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Newspaper
Eagle Lake Headlight
Location
Eagle Lake, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1931
Page
8
Information from the hospital in Houston shows the boy improving after receiving two blood transfusions. He is expected to undergo surgery when strength returns sufficiently for the procedure. The family had moved back to Sweetwater prior to the hospital stay.
Don A. Spencer of the Bureau Foung will lead rodent control demonstrations at several homes on February 19 and 21. Date and times include 9:00 am at John Baxter’s home 10 Bick Island. 1:36 pm at Mark Seiver’s home in Shenden. 1:30 pm at Fitz Gold’s in Weimar. 9:00 am at Sibert Koehn’s home. 9:00 am at Giva Luendheke’s home. Demonstrations will not cover cutting ants. All interested invited.
A crowded Baptist church witnesses a mock trial over a fatal drinking spree. Judge Strickland presides as defendant Ben McElhinney Jr acts for the accused, with Mrs Hart as the defendant’s mother and Miss Dilsy Morgan as the widow. Coroner Chapman and Mrs Corley testify while emanu el Roos prosecutes and Hayward A Johnson defends. The jury convicts the bootlegger, linking whiskey to the murder. public sentiment and prohibition rhetoric frame the event amid social gatherings and lectures on temperance.
In a Windsor weekly page, chatter about early spring emerges from the Wiener Headlights location between the Headlight and Avalon Theatre. Local youths, after school, gather for games and songs, while the Thursday Bridge Club, hosted by Mrs. C. Smothers at Lakeside, features member guests and prizes, with Mrs. Beckman providing refreshments.
One of the year’s most enthusiastic meetings was held Tuesday at the parsonage in Bernard with Mrs Contier as hostess. A pitch-in luncheon followed. The group studied The Turre Toward Pence and hopes to finish the book in three more all day meetings. Ten members and eight visitors attended. The next meeting will be Tuesday February 7. Mrs Josie Walker was called to assist her granddaughter Margaret Walker who underwent surgery at Baptist Hospital Monday and is recovering well. They motor to Wharton Wednesday and returned with Mrs Green who has been in Caney Valley Hospital for a week after an injury when a heavy stone fell on her leg, an incident reported in Headlight’s last issue.
In response to a flood of questions from thousands of schoolchildren, Admiral Richard E. Byrd is invited to speak at a National Educational Association convention in Detroit February 21 26. The National Geographic Society and the National Education Association highlight Byrd’s Antarcticexplorations and the value of explorer biographies in schooling.
Mr and Mrs A L Baring and Mr and Mrs Oliver Martin hosted guests including A Ratlit Mrs C Grote Miss Leah Aunt Grote of Houston and Reichle of New Ulm. Myra Scheck and Marjorie Parker were among the visitors to Mouston Wednesday. Also an ad notes seed spoth pail nuts for sale by Ly Re Medsker Chestervalle Texas.
A rough summary describes four Texas banks robbed in the last 30 days. Canyon City had four men steal a bank. three jailed, the fourth a fugitive with a family in want. Timpson and Montgomery banks were also robbed. Timpson’s culprits jailed, Montgomery’s four men arrested next day. The report quotes old warnings that crime is delusion and robs the transgressor.
A rambling tribute extols Texas as the greatest state and nation performer in oil, agriculture, cattle, and industry. It sketches vast comparisons, notes Texas wheat, citrus, vegetables, onions, and wool, and mentions visitors Jay Kennedy and his wife from Illinois visiting Garwood and Eagle Lake.
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