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For a Greater, Better Palacios Country—-Agriculture, Industry, Commerce, Living
SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
PAL AGIOS, MATAGORDA COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1933
VOLUME XXVI NUMBER 12
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FIRE WEDNESDAY
NOON DESTROYS
J. E. GRANT HOME
TWO-STORY FRAME STRUCTURE
HARD TO EXTINGUISH DUE
TO HIGH SOUTH WIND
The two-story frame house, at the
corner of second and Humphrey St.,
belonging to J. E. Grant, was destroy-
ed by fire Wednesday. The house was
occupied by Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Huff-
man and family and Mr. and Mrs. Ted
Elder. The fire originated in the rear
supposedly in the kitchen, as Mrs.
Huffman had her oil cook stove burn-
ing and was baking bread. She was out
of the house doing some washing in
the laundry room when the alarm was
given and had no idea it was her own
home on fire. Mrs. Elder, who oc-
cupied a part of the second story, had
her radio going and knew nothing of
the fire until the smoke was coming
in her part of the house.
Teachers at the East Bay School
turned in the alarm and near neigh-
bors, who saw the fire rushed to the
place and got out some of the con-
tents on the lower floor, but the kitch-
en, dining room and one bed room
could not be reached as the blaze had
made such headway. The piano, some
chairs, bedding and clothing was about
all the Huffman family have left and
Mr. and Mrs. Elder lost practically
everything.
The fire boys were not long in get-
ting to the scene but were handicapped
in their work by having a piece of
hose to burst. This made a delay of a
few minutes in getting water onto tht
fire. It was a large frame building
and a high southeast wind whipped the
flames so that it was soon evident that
there was no chance of saving it. The
roof of the .Foley home, just north,
caught fire in a number of places
from the sparks that came over that
way, but a hose line was soon directed
on this building.
Mrv and Mrs. Huffman carried no
insurance oh their household goods.
They were preparing to move to the
John LeCompte place, just north of
the tourist park, which they recently
purchased.
We learn Mr. Grant carried insur-
ance on the house and his goods and
that Mr. and Mrs. Elder had insurance
on their things.
George William Trull
George William Trull was born in
Sweden, Maine, Sept. 29, 1849, and
died at the home of his daughter,
Mrs. G. H. Faubion in Palacios, Tex-
as, March 22, 1933, at the age of 84
years.
His boyhood was spent in Maine. At
sixteen years of age he enlisted in the
Union Army and was a member of
the 12th Infantry, Maine. Two years
after the war closed he decided to
leave his New England home, which
was then in Boston, Mass., and go
west. He located in Phillips County,
Kansas, on a homestead near the pres-
ent town of Agra.
He married Talitha Elizabeth Scott
and they made their home in this vi-
cinity the rust of their lives except for
seven years spent in Arizona.
Upon their return to Kansas they
made their home near Kirwin, Kans.
Here their family grew up. One boy
and one girl died at an early age, but
three sons, Emery C. and Ernest G.
of Kansas City, Kans., and Bruce W.
of Palacios, Texas; three daughters,
Mrs. Lillie Reynolds and Mrs. Wilma
Gray of Kirwin, Kans., and Mrs.
Gladys Faubion of Palacios, Texas,
survive him, as well as fourteen grand-
children.
His wife helped him celebrate their
fiftieth wedding anniversary in 1927
and died two years later.
Since that time he has spent the
cold months of each year with his son
and daughter in Palacios, and he has
made many friends who will regret his
passing, after a short illness.
Mrs. Lillie Reynolds, of Kirwin,
Kansas, and E. C. Trull, of Kansas
City, Kans., came to be with him in
his last illness.
The remains were prepared for bur-
ial by the Duffy-Rittenhouse Under-
taking Co., and taken o^rland toj
Rosenberg Thursday morning, where
they will be laid to rest beside his
wife and children.
Mr. and Mrs. Faubion, Mr. and Mrs.
Trull, Miss Jean Trull, Mr. Prescott,
and Mrs. Reynolds went to Rosenberg.
