The Bogata News (Bogata, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, September 5, 1947 Page: 1 of 4
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VOLUME XXXVI
BOGATA, RED RIVER COUNTY. TEXAS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1947
NUMBER 44
igata School
Will Begin Term
September 11th
Vote by Boxes in
This Area On
New Road Law
Ten Red River county voting
boxes failed to give the county
optional road law even one vote
Registration for an estimated in the election two weeks ago
475 enrollment of high school, The four Clarksville boxes were
and grammar school students will £or by a smad margin—263 to
Over the county it was de-
240.
begin on Thursday, Sept. 11 at
Bogata Public Schools, according
to Supt. F. L. Branson. All
teachers have been secured with
a complete list below of high
school and grammar school
teachers:
High School —
S. Cody, principal.
Morris Trimm, agriculture.
Mrs. Lydia Burt, English.
Mrs. Johnny Stevens, English-
Spanish.
Bob Mistele, science-coach.
Mrs. Doris Strain, commercial Halesboro
subjects.
T. M. Dunn, mathematics.
Grammar School
G. W. Seay, principal.
Mrs. May Dan Bell
Mrs. Rena Bryson
Miss Jodie Craddock
Mrs. Archie Lowry
Mrs. Rowena Wood
Mrs. Eva Watkins
Mrs. Lucy B. Holder
Mrs. R. E. Porter
Emma Dinwiddie is teacher for
the colored school.
The school lunch program will
be carried out again this year as
it was last.
feated four to
area follow:
one. Boxes in
this
Voting Prec.
For
Agn
McCoy __________
_______________ 3
27
Cuthand
21
10
Rosalie ___________
4
22
Johntown _____
o
17
South Bogata
7
7(i
North Bogata
_________________ 9
78
Rugby __________
4
12
Fulbright
18
46
Bagwell
4
89
j South Detroit
3
90
North Detroit
3
127
Halesboro
1
6
Total
378
1590
Weather is Hot;
Fall Coming
Funeral Service
For W. D. Hughes
Held Saturday
Funeral of H. D. Hughes, 59, of
Paris was held Saturday at Rock-
ford Church by the Rev. Lester
Singleton of Ramseur Baptist
Church, with burial in Rockford
Cemetery. *
Pallbearers were H. R. Archie,
J. D. Luster, W. J. Green, C. P.
Norrell, L. C. Humphrey and R.
W. Jones.
Mr. Hughes, a retired farmer
born in Fannin county, moved to
Paris eight years ago from Rock-
ford community. He died Wed-
nesday morning at the Sanitar-
ium of Paris.
Surviving are Mrs. Hughes, the
former Miss Mary Geron; these
children: Luther L. Hughes,
Leander; Mrs. Henry Martinez,
Riverside, Calif.; Mrs. Warrin-
ger, Saugerties, N. Y., and Mrs.
Newt Burchinal, Paris, and these
brothers and sisters: Mrs. George
Davis, Enloe; Austin Hughes,
Abernathy; Mrs. Grace Tatum
_ . ,and John Hughes, Lamont, Calif.,
September got off to a good Miss Nettie Hughes, Paris, and
start with 103 degrees of temper-!Mrs. Eula Lynn, Pattonville, and
atur oen Monday and kept up the [ five grandchildren
record Tuesday and Wednesday. Mr. Hughes was born March
Wednesday morning was a lit-129, 1888, in Fannin county, but
tie cooler, due to a shower of | had lived in Lamar county most
rain in an adjoining county to the Qf his life,
south, but blistering heat was on I __
the job again in the afternoon.
Autumn arrives officially
Sept. 23.
Hopkins Has New
Oil Field
MRS. BESSIE POPE
Former employee of the Corner Drug Store at
Paris, has accepted a position with us and we cordially
invite friends and customers to call and meet her.
