Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, December 6, 1940 Page: 3 of 16
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1940
iOCIiTY-
Farewell Party Given
For Mr. and Mrt. W. K. Cherry
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh McCleskc,
and Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Leach were
hostesses at a 42 party Tuesday
night of last week at the Mc-
Cleskey home, 898 W. Long St.,
honoring Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Cher-
ry, who were leaving the latter
part of the week to make their
home in Mineral Wells.
Games were played at four quar-
tet tables, prizes being won by
Mr. and Mrs. Cherry who made
high score, and Mr. H. W. Leach
who won the cut, which he after-
wards presented the honor guests.1
The hosts and hostesses and their
guests also presented Mr. and Mrs.
Cherry with a pair of boudoir
lamps as a parting gift
After the games, refreshments
of date pudding topped with whip-
ped cream, pickles and hot coffee,
were served.
Those attending were Messrs,
and Mmes. W. K. Cherry, R. Y.
Anderson, J. A. Flanary, John
Ficke, Carroll Sheffield, Reecie
Jones and the hosts and hostesses.
, Mrs. G. D. Everett Entertaine
Wednesday Bridge Club
Mrs. G. D. Everett was hostess
to the Wednesday bridge club last
week at her home, 295 East Ben-
ton street.
Bouquets of yellow mums and
flowering pot plants decorated the
rooms where bridge was played.
In the games high score prize was
won by Mrs. Ellis Hill and the
cut by Mrs. J. W. Clements. Tiny
pot plants which centered each
bridge table were afterwards giv-
en to winners of table cuts who
were Mmes. G. H. Williamson, C.
E. Still and Tom Donnell.
A salad course with raisin pie-
and ’ hot punch, was served.
Present were Mmes. E. L. Frey,
C. E. Still, W. J. Clay, Harry Neb-
lett, Robert Barham, Tom Don-
nell, G. H. Williamson, J. F. Whis-
enant, A. J. Spangler, Ellis Hill,
A. J. Barsh and J. W. Clements.
Mr., Mrs. Wm. E. Bray to
Announce Daughter’s Engagement
The engagement of Miss Maxine
Brajr, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
William E. Bray of San Antonio,
and Mr. Albert Boyce Yearwood
Jr., son of Mr. A. Boyce Yearwood
of Stephenville, is being announc-
ed on December 8 by the parents
of the bride-elect. Date of the mar-
riage has been set for December
28, and will be held in the~Laurei
Heights Methodist Church in San
Antonio.
Miss Bray, formerly of New Or-
leans, La., received her Bachelor
of Arts degree from Texas State
College for Women, Denton, and
taught English find Spanish in the
Stephenville Senior High School
following her graduation.
Mr. Yearwood received his Bach-
elor of Science degree from the
Texas Agricultural and Mechani-
cal College, College Station, Tex-
as, and is teaching Agronomy at
John Tarleton Agricultural College,
Stephenville.
Campus Club To Hold
Christmas Meeting December 10
The Campus Club met last Tues-
day afternoon with Mrs. Odus Ste-
phen at her home on West Jones
street.
Bible Day was the subject of the
club study. Roll call was answered
by giving names of women of the
Bible. The Book of Ruth was re-
viewed by Miss Clara Savage.
After the program refreshments
were served.
Members attending were Mmes.
Gabe Lewis, Hugh B. Smith, A. J.
Spangler, J, Thomas Davis, T. A.
Hensarling and Misses May Jones,
Mary Marrs, and Ruth Renfrow.
The club will meet December 10
with Misses May Jones and Dexta
King at Miss Jones’ home, 202
North Ollie street.
Miss Margaret Clements
Is Bride of L. R. Dawson
' Announcement has been made of
the marriage of Miss Margaret
Clements, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Alvin Clements of Copperas
Cove, and Mr. Lester Roy Dawson,
son of Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Dawson
of Boys’ Ranch, Lampasas, which
took place Thursday, November
28 at 2 p. m. at the First Baptist
church in Copperas Cove. Rev.
Lewis Brown, pastor, read the
single ring seryice.
Only members of the two fami-
lies and a few close friends of the
couple attended the ceremony.
The altar was banked with au-
tumn greenery and leaves. Before
the ceremony was read Miss Mary
Edna Crabb played In The Sun-
shine of Your Heart. She also
played the Wedding March from
Lohengrin for the entrance of the
bride and groom and their attend-
ants.
Miss Maida Sue Clements, sister
of-the bride, was her only attend-
ant. She wore a sapphire blue vel
vet blouse frock and a turban of
the same shade.
