Silsbee Tigers Tangle With Cleveland Indians In Final 1957 Tilt
The Silsbee Tigers host the Cleveland Indians in the last 1957 football game after a string of close losses. Victor Pirates edged Silsbee 21 to 20 last Friday as Pat Day starred with rushing passing and kicking. Poland and Day did most scoring for Victor while Silsbee's Parker Poland and Gordon sparked late drives. The Tigers battled hard despite injuries to Billy Barclay and missed chances in the final minutes.
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Silsbee Tigers
Cleveland Indians
Tigers
Pat Day
Victor Pirates
Victor
Parker
Poland
Tiger
Silsbee
Marvin Gordon
Larry Cleveland
McMahon
Vidor
Day
Arnold
Turk
Johnny Johnson
Barr
Conner
Edwin Hughes
Commissioner Payne Moves To Halt Dumping
Commissioner Payne urges policing of trash dumping along roads in Hardin County precinct 1 including Silsbee. He notes dumping within 300 yards of public roads is unlawful and calls for citizen cooperation, with punitive action for violations. Two cases filed. M. G. Barr fined 10 dollars plus costs, Leon Humble fined the same.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hardin County
Silsbee
Frank Payne
Payne
Justice of the Peace
Louis Sellers
M. G. Barr
Leon Humble
Commissioner Payne
Sellers
Episcopal Women Plan Christmas Bazaar at St John’s Church
The Womans Auxiliary of St. John's Episcopal Church announces their annual spaghetti supper and Christmas bazaar on Thursday November 21 from six to eight PM at the Episcopal Church on Roosevelt Drive Extension. Tickets are available from any member or by calling Mrs. George Tennison at EV 5-2547.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Episcopal Church
Roosevelt Drive
George Tennison
Mrs Jessie Burrows Visits Romayor Relatives This Week
Mrs Jessie Burrows is visiting relatives in Romayor this week. The small town greeting highlights a travel visit by a local resident and plans to reconnect with family during the current week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jessie Burrows
Romayor
Woodrow Baptists Observe Forty Fifth Anniversary Sunday
Woodrow Baptist Church marks its 45th anniversary with homecoming and a ground breaking for a $45,000 building program on Sunday November 17. Morning services include a basket lunch dinner on the grounds and afternoon groundbreaking. Rev. B G Roberts invites members former members and friends to attend.
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Woodrow Baptists
Woodrow Baptist Church
W. P. Grow
M. G. van Winkle
W. B. Miller
Lena Nantz
Hot Check Passers Hit Hard In Court Trials
In Hardin county court this week four offenders pleaded guilty to hot check charges. Sherman Johnson received six months in jail with potential five months probation on restitution. A G Holman Houston Elam and J J Edwards were fined one dollar plus costs. Deputy Dave Rountree reported 17 offenders in the weekly arrests including one forgery five worthless checks one traffic and ten drunks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hardin
Sherman Johnson
A. G. Holman
Houston Elam
J. J. Edwards
Fletcher Richardson
Dave Rountree
Singing Scheduled For Caney Head Church
Caney Head Church north of Silsbee will host a singing Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m. led by Uncle Fess Jones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caney Head Church
Fess” Jones
Silsbee
Downpour Floods Silsbee Streets After Two-Hour Rain
Torrents dumped 3.78 inches on Silsbee causing north end flooding on Fifth Street and Payne Road. Cars drowned, schools dismissed, tornado alert in effect till 6 PM. Police directed traffic, heavy rain eased by 5 PM as waters receded.
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Silsbee
North End
Bee
North Fifth Street
Payne Road
Seaman Drive
Dainwood Drive
Fifth
Jefferson
Hardin
Tyler
Grady Tarver
Albert Sharp
Pete Farmer Appointed to Silsbee School Board
James FE. Pete Farmer was appointed Wednesday night to fill the unexpired term of Frank Caskey on the Silsbee Independent School District board of trustees. Caskey resigned by letter after being transferred to Columbus, Texas. Farmer notified by School Supt Don Hough.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James FE
Pete” Farmer
Frank Caskey
Silsbee Independent School District Board of Trustees
Caskey
Sinclair Oil) and Gas Co
Columbus
Tex
Farmer
Don Hough
America's Arts and Skills book sent by Jim Pitt of New York
A note from Jim Pitt of New York accompanies the Time Inc publicity gift, a newly published book by E. P. Dutton titled Americas Arts and Skills. The Life editors produced it from a century and a half of American crafts and tools. It features over 250 full color illustrations and traces U S cultural tradition from the 17th century to today. The writer praises Pitt’s energy and kindness and mentions Pitt is a native Texan and UT graduate who also writes books. Pitt visits Silsbee periodically and stays in touch through letters.
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Jim Pitt
New York
Inc
America
E. P. Dutton
Life
U. S
Time, Inc
University of Texas
Silsbee
Jim
Shamrock
Houston
California
Time Publications
City Grants Free Parking on Dec 23 and 24 in Silsbee
Silsbee city council voted to allow free parking in downtown on Monday and Tuesday, December 23 and 24, with meters not enforced to aid Christmas shopping. The move follows a Merchants Chamber request. Saturday had already been set free, totaling three shopping days. The meeting also tabled dog running restrictions and read a first draft on private water line hookups.
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Silsbee
Retail Merchants Committee
The
Chamber of Commerce
Silsbee merchants plan Christmas promotion with prizes
Silsbee retail merchants, via the chamber of commerce committee, push a Christmas promotion offering cash prizes. From Nov 23 to Dec 21 on Saturday afternoons, prizes include a $50 first prize and two $25 second prizes. A Christmas parade led by Santa Claus is set for Nov 30 at 2 p.m. Pete Farmer and H. C. Hopkins coordinate the effort.
