Sumer employee and members of Holick’s Boot-
shop include, (left to right), Gilbert Holick, Bill
Moon, Bud Jones, John Clay, Leon Wilson, Roy
King, Johnny Holick, Mrs. Ed Holick, and Ed
Holick. This is only the skeleton summer crew,
since summertime is the slack season for Holick’s.
During the regular semesters, many more men
are employed making the Aggie boots. Joseph
Holick, who started the Bootshop, came to A&M
in 1892, to set up a Shoeshop.
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• FOR SALE •
1940 FOUR-DOOR LINCOLN. Fair con
dition, good rubber. Price—$140.00. See
B-5-D, College View.
GREY ’38 CHRYSLER ROYAL, 4-door
sedan, paint good, runs good. Price
$150.00. Call after 5 p.m., B-3-X, Col
lege View.
2 BEDROOM HOUSE, insulated and newly
decorated. See owner, 202 South Mun-
nerlyn Drive.
1940 DODGE SEDAN, excellent shape, in
side and out. 233 Milner Drive.
ONE 1949 BLACK Styleline Fordor Chev
rolet Sedan. Sealed bids will be received
in the Office of the Comptroller until
10 a.m., Friday, August 11, 1950. The
right is reserved to reject any and all
bids and to waive any and all technical
ities. Address Comptroller, A.&M. Col
lege of Texas, College Station, Texas,
for further information.
• WANTED •
STUDENT TO DO ART WORK for Student
Publications. Long hours, low pay. If
interested, bring sample of your work to
room 211 Goodwin Hall, in the after
noons. Hours may be arranged to suit
convenience of student. Should be able
to do free hand drawing with pencil and
India Ink. Prefer a student who is
interested in learning mechanics of mag
azine design.
• LOST AND FOUND •
LOST—Chain of keys with DAV Tag KU
3712, Please return to Mrs. Arch C.
Balter, Telephone 6-1534.
LOST—Wrist watch, College View wash
rack. Write Box 1444.
• MISCELLANEOUS •
CALL 6-1402 for quick estimates on cab
inet work, nursery equipment, and/other
built to order items of excellent quality.
BE A GOOD CITIZEN, don’t, hold out for
inflated prices. Sell those out-dated
booits to Poor Ole Lou, We pay pre
miums for History 105-106, History 306,
• SPECIAL NOTICE •
Lou Smith Names
Wedding Party
Miss Lou Ann Smith of College
Station and Bill Welch who will
be married Saturday, have chosen
the attendants for their wedding.
Miss Smith has chosen as her
maid of honor Miss Jane Wilson.
Bridesmaids will be Anna Jean
Godbey, Nancy Jane Reynolds, Lou
Burgess, and Barbara Allen of
Detroit, Texas. Pam Avera and
Lois Fowler will be flower girls.
Welch will have as his best man
Les Quinn of Woodsboro. Ushers
are to be J. T. Freeman of Abilene,
Bill Truman of Abilene, Bill Wales
of Refugio and Bob Smith of Bryan.
David Smith, brother of the bride-
to-be will be ringbearer.
The Reverend James F. Fowler
of the Church of Christ of College
Station will conduct the wedding
ceremony. Miss Sari Price of Kauf
man will be soloist, and Mrs. Imo-
gene Nash Robertson will accom
pany her. The wedding will begin
at seven p. m. at the Oaks in
Bryan.
Rehearsal dinner will be Friday
evening at the home of Mrs. R.
L. Hunt in College Park. Mrs.
W. E. Street will assist her as
hostess.
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Sul Ross Lodge No. 1300 A. F. & A. M.
Stated meeting, Thursday,
August 10 at 7 p.m., also F.
C. Examinations and E. A.
Degree.
S. R. Wright, W.M.
N. M. McGinnis, Sec.
Ind. Ed. Wives to Meet
The Industrial Wives Club will
meet at the home of Mrs. R. M.
Marcotte, 4305 College Main, to
night at 7:30. All members are
asked to attend.
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Senior Boots? Aggie Band
Hold Place in Ho lick History
By DALE WALSTON
The history of Holick’s Boot-
shop and Joseph F. Holick fol
low the history of the growth of
A&M and particularly the Aggie
Band. The Bootshop was establish
ed in 1891 when Joseph Holick
came to the campus as a shoe
maker and repairman.
The senior Holick hadn’t been
on the campus long when college
residents discovered he had musical
abilities. He organized a small
orchestra of campus residents and
students.
At this time there was no regu
lar band at A&M. A drummer was
hired to beat the drum at reveille
and between class periods. When
ever the college felt the need of
music for special events, a band
composed of residents of Bryan,
►College Station, and nearby towns
was hired. >
Hired as Bugler
In 1893 the Commandant of the
Cadet Corps decided to use a col
lege bugler, and Holick was em
ployed. In 1894, the Commandant
persuaded Holick to organize a
cadet band. Thus began the fam
ous Aggie Band.
Soon after he organized the
band, Holick became ill and asked
to be relieved of his duties as bug
ler and bandmaster. Following doc
tor’s advice, he closed his Shoe-
shop, as it was then called, and
moved to San Angelo, where he
stayed for three months.
Deciding to return to A&M, he
re-opened his shop doing only re
pair work. For several years he
stuck to light work, and soon his
health improved.
Holick continued to have an ac
tive interest in the Aggie Band.
