The Rule Review (Rule, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 8, 1966 Page: 1 of 4
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A COPY
Volume 59— No. 42
The Rule Review, Rule Haskell County, Texas
THURSDAY SEPT. 8 1966
llte o| Rule, lexas
E. J. Cloud
THE HISTORY OF
THE LISLE GIN
(Told by Mrs Lisle
in her own words.)
In about 1907 or 1908 there
was a gin built on the present
site of the Lisle Gin. The gin
was built by Swift Gins. Some
of the first men who ran the
gin were Mr. Swift and his
sons, a Mr. Williams, and John
Fergerson, who later moved to
Jones Couty.
In 1914 the gin had not been
operated for a year or more
and it was in poor condition.
(Mr. Carl Lee said that Mr.
W. A. Earnest had asked him
to hire some men and repair
the gin and to run it that year.
Mr. Earnest had moved here
from Munday in 1908 to be
partners in the oil mill with
Mr. J. L.Jones, who had sev-
eral gins along with the mill
business in adjoining towns.)
That year was a good crop year
and they ginned all winter.
The next year, 1915, Miss
Pearl Earnest was the book-
keeper In 1916 she married
Mr. C. A. Murray, formerly
superintendent of our high
school.
The driest year has been re-
ported as 1918.
Mr. Spurlock was manager
of the gin in 1920. That same
year the gin had burned down
before they had finished the
season.
In 1919 Ola Mae Pike and
James A. Lisle were married
on September 1, at Memphis,
Texas. Jim Lisle had worked
at Shamrock and Memphis for
Chickasha Gin Company as a
bookkeeper for several years
before he had gone to the army
in World War I. In the spring
of 1919, after a period of about
three years/ he returned He
was given the job of managing
the gin at Benjamin, where the
Lisles lived for two years, op-
erating the Benjamin and
Truscott gins. Both the Ben-
jamin and Truscott gins were
Swift Gins.
After the gin burned the
Lisles were asked to rebuild it
on the same location. In 1921
Mr. Lisle went back and forth
each week throughout the sum-
mer to work. He stayed with
the B. G. Hunts, who ran a
boarding house in the west part
of town. In 1921 the Lisles char-
tered two railroad cars and
moved to Rule. They bought
the house one block west and
one block north of the railroad
depot. It was on the southeast
corner of the second block
where Mrs. Lisles lives at the
present time The house had
been built by the Bohanans in
1907 or 1908. Mr. Spurlock had
lived there and managed the
gin in 1920. It was a well built
house made of lumber and
painted white.
In the spring of 1926, the
Lisles moved across the street
and lived, while the old house
was torn down and rebuilt.
This time it was built of stucco.
Frank McCulley and the Can-
non brothers were the contrac-
tors and Jess Smith was the
cement man. (These men
built many Rule homes in the
20’s )
The Gin that the Lisles built
in 1921 was an up-to-date gin
these days. Six, seventy-sawed
F;:att gin stands, a frost steam
engine and a large boiler fir-
ed with coals and burrs, and
burr machine, all made up the
new gin.
The gin crew was made up
of Mr. Jim Gibbins, the fireman
and engineer; Mr D. P. Fuller
the ginner; Dee Cannon, the
pressman and a suction feeder,
and the bookkeeper. (Many
times the farmers suctioned
their own cotton from the wag-
ons.)
The gin was managed for 4
years for Chickasha Cotton Oil
Company under the name of
Swift Gins. There were good
crops and lots of cotton was
gixned and in 1925 Mr. Lisles
bought an intesest in the gin
business and the name was
change to Lisle Gn Company
At this time Mr. C. M. Francis
was general manager over the
oil mills at Rule, Jayton and
Stamford and 28 gins. He lived
In Stamford and several years
later he was killed in a car
accident.
It was always a very rushing
time at the gin when there
was cotton on the yard. (Mr.
Fuller said that he can remem-
ber one day when he ginned
76 bales in 12 hours and 20
minutes and Dee Cannon tied
them by himself.)
Mr. Frank McCulley began
working as an engineer in 19-
24 and worked for 16 years.
He later moved to San Anton-
io where he died in 1965.
The first seed cotton storage
house was built for the fall’s
use in 1923. Cotton was still
picked in those days and great
quantities of cotton could be
stored in a cotton house. This
cotton house was divided into
stalls and, if a farmer was in
a hurry, he could blow several
bales of otton into one of the
stalls. Also he could store 20
or 30 bales of cotton in a stall
and gin them out at one time,
to catch planting seed this way
his seed would stay truer to
type. They would gin out of the
house when they had caught UP,
THE BIG WHEEL
AT STATE FAIR
'The brightest, newest and mos
'exciting thrill ride currents
playing the amusement circui
is the Skydiver, a beautifu
wheel which will carry visitor;
high above the Million Dolla'
Midway at the 1966 State Fair
of Texas October 8 through 23
in Dallas.
or on rainy days There was
one difficulty with the cotton
houses. There was never an
easy way to feed the cotton out
When it was time to gin the
cotton out of the house, extra
hands were needed and it was
very hard work. After farmers
began to have more and better
trailers the cotton house was
used less and less, until it was
torn down in 1950.
