Paving Project Moves Ahead In Glen Rose
Williams and Young, Stephenville paving contractors, moved in Monday to begin a city wide street resurfacing project in Glen Rose. The $50,000 bond financed work covers 614 miles of pavement repairs and about three miles of new streets at 18 feet wide costing $8,650 per mile with completion in 60 days. Work targets streets around the school campus with most materials staged at the high school parking lot.
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Williams & Young
Stephenville
Glen Rose
Walter Ernst
Paluxy
Glen Rose ISD Votes Lunch Price Hike to Break Even
At a regular board meeting Glen Rose Independent School District increased lunch prices for September and October to 80 cents for grades 1–6 35 cents for grades 7–12 and 50 cents for adults. Superintendent McCroskey cited a $1491 deficit last year higher milk and bread costs and less federal surplus foods as reasons. The board hopes to cut total meal costs and may lower prices after October if prices stabilize.
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Glen Rose _ Independent School District Board
J. M. McCroskey
Homecoming Set at Cottonwood Baptist Church
Annual homecoming at Cottonwood Baptist Church begins with Sunday School and church services. A noon dinner and gospel singing follow with time for visiting. Former residents are urged to attend and reconnect with old friends.
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Cottonwood
Cottonwood Baptist Church
Historical Society Sets Aug 25 Meeting at Connally Home
Somervell County Historical Society will hold a regular session at the home of Mr and Mrs Eugene Connally on Thursday night Aug 25 at 7 30 for business and social purposes. The meeting was postponed from Aug 18 and all members and interested persons are urged to attend.
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Somervell County Historical Society
Eugene Connally
Superintendent to Hold Conference at First Methodist Church
The Rev. Morgan Garrett, new District Superintendent of the Cleburne Methodist Church, will preach at evening services at First Methodist Church and preside over the first quarterly conference of the church year afterward. He has pastored several conference churches and previously worked as registrar at Tarleton State College. Rev. J. L. Glaze invites friends to attend. Mrs. Jim McCroskey and daughters visit Mr. and Mrs. J. M. McCroskey. they plan to California where she will be stationed.
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Morgan Garrett
Cleburne
Methodist Church
First Methodist Church
Garrett
Tarleton State College
Stephenville
J. L. Glaze
Friends of
Jim McCroskey
J. M. McCroskey
McCroskey
California
Rain Totals 1.71 Inches Across Glen Rose Area
Rain totals across Glen Rose reach 3.36 inches for the month with 1.71 inches in the past week and 1.65 inches on Sunday. Paluxy River watershed rose Sunday while Brazos remained low. Crops and pastures benefit from the moisture as families visit in Glen Rose during a weekend gathering.
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Glen Rose
T. J. Davis
U. S. Weather Bureau
Davis
Pal
Uxy
Brazos
LS. Ciccenacs
DAS
Timmerman Rites Scheduled Today
Funeral services for Mrs. Delbert O. Timmerman 41 will be held at Glen Rose Funeral Home Chapel at 3:00 PM with Rev. Eldon Pritchard officiating. Burial will be in Georges Creek Cemetery. She died at 4:10 AM in Marks English Hospital after giving birth to a daughter at 12:51 AM.
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Delbert O. Timmerman
Glen Rose Funeral Home
Eldon Pritchard
New Prospect Baptist Church
Georges Creek
Molly Jo
Marks
English Hospital
Floyd County
H. E. Baker
Mr. Baker
Paluxy
Taylor
Dinosaur Round Up Planned by Midway Saddle Club
Officers of the Midway Saddle Club of Johnson County announced plans for their second Dinosaur Round-Up at Oakdale Park Labor Day weekend. Events start Saturday Sept 8 with an Old Fiddlers contest and a Glen Rose swim show under Mrs Robert D English, plus a water exhibition and a dance at the skating rink. Play Day activities at the Glen Rose rodeo arena begin Sunday at 1:00 pm with 25 visiting clubs competing and a Play Day sweetheart chosen from club sweethearts.
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Midway Saddle Club
Johnson County
Oakdale Park
Glen Rose
Robert D. English
Park Pool
Glen Rose, Rodeo Arena
Sweekend
Mrs Jewell Sydes Brought to Oden for Burial
Funeral services were held at Oden Chapel on Monday August 15 at 3 p.m. for Mrs. Jewell Anges Sydes 63 of Fort Worth. Interment was in Oden Chapel Cemetery. Survivors include a granddaughter four sisters and a brother with extended family visiting from Houston Walnut Springs and Fort Stockton.
