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W "Leonard Graphic
Mrs, Chess Murphy
Services Monday
Wl Van Alsfyne
VOLUME 74
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1961
NUMBER. 2®
Ray Roberts And R. C. (Bob) Slagle In P. W. Mullmix Died Leonard Livestock Four Generations Represented In
Run-Off For 4ih Disk Congressional Seat Sunday Al Home
Trusty Recently
to Leonard
w.
were steady to strong
Zelma
ROBERTS
RAY
R. C. SLAGLE, JR.
A.
to
sup-
Beef Cattle Course
Happy Birthday To
American Legion
Slated At BonhamMeeting January 2 Farmer
January 23 - 27
Mrs. Ora Collins
CARD OF APPRECIATION
appearing
WESLEY FARMER
AUXILIARY
Legion Reporter.CHRISTMAS GUESTS
CARD OF THANKS
We are grateful for friends who
Fullerton were notified
least
Lou
Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Wright
Visitors in the home of
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. E. Williams.
Whitewright and Leonard.
of Houston
of Mr. and
were
Mrs.
the
son-
and
and
and
Pat
at the
chairs
a
of
Holiday guests of Mr. and Mrs.
John Broyles were Mr. and Mrs..
I. B. Reavis and children, Euless,,
and
Stapp
on
M.
He apparently suffered
attack.
family, Lenoard; Mr. and Mrs.
Pat Bowen, Bonham.
Kandy Mintz
Stephen Macsisisk
Nancy Thorton Miller
Susan Caldwell
Mrs. Bessie Treadway
Mrs. W. F. Thomas
Clifton Evans
Fred Latimer
Sharon Trusty
Will Salmon
Fred A. Bunch
Edward Fowler
Mrs. Morris Leggett
Larry Mac Gates
Jonna Pendergrass
Mrs. Marshall Grounds
Dawn Crawford
Mrs. Charles Kuhn
Keith Weaver-
Billy Treadway
Mrs. J. C. Ross
Walter Dickerson
Mrs. Myrtle Wright
Mike Southerland
the
Pat-
Uek
“Future
Texas” andMr. and Mrs. John Dillon were
in Cleveland during the holidays
& visit their grandson, Mr. and
(Mrs. Jack Dillon and children.Mrs. Ethel Creech, Mesquite
Mrs. J. A. Driggers, Weinart
L. W. McLain, Leonard
Jack Melvin Owens, Leonard
Elmer Collins, Dallas
Mickey Fuller,. ^Leonard
L. P. Caston and son, Bob, of
Longview, spent Thursday night
of last week with his mother,
Mrs. H. R. Caston.
con-
ducting. Interment was in the
Christmas
and Mrs.
first night program will
cattle nutrition and eradi-
of the screwworm fly int
and Cattle diseases. Sub-
LEONARD, FANNIN COUNTY, TEXAS
and underwent
a Los Angeles hospitalLeonard Stockman
Has Good Pastore
in Van Zandt
Her parents were the
Lou Partain and Opal West-
brooke.
auctioneer, kept
moving at a good pace
crowd was in a good
Mr. and Mrs. Houston Hurst re-
turned Monday from
where they spent Christmas
relatives.
Visitors of Mr. and Mrs. W. A.
E. Williams over the holidays
T. E. Wright went to Alvin last
Thursday where he spent Christ-
mas with his son-in-law
daughter, Mr. and Mrs.
Maxwell and family.
Holiday visitors in the home of
Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Cline were
Mrs. Nick Chorn, Palestine1;
Larry Smith, Dallas; Mr. and Mrs.
Harvey Piper, Oklahoma City,
and Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Cline,
Wolfe City.
Floyd Blackwell spent
Christmas holidays with his
in-law and daughter, Mr.
Mrs. R. T. Woodruff and sons.
■ GRAPHIC AS GIFTS
Gerald McLain sends The
J. H.'Graphic as a Christmas gift to
Died Saturday;
Services Sunday
Mr.
boys,
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Nowlin
children of Denver, Colorado,
ited Mr. and Mrs. Don Doolin
David and relatives in Bonham
over the holidays.Visiting in the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Hugh Lewis during the
Christmas holidays were their two
sons, Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Lewis
and daughter, Arlington; Mr. and
Mrs. Eddie Lewis, Terry and Deb-
bie, Dallas; Mrs. Adna Latimer,
Leonard, and Mrs. Perry Latimer,
Trenton.
