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fHE MEXIA (TEXAS) WEEKLY HERALD
Farrar
Rev. G. M. Clute from Jewctt
filled his regular appointment
here Saturday night and Suiuluy.
He preached two good sermons.
On account of the ruin the crowd
was small Sunday.
Mrs. W. S. Gibson and Mrs.
H. J. Chandler attended the dedi-
cation of the new cnurch at Lost
Prairie Sunday, !Rfc. and Mrs.
Martin Parker from Mexia spent
Sunday here with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Mack Ellis. Mr.
Lloyd and Miss Darleene Chand-
ler from Houston spenl the week
end here with their parents, Mr.
and Mrs. S. H. Chandler.
Miss Iluby Walker from Pasa-
dena spent the week end here
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Clem Walker.
Miss Lanelle Slaughter • spent
Sunday night in the home of her
sister, Mrs. Ruth Reed of Fair
Oakes.
Miss Doris Mae Foley spent
the week end in San Antonio
with relatives.
Miss Alline Gill and children are
spending a few days at Corsieana
with relatives.
Clem Walker and H. L. "Reed
were in Groesbeck on business
Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Lester Hopkins
and children spent the week end
at Freestone with relatives.
Charlecne Reed from Frecport
spent last week here with her
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J.B.
Ainsworth.
Mrs. Nora Childress from Mart
and Mrs; Delia Reed from Free-
port spent the week end here
with their parents, Mr. and Mrs.
J. B. Ainsworth.
The Home Demonstration Club
met with Mrs. II. L. Reed last
Friday, with eight members and
the agent present. Mrs. Mangold
gave a demonstration on quick
biscuits and muffins. Everyone
enjoyed the program. Refresh-
ments were served by Mrs. S. II.
Chandler and Mrs. II. L. Reed.
The next club meets July 5 with
Mrs. Ruth Ainsworth and Mis.
O. A. Reese.
Federal liureau of Investiga-
tion records show that Chicago
has the lowest juvenile delin-
quency rate in the U. S.
Lost Prairie
A large crowd attended the
dedication of the new church de-
spite the rainy weather Sunday.
Brother E. D. Keller preached at
the 11 o'clock services and Bro-
ther'H. L. McKissack preached at
3 o'clock in the afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Steve' Sims and
children of Mesquite visited J.S.
Sims this week end.
Mr. and Mrs. Trant Abbott of
Franklin spent the week end
with their daughter and son-in-
law, Mr. and Mrs. Clifton Webb.
Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Watson of
Farrar visited her father, J. W.
Sims, this week end.
Mrs. Fred Rogers of Mexia
visited her mother, Aunt Jennie-
Brown Wednesday.
Mrs. Otho Vest of Glen Rose
spent Saturday night with Mr.
and Mrs. Doan Vest.
Mrs. Josh Crider of Person villi*
visited Mrs. O. K. Sims Thursday
afternoon.
Frosa
Mrs. Oscar Potts and children
and Mrs. James Anderson and
son spent Sunday and Monday
with their brother, Mr. and Mrs.
Ernest Nevills.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Terry of
I Houston and Herman Howard of
Huntsvillc spent the week end
with their brothers, W. B. and
Dock Howard.
Mrs. Hulen Gaunett left Tues-
day to join her husband in Ilous-
i ton where he is employed.
It. C. Stone and Porter Ward
! had business in Waco Monday.
Mrs. Ruby Lee has returned
home after a two week vacation
with relatives of Houston.
Mr. Robert Lloyd of Washing-
ton was visiting friends here this
week end.
Ii. D. Burke and son spent Sat-
urday with his mother, Mrs. F.
S J. Burke. ^
Mary Helen Tuttle spent the
week end with her parents of
Prairie Hill.
Nacogdoches, Texas,, reports
plans' for a sewage disposal plant
water pumping station, swim-
ming pool, and stadium.
Forest Glade
The few days of sunshine have
been a great help to the farmers
and every one with crops and
gardens.
Quite a bit of fishing has been
going on since the water has got
low.
Mr. and Mrs. Tony Moore and
baby returned to their home in
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Franklin
their sister, Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Franklih.
