The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. 265, Ed. 1 Sunday, March 9, 1947 Page: 18 of 42

                                
THE ABILENE, TEXAS, REPORTER NEWS
Page 1g                   Sunday Morning, March 9, 1947
Funeral Set at
Winters Today
For Postmaster
WINTERS. March 8 — Funeral
services will be held at the Church
of Christ here Sunday afternoon
beginning at 3 p. m. for H. O.
Jones, 73, the city's postmaster
and a leading figure in the reli-
gious, business and civic develop-
ment of the community for 40
years.
Mr. Jones died in Winters hos-
pital at 9 o'clock this morning fol-
lowing several .years of illness.
Funeral services will be con-
ducted by the local minister, Ted
Waller. The body will lie in state
at the church 30 minutes before
the service. Burial will be in Fair-
view cemetery beside the grave of
Mr Jones' wife, who died March 1.
1945. Spill Funeral home is in
charge of funeral arrangements.
Pallbearers will be B. G. Owens,
Bailey McCaughan, John Q Mc-
Adams. Roy Young, R. D. Collins,
E. E. Thormeyer, Sam Cook, H. H
Cryer, Eugene Baker and R. K.
Russell.
Coming here in 1908. Mr Jones
was in the retail mercantile busi-
ness many years, served as mayor
of Winters twice,*as a school trustee
a number of years, represented his
district in the state House of Rep-
resehtatives two terms and was an
elder of the Church of Christ more
than 30 years.
At his bedside when death came
were Mr. Jones' four surviving
children, two brothers and a sister
of his late wife.
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Harvey Oscar Jones was born
Nov. 27, 1873 near the township
of Maxey in Lamar county, near
Paris. His family moved to Bagwell,
nearby in Red River county, when
he was a small child. He attended
the public schools there and also
studied in a college then located at
Whitewright.
Mr. Jones began his business
career as a cotton buyer. He was
married Dec 22, 1900 at Cooper to
Etta Bannister, daughter of a coun-
ty judge of Delta county.
As newlyweds, Mr. and Mrs.
Jones moved to Fulbright, Red
River county.
He was in the general mercan-
tile business in Fulbright five years-
and at the town of Petty, Lamar
county, three years before coming
to Winters a year before the Abi-
lene and Southern Railway was
H. O. JONES
the high school building, across
the street from the residences were
he lived until his death.
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Mr. and Mrs. H. 0. Jones were
the parents of five children. A
son died in infancy. The surviv-
ing children are a son, Harvey
Dale Jones, of the legal staff of
the United States Reclamation ser-
vice, Denver, Colo.; Mrs. W. E.
Little and Mrs J. C. Williams of
Winters, and Mrs. C. S. Boone of
Winnsboro.
Also surviving are two grand-
daughters, Francalene Boone, a
senior in Texas Christian uni-
versity, and Mary Ruth Boone, of
Winnsboro; three grandsons. Har-
vey Michael Jones, Denver, Colo.,
and Harvey Edward and William
Lynn Little of Winters; a sister,
Mrs. Lena Strickland of Bagwell,
and two brothers, H. I. Jones, presi-
dent of the First National bank,
Clarksville; and V. D. Jones, a
sawmill owner of Bagwell.
Mr. Jones’ children, his two
brothers, and a sister of his late
wife, Mrs. A. M. Beeman and her
husband, executive vice-president
of a Grand Prairie bank, were at
the bedside when death came to
built to connect Abilene and Bal- Mr. Jones.
linger via Winters.
As a 17-year-old boy Harvey Pano-ed Cralan
Jones had ridden a bicycle into Car Reported Stolen
West Texas from his northeast
Texas home and traveled as far as
the one-story community that is
Winters, where he spent a night
and decided he would like to live
RE SET MARCH 16
Bad Gold Delays
Margaret’s Debut
DETROIT, March 8—(P)—A “se-
vere" cold forced Margaret Tru-
man to forego with “great disap-
pointment" today her scheduled
radio debut as a professional sing-
er Sunday night, but she’ll try
again.
The first formal appearance of
th president’s daughter as a color-
atura soprano was postponed at
White House doctor's orders for one
week. Her debut was re-scheduled
for Sunday, March 16.      9
Postponment of her appearance
as soloist with the Detroit sym-
phony orchestra tomorrow on the
“Sunday Evening Hour" was an-
nounced here by Brig. Gen. Wal-
lace H Graham, M. C., White
House physician.
