The Devil's River News. (Sonora, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, September 4, 1931 Page: 1 of 8
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Published in Sonora, Texas — “The Capital of the Stockman’s Paradise”
SONORA, SUTTON COUNTY. TEXAS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1931
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NUMBER 44
Jack Pfies
Critically Huri
Car Smash>up
Is in San Angelo Hospital With
Internal Injuries Following
Monday Night Wreck
nora Schools Open Monday
Jack Pfiester, 18, was critically
injured Monday night at 11 o’clock
when a car on which he was riding
crashed into a rail at the race track
one mile north of Sonora. He was
thrown against u post, supposedly,
breaking two ribs on the left side,
with one of the broken ribs pene-
trating a lung.
He was brought to town immedi-
ately after the crash, which oc-
curred when Floyd Dunagan, driv-
er of a strip-down Ford, was
blinded by dust from another car
with which he was racing, end
crashed into a side fence. It ap-
peared from the nature of Pfies-
ter’s injuries that he must have
jumped from the car when he saw
the crash impending. Dunagan was
nut hurt.
The injured boy was cai ny
San Angelo Tuesday mopRfng in
the ambulance of theArciiora Mo-
tor Co., and an x-jaly examination
wr.s made of hjg'^njuries in a clin-
ic there, repealing the nature of
the hurt.
"condition is reported as sat-
isfactory, with chances that he will
recover regarded as likely. The
greatest danger lies in the possi-
bility of contracting pneumonia.
A son of Mrs. Beulah Pfiester,
the’ young man graduated from
Sonora high school in the class of
1931.
Houston People
Hurt in Wreck
Opening Program'
Be Held at Nine
O’Clock
The opening of school in Sono-
ra will be observed by a program
starting at nine o’clock in ihe high
school auditorium. It will be more
or lcs3 informal.
Henri Rogers, of San Angelo,
will play a trumpet solo, Mrs. .John
Ward will play a violin solo, Miss
Marjorie Way, of Colorado City^
will give a reading, and
Elizabeth Francis, of San Ajjitfmio,
will play a piano solo.
Talks will be mad^iy the fol-
lowing citizens mb others: Judge
L. W. EllioUi^president of the
school boa^T, Mrs. S. T. Gilmore,
distri^^jresident of the P.-T. A.;
Ira Shurley, president of the
femora P.-T. A.; George H. Neill,
president of the Lions club; Rev.
E. P. Neal, pastor of the Metho-
dist church; Rev. J. O. McMillon,
pastor of the Baptist church; Mrs.
Will Caldwell, president of the
Woman’s club; Judge Alvis John-
son; Mayor Roy Aldwell, and
George Baker, editor of The Devil’s
River News.
Following the talks the new
teachers will be introduced.
After the program everyone
present will be invited to inspect
the enlarged and remodeled school
cafeteria and its new equipment.
New tables and chairs of different
sizes have been added to fit the
different sizes of children. New
equipment in the kitchen includes a
Frigidaire installed by the West
Texas Utilities Company.
District Enrollment of
585; Over 500 in
Sonora
The first school bells of the fall
session will ring Monday morning
at !> o'clock for students in the So-
nora Independent School District.
There will be a total of 588 school
children in ihe district this year,
according to R. S. Covey, superin-
tendent. The Mexican school will
Dies Monday Afternoon; Burial
Follows Tuesday Afternoon;
Was High Mason
W. B. Adams, 78-year-old ranch-
er of the Camp Allison community,
was claimed by death Monday af-
ternoon at 1:30 o’clock as he lay
rending at hiH home.
Mr. Adams had been in poor
health for a number of weeks, but
during the few duys preceding his
death had registered marked im-
provement, and was thought to be
enroll a total of a I tout 2110 «4tU- nn the road to a complete recovery.
D. E. Parks, of St. Louis, is the owner of a police dog which has
the mother instinct highly developed. Recently it adopted three orphaned
rabbits, and then added seven setter pups whose mother had died.
J.E. White, Brady,
B. W. Hutcherson
Lease 13 Sections
200,000 Pounds of
Mohair Received
Pay 65 Cents for Part of Ft. Ter-
rett Outfit; Buy Four Thous-
and Sheep
Wife of Judge Injured on O. S. T.
Saturday Afternoon
Mrs. Laxton King, Houston, suf-
fered a badly sprained hip and sev-
eral bruises when the King car
turned over 17 miles west of So-
nora on the Old Spanish Trail Sat-
urday afternoon. Judge King, her
husband, who was driving, was not
injured.
