Refugio Timely Remarks (Refugio, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 27, 1941 Page: 3 of 8
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1941
REFUGIO TIMELY REMARKS
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Home Demonstration News
BIBS, VERA. CARGILL, County Home Demonstration Agent
MATTRESS NEWS
Application for mattresses and
comforts under the cotton mat-
tress program are now past the
250 mark in Refugio County. It
is hoped that by the end of 1941
all rural families of low income
will have enough mattresses and
comforters to make the families
comfortable during the winter.
New regulations received last
week bring good news for the
three and five-person families.
Now; a three-person family may
receive two mattresses and a five-
person family may receive three
mattresses
oven about 260 degrees F., until
the thermometer in the meat reg-
isters 170 degrees F. Between 25
to 30 minutes per pound will prob-
ably be required to bake the whole
ham. For half hams, proportion-
ately more time is required. Shank
ends usually need from 40 to 45
minutes per pound, and butts
from 45 to 55 minutes per pound
to bake when the oven tempera-
ture is 260 degrees F. When the
ham is done, remove the rind.
Make a paste of two cups
brown sugar and 3 cups of fine
soft bread crumbs, J. teaspoon of
prepared mustard, and cider or
vinegar to moisten the mixture.
face. Bake the coated ham for
10 minutes in a hot oven, about
500 degrees F.
tied to receive materials for mak- face. Bake the co
ing the same number of cotton
comforts under a supplemental
provision. However, comforts will
not be made by any family until
mattresses have been made.
Applications are being received
in each community in the county.
In Refugio the home demonstra-
tion agent is in her office in the
court house on Mondays and Sat-
urday mornings and will receive
applications or explain parts of
the program to prospective appli-
cants.
LET’S TALK ABOUT PORK
The month of February is al-
most gone and as weather begins
to get warmer the Refugio Coun-
ty housewife will begin to think
of how to change the daily menu
to tempt spring appetites. So
while it is still cold and wet and
rather dreary outside, let’s think
about pork. Let’s do more than
just think about it; let’s serve it
to the family more often thap we
have been because when it comes
to notritive value in meat, the
homemaker can hardly beat pork.
Pork really builds muscles. It
has plenty of fat and protein for
good fuel foods. Pork has phos-
phorus to help build bones and
iron for good red cells. The lean
pork is a good source of nicotinic
acid, a pellagra preventive. It is
also rich in vitamin Bl. Without
this
from
nervous
night blindness.
food
Nora Ellen Elliott, specialist
food preparation for A. ”
lege Extension Service:
Fried Bacon and Apple Rings
AUSTWELL H. D. CLUB
The Home Demonstration Club
met at the home of Mrs. R. W.
Gilbert Thursday, February 20,
with 10 members and one visitor
present.
Mrs. Dyster gave a. report on
the council meeting. Mrs. Cargill
gave a demonstration on craft-
work. After which an interesting
contest was given, Mrs. Lyster
winning the prize.
Refreshments were served by
the hostess.
MRS. T. G. JACKSON, Reporter.
H. D. COUNCIL.
The Refugio County Home Dem-
onstration Council met at the of-
fice of the agent Saturday, Feb-
ruary 15, at 2:30 p. m., with seven
members and four clubs repre-
sented. The meeting was called
to order by the chairman.
The council voted to send Mrs.
E. C. Cowell, council chairman, to
San Antonio February 24 to a
meeting of council chairmen and
agents of this distrist for the pur-
pose of preparing for the annual
district meeting, which will be
held at Seguin.
The budget plan was read and
vitamin ^'’person’’may ’ suffer the mattressprogram was dis-
mPr Sedto
*SiinHSrMty’ program in March. Everyone eli-
itoce pork is such a very good gMe to receive a mattrey can ob-
od, let’s serve it in some of the tain material for a four p un
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3SSS? t “council was represented by
ioo'd- preparation for A. & M. Col- MraJ^ *
Bayside; Mrs. Emil Leister of
Austwell, Mrs. Gus Pagel of Ti-
Lay strips of bacon in a cold
or moderately hot heavy skillet.
