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In the Interest of the
Farming & Ranching
Growth of this Section
1 A Community Service
for Armstrong county
& Its Trade Territory
11
VOLUME 56.
CLAUDE, ARMSTRONG COUNTY. TEXAS, FRIDAY, MAR. 14, 1947.
NUMBER :J7.
Pioneer, At 90,
Recalls Trip
To Texas
Her mind as keen as that of a
young person when it comes to
happenings back in the 1870'r, Mrs.
Amy Hogg Barnett, of Dallas,
formerly of Armstrong County,
recently celebrated her 90th birth-
day by recounting events that oc-
curred on her trip to Texas as a
bride In 1876.
Mrs. Barnett Is the mother of
Walter Hogg of Claude, who l'.ved
on the "old home place" until a
few years ago. Mrs. Barnett still
owns the land on which she and
her husband settled in Armstrong
County and she plans to come to
Claude this Summer to visit old
friends.
With a twinkle in her eye, Mrs. Tuesday for Phonex, Arizona where
Barnett, who was born in Prince- ((hRy jjian (0 V|sit Mrs. Graham's
ton, Mo., in 1857, started off her j mother and Jay plans to attend
story by telling aibout Uncle Billy | school in Phonex while his mother
Martin. I and father take a two months va-
A few days after her marriage cnt,ion in New York City and the
to Scott Hogg, they left lor Texas , Burmuda Islands. Dee Graham has
in a wagon train. They crossed the I |3CPn transfcred back to the states
Arkansas Rivei on the ice and came ' nnc| ^as a vacation before taking
Hold Last Rites
For Mrs. Bruce
Burial services were held at 2
o'clock Saturday afternoon in
Blackburn-Shaw chapel for Mrs.
Nannie Elizabeth Bruce, 86, who
died Friday at the home of a son.
Rev. L. E. Godwin officiated and
the burial was in the Claude ceme-
tery.
Mrs. Bruce had made her
home in Amarlllo for three years,
and prior to that time had lived
in Claude for 50 years. Survivors
include a daughter, the son, nine
grandchildren and 10 great-grand-
children.
'PROPAGANDER FROM GANDER'
VISITS CLAUDE
Mrs. Zolena Bishop Graham and
son, Jay, of Gander, Newfoundland,
spent a, few days last week visiting
her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Bishop. They left here last
on into the Indian Territory. There
they met some white men who vol-
unteered to guide them through
the Indian Territory.
"Do you know, those men were
renegades and they led us right
into an Indian camp," Mrs. Bar-
nett said. "And that is where we
were glad we had Uncle Billy Mar-
tin along. He bluffed those rene-
gades and saved our scalps."
Mrs. Barnett said Uncle Billy,
who was part Indian himself and
who had ridden with Quantro's
raiders in the civil war, had the
men of the party get all their guns
in plain sight and everyone spent
the evening loading and making
bullets.
"A big buck Indian came over
to where we were camped and I
saw him counting on his fingers
the number of guns «we had," Mrs.
Burnett remembered, "He appeared
faurpilsed and when he saw the
melting pots and moulds and every-
one pouring bullets he left."
That night, Martin had all the
men scattered among the wagons
nnd the women armed themselves
with hatchets. "We'd a got some of
them," Mrs. Barnett chuckeled as
she told about the night.
In the morning when daylight
came the white renegades and their
Indian friends were gone.
The Hoggs first settled near De-
catur in Wise County where they
lived until 1888 when they sold out
over his new duties.
Slaughter House
Reopens In Claude
News comes to us that Wade
Watson recently bought and is
operating the Paul Hood slaugh-
ter house in west Claude.
This is a very important ser-
vice to the community and we
want to boost any new business
or service that is put in in Claude
so that Claude can better serve
the needs of the people of this
community. Good luck Wade in
this new venture.
Ads are news of things for you.
lathering with prcsperation as if
they had been soaped, shouting,
"Go to the Set as tain place as soon
as possible. The Indians are com-
ing, killing and scalping!! Every-
one go as quick as you can!"
Mrs. Hogg was in bed with a
baby girl born on 23 and was just
6 days old at the time. Mr. Hogg
was gone to the canyon after a
load of wood.