Mrs. Pope is an experienced drug and cosmetic
;lerk and will be pleased to serve you,
BUCKMAN DRUG STORE
BOGATA, TEXAS
Talco Oil Field Has Produced Over
One Hundred Million Barrels Oil
Talco’s great oil field, discover-
ed in February, 1936, had produc-
ed nearly one hundred million
barr , of oil up to Jan. 1, 1947,
and more than exceeds that fig-
ure at this date, according to in-
formation supplied by the Texas
Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Ass’n.
The figures on Jan. 1, 1947 were
96,564,534 barrels.
During the year 1946 the field
from its 795 wells, produced 10,-
023,240 barrels of oil.
The Talco field is in the north-
ern part of Titus and Franklin
counties and a break down of
production in both of them
shows: v
Titus’ 541 wells, producing 5,-
227,196 barrels in 1946 and 58,-
082,690 from the time the field
was established in February,
1936 to January 1, 1947.
Franklin’s 254 wells produced
4,796,044 barrels in 1946 and
38,481,844 barrels from March,
1936 to Jan. 1, 1947.
The Sulphur Bluff field in
Northern Hopkins county, pro-
ducing from the same Paluxy
sand, has 96 wells; produced 1,-
828,606 barrels in 1946 and 15,-
993,506 barrels from the time the
field was discovered in May,
1936, to Jan. 1, 1947.
Red River County Harvest of Cotton
School Children
Number 5,779
Bogata Bulldogs
Start Workouts
Mrs. J. M. Rodgers
Buried Wednesday
At Detroit
Approximately 30 men report- Mrs- J M- Rodgers, 78-year-
ed for football practice this sea- old Detroit resident, died at 4 p.
son. Coach Bob Mistele began m Tuesday at the Grant Hospital
workouts Monday and will con- in DeP°rt. where she had been a
tinue from 8 until 10 o’clock each Patient for several weeks, being
morning
Sept. 11.
until school starts on under treatment for heart ail-
ment.
__n ,,j _ , I Funeral services were held
fi f th 11 l°^f ^ ayeC* Wednesday afternoon at Detroit
first football last season. I __1___1 1___a
She had been a member of the|wdh 794 in the colored list.
Post Oak Baptist Church for
many years. DOVE SEASON OPENED
SEPTEMBER 1st
East Texas apparently had a
new oil field Monday as reports
from a Hopkins county wildcat,
Delta No. 1 W. H. Coker, Nacog-
doches USL four miles southeast
of Reilley Springs recovered 725
feet of oil, estimated at 20-25
| gravity, on a twenty-minute
j drillstem test. Test was in the
sub-Clarksville at 4,119-4,210
feet. Completion attempts will
I be made with five and one-half
I inch casing. Testing continued.
WE SERVE
RECENT BRIDE
WITH SHOWER
HONORED
First National Bank
IN BOGATA, TEXAS
Mrs. L. S. Bankhead of Mt.
Vernon, the former Miss Robbie
Morgan, was honored with a
shower Tuesday afternoon at the
| home of Mrs. Ruth Vaughan who
was assisted by Mrs. Alice Set-
zer.
Miss Madgie Francis presided
at the bride’s book where the
guests registered and were serv-
ed cookies and punch. The bride
received many nice and useful
gifts.
their nrst iootnan last season,
when most of the teams they
played outclassed thpm in every
way. This season they expect to „ . . , ....
change the looks of the football! Surviving are eleven children,
calendar for Bogata. 3,1 o£ them llvlnS- The-V are
Mmes. Dick Scott, Fulbright;
, as Maude Gibson of Post Oak, Ma-
be given mje Gibson and Elsie Billups of
Detroit, Ocie Floyd of Paris and
Beatrice Kennemer of Biards-
town; Willie and Lonnie Rod-
jgers of Detroit, Bennie and Er-
|bie Rodgers of Talco, and Leo
|Rodgers of Paris.
Scholastic population of Red
River county for 1947 stands at
5,779, according to figures re-
leased by County Superintend-
ent Haskell Peek.
