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THE TIMELY REMARKS
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10,1937
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November 27, 1920, at the post-
office at Refugio, Texas, under act
of March 3, 1879, and
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November 10, 1928, at the post-
office at Refugio, Texas, under act
of March 3, 1879.
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A NEW INDUSTRY.
Speaking before the recent con-
tention of the American Soybean
Association at Urbana, 111., a lead-
ing man of the industry made the
interesting statement that 90 per
cent of the soybeans processed go
into livestock feed, the high merit
of which has been proved by ex-
periment station tests.
The development of the soybean
industry was brought about, the
speaker said, not by promoters,
but by farmers with visions of a
new cash crop, aided by bright-
xainded and determined govern-
ment and college research experts,
Joy business men and processors,
who risked and sometimes lost
fortunes in buying crops and sell-
ing the converted products.
Processors have kept ahead of
the crops and mills at key points
now have total crushing capacity
double that so far required, it
was said. It is no doubt true that
few products in history have so
quickly attained scientific hand-
ling.
In the laboratories new uses
have been evolve!; new markets
have been created and new sales
forces have been employed to
break down the walls of opposi-
tion in highly competitive fields.
Thus, step by step, the soybean
Industry is expanding, to the great
benefit of farmers and users of
its products.
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Thieves stole a large gospel tent
owned by Rev. R. E. Alden, which
he had set up in a field near Bos-
ton, Mass.
Former Refugio
Lady Is Injured
In a fall Wednesday morning at
about 11 o’clock Mrs. W. W. Reeves
was seriously injured, the X-Ray
showing a compound impacted
fracture of the hip bone.
Workmen had just finished pa-
pering a room and the floor was be-
ing cleaned up. In walking across
the floor, Mrs. Reeves slipped and
fell heavily on her right hip. She
was unable to get up and her
screams brought Mrs. Howell, an
occupant of the house, who sum-
moned neighbors and administered
to her until a doctor arrived.
On advice of Dr. Cook she was
taken to Pearsall Thursday in the
Beck ambulance for X-Ray exami-
nation and the photographs'showed
a compound impacted fracture.
Owing to her nervous condition
Dr. Goodnight delayed setting the
bone until today. It will be neces-
sary that she remain in the hos-
pital for several weeks and it is
considered a serious condition, but
it is hoped that she will respond
favorably to treatment and will
entirely recover the use of her
limb.
Rev. Harry Hamilton and Mrs.
William Dyson accompanied Mr.
South Texas
By Bill Elliott.
What Price Oil?
Pertinent comment on Land
Commissioner McDonald’s report
to Governor Allred that Padre Is-
land, strip of sand which extends
down the gulf coast from Corpus
Christi to a point near Browns-
ville, belongs to the state and not
to the: individuals who have felt
for many years that they had va-
lid claim to the island, was made
this week by H. D. Meister in his
interesting column, “Build Yoa-
kum,” in the Yoakum Daily Her-
ald.
Meister, referring directly to the
island matter, stated: “The way
oil scouts are probing around in
this neighborhood and punching
holes in the ground and putting
their ears to the ground to hear
what they hear when they shoot
off the dynamite, puts the plight
of fear into our hears That some-
one will come along and claim our
lands one of these days AFTER
we have it firmly established that
we have oil here.”
To Help Children.
South Texans in the last few
years have been generous in their
and Mrs. Reeves to the hospital, i SUpp0rt the annual balls in
they returning ^Wednesday after-j honor of the birthday of the presi-
dent, proceeds of which have been
noon.—Cotulla Record.
Mrs. Reeves was a resident of
Refugio for many years, being
prominent in club and social
circles.
Presbyterian Church.
The regular services of the Pres-
byterian church will be held on
Sunday, December 12, as follows:
Sunday school at 9:45 a. m.
Morning services at 11 o’clock,
with special music, a pipe-organ
and piano prelude and postlude.
Vesper services at 6:30 p. m.
Evening services at 7:30 p. m.
All are cordially invited to be
present. C. S. LONG, Pastor.
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Mrs. Ada Cole of Chicago was
reprimanded in court for throw-
ing stones through the windows of
her husband’s home when he failed
to make his alimony payments.
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“Varsity Show’9 at the Rialto Sunday
Dick Powell and Fred Waring’s Pennsylvanians are featured in
‘Varsity Show,” which opens at the Rialto Theater Sunday.
GREEN LANTERN CAFE
On the Highway    Tom Land, Manager
SHORT ORDERS AND SANDWICHES
ICE COLD BEER    —SOFT DRINKS
DITTY’S PACKAGE STORE
On the Highway    Ditty Perkins, Proprietor
100 Different Kinds of Imported and Domestic Liquors
Including Scotch and Champagne.
