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Lady Wrangler
Sportswear
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PHONE 5374711
Don Hamilton Robert Moore
Doc's Skelly Station
South Side Of1-30 At Spur 423
t Mt. Vernon, Texas
Hagansport Center, 632-5729,
or come by and sign up.”
way to a fall extravaganza
Rose blooms this season will
be largei
Plenty Of Protein?
Protein needs are not apt to
be met in warm weather unless
cold menus arc planned as care-
fully as hot ones, and care is
taken to include high quality
protein foods such as meat. Our
bodies need the same amounts
Of protein, vitamins and minerals
whether it's hot or cold
24. Height
(abbr )
25. Colloidal
substance
26. Summer
(Fr )
28. Reach
effec-
tively
(2 wds.)
39. Wise
man
32. Store
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1. Colleen
5. Swim
mer’s
stroke
11. Brazilian
tapir
12. Beatrice
program Don’t waste time
and money on weed killers
when a little fertilizer in the
right proportions and at the
right time will do the job
better and cheaper HAPPY
GARDENING!
OCTOBER 3 THRU 5
Glad To Have Ya!
W. C. Mills Barber Shop
Mt. Vernon
HAMOORE, Inc.
NEW HOME CONSTRUCTION
GIRLS LITTLE
WRANGLER JEANS
10% Discount
Welcome To Our
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October 3 To 5
of on Oct. I al 1:30 pm.
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3. Footprint
4. "My Gal
5. Glass
worker
6. Ascended
7. Sprite
8. De
scendcd
(poet )
9. Kingly
title
10. Numerical
suffix
14. Gussie
of tennis
fame
18. Coquette
19. Unorig-
inal
20. Abbr.
used
before an
alias
21. Small dog
22. Golf in-
structor
the Tigers.
The Winnsboro
grade team was fired up for
their game against the Tigers
_________________ The clumps become huge
bushes When cutting blooms with age and so need plenty of
don't just snip off the heads,
but trim back to a leaf with
five leaflets and at the point
where you want a new branch
and St. Augustine. While it’s
too late to sprig St, Augustine, and Miss MVJH is Donna
Holmes.
Terry Jaggers was elected
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Jr. High
Favorites
Elected
By Mike Stone
Mr. and Miss Mt Vernon
se cNPP’nB® Junior High, Most Handsome.
- Most Beautiful, and Class
high schools throughout the
eighth country are recognized for
Chilly Ceehlall
Have you tried const
Hie rocks' For • coot
course, mix equal parts of
who la ill, in Sulphur Springs over icecube* "Th® melting cube's
Saturday.
The Saltillo Homecoming
will be Sunday. Oct. 13. at the
Celebration of the beautiful
fall season bursts into action
al Winnsboro with the
crowning of the 1*74 Queen
Autumn Trails XVI Saturday
night, October 5, at the
Winnsboro High School Audi-
torium . Time of the pageant is
8:00 p.m. ,i.
JoDana Swarts
In Who’s Who
JoDana Swarts, a senior at
because they played well and Mt. Vernon High School, was
kept Winnsboro from scoring, recently notified that she is to
It took a while for the be featured in the Eighth
room to grow and mature.
Young plants are best bought
nursery grown in containers
________ _____________ as it is almost impossible to
to grow. Shape your bushes get a start from a large old
all year long and you won’t clump This is a good plant for
end up with tall snakey plants screening purposes c.™
full of dead and diseased L . ’ "
twigs and leaves Blackspot is purple honeysuckle, for
still a problem - in fact, more
so with fall rains and heavy
dew at night. Protect the
publishers and will be invited
to participate in the firm's
annual “Survey of High
Achievers ”
wnmc on
ling tint
____J con
sommc and apple juice and serve
will dilute to deaired potency
For another cool atarter. chill
cane of consomme thoroughly
and serve jellied in bowls
and a heavy sod can only be i
built with a sound fertilizing EJgct DCflll
By Tima Deal
Junior Doug Evans was
elected Tigerette beau Wed
nesday night, September 25.
