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1940
Tarleton Collef*
^tepljcmnUe Empire-ffirihitnjg
Empire Established 1870
Tribune Established 1890
EMPIRE, Vol. 68, No. 86; TRIBUNE, Vol. 88, No. 30
STEPHENVILLE, ERATH COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1940
SIXTEEN PAGES—Vol. 70. No. 8
DATES FOR 1940
COUNTY LEAGUE
EVENTS ARE SET
Contests to Start Today With
Class C Junior Boys and
Girls’ Basketball
Polish Council Meets in Paris
Stephenville To Be Host
To First District Texas
Parent-Teacher Group
Evangelist
At a meeting of the executive n
committee of the Erath County
Interscholastic League, held Wed*
nesday, Feb. 14, a schedule of
county events was atrreed upon.
G. V. Bostic, Lingleville superin-
tendent, is director-general of
league events in this county this
year. Bostic, incidentally, urged
each school to send in the required
fee, which will be the same amount i
U submitted to the State, for par- Ignace Jan Paderewski, world-famous pianist who has re-entered
ticipation in the contests. |!political life as president of the Polish national council, chats with Wlady-
slaw Bacsklewlos, left, president of the Polish republic, and General
Sikorsky, right, prime and war minister, at the first meeting of the Polish
national council In France since the war began. The government la
France was established after Germany’s Invasion of Poland.
Dates of the various events,
which begin today, were announ-
ced as follows: v
Feb. 23-24 (9:00 Friday and Sa-
turday)—Class C Junior boys and
girls basketball tournament, rec-
reation Hall, Stephenville. -
' March 1-2 (9:00 Friday and
Saturday)—Class A junior boys
and girls’ basketball tournament,
recreation hall, Stephenville.
March 9—Final date for accept-
ing entries.
March 22, Friday, beginning at
9:00, 1 iterary~events (note excep-
tions on later dates) Stephenville
auditorium. Story telling. Ward
School auditorium. Preliminaries
in tennis, Tarleton courts.
March 23, Saturday, beginning
at 9:00, all classes of track and
finals in tennis. Tarleton field.
March 25. Mondav at 6:00, all
classes of debate in District Court-
room.
March 29, Friday at 6:00—Class
- . V1 m M< mj m mt & CTGW v
^jnaT1rTt P^nys’ Stephen- I men working on the clean-up of
CLEARINS WORK
McKinney Construction Co., con-
tractor on the 124:mile extension,
Section B, of the Erath County
Rural Electric Co-operative As-
sociation, has a crew of men cut-
ting rights-of-way and distribut-
ing poles. Polehauling, however,
has been delayed on account of
bad roads, but' soon will be begun
again. ,
H. J. Hall Co., contractor on the
original line, still has a crew of
ville High School.
April 5, Friday at 6:06—Class
C one-act play, Alexander audi-
torium.
April 12, Friday, 6:00 — All
classes choral singing, Stephen-
ville High School.
April 13, Saturday at 9f00—vol-
ley ball, Stephenville recreation
hall.
April 20, Saturday at 9:00—soft
ball, Stephenville High School.
40 Tarleton FFA
Boys of This City
Get Certificates
the first line, which will cause in
terruptions during the daytime on
the section on which they are
working.
The balance of the house-
wiring notices have been sent out
of the county co-operative’s head-
quarters office in Stephenville. G.
A. Tunnell, project superintendent,
states that it is necessary that
each new member start wiring his
house immediately so that. -theLijshings,
house Can be connected for service^
as the line is built-by this particu-
lar house.
“Just as quickly as your house
is wired and ready for inspection,”
Tunnell said, “please report it to
the local office.”
Upon recommendation from the
Washington office of the REA and
taking into consideration .the ex-
tremely bad weather of recent
Forty boys from Stephenville
were given recognition recently
for making unusual progress in
FFA work. This was made known
by A. J. Spangler, director of ag-
riculture at John Tarleton College
and area adviser of the farm boy
organization.
