San Patricio County News (Sinton, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 21, 1931 Page: 1 of 8
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Tri-Club Meeting
Held At Taft
One of the most outstanding
events ever staged in this part of
the country was pulled off on Tues-
day, when the Sinton Klwanis Club,
the Taft Chamber of Commerce and
the Corpus Christ! Klwanis Club
met at Taft for a sure-enough get-
together meeting and a general
good time.
Things started moving at 5:00
o’clock, when Sinton and Corpus
Christ! lined up their respective
ball teams on the ball diamond
south of the Taft depot.
Honestly, ye hate to say Any-
thing about that ball game, and in
truth will say but very little. Af-
ter trying out almost every man on
the Sinton team in the pitcher’s
box, and getting pounded all over
the lot, the game came to an end—
Score: Sinton 0. Corpus Christi
21. And we are privately of the
opinion that the scorelceeper was
very charitable toward the Sinton
team, at that. President Walter
Sparks, iii a way, intimidated the
umpire into favoring the Sinton
boys in calling balls and strikes and
on base decisions. We shudder to
think what the score might have
been, otherwise. Mike Livsey ac-
quired a “Charlie Horse” in both
knees, and had to go home before
(he eats were announced.
After the game the Sinton Ki-
wanis Band played a short concert
on the Green Hotel lawn.
Supper, a regular old-fashioned
chicken barbecue, was then served
to about 170 guests in the dining
room of the Green Hotel. The sup-
per was served by the ladies of
the Taft Methodist Church. There
was plenty of it for all, and from
the way that hungry bunch went
after it, there’s no doubt about the
supper being good. The eats were
served nicely and with no confusion
whatever. Invocation was by Pey-
ton Oliphant, minister Sinton
Church of Christ.
After supper a splendid program
waB rendered, the entertainment
features being under the direction
of Ray West and Curtis Clark, of
the Corpus Christi Club, with Clint
Holoman, president of the Corpus
Christi Club, presiding.
P. H. Humphries of the Taft
Chambei of Commerce, made the
address of welcome, a bright breezy
talk, which was highly appreciated
by the members and guests. Sing-
ing by the entire company preceded
the address of welcome.
A. C. Tutt of Taft made a short
talk, also welcoming the visitors.
The address of the evening by
Rev. W. M. Read, pastor of the First
Baptist Church of Corpus Christi
was a splendid one. He commended
the three clubs on the work they
are doing, and spoke of the fine spir-
it of good fellowship being develop-
ed by them. Rev. Read also spoke
of the wonderful opportunities of
this Gulf Coast Country. Such talks
as this are entertaining and highly
constructive. We need more of
like nature.
Walter Sparks, president Sinton
Kiwanis Club, responded to the
address of welcome on behalf of
the Sinton club and visitors.
During the program the band
played several numbers. We won-
der where, in this section, is a
Kiwanis Club that can boast of a
good Kiwanis band as can the Sin-
ton club.
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BACCALAUREATE SERVICES
WELL ATTENDED
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The Baccalaureate services of
Sinton High school were held in (he
High School Auditorium on Sunday
morning, at, 11:00 o’clock.
The auditorium was well filled,
there being no other church services
in the city at that hour.
Mr. Peyton Oliphant, minister
local Church of Christ, preached a
most practical and interesting ser-
mon to the class of graduates, show-
ing that the Bible is the very foun-
dation of all things—law, love and
learning, and as a pattern for the
young people to follow throughout
theirf u*ure lives. It was a sound
sensible sermon delivered in a most
pleasing manner.
The processional and recessional
were played by an orchestra com-
posed of Mr. and Mrs. George Beev-
er, piano and violin; Dan Martin,
trombone and Walt Martin and John
Starbuck, cornets. These instru-
ments also accompanied songs by
the congregation and choir.
Invocation was given by Rev. W.
C. Wood, pastor Sinton Baptist
Church, which was followed by the
scripture reading, by Rev. F. P.
Bishop, pastor Sinton Methodist
church. Rev. Bishop also pronounc-
ed the benediction at the close of
the service.
The hymn, “Holy, Holy, Holy,"
by the congregation, choir and or-
chestra followed the invocation.
The Girls’ Glee Club, under the
direction of Miss Frances James,
rendered “The Perfect Prayer.”
After the sermon the choir, re-
cruited from the different churches
of the city, gave “Forward! Singing
Glory,” an anthem by Paul Ambros.
The graduates, twenty-four in
number, wore caps and gowns, and
were seated in a reserved section
(fl town, is not a 6it of ground,
food gfot time square.
’ the /Louses or the stores
____ere merchants peddle wares.
town is not its boulevards,
Or pavements mile on mile,
\J/or public buildings richly wrought
Ofmassive stone or tile.
town, is made of human souls
CllL jumbled up together,
CUl striving Jor the things they want
In fair or stormy weather,
Clnd little Jolts male hide towns
• Wherever they may 6e;
djut 6lq jblks mahe the towns worthwhile
Of real prosperity.
