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ON the Record
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The Record comes to you this
week in new format. The pages
aim larger, and there are fewer
of them. A number of non-local
features which were discovered to
b«k not too widley read are being
eleminated, and space is being
made for 25 per cent more local
news and advertising.
More local photographs will be
printed. The front page will carry
more headlined stories, and the
headlines will be larger. Addition-
al white space will appear between
the lines of news type, thus mak-
ing The Record easier to read.
M°re local feature stories will ap>
pe%r, as well as more news fronj-
throughout Collin county.
Hope you like it.
CIT Y- WIDE CLEAN- UP DA Y IN CELINA IS M ■ —
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daughter, Mrs.
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Mrs. Noel EartfyJ
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A movement that can do much
for Celina’s public health and add
much to Celina’s attractiveness is
the city-wide clean-up scheduled
for Monday, June 2£k lt will be an
all-day affair in which every cit-
izen will be asked to do his part.
The clean-up can succeed only
with the whole-hearted co-oper-
ation of every citizen and every
organization in Celina. Please
don’t hold back—attend your dis-
trict meetings when they are an-
nounced and, on the appointed day,
do your part to make .your town a
cleaner, more beautiful, more
healthful place in which to live.
An important point is this: On
alleys adjacent to your property
remove all rubbish and debris
NOW, and pile it where the truck
drivers will find it accessible. The
mowers that will clean up your
alleys can not run in an alley piled
high with junk, and rubbish must
be moved before the alleys can be
mowed. Please do this NOW—
don’t wait until the 28th.
CELINA, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1948
DOES A HOE HANDLE FIT YOUR HAND?
Fear of Polio Epidemic Sparks
City-Wide Cleanup Day, Slated
As All-Day Affair for June 28
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. a1 Lowrey tells a tale that you
can believe or not, just as you
choose, but he swears it’s the
truth. It seems that years ago
when A1 and his parents lived on
a Bell county farm, Al’s dad and
several of his friends were sitting
around out in the country one day,
chewing the fat. One of the men
was sitting on the top rail of a
rail fence, his heels hooked in one
of the lower rails, and Al’s dad
was on the ground below, sitting
on his heel. They were probably
whittling, just taking life easy.
The man on the fence was wear-
ing a loose-fitting vest, and Al’s
dad, looking up, saw that a pois-
onous snake, probably a copper-
head or rattler, had crawled un-
der his friend’s vest, his tail stick-
ing out the bottom and his head
out the top of the garment, his
tongue darting this way and 4hat.
The fence-sitter was blissfully un-
aware of his danger and Mr. Low-
rey knew that if he yelled a warn-
ing the' man would probably be
bitten. So, brave man that he
must have been, he grabbed the
snake by the tail, yanked it 'out
of the vest, and, with one quick
motion, popped the reptile’s head
off. __
The man with the vest took the
vest off, and, to the day he died,
never wore another.
Monday, June 28 has been set
as city-wide clean-up day in Celi-
na and .committees will ask every
business place in town to close for
the major part of the day, and ev-
ery business man, employee and
other resident of Celina to don ov-
eralls for the day and see how a
hoe handle will fit his hand.
Aim of the movement, started
at Wednesday’s meeting of the
Booster club, is to leave Celina on
the evening of June 28, thorough-
ly clean, completely free from
Brown Will
Speak Here
David H. Brown of Sherman,
candidate for Congress, fourth dis-
trict, has scheduled speaking dates
for Celina, Prosper and Frfsco
next Saturday, June 19.
Judge Brown will speak at Fris-
co at 3 p. m., at Prosper at 5 p. m.,
and at Celina at 8 p. m. He was
in Celina Wednesday making ar-
rangements for his address here,
and said he would probably speak
on the public square.
Judge Brown, 28-year-old attor-
ney-war veteran, is judge of a
recently created Grayson county
courtat-law, and is making a vig-
orous campaign for the post now
held by Sam Rayburn. G. C. Mor-
ris of Greenville is another con-
tender for the place.
