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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1937
Page
7
Denton report by L H Moore shows 99 percent of 2300 students at Texas State College for Women believe in a divine creator communicated through prayer. A large majority feel a need for religion and church, with 25 percent unsatisfied by current church practices. Preferences favor sermons sacraments and music.
The fourth in a series of lyceum courses sponsored by the Pe cos P. T. A. will be presented Saturday February 20 at the high school auditorium with admission 10c and 25c. Orendo Magic Company offers escape mysteries and rapid fire magic with music and tricks. Bonnet Princess Barbara appears on campus in a carriage or car rides, with daily health-minded menus including milk eggs cereal vegetables fruit and cod liver oil and vita water for teeth protection.
Miss Iva Mae Lacy selects Neighbors by Zona Gales as the Pecos entry for the Interscholastic League one act play contest with tryouts February 16. The comedy is required after a ruling bars tragedies. the play will compete in the county meet if Balmorhea or Toyah enter, otherwise in the Fort Stockton district meet.
The Merry Wives club met with Mrs. Gage Van Horn Jr to study Honey In The Horn by H L Davis a pioneer Oregon tale. Mrs Ralph Williams praised the novel while Mrs Van Horn Jr analyzed the author and Pulitzer link. A business meeting set 25 cent admission to fund the club house and chose Gone With the Wind for the next review with Mrs Bill Ross Jr to present. date to be announced.
The Rev. W. M. Turner leads a ten day revival in Wickett this week and next, with Sunday and Wednesday services in town as usual. Also, a Modern Study club rummage sale is set for Saturday at Haynes Motor Co.
J. G. Murray announces he is now agent for Etowah Monument Company of Atlanta Georgia dealers in monuments and grave markers. He has complete catalogs of new granite marker designs and invites customers to compare before ordering from out of town agents.
Mrs. O. A. Smith and Family along with T. J. Smith express heartfelt gratitude for the numerous expressions of sympathy thoughtful deeds and floral tributes. May God's richest blessings be on each kind friend and neighbor who supported them.
Miss Elizabeth Sandlin of Brownwood and Noah Huggins of Pecos were married January 30 at the bride's parents’ home with Dr. M. E. Davis presiding. The bride, who lived with her sister in Monahans for about three years, attended Daniel Baker College and CIA. The groom, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Huggins of Snyder, studied at Abilene Christian College and works in Pecos, with plans for a Mexico wedding trip.
AUSTIN Rep A P Cagle seeks a 10 percent general rise in summer school appropriations totaling 334 405 for 16 state funded universities and colleges. He says some schools should receive more than asked as attendance is expected to hit new highs this summer. Texas A M, Prairie View, and other institutions are listed with requested vs apportioned amounts.
The county basketball tourney unfolds Friday at Ayah on outdoor concrete courts. Pecos girls meet Toyah at 2 pm, Pecos boys face Balmorhea at 3, the girls’ winner vs Balmorhea at 4 for the county crown, then the boys’ final pits the girls’ winner against Toyah. The girls end their season, while the boys advance to Fort Stockton for the district meet.
AUSTIN Equipment at the McDonald Observatory on Mount Locke in the Davis Mountains is outlined by Howard E. Degler of the University of Texas in the Southern Power Journal article Seeing Stars with Diesels. The piece features dome and two Diesel engines with a blueprint, noting that water limits and rail access favor Diesel units of 50 kilowatts and 25 kilowatts.
Sheriff Louis Roberson and Sheriff Hardin Ross of Loving County left Wednesday for Gatesville to place a juvenile in the state reformatory, then proceed to Austin for the State Sheriffs Association convention.
Mrs Bill Moore Mrs J L Moore and Mrs Anna Davis were Pecos visitors Sunday in a brief social note highlighting the trio's weekend trip.
C F Butcher was operated on for appendicitis at a local hospital last Thursday and is reported resting nicely. While he is ill, his wife stays with Mr and Mrs Jack Turner at their residence.
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