Johnson Opens Texas Campaign With Roosevelt Backing
Lyndon Johnson launched a statewide tour with a San Marcos rally before thousands pledging all out support for President Roosevelt. The event drew figures like Judge James V. Allred and Myron Blaylock plus leaders from Baylor University and various Texas counties. Johnson stressed unity, national defense, and democracy amid a global crisis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lyndon Johnson
Johnson
San Marcos
Roosevelt
James V. Allred
Allred
Texas
National Congress
J. T. Harrington
Waco
Baylor University
Mike Anglin
Longview
East Texas
Frank Wilson
Dallas
Lloyd Croslin
Lubbock
Roy Hofheinz
Harris County
Clara Driscoll
National Democratic
White House
Local visits from Fort Worth Nocona and Wichita Falls
Fort Worth couple Mr and Mrs J N Langston Jr visited family including Mr and Mrs J N Langston Sr over the weekend. Nocona residents Mr and Mrs Raymond Turner also visited J M Turner family. Mrs A Winans of Alvord shopped Bowie during Trade Day attractions. Georgia Mae Whitehead of Wichita Falls visited her parents Mr and Mrs Barney Whitehead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. N. Langston, Jr
Fort Worth
J. N. Langston, Sr
Raymond Turner
Nocona
J. M. Turner
A. Winans
Alvord
Bowie
Georgia Mae Whitehead
Wichita Falls
Barney Whitehead
Fruitland Farmer Shares Potatoes Growing Methods and Yields
J M Roberts of Fruitland describes 30 years of sweet potato trials on varied soils with sandy ground and barnyard fertilizer. He advises wide rows four and a half feet apart, three feet between plants, deep plowing, and routine cultivation to keep topsoil loose. Yields range from 150 to 200 bushels per acre on average, up to 300 350 in favorable years, with a peak 675 bushels per acre once sold at 50 cents per bushel. He usually grows Porto Rico and limits to two acres yearly.
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J. M. Roberts
Fruitland
Mr. Robert
Roberts
Bellevue
Porto Rico
Evelyn Ryan Visits Fort Worth With Parks Family
Miss Evelyn Ryan spent Tuesday in Fort Worth as guest of her sister Mrs Audie Parks and family continuing a family visit in the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evelyn Ryan
Fort Worth
Audie Parks and
Women's Home Demonstration and Girls' 4-H Gather 1941 Short Course
Montague County Home Demonstration Club members joined the Daily Day observance in Gainesville on May 7 with participants from Montague Grayson Denton and Cooke counties. An educational exhibit showed the nine steps in cream production and dairy entries by Forestburg women won ribbons and prizes. The 1941 Farmers Short Course at College Station runs July 13 through the week, with farm men and women's programs, agents' conference, and 4-H activities. Delegates from Montague will attend.
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Montague County
Home Demonstration Club
Gainesville
Montague
Grayson
Denton
Cooke
Forestburg
W. L. Campsey
County Home Demonstration Council
Texas
Poultry program aids 4-H girls in Montague County
Wire Preservers supports family nutrition and cash income through larger hen flocks with eggs priced at 22c a dozen on the Chicago basis through June 1943. Demonstrators include Jeanne Parsons Bonita Sybil Lawler Belcherville Millie Kay Vantine Illinois Bend Fern Gregory Cottonwood Juanita Freeman New Harv Erma Mae Morgan Taylor Bernice Baker Peabody.
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Chicago
Montague County
Jeanne Parsons
Bonita
Sybil Lawler
Belcherville
Millie Kay Vantine
Illinois Bend
Fern Gregory
Cottonwood
Juanita Freeman
New Harv
Erma Mae Morgan
Taylor
Bernice Baker
Peabody
Sunset Church Revival Led by Local Medical Trinity
Dr. Rogers of Decatur hospital filled the pulpit at Sunset Methodist Church during opening of a two week revival while Pastor W M Jones recovered. Rev E F Lancaster and Rev John Neal head the preaching across the two weeks with daily services at 10 30 AM and 7 30 PM inviting Sunset and neighboring communities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rogers
Decatur Hospital
W. M. Jones
Sunset Methodist Church
Jones
Pastor Jones
E. F. Lancaster
Decatur
John Neal
Huntsville
Sunset
Farmers Can Now Figure Out Own Parity Payments
Montague County farmers can estimate 1941 parity payments under the AAA program. Parity rates are 1.38 cents per pound for cotton and 10 cents per bushel for wheat, with conservation payments based on normal yields and published 1941 rates. Payments may be reduced if acreage allotments are overplanted and soil-building practices may qualify for additional Agricultural Conservation program payments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montague County
AAA
H. A. Reynolds
AAA Committee
Montague
Texas
Mr. Reynolds
Salona Baptist Church to Hold Monthly Pastoral Appointment
Rev David Garlington will fill his monthly pastorate at Salona Baptist Church six miles southeast of Bowie next Sunday morning at 11 oclock and 730 in the evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Garlington
Newport Baptist Church
Salona Baptist Church
Sf Bowie
Local families share weekend visits and events
Mallard residents Ola Fae Holland and family hosted and visited relatives including Dick Cain and Daisy Brashear. NTSTC students Baker Laud Hazel and Alma Wood spent the weekend with the Wood family. The Dye Mound ball game was rained out, and several gatherings and cemetery work occurred Friday and Saturday across Forestburg Dye Mound and Mon tague.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ola Fae Holland
Naomi
Bobby Hogan
Dick Cain
Patsy Gardner
Daisy Brashear
Bowie
S. J. Alexander
Ralph Abbott
Montague
Doris Johnson
Mount Tabor
Don Richardson
Wichita Falls
Jess Richardson
Baker Laud
Hazel
Alma Wood
NTSTC
N. A. Wood
Thurman Threadgill
Eugenia Abbott
Fern Nix
Happy Cox
Dallas Mae Robertson
Forestburg
John Hogan
J. H. Holland
Odelia McGee
B. McGee
Dye Mound
Rosemary Terrell
Inez Williams
Denton
W. C. Williams
Pinton
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P. S. Stallings
P.S. Stallings and Company
W. J. Stephens
Howard Knightstep
Big Spring
South Plains
Swift's
Nelson
Concord
Campbell
C. H. Parker
Lady Far
Corn Dodger
Parker
Tetley
Skinner
Lyk-Me
Parker's
South Texas
Winnie Dee Michie
Gos
China
Sunset Church
Pimientos
Ginger
Arkansas
Chuck Roast
Mallard
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