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Newspaper
Eagle Lake Headlight
Location
Eagle Lake, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1938
Page
8
The Garwood Gars played at Faéiterils on December 2 in a tourney opener. Harry Laborias led with 5 points in a semi finals style game as Koniemsky’s squad rallied amid a mix of classroom notes and local school news.
Fragmentary OCR note indicates a call for contact about a week long event at Yale Sime location with unclear dates and instructions. Readable terms suggest outreach for participation or attendance, but concrete details are indiscernible from the text.
Local social column lists guests and hosts including Mr. and Mrs. Frank Miller and families, L. D. Henmeke, George Afonk, Celuwibus, Mr. Tennis Prenk, and others visiting or dining with residents. Mentions include suppers, weekend visits, and traveling companions from nearby towns.
The Methodist Missionary Society held a World Outlook program at the Educational Building led by Mrs. 3. M. Chummer who gave a quiz from the World Outlook. Mrs. Kinmebt Hunt offered the meditation and next week Mrs. J Holloway will host the missionary society women with an invitation to all members. Reverend Frank E. Walter attended episcopal board meetings in Marlin for chaplains examinations. Sunday guests included Mr. and Mrs. Doe Trichard, Mrs. Jonni Trichard My, Mrs. Christuadecke and son Writer, Mr. and Mrs. Thro Drescher and son of Cat Spring, and Mrs. L. Hermeke at the Drescher home. Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin Bul and family visited the August Neuendorf home. C N Dundlesten and family hosted relatives and friends for Junior’s fourteenth birthday. Funeral services were held Wednesday for Herman Witte at the Menta Catholic Church. he is survived by his wife, four daughters Sister Gertrude, Alma, Dara and Lidiam, and three sons Raymond, Sylvester, and Victor.
J F Dunaday of Eagle Lake and Miss Willie Patterson of Hatties bury were married yesterday at the home of Rev. and Mrs R B Jones. Walter G York of Wharton, longtime Eagle Lake resident, died in Wharton Friday. He was born August 29, 1873 in Weimar, eldest of two children. survived by mother Nina Fork, three brothers Jol Van Frank, and sister Mrs A Kennedy. Mrs C Gertson hosted a miscellany shower for Miss Mary Jane Thormes with guests listed from the community. Plans announced for the marriage of Miss Mary Jane Thormes to Mr Guy Hetlin of New Mexico next Wednesday at the Evangelical Church. A lengthy page covers Honest Bill’s Show winter quarters, with elephants, zebras, and many animals. A pair of Texas men from Taylor, A L Devs and John Cameron, journeying to Shreveport to seek Bea Robinson’s bee hive colony site. Congratulations to Mr and Mrs McCreary on the birth of a son, Jon Lea McCreary. Thermometer 28 degrees. fire at FR E Walker home on State Street due to upstairs fire in occupied room.
Mr. and Mrs. P Pennington of San Antonio are guests of Mr. and Mrs. O C Pennington in Whitar ton. Mrs Pennington accompanied her husband to Caney Valley Hospital for a clinic. The Headlight extends best wishes for a swift recovery and hopeful return to health. Mr. and Mrs J N Prazat and Miss Virginia Fair spent Saturday visiting Roustos.
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