Fort Davis News Highlights War Home Front and Local Life
Fort Davis residents read of Sgt Johnson in France with U S engineers aiding D Day harbor work. Reports note Fort Davis natives Johnson and Guerrera among those contributing to artificial harbors. Local letters, weather, church activities, and community visits from El Paso to Marfa mark a busy wartime period.
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Sgt. Johnson
France
JR. Johnson
RJ. Johnson
Ruth Es. Ther Johnson
Marfa
United States
Bran
Rombie Big Bend
K. 3. Johnson
Fort Davis
Pvt
Pourtine Guerrera
Marta
Anglanss
Alan Kirk
Scout Circus Delights El Paso Crowds
Troop 48 of Fort Davis performed a game at the Scout Circus in El Paso on December 9. Members included J. W. Evans Kimball Miller Chris Kountz L. H. Newton Ralph Hexiges Brooks Acton and Daron Wilson with Scoutmaster C G Matthews. The group praised hosts Mr and Mrs Kouitz Mr and Mrs Kee ley Miller and Worth Evans for transport and lodging.
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Fort Davis
el Paso
Clay Rapy
Lana
J.C. Walker
Preston Johnson
Jack Dumas
Ross Graves
J. K. Miller
W. D. Ways
Worth Evans
J.P. Rapy
Fort Smvis
J. W. Evans
Kimball Miller
Chris Kountz
L. H. Newton
Ralph Hexiges
Brooks Acton
Daron ‘Wilson
C. G. Matthews
Scouts of
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Y Troop 48
W. C. Kouitz
J. Keeley Miller
Winter Bull With Us Some Snow and Rain Fall
Weather summary notes last week brought snow and rain but not enough to satisfy moisture needs. Local reports indicate varied precipitation with temperate conditions, leaving soils only partially moist and farm outlook mixed.
Music Makers Training Under Corporal King At Airport
The Music Makers school band resumes under Corporal King of the Airport guiding Tuesday and Thursday nights. He began teaching Tuesday the fifth, a School of Music graduate from Boston, Mass. The Fort Davis band starts with 20 pieces and plans to add four to five more soon. Bobby Morris of Ysleta enters seventh grade here. Seventh and eighth graders on the B Honor Roll for the second six weeks include Audine Jarrett, Bill Matthews, Ralph Brandon, Tom Redford, Ralph Hodges, Alfonso Tercero, and Quetana Newton. A lively production of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer featured a long cast and a well-attended high school auditorium show last Thursday night, with tickets won by Charlie How Pepa and others. The First Thanksgiving play by the 3rd and 4th grades drew a good audience with Father, Mother, John Alden, Priscilla Mullens, Miles Standish among the roles, directed by Miss M. C. Pierce. Dr. Christian starring Jean Hersholt is the upcoming film Friday and Saturday at the high school and Anderson school, with short subjects.
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Th School of Music
Boston
Mass
Find
Fort Davis
Audine Jarrett
Bill “‘Matthews
Ralph Brandon
Tom Redford
Ralph Hodges
Alfonso Tercero
Quetana Newton
Tom Sawyer
Igh School
J. Kimball Mille Huckleberry
Finn
Foster Be Granger
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Amy Lou Bioys
Sid Sawyer
Chris Kountz
Joe Harper
Jimmy Bloys
Sereny Harper
Audrey Faye Newton
Becky Thatcher
Betty Stewart
Thatcher
Betty Jolson
Mary Rogers
Mary Fisher
Walter Potter
Donald Page
Amyawrence
Fort Davis High School Christmas Break Notice
Wichita Falls and Pauline Morris are two new students at Fort Davis High School. Four freshmen from Ysleta will be dismissed for Christmas holidays from Friday, December 22, to Sunday, January 2. The Anderson P T A met December 12 with Mrs. Muenster presiding. A Christmas program in the auditorium Friday night features a nativity pageant with the whole school and a Christmas music program. There will be a Christmas tree and gifts for all children in the classrooms Friday afternoon. The attendance banner went to the 6th and 7th grade room.
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JW. Clark
Wichita Falls
Pauline Morris
Ysleta
Anderson P.T. A
Anderson
P.T.A
4H Club Calf Shows 98 Pound Gain In 38 Day
A garbled report on a 4H Club calf show notes a 98 pound gain in 38 days. It mentions weight gains of 90 pounds at a later date and references a stall or pen, a show day, and related entries. The text is fragmentary and hard to decipher but centers on calf weight gains and exhibition timing.
First Coed Plays Brass in Ohio State Orchestra
Wilma M. Burnham of Strongville becomes the first co-ed musician to join the Ohio State University orchestra as a brass player, while A. W. Rau serves as principal in the ensemble.
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Wilma M. Burnham
Strongville
Ohio State Unversity
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