For Sale Furniture and Paintings at Local Shops
Mrs. Homer Moorman will sell her furniture Friday afternoon and Saturday December 11 26 36 including buffet 9 chairs 3 bedsteads 3 new Kanerspring mattresses 9x12 wool rug 2 chests table with bench 2 dressers small tables smoking stands 8 floor lamps electric sweeper electric refrigerator electric range kitchen cabinet drapes pictures and more Also Pastel Paintings by W C Friesen on sale at McCool's Gift Shop with custom subjects available Also heater and 3 burner cook stove with oven E E How wa 12 Rep.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Homer Moorman
Local items drift through Coleman area gatherings
Local brief notes list Mrs L Le Wilder of Coleman visiting sister Mrs Verna Bof fers, Miss Janette McIntyre and Josephine Brown spending a San Antonio weekend, Mrs Lulu Cotter White teaching in Lordsburg visiting home folk, and Mr and Mrs Grant Woodward of San Antonio visiting his brother Frank Woodward. Also mentioned: Mrs A F Robinson Sr leaving for Ogden Utah to visit daughter Mrs Jim Parish and Lt Parish, Bain Paul of Greenville visiting, and various sale notices for farm equipment and a good bus line franchise in Marta Texas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. F. Robinson Sr
Ogden
Utah
Jim Parish
Lt. Parish
Local Social Roundup Includes Travel and Visits
Mr and Mrs Otis Kimball and Mr and Mrs Zeb Decie visited San Antonio on business and attended the A and M game. The McCollums and daughter returned from Hamilton Eldorado and San Angelo. Meriwether and companions left for San Antonio while Electa Wade travels in Fort Stockton and Del Rio. The Qu ers move into Cotter residence on North Fifth Street. Queen owns a ranch near Hovey. Oliver family called to Houston for illness. Wenton Oliver serves overseas. Scannell expected for Meet and will travel with Dr and Mrs McHurry. Mrs Elliott returns from Houston trip with daughter Mrs Hendricks. Howard and Lane families, plus others from Rankin and Hobbs, visited the John Lane ranch during hunting season. Senior Lanes hosted friends at chuck wagon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Otis Kimball
Zeb Decie
San Antonio
Harry Howard
Rankin
14 Lane
B. Ht. Nolen
Hobbs
John Lane
Howard
Jen
Lanes
J. Lane
Postwar Glow Menu Hints At Luminescent Paper Use
Electrical manufacturers foresee luminescent paper for menus and other items after the war. The dark paper now used in aeronautical charts and war maps could soon illuminate in theaters and restaurants. Citizens urged to Back our fighting men by buying War Bonds and Stamps.
Not Our Navy But The Japs Fuss Sgt Learns Pearl Harbor
Sgt. George C. Alexander awoke to explosions at Dec 7 1941 Pearl Harbor. He served as radio operator gunner on a flying fortress with 25 missions oversea including Australia and New Guinea earning the Presidential Citation. Rhea Acton Hollywood’s first leading woman heads dramatic arts at a girls’ school near St. Louis.
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George C. Aleander
U.S. Navy
Alexander
Navy
Pearl Harbor
States
New Guinea
Rhea Acton
Hollywood
Movies
Dramatic Art
School For Girls
St. Louis
Jamican Heroes and War Bonds Highlight War Time Notes
Jamerican Heroes' New York scientists explore why juveniles become delinquent, testing theories of physical or mental defects. War Bonds advertised as saving lives. War time notices include Beards’ family, Navy and Air Force assignments, and a professor’s telescope mirror details. Ensign Mack Roach and Capt. John W. Gillett appear in personal news.
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New York
Rapid Progress In Winter Sports At Air Base
The air base winter sports season grows with boxing and basketball turning into close battles. Inter-post boxing features a bout between air field leather pushers and Pyote on Nov 25 in Marfa. In basketball, Sections L F and C beat Instructors' School, Squadron 1, and Sections B and A, with a tight C-B matchup ending 43 to 26. Marfa players Lis, Pate, and Reece led scoring, but Hobbs NM’s Air Cobras fell 49-37 to Marfa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Air Field Air Cobras
Hobbs
N. M
Air Field
Marfa
Lis
Pate
Reece
Annual Christmas Seal Sale Starts in Texas
Texas joins the campaign to preserve health standards through the Christmas Seal sale for the Texas Tuberculosis Association and local groups. The fundraiser marks the 40th anniversary of the first seal, opened Nov 37 and running until Christmas as Governor underscores disease control needs. Patrolman William Foren of Haverhill, Mass. reports a plea for 2,800 youths on his beat who refrain from throwing rocks or snowballing pedestrians.
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Texas
William Foren
Haverhill
Mass
Observatory Dedication Marks Peak In 1939 Event
The observatory, once the world’s second largest, used powerful mirrors to extend visual reach beyond the naked eye. It could photograph a person at 3000 miles unless Earth curvature blocked viewing. Dedication occurred May 5, 1939 with notable scientists from the US and five foreign countries, plus reporters from across the States.
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United States
Canada
Mexico
States
Also Mentioned on This Page
W. C Friesen
McCool
Puggertion
E. E
L. le. Wilder of
Coleman
Verna Bowfers
Janette McIntyre
Josephine Brown
Lulu Cotter White
Lordsburg
N.M
Grant Woodward
Frank Woodward
Bain Paul
Greenville
Cross
K. Starnes
Gentle
P.O
Alpine
Midway Cafe
E.W. Nevill
Texandhe
Will Evans
Leurner
Ingersoll-Rand
A.J. Gard
KK Baggent
Marta
Tex
Whiteside Lor
Groom House
Postoffice
N. Sixth
Ave I
Walter Garnett
Mord
Mattte
A.M. Turney
Avalanche
Fondren
Maria le
MILD
Manch
J.C. Pulliff
Sec
Treas
Marfa Natl
Farm Loan Assn
Marfa, Tex Te
Idleo
O. A. Jackson
Fort Worth
Wm. H. Bick
San Angelo
Gay Meriwether
W. T. Meriwether
Gilmer Morriss
Electa Wade
Western Union
Fort Stockton
del ‘Lo
Marshall Queen
Cotter
North Fifth Street
Mr. Queen
Hovey
Miller Oliver
Houston
Mrs
Wenton Oliver
Wenton
Dorothy Scannell
Mirae
Mchturry
Rand
J. W Shep
J. H. Elliott
Ston Gay
D. N. Hendricks
Sgt. Learns
Granada Theatre
FBI
Johnny. M. Brown
Judy Canova
Richard Lane
Jonnay
John Wayne
Ella Raines
U. S. War
Lionel Barrymore
van Johnson
Cary Grant
Raymond Massey
Jamerican Heroes
France
Selso Gallego
Norman Beard
T.,a. Beard
Norman Fg
Big Spring
Bombardier School
13Th
AAF
Sas Sashes
Fe Reise
Ripon
Spue
Mas Colege
Cuemts
Ensign Mack Roach
Fort Pierce, Fla
New York City
John W. Gillett
Fort Bliss
McDonald
Abe Fortner
Livermore
Fortner
Tresoury Deportes
Zwtave Security
Storey-Whiteside Lumber Co
Carl Hegelund
Purina Cattle
Purina
Ipo
Alpine Feed CO
Lk Smire
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