We Handle a Choice Line of Moderately Prieed Liquors
AIR CIRCUS
Greatest Ever Held in Corpus Christi!
Things You Have Never Seen
Featuring
TEX RANKIN
CHAMPION STUNT FLYER OF THE WORLD
This unusual, gigantic Air Show being sponsored by the
Junior Chamber of Commerce
CUFF MAUS AIRPORT
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 12, at 2 P. M.
(POSTPONED FROM SUNDAY, DECEMBER 5)
Admission:
Adults 50c, Children 25c, Reserve Seats 40c
Including Tax
used in the national battle against
infantile paralysis, one of the most
dreadful diseases which attack
children. This year they will have
added incentive to support the
movement if a plan is successful
to have a percentage of the pro-
ceeds from the dances earmarked
for use of the Gonzales Warm
Springs Foundation for Crippled
Children.
The foundation proposes to build
a great center near Gonzales for
treatment—water treatment prin-
cipally—of children crippled by the
disease.
It has been proved 'beyond any
question or lingering doubt that
the Gonzales site offers everything
needful for the establishment of
a great health center for crippled
children. During the last year the
foundation, under the active lead-
ership of Ross Boothe of Gonza-
les, as president, has perfected a
strong working organization for
a project which all informed per-
sons know to be worthy, needed
and within reason. Lack of fi-
nances is all that holds back the
forward movement of the group
of South Texans banded together
in the foundation to provide Texas
children, crippled by disease, with
a place where they may win back
their health and sound bodies.
A substantial percentage of the
funds from the balls in Texas will
enable the foundation to begin its
work of constructing the physical
plant necessary. It is to be hoped
the movement to secure a percent-
age of the funds for the founda-
tion is successful, remembering
that most of the national fund
now goes into research work, as
the Georgia foundation is soundly
financed from funds raised in the
past.
It is estimated that the plant
at Gonzales may be placed in op-
eration for $250,000, although the
plant as laid out will involve an
expenditure of from $500,000 to
$600,000. Citizens of Gonzales have
provided a 40-acre tract for the
health center; adjoining a 360-acre
state park, which will be availa-
ble as a recreation ground. The
plan has been endorsed by state
and local groups and the Elks
Lodge in the state is reported to
be working on a $50,000 fund for
the foundation. Other funds may
be raised next spring from a sale
of Easter stamps.
To date, an organization has
been perfected which has worked
and pushed for a worthy project.
Funds are needed to begin actual
construction work. The plan has
had the whole-hearted support of
the South Texas press since its
inception. The celebration of the
president’s birthday early in 1938
will have even wider participation
than in the last few years of a
percentage of the fund raised is
allotted to the foundation for the
building of a great health center
for crippled children of Texas.
The foundation would be con-
structed around a warm mineral
spring which pours from 9,000 to
10,000 gallons an hour out of the
earth. The water has a tempera-
ture of 106 degrees and has been
declared the purest water possible
by the state health department.
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Mary Hardin Has
Public Inaugural
For the first time in the 93 years
of its history, Mary Hardin-Baylor
College, at Belton, Texas, held a
public inauguration, when Dr. Gor-
don Grady Singleton became its
fifteenth president. As students,
faculty, trustees and severtl hun-
dred visitors from Texas and the
nation took part in the exercises,
the college looked back to the per-
sons who made the college what it
is today.
Dr. Henry Noble MacCracken,
president of Vassar, delivered the
first address. Significant was the
fact that this first speaker was
the president of an eastern wo-
man’s college built upon much the
same ideals as those which have
guided Mary Hardin-Baylor. Vas-
sar was founded in 1861 by a man
who wanted to prove that women
were capable of receiving educa-
tional training equal to that of
men. Today, Mary Hardin-Baylor’s
new president says “the curricu-
lum of Mary Hardin-Baylor must
and does provide for such courses
as women need and desire to es-
pecially prepare them for the life
they will live.”
Saint Marys o/ Aransas
's.A History of the Town of St. Mary’s 1
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HOBART HU JON
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Copyrighted 1937 by Hobart Huson cinQ Refudio^Timely Remarks
(Continued from Last Week.)
CHAPTER XIV.—Continued.
Quoting Wharton: “In a pam-
phlet circulated by Bickley, the
state organizer, in October, 1860,
he said that the Knights of the
Golden Circle constitute a power-
ful military organization as a neu-
cleus around which to hang such
political considerations as will, if
well managed, lead to to the dis- j ginning
enthrallment of the cotton states j fpc£
from the oppressive majority of
manufacturing and commercial in-
terests in the north.”
