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Newspaper
Eagle Lake Headlight
Location
Eagle Lake, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1938
Page
6
A lively page presents jokes and dialogues from a civic class scene including the speaker of the house exchange. It shifts to small town anecdotes about shops, a sign over a door, medical mishaps, and a courtroom remark about a brick attack after a racial slur, illustrating local humor and social tensions.
A collage of cold wave notes across towns defying their names, odd regional weather contrasts, then a long humorous anecdote stream including letters, a baby Vermont born tale, a traffic officer quip, and a rural joke about Johnny in sixth grade science class.
A May 3 1914 recap notes Boone Schleicher dies in San Antonio after rheumatism. Bridge damages and 26 foot flood height reported at Columbus. Rains damage crops, especially potatoes. R. H. Towell and Emma Humphrey wed in Luling. Mrs. George McLain dies in Austin. WC Merfelder undergoes appendicitis surgery in Temple. White Man's Party county officers elected. Gus Roberts injured on a rice farm near Lissie.
A schoolyard exchange shows the nickname Fortress applied to Miss Prim by generations of boys. The dialogue features a girl hunter, a pedagogue, and Tomm discussing fortress and a future portrait of Prim as a strict, gaunt figure among the students.
The Blue Jackets Schulentury orchestra will provide music for a dance at Austin's Hall in Eagle Lake on Saturday night May 7. An old-time program runs until midnight, followed by a mix of old-time and modern numbers from midnight to 1 AM. Also notes church services and visits by residents, including Mr and Mrs Ligon Longridge of Houston, and Mrs Genevieve Alley visiting family.
A 4 p.m. Sunday bound Santa Fe passenger train struck Roberts as he tried to board the rear of a coach. He was thrown against the coach and down the embankment, where he lay for nearly two hours as crowds gathered. Initial reports feared broken back and paralysis, but doctors the next day said his injuries were less severe and he could move his legs.
The Methodist Church presents a special Mother's Day musical program during morning services with the pastor delivering a sermon. Evening services continue with evangelistic preaching at 7:43. The public is invited to both sessions and urged to worship locally.
Pastor Hubert G. Travis leads Sunday School at 10 a.m and morning worship at 11 a.m Evening worship at 7 30 p.m Song service and study class by Mr. and Mrs. Herman Monday 8 p m Boys Activity Club Wednesday 7 30 p.m Do a good turn for your mother or for some other person's mother Sunday
Joined by other parties from San Antonio, W. G. Darby and Benny Blair of this city spent several days during the weekend and first of the week on a fishing trip out at Medina Lake west of San Antonio. Two Misses Pearl Lee Adams and Maurine Heffley, attending business college in Houston, spent the weekend here with their parents.
Card of thanks expresses gratitude for kindness during illness and funeral hours, naming doctors and specific individuals. A Presbyterian Auxiliary food sale is announced in the hardware department of the Frank Stephens Co. store for tomorrow morning.
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