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VOLUME 40
BOGATA, RED RIVER COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1951
NUMBER 10
Mrs. John Allen
Dies Wednesday
ter Stroke
Bogata Bank Pays! Designate New
10% Dividend and FM Roads in Red
Awards Bonuses j River County
to stockholders of that institution.
The Board also passed an order
to pay employees of the bank a
Christmas bonus of 10 per cent of
their annual salaries.
Mrs. John Allen, 62, passed
away Wednesday morning at the
home of a son, Kenneth Allen at
Taylortown. She suffered a stroke
Shortly before her death. Funeral
service was held Thursday after-
noon at 2 o’clock at the Baptist
church at Cunningham by the
Rev. H. T. Eudy of Cuthand. In-
terment was in Halesboro ceme-
tery.
Surviving are these children,
Mrs. Ira Temple, Fred-Allen of
Cunningham, Mrs. Silas Howell,
Mrs. Murel Roach of Bogata, Mrs.
Ross Warren of Milton, Mrs. Wil-
lie Joe Fowler of Halesboro, Mrs.
Edwin Davis of Pattonville, Ken-
neth Allen of Taylortown and profits $28,357.10.
^P>ze Allen of Paris. j Officers of the bank arc: W D.
Deceased, the former Martha Harvey, president; A. L. Buck-
Bell Boze, was the daughter of man, vice-president; S. T. Smith,
Benjamin and Lou Boze. She was cashier; Lenox Hudson, ass’t
born Aug. 22, 1889 at Boxelder cashier; and Clemmie Lassiter,
in Red River County. Her hus- | ass’t cashier,
band died in 1926. She had lived I Directors are: W D. Harvey,
in the Cunningham and Milton I Geo. P. Groutt, G. W. Bartlett, S.
communities for many years. j T. Smith, A. L. Buckman, W. H.
Named as pallbearers were ! Whitten, R. A. Grayson and Wil-
Wayne Lawler, Velma Ladd, Bill Rarn Rozell.
Musgrove, F. E. McGahan, Wood- i
“In Red River County the fol-
(■innini* Report
For Counties
A report from the Department
of Commerce on the number of
cotton bales ginned prior to De-
cember 17 shows:
Lamar County, 22.202 bales;
Delta County, 14,974 bales; Red
James G. Wooley
Dies Thursday
Directors of the First National
BanukJn *°g,ata, ,hnaVe orde4red allowing described roads are here- River County, 10,334 bales, and
cash dividend of 10 per cent paid by desiRnated as farm-to-market Fannin County, 26,257 bales.
roads, subject to the availability Largest number of bales report-
of funds in the Farm-to-Market ed ginned in any one county up
Road Fund of the State Highway 1° this date is Hidalgo County
Department as established by with 277,417 bales. Lubbock fol-
Senate Bill 287, Acts 1949, 51st : lows second with 135.304 bales.! Mr. Wooley was a director and
James Gordon Wooley, 51,
[Clarksville banker, died at home
Thursday. He suffered a heart
attack.
Funeral was set for Friday at ,
J 3 p. m. at the Presbyterian church
| at Clarksville, the Rev. Arthur
1 Osburn officiating, with burial in
j Fairview cemetery.
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The bank has enjoyedla good | Legislature and’ appropriated by ! Smallest number of hales ginned 1 RpdRi';^
year. In its statement of Oct. 10 j House Bill 420, Acts 1951, 52nd 1 from counties growing cotton is
its surplus and undivided profits Legislature, for the improvement: Morris County with 448 bales,
totaled $53,357.10; capital stock
$50,000 and deposits of $713,350.23.
The sum of $5,000 went into its
surplus and $5,000 into its con-
tingent fund, making those fig-
ures for the new statement: Sur-
plus, $35,000.00 and undivided
row Jackson and Aimer Norwood.
PLEAS TURNERS
HONOR EMPLOYEES
Mr. and Mrs. Pleas Turner en-
tertained their employees with a
Christmas dinner Friday even-
ing. Attending were Claud Earl j
Reynolds, Mr. and Mrs. Law- j
rence Wood, Mrs. Carl Wims and |
son, Durwood and the hosts. A
delicious dinner was enjoyed. 1
4THAND MAN HURT
DYNAMITE BLAST
Marvin Brooks of Bogata Rt. 1
was admitted to the Red River
County Hospital with a mangled
hand and arm, caused by a dyna-
mite explosion.
