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you XIII.—No. 12
Big Gain in
CountyBank
Deposits
Healthy Business
Condition Reflected
In County and Town
An unusually healthy business
condition is reflected in the state-
ments issued last week by Refugio
County’s two banking institutions,
"large gains being made in almost
all departments of the financial
institutions. Especially notable is
the big gain in deposits, the total
of both banks—the First Nation-
al of Refugio and the First Na-
tional of Woodsboro—being well
over $3,000,000, an increase dur-
ing the year of 1940 of a quarter
of a million dollars.
Home building continued at a
rapid pace over the entire county,
despite the lull in oil development.
The Refugio County Hospital was
completed and put in operation,
and Woodsboro moved into a
$100,000 school plant. The Refu-
gio school was also enlarged by
the addition of a gymnasium and
extra classrooms and a new school
building was begun at Tivoli.
In the town of Refugio, city im-
provements went ahead, more ter-
ritory being taken into the city
limits and sewer and water sys-
etms being extended and while
business may not be as brisk as
it has been, many business men
express the opinion that conditions
in this section are much more sta-
ble than they have ever been and
the prospects for the coming year
much brighter.
Refugio County banking insti-
tutions, according to saatements
sent to the comptroller of curren-
cy, showed a decided increase in
deposits during 1940 over the pre-
vious year. The Refugio bank in-
creased $207,629.60 in deposits
during the year. A statement
during early 1940 listed deposits
at $2,494,766.77, while at the end
of the year, deposits were $2,682,-
396.37. Undivided prui'ias of the
bank of Refugio at the close of-
1940 were $82,058, an increase
during the year of $3,851.46.
Total deposits of the First Na-
tional Bank of Woodsboro were
listed as $514,771.08, on the most
recent statement. The undivided
profits of the bank is $6,973.32, it
was revealed. The bank premises
owned, including furniture and
fixtures, is $12,111.
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Applications Must
Be Made to Clerk
Appointment of notaries public
in compliance with a constitu-
tional amendment carried at the
general election last November, is
now made 'to the secretary of
state through the county clerk’s
office, according to Miss Bettie
Adkins.
All present notaries who wish
to be reappointed and all persons
wishing to become notaries must
make application with the county
Clerk during March and April in
order to be appointed next June,
it is said. No appointments will
be made without an application
being made through the county
clerk, the secretary of state has
advised.
Small Boy Victim
Of Pneumonia
Johnnie Lee Jones, age two
years, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee
Jones of Refugio, died in the Re-
fugio County Hospital at 6 a. m.
Sunday, following a short illness.
Death was attributed to pneumo-
nia. Funeral services -were held at
The News from Every Section of Refugio County
REFUGIO, REFUGIO COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1941
Eight Pages
Lost Any Keys?
Timely Remarks
May Have Them
Has anyone lost any keys
lately ?
During the last three
months The Timely Remarks
has accumulated a collection
of keys which would be the
pride of any automobile thief
or ranch poacher. The keys,
which evidently were lost by
their owners and found and
turned in to the newspaper
office, are for the most part
car keys.
Prize in the assortment is
a set contained in a tattered
case, which looks very much
like keys to ranch gate locks.
The loss of 'this set has proba-
bly caused some rancher or
ranch hand no lack of worry
and trouble.
The keys* are kept at The
Timely Remarks office, where
they may be inspected. Upon
proper identification they will
be returned to their owners
without charge by The Time-
ly Remarks.
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January 31st Is
Deadline for Poll
Tax Payments
January 31, the deadline for
paying poll taxes, drew nearer
this week and with city elections
coming up in April, county tax
officials anticipated a last-minute
rush for “privilege to vote’’ re-
ceipts. Two weeks remain before
the deadline is reached.
Every Texas citizen over 21
years of age and under 60 years
of age is required to pay a poll
tax in order to be eligible to vote
in any election held during the
year. Those persons reaching
their twenty-first birthday and
voting for the first time are given
exemption receipts, allowing them
their first vote free. Persons 60
years of age and over are auto-
maaically exempt and do not need
to pay a poll tax in order to vote.