Cook slowly and turn the bacon
frequently. When done to the de-
sired stage, remove the bacon and
lay it on absorbent paper. If cook-
ing a large quantity of bacon pour
off the fat occasionally.
Wash and core apples and cut
them cross-wise into thick slices.
Lay a single layer of apple rings
in the hot bacon fat, sprinkle with
sugar, cover partly, turn the
rings occasionally and cook until
tender and light brown. Serve the
apple rings hot with bacon.
voli, Mrs. Leona Boehm of Bonnie
View. Mrs. Jackson of Austwell
was a visitor.
MRS. WERNER KEILERS,
Reporter.
Creamed Ham
BONNIE VIEW H. D. NEWS.
Making baskets and table mats
woven from reed was an interest-
ing feature of the meeting of the
Bonnie View Home. Demonstration
Club, held at the home of Mrs.
Gus Kneip on Tuesday, February
18, at 2:30 p. m. Miss Lena
Boehm, chairman, presided over
the meeting.
Mrs. Vera Cargill, home demon-
stration agent, showed us how to
tablespoons butter or other make table mats-from reed, which
* was very simple and inexpensive.
Baskets are made very similar. A
number of members were inter-
ested in making some for them-
selves.
Three voting delegates are sent
from the county by the council to
the district meeting in Seguin.
fat
4 1-2 cups flour.
3 cups milk
3cups ground cooked ham.
1-2 cup chopped green pepper.
Salt.
Pepper.
Make a white sauce of the fat,
flour and milk. Add the ham and
green pepper and cook the mix-
ture about 10 minutes. Season to
taste with salt and pepper. _
Serve hot on toast, with waffles
or in a rice ring.
Ham, Cheese and Green
Pepper Salad
1 cup ground cooked ham.
1 cup finely cut celery.
2 cream cheeses.
1-4 cup chopped parsley.
Salt.
3 medium-size green peppers.
Mix the ham, celery, cheese and
parsley thoroughly. Add salt to
taste. Pack the mixture into the
green peppers and chill. Cut the
stuffed peppers in slices and serve
on lettuce with French dressing.
Baked Ham
Wash and scrape the hame thor-
oughly and soak it overnight in
a large pan with cold water to
cover. In the morning wipe the
ham dry. Make a small incision
through the rind with a sharp
knife or a steel skewer, cut short
gashes around it with scissors, and
insert a roast meat thermomter
through the opening so that its
bulb reaches the center of the
fleshiest portion of the ham. Place
the ham, rind side up, on a rack
in an open pan. Do not add water
and do not cover. Bake in a slow
Mrs. Edwin Keilers was nominat-
ed from the Bonnie View club.
All the members were in favor
of having a bread baking and the
use of feed sacks demonstration
put on by Bewley’s Mills.
For recreation, arrows were
pinned on the heart and the prize
went to Mrs. Philip Korff.
A delicious refreshment course
was served by the hostess to the
folowing members: Mesdames H.
Pfullman, G. S. Steindorf, M.
Tumlinson, Anton Strouhal,
Vera Cargill, Fred Stauss, Philip
Korff, C. E. Korff, Edwin Keilers,
Werner Keilers and Miss Leona
Boehm.
The next meeting will be at the
home of Mrs. Fred Stauss March
4. MRS. WERNER KEILERS,
Reporter.
C. S. BOONE
AGENT
HUMBLE OIL &
REFINING CO.
REFUGIO, TEXAS
Phone 97
O. L. R. GIRLS 4-H CLUB.
Our Lady of Refuge 4-H Girls
met at the school February 12 at
10:30 a' m. Mrs. Vera Cargill
showed the girls how to make
buttonholes and to cut out aprons.
Others continued with their knit-
ting and sewing.
The game, “Cross States,” was
selected and played, to the con-
fusion of the contestants.
