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Newspaper
Silsbee Bee
Location
Silsbee, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1975
Page
6
Mr and Mrs Samuel E Hester celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary with an open house Sunday at 2 30 p m at 410 South 17th Street Hester is retired from Go drich Gulf in Port Neches Their children will host the occasion
Funeral services for Mary W. Shepherd 87 of Orange were held at 1 p.m. Sept. 7 at Farmer Funeral Home with burial at Prospect Cemetery Timpson Rev R Eugene Jonte officiated She died Sept. 5 at Jones Rest Home in Orange She was born in Center and lived mainly in Silsbee Survivors include son Jack Shepherd of Silsbee and daughter Mrs Dagma Hood of Orange Pallbearers were Frank Ruch sale Burl Bradshaw Len Mac Clelland Donald P LeGrande Pud Walker and Austin Over land Jr
Silsbee Masonic Lodge No. 295 F and AM invites visiting brethren to the stated meetings on the first and third Tuesday each month at 7 00 p m. The lodge is located on South 15th Street at Avenue J in Silsbee Texas with L K Johnson W M and J D Lane Secretary signing notice
Rev James Hoffpauir pastor of First Baptist Church Timpson will guest speak at Woodrow Baptist Church Sunday at 11 am and 7 pm The Unpardonable Sin will be the evening sermon Bob Randall leads the music program Hoffpauir is a former Woodrow member and South western Seminary graduate Rev Alton Hawk pastors the Woodrow Road church
Evangelist Ken Williams and his wife Alice Williams a Newton singing recording artist will lead a youth revival at Oak Grove Assembly of God Church in Fred from September 14 to 19 with nightly services at 7:00 led by Rev. Frank Williams pastor of the church.
The Parks and Wildlife Commission set duck and goose seasons across Texas with eastern and western splits. Eastern ducks run Nov 1 through Dec 12 and Dec 20 1975 through Jan 18 1976, westward Oct 18 1975 through Jan 18 1976. Goose limits vary by region with a 10 duck daily bag limit and a 100 point system for canvasback and redhead.
G P Pepper of Mobil Oil Beaumont refinery will speak to the Silsbee Kiwanis Club on September 17 at 12 noon at the Silsbee Country Club. He will discuss energy supplies offshore drilling government controls and oil industry profits. Pepper is an 18 year Mobil veteran and Beaumont plant manager with a mechanical engineering degree from Texas A&M.
Paul Dominguez assistant water works plant operator for the City of Silsbee earned a 40 hour laboratory course certificate in sanitary water supplies from Lamar University. The Aug 4 8 course aimed to meet EPA and TWQB monitoring requirements and was presented with a commendation letter from TWQB technician Lewis Boyle of Aus.
County Bond chairman Nelson Long announced July sales of Series E and H United Savings Bonds in Hardin County totaling $28,108 for the seven month period 212,985 achieving 71 percent of the 1975 county goal of 300,000. National figures show Texas monthly sales 20,018,842 and seven month total 140,979,556 reaching 60 percent of a 234.3 million yearly goal.
The United Methodist Church of Village Mills hosts a flea market on Saturday September 13 from 9 am to 4 pm on the church lawn across from the Wildwood entrance. Proceeds aid the church organ fund with items including children's clothes bicycles antiques oil paintings and more as stated by Carolyn Sandford.
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