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Newspaper
Junction Eagle
Location
Junction, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1925
Page
2
Classified notice listing items for sale includes a C Tees engine and 30 inch saw mounted on a track, a first class blacksmith outfit, a pump jack, and an offer to sell cheaply. The ad ends with a message thanking patrons and inviting orders from Brooks Dairy.
Notice offers two lots with four rooms two porches and car shed for sale in the south part of town. Asking 500 dollars down with easy balance terms. Seller A S Ramsey Box 284 Menard Texas. Also listing a 3 1/2 ton Republic truck in good condition for sale via Box 147 Comfort Texas.
London Red Creek News reports farmers are finishing planting season while A L Stewart and family plan residence in Mercury School for the term. R C Ledbetter of Clyde Texas will start gospel meetings May 26 at the Community Hall. Commencement exercises for London School are May 22 with the Baccalaureate Sermon at 6 o clock Sunday. Walter Selon Scheie and family return from Blythe California, joined by Elmer Pettigrew.
heartfelt thanks to Evergreen Community South Llano Junction and others who lent help during illness and death of A. O. Moran. appreciation for expressions of sympathy. blessings wished for all helpers. signed by Moran family members in Junction Millsap Dallas Weatherford Ft Worth.
Eastern Star members gathered at Hawk ins Riley Hall for a theatre party hosted by Mrs A L Mudge Matron to honor Mrs C R Stevenson Assistant District Deputy Grand Matron. After the film, attendees moved to the Eastern Star Hall for contests and an entertaining program with hand painted ivory forks awarded to Alton Miller Miss Austin Durst and the honoree. Punch and cake were served throughout the evening.
Lost between Mason and Junction on May 20 contains a hand grip with men s wearing apparel and stationery from Brin Brothers Dallas Leo Seidiman New York and Henry Manufacturing Co Kansas City also has an order book with my name Finder please send charges collect to A J Cunningham Comanche Texas or leave at office of Junction Eagle.
Last Saturday afternoon the Methodist Church ladies held a measuring party at Mrs. Willie Ragland's home. Guests were measured for height with a nickel paid per foot and a penny per inch over a foot, followed by an ice cream and cake reception. Some school items could not be included due to time, to be run next week. A Goodyear retread tire, 30x31 percent casing, was reported lost and asked to be returned to Louis Jetton.
Mrs Lee J Corkill presented a well attended musical recital by her class. The Baccalaureate Sermon time shifts to Sunday morning May 24. Edward Peters Little Rebel addition to the commencement program. Ruth McCarson of Lometa visiting Mrs Bill Hamer. Eagle expands to ten pages with four extra advertising pages and two page circulars promoting Phillip Joseph Dry Goods Store Removal Sale. The paper notes its capacity to print large runs and thanks local merchants for home trading.
The Model Shop announces a sweeping ready to wear and millinery sale starting Saturday May 23. Dresses and hats are deeply discounted from former prices as managers from San Antonio oversee the event, with over a dozen salespeople and visible store activity indicating a major clearance. Fire and closure of Fire Mrs. Vera James Alex J. Hamer Co. prompted stock sale.
Syl Middlebrooks, a baker, jokes that higher flour and egg prices lead him to enlarge the hole in his doughnuts. The joke defines a doughnut as a circular space surrounded by a shell of dough, eggs and air in Bill Sam's Dictionary page 406.
Native Filipinos substitute butter with coconut oil thickened with hydrogenated cottonseed oil imported from America, a practice noted in local cooking methods. The shift highlights regional reliance on imported fats shaping traditional diets and recipes.
A noted quote attributed to Mark Twain speaks on towns that have a saloon a jail and a wet house. It suggests such places mark the edge of civilization in a concise humor noted by readers familiar with his wit.
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