General Graham, who flew here
front Washington yesterday, said
“. . . due to an upper respiratory
infection from which Miss Tru-
man has been suffering the past
few days I have decided that her
formal debut must be postponed
one week. Miss Truman has been
suffering from severe laryngitis.
I have strongly advised against us-
ing” her voice at this time."
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tions and gents furnishing.
In the major gifts solicitation,
Jones has been assisted by Ross
Archer, George Barron, E. W.
Berry, W. L. Blakney, Arch Batjer,
T. C. Campbell Jr., H. W. Dobbyn,
W. J. Fulwiler, Henry James, S. M.
Jay, Carl Mahan, Malcolm Meek,
Frank Murphy. Grover Nelson, Ste-
wart, Sterling Wooten and Ernest
Wright.
Town and community chairman
in the county are:
Riggs Shepperd, Merkel; A. M.
Black, Tye; Frank Coalson for
Wylie school and Mrs. G. J. Rob-
erts, Wylie community; J. A. Nob-
les, Lawn; Doyle Taylor, Tuscola;
Mrs. B. 0. Gibbs, Bradshaw; Mrs.
J. E. Bilberry, Buffalo Gap; Ter-
rell Ferguson, Caps; Mrs. W. H.
Blackburn, Elmdale; Grady Smith,
Hamby: Will Nesmith, Potosi: Mrs.
J. M. Brooks, Pleasant Hill; B. H.
Pritchard, Shep; Ben Newhouse,
Trent; and Earl Landers, View.
DOBBYN
Continued from Page ONE
ly competent people in these de-
partments."
He thinks' that a police chief
should be some man who has come
up through the ranks, be a bus-
iness man and enforcement admin-
istrator and understand the prob-
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his name to be placed on-the bal-
lot, only after a group of business
men urged him to do so and had
completed the position in his be-
half before approaching him. He
says that he feels the next two
years are the most important in
Abilene’s history and sees an op-
portunity to aid in needed plan-
ning for the city’s future.
He will not make an active cam-
LOCAL
COLLECTOR
GAS TAXES, STATE
REGISTRATION ETC.
OBI MANUFACTURERS associnor
and the
Hundreds Hear
Trapp Singers
An Abilene audience of several
hundred thrilled to a concert of
old-world music last night at Har-
din-Simmons university's Behrens
paign. r*
Dobbyn served in the navy dur-
ing World .War I, and was mobil-
ized in World War II with the 45th
Infantry Division in September,
1940, at Fort Sill, Okla. After a
year at Camp Barkeley, he was sta-
tioned for a time in Massachu-
setts. Dobbyn went to North Afri-
ca in Nevomber. 1942, during the
invasion as a special representa-
tive of the Army Ground Forces.
He returned to the 45th Division....
in March, 1943, and made the in- on Georg Von Trapp came to the
vasion of Sicily, Salerno and Anzio stage at intermission to introduce
his seven daughters and one son
chapel.
The famed Trapp family singers
recreated folk songs and instru-
mental music of their native Aus-
tria and other European lands.
They sang without the services of
Baroness Maria Von Trapp; mother
of the family. She was suffering
from Laryngitis and was confined
to her room in the Windsor hotel.
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with it..                           his seven daughters and one son
He was with the Pillsbury Mills and the priest-conductor.
Co. 20 years, operating their Enid. Their entire concert was en-
Okla., flour mill from 1928 to 1940, thusiastically received. Especially
On release from the army, he favored was their performance with
the medevial musical instruments
—flutes, recorders, a six-stringed
vi.l de gamba, and a spinnet.
At an intermission Father Was-
ner explained the origin of the
Austrian folk-music. It dates to the
came back to Abilene to live. He
purchased an interest in the Texas
Mill and Elevator Co. and is pres-
ident and general manager.
His present civic and church
contacts include: member of board
of directors of Texas Feed Manu-
facturers association, on executive
board of Texas Feed Manufactur-
ers association, on executive board
of YMCA and member of its youth
recreation committee, executive
board of Chisholm Trail council
of Boy Scouts of America, mem-
ber of Rotary club and chairman
of rural-urban committee, mem-
ber of American Legion and of the
Presbyterian church.
Dobbyn has a wife; three mar-
ried daughters and one son, Jim
Dobbyn, the latter a senior at Abi-
lene high school. The two daughters
who live in Abilene are Mrs., J. B.
Morgan and Mrs. W. S. Blandford.
