The Devil's River News. (Sonora, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, September 4, 1931 Page: 4 of 8
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THE DEVIL’S RIVER NEWS
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GEORGE BAKER .... Editor and
W. E. James.......Associate
Owner
Editor
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j (By W. E. James)
Entered at the postoffice at Sonora, Sutton County,
Texas, as second-class matter.
Day of Publication
Kales of Subscription-
One Year
Six Months
Three Monika
Friday of Each Week
-Payable in Advance
$2.00
$1.25
.75
Any erroneous reflection upon the character,
standing or reputation of any person, firm or corpo-
ration will be cheerfully corrected upon being
brought to the attention of the editor.
INTERNATIONAL GOOD WILL
The organisation of a Council of the League of
United Latin American Citizens in Sonoru und in
other West Texas towns with a luge Mexicun citi-
zenship is a worthwhile forward step in the promo-
tion of u permanent state of better understanding
between iwo American peoples.
Mexico, with its vast resources yet undeveloped,
offers a valuable outlet for American expansion in
the circles of engineering, financing, and economic
development. America, with its somewhat older
standing as a nation and with a greater influence in
world affair.', can be a great help in the development
of Mexico. It’s a two-wuy proposition, destined to
be a big thing if the peoples of the neighbor countries
can continue in the lines of co-operation which it is
the purpose of ihe new league to foster.
Sonora citizens, both Anglo-Saxon and Latin
American, should take join pride in the formation
of such an organization here, and should encourage
the spread of ideals such us it teaches.
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Only one solution to the overproduction problem
in Texas has not been offered- -that of pouring a
little of the East Texas product on the boll-weevil
feed and on the Panhandle crop and lighting a match.
It seems that the Tammany Tiger is to be the
guest of honor at a “Star Chamber’’ hearing. He’ll
probably see lots of stars.
Take it to be
not to be too
thing.
i principal rule of life,
much addicted to one
—Terrence.
The recently formed Lions club of Kocksprings is
letting “no grass grow under its feet," but has
‘started the ball rolling” toward the better things
for which all Lions clubs strive. As proof of the
statement, read what Lion W. J. Muller, chairman
if the committee on major activities, whites in a
letter to the Sonoru club:
"We feel that by reason of our club having but
so recently come into being, this committee can do
no wiser thing than to contact with like committees
of the Lions Clubs of our neighboring towns, which
have, or ought to have, all-weather connecting high-
ways. We believe there can be no question that all
concerned would be greatly benefitted by a first-
class highway between Kocksprings and Sonora, and
though at present writing our committee has no
.studied plan of bringing about the muchly needed
road, we do hope that we can share in some con-
certed action which will accomplish the end in view,
accordingly we wish to offer our fullest co-operation
in any road project which might prove of mutual
benefit.”
A preacher in England spent $35,000 on paint
and new furniture for his church building. His
theory is that this is an age of color and that there
is no reason why a church interior should be dull
and ugly. Here is the arrangement that greeted the
eyes ut his congregation at the opening service:
Apple green pews, black choir stalls, orange carpets,
tloodlighted chancel blazing in vermilion, gold and
white; gray pillars; arches ar.d ceilings of the nave
white with green rafters to match the pews.
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Two-Gun Ike wants to know what has become of
the old-fashion preacher who worked six days a week
at his trade, then walked four miles on Sunday to
feed his hungry flock on spiritual food. “It is use-
less to add,” said Two-Gun, “that those old-timers
were not ‘wise-crackers’ either.”
Teacher’s Institute
to He Held Saturday
l’rogram to Precede Opening of
Fall Term Monday
A one-day Teachers’ Institute
will be held tomorrow in the study
hall of the high school starting at
8:30 o’clock.
Roundtable discussions will be
made of all questions brought up
nnd of several suggested by the
formal program. Schedules for
teaching for the year will be given
the teachers and the subjects to be
taught will be assigned.
The program for the days is as
follows:
Opening song led by Miss Join-
Neal; address, Rev. J. O. McMillon;
or; opening prayer, Rev. E. P.
address, lodge L. W. Elliott.
How I Spent My Vacation, each
teacher.
Ideal Relationship Between Fac-
ulty Members, T. I). White; The
Library and las Use, Miss Annie
Duncan; Vocational Home Econom-
ics, Miss Lorone Moursund; What
Athletics Should Mean to Sonoru
High, A, L. Smith; Commercial
Education, Miss Maurine Phillips.