The latter going on to Kansas with
" the body.
G. Martino was over from El Campo
Wednesday in tht| interest of organ-
teing a boys' band, and we learn he
ha* prospects for quits a nice class.
Fruit and Vegetable
Shipments in Texas
Fall Off in February
Austin, Texas, March 22.—Car-lot
shipments of fruits and vegetables in
Texas during the month of February
were the smallest for any February
since 1928, according to the Univer-
sity of Texas Bureau of Business Re-
search. Only 3,946 cars were shipped
during February, as compared with
G.805 cars in February a year ago, ac-
cording to daily reports from the
United States Department of Agricul-
ture compiled by the University Bu-
Texas Congressmen
Given Assignments
Report Matagorda
County Federation
Of Women's Clubs
The regular quarterly meeting was
held in the school house at Markham,
the Markham P.-T. A. as hostess.
Executive board meeting called at
10.30. Ten members present; matters
of discussion were the scholarship
fund, and a county demonstration
agent.
Business meeting called to order by
President, Mrs. Matthis at 10.45 a. m.
Invocation by Reverend Gaston.
Minutes of December meeting read
and accepted with a correction.
Treasury reported 74 cents on hand,
report accepted.
Resolution Committee apponited as
follows: Mrs. E. F. Goodall, Mrs. L.
E, Liggett, and Mrs. G. A. Salsbury.
Report of Committees as Follows:
Red Cross and Child Welfare, Mrs.
Will Stinnett. She stated there would
be no more flour and that the A. R. C.
was making plans to assist in the em-
ployment of the unemployed. Report
accepted.
Legislative Committee, Mrs. G. A.
Moore. Letter read pertaining to the
school per capita. She urged all clubs
to take up the study of government,
state-and county. Report accepted.
County Health Nurse report read
and accepted.
American Citizenhsip Committee,
Mrs. Duller, no report.
Fine Arts Committee, Mrs. Pierce,
report accepted.
To the President and members of
Matagorda County Federation of Wo-
men's Clubs: We, your scholarship
•ommittee, present the following re-
port:—
Balance on hand last report,
December, 1932 $199.59
Received of Elliott Curtis,
Jan. 1 1933 20.00
Received of Elliott Curtis,
Feb. 1, 1933 25.00
Received of Elliott Curtis,
March 1, 1933 20.00
Total $264.59
Paid to Sybil Adams
December 28, 1932 $125.00
Check 02
Total $125.02
Balance on hand
March 11, 1933 $139.57
Respectfully submitted
Claire F. Pollard, chairman.
New Members Appointed as Follows:
Membership Committee: Chairman,
Mrs. L. E. McDonald, Markham; Mrs.
Patricia Martyn, Palacios.
Resolutions Committee: Chairman,
Mrs. L. E. Liggett, Collegeport; Mrs.
W. H. Batchelder, Palacios; Mrs. E.
F. Goodall, Wadsworth.
Scholarship and Education: Chair-
man, Mrs. Claire Pollard Bay City;
Mrs. G. A. Salsbury, Palacios; Mrs.
A. B. Pierce, Blessing; Mrs. T. H.
Lewis, Bay City; Mrs. C. A. Lucas,
Blessing.
Public Welfare Committee: Mrs.
A. E. Stinnett, Bay City.
Memorial Committee: Mrs. C. E.
Duller, Blessing.
American Citizenship- Committee:
Chairman, Mrs. B. D. Hurd, College-
port; Mrs. Amos Duffy, Matagirda.
Fine Arts Committee: Chairman,
Mrs. A. B. Pierce, Blessing.
Music: Mrs. W. K. Keller, 'Midfield.
Publicity: Mrs. C. A. Lucas, secre-
tary, Blessing; Mrs. J. W. Dismukes,
Palacios; Mrs. G. A. Moore, Bay City.
American Homes: Mrs. A. S. Mor-
ton, Bay City.
Parliamentarian, Mrs. G. A. Moore,
Bay City.
W.Y.C.A. Dept.: Mrs. E. E. Pearc-',
Gulf.
