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Fort Davis adds Ford V-8 fire truck from Marfa
Fort Davis acquires a Ford V-8 fire truck via the Mile High Club with a speedometer under 700 miles. Club finance committee members are L. E. Wood, Richard K. Merrill, Keesey Miller and George Williams. The town notes other local items, including a June Bloys Camp Meeting. George Williams moves his barbershop to Sproul building. a drizzly foggy day with distant snow flakes. J. W. Merrill & Son sell 28 short yearling heifers to Hawker Pruett. C. G. Prude, 86, dies in Hope New Mexico. plus a Danish mink ranching fact in 1962.
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Avalanche
Fort Davis
Marfa
Mile High Club
L. E. Wood
Richard K. Merrill
Keesey Miller
George Williams
Sproul
Courthouse Yard
Hotel Limpia
Alice Sproul
J. W. Merrill & Son
Hawker Pruett
Mr. Pruett
Miller & Babcock
New Mexico
C. G. Prude
West Texas
Hope, N. M
Andrew G. Prude
Prude
A. P. Prude
Martha Prude