When he came home he was told
what the messengers said and
the neighbors came by and they
picked up mother and baby, mat-
tress and all and laid them in the
wagon and drove three miles a-
cross the prairie, to the neighbor
and moved to Hall County, near 1 designated. Of course It was only a
Memphis. But they wanted to go false report and in a few days
farther west and in 1889 they
pulled stakes and moved to Arm-
strong County where Mr. Hogg ac-
quired land 10 miles south of
Claude and about two miles from
Palo Duro Canyon.
everything was back to normal.
February 10, 1891, a very cold
night, a knock at the dugout door,
Mr. Hogg opened the door which
opened to the outside, the man
standing behind the door asked to
NEW SOLICITOR GENERAL . . ,
Philip B. Pcrlman, Baltimore,
who was nominated by President
Trurnan to he solicitor general
of the United States to suceeed J.
Howard M'.'Grath, now a U. S.
seni'or frum Rhode Island.
Youths Admit
Two Roberies
In Claude
Tuesday of this week Sheriff
John W. Moore of Claude, received
written confessions from two
youths, Billy Dendy 19, and Robert
Lincoln Jones 20, of Amarillo, ad-
mitting they broke into the Farm-
er's Grain & Implement Co. and
Weeks & Bagwell Grain Co. of
Claude, on January 17, 1947. There
was another youth who was with
the boys, Buddy Richards of Am-
arillo but he didn't sign a con-
fession.
These boys were picked up in
the state of Arizona and admitted
to thirty two roberies. They were
apprehended with the help of Dud-
ley White, Texas Ranger, and Bor-
ger, Amarillo and Missouri, and
other Texas officers.
NEW MAN . . . They made a new
man of Field Marshal Viscoum
Montgomery during his visit to
Moscow by presenting the hero ol
El Alamein with a caracul and sa-
ble coat and a caracul cap. He
doesn't lock the same without the
familiar beret and sweater.
CLAUDE TEACHERS TO
ATTEND TSTA MEETING
The District 9 Program Will be
held at Amarillo March 14. The
theme will be Education of To-
morrows Citizenship. There will
be special music and speeches.
All of the Claude faculty are at-
tending.
They moved Into a dug-out thai! stay nil night. No one was ever
had been prepared by Mr. Hogg turned away. The dugout was a
before the arrival of the family.
The family slept in the dugout, with
the hired men sleeping out of doors, j Mr. Hog
Mrs. Hogg cooked out side behind
a wind break not as good as we
have today for the stock, as it was
a makeshift without a top, no-
thing but the blue sky above, for a-
whllc. They moved to a different
part of the same section and there
they had a larger dugout and about
n year later, in 1890, she cooked in-
side the dugout. She and Mr. Hogg,
each with a walking plow, broke
100 acres of ground and it was
planted to feed the stock. The
crop did fine and plenty of feed
was raised.
On January 29 1891 two men,
C. D. Stalls and Mid Upshaw, came
riding up to the dugout, the horses' ed as best they could.
one room 17x24 with curtains
hung to make different rooms.
was fixing to retire and
he told the man to wait until he
stepped back and put on his boots
then he went out to help the
man put up his horse and feed him.
Shots were heard in the dugout
and Mr. Hogg "as found murdered
by the man he intended to take
into his home and give shelter and
food.
From then on Mrs. Hogg had a
very hard time trying to raise a
family and make the living in a
new country. Neighbors were very
helpful. She farmed and rode after
the stock, fed them, went to the
round-ups in the spring and helped
to leather her cattle. Everyone help-
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STAR VINO CHILDREN OF ROMANIA . . . Starving, Ill-clad Ro-
manian children and their mother beiitantljr approach the depot where
American Red Cross clothing and medical supplies are being dis-
tributed. The Red Cross Is flnanclng and supervising distribution «f
•1.800,000 worth of food (or relief of BM.N0 starving people in Mol-
davia, Northern Romania.
Wm. II. BRACE ABOARD SIIIP
Wililam H. Brace, metalsmith,
third class, son of A. F. Brace of
Goodnight, Texas, is serving aboad
the repair ship USS Amphion.
Brace entered the Naval service
March 20, 1945, and received his
recruit training at the Naval train-
ing Center, San Diago, Calif.
