Palo Pinto County Star (Palo Pinto, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, February 7, 1936 Page: 1 of 5
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AY. FEBURARY 7.
“OJV THE BROADWA Y OF AMERICA"
1936
Number 33
Howdy
• WHAT DO YOU KNOW i {
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( There'% owe tad truth in lyfe Tve found,
l While jdumeying EaM and Wut,
The only folk* we natty wound,
An thou too love the boot.
We flatter thou toe scarcely know,
We pleaee the fleeting gnat, .
And. deal full many a thongHtlete blow
To thou who love ut beet.
—Tony’s Scrap Book.
# * *
The woni •To***1 moons friend-
•hip.* It wee adopted from the
Indian word Tejas. which i* eo
translated.
ee* *
120,000 pounds of pecans is quite
a lot. This is part of the Texas
crop this year whiph the City Pro-
duce, Mineral Wells bought, and is
holding for the market
oo*
J. L. Skaggs of the Mineral Wells
Motor Company has never had
die tooth, ache, *befieve it or not*
He has beautiful teeth and has never
had any dental work done.
♦ * *
Postmaster C V. Whatley drove
off to the show Sunday to see Shir-
as happy as the backseat of yoang
sters which he took with him.
* * .*
We saw Gladys Mills
Worth the other evenii
in Fort
«. Mrs.
McConnell' of this place. She was
asking about her family here and
wishing to be remembered to her
many friends.
eon
Strawn won’t be quite so jolly
now with J. L. Jolly gone. Mr. Jolly
; was a fine gentleman and will be
missed about the city. Mr. and Mrs.
Jolly have moved to Clarksville
where he will be engaged in the
underteking'businees.
★ * *
Mrs. J. H. Benson writes to have
the Star sent to San Antonio, where
•he now lives. Mrs. Benson is the
former Mies Daisy Maurice of this
place, and spent her girlhood here.
She thinks there is no place like
Palo Pinto, which will always be
homo to her.
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Thanks to Job* Miller of Santo
who came in to see us last week
and brotight us some pretty poetry
for our paper as well as renewing
his subscription to the Star. Mr.
Miller loves the finer dungs of life
and the beautiful sentiment of a
poem lights his way kite § sunbeam.
* * *
Last week in Strewn at the Lion’s
drib luncheon we met Joe Hill of
Canyon, Tesns, one of the five Eagle
Scouts who went with Admiral]
Richard Byrd on his left trip to
Little America. Mr. Hill is
very entertaining and clever
££* uM us. m
it
Jury Lief
unmans ii i BMW
List of Grand Jurors selected for]
the March term of District Court;
O. J. Lease, Branost Clyde How-
ard. Graford; John Boyd Harlm. M,
a Shook. Gordon; J. C Stephen-
son, Pickwick; L E. Rogers, Oran;
J. W. McKee, Joe Myers. E. F.
Wagiey, W. T. Loveless. E W.
Bochtol, Mineral Wells. K. M.
Clepper, Brad; S F* Tulloa, Thos.
A Binney. Strewn; Si D. At or,
Lipan; A. J. Pemberton, Saleeville.
List of Petit Jurors selected for
the first week of the March term of
District Court:
M. C. Oepper, J. W. Dandy, E-
Haberthur, S. E. Heath, Bred; Then
H. Brockman, W. G Brooks; R. A.
Colvard, Joe Heath, Strewn; John
A* Boles, S. R. Chisolm, Frank
Eubanks, John Frank, Mingus; E.
L. Adams, B- O. Barrett, W. M.
Bates, J. E. Bell, Gordon; J* W.
Asher, D. W. Bernes, E. M Beddo,
A. H. Blanton, R. A. Bosley* J. O.
Beaty, L L. Bradford* Cleo Browa,
G B. Calhoun, J. R. Chenault, Santo;
R E. Alien* W. C Barrett. W. P.
Bigler, G. B. Chesnut, Brazos.
List of Petit Jurors selected for
the second week of the March term
of District Coart:
G W. Booty, B. A. Blackmon,
lev Temple in *The Littlest Rebel,* j0hn Tom Bowman, H. A Brook
shire. Jack Dews, C. M. Griffoth,
Joe G Bennett, Mineral Wells; Joe
Blain, Perrin; T. F. Hardy, L. D-
Herring, Saksville; J. M. Bailey, R
E. Brewer, Ford C. Dow. W, F
Mills is »bo former Mias Gladys Garrison, Oran; G. W. Smiddy, Jno.
