The Jacksboro Gazette (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 23, 1931 Page: 1 of 8
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JACKSBORO, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1931
NUMBER 8.
Winners ol the 4-H Street Dress [ Millie Durgan, Captured by Indians
Contest. Over 66 Years Ago at Newcastle.
Mrs. Clarence Rounsaville of| Newcastle, Texas, July 18.—
the Antelope home demonstration Millie Durgan, who was captured
One Form of Racketeering.
Because of the unusually large
club was the winner of the 4-H
Steet Dress contest held in the
district court room, Saturday, Ju-
ly 18th. For her efforts Mrs.
Rounsaville will be awarded a trip
to the farmers’ short course at A.
& M. which is to be held from Ju-
ly 27 to August 1st.
The prize was awarded by the
County Council on work, done by
the demonstrator since the first of
the year and took into considera-
tion the efenditure of money and
records kept, pictures of unim-
proved and improved closet space,
a story of work done, a founda-
tion pattern and the street dress
made by the pattern.
The street dress was ipade of
cotton, and material and labor
brought the cost of the dress up to
$3.58. The labor of making was
estimated at 50c an hour.
The order of placing of the va-
rious contestants .was:
Mrs.- Clarence Rounsaville,
Antelope ............ 92%% $3.58.
Mrs. Fred Shields, Will
Hill Club ...........87%% $3.61
Miss Ola Stephens, Beans
Prairie Club........78%% $2.61
Mrs. John Campbell,. Silver
Hill-Sycamore Club 77% $3.38
This is the first year a contest
of this nature has been conducted
in the county. It is a part of the
4-H Wardrobe in which the club
members learn how to buy wisely
and plan a harmonious wardrobe.
Each demonstrator studies her
type and the line, color, and ac-
cessories best suited to her indi-
vidual type.
Roy Jackson Dies.
Word was received here last
Thursday morning of the death of
Roy Jackson of Jermyn, which
occurred at the home of his daugh-
ter, Mrs. Bert Mars, of Cotulla.
Funeral services were conducted
here at the Methodist Church, Fri-
day afternoon, and interment was
in Oak wood Cemetery.
Survivors are his wife, Mrs.
Hattie Jackson; four daughters,
Mrs. Mars and Mrs. Harold Sharp,
San Angelo; Mrs. Louis Leonard,
Alice, and Miss Paula Jackson,
Jermyn; three'sons, Roy, Laredo;
John and Clifford of Jermyn;
a brother, Edward Jackson, St.
Petersburg, Fla.; two sisters, Mrs.
C. L. Morey, and Mrs. Emma Pep-
ple, both of Dallas..
Nearly and
Yonder • • • •
by T. T. MAXEY
- Greenwich Village
/-pHAT section of New York city
A now know as Greenwich village
which spreads out fan-wise from the
foot of Christopher street was one of
the earliest.settlements on the Island
of Manhattan. Prior to 1040 it was
an Indian village, known as Sapokani-
kan. Later a tobacco plantation was
started in the neighborhood and the
name changed to Bossen Bouwerie
(Dutch for farm in the woods). Some
twenty-five years later, English colon-
ists came along and christened it
Green Wich, which later became
Greenwich and finally Greenwich
village.
As time passed the great city of
New York grew up to, around and be-
yond this ancient settlement, but,
seemingly, this meant nothing to
Greenwich village. This ^eity within
a city continued to maintain its indi-
viduality, in form as well as in spirit.
The dove-tailing of the new with
the old city plan during the early part
of the Eighteenth century brought
about such. a^jumbling of thorough-
fares that Fourth street and Tenth
street cross at right angles. More re-
cently, the extension of other streets
has left a maze of Isolated triangles
and odd-shaped blocks. Street cars,
the elevated and a boulevard now run
through it and the subway burrows
under It, but “the village’’ continues
very definitely and complacently in Its
own way.
Of recent years, Greenwich has be-
come famous as a sort of “Bohemian”
section—Its quaint, venerable and pic-
turesque houses, with their curious
wrougbt-lrou banisters balustrades
tending to promote such an atmo-
sphere—a cotter for authors,- Jour-
nalists, artists and visitors.
m IMS. Wenter!) Newspaper Union.)
by the Indiana 66 years ago and
has lived with them since then re-
turned to the scene of her birth
and early childhood for the first
time this week and was an inter-
esting visitor at the three-day pic-
nic of the Kuteh-Manning Pioner
association here.
