Montague Co., TX - Newspapers - Saint Jo Tribune: Friday, September 15, 1939 ****************************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb by: Anita Emberlin USGenWeb Archives. Copyright. All rights reserved http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ****************************************************** Saint Jo Tribune Saint Jo, Montague County, Texas Friday, September 15, 1939 School Spirit Displayed in Opening Monday MRS. GLADYS BARKSDALE YOAKUM will teach business administration at the school. MRS. EMMA DERIEUS Funeral services were held at Childress Monday for MRS. EMMA DERIEUS, who died at the home of her daughter MRS. HAL G. CARTER of Orange, Texas Sunday morning. Mrs. DeRieus made her home in Childress with another daughter MRS. R. H. HOLDEN. Survivors include three daughters, MRS. R. H. HOLDEN and MRS. H.W. THATEN of Childress, MRS. HAL G. CARTER of Orange, one son DAVID DERIEUS of Sherman, one sister MISS LUDIE DESPAIN of Saint Jo and one brother JIM DESPAIN of Abilene. In a last minute run to get a drink of water before the last bell sounded, BILLIE BURT HALE received a broken collar bone at noon Wednesday when he collided with a school mate on the Saint Jo school ground. He is the ten year old son of Mr. and Mrs. C. R. HALE who transferred from Spencer and rides the school bus to Saint Jo. An end of the summer backward party was given by MISS EMMA SUE AKERS Wedenesday of last week as a farewell gesture to her cousin, MISS VA LETA MAE TREFT of Hutchinson, Kansas who visited here this summer. Emma Sue was assisted by her mother MRS. E. R. AKERS and her aunt MRS. M. E. THREFT. Attending were BOBBY JEAN MCGRADY, DORIS GALE CABLE, JOYCE HUNDLEY, BETTY JO COOPER and the honoree. Nieces of MRS. FLEMING Bring Stories of War Zone Follow are some of the stories to which the J. M. FLEMINGS listened Wednesday evening, told to them by their visitors, DR. AUTREY WILEY and DR. MARGARET WILEY of Denton, who returned to America after a summer in Europe during the now famed “war of nerves” and six days at sea on a crack liner of a belligerent nation after the declaration of World War II. ‘Nothing has looked more beautiful to me than New York City on Sept. 9—a city free of sandbags, gas masks, and blackouts—a city with lights, blessed lights!’ Dr. WILEY sailed from Southhampton, England, Sunday morning, Sept. 3, shortly after 5 a.m. on the Ile de France, a French luxury liner, and at 11:15 a.m., an unassuming bulletin on the ship’s bulletin board notified the passengers that war was declared. Dr. Wiley, who had been in France and England during the summer accompanied by her sister DR. MARGART WILEY, arrived in Denton, Monday, one of the first of the local travelers to reach home from the danger zone. (more in the article) 37 Years Ago D. L. DOWD was in Fort Worth. R. A. DUNCAN had business at Mill Creek, I. T. DR. H. C. FRIE was in Gainesville. D. L. DOWD shipped a car load of hogs to market. LEE STOUT of Nocona had business here. B. W. HIGGINBOTHAM and B.L. MITCHELL of Illinois Bend were here on business. MISS LILLIE GILLENWATER and MISS PERT BOGGESS went to Leon, I. T. to visit friends. THOMAS T. HERNDON had legal business at Henrietta. S. J. HOTT, J. H. DORT and A. W. PEMBROKE attended the county republican convention. S. V. RANDALL with his family of Fisher County came to visit his brother H. J. RANDALL and family of this place. MISS SUSIE NEWBY returned to Whitesboro after visiting Mr. and Mrs. T. C. HALE north of town. DR. H. T. HERNDON and C. W. VARNEY traded residence property. Elder J. T. LAUDERDALE returned from Sugden, I. T. where he closed a protracted meeting. MART HEMPHILL and COLE MABRY, who are working on the new railroad between Nocona and Montague, spent Sunday with their folks here. W. J. OWENS of Lake View, Texas came to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. J. OWENS. LOUIS MANN and MISS MARY WILLIAMS were married at Forestburg by Esquire HANEY on Thursday of last week. Both lived in the Clear Creek country for quite awhile and are very popular. MISS MOLLIE MOSS, who taught successfully in the public school here for six years, will again teach 1st and 2nd grades. MISS KATE DOWD will teach 4th and low 5th. MISS KATE is no means a stranger to this work, having taught it last term at Bonita school. J. B. RINKLE and family and J. P. BELLAH and son CLYDE who have been here visiting relatives and friends returned to their homes near Olds, Oklahoma. Bonita News Mr. and Mrs. J. K. SEIBOLD of Peabody were Sunday visitors of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. FOSTER. Mr. and Mrs. ALLEN PARSONS were Sunday visitors of Mr. and Mrs. ALBERT PARSONS of Fruitland, they were accompanied home by UNCLE JOHN PARSONS who had been visiting in Fruitland the past week. Rev. GEORGE R. SLAGLE filled his regular appointment at the Methodist Church. Rev. H. C. PENNINGTON filled his regular appointment at Prairie Point. He left to enroll at the Baptist Seminary at Fort Worth. MRS. TOMPKINS of McKinney is visiting her daughter MRS. EDD RACKLEY and family. MRS. T. P. ICE returned from Milford where she visited her children Mr. and Mrs. ROY ELLIS. MISS ORA ADMIRE went to Sunset where she will teach school. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. HAGGERTON attended a birthday dinner at Nocona honoring her mother MRS. EMMA SHACKELFORD. A Ride Through the Country The Baptist at Spencer cleaned off their church yard and installed electric lights. There are some road improvements in Cooke County. The road bed is being widened near Cedar Creek and is being graveled from the county line at MRS. C. H. HUTSON’S place to the C. R. HALE farm. This little gravel strip will be of great benefit to the school bus.