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Oden Chapel
Jewell Anges Sydes
Fort Worth
Odessa Bumpas
Walnut Springs
Odessa Attorney Dies in Midland Hospital
William B. Deaderick, 48, Odessa attorney and former 70th District judge, died Monday in a Midland hospital. A St. Louis native, UT Law School 1941 graduate, he practiced in Houston before moving to Odessa in 1946 and was appointed judge in 1953. Survived by wife Ann and two sons Franklin and David. funeral plans were unavailable. Dan McCarty visited Cross Plains over the weekend.
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William B. Deaderick
Odessa
Midland
A. H. Roden
Ann Roden
Here
Deaderick
St. Louis
University of Texas Law School
Houston
Allan Shivers
Deaderick, McMahon and McKim
Ector County Bar Assa
Franklin
David
Hubbard-Kelly Funeral Home
Rites Held Sunday For Granbury Gun Victim
Kenneth Wayne Moyer 30 of Granbury died from a gun accident Friday night after a celebration in Hood County. Sheriff Frank Scarbrough said the pistol was handed to a friend who fired it wounding Meyer in the stomach. he died at a Fort Worth hospital. He worked at the GM Arlington plant and was a Church of Christ member. Survivors include his wife Barbara Hartis and two daughters Gay and a seven year old, plus parents W. F. and Ethel Meyer and siblings.
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Kenneth Wayne Moyer
Granbury
Granbury Church of Christ
Frederick
Hood County
Frank Scarbrough
Meyer
Scarbrough
la Fort Worth Hospital
Church of Christ
General Motors Assembly
Arlington
Barbara Hartis
Bill Hartis
Rainbow
Gay
W. F. Meyer
Ethel Meyer
Tommy
Bobby
Jerry Prichard
Dallas
Ann Prickette
Fort Worth
Secretary and Bus Driver Hired by School Board
Mrs. Martin Atkins of Rock Creek wife of Rev Martin Atkins Rock Creek Baptist Church was hired as a school secretary and John C Benson was named as a bus driver at the last school board meeting The board also set the school tax rate at 1 60 per 100 valuation keeping the same rate as before
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Martin Atkins
Rock Creek
Rock Creek Baptist Church
John C. Benson
Third Annual Coon Hunter's Show Planned Labor Day
Somervell County Coon Hunter's Assn. prepares for the third annual show at the rodeo arena grounds on Labor Day. Officers say to bring hunting dogs and enjoy a 1.00 barbecue and membership, with events including coon in tree hole barrel log and water beginning at 1:00 p.m. Clyde Sexton notes a likely record turnout.
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Labor Day
Somervell County
Hole
Sexton
New Fence Installed at Squaw Creek Cemetery
Squaw Creek Cemetery Assn reports completion of a new chain link fence around the enlarged plot. Drake Fence Co. built it for 1428.15 dollars, plus a 27.50 dollar cattle guard. Additional land donations and purchases expanded the tract by about 2.14 acres for future growth. Ed Young and A B Abernathy contributed land, with donations now funding the improvements. A deep well water project is under study.
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Squaw Creek
Fort Worth Driver Dies In Rain Slick Loop 820 Crash
Felton Dale Hutson 22 of Fort Worth died Saturday afternoon when his car left Loop 820 rain slick pavement jumped a median sideswiped another car and collided with a third vehicle. The Crosier-Pearson Chapel in Cleburne held services at 1 30 p m with Johnny Richter officiating and burial was in Brazos Point Cemetery.
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Felton Dale Hutson
Fort Worth
Grace Gilbreath
Joe Gilbreath
Walnut Springs
Loop 820
Jin Crosier-Pearson
Cleburne
Johnny Richter
Brazos Point
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T. H. Cousins
Earl Proffitt
Clinton Harris
Timmerman
Nemo
Losey Dale
Herman
Delbert
Molly
Melisisa
L. D. Gilbert
Flamet
Jack Pigg
Quitaque
P. C. Baker
A. L. Baker
Jewell Sydes
Oden
Jerre Deason
Phil Reen
Colorado
John Marquis
Marile and
Marcus
Fort Stockton
Charley Marquis
Dan McCarty
Cross Plains
Hound Show
Squaw Creek Cemetery
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