Roy B. Mefferd, area supervise^
congratulated the boys of the Ste-
phenville chapter and their voca-
tional agriculture teacher, E. W.
Scott, for the commendable show-
ing they have made.
. Those receiving certificates of
merit for achievements in Future
Farmer work were Jackson Allen,
Harding Cary, Raymond ' Cosby,
Cleo Ethridge, Dudley Everett,
Charles Faubion, Allison Geeslin,
Manuel Gilley, R. J. Kerr, Kyle
Little, Frank Overby, Harold
Pruitt, Calvin Shelton, George Wil-
cox, Smitty Wisdom;
Douglas Wooley, Delmon Alex- „ TT ,
ander, Billy Jo Anderson, Ersal Pa8.V)r’ van~
Cain, Arthur Guinn, Otho Hicks, £ou"ced th!8 ,weak ^at the Pre-
William L. Hollingsworth, Myron Easter rev,val at the Methodist
Stephenville is to be host to the
First District Texas Congress of
Parents and Teachers Conference
which will meet here April 1, 2,
and 3, it was announced this week
by Mrs. O. R. Childress, publicity
director of the district organiza-
tion.
Mrs. J. C. Terrell, Stephenville,
is general chairman of the con_-
i ference and Mrs. Albert Hariris,
] Stephenville, is the co-chairman.
| Mrs. Estes Pewitt is president of
the Stephenville __ Parent-Teacher
Association. r " >
First District officers are Presi-
dent, Mrs. L. C. Cash, Pioneer;
(‘recording secretary, Mrs. Earl
Clements, Brown wood; correspon-
J ding secretary, Miss Hazel Griffin,
Pioneer; vice presidents, Mrs. D.
S. Grigsby, Fort Worth; Mrs. Es-
tes Pewitt, Stephenville; Mrs.
Rushing Wells, Coleman; Mrs.
Eula Brockman, Breckenridge;
Mrs. J. W. Caskey, Cleburne; Mrs.
John H. Fowler, Hamilton; Mrs.
E. R. Staton, Ranger.
Mrs. C. E. Maddocks is parlia-
i w n _ , mentarian of First District, Texas
4. fV, Ft At Employee I Congress of Parents and Teachers,
•f-_ ____ _ -f- and Mrs. C. E. Birdsong of Fort
Worth is historian.
Mrs. D. Ball, Cisco, is chairman
of Life Membership; Mrs. J. E.
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Washington, Feb. 17. — The
Works Projects Administration,
making public an analysis of what
its employes do with their $120,-
000,000 monthly wages, reported
Saturday that $50,000,000, or 42
per cent, went for food:
It reported that the rest was
spent approximately:
$24,000,000, 20 per cent, for
housing.
$12,000,000, 10 per cent, for
household expenditures, as heat,
light, gas, ice and supplies.
$11,600,000, 9 per cent, for
clothing.
$6,000,000, 5 per cent, for trans-
portation.
Granstaff, Weatherford, chairman
of Endowment Fund; Mrs. Neville
Milam, Glen Rose, chairman of
Parent Education; Mrs. H. M.
Barnes, Fort Worth, chairman of
Radio; Mrs. R. H. Lanter, Fort
Worth, chairman of Safety; Mrs.
W. S. Kemp, Bluff Dale, chairman
of. Music; Mrs. O. R. Childress,
Stephenville, chairman of Public-
ity; Mrs. F. E. Davis, Cleburne,
chairman of Publications.
Mrs. Joe Wessendorf, State
president of the Texas Congress
of Parents and Teachers, will at-
tend the conference here. One of
the features of the program will
be her talk on "The Future of
Youth” which she will give at tho
meeting Tuesday evening, April 2.
Several other state officers will
be present during the conference,
also some of the leading educators
of the State, including Dr. L. A.
Wood, State Superintendent of
"Education; W. M. Green, superin-
tendent of Fort Worth schools, and
other leading school men of the
State.
