San Patricio County News (Sinton, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 28, 1926 Page: 1 of 8
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A BOOST FOR SINTON AND SAN PATRICIO COUNTY
SAN PAmCIO COUNTY NEWS
VOLUME 18.
Terms: $2.00 Per Year, In Advance.
SINTON, SAN PATRICIO COUNTY, TEXAS, THRUSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1926
NUMBER 39
San Patricio First to
RestocK With Hogs
San Patricio county is one of the!
first counties in South Texas to he
re-stocked with hogs. Bankers of the
county are financing a project by
which the club boys and girls of the
county will receive a car load of gilts
Duroe Jerseys, with ten months time
to pay for them. County Agent C. M.
Merritt is heading the hog raising
program and has ordered the car of
Durocs through J. J. McLain of Anna,
Texas, ®ne of the best hog judges and
breeders in the state, according to Mr.
‘ Merritt.
When the pigs are farrowed and
have reached a weight of 225 or 230
pounds, Mr Merritt will put on a
“soupd litter show,” with a view to
furthering the raising of sound hogs
in the county, and to encourage the
raising of live stock, to add to the
cotton crop,
Joseph Green, manager of the Taft
ranch interests, has ordered a car of
Ixogs which are to be distributed
among farmers of the county. It is
hoped that the distribution of these
two car loads of hogs will be the be-
ginning bf a county-wide hog raising
project which will go far toward the
relief of financial stress of farmers
in the county.
MRS. DAWSON EXHIBITS
PAINTINGS AT GONZALES
MONTHLY CROP REPORT
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That home comers brought with
them a number of exhibits to place
in the Fair was in evidence iu nearly
every department, and a number of
them carried off blue ribbons. Mrs. Jim
'Dawson of Sinton. formerly Miss Ger-
trude Parchman of this city, who
teaches an art class in Sinton, had
a group of her paintings on exhibi-
tion in the fine arts department and
captured four prizes. They were much
^Mireik A t^dpainted shawl she
placed in tne Arts and Crafts depart-
ment also took a prize.—The Gonzales
Inquirer.
With the major portion of the cot-
in, the farmers are again learning
the lesson of “too much dependence j
on one crop". Southland Life Insur-
ance Company’s crop reports eomplet- .
ed by its Department of Public Rela-
tions for October indicates that while j
the yield per acre was considerably
bejlow a normal year, considerably
more acres were planted in cotton
this year than last. This, of course,
does not mean that farmers entirely
failed to increase their diversification
of crops. The opposite, in fact, was
true, the answer .being that far more
acres were under cultivation this year
than ever before. The great increase
was most apparent in \V*est Texas.
Texas^ grain crop, now practically all
in. was the greatest ever produced by
the State both in.amount and in value.
This, as life insurance sales bear out.
has,served to place the States in a
good way for prosperity somewhat
above that of so called ‘normal’ year.
The Panhandle and certain parts
of West Texas, together with the
irrigated Rio Grande Valley, lead the
State in prosperity according to re-
ports, crops in both those sections
being bumper crops. The Valley was
especially fortunate in getting a top
price for its early cotton. Conditions
in all sections of the State may be con-
cerned, the money value, of course,
being lower on account of the low
cotton price.
One of the great surprises of the
year was the corn crop which exceed-
ed all estimates of thos^ interested
in it. This, combined: with the wheat
oats, rice and other crops ^forecast
steady prosperity for the States."
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HEALTH COLUMN
Monthly Baby Clinics
j Monthly Baby Clinics have been or-
| ganized as follows by Miss Nell Stolz-
South Texas Chamber
of Commerce Created
each
Hallowe’en
MISS NEUMANN POPULAR
AT.LINDENWOOD COLLEGE
OYEZ! OYEZ! MEN OF SINTON
You are hereby notified to be pres-
ent, men of Sinton, most particularly
the directors of the Sinton Chamber
of pommerce, at an important meet-
ing of the Chamber of Commerce
at the Chamber of Commerce building
Monday afternoon at 4 o’clock. Im-
portant business is to be taken care
of. Be there.
