The Delta Courier (Cooper, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 47, Ed. 1 Tuesday, November 25, 1941 Page: 1 of 4
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SAVE MONEY
WITH
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East side square—Cooper, Texas
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W. D. HART & SON
VOLUME 60, NO. 47
^ed Cross Drive
Continues In All
Co. Communities
Chairman Issues Appeal:
Membership Set At One Dol-
lar; Any Amount Accepted.
Priorities Officials
Put Dairy Equipment
On Preference Rating
charged
Reserve
County Red Cross Roll Call
Chairman W. H. Crunk appealed
Monday for the citizens of Delta
county to support the Red Cross
drive now in progress in all the
communities of the county. He
said, “Membership in the Red i
Cross is set at one dollar, but do-
nations of any amount will be ac-
cepted.”
Mr. Crunk stated Monday that
the streets of the town were be-
ing worked and that the resident-
ial districts would be worked
through the week to secure mem-
berships for this year's quota of
800.
Harry Ward, chairman of the
Klondike drive, reported 16 mem-
berships Monday. They are:
Miss Jewel Stewart, $1.00; Miss
Irma Jean Moxley, $1.00; M. Stub-
blefield, $1.00; F. F. Hurt, $1.00;
COLLEGE STATION, Nov. 24.
—Word that priorities officials in
Washington have granted a pref-
erence rating to manufacturers
of dairy equipment has been re-
ceived by E. R. Eudaly, dairy
specialist of the Texas A. and M. May Be
College Extension Service.
The rating applies to such hot-
dip tinned and tin-plate products
as milk cans ,pails, strainers, and
cream cans.
Steel is so necessary to defense
needs that civilian use of the
metal is being sharply restricted.
The priorities officials, however,
apparently realize the importance
iof milk in the Food-For-Freedom
campaign.
Only enough steel will be al-
Discharged Army
Men May Enlist
In National Guard
S. ,W. Yelvington In
Critical Condition
Due To Fall Friday
Corps, Nat’l. Guard
i° ’frtrjzr:
placements plus a 6.8 per cent in-
crease to handle the additional
eight million pounds of milk call-, T1 , 10/M
f, . , 0 r, , October 16, 1910, or July 1, 1941,
ed for in the U. S. Department of
Agriculture’s national production | aa a ™
goals for 1942.
“I don’t usually like to holler
S. W. Yelvington is in a criti-
cal condition at Reed Memorial
Hospital as a result of a fall Fri-
day evening as he was getting out
of his car near his home. He had
•--- just returned from Cooper and
Inducted After Dis-lwhile getting out of his pickup,
If Not In Enlisted ' and struck his head on the
asphalt road.
An X-ray picture revealed a
fractured skull extending to the
base of the skull. He has been
unconscious but regained con-
sciousness at intervals Monday
and appeared to be slightly im-
proved.
His son, Gregory, of Las Cruses,
N. M., is at his bedside and an-
other son, Clifton, of Washington,
D. C., is in en route here. Two
brothers, John, of Hamburg, Ark.,
and Tom of Malvern, Ark., are
with him, and another brother
from St. Louis, Mo., is coming to
his bedside.
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Former enlisted men of the
army, who have had eleven
months continuous service and
who are within the Selective Ser-
vice registration agu brackets, are
eligible for enlistment in the Na-
tional Guard or in the Enlisted
Reserve Corps, General J. Watt
Page, State Selective Service Di-
men when they are registered.
All enlisted men who were in
the registration age brackets on
‘buy now’ ”, Eudaly commented
“but thig is one time the defense
agencies want farmers to figure
out their needs and to buy or
under the Selective Training and
Service Act, must register when
discharged from the military
establishment, General Page said,
I and he emphasized that those
eligible for induction under that
WARNEWS
SUMMARY
•U. S. WILL OCCUPY DUTCH
GUIANA
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.—The
White House today announced
that a contingent of United States
army troops will occupy Dutch
Guiana to completely insure the
safety of the bauxite mines there.