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Silsbee Retail Merchants Committee
Chamber of Commerce
Silsbee
Santa Claus
Pete Farmer
H. C. Hopkins
VFW Auxiliary Plans Hospital Aid and Visit
The VFW Auxiliary met with 11 members present at Mrs. R. B. Marshalls home. President Mrs. Eugenia Nixon led plans to aid a needy family and to fund hospital supplies. They will visit Veterans Hospital in Houston on November 24 and hold the next meeting December 9.
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VFW
R. B. Marshall
Eugenia Nixon
Veterans Hospital
Houston
County Courthouse Bidding And Eastern Star Appointments
The county plans a $1.5 million Hardin County courthouse with bids advertised for structural steel elevators rail equipment plumbing and electrical work due by December 11 for subcontracts and December 18 for general bids. Eastern Star appoints Mary Katherine Prather deputy grand matron of District 4 Section 2 and she will visit 18 towns and lead a School of Instructions March 8.
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Mary Katherine Prather
Order of the Eastern Star
School of Instructions
Woodcrest
Loeb
C. K. Strand
John Hefflefinger
Sour Lake
Tom Burch
Earl Stover
Birdwell Stores Founder Buried in Lufkin Sunday
Funeral services for Boyce Birdwell 46 founder of Birdwell Department Stores were held at 2 pm Sunday at Woodville Methodist Church. He died Saturday in Tyler county hospital after years of illness. Birdwell began as a Lufkin service station operator in 1932 and built a chain with stores in Silsbee Corrigan Woodville and other East Texas towns. He was a member of First Methodist Woodville Rotary chamber of commerce Magnolia Masonic Lodge and El Mina Shrine. Masonic graveside rites followed in Garden of Memories Lufkin with pallbearers named.
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Boyce Birdwell
Birdwell Department Stores
Woodville Methodist Church
Leroy Williams
Charles Godbey
Birdwell
Tyler County Hospital
Lufkin
East Texas
Silsbee
Corrigan
Woodville
Birdwell Department Store
First Methodist Church of
Rotary Club
Chamber of Commerce
Franklin Self Stationed In Alaska Set
Army Sgt. Franklin C. Self, wife Emma and parents Mr. and Mrs. John D. Self of Rt. 1 Silsbee, have arrived in Alaska and joined Headquarters, U S Army Alaska at Fort Richardson. Self entered the Army in 1948 and trained at Fort Chaffee Arkansas after Stark High School in Orange.
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Army
Franklin C. Self
Emma
John D. Self
Rt. 1
Silsbee
Alaska
Headquarters
U. S. Army
Fort Richardson
Self
Fort Chaffee
Ark
Stark High School
Orange
Two Area Crashes Hospitalize Three Sunday-Monday
A Silsbee crash Sunday afternoon injured three people including Mrs. Lon Hicks who suffered a broken hip and fractured skull after a collision at Lord and Ave L. She was hospitalized in Beaumont after transport from Hardin County. A second wreck near Spurger injured Jasper men R C Byerly and Charles E Bridges, both hospitalized in Beaumont with skull fractures, broken limbs, and internal injuries after their car struck a rear of a truck.
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Silsbee
Spurger
Lon Hicks
David Cook Jr
Lord and
Ave. L
Cook
Jasper
Baptist Hospital
R. C. Byerly
Charles E Bridges
Tennison
Farmer
Beaumont Hospital
Byerly
Bridges
Hopkins To Attend East Texas Short Course In Tyler
H C Hopkins manager of the Silsbee Chamber of Commerce will attend the thirteenth annual East Texas Short Course for local chamber executives and office secretaries in Tyler on November 14 and 15. The event is sponsored by the East Texas Chamber of Commerce in cooperation with the Chamber of Commerce Managers and Secretaries Association of East Texas. The program, themed You Your Family and Your Profession, covers basic office management personnel finances public relations and community liaison led by Rollie Rand executive vice president of the Shreveport Chamber and Gordon Rose assistant manager of the Longview Chamber.
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H.C. Hopkins
Silsbee Chamber of Commerce
East Texas
Tyler
East Texas Chamber of Commerce
Chamber of Commerce Managers and Secretaries Association of
Fast Texas
Herman Brown
Rollie R. Rand
Shreveport Chamber of Commerce
Gordon Rose
Longview Chamber
Parent-Teachers To Meet Tuesday At 3 30
Susbee Parent-Teacher Association will meet next Tuesday after noon November 19 at 3:30 in the high school auditorium. Mrs Theresa Singletarys homemaking class will present a style show.
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Susbee Parent-Teacher Association
Theresa Singletary
Baptist leaders attend Texas convention in Fort Worth
Rev. R. E. Barclay pastor of the First Baptist Church and B. R. Walker are noted attendees at the Baptist General Convention of Texas held in Fort Worth last week.
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R. E. Barclay
First Baptist Church
B. R. Walker
Baptist General Convention of Texas
Fort Worth
Also Mentioned on This Page
E. S. Marsh
Santa Fe
Kirby Lumber Corporation
Kirby
Mr. Marsh
A. W. Dainwood
Kirby Mill
O. H. Osborn
Galveston
FE. B. Brown
Lon Tigers
Cleveland I
Day and Co
Wilton Netterville
Douglas Arnold
Johnny Barr
Billy Poland
Mike McMahon
Episcopal Women
David Read
Pratter
Eastern Star
Dallas
Grand Chapter of
Texas Order of the Eastern Star
Anahuac
First Methodist Church
Sinclair Oil Company
Birdwell Stores
Franklin
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