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Newspaper
Hearne Democrat
Location
Hearne, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1924
Page
5
Road Contract let Tuesday for Road No 6 from Hearne to the Brazos county line to F P Mc Elwrath of Corsicana. Work will start as soon as approved by the State Highway Department. Bid amount about 95000 dollars.
Duane Mateer of Southwestern University Georgetown Texas won the Southern Olympic trial pentathlon at Tulane Stadium with a total of 2808 points. He captured the javelin with 158 ft 4 in and the running broad jump at 19 ft 11 in, also placing second in the 200 meter dash and 1500 meter run and third in the discus. Al Rosenberg of New Orleans was second with 2029 points. Mateer is a Hearne raised graduate from the class of 1922 and excelled in county and district meets. Mr E T Robbins of Reagan visited Hearne friends Monday.
A Friday barbecue is set to celebrate oil operations near Hearne on the Wilkerson farm. The event aims to mark spudding in a gas or oil venture with a fifty piece band from John Tavelton Agricultural College and speeches by state office candidates. Eats for fifteen hundred people will be provided as Hearne business houses close for most of the day. Everyone is invited.
Fire swept the office of optometrist Dr F R Dunn in the Chamber of Commerce building early Monday, destroying instruments valued at 38000 and damaging the building despite excellent fire department work. A Bryan studio run by Miss Agnes Nemec was water damaged, and Sam Little’s Tailor Shop stock and fixtures on the first floor were affected. Dunn and Nemec expected to reopen.
Judge Joe Reid and Judge Jeff Kemp met with state and federal highway officials in Austin regarding the Big Brazos River bridge at Valley Jul Action between Milam and Robertson counties on the Reagan Division of the Bankhead National Highway. Approvals and financing are arranged with bids to be invited in July and contracts let in August. The bridge would enable an east west highway from Longview along I G N Railway into Mexico, benefiting Hearne Franklin Easterly Ridge Robertson county and linking to the existing north south route.
Hearne friends of Elmer C. Newell of Ennis report the engineer on the Dalsa drowned Monday evening in Ennis City Lake. Newell and his stepson CO. F. Moser were fishing when a storm capsized their boat. Moser swam ashore and a bystander helped recover Newell's body. Deceased was fifty five and had long traveled to Hearne on railway trips.
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