KARL CROW.
Vice President Chamber of Commerce.
Miss "Delta Neumann, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Neumann of Odem,
has returned to Lindenwood College
St. Charles, Mo., where numerous hon-
ors have been bestowed upon her.
Miss Neumann is fhe^president of the
Senior fclass, the secretary-treasurer
of the Texas Club and the vice-
president of the Euthenics Club. The
pep with which Miss Neumann enters
all the college activities compels pop-
ularity. Having attended Lindenwood
for four years, she will receive her
B. S. degree in the spring.
Miss Neumann is very fortunate to
^be a senior at Lindenwood in
for the graduation exercises of that
class will be held during the Centen-
nial celebration of the college.
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“Despite the goblins.: witches, bats.
Big shrieking owls and old black cats,
That prowl around upon this date.
Please come and let us celebrate.”
This and' other clever invitations
issued for colorful parties planned by
various groups of young people for
the Hallowe’en season have preceded
a number of festivities and gayeties to
to be held this week-end in observ-
ance of Hallowe’en. Mystic spirits,
solemn owls, witches, goblins, black
cats, spooks, radiant jack-o’lanterns,
lighted pumpkin faces and bogies will
mingle with the accepted colors of
orange and blafck as young people of
thp City celebrate Hallowe’en.
In this country, Hallowe’en is chief-
ly known as a time for Halowe’en cel-
ebrations,^ boyish pranks and practi
cal jokes. In England and Scotland
the occasion was long given to fire-
side gatherings with many ceremonies
MV which to discover a future sweet-
heart.
Hallowe'en "Is the name given
to the eve of All Hallows or the festi-
val of All Saints. The festival came
on the first of November, making fhe
eve jbefore or “Hallow7 eve” the night
of the .^lst of October.
j fus, county health nurse:
j Mathis—first. Thursday
j month.
j Sinton—-second Thursday in each
j month.
Taft—first Friday in each month.
Odem—-second Friday in each
month.
The next Baby Clinic for Sinton
will be held on Wednesday. November
10, instead of on Thursday on account
of Armistice Day coming on Thursday.
The first Baby Clinic for^aft will
! be held on Friday, November 5..
J The next Baby Clinic for Mathis
will be held on Thursday, Novem-
ber 4.
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We, the undersigned representatives
of commercial organizations and other
business interests in South Texas,
met in Beeville, Texas, Monday, Oct^
ober 11th, 1926, for the purpose of con-
| sidering plans by which a commercial
organization for South Texas might
be created. This committee had pre-
| viously been elected for such a pur-
pose. at a general meeting of South
Texans, held at Corpus Christj on Sept-
ember 14th.
First, let us say that we are thor-
oughly convinced that such an organ-
ization is sorely needed and is an
absolute necessity for this section of
Texas, if conditions prevailing at the
present time are to be maintained,
while they should be bettered; and it
was decided that a permanent organ-
ization meeting should be held in San
Antonio on Tuesday and Wednesday,
November 16th and 17th., starting at
10:00 A. M. Tuesday; at such meeting
The new supply cabinet for the tinaS consideration of the entire ques-
countv health nurse has been com- tion will be^ad and details of the per-
pleted, the clever handiwork of S. P. manent organization perfected. Every
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The next Baby Clinic for Odem will
be held on Friday, November 12.
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Miss Stolzfus worked in the inter-
est of the county health program at
j Portland, West Portland, Taft and
Mathis' this week.
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Chapman', and has been neatly piled
with pamphlets,Abooks, papers and
other materials pertaining to school
and county health w’ork.
C. W. RANEY INJURED BY FALL
President of all Chamber^ of Com-
merce in the territory7 to be included
in the organization is earnestly re-
quested to be present. _ We are also
anxious to have the Secretaries of all
organizations present and any and all
other directors and^members possible.
