The Detroit News-Herald (Detroit, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 25, 1941 Page: 1 of 4
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The Detroit News-Herald
0LD8ERIES VOL. 4
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
DETROIT, TEXAS. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1941.
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SEPT. 27
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Don “Red” Barry in
'Kansas Cyclone’’
PREVIEW SAT. NITE 10:30
SUN. & MON. SEPT. 28 - 29
Edward G. Robinson - George
--------Rdt - Dietrich in
“MAN POWER”
TUES & WED. SEPT. M ■ OCT. I
Geo. ge Brent - Martha Scott in
They Dared Not Love
THURS. & FRI. OCT. 2 - 3
The Marx Brothers in
“The Big Store”
Former Resident Family Reunion
Dies at Breckenridge'At Lake Crook
[Gulf Storm Loss
Millions
Smith, who was for-1 The annual reunion of the F. G. J The damage by the gulf storm
fVtpv Parka and was - and |. H. Bailey families was held1 this week will amount to several
of the late Professor^unday at Lake Crooler^fcbscv-, million dollars when a tropical
Mrs. J. R.
mertyMiss
the daughter
Parks, who was founder and con- [ eral out-of town relatives attend-
ducted the Parks Acddemy at j ing.
Woodland in the early days of Red Among those present were Mac
River county, and who formerly Bailey and family and Bert Bailey
lived with her sister, Mrs J. A.' and family of Antlers, Okla., Mr.
Caton at Detroit, died at her home and Mrs. Lee Bailey and Mrs
NEW SERIES VOL. 14 —Nc 26
Miss Speegle Weds
Lewis Armstrong
Miss Christine Speegle, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. C.L. Speegle, who
| at Breckenridge Wednesday morn-
' ing about 5 o’clock,
i' Surviving are her husband,
Judge J R. Smith, a prominent
jurist of West Texas, a son who is
an educator n that section, a
sister, Mrs. J. A. Caton, Cross
Plains, and a brother, Harry Parks.
Denton.
i dollars when ajropical live southeast of Detroit, and Lewis
hit the gulf coast Tuesday; Armstrong, a postal imployee at
Letter From England
storm
the center of the area was between ’ Paris, were married at the Central
Freeport and Matagorda. < Presbyterian church in Paris Mon-
In Houston alone the damage j day afternoon at 5 o’clock, Rev.
was estimated a million dollars,; Chas. Dickey performing the
the rice crop damage was said to ceremony.
Milt Freeman and baby of Clarks-[amount to $5,000,000, the other The bride was reared in the De-
viIIeT~Oti5—Bailey and family and j crop damage farther inland by troit vicinity and was a graduate
Lafayette Bailey and family of heavy rains will exceed a million ■ of the Detroit High School and
Detroit; Luke Bailey of Blossom; according to reports. The Texas of the Nurses Training School at
Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Morgan and coast for several hundred miles Paris Sanitarium,
family of Sherman; Mr. and Mrs. was damaged. I They will make their home in
Jim Garrett and family of Rugby; The news from that section gives Paris.
no loss of life, however. There are
several from this section living on
Mr. and Mrs. John Swint and fam-
ily, Mr. and Mrs. Cab Fisher and
family, Ira Wheeler and family, ail j the coast and most of them have
Miscellaneoar Shower
Peter Braiden, Steyning, Sussex,
r *-• G- Morgan Fred Be„, “ "
Carl Billups and Budgie Castle- contribution tobu an ambulance
man honored Mrs. Ted McElhan-
non, nee Miss Hattie Mae Fisher,
with a miscellaneous shower Fri-
of Paris; Mrs. Ann Wheeler and been heard from
family of High; Mr. and Mrs.
.. ^ -p ... .. . ... Irby Stevens and family and Mr.
Mrs. C T. Walker of Clarksville j and Mrs R T Stevens and family
received a letter of thanks from ofpost0ak; Mr. and Mrs. Green
Morgan and family of Rugby, and
the J. H. Mills family from Post
Oak.
for Steyning. Mrs Clara Ham-
day afternoon at the home of Mrs.
Morgan.
Zinnias and marigolds were used
throughout the rooms.
On arrival, the guests registered [
and were ushered into the dining
room where they were served
punch and cake by Mmes Bell and
Castieman from a lace covered
table, centered with a large bowl
of marigolds of shades of yellow.
mond of New 'rork City, who for-
merly lived in JIarksville and whq
was the daughter of the late Dr.
Thornhill of Paris and who for a
number of years conducted house
party tjh’ps»to England for Ameri-
can girls, conducted the drive to
secure the funds to buy the ambu-
lance for this village. The letter
was written August 24 and reads
“I’m writing to thank you and
your friends, Dr Watson, Mrs.
Wren, Mrs. Williams and Mrs.
Following the gam«. a box of |McC’Uoch for (he contribution
gifts was placed before Mrs. Me-1 ent to us for our ambulance.
Elhannon, which she opened and;
passed for the guests to see and
No White Men
In October Call
According to advices of the
local board there will be no white
men called into selective service in
October as well as September.
