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Newspaper
Jefferson Jimplecute
Location
Jefferson, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1955
Page
6
The community center will host a covered dish supper at 7 p.m. this Saturday after a failed meeting last Saturday. A basketball game is planned around 5 p.m. Attendance includes Dallas Fair weekend guests and local residents. Rodney Sloan has returned home from Marshall hospital and hopes to attend school next week.
Mr and Mrs Chester Stewart of Texarkana visited Mrs Stewarts aunt Mrs Bonnie Jenkins Tuesday with Mrs Stewart staying longer. Mrs Rosalie Bechtold of Marshall and Mr and Mrs Johnnie Max and family of Linden visited their mother Mrs Nora Max last Sunday.
Lock of Lassater went to Crosby Texas last Saturday. Those visiting in the W C Wicker home Sunday were Mr and Mrs Henry Whitten and baby of Shreveport Mr and Mrs Ben Headrick and children of Jefferson Mr and Mrs Kermit Wicker and children Miss Polly Golden and Fred Tyler of Texarkana and Mr and Mrs Chadd and daughter of Harleton Mrs Maxie Roules of Baton Rouge La has returned to her home after visiting her mother Mrs Lois Sloan and being at the bedside of her brother Rodney Sloan Ms Lioyrd Sloan spent Tuesday with Mrs Jack Webster Mr and Mrs Jack Webster and family visited relatives in Dallas Mr and Mrs Loyd Brown and Janice were in Jefferson last Sat
There were over 920 rural youths at the Dallas State Fair last Saturday October 15. I carried 56 4H Club boys for a day of activities. The USDA lowered the Sweet Potato Crop estimate and prices ranged from 1.25 for No 1 to 0.35 for jumbo crates cost 0.10 per bushel storage. Pittsburg dealers will visit Jefferson for minimum loads. East Texas sweet potatoes are praised as the best in the nation and fetch strong prices in Eastern markets.
Lassater 4-H Club of Marion County won first place in the 1955 Texas Forestry Awards Program. Eylau 4-H of Bowie County took second, Upshur County third, and Dain gerfield 4-H of Morris County fourth. First prize includes $200 plus a scroll and plaque. awards funded by the Sears Roebuck Foundation and Texas Agricultural Extension Service.
Mrs Ray Hogue and her daughter Alice visited Mrs Hogue's parents the Guss Davises in Marshall on Wednesday. The Davises hosted other Marshall visitors Monday night. UPPHUR County placed third in a past event with Daingerfield 4-H Club farm forestry demonstration again earning second in 1954. Sears Forestry Programs aim to teach 4-H members forestry basics, conservation, wildfire protection, and leadership through hands on work across a five year span 1958 58.
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