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THE ALTO HERALD
F. L. WEIMAR. EDITOR AND OWNER
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $1.50 PER YEAR
VOLUME XL
THE ALTO HERALD. ALTO. TEXAS. MAY ]6, 1940.
NO. 2.
Preacher Wants
Business Men To
Go To Chttrch
SCHOOL LIBRARY
DISPLAY WILL Rt? IX
SEWING ROOM NEXT WEEK
a man if he
world ana
What shall it profit
shouid gain the whote
iose his owh soul?
You business men of Alto, I hav^
been wondering why you haven't
been coming to the meeting at the
Christian Church. During the week
nights, there haven't been a half a
dozen business men in the church.
Why? Have you got it "in" for tht
Aito Christian Church? Surety not.
Don't you like the preacher? That
can hardly be true, because I haven't
been here long enough to either be
liked or disliked. From what I could
observe, you wasn't at the Methodist
meeting either. Don't you like tha
Methodist Church or Brother Carter?
Have you been staying at home and
sending your wife and children? If
so, when you meet God, wilt yout
family be your representative In
heaven? Can your wife and chil-
dren's religion save you?
Listen my business friends! After
fashion, you can run your business
without God. but you could run it a
whole lot better with Him. It's
mighty nice to have someone to con-
fide in and tell all your troubles to.
You can do that with God, and He
will listen, if you meet His require-
ments, andf one of them is that you
attend church, not as a Sunday
Christian, but as an every da^
Christian. There were some fine fel-
lowship services during the recent
Methodist meeting, and we are
having some fine fellowship meetings
at the Christian Church now. Brother
Carter and Brother Thigpen are right
there at almost every service an&
helping to help people to God. You
as a leader in the community are
' ' *^tiMdea there too. Nnt'ybur dollars,
but your PRESENCE.
Is it the way you are living that is
keeping you away from the house of
God? Are you a drinker, a gambler,
a Sunday fisherman, or do other
things contrary to God's laws, and
are ashamed to face Him in the holy
house of the Lord? Is it possible that
you are ashamed to be seen going in- !
to the house of the Lord, because you
know that the public generally knows
of things you do that are not right
in the sight of God? Do you know
why Adam hid from God, or tried to.
behind the tree in the Garden of
Eden, don't you? He was guilty of
sin, and knew it. Well, the all-
powerful eye of God found him.
He sees you today and tomorrow.
There is a day coming when you will
have to stand in His presence, not as
your SAVIOUR but as your JUDGS.
"For once, it is appointed unto all
men to die, and after death judge-
ment."
Listen men, some of you are mem-
bers of the Methodist, Baptist and
Christian Churches of Aito, and you
have not been to a single service dur-
ing this meeting. In your heart you
know that is wrong. If y?u don't go
to church, don't you know that you
are helping to hold men out who have
never accepted Christ? Just as surely
as the sun rises in the morning, in
this case, you are your brother's
keeper. Whether you want to be or
not. In one way, God has slipped a
"fast one" by you for your own good.
He has placed two splendid Christian
preachers here, in Brother Carter
and Brother Thigpen. Every day, as
well as Sunday, you will find them
working for God. Some of you mas
be contributing to their salary and
think you are getting by. You art.
with the church, but you are not with
God. Remember that.
Thursday, Friday, Saturday and
Sunday. Four more nights of this
meeting. We want you to come Mr.
Business Man, whether you are a
member of any church or not, come.
I guarantee it will do your soul good.
Alto seems to me to be a fine little
town, but there is something radicaliy
wrong. With good men for preachers,
good churches, and lots of God fear-
ing and Christ loving Christians, we
'can't understand why the business
men and civic leaders cannot see the
value of God in their daily activities.
"Now don't you get mad, but let
your influence lead in the right diret.
tion, the direction that points toward
God." God bless you.
L. W. Rinehart,
Pastor Alto Christian Church.
The Aito WPA Library will have
their exhibit in the Alto WPA Sew-
ing Room, where their work will be
on display from May 20 to May 25,
under the direction of Mrs. Lola
Hoicomb and Miss Hattie Lee Ar-
rant, Librarians. The Library prop-
er is located in the high school build-
ing. and the tibrary has on its shelves
more than 3000 books, which are
neatiy arranged and classified, ac-
cording to subject matter.
