The Baylor County Banner (Seymour, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 22, 1940 Page: 1 of 10
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OI.IIMK XXXXV, NUMIIIII 50
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FAMOUS SAYING! "It won't be
long now,'1
timn ,
Meaning that summer will soon b«r
«ver. school will start, cotton pick-
tri* will begin, anil Hitler will find
out whether or not he can whip
England,
new
It hogan to look thla week like
aurnrnar might already be over, and
tha first ^norther clime nearly one
month too aoon, Probably it la too
anon to put up the stoves, but we
may u* well enjoy the time between
now and froaty winter,
ZZZZZZ
One thing we can enjoy now la
« pretty day like Tueaday, Before
the rulna came It wan hard to go',
much out of a day like that, because
It doe* not rain on pretty daya,
t mm
Italn yesterday afternoon threat-
ened to catch Iota of people In town,
and not many formers were needing
rain John CoufaJ said It wn* sorter
like a man who had had ubout four
bottlaa—he was Just not needing any
more right at that particular moment,
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Another one of the hig papera hti*
come out with a thrilling headline,
The Star-Telegram a toted that crop*
near Children had been benefltted
by the rain*. It In pretty generally
admitted around here that rain* us-
ually benefit crop* |n Wart Texai,
cam
Some one aakod a business man
of thin town If he waan’t making
some money, "Yew," he replied, "I'm
doing pretty well I guoaa; but Gosh,
I've got a heck of an expense account,"
zzzzzz
"That's n mighty sweet girl you
have," "Yes, I guess so, but she's
pretty expensive too."
ZZZZZZ
Mrs. J, M, Roach suggests that It
Is riot Just the moderns who have
been concerned about financial mut-
ters, She cites Oliver Wended Holmes
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HKVMOI H, BAYLOR COUNTY, TRXXAM, THURSDAY. AUGUHT <2, 11)40
TEN I'AGKN THIS WEEK
Boyd of Haskell Is
New Champion of
Tri-County Assn.
C, E. Boyd of Haskell Is the reign-
ing champion of the Tri-County Golf
Tournament, Including players In tha
counties of Baylor, Knox and Has-
kell, He won out handily In tha
finals Sunday, finishing 7-0 over the
30-hole route, Ills last opponent was
the southpaw SheMy Mahon of Mun-
day, who had held the champion to
a one-hole lead for the morning 18.
Boyd had the following scores for
his four rounds: 0-0, 8-7, 0-9 and
8-7, He qualified with an even par
72, and played par golf over prac-
tically the whole route. It was the
first Tri-County win for Boyd, but
be came perilously near It once be-
fore, when the Trl-County was held
at Haskell four years ago, and Jar-
rell Davis beat him one up on the
37th hole, Boyd won a beautiful
trophy as the result of his skill,
The event this time was played
(between rains, although Sunday was
« beautiful day. The sand greens
hud been freshly oiled, muklng the
short game a special hazard. How-
ever, In spite of every difficulty there
wu« some pretty good golf.
As stated Inst week, the event goes
to Haskell next year, with John
Methodist Revival
Gets Under Way '
Rev, W, Carl Clement, pastor of
St, John's Methodist Church of Stam-
ford, Is doing the preaching for n
revival meeting now going on at the
Methodist church. The special ser-
vices began Sunday arid will con-
tinue for two weeks. The evangelist
Is bringing some stirring goepel mes-
sages,
The singing Is being ably led by
Rev, R. I. Hart of Vera, with the
campaign being generally directed by
Pastor T. C, Willett of the church
here. Bro. Hart lnvltea all stngeri
of the town, of whatever denomina-
tion to come to the choir. Likewise,
all Christians, and all who may de-
sire to hear the goapel are earnestly
Invited to attend uny or all of the
services,
Preaching Is held at 10:00 o'clock
In the morning and at 8:00 In the
evening. Good crowds are attend-
ing, starting out with a satisfactory
number Monday evening. Sunday
morning the evangelist’s subject will
be the Mission of the Church, The
evening will be given over to a young
people's service, and the subject will
be Chojce or Decision of Life. Fri-
day evening’s subject will be, Death
to the Parasites.
