The Deport Times (Deport, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 5, 1942 Page: 2 of 8
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Kennedy received a mao-
ay stating her sister, lira,
ion. was seriously ill
B |hane in Paris. She left im-
Hslaly for that place.
In. Zeb Page received a message
g New York stating her son, Ves-
who is stationed there,
ly ill, but she later re-
ceived a message anting his condi-
tion had improved.
ell of Paris and Johnny
tJMl of Tulsa. Ok>., have returned to
homes after spending several
d^TS with their parents, Mr.
Kra. A. D. Bell.
We were all greatly surprised to
see the snow Sunday morning. Old
timers say it was the biggest snow
we have had in many years.
Bill Upchurch, who lives in the
Valley, was a visitor in our com-
munity last week.
C. W. Young received a message
Friday from Grey county informing
him of the death of his brother, Al-
len Young. Mr. Young was unable
to attend the funeral.
Mrs Hiram Secrest spent Thurs-
day of last week with her mother,
and j Mrs. M. Blackburn at Reno.
j Miss Edyth McIntosh, who teaches
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THE POCKETBOi
of KNOWLEDGE ^
Silas Howell, Ira Temple1 at Belk, spent the week end here
■ad W. J. Fowler have been attend-
ee? ing the bedside of their mother, Mrs.
3?John Allen of Rockford. Her condi-
tion is improved.
Mrs. Walter Robinson and Mrs.
Joe Williams have been attending
the bedside of their mother, Mrs.
Mozfield, who is seriously ill at a
Paris hospital.
There ore several cases of mumps
reported in this community.
A heavy snow fell here Sunday,
with her parents.
Mrs. Porter Bell and small son of
Lubbock, are visiting relatives here.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Short are the
proud parents of a baby girl, who
arrived Sunday morning, and has
been named Jacqueline. Mrs. Short
was, before her marriage. Miss Ail-
een Sands.
Mr and Mrs. Clovis Morrison and
small son of Dallas, were Sunday
visitors m the home of Mr. and Mrs.
which the farmers think will be of Less Temple.
great benefit to them as it will do- Mrs. George Gibson has returned
Stroy a lot of insects. < home aftei week’s visit in the
Mrs. Mollie Kennedy, who has1 home of hi on, R. V. Gibson and
been ill for several days is reported i wife of Dali
improving. j Willard Books and family visited
Mrs. Ernest Potter was called to! relatives in Paris Sunday.
Ml. V'jrnon Monday by the death | Donald, small son of Mr. and Mrs.
of her mother, Mrs Bolton of that Calvin Carpenter, is confined to his
place. j home lay illness.
Mr. and Mrs. F. K McGahun spent] Will Merritt of Taylortown, spent
the week end with her parents. Mr. the week end here with J. W. Mcr-
and Mrs. D. H. Street of Lewisville, ritt and family and other relatives.
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RUGBY
Miss Sarah Agnes Gray returned
CROSS ROADS
Several children have been ab-
M . to make his home.
Mr. and Mrs. Doyle Higdon and I
will be held at the school house on ! son spi rit Monday night in the home |
Thursday night. of Earl Mcllam. J to Livingston Sunday after a week’s s<’nl from school the past week on
Sunday will be Rev. Hoover’s ap- Claudio Dudley and family made^ visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. j account of bad weather and illness,
pointment at the Baptist church.! a trip to Gainesville Monday to car-. Steve Gray. | Bill Pomroy, who has been in ill
Everybody is invited to hear him. j ry his mother, who had received!- Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Edwards and i health for a number of years, has
ill at his home I W/Ord of the serious illness of her Miss Mattie Chcsshir accompanied | been seriously ill for the past two i
brother at that place.
-1 Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Gro
I by Mr. and Mrs. Alvis Summers of j ks.
Charlie Burns
here.
Mrs. Lee Outs is improving after
several weeks illness. I moved to the apartment
S. A. Cunningham, who has been home of Mr .and Mrs. II. C. Secrest. - Milt Summers and Mr. Summers,
ill for several days, is improving. | Mrs. Bill Young and children were j They also visited other relatives, in-
n have; Fulbright, went to Houston Friday
in the | to visit the formers' daughter, Mrs.
The sophomore class, with their | week end visitors in the home of
sponsor, Raymond Kirby, enjoyed a, her parents, Mr. and Mrs. McGee
party at the school house Wcdnes- northeast of Paris,
day night. Refreshments of cook-! The condition of W. W. Wilson is
ies and punch were served. 1 unimproved.
Volley Coyle left Sunday for Rock j There will he preaching services
Island, 111., where he has employ-, ft tin Baptist church both Sunday
ment. morning and evening by the Rev.
Most everyone in this section has ■'’■his Carr of Fulbright.
a garden and potatoes planted. | Mr. and Mrs. Jim Cherry are re-
Mrs. Hubert Hume is reported do- 1 ported ill.
