The Fairfield Recorder (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 15, 1940 Page: 4 of 8
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THE FAIRFIELD RECORDER, FAIRFIELD, TEXAS, FEBRUARY 15, 1940
THE COUNTY PAPER
The Fairfield Recorder
THE COUNTY PAPEj f
Published Each Thursday at Fnirfleld, Texas, Freestone
County, Where the Great Highways of Texas Cross,
Entered as second class mail matter at the Postoffice
at Fairfield, Texas, under Act of March 6, 1879.
L. C. KIRGAN--
RAMON R. KIRGAN
Editor
—Publisher
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Tributes of Respect, Obituaries and Cards of Thanks,
1 cent a word. Privilege of omitting all poetry reserved
by this paper.
Thursday, February 15, 1940
Bleased is every one that feareth the
walketh in his ways.—Psalms 128:1.
Lord; that
The bomb sight used by the U. S. Army
bombing planes is said to be the most remark-
able device of its kind in the world. It is con-
sidered the greatest military secret of the world.
The sight is manufactured in a hundred differ-
ent factories in this country, each factory mak-
ing a single part. These parts are then assem-
bled at one point under the greatest possible
secrecy. Ariel bombers flying at a height of
25,000 feet, equipped with the new sight, are
said to be able to drop a bomb in a three foot
circle. Bombers without the Sperry sights do
Once upon a time there was a man who was
known for his thrift and industry and frugality,
ilf went about his affairs and attended strictly
ItAhis business and always paid his debts when
they came due. One day a bunch of gangsters
attacked him. He put up a great fight but he
was outnumbered three to one. He asked his
frienas standing around watching the fight for
a gun with .which to protect himself. I^s friends
did not feel like helping him. They were afraid
the gangsters wouldn’t like it. So the robbers
kept on beating him. Finally he went down cov-
ered with blood and bruises, and the gangsters
walked oyer him and took his possessions and
kicked him out of the house. “It was too bad,
his friends said, “if he had just had a gun he
could have whipped the gangsters.” Moral: Fin-
land is still fighting.
A few newspapers, in a poor attempt to ap-
pear facetious, made light of the exposure by
the F. B. I. of the Christian Front gang. We
feel Mr. Hoover’s organization did exactly right
in bringing the whole organization into the open
where it could be taken apart and looked into.
If it is harmless no harm has been done. If it
contains the germ of a threat against the gov-
ernment it should be handled as a treasonable
matter.
■well to come within fifty or a hundred feet of
their mark.
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The death of Senator Borah, of Idaho, ig a
distinct loss to Congress and the country. Sena-
tor Borah was a man who stood on his own feet
always. The crowd never stampeded him. He
could think clearly regardless of the hysteria of
others. He was largely free from political pre-
judice. Congress needs men like Borah.
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Most of us eat too much for our own good.
We prepare our food in a way that tempts us to
eat more than we should. We make everything
as inviting as possible to the appetite. With sim-
pler menus the problem of eating too much
would be simpler. For example few would eat
too much mush and milk or too much bread
and butter. The difficulty comes when we make
a resolution not to eat too much we then pro-
ceed to make our resolution difficult to keep by
over tempting the appetite.
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How would you like to be standing in a
Crabbing is a habit as much as any other
habit. It grows by use the same as other habits
grow. People who fall into the habit of finding
fault and crabbing and criticizing soon find
themselves crabbing, criticizing and faultfinding
to the exclusion of everything else. The habit of
criticizing and faultfinding once it gets hold of
an individual seems to cause him to forget how
to see the good side and the bright side of things.
It requires no more effort to develop the habit
of picking out the good things, the praiseworthy
things, and having a good word to say about
them.
Senator Borah will be missed in Congress
and in the nation. Congress needs men like
Borah who can think clearly in spite of the
hysteria of others and who has the courage to
say what he thinks without first weighing its
effect on his political fortunes. Politicians come
to Congress in bunches but only now and then
is the assembly graced with a Borah.
trench without mittens, with a cold gun in your
hands and the temperature 54 degrees below
zero fighting for Stalin? After all, what would
such a man have to fight for, to suffer for, to
risk his life for and possibly lose it.
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Thomas E. Dewey’s friends have used poor
tactics in launching his candidacy so early in
the campaign. Candidate shoppers will have
looked over his wares and made up their minds
long before the campaign gets under way. Good
tactics demand that one entering the race next
year keep most of his tricks in the bag until the
campaign gets under way. The novelty of Mr.
Dewey is going to be all worn off before the
torch light processions begin to march.
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• Science tells us, our daily sagely announces,
that the human brain is capable of holding three
billion ideas. Sometimes we are inclined to think
that our government is trying to carry them all
out.