Methodist Women Meet
The Women’s Society of Chris-
tian Service met Monday afternoon
at the home of Mrs J. C. Milligan
with Mrs. John Willock as co-
hostess. Mrs. C. B. Johnson was
program leader and Mrs. L. C.
Spurrier gave an interesting talk
on the subject, “Committed to
Us.” Refreshments were served to
12 members.
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Action of the county school
board early last month in arbi-
trarily grouping five districts into
the Prosper rural high school dis-
trict has caused no little dissatis-
faction among patrons of the
Rhea Mills school district, which
was one of the five. It seems that
practically nobody in the Rhea
Mills district knew what was in
the air until the grouping was ef-
fected, and some of the folks in
that community feel that they
should have been consulted in the
matter before it was done—-not
afterward. Law permits county
school boards to group with an-
other district any common school
district that falls below 400 schol-
astics, and any independent school
that falls below 250 scholastics. It
appears, however, law or no law,
that the wishes of the people con-
cerned should at least be Consid-
ered.
Father of Fprmer Local
Teacher Died in Denton
Rev. Charles W. Estes, who had
served the Whitesboro Presbyte-
rian Church as pastor for the last
ten years, died Monday in a Den-
ton hospital at the age of 73. One
of the survivors is a son, Charles
M. Estes, who served ak principal
of Celina high school several
years ago. He is now teaching at
Era, Texas.
weeds and Johnson grass, every
alley mowed, the premises behind
every business house clean, weed-
free and unlittered. Enthusiastic
response to the suggestion came at
once at Wednesday’s meeting, and
members of the city council pres-
ent promised their whole-hearted
co-operation.
Some trucks and pickups have
been promised for use during the
day, but others are needed. An-
other mower or two will also be
nedeed. Meetings will be held dur-
ing the next few days to effect or-
ganization for the drive, which
will probably be set up under a
district team captain plan.
In pointing out the need for a
thorough clean-up, it was brought
out that the South Texas polio ep-
idemic, worst in years, is spread-
ing northward, and that most med-
ical authorities believe polio is
spread by flies or mosquitoes or
both. Rubbish-laden, weed-infested
alleys and vacant lots are a men-
ace to public health, to say noth-
ing of their unsightliness.
It was stressed at the meeting
that property owners should re-
move rubbish from adjacent alleys
at once and not wait until the
28th. Mowers which will run on
cleanup day can not do an efficient
job in alleys littered with tin cans
and other rubbish.
Local J-P Says
He Won’t Run
M. H. O’Dell, Celina justice of
the peace for six years, said this
week that he will not ask for re-
election this year. Judge O’Dell
has done a good job, as is attest-
ed by the fact that he has per-
formed 12 marriage ceremonies,
and has a 750 batting average—
nine of the weddings have been
permanent up to now.
Abe Gearhart, bookkeeper for
the Celina Implement company,
said Monday that friends had filed
his name for the office which
Judge O’Dell will vacate next Jan-
uary 1.
C. S. Nelson’s Finger Hurt
As Crushed in Car Door
An automobile door was slam-
med on one of C. S. Nelson’s fing-
ers Monday, crushing the finger
badly. An effort is being made to
save the finger, although the bone
was damaged.
0. L. Ray Passed Away
In McKinney Saturday
O. L. (Jack) Ray, born at Alto-
ga February 13, 1903, died in the
McKinney hospital last Saturday
morning after an illness of about
two weeks. He was 45 years old
and an employee of the Dungan
grain and feed firm in McKinney.
He was a member of the Baptist
Church.
Mr. Ray is survived by his wife,
two sons, Carl W. and Glenn W.,
and a stepson. Mrs. Beckner is a
daughter of Mr. and *Mrs. O. B.
Beckner, who live near Celina. He
is also survived by four brothers,
Dewey Ray, McKinney; John F.
Ray, Altoga; Luther B. Ray of
California and Frank D. Ray, Al-
toga; three sisters, Mrs. Ola Far-
ley of Temple, Mrs. Ollie Simpson
of McKinney and Mrs. Ida Morris
of Dallas. His parents, W. A. and
Nettie Johnson Ray, preceded him
in death.