Ing well at her home here, after an 1 Mr and Mrs. W. T. Benham spent
operation at a Paris hospital. Saturday in the home of Garrett
Miss Ina Hume, the basketball Whitten south of Paris.
sweetheart, honored the boys with -------
a party at her home Saturday night. | H ALjESBORO
eluding Mrs. Forest Robinson, who
underwent an operation two weeks
ago. Mrs. Robinson will be remem-
bered as Miss Della Margaret Hood.
Misses Robbie Dell Craddock, Mar-
garet Faye Simms, Dorothy Wilson
and Betty Ruth Ward of Bogata,
spent Saturday night with Miss Dor-
othy McAlister.
Mrs .Ida Rodgers, Mrs. R. L. Fen-
nell, Mrs. Steve Gray and daughter,
Miss Sarah Agnes, were guests Sat-
urday of Mr. and Mrs. Silas Mor-
gan near Deport.
Miss Madeline Stevens of Dallas,
spent from Saturday until Monday
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Guy
Games were played throughout thc| _
evening. Refreshments were serv- Buster Wright has been ill with!
ed to a large number. ! f|u for the past week.. | Stevens.
Earl Cook and Less Bryan have I Mrs. Hugh Roberts, who has bo..nLMrs’ R L FVnnH1 and Mrs’. John
been employed at Texarkana elected to teach in the school, n -! KppS art' 1,1 lllls ww?k- Most cas‘‘s
Mrs. Harry Slusher filled the place placing Miss Jimmie Evans -f niumps are improved. Mrs. May
ot Miss Irene Allen Friday at the, rerigned, spent the week end at her ( *s * rJleas
-lot lunch room. Miss Allen was home near Deport. ! Pvt Frcd Rod8er- who has bwn
called to the bedside of her mother, Mrs. Mavis Ward and son, Duane, I stat‘°J1t’d ;,t Sheppard Field, Wichi-
Mrt. John Allen. have returned home from a visit Ita Fa,ls' has b‘*en transferred to the
Rev. M. E. Wyatt, Baptist pastor (with her sister, Mrs. Lee Holbert, at avla*lon sc 100 a as'
at Deport, has been invited to speak ; Cunningham.
St the school auditorium Monday j Dean Jeffus lias returned to San
morning. Antonio after a visit with his par-
Sterling Landrum, who is employ-! ents, Mr. and Mrs. Horace Jeffus.
JUST A MEMORY
ed at Texarkana, is at his home ill
with mumps.
SPEAKING OF BARGAINS
Brown: "My wife and I are try-
ing to get up a list of club maga-
zines. You see, by taking three you
get a discount.”
Jones: "How are you making out?”
Brown: “The way I figure it out
we can get one that I don't want,
and one that she doesn't want, and
OOB that neither wants, all for $2.50.
Worth Seaman of Austin, visited
in the J. D. Quinton home on Satur-
day.
Word has been received by Mrs.
Will Allen that her son, Walter Al-
len, who is emplojiJ at Bisbce,
Ariz., had the misfortune to get a
foot and two ribs broken, but no|~
details were given. |»
The heaviest snow in years fell | J
here on Sunday, after a light rain. | >
About five inches of snow on the
level covered the ground.
Mrs. A.: “I suppose you carry a
memento of some sort in that locket
of yours.”
Mrs. B.: “Yes, it is a lock of my
husband’s hair.”
Mrs. A.: “But your husband is still
alive.”
Mrs. B.: “Yes, but his hair is gone.”
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Cluwdus and
small son, Billy Wayne of Dallas,
spent Saturday and Sunday with
her parents and other relatives in
this community.
Mr. and Mrs.. Troy Keener and
baby of Texarkana, visited this week
end in the home of her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Johnnie Williams.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Upchurch and
children ol Edinburg, are here to
spend a few days in the home of his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hershel Up-
church.
William Mills spent the week end
with bis aunt, Mrs. Carl Nash at
Paris.
Raymond Pomroy has been ill for
the past few weeks. ”
Several of the farmers who had
planted their spring oats, fear they
are ruined since the freeze.
Miss Lillie Bennett received word
last week of the serious illness of
her uncle. John Bennett of Cooper.
The CCC negroes from Bogata are
building fence and sodding soil on
the farm of Mr. and Mrs. Dee Har-
vey.
Mr. and Bin. Frank Pew, who re-
side here and at Lorenzo, were at
Lorenzo when the snowstorm hit.
They decided to come to East Texas,
thinking they would drive out of
the snow, so they hurriedly packed
and started. They finally drove out
of the snow but by the time they
readied Gainesville they were so
tired from the unpleasant weather
they decided to spend the night
thinking the weather would be much
better in the morning. Imagine
their surprise and disgust on aris-
ing the next morning to find a heavy
blanket of snow and snow still fall-
ing and the saddest part of all the
nearer they got home the harder
the snow feiL So good, old East
Texas weather fails us sometimes.
