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DENTON DOINGS
Page 2
Denton, Texas 76201
302 Mimosa Drive
THIRTY-SECOND ANNIVERSARY YEAR
FROM DR. L. H. HUBBARD
Georgetown, Texas
Dear Mr. Headlee:
Printed by the Terrill Wheeler Printing Company
THIS PUBLICATION BEGAN AS A FAMILY NEWSLETTER THIRTY YEARS AGO.
AND HAS BEEN PUBLISHED CONTINUOUSLY SINCE THAT TIME.
Thank you for carrying the story about Jack in the
DOINGS. You’ve certainly doing a lot of people a lot of
good with your unselfish service in the field of publicity.
L. H. Hubbard
middle years, he played golf, and was president of the
Denton Country Club when it was mainly a golf club€
in his early years in Denton, Headlee spent mucH
time with church work and the Masonic Order. He and
the late Mr. M. L. Ramey were the only two men ever to
serve as president of the Official Board of the Metho-
dist Church for four years each.
Earlier Headlee had become worshipful Master of
Stanfield Lodge A.F. & A.M. and a Knight Templar,
Mason, and a Shriner. He held a Certificate in the
Esoteric Work, teaching younger Masons for 15 years.
He joined the K. of P., the W.O.W., etc. and is a memm
ber of the IOOF lodge on the north side of the squal©
He has been a member of the Denton Men’s Forum
(meets at Marquis Hall) for thirty years, and the Men’s
Garden Club for a lesser period of time.
He spent a lot of time as a Commissioner of the
Methodist Home at Waco for twenty years.
He has also taken an interest in Bettie’s clubs and
Fairhaven, where Bettie has served as Corporation Sec-
retary for eleven years. Organized Nov. 22, 1956.
Daisey died July 7, 1962. Her 81st birthday was the
day before she died. They had 64 years of happiness
together.
Headlee married Mrs. Bettie Ward Priddy, a mem-
ber of the faculty of NTSU for 15 years — on Feb. 7,
1963 and they have had almost five years of happiness
together. Everyone loves Bettie and that includes all the
Headlees.
Headlee’s main interest in recent years has beevm
Denton Doings, through which publication he has mad®
literally thousands of new friends, and that is part of
the reason for his long life.
The Doings started from a family newsletter (using
carbon copies) in 1935. At the suggestion of Irene Gib-
son, a TWU helper, we had George Yelderman, son of
Headlee’s good friend, Bob Yelderman, pastor of First
Christian Church (then where N. Tex. S. and Loan now
is) to mimeograph our first issue — 60 copies, 2 pages.
Last month Wheeler Printing Co., printed 3,300 copies
of 12 pages each. It is read every month by hundreds
of prominent people in all parts of the U.S. (During
world war 2 the Doings went to hundreds of boys serv-
ing our country overseas — making many long-time
friends for the publisher. Headlee really perks up when
discussing this. (See format changes in exhibit.)
Headlee also wrote a column for the Record-Chroni-
cle for five years — about ten years ago. His Doings
has gone out to his thousands of friends every month
since 1935.
Feature articles have appeared in most of the
metropolitan papers in Texas about the Doings for the.m
last 15 years. Everyone has said there is nothing lik4
it anywhere else in the country. "T
Come and see many interesting exhibits in Flinn
Hall, Oct. 29, — 2 to 5 p.m.
DENTON DOINGS
The Magazine of Goodwill
Non-Political Non-Denominational
E. J. Headlee, Editor and Publisher
Bettie Ward Headlee, New Associate Editor and Publisher
FIFTY HAPPY YEARS IN DENTON
Dr. Phillip W. Walker (Bible Chair at NTSU and
TWU) who served fifteen years as Pastor of First Meth-
odist Church in Denton, originated the idea of a histor-
ical number of Denton Doings (of which he is Guest
Editor), and the celebration of the editor’s 87 years,
fifty of which have been spent in Denton.
The Headlees (E. J. and Daisy) moved to Denton
from Teague, where they had been active in the Metho-
dist Church the Masonic order, and in many other
things, in 1917.
Headlee had been chairman of the Official Board
at the church and active in business and was president
of the First State Bank. He taught school from 1898 to
1906, before engaging in real estate and insurance busi-
ness.
Ruby (Rowe) had graduated from High School
and like thousands of others, they moved to Denton be-
cause of the colleges. They had four daughters.
(Dorothy Swick was born later in Denton.) All the
girl 3 attended TWU and Dorothy taught there for a
while during the war. The girls all married fine men:
Ruby became Mrs. Clayton L. Rowe (Clayton died in
1952) ; Lilia became Mrs. Emmett Powell (Emmett died
in 1964) ; St. Clair became Mrs. Arthur Sweet; Zelda
Mae became Mrs. Willis Lionel Miller; and Dorothy be-
came Mrs. Wayne E. Swick.
Their only son, Deats, was next after Lilla. He
attended NTSU and became one of Denton’s successful
businessmen. He married Orea Bennett who has taken a
great interest in his business through the years. She is
a graduate of NTSU. The E. J. Headlee children all be-
came active in the Methodist Church.
Headlee’s first job in Denton was in the First State
. Bank, when it was on the north side of the square. He
;was substituting for R. W. Bass (later President) while
he served overseas in First World War.
In 1919 Headlee went into business (Automotive)
where the new post-office is to be built. This business
was sold in 1925 and Headlee bought into the Camp
Drug Store on the south side of the square with Dr.
’ Frank Camp’s father. In 1926 Deats joined his father in
the Headlee Tire Co., which later became the Headlee
Motor Co. (Buick). In 1926 Headlee became Regional
Manager of the Cooper Corporation selling tires in Tex-
as and Oklahoma — for eight years, till 1935.
In 1935 the late Dr. W. N. Rowell and Headlee or-
ganized the United Finance Co., which was for years
operated in connection with the Motor Co. The Finance
Co. has been operated for several years by Wayne and
Dorothy Swick in the building formerly occupied by the
Motor Co. across from the Civic Center.
As a young man, Headlee played baseball. In his
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Headlee, E. J. & Headlee, Bettie Ward. Denton Doings (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 32, Ed. 1, October 1967, periodical, October 1967; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1426970/m1/2/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Denton Public Library.