Mt. Vernon Optic-Herald (Mount Vernon, Tex.), Vol. 104, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 11, 1979 Page: 9 of 10
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Professional
Professional
Livestock Feed
Dr. John F. Crowford
Mt. Vernon Feed
I
♦'
New Phone Number
Call
537- 2277
is’
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ted
xxi
Our Offices And Much Of Our Merchandise
Has Been Moved Into Our New Building.
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Real Estate
or
For Sale
Real Estate
REAL ESTATE
20
It
FOR SALE
NO UREA
Call 866-2466
Bull
Landscaping
For Sale
+ 2 B R frame on South Kaufman Street.
+ 3 B R frame house on 4 acre* on Hwy 37.
0.
Livestock
p
+ 42 acres on Highway 47 West.
Public Notice
+ 50 pine covered acres west of Pur ley.
MT. VERNON
+ 1B4 acres at Huckleberry
(Is
Repair Service
Phone 537-4546
Want To Buy-
Mobile Homes
Association
(6-tfc)
Repair Service
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(7-tfci Mobile Homes
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Tax Service
Tax Service
Service
RUTH'S TAX SERVICE
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Cullen Smith
For Fast, Courteous Dependable Service
On All Your Farm & Ranch Needs
Problems you
can't solve?
We Have Installed Several Phone Lines In
Order To Serve Our Customers Better.
Just Dial 537-2277, If It Is Busy Your Call Will
Switch Automatically To Another Line.
♦
♦
DELIVER IN MT. VERNON
AND SURROUNDING AREA
All Natural
All Protwin
+ 2 B R unfurnished mobile home at Miller's
Cove Small equity and assume payments
+ 2 B R frame house on Yates Street. Newly
redecorated.
vc
S One
. lour
Slight
price
18-Itci
blue
drum
nplete
Is and
7 2tc i
& Farm Supply
Has A
Mt
< IB-ilCl
+ Exceptionally nice 2 B R frame on East Main
Street.
-I- Extra nice 2B R, 2 bath home in Kings
Country.
Through Jesus Christ are
we a victorious country, all
WILL BUY livestock in the
pasture Phone 537 2588
(13-6tp)
Holidays with Mr and Mrs
David J Bolger and Mary
Rosalind
home
hot al
I Also,
Bloat or
l?456 or
46 tfc i
♦
NEED A birthday or *nni
versar.y surprise deliver
ed? Lowry's in Mt Vernon.
Your special occasion store
18 itci
FOB SALE Neu tractor cab
for 135 Ferguson tractor
Has windshield and curt-
ains 5.17-4426 (18-21C1
room, lots of closets, den.
large fenced back yard
Phone 537 2593 (17-4tpi
4- 2 B R frame house with central heat on ’>
acre at Purley.
Neal Solomon,
Real Estate Broker
Home Phone 537-2440
DeLuxe mobile home (furnished) on 3 lots at
Snug Harbor.
J.H. Gxwwlly,
Real Estate Broker
Home Phone $37 4111
Rufus Bolger, Salesman
Home Phone $37-4072
served in the U.S. Marines
during World War II. From
All aronOt
HevwfwM Ao*«»«<et
Di*hw*tlt*rt W»»Mr» Orv»r»
Air CankrtiaAioe H**1*«4
Admitted to the Franklin
County Hospital for the week
January 2 through January *
ited
.000
y to
Ml
ith
decorator recliners
for ever decor Ixiwry's in
Ml Vernon <18 He)
PROFIT
LIQUID FEED
Mt. Pleasant
1X93 W Ferguson
5’2 'WI
ROYCE TURPEN
Mt. Vernon, Texas
Shop 537-4441
Home 588-2442
Compare My Prices
Electromc Devices
ARtRfWUI
T V »»H'f
After
4 p.m.
200 W. Main in Adams Office Equipment Bldg.
See calendar in window for days in office.
