Grand Jury Indicts Two In District Court Hearing
Eddie E. Glass of this city indicted on two counts for breaking and entering the ranch home of Gaston Shumate and stealing a saddle valued at 600 dollars. The same Grand Jury returned a true bill against Sidney Charles Akins of Fort Worth for Driving While Intoxicated. Glass is jailed awaiting trial on bonds of 1000 dollars each after a second arrest for failure to appear. The alleged offenses occurred last March and June 16 of this year. He will be tried in district court here.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eddie E. Glass
18Th District Court
Sidney Charles Akins
Fort Worth
Charles Davis
Glass
Gaston Shumate
Speck Strawn
Somervell Livestock Group Pursues State Charter Independence
About 70 members of the Somervell County Livestock and Poultry Association met at the Primitive Baptist Camp Ground to reelect officers and vote for a State charter to make the group independent. Clyde Sexton was reelected president Logan Starnes vice president and Kelley Lewellen secretary treasurer. Mrs Joy Brooks was named chairman of the Homemaking Show Division. Chapter board members will be past presidents of the organization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Somervell County Livestock & Poultry Association
Primitive Baptist Camp
Glen Rose-Somervell County
Check In Of Library Volumes Is Urged
Mrs. J. D. Martin in charge of the school library asks that anyone with library books return them promptly so they can be processed before the opening of school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. D. Martin
Prehistoric Horse Teeth Found Here
Lonnie Jones a Granbury High graduate found 42 teeth in sand and gravel pits on the Herman Layne farm in Rainbow that are identified as Pleistocene horse teeth. Identification was by Bob Slaughter of the Shuler Museum of Paleon tology at Southern Method ist University in Dallas. Mr and Mrs Glennis Million of Jonesboro La and Mr and Mrs Luther Million and Randall Gartrell returned from a four day vacation in Houston where they visited the Astrodome Padre Island and Hemisfair in San Antonio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glen Rose
Carla Bodiford
Tommy Bodiford
Bodiford
Harvey Jackson
Stadium Drive
Clara
Carla
Jackson’s
Superette
Helen
Helen Brown
Lonnie Jones
Granbury High School
Herman Layne
Rainbow
Bob Slaughter
Shuler Museum of Paleontology
Southern Methodist University
Dallas
Glennis Million
Jonesboro
Luther Million
Randall Gartrell
Houston
Astrodome
Padre Island
Hemisfair
San Antonio
Minor injuries in four local accidents this past week
Four wrecks occurred around the area with minor injuries. Richard McCarty and Kenneth Hulsey were in a collision on Highway 67 with a silica sand truck, Hulsey treated and released. Donal Anderson’s Dodge ran through a yard on Live Oak Street, with about $100 damage. Billy Joe Norris’s pickup was rear ended by Jerry Landers’s Chrysler, with no injuries. Georgia Bowden's Oldsmobile skidded into a creek bed near Nancy Smith Cemetery, treated and released.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chevrolet
Richard McCarty
Kenneth Hulsey
Rainbow
Capitol
Highway 67
J. T. Hopper
James Pena
McCarty
Hulsey
Cleburne
Fort Worth
Donal F. Anderson
Live Oak Street
Edwin Conger
Speck Strawn
Billy Joe Norris
Garland
Jerry Dean Landers
Strawn
Georgia M. Bowden
Irving
U.S. Highway 67
Nancy Smith Cemetery
Budget problems seen as federal economy drive hit Glen Rose schools
Supt. J. M. McCroskey reports Glen Rose Independent School District will lose 1,750 from 1967 68 Public Law 874 funds for federal property workers. Despite 91 million more appropriated, the Budget Bureau’s 6 percent cut reduces releases. Local schools have received 4,092 but may gain only about 2,300 more. 1968 69 could face a 50 percent cut costing 4,150 more. Congress action to exempt funds is urged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. M. McCroskey
Glen Rose Independent
Congress
Bureau of the Budget
McCroskey
Budget Bureau
Budget Board
Homecoming Set At Cottonwood
Cottonwood plans a Sunday homecoming at the church with events starting at 11 a.m. A basket lunch will be served at noon followed by singing and visiting in the afternoon. Congregants are urged to bring a well filled basket and join in the day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cottonwood
Kin Of Local Persons Killed In Collision
Mrs Edna Cline of Edinburg sister of Bill and Jim Tiwater and Mrs Weldon McCoy of this community visited here last week when she learned her granddaughter Linda Pritchard 19 of Edinburg had been killed in an automobile accident about 1 am Saturday. She returned home and services were held Wednesday with local family in attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clyde Bagby
Clyde
Agriculture Department
Edna Cline
Edinburg
Bill
Jim Tiwater
Weldon McCoy
