De Leon's Monitor (De Leon, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 21, 1997 Page: 3 of 10
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Thursday, August 21,1997
Oiit«A>UC4-
Lula Mary BeMS. ^hLc. fed
Aug. 17 in the Golden Age Manor
Nursing Home in Dubln.
She was bom February 1,1912 in
Fairview, Montana to the late Reuben
and Jeanette Thayer Stanhope. She
married Thomas Jefferson Bell in
Roaring Springs, Texas on Novem-
ber 27.1929. He preceded her hi death
on June 16,1991.
Mrs. Bell was a homemaker, a Bap-
tist and a member of the Holder Bap-
iMEMBER MRS. tist Church near Dublin. She had been
BOX?—You should. Very few indi- a resident of the Hasse Community,
viduals from De Leon have not had near Comanche, since 1985, moving
Mn. Box as their teacher at some time from Santa Anna, Texas,
in their school career. Mrs. Allene She '* survived by two sons,
Weaver Scott Box started her teach- Geor8e N- Bell of Round Rock and
ing career in Comyn in 1933 for one R J Bel1 of Glen Rosc- two *»ugh-
year and then taught at De Leon High ‘era, Jcanettc Locks of Comanche
School and never left She retired in *"d Mary s Herring of Ft. Worth;
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Creek of Goldthwaite; one alalar
Mamie Vance of Mari* Falls; twtrve
grandchildren; twenty grant j
chikhen and several ntocaa t
ews.
Funeral services were h»M Aug.
16, in dm Hal at
Scam Artists Are Looking For You
1974 after a very long career. Mrs. Box
is pictured at the 1997 ExrStudents
Meeting, where she reminisced with
her former students.
TCAA Award
'97-'98 TSU
Scholarship
Rocky Clay Ingram is the recipi-
ent of this year's TriCounty ^exas Rehabilitation Center, 4601
Agribusiness Assn., Inc. (TCAA) Jj£ford St ’Abi,ene- Tex“ 796°5-
Agriculture Scholarship to Tarleton 9989
State University. The decision is made
by the Agriculture Scholarship Se-
; lection Committee of TSU on the ba-
! sis of scholarship, achievement, char-
acter and need. Ingram is a senior
Lillie Mne Hicks
Lillie Mae Hicks, 86, of Comanche
died Aug. 13, 1997 in the Western
Hills Nursing Home.
She was bom January I, 1911 in
Agricultural Services and Develop- Hasse, Texas to the late Jack C. and
ment major who resides in Stephen- Mary Lewis Creek. She married J.J.
ville Hicks on October 19, 1929 in
Ingram graduated from Cisco High Comanche. He preceded her in death
School with honors. He was active in onMarch21,1983.
4-H and served as FFA President for Mrs. Hicks was a homemaker and
two years. In 1996 he received an a member of the Sidney Baptist
Associate of Science certificate at Church. She was a lifelong resident
Cisco Junior College. His parents are of this area.
Mr. and Mrs. Clay Ingram of Cisco. She is survived by one son,
TCAA is pleased to be able to Raymond Hicks and wife Becky of
fund this scholarship for the seco&id Comanche; three daughters, Billie*
year due to the support of our mem- and Husband Grady Reed of
bers and the success of the annual Comanche, Joyce and Husband Don
Ward of College Station, Mary and
Husband Gary Hall of Sidney; two
brothers. Bill and wife Laveme Creek
of Marble Falls, Jack and wife Ann
Texas Dairy and Farm Show.
No Rain
Reported by
Corp.
Everyone is hoping for rain, but
rain has not graced us with its pres-
ence since Aug. 7. If you eaQ remem-
ber the last time we received rain in
, thisVca. it was op Thi^sday pf the
F&M Festival.
The Corps of Engineers contin-
ues to release water from Proctor
Lake. The lake level for Aug. 12 was
1164.61 and is now down to 1163.41
as of Aug. 19. The conservation level
is set at 1162.0. The Corp. reports that
lake levels will continue to drop if it
does not rain.
Three fainter gates are open .5
foot each and one low-flow at 1.4 foot.
High and low temperatures last
week were:
YMBFDU:
You know that Herman Gilder's
Rories are mostly windmill fbel
DATE
HIGH
LOW
Aug. 13
96
73
Aug. 14
97
71
Aug. IS
95 '
74
Aug. 16
95 *
74
Aug. 17
97
75
Aug. 18
98 .