The party had been to Carlsbad,
N. M., and had been held up by
high water Friday night, losing a
great deal of sleep, and it was
thought that the judge lost con-
sciousness momentarily and drove
into a ditch.
Judge and Mrs. King remained in
Sonora throughout the week as
guests in the home of Judge and
Mrs. L. W. Elliott, their friends.
Mrs. King will likely be able to
return home the first part of next
Sonora Represented
in Utility Probe
Aldwell and Smith in Angelo for
Meeting Questioning Kates
KICAN WOMAN SUFFERS
URUSHED ARM IN WRECK
Mexican woman 65 years old
led Garcia was hurt in an auto-
iile accident Monday night at
10 o’clock on the Del Rio high-
7 miles south of Sonora.
Mth four others, she was en-
,e to San Angelo from her home
'ilia Acuna to attend the funer-
f a brother. The car overturned
she was pinned underneath,
er right arm was crushed from
elbow to the wrist, and she re-
ed a deep cut over one eye. She
brought to Sonora for emcr-
cy treatment, and was then tak-
;o Del Rio in an ambulance.
VAJO BLANKET TO BE
MADE OF KARAKUL WOOL
i sample of wool from the Kara-
sheep in the herd of S. E. Mc-
ight has been sent a Gallup, N.
firm which employs Navajo
ian weavers, and will he woven
the Indians to show its possibil-
s for use in blankets and rugs.
!. H. Evans, manager of the So-
a Wool and Mohair Co., had
n seeking for several months to
•rest textile workers in the long,
rse wool, which resembles mo-
r in texture. He believes that
e introduced to Indian weavers
t it will find ready acceptance,
:e it offers n natural variety of
irs nnd shades and will eliminate
necessity of dyeing,
f the Indian weavers like the
r material it will likely find ex-
sive tises.
Roy E. Aldwell, mayor, and
George E. Smith, city manager,
represented the city of- Sonora at
a meeting of sixteen counties of
the Texas League of Municipali-
ties held in San Angelo last Thurs-
day,
Charges of misleading rate re-
ductions and of juggling rates,
were hurled at power companies
during the meeting, which was call-
ed by Brown F. Lee, San Angelo
mayor and chairman of this district
of the league.
Rates of all utility companies op-
erating in the various towns were
compiled and compared at the
meeting, with a view to seeking a
uniformity of rate.
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News Briefs
J. E. White, Brady ranchman,
and B. W. Hutcherson, Sonora
ranchman, have leased from J. T.
Evans, owner of the Fort Terrett
ranch in eastern Sutton county, the
13 sections of land comprising the
Eagle Wells ranch, paying 65 cents
an acre for a one year lease.
At the same time White &
Hutcherson bought from Mr. Evans
1000 head of yearling ewes, at $3.76
a head, and 3000 spring lambs,
ewes and wethers, at $2.50 a head.
All of this stock will be run on the
J leased land. Delivery is to be made
j on October 1,
This transaction marked the
I close of the second large lease deal
in Sutton county in recent weeks,
and was the largest sale of sheep
reported in several months in this
section.
Hutcherson will be in charge of
operations on the proparty.
Two-thirds of Sutton County Clip
In; 14 Per Cent Is Kid
Mohair
Two hundred thousand pounds of
mohair has been weighed in at the
warehouse of the Sonora Wool and
Mohair Company. With this total
received it is estimated that shear-
ing in Sutton county is about two-
thirds complete.
Fourteen per cent of the flece
received is kid mohair, according to
C. H. Evans, manager of the ware-
house.
No sales have been made of the
present clip. Part of it is consigned
to the Sonora Wool and Mohuir
Marketing Corporation, a unit of
the National Wool Marketing Cor-
poration, while a portion is simply
being stored in the warehouse
awaiting disposal.
McMillon Attends Association
The Rev. J. O. McMillon returned
Wednesday night from Ballinger
where he attended the Runnels
Baptist Association for two days.
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To Attend Howard Payne
Miss Muriel Simmons will leave
Sunday for Brownwood where she
will enter Howard Payne College.
Matriculation begins Monday morn-
ing.
Son to Alton Archie
Mr. and Mrs. Alton Archie an-
nounce the birth of a son Sunday,
August 30, at their ranch home.
The boy has not yet been given a
name.
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Eastland Home Painted
The home of Mr. and Mrs. Hi
Eastland has been repainted by
Frank Knapton, local contractor.
It was painted a light buff, trim-
med in brown.
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Returns from Big Spring
J. T. Shurley, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Ira Shurley, who has been
spending the summer with his
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M.
Choate, at Big Spring, where he
was employed at the Collins Broth-
ers Drug Store, No. 3, returned to
Sonora Monday to prepare for the
opening of school.
