Christmas Wishes From The Locker Community
Christmas greetings to News staff and readers. Mr and Mrs Walter Smith of Richland visited in uncle Eric Cochran's home. J D Phillips and family spent Sunday with daughter Mrs Daleo Pool near Richland Springs. Cas Wells Bill Edwarda and grandpa Finch of Bethel were visitors in Locker Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Smith
Richland
Eric Cochran
J. d. Phillips
Daleo Pool
Richland Springs
Cas Wells
Bill
Edwarda
Grandpa Finch
Bethel
Locker notes and Christmas gatherings in Locker Texas area
Local column details visits from Clarence Maxcie and others in Richland Springs and Locker. Cattle shipments, orchard work, and Masonic hall repairs are noted along with social events including a Spanish social at Bob Cochran's and a Christmas program at the Locker Baptist church. Mentions of Miss Jessie Cochran ill and visitors from San Saba, San Antonio, Carlsbad, and Missouri.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence Maxcie
Richland Springs
Earl
Parks
Elmer Harria
Roland
Oscar Taylor
Ben Locklear
Jessie Cochran
D. B. Walker
Brownwood
Leonard Boyer
Miles
Free Masons
Carrell Locker
Masonic Hall
Jim Shaw
Brady
S. EB
Wiley
Dick Hamrick
Abernathy
Irene
Clara B. Owens
San Saba
Weaver Thomas
San Antonio
Thomas
J. A. Stovall
Ronald Edmondson
Carlsbad
Wharton
Ronald
Locker
Bob Cochran
Aulba Cochran
Miss Aulba
Bill Shelton
Daughter
Colorado River
Baptist Church
Santa Claus
Lon Shelton
That Guy McGuffey and memory of old readers
In a letter, the writer recalls a November Satur day Evening Post piece on That Guy McGuffey and the McGuffey readers. He recalls school days at Rock Shoals and Richland Springs with orator students like W N Ellis Jim Baker and Billie Smith performing pieces from the readers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billie
Saturday Evening Post
Guy McGuffey
McGuffey
Rock Shoals
Richland Springs
Jim Baker
Billie Smith
Henry I
England
Rock Shoals School
Reading material in McGuffey readers praised by Hart
In a brief note J. H. Hart claims the higher McGuffey readers, though not literary masterpieces, were largely filled with classic articles and a broad range of reading material. He asserts the variety and quality of content found in these instructional texts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McGuffey
J. H. Hart
The Unknown Teacher Tribute by Henry Van Dyke
Dr Henry Van Dyke praised the Unknown Teacher in a Sesqui Centennial Phi Beta Kappa address at William and Mary College Virginia. He described the teacher as one who wins wars with knowledge by guiding youth, enduring obscurity, and awakening sleeping spirits through patient duty and the light of learning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry van Dyke
Phi Beta Kappa
William and Mary College
Virginia
Unknown Teacher Honored in Child Welfare Magazine
A tribute extols the Unknown Teacher, praising knowledge gained from books yet transmitted through personal contact. The article lauds the teacher as the Republic’s most deserving, a monarch of self and servant to humanity in a democratic society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Republic
Washington Jury System Attacked by Blanton
Congressman Blanton of Texas demanded congressional scrutiny of the jury system in Washington over jury tampering charges from the Fall Sinclair trial. He argued juries nationwide are guarded by officers, but in the capital an important case was left unguarded, as Burns detectives reportedly sought contracts with panel member Edward J. Kidwell Jr. in the Teapot Dome conspiracy proceedings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congressman Blanton
Washington
Sinclair
House
Blanton
Texas
Congress
Union
Black Draught Praised By Neosho Reader For Constipation Relief
Mr. F. M. Huntley of Neosho Missouri credits Black Draught with curing long standing constipation. He says reading in the Ladies Birthday Almanac led him to try it, and a course cleansed his system. He reports quick relief from headaches and poison related pains and continues to use small doses when constipated. Costa only cant a dose.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. M. Huntley
Neosho
Costa
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Une
New York
Chicago
New York City
Wagenhall & Kemper
the Bat
Business Directory
O. M. Walters
Graham Hotel
Brownwood, Texan
J. L. Dailey
Murray Building
West Side Public Square
Jos. Greer Hng
Gray E. L
J. R
F. R. Gray Law and Real Estate
San Saba, Texas
B. T. Rich
John Seiders
Jas. H. Baker Law, Land, Loan and Abstract Office
C. M. Oliver
Clark Building
Virginia Coffey
Carrie Coffey
Richland High School
Jodie Coffey
J.W. Neal
W. W. Byford
Eckert House
Mr. Byford
Hervie Maxcey
Burr Barnett
Milburn
H. G. Barnett
Jodia Coffey
Locker Turkey
Locker Boys
Lockerites
Missouri
Mary E. Fullbright
Marshfield
J. W. Robbins
McMillan
Fullbright
Robbis
Ed Jenkins
Pip & Cigarette
Candy Kodak
L. A. Skaggs
Rexall
J. W. Cummins
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