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Newspaper
Junction Eagle
Location
Junction, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1924
Page
1
The community continues efforts to establish a county fish hatchery to replenish streams. Weather and funding delays have pushed completion past December, prompting a search for cheaper sites. Kerrville’s nearby hatchery costs and limited pond sizes illustrate funding constraints. The plan remains to protect brood stocks with no fishing allowed. Continued search and potential funding updates expected.
Emil A. Loffler of Junction Hardware Company and J. A. Heyman, druggist and Chamber of Commerce president, issued forty page Road to Romance booklets detailing routes from San Antonio to El Paso along the Old Spanish Trail and from Yallas to El Paso via Bankhead Highway. The page features three highway views and ads for the Hardware Company Fritz Hotel and the Hardware Company garage, plus a Junction area map.
Free camp grounds drawing tourists have become a problem with jitney tramps using them to live near jobs, undermining local labor. Experts urge a $1 per week car rental to fund police and sanitation, while authorities push better control and sanitation of sites. The piece notes the Secretary of Commerce born in Iowa in 1874, a former mining engineer and wartime aid administrator who has served in both major parties.
A large silver memorial trophy stands 18 inches high and 22 inches around in the Alex J. Hamer Co. window. Awarded to Ernest Hamer by the University of Pennsylvania, it honors Thomas R. Heath who fell at Chateau Thierry in 1918. One student wins each year, can keep for a year, and may retain permanently after three consecutive wins.
Ground was broken Monday for a new 45000 dollar Junction school. Schreiner Hodges Co began tearing down a large frame warehouse behind their building to extend an iron warehouse to 25 by 100 feet. The Junction Hardware Co remodeled a residence for H G Perry and Oren C Reid reports a new home across the river for Mr Sheppard with a well and windmill planned.
Junction Hardware Company reports Ford sales over the past few days including touring cars to Mrs. Ethel Pearl and family, a coupe to A. L. Bartley, a four door sedan to Mrs. B. B. Ragland, roadsters to R. W. Bissett and K E Stewart, and a truck to John McBee.
The National Angora Record Association met January 10 in Junction. Jack Turner presided as officers were elected and by laws amended to admit South African goats, with new officers Fred Earwood president and Jack Turner secretary treasurer. The group welcomed prominent members from Sonora and Medina and forecast a bright future as the goat industry recovers from a price slump.
Roosevelt residents reschedule the Theodore Roosevelt birth anniversary after weather delayed plans. The event on the 19th includes athletic games public speaking poultry cu lling demonstration and a school beef canning sale with proceeds to the school.
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