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Newspaper
Eagle Lake Headlight
Location
Eagle Lake, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1947
Page
2
Local snippets report residents visiting Temple and Burnet, hospital stays, and club activities. Births include Ellis, Bev y Jo Litvik, Catherine Cordova, and Rebecca Muzny Mikseh. The area sees gas drilling, crop conditions, and labor shortages with current market prices for cotton pickers and rice shocks.
Mrs C W Springfield invites Intermediate Girl Scouts and friends to her home on Monday and Friday afternoons from 2 to 5 30 providing supervised recreation and circus themed modeling with clay and cracker boxes.
Local residents visit relatives in Boling Corsicana Houston and Wharton. The week includes many family visits from Northington Hershey and Lamkins plus a small blaze in the Duncan Northington gun press quickly contained by extinguishers and a bucket brigade.
About 800 guests attended the Thorstenberg and Tamborello i Company barbecue at the Klimek plant near Fayetteville last Sunday. Eagle Lake employees from Ramsey-area plants joined families of Adolph Fick Frank Dietrich Arnold Konvicka John Beseda Ben Brasher and relatives. Local social notes include visits from Miss LaMerle Floyd and her relatives Mrs Kate West and Elizabeth West of Janesboro and a trip by Miss Ruth Thames and Evelyn Brown of Austin to Colorado. A sales notice invites shoppers to half price eyelet embroidery batistes and piques from J B Smith Co.
Friends and local officials urge voting for Clark W Thompson for Congress praising his 30 plus years of public service in Galveston County. The letter notes his work with Red Cross Boy Scouts Chamber of Commerce and veterans groups and cites Marine service in both wars.
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