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Newspaper
Eagle Lake Headlight
Location
Eagle Lake, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1938
Page
2
A collection of humorous vignettes and snippets from a vintage page. It includes wedding quips about brides and grooms, a hotel clerk and encyclopedia gag, comic exchanges about engagement secrecy, a salesman’s cutthroat talk, and classroom asides. Notable lines reference a millennium, Roosevelt, and playful misunderstandings.
Mr and Mrs Jimmie Jacobsen will depart Sunday for Refugio where he will work in the Economy Store, continuing in the same capacity he held at the Frank Stephens Company for four years. Their friends wish them well in this move. Jacobsen’s successor at Frank Stephens has not been announced. Also noted: Billy Westemoreland of Houston visited family here then went to Amarillo with his mother. A humorous sketch ends with a quip about a job- seeking student asking a question after being fired from a movie studio.
Dallas police, highway patrol, and county sheriffs warn motorists not to pick up hitchhikers amid spring road traffic. Officials caution some travelers may be dangerous while noting not all are threats. They urge questioning and caution, describing risks like con games and escapes.
Miss Nellie Stapleton long serving at the telephone office was struck by appendicitis on Wednesday and taken to Bell Memorial Hospital in Columbus where Dr. J R Laughlin operated that afternoon. The remainder of the text discusses hitchhiking laws, vagrancy, and opinions on public safety as voiced by Sheriff Smoot Schmidt, contrasting Texas with Arkansas and noting long daily travel by hitchhikers.
A benefit dance at Hill crest near Columbus raised funds for the county home demonstration council with 206 tickets sold. Reports note community turnout and social visits as locals travel to see Miss Margaret Arnold in Caney Valley hospital.
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