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Newspaper
Wellington Leader
Location
Wellington, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1934
Page
4
The author muses on the new year 1985, urging optimism and steady effort in Collingsworth County. He notes readers’ loyalty, jokes about critics, and observes changes in personal attitudes toward individuality. A Christmas memory section precedes a sample of Douglas Meador’s writing about Christmas joys and hardships.
The Wellington Council reports strong advancement with 122 Scouts to Second Class, 58 to First Class, 33 to Star, 8 to Life, 5 to Eagle, and 4 Eagle Palms. Thirty Courts of Honor have been held, 242 merit badges issued, covering topics from agriculture to zoology, with 15 counties serving a wide area and many community projects supported.
Plymouth Boy game details note two safeties and a 19 to 4 Las Vegas win. John Montgomery, then employed on the Boulder Dam, visited his mother Mrs. S. W. Montgomery of Plymouth.
The Medical Society program includes Dr. R.A. Duncan of Amarillo presenting a paper on Acute Mastoditis and Dr. W. Calvin Jones discussing Laboratory Aids Available to the General Practitioner as listed in The Leader Want Ads.
Schools in the Samnorwood district closed Tuesday afternoon so teachers could attend the funeral of Raymond Powell’s father. Several staff and families traveled to nearby towns for holidays and Christmas programs were held at Sumnerwood with buses returning for trees.
Inmates at Gollingsworth County jail shared a Christmas dinner with chicken dressing and trimmings. Relatives traveled from distant towns, including Oklahoma, to attend the meal marking a homelike holiday observance.
District supervisor outlines an eight section census form with one hundred questions covering farm tenure acreage land value and yields. Directors emphasize cooperation due to 1920s drought and depression while noting the 1925 census act pressure and penalties for noncompliance.
A Christmas party committee led by Reb Gillentine and members W. Y. Burden Eugene Vaughan Dewey Bliss and Tom Johnston arranged a Community Tree program aiding those who would otherwise miss gifts.
Burlin Lindley of Union Oklahoma, with Ruby Price from Damascus Arkansas, honored at services that included hymns Shall We Gather At The River and Where We Will Never Grow Old. Pallbearers included Joe Richard son William Neeley Oswald Ross Herbert Duncan Luther Thompson Amon Elliott. Interment Wellington Cemetery Saturday by Ellis Funeral Home. An orange Texas farm reports an old mule that eats very young chicks.
C. W. Roberts recently renewed his subscription and expressed that some say they cannot do without the Leader. He has been taking it since it started in 1909.
The event featured Kay Gets Adapted a pantomime from Plymouth group a short play monologue and Christmas Carol Aberdeen Brown group singing readings Little Santa Prairie View group Christmas carols and readings by Lutie group carols and rhythm band by Nicholson group Christmas in other lands Abra group Christmas story and operette by Dozier group.
Jones has served four years as commissioner Claude McKinney will succeed George T Corry as sheriff Mr Corry has served in this capacity for the past two years Herschel Wright will take the post as constable of Precinct No 1 Other county officials who will remain in the old positions are Luther Gribbie county judge Hunter Sims county treasurer Bill Goforth district clerk Jack 2B Deahl county attorney P W Myers justice of peace Precinct No 1 J D Hill commissioner Precinct No 1 W C Ketner commissioner Precinct No 8 Mart F Hunter commissioner Precinct No 9 gy
The article recalls Texas Republic law restricting freeing slaves without Congress consent and notes Texas as a slaveholding territory that stirred northern opposition during its push for admission to the United States.
Wellington Girl, granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. McDowell, was the sole prize winner in a contest open to seventh grade students across the Panhandle of Texas. The prize totaled $1, with several hundred students entering.
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