Marathon News Roundup From Marathon Texas
Local notes recount Marathonians traveling to San Antonio for Marines enlistment and Air Corps duty in El Paso, social visits, illnesses, and family events. Residents include Sansom Shackelford Miller Davenport Coe Dragoo Herring Thompson Green Rhoemake Granger Young and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clifton Roark
Roy Sant Stillwell
San Antonio
Marines
el Paso
Air Corps
Stalph Coe
Ralph Coe
Lae Dra- 00
Lee Dragoo
Mark Herring
R. E Thompson
W. R. Green
Walton Rhoemake
Leroy Granger
Virginia Young
Modern Cowboys Race Paled by 19th Century Heroic Chase
Charles O. Mucker relates a Texas library reminiscence about a 1832 Texan encounter with a mob of Indians during a mustang chase. The story blends frontier myth with a vivid, dangerfilled escape in which Lawrence’s mare and courage carry him through a deadly pursuit beside the Trinity River.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles 0. Mucker
University of Texas Library
Ad Lawrence
Trinity River
Lawrence
D. W. C . Beker
Texas Collection
Trinity
Texas Merchants Enlist for National Defense in 1917
Local Texas merchants join national defense efforts during 1917, outlining capacity to produce chisels bolts and rods. A blacksmith background is noted, with remarks about tooling and anvil work in Luling illustrating skilled metalwork readiness for wartime mobilization.
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Texas
Luling
Army Veteran Heads Back to England to Finish 1917 Job
Amarillo report says Schley A. Bonner, 43, a Blacksmith and twice segregated veteran, returns to England to complete a mission begun in 1917. He and his mare faced danger crossing a river bank in a perilous escape as pursuers closed in, then reached safety.
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England
Amarillo
Schley A. Bonner
Bonner
United States
Armed Forces
Naval base to add two chapels at Norfolk station
The Brit ish Civilian Technical corps member Bonner said he wants to be put where he can be most useful before departing for Montreal and Britain. Two new chapels Catholic and Protestant are under construction at the Norfolk Naval Operating base. The project costs 125000 dollars and marks the first time congress financed naval station chapels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montreal
Britain
Bonner
Naval Operating Base
Norfolk
Congress
Naval Station
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