To qualify for Tigerette beau
a boy must be a football
player
At the present time Doug, a
defensive guard for the
Tigers, is suffering from a
broken leg received in the
game agairM Pittsburg. As
the beau of Tigerettes he will
ride the Tigerette car in the
homecoming parade
The Tigerette car is being
constructed at Debbie Em
mons’s house with committee
members Liz Skinner, Karen
Rigney, Melinda Rogers.
Patti Narramore. Bobby Cox,
and Barbara Bacon assisting
10% DISCOUNT
weak and twiggy growth
should be removed at any
time of the season from rose
KNIT PANTS
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watered for quick results. It is
amazing how quickly this
to 10 day sprayings, grass uses fertilizer to
— j— ■ f0]iage and
dozens of plumes. Now is the
time to cut and dry the blooms
for indoor use and do spray
them with a clear plastic
spray to keep them from
getting dusty and shedding
LouAnn Duffield, Lou Winnsboro
The pageant is an officiar Colvin, Chelli Gr.rrett, Gloria Commerce.
G.E.D.
Classes At
Hagansport
Eva Sims, outreach worker
for NET. Opportunities,
Inc . announced Tuesday the
formation of G.E.D. classes
at the Hagansport Neighbor-
hood Center.
"We are quite excited about
this,” Mrs. Sims said “We
are offering the people of our
area an opportunity to attend
classes at the Hagansport
Center and earn their G.E D.,
which is equivalent to a high
school diploma “
Mrs. Sims noted that all
books, materials and tuition
would be free of charge
“All that is required is to
have approximately 15 per-
sons express their desire to
work for this G.E D.,” Mrs.
Sims explained "Classes can
be set up two evenings a
week, at a time convenient to
the majority of the people."
She added that persons who
do not have a high school
diploma can enrich their lives
their leadership in academ
ics. athletics, activities or
and came out fighting The community service Less than
entire game was a close, hard three percent of the Junior
hitting one. but the Tigers and Senior class students
managed to hold their
opponents back, with out-
standing defensive work by
Joe Justiss.
The first score of the game
came , late in the first half
when Quarterback David
Cates completed an 8-yard book,
pass in the end zone to Fred compete
33. Capone
feature
34. Noggin
35. Skills
37. French
cheese
38. Israeli
port
39. At .
that
point
41. Scottish
explorer
42. Tree
or 8-8-8 is in order to get the
grasses in new or old lawns
ready for winter. A thich sod
is your tyest deterant against a
weedy seedy lawn next spring
13. Atmos
pheric
phenom
cnon
(3 wds )
15. Foul —
16. Have
debts
17. Sawbuck
18. Council
city
20. Seem
23. Craze
27. Islam's
sacred
book
28. Waistcoat
29. Andy s
sidekick
30. Resolve
31. Make
euphoric
33. Town in
Belgium
36. Girl’s
name
37. Slugger’s
wood
40. Nurse an
unre
quited
love
(3 wds.)
43. Reach
44. English
river
45. Take
Umbrage
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1. Hold out
2. Opposed
to
J- R. Thompson
Promoted
By SWEPCO
James R Thompson has
been promoted by South
western Electric Power Com
pany to manager of residen
tial and commercial market-
ing services in the firm's
general offices in Shreveport,
according to John O Hayter.
Jr., vice-president of market
ing services and area devel
opment.
Thompson has been em
ployed by the electric utility
since 1969 and has served as a
commercial representative
and commercial marketing
services staff advisor
The Marshall, Texas native
is a 1968 graduate of East
Texas State University with
Bachelor of Science Degrees
in industrial management
and industrial education He
is married to the former
Sharon Pope, also of Mar-
shall. and attends the Brpad-
moore Baptist Church.