Present at a Christmas day din-
ner in the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Joe Nolan were children, grand-
children and great-grandchildren
of the late Mr. and Mrs. Newton
Chesshire; Mr. and Mrs. Hershel
Chesshire of Clarksville, Miss
Audrey Chesshire and Miss Mat-
tie Chesshire of Dallas, Mr. and
Mrs. John Newton Keith of Hous-
ton, Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Burgess
of Clarksville, Mr. and Mrs. Jap
Chesshire, Mr..and Mrs. Sidney
Hudson and sons, David Lee and
Sidney Ward, Mrs. Eleanor Keith,
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Nolan and chil-
dren, Sarah Sue, Myra Faye, and
John Floyd of Bogata.
A family party was given on
Christmas day in the home of Mr.
and Mrs. L. C. McDonald. Gifts
j were exchanged from a decorated
| tree. A turkey dinner was serv-
to Mrs. Iva Hooker and Miss Mary
: Lassiter of Dallas, Mr. and Mrs.
nolds had as their guests Christ- jatk Duncan of Wichita Falls,
mas day, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Leg- Truman Lassiter of Grand Saline,
gett and children, Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. L. G. Farris and sons, Gerald,
Oscar Leggett and son, Harold Max and Lee of pilmer, Mr. and
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Reynolds 1
and family and Mrs. Dora Rey-
Dean, Mr. and Mrs. Billy Allen
Leggett and Mrs. Clara Hooker
of Fulbright; Mr. and Mrs. Her-
bert Miller of Texarkana, Mr. and
Mrs. Jess Evans and C. S. Morgan
Bogata.
Mrs. Britt Lassiter. Mr. and Mrs.
Bill Wilkinson and son, Freddie
and the host and hostess. After
dinner guests were Mr. and Mrs.
Scott Sulsar of Paris.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Puckett and
i grandson, Jerry Vickers, went to
McKinney Saturday to spend
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Humphries
,eJ daughters, Trudy Ann and
c.,^at, are spending the holidays Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. Bil-
here visiting Mrs. Humphries’ mo- j ly Ray Puckett and baby. Mrs.
ther, Mrs. E. Q. Guess and Mr. Dora Vickers of Dallas, will join
Humphries’ sisters, Mrs. Gordon them there. Billy Ray is a pa-
DeBerry and Mrs. Bud Humph- tient in the veterans hospital
ries and families. They live in there. Mrs. Puckett and baby
San Angelo. live in McKinney.
NEW YEAR GREETINGS
TO OUR FRIENDS
and Thank You most kindly
for your patronage during the
three years we have been in
business.
May We Continue to
Serve You in 1952
BRITT LASSITER HARDWARE
BRITT AND DUDE LASSITER
Phone 87
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of Farm-to-Market Roads by the
Texas Highway Department dur-
ing the biennium from Septem-
ber 1, 1951 to August 31, 1953, and
subject to the further condition
that Red River County will fur-
nish all required
Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Denny en-
tertained the following with a
dinner Christmas Eve; Mr. and
Mrs. Wayne Bryant of Tyler, Mr.
and Mrs. Arthur Fisher and
right-of-way | daughters, Barbara Nell and
National Bank. He had been with
this institution since August, 1920,
after two years with the City Na-
tional Bank.
lie was born in Red River
County, Jan. 31, 1900, son of the
late Mr. and Mrs. John Henry
Wooley. He married Miss Veda
Sivley April 30, 1923.
Mr. Wooley was a member of
J. LEE SMITH of Bogata, local line foreman for Community
Public Service Company, is shown receiving a gold Service Pin
from Vice-President N. K. Parsons of Fort Worth, while Bogata
Manager Thurman Kinsey waits his turn to recive a pin. Smith
and Kinsey were among 19 Northeast Texas employees of Com-
munity who received gold service emblems at a dinner held in
Sherman recently.
free of cost to the State: j Reba Ann of Mosely, Mr. and Mrs.
“From end of F. M. 410. south , Russell Townsend, Mr. and JWrs. Uhe Presbyterian Church and had
to F. M. 411, a distance of approx-
imately 4.1 miles.
Marvin Ward, Lanell Randle
and John Hunt of Bogata.
“From end of F. M. 44 at Box-
elder, southeast to road intersec-
tion, a distance of approximately
4.3 miles.
"From end of F. M. 410 at Kan-
awha, north to West Scarp, a dis-
tance of approximately 3.3 miles.
“From Loop 38 at Bogata,
northwest to F. M. 909, a distance
of approximately 0.5 mile.
