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Newspaper
Silsbee Bee
Location
Silsbee, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1957
Page
4
The Silsbee Bee credits R. R. Burgess as composing room foreman and Joe Thompson as printer operator with James Johnson as pressman and Louis Johnson as stereotyper in the composing room staff announcement.
Weekend guests in the Milam Bean and Herman Wright homes included Mr and Mrs J E Taylor of San Francisco California Mrs Rosie Taylor of Victor Mr and Mrs Frank Svajda and family of Sealy Mr and Mrs R E Culbertson and family of Beaumont Mr and Mrs Frank Bean and family of Beaumont Ronnie Bean Ricky and Pat Culbertson stayed a week. Central Baptist Church members are repainting the exterior and plan refinishing the floors after. Sunday marked the first day for pew fund contributions.
Long list of property deeds wills assignments and affidavits filed in Hardin County courthouse from June 24 to 28 1957. Entries include transfers between Hawkins Loftin Wiggins Taff and others with oil mineral lease and releases. Also church and school social items plus local community notices and upcoming events.
A series of birth announcements from Hardin County Hospital in Kountze note newborns on July 13 to 16. Names include Joan Fairchild, Rose Marie Wilson, Wanda Joyce Lewing, Lydia Doris Wingate, and E. J. Jr. Kelly. Parents list spousal names and hometowns San Antonio Fred Honey Island Evadale Sour Lake.
Mrs Jeff Kennedy of Houston hosted Tuesday and Wednesday with Mrs John D Gibson of Baton Rouge visiting in the home of her parents Mr and Mrs J H Richardson. Mr Gibson arrived Wednesday and Mrs Gibson and children will return to Baton Rouge with him Sunday. They will visit friends and relatives in Houston Thursday and Friday.
A ballot card provided in Egypt helps illiterate voters identify candidates with pictorial symbols placed beside each name. The card aims to simplify voting for those who cannot read or write.
East Texas Pulp and Paper Company will hold annual employee picnics Saturday and Sunday July 20 and 21 at Eastex grounds between Silsbee and Kountze. White employees picnic July 20 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Negro employees July 21 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The company sponsors the event with barbecue dinner by Swayze's of Houston, sno cones, games, contests, prizes, and for this year free pony rides and mechanical airplane whirls for children.
Local anglers report multiple 30 pound class catfish from the Neches near Village Creek and near Bolivar jetties. Onlookers share photographs of notable catches and note strong coast fishing with many big trout and large mackerel. The Game and Fish Commission issues pamphlets on catching and cooking catfish and carp, available from Walton Building in Austin.
J M Radley 76 of Sour Lake dies Sunday night in Hardin County Hospital. Funeral held Tuesday at First Methodist Church Sour Lake with burial in Anahuac cemetery under Roberts and Pipkin Brulin Funeral Home. he was a native of Chester Illinois and a former building contractor and Rex Lumber manager. Mrs Evelyn Allen is his daughter, a Silsbee High School teacher.
Lee Miller farms 25 acres north of Silsbee planting Kobe lespedeza on Bermuda-Carpetfrass with heavy fertilizer. He expects to cut hay in a week to feed 20 cattle and prompts interest in free assistance from Lower Neches Soil Conservation District technicians to develop a soil and water conservation plan.
The First Methodist Church will host a church wide ice cream supper in the fellowship hall on July 23 at 7 30 p m with homemade cakes and an old fashioned sing song. Sponsored by the senior Methodist Youth Fellowship, the event invites all, per Mrs John Herbert church secretary.
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