Weekly Tracy Community News Highlights and Local Visits
Tracy residents attend church services with Bro. Weimer and plan the April Quarterly Conference. Easter activities include an hunt at Charles pasture. Local visits feature the Beesleys, Laird, Plate, and Neal families in Cameron Rockdale and Duncan areas with several travels and social calls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tracy
Methodist Church
Weimer
Polk C. Webb
Christian Church
Charles
Henry
Minerva
J. F. Horton
Jim Young
Mack Craven
Lois Hosea
Rockdale
McQuinn
Edwards
Lizzie House
Hoyte
Lonnie
Melba James
Aleck Beesley
J. W. Beesley
Hoyte Truck Growers Association Meeting Sees Growth Plans
The Hoyte Texas truck growers group met with about 30 members, approving continued fundraising for a hall. They discussed boosting shipping facilities with Santa Fe and outlined crops including watermelons peppers and tomatoes totaling several hundred acres. The association aims to ship 200 cars of watermelons and plans to reconvene April 16, 1915.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoyte
Tex
Hoyte Truck Growers Association
Santa Fe Railroad
J. L. Foster
A. L. Pope
Spring Bazaar and Store Opening at Local Churches and Shops
The Methodist church ladies host a Spring Bazaar Thursday to Saturday in the former Johnson Jewelry Co. space with bonnets, aprons, handiwork, fresh cakes, pies, and funeral coffins and caskets offered by 4811 C N Green & Brother. Cheeves Brothers reports a grand Spring opening midweek with draperies hats and spring novelties, featuring Gold Medal and Fish hats priced five to fifteen dollars. Miss Gray, Miss Macine, and Mrs Buck Bonds oversee the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cheeves Brothers
Miss Gray
Mexia
Macine
Buck Bonds
Health gains bring first baby after recovery
A letter notes the author’s improved health after Peruna treatment and announces the birth of a baby boy, describing him as their first and only child and attributing the birth to the cure. The writer expresses happiness and hope for others seeking relief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peruna
Calumet Baking Powder announces recipe book offer
A Calumet Baking Powder Company promotion in Jasper County Newsboy markets a color illustrated recipe book containing 252 recipes and household hints. Readers mail in a slip from a Calumet can to receive the book, praised as wholesome and economical. The column also notes local egg car shipments and Lee Batte selling cattle to D. Worchester for Cameron beef.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calumet Baking Powder Company
Chicago
Lee Batte
Worchester
Hull
Mr. Batte
Ft. Worth
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Aurelux
Fulton
Saindon
Monarch
Crex
Goleman
Eplen
All Druggs F. V. Lippman
Savannah
Cameron
Sembwesters Tel
Tel
C. Henry
C. Henry Ruby
Underwood
E. M. Belk
C. N. Green & Brother
N. Treen & Brother
James F. Summitt
East Eighth Sty
Muscatine
Iowa
P He
Otto Schmidt
Jasper County
Runnels County
New York
Jasper
Tucker
M. G. Cox
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