Official programs of the con-
ference will be ready soon, the
publicity chairman stated, adding
that the- organization hoped to
“make First District first” in this
great Parent-Teacher movement.
'THREE HUNDRED
ATTENDED DTU
MEET TUESDAY
Rev. L. D. Mitchell Elected As
Vice President of District
Sunday School Group
Rev. C. A. Calhoun, pastor of
the De Leon Methodist circuit,
who tUill conduct the pre-Easter
revival services that will begin
next Sunday morning at the local
Metnoaist church, for several
years Rev. Calhoun was an evan-
gelist for the - Methodist Protest-
ant Church.
CITY LOST FIRE
CREDIT RATING
Stephenville wiff pay approxi-
mately $1,50 more in insurance
payments this year than they did
last, it was learned Thursday. This
city, because of its greater fire
losses during 1939, had its five
per cent credit removed for the
remainder of 1940.
“The difference between a bad
— „„„ „„„ . „ .. fire record and a good fire record,”
$5,000,000, 4 per cent, for medi- | the local fire marshal said Thurs-
caL.S?E?U „„„ . „ . day, “is 40c on the $100 valua-
$12,000,000, 10 per cent, for tion. The highest credit allowance
weeks, the membership drive laun-
ched some time ago by the local
co-operative has been extended
until March 1.
“All .volunteer workers,” the
project superintendent stated,
“please notice this new deadline,
as it will allow customers more
time to earn awards. Reports
should be made on Monday of
each week -to the directors in tho
various communities, or to the of-
fice in Stephenville.”
Pre-Easter Revival
To Start Sunday At
Methodist Church
Holoman, Hardy Jackson;
Clarence Lewis, H. C. Long, An-
drew Mitchell, A. V. Roberson,
Charles Rogers, Floyd Shannon—
above in history and constitution
of the F. F. A;
Ed Williams, Raymond Maxwell,
Aaron Autry Raymond Tudor, J.
R. Stone, Doyle Pittman, Jack Go-
lightly, Samuel White, Sanford
White, Orvil Tackett, Nolan Hen-
sarling—chapter conducting, Fed-
eration contest.
George Wilcox, public speaking,
Federation contest.
Return To San Benito
Mrs. Roy Kenny and son, Earl
Wright Kenny, who were here last
week to see their cousin, James
Ralph Ferguson, at the Stephen-
ville Hospital, drove to Fort
Worth Thursday, accompanied
W. C. Kenny, for a visit with rel-
atives in- that city. Mrs. Kenny
and son left from Fort Worth Fri-
day for their home at San Benito
In the Rio Grande Valley, but Mrs.
W. C. Kenny remained there with
her daughter and son-in-law, Mr.'
and Mrs. Clarence Davis, until
Saturday afternoon.
Church will start next Sunday
morning. Moody Cunningharq, an
evangelistic singer from Mem-
phis, Tenn., will lead the song
services, hold a children’s service
and work with the young people
each evening.
Rev. Roy A. Langston, superin-
tendent of the Cisco Methodist dis-
trict, was to have done the preach-
ing, but since Eastland County
has just called for an election on
14 per cent beer, Rev. Langston
was drafted by the dry forces of
the county to lead the fight
against beer in that county next
week.
Rev. C. A. Calhoun, pastor of
the De Leon Methodist circuit, will
take Rev. Langston’s place in con-
ducting the revival services here.
Rev. Cgjhoun, for several years
an evangelist for the Methodist
other items, such as house fur-
nishjngs, kitchen and laundry penalty Is 15 per cent. Since Ste-
equipment, personal care and . phenville has been given a “neu-
recreation. jtral” rating—which means that
neither a credit nor a penalty will
1 be given this year—the city loses
♦ the five per cent credit rating
♦ iV-fJit/ iitomtiuo + granted last year.”
