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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1924
Page
9
R N Hairston visited town Wednesday with another bale of cotton worth over 170 dollars while keeping the seed He says his crop is short this year due to late irrigation and would have yielded more if watered ten days earlier Reeves County is emerging as a cotton region with strong profits for careful growers.
F M Bratton and wife show practical gardening in Pecos by sharing a home grown basket from their garden. The editors enjoyed tomatoes roasting ears beans cucumbers peppers beets turnips and spring onions, noting the small effort and large payoff in fresh vegetables and lower living costs.
An appeal urges audiences to attend the Monday night performance at the Opera House on October 29. The message emphasizes civic duty and personal responsibility to country and self.
Program at the Opera House by the Euterpean Club for Red Piano Solo benefit features Mildred McCarver soloists and choruses including From an Indian Lodge From the Land of the Sky Blue Water Far Off I Hear a Lover's Flute Indian Lullaby The White Dawn is Stealing The Moon Drops Low and Cunning Little Injun Doll with performers Louise Starley Parlee Neal Dorothy Bean Ila Brown Margaret Love Janice McKellar Ida Brown Merrill Yarbrough Mildred Browning and more Singers, part of a benefit concert. Audience invited to join in The Star Spangled Banner and national song.
Mr and Mrs A J Curtis return from the Dallas Fair and visit Fort Worth on Wednesday morning train. They heard Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo address Fort Worth on Sunday and report he is as fine as described in the papers.
Otto boy was thrown from a city delivery car in the western town and lacerated by barbed wire. Milton Wadley witnessed the incident as the boy received nine teen stitches from doctors Camp Bryan and Lusk. He suffered deep cuts from foot to shoulder and will miss the first half of the term.
The piece argues that running a paper is challenging regardless of economics. Editors face subscriber criticism, advertiser pressures, and public expectations. It asserts printing what pleases or displeases the public affects patronage, while denying blame or praise as the sole factor.
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