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Newspaper
Eagle Lake Headlight
Location
Eagle Lake, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1925
Page
3
Miss Nellie Buffington, formerly an assistant at the post, is off duty for a few days this week. The note clarifies she is not vacationing but entertaining a guest, described obliquely in the local tidbits.
An advertiser touts Southwest Texas or the fertile Coast Country as ideal home sites. Describes Rice lands under irrigation and black lands with drainage, promising crops, health, and growing value from cleared brush to plowed land. Promises choice locations available for sale with storage and water access.
Houston visitor Miss Francis Schroeder spent several days with cousins Miss Zanobia Burns. Galveston guests included Mrs. O Wheeless Mr and Mrs J G Wheeless and Mr Homer David. Cleburne pair Miss Viva and Lorena Kesee visited Hud son and Hudson families. Columbus native Miss Mary Geraldine Miller stayed with aunt Mrs Adolph Wegenhoff. Dr Swanson of Hallettsville visited Miss Edith Wright. Mrs A P Powers of Eagle Lake and two sons visited her Wright relatives. Richard Mazele spent week in Giddings with sister Mrs O A Miller. Elaine Myers recovering in sanitarium from typhoid. Oscar Wegenhoft of near El Campo visiting. Embroidery Club hosted by Mrs C L Milntire with refreshments. Rev David Bain home after three weeks in Kenedy. Mrs Floyd Wilcox and two children returned from Pasadena and Houston trip. brother John Wilcox escorted home. Mr and Mrs T W Eversole with Kathryn and Herbert Karl spent Tuesday in Eagle Lake.
Washington bulletin highlights Rome as cradle of civilization and modern city with Colosseum ruins, Vatican grandeur, and fountains. It contrasts ancient hills with a renovated city and notes major sites, churches, and the Unknown Soldier tomb. Also recounts a rural tragedy of an elderly farmer ruined by slick stock salesmen and the county home fate. Farmer J. F. Canaday visited Houston.
A vintage ad touts Hayes Healing Honey as a cough remedy that halts coughing by soothing inflamed airways. It promotes a chest and throat salve for cold symptoms and sells the combined treatment at 35 cents, with cheerful booster lines urging buyers to support local druggists and good conduct.
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