Funeral services were held at 3
p. m. Sunday at the Altoga taber-
nacle with interment following in
Altoga cemetery. Rev. W. S. Mil-
ton officiated and Blaine Hall and
Armond Hall of McKinney, Charles
Ray of Blue Grove, O. B. Beckner
Jr. of Prosper, Hubert Evans and
Tommy Taylor acted as pallbear-
ers.
Trustees Are Named for
Prosper Rural High School
A new board of trustees for the
Prosper Rural High School was
named last week at a meeting of
the Collin County school board.
The new trustees are Henry
Barlow, Rock Hill, 1948-49; T. E.
Martin, Walnut Grove, 1948-49; V.
G. Blackman, Pleasant Ridge,
1948-50; Carl Stone, Prosper, 1948-
50; Jimmie Mahard, Prosper, 1948-
50; Clarence Furr, Rhea Mills,
1948-51; C. G. Hays, Prosper, 1948-
51.
All districts will maintain rep-
resentation on the board.
L. Dow Hendricks, superintend-
ent of the Anna schools, attended
the meeting, looking after business
relative to grouping several schools
with the Anna district. Kelly and
Mantua districts will be grouped
with Anna while Coffman and
White Rock districts will be di-
vided between Anna and Melissa.
Good Old Days Are Called to
Mind As the <(Old Opry House
Makes Way for New Factory
Vacationers Take Limelight in
Personal Column This Week
Sold Fine Jerseys
G. V. Bray this week sold seven
fine Jerseys from his herd on the
Braycroft farm, north of Celina,
to A. C. Pennington, a Kaufman
county dairyman.
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Funeral Seryice Held for
Albert Jackson Phipps
Funeral service was held at the
Cottage Hill Methodist Church at
3 p. m. Tuesday for Albert Jack-
son Phipps, 68, who died Monday
at 5 p. m. in Pilot Point.
Mr. Phipps, who was born in
Powder Springs, Tenn., Sept. 11,
1879, was ason of the late Mr.
and Mrs. Isaac Phipps, and came
' to Texas in September, 1900. He
was a member of the Baptist
Church.
\ Officiating ministers a were Rev.
Roy Stanley and Rev. Elwood Cor-
zine. Pallbearers were J. W. and
Ray Callahan, Lee and Franklin
Rucker, Roy Rucker, Robert and
Herman Phipps. Interment was in
Cottage Hill cemetery. Services
were directed by Helms.
Mr. Phipps is survived by one
son, Charles Phipps, Celina; three
daughters, Mrs- Ernest Ramey,
Dallas; Mrs. Albert Kelly, Anna,
and Mrs. Coyt Ashley, Anna; one
sister, Mrs, Martha Campbell, Ce-
lina, and two brothers, Houston
Phipps of Colorado Springs, Colo.,
and Eli Phipps of Sherman. Ten
granddritdritfs-SlSIT-survive.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
Rev. J. L. Cleveland, Pastor.
Sunday school 10 a. m.
Morning .worship, 11 a. m.
Evening worship, 7:30 p. m.
Ladies’ Auxiliary Monday 3 p.m.
Session meets Monday following
first Sunday in each month.
Deacons meet Monday following
the second Sunday.
Preaching every Sunday morn-
ing and evening, except the second
Sunday evening.
The Rev. Carl Grace, local min-
ister, will preach at the Presby-
terian Church next Sunday at 11
o’clock, in the absence of the pas-
tor, who is holding a meeting at
Jiba.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH.
E. P. Wootten, Pastor.
Ray Grumbles,
Sunday School Superintendent.
Sunday school—10:00 a. m. each
Sunday.
Morning worship—11:00 a. m.
Evening worship—7:30 <p. m.
Prayer hour service—7:00 p. m.
each Wednesday.
We extend a cordial invitation
to all to worship with us.
FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH
Sunday school at 10 a. m., Ben
Groves superintendent.
CHURCH OF GOD.
Rev. J. T. Gilliam, Pastor.
Each Wednesday evening, 7:45,
prayer service; each Saturday eve-
ning at 7:45, regular service; Sun-
day at 10 a. m., Sunday school; 11
o'clock, preaching service; Sunday
evening, 6:30, young people’s ser-
vice; Sunday evening, 7:30, regu-
lar service. -------- "
- MFTRST METHODIST CHURCH.