Cotton Meeting Is
Couch arid Rnul English of that plncr» i, . __
as president and secreary. W. H Well Attended Here
Atkclson of Monday, Byron Baes of I
Truscott and Charles Richmond of
Seymour are vice presidents, Trus-
cott was a new representative this
year, and sent several players, nil of
whom gave good accounts of them-
selves.
Last week's Banner gave results
of the first round matches. The suc-
ceeding results are given as follows:
C. E, Boyd of Haskell defeated
Travis Everett of Haskell, H-7; Mau-
rice Orr of Seymour beat J, R, Gll-
atrup of Haskell, 3-2; Shoffy Mahan of
Monday beat J, W, Arrington of Rule,
9-4; J, Ii. Eubank of Truscott won
over Vincent Lone of Monday, 2-1.
TIhjsc matches were played Thursday.
On Friday Boyd beat Orr, (1-5; and
Mahan beat Eubank. 3-1. Tills carried
as saying that he had no desire to! the first flight to the finals, which
have already been described.
In the first flight consolations O.
C, Harrison and Charles Richmond of
Beymour fought to the 18th hole be-
fore Harrison emerged u one-up win-
ner, Bindley Carter of Seymour took
out Gene Campbell of Haskell, 7-0.
T. E. Craddock of Seymour defaulted
to N, T. Underwood of. Mundayj and
Haul English of Haskell defaulted to
L. T. Koffer Of Seymour, Iri the semi-
finals carter beat Harrison, I up; and
Underwood defeated Keffer, 5-4,
Then In the finals Sunday Carter
won the prize over Underwood by
the score of 4-3.
In the second flight Raymond Black
of Truscott come through with a 5-4
win over Otis Thomas, B. M, Whit-
taker of Haskell took out Wnde Ma-
han of Mundny, 2-1, Harold Eubank
of Truscott defeated Mat Graham of
Haskell, 0-5, Nell Littlefield of Has-
kell defaulted to his follow towns-
man, Pete Frierson. In the semi-
finals, Block won from Whlttoker,
2-1; and Eubank nosed out Frierson
on the 1.8th hole. In the finals Black
beat his fellow citizen, Eubank on
the last hole, with a score of 2 up,
In the second flight consolations,
Rupert Williams of Monday had the
decision over Cedric Farmer of Sey-
mour; A, F. McMIrtn of Truscott won
over Roy Cook of Haskell; Jim Goode
of Mundny took out M, L, Wiggins
of the same place, 0-7; and Byron
Bates of Truscott won over L, D,
be rich, All he wanted was Just a
little more than he oouhl spend,
zzzzzz
The modern bats for young wo-
men may be great for style, but so
tar a« beauty Is concerned, Just give
us one of those white sailor bats,
They make a girl pretty even If she
didn’t have much beauty to start out
with,
trim.
Mother always wanted to IIvo for
the present, but dud Just wanted to
look ahead, until It was time to be-
gin loklrig back. Claude Callun.
zzzzzz
Motorist, (savagely); "I don’t give
ii hang which way you go, but want
you to make up your mind which
way you are going."
zzzzzz
Another motorist: "Step on it,
brother, and amble along, or else
gel out of the way nod let somebody
ebte get along who is going some-
where,"
zzzzzz
Wor conditions bring up all sorts
of new situations, The Wichita Falls
police are having a terrible time
Just now proving that they were
born, Wo hope It does not turn out
that some of them weren’t, and they
Jose their Jobs,
zzzzzz
War may be around the corner,
with conscription and everything, but
it seems that the football games will
have to be attended, at least until | Jones of Seymour, by default. In the
Hitler acually gets hero. Tickets semi-final*, McMino defeated Will-
have not yet been printed for the lams, 3-2; sad Goode beat Bates, 3-2,
Texas-A, He M, game on November
2(1, but all but 1,000 of the seats have
already been reserved.
zzzzzz,
There have been lots of revival
meetings around here, and people
should gel religion before going off
to war Which reminds us of that
sect out In California called, I Am.
