The Mexia Weekly Herald (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 35, Ed. 1 Friday, August 30, 1940 Page: 3 of 8
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THE MEXIA WEEKLY HERALD
ioneer Couple
Ibserve Wedding
Anniversary
It was an event of importance
«nd a liappy and memorable oc-
raaion for members of the fam-
ily when Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Wesley Moody, of Waco, pioneer
and beloved citizens of Lime-
Atone- county, celebrated their
tfoWe'n wedding anniversary Sun-
ad? • '
The anniversary event was held
at Cameron Pyk in Waco. Cele-
hi'Htin'if the ocfaTion with Mr. and
Mrs. Mo&dy were 10 of their 11
children and a horit of other rela-
tives and friends qf Mexia, Mart,
Shiloh, Fort Worth, Port Arthur
and Waco. One son, Guy Moody,
of Goose Creek was unable' to
attend. *
Mrs. Moody is a native 6f Per-
sonville, Limestone county. She
Wag the former Miss Fannie Lee
Rogers, daughter of the late Mr.
and Mrs. Jeff Rogers of Person-
ville, outstanding pioneer citi-
zens of the Personville and sur-
rounding communities. ■
'' Mr.. Moody, the son of the late
Mary Jane and Theopilus Moody,
was born In Greenville, Alabama
and moved to Texas when a small
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child.
Mr. and Mrs. Moody were mar-
ried in Groesbeck on August 23,
1890. They have eleven children,
eighteen grandchildren and three
great grandchildren. They now
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SHORTENING
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No Bone
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Round Steak lb. 29c
Short Ribs lb. 15c
Salt Jowls
Seven Roast 5£?
Cheese
Lonvhorn
Bacon
Bacon
Bacon
Pork
STEAK
lb. 15c
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Pork
SAUSAGE
lb. 121/2c
lb. 10c
Royal Satin
SHORTENING
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ARK. CONCORD
GRAPES
At Peak of Crop This Week
5 Lb. J CC
Basket
LEMONS
ORANGES
APPLES
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ICEBERG
LETTUCE
3 heads 10c
Airway Coffee 2 lbs. 25c
Tea Cantrrhury ^ pkg ^
Spread Sandwich pt. 20c
Milk ch"uh 3 tall cans 18c
Peas Beile 2 No. 2 cans 27c
Spinach 5.7,w 2 pic. cans 15c
Juice 8ttnnyD^B
Tomato
47 oz. can 19c
Scot Towels roll 10c
Ivory Flakes 3-5 oz. pkgs. 25c
Oxydol .......24 oz. pkg. 18c
Lux Soap 3 bars 17c
Smacks large pkg. 15c
WAY
Fifteenth
reside at 915 North
street in Waco.
At the noon hour a sumptuous
picnic dinner was served at a
long table. W. M. Moody, brother
of the honoree, gave the prayer
of grace preceding the dinner.
Many guests called during the
afternoon to express their con-
gratulations to the couple.
Mr. and Mrs. Moody were recip-
ients of many lovely gifts and
flowers. A gift of much senti-
ment to Mrs. Moody wa sa beauti-
ful gold locket presented to her
by her children.
Children present were Mr. and
Mrs. W. Dilworth of Waco, Mr.
and Mrs. Walter Walker, of Mart,
Mr. and Mrs. H .A. Moody, Waco,
Mr. and Mrs. Vernon C. Moody
of Mexia, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer
Moody, Waco, Mr. and Mrs. Al-
vie Sparks, Floydada, Mr. and
Mrs. Garther Moody, Waco, Mr.
and Mrs. Billie Lindeman, Lorena,
Doyle Moody of Port Arthur and
Mr. and Mrs. Pete Lockhart of
Waco,
Others were Mr. and Mrs. Bry-
an and daughter, of Waco, Mrs.
Emma Smart, Shiloh, Mrs. F. M.
Moody and Mrs. Bill Billings, of
Fort Worth; Mrs. John Rogers,
Mart, Mrs. Ossie Fuller, Prairie
Hill, W. M. Moody, Sr., D. D.
Moody, W. M. Moody, Jr., and
Mrs. H. M. Gilbough, of Mexia,
Mr and Mrs. W. S. Wheatley,
Mart, Mrs. Bryan and children
of Waco, Mrs. Hal Drace, Lub-
bock, Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Bar-
field and Mr. and Mrs. Gentry,
Waco.
England Goes
Primitive in Ship-
ment of Goods
FORT WORTH, Tex. <U.R)—Fort
Worth residents have seen how
England is preserving its wood
arid metal supply.
A local jeweler received a ship-
ment of English pottery which was
bound in primitive fashion without
the use of nails or finished wood.
The 302-pound package, which
was sent from London, was packed
in dark hay and tied with coarse
rope and unhewn timber that look-
ed like small tree limbs.
Mexia Schools
Are Geared for
Opening, Sept. 6
Plans for the opening of the
1940-41 school session on Friday,
September 6, are progressing rap-
feily, Supt. Frank L. Williams «(;'d
Saturday. During the summer
months buildings have been
renovated and much repairing and
reconditioning done. The W. M.
