The Flatonia Argus (Flatonia, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 2, 1930 Page: 1 of 8
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FLATONIA, FAYETTE COUNTY, TEXAS. - THURSDAY JAN. 2, 1930 No. 1.
NEW BODIES BUT
NO MECHANICAL
CHANQE IN FORD
A showing of new bodies for
the Model A Ford, each one of
which will soon be available
in a variety of new colors, was
announced today by Mr. F. L.
Wotipka, local Ford dealer.
Emphasis was placed on the
fact that the car is unchanged
mechanically; that nearly 3
million Model A type Fords
are now on the highways prov-
ing that they are thoroughly
dependable.
The policy of the Ford
Motor Co., in this respect has
been to make minor altera-
tions whenever a new device
has shown itself worthy to be
included in the mechanical
plan of the car, but not to
bring out a new car as a whole.
“The new body types will
have a distinctly refreshing ap-
pearance,” said Mr. Wotipka.
“They have all the beauty and
charm of contour, line and
proportion usually associated
with the large cars.
“As one looks at them, the
first thing that catches the
eye is the new radiator. Still
retaining the Ford individ-
uality, it is high and narrow,
and in excellent style. This,
with the higher and longer
hood and the shorter cowl,
give the front of the car a dis-
-lin<.Uy loaning n ppe&ra-ice.
“Moulding treatment is new
and the fenders are of more
generous dimensions, flowing
with the lines of the car.
“The fenders, much fuller
than heretofore, contribute a
great deal to the improved ap-
pearance of the car. Higher at
the front; with high crown
and sweeping well down over
the wheels, the new front fen-
ders flow back in graceful
curves to the running boards.
The rear fenders, which also
have high crowns, sweep down
over the rear wheels to a
point lower than formerly.
“The head lamps, set high-
er on a new arched tie rod,
also contribute to better ap-
pearance.
“A new atmosphere of sta-
bility is produced by the small-
er steel spoke wheels and
HORSE FEATHERS
(By Virgil Vickrey)
I’m
now and full of
merry
hrills,
Joyous, glad and gay,
I will not get my Xmas bills
‘Till after New Year’s day.
Our idea of an optimist is
a fellow who takes only one
match with him when he goes
to light the bath-room oil heat-
er.
There are different ways of
keeping the embers of old
grudges glowing but the fav-
orite at this season is to send
him a box of foul-smelling,
worm-eaten, soggy nickel cig-
ars.
Or, if it happens to be a
couple of catty members of the
home-rule sex exchanging
gifts, just let one of them send
the other the material for a
dress and emphasizing her
size by putting in about three
extra yards of cloth.
Then the outraged one
might retaliate by giving the
sender a copy of Darwin’s
Theory which states that man
and woman both sprang from
monkey but the man sprung
the farthest.
The meanest Christmas card
of the season comes to me from
an old friend on which he ex-
presses the hope that the roof
of my mouth won’t be sun-
burnt for the next ten years as
it has Tor the past ten from
trying to hold my head so high
over nothing.
Running that one a close
second was a dirty dig coming
from a Houston friend who sug
gests that my boy should make
a good pole climber for the
telephone company as he is
half-monkey.
When I showed the letter
to my wife and told her she
was being slandered, she
laughed in my face, which,
somehow didn’t make me feel
a bit better.
Another bit of correspond-
ence was a message from a
brother-in-law announcing the
arrival of an eight pound son.
He stated that the mother and
baby were doing fine and that,
with careful nursing
ALL AROUND TOWN
(By the Editor)
Account of the holidays not
coming on the right days for
the newspaper men, it was
necessary to publish either on
early dates or late dates and
the Arugs selected Wednesday
for the Christmas issue and
for the New Year issue we
selected Tuesday of this week
instead of Thursday, so all
that is said about being done
today we mean Tuesday of
this week. So that’s that. „
, Inquiring around twon we
find that the businessmen are
very well satisfied with the
old year 1929. Probably no
one made big riches, still
everything went along very
well considering the conditions
generally.