In 1925 extra equipment had
been added on until the Frost
engine had been overloaded.
A Murray Cories steam engine
was put in and it ran so easy
and light that there was no
load when more machinery was
added years later:
At this time the gin buildng
was built of lumber and paint-
ed yellow.
On Thanksgiing Day of 19-
26 the worst sandstorm that
anyone in Rule has ever seen
occured. (Now 40 years later
people are still talking about
tt.)
(Continued next week)
Sunday visitors of Mr. and!
Mrs. Floyd Dugan were Mr.
and Mrs. Jimmy Dugan and
daughter of Anson, Aubrey
Spalding of Hamlin, Rev. and
Mrs. Buford Bush of Abilene
and Mr. and Mrs. Horace Sny-
der of Seymour.
Mr. and Mrs. Sammy Scifres
and Leigh Ann of Fort Codings
Colo, visited his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. C. M. Scifres over
the holidays.
Bobcats Ready
For Jay Birds
Gayle Bailey and
Ross Baker Are
Married Sept. 2
Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Bailey
are announcing the marriage
of their daughter, Gayle, to
|' Mr. Ross C. Baker, Jr. of Fort
Worth.
The marriage took place at
the Church of Christ in Big
Spring. Sept. 2. Damron Smith
Minister of the Church offic-
iated with the double ring cer-
emony.
The bride was given in mar-
riage by her father. She wore
a white street length dress.
Gayle was graduated from
Rule High School and attended
Howard County Junior College
two years.
The groom graduated from
High School in Fort Worth and
spent 3 years at Webb Air
Force Base in Big Spring. He
recently returned from King
Salmon Alaska, after spending
a year in the Air Force there.
The couple will make their
home in Fort Worth where he
is employed by Texas Instru-
ments Co.
Mr. and Mrs Jimmy New
and Charles of Lubbock spent
the week end with her parents
Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Jones, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Webl
were in Lamesa last week to
he with her mother, Mrs. C. D
Yarbrough, who had to have a
leg amputated.
Mr md Mrs. Don Pierce
and children of Amarillo spent
the week end with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Pierce.
Week Of Cotton To
Be Observed By
Knox City C-C
AN OPEN LETTER TO THE
CITIZENS OF RULE:
The week of September 11-
17 is slated for a week of Cot-
ton Promotion in Knox City.
The members of the Chamber
of Commerce are ever mind-
ful of this economic basis for
our community. By setting aside
this one week to recognize our
farmers “money” crop, we
feel we are assisting in the
stimulation of our local econ-
omy.
Each citizen in our area is
invited to visit our stores dis-
playing the finished product
of cotton and attend the special
affairs on Friday and Satur-
day, September 16-17. Satur-
day's feature will be special
recognition to the producer of
the first bale of cotton this
year. The program highlights
on Satuday will be a cotton
dress revue and fiddlers con-
test.
We are honoring our cotton
producer Come and partici-
pate.
U
SCALE MODEL of the Institute of Texan Cultures to be on display at
IiemisFair 1968, shows 365-foot long, 50-foot high concrete and glass struc-
ture designed to display films, slides and photomurals depicting the cultural
history of Texas, from the earliest Indians to the present society. The Insti-
tute was conceived by Gov. John Connally to be of lasting value to Texans,
beginning with the opening of HemisFair, an official World’s Fair, on April
6, 1968 in San Antonio, Texas. __
Mr and Mrs. C. M. Scifres
attended a homecoming at Gil-
liland Sunday.
)
SAN ANTONIO —An architects’ partially completed model of HemisFair.
1968, superimposed over a photo of the City of San Antonio, shows the
| proximity of the 92-acre to the downtown sector. I
and industrial exhibits, many of which are presently contracted.________••.....
AS IT LOOKS
FROM HERE
Omar Burleson, M. C.
17th District, Texas
WASHINGTON, D. C.—
WITH HIS CONSENT TO
Pass it on to you, the following
was written by Congressman
Bob Poage to his constitutents
WASHINGTON IS FULL OF
financial doctors with all kinds
of tonics, herbs, and even dried
bats and shrunken heads, all
guaranteed to cure our prob-
lems of high interest rates and
declining buying power of our
money (inflation). All of these
“doctors’’ can tell us what is
the matter, but I am afraid
that many of the suggested
cures will but make matters
worse.
