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Newspaper
Llano News
Location
Llano, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1939
Page
4
Mrs. C. B. McCall and her husband took their young son to Austin last week for eye treatment. The child is responding to care. Tom Herrige had a Saturday operation at a Brownwood hospital and is improving steadily.
Mrs Grace Lindsey visited with Mr and Mrs Maryin Latham and children and Jimmie Nolan of Austin as weekend guests of the J R Nolan family in Kingsland.
Local residents and visitors share movements and gatherings across towns. Mrs. Jim Kleen and Alta Fay visit Lake Victor while others travel to Austin Odessa San Antonio and New Mexico for family events and relatives. neighbors from Wharton Sunray Dallas Lampasas and Lincoln County host guests or welcome relatives.
Mrs Ellen Brown visits noted in Field Creek News with mentions of the Barclay families and Hope Brown household. Maurice and Fern Barclay attended a Tow Valley reunion on Thursday.
Valley Spring visitors include Mr. and Mrs. B L Greenhaw and Mrs. Frank Harriy. Field Creek and Pontotoc residents noted with parties and a union arbor project. The 1939 State Fair of Texas in Dallas will feature a record livestock show with beef cattle premiums surpassing 20000 and a 10000 Hereford award. Dairy cattle premiums rise to 7500 with swine awards also increased. Government programs push breeders to finish more beef cattle in Texas and other cotton states.
Malcolm McClellan entertained with a dance Friday night at Club Liano to honor Mary Beth Bradley and Maxine Meyers of Sunray Texas. Refreshments served to a long list of attendees including Eleanor Garrett Koose Texas Vivian Buttery Jane Wallace Moss Chickasha Oklahoma Wilma Norton Laura Smith Charlsie Smith Doris Buttery Betty Jo Justice Houston Anna Crooms Alberta Price Mary Nell Johnson Nora Griffith Austin Wynona Thompson Rosalie Jordan Edris Charlotte Dunaway Oklahoma Joe Wallace Pat Schell Texarkana Harold Nevins San Antonio Joe Bailey Johnson C L Taylor Jr Charles Cook Marshal Strayhorn Henry Butler Lee Strayhorn John Rabb Sam Jery Harold Buttery Jack Watkins Rabb Granville Smith Robbie Keyser G C Powell Joe Billie Smith Oran White James Carl Tab Summers and Miss Eleanor Bradley.
Optometrist Wilbur C. Treadwell will be in his Llano office on Saturday July 22 for eye examinations and glasses fitting. The Conquerors Class of the Llano Baptist Church held its semi annual election on July 13 naming Imogene Moss president Granville Dunaway vice president Edith Sawyer King secretary treasurer and Clyde Hart Mordica reporter. A light refreshment of cookies and lemonade followed the election. Also offered is registered Angora Billy goats for sale from J W Winkle Llano Texas.
Sunday School attendance hit a record 155 last week as the Pastor marks his 32nd ministry anniversary. The church invites a full turnout next Sunday at 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. with a Bible School fee of 45 cents per person.
Mrs D W Williams and Mrs May Smith Williams led a July 13 meeting with the J C Hardy Memorial committee at Taylor. They reported Liano and Burnet counties maintain an unusually good state record. San Saba Baptists offered to help by announcing their first memorial service at Cherokee on Sunday night July 23 at 8:00 p m.
Revivalist Rev. J. C. Jones conducts services each evening this week with Sunday sessions at 10 30 a m 2 p m and 8 p m All are welcome to attend at Prairie Mountain.
Castell Methodist Church announces no Sunday School or preaching at Castell next Sunday due to the Prairie Mountain revival. Loyal Valley will have no service Sunday evening. Members are urged to attend the Prairie Mountain revival instead.
To those who aided us during the illness and death of our brother George W. Byfield we extend sincere thanks. May God bless each of you. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Backnes, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Byfield, Zora Byfield.
Church School at 9 45 a m morning worship at 11 a m Rev F W Radetzky will preach at this hour Come and bring your friends to hear this good man explain Gods word Youth meeting for their worship program at 7 00 p m
Austin visitor Brother Archie Smith will preach at the Church of Christ in the courthouse building Sunday morning. He will preach here on the second and fourth Sundays thereafter with a welcoming audience invited.
The Washington Post notes the per capita share of the national debt is about $320 and asks how individuals might repudiates the debt. In upstate New York a baker’s runaway horse scattered pies along a route as spectators cried out about government agencies.
Circle No 1 of the Baptist W M S will meet with Mrs. Austin Long at 4 p m Friday July 21. Miss Nona Davee of Austin visited with friends Sunday. Mr and Mrs L A Shipworth visited friends and relatives at Waco last weekend. Mr and Mrs Otto Keyser and Naomi Ruth visited relatives in Liano Sunday. A B Foreman and sister Mrs R Anderson of Seguin were visitors in the J H Carter home last week. Texas Myestock breeders have sold over 6 000 herd sires in Louisiana in three years. The Texas Breeder-Feeder movement proves east Texas and the Southeast can breed feed and finish livestock for the market. Louisiana leads in replacing cotton acres with livestock and feedstuff.
Prizes totaling more than $10,000 will be awarded Herefords at the 1939 State Fair of Texas, Oct 7 to 22. This is the largest prize money ever paid for this livestock class, with premiums raised due to rising interest in the Hereford breed.
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