Local church leaders reflect on missions and mourn a child
Rev Lindsey Evans of Port Arthur led the Foreign Missions program at Church of God while condolences go to the Loftin Stewart and Thrasher families on the death of Laura Thrasher in a Feb 9 fire. Funeral services were held in Dayton on Feb 11.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lindsey Evans
Port Arthur
Church of God
A. W. Loftin
W. T. Stewart
E. L. Thrasher
Laura Thrasher
Dayton
Lewis D. Thrasher
Houston
Shirley Swearingen
Test Shows Squirrels Survive Without Water In Dry Periods
Parks official Bill Wright reports a 1972 study of two squirrel pens. One had continuous drinking water. the other did not. Body weights showed no significant difference, suggesting squirrels obtain moisture from their natural diet and survive short water scarcities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Wright
Parks and Wildter
Life Department
Silsbee
Wright
Local Families Visit Distant Relatives This Week
H. A. Hooks Jr. of Nederland spent the day with his parents H. A. Hooks Sr. Mrs. Peggy Bogue visited by Mrs. H. P. Herrington. Z. E. Shaw’s family visited Center and Baytown relatives. P. O. Eason and family attended Assembly of God Church in Honey Island where Eason, a retired minister, delivered the message.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dottie Jean Kelly
Z. FE I Shaw
Wand
W. E Easley
Linda Sanders Kent
Kim
Humble
Z. FE
Shaw
Sanders
W. P. Burnette
Melanie
Jimmy Love
Shanna
Norman Stewart
Baton Rouge, la
Orangefield
John Boykin Sr
Howard Hartnett
Lufkin
Farr Harris
Beaumont
John Jr
Huckaby
J. C. Fisher
Mike Plake
Randy Sean Phelps
St. Elizabeth Hospital
Randall Phelps Sr
A. L. Wortham
Woodcrest Methodist
E. M. Stewart
Hamilton
George Mitchell Sr
Peggy Bogue
H. P. Herrington
H. A. Hooks Jr
Nederland
H. A. Hooks Sr
Z. FE. Shaw
Jim Brittian
Center
Alf Shaw
Baytown
P. O. Eason
Assembly of God Church of
Honey Island
Mr. Eason
Paul Krebs
Houston
R. Phelps Jr
Jack Smith
van Brown
Jasper
Tommy Beard
Harlan Adams
G. L. Gibson
Mary E. Moore
Phelps Sr
Opelousas
Lafayette
W. T. Ricks
Artesian Acres
James N. “Jim” Holland
Swearingen
Warren
W. B. Daniel
A. A. Ainsworth
Ss. A. Johnson
John McKenney
Crd. Bendy
Ellen Bendy
Henry Clausen
Clausen
McKenney
R. S. Masterson
Beaumont Hospital
Othey Lamay
Lumberton
Baptist Hospital
David Long
Terry Dale
Freddie Landry
B. R. Robertson
Conroe
B. Reynolds
Billy Mitchell
Pasadena
G. Mitchell
Hamilton Nursing Home
Dolly Gore
St Elizabeth Hospital
Leon Goutreaux
Kountze Memorial Hospital
Eun
First American Woman Flies Solo in 1910
Blanche Stuart Scott became the first American woman to make a public airplane flight. A pupil of Glenn Curtiss, she soloed on October 23, 1910 at the Driving Park in Fort Wayne Indiana, piloting an Ely aircraft to an altitude of 12 feet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blanche Stuart Scott
Glenn Curtiss
Driving Park
Fort Wayne
Ind
Ely
Lumberton School Menus and Local Community Notes
The Lumberton school menu for the week lists beef tips with rice, seafood patties, veal cutlets, fried chicken, and hamburgers with sides and desserts. Local community notices cover a Bluebird group mothers meeting for a father s daughter banquet planning, hospital updates, visits from relatives, and upcoming church and WMU activities with several residents noted for recent hospital stays and travel plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. C. Charlie
Lamberton
O. D. Hamilton Jr
B P W Club Dinner Meeting in Beaumont
The Silsbee Business and Professional Women's Club meets tonight at 7 30 at J and J Steakhouse in Beaumont for a business session. Woman of the Year Mrs Jet tie Jewett and Young Career Woman Miss Dagma Rudisaille plus Miss Kay Christian, scholarship recipient, will be honored. Members will turn in funds raised from recent project sales, publicity chair Celeste Johnson says.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silsbee Business and Professional Women’s Club
J & J Steakhouse
Beaumont
Jettie Jewett
Dagma Rudisaille
Kay Christian
Celeste Johnson
Ipublicity
Chili Supper At Lumberton To Benefit Band
The Lumberton Band Boosters host a chili supper on Saturday Feb 24 from 5 to 8 pm in the high school cafeteria. Proceeds fund the band trip to San Antonio in April for a parade. Meals include chili with rice or beans, dessert and drinks extra, and takeout served if a container is provided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lumberton
San Antonio
J. H Rozeman
Great Wall Built in Third Century B C
A historical note states that China’s Great Wall was constructed in the third century B C. It highlights the ancient fortification’s early origins and significance in defending northern frontiers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
B. C
Took Ether for Anesthesia One of First Surgeries
Doce Dr Crawford W Long was the first surgeon to use ether to render a patient unconscious during an operation on James Venable in Jefferson Georgia on March 30 1842 marking a landmark in medical anesthesia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crawford W. Long
Long
James Venable
Jefferson
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Texas
Willie Burnette
Love
Stewart
Ray Bailey
Hardin
Winnie Brackin
W. F. Perkins
Kountze Hospital
Marie Bell
Dubois
Katherine Loftin
J. EB. Perkins
Shepherd
Mir
Dwight Marcantell
Shannon
New Caney
Perry Vass
Deborah Cook
James Marcontell
Tyler
Teresa Cassity
David Marcontell
Ermond Marcontell
Tim
Diane
Nick Swearingen
Clyde Swearingen
Laurie Boudreaux
Porfey
C. H. Brackin
Harvey Warren
Crockett
Estelle Bean
David Bean
John David
Wotaw
Lucille Eason
Treaumont
Register’s Bakery
North Fourth Street
Herbert Drake
Sour Lake
Silshee
T. F. Jeffcoat
Bee 3Ranch
Ark
Joyner
Herrother
Conrad Hueckaby
Vietnam
Army
Fort. Meade
First Baptist Church
O. R. Rowe
J. P. Owen
W. B. Jackson
Louis Palmer
Southwestern Bell
Marcie
Louis Paulk
G. W. Caywoods
Luther Williams
Harvey Williams
E. J. Hale
R. R. Paxton
R. Phelps Sr
B&pw Club
Elaine Gore
Nas
Thane Foam
Sealy
Posturepedic
Sealy Golden Guard
Jsouy
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