Fort Davis Holds 1941 Graduate Exercises
Seven students will graduate Fort Davis High School in 1941. Rev Frederick McKinney of Marfa delivers the commencement speech on Friday evening in the high school auditorium with a program including processional, invocations, speeches by graduates on democracy and education, poems, and a benediction. The baccalaureate service was held Sunday at the Presbyterian church with Rev Mark Burnett delivering the sermon and the Fort Davis Women’s Chorus providing numbers. Other items note community visitors, a heavy rain during the rodeo, lambing rates in Jeff Davis County, wool contracts, and upcoming school bids for flooring in Alpine’s Central Ward Building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Davis High School
Frederick McKinney
Marfa
Mary Pancoast Hogel
Ruel Turner Warnock
McKinney
Bogel
Education
Edgar Fisher
Clyde Joiner
Leo Fe
Mara
Pancoast
Warnock
Emilea Bloys
America
Helen Harvey
Horace Cook
B. E. Coan
Recessional
Maxine Cook
Frances Timmons
Betty Griffin
Oneva Mallburton
Presbyterian Church
Mark Burnett
Margaret Coan
Fort Davis
Edward Townsend
Richard G. Irving
Ray Fitzgerald
Clay Miller
Doyle Cathey
Robert Fairchiki
Frances ‘Timmons
Oneva Halliburton
Volume Acquired of 1850 Boundary Survey Book by Sul Ross Professor
Sul Ross Professor Dr. E Sperry has acquired a rare 1850 U S and Mexican Boundary Survey volume printed under the Interior Secretary. Only 1,000 copies were issued. Sperry obtained it with help from Dr T L Steiger through a New Hampshire secondhand shop. The 12-pound book includes 270 full page plates, 25 hand colored, and seven parts with contributions by Emory Torrey Englemann Baird Girard and Pary. Interested readers may inspect in Sperry's office on the administration building's bottom floor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wrumer E. Sperry
Secretary of the Interior
T. L. Steiger
New Hampshire
Sperry
William H. Emory
C. C. Pary
John Torrey
George Englemann
F. F. Baird
C. Girard
Two More Men Ordered To Report for Training
Two Brewster county men Moses Ariola Alpine and Gene Harold Salyer Terlingua were ordered to report at Fort Bliss for training on May 28. M H Moorman draft board chairman said both are volunteers. The article notes a study trip involving Miss Hamilton and her mother for two weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brewster County
Fort Bliss
M. H. Moorman
Moses Ariola
Alpine
Gene Harold Salyer
Terlingua
Hamilton
Inspection details and invited defense officers visit
The article records an inspection segment with two hours of weekly drills and mentions Major Arthur B. Owth, Mr. Stovall, and Captain John K. Imundson inviting officers from Brewster and Presidio Soutien at Fort D. A. Rusel to participate in the Zone defense scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ad- Iroc
Arthur B. Owths
Tnt Balis Tdg
Stovall
Border Patrol
John K
Tmundson
D, Ltd
Sate
Brewster and
Presidio
Soutien
Fort
D. A. Rusel
Rotary prize parade boosts derby quality and prizes
In a soap box derby event, Harvey Mathews won first place with a lean, fast car, beating J. L. Henderson who placed second and Henry Weyerts who finished third with an orange paint job. Billie Weston finished third in pralines samples, while Dorothy Coleman earned an honorable mention for puffed rice candy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billie Weston
Dorothy Coleman
Mr. Seales
Harvey Mathews
J. L. Henderson
Mathews
Henry Weyerts
Weyerts
Rotary Kids' Contest Ends After El Paso Event
Ro tary Kids' program concludes with competition in El Paso as national contest wraps up in July.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
el Paso
Rotary
Notice to Our Customers
A brief customer advisory appears with the line Notice to Our Customers repeated and the price 38¢ in a 206 section. The readable fragment indicates a storefront notice likely informing shoppers of terms or a price. The content is minimal and lacks full context or entities.
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Granada
Jeeter
Mis
Lester Homestead
Tobacco Road
Charle Grapewin
William Tracy
Elisabeth Patterson
Gene Tierney
20Th Century-Fox
Darryl F. Zanuck
Barry Scobee
Marold G. Thompson
Tyre Brown
Brown
Rio Grande Valley
Thompson
FA Davis
Don Carlton
Jeff Davis County
J. W. Merrill & Son
Acerete Epider
Mary Pancoast Bogel
Dorothy Scott
Jo Maner
Scott
Clara May Bogel
Ruby Jane [Parcham
Rose Anne Seth
J. Hunt
Ler Clark
J. G. McIntosh
Corpus Christi
Mary Christine
McIntosh
E. H. Carlton
McIntoshs
Jane
Methodist Church
Mark Burett
Alpine Board of Education
Central Ward
R. M. Bankhead
Texas
Alpine Lumber Company
Storey-Whiteside Lumber Company
W. J. Smith
RM. Bankhead
Brewster County Livestock Auction Sales Company
T. L. Hatch
T. D. Beasley
Sul Ross
Faye Hamilton
Sal Rosibrarian
Veston
Sean
Oine
Derby
Lamb
Bacon
Sunny Bank
Vanilla Waters
Rida
Scott Towels
van Camp’s Park’n Beans
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