Mt. Vernon Optic-Herald (Mount Vernon, Tex.), Vol. 88, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 30, 1962 Page: 5 of 8
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Sunshine Sewtog Club To Meet
The Sunshine Sewing Club will
meet with Mrs Morris Hurhea
Wednesday afternoon, September
5. Members are urged to bring
their thimbles.
tw Hope Chui
more arrived I
The new past
• Greenville w
ad his family w
sonage this wa
ckdale was kill
Uision last Thui
t funeral servif
day at 10.00 a.
I. Cecil Weath<
Mrs. Marie Lol
and Mrs. Non
Gladys Swatae
ad Mr. and Ml
WHEN ACCIDENTS
HAPPEN, LET US
PAY THE BILLS
ards, the
•king in D
i. Joe Tul
ran, Mr. ai
childrei
---and Mi
MM Mr
children, Mi
FOXWORTH - GALBRAITH
lumber co.
r;,; ■ ■ ‘AS w-
“£51 J
and Mrs. Ernest Clevenger, has
summer months with^her ^sl
le family ha
ohn Campbel
ells moved ti
>k.
Parr ’have re|
ur community
n honored het
lacobs, of Ml
iday dinner is
with their sis-
'ford and Mrs.
beline present
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judgment. > •,» v > A
' Whba the Judge was a boy 4he
banker lived across the field, and
yourword wad af• good to Four
bond Today ydur banker lives th
an alr-conditloned building and
be secured with
to your request.
< ptherj
, SMrr.waa a member M <
Lutheran Church of Rockdkfe,
tag. been baptised and eosffl
talSMI..." ’ _
He had . ^2
dele since 1047.
. He is survived by. his wife and
three children. Two sisters
viving are Mrs. Loe Long of W
bride's parents op 1£14 Hunt
et, Commerce Bunday. August
’ Coalgate, Oklahoma, passed
1 from a heart
' years illness.
Fin.
Monday, Septet
1 by Bev;' Paul Stengel, Jr.
id been a resident qf, gock-
id B,p1
sur-
„ Winns-
boro and Mrs. Cecil Weatherford
of Purley.
Rites Held For
Mrs. Redfeam . .
Mrs. Tyler Redfeam, 78, died
Monday at «:T0 a. nr at W bottle
in Mt Pleasant. Mrs. HMfbarn,
the former Eddie Ellanor Lewellen,
She had been a resident of Mount
Pleasant for 42 years.
Surviving are two sons, Burx
Redfeam, Mount Pleasant: Major
Efton Redfearn. Midwest City,
Okla.; three daughters, Mrs. Lov-
Ice Brown and Mrs. Morris Green-
ey, both of Mount Pleasant; Mrs.
Worth Jaggers, Winfield; eight
grandchildren; 15 great-grandchil-
dren; two sisters, Mrs. J. S. Red-
feam and Mrs. Louis Moulton, both
of Mount Pleasant.
Services were held at T0:30
Tuesday morning at the Farmers
Academy Methodist Church with
the Rev. Ned Chipley and the Rev.
and Mnin. ,
ittt*1 vk.»< r ■
The double ring ceremony was
mducted by Bill Craig, minister
I the Commerce Church of Christ,
afore the fireplace where gar-
mds of flowers enhanced the:nup-
bd scene. -t.
Mike Bradford competed the
iene by rendering traditional wed-
teg music from the. graceful
[ano. ,n> ’■
The bride, given in marriage by
ar father, wore a white lace wed-
teg gown. Her sister, Mrs. J. A.
Ichard, attended the bride as ma-
un of honor.
James Danny of Greenville
rved the groom, the son of Mr.
id Mrs. W. S. Condrey of Mt. Ver-
in, as best man.
At the reception following the
Mding in the spacious dining
[om of the bride's parents, the
ride's colors of blue and white
[edominated. A three-tiered wed-
ng cake adorned the bride's
K'
The bride and groom are both
udents at East Texas State Col-
ne and will make «their home at
114 Cotton Street, Commerce. The
[ide is a 1962 graduate of Com-
[erce High School and the groom
a 1961 graduate of Mt. Vernon
igh School.
>rt Sunday
Mrs. I, H.
I into their
7*
itom-made in
reasonable pt
for your order. J
M MONTH
Joy Theatre
Is Burglarized
Burglars took approxl
860.00 from the Joy Theatre
Monday night and left quit
more than this on the desk
office according to reports I
riff John E. Tittle.
