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THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1949
THE CANTON HERALD
PAGE SIX
To Study U. S. Farm Methods
nooucnon ND MAMTMO ADMesTMATON
God bless everyone of you is our
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Statistics reports to the Univer-
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ASSETS
$
$ 413,877.71
Mrs. Maurine Shoprio, and Miss
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3,000.00
$10 a
471,219.90
overdrafts)
$1,601,482.02
$1,047,036.03
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Rock Hill
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3,989.39
$1,446,603.21
23.68
$1,446,626.89
$ 154,855.13
TOTAL Capital Accounts
TOTAL Liabilities and Capital Accounts . .$1,601,482.02
Sworn to and subscribed
Fifty-three Texas cooperatives
before me this 14th day of
W. A. BLANKINSHIP,
last year. Many others made good
Notary Public
SEAL:
Mr. and
Mrs. Brown made a business trip
Oranges, which in March fell
Mr. and Mrs. Peace Callahan
north
the latter’s
mother, Mrs. Ben Skinner, and
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DRESS PANTS
$5.95
Materiel extra if needed
STETSON HATS Now in Stock
WE KNOW
FORDS BEST
J. T. CHILDS
CANTON MOTORS
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Wills Point, Texas
Canton, Texas
Phone 160
win* Point, Texas
Phone 98
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NUINE
Nine Club Boys Selected To Receive
Sears-Roebuck Foundation Pigs
Amazing Benefits
offered only by MUTUAL 01* OMAHA
The Largest Health And Accident Company In The World
We can fit the pocketbook, and foot in footwear, for the
entire family.
TOR
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THIS SPECIAL OFFER GOOD
THROUGH APRIL 30 ONLY
Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Pittman
and children of Abilene are vis-
to Mabank Saturday afternoon.
Little Dale Walker spent last
385,400.00
319,331.97
visited
Mrs.
Turner and family.
Carl Mewbourn and
warm water over the neck of the
bottle.
To insure good stands of pea-
nuts, 25 to 35 pounds of chemi-
cally treated shelled seed or 45
to 60 pounds of chemically treat-
ed unshelled seed per acre should
be planted.
1,022.33
389,555.46
5,000.00
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checks, etc.) ......
TOTAL DEPOSITS
Friday night.
Mrs. Eva Teel and Mrs. W. R.
Penwell and sons of Grand Prairie
and Mrs. Ben Skinner and sons
visited Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Bal-
low and family and Mr. and Mrs.
Dolph Conner and family of Elm
Grove Sunday afternoon.
Edd Teet visited Mr. and Mrs.
Daly Conner of Elm Grove Sun-
day.
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7,654.00
1.00
997.44
By HAGGAR .. • Rayons, Part Wool or Wool
.... Priced from
$3.98 to $13.50
TOTAL LIABILITIES ............
CAPITAL ACCOUNTS
P. O. Box 1
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GetOurSpesia
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Doctor’s (.arc or Surgeon’s Fee and Hospitalization
ROOM AND BOARD—$7.00 per Day (For 90 Days on Any One Disability)
if NO LIMIT — Operating Room
if NO LIMIT — Hypodermics
if NO LIMIT — Surgical Dressings and Supplies
* NO LIMIT — Ambulance
if PLUS — Penicillin— Blood Transfusions—X-Ray—Anesthetic—Routine Medicines
—Laboratory—Oxygen—Nurses’ Fees
if $1000.00 ACCIDENTAL DEATH—Age Limits—3 mos. to any age
Good In Any Hospital In The World
WRITE or CALL your local agent TODAY for Information about our New Hospital
Policies ... DO IT TODAY.
It Is Too Late To Buy When You Get Sick or Hurt.
per cent; and prices of house-fur-
nishings dipped fractionally. Dur-
closed Monflay at 32.75 cents a
pound at Houston, 32.80 at Dal-
las, and 32.95 at New Orleans.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. White and
of Wills Point, Leroy Chambers
and Ronald McKay of Ben Wheel-
er; Billy Wayne Nixon of Mar-
tins Mill; Don Wheeler .Bedford
Cash, balances with other banks, including
reserve balance, and cash items in
process of collection ...............