Sixty per cent, or 3,469 schol-
astics, are reported in the six in-
dependent districts.
Clarksville
Bogata
Detroit
Avery
Annona
Fulbright
White scholastics in
pendent districts total 2,755. Col-
ored children total 794, of which
454 are in the Clarksville dis-
trict.
Common Districts
Scholastics in the common
school districts in this area are:
Crop Underway
In This Area
Bogata Gin Co. had turn-
ed out 43 bales of cotton u|>
to Thursday morning. Last
week’s rain stopped prematura
opening, and the weather haa
been too hot for pickers to ga-
ther much cotton this week.
Picking should become general
1,324 by nex{ Monday. Growers are
555 paying $2.00 per 100 pounds of
seed cotton in this area, and seed
were quoted at $70 per ton.
Lint was bringing from 31 t®
31l/2 cents.
409
384
231
inde-
New Law Hard
On Road Hogs
Cuthand
Mauldin
Pine Branch
Johntown
Glendale
Mosley
McCrury ______________________________ 36
Bagwell 55
White scholastics in common
districts are reported at 1,470,
the schedule
as con
Following is
near complete
at this time:
Sept. 26—James Bowie—here
Oct. 3—Avenger—there.
Oct. 10—Clarksville—there.
Oct. 17—Open.
Oct. 24—Naples—here.
Oct. 31—Open. (
Nov. 14—Daingerfield — there.
Nov. 24—Open.
Nov. 27—Deport—here.
Texas’s new traffic law, in ef-
fect Sept. 5, makes things rough.
22 for those people who think they'
281 are the only ones on the road.
70 The person who drives up in the
jg; middle of the road, or wanders
41 from one side to the other, will
now be liable to arrest. So will
the person who passes one ve-
hicle when another is coming to
meet him, says Col. Homer Gar-
rison, Director Department of
Public Safety.
A driver must stay on the right
except when passing, when driv-
ing on a one-way thoroughfare,
or when the right side of the road
is blocked.
this
G. L. VAUGHAN TO HEAD
BAGWELL SCHOOL SYSTEM
GARRETTS LEAVE FOR
SOUTH AMERICA
Mr. and Mrs. Jinrv Garrett re-
ceived word Tuesday that their
daughter-in-law, Mrs. Everett
Garrett and children, Carolyn
and Wade, would go by plane
from Houston on Wednesday to
Campaign Against
Bang's Disease
Anyone who wishes to sign up
in the campaign against the
dreaded Bangs disease, is anked
to get in touch with Morris
Trimm at Bogata or J. C. Miller
They have he forms of agree-
ment to be signed by all farm-
ers who wish, to cooperate in the
Dove hunting season in _____
zone opened on Monday, Sept. 1, |
and will close Oct. 15. Legal'
limit is 10 birds per day. Recent
rains permit the birds to water
in many places and not so many
of them will be killed this sea- G. L. Vaughan, Winnsboro, has
I son as would have been the case contracted to head the Bagwell
had watering places remained public school system for the
few. All hunting and fishing li- ttj;m opening Sept. 8. He has
censes expired on Aug. 31, and been superintendent at Irene the
should be renewed- past two years.
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Barranquilla, South America. Icontro1 and eradication of Bang’s
»TM____ ___: 11 1 . • . HicPDCO Thic 'l llPnni uDnt ic on.
They will be met there by Mr.
Garrett, who is employed at Cu- i
cuta, by an oil company. They
expect to be away one year.
GUY FLETCHER RESIGNS
TO ENTER BUSINESS
Deputy Sheriff Guy Fletcher
has resigned to enter the auto-
mobile business in Paris. He
served nearly three years as an
efficient deputy and was a mem-
ber of the Paris police force for
four years prior to that time.
He and Sheriff Bob England
have the Hudson agency.