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Legionnaires Move
To New Quarters
Martin McDonald Post No. 298,
American Legion, which in the
past has maintained headquarters
in the basement of the Refugio
County court house, will now have
temporary headquarters in the
City Hall clubroom, it was an-
nounced this week by Homer T.
Williams, post commander.
Flags, files and other equip-
ment kept in the court house by
’the Legion were moved this week.
Part of them were stored in a va-
cant chamber of commerce cot-
tage and the remainder ift the
City Hall. Until further arrange-
ments are made, future meetings
of the post will be held at the
City Hall.
Headquarters were, moved from
the court house because the newly
created office of county tax col-
lector and assessor required addi-
tional space.
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Refugio Boys in
Woodsboro Wreck
Dick Bartow, son of Mr. and
Mrs. John J. Baraow of Refugio,
received an arm injury as the re-
sult of a two-car collision in
Woodsboro early Sunday after-
noon. Don Hood, Darrell Erek-
son and Mrs. Ruth Davidson, also
cf Refugio, escaped injury in the
same accident, it was said.
The three boys were riding in
one car, driven by young Hood,
and Mrs. Davidson was alone in
the other car when the accident
happened, a report said.
Bartow was given first aid
the family residence at 3 o’clock tratment at a Woodsboro doctor’s
Accidental
Shot Fatal
To Refugian
Hal Clarkson Killed
Wednesday While
Cleaning Rifle
Harold Clarkson, native Refu-
gian and descendant of one of this
city’s oldest families, was shot and
instantly killed at the home of
his mother. Mrs. Edith Clarkson,
shortly after 10 o’clock Wednesday
morning. The shooting was acci-
dental.
Mr. Clarkson is said to have
been in his room engaged in clean-
ing a .22 caliber automatic rifle,
which in some manner was dis-
charged, the bullet entering his
heart. His mother, hearing the
shot, rushed into the room and
found her son dead on the floor.
Officers were summoned and an
inquest held.
Mr. Clarkson, better known to
his friends as “Hal,’’ was born in
Refugio 27 years ago. He attend-
ed Mercy Academy and later was
graduated from a Corpus Christi
high school. For the last eight
years he had been in charge of
the ranch interests of his family.
His father, the late Edward Clark-
son, was a pioneer druggist in
Refugio, and his mother is a sis-
ter of the late J. O. West, who
for many years served Refugio as
mayor and was prominent in the
business life of the county for a
half century.
Hal was a young man of pleas-
ing personality, and his sudden
passing came as a shock to the
community, where he was univer-
sally liked.
Funeral services, which will be
in charge of the Refugio Funeral
Home, had not been completed as
this went to press. The only in-
formation available was that they
would be held at Our Lady of
Refuge Church probably some time
Thursday, with the Very Rev.
William H. Oberste, pastor, offi-
ciating.
Surviving the deceased, besides
his mother, are three brothers,
Ben, Edward and Houston Clark-
son, all of Refugio.
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Mrs. Chadwell to
Head President’s
Birthday Party
Plans for celebration of Presi-
dent Roosevelt’s birthday on Jan-
uary 30 began to take form this
week with the appointment of
Mrs. Thelma Chadwell, president
of the Refugio Junior Woman’s
Club, as celebration chairman for
Refugio County.
Mrs. Chadwell has named C. S.
Boone, president of the Refugio
Rotary Club, and Brett Hargrove,
secretary of the Woodsboro Com-
mercial * Club, as her assistants.
No dance is to be given, it is un-
derstood, but another form of en-
tertainment will be put on. Ar-
rangements for the affair are to
be completed this week.
Half of the funds raised by the
undertaking will be sent to the
Warm Springs Foundation and the
remainder will be retained here
for aid to children who become
victims of infantile paraysis in
this immediate vicinity.
Giant Bomber’s
Flight Over City
Attract Attention
If the United States had
been at war last Saturday
morning, Refugians would
have probably been seen run-
ning about seeking bomb shel-
ters as the very unusual
droning of an airplane motor
dimmed the silence of the
heavens. The noise of the
plane was not like that made
by the other planes that pass
over Refugio and therefore
attracted much attention.