Legislative Committee: Mrs. G. A.
Moore, Bay City.
P.-T. A. Work: Mrs. J. L. Lowe,
Wadsworth.
Matagorda County Laws: Mrs. G.
A. Moore, Mrs. A. B. Pierce, Mrs.
C. E. Duller.
Motion made by Mrs. Pierce that a
petition be circulated among the mem-
bers at this meeting opposing House
(See "FEDERATION," Page 4.jf
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Washington March 21.—Represen-
tative J. J. Mansfield of Columbus,
veteran chairman of the house rivers
and harbors committee, was unani-
mously selected by the Texas delega-
tion in the house Monday as its chair-
man for the next two years. He suc-
ceeds Representative Marvin Jones of
Amarillo.
At the same time, the delegation
named Representative Sam Rayburn,
chairman of the interstate and for-
eign commerce committee, as the
state's representative upon the new
Democratic steering committee. Tex-
as is one of the few states entitled to
a full member on this body, the major-
ity of others being grouped for rep
resentation.
Representative Martin Dies of Or-
ange was selected as the Texas mem-
ber of the Democratic congressional
campaign committee and Joseph W.
Bailey of Dallas as secretary of the
delegation.
Palacios Schools
Will A Have Full
9 Months' Term
Street Improvements
The city is doing some very fine
work these days. Some twenty-five
or thirty men have been vigorously
using spades and shovels opening up
drainage ditches and removing trash,
dead grass, etc. Another good job
being done is the shelling of Moore
Avenue from the highway up to the
East Bay School corner. Little by lit-
tle we are getting our streets improv-
ed and some of these days Palacios
will have a system of all-weather
streets the same as the county has
roads.
Facts Behind
The President's
Economy Program
"When the Federal Government clos-
ed its books for the fiscal year 1932,
the American people were shocked to
learn that total revenues from income
taxes—individual and corporate com-
bined—did not quite cover all the costs
of the Veterans' Administration ser-
vices for the twelve months just end-
ed. Incredible as it seemed, the fig-
ures were indisputable. Income-tax
collections for the year, as officially
reported by the Secretary of the Treas-
ury, were $1,057,335,853, while the
combined disbursements for veterans'
pensions, hospitalization, disability al-
lowances, construction, bonus pay-
ments, and administrative expenses
came to the neat sum of $1,064,268,-
966.
"If we may assume that existing
laws will not be further 'liberalized'—
to use the word of pension lobbyists
in Washington,—the grand total of all
outlays for World War veterans from
November 1918 to the end of 1949 will
come to the magnificent figure of $35,-
000,000,000. Such a regiment of ci-
phers defies the imagination.
"Let us, therefore, try to visualize
it in a way that will convey to our
minds just how much money that
really is. Picture a house costing
$10,000. Veiy well; the sum would
provide 3,500,000 of them. Spaced on
fifty-foot lots, they would line a street
33,143 miles long; or, to put it anoth-
er way, that much money would build
eleven solid rows of such houses be-
tween New York and San Francisco,
without allowance for street intersec-
tions. More than one-sixth of this im-
aginary Bonus Boulevard is already
completed.
"The job was done chiefly by the
ex-service guild, a high-powered mi-
nority group which at its maximum
membership in 1927 numbered consid-
erably less than 1 per cent of the pop-
ulation. What is more, this group
represented a minority of the veter-
ans themselves, for it has never in-
cluded as many as one-fourth of the
total Army and Navy enlistments be-
tween April 6, 1917, and November
11, 1918."—From THE VETERAN
RACKET, by Lawrence Sullivan, in
the April Atlantic Monthly.
Mr. and Mrs. L. Bruse, Mr. and Mrs.
Houston, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Whitney,
Mrs. Ethel Jensen, Mrs. Henry Bal-
dree, and Misses Ethel and Dora
Hockey attended a joint meeting of
I. O .0. F. and Rebekah members in
West Columbia last week. Twenty-
seven candidates were given degree
work, lodges from Palacios, Bay City,
and West Columbia participating. Fol-
lowing the work the host lodge served
a delicious lunch and all had a grand
time.