Some one has defined an antique as a piece
of furniture upon which the last installment pay-
ment has been made.
We are for the big Navy program because
this country has reached a point where if it is
going to enjoy the measures of progress to
which it is entitled it must develop foreign trade.
Our industries must take in a larger territory
than our local field affords. A nation whose fu-
ture anticipates trade with other nations must
have a navy.
We think mighty little of any group living
in Americ aand plotting against this country
and this government at any time, and especially
at a time when it is one of the few countries in
which peace reigns and in which food can be
obtained without a ration card.
The best bit of humor that has appeared in
the daily press for some time is the statement
by John Lewis that his organization did not get
sufficient consideration from the Roosevelt ad-
ministration. There are plenty of people -in this
country who believe that radical labor leaders
get everything from the administration except
the Capitol dome at Washington.
The foundation of every savings account is
thrift and self denial. The man who only saves
that part of his income that he does not need
never saves anything. Needs seem to ^ow as
the income grows, except that they grow a lit-
tle faster.
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Pedigreed Cotton Seed
THE MASTER’S TOUCH
Meal, Hulls, Cake, Hog and Dairy Feed
All Kinds Field and Garden Fertilizers
Improved Bryant Pedigreed
Cotton Seed
A Better Mehane Strain
Make every acre do ita best by first planting GOOD
SEED—Second, use plenty of Good Fertilizer.
Newspaper men, like lawyers
and members of the clergy, can en-
joy a joke on themselves. That’s
why we are not afraid to tell the
story of the violinist who was bitter-
ly disappointed with the account of
his recital printed in the paper of a
small town.
“I told your man three or four
times,” complained the musician to
the owner of the paper, “that the
instrument I used was a genuine
Stradivarius, and in his story there
was not a word about it, not a
word.”
Whereupon the owner said
a laugh:
“That is as it should be. When
Mr. Stradivarius gets his fiddles ad-
vertised in my paper under ten cents
a line, you come around and let me
know.”
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Let us scrvve instead of rule,
knock instead of pust at the door of
human hearts, and allow to each
and every one the same rights and
privileges that we claim for our-
selves.—Mary Baker Eddy.
Corinth Church, Dew
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R. L. RYBURN, Pastor
Saturday night, Feb. 17, will be
our regular church service and con
ference. Preaching at 6:45. !
Sunday: Sunday School at 10
o’clock, preaching at 11, B. Y. P. 1).
6:30, precahing at 7:16. We urge you
to attend these services.
To cultivate kindness is a valuable
part of the business of life. Samuel
Johnson.
Cheaper
Than
a Pou>4et
Powder puffs are neces-
sary—gracious, yes! . . ,
but so is eyesight-saving
light. Let’s see how they
actually stack up in cost.
The powder puff that
you buy for a dime, and
so casually throw away
after a week’s use, costs
almost twice as much as
the "better sight” light
from these units burning
one hour for two brighter
weeks!
£<fht ti priceleM
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... and these units are the
best Inexpensive fixtures
lhcr‘. money can buy.
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Hemcolite... $1.75
Well be glad for you to try
one—or as many— oi these
units In your home—FREE.
)uat ask any employee.
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Renewable
Any unit may be purchased
ior as little as 50c down and
$1.00 a month.
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BULK GARDEN
SEED
This store has handled depend-
able bulk FIELD AND GARDEN
SEED for twenty years. Plant
English peas, etc., early. Trices
right on groceries.
R. C. LINDLEY
GROCERY
CITATION
State of Texas. To the Sheriff
any
of Freestone
Tre
or any Constable
County—Greeting:
You are hereby commanded te
summon Martha Watts by making
publication of this Citation once in
each week for four consecutive
weeks previous to the return day
hereof, in some newspaper published
in your County, to appear at the
next regular term of the 87th Dis-
trict Court of Freestone County to
he holden at the Court House there-
of, in Fairfield, Texas, on the first
Monday in April, A. D. 1940, the
same being the 1st day of April A.
D. 1940, then and ther i to answer
a petition filed in said Court on
the 1st day of February A. D. 1940,
in a suit, numbered on the docket of
said Court as No. 1621-B, wherein
Gus Watts is Plaintiff, and Martha
Watts i3 Defendant, and said peti-
tion alleging: That he is and has
been for a period of twelve months
prior to exhibiting the petition here-
in an actual bona fide inhabitant of
the State of Texas, and has resided
in said County of Freestone for at
least six months next preceding the
filing of this suit; that he and de-
fendant were legally and lawfully
married more than twenty years
ago, at Groesbeck, in Limestone
County, Texas, and continued to live
together as husband and wife until
August, 1939, at which time de-
fendant permanently abandoned
plaintiff, and since which time they
have not lived together as husband
and wife.
