This Week in Canton History

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Sandra R. Jones Van Zandt County Genealogical Society

Canton Herald, March 16, 1950: 

HEADLINE: Construction started Wednesday on new school building project: With five members of the school board participating.  Those present were Gaston Coleman president, Russell Eubank, secretary and Members J.R. Travis, Irby Mills and B. M. Clark.

CANTON BUSINESSMEN IN REVIEW: Our businessmen of the week are Lloyd Taylor and Harold Turner, who own and operate the Eagle Drug Store.  They have operated the drug store since October 1946. Prior to going in the drug business Harold Turner worked in the tax assessor’s office while Lloyd Taylor was in the U. S. Army with the  45th infantry division as lieutenant.  He spent four years in the service at which time he spent 22 months in the European theater in Africa, Sicily, Italy and Europe. Lloyd Taylor was born in Jefferson, Marion County.  He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Taylor of Myrtle Springs.  He married the former Lulla Belle Dodson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dodson of Canton in September 1945.  He attended school at the local school.  Harold Turner was born in the Phalba community, the son of Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Turner of Mabank.  He married the former Ruth Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gus Smith of Mabank, on June 12, 1943.  He attended school in Canton.

They have three employees, Mrs. Bird Riley, Danny Hargrove and Billy Jack Mann.

Van—The lowly cucumber was a $45,000 cash crop to Van farmers in 1949 reports C. J. Atkins.  Checks in the amount of $25,000 were written within the first ten days of the 1949 season.  Contract for the coming season’s crop are now being let. Cucumbers, a relatively easy crop to grow and one of the quickest to make, has not only been a cash crop for the adult farmers in the Van area, but for students of vocational agriculture as well, reports Atkins.  The average gross income per acre ran well over the $200 mark.  It has been reported that after several years of experimental work on the fertilization of cucumbers, the application of 500 pounds of 4-8-8 per acre in the drill plus 200 pounds applied as a side dressing has paid off best.

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