How Articles Happen
78 years old and still in good shape
Some weeks ago now, a large plain brown envelope arrived in the mail. In it I found a CD featuring a Welsh singer and a copy of the Lime Springs Herald from February 7, 1935—two years before I was born.
Wayne Roberts was doing some house cleaning and figured since I love Welsh music, he would bribe me with the CD and slip in the old Herald to get it out of his home. He figured that since I am housing a few boxes of pictures and “stuff” from both my parents and my uncle R.L., surely I’d have a home for and would treasure this 1935 Herald.
I’ll explain how articles like this happen. I was sitting here in our trailer in Mission, TX, planning to create the February calendar for Lime Springs.com. After all, it is February 1!
An article in progress.
Southbound mail is really slow in getting way down here, so I still don’t have the Jan. 24 issue of the Herald. And I need that, as that’s where I get the info for the activity calendar. Worse yet, I had already passed the previous issue along to Gary Goetsch, who in turn passes it to his sister Lila Helm, who in turn passes it to me, slipped in with the daily papers which I like to read —but which they all like to get rid of because there is no recycling here and we pay for garbage pickup by the bag. Whew!
I picked up the one and only Herald available to me at the moment, the 1935 one, and browsed it a bit. Hmmm, I could write an article about some of these things, I thought.
That’s how this article began. And already it is long enough for an article and I’ve not even gotten to the comments regarding the decades-old material.
OK, I’ll do two articles today!
On second thought, I’ll just put in a heading and keep going. That keeps the flow going and makes it easier for you to follow. (It’s possible that you really didn’t want to know this much about how these articles come to be. Sorry.)
78 years ago in the Herald
One article is titled “Mrs. M.B. Davis Honored as Long Choir Member.” Yes, that’s the grandmother of Bill Davis, whose memorial service is being held as I write this. She was honored for singing in the choir for 45 years. And this was in 1935! I bet several readers remember her singing in the choir!
A few hours after writing the above, Nancy sent an email with “suggestions” but included this comment regarding Mrs. Davis:
“Ella Mae was still standing by me in choir when I left home the fall of ’57. Makes her years of service many!!”
My math says that she sang in the choir for at least 67 years!
Another article commends Miss Marion Schacht for having the highest average for the class of sixty at Pitz Beauty Culture School in Waterloo. “Miss Schacht,” we know, went on to become Mrs. Jim Eaton and, later, Mrs. Bill Miles. She had a beauty shop in the Schacht building.
There is a full column of “…Doings in Local Schools.” The Juniors were studying Clay, Calhoun, and Webster and wrote essays on what those men’s speeches on slavery were about.
In music, several students had chosen their piece for the contest. Among them, and the only one I know, was Warren Jones who chose to play “Gypsy Love Song” on his cornet. I hope to hear him, now 78 years later, play his cornet in one of the bands down here.
Front-page news, the feature article, in fact, was the death of 14-year-old Howard Roberts, son of Archie and Pauline and brother of Wayne. I suspect that article is the reason Wayne had the paper. And it’s possible that he acquired it only after the death of his sister Peg.
There are eight pages to the paper.
This info is from page one!