The Nocona News (Nocona, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, August 2, 1935 Page: 1 of 8
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Of Their Daughter
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the Prairie
Point
A real wild-west rodeo, under the
Fire Deparement, will be staged in
Wardrobe Demonstrators of Montague Co.
Word was received here Wednes-
Saint Jo
This truck
Montague
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Falls Hospital
Mrs. Paine To
Demonstrate For
Nocona C 1
Revival Meeting at
Shady Grove Draws
Important Meeting
Of American Legion
Beck Well, Near
Channing, Down
500 Feet
Motor Accidents
Discussed A t
Rotary Meeting
Old Settler Reunion
To Be Big Affair
written they were down 500 feet.
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Mrs. Ernest Smith
Dies in Wichita
Baker & Co.
Adds Groceries
To Their Stock
* 184,822 Cans Put
I Up This Season By
County Canneries
negative side.
brought out which should cause the
motorist to be more careful.
B. S. Gist has the program for
next Tuesday.
Following an illness of more than
a year, Mrs. Nora Smith, 39, wife of
Ernest J. Smith, died at the Wich-
ita Falls hospital Tuesday morning
at 7:30 o’clock.
Funeral services were held from
back to the producers’ pantries.
The leading product for the
month was corn, with a total of 40,-
306 cans. The Nocona plant led in ......
the production of this product with us that God was with her in life and
in death, for she died without fear.
She talked of death as if she were
going on a pleasant journey and
said many times. “I am not afraid
to die.”
Active pallbearers were Carl Gray.
Joe Janeway. Raymond Turner. J.
Celebrates Birthday
With a Picnic
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Rev. G. N. Stone, pastor, is con-
ducting a series of revival services
at the Shady Grove Methodist Pro-
testant church this week, beginning
last Saturday night. Large crowds
are attending these services and
much interest is being shown. Rev.
Stone asks that the people of this
community and the surrounding
communities make a special effort
to attend these services.
They will make
the Prairie Point
ector in charge.
Mr. Simpson died at his home
i early Saturday morning following e
strators of Montague home demon- for the coming year,
stration clubs, brought their year’s
work to a climax July 11 with an
achievement day in Montague at
which approximately 150 clubwomen
were present.
The dresses and the record of
the year’s work of the demontra-
tors were judged by Miss Jennie
Camp, district home demonstration
agent, as follows: Mrs. S. C. Roach,
Saint Jo, first; Mrs. Paul McGee of
Mount Taber, second place; and
Mrs. J. J. Cox of Montague, third.
Montague county has fourteen
home demonstration clubs and this
is their first year to do wordrobe
work.
that their co-operation in bringing
only nice, ripe tomatoes for canning Humphreys,
is greatly appreciated.
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Webster Truck Has
Changed Warehouse
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Cunningham
announce the marriage of their
daughter, Miss Echlin, to Dennis
Paine, both of
ccmmunity. on November 11. 1934.
Mr. Paine is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Tom Paine,
their home in
community.
firmative side of the question of nic lunch. Some of the guests were
whether or not motorists should be i accompanied by their parents, and
licensed, and F. L. Perry had the, there was another honor guest, Mr.
Many things were Henry McGrew, who was also cele-
brating his birthday that) -ay.
The children guests were: Tom
Lunn, Jimmie Daugherty, Bobby
Story, Donald Ray Perryman, Clint
Stouder, Bobbie Stouder, Lou Ellen
McGrew. Bobbie Fern Enloe, Mary
Louise Boyd. Betty Ann Williamson,
and Max Wheeler.
Right to left: Mrs. S.
C. Roach, Saint Jo;
Mrs. Jack Montgomery,
Lone Star; Mrs. Paul
McGee, Mount Tabor;
Mrs. J. J. Cox, Mon-
tague; .. Mrs. Claude
Ayers, Bonita; .. Mrs.
Quinn Paine. Nocona.
Plans are being completed for a
big celebration and reunion here
on Thursday, Friday and Saturday,
August 22. 23 and 24.
Lany old-timers and former citi-
zens will be here. Saturday will
be set aside especially as “Old Set-
tlers’ and Former Citizens’ Day.”
Those who are planning to be
here, or know of anybody who Is
and lived 1 planning, are asked to send in the
names to Harold Crain, Nocona,
Texas, in order that all guests may
be properly taken care of.
A list of the names that have
been sent in will be printed in next
week's issue of The News.
Plan now to meet your old friends
here on August 22. 33 and 24.
