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The Hamlin Herald from Hamlin, Texas • Page 10

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The Hamlin Heraldi
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Hamlin, Texas
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10
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Page Ten THE HAMLIN HERALD, HAMLIN, JONES COUNTY, TEXAS Friday, April 15, 1949 News From Our Neighbors Events from nearby taken from other papers. I Markham was elected mayor of Stamford last Tuesday in the only contested race I in the city election. Markham was I given 527 votes while W. J. Bryant, his opixment, received 246.

A total I of 74 ballots were cast of a potential 900. third Hardin-Simmons Abilene April 29 to 30. rodeo in D. McAfee. Allie Foster and C.

M. Cooper were elected to the Aspermont city coun- jcil in last Tuesday's election. Only 184 votes were cast. new lights along Main Street, it is said the business district of the town is as well lighted as any surrounding community. Gladys Cowles, school teacher from Wales, will give a lecture in the Anson Wo- Club at 4 p.

m. Friday. April 15 She is principal of a Modern Secondary Girls school in Wales and for the past year has been teaching in San Angelo. Rev C. W.

Hedrick resigned as pastor of the New Hope Baptist Church last Sunday and announced that he has accepted the pastorate of the Buford Baptist Church near Colorado City. B. Cox and L. Stephens were elected to the city council last Tuesday, when 117 voters cast ballots. Cox was opposed by J.

R. Edwards and Stephens was opposed by Floyd M. York. of razing the Church of Christ building here, one of the oldest church structures in Munday, got underway last week, preparatory to the building of a new church edifi The new building will be of brick veneer. A Mitchuin and city council T.

E. White were reelected to the will have three new members, the Lueders city council last Tuesday, result of last election, and Dixie Bennett was named to Named to the council were J. Welthe place now held My M. E. Smart, don Smith, Winston Blacklock and A total of 107 votes were cast.

iE. W. Harrell. Green was installed as post commander for the Stamford VFW in ceremonies held last Thursday evening. Other offi ers installed were J.

D. Isbell, senior vice commander; C. C. Allen, junior vice commander; Byron Smith, guartermaster; Ralph Rose, historian; Tommie Rector, chaplain; an George I. Kinney, three- vear trustee.

Graham of Abilene was named manager of the cotton oil mill at Munday to succeed J. L. Odell, who has been transferred to Brownfield. ASPERMONT D. Gholston has been appointed deputy sheriff for Stonewall County to succeed Lanis McMeans, who resigned April 1, after having served since first of the year.

high school took top honors last Saturday in the Distiict 6A Interscholastic League literary events in Abilene. The locals took 89 points for first place, with Albany scoring 27 points for second. T. Midleton of Mena, Arkansas, visited here last in the home of his daughter. Mrs.

Gladys Guinn. This is the first visit Midleton had ever made to her home, and the first time he had seen her for 30 years. The father became separated from his children in 1919 and a reunion recently was arranged when a son. Clyde, of Fort Worth saw the elder name in a newsaper and wrote to him. annual sunrise Easter Service will be conducted in the First Baptist Church at 6 a Sunday.

April 17. Novelty Show Coming To Publicize Rodeo Publicizing the Hardin-Simmons intercollegiate rodeo, a musical novelty show of boys and girls with Slim Wiliet, will be in Hamlin at 3:45 p. Thuisday April 22, it was announced this week. The group will entertain on the streets of Hamlin. The rodeo is s.heduled for April 29 and 30 in Abilene.

During the day the group will appear in Merkel, Sweetwater, Roscoe, Snyder, Roby, Rotan, Hamlin, Stamford and Anson. Aspermont Couple Is Married in Hamlin I Miss Billie Muriel Frazier and N. Abbott, both of Aspermont, were married last Thursday morning when Dr. Will C. House, pastor of the First Methodist Church, read the single ring cere- I mony in the Methodist personage.

1 Only atendants for the couple were friends from Aspermont. The Navy subsidizes general edu- cation courses at accredited colleges for Naval personnel. FOR SALE Signs at The The Constitution, giant 180-passenger plane, can fly from San Francisco to Tokyo in 19 hours. an all day meeting in Central Christian Church here last Monday, members of the Southside Area of Council of Christian Churches, voted to hold the next meeting in Breckenridge in October. Tire meeting here was atended by 75 women.

James L. Blanton Eradication Field Work Tanking and Terracing Scraper and Dragline Work Phone 37D-J Box 624 Hamlin MIGHTY FAST RELIEF in SPUR- Bynum Britton defeated Fied Kinney for the position of water commissioner here last Tuesday by a vote of 119 to 32. It was the only contested race in the I election. SPUR -Funeral services for Franklin Mayo were conducted in the Dickens Church of Christ Sun! day afternoon. Mayo died last Friday.

He was 69 years of age and had been a resident of Dickens County for 33 years. total of $11,455 was paid for 56 steers follow ing the fat stick I in Spur last Saturday. Elva Lee i Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wade Smith of Peacock is serving on the sponsor committee for the Ad.ock installed as commander of the Merkel Post 5683.

Veterans of Foreign Wars, Thursday evening. Other officers installed were Miller, senior vice commander; Buster Hester, junior vice commander; Lloyd Robertson, quartermaster; Leon Bigbee. post advocate; R. N. Mosier, chaplain; R.

D. Ely, surgeon; Ross Parsons of Sylvester, 3-year trustee; N. C. Halbert, one-year trustee; George T. Moore, two-year trustee.

J. Canon was reelected mayor of Merkel, and John Mansfield and Doyle Seifried were named aldermen In the city election conducted here last Tuesday. A total of 217 votes were cast. P. Nicks was elected president of the Roby Junior Chamber of Commerce last Tuesday.

Other officers named were Ralph Ammons, 1st vice president; Harold Neves, 2nd vice president; Charles Hogsett secretary-trea- sruer; T. Palmer, reporter. concert will be given in the Roby high school aditorium Friday evening, April 15, by the a capella choir of North Texas State Teachers College. school athletes from four counties gathered here last Friday to participate in the interscholastic meet for district H-B. Cox.

incumbent. and Olen Dotson, former Haskell County sheriff, elected to the Haskell city council last Tuesday. A total of 346 votes were cast. proposal to inaugurate the managarial type of city government in Snyder will be made at a mass meeting to be held in the Country Club Friday, April 22. The proposal will also include the employing of a tax-suppoited chamber of commerce.

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