The Naples Monitor (Naples, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, May 8, 1942 Page: 1 of 4
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NAPLES, (MORRIS CO.) TEXAS, FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1942
VOLUME 57, NUMBER 5
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Pushed
liroilment For Sugar
ationing Completed
MANY NEW SUBSCRIBERS
rris County Citizens Spent
Four Days In Signing
For Sugar Books
Assists MacArthur
^tration for Morris Coun-
jnily units and individuals
jar rationing was carried
Is week as part of th?
fide enrollment for the
jbd item to be rationed as
|ime necessity.
b for registration in the
Were in 15 elementary
■j More than one hundred
rs, including- teachers
tier volunteers handled
of l-egistermg more than
iisand individuals during
i- days of registration,
registrars deserve the
of the communities fo.'
([heir time without com-
h. Reports from over
hty indicate that they
rod job of it.
jsumer of sugar who
j register on any one of
t registration days, upon
^e shown and in the
c ^59ri , the, Rttt'oniuu
reregistered here-
after at the office of the Board.
A late registration may not,
however, be made prior to May
21 except that the Boards, in
•its discretion, may permit re-
gistration prior to such date ir
cases of unusual hardship.
Unofficial count at the close
of registration yesterday show-
ed 10,425 registered during the
four days of registration.
This includes u few who reg-
istered from adjoining counties.
^oara, may
Red Cross To
Hold Meeting
The following persons will
please meet Monday night, May
11th, for the beginning of the
course in Red Cross Home Nurs-
ing:
Mrs. Ola Moore, Chairman,
Mrs. J. M. Lasater,
Mrs. E. L. Coker,
Miss Pat Patterson,
Mrs. Flay Matthews,
Mrs. 0. D. Nolen,
Mrs. Guy Kennedy,
Mrs. Lon Thigpen.
Mrs, Hottie Franklin,
Mrs. Emmett Fleming,
Mrs. Harriet Heath,
Mrs. Bernice Cole,
Mrs. E. J. Leeves,
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Many new subscribers has
been added to the ever growing
list of weekly leaders of The
Naples Monitor, they are taking
advantage of the 50c a year of-
fer that is being made for one
week by the publisher of The
Naples Monitor for new and re-
newal subscriptions. If you have
not taken advantage of this of-
fer you mist do so at once, as
this offer will not be offered you
after Saturday, May 9th. Sub-
scribe to day, If your subscrip-
tion is behind, pay up on I hi*
offer. Remember, Saturday, May
9th is the last day!
After Weeks of Hard Work and Much Trouble
By Well Company, Naples Will Have
Plenty of Good, Pure Water
SINGING CONVENTION
The Morris County Singing
Convention will mert May lGih
and 17th at Harris Chapel, 5
miles East of Dwingerfield.
Everyone is- invited to attend
this singing convention on the
above days. If you lika good
singing be on hand.
Pros and Cons
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Gen. Sir Thomas Blarney, of Aus-
tralia, who has been named by Gen.
Douglas MacArthur as coaimander
of the Allied land forces in tho
Southwest Pacific area.
Mrs. A1 Hummpli.
miss Willie Shew",
Mrs. Cluren Moore,
Misa Eloise McNatt,
Mrs. Dan Watson,
Mrs. Carl Mathews,
Mrs. Lee Davis,
Mrs. H. D. Moore,
Mrs. W. H. Morgan.
Retail Stores Must
Post Prices May 18
The date on Which retail
merchants have been ordered by
the Office of Pricn Administra-
tion to .coat £eilinthrives on al
'•ost-m-nvnig ^
instead of July 1 as previously
announced.
I By July 1, the retailers mus'
have completed a record of the
prices of all merchandise, thr>
OPA states.
Rev. Claude Martin
To Become Pastor of
Local Baptist Church
Rev. Claude Martin, of Semin-
ary Hill, Texas has notified Mr.
W. T. Leeves by letter of his ac-
ceptance as Pastor of the Bap-
tist Church here. Rev. Mart'n
stated in his letter to Mr.
Leeves that he will be here May
17, which will be the 3rd Sun-
day in May.
Rev. Martin will move here
before the 1st Sunday in June
he stated in his letter.
Tho public is invited to attend
the services of Sunday 17th and
hear Rev. Martin, and to meet
him and make him welcome to
Naples. Rev. Martin preached at
the Naples Baptist Church a
few Sundays ago.
Meeting plaice, Red Cross BRENHAM - - Modernization
Home Nursing Room in building of the Brenham school plant has
behind Bank. been completed by WPA work-
Please bring 75c for deposit er9^
on Text Book on Home Hygi-
ene and care of the Sick, 10c for
Note Book and Fountain Pen
or Pen and Ink.
The Instructor and the Coun-!
ty Chairman urges that the.
Committee who has been ap-|
pointed for the Naples Red |
Cross Home Nursing Course,:
please attend this first meeting
and any other meetings there1- . in.*.
... .. u u « hours of leisure both for parents
after until the course h1.? been . a , , in-
completed.
