The Alto Herald (Alto, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 24, 1938 Page: 2 of 6
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THE
AT.TO MF.RALT\ M,TO TEXAS, MARCH 24, 1938.
Atto Schoot News
MEET A SENIOR
Grace Ruth Foreman was born at
New Waverly, Texas on December
24. )9t8. From New Waverly she
moved to Houston and remained
there for several years; she later
moved to A!to. Grace started to
school at Cold Springs at the age of
seven years. In her Junior year she
started to school at Atto where she
wiii graduate this year. For three
years she played basket t^)H on the
Co)d Springs' team and entered in
the County Meet two years. Last year
she ptayed basket batt at Atto.
Grace's friondiy manner has won her
many friends. Grace is an average
student.
On May 6. 1919. near Nacogdoches,
Narean Kathryn Cottins began a page
m the drama of tife. She is now five
feet, two and one-hatf inches tatt, has
dark brown hair and big brown eyes,
:<nd is dark-comptexioned.
Narean, or "Nancy" as she is known
to her friends, attended schoot at
Grange Ha!) from the time she first
entered until her senior year. She
participated in basebatt. vottey bait,
and basketbatt at Grange Hat!. This
year we have her as a senior and
are proud of her presence. She is one
of the ptayers on the vottey batt team
this year. She is atso a member of
the Home Making Ctub. Her studies
this year are typing, home economics,
history, and government.
Do you know the vatue of a reat
friend? If you ever have the pleas-
ure of associating with Narean. you
witt find her a true example of
friendship. Ifarean's tife is well
summed up in the fottiwng passage:
"Soft as the memory of buried love!
Pure as the prayer which chitdhood
wafts above;
Is she."
We are sorry the honor roll is one
week tate, but most of our time last
week was centered on county meet
activities.
Distinguished Honor Roll
(A!) A s)
Grade I!—Rose Mary Allen, Mavis
Jones
Grade 10—Fisher Btanton.
Grade 9—Edith Fay Hotcomb,
Frances Sue Matney, Mary Smith.
Grade 8—Warner Allen, Mary Etta
Milter, Mary Smith.
Grade 6—Netta Faye Mason. Helen
Marie Carleton. Billie Jean Rogers.
Grade 5—Dickey Atten, Atfred
Danheim. Ruth Fults, Josie Lou Ha-
gen. Euta Bet) Johns.
Honor RoH
(One "A" above "B's")
Grade II—Louise Conger, Morris
Cole, Ina Claire Jeter, Maurice Gar-
ner.
Grade to—Marie McCullough.
Grade 9—Nellwyn Christian, Rob-
bie Hay Jones, Thelma Lusk, Ruth
Robbins.
Grade 8—Morrison Hooks, Dora
Jo Cote. Avis Lindsey, Mary Ann
Stribling.
Grade 7—Helen Holcomb. Betty
Jo hie. Joyce Johns, Lorna Lawson,
Ht?cn Jane Pearman, Elsie Konstan-
tine. Lucitte Smith.
Grade 6—Laverne Lindsey. Louise
Singtetary, Mary Jane McFadden,
Jimmie Hrwin, Jo Frances Robinson,
Winnie Jo Black.
Grade 5—Louis Shofner. Travis
Spears. Joan Evans, Carrol Hotcomb,
Virginia Johnson.
The following .poem was written
by Martha Rtley, an eighth grade
student:
My Desire
Oh God. make me tike a pine tree;
Grant my tonging desire.
To grov. strong and sturdy, I pray
you;
And may my truthfulness others
inspire.
Oh. God. grant me the power
Of Thy grace divine,
To be as tall and slender
As yon towering pine.
Many campfires are burning.
While other fires have died.
But through all the years the pine
tree
Grows along the countryside.
As the pine tree has lived through
years tong,
God make me that way too;
And for each hardship I have
Make me better, strong, and true;
Then as I look on my life that's past,
And see all of my mistakes:
To keep me from making them again,
God give me what it takes.
We eighth graders were glad to
welcome Luciie Powers' return after
her five weeks' absence.
F. F. A. REPORT
During the past week, the agricul-
ture boys have been studying dairy,
livestock, and plant judging. The
boys expect to enter the contests to be
held in the three divisions. The con-
tests are to be hetd in Nacogdoches
on March 28. The judging events
are to be held during the day. and a
banquet is the main event fof that
night.