Mr. and Mrs. G. G. Pannell had
Christmas .dinner with their three
sons, J. B„ Bill and Walter at
210 West Wall Street, Grape-
vine.
her
as
City Christmas and
P.
at
Leonard Pers and buyers
o’clock. The largest crowd was in attend-
of Cattle
“Market -
Mrs. Willie Roden had
children and grandchildren
guests for a Christmas dinner in
her- home. They are Mr. and Mrs.
D. R. Florence and Sue, Rock-
wall; Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Watson
and
Mrs.
and
Mrs.
Mr.
the
Mr.
daughter- and
Leonard. They
garage in the
the first light
The couple had.
one son-in-law
The
Nobility.-'.
Charles Doug-
Delba, and
Mrs. Ernest Spradlin, Dr. J. ” L'. „
Hill and Mrs. Ann Howard, all of Mrs. J. A. Driggers at Weinart
Lockney, were holidays visitors and to L. W. McLain, Leonard.
of Leonard friends and relatives.great-grand- mand of the U. S. Air Force be-
left is Mrs. f°re entering college.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Smith and
Mr. and Mrs. Wylie Smith and
Melanies’ mother Melanie are here visiting Mrs_
Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Brittian and
family, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Jack-
son and family
holiday visitors
J. P. Sullivan.
Four generations are represent-
ed in the above photo. Mrs. Hattie1 dad’ Colorado.
Trusty is holding Melanie Kath- years in the Strategic Air Com-
erine Smith, her
daughter. At the
Bessie Smith, grandmother of the i
child, and left is Wylie Smith, the
child’s father.
is the former Miss Janice Marie Hattie Trusty and other relatives^.
a daughter,
of C
8 grandchildren; 10
one great-
and a sister,
us
Our sincere
for all
and our
Thomp-
Sweden-
Noel Grisham
and
Mr.1
and
the
Tuesday, January 16, 1962:
Abernathy, chairman; Cor-
Griffith, Everett Tarpley
Wayland Wilkins. Their
State Senator Ray Roberts of
McKinney and former district
judge R. C. Slagle, Jr., of Sher-
man, will be in the run-off elec-
tion set for January 30, 1962, for
the Fourth Congressional Dis-
trict seat vacated by the death
of House Speaker Sam Rayburn.
Roberts led the district in Sat-
urday’s special election by carry-
of the 7 counties. Roberts
8,130 votes of the 22,039
cast in the 7 counties,
got 5,934 votes, parlaying
edge in his home county
Mrs.
and
and
Mrs. Bernice Spence and children,
Doug and Randy, all of Terrell;
Dr. Fred A. Tarpley of Commerce
and Mrs. Adele Tarpley of Hooks.
Rev. Sale
Thompson,
pastor, and
Swedenburg,
pastor of the First Baptist Church
of Leonard, officiated.
Burial was in Van Alstyne
Cemetery with Flesher Funeral
Home of Van Alstyne, directing.
Mrs. Murphy, the former Miss
Nannie Elizabeth Ray, was born
June 24, 1894,
County.
late Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Ray.
She was a member of the Meth-
odist Church of Van Alstyne.
Survivors are her husband of
Van Alstyne; two sons, Ray and
Bill Murphy, Leonard; two
sisters, Mrs. John Roberts of
Corpus Christi and Mrs. Kittie
High of Dallas; one grandson,
Don Ray Murphy of Leonard.
Christmas Day visitors of Mrs. and Mrs. Frank Record, Mr.
H. R. Caston, Jr. and sons, Sher-(Mrs. J. D. Record, Mr. and
I am announcing my candidacy
for District Cleak of oui’ county. |
I made the campaign for this'
office four years ago and since'
that time I was employed by
Piggly Wiggly Grocery in Bon-
ham for approximately 2 y2'
years without missing a day.
Friends, I am ipt making this
ized veterans at the V.A. Hospi-1 campaign against anyone nor on1
tai in Bnoham, Lulu Brinkley, anyones demerits. I ’
Pearl McCrary, Sally Macsisak, your vote and influence on my an(j Mrs Don Doolin anci David
T -..4- n num mnrHc onrl m I q 1 i-f i c
Fannin County,
1,202 votes; Slagle,
, 257; Harrington,
118: Finney, 81.
LEONARD BOX
Leonard voters gave their
port to Roberts. The voting
like this — Roberts, 100 votes;!
Brown, 32; Slagle, 30; Harring-
ton, 12,. Finney, 2; Baker, 1. 186
votes were cast and there were
9 mutilated ballots.
