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Newspaper
Wellington Leader
Location
Wellington, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1937
Page
5
A Weather-related crop loss creates uncertainty for farmers seeking 1947 agricultural program payments. Officials clarified that eligibility depends on soil conservation and planting rules, even if cotton or food crops were not fully seeded, allowing continued class one payments without penalties for unmet acreage targets.
Rev. Percy Gray announces the Northwest Texas Colored Methodist Episcopal District Conference will convene in Wellington on Wednesday June 23. It is the first such event here with prominent Southern colored church leaders attending. A section will be reserved for white attendees with meetings each afternoon and night. principal speaker Dr. P. J. Lewis of Jackson Tennessee will deliver the sermon.
Frank Kline Pose of the American Legion will elect officers on Thursday July 1 at Legion Hall Wiley Whitley Post Commander announced. All post members are urged to attend the voting. Installation will follow later.
The Samnerwood School district plans tuberculin testing and typhoid serum along with diphtheria toxoid for students. Superintendent E G Sanders states the tests and serums will be free, provided by the State Department of Health, with distribution set for June 80 at 1 oblock near Samnerwood High School.
Wellington's colored population celebrated Emancipation Day with a day off for all workers. Many attended a Shamrock barbeque and ball game while others dressed in their best for the occasion. The notice hints at proposals to improve local conditions.
Two carloads of bran will be sent to the county to back the grasshopper poisoning campaign. W K Cattingame announced the plan with federal cooperation through the County Agent's office. Sodium arsenite has arrived in eight drums totaling 446 gallons, with more to follow. Mixing of the poison, supervised by A B Smith, occurs in the afternoons.
Parsons Drug Co. completed installation of a Frigidaire fountain unit replacing the longtime regular fountain. The upgrade doubles refrigeration space and expands flavor options, with Sandy Parsons Jr. noting improved service for Wellington during hot months.
The first bale of 1937 cotton, ginned in Star County, arrived in Corpus Christi on June 15. Francisco Perez To cane, a Star County farmer, wins the $500 prize paid by a local cotton company for the third consecutive year for placing the first bale on the Corpus Christi cotton exchange floor. Rio Grande City is the county seat of Star County.
Dodsonville hosts its annual Singing Convention on June 28 and 27 drawing thousands from the Fanhandle. The Stamps Quartet of Dallas and A B Wills and quartet from Memphis headline the event led by B F Cook.
Baldwin, formerly of Wellington and now of Heen River Wyoming, is visiting his parents Mr. and Mrs. J T Baldwin this week. He works in the geological Department of Standard Oil Co and studied at Wellington Schools and Texas Tech, later teaching in rural areas.
A central committee was formed by the American Legion Kiwanis Club and Old Settlers Association to plan a joint rodeo, old timers reunion, and Toad opening celebration in early August. Members include L. A. Manzer, Ben Hurst, Luther Gribble, Mart Hunter, Ernest Winn, Lee Cr. O'Neil, Desiring Wells, and Kenneth Blackledge with Maud Bond W. W. Whitley and Mrs. W. O. Richards in leadership roles.
Collingsworth County Library adds four new non fiction titles. Deserts of the March by Paul B Sears examines soil erosion. Blue Book of Social Usage by Emily Post. How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie is a popular second copy. The Return to Religion by Henry Link.
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