White building has been rearrang-
ed and improvements made to ac-
commodate small children while
the R. B. Cousins building has
been converted into a junior high
school plant. Improvements at the
high school include a new storage
and finishing room for the shop
and various alterations and repairs
in the building proper.
Beginning with the opening of
school the new school organization
plan will become effective, Wil-
liams pointed out. All pupils in the
Mexia Independent School District
who have not completed the fifth
grade will attend school in the W.
M. White building. All pupils in
grades six, seven and eight B will
attend the Mexia Junior High
school in the R. B. Cousins build-
ing. Students in grades eight A,
nine, 10 and 11 will attend Mexia
High school.
Proper school programs, courses
of study, physical equipment and
student activities have been incor-
porated into the schdules for each
of these schools and no effort will
be spared to make each unit of the
Mexia school system complete and
exact in its scope of educational
offerings, the superintendent said.
The junior high school will not be
merely the sixth, seventh and
eighth grades, but it will be a unit
of adolescent children providing a
varied course of study which will
include home economics and shop
work so that students can fit their
programs to their desires. The
complete plan will be coordinated
so that pupils from W. M. White
will move directly into the junior
high school, and pupils from the
junior high school will move into
the senior high school with no loss
of time nor undue disturbances.
Transportation is being provided
children in the first few grades
who desire to ride from the north
side of town to the W. M. White
school. Stops will be made at the
high school and the junior high
school only to p ick up children
who gather at those places. No
transportation is being provided
for any other students of the Mex-
ia District, but busses are being
provided for students of the Te-
huacana Valley District and of the
New Hope and Cotton Gin Dis-
tricts.
Complete details of opening pro-
cedure will be announced within a
few days, Williams said. These de-
tails will include a final list of
teacher assignments, instructions
for registration, explanation of
courses of study, and the printing
of the junior and senior high school
schedules.
Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Maddox, Jr.,
spent Tuesday visiting in Dallas.
WED NEARLY 72 YEARS
JAY, Vt. <U.R>— Mr. and Mrs. Gil-
bert Lucier, 93 and 89 respectively,
celebrate their 72nd wedding anni-
versary this fall.
DAVENPORT, la. (U.R)—Coal
shipments on the Mississippi river
are rising, according to army en-
gineers. In June, 244,802 tons of
coal moved on river barges in the
9-foot channel.
Miss Magnolia
Currey Weds L. B.
Jones Sunday
Miss Magnolia Currey, daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Chesley A.
Currey of Groesbeck, became the
bride of Mr. Louis Bentley Jones,
son of Mr. and Mrs, Carl K.
Jones, of Denton, in a service
held at the First Baptist church
in Groesbeck Sunday. The Rev.
Peter DeYoung, pastor of the
church read the impressive ring
ceremony.
The church was beautifully
decorated in keeping with the
occasion. The altar was flanked
with tall floor baskets overflow-
ing with graceful long-stemmed
pink gladioli and lace ferns and
the center was marked with an
arrangement of white gladioli. An
artistic mound of these chosen
flowers ornamented the piano.
Brother Glvea Bride
Preceding the ceremony Mrs.
Clarence Winkle, pianist, played
"Because," "I Love You Truly,"
and "Leibestraume." The wedding
solo, "At Dawning" was sung by
Mrs. John Bennett, of Mexia, ac-
companied by Mrs. Winkle who
also played the traditional Men-
delssohn and Lohrengrin wedding
marches.
The bride, given in marriage
by her brother, Albert Curey, of
Tyler, was stunningly attractive in
her wedding costume of soldier
blue crepe very smartly designed
along princess lines with a fitted
bodice with white accents and a
voluminous gored skirt. She wore
a small navy blue hat with a short
veil and carried an arm bouquet
fashioned of white chrysanthe-
mums and stephanotis caught
by a shower of white satin rib-
bons.
Mexiaite Is Matron
Mrs. Homer Stewart, of Mexia,
attended her sister as matron
of honor. She was becomingly
attired in a bolero jacket frock
of black crepe with a coquelicot
red sash. Her hat was black felt
and she wore a shoulder cor-
sage of white asters.
The bridegroom was attended
by his brother, Paul Jones, of
Denton, who served as best man.
Groomsmen were Ross Jones, bro-
ther of the bridegroom, and Hom-
er Stewart of Mexia.
An informal reception was held
immediately after the ceremony
at the home of the bride's par-
ents. The three-tiered wedding
cake, attractively embossed, was
served with refreshing punch.
Mrs. C. J. Wilson, of Madison-
ville, sister of the bride, served
the cake.
Couple Go To Louisiana
Later the bridal couple left
for a wedding trip to New Or-
leans, La. Upon their return they
will make their home in Edge-
wood.
The bride is a graduate of the
Groesbeck High school and she
attended North Texas State Teach-
ers College, Denton. Mr. Jones
received his degree from N. T. S
T. C. and has accepted the posi-
tion of principal of the grammar
school at Edgewood.
Out-of-town guests attending
the wedding were Mrs. Carl K.