Also, Mr. and Mis. Rufus Wil-
liams and children have returned
home to Winnsboro. after visiting
here several days with Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Franklin. Also Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Williams in Groes-
bcck.
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Tagert who
are building a new home in our
community will soon be ready to
move in. We welcome them in
our neighborhood.
Mr. and Mrs. Rawls Williams
and baby visited here Sunday af-
ternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Tiufus Williams
and children who visited here
here last week with Mrs. Sims,
her mother, ana Mr. and Mrs.
Franklin, visited with Mr. and
Mrs. A. H. Glider and children at
Tehuacana one afternoon.
James and Joe Smith spent
last Friday with Johnnie Frank-
lin. Mrs. Smith was in Groesbcck
one afternoon shopping.
Mr. Beene and Mr. Watson
were in Wortham several days
ago doing some work for Mrs.
Sims.
Mrs. Wylie Compton and chil-
dren visited her mother in Mar-
lin last Tuesday.
Milton Ray Carlton of Houston
Tommy Carlton of Waco and
Mrs. Cecil Phillips of Kerrviile
spent the 'week end with their
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.M. Carl-
ton.
Miss Gladys Freeman of Mexia
and Mr. arid Mrs. G. M. Arnett
spent Sunday with their mother,
Mr.-.. lit 'Itie Freeman of LaSalle.
Mrs. Fay Archibald spent Fri-
day with her mother, Mrs. Dave
Pollock of LaSalle.
OLETHA
Rev. Richard Uzzle of Waco
has resigned as pastor of the
church here and has gone to
California where lie will enter the
Redland University.
Rev. Bill Updike of Waco
preached here Sunday and Sun-
day night.
Mr. and Mrs. Russel of Groes-
beck spent Thursday with her sis-
ter, Mrs. Pearl Murray.
Mrs. Chub Martin and Mrs.
Noland made a business trip to
Marqucz Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Lummus
of Waco spent the week end with
his aunt and family, Mr. and Mrs.
Jake Thompson.
Mr. and Mrs. Edd Richardson
and daughters, Eddie Jean and
Francis Helen, of Houston visited
this week end with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Richardson,
and her mother, Mrs. Pearl Mur-
ray. Mrs. Murray accompanied
them home for an extended visit.
Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Powell and
daughter, Gwina Dean visited re-
latives in Navasota Sunday.
Several attended the singing
Saturday night at Mr. and Mrs.
Presley Sadler and reported a
fine time.
Miss Mozelle Scales or Dallas
is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Etta
Allen this week end.
Mr. and Mrs. Boswell of Dallas,
spent Sunday with their daughter,
and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.
Kimball Hughes.
Rev. George Cook who conduct-
i td the singing in the revival at
Thornton was in Oletha Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Stem and
family■ visited his brother, Cecil
Stern and family at Bald Prairie
Sunday.
GET THIS ...
By IS. II. HUDSON
ELOQUENCE OF SILENCE
There is a time to speak and a
time to keep silent.
Many foiget the last part of
this proverb.,
A man shall not be heard for
THE STATE OF TEXAS
To: Joe W. Cook, Defendant,
G reeling:
You nm hereby commanded to
appear before the Honorable 77th
WELCOME
TO
District
,County
of,
SEE THE
RODEO
CARPS MOTOR CO
Court of Limestone
t the Court House there-
in Groesbeck, Texas, at or be-
fore 10 o'clock A.M. of the first
Monday next after the expiration
of forty-two days from the date
of issuance of this citation, same
being the 22rul day of July, A.D.
194(5, then and there to answer
Plaintiff's Petition filed in said
Court,, on the 4th day of May A.
D. 1015, in this cause, numbered
1I,!552-A on the docket of said
court and styled Ruby Fay Cook
Plaintiff, vs. Joe W. Cook, Defen-
dant.
A brief statement of the nature
of this suit is as follows, to wit:
Suit for divorce, as is more fully
' shown by Plaintiff's Petition on
file in this suit.
The officer executing this pro-
{cess shall promptly execute the
same according to law, anrl make
due return as the'law directs.
Issued and given under my
hand and the Seal of said Court,
Groesbeck, Texas,
day of June A.D.
Attest
A. B. Sims, Clerk,
77th District Court,
Limestone County,
Texas.
j his much speaking.
