Eagles Host Giddings In Homecoming Clash At Eagle Lake
The Eagle Lake Eagles, lone underdog, host Giddings Buffaloes in a homecoming game during the 1953 season. Key players include Cahoon Winters Cur Brasher Starke Perry and backs Thomas Lednicky Friends Salazar Kilgore Parma Marx Brush Brown Cook Epps. Eagles seek a final win to avoid a winless season and rally student support.
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Eagle Lake High
Gidby
John Cahoon
Vitez
Winters
Cur
Tommy Starke
Yew Perry
Costes
Joe Vestel
Eagle Lake
Ast
Gayle Thomas
Cleo Lednicky
Kenneth ‘Riends
Joe Salazar
Bobby Kilgore
Bernie Parma
AL Marx
Raymond Brusher
Tom Brown
David Cook
Lewis Epps
Eagles
Queen To Be Crowned At Eagle Lake Homecoming
Eagle Lake High School plans a homecoming crowning after Friday night’s game with secrecy surrounding the queen’s identity. Coronation at 7:30 pm features captains Cleo Lednicky and Gayle Thomas guiding the winner to center field. The ELHS band will stage a 1925 queen crowning skit, followed by a dance at the Eagle Lake Community Center.
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Eagle Lake
Giddings
Cleo Lednicky
Gayle Thomas
Eagle Lake School
Public Invited To Homecoming Pep Rally At ELHS
A large Homecoming pep rally at Eagle Lake High School will take place in the school auditorium at 3 30 p m Friday afternoon. All alumni and the public are invited to attend as Eagle Lake Sun and Virginia Starke promise fun for everyone.
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Eale Lake High School
ELHS
Eagle Lake Sun
Virginia Starke
Columbus store safe theft foiled frinte two arrested
Two men were arrested in Columbus Friday night as they prepared to drive away with the Winn Variety store safe. Kellan Henderson, 20, and Ramon Davis, 24, both of Houston, charged with burglary and theft, were caught by Columbus police and deputy sheriffs after breaking into the store and attempting to remove the safe. The safe contained cash, checks, and store records.
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Columbus
Winn
Siu
Justee
Earl J. Froica
Doryiy Shorits
Buller Awe Ea Potter
Ed Gint
Kellan Jack Hupdeson
Ramon Davis
Houston
Eugene W. Pekay
F. E. Bartesh
Peker
Bartosh
Memorial Park
Tax Payments Rise in Colorado County October 1952 Report
Tax Officer Henry Hajovsky released October figures showing higher tax payments in Colorado County than the prior year. State taxes 81.54 percent, county taxes 78.23 percent, with detailed totals for state, county ad valorem, and school collections including Glidden, Rocky Hill, Columbus, Weimar, Garwood, and Bernardo. Poll taxes paid by 1365 voters. exemption certificates issued. Hajovsky remitted 27,595.63 to cover county employee salaries.
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Colorado County
Henry Hajovsky
Hajovaky
Hajovsky
Glidden
Rocky Hill
Columbus
Weimar
Garwood
Bernardo
Bishop Quin to Confirm Here Tuesday at Christ Church
The Right Reverend Clinton Quin, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas, will administer Holy Confirmation at Christ Church next Tuesday evening at 7 30. A class of adults and children will be presented by Rector Rev Lawton Riley. A social hour with light refreshments follows in the parish house. all are invited.
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Father Ir God
Clinton
Quin
D. D
S. Ty
Episcopal Diocese of Texas
Christ Church
Lawton Riley
County's Rice Farmers Favor 2-Price Supports
In Colorado, about sixty prominent rice producers meeting at the Eagle Lake Community Center endorsed a two-price support plan for rice. The proposal, drafted by Beaumont millers and growers, would issue marketing certificates to producers based on past yields, with parity pricing for domestic use and a loan rate tied to parity for noncertified rice.
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Colorado County
Eagle Lake
Claris W. Thompson
House Agricultural Committee
David R. Wintermann
American Rice Growers Association
CCC
Law of Economics
C. H. Matthews
Body of Negro Man Mutilated by Train at Alleyton
A 460 to 70 year old unidentified Black man was found along the Southern Pacific main line at Alleyton. He had severe leg amputation, head injuries, and missing shoes. A railroad ticket stub showed a Sacramento to Phoenix trip, and $18 remained in his purse. An inquest was held with no identification found.
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Crossing
Southern Pacific
Alleyton
Wiy
Texas Construction “Material Co
Clifford Wiese Elected Head of Band Boosters
The Eagle Lake Band Boosters Club held a Monday night meeting at the high school band hall to elect officers for the coming year. Clifford Wiese was chosen president with Mrs Harold Thomas as vice president and Mrs Jim Clipson as secretary. Other officers include W C Alley treasurer, Mrs Herbert Loessin reporter, Mrs V T Matthews ways and means chair, and Mrs Ralph Thomas publicity chair. The group meets 7 30 on the first Monday of each month and invites all band parents to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eagle Lake Band Boosters Club
Clifford Wiese
Harold Thomas
Jim Clipson
W. C. Alley
Herbert Loessin
V.T. Matthews
Ralph ‘Thomas
Band Boosters Club
Catholic Mission Continues Through Next Weekend
Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church hosts a mission led by Rev. Bertrand Abell from Houston. Services run daily with 6:00 and 8:00 a.m. Masses and 7:30 p.m. evenings. topics include Catholic Marriage and On To Final Victory. Friday evening masses are moved to 7:00 p.m. to avoid conflicting with the football game.
