The Grandview Tribune (Grandview, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, August 26, 1955 Page: 1 of 4
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Volume Fifty-Nine
Number Fifty-One
Letter to a Soldier 13TH ANNUAL SHOW OFF TO
From His Dad
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MARY ANNE POLLAN BRIDE
OF OSCAR LEEWILKIRSON
CAMP MEETING TIME IN THE
HEART OF THE DAVIS MOUNTAINS
WELCOME VISITORS TO GRANDVIEW’S 13th. CORN and LIVESTOCK SHOW
Ghe Granutenu Orihne
QUEEN OF 1955 CORN &
LIVESTOCK SHOW
In a Saturday evening cere-
mony, Miss Mary Anne Pollan
of Seagoville, formerly of
cousins in the city, Sunday,
Mrs. Emma Parker Taylor
and daughter, Mrs. Maggie
Lee Allen and grandson,
(See Letter, page four)
Football Schedule
Grandview Zebras
For 1955
Correcting faults i s like
tying a necktie; we can do it
easier on ourselves than on
anybody else.
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cf Midland and William K.
Hoffman of Houston ushered.
A reception followed at the
home of the pride’s parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilkirson will
make their home in Grand-
view after a wedding trip to
New Mexico and Colorado.
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The section of land con-
taining this grove was bought
at two dollars an acre by the
Bloys Camp Meeting Associa-
tion. Four denominations
are represented in the asso-
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tery. project , in the, Trulove . The first gathering, Wa
community, about mid-way under a wide oak tree' now
between Alvarado and Venus.1 known as-" First Tree.” A
Rumor had it that a “big quarter of beef fed the first
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Toy Basham is
Guest Speaker
At Rotary Club
Toy Basham, president of
Grandview Corn & Livestock
Association was the guest
speaker at the Tuesday noon
meeting of Grandview Rotary
Club. Mr. Basham gave a
brief resume of the associa-
tion, which had its beginning
in the late thirties and will
this year hold its 13th show.
Visiting Rotarians were:
Clyde Penney Hillsboro; T. J.
Harrell, Fort Worth, who was
accompanied by Mrs. Harrell;
Sterling Flynt, C. B. Stanley,
Mike Williams, Bob Stewart
and Al Sharpley, Waxaha-
chie; Mrs. Odell Elliott was
the guest of her husband.
Miss Veneda Martin, local
lovely, who was selected to
serve as queen of the 1955
show, was the guest of James
Gaston and was introduced
amid applause.
What 01 Alvarado's
Mystery Project?
Anne Boyd and Pat T. Wilkir-
son of Itasca, the bride-
groom’s brother, were honor
attendants. Candles w e r e
lighted by Miss Pat Platt and
Miss Sally Sutton. Dr. E. Mal-
offici- colm Stgkes of Tulsa, Okla,
aptistthe brdegroom’s brother-in-
law, Dr. Charles L. Boyd of
Grandview, Robert Winkler
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Christ.
In the days of the past,
ranchers and their families
came from far away ranches
in wagons, surreys, buggies
and on horseback. They slept
in tents or under their wag-
ons. Some rolled up in home
made quilts and blankets
under the oaks or junipers.
They cooked on ground fires,
boiled beans in laundry ket-
tles and fried their steaks in
great skillets. Today there
are massive wood ranges and
Mexican cooks from the
ranches. Some of the head
cooks have served twenty
years—a distinctive honor!
There are six eating sheds on
the grounds, the larger ones
serve as many as one thous-
and persons on Sunday. At
every one of these places, hot
biscuits are served three
times a day. And, yes! the
cooks beat on tins when
breakfast is ready.
Nothing can be bought or
sold on the grounds except
milk for the babies. Three
wholesome meals a day are
furnished free to everyone
who will stay for them. No
money may be paid for these.
However, donations may be
made to the association by
visitors, if they wish.
