The Mountain Eagle (Sierra Blanca, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, December 11, 1925 Page: 2 of 4
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The Mountain Eagle
PUBLISIIBD EVERV FBIDAY ATStEltBlBLANCA, TEXAS J „
C. J. WARREN, EDITOR & OWNEB
Subscription Price, $1.60 Per Year; Display Advertising, 25
Cents Per Column Inch Each Insertion; Readers lo Cents
Per Line.
SNTSMKD AS •SOOND-CLASS MATTBH JULY 2. 1919 AT THK POST OFFICS,
tlMRA BLANCA. TRXAI,
EDITORIAL C 0 MM E N T
Another rearu'ar feature in Thp Eagle, which not* pep into th«
sheet, i«* our cartoon service. It comes higher than what is some
times termed "boiler plat*" hut we b«li«ve it will be appreciated.
Wp wern forced to leave out much jyood news last, wpptk, for thp
reason wp wpre short, on fcyoe and jot a 'atP start, on thp nan r. aNo.
Another thins wp much rpjrrettfld whs bad rollers la«fc tfppk and con-
sequent^ bad print. Wp pre making an effort this wppft t,« hnv
nnw rollers in tlmp for this issup, and t.vne too. Whpn wp grot, the
necessary material we expect to imnrovp the paper from time to time
Do the peoplp of Sierra Rlsnca realizp that thpr® is a house
shortage here right now? Tt is a fact, neverthplpss. Morp ppoplp
would move to Sierra Rlanca and make this their homp if they could
only cret proppr living quarters. Sunpose we had onlv twenty more
families; it would mean sompthine likp^ightv more people in town.
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it would m^an mim trade it the store*, an increased business of some
eight, hundred or one thousand <Vlars a month. Whpn ppoplp resllv
want to ma«e thpir home among us for the t&nefit of thpmselves and
the town, it is too bad that they can not secure the necessary acom-
modations to do so.
Siprra Rlanca is an attractive little town, or rather it is ideallv
located, and could be made an attractive town. One will need searoh
a long time before he find another town set among such beautiful
mountains. Look whatever direction you will and the grandpurof
mountain scenery greets the eye. It- seems even the yucca cacti
grow a tittle larger in the vicinity of Sierra Hlanca than elsewhere.
The sun shines a little brighter and the town is protected from the
Band storm* which are so disagreeable in manv other places.
Taking it on a whole Sierra Rlanca is .not a bad place in which
to live, and with the proper housing facilities, the town evidently
would grow.
When you get up these mornings and find a little ice in the tank
don't freeze, but just think how much colder it is farther north and
east. With snowstorms, and sunshine the exception, ice six or eight
,nches thick, the theomometer standing in the vicinity of zero, then
it is cold and dissgreeahlp. At an altitude of bptter than 4600 feet
Sierra Rlanca enjoys m'ld weather. The dry bracing air moderates
the winters and the heighth above the sea makes of the summers a
paradise compared to Phoenix and other winter resorts. One will
not freeze in Sierra Rlanca in the winter and the summers are de-
lightful here. A blanket at night is always welcome at this altitude.
Sierra Rlanca needs a live Chamber of Commerce, or rathei* the
old one needs rejuvinating. Nothing helps a town like sneh an
organization. It is not necessary that the membershin run into the
hundreds in order to do things; nor is it necessary that each mem-
ber have'great wealth. Enthusiasm counts for much in a chamber
of commerce, good attendance, regular meetings and co operation.
It is more matter of getting the needs of the town before the men
who have the money and are only too glad to invest when the field
has been proved. It is for the chamber of commerce, to prove the
field. So long as the people of a town trade dollars the town will
have about the seme valuation, but when a town points oat its needs
to men who have investors will come to the reseue. They will profit
by It and the town, likewise, will realize on such investments.
The business and professional men of Sierra Blanoa owe it to
themsslves end to the town to get ^ together and put life into some
such organisation as a chamber of oomneroe.
His Dream af a Real Christmas
The continued drouth in the vicinity of Sierra Rlanca and all
West Texas has been a thorn in the sides of cattlemen, until the
good rains refreshed this section last summer. Since the rains there
is a noticeable improvement of conditions. The cattle industry i
coming back, not to what it once was, possiblv, but to the extent
that the cattleman is in spirits, Business has been stimulated in
Accordance. Some ranches are being restocked and the general "u t
look is more satisfactory. Morj and more attention will be turned to
farming, probably, since irrigation has proved so successful in the
valley, but there still remains manv acres of land in the county that
can never be watered and adapted to agricultural purposes Then it
will be worth a great deal to Hudspeth people to have grass and
cattle once more.
It isn't every small town paper that can boast of a competent
local columnist siioh as Olem,, who conducts "Pick-Ups", in thf
Mountain Eagle. We feel sure our readers will learn to watch fo>-
his stuff every week. Clem is just a voung man about town but hia
stuff carries a punch, and white much of it is collected from other
papers, he knows how to select..
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'Copyright, W N
Sheriffs Sale
The State of Texa-t.
County of Hudspeth
My virtue of an Order of Sale
issued out of the honorable 34th.
