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Newspaper
Gladewater Mirror
Location
Gladewater, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1968
Page
5
Bill Brantley, 42, former superintendent in Claude Texas, is chosen to head Kilgore schools. He will start August 1 after a special school board vote and will relocate with his family in late July. He succeeds Dr James F P Malone who moves to Pampa schools. Brantley remains involved in district matters before his official start.
The Patsy Hammett and Patsy Howard circles met Tuesday evening at 7 with Mrs. Clifford Salmons presiding. Devotional reading and prayers opened the session, and the program discussed individual personhood and cooperation among churches, with emphasis on Negro and Southern Baptist efforts and the Marshall Road Church in Jacksonville, Arkansas. The group adjourned for a bride-elect Brenda Cain shower, and the next meeting is set for July 23 with Mrs. Gladyce Hightower hosting.
LOISE GRAVES reports on church leadership at the First Presbyterian Church Glade water with listing of ruling elders and deacons. The piece also mentions missionaries Cooperated families, ranch tours by Joe M. Winston, and details about Pinehurst Ranch operations near Big Sandy and Winona.
The Carpenter family held a four day reunion at Hightower's lake house on Highway 271 with many relatives from Dallas Longview Hawkins Denison Tyler and Houston. Activities included boating fishing horseback riding and fireworks. Attendees included Mrs Hightower Mrs Parks and their relatives along with Jack Rhodes Mary Rhodes and Cheeri Chilcote among others.
Mr and Mrs W L Cheshire Sr hosted relatives at Lake Murrall on July 11 with a picnic, swimming, and fishing. The group included D D Cheshire and Agnes Cheshire from Carthage Texas. The Cheshire Jr's continued to Hackettstown New Jersey after two weeks in Carlisle Texas and Wilmington Illinois en route home.
A fragmentary list of popular books and authors appears, including Airport and The Right People among others. Names such as Updike Vidal Michener Birmingham and Michener appear in jumbled form, with mixed punctuation and garbled titles.
Dr Jack Erwin of Houston marries Miss Helan Milliorn at Ridglea Baptist Church Fort Worth. The ceremony led by Rev Gene Stith followed by a reception. The couple plans a home in San Antonio after a wedding trip to Hill Top Lake Resort. The bride attended Texas Wesleyan. the groom, Stephen F Austin College and Baylor University of Medicine.
Mr and Mrs Milton Rash and daughter plan Tennessee visit guesting with son Charles near Nashville. Miss Nona Mathis returns to Hughes Springs after visit with W C Mathis family. Cynthia Ann born to George and Mrs Harbour. Freda Gray attends Kilgore College twirling. Alma Ford hosts Tyler weekend. Sympathy to Mrs Irvin Porter on her father’s death.
The Gladewater Public Library highlights new titles appealing to adults and young adults. Emily Taft Douglas profiles great women from colonial times to Eleanor Roosevelt, alongside Readers Digest Garden, Texas in 1850, Soccer Science, The Shallow Grass, Powder and Patch, and a Texas-set Parker family saga.
Gladewater Chapter No CES announces a regular stated meeting at 8 p.m. in the Masonic Hall on Dean Street. Visiting members are encouraged to attend.
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