He pinch-hitted for several band
masters. In the fall of 1902,
when George F. Terrell resigned as
bandmaster, the president of the
college called on Holick, who once
again took over the band. He con
tinued leading the band until
March, 1903, when at Holick’s sug
gestion, B. P. Day, a member of
the old Second Texas Infantry
Band, was hired.
Holick Made Boots
Following World War 1, mem
bers of the Corps of Cadets began
to wear boots, and Holick, with
the aid of five sons, expanded his
Saturday Shower
Honors Bride-to-Be
shoe repair business into a boot-
shop which rapidly grew to it’s
present capacity.
Tragedy struck the Holick store
in the spring of 1946. Many sen
iors had their boots in the shop
in preparation for a big week
end. Many boots were in the pro
cess of being manufactured. All
the boots as well as the entire
Holick store was destroyed by
fire. The boots were covered by
insurance, but the Holicks lost
heavily on uninsured store equip
ment.
Mr. Holick is now 83 years old,
and retired in July, 1949. He is
succeeded in the Bootshop by four
sons, Joe Jr., John W. Gilbert C.,
Class of ’39, and Ed W. Holick,
Class of ’16.
Air Conditioned Store
The present Holick store has ex
panded in recent years to include
fishing tackle and equipment. In
the leather line they manufacture
everything from purses to pistol
holders.
Miss Lou Ann Smith, was en
tertained with a party Monday
evening, by Jane Wilson at her
home in College Hills.
Friends of the bride-to-be show
ered her with personal gifts at the
affair.
Miss Smith will be married to
Bill Welch Saturday evening at
the Oaks in Bryan.
Of course, the really big busi
ness around Holick’s is the man
ufacture of senior boots, a busi
ness the Holicks are justly proud
of. The Holicks are happy to have
a part in the carrying-on of one
of the traditions of A&M, and, as
one of the younger Holicks said,
“We hope to string along with
the Aggies for another 60 years.”
Mrs. Sneed Appointed
WSCS Radio Chairman
Mrs. Robert Sneed was appointed
radio chairman for the Woman’s
Society of Christian Service of
the A&M Methodist Church accord
ing to an announcement made by
Mrs. Marion Pugh, chairman of
the WSCS.
Mrs. Sneed studied radio and
dramatics at Southwestern Uni
versity and holds a degree in re
ligious education from SMU.
She began her August programs
on August 3. Brad Woddle, a teach
er of the Kum-Dubl class, spoke
on “Our Unpaid Debt to the Past.”
Mrs. Dallas Belcher will discuss
Style Show
Will Feature
Fall Fashions
Fall fashions especially designed
for the college campus will be
shown this afternoon in Lester’s
Smart Shop in Bryan.
The show will feature campus
wear, including class room attire,
casual date dresses, special date
dresses and formals.
One special feature of the show
will be the first showing of Jan
sen’s new sweater made of a new
fabric which “looks like Cashmere,
feels like Cashmere but is not Cash-
mere.”
New light, three-quarter length
coats in purple, orange, cinnarhon
brown and other fall colors will
be shown. Velvet accessories will
be shown with a variety of outfits.
“What’s New on the Economical
Front” on the next broadcast. The
Reverend Robert Sneed will de
liver a sermonette. His program
will be followed by the Rev. Frank
Boutwell of St. Paul’s Methodist
Church of Bryan. He will talk on
“Religion in the News.”
Mrs. John Hillman will close
the series by a talk entitled “Save
the Children.!’
Mrs. Belcher, second speaker, is
the general radio chairman for the
College Station Council of Church
Women. The Thursday morning
broadcast at 10 are jointly proy
duced by the members of the four
churches in the council. Each group
is responsible for three months
out of the year.
Current radio chairmen are Mrs.
Grin Helvey, St. Thomas Episco
pal Church; Mrs. Carlton Adams,
A&M Presbyterian Church; Mrs.
Horace Bass, A&M Christian
Church; and Mrs. Sneed of the
A&M Methodist Church.
These chairmen are assisted by
others as they see fit to request
service.
The radio program is now in
its seventh year. Mrs. F. L. Thomas
served as leader until three years
ago when the four churches agreed
to share the responsibility.
Mrs. Dora Parsons Dies
Mrs. Dora Parsons, mother of
Mrs. Roy W. Snyder, died at 11:30
p. m. August 6 after a prolonged
illness.
Funeral services will be at 2:30
Wednesday afternoon at the Estel
Funeral Home, Marshalltown, Iowa.
80,000 EX-BREADWINNERS
You wouldn’t know how it feels to be an EX, unless you are one.
Two million people are injured at work every year, but sooner or later most of them
get back on the job, working and earning again. They don’t know how lucky they are!
Among those 2,000,000 there’s an inner group of 80,000, of which I am one. We’re the
EX-breadwinners. We had accidents—bad ones.
Who can say what the result of any accident will be? Two people have almost iden
tical falls—one gets his wind knocked out—the other is paralyzed for life. Call it fate or
what you will, but when an accident starts happening nobody knows how it will end.
You don’t Have to tell me how personal safety is all wrapped up with the things that
make life worthwhile—a good job—good pay—a happy family, well-cared-for and the
promise of a bright future.
The least I can do now is pass the word along to you. Don’t take safety for granted,
an accident can happen to yon! Know your job, be alert to its hazards. Think safely.
Keep on being a breadwinner!
Prepared hi co-operation with the President’s Conference on
Industrial Safety and contributed in the public interest by
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