Interscholastic winsths at Austin Declamation
Lucille LaRoe and Billie Ball won first in declamation at the Interscholastic League meet in Austin. Other notes include medical convention in Dallas, a death in the Layman family, and various local school events and community notices.
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The
Lucille LaRoe
Billie Ball
Austin
R. May
State Medical Association
Dallas
J. R. Layman
John Wilson
J. C. Robinson
R. C. Hoyle
Bob Bane
Walter Keeling
Washita River
Frank Alverson
Commerce Oil Co
Commerce
Tommie Chenoweth
Mary Johnson
Grammar School Graduates and Honors Named
Bokchito Oklahoma residents Claire Doss and Glenda Mae Rutledge will lead the Boswell graduation as valedictorian and salutatorian. Honorable mention goes to Emma Joyce Hinton and Lloyd Stowers for high averages at the ceremony reported in The Glow Worm.
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Bokchito
Okla
Boswell
Claire Doss
Glenda Mae Rutledge
Emma Joyce Hinton
Lloyd Stowers
Efficiency expert funeral gag ends with wheeled casket remark
An efficiency expert dies and a funeral turns into a joke as six pallbearers move the casket. The lid pops open and the dead man sits up to quip that a wheeled casket would let them lay off four workers.
Citations in Grayson County Texas 1956 foreclosure notices
Legal notices from Grayson County Texas issued in April and May 1956 compile two separate blind citations. The first names Ira V. Brooks as plaintiff against many defendants led by George W. McGlothlin over Lot 4 in Block 31 College Park Second Addition Sherman. The second lists August Hock as plaintiff against Dan H. Dumas et al for Lots 19 20 21 in River View Addition Denison.
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State OF
Texas
George W. MecGlothlin
Smith McGlothlin
Jane McGlothlin
William McGlothlin
Thomas Collins
John G. Potts
Louisa EF. Potts
Louisa E. Craddock
Mary E. Brooks
John E. Craddock
A. B. Brooks
R. G. Bell
A. Eliza Hall
Lucius DeSha
Jo BeSha
Julia Ellen Dills
John Dills
Ada Lucas
Joseph Lucas
Ann D. Lucas
J. W. Lucas
Lucius DeSha, Jr
Jack DeSha
Mary C. DeSha
Bessie DeSha
Jo Desha, Jr
Henry DeSha
Maggie DeSha
Robin DeSha
James M. DeSha
Marcus R. DeSha
Claude DeSha
Fannie Duffy
Ben DeSha
Eliza J. DeSha
Nessie DeSha
Hugh C. Duffy
Frank Hicks
R. May
W. M. Scott
C. W. Lewis
C. C. Swindle
B. F. White
J. C. Langley
W. A. Thomas
O. Z. Smith
M. L. Swindle
E. Mackey
G. Bradley
Paul Bradley
Thomas G. Bradley
A. L. Beaty
Albert Hundley
W. B. Cowan
W. W. Collins
John Crerar
William Henry
Mary E. Dugan
E. C. McLean
Richard F. Woods
United Fidelity & Investment Company
Myrtle Hartsell
Greting
A. D
15Th District Court
Grayson County
Court House
Sherman
Ira V. Brooks
George W. McGlothlin
Grayson
College Park
S. V
Earnest
District Court
Nancy Davenport
Whitewright Sun
Dan H. Dumas
T. H. Bowen & CO
Edward Perry
Theotiste
Melanie Perry
Wm. Hughes
Charlotte Hughes
C. H. Tibbs
Serena A. Tibbs
James A.tibbs
Marie E. McLagan
George McLagan
August Hock
Dan H. du
W. Earnest
Negro Migration From The South Continues At 300000 Annually
In Birmingham Alabama experts say Negroes are leaving the South at over 300000 per year. From 1950 to 1954 Florida was the only Southern state that imported more people than it exported. Across ten states 1250000 more left than arrived, mostly Negroes, with Alabama and Mississippi seeing the largest losses.
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Birmingham
Ala
South
Florida
Alabama
Mississippi
Advantages of Early Cotton Planting And Insect Control
COLLEGE STATION Early planted cotton on selected blackland farms in 1955 averaged 321 pounds of lint per acre versus 118 for late planting. Early yields and higher lint value, aided by insect control, yielded about $58 more per acre despite $4.41 higher cost, with one comparison showing early cotton at 400 pounds per acre versus 242 for late.
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College Station
Blackland
Ralph H. Rogers
U. S. Department of Agriculture
C. A. Bonnen
Department of Agricultural Economics
Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
Rogers
Bonnen
Teacher with family seeks summer job advertized locally
An AP Houston report notes a suburban weekly classified ad seeking summer employment for a teacher with a family facing food-related needs. The ad highlights a quick work solution and local job opportunities in the area.
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Houston
Moving Day for Mark Twain as Young Newsman
A San Francisco anecdote recalls Mark Twain with a cigar box under his arm as a woman scolds him for smoking. He evasively quips that he is moving again. The snippet notes lampblack in leather prep and Hamburg's port distance from the sea.
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Mark Twain
San Francisco
Mr. Clemens
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Mark Montgomery
J. H. Hawkins
J. B. Dickson
W. C. Cook
C. S. Witt
Southern Baptist Convention
Maxie Echols
Ida
Neva McMurry
Bells
Byron Sears
Buster Graves
Byron
Tom Turner
Odell
J. E. Turner
Parent-Teacher Association
Grover Gillett
R. A. Gillett
H. T. Atterberry
Isabel Noe
J. T. Vestal
F. M. Echols
Dorothy Tapscott
Velma Lee Cates
C. C. Cates
Whitewright
Weldon Anthony
Wolfe City
Durant
Billie C
W. C. Bailey
David Woodrow Smith
Grover B. Smith
J. Y. Russell
Edith Mae Sears
Dorothy Cummings
Frances Haliburton
William Musser
Katherine Mooneyham
Lula Lee Vestal
Dorothy Tate
Jack Lay
Leon Adams
Dorothy Nicholson
Inez Sampson
Aleta B. Head
Myrtle Coleman
Charles White
Wilma Janway
Ila May
Inez Coffey
Mabel King
Bernard Magar
Dorothy Juan Gillett
Dwight Coley
Eldridge Caylor
Guy Stepp
Grammar School
Betty Lee Jones
Betty Jo Pierce
Betty Jean Brice
Katie Kincaid
Mary Frances Stephens
Russell Ray Summers
Pattie Everheart
Wallace Reeves
LeRoy Martin
Martha Jo Darwin
Robert German
James German
Christine Moore
Ethel Harper
Mary Lee Chaney
Lucile Giles
George Gordon Pope
C. W. Pope
Katherine Davis
L. H. Luck
North Crockett
Stephens & Bryant
Insurance & Real Estate
Clyde B. Robinson
Martha Fortner
Sweetwater
Fortner
Mr. Robinson
Upper Elm-Red Soil Conservation District
Denison
Efficiency
African Congo
Hamburg
Stan
Tire Sale
Olympia
Triple Star
Stan’s Auto Supply
Whitewright, Texas
S. H. Montgomery Agency
San Antonio
Whitewright To
Dallas Austin
Katy
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