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Newspaper
Eagle Lake Headlight
Location
Eagle Lake, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1942
Page
6
Patients in Nebraska City enter a waiting room basket of yarn and odds and ends for Red Cross efforts. A sign urges knitting during visits, yielding afghans for a service hospital as squares accumulate. Some patients stay to knit, others take yarn home and return with finished squares.
Funeral services were conducted for Charles Ovo at Plone Citi with Rev. priestes words honoring a life spent in service. He lived in Germany until age 25, later settling in Texas and becoming a beacon in his community. Surviving family includes his wife Augusta and son, with pallbearers named J F Novasad, BG Womack, H Brandes, Keym, and Ty.
A social event honors Mrs Lester Forbes with a weekend gathering hosted by friends and relatives. Attendees include Mrs Hebert, Mrs Wintermann, and Mrs Protzmeyer among others from Columbus and nearby areas. Guests praised the hostess and expressed warm wishes for her home in Tennessee.
The Rev Michael Harley of Wharton and other clergy officiated at the funeral for Mrs Marie V Efinger. Interment was in St John’s Catholic Cemetery in Hungerford. Attending were Mrs Henry Navasadi and Mary Urbance of East Ter, Henry Sklar and Halsey Cire son traveled from Bigarre and Kansas City for cattle interests. Tommie Lenis Novas, now a first sergeant in the Signal Corps, is stationed in Fresno California.
Community members from La Porte Mentz and Columbus visited families including the Drescher and Miller households Friday evening and Sunday. A weekend storm harmed Bernard Cat Spring area with roof losses and fruit damage. August Schindter brought Bernardo’s first cotton bale weighing 554 pounds at a price of 17 cents per pound, with A Brader earning the proceeds.
Gs returned manners to spending weeks in Long Beach and Los Angeles after visiting relatives in Wisconsin. Miss Sands visits, teaches in Corpus Christi. Leah Sands returns home with Kara Ann for a visit. Georgia Novasad returns to Galveston to join the public school system. Mr and Mrs Wilber Mymons Brande Trustan visit Port Knox.
Sept 7 1918 notes Lakeside rice mill owned by Cram of Rice Co Chicago to be dismantled and moved to Memphis next spring. Army drafts pull local residents to Camp Travis Camp Bowie and Camp Mabry. Eyington Field aviators plan bombing station at Eagle Lake with Meob Edwards contract for landing and targets. Local notices urge registration for voting precinct 14 and a public sale advertised by Walter Adams.
McReee and daughter Miss Mad Fling return from San Antonio after seven weeks. Ansel family moves to Train pic near Eagle Lake River. AJM Me View opens new fare at Brosig block Saturday morning. Caprice Stobine Maid at Disty Theatre Saturday night. Welden Davis home from visit to Helster Mrs Po Burger in Houston. Wm McBride of Beasley in city. Mollie Davidson returns from visit to Orange. Eagle Lake Water and Light Co to install new ice delivery system with coupon books. cashless wagon deliveries. Ford Driv mufflers advised. operate lever on steering wheel for 20 minutes. horn then if neighbors do not respond, assume hostility.
Mrs. Herbert Evans formerly Virginia Kelly has accepted a government post in San Antonio as a Spanish translator. Mr. Evans has joined the officers training school. The note thanks subscribers to the Headlight and mentions a visit to Mes Lorenz Willard and Mrs Farmer.
Mrs C W Nispel and Mrs R P Wilcox with sons Bobby and Tommie spent several days this week in New Braunfels visiting local friends and enjoying the city environs.
Census report shows that TR Colorado County from the emp Tiles at cotton were ginned in fet 9 prin to Atuast 1h, as L compared with ap bales for the top of LLL, according to Harry Cherry, special agent. Mrs. Henry Brune of Galveston accompanied her mother, Mrs. A. A. Kinckman, to Eagle Lake from Saturday and will visit her parents and other Chenus here until Sunday.
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