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Newspaper
Eagle Lake Headlight
Location
Eagle Lake, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1945
Page
6
A collage of backstage quips and city street vignettes including a doctor joking about a grass widow case a sergeant speechless at a Philippines show and a tourist in Scotland reacting to medical help with humor. Citizens share one liners about liberty writing and everyday misunderstandings.
The Matthews School trustees their wives and teachers gathered last Friday at the home of Mr and Mrs Otis Pouncey for a buffet luncheon. The event featured a white table setting with a ruby glass centerpiece and a menu including pressed chicken molded fruit and vegetable salad olives pickles rolls beets and pecan pie. Attending were Mr and Mrs George Cason and George Jr Mr and Mrs Bertice Smith and Barbara Mr and Mrs B L Lange and Supt and Mrs
Supt and Mrs W C Reed entertain at a buffet dinner for Dolly Memorial Methodist Church Stewarts Board members and their wives. Attendees include Rey Griffin Killough Westmoreland Wilcox and others visiting from Houston and Austin. The event, plus weekend travels of families from Rockport and Houston, frames a sociable church gathering.
CP and L moved four Garwood Pump Station transformers to Riverside and three Riverside units to Garwood as part of a capacity increase at Prairie Pump Station serving rice irrigation. The May CP L News photos show Victorian power department crews on the move and H. A. Tippit photographer credits.
Clements Northington of the United States Coast Guard Service leaves last week for duty in San Francisco after visiting his mother Mrs. W. A. Northington and sister Miss Virginia Lou Northington. Several local residents make short trips or return home from duties in Houston Corpus Christi Randolph Field Camp Hood and Spanish Camp.
The May 28 1921 Eagle Lake area column reports Max Harbarber undergoing eye surgery in Houston after a prior injury, a Galveston wedding, Rock Island School commencement with three graduates Viola Kerr Harriet Maze and Gifford Wilcox, and various community notes from Texas counties. It mentions the Dumbers Home Hotel sale to L H Short, sympathy for Mrs P T Gordon, a Sealy Garwood marriage, a watermelon association meeting, potato digging nearing finish, notable deaths Ben Callison and Kate Montgomery Barnes, Eagle Lake Chautauqua plans, cotton signups in Columbus, bunco party for Miss Pansy Laughlin, crop prospect reports, local business changes, swimming parties, and various social gatherings and church convention notices.
In Laughlin Hospital and Caney Valley Hospital Mrs Malone is noted in the local notice. The fragment records a healthcare context linked to two regional facilities and an individual named Mrs Malone.
Little Jim Milby came home from Laughlin Hospital early this week after an appendicitis operation last week. He is recuperating satisfactorily and should be fully recovered soon. Friends report Mrs. H J Campbell is up and about after a Tuesday illness.
A Galveston Army Air Field report describes a Texas themed history piece titled Pass the History Pappy and A Texan's Map of the U S. The satirical outline claims Texans influence major events from Columbus to World War II and Ike, noting asserting Texan origins for figures and moments across American history.
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