72
Aug. 19
96
71
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P.O. Box 50,
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or CALL
254/893-NEWS
or 893-6397
WEAVER DRUG
Prescription Druggists
Serving the area since 1902
Old Fashioned Fountain
Full Line Pharmacy
D FREE DELIVERY
104 North Ifcxas • De Leon, Texas 76444
254-893-6496
DE LEON HOSPITAL
is pleased to announce the association of
the following doctors at:
Community Medical Clinic
1000 S. Texas, De Leon, Tx.
RICHARD M. COVIN, M.D.
Opthalmologist
KENNETH H. BENSON, M.D.
Urologist
FRANK V. TERRELL, M.D.
Opthalmologist
DON L. McCORD, M.D.
General Surgery
and at De Leon Hospital:
AUSTIN KING, M.D.
Ear, Nose, and Throat
Call De Leon Hospital at 893-3495
to make appointment.
Several times a year, even in
Sfcphanville, we nadofaome aaaior
citusnbetaptakaabysanMcoaaMn-
or woman, aa the case may be. Gull-
ibis people ail over the world ara sold
biUs of goods equivakot to the pot
of gold at dm ead of the rainbow. It
ramu that subjects aeumally loaely
widows, or widowers, or oldsters.
That emotion, lomUmu, seems to
many granchildren, great granchildren
and great-great grandchildren.
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m.,
Aug. 20, in the Hall and Sons Funeral
Home Chapel. Interment will follow
at Pleasant Valley Cemetery near
Owens, Texas under the direction of
Hall and Sons Funeral Home of
Comanche.
Memorials may be made to West
Pallbearers wore grandsons,
Randy Raod, Rex Rood, Dan Reed,
Troy Hides, Tony Norvil and Don
Keene. Honorary pallbearer was
Ricky Hicks.
Memorials may be made to the
Indian Creek Cemetery Association,
Comanche, Texm.
Eloise Lewis
Eloise Lewis, 77, of Desdeasona,
died Aug. IS, 1997 at Hendricks Hos-
pital in Abilene.
She was bora on January 7,1920
to the late Hiram James and Maggie
Helen Burton Pool in Erath County,
Texas. She married Rudolph Gormie
Lewis on October 19,1933 in Desde-
mona.
Mn. Lewis was a homemaker and
a member of the Fkst Baptist Church
of Desdemona. She had been a resi-
dent of Desdemona all her life.
She is survived by her husband,
Rudolph Gormie Lewis of Desde-
mona; two daughters, Karen Louise
Burleson of Desdemona and Vickie
Lynn Harris of Abilene; one son,
Philip Stan Lewis of Desdemona; one'
brother, Joe Pool of Richland Hills;
five grandchildren and three great
grandchildren. She is preceded is
death by one son, Lyndon Dale Lewis
and one brother, James Hiram Fool.
Funeral services were held Aug.
19, at the First Baptist Church of Des-
demona with the Rev. Joe Pool and
D.F. Dossey officiating. Music was
provided by Daryl Hurst and Karen
Creed. Interment followed at the Des-
demona Cemetery under the direction
of Nowlin Funeral Home of De Leon.
' Pallbearers were Harold Lewis,
James Riggs, Garry Clayton, Pug
Guthery, Bob Hagood and Joe Carroll
Lewis.
Fire Department—•
Continued from page 1
existing EMS system is the reason
for establishing a First Responder
Organization. The responsibility of
providing the resources that an
• EMS systeqi requires including
transportation, can be burdensome
on communities; a good solution.
De Leon Volunteer Fire Depart-
ment First Responder Roster:
. Doyle Rone ECA
Danny Owen Paramedic
James Carlson ECA
Brent Babbit EMT
Brandon Sides ECA
Bobby Brinson Paramedic
YMbFdU:
You never use your turn
«lp«l« Swim* flTrjOUf
knows where you're going,
anyway.
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Editor
Tracy Chupp Bouchier
General Manager
Jeanette Ward
Advertising
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Staff
2VJ<m'4 Monitor welcomes
letters to the paper, they must be
signed and have an address and tele-
phone number so we can verify the
authenticity. OhdasoaMomltlMr re-
serves the right to edit all material
submitted for publication.
Any erroneous reflections upon
the character, standing, or reputation
of any person, firm or corporation
which may appear in the columns of
Monitor will gladly be
corrected upon being brought to the
attention of the publisher.
SUBSCRIPTION RATE:
By mail, anywhere-II7.00for I year
Juat this last week I rand hi the
paper about a woman who fell for a
lightening rod scam. I don't drink any
house bulk in the last 30 yean was
equipped with lightening rods, so it
goes to show that observant thieves
analyze our environments and deter-
mine what lines can lead us astray.