Thompson is a member of
the Illuminating Engineers
Society, vice president of the
Commercial Marketing Man-
agers Group of Texas, Iota
Lambda Sigma professional
fraternity and founding pre-
sident of Sigma Tau Epsilon
professional fraternity.
be featured in the Eighth
offense to get wound up, but .Annual Edition of Who s Who
they finally did when they Among American High School
came back in the second half Students, 1973-74, the largest
to score the only touchdown of student award publication in
the game. Fullback Curtis
Chesshire scored on a 2-yard
MW
and
If you
Income Increase
During 1972, for the first time
in history, more than half of the
families in America realized $10,-
000 or more in annual income.
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Winnsboro.
The first half was a
defensive battle with most of
the action near the 'Mt
Vernon goal line. Coach Jack
Phillips said he was pleased
with the entire defense
Eight lovely young ladies Bell’s Pharmacy, Winnsboro,
from Winnsboro High School They will remain on sale
are contestants for Queen through October 5.
Autumn Trails XVI They are Colorful Autumn ____ _ . _ _________
Misses Karen MacGilvray, Brochures may be obtained demonstration and sale of Mr and Mrs. A |______
Kim Messimer, Terry Walk- free upon request from the Stanley products at the center and Mrs. M. L. Dennis visited
their sigter. Mrs Theo Davis,
and Senior class students
nation wide are awarded this
recognition.
JoDana is the daughter of Tuesday morning
Mr and Mrs Jerry L Swarts
of Mt. Vernon
In addition to having her
biography published in the
JoDana will also
> for one of ten
Sims for a touchdown No scholarship awards of $500.00
extra point was made, leaving to $1,000.00 funded by the
the score 6-0 at halftime.
According to Coach Phil-
lips, the-Tigers had to fight
themselves to win the game,
having one touchdown called
back and not being quite
ready for the hard-hitting
Winnsboro team The game
was closely called by the
officials, which kept the boys
on their toes.
Late in the third quarter
David Cates made good
yardage on two quarterback
sneaks, scoring on the second
one from about four yards
out. The Tigers failed to get
the extra point, which left the
score 12-0 at the end of the
game.
Both junior high teams,
along with the Junior Varsity,
will play at Rivercrest this
week
Student Council
Attends Annual
Fall Forum
By Billy Condrey
Officers of Ml Vernon s
Student Council attended a
meeting of all Northeast
Texas schools at Hughes
Springs. Melvin Munn was the
guest speaker, with the
theme, “Are You Involved?’’
President Bob Morris,
Vice-President Billy Condrey.
Treasurer Mike Stone, Re-
porter Ricky Newsome, Sec-
retary Mark Byrd and
Sponsor Marilyn Fenton at-
tended the meeting
The day included refresh
ments. entertainment and an
address by Radio TV per
sonality commentator Melvin
Munn
Munn spoke on how man is
superior to all creatures on
earth He commented thaj
there is “not another you " An
example he eave is that no
two persons’ finger prints
match Munn said that the
close family is the key
foundation of civilization In
closing. Munn said that
everyone is involved in some
way or other with life today
The council members at-
tended workshops where they
received ideas on how to
make Mt Vernon’s Student
Council the best ever
the nation
Students from over 20.000
plunge, winning the game for public, private jmd parochial yet|er Saturday.
Mr and Mrs. W. C Bennett,
Mr and Mrs. H. E. Teer, Mrs
Lorene Bedgood, Mrs. Maye
Smith, Miss Frances Avaritt,
Mrs Viola Davis and Mr. and
Mrs. J W Brewer attended
funeral rites for Mrs D. A
France in Sulphur Springs
Rev. and Mrs Aubrey
McAuley of Abilene visited
Mr. and Mrs. R. M Arthur
Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Pierce
of Dallas visited her brother,
Ross Briley, during the
weekend.
Ross Briley, Mrs. Maye
Smith, Mrs. Ruth Briley, Mrs.
Cora Davidson, Mmes. Addie,
Leona and Ardys Dennis,
Mrs. Pauline Sparks, and
Mrs. Lorene Bedgood attend-
ed the quarterly conference
for the United Methodist
Church at Pine Forest
Sunday.