H. E. ODEM ENTERTAINS
WITH PICNIC
Mr., H. E. (Bert) Odem entertain-
ed the Sinton School Board, Facul-
ty, and Sten’pr Class with a barbecue
at the Odem Ranch on. the Neuces
River near Hubert Switch last Sat-
urday.
The table was arranged In a very
unique spot resembling one of na-
ture’s big rooms which, was formed
by the overlapping of the hackberry
trees.
At noon the guests assembled
under the canopy of the trees and
due to the absence of Mr. Odem,
who was called away, Edgar Bonor-
den acted as Master of Ceremonies
and directed the guests to forn\ a
line and help themselves to the
delicious barbecue and all its trim-
mings that had been prepared by
the employees of the Odem Ranch
who proved themselves to be past
masters in the art. of barbecuing.
The guests expressed their ap-
Graduation Exercises
Sinton High School
The graduation exercises of the
Sipton High school, Class of ’31,
were' held in the High school audi-
torium on Wednesday evening of
this week, commencing at 8:00
o'clock.
The evening's exercises opened
with invocation by Rev; F. P. Blah
op, pastor of the Sinton Methodist,
church. >v
Miss Florence Gerdes, highest
ranking girl student of the class,
gave the salutatory address. Miss
Gerdes has an easy flow of langu-
age. and delivered her address in
a most pleasing manner.
The saxophone solo, “Tivilight,"
by Miss Adele Dodson, with Mrs.
George Beever at the piano, was a
very pretty number, and was well
played.
We have been listening to Com
predation to Mr. Odem for his hps- j mencemept addresses, one each
pitalitv and the good time shown year, for a long time, and among
them and returned to Sinton early 1 them sonic given, by the best speak-
in the noernoon. ers ol the land. The address, how-
—Contributed. n\er, given by Dr. King Vivion io
--- the class of '31. on Wednesday ew
JUNIOR-SENIOR BANQUET nine, .-truck ns as heing one of th-
- .best, if not the very best we have
The annual Junior-Senior Banquet ever heard. His bearing, personai-
uhich was held on the High School jtv. command of language and splen-
cafeteria last Friday evening, prov- dpi -peaking voice mark him as an
ed to he most enjoyable The at'- exceptional speaker.
COUNTY COUNCIL OF P. T. A. j
MEETS IN ARANSAS PASS
SACRED HEART SCHOOL
GIVES DIPLOMAS
„ .. i The commencement exercises
Teachers'waT hostess to the San jth(' Sacr('d Heart St hiwl held
.u a _______Patricio County Council on Satur-.jn/he school auditorium on May 18,
near the front. They presented a day, May 16th. The meeting was. e ore a arKe au len^e, . . ...
' held at the Woman’s Club House, The PWam consisted of drills,
which was beautifully decorated for W S?d 8 Springtime Novelty en-
the occasion with cut flowers and titled “Ver Eicuses
ferns ! Rev. F> J. Kasper of Corpus
! Christi addressed the audience on
Mrs. J. L. Mercer, the local pres-, g Bece of a 80lid, chrlstian
ident, was in charge of the program, j edlJcation
The entire assembly joined in ^ jr j. Gruber, pastor, confer-
singing “America.” Mrs. Smith
gave the invocation and Mr, H. T.
of schools,
most pleasing appearing, a credit
to our High School and its faculty.
GRADUATION EXERCI8E FOR
GRAMMAR SCHOOL TO BE
HELD THURSDAY EVENING
The graduation exercises for the
Sinton Grammar School will be held
Thursday evening at the High
School Auditorium with Rev. F. P.
Bishop, pastor of the Sinton Meth-
odist Church delivering the address.
Jane Martin Kirkpatrick is valedic-
torian and Wilson Berry is saluta-
toran. Others of the class who
will receive diplomas are Bert Alex-
ander, Walter Cluiss, William Mont-
gomery, J. R. Moore, Horace Patter-
son, Eugene Smith, John Standlea,
Dow Ward, Jr.
KIRKPATRICK WILL ESTABLI8H
PIGGLY WIGGLY STOREWERE
Faulk, superintendent
welcomed the visitors to Aransas
Pass.
Mr3. W. L. Farley sang the P. T.
red the diplomas and premiums.
Annie Odem. who received the
highest average, was the valedic-
torian and Lester Kring was the
salutatorian of the class. Those re-
ceiving diplomas of graduation from
A. song, A Little Child Shall Lead, ^e seventh grade were Annie Odem,
Mrs. S. M. Purcell, Tenth District Lester Kring Agnes Pauline Kunitz,
President, gave an address and Mrs. Franceg ut,ey and Howard Feather.