The Father-Son banquet is to be
held on Friday of this week. Bar-
bequed goat is to be the main food
on the menu.
TYPING REPORT
Beginning week before last, the
typing students have speed tests
every day. The speed tests are hetd
in order that the speed of the students
may be increased. The tests ate to
be hetd from now until the end of
school.
Animate, With No Hand*,
Have Prob!em in Eattng
We humans, who take our bread
in our hands and carry it without
further ado to our mouths and in;
emergencies cup our hands to carry
water to our Hps, seldom consider
the problem which confronts most
animals obliged to get food to their
mouths without the use of hands,
observes a writer in the Washington
Star.
The monkey is the only animal
which is as well off in this respect
as ma& Mice and squirrels and
chipmunks do nearly as well, by sit-
ting up and employing their fore-
paws to grasp food and to carry it
to their mouths.
The praying mantis, a skinny,
ugty insect, uses its front "praying"
legs to carry food to its mouth. And
crabs and lobsters are not badly off
because their pincers end in two
fingers with which they can carry
food.
For convenience in getting food
to its mouth the elephant, with its
long, lithe trunk, comes next. This
trunk, which is really only a
stretched-out nose, not only carries
the elephant's food from consider-
ably distances, but it easily picks
up choice morsels with the lip-like
end of the trunk.
Most birds use their tongues and
bills only to get food with, but the
owl and the parrot stand on one
foot and pick up insects with the
other, balancing quite comfortably
on a single leg.
Grange Hat) Schoot
School life is one continuous series
of contests. The 1938 Interschoiastm
League Meet has once again gone into
history. Often the real value of a
contest is not measured in the num-
ber oi banners won or lost but in the
knowledge and experience gained in
making the effort. We thoroughty en-
joyed the whole County Meet and
j feet that we received some worth-
! while and lasting benefits from hav-
! ing made the effort. Our success or
) failure in life is usually determined
I by the efforts we make and by the
Hoats we attempt to achieve and not
by our sitting by and wishing or
criticizing. Even though our goat is
not reached, we have the pleasure of
knowing that we aided in forcing
some one else to earn the reward.
Those of us who participated in the
various events feel that we did our
part while those of us who made nt
effort can only stand by and cheer
and encourage. And so it goes in this
game of life.
The Biology class went hunting
Friday 18th not rabbit, squirrel, or
o'possum hunting but insect, hunting,
and also looking for different species
of snakes. We found a nice specimen
of a king snake which we bottled
and brought back to our laboratory,
also wte brought back crayfish and
several other different kinds of in-
jects.
We like days like this when we can
get out in the bright sunshine and
March winds. When we arrived
back to the school we were all
ready for dinner. We hope Mr. Wat-
son decides to have the Biology go on
a lot of these excursions.
' ettie Woodell. „ I """ "* accumulation of
Fourth Grade—Billie Engledow. [winter's debrts represents a distinct
Mattie Lee Mann, Morris Cummings. t° the health of adults and
Doris Findley. Crockett, Mary children, and
^ Fifth^h a'de -John Robert Nolley. urges everyone to ctean up their
Bobby Sparkman. Odessa Mann, houses and yards during this week.
CharleneMcClain, Wanda Lee Pierce, j ^ ^ g„od housekeeping
** Sixth^ade-Evetvn Kelley, Wei- but ordinary sanitary principles in-
don Findley, Ann Vinson. } riicate the necessity of prompt re-
Seventh Grade—Mildred Cooper, mova! of all waste matter in and
JuaniUi Townley.
Eighth Grade—Dorothy Findtey,
Billy Kelley. Roberta Mann
Beads, Gunpowder, Skins,
!ndians' "Lega! Tender"
Wampus or "legal tender"
among the Indians was beadwork.
It was of two kinds, white and black.
The white was made from conch or
periwinkle shells, and the black,
which was really more purple in col-
or, was made from the hard-shell
clams. The chief center for their
"manufacture" was Long Island,
notes a writer in the Philadelphia
Inquirer. The shells were broken
into pieces, rubbed on stones until
smooth and perhaps a little thicker
than the United States silver dollar.
The accepted length was three-six-
teenths of an inch. Often they were
pierced with a drill of some sort.
They were strung on strips of deer
leather, sometimes made into belts.