Judge Choice Moore and Coun-
ty Clerk Pete Holman expressed
thanks to Fannin County elec-
tion judges for the prompt re-
ports of last Saturday’s election.
George of Tucson, Arizona.
Mrs. Trusty and her late
husband, Jim Trusty, were pio-
neer settlers of the Nobility com-
munity, west of
owned the first
community, also
plant and radio,
five sorus and
serving in World War II.
sons are Tommy,
Lewis, Trenton;
las, Dallas; Billy,
Howard, Leonard.
Besides Mrs. Smith there is
another daughter, Mrs.
Carpenter of Nobility.
The picture was made
Trusty home. The two
have been in the family 24 years..
Wylie, who is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Carl Smith, is an Ed-
ucation and Business Major- at
. | Trinidad State College at Trini-
He served four
Fat Cows—$14-$16.50
Heavy Bulls—$17-$19.50
Dairy Type Calves — $15-$21
Butcher Hogs—-$15-$17
Dale Moore.
own merits and qualifications to Christmas Day
do the job. I feel I can make youj 2
a hand worthy of your hire. I
will devote my full time to the
duties of the office.
I am affiliated with
Methodist Church in
Fraternal Orders, Civic
vice Clubs. In each I hold a pos-
ition of trust.
If you elect me to this office on
May 5th, I promise to do the job
as it should be and with the
possible expense.
I will be seeing you,
WESLEY FARMER,,
Candidate for District Clerk
May 5th
(Pd. Pol. Adv.)
tor of the
Burial was
Cemetery.
Home of
charge.
Mr. Mullinix died at
Sunday afternoon, December 24,
1961. He had attended church
at the First Baptist Church in the
' morning and gone home after-
wards,
a heart
He was born February 16, 1876,
in Tennessee and was married to
! Miss Ellen Oliver February 25,
got 1897 in Albany, Ky. He was
and retired farmer and member
Mr. and Mrs. Jack White and
son, Jack Hammon, spent the
Christmas holiday week end at Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Little and
Boyle, Miss., with Mr. White’s ^family and Mr. and Mrs. Alvin
mother and sister, Mrs. Lucy Oxeman and family, all of Dal-
White and Mrs. Lucille Ryle. las.
Mrs.
Wil-
holi-
Roy
Mrs. „
Mr. j were Mr. and Mrs. Fred Burleson
and and son, Mr. and Mrs. James
Mrs. Hutton and family, Mr. and Mrs.
man; Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Brown-1 Bob Berry and children, all of Leslie Collins, Garland, Mr. and
ing, Dr. and Mrs. Van Redman,'Richardson; Mr. and Mrs. Lewis
I Gainesville, Mrs. G. E. Carpenter Record and son, Fort Worth; Mr. Mr. and Mrs. Acie Watson and
_. ------------- and family,
Mr. and Kans.; Mr. and Mrs.
Joe, Steve Kuhn, Denison; Mr. and
Mr. and’Mickey Fuller, Dallas; Mr.
and Mrs. Acie Watson
Mrs. Med Williams
Coipus children visited Mr. and Mrs.
Bowen at Bonham Tuesday.
A visit with A. R. Stapp, Leon- ; 6
ard Butane dealer, to his pastures Polled
near Leonard will be worth while votes
for people seeking permanent Slagle
type winter pasture. Mr. Stapp a big
has found Kentucky Fescue 31 of Grayson,
to be an excellent winter David Brown, a Sherman at-
pasture. He advises good soil torney, took third place with
preparation and about 20 pounds 2,363 votes and Conner Harring-
of seed per acre. The fescue ton, the only Republican in the
grass makes a complete sod the race, got 2,388 votes.second year, and grows extreme- —-------------
ly well in wet places, and it can
take a lot of tramping in rainy
weather with little damage.
Mr. Stapp said that in a normal
year the grass would carry a cow
and calf per acre for- nine months
of the year. The grass seeds in
June and is dormant through
August.
Jack Finney of Greenville
2,201 votes for 5th place
Roy Baker, a Sherman attorney, Baptist church,
was last with 1,073 votes.
In
polled
Brown,
Baker,
Mrs. Chess Murphy, 67, passed
away at 9:05 A. M. Sunday,
December 24, 1961, in Commu-
nity Hospital at Sherman after
a lengthy illness. She was a
resident of Van Alstyne, and
mother of Ray Murphy and Bill
Murphy, both of Leonard.