Saiu-toh-oodie-Goombi, which is
Millie Durgan’s Indian name,
came to the picnic with a group
of Kiowas headed by her son-in-
law, John Hunt, of Mountain
View', Oklahoma.
H. C. Williams was elected
president of the association at the
closing business session. R. J.
Johnson was chosen^ vice presi-
dent and George Whiteley, secre-
tary.
The three-day program includ-
ed addresses by Judge P. A. Mar-
tin, Judge John C. Kav, Judge B.
D. Sartin, all of Wichita Falls;
and Judge A1 McConnell of Fort
Worth.
Band concerts by the Graham
High school band, and programs
and dances by the visiting Indians
furnished amusement during the
afternoon and evenings.
An inch rain Friday night in-
terrupted the plans for the Satur-
day morning program but the af-
ternoon program was carried out
as scheduled.
Hundreds of people heard a
short talk by Millie Durgan, in-
terpreted by Mr.Hunt in which she
told briefly of her life among the
Indians and expressed her appre-
ciation for the opportunity of re-
turning to the scene of her early
childhood. She was only 2
years of age at the time of her
capture by the Indians, who raid-
ed the home of her parents on Elm
Creek, 10 miles west of Newcastle.
It, was only a year ago that it was
definitely established that she was
the white child who had been kid-
napped in the raid.
“I am proud of my Indian asso-
ciations and can look back to a
very happy and pleasant child-
hood,” she said. ‘‘Fortunately I
was adopted into one of the most
idportant families among the Kio-
was and was always accorded the
best care and treatment.
“I learned early in life that I
was white but resented being call-
ed ‘a captive.’ I was the adopted
daughter of the chief and felt
that I pehaps lost caste when re-
ferred to as a captive. I had no
desire to return to the white peo-
ple—in fact I gave out no infor-
mation that might have led to the
re-establishment with civiliza-
tion.” •
She said the first desire to find
her own people came after the
death of her son a few years ago.
number of transient peddlers now
making this art of the country
some few towns aYe making an ef-
fort to curb their activities. In
Graham a proclamation has been
issued by the Chamber of Com-
mece and efffforts ae being made
to warn the people. Unfortu-
nately Jacksboro does not have a
chamber of commerce, which gives
the unscrupulous peson a better
chance to fleece the local people.
The following notice was released
at Graham last week:
Warning! If you were advised
that a group of racketeers were in
your midst, or that they were
about to raid your city you would
take every precaution to avoid
any loss that might occur because
of the iexistence, and would, as a
local citizen, do everything with-
in your power to oust the intrud-
er. Yet you will submit your
pocket book to the ambiguous
salesman, and spurious merchan-
dise peddler. You, though will-
ingly, yield to the wishes of the
magazine subscription salesman,
the house.to house vendor of ties,
shoe laces, extracts, corsets or
what they have; and apparently
never realize that you are, through
your negligence, contributing to
the support of America’s out-
standing “racket.” The combi-
nation of tese and kindred grafts
fetch fo.ni the pockets of
can business multiplied millions
of dollars annually.
The direct cost to business is
negligible when compaed to the
expense of regaining public confi-
dence that is constantly being
tom down by these unscrupulous,
unethical and demoralizing busi-
ness methods. The worthless ad-
vertising salesman usually pre-'
sents a high-sounding, well bal-
anced argument in support of his
particular piece of publicity, and
Jermyn.
Mrs. G. W. Ware entertained
the bridge club last Wednesday,
hih score going to Mrs. Will Lov-
ing. Others present were Mines.
Tucker, Wieman, Oliver Loving,
W. B. Wells, H. E. Ware, Miss Ma-
ry Loving.
Miss Georgia Sampley is visit-
ing in Breckenridge.
Miss Helen Wirfstead is visiting!
Winners of the 4-H Girls Trip to More Highway Contracts To Be
Short Course.
Lessie Dodson of the (.’enter
Point club and Naomi Henderson
of the Union Point club won the
prizes offered by the county home
demonstration council for the
best clothing and record books
Awarded.
