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Newspaper
Junction Eagle
Location
Junction, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1947
Page
5
J. W. Lowry and Mrs. Lowry returned to Van Horn on Friday with their sons Jay and Lee Hargis after visiting Mrs. Lowry's mother Mrs. J. T. Swanson for ten days.
Rowert Music Company at 120 East Main Street Fredericksburg Texas sells refinished upright pianos priced 195 to 293 with a new bench. New spinet pianos appear later, orders welcome if not in stock. Otto Oxford reports unusually large eggs from White Leghorn flock with two eggs weighing half a pound and one eight and a half inches around.
Mr. and Mrs. Archie Maples welcomed a baby boy in Junction on Monday January 13. Otis Bell weighed six pounds at birth and is the couple's first child.
Various items listed include remedies and household goods for sale or trade such as cotton mattress and shoes, a Johnson Grass hay sale, rental for London Hotel furnished apartments, and local services like livestock hauling. Residents James Henry Coleman and Henry Filedge Jr plan to rejoin Merchant Marine after leaving Houston.
Pvt. J. A. Hasse wrote his mother Mrs. Elizabeth Hasse on January 7 that he was taking a ferry to the boat for Manila that day. He expects to go to the Philippines via the Aleutians and Japan.
Various classified items and local notices include for sale shingles and concrete blocks from Hayden Sales and Hewson-Potts Corporation, staff movements with J. O. Wright and John Philippus, Miss Maureen Highsmith and Beverly Baker visiting Austin, dressmaking requests, a surgical update on Mrs George McBroome, a ministers retreat planned for Christoval, J D Shannon joining Wm Cameron and Co., Inc., and travel reports of Mr and Mrs Edgar McLendon visiting Tulsa.
Notice offers customers a dollar credit on any mattress made or rebuilt and can build into an inner spring. Clip the ad and bring it to Ruby Jackson on College Street for pickup each Monday. Roberts Mattress Co Brady Texas.
A J Lumm, a work unit conservationist from the Menard Soil Conservation District, will conduct VVA evening classes on January 28 and 30 and a field trip on Friday afternoon January 31. Ranchers and farmers interested in soil conservation are invited to attend.
Mrs Sidney Levinson and her son Fred from Los Angeles arrived January 7 for an extended visit with Mrs Levinson’s parents Dr and Mrs J Fred Burt.
Three rooms and bath on a large corner lot offered at 3250 dollars. Contact Jack Mays. Also notes Mrs Clyde Roberts convalescing from double pneumonia. Son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs Mike E Powell visited from Fort Worth on Saturday.
FOR SALE PRODUCER'S MARKET offers a complete line of fine fruit and nut trees evergreens and ornamentals. We are State certified dealers. Let us assist you with landscaping and planting. Call 208 R. E. Dick Homann 42tfc.
The Women’s Society for Christian Service met in the Methodist Annex on Tuesday to install officers for 1947. Mrs. Marshall Alexander is president with a slate including Mrs. W. R. McPherson as vice president and 14 other secretaries and chairs governing organization and activities.
Mrs Tolly Kennemer gave the devotional and towels were made for the church kitchen during the W M U meeting held Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mrs 5 B Kindrick for the industrial day program. Refreshments were served by Mrs Frank Browning to Mmes Ammie Williams Ike Tinney Lewis
Earl Ashley Deats Chester Kirk D F Davee Zora Burt R D Roth Mann Wm Boerm Lillian Hensley Joe Beck Kennemer appear in the readable portion of a local notice listing individuals connected to a matter, with no further context available.
The church finished six Sunday evening programs on stewardship led by laymen with T. E. Voss as speaker. The congregation will resume layman led programs in March for three more months.
Races set for Menard on January 1 have been rescheduled to January 19 pending favorable weather. Organizers note conditions must permit for the events to proceed as planned.
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