KVrffwlav Leland C. Spurrier, Minister.
Dirmuay Sunday school, 9:45 a. m.
Morning worship, 11:00 a. m.
Evening worship, 8:00 p. m.
Choir ipractice each Wednesday
at 8:00
“We invite you to the work and
worship of our Church.”
i, Seitz was pleasantly
'-Ah a covered dish
home here on her
June 10. Pres-
O’Dell, Mrs. Miss
Lanta WflhaiI
• daughte,. Claud.a
Mrs. Marshall Blaine and son
t>y.
Savings Accounts Invited. In-
Up to $5,000 for Each De-
positor. First State Bank. Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corpor-
ation,—(Adv.) tfc
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Allen and
daughter, Frances, and Mr. and
Mrs. R. A. Jones left Sunday
morning on a trip to West Texas.
Mr. and Mrs. Jones will stop in
Lubbock to look after farming in-
terests there, while the Allens will
go on to Tahoka, to visit relatives,
and to Carlsbad Cavern in New
Mexico. The group expeets to re-
turn to Celina today (Thursday.)
Little Jacquelyn and Carolyn
Roberts of Denton were week-end
guests of relatives here.
Merrill Gene Howard, Wheeler
Smith, Jim Ray Cornelius, and
Billy Jack McNabb, students in
NTSC, Denton, spent the week-end
here with home folks.
Howard Blagg, student in TGU,
Fort Worth, visited his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. T. T. Blagg, Sunday.
Other visitors in the Blagg home
Sunday were Mrs. J. B. Griffin and
son Jack Blagg of Dallas.
Mrs. C. H. Roberts returned last
week from a month’s visit with
her daughter, Mrs. L. B. Harben,
and family of Oklahoma City.
Mrs. Dude Laney and son, Da-
vid Lee, returned Sunday from a
three weeks’ trip through several
eastern and.northern states, and
Canada.
Helms ambulance returned Mrs.
Tracy King to her home here, from
Hot Springs, Ark., Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Balch de-
parted Sunday for their home in
Los Angeles, Calif.
T. O. Perry, local business man,
was confined to his home Monday
and Tuesday by illness.
M. H. O’Dell, justice of .the
peace, performed his twelfth mar-
riage ceremony since he assumed
the duties of that office, on Sat-
urday when he united a well-
known local colored couple, Hays
Dickerson and Mable Warren.
Mrs. Mahaley O’Dell and Mrs.
Prosper Girl Receives
Readers Digest Honors
PROSPER.—Miss Martha Jean
Rothfus, valedictorian of the grad-
uating class at Prosper Rural
High School, has been given the
annual award of the Readers Di-
gest association for students who
by their successful school work
give promise of attaining leader-
ship in the community, it has been
anounced by S. H. Wysong, super-
intendent.
Miss Rothfus will receive an
honorary subscription to The
Readers Digest for one year and
an engraved certificate from the
editors, “in recognition of past ac-
complishment and in anticipation
of unusual achievement to come.”
The award to Miss Rothfus, who
is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.
G. Rothfus of Route 1, McKinney,
was made possible through the co-
operation vof Mr. Wysong and his
teaching staff. Miss Rothfus will
enter North Texas State College
at Denton at the opening of the
fall semester in September.
T. H. Cupp returned Saturday
night from a visit with relatives
at Republic, Mo.
Mrs. Leonard Bennett and her
daughter, Janice, of Seagraves, ar-
rived here last Thursday to visit
relatives and friends.
Mrs. Leslie Jones was returned
to her home here Monday from a
Sherman hospital, where she had
recently undergone major surgery.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Clayton Ut-
hoff and Mrs. Uthoff’s mother,
Mrs. Connie Wagner, of Dallas
were Celina visitors Saturday aft-
ernoon. Harry Clayton is attend-
ing the summer term at NTSC in
Denton, working on his master’s
degree.
James Groves, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Ben Groves, left Mohday for
Shamrock, Texas, where he will
visit his grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. S. W. Groves.
