The Sunday Record (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 42, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 13, 1946 Page: 2 of 4
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-THE SUNDAY RECORD, Mineola, Texas, Janaary 13, 1946
THE SUNDAY RECORD
Pc Wished Every Sunday m icmeola. Wood County, Texas
Wild at the postoffice at Mineola as second-class mail matter
vnder Act of Congress, March 3, 1879.
to of paper changed from Wood County Record to The Sunday
Record on Sunday, November 26, 1939.
Texas Press Association; North and East Texas
Press Association.
any erroneous reflection upoi the character, standing or repu-
tation of any person, firm, or corporation which may appear
fn the columns of thi« newspaper will be gladly corrected
upon being brought to the attention of the publishers.
I Give You Texas.
It was Mark Twain’s “Pud-
dinhead Wilson” who remark-
ed, after listening 15 minutes
to a dog howling under the
floor of the village grocery
■tore porch:
4al wish I owned half of that
dog.”
“What would you do?” some-
one asked.
Puddinhead replied, “I’d kill
my half.”
lake the fellow who bought
;a half interest in a cow. In
fact, he bought half of the
cow, the front half, and his
partner owned the rear half.
This fellow said:
“All I did was feed my half
and the other man milked his
half.”
“What did you do about ft?”
somebody inquired.
“Oh, I quit feeding my half
—and his half died.’’
Some years ago, Dr. A. C.
Scott, Jr., noted Temple sur-
geon, was appointed to repre-
sent the United States when
the Pan American medical so-
ciety was having its meeting in
"Mexico City. He wanted to con-
vey a greeting to the delegates
In their native Spanish—but
there was one drawback; he
didn’t speak Spanish!
But he wrote out his speech
Jn English, had a teacher
translate it into Spanish, then
he had these words written
-out phonetically so he could
pronounce them correctly as,
of course, letters have differ-
ent sounds in a foreign lan-
guage to what they have in
English.
He then memorized the
speech, he didn’t know which
words were important and
which were not, so he pronoun-
ced them all with the same
emphasis. If you will think
back to the days when you
were in the first grade and
slowly read, “Does—baby—love
Rover—yes—bably—loves — Ro-
ver,” you’ll have the general
idea of what I mean.
But the Texan could not be
discouraged. He had the tea-
cher mark the important words
When at last he stood before
the assembly of Latin-Ameri-
can medical leaders, he sur-
prised them by waving aside
an interpreter and addressing
them in their own language.
The ovation the audience be-
stowed was worth all the effort.
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TO MOVE HERE
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Roberts of
Gladewater have purchased the
house in which the Donald
Bryants have been living, and
will move here as soon as it
is vacated. The Roberts have
one child, an 11-eyear old
daughter. He is linesman for
the Southwestern Gas and
Electric Company.
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Mississippi means “great wat-
er” in Indian words.
POLITICAL
Announcements
The Monitor is authorized
to announce the following
candidates for public office,
subject to the action of the
Democratic Primary E ection
in Wood County on Saturday,
July 27, 1946.
For County Judge:
W. T. BLACK, JR.
For Sheriff:
W. B. LINDSEY
C. L. PERRY
For Tax Assessor-Collector:
BRUCE LLOYD
For Justice of the Peace:
J. C. (CAL) RUSSELL
ONE NEEDS THE OTHER
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Niagara Falls recedes about
two and a half feet a year.
OBITUARY
A Good Man Gone
£ On Monday Dec. 31, 1945, Dr.
fUva B. Moody was called to
the land to which we too must
ultimately go.
Dr. Moody’s home was truly
Wood County. He had the dis-
tinction of having descended
from the first two white fam-
ilies that ever lived in Wood
County.
From his father, W. A. Moody
who lived and died in Mineola
many years ago, he was a de-
scendant of Martin and Eliza-
beth Varner, who settled in
what is now the Redland com-
munity, north of the Lake Fork
river in 1842. This was thirty
one years before the T. & P
and the I. & G. N. Ry. had
been built and thirty one years
before Mineola and Hawkins
had been thought of as town-
: sites.