“Upon acceptance of the pro-
visions of this Order by the pro- Mrs. Thurman Franks of Rug-
per officials of Red River County by, underwent an emergency ap-
The following Bogatans enjoy-
ed a Christmas dinner Saturday
in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ar-
thur Fisher and daughters, Bar-
bara and Reba at Mosely: Mr.
and Mrs. Russell Townsend, Mr.
and Mrs. A. H. Denny and June,
Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Denny and
granddaughter, . Lanell Randle,
and Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Ward.
been active in civic affairs.
Besides his wife, he leaves a
daughter, Mrs. Jack Buford, Mid-
land; two grandchildren; two sis-
ters, Mrs. Pat Rhodes, New Bos-
ton, and Mrs. Calvin Parker, Ft.
Worth, and a brother, Albert
Wooley, Clarksville.
the State Highway Engineer is
directed to proceed with the pre-
paration of plans for construc-
tion and when right-of-way and
funds are available to proceed
with construction and to assume
the roads for maintenance upon
completion of construction.”
pendectomy at the Grant Hospi-
tal Sunday night. She was able
to be moved to the home of her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Clif-
ton, Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. Mack Dunn had
as their guests Christmas day for
dinner: Mrs. Homer Brunette
and Mrs. Osford of Austin, Mr.
and Mrs. Paul Dunn and son,
Dickie of Carrollton, Mr. and
Mrs. Billy Mack Brunette and
daughter, Betty Ann of Arling-
ton, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hudson
and children of DeKalb and Mr.
and Mrs. David Brunette of Paris.
Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Chesshir
and son, Kay Don of Andrews, |
Kenneth Chesshir of Los An- |
geles, Calif., Mr. anil Mrs. Lee j
Holbert and children. George, I
Jean and Dixie of St, Louis, Ok., i R ,
were called here by the serious I_____ ,
illness of their father and grand-
father. Dick Chesshir. who is a , , , , •»->
patient at the Gran' Hospital in JI<)° ° 1 *>nl
Deport. They are \i long their
sister and aunt here Mrs. Carlos
Vaughan, Mr. Vaughan and boys.
John Douglas and Melvin Harold.
Former Deport
Boy is P0W
Sgt. L. C. Harris of Corpus
Christi, formerly of Deport, is
among the list of Americans of-
ficially announced last week as
Prisoners of War. He had been
reported missing in action and it
was the first news received by
relatives from him in over a year.
Sgt. Harris is the son of Mrs.
Clyde Harris who recently moved
from Deport to Corpus Christi.
He received his training at Ft.
Kans., prior to his over-
seas assignment. He was a ne-
phew of the late Henry West-
Thurman Kinsey, local manager
of Community Public Service Co.,
and J. Lee Smith, "line foreman,
were among 19 Northeast Texas
employees of the utility firm who
received gold Service Pins at an
employee dinner in the Grayson
Hotel at Sherman on Dec. 17.
Kinsey has worked for the com-
pany 24 years, Smith 12 years.
Vice-President N R. Parsons of
Fort Worth, who presented the
small gold emblems, pointed out
that of 164 employees in Texas
and New Mexico who are receiv-
ing service awards during De-
cember, one-half have worked for
the company more than 20 years.
To be eligible for a Service
Total length of service of the 19 { Pin, an employee must have
employees receiving pins at Sher- worked regularly for the firm 10
man was 340 years. I years or more years.
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Dr. Stephen H. Grant Dies Suddenly
Friday From Severe Heart Attack
Dr. Stephen H. Grant died at f '
1 o’clock Friday morning from a f|jL
heart attack at his home in De- IJi jP'- y,
port, following an illness of more Li: kv* ’’
than a year, and .which had kept g- L -
him from active practice for about
two months.
Realizing that he must curb his
activities, due to a bad heart, he
sold his hospital in Deport a
month ago to Dr. Jack A. King,
formerly of Linden. He had spent
two weeks in a Paris hospital,
following the closing of the De- |, ^ ’
port hospital, and had just return-
ed home last week from Browns-
ville, where he had a nice, long
rest. Dr. Grant suffered a severe
heart attack on Thursday after-
noon and died a few hours later.
The body lay in state at the
Presbyterian church Monday
from 10 until 2 o’clock, when
funeral services were conducted Presbyterian Churrh and direct_
by Dr Joe Everheart, minister or and vic*.nresident of Dep0rt
and interment was made by Grant State Bank He vvas vice-pres-
Funeral Home in Evergreen • . . -
cemetery in Paris.
Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Denny and
daughter, June, entertained with
a pre-Christmas dinner Friday at
their home, where a bountiful
dinner was served to lyir. and
Mrs. Arthur Fisher and daugh-
ters, Barbara Nell and Reba Ann
of Mosely, Mr. and Mrs. D. C.