Four New Gridsters
Report for Practice
Men Working on Limbering Up
Exercises This Week
Four additional men answered
the roll call for football this week.
Harold Friess, 135 pound track
man should prove good material
for the backfield. Edgar Glasscock,
who weighs 162 pounds, will add
strength to the line. Carl Holland
tips the scales at 143 pounds and
has the makings of a fast end.
Jess Greene Barton, 175-pound let-
terman will probably resume his old
place Bt tackle.
Coach A. L. Smith says that his
material so far is excellent and that
he believes prospects for a win-
ning team are bright.
Among the old men who have
been out. Ikey Kring is developing
into a good pasRer, and George Ory
is showing good form.
The men are working out on set-
ting up exercises this week limber-
ing up for scrimmage later on.
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Birds Numerous
as Season Opens
DISTRICT COURT WILL
BEGIN MONDAY MORNING
Sutton county district court will
begin its fall term Monday morn-
ing at 10 o’clock, with Judge .1. G.
Montague, Fort Stockton, on the
bench.
The grandjury will likely be im-
paneled Mondny, and will be faced
with a number of possible charges
for which men arc now in the coun-
ty jail.
A number of civil suits, continu-
ances from former terms, as well
as several new caseR, will likely be
heard.
drtn, while Owensvillc and Peeun
Springs schools will have 12 or 15
children each. The primary nnd
grammar school departments of
the Sonora school will enroll over
200, nnd the high school will have
over 100.
The faculty for the district is as
follows:
High School
R. S .Covey, superintendent.
T. D. White, principal, animal
husbandry.
Miss Nan Casbeer, English.
Miss Maurine Phillips, commer-
cial subjects.
Miss Annie Duncan, history.
Miss Loreen Moursund, vocation-
al home economics.
Miss Johnnie Allison, Spanish
and mathematics.
A. L. Smith, coach of athletics,
science and mathematics.
Grammar School
Miss Vivian Ball, principal, sixth
grade.
Miss lone Reagan, fifth grade.
Miss Helen Joiner, fourth grade.
Miss Dora Petmecky, third grade.
Miss Loula Belle Caldwell, sec-
ond grade.
Miss Lucille Dubois, first grade.
Mexican School
M.ss Bonnie Glasscock, principal;
Mrs? Roy CrmilaniT, Miss Oretti
Cawycr.
Pecan Springs and Owensvillc
H. O. Martin will return to be
principal of the Pecan Springs
school, and his sister, Mrs. Jewel
Martin, will be principal of the
Owensville school.
Music and Expression
Miss Elizabeth Francis, who has
taught piano in the Sonora schools
for the past three years, will again
have charge of that department.
Henri Rogers, violinist, will con-
tinue his classes in violin and gen-
eral orchestra studies. Miss Marjo-
rie Way will return this year to
teach expression.
W. B. Adams, Sutton
County Pioneer, Is
Claimed By Death
Hunters Reporting Excellent Luck;
Doves Are Fat
Birds are plentiful around Sonora
and virtually all hunting parties
during the opening days of the
season have met with success.
The bag limit of 15 birds a day
has been secured by many.
The birds are unusually fat, due
to an excellent feed and grain crop
in West Texas.
The season lasts for two full
months, ending on the last day of
October.
Visitor from Austin
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Stephen have
as their guest this week Miss Sa-
lette Darden, of Austin, Mr. Steph-
en’s aunt, who arrived Monday for
a visit of several days.
Personals
C. B. Searcy, jr. left Tuesday for
Temple where he will visit his wife
in a hospital.
Mrs. Louis Stuart and little son,
Lynn, were in) Sonora from the
ranch Tuesday.
Dr. J. C. Baker was in San An-
gel Tuesday visiting his wife and
baby son, Billy Bradley.
Mr. and Mrs. W., P. McConnell,
jr., of the Humble B Station, were
in Sonora Wednesday.
Miss Inez Teague left Monday
for Fort Worth where she will
spend several days visiting her par-
ents.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Praetor, of
Mason, spent the week-end with
their daughter, Mrs. A. W. Await,
here.
Miss. E. J. Darby and her little
son, Joe, spend the week-end with
her sister, Mrs. S. L. Darby and
Mr. Darby here.
Miss Lois Thomas returned Tues-
day from a week's trip to El Paso,
and other points west of Pecos,
where she went with friends from
San Angelo.
Mr. and Mrs. Phil Stevens, and
family, returned Wednesday from
Chicago, where they have been on
a vacation trip, visiting their re-
spective parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Wardlnw came
to Sonora from the ranch Sunday,
remaining Monday and Tuesday.
