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THE CANTON HERALD
THURSDAY, DEC. 10, 1942
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CLASSIFIED ADS
On Every Front
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LIFE INSURANCE
WANTED
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
On* Tear
81.60 Six Months
11.00 Three Months
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OLD BETHEL
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Mrs. Cecil Townsend and baby
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Mr. and Mrs. Egbert Foster of
Mr. and Mrs. Arvil Duncan and
Stout and wife.
ernoon with Mr and Mrs. Frank
LOST AND FOUND
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Tab Wilson and family of Rock > Williamson.
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FOR RENT
with relatives here.
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Far from the usual power
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Wills Point.
12-8- Ip
FOR SALE
BEN WHEELER CLUB
NO. 4830
MET NOVEMBER 23
wife
returned
home after a 12-day furlough with
WALTON
and
Uncle Reese Mewbourn, who has
children
HAT.
OPA Enforcement Grows
FOR SALE: Fertilizer, Field Seeds,
Corn, Oats and all feeds.—K. K
1-29-tf.
Norton, Wills Point
family
I control rationing violations
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
who ane ill a speedy recovery.
' lips land in the boundary between
et home.
of the Americar Forest Products
DR. ERVIN ADDY
iting her parents, Mr and
Mrs.
the S bdry of said Phillips tract;
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At Nolen Tros. Drug Store
. Mr. and Mr s. Charlie Baskin.
Wills Point Saturday
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Will Walsh Tuesday afternoon.
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TAILORING
and Keller Castleberry of Dumus;
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BONDS-INSURANCE
Rev. Turner, Fort Worth, filled
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night and Sunday with the Har- , dren have moved here while her
grove girls of Old Bethel.
■ husband is away working in Lub-
ALLYE SMITH
Marshall Gunder of Kansas City, ' bock.
INSURA
ANCE - BONDS
IG AND NOTARY
R«. Ph. 228
Of. Ph. 154
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Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Hudson.
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Compliments are like perfume—
। to be inhaled but not swallowed. • this week.
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TEXAS POWER & LIGHT COMPANY
haver
the
store.—Lock head
Grocery, Terrell.
Mr. and Mrs. Rueben Shinn and
family and Mrs. Sallie Shinn of
The Ben Wheeler 4-H club met |
in the heading room at 2:30 No-1
vember 23.
week-end visitors with home folks.
Clinton Baskin of Washington.
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and
Round Top.
Pfc. Doyle Beall and
Hattisburg, Miss., have
. . . General Electric equipment is fighting with America’s land
army. From the rolling kitchen to the front line, electricity
works for victory.
visiting guests from Moore, Little !
Hope, Ben Wheeler, Martins Mill, '
Canton, Dallas and Athens.
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acres of land.
Second tract: Beginning in the
S. E. line of the above tract and
J. R. Wallace.
Douglas Baskin of Washington,
further increases in the rate of
new wood growth.
MARTINS MILL
By Mrs. Angus Sims
HOLLY SPRINGS
By MRS. E. W. SIDES
CRFAM LEVEL
LAURA NELL FAGLIE
LOST: Pair gold-rimmed spectacles
in blue case.—F. W. Whitaker.
12-7-1p
for
was
ex-
pay
JEWELHR AND OPTOMETRIST
Eyes Examined — Glasses Fitted
At Bruce & Human Drug Co.
WILLS POINT, , TEXAS
Member Chamber of 'Commerce
LONE STAR CLUB
MET THURSDAY
, have moved to west Texas Mr. ployed in Athens, spent last Wed- ing the W cor of the J. W. Phil-
has a).. '
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OLD BETHEL CLUB
PLANS XMAS MEET
cf ' needey
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Gloria Orr and Oneta Hamby
spent Sunday with Vivian Chaney .
of China Grove.
back, in field and sky, radio
co-ordinates the striking force
of American army planes, guns,
and tanks.