The burglars entered the
rear door that had evident!
left unlocked. They used I
bladed knife or other oh
spring the lock on the offlc
Mary-
Mrs. A— ,---.
two brothers. Will Draper of Bor-
den. Indiana. and Clarence Draper
nepo
Wesley Suadaj
Has lee Crew
The Wesley
Methodist chu
cream supped
—* 17, taitt
1
Mr. and Mrs.
and family.
Rev. Harper was a dinner guest
of Mr. and Mrs. Slim Barmore and
family.
Mrs. Wayne Easely and children
and Mrs. C. T. Crowston and John-
ny Mack and Dale departed for
Dallas last week. Bobby and Ronda
Easley have spent the summer with
q vttaar Mprmatrr
thine if you need it,” and it was
practiced. Today there seems to
be a philosophy of, "what is thine
is mine if I can get it". So we
need some adjustments made in
the present day philosophy. We
want to think every man is a
volume if we know how to read
him, and we must learn. I like to
think of the judge as did the folks
of New Hebrides did of Dr. Geddie,
they placed on a marker, bearing
these words: “When he landed in
1840 there was no Christians, when
he left in 1872 there were no heath-
ens”. These words are more sug-
gestive than a hundred pages of
history. This can be said of our
own Judge Tom. It is not what we
say but what we are that counts
Good actions enable us, and the
sons of our own deeds, and I think
the Judges deeds answer for them-
selves.
Edmund Burke once said “All
that is necessary for evil to
triumph is for good men to do
nothing". Woodrow Wilson follow-
ed up with this statement: “A Na-
tion can be as great and only as
great as the rank and file of it’s,
people." These two great men set
the stage for us today. When the
Judge was born the European cities
were mostly lighted with candles
and knit together with bridal
path's and coach roads. The only
remnant of kingly power in Eng-
land today is a rather charming
young lady who is it's symbol, not
a reality.
When the Judge was a boy edu-
cation was mostly the three Rs.
Today we have gone to higher edu-
cation consisting of a mixture of
statistics, superficial and speciali-
zation, which has supplied neither
the rules nor the inspiration for
self improvement or a sensible
social conscience, and is sometimes
referred to as semi-illiterates who
know to make money but do hot
know how to live. May I say men
are not to be judged by what they
do not know, but by what they
know, and by the manner in which
PRIVATE EDWARD VANCE
DAVENPORT a member of Com-
pany "H”, 4th Regiment, Alaba-
ma Infantry, Confederate States
>f America was killed at the be-
rinning of the Second Battle of
Manassas (Bull Run) in Virginia
m August 88, 1842.
Hume & Wayne
Andrey Ar^ Wed
U Commerce
Mrs. Fleida Hume of Commerce
id Wayne Condrey were wed in
quiet ceremony at tbq home. of
vatsell) Bell
ia, sister of Ml
nd Horace Swi
passed away
August 19. Fu
held Tuesday
Ung the funer
Mr. and Mi
Ir. and Mrs. N<
ad Mrs. Albe
ell Hilburn ai
vatsell, Etta Fi
rd, Mr. and Mi
prancis Worth.
I and Mrs. Ode
M are vlsitii
nt. Mrs. Thein
f Mt. Pieasai
Troyce Gilbe
essa ire visltir
il Gilbert.
y Moore visit*
n Sunday afte
Lmold Rhoadi
of Mr. and Mr
nday.
Ultoh Patteryd
ere his motile
sister Mr*. Al
Winnsbprte.
P Pgnr and so
in Victoria.
I ill. » .-♦ jt
D. Inman an
id visited Mr
f.
of citrandM
daughter, Mri
d family.
farlte Eiledgt
Moore, Gayloi
I were in Ml
Ing anniverabfl
night hbnoriis
Jack Andenod
mh, Mke. 'ldj
Odell Lasslta
rs.1 Brittle RM
oon ' ' .-0 • ill
W. Bishop ad
of the NelsJ
Don Cody, 11, son
Mrs. Bill Cody, East
is a patient in a Ty
where doctors say he
about five days.
The pellet went behi
ball and was removed
but a blood clot develo
Young Cody and I
formerly lived in Mt.
Winfield.
Final Rites Held
For Milton Ray
Starr Saturday
Final rites for Milton Ray Starr,
40, former deputy sheriff of Frank-
lin County, were held Saturday,
August 25, at Rockdale. Starr was
killed instantly Thursday, August
23, in a train-truck accident near
Roekdale. Starr, son of the late
Mr. and Mrs. George Start- fat
Scroggins, was returning from a
delivery of leg ‘ T
truck was I
a train.
