The Cherokeean. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 117, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 27, 1964 Page: 2 of 14
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Monk Rites
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i LIONS MEETING
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General Lee Monk of Route 2.
Rusk pasted wny at his home
Friday morning.. He had fc**n
in ill health for .wwne time.
Saturday
Project Committee
Named; Film Shown
Photograph from 1920's
Shows Old Post Office
THE CHEROKEEAN of Ru.k, Tex.
PAGE TWO THIRSDAV. AUGUST 77. m(|
Thirty eight Lions and their
The newly fonned Rusk Eagle thZ ' "V _ w " p "ll
fPtp Squad will have a oak sale, Bü] Ma,lUt, , i4ckjL.iIu J
Fuaenü services were held at Saturday morning beftnniug a-jw w , . .
1:00 p m Sunday in the C«U\-ar> round 9:00 The sale witi be held . ~ "
Baptist Chords conducted by the somewtere arouad the square y meerng
Rev Wayne Morrow. Burial fol- President, Jan Baiterfceld imiteí a%K c u in '
lowed in the Ociar Hill Ceme- the public to attend. She says that ' / '
tery under the darection f Wal- there will be plenty oí good cake* Morns Elliott. program, chaii •
lace Funeral Home. and adds to be sure and watch maj1, introikioed Del ray 'i ork of
iheir table. Lufkin. guest speaker for the
i day. He is a special age; it for
The Rusk Post Office has
i changed considerably since the
j 1920's when the photograph ac-
companying this story tak-
Rusk is in conjunction with thi? ,.n
statewide observance of "His*- The spacious, brick building in
way Vivtk October 4 - 10 . ^ ¿¿y j,as a worfcj!1g area of
, . , 8 about 4.300 feet in which 17 peo-
of the is to be "Mobility: Your Fifth
attend-
Government sponsored WPA. the Miss Allen said, "One timd
old building was torn down. Some stepped th"ie and told then]
After the current Post Office of the old fixtures were bought had opened those boxes of
was completed in 1939 by the by the Post Office in Lovelady. millions of times."
Mr. Monk «us born in Kearns.
Texas. March 12 1900. He had Proceeds will go towsid tSe' p PnmMnv ,inH
lived in Rusk for the 21 purchase oí letters for untfenns'
years. He was a member of the states president Buiterfiefc*
Texas Freedom." and is sponsored by
j the Texas Good Roads Associ-
ation to call attention to the Tex-
as Highway system.
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Cklvary Baptist Church. Prior
to retirement four fears ago. he
was employed by the State High-
way Department. He had teen an
employee of that department for
the pas! 30 yeans.
Survivors inclade Ms son. James
R. Monk of Rusk: one 'daughter.
Mrs B C. Clark of Beaumont:
four brothers. Mork of
Chandler, Riiey Monk of LaRae:
J. B. Monk of Troup and T. O
Monk of Henderson and six grand-
children.
Pallbearerr were Crit Teer. M.
H. Norton, Frank Stewart, Cal-
vin Jenkins, Shelby Hood and J.
P. Jared.
_n
-o-
V. B. Weiss
Interred . /
Sunday
Vernon B Weiss, age 72 pass-
ed away Friday morning at Rusk
Memorial Hospital after a brief
illness. Funeral services wvre
held Sonda) at 2:05 p.m. in the
Rocky Spring Church at Dia-
lville condicted by the Rev. H. L.
Sharp. Burial followed in the french fneS' 50(1 drinks Popcorn,
Rocky Springs Cemetery under cand-v ^ P8®""15 t0 lhe at,en'
pie go about their business of
processing and delivering the mail
to the people of Rusk and also
collecting and sending out mail
to other places.
Dr Moseley was the owner of
the old building used as the Post
Office in the 1920s It was lo-
cated on the square in Rusk. The
Pest Office had a staff of five
people and one janitor, O. B. Slay-
den was the Postmaster.
Miss Beaulah Allen, who worked
as a postal clerk in the building
39 years, recalls that
August Jt. « Mrs. Coy the building was old even when
. !rÜn_W/POnSOr íür the 40 she first started workmg there as
a high school student.