“I DON’T HAVE ANjY
Patent medicine to sell, but I
think that I do realize that we
have to produce more than we
spend. To do this at least most
of us have to work. A man who
is not working is not producing
whether he is on strike or
whether he is in the hospital.
A man who is living on govern-
ment help is hot adding to our
national income whether he is
a retired Congressman or a
Youth Corp trainee We can
do a great deal to help individ-
uals, and I am glad that we
has been able to do as much as
we have, but I wonder if we
should not give consideration
to getting more people to work
in CONSTRUCTIVE jobs. That
is the way both Germany and
Japan came back after the war.
They have* both greatly in-
creased their living standards
(actually faster than we have)
but they have worked to do it.
“I FEEL SOMETIMES THAT
we are making a great mistake
to deny our young people the
simple . opportunitl to hold a
job. In our proper desire to
eliminate the 'old sweat shop—
the long hours of child labor
and the like we may have gone
so far that too many of our
boys and girls are denied any
opportunity to work until they
have grown up. It is then too
late for most of us to acquire
work habits.
“I RATHER LIKE THE
Old Doggerel which was going
the rounds when I was a boy—
‘I ain’t no teamster
I ain’t no teamster’s son
but I can skin those mules
till, the teamster comes’
and the more dignified song.
‘Work for the night is coming,
when man works no more’.
“WHILE I AM PHILOSOP-
IZING (which I shouldn’t do),
It seems to me to be very clear
that a whole lot of our recent
demonstrations and riots have
been supported by a group of
people who ‘toil not’, neither
do they spin.’ It was always
disturbing to me that the very
people who are most likely to
be found out in front of these
mobs seeking to tear down our
own government and trying to
encourage the communists any-
where in the world are so often
the very people who have re-
ceived the most at the hands
of Uncle Sam. I know of no
obligation we have to support
these people who would destroy
our government.
“I RECALL A LITTLE verse
I used thirty years ago as still
expressing my views of the ob-
ligation of the government to
help It went like this:
‘Jobs for those who want
to work.
Help for those who can’t
work.
Hell for those who won’t
work.”
Kick-off To Be
At 8:00 P. Mm
The Jay Bird Season will be
open Friday night, and the Rule
Bob Cats have their guns load-
ed and cocked for the Jayton
Jay Birds.
The Rule and Jayton teams
will meet each other in their
opening game of the season at
Jayton Friday night. Kick-off
time will be at 8:00 O’clock.
Head Coach Bill Tibbet, has
been working the Rule boys
hard getting them ready for
the game The coach expects
several mistakes to be made
in the game, as there always,
is in an opening game, but the
Rule lads will be in there doing
their best.
The coach might not admit
it, but most of the Rule fans,
after seeing the boys work out,
feel that we are going to have
a good team.
We are sure that the Rule
fans wih be at the game Fri-
day night in full force. Jayton
has a good team, and wiU also
be in there fighting to win this
first game of the season.
September 14 Is
Rule Day At
West Texas Fair
Superintendent Connor Hor-
ton of Rule Schools has just re-
ceived 400 free school day
tickets for Rule pupils and
teachers for the West Texas
Fair at Abilene on Rule Day,
Wednesday, Sept. 14.
President Oscar Rose and
Admissions Chairman, Nib
Shaw of the Fair, advised Mr
Horton that tickets win be
honored at any time during that
day or evening.
West Texas Fair has sched-
uled head-line entertainment
in addition to livestock shows,
horse shows, special military
exhibits, Nasa-Land Display,
and special agriculture exhib-
its from the State Department
at Austin.
Little Jimmy Dickens, Fer-
lin Husky, Conway Twitty,
Wanda Jackson and the na-
tions newest brother act—The
Fuller Brothers— are schedul.
ed for the 1966 show, in addi.
tion to the enlarged Bill Hame*
Carnival with its newest ride—
Sky Diver.
Baptists Workers
Conference To Be
Held In Haskell
The Haskell - Knox Baptist
Association will hold their mon-
thly Worker’s Conference at
the First Baptist Church, Has-
kell, on September 13, with the
executive board meeting begin-
ning at 5:00 P. M. followed by
supper. The program will be-
gin at 7:15 with Moderator John
Street, presiding. Song Service
will be led by E. D Williams.
Scripture will be by Troy Cul-
pepper, new pastor of the First
Baptist Church in Haskell.
Jesse Root will lead the prayer.
High point of the program
will be a talk on “Improving
the Teaching Ministry in New
Testament Churches,” given by
W. R. (Bill) Bumpas, of Dallas
who is known as Mr. Sunday
School to all Texas Baptists.
The sermon will be by Rev.
Bob Ekland of First Baptist
Church ^nson, Texas.
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