The Aspermont Star (Aspermont, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 53, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 30, 1927 Page: 4 of 4
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Th peuple in thi.^ «ionwm ntty uro
heart broken because of the rain we
got la.-Jt Wednesday morning. Some of
tho people had to plant their .cotton
over. Tho sky looks as though we will
have pretty weather for a while.
Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Woodson and
family spent Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. Haskell Edwards and family.
Mr. Matthews of Rotan was a guest
of Mr. and Mis. T. W. Woodson Sun-
day evening.
Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Chester and fam
ily and Miss Louise Woodson spent
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Pet-
tit and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Fant Posey and I.u-
uda spent Sunday with Miss Myrtle
B. Counts.
Mr. and Mrs. McLemore and fami-
ly spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
T. S. Veal and family.
Mrs. J. D. Smith, who has been in
the Stamford Sanitarium, has been
moved to Ballinger.
Mr. and Mrs. Boss Edwards and
family spent Sunday at Sweetwater.
There was a fruit supper at Mr.
and Mrs. Coppage's Saturday night
There was plenty of fruit and cakes.
A large crowd attended and all seem-
ed to have a good time.
Mr. Pettit and daughters, Lillian
and Lavonia, Bessie and Mary Lou
Chester were shopping in Rotan Fri
day.
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Counts spent
Sunday at Rotan.
Mr. Woodson gave the young- folks
a singing Sunday night and we all
had a wonderful time.
Miss Mary Posey spent Sunday an
Sunday night at home.
There will be an ice cream supper
at Mr. T. W. Woodson's Saturday
night, July 2. Everybody is invited to
come provided they bring- eggs, mil
and sugar and an ice cream freezer
if they have one.
Mr. Run Posey is visiting home
folks.
Mr. and Mrs. Veal were in Rotan
Thursday.
Mrs. Pettit and small children spent
Friday evening with Mrs. Tom Un-
derwood.
Mr. and Mrs. Bud Posey and baby
of Red Bluff were in this communi-
ty Sunday.
Mr. J. R. Counts and sons, Duard,
Clarence and Ernest were in Rotan
Thursday.
The visitors of Rotan Saturday:
Mr. T. W. Woodson, Ollie and John-
nie Chester, Rube Woodson, Ethelyn,
Odis, Oral and Lawrence Sparks;
Louise Woodson, Mr. and Mrs. Has-
kell Edwards, Mrs. Jewel Edwards.
Our Sunday School is i proving
every Sunday. Next Sunda- begins a
new Quarterly. Everyboe come ami
help us make this quarter : success.
There will be preaching at the
school house next Sunday, July 3.
—Reporter.
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REVISING LOAN" LIBRARY
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of Faducah, Henry C. Porter, Civil
Engineer of Cottle County, Judge G.
W. Cross of King County, 1. B. Don
aldson, Division Superintendent of
this District, S. A. Debnam and Judge
C. E. Brannen were speakers in order
named who gave outline of work al-
ready accomplished and the work to
be done in securing designate*! High-
way.
Stonewall and King Counties were
dubbed the "mud holes" of the pro-
posed highway, so let each of us do
our part and show the rest that we
too can do what is needed.
Mr. Henry C. Porter, Civil Engi-
neer of Cottle County, has agreed to
make a map of Childress, Cottle, King
Stonewall and Jones Counties showing
the proposed route and the growth of
each county during the past five years
This map is to be carried by the dele-
gates before the Highway Commis-
sion at Austin in July if appointment
can be made for that time. Each
County Judge is urged i.> '.end this
meeting.
Those attending this convention
were: Judge James M. Whatley, W.
H. Abernathy, W. R. Cabanesa, G. A.
Lee, and J. H. Thompson of Paducal
D. M. Oldham Jr., T. N. Carswell, and
H. S. Norman, Abilene; S. O'Neal
Coleman; C. W. Woodruff, Santa An
na; J. L. Keene, D. C. Gibson and J.