Jack Lee and daughter, Jacque-
lyn, of Kansas City, Mo., arrived
here Monday to visit Jack’s fath-
er, Rush Lee, and Mrs. Lee and
other relatives and friends.
Mrs. Grady Lankford and daugh-
ters of Tom Bean visited Mr. and
Mrs. Glen Philips and daughters
Sunday. Mrs. Lankford will be re-
membered by her friends here as
the former Faye Kelly, a teacher
in the Alla school for several
years.
Mrs. Morris Hare and daughter,
Linda, of Weatherford are here
for a week’s visit with Mrs. Hare’s4
mother, Mrs. J. W.* Ownsbv, and
her sister, Mrs. Albert Finley, and
family.
Mrs. Charlie Cozart spent last
week-end in Denison visiting Dr.
and Mrs. T. H. Hoard Jr. and fam-
ily.
Lt. Col. and Mrs. J. E. Golding
and son, Freddie, who have re-
cently been visiting relatives here,
have gone to San Antonio to vis-
it friends and relatives there. The
Goldings expect to be in Celiha
again for a few days before re-
turning to their home at Fort Ri-
ley, Kansas.
Mrs. Tom Norris Sr. and sons,
Russell and Frankie Gene, of Tio-
ga, former Celina residents, have
recently moved to Fort Worth.
Dr. W. H. Stallcup and Lee Rob-
inson, accompanied by Vance Stall-
cup and several friends of Dallas,
left Monday morning for a weel^
fishing trip to. .Possum Kingdom
lake. , •
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Russell and
sons of McKinney were Sunday
visitors in the Ben Groves home.
Mrs. Mary Parker has returned
to her home near Durant, Okla.,
after spending several days with
her daughter, Mrs. Bettie Chris-
tian of Celina.
Mr. and Mrs. Odell Bunch of
Dallas, Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Bunch
of Cleburne, and Mr. and Mrs.
Bryant Bunch and Charlie Brown
of Celina were week-end visitors
in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse
Bunch and Bobby.
Master Sergeant Edward W.
Lahr, army recruiting sergeant, of
Vincent Goes
To Sherman
Herman Vincent, manager of
Lyon-Gray Lumber company’s yard
here since 1944, resigned from
the company this week and has
accepted a position with the Pen-
nington Lumber Yard at Sherman,
where his duties will be sales aiTd
public contact. He and Mrs. Vin-
cent and their daughter, Clayrene,
are moving to Sherman late this
week.
O- 1. Norwood, Lyon-Gray au-
ditor, is in charge of the Celina
yard until a new manager arrives
to take it over.
Ladies Aid Society Met
The Ladies Aid Society of the
First Christian Church met for a
social at the home of Mrs. Lura
Miller on Tuesday afternoon with
Mrs. Julia Strickland as co-host-
ess. ; Mrs. Miller led a lesson re-
view. Mrs. Helen Johnstone con-
ducted a contest and Mrs. E. J.
Lewis presided at a short business
meeting. Refreshments were served
to 12 mmbers and the following
guests: Mrs. Ollie Bounds, Mrs.
Sam- Bateman, Mrs. M. A. Corne-
lius, and Mrs. Ernest Snodgrass,
all of Celina, and Mrs. James La-
throp of Rockport, Texas.
The Aid Society will have only
two meetings from now until Sep-
tember 1. Those meetings will be
on the second Mondays in July and
August. Each of these meetings
will be a combined lesson, business
and social period. Regular meet-
ings will be resumed beginning on
Sept. 1.
