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Volume 23
Burleaon, Johnson County, Texas December 26. 1984
Number 52
BURGLARY AT ST. ANN
Fraas Tk» Burleson New*
Dec XI. 1S23
DEAR MISTER EDITOR:
night.
after
same
AUSTIN, Tex.—State Com-
To Be Issued
December 20
Texas.
to
he
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Barker,
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BURL ESON
(Jade Bad Iren
Bethesda Bays:
kill him.
Inside the restroom the gun-
precious few, Bug Wanted
know.
Clem Webster allowed
issuing surplus
butter to eligible citizens
Pay Your Telephone Bills and Lone Star Gai Bills Here
. DISPATCHER OFFICE - 124 W. Ellison - 295-1177
ity and another, witness report-
ed seeing a silver or gray com-
pact car leave from behind the
.Through the courtesy of the
the genial manager, Mr. Jake
; Cohen, the News staff enjoy-
ed a splendid program at the
Palace Theater, Saturday night
Burleson received a check
for 156,102.87 for hte period
ending ll-28r84. This makes
a total of 4665,665.32 for the
" ‘ , an
increase of 24.57 percent over
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in
, fCterttooeo ec Page $)
but have a
member of your household who
Trent The Burleaon Dispatcher
Doe. St, 1*64
Mrs. Jay Darnell was host-
years old,
is handicapped or 60 years old J mately 13 pounds, brown cur-
I mustache.
He was wearing a black leath-
er jacet and blue jeans.
CATHOLIC CHURCH MONDAY
Sometime after 10 p.m. glarized on the
Monday, Dec. 10, thieves en- Nov. 24.,
There ,,waa no oevidnnce of
forced entry at Cosby’s but ths
hurt’s was
pried open which police believe
was done with a screwdriver
In each of these burglaries, the
contents of desks and cabinets
were removed and strewn a-
round the officer More than
tered St. Ann Catholic Church
leaving no evidence of a forc-
ed entry. According to police west doftr • fo Sts1
The Palo Pinto Community
be
and
„ _ _ in
Burleson, Joshua and the sur-
ture from the Second Chapter
of Luke. After the devotional
gfita were exchanged from i
decorated'" tree. 1
were served to othree gusts,
Mtns. Roof, John Truelove and
G. R. Shannon, and the
lowing members: Mmes. W. C.
Moseley,.teacher; L. H. Hard-
grove, Loy Ransom, Ben Hill,
George Ayers, Coriine Steph-
enson, D. M. Barrett, Leslie
Johnson, A. G. Higginbotham
and the hostesses.
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This month’s checks are the
first to reflect receipt* from
taxes on new goods and ser-
vices collected for the first
time beginning October 2, Bul-
lock said.
December checks represent
taxes collected on sales made
in October and rportd to oth
Comptroller by November 20.
them sign this slip of paper attach-
ed to the application that des-
ignates you to pick them up
You must sign an application I and some identification such
certifying that you meet the aas social security card or food
income criteria. If you werent stamp letter.
and the hoi teas, Mrs. Darnell.
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Members of the Mary-Mar- leson Community Center. The
heap of v>>itor to Cleburne, Monday,
fk fr rr
Mrs. E. T. Winn and daugh-
vine, was a guest of Mrs. W.
N. Wood Sunday. •
Mne : Beulah Kirley enter-
tained with a Christmas lunch-
eon in her. home Sunday with
her children and grandchildren
(Continued on page 4)
the Burleson Community Cen-
ter and your application will
be located.
If you didn’t receive com-
| modities in the last eight
' months, a new application mush
be fille do>ut. Each applicant
will be required to show some
Mrs*/ C. Stabbs of Grape- ’ If ^u receive
w . _ — AFDC, Food Stamps, Medicade
or SSI, you will need to bring
. an ID card or letter verifying
that you are receiving
and also otohq number of peo-
ple in ft household. *
i nty on Thursday, Dec. 20 rfom
19 a.m. until noop at the Bur-
Druggist, Interurban Line, T.
P. Cpl’s'Meat Market, who ad-
vertised steak 12 and .15 per
lb; roast 8 to 12 cents per
pound; J. T.'Scott & Son Gro-
cery and T. A. Jenkins and
Son Gro.
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Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Caffee
returned to their home in By-
v,i<.« (Tx. 021GPB).
The only it terns missing from
Stewart’s was a 12-gauge shot-
gun and a red gun case.
Fort Worth Saturday.
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over picnie tables and exeveise Ila Bess, Hazel- and Elizabeth
shoos tha havte springs built Gordon,
into the bottoms. What’s i ~
hard to suit shopper to do with ton, 'Baraah EEllen Shannon
the days dwindling down to •' and Louise Caffee of Byers,
raw ai/vna Dm* 6a Tewe«
Dr. Pipkin has
V The fellers were talking at
store * Saturday
being ready |
• We found that the pictures, be-
ing shown in Burleson, are
high class, and just as good
i as you will find in 1
, towns.
