County Convention Delegates Named and Resolutions Adopted
A county convention named delegates and adopted resolutions during a formal session. The event referenced honoring an administrator and noted spending concerns as part of the agenda.
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Newspaper
Eagle Lake Headlight
Location
Eagle Lake, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1942
Page
4
A county convention named delegates and adopted resolutions during a formal session. The event referenced honoring an administrator and noted spending concerns as part of the agenda.
Local residents including Floyd Cornelius and Mrs Cuskall with family visited Garwood relatives while others, such as Mrs Rey Young and Mrs J Young, hosted guests. Families traveled to Camp Swift and Houston, with numerous informal gatherings, visits to Austin, and community events noted, including bridge games and a weekend at Camp Swift.
Local families and guests from Houston Corpus Christi Columbus Columbus and Fort Knox spent a weekend in Rock Island with relatives. Dee DeFour visited a hospital in Corpus Christi for appendicitis while Miss Bernaline Mahalite and Dorothy Hooper De e M visited RAM Mall Hearne. Families from Lufkin Wharton Hearne Fort Knox and Kansas joined in the social weekender.
A meeting of the Ninth Congress grievance committee was held in Rotary Hall with City Attorney Emanuel Roos as temporary chair. Attendees included District Attorney R A Bassett and County officials from multiple counties. The session opened at 10 a m with Armon G Schwartz elected secretary and plans for future quarterly meetings announced.
Hot dry weather boosts cotton development and harvesting while rain is needed in central and northern Texas for corn and other crops. Cotton area is estimated around 5.25 million acres, rice forecast at 22.48 million cwt, and wheat yield in northwest Texas higher than last year at 16 bushels per acre.
Farm loan groups in Sealy Eagle Lake Garwood and Rock Island report saving farmers about 3016 through June 30 1944 due to continued low rates on Federal Land Bank and Land Bank Commissioner loans Secretary Treasurer Fred Norris says loans outstanding total roughly 1 000 620 across the associations. Mrs Hugh Henry leaves for Lockhart after visiting Mrs Horace McRee. Miss Shirley Ruggles visits in Bellville with brother J A Ruggles and family.
The Santa Fe Bulletin notes storage buildings and ground wheat stock, with tad tat sown to wheat. Early sorghum in the northwest shows readiness to harvest as turly matures. Overall crop prospects are promising despite late, partly matured fields. Grasshoppers hinder grains, but control methods work. Cotton is late but promising. early potatoes irrigated look good. sugar beet outlook is normal.
O R Strunk and C B Rumsey of W han both mourn the death of a family member. Strunk left Tuesday night for Kansas to attend funeral rites in Topeka after Rumsey died at Life Hospital at 3 37 am Tuesday. Relatives here visited frequently and many friends extend sympathy to the bereaved widow and family.
Chas. von Lengerke offers a reward through the Headlight columns for information leading to the arrest and conviction of pear thieves on the old W. Lammis place near Ramsey. The note also mentions travel details and social notes about local residents and visitors.
Mrs. Ruby Abiters enjoyed a brief visit from her father George Bell on Sunday. Bell was en route from his home at Dannate College Station.
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