The Bogata News (Bogata, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, February 27, 1948 Page: 1 of 6
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The Bogota News
VOLUME XXXVII
'uture Fanners
BOGATA, RED RIVER COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY FEBRUARY 27, 1948
Red Cross Drive
Attend Area Meet For Funds Opens
At Commerce Monday, Mar. 1st
On Feb. 20, the Bogata Future
Farmers attended the area meet-
ing at Commerce. There were
two delegates from Bogata, Gene
Blake, chapter president, and
Richard Ward, vice-president.
Bobby Hinson, secretary and
treasurer of the Bogata chapter,
was elected third vice-president
of the area. This is considered
very commendable as there were
chapters represented. Miss
nPt Nell McAllister was elected
sweetheart of the Bogata chap-
ter and was accompanied to Com-
merce by Miss Marzella Hughes
to take part in the area queen
election. Misses McAllister and
Hughes were accompanied to
Commerce at 2 o’clock in the af-
ternoon by Morris Trimm, Bob-
by Hinson, Gene Blake and Rich-
ard Ward to be on hand for the
elections. Others left at 4 o’clock
by bus driven by A. F Roberts,
and accompanied by Mrs. Burt.
Several chapters entertained
and an exhibit of parliamentary
procedure was demonstrated by
the Edgewood chapter. The elect-
ion of an area queen began at
7:30, the two delegates from each
town being the only ones allowed
to vote. The sweetheart from
Jefferson won over Bogata’s
sweetheart by only one vote.
Miss McAllister, a senior in high
school and daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Raymond Fennell, was
dressed in an aqua evening gown,
^uith gold strap sandals and a cor-
^■e of white carnations. Motion
^Pmtures were made of the impor-
tant events.
The annual Red Cross drive for
Red River county will get under-
way on Monday, March 1. Wal-
ter McDavid is chairman of the
committee at Bogata and our
quota has been set at $480.00.
Fourteen men and women have
been asked to serve as a commit-
tee in receiving and soliciting
your contribution to the Red
Cross. The town will be divided
into sections and two will work
together. Plan your contribu-
tion now and give as much as
you feel you can and give it to
the chairman or any one of the
following committerfien:
Mmes. Paul Williams, Ross
McClure, O. W. Hudson, L. S.
Peaden, John Lee, Pleas Turner,
Miss Edna Howison, Messrs. Pete
Wilkinson, V. Thedford, A. L.
Buckman, H. E. Troutt, F. L.
BranSon, R. E. Porter and C. H.
Hoover.
Bagwell Child Dead
Spinal Meningitis
Death of six-year-old Dolores
Miller of Bagwell, occurred Sat-
urday at Red River County Hos-
pital in Clarksville was diagnos-
ed as spinal meningitis. The
child had gone home from school
when she became ill Thursday,
and Friday was taken to the hos-
pital. She was the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. VanDyke Miller.
No quarantine measures were
contemplated at the Bagwell
school as all pupils were expos-
ed by the child’s attendance there
last week.
Red River County
Fair Directors to he
Elected March 1st
GIRL SCOUTS LEARN
ABOUT FIRST AID
Eleven members of the Bogata
Girl Scout troop met Tuesday af-
ternoon at the community house
with the leader, Mrs. Newt Bry-
son, and Mrs. Paul Griffin. Work
was begun on the first aid badge,
with each girl learning and dem-
onstrating how to apply six dif-
ferent types of bandages.
FIRE TRUCK GOES TO
BARTLEY HOME
^^togata fire truck was called
^^Bnday to a fire at the home of
^Ws. J. P. Bartley at Rosalie,
c^psed from a defect in a butane
gds cook stove. Neighbors had
the fire under control when the
truck arrived. One wall in the
kitchen was slightly burned.
A county-wide meeting will be
held at the County Agent’s office
at Clarksville Monday night be-
ginning at 7:30 p. m. when dir-
ectors for a Red River County
Fair association will be elected.
A committee cofnposed of Her-
man Lynch, County Agent for
Red River County, Morris Trimm,
vocational teacher at Bogata, W.
T. Webb, J. C. McMellon and
Robert Gwynne, Soil Conserva-
tion Agent at Clarksville, have
been working on plans for some
time and have them ready to pre-
sent at this meeting Monday
night.
The public is invited, and all
who are interested in having a
good fair in Red River county
this year should attend this
meeting.
Lions Club Urges
Planting Tomato
Crop This Area
Bogata Lions Club met Tues-
day evening with seventeen
members present. The club vot-
ed to buy tomato seed and raise
plants enough to set out 25 acres.
It was stated that a buyer had
agreed to buy the crop provided
there was as much as 200 acres
grown. A committee was ap-
pointed to contact growers at dif-
ferent points. The committee is
Morris Trimm, W. H. Whitten,
Guy Smelser and Luther Bryson.