There seems to be an air of
optimism regarding the New
Year. Many have said
it will be a prosperous
and we all hope it will.
that
year
Business in Flatonia is on
the increase. There was no
failure and no large property
loss. In fact there were some
substantial additions to the
town which speaks well of it
and we all thankful.
NOTED BANDIT IN TOWN
Villa is in town. A wax fig-
ure of the notorious Bandit
and rebel leader who terroriz-
ed the Mexican border some
years ago is now on exhibition
at the Happy Hour Theatre,
together with his horse and
saddle where the special
picture “El Bandido” will be
shown Friday and Saturday.
The picture depicts the life
and incidents of this feared
outlaw and his notorious band
with a strain of romance in-
terwoven into the plot. The
hero of the plot story is played
by William Russell as Chief j to say from
of the Texas Rangers, who
carries the story in a big man-
ly manner typical of the fam-
ous Rangers that have made
®nfl history along the Rio Grande.
plenty of time, he thought he
would pull through.
We read the other day of a
large tire'i, which bring the , , . ,
, , ;+elephone man who passed on
bodic'i clever to the ground, . . . ,
resul ing in a
, . I! to his reward leaving his fam-
°"l,i ttnu ° i ;iv $10,000. This amount he
gravi y consequently increasedL , ,, , ,, ., ,
, • . , . had gotten together through a
salety on ihe road, especially),., .f ... ,
, *. , . life-time of hard work, care-
in rouiiaiiig turns at high , . , ...
, . , i ful saving, self denial and the
hiding quality la also! of an unc,e who lett
j him *9.050.
“The niout notable changes Gone are Christmas and New
in the body types have been year,
made in the Tudor Sedan, the With r. roman candle flash
Coupes and the open cars.’ >jo move will I be bored to
The sho wis highly recom-
mended as a worthy attraction
of the western type, being pro-
duced by Henry King, who is
rated as one of the Industry’s
leading Directors.
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BASKET BALL
tears,
Fy week-end turkev hash.
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WINS PRIZE
Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Zappe
The Flatonia Motor Co.,|
have their show room for the;
display of these new Fords iiii
the new Simmons building be-1
tween Starry and Greive and|
the Flatonia Lumber Co., of-l
ficc and the formal opening! f(.p| honored in winning the in-
of showing these cars beginsi ^portion prize of $100 award-
today. (Tuesday). Every onc,e,| by the S. P. railroad; the
is invited to come in and in- rheck coming in just before
sped these models. The room Christmas. Last year they
hr b on '"isHcally decorated also copped the same prize,
by Mr. WoHpkq »>n3 cvrylhing This money wai< offered by the
looks nice. Ho go over and company for the neatest sur-
In the benefit Baskelball
games played at the Fair
Park the local high school
cagers found it rather tough
going against the all-stars. In
the first game of the evening
the boys high school team was
defeated 35-23 and the girls
high school team 18-4.
On Monday night the local
boys high school quintet earn-
ed a well deserved victory over
the Shiner cagers. This was
the first victorious decision the
local cagers have gotten over
the Shiner team in several
years. The game was hard
fought and very Interesting
throughout. At the end of the
score stood Shiner J 2. Flatonia
pay the Flatonia Motor Co., a roundings inside and outside
visit and you will be accorded the section house and the bestj22. Thepe same teams will pro-
every courtesy and all details track with easiest riding con-'b*b!y play again this Friday
will be cheerfully explained, ditions in the section. | night at Shiher
WHAT TEXAS MAKES
MAKES TEXAS
One of the interesting items
in the daily papers was an ed-
itorial relative to a Texas pro-
duct and the patronage it is
given by Texans. It was
stated by an official of the
Texas Fruit Growers Ass’n
in the Rio Grande Valley that
ties Moines, Iowa used more
Texas grapefruit than any of
the big cities in the State of
Texas.