There will be submitted for the consid-
C. W. Raney of Sodville, manager
of the Long Staple Seed Company
Gin, was seriously injured when he
fell from the seed house of the gin
Wednesday morning, breaking both
bones of both arms at the wrists. He present shaU constitute themselves a
eratioi^of the meeting a Constitution
and By-Laws And after modified to the
satisfaction of the meeting and adopt-
ed, those Presidents of the Chambers
quorum and proceed to business. They
shall, from among their number,
either then, or later, elect a President
also cut his nose to the bone near the
top. and sustained a gash in his fore-
head. He was taken to the Taft hos-
pital where the bones were se't. Mr. aB* two Vice-Presidents and consider
Raney had climbed to the top of the jthe emptpyment of a Secretaxy-Mana,
seed house to do some cleaning out i ®er‘
'We believe that it should be the
policy of the proposed organization
when he lost his foothold and fell, as
as he started down to get a dring of
water.
SINTON 32—ODEM 0
(From Sinton Hi Spots!
The Sinton Pirates and the Odem ;
eleven met on the Sinton gridiron
Friday evening in a football game. It
w'as the first victory of the season
C. C. CORLEY BUILDING NEW
BRICK BUSINESS HOUSE
C. C. Corley, enterprising grocery-
man. who for a number of years has
conducted a growing grocery business
in Sinton, has begun the erection of a
1927 , for the Pirates as three of the former 25x7- bpf k and ^ busines-s house.
A9 DIFFERENT THINGS ARE
GROWN ON WOLFE FARM
WIVES BIGGEST BUYERS OF
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
Sixty percent of musical instru-
games have resulted in ties. The
game Friday ended 32 to 0 in favor
of Sinton.
The Pirates received the first kick-
off and made a touchdown in the first
seven minutes of play. Shipp carried
the ball over for the initial counter.
The locals were unable to make the
The buildifig now in use will be mov-
ed to the rear, and his business will
continue without suspending while
the new place is in progress of being
built. A cement sidewalk in front of
the new building will give an added
touch of attractiveness to the new
store.
FIRST LYCEUM NUMBER TO
PRESENTED WEDNESDAY
EVENING, NOV. 10
Sarah Mildred Wilimcr will enter-
tain an audience Wednesday. Novvem-
ber 10, at the High school auditorium,
with a splendid and varied program
of popular and classical readings, dra-
matic masterpieces and character in-
terpretations.
In her ability to move her audience
to laughter or to tears, Miss Willmer
has no equal. She is the kind you
love, making you to laugh or to cry
at will. In her ability to interpret
the master literary productions from
the platform, she has no superipr. In
A tastefully arranged exhibit rang-
ing from duck eggs and lye soap to a instrument dealers in twenty cities,
loaf of whole-wheat bread made from
home-ground flour wron a first prize
of $25 for Karl Wolfe at the communi-
ty fair here this week. The “Wolfe
Farm” agricultural booth containing
49 different articles grown by Mr. and
Mrs. Wdlfe was a veritable preach-
ment of diversification. .
Seven years ago Mr. and Mrs. Wolfe
■were told they would starve to death
on the little farm to which they mov-
ed five miles west of Stamford. To-
day they own a model country home
and clear a snug margin each year
from their varied farm products.
. Dairying, poultry raising, crop grow-
ing and truck gardening are all prac-
ticed by the \hrifty farmer who has
> learned the wisdom of the diversifiea-
% tion doctrine advocated by the West
Texas Chamber of Commerce.
Besides winning the $25 prize for
the best agricultural display, Mr. and
Mrs. Wolfe won a number of individ-
ual exhibit prizes.
ments sold to women are purchased bv
housewives, it is revealed in a survey | extra point after the touchdown. The
made by the Con. Music Center here. ^j REBEKAHS PLAY HALLOWE'EN the Quality „[ her work, she ranks in
The survey was made through music ! | PRANK TUESDAY NiGHT
and covered 320 actual transactions, j 0,1 e extra point being made‘ Score’ i —
One out of every ten instruments lirst half: SilUou 19- Odem 0. On Tuesday night after the Odd Fel
sold were purchased by women, and Xeither team scored in the third 1 lows of the city had met in regular ! °t tae Lyceum.
the Lyceum where Sarah Bernhardt
ranks in the theatrical profession.
