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Newspaper
Jal Flare
Location
Jal, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1939
Page
2
Jal published weekly by Long Publications in Lea County New Mexico appears every Thursday detailing local events, notices, and community updates for residents and businesses.
A satirical column mocks residents for delaying fire response and endangering crews. It laments 46 parked cars clogging a fire scene and a ruined hose, urging quick action and poking fun at spectators and comparisons to distant cities. The piece closes with ranch banter about calf-roping and chaotic fire night antics.
Sunday School lessons shortened for a Mothers Day program at the Methodist Church followed by a sermon by Rev. C. Y. Butler. The service featured readers singers and a duet. Health news included Thomas Huggins badly healing after a leg fracture and Bennie Jane Sapp’s post operative recovery.
A reader known as Salty writes of a flood-like rain at a salt grass camp, recalling a 1930 downpour near home, the floodwater flooding a tent, a frog washing in, and a plea not for publication but for relief from blues.
Mr and Mrs Solley and Miss Luella Cutshaw visited Hobbs on Tuesday. Mrs M A Petty moves into town to manage the Dinwiddie Rooming House. Mrs Doyle Edge and son and Mr George Rathjohn go to Arkansas for a vacation near Hot Springs. Mr and Mrs Wisner travel to Carlsbad for a druggist convention. Louie Pender injured himself hitting a telephone post while playing ball. W M A of the Baptist Church held circles at the church with its regular program. C D Howard of E L Farmer Trucking Co sprained his back and was treated at Community Hospital. Miss Virginia Wilson plans to go to Burbank California after school for the summer.
The fire department will host a barbecue Thursday night for O. L. Moseley who is leaving the force for Medina Valley. Members, spouses and a few guests will travel to the sandhills for the gathering. Thomas Sullivan of Cohoama visited Spencer Ely over the weekend.
Mr and Mrs W E Rose depart today for Medina Valley and expect to return Saturday.
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