Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 15, 1940 Page: 4 of 8
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PALACIOS BEACON PALACIOS, TEXAS
Published Every Thursday
Editor * • Mrs. J. W. Dismukes
Asso. Editor • Jesse V. Dismukes
Business Mgr. - Hugh J. Dismukes
Entered at the Post Office at Pala-
cios, Texas, ns second class mail
■latter, under the Act of Congress.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
In Matagorda County:—
Six Months. SI.00: 1 Year $1.75
Outside Matagorda County:—
Six Months, $1.25; 1 Year $2.00
HEALTH NOTES
Austin, Texas.—“Patience should
be exercised by those who hnve
made application to the State De-
partment of Health for a certified
copy of their birth certificate, and
have not yet received them,” states
Dr. Geo. W. Cox, State Health Of-
ficer.
“The Bureau of Vital Statistics
is receiving an average of five hun-
dred applications for birth certifi-
cate copies daily, and the number of
personnel available in the Health
Department to handle this flbod of
requests is grossly inadequate to
meet the demands made. The files
must be searched for euch individ-
ual record and when it is found it is
photostated for the applicant.'
“The reason for this great in-
crease in applications for birth cer-
tificate copies can be found to be
due, in part, to the gravity of the
international situation. Army and
Navy recruits must have a certified
copy of their birth certificates to
be eligible to enter military service.
All persons connected with the radio
broadcasting stations must have a
copy of their birth certificates.
Since a birth certificate is in reality
the first citizenship paper of a baby
born in these United Stutes, thous-
ands arc applying for this personal
record as legal proof of citizenship,”
continues Dr. Cox.
Some other important uses of
birth records are:
1. To prove that a child has
reached school age.
2. To prove legal age to enter a
profession or employment.
3. To prove legal age to marry
without parental consent.
4. To determine the parents’ li-
ability for certain acts of their
children.
5. As evidence in criminal cases
involving age of consent.
6. As evidence to determine re-
lations of guardians and waids.
7. To obtain passports and similar
documents.
8. As (evidence in the administra-
tion of estates, and in settlement of
insurance and pensions.
9. As evidence in connection with
jury service.
10. To prove age in determining
the validity of contracts.
11. To prove or disprove con-
sanguinity or kinship.
12. To secure old age pensions.
13. To prove age as qualifications
for voting and holding public of-
fice.
These are only s few of the val-
uable uses of birth certificates and
it is small wonder that the citizen-
ship is flooding the Health Depart-
ment with requests for certified
copies of this vitally important rec-
ord. With the continued patient co-
operation of those who are request-
ing certified copies, the State
Health Department will furnish this
service with the greatest possible
dispatch," concluded Dr. Geo. W.
Cox.
Thursday. August 15, 1940 )|
THIS WEEK
9 IN PALACIOS HISTORY
FROM OUR EARLY FILES
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10 YEARS AGO
Prof. R. P. Newsom, superintend-
ent, announced the Palacios schools
would open, Monday, Sept. 8.
About 1100 bales of cotton had
been ginned by the two gins in Pa-
lacios, the Zeiscl Gin Co., and the
Lawson-Walker Gin Co.
Announcement was made of the
marriage of Miss Sylvia Barr,
| daughter of MT7 ahirOTisrJTJ. Bat-r,
i and Mr. Homer Davenport, in Dal-
las, August 2.
Mr. and Mrs. W. II. Clement were
in receipt of a cablegram from
Luego Congo Beige, Africia, an-
nouncing the arrival of a new
grandson, John Clement Robertson,
on July 29.
A card from Cimarron, Has., an-
nounced the death of L. O. Mills,
well known in Palacios,
THE POCKETBOOK
of KNOWLEDGE
IN WOB. 651000 AUTOMOBILES
WERE MADE IN T8B U « —'
TODAY WE TURN OUT MORE
tH S WORKING DAYS —
SHERIFF'S SALE
THE STATE OF TEXAS
COUNTY OF MATAGORDA
BY VIRTUE OF AN ORDER OF
SALE issued by order of a judg-
ment decree of the 23rd District
Court of Matagorda County, Texas,
by the Clerk of said Court, on the
3rd day of August, A. D., 1940, in
a certain suit No. T-12366, wherein
Palacios Independent School Dis-
trict, Plaintiff, and The City of
Palacios, and the State of Texas
for itself, for Matagorda County,
and for the use and benefit of all
political subdivisions of said county
whose taxes are assessed and col-
lected by the Tax Assessor and Col-
lector thereof, are Intervenors, and
L. S. Bonner, J. H. Bonner, Mrs.
Alma Bonner, Miss Beverly Bonner,
Dorothea Bonner Dorsey and hus-
band Joe Dorsey, Mrs. Osee Bonner
Moore, Opal Bonner Williams and
husband Tim Williams, are de-
fendants in favor of the said
plaintiff and Intervenors, for the
sum of $274.08 due Plaintiff Pa-
lacios Independent School District;
$394.30 due Intervenor The City
of Palacios; and $213.80 due Inter-
venor The State of Texas for Inde-
pendent School District, City, and
State and County taxes, together
with the legal and total amount ot
penalties, interest and costs of suit
computed thereon, and the fore-
closure of Plaintiff’s delinquent tax
liens upon the property hereinafter
described as the property of the de
fendents, because of the nonpay-
ment of the taxes due thereon,
within the time and in the manner
provided for by law, being the
amount of said judgment rendered
in favor of said plaintiff and Inter-
venors by the said 23rd District
Court of Matagorda County, on the
24th day of June, A. D., 1940, and
to me directed and delivered as
sheriff of said Matagorda County,
I have seized, levied upon, and will,
on the first Tuesday in September,
A. D., 1940, the same being the 3rd
day of said month, at the Court
House door of said Matagorda
County, in the City of Bay City be-
tween the hours of 10 o’clock A. M.,
and 4 o’clock P. M. on said day, pro-
ceed to sell for cash to the highest
bidder, all the right, title and in-
terest of said defendants in and to
the following described real estate,
levied upon as the property of said
defendants, the same lying and be-
ing situated in the County of Mata-
gorda, and State of Texas, and
within the metes and bounds and
territorial limits of said City of
Palacios, Texas, to-wit: Lots Nos.