After peering from “bomb
houses,” though, those who
had shelter would probably
have been relieved, for the
ship was a giant monoplane
type United States army
bomber and, therefore, really
a protector instead of an en-
emy.
But the United States was
not in any war Saturday, so
people just walked about
peering into the sky watch-
ing the plane as it soared
above the city on its way to
an unknown destination. Many
of the watchers laughingly
commented to each other,
“Watch out, one of Hitler’s
planes is coming over.”
With the establishment of
naval training stations along
the Southwest Texas coast,
the sight will no doubt be-
come a familiar one in the
very near future.
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Sunday afternoon, with the Rev.
A. G. Johnson, pastor of the
Woodsboro Baptist Church, offi-
ciating. Burial was in Oakwood
Cemetery under direction of the
Refugio Funeral Home. Besides
the parents, the child is survived
by a half-brother, George Spit-
zer Jr.
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Woodsboro to Fete
Football Players.
The Woodsboro Lions Club will
play hosts to the Eagle football
team of Woodsboro at a banquet
to be given Friday night at the
Woodsboro school gymnasium. Joe
Bailey Chaney of the San Mor-
cos State Teachers College will be
the principal speaker.
Members of the Eagle squad of
1940, including all of the teams’
lettermen for the year, will be
special guests at the affair. Coach
Woodroe Petty, mentor of the
Woodsboro high school team, will
also be honored at the banquet,
which will be a stag affair.
office. Both
damaged.
cars were badly
Refugians Father
Dies of Wounds
J. R. Polasek, 65, prominent
West, Texas, business man and
father of Joe Polasek of Refugio,
was shot and fatally wounded by
an employe shortly before 2 p. m.
last Wednesday, at the Polasek
Hardware Co. store.
Following the shooting, Mr. Po-
lasek was taken to a Waco hos-
pital, where he died Thursday
morning at 7:30 o’clock. Henry
Peters, the alleged slayer, was
being held in the Waco jail,
charged with murder, it was said.
Funeral services were held in
West Saturday morning!
Mr. and Mrs. Polasek of this
city attended the funeral services.
The former is an employe of the
Zarsky Lumber Co. and the latter
is bookkeeper for the Refugio
Furniture Co.
First Colored Man
Drafted for Service
To Leave Saturdav
Refugio Counay’s first colored
inductee under the selectice serv-
ice act of 1940 will leave Refugio
Saturday afternoon at 2:40 o’clock
on a Missouri Pacific Lines train
en route to Fort Sam Houston,
for placement in the regular army,
it was announced this week by
John C. Johnson, draft board
chairman.
The inductee is J. K. Bailey of
Refugio, who" volunteered for the
service several v^'eks ago. In pri-
vate life he is a laborer. A large
group of colored citizens of Refu-
gio is expected to be at the depot
to bid farewell to Bailey.
Next Tuesday, January 21, 11
more inductees—all white men—
will be sent to Fort Sam Houston
by the draft board. The 11 white
men and one colored man will fill
the local board’s January quota
for army service.
The latter group will also go to
the army post by train, leaving
Refugio at 2:40 p. m. Tuesday.
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Refugio Firemen
Attend Convention
Thirteen members of the Refu-
gio Fire Department were in at-
tendance at the regular quarterly
convention of the South Central
Firemen’s Association held in
Robstown last Sunday. Frank
Williams, field instructor for the
Texas Firemen’s Training School
at Texas A. & M. College, spoke
during the business session in the
morning and pumper races were
held in the afternoon.
Refugio firemen attending were
Chief Francis West, Assistant
Chief Charlie Toups, Captain Les-
lie Grant, Jim Wales, C. W. Pul-
lin, Thomas Rainey, E. G. Sparks,
Jim Bean, Frank Moore, W. A.
Crawford, Henry Shaw, Clifford
Dylla and Milton Clarkson. Misses
Mary Strauch and Elma Lois Fer-
guson also attended from Refugio.
New County
DefenseUnit
Organized
Requisition for
Arms, Equipment
Sent to Austin
The new Refugio County batta-
lion of the Texas Defense Guard
was organized at Woodsboro Tues-
day night of last week, with 278
enlisting for service during the
present emergency. Allen Dris-
coll Rooke, who has been colonel
of the provisional county regiment
since last summer, was unani-
mously elected major of this per-
manent battalion.
