Chance-Fletcher News and Community Notes
Community church events in Fletcher Emanuel Baptist Church include stewardship clinic on Monday January 31 led by O D Martin and a special music solo by Miss Kathi McQuire from Beau mont. Beok mobile set dates February 10 and 24 at Pop Milner's Grocery and Service Station and at Kingburger and Silsbee Beaumont highway. Obituaries notice K J Read died January 25 in Hardin Memorial Hospital. Gilmore Walton died January 20 at age 70. funeral February 2 at Fletcher Emanuel Baptist Church. Surviving family includes Ida Walton and three children. Numerous local visits, birthdays and school events noted including Valentine Sweetheart Banquet February 11 at Chance-Loeb School and multiple social visits. Fletcher-Loeb Home Demonstration Club members and officers listed with district meeting plans for March 31 in Orange. High school graduate earns notably more than those with less schooling, per local data.
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Fletcher Emanuel Baptist Church
O. D. Martin
Kathi McQuire
Beaumont
Chance-Loeb
Pop Milner’s
Kingburger
Gilmore Walton
Mr. Walton
Chance Community
Fletcher, Emanuel Baptist Church
Henry Shettles
D. B. Pattillo Jr
Mary Mazaret
Fort Park
Pvt
Kenneth
U.S. Army
Sue Pattillo
Rose Marie Williams
Sue
Jack Bates
Chance - Loeb
Jentine School
F. B. Selman
Houston
Henry Pickering
C. L. Waters
Denise
Houson
W. B. Waters
Waters
iClyde Waters
Woodville
Kit Roberts
Kountze
D. B. Pattillo
A. E. Pickering
Sidney Davis
Orange
Clayburn
Sarah Jane Holton
Fletcher - Loeb Home
W. A. Davis
Woodcrest
W. A. Wright
Jack Tar
I. M. Butler
Court House
Fletcher- Loeb Club
Wright
Langham
Jordan
Gulf States
Paul Keith
Silsbee
Beauty’s pull grows in city rules on private property
A public service piece notes a eastern city’s front lawn clothesline ban faced court challenges. The text traces how safety and health justify regulation, while beauty gains legal weight, with judges reporting growing respect for aesthetics in municipal rules. It cites varied state approaches and quotes a judge on taste not being taboo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Bar Association
State Bar of Texas
Will Bernard
Beetle Damage Down As Texas Landowners Cope With Pest
Cooperation by woodland owners in Southeast Texas and use of the Forest Pest Control Act reduced Southern pine beetle damage in 1965. About 2,000 infested spots were found, with over 1,600 infested by beetles. The affected area covers over 2,900,000 acres across Hardin, Jasper, Liberty, Newton, Orange, Polk, San Jacinto, and Tyler counties. The beetles killed an estimated 3.5 million board feet of pine sawtimber. most control work was done by landowners, with a few reimbursing the Texas Forest Service. Periodic surveys will continue as spring revival is expected.
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Texas
Leroy Williamson
Texas Forest Service
Hardin
Jasper
Liberty
Newton
Orange
Polk
San Jacinto
Tyler
William
Bere
Williamson
IRS Tax Questions and Answers for Individual Filers
This IRS column answers frequent federal tax questions. Key points include signing returns, not deducting cigarette taxes, income recognition rules for checks, rounding figures, deducting charitable gifts of furniture, handling Form 1099 interest, scholarships and dependents, W-2 timing, and dividend exclusions on joint returns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. Internal Revenue Service
IRS
Internal Revenue Office
Aluminum foil mulch boosts crop yields up to fivefold
Commissioner John C. White reports foil mulching with squash, cucumbers, and cantaloupes can raise yields up to five times over unmulched crops. Developed by USDA entomologist Floyd F. Smith, the foil repels aphids, protects against disease carriers, and costs about $200 per acre. In tests squash yielded 8107 lb per acre vs 1462 on unprotected plots. plastic mulch at $65 per acre was far less effective.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John C. White
White
Floyd F. Smith
United State’s Department of Agriculture
Meditation from The World's Widest Used Devotional Guide
A compact daily meditation from a globally popular devotional guide presents a reflective practice. It invites readers to pause, breathe, and consider a guiding verse, fostering calm focus and spiritual intention for the day.
Suffering and faith strengthen Trudeau’s medical path
The Upper Room reflects on how suffering tests and builds faith. Edward Trudeau pursued medicine, contracted tuberculosis, moved to Adirondacks, befriended others who suffered, then organized a tuberculosis lab. The piece urges gratitude for life and uses Trudeau as example of endurance serving God.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Trudeau
Adirondack Mountains
Trudeau
Christ
God
Baptists to Hold Sweetheart Banquet
The annual Sweetheart Banquet will be Feb 10 at 7 p m in the First Baptist Church recreational hall. Theme is Buttons and Beans with James Bradford pastor of Loeb church as guest speaker. Steve Jordan, son of L G Jordan, will be master of ceremonies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carolyn Sue Fuller
Larry Edward Wilkinson
Warren
First Baptist Church
Loeb
J. P. Owens
N. G. Young
Young
E. L. Wilkinson
Houston
Lamar State College of Technology
Hallsville
Marshall
Texas
East Texas Baptist College
James Bradford
the Baptist Church
Steve Jordan
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Fletcher News
Read
K. J. Read
Hardin Memorial Hospital
Walton
Ida Walton
Wanda Davis
Marion of
David Gilmore
Oklahoma City
Josey Townsend
Ronnie Glasscock
Bertie Townsend
Jessie Walton
A. E. Templeton
Office OF Optometry
Chumley
North 4Th Street
Efex Typewriter & Supply Service
North Fifth St. Silsbee
Paneliay
A. E. Read Co
W. E
Pete” Flanagan
Ilsbee
Phe
Crawford C. Martin
Mary Mae Hartley
Texas Press Messenger
Texas Press Association
Stephen F. Austin
Baptists
L. G. Jordan
Bartmess
Bartmess & CO
Beaumont Highway
10Th Street
Highway 327
Hillsdale Peaches
Quaker’s Best
Blackburn’s Special Syrup
Whole Haas
Atc
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