The library serves the high school
pupiis, as weil as citizens and
readers of the town, who wish to
draw books for entertainment or
study..The regular hours are from
8.30 a. m., to 3.15 in the afternoon.
The library will be kept open ah
summer, for the benefit of those who
wish to read or study. The librarians
invite you to call at their exhibit, and
later on come to see them at the high
school building, look ever then
assortment of books, and you will be
sure to take one home with you for
summer reading.
indian Mound
Excavation To
Hotd Open House
44 Graduate
From Aito Schoo!
This Term
Mother Of Mr$. J. H.
Gitcrcase Died
Here Last Monday
Funeral services were heid Tues-
day afternoon at Otd Palestine
Church for Mrs. Moltie Cobb Minton,
age 80. who passed away Monday at
the home of her daughter, Mrs J H
Gilcrease of this city, the Rev L A
Thigpen officiating, with interment
in the Old Patestine Cemetery under
the arrangement of O. T. Alien.
Funeral Director.
Mrs. Minton was born in Augusta.
Ga., October 18, I860, and came to
Texas at the age of 12, and later was
married to F. M. Minton of Sabine
County in 1879, moving to Nacogdo-
ches County where she lived until
she came to Alto to make her home
with her daughter, Mrs. Gilcrease.
Mrs. Minton became a member of the
Baptist Church early in life and was
an active member as long as she was
able to take part in the activities ot
the organization.
Mrs. Minton is survived by four
children, Mrs. J. H. Gilcrease, Alto;
Burton Minton, Midland; Lee Minton,
Houston; Otto Minton, Chireno; 21
grandchildren, and seven great
grandchildren.
COUNTY COUNCIL HOME
DEMONSTRATION CLUBS
The County Council of Home
Demonstration Clubs met in the Com-
missioners' Court room at Rusk, May
11. with eight clubs represented.
Seventeen women atteide l.
Clubs have agreed to help put
money in the treasury by each club
member giving a hen, to be sold, or
the price of a hen.
It is planned to begin the mattress
making about the middle of July.
The committee for ordering thread
and needles is composed of Mrs. Bill
Sartain, Mrs. E. J. Williams, and Mrs.
S. L. Stockton. About 800 applica-
tions have been taken in Cherokee
County up to date.
Short Course, at Coliege Station,
for girls and boys will be held July
8-9. Adults Short Course will be held
July 11-12. The expenses will be
$3.30 per person for bed and meals,
and a little more for transportation.
Delegates should be nominated be-
fore the next council meeting, which
will be June 8.
The 4-H girls and boys will have an
encampment at DialviUe May 29-30.
A report of the district meeting,
which was held at Nacogdoches April
26, was given by Mrs. Will Rogers of
the Central High club.
July 19 has been set for the Home
Demonstration Clubs Rally. Reports
from the Short Course will be a part
of the days program. The place for
the rally has not been selected.
Miss Thelma Fortenberry. of Mar-
shall, Area Supervisor of the WPA
professional projects in this district,
was a guest of the Anthropology di-
rectors, Doctors Newell and Holden.
the past Tuesday. She expressed
herself as being much pleased witu
the progress of the work under con-
struction at the Indian Mounds
west of Alto. Mr. Howell, super-
visor of Cherokee County, was also a
visitor here Tuesday morning.
Since iast November a WPA pro-
ject, sponsored by the University ot
Texas, has been excavating a pre-
historic Indian site Southwest of Aito
on Highway 21. The work in the vil-
lage site is now nearing completion,
and excavation is beginning in
earnest in the mound itself, a land-
mark that has aroused both scientific
and popular interest for many years.
