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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1934
Page
1
Local Pecos merchants boast stronger business as Easter approaches with emphasis on value, service, and home brands. OOTS FARNUM, formerly of Charston, notes improved conditions at his Wink store and reports a tight lodging market and difficult room availability. Continued discussion on page six.
Lions Club presents a lively evening at the high school auditorium next Thursday featuring a play, dance chorus, and special numbers under Mrs R W Neilson. The cast includes Liv Donnell B Craft A C Luke Wood Gilbert Murray Mary Ward Wolf and others with a joyous mirthful performance. Senator Ken Regan of El Paso will speak at the El Paso Chamber banquet Saturday.
In Barstow last Wednesday morning bandits used a blowtorch to cut into Citizens State Bank vault and inner safe but fled at daybreak. About $36.10 in loose change was taken. hundreds of dollars in silver inside the vault but outside the inner safe were left untouched. Bank cashier L H Nutt declined to disclose safe contents, noting only typical banking amounts. Authorities were alerted statewide. sheriff and highway patrol pursued leads and found several Seavels near the scene.
In 1933 Texas lawmakers passed a law protecting flowers trees and shrubs on private and public lands ending wanton removal. The move sparked a statewide push by the Highway Department to beautify Texas roads with plantings, aided by efforts from Jas Gubbels.
Secundino Perez faces a kidnapping charge after allegedly taking a 10 month old baby from a friend and fleeing on a freight train to Midland. Sheriff Louis Roberson traced them to Midland, recovered the child, and an examining trial was held Thursday.
Harry Hinkle was elected president of the Pecos Rotary Club for the new fiscal year starting July at the Orient dining room. Voted by acclamation after Bob Middleton declined due to health. others named to officers and directors including R L Toll and Charles F Manahan. Dudley Yard spoke on Atlanta Rotary club customs.
Mrs Fenton ANey of Carlsbad visits relatives with friends. Harry Graham, owner of City Fruit Stand, was in town earlier this week and has returned to work, greeting all with his usual courtesy.
W. W. Dean earned a certificate of distinction from the State Insurance Commission for few losses on his insurance writings in the past year. Notably strong fire loss performance highlighted in the policies he wrote.
Hill D. Hudson spent the early part of this week in Crane city tending court proceedings and appearing before officials.
Reeves County scholastic meet shifts venue with Balmorhea and other schools moving to Toyah for extemporaneous speaking declamation spelling and choral events. Athletic contests like tennis volleyball and ball include Winnetts. District meet set for Fort Stockton and regional at Alpine.
Howard Ernest Miller 20 son of Mr and Mrs J H Miller of Barstow fatally injured near Midland when his car struck a heavy detour sign. He died about midnight. Funeral services were held Monday at the Barstow Baptist church with Rev Buckner officiating. Miller was son of the vice president of the Red Bluff Water Power Control district.
Two new talking pictures will be shown Tuesday night March 20 in the city. The Conoco Travel Bureau film will be shown at 8 at Brandon Hotel with invited local Conoco staff, dealers, jobbers, and other business people invited to attend.
The fourth annual Lions' Club kite tournament will be held at Rotary field in Pecos on Saturday March 31. Rh H Blackwell and Dr J L Kincannon are in charge with judges to be announced. No entry fee and every boy is encouraged to enter. Kites must be home made by entrants.
The Pecos Game Protective Association announced contest results for the extermination of predatory birds and animals. First prize Ralph Pitts Mentone with 2596 points won a repeating rifle. Dewey Richburg 1282 points took a .410 shotgun. J E Propp 1075 points earned a rod and reel. D A Sumpter 599 points received two six power bioscope binoculars. R C Sibley 640 points won a sweater. T B Pruett 596 points took 100 shotgun shells.
Safeway stores begin an intensive nationwide coffee selling campaign this Friday with special prices. Pecos Safeway manager M. L. Stiewig aims to capture his share of the business. Prices and details are on another page of this issue.
Willig McCutcheon Jr who was seriously hurt in an automobile accident near Fort Davis two weeks ago and was brought to a Pecos hospital is reported recuperating rapidly at an El Paso sanitarium. He will be in El Paso for some time yet.
The Pecos Lions Club at Hotel Brandon Coffee Shop voted to provide all possible support to the projected Pecos baseball team.
Surveying on the Red Bluff reservoir shore line will begin Monday as part of the construction project. Four surveying parties will locate corners and determine shore limits while excavation and building await, employing about 25 men under Chief F. Verne Sullivan.
Judge J. EF Start the Red Bluff War District returns from Washington after a long absence. He reports that construction arrangements are underway and progress is satisfactory. The start date remains uncertain with predictions in the near future.
A fragmented memo indicates strong support for federal bias measures. The note references consultations with justice and departments and mentions an endorsement. It notes upcoming discussions with the public and a favorable report structure expected in the near term.
A new thermometric device installation by Joe Perkins updates local weather monitoring. The six foot device, with a C scale and bar, is placed near Pecos, aimed at improving accuracy for public temperature readings and forecasts.
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