Weather and harvest notes from Van Dyke area and local reflections
Sunday School reports show no attendance from two local churches for last Sunday. Winter weather brought brief snow with 4 inches accumulation by Sunday morning and 0.6 inches moisture. Peanut harvest stalls due to conditions with roughly 85 to 90 percent still in fields. The piece also includes poetic verses and a note about the Texas Almanac arrival.
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van Dyke
Norma Crawford
Hood County
Fritts Observes Rising Star Vocational AG Work
Harold Fritts a Comanche High School graduate and Texas A M junior spent Nov 18 24 at Rising Star High School observing its vocational agriculture department. The program supports his future high school teaching curriculum with four weeks of teaching next year.
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Harold Fritts
Comanche
L. B. Fritts
Rt. 1
Texas A. & M. College
Rising Star High School
E. V. Walton
Texas A. & M
Harold
C” Company Infantry
Pvt Roy Johnson Finishes Automotive Maintenance Course
Pvt. Roy Johnson aged 22 son of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey E. Johnson of De Leon recently graduated from the Army eight week Automotive Maintenance School at Fort Chaffee Arkansas. He completed instruction in maintenance repair and inspection of light and heavy duty military vehicles.
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Fort Chaffee, Ark
Roy Johnson
Harvey E. Johnson
Rt. 2
de Leon
Army
Fort Chaffee
Ark
Johnson
Card of Thanks for Wade A. Mercer
Mr and Mrs W A Mercer thank friends and neighbors for kindnesses shown during Wade A Mercer’s illness and for cards and letters received in the hospital. May God bless you.
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Wade A. Mercer
Mrs
W. A. Mercer
Visits the Wilsons and friends in Texas
Odessa and Fort Worth residents Gene Wilson and Billy Wilson spent the weekend in Comanche with Web and Mrs Wilson. John Gleaton Joyce McNutt Marguerite Ross visited Fort Worth and joined Coach Mike Murphy and family to attend the TCU Rice game. Owls defeated Frogs 20 to 0.
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Wilsons
Gene Wilson
Odessa
Billy
Worm) Wilson
Fort Worth
Comanche
Web Wilson
John Gleaton
Joyce McNutt
Marguerite Ross
Mike Murphy
Mickey
Owls
Frogs
Wilkersons Return From Houston Visit
J. C. Wilkerson has returned home from Houston. Mrs Wilkerson remained for an extended visit with her daughters Mrs. Charles Wetzel and Mrs. Robert Barton and their families.
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Houston
J. C. Wilkerson
Carpenter Family Visits Comanche for TCU Rice Game
Mr and Mrs Bob Carpenter and their son Bobby visited Comanche with Mr and Mrs Garner Couch over the weekend. The group attended the Saturday afternoon TCU versus Rice football game.
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Bob Carpenter
Bobby
Comanche
Garner Couch
Bartender Motto Cited As Pro, Not Lawful Quip
A witty remark claiming only bartenders need liquor to perform their best work circulates as a fashionable quip. The line highlights social attitudes toward drinking. No official action or event accompanies the quote.
Car Wreck Near Sidney Hospitalizes Two Women
A two car collision Sunday afternoon about 4 o clock on FM Road to Comanche, 12 miles east of Sidney, hospitalized two women. Mrs Jimmy Blanton suffered a broken knee and fractured skull and is at Blackwood Mims Hospital. Mrs Robert Reed sustained broken ribs and other internal injuries and is at the local hospital. Both drivers were Jimmy Blanton and Robert Reed. cars a 1957 Ford station wagon and a 1949 Chevrolet pickup were badly damaged.
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Jimmy Blanton
Blackwood- Mims
Robert Reed
Sidney
Comanche
County Service
Sidney Farmer
Blanton
Reed
Attend Wood Rites In Mason
Mr and Mrs William F Bryant of Sidney with Jack Bryant and Mr and Mrs Ellis Parker of Abilene traveled to Mason on Monday November 24 to attend funeral services for H S Wood brother of Mrs Parker and Mrs Bryant. Born in Arkansas in 1870 he moved with parents to Texas as a child and later settled in Mason County where his father operated a gin. He was a cousin to Mrs Ellie Morris and Mrs Walter Barret of this city.
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Wiliam F. Bryant
Sidney
Jack Bryant
Ellis Parker
Abilene
Mason
H. S. Wood
Parker
Byant
Mr. Wood
Arkansas
Texas
Comanche
Mason County
Wood
Ellie Morris
Walter Barret
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