Under the present set-up, Refu-
gio County has been allocated only
three companies, aggregating 201
officers and men. The enlistments
exceed the allotment by 77, with
more enlistments being reported
daily. The original Refugio Coun-
ty regiment contains 843 officers
and men.
Major Rooke forwarded to Aus-
tin Wednesday his requisition for
arms and equipment for the new
battalion. The fourth company
of the battalion will be in Mathis,
Texas, according to the adjutant
general’s department. However, it
is hoped that Refugio County may
be permitted to use her excess en-
listment in formation of the
fourth company.
During the ensuing week, the
enlistments will be checked and
the volunteers assigned to com-
panies, after which each company
will elect its own officers.
Present plans contemplate the
continuation of the Refugio Coun-
ty All-Purpose Defense Unit,
transferring from it those who
have enlisted and can be absorbed
in the Texas Defense Unit. The
remaining members of the origi-
nal unit will be regrouped into ac-
tive and service companies, the
active companies being permitted
to train with equipment issued to
the Texas Defense Battalion. The
original unit will be incorporated
and will raise funds to provide
armories for the state unit. Ho-
bart Huson will continue as the
colonel of the original organiza-
tion, but will serve as a private
in the state unit.
The officers’ school will be con-
tinued to be held at Woodsboro,
with Major E. C. Buck as the in-
structor, but the signal school, un-
der Bob Cooper, will be held at
the high school at Refugio in the
future. Until further notice, there
will be two drills a week of the
entire ballalion. The Tuesday
night drill will be held at Woods-
boro and the Thursday night drill
will be held at Refugio. Woods-
boro volunteers having no trans-
portation will be picked up at the
Woodsboro bank corner, while Re-
fugio guardsmen in the same pre-
dicament will be picked up at the
Mission Service Station.
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Four Refugians
Enlist in Army
Conrado Lopez, Steve Cisneros,
Joe Serrata Jr. and Henry Fie-
rova last week enlisted in the
United States army in San An-
tonio. They passed all required
examinations and are now at Fort
'Sam Houston, it is said. Their
enlistment period is for three
years.
County’s Only Woman Physician, Native Refugian, Gave Up
Plastic Surgery by Chance; Chief Interest Is Gynecology
Dr. Josephine Shelton (Finn)
M. D., a slim young woman with
the aptitude for wearing chic
clothes smartly, is Refugio
County’s only woman physician
and one of the few in South
Texas.
Engaged in general practice
with her husband and profes-
sional partner, Dr. John H. Finn
M. D., she maintains offices on
the second floor of the First
National Bank building at Re-
fugio. Her chief interest today
lies in gynecology, although
when planning to enter the med-
ical field, she choose plastic sur-
gery as her special forte. The
divergence from purpose was
brought about by chance.
When the M. D. degree was
conferred upon her by Baylor at
the time of her graduation in
1937, Dr. Shelton, one of those
with highest scholastic stand-
ing in nbr class, was invited to
spend her time of interneship at
a number of hospitals, notable
among them being the Los An-
geles City-County Hospital and
Johns Hopkins Hospital. She
took a plane to the latter place,
where she asked for time to con-
sider her contract before sign-
ing.
By MARTHA B. SKEEN
It was then she heard of a
plastic surgery residency to be
put in operation at a previously
unconsidered hospital. She sub-
mitted her application for the
post, was accepted, and formally
rejected all other offers. Upon
her arrivel at the place, she was
told that while her contract was
still effective, there was not to
be a residency after all. The
fury of the then Miss Shelaon
nearly caused her to throw
books.
Dr. Shelton interned at the
Baltimore Hospital for Women
of Maryland, where she obtained
a wide experience in pediatrics.
While there, she was married to
Dr. Finn and the couple later
set up offices in Kingsville, for
eight months enjoying a good
practice and gaining a broad
understanding of human nature
as well as physical ailments.