^4 4 4 4-4 44444 4444 4 4 4 4 4 4 T [ Stephenville had a 10
♦ ♦ ♦ 11 ♦ s-rvvvvvvvv-f-vvvv-4-v-t- per cent. CT^it, ]ast year a fiv,e
The local Retail Merchants As- P.er Cjnt.i:r?n!(n V1'3 year np ,cr®^*
sociation 'this week released a list and’- “ 1940 losses are higher
New Residents
of new residents of Stephenville, than those in 1939, next year a
as well as a list of new addresses Pena*ty will be added to all fire
of former residents.
Following is the list
of new
residents, which contains the name, 1
I insurance premiums taken out or
renewed after the rating is
occupation and former address, in
the order hamed:
E. W. Hunt, J. G. Watson, S. C.
The fire marshal asks that local
merchants who leave trash in-
side their places of business at
Peters, W. L.’Harbin, W. w’. Wil- ‘ ^.^“ch^ml^of ^ommer^of"
cox, and C. D. Ogden, all with the
Humble Oil & Refining Co., for-1 flcials,who have begun a clean-up
merly of Weatherford; WoodrowT^P®1*"- fet a metal container
Adam!, manager of the A. & P. arVL,a cover for this trash.
Store, Itasca; J. C. Myers, Farm . .Tra,?h.,!n any k,"d ®f a c?“-
Security Administration, Dublin; ,tainer. the marshal stated, “is
W. H. Mahan, farmer (W. R. Han- a PTeat fire hazard when left m-
• - - - -- side. Unless such trash is kept in
a metal container, and. covered
with a metal lid, that place of
business is subject to an automatic
10 per cent increase in insurance
costs.”
gston
Methodist Church in Corsicana
two years ago, and Rev. Langston
highly recommends the De Leon
pastor.
Palm Sunday, March 17, has
been set as membership Sunday at
™dh0niw , V. D. Hum Gets Welcome
Cole said, and* new memb<u*#wiH. r* L> D. Hur- ^ wcll remembered
“roll call
roll of $ie
■ . ** 5 day.
... Mi"» Knox Here Sunday ; Next Sunday will be
Efs .jfes®
North Texas State Teacher’s Col- “who goes to church.” *vUat
Fmir Stephenville churches will
lege at Denton where she is a
senior this year. ' r.
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Here To See Nephew
Mrs. John Wright pf Sweet-
water spent several days here last
week, attending the bedside of her
nephew, James Ralph Ferguson,
who Is critically ill at the Stephen
, ville Hospital.
co-operate in a union service, to
be hold Sunday eyening In honor
of Rev. Miley, the new pastor of
the First Christian Church here.
An open invitation is extended the
public.
Bullets of stone were In use In
1614. Iron ones were used in 1660.
cock farm), Denton; John H.
Ware, farmer, and carpenter, Den-
ton; Alonzo Richardson. R. E. A.,
Floydada; V. M. Chambless, Shan-
non Supply Company, Hamilton;
Clinton Chamlee, budget manager
Goodyear Tire, Gatesville; Curtis
Moore, Rural Electrification Ad-
ministration, Floydada; I. B. Hen-
son, Jr., Henson Bros. Furniture;
Bill Henson, Henson Bros. Furni-
ture; Lee Scarbrough, Radio Elec-
tric Shop, Brady; John Dennis,
Consumers Peanut Co., Houston;
G. L. Casstevens, American Na-
tional Insurance Co., Abilene.
Those who have moved away
recently together with their oc-
cupation and new address, fol-
low:
J. T. Williams, State Highway
Department, Cleburne; T. M.
Brown, Brown & Sons Construc-
tion Co., Cleburne; Cecil Lee
Davis, TP Coal & Oil Co., Breck-
enridge; Ben Young, assistant
manager Southern Finance Co.,
Beaumont; James Archie Lidia,
Braniff Airlines, Dallas; H. D.
Vinson, ranch employee, Barnhart;
A. A. Dyer, real estate, Mineral
Wells; Fred H. Seott, Texas Rail-
road Commission, Henderson; Ce-
cil Williams, Brown & Sons Con-
struction Co., Cleburne; Jimmie
Smith, NY A woodwork shop,
Waco; W. B. Bice, veteran, Dal-
las. > 1
Man Found Asphyxiated
A man, tentatively identified as
Floyd Smith of San Angeld, was
found asphyxiated Saturday morn-
ing in. a tourist camp at Glen Rose.