Funeral services were held at
2:Jo^P. M. Monday in the First
Methodist Church at Van Als-
tyne. The pastor,
Lilly, Rev. Milford
Leonard Methodist
Rev. James R.
THE KINDNESS AND
pathy of neighbors and friends |
in dur recent sorrow will al-
ways remain with us as a
precious memory,
thanks and gratitude
those comforting acts,
thanks to Rev. Milford
son and Rev. James
burg.
Chess Murphy
Mr. and Mrs. Ray
Mr. and Mrs. Bill
church,
made in
Elarnheart
Whitewright
Dennie, Garland;
H. C. Watson,
Timmie, Dallas;
Mickey Florence, Rockwall; Mrs. Pat Bowen, Bonham;
and Mrs. Jim Powell and and Mrs. R. C. Kuhn and daugh-
Julie, Dallas. Also enjoying the ters, Grove Hill; Mr. and Mrs.
occasion were their neighbors, Edd Fuller and family, Mr. and
Mr. and Mrs. Nole Yeager. | Mrs. Acie Watson and family,
! Mr. and Mrs. Med Williams and
'family, Leonard, Miss Jane Smith,!
Mrs. J. D. Toney, Pa- Delba. I
Debbie visited Mr. and1
Over 200 head of livestock was
the sold Friday at the sale. New ship-
were present.
| Survivors include one son,
Roberts G- of three daughters, Mrs.
gg4. V. A. Rogers of Paris, Mrs. E.
150 L. Hopkins of Leonard, and Miss
Dortha of Tyler; one brother, A.’
F. of Kokomo, Ind., four grand- $28.00
children and four- great-grand-;
children.
A' do .
Visiting Mr. and Mrs. Claude We are grateful for friends who
Kuhn over the Christmas holi- expressed sympathy in so many
days were Mr. and Mrs. Wally ways during the illness and since
Darst and family, Wichita,'the passing of our loved one. The,
Charles ’
Mrs.
and
Mr.
Mr. and
tricia and
Mrs. Jean Toney and Denise at j
Oklahoma
Mrs. Toney and Denise returned ^da Medley and Mrs. Vera
with them to visit relatives at Person over
days were
Medley and
Jewell Courtney, Leonard;
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Barrett and
family, Van Alstyne, Mr. and ■ returned to their home at Fort
Mrs. Joe David Barrett, Fort] Worth Tuesday after a holiday
Hood, and Mrs. Blanche Holman visit with Mrs. Wright’s parents,
were Sunday dinner guests of
Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Hill, Lanny
and Donna.
Mrs. Med Williams and family;
Mr. and Mrs.
I and daughters, Joan, Jane
the First Jean of Round Rock, visited
Bonham,' and Mrs. J. A. Grisham
and Ser- Mrs. R. R. Grisham over
holidays.
Holiday visitors of Mrs.
Partain were Mr. and Mrs. R. T.
Partain and Betsy, Kingsville;
Mr. and Mrs. Loyd Partain and
-*-'Steve, McAllen; Mr. and Mrs.
C. C. Stevens and Connie, Odes-
sa; Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Partain
and Charles, Tyler; Mr. and Mrs.
W. H. Partain, Sherry and Ray,
Grand Prairie; Mr. and Mrs. Ger-
ald Goodwin and Mike, Dallas;
Mrs. Paul Pierce and Mrs. W. H.
Partain, Sherman; Jack Harris'and Miss Jan Carpenter, Fort and Mrs. Charles Record and
Richardson. I Worth. 1 children, Mesquite.
flowers and food and each ex-
pression of kindness was greatly
appreciated.
The Children of
Mrs. Ora Collins
Jimmy Fullerton, 10 year old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Fuller-
ton of Los Angeles, Calif., was
hit by a car- while riding his bi-
cycle last Saturday. He suffered!
head injuries
surgery at
Tuesday.
| Jimmy’s grandparents, Mr. and
I Mrs. L. R.
Mr. and Mrs. Larry Manning, that he had survived the oper-
Dianne and David of Santa Anna ation and was believed to not.
spent the Christmas holidays with have any serious injuries.
their parents^ Mr. and Mrs. Clyde I
Tucker and Mr. and Mrs. Paul •
Manning.
A beef cattle shortcourse will
be held in Bonham, January 23„
24, 25 and 26, starting at 7:0G>
p. m. each night in the District
’ Courtroom.
■ Persons from Texas A & M
College will present the four night
course.
