Martin Springs Community News

Athens Weekly Review
Feb 9 1956
By Mrs. W. A. Barton
February 8-
Nutria Family Clearing Lake of Water Lilies
There were 52 in Sunday School and 51 in Training Union this week end.The pastor, the Rev. James Fortner, and family had Sunday
dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Loving.
Jeff Davis became ill last week and was carried to a Jacksonville hospital.
Mrs. Mary Thedford underwent minor surgery in a Tyler hospital Saturday.
Mrs. Mildred Davis of Emory, formerly from here is also ill in a Jacksonville hospital.
Mrs. Alvin Greer had a checkup last week and received the good news that she would not have to undergo the surgery which the
doctor had first thought.
Mrs. Gussie Cleere of Athens spent a night and day last week with her sister, Mrs. W. B. Gilbert. In spite of the inclement weather,
Mrs. Cleere went fishing in one of the Gilbert lakes, the one so infested with water lilies. She discovered that a family of four nutria had
set about clearing out the lily growth and had already built themselves a fine little island in the lake. We hope they are at home there.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank McCurley and Rosa visited in Dallas Sunday.
W. J. Perry is progressing nicely following nose surgery recently.
The Rev. Noah Dickson of Van, a former pastor here, underwent major surgery in a Tyler hospital last week.
Mrs. Nell Dickson and daughter of Fort Worth visited her parents Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Perry, during the week end.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Welch of Tyler visited Mr. and Mrs. Ray Glaze Sunday afternoon and remained for supper.
Mrs. Berdie Barton spent a few days last week with her sister Mrs. Felix Hudnall, of New York. Mrs. Hudnall has had a virus pneumonia.
Mrs. Ray Glaze was ill all last week.
Let us say again, your cards and letters have meant so very much to the writer and her family in this period of adjusting ourselves to going on without our precious loved one. I would like to share an excerpt from a letter I received the other day. The writer was a little girl during the thirties and one of a large family, and a favorite of my father's. She now lives away from here. She says "Needless to say how shocked and grieved I was to learn the bad news. I'll never forget all the candy he has given us kids and one bright spot in my childhood was the time he took me to Denton to pick you and Lucy Jane up at college. What a trip for me! I think Corsicana was the farthest I'd been from home at that time."

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