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Be Loyal To Honey Grove, Trade at Home, Buy at Home and Sell at 5f*me
Honey Grove Signal-Citizen
Complete News and Advertising Coverage for Honey G rove Trade Area
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VOLUME 61
HONEY GROVE, TEXAS, Friday, July 13, 1951
NUMBER 25
Honey Grove Cotton
Insect Situation
By Harold Goerner,
Asst. County Agent
In general, the prospect for
sa good cotton crop
Honey Grove has improved
greatly the past 2 or 3 weeks.
Cotton every where is grow-
ing rapidly and fruiting heav-
ily. This is probably due to
the real “cotton weather” we
have been having lately and
the fact that insects in dam-
aging numbers are spotted
throughout the area.
Some farmers in the area
are still having trouble with
webworms, climbing cut-
worms and boll worms. Let
ane Tepeat that webworms
can be controlled with, a
spray consisting of toxapihene
or the 2:1 toxaphene-DDT
mixture at the rate of 2 to
2 1-2 pounds of actual insec-
ticide per acre. Some grow-
ers in other parts of the
state have used 3 pounds per
acre with excellent results.
DDT alone at the .rate of at
least one pound per acre is
also recommended. In a dust
25 pounds of 5 percent DDT
or 10 percent toxaphene per
acre is recommended. Follow
the recommendations in the
1951 Guide for Controlling
Cotton Insects in Texas to
control the climbing cutworm
and the bollworm.
Boll weevil papulations are
low and well below the dam-
age point in most fields.
However, the first field gen-
eration of weevils are now
appearing and causing heavy
damage to some fields. In
one field in the Dial commu-
nity the boll weevil infesta-
tion jumped from 10 percent
to over 70 percent within a
week . The present crop of
bolls and squares in a portion
of this field has been almost
completely destroyed within
a week by tihe boll weevil.
Don’t let this happen to your
field. Watch it closely, ev-
ery day if possible. If the
weevil population is increas-
ing and approaching the
damaging point, then it is
time to poison. I suggest
you start poisoning to con-
trol the boll weevil if the in-
festation reaches 2b percent.
Poison every 5 days until the
weevil is brought under con-
trol. Even though bollworm
time is fast approaching, you
can’t afford to sit around
worrying about the bollworm
and let the boll weevil eat up
your crop. However, be sure
your field needs poisoning
before, you start.
An infestation count may
foe made by walking diagon-
ally across the center of the
field, picking 1(X) squares as
you walk. Squares should be
about 1-3 grown or larger.
Pick an equal number from
the top, middle and lower
branches of the plants. When
100 squares have been pick-
ed, examine them for weevil
punctures to determine the
percent infested.
Some peanut fields in the
Allen’s Point vicinity are be-
ing damaged by the fall ar-
rnyworm. This worm is a-
ibout 1 1-4 inches long when
full grown with a white in-
verted Y on the head and
three yellowish stripes down
the back. A dust of 15-20
pounds per acre of 5 percent
DDT plus 75 percent sulfur
as the standard recommenda-
tion. However, the 15-20
pounds of 5 percent DDT a-
lone will give satisfactory
control. A spray of 1 to 2
pounds of DDT per acre is
also recommended. This
would be 2 to 4 quarts of 25
percent DDT per acre, with
2 quarts being the smallest
amount to use.
Local Woman
Attends TSCW
Education Workshop
Denton, Texas.—Miss Wil-
lie Cobb of Honey Grove is
around attending an education work-
shop on Guidance on the El-
ementary Level at Texas
State College for Women.
The workshop is especially
designed for teachers who
are interested in guidance for
children in the elementary
grades. In addition to pre-
senting off-campus personnel
for lectures, the workshop is
employing the use of latest
methods and materials. Grade
children are available for
laboratory work.
The last two days of the
workshop will be devoted to
the reading of specially pre-
pared papers by those enroll-
ed. Miss Cobb will read a
paper on “Securing Better
School Adjustment Among
Children with Personality
Difficulties Due to Unstable
Family Relationships.”
City Offices And
Employees Get
Half Holiday
Offices of the City of Hon-
ey Grove and street and wat-
er employees are getting a
half holiday each Saturday
during July and August. The
City Commission is trying
out this plan during the
months mentioned.
