The McKinney Examiner (McKinney, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 9, 1947 Page: 4 of 12
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M. Smith has returned
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Saturday Only
Saturday Night 10:15
Sunday, Monday,
There are 32 grandchildren,
24 great grandchildren and one great
Tuesday and Wednesday
TEXAS
Coats
Easy
Friday and Saturday
Elegance
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Suits
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Now $14501
Sunday and Monday
OHMS
Tuesday and Wednesday
Dresses
Cary Grant
Now
STATE
Now
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Thursday Only
Sweaters at
Price
The new Book of
Millinery at
Price
Bags at Great Reductions
more ver-
Sunday and Monday
FABRIC GLOVES £ JgJ “s 50c
Tuesday and Wednesday
7.90 to 12.75
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CLEARANCE
Friday and Saturday
Tom Holt
in
‘Cowboy in the Clouds’
Thursday and Friday
Vivian Leigh
in
“Caesar & Cleopatra”
Thursday Only
Sharyn Moffitt
in
“Child of Dovirce”
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Funeral Services Held
For Riley S. Gilbert
CARR’S
READYTOWEAR
Claudette Colbert - John Wayne
in
‘Without Reservations’
Van Johnson
in
“No Leave No Love”
Warner Baxter
in
“Crime Doctor’s
Manhunt”
Constance Moore
in
“Earl Carrol’s
Sketchbook”
Warren Douglas
in
“Inner Circle”
Chpt. 6 Black Arrow
CARTOON
Leo Barker spent
with relatives here.
Mrs. T. E. Woodard
returned
has returned to
a visit to rela-
Mrs. Alls-
Miss Mertye
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WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY
‘Sentimental
Journey’
starring
JOHN PAYNE
MAUREEN O’HARA
WILLIAM BENDIX
CARTOON
FRIDAY and SATURDAY
SMILEY BURNETTE
CHARLES STARRETT
in
‘Galloping
Thunder’
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Now ‘1625
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can wear
them anywhere. Rich rayon gab-
ardine, detailed with a costly dis-
tinction you’d neveir expect at
this modest price. 12-20,9-15.
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$1500
Hopalong Cassidy
in
North of the Rio
Grande”
Frances
Jean
the seventieth
the good casual dress
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Frazier and Mrs. Margaret Prater, all Mexia,
of Paducah; J W. Fletcher, Brandon;
Mrs. Anna Nash and Fred Fletcher,
Hillsboro, and B-ernice Fletcher, great grandchild.
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Funeral services were held at the
McKamy-Ingram-Batchler F u n b r a 1
Home in Dallas at 10 o’clock Satur-
day morning for Riley S. Gilbert, who
died at his home there Thursday. In-
terment was in Grove Hill Cemetery.
Mr Gilbert is the father of Mrs.
Gladys Commons of McKinney. He
is survived by two brothers, Walter
W. Gilbert and James C. Gilbert of
Dallas; and five sisters, Mrs. E. R.
Fryer, Mrs. W. D. North, Mrs. D. H.
Oliver, Mrs. Maggie Leonard and Mrs.
Tim Belcher.
B & F FARM STORE is ex-
tending a co.rdial invitation to
ail farm readers of this news-
paper—and their neighbors
be his guests on John Deere
Day, JANUARY 16, 7:30 P.’M.
Be sure to call at the B & F
FARM STORE fo? youi- FREE
TICKETS, if you don’t already
have them.
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with
Bruce Cabbot
“Claudia & Pavid”
with
Robert Young
Dorothy McGuire
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Regularly $1675
Regularly $1098
Regularly $2975
Regularly $45°°
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ter of Dallas.
Mrs. Pearl Dixon
Wichita Falls after
tives here.
Mr. and Airs. G. H. Edwards have
bought a home in Blue Ridge and
moved into it. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Cain
bought the farm vacated by the Ed-
wards.
Mr. and Mrs.
spent last week
Mrs. Barker is attending school at St.
Louis, Mo.
Mr. and Mrs. Max Elder of Hay
'Springs, Nebraska, announce the
birth of a little girl, Loretta Lareice,
Dec.7. Mrs. Elder is the former Miss
Billy Jo White, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Jack White.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Allsbrooks an-
nounce the birth of a son, John Al-
bert, Jr., December 24.
brooks is the former
Hudson of Blue Ridge.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Jones are in
Alice, South Texas, for two weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Yarbrough and
;. boys spent Christmas Day in Houston
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L. Fagg.
Mrs. Leon Press landed in eGrmany
Dec. 23 to join her husband, M./Sgt.
R. Leon Press, who has been there
since last spring.
Funeral services were conducted
Monday, Jan. 6th, at 2 p. m. at the
First Baptist Church in Farmersville
‘or John Wesley Caughron, who pass'
ed away at the home of his sister,
Mrs. George Box, West McKinney
Street, at 9: 5Q p. m. after several
weeks illness. Mr. Caughron was
born Feb. 19, 1871, in Kentucky, was
75 years, 11 months and 13 days of
(Miss H. Haesner, Reporter,
Mr R. B. Tilton, who had the mis-
fortune of cutting off the end of his
index finger in a car door, has been
able to be in his barber shop the last
few days.
