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The Clarendon Press, November 21, Page2
Engagement announced
Mrs. George Lessly Russell Jr. of Ozona, Texas, has
announced the engagement and approaching marriage of her
daughter, Kathy Lynn, to William Marion [BiUy] Cross IV. Cross
is the son of Mr, and Mrs. Wmiam Marion Cress 111 of Denton,
Texas, and the grandson of Mrs. D. T. Smallwood of Clarendon.
Miss Russell is a 1970 gTaduate of Ozona High School and a
1973 graduate of Texas Woman's University in Denton. Cross is
a 1966 graduate of Childress High School and attended
Clarendon Junior College and West Texas State University, and
is presently employed by Texas Telephone and Telegraph in
Fairfield, Texas.
The couple will be married February 23 in the Ozona United
Methodist Church in Ozona.
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Thanksgiving services
set Wednesday night
A Community Thanksgiving Service will be held tonight,
November 21, at 7:30 at the First Baptist Church of Clarendon.
Speaker for the services will be the Rev. Albert Yarborough,
from the St. Mark Baptist Church of Clarendon. Welcoming
services will be given by Rev. R.L. Leeder, pastor of the
Assembly of God Church of Clarendon. Also giving a welcome
will be Dr. James Brandon, pastor of the First Baptist Church.
Other ministers participating in the services will be Rev.
Pettigrew Hamilton of the St. John Baptist Episcopal Church in
Clarendon and Kathryn Pigg, pastor of the First Methodist
Church in Hedley.
Music will be provided by the Spiritual Soul Seeker Singers of
Lubbock, and Garry Bowen will be music leader. Kern Ptgr
director of the college band, will play the piano and Mrs. Jesse
Adams, the First Baptist Church's organist, will provide the
organ music.
All participating pastors are members of the Donley County
Ministerial Alliance, an organization that annually sponsors the
Thanksgiving service. Rev. Leeder is the president of the
organization. The service is a tradition in Clarendon, with the
ministerial alliance sponsoring services on Easter and
Thanksgiving.
John Spurgeon rites held
Funeral services for John Ithiel (Mack) Spurgeon, 83, were
held at 3 p.m. Monday at First Baptist Church with Dr. James O.
Brandon. pastor, officiating.
Burial was in Citizens' Cemetery in Clarendon under direction
of Murphy Funeral Home.
Mr. Spurgeon was a retired plumber who owned a plumbing
shop in Clarendon 40 years. He was a member of First Baptist
Church and Woodmen of the World.
Born in McKinney, Mr. Spurgeon aoved to Donley County in
1917. He died at his home Sunday morning.
Survivors include his wife, Thella; three daughters, Mrs. A. J.
Hicks of Clarendon, and Mrs. J. L. Hopkins and Mrs. R. L. (Bob)
Hutson, both of Van Vleck; one son, Norris of Amarillo; one
brother, Elmer of Fort Worth; 11 grandchildren and 10
great-grandchildren.
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For Friends and Family... Home
and Hearthside... Be Grateful!
Pause in the midst of the fun
and the feasting ... reflect for a
moment or two.., and count up the
things you're glad about.
Probably they re the same throngs
that inspired the Pilgrim Fathers:
food, fellowship, and a sense of
carung, shanng and purpose.
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Wedding scheduled
St. Paul Methodist Church of Amarillo will be the scene of a
January 4, 1974, weddln8/or Alllsen Diane Murff and Donnle
Lynn Connally. Her parents, Mrs. Shirley Murff of 3315 Eddy,
Amarillo, and Mike Murff of 4216 Garland in Amarillo are
making the announcement.
Parents of the bridegreom-to-be are Mr. and Mrs. H. G.
Connally of 4002 Tucson in Amarillo.
Both the bride-elect and her fiance are students at Amarillo
College.
Miss Murff is the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Murff,
Brice Route, Clarendon, and the great-granddaughter of Mrs. J.
A. Holland.
Thanksgiving story
Throughout the United States Thanksgiving Day--the
Thursday in November--is a legal holiday. It is a time for
reunions and bountiful dinners and for giving thanks
blessings of the past year. Originally it was a harvest
The harvest festival is one of the oldest and most
of celebrations known to mankind. Our Thanks
however, began in America. It commemorates a
celebration in 1621 which was held after the first New
harvest.
The Pilgrims had come ashore from the
December 21, 1620. The winter had been
about half of the original band survived. Fortunately
was good. There were 20 acres of the strange Indian
which the Indians had furnished seeds. There were
and plenty of meat. Governor William Bradford sent
men to hunt for fowl. They brought back enough
wild turkeys to last a week. Fishermen brought in cod
Indian hunters contributed five deer. Ninety Indians,
chief Massasoit, feasted with the colonists for three
The date of the feast is not known. Bradford
history 'Of Pllmoth Plantation' that on September
set out in a small boat for Massachusetts Bay to trade
Indians. The harvest was gathered in after they
feast must have occurred before December 1 I. It was
in a letter written on that date by Edward Winslow
to a friend in England.
There is also no record that the feast was
"thanksgiving." Appointing special days for giving
thanks was a custom of the Puritans, but
day was two years later, in 1623. Then the Pilgrims
day of thanksgiving" for rain that ended a terrible
Thanksgiving days following harvests later came
celebrated throughout the New England colonies but on
and varying dates. Later the custom was kept
proclamations of state governor.
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School Menu
Nov. 26- 30
Monday
Oven-fried steak with gravy
Creamed potatoes
Seasoned green beans
Batter bread, butter
Applesauce
Milk
Tuesday
Chicken with rice
Glzed carrots
English peas
Hot rolls-butter
Jelly
Milk
Wednesday
Pinto beans
Cole slaw
Sliced onions
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happen.
The Singing Beebe family:'
be at the Assembly of
Church at 5th and
November 25 through
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Strawberry shortcake Z at/.IRp p.m. eacll nlgllt.
Milk will-- b in "
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Thursday
Corndogs
Blackeyed peas prayer for the sick. Also
FBrUutltrelad °rn demonstration of the 2[
Milk Friday matic renewal. Rev. R.
Sloppy joe on bun
Lettuce & tomatoes Leeder, pastor9 invites (
i:ptpit pudding to come.
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