St. John's Episcopal Church will
have services Snuday, March 26th, at
3 p. m., by the Rev. Paul Engle. Sun-
day School every Sunday at 10 a. m.
A number of people have inquired,
within the last few days, as to wheth-
er or not the finances of the Palacios
Schools would permit a full nine
months term so I would like to take
this means of informing the public of
the financial condition of the district.
In the first place, I want to assure
you that Palacios will have a full nine
months term. It is true that we will
run short by a small amount less than
'ten days; but plans are under way now
for taking care of this shortage, and
so there is no doubt as to the length
of the term. This shortage is due to
a handicap that has been placed on
the board because of a deficit that was
carried over from last .year. If it had
not been for this deficit, the board
would have been able to close this year
with a balance.
Last year the board purchased the
Callaway property on the south-east
corner of the high school campus and
a lot in the negro section of the town.
The building on the Callaway proper-
ty was moved to the other lot and
remodeled into a negro school; the
whole transaction costing $716.40. It
was decided to spread the cost of this
over a two-year period, so $292.31 of
this amount has been paid from this
year's funds. In addition to this, the
board found it necessary to assume
the obligation that was outstanding
on the farm shop, which amounted to
$149.02; and' this has been paid from
this year's funds.
Last year the school closed with a
deficit of $2,254.16 in the Local Main-
tenance Fund; and, here again, the
board decided to spread the payment
of this amount over a two-year per-
iod. At the present time $1,096.00
of the aove amount has been liquidat-
ed, and the board expects to be able
to carry this well beyond the 50 per
cent mark by the close of the fiscal
year.
Altogether the board has spent $1,-
461.42 during the current year towards
the liquidation of outstanding obli-
gations. If this amount had gone into
the current operation of the school,
the fiscal year would close with a sub-
stantial balance on hand.
The handicap under which the board
has been forced to work this year can
also be seen by comparing the re-
sources of the current year with that
of previous years. In 1927-28 the dis-
trict had to provide school facilities
for 461 scholastics and 4 transfers;
while this year it has had to provide
school facilities for 774 scholastics and
29 transfers. In 1927-28 the district
maintained a faculty of 13 teachers;
while this year it is maintaining a fac-
ulty of 18 teachers. In 1927-28 there
were about 60 children to be transport-
ed to and from school, at the expense
of the district; while this year there is
more than 100. The amount received
in the local tax fund in 1927-28 for
current operation was $12,004.81, or
$25.82 per capita; while this year it
has been only $5,585.50, or $6.96 per
capita.
The above figures show that while
there has been an increase of 72.7 per
cent in the number of children to be
schooled and an increase of 38.5 pet-
cent in the number of teachers to be
paid, there has been an actual decrease
of 53.5 per cent in the amount of tax
funds to work with, and a decrease of
73.1 per cent in the per capita expen-
ditures from funds raised by local
taxation.
There are two reasons for the dif-
ference in amount of local tax money
available for the two years mentioned
above. One is because the board,
through the Board of Equalization,
lowered the valuation of all property
in the dstrict 10 pet cent; thus cut-
ting 10 per cent from the amount of
taxes to be paid by the district. The
other is the large amount of delin-
quent taxes.
In mentioning delinquent taxes, I
do not intend to criticize anyone for
allowing their taxes to go delinquent
this year. I merely wanted to show
you the handicap under which the
board has been working and to assure
you that, in spite of this handicap, Pa-
lacios will have a full nine months
term this year. Ralph Newsom.
Junior Track Meet
Held Tuesday P.M.
In another column of the Beacon
will be found an article in regard to
our schools carrying the good news
that Palacios will have a full nine
months term. This article also gives
valable information as to the finan-
cial situation our school and we
think the present board has done very
commendable work in handling the
finances and keeping the school up to
its high standing during this time.
Read (his article and see if you think
a chaqgf-fn the personnel of the board
would P -'sable.
