Honoring Patty Jean Martin at Garwood graduation event
Seniorpriden honors Patty Jean Martin a recent Garwood graduate with a Tuesday afternoon gathering attended by twenty two youths. Guests enjoyed games contests and refreshments including sandwiches cookies and iced drinks. Local residents through memorial services and visits at the Cornelius home accompanied by Mrs. Lee Hastedt and her mother Mrs. J W Willrodt. A Texas University post grad move by John Heiman and a Brownie Troop meeting notice round out the social notices.
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Patty Jean Mertin
Bmirs
Joe J. Kasina
Boding Waters
Roo
Will Garnett
Desighters
Betty
Florelci
San Antonio
L. & Cornelius
Rock Island
A .J. Crouch
Touston
Floyd Cornelius
Airs
Lee Hastedt
J. W. Willrodt
Columbus
Cornelius
Brrs
John Verlln
John Heiman
Austin
Texas University
Fred Young
Conroe
Paul Chapman
Jam Young
Louis Lippman
el Campo
Patty Jean Martin
Garwood
District Commanders Coordinate Texas Cancer Education Program
District commanders of the Field Army are to coordinate statewide efforts in the year round program to combat cancer in every Texas community by proper education.
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Field Army
Texas
Scout Executive Works In County This Week
Scout Executive from the Sam Houston area council is in Colorado County this week assisting troops and packs. He attended Troop 127 in Eagle Lake registering boys for summer camp at Camp Strake, June 29 to July St. Eight have registered, with more expected. The district camp serves three districts with Mr Edwards as program director. Scouts from Columbus Garwood Sheridan and Weimar will attend. Edwards will oversee Swimming Merit Badge for all at the Weimar pool Friday at 4 pm. Six Eagle Lake scouts plus others from the various towns will participate. On June 23 Packing Eagle Lake will host Come See Us Month with details to follow.
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Sam Houston
Colorado County
Eagle Lake
Camp Strake
Edwards
Columbus
Garwood
Sheridan
Weimar
Shortest Texas railroad Ringland Road vanished from oil boom era
In Eastland County a tiny line known as the Eastland, Wichita Falls and Gulf ran from Mangum through Eastland to Breckwalker, built during the 1919 21 oil boom by circus king. natural gas plants carried freight with little passenger business. The tracks have since been removed, leaving only the dump and erasing the era’s memory. Will Rogers and Hostetter’s Bits are recalled in a wandering reminiscence of a vanished railway and bygone remedies.
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Boyce House
Texas
United States
Eastland
Wichita Falls and
Gulf
C.J. Rhodes
Dusty
Young Man Gets Rejected With Fatherly Ban
A man courting his girlfriend gets a blunt warning from her father who vows to eject him. The exchange shows a humorous clash between romance and parental protection as the suitor declares affection and the father reacts decisively.
T&NO Leads Safety Record Set For 1947 Year
The Texas and New Orleans Railroad, based in Houston and part of the Southern Pacific System, tops Group B for casualty ratio in the first quarter of 1947 with 2.08, down from 2.16 a year earlier. The carrier operates over 4300 miles of line in Texas and Louisiana and has a history of top safety rankings in Group A and Group B.
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Texas and New Orleans Railroad Company
Association of American Railroads
Washington
Texas and New Orleans Railroad
Houston
Texas and
New Orleans
Texas
Louisiana
Southern Pacific System
Houston Offers Bonus For First Bale Of Cotton
Houston the world's largest cotton market guarantees at least a $500 premium to the grower for the season's first marketable bale brought to Houston for auction. L R C Towles notes the honor rests with Houston, with last year's first bale bringing $1530.20 to Pryor Dillard of Harlingen.
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Houston
L. R. C. Towles
Houston Cotton Exchange
Pryor Dillard
Harlingen
Anderson, Clayton and Company
Exchange
Houston Exchange
Towles
The
Houston Post
Matagorda Rice County Corrects State Ranking
Matagorda County, ranked third in Texas rice by Gulf Coast officials, disputes government census figures that place it fifth in Texas and fourteenth in the U.S. The county’s rice acreage is estimated at about 50,000, with Brazoria and Jefferson counties leading.
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Matagorda County
Texas
Houston
J. C. Capt
Bureau of Census
Department of Commerce
U.S
Rice Millers Association
R. G. Wertz
Gulf Coast
Card of Thanks and Society Notes from Boy City News
Card of Thanks expresses deep appreciation for friends and kindness during illness with flowers gifts and cards. Mr and Mrs Clyde Gold traveled to Dallas to attend fall merchandise showing for Epps Department Store. Mr Wertz notes rice planting progress and a generally favorable crop outlook.
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Clyde Gold
Dallas
Epps Department Store
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Oscar Bunge
Bris
J. C. Lockwood
Silocks
Saipdae
Manning
Pepol-Cola Company
Long Inland City
N.Y
Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company
Will Rogers
Hostetter
Rometh
T&no
Lyon Jewelry CO
Albert’s Variety Store
Attorney
Price Daniel
Gov
Beauford Jester
Lyndon B
Johnson
Texas Hospitality
Pearl Beer Distributor
H. J. Campbell
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