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Newspaper
Brady Standard
Location
Brady, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1955
Page
9
Patients entering Brady Hospital included Ellen T. Grisham J T Avante from Rockwood Cora Jones and B K R Sheffield who was dismissed Monday Joe Roberts was admitted Thursday and discharged Monday.
Chief Howard Salter and Joe McAnally of the Brady Fire Department will travel Sunday to Texas A&M College for the 26th annual Texas Firemen's Training School July 16 15 held on a 26 acre site adjoining the campus. The Texas Engineering Extension Service directs the program in cooperation with state fire bodies and Education Agency. Expendable fuels and materials are donated by state industries. The course features 14 pumper trucks and live fire demonstrations including two four room houses and various fires with added disaster rescue instruction.
Representatives from firms serving farmers and ranchers will meet Tuesday night to discuss forming an agricultural council for MecCul loch County. The group would include ASC, Farmers Home Administration, county agent, agri culture teachers, feed dealers, and bankers, with R. N. McClain of Brownfield State Bank explaining how such councils operate.
The Red Cross Bloodmobile at the National Guard Armory Brady collected 44 pints of blood on Thursday June 30, far short of the 100 pint goal. A second visit is tentatively planned for October.
Mr and Mrs Harold Kilgore and their two children moved to Brady on Monday from Memphis Texas. Mr Kilgore is employed at W L Doc Taylors Barber Shop located on North Bridge Street.
Marriage licenses have been issued to Jim Doyle Wilson and Mazie Carlisle Wilson on June 30, Hilliard Robert Moore and Mary Helen Brown on July 5, and Bobby O Neill Roberts with Wanda Neil McMillan on July 5.
Two room furnished apartment with air conditioning and private entrance available for $30 per month plus bills. Located at 607 West 2nd. Contact phone 3275.
Lohn area residents share vacation visits with relatives in Sherman Ballinger Norton and Chicago plus word of staff changes. Ann Marshall visits sister and summer plans, Henry Russell visits son Shorty at Lackland Field, Sue Barton and Nancy Moffatt in Chicago before Michigan trip. Oleg Gassiot and spouse resign as Lohn School superintendent and primary teacher to take posts in San Antonio schools.
The Lohn Valley Protective Association parade float placed fourth in Brady Jubilee with a Roy Bean Court theme. Polio fund proceeds from fines were donated to March of Dimes Chairman Norman S. Lawler. Bill Roddie provided the truck and hanging tree while Mr and Mrs Paul Lohn built the dummy and others painted signs and arranged hides.
H Vernon Dudley of Big Spring spent the Fourth with his parents Mr and Mrs D T Dudley of Brady. He has recently been promoted to first lieutenant at Webb Air Force Base where he serves as a flight instructor.
Here For Jubilee Mrs. Lonnie Wright and son of Durant Oklahoma visited Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Cates over the weekend. The Cates and Wright families participated in Jubilee celebrations during the stay.
Donna Howe of Brady spent the Fourth and the week with her grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Walter Carter of Sweetwater. She will return home Saturday with the Carters who will spend the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Howe. Raymond Moore formerly of Brady now in San Angelo attends barber college in Fort Worth for a refresher course after a layoff.
Mr and Mrs Floyd Purcell and children Sherri Lynn and Craig from Carlsbad New Mexico visit his parents Mr and Mrs S J Purcell in Fife. Purcell says the mining business is thriving with five potash mines in operation and a sixth under construction expected to start production in about two years.
Visitors in Marshall included Lillian Block of Port Neches who stayed Monday and Monday night at the M. I. Marshall home. Also visiting were Mr. and Mrs. Burleson Cannon and family of Conroe Mrs. James Crouch of Blanket and Herbert Marshall of Dallas who is spending this week there.
The Poe family announces the annual reunion is cancelled this year. Members cited scheduling and logistical challenges preventing a gathering this season.
Brady Lodge No. 628 AF&AM held a special meeting to confer Masters Degrees on June 28 with Mac Slaughter as acting master. Seventy seven Master Masons from fourteen lodges, including Silver Gate San Diego and Nodaway Iowa, attended along with supper prepared by Jim Hark rider. The gathering was praised as one of Brady Lodge’s standout meetings of 1954 1955.
Mr. and Mrs. Billy Lee Jones of Waco and Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Dan Pace with baby of Norfolk Virginia attended the Batchelor family reunion in Kerrville last weekend. Also present were Mr. and Mrs. George Johanson and Beda and Lanning McWilliams and Mr. and Mrs. Jack Bob Smith and daughters of Lohn.
Dismissed from Brady Hospital Tuesday were Mrs. J. L. Kuykendall of Fredonia, Mrs. Ellen T. Graham, Mrs. H. R. Kyzar, both Brady residents, and Mrs. T. R. Fuller of Waca.
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