Fort Davis Notes on Miss Thompson Teaching Move
Miss Cecelia Thompson a Fort Davis native and Sul Ross graduate will teach speech at Lakeview School in San Angelo under Miss Annie Kate Ferguson. Renowned as a dramatic performer, she starred in Hedda Gabler last spring. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Thompson. Philip Often of San Antonio stayed last week with Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Bloys.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Thompson
Angelo
Cecelia Thompson
Fort Davis
Sul Ross College
Lakeview School
San Angelo
Annie Kate Ferguson
Sul Ross
Ibsen
H. G. Thompson
Philip Often
San Antonio
A. D. Bloys
Myrri Mas
Myrrl McBride
Myrrl
University of New Mexico At
Albuquerque
Heavy Week of Rain Delivers Two Inches in Fort Davis
Rain moved through the Da vis mountains with steady, ground soaking showers. Fort Davis reported two inches on Monday after rainfall began Sunday afternoon, with additional showers Tuesday and after midnight Wednesday. Ranchers hail the moisture as haymakers for range feed while swampy ground prompts jokes about finding houses among the weeds.
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Davis Mountains
Fort Davis
Carlton
Night flying stratoliner sighted on after election trip
County Judge and Mrs. William Granger saw a big night flying continental stratoliner during an after election visit to Albuquerque. They were told these planes fly Los Angeles to New York at night and maintain about seventeen thousand feet. The Albuquerque stop lasted ten minutes with 27 passengers disembarking for a brief exercise. The plane refueled by a gasoline truck and its planned stops include Albuquerque Kansas City and Chicago. It flew from Los Angeles in four hours. The outer door was reported locked from the outside.
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William Granger
Albuquerque
Granger
Los Angeles
New York
Judge Granger
Kansas City
Chicago
Stratoliner awe and small-town flight tales from Fort Davis
Judge Granger recalls a Stratoliner's size and airstrikes as an air traveler notes the plane’s vast fore end. Fort Davis summer visitors Mr and Mrs Thomas E Love and daughter Dorothy of Dallas arrived for their annual Mile High town outing. Myrrl McBride of Fort Davis earns praise after high marks in exams and a big opportunity with Standard Oil in New Mexico, leading toward a PR role next year.
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Fort Davis
Thomas E. Love
Dorothy
Dallas
Mile High
Standard Oil Company
Myrrl
New Mexico
Rotary Guests Hear Brewster County Calf and Wool Output
Eight visiting Rotarians from six clubs attended the meeting at the hotel. Ernest Gibbens spoke on Brewster County's role in producing calves lambs goats wool and mohair with Texas supplying 80 percent of U S mohair and county shipments totaling about 300000 in lambs and 800000 in calves last year.
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Frank Dougherty
Liberty
Fred V. Lowery
San Antonio
Roy Gough
Bill Black
Jeff Graham
Marfa
Leo Watts
Calexico
Cal
Wesley C. May
Pecos
Karl Kilauser
del Rio
R. G. Newell
Ilinois
Karl Krauser
Bryan Montague
Alan Fraser
Ernest Gibbens
Ernest Gibbons
Brewster County
U. S
Texas
County court notes and local speaking event recap
The report quotes Judge Montague urging defense of constitutional liberties while noting faith in rising livestock numbers in Brewster county. It lists several civil case judgments and mentions an expected large turnout at the Bloys meet with attendees from Marfa Alpine Valentine Pecos Fort Stockton Balmorhea and other West Texas towns.
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Marfa
Alpine
Valentine
Pecos
Fort Stockton
Balmorhea
West Texas
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Helen
Helen Chenkovich
Standard
Barry Scobee
Stratoliner
Rotary News
M. A. Webb
Montague
District Court
Can
Z. P. Decie
Douglas Guardian Warehouse Corpn
Asa A. Jones
Otis R. Yantis
S. L. Stumberg
Anthony Weber
J. L. Brown
Lea McKinney
M. A. Bumgardner
J. W. Gilmer
Dickson
Francisco Martinez
Sanderson Mexi
BLOYS
Oleo
Valley Gold
Swift
Chuck
Wilson
Piers
Glen Oaks
Brookfield
Dixie
SUN Maid
Lyda K. Boucher
Barnes City
Virginia Lee Link
el Paso
Delbert Bowles
M. Elsworth Brooks
el Campo
Sybil S. Brown
Eagle Pass
Vera C. Brown
Blackwell
Elaine Carney
Herm
Linnie Etta Facton
Rosalie Stephens Fincher
Miles
Fanny Ruth Gandy
Caddo
Prentiss Young Gilbreath
Lewellyn Powers Gildart
Campwood
Sara Patricia Greene
Leona Griffin
Dorothy Hart
Mary K. Hasbrook
Inez
Agnes Henson
Moore
Merritt Martin Hopson
Nell Jarvis
Hubbard
Clem C. Jones
Leakey
Helen Jeanne Jones
la Felice
Kermit
Ruth O’quinn
Henry Osborne
Childress
Mary H. Powers
Anna Bell Pruitt
Big Spring
Alma Ana Easterly
Jerre L. Riordan
Pine
Ruby Potts Rutherford
Maud Shaw
Karye Smith
Lufkin
Marjorie Smith
Knott
Helen Lee Stewart
Midland
Raymond Thomas
Anistel D. Thompson
Monday
Elizabeth Ann Tompkins
Somerville
Nathan Waldrop
Lampassas
Zethal Weaver
Clint
Ruth Neal Webb
Crystal City
Doris West
Donie
Joyce A. Wilson
Harlingen
Fred Ornes Williams
Alpine Cemetery
Assn
Georgia
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