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Newspaper
Junction Eagle
Location
Junction, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1938
Page
4
The article argues sidewalks and curbs enhance safety for children and residents. It notes students walk in streets due to missing sidewalks and rain mud hinders access, while praising gradual civic improvement through churches schools and businesses.
Solomon Kansas with about 1 000 residents uses the high school as an after hours center for cultural and social activities. Five nights a week the building hosts meetings games lectures and performances drawing 5 000 people from eight miles away. The plan gained broad support from a progressive school board and a devoted educator fueling a vibrant neighborhood life and near zero truancy.
On Monday September 12 at eight o'clock in the evening Miss Tempe Leora Speck became the bride of Jake Walters Beasley in the Speck home. The ceremony included formal vows, nuptial songs by Mrs. Nolan Queen, and a ring reading by Dean H E Speck. The couple planned a short wedding trip to New Orleans before settling in Ozona Texas.
Of Weatherford Mrs C E Wallace and son Don Wallace Ernest Speck Jr and Miss Cora Clinger all of Austin are noted in the document as connected parties or witnesses with ties to the case locally centered in Austin.
Mrs. H O Denman and Mrs H E K Wright hosted a Friday garden party and kitchen shower at the Denman home honoring Elizabeth Summers bride elect of Luke Hagood. Attendees included Nevada Blackburn Kaleta Taylor and many others with readings and a treasure hunt leading to gifts.
Mrs Charles Ferguson receives a kitchen shower hosted by Mrs Ro Ro Spilier and Mrs Grover Landers at the Spiller Ranch on Wednesday afternoon September 14. Guests from Menard and area attended as gifts were opened and punch and cake squares served.
Mrs L Borden entertained the Little Contra Club with a Friday bridge night at her home. Bouquets of zinnias and Regina Corona formed a floral backdrop as Mrs Clifford Hamer and Mrs Carl Nelms won the table prizes. Other guests included Mrs Roy Baker and several members.
Mrs. Clint Barnes Mrs. Joe Felps and Mrs. Ramsey Randolph hosted a picnic for the Friends Class of the Metho dist church at the city park. Attendees included Miss Katie Wilson Mr and Mrs E R Borden Mr and Mrs Clint Barnes Mr and Mrs Joe Felps Rev and Mrs Ennis B Hill Mr and Mrs Ramsey Randolph Mrs Leona Simon and Mrs Dorothy Westmoreland.
The two Methodist Church women's missionary groups held a joint meeting at the annex on Tuesday afternoon and plan to merge for a fall study course titled The American City and Its Church. Mrs. Ennis B. Hill will lead the course, and Mrs. Ada Dockery hosted a birthday tea for Mrs. Virginia Stev.
Be Bene The Texan Theatre shows three pictures in seven days. Always Goodbye stars Barbara Stanwyck and Herbert Marshall. The Toy Wife features Louise Rainer and Melvyn Douglas. The Hurricane with Dorothy Lamour and John Hall plays next Tuesday through Thursday.
A refreshment table featured a Madeira cloth and a white birthday cake adorned with spun sugar flowers and pink candles in rosebud holders. The cake, encircled with Regina corona and fern, sat at the center of the table as about twenty ladies attended.
Mrs. Carl Taff hosted a Friday 16th birthday party for her niece Charlotte Taff turning thirteen. Attendees included Janice Loether Hilda Henderson Sue Gilliam Nila Mae Baker Delphine Allen Mary Kathleen Hodges Modell Barker Betty Joe Hodges Zelma Barnes Varda Hodges Marjorie Dell Smith Viola Cummins Evelyn Cummins Helen Herring Reba Nell Ferris Amy McWright Joe Jr Andrews Gene Herron.
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