Fort McKavett State Park talk and local notes
Fort McKavett citizens push to persuade the State Park Board to accept land around the old fort for a state park and improvements. Laura Hollinsworth arrives in late June to serve as Menard county home demonstration agent. Mrs. Alfred Baron suffers a broken right thumb after a setting hen kicks her. Kerrville forms a rare grandmother granddaughter business partnership. Peter Keene, 17, survives a 100 foot fall above the Guadalupe river with injuries after slipping on wet dirt. O P Adams resigns as Sonora high school athletics and science instructor to take a Grandfield position. Harvests continue in Mason county with three combines clearing about 1000 acres under contract. Fort Stockton highway district office to open in Pecos area per Texas Public Safety.
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Peter Keene
San Antonio
Guadalupe River
Kerrville
the Hills Inn
Special Provisions Guide Prevailing Wage Classifications
The proposal outlines classifications for laborers, workmen, or mechanics under House Bill No Forty Third Legislature Texas. It lists skilled intermediate and unskilled levels with minimum hourly wage rates and 40 hour workdays. details reference specific positions under the Special Provisions for Laborers.
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State of
Texas
Jewel of Friendship Prayer By Bessie Hale Everett
Poem reflecting on inner treasure stronger than gems, asking God for faith hope and love to guide daily life. Signed by Bessie Hale Everett from Weatherford Texas. Oblique note to Dear God asks for protection and guidance along life’s path.
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Bessie Hale Everett
Weatherford
Texas
Stockman reports hailstorm hits ranch on Pecos River
Stockman describes a severe hailstorm and heavy rain that damaged the Roger Dudley ranch on the Crockett side of the Pecos River Monday afternoon. The storm wrecked roofs, killed chickens, stripped leaves from pecan trees, and left bare stems in a vegetable garden. On Mr Watkins Henderson Chapel farm, a 58 acre Nortex seed field yielded about 100 bushels per acre, a likely record, with remaining fields near 60 bushels per acre.
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Roger Dudley
Crockett
Pecos River
LA. Watkins
Henderson Chapel
Watkins
The Willows and The Slough Verse Fragment
Fragmentary lines describe willows along a slough as colonial ladies in lace, dipping fingers in a muddy stream with scattered phrases about books friendships and expiation. The text references Inez W. McAnaly Mathis Texas and Terst Rowe Kidd Palo Pinto, with jagged musings on speed and thought.
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Kirkland Kawards
Navasota
Phat Absay
Inez W. McAnaly
Mathis
Terst Rowe Kidd Palo Pinto
Tuberculosis Mortality Falls Slightly in 1937 Texas
Texas health officials reported that tuberculosis deaths fell to 4,136 in 1937 from 4,212 in 1936, keeping TB as a leading cause of death. Despite the decline TB remained higher than 1935’s 4,021 deaths, and the state logged 2,145 highway deaths, with the nation also seeing a TB uptick for the first time in ten years.
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Texas
State Department of Health
Wool Plant to Produce Rock Wool at Temple Factory
A company plans a $15,000 plant at Temple to manufacture rock wool. The process uses super heated rock to produce a cottony finished product that is fire and vermin proof. It will find use in building insulation and refrigeration and furnaces. Fountain pens came into use in 1884.
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Temple
Obituary and local notices from county correspondence
London locals report the death of Frank Mogford aged 81 in Brady Hospital after a brief illness. He lived in southeast Meng County for decades, with stock farming ties in Kimble and Menara sant Mason counties, and was honored at a large funeral at Mountain Cemetery. The column also notes visitors, relatives, ranch news, and community opinions on national politics and freedom of speech.
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Frank Mogford
May Dist
Mogford
South East
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Me News
Fort McKavett
State Park Board
Old Fort
Messenger
Laura Hollinsworth
Menard County
Extension Service
Texas A & M. College
Menard
Alfred Maron
Main Street
Kerrville Mountain Sun
Catherine Whelan
Rose Charlier
Devils River News
Sonora High School
O P Adams
Grandfi High
Mason County News
Mason County
J.J Johnson
Wilbert Meyer
Bill Johnston
Jayton
Mr. John
Texas Highway
Pecos
Fort Stockton
Srsonnel
Texas Departent of Public Safety
Joe M. Gardner
Roosevelt, Texas
West Texas Livestock Motor Lines
Ming, Junction
Raf
Texas Highway Construction
Copperas Creek
US 28
Kimble
State Highway Department
Austin
W. N. Hardeman
Junction
Rodiy
Wah
Dally Tom
Vantory Mart
Ennen Reaves Hall
Pauls Valley
Ofklahoma
Aden Keho
Yar
Bock Wool
Lions Club
Sonora, Texas
London
Guyton Lewis
Wowie of
Pallas
Rosalind Marri
Cinneristt
Ohio
Harts
Ja al
Harris
Georgia Amberson
Mary Bell
Grave la Ro
Mrters
JL. Lewis Band of Labor Organization
Washington
New Jersey
Montana
Texa
Bear Creek News
Bear Creek
Bear Creek Lake
Sid Rhodes
Tolly Ann
Brecken
Alf Feed
Wood
Jim Farr
Aughter Muriel
Alfred Bannowsky
Muriel
Alfred Wood
Thomas Coney
Arch Heynolds
San Angelo
Hospital
Folaris Arch
Allen Bishop
Little Lew
Louis Pinkerton
Milhuirn
van. Tommye Fee
Mr. Lee Morgan
Drt
J Connors
Prank Wilse
Ituh
Nts
Tie Ottice
Kerrville, Texas
Service
MT Gem Awe
Callan Graham
Courtouse — Junction
M. E. Blackburn
Coke Br, Stevenson, JR
Cor
Lowgren Junction
N. C. Patterson Watchmaker and Jeweler
Texas West Side Square
DR. J. Holt Smith
Junction, Texas
RCA Radios
C.W. Walker
West Main Street
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