The Baylor County Banner (Seymour, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 17, 1949 Page: 3 of 12
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, IMS
THE BAYLOR COUNTY BANNER. SEYMOUR, TEXAS
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November 24
Thanksgiving Dinner
At Noon
Parish Hall
Rhineland, Texas
We Invite YOU
DANCE
9 P. M. till 12
Music By
Zeke Williams and Joann
Columbia Recording Artists
TO WESTOVER
The outside man made a long
deferred trip to Westover Thurs-
day of last week.
The first stop was made at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Ogle Rob-
erson, who formerly lived at Red
Springs. They bought half of the
J. D. Conner place of 518 acres
500-acre place, which he runs in
wheat mostly, with some cotton.
Mrs. Martin is 88 years old and
in none too good health, and says
she doesn't do very much around
the place. She and her husband
came from Scotland in 1886, and
to Baylor County, during probab-
ly the driest year in its history.
They first lived in a little rock
and leased the other half for five , house two miles east of Seymour,
years. Mr. and Mrs. Conner now j \yjien Mr Martin died Aunt Jen-
live at Meridian. Mr. Robinson
has his 150 acres of cultivated
land all in wheat. He is not in
the government program, and will
have to take chances on the price.
He would have been allowed only
76 acres in wheat, and he doesn’t
want to be in the row crop busi-
ness. Ogle does not have any
cattle now, but will get some, and
ny moved to Seymour. Besides
Kerr, she has another son, Doug-
las Martin of Lubbock.
When the traveler started out
he did not know where he would
get a bite to eat, but this was
taken care of in a great way at
the J. H. Jenkins home, some nine
miles down the highway. After
a little visit with them we started
has his corrals and chutes ready. | . , whpn Mr. Jenkins oaid
He renewed for their local paper h ^ hQi have dinner in
and their daily. Ia few minutes And such a din-
On the other side of the high-1 ner Naturally, a newspaper man
way a visit was made to the Mrs. , js not used to that kind of eating,
L. E. Shawver home, but no one j and Mrs. Jenkins explained it this
was there at the time. way. She said about every three
Mr. and Mrs. George W. White
Mary Austin McGarr and George
W. White were united in marriage
on October 27 in a candelight cere-
mony performed at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Hall Dycus. Rev.
J. R. Balch read the rites before
an improvised altar decorated
with huge white mums and tall
white tapers in wrought iron
holders.
The bride wore a beautiful blue
dress with black accessories and
carried a corsage of white carna-
tions atop a white Bible with
white ribbon streamers.
Mrs. White is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Austin of Sey-
mour and the groom's parents are
Mr. and Mrs. George W. White Sr.
of Graham.
After a honeymoon trip to Dal-
las the couple are at home in Wi-
chita Falls.
and Mrs. Jenkins have been living
for 15 years on thir place, coming
here from Albany. They have a
seven-room brick home, more than
they need in winter, so they just
| shut off part of it. The house is
i lighted by electricity, with run-
| ning water provided by an electric
pump.
Mr. Jenkins used to have quite
a few sheep, but has gone out of
the business. Recently he has been
clearing the mesqutte* fr..m part
of his land, which w«* con ^dr-
ably roughed up in the i.mh-.
The mesquites were Wade, I ami
windrowed by a buH*o/<
and then a treedozer took ..it toe
roots. Mr. Jenkins soul h w.s
not much account to woi k n . .>.
but the trouble has not
heart, as we had supp11'
thritis has caused most ol the II-
ness and this will probobaly nev-
er give way entirely. 1
admitted here that Mr. ami M.s
Jenkins are among our fm<
zena.
A little beyond and n-.rih of
the highway we came to the nice
home of Mr. and Mrs. J K. Mar-
tin, who now own tha old Dew-
berry place. This place ha^ 750
acres, most of It in pasture About
100 acres of land has recently
been cleared of mesquite Don t
know what kind of crops will be
grown, but maybe there will be
a shortage of farm crops some day.
Terrell is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Joe Martin of Westover and he
was born at that place lh and
his wife met when both were at-
tending college at Stephcnville.
