Rotary Luncheon Highlights Eagle Lake Scoutwork and 40th Anniversary Broadcast
Rotary guests P D Gertson Lis sie and V D Morris attended a luncheon with R B Davis reviewing 18 years of Eagle Lake Boy Scout work. Absence of treasurer N C Ney noted as improving at St P Hospital Houston. NBC to air a coast to coast program Friday February 23 honoring Rotary's 40th Anniversary from 12:00 to 12:30 noon.
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Rotary
P. D. Gertson
Lissie
V. D. Morris
R. B. Davis
Eagle Lake
N. C. Ney
S. P. Hospital
Houston
Pyorrhed Strikes Prompt Payback Doubts At Store
Fragmented notes show shoppers debating refunds if a first bowtie from Letos fails to satisfy. Amid casual chatter in Beckman’s Drug Store, Mrs Frnka returns to Houston with family. Recollections touch radio’s impact on ranch life and dialect lessons.
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Fred G. Frnka
Edmund A. Radack
Houston
Josephine Frnka
St.j
Uncle's Boys and War News Parade in Refugio
Read by families across Refugio the Headlight is forwarded when mail arrives. A Navy letter from Hugo Python recounts excitement near barracks as soldiers discover a fourteen foot six inch python. A U S Army release details Sgt Alvin Kohieffelix leading Railway Service units near Vosges, rebuilding bridges and restoring lines. Seabee news from James H. Wilson notes a ship visit to H M S Victorious and Psalm 139 quoted in the chaplain’s corner. Ella Lane learns nephew Willing Piegeman earns promotion to full Lieutenant aboard a ship in the Southwest Pacific.
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Ife
Hugo Python
Jim Cosgrove H. A
U.S. Navy
J. H. Cosgrove
Sixth Army Group
Prange
Alvin W
Kohieffelix
Vosges Mountains
France
750Th
7Th Army
Military Railway Service
Seabee News
James H. Wilson
Ella B. Lane
Willing H. Piegeman
Medical Corps U
Piegeman
Southwest Pacific
Mare
Housewives Use Rouge to Fool OPA in Token Grift
Reports from butchers describe blue tokens coated with rouge offered for red tokens. Mr and Mrs W W Gordy of Houston spent the week with friends in Eagle Lake.
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C. B. Hoye
Houston
W. E. Lenhart
OPA
W. W. 5S
Gordy
Eagle Lake
Veteran 67-Year-Old Guard Records Unusual War Service Span
Thomas T. Donahoe, aged 67, guard at the San Jacinto Ordnance Depot, has the longest known absence without leave, having served in two wars 45 years apart. Enlisted in the Spanish American War, he recently reenlisted and earned an honorable discharge noting A. W. O. L. 14, 998 days. Donahoe, who lives in Houston, may compete for a cash award for unusual war experiences. Bennie Shumway, a Houston Seaman Second Class, spent ten months in the Atlantic and has moved to the Merchant Marine.
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Swpormer
Thomas T. Donahoe
San Jacinto
Carlton J. Cook
Donahoe
Capital Ave
Houston
Ripley
Bennie Shumway
U. S. Navy
Atlantic
Merchant Marine
Memories and Visits Stir Eagle Lake Community News
The Eagle Lake Headlight lauds the Garwood talent show The Minister's Wife's New Bonnet staged at the High School auditorium as the town's best local production to date. Local residents including C R Davis were noted for promotions and greetings amid a stream of visits and health updates from surrounding towns and families.
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Garwood
Eagle Lake
Texas Wholesale Grocery Company of Yoakum
C. R. Davis
Davis
Cora Thatcher
Elizabeth Shortt
Hallettsville
Thatcher
S. S. White
Mildred Bowles
St. Louis
W. S. Griffitts
Kirbyville
Annie Phillips
Columbus
Lyle T. Phillips
B. H. Daily
Sophie Daily
Houston
A. F. Harbert
G. R. Abney
Beaumont
G. Sanders
Bay City
L. D. Roberts
Jack Sanders McGinley
Dallas
A. J. Dupree
Waelder
V. N. Barrow
Boothe
Temple
Scott & White
W. H. Strahan
Mattie Mersfelder
Hester Af Weimar
Reinhardt
Ernestine Brooks
Pneumonia Prevalence Advice From Texas Health Official
Dr. Geo W Cox Texas State Health Officer notes pneumonia caused over 2800 Texas deaths last year, higher in winter and spring. He urges rest, proper clothing, moderate home heat, and early medical care for colds to prevent pneumonia, with emphasis on seeking a physician promptly in Wharton this week.
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Austin
Texas
Geo. W. Cox
Jokes and anecdotes from a rural era
A string of humorous vignettes features Mrs Kelly and Mrs O Brien debating ancestors and rent, a nurse selling poppies and promising to nurse, a farm boy answering a man about chickens with teeth, magician Russell Swann on public opinion, a minister and a smoker mammy discussing heaven, and a farmer staging hay to trick cows into eating more.
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Russell Swann
Master Magicians of America
Mr. Swann
Mammiy
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