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Newspaper
Brookshire Times
Location
Brookshire, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1939
Page
5
Subscription rates listed at one dollar for six months in advance and one fifty per year. Publication enters Brookshire Texas as second class mail matter under the March 3 1879 act.
Minneapolis reports Americans will tour the Americas more in 1939 while Europe travel declines. A Northwestern National Life study says 1939 will top 1937’s 5.5 billion dollar tourist business as domestic trips surge for New York and San Francisco fairs, rail and auto travel rise, and Hawaiian sailings sell out.
A Midwest and West rural following boosts auction bridge to third place among card games in a national survey. Contract bridge tops, with poker second. 42 games named, including local favorites like schafkopf in Wisconsin and rare regional titles such as fiery cross and hoof and mouth.
Butte Montana reports Beavers used by CCC in dam building and water conservation. Charles A Joy, supervisor of Deer Creek, notes a new fort established by the animals as part of the work.
In the Lodge National Forest a bustling beaver family built a three story apartment house. The basement houses the beaver builders while the second floor hosts a muskrat family and the penthouse is occupied by a young mink couple with several kits. The animals live on friendly terms with their neighbors.
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