WANTED: White or Negro lady
to keep children at my home six
days a week.—E.B. Sewell, Wills
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■bar of Chamber of Commerce
^‘’^111* Point, Texas
M. F. MAYFIELD
INSURANCE
OF ALL ‘KINDS
Office Ph. 18 - Ree. Ph. 109
Member of Chamber of Commerce
Willa Point, Texas
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A. B. DAWSON
Dry Cleaning and Tailoring
I Appreciate Your Business
Wills Point Texas
Member of Chamuer of Com me roe
With the announcement that 21
complaints alleging price and rent
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Mrs. Florence Bai tlett visited । D. C., and Stanley Baskin of New
Lt; sughim, Mr. v. E. Co6k, of Jersey are visiting their parents,
WEST & STANFORD
ATTORNEYS
first Natkma Bank Ruildmg
CANTON, TEXAS
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232 ft N 44 E from the S cor of
were same; Thence S 45 E 540 ft to
ROCK HILL
By MRS. A. F. TURNER
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DENTIST
X-Raz Dlagnosis
Bouts: 8 to 12 a. da.; 1 to 5 p. m.
CANTON, TEXAS.
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OATS, FEED, ETC.
WANTED to buy: Cottonseed, oats,
bones, scrap iron, metals, etc.-
K. K. Norton, Wills Point. 2-13-tt.
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Garrison of Beaumont last week. j with said dividing line 1967 ft to
Mrs. H. C Thompson and daugh-the W cor of said Scates est;
ter of Port Neches have been vis- Thence S 46 E 1802 ft to cor;
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Telephones
Office 16
sources,*- mobile power plants
supply electricity for 800,000,000
candlepower searchlights by
which a newspaper can be read
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ABSTRACTS
Land and Title Matters
Elliott & Waldron Abst. Co.
Troy Ledbetter, Mgr.
Bank Bldg., Pho. 98, Canton
CIFANINC:
and PRESSING with call for am
delivery service.
ALBERT HARGROVE
Phone No. 10
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। iting Mr and Mrs. Howell Lancas-
ter.
WANTED—Draft exempt man or
RUTH M. JARVIS
INSURANCE
Fhiomen: Office, 57; Rm.. 14Tw
Member of Chamber of Commarco
Wils Point, Texas
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After that the meeting was ad-
journed.
Thence N 46 with same 1802 ft to Res. 121
the beginning, containing 81.3 * . hi
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Owned bp Kills Campbell and published weekly by Chronicle Publishing
Co., and entered in the postoffice at Willa Point, Texas aa second-class mail
matter, under the Act of March 8, 1878.
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of Mrs. Jim Flatt Tuesday
sewed on Red Cross work,
will turn in several garment
day.
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Our church was filled to its
capacity last Sunday night for our
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federal district c. " *-- south- j
1. In the factory electricity
stitches the seams of tank
armor, and on the battlefield it
controls the operation of these
spearheads of modern combat.
munity enjoyed a theatre party his regular appointment here Sun-
Miss Alice Cox left Tuesday for
Lubbock.
Willard Sides and K. E. Pen-
nington made a business trip to
Dallas Saturday.
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Travis Adams and family of
Eldorado, Okla., spent part of left Saturday to join Pvt. Cecil
last week with Mr. and Mrs. Town in Fort Bliss, El Paso.
Boles. | Mrs. Albert Sneed left Friday to
Daye Risner and family have join her husband who is in service
moved to Whitton community.. ; in Lincoln, Nebraska.
and direct, of all the interest of
said ward in and to the f oilow-
ing described real estate situated
। in Van Zandt County, Texas, to-
hede.
Mr. and Mrs. Francis Wijson
Mr. and (Mrs. D. A. Grote
i Dallas spent the week-end
We are now buying automobile
fenders, bodies, running boards,
etc. See us for prices on any junk
you have.—K. K. Norton. Wills
Point. 12-16-tf.
Hill spent Sunday with Albert
Akins and family.
the south
Miss Mary Ann Grgory of Ben
Wheeler; Mrs. Pluma Johnson and |
In re; Guardianship of estate of
Jerry Scates, a N. C. M. (Lamar
Sides, Guardian.) Dec. 2, 1942.
In County Court of Van Zandt
County, Texas.
of said ward to make, execute
been filed by OPA within
our Christmas meeting. It
voted to have our tree and
change as usual but not to
Most married men think they
would have been rich if they had
remained single,
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house in the city of Canton, Van
Those spending the week-end in Zandt County, Texas, on the 21st
our community were Ernest Carey day of December 1942.
and Keller Castleberry of Dumus; ' LAMAR SIDES,
Miss Katie Philen of Commerce; Guardian of estate of Jerry Scates,
a non-compos-mentis.
Dan Davis, who is stationed in wit:
the army in California, has been I A part of the Q. C. Nugent Sur-
tract; Thence S 44 W 215 ft to
the beginning containing 2.6 acres
of land.
