The Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 9, 1931 Page: 1 of 4
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THE SEMINOLE SENTINEL
VOL 25. No. 1
SEMINOLE, GAINES COUNTY. TEXAS. THURSDAY. APRILS, 1981
f 1.00 Pbr Year
Seminole School Notes
I
Seminole came off victorious
in the county Interscholastic
League meet held here last Fri-
day and Saturday. In the track
and field meet held on Saturday,
Seminole defeated Seagrayes
141 points to 55. In the con-
tests for the all-around connty
championship, Seminole defeat-
ed Seagraves 240 to 211 points.
It may pot be generally under-
stood that the method for figur-
ing the all around championship
is different to that used in figur-
ing the track and field meet.
The winning team counts for
only 20 points regardless of the
number of points by which the
track meet is won. 8eminole
won first place in Senior Boys
Declamation, Senior Girls Dec
lamation, Junior Boys Declama
tion, Extemporaneous Speaking,
Girls Tennis (singles), Boys
Playground Ball, Girls Play-
ground HBall, Junior Spelling,
Sub-Junior Spelling, A rithmetic.
Essay Writing, while Seagraves
won first place in Debate (boys
and girls), Senior Spelling, Vol
ley Ball, Tennis (boys singles
and doubles, and girls doubles),
Junior Girls Declamation In
the track meet, Seminole won
first place in 50 yd. dash. 100 yd.
dash, 220 yd. dash, quarter mile,
half mile, mile relay (by default),
440 yd. relay (by default), the
mile run, discus throw. 120 yd.
high hurdles, 220 yd low hur- ^ „tua ^ u
dies, high jump (eentor boy#), “Too’ yd* 2nd
Mile run—Robert Howell.
120 yd. high hurdles—C. B.
Danieil.
220 yd. low hurdles—Tommie
Reeves.
Chinning the bar — Leon
Crapps.
Other Diace winners for Semi-
nole were:
Senior Spelling second place—
Bessie Morrow and Tommie
Reeves.
Junior Boys Declamation 2nd.
place—Jim Tom Cunningham. -
Junior Spelling 2nd. place—
Alvarine Moseley and Pauline
Dalmont.
Junior Girls Declamation 2nd.
place—Margie Parker.
Senior Boys Declamation 3rd.
place-Joe Pattie.
Tenuis, boys singles 2nd. place
—John Byrd.
Tennis, Boys doubles, 2nd.
place—Willie Otis Simms and
Frank Stark.
Tennis, girls doubles, 3rd.
place—Ruby Heath and Beth
Doss. *
Girls Playground Ball, 2nd.
place- Seminole GrammerGrade
team: Climateen Goode, Pauline
Ancell, Katherine Irwin, Kate
Mahan, Bennet Curry, Frances
Stanley, Fern Stanley, Zola
Davis, Ruby Jewel Sims, Mary
Belle Sims, Jewel Willimon.
50 yd. dash, 2nd place, Horace
Jones; 8rd. William Estep, 4tb.
William Bennet.
100 yd. dash (juniors), 2ud.
place Horace Jones; 3rd William
Estep; 4th William Bennett.
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tlsd for first placs in the high
jump for junior boys, won first
place in broad jump for junior
boys and in chinning the bar.
Seagrayes won first place in
pole vault, broad jump (senior
boys), shot put, javelin throw.
First place winners for Semi
nole were:
Senior Boys Declamation —
Joe Randolph.
Senior ^Girls Declamation—
Ola Mae Whitaker.
Junior Boys Declamation-
Dean Moon.
Girls Extemporaneous Speak
ing- Sarah Brock.
Arithmetic-John D. Auten
and Cecil Simms.
Essay Writing—Wyvaughn
Estep.
Junior Spelling—Emma Cyril
Foster and Ola Mae Whitaker.
Sub Junior Spelling—Elnora
Price and Charles Hudson.
Tennis, girls singles—Bessie
Morrow.
Boys Playground Ball—Semi
nole team: Ramond Trimble,
John D Auten, Berl Ancell,
Dale Danieil, Edward Pratt, Jud-
son Prindle, Scott Doss, Jack
Auten, Henry Drake, and Wil-
liam Westcott.
Girls Playground Ball—Semi
nole team: Winona Cunningham,
Grace Mahan, Frieda Parker,
Laverne Burrows, Gertrude
Stanley, Betty Faye Stark, Paul-
ine Pratt.
50 yd. dash—John D. Auten.
100 yd. dash (juniors)—Jobh
D. Auten.
100 yd, dash (seniors)—Tom-
mie Reeves.
220 yd. dash—Tommie Reeves.
440 yd. dash—Joe Randol h.
880 yd. run—C. B Danieil
High Jump (seniors)—C. B.
Danieil.
High jump (juniors)—John D.
Auten (tied for first place).
Discus throw — Tommie
Reeves.