The members present were:
Dorothy Kolb, Ruth McGuill, Lo-
raine Zarsky, Mary Louise Tuck-
er, Bernadine Zarsky, Marian Bar-
tow, Clara Friedrich, Betty Wa-
ters, Joyce Risher, Joyce Dean,
Mary Elizabeth Reilly, Margaret
Bochat, Joan Bochat, Agnes Mae
Bailey, Patty Jean Johnson, Anne
McGuill, Patty Mildred Coward,
Elaine McGuill, Anna Marie Vo-
gel, Gracie Talman, Nancy Buck-
ley, Betty Lou Hausmann, Genelle
Puckett, Marjorie Johnson and
Dorothy Risher.
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CONSERVATIVE
A former banker opened a serv-
ice station, and his first customer
asked for 10 gallons of gas.
“Where are you going?” in-
quired the ex-banker.
The customer explained in de-
tail. #The ex-banker thought
deeply for a moment, and t hen
asked: “Don’t you think you
could get along on five?”
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WANT ADS GET RESULTS
DolIar-a- Year Men
Unbalance Books
Washington, D. C.—The $l-a-
year men cause no end of trouble
to the government accounting of-
fice which doesn’t consider its
files complete until every treasury
check comes back cashed.
The Sl-a-year men who came
into the government with the de-
fense crisis just look on their
semi-annual 50-cent checks as
something to frame.
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Instruments Filed
With County Clerk
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Heep Oil Corporation to JoLi
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733, Jesusa de Leon survey, ac-
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dition to Bayside Colony, about
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Boenig et al., covering east 250
acres of land out of 555.59 acre
tract of Refugio town tract.
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“If you kill me it will be like
a spark in the prairie—make big
fire! burn heap!”
A jury of Texas frontiersmen!
once sat in court at the little
town of Jacksboro and deliberated
the fate of an Indian who threw
that threat in their faces, Univer-
sity of Texas Library records
show.
It was in 1871, when Jacksboro
was still a frontier town. The
Indian was Satanta, veteran coun-
cil chief’ of the Kiowas, v/ho with
another chief, Big Tree, had led]
a raid in which seven Americans
were massacred. These were the
first Indian, chieftains every tried
in an American civil court—and
Satanta dared the white men to
convict him.
It was perhaps the most dra-
matic trial in the history of Texas
—and so significant that finally
the president of the United States
had to step in to settle the case.
According to the principles of
justice, there was no question
about it. For two years the Kio-
was had preserved a peace which
Satanta himself had made with
the United States government;
and now Satanta and Big Tree
wich 150 warriors had attacked a
wagon train, killed and scalped
six drivers outxight, tied a sev-
enth to a wheel of a burning
wagon—and had come to Fort Sill
to boast of it.
Immediately General W. T.
Sherman, who was then in the
territory, had clapped them in
irons. And there he kept them*
despite the pleas and threats of
Kicking Bird, the greatest of the
Kiowa chiefs, who personally
came to demand their release.
So early in July Satanta and
Big Tree were shipped down to
Jacksboro for trial. On the fifth
it got under way before an au-
dience which included directly a
packed court room and indirectly
the rest of the nation. Two In-
dian chiefs on trial was a curios-
ity in iteself; and when that trial
might presumably . touch off a
general Indian uprising, it was of
significance to everyone in the
country.
With the formal evidence pre-
sented—Satanta himself had ad-
mitted his guilt at Fort Sill—thei
jury was ready to retire.
But then, dramatically, Satanta
rose to have his say. Still hand-
cuffed, he spoke in the Comanche
language, common among the
plains Indians, and thundered his
threat into the face of the court.
“I am a big chief among my
people,” he said, “and I have great
influence among the warriors of
my tribe. They know my voice
and will hear my word. If you
will let me go back to my people,
I will witdraw my warriors from
Tehanna. I- will take them all
across the Red River, and that
shall be the line between us and
the pale faces. I will wash out
the spots of blood and make it a
white land; there shall be peace,
and the Tehannas may plow and
drive their oxen to the banks of
the river.”
That was his bargain, and this
was his challenge:
“But if you kill me it will be
like a spark in the prairie—make
big fire! bum heap!”
It was with that threat in their
minds that these frontiersmen re-
tired to reach a decision. They
knew—and the nation knew—
what responsibility was upon
them. Their deliberation was
short. And when the foreman
gave their verdict to the court it
was—murder in the first degree,
punishable by death!