United States Government obligations,
change, as rains delayed planting.
Egg and poultry prices held
about steady for the Easter sea-
son. Current egg receipts brought
mostly 40 to 41 cents a dozen at
Dallas and Fort Worth, 39 cents
MEMORANDUM
Assets pledged or assigned to secure
liabilities and for other purposes.........$ 316,800.00
STATE OF TEXAS, COUNTY OF VAN ZANDT, ss:
Deposits of banks ............. • • •
Other deposits (certified and cashier’s
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HERE’S WHAT WE DO:
• Check engine compression.
• Clean, test, and adjust spark plugs.
• Check battery and clean battery
terminals.
• Check voltage regulator and gener-
ator output.
• Tighten all ignition and electrical
wiring.
• Inspect distributor points, breaker
plate and adjust.
• Adjust carburetor, test fuel pump
and clean oil bath air cleaner.
• Tighten cylinder head studs.
• Inspect radiator, tighten radiator
hose and adjust fan belts.
• Road test car.
and corporations ......................
Deposits of United States Government
(including postal savings) ..............
Deposits of States and political subdivisions. ..
MANY STYLES, COLORS, and PRICES IN
FOOTWEAR
WE HAVE THE MOST COMPLETE STOCK OF
PIECE GOODS
50*
Mayfield Dry Goods Co.
•‘The Bett Place To Trade After All"
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GOOD SELECTION
UPHOLSTERING and
DRAPERIES
We can save you some money and also let you see
what the whole pattern is if interested in the above.
Be sure and let us show you what we have in stock.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
of Canton in the state of Texas, at the close of business en
April 11, 1949, published in response to call mad
Comptroller of the Currency, under section 5211, U. - •
vised Statutes.
I Thursday till Sunday with Mr.
and Mrs. Jack Hemby.
ing the period between Novem-
ber 15, 1948 and February 15,
1949, rents in Houston rose 1 per
cent.
In comparison with February
1948, food prices dropped 5 per
cent, while prices of other items
rose from 1 per cent in clothing
to 5 per cent in fuel, electricity,
and ice.
tionally below the prices in Feb-
ruary 1948, and 69 per cent high-
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lier, headed the list -
declines of rail shipments, with ---------- ,
grapefruit, down 98 per cent, and Bell Crysler spent Sunday Viit
cabbage, behind 92 per cent, fol- ing relatives in Mabank.
lowing close suit. The school children ?n]*>}*. <m
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steady, veal $1 to $4 lower, and
pork $1 lower to $1 higher. Sheep
numbers rose sharply at all mar-
kets last week but failed to equal
a year ago. Monday this week
found sheep receipts down to
about half those of a week earlier.
sized payments to reduce their
debts.
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RorTEQ0P
Sue Buffard of Dallas
The singing was a success Sat-
urday night. Everyone is invited
to attend the next singing which
will be held the next third Satur-
day night.
W. T. McLemore and children
of Athens and Mrs. Dalton Por-
ter of Elm Grove spent Thurs-
day with Mr. and Mrs. Will Whit-
ton.
Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Whitton of
Phalba and L. R. Whitton and
Lloyd of Mabank visited Mr. and
Mrs. Eli Whitton Wednesday.
Ernest Emerson, who has been
working in Dallas, has returned
home.
Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Tankers-
ley and children of Dallas and
Iva Nell and Lily Bell Ballow
of Elm Grove spent the week-end
with Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Tankers-
ley.
Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey Simmons
iting in the home of the latter’s Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Greathouse
parents, Mr. and Mrs. John L. of Dallas visited in the home of
Driver. Mr. and Mrs. B. B. White Sunday.
spring lambs; ranged from $26 Willie Joe Williams of Dallas
to $28 Monday this week. Ewes attended church here Sunday,
lost 50 cents. Goats changed a
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank our friends
for every kind deed, act and
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a pound in
Nine 4-H Club boys were se-
lected April 16 to receive the
purebred pigs to be distributed
by the Sears- Roebuck Founda-
tion for 1949. The nine boys were
selected by a committee of adult
4-H Club leaders who met in the
Wooley of Waco attended church
at Myrtle Springs Thursday night.