S|giT^ was^bora |b Seroggin*
< During World War II Stan re-
ceivttd ths field commission as a
second,; lieutenant on Marek 3,
1945. He was later awarded the
•JA. Vanon b
s~ rij j1 -». ■* nwvPanite
I ***"- ” NBM. Ml
f mmwebmim
; h ‘'a-
Now, again our parents, out* selMbM
and society Mqat go back to thia
principles vt, > jca;- -j®
‘.’ When the Ju^ge waa born the
philosoply wm .Mkt to mine Jo
>-» '< r
Mr. and I
yj’iK'r
. Mrs. 8. 8. I
all I
JUDGE TOM WILKINSON is preparing to rates the Ban and the Leno Star of Texaa in eenmsmora-
tlon of the Battle of Second Manaeaas (Bull Run) to ehrteten the new flag pole at the Charlie Daven-
port home on Highway 67 east of ML Vemou. Deputy Sheriff Doe Jeakins and Davenport hold the
flag of the Confederate Statea of America with Highway Patrol Sergeant Ralph W. Robertaon and
County Agent Charlie Brown holding the United States flag. Davenport's uncle, Private Edward Vance
Davenport was killed on the first day of the Battle of Second Manaeaas.
Miss Cathy
Weds Billy Crowston
Miss Cathy Stevens, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Stevens, and
Billy Crowston, son of Mr. and Mrs.
R. D. Crowston, were married Mon-
day, August 13 at 9:00 a.m.
Rev. Snow of Bogota performed
C. T. Crowstoi
Sharon Gc
home after wc
----—- weeks.
■e. visiting Mr. and Mi
mA ^urditorlri
work through
Mrs. Maudle Crowston is v
ing her son, Roy Earl Crowi
and family of Mt. Pleasant
week.
' The W.M.O. ladies of the
Olive Baptist .Church met Moi
night and the study df the "
sion Book of Bible and Races’*
concluded. The president,
ig»» Slim Barmore gave the fifth c!
ter and Mrs. Martha Hare i
the concluding chapter of the b
Eight members and four vial
attended. The next meeting
be held September 10. Everj
is urged to attend.
Johnny Mack Crewaton is in
Talco Hospital and Clinic for n
cal treatment.
What’s Cooki
At the Schq
Tuesday — Corn do|
beans, buttered potatoes,
slaw, white bread, milk
meal cookies,
Wednesday — Italian
English peas, buttered ca
pickles, white bread, I
glased doughnuts.
Thursday — Fried c
gravy, pinto beans, masl
toes, green salad, white bi
and butter cake.
Friday — Sandwich
crackers, milk and sugar <
ding were Mrs. R. D. Crowston,
mother of the groom, and Mrs.
Robert Stevens, mother of the
They will make their home in the
Haganaport Community and live in
* wEczirT"*. .
feffaWaT
Bell Succumbs
■SSUh" At OkiafiomS
Mrs. Zona Leona MIl2 * OS,' %f
- • ' “7 7 , paaaed away
at her home Sunday, August Ji
attack after several
Mrs. Smith’s
Rites Conducted
Funeral services for Mrs. Ida M.
Smith of Lubbock were held Mon-
day afternoon at the Sulphur Bluff
Methodist Church. The Rev. Arth-
ur Dimsdale and the Rev. A. L.
Dennis officiated.
Mrs. Smith died early Saturday
morning in a Lubbock hospital.
She was born May 3, 1883, in
Kentucky. She married Jamet
Buster there and the couple moved
to Sulphur Bluff in 1922. Mr. Bus-
ter died in 1947. '
Mrs. Smith married S. S. Smith,
who died in May of this year, at
Mt.: Vernon in 1951. After MT.
Smith's death she moved to Lub-
bock to live with a son
She Is survived by four daugh-
ton, Mrs. Mary Mell Gaines of
.K' ’ . ■ . Sweetwater, Mrs. Fannie Jackson
When the judge was a boy he w o Mr,_ Gracl< Wooden of
was taught that you could oply CUco Mrt. Lucy McCbpUn of
have more If ytm produced mort. c^naUr, Arizona.; two sons, Car-
Now .sain our narpnt. -horda )o(( Bugter Lubbock and B«.k.
ham Buster of McKinney; a num-
ber of grandchildren and great-
ALUMINUM
SCREENS
ces., , JNo walt-
The Constitution of the United
States' ’ ’ ’’”v" ■ ''
and The Ten Commandments;
of God, j
I would like to think of the
Judge as Plato thought in his
dream of the lari Judgment. The
Judge would be stripped of his
raiment and the one to be judged
would be likewise. Then the Judge
with his naked eye would look' into
the eye of the one to be judged UM
he could say you seem to be 80
years young is some time far more
Cleveland said in these words: cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 was born May 22, 1884, in Cooper,
years old.
