Town Snooper Highlights Local Trips and Happenings
The column shares residents packing for a New Mexico mountain trip and others returning from South Texas. Irma Jean Gentry joins a Amarillo visitor stay while Thelma and Ruby Dell Stoops vacation in Colorado. Several families plan Texas and Canyon visits and Idlewild hosts a large Cimarron Canyon fish fry with about 100 guests from four states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Snooper
Lowell
Martha
Caroline
New Mexico Mountains
FE. K. Hill
Pierce Street
Texas
Irma Jean Gentry
Childress
Arthur Johnson
Clovis
W. W. Wallace
Canyon
Hereford
Wilbur Axe
Cimarron Canyon
Idiewild
Eagle Nest
Amarillo
New Mexico
Kansas
Oklahoma
Messrs. and Mesdames
W. F Locke
Ches Meador
Joe Heare
H. L. Flanigan
W. O. Thomas
Arch King
Idlewild
Amarillo Senior High honors Ann Brannen with best all around girl
Ann Claire Brannen named best all around girl by the Younger Generation at Amarillo Senior High. She is a cheerleader debate team member associate editor of the Sandstorm and on the National Forensic honor roll. She holds several leadership posts in clubs and earned the D A R citizenship award and state Who's Who recognition. She enjoys scouting and aspires to teach English.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo Senior High School
Ann Claire Brannen
Ann Claire
Mariner
T. P's
Bhe
J. A. Brannen
Broadmoor Street
First Woman Captain Of Great Lakes Began As Cook
Miss Ollie Johnston has become the first woman licensed to navigate the Great Lakes. She rose from galley cook on the Pyke Salvage Co. tug Salvage Prince to a full pilot, clearing a tug and tow at Oswego customs after overseeing a 1000 ton coal cargo to Gananoque. The Canadian government awarded her navigator status, granting authority from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to Fort William Ontario.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alliant Oswego
N. Y
Ollie Johnston
Great Lakes
Miss Johnston
Pyke Salvage Co
Kingston
Ont
Frank Pyke
Pyke
Oswego
Lake Ontario
St. Lawrence River
Montreal
Cook
Prince
Pyke Company
Minister of Marine
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Fort William
Hilda
Lackawanna
Gananoque
United States Customs
Federal Building
Oswego Customs Office
Prince Domino L M Fischer of Brasville Ohio A Amarillo lawyer
L M Fischer born in Brasville Ohio on March 31 became a lawyer inspired by his brother. He moved to Amarillo in 1928 to develop natural resources with government help for national benefit. He enjoys Herefords irrigation and football and admires Alice Faye and Gary Cooper. He dislikes liars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. M. Fischer
Prince Domino
Brasville
Ohio
Amarillo
Alice Faye
Gary Cooper
Amarillo Social Roundup Adds Visitors and Guests
Amarillo residents hosted and visited with friends including Dr. and Mrs. Streit and family, Mrs. Shaller, and the Higgins clan among others. Guests traveled from Dallas, Arlington, Kansas City, and Denton while others enjoyed trips to Yellowstone and Idlewild New Mexico.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. J. Streit
Ann
C. C. Shaller
W. R Klingensmith
Mary
H. L. Adkins
Dawn
H. C. Pipkin
Pearl Gould
Mary Evelyn Gould
F. C. Higgins
Margaret Jane
Pat
Mike Higgins
W. K. McCaskill
Fred Davis
Kansas City
C. T. Crowe
Sunset
FE. E. Davis
Arlington
Tyler Street
Davis
Arlington Junior College
Yellowstone National Park
D. B. Blaine
Winona Louise
Jo Ann
Sonny
Dallas
Amarillo
Idlewild
New Mexico
W. S. Humphreys
Denton
Mary Humphreys
San Antonio
Wendie Humphreys
Joe Perry
Houston
Webbs Return from West Coast Trip
Mr and Mrs J M Webb of 1014 West Tenth Avenue return from a West Coast tour visiting Long Beach San Pedro Los Angeles and Venice. They were joined by Mrs Webbs parents Mr and Mrs Alfred Weisenman of Lubbock and met the Weilenmans in Amarillo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F.C. Higgins
Margaret Jane
Tyler Street
Idlewild
N. M
FE. H. Quattlebaum
West Thirteenth Avenue
Boulder
Colo
Kate Wilson
Neil Quattlebaum
Amarillo
Carrie C. Hood
Evelyn Hood
Morris Knorpp
Laurel
Groom
Carlsbad Caverns
Colorado
W. K. McCaskill
FP. C. Higgins
Raton
Eagle Nest
B. F. Bennett
Hot Springs
J. Purdom
Don
West Nineteenth Avenue
J. M. Webb
West Tenth Avenue
West Coast
Long Beach
San Pedro
Los Angeles
Venice
Webbs
Port to His Love An Old Silver Church Poem
An old silver church in a forest stands as a symbol of devotion. Trees around it become words stolen from a beloved heart while a silver bell rings only when the beloved approaches, their voice replacing the bell’s chime. Maxwell Hodenheim presents this verse from the Untermeyer Collection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maxwell Hodenheim
Untermeyer
Wives Will Call but Won't Act Natural
Officials for Alabama Farmers and Homemakers Week in Auburn plan a husband calling contest August 1-5 but cannot find entrants. They found women who would call Darling or Honey, but none would cry Henry Come to dinner from the back porch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Auburn
Ala
Alabama Farmers and Homemakers
Courthouse Deed Records Show 1938 Property Transfers
Property deeds list transfers from August 1938 including J P Collier to Ben Henson and Texas Plains Bldg and Loan to C J Restine. Sales involve lots, blocks, and subdivisions across Mirror, Holland, San Jacinto Heights, and Country Club District. Bold entries include prices from $10 to $2,750 and acreage fragments from several sections.