It is said tha\ after a deep,
wondering silence of several min-
utes, joy broke forth in that court
room. However, subsequent pres-
sure and the danger of shaky In-
dian relations brought commuta-
tion to life imprisonment from
Governor E. J. Davis, then an out-
right parole from U. S. President
Grant. Satanta and Big Tree were
released.
Thus the possibility of outright
war between the Indians and the
white men was apparently avert-
ed for the time.
To end the story, however—it
happened that Satanta so fla-
grantly violated his parole that in
1874 he had to be taken to the
Texas state penitentiary; and
there shortly afterward he either
committed suicide or broke his
neck trying to escape.
100 YEARS AGO IN TEXAS
The congress of the Republic of
Texas had just passed a bill pro-
viding for a postal service
throughout the nation. Thirty-
four mail routes were planned,
each to be run weekly by the low-
est bidder for the particular job.
“We regret to learn of the death
of Captain M. Morran of the army,
who was killed a few days since
in an affray with . a Mexican in
San Antonio.”—The Texas Senti-
nel (Austin), February 19, 1841.
Assignments
C. L. Rainey to F. J. Hare, 1
per cent interest in and to that
certain undivided l-384th part and
part of all oil and gas produced
and saved from the following de-
scribed lands: 4,000 acres in Re-
fugio County, situated about
from the county site of said coun-
ty, and fully described by metes
north 60 degrees east, 10 1-2 miles
and bounds. j
E. L. Harrison to V. cr. Hare,]
1 per cent interest in and to that!
certain undivided l-384th part!
and part of all the oil and gas|
produced and saved from the fol-!
lowing described lands: 4,000'
acres in Refugio County, situated
about north 60 degrees east, 10 1-2
miles from the county site of said
county, fully described by metes
and bounds.
C. B. McAnnally to Magnolia
Petroleum Co., covering 2,014
acres, more or less, out of John
Shelly survey and located in Re-
fugio and Goliad counties.
Used in Launching
7.000 lbs. Bananas
Washington, D. C.—Bananas—-
7.000 pounds of them, well ripen-
ed—helped launch a 413-foot car-
go ship at Beaumont recently.
For the benefit of those who
might not know it already, the
maritime commission
that the objective of a launching
is for a vessel to slide promptly
from dry land into deep water.
And for this purpose, juicy ban-
anas? already responsible for
many a slide, big and little, have
been found an efficient substitute
for launching grease.
And there is a good neighbor
angle, too. Said the commission:
“By increasing consumption of
this important Central American
export, is is expected to contrib-
ute to hemisphere "solidarity.”
Bananas have provided the slide
for tugs and small craft at the
Pennsylvania Shipyards, Inc., at
Beaumont, but they have never'
tition an actual bona fide inhabi-
tant of the State of Texas, and
has resided in Refugio County,
Texas, where this suit is filed, for
a period of more than six months
immediately next preceding the
filing hereof. Defendant’s resi-
dence is unknown to plaintiff.
That heretofore to-wit on the
11th day of November, 1918,
Pontiff then a single woman was
p duly and legally married to de-
fendant in Victoria County, Tex-
as, and continued to live with him
as his wife until on or about the
9th day of November, 1931.
At all times while married to
defendant, paintiff has conducted
herself with propriety, doing her
duty as a wife; has at all times
treated defendant with kindness
and forbearance, and has been
guilty of no acts bringing about
or causing the hereinafter describ
ed acts, omissions, and conditions
on defendant’s part.
On or about the 9th day of No-
vember, 1931, defendant without
any provocation or cause whatso-
you before said Court, on the first
day of the next term thereof, this:
writ, with your return thereon,
showing how you have executed
the same.
GIVEN under my hand and sea?
of office this 18th day of Febru-
ary, A. D, 1941.
T. W. McGUILL,
Clerk of the District Court of
Refugio County, Texas.
By JOSEPHINE GIDLEY,
Deputy.
Issued this the 18th day of Feb-
ruary, A. D. 1941.
