This week in Canton history...

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By Sibyl Creasey Van Zandt County Genealogical Society

Canton Herald, Oct. 6, 1949:

Jerry Bledsoe a Canton 4H club member has been selected along with another 4H club boy and two girls and four outstanding leaders to represent Texas at a Recreational Laboratory in Brookings, S.D,

Oct. 3-19.  The all-expense paid trip which Jerry won as a results of his recreational activities.

Miss Finnie Oneida Cole, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Cole, is among nearly 2000 students enrolled at Texas State College for Women for the fall term.

The observance of National Newspaper Week during Oct. 1-8 focuses public attention on one of the outstanding services to mankind.  This service manifests itself in exercising one of our freedoms so characteristic of our nation—Freedom of the Press.  In early newspaper printing in Texas, when a printer ran out of on letter, he merely substituted another which most resembled it. The slogan for the week, “Freedom Goes Where the Newspaper Can’t” is indeed timely.  These newspapers keep our nation well informed on state, national and world events in a world where many are deprived of the opportunity.  ALLAN SHIVERS, Governor of Texas. (more of this article on the microfilm).

Jefferson Whitfield Munns passed away at his home in China Grove Sunday afternoon Sept 25, at 2 p.m. Monday services will be at 3 o’clock at Zion Hill, officiating Mrs. Agness Sorrels, internment at Zion Hill Cemetery.

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