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Newspaper
Eagle Lake Headlight
Location
Eagle Lake, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1956
Page
8
The Eagle Lake Independent School District lists board members serving defined terms, with vacancies filled by the board. Officers are elected by plurality at the first April meeting, including a president who presides and calls special meetings, acts as secretary, records minutes, and presents monthly financial reports for the district.
Mr and Mrs Wilburn Black and their daughters spent the week end with friends at Liberty and Deisette.
Arline Gertson bride elect of Kenneth Brune of Garwood was honored at a miscellaneous bridal shower hosted by Mrs. Betty Janow and others at the W F Meitgen home on Sunday afternoon January 29. Twenty guests attended from 2:30 to 4. A corsage of yellow carnations and a white wedding bell were given to the guest of honor.
A U S Marine Corps Recruiting team will visit Eagle Lake at the Post Office Building on Monday February 6 from 9 30 to 11 00 a m to interview and select qualified young men and women for three or four year enlistments. Recruits will be sent to San Diego for ten weeks boot camp and depart Houston by air after passing mental physical and moral retirements. Marines serve in LAND SEA or AVIATION units.
Eagle Lake Volunteer Firemen had an off night Monday and will resume practice sessions next Monday. The note urged everyone to do their part in preventing fires at all times.
John S. Carroll Jr. of Eagle Lake Texas announces that Stanley Carroll IT son of Mr and Mrs J S Carroll Jr will complete recruit training February 6 at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego California The ten week course covers basic military subjects and firing of basic infantry weapons Upon completion Marines are assigned to Camp Pendleton or Marine Corps schools for further infantry training.
The Sunshine Class of Dolly Memorial Methodist Church gathered at Mrs. Ben Brasher’s home on Thursday morning January 26 with 10 members present. Mrs. R. T. Westmoreland presented an engaging program on the Book of Acts followed by refreshments of doughnuts and coffee served by the hostess.
Laughlin Hospital reports this week list inpatients Mrs Henry Hartman Lissie Mrs Roy Fuller Sheridan Gladys Janik East Bernard Mrs W J Henry Rock Island Mrs Lee Fredrickson Rock Island Mrs A W Kohleffel City Joe Frybert Mrs J H Hoffman and son plus Rev N Bollen as a colored patient in City. Dismissals include E J Parma Mrs Tommy Bills JAR Colby Roy Lee Girndt Paul Gonzales Andrea Duarte and Mrs L F Lines. February top list covers potatoes pork beef grapefruit and cabbage.
Darrell Brice Stephens celebrated his first birthday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Draper Stephens Sr. with grandparents and many relatives attending. Jackie Arnold recently enrolled at the University of Texas for the Spring Semester after graduating from John Reagan High School in Houston.
R H Reese Sr serves as contractor for home improvements for Mr. and Mrs. Harold Thomas and family on State Street. Mrs. Avis Goolsby and Mrs. Wilburn Black traveled to Fairfield on Thursday to visit Mrs. Goolsby’s mother, who suffered a stroke while visiting the daughter’s family in Fairfield.
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