Mrs. Martin's people now live be-
tween Coleman and Abilene, at
Novice. The Martins have two
children: Terry, 4 year- and a
6-months-old boy, Kim Derrell
had just bought some cows for
his pasture and was trucking them
from Wichita Falls.
You may have seen references
in The Banner from time to time
about Jimtown, named b a for-
mer merchant there, Jim Prince.
Casually, you wouldn’t know the
town had much population, but
there are several families living in
a rather small radius. In the town
proper lives the family of C D.
Devrow, who have been in Bay-
lor County a number of years. In
fact, Charlie came here in 1915 j
from Palo Pinto County. For the
past few years he has been one |
of the county commissioner The j
children in the family are as fol-i
lows: Wayne is with a seismo-
graph crew and he and wife are
now living at Weatherford Ger-
aldine finished high school at Sey-
mour in 1948. After spending 10
months in Draughon’s Business
College at Wichita Falls, -he is at
home for the present. Richard is
a junior in Seymour (High School,
and Glendon and Donna Belle are
going to school at West< ver. The
youngest child is Marj lie, four
years old. Mrs. Devrow is the j
former Allie Stennett, and has |
lived in Baylor couonty a 1 her life, j
The Devrows own their home to-
gether with six acres of land.
In the southeast part of town, i
you might say, lives the J B. Bish-'
op family. J. B. had gone to a j
sale at Vernon and his wife was >
I’.-T. A. sti ny rot KSE
Fifteen members were present
for the study course which met
at 2 p.m. on November 8. 1949 at |
the homemaking cottage
Mrs. Genii •Economidy led the
discussion on Fads or Frills.''
The discus.-ion aimed at determin-
ing what part of the curriculum
might be considered fads or frills
and what part fundamental.
Mrs. E. F Murphy gave an ar-
ticle on report cards, in which it
was noted that the newest trend
is toward pupils appraising them-
selves. The greatest benefit is
gained if the child, the teacher
and the parent all understand the
method of grading.
Tiie group were appreciative of j
the fact that the Lions Club, with !
P. D. Buck president, changed I
their date for Ladies night not >
to conflict with the Dinsmoore j
lecture on Nov. 10.
It was announced that all !
jhould go to vote.
Mrs. Grady Morton is the next
leader. Hostesses for next meeting
are Mrs. R. B. Bedell, Mrs. Genii
Economidy and Mrs. Chas. Arm-
strong.
The subject for next meeting is
“The Struggle for Independence.1'
Mrs. C. O. Bishop, a new mem-
ber, was present for the first
time.
Announcement was made that
Dr. B. M. Dinsmoore will speak
on November 10 at 7:30 p.m. in the
high school auditorium. Dr. Dins-
moore is state chairman of mental
and social hygiene and has a mes-
sage of int«*rp-t to parents and
teachers All are urged to be
present
Refreshments were served by
hostcs.- es, Mrs. Jim Hicks, Mrs
O C Laney, Mrs. O. K Hoyle and
Mrs. Travis Martin.
Honeymoon the vacation a man
take before going to work for a
new boss.
Floyd Malone of Shady finally
makes report on his stubble cot-
ton Ho planted 30 acres, from
which he has gotten out 16 bales
and would get one more We ask-
ed Floyd if he had ever made that
much before on cotton planted on
wheat stubble He said he had
planted on stubble several times
before, but this is the first time
he ever made anything at all on it.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to extend our sincere
thanks to our neighbors and friends
during the death of our loved one,
for the flowers, -Y>od, and those
who offered assistance.
The. Brown Families.
Mrs. Curtis Thurman has been
a visitor in the home of her bro-
ther, O G Harvey of Hamlin, and
she attended an engagement tea
and shower for Beverly Harvey,
who is to be married Nov. 25th. An
account of the wedding will be
carried in the home paper of Mr,
Harvey.
visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Joe Martin, at Westover. It was
noticed that the Bishop home is
being improved all the time, and
the yard was very pretty with
flowers.
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Harrison, O. C. The Baylor County Banner (Seymour, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 17, 1949, newspaper, November 17, 1949; Seymour, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth505646/m1/3/?q=%22Places+-+United+States+-+Texas+-+Baylor+County%22: accessed June 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Baylor County Free Library.