Harry Hines
be received into the church on fhat as 0ne'ot,U*Ve*rly-day merchants
'aair,^— at LipaikVHwRfho .about 80 years
ago loca«w$jj at Higgins, Texas,
got n rousing welcome from irtgny
tkl&ffrieHHtt ivjien he visited Rte-
„ ill* last week. Mr. Hum
wrtends the winters at Minefal-
Wells and when the opportunity
affords he renews acquaintances
with friends 6f the early days all
over this area. He knows majw
people in Stephenville and tnfy
are always more glad of an oppor-
tunity to see him. His health Is
good and he Insnires Enthusiasm
among all with whom he comes in
contact
I
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i Rabbit Saves Life
t By Climbing Tree t
♦ To Escape Hunte^ t
TWO LIVESTOCK
MEETINGS HELD
t
Approximately 80 Baptists con-
vened at the local First Baptist
Church Tuesday for the District
12 Baptist Sunday -School and
Training Convention. Twelve coun-
ties were represented at the con-
vention. during which all phases
of teaching and training work of
Baptist churches were discussed.
Theme of the convention was
“Forward with Christ,” and the
slogan was “reaching, teaching,
and training all Texas Baptists.”
Rev. Miles Bond Hays, Dublin, de-
livered the convention sermon
Tuesday evening. Rev. Luther D.
Mitchell, locgl pastor, acted aa
host-pastor.
Bailey Forrester, Sagamore
Hill, Fort Worth, was convention
sonijjoader, with Mrs. C. E. Mere-
dith, Burleson, as pianist. A song
service began the program at 9:30
a. m. Training union conferences
got under way at 10:15 a. m,, with
Mrs. Clyde Eddins, Travis Ave.,
Fort Worth, in charge of the be-
ginner group, and Rev. Presley
Hand, Cavalry, Fort Worth, con-
ducting the adult conference. Miss
Connie Dear, Stephenville, led the
primary division. F. E. James, Col-
lege Avenue, Fort Worth,* headed
the secretaries.
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State President Spoke ,
Rev. Chas. T. Whaley, Weather-
ford, spoke shortly before noon, *
and a training union address was
given by Dr. E. D. Dunlap, Poly-
A. L. Smith, beef catle special-
ist, and R. R. Lancaster, pasture
specialist; both^of the Texas A. &
M. College Extension Service, as-
sisted County Agent G. D. Everett
_ in conducting two meetings in
a n Erath County Friday for cattle 1 technic, Fort Worth, at 1:45 p. m.
A recent dispatch from Gran- an{J sf,eep Krowers. Purpose of the Another afternoon speaker was
bury to the Dallas Morning News meetin(!,s wag to promote the J. I). Riddle, State B. T. U. presi-
foiiows. breeder-feeder movement in the dent and education director of the
“Treeing a coon or possum is county. j Abilene First Baptist Church,
one thing, chasing a jack rabbit jhe first gathering was held) Sunday school conferences be-
out on a limb is another, C. W. Friday morning at the Gc.orge L. gan at 2:05 p. m., with, the follow-
Lewis of Granbury has decided. Martin farm, near Stephenville, <ng in charge: primary, Mrs. P.