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Texas Plains Bldg. & Loan
C. J. Restine
Mirror
A. R. Anderson
A. B
W. A. F. Morris Et Ux
J. E. Hill Ing. Co
Eakle
Henry L. Ford
T. J. Thompson
San Jacinto Heights
N. H. Mohler
Lila P. Dryden
Country Club District
Texas Plains Ridg. & Loan
Evelyn Franks
A” Blasdel Epp
Holland C. M. Hicks
F. J. Anderson
R.mere
J. W. Keeton, Jr
FE. E. Murphy
Chas, Adkisson
E. E. Murphy
Susan C. Brown
F. B. Hart
Holland
J. EF. Skipper
Texas Plains
Oldsmobile
J. W. Frass
Buick
Kenneth Whipple
Mail carrier's route lengthened by nesting bird
Becket Massachusetts reports mail carrier Ian Witcher's rural route grows longer in summer as a bird adopts Rudolph Meiers' mailbox for its nest. Witcher avoids disturbing the bird and continues delivering by going to the house with Meiers' jetters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Becket
Mass
U.P
Ian” Witcher
R.F.D
Rudolph Meiers
Witcher
Meiers
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Steffens
Steffen's
Marion Roy Brown
Dennis Thompson
Sam J. Aronson
J O. Curtis
ER. Foster
J. W. Rogers
George Lappin
Frank K. Borden
Max Houston
Buddy Patton
E. G. Rice
Amarillo Hotel
Lilly Larsen
Will Rogers
Charles Barker
R. J. Pollard
West
Nineteenth Avenue
MD. Lynch
T. Harris
Wavnoka
Okla
Lillie Luther
Lincoln Street
Travis Smith
Shreveport
Wilbur Scann
Merchant Biscuit Company
el Paso
W. Fritz
Mary Alice and
Gladine
F. Dodd
Daingerfield
G. Line
Trinity University
Fred H. Davis
Mary Frances
Fort Worth
EF. A. Davis
North Arthur Street
Lawrence Nobles
Betty
H. A. Nobles
P. A. Masterson
Mr. Masterson
J. E. Roquemore
Farmington, N. M
Velma Ruth Reed
Crosbyton
Roy Earl Sandifer
Berger
Minnie Cormack
van Buren Street
George S. Berry
Ladonna
George William
Lubbock
Florist Telegraph Delivery Association
NEW Business House
Sweetbriar
Ninth Avenue
Polk Street
Katherine Pryor
Dodge City
The
USA
Strawberry Point
Iowa
McKinley
Hammond
AATT
Betty Bennett
R. M. Bennett
Floyd Richards
Franklin Apparel
Polk St
Mens Club
Ellwood Park
F H. Quattlebaum
Roy Chase
Oscar Rummerfield
Oklahoma City
Uhlmann Grain Company
Hubert Cole
Ellen Blake
R. P. Parcells
Wicker Wright's
Pauline Trans
Wheeler
John W Peeples
G. Ralls
Ralls Grair Company
Fo. Worth
Glen Berry
Great West Mills
Tucumcari
Willie Boyett
McLean
J. C. Lyle
Texhoma
Corpus Christi
Holland Toles
Happy
Mr. Toles
Georgia
Fr. A. Davis
Gladys Davis
Mrs. Davis
Katherine Metcalf
North Fast
Fifth Avenue
Rhonda Jenkins
West Sixth Avenue
C. C. Stewart
North West
First Avenue
Denver
Annabelle Shields
Alden
Monroe Street
J. A. Dillard
Lockney
Wm. L. Ball
George Eliot
Osgood
Eral Motors Acceptance Corporation
E.S.T
Or, Pepper
H. H. Ball
Blackburn
D A
Ionally
Gardenia Eau de Cologne
Colgate
Mennen
Squibb's Milk of
Magnesia
Dent Tai
Bebeer
Dubarry Tropical
Fitch
Krt
Aks
Cenen
Dr. West
Courthouse Records
J. P. Collier
Ben Henson
Boston
J. T. Hayns
Britt Terry
Ruby Goodson
M. Moon
Reba Marie Williams
Carl C. Landoin
Lola Gene Dobbs
C.D. McDade
Doris Gouldy
W. T. Gibbons
Bertha Barenum
John
Umber
Cvubity
Hay-No
Hay-No Laboratories
Tex
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