District Court of Hudspeth
uount.v on the 19th day of Nov-
ember, 1925, by the Clerk theraof,
in the case of Edgar T. Anderson
versus D. H. Holle.v No. 192 and
i • me, as Sheriff directed and
delivered, [ will proceed to sell,
within the hours prescribed. by
law lor Sheriff's Sales, on the
Fust Tuesday in"A January, A. D.
1926, it being the 6th. day of said
month, before .the Court House
door of said Hudspeth County in,
the city of Sierra Ulanca the fol-
lowing described land, to-wit:
Sections three (3) and Nine (9)
in Block fifty one (51) Public
school Linda in Hudspeth County
Texas as the property of D. H.
Hoiiey. Levied on, on the 24th.
day of November, 1925, as the
property of D. H. Holley to sat-
isfy a judgement amounting to
$5137.97 in favor of Edgar T.
Anderson and cost of auit.
Given under my hand, this 28th
day of November, 1925.
la 3t Harry Moore, Sheriff,
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Glaciers
Tou liked the music Instruments
that glaciers made, but no songs were
ever so grand as those of the glaciers |
Sierra Blanca Time Table
Southern Pacific Railroad
West Bound
themselves, no falls so lofty as those No. 101—Arrive . . 7:18 p.
which poured from brows and chasmed
mountains of pure dart Ice. Glaciers
made the mountains and ground corn
for all the flowers, and the forests of
silver fir; made smooth paths for hu-
man feet until the sacred Sierras have
become the most approachable of
mountains. . . . The primary moun-
tain waves, unvltal granite, were soon
carved to beauty. They bared the
lordly domes and 'ashioned the clus-
tering spires; smoothed godlike moun-
tain brows and shaped lake cups for
crystal waters; wove myriads of mazy
canyons and spread them out like lace.
—John Mulr.
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Aged Student*
Cato at eighty, took It Into his ven-
erable head to learn Greek and Plu-
tarch, almost as late In life, learned
Latin. Theophrastus began his work
on the characters of men at Tilnety.
His literary labors* were ended only
by death. Socrates learned to play
on musical Instruments when well , ad-
vanced In life. Colbert, the famous
French statesman, returned at sixty
to his Latin and law studies, and the
great Doctor Johnson applied himself
to Dutch but a few years before his
death. Then there Is the now forgot-
ten Marquis de St. Aqlaire, who was
once regarded as a remarkable prod-
igy. At the age of seventy he began
to write poetry and contemporaries
declared that his verses were "full of
fire, delicacy and sweetness."
Weird Coffee Recipe
Trench colTee, Turkish coffee, Rus-
sian coffee, all have had their vogue
among those who are constantly seek-
ing the bizarre; but In "All About
Coffee" we find a recipe which should
be weird enough to satisfy anyone's
taste. It Is "Judge" Walter Rumsey's
"new and superior way of making cof-
fee" as given in 1657.
You must "take equal quantity of
Butter and Sallet-oyle, melt them we'
together, but not boyle them. The;
stlrre them well that they may In-
corporate together. Then melt there-
with three times aa much Honey and
stlrre It well together. Add thereunto
ponder of Turkish Cophie, to make It
Electuary."
Butter, salad oil, honey, and coffee
mixed! ' ■ v '
No. 109—Arrive .12:1
(flag stop)
East Bound
No. 102—Arrive . 12:33 p. m.
(flag stop)
No. 110—Arrive .. 8:ty p. m.
T. & P. Railroad
West Bound
No. 1—Arrive .... 8:35 a. m.
No. 5—Arrive 5:45 p in
East Bound
No. 2-
No. 6.-
-Arrive.
-Arrive
10:05 p. m.
1 J:25 a* m.
The Eagle, $1.50 par year.
Grief in Animate
A man or woman who loses some
dear one Is overcome with deep sor-
row, remembering only the admirable
qualities of the lost one, but this feel-
ing is soon softened by a multitude of
external Impressions and influences,;
so that sorrow gives way to melan !
choly, which in its turn diminishes.
Mot so in the case of many animaii* j
These not only retain thAV grief much j
longer, but there are cases in which;
It lasts as long as life Itself.
The cat will swim after her kittens j
which some cruel man is trying to;
drown. The story of thp dog who:
starves to death on the grave of his
master Is no fable. A stone In the
Paris dogs' cemetery is thus inscribed:
'"He was so intelligent that he might
have been taken for a human being—
but that he was faithful."—Das Neue
Ullsteln Magazln, Berlin.
Slow Growth* of Oak*
England's famed oaks are disap-
pearing. Many oaks were cut down
during the war, as the wood was ur-
gently needed. Said a botanist? "The
wood of an oak is not really any good
until the tree Is four hundred years
old, and people today cannot afford to
grow oaks for posterity. Originally
large parts x f England were covered
with oaks. The tree Is almost a rarity
now la some places. It Is said that aa
oak takes 400 years to grow to fall
else, Is mature for another 400 years,
and takes 400 years more to decays ,
la some esses I should say this Is
tvaar
PROCRASTINATION
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is the thief of time.
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Start that savings account now"
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Warren, C. J. The Mountain Eagle (Sierra Blanca, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, December 11, 1925, newspaper, December 11, 1925; Sierra Blanca, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth292720/m1/2/: accessed May 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.