Hollis Post-Herald and the Sunday Times from Hollis, Oklahoma • 1

HOLLIS POST-HERALD Published in the Interest of Harmon County and Southwest Oklahoma FIRST with the NEWS! VOLTJME Started With the Town and lias Dean Oara Ever Slnml Honk Harmon County Okla MONDAY MAY 19 1947 NUMBER 342 Shrewder Died Suddenly Thursday 930 The hands of fate move in a striking and incomprehensive aimer Late last Wednesday evening desiring to get the length of time Shewdcr has resided in Gould and Harmon county the reporter for this newspaper went to what had just been acquired as their home in Hollis at the cor- Alumni Parade A Big Event Is The Intention Alton Coppage chairman and Petty jr of the Alumni parade committee have arranged the following schedule for the big festivities June ti Parade starts promptly at 200 o'clock from the Hollis high school The theme of the floats will be Comic Strip characters and rises Mill be given First prize $500 second prize thiid (prize $200 The Hollis high school band in charge of Prof Georgie Will-son will lead the parade Members of the Hollis High equipment he has bought is one (Wednesday morning of this week May 21 promptly at 8 o'clock or maybe a little earlier Machen opens up hi grocery store in the building lie has been using as his Home Equipment store where he proposes to conduct a Reduction Sale" pending the tini the store he has recently tak- en over former location of Motley-Price grocery with ket is being romplete new fixtures Mr Ma- rheii announces that among the Dr Husband Is Purchaser The Commerce Bldg The Post-Herald is authorized to announce that Dr Husband is the purchaser of the building formerly used as the National Bank of Commerce corner First Street and Broadway We are also authorized that an application signed by five Harmon county citizens has been sent to the national bank examiner for a national charter and that the new bank if established will be known as the First National Bank Unconfirmed reports are that officials connecteil with the national bank department will be in Hollis within the next fuw weeks to examine and report on the need or desirability for a second bank in Hollis Complete confidence is expressed by several business people of Hollis that the bank will be established early this summer Mrs R' Bryant Funeral Services Held Sunday Funeral services were conducted for Mrs II Bryant Sunday afternoon May IS at the First Baptist church in Hollis with Rev Richard Hopper pastor in charge Claudya Felton Bryant was born June 7 1SSD at Tyler Texas and died at the family home near Hollis Saturday morning May 17 1917 Mrs Bryant had been in poor health for several months The Bryant family has made their home in Iluimon county for a number of years where tin- have e-rnei a place of respect with everyone who knew them Mrs Bryant was loved by her family and friends for her patience and her desire to be of service to others Survivors include the husband Bryant- Hollis two daughters Mrs Merle Hundley Hollis Miss Elouise Bryant also of Hollis two sisters Mrs Minnie Bennett Mertev Texas and -Mrs Emma Fer- i Corsicana Texas one theiner of Jones and lth streets Mar-1 Carpenters were still busy com-remodeled pleting remodeling of the house and there was scaffolding a-cross the front of the building so we did not try to enter the asked to see chair he Gould replied and in of the most up-to-date meat ca ses that can be had The parti tinn on the east side of the building will be removed with the Servel Electric refrigerat ors Bendix washers and other household appliances arranged on the east side and to the rear of the store New shelving I we carried the little item will be placed on the east side The LEADER of May 15 to the front for grocery display stands There will also be a new checking counter We feel sure that people who happen to want groceries this week will find some very attractive Bargains at the tMa-chen Grocery house although we were 1 0 come a nd the hack door We could Mr Shewder sitting in a and we asked him how long had been a resident of and the county He readily to our questions Thursday Mr Shrewder arose as usual and was to go back over to that day had been about house and out in the yard was seized with a heart about 9:30 -nd died almost The reporter PASSING In REVIEW Dripping from the Editorial Pen Wixe and Otherwise Maybe there are people about over the 7th Congressional DU trict who will recall that we had quite a lively