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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1936
Page
5
Members of the Personal Workers Class of the Presbyterian Church held their last summer meeting at the church Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. R. E. Booker led the program before refreshments were served to Mesdames A. F. Martin, E. J. Cox, R. K. Booker, Lillie Cole, John Lilley, George Maley, and Bike (Bike) Simmons.
Prizes totaling 25 dollars will be awarded in swimming and diving with free entry to encourage amateur status. Merchants are urged to enter contestants. Pat M. Neff headlines the Balmorhea event with state officials, CCC officers, and El Paso leaders attending. A motorcade will tour towns from Balmorhea to Pecos before returning south.
Miss Minnie Ellis visited Fort Stockton Sunday with her brother. J G Wilson made a business trip to Fort Stockton this week. Warvey Beauchamp attended to business in Monahans Tuesday. Mrs Minnie Kyle shopped in Pecos from the ranch this week. Barney Hubbs traveled to Jal New Mexico Saturday. Robert Valliant of Kermit visited Pecos over Sunday. Mr and Mrs Bowen Hudson arrived from Fort Worth Monday to visit with Mr and Mrs T Y Casey and W A Hudson. Their son Billy will spend the summer with the Caseys. Mr and Mrs Cecil Hall formerly of Pecos spent time in Pecos Tuesday en route to California via East Texas.
Mrs. Mary Owen and Bud Owen spent last weekend in town. Mrs. Alice Saxon is visiting in Dallas this week. Bob Rogers of San Angelo visited with friends in Pecos last week.
Miss Olivia Williams of Fort Stockton visited Pecos with friends Sunday before departing for Chicago to attend an art school.
Monroe Slack Jr of Marfa visited last week with relatives and friends in the area.
Mrs Jenny Beall of Sweetwater, sister in law of Mrs E L Collings, stopped in Pecos for a few hours this week while on her way to spend the summer in California.
Bob Dean made a business trip to Grandfalls on Wednesday afternoon, arriving to meet local officials and discuss upcoming commerce plans.
Miss Virginia Trott left yesterday to spend ten days visiting relatives and friends in Mercedes. Paul and Chester Armstrong made a business trip to Grandfalls this week.
Mrs Willie De Prewit and her daughter Barbara Nell left Thursday for Hobbs New Mexico to visit for a week with Mrs Prewit’s old school friend Johnny Frances Doty. The trip will reconnect two former classmates and provide a short vacation.
Miss Blanche Henderson and her nephew Wilson Zimmerman visited Mrs. Oram Green and family last week. Henderson and Green had attended school together in Lynchburg Virginia and had not seen each other since then.
Leon White of Fort Worth joins the Community Public Service Company office replacing Robert Valliant who moved to Kermit. White comes from the Fort Worth office to assume the new role.
Warren Banes a Oklahoma University graduate stops in Pecos to visit Bill McKeen before heading to Kermit where he will be stationed this summer.
Miss Minnie Ellis departs this week for her home in Haskell Texas for a short vacation and to visit relatives.
Screen and radio star Pinky Tomlin stopped at the Brandon Coffee Shop in Pecos for dinner Monday evening while en route to Hollywood to begin work on a new picture.
Dudley Cooksey son of Mr and Mrs Albert Cooksey and a former Pecos boy visited with friends there a few minutes between trains Tuesday night. He has been attending school in California and was not route to Sweetwater to spend the summer with his parents.
Barney Hubbs left Tuesday night for business travel to Houston Fort Worth and Dallas.
Mary Nabors attended the Water Carnival in Fort Stockton on Sunday, joining attendees for a community celebration featuring swimming, games, and festivities along the riverfront.
Mr and Mrs M W Cellie returned Saturday from a trip to Dallas and Fort Worth where they visited the Centennial grounds in both cities.
B. A. Toliver was in Balmorhea on Wednesday attending to business and preparing for an upcoming examination.
Misses Julia Ward Birdie Bell Jessie Bell and Fred Armstrong Brown Seay Monroe Slack and Kenneth Slack motored to Fort Stockton Sunday to attend the Water Carnival.
Sullivan and Oliver Sullivan attended a Ford Motor Company centennial event in Dallas as guests of Ford. They toured the assembly plant and a $3,000,000 exhibit hall detailing Ford's production from wool to finished car. The exhibit and plant were open to all visitors during the Centennial celebrations.
Mrs. R. R. Staggs and Mrs. J. W. Sabitonich of Dallas visited their father W. R. Lynch and Mrs. W. R. Lynch last week. They traveled to El Paso and Juarez and spent a day at Carlsbad Caverns with Dallas resident Mrs. Charley Kinlin and her nephews Mac McClean and Travis Graveman of Fort Worth.
S M Mac Jones assistant manager of the Pecos J C Penney store is acting as manager during H G Meyer’s vacation. Jones joined Penney six years ago and has led store sales among Pecos assistants. He invites friends and customers to visit during the national First Man’s Event sale. Also moving visits as Mrs Roy Wilcox and children head to Tulsa while Mrs J Roy Smith goes to Arkansas.
City Government outlines expenditures across departments including Tax Assessor Collector Library City Engineer Fire Inspector Building Plumbing and sanitation. Proposes adjusting services if new activities require funds and notes legal actions to collect taxes from nonpayers.
The Enterprise prints candidate declarations subject to Democratic primaries. For State Senator 29th District B F Berkeley H L Winfield. District Attorney William L Kerr reelection. Sheriff Assessor Collector Louis Roberson L H Red O Neil. County and District Clerk Hollis S Smith.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars in Pecos will host a banquet at the Orient Dining Room on June 25 for members and spouses. Mrs. Mabel Shaw of El Paso will attend as department commander and help organize a Woman's Auxiliary. State Commander E. A. Wiseman will speak, with a guest from Austin. Twelve recruits will take the public obligation during the evening.
The Young People of the New Mexico Conference of the Methodist Church re-elected Rev. Joe B. Scrimshire, pastor of the Phy Methodist Church, to continue as dean. His prior service and the assembly praise his work and faith, noting the honor reflects the people’s trust in his leadership.
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