There were three negroes called in
September and there will be seven
in the October call.
KPLT to Salute Counties
Radio station KPLT has start-
ed a salute to the singers of neigh-
admire.
Guests were Mmes. H. L. Phil-
lips, S. J Phillips, f. E. Ladymon,
Gilbert Isbell, L. A. Grider, W. J.
Shiver, Pete Hudson, Les Lane,
Lee Smith, Hester Hall, Maggie
Wilsferd, E.B. Lyle, C C. Venable,
Claud Councill, G. O. Stafford, G
L. Reynolds and Lloyd Moore;
Misses Charlcie Barr, Bettye Lee
McCall, Reba Martin, Audrey
Stone, Jane Bivins, Annette Hud-
son, Nancy Sharpe, Margaret
Bivins, Ruth Venable, Dorothy
Cassell, M. r,orie Melton, Ophelia
Nelson, Bettie Wooten, Juanita
Smith, Mary Alice Chance, Marie
Pratt, Juanita Dunnam and Polly
anna Cavendar,
uSerr„!g
nights. I sign cn for military ^ c . . , „ .
_ ** ,. . „ _ v < next Senday the singers of Fannin
service next month, but at the _ . 0
. _ , county will be honored and Sun-
present I am m the Home Guard j ' _.
.n . .. day, Oct. 5, Red River. Singers
We are using the rifles and machine . . ’ . . ..
, . . . I from the county honored provide
guns which your people have sent r
us. My brother is in Egypt, and
the program on that date.
my mother and sister are fire . R
watchers. My father, who is a( argam
postman here, remembers, thet 1H acres Sweet potatoes, ready
Americans that came to St. Mary’s to dig. Close in. See R. T.
and we hope it won’t be long be-'Morgan.
fore they will be here again. We
At Freeport
Charles Norris Jones, walker
Stuart, Dillard Parker and Barney
Kennemer and families moved in-
land temporarily and were safe; at
New Gulf Mr. and Mrs. Roy
Brown and son were safe; Mrs.
E. R. Stallings wired her parents
from Houston they were safe; Miss
Naomi Guest was safe in Galves-
ton. Mrs. J. D. Wilson said there
was no damage in Corpus Christi.
A. E. Dollins at Houston and
Scott Dollins at Morgan City, La.,
had not been heard from, but
there was no reason to believe
them in danger.
T. & P. Official
Dies at New Orleans
Ollie.B. Webb, assistant to the
president of the T. & P. Ry., died
in a hospital in New Orleans from
Drilling Begins on
Magnolia Test
The Magnoiia test well on the
J. N. Henry farm North of Ful-
bright was spudded in this week
and they are drilling 24 hours a
day, three eight hour shifts.
The Magnolia company has
about 18,000 acres leased South of
Cuthand and they expect to drill
6,500 feet or deeper.
The derrick is one of the largest
and best ever set up in this section
and these people are giving Red
River county a real test
Detroit Eagles Play
Winfield Friday
The Detroit High School Eagles
football squad will play the Win-
field High team at Winfield Friday
afternoon. Several from Detroit
RADIOS
We have a complete stock
to select from of both
Electric and Battery Sets
See Us Before You Buy
John Mack Park
RADIO SERVICE MAN
Walker’s
CLARKSVILLE
are really quite well off for food,! Mrs. Edwin Coleman of Dallas
although cigarettes and chocolate' is visiting her parents, Mr. and
are scarce, but we can put up with Mrs. Floyd Turner,
that till Hitler is finished. As you
see, we live in Sussex and all day Jack Stallings, who is working
we can see and hear our planes, f°r a telephone company in South scription campaign. A number of
new names' have been added to
the list and many renewals have
been received, but there are a
great number who have not taken
advantage of this opportunity and
we would be glad to have your
renewals and new subscriptions at
an early date, as this campaign
may be dosed early this year.
injuries received Tuesday when he iare expected to attend,
stepped from a bus. They will meet Paris B team at
Mr Webb went to work for the j Detroit, Friday, Oct. 3.
T. & P. in Dallas in 1887 as mes- j -
senger boy and from that climbed Woodland Charge Appointments
the 'adder to the high potion he Rev G c Smith>
held at the time of his death. Woodland charge hL appoint-
He was popular with the men ^ M fo|,ows*
w“h "horn he worked and was a Wood|and_Rrat and Sun.
promment Baptist layman. dayatll a. m. and nigbt.
Kanawha — Second and fourth
Sunday at 11 a. m. and night.
Fanlkner—First and third Sun-
day at 3 p. m.
Kiomitia — Saturday night be-
fore the second Sunday, and the
fourth Sunday at 3 p. m.
Good Response to
Bargain Campaign
The readers of The News-Herald
are responding nicely to the sub-
going out to France on their d^y-j Texas, visited at nome last week
I light sweeps. It was very different en^*
hast year w hen the Germans were j
[coming over here, and we had a D. A. Chambers, who has been
! Me 110 brought down in the field sick.for somc time- is st,U confined
next to our house One of the
[ crew of two was hurt but the gun-
to his room.