political cam paign on several months a go well back nearly a year ago over who was to represent this district in the Congress of the United Slates and that it fin ally tapered down to where one Victor Wickersham and I'reston Peden were contending fur the honor to be the candidate of the democratic party or at least it was called the democratic party and finally Peden won the race and then he and one who had the temerity or maybe we ought to say the gall to ask the people of the 7th district to vote for him as the representa tive in Congress from this district As a matter of fact with an estimated less than 3000 people in the district registered as republicans Warren White drew over 9000 votes However it lacked a lot of being enough to put him in Congress and so Preston Peden was sent as the 7th district representative (During the last several months there has been very little said about the representative from the Seventh district except that every now and then somebody might ask "Has anybody neard anything about Peden since Congress Or "Has the 7th district really got a representative in Congress or has he gone back to Germany or what has happened to In response to these questions we replied that we believe Peden is really in Washington because two or three months ago we received a sterotyped letter to the effect that we were to re ceive coipies of the Congresslon al and if has been coming right along and we have a pale of them over there in the corner that would fill two or three bushel baskets We carried a notice in the papers to the effect that anybody wanting to look over one of those voluminous affairs could get them here at the print shop and so far there has been one lone citizen of Harmon county call and ask to see a copy But there is other evidence that Preston Peden is in Washington We know Just how much the government now allows for clerk hiret but we know it is plenty and Peden has hit on the Men of sending out a weekly letter from Washington telling what Congress is doing or something along that line We surmise that the approaching election that is not so many months off has prompted Preston to start these letters out from Washington at this time daughter Jo Ann Hundley -Hollis also survives Pall bearers were Tom Whj ton Paul Metcalf Homer Young Treadway Swaim and George Shanks The many losers were in charge of friends of the family Burial was in Fairmount with Coley's in charge of arrangements SUPERINTENDENT had preparing Gould th and attack immediately had been in the shop all forenoon and the papers about all printed when notified Shrewder had was one 1 of of Harmon moved here in Territory In when Dryden community Mr been appointed In that capacity years Thirty-he moved to School Alumni Association are expecting the largest crowd they have had for several years The response to the thousand or more invitations sent out has been fine Each class is expected to notify Alton Coppage or Petty jr as to the Comic Strip character they will use Please do this at once as active plans are now under way for this great day in Hollis JUNE SIXTH! Miss Ida (Madden president of the Alumni Association has listed the following as members of the various committees: Initiation: Don Groves Danny Adams Rita and Phil Bryant Parade Alton Coppage i Petty Jr Registration Sybil Adams Geraldine Metcalf Mrs Edwards Naomi Ruth Patton Tom Briscoe (Finance: Gale Hollis Ola Petrie Chester Caswell 'Hospitality: Lillian Margaret Petty Spradlin Dance Decorations: Orville Scruggs Jones jr Lillian Coppage Eva Lynch Husband Kathryn Day Fanny May Hendrick Arrangements Frank Burns Leon Hides Mart Adams Na dine Jones Grace Hill Program! Ruth Johnson Maurine Motley Maxine Fulton Publicity: Jane Watson Irene Pickens Claude Ingram Gibbons Was Buried In Gould Sunday Elmer Eugene Gibbons ian Diego a former resident of county was buriec Sunday afternoon May 18 in the Gould cemetery Funeral services were conducted at at the Gould Church of Christ with Minister Walter iBryan of Hollis in charge Mr Gibbons was born September 6 1896 at Montague Texas coming to Harmon county when just a small boy He had continued to make his home near Gould until about six years ago when the family moved to California IMr Gibbons' father the late I Gibbons was one of the xfirat--county commissioners in Harmon county at the time of his death May 9 Mr Gibbons was fifty years eight months and three days of age Survivors are two