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Newspaper
Junction Eagle
Location
Junction, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1949
Page
5
Local brief notices list church attendance visits by GOMEZ BOOT SHOP customers and neighbors. Ads promote for sale items like fat white flyers, Decca records at MURR ELECTRIC CO, plumbing services by Becker Plumbing Co, and auto repair by Hamer Motor Co. Social updates mention residents visiting relatives in Houston Port Arthur El Paso and Sweeney. Cozy Inn barbecue daily from 11 30 am. Charles Allen visit planned in Sweeney.
A readable local notice mentions radio electric service providers and plumbing, highlighting one day service and air conditioning. It notes visits by Mr and Mrs Blackburn of Austin to relatives in Fort Stockton and lists multiple household names and residents attending Rotary Club luncheon with attendees including Henry Weiss Herman Grote Dr W L Spivy and Lee Borden Jr.
Loyd Williamson was a business visitor in Waco Thursday of last week, stopping for meetings and with plans to return soon.
Western Mattress Co promotes rebuilding old mattresses into Western-built innerspring with guaranteed work. Mrs A L Mudge visited Houston. Mrs Roy Blackburn and Mrs Pearl Chadwell traveled to Gainesville. Edd Cummins Insurance ad. John Guthrie visited Stewart home. Becker Plumbing Co ads invite business. A Weatherford birth notes William Glenn in Weatherford with Neal grandparents. Fane Lee Burt visited from Odessa.
Mr and Mrs Haven Hines of Cedar Rapids Iowa visited last week with Mr and Mrs Nolan Roe. Hines and Roe served together during the Okinawa invasion.
HTD AMERICA HTD AMERICA BY THE JUNCTION NATIONAL BANK ELI WHITNEY recounts how Whitney’s revolving brushes and combs separated cotton seeds, creating a machine capable of replacing many enslaved workers and shaping the southern cotton industry. The column notes patent theft, subsequent gun manufacture, and Whitney’s major impact through the gin. Read this column each week. See our adv. on page eight.
Reliable man with livestock experience and a car is needed to work in line with the Agriculture Department program. Must be acquainted with this territory. Write R. H. Cary, Inc., 908 Liberty Bldg., Des Moines 9, Iowa.
Box Paper nylon brushes and toilet articles list Moon Drug Store items. Elgin watches community plate Alvin sterling silverware and thermos bottles are noted. Mr and Mrs Louis Joseph Margie return from Dallas Markets as Joseph reports strong value and better fabrics at lower prices. Marvin Jackson discharged from Camp Kilmer after 14 months in France returns home. he and family visit Zephyr.
Mrs. Frank Rembold attends the summer term at Sul Ross in Alpine and has pledged Alpha Chi, a scholarship society of the top 10 percent in scholastic rating, to support students during the term.
R. C. A. Stromburg Casles Crosley Westinghouse MARR ELECTRIC COMPANY promote air conditioner padding. Becker Plumbing Co across street from Eagle Office urges customers to visit or call phone 366 for purchase information.
Edward Andrews stayed Thursday to Sunday at Walnut Canyon Ranch with his sister Yetevia also there. Their parents Mr and Mrs A V Andrews joined them for Thursday supper.
FOR SALE two bed room house details at Chamber of Commerce. Ray A. Laird Mrs. Mark H. Leverett spent last week in Dallas markets for fall merchandise. Natt Moors of Segovia left Friday for Galveston medical treatment after months of illness. Modern 5 room house for sale see RE.VD. Borden phone 29 or 133. Mrs W A Banowsky Mrs John McCollum and Walter W Leamons attended London Church of Christ Sunday afternoon to hear Wilson Koon of Dallas in meeting.
A. G. Farmer Miss Austin Durst and Mrs. K G Durst left Monday for several days in Alpine. They attended Sul Ross College graduation events Tuesday evening where Mrs Grenade Peters received a master of arts degree.
Mr and Mrs Edgar Tune and sons Jimmy and Charles of McCarney live here while Mr Toe works with ten other men on a survey for a new pipeline being constructed by Humble Oil and Refining Company near and parallel to the Shell Corporation line through here.