From his mother, Nancy Mary
Greer Moody, he was a de-
pendent of Gaines Greer and
wife, Indiana, who, with Mar-
tin Varner and wife, were the
two first white settlers ever
-to live in Wood County. From
-(these great families many great
:men and women have been born
■to live and to die and Dr.
Moody may truly be called one
<of the greatest among the
igreat.
Dr. Moody was born in the
ILone Pine community on April
1882. In Lone Pine and Min-
~-~i50la he was reared from in-
fancy to manhood. Arriving at
the years of manhood he de-
cided to become a physician,
and having attended the medi-
cal college at Nashvil’e, Tenn.,
until he had received his grad-
uate and post graduate course,
he returned to Mineola to prac-
tice among his friends. For
nearly forty years he practiced
at Mineola and at Hawkins. He
practiced when the days were
long and often the nights were
dark and rainy, and when doc-
tors went almost every time
they were ca’led and often
without the hope of fee or
reward. And this he did be-
cause he loved his profession
and he loved his people.
To know Dr. Moody was to
love him. One of his friends
has said “He had the kindest
heart I ever knew a man to
have.” It is said he was never
known to speak evil of anyone.
I am sure that in the ac-
quaintances of life time he
didn’t have an enemy. I repeat
it again “to know him was to
love him and to know him bet-
ter was to love him more.”
For many years he has been
a devoted member of the Meth-
odist Church, and always
stood for what he believed to
be right.
We believe that when the
Great God of heaven and earth
called for Dr. Moody, he called
him that he might occupy a
distinguished seat in the halls
of eternity.
A Friend,
J. H. ENGLISH
i IMfOKSAUfi
cuzmeok
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You couldn’t buy me now
for love o rmoney! Auto-
matic refrigerators are
mighty hard to get! But
you can buy me, slightly
used—from an owner who
is leaving town. Interested
in having me save you
money on your food bills?
Read Classified Section of
the
Mineola Monitor-Record
J. C. (Cal) Russell
Makes Statement to
Precinct Voters
J. C. (Cal) Russell last week
announced his candidacy for
Justice of the Peace. His for-
mal statement follows:
To the Voters of Precinct No. 2
In announcing my candidacy
for re-election to the office of
Justice of the Peace, I do so
with a sincere feeling of grat-
itude to all of you for the
honor you have heretofore be-
stowed upon me, the favors you
have shown me in the past and
‘ the fine spirit of cooperation
you have manifested through-
out my tenure of office in as-
sisting me to fulfill the duties
of your office as they should
be.
It has been my purpose at
all times to see that all liti-
gants receive fair and impar-
tial hearings in court, and be
accorded everything to which
they were entitfed under the
law. If you favor me with re-
election, I shall continue to
pursue this course of conduct
so long as I serve you, which
I consider the only fair and
honest thing to do.
Conditions are such, it will
be impossible for me to see all
of you in person but I do want
you to know I will do my best
to see as many of you as pos -
sible and personally solicit your
support. However, if I should
fail to see some of you I hope
you will understand that I am
doing my best and want your
vote and support just the same.
Thanking you for all past
favors, I am,
Sincerely yours,
J. C. (Cal) RUSSELL
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Ex-Serviceman
From Golden to Be
Sheriff Candidate
C. L. Perry of Golden, recent-
ly discharged serviceman, has
announced his candidacy for
Sheriff of Wood County.
Perry was born and reared
in West Texas and has lived
in Wood County for the last
six years. He will issue a for-
mal statement on his candi-
dacy later, he said.
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Pipe Line Company
GetsRadio-Telephone
A two-way radio telephone
network for the operation of
United Gas Pipeline Company’s
new 24-inch Carthage-Sterling-
ton pipe line has been approv-
ed by the Federal Communica-
tions Commission.
The system is termed great
advancement in the dipsatching
of natural gas, and operated
perfectly when tested in con-
junction with the opening of
the pipe line last month, com-
pany officials stated.