sons Murray Gibbons and Murrell Gibbons four sisters Mrs Teakell Sayre Mrs Blassingame San IDiego Mrs Ava Ragsdale Sayre Mrs Nora Mrs Clifft Died Sunday Nightj Services Tuesday Mrs Clifft wife of the pastor of the Nazarene 'church in Hollis died Sunday afternoon May 18 after serious illness of several weeks Funeral services will be held Tues-liseven years ago at mid-afternon that Mr died that morning Shrewder the early settlers county having 1898 from Indian the early days waS 'a thriving Shrewder had postmaster serving for seven day May 20 at the Nazarsfte church in Hollis at 3:00 Survivors include he husband seven daughters three sons moth er ten grandchildren and a nuiriber of I past year He brothers and sisters Burial city marshall will be in the Harmon Ellis County Oklahoma cemetery Funeral Drectors are in charge of arrangements Gould- where groceryman poultry dealer hatchery business he just peace and Gould Just a few Mrs Shrewder 'X-: he has been coal feed and and also the which busln-ness relinquished the also served as justice of the deputy sheriff In weeks ago Mr and decided to move to Hollis and had bought the house at the corner of Jonea and Sixth street and was having it remodeled and carpenters were syif busy at the house with the remodeling work when death claimed Mr Shrewder (Mr Shrewder had arose Thursday morning and enjoyed his breakfast and had con-just south of templated going to Gould that Broadway Grocery bought! day to mingle with his friends Spradlin Is Back In Garage Biz Today the 19th Sprad-in has 'launched his own garage and machine shop Mr Spradlin has leased a part of the lots Turner Oregon Pall bearers were Woodrow Gibbons and Ray Gibbons both CLOSE MAY zs of -Gould Mack Kunow Mar- The Dodson school will close gum Leonard Teakell Sayre tieir work Friday May Melvin Teakell Gould and Ray 23 Superintendent Ragsdale Fort Worth on has announced over there Just prior to the time he died he had gone out (for a short -walk returning he sat down in a chair on the porch later being observed by Mrs Abernethy who lives next door south sitting in a building formerly used by Vade Henson and moved it to lots During the last several days Mr Spradlin has been receiving machinery of various kinds to properly equip his shop He announces that he will charge of ar- ment exercises for the five sen iors will be held Thursday eve- 0 ning May 22 The members of DRYDEN CEMETERY class are Ruby Cornelius ASSOCIATION MEETING Betty Stanley Erma Dell Rol- FRIDAY MAY 30TH lins Darvin Chrisco and Har- Members of the Dryden Ceme- old Darby Baccalaureate' ser-tery Association and all others vices were held Sunday May interested in the Dryden ceme- 18 The eighth grade graduates tery will please meet at Dryden will receive their diplomas for a business meeting at Hi Tuesday May 20 am Friday May 30 iMr Lennon was recently re-There will be a reorganization i elected as superintendent of of the Association and other the Dodson schools He reports matters attended to Let us not (a very successful school year forget Memorial Day May 30 I Hudson secretary I fry A Want Ad Pleas in a position to give the peo-1 peculiar position Mrs Aberne- thy notified workmen who were busy on the south and east side of the Shrewder horse The workmen rushed to his chair and removed him to the house and fitter a few short breathe he was dead Funeral rites were held -Sunday forenoon at the Methodist church In Gould with the pastor Rev Jones offictat-ting assisted by Rev Dan Green Friends and relatives from a large area were present with the auditorium being filed to capacity with scores standing outside Burial -was in ple of this territory the same sort of business the Spradlin) shop has rendered over a period of 25 years McLaughlin who has! ieen at Borger Texas the past several months has returned Hollis and has accepted a position with Mr Spradlin and we are sure this concern is now ready to serve their customers with the necessary mechanical) needs they may desire O- MRS HERBERT FATHER AIR VANHORN DIED AT HOBART 15TII Addresses of Former Graduates Wanted RAY CLAIBORNE Supt Ray Claiborne ia bringing to a successful close another year of the Hollis School system This is the second year in Hollis for Mr Claiborne who was with the Jackson County schools before coming to Hollis Superintendent Claiborne has been ably assisted by the following high school instructors: Brecheen Georgie Willson Fred Cunningham Joe