English in Sonora High School,
and How Teachers of Other Sub-
jects Should Co-operate, Miss Nan
Cusboer; Education of the Mexi-
can Children, Miss Glasscock; My
Plana for Pecan Springs, 11. O.
Martin; Well Begun Is Half Dore,
Miss Lucille DuBois; Physical Ed-
ucation, Miss Dora Petmoeky; The
Activities of the Teacher Outside of
School, Miss Vivian Ball; Suggest-
ed Social Functions for the Fac-
ulty, Miss Loula Belle Caldwell;
Some of My Objectives for Owens-
ville, Miss Jewel Martin; Public
School Music, Miss Helen Joiner;
Teaching of Spanish and Its Prac-
tical Value in This Community,
Miss lohnnie Allison; Some Things
the Teacher Should Know About
the Home Life of Her Pupils, Mrs.
Roy Grimland; The Teacher’s Daily
Preparation, Miss lone Reagan;
Some Causes of Failures in Teach-
ing, R. S. Covey.
To W. M. S. District Meet
Mrs, Lem Johnson, study super-
intendent of the Woman’s Mission-
ary Society, spent Tuesday in San
Angelo, attending a meeting of
superintendents of mission study in
the San Angelo district of the Wo-
man’s Missionary Society of the
Methodist church. The meeting was
held at the First Methodsit Church
where lunch was served at noon fol-
lowing a session in which Mrs. J.
M. tioodwin, of McAllen, conference
superintendent of mission study,
presented to some fifty district
sup< rintondents attending, the book
which missionary societies in the
district will study this fall. It is a
book written by .John Milton Moore
and compiled as a result of an in-
terdenominational committee’s sur-
vey of home mission conditions in
the United States, and has as its
title, “Challenge of Change.” The
book will be presented to the local
VV. M. S. by Mrs. Johnson and the
study will be begun in about two
weeks, to run for a six weeks’
period.
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Return from Fort Worth
Dr. O. G. Babcock, assistant en-
tomologist at the Ranch Experi-
ment Station, returned Saturday
night from Fort Worth where he
went to inspect about 350 goats
which he dipped there last spring
for scabbies and which were taken
out of quarantine 90 days later. He
found them at this time free from
lice and goat scab. Dr. Babcock
was accompanied by his daughter,
Miss Gertrude, who stopped at Gor-
man to visit Miss Zelma Eison, a
former roommate at the College of
Industrial Arts, Denton, and at Al-
bany to visit Miss Mary Dee Hall,
another roommate. The party was
accompanied also by Carl Hiner,
animal hushandmun of the Ranch
Experiment Station, who visited his
mother and other relatives in Gran-
bury.
Stevenson States
Revised Game Laws
License Now Required for Hunting
Off Own Land
Mrs. Edith Bond Returns
Mrs. Edith Bond, who has spent
the past two months visiting her
nephews, Robert and Donald Dun-
can, anil their families on their
ranches near Sanderson, returned
to Sonoru Wednesday afternoon,
accompanied by her sister, Mrs.
Fannie Duncan, of San Diego, Cal.,
who has been at her sons’ homes
with Mrs. Bond. On Thursday, Mes-
dames Edith Bond, Frank Bond
and Duncan left for San Antonio,
where they will spend a week. Mrs.
Duncan will then visit here for
several weeks.
Hunters with guns must pay a
license fee of $1 for hunting small
game anywhere in the state with
exception of on property person-
ally owned, according to new game
laws as outlined to Gordon Stew-
art, Sutton county ranchman, in
Junction Saturday by Coke Steven-
son, member of the Texas House
of Representatives from this dis-
trict.
Lust week’s issug of The News
carried a statement that a license
was required only when a hunter
leaves the county of his residence,
and this ruling is confirmed by the
Gilmore Hardware Company’s copy
of the 1930 edition of the laws of
the state Game, Fish and Oyster
Commission.
Mr. Stevenson’s explanation
states further that if a Texan
wishes to hunt large game (deer,
bear, turkey), a separate license
costing $3 is required. Non-resi-
dents of the state must pay a small
game license of $10 and large game
fee of $25.