Uui., :act who do not enlist in the Na-
O. N. Moore, $1.00; Oscar Tid- jorder as soon us P0SSlble- Seems tional Guard or the Enlisted Re-
well, $100; Mrs. Ada Nelson,'that wiU helP manufacturers to | serve Corps will be
$1.00; Harry Ward, Jr., $1.00; R. j estimate ^ their steel needs. ^ lsaid:
F Meador, $1.00; M. S. Allard,
$1.00; Rev. V. H. Arnold, $1.00;
Mrs. Alma Stockton
Dies Saturday
Mrs. Alma G. Stockton, 49,
died at her home Saturday at 7:30
o’clock after several weeks ill-
ness. Funeral services were held j lent street fighting continued
Miss Edris Childress, $1.00; Mr3.
Jewel Davidson, $1.00; A. D.
Smallwood, $1.00; .Harry Ward,
$1.00; Mrs. Oscar Tidwell, $1.00.
Mrs. Jack Silman turned in 21
memberships with a total of
$27.00. They are: Miss Etha j
Stokes, $1.00; Miss Cathryn Wood- ,
rd, $1.00; J. D. Morgan, $1.00; I
Pud Curtis, $1.00; C. D. McKin- I
zie, $1.00; J. E. McBride, $1.00; |
Osciar Scott, $1.00; Keister Chan-
cellor, $1.00; Texas Public Util-j
ities, $2.50; Mrs. Oscar Scott, i
$1.00; Mrs. C. L. Stevens, $1.00;!
Miss Hallie McKinney, $100; Mrs j
Bonnie Meadlin, $1.00; Elmer I
Manufacturers will be requ.red , .<Application for enlistment in
to get the cans and utensils to the Btate detachment of the Na-
milk producers before next spring, | Uonal Guard should be made to
according to the terms of prefer-1 the Adjutant General of the
I State of Texas, at Austin.
ence order.
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Sunday ab 3 p. m. at the Method-
inducted. He ist Church, conducted by Rev. T.
M. Guthrie, pastor. Burial was
made in Ben Franklin cemetery
by Smith Funeral Homo.
Surviving are four children,
Mrs. John N. Stew . , Paris; Wel-
don and L. A. Sto-kton of this
MOSCOW IN MOST SERIOUS
DANGER SINCE WAR BEGAN
KUIBYSHEV, Russia, Nov. 24.
—German shock troops which
drove a new wedge between Mos-
cow and Kalinin and swarmed
against the Red army’s second
lines of defense north and west of
the capital put Moscow today in
its most serious danger of the
war.
Military sources declared, how-
ever, that on the southern front,
where German tanks battered their
way into the Don River port of
Rostov, the Red army had launch-
ed its greatest counterattack of
the war, driving back the Ger-
mans in some places as much as
thirty-seven miles across the
Donets Plauteau.
The Russians declared that vio-
in
Rostov itself. (The German high
command declared last Saturday
that the port was captured and
firmly in German bands.)
Nephew of Ben
Franklin Woman
Dies Friday
“Information relative to enlist-
ment in the Enlisted Reserve
Corps may be obtained from the
office of the Eighth Corps Area
Commander, Fort Sam Houston,
Texas, or from the nearest army
recruiting station.
“When a former enlisted man
Mrs. Ida McNutt ofl Ben Frank-
lin received a message Friday an-
nouncing the death of her neph- | in the army presents satisfactory
ew, Hirschel W. Staton, Jr., of | evidence of enlistment in the Na-
Dallas. The child was taken ill tional Guard Or the Enlisted Re-
last Tuesday. Survivors include ! serve, his local board will put him
his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Herschel j in Class I-C upon receipt of his
W. Staton, Sr., one sister, grand-I form 166. On the other hand, any
Hickman, $1.00; U. A. Alexander, J parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Staton, jformer service man who does not
$1.00; Rev. J, C. McClain, $1.00; i grandmother, Mrs. Irene McNutt I so enlist, or who is not eligible for
Mrs. J. C. McClain, $1.00; J. M. j of Dallas. A private service was | enlistment in the National Guard
Smiley. $1.00; Mrs. S. B. Rattan, i held Saturday at 10 a. m. with or the enlisted reserve, shall be
$1.00; Miss Marye Grant, $1.00; | interment in that city.