D. McClure, J. R. Turpin, Sam
Birdwell, A. L Nantx. W. C. Bridges,
J. W. Gann, Graford; M. B. Cos-
tello. Oscar Newberry, J. f. Saber,
Pickwick; Will Jim Beiding, J. M>
Bottom, G A Cozby, J. O. Keegan,
O. L Mallory, Brad; Phon Lane,
Caddo.
Rail Line To Be Built
To Dam Site
According to Maj. Eric Haqusnius
chief of surveys for the Brazos
River Conservation Project, the ex-
tension of the Weatherford, Miner-
al Wells end Northwestern Railway
from Graford to the Poasum King-
dom Dam site baa been authorised
and work will be started as goon as
the materials; which have bean
ordered, arrive.
. One hundred and fifty men are
at work at tha damaita and 350 will
be needed for preliminary jobs.
When the project gets under full
headway 2.000 will be employed.
The taking of aarial photographs
for aU the district has been finished
completed within the
hBonnets
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•Y HART tSttATLer I
A little barefoot girl in a sun-
boonet riding to Texas in a covered
wagon. Thus came many of our
Texee Sun-Bonnets to this great
state* and it waar their fate to grow
up here with the country, to endure
the hardships of pioneer days end
make firing poeaible for the present
generation
Mrs. Joste Brothers of Strewn,
Texaa was the Httle girl mentioned
above. With her parents she came
to Texas in a covered wagon from
her native state of Missouri when
eight years of age. There were
three wagons in their party and
one buggy. They came in the sum-
mer time and it was a big advent-
ure to her, and much fun to camp
•long the way. In Oklahoma, then
Indian Territory, she saw her first
Indians. But they were friendly
ones, and breojrt gifts of sweat
potatoes to the "travelers. *1 have
always had a kindly feeling towards
the Indians*. Mr*. Brothers said,
■since their kindness to us on that
trip.* ' \
After arriving in Texas they set
tied first in Lamar County, but later
moved to Tarrant County. Here
Mrs. Brothers received her first
schooling, walking three and one-
half miles to the tiny school house
upon the prairie. *The cracks in
that school were large enough to
throw a dog through,* she said,
*and we children nearly froze to
death in the winter time.*
She met J. D. Brothers, her hus-
band in Cook County where they
ware married. He was a ranch-
man and stock trader, and they
soon pushed farther west,- settling
on the old Brothers Ranch on Dot-
son Prairie in 1882. Hera her ten
children were bom, nil of whom are
firing today except one. They
ware all born in the same room of
the ranch house with the exception
of one. Grandma Gardner, mid-
wife, was with her whan her first
three children came. Thisoid lady
Scotch and had studied under
one doctor for thirty yean in the
Her practice covered
fifty miles of territory. *Shs wes e
wonderful old lady,* Mrs. Brothers
” said, *and did lots of good in this
world.*
Their first ranch home on the
thirty
M. G. Vernon, prominent Strewn
resident died early Sunday morn-
ing at his home in that city after on
extended illness. Funeral services
were conducted Monday afternoon
by Dr. L. B. Gray. Burial was made
in tha Strewn Cemetery. Strewn
Merchandise Company directed the
funeral. t
Malcolm Graham Vernon was
bom near Mineola, Texas, March
10, 1861. He w*s the son of relatives and friends.
Thomas Gaines Vernon and Nancy
Dial Vernon. Mack, as he was
known to his friends, was a cowboy
of the old days of the open range.
Ho worked with the Half Circle Six
Cattle Company of Tom Green
County, in 1891 ho settled in
Strewn and opened a general store.
He sold the store in 1901 and
established an insurance agency
which he successfully operated
until his illness several months ago.
Mr. Vernon held a high place in
the growth of Strawn and Palo
Pinto County. Always a friend of
education, law and order, ever
ready to aid and extend charity to
the needy, ho was loved and re-
spected by alL An influence in the
political fortunes of his city, county
and state, his advice and help was
sought and listened to by many.
