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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1935
Page
3
Monday night about nine o'clock a fire totally destroyed the Henry Russell farm home in Pecos, occupied by the D. J. Hayes family. Mr and Mrs Hayes and their son were away. cause undetermined but suspected to have started from a fire left burning in the fireplace.
The report notes a serious loss to two families from a house fire in Barstow. The Hayes couple had just bought furniture, held $500 in household effects, and the blaze destroyed the home before neighbors spotted it. News expresses sympathy to those affected.
L W Anderson gathers his cows for shipment to Fort Worth after a winter on feed at the Eddins ranch. Cattle from Pyote to Fort Worth include heavy calves and a fine herd sought by ranchers, with names tied to Pecos Toyah and Odessa sources. Reports mention emoradas septicema affecting cattle, with losses at Chas Miller Barstow and J F Cone Big Valley, while bulls from the Edins herd go to buyers.
Sheriff O F Conner of Eldorado Schleicher County arrested Ed Nickens in connection with the nude bodies found in the Pecos River below Grand Falls in March 1932. Nickens was previously detained and released, but new evidence led to his jail transfer in Fort Stockton while Pecos County Grand Jury reviews the case.
Ranchers face a prairie dog comeback as reports show drought scars fading. Methods to curb the pest include poison carbon monoxide traps and firearms. Also noted is a cow injuring tongue by bear grass with a vaccine in development and J F Cone preparing to vaccinate. Ms J P Munday moves to Kaufman Texas after years in the area.
W. Neilson, a local meat salesman, lost his left hand Friday afternoon during a demonstration at Fort Davis when his hand was caught in an electric meat cutter. He received first aid and was transported to Pecos, where he is resting at Gipson hospital. The Neilsons are prominent locals. Mrs Neilson teaches expression and dramatics at Barstow school.
Pecos resident H. A. Harmon was seriously injured Friday morning in an automobile accident at Big Spring. He suffered a fractured leg and several broken ribs and is in a Big Spring sanitarium, with wife Mrs. Harmon and daughter Miss Nancy Harmon at his side. Harmon is a prominent oil driller who supervised drilling of wells near Pecos.
The Galbraith Steel and Supply Co. plans a large new warehouse adjoining its Foxworth Galbraith Lumber facility to stock Texaco roofing for wholesale in the territory. Gibb Jackson, formerly of Amarillo, named sales representative for the product.
Mrs. E. E. Crowe came back Saturday from a three day visit with friends at Big Spring.
Mrs. Joe Monday widow of J. V. Monday sells the Monday Roofing Co building to Dr. C. D. Gipson and transfers stock and tools to Ballinger Sheet Metal Co. of Ballinger Texas. Ballinger opens Pecos office with Mr. Street as manager, leasing the building to install roofing per local project.
Texas Co. specifications promise jobs. W. H. Cowden Jr a Jeff Davis county cattleman visited Pecos Monday. J. H. Stephen in CCC camp near Fort Davis came to Pecos Saturday to see his mother Mrs. Lens Stephen. George Berkstresser of Bualmerhea was a Pecos visitor Monday.
Martin Michel of the Amelion Micina Cer division for the Community Public Service Co. traveled to Wink on Monday of this week on a business trip.
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