Farmers Hear Stephens Jr on Radish and Tomato Plans
IM Stephens Jr addresses Wallaceburg farmers in the High School auditorium on planting, fertilization, and market strategies learned at the Phoenix Fruit Jobbers Convention. He urges three sowings for radishes, outlines fertilizer use, and stresses cooperative marketing with price consistency and early market advantages. He and his father urge economy and loan access to finance next year’s crop.
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Wallaceburg
M. Stephens Jr
Conention
Phoenix
Ariz
Stephens
Thering
Aris
Arizona
California
Smhajor
Texas
Mississippi
Raids Aid Charity In Memphis Slot Machines Die Games Aid Nurseries
Police raids seize slot machines and dice games in Memphis and devote all recovered funds to a church supported day nursery. Each dice game is charged at a two cent club rate, with proceeds destined for caring for babies of working mothers.
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Memphis
W.P
Sweet Home NewsYoung People Organize At Sweet Home
Bro Brooks Stell of Delight led monthly religious services Saturday and Sunday with Blevins attendees. School progress praised thanks to Mr Sheffield and Mrs Roy Foster. Ethel Spears visited Prescott. a new Sweet Home Young People society formed with Edward Grimes as president and Erwin Yarberry as vice president.
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Brooks Stell
Blevins
Sheffield
Roy Foster
Sweet Home
Ethel Spears
Prescott
Young People's Society
Edward Grimes
Erwin Yarberry
Winnie Bell Lee
Margaret Grimes
Clifford Huskey
Prescott Girls Smother Blevins
Prescott's girls basketball team defeated Blevins 38 to 11, delivering a crushing setback after hopes of a closer game. Lula Merle Spears provided all of Blevins' points with strong shooting, while the team lacked sufficient center and guard ball movement to spark a comeback.
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Blevins
Prescott
Emmet
Lula Merle Spears
Legion Meeting At Blevins Is Enjoyed
A Leslie Huddleston Post gathering in Blevins brought together about thirty men including legion members and ex servicemen from north Hempstead county at the Methodist church. The meeting marked a strong show of fellowship since the war’s end and discussed improving participation from the county’s northern members who previously faced travel difficulties to Hope.
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Hempsferd
American Legion
Blevins
Legion
North Hempstead County
Methodist Church
Leslie Huddleston
Hope
Counry
Blevins Drops Two To Amity In Tough Court Test
Blevins played two games at Amity on a smaller court, losing 31 to 19 to Amity while Glenwood also fell. Amity led early, built a big gap, then held off Blevins with a strong second half. Haro Husky scored five for Blevins, Arnold added five, and Womack led Amity with ten.
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Blevins
Amity
Glenwood
Belvins
Haro Husky
Womack
Arnold
Te Blevins
Husky
Ruy Lowe
Selph
Stone
Spears
Arlis Lowe
Slagle
Stephens
Yakut
Cictor Cooper
Isaac Cooper
Hurst
Curtis Brown
Junior Brown
Tackett Heid
Dunlap
Davis
Haines
Red” Arnold
Lowe
Brown Plant Farm Expects Good Year
Ross Brown owner of Brown Plant Farm in McKas kill plans a potato output as large as last year. Cabbage and onion plants are ready for shipment, and potatoes will be placed in hot beds around the end of March.
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Ross Brown
McCaskill
Brown
Blevins Methodist Church Plans January February Cultivation
At a church board meeting the Blevins church decided to observe the Missionary Cultivation period in January and February with a free will offering. Members are urged to contribute at least one dime, aiming for about 30 dollars in dimes, with some giving more. Reid led Glenwood with seven points.
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Blevins Methodist Church
Blevins
Blevins Personal Notices Across Prescott Area
The Blevins community reports attendance at the Prescott girls basketball game with families and neighbors traveling to Amity and Hope for events. Local teachers and citizens attended meetings, illnesses and recoveries noted, and several residents were involved in visits, dinners, and local travel. A birth, a marriage, and a hospital visit are listed among routine community updates.
Local drive to raise funds for offerings at Blevins Farm
The note describes a collection effort at Blevins and Friendship to raise a total offering, with larger contributions encouraged though $200 is not expected in a single gift. To reach the goal, two acres of radishes will be planted with H. M. Stephens providing the land and half the seed and fertilizer, while Jim Brown, Wright Gorham, and Bob Ward contribute as organizers.
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H. M. Stephens
Jim Brown
Wright Gorham
Bob Ward
Nelson and Company Sell Car Poultry Shipment
A car load of poultry was shipped from Blevins on Tuesday by M. I. Nelson and Company, among Hempstead county's largest poultry dealers. The car went to a New York dealer who sent a representative to supervise loading and accompany the shipment. Nelson has completed a large poultry shed in this state, enabling storage for nearly every local load with water and feed containers and roasting poles. About two thirds of the car’s poultry were housed in the new shed for several days prior to loading.
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Blevins
M. I. Nelson and Company
Hempsferd County
New York City
Nelson
Bel
League Will Take Play To McCaskill
The early bird comedy An Early Bird by Blevins Epworth League will be shown at McCaskill Saturday at 7 30 pm. Cast includes Napolian Nesbit Ina Rike George Cummins William Cummins Lola Bruce Ester Stephens and others. directed by Miss Tone Arrington.