The Grade Juniors, starring "Chick"
Barrett, and "Ox" Sanders, met the
High School Juniors, Tuesday after-
noon in an attempt to prove that they
were stronger and fleeter of foot.
In the first event, a 50-yard dash,
High School was represented by Lit-
tleton, Parsuitt and Curtis. For the
Grades were Barnett, Michna and Rag-
azine. Time, 6 seconds. Little got
first, Parsuitt second, and Barnett
third. 100-yard dash, High School,
Curtis, Littleton and Parsuitt. Grades
I Michna, Ragazine and Barnett. Time
11 seconds. Curtis first, Ragazine
second and Barnett third.
Chinning, High School, Littleton,
Kinard and Jackson. Grades, Kilgore,
Ragazine and Phillips. Kilgore took
first place, coming up to the bar 24
times. Littleton was second and Ki-
nard third.
In the 440-yard relay, for High
School were Parsuitt, Hayes, Little
ton and Curtis, with Sanders, Bar-
nett, Ragazine and Michna for the
grades. High School took first. Time
56 seconds.
In the high jump for the High
School were Ramsey, Jackson and Ed-
wards. Grades, Sanders, Barnett and
Michna. Ramsey was first, Jackson
second, and Sanders third.
Broad jump, High School, Littleton,
Jensen and Curtis. Grades, Barnett,
Ragazine and Sanders. Littleton first,
Jensen second, and Sanders third. To-
tal number of points, High School 39,
and 19 for the Grades.
These boys are plenty good and
what they'll do to Bay City next Sat-
urday will be well worth your time to
go and see. —J. W. R.
Julius Cunningham
Announces For City
Alderman; First Out
In our announcement column will
be found the name of Julius Cunning-
ham as a candidate for Alderman of
the City of Palacios. Mr. Cunning-
ham is well and favorably known, and
in asking the support of his many
friends he assures them he will ever
strive for the best interests of Pala-
cios and her citizens, that she may
continue to be the cleanest, prettiest
and best city on the coast.
Governor Signed
New Gasoline Tax
Enforcement Law
Local School Wins
3 Firsts, 1 Second
in Junior Baseball
The baseball tournament in which
Junior Boys and Girls engage, was
held in Bay City Saturday, March 18.
The games in which our teams en-
gaged and their results are as follows.:
High School Boys, 7 playing)—Pa-
lacios 7, Bay City 3, giving Palacios
first place.
High School Girls—Paalcios 34, Bay
City 9. Palacios first place.
Grammar School Boys—Pala«ios 7,
Gulf 2; Palacios 9, Markham 3; Pala-
cios 7, Bay City2. Palacios first place,
Bay City second place.
Grammar School Girls—Palacios 16,
Midfield 3; Palacios 31, Bay City 1;
Blessing 8, Palacios 6. Blessing first
place, Palacios second place.
John R. Rowles
John R. Rowles, age 85 years, 5
months and 8 days, died at the family
residence in Blessing, Texas, Tues-
day, at 7 a. m. He is survived by his
wife, Mrs. John R. Rowles and three
daughters, Mrs. J. E. Dawdy, Mrs.
Louis Wolf of Markham, Texas, and
Mrs. P. R. Dawdy of Blessing, Texas.
Funeral services were held at the
family residence in Blessing today at
2 p. m., Rev. P. E. Engle of the Epis-
copal Church of Bay City, officiating.
The remains were prepared for bur-
ial by the Palacios Funeral Home and
brought here and interred in the Pa-
lacios Cemetery, with a Masonic ser-
vice by the Blessing and Palacios
lodges.
Mr. Rowles was a well known and
highly esteemed citizen. He and his
wife made Palacios their home a num-
ber of years. He was a native of Eng-
land, but had been a resident of Mata-
gorda County for many years.