Though not tall, her coiffure—
straight black hair, parted in
the center and drawn smoothly
over the ears into a simple loop
at the back—gives her the ap-
pearance of height and reflects
the dignity that is her own and
her profession’s. She chooses
styles of dress that are at once
feminine and tailored and, de-
spite the jests of her husband
and mother, dotes on costume
jewelry, sometimes finding her-
self tempted to purchase a dress
simply to obtain the bangle that
is on it.
Asked how she happened to
choose medicine for a career,
Dr. Shelton is at a loss for
words.
“It simply was the one career
for me,” she declares.
Born in Refugio, Dr. Shelton
is the daughter of Mrs. Johanna
Mitchell Shelton and the late
Ben Shelton. She aatended the
Mercy Academy here and later
Lady of the Lake in San An-
tonio. In addition to her M. D.
degree, she also received a de-
gree in chemistry and a perma-
nent teacher’s certificate when
she was graduated.
Wanting to be with Mrs.
Shelton, Dr. Shelton and Dr.
Finn moved the Kingsville of-
fice to Refugio in October of last
year. Now when a somewhat
timid person, who can not ac-
custom himself to the thought
of a woman doctor, refuses Dr.
Shelton’s offer of assistance, she
laughs good-humoredly and in-
vites him to be seated and wait
for “Dr. Jack.”
Long Dry Spell
Began 20 Years
Ago This Friday
Tomorrow (Friday, Janu-
ary 17, 1941) is the twenty-
first anniversary of the date
on which prohibition went
into effect in the United
States. It was January 17,
1920, that ahe eighteenth
amendment, prohibiting the
manufacture and sale of in-
toxicating drinks, was offi-
cially written into the con-
stitution of the United States.
Thirteen years later, in
1933, the sale of 3.2 per cent
beer was legalized, since it
was not considered intoxicat-
ing. On December 5 of that
year, the eighteenth amend-
ment was repealed, bringing
to an end prohibition.
Prior to prohibition days,
saloons were operated in Re-
fugio by Worth Droddy, J.
Dan Linntfy and Ed Sitterle
and two saloons at Woods-
boro were owned by J. Frank
Jecker Sr. and the late Ray-
mond Quintero Sr. The Re-
fugio County saloons were
closed June 21, 1918, in ac-
cordance with Texas law, two
years previous to enactment
of federal prohibition.
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1941 Auto Plates
Received at Tax
Collector’s Office
Auto license tags, which will go
on sale March 1, were received
last week by F. F. English, tax
assessor and collector for Refugio
County. In all, 3,443 plates were
received. They included 2,500
passenger car plates, 500 commer-
cial plates, 200 farm plates, 230
tractor and trailer tags, 10 dealer
licenses and three motorcycle
plates.
The passenger car plates for
1941 are black, with orange num-
erals, the assessor-collector said.
Starting number for the county
for passenger cars is A39-201.
Commercial numbers start witk
476-801, farm plates with 201-551
and trailer and tractor licenses be-
gin with No. 6O-0O6.
The 1941 plates may be pur-
chased and placed on automobiles
any time during the month of
March, but must be on cars by
March 31, which is the deadline
for purchasing license plates with-
out penalty.
County Offices
Being Rearranged
Work of rearranging the offices
of Sheriff Ira Heard and Tax As-
l sessor and Collector F. F. English
| is well under way this week and
is scheduled to be completed in
another week or so. When com-
pleted, the changes will provide a
large business office, a small pri-
vate office and a record storage
room for the assessor-collector.
Sheriff Heard will have three of-
fice rooms and a storage room.
The storage rooms are in the base-
ment of the court house. I. H.
Dunbar, Refugio architect, is su-
pervising the work.
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Local Cagers Win,
Lose With Pirates
The Bobcat A and B basket ball
teams divided two games with the
A and G teams from Rockport
in the new high school gym in
Refugio Tuesday of last week. In
the first game, which was between
the Refugio and Rockport A
teams, the visitors were victorious
22 to 1. The other game, with
the B teams meeting, was in fa-
vor of Refugio, with a 12 to 11
decision.
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Federated Clubs
Names Secretary
Members of city federated clubs
of Refugio met at the City Hall
clubroom last Friday and named
Mrs. L. A. Weiss Jr. to fill the
unexpired term of Mrs. Howard
P. Green, secretary of the organi-
zation, who recently moved from
Refugio to Cuero. Mrs. Thelma
Chadwell presided at the meeting.