In the finals, Goode won the prize
with a 3-2 victory over McMInn.
Just In case the above figures may
prove Greek to some, It may bo said
that a 3-2 Victory, for instance, in-
dicates that the victor wins by a
marg n of three holes, and with only
two left to play. If he should win
mow i/mk »«• ______ . fey one-up, It would mt’ori thflt the?
The bunch of crooks running this1 gome went, to the last hole, and the
supposed religion agreed to guuran- j victor was one ahead. Furthermore,
tee immortality to the members, for j the man who wins a hole is the play-
a stipulated sum of money. That ought. | er who gets his ball In the cup witn
to be a good thing, but some of us j the least number of strokes. £*r
might want, to wait to see how this for the Seymour nine-hole course is
turns out before deciding wheth-! 30, which was set by the professional
At a meeting yesterday afternoon,
75 Baylor county cotton farmers
heard H. W Spllman of Washington,
D, C,, explain the domestic con-
sumption program that had been des-
ignated for Baylor county and the
Munduy one-variety area The opera-
tion of the program In this area
will moan several thousand dollars
added Income to the one-variety
participants.
Mr. Spllman also explained some
high points of the cotton loan pro-
gram. which Included the ‘staple
length of the loan basis, which will
be 15-10 middling cotton and for
tills cotton the gross payment. In the
loan for this staple will be 00,40,
Better grades and staple lengths of
cotton will be above this amount.
A co-operative marketing pool or-
ganization will operate at Mundny, ns
It did last year, W. W. Albright arid
j, O. Morris were elected to serve
on the board of directors of the co-
operative marketing pool to repre-
sent Baylor county. •>
The farmers present voted to al-
low It) cents per bale to be deducted
from their cotton at the gin. Half
Ihls amount will go for the national
cotton council, which Is striving to
find more uses for cotton, and half
will he spent In Baylor county for
the advancing of better grades arid
staple, and to assure farmers of the
county the highest returns from their
cotton. This will be demonstrated In
the county this fall by the one-variety
domestic consumption cotton that the
committee has secured for this area.
The committee consists of Luther
Briggs, M M, Burfby, W. W. Albright
and M. H, Roe.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Cole of Long-
view came in Friday and remained
until yesterday as guests of the for-
mer’s father, J. O. Cole, Jack lived
here until four years ago, but this
was the first trip of his wife to West
Texas. Jack Is with the United Gas
Pipe Line at Longview. Me says that
country has bad a drouth of about
a month, although It may have rain-
ed since he left there Friday.
Weather Report:
Heavy Rainfall,
Low Temperature
It has rained so much around here
lately that It has nearly erased bring
n«w«, but something more should be
said for the benefit of readers who
live at a distance
Last Thursday afternoon the clouds
broke loose with something over an
Inch of water at Beymour, which
mad# the total at this place 4 8-4
Inches tilnce this rainy Npell began.
That Is ample for the present, and
most people were glad yesterday
■whan threatened rain turned out to
bo a more sprinkle,
Tho rains have been somewhat In
spots, and not every place Iws re*
liberal supply, A strip Imi-
Llvely and England, running
Mbelle reports only about an
rain altogether. On the other
strip of country from Ogden
to Round Timber had four or five
Inches of water poured down on them
last Thursday afternoon and night.
It would be Impossible to compute
the benefits. Most of tho feed was
early, ond much of It In the shock,
but many late crops will make fine
now. Also, at tills early stage tho
stubs, where tho stalks have been
cut will come out and make another
crop. There will be lute gardens, and
the pastures will green up like spring.
Wheat growers will have moisture
for plowing, nrul nn underground
season when sowing time comes.
A good deal of early cotton was
burned considerably by heat and dry
weather, but tills Is going to receive
great benefit, As a usual thing, rains
like this do not come until Septem-
ber, too late for squares to form and
make cotton, This time It may be
different. A ml a great, deal of the
younger cotton was still green and
putting on forms, and It ought to
be fine now, There lias been no sug-
gestion so far of Insect damage to
cotton, but this Is always a throat,
and continued rain and dampness will
be watched with some uneasiness,
Temperatures have been greatly
down this week, making this ‘country
seem like Kool Kolorado. Monday
night was almost cold, with coats
comfortable and blankets needed for
the beds. The Wichita Falls weather
bureau reported the coldest temper-
ature for August that bud ever been
officially recorded there, This wan
57 degrees.
