Local notes from Katy and area on Sunday visits
Katy area residents visit friends and relatives with trips to Houston Rosenberg and Fort Worth. A church wedding in Katy joins Miss Charleen Morton and Owen Anderson of the Navy, with details of attire family ties and future postings.
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Annie Cabiniss
Mamie Pennington
Houston
Tommie Maxwell
Kay
Nancy
Wichita
Kansas
L. E. Morrison
Katy
Fort Worth
Charleen Morton
Owen Anderson
U. S. Navy
L. E. Wratten
Monroe Morton
C. E. Morton
Katy High School
Southwestern State Teachers College
San Marcos
O. R. Anderson
Monroe City
Texas
John Tarleton College
Stephenville
Norfolk, Va
Absent-Minded Driver Pays Fine After Red Light Walk
Meridian Mississippi reports J T Simms a garage worker walked a red light on Main street. A man led him to a jail and said to pay a $5.50 fine to drop the matter. Simms paid, later discovering no plainclothes officer existed.
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Meridian
Miss
J. T. Simms
Main
Simms
Pineapple Canning and Cooking Demonstration At Two Day Meet
A two day cooking school in Hempstead will feature a pineapple canning demonstration using the hot water bath method and green beans canned with a pressure cooker. Miss Jewell Ballow, Miss Winn, and Miss Leonora O Neill lead the program with exhibits on jar lids and spoiled-food displays.
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Hempstead
Jewell Ballow
Winn
Leonora O'Neill
Gulf States Electric Co
Dog Spitfire Rescues 13 Sailors After Ship Sunk
London report credits a ship’s dog Spitfire with saving 13 Dutch sailors drifting after their vessel was torpedoed by a German submarine. The dog’s barking spooked nearby submarines, allowing lifeboats to escape a potential capsizing before reaching England.
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London
Spitfire
England
Draft Clerk Father Lines Self Up For Army Induction
Durango Colorado John Craig county draft-board clerk for three years selected himself as the first pre Pearl Harbor father from Durango to face induction. He, father of four, went to the Denver center after resigning as clerk and placing his name atop eligible fathers. His wife was named the new clerk and ordered his induction.
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Army
Durango
Colo
John Craig
Craig
Denver
la Plata
State Selective Service Headquarters
Famed Gold Town Nelson Nev Becomes Ghost For Third Time
Nelson Nevada once thrived as a mining hub in Eldorado Canyon Searight district but World War II turned it into a near ghost town. Only 14 residents remain caretakers of property with hopes to rebound when mining resumes.
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Reno
Nev
Nelson
Eldorado Canyon-Searcight
Richard C. Bergholz
Associated Press
Nevada
Isabel H. Jones
Eldorado Canyon
Colorado River
San Francisco
Atlantic
Swansea
Wales
Techatticup
Eldorado Rover
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ePhone
Highway Transportation Company Ea
Katy News
O. L. Miller
Brenham
Roy Blackman
Blackman
Lester Williams
of Rosenberg
W. C. Stockwick Family
John Clingman
Jane and
Billy
Douglas Home
Fred A. Rylander
Florida
Carey Pitts
E. W. Brand
Eudora Fraser
Louise Schlipf
Chove
Coke Stevenson
Gerald C. Mann
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