Third tract: Beginning at the
N cor of the above 2.6 acre tract;
Thpence N 44 E with S. E. line of
above described 81.3 acres; Thence
S 45 E with said Phillips line 1728
ft. to cor in center of old aban-
doned road; Thence S 45 W with
said old road 1250 ft. to corner;
The men of this community | Dallas spent part of last week
Mrs. Mary Grant and Dan Davis the Q .C. Nugent and William
visited with Mr. and Mrs. James Sherman survey; Thence S 44 W
ing violation of maximum rent
regulations.
POSTED: No hunting allowed on
any of our farms, individual,
partnership or under our manage-
ment.—High & West. 12-7-2
Miss Sylvia Jackson visited Mrs. 1 neth Lancaster of Dallas
4. Blitz war requires swift
communications! On the soldier’s
has been visiting relatives S line of the above described
Carl Smith of Tyler spent the i Kenneth Lancaster, who is sta-
week-end with his family. I Honed at Waco, and Mrs. Ken-
"ead
On Nov. 18 Old Bethel club met
in the home of Mrs. Roy Wil-
bourn whose home was decorated
with beautiful fall flowers.
Eight memebrs were present.
Each answered roll call by giving
the name of her favorite flower.
Song, “Sweet Hour of Prayer,"
followed by prayer led by Mrs. C.
L. Stout.
Reading of minutes and report
Hegari, Sudan,
Mrs. Willie Ray of Wichita Falls
Falls and Mr. and Mrs. A. C.
Crabtree of Jackson spent Thurs-
day with Mr. and Mrs. Frank
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Lamar Sides, guardian of the es-
tate of Jerry Scates, a non-com-
pos-mentis, have this day filed my
application in the above number-
ed and entitled cause for an or-
. ... . . der of the County Judge of Van
been ill the past few weeks, re- Zandt County, Texas, authorizing
mains in a serious condition. Sam me as the guardian of the estate
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Mo., spent from Tuesday until
Saturday with his wife and other
relatives.
Junior Dedmon, who is in
training in California, visited his
parents, iMr. and Mrs. Marvin
Dedmon, recently.
visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. vey, and described in three tracts;
Love Davis. j First tract; Beginning at the N
Mrs. Lewis Wright, who is em- cor of said Scates land, same be- 1
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and deliver an oil, gas and min- Red Top Cane,
eral lease upon such terms and
Nettie Caddell, who have recently conditions as the court may order
with Mr. Johnson.
. Mrs. Opal Bates is working in
Grand Saline.
Frenchie Stegall and
Mrs. Roy Norrell of Dallas and
Blackie Ayers and family of Dal-
las.
Keeble Meredith and wife of
Dallas spent Sunday night and
Monday with relatives here.
Oneta Hamby spent Saturday .
WANTED: Clean burlav sacks.—-
Wingo Oil Mill, Wills Point 5-6-tf.
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Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Lewis and
; baby, Linda Lee, of California
spent Saturday night and Sunday ! 1
with Mrs. Lewis’ mother, Mrs. B. ■ I
S. Ford, and family. ' *
Connie Hargrove of Old Bethel 1 -
of Athepa viaitnd in thio oommun-
ity last week.
Reagan Walsh and Truman
Whitehead of Orange spent the
week-end at their homes here.
Mrs. Gandy and Mrs. Fitzger-
ald made a business trip to Tyler ,
Saturday.
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Thursday night.
Luther Anderson and Tullie Pen-
nington visited here Thursday
night.
Mrs. W. W. Hudson has been ill
the past week.
Mrs. Senora Douthit and chil-
New wood g-owr annually in
have moved to Jackson.
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Engledow
and children of China Grove vis-
ited P. C. Hendley and wife Fri-
day
j Our school is 100 per cent in
Junior Red Cross roll call mem-
bership.
Sam McWilliams and family
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over twenty cents for our gifts.
A report of Red Cross work was
given. We have been meeting
once a week in the homes and
sewing. Quite a number of lap
spreads and cushions have been
finished. Also some hospital gar-
ments. There are several more to
make and we would appreciate1
more help in this work.
Our next regular meeting will
be on December 16 in the home
of Mrs. Floyd Stout. This will be
our Christmas meeting. You are
invited to come meet with us.