“Lewis’ dog jumped a rabbit and the other was held in the af-jE. Hand, Calvary, Fort Worth;
and after a short chase ran it into ternoon at the John Golightly junior, Roxie Jacobs, Tennessee;
a hollow tree in the Lewis front farm, in the Clairette community, intermediate, Mrs. Chas. T. Wha-
is .26 per enpt *nd the -beavietLiwd. Lewie, hearing the barking-—-Smitk steefsed, in his discus- fey, Weatherford; young people,
' ‘ ~ investigated and decided to smoke sions; that no bone meal was n^ed-’l R«v. Jas. N. Morgan, North Fort
the rabbit out. ed in the ration for cattle if the Worth; adult, Rev. C. E. Mqredith,
“When the-fire was smoking animals are being fed plenty of Burleson; six-point record system,
heavily, Lewis stood back and cottonseed meal. The latter feed E®V,.E. M, Agee, ^Tarrant County
waited for his quarry to make a contains sufficient phosphorous,
dftsh for it. Nothing happened, Lancaster discussed the best
and dog and master became puz- varieties of grasses for this see.
zted. Someone pointed to a Timb tion Tor grazing purposes,
twenty feet above the ground and Are Creep-Feeding Animals
shouted, ’look.’ Both Martjn and Goll>htly arc ceeding Rev R. H Cagle of Dia-
“The rabbit had scrambled up creen-feeding livestock Goliehflv rnond Hill Baptist Church, Fort
the inside of the tree to an open- j8 finishing out some lambs bv this VVorth. Clifford Holcomb cduea-
ing at the base of a limb and had method and expects to sell on an tional director of the Polytechnic
scrambled out on , it. There the early market. Martin is creep*1 'church, r ort Worth, vas named
rabbit sat, surveying the situa- feeding livestock Goliohtiv is-fin- v'ce president of the BTU district,
tion. It made a perfect target, but ishing out ' some lambs by this He ^«ied8 Rev. Fred Swank.
Lewis shook his head. method and expects to sell on nn I Sagamore Hill, Fort Worth.
Any rabbit with determination early market Martin is creep- New Sunday school officers are
enough to climb that far up a hoi- feeding several cglves that still are Rev.; Kern.it Molugin, Arlington,
low free deserves to live, he said. on cow milk, too. His mixture: 55 president and Rev. L. D. Mitchell,
‘I wouldn’t shoot him.” pounds of ground corn, 15 pounds ^ephenville, vice president. Mrf.
of cottonseed mc'aT, 28 pounds of1 Marlin Saffell of the Polytechnic
oats, one pound of bone meal, and ) church. Fort Worth, is new secre-
one pound of salt. ^!,ry oMta two groups-the dis-
Martin, who is president of the ,BJU and dlstr,c,5 ^“day
Erath County Rural Electric Co-1 School Goiwentum.
operative Association ,also demon- Delegatei voted to hold ne^t
strated the grinding of ear corn. I Vcar 8 conv«»Lojpln_^ek^bor<U fin
iTOYYdied fhaTze,’ headed maize and Ecb. 19.
oats by the use of an electric feed
grinder, pulled by a small, threo-
horsepower motor. -
Following the meetings, County
Missionary, Fort. Worth.
New Offroers Elected
-Rev. James N, Morgan, _pastor
of the North Fort Worth Baptist
Church, was elected president, sue-
DONKEY RIDERS
WILL PLAY BALL
TONIGHT 7:30
,, .. . „ „ Agent Everett said Saturday that
I< acuity Members To Be Pitted ^he one-inch rain received here Fri-
day “would bring everything out.”
The moisture was needed, he sta-
Against Business Men At
City Rec Hall _
Harry Hines of Wichita Falla/
a member the State Highway
Commission. Whq Tuesday mght
announcedritndldscy for the
Oovernorriifli of Texas In an ad-
dress following a dinner for mem-
bers of the c&pltol press corps,
broadcast through the State at
Austin. Hines, In Ms speech, as-
serted that he would not attempt
In hit campaign, to ' ‘out-promise
the promisers.” but would seek
an end to what he said was the
restless conHufion In the state
government.
Stephenville and Erath County
fans will have the opportunity to-
night of seeing something new in
the way of basketball—a donkey
basketball game, at the recrea-
tional building in the local City-
Park. The game will start at 7:30
o’clock, and a large attendance is
expected.
Opposing teams will be mem-
bers of the Stephenville public
school faculty, headed ‘by Supt.
John E. Burnett, and a group of
business and professional men, led
by Mayor Henry Clark. Each team
is “out to win.”
