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Newspaper
Eagle Lake Headlight
Location
Eagle Lake, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1929
Page
7
Fragmentary notice mentions Mrs Frit and Mildred Gehwale of Houston hosting or visiting as a local social item. Names and places are garbled, with no clear event date or outcome.
Eagle Lake Firemen travel to Galveston and fall to the Cotton team 2 to 2 in a rough contest at School Park. Kring debuted for Galveston with solid support from Smoky Eggleston and Frank Marlow, while Jake Fitzgibbons' base running and Wheeler's seventh inning homer provided the visitors' only run. Eagles hurler Nash and Ed Nash worked efforts amid costly errors and late steals, as Galveston capitalized on timely hits and infield plays.
Local business ads list rate for column space, sale and rent notices, farm trades, and livestock offers. Veterinary visit announced for LaGrange, Texas, with mobile treatment in Eagle Lake. Listings include wanted salesmen, Jersey cow for sale, a 102 acre Bend County farm for trade, rental farm land near Eagle Lake, and miscellaneous items.
Bay City residents Mr and Mrs Wilton Chapman visit Eagle Lake with J L Chapman family and attend community events. Miss Johanna Walling heads to a state encampment with four states represented Texas Missouri Oklahoma Arkansas. Dozens of locals gather for barbecues birthdaysrevival meetings and visits from Houston El Campo Rosenberg Taylor and Memphis.
A list identifies seven errors hindering progress. These include crushing others for personal gain, worrying about unchangeable things, impossible goals due to self limits, clinging to trivial preferences, neglecting mind development through reading, coercing others to believe, and failing to establish saving habits.
Mr and Anne SA spent the weekend in Shit Arntdile. Her sister Mina Anne Els, who has been visiting for weeks, accompanied them to her domain in Ban Antonis.
The Ladies of the Christian Church thank Eagle Lake friends and local business men for generous donations to the church repair fund. A special thanks goes to those who sent in new bills marked for the repair fund. Rev. W. C. Wright will speak next Sunday and M C Thomas will finish interior work this week. Visitors include Raymond Darnell Courtney Dwilling ton and Miss Elizabeth Bustington from Port Arthur. Branney Cox of Groesbeck visits, Gardner Duncan plans South America trip. Mrs A H Jones of San Antonio and Frank Norris Jones visit relatives. Edwy Dyer spent a few days in Houston this week.
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