In California
Card Of Thanks
The American Legion Aux-
iliary wishes to express its
thanks to everyone who as-
sisted us in any way in mak-
ing the ice cream supper of
last Friday a success. *
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Water kegs at Sixth Street
Hardware.
Mhs. J. Wesley Reed of Dal-
las, writes she is spending a
several weeks’ enjoyable va-
cation at Los Angeles and
San Francisco, Calif.
Mrs. Reed entertained
friends in the Galeria at the
Biltmore in Los Angeles, in-
cluding former Honey Grove
residents, Mrs. Ted Boyle Hill
and son, George Hill. Mrs.
Hill will be remembered here
as Mrs. Forest W. Hill.
George, who is with the Fox
Studios there, has a bright
future.
A poem, printed below and
written by an elderly friend
of Mrs. Bill’s, is published as
a message from Mrs. Hill to
the friends she loves in Hon-
ey Grove:
“I Ain’t Dead Yet”
My hair is white, and I’m almost
blind,
The days oif my yiout'h are far be-
hind;
My neck’s so stiff can’t turn my
head,
Can’t hear half that’s being said.
My legs are wobly, can hardly
walk,
iBfut golly be, I surely can talk;
And this is the message I want
you to get,
I’m still kicking—and I ain’t dead
yet.
My joints are stiff, won’t hove in
their sockets,
And nary a dime is left in my
pockets;
So maybe yotu think I’m a total
Wreck
(To tell the truth, I look like
heck).
But still I have just loads of fun
And my heart with joy is over-
run,
I’ve lots of friends, so kind and
sweet
And many more I’ll never meet;
Oh! this is a wonderful world of
ours,
Shade, sunshine, and beautiful
flowers;
So you just take it from me, you
bet,
I’m glad I’m living, I ain’t dead
yet.
I’ve got corns on my feet and in-
growing nails,
And do they hurt? Here language
fails;
To tell you my troubles would
take too long,
If I tried, you sure would give
me the gong.
I go to church and Sunday school,
too,
For I love the story that’s ever
new;
(And when I reach the end of my
row,
I hope to my Heavenly Home I
go.
Then when I leave this house o/
clay,
If you listen closely I am apt °
say,
“Well, folks, I’ve left you )ut
don’t forget,
I’ve just passed on, but—I fin’t
dead yet!”
Chrysler Corporation
To Use Newspapers
To Tell Of Products
Because of tihe effective-
ness of the newspaper adver-
tising campaigns during the
first half of 1951 Chrysler
will use more than 3,000
newspapers to carry its July
sales message to the public,
(reports John H. Caron, Di-
rector of Adrertising, Chrys-
ler Division, Chrysler Corpo-
ration.
Representing a combined
circulation of over 51,000,000
the newspaper list was drawn
up to obtain maximum circu-
lation penetration into the
more than 3,000 counties in
the United States that are
served by Chrysler dealers.
“The effectiveness of our
hard-hitting advertising pro-
gram has helped build public
acceptance so thoroughly
that Chrysler dealers at pres-
ent have about 35,000 firm
orders for our Firepower
V-8 models,” Caron reported.
“In fact Chrysler dealers in
some cities are being forced
to return deposits because
they have been unable to sup-
ply demand.”
Caron said that both new
and used car stocks of Chrys-
ler dealers are well below
normal, a condition Which he
declared was largely due to
the effectiveness of the ad-
vertising program..
“Our advertising has been
concentrated on educating
the public to the advantages
inherent in the new 180
horsepower FirePower V-8
engine, explaining how this
engine’s designed-in ‘mechan-
ical octanes’ make regular
grade gas do what premium
gases can’t do in any other
engine you can drive today}”
Caron said.
The advertising is prepared
and released by McCann-Er-
ickson, Inc.. Ohrysler’s nati-
onal advertising agency.
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American Legion
Elects Officers
At the regular meeting of
The American Legion June
27th the following officers
were elected for the coming
year:
Post commander, James P.
Cant; 1st vice-commander,
Siam Lane, > Jr.; 2nd vice-
commander, Bob Couch; ad-
jutant, R. L. Fein; finance
officer, Martin Ohr; service
officer, Roy T. Lochridge:
chaplain, Oscar T. Truss; ser-
geant at arms, Billy Sallee;
trustees, W. T. Chaney, Aub-
rey Garner, J. W. Liuttrell,
Clovis Holley; historian,
Clyde Gentry.