, ,.------ -------- ...j man
who stood hear the restroom
door during the robbery as a
white male, approximately 20
years old, wearing a white or
yellow tee-shirt with blue
jeans, blonde hair, and weigh-
ing. about 140 pounds. Both
men went to the back of the
restroom and left
The two omen could not see
the car as it was too ofar away
before they could get out to
see. ,
The police have begun asm
investigation but do not have
much to go on according to
police reports. „
the country
night about not 1
for Christmas. Ed Doolittle
•aid he figgered out a long
time ago that if Christmas
waited until he was ready for
it the world would never have
another one. So Ed said ho,
and his old lady worked out a
uyteai. She gita ready, then '
she tells him to git ready and
he does what she tells him.
Bug Hookum said at least
Ed had a system. Bug allowed .
his problem with Christmas is
that he never has been able to
adjust his holiday aim. He gita
ready, and „ e aims, he said,.
and by the time he’s ready to.
fire it's all over. Usual he's all
set about four days to late. Af-
ter everthing eiims down he
finds jwst what he wanted to I ^wlll ,
buy. Before Christmas, he frOrn West Te:
said, he knows what he wants
to buy b«t he can’t figger no-
Eloise, and Wesley
a Roddy Dorris and Bobbie Sit- George E. Bransom, J. O. Ex-
‘ ell, George Tate, C. M Parks, »«"««>, «mua sue me am
1 »n<f th. hmt.M Mrs D.m.ll. • rounding area in Johnson Cou-
* her mother. Mrs. W. O. Bean
and other relatives.
•Cr -Cr fr
Mrs. George Shall non of Ft.
Worth, is here visiting her
daughter, Mrs. Clyde Clark.
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Rev. Horace Gordon and fa-
mily of Post Ctiy, Texas, are
, visiting relatives in Burleson.
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Sam Bean returned Sunday
---- ---- -jxas, where he
had spent the last three weeks
A . - .Sam said he aaw soma heavy
body t/> jive i», to ■ 'snow while he was out there.
Fer instant, Bug had saw I ft "CT •&
thia gift idee book full of such ■ L. MwWn ccieurnv-
as radios that play in the sho- ed his third birthday Saturday
wer, TVs fer lawnmowers, in- Games were gjayed and a large
door solar tanning dishes, a birthday cake, fruit and eandy
3116 pogo stick that can hop were served to the following: gay'rCox7ne? W.H? Reeves. M.
the evidence indicates that
more than one person was in-
volved and they spent a good
deal of time in the church.
Two half-gallons of icecream
were eaten in the kitchen an
the church safe was dragged 1750 was taken from Cosby's
halfway down a hall. The way aas well as change from a can-
the safe was broken Ihto would dy machine and a set of Be-
have taken a long .time. . plates
Inside offices had doors '
kicked open, cabinets and desk !
drawers snd their contents " Crlmestoppera will pay up
strewn about the room. Al-; to ft,000 reward for informa-
though much damage was done tion that leada t0 indictinanta
very little was taken. Missing in theM, and ot(her felong caae,
were a Bowie knife taken from ra|] 29-LEAD or 1-800-252-
a plaque in Father Joe Ptni- —TIPS if you can provide in-
berton's office and 10 blank , formation. No caller names are
checks. • I taken but issued an identifi
This burglary was similar to cation number to be used in
J two oburglaries that, occurred | future communication. In thia
l^'spatcher
teresting devootional entitled,
D. K. Griffin attended chur- “What Does Christmas Mean
ch in Ft Worth Sunday.
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, Advertisers in December
1923 were: Wilson Bros. &
railroad conductro with baw Co-, Bi* Four C°-. Continen-
pay of 331,500 wil make more U1 Stat« B*nk- E- J- Thomp-
than 3130,000 this year by »tfn. e«ahier; Loyless & Loy-
- working a average of 104 hours le“ Dru* Store, Miller’s Mar-
• week. The feller didn’t break ket» Griffin Brothers, Palace
any rules, his railroad and his Theater» H- Rudd SoP>
uniion said, he just found the
time and place to put in a
of overtime. You would]
have to say you got to ready,
alm and fir* .to put in a aver-
age of 1J hours a day ever
day, was Clem's word*
Folks ground Richfield, Neb
got Zeke Grubb’o vote fer git-
ting r»ady first. Zeke had saw.
where they have organized al
eornahucking contest Wo got'
hftUoring eenteeta that kick up
en to members of the Wes-
leyan Bunday School Class of i
told the Christmas story, us-
. ing as he scripture the second tax receipts to date,
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offered by Mrs. P. L. Hector. | th£ same period in 1983.
The program was under the
directiop of Mrs. Gordon. As-
sisting her were her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Marvin Garrett, who
read "Annie and Wilie’s Pray-
er,’’ and "Littlest Angel’’ pre-
sented by Mrs. O. E. Swanson.
Christmas music including "Si-
lent Night’’ was played by Mrs.