Mr. Miniard Crabb of Copperas
"Covf; was best man to-the "bride-
groom.
The bride wore a soldier blue
wool suit with gray squirrel fur
trim, and a Dubonnet turban with
short veil. Her accessories also
were in Dubonnet
After the wedding the couple
left on a short honeymoon trip to
San Antonio. They are now at
home at 3101 Walling Drive, Aus-
I The bride is a graduate of Cop-
peras Cove High School an'd John
Tarleton College. She also attend-
ed Mary Hardin-Baylor College.
The bridegroom is attending the
University of Texas and will get
his B.S. degree in chemical engi
neering there in June-
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Clements,
uncle and aunt of the bride, were
among the out-of-town guests at-
tending the wedding.
NYA Lowers Youth
Age For Projects
To Sixteen Years
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W.H.Hawkins to t
Support Jackets i
Against Wildcats +
Olen Clements To
Leave for New York
On AP News Job
Girl Scouts Entertained
At Junior 20th Century Club Meet
The Junior Twentieth Century
Club met last Tuesday afternoon
at the woman’s club in the Library
building at which time five mem-
bers of the local Girl Scout Troop
were entertained as special guests
of the club.
Three of the girls displayed pos-
ters on Health and Safety. Mar-
garet Nell Gray displayed a pos-
ter on Safety in Walking; Char-
lene Oxford had a poster on Fire
Prevention, and Mary Garrett, a
poster on Health and Safety in Ste-
phenville. Each girl gave a short
explanation of her work.
Two other scouts attending the
meeting were Johnnie Nell Fen-
ner and Clara Nell Weathers. Mrs.
Guice Stewart and Mrs. Henry
Frey are scout leaders.
The scout girls meet every Wed-
nesday afternoon at 4:15 o’clock.
Unemployed boys and girls in
Erath County who are,. 16 years
of age, out of school, in need of
work experience and training and
who want the work experience pro-
vided on National Youth Adminis-
tration projects are now eligible
for such employment, J. C. Kel-
lam, state NYA administrator, an-
nounced today. •
With the minimum age require-
ment for work on NYA proj-
ects reduced from 17 to 16 years,
approximately 200 Erath County
boys and girls become eligible for
NYA employment.
With funds that are available,
the National Youth Administra-
tion in Texas will be able to pro-
vide employment for 200 of these
young persons at any one time, it
was pointed out.
“As youth go off NYA projects
into private industry or are select-
ed for military service, other eli-
gible youth in the State will have
the opportunity to replace them,”
Kcllam explained.
Mrs. TFT H. CrouSe ’ Hitters---
To NTS Club Friday
The NTS Club met with Mrs.
W. H. Crouse Friday afternoon at
her home, 451 West Tarleton ave-
nue. Fall flowers decorated the
rooms where the group was enter-
tained with the club’s usual diver-
sion of dewing.
A salad course with cake and
hot coffee was served.
Members attending were Mmes.
A. O. Cragwall, Lee Young, G.
O. Ferguson, O. H. Bell, Fount
Taylor, Roy Stafford, F. H. Chan-
dler, Charles Neblett Sr., Hunt
Perry, Paul Chandler, Bingham
King, J. A. Williamson, L H. Teel,
W. J. Oxford, W. E. Lyle and J.
Thomas Davis. Other guests were
Mmes. Ben B. McCollum, Robert
Stramler, Louis Osbum, L. B. How-
ard, Harry Neblett, and the hos-
tess’ granddaughter, Mrs. Joe El-
der of Dallas.
Duff an PTA Has Interesting
Meeting Tuesday Night
The Duffau PTA met in regular
session Tuesday night, Dec. 3.
The program was in the form of
a question bee with prizes for cor-
rect answers.
The beautification committee ask-
ed that a day be set for working
the school ground, and Wednesday,
December 11, was set as the day.
All patrons are expected to at-
tend and bring lunch and imple-
ments to work with. Also everyone
else interested is invited to come
and help set out shrubs, build
walks and flower beds.
Eugene Se&go, play director of
the Duffau PTA has announced
that the play, “Calm Yourself,"
will be given Thursday night, De-
cember 19. Everyone is invited.
Dallas Publishers
Print Bookof Poems
By Maifred Hale
Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Sheffield
received announcement this week
of the recent publication of a book
of poems written by Miss Maifred
Hale of Eastland, a childhood
friend of Mrs. Sheffield, the two
having gone to school together in
Stephenville several years ago.
