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Newspaper
Glen Rose Reporter
Location
Glen Rose, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1969
Page
4
The Somervell County Historical Society will operate a Country Store at the museum on the courthouse square this Saturday July 5. Donations of merchandise for resale are being solicited and picked up by Sam Freas and society members. Subscribe to The Reporter.
County agent Doyle Cooper and three Somerville 4-H Club members travel to Trinidad for the annual summer camp. Sessions began Tuesday and will end Saturday. Read names include Karen Woods Julia Shackelford and James Howard. Mr and Mrs J C Sessom of Fort Worth visited Sunday at the home of his grandmother Mrs R T Ratliff.
Mrs Patricia McFarlin Berry 26 died in Oil City Louisiana June 15. She lived with her parents Rev H A McFarlin for 12 years, moved in 1964. A Glen Rose High School 1961 graduate. Funeral held Tuesday last week in Morris Oklahoma. Survivors include husband Bobby Berry daughter Kimberly and two brothers. Dwain Sandlin attended the Morris service.
Building fund for a 22 by 28 foot rock and metal pavilion receives $72.00 in donations led by Mrs. R L Flippin, chairwoman of the Squaw Creek Cemetery Association. Estimated cost is $600, with contributions from Mrs A R Whitworth, Mrs Lula LeBeouf, Mr and Mrs M C Elliott, Morris Williams, Jack Pugh, Thurman Pugh, Mrs Bill Woodard, Mrs Thelma Heath, and J B Young. Donations may be mailed or left at First National Bank.
League Manager Lynnwood West reports three weeks of play with game results: Marks English 14 over Crabtree Chevrolet 1, Methodist Church 9 over Corner Drug 7, Whitworth Lumber 7 over Reynolds Funeral Home 4. Pony League rained out. Standings list Marks English 30, Whitworth Lumber 21, Methodist Church 21, Corner Drug 12, Crabtree Chevrolet 0, Reynolds Funeral Home 0. This week’s schedule on June 26 features Marks English vs Methodist Church and Reynolds Funeral Home vs Crabtree Chevrolet. June 30 matches Whitworth Lumber vs Corner Drug and Food Center vs Coca Cola.
A UTA news release lists Jeanne McDonough daughter of Mrs Mary Jo McDonough of this city on the School of Liberal Arts spring semester honor roll. A 1968 Glen Rose High School graduate she was an honor student through school. Mr and Mrs Hoot Williams and family returned Monday from a Gulf Coast weekend vacation.
Rev Aiden Maguire pastor of St Rose of Lima Catholic Church announced the congregation purchased the Blackstock home on Gaither Street. It will be moved to the church lot at Cottonwood and Mesquite and converted into a sanctuary with 18 feet added. Moving and construction begin this week. Masses are held at the ag building on Highway 67 Wednesdays evenings.
Post Oak Cemetery Association officers announce a work day this Saturday starting at 9 a.m. to clean the burial plot. A fundraising drive seeks donations to build two restrooms and to hire help for grounds maintenance, with contributions to be sent to the First National Bank in Glen Rose.
Daylene Brown won the annual 4H Club Dress Revue and will represent the county in the Junior Division at the district competition in Stephenville on July 10. Jo Youngblood serves as alternate as 146 4H members from Hood Erath and Somervell counties attended Tri County 4H Club Fun Night at Oakdale Park.
Jeff Sirmon was moved Monday in a Reynolds Funeral Home ambulance from a Cleburne nursing home to Marks English Hospital where he is reported to be seriously ill. Guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Gavit included his mother Mrs. C. A. Gavit of Brady and his sister Mrs. J. W. Huckabay of Tallulah, Louisiana along with Mrs. Gavit's aunt Mrs. Mae Bryson of Brady. Recent visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Smith in Walnut Springs included their niece and nephew and their daughter Mrs. Walter Irving and Mrs. Virgie Wallace of Godley and Mrs. Johnny Vaughn of Cleburne.
Rev. and Mrs. John Hutcheson visited Alvord for a Moseley family reunion with their children. They returned with Jack Moseley and his family from Montezuma Creek Utah. Steven Ome Lan of Skaggs Island California stayed a day with Mrs. Ratliff. Aubry Marr of Oklahoma City and Mabel Larson of Duncan toured the area with Oliver Evanson. Dick Coleman of Abilene spent the weekend with his mother Tennie Coleman, as Fannie Healer of Cleburne, Tennie’s sister, visited Sunday.
Mrs. Ida Lee Wirt died Saturday in Sweetwater at age 72. Funeral services were Sunday at Reynolds Funeral Chapel with Rev. Newton officiating. She was born December 22, 1879, in Walnut Springs, survived by three sons and five daughters, with Reynolds Funeral Home in charge.
About 35 employees from area cities attended the District Water Works Association meeting at the fire hall Tuesday night with Bud Douglas Glen Rose City Utilities Superintendent hosting. Dr Cecil N Daugherty of Glen Rose returned from the Texas State Chiropractic Association convention in San Antonio.
The respondent explains the S A C after a priest’s name does not denote a sect but membership in a religious order. He cites The Society of Catholic Apostolate founded by Saint Vincent Pallotti, notes orders are communities within the Catholic Church, and highlights their focus on missions and apostolates such as teaching nursing education and missionary work.
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