Installation of officers was
held immediately following
the election.
Rejebian Club
The Rejebiar Club met in
a called bus ness meeting
Tuesday morn'ng at 9 o’clock
at the Presbyterian Church
with the president. Mrs. Har-
ry Dial, presiding.
The enlarged club for this
year induces 95 members,
and due tr the size of the
club, it vas voted that the
oook reviews of Mrs. V. Y.
Rejebian of Dallas, will be
held in He high school audit-
orium a 2 o’clock the second
Tuesda" of the following
month*: October, November,
February, March, April and
May.
It ^as also voted to discon-
:.inu' the social hour held at
-the close of meetings last
ye?A
Farmers’ Field
Days At Greenville
On July 19 And 20
Greenville, Texas, July 7.—
Farmer’s Field Days at the
U. S. Cotton Field Station,
Greenville, Texas, will be
held July 19 and 20. Field
tours will be from 7:30 a. m.
to 12:00 noon, with no after-
noon meetings scheduled.
Station personnel and visit-
ing specialists from the Col-
ege and other stations, how-
ever, will be available for
conferences during the re-
mainder of each day. On
these field tours, farmers
will see the cotton variety
test containing 49 of the
leading cotton varieties, and
also the corn variety test
with 25 varieties, including
the latest Texas Experiment
Station experimental hybrids,
commercial fertilizer tests on
cotton, rotations for the con-
trol of cotton root rot, cotton
seed treatment studies and
breeding for Angular Leaf
Spot resistance in cotton.
Brief discussions will be con-
ducted regarding the new
varieties of Wheat, oats and
barley, and on the use of in-
isecticides for the control of
boll weevil and boll worms of
cotton.
Special invitations have
been sent to 17 county agents
and 20 coordinators of veter-
ans vocational schools. Days
for the attendance of the vis-
itors from different counties
will be assigned later.
The U. S. Cotton Field Sta-
tion is operated by the Fed-
eral Government in coopera-
tion with t Ih e Greenville
Chamber of Commerce, who
is sponsoring these field
Uak ‘cormai’ Invitation is ex-
tended to »each farmer and
business man in this area to
attend on one of these days
and receive first hand infor-
mation on these problems.
Every effort will be made to
make the two days program
of benefit to each farmer
Who attends.
Revival Meeting
To Be Held At Petty
Baptist Church
1
Rev. K. L. Sellers
A revival meeting and Va-
cation Bible school will be
held, at the Petty Baptist
Church, beginning July 18
and continuing through July
28.
Rev. Kenneth L. Sellers,
pastor of the Calvary Baptist
Church of Brownwood, will
do the preaching and the
song leader will be the pas-
tor, Rev. C. W. Scudder.
Services will be held each
morning at 11 o’clock and
evening at 8 o’clock.
The Bible school will start
on July 20 and all children
are invited to attend. A cor-
dial invitation is also extend-
ed the public to attend the
meeting.
Regular Meeting
Of Eastern Star
Open House Held
Monday at Offices
Of Dr. Gilbert
Notice
Read the Signal-Citizen.
The U. S. Navy Recruiting
station, Paris, Texas, has an-
nounced that a Navy recruit-
er will be in Honey Grove at
the post office on Monday af-
ternoon, July 16, for the pur-
pose of interviewing men and
women from Honey Grove
interested in an enlistment in
the Navy.
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Blank shipping tags for sale at
the Signal-Citizen office.
As designated, Monday was
the day set for open house
at the offices of Dr. Leon
Nelson Gilbert. The occasion
was for the new doctor and
family to meet our people
| and likewise 0 for them to
know them.
The register showed that
150 guests called during the
day, and all were pleased
with the Gilberts and the
modern equipped medical of-
fices. The rooms are most
beautiful in all their appoint-
ments.
As a special courtesy, many
beautiful arrangements were
sent by local people to extend
a hearty welcome.
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Smith-Doxey Cotton
Groups Must File
By August First
Farmers who belonged to
Smith-Doxey cotton improve-
ment groups last year, as
well as newly organized
groups wanting the service
this year, must file applica-
tions before August 1.
