Bendix Launderette to Open on Magnolia Street
25 Years Ago Mrs M W Cottrell announced the mid month opening of a launderette named Bendix Launderette on Magnolia Street The week also saw a Franklin stock fire destroying I S Kahn merchandise The same period saw Hearne High School cafeteria open with 105 students and teachers fed first day Guests included Bobby Adams Aransas Pass and visits by the Tuggle and Carson families with relatives in Austin and Mrs Freeman visiting from out of town
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. W. Cottrell
Magnolia Street
Bendix Launderette
I. S. Kahn
Franklin
Hearne High School
Robert Rohde
Mrs. Lizzie M. Melton Rites Held at Gatesville
Funeral services for Lizzie M. Melton of Gatesville were held Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. at Pecan Grove Baptist Church with burial in Davidson Cemetery. Aged 102, she died November 27 in a Gatesville hospital after a century in Gatesville. Survived by five daughters, 35 grandchildren, 105 great grandchildren and many great great grandchildren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lizzie M. Melton
Gatesville
Pecan Grove Baptist Church
Davidson Cemetery
Pecan Grove
Effie Patterson
Addie Grier
Roseberg
Oregon
Willie Beaty
McGregor
Rudy Storrs
Calvert
Velma Trammel
Waco
School Menu Week Listings
Monday features Italian spaghetti blackeye peas cole slaw milk bread cinnamon rolls Tuesday offers Frito pie potato salad English peas milk bread sliced peaches Wednesday serves Turkey and dressing giblet gravy cranberry sauce green beans ice cream Thursday presents Chili beans with meat mixed greens carrot strip milk bread cake squares Friday includes Hamburgers corn potato chips lettuce tomatoes pickles milk cookies
Sawyer family visits Louisiana and Baton Rouge trip
Mr. and Mrs. B. V. Sawyer traveled with their son Richard Brown and children to New Orleans Louisiana and to Metairie Louisiana to visit another son Keith Sawyer. On the return trip they paused in Baton Rouge to see her sister Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Dupui and an uncle and aunt Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Hamby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. V. Sawyer
New Orleans
Louisiana
Richard Brown
Metaiie
Keith Sawyer
Baton Rouge
B. J. Dupui
C. H. Hamby
Texas Champion Tree debate and pioneer height math
Questions and answers discuss how a Fairfield gum tree was named a Texas Champion despite a 41 ft crown spread and a 70 inch trunk, ponder Leon County trees, and describe old pioneer methods for measuring tree height using a six inch stick and eye distance. The column also covers early Polish arrivals and Texas sand origins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J.W. Baker
Bremend
Fairfield
Leon County
Hill Top Lake
Texas
Texas Forest Service
Moon
Pioneer Tree
Old South
Hearne School Board picks Hoyt to fill vacancy
Ten years ago Odis A. Hoyt was appointed to Hearne School Board to fill the vacancy created by Guy Chandler’s resignation. James Alfa Dotson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfa Dotson of Hearne, was named to Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges as a senior at Texas A&M College.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Odis A. Hoyt
Hearne
Guy Chandler
James Alfa Dotson
Alfa Dotson
Dotson
Texas A&m College
Altimore Joins 1963 Bluebonnett Girls State Staff In Austin
Miss Carol Ann Altimore was named to the 1963 staff of Bluebonnett Girls State in Austin. She was among 18 selected from about 400 girls who attended the 1962 session. Hearne High Eagles defeated Allen Academy 39 to 3 with Steve O Neal top scorer. Becky Russ celebrated her eleventh birthday at a party Saturday at the home of Mr and Mrs Bryan Russ.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carol Ann Altimore
Bluebonnett Girls State
Austin
Steve O'Neal
Eagles
Becky Russ
Bryan F. Russ
Also Mentioned on This Page
Democrat
Golda Adams
Bobby Adams
Aransas Pass
A. J. Tuggle
Jean
Ray Tuggle
Rostelle Carson
Carson
T. J. Freeman
Remington
Poe
Ston
Mark W
SPERY
Remington Engineering
Hoyt’s
CHEFE
A. C. Gordon
Ius
Esther
Rome
Lockhart’s Furniture & Appliance
Fourth Street
Federal Land Bank of Houston
Ag Land Bank Pleo
J. N. Raney
Federal Land Bank Association
East 26Th Street
Bryan
Ageat
Central Texas
J. W. Baker
Amer
Jamestown
Virginia
Northwest
Gulf of Mexico
Gulf
Gene Lest
Hearne High Eagles
Allen Academy
THE
W. F. Sander CO
Mrs Baird
Mara Cerry
LWE
Lockhart’s Furniture
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