Septic Cleaning Ad and Korean War Service Update
An ad offers 2x4 and 2x6 fir for septic cleaning by L. M. Jones from Bronte. The article notes Cle Mon Gray of Maverick Texas was promoted to sergeant in Korea with the 24th Infantry Division, a unit that landed in 1950 and spent 19 months in combat before duty in Japan. Gray serves as a gun mechanic in Battery A, 780th Field Artillery Battalion, entered service July 1950, and has 13 months in the Far East.
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24Th DIV
Korea
Clemon Gray
Mary
Maverick
Texas
24Th Infantry Division
Victory
Japan
Peninsula
Gray
780Th Field Artillery Battalion
Army
Far East
Mitchells Return From Southern Vacation Trip
Mr and Mrs J E Mitchell returned last week from a two weeks vacation trip through the South visiting relatives in Tennessee and traveling through Oklahoma Missouri Arkansas and North Carolina They were accompanied by their daughter and son in law Mr and Mrs J A Thomason and children.
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J. E. Mitchell
South
Tennessee
Oklahoma
Missouri
Arkansas
North Carolina
J. A. Thomason
County Farmers Home Administration committee names new member
Coke County announces a new member to the Farmers Home Administration committee. Paul C. Shillingburg replaces K. Glenn, whose term ended June 30, with George R. Thomas and W Delmir Sheppard as the other two members. The office serving Coke is in the Agricultural Annex Building near the courthouse in Robert Lee, with the county supervisor in attendance Thursdays 9:30 to 2:30.
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Coke County Farmers ‘Home Administration Committee
Paul C. Shillingburg
Ivey
K. Glenn
George R. Thomas
Bronte
W. Delmir Sheppard
Robert Lee
Farmers Home Administration
Heatwave Persists Over Region Amid Dry Conditions
The area endures a prolonged hot spell as a hurricane off the Gulf Coast is watched for potential moisture. Temperatures hover around a century with crops suffering from drought, slight relief on Wednesday and Thursday brought by scattered clouds and a hope for brief thundershowers.
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Coke Mountains
Gulf Coast
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Lex Barker
Phyllis Kirk
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Forrest Tucker
Jeff Donnell
Brach
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Dinty Moore
Pillsbury
Chevrolet
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I Confidence
R. W. Rees
Home. Motor Co
Leeper Supply CO
Robert Les
Steve Badiley
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W. W. Millikin
Bronze Ice Co
E. T. Lowrance
Box 35
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Kuhn
Sherwin Williams
DuPont Enamel & Undercoater
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Lynn A. Lee
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L. M. Jones
Ada Woollard
Taylor Emerson
Home Motor Company
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