Mr. and Mrs. K. C. Meredith
and baby and Mr. and Mrs. Jack
Daniel of Dallas spent Saturday
night with Mr. and Mrs. A. F.
Turner.
Mr. and Mrs. Clifton Partin and
children of Walton spent Sunday
RAIL SHIPMENTS OF FRUITS
AND VEGETABLES FALL
Austin Despite substantial in-
creases in parsley, spinach, and
jegk ___“bs2
M&2MMn-maMh-fA
These four young Dutch farmers, arriving in the U. S. for a.six-
month study of American agricultural techniques, are bound for
Pennsylvania. They are among 32 of a group brought from I he
Netherlands to the U. S. under the ECA‘echnical assis ante pro-
gram. Standing, left, is Folkert Anema; Jacob Koekoek is atright
Framed in the life preserver are Willem Plaisier, left, and Kornel s
Buzeman, right.
we have had in many years. Our prices will bear com-
and son of Arcadia spent from
Easter egg hunt
Miss Margaret Nixon visited their
parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Demand deposits of individuals, partnerships,
Nixon Saturday night and Sun-
day.
Douglas Reynolds and family
of Athens and Mrs. Mary Nell
Keel and daughter of Ballenger
visited Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Bas-
kin during the week-end.
Mr. and Mrs. Beryl Martin of.
Tyler visited C. D. Baskin last,
at Denver, and 40 to 44 at New
If two stacked glasses become Orleans. Heavy hens sold from 32
TOTAL ASSETS .............
LIABILITIES
will keep accurate records on
their swine demonstrations, and
make all necessary reports. The
boys agreed to exhibit their gilts
at the county show and if eligible
at the Store Area Show.
In 1950, they will feed out and
exhibit a pen of 3 market hogs
from the first litter. Derrell
Baker, who will receive the boar,
agreed to furnish free service to
the 8 Sears-Roebuck Foundation
gilts for the first litter and agreed
to keep accurate books of breed-
ing records. Derrell will also
show his boar at the county and
Store Area Shows.
These pigs will be distributed
around the middle of May.
Mrs. Fletcher
James Lewis Black and Gene
McCormick of Athens visited the
former's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Floyd Black, Sunday.
The Douglas children enjoyed
an Easter Egg hunt at the old
home place Sunday. Three tables
were spread with food and cof-
fee.
went to market last week, with
short grains bringing slightly
higher prices. Wheat mill feed
prices continued to rise, although
most other feeds sold unchanged
10 to lower. Limited offerings of ..
iD hay sold about steady under slow _
demand. Peanuts showed little
I, Lamar Sides, cashier of the above-named bank, do
solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best
of my knowledge and belief.
Bank premises owned $4,000.00, furniture
Kelly Grant and family of, and fixtures $3,654.00..... •............
Stamford visited his mother and Real estate owned other than bank premises...
sisters last week-end. Other Assets..............................
with Mr. and
Parsley and spinach, rising 12 end.
and 6 per cent, respectively, were Mr. and Mrs. Hershel Crysler
the only items to show an in- of Dallas spent the week-end with
crease in rail shipments from Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Teel.
March 1948. Mr. and Mrs. Virbil Bartiett
Oranges, which in March fell and daughter of New Mexico
99 per cent behind a year ear- spent the last two Weks Wl 1
of greatest Mr. and Mrs. Jess Bartiett. . .
Mrs. Lota Teel and Mrs. Ida of Wallace visited
paid back their loans to the Hous- April 1949.
ton Bank for Cooperatives in full ’
It costs something to reach for
the check and pay it, but it gets
you home at a reasonable hour.
Charter No. 8891 Reserve District No. 1'
REPORT OF CONDITION OF THE
prayer that was offered during
Bryant our recent loss in th*' storm. May
$ 40,000.00
60.000.00
54,855.13
The over-all price index for
Houston slipped 1 per cent to a
level of 170 (1935-39 100), frac-
There was little or no trading their parents, Mr. and
in wool and mohair last week. Aubrey Buffard, Sunday.
Dressed lamb prices fell $8 to Mr. and Mrs. Anderson
$10 a hundred for the week at caster visited their son, Cranford,! of Federal Reserve bank).......
