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Newspaper
Junction Eagle
Location
Junction, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1949
Page
5
Weekend visitors from San Antonio to local families fill pages with social notes. Local businesses promote barbecue at Cozy Inn and Moon Drug Store offers toiletries and silverware patterns. Classifieds advertise a modern five room house, auto repair and painting, concrete mixer for rent, and boots and work shoes from Gomez Boot Shop.
Bennie and Bernice Cobb visited sister Mrs. Tom Rowage in Quemado over the weekend. They traveled to Piedras Negras with sister and brother-in-law Mr. and Mrs. Earl Hyde of Mt. Home. Mr. and Mrs. R H Woody were in Austin Friday and Saturday for business and to see the football game. Mr. and Mrs. Bennett Kindrick and their sons Freddie and Roy of Gatesville spent the weekend with relatives.
A. F. STAPP advertises a nearly new 350 pound deep freeze offered at a loss. The fragment also lists various local notices and ads including Belt orders, shop services, visitors to Junction, Oak sideboards, and plant orders.
Mr and Mrs Reuben Loeffler spent Sunday and Monday in Galveston for the preview of new Ford cars. They also saw the Haylor Texas game on the way home Saturday.
Luther Burbank from Massachusetts advanced plant breeding by crossbreeding potatoes and more. His work yielded stoneless plums seedless grapes Shasta daisies and other fruits vegetables and flowers. The article notes ongoing progress in plant breeding and urges readers to follow the column. Local ads mention Vita range cubes for calves, a taxidermist in Fredericksburg and clocks and heating pads from Moon Drug.
An assortment of help wanted and sale notices appears. Items include Rawleigh business recruitment, sale of 2000 bundles of Hegari at five cents per bundle, sale of a five room house with two bedrooms and garage on two lots, sale of four windows with screens, and various local notices. Other entries mention visits by local families and housekeeping help offers. Prices and contact notes are included.
Your old mattress remade in a printed floral tick for eight ninety five. Innerspring options priced from twenty two fifty to thirty dollars. Mrs J H Northcutt returned home Monday after visiting Mrs W A Bannowsky and Mr and Mrs Chester Bannowsky.
Murr Electric Co announces expert radio electric repairs with one day service. Decca phonograph records new in stock at Murr Electric Co.
Advertisement for a hunting trip on Williamson Drug property in Texas offers four days on range for turkeys with no Sundays and no alcohol, priced at $100 for 3 days with one buck. Proceeds or part go to Overseas Relief via Methdist Committee. contact JBK 150 Fifth Avenue New York. Includes a provocative line about wives or mothers contributing money.
For safe speedy satisfactory ser vice call Hodges Ambulances 32 tfe.
A notice seeks a reliable stockman over 28 with a car for permanent work aligned with the Agriculture Department program. Applicants must know the territory. Send details to R. H. Cary, Inc., 908 Liberty Bldg., Des Moines, Iowa. Also mentions gifts and local visits in Wichita Falls and Junction.
The roundup cites a car collision near Llano and a Houston party spill while en route to Big Bend. It mentions August Bruns released from Fredericksburg hospital, Belle Taylor ill in Junction, and Mrs. Belle Taylor's illness at her son's home.
Local American Legion Auxiliary members prepare a mailable box of gifts for the VA Hospital gift shops. Contributions are due by November 20, collected at Mrs Hydie Felps’s home, with Mrs Floyd Little directing the welfare committee. Gifts warm the holidays for veterans and their families, with volunteers handling packing and delivery to the shops.
A keepsake note lists attendees at the Baylor Texas game including Mr and Mrs C Chessher and daughters Mrs Raymond Schneider and children Joe Cunningham Jordan Cunningham Henry Bossman Aubrey Hill Toby Buster and Ovie Buster. It also mentions spectators at the Menard Mason game in Mason Friday evening with Clovis Barker Lee Ruff Alfred Bannowsky Ann Jimmy Virginia Sue Beth Bannowsky and Roy Jacoby.
Don Moore and G W Walker were home for the weekend, flying up from Kerrville on Saturday. Dons family transported them back to school Sunday afternoon.
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