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Newspaper
Eagle Lake Headlight
Location
Eagle Lake, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1930
Page
4
The program advertises Here Comes Arabella a musical comedy with singing dancing and acting in the high school auditorium featuring 200 costumes. Community members travel from Eagle Lake and Port Lavaca to attend events and visit relatives.
Veteran explorer James White reports a second gigantic cave near Carlsbad New Mexico. He claims the site yielded four mummies a man a woman and two children plus mortuary lighting and other equipment to back his assertion of an ancient race predating basket makers. White says further study and expert consultation will be needed to trace the origin of the inhabitants.
Rev T Dillie superintendent of the county farm leads a special service at Lissie Efrica Church this Sunday. Community members are invited to attend as part of the county religious events.
Two Wharton County farm boys admitted stealing $6560 from a buried pig sty bank of Mat Heil. The money was divided and hidden in tin cans in a sorghum patch after the June 12 loss. Heil, near 100, kept funds in a pig sty bank fearing banks. The recovered sum is in Wharton Bank and Trust Co. custody. no charges filed yet.
Alvin Cosner, nephew of Mr and Mrs W M McDonald of Junction, was bitten by a large rattlesnake while unloading ice wagon on his father's Harper County ranch. The snake, nine rattlers, was killed. Cosner received simple wound treatment and suffered no ill effects. The report appears in the Junction Eagle.
Panola county repair shop operators report the magnetic nail picker on state highways collected nails during operation. The machine gathered 419 nails across segments including Highway 64 from Carthage to the Rusk county line and other routes with varying miles and weights.
Gus Weisler of Eagle Lake seeks about twenty head of young cows or Belfers for purchase. Contact is requested for supply and pricing.
A second cannon was delivered to Goliad County Judge J A White by Sam A Johnson two weeks after discovery near La Bahia Mission. The 2 ft long piece bears an ornate coat of arms with a 1.75 inch bore and a missing barrel section. Historians test reference works to identify its origin, linking it to La Bahia or Col J W Fannin.
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