Miss Hale’s book of poetry is
titled "Sunshine in The Night,”
and publication is by Mathis, Van
Nort & Company, book publishers
of Dallas. It is clothed in beauti-
ful blue cloth bindings with gold
stamp and silver and blue
Press comments pf. J){is* Rale’*
book are flattering, “Maifred Hale’s
Sunshine in the Night is not just
another book of poems,” they say,
“there is a tempered restraint about
it that shows the true craftsman.
Her philosophy is sound and whole-
some and not gushing with senti-
mentalism."
Maifred Hale was born in Ste-
phenville and attended school here.
She was a student hi high school
when her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Hale moved from here to
West Texas. She made her home
in Fort Worth several years and
attended Texas Christian Univer-
sity. She was a newspaper report-
er for two years and is now Depu-
ty Clerk in the Court of Civil Ap-
peals at Eastland. She writes poet-
ry, essays and short articles and
a number of these have appeared
in. various publications. She is a
granddaughter of the late Dr. and
Mrs. L. G. Oxford, early residents
of Stephenville, and is the great
niece of Judge W. J, Oxford of
| this city.
An open letter to the Stephen-
ville Yellow Jackets came from
Temple, written by W. H. Haw-
kins of Stephenville, who, with
Mrs. Hawkins, is visiting his dau-
ghter, Mrs. Harry DeGrummond
and family in Temple. The letter
follows:
Temple, Texas
Dec. 3, 1940
“Dear Yellow Jackets:
“Friday will be the first time
in ten years that I have failed to
favor the Wildcats (Temple) in
their game here, my grandson Har-
ry DeGrummond Jr., having enlist-
ed me that long ago to help him
root for his home team and kept
me on the job ever since, as we
are there every year during the
football season.
“This time it thrills me to think
of having the pleasure of rooting
for my own home town high school,
and I’m wondering whether it will
be 0 or 6 for these Temple boys
to 14 or more for you fellows.
“I am looking for you to lead in
the final State contest but am not
sure whether it will be Amarillo,
Paris or Port Arthur that you will
defeat.
“Love to all of you.
W. H. Hawkins.”
♦ Fire Hall Notes *
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Five alarms were answered by
the Stephenville Fire Department
during the past week.
One of these resulted from a
grass fire on the N. W, Norwood
home an. Vandexhilt street^ No dam-
age was reported.
Fire at Guinea Garrett's home on
Wayne street resulted in a par-
tial loss to both house and con-
tents. The property was covered
by insurance.
Gasoline being used to clean the
motor of a car at the Stephen-
ville Motor Company exploded Wed-
nesday morning and Jesse Griffin,
employee, was burned about the
face and hands.
The College Tailor Shop had a
blaze about noon Wednesday, caus-
ed by a defective flue aboye the
boiler, but very little damage oc-
curred, Thursday morning fire
broke out again in the same place,
and from the same cause, also re-
sulting in very little damage.
A telephone call was received
by the department Wednesday
night and the booster truck went
to a vacant lot south of the Tar-
leton campus to put out a blaze
on a tree.
Olen Clements, formerly of
Houston, but lately of Dallas, who
has a number of friends in Ste-
phenville, wired his sister and bro-
ther-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. J. W.
Clements, Thursday that he . had
received a recent promotion and
was being sent to New York this
week-end to write Associated Press
News for the radio chains and
stations. This is, according to Mr.
Clements, widely known Associat-
ed Press staff writer, a newly cre-
ated job and, he says, will give
him a much wider writing range,
and will be the ground floor on a
job that many become as import-
ant as wirephoto has become in the
last three years.
Mr. Clements has "visited in Ste-
phenville numbers of times, with
his sister, and at one time made
his home here for several months
shortly after his graduation from
high school and while here worked
for a while with the editorial staff
of the Empire-Tribune. He has
since gone right on up the ladder
of success and this promotion, just-
ly earned, will probably be only a
stopping stone to higher pianos of
service in the journalistic field.
Had Thanksgiving Guests
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Belcher
had her sisters and their families
as dinner guests Thanksgiving
Day. Guests at the delicious tur-
key dinner were Mrs. J. W. Wills,
her mother. Mr. and Mrs. S. R.
Hicks and son, Truman, Mr. and
Mrs. W. M. Whisenant, Mr." and
Mrs. E. M. Moss, Mr. and Mrs.
Otis Greer, all of Shelby. Peggy
Knight, Buckeye, New Mexico; Mr.
and Mrs. J. A. Ripley and chil-
dren, J. S., Joe Dean and Dortha
of Johnsville; and Mrs. Mattie Rob-
v(s of Stephenville.