The write-ups' you send in are
always appreciated. Thanks.
Sugar Stamp Worth
10 Pounds April 1.
Washington, March 10—'The Of-
iice of Price Administration an-
nounced today that spare stamp
11 in ration books will become
good on April 1 for 10 pounds of
sugar.
OPA said that barring unfore-
seen circumstances, it will be pos-
sible to make another 10 pound
stamp valid on July 1.
The OPA intends to allot 35
pounds of sugar to housewives
this year.
Stamp No. 11 will be valid until
Sept. 30. It will cover both regu-
lar home use and home canning
needs.
The Senate Banking Committee,
however, has approved a bill
transferring sugar controls to the
Agriculture Department.
Christian Church
Services Sunday
Sunday, March 16, Rev. Walter
B. Harper, of Oregon, Missouri,
will preach at the Christian Church
Sunday morning services at 11:00
a.m. and at the evening services
at 7:30 p.m.
Each member and friend of the
Christian Church is urged to be
present to hear Rev. Harper.
There will be a basket lunch
dinner served in the Community
Home immediately following the
morning service. Please bring your
basket lunch and enjoy an hour
of Christian fellowship and get
acquainted with Rev. Harper.
MRS. WILSON GIVES RECITAL
Mrs. Dee B. Wilson will present
a group of her younger music pu-
pils in recital at the School Audi-
torium, Thursday, March 20, 8:15
P. M. The public is invited.
PROCLAMATION
BY THE
(Governor of tlje State of ^exas
ro ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME:
VltFI<EAS, Tho American Legion on March ljth vill ofcterM
ltn ?8th Mrthdny Mi bagln on lto S9th year of service to the ccn-
munity, ntnto an<5 nation; and,
whehias, tho American Legion throughout that period hae
nni1.> ltouir felt no tho largoet veteran't orgsnilAtloo In th hlttorjr
of nnnklnd; and,
VHEREAE, tho Aoorlcon Legion'# etand for continuoufl
tnry prcparcdnono, caro of tho dieabled veterans and of tho
v1iovn anl orphann of thooe veteran® vho g*ve their llvee for to*ir
country In both Vorld Varo le veil frnovn, and,
VHD*EAC, It ie cuatooary for each State In tho union to
obrcrvo in March Anerlcan Legion Membereblp Veek and beeauad the Dfp-
nrtr.cnt of Tcxao nov hao ooro than 150,000 oeobero and la recognited
an ono of tho taoet outotandln# in the nation; ^
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Beauford H. Jeeter, Oorernor of Texae,
declare tho voek of March 10 • 16, 19* 7> at
AMERICAN LEGION MEMBERSHIP AND BIRTHDAY
VKHC
nnd call upon our t'itliena to Join with thia organltatlon In the ob-
rervince thereof that Ita mooberehlp continue to grow and thus enlarge
ltp capacity for patriotic and unaelfieh eertice to our otate and nation.
Ill TESTIMONY VHTREOF, X haro
hereunto algned my name official!}
and cauaed the Seal of ftate to b«
afflxod hereto at Auatln, thin th«
10th day of February, A. D., 19W
BY TlIE GOVERNOR:
AFi OF STATE
f :f-
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MILITARY ATOMIC IIEAI) . . .
Col. James McCormaek, Louisiana,
who has been named director of
the division of military application
of the Atomic Energy commis-
sion, to represent the war depart-
ment on the atomic bomb.
"Magnolia Petrol,
Company To Plant
Claude Property"
L i/
(Trnm the Claude News of October
29, 1915. Marvin E. Bishop Editor)
"Not only does the enthusiastic
home man and the man who is
prospering for land and who wants
to build property to make him
money believe in Claude but some
of the big corporations are getting
their eyes open to the fact The
Denver road considers Claude one
of the sta,r stations on the line.
Now comes the Magnolia Petrol-
eum Company and is going to make
improvements commensurate with
their business n,t this place. The
company is going to erect a stor-
age building here in the very near
future and besides it is going to
locate three 10,000 gallon storage
tanks in Claude. The business has
grown so rapidly during the past
few months that this equipment
has become an imperative necess-
ity. There will be a wagon put in
and the towns of Goodnight and
Washburn and probably Conway
and Panhandle will be supplied
from this station. Manager R. O.
