The Humble Echo (Humble, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 50, Ed. 1 Friday, May 26, 1944 Page: 1 of 8
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Max Norwick
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Champion Fig
Grower
Mr. E. C. Taylor brought two
figs to the Echo offiec Wednes-
day one of which measured 7-
inches in circumference.
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Mrs. Johnnie Cline is very
proud of a shell necklace, brace-
let and ear bobs, received from
her husband Louie H. Cline
who is now stationed in Hawaii
in the “Seabees". He made
them of shells picked up on
Wakakii beach.
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WSCS Meets With
Mrs. T. L. Williamson
Monday the Woman’s Society
of Christian Service met for the
lesson from the Year Book,
‘‘Nursery Schools”. The leader
was Mrs. W. G. Sibley. This
project our Society helps to
maintain. Mrs. Williamson as
hostess was assisted by Mrs. L.
M. Starling.
We were glad to have our
president, Mrs. A. M. Thomp-
son back with us again Mrs.
J. B. Bagby read an article on
“Mother's Day”.
Delicious refreshments were
served. Beautiful floral adorn-
ments were hydrangeas of
shades of= pink-rose, and tints
of blue. These lovely flowers
were from Mrs. Williamson very
own flower, garden
‘‘And infant voices
Shall proclaim
Their early blessings ''
On His name.”
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Beautiful Flowers
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Humble Locals
and Personals
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Gerald Houck and J. C. Aust-
in were home last week end
from Port Necbes.
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Mrs. C. E. Weaver spent the
past week visiting her daughter,
Mrs. Loy Williams in Goose
Creek.
Mrs. W. E. Smith of San An-
tonio was in Humble Wednes-
day visiting Mrs Lillie Cunning-
ham and friends.
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Mr. Jessie L. Headrick, M.M.
2-c is home for a 30-day leave
after 19-months in the North
Pacific.
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Mrs. Sallie Harrison and
daughter Mrs. T. J. Bradshaw
from Houston Gardens spent
Wednesday with Mrs. Tom
Sammon.
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Indian Club Scouts
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Saund-
ers gave some of the Humble
Garden Club ladies the beauti-
ful roses, daisies and jessamines
from Brookside Memorial Park
to decorate the school auditor-
ium for Baccalaureate sermon
Sunday night.
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The many friends of Mr. E.
M. Collins will be glad to know
that he has been transferred
back to Humble. Mr. Collins
who has been with the Rio Bra-
va for a number of years, for-
merly lived in Humble. Mrs.
Collins will join him in the near
future.
Indian Club Scouts went for a
swim at Dodson lake Friday aft-
ernoon. This is the close of
year of the year and Mrs. Har-
ey Bender will be the den
mother for the coming year.
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Miscellaneous Shower
Family Re-union
A Letter From
Dr. J. E. McFarling
A miscellaneous shower was
given to Miss Fay Doan, May
23. She received lots of beauti-
ful gifts.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. May had
all their children home with
them Sunday. Everyone really
had a good time and a lovely
dinner was served which all en-
joyed. Those present were:
Louis May and family, Mr. and
Mrs. W. P. Heffernan and fam-
ily, W~o Taylor May and wife,
Douglas May and family, Thom-
as May and wife, Lt. Katherine
May, and Miss Mildred May.
533 Fisher,
Rockyford, 111.
May 19, 1944
Mr. El Beaumont,
Following is an unusual hap-
pening—just another one of
those instances where the world
seems small again: I walked
into the officers mess hall at
Camp Grant as usual around
noon on Monday, May 15th and jones and Lois Miltlestedt.
sat down at a table to eat lunch.
Commencement
Services Friday Night
There were several other offic-
ers present, there was nothing
unusual at first about thir ap-
pearance or manner. A moment
later it suddenly dawned on me
that the person sitting next
to me was a stranger in camp
and known to me. This appar-
ently did not occur to the
stranger, for he least expected
to see anyone he knew here. I
decided I would slap him on the
back unawares and call him by
his first name. 1 did this and
at the same time said “Hello,
there, Melvin Randow!” Mel-
vin turned toward me and
shouted “Doc McFarling1!”
Now we ’re here together for a
while and relating old experi-
ences together. Melvin has
gained several pounds and looks
good. He is malarial control
officer for a medical T-0 unit
being trained here.
Sincerely,
DR. J. E. McFARLING
Mr, and Mrs. Wilford Heffer-
nan and son Michael was visit-
ors in Humble Sunday from
Houston.
Entertained
Mrs. Lee Starling entertained
the Friday night bridge club
last week.
Mr. H. W Seibert of Dallas
spent Sunday with his mother,
Mrs. J. L. Seibert.
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Mrs. Rudie Dreyer ha9 been
on the sick list for the past two
weeks.