Mrs. Chester Keith, $1.00; Bay | -V-
View Club, $2.50, J. I). Jones, J-Jeavy LOSS By
GERMAN PEACE OFFENSIVE
GERMANY is preparing a win-
ter peace offensive ostensibly
city; and Aubrey Stockton in the restoring independence to Con-
navy; five grand children; a
brother, M. T. Huggins of route
3; two sisters, Mrs. John Robin-
son of Norman, Okie., and Mrs.
Simon Varner of Wynnewood,
Okla. Mrs. Stock' on had been a
member of the Mi .hodist Church
for many years.
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Fugitive Felons
Caught In Bed,
Guns Beside Them
tinental Europe, but actually
leaving Adolf Hitler master of a
string of puppet states, the White
House said. Presidential Secre-
tary Stephen T. Early said that
invitations already were going
forth from Germany to some bel-
1’’rreventa, the Axis powers and
j some neutral European nations.
I Early said he “understood” the
United States and England will
‘ not be invited.
$1.00; Kirby True, $1.00; Mrs. J.
A. Jeter, $1.00.
Carl McDonald, local worker,
turned in a total of 39 member-
ships with $54.50. They are: Carl
L. McDonald, $1.00; Carl E.
Adams, $1.00; White Auto Store,
$1.00; Adair Grocery, $1.00; F.
P. (Salmon, $1.00; Mrs. J. D. Mill-
er, $1.00; The First National
Bank, $10.00; T. B. Good, $1.00;
W. I. Bartley, $1.00; Jean Phillips,
$1.00; Ellington and Ellington,
$1.00; Dr. W. C. Walls, $1.00;
McKinney Bros., $1.00; C. V.
Stephenson, $1.00; A. R. Byrns
and Co., $1.00; Smith and Son,
$1.25; Smith Bros., $1.25; Hubert
Smith. $1.00; Raith Smith, $1.00;
Pete Kingston, $1.00; Henslee
Hardware, $1.00; Wilson Riggs
Grocery, $1.00; C. C. McKinney,;
$1.00; John Harrison, $1.00; Mrs. I
Bertha Edwards, $1.00; Parkhill’s j
Cafe, $1.00{4W. H. Crunk, $1.00;!
J. C. Hendricks, $1.00; W. C.
Ratliff, $1.00; Roy Emerson,
$1.00; Sam Ratliff, $1.00; Ed
Hendricks Grocery. $1.00; Henry
Sparks, $1.00; S. I). Clowcr, $1.00;
D. O. Lowry, $1.00; Miss Helen
Burgess, $1.00; Miss Ruth Lee,
$1.00; Lyon-Gray Lumber Co.,
$1.00; Jess E. Moxley, $1.00.
Mrs. J. G. McKee, turned in the
following contributions: Mrs. J.
M. Hagood, 25c; Mrs. J. W. Han-
cock, 25 cents; M. C. Haven, 25
cents; and N. G. Castleberry, 10
cents. Mrs. McKee also turned In
one membership, Mrs. E. E.
Woodruff, $1.00.
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PREACHING AT HICKORY
GROVE SUNDAY
Burned Barn
W. S. Slough is recovering from
delivered for selective service in-
duction provided he is not exempt-
ed by his former service and if he
has not been placed in a deferred
classification, for any other rea-
son.”
The Selctive Service Act, a3
burns sustained on his hands j amended, General Page said, re-
when his barn was destroyed by
fire last last Thursday. Firemei
from Cooper aided in saving oth- , the act only those regulars
er buildings on the place, pump- j have satisfactorily served as
lieveg from liability for
time training and service
ing water from a pool nearby.