The meeting concerning cotton
gin will probably be held some
time next week.
Claud Abbott
Buried Saturday
Turner Cemetery
Claud Abbott, retired farmer
and grocer, died of pneumonia
Thursday of last week at 5:30 p.
m. at Red River County Hospital.
He was 71 years old, the^only im-
mediate survivors being "two sons,
Weldon Abbott and James Edwin
Abbott, and one granddaughter,
all of Fort Worth.
Funeral service was held Sat-
urday and burial made in Turner
Cemetery at Fulbright. Pallbear-
ers were Travis King. Purvey
Goodman, David Grant, Arthur
Amercon, E. W. Bowers and Rus-
sell Guest.
Born in Missouri, June 1, 1876,
son of J. A. and Sarah Ann Ab-
bott, Claud Abbott came to Texas
in infancy, the family settling at
Fulbright. He operated a grocery
there several years before mov-
ing to Clarksville in 1919.
Big Wolf Killed
Near Rosalie
WHD Style Show
Is Postponed
Due to adverse weather condi->
tions, the Women’s Home Demon-
stration Style Show sponsored by
Ayres Dry Goods Co. scheduled
for Thursday night has been in-
definitely postponed, store offi-
cials said Wednesday morning.
The show was to have been
held at Paris Junior College au-
ditorium.
WE SERVE
First National Bank
IN BOGATA, TEXAS
Sulphur River
Dam Advocates
Meet Opposition
Texarkana civic leaders sup-
porting the Sulphur River dam
project at Texarkana are running
into heated opposition in other
towns of Bowie county.
More than a thousand Bowie
county citizens attended a-public
meeting at Maud Thursday night,
and there was not a good word
for the dam project.
Six prominent men composed
a speakers group that summed
up opposition to the proposal,
sometimes called the Texarkana
Dam and projected as part of a
Red River flood-control project
south of Denison Dam.
Opponents pointed to the latest
revision in Army Engineers’ plans
that was said to include a possi-
ble increase of eighteen feet of
water. That, said opponents,
would bring a potential crest of
275 feet extending fifty miles
westward, inundating nearly 250,-
000 acres.
Opposition to the project began
at Naples through its chamber of
commerce.
Buck Smiley brought a big
timber wolf to Bogata Saturday
that had been killed in a feed
lot near the N. A. Gibson home
Game Warden Oma Puckett of
Annona and Mr. Smiley had
placed a gas bomb in food and
the wolf picked it up. WhenUie
bit into it. it exploded, killing
him instantly. The wolf resem-
bled a German police dog. weigh-
ing 46 pounds and measured 50
inches from nose to tail.
Several residents of the Rosa-
lie area have reported hearing
wolves howl at night, but this is
the first one to be killed. A num-
ber of the gas bombs have been
put out in different places, ac-
cording to Mr. Smiley.
Nanny Funeral
Held Friday at
Fulbright
Mrs. Addie Nanny, 59, of ]
Clarksville, ill for some time,
passed away Thursday afternoofl |
of last week at Grant Hospital, I
Deport, where she had been a |
patient for several days.
Funeral services were held
Friday at the Church of Christ at |
Fulbright, with burial in Old ;
Shamrock Cemetery near Clarks-
ville.
Born March 26, 1888, in Red I
River county, daughter of J. K.
and Mary Ann Baker, she was
married March 7, 1941 to B. F.
Nanny, who died in August, 1943.
Surviving are her father, J. K
Baker of Bagwell, two sisters, j
Mrs. Luther Rozell of Fulbright I
and Miss Selma Baker of New i
Boston, and one brother, Ward
Baker of Fulbright.
Bogata Funeral Home was in
charge of interment.
Two Lamar County
Communities Win
Rural Contest
Farmers Need
Pretty Weather
THANK YOU
We want to thank you for the
fine co-operation you have
shown in calling by number
since the new directories have
i
been sent out.
The response has been almost
100 per cent, which makes it
possible for us to give you
FASTER, MORE
ACCURATE SERVICE
BOGATA TELEPHONE CO.
GUY SMELSER, Owner
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Farmers are in need of pretty,
dry weather as no field work has
been done this year. With corn
planting and early gardening
time here crops will be late un-
less there is pretty weather soon.
Little land has been prepared for
another crop and some farmers
still have cotton fin the fields to
be gathered.
Light rains, drizzle and mist
have prevailed for several days.
Only about 3-20 inch of rain has
fallen in the last week, however,
rural roads are still muddy.
Two Lamar county communi-
ties, Maxey and Tigertown, were
winners of second and fourth
places, respectively in the Rural
Neighborhood Progress’ contest.
Presentation of the awards, $750
to Maxey and $250 to Tigertown
communities will be held in a
joint meeting at 7:30 p. m, on
Feb. 28.