Mrs. Wardlaw asssiter her mother,
Mi’s. Birdie Rutledge, in the Rut-
ledge Cafe.
His going was quiet, supposedly
due to heart failure. Mrs. Adams,
who was in the kitchen of the res-
idence at the time, heard no sound
to indicute his passing, and did not
discover his dcuth until she entered
the room.
Mr. Adams was known and loved
by virtually everyone in Sutton and
Kimble counties. He was an active
worker In community affairs, and
was particularly interested in the
work of the Masonic Lodge. For
the last several years he had been
a teacher of Masonic ritual. He was
a member of the Scottish Rite in
San Antonio, and was a thirty-
second degree Mason.
Mr. Adams was born in Kentuck.
For thirty years he had lived at
Camp Allison, where he was inti-
mately known as “Uncle Punkin.”
He is survived by his widow; two
daughters, Mrs. Herman Thiers,
Camp Allison, and Mrs. Will Hlght,
Junction; and seven sons, Earl,
Camp Allison, Sam, Christoval,
Marion, Sonora, Dave, Junction,
Mina, Boerne, Richard, Llano, and
Causter, Del Rio. Survivors also
include four sisters: Mrs. George
J. Trainer, Sonora, Mrs. Dock Joy.
Comp Allison, Hnd Mrs. Zuda Pearl
|uiklflii<>Hi •”’H fPur broths Tom
a Adams md Mutt Adams of San
Angelo, and Lum Adams and D. Q.
Adams of Camp Allison.
27 Sonora Lions
Guests of Hotel
Mrs. Josie McDonald Servea De-
licious Chicken Lunch
Junction to Play
Here Next Sunday
Sonora
Haa Strong Line-up for
Baseball Game
Departing from the usual Mon-
day program, 27 Sonora Lions and
guests invaded the dining room of
Hotel McDonald, last Monday noon,
and partook of a sumptious re-
past of fried chicken and accesso-
ries, served by Mrs. Josie McDon-
ald, proprietress of the establish-
ment.
Fred Earwood, prominent ranch-
er the county, was a guest of the
club, with Mrs. George Baker as
guest of Mrs. McDonald.
The entertainment consisted of
a short address by the Rev. J. O.
McMillon on "What the Club Could
Do.” Lion McMillon outlined a work
of charity, which he urged the club
to adopt for the fall and winter.
A letter from the Eldorado club,
requesting co-operation in further-
ing the feeling of good sportsman-
ship now existing between the
schools of Sonora and Eldorado,
was read and the idea adopted. This
matter will be acted upon at a fu-
ture meeting.
Lion Neill appointed as program
committee H. V. Stokes, John Ea-
ton and Gene Bailey.
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Mrs. Hutcherson Has Operation
Mrs. B. W. Hutcherson under-
went a minor internal operation in
a San Angelo hospital Tuesday of
this week, and according to late re-
ports, is recovering quite satis-
factorily.
Junction is coming Sunday. The
Kimble county baseball nine will
meet the Sonora Lions Club team
in what will likely prove one of the
hardest-fought contests of the sum-
mer.
Sonora will put a strong team on
the diamond. With the Harrison
brothers composing an excellent
battery, and with McCurdy as ad-
ditional pitching talent, Sonora will
make it hard for the Junction boys
to get on base. ‘‘Bud’* Smith will
also be on hand to hurl and play in
the outfield.
Manager Frank Knapton has a
wealth of outfield material, with
five men for the three positions.
Hill will likely start in right field,
with Caldwell in center field and
Searcy in left field. A. L. Smith,
coach of athletics in the Sonora
high school, and Dunagan will be
ready for a fielding assignment,
in addition. Hamilton will take first
base and Huling second base, with
Hollmig at shortstop. Two third
basemen are available in McCollum
and Fields.
The game will be played on the
high school diamond, beginning at 3
o’clock.
FIRE BOYS MAKE FAST
TIME ON PRACTICE RUN
Lowering ita former time by a
full minute the Sonora volunteer
fire company made a run to the
south edge of town Friday after-
noon, placed the hose and had water
running in exactly five minutea.
The boys practice every other
Friday evening at 6:30 o’clock.
They will meet again on Sept. 11.
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To Temple for a Week
Mrs. R. A. Steen left Tuesday for
Temple where she will spend a
wpek at a clinic. She was accom-
panied as far as San Angelo by
Mrs. A. G. Blanton and Miss Ora
Merck.
Lem Johnson was in San Angelo
Tuesday practising polo at the polo
club.
O. G. Gilder, of Gutesville, is in
Sonora for a few weeks' stay.
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