Completed plans for paving of
the 7.8-mile strip of the Northwest
Highway from Lake Worth to-
Azle, wee forwarded to the State
Highway Commission at Austin
for the awarding of a contract
in Lubbock. From there she will;8®11 *8 "hicli will take care
go to Carlsbad Cavern. ° a expenses meurret* i°r the
Wright Davis and Spurgeon lw?®k at A-
° it * i I I nnn oiva Jill
kept for the year by the 4-11 girls, within the next two weeks, M. 0
The first prize won by Miss Dod-
Cooper have returned from spend-
ing a few days in New Mexico.
i\lr. and Mrs. Cooper Blount are
visiting in Jermyn.
Messrs, and Mmes Charlie Jones
of Mineral Wells, Wayne Jones
of Eastland, and Deral Jones of
Beaumont visited with Mr. and
Mrs. Will Jones recently. On their
return home Mr. and Mrs. Derral
will receive $10.00.
Before the individuals were
chosen frehn the county, the work
of the various clubs in the county
was judged. Roth Center Point
and Union Point had 100% repre-
sentation of work. Alter the club
work was judged and scored the
high point girl from the first ana
second club was chosen. Both
Jones were accompanied by Miss; "’’nners aJ'e *eco,1(i year girls and
Odell Bentley i their work shows untiring effort.
Miss Ruth Lee of Pratt, Kansas,
who had been visiting Mr. and
Their record books have the ree
ords of food preparation, food
Mrs. Chas. King is now visiting in! Presif*rvation, yard and room im-
Jacksboro. I Pavement, and productive dem-
Miss Zora, Mae Mason is home
from Fort Worth.
Miss Mary Louise Hanna is
spending some time in Denton.
when the advertising purchased
fails to produce the desired results
the victim loses his faith in legiti-
Ameri- jmate advertising and local busi-
'ness suffffers accordingly. So it
is with other forms of merchan-
dise sold to the consuming public.
The Advertising Bureau of the
Chamber of Commerce invites you
to refer all such salesmen to that
organization for investigation and
endorsement. If the proposition
is worthy a letter of approval will
be furnished; if hot, denied.
Under no conditions will a verbal
endorsement be given.—Graham
Leader.
onstration carried on by the indi-
vidual for the year.
Anna Beth McFadyen of Jer-
myn will be given a trip to the
short course by her club for work
done by her for the year. Her
work was scored in detail with
other members of her club. Her
record considered the same points
that the county winners were
placed on.
All winners will leav^ Sunday
for College Station for the short
course to be gone one week.
Two girls deserving honorable
mention for the work done by
them are Ora Dixon of the Center
Point Club and Olive Ellis of the
Union Point Club. *
Mrs. Jack Brown of Truscott
visiting in Jermyn.
Welboni, resident State Highway
Department engineer, said.
After awarding of a. control „
Miss Henderson actual laying of the paving.-should
be started in three weeks. v. el-
born said, and favorable weather
conditions would enable comple-
tion of the project early m No-
vember at least.
Wei born said the 20-foos wide
pavement could be laid, weather
permitting, at the ate of a mile a
week. Additional time will be re-
quied, of course, he said, for hard-
ening of the concrete and shaping
of the shoulders of the highway.
The engineer also announced
paving of the strip on the route-
between the West Fork bridge
and the beginning of the 10-mile
stretch to Lake Worth will be
started today or Monday. Proba-
bly thee days will be required for
completion of this strip, once it is
started, he said. Ten days will be
needed for hardening of the con-
crete and perhaps a few days long-
er for grading of shoulders of the
bed and the building of a guard
rail, he said.
Work on this strip has been de-
layed two weeks while the gimde
was being constructed. More
that 160,000 cubic yards of dirt
have been used in building the
grade in the river bottom area,
Welborn said. The grade of the
incomplete strip is 25 feet high at
its peak, necessitating building of
a rail before it can be opened safe-
ly to traffic.
The strip between the CBrar
Fok and West Fork bridges has
been paved and is ready for Traf-
fic, Welborn said, but will not be
opened until the othe strip has
been finished.
Welborn expected the route
could be opened to traffic early in
August, he said.—Fort Worth,
Star-Telegram.
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Odd Fellows Install Officers.
On Tuesday evening, July 14,
the following members were in-
stalled as officers to serve the en-
suing term in Manchester Lodge
No. 604, at Jacksboro: Noble
Grand, W. L. Nash; Vice Grand,
J. L. Sipes; Warden, Lark Gun-
ter; Conductor, Jess Lucas; Chap*
lain, M. G. Nelms; Right Sup. N.