She is distinctly the Sarah Bernhardt i
instruments quarter but tbe pirates got the ball 1 session, a number of Rebekahs garbed • In her" ,ep''rtoiie’ Willmer
to within a few feet of the goal line. ^,,c*. „,—.a ...nn gives two entire plays in which she
their preferences for
were very much along the lines favor- to witllin a fevv teet tlie Soa\ line- j in sheets and masks and armed with
ed bv men,'according to the survey ^ be ov?1 was fumbled and an Odem • brooms “broke” into the meeting andjacts eveIJ pait in &ucb won eifui in
Of the total number of transactions! player recovered it behind the gokl proceeded to give a fantastic- broom! terpretat1^ that the characters are
52 percent involved the purchase of a postv Tbe b£d* weut over on Odem’s j and w|tch drill. They had previously j ma e to ive a move e ore you.
saxophone, 16'per cent that of a trurn-!yard lille aft:er the safety. After [ decorated the lodge room with alii
A letter from tlie White & Brown j
pet, and 9 per cent of a trombone.
That youth will be served, especi-
ally in music, was well illustrated in
the ages of the puschasers. Fully 34
the punt the ball was returned to the
Odem 20 yard line and later the
quarter ended with the score the
same as the first half. The last quar-
to concentrate upon certain well de- •
fined lines of endeavor, rather than
to attempt to spread its activities
over a great many things to which
the organization would not be able to
give proper attention. It was the con-
centus of oponion of all present at the
Beeville meeting that there were a few
outstanding activities which shotdd
receive the consideration of , the new
organization and around which the
new organization's endeavors -should
be centered, viz: .
IMMIGRATION
South Texas is confronted, paradix-
ically as it may seem, with two pro-
blems of immigration of paramount
.importance. The first of these is the
i labor problem. The continuously in-
creasing exodus of our Mexican labor
to the North and East is bringing
about increased activity at Washing-
ton on the part of organized labor,
demanding more and more stringent
immigration regulations for Mexicans,
■ as Evidenced by the so-called “Box
Bill" now pending in Congress, which
bill applies the European Quota idea
to Mexican immigrants, thereby cut-
ting down tlie number of such immi-
grants to only a few hundred pli* year. /
Mexican immigration, limited by the
precent of those purchasing instru- ter began with the Pirates determined
co score. They secured two touch-
downs in this quarter with the ball in
STEAGALL WILL CONTESTED
The case of Mrs. Mildred Steagall
of Aransas Pass vs. Mr. and Mrs.
L. S. Steagall went to trial last Sat-
urday morning and was concluded
about 11 o'clock Tuesday night. The
jury rendered a verdict of admitting
the Will of Waiter B. Steagall to pro-
bate, in favor of L. S. Steagall and
wife. The case had been appealed
from county court to district court.
Attorney J. C Houts represented L
S. Steagall and wife and Attorney J.;
G. Cook represented Mrs. Mildred !
Steagall.
ments were under 21 years of age.
while 19 percent ^vere between the
ages of 21 and 25. and 21 percent be- ^heir possession under the slia(l°w of
tween the ages of 25 and 30. Only 26 °deiu's S°als as the Same ended,
percent of all transactions involved
persons of 30 years and over.
vic tory for the Pirates it cost the
team Otis McFadden and Joe Mor-
row for the Bishop game as each re-
kinds of Hallowe’en emblems such as
bla k cats, witches, jack-o lanterns.
etc., so when they came in to the
room in Hallowe’en costume, it was
no trouble for the Odd Fellows to re- i
member that it was the Hallowe'en
season.