The order had a large and active
membership in Texas. It undoubt-
edly had a large membership at
Saint Mary’s.
as important as a $10 bill is now;
there was little employment and
less money to pay for it.” Speak-
ing of Saint Mary’s, he says: “We
found this section even more des-
titute than the one we left. There
was no agriculture, no develop-
ment, nothing but cattle in all the
country, and cattle was worth
nothing. There was no market,
and but a poor one for the hides
and tallow, while thousands of
them were being slaughtered for
this alone, the flesh being thrown
away. * * * Jobs were scarce and
remuneration poor * * * ”
Judge Patrick Shelly (in the
Texas Almanac) gave the condi-
tions in Refugio County in 1867
as being: “Good land can be pur-
chased for 50 cents to $1 an acre.
The following are prevailing prices
of staple commodities, the prices
being in specie: Corn, per bushel,
$1; beef, $20 per head; pork, five
cents per pound; bacon, 15 cents
per pound; horses, unbroken, from
$30 to $40; gentle, from $40 to
$50; oxen, $45 to $50 per yoke;
cows from $10 to $12; sheep, about
$3 per head." The population of
the entire county, including present
Aransas County, was only 1,000.
The close of the war found many
of the Refugio Confederate sol-
diers in distant parts of the coun-
try. Some of their commands were
marched back to Texas and for-
mally mustered out. Some of
them were mustered out in other
states. Some were released from
northern military prisons and left
to find their ways back to Texas
as best they could. It was there-
fore several months after the war
ended that these men finally re-
turned to their homes and families.
Colonel Hobby and his brother,
Captain Edwin Hobby, returned to
Saint Mary’s, but began to wind up
their affairs preparatory to re-
moval to other places. Colonel
“all having received their appoint- Hobby during the war had met
&    *1    the widow, Menard, at Galveston,
and as soon as he could conven-
The names of the
ment from the Honorable A. J.
Hamilton, provisional governor of
Texas.” Other county officials
were James Power, Jr., treasurer,
Edward St. John, assassor and
collector, and L. H. Ward, land of-
fice surveyor.
Refugio County had had its
quota of citizens v/ho from the be-
of the internecine con-
were staunch Union men.
Among these citizens were some of
her best, such as Thomas O’Con-
nor. These old citizens, although
not approving of secession, re-
mained peacebly at home an after
the war exerted their influence
to save the county from the ex-
members are unknown at this late j treme rigors of reconstruction. To
date, but undoubtedly included all | them is due the credit for the com-
of the active secessionists of Re-! paratively lenient treatment re-
fugio County. It was a secret so-
ciety and had a cipher code, in
which inter-fraternal communica-
tions were written. A letter writ-
ten in this cipher by Edwin Hobby
secretary of the Saint Mary’s Cas-
tle to Judge Charles A. Russell,
dated April 14, 1861, is now in
possession of Mrs. Burmeister and
has been lent by her to the author.
The decipher of the cryptogram j
letter is as follows:
ceived by this county at the hands
of the military governors and
radical authorities. Many of them
succeeded in being selected to lo-
cal offices, so that during most of
the period, the affairs of the county
remained in the hands of her good
citizens.
St. Mary’s, Texas,
April 14th, 1861.
C. A. Russell,
Dear Sir: According to instruc-
tions given us by Mr. Clark, who
organized a KGC Castle in this
place, I enclose $6 for degree works
necessary for first and second de-
grees.
If the amount is not sufficient,
write and we will send the balance.
We need them, please send im-
mediately.
Yours fraternally,
Edwin Hobby,
Secretary, St. Mary’s Castle.
During the Civil War, the KGC
had a surprisingly large member-
ship in the northern states—Illi-
nois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky,
New York, Pennsylvania and Wis-
consin. The membership in those
states was composed of southern
sympathizers. A “grape-vile rail-
road” between Canada and the
Confederacy was maintained by the
KGC through the northern states
during the Civil War. After the
This county was placed in the
Fifth Military District of Texas,
a company of negro troops,
commanded by Captain Fitch, a
white man, was quartered at Refu-
gio from 1868 to 1867. According
to Judge Rea, these troops and
their camp on the south bank of
Mission River, about a quarter of
a mile above the bridge, in a tim-
ber mott, still known as “Soldiers’
Mott.” Judge Rea states that the
wife of Captain Fitch came to Re-
fugio to be with her husband, and
that this couple were often seen
driving in their fine carriage “while
most of the white people here had
to walk.”
The negro troops remained at
Refugio until the close of 1867,
when they were replaced by a com-
pany of white soldiers, command-
ed by Lieutenant Clark. These
troops had their camp on the court
house grounds. They remained un-
til after the general election in
1868, which they held, and then
left.
Judge Rea was a witness of the
last election held in the town of
Refugio by the federal troops, in
1868. Hhe states that the polls
were in a house on Purisima Street,
iently do so, disposed of his hold-
ings in this county and moved to
Galveston, where he married his
fiance. Captain Edwin Hobby
moved to Warsaw, in Polk County,
and began his brilliant and dis-
tinguished pubilic career. The busi-
ness of Post & Hobby’s store at
Saint Mary’s was sold to the new
firm of Ellis & Wood.