Mr. Slough estimates his loss as
heavy; hay which was destroyed
included 900 bales of prairie hay,
775 bales of alfalfa and consid-
erable Johnson grass, about 1,-
500 bushels of oats, 260 bushels
cotton seed and a large amount
of cottonseed meal. Mr. Slough
stated that 50 per cent or a little j
better of contents and building'
was covered by insurance.
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COW HAS FOUR CALVES
peaco-
under
who
of-
ficers or enlisted men for at least
three consecutive years in the
regular army, navy, marine corps,
or coast guard,or any enlisted
man honorably discharged from
the regular army or the coast
guard within six months prior to
the completion of his regular
three-year period of enlistment.
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Thursday Night 42
Club Entertained
TEXARKANA, Ark., Nov. 23.—
Two ex-convicts who sawed their
way out of the Bowie county jad
at Boston, Texas, November 14,
where they were awaiting trans-
fer to the Huntsville penitentiary
after being convicted of armed
robbery, were captured in a raid
Sunday by Arkansas state police
and Sheriff W. E. Davis of Miller
county at their farm hideout 12
miles north of here.
The Sheriff, his deputies and
the state police took Brady Gil-
strap and Larry Richards without
BRITISH SWARMING OVER
LIBYA
Dairyman Urges
Saving Of Late
Stock Feed Crops
In localities over the state where
feed crops were short, farmers
who have cows may lack feed un-
less they save all late growth,
warns E. R. Eudaly, dairyman of
the A. and M. College Extension
Service.
“There is some feed in near-
ly all fields which is worth sav-
ing,” he adds. “Any kind of
feed beats no feed at all.”
Choice of method for storing
this late crop feed is of greatest
importance, Eudaly says. For ex-
ample, ripe Johnson and sudan
grasses are worth more as silage
than as hay. The same is true of
second growth cane, hegari and
kafir, notwithstanding they will
make “fair” nay. Second growth
cane and grain sorghums will
make sour silage which will scour
cattle if cut in the immature
stage and stored immediately. If
second growth feed is cut before
frost and the ground is dry, it
should be left in the field to partly
dry out. If the weather is wet,
let it remain in shock in the
field for two or three weeks, unf
til partly dried.
Enough water should be added
to make dry or partly dry feed
feel wet when it is put into the
silo. Should frost kill the feed,
1 it is best to wait three or four
| days before cutting it. It then
can be put into the silo immed-
iately. It also can be cut and
stored immediately after frost,
but the silage will not be as good
as when cutting is delayed or it
is allowed to dry on the ground
after cutting.
Eudaly says that if cotton stalk
pasture is needed it is cheaper to
let the cows do the harvesting.
But when there is a surplus it will
be profitable to cut some for sil-
age before frost. As cotton stalks
do not contain enough sugar to
ferment properly, a mixture of
five gallons of molasses to 15 gal-
lons of water should be sprinkled
in each ton when placed in the
silo.
There still is time to plant oats,
barley, wheat and rye grass for
Working On Well
Six Miles South
Of Cooper
Well Three Miles West Birth-
right; Bailing With
Oil Showing.
Workmen were busy Sunday
coaxing in a producer in a n«w
field six or seven miles south of
Cooper and three miles west of
Birthright.
The wildcat was drilled by the
Talco Asphalt and Refining Co.
The casing was set last week at
4,748 feet in the Paluxy sand af-
ter a good showing of oil was
found by drillstem test and elec-
trical test.
Water was being swabbed oat
Sunday and with each discharge
of water considerable quantities
of oil came out. The well had
been pretty well cleaned and
some experienced observers were
of the opinion that the well
would make a producer but not a
large one.
The success of this test is cer-
tain to bring more drilling in this
vicinity and already other inter-
ests are contemplating drilling.
The well that ig being drilled
at Commerce by the Standolin
Company was down nearly 3,000
feet Sunday. The drillers re-
port the formation considerably
higher than that found in the
Horton wells.
