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Newspaper
Junction Eagle
Location
Junction, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1939
Page
3
A collage of quips shows skits on marriage, money, and manners. Jokes hinge on family rows, petty quarrels, and social mishaps, with characters like Sally Frankie and Mr Hopkins delivering puns about aging beauty and shovels in a light newspaper card style.
Texas employment shows a December surge with an 8 percent rise from November in industrial jobs and a 21 percent increase in total payrolls. Retail employment climbs to 212 thousand with weekly payrolls around 3.46 million, while manufacturing payrolls total about 2.54 million. December manufacturing employment stands near 113,710, close to November’s 113,200 but below December 1937’s 120,930.
The Junction Grammar School announces honor roll placements for the third six weeks across grades seven and six. Notable names include Viola Cimmins Goree Durst Felix Haler Jr Lent Hardeman Helen Hardin Robert Hunger Jr Beulah Young Wild Worsham Joanna Smith Dorol Jackson Wanda Hunger Joe Gardner Margie Clough Teddy Holekamp Milton Adams Leona May Allen Colleen Benson Mary Louise Platt Mary Logan Carpenter Edward Dunbar Hetty Lee Holland Letha Morris Jenesst Wahl Worth Whitworth David Taylor Billy Don Jordan Jove Herring June Havens Hennie Ian McWright Frith G Jesse Jo Cavaness Rayona Che nault Billy Shannon Gardner Texas Rose Andrews Ray Neff Hill Conner Johnny Adams J A Hasse Ruth Hodges Dorothy Jones Lola Kiser Knowla Stewart Rena Taylor Mar Jo Taylor Olivia Jones Joyce Whetstone Margaret Ann Wright Marilyn Baker Harold McDonald Patsy Morris Adrienne Loeffler Merton Skaggs Winona Dutton Ann Bannowsky Carolyn Barthelow Shirley Jones Gully Cowsert David Evans James Tames Leslie Ray Barnes Hilly Ed Allen To Dell Camp Billy Tatum Frederica Burt Robert Winship Mildred Harriss Albert Martin Jr Nathan Whitworth Nancy Spiller Yvonne Woot.
Congressman Charles South of the 21st district of Texas, newly on the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee, says freight rate discrimination hurts producers and consumers. He urges cooperation with colleagues to reduce rates, arguing Texas cannot industrialize or prosper while rates remain biased and high.
Markets San Antonio Texas January 23 hogs receipts seven hundred market steady late last week good hogs active others slow top seven dollars for choice 175 to 250 pounds. Feeder pigs around sixty to seventy dollars. Cattle receipts nine hundred calves strong market with fed steers and yearlings six to eight dollars, some lighter weights and vealers up to eight thirty. Median slaughter calves seven to eight twenty, cutters four to four twenty five, beef cows four to five seventy five with some higher.
Receipts: goats about 200, sheep 1,000 head. Market steady to strong with stocker cattle and feeder calves active. Prices quoted: vealers to 6.25, odd heads to 5.00 or 6.25, steers to 5.50 at best, heifers around 4.50 to 4.75. Shorn wethers near 4.15, Angora goats 2.25 to 2.50, several lots sold, overall activity brisk for the period.
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