L O. O. F. Lodge Has
QiJ' Meeting Here
Probably the biggest meeting the
local I. 6 <>. F, Lodge ever had
was the one of Friday night, when
the Grand Master of the State of
Texas came. He was muklng a tour
of the state, stopping at tho larger
places, He was In Abilene before
coming to this place, and went from
here to Vernon The Grand Master,
T. F, Aston of Bhermun, was met
here by Deputy Grand Master J, R
Ogle of Wichita Falls,
The program began with the reg-
ular Isodgc meeting, and when that
was over the Robokahx wore called
tn and Mr, Aston made his address,
This was very fine, and the audience
drank In every word that, was said,
Refreshments were served, and
this period afforded the opportunity
for the crowd to get better acquaint-
ed. After this the crowd was dls-
ml,M<d with exception of the Grand
Lodge members, who gathered In
District Court To
Convene Monday
The final 1040 lerm of district court
In Baylor county will begin next Mon-
day, August 20, wllh convening of
the grand Jury, The grand Jury will
remain In session what port of next
week Is necessary; some non-jury cas-
es may be heard: and Jury cases will
begin the week of Bept. 2.
The panel from which tho grand
Jury will be drawn consists of: O, E,
Brown, Joe F. Martin, F. V. Howe,
J. R, Rleheson, L. D. .Tones, R, E.
Keck, J, W, Elkins, Mark E. Tucker,
C. H, Mothes, Guy Hargrave, Tho*.
Syptak Jr., M L. McCauley, Henry
Peek. R. V. Mnrek, J. O. Rrtblnson
and Henry Gray Ilrlggs.
There will be an almost complete
(twinge In peraonnel of court officials
after this term, which brings to s
close the service of Hon. I, O. Newton
ns Judge of the 50th Judicial district.
Mr, Newton has held this post for a
number of years In an able and effi-
cient manner, and his retirement Is
viewed with regret by his many
friends hero.
Lewis Williams, who has served for
two terrrfs nn district attorney, will
loke over the bench nt the January
term ns n result of the July primary,
and will be succeeded as attorney by
Charlie Blount of Paducah.
Not only are lihe district-wide offi-
cials to be changed, but there will be
a new district clerk, since Robert
Jones has vacated that office and been
elected county Judge; nnd Lon J.
Blackburn will be sheriff ut the Jan-
uary term Instead of Arch Holmes,
Seldom has such a wholesale upheav-
al been seen In a court personnel.
Miss Lois Stewart of the Fnnehcr
RMpc Hr. Francis office and Miss Thel-
ma Shawver of the telephone office
returned Saturday from spending a
vocation of two weeks in Central
nnd South Texas. Most of tho time ^ ......... .....
was spent In Fort Worth, but a trip j equally divided bet ween Sey*
was made to Galveston, The young nKH)r member* and those coming
Indies arrived there Just after the l frfMn many other places In this scc-
First Bale 1940 Cotton
Brought to Seymour
Mr*. Luclle Couch of Vcrn owned
the first bale of cotton ginned at
.Seymour for this season, It was
brought In late Tuesday afternoon
nnd ginned by the McNeill gin, Tho
weight was 420 pounds, and tho bale
was bought by Mr, McNeill at the
price of 0 cents per pound. The grade
was strict low middling, ond stuplo
was 10-10th.
Although coming In several days
later than the first bale of 1030, the
cotton was premature and of a poor
grade, It la fortunate that the rains
have come nnd stopped thin prema-
ture opening. And It will be Just
as well If riot many more bales arc
ginned for a while yet,
Baylor 4-H Club Boy*
Attend Encampment
Fourteen Baylor county 4-H club
boys attended a district 4-M dub
encampment at Lake Pauline Thurs-
day, Friday nnd Saturday of last week,
Home 150 club boys, 20 county agents
and It) specialists from A, Ht M, col-
lege attended the three-day Camp, I"
the camp activities whs Included rifle
range shooting, sponsored by'the Na-
tional Rifle Assn,, nt which every
boy attending the crump was permit-
ted to shoot 30 rounds of shells In
a competitive contest, Medals were
awarded to Junior boys under 14, boys
over 14 and to county agents, These
medals were bronze and gold.