This was emphacized by
Sam W. Martin, who is in
dharge of the Dallas Cotton
Classing Office, U. S. De-
partment of Agriculture’s
Production and Marketing
Administration.
“One application covers
every farmer in the group,”
Martin said.
Applications can be secured
at the county agent’s office
and the county PMA office.
They should be filed imme-
diately with the Dallas Cot-
ton Classing Office.
Thursday night,. July 25,
the Order of the Eastern
Star met in a stated meeting
in the Masonic Hall.
The meeting was opened in
ritualistic form by Mrs. Cla-
ra Davis, worthy matron,
and L. H. Bell, worthy pa-
tron, and other officers.
Mrs. Vera Pearson of Mus-
kogee, Okla., and Mrs. Ruth
Russell of Maude, Okla., were
visitors and were given a
hearty welcome. We were
happy to welcome two of our
old members back again who
had been away for several
months. They are Sister
Mavis Davis and Sister Sallie
Wood.
The worthy matron pre-
sented each member with a
year book, which was appre-
ciated very much.
Short talks were given by
the visitors. After all busi-
ness was disposed of, the
worthy matron closed (the
chapter in the usual manner.
—Reported.
Funeral Of Pvt.
James R. Lacy
Held Monday
Funeral services for Pvt.
James R, Lacy, who was kill
ed in the Korean War, were
held Monday at the West Fu-
neral Chapel, conducted by
W. C. Pounds. Burial was at
Oak Ridge cemetery.
He was born July 3, 1931,
at Wolfe City, the son of Mr.
and Mrs. James Elbert Lacy
of Ladonia.
He is survived by his par-
ents and these brothers and
sisters: Ray Glen. Everett,
Marcelle and Joyce. Has
grandmother, Mrs. Betty Lou
Lacy, and an aunt, Miss Ima
Nell Lacy, of Honey Grove,
also survive.
Boy Scout Troop 51
At Lake Fannin
Mr. and Mrs. Roger Oan-
onge, Jr., of Ambridge, Pa.,
are here for a visit with her
, parents. Mr. and Mrs. Homer
j Rhodes.
James Spring, substitute
Scout Master for Aubrey
Bates of Scout troop No. 51,
and the troop left Sunday
for Lake Fannin, where they
will encamp.
Scouts on the trip are: Paul
Johnson, Sidney Galbraith,
Terry Eaton, Carl Ray Horst-
man, John Marcus King,
Charles Smith, Bobby Rogers
and Billy Fein Goss.
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Sunday School
Attendance For
Past Sunday
Sunday school attendance
for Sunday, July 8:
Baptist __________ 246
Methodist________ 211
Church of Christ__96
Assembly of God __ 84
Presbyterian_______83
Christian_________ 69
789
Notice
The American Legipn Aux-
iliary will meet Monday night
July 16, at 8 o’clock at the
Legion Hut. Hostesses are
Mesdames Dial, Dan Baker
and J. V. Clayton. All mem-
I bers are urged to attend.
The Lord Is Faithful
“But the Lord is faithful,
who shall establish you, and
keep you from evil” (II
Thess. 3:3). Men are often
as devoid of reason as of
faith. There are with us still
“unreasonable a n d wicked
men.” _ There is no use argu-
ing with them or trying to
be at peace with them; they
the false at heart and deceit-
ful in speech. Well, what of
this ? Shall we worry our-
selves with them? No, let
us turn to the Lord, for He
is faithful. No promise from
His word will ever be broken.
No warning of the Lord’s
should go unheeded. God does
what He says he will do, and
we can depend on Him. He
blesses when He promises to
do so; He punishes and de-
stroys under such conditions
as He says He will. God is
neither unreasonable in His
demands upon us, nor un-
faithful to our claims upon
Him. We have a God who is
faithful, though all men
should be unfaithful.
if we are faithful to the
Lord, He will establish us so
that wicked men shall not
cause our downfall, and He
will keep us so that none of
the evils which assail' us
shall really do us damage.
“And Who is he that will
harm you, if ye be zealous of
that which is good?” (I Pet.
3:13). It is possible for us
to be unfaithful—to allow an
evil heart of unbelief and a
hardening of the heart to
cause us to fall away from
the living God. This we must
guard against. Jehovah, who
is faithful, warns us: “Wher-
efore let him that thinketh
he standeth take heed lest he
fall’ (I Cor. 10:12). It is our
part to cooperate with the
faithful Lord in humble and
obedient faithfulness to Him
that He might say to us in
the last day: “Well done,
good and faithful servant.”