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Bank to Observe
Lee’s Birthday
The First National Bank will be
closed next Monday, January 20,
in observance of the birthday an-
niversary of Robert E. Lee, which
this year comes on Sunday, Janu-
ary 19. Patrons are requested to
take notice and adjust their busi-
ness accordingly. General Lee,
Confederate leader, was born
in 1807.
Local Field
To Get Five
New Wells
?
Town-State Lease
To Be Scene of
Latest Development
Contract for the drilling of five
wells in the Mission River sector
of the old Refugio field, immedi-
ately south of Refugio, in the near
future was let late last week, it
has been learned from reliable
sources. The contract was award-
ed by Jack Thurman, San Anto-
nio oil man, to Golding & Fearis
Drilling Co. of Houston, it was re-
ported.
Land on which the wells are to
be drilled is under control of the
Town of Refugio and the State of
Texas, it is understood. It com-
prises a section of the Mission
River bed, containing approxi-
mately 60 acres. Ce-Beth Oil Co.
is now active in the Mission River
sector, near where the new wells
are to be drilled.
If the Thurman wells are drilled
one at a time, at least 24 men will
be employed for several months,
but if all wells are drilled at the
same time, 120 men may be em-
ployed in ahe development for a
shorter length of time.
In the meantime, Refugio Coun-
ty’s exploration centers around a
new development campaign along
the south flank of the McFadden
field. Two 5,600-foot tests have
been completed and two more be-
gun in an effort to line out the
producing possibilities in the new
section.
Barnsdall Oil Co. was rigging
up on No. 5 F. P. Marberry, 2,269
feet east of its recently complet-
ed No. 4 well and 660 feet due
west of Norsworthy Production
Co. No. 1 Fagan.
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Selective Service
Official Visits-------
Local Draft Board
C. M. Stewart, field representa-
tive of the state selective service
headquarters at Austin, visited in
Refugio Tuesday afternoon of last
week, making an inspection of the
Refugio office of the draft board,
John C. Johnson, chairman of the
board, said this week.
Mr. Stewart complimented Mr.
Johnson on the fine method with
which he has been carrying out
the selective service program here
and reported the office in A-l
condition. Mr. Stewart will prob-
ably visit Refugio again in about
six months.
The Refugio draft board office
is located in the City Hall. Other
draft board members besides Mr.
Johnson, are E. J. Freeman of Re-
fugio and E. C. Thomas of Woods-
boro. Louis Schorlemmer of Re-
fugio is chief clerk aa the office.
H. L. White, Edna
Sheriff, Killed
Sheriff Ira Heard of Refugio.
Tuesday afternoon attended the
funeral services in Edna for Sher- J
iff H. L. White of Jackson Coun- I
ty, who was killed by a shotgun jfl
blast, received as he attempted to M \
quell a disturbance in a tavern at *
Edna.
White was called to a tavern
near Edna to quiet a disturbance
and was fatally injured by a blast
from a .12-gauge shotgun. Victo-
ria County Sheriff R. A. Ragan,
who was assisting Jackson County
officers in the case, could shed no
light on the source of Nickel’s
wounds Tuesday night, other than
that they had been caused by a
shotgun. Earl Gates of Edna, who
had accompanied White to the
tavern, said that Nickel turned
the gun on himself after fatally
wounding the sheriff.
Sheriff White’s alleged slayer,
Louis Nickel, tavern operator,
died in a Victoria hospital Tues-
day afternoon of self-inflicted gun
shot wounds.
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Christmas Lights
To Be Put Away
The Christmas lights that beau-
tified Refugio’s business streets
during the Yule season, are to be
taken down within the next few
weeks and stored for future use,
it was announced this week by C.
S. Boone, president of the Refugio
Rotary Club, which organization
sponsored the installation of the
lights. They were made possible
through contributions from local
citizens. Electric cun’ent for op-
erating the lights was furnished
free by Central Power & Light Co.
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Jones, J. L. Refugio Timely Remarks (Refugio, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 16, 1941, newspaper, January 16, 1941; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth874663/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dennis M. O’Connor Public Library.