One large war belt is said to have
consisted of 12,000 beads of wam-
pum.
For a time in the early days of this
country gunpowder was considered
legal tender. Gunpowder values
were reckoned by the handful and
the Indians with the biggest hands
were employed to do the bargaining.
Later on, beaver skins were used as
well as tobacco, lumber and wheat.
Robin Hood
How much there is of actual fact
in the tales of the medieval hero,
Robin Hood, is unknown. Unsuc-
cessful attempts have been made to
prove the real existence of Robin
Hood. His career, as eventually de-
veloped, has all the details of au-
thentic history. But there is nothing
to be found concerning him beyond
the content of the old ballads, of
which there are some 40. The oldest
known to exist is assigned to about
the year 1400. There were earlier
ones, however, because the Four-
teenth century "Piers Plowman" re-
fers to "rymes of Robyn Hood."
The time in which Robin Hood is
supposed to have had his being was
during the reign of Richard I (1189-
99). Some have attempted to show
that the gallant outlaw of Sherwood
Forest was simply an elf of Ger-
manic folk tales, about whom later
gathered typical adventures of the
outlaw.
Pioneers Good Marksmen
Marksmanship was almost an in-
stitution among the pioneers, says
a writer in the Cleveland Plain
Dealer. With their long, heavy rifles
they could drop an animal on the
run at 150 yards by shooting the
animal in the head or heart, and
they very seldom missed. It was
poor marksmanship to shoot an ani-
mal in any other spot. Even the
twelve-year-old boys could do al-
most as well. And many of them, for
fear of losing their reputation as
marksmen, would not bring home
a rabbit or squirrel which had been
hit in any other part of the body ex-
cept the head. Unless of course the
family was in great need of the food
and there was no other game avail-
able at the time.
SOME SENSE BI T MORE
NONSENSE
How Wise:
Mr. Wittiams: ' Now a budget is a
housewife s plan of how to spend
her money. Usualty at the end of the
month her budget is out of baiance
and she has to have more money."
Joyce Johns: "Mr. Wiltiams. do you
know that by experience?"
Mr. Williams: "No, 1 know too
much about it; that's why I've never
had the experience."
Meaning of Mhitechapt!
Whitechapel is a parish and par-
liamentary district, east of the nu-
cleate city of London. It is one of
the poorest portions of the metropo-
lis and was formerly notorious for
its criminal population. From 1888
to 1891 it was the scene of the
atrocities of Jack the Ripper. With-
in its boundaries are the tower of
London and London hospital. It is
intersected by Whitechapel road.
The name is derived from a former
medieval chapel, when at! distances
east of London were calculated.
Popcorn, American Crop
Popcorn is a peculiarly American
crop. In early Spanish writings ref-
erence is made to a ritual of the
Aztecs in which "one hour before
dawn there sallied forth all these
maidens, toasted and popped, the
grains of which resembled orange
biossoms, and looped on their necks
thick festoons of the same which
passed under the left arm "
Ninth Grade—Mary Clem Vinson.
Harry Thornton.
Those pupits making straight A's
in High School are:
Roberta Mann, Dorothy Findley,
Harry Thornton.
Those making straight A's in the
Grammar grades this month are:
Carethet Covington, Doris Findley,
Bittie Engledow. John R. Nolley. Ann
Vinson, Evelyn Kelley, Mildred
Cooper, Grace Evelyn Nolley.
The eighth grade have finished
their unit on lyric poetry and have
taken up essays. We believe we will
like this unit. But the unit on lyrics
was interesting and we hated to drop
it. We believe Miss Banks will makt
the unit on essays as interesting as
possible also.
BIRTHDAY PARTY
The fifth grade boys and girls are
getting interested in the beautifut
spring trees and flowers. We just
wonder why the teacher won't let us
have classes out doors awhile.
How hard it is to hear the bell
That says to bid the gay out doora
farewell.
Bright spring is here with all its
cheer
We hear it calling loud and clear,
It bids us stay outdoors and play,
But we must at our tasks be gay.
There were several fourth grade
pupils who entered in choral single,
leclamations and spelling at the
County Meet in Rusk Friday anu
Saturday. Albert Haney won second
place sub-junior boys declamation.
Sixth Grade News
Thank goodness we have finished
with decimals, but we are starting on
weights and measures, which are
harder. We are sorry we lost in sing-
ing at the County Meet, but we did
our best. We hope to make a success
next year.