The evidences of Indian life that
have been found in the village sitt
are important in the reconstruction of
the history of Texas and of North
America before the first Europeans
came. From the outlines of post holes
and of burned clay the types of
houses built can be determined. The
pottery and stone reveals the kinds of
tools, utensils, and weapons the In-
dians made from the materials at
hand to farm and hunt for their food
and to protect themselves from their
enemies. These things also show that
the Indians of East Texas liyed
somewhat as the Indians of Louis-
iana and the Southeast did, but wtt^,
certain characteristics individual to
the region. In addition to the remains
of houses and tools, charred com cobs
have been found—evidence that the
Indians farmed the rich land of East
Texas before Europeans came. It is a
remarkable fact that many of the
crops grown today in East Texas were
first cultivated by the Indians. Such
crops as corn, tobacco beans, sweet
and the so-called Irish potatoes,
squash, pumpkins, watermelons on*
variety of cotton and even toma-
toes are truly New Wortd foods,,
known only to the Indians, tintu tbe
white explorers first cumo
region. ,
The Indians, unfortunately, had
no writing; so all of our knowledge of
North American history before about
1500 A. D.. has come from such
scientific excavations as the one now
in progress near Alto. Even in the
days of early European exploration
and settiement in this region written
records were incomplete or have been
lost, and archaeological excavation in
sites of that period heip compiete
those records, by revealing materials
brought in from the Old World. It 's
possible that when all the informa-
tion gained here has been studied
carefully, a new and important chap-
ter may be written on the early his-
tory of East Texas.
During the week of May 20 to May
25 visitors will be even more than
ordinarily welcome at the excavations
as this is the week especially set
aside by the Work Projects Adminis-
tration for the public to examine the
work being done by this and all
other Professional and Service Pro-
jects. Guides will be at the mound
during all working days, May 21-25,
to explain to visitors the manner in
which this information, so important
to the history of East Texas, is being
secured. Arrangements are also
being made for a display in a down
town store window of specimens from
this site.
The work being done on the Indian
mounds, west of Alto, is under the
supervision of Dr. Perry Newell and
Dr. John Holden. who have made
many friends since their arrival here
last fall. The excavations show al-
most conclusively, that the Indians
who built these historic houses had
no previous contact with the white
man. His residence and his manner of
living were prehistoric, dating bacn
several thousand years. It Is weti
worth any ones time to visit the
mounds, watch the workers uncover
the soil so carefully, and search for
fragments of pottery, flint, bones and
other artifacts. It is part of a very
interesting education to understand
how the anthropologists find out se
much about ancient Texans, who in-
habited Mound Prairie long, long,
long ago.
One of the most interesting things
to see is the floor of an ancient Indian
house. It is round and about 35 feet
across, with a burned clay rim which ^
extends all around the outside edg(
Cios:;.;; exercises of the Aito High
SChooi are now being planned and
dates for the various events have
already been set.
Next Tuesday night, May 21, Miss
Mary Fisher wili hold her musical
reoitai at the Alto Methodist Church.
On the following Tuesday night.
May 23. Miss Mamie Latham will
have her musical recital at the Alto
Baptist Church.
TO CERTIFIED SWEET
POTATO GROWERS
Wednesday night, May 29, the
seventh grade graduation exercises
will be heid at the school auditorium.
On Sunday, May 26, the Bac-
calaureate services will be held at
the Aito Methodist Church, the ser-
mon to be preached by Rev. S. E.
Harry, former pastor of the Alto Bap-
tist Church, but now residing at
A%athis, Texas.
Friday night, May 31, will close the
schoot activities and the Seniors will
have their closing exercises at the
sohooi auditorium.
Forty-four boys and girls compose
the graduation class of the Alto High
Schooi this year. This is the largest
class that have graduated for several
years
The boys and girls who will receive
diplomas are as follows:
Aifred Arrant
Rose Arrant
Veima Barron
Troy Bennet
Pryor Biack
R. E. Boyd
Jack Bowen
.Tfm Bridges
"'"ustine Cole '
^ y rte Collier
l^rrott
Htnn Emiis
Lloyd Felder
P^Mine Foster
Hel?n Gardiner
Otis earner
Edith Fay Hoicomb
Rich:rd Johnson
Wilrri' Johnson
Robbie Rae Jones
T:iei;na Lusk
James Maddux
Vasco Mason
Moneta Massingiii
Lela Monk
Imogene Mooman
rmon McCiain
— ey Pierce
Rayford Reed
/Calvin Riley !