T. W. McGUILL,
Clerk, District Court, Refugio
County, Texas.
By JOSEPHINE GIDLEY,
Deputy.
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been used for the lauching of a | ^ver> voluntarily left and aban-
doned this petitioner, with the in-
tention of finally separating and
living apart from her, and has
continued to do so up to the filing
of this petition, though often re-
quested by petitioner to return
and live with her as her husband;
such abandonment having contin-
ued for more than three years.
During the marriage of plaintiff
and defendant, they have had born
ship approaching the size of the
Cape Lookout which went down
the ways.
A granddaughter of Jesse H.
Jones, secretary of commerce —
Miss Audrey Jesse Jones, a. stu-
dent at the University of Texas—
will christen the vessel.
The Diesel-propelled Cape Look-
out is the first ocean-going cargo
ship to be built in Texas since
World War days. It has a dead-j to them, as issue of such marriage,
weight of 7,400 tons, and a de- i one child, a girl namecL Manulela
Oil and Gas Lease
T. P. Shelly et ux. to C. B. Mc-
Anally, covering 2,014 acres, more
or less, situated in John Shelly
survey in Refugio and Goliad
counties.
Probate Court
In the matter of the Estate of
Dr. W. M. Dodson, deceased; ap-
plication for appointment of tem-
porary administrator.
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MADE SURE OF IT
Mistress: “Mary, I think I
smeell something burning down-
stairs. Did you remember to turn
off the electric iron when you left
the ironing board, as I told you?”
Maid (newly arrived): “Ycs’m,
I did. I mos’ surely did. I pulled
dat chain once lak you tol’ me,
and den I pulled it again to make
sure.”
signed speed of 14 knots.
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Tho Tennessee program com-
pleted 72,818 cotlon mattresses in
1940.
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THE STATE OF TEXAS.
TO THE SHERIFF OR ANY
CONSTABLE OF REFUGIO
COUNTY, TEXAS; GREET-
ING—
YOU ARE HEREBY COM-
MANDED to summon JULIAN de
la CRUZ, whose residence is un-
known, to appear at the next reg-
ular term of the District Court of
Refugio County, Texas, to be held
at the Courthouse thereof, in the
City of Refugio, in Refugio Coun-
ty, Texas, on the 4th Monday in
March, 1941, being the 24th day
of March, 1941, then and there to
answer a petition filed in said
Court on the 15th day of Febru-
ary, 1941, the file number of
which is 2536, in which suit Sara
G. Hernandez de la Cruz is plain-
tiff and Julian de la Cruz is de-
fendant; the cause of action be-
ing alleged as follows, to-wit:
Plaintiff is and has been for
more than twelve months imme-
diately prior to exhibiting this pe-
de la Cruz, now about twenty
years old.
Plaintiff would show to the
Court that it is to her best inter-
ests, and to her advantage, that
her maiden name of Sara G. Her-
nandez be restored to her.
Wherefore premises considered,
plaintiff prays that defendant be
cited to appear and answer herein
according to law, and that upon
final hearing hereof she have
judgment of divorce, dissolving
the marriage relations between
plaintiff and defendant; that her
maiden name of Sara G. Hernan-
dez be restored to her, and for
such other and further relief as
to the Court shall seem proper,
with all costs of suit.
You are commanded to so sum-
mon such defendant, and to serve
this citation by making publica-
tion of this citation once in each
week for four consecutive weeks
previous to the return day hereof,
in some newspaper published in
your county; but if there be no
newspaper published in said coun-
ty, then in any newspaper pub-
lished in the nearest county where
a newspaper is published.
HEREIN FAIL NOT, but have
Upholstering
Furniture Fixit Place
Designed for Comfort, Luxury
and Long Life
L. W. WATERS—Refugio
South Palmetto St. — Box 5
IF YOU’D FIND
YOUR HOME BURNING
Tonight, what would you do?
Can you notify a reliable in-
surance company and know you
will receive money for the loss
promptly?. Count on Refugio
Insurance Agency — faithfully
serving numerous clients for
many years.
Refugio
Insurance Agency
Telephone 138—Refugio, Texas
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