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Newspaper
Stamford American
Location
Stamford, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1941
Page
2
Stamford launches a town wide cleanup with free hauling of garbage and weeds this week. A new July 1 trash disposal system in the business district will be city supervised but paid by local businesses. Citizens are urged to cut weeds and keep trash in proper containers.
Lueders Boy Scout Troop met Thursday night at the Scout hut with assistant scoutmaster Joe Delwaide. They discussed a fishing trip and served ice cream. Present were Wayne Burgeson Frank Taylor Stanley Williams Bennie Fickle David Rushing Kenneth Webb Carroll Webb Calvin Sides Durwood Webb Jimmie Dillard Billie Dillard Jerry Helmer Jack Henderson Joe Quackenbush Stanley Herrick.
Private Francis W. Lieb of Brooks Field San Antonio visited his parents Mr and Mrs Henry Lieb for several days. He enlisted with volunteers in the Air Corps on May first and serves in the 156 Squadron Division stationed at Brooks Field. The Get-To-Get Club met at Miss Mae Stifflemire's home with Mrs Ralph Herrick and Mae Dodgen directing games. Sandwiches and iced tea were served. Attendees included Mrs Vada Ledger Cora Carter Leon Counts and B F Modgling Bill Goff Ralph.
Mae Dodgen, R Vanderford, Glenn Stanford and many neighbors are noted visiting relatives from Abilene to Stamford. Weddings in Ozona include Miss Totsy Roberson and Fred Haggelstein. Shipp visits Gladewater, Berry reunion in Fort Worth with 57 descendants, and a Baptist Workers Conference at Boyds Chapel.
Stamford area residents share visits and trips to Abilene Dallas Merkel Spur Lubbock and Dallas. Families attend church park dedications and a sewing ware demonstration while several members travel for operations, medical care, or to visit relatives across Tex as and nearby towns.
Rockdale residents Mr. and Mrs. William Chandler of Oklahoma spent Wednesday and Wednesday night with their aunt Mrs. M. M. Cobb and her husband and uncle Tull Newcomb and his wife. Mrs. E. D. Williams visited her sister near Haskell recently. Mr. and Mrs. Von Cobb and daughters Jean and Mary Von, Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Fox and daughter Betty went to Eastland to visit relatives Sunday. Mrs. John Ivy came home from
The father of Lee Armour of this city died Thursday afternoon in Petrolia and was buried Saturday. Armour attended the funeral after traveling to Petrolia. The elderly man had lived here with Mr and Mrs Armour years earlier. Mrs Lee Armour remains ill in a Rotan hospital and could not attend. Four Hill County Egg Marketing Association members reported March sales totaling 381.38 an average 95.34.
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