Ashworth thinks that by the time
the winter is over and cars begin
to run a good deal again that they
will sell the three tanks full of oil
and gas in one month, i monthly
consumption of 30,000 gallons.
Watch Claude prosper."
(And the Headlines across the top
of (lie page of that same issue):
"Grain Shipments from July 1.
1915 to October 1, 1915: Claude—
26 cars, Maize 9 cars; Goodnight—
Wheat G8 cars, Oats 14 cars."
Propagander from
Gander, 'Nufland'
Editor's note (These letters come
from Mrs. Zolena Bishop Graham,
a namesake and double niece of
Mrs. Lena II. Bishop. Zolena is
the wife of Dee Graham, formerly
a T.W.A. Captian in the U. S. A.
now a flight superintendent sta-
tioned at Gander, Newfoundland.
These letters are descriptive of the
country and will be followed bs
others).
(Continued from last week)
December 28. 1940
Hello, all you nice people, I hope
you all had a lovely Christmas and
will have a happy year to follow.
I ho]X! also that we will never have
another Christmas like this one
just past, and I can stand a change
in many things for our coniin;,
year, too! So here's to the change
for all of us that we need. To begin
with Dee didn't get to Europe or
home, so didn't get anything for
us; even our tree lights vvhich ve
were planning on. But we went
out and got our tree anyway, a
week before Christmas. The dr>y
wasn't too cold, and we were hav-
ing a feathery snow, so we took
Lobo's friends went a.long. In the
woods the snow was up over our
woods the show was up over our
knees and we had quite a time ret-
ting around, but took some movies
which I think will be good, and
got our tree. Then we went to
the field, which was closed to air-
craft because of weather, and
watched the snowplows and blowers
work to keep the runways clear
Tills is quite an undertakin as
the field is large anil they can'!
stop night or day, for if the run-
ways get too bad they just wouldn't
be able to get them in shape, so
no matter how cold or how big
the blizzard the snowmovlng equip-
ment keeps going. There are a
number of different types of plows
and blowers. Some arc for chewing
(See NUFLAND on Page 2)
Mary Alice Bagwell
Passes On
Mary Alice Bagwell was torn in
Deknbe County, Georgia May 8,
1861. She moved to Whitesboro,
Cook County, Texas at the age of
12 years where her parents es-
tablished their home. She was con-
verted at the age of 16 and joined
the Baptist Church. She was mar-
ried to John Kibler August 18,
1886 in Cook County. To this union
were born 9 children, 5 boys and
4 girls. Her husband died September
10, 1942 at the age of 89. 4 chil-
dren also preceded her in death,
J boys and 2 girls.
Mrs. Kibler had lived a very
consistent Christian life. She was
a living Christian example for her
children and friends who are left
to mourn her going. On February
24 at 3:50, God said It is enough
and called her home to be with
Him where she will no more
sorrow or pain. She had spent
the past 18 years in the home of
a daughter and son-in-law, Mr.
and Mrs. Ira Stevens. No mother
was more tenderly cared for than
was she.
Children who survive her are;
Mr. Geo. Kibler, Portales, New
Mexico, Luther Kibler, Big Bow,
Collins, Colorado, Mrs. Grace
Powell, McLean, Texas, and Fan- j which water is available:
Bindweed Control
given Top Priority
by Committee
At a recent meeting of the Arm-
strong County Agricultural Con-
servation Association, the Commit-
tee, in establishing policy for the
1947 Program, gave Bindweed con-
trol top priority. Control now and
ultimate complete elimination of
Bindweed in the County is the goal
set by the committee.
A substantial amount of the
funds allocated to Armstrong Coun-
ty for Soil Conservation has been
ear-marked for assistance to far-
mers that request and carry out
the practice's approved in 1947
Handbook as bindweed control mea-
sures.
Also approved for 1947 are the
following practices:
Construction of terraces for which
proper outlets are provided: (a)
Large ridge-type terraces—$1.50 per
100 linear feet; (b) Small ridge-
type and channel-type terraces—
$1 per 100 linear feet.
Construction of diversion ter-
races—8c per cubic yard.
Leveling for irrigation land for
jnye Stevens, Wayside, Texas.