Ann McCarley, little daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Von Roy McCarley, is
recovering from an appendicitis op-
eration.
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Wright and
children have returned to College Sta-
tion after spending the holidays with
their parents, Mrs. Jewell Press of
Blue Ridge and Mr. and Mrs. V E.
Wright, Commerce. Mr. Lloyd Press,
who is teaching at Kerens, has also
returned to his work.
Mr. and Mrs. Ott Gray entertained
last Friday night with a chicken din-
ner honoring Mrs. Gray’s Sunday
school class. Those attending were
Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Hopper, Mr. and
Mrs. Bus Richardson, Mr. and Mrs.
W. C. Grisham, Mr. and Mrs. F. R.
Whited, Mr. and Mrs. J. G. St. Clair,
Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Langham, Mr.
and Mrs. Clarence Bratcher. Guests
enjoying the Gray’s hospitality were
Mr. and Mrs. Hopper of Denison, Mrs-
Jewell Press and Mr. and Mrs G. C.
Haesner.
Guests of Mr. and Mrs. Lon Stapp
for the holidays were Mr. and Mrs.
Darrell Martin, Mr. and Mrs. Richard
Stapp and little son and r. and Mrs.
equipment for the small acreage
farmer . . . “Conservation
Farming with Regular Equip-
ment”—an educational picture
on how to keep your soil “at
home”- with the equipment you
have on your own farm . . .
and “New Pages in Johhn Deere
Progress’ —a newsreel on new-
ly developed John Deere integ-
ral and drawn machines for
1947.
Alexis Smith —
in
“Night & Day”
75 years, 11 month:
age.
He is survived by one daughter,
Mrs. A. S. Williams of Houston; five
sisters, Mrs. George Box and Mrs.
Walter Beam of Farmersville, Mrs T
S. Woods, Mrs. Tom Poplin and Mrs'.
Lewis Henry: one brother, Lee
Caughron of Farmersville; one grand-
child. Services were conducted by
'Rev. J. R. Hilger of Greenville and
Rev. Wyatt of Farmersville. Inter-
ment in the I. O. O. F. Cemetery with
the R. G. Lamm Funeral Home of
Blue Ridge in charge. Mr. Caughron
was a member of the Snow Hill Bap-
tist Church.
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Softer, more flattering,
sttlUe casuals—you
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animal picture in Hollywood
will provide an hour of top-
notch entertainment every
farmer- and his family will long
remember.
In the supporting cast are
such other well-known artists
as Gale Robbins, Scott Elliott,
Kenneth MacDonald, Ida Moore,
Eddie Kane, Dan Duncan and
Sam Flint.
In addition to “The Wind-
Jammer,” four other new, all-
talking pictures will be shown.
They include “Headliners in
Tractor Value”—the story of
the new John Deere Models “A”
and “B” Tractors for 1947 . . .
“New Power for the Smaller
Farm”—an important announce-
ment of a new small tractor
with a complete line o: integral
daughter, Mrs. da and Diana Rogers, 'Mr. and Mrs.
C. W. Montgomery, iMr. and Mrs. J.
W. Gordon, Mr. and Mrs. Larry
O’Bannon, Kelly Hill, Mrs. Noel
Smith and grandsons, Jack Noel and
Jimmie Cannaday, Mrs. Bob Gritfin
and sons, Bobby and Buzz, of Frisco,
Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Hays and Mrs.
Fred Kemp of Ft. Worth Mrs. Ruben
Porras and Butch of Dallas, the hon-
oree and hostess.
HERE FROM SEMINOLE
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Knfgiit aiiu
sons, Holley and Fred, of Seminole,
Texas ,came Tuesday to visit with
Mrs. Knight’s brothers, Messrs,
Frank and Grady Cothes. They
spent Christmas at home this year,
the first time in four years, their sons
having been in the armed forces. The
sons are now at home. Fred is at-
join their husband and father, Col. W. tending New Mexico A. & M. College.
Mrs. Knight is the former Miss Ethei
Cothes, and was reared in the Beth-
any community near Plano. Miss
Cothes was the president of the first
Collin County Home Demonstration
Club organized by the late Mrs. Viola
Poole McGee.
MRS. JAMES FATHER
DIES AT PLAINVIEW
Mrs. Henry James was called to
Plainview on the sad mission of at-
tending the funeral of her father, W.
M. Davis, who passed away at his
home in that city Monday.
Survivors include his wife and nine
children.
Funeral services were held on
Christmas Day in the Plainview Fun-
eral Chapel and burial was in the
Plainivew Cemetery.
For many years Mr. Davis and fam-
ily resided in Celina.—Frisco Jour-
nal.
