The Fairfield Recorder (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 15, 1940 Page: 5 of 8
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FILLING YOUR
PRESCRIPTIONS
Promptly and Accurately is
the most important part
of our Business
WOOD'S DRUG STORE
6'.'. and Mrs. Weldon Sawyer
spent the woek-end in Houston visit-
ing Mr. and Mrs. Guy Childs.
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Mr. and Mrs. Frank Burney of
Mineral Wells visited in the home
of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Childs Sun-
day.
MV and Mrs. C. R. Blakeley of
Stewards Mill visited Mr. and Mrs.
E. J. Lambert Sunday.
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Everett Glazener of A. and M.
spent the week-end here and was ac-
companied back Monday by Clyde
Glazener, who spent the day at A.
and M.
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Mrs. John Manahan visited her
daughter, Mrs. Zack Stroud, at
Bryan Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. George Stubbs and
children of Wortham spent Sunday
here.
M. Born 4k Co.’s Spring and Sum-
mer Clothing Samples on Display.
Hill Store. 8ftf
Charlie Looney
week for Sheriff.
announces this
Macklyn Compton and Marion Lee
Green spent several days in Hous-
ton this week.
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Mrs. F. E. Withrow of Teague
nad Mrs. Willie West and son of
Mexia visited Mrs. Eunice Williford
Tuesday, who is ill this week.
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J. L Childs of Teague was here
Tuesday.
Miss Lena May Ivy is attending a
salesmanship and window decorat-
ing school in Dallas.
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Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Baldree visited
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Baldree at Pales-
tine Sunday. H
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James M. Terrill spent the week-
end visiting in San Antonio.
Van McClellan of Houston spent
the week-end here and was accom-
panied home by his wife and chil-
dren.
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PH O fS E I 6 4- _ FAIRFIELD, TEX .
Mrs.
visited
John Hill and son,
relatives in Dallas
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Johnnie,
Monday.
Born on Jan. 26, to Mr. and Mrs.
Holliee J. Harding of Long Lake, a
son. Gerald Jackson is the name
chosen for the little fellow.
Mrs. Ava Watson and daughter
of New London and Mr. and Mrs.
O. K. Helms of Dallas visited Mr.
and Mrs. Howard Watson Sunday.
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Mr and Mrs. Joe Bonner of
Teague visited Mr. and Mrs. J. R.
Sessions Sunday.
James Lockhart and Naomi Gran-
berry of Ft. Worth visited here dur-
ing the week-end.
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Charles Jones of Archer City
spent the week-end here and was ac-
companied home by Mrs. Jones and
daughter who’ have been visiting Mr.
and Mrs. R. C. Keaton.
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Mr. and Mrs. Morris Sneed and
Mr. and Mrs. Billy Peyton were
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Lott and son,
and W. L. Lott spent Tuesday in
Dallas.
Jowl Meat, per lb_________________________________.07
Mr. and Mrs.
visited relatives
the week-end.
Franklin Glazener
in Dallas during
C. R. Glazener and son, Billie
Theo, and Mrs. John Manahan ac-
companied Everett Glazener and
Lloyd Kelland to Bryan Staurday.
Mrs. Manahan visited her daughter,
Mrs. Zack Stroud.
THE HOME OF MONARCH FINER FOODS
FAIRFIELD MERCANTILE CO.
2 MINUTE DRIVE FROM COURT HOUSE
Mrs. Albert Campbell visited
husband in Dallas last week.
William Mack Hunter of Bryan
visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. L.
Hunter during the week-end.
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Miss Agnes Jameson of Navasota
visited Mrs. W. F. Tate here Satur-
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Radford left
Tuesday to make their home in
Temple where Mr. Radford is
ployed with a drug company.
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Mr. and Mrs. William Bock and
Mrs. L. A. Shone of Bryan spent
the week-end here.
Presbyterian Church
HALL, Pastor
Miss Kathryn Miles spent Tues-
day and Wednesday in Dallas this
week.
Dowen Johnson of Galena Park
was in town visiting friends Mon-
day.
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Mrs. W. J. Botter and daughter of
Teague visited A. A. Stroud Mon-
day.
Dallas Tuesday.
Mrs. A. L. Daniel
fluenza.
N. A. Willard of Mexico is visit-
ing relatives here.
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John R. Owens of Grapeland visit-
ed E. E. Owens Wednesday.
Tax Collector C. F. Simpson, who
has been in bad health for quite
awhile, is in a Corsicana hospital
undergoing treatment.
Bryan Daniel spent Tuesday
East Texas on business.