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McCaskill
Blevins Epworth League
Blevins
Napolian Nesbit
Ina Rike
George Cummins
William Cummins
Lola Bruce
Ester Stephens
P. C. Stephens Jr
Whiteside
Havile Wardlow
Lyle Bruce
Oren Stephens
Loreen Hartless
Miss Tone Arrington
Church Board Plans Offering If Crop Fails
The planting and pastor W. J. Whiteside direct church gatherers. If the crop fails, the board will raise at least $100 for the offering. If the offering and crop exceed $200, the excess will support other church benevolences.
M Caskile Items Highlight Local Guests and Visits
Miss Inez Shoffner of Nashville stayed with her sister Mrs Huddleston. Mrs Sarah Louise Gentry and Miss Landers of Texarkana visited Dr and Mrs E Gentry Sunday. Siey Bros shipped a car of fat cattle to St Louis. Mrs Olvis Stokes attended a Hope teachers meeting. Mrs Ched McCaskill and her daughter visited Prescott. Mr and Mrs Glen Eley were Hope visitors this week.
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J. J. Bruce
Delight
Lavelle
Ethel
Vernice
Bruce
Carl Brown
H. M. Stephens
H. M. Stephens Jr
Texarkana
Horace Lay
Amity
Glen Coker
Coy Cummins
Tune Arrington
Lola Brace
H. M. Stephens, Jr
Burton Harris
Pressott
Inez Shoffner
Nashville
Huddleston
Sarah Louise Gentry
Miss Landers
E. Gentry
Siey Bros
St. Louis
Olvis Stokes
Hope
Ched McCaskill
Prescott
Glen Eley
North Hempstead Farmers Busy With Seeding Plans
Farmers in the northern county section have spent ten days preparing land for a new crop. Fence corners were cleared and rebuilt, hundreds of acres opened for cultivation, and many plan to plant more garden crops this season than in years past, with no single crop expected to dominate.
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North Hempstead County
Planting Trucks In McCaskill Area Boosts Spring Turnips and Radishes
Bert Scott, grower and shipper in the McCaskill area, leads a week of soil prep for spring turnips mustard and radishes. Other local growers are also preparing crops with expectations of sizable yet modest truck patch plantings. Radish crops have long been a leading truck line in this region.
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Bert Scott
McCaskill
To Rebuild Church Destroyed By Fire
A new church is being erected in Walkiceburg township Willisville Baptist church two miles northwest of Blevins in Wallaceburg community that burned last June. Framing is up walls nearly complete and the fuel is nearing completion. Volunteers build for free labor. completed church about one thousand dollars value. Rev. R. Patterson pastor. deacons Carl Zumalt and Addl Rivers. Finance committee Alice House Walter Jobson Mrs J M Byrons Fern Nivens Addl Rivers. Building committee Burton Harris M Byrtom Guy Nivens W L House. One of the township’s old churches with a large current membership. After the fire worship continued in Blevins Baptist church and Mage tonia Methodist Protestant until their own church is ready for use.
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Walkiceburg
Willisville
Blev Ins
2. C. Patterson
Clurch
Carl Zumalt
Adil Rivers
Alice House
Walter Jobson
J. M. Byrons
Fern Nivens
Addl Rivers
Burton Harris
M. Byrtom
Guy Nivens
W. L. House
Blevins
Magetonia Methodist Protestant
Cveu
Railroad Company Repairing Bridges Near Harvest Time
A force of workers is repairing bridges along the Prescott and Northwestern railroad in Howard and North Hempstead counties. New piling is driven and other repairs are made to ready the line for the harvest season.
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Prescott and Norths Western Railroad
Howard
North Hempstead
Ginger Volliver Starts Junior Club at Red Thrush Mill Rush
Ginger Volliver conceives a exclusive Junior County Club in Red Thrush to save youths from boredom. Phil Tolliver invites Bard Holloway as a guest artist while Mill Rush labor accelerates with abundant volunteers. The scene shifts to interior renovations and design ideas for a grand artist's house with plans for portraits and staged rooms.
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Red Thrash
Lows
Ella 'Volliver
Abe
Mil Rum
U-acre
Aod
Overhawl
Fornt
Phil van Bogen
Levant
Tie Club
Volliver
Paria
Holloway
Ginger
Sdena
Yatilea
Tollivern
Phil
Hamill
Vmn
Bard
Tiloger
Oo Palater
Adeed
Lido
Bard Holloway
Mill Rush
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IM. Stephens, Jr
Trip
Raids Aid Charity
M. G. Crane
Ozan
M’caskill
Tokio
Sweet Home News
Smother Blevins
Sy Cowan
Weller
Aid
Red Cross
John Barton Payne
Payne
Brown Plant Farm
Church
Joints
Yokum
Selphone
Reid
Beck
Bryson Honea
J. H. Atkins
J. J. Foster
Coy Smith
Ray Nivens
Cyrus Hanea
Bob Bonds
Miss Dot Nolen
Nelson & Company
Aha
Jake
Patty
Greenwich Village
Gloser
Guyser
Eve
Mra
Carter
Mire
Tle
Sincs
Jasuitna
Bare
Fkr
Lauseuse
Tor
Cafe de la Palz
Papa Pilgrim
Gloger
Wurde
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