Miss Maye Green and Mrs.
Maye Smith were in Tyler
Thursday.
Miss Vivian Ann Dennis of
Irving visited her parents.
Mr. and Mrs M. L. Dennis,
during the weekend.
Rev. and Mrs. Aubrey
McAuley of Abilene, Mr. and
Mrs. J. B. McAuley of
Shallowater, and Mrs Bonnie
Kate Stewart of Lubbock
were here to attend the
funeral of Mrs. D A. France
and visited Mr and Mrs
Parker McAuley last week
Mr and Mrs. Vic Campbell
of Coppell spent the weekend
with Mr. and Mrs Henry
York. Mrs. Campbell is the
sister of Mr. York
Mrs. O W. French is a
patient in Sulphur Springs
Memorial Hospital.
Mr. and Mrs C W DeShazo
of Sheridan visited his
mother. Mrs W. A DeShazo,
during the weekend.
Mrs. Anne Hammond Wag-
ner of Ft Worth visited her
aunt, Mrs B H Odom,
Thursday
Mr and Mrs Johnie
Armstrong visited relatives in
Texarkana Sunday.
Mrs. Maye Smith and Mrs
Marie Arthur visited Mrs
Ellen Beasley in Omaha
Sunday
vMk I V Chandler of
Dallas visited Mrs Estelle
School building. Guy Mays is
to be the speaker.
SALTILLO NEWS
brother, Heyburn Wilson.
r .. BY: MR*. H. J, AVAR ITT Thursday enroute to Missis
The Saltillo Community of c^by vUUed Mr “
Colorful Autumn Trails Center group will sponsor a Mri B H Odom Sunday.
Brochures may be obtained demonstration and gale of Mr an<j Mn A j*
Henson and Angie Heltom.
Miss Winnsboro contestants,
who must be ages 18 to 28, are
Misses Patti Geamer, Sharon
Donaldson and Lynan
Williams.
Special guest celebrity at
the pageant will be the
reigning Miss Texas. Many
Duchesses from surrounding
area towns will be presented
also
General Co-Chairmen of the
pageant are Mrs Carolyn
Jones and Mrs Mary Sharrat
Stage Co-Directors are Mrs
Jonan Williams and Mrs
Billie Tharp, with Mrs.
Mickey Geamer as chore-
ographer. The Buddy Henley
Orchestra will provide music
for the coronation and will
also play at the Queen's Ball.
The Queen's Ball will be
held in the Winnsboro City
Auditorium immediately fol-
lowing the coronation. Stubs
from coronation tickets, may
serve as admittance or $1.00
per person may be paid at the
door The public is invited.
Tickets to the pageant can be
Seventh, Eighth
Grade Teams JFin through these classes and
rw;. ■ prepare themselves for high-
Over Wmsboro er paying jobs
Mt. Vernon’s seventh grade "We are asking those who
football team came out on top did not complete high school
with their first victory of the and who are interested in
last Thursday night these classes, to call us at the
a 6-0 score over
Gardening |
Made Easy
By Barrie L. Kridlar
One of the most beautiful of
all the plants now are the
cool clumps of pampas grass
and along the hiways and in large
trimmed back your bushes in open yards This is one plant
August or early September that once established acts as a
they should really be on their native with no care necessary
for it to bloom and grow.
Season after season either in
more fragrant, drought years dr wet ones this
deeper in color and last much rugged individual puts on a
longer than spring blossoms dependable show of long
It you didn't prune and feed white, silky plumes that shine
earlier you can do both very from afar. The Argentina
lightly now and get better Pampas is much like our own
blooms to be sure, just not as Texas climate and its soil
many as those who followed needs are not all that exacting
my advice in August All dead except it doesn't like standing ’ s^ond
water for any length of time.
Roses are starting to make
a come-back with
moisture and some
nights If you fed
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preliminary to the
America Pageant.