The main tabernacle seats
one thousand. On Sundays
almost as many stand on the'
outside. On either side of the
maroon vevet-draped rost-
rum hangs a picture; to the
right, the Rev. W. B. Bloys,
D. D.—to the left the Rev. R.
L. Irving, D. D., who follow-
ed Dr. Bloys as Presbyterian
minister of Fort Davis and
leader of the camp meeting.
There are two other taber-
nacles, one for teen-agers,
one for small children. A bell
rings for a‘l services, which
are held daily at 9 :00 a.m.,
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Dear Son:
My wife and I journeyed to
Seagoville for the wedding
and reception of Mary Anne
Pol’an and Oscar Lee Wilkir-
son on Saturday last. The
bride was beautiful and the
groom handsome and from
my viewpoint there was noth-
ing lacking to make the oc-
casion memorable for all con-
cerned. We have had the
privilege of seeing Oscar Lee
grow from infancy to man-
hood and we know he is one
of our finest young men. I
am sure! the bride is as
charming as she is beautiful.
This is to say, we wish the
young couple the best of
eveything in life. We are for-
tunate that they will build
their home in Grandview.
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I noticed several people I
knew at the wedding: Mr. and
Mrs. John Donoho, Dr. and
Mrs. Charles Boyd, Mr. and
Mrs. Wilmot Davis, Mrs. Bill
Donoho, Mrs. H. W. Pitts, Mr.
and Mrs. Leroy Hallman, Joe
Tom Wilkinson, E. L. Hall-
man and Mrs. Jesse Dobbs.
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Dr. and Mrs. A. F. Garner
changed their minds and re-
turned to Grandview instead
of making their home in the
Baptist Home in Houston. I
talked with them first of the
week and they are happy to
- be back and in their usual
place in the porch swing. Wel-
come home to the Garner’s.
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Corgratulations to our new
queen of the Corn and Live-
stock Show of 1955, Miss Ve-
neda Martin. Surely Grand-
view has the most beautiful
young ladies in the great
state of Texas.
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Lt. Jimmy Michael is home
on 15 day leave from Webb
Air Force Base, Big Spring,
Texas. Jimmy is an instruct-
or in jets fOxlowing his ser-
vice in Korea.
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Mr. and Mrs. Roy Ramsay
and Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie
Chapman made a flying three
day trip to El Paso, Juarez,
Mexico, and Carlsbad Cav-
erns last week-end. From
what Johnnie said, the car
made over 50 mph several
times. They report a very
enjoyable trip.
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The Irving Atlas’ and the
Miller Martin’s of Alvarado
have been m the Big Bend
country—another good trip.
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We hear that Mrs. Aubrey
Hollimon, Mrs. Troy Irvin,
Miss Floy Plead and Mrs. J.
W. Davis nave been patients
in Memorial, Cleburne.
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Mrs. J. S. Dean, 87, is re-
ported seriously ill at her
home on South Fourth St. i
talked with wilson today and
he informed me his mother
had sutiered a stroke.
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Raymond Byars is again
on the job after his .stay in
Memorial... Mrs. Floyd Mar-
tin, was recovered sufriciently
to-visit the Jack Walraven
family Saturday—first time
out in several weeks.
the great present gathering
For several weeks, rumors; of people from all parts of
have spread r over this and Texas and other states. Meet-
other sections about a mys- ings now last eight days.
deal,” of whatever nature it group. Now dozens of Beeves
i was had flopped. Every con-
ceiveable idea from a nudist
colony to a huge plant by one
of. the leading automotive
concerns was likely to be lo-
cated on thousands of acres
ofland in this area.
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VENETA MARTIN
Veneta Martin, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Mar-
tin was selected as queen of
the 1955 Corn & Livestock
Show by a ticket sale contest
conducted by members of the
Grandview High Shool FFA
chapter. Miss Martin is a
senior in Grandview High
School. She will be crowned
on Thursday night at 8:00
p.m. Miss Jean Bowles was
runner-up in the contest.
The Gilbert family held
their annua1 reunion at Falls
Creek Baptist Encampment
grounds at Turner Falls, Ok-
lahoma. First arrivals were
on Friday morning, last to ar-
rive were Sunday morning.