Communities were judged on
soil conservation and improve-
ment, home food supply neigh-
borhood activities and organiza-
tions, livestock improvement,
crop and pasture improvement,
farm and home equipment, school
and educational facilities, com-
munications, and farm buildings
and fences.
Aug. Eichoff Dies
At Fort Worth
August Eichkoff died at his \
home in Fort Worth Saturday
morning from the effects of a long
illness and funeral services were
held at 4 o’clock Monday after-
noon.
Deceased was 84 years of age
and formerly lived in Mt. Pleas-
ant, being connected with the
Iloffman Heading & Stave Co.,
which he helped to form. He is
survived by his wife and three
daughters, Misses Vivian. Imo-
genc and Maurine Eichkoff.
BROTHER LOCAL MAN
BURIED AT MT. VERNON
Mrs. I. B. James and children,
Linda Kay and Ronny of Crane,
have returned to their home af-
ter a several days' visit here with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Denton
Wilson.
Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Blake were
called to Saltillo Tuesday in re-
sponse to a message stating his j
brother, Lewis Blake. 44, had
died after a heart attack at Ko- |
haka, Iowa, where he had gone i
in connection with his employ-1
ment with an oil company there.
Funeral services were held Wed-
nesday at Mt. Vernon. Mr. and
Mrs. Gordon Strain of Bogata at-
tended the funeral.
VETERAN CARRIER PYRON
TO RETIRE NEXT YEAR
Reece Pyron who has been car-
rying the mail on Blossom routes
one and two for the past forty-
one years, reports that he had
more trouble making his route
during the recent bad spell than
he has ever had before. He hopes [
to retire next year.
RED RIVER CO. WILL
POLL HEAVY VOTE
Holders df poll tax receipts I
plus those who are over sixty
years comprise a potential voting |
list of more than 7,000 in Red
River county this year. Poll tax
1 payments totaled 5,246.
SWAP
CHICKS
WIN you *wop your brood of
not-to-peppy chick* for on oquol
number of fatter-growing, fattor-
foettiering bird* that will reach
maturity looner and I tart laying
earlier? Then try Or. Saltbury'i
■(N-O SAL In your chick* drink-
ing water. Jutt mil two taMeta In
each gaHow In larger dote* BIN-
O-SAl control* cecal cercidiecl*
Tkman
DRUGSTORE
THE RECALL STORE
GIVE TO THE
RED CROSS
Help Raise Bogata’s
Quota of $480.00
Give a Little or Give a Lot—
But GIVE 1
Someone will call on you, so
have your contribution ready.
Bogata has never failed to
meet its quota — so let’s not
fail this time.
Make Your Donation Early
WALTER McDAVID
CHAIRMAN
BOGATA RED CROSS
NUMBER 17
Bogata Hdwe.-Furniture Co.
Invites You to Inspect Their Stock of
STUDIO COUCHES
They are a studio couch by day and a comfort-
able Bed at night—just like buying a living room and
bed room suite in one piece. We have these studio
couches with or without the big overstuffed chair to
match.
Studio Couches .............. $69.50
Studio Couch with Chair $79.50
LIVING ROOM SUITES
In tapestry or velours, colors wine, blue or beige
$97.50 to $197.50
DINING ROOM SUITES
Genuine walnut, eight pieces, just the thing you have
been waiting for. Also 5-piece Breakfast Sets in genu-
ine chrome or quarter-sawed Golden Oak—
$39.50 to $139.50
RADIOS
We have the largest and most complete stock we have
been able to secure in five years. Both Battery and
power line sets—
$7.50 to $197.50
Any Kind. Any Size, Any Price
BUTANE SYSTEMS
Remember, the Bogata Hardware and Furniture Co.
can give you a complete Butane System, Gas Range,
Refrigerator and Hot Water Heater with terms rang-
ing from one to three years in which to pay.
BEDROOM SUITES
Big, heavy, four-piece suites, round plate glass mirror,
for only ......................................._....................... $119.50
Another shipment of Bedroom Suites in dark, walnut
finish ---------------------------------------------------------------t_________ $89.50
Also big, heavy poster suites — something special
at -------------------------T..................-............................ $169.50
BED SPRINGS
You have been waiting for Bed Springs, here is your
chance to buy without having to buy a bedroom suite,
3—3’s or 4—6’s from--------................... $5.00 to $17.50
MATTRESSES
Our stock of Mattresses is complete. We have thfc
Morning Glory Inner-Spring Mattress with Box
Springs to match. Also Texas Queen and Sealey. These
mattresses priced
$17.50 to $49.50
NEW HARD-TO-GET ITEMS
Electric Irons, Vacuum Cleaners, Toasters, Gas Heat-
ters, Window Shades and Venetian Blinds, etc. Come
in and see for yourself.
WE TRADE FOR YOUR OLD FURNITURE
PAYING YOU THE HIGHEST PRICE
AND SELLING YOU FURNITURE
AT LOWER PRICES
LL LU CO CM N CO
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