Apart from our own lack of
faithful cooperation with the
Lord, nothing that men or
devils may do can do aught
to alienate us from Cod’s
love and protective guidance.
“For I am persuaded, that
neither death, nor life, nor
angels, nor principalities, nor
things present, nor things to
come, nor powers, nor height,
nor any other creature, shall
be able to separate us from
the love of God, which is in
Christ Jesus our Lord” (Rom.
8:38,39). The Lord is faith-
ful, but we must be faithful
to Him.
M. A. Sharp, Minister
Church of Christ.
Honey Grove Indus-
trial Association
Elects Trustees
A meeting of the stock-
holders of the Honey Grove
Industrial Association was
held Monday morning at the
city hall. J. V. Clayton, act-
ing Chairman, stated that in
order to organize, it would
be necessary to elect trust-
ees.
The following trustees were
named: J. V. Clayton, Roy
Shelton and Kenneth Row-
ton.
A building site has already
been secured and it is expec-
ted that work will begin on
the building within the next
few days. This building will
be occupied by the Bowl'hy
Manufacturing Co.
Collins Food
Market To Open
Thursday, July 19
The Collins Food Market is
this week installing new fix-
tures in their new building
on the north side of the
square. As soon as this is
completed, work will be
started moving their stock
from their old location on the
west side of the square. The
official opening date has been
set for Thursday, July 19,
and the public is extended a
cordial invitation to visit
them on this date. An air
conditioning system is also
being installed this week.
The Collins Food Market
has a half-page ad in this
week’s issue of the Signal-
Citizen—turn to it and read
their message.
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Lions Have Ladies’
Night And Install j
New Officers
_ The annual ladies night and
installation service of the Li-
ons Club was held Tuesday
night at Baker’s Acres near
Selfs. A basket picnic sup-
per was served to the near
sixty members and guests
present.
Dan R. Baker, retiring
president, was master of cer-
emonies and after introduc-
ing the out-of-town guests,
presented Rev. J. C. Mann,
who in a very impressive
manner, installed the follow-
ing as officers for the new
year: president, G. L. (Pete)
Holman; 1st vice-president,
T. J. Watts; 2nd vice-presi-
dent. Jim Siebenthal; 3rd
vice-president, John Barrett;
secretary, Gustav K. Flad-
ger; tail-twister, James P.
Cant; lion tamer, Clyde Gen-
try; directors: 1 year, John
W. Diickson; 2 years, Hoyt
Ivey and Cecil Finley.
Out-of-town guests present
were: Mr. and Mrs. Louie
Fielding, Ft. Stockton; Mr.
and Mrs. Morris Kimbell,
Paris; Rev. and Mrs. Jesse
Iwig, Greenville; Mr. and
Mrs. Roger Canonge, Am-
foridge, Pa.; Mr. and Mrs.
Gardner, Dallas.
Father Of Mrs.
A. C. McClure
Suffers Stroke
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Guest Entertained
Miss Marion Alice Fladger
entertained Miss Pfoila Schu-
lar of Alto, Texas, and S. M.
U., guest of Miss Mary Eloise
Clayton, with a canasta par-
ty at her home Saturday af-
ternoon.
A sandwich plate consisting
of ribbon sandwiches, potato
chips, olives and punch was
served.
The guest list included
Misses Bobbye and Ann Gal-
braith, Mary Jane Shelton,
Vera Jo Chaney, Ola Ruth
Ellis, Sherrill Floyd, Jo Ann
Hall, Mary Eloise Clayton,
the honoree and the hostess.
T. F. Johnson, father of
Mrs. A. C. McClure, suffered
a stroke Tuesday at his home
in Roxton and is in a serious
condition. This is the third
stroke that he has had. The
friends of Mrs. McClure hope
that he .will improve and will
soon be better.
Chief Of Police
Monthly Report
Police Chief Hoyt Ivey re-
ports the following charges
and fines paid for the months
of June and July: one for
reckless driving; three for
drunkenness; two disturban-
ces; eight for speeding;
three no operator’s license;
one vagrancy; three for gam-
ing. A total of $250 in fines
was collected for the two-
month period.
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