Legion^ Auxiliary to Meet
An important meeting of the
American Legion Auxiliary will
be held next Tuesday at 7:30 p. m.
at the recreational building, it was
announced Wednesday. All mem-
bers of the Auxiliary are urged
to attend.
Uncle Ben would be a better man
if he were -not quite so religious.
He is so sure Heaven.will take care
of poor people that he doesn’t try-
to help them.
STATE PLAY-OFF
STARTS TODAY
Bi-district play between the six-
teen district champion football
Class A A teams in Texas starts
today, with the Stephenville-Tem-
ple clash being among those to
lake place on the first day of the
two-day schedule.
Last to be arranged was the Cor-
pus Christi and Brackenridge (San
Antonio), tilt, which Saturday night
was scheduled to be played at San
Antonio on Friday night of this
week.
This department is picking the
following winners in the bi-district
games:
Corpus Christi over Brackenridge
(San Antonio).
El Paso High over Big Spring.
Paris over Greenville.
Stephenville over Temple.
Longview over Lufkin.
Amarillo over Wichita Falls.
Masonic Home (Fort Worth)
over Sunset (Dallas).
Jeff Davis (Housto/i over Port
Arthur).
Buy* Pecan*
C. A. Dunlap, pecan, wool and
hide buyer who operates on South
Mason street, reports the purchase
of more than 150,000 pounds of
pecans during the current sea-
son. With the exception of the
sale of 30,000 pounds of the crop
Mr. Dunlap now has on storage
in his warehouse all the purchases
he has made this fall, involving
approximately 120,000 pounds. The
crop in the county this year will
total around 300,000 pounds in the
opinion of Mr. Dunlap.
First Payment On
Per Capita Is Made
To Erath Schools
A $3 per capita payment, 40c
of which went to the county ad
ministration, has been received by
Erath County schools from the
State Department of Public Educa-
tion, W. B. Russell, county sup-
erintendent, announced Thursday.
The payment is the first that
has been made on the $22.50 per
capita apportionment this term. L.
A. Woods, state superintendent,
snid another payment would be
made in December..
After all transfers were made,
Erath County has a total of 4,447
scholastics this term. Of this to-
tal, the 42 common schools of the
county receive per capita pay-
ments .on 2,361 students, Stephen-
ville °n 1,120, Dublin on 718 and
Alexander on 248.
J. N. DAVIS MOVES STORE
TO FILLING STATION
Had Guests
"Guests in the home of Mr. and
Mrs."Uress“TTasfnn oaYTyTast week
were Mrs. W. F. Anderson of Fort
Worth and her daughters, Mrs.
7ack Scott, the former Miss Mary
Elaine Anderson of New York,
Mrs. Porter Holland and small son
Jon Holland of Dallas, Betty Jean
Anderson of Fort Worth. Two oth-
er guests in the Gaston home last
Monday night were Mr. and Mrs.
Luther G. Roberts of Amarillo;
Mr. Roberts is. a former minister
who was in charge of the Gra-
ham Street Church of Christ here
a few years ago..
J. N. Davis, long time resident
of Erath County, who for the last
12 years has operated a filling sta-
tion and grocery business across
the railroad on North Graham
street, 4m* recently moved to the
Henry Martin Service Station on
North Graham just south of Knight
Gin.
Mr. Davis has lived in the coun-
ty practically all of his life, hav-
ing made his home for many years
in the Exray community near Thur-
ber. He has lived in Stephenville
for the lafet twelve years. He has
been almost a life time subscrib-
er to the Empire-Tribune which
he' has taken for 48 years. He1 had
read it for years before he start-
ed taking the paper himself after
his marriage, and says he misses
it more than anything if he fails
to get a copy. He and his family
itW'O'fl'=WFKT'"MeNfftlT str#* hear'
the Junior High School and Cen-
tral Ward School buildings.
Proportions Made
In Local Company
National Guard
Daughter Born
Mr. and Mrs. J. II. Allbright of
Hieo, Route 7, have announced the
arrival of a daughter, Jimmie Mae,
born to them Monday November
25 at 11:15 p. m. at the Stephen-
ville Hospital. The baby’s weight
was seven pounds and ten oun-
ces.
Classified ads are money getters.
Recent promotions in Company
D, 142nd Infantry, Texas Nation-
al Guard, include those who have
been promoted from the rank of
private to that of private, flrst-
class, and those who have been
rated specialists.