The
be on
: cation
Texas
i jects to be discussed the second
night will be “The Meat Type
Hog of Today,, and “Pasture-
Management” and the third and
fourth night will be “Economics
of Cattle Feeding and Production
in 1962 for livestock prices out-
I look” and
; Feeding in
SYM- ing »
Personal
program will ba Dr. C.
terson, John McHaney,
Thompson, Ted Trew,
Tanksley and Edward Vvaclk, all. .
of Texas A & M College. Also,,
appearing on the program will
be Jack Jenkins, Farm Manage-
jment Specialist of Denton.
I This will be a good opportu-
Murphy nity for livestock producers of
Murphy Fannin County to get first hand
i information concerning livestock:
■nr . ,, ,, . „ . , production.
Mr. and Mrs. Noel Grisham
of Round Rock and Mr. and Mrs. i -------------
I am seeking Cecil Morse of Danas visited Mr. GRANDSON INJURED
The first business meeting of a p
the new year for Loflin-Preddy I GF
Post 110 of the American Legion
will be held at the Legion Hall
.Tuesday, January 2, 1962, at 7:00
p-m- Commander Jim Wilson1
wifl 'urges all Legionnaires, who can
possibly do so to attend. Business
W&lJsliC JyPSCFmSn : and Plans for the year will be dis-
* cussed. If you have any ideas
i The following new and renewed or suggestions for better opera-
subscriptions to The Graphic ^on or improvements to the Le-
widow have been received recently: '-gion Hall, you are urged to at-
i tend and present them at this
at her Mrs w H pharrj Lytle | meeting.
Satui George Groene, Orizaba Ver, Following the meeting, “coffee
and,” will be served and good
fellowship will prevail,
j The following Legionnaires
have been appointed by
the Commander as a commit-
tee for the “Game Night” to be
held
Less
nell
! and
! plans for the night will be pre-
. sented at the business meeting.
Mrs. Ora L. Collins, 75,
of James C. Collins, died
home in Bonham at 1 a.m.
day, Dec. 23, 1961, following an Mexico
We wish to thank patrons of extended illness. S. Robinson, Leng Beach
the local post office for your! Funeral services were held at calif,
courtesy and for mailing cards the Southside Church of Christ
and packages early during the in Bonham at 2:30 p.m. Sunday
Christmas season. It was a pleas- with Billy Barr, minister,
ure to serve you.
—Leonard Post Office Employees Leonard cemetery with Pat Wil-
I son Funeral Home of Leonard
- directing.
and! Survivors are two sons, W. LJ
vis- Collins of McKinney and Elmer
and; Collins of Dallas;
Mrs. J. J. Appleby
Christi;
great grandchildren;
great grandchild
(Mrs. Ada Jonson of California. |
Mrs. Collins, the former Miss
Ora Owens, was the daughter of
the late Mr. and Mrs. Wesley
Owens, and was born Aug. 1, 1886’, j
in Athens, Ga. She married James ■
C. Collins Aug. 17, 1902, and he Holiday visitors of Mr. and
preceded her in death. Mrs. Col- Ernest Tarpley were Mr.
lins was a member of the Church Mrs. Fred Green and Mr.
of Christ.
The first activity- of the Aux-
iliary, after a most busy holiday
season, in which many of the la-
dies assisted, will be Wednesday
Deport afternoon, January 3, 1962. On
with this date the following ladies are
scheduled to assist in running
the bingo game for the hospital-
Funeral services for
Mullinix, 85, were held
First Baptist Church in
Tuesday afternoon at 2
Rev. James R. Swedenburg, pas-'ence since the opening of the
ter cf the church, officiated, sale.
Leonard | Fred Gray,
Funeral the sale
was in and the
mood,
his home' Prices
throughout the entire sale.
Tom Bunch, a Leonard F.F.A.
student, sold three good calves
that averaged over $122 per head.
Freddy James, Trenton, sold
a cow and calf. W. H. Saddler, Mc-
Kinney, sold 45 head, Sterling
Bailey, McKinney 17 head, Cly-
mer Crabb, Leonard, 11 head, Bil-
ly Joe Turner, Bonham, 9 head,
Jack Roberts, Bailey, 10 heads,
Stephen Macsisak, Leonard 41
head, Renia Mann, Ladonia, 15
head, and Al Sasser, Greenville,
sold 2 head.
Butcher Calves—$20-$25
Stocker Steer Calves — Up
Commission Draws Home Of Mrs
Largest Crowd
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