton, boldly proposed that $1,000,000,-
000 should be taken from highways
and used for school purposes.
"I have just examined United States
treasury figures on the federal in-
come from motor car taxes. We pre-
dicted they would prove futile from a
revenue standpoint and detriment^ to
motor transportation. This is exact-
ly what has happened. It was esti-
mated that they would raise $240,000,-
000. On th basis of collections for
the first four months, they will raise
not $240,000,000 but $140,000,000."
7TH GRADE OFFICERS ELECTED
He who hesitates is old-fashioned.
On the eleventh of January, mem-
bers of the seventh grade held a class
meeting and officers were elected as
follows:—President, Chester Barrett;
Vice-President, Melba Koerber; Sec-
retary and Treasurer, Anna Lee Pe-
terson; Historian, Lelia Sorrell and
Prophet, Mary Dismukes. Blue and
white were chosen as the class colors
and tye Texas Bluebonnet selected for
the flctwer. Miss Claire Partain pre-
sided it \he meeting and teacher and
pupils are beginning to look forward
to the graduation of this class from
grammar \ grades at the close of this
ternv , -y
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LAKE AUSTIN FISHERMAN
CATCHES "LEFT-HANDED"
FLOUNDER; 1 in 5,000,000
You probably did not know it, but
when you saw a flounder and when
you ate this seafood delicacy, that all,
or most all of these fish are right-
handed, that, the fish when on its
belly faces righ with its mouth. But
we have found a "left-handed" floun-
der. Mr. J. H. Shelby, fisherman of
Lake Austin caught a left-handed
flounder weighing 12 Ms pounds. He
made the catch January 15th and has
had the fish embalmed and is display-
ing it in the city. 'jJ®'''*"*
Mr. Shelby states
very rare and that a left-hff
der is found about once in Ej$i
Bay City Tribune.
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Ma Ferguson Takes
Office; Appeals to
Solons for Harmony
NEW CHIEF EXECUTIVE GIVES
BRIEF INAUGURAL, AND
PLEDGES SERVICE
Austin, Txas, Jan. 17.—(AP)—Mrs.
Miriam A. Ferguson was inaugurated
governor of Texas today for the sec-
ond time, after a lapse of six years.
She is the nation's only feminine rul-
er of a state.
In a brief inaugural address, jifter
she took the ancient constitutional
oath, affirming that she (never had
"fought a duel with doiully vreftpon
within this state or out of it, nor hav
I acted as second in carrying a ch
lenge, or aided or advised, or assisi
ed any person thus offending," she
asked the hearty co-operation of the
legislature during her tenure.
She warned that "the burdens of
government are falling heavily on the
masses "
Must [(educe Taxes.
"Reduction of taxes must come and
come quickly or the government will
fall and fall quickly," the woman gov-
ernor said.
Mrs. Ferguson rested her left hand
upon an ancient Bible, used by all her
predecessors since Texas became a
state, held her right hand upraised
and repeated the oath after the words
of Chief Justice C. M. Cureton, of the
state Supreme Court, who administer-
ed it.
The inaugural took place in the hall
of the house rf representatives where
the woman governor was first sworn
in in 1925. She had beat her way
back to the governorship of Texas af-
ter thi*ee campaigns since she first
held the office, having been initially
defeated for a second term in 1927
by Dan Moody, attorney general in
her first administration.
Sterling Absent.
The outgoing governor, R. S. Ster-
ling, against whom Mr. Ferguson cam-
paigned unsuccessfully for chief ex-
ecutive in 1930 and victoriously
year, took no part in the induction.
remained in his office until noon, wt.,n
he joined the ranks of "private citi-,
zens." None of the other living ex-
governors, except Mrs. Ferguson's
husband, James E. Ferguson, was
present on the rostrum during the in-
auguration. They are Moody, Pat M.
Neff of Waco,. Oscar B. Colquitt of
Dallas and W. P. Hobby of Houston.
This was the first time in Texas'
long and spotted political history that
a retiring chief executive did not ap-
pear at the induction of his successor.
Enmities stirred between Sterling an/*
the Fergusons two years ago and I,
tween Moody and the Fergusons ^
years ago, were responsible for St'(
ling's declination to take part in tj
ceremonies.
DR. CAIRNES THANKS FIREMx
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I am taking this means of express^
ing my thanks and appreciation for
the quick and effective work,done by
the Palacios Volunteer Fire Depart-
ment on last Sunday afternoon, when
fire was discovered in my office. The
time and labor these boys give in or-
der to be prepared for an emergency
is not given much thought by those
who never need their services, but
when they save your property from
being damaged by a fire you can bet-
ter appreciate them, as is my case just
now, and I will ever be a booster and
supporter of our Volunteer Fire De-
partment. Again I wish to thank each
member, not only those who worked
Sunday afternoon but those who meet
regularly for practice and those who
keep all the equipment in sfcape for
quick work. Dr. A. B. Cairnes.
Mrs. J. L. Womaek and two daugh-
ters, of Edpa, and her sister, Mrs.
Jones, of Louise, were herfe Saturday,
guests of their brother, M. E. Rogers
and family. ^ «
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