May I leave this thought to you.
grow old along with me, the best
is yet to be, the last of life for
which the first was made ...
Holiday Noth
Get Your
Feed EARLY
r We Will Be
W'
Q Cgvw
*7of Weaver, and numerous aMkUj
and nephews.
Ntw Vit
By MR8JR.
- Uta-Ro ..IM*** A'H
---------Mf. and Mrs. I. H. Hare. Jr.
Ing. lasenteent we< haw moved ibto their bew ’home
Mr. and Mrs. Miller Nichols and
until her 'marriage on w*th his -parents, Mr.
Claudia Nichols, and oiMr rtla*
Swfe devengar, daughter of Mr.
—i re-
I the
, ------steter,
Mrs. Don Smith, and family 'of
Iowa.
Mr. and Mrs. Don Smith and
family are vlsltlnghernarents,
L L Brewer
Of Pickton Dies
Funeral services for L. L. Brew-
er, Route 1, Pickton, were held at
2 p.m. Wednesday at th* Weaver
------- - ,-----Baptist Church. Mr. Brewer died
the ceremony. Attending the wed- Monday afternoon at Memorial
Judge Tom Wilkinson, County ward Vance Davenport, i member
igent Charlie Brown, Highway Pa- of Company “H”, 4th Regiment,
rol Sergeant Ralph W. Robertsqn, 'Alabama Infantry, Confederate
nd Deputy Sheriff Doc Jenkins States of America was killed,
□ok part in flag falsing ceremonies At the First Battle of Manassas
it the home of Charlie Dtvenport in 1861 the Fourth Regiment, Ala-
si Highwa 67, east of Mt. Vernon, bama Infantry, Third Brigade, was
christen Davenport’s new flag commanded by Brigadier General
ole and in commemoration of the Barnard E. Bee. It was General
entennial anniversary of the Eat- Bee, forced back near the Henry
le of Second Manassas (Bull Run) House Hill on July 21, 1861, who
a Virginia on August *9. 1862. |in trying to rally his troops cried
It was at the beginning of this out: “There stands Jackson like a
•ttle, 100 years ago yesterday,' stone wall!” and gave to General
hat Davenport's uncle, Private Ed- Stonewall Jackson that famous
nickname.
9* • -Private Edward Vance Daven-
- ffilporl vulunteered f°r CSA service
at Florence, Alabama., on April
281 1861 According to official do-
‘cuments, and his service record
WBBHMy’[;W; x. XOmM the following battles and engage-
ments are reflected in 1862: EL
IMMWf.jj tham’s Landing, May 7; Seven
BrK< £ Pines, May 29, 30; Gaine's Farm,
Mm ! June Malvern Hill. June 30;
■ Hazqte Ttiver and was killed Au-
gust
HMflBBMHHMMMMMMH Private Davenport was the third
child of Thomas and Sarah Daven-
port and was born April 30. 1839
HWpy JMRl in Tennessee He is buried in in
unknown and unmarked grave near
where he fell in Virginia He had
served one year, four months and
HbMWmMmMHNRMMWMIIM one day °f CSA servece when he
died.
DavenP°rt had three flags on
hand to be flown at the ceremonies
and that was the reason for Sgt
Robertson and Deputy Jenkins be
ing on hand to be sure that the
MWnWMIlMWF clvil War di<< not bloum fr‘“h
again Everything was going
l smoothly until Brown and Daven-
port got into a discussion as to
which flag should be hoisted or
run-up to the top of the flag pole
first. It was here that Judge Wil-
kinson rendered his decision and
personally ran up the bars and
lone star of the State of Texas.
Judge Wilkinson was chosen to
raise the flag due to his long and
unbiased service as a judge and
attorney, his love for Texas, his ------------ — ---------------
knowledge regarding the CHU War they know IL and use It. Thte is
afternoon at 2:00 wMrlteM. Paul
Fowler offidatii
in the Coalgate Cemetery. __
Mrs. Mell, a residem 'it Ffank-1 <*Udrwf^f"fadlana
lin County t^,.
