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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1935
Page
2
Non resident investor Y. E. Patterson finishes a modern building on the Cowan ruins site in Pecos. The project adds office space, creates construction jobs, and replaces a 15 year downtown landmark with a new asset, reflecting confidence in Pecos' future.
In a Dallas News note by Joe J. Taylor, Reeves County law enforcement is praised after Senator Regan relays a favorable committee finding. The piece contrasts crime definitions across Texas and notes broader county crime perceptions and incidents.
Pablo Avila was given a one year penitentiary sentence with the term suspended in district court for driving while intoxicated and failing to stop after an accident on Barstow streets. Mrs. Wade, the accident victim, recommended suspension, influencing the light outcome for the son of Dionicio Avila, a prominent local family.
Four inches of snow blanketed a 20 mile area around Sierra Blanca Monday afternoon. Howard Price of Brown Cracker and Candy Co. reported the conditions during his rounds this week.
A Fort Worth Star Telegram reprint recounts Alex Tucker, Haskell’s first sheriff from 1885 to 1890, noted for enforcing law with no gunfire. Now living in Pecos, he comments on modern policing while his old oil lands prove valuable and a historic photo will hang in the sheriff’s office.
Archaeologists report discoveries in the Trans-Pecos region showing basket-maker and pre-basket-maker cultures in caves near Bishop's Cap Mountain, Knight ranch, and Van Horn. Finds include hearths, bone tools, spear points, and evidence of Pueblo and Mescalero Apache interactions before Spanish contact.
Public sale ordered by the Reeves County District Court to satisfy judgments in favor of Texas Builithic Company against N F Chapman A S Chapman and Joe H Patterson and against Carl M Eddins Wilton L Youngblood Calvin Youngblood Walter Youngblood Lenora Estell Bell R H Bell Minnie Summers and Mary Ellen Youngblood. Sale at Pecos courthouse on first Tuesday in March 1935 between 10 am and 4 pm for cash. property includes Lot 6 Block 55 Original Town Pecos City and Lot 158 Block 30 Original Town Pecos City.
Sheriff Louis Roberson levied on all interest of Wilton L Youngblood Calvin Youngblood Walter Youngblood R Russell Youngblood Lenora Estelsell and R H Bell Minnie M Summers and Mary Ellen Youngblood in Reeves County Texas real estate. Property described as N1 2 and SW1 4 of Section 192 in Block 13 H G Railway Company Survey. Justice and sale set for first Tuesday in March 1935 per alias execution issued Feb 7 1935.
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