Wednesday afternoon at 4 o’clock,I
conducted by Rev. E. L. Moody of
Henrietta, assisted by Rev. L.
Rambo, pastor, and Rev. C.
Thomas, pastor of the First Meth-
odist church. As a special request
of Mrs. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. A. G.
Pritchett of Gladewater sang two
special selections. "When They Ring
Those Golden Bells,” and “The
Lifeboat.”
Nora Ida McGrew was born on
January 29, 1896, near Loco, Okla.
She moved to Montague county
and Nocona on January 5, 1913,
where she made her home until her
death. She was converted in early
life during a revival meeting that
she attended in Loco, Okla. In the
summer of 1913 during the Adair
(revival, she became a member of
the First Baptist church at No-
cona. She had never had member-
ship in any other church other than
this church here. Mrs. Smith loved
her church life dearly and gave her
very best service to it. She was
never too tired to give her time and
strength to the church's activities.
She was united in marriage to
Ernest J. Smith on Dec. 25, 1915, by
Rev. Johnson of Montague. Into this
family came two sons, Carroll and
Kelvyn. No mother ever loved her
family more dearly than did she, al-
ways thinking of them
that she might serve them better.
Mrs. Smith died believing in her
family, for her dying words were
“Ernest and boys, I am depending
on you, be brave.”
Mrs. Smith’s going has convinced
Nocona Saturday
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• Outlaw Brones and
Wild Cattle To
Provide Rip-Snort-
ing Event, Spon-
sored by Fire Boys.
| WcuIlcSUay. Xlc VV ao UU1I1 V dll
Buren. Arkansas, on January 2,
1861, but spent the greater part of
his life here.
He is survived by his widow, a
son. Bill Simpson, and two daugh-
ters, Mrs. Fred Peters, of Nocona,
and Mrs. Alma McCloud of Okla.
Pallbearers were Z. W. Shackel-
ford. L. C. Stouder, J. S. Adding-
ton, R. H. Lasseter, George McEl-
roy and R. L. Cubine.
auspices of the Nocona Volunteer
r-unerai services were neia iromI fire Deparement, will be staged in
the First Baptist Church of Nocona Nocona on Saturday, August 3, at
2:00 o’clock in the afternoon and
at 8 o'clock at night. The boys re-
E. | port that some of the wildest
W. broncs and Brahma steers ever
seen in North Texas will be there.
Big New Arena
A large new arena has been con-
structed on the block just north of
the softball field, and it has been
equipped with new pens, chutes,
and a grandstand with elevated
seats so that all may see and hear.
The arena will be lighted with
high-powered floodlights for the
night performance.
An admission charge of 10c and
25c wil be made. Tickets are on
sale at the drug stores in Nocona.
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Baker & Co., successors to Wood
& Co., announce that they have
added a clean, new stock of staple
groceries to their store, and invite
the friends and patrons of this No-
cona firm to come in and look over
the new stock. Coy Baker, the man-
ager, is to be congratulated on the
pride he is taking in offering the
best merchandise at lowest possible
prices.
Webster Truck has changed their
warehouse from Fleming Store to
Neff's dry goods store,
line gives daily overnight service
from Fort Worth, Dallas, Waco and
Houston, Sherman, Denton and
Gainesville to Nocona. They also
give package car service from New
York, Philadelphia via steamer from
Houston.
There will be an important meet-
I ing of the Nocona American Legion
Mrs. Quinn Paine of Nocona, Mrs. ‘ cn Tuesday night, August 6, to
Claude Ayers of Bonita. Mrs. J. J. which all Legionnaires are cordially
Cox of Contague, Mrs. Paul McGee invited. The meeting will be held
of Mount Tabor, Mrs. Jack Montgo- in the Odd Fellows Hall. I noon. July 27, at the First Baptist
mery of Lone Star and Mrs. S. C. This is an important meeting as church. The rites were conducted
Roach of Saint Jo, wardrobe demon- there will be an election of officers by the Rev. L. E. Rambo, pastor,
. 1 and burial was in the Nocona ceme-
tery with J. H. Cone funeral dir-
[ ector in charee.