New York. Beef and mutton sold in Gladewater Sunday. 1 Loans and discounts (including $88.43
Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Bateman
of Kaufman visited Mrs. Ala-
bama Stone Sunday.
struck, there's a way to get them to 34 cents
loose without breaking them. Texas, 39 to 41 at New Orleans,
assembly room of the court house sity of Texas Bureau of Business
Billy Duncan and Leon Yoes Research.
brothers. Ben, Kenneth and Jerry, Pour cold water in the top glass and 35 to 36 for heavy types at
while the lower one stands in Denver.
warm water. And if a stopper Cotton advanced 25 cents to 81
sticks in a bottle, try running
at the sell* 0)
a bale. Spot middling 15 16 inch
Mrs. Barney Hiten of Pleasant
Glade, Mr. and Mrs. Billy West-
moreland and baby and K. C.
Meredith and baby of Dallas.
Mrs. Jim Bond spent from Sat-
urday until Monday with her
children in Grand Prairie.
Several from here attended
church at Big Rock Saturday
night and Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Snider are
visiting here this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Wooley
and Mrs. Emma Corley of Waco
spent the week-end with Fletcher
Turner and family and Cozell
Corley and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Lancas-
ter and daughters of Dallas spent
Easter with Mr. and Mrs. E. G.
Thompson.
Rev. S. G. Owen and mother of
Jacksonville spent Saturday night
with Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Dedmon.
Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher Turner,
Mrs. Maxine Ayers and Mrs.
club boy next spring the choicest
gilt, with certificate of registra-
tion, from the first litter, on orWH*#An
after the age of ten weeks, or nlllllUII
$15 in lieu of a sow pig. The boys
WasddrSvmgd Mart ™ M — -
“*** Mr. and Mrs. Willie
nates were selected: Stanley
Sprague, Hughie Horton and Roy
MeSpadden of Wills Point and
Kenneth Rowan of Ben Wheeler.
These boys signed an agree-
ment in which they agreed to
feed, care for, and breed their
pig under the direction of the as-
sistant county agricultural agent.
In this agreement, they also
agreed to return to some other
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Mr. and Mrs. Johh Terry of
Aledo, Mrs. Janie Archibald of
Deport, Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Rodg-
ers and baby, Mr. and Mrs. Wal-
ter Shindall and Curtis Doty of
Dallas, and Mrs. D. O. Clowers
of California visited in the home
of Mr. and Mrs. B. S. Ford and
Eva Jean Sunday.
Mrs. Florence Walker visited
her children in Dallas part of
last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Smith, Mr.
and Mrs. Jim Hamby and Mr.
and Mrs. Alford Hamby and chil-
dren of Dallas visited during the
Easter holidays with Mr. and Mrs.
Oliver Hamby and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Gartman
and children of Dallas spent Sun-
day night and Monday in the
home of Mr. and Mrs. J. W.
Walker and family.
Miss May Tucker has returned
to her home after spending the
winter with her sister, Mrs. Irene
Tucker, of Terrell.
Mr. anil Mrs. Merrell Meredith
and baby of Dallas visited Mr.
and Mrs. B. S. Ford and Eva Jean
Sunday evening.
'Those visiting in the home of
Dave Meredith Sunday were Mrs.
Dewey Fugate and children of
Tundra, Mr. and Mrs. Garvin
Morris and children of near Wise,
Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Logan and
children of Oklahoma. Mr. and
LAMAR SIDES, Cashier.
CORRECT—ATTEST:
T. DEAN BROWN,
D. T. RILEY,
BEN COX,
Directors
. Southwest farmers received ton visited friends here Sunday
steady to lower prices for most.! Liston Barber of College Sta-
products during the past weektion visited his parents, Mr. and
the U. S. Department of Agricul- Mrs. Ervin Barber
ture's Production and Marketing! Mr. and Mrs. Shorty Mitchell
Administration reports. and son and Mr. and Mrs. Sher-
Lamb prices dropped $3 to $5 rill Hooten of Marshall visited
from last Monday’s record high, their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dick
prices at Fort Worth and $2 to I Mitchell, over the holidays.
