The Gould Democrat from Gould, Oklahoma • 1

IIi6torlcl XX J'X''J walla The Gould Democrat Centrally Located Serving All Harmon County ut rfBi volume NUMBER 4 Ol'IP IIALMON i ll OKLA AUGUST 17 1939 PUBLISHED THURSDAY THE WATCHMAN ON THE JOB Uncle Tom Marks Returns To County One-Variety Cotton Program Fnal Date FORMER GOULD WOMAN DIES AT LUBBOCK 364 ACRES ARE BEING WORKED BY I GOULD CCC LABOR i 1: i tii I- ft 1r The closing date for mi-mlier ship sign up in the One-Variety ci turn program has been set by hi Dallas office as September 1 liVj Since the CCC Camp has been i perating in the Harmon County I-arm Security and Jackson Coun- Anyone having Acala No 8 Uistricts 3640 aces have been signed by cooperating farm-i rs approved by the Supervisors and are being worked at the growing on their farm ol whether the entire crop is is entitled Tom Marks and family have returned to Hollis to live For the pa-t four years Marks lias siued at Stillwater holding the liosition nf "County Agent Hi Iaige" lie will continue with this work with heiidiiiiarters at Hollis The son Harvie will manage the Greenhouse as formally Harvie is to make a numla-r el improvements at the Gieen-hi ufe which will im-Iuile an autn-n eta- heating ty-u-m and re- the sails room regardless Acala or not to a I membership which is free and pil time GCC I can be secured by signing the V' hve been com- RIcQUEEN NEWS By Mrs Walter Smalling Mrs Sat ah II (filbert former wiili-nt of llunniiii county died st hi-1' liiuiie in lubliock Texas li 2:110 in Aujru-l 12 Slie was SI years nf ugi- at the time of In I ileal Mr (iillw-rt ilieil in (K-tulu-r I'MM Mrs Gilbert was born in Kentucky Xeveinlier 4 1847 Her jcri-nts were Mr anil Mis Charier 1 Parkhurst She was to Mr (iilbert in Xovcmiicr 1879 They nmveil from Texas to this haul it in 192 ami setlleil three niles south of Gould She moved to liihlmek ten years oku vkbeie rhe lias since made her home Funeral services were held at till- I try den Methodist church by tiev Bryan of Gould and burial was made in the Diydcn i null ty Mrs Gilbert was a charter Member of the Drydcn Methodist church Mrs Gilbert is survived by three sons and two daughters: George Leslie Gilbert Phoenix City Ala Harry Gilbert Well-iiglon Roy Gilbert Hill Morton Texas Mrs Emma Mills Lubbock Mrs Rhoda Hughes Vinson and a sister Mrs Virginia Jackson Miami Mo and k5 grandchildren NINE COUNTY DISTRICTS FROM S3 SCHOOLS piited on 9200 acres to date I Several additional farms have been signed by cooperating farm-era but are not completed for the signature The Conservation Survey Division have completed maps on approximately 132100 acres Approved plans have been completed and work is being done Thus- who were dinner gu I on the following farms in Har-ii- the Jarvis home Sunday imu County: wen Rev Meadows Audit- Hell Paul Bible Cheatwood Dcrtun Ji yce and Harold John-1 A Welch Crcgg Char-son Jimmie and Addie Smith hi Scaggs Gayle Wooli-y Bill Hickman I In Jackson County the follow-( Roper und A Miranda I ing farms are completed aJ Mrs Thurman Duncan former- being worked: ly Fiancis Jamieson spent last I Onan Perryman week with her mother Mrs Ora Mrs A Perryman Ward Jamieson and Audie Bell Denton Ferryman Arizona Tillman Those who were dinner guests Beanlmnd Carey Cotton 0 in the Cub Thomason home Sun- Binder Tucker Con-day were Mr and Mrs James I ger Miranda and Mr and Mrs Estel I Planning is underway with Mi and Mrs Doyle Jones and I Pennington and children many additional fanners in both children were guests in the Will Charline Carrkk and Ernest I Harmon county Farm Security Junes home of Gould Sunday Miranda spent Sunday with Paul-1 end Jackson County Districts and Mrs Paul McDaniel Jerlene I ine and Son Jarvis I arc being completed and approv- fcrd Martin were visiting Mr Mrs Melba Atchley spent Sun- ed as rapidly as it is possible to nd Mrs Ernest Patrick and day night with Mr and Mrs I handle them family Sunday I Carlos Haught Four crews of approximately Ruby Mae Beanland of Olustee Denzil Rogers spent Sunday 40 men each are working daily spent the weekend with her with John Denton in the field Over 130 applications giandmother Mrs Wiley Scott Those who were dinner guests have been received and approved Peyton Reavis of Phillips Tex- in the Luther Baker home Tues- fur work by the District Super- ss spent a few days visiting in I day were Rev Meadows Mr and I visors the Charles Redelsperger home Mrs Frank Carrick Mrs James Farmers who have been con-Mr and Mrs Will Hunter andl-Viranda Mrs Mathis and Neilltacted to date are' willing to co-' Mona visited Mr and Mrs Homer I Eenton operate almost 100 per cent with Graves and daughter Peggy of I Those who spent Sunday in the I the Soil Conservation Program Hollis Sunday Reed Morris home were Mrs I Mr and Mrs Ellis Ketchereid Vda' H' AIR CONDITIONER children Mr nd Mrs Virgil Mrs Ue Hanes nd baby AIK CUNDI I lUNfcK Ketchersid nd bahy Sirs Sam Mr and Mrs Unie Lanford and jg INSTALLED AT Messenger Grace and Maxine andM and Mra urman SHnw Mr Cheslie Ketchersid all of Mrs Estel Pennington and FREE SHOW Altus visited in the Estill