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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1925
Page
2
A gold medal will be awarded to the orchestral instrument student who excels in twelve major scales, twelve melodic minor scales, one chromatic scale, and sight reading. String players may choose any position. only very easy music will be used with piano accompaniment.
The list of instructors includes Mrs. M A Gristiam and Miss Esther Harkness with Florence Burcharl on violin in Toyah, Ruth Allen Mary Townley on violin, Clevern Farnum on cornet and Wendell Nichols on trombone in Barstow, and Mesdames R M Stevenson and R B Norman with Annie Mahala Murray Mary McGee on violin Edna Peer on piano in Pecos. Tillman Dardin and Ernest Harp are also named to teach beginners.
Due to the cold spell and widespread illness, Barstow orchestra did not rehearse this week. Pecos held a rehearsal Tuesday evening that was described as one of the best ever.
Geographically Pecos lies at the heart of West Texas and officials say cooperation across towns could develop a regional music center in Pecos that would benefit the entire area.
Harrison Beauchamp orders a Pan American silver plated gold bell slide trombone with ease. Melvin Cowan advances on violin under Annie Mahala Murray. Blanche Bowie begins violin with Mrs Norman. Pecos Baptist church reportedly has the largest church orchestra in Texas. J Walter Greep studies violin with Mary McGee. Gilbert Murry George Morrison and Wallace Anderson make progress on clarinet and Stanley Peer improves on side trombone. Jesson also noted.
A historic baton once used by Richard Wagner at the 1877 Albert Hall festival resurfaced as Miss Susan Spain Dunk wields it for luck at her debut as conductor in London. The baton symbolizes Wagnerian vigor, noting the composer broke many batons in performance.
Vladimir de Pachmann, 76, the Russian pianist, with business manager F Pallottelli and friend A Portune, is seen in El Paso traveling from Fort Worth to San Francisco where he plans a February recital. He denounces modern jazz as American trash, calling it disgusting and useless and stating he will not perform it.
Critics hail his constant effort to keep the art of singing pure as he performs Bach and Handel. While praised for ballads, his enduring triumph lies in solemn classical works. The Syracuse Herald notes restraint in light songs would have been sad. The Boston Herald hopes Handel and Mozart singers study his approach.
An analysis of Dr. Eugene Lyman Fisk's remarks at a national educational conference warns that tuberculosis remains the chief danger to young women aged seventeen to thirty-two. The piece argues that modern freedom and long working hours, poor diets, and late hours contribute to deteriorating health, with calls for a return to home life and stronger church and school guidance to restore balance and prevent disease.
At the Pacific Northwest Forest Experiment Station in Portland Oregon researchers report a method to use beetles to loosen bark from pine trees planned for pulpwood. By girding trees in late summer beetles swarm the bark and loosen it, allowing easier removal before logging in winter ends their feast.
China presents growing demand for electrical machinery as it expands power capacity. In ten years about 100 electric power plants have been built, signaling a rising market for imported equipment and supplies to support new plant construction and modernization.
The article notes China’s vast potential with 265000 miles of railway in the United States and 7000 in China. It argues massive supply runs and equipment will be required as China develops railways highways water works factories power plants and harbor works. It also predicts a surge in demand for automobiles as highways expand.
The 1924 Nobel laureate in literature Wladislaw Reymont began as a telegraph operator at a small railroad station. He later toured with a theater company, worked as a railroad laborer and farmhand, and even visited Czestochowa to seek monastic life. His first stories appeared in 1898, and his novel Peasants in four parts remains widely translated. He owns an estate near Posen.
Popular Science Monthly describes a small back strapped motorized propeller from Germany that lets an experienced skier ride across the water at high speed. The propeller is started and stopped by a pneumatic device similar to a camera shutter mechanism.
The United States uses electricity nearly equal to the rest of the world combined, while its electric service and power industry expands faster than any other sector in the country.
United States commerce reports show a Madrid family of five needs 5854 pesetas annually. Food 467 pesetas, housing 57, clothing 118, miscellaneous 1. At current rates this equals about 728 dollars, though wages for many laborers fall short of this level.
A man at a downtown Detroit office hurls a wad of paper at a colleague after discovering a printing error in a half-completed crossword puzzle. The punchline reveals the motive as futile frustration with the puzzle.
A wry quip contrasts luxury with need, noting that in modern times luxuries blur into necessities as tastes and priorities shift. It reflects changing standards of comfort and survival in daily life.
A playful verse listing yearend wishes and a string of comic lines. References to New Year, income tax, a girl named Mary and her Beau, a movie, Sam with his fiddle, and his father watching as Sam acts as Signor We Fest in the West.
W M Hopper of Toyah Texas offers drilling services with a full set of tools for wells from four and a half to sixteen inches. He claims 26 years of experience and a capacity to drill 800 feet if needed and invites inquiries by phone at Toyah or by mail.
In Klinkerville a cheerful nurse nicknamed Aunty Scroggins reassures a typhoid patient. She urges him to shift thoughts to health, outdoor dangers, and temptations, then to rest in a comfortable walnut bed as he improves at home. The prose echoes Edwin Tarrissee in Judge.
A fragment quotes Ed Purdy on life and work noting that word owed a living but one must specialize in collecting to get it. The remark hints at practical craft over mere rhetoric.
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