That for several years prior to
August, 1939, said defendant would
and did abandon and leave plaintiff
for weeks at a time without telling
plaintiff where she was gaing or
when she would return; that this
has occurred several times each
year for the last several years; that
plaintiff could not prevail upon said
defendant to remain at home and
perform her wifely duties; that
since defendant left in August, 1939,
plaintiff has not heard from her,
nor does he now know where she
is; that plaintiff is informed, and
states it to be true, that when de-
fendant left in August, 1939, she
left with a man whose name is un-
known to him; that these acts and
conduct of defendant toward plain-
tiff have continued for such a long
period of time that same have tend-
ed to undermine the health of plain-
tiff, and worry and bother him so
much that he could not keep hia
home, and perform his duties pro-
perly; that said marriage relations
between plaintiff and defendant
still exist; that acts and conduct of
defendant have been such as to ren-
der insupportable the further liv-
ing together of plaintiff nad defen-
dant as husband and wife, the pre-
mises considered.
That plaintiff and defendant have
no children.
Wherefore, plaintiff prays the
court that defendant be cited to ap-
pear and answer this petition, and
for judgment dissolving said mar-
riage relations, for costa of suit,
and for such other and further re-
lief, special and general, in law and
in equity, that he may be juatiy en-
titled to.
Herein Fail Not, and have before
said Court, at its aforesaid next
regular term, this writ with your
return thereon, showing how you
have executed the same.
Given under my hand and the Seal
of said Court, at office in Fairfield,
Texas, this the 1st day of February,
A. D. 1940.
(Seal) RANKIN GILPIN,
Clerk, District Court, Freestone
County, Texas. 8f4t.
Announcements
For Congress
.’or Judicial District „
For Senatorial District
Tor County Offices __
For Commissioner _
For Justice Precinct __
116.00
10.00
7.60
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NOTICE—Without exception, an.
nounccment fees and political print-
ing or advertising is cash with orde-
We are authorised to announce
the following candidates for office,
subject to action of the Democratic
primaries:
For County Judge
A. H. BENBROOK
For Re-Election
For Representative
JOHN PETER STUBBS
W. A. KEILS
For Sheriff
J. R. SESSIONS
For Re-Election
O. K. RAY
CHARLIE LOONEY
For County Attorney
BOWLEN BOND
HARVEY VIBROCK
For Tax Assessor-Collector
H. D. REED
W. H. McSPADDEN
For District Clerk
RANKIN GILPIN
For Re-Election 2d Term
For County Treasurer
JACK ALEXANDER
For Re-Election
HENRY McCORMICK
LEE CHILES
T. C. STEELE
For County Clerk
CLIFF NEWELL
For Re-Election
For Commissioner, Prect. No. 1
J. S. IVY, SR.
For Re-Election 2d
For Constable Prect. No. 1
R. C. (DICK) KEATON
HARRY ROBINSON
For Commissioner Prect. 3
J. S. COBURN
For Re-Election
W. A. (ALRY) WHITE
TOM NESBITT
O. B. (BAILEY) ADAMS
For Commissioner, Prect. No. 4
R. G. BOUNDS
For Re-Election
FRED CARTER
S. A. BURLESON
For Justice, Prect. No. 1
WILLIS YOUNG
For Re-Election
frank McDonald
2d Terra
Term
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Development of East Texas’ vast
supplies of iron ore will be commer-
cially possible due to enormous
amounts of natural gas and oil in
that area enabling it to meet com-
petition of coal supplies other iron-
producing regions of the nation, in-
dustrial experts predict.
WANTED—About 20 head of geese.
Lovic Glazener, Fairfield. 2t.
FOR RENT-r-Modem 6-room house,
partly furnished. Garage. Ralph
Kitchen home. Call 88. It.
WANTED—26 men to clear land.
Hunt A Leathers, Oakwood, Tex-
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FOR SALE—Traitor house, lights
and water, nice cabinet, good
tires. Nellie Blanchard. If4t.
NOTICE:—Custom hatching $1.60
per tray. We set every Monday,
hatch every Tuesday. Baby chicks
all varieties, prices reasonable.
Waldrop’s Hatchery, Teague, Tex-
•a. 25jtf
FOR SALE—96 acres land vnear
Turlington, average land. Enough
wood on land to pay for it
_ Price |600. C. H. Richardson,
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Fairfield, Texas.
FOR SALE—Young Jersey cow,
will be fresh about Feb. 18, R. N-
Cannon, Fairfield. 8j2t
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Kirgan, Lee. The Fairfield Recorder (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 15, 1940, newspaper, February 15, 1940; Fairfield, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1109795/m1/4/?rotate=270: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fairfield Library.