Ruth Robbins <
James Selman
Vernon Seiman
Anibel Smith
Mildred Story
Harry Thornton
Mary Clem Vinson
Frank Ed Weimar
Josephine Wilkins
Minnie L. Wiliiams
Pete Williams
Ogreta Wilson
Ben Brittain.
Help prevent the bootlegging of
sweet potato plants.
Put a 1940 tag on every bundle of
slips you sett or give away. Proper
tagging will be of great help to the
State Department of Agriculture in
preventing bootlegging, so, get the
tagging habit and, you will have
better markets for your slips.
To The Sweet Potato Ptant Buyer
Do you want to buy sweet potato
plants that are diseased or infestec
with sweet potato weevil? Of course
you don't, so, insist that a 1940 tag
[be on every bundle of slips you buy
[Untagged or improperly tagged plants
may have come from beds infested
with black rot or stem wilt or even
from areas infested with sweet potato
weevil.
Help us protect the Sweet Potata
industry and better markets for you*
potatoes will result. It is illegal to
sell or offer for sale any sweet po-
tato plants not properly tagged, so if
you have plants to sell and have not
had an inspection, get in touch with
your County Agent.
J. E. McDonald,
Commissioner of Agriculture.
Former Aito
Peopie Hurt )n
Car Accident
Militant Methodist
G. B. Carter.
Mr. and Mrs. Kermit Roach and
little daughter of Jacksonville, who
had been visiting relatives in Hous-
ton, and were returning home the
past Sunday afternoon, happened to
an automobile accident just south of
Conroe, where the road forks, one
road going to Dallas and the other
into the business section of Conroe,
when a car of negroes came out from
a side street and struck the Ttoach
automobile, wrecking their cat,
throwing the baby out on the con-
crete road, and injuring both Mr. and
Mrs. Roach painfully, but not
seriously. The negroes were also cut
and bruised. The Roach baby ap-
parently was not badly injured, al-
though it had bruises on the back.
A passing motorist picked up the
Roaches and took them back to Hous-
ton, where they received medical at-
tention. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Colley of
Houston took the Roaches to Jack-
sonville Tuesday morning and
stopped in Alto a short time that
afternoon with relatives as they were
returning to Houston. Kermit Roach
is a former Alto boy, being the son
of Mr. and Mrs. Claud Roach pre-
viously of Alto, but now of Houston.
Witt-Resistant
Tomato Devetoped
There is no longer any such thing
with us cailed neutrality. If there
ever was with us a spirit of neutrality
that has been wiped out by the in-
human acts of a nation over riding
all sense of international law and all
sense of decency and humanity ana
invading small and peaceful countries
and bombing its civilians and forts , . .
alike. The most monstrous cruel
(stroke of all known history. ,
We need no longer kid ourselves. I
We know the hellish Intent of all this. Columbia, Mo.. May 15.—Dr. C. M.
If it succeeds England will be a cer-)T"cker of the Missouri College ot
iain target for this invading hordt. j ^"culture is developing a tomato
of Germans and wil! become a fairly; ^^iety that is resistant to fugarium
easy prey to their depredations. j wiit, disease that kiiis miliions of
After Engiand what? It is oniy j P*ants annually in forty-four states,
necessary to recall some of the hap-! 1934 an entomologist in Peru
penings of February 1, 1917 whenjs^ a wiid tomato to the Missouri
Germany issued the announcement' Experiment Station. Between 1935
HSICAL RECITAL
^ESDAY, MAY 21
of the floor. Dr. Newell states this d
the only one of this pattern ever to
found in Texas. Severat simiia
floors have been uncovered in Mia
sissippi, but this one is the first to
found in Texas.
The pupiis of Miss Mary Fisher,
listed by the Rhythm Band and
ther numbers directed by Miss
cmice Avery, will be presented in
-citat Tuesday, May 21, at eight in
^ evening, in the auditorium of the
^to Methodist Church.
ROFEssKWAL SERVICE
^EtK PROCLAIMED
As sponsors of WPA Professionat
'*id Service Projects in Alto, Texa;.,
^e hereby proclaim the week of May
" through May 25 as WPA Profes
'°"ai and Service Week on ail pro-
mts operating throughout this city.
This week is being observet
'"Ughout the Nation in order to iet
see for yourself that "This Work
Your Community."