Denny and granddaughter, Lanell
Randle, Mr. and Mrs. Marvin
Ward and the hosts.
i Mrs. Amy Craddock entertain-
ed with a supper on Christmas
eve. Present were Dale Crad-
dock of Austin, Mr. and Mrs. Van
Dorn Craddock and son. Vandy
of Gladewater, Mr...and Mrs. Rex
Craddock and daughters, Regina
and Carolyn of Paris, and Mr. and
Mrs. Alvin Wood.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Roberts
entertained with a Christmas din-
ner Sunday at their home. Those
present were Mr. and Mrs. B. B.
Adams and son of Longview, Mr.
and Mrs. Loyd Brown and chil-
dren of Paris, Mr. and Mrs. Mel-
vin Cannon and son of Lela and
Mr. and Mrs. Will Davis, Bogata.
Pallbearers were these nephews:
Frank Griffin, Alec Griffin, Hugh
Griffin, Paul Wood, Carl Wood
and Lawrence Wood.
Honorary pallbearers were el-
ders of the Deport Presbyterian
Church, officers and directors of
Visitors Christmas day in the
He was an elder in the Deport H. D. Brown home were Mr. and
‘ Mrs. Druie Ray and son, Dan of
Van Buren, Ark., Mr. and Mrs.
Marlin Bristo of Biardstown, Mr.
and Mrs. B. W. Ray of Dallas, Mr.
and Mrs. Royce Hammett, Mr.
and Mrs. T. H. Hammett and son,
Lamar County Medical
I Society, of which he was also a
past president, a member of the | <
Texas and American Medical as- , Doyle, of Clarksville,
sociation, General Practitioners I —■
Association and Texas Heart As- Mr and Mrs. jGhn Ford and
sociation. He had ranching, farm- | son joe had as visitors over the
ing and banking interests, and | holidays, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert
his hobbies were hunting and
the Deport State Bank and the fishing.
First National Bank of Deport; Dr. Grant’s father, George W.
members of the Lamar County
Grant, was a pioneer farmer of
Medical Association, Dr. A G. El- the RRgby community> and a na-
der, Dr. Jack A. King and Dr.
der. Dr. Jack A. King, Dr. John
R. Brittain and Dr. Roy Grayson.
Surviving are one son, Russell
tive of Red River County, who
passed away in 1934 at 86 years.
His maternal great-grandmother
was Ply Stark, daughter of John
Grant, Deport; two grandchil- stark, American Revolutionary
dren, Miss Betty Jo Grant, Okla- j war general. His father farmed
homa City, Okla., and Stephen
Russell Grant here, and three sis-
ters, Mrs. Florence Roach and
Mrs. May Bell, Bogata and Mrs.
Emma Wood, Rugby.- His- wife,
the former Miss Betty Alice
Franklin of Rugby, whom he mar-
ried June 17, 1903, died in 1945.
and owned and operated a gin at
Rugby. His desire to study medi-
cine was instilled by his own fam-
ily physician, Dr. George A.
Wright, and the encouragement
of his childhood sweetheart, Betty
Alice Franklin, whom he later
1 married.
Daniels of Okeene, Ok., Mr. and
Mrs. Wayland Walker and daugh-
ter, Janie of Wolfe City, Misses
Janice, Justine and Jean Ford of
Dallas, George Ford of Ft. Worth
and John Ford Jr. of Snyder.
Dr. Grant, son of the late In nearly fiftv years of medical
George W. and Fannie Grant, was practice Dr. Grant used most
born at Rugby, April 16, 1879. He every kind of conveyance to
attended the medical school of | reach his sick patients — horse-
the University of Texas in Gal-
veston, graduated in 1902, and
served his internship ih John
Sealy Hospital, Galveston.
He practiced medicine two
at Rugby before moving to
Dec. li, IMS. He Wganis-
r H. Grant ]
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|back, horses and buggy, .motor-
cycle, four-cylinder Flanders and
later model T Fords. He swam
hi* saddlehorse when bridges
were out or water was high and
crossed Sulphur in row boats to
perform operations. Nothing kept
him from his patients
T& SS .3? “
Mr. and Mrs. Les Campbell, Mr.
and Mrs. Harley Campbell and
daughters, and Mrs. R. D. Smith,
all of Lamesa, were guests for the
Christmas holidays of their par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Camp-
bell, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Reece in
Deport and Mr. and Mrs. Lum
Fennell of Bogata.
Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Bryson had
as holiday visitors, Mr. and Mrs.