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Increased Use of Nylon
And Rayon Expected
To Take Place Silk
south of
British Egyptian mechanized v;>nter and spring1 pasture, Eudaly
army estimated at about 750,000 i ’ays- These crops can be planted
marched into Lybia last Friday j any ti,ae in November
making 50 miles the first day and - Worth, ^
soon enveloped the German and j *
Itaian forces around beeaguered J Women SllOllld Be
Tobruk and east. The Germans
are reported to have two armored
divisions there.
A fight to a finish has develop-
ed between mechanized forces.
The English, Australian and In-
dian armies are armed principally
with American made tanks and
Careful In Making
Coat Selections
a shot being fired despite the fact j planes \which are giving good ac-
that both had pistols by their counts of themselves.
T. R. Bennington, Pastor
There will be preaching at Hick-
ory Grove Sunday night, Novem-
ber 30. If you live in that com-
munity, you are invited to attend
these services. We need you and
you need the help you will get
from attending these services. Be
sure and be there Sunday night;
we are looking for you. c47r48
A two year old heifer of Guy
Ray gave birth to four calves last
week. They were premature and
did not live.
Cows usually produce one young
at a time and twins are as usus-
ual among kine as among the hu-
man race, and triplets and quad-
ruplets are very rare.
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Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur D. Hart
will leave Wednesday for Ennis
and will be accompanied to Col-
lege Station by Mr. and Mrs. J.
Edward Fisher of that city to at-
tend the A. and M.-Texas foot-
ball game. Mr. and Mrs. Hart
will be accompanied home by
Wren Harold Hart, who will spend
the Thanksgiving holidays with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. D.
Hart.
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Dr E. B. W’heat, accompanied
by Enloe Carrell, has returned
from a trip to Las Cruses, N. M.
Dr. Wheat visited his brother,
Robert Thompson, who has re-
cently bought a ranch there. Mr.
Thompson formerly lived in
Chicago, 111.
Mr. and Mrs. F. P. Salmon en-
tertained members of the Thurs-
day night 42 Club on Friday
night at Hotel Cooper. A two
course turkey dinner was served
proceeding games. Attractive
decorations were arrangements of
roses and chrysanthemums. Be-
side members, guests were Mes-
sers. and Mmes. W. I. Bartley and
Lawrence Sparkman.
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Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Winfrey
were in Paris Sunday to see Mrs.
Winfrey’s sister, Mrs. Fred Bar-
nett, in a Paris hospital. A son
was born in Paris Friday to Mr.
and Mrs. Barnett of Albany and
she has been critically ill since
that time.
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Miss Kathryn Woodruff, fresh-
man student at East Texas State
Teachers College at Commerce,
visited over the week end with her
parents, Dr. and Mrs. E. E. Wood-
ruff.
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James Early, who hag a posi-
tion in Dallas, visited his (parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Early, over the
week end.
sides when officers awakened
them at the farm home of Roger
Monroe at 2 a. m.
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Officials! Occupy
Space In New Delta
County Courthouse
The offices of the County
Judge, County Clerk, County
Treasurer, and Tax Assessor and
Collector were moved into the new
courthouse Monday. All of these
offices occupy space on the first
floor.
The County Superintendent’s
office will probably be moved in-
to the |iew building today.
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Holiday Season
Opens In Cooper
December 3
Thursday British armored forces
had moved 200 miles into Lybia
and iberating the Tobruk gar-
rison. More than 15,000 Axis
prisoners have been taken and
many tanks and planes destroyed,
while thq British forces have suf-
fered heavy losses, their forces
have the enemy split up and have
a good chance to destroy them, as
escape seemingly is cut off and
supplieg can only ctome to them by
plane. The RAF dominates the
air and the British fleet the sea.
They have destroyed or damaged
ships attempting to reach the Axis
forces.
Opening of the Christmas shop-
ping season will be staged with
unvailing of Christmas decorated
show windows and turning on of
holiday lighting about the square
Wednesday, December 3.
A Christmas tree will be dec-
orated in the center of the square.
Other plans are being made for
the holiday opening.
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Carroll Bennett Jeter left foi
Kelly Field, San Antonio Novem-
ber 10 to enter the flying cadet
corps. He was accompanied as far
a9 Dallas by his mother, Mrs. J.