Ghosts of the past have been
striding in review before Celina
folks who, in the past few weeks
have been going up the stairs on
the west side of the Celina public
square to view installation of ma-
chinery in the Thompson Manufac-
turing company’s quarters — the
old “opera house.” •
Walls of the wide stairway
which once led to a luxuriously-
appointed theatre are covered with
the names of Celinaites of long
ago, some written in pencil, some
in ink, some laboriously scratched
deeply into the plaster. Some
dates appear, as well as a few
cheerful obscenities. Tip Ford
etched his name into the plaster
on April 18, 1911. Someone wrote
the date, April 29, 1912, without
signing his name. Dalton Wright’s
This photograph must have been taken sometime between 1910
and 1914, and shows the actors, all local people, in an amateui* show
put on in Celina’s then fine new “opry house.” The characters have
been tentatively identified as, left to right, Miss Robinson, a teacher;
Claude Thurman, Ella Moon, a music teacher; Roland Willis, a drug-
gist, A. M. Wolford, teacher; Edgar Ousley, Katherine Bryant, Ada
Perkins, Smith Stagner, George Caldwell, Jessie Finley, Charlie
Painter. Smith Stagner, only member of the cast who still lives in
Celina, said Monday he couldn’t remember the name of the .play, but
said he was cast as a lightning rod salesman.
McKinney, was here Tuesday so-
liciting recruits for the army.
Mrs. James Lathrop of Rock-
port was here from Monday until
Wednesday visiting her sister-in-
law, Mrs. Ollie Bounds, and sever-
al girlhood schoolmates. Mrs.
Lathrop is the former Mattie
dounds and lived in the Celina
community in her childhood, at-
tending school at Old Gelina in the
eighteen eighties and nineties.
Mrs. A. L. Reynolds was called
to Taylor, Texas,, Tuesday night
by the death of a niece, the nine-
year-old twin daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. W. R. Frederick. The funeral
was conducted at a funeral home
there Wednesday at 4:30 p. m.
with burial in Taylor cemetery.
Mr. and Mrs.’A. W. Lewis and
daughter, Nan, spent Sunday with
the former’s mother, Mrs. L. L.
Lewis.
Mr. and Mrs. L. Kissner and
children visited relatives in Dal-
las Sunday and the Kissner chil-
dren enjoyed an outing at Fair
park in the afternoon.
Mr.'and Mrs. Jim King and
granddaughter, Karen Pennington,
of Celina, and Mr. and Mrs. J. R.
King of Dallas left here Sunday
morning on a trip through Ken-
tucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mis-
sissippi, and Georgia. They will
visit relatives in Kentucky and
Tennessee, and expect to return
home in about two weeks.
Mrs. Sam Patrick and son, Carl,
visited Mr. and Mrs. James Mc-
Knight in Bonham Sunday.
Mrs. G. W. Robinson of Dallas
spent from Wednesday until Sun-
day here visiting her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Rhea Gossett. Mr. Robin-
son joined her for the week-end
Man Charged
In Local Theft
McKinney officers Monday took
a Celina man into custody on
charges in connection with the
theft of several articles Sunday
from a farm northwest of Celina
owned by Cage Stone.
Among the items Mr. Stone
found missing were one 55-gallon
barrel half full of gasoline, one
case of lubricating oil in quart
cans, one shop hammer and other
small items.
Some of the missing items weft:
recovered.
The man is being held in the Mc-
Kinney jail.
Miss Alice Kirby and
Harvey Wade Married
Miss Alice Kirby and Harvey
Wade were united in marriage
Saturday evening at 10 o’clock at
the home of the officiating minis-
ter, Rev. L. T. Grumbles, in Celi-
na.
The couple was accompanied by
Mr. and Mrs. John Kirby, father
and mother of the bride, and Mr.
and Mrs. C. W. Gressett of Tioga,
father and mother of the groom.
Brother of Mrs. Rush Lee
Died In Denton Thursday
Jack Holbrook of Vallejo, Calif.,
a brother of Mrs. Rush Lee of Ce-
lina, passed away in a Denton hos-
pital Thursday, June 10. He is
survived by his wife and five chil-
dren, all of California; one broth-
er, Will Holbrook of Denton, and
two sisters, Mrs. Lee of Celina
and Mrs. Nora Cross of Wylie.
The funeral was conducted at the
Wylie Methodist church Friday at
3 p. m., with buriaijn Wylie cem-
etery.
Former Celina Girl to
Wed Next Saturday- "
Invitations have'1 been received
here to the wedding of Miss Zelma
McWilliams, daughter of Albert
McWilliams of Irving, to John G.
