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Newspaper
Junction Eagle
Location
Junction, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1949
Page
4
A note lists two associations as members, highlighting Texas Press Association and South Texas Press Association involvement. The item presents affiliations without additional context or events.
The Cactus Study Club holds its first regular meeting of the club year at Mrs. Jordan Cunningham’s home on Wednesday September 21 at 3 p m. Hostesses are Mesdames Cunningham Craven and Murr Mrs W G Gillis Jr will speak and Mrs Albert Searcy, president, will preside.
The La Junta Study Club meets on Wednesday September 21 at Mrs. A. L. Mudge home for a misc study course on humor. Mrs. W. C. Oliver leads. president Mrs. Howard Ragsdill presides. Mmes A W Loeffler Daisy Hardeman and W E Allen discuss humor as music poetry and reading. Roll call asks what makes people laugh.
Guests in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice J. Nethery Jr. for Labor Day weekend were their brother John W. Pratt Jr. and Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Macieras, all of Houston.
Mrs. Jeff D. Jackson of Lampasas spoke on federation work during the Hill Country Study Club’s Federation Day program in Harper. She urged service to others and personal enrichment, with Mrs. Worth Howe introducing her and Tejas Study Club members attending.
Bob Seiker of Junction Flying Service discussed improvements at the airport aiming to provide faster charter flights for business travel. The city council also debated spraying by plane for emergencies, with the service offering planes and pilots for any worthwhile cause. Young pilots Dale Slaughter and Buster Crenshaw impressed in solo and night-flight tests as Joe Matlock continues pilot training for future patrol duties.
In Mason on September 12 the 33rd District Court heard testimony in the cattle theft case against Bob Green of Mason. State witness Dan Lehmberg Jr. found a Hereford hide in his pasture near Art, and Milton Knotts testified that Green directed the killing with a .22 rifle and that they butchered the cow into pieces and sold the meat in Fort Worth.
Janice Terrell a New York dress designer tours the country for innovations in womens fashion and piloted a Bonanza into the town this week. She notes women in business prefer air travel for speed and says no comments on women drivers. Also details on new CAA buildings nearing 24 hour operation and weather station oversight at Rusk Ranch.
Miss Mildred Harriss received a miscellaneous bridal shower hosted by the W M A of the First Baptist Church in Kindrick Memorial Hall on a Tuesday evening, September 13. C W McCarroll played piano as the honoree’s favorite hymn Just As I Am was sung. gifts came from twenty six attendees.
The family of J. Lester Hodges thanks friends and neighbors for sympathy after the bereavement. Your thoughtfulness will be remembered with grateful hearts.
Jerry Dutton son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Dutton is the first 4-H Club boy to receive lambs from the Sears Foundation Sheep project in Texas this year. He received four registered Rambouillet lambs, one from each of four boys carrying the project, developed by County Agent J W Jennings and awarded by Sears Roebuck and Co in Kimble County. Other boys in the project are Gene Simon J R Evans Donnie Bode and George Parker.
Mrs Cleve Stephen traveled to Abilene with her son Jack to enroll at Hardin Simmons College. They were accompanied by Mrs Roy Skaggs.
Mrs. Euel J. Smith recently visited her sister Mrs. Ernest Beard in Brownsfield Texas. She traveled with Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Smith. Sgt and Mrs Andrew Burt of Fort Sam Houston also visited local friends during the weekend.
Mr and Mrs J W Andrews spent the weekend in Rocksprings visiting Mr and Mrs Oscar Green wood and Karen.
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