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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1937
Page
4
George Milner DeWitt Black and Home Furniture Company sales force departed for Midland to attend a Grunow dealers and salesmen meeting at the Scarbrough hotel in the city.
Royce Blackburn a patrolman with the department of public safety assisted in the safety lane tests here over the weekend before returning to El Paso on Tuesday.
Prospective buyers hear that the 1937 spring will be colorful with 12 color prints and a strong suit season. Imported silk and crepe gowns lead, while detachable Mexican Eton jackets give suits a new look. Coronation blue red gold green purple dominate accessories alongside beige grey and British tan.
Morning sermon at 11 a.m. titled A Rich Man Called to Serve. Evening talk at 7 30 p.m. Going to Their Own Crowd with a special message to the young people.
An old advertisement from Hinkle Drug Co promotes Leto's Pyorrhea Remedy to heal sore gums and save teeth. It urges immediate purchase and guarantees satisfaction.
Monahans residents and local businesses continued contributing to the drive with gifts ranging from cash to clothing. Notable donors include Robert Bell five dollars Judge W W Hubbard five dollars Pecos laundry employees thirty dollars and Mrs J E Eisenwine five dollars among many others. The Enterprise apologizes for an earlier error correcting Mrs Corda Enyats donation to three dollars.
Barber shop advertises 25 cent hair cuts daily with all day Saturday service by sole operator. Located on Highway next to east of Gold Bond Store.
Serial Chapter Two of The Phantom Rider features Buck escaping dynamite, a plot by Delaney and Harry Woods to seize Hidden Valley, a confrontation with Mary Grayson, and a stampede that collapses the jail as Buck is jailed and the town erupts in chaos.
Christian Science services announce a Sunday lesson sermon across churches with the golden text from II Corinthians 3:18 and citations from Jeremiah 23:23-24. The Science and Health passages by Mary Baker Eddy emphasize spirit omnipotence omnipresence and the unreality of matter as radiant divine creation.
Local residents and visitors fill a busy Toyah week. Distant kin and friends travel from San Antonio El Paso Van Horn and Big Spring. Toyah High School girls and boys basketball beat Sierra Blanca 16 14 and 16 10 respectively in Van Horn.
Leon White departed Thursday afternoon to join his ailing father in Fort Worth, staying close as the family faces a serious illness.
Westinghouse vacuum cleaner for rent at 50 cents per day from Pecos Furniture Co. FOR RENT: Front bedroom with private entrance at 6th and Elm three blocks from federal building. FOR RENT: Two nice bedrooms in private home. Phone 384W. FOR RENT: Private home. Phone 364. Practical nurse seeks work. Mrs. Lillian Dean, phone 419. Baby chicks 9c and 10c each and W Leg pullets from Pecos Valley Hatchery Barstow Tex.
San Angelo hosts the sixth annual fat stock show and rodeo March 6 through 9 with total premiums rising to 2500 dollars aided by a 266 dollar contribution from the American Hereford Cattle Breeders Association and the American Rambouillet association. The C A Broome Memorial prize offers a registered heifer to the best calf entered. Eligible counties include Tom Green Sterling Coke Irion Concho Schleicher and Runnels. Baby beef milk fed class awards total 558 dollars with Abe Mayer as superintendent and R M Milhollin supervising the dry lot class also totaling 558 dollars.
The Band Mothers met in the high school auditorium Wednesday at 2 30 pm with 14 members. They adopted the constitution and bylaws and voted to donate 85 to buy two new instruments for the band. The secretary announced 12 on hand to help defray bandmaster Wesley C May’s band clinic expenses in Waco. R Henry Blackwell announced a Hardin Simmons cowboy band concert on the 17th and urged full publicity. Tentative plans discussed for a spring trip to Lubbock, with car, expense and uniform tips. The next meeting will be in April, date to be announced.
Wink baseball enthusiasts will gather at Wink City Hall Monday at 7 30 P M to organize baseball for the 1937 season. D E Perry former Cisco Red Sox manager will attend and propose fencing Wildcat Park and other improvements to aid the club this year.
District court convenes Monday for a three week term Judge J M Crane to impanel a grand jury and tackle a large civil and criminal docket. Thirty seven divorce suits filed plus committee cases. sheep show awards total 152 cattle division prizes 385 and breeding sheep 400, with Ralph Leftwich and R Q O Shefield overseeing events and prizes.
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