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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1924
Page
6
A call for a band rehearsal next Sunday at 3 15 p m at Pecos studios for Sunday school attendees who do not smoke. Toyah Burstow and Pecos band members invited to join and build one of the country’s cleanest bands. The piece notes the rise of school orchestras and potential credits for orchestra study.
Reeves and Ward counties orchestras are mentioned again in The Etude Christmas number, highlighting regional ensembles featured in the holiday issue. The note signals continued banding of local groups in national music culture.
A Selmer's Bulletin account from Los Angeles notes a national shift as music becomes a public necessity. It highlights Miss Olive M. Jones and Miss Jennie L. Jones promoting instruments in schools, teaching 2,400 students yearly, and industry leaders backing bands to foster goodwill and loyalty.
Overtures Pique Dame Martha Light Cavalry and Lusts piel are praised as strong efforts by the orchestras. Orchestra students recitals are planned for Barstow on Friday December 12 and Pecos on Tuesday December 16. Students should practice solos diligently as little time is allotted at lessons before the recitals.
A music memory contest at rehearsals named Ormand Jensen of Barstow and Tillman Durdon of Pecos as leading contenders.
The message counsels the public to illuminate and remove underlying problems in lodges schools or churches when progress stalls, aiming to benefit future generations through collective action and reform.
Pinkney Black received a late model silk plush lined C. G. Conn trumpet gift in advance of Christmas last week.
A group from Parstow Public School Orchestra was photographed last week for El Paso daily paper, Fort Worth Star-Telegram and two musical journals.
Mrs Clyde Black teaches violoncello to Mrs R 8 Thurston and Miss Jessie Dresser shows talent on violin. Gordon Black prepares to join the Barstow music scene as Xmas program rehearsals progress with band and orchestra. Plans for a Barstow piano camp cottage are under way with a fund started. Sing Song program Sunday evening drew a large crowd and both ensembles performed Sousa marches and overtures including Martha Poet and Peasant Picque Dame Light Calvary.
Pecos Studio News reports the Pecos orchestra had its best rehearsal last week with a new overture performed straight through. The group faces timing challenges as they consider closing and anticipate Edna Peer taking over violoncello parts, creating a need for another trap drummer with piano study.
Mr and Mrs Slack and daughter Lucile of Marfa formerly Pecos orchestra members visited the studios last week. Mr Slack recently crafted another violin with a rich full tone and attractive shape. A fine violinist from New York City valued the instrument around 150 dollars, its value rising with years of playing to draw out richer tones.
The article cites Dr. Eugene Lyman Fisk of the Life Extension Institute about higher mortality among women aged 17 to 32 compared with men. It notes concerns over cigarette smoking late hours and urban lifestyles, urging rational measures to improve health and longevity for young women.
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram notes mothers and fathers face a new argument defending modern freedom. It warns that self confident youth ignoring fundamental ethics may pay a high price, while statistics from cold science back a warning rather than an individual case.
In Atteboro Massachusetts a family of twelve children is sustained on a $35 weekly budget. The couple, Mrs. Einar Owren and her husband, immigrated from Denmark and run a jeweler casting foundry. The children excel in health and prizes, with plans for college for the sons and high school completion for the daughters.
A Texas anti narcotics message warns that the United States uses more narcotics than the world combined and urges Mothers of Texas to support state and national efforts to stamp out the evil. The piece claims over a million Americans have suffered from narcotics and cites a national cost of about ten million dollars daily. A courier from the Anti Narcotic Committee of the Texas Federated Woman's Clubs will visit the city soon and asks residents to prepare to participate.
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