Bailey Metcalf Mary Gillentine Mrs Georgie Willson IMrs Leon Thomas Mrs Rear Miss Opal Zadoka Miss Lillie Smith Mrs Year-gan Mrs Cecil Luker Miss Irma Younger Instructors in the Hollis grade school are: Miss Sallie Gillentine Miss Gladys Setllff Mrs Raymond Barry Mrs Brecheen Mrs Ray Claiborne Mrs Ira Sumrall Mrs Aber Mrs Arthur Johnson Mrs Lloyd Curry Mrs Cunningham Mrs Charlie Younger Mrs Gillen tine Mrs Ewing -0 tVESTVIEW SCHOOL CLOSES MAY 23RD The Westview school under the cabable direction of A Beverage superintendent will bring its 1946-47 term of school to a close Friday May 23 Baccalaureate was Sunday afternoon May 18 at the high school auditorium Rev Bill Brace pastor of the Antioch Baptist church brought the message Commmmnecement for the seniors will be held Thursday night May 22 at 8 Ten seniors are scheduled to receive diplomas 0 The Best Telegraphy Flashing a ray of sunshine into a gloomy heart the Dryden cemetery under the John an horn father of Mrs direction of the Tims funeral Herbert Covin died at Hobart home of Altus If you will take the time to read first attempt to "explain to the through the columns of the country press you will note that he fully justifies the support this country is giving Greece and Turkey in the matter of credits and and we presume if they get into war with Russia be a lot of lend-Iease ships airplanes food anJ ammunition and finally five or six million men along with a lot of Waves and Wacs Now it may be necessary to take those measures NOW and not wait until after the war has started ana Russia has nearly all the rest of Europe and maybe Asia too practically beat to death before we get started We are frank to say that we would have to know more about the problem of loaning money or anything else to Greece and Turkey or any oaher nation on earth before we would know just what action to take in supporting a movement to enter into an agreement to finance their present government We are confident of this: That America cannot affor) (SEE NO PAGE 8) Fields Howard Oliver Harold Pyron Mary Spence Harvey Messamore Artie Sanderson Inez Sumpter Billye Ruth Thompson Trixie Jo Ticer Wray Burgett Truett Sheriff Ralph Teague Beulah Duvall Ruth Hobbs Marie Patterson Ruby Boyett Madeline Shrader Boyd Avis Teague John McVickers Frank Rhodes Mildred Hamilton Minnie Redwine Glen Witham Roe Biddy Canned Hatton Idell TeIor Clarence Ilavnaer Merilyn Roberts Helena Isbell 1939 Mae McEwen Myrtle Lampkin Folks if you know the present address of any of the above please notify Mrs Petty Jr or Mrs Carl Sexton AT ONCE No doubt some of the names have changed and in that rase please rive the present name and address There are a number of former graduates of the Hollis high school whom the membership committee have been unable to learn their present address in fact there is a total of over 50 in 13 years of the school Surely there are people in Harmon county who know the addresses of a number of these Hollis graduates and those knowing the addresses of any of the following will please notify Mrs Petty Jr or Mrs Carl Sexton 1916 Corene Burton Stockton Myrtle Beck 1917 Hugh Tucker 1918 Ethel Russell Davis Ruby Jones Dickey Howard Walker Lucile Dickey Katherine Watts Helen Wiley 1920 Aubre Alexander Lo-rene Hamilton Ruby Little Orson Smith inter Watts May-nie Walker Velma Hodge 1921 Lola Wooten Newell Curry Zelma hursday May 15th according to word received in Hollis Mr Vanhorn formerly lived in Hol-lia when the Covin family was residents of this city He came here from Kentucky and made many friends while in Hollis Funeral services were held in Hobart at the Methodist church Friday afternoon May 16 Catholic Hospital Gets GUTHRIE Okla (UJ9 Mrs Laura Clubb of Kaw City who recently gave most of her art collection to the Philbrook art center at Tkilsa has donated a Immediate survivors are the wife Airs Dale Shrewder two daughters and one son The daughters are Mrs Edith Ilend-ley and Mrs Bertha Moore Amarillo The son is Ted Shrewder Gould at present Taking bis home at Amarillo There are 2 half sisters Mrs Janie Smith Lubbock Texas and Mrs Mary Anderson Hollis The half brothers are Jamea Fatterson Kermit California Herbert Patterson Brownfield Texas and Charles Patterson Hollis Grandchildren include Shrewder Hendley Port Ilueneme Calif Joe Jr Minona and copy of De Vinci's "Last Hendlqy Amarillo Jo to the Catholic hospital I Ann Moore Amarillo Thomas Were I (SEE NO 5-PAGE P).