FLETCHER’S 70TH ANNIVERSARY
On Dec. 26, Mr. and Mrs. W. B.
Fletcher, with their daughters, Mrs.
Aithlean Bledsoe and Mrs. Jerry
Franklin, both of Sherman, and their
granddaughters, Frances Bledsoe;,
Frisco, and Billy Jean Franklin.
Sherman, attended
wedding anniversary of Mr. Fletcher’s
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Fletcher,
at Brandon. Mr. Fletcher, 98, and his
wife, the former Miss Minnie Blanche
Harris 94, were both born in Marshall
■County, Alabama. Their marriage
ceremony was performed by Mrs.
Fletcher’s great grandfather. Fifty-
five years ago they moved near Bran-
don, where they have lived since.
Their children are: W. B. Fletcher,
Frisco; Mrs. Carrie Cruce, Mrs. Mary
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TO BE SHOWN HERE AS PART OF
BIG JOHN DEERE DH PROGRAM!
“Bazooka” Bob Burns^ fam-
ous radio and screen comedian,
leads the cast of “The Wind-
jammer”, feature picture to be
shown in FRISCO COMMUNITY
HALL on JANUARY 16. 7:30 P.
M. This movie headlines the
John Deere Day entertainment
and educational program for
farmers to be sponsored by B
& F FARM STORE. Admission
will be by .ticket only, but
tickets can be obtained free of
charge at the B & F Farm
Store,
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Midnight Show Saturday
SUNDAY, MONDAY, TUESDAY
In. Technicolor
‘The Vir ginian
starring
JOEL McCREA
BRIAN DONLEVY
SONNY TUFTS
NEWS - CARTOON
Miss Mary Roacr, who teaches in
Odessa Junior College, has returned
to her duties after spending the holi-
days with her mother, Mrs. E. D.
Roach.
Mrs. Will
from a visit with her son-in-law and
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Leroy McClen-
don, and son, Leroy, Jr., at Junction.
Mr. and .Mrs. Jim Jefferies of Sa-
linas California, who are visiting his
brother-in-law and sister, Mi-, and
Mrs. Newt Seagraves, near Little
Elm, visited with friends in Frisco
Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Jefferies
formerly resided in Frisco.
Honoring Thomas Wesley Duncan,
a patient at Percy Jones General Hos-
pital, Battle Creek, Mich., a chicken
dinner was served in the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Kelly Hill to the following
guests: Helen Faye Byrd, Thomas
Andrew Byrum, Kenneth Byrum, Peg-
gy Parker, Johnny Bonner, Kenneth
Haynes, Elbert Nash, Dill Hill Billy
Bert Lane, Jack Sprouse, Martha Ann
Hill, J. D. Carter, Hugh Sneathen,
Merle Hill and Tommy.
Honored on 71st Birdthay.
Mrs. Dave Christie entertained with
a dinner on Monday evening, Decem-
ber. 23, honoring her husband on his
71st birthday. Present were Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Biggerstaff, Mr. and Mrs.
Sam Cooper and grandchildren, Lin-
with their daughter and family, Mr.
and Mrs. Cue Knight and R. J. and
R. M. Yarbrough.
Mr. Virgil Driggers of California is
visiting relatives here and at Prince-
ton. Mr. Driggers, Mr. Allie Driggers
and family, Mr. and Mrs. Chester
Driggers and family of Farmersville,
Mrs. Geneva Rich and Mr. and Mrs.
Oscar Calhoun and son had Christ-
mas dinner with their mother, Mrs.
M. F. Driggers, and
Bohanan, of Bonham.
Mr. Willard Terry bought the1 lot
formerly belonging to the North Bap-
tist Church and plans to move his
house on to that lot.
Mr. R. B. Woodard and Miss Ruby
Dale Richardson were married Dec.
20.
Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Woodard and
girls have returned to their home
here after spending the holidays with
their children in Melissa and Wylie.
Mrs. Louis Jone’s is improving
slowly, but remains indoors most of
the time.
Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Fagg -were in
Dallas Monday to meet their daugh-
ter-in-law, Mrs, Fate Fagg, and chil-
dren, who are en route to New York
to sail January 13 for Germany to
•BA20OIOI- BOB BUSHS
hew Heiss:"THE WINDJAMMER"
“The Windjammer” is a “rib-
tickling” story of a windy char-
acter, Bob Newton by name,
who claims to be able to make
animals talk. H:~ —_■---'■-----
and those of his charming
daughter, in making a talking
COMMUNITY HALL, JANUARY 16, 7:30 P. M.
B & F FARM STORE
Frisco, Texas
Dana Andrews
in
“Canyon Passage”
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by name,
His experiences,
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Thompson, Clint & Thompson, Wofford. The McKinney Examiner (McKinney, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 9, 1947, newspaper, January 9, 1947; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1328173/m1/4/: accessed May 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Collin County Genealogical Society.