J. Waggoner, Hamlin; Judge G. \V.
Cross, S. E. Bohner, Rabe Graves and
R. T. Pickens of Guthrie; R. Y. Lon-
ers, J. W. Purifoy of Anson; 1. B.
Donaldson, Division Engineer, Dis-
trict No. 5; S. H. Bingham, Colorado;
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Judge C. E. Brannen, H. W. Ander ]
;on. Chas. 0. Hughe.;, I. S. Mc-
Millan, O. Vanderworth, lie !!>r *
W. A. Springer, H. W. Wylie, F. O.
Gibson, F. O. Senter, J. B. Matthews,
J. H. Robertson, Jimmie Robert; i.-..
C. A. McLaury, W. E. Pyeatt, Dr. F.
V. McKnight, Dr. E. L. Shaw, K.
Mayfield, E. 0. Garrett, Dan Hill, Er-
nest Mullen, S. W. Rash, J. C. Rush.
It. F. Grindstaff, J. C. Link, W. if.
Link, J. L. Evans, S. A. Debna—1.
George Steiner, Pete Blackshear, R.
A. Comer, E. E. Senter, R. L. Spri.i- j
ger, and M. N. Guest all of Asper- j
mont.
This Highway would be of more i
benefit to Stonewall County than a
railroad.
Let's pull and work together.
AND ALL W13EK
MORAN'S
COMEDIANS
WITH
Boh Hardaway
The Ace of
COMEDIANS
CHANGE OF PLAY
AND VAUDEVILLE
EACH NIGHT
CLEAN - MORAL
REFINED
MELBA LEEWRIGHT
Leading Lady
LADIES FREE MON
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PAID TICKET
EVERYTHING NEW BUT THE NAME
ASPERMONT JULY 4th.
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PARTY
During the summer when there a."
few calls for material from the Un;
versity of Texas extension loan libr:;
ry bureau, much of the time will !><■
occupied with revising the packages
in the library, according to Miss i.r-
Noir Dimmitt, chief of th" bureau. Coiner, Mrs
There are about 2,000 subjects in the ner.
permanent package-library, said Mis.,
Dimmitt, but the bureau is constantly
making up many more packages to
suit requests for material on varied
subjects.
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Me:< srs. W. fi. and C. G. Bingham
Fridav afternoon was a very hap-
>" li: for some of the frieno. of
Little Miss Annie Mae Gardner when
she and her mother gave a party fo1*
them. Games were played until evn-y
one was ready for the refreshing
punch and tiny caks that were passed.
The children enjoying this party
ere: Ruth Inez and Orvilb A
(ock, M.-iry and Margaret Baugh,
Fern, Mary Jo and Evelyn North.
Aura Carl, Malcolm and Sara Jean
Turner, A1 v'- and Alene Comer, Vir-
,-n'nif Williams, Elmer Featherston,
Ida and Gertrude Hegler, Beulah Mae
Goodloe and Annie Mae Gardner.
The mothers present were: Mrs. W.
S. Featherston, Mr°. Williams, Mr*.
Aycoek, and Mrs. Gard
—One present.
made a business trip to New Mexico
the first of the week.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Guest had a*
their guests Sunday, Mr. anil Mrs. U.
A. Hudspeth, son and daughter, Near
and Evelyn, of Sweetwater; Mr. and
M rs. Joe H. Hudspeth and children,
Joe Jr. and L. G., of Peacock; Misses
Sarah and Nora Hudspeth of Rule,
and Rev. J. J. Horn of Garrett. Texas
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THE VALUE OF A HOUSE
IS NEVER JUDGE!)
by its
OUTSIDE COAT OF PAINT
Making a good-fellow of yourself by spend-
ing" your hard earned money freely will with-
out cloubt win you the companionship and
respect of certain friends.
