Local Post Notice from Jal New Mexico
Notice shows second class mailing dated November 15 1939 at Jal New Mexico under the 1879 act. Reader notes Pes at end.
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Newspaper
Jal Flare
Location
Jal, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1940
Page
2
Notice shows second class mailing dated November 15 1939 at Jal New Mexico under the 1879 act. Reader notes Pes at end.
The Baptist Brotherhood met Tuesday at 7 30 p m at the church to discuss a drive for new membership. Eight attended. On August 20 a combined social and regular meeting will be held inviting all community men to attend. Jewel Ray Childers visits Denver City. Marion Carew visits Lamesa. Dewey Roberts returns to Jal after Amarillo study. Bill Hollis and J H Medlin visit Kermit.
Classified ad seeks a girl for housework at a Texaco station on Highway. Also a notice for Regular meeting of Jal Lodge No. 20, I. C. O. F. at lodge hall every Monday at 7:30 p.m. D. H. Roberts Noble Grand Sim R. Riley secretary.
A column reflects on taxation and national songs after a backwoods trip, praising unity and shared power. It mentions a Baptist church midweek service sermon about cooperation, comparing it to breaking sticks. The opinion piece closes with The Gasser Gazetteer.
The Just-A-Mere Bridge Club met Tuesday at 7 30 p m at Mrs John Benton s home. Prizes were won by Mrs K B Walker first, Mrs Bill Fink second, and Mrs Loretta Hoke cut. Guests included Mrs Robert Madera and Mrs Malcolm Mad era. The next meeting is set for Wednesday at 7 30 p m at Mrs K B Walker s home.
Mr and Mrs J L Burke attended a Rotarian conference in Alamo Gordo this week and returned to Jal via El Paso where they visited Mr and Mrs Warren Small for a few days.
A special meeting of the Tucson Club was called Thursday night to form a team for first degree work to be presented in Hobbs this month. The club has practiced two hours weekly and all members are urged to attend the next meeting at the Odd Fellows Hall.
Kelly Nevill is recovering from ptomaine poisoning after an attack. Mrs. Margaret Massey returned this week from a business trip in Dallas. Mrs. Cecil McClatchey is visiting her mother in San Angelo.
A steward meeting of the Methodist Church will be held Sunday at 3 p.m. to discuss church problems. Mrs. George Davis leads the program and all women are asked to attend. Mr. and Mrs. Leon Long and daughters Norma and Barbara Sue returned Monday from a two week trip through northern New Mexico Colorado Kansas Oklahoma and Texas.
Vivien Leigh stars opposite Robert Taylor in Waterloo Bridge, a Robert E. Sherwood drama. Leigh plays Myra Lester, a ballet dancer. Taylor is Capt Roy Cronin. The film follows a whirlwind twenty four hour romance amid an air raid on Waterloo Bridge. R L Hunt of New Mexico A M College visited Las Cruces to see J L Burke.
John Gaither went to an El Paso hospital with a sore left knee, accompanied by Mrs. Gaither, after several days of increasing pain.
The Junior Sunday School Class of the First Baptist Church was entertained with an ice cream social hosted by Mrs. R. A. Dinwiddie Mrs. J. R. Wilson Mrs. H. Rush and R. A. Kidd. Miss Dorothy Lee Rush directed games and activities drawing many parents and visitors to the church social.
B A Rea left for a vacation to Wichita Falls Texas and from there plans to fish in the mountains.
A Baptist Training Union picnic was held in the Sandhills on Wednesday at 7 p.m. Twenty people attended the event and played games after the supper. The party was sponsored by Mr. and Mrs. Jim Ferguson and Mrs. J. O. McClintock.
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