Night appointment on request and
Sunday afternoon. ntr**^'*
________________________537-4931
FOR SALE
Highly Fertilized
Coastal Bermuda Hay
* Round Bales
S30°° A Roll
Call
214-693-9338
After Six p m.
Christ is the answer
Welcome to "The Open
Door"
Full Gospel teaching
Holy Spirit ministery
Anointed teaching by
Howard Petty
Each Tuesday at 7 p.m.
Home of Eldoy & Pearl
Oilion
Phone
Eldoy A Pearl
537 2544
Bobby or Jackie Moore
537-4115
Dr. James L Crowford
Dr. Ml Bryant
OPTOMETRISTS
Latest Glaucoma Tasting Instruments
SIH Lamps And Other
Dependable Diagnostic Instruments
Phonj MS 3234 By Appointment
204 Gilmer St._____________________Sulphur Springs
POPE'S
BOOT SHOP
Headquarters For
RED WING
BOOTS
SHOES
4- 1*4 acres on Hwy 71 east of Hagansport
See ft Per M
Of Your
lesortnee & Roti FeftH Nm4i
1
CASH PAID
For
Old Photographs,
Camera*. Etc.
Call 537 4448
FACTORY TRAINED ser
vice men on call for
appliance repair Lowrys in
Ml Vernon <18 Ito
CLASSIFIED ADS
Livestock Feed Liveatock Feed
"The worst kind of
reducing pill >1
one who keeps tilling
L you how he Od « "
Mt. Vernon Insurance
And Real Estate
537-2228 For
Spnngs i/>an atid Building for Job Printing
Jem service
IlltO TECHNICIAN
Fred Hogan. Salesman
Home Phone $37 4040
Glenda Richards, Salesman
Home Phone $37-4444
REAL ESTATE New home
on golf course at Cypress
moidmH\twi~»i’trt7e<iiai pb Creek Country Club, beauti-
M Vjew> spacious 2
bedroom. 2 bath, with all
extras including large deck
for entertaining $45,900 00
8174813591. (15-6tpl
Letters To The Editor
To The Editor of The
DECORATOR CARPETS
Professional installation
Lowry s in Mt Vernon
’48 Itci
with tartar sauce. French
fries, cole slaw, white bread,
iced cake squares ___________
Tuesday-Chicken and new-day and days to
The Honorable Cullen
Smith of Waco, president of sponsored by
DICOBATOft
CARPITS
•r
LOWRY'S
ROOF SERVICE-New roof,
reroof and repairs Tur-
bine ventilators installed
Free Estimates J T.
Patterson. 632-4464 (15-6tp)
Waco law firm of Naman,
Howell, Smith, Lee sand
Muldrow He as chairmartuf
the American Bar Associa s
lion general practice section
and of the State Bar s
Committee on Professional
Efficiency and Economic
Research and of the Com
mittee on Revision of the
Canons of Ethics.
Grables To
Speak At
Glade Springs
Jimmy Grable, his wile.-
Patricia, and daughter. I
Vanessa Ann. will be;
featured at the 11:00 hour at;
Glade Springs Baptist Ch ;
urch Sunday. January 14
’Mrs Grable will play the •
piario and sing, with special ‘
songs by V^pessa
Everyone has a cordial
invitation to attend
HAY FOR SALE Alfalfa or
coastal 501 65.1 2599
.. . 1 18-8tc*
W|
will be home again to take up
the God-given pleasure of
working and living in peace
and happiness and going
about our pursuits in r
nation of peace-when the
drone of an airplane will
mean commerce or plea
sure—not war—when ra-
tioning will be a memory —
when family cars will be
seen by the millions on the
highways and streets of our
nation and our neighbor
nations
Let us on the home front do
all in our power to hasten
victory and the return of the
days when we can go about
our daily lives unmolestes
and happy in the knowledge
' that al) is well with the
world
1878—And this is today,
so Peace in America Be
cause our fathers had faith,
believed and trusted in our
God Our fathers fought,
some died for this country,
God fearing men with a love
for peace for all and freedom
for all.”