DID YOU EVER SEE
Charles French without freckles?
Eddie Stanley without his "I'll bop
you one?"
Charlene Dickey without gum?
Pauline Smith without smart ways?
Evelyn Kelley without her head in
atr?
CHAPEL PROGRAM
The Chapel program Thursday,
March 17th, was one of the most in-
teresting chapel programs we have
had this term we believe.
The program consisted of a play
entitled, "The Land of What We Are,"
a few songs by the whole group, and
the choral club song, also Mitton
Sharp told a story.
HONOR ROLL
First Grade—Charles Wilson. Bitlie
Wilson, Olan Lawrence, Edward
Wooddale, Muriel Corley, Carethel
Covington, Betty Jo Pegues, Vernice
Bennett, Thelma Lee Bennett, Lottye
Bennett.
Second Grade—Clyde Brewer. Har-
mon Cooper, Billie Jean Arrant, Jim-
mie Askew.
Third Grade—James Cooper, Mary
Ann French, Johnie Sue Ash, Jan-
For ANY of Your
Drug Needs
Prescriptions Accurte-
ly compounded just as
your family physican
ordered them.
Alien R2S
Miss Heten Gardiner celebrated her
!6th birthday Thursday afternoon
with a party at the Alto Hotel.
Many of her friends and classmates
were present. Punch was first served
then ice cream and cake. The decora-
tion on the cake was green because
it was St. Patrick's Day. The gifts
were then opened. They were very
nice and appreciated very much.
Several additional gifts were given.
Those present were: Nellwyn
Christian, Josephine Wilkins, Marie
Burchfietd, Wynona Crawford, Mad-
eline Brooks, Joyce Parker, Robbie
Rae Jones, Jo Ann and Teggy Tca-
cock and Moneta Massingitl.
—Contributed.
around the neighborhood of yardt
and homes, and the definite lessen-
ing of the spread of diseases, es-
pecially those affecting infants, is vi-
tally connected with this procedure,"
stated Doctor Cox.
"Texas is annually being host to
more and more tourists, and we want
Texas to appear at its best for the
approval of these visitors. If all
property holders will repair and paint
their buildings, and replace weeds
with flowers and shrubs, we can
make Texas the beautiful place Na-
ture intended it to be."
Sanitation of the individual home
is a splendid protection against com-
municable diseases.
Flies help spread typhoid fever, dy-
sentery, diarrhea, ;
thrax, and t-h<4era -
and feed in fiith. 7
increase all refu:,
of at once, gai], ^
container
and houses Ki t e,.,
borhood raise ;
their number :
sanitary conditio.
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FUNDS FOR NECHES
SOUGHT BY TEXANS
Washington, Mar. 22.—A Texas
delegation urged the war department
Monday to include in its civil func-
tions appropsfations budget funds for
deepening the Neches river from
Beaumont to the Gulf of Mexico.
Representatives Dies, Sanders and
Patton, Texas democrats, said that
tremendous growth in the oil and
lumbering industries in East Texas
had increased greatly the tonnage of
navigation on the river.
Others in the delegation included
M. D. Gates, B. T. McWhorter and F.
J. Imhoff, all of Port Arthur, and
George D. Anderson of Beaumont.
William Stanton of Sheboygan
Wis., is mad because his right to vote
has been questioned. He admits he
was born in Ireland and never na-
tuialized, but thinks his resfdencc t,t
the United States since 1830 should
be sufficient. He is 113 years old, and
came to America at the age of 6.
APRH, 3rd TO 19th
DESIGNATED AS CLEAN-UP
WEEK IN TEXAS
Austin, Texas, Mar. 24.—Proclaim-
ed in Austin this week was April 3 to
10 as State Clean-up and Paint-up
Week by Governor James V. Allred.
The Texas State Department of
Health and the Fire Insurance De-
partment will jointly sponsor this
week in Texas.
Dr. Geo. W. Cox, State Health Ot-
J. H. Moseley, Optometrist, Rusk,
Texas, with 37 years in the practice
of Optometry. Allen Drug Store on
the First and Third Mondays in each
month.
Will be in Wells the second and
fourth Mondays in each month.
Eyes Examined Free. Satisfaction
Guaranteed.
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to Railroad on West Main Street.
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