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Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church
Bertrand Abell
C. P
Houston
Father Abell
Mary
Mother of Jesus
First Frost Of Season Seen Here This Week
Eagle Lake reported its first frost of the season Tuesday morning with temperatures dropping to 38. Skies cleared as a cold norther arrived Saturday, prompting frost again Wednesday and causing damage to some tender vegetation before a sunny thaw began.
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Eagle Lake
Opening Deer Season Set Amid Abundant Herds
Monday marks the start of deer season at one half hour before sunrise with a plentiful deer supply and a possible first day record. Wardens urge hunters to confirm legal prey, follow hours from before sunrise to after sunset, and avoid dogs, unlicensed deer, or misused tags. Resident licenses cost $2.15, and turkey seasons align with deer in inhabited areas through December.
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Turkey
Blood Bank Discussion at Tonight's City Meeting
A meeting will be held tonight at 8:00 p.m. in the Community Center led by representatives of city organizations with a Lions Club committee arranging a Walking Blood Bank camp sponsored by the Lions Club. Plans include typing blood of citizens from November 30 to December and maintaining an active local blood supply.
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Lions Club
Walking Blood Bank Campangn
Walking Blood Bank
Union Thanksgiving Services Set at Christ Church Eagle Lake
The Eagle Lake Lissie community plans the annual Union Thanksgiving Service on November 26 at 8 am in Christ Episcopal Church with Rev Paul E Reger preaching. The Eagle Lake Ministerial Alliance sponsors the event and calls for public attendance with coffee and doughnuts afterward.
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Christ Episcopal Church
Paul E. Reger
Evangelical United Brethren Church of
Lixsie
Eagle Lake
Christ Church
Two Wells At Lissie Running High and New Anderson Well Due
Two wildcat tests in the Lissie area are running high this week as testing begins. Magnolia’s Winn Poole land test, six miles east of Eagle Lake, is reporting depths between 9100 and 9200 feet. Salt Dome C. H. and W. T. Matthews No. 1 near Lissie is near 9000 feet. Magnolia will drill a new test in Chesterville, two and a half miles west, in the Clara M. Anderson unit. G. H. and H. R. Survey section 20 plans drilling to 7000 feet Humble.
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Lissie
Mignolia
Winn Poole Land
Eagle Lake
Salt Dome C.H
W. T. Matthew
Magnolia Petroleum Company
Chesterville
Clara M. Anderson
G. H
B. C. Birdwell
Ramsey
Skelly
Labay
Garwood
Brewster
Magnolia
Turner
Carroll Gets Contract For Drainage Work In Colorado County
Colorado County Commissioners Court awarded a 640 dollar contract to John S. Carroll for cleaning about 4500 feet of the Brandt Bottom drainage canal. L. F. Dusek bid 725 dollars. The court also authorized bids on fence projects in Precincts 4 and 3 and for 2000 fence posts. They planned bids for metal drainage pipe and steel beams, and opened road project bids November 22 with others in December. Transfers totaling 42,000 were made to working funds and add 133,000 in new securities were pledged. Two Farm to Market road projects were designated for state approval.
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Colorado County Commissioners Court
Brandt Bottom
Speaksville Road
Columbus
John S. Carroll
Eagle Lake
Uiat
Charles Treiny
Trefny
L. F. Dusek
Rosenberg
Commissioners Court
Glen Kveton
New Eagle Lake
Chesterville
A. J. Aschenbeck
Shaws Bend
R. R. Hacden
Hadden
Hill Bank and Trust Co
Weimar
State Highway Department
Frelsburg
Fayette County
WCJC Professor To Address PTA At Meet Nov 19
Eagle Lake PTA to hear WCJC educator W G McAlexander speak on National Education Week theme Education for What at 3 15 p m in the high school auditorium. McAlexander, longtime college staffer and education chair, holds degrees from North Texas State College and has pursued work at UT and UH. Mrs J C Lockwood presides and invites all members and interested residents to attend.
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WCJC
PTA
Wharton County Junior College
W. G. “Mack” Alexander
Eagle Lake
Parent-Teacher Association
McAlexander
North Texas State College
University of Texas
University of Houston
J. C. Lockwood
Eagle Lake Association
Jr. High Eaglets to host East Bernard Catholic Tue
The Eagle Lake Junior High School Eaglets will host East Bernard Catholic Academy at 7 30 p.m. Tuesday November 17 in the high school stadium. Coach Homer Dancer seeks a good crowd for a close contest with no admission, a free will donation asked to offset uniforms and equipment costs. The Eaglets carry a 2 5 0 record with five games played and losses to Columbus and Wha, a win over Hempstead, and a tie with Columbus.
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Eagle Lake
Eaglets
East Bernard Catholic Academy
Homer Dancer
Dancer
Columbus
Hempstead
Whaton
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Eagle Lake Eagles
Giddings Buffaloes
D.D
Catholic Mission
Christian Rural Overseas
Bacar and Eggs
S. M. Inman
Liss
Sam Broyles
Canis
Lenhart
First National Bank
Anderson
Carroll
County
Jr. High Eaglets
Catholics
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