A. Jeter, and sister, Mr. and Mrs.
Ben' Anderson, of Lake Creek.
JAPAN HALTING BETWEEN
TWO OPINIONS
Efforts of a Japanese delega-
tion in Washington to satisfy
America and secure release of a
strange economic holt on Japan
seems futile without giving up
domination of the Orient which
she is committed to. The United
States, with the backing of Brit-
ain, China and Dutch East Indies,
is demanding that Japan renounce
her Axis membership which is
aimed at this county, get out of
all China and Indo China or suf
fer economic! destruction. She
will probably fight if the Axis
shows sufficient strength to we
rant taking the chance.
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Rush Yeager Is able to be hack
in the market at Ray Wilson Gro
eery after several days illness.
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Rev. V. H. Arnold of Klondike
visited in Cooper Saturday.
This year’s winter coat
will cost more and have to last
longer than the one before, so
women buying new ones need to
be extra careful in making their
selections, says Ellen D. Hooker,
Delta Home Demonstration agent.
“Checik every detail of coat
quality before you buy to make
sure you get the best material
and thd best made coat you can
afford.” That’g the advice of Mrs.
Dora R. Barnes, clothing specialist
for the Texas A. and M. College
Extension Service, to women buy-
ing winter coats now.
The first step is to find out' the
fiber content of the coat, and this
year consumers have the new Wool
Products Labeling act to help
them. The exact wool content and
the kind of wool must be includ-
ed in the label of every ctoat con-
taining more than 5 per cent
wool.
Next, look carefully at the lin-
ing and inter-lining, making sure
the seams are generoug and well
stitched. Otherwise they may
fray badly. The inter-lining ma-
terial' is to provide extra warmth.
It and the lining should be seam-
ed separately so the coat will look
better and fit better.
A woman will likely get better
wear from her coat and look bet-
ter in it if1 the grain of the cloth
hangs straight all around, if it’s
hemmed and finished with silk-
ribbon binding, if all seams lie
flat, and, if the thread is strong
and matches the coat materials.
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MOUNT JOY BAPTIST CHURCH
The current shortage of silk
brings to mind the fact that Cor-
tez imported silkworms and mul-
berry seed into Mexico back in
1522. Nothing much came of
that.
Attempts have been made to
start a silk industry in the United
States since the days of the first
settlers. The U. S. Department
of Agriculture carried on experi-
ments ir silk production for some
years but discontinued them in
1908 when the venture failed to
show promise.
Brazil has had some success in
producing silk but even there the
production is far below domestic
needs.
The main barriers to silk pro-
likely |duction in the United States are
the large amount of labor required
in caring for silkworms and the
expense of the reeling process by
which the cocoons are wound and
the strands blended to form
threads.
Increased use of cotton and of
the silk substitutes, gucih as rayon
and nylon, are expected to take
the place of silk in the domestic
field. So far no substitute has
been satisfactory for parachutes
and powder bags for large calibre
guns.
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T. R. Bennington, Pastor
We will have our regular
preaching service November 30 at
11 o’clock. Let every one be in
his place. c47r48
Klondike 4-H Club
Has Meeting
The Klondike 4-H Club met
Wednesday, November 19, in the
home economics room. About 50
girls, Miss Ellen Hooker, the spon-
sors, Miss Childress and Mrs. J. J.
Chumbley, were present. After a
short business meeting, Miss Hook-
er took charge with a very inter-
esting demonstration on home-
made Christmas gifts. These
gifts, such as necklaces, bracelets,
belts, etc., are very inexpensive,
yet they would be truly appreciat-
ed. Her demonstration inspired
ideas for new creations. After the
demonstration, the meeting ad-
journed.
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J. J. Carter and, family of Lub-
bock, route 4, visited Mr. and Mrs.
D. O. .Hudson and other friends
in) Delta county Sunday.
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Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Pharr of
Texarkana visited Sunday with
relatives here.
Mrs. Carl McDonald and daugh-
ter, Ann, visited in Paris Friday.
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