Captain L. G. Rich,.company com-
mander, Thursday announced that
the following men now held the
rank of private, first-class: Clin-
ton E. Canady, T. C. Cox, James
P Derrick, Cecil W. Fowler, Lloyd
R. Fox, Earl N. Hicks, William M.
Jones, Virgil V. Laughlin, Willis
T. Pettijohn, Lamon Y. Ratliff,
C. L. Thackston, Sidney D. Whit-
man, and Jesse C. Woolverton.
Those who now have the rating
of specialists are: Sebum L. Bry-
ant, Joseph H. Cason, Ray C.
Clendenin, George W. Coston, T.
C. Cox, John D Eddy, Truett J.
Ford, Chesley P. Forsyth, Wat-
son S. Jones, Lawrence L. Lath-
am, Daniel B. McMillin, John Ma-
gee, Joe Martin, William L.. Out-,
law, Eugene O. Pryor, Robert D.
Ramsey, Lamon Y. Ratliff, Troy
O: Raulston, Lorenzo D. Riggins,
William H. Sellers, Fred W. Snel-
lings, Paul C. Smith, Richard B.
Smith, Cecil C. Smithcy, Maurice
W. Steglieh,. Harry B Stephens,
Willie E. Stewart, C. L. Thacks-
ton, Sidney D. Whitman. Homer
D. White and Jesse C. Woolver-
ton.
Were Here on Visit
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Smith of
CentraTia, 111., were here this week
to visit Mrs. Smith’s parents, Mr.
and Mrs, T. H. Perry, 309 East
Benton street. Mr. Smith, who is
with an oil company at Centralia,
is taking a two weeks’ vacation
which he and Mrs. Smith, the for-
me rM . 3 s'All ee nTe my ; ir<Ts£e7ki:
ing with her parents in Stephen-
ville and his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
C. C. Smith in Austin. They ex-
pected to attend Texas Univer-
sity-Texas A. & M. College foot-
ball game in Austin Thursday,
Was Home for Holidays
Charles Boyd, student in the Uni-
versity of Texas, Austin, was at
home for the first Thanksgiving
holidays which ho spent with his
parents, Mr, and Mrs. Joe Boyd
and family.
es to notify the- public again that
the proper way to turn in an alarm
to get the quickest results is to
call “Central” at the telephone of-
fice instead of calling the fire de-
partment or the city hall. Central
will report the fire immediately,
telling where it is located, to the
fire department.
Two Artists To Give
Duo-Piano Concert
At College Sunday
Due to unavoidable circumstan-
ces the appearance of Charles
Kiker and Ivy Eddlemon, due pian-
ists who were to have been present-
ed in a program here Sunday af-
ternoon, December 1 in the small
auditorium at John Tarleton Col-
lege music conservatory were un-
able to be here at that time
the program was postponed until a
later date.
Announcement was made this
week by Charles W. Froh, director
of the division of music and fine
arts, that the two artists will be
in Stephenville Sunday, Decem-
ber 8 at 4 p. m. when they will
give the program which they had
planned to give last Sunday af-
ternoon. The recital which-will-be
the third of the monthly faculty
recitals presented by the music de-
partment of John Tarleton College,
will be held in the small auditor-
ium pf the conservatory.
Miss Eddlemon and Mr. Kiker
both of Wichita Falls, are pian-
ists of very fine technical and musi-
cal euipment and their two-piano
work is of an unusually high or-
der.
Mr. Kiker at one time lived in
Stephenville. He attended Southern
Methodist University and was one
of the outstanding piano students
of Paul Van Katwijk, dean of the
‘ of Music flt. _S, .M, U, Ji
also has done graduate work in
plKno with Rudolph Ganz, eminent
pianist and president of the Chi-
cago Music College.
Miss Eddlemon holds both the
B. M. and M. M. degrees from the
Chicago Musical College. She was
a scholarship student of Rudolph
Ganz and was one of the young-
est students ever to be awarded
a master of music degree from
that professional school.
The public is cordially invited
to attend this concert. Admission
is free.
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Christmas spirit.
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a sitting, a dozen photographs, and your troubles
are over.
Week End Visitors
Mr. and Mrs. Jno. M. Watts
and Mrs. T. E. Carter, of North
Belknap street, were more than
pleased to have as guests in their
home last week and Mrs. W. M.
Laughlin,. of Robstown, and Mrs.
R. M. Laughlin and little daugh-
ter Judie, of Dallas. Both
Mrs. Carter and Mrs. Watts were
more than delighted to have their
sister and niece here with them
for the short visit.
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