The freak contest is being spon-
sored by the Stephenville High
School Yellow Jacket team. Ref-
eree will be Joseph A. King, the
Jacket cage coach, who doesn’t ex-
pect to be kept very busy.
Ten on Each Squad
On the team of faculty mem-
bers, such outstanding players as
ted, and was highly beneficial to
all crop stuffs, as well as to the
soil, at this particular time.
Annual Baby Beef
Show Was Held On
Monday At Dublin
A number of Stephenville peo-
ple attended the Erath County
Baby Beef Show in Dublin Mon-
day.
Oscar Frazier, professor of ani-
mal husbandry at John Tarleton
College judged the entries.
E. W. Scott, vocational agricul-
ture teacher at the Stephenville
High School, and a group of hia
students were among those who
attended the show from this vicin-
ity.
District 12 is Composed of 12
assoociations, being those in tho
following counties: Cook, Denton,
Jack, Johnsoti, Montague, Palo
Pinto, Hood, Somervell, Parker,
Wise, Tarrant and Erath.
Cornyn Girl Named
District Winner
In D.A.R. Contest
New Owners White Deer
Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie Smith
have bought the White Deer Cafp
Colifn°B *' Jones ” Jimmy*'Marshatf I West Washington street and
George ■Collmn^* Ek W^Scott^Wil- a°nHmie to operate it in the
Ham Murdaugh, Stanley Davis,: asuai ef*c,pn,t I™"™-- Mr Smith
Horse* Treswell Otholln rhiMro.s recently of Galveston where he
Horace Creswell, Othello Childress
and -^Wilson Tunnell will assist
Supt. Burnett. „
. Among those who w© jwmpei
for tne Kuajness and .pS&fKision:
men of ehe cittf, tlwfr iWMsynr
Clark, will he ft** Evans, F. M.
Stlgler, Wad * Williamson, Grady
Littleton, Travis Key, Bill Hen-
son. Terrell Coleman, Clinton Cox
and Lem Wilcox.,
Donkeys will be equipped with
rubber, crepe-soled shoes to pre-
vent injury to the highly polished
floor of the basketball court In
the recreational building at the
City Park.
with
en
is the
vie.
a ^branch store of the
Drig Company. Mrs.
TjlBkaatalh Platt Home
Mf, SHrid .<JWrs, Robert Platt of
J®eksbrfo.itfrrfl Mrs. T. A. Cox of
Fort Worth spent the week-end
with Mr. and Mrs. A. Platt Mr.
Platt who la owner and manager
of the Clover Farm store at Jacka-
boro, report* steadily increasing
business.
Miss Vilma Rac Floyd of Comyn
has been selected as the nominee
of the Brownwood district, which
includes Stephenville, in the Good
Citizenship Pilgrimage, sponsored
by the Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution, according to Mrs.
Brooke Early of Brownwood,
chairman of the committee to se-
lect the candidate from this dis-
trict.
Other candidates for nomination
were Lucille Burnett, Stephenville;
Maritia Shaw, Brownwood; Gladys
Bagwell, Dublin: Christine Holt,
Olden; Harriet Allen, Goidthwaite,
and Alice Henry, Ranger.
Miss Floyd will compete with
girls from the 23 other Te?as dis-
tricts, and the winny will receive
the award of .a free trip to Wash-
ington, D. C. &' .
Are On Visit Here
Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Harris of
Tucson, Arizona^are here for a
month’s visit with vher parents,
Mr. and Mrs. -Flulch^r. Mrs.
former Miss. LjUie Harris will be .bflwr remembered
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and
well, kfiown here where they
have a fairrge circle pf friends.
are well. Imown *)
Attends Convention
Jack Teddlie was in Fort Worth
Thursday to attend the District
Bankers Convention sa a represen-
tative from the Farmer*First Na-
tional Bank of this city."
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Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, February 23, 1940, newspaper, February 23, 1940; Stephenville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1120726/m1/1/: accessed July 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dublin Public Library.