First of its kind in the Ark-
La-Tex area, the network con-
sists of three central stations
located in Shreveport and Ster-
lington, La., and Carthage,
Texas, along with forty-four
portable mobile units installed
in service cars and trucks of
the company.
The equipment is of the lat-
est frequency modulation (FM)
type and is designed to oper-
ate on two separate channels.
One of these channels is for
use in station-to-station trans-
mission; the other for station-
to-car and car-to-car commun-
ication. The main transmitters
at Shreveport and Sterlingion
have a power output of 250
watts and, at Carthage 50 watts
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it in.
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ESaP
The Mayor sez.....
I’ve been reading the Mon-
itor rather closely here of late
but never have I seen an ac-
count of a new substance called
LUSTRON. Of course, I have
always tried to help, pass on,
and otherwise benefit all man-
kind and especially the “Down-
Trodden Brethren” sometimes
called the stronger sex, so I
now hereby call to their at-
tention this LUSTRON for it is
a boon to those BOYS who are
out late at night sitting up
with a sick friend, sitting in
a friendly game, or something
or other such worthy endeavor.
This substance, LUSTRON,
can be spread, painted, or wiped
on house numbers, etc, making
them readable at night thereby
eliminating the necessity of
said stronger half mistaking
the door bell for an automobile
horn in the dead hours of night
and arousing the angry LESSER
HALF for the result of such
an “arousal” is very liable ti
be a whack across the head
with a roiling pin.
Certainly, if after friend hus-
band had been dragged, pulled,
kicked or otherwise transported
into the abode of this FEMALE
AMAZON and later the said
F.A. discovered that HE had
won a sizeable PILE naturally
She would appropriate s\fl_
PILE to her use and benefit 1
meanwhile applying salve and
ointments to the poor LARGRft i
HALF’S aching head and coo-
ing like a dove and saying, SO
SOLLY PLEZE.
Now after all, I am not rec-
ommending this number paint-
ing (Nee LUSTRON) for those
GUYS who persistently "see
double” after a party, but rath-
er for the small underfed and
overworked husband that has
a 200 lb spouse at home just
waiting for the SHRIMP to
“get in’* so she can sock him.
MAYOR OF YANTIS
Sammy Davidson
Has Birthday
Party Wednesday
Mrs R. T. Davidson enter-
tained with a party Wednes-
day honoring her little
Sammy Joe, on his 4th birtl
day anniversary.
Tiny tot games were enjoyed
and cheese sandwiches, potato
chips and a slice of the birth-,
day cake were served.
Among those present
Sandra Stewart, Elizabeth AmT
James, Joyce Lynn Beall, Joe
Edd George, Gary Thompson,
Leonard Stevens, Brenda Hum-
phreys and Mrs. Tommy George
and Mrs. Ward Thompson.
$5,000,000
— for more jobs
— for better service
,— for new industries
—for developing business
—for more farm production
—for better living
■ &
Southwestern Gas and Electric Company
plans to spend approximately $5,000,000
during 1946 in improvements, expansion
and new construction.
This will mean more efficient electric
service at lower cost to more and more
people and to more and better businesses.
It will mean jobs, development of new busi-
ness, more farm production and better
living.
It means business dollars and the hard
work of men and women investing in faith
in the future of America and in American
enterprise.
Included in this huge expenditure will
be a large new generating station—the
most modem in the Southwest... miles of
high voltage transmission lines... more
miles of smaller lines ... bringing the vital
force of electricity to turn the wheels of
new business and to bring better living to
more and more people.
The hard-earned dollars of American
men and women, invested in the light and
power business, will be put to work, build-
ing the prosperity of the Southwest.
$5,000,000 is a lot of money... almost
four times as much as Southwestern has
spent in any previous normal year. Bui
the Company has that much faith in the
future of the Southwest, and in every com-
munity in the area. Working together with
all of the people, the Company enters a
new year with faith and with a determina-
tion to do its part toward future progress
and better living.
western Gas and Electric Company
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