The McKinney Examiner (McKinney, Tex.), Vol. 73, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 1, 1959 Page: 3 of 8
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THE EXAMINER, McKWEY, TEXAS, JANUARY 1, 1959
THREE
MRS. CLINT THOMPSON
WOFFORD THOMPSON
Editors and Publishers
SUBSCRIPTION RATE
NO-PROFIT
PHONE LI 2-2332
SALE
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Cooper
Mr.
and
We have operated our stores in McKinney for the past six months
without having staged a single store-wide sale, It is now our in-
th a NINE-DAY NO-PROFIT
SALE starting Friday, January 2, and lasting through Monday,
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chandise at cost.
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church-going will have the same effect on others that
This is a sale that stands on its past reputation. It, therefor
needs no further introduction to the people of McKinney and Col-
e
Notice
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lin County.
Another year has passed us by and we often take a
an inventory of stock on hand and of accomplish'
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Some of our customers may have spent most of their available
We Will Be Closed
Therefore, you may select any fall
THURSDAY and FRIDAY
your pur-
January 1st and 2nd
chase in our LAY-AWAY department No charges will be made
for Inventory
during this sale unless your November account is paid in full.
COME EARLY... You will have a bigger seletcion to choose
from. If you were among the lucky hundreds who took advan-
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THE BEST COVERAGE... FOR
Many customers have not missed this annual event since 1938.
and
McKinney, Texas
MEMBER FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
Best coverage for your “rainy days” (in the fi-
nancial sense) is a steadily growing savings ac-
count in this bank. The knowledge that you
have the cash reserves to meet unexpected
emergencies brings great peace of mind!
Central National Bank
Deposits Insured Under the Terms of the Banking Act of 1933
that grows on Honey Creek at
the bridge, due south of Roland.
Inside Collin Co. (lyear)
inside Collin Co. (6 mo.)
Inside Collin Co. (3 mo.)
The Style Shop
WE GIVE AND REDEEM SCOTTIE STAMPS
The 2cKinney Examinex
CLINT THOMPSON, 1865-1954
YOUR "RAINY DAYS”
McKinney Dry Goods Company
Published each Thursday and entered at the Post Office in McKinney
as Second Class Mail Matter.
ETa-pagT 1 We FURNITURE
no well S APPLIANCES
tage of our previous NO-PROFIT SALES, we need say no more.
tention to end our Fall Season w i
Our purpose in conducting this sale is to clear
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Inventory lime
By PAT SIMPSON
“A Big Friendly Bank”
and land owners for the purchase of goods and serv-
ices that could not be provided in years of less pro-
duction. This same money will change hands many
times and bring benefits to many more not engaged I
directly in agriculture.
We have seen the completion and opening of the _
most modern and' efficient County Hospital in the I
Southwest. Collin Memorial Hospital is an institution fl
any community can be proud off.
We have seen the completion and opening of 8
Expressway 75 to Dallas. This is a section of the best 1
in roads and will bring many people to our town and
county. We are now reaping benefits from this road I
in the added business we are enjoying, and in the new I
people who have moved to our community and are I
becoming a part of us. |
McKinney will soon be occupying a new and I
modern high school. This school will take care of up I
to 1,000 students and will have the best physical fa- I
cilities money can prvoide. With the fine- staff of I
anuary 12. During this time, you will be able to buy Fall Mer-
e,
our stores of Fai!
-MUSINGS-
By I. D. MOUZON
Last Sunday morning while sipping our second
cup of breakfast coffee we listened to a most inter-
esting and thought-provoking radio talk by Dr. Nor-
man Vincent Peale. Dr. Peale, the famed New York
minister, built his talk around the topic, “Get Ready
for a Wonderful Tomorrow/7 and had some most
worthwhile things to say on the subject. It was quite
appropriate to the season when just about every-
one is busy getting ready for a new year—a tomorrow
that can be wonderful or otherwise, depending
largely on what we, ourselves, do with it.
As we listened the thought came to us that there
is no better way in which to get ready for the tomor-
row we call the New Year than by taking inventory of
our church-attendance habits and resolving to do one
of two things. If we attend church regularly let’s keep
it up and strive to be even better church members
during 1959 than we have ever been before. If we do
not attend regularly there’s no better resolution we |
could make than to begin next Sunday and find our I
way to a house of worship every Sabbath. You’ll be |
surprised how much it will help.
