Bids Open Friday for Texas Road and Bridge Projects
The Texas state highway commission requests bids for highway and bridge work totaling about 1.4 million dollars. Projects cover 23 miles of concrete paving, multiple miles of caliche base, grading, drainage, and 19 small bridges across Hemphill, Lubbock, Navarro, McLennan, Kerr, Goliad, Cherokee, Calhoun, Bell, McLennan, Comal, Concho, Menard, Crockett, Reeves, Pecos, and other counties with various highways. No county delegations will be heard.
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Austin
State Highway Commission
Hemphill
Washita River
Canadian
Gageby
Wheeler
Lubbock
Idalou
Crosby
Navarro
Corsicana
Powell
McLennan
Bruceville
Waco
Kerr
Mountain Home
Goliad
DeWitt County
Cherokee
Jacksonville
Calhoun
Port Lavaca
Green Lake
Boar
Coke
Bronte
Coke-Tom Green County
Bell and McLennan
Temple
Falls County
Eddy
Comal
Guadalupe River
New Braunfels
Guadalupe County
Concho and
Menard
Eden
Crockett
Ozona
Reeves and Culbertson
Orla
New Mexico
Concho
Harden
Brady Creek
Pecos
Fort Stockton
Roadwork Project Descriptions Across Texas Counties
A historical notice lists numerous highway grading and drainage projects across Texas counties including Brewster Presidio County Alpine Fort Stockton and Tom Green. It details distances from county lines and specific bridges and culverts on highways 3 27 and 57 with channel changes and surface treatments noted for Kimble Sutton and nearby routes.
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Fort Stockton
Calhoun
Green Lake
Port Lavaca
Brewster
Presidio County
Alpine
Bronte
Tom Green
Bell and McLennan
Little Elm
Big Elm
Deer Creek
Cow Bayou
Lorena
Temple
Pecos
Gardwell
San Marcos
Luling
A. Kimble
Sutton County
Roosevelt
Buck Hollow
Ranacid Creek
Highway Patrol Pins 7000 Pound Limit Violations
Capt. S. O. Hamm and 28 state highway patrolmen checked truck operators in Dallas today for excess of the 7000 pound limit that had been recently authorized. Supreme Court injunctions against the state officer were upheld as valid.
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Dallas
U.P
S. O. Hamm
State Highway Department
United States Supreme Court
Dowdell Heads Exchange New York
William S. Dowdell of Weil Brothers was elected president of the New York Cotton Exchange, succeeding Philip B. Weld.
Playlet Presented Before Lions Club
Amarillo Little Theater staged a playlet titled Fourteen before the Lions Club Tuesday. Performers included Katherine Bartlett Eloise Gipson and Oma Link Rowley. Cal Davis announced free garden seed supplied to 16 needy families, with R Thomson and T E Johnson on the committee. Officers to be elected next Tuesday with S P Vineyard and Avery Bush as president candidates.
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Amarillo
Cotton Crop Planted by Legion to Fund Club House
A 100 acre cooperative cotton crop near here is planted to raise funds for a local American Legion post to build a club house. The J. B. Slaughter estate donated the land, and six hours of labor by 10 two row planters will plant and care for the crop, cultivated and harvested by Legion members and their wives.
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The
American Legion
Legion
J. B. Slaughter
Rain brings modest boost to crops after dry spell
Special to The News reports Morse area received about 3.5 inches of rain over three days. The soaking aids raw crops and grass but arrives too late for wheat, which suffered from prolonged drought. Wheat men estimate a two third yield versus last year's eight to ten bushels per acre.
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News Morse
Treasury Receipts and Expenditures For June 4
Treasury reports show June 4 receipts of 2 627 333.20 dollars and expenditures of 14 325 587.31 dollars leaving a balance of 322 154 936.62 dollars. Customs duties for four days in June totaled 2 475 380.58 dollars.
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Washington
Treasury
Texas Political Calendar AP June 9 to June 27 events
The notice lists Texas political dates from June 9 to June 27. It includes the State Executive Committee meeting June 13 in Austin to set the nominating convention location and other matters, Republican and Democratic National Conventions in Chicago June 14 and June 27, and key filing and expense deadlines for candidates and ballot procedures.
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Associated Press
Austin
Chicago
Childress Seeks Paving of Highway 4
Childress city and county officials plan to request Texas Highway Commission paving of Highway 4 from the city limits to the county south line, joining in Cottle County. The stretch has been graded and settled enough for paving, with the road seen as a key business feeder to Childress.
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Childress
Texas Highway Commission
Cottle County
Childress County
Federation outlines Seattle convention theme
Washington June 7 Carry your cargo and make 1 port will be the keynote of the twenty first biennial convention of the General Federation of Women's Clubs in Seattle June 9 to 18. President Mrs John F Sippel of Baltimore Md presides. Delegates from every state and many foreign countries will attend. the federation includes over 14 600 clubs and 74 organizations in 24 foreign nations.
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Washington, D. C
General Federation of Women's Clubs
Seattle
Wash
John F. Sippel
Baltimore
Road to Palo Duro Park In Good Shape
The road to the Palo Duro Park fourteen miles east of Canyon is in excellent condition. Custodian Ray V. Davis notes travel from Canyon to the park at about forty miles per hour. He says the road is rarely impassable and that Sundays attract over 300 visitors from Amarillo, Panhandle towns, and other states.
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Palo Duro Park
Canyon
Ray V. Davis
Amarillo
Mr. Davis
Panhandle
Tax collection in Chaves shows strong 1931 totals
Roswell New Mexico June 7 Deputy County Treasurer W C Holland of Chaves County reports 67.08 percent of 1931 taxes collected. The 1931 tax roll totals 630405 66 dollars with May collections at 18164 94 dollars, only 8.69 percent behind the previous year.
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Roswell
N. M
W. Co. Holland
Chaves County
Holland
Eye glasses offer free exam with purchase option
A notice promises medical and optical examinations at no cost or obligation and invites readers to buy glasses at a reasonable price, with no requirement to purchase. The message is placed under the Oliver-Eakle Building.
Purification Health Ad Promotes Calotabs Course
A physician endorses Calotabs as a method to purify the body and restore health. The ad urges a thorough course taken once or twice weekly for several weeks and notes trial and family package prices with claims of blood purification and organ detox.
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Nature
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Turkestan
Capitol Hotel
Lions Club
Legion For Funds
Myamemalo
Wright Printing CO
Taylor ST
James Dunn
George O’brien
Death Valley
Mystery Ranch
Paramount
Rusela
Sari Maritza
Gene Raymond
Marguerite Churchill
Irving Pichel
Cecile Demille
John Josey
Texas
Adams
Amarillo Auto Body Works
Winnedge
General Motors
LOW AS Nunn Electric Co
Polk St
Kellogg
Battle Creek
Pio
Kellogg Company
Chaves
Oliver-Eakle Building
Edwin Clapps
J. P. Smiths
Walter Booths
Blackburn Bros
West Texas
E. S. Burgess
Lumber
Fifth
Tyler
Penneys
Krinkle
Penney’s
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