G-, Walter Teague; Left Sup. N.
G., Roy Hensley; Inne Grand, H.
O. Bean; Outer Grand, Tom Lay-
cock ; Left Sup. V. G„ J. C. Hill;
Right Sup. V. G., W. F. Mathis;
Right Seme. Sup., J. L. Strickle;
Left Seme. Sup., John Middle-
brooks.
The following members were in-
stalled Thursday night, Juljr 9th,
to serve as officers for Jacksboro
Rebekah Lodge for the ensuing
tern: Noble- Grand, Mrs. Bessie
Woolley; Vice Grand, Mrs. Josie
Rumage; Warden, Miss Thelma
Fawks; Conductor, J. J. Meeks;
Chaplain, Mrs. Mozella Meeks;
Right Supporter N. G., J. L. Sipes;
Left Supporter N. G.,Mrs. Eula
Mathis; Right Supporter V. G.,
E4a Lucas; Left Supporter V. G.,
M. G. Nelms; Inner Guard, Jess
Lucts; Outer Guard, Tom Lay-
cock.
B. A. U.—Sunday, July 26.
THE PROOF OF THE PUDDING
is in the
ADVERTISING SECTION
When a woman is called “gifted” at
cooking, you’ll ~probably find that
she owes a good deal to her reading
of advertisements.
For it’s through the advertisements
that the clever housewife discovers
the tested—and trusted—food prod-
ucts which assure the success of her
dishes. And it’s through the adver-
tisements that she discovers the
many convenient and dependable
appliances which make her kitchen
tasks so much more simple.
She has found that advertised prod-
ucts will never disappoint her. She
can always count upon them for un-
varying quality, no matter when or
where she buys'them.
In fact, the wise hostess is always
willing to stake her reputation on
the trade-marked advertised prod-
uct. For a responsible manufact-
urer has staked his name upon that
product first!
Read the advertisements. They are
full of vital, dependable buying
news.
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Part 1—Mrs. Allen.
Parts 2-3—Rev. Bilberry.
Part 4—Mrs. Akard.
Part 5—Mrs. N. F. Smith.
Moss.
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Pellagra Cases Increasing.
~ The alarming increase in the
— j number of cases of pellagra oc--
5EI curring in certain sections of the-
— country, coupled with the fact
5—! that the disease is preventable,,
~ i would seem to indicate that a
j— i more widespread knowledge of'
as the prevention of pellagra would)
EE be highly desirable. >■ •<
as Through study of this condi-
jEr'tion by the U. S. Public Health
as! Service and other investigating
EE agencies it has been shown con-
5s clusively that pellagra is caused
as | by lack of a well balanced diet.
EE5 “Indeed, for the prevention and
as I cure of pellagra the only medciine
SEE we have is food,” says Dr. Joseph
55 Goldborger of the U. S. Public
— Health Service.
55 A well balanced diet includes
— milk, lean .meats, eggs, fish, vege-
EEE j tables either fresh or canned, and
as fruits all of which are rich in pel-
EEE lagra preventive properties. It is
s= worthy of note that families plen-
Es tifully supplied with milk mud
as 1 butter, eggs, a good garden, and
5E even a small orchard never devcl-
55 op pellagra. In order to prevent
=a the occurrence or return of pel-
Sa ■ lagra, diversified farming, owner-
aa | ship of good milk cows, and the
55 cultivation of more and better
as | gardens should be encouraged.
ZZ The Texas State Department of
§E' Health is greatly interested in the
5E pellagra problem in Texas and has
— arranged for the free distribution
55 of literature on the subject
55 through the county health officer*
55 Dr. McC’omb. Brewers’ yeast has
a very beneficial effect in the
treatment of pellagra, due to its
high content of Vitamin “D” or
the Pellagra Preventive VitamiD.
Its use for this urpose is urged
by the U. S. Public Health Serv-
ice. This yeast wHl be furnished
by the American Red Gross as
long as the supply lasts and ap-
plication should be made through
the local chapter., Ask your coun-
ty health offieer and central
health committee for farther in-
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Dennis, J. R. The Jacksboro Gazette (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 23, 1931, newspaper, July 23, 1931; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth729364/m1/1/?q=architectural+drawings: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Gladys Johnson Ritchie Library.