October 5, 1925 In Scroggins to
Ardrey Bill, Sr^ wks Burn at Mc-
Kinney, Collin Cdunty, Texas,
April 5, 1907, the daughter of the
late William and WMMte Swateel), temed . home after
Survivors include her husband
and- two children Ardrey Beil, Jr.,
and Cafltop Bell of Coalgate, Okla.
Brothers and sisters surviving are
Albert SwataeU, Yantte; Edgar
Swatsell, Grand "Frame; Horace
Swateall and Mrs. Nelson Leavelie,
Scroggins; Mrs Lula Blackwell and
Mrs. Fannie Branch, McKinney.
Mrs. Beil had been a member
of the Coalgate First Baptist
Church for 24 years.
and his high admiration of Confed-
erate General IT) J. (Stonewall)
'judge -irt 1 kt n k n n has bten
pratteM by ’teany but Ata ftjMow!n»
tribute taken Ifi part frosh cort-
tridhbi^by *Mhn Beasley before the your word must
ittn "VdHteh Rotary’ Club better coilateraPequal _ ,
ddjdfibe' the' political’happenings when the Judge was a boy it Was
‘ ‘the lodge’s' life.' ’ Mr. and Mrs.. Uncle and Aunt
_,—ird Thomas Wilkinson, Sr. yes'rtkm and no mam, yes sir and Silver, Star, and the
Wu barn jmy 4.1873 'ft Snow Hill - - - - - - •
in Titus County, a son of t». James
Franklin and Charlotte Presley
Wilkinson who CMie to Titus Coun-
ty from Montgomery, 'Alabama, in
'ta • 4 856 '• ’‘“U
/’tflytees S. Grant wm
when the Judge was-.bova Then
Mr. Grant spoke these words, “our
Institutions were regarded as ex-
periments and so until the oqt-
ekk Of the rebellion.” Then be
ft “out people have proven them-
Vbs to be most formidable in -
it br peace of any nationally on
Then we had three presidents be-
fore the Judge entered the practice
of law, Hayes, Garfield and Cleve-
land. When the judge started his
practice Grover Cleveland (a De-
mocrat) was president, what a
great start the judge had. Mr.
h who entered
aria this week!
Ill remain for
It a few more
ing made for
hplete her re-'
of her niece i
room 212.
■.........■■d
ies. Bill High-
ell, Don De-1
ler, V a 11 o n
Calvin Raley,
n Cowser and]
You can’t always avoid an auto
accident ... but you can avoid
the financial strain of repair
bills, llabiltttes. Ask now abeuL ►,
Mt auto aecident insuranoe. <
YuuH bo glad you did! - «
---- We have the attOWOM to ail
Mn; inauranee Mete. Cawutt ns fW ' :<
“A ___. , ■ ■ -t- . •
“Our Nation lives in us, in our
hearts, our minds and consciences,
the land we live in seems to be
strong and active, but how fares
the land that lives in you.” These
were the words the judge had be-
fore him when he started his prac-
tice.
When the judge started his law
practice, the guiding economic
.force in America was dollar ballots
I In the market place. Today it seems
political ballots in the election
place. So, today it is important
that we spend our votes wisely as
we spend our dollars.
Since the judge was born our
economic and our political life has
become too big and too compli-
cated for the average citizen to
understand and live with. Talk
with your neighbor, or your fellow
employee about jhe national and
Interni^onal tteues of today. Talk
to hliK about the varioug - plans,
the fedCrsl debt, or about the fed-
eral tobt, or about the federal i>-
suec ybu will be an exception if
yoq.both do pot go away felling
vqry inadequate, not just in your
understanding, but the power to do
anything about IL , -3-^
Hospital in Sulphur Springs.
He was a deacon of the Taber-
nacle^taretirt Church ta^ Pickton
Rowe. Bgrtgi was in tfe Weaver
Anna Cosabs On kitey
k(r. an< Mrs., Uncle and Aunt,
n July 4, 1873 at Snow Hill no sir. Today it is Jim and Joe, with tMfp.
County, a son of Df. James yfs and no. ( other, elta
0—1-., Beas](.y closed with the follow-
ing statements:
But- Judge, we still have the
three grbat things you bad when
President you were a .boy. The three great
ddenmctits, we must Tive and sell:
The Declaration bf Independence
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