Important Meeting
Of Little Theater
There will be an important meet-
ing of the Refugio Little Theater
Tuesday night, December 14, at
7:30, in the high school auditorium.
All persons holding membership
tickets are urgently requested to
attend.
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Local Club Sends
Delegate to Meet
The Allegro Club of Refugio was
represented on the fine arts pro-
gram at the convention in Lock-
hart last Saturday by Miss Vir-
ginia Bailey, who played a piano
solo, Miss Stie Williams, delegate,
and Miss Mary Elizabeth Cole, al-
ternate. Miss Evelyn Tidwell and
Mrs. Margaret Doucette were also
in attendance. ~The meeting was
held at the Presbyterian church.
There was a business meeting,
with Miss Mabel Johnson, junior
counsellor of this district, presid-
ing. Miss Cole and Miss Williams
drew up the resolutions and Miss
Cole presented them to the con-
vention.
After the meeting there was a
fine arts program with almost
every town in the district repre-
sented. After the convention a tea
was served by the Junior Study
Club of Lockhart.
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Fishing Tackle, Guns and Am-
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To reserve Duck Blinds, call 57,
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SHEER LACE TRIMMED
PURE SILK
Nightgowns
Panties, Brassieres
war the society formed the neu- iacross from the court house. The
cleus for the old Ku Klux Klan ; federal troops were lined up at the
of the reconstruction period.
CHAPTER XV.
RECONSTRUCTION.
“Peace hath her victories,
No less renowned that war.
-—Milton.
Cessation of the war found Re-
fugio County desolate and in a
ruined condition. The war had
been particularly disastrous to the
town of Saint Mary’s. The block-
ade had destroyed her commerce ; riod.
polls and the negro voters were
encouraged to vote and not mo-
lested, whereas the white men were
required to take the “iron-clad
oath,” and upon entering the polls
to take off their hats and bow to
the election officials. Practically
none of the white men would so
demean themselves and, conse-
quently were deterred from vot-
ing. He states that the practice
of “stuffing the ballot boxes” with
fraudulent and fictitious ballots
originated with the “carpet-bag-
gers” during the reconstruction pe-
and business was at an irriducible
stagnation. In common with the
entire devoted south, the economic
fabric was gnarled and twisted;
there was no money; there was
no credit; all was lost save honor,
and that indomitable courage that
was the salvation of our south-
land.
To add to the sufferings and
hardships of the south, was the
system foistered on her by a radi-
cal element of the northern states,
known as reconstruction. These
radicals undertook to treat the
southern states as conquered prov-
inces, reversing the humane and
enlightened principles of Abraham
Lincoln, who had taken the posi-
tion that the seceeding states were
never and could not have been out
of the federal union. The recon-
struction period in Texas began in
June, 1865, and existed until 1874.
Refugio County, like the rest of
the south, was under martial law.
Civil officers were appointed by
the provisional governor. The
special term of the county court,
which convened September 17,
1865 (1.307) was composed of Wil-
liam Sheriff, chief justice; James
B. Wells, P. Bickford, Thomas
Welder and Michael O’Doyle, com-
missioners; Wheelock H. Upton,
sheriff, and Thomas Sheriff, clerk,
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Mrs. Bruce Hood, Manager    Refugio, Texas
After this election no more fed-
eral troops were stationed in this
county. Judge Rea states that the
soldiers did not molest the people
of the county, but spent most of
their time out on the prairies, hunt-
ing the wild game which was so
abundant in those days.
During the reconstruction period,
practically all of the men who had
served under the Stars and Bars
were disenfranchised. That the
south was unable to survive her
disasters can be attributed only to
the indomitable spirit of her peo-
ple. An example of this spirit is
given by Judge Russell:
“In 1868, the usual presidential
election took place, hut Texas had
no vote. But the people of Saint
Mary’s held an election anyway,
and elected Seymour and Blair, the
Democratic nominees. I was not
there, but arrived December 1,
afterwards, and heard it spoken of
with a good deal of amusement. I
don’t know who was the ring
leader of the movement. Floyd
Carpenter, then 16, was there, and
I think he could even tell the num-
ber of votes cast. Of course, it
was simply horseplay, to show
their colors.”
Beemen (founder of the “Va-
quero) says:    “The country was
destitute, a 10-cent piece was about
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reserves prove totally inadequate in a crisis.
Stock insurance companies are your only safe
bet. Insurance agents who sell insurance only
and attend to their business are your only safe
agents. And “Good Insurance is not cheap, and
cheap insurance it not good.”
REMEMBER THIS
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