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Newspaper
Eagle Lake Headlight
Location
Eagle Lake, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1944
Page
1
Tax roll for Colorado County approved for 31 September. Tax rate set at 35 and 7 for road district. Taxes due October. Taxes delinquent after February 1. Delinquent notices and accounting details provided by Rabel.
Reverend G Wolf of Grace American Lutheran Church travels from Texas to join an international convention in Sandusky Ohio October 8 to 14. Delegates officials and visitors from Canada New Guinea Mexico South Europe and other regions attend. He plans to return around October 19 after the meeting.
District Court concluded its Friday session with multiple dispositions. Brownies et al vs H C Obergontr involved a motion overruled and a notice of appeal to the Court of Civil Appeals at Galveston. Oscar L Botard et al contempt matter dismissed with prejudice. Dave Lundau and Adin Arbor et al partition suit resulted in Taylor appointed receiver for land partition and sale with report approved. Raymond Ziskoda vs Hon Austin et al trespass to title yielded judgment to clear title. Frank E Jolliffe et al vs Mrs Leroy plaintiff recovered land per decree. Raymon Fowlh Johnson et ux related case noted.
Staff Sergeant Carl W. Austin reported missing in action over the Earlie Islands. The community shares sadness as Mrs Estelle Austin and the family await further word, with hope for safer news and possible later corrections of earlier war reports.
H C Frizzell of Bellville Texas was elected president of the Texas Southwestern Gas Company after its incorporation. He has managed properties for Southern Union Gas since 1932 and leads civic groups in Bellville. JD Rogers of Navasota is named a director and heads Brenham Cotton Company. The company operates gas systems in Bellville Brenham Columbus Eagle Lake Hempstead Navasota Prairie View Sealy and Waller.
In the Houston Post a Sunday picture shows the wing structure recently purchased by Carl A. Segelquist of Alvin a prominent rice planter and inventor. The residence features a living room with fireplace dining room wrecked porch kitchen break room and powder room downstairs and three bedrooms two bathrooms upstairs with a three room apartment above a two car garage. The price listed is six thousand five hundred.
Miss Pat Brauin is noted to receive wings this week end in a brief social item. The notice mentions friends including Tenithy Yo marine tay Bratin in the surrounding chatter.
Winnie Poole No 1 was reported Wednesday night as waiting for squeeze cement to set. They prepared to drill cement down Wednesday night and hoped to perforate Thursday night. The well showed gas flow of 1 000 000 cubic feet in 24 hours with 2567 distillate and salt water.
Sealy held off the Eagles as penalties and Sealy interceptions thwarted scoring drives. The Eagles, coming off an open date, prepare to meet Bastrop Bears on October 13 with plans to rebound from the loss.
County Clerk Edgar Litzmann reports 192 servicemen in Colorado County filed for the Federal War Ballot and primary ballots. Public Law 277 requires state ballot application by Sept 1, and if regular ballots are not received by Oct 1, servicemen may vote the Federal War Ballot which covers President, U S Senators, and Congressmen.
Nadine G. Cansey, 20, of Lissie Texts Way, enrolled at the Naval Training School for Yeomen on the Iowa State Teachers College campus in Cedar Falls. Training covers shorthand typing naval correspondence records forms and current events. completion qualifies for petty officer rates and further duty orders.
Rotary members welcomed District Governor J Roy Wells of Huntsville to a Shinehcon meeting. Wells, a Sam Houston Teachers College instructor in business administration, praised the club’s secretarial accuracy and urged Rotary’s global work, tracing its growth from six founders in 15 to its extensive wartime and postwar expansion across 29 countries and regions including New Zealand Australia India and China. He urged extending Rotary to every community that can support a club and highlighted peace efforts and service to veterans.
In Sheridan oil field updates show rigs near completion and moving operations for new plows. Reports note Plow No 1T awaiting installation and Plow No 73 active at the new Babl in shale site with Gavatrieh Unit drilling at BABL in shale.
Local report notes a Chevrolet belonging to Miss Kate Griffin burned on Tuesday. Details are scarce with fragmented text describing the scene and surrounding actions by residents and authorities.
Dr Otto Rogers who died recently was honored with funeral rites at the Presbyterian Church on Sunday afternoon. The obituary recalls his stature as a courteous, practical man and notes his charitable spirit and long service to the community.
D R Wintermann, board member of the American Rice Growers Association, spoke at a Saturday groundbreaking ceremony for the Converted Rice project near Houston. He praised the pilot plant at Nance Surrey and said the new process could revolutionize rice farming, ease production, and boost domestic consumption and cooking convenience.
Obituary notes the burial of Mrs Emma K Lehrer on a Wednesday. The fragment mentions family and church connections with names and place hints, but details are incomplete due to OCR damage.
Funeral services were held Wednesday at 9 a.m. for Mrs Juliet Elis Pusan of 403 E Milberry San Antonio born in Hallettsville daughter of the late Volney and Mary EMs Texas pioneers. She was a Christian Church member and long active in charitable groups and the Daughters of the Republic of Texas. Survived by two brothers Eison RoR and in San Antonio seven nieces and nephews. Interment was in Mission Birk Park.
The text describes the 97th annual Colorado Baptist Association session with numerous garbled phrases about October 1 and a First Baptist in Ganado Texas. The rest of the content is damaged, making it impossible to extract reliable names, places, or outcomes.
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