Clyde Heath of Dallas visited his
brother Carl here during the week-
end.
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Rev. Willis Young spent Sunday
at George filling the appointment
of Rev. W. C. Koonce.
Miss Lura Bell Evans of Hearne
is visiting her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Tom Evans.
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Mr. and Mra. Lawson Carson and
children of Houston were here Mon-
day.
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Miss Emma Gertrude Tuley spent
the week-end at her home in Teague.
Lovic Glazener, George Fryer,
Edgar Rice and Addison Blakeley
attended a convention of the Ethyl
Gas and Hurricane fcorp. at th*
Roosevelt Hotel in Waco Thursday
night.
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Mr. and Mrs. Willard Manahan
accompanied Douglas Fryer end
William Mack Hunter to Bryan
Sunday. ^
Miss Eva Tidwell spent the week-
end at Alto.
Mexia spttMS8u,,^P\frfhveis.3tir2 ^ 240 Automobile,
relatives.
Joe Casey of Coppell, near Dallas, j
is visiting his sister, Mrs. Lambert
Voison, and his mother here this
week.
FEED
Red Chain Brand
Chick Starter and
Other Poultry Feed
You will like the
Meal and Chops
We grind
John Manahan
Adjoining Manahan Shop
Frank Peyton, Jr., was in Foift
Worth Sunday and wan accompanied
home by Mrs. W. R. Boyd. They
saw “Gone With The Wind”, while
htere.
Miss Rosa Bell Everett of Browns-
ille who has been visiting her aunt,
Willis Young, was accompanied
home by her grandmother, Mrs.
Minnie Roberts.
Villc
Mrs
Miss Etta Bell Owens is visiting
her sisters, Mrs. Wade Barnett
and Mrs. R. W. Holloway in Oak-
wood this week.
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Misses May Pridgen, Mary Hall,
Mrs-. Carl Heath visited relatives
in Mexia this week.
The largest cock fighting event in
this country was held at St. Aug-
ustine, Florida. Sixteen owners-put-
ting up entry fees of $500 each en-
tered “stables” of fifteen cocks
were
parked about the event from 46
states. Fifteen per cent of the 800
spectators were women.
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Sunday evening at seven o’clock,
the pastor will bring the message in
the regular evening worship ser-
vice. The subject of the sermon will
be, “The Lordship of Christ,” The
other Sunday services fo the church
will be held as usual with classes
for each age group in the Sunday
School at ten in the morning. Mem-
bers of the church ought to be pre-
sent unless providentially hindered.
Also others who may find it possbile
to worship with this church are giv-
en a most cordial invitation.
For the remainder of this church
year—until April 1, 1940—the sche-
dule of services will remain as fol-
lows:
Sunday school at ten each Sunday
morning. Morning worship at elev-
en o’clock each Sunday except the
first and third. Evening worship
each Sunday except the first, and
prayer meeting each Wednesday
evening. The hours of the evening
services are at seven and the week-
night services are at eight o’clock.
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When the Fire Bell
Rings and the
Siren Screams
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You need have no worry—
If insured with this agency.
Ask about our premium
budget plan makes the
premium easy to pay
COMPLETE INSURANCE
PROTECTION
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Texas’ present proven oil reserves
of 10,794,066,000 (billions) barrels
are over five billion barrels more
than all the oil produced in Texas
during the past fifty years.
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Drivers of coal trucks in New
York City who were receiving $8
a day, taking advantage of extreme
cold weather, struck for $9.60 a
day.
CALVARY BAPTIST B. T. U.
PROGRAM FOR SUNDAY haunt
Adult:
Part 1—Mrs. H. E. Odom.
Part 2—Mrs. Trim.
Part 3— Mrs. O. K. Ray.
Part 4—Mr. Edgar Miles.
Part 6—Mr. W. L. Keaton.
Part 6—Mrs. Brownie Scott.
Part 7—Mrs. Ed Evans.
L E. (Son) LOTT
Phone 44 Fairfield, Texas
Mildred Clark, Mrs. John Alderman
and Mrs. Mervil Wood went to Dal-
las Saturday to see “Gone With
The Wind.”
Otis Utley and son, Spooky were
in Dallas Sunday.
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A. L. Daniel and T. H. Bonner
were in Palestine on business Tues-
day.
The United States is dependent
on foreign sources for its tin, im-
porting about 60,000 tons of the me-
tal each year.
Junior:
I^ason Text—Katherine Brown.
Part 1—Gloria Talley.
Part 2—Mary Joe Zuber.
Part 3—Frances Orand.