After the broom drill, the Rebekahs
dropped their disguises and stood
Score: Pirates 32, Odem 0. j dresed in the regulation Rebekah cos-
Although the game was a decisive trnne and gave the Rebekah drill and
Lyceum agenc-v announces that Miss ! luimi8.auv,u. UUUKU ,
Willmer will come here from York-! passage of this and the continu-
town. where she has been engaged | ed exodus of Me*“a* ^bor, would
for the Tuesday evening preceding 1 mean ruin for South Texas agricultur-
ally and industrially. Herculean ef-.
forts must be taken to prevent thA
enactment of such a law.
The second problem is that of bring-
November 10. - ’
Other specially fine entertainments
| will follow Mildred Willmer. Season
i tickets for the whole course, five
for 00’ ing into the territory new settlers andt
BURGLARS GROW BOLDER
march in dignified style.
They then engaged the Odd Fellows
in some intersting games and con
numbers, are being sold
children's tickets, $1.00. Season
tickets must be sold before the first
number.
P. T. A. NEXT THURSDAY
Odem*1 residence on^lfOTt^^int^!th&t Wi“ k^P thRm tests, according to the old theory that
street as early as 7:30 in the evening __'
San Patricio County News. $2.01
ransacked drawers and shelves and
made off with a much prized gun be-
longing to Mr. Odem. Tuesday The
family was out for a ride and the in
truder came during their absence.
Mr. Odem supposes he was frightened
away by the early return of the fami-
ly and did not have time to find other
things he may have taken away
It is a tie between the burglar and
the mouse—which is the bolder? Both
play around your premises any hour
of the night at will, the.-e days, and
seem to know no feai >f detection.
There have b*-en mure burglars and
more mice in and around Sinton this
year than a* any time in s history
Where do the intruders c<»me from’
GENERAL ELECTION TUESDAY
“all work and no play makes Jack a
dull bov.“ and afterward served them
with “good old pumpkin pie, the kind
Tuesday is.the day for general elec- mother used to make," an^ hot coffee.
tion. Citizens of San Patricio county _________
are reminded to go to the polls ami
cast their votes for their chosen
candidate. The election will be held
as usual at tiie ward school build-
ing in thj southwest part of the
city. Polls will open at S o'clock and
close at 7.
developers. ’
TRANSPORTATION
Transportation is also a dual pro-
blem-railroad and highway transpor-
tation. ft is useless to attempt to
cover, in this brief report, the many
All p: T, A. members are requested ! liters of transportation which shpuht
to be on hand Thursday afternoon of rece*'e the attention of the proposed
next week on regular meeting day, organization, but in our judgement,
and bring suggestions for a hot lunch ’ this territory is entitled to much bett-
plan for the school. Many mothers er railroad passenger service than it
BAKE SALE
Presbyterian '.ndies will hold.a halo
are interested and anxious for their
SODVILLE B. Y. P. U. PRESENTS children to eat hot lunch at noon.
INTERESTING PLAY There being no equipment for such~a
- 1 contingency and hardly no room, it
The Sodville Intermediate B. V. 1’. is “up to” the members of the P. T. A^
U . under the leadership of Mrs. Rich- to make such plans for hot lunch at
ard Morris, recently gave a very in- school as will overtop many difficul-
teresting and instructive play entitled ties. If interested mothers will get
“The Conversion of Farmer Brown to together, doubtless some plan can be
Stewardship,” at the Sodville church worked out satisfactorily to put hot
is now receiving; also much work
must be done to secure a properly
connected highway system for South
Texas. Much work must be done to
secure the co-operation of railroad
transportation companies in the matter
of railroad extension and expansion.
LEGISLATURE:
There are very few human activities
today but what are directly touched
Saturday a* the J R. Fincher & and at Gregory f<> an enthusiastic lunch, in at least a part of the time, i by legislation. Much of this legisla-
>ti store.- Coffee, sandwiches, pies crowd of listener-, The proceeds Come the school house Thursday . t*un 1? vicious. South Texas must
< ike- will b-> sold. Proceeded will went to the Bu< ku-T orphans' Home, and fell what you think about^ it and I seriously consider her interests ji the
.sold,. Proceeded will went to the
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