But all scams do not have known tar-
gets. Mail fraud still exists, though
more control can be brought to bear
now than in the past
Back in history when electricity
was such an unknown energy, feared
and mysterious to many people, all
'sorts of scams bulk on it plagued the
nation. In 1796Dr. Elisha Fetkins, of
Connecticut, an accredited doctor
and mule trader, marketed some gad-
gets called "tractors." He proclaimed
that two disks of dissimilar metal,
available only through him, placed on
tbcskip woulfl "draw out a surcharge
of noxious electric fluid that lies at
the root of all suffering." Though
other doctors yelled "fraud" the de-
vices caught the public eye and sold
like little round hot cakes. Even
George Washington, probably with
a tooth ache, fell for the cure.
Now, ifthe following story sounds
familiair, your memory is too good. I
wrote about this fraud about four
years ago, but the story bears repeat-
ing-in fact, my dad wrote about this
story in which he had an active part,
about one hundred years ago.
In 1886, when Joe Fitzgerald was
a boy, his father's hired man, Slim,
bought a Great Oxyadonor which he
saw advertised in the almanac. The
ad claimed that the machine would
cure whatever ailed a person: rheu-
matism, asthma, indigestion, leakage
YMBFDU:
Yon knew that the i
of the heart, ca-
tarrh, you have it,
dm machine cured
k.
Slim ordered a
Great Oxyadonor
and anticipated
feeling thirty years
younger and sev-
eral hand-
somer. Slim, who
slept in a shed-
room of the house,
paid the C.O.D. when the contraption
arrivedandexaminedthewonder.lt
consisted of a cylinder about eight
inches long and three inches in di-
ameter with a string coming from the
sealed top. Directions said to set the
cylinder in a bowl of water and tie the
string as near as possible to the af-
fected parts. For example, if a rheu-
matic shoulder pained, tie the string
to the upper arm on the affected side.
Joe, about ten years old, and his
brother were determined to see the
patient under treatment. One night
they went to the shed room, but
couldnt open the door because Slim
had placed a chair under the knob.
Undaunted, the two boys looked in
the window.
There in the moonlight lay Slim
with the Great Oxyadonor under the
bed and the string disappearing un-
der the covers. Using a wire as a fish-
ing pole, the boys snared the string
and gave a yank. Slim raised up in
bed yelling "Fire! Fire!"
The running boys heard no more.
Slim told Mr. Fitzgerald when he went
to investigate, that the Great
Oxyadonor had overcharged.
It wasn't many weeks before the
boys found the wonder machine in
the dump pile. They broke it open to
find the cylinder contained iron fill-
ings and sawdust.
Such tricks hung around and hang
around, in spite of laws which may
be a little limiting. In 1962 FDA seized
and destroyed over a thousand Mi-
cro-Dynameters, which sold for $875
apiece. Those devises were pro-
claimed to be an effective treatment
for cancer, TB, rheumatism, nephritis,
YMBFDU:
You spell U De Leon and
pronounce it DeaUyou.
•:W-
A Word
Edgewise
By Mary Jo
Clendenin
ulcer of the stomach and other ail-
ments. They consisted of fancy con-
soles with flashing lights and knobs
and dials. Actually, the machine con-
sisted of a string of galvanometers
(measurer of electric currents) with
some probes to fasten on the patients
hands.
I think we have around here some-
where some valueless bonds that
some of the family bought at one time
or another. I remember Uncle Frank
was supposed to have stock in a gold
mine in Colorado. After he died k was
determined that no such mine existed.
No, I'm not immune to a scam. I've
bitten a few times, myself. A sad story
can usually separate me and what-
ever money I happen to have-though
it is seldom worth the perpetrators
time. I guess the opposite to vulner-
able is petrified.
. Now, look at all that mail you get
declaring that you are a winner of a
sweepstakes. "Just send money to
cover the cost of handling." Never,
never, foil for that one. You don't pay
money to collect money. If you have
actually won, you will not have to
send a "small payment" for security
check-and you will not be notified
by "bulk mail." That, "bulk mail" is a
dead give away. No company awards
a monetary prize to an entire mailing
list. Check the post mark. Read the
fine print. When someone offers you
something by phone and you are
tempted; ask them to send you the
information in writing. Don't let your-
self be rushed into making decisions.
Don't be a target for a scam artist—if
you have money to give away, see
me-and I'H help you find a worthy
Cause-such as the city library. r1'
YMBFDU:
You've been married three
times and still have the same
_to-laws._
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units only. No order-outs can be written at these prices.
There is absolutely no reason to wait for lower prices...They are here!
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Open Saturday until 1 pm
Sales ends Monday at 6pm
H cz> Ml a ® W 0
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Chupp, Charles. De Leon's Monitor (De Leon, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 21, 1997, newspaper, August 21, 1997; De Leon, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1144301/m1/3/?rotate=270: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Comanche Public Library.