V. G. Woodburn
Fo Amarillo
V. G. Woodburn accepted a
position with the Perscription Lab-
ratories No. 1 in Amarillo Tuesday
of this week.
He likes his new job and the
people he works with and plans
to drive to work from his home
in Claude until school is out.
Three Minute Sermon
Charles S. Trimmier,
Moody Bible Institute, Chicago
THE TEST OF ROYALTY
The kings of history have always
been of special interest to me.
Many were simply military dictators
who made no claim to strength
other than by their arms and
armies.
The Macedonian youth Alexander
streaked his cometlike career across
the lace of civilization's highest
level. Conqueror of the world at
thirty, his thirst for power unslak-
ed by the fawning adulation of
princes and potentates he fancied
himself a god. But the "god" died
at the age of thirty-three a victim
of the appetites his self-appro-
priated deity could not deny. He
lost his first battle, his crown, his
imitation immortality as a kind of
mora,l suicide. Worlds he could con-
trol: his own will remained a rebel,
then became his assassin.
Four hundred years later another
young man stood on the banks of
Jordan. No one stood by Him to
offer homage. He was His own
proof to the majesty of His claim
Unlike Alexander, this king would
not submit to the indulgences of
royalty. His path of purpose led
first to the hill of testing with
our arch foe Satan, and finally
Golgotha, where His victory and
ours was won.
His calm refusal to use miracu-
lous powers selfishly the Evil One
in the first test (Matt. 4:1-11). He
labled as arrogant presumption
the test of a false loyalty in the
second onset. His foe fled in con-
fusion when Jesus spoke the words
of command. "Get thee hence, Sa-
tan, for it is written, Thou shalt
worship the Lord thy God, and
Him only shalt thou serve" Bribery
Reorganization of a permanent
farm irrigation system:
Construction of earthen dams or
reservoirs for livestock water or
erosion ccntrol: (a) Material moved
in the construction of a dam—10c
per cubic yard. <bi Material moved
in the construction of a damless
tank—8c per cubic yard.
Drilling or digging wells for live-
stO' k water:
Contour furrowing noncrop pas-
ture and range land:
Protecting summer-fallowed acre-
age—50c per acre, regardless of the
number of operations.
Contour listing or furrowing of
cropland or land planted to crops
in 1947—25c per acre.
Contour farming intertilled crops
—50c per acre.
Contour farming drilled crops—
25c per acre.
Pit cultivation—20c per acre.
Elimination of destructive plants
on noncrop pasture and range land:
Pricklyear, Mesquite, Cedar.
Reseeding range or pasture land
by deferred grazing:
Establishing or improving pas-
tures by seeding adapted pasture
grasses, pasture legumes, or mix-
ture of grasses and legumes:
Harvesting legume and grass
seed:
Control of bindweed: (a) By
continuous cultivating during the
entire growing season (cultivating
at intervals not to exceed 14 days)
—$10 per acre, (t) By chemical
treatment with formulations of 2.4-
D—$5 per acre.
Jimmie Don Goin, son of Mr.
and Mrs. G. A. Goin, returned to
Norfolk, Va. to resume his duties
in the Navy. Jimmie spent 54 days
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
G. A. Goin. and his brothers, Lar-
kin and Wendell. When he returns
again it will be with a discharge
as he has 12 months and 6 days
more in the Navy.
victory now. The tests leveled
against him were no different
from those we fa.ee every day. We
may emerge triumphant as we fol-
low His example and use His holy
Word in our temptations. "It is
written," and we may claim its
promise. "There hath no temptation
taken you but such as is common
to man. but God is faithful, who
will not suffer you to be tempted
above that ye are able; but will
had not found a chink in the ar- (with the temptation also make a
mor of His Godhood. way to escape, that ye may be able
The victory He won then is our to bear it" (I Cor. 10:13).
GOING DOWN TO THE TEA IN SIPS . , . These solemn-faced gentle-
men arc the seven members of the I). S. board of tea experts as they
are passing Judgment on between 500 and 600 different samples of
tea which has been submitted by the trade. Future tea grades will
be made, the result of these tasting tests. This method of testing had
not been conducted during the war years. Members or the testing
board are ail experts, and wlU not swallow any of the tea.
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