Local attendance and visits noted near Zion Hill
Community members report attendance at Zion Hill Sunday School with visitors from Waco and Fort Worth. Nearby residents including Bratton Pound s and McIlhany family guests visited, while notable rainfall reached 2.20 inches at Van Dyke on August 31. Huetts take August vacation visiting El Paso and unspecified destinations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. J. Pounds
Duster
Lon Lancaster
Zion Hill
Bobby
Sue Welch
Waco
George Wilkes
Fort Worth
Andy Johnson
Oscar Rape
Houston
van Dyke
Jesses Werse
Sheepmen urged to vote yes in Texas wool referendum
Texas Sheep and Goat Raisers Assn president Lance Sears of Sweetwater urges more than 10 000 producers to vote yes in September on wool and lamb promotion. He defends the one cent per pound check off funding and criticizes Farm Bureau opposition as overstepping its rights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Angelo
Sheepmen
Texas
Lance Sears
Sweetwater
Texas Sheep and Goat Raisers’ Assn
Sears
Tg&gra
American Sheep Producers Council Inc
American
Texas Farm Bureau Organizations
Farm Bureau
ASPC
National Wool Growers’ Assn
Gustine Sailor Returns From Five Month Pacific Duty
Edward D. Wilson seaman USN, son of Mr and Mrs Elmer D Wilson of Gustine, returned August 28 to Long Beach California aboard the destroyed USS Frank E Evans after a five month tour with the U S Seventh Fleet in the Western Pacific.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Long Beach
Calif
Edward D. Wilson
USN
Elmer D. Wilson
Gustine
Frank E. Evans
U.S. Seventh Fleet
Western Pacific
Evans submarine screen and rescue destroyer on Shangri La cruise
The Evans served as a submarine screen and rescue destroyer for the attack aircraft carrier USS Shangri La, took part in Seventh Fleet exercises, and allied SEATO nations. A separate Pasadena visit notes Roy and Mrs. Rains visiting his mother and grandmother, with the tour covering Hawaii Japan Hong Kong and the Philippines and totaling over 33 000 miles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evans
Shangri-La
Hawaii
Japan
Honk Kong
Philippines
Presbyterian Camp Attendee Joins Mo Ranch Conference
Janet Meyers from Presbyterian Senior High Fellowship attended the Mo Ranch conference in Hunt Texas in August 1926. The record notes a startling stat that six hundred sixty nine newspapers are purchased in the United States each second of every hour of every day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Presbyterian
Miks
Janet Meyers
Mo Ranch
Hunt, Texas
United States
Houston couple visits relatives over weekend
Here From Houston Mr and Mrs Dawson Waring of Houston were here over the week end to visit his mother, Mrs Frances Waring and other relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Lou McIlhany
Dallas
W. W. Cox
Alma Grainger
Roy Rains
Pasadena
Roy Rains Sr
Nora Gordion
Mrs
Dawson Waring
Houston
Frances Waring
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Beck
Ned
Zion
Sernoon
E. J. Bratton
Pacific
Seventh Fleet
South East Asia Treaty Organization
Lana Turner
John Gavin
Fannie Hurst
Majestic Theatre
Comanche
Jimmy Gore
Marty Snyder
Kimbell
Morton
Lly Dance
Duncan Hines
Blackeye
Resh
Oleo
Franks
Bora
Il Free Peete
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