The two-months-olJ infant of
net dragged him out before we got, Mf an(J MfS wi|liam Wi,liams of
there, and then gave himself up. ... .. ,. ... ,
, ... r I kiomitia died this week.
Will close this letter now, again
thanking you and your friends*.
I am, '
Yours truly,
Peter Braiden.”
Methodist Church Services
There will be regular services at
the Methodist church Sunday at
11 a. m. and at 7:00 p. m. Every-
one invited.
Reynolds Grocery
Hardware and Undertaking
Our Prices are right; the Merchandise new and Glean.
Pay Us a Visit in Our New Store.
FLOUR
Cambric. 48-lb. sack. .$1.75
FEED
Shorts, Chops, Com, Maize.
Sweet Feed, Hulls and Meal,
Cotton Seed Meal
WESSON OIL
OLEOMARGARINE
JUICE
Orange, Crape Fruit,
Apricot, Peach. Tomato
MEATS
Dry Salt, Salt Jowl,
Smoke Jowl,
Star Bacon, slah or box
PRUNES. LARGE SIZE
The Cottage
Beauty Shoppe
Plain Soap Shampoo........$ .15
Lathering Oil Shampoo......
.35
Hot Oil Shampoo.........
.50
Sett....................
.15
Shampoo and Set........
.25
Shampoo, Set and Dry......
.35
Extra Comb Oats..........
.10
Neck Trims..............
.10
Shampoo Rinse (Glo Rinse)..
.15
Tint ...................
2.50
Henna Pack..............
1.25
Manicure.................
.50
Change Polish.............
.15
Facial...................
.50
Eyebrow Arcb.............
.20
Eyebrow and Eyelash Dye...
.50
PERMANENT WAVES
Machine Permanent
WAVES.........
WAVES.....$2 95, $3.50, $3.95
Mn.C.P. Graves, Owner & Operator
Lomise Bailey, Operator
Tailored to
Your Taste
Yet the Cost is only
$23”
ALL WOOL SUIT, TOPCOAT
OR O’COAT
in Any Style Yon Choose
Come in and examine the
largest assortment of woal-
ens shown anywhere.
Barn Burns
At Post Oak
The bam belonging to J. L.
Pratt of the Post Oak community
was destroyed by fire of undeter-
mined origin Saturday night be-
tween 12 and 10’dockrtc
with some last year feed, about
70 bales of hay stored several
weeks ago and all the harness.
Four milk cows and the
ing hogs were rescued from the
barn by the family who were
awakened by the fire.
Detroit Student
Honored at PJC
Mary Agnes McFarland, publi-
city director for Paris Junior Col-
lege, informs us that Vemelle Mc-
Cormack of Detroit has been
named as editor of the Paris
Junior College yearbook, the Gal-
leon, for 1941-42. She is also
serving as assistant to Dr Imo-
gene Bentley, English instructor.
Married at Bogata
Miss Dude Ray, daughter of Mr*
and Mrs. B F. Ray, and Britt
Lassiter of Bogata, were married
Saturday evening at eight o’clock
at the home of Rev. and Mrs. W.
E. Howell of Bogata, with Rev.'
Howell officiating,
i A double ring ceremony was per-
formed before an arranged altar
banked with ferns and pink rosea
and candelabra holding white ta-
pers.
Mrs. Hubert Lee of Dallas, the
bride’s cousin, was maid of honor.
Hubert Lee of Dallas was the
groom’s best man.
A reception was held after the
ceremony at the home of Rev.
and Mrs. Howell. Relatives and
a few intimate friends attended.
They will make their home in
Bogata.—Clarksville Times.
Singing at Midway
Sunday, Oct 5
There will be an all day singing
at Midway Sunday, Oct. 5, and
all singers are cordially invited to
attend.
• Send in your news items.
Far sad Delivered
Dry of Alt Kind
Moth Proof Bags for Sealing
G.E. Summerlin
Use the cash system & save money
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Men’s and Boys’
Big Smith Clothes
Boys’ Khaki Shirts and Pants, 79c, $1.25
Men’s Khaki Pants$1.49,$1.79,$2.25, $2.50
Men’s Grey and Khaki Shirts, 99c, $2.25
We have a lot of good COUNTER SHOES
to fit the whole family, 25c cp
Armour’s Star Corned Beef, 12-oz. can, 30c
Ovaltine Bedtime Drink, tf-oz. can......30c
Lipton Noodle Soup Mix 2.^-oz. package 10c
Baker’s Cocoanut, Premium Shred, 1-lb. box 25c
MOTHER’S COCOA, 2-lb. box.........20c
Burleson’s Pure Extracted Honey 2*-ik c» 35c
Spaghetti in rich Chili Gravy ml, 3-s*. esa 10c
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The Detroit News-Herald (Detroit, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 25, 1941, newspaper, September 25, 1941; Detroit, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth901837/m1/1/: accessed May 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Red River County Public Library.