The meeting was called to or-
der by the president which open- j Floyd Stout and family.
ed it with the song, "Praise The. “ ....
Lord and Pass the Ammunition,"
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Wilburn : are sorry to lose these people,
spent Sunday with Mrs. Corley of from our community.
' Melrose Chitty of Canton spent
o ' one night last week with Gene 1
! Wilburn and family. j
Mrs. Era Currey visited her
daughter, Mrs. Roy Heard, and
family one day last week in Ben
Wheeler.
Bill Lee visited his parents here
' A news report says that stu-
dents of music never commit sui-
cide- but some of their neighbors
do.
Rev. Frank Johnson of Tyler
filled his regular appointment at
Little Hope Sunday.
There will be singing at Rast
Sunday night.
Norman Dell Seale of Dallas vis-
ited her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Charlie Scale during the week-
i end.
spent Friday night with Gloria
Orr.
Mrs. Martha Clardy spent one
day last week with her son, Gor-
don, and family of China Grove.
Mr. an4 Mrs. Fletcher Turner
are the proud parents of a baby
boy born Nov. 26. They named
the little man, 'Maxie Irvin.
H. E. Thormahlen of Old Bethel
visited A. F. Turner one day last
week.
Those visiting in the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher Turner
last week were Ferridy Turner
and family, and Truman Carey
and family of Old Bethel; Mrs.
Joe Kirkland and baby, Don, Mrs.
Julia Stephen and daughter, Ava
Nell, and Georgia Fay, of China
FOR SALE: Head and threshed
maize. Our prices right, whole-
sale and retail- See us before
buying,—Bolt Bros. at Robert’a
Service Station, Wills Point, 9-15-tf
of treasurer were
which plans were
Erby Wilson and family of t Wilburn and family. upuwat,
। Phalba spent Saturday with Henry I Mr. and Mrs. Homer Bates and ।
Brunson and family. i family have moved to Dallas. We 20
The Lone Star 4-H c‘uh met
December 3. We elected -he fol-
lowing officers: President, Joe
Charles Ashley; secretary, Berl
Ward; reporter, Billie John Burns.
We discussed hogs and plan to
have a large crop the following
year.
i cor; Thence N 44 E 215 ft to cor;
' Thence N 45 W 540 ft to cor in the
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Several ladies met in the home' tives , -------- 1 ,
Mr. and Mrs. Jerome FlowM, , I MRS. FLORENCE BARTLETT I |
We j visited Will Towns last Thursday i —---------------------
to- : night. j Mrs. Carl Smith and
Mrs. John Windham and daugh- spent last week at Brownsboro,
ter of Canton spent Thursday j Mr. and Mrs. Jordon of Jack-
! night with Mrs. Haden B. Wil- son and Mrs. Annie Belle Gunder i Mewhourn has also been on the
! burn. ' of Kansas City, Mo., visited Mrs. I sick list.
Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Sides and Bartlett Tuesday. Mrs. Jodie Strickland and Mrs.
Mrs. Denson visited Mr. and Mrs. ‘ - -
Austin Evans Wednesday night.
Hardy Williams spent last Sun-
FOR SALE: Daybed and girls bi-
cycle.—Mrs. W. H. Wingo, Jr,
Wills Point. 12-7-lp
LOST: Mattress off truck Tues-
day between Wills Point and
Canton Finders notify Chronicle,
ern district of Louisiana against : value oi appruxmucery #0,00,- ‛
five leading New Orleaz. hctr’e Me „ wonp no-di-- -—_t
BAPTIST LIFE Insurance Co.
offers protection for the entire
family. Mortuary Reserve over
$81,000. Policies not graduated on
any age. See J. T. Childs, agent
9-10-tf
undergone operations, have re-
turnd to their homes from the
hospital. We wish for all those
past two weeks. OPA Regional 1 day with Mr. and Mrs. D. L.
Administrator Max McCullough I Carter of Terrell.
stated that enforcement now is J Mr. and Mrs. Quinlond Hunter
getting into full swing through- ■ and son of Dallas spent part of
out the southwest region, includ- last week with Mr. and Mrs.
ing Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, । Herbert Simmons.
Arkansas, Missouri and Kansas. 1---
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Thence N 86 W with said road
405 ft to cor; Thence N 45 W
program honoring the boys in the 1445 ft to the beginning, contain-
service. We appreciate very much , ing 59.2 acres of land.