LIFE EXPECTANCY
NOW STANDS AT 67
disease. This agreement is en- |
ftered into between the farmer
and Livestock Sanitary Commis-
jsion of Texas. The sooner a
large number of farmers have
signed up the sooner something
can be done about the situation.
(This is voluntary on the part of
(the farmer and costs him nothing.
Life expectancy of the aver- -
age American has increased 27 EXPERT SEES MEAT
years over the past 100 years and (LESS, COST HIGHER
now stands at 67 years. | _
.Wa^ ITvealed Friday by | American consumers will get
' A ar or z’ .president °f 1 about 5 per cent less meat next
he American Medical Associa- !year-and perhaps pay higher
‘V£ 3 1 m thC current 'Prices for it, Charles A. Burmeis-
nC n ygela- I ter, economist of the livestock
Dr. Bortz wrote that the aver-'branch of the Production and
said.
FOOD VALUES
You'll Always Find the Best
Food Values On Our Shelves
We strive daily to hold our
Grocery and Market
Prices Down
SCHOOL NEEDS
FREE! Monday and Tuesday
A CREAM CONE with your purchase of School Supplies of 25c or More.
age length of life of Americans
was 40 years in 1847.
the
of the Production
Marketing Administration,
Announcement of the engage-
Joe Allan Jones, son of Mr. and ment and approaching marriage
Mrs. Clarkson Jones, returned of Miss Geraldine Musgrove to
home Tuesday from Griffiths George Fletcher of Roxton, has
Hospital in Paris, where he un- been made by her parents, Mr.
derwent a tonsillectomy Mon- and Mrs. J. B*. Musgrove of Par-
day. Joe spent from Saturday is, former residents of Cunning-
until Tuesday at the hospital. !ham.
—to save you money on them,
it profitable and easy to do
shopping with us.
You’ll find
your food
SKIDMORE & TOPPING
Groceries—Market—Feeds
BOGATA
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Fountain Pens . 50c and up
Mechanical Pencils 20c up
Composition Books—
5c, 10c and 15c
Science Paper 10c Rulers 5c
Inks_______________5c, 10c, 15c, 25c
Numerous Brands and Colors.
Paste ------------------- 5c and 10c
Notebook Paper . 5c and 10c
Note Book Binders _______ 25c
Note Book Fillers 5c and 10c
Crayolas ______5c, 10c and 15c
Map Colors........10c and 15c
Pen Staffs ...........................5c
Pencil Tablets.................. 5c
Reinforcements..................5c
Art Gum ______________5c and 10c
Typewriter Packs ..10c - 15c
A very complete line of Master Piece School Supplies for your needs. You
will like the really low prices.
Buckman Drug Store
AUBREY BUCKMAN
FALL MERCHANDISE
For Men
New Fall Felts________________ $4.95 to $15.00
Mens and Boys Plaid Shirts, $1.49-$2.98
All sizes in Work Clothes—Khaki and
Overalls and Blue Jeans.
New shipment of Peters and Wolver-
ine Shoes for Men, Women, Children.
See our new assortment in Fall Mater-
ials—Woolens. Linens and Crepes.
1 Special lot of Prints................35c yd.
TURNER’S
DRY GOODS
BOGATA, TEXAS
—
SCHOOL DAYS ARE HERE
We have stocked all your School Needs, such as
Note Book Backs, Note Book Paper
Book Satchels, Inks, Paste, Erasers
Large and Small Note Books
Eversharp Pencils
Fountain Pens, Lead Pencils
Wide and Narrow Tablets
Rulers and Scissors
Crayolas and Water Colors
Pencil Sharpeners
Construction Paper
Buy your School Supplies here and get a FKEE
BALLOON or WHISTLE.
DILLS S.S STORE
5c to
$1.00
Variety Merchandise
BOGATA, TEXAS
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The Bogata News (Bogata, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, September 5, 1947, newspaper, September 5, 1947; Bogata, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth911778/m1/1/: accessed July 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Red River County Public Library.