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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1934
Page
6
In Monabans the fire department will be alerted by a new loud siren installed over Jimmy's Café at a cost of $200. The system is intended to speed responses and is now in operation.
A Midland meeting aimed to include Pecos and adjacent counties Howard Martin Midland Ward Reeves in a drouth area to secure federal highway funds. Telegrams were sent to Washington Senators and Representatives urging inclusion. J B Woolfolk H P Davis and C O Finley represented Pecos with EN Barron elected chairman and H P Davis secretary to form a permanent group.
The Enterprise reposts Spaulding rules for Playground Baseball noting 45 foot base lines a 12 inch ball and underhand pitching. Ten players are used instead of nine with no restraint as to remaining details while officials follow standard baseball regulations.
Etex Oil leader Jules Constantin of T vier Texas and president of the Independent Oil Refiners Association of East Texas is named to the refining sub-committee by Secretary Harold L. Ickes. Texas News Photos.
A fragment outlines baseball terms and rules such as field positioning length of games, official innings in playoffs, dead ball on hit batter, stealing timing, no scoring on a passed ball, and bunting restrictions.
EF Ralph Williams returns home from surgery for appendicitis and remains bedbound a few days. Mrs. Dave Sudderth visits from Monahans to see relatives and handle business. Tommy Warner and wife from Wickett visit for business. Warner manages Wickett refinery. Carl Eddins spends Friday in Wink for business. Dr. Omer F. Divers, now based in Carlsbad, makes a brief visit. Ruth Wade returns to Pecos after high school graduation in Duluth Georgia with her father.
Gurney Hubbs and T H Beau champ visited in Jal New Mexico last Friday. Dennis of El Paso with Magnolia Petroleum Co was here this week on business. W H Little has returned to Fort Worth after a stay in Pecos. Evy Bowles and Hub Bowles hosted Mr and Mrs Bowles at Four Bar Ranch Friday and Saturday. Dick Starley was in Mentone on Saturday. James Kidd of Alpine visited Pecos over the weekend and returned home Wednesday morning. I D Humphrey and family of Chickasha Oklahoma arrived in Pecos Monday for a week with R B Whalen.
Pecos Battery Co receives the new Willard high power batteries described as the most powerful of their size. The 17 plate unit lifts 1790 pounds over 10 feet, far more than earlier models. Marion Slack, manager, notes compact size fits Fords and Chevrolets and resolutions for summer heat and winter cold.
Safety railings outside Wellington England schools are described as stopping children from dashing onto the road before checking for moving vehicles, reducing risk of accidents on the curb.
H. H. Redding, division transmission inspector of Southwestern Bell Telephone, left Pecos Saturday for a two week vacation in California after being here the prior week on business.
Joe Hollebeke, longtime Pecos cowman, greeted friends in Pecos on Tuesday. Misses Jess Edith and Nell Wayne Carlisle return from the College of Industrial Arts at Den ton to spend the summer with their parents, Mr and Mrs Wayne Carlisle.
Mrs Harold Eady from Mc Camey visited this week to see friends and handle business. Ralph Williams of Williams Kerr Chevrolet Co. made a business trip to Midland earlier this week. Mr and Mrs Beau McCucheon Jr spent last weekend in Alpine. Miss Georgia Faye Duncan left last week to spend the summer with friends at Mineral Wells. Mr and Mrs R K Andrews visited Mrs Andrews mother Mrs Tom Harrison and their many friends on Sunday.
Summer heat boosts interest in new 1934 Leonard electric refrigerators at Home Furniture Co. Black and Milner report heavy showroom traffic and immediate deliveries. Models for all family sizes feature a 12 speed temperature control and an automatic quick freezing lever on a single panel.
Lewis Farris and son open a new Pecos taxidermy shop next to Pecos Cleaners in the former Postal Telegraph space. The proprietors bring over twenty years of experience and plan fur cleaning and tanning services later for hunters and sportsmen nationwide.
Aubrey Wolf former manager of the 19th Hole resort on the highway left this week for Austin where he has secured a job.
Mr and Mrs H G Meyer left on Wednesday for a two week visit with relatives in Nebraska. Mr Meyer serves as the manager of the local J C Penney Co store.
Mrs. L. W. Thomas and her son Swain Thomas left for an extended visit in Chicago and the midwest this week end to attend the World's Fair and related events.
We, William Earl Bell and Donald S. Bell, were appointed executors of Ira J. Bell deceased on April 4 1934 by Reeves County Texas Court. All persons with claims against the estate must present them within the legal period and mail claims to Pecos Texas.
A district clerk in San Antonio issues an order dated May 15, 1934 for publication. Sheriff Louis Roberson of Reeves County Texas is named in the notice with a stated amount of 231 dollars.
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