The Marion County Courier (Jefferson, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 43, Ed. 1 Friday, February 16, 1940 Page: 2 of 14
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THE MARION COUNTY COURIER
If We Are to Prosper as a community should—we must patronize
Home Institutions—Let's Trade at Home and Have a better town
and county—Lei's All Pull Together
FACTS About Building Our Home Town and County!
lie Need Business
Firms and Fay rolls
Wonderful oppor-
tunities are here for
everyone!
We may fool the other fellow but we can't fool ourselves—
Sometimes it is hard to face Facts — fair minded Property
Owners, Business Men, Farmers and Wage Earners
LET'S ALL FACE FACTS!
We all know Jefferson is a good town ... Marion county one the best...
Both are our homes ... Let's be fair about it... There's nothing wrong
with Jefferson or Marion county...
There's Something Wrong With Us!
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Jefferson Hag:
Splendid churches—with full-time pastors.
Extremely fine schools and an added school building,
athletic field, and other added features will be built.
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128 business concerns within city limits. Up-to-date
and modern. Population almost doubled since 1936.
Mayer and city commission working hard to give
city more paved streets and better facilities for making
g better and larger city.
Federal building and post office that would be a
eredit te rauoh larger town.
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Marion County Has:
Over 150 oil and gas wells in Its mile deep area—
and 10 shallow wells and ' refineries in the" Smithland
area—all giving permanent employment to hundreds ef
valuable citizens.
Land values enhanced in huge proportions in past
few years.
Best rural churches and sehool* for white and ne-
groes in all of East Texas.
Many hundreds of white faced csltle bringing- the
cattle industry to valuable proportion* in the county.
Much diversified farming over entire eounty.
Thousands of Dollars are turned into trade channels each month by the huge timber industry
from sawmills, shingle mills, tie makers and pulp wood.
Hundreds of acres along Caddo Lake, Big and Black Cypress Rivers that attract thousands
to Marion county each year for hunting and fishing.
Folks, its our Home Town and County—Lefs trade at home and help build Jefferson and
Marion county—what we do to help build our business institutions and our oil and farming
interests comes back to us in increased land and property values.
Marion County C. ef C.
H. E. Eldridge
John H. Erickson
E. L. Jones Insurance Agency
Arch McKay
Spurlock Drug Co.
P. L. Bass
J. H. Faviell
Phil M. Bower
V. V. Keasler
R. H. Lemmon
J. C. Gamble
Leon Bass
C. L. Bass
0. C. Ingram
L. G. Braden
Home Drug Store
Jefferson Wholesale Gro.Co.
Dr. A. J. Woods
Clarence C. Braden
Jones Bros. Bakery
Price's Gro. and Market
0. 0. Taylor
F R. Roach, M. D.
N. McBride
Alf Faviell
Obie Brown
American Legion
Dunham-Price Lbr. Co.
Jefferson Volunteer Firemen
T. G. Broads
Isadore Segal
C. R. Heaton
Richard R. Morrison
joe Joseph
Troy Simmons
Sedberry's Drug Store
Nat Sharp
Quality Cleaners
Jefferson Motor Company
H. D. Carter
Marion Motor Company
Tom J. Bennett
A. M. Brantley
Lindsey Holland
J. W. Moseley
Andy Elrod
Joe Wilson
H. W. Bailey
Nick Carter
Chas. Reeves, Sr.
W. T. Ware
Sullivan Electric Service
Marvin (Boss) Echols
Mrs. I. Golbberg
J. P. Fant
Manly Jaynes
Bob Callison
A. W. Henderson
E. C. Culpepper
Asa Reed
W. S. Ford
Johnnie Leake
Rogers National Bank
A. S. Harvey
Henry Hopkins
L. C. Ayers
J. H. Beall
Gus Loomis
L. V. Bowen
J. E. Hale
Gilbert Campbell
Denton Drug Co.
Popular Dress Shoppe
Tom W. Henry
J. W. Lemmons
Southwest Sewer Co.
Tom W. Morris
Elvin E. Justice
Asa E. Ramsay
J. A. Starling
Cornelius fc Heaton
New Jefferson Cafe
If a town is worth living in... it is worth boosting... if we aon't boost
our home town and county we are not doing our part
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Bradshaw, R. G. The Marion County Courier (Jefferson, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 43, Ed. 1 Friday, February 16, 1940, newspaper, February 16, 1940; Jefferson, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth293155/m1/2/: accessed May 2, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.