Your prosperity and welfare however de-
pends more on the friendship of those who
look below the surface of things and give you
credit more for what you save than what you
spend.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
Aspermont, Texns*
Baseball is
Game" of the United States. It origi-
nated in America, and today is play-
ed very little in any other nation of
the world. It is a splendid sport when
played in sportsmanlike manner. It'
develops agility of body and mind, it
trains one to keep his poise under j
. i.i of both success and defeat, and
this is a commendable trait to acquire
It develops cooperation in team work
which is an essential characteristic j
for best citizenship of nation, church, j
club, or society anywhere.
Fifty years ago the national pass
time wa.- horse racing. This also Is'
a thrilling sport ; : • I may be carried
i. v it hot) l evil. Almost every person
Med at seeing two or more in-
llviduals race, whether it he people,
'o"\. and hare, or horses. Some hors-
; •< fleet-footed and seem to enjoy
■'?' ; 1 ■ To allow or urge them to
. ... no sin, provided cruelty is not
applied in ii:' ing hem. But horse rac-
ing is no Ion rer a populai sport as a
national t>: time. It has been out
lav.ed in me L states under certain
conditions Mid thi-s" conditions seem
to be those under which horse-racing
prospers most. Why was horse racing
brought under the ban of government
: 'I popular disapproval ? Because it
became an agent of the Devil. Evil
men who had no regard for honesty,
morality, man not God turned a
"■ nod sport" into a "gambling busi-
ness' and, since it drew larger crowds
ami fatter purses on Stimlay, they
stole Goo's day and used it to cor-
rupt men's souls and draw them far-
ther from God. America would not
stand for th 26 year a "O. and so
public sentiment rose in revolt and as
jlast resort, to eliminate the by-pro-
ducts of horse racing, we were com-
pelled to pu. down horse racing itself.
Horse racing is today scorned by all
decent people.
Baseball is headed the same way.
It has become a rendezvous of the
ambler. No! that all the players bet
on the games. In fact, I am persuad-
ed that very few do so. Nor that all
the spectators gamble, for a compara-
few do so but nevertheless gam
becoming one of the worst types of
Sabbath desecration known in Ameri-
a today. Perhaps many who read this
"Nationel|wj„ not |JC interested in this phase
| from the standpoint of holiness, but
if you will follow me on I think you
will become interested from the stand
point of preserving the game. A per-
son who in his heart does not rever-
ence God is not expected to respect
I His holy day. If you care for baseball
you should desire the thing's that will
be to the interest of the game. I now
make this proposition that the best
way to kill baseball is to steal God's
day to draw people away into world-
liness, or I make a supplementary
proposition, that if there are not e-
nough people in America who have
reverence for God's day to drive out
such desecration then America will
soon be reading the handwriting on
the wall, "Thou art weitrhed in the
balance and art found wanting". God
forbid that we ever see it. Read his-
tory and search out the nations that
have risen and fallen. If you trace
their decline, you will find every one
leading to a common starting point.
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tive
bling is becoming more and more pre-
valent and open all the time. So pre-
\alent has gambling become, and so
generally is it understood to be car-
ried on that gamblers feel that since
everybody knows that betting is being-
done, it won't hurt for them to see it,
and they bet and pass money in sight
of others and boast after the game of
how much they won or lost. I am per-
suaded that there are enough good
people today who oppose such condi-
tions to stop it if the conditions do
not change. Let gamblers take warn-
ing, you'll kill the goose that lays the
golden eggs.
However that is only one phase of
' the dangerous trend of baseball. It is
Uk His d*y for
| pleasure and revelry, He looked nt
: that bull and he looked like a red ole-
■ phnnt with tusks turned up. He said
to Sam, who was taking off his hat
in reverencial manner, "Sam, dls no
time to kneel. Gawd never made a
lion big as dat bull. You just pray
while we run, and say to de Lawd,
'Lawd, we not ready to be angels, but
we sho need some wings." There Is a
time to kneel and a time not to kneel;
a time to play ball and a time not to
play ball. That last time is Sunday.