This Iowa city, probably
no larger than several of the
larger Texas cities, is giving a
Texas product a fine showing
against the fruit growing states
of Flordia and California. Any
one familiar with Texas grape-
fruit knows why it has such a
tremendous sale. Quality is be-
hind it. It is a finer product
and is recognized as such.
Still in Texas we seem to con-
tinue to buy California pro-
ducts more or less from a force
of habit. Through a technical
reason, the California state
bars Texas Valley fruit from
entering its state, thus pro-
tecting the sale of its own pro-
duct. Not a bad idea so long
as they get away with it.
Texas fruit is coming into its
own and every housewife
should demand same and in-
quire if the fruit is Texas
grown and she should be ad-
vised truthfully by the mer-
chants, in fact the merchant
should place his orders for
Texas fruits in prefernece to
others.
Besides Texas fruits there
are inumerable other products
manufactured and grown in
Texas that should be consum-
ed by Texans more liberally.
Flour, for instance is one item
that is made by dozens of
Texas mills; all of which are
equipped as well, maybe bet-
ter than those of Kansas and
Oklahoma—still these foreign
products find a market right
under our nose3.
It is not the purpose for us
whom the mer-
chants should buy their goods,
but the truth remains that
every time a car load is bought
outside the state, we pay to
that state a portion of their
state and percapita tax and
rob ourselves of an equal
amount. It is true that in
order business of the nation
be normal the states must have
a business intercourse among
themselves. Seasonable goods
must be exchanged and prod-
ducts distinctly individual are
marketed widely, but the com-
mon products of all ought to
he consumed and used within-
in our borders wherever pract-
icable.
There need not be any boy-
cott on any products of other
states, it wouldn’t be right and
could not happen. To give
preference to Texas made pro-
ducts of equal or better qua-
lity is our moral obligation.
There is much truth in the
slogan, “What Texas makes,
makes Texas.”
Mr. C. A. Syler of Muldoon
had the misfortune of ;fceing
kicked by a mule Sunday hut
is doing very well at this time.
Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Keeter
and children of Edinburg were
here with her parents Mr. and
Mrs. O. L. Lee.
IN MEMORY OF CHARLES
P. HARRISON, SR.
PERSONAL MENTION
It is with sadness mingled
with joy that I contribute these
lines to the memory of one who
ever was a friend to me and
my family. Not only a silent
friend, but one who never fail-
ed raise hisj voice in opposition
to any adverse criticism.
His mother and mine were
friends in the long ago and his
oldest sister Nettie, now Mrs.
W. H. Kerr, was a school chum
and the memory of the glad-
ness we experienced in the
birth of our baby brother who
remains with us yet. After his
mothers death who preceeded
Mrs. Harrisons to the better
world by many years, she, Mrs.
Harrison always advised me in
a motherly way, never hesitat-
ing to come to me if she
thought necessary.
It is with sadness because
good, charitable and useful
man has been removed from
our midst* and joy because we
krtow he has gone to hisreward
and freed from the cares, wor-
ries, and trials of life, how-
ever, he met them with manly
courage and expressed a des-
ire to stay and finish his car-
eer, but as it was his HeveiV
ly Father will that he go, he
was satisfied with the prepar-
ation he had made to meet his
God. This blessed heritage
should be a great joy to his
loved ones who knew—hifl in-4 *a“ve8-
ner life. His pastor expressed
great admiration for his faith-
fulness to his Christian duties.
The Divine injunction,—“Neg-
lect not the assembling of your
selves to gether,” was faithful-
ly observed, for he was a con-
sistant member of the Method-
ist Church.
He was friendly to the
needy-the last time the writer
saw him in public he wrote his
check, one of the largest given
in the love offering to Bro.
King a Baptist minister, and
it is said of him, by many that
he was generous to a fault in
administring to the worthy
poor. His friendship was like a
sheltering tree ever ready to
protect.
