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Newspaper

Stamford American

Location

Stamford, Texas, United States of America

Date

Aug 21, 1925

Page

3

Center Point Community Notes and Rain Gloom Lift

Center Point reports a heavy rain Monday and a lively season with good cotton and short feed crops. Rev Read of Rochester leads Baptist services. Sunday School at Centerview at ten. Community boasts improving attendance and upcoming Communities Fair. Local visits span Stamford and Wichita Falls with many relatives and neighbors noted. 187 students in Sunday School with 87 young people in the class.

Read Rochester Centerview Brannon Aspermont Joe Davis Joe Leila Sallie Ruby Morgan N. R. Winkler New Light Terrell Calvin Jeter Ray Greenway Stamford Cleve Phillips M. Morgan Steve Phillips Haskell Mr. Harris Bob Melton Sayles Worth Morgan and Alabama W. L. Morgan J. L. Powell Faye Murray Mary Sue Callie Powell Wichita Falls Center Point M. M. Miller Dallas W. E. Bland Miss Brown Ardmore Oklahoma L. C. Phillips C. M. Morgan Baby Joe Roberts Dalehart Plainview George Hanson Faye Campbell Cutie

Plainview Community Sees Singing and Revival Plans

Sunday evening at the Plainview schoolhouse featured Mr. McIntyre of Bunker Hill leading songs with contributions from Mr. and Mrs. Lois Bland and Mrs. G. D. Payne of Centerview. Attendees included Web Hanson, W. M. Medlin, J. F. Scott and families, and many others from the area. The skating crowd visited Stamford Friday night while Austin Hines of Oklahoma visited family. The Methodist revival is set to begin August 23 at Plainview.

W. M. Medlin J. F. Scott Faye Cambell Tilda Kohort Gracia Brown Janie Harey Ruth Diesman J. W. Frizeell George Hanson Ted Maruer Stamford Austin Hines Oklahoma Vandra Coleman Rule Janie Haney Ted Marury J. V. Frizzell, Jr Mas Tilda Kohout Plainview

Local social notes from Prairie Dog community

Community column details visits and gatherings in Tuxedo and surrounding areas. Names include Clyde Pritchard, M W Jackson, J H Braswell, Stamford trips, Enola Amerson, Ola Maude weeks, A J French home social, J G Whaley family dinners, Carl Mayes singing, cross plains trips, typhoid fever update on Jesse Rutherford, and farewells from Prairie Dog writer.

Brother Short Clyde Pritchard Clydene Helen M. W. Jackson Hamlin J. H. Bra Paul Galey J. G Whaley Joyce Bernice C. P. Amerson Carl Mayes T. L. White Lewie J. F. McCulloch Cross Plaine Smith Reuben Rutherford Olney J. C. Rutherford Mead Lubbock Jesse West Simons Offico FE Gardner C. W. May Claude Walter Tubbe J. EB. Peek Minx M and Evelyn Will Connell R. T. Harvick Vida Amerson Stamford View Towers Aemeruan Waxahachie Prarie

Community Notes From Reed Area Gatherings and Visits

Reid returned home from a visit with relatives in Cisco and Breckenridge. The New Hope and Bethel Singing Classes plan a Sunday evening meeting. A revival at Bethel Church drew many from the area with J. D. Harvey preaching. Visitors included Mrs F B Reid and daughter Ruby Taylor and others from Maryneal Hamlin Fastland Carlsbad Rockdale and Stamford. Miss Bertha Rogers Lillian Ross Lola Ellis and Thelma Reid were among the guests at various gatherings.

R. L. Bushell Mack Sears Sears Chester Duffield Fastland John Sneder Carlsbad the Wright Sam Newcomb Rockdale J. Parsons Iola Hughes Plains Country Pansy

NEW LIGHT smiles over fine weather and social visits

The community notes a pleasant week with church attendance at Bethel. Mr and Mrs August Buske Jr and family visited Stamford Friday while Weldon Young traveled to Anson Saturday. J W Hay and J C Nix went to Stamford. Local youths Ina Rose Darren Ruske joined Ella Cleta and Lula Mae Hay and Vesta Kenderik had supper with Ruth Allen.

Bethel August Buske, Jr Stamford Weldon Young Anson J. W. Hay J. C. Nix Ina Rose Darren Ruske Ella Cleta Lula Mae Hay Vesta Kenderik Ruth Allen

St Luke's Church Protestant Episcopal Services Sunday

Sunday services at eleven in the morning and eight in the evening. The pastor preaches at both. Church School meets at ten each Sunday with capable teachers. Pastor Perty Jones.

ST. Luke's Church Protestant Episcopal Perty Jones

Woodman Circle Picnic At Lueders Park Stamford

The Woodman Circle of Stamford held a Wednesday picnic at Lueders Park with a large Stamford Camp delegation attending. The event highlighted the circle as one of Stamford’s largest and most useful organizations.

Woodman Circle Stamford Lueders Park Colin

New Hope community notes on farming and upcoming fair

Farmers praise timely rains and plow cotton with good prospects. Eva Ellis listed as ill but hoped to recover fast. Families X and Y visit relatives in nearby counties. Social at C N I Say home and watermelon feast draw many. Preparations underway for Stamford Communities Fair around September 15 with secretary J A Loftin coordinating.

the American Eva Ellis J. H. Thompson Comanche County R. L. Bushell Famly Paducah Stamford Chamber of Commerce W. R. Taylor Thelma

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