This Week in Canton History...
Canton Herald – October 20, 1960:
These articles have been: Hollis Judson James, 53, died at Baker clinic Oct. 15, a short time after being injured in a two-car accident on the Canton – Kaufman highway late in the evening. Mr. James and two other men, Glenn Howell of Wills Point and D. H. Cummings of Edgewood were riding in a pickup driven by Mr. Cummings which collided with a car driven by Elsie Guinn. Funeral services for Mr. James were held Monday, Oct. 17, at 2p.m. at Eubank & Co. Funeral Chapel in Wills Point. Burial was in White Rose Cemetery under the direction of Eubank and company. Mr. James was born Dec. 16, 1906, near the Scott community, son of the late A. J. and Julia Riddle James. His entire life was spent in the vicinity.
This and That? Russell Eubank accused us of stealing a tractor last week… Some of our hired help picked up the wrong tractor at James Peace’s garage… It happened to be Russell’s instead of Terrell Ogletree’s… The one he should have driven away…
We received notice this way of the establishing of a Nixon – large headquarters in grand Celine… L. F. Sanders told us last week that Canton may open a Kennedy – Johnson office sounds like a good idea to us.
Absentee voting for the general election is underway… Lester Slayton, County Clerk reports that applications are heavy.
Unemployment is nil in Canton that is if you are trying to find a labor… The refrigeration firm installing the new refrigeration at the Super Save Food Market had to import Athens labor for the installation job.
B. C. Schaefer reports another three days or left on his stores 102nd anniversary sale.
Services were held at 2 o’clock Tuesday afternoon at Anderson – Clayton Chapel in Terrell for Mrs. William Thomas, 74, winter widow of a former superintendent of the Terrell State Hospital. Interment was in White Rose Cemetery in Wills Point. Mrs. Thomas was born in Wills Point, later moved to Matador, Rusk and Mexia. She has been a resident of Terrell for 40 years she was a member of the Baptist Church. Survivors include one son Dr. Lowell Sanford Thomas of Terrell, sister Mrs. A. O. Loughmiller of Canton and Mrs. R. D. Russell of Wills Point.
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