The Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 23, 1933 Page: 1 of 4
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THE SEMINOLE SENTINEL
Vol 26, No. 51
SEMINOLE, GAINES COUNTY. TEXAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1933
$1.00 Psk Ysab
Information Covering Post
Office Appointments
Cotton Bagging For Cotton
Bales Urged By Twenty Nations
In order that all those who
may wish to seek appointment
as postmaster at Seminole may
have accurate information about
how to go about the matter.
The Sentinel is making public
the following letter recently re
ceived by us from Congressman
Marvin Jones,
T. F. Lindley, who is at pie
sent postmaster at this place,
has an appointment which ex
oircs May 16,1934. The Semi
nole office is a third class office,
and is classified to come under
civil service rules. Mr. Jones’
letter covering this is as follows:
"It now appears that no def
inite information concerning the
manner in which Postmasters
are to be appointed during the
Administration of President
Roosevelt will be available until
after March 4th next. I am,
therefore, sending you the en
closed pamphlet which explains
the manner in which postmas
ters are now appointed, which is
s e 1 f explanatory. Democratic
leaders who are close to Mr.
Roosevelt say he will in all pro
bability follow the same proced
ure. You will note applicants
for appointment as Postmaster
to first, second, and third class
post offices are required to take
a civil service examination, and
when all papers are graded, the
names of the three persons mak
ing the highest grades will be
certified bv the civil service
commission to the Post Office
Department as eligible*, and
from this list of eligibles will be
selected the one to be appoint d
Postmaster at the office for
which the examination was held
No Congressman is consulted
about these appointments until
the eligible list of three is cer
tilled.
‘ Prior to the date when the
term of the present Postmaster
is to expire at all first, second
and third class post offices, the
Post Office Department will call
upon the Civil Service Com mis
sion to conduct an examiuation
for the purpose of naming his
successor. This is of course in
compliance with the law. The
Civil Service Commission will
then give notice by posting full
particulars on the bulletin board
at that particular post office
and in the local newspapers,
that applications will be received
which notice will instruct those
who desire to take such exami-
nation, where lo file their applh
cations. When applications are
filed and a date set for such ex-
amination, the commission will
then furnish such further par-
ticulars as may be required, such
as the date the examination
will be held, time, place, etc.
No copies of former examination
questions are available, and
Members of Congress are not
permitted under the law to inter-
fere with civil service exami-
nations.
“Salaries of Postmasters at
first class post offices are from
$3,200 upward; second class are
from $2,400 to $3,000; and third
class are from $1,000 to $2,300.
Seminole School Notes
The campaign for the substi
tution of cotton bagging for jute
in the baling of cotton, which
in the past has made little
headway, has received new and
powerful impetus thru the action
of the Master of Spinners and
Manufacturers Association of
Manchester, England, proposing
to penalize the use of jute and
put a premium on the use of
cotton bagging, More impor
tant, the resolution has been
given the indorsement of twen
ty nations.
The method proposed is to
change the rules so that cotton
will be purchased on a net
weight basis. Since jute is
heavier than cotton, the excess
freight is a penalty. Jute gives
small protection against weather
and stains and, besides, sheds
fibers that mix with cotton and
cause breaks in spinning. The
spinners are moved by their
difficulties in spinning. Adop
tion of cotton bagging would
impair jute business, but it
would create a market for about
200,000 bales of low grade, short
staple American cotton annually.
Numerous American cotton
mills already are offering to pay
for seven pounds extra on cotton
bagged bales, and it is expected
that in the ginning of the 1933
crop there will be a very
material increase in the bales
protected by bagging of its own
manufacture.
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Joshua’s Covenant of Service
An extra 30 minute period has
been added to the daily program
of the school to provide training
for the pupils taking part in the
Interscholastic League activities
Regular classes begin at 9:15
and school is dismissed at 4:30
in order to provide the daily 30
minutes for the League work.
This provision was necessary in
order to make for the time lost
during the recent recess of the
school. After the county meet
this period will be discontinued.
School will continue to be dis
missed at 4:30 for the remainder
of the term.
The Thursday afternoon pro-
grams will be dispensed with
until after the county meet.
Following the county meet the
Thursday programs will be re
sumed until May. No Thursday
programs will be held in May
due to the press of work getting
ready for the final examination
and the various programs inci
dent to the close of school.