Pep Squad
Is Organized
Monday, a.m.
talked briefly about the bfciory of
insurance as an industry. He
notad that as a service it has
been existence since 1600. In con-
nection with his talk, a short film
A P JÍTT, Tip... rv al orgaíU2aíiüral ™*ting for
„ Pr^deíl! ""P J«tbrt k of- ^ Rusk p,,,, ^ hrW w
floated at the luncheon meeting. Monda}, August 24
and during the business ?«rssion
appointed a committee erf three
to spearhead plans for operating
the concession stands at the rodeo
arena September 19 They
are Alton Abernathv, Marshall
Dear and Mickey Gambrell,
who will organize the project of
selling coffee, doughnuts, hot dogs.
pep squad
The young ladies eiec'ed for
their president. Jan Butterfield;
secretary. Sue Boone;. Treasurer,
Shirley Urdal; and reporter, Dix-
ie Guinn.
The class representatives are:
"We had just one old stove.
We all used to freeze in the win-
ter," she says.
Conversationalist: One who ap-
preciates the sound of his, or
Seven Couples
Get Licenses
For Marriages
age and had made Dialville his
home since that time. He was a
Seven couplt-5 have been issued retired farmer and was a mem-
marriage lice*. ,c-es since August ber of the Christian Church of
19. according to records in the Dialville. Mr. Weiss was also a
County Clerk s c:'iv*\ member of the International Or-
Those people receiving these der of Oddfellows in Jacksonville,
licetees an?: i Survivors include his foster reí-,
John Ear! Davis and Deloris Jo atives. Mrs. W H. Scott. Dialville,
Chancellor: Micha,?! David Chap- Mrs- I*"* St. Louis,
man and Anita Dar; ! Shuptrine:
Windell Wright Sear o and Melba
Faje Thiel.
Jotm Biain Black ark! Patricia1
Mae Brown; James Franklin Jen-!
mngs and Barbae Ann Wilson;)^ Oddfellow Lodge.
J. F. Ginse! and Tressie Radford; i
and James Rodney Ricfcey andj Peo^ who object to ths pnce
Era Charmel Harrell. Í o{ vegetables should try growing
-O 1 their own.
ders of the locally sponsored
horse show.
Lions also voted approval to
meet jointly with Kiwanians and
. , Rotarians Tuesdav, October 6th
came to this country' at 15 years of w w Potter, En-
the direction of Wallace Funeral
Home.
Mr. Weiss was born January
IS. 1892 in Berlin, Germany. He
Senior. Karen Perkins 'and Cal- her, voice.
b> Watson; Junior. Joy Jones: The difficulty with most laws.
Sophomore, Holly Liudsey; and hunuui and divine, is in the inter-
Freshman. Joyce Sword. pretation.
AN OLD PHOTOGRAPH taken February 1, 1921,
brought back many memories to Miss Beaulah
Allen, who worked in the old Rusk Post Office
for over 39 years. Miss Allen recalled that hack
then none of the streets in Rusk were paved and
that dirt was a big problem. The staff was oonj
posed of these people, from left to right, H, 11
Maness. Guy (Boots) Black, J. L. Beall, Uv|
unidentified men, and Miss Allen.
gineer with the Texas Highway
Department will be die guest
speaker. His appearance in
Sale to Be
Fri. and Sat. ¡
Omicron Gamma Chapter of
John B. Scott of Corpus Christi. Sigma Phi will sponsor a
and Mr. and Mrs. dairies King1 rummage sale to be held in the
of St. Louis; one sister, Margaret Copeland Building next to
Weiss of West Berlin. Norton Furniture Compam Sale
Pallbearers were members of time is ^ {or Fnda-V and SaUlr"
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Value
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$39.95
Tremendous
Special Purchase of
Rich, Colonial Maple
FRAMED
MIRROR
$14.95
day from 9:00 to 4:30-
"Hie sorority extends a special
invitation to the public to come
in and braze around. They added
that there are bargains for every-
¡ one.
Join the smart car
v buyers who made
^ the number one *
* seller the number
one buy!!!
/
'Chevrolet has always been a favorite car. No#)?
it's more in favor than ever! J ust drop by your
Chevrolet dealer's to see why. Look at his wide
assortment of brand-new Chevrolet^, Chevelles,
Chevy ITs and Corvairs, Pick the one you want-
then join all those smart buyers who got a
cumber one deal an the number one seller. But
don't wait too long; there are a lot of other smart
buyers around!
Chevrolet Impata Sport Coupe
ChtvtOt Ualdrn Sport Coup
Chevy n Novo Sport Coup0
NICHT STANDI
$19.95
OPEN STOCK
genuine
$39.95
AND SILECTED HARDWOOD
Colonial MATCHED
BEDROOM Furniture
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Whitehead, E. H. The Cherokeean. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 117, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 27, 1964, newspaper, August 27, 1964; Rusk, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth150563/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Singletary Memorial Library.