We are reminded here of a personal experience
we had many years ago in Kansas City. A man with
whom we were associated in business suggested one |
Saturday night that we have breakfast early the fol-
lowing morning and then go visit the zoo, one of the |
finest in the country. We, being in the habit of at-
tending Sunday School and Church on Sundays, J
made a counter suggestion that we attend services in |
the morning and visit the zoo in the afternoon. After |
much discussion, in the course of which it was re- j
vealed that our friend couldn’t remember the last 5
time he went to church, it was decided that he would |
gq along with us. I
We attended both Sunday School and church I
and then started back to the hotel. We had walked i
for perhaps two or three blocks in complete silence i
when he said something we shall never forget, “I I
want to thank you for insisting we go to church. I , p
can’t remember when I have felt so relaxed or so |
much at peace with the world as I do right now. I in-
tend to keep it up.” r
Whether our friend did keep it up or slipped |
back into his old routine we never knew because we I
came back to Texas soon after that and never heard I
cash on Christmas gifts, etc.
Saw several people looking at
a half-bushel hamper of some
sort of nuts on the jockey yard
a while back, and found they
were examining some chinqua-
pins, though the man called them
East Texas chestnuts. He brought
them from Big Sandy in East
Texas. The chinquapin looks like
a black acorn except it is small-
er and longer. The chinquapin
belongs to the beech family, and
is related to the chestnut. Its
getting anywhere with her, as
she had another beau and played
him against George. One day
both called on her at the same
time. Mary started to leave with
the other boy, and in going out
the door she cut her hand slight-
ly on a nail. Noting the blood,
both boys yanked out handker-
chiefs to bind the wound. The
other fellow had a silk handker-
$1.50 Outside Collin Co. (lyr.) $2.50
$1.00 Outside Collin Co. (6 mo.) $1.50
75c Outside Collin Co. (3 mo.) $1.00
Getting Ready For Spring...
century. Way back there George - , -
was going to see a young lady Lubbock with her daughter, Mrs.
who lived south of Climax, her Don Cooper, Mr. Cooper and
name was Mary. George was not grandson, .Tim. Mrs. Cooper, the
former Miss Shirley Reddell, and
Mrs. Clara Reddell has re-
; turned to her home in McKinney
after spending Christmas in
Saw an automobile on the
street last week, but instead of
the usual sign, it had one just
like it on the back which read,
"B u i l t in Africa by Ants.”
Looked like a good car to me, but
maybe the owner had bad luck
with it. Makes me think of the
boy north of town, years ago,
who had a horse he called “No
more," because he never was
able to date a girl the second
time while driving the animal to
a buggy. Knowing the young-
man as I did, I thought the horse
Met an old friend, George J.
Clampett, last week. George
lives in Kansas, but used to live
in or near Altoga years ago..
Nothing unusual connected with
George, save that he carries a
patched handkerchief. This trait
on his part started over fifty
years ago, and he has toted the
old handkerchief over half a
have nice homes on-many formerly vacant lots. ..
We have street repair and rebuilding under
way that will add beauty and convenience to our
community. We have seen our city extended, and
plans have been approved for expenditures for wa-
ter and sewer lines to needed areas. Plans have been
approved for added park areas and with the acquisi-
tion of the excess land of the Veterans Hospital Mc-
Kinney can have a park system to be proud of along
with the other modern improvements.
1958 has been a great year for McKinney and
Collin County.
nuts" are very sweet and better p , . .. , , .
than chestnuts when roasted, ol him again. One thing we do know, however, is that
Fifty years ago there were a lot
of them growing in this county,
but in the last thirty years I
have seen only one tree, and
chief; George’s was of white
cotton with a hole in it. The oth-
er boy poked fun at George’s
ragged handkerchief, turning the
girl in George’s favor. She is now
Mrs. George J. Clampett. She
patched George’s handkerchief
that day, and George carries it
constantly; carries it in a special
case and never uses it.
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Last week I told President
Whisenant of the Collin Counti
National Bank that what the
bank needed to sort of tone down
its dignity and austerity was a
background of subdued music.
He listened patiently until I had
expounded my views, and then
led me to a switch in the wall.