This also is frequently over-
j looked.
The louder the talk the less
I the conviction.
The uproar m Congress reveals
its weakness and lack of sure-
ness.
Spell binders like Long, Bilbo
and Rankin create uproars but
carry little force.
Screaming reformers are sus-
pected of not being entirely sold
on their causes.
Violence suggests impotence.
Brutality is a sign of cowardice.
Noise suggests uncontrolled
power.
The man sure of his cause is
undisturbed.
The man sure of his strength
is quiet.
War creates uproar and confu-
sion and noise.
But it accomplishes little but
ruin.
Silent justice brings peace and
stability and power.
There is strength in quietness.
There is eloquence in silence.
The energy of stars, the pulse
of life, the force of the infinite
work quietly.
Learn to speak and live calm-
ly, quietly, simply.
— - mm - - ■■■■ ■ mn
Mesquite
Health in the community is
fine at this time.
We had to omit Sunday school
and church services Sunday due
to the rain.
Visitors in the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Willie Duke Sunday were
their daughter, Eloise, of Dallas,
Earl Caddell and sister, Onetia,
and Mrs. Mack Roberts of Thorn-
ton.
The birthday party given in
honor of Mary Elsie Roberts and
Maudic Cargile at the Mesquite
school house Friday afternoon
was well attended, and they re-
ceived many nice gifts. For re-
freshments cookies and cream
were served.
Jim Rodgers of Groesbeck
spent Sunday night with Mr. and
Mrs. Bethel Willard.
Mr. and Mrs. Ccbern Jones oi
Houston, Mrs. Earline Ragland,
and Miss Marzella Rhodes of
Orange, neiccs of Mrs. Johnnie
Cargile, were here for the week
end visiting relatives and friends.
Earl Piatt of Odds visited Mr.
and Mrs. Bill Roberts recently.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Caddell
| spent Sunday afternoon in the
! home of Mr. and Mrs. Bethel
1 Willard.
Mr. and Mrs li. T. Beck spent
i last Saturday night with Mrs.
Johnson, Mrs. Beck's grandmo-
ther of Groesbeck.
We are sorry to hear the little
son, Charlie, of Mr. and Mi's. Art
Beck has the mumps.
There will be Sunday school
Sunday morning at 10 o'clock.
36th Division Ass'si
Charges Mark Ciark
With "Inefficiency"
3(Jth DIVISION ASSN Gwo-Y
AUSTIN, Tex., June 8. (UP)—
Charges of "inefficiency" against
Gen. Mark Clark for ordering
elements of the 36th (Texas) Di-
vision to cross Ujc Rapido River
j in Italy will be aired again in
[ Washington, as officers o the 3Gth
i Division Association left here to-
j day in a plane bound for the na-
I lion's eapitol.
The Association's officers, in4
formed by Sen. Tom Connally ofj
hearing of the Senate Military!
j Affairs Committee on confirmai
| tion of Clark's promotion to per-*
manent rank of major general,'
announced that they were ready:
to testify against Clark's confirm
mation.
HEAR H!M
MONDAY, JUNE 17 - 8 ;30 P. M.
Miss Williams,
Harry Deerdoff
Wed on May 30th
*
The marriage of Misrs Louise
Williams to Harry Deerdoff was
solemnized on May 30 at the Mag-
nolia Temple Baptist Church in
Houston. Reverend Edd Hitt per-
formed the ceremony before
members of the families and close
friends.
The bride wore a gray dress
with while accessories and a
shoulder corsage of white ear-
nations. Miss Mildred Taylor was
the bride's only attendant and
Durwood Williams, brother of tlx
bride, served as best man.
Following a short wedding
trip, Mj\ and Mrs. Deerdoff will
make their home in Houston,
where they are both employed.
The bridegroom has recently re-
ceived . his discharge from the
United States Navy.
36TH DIVISION
ASSOCIATION
BLASTS CLARK
WASHINGTON, June 12. (UP)
—The 3(it!i (Texas) Division As-
1 sociation was on record today be-
| lore the Senate Military Affairs
Committee as being Wholly op-
I posed to .promotion of Lt. Gen.
