Barstow Families Shaped by 1898 Ways of Life
Barstow residents recount multi generational stories from 1898 including Irby Dyer who helped his father run a water powered cotton gin, farmed and ranching land, served as Ward County sheriff, and later moved between Barstow Monahans and Midland. His wife Katie lives in Midland while son Irby Lloyd resides there. Charles Dyer managed the family store and later aided migrant workers during the hoof and mouth disease crisis in Mexico City before returning to Barstow. Hazel Walker Dyer, Pat Avary and Hazel�s descendants are noted, with Pat introducing a horse drawn barge between Barstow and Pecos and his family children Ruby Dell Robbie Shine and Kenneth.
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Irby Dyer
Cedar Vale
Irby
Katie Lloyd
Irby Lloyd
Dyer
Ward County
Monahans
Barstow
Midland
Katie
U.S
Mexico City
Hazel
Pecos
Pat Avary
Jennie Maulding
Ruby Dell
Robbie
Shine
Kenneth
Pat
Stock Market Mixed Gains Amid Inflation Clues
NYSE advanced broadly as investors welcomed easier credit and cooling inflation. Dow Jones 30 rose 1.33 to 648.78 while industrials lagged. Cotton futures slipped. livestock numbers from Fort Worth show varied prices for cattle hogs and calves alongside barge and local notes.
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New York Stock Exchange
Federal Reserve
Fort Worth
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Deaths and Services Notices for Pecos Area
Death notices list Virgil Holdman reported as dying in a Monahans hospital with services pending at Pecos Funeral Home. Dolores Olivas Carrera 83 had services conducted at 10 a.m. Monday in Artesia New Mexico after dying at Artesia General Hospital. Carrera born March 20 1891 in Parral Chihuahua Mexico married Gregorio Carrera in 1908 and later moved to Artesia in 1965 from Presidio. She was a housewife and member of the Spanish Assembly of God Church and the WMC, survived by a large clan across Pecos Presidio Chandler Artesia and Carizozo with many grandchildren and greats. Pallbearers were her grandsons. A traffic collision near Walthall St involving Manuel Valdez and Wanda Hester is noted as cause from shrubbery glare. Local listings include Tuesday TOPS Club Alcoholics Anonymous Wednesday Downtown Lions Club Thursday Reeves County Young Homemakers and Friday community activities.
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Dolores Olivas Carrera
Artesia
N.M
Felipa Machuca
Pecos
Jose
Chandler
Ariz
Concho
Presidio
Joaquin
Ysidro
Manuel
Jesus Olivas
Carizozo
Ysidro Carrera Jr
Joaquin Carrera Jr
Jose Machuca
Henry Carrera
Barbs by Phil Pastoret in Reeves County paper
The Pecos paper highlights local humor and mentions a free dishes night shifting from cinema to banking as a social quirk. Staff credits list John Pitts and Peggy McCrackes among editors with Peggy McCrackes as managing editor and Lyns Webb as city editor.
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John Pitts
Peggy McCrackes
Lyns Webb
Becky Rivera
Diane Osbors
Mary Shute
Ruben Baca
Emily Galindo
Carlos Nichols
Joyce Miller
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Hazel Walker
Charles Raymond
Winfred
Irene Garcia
Stock Market Report
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Barsto
Lon Boxley
Ina
Lester
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le Roy
Lillian
Henry
Ida Avary
Jim Miller
Mr. Rice
Ida
Big Bend National Park
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Iva
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Cowan
Iva Avary
Hays
Swann
Lillian Avary
King
Iaa Avery
Boxley
Mr. Crawford
Virgil Holdman
Monahans Hospital
Dolores Carrera
Walthall St
Manuel Valdez
van Horn
Wanda Hester
Marfa
Walthall
10Th St
Senior Citizen's Center
Alcoholics Anonymous
S. Oak
Pecos Rifle and Pistol Club
American Motor Inn
Barstow Community Center
Olympic Elk
Lions Club
Reeves County Young Homemakers
Order of Arrow
Pyote
Hickory
Amistad Lions Club
Lions den
BY Phil Pastoret
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Pecos An
Buckner News Alliance
Cedar St. Pecos
Reeves County
Carter
Reeves Ward
Loving
Pecos Texas
Gordon
Bill Hubbs
Gus Arriola
Big T
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