J. J. Kirkpatrick, o^her of the
Piggly Wiggly store in Taft is mak-
ing preparations to open a store of
that kind here in Sinton.
The store building known as the
Gibson building, next door to the
Cashway, is being decorated and
fitted now. Dow Ward is doing the
painting and decorating.
We understand that Ward Crow
who has been associated with Mr.
Kirkpatrick in Taft will have charge
of the Sinton store.
MRS. BEEVER TO PRESENT
8TUDENTS IN RECITAL
The advanced piano students of
Mrs. George W. Beever will be pre-
sented In a recital at the High
School Auditorium Friday evening
at 8:00 o'clock.
A 'delightful program has been
arranged to which Mrs. Beever and
those taking part on the program
most cordially invite the friends
and public to attend.
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Sinton Kiwanis Band rehearsal to-
jnight (Thursday) at 8:00 o'clock.
Would like to have a full attend-
ance, as want to start wortt on an-
other concert to be given at Park
Welder in the near future.
Was well pleased with the turn-
j out for the meeting at Taft on Tues-
day evening. The band showed up
Inicely on this occasion, and I wish
| to thank the members for the
I terest they are showing.
H ' WAW MARTIN-
J. M. Felder sang a solo.
Dr. Jennie Green of Charles Cross-
ley School of Corpus Christi and
Mr. H. T. Beckworth, County Super-
intendent of School, both gave short
talks and Mrs. E. ,T. Ellrick of Cor-
pus Christi gave an interesting re-
port of the National meeting held
last week in Hot Springs, Ark.
A short business session was pre-
sided over by the president. Very
interesting reports of the various
units were heard.
Rockport Association was a guest
and their president Mrs.'Ford Jack-
son told of their very successful
year’s work. They were invited to
join the San Patricio County Coun-
cil. Miss Ouida Dodson of the Ed-
ward Furman P. T. A. of Corpus
Christi was a visitor.
The annual election of officers
was held. The following were elec-
ted: President, Mrs. H. T. Elkins,
Sinton; First Vice President, Mrs.
J. O. Moody, Taft; Recording Secre-
tary, Mrs. J. L. DuBose, Sinton;
Treasurer, Mrs. W. C. Gaines, Odem.
The following committees were
appointed: Education, Mrs. E. C.
Caldwell; Health, Mrs. Carey Eads;
Music, Mrs. J. M. Felder; Publicity
Chairman, Mrs. R. G. McDaniel;
Schools, Mr. H. T. Beckworth.
Precinct Chairmen: Aransas
Pass, Mrs. M. C. Nelson; Adams,
Mrs. Reed; Odem, Mrs. R. B. Tur-
ner; Taft, Mrs. J. O. Moody; Sin-
ton, Mrs. S. H. Preston; Rincon,
Mrs. C. D. Whatley; Gregory, Mrs.
C. H. Hunt; Ingleside, Mrs. D. C.
Crist; Portland, Mrs. L. De Mouche;
Sodville, Mrs. U. E. Ray.
An all-day meeting and basket
picnic will be held in Sinton on
June 12th, at which time the cor-
respondence course will be outlined.
—Reporter.
ling.
LUMBER SALE GOING BIG
E. H. Green, Manager of the
Lynch Davidson Lumber yard at
Odem, was a visitor at the News
office Saturday. Mr. Green says
their big lumber sale which they
have been advertising in the San
Patricio County News is going fine
—so good in fact, that they will
continue it until further notice.
While here Mr. Green gave us a
copy of a letter he had received
from Mr. Davidson which “listens”
good to us and also to Ray Carney,
of the Robstown Record.
The letter follows:
Houston, Tex., May 8. 1931.
I am this morning in receipt of
ads In the Sinton paper on the bar-
gain sale and also another one in
the Robstown paper on the bargain
sale. They are both dandies! It
is hard for me to tell which is the
best one, but they are certainly
clever, vigorous advertisements and
ought to bring some results.
Yours truly,
Lynch Davidson.
fair was presented under the cap
able direction of Miss Delta Neu-
mann, sponsor of the Junior Class, j
Welcome was extended to the!
guests by Allen Lawrence, acting
as the Master of Ceremonies. Fol-
lowing the fruit cocktail, a most de-
lightful toast was given to the
Seniors by the entire Junior Class.
The response was given in an ap-
propriate way by Waldo Haisley,
president of the Senior Class. Then
the guests were pleasantly enter-
tained with two songs, “The End
of a Perfect Day” and “Hello Beau-
tiful” sung by a quartette, compos-
ed of Inez Montgomery, Hazel Jo
Sipes, Lorene Neimann and Audrey
Giles, accompanied by Sallie Belie
Tally. The speaker, Mr. J. E. Hol-
brook, was introduced by the Mas-
ter of Ceremonies. The address
was both interesting and instruc-
tive. The Senior motto was wisely
extended in this manner: ®‘Get a
bulldog grip and hold it. but be
sure to turn it loose at the proper
time.”
