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Newspaper
Eagle Lake Headlight
Location
Eagle Lake, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1947
Page
4
A fragment notes a weekly bed schedule at Eagle Lake Seunty Texas with a second class matter at Begin Lake Texas. The text is incomplete but indicates routine activity on Fridays and mentions venue names and a classification of rath matter.
Local churches in Eagle Lake announce Sunday Mass times at Catholic Church and services at Mexican Baptist Mission, American Lutheran, Memorial Methodist, and First Presbyterian. Details include Sunday School for all ages, morning and evening worship, midweek Bible study, choir practices, and a quarterly conference with district superintendent. Times vary by church and Sunday.
Community church notices from Calumpes Texas include sermons and Sunday schedule at 9:30 am classes and 7 30 pm service. Mrs Seaholm and Mrs Seaholm accompany Seaholm Jr to San Marcos for studies. Dolly Memorial Methodist Church women host coffee at 9 30 next Wednesday. First Baptist Church reports a Women's Missionary Union meeting and an upcoming Mission Study for union women.
Church notices outline a Christian Science Lesson Sermon with biblical texts and a passage from Science and Health. Auxiliary guilds and missionary society gatherings plus Cub Scout den activities and social notes follow with local residents planning travel and home visits.
The Production and Marketing Administration reports a national rice output of 23 124 060 barrels with 16 852 000 in the Southern belt. Arkansas tops with 4 859 000 and Louisiana 6 093 600 barrels while prices soften. New Orleans mills quote Zenith at 10 to 11 per cwt and Early Prolific at 9 to 10.50. Houston trades Zenith 12 to 12.50 and Fortuna 13 to 13.50. Cuban demand remains slow due to high US prices.
Mrs. B. E. Heide formerly Miss Dorothy Reuther, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Reuther of Esgle Lake, was honored with a bridal shower by the Catholic Altar Society at Mrs. Oscar Miller’s home. The event featured zinnias and fern, a short society meeting, gifts for the honoree, and refreshments. The October meeting will be held at Mrs. Paul Marx’s home.
Production and Marketing Administration reports limited new crop supplies and steady high prices for milled rice. Louisiana early varieties rise with Early Prolific and Zenith quoted at high per hundred pounds. Arkansas rice harvests begin as weather slows progress. Also notes shifts toward long grains and Mmegrains, plus local travel updates on Mersfelder family and Bernice Gertson's college plans.
Dr. R. H. Harrison and his son William Morrison of Houston presented a travelogue with world trip photos from 1938 at the Segle Lake Rotary Club program. Guests included Mrs. W. E. Lennart and P. D. Gertson as officers and committee chairs held a round table on Rotary issues with District Governor Benny Hughes.
Former Lissie residents Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Jay Follett celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary with an open house in Houston. About two hundred guests attended as family members and friends assisted with guest reception and punch service amid lace tables, yellow rosebuds, and gold candlelight.
Marriage licenses issued this week by the County Clerk Edgar Litzmann and associates include Albert W. Raw with Gladys Marie Wanja and Rudolf Clements Chovonec with Leone Noska. Other couples listed are Joseph Randell Bridges and Nina L. Hatcher, Harry F. Koester and Helen Woodruff West, Leslie Eio Muller and Adrine Elizabeth Henneke, Arthur D. Audirseh and Violet Barmore, James Ingram with Eugene Ingram, G. L. Laford and Cleo Clayberry, and James Sewell with Dalphine Jones.
Miss Verna Jean Neuendorff visited friends with Miss Joanne Henneke on Sunday. Weldon Neuendorff from Austin joined his relatives Leander Neuendorff and siblings. Robert Lee Wicke stayed with Charles Wicke family, while Edwin Braden and others visited Houston for Saturday night.
Mrs J R Laughlin as Den Mother hosts the Cub Scouts in the Boy Scout hut on Wednesday night Twenty eight Cubs attend with twelve parents Three new Cubs join the Pack Mire Euelah Nordell to assist Den No 3 Den No 2 hosts provide cold drinks The next Pack meeting set for Tuesday October 21 at the Scout Hall 7 pm Mr and Mrs A Otradosky welcome baby girl Loraine born Tuesday at Rugeley Blasingame Hospital Wharton weighs 7 pounds 5 ounces
Cadet Gill Wegenhoft a 17 year old son of Mr and Mrs Oscar Wegenhoft of Eagle Lake enrolls for the 1947 48 school year at San Marcos Academy a private school serving grades one through twelve He will study in small classes and participate in a military program rated Excellent by Army officials He entered the academy in 1933 and starts his senior year this fall Also included are resolutions of respect for the late H A Davis from Colly Memorial Methodist Church Eagle Lake and notes on Girl Scout Bluebonnet Troop activities and Schreiner Institute registration for Charles Frederickson and band member status
The notice lists many groups asking for speeches with fees based on distance. Upcoming engagements include National Peat Council National Editorial Association and numerous civic clubs. High school commencements span Pecos to San Augustine with Bastrop Midland Santa Anna and Roscoe nearby. Jolson Story praised for audience connection and emotional delivery.
The Eagle Lake Stay Club began its 1947 48 activities with a Wednesday afternoon party at Mrs C B Stephens home. President Mrs J H McCreary outlined the year s work and Mrs F C Durbin reviewed Dark Fantasy. Guests enjoyed ice cream and cake under the Stephens lawn tree.
A biography rich donation to Eagle Lake Library, from Rev. Q E Linstrum, of a work titled Eighty Years under the Stars and Bars. The book includes sketches of one hundred Confederate soldiers known to author Thomas Fletcher Harwell. It also recounts the United Confederate Veterans organization and Camp Ben McCulloch history near Driftwood in Hays County. The volume is fully illustrated.
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