Texas has loet another of her few
remaining pioneer cowboys, n true
patriot and valued citizen.
Surviving him are two daughters,
Masdames Kate Vernon Manns of
Strawn and Miers G Johnson of
Carlsbad, New Mexico; one son.
Rhea J. Vernon of Abilene, six
grandchildren, and one brother,
L G. Vernon of Gotebe, Oklahoma.
Mrs. Vernon died last July.
Among his many friends attend-
ing the funeral from here were,
Mrs. Randall G Wilson, Sheriff
and Mrs. John -Bond, Messrs Gib
Abernathy, Will Foreman, J.G Son,
Judge J. P. Corrigan, Will Logsdon.
J. A Brewer, M. G. Hale and Uncle
Bill Hale.
Grandma Sours Dies
In Santo.
Mrs. Susan Elisabeth Sears, 91
years of age. Santo’s oldest citizen,
died Saturday night at tha home of
bar son. Bert Sears in Santo after a
long illness. Mrs Sears was known
as "Grandma Sears" to her many
friends and relatives and she was
loved by both old and young. She
was bora in Arkansas and came to
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[ ^eir* 35 Yean Ago j
• Lira with us again in tbs past •
through tha Star columns.
—Prof. M.G Lindsay of Lyra was
here Saturday and Sunday.
—Miss Addis Moore of Pleasant
Valley is visiting bar sister, Mrs. J.
M. Lynn.
—Miss Allis Omdorff want to
Gordon Thursday for a visit with
—Mrs S. J. S. Abernathy is visit-
ing her daughter, Mrs. W. G Rags-
dale of Weatherford.
—The R«v. J. C. Hines, evangel-
ist of the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church, will begin a ten days meet-
ing tonight at the Court House.
—Mrs. Fannie Williamson of Hot
Springs. Arkansas, sister of W. H.
Gaines, is visiting in our town. She
it accompanied by her daughter.
Mias Frances.
—Last Tuesday afternoon Dr. H-
B. Withers and Miaa Mary L. West-
er were married at the home of the
bride eight miles north of Mineral
Wells. Rev. J. H. Stewart officiated.
—Tom Carey has opened up a
barber shop in the Conatser stone
building near the southeast corner
of the square. He has a bran new
outfit and proposes to do first cUse
work.
—Last week a delinquent sub-
scriber said he would pay if he
lived. He’s dead- Another said,
*FU see you tomorrow * He’s blind.
Still another said. Til pay you nest
week or go to h - -1.* He’s gone.
There are hundreds of others who
should take warning from these
procrastinators and pay up.
—The extent of the empire over
which the new King Edward VII of
England and Emperor of India will
reign, exceeds that of anr monarch
of the piesent time or perhaps any
time. Exclusive of Egypt, the area
of his empire is 11,773,000 square
miles or much over one-fourth of
the land surface of the globe: The
wealth of the United Kingdom •-
lone, apart from that of India, Aus-
tralia. Canada, and other poaaea
non., is about $60,000,000,000 or
second only to thaCof the United
States. The population of the em-
pire aggregates some 400,000,000,
being comparable with that of the
empire of China. Its shipping equals
that of all other countries put to-
gether* and its commerce and navy
Texas ahead of Price’s army in are by far the largest. Tha capital
1863. She was 19 years of age at the empire is also the world's
the time. These were the trying
yean of tha Civil War when all
Southerners suffered hardships
made by hand from
the cloth spun and woven at home.
Socks and stockings were knitted
by hand. Cooking was dona on
old fireplace and the humble
wag lighted by home-made
cupboard wae often
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thaithe family
for him
—By the act of January 4, 1901*
the Kiowa, Comanche and Apache
lands in Oklahoma must ha opened
to settlement not later than August
6 of this year. Tha Kiowa refer-
vsiion cootaines about three million
res. of which 500.000 win bn
allotted to members of tha tribes
Same 500.000 more will he rasmv-
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Dunbar, Mary Whatley. Palo Pinto County Star (Palo Pinto, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, February 7, 1936, newspaper, February 7, 1936; Palo Pinto, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1038681/m1/1/: accessed May 14, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Boyce Ditto Public Library.