This Week in Canton History...

Canton Herald, Dec. 14, 1960 – The Canton Kiwanis Club is supervising another Turkey Shoot to be held at the Fair Grounds in Canton Saturday.  The shooting is scheduled from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. with turkey prizes for the winners.  A drawing will be held at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.  in conjunction with the school but there is no obligation for the drawing. Registration is all that is necessary to win one of the turkeys.

            Services for Joseph Floyd Wadsworth, 76, were held at the Eubank Funeral Chapel Sunday afternoon with Rev. T. F. Tidwell and Rev. H. A. Dunbar conducting the service. Mr. Wadsworth was born July 25, 1884 in Nacogdoches and he passed away in Grand Saline on December 9.  He was a member of the Highland Baptist Church at the time of his death on March 7, 1868 and he was married to Katie Jane Bishop.  Interment was at Highland Cemetery at 2 p.m. Sunday under the direction Eubank Funeral Home.

            Cradle Roll- Born to Mr. and Mrs. James Curtis Hilliard Sunday a baby girl, Pattie Ann in a Grand Saline hospital.

            Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Parker of Wills Point announce the arrival of a little daughter, Patti Annette, Dec. 12 in a Terrell hospital.   She weighed in at seven pounds and seven ounces.  Mrs. Parker is the former Jane Conlan.  

            This & That- Buck Young is advertising that he has lost 10 goats…they got out of his truck  in Canton several months ago and were last seen for in the Jackson-Denman area… Young said that they must be going south, because every time he hears of them, they have moved further southward…Could be more than 10 now, Young added.

Curtis Hilliard told us Wednesday that his firm Hilliard & Sons still selling the old-time woodstoves to residents of the Canton area.… He said that he sold a complete Wood cooking stove recently…Hilliard’s is displaying a brand-new “old” wood heating stove in their showroom.

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