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Cotton Picking in Full Swing and Visiting Kin
Cotton picking is in full swing as Fred Gaston brings in the first hale to be ginned. A flurry of visitors travels through Texas and nearby states, including LD Montgomery and guests from Brownfield and Fedimond Canada. Families from Carlsbad New Mexico, Lubbock, Midland, Georgeana Alabama, and other towns visit relatives, with exchanges among the Hortons, Lackey, Sneed, Shaffer, and Theker households.
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Fred Gaston
HL Montgomery
L. de Bailes
Brownfield
McPherson
Fedimond
Canada
Miro
Wooe
Lackey
Bark
Carlsbad
New Mexico
Lee Lackey
Mr. Aund
George Horton
Curtis
Mir
Bille Horton
Lubbock
Leonard Smith
Midland
Opal Shaffer
AP Sneed
Doris Sneed
Georgeana
Alabama
Bill Theker
Earl
van Antonie