$3 from last week’s all-time high’s] Mr. and Mrs. C. U. Brock and
at San Antonio. Oklahoma City son of China Grove visited their
and Denver also recorded losses father, Charlie Brock, and Miss
of around $2 to $3 on lambs. Best: Willie Tom.
house Friday afternoon
Mr. and Mrs. Thurman Jones
Dorothy Rowan of Commerce
visited home folks during the
Easter holidays.
Mr. and Mrs. Tince Abbott and
Last week’s receipts of cattle,
calves and hogs held somewhat
in line with the week before or
a year ago at southwest and mid-
west markets.
Hog prices continued down-
ward by 50 cents to $1 for the
week. Top hogs fell to $18 at
Fort Worth Monday, the lowest
since October, 1946. Best butch-
ers moved at $18.50 at San An-
tonio and Oklahoma City, and
$19.75 at Denver.
Cattle prices showed little
change for the week. Good year-
lings sold up to $27 at Houston
Monday and $26.50 at San An-
tonio. Fort Worth took good and
choice steers and yearlings at $24
to $28. Oklahoma City paid $26.25
for choice mixed yearlings.
Increasing supplies of spring
vegetables brought generally low-
er prices last week. Demand slow-
ed for South Texas products.
Small sizes made up a large share
of new potatoes, and prices fell.
Onions, beans and squash became
more plentiful. At other markets,
lettuce, cabbage, green onions
and strawberries weakened.
Sorghums gained 3 cents a hun-
dred, as most other grains lost
1% to 3 cents a bushel. No. 1
wheat closed Monday at $2.38 Io
$2.45 at Texas common points.
No 2 white corn sold at $1.71
$1.74. yellow $1.63 to $1.66, and
milo $2.70 to $2.75.
Scattered lots of rough rice
CONSUMERS’ PRICE
CONTINUES DOWN
Austin Consumers’ prices in
Houston dropped during February
for the fifth consecutive month,
according to Bureau of Labor
beets, rail shipments of fruits and daughter of Grand Prairie
and vegetables in Texas fell 30 spent Sunday with their parents,
per cent from February to March, Mr. and Mrs. will Simmon and
the University of Texas Bureau Mr. and Mrs. Howard Bailuw.
of Business Research reported, i Mr, and Mrs. Frank Gay and
Totaling 3,254 carloads in doughter of Dallas spent the
March 1949, fruit and vegetable week-end with Mr. and Mrs Jim
shipments fell 72 per cent during Gay.
the 12-month period. 1 Mr. and Mrs. N. W. Galloway
Movement of oranges, down 951 and Virgil and Mr. and Mrs. Cecil
per cent, lettuce, down 90 per Calloway and children of near
cent, grapefruit, down 87 per Wills Point spent Sunday with
cent, and cabbage, down 81 per Mr. and Mrs. Eli Whitten.
cent, showed the biggest decreases Mrs. Grover Eubank visited
from February to March. relatives in Tyler over the week-
Thompson and Jerry Sloan of
Grand Saline were selected to er than in August 1939, the last
receive a gilt each. Derrell Baker " var month
of Wills Point, who is also a FFA Four of the six major groups of
member, was selected to receive commodities and services priced
the boar. In case some of the in February showed declines or
above boys change their minds change. Food prices fell sharp-
or do not make preparations to down 4 , cent; apparel, 1
get them gilt the following alter- > . es . House-fur-
Let us put
in your Ford Bi,
eak
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Phone No. 250
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week. „ , , Other Liabilities
Miss Romilda Barber of Dallas
visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Curtis Barber, Sunday.
Mrs. Henry Meredith and Mrs.
Jack Meedith of Athens visitedCapital Stock: Common stock,
Mrs. Ella Daniels Sunday. 1 . S40 000 00
MissCarlene Wallace spent the! total par -.....
week-end in Athens with Mrs. Surplus ...................
Romie Halbrook. 1 Undivided profits ...........
humble prayer. Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas Reid and family. 16t1hp
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week with his brother, Rupell
Walker, and wife of Dallas.
Raymond Tucker and Miss May
Tinker made a trip to Canton
one day last week.
direct and guaranteed...................
Obligations of States and political subdivisions..
Lan- Corporate stocks (including $3,000 stock
of Federal Reserve bank)...............
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