The day does make a difference.
God says, "Remember the SABBATH
DAY to keep IT HOLY." By no de-
finition of the word "holy" I have
ever heard can we argue baseball ap-
propriate on Sunday. Holy means
"set apart" Holy unto God means
set apart unto God. "The Sabbath
was made for man". Man needs one
day in seven to meditate about God
and righteousness". But someone says
"Aren't these just as fitting on Mon-
day as Sunday?" To be sure we need
every day to give some time to these
but Sunday is set apart to that alone.
And no one who does not meditate on
them oil Sunday will do so other days
We fail to seriously consider during
the (> days such questions as God,
Christ, Holy Spirit, Church Sin, Sin-
ners, etc., because we do not on Sun-
day completely get our religious bear-
ings for those days which follow. We
need to so read God's word on Sun-
] day that we will know thoroughly and
| afresh what God expects of us this
i week. We need time, quiet time, to
j remind ourselves of our mistakes the
past week, and secure God's pardon
for them. We need a quiet time to
meditate upon the week ahead that
each day will be planned to be filled'
v ith some religious service and devo-
tion. "The Sabbath was made for
man." Christian, let me warn you,
you cannot serve God and destroy the
sanctity of His Sabbath. No Sunday
baseball player or fan can be a soul
winner at the same time. Your Sab-
hath desecration belies your profes-
sion and every sinner knows it. Sin-
ners may argue with you that there's
no harm in Sunday baseball hut they
also will remind you of your incon-
sistency when you approach them a-
bout their souls. Don't shackle your-
self by becoming entangled with the
ways of the world.
1 he fact that we have a day set a-
part for a Saabbath argues that there
is a difference. If it makes no differ-
ence in baseball, why should it make
a difference in business? If it makes
no difference to play on Sunday and
Sunday is just as every other day,
why do you select Sunday as the on
day you must have somewhere to go .
Why is it you don't just have to have
some where to go on Tuesday? We
need one day in seven to rest. Base-
ball doesn"t rest you. You who play
iutor<Mt«l. In baseball you ; houM di*
coumgfi Sunday baseball, for A-
merican people will not always tol-
erate It, and it will lead on to such
extent, if allowed to continue, that
ultimately baseball will of necsBBity
be put under stricter control and crip-
pled or even driven out. Or, should
Sunday baseball become a permanent
and general practice then it will be-
come a snare to Christians to entan-
gle them and draw them from theft-
churches. For assuredly the wo are
harmonious neither by nature nor
consent. They will not mix. It will al-
so be that power that the Devil will
use to prevent sinners from coming
to the church tad to Christ. It's dan-
gerous. Do not give your influence to
it. 1 make this appeal both "from the
standpoint of reason and religion.
Both condemn it.
Respectively,
A. C. Turner.
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Program For Sunbeam
Band
July 4th at 4 P. M.
Devotional Fern North.
The Golden Rule Clock
—Agnes Hegler
Offering Verse —Mary Louise Dun-
wody.
Samuel Uses the Golden Rule
-Ruth Aycock.
Jimmy's Tythe —Louise Childress.
A Sunbeam —Annie Mae Gardner.
Our Happy Family - Gertrude
Hegler.
We had twenty-four present at our
last meeting with five new members.
All children are urged to come, The
Sunbeams have been requested to sing
for prayer meeting Wednesday night.
There will be a social for the Sun-
beams at Mrs. Gardners Friday after-
noon at 4 o'clock. Let all Sunbeams
come. —
New members at last meeting were:
Junior Hegler, Sallie Abbott, Ruth
Aycock, Mary Louise Dunwody, Fern
North, and Alfred Couch as a visitor.
Reported.
PASTIME CLUB
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and many who go are too tired Sun-
day night to go to church, and are not
at your very best next morning to
work.
1 think most people at Aspermont
great love of pleasure were bored by
the solemnity of worship; "lovers of
pleasure more than lovers of God."