Sugar May Be
Had For Home
Canning Uses
The Chairman of Morris County's
Rationing Board stated yesterday that
those who need sugar for canning may
apply to the Board for permission to buy
a limited amount of sugar for a speci-
fied purpose.
A special effort will be made to
take care of ripening strawberries in
this way, the Chairman said.
'CARD OF iMAlVr
ncrr
Naples has been without
water for several weeks on ac-
count of unexpected trouble in
replacing a new pump in thi
water pell, but things are g):ng
smovely now and it is stated by
Mr. Z. Z. Smith, who has charge
of of the Water Works of Na-
ples that they hope to have tho
water supply back to n rmal by
the middle of next week.
Mr. Smith stated that an 8
inch pipe is being replaced in
the well and that this will, as-
sure better water suipply incasa
it should ever be needed in the
Phil°adefphfaIeUcs"'sCone°of the fllture- The citizens of Naples
few real oldiimers in the baseball will welcome this good news,
business. lie is ;!sown here giving !„„ ... *. • . .. • , ,
Joe DiMaggio, Yankee batting ace, I water situation has work-
a lev/pointers on batting. Haiti had ;ed a hardship on many of our
local business houses and our
housewives, but Mr. Smith has
been doing all he can to se3
that water is restored as soon
as possible. He has been on tha
job practly day and night since
this renewing of the new pump
was started. The delay was
caused by pipe breaking ofi
deep in the well, but this has
all been taken out and the re-
. placemen of the new 8 inch
I In addition to the three sites pipe jR expected to be finished
already «xder option for the early next week.
^located Jear Dafng?r ii«w Ifi!
COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS j
1 ed on another site so that a
postponed the same.
Fourth Site
Being Surveyed
For Steel Plant
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REV. IRVIN DIL1VERS
Reverend Richard Irvin, pas-survey may be made of it as
SENT TO THE ARMY
FROM MORRIS COUNTY
We wish to thank the kind
people that assisted us during
the illness and death of our
father and husband. We wish to tor of White Rock Methodist well as of the other three. Nineteen men through the
thank the many for the beauti- Church, of Dallas, delivered ;n This does not mean that any draft, three b\ volunteer and
ful flowers ar.d other kind deed>. address Wednesday night(recommendation has yet been 0ne by transfer to the Falfuri.is
May God bless each one of yoj. t thp commencemeill exercise made as to which site wil1 be Board were sent to the arm\
Mrs. J. W
Children.
Weatherby and "" ""* Selected for the plant. This will ivesterdav
m the gjmnasium of I he N-'l'lo. dol„ afl„ four prMpecjytTho '4iul|lew, „e„,
Women, First Aid Is
Your Way to Help
last Wednesday \
Mobile Machine Sliop
Summer time and school is
out. That has meant many
'Conquering Hero'
High School
night.
Di:; lomas were given to th1
graduates, and a few other stud-
ents received special awards.
I The names of these were not
'available for publication by Th -
Monitor.
ve sites have been surveyed.
W. 0. Irvln of Daingerfield,
a d'lvctor of the Lone Star Steel
■Company, stated yesterday that
a delegation is now in Wash-
ing! on endeavoring to get an
additional $21,500,000 to erect
a steel mill in connection with
the lih t furnace.
COMMITTEE:
Mrs. Leon Coker,
Mrs. Homer Cole,
Rev. G. R. House,
Mrs.A. A. Hummed,
Mrs. Geo. Vissering
Mr. N. G. Watts,
Mrs. O. A. Walls,
Dr. Wm. Smith.
Reporter.
and school children above th?
age of 12, but this summer wil
'not be as easy and pleasant as
those that have gone before.
| Instead of easy living th?
fact must be faced that we owa
'<a debt to this country that has
'given us this privilege of easy
living, and we must do o .r best
jfor this country that has given
us the best.
What can we do? What can I,
as an individual do? The ans-
wer is FIRST AID. A course in
DANIELS CHAPEL HOME
DEMONSTRATION CLUBfirst id ia a" leo.r."-
ing your ABC s were in th?
A Mothers Day program was first £rat'e-
given at the meeting of the' In any ambulance corps, mo-
Daniel Chapel H. D. Club May tor corps, etc. this course is not
1, at the home of Mrs. John Only necessary, but Li often a
Gauntt by the club members, 'prerequisite to other courses.
The program was opened Courses have been offered in
with a "Mother's Prayer", by Naples, and more courses wou'd
Mrs. Arthur MoCollum, Mrs. be offered in the afternoon and
Charlie Mae Fulgham, talked at ni.?ht, if the requests were
on "Duties of a Mother." Poems I made for a course. Rev. G. R
of "Mother Love," was given House is the County Chairman
by Mrs. Harry Fielder and of the First Aid Committee. If
Mrs. Otis Cobb. Gifts from Sun you are interested in a course,
Shine friends were also given, see Mr. Howe
J. W. WEATHERSBY
DIED IN SHREVEPORT
WPLES VISITOR
Mis. S. I. Robinson, of Tex-
ai kaii i was a Naples vis tor
Mriiday. and called by at The
Monitor Office to take advant-
died May 3, in Shreveport where ;i^t, () - j|ie special subscription
he was in the North Louisian i pi ice that is being offered forjenjoys reading Th
J. W. Weathersby of Naple:
C. J. Henley. William Hender-
son, J. C. Wallace.