“Listen,” Captain,” he said, and
turned a dial. Instantly lovely
music swelled throughout the
building. They had had it all the
time; just simply too low for my
ailing ears, that’s all.
Mrs. Nannie Rutledge
Buried at Melissa
Largely attended funeral serv-
ices were held Sunday at 2 p.m.
in the Davis Street Methodist
Church for Mrs. Nannie Rut-
ledge, 82, who died Saturday at
7:15 p.m. in Madonna Hospital,
Denison. Glen Bishop, minister
of the church, conducted the
service, after which burial was
in the Melissa Cemetery. Grand-
sons of Mrs. Rutledge were pall-
bearers and Crouch-Moore Fu-
neral Home directed arrange-
ments.
Mrs. Rutledge was born in Mc-
Kinney, February 24, 1876, the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Scott. Most of her life was spent
in Collin County but in recent
years she had made her home in
Denton with her daughter, Mrs.
Clyde Todd, 1315 West Sears St.
Her husband, Dr. J. T. Rutledge
was a practicing physician at
Westminster before his death in
1911.
Surviving are two daugthers,
Mrs. Jennie Bates of Anthony,
New Mexico, Mrs. Todd of Deni-
son; three sons, J. L. Rutledge of
Dallas, R. E. Rutledge of Mead-
ows and C. T. Rutledge of Mc-
Kinney; 18 grandchildren; 26
great-grandchildren and two
great-great-grandchildren.
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RETURNS FROM VISIT
CAPE ROY HALL SAYS:
Well, Christmas and the holi-
days are about gone again. Won-
der why the end of the year
seems to arrive so often? When
I was a great deal younger than
I am now, I thought a year was
far too long, and that old Santa
Claus’ visits were spaced sever-
al years apart. Viewpoint, of
course. Despite it all, I do not
believe I would again go through
the trials and extreme sorrows
incidental to childhood in order
to have youth again, if such
were possible. Looking back, I
find that the only things that
amount to anything at all in life
are what you do for the good
of mankind in general. What I
have done for my own good I
find any attainment I may have
achieved for myself, has been
long ago lost from the face of the
earth. The few good things I
•have tried to do for others re-
main with me, as a comfortable
feeling that my stay in the
world may not have been totally
in vain.
it had on this man.
So, here at the start of the New Year, let’s make
at least one resolution. Let’s get ready for a wonder-
ful tomorrow by resolving to attend church next Sun- ।
day and all the Sundays during 1959. I
Tim returned home with Mrs.
Reddell for a visit. Mr. Cooper
will join them here Thursday
when they plan to attend the
Cotton Bowl football game in
Dallas. Mr. Cooper is a former
T.C.U. football team captain.
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VISIT IN LUBBOCK
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Ed Hamil-
ton spent Christmas in Lubbock,
the guests of their son, Bob Ed
Hamilton Jr., Mrs. Hamilton and
grandson, Scott.
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HERE FOR HOLIDAYS
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Strick-
land of Quantico, Va., are spend-
ing the Christmas holidays with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Price
Strickland, Rt. 2, McKinney.
Lt. Frank Strickland plays
football with the Quantico Ma-
rines. He is a graduate of Mc-
Kinney High School and Austin
College sat Sherman.
should have been named “No
Sir.”
merchandise and, by making a small payment, place
goods, to reduce our stock before taking annual inventory, and
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to make room for Spring merchandise.
teachers McKinney High School has' our children will
now have opportunities equal to any in the State. We
have seen many new homes go up in all parts of the ।
city, in addition to the new sections of town we now
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| ments for the year. If we should take an inventory of.
| McKinney and Collin County for 1958 we would be ■
I forced to mark it down as one of the best years of :
I our history.
We have been blessed with an average amount :
I of rainfall, and a year of good weather, which has i i
produced for us an abundant harvest of field crops^ |
3 and livestock. This year’s agriculture production for i j
| Collin County will be well over $15 million. This 2
1 muchly needed money has been used by our farmers I |
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Thompson, Wofford & Thompson, Wofford, Jr. The McKinney Examiner (McKinney, Tex.), Vol. 73, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 1, 1959, newspaper, January 1, 1959; McKinney, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1476208/m1/3/: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Collin County Genealogical Society.