McGee of Dallas on Saturday,
June 19 at 6:30 p. m. in the Little
Chapel in the Woods on TSCW
campus, Denton. Following the
ceremony a reception will be held
at the home of the bride’s sister,
Mrs. Frank Burchard, and Mr.
Burchard, in Denton.
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Mrs. R. B. Goodson of Dallas
was here from Thursday until
Tuesday visiting her brother, Her-
bert Parish, and family.
Street Paving and Curbing Is
Now Under Way At Prosper
Concrete curbing in the business
section of Prosper was nearly com-
plete Saturday afternoon, and
grading and drainage work was
scheduled to start soon, prepara-
tory to application of asphalt sur-
facing on the main business street
and several blocks of residential
streets there.
According to C. G. Hays, Pros-
and they returned home' Sunday
night.
Week-end guests in the home of
Mr. and Mrs. T. O. Perry were
Mr. Perry’s mother, Mrs. T. F.
Perry, of Houston; Lt. arn^ Mrs.
RobqrtCateluag and daughter
Aiarrilee, of Austin, and Mrs. R.
L. Looney and daughter Bevelyn
of Tulsa, Okla.
Mrs. Clark Nevins, telephone op-
erator at the local exchange, is
on a it wo-weeks vacation. Mr. and
Mrs. Nevins went to Possum
Kingdom lake Friday, where they
were joined by Mr. and Mrs. So-
lan Finley of Fort Worth, at the
Finley cabin for a few days of
fishing.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Bray and son
of Dallas spent the week-end here
with home folks.
Savings ; Accounts Invited. In-
sured Up to $5,000 for Each De-
positor. First State Bank. Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corpor-
ation.—(Adv.) tfe
Mother of Orlia J. Moss
Died Monday at Wylie
Mrs. Denie Coffey Gode, 76,
died Monday at the home of a
daughter, Mrs. J. C. Parr, at Wy-
lie. Mrs. Goode was the mother of
Orlia J. Moss, formerly a citizen
of McKinney who has for some
years been living at Bryan, Texas.
Mr. Moss married a Celina girl,
Miss Ermyne Mitchell.
Manes Reunion
A reunion of Mrs. Nan Manes,
her children and relatives was
held at Ousley park Sunday, June
13. Present were Joan Wester,
Fayetteville, Ark.; Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Wester, Van Alstyne; No-
lan Manes, Riverside, Calif.; Har-
rison Manes, Tyler; Mr. and Mrs.
G. W. Tillerson, Tioga; Mr. and
Mrs. Paul Tillerson, Carol Ann
Barrett, Rita and Charles Manes
of Dallas; Epps and Hardy Haw-
kins, Prosper; Mr. and Mrs. Gra-
dy Woods, Mrs. Minnie Douglas,
Mrs. N. E. Manes, Mr. and Mrs.
Hulon Thomason, Mr. and Mrs.
Earl Tillerson, V. E. Wester, Mr.
and Mrs. Jim Thompson, Mr. and
Mrs. Claud Loftice, Maebeth Til-
lerson, Mrs. Don Williams and son
Larry, all of Celina.
Bobby Parish has accepted a job
with Kindle grocery as clerk and
delivery boy for the summer.
per business man, the complete
job will cost about $3,500, and will
be completed by July 15. Prosper’s
main street wiil be blacktopped
from the west end of the business
district to the top of the hill,
distance of several blocks. The
pavement will then turn south past
the school, gymnasium, and Bap-
tist and Methodist Churches for
about two blocks, then west back
to the highway.
Mr. Hays said business firms
were assessed sometime ago for
the cost of the work, and that the
municipality would use its funds
as far as possible to complete the
work. He added that the prospect
was property owners in the resi-
dential district would have to be
assessed to pay part of the cost
of the pavement past their prop-
erty.
J. B. Stirling of Prosper is do-
ing the concrete work’on the curb-
ing. Street surfacing will be done
with county equipment and labor.
J. E. and Bob ConaUet of C^fr.ia
will do the grading and drainage
work with their heavy machinery.
