The Nocona News. (Nocona, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, February 20, 1925 Page: 1 of 8
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Nocona. Montague County. Teias, Fedruarv 20, 1928
T. R. Stump, Pub.
MISSIONARY SOCIETY
PARENT-TEACHERS MEET
Thrift in the Home
NOTICE TO ALL INCOME TAX PAYERS
date will be announcedlater.
A Deputy Collector will be at this Bank all day
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J. P. GILMORE, Minister.
GREEN BRIER NEWS
BELCHERVILLE NEWS
The Nocona Gas Company appears
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miss this chance to stock up on Sugar.
You can’t go rong in placing your February
account with
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Calls answered day or nightf
Day phone No. 37, Night phone No. 52
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FEBRUARY 23RD, 1925
To celebrate George Washington’s Birthday.
alread;
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GAS COMPANY GOT FINE OIL
SAND—THEN REACHED GAS
Joe Benton visited Farwell, Texas,
last week.
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. Willie Barnes of Centralia,
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iChass. Dunaway, and family.
I and Mrs. Buddle Henry went
Iwie Saturday.
I Sammie Robinson and Mrs.
lenry were shopping in Nocona
WCrenshaw and daughter,
7 Rich, were "in Nocona
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L.H. Cone Hardware Coi
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A line ot caskets, coffins and burial rohes
now in stock and displayed at our
undertaking rooms.
r *) • jft. at home (hies not call
f< •• the h»c» ifie^ of all plea
$‘<re and comfort, but rath
er careful expenditures and
the saving of a part of
ev r.y dollar made.
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to work st once.
Harry F. Mitchell is bringing us
gas, which we all know to be the
cheapest and most convenient fuel,
he bridged Red River for us, and
apparently his work is now beginning
to be appreciated.
Mrs.) J. W. Martin of Nocona, and
tur* Buckingham --
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Monday.
Doc Ketchum was
Monday on business.
Mrs. A. W. Coleman was in No-
cona Sunday, visiting relatives.
The following spent Sunday with
Mr. and Mrs. A. Boren: Mrs. Tip
Campbell and son, Elwood, Mrs. Z.
W. Gaydon and daughter, Miss Roe,
Mrs. W. W. Ketchum and daughters,
Misses Letrice and Ruby of Ring-
gold, Mrs. D. R. Ketchum and sons
of Belcherville, Clarence Campbell
of Olney, and Mrs. Wheat and Miss
Juanita Matthews of Ringgold.
Alexander’s Sto'ar
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lick, Lillian Haggerton, Lota
rays, Myrtle Long, and Vir-
tkins.
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Walter Hill Sunday.
Mrs. Jim Walker, assisted by Miss
Letha Walker, delightfully entertain-
’ ed on last Saturday from 2 till 5
o’clock, honoring the birthdays of
Little Mason and Bruce Walker. The
i house was beautifully decorated with
red and white hearts. A beautiful
cake, bearing 5 candles for little
Mason and 3 candles for little Brice,
added its beauty to the table, which
was also decorated with Red and
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ciated.
are very much need, as
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ed Mr. and Mrs. Fitzgerald, of near
Bonita, Monday. ,
Messrs. Johnson and McQueene, was a dmner ^est of Mr. and Mrs.
who are drillers on the Gelf Company,
Well on the Taylor Benton farm,
have rooms and board with Mr. and
Mrs. Herb Roberts.
Hubert Roberts of Mexia spent the
week end with Mr. and Mrs. Herb
Roberts.
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Brooks at-
tended Sunday School at Green Brier
Sunday and were dinner guests of
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Little.
Refreshments of hot chocolate and |
angel food was served to the follow-. White hearts.
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The Texhoma Company got a fin*
.. -21 on the N. J. Howard tract
Friday, he oil rose more than 300
feet from the 1,100 foot sand in just
a little while. Owenwood is drilling
practically an offset to this well, on
t~#
orona Xciw>.
The Missionary Society of the
Methodist Church met at the par-
sonage Monday afternoon for their
Miss Kathryn Rowland took her
Sunday School Class on a hike to
Benton’s Hill Wednesday afternoon.