Linda Pritchard 19
Funeral for Sgt Preston L Goolsby Jr Drowned in Philippines
Funeral services held for Sgt Preston Lee Goolsby Jr 24 at Dalton Baptist Church near Naples. A Loadmaster with 8th Military Air Lift Squadron he drowned on July 30 while on temporary duty in the Philippines. He spent leave in March after Vietnam duty. Burial with full military honors at Oak Ridge Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Preston Lee Goolsby Jr
Dalton Baptist Church
Naples
A. J. Finley
H .T. Burrow
Philippines
Gilbert Daniel
Preston Lee Goolsby
U.S. Air Force
Germany
Jimmy Goolsby
Fort Worth
George Goolsby
Connally Afb
Waco
David
Eldridge Harris
Glen Rose
Linda Willoughby
Rufus Robinson
Goolsby
McCord Afb
Wash
Vietnam
Oakridge
Bosque County 4-H Drill Team Wins State Show
About 10 000 youths aged nine to 19 attended the State 4-H Club Horse Show at Will Rogers Coliseum in Fort Worth last week. Bosque County 4H Club drill team under J. M. White Jr. of Meridian won first place with Round and Square Dance routines and performed in evening shows. San Augustine County took second, Wheeler County third. Members from Glen Rose and Walnut Springs were among participants. Verna Faye Summers left Love Field for Watertown New York after three weeks visiting Judge and Mrs. Temple Summers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Worth
Will Rogers Coliseum
Bosque County
J. M. White Jr
Meridian
San Augustine County
Wheeler County Club
Verna Faye Summers
Love Field
Watertown
N.Y
Temple Summers
Junior Riding Club Practice Night At Somerville Arena
Somerville County Junior Riding Club members aged 9 to 18 meet weekly at 7 30 p m for drills barrel racing pole bending and western pleasure under Earl Cremeans guidance Mothers served homemade ice cream and cake as 15 riders attended last Tuesday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Somervell County
Glen Rose Horse Show and Rodeo to Incorporate
Jack W. Bridges Jr. announces Glen Rose Horse Show and Rodeo Association plans to incorporate as a nonprofit. The group seeks to borrow funds to acquire land and build modern facilities for local rodeos and horse shows once backed by the Glen Rose-Somervell County Chamber of Commerce. Further details will appear in upcoming Reporter editions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack W. Bridges Jr
Glen Rose Horse Show and Rodeo Association
Glen Rose-Somervell County
Glen Rose High seeks commercial teacher to replace principal
The Glen Rose High School needs a full time commercial teacher to replace Chas Gibbs who becomes principal this year. McCroskey notes efforts to hire a typing bookkeeping and shorthand instructor but no inquiries have been received yet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. M. McCroskey
Glen Rose High School
Chas. Gibbs
McCroskey
Welcome rains sweep Som ervell County into week
Rain fell Monday night and again Tuesday evening across Somerville County. Measurements ranged around 0.95 inches with 2.0 inches at Rainbow, lifting July totals to 2.83 inches and seven month total to 28.21 inches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Somervell County
T. J. Davis
U.S. Weather Bureau
Lee Currie Place
Rainbow
Davis
Baptist Group Plans Meeting for 70th Duffau Primitive Baptist session
Gene Connally announced readiness for the 70th annual Duffau Primitive Baptist Association session at the camp grounds tonight. Services will be held twice daily from morning to evening through Sunday noon, with an annual youth encampment opening Sunday afternoon and continuing through next Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gene Connally
Duffau Primitive Baptist Association
Three Voting Boxes Closed By Court
Somervell County commissioners voted to abandon Cottonwood Georges Creek and Oden voting boxes for law compliance. State rule requires closure if precincts have fewer than 50 registered voters in the last Presidential election. Precincts and judges listed effective January 1 1969.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Somervell
Cottonwood
Georges Creek
Oden
J. B. Ivy
J. C
Buster’’ Echols
Karl Booker
Howard Sego
Rainbow
Jess Conway
Buck Creek
Clyde Armstrong
Glen Rose ISD schedules budget hearing August 20
The Glen Rose Independent School District announced a public budget hearing for the 1968-69 year at 8:00 p.m. Tuesday in the High School Library. Citizens are invited to attend. A board meeting will follow to adopt the official budget and bids will be opened for gasoline milk ice cream and bakery supplies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glen Rose Independent
Also Mentioned on This Page
Jack McCarty
Bob Bullock
Preston L. Goolsby
Bosque Riding Club
Mary Lou Cromeans
Charlotte Evans
Joe Heartsill
Bruce
Phyllis Munden
Walnut Springs
Jr. Riding Club
HORSE
Rodeo Assn
J. P. Lail
T. E. Lail
Gene Curtis
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