Another improvement in Celi-
na’s progressive neighbor to the
south is a remodelling program
at the Baptist church there. The
existing building has been moved
50 or 60 feet east of its former lo-
cation, and the ground levelled and
landscaped. An annex, about 40 by
60 feet, is being built, which will
house Sunday school rooms, kitch-
en, and a dining and recreation
room. The building has frame sid-
ing, but plans are being made to
apply brick veneer at a later date.
The Rev. C. G. Burnett, for.mer
Army chaplain, is pastor of the
church.
Members* of the Prosper Meth-
odist Church are engaged in re-
painting the walls and ceiling of
their church building, and refin-
ishing the floors, at a cost of
about $600.
name appears with the date, 1913.
“Lanky” signed his name in 1912.
The names of Ben Collins, Mau-
rice Miller, Roy Riddle, Loran
Wright, Whitley Smith and John
Davidson are written on the walls.
Many of these boys, long since
grown to manhood, have passed
away. All of them have moved
away from Celina.
At the top of the stairs, where
Louis Thompson is busily engaged
in getting his garment factory
ready for operation, appear evi-
dences of the fact that Celina once
had an “opry house” that was the
envy of towns for miles around.
The mahogany-finished .box office
or ticket window, as they probably
called it then, is still there, and
is being used by Thompson as a
partition wall for his office. The
Ceiling bears scars left when the
old stage, an enormous one, was
torn down, probably sometime be-
tween 1915 and 1920.
The upper floor of the building
has been partitioned off, and the
south part of it is now being used
as a meeting room for the Celina
Masonic lodge, but back in the
good old days, the entire floor was
used by the theatre, which had a
large seating capacity. Uncon-
firmed rumor has it that the build-
ing was condemned between 1914
and 1917 by state authorities for
public gatherings—at any. rate,
its use as a theatre is now only
a dim memory of the distant past.
Road shows, vaudeville, Chatau-
qua, amateur theatricals, and lat-
er, when moving pictures feebly
and flickeringly began to appear
on the American scene, the mo-
vies, used the building, which was
built in 1910. Celina young folios
used the old theatre for amateur
plays. Mrs. S. G. McKnight says
she remembers that once The
Merchant of Venice was presented,
with Miss Ermyne Mitchell (now
Mrs. O..J. Moss of Bryan, Texas)
as Portia, and Dr. Claude Thur-
man as Shylock. Dr. Thurman, a
brother of Lee Thurman of Celi-
na, is a member ofthefaculty of.
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lege, Commerce. —
The Record has had in its files
for several years a photograph
taken years ago in the old opera
house. It pictures ■' on the stage
several local talent actors who
were engaged in presenting a play.
The photo appears on this page,
with tentative identification of
some of the characters.
Mr. and Mrs. D. Earl Miller of
Port Arthur are visiting Mri and
Mrs. S. A. Miller while on vaca-
tion. Sunday guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Miller were all of their chil-
dren except one daughter, Mrs.
Logsdon. Those present included
Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Miller and
daughter Carlene of Dallas, Mr.
and Mrs. D. E. Miller of Port
Arthur, James and Dwight. The
latter has accepted a position in
Dallas.
Leslie Ray Flanery spent Sat-
urday night and Sunday wifh rela-
tives of Van Alstyne.
Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Rigsby and
Billy spent the week-end in Dallas
with their daughter and son-in-
law, Mrs. M. L. Garrett and Mr.
Garrett.
Jerry Wayne Johnson of Texar-
kana is spending the week with
his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
Rigsby.
Mr. and Mrs. Hoyt Adams and
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Ritz Theatre
CELINA
Show Opens 8:00 p. m.
Starts 8:15 p. m.
Box Office Closes 9:30 p. m.
SATURDAY
Allan Lane and Bobby Blake
in
Santa Fe Uprising
SAT. NITE PREVIEW
James Cagney and George
Raft, in
Each Dawn I Die
SUNDAY-MONDAY
Ray Milland and Charles
Laughton, in
The Big Clock
TUES.-WEDNESDAY
Abbott and Costello in
The Wistful Widow
Of Wagon Gap
thursday-friday
Franchot Tone and Janet
Blair in
I Love Trouble
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