The subject of this sketch
was born in LaGrange Texas,
and when a small child moved
with his parents to the village
of Oso, and in a few months
came to Flatonia where he has
lived continuosly until hi*
death December 17, 1929.
After finishing school here he
went with nis friend Eugene
Cockrill to the celebrated Bell- j^auer 0f Taylor, Mr. and Mrs.
Out of town guests for the
holidays at the R. C. Foitik
home were Mr. and Mrs. R.
R. Foitik, Miss Ruby Gloff,
Mr. R. Foitik, Jr., and Mr.
Ted Brooker of San Antonio.
Mr. and Mrs. Robt Agricola
spent the week-end in Orange
Grove.
Messrs A. L. Vrana and R.
L. Agricola were in Houston
Thursday.
Mr. Herman Tauch of San
Antonio is spending the holi-
days here with home folks.
Mr. Arnold Tauch of Bee-
ville spent Christmas day with
homefolks.
Messrs Rich and Carl Kurtz
of near Old Moulton visited
relatives here Sunday.
A big family gathering was
held at the home of Mrs. W.
H. Wheeler last week Friday
and a barbecue was enjoyed at
this farm home about two
miles north of town. The
guests were Mr. and Mrs. R.
D. Clancy and children of
Abeline, Mrs. L. N. ^yon and
children of Houston, Mr. and
Mrs. R. A. Wheeler and R. A.
Jr., of San Antonio, Dr and
Mrs. L. A. Wheeler and chil-
dren, Mrs. Elizabeth Wheeler
of San Antonio and Mrs. Ella
Sullivan.
Miss Nannie Brantley psent
Christmas in Gonzales with re-
Mr. Owen Faires of_Houstoh~*"
spent a few days with his mo-
ther Mrs. E. M. Faires.
Louis Hanneman of Colum-
bus, Ohio was visiting Mr. and
Mrs. A. H. Wiedemann.
Miss Lydia Dittmar of Fred-
ericksburg was visiting at the
A. H. Wiedemann home.
Miss Hilda Wiedemann of
Iago spent the holidays with
her parents Mr. and Mrs.
Hary Wiedemann.
Mrs. Herbert PaPe of Gon-
zales was here Wednesday at
the J. A. Keil home.
Mr. W. C. Koch and dau-
ghters Miss Hattie and Clara,
Mrs. R. H. Greive were in San
Antonio Thursday and Mrs. W.
W. Me Call and children ac-
companied them back.
Mr. and Mrs. Fehlo and
children and Mrs. Tillie Ste-
vens of Houston spent Satur-
day and Sunday at the Mr. and
Mrs. D. Garbade home.
Miss Clara Koch spent th6
holidays here returning to Fay-
etteville Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Ziegel-
'M
buckle school in Tennessee, and
finished his education in a bus-
iness college in New York. He
immediately after finishing
school went into the merchan-
tile business with his father
late J. M. Harrison at that time
one of the leading business
houses in this entire section.
The firm name J. M. Harrison
and Son was continued in res-
pect to the memory of his hon-
ored father.
Miss Cathlin Coulter of Aus-
tin was his companion in busi-
ness as well as home life since
July ,4th 1921, at which time
they pledged th*ir troth to
each other in the holy bond of
matrimony. One son Charles
P. Jr., was born to this union.
The only son to bear the hon-
Anton Kolar of Moulton visit-
ed their mother ..Mrs. J. J.
Kolar on Christmas day.
ored name of his paternal
grandfather, Harrison.
Charlie as he was affection-
ately called by a host of
friends has gone, and,
“Fast as the rolling season
brings
The hour of fate to those we
love,
Each pearl that leaves the
broken string
Is set in Friendship’s
above,
As narrower grows the earthly
chain
The circle widens in the sky.
A friend of the family, Mr*.
E. M. Faires.
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Sedlmeyer, J. J. The Flatonia Argus (Flatonia, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 2, 1930, newspaper, January 2, 1930; Flatonia, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1112932/m1/1/: accessed May 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Fayette Public Library, Museum and Archives.