The class resolutions, by Richard
Kunitz. and class eulogy by Winnie
Birkner were humorously but sin
cerely given in honor of each in-
dividual Senior.
Following the delicious dinner
course, Irene Crutcher, in a pleas-
ing manner extended a toast to the
faculty. In the response Mr. S. W.
Seale asked the students and the
Seniors, particularly, to remember
that “the hands of the faculty mem-
bers would be placed on their shoul-
ders always,” for encouragement
and good cheer.
The cafeteria and table service
were very attractively decorated in
harmonizing colors of pink, green
and lavender. The plate favors
were pink and green doll heads on
standards; and the programs print-
ed on paper of class colors further
accented this scheme.
The banquet was served to the
members of the two classes and the
following special guests: Mr. and
Mrs. S. W. Seale, Miss Frances
Huggins, Mr. J. E. Holbrook, Miss
Velma Hargrove, Mr. B. F. Miller
and Miss Delta Neumann.
After being introduced by Super
intendent Seale, Dr. Vivion took for
his text ihe words. “Behold! I set
before thee an open door, and no
man can shut it," taken from the
third chapter of. Revelation.
He said that the oft-repeated
statement heard at most Com-
mencement exercises, that “Now is
the hour of opportunity” is only a
half truth, and that the hour of op-
pertunity is here only to those who
are willing to work and sacrifice to
make use of that opportunity.
In speaking of heredity and en
vironment, Dr. Vivion said that
while both are strong factors In the
development of character, he con-
siders the fact that by choice wb
are able to rise above both heredity
and environment the strongest fac-
tor in character development.
Dr. Vivien said that he feels a
little ashamed of Adam, who, when
confronted with his guilt, said
‘The woman beguiled me, and I did
eat.” The more manly thing, Dr.
Vivion thinks, would have been for
Adam to have owned up to the fault
and said “I did eat.”
“Any boy or girl can, in these
days, attain the highest education
in the land,” said the speaker. “Flf
ty years ago such a thing might
not have been possible. In some
parts of the country twenty-five
years ago It might not have been
possible, but today every boy or
girl can if they will, receive the
very best education," continued
Dr. Vivion.
The “open door’ referred to in
the text was made to represent the
door of science, the door of litera-
ture, the door of art and the door
of music. In illustrating these
doors the speaker went into detail
TWO GOOD RAINS THIS WEEK
"SHRINE NIGHT" TO BE
A BIG AFFAIR
When it comes to wounding our
feelings, our friends, not our en-
es, carry the sharpest'knives.
In a phone conversation with Mr.
Douglas Daffin, manager Gulf Coast
Shrine Club, he informed us that
“Shrine Night,” Friday (tomorrow)
evening, May 22nd, will be a big
affair, and insists that all members
of the club attend and bring guests.
A good orchestra has been en-
gaged, and dancing will commence
at 9:00 o’clock.
Light refreshments, punch and
cake, will be served throughout the
evening. The price will be 31.00
each.
Mr. Daffin requests that reser-
vations be phoned to him, Gregory,
Phone No. 3, as early as possible.
Two rains this week so far, have
fallen in Sinton, 1.15 inches on
Monday, and .81 of an inch on Wed-
nesday, a total of 1.96.
It is thought that these rains will
be a benefit to crops, and especially
to gardens and truck.
The weather continues cloudy,
and more rain is in prospect at this
time. *
SUMMER SCHOOL ANNOUNCED
Superiatedent S. W. Seale has an-
nounced that summer school will
open Wednesday, May 27, at the
Sinton High School. Those who
will be in charge will be Mr. Seale in home economics,
siated by Miss Rath Coughran
and Miss Edna Arcbord.
and showed the opportunity offered
to the student who really wants to
enter any of these doors in search
of learning.
Every word spoken by Dr. Viv-
ion was a jewel and every sentence
a sermon. So many good things
were brought before his hearers
that it is difficult to pick out the
high points of his message. Suf-
fice it to say that it was a sincere,
heart-to-heart talk, delivered in a
masterly way, and one long to be
remembered. Dr. Vivion is one of
the most out standing educators of
the South, and has been president
of Southwestern University at
Georgetown for a number of years.
A vocal solo by Mir,3 Christine
Ward, with Miss Frances James at
the piano, was nicely rendered.
Waldo E. Haisley, Jr., then de-
livered the valedictory address,
which was given in a most earnest
and confident manner, and showed
that much thought and preparation
had been given to his subject.
Before awarding the scholarships
Principal B. F. Miller announced
that the prize for highest honors
a five dollar
gold piece offered by the Pioneer
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