N. A. Bryson and son of Grape-
vine, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Fuller
and daughter of Garland and Mr.
and Mrs. Howard Ed Bryson an
sons of Bogata.
Mrs. W. H. Grayson was a
pleasant caller at THie News of-
fice Saturday and renewed her
subscription to The Bogata New*.
She alee subscribed tor Hi* Nows
to be sea* to her sen and wile.
Lawrence Martin
Buried Friday
Lawrence Martin, 57, Paris
hardware salesman, who made
his home in Deport, died Thurs-
day. Mrs. Martin is a teacher in
the Deport school.
The funeral was Friday with
burial in Evergreen cemetery.
The Rev. A I„ Lusby, Cavincss.
Methodist pastor, was assisted by
the Rev. J. L. Wideman. Baptist
minister.
Mr. Martin, born at Chicota,
June 18. 1894, was a son of Mr.
and Mrs. W. A. Martin, now of
Lamesa, where his mother was
reported critically ill.
Besides his parents, he leaves
his wife, formerly Miss Marie
I Jack, and these sisters and bro-
thers: Mrs. Mark Falls, Chicota:
Mrs. Wendell Gibson and Russell
Martin. Lamesa: W. A. Martin Jr..
Lubbock; R. D. Martin, Archer
City: Joe Martin. Seminole; Mor-
ris Martin, Sherman, and JS'ca'
Martin, in Colorado.
An overseas veteran of World
War 1. he was a member of the
American Legion. He was for-
merly employed by the old John-
son-Billingsley Hardware Co. at
Paris, and for the past 10 years,
he had been a salesman for Bob
Svvaim Hardware Store.
Sterling Evans
Buried Monday
Funeral service of Sterling
Evans, 51, of Pattonville, was held
at 4 p. m. Monday at J. M. Grant
Funeral Home in Deport. Leon-
ard Coker of Paris, Church of
Christ minister, had charge, and
interment was in Highland ceme-
tery. Pallbearers were Tommie
Claxton. Dempsey Floyd, John
Isbell. Barney Scott. Dixie Pettit
and Thomas Young.
Mr. Evans died Sunday in
Grant Hospital, Deport. He was
born at Woodbury. Tenn., July
26, 1900, son of the late J. C. and
Fannie Gunter Evans.
Besides his'wifc, Alice, he leaves
these children: Glenn Sterling
Evans. Ada Gale Evans, Linda
Sue Evans and Virginia Fay
Evans of Pattonville; a sister,
Mrs. J. D Thompson, and these
brothers. Frank Evans, Charles
Evans and George Evans, all of
Dallas.
The following relatives enjoy-
cd a Christmas dinner at the j
home of Mr. and Mrs. Clovis
Whitten last Sunday. Mr. and
Mrs. Earl Humphries and daugh- (
ters of San Angelo, Mrs. E. G.
Guess of Bogata, Mr. and Mrs. J.
C. Watkins and sons, John, Har-
old and Charles of Lone Star. Mr.
and Mrs. Jack Watkins and
daughter, Nancy of Ft. Worth, j
Mr. and Mrs. Ted Phillips and i
son, Britt of Marshall, Mr. and
Mrs. Gene Lampard of Lone Star, |
Bobby Guess of Houston, Herman
Guess and son, George Ray of
Rugby.
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Shows enter-
tained the following with a
Christmas dinner: Mr. and Mrs.
Son Shows, Mr. and Mrs. Babe
Shows, Mr. and Mrs. John N.
Keith and Dan Morris of Pasa-
dena: Mr. and Mrs. William Sum-
mers of Houston. Bennie Shows of
Danville, Kv., Mr. and Mrs. Billie
Payne and girls, Dallas; Mr. and
Mrs. Arthur Reed and girls, Coop-
er; Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Burges and
Mr. and Mrs. Haskell Summers
of Clarksville. Afternoon callers
were Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Watts,
Dallas, Kenneth Smith, Deport,
Mrs. Helen Armstrong, Ashdown,
Ark., and Annie Lee Watkins, Bo-
gata.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Leftwich and
children of Goldsmith, spent the
week here with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. H. D. Brown, and his
mother, Mrs. George Leftwich,
of Talco.
Happy
ear
We feel deeply grateful for the consideration you
have so kindly extended to us in the past and take this
opportunity, at the close of the year, to thank you for
all the fine things that have been ours to en(oy.
In the New Year.we pledge continued effort on our
part to merit your goodwill. In appreciation of this
consideration, and the splendid patronage resulting
from it, we extend to you and yours a cordial greeting
for the New Yeor. May it be filled with all the good
things you so much desire.
Bupto Hardw. & Fv
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