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Newspaper
Hill View Times
Location
Kerrville, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1926
Page
2
P. E. Hawkins, Editor oversees a weekly edition published each Thursday. Subscription priced at $1 per year in advance. The paper is entered as second class matter January 19, 1926 at Kerrville post office under 1879 act.
The yellow sheet with a Classified Business Directory shows Hill View Times under Newspaper. The paper confirms it was contacted by phone to join and pay the required listing fee.
In a reflection on Kerrville’s identity the writer debunks the idea of a “one man town” noting multiple banks hotels garages lumber yards and stores. He recalls old social customs and praises gentler applause at band concerts while recounting a tale of a lawyer father and his son Victor with a car horn lightening the mood.
The writer questions restrictiveness of motor horn rules and suggests not only that horns be required on cars but also that limits exist on when to sound them. They advocate coordinated horn use when groups of cars assemble, urging drivers to tune horns or stay silent for harmony.
Edwin W. Carmack of Tennessee delivered a reverent tribute to the South praising its heroic lineage and sacrifices. He declared the region’s people heirs to liberty and civilization, and vowed devotion to the land born of sorrows and memories.
Fredericksburg Standard reflects on human achievement and limits in science and nature. It contrasts precise planetary calculations with mysteries of migration and light, noting grand constructions yet unresolved questions about life, color, and natural forces. Nature humbles human pride.
The Texas Highway Bulletin notes editors across Texas urge restraint on gathering wild flowers while praising their beauty. It argues the flowers are God given messengers brightening life in open country year round.
The 1926 Texas landscape blooms with abundant rainfall delivering fields of red and white poppies and miles of bluebonnets. Edgar Hall, Austin florist, urges gathering and scattering seeds to sustain wildflowers, proposing seed gathering and planting fêtes for Texas with Scouts and Campfire Girls involved. He argues Texas can afford generous laws and champions native blooms across prairies and open fields.
The Presbyterian discusses cockroaches as the earths oldest creature, noting their apparent lack of change over 200000 years. It mocks evolutionists and quotes Tom McNeal of Kansas Farmer while arguing cockroaches adapted perfectly and need no new cupboards or ice boxes.
A fragment recalls a man being attacked in a town barber shop and another in a nearby crossroads store. The report hints at a violent incident but provides only partial details.
In a Kansas City Star excerpt, Gay Johnson of Rumpus Ridge recalls a barber scene where a rowdy dispute escalates as a chairbound man is slashed at the throat. The old man survives, praising the chaos as worth it amid the tense confrontation and quarrel between barbers.
A comic exchange in The Progressive Grocer mimics a buyer and clerk banter as they confuse consecrated lye with concentrated lye. The dialogue shifts through mock chemical terms like camphor sulfur cinnamond myrrh and ammonia noting the price of fifteen cents.
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