Sub-Irrigation
Demonstration
The Palacios Home Demonstration
Club will m?et with Mrs. C. G. Jeffers,
first house off concrete on East Bay
shore road, Monday, March 27, at 2
p. m. After the business meeting the
demonstration will be held. Ladie9
may invite their husbands to see the
demonstration. Mr. Ottis, of Wads-
worth, says the only place in his gar-
den where he can raise anything in
summer is the part that is sub-irrigat-
ed. —Reporter.
Friends here of Miss Bea Doyle ,a
former teacher in the Palacios school,
have been informed of her marriage,
on Feb. 3, 1933, to Mr. Edmund E.
Williams, at San Angelo. They are
living at Santa Rita, where she is
teaching school and Mr. Williams
works for the Continental Oil Co. The
Beacon joins with the many friends
of Mrs. Williams in extending hearty
congratulations.
Austin, Tex., March 22.—The shroud
of darkness that has robbed Texas of
$4,000,000 in tax revenues yearly and
permitted development of a tremen-
dous "racket" in the gasoline business,
has been torn away by the teeth in the
new gas tax enforcement law, in the
opinion of close observers at the cap-
itol.
The bill, passed 1/ both houses, was
signed by the Governor Tuesday. It
becomes effective immediately as an
emergency measure, and repeals all
previous legislation on the subject.
The new law makes deliberate eva-
sion of the gasoline tax a felony, with
fines of from $100 to $5,000, jail sen-
tences of from one to six months and
penitentiary terms up to two years.
It creates a motor fuel tax division
under the state comptroller, with two
lawyers and a full force of investiga-
tors, auditors, chemists, etc., yet at no
new cost to the taxpayers, for a frac-
tion of one per cent of the gas tax is
set aside to pay them. Their activi-
ties are expected to recover at least
$4,000,000 a year.
The new law sets a chemical stand-
ard for gasoline. Provisions of the
law dealing with manufacture, trans-
portation and marketing of gasoline
are regarded as "thief proof" as pos-
sible. Complete sets of interlocking
records must be kept, from the run of
crude oil until the gasoline goes into a
motorist's car. They must be open to
inspection at any time. Books must
also be kept on kerosene, naptha and
other tax-free fuels commonly blend-
ed with gasoline, and retailers may be
checked to see if they sold such fluids
under their proper names. This will
be a serious check on blending, the
commonest form of tax evasion, by
which a retailer mixes tax-free fluids
with tax-paid gasoline, and collects tax
on the entire amount.
The old familiar answer of "I don't
know" to official questioners is now
outlawed. The records must show.
Every dealer must post the gas tax
separately from the price of gasoline,
so that a motorist with average in-
telligence can draw his own conclu-
sions. And every dealer must show
the name of the firm which paid the
tax.
Even trucks, tank cars, and all other
vehicles that transport motor fuel
must be ready at all times to give
proof that the tax has been paid.
Every truck driver must carry a man-
ifest showing the type and amount of
his cargo, its origin, destination and
the amount of tax paid. In addition,
every dealer must record the number
of any truck bringing him motor fuel.
The Texas Good Roads Association,
which favored the new law, pointed out
today the fact that every peace officer
in Texas is empowered to stop and
investigate any carrier, and urged to
do so. "Only by general interest and
by widespread public education can
this $2,000,000 be recovered for the
motorists, $1,000,000 for schools and
$1,000,000 far the repayment of coun-
ty bonds," the Association's state-
ment said.
C. OF C. ANNUAL
BANQUET HELD
TUESDAY NIGHT
LADIES AUXILIARIES FEED BIG
CROWD ON PAVILION AT
YEARLY AFFAIR
Henry Micholik, who lived on the
former Tatum farm, about 4 miles
north of Palacios, died March 18, 1933,
following an operation in Shiner, Tex.
Funeral services were held at the
Catholic Church in Blessing, Texas,
Tuesday, March 21, conducted by
Father Weber. Interment was made
in the cemetery there, under the di-
rection of the Duffy-Rittenhouse Un-
dertaking Co.
The members of the Senior Class
wish to thank those who helped to
make the class play a success by pur-
chasing ads, attending the play, and
letting us use their furniture.