H. M. Treadwell)
Mayor of Aito.
that it was the purpose of the Ger-
man government to close the sea to
America and use its submarines to
sink any and all ships that tried to
enter the ports of Engiand and Ire-
land or the west coast of Europe. We
know the results. America's entry
into the war.
That same thing is shaping up to-
day. I cannot believe Germany will
prevail, however, it is a possibility.
It comes to pass then we will receive
the same ultimatum as we did in
1917. Keep off the seas, or we will
biow you off, and with navies cap-
tured by them in their onward
march to the west they wiil*5e in po-
sition to at least give us trouble.
What is the best thing to do? I wish
I knew. Mr. Roosevelt wishes he
knew. The Congress wishes they
knew. Be it said to their credit they
are working day and night to find
that solution. I am hoping they will
strengthen our defense program. We
are far from being sufficiently de-
fensively secure. Then, too, at] Pro-
Nazis should be properly enrolled so
if we are forced to enter the war they
may be interned immediately. And
if I don't miss my guess it wiil take
a large encampment to hoid them alt.
What shall be my attitude as an
American citizen? As a loyal Ameri-
can I shall keep myself in readiness
to obey my government in all its pro-
gram for the safety of my beloved
country, and for the defense of our
own people. This is no time for dis-
loyalty among us. Every man, woman
and chiid that loves this land and the
principles for which it stands, and for
which our forefathers fought and
baptised with their own biood. should
align themselves with our govern-
ment in what may be the greatest
struggie for the maintenance of our
peace, and the security of our peopie.
Then, too, we must not overlook
the loyalty we owe to God. We
shouid be a Christian people. A
peopie that beiieves in worshipping
God according to the dictates of our
and 1939 seediings from this wild
piant were subjected to the wilt and
showed remarkable resistance. Of
2,500 piants transpianted to fields,
none was kiiled by the disease and
oniy ten showed slight discrimination
of the vascuiar tissue in the stem.
Dr. Tucker has hybrids of tomatoes
as iarge as basebails—the very kind
canneries want in their operations.
MISSIONARY SOCIETY
MEETS IN SOCIAL
. own conscience. If the murderous
" and Mrs. B. E. Halbet t and hordes that have started their march
Lige Halbert were among those j ^ ^ shouid be victorious this
'sited Nan Travis Hospitai at! ^ ^ ^ ^ase.
nville Sunday, when that tn- ^.^gth is in God. We must
ut'on held open house in obser-j^^ j ^ calling upon you,
! "C of National Hospital Day. , of America, citizens of Aitt-,
' ! to renew yout* faith in Him. Let the
It With a Want Ad ^ar of the Lord be the beginning of
Mrs. Ima Watters was hostess to
sixteen ladies of the Methodist
Society Monday at 3:30 p. m., in her
home.
Mrs. R. R. Stribling had charge of
the program which dealt with the
racial problem. Ours, is that of the
negro.
Three songs were ied by Mrs. Finan
Smith. Mrs. Grady Singletary made
a survey of Aito Negro School, and
gave reports. She also gave a briet
summary of "The Missionary Bui-
ietin." Mrs. W. T. Whiteman ied the
devotional, foliowed by praver by
Mrs. Byron Blanton. A short business
meeting ciosed the program, by out
president, Mrs. Gus Riounsaville.
The hostess, assisted by Misses
Josie Alma Watters and Aline Ro-
zelie served delicious plates of sand-
wiches and cookies, and punch.
VERNIS FULMER
AGAIN IN ALTO
Vemis Fulmer seems to be spread-
ing his activities rapidly over the dis-
trict. Mr. Fulmer is a young man who
has spent his life in the district, ana.
if eiected, he wili be the first District
Attorney to serve from Nacogdoches
County in almost a s):ore of years.
Vernis served Nacogdoches County
six straight years both as District
Cierk and as County Attorney. He is
now in private practice of law in
Nacogdoches. He is an able young
lawyer and aspires to the District At-
torney post based upon the above
record.
your wisdom. The crisis that is now
upon us should prompt every one of
you to lay aside everything else and
turn your faces toward God and your
steps to His Sanctuary.
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