Gordon. The program was clos-
ed with prayer by Mrs. Cole-
man. During the social hour
gift# were exchanged rfom a | CheCSC An dButfer
. deeorated troo, and Mra. Jaf-
I fie Kornegay and Mrs. Walter
Coxine assisted in serving re-'
Little Don Lawson eelebrat-i freshme*t0 one guest> Mra_ |
Garrett, and . the following
piembers: Mmes. Gordon, Cro-1
uch, Coleman, Hector, Rome-!
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D. Slaughter, Elmer St. Clair, ' ?ervice Corporation will
Pearl Clark O. E. Swanson, ,MU,n< ’urP’>«
TWO ROBBED AT 1-35 9
REST ROOM SATURDAY
William Martin Fiscus, 35, man spotted another man,
of Burleson snd David Moore, i stepped to the next stall and
33 of Irving were robb.ed ati i demanded money William Mar-
gunpoint last Sunday night, tin Fiscus gave the gunman
| last month. Bob Crosby Chev- way yaur identity win be kept
(rolet, 1600 SW Wilshire and secret. Rewards are made any
Charles Stewart Motor Coo., way the recipient desires to
1488 SW Wilshire, were bur- maintain anonymity.
was i , __ ___
tng truobles. Not much of life friends here..
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• from the wallet he returned in
According to Burleson police to Fiscus and the two men
Mooore was on his way out of were told to>
the rest .room about 11 p.m. restroom five miinutes aas he
Miss Ruby Robbins has been initiated and you will ' «,hn " 3 *2^TV VIC*
J V I tir-ir mu,. . . v white male who demanded his t ms reported hearing car doors
and Mrs. Ed Williams. The be double issued pach time. | money After taking $135 from slam at the rear of the facil-
^y, fire, aim, and
us fire, aim and then try to
git randy. "J ■
Onet in a blue moon, Clam ^nda- _we« visitors
went on, somebody gits the or-
der right. The latest reports
are that the economic recovery
Is slowing and zthe tight job
market is gitiing tighter, Clem
reported, so it ia refreshing to
read where a New Yo^c City
looking Ba<f With Lucy City Of Burt«»on
the First Methodist Church at
her beautiful new parsonage
home in the Tarrant Addition,
at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Decern- I e_|__ T_„ rt—L
ber 16. The house was attrac- ; :>a,cs ,ax V*DCCK
tivejy decorated for the Christ-
•mas season. Mrs. Darnell was AUSTIN, Tex. State Com-
uasaisted by Mrs. H. C. Gor-' Ptroller Bob Bullock Friday
don, teacher of the class, and ,ent checks totaling $57.4 mil-
Mrs. Charles Crouch. - A short >>on in local tax payments to
business meeting was held with tke- 997 t<hat ••'Y tka
----Mrs W. O. Coleman presiding, ] one-percent local sales tax.
Isrger which s love offering of I
371 was given to the Methodist
Home in Waco. Mrs. Crouch |
told the Christmas story,
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era, Sunday, after a visit with chapter of Luke. Prayer was
i and ' surrounding •
of Mrs. Homma L. Keen, Tue- areas in Johnson .County,
sday night, December 15. Co-1 A new system of issuing
I his wallet, the robber told
Moore to return to the rest-
room because he was going to
rest «i-ea and head northward
on the service road. ,
The two suspects were both
white males, one about 25-30
weighing approxi-
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or older and have medical ex-1 ly hair, beard and
penses, you may now be eli-
gible. You need to produce
the amount of those expenses. . Mooore described the
Applications can be picked
up ahead of time at Burleson
Community Center dr the Jos-
hua City Hall. If you are pick-
ing up commodities for some-
one else who> did not have an
application in tihe last 8 ‘months
you must have a new applica-
tion, completed by the person
to whom the commodities will
go. The person will need to
aign this slip of paper attach-
w
. moved to, un riscus ve a minis n
weren’t to excited about Bug’s Godley to make his home, and tha Sunday School Class of the it,?ms will be issued on Decern- i 9 at >outh bo'nd ""
gift Het, but he allowed Bug practice his profession. He will First Baptist Church held their ber 19 in Cleburne, Godley, iarea on [.35 ’
soft by hiaself tn his elm- greatly missed by his many Christmas party in the home Alvarado *
is lived ready, aim .and fire,'
and the two
remain in the
' Clem declared, at best we rea’l k D. Harbin was a business hostesses were Mrs. Marjorie commodities every other month ;when he waa confronted by a and hfe'p.rtnerie’ft. Both*vic*
The be double issued each time.
' . Christmas theme was carried Anyone who meets the income
to ! out in decorations. Mrs. Tom criteria will be issued the com-
Roaf, a guest, brought an in- modities.
For each applicant who came
To oou?~’ She took*Ter torip- in during the ,a8t ei*ht
* the same application will be
used again tihis month. This eligible before,
‘ r.viH a aPPl'es People who pickup
Refreshments ^e®e commodities for someone
else. These applications will be
\ listed in alphabetical order;
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lowing members: Mmes. W. C.
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Deering, Hazel. Burleson Dispatcher (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 52, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 26, 1984, newspaper, December 26, 1984; Burleson, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1262600/m1/1/: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Burleson Public Library.