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Newspaper
Eagle Lake Headlight
Location
Eagle Lake, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1931
Page
2
A jumble of local notices and small ads including vehicle listings, rent ads, dental office notice, store listing, and a church program with names like Mrs Blanche Foster, Rev J R Murray, and Miss Cleo Venghaus. Includes sale and printing notes, a funeral flower request, and travel announcements.
Rev W E B Rodgers reports on the Southern Baptist Convention held May 13 with 2297 messengers and total attendance near 6000 including women. Despite higher turnout, the convention saw a budget shortfall of over 82 million dollars for 1925-1926 and proposed a broad member canvas urging gifts. The Foreign Mission Board carried debt over one million, and Paul Bell of Bastrop is noted as employed by the board. Traveling with colleagues, the author describes trips through Savannah, Columbus, Mississippi, and New Orleans, with good roads and favorable crop conditions observed.
Memorial Day program at Garwood cemetery includes a procession at 11:00 and graveside decoration by volunteers led by Schiing and the Mowry committee. Flower girls Marjorie Horn and others will hand out arrangements while flower contributors deliver bouquets to the committer before Sunday ceremonies.
H C Duke and H G West, longtime Eagle Lake oil workers, visited relatives here on Saturday. Duke, known locally as Teed, has drilled across Texas and hopes to find a site near Eagle Lake for an independent company. They discussed promising surface indications for oil and sulfur near Biggle Shake, with plans for secretive evaluations. Also noted are Christian Science services and Natt Holman of Baytown spending the weekend with the Holman family.
Travelers report rain during the trip and compare tomato quality across states Mississippi Louisiana and Colorado county. They express relief at being back home and consolation that they were not the worst hit financially or spiritually.
A long, lively note on Marlene Dietrich and her pet cloth dolls that travel with her through Europe to Hollywood. The dolls, seven in number, are famed for their comical poses and have appeared with Dietrich in films and stage productions.
Mildred Porter, a fourth grade teacher at Eagle Lake public schools for two terms, returned to her home in Yoakum over the weekend. Visitors included Rogers of Houston and remarks about school events and senior class activities at Eagle Lake High School.
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