They enjoyed weenie roasting and
a idelicious picnic lunch. Tose in-
cluded |were Misses Lois Reed, Mary
McCo
Hum]
ginia
jloajed Last Week.
Henry.
I Moore filled his regular ap-
nent Saturday and Sunday at
kthodwt yjtyirrh.... ——-- loaded machinery •find expect to go
SI Addington spent Monday
h friends in Nocona.
1. Pi Crenshaw made a business
Ip to Bowie Friday.
B. Rich made
Bowie Friday.
I. B. Williams and son, Manis, of
fester, Texas, spent Wednesday
t with Mr. and Mrs. Joe Mitchell.
y Fitts made a business trip to
e Friday.
> are glad to report that Jim
ry is improving after a long ill-
Last Saturday night burglars pried
off the casing of a rear window of
John Battles’ general store at Row-
land, entered and got away with
about $175.00 worth of merchandise
and 550.00 in cash.
Mr. Battles was in Nocona, with
his father, Mr. J. M. Battles, who is
seriously ill, and the robbery was not
discovered until some time Sunday.
TEXHOMA GETS FINE OIL WELT,
nh t r fam)iv at this banij.
Farmers & Merchants National Bank
CAPITAL $125,000.00 SURPLUS $25,000.00
In Good Years and Band the Farmers & Merchants
National Bank Will Stand By Its Customers
lugh Carson, Cashier Nocona. Texas
PROMini TH! ‘‘VaLIt <*<M>D
Clarence Matthews of Denton and *”
Furen Matthews of Texarkana were oil well
shaking hands with Green Brier
friends last Wednesday and Thurs-
day.
Misses Ena and Edna Hightower
were week end guests of Miss Matti the Salmon ranch.
Anderson.
Mr. adn Mrs. Leonard Fields and
children of Wheeler, Wheeler Coun-j,
ty, accompanied by Mrs. Stacy Walk-
er, who have been visiting Montague highly respected citizen of Nocona,
County relatives, were dinner guests died Friday night after a short ilL
of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hill last ness with pneumonia. He is survived
Saturday. by his wife and several children, who
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Walker of_Noco- have_giggere xympftthy a# utMC
na spent Sunday with his parents)’ entire community.
Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Walker. I _ ________ ___
Mr. and Mrs. Jess Breeze were ing: Mason and Brice Walker, Wayne
week end guests of Mr. and Mrs. Littl.e, Orvil Anderson, Hugh and
Walter Hill. Q]en Walker, Lewis, Roy and Samuel
Miss Eva Breeze was guest of her Hill, Mrs. Earl Little, Mrs. L. C.
Walker, Mrs. M. A. Anderson, Mrs.
„ - , »< . « j • 1 Walter Hill, and the hosteses, Mrs.
Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Anderson visit-
Jun Walker and Miss Letha Walker.
Bro. N. B. Haralson of near Bonita
1 _• Wichita Falls Ro-
prresent at the institu-
tion of the new club: C. U. Daniels,
I. H. Roberta, 3. H. Allison, John
Gould, Fred T. Cooper, Joe Huckins.
A. L. Deatherage, Milton Glover, W.
P. Killingsworth, M. J. Gardner, E.
A. Bobb, Fred Kinery, Herbert Voelc
ker, Fred L. Haskett, Frank Creigh-
ton. I. E. Shepherd, Leonard Gray-
son, Charley Harr. Boy Hammond,
Bumside and C. C. Wrby.
Got Seed Irish Potatoes. Will soon have
onions sets and Bermuda onion slips.
Sunday School at 10:00 A. M.
Preaching services at 11:00 A. M.
Mrs. Laura Buckingham of Bridge- and 7:30 P. M. A cordial invitation
port spent last week with her sister, extended the public to attend any and
Mrs. J. W. Martin. Mr. (and Mrs. all of our services
Dannie Goode and children, also of
Bridgeport, spent the week end with
Mrs. Martin, returning to their home
Sunday afternoon
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FEBRUARY 28TH, 1925
To assist you in making out your
Tax Return.
