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Newspaper
Eagle Lake Headlight
Location
Eagle Lake, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1939
Page
4
The Eagle Lake Headlight of Eagle Lake Texas reports its publisher official organ status and notes an absorption dated March 1808. It lists contact details, publication frequency, and advertising rates with standard postal and pricing terms.
A fragmented archival excerpt mentions Aunt Stella and a series of cryptic names and phrases. The readable segments hint at family ties and perplexing social dialogue across a distant era, with scattered references to places and people shaping a puzzling community vignette.
The Eagle Lake Library introduces titles The Yearling by Marjorie Kin Tor Rawlings Seasoned Timber by Dorothy Canfield Some Like Them Short by William Mareh and Precious Jeopardy by Lloyd Doughis. Membership is open to property owners and Eagle Lake Study Club members with deposits and renewal policies detailed, including lending periods fines and exclusions.
Demonstration agents schedule for next week appears in garbled text with unclear names and dates. The fragment mentions Heeckers and PEF but provides no verifiable details. Further readable context is required to produce a precise summary.
Garwood residents Mr. and Mrs. Lee Glass and Mr. and Mrs. Bill Proctor spent the last Sunday in Galveston while Mrs. Whitetur and Mrs. Lehrer with Miss Dorothy Jane Letzer visited Munston. The Methodist Missionary Society met at Mrs. J. Mcpiarry’s with Miss Dorothy Jane Letzer among the visitors. Members and guests attended church and a social hour with ice cream. Numerous local families hosted and attended gatherings, noting visits by relatives and friends from nearby towns and universities.
Mrs M. Nicowander and Mr and Mrs Moody Galbreath with son left for San Marcos for summer school. J T DeNeft and son of Houston visit her parents. Mrs Charles Campbell and baby from Denver visit Ethel Hutchins family. Beulah Mae Kerr leaves for Ames West Texas. Wesenhoff family visit College Station. son Vieter returns from trip. Mrs Ernest Hudson travels to Arkansas City. Edwin Makalee notes good corn crop and hopeful cotton yields. A B Racing family had no guests. HL Leaton Lucille Leaton Ed Latten Galveston visit. Lynn Shirley returns from vacation with relatives. Albert Tustelovsky and Heaths Mire accompany Prachett. J T Wesson family news and Kayley McRee spends time with friends in Durant and Jacksonville.
Work crews under a Works Progress Administration project dismantled the two story frame Garwood school building. The old structure will be replaced with a brick and tile Vocational Agriculture building on the campus, with students noticing the change and a lasting sense of memory from the old halls.
A Texas Weekly column defends restoring Judge Roy Bean’s Jersey Lily saloon at Langtry. It argues the project honors frontier justice and the “Law of the Pecos,” noting the saloon’s role as a court and cultural landmark while contrasting WCTU protests with the era’s rough realities. The piece praises Bean’s unorthodox justice and frontier resilience.
The Sunshine Class of the Methodist Church met with hostess Mrs G M Cason for a Thursday gathering. The session covered the New Testament concluding the book of Matthew followed by a social with heavenly hash and caramel cake. Also noted were a car accident involving Mrs Sam Norris Davidson and several family and travel updates including visits to Pittsboro and Terrell.
U S Department of Agriculture entomologists offer a method to control red bug chiggers. Dust the exposed skin or soil with fine sulfur at one pound per 1,000 square feet or 50 pounds per acre, apply May to August with three applications two weeks apart, and reapply after heavy rain. Growthig reports from Mrs AF Hartert of Georgia and Mr Burger family’s motor trip to the World’s Fair in New York are noted.
Mrs Ann Settle and Mrs Lawson motored from Houston and spent the day as guests of Mrs Bruce McCarty. They were childhood friends in their hometown Tastor.
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