Dan and Carroll Cobb left
Tuesday for Laredo where they
were called to attend the funeral
of their brother, Jesse Cobb.
Eoroute home they will stop in
Temple where Carroll will go
through the Scott and White
Clinic.
‘ Ye are witnesses against
yourselves that ye have chosen
you the Lord to serve him:"
Jos. 24 22.
More than forty years of
strenuous service were behind
these words of Joshua, Israel’s
great leader. This challenge to
others to commit themselves
once for all to a life of consecrat
ed service had been nobly met in
his own life. What a fine tribute
to his memory in the closing
words of this book: “And Israel
served the Lord all the days of
Joshua and all the dayB of the
Elders that overlived Joshua."
So mighty was the influence of
his service upon his own genera
tion that the one following felt
that his spirit was still among
them.
Long and arduous had been
the campaigns in which Israel’s
enemies were subdued. Then
came the allotment of the land
and the setting up of the taber
nacle at 8hiloli. One hundred
and ten years of a glorious con
quering life is about to end with
the giving of the last charge
which was concluded with a most
sacred covenent of service, of
which the text quoted above is a
part; Ye are witnesses against
yourselves that ye have chosen
you the Lord to serve him. And
they said we are witnesses.
One of the most valued of all
personal rights is that of indivi
dual choice. How we prize it in
timely things, or even in trivial
things, but who would forfeit his
right to choose for himself in
heavenly things, even the right
to choose for himself the worship
of God. It is the most highly
prized and the least used of all
sacred privileges. If only a re-
solve in some better moment
The grade programs, at the
close of school will be divided in
to two programs instead of
one as has been the case hereto-
fore. The 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th
grades will present their pro
gram together: the 5th, 6th and
7th grades will combine their
program. These programs
will be given in the afternoon iu
stead of at night. Such a step
has been taken in order to facil
itste itae handling ot the pro-
grams and with the purpose of
making it possible for many
children to participate in the
programs who could not be pres-
ent at a night program. There
is an element of economy in hav
ing the programs during the day
in that it will be unnecessary to
run the busses for extra trips
at night if the programs are
given in the day time. The pro-
grams will begin at 3 o’clock in
the afternoon so as to enable
parents and others interested to
be present. Dates for the re
spective programs will be an
nounced in ample, time for all to
be advised of the time of each.
A First Mortgage
on The United States
A life insurance policy is a
first mortgage on the productive
wealth of the United 8tates.
Behind it are millions of dol
lars in cash and investments etn
bracing every major industry.
Government bonds. railroad
bonds, utility bonds — these
are issues which find their way
into life insurance portfolios.
Some of the bonds may go down
temporarily, some of them may
stay down for periods of years
But that has little influence on
life insurance security. An in-
dividual, when times becomes
hard, may have to sell in a buy
er’s market, taking whatever is
offered. A life insurance com
pany keeps on hand sufficient
cash, in a legal reserve, to meet
obligations and can hold invest-
ments until it can sell at an ad
vantageous price.
After all, the real test of a
country’s wealth is what it can
produce. That is what will fl
nally pull the Uhited States, and
other powers, out of the de-
pression. That is what life in
aurasce realizes, and has taken
full abvantage of. It doesn’t
deal with promises. It deals
in facts. It backs up every
policy it issues with its gigantic
holdings in those enterprises
which provide employment, pay
taxes and produce goods or ser
vices which the people must
have. And the answer is — ab
solute safety.
Road From Dimmitt to Brown-
field Is Given Designation
At the meeting of State High*
way Commission Tuesday of Iasi
week official designation of a
state highway was made from
Dimmitt to Brownfield, thus con-
tinuing a former designation
from Channing south through
Vega, Hereford and Dimmitt.
This new highway will furnish
another and much shorter route
for tourists through the western
part of this state, materially de
creasing the distance from El
Paso to Denver, Colorado. Here
tofore travel between these two
points had to be routed through
New Mexico, and crossing
several mountain ranges, traffic
was often impeded by heavy
snows: but now coming through
Texas there will be no mountains
and the roads may be kept open
for travel the year 'round.
This new road will also pass
through the towns of Littlefield,
Levelland, enroute from Dalhart
to Brownfield. Eventually it
will be continued to Seminole,
where it will reach pavement
and then give connection with
the Bankhead highway.—Mule
shoe Journal.
