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Newspaper
Eagle Lake Headlight
Location
Eagle Lake, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1932
Page
4
Fragmentary notes recount local curiosities and mentions of visiting persons. References include Roberts arriving in San Antonio with L Goldsmith and W, quail regularities, and a vague nod to John Skeeters near the coast and nest season.
Sunday morning events unfold as Alesanderia Lowsians visit the grandmother Mrs Addie McFarland while Virgil Puckett returns from San Antonio Hospital. Lillian Bentley of Atlanta plans a visit to sisters Mrs S A Davidson and Mrs M G Calvert. Dr F O Norris travels to Glen Flora accompanied by Mrs Norris and others. Local land deals include 160 acres of Mason quarter rice land bought by Prank Fox and Hayes Stephens. Ad Adams Jr to manage. Chas Davis reports cane shipments to Cumberland Mill and losses from pilfered cane. Chas von Lengerke joins a 15 day hunt from Rock Island. M C Yates leases 230 acres for rice. boll weevil prompts cotton cessation. A M McDow visits San Antonio. Lizetta Walker visits from Altair. Sinclair of Lissie adds name to Headlight subscription.
The page lists editors and staff, notes on Thanksgiving traditions, and school activities. Senior studies include Shakespeare’s Macbeth and a tuberculosis booklet from the State Board of Health. Seniors plan a picnic and a skull Greek supper when weather warms. The Christian Endeavor Society hosted the Epworth League with games and refreshments. In basketball, Ellinger defeated Garwood 13 to 10 with Garwood’s Everett Cornelius scoring six points.
Garwood meets Blessing Wharton Tuesday night for a basketball game as the Boys’ Request asks the campus to protect the court by avoiding car traffic. The note urges cooperation especially from schoolboys and girls who drive cars to keep the court usable.
A student group elects Vince Buxhamper as president Edmund Waligura as secretary and Clara Staff with G P Harty to draft a constitution and by laws. The column lists ambitions daily life events and small town notes including lost items and campus chatter.
A string of playful jibes fills a column as readers recall last Saturday and Sunday nights. Names like Bill Abell Elsie K and Tony surface in gossip lines while Wisecracks about tales after dark and a call to buy whisties appear among the fleeting notes.
Commissioner Otto Brauner reported a disturbing scene during an inspection of Schulenburgs poor farm. A frightened mute girl, barefoot and covered in burrs, endured roughing by her grandmother who forced corn feed and kept her from schooling.
Sheriff investigated reported abuse involving a girl moved from a grandmother's home to the LaGrange poor farm. She remains fearful and hidden, while caretakers try to ease her distress with measures like soaking feet to fit footwear. Commissioners expressed sorrow and noted the case from the Payneetteville area.
Stomach trouble is said to improve by skipping a meal and drinking plenty of water. A morning dose of Ad lerika is recommended to cleanse the stomach and bowels per Beckman's Drug Store. Mrs Edwin Arnold of Wishity Felis visits here with her parents Mr and Mrs Richard Ney for Thanksgiving.
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