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Newspaper
Junction Eagle
Location
Junction, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1926
Page
1
A booster urges merchants to use attractive show windows to draw customers. Junk displays deter shoppers. Fly specked fin paper sheets are warned against, urging stores to improve their window presentation to boost trade.
Prominent visitors from Houston, S Solomon Enrico Cerracchio and Judge Norman G Kittrell, are visiting the Hill Country. Solomon is Harris County Bar official painter, Cerracchio is sculptor and landscape painter who completed the Gener al Sam Houston statue in Herman Park. Kittrell, ex legislator and Houston Chronicle staffer, is noted for legal and editorial work. Also notes on Kothmann family reunion and Mason Junction road progress by W T Bendy.
Junction Hotel Company stockholders meet today to elect directors and officers for the first year. After the election, officers will go to San Antonio to open bids for construction. Architects trimmed plans to smaller size and contractors received specifications to submit estimates tomorrow. Construction expected to start within 30 days.
Last Thursday at Copperas a fast polo game saw Watson Divide vs Copperas boys with a 5 to 2 win for the Divide. A barbecue dinner by Copperas residents accompanied the match, and the event showcased good sportsmanship and lively play.
An executive of a major independent oil firm said this week there is rising interest in the county’s oil potential as subsidiaries of Standard, including Sun and Dixie, probe for leasable lands and prepare to drill. The official noted frequent attention to sections where such subsidiaries are prospecting.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Pettis of Fort Worth and Mrs. H. E. Jackson of Brownwood visited the Charles Locke home last week. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Moore and Mrs. L. A. Reese passed through Junction on Tuesday en route to Ozona after time in San Antonio where Mrs. Reese was in a hospital.
Mrs. Pierce Hoggett entertained the Merry Wives and Laugh-a-Lot Club in Price's Camp to honor her house guest Mrs. French Murphy of Nacogdoches with a swimming party. Contests and prizes were awarded to winners and consolations to several guests. The honoree received a green bath cap and scarf as lunch included salmon salad potato chips olives sandwiches marguerites and ice pop with assistance from Mrs. R. H. P. Wright and Miss Nettie Wright.
Mr and Mrs John Kenedy of Fort Worth arrived at the Cleo Ranch Tuesday and attended the function yesterday. They plan to spend several days on Mr Kenedy’s Cleo ranch properties. Also present were George W. Fry vice president of West Texas Utilities and E V Sellers head of the land department who attended the function yesterday.
The article urges prompt rescue and first aid with the prone pressure method of artificial respiration. It states all company employees know this technique and can save victims of electric shock drowning or gas asphyxiation. Readers are urged to learn it in five minutes and practice until expert.
Del Rio to stage the Texas Sheep and Goat Raisers Association show and seventh annual Frontier Day Celebration from July 27 to 29. 5 000 to 8 000 visitors expected as merchants raise 5 000 and individuals add 2 000 for souvenirs. 250 large flags, a 100 by 100 foot stage, Virginian Orchestra to play for three dances, and a chuck wagon dinner across the border in Mexico.
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