Jolly, Informal Dinner Party
In Halley Home, Sunday
(continued on page 4)
Baptist Church Notts
For the information of all
patrons and citizens the an
nouncement is made that there
will be two trustees to elect at
the regular trustees election to
be held Saturday, April 1. The
terms of Messrs. A. J. Roach
and P. W. Dalmont expire May
1,1933.
There will be three trustees to
elect to the county board. The
terms bf Messrs W. A. Cox,
County Trustee at Large, C. C.
Cothes, County Trustee for
Commissioners Precinct No. 2,
and 8 M. Caswell, County Trus
tee for Commissioners Precinct
No. 1, expires May 1. Every
voter in the county may vote in
the selection of County Trustee
at Large; only those vote rs re
siding in the particular com mis
sioners precinct having an expir
ing term may vote in the selection
of that particular County Trus-
tee. Both local and County
trustees are chosen at the same
election, Saturday, April 1.
The senior play will be given
at the school auditorium on the
night of April 21. The name of
the play and the cast will be an
nounced in the near future.
Miss Winifred Halley will direct
the play.
In 1 Cor. 15:10, Paul said, “By
the grace of God I am what I am:
and His grace which was bestow
ed upon me was not in vain."
First, the grace of God sap
plies the proper motive. There
is nothing that will bend a man's
will and transform his character
like the grace of God. You may
try to sway him by motives of
filthy lucre; you may thunder in*
to his ears the words of duty,
right and wrong; but there is no
proper response. You cannot
sway the will by anything but
ttie heart. Its only when you
tonch the proper spring, and
produce the proper motive, that
the man moves properly. The
unskilled hands fail to make some
ponderous piece of machinery
move. But down in one corner
is a little hidden spring. Touch
that spring and the mighty
machinery turns. The grace of
God is the proper hand, that
touches tlie hidden spring, and
produces the proper motive.
In the second place the grace
of God produces power. Any
true preacher can truthfully say
that he has entrusted to his care
the mightiest force in the world
the gospel. Paul said that it is
the “Power of God." The
Romans did not believe much in
ideas. Their notion of power
was the sword. But the iiower
of Christianity lies in the force
of ideas. Thought is mightier
than the sword. Thought
changes empires and nations/
Ideas, instilled into the minds of
the masses, are far more power
fol than any other force. This
is the force and the power that
Jesus has given all Christians in
the bestowal of his grace. Chris
tian people, has “His grace been
bestowed upon yon in vain?" I
leave the question for you to
answer.
My subject for Sunday morn
ing is, “The Beginning of Sin."
based on Gen 3:115. There will
be no preaching Snnday evening.
W. F. Markham, Pastor.
R. M. Hailey and Mrs. M. S.
Doss, whose birthday anniver-
saries occurred last week, were
the honorees at a three course
turkey dinner on Sunday noon
at the Halley home, with Mrs.
Halley as the hostess.
Around' an elaborately laid
table, featuring the Valentine
motif in place cards, napkins and
other appointments the host aud
hostess with their guests, Mr.
and Mrs. Doss, Misses Elizabeth
Slaton, Winifred Halley, Helen
Hart and Mr. Royal Ferguson,
of Lubbock, Miss Mary Lane, of
Roswell, N. M„ enjoyed this
delectable menu which had been
prepared for this festive oo
caaion.
This group of congenial friends
lingered until late in ttie after
noon, eacli expressing the hope
that a similar affair will be ceie
'
brated every year in the future.
Poultry Show at Sea-
graves March 17*18
There will be a Tri County
Poultry Show held in Seagraves,
March 17 and 18. This is our
8th annual show Seminole has
always helped us in the past and
we are counting on you good
people more than ever this year,
for we are making a special effort
to make the show this year the
biggest event in the history of
the Gaines Count? Poultry As
sociation.
Terry and Yoakum Counties
will be on hand with their best
stock. Everyone with fine
chickens in the Seminole conn
try is urgently requested to
come and show your fowls.
Frozen combs will not bar birds
from winning prizes.
Monroe Jones.
C. C. Cothes and son, Reeves,
accompanied by Dr. L. D. Rich-
ards went to Lubbock Tuesday
where Reeves underwent an
operation for appendicitis, at the
West Texas Hospital. Dr. Rich
ards and Mr. Cothes returned
home Wednesday afternoon,
they report Reeves to be doing
nicely.
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Stone, Harry N. The Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 23, 1933, newspaper, February 23, 1933; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth576718/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Gaines County Library.