FEEDERS DAY MEETING
AT BIG SPRING MAY 8
Big Spring, April 7. -A feed
ers dsv meeting will be held at
the federal experiment station
here on May 8, at the completion
of the 140 day test, which has
been given 30 steer calves, test
ing the value of Texas grown
feeds. The records that have
been kept will be compiled and
given to the public at this meet
ing. The steers were placed on
feed on Dec. 17.
Gaines county oitizens were
grieved to learn of the sudden
death of Judge J. D. Mathews of
Andrews, which occurred on
Tuesday morning of this week
at 7 o’clock. Judge Mathews
died of heart failure.
SEMINOLE WILL
‘ STAND THE TEST
Texas had nearly 800,000 acres
of land under irrigation in 1930,
nearly half the total in Hidalgo
and Cameron counties.
We the people of Gaines Conn
ty and of 8eminole have long en
joyed the compliments of oar
neighboring cities in the manner
in which we have stood together
and the unnaual cooperation and
accord of the citizenship. It
takes adverse conditions to bring
out the mettle and worth of a
man.
This condition has b*en
brought about at this time thru
universal depressions and to
further agitate this we have had
the misfortune to lose eight or
ten thousand of our neighbors
whom have moved to the new oil
fields of East Texas most all of
whom were patrons of the 8emi
nole mercantile and banking in
stutions.
Texae ranked first among the
states In the production of nat-
uralgas in 1930.
wealth has so paralized trade
conditions that ordinary people
would throw up their hands and
a liklihood that-’We shall receive
some Rural School Aid and a
small amount of high school
tuition from the state We are
assured of an income still due as
a total of the above amounts
$4609 25. These funds will be
slow in coming in as the bos aid
is never paid until after the end
of the school, nor will the sub
sidles and the high school tuition
be paid until after the end of the
term. There is now being paid
exclaim “it is finished, we give with the hope of the Resurreo
up, surrender,” but not the kind Boo the soul of the prophet rose
of people that have settled the
west as from all points our
neighboring cities and business
men have extended an invita-
tion to accept of their more for
Jim Jones; 3rd Joe Randolph.
220 yd. dash, 2nd Lee Ancell.
440yd dash, 2nd Ben Blrdwell.
880 yd run, 2nd P. J Stanley.
120 yd high hurdles, Jim Jones
and Joe Randolph tied for 2nd
place.
220 yd low hurdles, 2nd Joe
Randolph; 3rd Willie Otis Sims.
Broad jump (juniors), 2nd
Horace Jones.
Broad Jump ^seniors), 3rd
Jim Jones.
High Jump (juniors), Horace
Jones, William Estep, Berl An
cell tied for 2nd; 3rd Scott Doss.
High Jump (seniors), 3rd
Frank 8tark.
Pole Vault, 2nd Joe Randolph;
Jim Jones tied Tor 3rd.
Discus throw, 2nd C. B. Danieil;
3rd Lee Ancell.
Javelin throw, 2nd Willie Otis
Sims; 3rd Lee Ancell.
Shot put, 2nd Joe Randolph;
3rd Willie Otis Sims; 4th Lee
Ancell.
440 yd relay (juniors), 1st Semi-
nole Grade team; 2nd Seminole
High 8chool team.
Chinning the bar, 2nd William
Westcott.
There was no contest in the
mile relay as Seagraves did not
have a relay team Seminole
won the event by default.
John D. Auten won high point
honors for the juniors (boys
under 15Land Tommie Reeves
won high point honors among
the seniors (boys over 15).
SCHOOL CAN CONTINUE
It is thought that it will be
possible to continue the school
despite the bank suspension as
there is yet dne from the state
the sum of $8.00 per capita on
our scholastics which will
amount to $2408.00. We are en
titled to $1627 50 as bus aid, and
shall receive as subsidy on Home
Economics $123.75, and there is
we cannot secure this money in
all liklihood until a depository is
secured and designated to which
the money may be Neat After
this $2.00 is received, and it is
now being sent out, there will
remain $6.00 per capita due us.
It is not known just when the
$6.00 will be paid, doubtless
some of it will not be paid much
jefore August We should re
ceive the other funds in June
and July. The teachers at a
meeting held Monday agreed to
goon with the school. However,
they will need some funds for
paying board bills and living ex
peases. The bus drivers will
also need to have funds for
operating expenses and living
expenses. It is to be hoped that
arrangements can be made to at
least meet these absolutely nec
essary expenses so that the
school can continue. Of course,
everyone must realize that un
less some method can be found
to meet the living expenses of
the teachers and the operating
costs of the basses that we can
not hope to run the school long-
er. Closing the school now
would probably mean the loss of
all affiliation, and the failnre Of
many to pass to the next higher
grade. All the sol tool employ-
ees are willing to “carry on ’ and
wait for their money if their
necessary expenses can be met
The bus hire and teachers
salaries for each month averages
$1925.00, with miscellaneous
items of enough usually to bring
the monthly bill to approximate
ly $2000.00 There are yet two
paydays to be met before the end
of the term. The next payday
will be April 17, which ends the
eighth month of the term, and
the next and last will be on May
15 when the term ends, should
the school run the full nine
months.
