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Newspaper
Silsbee Bee
Location
Silsbee, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1962
Page
2
Local residents exchange visits with family in Hartsburg Shreveport and Evadale. Alaska mission plans for Ericksons noted. Baptism at Menard Creek reported. Hospital and revival events listed. Community members travel between Evadale Kountze and Saratoga for family and church activities.
Spent weekends with relatives and visits across Beaumont Houston Mississippi and Fort Hood. Mr and Mrs Mann Collins of Houston and Mr and Mrs Morris Rhodes with children Dwight Anthony Vira and Morris Jr visited Bob Bailey Sunday. Cecil J Collins and Mrs Jeff Davis and son were seen visiting kin in Houston and Mississippi. Jesse Jackson from Fort Hood returned home with a friend for the weekend.
A Hardin County filing lists numerous deeds and releases involving banks, trust deeds, assignments, partial releases, and oil and mineral leases. Parties include Ken First National Bank of Jasper, Peoples State Bank of Kountze, Texaco Inc., Veteran s Land Board, and the Board of Church Extension of the Methodist Church among others, detailing various warr deeds, deeds of trust, and lease amendments.
The RA Olympics at Lamar College Beaumont saw First Baptist RAs place third. Six local boys qualified for the State Olympics: Reggie Madison Lonnie Beard Bill Bellenger Gerald Walker James Collins Don Hawthorne. Central Baptist Port Arthur won first with Fletcher Emanuel second. local councillors were Gene Barnes Jesse Sanchez Rodney Silverberg.
The junior and intermediate GAs of Woodrow Baptist Church will hold coronation services Wednesday at 8 p.m. at the church with twenty three girls participating. Mrs. E. J. Ferguson directs the ceremony and leads the event. A banquet precedes it Tuesday at 6:45 p.m. with guest speaker Miss Avenelle Lumpkin of the Good Will Center Port Arthur.
A grateful note thanks everyone for flowers ecards prayers and kind deeds during a recent illness and hospital stay attributed to Mrs. John Eason.
Community notices list weekly events and visits from the Texas Library Bookmobile with stop times at Milner’s store and J. M. Bowman’s Loeb office. Local births, hospital updates, sports results from Chance-Loeb volleyball, visits by relatives, church activities, and charity gatherings are summarized with names and places.
First Presbyterian Church Silsbee outlines Christian Family Life as the adult program focus. Five families attend a Friday family camp at iCamp Cho-yeh in Livingston directed by Mr and Mrs Herbert Couture. Worships and adult studies proceed Sunday with speaker Weeks Crawford on The Adolescent and the family. Mother’s Day theme in the morning. Confession of Faith study at 7 p.m.. May 16 worknight planned with 5:30 p.m. start and Women of the Church serving supper at 7 p.m.
Funeral services for Everett Raymond Cowart 64 a Beaumont YMCA resident who died Tuesday at Marine Hospital Galveston will be held at 430 p m today at St John s Episcopal Church Silsbee with Rev Grant Herbst officiating Burial will be in Hooks Cemetery south of Kountze under the direction of Farmer Funeral Home Cowart a Mississippi native was a marine engineer for the Pure Oil Company at Nederland He had no known survivors
Miss Sally Dee Cole of Silsbee has been elected to the Student Congress at Baylor University as a freshman majoring in marketing with minors in English French and math. She is daughter of Mr and Mrs Clyde E Cole of 104 Bowers.
Katherine Cawley of Silsbee High School will be honored at a Coke party Saturday afternoon at Mrs. N G Ferrell’s home. Colors maroon and white decorate the event. Twenty nine classmates have been invited.
Luther Cooper and Jehovah Witnesses from Silsbee return home after attending a convention at the D E R A Building in Orange with 1 105 in attendance. Three new congregations linked to Louisiana Circuit are formed.
The Marion Walton Music Studio will present advanced and high school age piano and voice pupils in a recital Saturday night May 12 at 7 30. Ten pupils will perform and the public is invited to attend.
The Silsbee Tiger baseball and track teams were hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Everett Reeves at the Best Maid Drive in Wednes day night May 2 following the Victor baseball game. Coaches Tony Rothrock and Chief Dauphin assisted with the event.
Evadale School has been chosen by the Texas Education Agency to participate in a pilot project on school property accounting. The letter from J A Anderson states the project will help develop general guidelines for Texas schools and the state commission on school plant services. Superintendent E C Nash will confirm Evadale’s participation.
Miss Wanda Roebuck a 1962 graduate of Silsbee High School was honored with a tea at the home of Mrs Wayne Dowden on April 30. Fifteen guests attended with Miss Joyce Lakey assisting. Maroon and white colors dressed the decor.
The Kathleen Jones WMU circle of Friendship Baptist Church met Tuesday morning at Mrs. Sam Pate’s home with eight members. Mrs Pate led the business session. The program titled Life of Mildred Wilcox a Missionary was presented. The next meeting is set for Tuesday at 1 p m at Mrs Pete Smallwood’s home.
Women of Woodrow Baptist Church gathered May 1 at Mrs O L Westmoreland home for a Bible and Race mission study lesson led by Mrs Lona Nix. A covered dish luncheon followed at noon.
Mrs Smith thanks friends for flowers cards visits and prayers during illness. Special thanks to Rev Bateman and Woodrow Baptist Church. Signed Mr and Mrs Tom Smith.
Mothers and grandmothers of the Jolly Blue Birds were honored with a Mother's Day Tea hosted by leader Mrs. C. F. Walker. Twenty three guests attended and each mother received a gift made by the group’s girls.
The children performed a song titled On Children’s Holiday directed by Mrs. W. L. Weiss. Refreshments were served after the event. Jane David, scribe.
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