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Newspaper
Eagle Lake Headlight
Location
Eagle Lake, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1935
Page
8
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The newspaper recounts Louis Stiles’s as yet unrecorded performance of Ole Man Rival finished just noon yesterday as floodwaters rose. A family wagon with organ and a red rooster escaped rising river water while railroad ties rattled and cars navigated the flooded Altair road. The piece notes drivers braving the high water earned rough status as “Hell Drivers” in a cautious assessment of danger and skill.
Reduced long distance rates take effect today with new discounts for night and early evening calls between 5:00 p m and 4:40 a m. The change, announced by the telephone company, lowers prices by about 32 percent for calls to certain distant points and resizes service options for weekend use. Local residents Miss Cick Smith and visitors Cleo Smith and friends are in Port Arthur visiting Mrs S G Cooper and Ruth Harrison.
Mrs Killough a bride last week received a miscellaneous kitchen shower at Mrs Westmoreland’s home on Tuesday afternoon. Co hosts Mesdatines Vic Engelhard Noel Barker and D A Ranft, all local school faculty members, attended. The event featured a welcome with gifts including an insurance policy, refreshments, and a conga line style ceremony. The couple later joined by Mr Killough at the Westmoreland home for a social gathering.
Mr and Mrs Alfred Marx and his father Mr Chas Marx of Wharton traveled to Garment Sunday for the funeral of their nephew and brother Paul Wendlins who died from injuries in a car crash late Saturday. Funeral services were held at Carmene at 1 3 o clock later that day. Joe Luna's offers sandwiches of all kinds.
Trans-State Oil Corporation began drilling last week at the Weishuhn test-well, about 2 miles southwest of Pressburg on the Franc Weishuhn place. Locals are hopeful the test will yield a major improvement in the area’s development despite incomplete results.
Mrs. Althea Franz and her son from Lynsted California visited her sister in Richmond yesterday. She, formerly Althea Jones, was born near Bugle Lake and recalled desert travel, saying it required a day of rest at a hotel. Friends welcomed Mrs. Franz and Stanley back.
The Methodist ladies host a food sale this Saturday at the building next to Calvert Drug Store, formerly the local relief office. Dressed chickens pies cakes and other goods will be offered. Mr and Mrs W Roy Wright of Poahipatans were in town en route to Rock Island and diverted by flood waters washing across the road between Eagle Lake and the Colorado River.
The Buckner orphan box will be sent from the church. Those who have items to contribute should bring them to the church by 3 o'clock next Wednesday afternoon, when the box will be packed and sealed for shipment.
We thank friends for thoughtful kindnesses shown during the Ubyeso and at our mother Mrs Margaret Ressch Raasch. Floral offerings were greatly appreciated and may God reward you. Ir W G Raasch comments on a visit from Alleyton to Eagle Lake by boat and highway.
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