Washer and horse shoo pitching,
baseball, swimming, boxing, wrestling
and motion pictures made up the
other activities.
The following boys attended the
camp: Gene Robinson, Joe Boone, Jack
—--------------- Morris, Joe Swindell, Richard, Kunkle, I
session for the purpose of conferring j (i, ,{ Kunkle, Charles Lee, J, C,
12 degrees, Five of these were on Crump. A. B, Martin Jr, Joe Gaines,
members nt Seymour nnd the other1 Gerald Tucker, Morris MeLnrly, C
even were among visiting members, j jj Morris and Wayne Hackney and
Refreshment plates were prepared £(n|nty r;, f. Hackney,
[ ,f 100 people, and a few of U 1 « .
were not used. The attendance wo* | , p Hu|{hC(, of VcrB satur-1
day that his community had finally
Second Primary
Election Is Set for
Next Saturday
Next Saturday, August 24, the tec>
ond Democratic primary will bis held
In Texas. Tills Is tho run-off primary,
dividing office* In which no candl-
date received a majority in the first
primary In July.
Polling places will open At 0 a. m.
and close at 7 p, m, Returns will
be received ns soon as possible there-
after at the courthouse, ai usual, and
will be made public as fast as they
are received,
Voters arc urged to go to the poll*
Saturday nnd vote for tho candidate*
of their choice. Despite tho fact that
there Is nn unusually short ballot, all
the offices to be voted on aro Impor-
tant ones, nnd n largo voto is desir-
able Heavy absentee voting the past
week Indicates that Interest Is Increas-
ing rapidly,
Two state races will bo run off In
this ejection. They are: Railroad com-
missioner, In which 011 n Culberson
of Jackson county and Plerco Brook*
of Dalles county aro candidates; and
chief Justice of tho Supreme Court,
for which If. R. Latttmoro of Tarrant
county nnd James P. Alexander of
McLennan county are candidates.
In the only district race to be bal-
loted on In Baylor county, Mike B.
Watson of Haskell county nnd A, If.
King of Throckmorton county are op-
posed for state representative, 113th
district,
The only county roco Is for district
and county clerk, with J. F, Lester
and Bob Chambers the candidates for
this office,
Two county commissioner* will bo
chosen Saturday. In Precinct 1, J. A.
Bidden* and Joe Cox are tho candi-
dates, with Arthur Crownover nnd
C, A, Bell In the race in Product 2.
Changes in Faculty
Three change* In tho faculty list
of the Seymour schools for the coming
term as carried In Tho Banner last
week, are noted this week. Orio was
by error, tho other two by actual
change In situation,
Last week's article failed to note
that Mrs, Mildred Freeman Pnyno
will continue a« a first grade teacher.
Miss Hazel Watts of Rettus, a grad-
uate of T, B, C, W„ has been elected
ns teacher of Spanish and girls’ phy-
sical uducotlori in the high school.
H was announced this week that
Harry Wheeler, bund arid music In-
structor, bad resigned, and that his
place had net yet been filled.
Parents and student* are urged to
D, L. Riley has been on hi* vaca-
tion from the Baylor Drug Store, and
he and wife returned Tuesday from
Alvord arid from points In East Tex-
as, At Alvord they visited Mr, Riley's
parents, nnd relative* were seen at
other point*. Crops In East Texas
are In generally good shape,
big storm and waves were still high
on the Gulf, However, they quieted
down and everything was lovely, The
visitors got a big klek out of the
botblrig beach and other attractions,
tlon.