Saturday was spent in fish-
ing, swimming and horseback
riding. Sunday morning at
the 11 o’clock hour the family
was caled together for Sun-
day school. We met in front
of the cabin under beautiful
oak trees, seated on benches,
chairs and on the ground.
The services were opened
with a beautiful prayer by
Mrs. Eddie Walls of Sherman,
Texas. D. C. Gilbert of Lind-
say, Oklahoma, brought the
lesson, which was closed by
a prayer led by W. A. Gil-
bert of Grandview. Those
enjoying the reunion were:
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Gilbert,
Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Wiggins
and daughters, Nancy and
Linda, Grandview; Mr. and
Mrs. Paul Gilbert and family,
Mrs. Golda Ad well and chil-
dren, Itasca; Mr. and Mrs.
Cecil Gilbert and son, Arling-
ton; Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Gil-
bert, Lindsay, Okla.; Mr. and
Mrs. T. W. Gilbert, Carney;
Okla.; Buck Gilbert, Mr. and
Mrs. Eddie Walls and son,
Sherman; Mr. and Mrs. Sam
Garcia, Mr. and Mrs. Phi’lip
Christmas, Pottsboro; Tom-
my Brisco, Sherman; Mr.
and Mrs .Gene Gilbert, Fort
Worth; Mr. and Mrs. Merwyn
Tucker, Sanger; Mrs. A. B.
Calloway and son, Joe Callo-
way, Jacksboro; Mr. and Mrs.
L. D. Sanders and children,
Mr. and Mrs. Vance Robert-
son, Terry Ivey and Richard
Sanders, Oklahoma City; Bob
Lacey, Lindsay, Okla.; Albert
Gilbert, Pottsboro, Texas.
—One Present.
Floyd W. Pol’an of Seagoville.
At SMU where she received
her degree, she was president
of Sigma Kappa soroity and
a member of Iota Epsi’on.
The bridegroom is a Univer-
sity of Texas graduate and a
Phi Kappa Psi. His parents
are Mr. and Mrs. Cad T. Wil-
kirson of Grandview.
Mr. Pollan gave his daugh-
ter in marriage. She wore a
gown of layered nylon tulle
trimmed in Alencon lace, seed
pearls and sequins and fash-
ioned with a square neckline,
brief sleeves and chapel train.
A sequin-trimmed lace cap
held her waist-length illusion
veil. Her boquet was of white
orchids and stephanotis.
Mrs. Rhea Shaw and Miss
Mildred Wilson presented
wedding music. Miss Cecelia
Grandview, Texas, ffiday. August 26, 1955
BILLION DOLLARS A DAY
We’re a billion-dollar-a-day
country, economists say, with
the gross national product—
combined expenditures of the
nation’s people, business and
government — to total about
365 billion dollars this year.
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By Kathleen Elmore
Last week, in the heart /of
the Davis Mountains, a meet-
ing was he’d. It was the
Cowboy’s Camp Meeting con-
ducted by the Bloys Camp
Meeting Association. Here
for the first time in 1890 the
Reverend W. B. Bloys, D. D.
and a group of cowboys and
ranch families met. The place
is Skillman Grove just seven-
teen miles west of Fort Davis,
with an altitude of almost six
thousand feet.
The purposes of such a
meeting as given in the by-
laws of the Camp Meeting
Association are these: “for
the purpose of worship of
Almighty God and instruct-
ion in the Christian Religion
and the wide discussion of the
principles of the same accord-
ing to the word of God as
found in the Old and New
Testaments.”
It was in the 1880’s that
Anglo-Saxon men and women
came to the Davis Mountains
from East Texas. They came
because of the wide pastures,
green grass and plentiful
waters for their' herds.
Among these were the John
Zack Means, the Evanses, the
Med'eys, the Merrills, the
Pruetts, the Prudes, the
Brites, the Espy’s and others.
As soon as the homes were
built churches and schools
were started.