4-H Club Boys
Read This
Here’s proof that it Pays
to Be Clean
Paradise, La.,—Mrs. Margar-
et G. Smith treats her pigs like
a bunch of dudes and never lets
them walow in the mud. She
says there is money in the idea.
Her 840-acre hog farm is
panted in Bermuda grass and
white clover. The pigs are vac-
cinated against contagions dis-
ease and given an oil shampoo
to discourage parasites and mo-
squitoes, every three months.
The pens have concrete floors
Hvith plenty of drinking water.
To foil the pigs admitted yen
for wallowing, even the rain
puddles are earefuly swept
away.
The reason for all the clean-
liness, says Mrs. Smith, is that
buyers believe, through experi-
ence, that outer filth communi-
cates an undesirable flavor to
the meat.
Buyers recently gave her a
premium of a quarter of a cent
a pound on her pigs and saved
her about another cent per lh.
on transportation, inspection,
weigghing, feed and sales com-
missions.
Commencement exercises for
twentynine high school gradu-
ates will be held in Charles
Bender auditorium at Humble
Friday evening at 8 o’clock.
There are twenty girls and
nine boys in the class. The
valedictorian and the salutator-
ian are both girls, Sarah Alice
Professor M. A. Miller, of the
University of Houston, will de-
liver the commencement ad-
dress, Floyd H. Burton, super-
intendent of the Humble schools
has announced, “Mr. Miller
is emminently well qualified to
speak to vouth. He teaches a
large class of youth in the Sun-
day school of Second Baptist
Church in Houston in addition
to being assistant dean and head
of the history department of
the university”, Mr. Burton
said.
Music will be furnished by
the high school band and the
girls glee club, both of which
are directed by Lynn L. James.
Rev. Hal Cunniugnam, past-
or of the Humble Methodist
church, will offer the invocation,
and Rev. A. Gordon Johnson,
pastor of the Baptist church of
Humble, will offer the benedict-
ory, after diplomas have been
presented to the graduates by
the superintendent.
The baccalaureate service
was held last Sunday evening
with Rev. A. L. Lee, pastor of
the local Assembly of God, de-
livered the sermon fortheoccas
ion.
Community D-Day
Prayer Assembly
It Pays to Advertise in the
Humble Echo.
Final plans hav e be n made
for the community D-day pray-
er assembly. The committee
on spiritual preparedness, com-
posed of the three resident
clergymen of Humble: Rev. A.
Gordon Johnson, Baptist minis-
ter: Rev. A. L. Lee; Assembly
of God minister: and Rev. Hal
Cunningham, Methodist minis-.
ter, have arranged to have the
assembly in front of the court-
house on Barrett street. The
people are being asked to gath-
er at 12:30 noon following an-
nouncements of the contemplat-
ed invasion of Europe for a few
minutes of prayer.
George LeNoir has
Marlin for his health.
gone to
With Slap Bang
So mnny people have wanted
to know where I got the name
“Slap Bang” for my column in
the Echo.. My dad gave that
name to my column aud 1*11
give you the story of where he
got the name “Slap Bang”.
My dads brother Fred, w^s a
subscriber to the Strand Maga-
zine when my dad was just a
email boy. Jn this magazine he
read a story about a little boy
that was real sick, and not any-
thing seemed to do him any
good. This little boy had been
to a circus and there he saw a
clown whose name was “Slap
Bang”, “Slap Bang” cut up
and put on so much until the
boy was just all excited about
the many capers and stunts per-
formed. So one day his parents
in despair at his long illness,
with no sign of improvement,
they asked him if there was
anything at all that he would
like and that would make him
well again.\ He told them that
if he could just see “Slap Bang'
once more he believed he would
get well. So his parents made
diligent search and found “Slap
Bang” and told him of the sick
boys desires, whereupon he
volunteered to go immediately
to the sick chamber of the boy.
The boy laid in bed and “Slap
Bang” all painted up did all his
funny tricks for him and cut up
so until the boy laughed so hard
until the tears rolled down his
cheeks. He soon got well after
the visit from “Slap Bang".
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Mrs. John D. Carr and Mrs.
George Payne were Houston
visitors Tuesday.
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All ex-graduates register at
soon as possible for the alumni
banquet to be June 3rd. Reg-
ister with Mayme Glover Mor-
ns.
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Mrs. Aubrey Marsh and Mrs.
Son Morris shopped in Houston
last Thursday.
Mr. W. C. Disheroon of
Houston, Mrs. F. A. and Mr#
W. A. Disheroon of Ranger and
Mrs. E. S. Covington of Good-
rich visited in the W. H. Harvey
home last week.
Alton Young has received a
letter from Walter Fehner say-
ing he had arrived in New York
and he was going to do his level
best to be here for the ex-senioe
banquet.
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Beaumont, E. The Humble Echo (Humble, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 50, Ed. 1 Friday, May 26, 1944, newspaper, May 26, 1944; Humble, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth647692/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Humble Museum.