Texas Professors to Study Texas History With Rockefeller Grant
A $7500 Rockefeller Foundation gift to the University of Texas funds humanities research for 1934 35. J Frank Dobie Fannie Ratchford and J Evetts Haley will study Texas folklore architecture and early Texas history. Dobie will collect and write on North Mexican folklore and regional animal lore. Ratchford will survey pre Civil War Texas houses including Mars James F Perry home. Haley will compile Texas manuscripts and study Charles Goodnight and the Goodnight Ranch.
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Texas
University of Texas
Rockefeller Foundation
University Board of Regents
J. Frank Dehie
Fannie Ratchford
Wrenn and Stark
J. Evetts Haley
University
Dobie
Mexico
Guggenheim Foundation
Rockefeller Fund
Southwest
Houmely
Miss Ratchford
Mars
James F. Perry
Stephen F. Austin
Peach Point
Freeport
Austin
Charles Goodnight
Pierce
de Palo Duro Canyon
Texas Panhandle
Haley
East Texas Rose Festival Invites Governor Ferguson
Martha Hayes presents Governor Miriam A. Ferguson with a roses bouquet and invitation to the second annual East Texas Rose Festival. Ferguson tentatively accepts. Martha is four years old and daughter of Robert M. Hayes, festival association managing director.
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Martha Hayes
Tyler
Miriam A. Ferguson
Texas
Martha
East Texas
Ferguson
Robert M. Hayes
East Texas Rose Festival Association
Texas News
Pecos Schools Announce Opening Date and Calendar
Pecos public schools will begin on Monday September 10 under Superintendent R H Blackwell. The calendar shows 177 teaching days with openings, holidays, and graduations, including Christmas break December 21 to January 2 and year end May 28. The schedule meets state and regional requirements with multiple six week periods and two graduations.
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Pecos
R. H. Blackwell
State of Texas
Southern Association of Affiliated Secondary
Reeves County Treasurer Reports May to July 1934
County Treasurer J. B. Hudson presents receipts and expenditures from May 1 to July 31 1934 for Reeves County Texas including balance figures carried from the last report and new balances by fund. The report breaks out ROAD AND BRIDGE CHECKING FUND and GENERAL COUNTY FUND from the Highway 17 Fund.
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J. B. Hudson
Reeves County
Tex
C . As
General County Fund
General County Court House
New Balance
Fort Worth Firm Sentinel Visit From Woodard
W K E Woodard of Fort Worth visited this week on business with the transmission department of the Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.
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W. KE. Woodard
Fort Worth
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
Mrs Hardin Ross Heads to New York Trip
Mrs Hardin Ross wife of the Loving county sheriff left for New York to visit her father and other relatives and plans to stay about a month.
Kerrs Return From Galveston Vacation
Mr and Mrs Monroe Kerr and Mr and Mrs William Kerr with Billy Monroe Kerr returned Friday from a two week visit in Galveston Texas. They said the town was hot but the beach was cool and pleasant.
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Monroe Kerr
William Kerr
Billy Monroe Kerr
Galveston
Texas
Silk Dry Goods reps return from Dallas market
Mrs. John J. Ivy and Mrs. George Ross attended the Dallas fall market season last week for the Silk Dry Goods Co and returned Friday to Pecos.
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John J. Ivy
George Ross
Dallas
Silk Dry Goods Co
Pecos
Week-end Trips to Fort Davis Escape Heat
Mr and Mrs W W Dean spent the week end at Fort Davis to escape the heat of the flat country. Mr and Mrs Dude Cook and children spent Sunday in the mountains around Fort Davis.
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W. W. Dean
Fort Davis
Dude Cook
Hawkins and Starleys Visit Davis and Alpine Sunday
Mr and Mrs Jack Hawkins and Miss Betty Starley with Dick Starley Willie Faye Starley and Bob Starley of Galveston visited in Davis and Alpine on Sunday according to local society notes.
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Jack Hawkins
Dick Starley
Willie Faye Starley
Bob Starley
Betty Starley
Galveston
Davis
Alpine
Davis Mountain Visitors Enjoy Scenic Drive and Mount Locke
Rk. V. Nabers and companions toured the Davis mountain country on Sunday, taking in the scenic drive and Mount Locke as part of a leisure outing.
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Rk. V. Nabers
Davis Mountain Country
Mount Locke
Local Social Roundup Sees Visits From Dallas Tyler and Pecos
Mrs Katherine Broughton and Mrs H Beauchamp with Miss Jane returned last Saturday from Dallas and Tyler. Keith Camp came back to Pecos last Saturday after a business trip to Houston. Dr Will Starley and daughter Miss Betty Starley of Charleston left Tuesday to return home after a week with Judge and Mrs J bh Starley.
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Katherine Broughton
H. Beauchamp, Jr
Jane
Broughton Anh
Freddy Beauchamp
Dallas
Tyler
Keith Camp
Will Starley
Betty Starley
Craleston
J. Bh. Starley
Wild Horses Reappear In Pecos Crossing Chase
A cowmen group including Billy Rankin and Andy Shannon pursues a string of uncaptured outlaw horses at Cowden ranch on the Pecos. The horses roam unbranded near Castle Gap, eluding ropers on the first day as the herd of about 2,200 cattle on Jap Holman, Homer Ingham, and Bluford Thomson’s property moves toward nearby Dyote ranches.
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Crane
Pecos
Billy Rankin
Andy Shannon
Bob Turner
Jim James
Jim Roe
Judie Lovelace
Big Cowden Ranch
Castle Gap
Jap Holman
Homer Ingham
Bluford Thomson
Dyote
JAX
Jax Cowden
Red Craddock
Accused Slayer Of Woman Sets Sail for United States
The man claiming to be Robert Jones but believed to be Arthur C. Wilson sailed from Port of Spain Trinidad on the Jiner Pan America. He is under heavy guard and due in New York next Wednesday with DA Roy Jdachsoi and Sheriff Joe Andersen accompanying to face murder charges in El Paso related to Mrs Irene Debolt's stabbing death near Van Horn last November.
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Robert Jones
Arthur C. Wilson
Irene Debolt
van Horn
Port-of-Spain
Trinidad
Jones
New York
Roy Jdachsoi
EL Paso
Joe Andersen
Culberson Gaulty
Cleveland, O
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Mr. Haley
Sam Houston
James Stephen Hogg
Tom Hunter
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Washington
Treasurer’s Quarterly Report
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Atives
U. S
Ance
Studebaker
Reeves Coun
Howard Bldg
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