This land America, is the
land of the free and the home
of the brave, because of the
RimiMS made beautiful by
professionals Lown s in
Mt Vernon Your 50 year
store 18-itci
TTitill shm-
behind the
ads of war $nd anxiety
sun of hope and courage
dill shining
rift up your eyes and see
light of the new day -the
< when our loved ones,
iry of war but victorious.
Hospital News
VISITING HOURS
3:88 TO 4:88 P.M.
7:MTO8:88P.M.
2000 HOUSE PLANS for
your convenience Sulphur
Special music will ' tfc
provided by Jimmie High
tower and Tim Hightower,
members of the Winfield
Jamboree, with several
selections of country apit
western music
flit. Bertum (flptk-Hmtli
Thursday, Jan 11, 1878 Page?.
Mt Vernon. Franklin County. Texas
SEE US for all your wedding
accessories Invitations,
annoucements, thank you
notes, napkins, rnonogra
med notes, cake knives, etc
Mt Vernon Optic Herald
5:17-2228 (18 tfc
Help keep—"In God We
Trust” on our Federal
Coma In and too the foafurot In
F NOW
Mobile Home Living
Microwave oven*, starao systems,
wtt bort and Nreplocet
8a.m. To4p m Mon, Sat.
iia-nci
NOTICE TO ALL PERSONS HAVING
CI-AIMS AGAINST THE ESTATE OF
< LOVIS EDGAR HOOVER
DECEASED
Nouc* i» h*r«t> given that original
Latten Testamentary lor the EataU
o< Oovu Edgar Hoover were teaued an
the Oh day ol January lt7» in < aute
No ZS* pending in the County Court
ul Erankhn County. Texat. to Mr»
Joaie 1. Hower
The reaidence of such Exacutnx it
franklin County Texat The poet
office addreae it Mr» Joue L
Hoover Route 1 Mt Vernon. Texae
74457
Al) perion* having claim* against
thu estate which u currently being
admimatered are required to present
them within the tune and in the
manner prescribed by law
t B F Hicks
P O Box 7»7
Mt Vernon. Texas 75457
Attorney lor the Esute
TREES and Landscaping
Professional landscaping
Trees, shrubs, all your
gardening needs Jo's
Greenhouse. Hwy 37. south.
588 2947 (16-tfc >
REGISTERED GREY
Brahman Bulls, 6 mo to 3
yrs age Alexander Farms.
Mt Vernon. Texas 537-2317
FOR SALE Two sofa sleep
ers 1 maple table and 4
chairs. 1 electric cook stove.
I saddle. I Slim Jim
exerciser Phone 537-W69
17 tfc
Good News!
Bible* Book* Gift*
537-4115 Cemetery Rd.
Beware lest any man
spoil you through phi Io
sophy and vain deceit,
after the tradition of men,
after the rudiment of the
world, and not after
Christ. ' Col. 2:8
R (' A ’ television center
laiwry s in Ml Vernon
IK Itci
now knowing that when He Vernon,
comes He will end all wars.
He will wipe the memory of
our sorrows away. We must
trust in God; This now only
should be preserved on our
Federal notes but it should
be preserved in our hearts
With good wishes for
health, happiness and pros
penty to you. America
during 1979, and every year
after,
1945 Magnolia Petroleum
year calendar: |et one
monkeys out of us-fg oo
uncle a monkey or is ha
Uncle Sam, a man? < God
fearing man
NOTH E Hl BIDDERS
HOI VB <>E FRANKLIN
STATE of TEXAS
i» herrb> gnen that the
' ocnmiMiiiineT > Court of Franklin
County will rrcnve bids until
23 January IM?!# at lit (ii o clock a m
at !hr four throne in Mt \rrnon
Trxa< al which time thej will be
op»-r>e*l for the purchaM- of a 197*
regular Lite 4 door sedan minimum
uhrHbaar 116 inches minimum
♦•ngine displacement lSn» cubu inches
pSWW veering power (Jim brakes j
speed automatic transmiMnon fact
•<> air conditioning fresh air heater
and defroster. AM radio tinted gla»
protective body side moldings roof
drip r ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ .
tire* vinyl seat tnm floor mats, front
and rear bumper guards, and right
outMde mirror
Successful bidder must take in trade
a 1978 < bevrolet Impala 4 door sedan
MTial Vi 11/191^223787 Contact
Franklin County r Sheriff S Office to
inspect trade in vehicle
Hids should include usual guarant
ees delivery and ser\ice charges and
approximate dale delivery can he
Ml the Franklin ( nuntv Sheriff
Pte < ommiMioner < C ourt reserve*
the right to accept «< reject any and
all btd*
« \alrif- Wright
Franklin < ounty Auditor
P O Box 423
Ml Vernon Texas
CLASSIFIED
RATES
Whm ordered umuHaneouxly. 04
per ward lint insertion og per word
additional insertions minimum
charge II 75 first insertion additional
insertions Card at Thanks will be
charged classified rale
DEADLINE
AU advertising and news copy must
be in our office no later than J 00 p m
on Tuesday previous to publication
Society stones received after 1 00
s m Tuesday wiU be published the
InUowtng seek
< I.AS.MFIED
ADVERTISING
Mt ST BE PAID FOR
IN ADVANCE
Unless the customer has a regular
display advertising account payment
must be made and copy in the
Opfic Herald office prevwua to 1 00
pm on Tuesday previous to
publication or the advertisement will
not appear m that issue <f. the
Opu< Herald
Display Classified Advertising ■
SI 75 per column meh Regular or
stand display clasaified advertising if
they nm 11 or more consecutive
seek* is SI 50 per column inch
Classified advertisers who use large
display < lawfied spare regularly < 10
inches or more per issue will be
charged SI SS per column inch
All classified advertising ■ net. no
discount to advertising agencies
FDR ASSISTANCE WITH
YOt R IGUMHED ad
Phone 537-2228
SEPTIC TANKS cleaned
Norma) price, 335 00
Same location 14 years
Economy Septic Tank Ser-
vice, 858-6269, Leesburg
Texas
FOR SALE Three bedroom
brick on Hunnicutt street
Phone 537 2809 after 5 p m
or 537-2515 at work il^tfc)
Public Notice
NOTICE. TV AU. PESUMlNg HAVING
C IAIMS AGAINST THE ESTATE OF
JOHN THOMAS J AC TURIN
DE<EASED
Notice is hereby given that original
lAClars Tsnlamentary for the Eatale
of John Thomas Jackson were laaued
on Dersmbar 14. irm in < ause No
UM. pending in the County Court of
Franklin County Texaf Io
Beulah Jackson
The resident of such Executrix u
Franklin County. Texas The Post
office address u Mrs Beulati
Jackson Ma Church Strwet Winns
boro Texas 754M
All parsons having claims against
thu saute which u currently bauM
administered are required to present
them within the lime and in the
manner preecnbed by law
s B F HKks
P O Box 747
Mt Vernon Texas 754S7
Attorney lor the Estate
ourselves men. we will
continue to fight for peace
• . with God's help we
Emerald Bay, Lake Pales
tine. Mrs Ixxj Doty and socf,
____________ __ Peter, of Dallas, Lisa
good comes through Him. He Badgett of Arlington. Mrs
is the Savior of this world. L,. D Lowry , Jr.. Mr and
our soon-coming King Mrs Charles Lowry and
We can truly be Imppy. s005- Brad and Stan, of Mt
Rev and Mrs Fred Banda
and daughter. Tamara. dE
Vinton. Iowa arrived Dec-
ember 26 to visit Mrs-
Banda s parents. Mr anct
Mrs T C Puckett The;
Bandas accompanied the
Pucketts to Tyler an£
Palestine to visit other
relatives on December 28 1
Mrs Earl Rodkey. Jean;
Cranford and Mrs D EL-
Larry A Coker. Box Bolger have returned from
735. Mt Vernon. Texas 75457 Scottsdale Arizona where
Stand up for America, they sP<'nl the Christmas
Courthouse Squares
w - -
FOR SALE-12x65 Buddy
mobile* home. 3 bedroom.