O. G. Southall, Supt.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
SERVICES SUNDAY
"He is not here; for he is risen
as he said. Come see the place
where the Lord lay." The pas-
tor’s message for Sunday morn-
ing, April 12th, will be “The
Resurrection of Oar Lord.”
Often shonld we cress this
beautiful Bible doctrine to our
hearts that our spiritual beings
may feed upon its sweets. How
the hope it has, for his followers,
should stir our hearts and fill our
souls. Even amid the financial
depression of these stressful
days.
Our Christian hope means not
much to us if it is not more than
a match for any and every earth-
ly case. It was the chief souroe
of comfort to the prophet of
Idumaea. This hope for him
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This sudden withdrawal of stood the test of loss of family,
possessions, health and friends.
A man in this life can have no
other losses but these, and yet
triumphant above them all. “And
though after my skin worms
destroy this body, yet in my
flesh shall I see God.”
The note of the Resurrection
tunate conditions the things • is the highest in the scale of life,
necessary to carry on. |I am wondering if the most
It has been necessary for our spiritual among us, even in their
merchants to ask fl at all who
are at all able to pay cash f< r
their purchases and that ’'ey
can at this time only extend help, ll®re for risen.”
nd ask that anyone fWw t
We will be glad to welcome
that is in destitute circumstance 8eek * balm for their sorrows
let it be known to your business and losses in worldly pleasures,
friends and you will he plapIy others In various and Sunday
cared for. j ways, Why not bring all your
It is with much pride and c3™ 10 the 8anctuary and “cast
gratification that our substantial a11 your cares upon Him for be
citizenship have extended to the. careth for you.”
mercantile institutions their co
operatioo in this matter aod are
glad to pay cash that the ones in
R. P, Kelley, Pastor.
Texas sold $3,000,000 worth of
need ra.j be taken care of nnd !"r ,*“r; J *48.-
we are proud to state that It i, i pelt8 ur brar
thin cooperation ,0 Koneron.l, ® M
i . * , . ", , , i than half the total - 755,502
given the instutions of Seminole
by its worthy citizenship that
has enabled Seminole to carry
on in such splendid array.
Also a word of praise to our
business men who are now giv-
ing succor to the needy and stand
ready with the backing of all
the wealth of the surrounding
country to care for those In ac-
tual distress, and we here want
to state that it can be shown that
the merchants as a whole have
given away n this manner for
those worthy more than ten per
cent of their net earnings
We are proud to state that our
friends trade at home with this
kind of people and can boast that
at least 98 pe r cent of Seminole
money is spent with home mer-
chants and do not think that this
Skunk with 235,805 was next,
muskrats contributed 75,867 and
'coonc 45,317. (Authority:Tex-
as Game, Fish and Oyster Com-
mission.
Messrs and Mesdames Lamar
Payne, of Lou, Herbert Teal, of
Littlefield, Guy Stark Jr., of
Dunn, Glen and Calvin Stark, of
Seagraves, were here this week
attending the bedside of Mrs.
Guy Stark who is seriously ill,
but at this time is some better.
Texas produces one third of
the American cotton crop, but
has only 280,800 spindles for
spinning that product. North
Carolina, leading Socthern tex-
tile state, lias 6,236,320 spindles.
PH___________ Texas in 1930, despite curtail
record can he equaled anywhere production and reduced prices
and again let us thank our sub
stancial friends for supporting
the merchants with their cash
that they may be enabled to care
for the needy and as a suggestion
just leave with your merchants
ten or twenty dollars to buy ne
cessities for those that are un
able to buy for themselves.
A Friend of Seminole.
Miss Alta Rollins left Monday
for Lubbock to continue her
work in the auditing department
of the State Telephone Company,
after having spent a month at
home convalescing from a recent
operation.
of its principal products, led the
states of the Union in value of
agricultural products Califor-
nia was second, lows third.
Mrs. John Wlnborn, of Ft.
Sumner, N. M , and Miss Dixie
Mitchell, of Snyder enjoyed a
brief visit in the R. W. Mitchell
home this week.
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best moments have learned to
sing its melody It U muaie fit-
ter angels’ voices. “He is not
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Mrs. Brittian Dilliard, of
Crosby ton, arrived Monday to
nurse M rs. Guy Stack who hss
been serionsly ill with pleurisy.
Mr. and Mrs Tom Cobb, of
Brownfield, spent the week end
in the Dan Cobb home.
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Stone, Harry N. The Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 9, 1931, newspaper, April 9, 1931; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth577044/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Gaines County Library.