Israel did not escape God's wrath af-
ter forgetting his day. Neither will
America.
But some good and sincere folks
ask "Why is Sunday baseball wrong?
If it's a good sport what difference
does Sunday make? We must have
somewhere to go on Sunday." First,
I will answer, "There is a time for
all things." Laughing is a perfectly
decent thing sometimes, but we all
would agree that hilarity is out of
place at a funeral. It is perfectly all
right to kneel to pray. Perhaps we
kneel too little. But sometimes it
might be absurd.
Two colored brethern were going,
one Sunday to a baseball game. In
order to save time and steps, they
cut across a pasture. About the cen-
ter of the big pasture they observed
a big bull approaching them, rapidly,
noisily, and threateningly. There was
not a tree in sight, and they had not
even a razor with which to defend
themselves. They, were of course, bad
ly frightened and perplexed. They
knew not what to do, and hail little
time to parley. Sam, being a religious
man, had read in the Bible that "Men
ought always to pray and not to
faint." Certainly it was plainly no
time to faint, so he figured that it
was a good time to pray. But Sam
was an old fashioned negro. He al-
ways kneeled to pray, so he said to
Mose, "Mose, we sho' gotter pray.
Let's kneel, ask Gawd to deliver us'
from dat bull lak He did Daniel font'
de lions." Mose was not as religious
as Sam but more practical in emer-
gencies. He had little faith in God
answering the prayers of two church '
1'hat place is where they, in their know that I, personally like baseball.
I enjoy watching it. I used to enjoy
playing. I will support a club here if
it will respect Sunday and make an
effort to keep down gambling. I know
some are going to bet. They will bet
on everything but we can keep them
from running their tables open before
our children, if the community will cro
its duty. As a community unifier, a
baseball club is good. It can provide
clean entertainment for our people
and give every body a common inter-
est. But a Sunday ball team will be-
come a devisive issue, and rend the
community spirit, and utterly destroy
unity of community pride and senti-
ment. It then becomes a community
liability and is destructive of church
loyalty. It makes Sunday a day of
revelry rather than a day of worship.
Aspermont does not need Sunday
baseball and if you, dear reader, are
Mrs. E. L. Shaw was hostess to the
Pastime Club Thursday afternoon.
Bouquets of roses were arranged
throughout the rooms and the breezes
from the electric fans made the even-
ing more enjoyable. Dainty placards
aided in getting each guest to her
place where games of "42" were play-
ed. Orchid was the color motif car-
ried out in tally cards, pencils, and
plate favors.
During the games the hostess, as-
sisted by her little daughter, Marie,
and Mrs. H. W. Wylie, passed a de-
licious iced drink, and later was as-
sisted by Mesdames J. H. Robertson ■
and Roy Riddel in serving a lovely
salad course. Plate favors were bot-
tles of perfume tied with bows of
sheer orchid maline.
Club members were: Mesdames W.
K. Green, Blanche M. Jordan, C. I>.
Stamey, J. C. Link, W. H. Link, J. B.
Pumphrey Jr., M. Robertson, F. O.
Senter, A. A. Annis, W. B. Bingham.
J. B. Matthews, J. G. Callaway, Fred
Dalby, Will A. Dunwody, J. L. Evans,
Geo. P. Finley. Guests were: Miss
Billie Marie Briscoe, Mesdames R. L.
Springer, Ella Lanier, J. J. McKinney
of Abilene. —Reporter.
Mesdames R. D. Senter, Bessie For-
gus, J. L. Chennault, W. T. North,
Newel Phy, Reverends A. C. Turner
and W. T. North attended the Work-
ers Meeting at Girard Monday. They
report this to be one of the best meet-
ings of its kind ever held in the As-
sociation.
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Bulloch Tillotson of Spur was In
Aspermont a short time Sunday.
AT THE
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THURSDAY,
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FRIDAY
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SATURDAY
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June 30th.
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