Concrete mixer for rent via A W Whitaker at C A Schraub Co. Merton Skaggs of Junction named first lieutenant and second in command of Co at Texas A and M for 1949 50. Bartlett pears for sale at Lynnside Ranch. Call 1609F12 or drive Highway 29 12.9 miles from Junction. Polio insurance covering nine diseases via Edd Cummins. Mr and Mrs Hugh Bob Spiller visited Junction with daughter Sharon LaRee and May McWright.
Classified light items list sewing interests and visits. Mrs N D Williams seeks sewing work and a telephone contact. Several short notes mention travels to Grubbs Arkansas, Pecos visitors, and a table saw and jointer planer for sale with quick price.
For sale items include a hot point electric range a 7W inch table saw and a 44 inch jointer listed through M Ferris Junction Texas 22-1p. Also a 30 acre land parcel on the South Llano River within Junction city limits with pecan timber listed via C W Atchison. Randy Lynn Phillips visiting grandparents Lonnie and with Kenedy relatives. Josephine Barker on vacation in Arizona. Grenade Peters graduate returns to Midland. Peters with Norma Ann. Alfred Bannowsky family in San Angelo. Otto Schwiening teacher studied at Howard Payne College this summer.
Rev and Mrs S F Marsh and son Harry Dean of Leland Mississippi stayed with Mr and Mrs L R Hodges in Junction last week while en route from the Paisano Encampment to Waco for Harry Deans Baylor graduation. Marsh, a retired Baptist minister and former Junction pastor, left the town 25 years ago.
John A. Long Jr left Sunday for football training at Corpus Christi University where he will attend school this fall. He visited his father three days. Henry Houston Long, who had been visiting relatives in East Texas this summer, returned to function with him.
Hayne Marrow returned to Crockett after visiting Supt. John A. Long. Mrs. H. L. Howard will finish her SWTSTC duties this week after spending the weekend at home. Miss Nita Faye Jones and Mr and Mrs J. T. Fisher with Terry and Sheryl of Lometa visited Vernon Jones last week. Wm. C. Stephenson of San Angelo was here Saturday for business and to see his mother Mrs. C. C. Stephenson. Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Fields and Janet left Saturday for a Colorado trip.
Mrs C W Worrell and children Terry Chuck and Pat Murphy are visiting Mr and Mrs M E Worrell according to a local society notice from the town column.
Classified notice lists 16 volume American Dictionary and Cyclopedia for sale with illustrations. See Alex J. Hamer at 22-1c. Also notes Mr and Mrs Hal B Snead are on vacation at Ft Stockton Texas for a week and Marvin Blackburn Jr was a business visitor in Lamesa on Tuesday.
Monday through Friday bowling matches listed with teams Pig sty Wiggly Wrights Cafe Guffy Drilling Co Nelson Garage Texan Beauty Shop Luckenbach Hardware Sanders Funeral Home Silver Gables Mountain View Lodges Dr McLaughlin s Slip Joints Kimble Supply Co Lt and Mrs Harrell visit Loeffler family news of assignments and training at Camp Pendleton and Quantico plus local visits by Stapp Bishop Spivy Loeffler and family to West Texas Carlsbad Cavern
Mr and Mrs Carlton L Patter of Tucson Arizona spent the weekend as guests of Mr and Mrs Louie Ragland and Jon L in an informal social visit.
Miss Dorothy Wilson of Fort McKavett and Bill Stewart were house guests of Teddy Holekamp in the C. T. Holekamp home during the race meet.
Teddy Holekamp and Jimmy Hugh Watson spent several days in College Station last week, engaging with local figures and inspecting facilities.>The two travelers attended meetings with university staff, toured campus sites, and discussed potential collaborations with area businesses and organizations.
Classified ads list sale items including a 3 piece dining room suite a 3 piece bedroom suite and a day bed plus other items. Real estate offers include two 3 room houses with water gas and storage plus 3 lots priced at 3000. Names Minnie Massey London and Mrs Burgin plus Carlsbad Cavern visitor details and a Fort Worth vacation later report two families and several towns.
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