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Newspaper
Eagle Lake Headlight
Location
Eagle Lake, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1932
Page
8
Miss Nanka Carey faces judgment in a local Eagle Lake event as townsfolk note the proceedings. The match or outcome remains unclear in available text.
A terse item notes Mrs Luc Haguts of A Bonus hosting visitors at the bar in the evening. The fragment mentions social gathering with unspecified guests and a local scene.
A large crowd attended the funeral of Mr. August Meier held Friday afternoon at the family home ten miles north of Eagle Lake. Meier, born in Germany November 29 1854, died early Thursday morning and had lived in the United States since age 18, settling in Austin County. He was married fifty years to Mary Ca Spring, with interment at Catl.. He leaves a family mourned by many in the community.
A nearly 13 foot alligator was wounded and captured Monday by several Mexicans near a cotton field several hundred yards from the lake at Camp No 2. The animal was taken to Columbus in a truck and sold to W. B. Marin who skinned it and plans to mount it for exhibition at his station in Columbus.
Miss Hulda Anice Steinweis and John Rowe hosted a Wednesday Night Bridge gathering at the Steinweis residence with a ladies and gentlemen high card, Westmoreland end Max Bur. guests and a menu featuring cantaloupe a la mode and grape reserved. Attendees included Jeanne Vincent Lucille Robbie Urquhart Ruth Elizabeth Weetmoreland Jeanette Loeffel holz Cleo Land Clarence Epps Simon Sinclair John Rewe Max Conner Burger Ben McElhinney Jr Mont Calvert Roger Fuller Sam Harbert Jr of Columbus. Mary Bernice Obenhaus attended as a guest of her cousin Miss Lucille Leedy.
AGLAR TRAPPED recounts burglaries at a Main filling station Monday night and two East Bernard stations last week. He describes thefts of a shotgun, shells, candy, soda, tobacco, and cash, plus the escape attempt thwarted by a night watchman’s shot. He also mentions a trip to Egypt after the burglary.
Local Goodyear dealer A. L. Baring advertises allowances from six to eighteen dollars on new tires for customers trading in old worn tires. The offer is described as unusual and available for only a few days.
Henry P. thanks supporters who voted for him in the recent election and asks friends to vote in the August run off primary, expressing appreciation for every favor and good word that aided his candidacy.
Joe Luna of Richmond acquires the Orsak confectionery and drug shop in Eagle Lake. Luna plans a prescription department and expanded drug stock while the Orsak family may stay in Eagle Lake. Locals welcome the Lunas. Mrs Luna is an Eagle Lake native. The piece also notes a newborn in Houston and Roy Heffley Jr’s San Antonio visit.
Avalon theater schedules a full week of films starting tomorrow with The Viking and trained seals on stage. Thursday and Friday feature Never the Twain with Texas Cyclone and Battling With Buffalo Bill cartoon. Sunday and Monday present Merrily We Go to Hell with One Good Turn. August 23 shows Peach O Reno with Wheeler and Woolsey plus Shopping With Wife.
Howard Fitzgerald of the San Antonio team in the Texas League has taken over the filling station formerly run by T. B. Epps. Noel Parker now manages part of it. Fitzgerald plans to return to Eagle Lake after the baseball season and assume personal management of the station.
Walter Adams thanks voters of Precinct 4 Colorado County for their vote and support in the election. He expresses appreciation for every vote cast for him.
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