Cunninghams
Announce Marriage paralytic stroke which he suffered
. ti • i Wednesday. He was born at Van
Word was received here Wednes- Production records for the six
day that the well O. V. Beck is put- Montague County Relief Canning
ting down on his ranch near Chan- ■ Plants, located at Nocona, Bowie,
ning, Texas, was begun last Satur- i Saint Jo. Spanish Fort, Sunset and
day and at the time the letter was' Montague, for the month of July
- — * *■ I ret an all-time record with a total
[ of 84,822 cans, bringing the total
i to date to 167588 cans, according to
1 Mrs. Ruby Springer. County Super-
j visor. This figure is only 44.000 less
| than the total figure for last year.
* i j Below is the number of cans; put
GoOCl Crowds | out and the number of man-hours
used by each plant: .
Bcwie 23.663 cans. 5.868 hours
Nocona 22.407 cans. 4.246 hours
12.670 cans, 2.892 hours
Sunset 12.147 cans. 2,511 hours
8,852 cans, 2,750 hours
Spanish Ft. 5.083 cans, 1.536 hours
Total cans 84.822
Of this total there are 54,665 cans
in storage for Montage j: County
relief and 30,157 cans have been sent
Little John Mood was entertained
Monday afternoon with a picnic on
Salt Creek. The occasion was John’s
third birthday, and the picnic was
given by Mesdames Frank Mood
and Henry McGrew.
The little friends taking part in
the celebration gathered at John’s
house at about five o'clock. They
brought many exciting presents to
The appalling frequency of auto the three-year-old, and after these
accidents and resulting deaths and, were opened and played with for
injuries was the subjevt of a debate [ a while, the whole patry got into
at the Tuesday noon Rotary meet- ' cars and went to the picnic ground
ing. Rev. L. E. Rambo had the af- for a happy romp and then a pic-
a total of 11,834 cans during the
month. The second product was
green peas with a total of 27,960.
The Bowie plant led in the produc-
tion of this product, with a total of
5,092 cans.
Tomatoes are just now coming in „,^ „„„„„„ „.
to the plants in large quantities, p Janewav, B. M. McNew, Arthur
and we want the producers to know Sewell, H. H .Rush and Foye Wood.
Honorary pallbearers were G. W.
, Harry Read, Ed Vice,
Paul Haggerton, Basil Gist, Dr. N.
W. Crain, M. M. Gilbert, Atlas Gil-
bert. W. F. Leonard. J. O. Kelley,
and all special friends of the family
are asked to consider themselves as
honorary pallbearers.
The Justin Leather Goods Co. I
here where Mr. and Mrs. Smith had I
. ... . . prices. See their ad in this issue,
both worked for a number of jears. Quotes a few banrains
closed for the funeral. . wmen quotes a lew bargains.
Beside her immediate family, Mrs. I
Smith is survived by two brother. Master Inkn Mrtrtrl
Albert and Fred McGrew of No- "la8ler Jonn IV1OOC1
cona and six half-brothers and five
half-sisters.
Interment was in the Nocona
cemetery with J. H. Cone's funeral
director in charge of the arrange-
ments.
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Funeral services for J. M. Simp-
; son. 74 mail messenger here for 14
years, were held Saturday after-
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AFTERNOON WAS ON THE PORCH
Bonita H. S.
Gets 5 Credits
For Last Year
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Word has been received by W. T.
Tompkins, principal of the Bonita
school, from the State Department
that the Bonita High School re-
ceived 5 credit* last year, three in
Math and two in English.
This makes Bonita a four accred-t
tied High School, which is an un-
usually good record for a school of
Its aiae.
Mr Thompson states that the
prospect for next years school
term is by far better the nil has
been for a number of yean.
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Cemetery Working
At Long Branch
The Gay ’90’s and the Perilous ’30’s
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at the Lang Branch
Thursday. Angwt *.
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invited to
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Glenn Stouder and Mrs. Totoe
Thoenpeon were Wichita Fahs visi-
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4o Cost $45,150
D/C. Bass & Son Con-
/ struction Co. of
| Enid, Okla., Made
v- Low Bid.
Couple Claims
Deserted Child
Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Daniel left the
first of this week for Rochester N
V.. where Mrs. Daniel will *o
through the Mayo Brothers Clinic
They will return to Nooona the teat
of neat week.
* A bid of (45,150 for construction
of a new postoffice in Nocona was
low when bids were opened by the
treasury department in Washing-
ton Wednesday, according to word
received here. The bid was enter-
ed by the D. C. Bass & Son Con-
struction Company of Enid, Okla.
The Nocona postoffice has been
housed in buildings leased by the
government and construction of the
new federal building will be the
first government owned structure in
this community. The government
pitas' purchased a half of a city
B block on Clay street just north of
E«ne business district for the new
Brtiilding.