Methodist Ladies will serve dinner
at the building vacated by Brotemarkle
meat market, Saturday April 1. Menu,
chicken pie, mashed potatoes with
gravy, cabbage salad, pie of all kinds,
rolls and coffee.; Price 25 cents. Be-
gin serving at 11>:80 o'clock.
The annual banquet of the Palacios
Chamber of Commerce was held Tues-
day night on the Pavilion. Four di-
rectors 'were elected, namely. J. B.
Feather, R. J. Sisson, George Harr*»
son and Charles Luther.
The program opened with the audi-
ence singing "America," followed by
an invocation by Rev. Carroll B. Ray.
Musical numbers included a song by
the Girl Reserves, one by the Glee
Club, under the direction of Mrs.
Shomette, a violin solo by John Rich-
ards, the ladies quartette, Mesdames
Koerber, Harper, Arnold and Sisson,
and the Springtime Quartette, Mesrvs.
E. E., Rowland and Arnold Burton
and A. M. Stadig.
Mayor Ruthven represented the city
and told a few things the city was
going to do.
Col. Nyman, who has just recently
come to take charge of Camp Hulen,
gave a short talk on what a military
camp is and how it works.
Arnold Burton spoke in the interest
of the B. Y. P. U. Grounds, J. L. Koer-
ber on the Intracoastal Canal and oth-
er good things for Palacios.
Melba Koerber and Carl Trull, who
will represent th«'v respective grades
in the declamation contest at the
County Meet Friday night in Bay City,
favored us with their readings and af-
ter hearing them we feel sure Pala-
cios will bo represented in the district
and perhaps the State meet this year.
J. B. Feather, secretary, gave an
itemized report of expenditures and
receipts the past year and the C. of
C. has a balance of $98.05.
Mrs. J. W. Dismukes represented the
Ladies Auxiliary of the C. of C. with
a brief report of the past year's work.
A new feature on the program this
year was to have the Boy Scouts rep-
resented, and they gave a most inter-
esting demonstration of first aid work
as taught them in their organization.
Scouts, Willard Margerum, Layford
Jackson and Ray Anders, under the di-
rection of Asst. Scoutmaster Alton
Queen, showed how to look after an
njured companion, when found he had
a baroken jaw-bone and fractured
limb.
Preceding the program a most ap-
petizing dinner, prepared and served
by members of the Auxiliaries was en-
joyed by the hundred or more guests
and the evening as a whole was con-
sidered quite a success.
To Women of Palacios;
Advance, Not Retreat!
*
V
"The War is still on. We have lost
a battle. That does not mean we hava
lost the war. The Eighteenth Amend-
ment still holds. It is written in the
Constitution. The W. C. T. U. has
nailed its colors to the mast. We will
continue to advance. We refuse to
retreat." —Ella A. Boole.
With this stirring call from our na-
tional W. C. T. U. President, can we
refuse to do all in our power to keep
our little corner of America dry in
sentiment? When the foe is pressing
hard, then we must fight all the m<)qt
earnestly.
This is a call to the Christian wo-
men of Palacios to join our forces in
this great fight We want to double
or triple the membership of our local
W. C. T. U. We also want to organ-
ize n Young People's Branch.. The
most important thing we have to do ia
to convince our young people that the
Eighteenth Amendment has helped our
country a great deal.
If the liquor forces can convince the
young people that Prohibition is a fail-
ure they feel that they have taken
care of their foul business for the fu-
ture. Let us use our knowledge of
conditions as they were in pre-prohi-
bition days, and convince these future
voters that Prohibition has been a
marvelous improvement over the old
saloon days. Mrs. W. C. Gray,
President W. C. T. U.
Palacios and vicinity was visited byi
a terrific rain and electrical storm
early Sunday morning, accompanied by
wind and hail, doing a lot of damage
to gardens and truck, as well as break-
ing out scores of window lights.
Saturday afternoon in the Library
will be the regular monthly meeting
of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Pala-
cios Chamber of Commerce. This is
the beginning of a new year. Women
interested in making Palacios bigger
and better are invited.
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