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Newspaper
Stamford American
Location
Stamford, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1940
Page
4
Sergeant Carl A. Corley has been transferred from Ran a Field to Brooks Field and cannot return home for Christmas, he informed his parents Mr. and Mrs. Chas Corley.
Rain and mud sweep Rockdale with ice earlier. school buses struggled on frozen ground and evenings in mud. Local residents attend meetings visit kin and miss football banquet due to weather while several families host guests and move plans noted. Many residents report colds and croup minor illness among children.
Miss Eileen Smith of Austin plans a visit with her brother A. J. Smith Jr and family next week. Mrs Robert Wier of Little Rock has been visiting relatives and Mr Smith drove her to Austin Tuesday. L C Dennis and Rev L D Hull made an ambulance trip to Dallas Wednesday bringing back J A McCuistion who has been in a hospital.
Miss Elizabeth Pace a Stephens College student in Columbia Missouri is due to arrive later this week to visit her grandparents Mr and Mrs J B Smith. She will also visit relatives in Lubbock and Wichita Falls during a three week vacation period.
Reverend Dick O'Brien, pastor of the First Baptist Church, is confined to bed with an attack of flu. The illness keeps him from services and church duties as members pray for his recovery.
Miss Peggy Elliott and Mrs Parker Gardner will entertain with a bridge gathering Thursday night, December. The event promises card play and social chat among friends in a local setting.
F. E. Upshaw of Upshaw and Upshaw and Dick Davis of the W. B. Tayman firm attended a district meeting of the Texas Association of Insurance agents at Mineral Wells Thursday of last week. In a quiz contest they won silver dollars by answering questions on insurance.
John Earl Bounds son of Mrs J E Bounds of this city completed an Air Corps course in engineering and operations at Lowry Technical and Supply School in Denver Colorado Bounds enlisted in the Air Corps from Abilene January 13 1940 and was stationed at McChord Field Tacoma Washington before transfer to Denver He is a Stamford High School graduate and attended Hardin Simmons University in Abilene for two years
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