Community events fill Buna church and lodge programs
The First Baptist Church children’s choirs perform seasonal music with 126 total members aged four to 12. Buna Volunteer Fire Department hosts a Christmas party at 7 p.m. Dec 19 in the old Buna High School gym, with Santa and stockings. The Buna Masonic Lodge No 1095 marks 50 years with a dinner and a master’s degree. Buna Chapter No 968 Eastern Star assisted. Buna Professional Women’s Club meets 7:30 p.m. Thursday at East Texas State Bank Community Room with Imogene Burke as president and hostess Ben Ellison. Royal Ambassadors and counselors of the First Church are involved.
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East Texas State Bank
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Leo Patterson
Methodist
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East Texas college visit noted by local groups
Baptist Church members toured East Texas Baptist College during a Saturday trip to Marshall. The Buna Lions Club met Thursday with guest speaker Henry J. LeBlanc, who spoke on Operation Whitetail and a deer hunting club near San Augustine. Buna Garden Club sponsors a Christmas decoration contest with three prize categories and $5 first prize.
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Buna community calendar highlights and upcoming events
The Buna area lists contest entries due December 20 for a display with prizes and notes a busy December at First Baptist Church. It covers church missions activities, Christmas programs, choir cantata Night of Miracle, Lottie Moon Offering goal of 1450, student Day, Watch Night service, Buna PTA meeting December 21, and various local family and social happenings.
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1856 Jasper County home linked to national figures
A long readable column notes a white frame house built in 1856 by Colonel R. C. Doom in Jasper County owned by U S Rep Jack Brooks. It recalls visits by Rayburn and Johnson, with Johnson delivering a porch speech. It lists Christmas towns in East Texas and invites readers to share farm hog killing stories for a feature.
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