In 1888 Rev. Wm. Benjamin
Bloys came as Presbyterian
Missionary to the cowboys.
He was pastor of Presby-
terian churches at Fort Davis
and Marfa. In 1890 the first
camp meeting, under h i s
leadership was held in Skill-
man Grove. From that first
three-day meeting has come
First National Bank
GRANDVIEW, TEXAS
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Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Sept. 9—Itasca at Itasca
Sept. 16—Open date
Sept. 23.—Alvarado at Alva-
rado
Sept. 30.—Burleson at Burl-
eson *
Oct. 7.—Keller at Grandview
Oct. 14.—Mansfield at Grand-
view
Oct. 21.—Rylie at Rylie *
Oct. 28. — Midlothian a t
Grandview *
Nov. 4.—Godley at Godley •
Nov. 11—Cedar Hill at Grand*
view *
Nov. 18. — Joshua at Grand-
view *
* Denotes district games
The Trihteenth Annual
Corn & Livestock Show got
under way with the judging
of dairy and beef cattle, hogs,
sheep, poultry, corn and farm
& home exhibits on Thursday
and Friday mornings.
All exhibits wi‘l be open at
8 o'clock each morning and
remain open each night until
10 p.m.
As the Tribune goes to
press one day early, on Wed-
nesday, it appears that this
year’s show wik be tops of
the thirteen years of the
show, which started out as a
showing of a few Jersey heif-
ers belonging to the FFA
members and grew to such
proportions that it was nec-
cessary to move the show to
the six acre city park, where
a large livestock barn was
constructed in 1953 to house
the ever increasing number
of fine registered animals
shown yearly.
The Grandview WHD Cub
and P-TA have had charge of
the Farm & Home exhibit for
the past three years and have
done a magnificent job of se-
curing and arranging entries
in this division. The exhibits
this year are expected to far
outnumber any of the past
shows. This exhibit will have
the entire gymnasium and
plenty of exhibit space will
be available.
Well over $2,000 is offer-
ed this year in premium mon-
ey on the various entries,
starting with the street pa-
rade at 6 p.m., Thursday.
The parade will form along
Grandview-Cleburne highway
on west side of Katy tracks,
come east on Criner Street to
Fourth Street, turn north on
Fourth to Main, west on Main
to First Street, left on Criner
er to Third, South on Third
(Highway) to Walnut, east
on Walnut to Fifth Street and
show grounds.
Miss Veneda Martin will be
crowned queen of the 1955
show at 8 p.m., Thursday, at-
tended by her court.
Friday night at 8 p.m. the
Radio Artist’s Show will be
staged on lighted Zebra field.
This show will be put on by
six radio artists well known
over your favorite stations.
On Saturday night, Aug.
27, prizes for the entire show
will be awarded from the
stage on Zebra Field. Also,
Elvis Bosher and his band
will entertain.
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"Jumping at conclusions is
not half as good exercise as
digging for facts!”
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Church of Seagoville.
Mrs. Wilkirson i s the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
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We hope you’ve passed a pleasant
summer and return refreshed for . . .
work among our boys a nd girls.
If there is any service we may
.perform that .will lighten your
task, don’t hesitate t > stop in.
Surrenders To
Sheriff Earl King
Floyd Cooper, Somervel
County farmer, wanted for
the murder of his brother-in-
law, John Hankins, surrend-
ered to Earl King, Sheriff of
Johnson County early Satur-
day morning.
Cooper, 47, who had been
evading Texas Rangers and
tri-county peace officers for
over a week, stated when he
surrendered, “It was too
rough down in those cedar
breaks.” He also said he was
tired, hungry and sick.
CORRECTION .
Corrections in livestock
and poultry division, correct-
ing errors in catalog.
Beef division; O. K. Smith
S. B. Atlas; Jersey division.
J. E. Cook, Garland Cook and
George Vanzandt ; Swine and
sheep division, Bryon Senter
Jack Smith, Odell Pinkerton.
Poultry division, Dan Cook.
H. B. Lubke.
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