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40 YEARS AGO — The City council bought last weekthrovsn salesman A VickWinter a street nualntainor and grader which is;expected to arrive at an early date and be put on the city streetsregularly.W. It. Binion ebwad a deal the first cf the Week with G. W. Rosej/or what is knownas the old Given place on Block One, on which he had been living for the last year. The place consists of 30 acresof irrigated land, part cfwhich he had been living for the last year. The place consists of 30 aches of irrigated land, part of which is in alfalfa. Consideration $4,000.A summary of weather forthe year 1925 shows tMal rainfall of 20.43 inches, as compiled by H. H. But/, as local observer. There were 172 clear days. 25 cloudy and 168 partly cloudy.Miss Hazel Wheeler has accepted a position of bookkeeper in the J. M. Rodgers Grocery, Mrs. Lorcna BrownSammons having resigned.The Rodgers M tor Co. report having sold recently Chevrolet s to the following: Dr.W. H. Moore, coupe; A. p. Gentry, touring car.Extensive improvements in telephone service are. planned as a joint project of thePecos Rio Grande Telephone Co. which provided local service between Rankin, Alpine. Marfa. Presidio, Gir-vin Sheffield and Fort Davis and Fort Stockton, and Southwestern Bell, which will build copper lines for direct long--M Pdistant t‘ service between Rankin and San Angelo, and to all the outside world via new line from Fort Stockton toPecos.Now that smoking is official 11 v sanctioned at Bryn M;nvr, the girls will not en-t $ i s-. (k •» v VRK 3■joy it half so much.to YEARS AGO — Twosuitable .granite markers, inscribed with the historical significance of the site, are to be erected in or near Fort Stockton soon, according to word received hire from the Texas Centennial Commission. A two hundred dollar marker will be erected on or near the site of the former Fort Stockton. . .the other monument will 1k‘ erected by the state highway (\ partmk nt eight miles west of Fort Stockton at the * site of the Leon Springs.With forty-two active tests for oil on the list, Pecos County enters 1936 with more activity in this industry than in^several years. Scene of the gn atest current activity is in (Continued on Paste 3
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Fort Stockton Pioneer
Fort Stockton, Texas, US
Thu, Jan 06, 1966
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