Mark (,'lark to the permanent
rank of'major general
Appearing before the commit-
tee yesterday, Association mem-
bers blasted Clark for what they
termed the debacle of the Rapido
River Crossing in Italy in Janu-
ary, 1044. Col Miller Ainsworth
of Luling, Tex., president of the
Association, charged that Clark,
wartime leader of the 5th Army
was "unworthy" of major com-
mand
Clark's , present rr.nk of lieu-
tenant general i: a temporary
one. Among Regular Army offi-
cers, he holds a permanent briga-
dier generalship.
Sen. Tom Connally, D„ Tex.,
appeared before the committee to
| ask assurance that there would
j be no War Department retalia-
j tion against Lt. Col. Andrew F.
Price of Dallas, one of the wit-
I nesses. Connally also said Ains-
! worth and other members of the
Anmx'r <o I'rcUou* I'll/vlr
t=*'s3 AjN '
CLAIM BODY FOUND
IN DROWNING CASE
WITH 'HAT METHOD'
Fireman Says
Old Superstitution
Located Victim
LUBBOCK, Tex. June 12. (UP)
—An old superstition today was
being credited with the recovery
of the body of a 21-year-old ne-
gro who drowned in Buffalo
Lakes near here.
The "hat method" was used
alter a trio if Lubbock firemen
had failed to find the body of
j Roosevelt Bailey, who drowned
| Monday afternoon. It was intro-
duced by Bailey's step-father,
Leroy Cooper, who persuaded
fireman Craig Bond, Glenn
Smith and Bill Williams to try it.
It worked. Anyway, the body
was recovered and fireman
Smith was convinced. So was
Bond. *
Cooper was rowed out from
shore a short distance, where he
tossed a sailor hat overboard and
| waited for it to find its owner,
i Bond said the hat drifted about
150 feet with the wind "then it
went down like a brick had been
! thrown on top of it."
Cooper said the hat went down
over Bailey's body. The firemen
made one dlag and reportedly
1 came up with the body—in the
! exact spot where the hat went
down.
Smith said he'd bet nine dol-
lars it wouldn't work again—
"but it sure worked this time."
Association were "men of high
j eharactcd," whom he had known
I as personal acquaintances for
many years.
Price testified that during the
Rapido "rat race," his regiment
j (141st Infantry) was depleted
from about 3,000 to 001 officers
and men.
| Maj.Gen. Fred L. Walker (ret.),
former Division Commander,
who did not appear yesterday,
; once charged Clark with "poor
tactical judgment" in connection
with the Rapido operation. His
! sworn statement was admitted
into the committee record.
I Lt. Col. David M. Frazier of
Houston, a batlallion command-
! or, said Clark lacked even a few
basic principles of leadership,
and should be eliminated from
high command for "inefficiency."
JACK JOHNSON
DIES IN WRECK
RALEIGH, N.C., June II. (UP)
—The name and deeds of fabu-
lous Jack Johnson were little but
a wonderful memory to the fight
world today, which couldn't
I have been too surprised to learn
i last night that the one-time
world heavyweight champion
had died as he lived—in action.
The 08-year-old one-time Gal-
veston, Texas, stevedore died in
St. Agnes hospital from injuries
received when his speeding car
overturned and crashed into a
j light pole on a highway near
j Franklinton, N. C.
Johnson, thu first and only
negro titleholdcr until the reign
of Champion Joe Louis, was
traveling back to New York to
see the coming title bout be-
tween the Brown Bomber and
challenger Billy Conn when the
S crash occurred.
Johnson began his fight career
! in the "gas light'' era of pugilism.
He went to Sydney, New South
Wales, to win the heavyweight
j title in lUOtt knocking out T^irn-
my Burns in the 14tii round,
when police had to stop the fight
to save thu loser from further
battering.
Jess Willard took the title
from him with a 20th round
knockout in a memorable fistic
marathon at Havana, Cuba on
April 5, 1915.
The housing authority in Me-
nominee, Wis., received $25;000
from the city and another $15,000
from local banks.
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Sewell, W. L. The Mexia Weekly Herald (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, June 14, 1946, newspaper, June 14, 1946; Mexia, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth292703/m1/5/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Gibbs Memorial Library.