twin Gale and Dale spent Tues home Sunday afternoon Cheslie with Mr8' R' I Due to the lateness of the ar-Ketchersid remained for a short The second Sunday evening vt 0f the air conditioner unit nging was well attended at wu not installed in the con- Meek visited Mr (Brownlow Sunday ventional manner last Saturday Saturday LIid the warm day made the visit Mi end Mrs Fred Giles REVIVAL MEETING WILL CLOSE ON WEDNESDAY Mr and Mrs Ill'll and children visited Mr and Mrs Buil Duncan and children of Altus Friday night Mr and Mrs Othal Edgar ami children of Port Oklahoma visited their parents here and near Hollis Sunday Mr and Mrs Harvey Blake-wiy and children of San Angelo Texas and Mr and Mrs Oscar Truitt and children of Blair visited Mr and Mrs Joe Osburn Sunday afternoon Mr and Mrs Marple and children of Centralvue and Mr and Mrs Bell were dinner guests of Mr and Mrs Bell Sunday Mrs Dickerson and drughters Inez and Alpha Mae and Mr and Mrs Powers if Duke visited Mr and Mrs Giorge Dickerson Sunday Wilce Smalling is very ill this week Ray Halsey of Spearman Texan is visiting his grandparents Mr and Mrs Duncan Mr and Mrs Clyde Cochran rZi children visited Mr and Mrs Williams Jr of Gould Sunday Bro Brecheen of Hollis preached for the Church of Christ Sunday He will return the second Sunday in next month Everyone is urged to attend Mr and Mrs Loyce Woirell Hollis visited Mr and Mrs Mrs Bell is ill this week Mr and Mrs Walter Smalling ami Wayne and Wallace Small-iig visited Mrs Frankie Johnson in the Mangum Hospital Sunday afternoon Mrs Johnson is re-ci-vcting from a tonsil and appendicitis operation Mrs Chisum and Coleene Goodwill are spending this vi-ek with Mr and Mrs Leo Wooldridge Mr and Mrs Will Storman and children cf Abilene Texas returned home Wednesday Af? lli i ii-r urr cf -II ci f'f- k- ll il h- ct 4 ir a i Editor's Note: Writing in the Altus Times-Democrat Mrs Ola Hopkins of Hollis relates the history of diminishing number of Harmon county schools over i period through consolidation re ducing 53 original districts to the present nine large active schools Miss Alice Margaret Hopkins daughter of Dr and Mrs Hopkins teaches in the Gould public schools) Schools arc opening for an other year in Harmon It itself this is a simple state ment but the factors behind it tell of one of the greatest stories cf progress among schools and in school systems to he found in the state By way of background there were 19 school districts in 1937 when Walter Crouch became County Superintendent of schools there had been 32 districts operating clumsily in 1929 and in 1909 when the county was cut off from the old empire of Greer to become a municipality in its own right there were 53 districts Today there are nine districts Springs the first of last week Inht with GradF Coe-Margie Hamilton of Granite pent Tuesday afternoon with OKLAHOMA Capacity audiences are being piesent at each service of the protracted meeting which started under an open air arbor at the Church of Christ Monday night Glen Green minister of the Altus church is doing the preaching end is presenting interesting and instructive lessons on Bible themes The meeting will be brought to a close Wednesday night August 23 Bro Green is due to enter immediately into another meeting at GrandficM Thursday night On Saturday night of this week bio Green has announced that -is subject will be titled "What Commandment In the Bible the Hardest to On Wed resday night the last service of the meeting the subject will be "Second Coming of Christ and the End of the Morning services are conducted in the church auditorium beginn irg promptly at 9:30 Evening services start promptly at- o'clock Regular Bible (insses Sunday morning will begin at 10:00 with preaching at 11:00 followed with communion services Individuals from Hollis Altus Shrewder Martin McQueen and ether surrounding communities have been attending in large rumbers adequately serving the needs cflJtrlene McDaniel Mr and Mrs Prince nLEADS IN SOIL family spent Sunday visiting Ur LnMGrDVATmM and Mrs Graham of Elder- CONStKVA I IOIM presence of the large crowds at the show uncomfortable However three packed houses were accommodated in spite of the heat This week local workmen have completed installation of the unit in the -community building and other conveniences have been arranged to make the building completely air conditioned for the benefit of those who see the free talking picture show at Gould The show starts promptly at 1:30 end continues throughout the afternoon Those who have installed the unit and arranged the building advise that everything is in readiness for Saturday audiences CHILDREN WARNED TO GUARD AGAINST TRAFFIC HAZARDS the children of the entire county Largest of these nine districts is Vinson housed in two buildings and serving 113 square miles the second largest district in the state Only this summer the patrors of Madge district voted to dissolve and combine with Vinson This move took the last one-room school from Harmon county ana began a streamlining pro-pi am that was only culminated ibis month with the consolidation of four small