11a bath Partially furnish
ed .CH & window air
conditioners Call 537-4190
after 5:00 o'clock < 18-3tp >
( HAIN SAW CLOSE OCT
14" saw. regular price
$139 95. now $104 95 12"
saw. regular price $159 95.
now $119 95 Ben s 537-4796
118-ltci
Bankhead Jewelers
WATCH REPAIR
We Service
All Types Of
Quality Watches
Three Day Service
Is Our Policy
BABIKNIAD
JIWKLMS
572 5411 Mt Pleasant
FOR SALE-Large house and
lot. 3 bedrooms. 2 baths.
large kitchen with lots of
cabinet space, large living v
FOR SALE AT wholesale
value combination safe
washing machine Size
Secure money and \alu
ables Home or business
Jud Veazey. 537 1985. Mt
Vernon 184tci
--- We would like to have our
FOR SALE-Onk or two ads by 3:00 pm. Tuesday,
building lots, wooded 1 52 We work women with
acres just north of city limits children and they would like
near Highway 37 Priced to go home the same as you
together at $7,000 537 2684 Tish Bass (4-llc)
between 8 00 a m and 8 00
pm <17-2tc»
FOR SALE-Coastal Bermu
(la hay 479 3417 fl74tv
Public Notice
NOTICE TO AU PERSONi HAVING
CLAIMS AGAINST THE ESTATE OF
SOLON OLLIE LOVING. JR..
DECEASED
NoGcv u hcraby given Uiai original
Lottarx Testamentary lor the Eatale
of Solon Ollie Loving Jr wore OMd
on th* Mb day of January 1474. in
_ _ (MW No zrn. pentbng la the Cowy
Mn • (hurl of Franklin ( ounty Toxas, la
Mre Valors AlXhur Loving
The mudcnce of such Executrix n
Hookim County. Texas Th* post
office address u Mn Velsrs Arthur
Loving P O Box »4 SalUBo Texas
TMn
AU persons having claims against
thu estate which la currently being
administered ar* required to present
them within th* Um* sad m th*
manner preembed by law
• B F Hirka
P O Bos 747
' Mt Vernon Texas 75457
Attorney for th* EaUt*
OfRca
537-2311
USED WASHER dryer,
range, and television
Priced t<>sell Lowry's in Mt
Vernon 18-ltci
HAY FOR SALE Coastal
and clover mixed $2 50
per bale Cash at the barn
Also. 2 year old registered
Hereford Bull 588 2588
<17 2tc)
spaghetti, carrots and pine
apple. English peas, hot
rolls, chilled fruit __
Wednesday-Chili, dogs [-(Xj
with cheese. seasoned
beans, dill pickles, fruit
cobbler
Thursday-Ravioli cass-
erole, tossed salad, green
beans, white bread, ginger-
bread
Friday-Hamburgers with
mustard or mayonnaise,
lettuce leaf, sliced tomatoes,
dill pickles, onion slices.
Fritos corn chips, jello with
fruit
Chocolate or white milk
served with all lunches
OVER ONE ACRE
beautiful furniture
accessories
to see/ Lowrys
Vernon
were .Soon J Choi. San Jooq;'
California. Patsy Ann WIIL
is. Talco; Lois ChristiM
Overstreet, Maggie l.e<
Gray, Winnsboro. Detupir
Greeney. Mt Pleasant. • •
I-a Verna Arnett. Bernie^-
Roach. Sandy Evans. Hollif'
William Reddin Gertie Lee;
Reddm. Sandra Greer. Edfta;
Blackshire, Marie Mayi-*
Stella, William Clyde Smithy
James E Mitchell, Windall-
Wafford, Robbie Earl Tur-
ner. Linda Hackney, Abcg!
Linwood, and Moms Oliver.