Jones, Miss Juanita Jones, Paul
Jones and Ross Jones of Den-
ton, Mrs. M. C. Legg, Mrs. M.
E. Faust, Mrs. Leslie White, of
Corsicana; Mr. and Mrs. Bob Hart
of Victoria, Mrs. C. J. Wilson,
of Madisonville, Mr. and Mrs.
Leon Perry of Dallas, Mr. and
•« COURTS
Marriage License*
C. B. Hewitt and Ruth Robson.
J. W. Robertson, Jr., and Doro-
thy Jean Lenamond.
Homer Dodd and Retha Lee Kil-
lings worth.
Robert E. Chavers and Laura B.
Fortenberry.
J. F. Sims and Oneta Matthews.
Luther R. Tabor and Francis
Jailer.
Ekin Large and Serena Pryor.
District Clerk
Billie Hunter vs Ruby Hunter,
divorcc.
W. T. Moss vs Universal Credit
Co., et ml.
Mary Jones vs Robert Jones, di-
vorce.
Mary Graves vs W. T. Graves,
divorce.
East Texan Faces
Theft Ring Charge
County Attorney L. L. Geren
announced Friday that Ernest Jef-
fress of Jacksonville, had been ar-
rested and charged with conceal-
ing and receiving property stolen
at the Texas Company warehouse
Mrs. Albert Currey and daugh-
ter, Qf Tyler, Mr. and Mrs. Bill
Currey and children of Thornton,
Mrs. B. A. Currey of Talco, Mrs.
Joe Stewart, Miss Becklein Jack-
son, Mrs. Ted Bohanan, Mrs. John
Bennett, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Hop-
son and Miss Georgia Lela Hop-
son, of Mexia.
Boy, 8, Becomes
Encyclopedia
on Railroads
ABERDEEN, Wash. <U.R)— The
mind of freckle-faced Hugh De-
lanty, 8, runs to railroads.
So strongly does it turn in this
direction that Hugh can name al-
most every railroad line in the
United State*, the terminal, im-
portant stops, fastest trains, and
even such technical details a* the
amount of grease they use in the
stuffing boxes.
National railroad executives are
on his mailing list, for he conduct#
regular correspondence with some
of the most important men in the
industry.
He writes for maps and litera-
ture, asks for information an then
railways and they reply readily. .
The youth first became interest-
ed in railroads about two year*
ago. Since that time he has filled
his rooms with books on railway
history, traffic problems and geog-
raphy. From this knowledge, ht
often informs railroad agents her*
on some technical point—but he
still dislikes arithmetic classes in
school.
at Kosse. Jeffress, who has been
in hiding for the past several days,
is now in the Rusk county jail.
Jeffress was sent to the penf-
tentiary from Limestone county in
1933 for auto theft. He lived in
Corsicana at that time.
Limestone County Election
R. R. Justice Rep. Ti
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Tehuacana 57 58 96 27 91 31 52
Mexia (City Hall) 317 254 402 168 303 262 340
Mexia (2A) 169 178 249 98 173 171 163
Mexia (2B) 123 1,14 164 71 167 61 141
Datura 20 23 87 6 41 2 33
Forest Glade 81 58 96 41 105 34 76
Point Enterprise 45 59 80 23 97 7 75
Shiloh 42 68 77 29 93 11 79
Lost Prairie 39 51 66 23 77 13 49
Prairie Hill 77 103 146 31 136 44 97
Hancock 21 13 31 3 24 10 27
La Salle 22 81 65 38 91 13 69
Farrar 11 40 34 17 41 12 44
Box Church 16 67 72 11 73 10 62
Kosse 144 209 205 139 152 197 17
Bis Hill : 44 31 48 27 42 33 33
Coolidge 169 137 242 58 182 120 185
Oletha - 42 65 85 19 79 25 42
Mt. Antioch 5 13 14 4 12 6 15
Billington 13 13 22 3 16 10 16
Kirk 31 22 43 10 39 14 36
Frosa 23 30 47 5 38 15 44
Horn Hill 19 22 37 5 20 22 20
Willow Springs 13 36 31 17 45 4 26
Groesbeck 510 382 743 174 308 596 661
Thornton 203 210 305 103 218 186 93
Ben Hur 69 56 111 60 54 71 77
Elm Ridge 4 13 23 4 14 11 11
Headsville 22 39 46 14 37 25 2
Watt 22 26 41 7 44 3 17
Personville 61 70 106 22 123 9 96
Locust Grove 30 9 29 10 15 21 7
Fallon 20 48 43 29 43 26 50
Victoria 30 15 40 4 33 9 32
Central Institute 11 14 23 2 24 1 14
New Hope 9 16 14 11 26 0 24
Munger 18 13 23 4 8 19 27
Mustang 15 17 30 2 28 4 17
Delia 35 17 42 5 31 19 33
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The Mexia Weekly Herald (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 35, Ed. 1 Friday, August 30, 1940, newspaper, August 30, 1940; Mexia, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299673/m1/3/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Gibbs Memorial Library.