15 and 10, in Block No. 20, Original
Townsite, City of Palacios, Mata-
gorda County, Texas, subject, how-
ever, to the rights of the defend-
ants, their heirs, assigns or legal
representatives, to redeem said
property within the time and in the
manner provided for by law; sub-
ject to the further rights of the de-
fendants to have said property di-
vided and sold in less divisions than
the whole and entire tract, as also
provided for by law; and in the
event there are no bidders, said
15 YEARS AGO
Wm. E. Rutledge the promoter
and secretary-treasurer of the
Economy Oil Company that drilled
the Taylor No. 1 test well, was ar-
rested in St. Louis, Mo., for using
malts to defraud.
The County Sunday School Con-
vention hold at Hawley was a splen-
did success. More than 350 were in
attendance.
One of the Gulf Coast’s biggest
gas wells was brought in at Clem-
ville in the Markham oil field at a
depth of 1765 feet.
Mr. and Mrs. Nels Highberg were
the parents of a new son, Paul Al-
len, who weighed 8'i pounds.
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Circuit Judge Walter Schinz in
Milwaukee hus raised a question by
ruling a closed shop contract un-
constitutional. He made this decla-
ration in dismissing a suit filed by
a CIO union to force an electrical
manufacturing company to dis-
charge five men who had not main-
tained their good standing in the
union, as the union's contract with
the company says all workers must
do. The judge suid in his opinion:
"The contract violated public policy.
It is unreasonable, arbitrary and
oppressive. It violutes the state and
Federal constitutions. The right to
pursue lawful employment unmo-
lested is the most sacred right of
citizenship.” Whether a contract
such as this is actually unconstitu-
tional it would be difficult to say,
but certainly the right to get a law-
ful job and hold it without molesta-
tion is fundamental in the American
scheme of things. It is a healthy
sign that the judge'should raise the
question, emphasize it, and givo
public opinion another ‘chance to
form and express itself,—Bay City
Tribune.
IN THE BUIlOlNS OF A STANDARD HOUSE." ABOUT
PAID IN T
Of EACHtf/OO Of COSTS IS PAID IN THE
FORM OF P/RBCT WACBS
30 YEARS AGO
Invitations were out for the wed-
off to the said Plaintiff and Inter-
venors. Harris Milner,
Sheriff, Matagorda County, Texas.
By B. E. Sailor, Deputy.
ding of Miss Virgic Vivian Wolf I tary, Mrs. Mattie Pybus; Treasurer,
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to Mr. Harry Augustus Echols. The
marriage was announced for Aug-
ust 24.
F. G. Stump, youngest son of D.
L. Stump, Beacon editor, was mar-
ried to Miss Hazel Fay Mount.
Chapter of O. E. S. was organized
by Mrs. Anne H. Duars, of Angle-
ton. The following officers were n-
stalled: W .M„ Mrs. Fannie E. j 37 members.
Mrs. Nellie Gray; Con., Mrs. Min-
nie Wagner; Asst. Con., Mrs. Katie
Hill; Warder, Mrs. Lillie Willis;
Chaplain, Mrs. Maide Moore; Sen-
tinel, Dr. Reese; Adah, Miss Clarice
Driskill; Ruth. Miss Lein Driskill;
Esther, Miss Elsie Driskill; Martha,
Miss Alice Wilkerson; Electa, Mrs.
Alice Cox. The Chapter started with
pound. S. R. Gibson, living a short
distarice north of town, brought in
the first bale and received a prem-
ium of $5.00.
A new brick school building was
being erected ill Blessing. R. B.
Herrin was the contractor.
The Beacon was carrying an ad
announcing that M. K. Feather had
secured office headquarters with the
Pnlacios Land and Investment Com- j ,
pany in their new office rooms on
the ground floor of the new Ruth-
von building. Mr. Feather was giv-
ing special attention to Fire Insur-
ance and House Renting along with ^
the General Real Estate business.
Floyd Joiner recently purchased
the Berry lots on Welch avenue be-
tween first and second streets.
Mrs. C. W. Nester and Miss Al-
pha Bussell were in Houston Tues-
i•»■ = uu uluuvis, siim Dated at Bay City, Texas, this 3rd. Blanchard; W. P., J. C. Wilkerson; Seven bales of cotton were gin- day selecting holiday goods for the
property will at said sale be bidjday of August, A. D., 1940. |A. M., Mrs. E. H. Baldwin; Secre- ned and sold for 1414 cents per Nester Drug Store.
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Dismukes, Mrs. J. W. Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 15, 1940, newspaper, August 15, 1940; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth725954/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Palacios Library.