Part 4—Baby Ruth Self.
Part 6—Sanford Ivy.
Suggestions—Mrs. Rice.
Harper’s Mebane
COTTON SEED
REGISTERED DUROC
JERSEY PIGS
World Champion Strain
C. R. GLAZENER & SON
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OUR LAXATIVE PILLS
Stimulate liver activity—will ni
gripe. A splendid laxative. For e«
stipation and relieving headache and
billiousness due to constipation.
WOOD’S DRUG STORE
Mrs. R. R. Kirgan nad Mrs. Geo.
.Fryer were in Teague Wednesday.
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Mr. and Mrs. Joel Chappell and
Mr. and Mrs. Guy Wodall spent
Sunday in Elkhart.
was
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A. W. Thompson of Luna
here to see relatives Monday.
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Mrs. T. H: Bonner was in Pales-
tine Tuesday visiting in the home of
Mrs. W. B. Robinson.
FROM
Contented Cows
TQ—
Contented Customers
la our opportunity to nerve
you with BEST
Milk and Cream
Fair-Tex Farm
PHONE 186
RED & WHITE STORE
Friday and Saturday, February 16-17
“SANTA FE MARSHALL”
—With—
WILLIAM (HOPALONG CASSIDY) BOYD
Contractors’ Notice of Texas Highway
Construction
Sunday and Monday, February 18-19
“REMEMBER THE NIGHT’
—With—
BARBARA STANWYCK — FRED MACMURRAY
BEULAH BONDI — “FUZZY” KNIGHT
Sealed proposals for constructiong 9.963 miles of Flexible Base &
Single Asphalt Surface Treatment from one-half mile south of Kirvin to
Fairfield on Highway No. “F”, covered by F. A. S. 60 (2) in Freestone
County, will be received at the State Highway Department, Austin, Texas,
until 9:00 A. M., February 20, 1940, and then publicly opened and read.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26—DIME DAY—10c TO ALL
“THE CAT AND THE CANARY”
—With—
BOB HOPE — PAULETTE GODDARD
The prevailing wage rates listed below shall apply as minimum wage
rates on this project.
Type of Laborer,
Workman, or
Mechanic
Prevailing Minimum
Per Diem Wage
(Based on an Eight (8)
Hour Working Day)
Prevailing Minimum
Hourly Wage Rate
Wednesday and Thursday, February 21-22
“THE FIGHTING 69TH”
—With—
JAMES CAGNEY — PAT O BRIEN — GEORGE BRENT
ALAN HALE — JEFFREY LYNN — DICK FORAN
FRANK MCHUGH
Skilled Labor
Intermediate Grade Labor
Unskilled Labor
$8.00
4.00
3.20
Matinees Monday through Friday will be one show be-
ginning at 2:30 P. M.—Saturday and Sunday matinees will
begin at 2:00 P. M.
Legal holiday work shall bo paid for at the regular governing rates.
Rates for work performed In excess of the maximum hours per week as
stipulated in the “Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938,” approved June 25,
1988, (Public No. 718, 76th Congress) shall be subject to the applicable
provisions of this Act.
Plans and specifications available at the office of C. B. Thames, Resi-
dent Engineer, Hearne, Texas, and State Highway Department, Austin.
Usual rights reserved.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17,1940
COOKING OIL, Diamond, Pure Cotton Seed Oil, 1 gal. .79
MILK, R & W, 6 small 18c or 3 large cans
.18
PICKLES, K .P. Whole, Sour or Dill, 2 qts.
.25
TOILET PAPER, B & W, 3 rolls ..
.13
DOG FOOD, Delight, 4 cans .
.15
LAUNDDRY SOAP, P & G, 5 bars ..
.18
GRAPE FRUIT JUICE, R & W, 46 oz. can
.15
FLOUR, R & W, 24 lb. 77c, 48 lbs.
1.49
CHERRIES, Sour Pitted, 303 can „
.11
PEACHES, R & W, Halves or Sliced, 2 No. 2 1-2
cans .31
RUBBING ALCOHOL, Last Time, Pint
.10
TOMATOES, Standard, 3 No. 1 cans
.12
SPINACH, B & W, No. 2 1-2 can
________ .12
CAMAY SOAP, 3 bars
.17
TOMATO JUICE. R & W, 2. 20 oz. cans
.19
COFFEE, Bright and Early, I lb. can
.24
SEED POTATOES, PLANTS AND GARDEN
SEED
Mcllveen & Steward i
THE DEPENDABLE FOOD STORE SINCE 1925
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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/m1/5/: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fairfield Library.