Lost. Thursday p. m., $10 bill,
large size series 1902, issued Knox-
ville. Tcnn. Notify C. H. Carson.
Bus Wheel Caves In
The afternoon Kerrville bus suf-
fered a slight mishap day before
yesterday coming into Sonora.
When about three miles from town
the right front spindle gave way
causing the wheel to cave in. The
iius was going at a slow rate of
speed and no further damage was
done, it was towed into town by
the big wrecker from the Sonora
Motor Company.
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To Return With Wife and Son
Dr. J. C. Baker left Thursday af-
ternoon for San Angelo, where ho
went for the purpose of bringing
Mrs. Baker and their new son, Billy
Bradley, home from a hospital
there. Ho expected to return with
his family either Thursday after-
noon or Friday morning. Dr. Baker
was accompanied by Mrs. W. E.
James, who will have an examina-
tion at a clinic there.
Cousins Here From Austin
Mrs. Merton Shurley had as her
guests this week her cousins, Mrs.
Henry Burleson and Miss Imogene
Condron, of Austin, who arrived
Sunday and left today. On Wednes-
day Mr. and Mrs. Shurley and their
daughter, Rena Glen, and son,
Jack, accompanied by ..heir guests,
spent the day in Del Rio and Villa
Acuna, it being Mrs. Burleson’s
and Miss Condron's first trip into
Old Mexico.
Bus Station Changed Here
A. H. Ribbink, of Kerrville, audi-
tor of the Kerrville Bus Company
with its main offices at Kerrville,
was in Sonora last week making
arrangements whereby the com-
pany’s bus stop here was changed
from the Sonora Cafe, as formerly,
to the Corner Drug Store. The
Corner Drug Store will sell bus
tickets, handle packages and ex-
press, anil receive papers carried
by the bus line.
Farm A Ranch Writer Here
T. C. Richardson, field editor of
the Farm & Ranch Magazine, pub-
lished in Dallas, was in Sonora the
first part of the week conferring
with local ranchmen and wool and
mohair men and gathering, material
for a comprehensive article on the
sheep and goat section of West
Texas. He is visiting other parts
of the country south and west of
here. Enroute to Del Rio he stop-
ped at the Ranch Experiment Sta-
tion, 25 miles south of Sonora.
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A large Guard Armory costing
$30,000 is to lie built at Clovis.
AUTSC* ST *
35 YEARS AGO
In the twelfth issue of the newly
established Devil’s River News,
published on January 3, 1891, a
front page story told at length of
the relative qualities in women
which captured a man’s fancy and
those with which his interest was
retained. L. N. Halbert advertised
as one of the three lawyers and
land agents in Sonora at that time,
about two years after its founding.
One of Sonora's feed, wagon and
livery yards was operated by E. R.
Hill. H. C. Reynolds and W. R.
Cusenbary were the chemists and
druggists in the frontier town, op-
erating as a partnership firm.
The Devil's River News announced
its subscription rate as $2 a year,
and that it has remained for the
entire period of its publication.
Smaller stories are reprinted here
from the early issue:
The attractive Miss Kilgore, of
Greenville, accompanied by her
uncle, T. D. Word, was in Sonora
New Year’s.
Charles Sowell, was married
Wednesday night, December 31st,
to Miss Eulah Miers.
The youth, beauty and intelli-
gence of McKavett, was represent-
ed in Sonora this week by the fol-
lowing parties and others: Misses
Fannie, Josephine and Thressa Ma-
yer, accompanied by Dr.i II. G.
Jones, George Black and Sol Mayer,
Jno. Sheen, Davis Sheen and Miss
Eva Sheen.
In the first four days of this
week wolves and panthers killed 20
sheep belonging to O. T. Word, on
his ranch. Mr. Word has instructed
the Devil's River News to offer a
reward of 85 for the scalp of wolves
and panthers taken within 5 miles
of his ranch. This is the proper
method and if other stockmen will
do the same, these pests would
soon be exterminated.
Dan Cauthom, one of our hand-
some sheepmen, who seldom comes
to town, was in Sonora Saturday.
H. C. Reynolds, formerly of Paint
Rock, but now of Sonora, spent a
few days in town this week with
old frineds and associates.—Concho
Herald.
Col. Wm. L. Black is drifting 12,-
000 sheep to the Pecos, in charge of
R. II. Halbert.
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