got about three Inches of rain, and ^
they were greatly cheered up. Mr, j
the I Hughe* said about half hl» cotton
er or
The other
nnd couldn't be much worse,
zzzzzz
Anyway, we got to save the coun-
try one more time In the election
Saturday, If we can get these fel-
lows In who ought to be there, then
the country should be safe for a
couple more years,
zzzzzz
N. L. Frlx says he Is 01 years old,
end this summer was the first time
he ever got run down by n car. The
driver had to run ft stop light then,
but the fellow was determined to get
him some way. ,
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The golf tournament finished up
In spite of the rain, and the boy*
all went back to work, Some three-
foot putt* were missed, or 1 ess, and
Gene Culver needen’t think ttit* Is
any light matter. The players tried
to grin, and shook hands with the
victors, but down under the sktn
you have to take It In golf. If you
don’t take the game seriously It Is
not any fun, and If you take it ser-
iously it breaks your heart,
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COLLOQ "I II t*« you ’tore you
to."
Eurl Wisdom and family enjoyed
a visit last week from some of his
people. Ills parents, Mr. and Mrs,
W, E, Wisdom of Graham, were up.
and nt the same time his sister, Mrs,
Max Goldstein, and her husband
were here from Brooklyn, N, Y. It
A very pleasing feature of the i iugn« , ... •
srsfe «?
O F. orphan homes nt Corsicana I bis old cotton
and Ennis,
There were 21 of
is hurt, but Mr,
Hughes thinks that there Is time yet
the local Odd fur H-to put on new forms a;id
Fellows who went to Olney Monday
night for the lodge meeting there,
and the Seymour learn conferred
some degrees. The Olney Lodge will
be here tonight. (Thursday) and the
local lodge will confer more degree-
“ 'S'w SSrsi: SBfx tS&SSw-ffifct “•«=£
under, Charles Richmond bad an family reunion was a very happy; VJr an(j Mr», R
crease the yield, The unopened boll*
will grow larger, and afford a much
better grade of cotton that would
otherwise have been the case.
eagle in the consolation matches. The
number of strokes called par on any
hole depends mostly on the distance.
On the Seymour course there are two
tf.per holes, two that, are five par and
on the others four Is par, A tiogey
is one over par and a buzzard is two
over,
Mr, and Mrs. J. D Conner, who
live five miles southeast of Seymour,
arc having as their guest for about
a month their daughter. Mrs. D. L,
Christian of Clovis, N. M. Mrs.
Mrs Christian was married about
seven months ago, and this Is her
first visit home since she went to
New Mexico.
Mrs. Earl Wisdom had as a guest
one night last week her friend, Miss
Gladys Jones of Littlefield. The two
ladles knew each other when they
both lived in the vicinity of Hefner,
In east Knox county. Mias Jones
had been with her slater and brother-
in-law on a trip to Cuba, where the
International Lions Convention was
held, and they could tell a great deal
•bout what they saw on the way.
occasion.
Ml*.x Ollle Mae Redmond returned!
Friday from Glenrose, where she had |
............ : been on a week’s vacation, While
p Beaver and! there sh< attended n big reunion, at
daughter, Miss Billie Jo, of Slam which there werejm present,
......—■ ~ "■..... i f<*rd Mr an<i Mr/! Sum Bciivor of • **• *****
Mr, and Mrs. Otis Thomas and two jyjunday, were visitors in th. home Mrs. J M Roach ha . returned from
children went to Oklahoma City Sun- f .heir m(,ther, Mr. . Nora Beaver. ;i visit of ten 'lav with the two
day for a little visit with the for- Sijm)ay an,,rnoon Miss Billie Jo sisters of her husband, who live in
mer’s sister, Mrs T A. Harris. They f0r a longer visit and will re
remained over till Monday, when jufJ1 |0 Stamford Friday,
boy, Charles Dean, was taken to the j -
clinic and it was found two minor j
operation* were needed. These were
performed, and all
Tuesday, and back
fairs again.
Friends of Miss Olene Sanderson
yjssr s.; e
| Olene has had more trouble with her
hip but has It doctored up again and
I* able to get around handily by tho
Illinois, She has been there before,
the last trip being three years ago,
and she always enjoys the stay. The
summer temperatures do not get, so
high In that country, but they have
very little breeze, and It seem* warm-
er than here. Rains had fallen and
crop conditions were good.
