Local Weather and Agricultural Notes From Lohn and Vicinity
Woodpile D E Edwards Lohn FFA instructor discusses rain sums up to noon Saturday and subscription renewals with Brady Standard. Paul Jackson reports two nice rains near Rochelle totaling over an inch, aiding wheat and oats. James Appleton buys fur, auctions at Menard Brady, prices per ringtail and coon skin noted. Windmill Column shows December stocker steer and calf price trends at Kansas City. Weather remarks describe green oat and wheat fields reviving county, with reports from Wicki Liverman in Voca and John Dodds east Sweden area. Continued on Back Page.
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D. E. Edwards
FFA
Lohn School
Lohn
Oar Valley
Mr. Edwards
Edwards
Paul Jackson
Rochelle
Jackson
James Appleton
Menard
Brady
John Dodds
Sweden
Byrds Laundry On Brownwood Highway
Laundry service offers pick up wash dry and deliver six days a week rain or snow. Provides finish work and guarantees all work. Phone 7622 not listed in directory.
Small Grain Rebounds After Light Rains In Mercury
In Mercury Texas on Jan 16 a light shower added 0.7 inch after prior moisture on Dec 28 Jan 9 and Jan 15. The rain helped small grain look better with temperatures around 40 degrees. A local trapper captured a likely Mexican eagle with a 6 foot wingspan using a kid goat as bait. Community activities included a Friday night 42 party at the schoolhouse with visiting guests from Inchell Placid Rochelle and Brady.
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Mercury
Texas
Len Bratton
Wesley Sansom
Inchell
Placid
Rochelle
Brady
Water Witch Voyles Finds Water With Green Stick
Marcus Voyles a 59 year old barber in Cooper Texas claims gift of water witching since 1918. He uses a green forked stick to locate wells and says depth within a foot, drawing crowds wherever he demonstrates.
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Ensoe
Tex
Marcus Voyles
Voyles
Falks
Veyles
Cooper
Texas
Sulphur Springs
Brady Fragments Chronicle Local Changes and Plans
Brady items report road crews ordered to drag roads after rain and three drags ready. Allen and Craddock dissolve partnership. Allen takes retail grain, Craddock runs wholesale grain. Post office clerk Clyde Hall resigns for ranch work. Will Murphy to become Brady citizen. Henry Gwynn of Eden to race in New York. Miss Louis Bradley to Vera as guest. oysters sold at Brady Cafe. Brady mothers organize fire escapes for high school with PTAs backing and council meeting planned.
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Henry Miller
Allen and Craddock
Allen & Craddock
Allen Grain Co
D. Allen
Gay Hotel
B. J. Craddock
Frisco Tracks
Craddock Grain Co
Drady
Gwynn Henry
Eden
Texas
Howard Drew
Iveyard
New York
Henry
Howard Payne
Pheve
Oklahoma Baptist College
A. E. Baten
Blackwell
Okla
Brownwood Bulletin
Louis Bradley
Vera
W. M. Deans
Brady Cafe
Mothers of
Brady
Offire
Brady High School
Uhe
Joe White
H. C. Boyd
W. D. Crothers
Lewis Brook
Louis Glenn
Bernice Hall
Marion Hardison
Hubert Adkina
Neil Yeager
J. Rockett Hall
F. Kk. Norton
Alice Ballou
Hamilton
Elizabeth
Ida Mae Souther
Sam Moffatt
Ballou
Harrison Fisher
Tom Holinsley
Comanche
Addie Conner
Gillie Macy
Laura Lee White
Minnie Wiley
Lacey Rector
Alfred Reissner
Duke Mann
Harry Lindley
B. Simpson
Harry Schwenker
Texarkana Man Raises Crickets For Fish Bait
Arval Manning landlords 17 000 crickets in his Texarkana home to supply anglers. City and school groups contributed funds toward a project while Manning plans sanitary fountains at schools and rocks removal prizes as part of the effort. The piece also notes a local wedding and school journal updates in Brady, Texas.
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Texarkana
Arval Manning
Marion Brown
Adina Edison
Harvey Walker
Brown
Bradvite
West Texas Telephone Co
Thorndale
Brady
Erator
Adv
Manning Elaine
Manning
Hillsboro Visitors Stay With Smith Family
Here from Hillsboro Mr and Mrs Murphy Qualls and daughter Gayle and son Smitty visited over the weekend as guests of Mrs Qualls mother and father Mr and Mrs W J Smith and other relatives.
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Hillsboro
Murphy Qualls
Gayle
Smitty
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Woodpile
Berg
Agricultural Marketing Service
Kansas City
Ber
San Angelo
Delma Milburn
Wicki Liverman
Byrds Laundry
Brownwood
Roy L. Baker
Optometrist
Barton Motors
Automobile and Casualty
Burnel Davis Agency
Lehman-Davis
Gibbons Bldg
Clifford Funderburk
J. B. Cushing
Jody
Sandra
Ozona
Frank Woods
David
Dallas
Dutch Royal
Zephyr
E. L. Funderburk
San Saba
Jud Bratton
Brady Hospital
Albert Finnigan
San Antonio
Sue Clyde Germany
Holt
Bronte
T. F. Sorge
C. E. Kirby
J. C. Penn
L. C. Underwood
Jon Pool
Bangs
Jeff Davis
Joe Farris
Elvie Penn
M. M. Penn
Lucy Boyles
Ernest Penn
James Eubanks
Mercury Church of Christ
Harry Lee Beakley
Randy
Arthur Nunn
Bruce
The
Baptist Church
L. P. Wood
Buck Gentry
Sally Wilbourn
Meyers
Deep Creek
Margaret Jordan
Houston
Inlaw
Bernah Jordan
France Adams
Anderson Clinic
Peggy
George Joe Frank Adams
Joe Frak Adams
Mire
Neixen Adams
Famiy
Dana Henderson
Jerry Wood
Earl Godfrey
Brookesmith
Brewkween
Cox Cemetery
Clarence Roce
Werth
Mark Aulstin
Sipe
Cap Massey
Rose
Drouth
Farmers & Ranchers Co-Op
Brady, Texas
HA. L. Lackey
Prescription
Central Drug Store
Don F. Johnson
Fidelity Union Life Insurance Co
Dallas, Texas
Ameo
Dodge
Trucks Chrysler Corp
Sheffield & Townsend
W. Lockhart
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