Said application will be heard
by the County Judge at the Court-
Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Foster and ! —
family of Rock Hill spent the j”
week-end with friends and rela- I
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LOST: One white lemon spotted
dog, collar inscription, Loyd
Gynes, Mesquite, Texas. Finder
notify A. D. Hughes, Forney,
Texas. 12-8-lp.
Charles. DeSoto and Jung, alleg- Industries which is encouraging
CASH RENT: Near Canton, 50
acres, good 4-room house, barn,
poultry house and garage, fine
water—very reasonable.—High &
West, Canton. 12-1-2
2. In induction center and
field hospital, the X ray helps
safeguard the health of our
fighting men, aiding in the diag-
nosis and treatment of disease.
We then drew names for
Christmas and are required to
make the gifts by some of the
patterns and ideas that the club
learned.
Grove; Mrs. Minnie Pollard and
Mrs. Odie Blackwell of Mabank; given by Mrs. Willard Sides last
General Electric believes that its first duty as a
4 good citizen is to be a good soldier.
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led by the song leader.
The meeting was then turned
over to Mrs. Wattner who dis-
cussed the importance of home !
made Christmas gifts.
the New Orleans, Roosevel, Ct
WILL buy furs back of Cooley’s
grocery store in Wills Point every
Saturday.—R. F. Hines, Wills
Point. 12-9-tf
Central Electric Company, Schenectady, N. Y. ' 969-21.21
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Mr. and Mrs. Leach have moved Wayne Vick of Dallas spent the
to the Ben Wheeler community. | week-end with his mother, Mrs.
The hot lunch room is well un- Kate Vick. *
der way at the school with Mrs. j Margaret Helen Everett of Dal-
Velma Crabtree, cook. The chil- las spent the week-end with her
dren enjoy the hot lurches and parents, Mr. and Mrs. Odis Ever- l
say they have a fine cook. , ett.
Dallas spent Friday with L. A. family of Moore spent Sunday aft-
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Wanda and Billie of Canton; Mr. |
and Mrs. Garland Norman of Ty-
ler. Mrs. Ethie Williams and fam-
ily of Athens; Charles and Johnny
Harris of Dallas; Miss Mary Alice
Caperton of Dallas.
The young people of this com-
OAKLAND
MRS. O. D. KENNEDY. |
gave L. A. Stout a working Fri-
day. He is remodeling his house.
I R. F Chamblee, wife and chil-
' dren, Bobby, Katy and Peggy,
I spent Friday night with Mr and
Mrs. Haskell Tutle of Dallas,
also visited Roland Saturday, who
is in a hospital recovering from
an operation. We wish him a
- speedy recovery.
FOR SALE: Good Rowden cotton
seed, also oats.—J. B. Robert;,
route 1, Wills Point. ' 10-13-tf
"I’m from Texas!”
"In the air, on the sea
and on the land... 'I’m
from Texas’ is the boast
of thousands upon thou-
sands of boys now in the
\ Armed Forces.
9 “Yes, sir! Texas boys
EN are flyin’, sailin’, rollin’
P on to Tokio and Berlin
a ...dishin’ it out in a great
I big Texas way as they go
along.
“Here in Texas, we are all doin’ our
best to keep ’em flyin’, sailin’, rollin’!
We, of T. P. & L., are pourin’ the
power to jobs other Texans are doin’
...war production jobs...military
jobs... jobs that make it possible to
’pass the ammunition’ to the boys on
the firin’ line.
"We work at our particular job
keepin’ electric power at work... 24
hours a day, 7 days a week (just like
our Texas boys are fightin’!)."
TOP PRICES paid for chickens.
See us.- Ballenger Service Sta-1
tion, Wills Point. 12-8-6p
FOR SALE: Four good saddle
horses.—Gib Miracle, Wills Point.
11-17-4p
day. Also Rev. Tatum, Canton,
preached in the afternoon.
S. E. Skinner is still on the
sick list
IMr. and Mrs. Jim Currey and
Jesse Currey of Dallas visited
their mother. Mrs. Mamie Currey,
here recently.
Mr. and Mrs. Davis Stephens
visited in Dallas last week
Mrs. Bill Stanley and two chil-
l dren, Altus and Betty Jean, visit-
ed several days in Dallas.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Johnson
moved to the Walker farm at
East Center last week, Jess Mar-
tin moved to the farm vacated by
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