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Newspaper
Brookshire Times
Location
Brookshire, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1939
Page
4
Several hundred day laborers depart each morning to work in rice and cotton fields near Brookshire. They are paid every Saturday, bringing several thousand dollars of additional spending into Brookshire on Saturdays.
County superintendents denounce a rural aid provision cutting free bus transport for children within two and a half miles of schools. Critics call the mandate dangerous, predicting increased highway accidents and blaming legislators for endangering rural students.
An editorial notes the vast scale of the U S postal system with over 400 000 postmasters and employees handling 26 million pieces of mail in the last fiscal year It highlights expectations of promptness courtesy and regularity and cites salaries payments to air lines steamship lines and other post office costs totaling hundreds of millions.
The section records birthdays dinners visits and travel by residents including Beulah Kathryn Morton and guests Charles Dale Paul Cates and others. It notes arrivals departures anniversaries barbecues and community actions such as road work and fencing along section lines.
Waller weighs opening a community center and rest room for women in the trade territory to meet visit read play games and discuss daily topics enhancing acquaintance. The government surveys the slope to determine drainage ditch requirements.
Union reports Miss Barbara Dryden returned Monday from El Campo where she visited relatives for a month. J. D Robertson and his young daughter from Mortal Grove spent Sunday in town. T. H. Robertson was injured Saturday after being thrown from a horse into barb wire.
Mrs Henry Hauck and Mr and Mrs EM Hardy visit. Frank Hardy of Houston among relatives. Several attend Banknight funeral at Waller. Miram Stanford returns from Houston. J D Cook visits Frances Cook in Memorial Hospital. Mrs Cook returns from Houston to visit son. Mary Louillery improved after appendicitis. Emma Fiykinger and Inez visiting East Texas. Fritz Steinfelt visiting Chas Flukinger’s. Revival at Shilotz continues through Sunday. Garnet Mitchell and Houston visitors at J D Cook home. Mrs W H Cooke returns from Seguin. Dorothy Philips visiting her parents.
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