The County Council of the Parent-
Teachers Associations will meet at
Nocona March 7th al 2:80 P. M., in
the High School Auditorium. A very
interesting program is being ar-
ranged by the local committee and
a very cordial invitation is issued to
all schools and Parent-Teachers As-
sociation organizations of the county.
The complete program will be given
in next week's issue of The News.
ImJ 1'
DIVOTII) TO ANY W"HI> WHICH
C.' " for. a Bink, fAccount
f«>t- . very member of the
family.
The Nocona Rotary Club with 17
charter members was oganized Tues-
day noon with a lunchoen at Hotel
Fillmore, with Wichita Falls Ro-
tarians in charge of the program.
T. B. Wilkes was elected presi-
dent; J. W. Lehman, vice president;
George McElroy, secretary; Jack
Foster, sergeant at arms. The fol-
lowing were elected directors: T. B.
Wilkes, M. Bernstein, E. P. Daniel,
G. H. Fooshee, D. J. Gribbon, Hugh
Carson and A. A. Stripling. Other
members included W. W. Jones, J.
R. Miller, C. E. Collins, J. A. Rice,
R. E. Fletcher. S. T. Humphreys, G.
D. Kilcrease, W. E. Justin and
others.
C. U.
Daniels, president of the 1
Wcihita Falls Rotary Club, presided 1
at the meeting, adn J. H. Allison of ■
the Wichita Falls Club delivered the 1
principal address, *The Ideals of
the Rotary.”
I. H. Roberts of the Wichita Falls
Club talked briefly on boys’ work,
and Fred T. Cooper Jr. delivered a
short address. 1. B. Wilkes, presi-
dent of the new club, responded to
the talks.
The following
tarians were t
The Social Committee, together
! with the Membership Committee, will
give a tea sometime in March for
the benefit of our librarry and for regular Bible study on Rail’s “Life
the enrollment of new members. The of Christ.” Mrs. G. W. Humphreys
The conducts the lessons, and at this
committee will ask for a book shower meeting she dealt very interestingly
at the same time. The steel shelving with' “Jesus’ last week in Jerusalem."
has arrived and there is plenty of On next Monday, the class will study
room for books and no where will “The Last Supper and Gethsemane.”
they do more good than on the The next social meeting of the
shelves our school library. It is the society will be at Mrs. Whaley’s on
intention of the Parent-Teachers As- March 9th, and every member is
sociation to open the library twice urged to bring their donation for
a week as a reading room for the the Helen Kirby Hall at that time,
public, hence popular fiction as well This new building is the Methodist
reference books will be appre- Dormitory for girls at the State
Then, too, children’s books University at Austin, erected through
in order to efforts of the women of the West
obtain the Fourth Year Credit in Texas Missionary Societies
English a. grade library is required expenditure of about $125,000.
as well as fiction from modern writ- cona is now asked for her last dona-
ers and poems.
A list of books wanted will be
published in next week’s paper. Let CENTRAL CHRISTIAN CHURMH
everyone help in this great under-'
taking.
and Mrs. Chas. Dunaway and ___
Thelma spent the week end in ~ ~
in, visiting their daughter, Miss lucky to us—first they got a fine
ude> 25-<foot oil sand, free of water, in
s. W. C. Tatum spent a few their well on the Robert Hynds
with her parents, Mt. and Mrs. place, then drilled into the gas sand
| Bussey, and returned to her at 595 feet. They have the casing
jat Dallas Friday morning. set and cemented and the well will
I. Lee Fitts and childrenfkMiss be drilled in Friday afternoon. All
land Bill, were in Nocona shop- business will be suspended, business
[Friday. houses closed, for this happy oc-
h Fay Harbison of Ringgod is casion. There is every prospect that
|ing the week end with Miss we will have gas ready to use by
July first or sooner.
Mr. Hall, the pipe line contractor,
and a force of men have arrived, un<
For nex 10 dais goin tu sell U JOO lbs pure
Cane Sugar for $7 50.
Read our me*«a«e In this waek’s Farm and Rinch.
brother, Gilbert Breeze,
and Sunday.
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