Barrett. Mt Vernon * *
, Dismissed were Hollis
Reddin. Lojs Overstre<<
Robbie Earl Turner. Wil -
liam Smith. Olin E Hami|>
ton. Horace Corley, CohC
Davidson. Patsy Willis,
Baby Girl Willis, Linda
Hackney. Soon J Cboi.
Michael Gossett and Carolyn
Joyner .
Personals
____ Mrs Judy Lacko of Dalias
brave men who fought for visited her mother Mre.
her, and if we are to call Jaggers, and family
■ •• for a few days recently
Mr and Mrs Francis*
will Sullivan of San Antonig-
continue to be free, In God visited Mr and Mrs Sterling-
we trust should not only be Bennett and Susan Jaggeisl
our motto, we must keep recently t -
in God. Mr and Mrs T C Puckeji’
had their annual PucketjZ*
For Your Custom
Drapery Needs 5ee
Brown's
Window Box
1541 S willumt
Mt Plwwtrt. T»«»»
l-H E»t,m«t*l FMtw 171 >«)l
SCHOOL
MENU I
Breakfast
Monday Juice, buttered
toast, scrambled egg. milk
Tuesday-Juice. buttered
toast, cold cereal, milk
Wednesday-Juice, hot bis
cuit. cream gravy, jelly,
milk.
Thursday Juice, waffle
with butter and syrup, milk
Friday-Juice. buttered
toast, hot cereal, milk faith and trust in God.
|unch without God there is no
.Monday-Fish Krispies peaCe or freedom, without Lowry Christmas dinner at*
. x- u is hope j2:30 noon on December 2J •
We can lift up our eyes at their home Seated wesgJ
today and see the light of the Mr and Mrs H U .
icome if Fitzgerald and son. Gerald,\
we have Jesus in our hearts' of Houston. Mr and Mr$
There is no power on earth Roy Watson of Palmer. Mr
greater than the power of an^ Mrs R. P. Tucker of
Mt. Vernon
r
NOTICE to all persons do-
ing business with Sam B
Harvey Funeral Home
Effective January 1, 1979.
Sam B Harvey Funeral
Home, formerly a sole
proprietorship, was incor
porated under the laws of the
State of Texas The name of
the corporation is Sam B
Harvey Funeral Home, Inc
doing business at 509 N
Kaufman. P O Box 40. Mt
Vernon. Texas Sam B
Harvey, president < 18 4tc i
FIREWOOD for sale $22 50
per rick. $45 00 per cord
Kyle Kelley. 537 4005
116 3tp>
Cullen Smith To Speak At Bar Meeting
The meeting is being _ when her name is calloA
* -J the Titus
the Stale Bar of Texas, will County Bar Association,
x * . * nj pre>tden(
Since it will be Ladies Night,
a $25 00 door prize is being
posted (or the lucky lady
attending and is present
1978 CLOSE OUT SPECiAL-
Good selection to choose
from F H A constructed
of l*ow down payment with 12
and year financing Free dehve-
ft s something ry and set up Open 9 00 a m
m Mt until dark Monday through
Saturday See at B & J
Mobile Homes, 3J0 Greer
Blvd., Pittsburg. Texas.
Phohe 856 3909 (
be the honored guest and Bird Old,
speaker at the meeting of the
Northeast Texas Bar Associ
ation Thursday night. Jgn
uary 18, at K Bob’s Steak
House, south Highway 271
out of Mt Pleasant The title
of his address will be "The
Stale Bar of Texas. Who
Needs It?”
Smith served on the State
Bar board of directors
during 1971-74, and was
chairman of the Texas Bar
Foundation during 1973-74
He is a graduate of the
Baylor Law School and Optic-Herald
1945-Front page of the Reserve notes Letthew<^0
Mfttfnrkltss Pairr*lntirv« s_.
in who we trust Dqnt
woman make
1950 until 1953, he practiced Company year calendar
law in Weslasco Since then "Be still sad heart and cease
he has been a member of the repining, for behind the
clouds thesj
ing^—Yes?
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