Their entire concert was en-
medevial times, he said, when mus-
ic centered in the -home of the
family. “In those days, when a fam-
iyl hired a new cook or butler they
asked ‘Do you sing tenor or
bass’” ” Wasner said.
VA Orders Cut in
Contact Service
DALLAS, March 8—(PP)— Con-
tact representatives of the Veterans
administration have been ordered
to discontinue weekly visits to 31
North Texas towns as an economy
measure. Robert C. Rice, manager
of VA‘s Dallas regional office, an-
nounced today.
Service to 15 other points is be-
ing reduced from a weekly to
monthly basis. In five other towns,
the manager said, VA field repre- |
sentatives will make but two con
tact trips monthly instead of four.
VA no longer will send repre-
sentatives to Glen Rose, Gran-
bury, Grand Prairie, Seagoville.
Henrietta, Electra, Rockwall, Ar-
lington, Ennis, Lairfman, Baird,
Rising Star, Breckenridge, Albany,
Gorman, Ranger, Throckmorton,
Ki'gore, Big Sandy, Linden, Wea-
therford, Naples, Mount Vernon,
Pittsburg, Daingerfield, Honey
Grove, Denison,, Bonham, White-
wright, Quitman and Archer City.
Itenerant service has been re-
duced from a weekly basis to two
trips a month for veterans in Ter-
rell, Waxahachie, Cisco, Commerce
and Jacksboro, the manager said.
The VA will continue to serve
Seymour and Olney twice weekly.
Albany Shoe Shop,
In Operation Since
1887, Closes Doors
ALBANY. March 8 —(Spl)-
The Davis Shoe Shop one of Al-
bany's oldest business institutions,
went out of business last week. The
operator, Burnie Davis, son of the
founder, J. R. Davis, sold his equip-
ment. which was moved to Anson
The late J. R. Davis, who died in
March, 1932, came to Texas in
1876, and opened a shoe shop in
Albany in J887. The business has
operated under .this firm name,
with the elder Davis in charge un-
til his death. Since 1932, Burnie
Davis has operated the shop. He
sold out because of ill health. •
Interesting Indian
design in diagonal
stripes... the dress dona
in ’Native American’
rayon butcher type
fabric. Smoke signal,
Indian lake or Tribal
black. Sizes 10 to 20.
822.50
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Mezzanine Floor
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A City Within Itself”
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In 1908 Mr Jones came here and
built a residence that was ready
when his family joined him. He
came here to join in the organiza-
tion and opening of the First Na-
tional bank in which he was an ac-
tive officer several years before
re-entering the ‘mercantile busi
ness.
In partnership with three other
men he opened the Farmers Mer
cantile company. A little later Mr
Jones and one of the partners, the
late John W Dale, purchased in-
terests of the other two. Jones
and Dale owned the business un-
til death-in 1918 of Mr. Dale, whose
Big Spring police Saturday night
radioed Abilene city officers to be
on the look-out for a maroon 1945
Ford deluxe tudor stolen from Colo
rado City Saturday evening.
lems of youth.
He has not formed a definite
opinion of the city’s airport prob-
lem or the possibility of levying an
additional school tax over-and
above the present $2.50 levied for
all municipal purposes.
Dobbyn said that he permitted
Clothes left today will be ready tomorrow!
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widow continued as a partner.
Mr Jones’ brother, H. I. Jones,
was a third partner several years
after his return to Clarksville,
H. 0. Jones purchased the Dale in-
terests in 1924.
In 1931 Mr Jones sold his store
to S W. Altman, now of Cisco, and
his son, F. B Altman, now in the
ready-to-wear business in Abilene.
In that same year Jones was elect-
ed representative for the 92d dis-
trict—Runnels, Coke, and Concho
counties He served in the 42d and
43d sessions of the legislature.
As a legislator the Winters man
led an attempt to crest a volunteer
fireman's pension system in Tex
as which was approved by both
houses but allowed to die when
Gov. James V Allred refused to
sign the bill He also was one of
the leading figures in the Negisla-
tive effort that created the Lower
Colorado River Authority He took
special interest in the state prison
system.                     •
In 1935, during > his second
term as representative Mr Jones
resigned to become postmaster
here and he held that position un
til his death             A
In 1918 and again in 1931 H O.7
Jones was elected mayor of Win
ters. He resigned during his see
ond term to run for the legisla
tare.                          r
A member and secretary of the
school board a number of years.
Jones gave to the school district
part of the land now occupied by
Pre-Easter
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