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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1935
Page
6
Pecos Furniture Co. becomes the regional distributor for Norge products manufactured by Borg-Warner. The arrangement covers fifteen counties in the trans-Pecos area with nine dealers signed and a large display room in Pecos for nationwide distribution through Monahans, Barstow, Pecos and others.
Officials of Pecos Furniture Co say the Norge electric refrigerator is finding favor locally with no reported dissatisfaction in the area. They invite any unhappy owners to come forward and give their complaints so they can address them.
Pecos Furniture Co. officials say the Norge electric refrigerator is simple to use with only three moving parts operating in oil to reduce wear. A Norge unit at the factory has run eight years with only 24 hours off, amounting to about 30 years of home use and showing no depreciation.
Miss Isadore Grimes returns to Pecos from three weeks in Baird visiting a sick sister. Earl Bell traveled to Fort Worth on business, then back to Pecos. A W Rast of Kilgore, former Pecos resident, was in town on business. Miss Taddy Biehl, May Jarine Buchanan, Louise Briscoe, and Kenneth Seely all spent weekends visiting Fort Stockton Abi lene Weatherford Fort Worth and Fort Stockton respectively.
The Norge broilator, distributed by Pecos Furniture Co., is an innovative high heat cooking device for home or cafe use. It cooks meats and other foods without grease or odor, cleanly and quickly, and a Norge gas stove with oven uses the same principle plus gas range benefits.
The Norge oil burner is a furnace type product burning fuel oil with a hot rich flame at low cost. It will be stocked locally and distributed from Pecos Furniture Co to dealers in 16 counties of this section.
Mr and Mrs Adolph Lundin of Red Bluff spent last weekend in Pecos and plan to visit Mr and Mrs W H Knox in El Paso this weekend. George Peterson head of Treterson Construction Co Red Bluff is on a week long visit to Minneapolis. Thomas W McAfee of Dallas was here Saturday with Collings Wilson Insurance. Miss Marie Roach of El Paso is visiting her sister Mrs M r Collie.
A carload of Norge refrigerators and other Norge products arrived in Pecos on Thursday. Pecos Furniture Co will handle and distribute them to local dealers in the region and display them in town.
Mrs. J. B. Cashell and her son Charles returned home from the Pecos Sanatorium on Wednesday. Mrs. Allene Ligon Bell of Fort Stockton is visiting her brother, Earl Ligon, this week. Rev. and Mrs. H. M. Long of Fort Stockton were in Pecos last Friday on business.
Mrs. Lee Kingston Mrs. Alf Harrington and Mrs. Edgar George of Balmorhea were seen shopping on Monday in town.
Mrs. W. Tudor, seriously ill at Gipson sanitarium, is reported improving steadily from a pneumonia attack.
Mrs Irby Dyer of Barstow was seen shopping in Pecos on Tuesday. She was accompanied by Mrs Robert Miller.
Norge Corporation presents a free public screening of The Freedom of the She at Hotel Bran on Saturday starting at 10 30 in the morning. The event includes a Norge appliance display and a Pecos Furniture sales conference with product demos and selling instructions for Norge electric refrig erators and other appliances.
Eric King working with county veterinary staff at a J B farm suffered a cut to his left hand when a barbed wire fence pulled his finger during animal handling. The finger was partly severed and another cut on the same hand was noted.
Kit Matthews suffered a serious injury Monday at the Red Bluff site while driving a dirt hauling truck. A heavy rock dislodged from a shovel jaws and struck the top of the cab, knocking him insensible but not through the cab due to its sturdy construction.
A misread notice discusses the Norg4 air conditioner praised for improving home and office comfort. It mentions Borg-Warner distribution and Aerghat features, highlighting humidity control and healthful air for winter and other conditions.
Notice that a meeting of the Pecos River Railroad Company stockholders will be held at the Pecos Texas office on March 6 1935 starting at 10 A M and continuing after the stockholder meeting with G C Parker serving as see.
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