The Rockdale Reporter and Messenger (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 13, 1928 Page: 5 of 8
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EAGLE
J-t io.—More fain. It
It has started that
j since
raining.
%e to keep
C^sneednow is p
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of gardening
week. Every one
big fall
» bit
Ids Pa5t
I be Pining on a
L Munoz and T. J. Vittrup
1 nent Sunday afternoon
JgySht m theJ.E. Rich-
f T Tyler and Mr. and
ii'Tyler and little son.
dt last Sunday in the
pH^'stetVart spent^a
Inday afternoon in the Par-
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v Richards and daughtei,
[S in tire J. B. ^Jch-
De Thursday afternoon.
y Mrs. Vernon Guthrie
| Sunday afternoon in the
ncuna home.
■L Guthrie is spending a
s with her uncle. JimGuth-
jjustin.
f, g Richards spent last
liay afternoon with" Granny
v Richards ,md daughter,'
Lnt last Thursday evening
k j. E. Richards of Rock-
ed Mrs. A. D. tuncan spent
Light with Mr. and Mrs.
fd Mrs. Johnnie Tyler and
r yir, and Mrs .J. E. Rlch-
ITalfghter. -Gihdys.- attend-
jshow at oak Hill Thurs-
HiiUn spentthe. week-end
iby Overman.
BON BRANCH
Branch. Sept. 10. It
if Saturday lias become-
dsr-around here, for we
leived a large fain on the
Everyone has plenty of
Iter.
_ people are hunting cot-
jp, but they don't seem to
U luck, for almost every-
| cohotT-of "his own to plGk.
Rose and Myrl Farmer
while Sunday afternoon
lie Carter
Ul^dred Thomas and chil*
[Beaumont arc spending a
5 with thejr'mother and
ither. Mrs: Harkness.
it!Mrs. Alfred Martin and
pent Sunday with MiTand
M. Cafter.
* Parmer entertained the
opl$~with a party Friday
|There was a large crowd
and everyone seemed "to
r-a-nice tinje. ——.........' -
iHettie Yount left Smiday
|lor. where she will attend
l in the Mrs. Annie Yount
nday were Misses Allie
land Isie Bounds and Mr.
| Ed McWilliams and daugh-
\ ..y ...
nd Mrs. Wallace Fanner
ily, of Florence, spent Frt-
bt with Mr.-and Mrs. Ezra
| Martin" Jr. spent Saturday
p Ird Carter Jr.
after..spent Sunday in the
£r home.
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Mr. and Mrs. Montague, at Rock-
dale, Saturday night, '
Mrs. Helms Sproul spent Sunday
with Mr. and MJrs. G. B. Barber.
Visitors in the Pervy Harris home
Sunday were: Mr. and Mrs. Melvin
Cunningham, J^rs. Lonnie Stephens
and Mrs. Wallace
AVT6TC.
Chester Grissom,
B. Ashley and Mr.
Avrett spent Sun-
day afternoon/ with Mr. and Mrs.
Bethel Rogers* ,
Visitors in the E.-M. Avrett home
Sunday were Elna and Blanche Mil-
ler and Iris Grissom.
Marshal Ashley spent Sunday
with Aubrey Irby.
and Chilean
—;1 Luckey
was
Mr. and
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Mr. and Mrs.
and Mrs. E.
on
TANGLEWOOD
Tungte'maifosept. 10. We were
visited inch rain Saturday,
which wnl greatly help everything.
Stock water had gotten rather low,
it being the. first real rain we’ve
had in _ some time. Some really
thought it rained four inches instead
of two. People are getting their
cotton out pretty well .about eighty
per cent of the crop being gathered.
Born to Mrs. Ethel Frost Boswell
Saturday, the 8th, a fine ten-pound
girl, Melba.
- Mif Ttitd Mrs. Tt. B. McCoy and
girls visited their parent^ Mr. and
Mrs. J. H. McVoy,' of Skidmore, last
week-end.
Bruce Cherry, of Taylor visited
his mother, Mrs. Pearl Cherry,
Thursday night.
Frank Wheelus of Lubbock is vis-
iting friends here.
A.- O. Plant went to" Caldwell
Sunday to meet Ills mother, Grarjpy
Plant, Owing to the inclement
weather, she failed to get there.
J. L. Pounder, H. H. Rcat and S.
E. Lynn visited J. A. Reat near
Granger Sunday.
Alton Curleevisited at Lyon
Sunday.
Mrs. Newt Kelley has been quite
'fit triUi^he last report stated' her
condition improving.
Mrs. Susie Bissell of Giddings vis-
ited her daughter, Mrs. J. L. Poun-
ddr, last week.
Mrs. A. J. Marquis returned from
a pleasant visit with her son, Homer,
at Taylor, Thursday.
—Mr.- and Mrs. Floyd Hinsley and
baby visited W. H. Bell and family
last week-end.
Murray Stockton Curlee spent'
Saturday afternoon with Babe
Rogers. ■ •
Mrs. S. E. Lynn spent Sunday
with Mrs. J. L. Pomjder.
■ Grandma Treadwcvll visited Mrs.
Oscar Cook at Lexington last week.
Mrs. Bettie Anderson of Dallas
and Mrs. Fay Childs of Rockdale
•visited Mrs. Ellen Anderson last
week/
The superintendent' and assistant
of the Baptist Sunday sahool being
absent, we had a union' Sunday,
school. Owing to'bad1 roads and
many of the boys being away on cot-
ton picking, there were only 49
present.
E. H. Ev-ans and Mrs. Bettie Yea-
ger visited Ernest Gay,- who is in
the hospital at Cameron.
KEEP YOUR
GOOD!
iASANT HILL
at Hill, Sept. 9.—We had a
I one-half inch rain Satur-
nooji and ft looks now as
isoon have some more rain.
ted Seales and little son
are visiting in? the Emil
phe at present.
J. BRANCH LEWIS
Mrs. Claude Barber re-
Mte to Austin Monday
Avrett, entertained her
| school class with a party
afternoon. A number of
J*re Played’ In the yard and
Foments were served and
ton had a candy breaking
seemed to enjoy very
R Avrett and children
Thorndale Saturday, so
ton can attend school,
jlharlie Ballard of Houston is
Iher parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Tarquis.
Mitchell Wallace of 61 Paso
' in the W. W.» Blocker
[Present.
“On Stephens and children
and Mrs, Wallace Lu%fey
[spent several days this week
T and Mrs. Pervy Harris.
J™- Frank Everett visit-
e Pervy Harris home a while
, afternoon;
; Avrett and son, Hilton, of
t were visitors in the home
I ■ A- Avrett Friday afterr
r ^rs- Odessa Shaffer of
and Mrs. Claude Shaffer
Ith n °f Lr‘xin^t°n were vis-
I ne Joe Barber and W. W.
In°mes Saturday.
Ashley and son, Mar-
a business trip to Rock-
r''Barber were
be home of her parents.
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Cooke, John Esten. The Rockdale Reporter and Messenger (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 13, 1928, newspaper, September 13, 1928; Rockdale, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth742046/m1/5/?rotate=90: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lucy Hill Patterson Memorial Library.