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Jennings
of Paris, spent Sunday with her
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A.
Watts.
Condition of C. W. Morris is re-
ported critical since Monday when
pneumonia developed.
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Dodd visited
relatives in Dallas Monday night.
W. R. Baxter is confined to his
bed with influenza.
Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Dodd, who for
the past several months, have resid-
ed in Dallas, moved back here last
week.
Carl Mauldin of Houston, visited
his mother, Mrs. N. D. Mauldin, over
the week end.
Hughie Willis Ragsdale, who has
been quite ill, is reported improv-
ing.
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Stoker and
children have moved back to their
home here from Mt. Vernon.
Mrs. Edwards and son, Robbie
Jasper of Deport, spent Saturday
night in the home of their daugh-
ter and sister, Mrs. Earl Terry.
Will Hardin of Norman, Okla., is
attending the bedside of his brother,
C. W. Morris.
Mrs. Murl Roach was called to the
bedside of her mother at Cunning-
ham last week.
B. F. Rhodes of Dallas, spent the
week end with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Rhodes.
Bad weather has hampered the
progress of the new highway con-
struction considerably. But com-
pletion of a new office building here
has taken place during the bad wea-
ther.
JENNINGS
Miss Vera King of Viewpoint,
stfent Saturday and Sunday with
Miss Catherine Barton.
Misses Margaret Wilson and Doro-
thy Marie Ingram spent Saturday
night in the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Vossie Fendley at Paris.
J. C. Allen of the U. S. Army in
New Orleans, La., has returned to
his duties after spending two weeks
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. B.
Allen.
Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Fendley of
Ambia, spent Saturday night and
Sunday in the home of his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. T. T. Fendley.
There are several cases of measles
reported in this community.
Calvin Barton left last Sunday for
Dallas, where he is employed.
Mr. and Mrs. Vossie Fendley of
Paris, spent Sunday in the home of
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Allen.
If Mrs. Bob King will present this
notice at The Times office she will
be given a ticket to see the picture,
“Ladies Be Good,” showing as a pre-
vue late Saturday night, Sunday and
Monday at the Deport Theatre.
HOOVERTWN
People enjoyed the snow which
fell here Sunday.
Miss Virgie Rawlingson spent sev-
eral days this week visiting Mr. and
Mrs. Willie Finch at Starksville.
Miss Lois Kelley spent the week
end at Clarksville with her parents.
Miss Lois Hignight visited her fa-
ther, Wesley Hignight, Sunday.
Bill Helms made a business trip
to Paris Thursday.
People of this community were
sorry to hear of the death of Willis
Williamson of Paris, well known
here, was a brother-in-law of Mrs.
Virgil Bowman of Hoovertown.
Mr. and Mrs. Hobert Hoover of
Midway, are visiting relatives in this
community.
Robert Homer Foster Jr. of
Clarksville and Miss Juanita Slaton
were united in marriage last week
at Clarksville. Mr. Foster visited
relatives here on several occasions
and their many friends wish them
happiness.
Mrs. Martha Chumbley is visiting
her sons, Claud and Howard Chumb-
ley. Mrs. B.ertie Byrd also visited
in their homes.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Shuford of
Winnsboro, visited Mr. and Mrs. S.
A. Hignight and other relatives Sun-
day night..
Several from here hoard the Sage-
brush Kids at Milton Friday night.
Some people have everything in
in common except common sense.
Saturday
MARCH 7th
20 lbs. CREAM
MEAL
2-lb. Jar PEA-
NUT BUTTER
4-lbs. PURE
LARD
8 lbs. PURE
LARD
2 Pounds
SODA
1 lb. Bright &
Early COFFEE
3 Big Cans
HOMINY
We Redeem Food Stamps
J. A. Thompson
BABY CHICKS
Book Your Order
for Early Delivery
Custom Hatching
Setting Every Wednesday
COMPLETE LINE OF FEED
SEED and FERTILIZER
PHILIP HOBBS
Feed BOGATA Seed
WHY YOU SHOULD KEEP
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ing account is simply this: It benefits you. Your money
is safeguarded with all possible diligence. You are re-
lieved of the anriety to protect it from fire, loss, or theft.
You have added convenience in your financial transact-
ions.
A checking account saves you time, saves you steps.
You can obtain cash when you want it. You can write
a check any time, for any purpose. You can send your
checks anywhere, safely, conveniently and economically.
You get legal receipts in the form of endorsed cancelled
checks. You get an accurate statement of your account
every month.
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brings men to work.
The most important way is when advertising
is used to increase sales.
Instead of “men wanted,” it says, “customers
wanted.”
And more customsr means more jobs in the
stores and factories that keep busy by using
advertising.
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The Deport Times (Deport, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 5, 1942, newspaper, March 5, 1942; Deport, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth901763/m1/2/?q=%22Places+-+United+States+-+Texas+-+Lamar+County%22: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Red River County Public Library.