Thrashes to celebrate golden anniversary
Mer and Mrs Ed Thrash celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary with a reception in the Fellowship Hall of First Baptist Church from 2 to 4 PM. Hosted by Richard Voris family and others, honoring the couple who married January 13, 1924 in Rosboro Arkansas and later moving to Hope in 1933 with Tel-E-Tex Oil.
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Mer
Ed Thrash
Fellowship
First Baptist Church
Richard Voris
Sandy
Susan
Midland
Texas
Lee Harniff
Houston
Hugh Brown
Hope
Thrash
Rosboro
Arkansas
Glenwood
Theash
Tel-E-Tex Oil Company
December events calendar highlights in Hope area
Calendar items for December 12 to 16 include DAR chapter meetings in Town and Country with hostesses Mrs James Branch and Mrs Otis Blackwood and a Christmas program by Mrs Roy Taylor. Senior Citizens potluck at Douglas Building with gift exchanges, missions banquet at Calvary Baptist Church, and multiple Christmas luncheons and parties at local clubs. A German I and French II Christmas pageant is set for High School Auditorium with public invitation. A Christmas dance at Hope Country Club and singing events at Community Baptist Church and Hempstead County Singing Convention are planned, plus guidance on proper parcel wrapping for mailings.
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John Cain
DAR
James Branch
Otis Blackwood
Roy Taylor
Shower Springs Extension
Homemakers Club
Bobby Faye Dillard
Valerie Booles
Hope Iris Club
C.R. Moore
Rocky Mound Road
Richard Arnold
The
Hope Country Club
Jimmy Lester
Johnny Rockett
George Wright Jr
Jud Martindale
Community Baptist Church
Okay, Ark
Hempstead County
Holly Grove Methodist Church
Hope
Hwy
Gus Hickerson
Family News From Hope and Dallas Gatherings
Ricky Byers, 16, son of Charles Byers of Dallas, is recovering from surgery last Friday in Room 238 at Methodist Hospital Dallas. His grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Joe Kinsey and Mrs. Olin Byers live in Hope. Dr and Mrs James W Branch visited Memphis then returned their daughter Marynell a Southwestern student to Hope for holidays. Forest Lane, a newer Hope residential area, lies north of West North Street. Mr and Mrs Jimmy Lester with Bill and Ellen moved to Forest Lane from South Elm.
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Ricky Byers
Charles Byers
Dallas
Methodist Hospital
Hope
Joe Kinsey
Olin Byers
James W. Branch
Memphis
Marynell
Southwestern
Forest Lane
Weat
Jimmy Lester
Bill
Ellen
South Elm
Tried and true apricot salad recipe card
A vintage recipe card details making an apricot salad with apricot gelatine, crushed pineapple, mashed apricots and nectar apricots, bananas, and a gelatin layer. It includes steps to dissolve gelatine, add waters, cool, mix fruit juices and sugar, then fold in Dream Whip before topping the jello.
Cheddar Cheese Burger Loaf
A meat loaf style dish combines two cups cubed cheddar with two eggs and seven ingredients. Mix beef with hands, fold in cheese, pack into three loaf pans, bake at 350 degrees for about one hour. Rest ten minutes, drain juices, turn and slice to serve eight portions.
Dear Abby Advice Column On House Rules And Cousin Lovers
A reader asks if parents should allow their college son and his girlfriend to sleep together in their home during Christmas break. Abby advises clear house rules or accommodation elsewhere. Another letter asks if first cousins may marry and how vasectomy might affect concerns. Abby notes state laws vary and consulting local officials or a lawyer helps. A third reader seeks advice on recovering borrowed items without harming friendship, with Abby dismissing the “no guts” stance and urging direct retrieval.
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Abby
The
State University
UDC Chapter Meets at Mrs Branch Home
After lunch at El Matador Restaurant on Thursday December 6 the Pat Cleburne Chapter UDC held a business meeting and program at Mrs. James W Branch home. Decorations highlighted the Confederacy with notes on women of note and Gen Pat Cleburne. Prune cake and coffee were served to eight including guest Mrs Alston Foster of Millwood.
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el Matador
Pat Cleburne
UDC
James W. Branch
Birthday tribute for Mrs Cox at Trade Winds dinner
Mrs Herb Cox of Fulton was surprised with a birthday dinner at the Trade Winds on Saturday December 68. Her daughters Mrs Jim Kennedy Pine Bluff Mrs Nancy Morrison Fulton and Mrs Charles Wylie Hope hosted seventeen friends from Fulton and Hope for a three course luncheon. The honoree received gifts and a light mineral oil treatment kept a wooden cheese board in fine shape.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbert Cox
Fulton
Jim Kennedy
Pine Bluff
Nancy Morrison
Charles Wylie
Hope
Fulton and
Portrait gift boxes for a festive Christmas wrap
Create wrapped gifts that double as portraits. Use boxes and cardboard faces with drawn features, yarn hair, and added decorations. Secure the head with tape, balance on the box, and finish with ribbon and paper details for a playful holiday presentation.
Hospital Notes From Memorial and Branch General
Admitted and discharged lists from Memorial Hospital and Branch General Hospital show multiple patients. New arrivals include a Hope couple’s girl and a Fulton couple’s boy born December 10.
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Thrashes
Women’s News
Mrs
Annette Rogers
Mary Anita Laseter
Bam
Senior Citizens Club
Douglas Building
Calvary Baptist Church
Hope Lilac Garden Club
Perry’s
Baker Homemakers Extension Club
Douglas
Golden Age Club
Gardenia Garden Club
David Waddle
Daffodil Club
Jimmy Tate
Rocky Mound Extension Homemakers Club
Vonnie Edwards
Hope Women's Golf Association
Order of the Eastern Star
Masonic Hall
Hope B&pw Club
Perry
Oy Cecky Brownesons
Dean Axbby
Abigail van Buren
Chicago Tribune-N. Y. News
Spud, Inc
Justice of the Peace
Wagerstoun
Aga Ven Mare
Mrs.Cox
Aileen Snoddy
American Greetings
General Hospital
Myrtie Griffis
Stamps
Oma Formby
Louis Sutton
Ollie Marshall
Baby
Lewisville
Donald Lively
Margaret Forest
Saenger Tontie
Lady Ice
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