James Thigpen was transfer-
red to the Falfurias Board for
induction.
The draftees were:
William L. Willeford, Jessie I.
Shew, Jessie L. Maxey, Sammie
Lunsford, Manuel Charlton,
Grady Higgin, Tectum "Heard,
Raymond Watson, Emon King,
Robert L. McColluni, William F.
Rucks, Joe Fulcher, Roy I). Pin-
son, Cleo Peace. Johnnie Clay,
Max McCaian, Odis Coleman,
Dave Peavey, Lisley Wright.
Monitor and
Hospital far treatment. Mv
one wet
k at 50c for one year, has been a subscriber fur
Weathersby had bee
in failing M"- R(>:iin's°n states that sheinumber of years.
lootleggers Hit By
New Sugar Rationing
Program for the next meet
ing will be, '-What Kind of Peo-
We're helping ourselves as
well as our country by taking
pie are Club Women," by Mr?, this' instruction. Lives can an J
Mina McMichael. "The Good have been saved by a by-stand-
Citizen Dees Her Part," by Mrs. er 0r a member of the family
Bernice Mills. "Madam Chair- 'wh0 gave first aid before a doc-
With the wooils as walls and the
sky tor a roof, this welder does his
btulT beside his mobile machine shop
near Salem, Ore., as the master ser-
geant in the foreground looks on.
man," by Mrs. Harry Fielder.
This meeting will be at the
home of Mrs. Billy Roberts,
May 15th. Club members are
always happy to have visitors
and new members.
health for some time, and had1
been to Shreveport several time
for treatment. He was 61 years
old and was a retired L. and A.
Conductor.
Burial was in the Naples|
Cemetary, funeral "services were
held at 5 p. m. at the Methodist j
Church, with Rev. House cor.-:
ducting the services. ' ,\ith ugh the sugar rationingiwater are the remaining ingredi-
Survivers are his widow, authoiiiie-^ have tried to make'ents of a mash.
(Vlrene Pounders Weathersby. of provisions for nearly all types; But peacetime regulat'ons
Naples, one daughter, Juanita 0f -near users, thrre is on? have been envoked at time
I Weathersby, of Naples, and wt),, ; t| group to which they and the strict rationing prcce-
Gen. Douglas MacArthur, su- >three sons: BiHy, of Nap!es; ) t ^ ;1 ajloted a pound > _ . dure offers a new weapon to th?
premc commander of the Allied James Earl of McComb, Miss. taxing authorities.
forces in the Southwest Pacific, is Homer of El Paso, Texts; two 1 '10 "■ * Bootleggers use ^
sisters and two brothers. !sugar as an ingredient of the Bftv «rniTT urpTiNr
O .t of town attendents of th ?,mash from which they make i " '
funeral were: James Earlt. i All boys over 12 years of age
all smiles as he greets a cheering
crowd in Melbourne. Australia is
jubilant over the ka ationing of the
continent by the II. S. as a spring-
board from which ta attack the Japs.
Now it will be interesting to
tor arrived. First Aid knowl-
edge is practical at all t'mes,
and essential in wartime.
The course costs nothing . . .
make it your first aid to youi 'riage was Miss Lucile
country. Uand of Naples.
Weathersby, of McComb, Miss
BORNEO Mr. and Mrs. Homer Weathers- see what the bootleggers will
by, of El Paso; Mrs. L. L. R:i - do for a supply. i"'. _ ,
Eorned to Mr. and Mrs. R. M. nes and son Brewster, of Pinr-j The Treasury Department ha* ni®ht at ° clock
Smith, of Shreveport, La., on'vllle, La.; Mrs. Pat Patterson of,long had some check on the(Methodist Church,
Sunday May 5th a 7 1-2 pound Jonesboro, Ark.;Mrs. W. M. amount of sugar the bootlegger. This weeks meeting will be
are invited to attend the Boy
meeting each Friday
rt th;
Barber Jo.
Mrs. Smith before her mar-
airl tnkps the name of Hamm and baby of Shreve,ort; could get. Processes and deal-.devoted to selecting a <
gn. jsne uutes me na ^ Gimber of \Vinnfield,!ers have been required to keep. site for the annual jn
c ni)
jmme.'
La.; Mrs. Jasie Dickerson, Shr-' lists of those persons and con- j camp,
eveport; Mrs. Winston Watkincorns that buy from them. Simi-1 Mr. Allan H. Wheeler, Fiel
Strick- Shreveport, and John'e
i Pounders, of Sikes, La.
Lou lir check* are kept on sales of Scout executive will be on han 1
veast and urea, which with I at this meeting Friday n'ght.
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Price, Tom L. The Naples Monitor (Naples, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, May 8, 1942, newspaper, May 8, 1942; Naples, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth329533/m1/1/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Atlanta Public Library.