’^'J}e Attractive Building
B The posioffice will be 61 by 63
i feet and will be a one-story with
mezzanine floor over lobby. Other
specifications are: Face brick,
manganlese speckled and light
buff. Mortar, natural cement. Cast
stone steps, granite faced. Exter-
ior paint wil be grey, similar in
tone to cast stone. Concrete foun-
dation. Tile roof. To be built on
southwest comer of lot.
The original appropriation was
for $35,000, but postoffice officials
gequested a hike in order to meet
present and anticipated demands
for a Feedral building in Nocona.
The low bid for a postoffice at
Graham, opened at the same time
glAs the one for Nocona, was for
f $41,613. Bowie’s postoffice building
nearing completion, cost $35,000.
Construction is expected to begin
in the immediate future on Noco-
na’s structure.
ApMBABRASSINa moment: <
girl travels all the #iy to
the beach and falls to find fair
tXthfng suit In her compact.
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Once you were warned to look
> out for rain if you stepped on a
solder; now it eoems you bln
to mtch out for Its wlddw.
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Another and fourth wildcat well
in the Nocona area has been spud-
completed and made fairly good
completed and made fairly good
producers. This fourth one is being
drilled by the Blue Mountain Drill-
ing company, composed of Nocona
men, and on the A. J. Fenoglio tract
12 miles southeast of Nocona. They
are drilling now at 300 feet and the
contract calls for a depth of 3,500
feet. They intend to make a
thorough test, as they have a block
of over 3,000 acres under lease. This
test is only a few miles from proven
territory.
At the time The News went to
press Thursday afternoon, t’.._
outcome of the questioning
not been learned nor the couples
names or where they were from
County officials were questioning
a young couple who appeared at
Montague Thursday afternoon and
claimed they deserted 18 months old
Jackie. Who was found under a
shade tree in the edge of the city
limits of Bowie on July 8th with
a penciled note pinned to his cloth-
ing, apparently written by the
mother, asking someone to adopt
the baby as she had “Come to the
end of tier resources." and was
planning to "end it all."
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J Coye Garrison of Nocona and
a Miss Laverne Pritchett of Glade-
1 water, formerly of Nocona, were
J married at the home of the brides
“ parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Pntcn-
i ett, Saturday evening. July 27, with
I the pastor of the First Baptist
J church of Gladewater officiating.
Mrs Garrison is well known here.
1 having lived here several years be-
ifore moving to Gladewater last
I spring. She attended high school
J here and was very popular among
n the younger set in both social and
■ religious circles.
1 Mr. Garrison
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■ city. He is a graduate of the No-
Icona High School and Is favorably
known here. At present Mr Gar-
rison is an employee at the Nocona
Leather Goods Co.
would kill him.
The defendant described how he
hitch-hiked to Valley View and met
Browning on the school yard be-
fore accompanying him to his room
at the teacherage. Rash testified
that he had sought information
about Montague county officers
earlier in the day with a view to
seeking Browning’s arrest, if he
did not obtain a promise to marry
his sister.
Rash said Browning had declared
that he didn’t care about his sis-
ter’s love and that he had attended
to his own business for two years.
He said he was ready to go back
to work, seeking to end the inter-
view. Rash persisted with one
more question, asking Browning if
he would marry his sister or face
prosecution.
Fired At Same Time
"Browning and I fired at the
same time as he cursed me,” Rash
said. Aft6r the first shot Brown-
ing bent over and shook his gun,
he added. Six shots were fired.
The defendant also told of efforts
to call officers, but failed to find a
telephone. He was arrested at a
grocery store and held until offi-
cers arrived.
Redman Quoted
Other witnesses in the afternoon
included Bob Arnold of Nocona
who told of Supt. G. W. Redman
of the school describing a conver-
sation overheard between Rash and
Browning. Claude Whlttpker, No-
cona city marshal, told of finding
Browning’s gun jammed and with-
out shells.
Dr. H. N. Wilson and Dr. E. E.
Johnson testified that Rash was ill
when he made a statement to offi-
cers on the day after the slaying.
Testimony of character witnesses
at the first trial was read.
Under cross-examination Rash
was asked to show how he drew his
gun from beneath his shirt. He be-
came entangled on two attempts
and failed to bring the gun out.
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Perry, F. L. The Nocona News (Nocona, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, August 2, 1935, newspaper, August 2, 1935; Nocona, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1230388/m1/1/: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Friends of the Nocona Public Library.