districts into one large new creation Named in honor of Ron Stephens State Works Progress Administrator the district officially known as Numher 12 will seive an area of 55 square miles It absorbs the old districts cf Metcalf Drydcn Teacroxs and McKnight for the education if more than 300 students A' new central building is ueing planned to consist of 15 rooms employing 13 teachers most of whom weie members of the faculties cf the four original schools Second largest district in the county is Gould where students come daily into classes from an aiea of 10 square miles Nineteen teachers are employed under Superintendent Earl Newberry The Loanl comprised of A Harrison Putnam and A Scott is proud of ten modern buses being used in the district end equally proud of the newly added courses in vocational agn-cutuit vrcativnal home fcono- Continued on tack page) edo Among those of this community I Oklahoma still leads all other attending the Review at Lawton I states in the organization of soil Sunday was Mr and Mrs Offie conservation districts Whitmire and family and Mr and There are 31 districts with Mrs Rufus Bryant and family total acreage of 16069146 acres Mr and Mrs Roy Billington which have had the necessary mid chidri-n visited Mr and Mrs Referendum with soil conserva-rhartes Redelsperger and family ti(n receiving a majority of the Sunday I votes cast Mr and Mrs Lee Bybee and I There are 35 states that have Laughter Alleen Ozella and Ed-1 passed the Soil Conservation Diana Williams spent Sunday visit-ltrict law Oklahoma being among ing in the Craddock home I the first One hundred and seven-of Bet hi 1 ity-feur districts in the United Mr and Mrs Rubin Bates of I States have been submitted to a Duke visited in the Huam Wil-1 referendum of the farmers in Hums home this weekend I the districts and have carried Mr and Mrs Fred Ramay I Of these 151 have been complete-Kiba and Budie Kathy Redel-ily organized Other states lead sperger and Milton Dawson were I ing jn the formation of districts guests of Mr and Mrs laic Arkansas Georgia Louisiana Oliver of Eldorado Sunday and Mississippi Each of these Ruby Mae Beanland visited in I states has from ten to thirteen that Charles Redelsperger home I districts organized All the othei Saturday afternoon totes have less than ten Bro and Mrs Plunkett and Fro and Mrs Dentftn were guests of Mr and Mrs Huam Williams Two 4-H Delegate To Wednesday Conservation Caron Della Mae Williams with Mrs Glen Green Sunday afternoon I Harold Reynolds of the West- Sir and Mrs Charles Bedel- vw -H Martin sperger and family visited Mr I0 Lahoma 4-H club will repaid Mrs A McEndrec and nt Harmon county at the family Monday evening Annual Wild Life Conservation Camp to be held at Cratenrille August 2 to August 26 If you have been visiting the I The delegates will be acccm-foLi that is news Tell vs on alpanied by Vaniman Count cst card I Agent Returns From Kansas King of the King Drug store returned Thursday evening from Anthony Kansas where he ittended the funeral of his brother-in-law Dr Brown-Held Dr Brownfield was a practicing physician at Anthony having practiced there for 35 years He is well known in Gould having visited here a number of times Wolf Hunt Enjoyed A large group of men and boys met in the Metcalf community Tuesday morning at 7:30 o'clock and participated in a rousing wolf hunt Individuals present from Dodson and Vtllington Texas and Vinson as well as the immediate community Several wolves were routed from their early morning reposes but none were caught due to the thickness of underbrush in the neighbor Officials of the department of public safety have asked superintendents and principals of common schools throughout the state to warn all children repeatedly at the beginning of the school year to be on guard against rossible violations of the law requiring motorists to stop before iwssing school buses receiving or discharging passengers Terms of a new law which went into effect July 1 require motorists to come to a complete stop before proceeding past a chool bus stopped under the ioiegoing conditions but the department pointed out that it will take time to acquaint the general public with provisions of the law This the department is trying to do through the newspapers rrdio stations and every other cans of disseminating safety duration principles Schools in the southernmost counties of the state opened early WANTED: Any Byrne Graduate who is unemployed Write us at cnee Byrne Commercial College 17C8'i Commerce St- Dallas Texas 32-3c Mrs Frankie Johnson underwent an operation for appendicitis at the Mangum hospital Tuesday of last week She had undergone an operation at the same place for removal of tonsils the week before and was In a weakened condition but she withstood the second illness nicely She is convalescing satisfactorily Mrs Johnson is the daughter of Mr nd Mrs Yates ef Gouli FOR SALE OR Two W00 Byrnes Commercial Col-Ii-gr Dallas scholarships Worth in August and by early Septem-full value on any 910000 course U-r all the common schools will Democrat Office 43-fc have started the new school year i.