For the first time ever two
heads will be erowned, that of
Queen Autumn Trails XVI
who will reign over all
Autumn Trails festivities and
other events, and that of Miss
Winnsboro who will enter the
Miss Texas Pageant in Fort
Worth next July. The first
runner-up tc Miss Winnsboro
will compete in the Miss
Holiday in Dixie Pageant in
Shreveport, Louisiana, and
-------1 runner-up will
JimSloanNew
Member Of
CoachingStaff
By Marilyn K. Dunlap
One of the two new coaches
for the athletic department at
Mt Vernon High School is
Coach Jim Sloan.
Sloan, a graduate of East
Texas State University, also
teaches world history, eco-
nomics and all junior Varsity
sports. He taught at Wolfe
City for one year, then went
into industrial work for eight
years. When asked how he
liked coaching here so far.
Sloan replied, “I love it.”
Sloan also said that the A and
B teams were a good bunch of
young men to work with
Sloan and his wife, Nila
have two children They are
Brook, a sixth grader and
Speaking of grasses, it is Travis, a third grader
now time to over-seed lawns Coach Sloan's hobbies are
with rye grass, fescue and bee keeping, collecting pre
kentucky blue grass for green historic Indian relics and all
winter lawns AH of these are sports
cool weather grasses and will
fade out in the heat of late
spring and summer next
yeai/ib you have bare soil
subjemo washing this winter
and spring you’d better get
busy and zptTfTTKone of these
grasses t/> hold And improve
the soil .all tho!
and root sysliyns will form
valuable humus for per- paVorites were elected last
manent grasses like bermuda week in junjor High
and St Augustine. While it’s Mr mVJH is Victor Carrell
bermuda seed can still be
sown if you don’t delay. A
heavy turf won’t develop, but Most Handsome and
a good stand can be McNeese was voted Most
established which will take off Beautiful
like gang-busters first thing in Those e]ected as class
the spring when most people faVorites were: eightlfg^ade
are just thinking about facing David Cates and ’ Beni
the mud to plant seed'A light McNeese; seventh grade -
feeding of Fertilome with Iron Curtiss Chesshire and Becky
Dawson; and sixth grade
Wren Miller and Gwen
Rutledge.
Tigerettes
--------- —and is
great to plant on a bank with
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large and IThpossible slope.
Mix a little peatmoss or
compost into the soil when
foliage with Benomyl (Ben21 y°u plant and feed and keep
late) and Phaltan combined
for complete control with
seven to 10 day sprayings. Srass uses
Blackspot weakened plants produce , lush
will not likely make it through ~
the winter and if the bush does
the blooms will be few and
very poor Roses need all
their foliage to live so spray!
Hurry to get in bluebonnet
seed planted and all hardy
annuals like pansies, phlox,
pinks and larkspur. It's not
too late to plant spider lillies
and start your purchasing of
spring bt.lbs like daffodils,
crocus, tulips, hyacinths and
dutch iris as these are
starting to come in and are
fresh and in plentiful supply.
Be sure to buy bulj^Wiat will
do in this part of TexYs - many
of the varieties don’t like our
mild winters, short and often
warm springs and hot
summers Out of the several
hundreds of tulip and daffodil
varieties we've tried only a
few dozen will do well
consistantly! Know where
you are buying and remem-
ber that a bargain is only a
bargain if it lives and blooms!
In bulbs quality is hard to see
on the shelf but makes all the
difference in the garden when
planted Next week I’ll go into
more detail on bulbs.
Use the beautiful cushion
mums for spots of color by the
front door, on the patio and
for house decoration (then
plant them in the yard for
, color next year) when
company is expected You
might even want to do it just
for yourself and selfishly
celebrate the arrival of the
fall season' Spray house-
plants summering outside
with malathion and kelthane
(don’t spray ferns) to ready
them for their indoor trek in
mid-October. Clean plants
will be healthy plants all
winter and live green plants
are an important part of
interior decorating.
Coronation Kicks Off Autumn TrailsFestivities
enter the Misa Forest Festival purchased for $3 90 each by
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