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Newspaper
Jal Flare
Location
Jal, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1940
Page
4
The senior Panthers defeated Wink with a 25 to 12 score while the junior team fell 22 to 17 in Tuesday night action. Coach Smith praised the seniors for strong play and the team plans a Friday trip to Carlsbad hoping to replicate the performance.
A stellar cast led by Marlene Dietrich and James Stewart debuts in Universal's Destry Rides Again at the Rex Theatre. Dietrich portrays a frontier entertainer and performs, sings, dances, and fights in a western style, while Stewart plays the title role in his first outdoor film.
J. M. Whitworth secretary of the Jal Golf Club says members discuss relocating the course to a more desirable location. Top golfers will be called on to assist in selecting and guiding the move as warmer weather returns.
Rev W H Norris invites all to hear a Sunday evening sermon titled The Adults of Leaving God out of Life's Program. He promises plain speaking and inspiring notes while urging long-suffering faithfulness and charity, with emphasis on thoughtful silence as restraint. The text includes quoted thoughts from Mary Baker Eddy and Sydney Smith.
A poem depicts an oil boom town with a cramped unpainted home and creaky fixtures. The verse contrasts harsh living with a lively street scene as workers drift through days and nights, before closing with a social note about Ada Mae Hair visiting Garada Johnson and other local moves and illness.
For sale items include a trailer house 21 and a half feet long electrical washer cheap and older radio prices listed. Also a regular meeting notice for Jal Lodge No 20 I C O F at Jal school weekly Monday 7 30 pm with names J R Wilson and M L Dooley. Also an accountant auditor ad seeking small bookkeeping work Box 248 Jal New Mexico.
Right of way on curves of the up county link of Highway 18 was obtained this week paving the way for paving the section during 1940. County commissioner Joe Cunningham said easements extend to the Roosevelt County line from Tatum. Preliminary work will begin soon on the road the last unpaved section on the North South highway through the state. The Jal Rotary Club endorsed a move to complete this road and seek Federal designation as a Big Bend to Canada road.
Mothers of Jal Boy Scouts will meet January 18 at 7 p.m. at Scout master John Eddy's home. The Baptist B T U held a Wednesday session to discuss the group’s new year plan and reported good attendance.
Mrs Hazel Fink entertained the Bridge Club at her home on Monday evening the first meeting of the year. Mrs John Benton won first prize with Mrs Clarence Roach second and Mrs Jimmie Gammill the consolation prize. Mexican-themed prizes included a luncheon cloth a fiesta bowl and a Mexican dinner bell. Refreshments featured chili and beans with coffee.
A prayer attributed to Eusebius expressing a wish to avoid enmity, seek reconciliation, refrain from evil, and pursue only good. It asks for safety without harming others, universal happiness, and absence of envy, reflecting a Christian伦理 of peace and benevolence.
Walter Pendleton and Malcolm Madera flew in Madera's plane to Carlsbad on Wednesday for a Rotary luncheon. The remark about a good disposition drawing friends closes the note.
The line laments the comforting power of friendship as a printed word, attributed to Augustine Birrell. It notes the warm feeling the term evokes when seen in text and frames friendship as a lasting human good.
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