Mr. and Mr*. W B. Hampton of
Dallas arrived in Baylor county
Tuesday night and will spend about
a week in the home of the latter’s
parents, Mr, and Mrs, John Coufal,
who live four mllea this side of Bom*
arton. Mrs, Hampton is the former
Miss Dorothy Coufal. Her husband is
with the Dixie Cultivator Corpora-
tion, which makes cotton chipper*,
nod W. P has been in this country
..._________ occasionally to demonstrate the ma*
Among those who an at* appendicitis last Frlday.Aug. 0, j chine*. Ho visited The Banner of-1
several friends In Seymour attend-;3^ crutches,
ed the funeral last week of Mrs. M. j
J. Lanier of Vernon, who died as j ur, nnd Mrs. O. R Stewart, who
the result of a fall In which her hip j|vc ra(t 0f town, arc tho parent*
was broken. She was 84 years old. , «f new daughter, who arrived nt
Mr*. Lanier was the mother of Mrs. J fh. Baylor County Hospital Tuesday
Jess Cockerell, and she lived here > night,
for several years when the Cocker- —.....- -
ells were citizens of Seymour. She' r*rl Gene Merrcll. little son of
was a very fine woman, and had Mr ind Mrs. C N. MerrHl of West-
many friends In the places where ovi . underwent an operation for
she had lived. Among those who
attended the funeral from this place: at ho All Salnta hospital In Fort flee yerterday to renew their sub
were: Mr and Mr*. W. B Alexander, Worth. He is reported to have *toml scrlptlon, and say* that "Mias Dor
Mr*. C. F. Johnson. Mm C. E John- {th* peration well and is doing nicely 1 othy" could hardly #e* along with
•00 aad Mrs Jim Barbee. up to this time —Megargel Times. ! out the home paper.
Roy McGuire 1* bock at the post
office this week, he arid family hav-
ing returned from a visit with rela-
tives at Farwell and on Into Now
Mexico. They found n cool climate,
and saw a good many Interesting
things while gone. Crop* were found
4o be spotted out there, From Lub-
bock this way quite a distance crop*
have been hurt by dry weather,
Mr. nnd Mr<. Buford Elliott of
Mary’s Creek had the embarrassment
last Thursday night, of watching their
largest and best straw stack go up
In flames, They were looking that
way when tt great flash of Rghrilng
struck, and fire seemed to envelope
(tie stack nil at the same time. The
stuff burned like tinder, and there
was nothing that could be done to
save this winter feed,
Mrs, George Knight irul daughter,
Janie, left Wednesday noon for San
Diego, Calif.. In response to a mes-
sage that the wife of her brother, Dr,
John L, Farmer, had passed away at
their noma hi that city,
Nazi Blitzkrieg Fails
To Crush Resistance
The past week end saw the most
powerful drive through the air that,
this world has ever seen, only to
meet with Indifferent result*. Plane*
that number at least 1,000 per day
were supposed to carry death and
destruction to England, but the Brit-
ish are still there, and feeling fine.
A lull has taken place In the bom-
bardment. and Hitler may be looking
around for something else to do next.
He will have to spend part of hi*
time in staving oil attacks on hi*
country nnd his baaes in other coun-
tries that are being made by tho
British flyer*.
The war in Africa has seemed Im-
portant, with taking of British Somali-
land by the Italians, but experts be-
lieve the victory Is not of great Im-
portance, Egypt |* about to rise In
arms against Daly, Greece has been
threatened by the Italians, and the
Greeks arc arming, with perhaps the
moral support of Turkey, The Bal-
kan situation remain* troublesome
Predirtlon* ar« being made that
many will starve to death tht* win-
ter in the eountri®* conquered by
Germany, and aid from the United
States is cut off by the blockade.
Germany la threatening to estab-
lish a base In Iceland, and Canada
ami the United Stales are forming
• detenu pud.
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Harrison, O. C. The Baylor County Banner (Seymour, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 22, 1940, newspaper, August 22, 1940; Seymour, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth505720/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Baylor County Free Library.